Conquering Diabetes Through Lifestyle Changes

There are some things that must stop if you want to conquer diabetes.

And top the list is wheat.

And that high-carbohydrate diet I've mentioned a few times,

cereal and toast for breakfast,

sandwiches for lunch,

pasta for tea,

pretzels, cakes, doughnuts,

mid-morning, mid-afternoon, what's that? It's almost 100% wheat.

No wonder cancer rates are high.

No wonder heart disease is the number one killer.

No wonder diabetes is getting out of control.

So how do we conquer diabetes?

To conquer diabetes,

we go to the true remedies.

Sunshine.

Yes, our pancreas needs vitamin D. Use of water.

Do you know it's the best blood sugar stabilizer is water.

And at our retreat,

we encourage our diabetics between meals to have that little crystal of salt,

Baja or Celtic salt,

before every glass of water.

It gets the water into the cell and they can testify

it helps balance blood sugar levels between meals.

Eight glasses of water a day.

Sleep.

You see, it's especially the hours before midnight

where our body goes into the recharging, reviving, and healing.

You want your pancreas to heal, you've got to go to bed early.

God's perfect mathematical formula.

Eight hours to work, eight hours to play,

eight hours to sleep. And if you aren't getting eight hours to sleep,

I've got some good news and you'll learn about it on Saturday morning. You

can rewire your brain. You can rewire your brain right up until the day you die.

You can train yourself into better sleep.

Trust in divine power.

Thank God every day for who you are, for what you are, for what you have,

and even if you don't like who you are and what you have,

thank God for that. Because when you come to him, when you start to...

Live your life the way God designs us to live,

you start to change and things will improve.

And I think God's watchword is something better.

And I think that's why you're here. You want something better.

Well, there is something better.

And in 1 Thessalonians 5, 18, the Bible says, In everything give thanks,

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

When we're thankful for who we are, what we have,

where we are, even if you don't like it,

say thank you.

Because you might not like what's happening at the moment, but when you say thank you,

it's a faith step, because you're basically saying I don't like it, but I do trust that out of this I'm going to learn things that I wouldn't have learned in any other way.

Abstain.

There are some things that must stop if you want to conquer diabetes.

And top the list is wheat.

Absolutely sugars.

Even maple syrup and honey have to stop until you have a happy pancreas.

Once the pancreas starts to work,

maybe a little bit of that can come in.

Caffeine.

So what's the problem with caffeine?

Caffeine causes a crisis response.

And whenever there's a crisis response in the body,

insulin is released.

Why is insulin released in a crisis response?

Let me show you. When there's a crisis response,

the body must move. And how does it move?

The energy cycles in the cells, they've got to start working faster to get you moving faster.

Because in a crisis, are you going to run?

Are you going to jump? Are you going to fight?

Are you going to climb? Are you going to flit?

So you need more energy.

And so in a crisis,

the pancreas releases more insulin to get more glucose in the cell.

And so caffeine, in that way,

can increase insulin sensitivity.

Especially if the person has caffeine with sugar.

And isn't that found in Dr. Pepper's, Coca-Cola's, a lot of teas and coffees, chocolates?