Live 100 Years - Health - Metabolism, Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Heat

  The Role of Artificial Fertilizers & Pesticides in Diabetes by Dr. John Poothullil     This has been a problem more with cancer than with diabetes but it comes with both. You know it is our lifestyle and I get that when I go to India people ask me the same question.   Everybody is using artificial this and artificial that. The question is how it connects with glucose utilization in the body. We don't have a mechanism otherwise you can associate anything with everything.   It is an association but that does not prove it. So I cannot answer that question, that it is or it is not but what I can answer is -   The higher your intake of grain based carbohydrate the greater your chance of developing type 2 diabetes.  

  Is a Mediterranean Diet Better For Me?   It all depends on how much ultimately the quantity you consume.   The total amount of energy and the ratio of carbohydrate to it.   A Mediterranean diet may have more fish and olive and fruits and vegetables that's fine. Each individual is different, we can take studies and show okay 80 percent of them got the benefit as an individual.   Do you belong to the 20% or the 80 percent? How do you know? So that is the problem with going by studies.   The certain studies on Mediterranean Diet says that. But where do you belong?   Only your brain knows what your body needs at any given time. When you sit down to eat not a dietitian not a nutritionist not your doctor not your wife nobody knows what your body needs.   I had one husband and wife. She happened to be my secretary and she wanted her husband to lose weight and I told them and they came back a month later.   She said,...

  How Do You Know If You Have Eaten Enough? By Dr. John Poothullil   Whether you're thirsty right now, I bring in 12 ounces of water. How much will it take to quench your thirst?   How did you break when you finish drinking?   How did your brain know you had enough water to quench your thirst?   Well, let me come back to that so the water was still in your stomach, your thirst is quenched, your brain knew exactly how much it needed because another time you have been working out or in the Sun you would be more thirsty.   You will drink more the amount you drink. Could you predetermine how much will it take to quench your thirst each time? No.   You determine the quantity the volume as you are drinking. Why how does it work?   If I blindfold you and give you something to drink how do you know whether it is water or milk or coke?   Do you know the taste buds what I'm suggesting is the taste buds are telling the br...