Source | Himalayan APP Ginger Quality Course "Peking University Ginger Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Course" Editor | He Qiang Diabetes is a common chronic disease in modern society, mainly manifested in the blood sugar level exceeding the normal value. In ancient times, because there was no detection method, it was not discovered until the middle and late stage of diabetes. At this time, there will be sugar in the urine, so the name is given. This term is translated from English. As many people know, diabetes is called diabetes in traditional medicine in China. In the later stage of diabetes, symptoms such as thirst, drinking more water, eating more, urinating more and wasting away easily occur, while in the early stage of diabetes, there are no symptoms such as wasting away and thirst. Technically, it can't be called diabetes. To understand the ins and outs of diabetes, we must first understand the cause and mechanism of diabetes, and then we can take effective strategies. What is the relationship between insulin and energy metabolism? Under normal circumstances, many physiological indexes of our body are maintained in a constant range, such as blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids, blood cells and so on. This is the first time I talked about the powerful self-regulation ability of the human body. Glucose is the fuel of human body and the main source of human energy. If you eat too much, more glucose will enter the blood through digestion and absorption, so the human body has a smart sensory system and will hide these sugars for later use. This is just like farmers sometimes store food in warehouses when they have a bumper harvest, or we save money when we have spare money. So how does the human body store sugar? At this time, an important hormone is involved, which is insulin. This hormone is crucial to the onset of diabetes. What does insulin do? Its main function is to transport glucose from extracellular to intracellular. When transported to liver cells, fat cells and muscle cells, there are two outcomes, one is burning and the other is transforming into fat or glycogen. So even if you are a vegetarian and eat rice, you will get fat. It is because I can get fat that I won't starve to death for days without eating. Therefore, most diabetic patients are obese at first, and the concentration of insulin in their blood is high. At that time, blood sugar was not high, because sugar became glycogen and fat. Why doesn't insulin work? But what if the warehouse is full of food and there is a lot of food left outside? At this time, the warehouse will post a notice saying that I don't want it. There are insulin receptors on human cells, which should work by binding with insulin. Now that the warehouse is full, I'm too lazy to pay attention to insulin. If it is not combined with insulin, the sensitivity of insulin will decrease, which is called insulin resistance. At this time, it is necessary to make the pancreas produce higher insulin to work. If the islet is allowed to produce and secrete excessive insulin for a long time, the islet will naturally be tired, its ability to produce insulin will gradually decrease, and insulin will be consumed excessively. At this time, when insulin is not enough, blood sugar will start to rise. Western medicine divides diabetes into two types. One is congenital diabetes, called 1 diabetes, which often occurs in youth or childhood. This type of diabetes is a congenital impairment of islet function and can only be injected with insulin for life. Most people have type 2 diabetes. Although there are genetic factors, it is mainly related to lifestyle. What is the relationship between diabetes and diet? The first important cause of diabetes is diet. Diabetes is not only a problem of eating too much, but also a problem of diet structure. Usually, eating fat, sweet and thick is related to the occurrence of diabetes. Specifically, I like foods high in fat and sugar. There is more fat, and the warehouse is full of oil, which will naturally reduce the conversion of sugar to oil. The problem of eating too much, first, some people are really unrestrained and insatiable, and they encounter big fish, big meat and sweet fruits. The second category is that some people like heavy tastes, such as fried barbecue and spicy things, which are easy to eat. On the one hand, it leads to overeating, on the other hand, it leads to spleen and stomach injuries. According to the modern concept, it is easy to aggravate the inflammatory reaction of hepatopancreas and affect the metabolism of sugar. The deep-seated cause of overeating is excessive sexual intercourse. The ancients believed that an important cause of diabetes was excessive sexual life. Why excessive sexual life can lead to diabetes? In fact, this is still from the natural adjustment and self-protection of human beings. In the process of sexual life, a person will consume a lot of nutrients, such as trace elements, hormones, neurotransmitters and so on. If sexual life is excessive, the brain will feel the lack of something, and it will have an appetite and supplement it by eating. From the perspective of evolution, maintaining reproductive function and ensuring the nutrition of germ cells are the most important. Many people who have excessive sexual intercourse especially like to eat fat or heavy food, perhaps just to supplement hormones or the synthesis of some trace elements. With the excitement of this appetite and the intake of fat, sweetness and strong taste, the intake of energy exceeds the needs of the body, which increases the burden on islets and liver and leads to diabetes. In the textbooks of western medicine, you can't see the relationship between emotion and diabetes. Chinese medicine believes that if a person is depressed and angry, or overthinking, or anxious, etc. This kind of emotion can't be vented. If it is suppressed in the body, it will easily become depressed fire, which will damage the body's yin qi and become yin deficiency. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, diabetes is yin deficiency. From the point of view of modern science, bad mood causes diabetes, which is most likely caused by pancreatic ischemic injury, that is, qi and blood are not circulating, and Yang Qi stagnation locally damages the pancreas and other organs. In a word, if you know the cause of diabetes, you will know the prevention and treatment. Due to the artificial synthesis of insulin and the wide use of various hypoglycemic agents, the control and treatment of diabetes is far less than that in ancient times. Nevertheless, the ancients emphasized that the best medicine is to control desire, which is called "reducing taste, giving up addiction and saving feelings." Introduction to the anchor: Jiang, a professor of traditional Chinese medicine in Peking University, gives you a healthy prescription: a scientific and systematic introduction to traditional Chinese medicine, from cognitive upgrading to self-prevention to family conditioning; Family health skill packages for common diseases such as malnutrition, cold and fever, diabetes and hypertension, insomnia and constipation are always available. From the inside out, from physiology and pathology to mental health, we have a high-quality life in an all-round way. About Himalaya: the sound library of a well-known audio platform in China has the same choice of 530 million users. Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. 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