Breakfast Skippers Beware!

If you are a breakfast skipper and come into my office, I will become unglued and even come close to asking you to either wise up or get out of my office. This is how strongly I feel about this subject.

If you skip breakfast, the following will happen:

You will gain weight, not lose it.

You will have too much free adrenalin (more below on why this is bad).

You will have low blood sugar.

Your blood pressure will go up.

Your kids will model you at your worst.

If you skip breakfast, you will overwork your adrenalin system because your body very quickly recognizes when it is not getting fed and dumps some adrenalin in your system that goes to the liver, which in turn releases some glucose, which your brain needs at all times to function properly.
On the other hand, too much adrenalin causes “bounding”, which is the movement of a system going up and down without being healthy.

“Healthy sugar support” means that your diet and exercise programs have to be sensible and predictable. The body just doesn’t like to bounce up and down (and this is especially true after the age of 16).

So, if you eat properly and exercise on a regular basis, your physiological system will appreciate you more and more each day, and you should be generally healthy.

Our major metabolic hormone is called thyroid but our secondary hormones are adrenalin and nor-adrenalin. The thyroid hormone is primary for many of our basic functions and when it is not at normal levels, other physiological systems will tend to try and pickup the deficit. These include mostly adrenalin and noradrenalin, but when their levels are chronically high, major glucose imbalances can then occur, which then lead to diabetes.

Hence, be careful and know your body, take care of your body, and do the sensible things needed to stay healthy. Examine your diet and exercise patterns, and if they are not optimal, try taking some supplements that will help control your wants, wishes and sugar balance all at the same time.
For example, vitamins B1, B5 and biotin may help you with this process. Vitamin B1 has been shown to assist your body to get the energy it needs from the sugars in your system. B5, also called pantothenic acid, will turn the carbohydrates (yes, in case you are wondering, I think it’s a good idea to eat healthy carbohydrates!) that we eat into energy. And biotin can help your body use the glucose in the way it needs to.

I have also done a lot of research on the mineral chromium, and I am very impressed with that I have read. Chromium works in conjunction with the insulin your body produces, and helps get the sugars to the cells, where they help with energy.

Chromium isn’t the only mineral that can help with healthy sugar support – magnesium and vanadium can also do the same thing.

I also advise trying a supplement from the crepe myrtle plant and also alpha lipoic acid to keep the blood sugar levels steady and preventing the bounding that I mentioned earlier. Gymnema sylvestre is another herbal remedy that I have found helps my patients with blood sugar issues. And L-glutamine, an amino acid, may help reduce your cravings for sugary foods – always a good thing in my book.

Now is the time to recognize the enormity of the problem with blood sugar. Now is the time to take healthy and realistic steps to fix the problem. Now is the time to get healthy.

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