High Blood Sugar Levels

Having diabetes myself, I know what the symptoms of low blood sugar can be like. Often times it feels like you have no control of your body and you can’t figure out what or why is happening. Let’s take a closer look at the symptoms of low blood sugar, and how it can affect your health.

Did you know that many people have symptoms of low blood sugar, yet don’t know it? Think of how many times you’ve felt tired and worn out between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM? It’s a tell tale sign of low blood sugar. Here is how most people handle it. When they begin to feel a tired and worn down, or maybe even depressed and irritable, they will usually down a soda, some coffee, or eat a sweet snack of some kind. Boom, now all of a sudden they feel like they have been re-energized. Well, it’s caused by a spike in their blood sugar.

So, what’s the problem with that? While this may appear to be normal for a lot of folks, it is not normal. The reason for the tiredness at lunchtime is because of your diet. Most likely, you ate a high carbohydrate, high sugar, high starch breakfast. Next, the lack of energy at 3:00 PM is from the same type of lunch you ate. Can you see how this is just a vicious cycle? It’s a roller coaster ride that you need to get off of in order to maintain your health.

Are you a smoker? Are you aware that smoking cigarettes will create a rise in your blood sugar level? It’s due to the nicotine in the cigarette mixing together with the adrenal system. When this happens, blood sugar levels go higher.

The symptoms of low blood sugar can last all day and evening. Keep track or what happens when you eat a sweet snack, or drink a cup of coffee, etc. You’ll notice your energy level immediately rising. But, it doesn’t last long, maybe an hour or so tops. This is why you see people who drink 10 cups of coffee a day, or are constantly drinking soda all day, or have to smoke a cigarette every hour.

We all know that coffee, soda, tea, etc., contain sugar, but they also contain caffeine. The two of these ingredients can be brutal to our bodies health structure. Our blood sugar goes up at the expense of our liver glycogen. It depletes liver glycogen levels, while the lack of proper nutrition doesn’t replenish it. This is just one of the many reasons why a proper diet is so important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Spotting the symptoms of low blood sugar isn’t difficult when you know what to look for. Here’s another good example. The early mornings are usually the absolute worst times for your blood sugar level. It’s due to them being at there lowest levels. Have you known people who were so irritable in the morning that you didn’t even want to speak to them until they had their cup of coffee, or ate breakfast? You can also take note that the vast majority of marital spats happen during the morning hours. Why is that?

Because of low blood sugar. Now, give these same people 2 cups of coffee, or a nice breakfast, and notice what happens. It’s like they are completely different. Their personality changes and they are happy. They have energy to go tackle the day. Most of all, you’ll notice that often times they will forget the fact that they just hurt your feelings earlier. It’s like Jekyll and Hyde.

When you notice your loved one having the symptom of low blood sugar, keep an eye on it. It could be due to having pre-diabetes, or even from being a diabetic and not being aware of it. Have them see their doctor and get checked out. Having your blood glucose tested only takes a second, and it’s a simple test. Don’t let the symptoms of low blood sugar take control of your health.

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The body must maintain blood sugar levels within a narrow range; otherwise, problems occur. For example, if the blood sugar level falls too low, energy supply to all tissues, particularly the brain, is impaired; and if blood sugar levels rise too high this is very damaging to arteries and the long term effect of arterial disease is heart disease and strokes. Clearly, keeping your blood sugar levels where they ought to be is important.

So, how can you control your blood sugar levels? The answer is through proper nutrition. The liver is the part of your body that controls blood sugar levels. It makes the sugar from energy stores inside the liver and releases sugar into the blood stream minute by minute in a carefully regulated way based on the body demands which may fluctuate from minute to minute.

This system of control works perfectly until it is upset by us eating the wrong thing. So what is the wrong thing? Well, for starters, eating excessive amounts of sugar at one meal, or excessive refined carbohydrate, which is rapidly digested into sugar, can suddenly overwhelm the liver’s normal control of blood sugar levels.

Those who exercise daily and regularly can get away with more sugar in their diets without blood sugar issues because the excessive sugar in the blood is quickly burned off by vigorous exercise. However, for most us nowadays, we eat large amounts of sugar and refined carbohydrate and do not exercise enough to burn off this excessive sugar. The body therefore has to cope with this excessive sugar load by other mechanisms.

High blood sugar is extremely damaging to arteries, so the body fights back with insulin, and converts the sugars into fat. The problem is that oftentimes insulin converts too much sugar into fat and then the blood sugar levels in our bodies get too low. Low blood sugar is also dangerous to the body because the energy supplied to all tissues is impaired. Low blood sugar is called hypoglycemia. Most people try to make up for low blood sugar by eating sugar. Then they overdo it and send themselves on and up and down cycle of blood sugar.

Symptoms of hypoglycemia are many and varied; the brain symptoms include difficulty thinking clearly, feeling spaced out and dizzy, poor word-finding ability, foggy brain and sometimes even blurred vision or tinnitus. The body symptoms include suddenly feeling very weak and lethargic, feeling faint and slightly shaky, rumbling tummy and a craving for sweet things. The sufferer may look as if they are about to faint (and indeed often do) and have to sit down and rest. The symptoms can be quickly alleviated by eating something sweet - if nothing is done then the sufferer gradually recovers.

What causes hypoglycemia? For most people it is missing a meal or a snack and overdoing it with vigorous exercise, stress, or alcohol.

So what can you do about it?
You need to avoid all foods containing sugar and refined carbohydrate. However, even if you do this, it may take weeks, and possible months for the liver to regain full control of blood sugar and therefore the symptoms might still exist even while you avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates. When you change your diet you will get withdrawal symptoms and it may take many weeks of a correct diet before these symptoms resolve.

Also, it is important to realize that problems such as hypoglycemia are usually accompanied by micronutrient deficiencies. Chromium, for example, is a common deficiency. So, combat the likelihood blood sugar problems with nutrition. Make sure you are getting enough of the nutrients (vitamins) and micronutrients (minerals) that your body needs.

One fast and easy to ensure each day that you get what your body needs in the way of nutrition is to drink one can of Zija daily. Zija contains a whole host of vitamins and minerals your body needs including, Vitamins A, B, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, D, E, K, Folic Acid, Biotin, the minerals Calcium, Chloride, Chromium, Copper, Flourine, Iton, Manganese, Magnesium, Molybedenum, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Selenium, Sulfur and Zinc.

Zija also contains all eight essential amino acids, along with ten additional ones, and much, much more! With over 90 vitamins, minerals and other nutrients including anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatories, Zija is an excellent way to find the nutrition needed to combat high and low blood sugar!