The Sugar Switch - Triangle of Disease
/The Three Points of Breakdown Behind All Disease Processes
In the last article, we learned about how your gut biome is a delicate, complex living ecosystem that must be kept in healthy balance. We also learned about the critical connection between the human brain and the gut.
In today’s article, we will learn about what Pharmacist Ben Fuchs’s describes as “The Triangle of Disease”, which is his explanation of what is at the root of the majority of all chronic degenerative disease situations.
At the end, it will be obvious to you why it is so important to cut back on your sugar consumption for the betterment of your health.
There are three components that make up the Triangle of Disease:
1) the digestive system
2) the blood sugar system
3) the adrenal-thyroid system
Basically, when one system goes down or does not function properly, it has a negative effect on the others. When all three systems are failing, this is where the majority of all chronic degenerative disease conditions get their start.
First, we start with the digestive system. It is comprised of your stomach and gut, mainly. When we have poor eating habits and consume a high amount of sugar, we end up with a candida bacteria overgrowth situation, or dysbiosis of the gut. In simple terms, it means you have a messed-up gut.
Over long periods of time, dysbiosis will lead to the thinning of the intestinal lining. When that happens, small bits of undigested foods can enter into the blood stream. By this point, we already have a high amount of sugar entering in the blood due to a poor diet, but now we add undigested food into the picture. This creates what is called “disglycemia”, or dirty blood.
When you have junked-up dirty blood that full of contaminants, undigested foods, and a high amount of sugar, it won’t be able to deliver the proper nutrients to the last system comprising the Triangle of Disease… the adrenal-thyroid system.
The adrenal-thyroid complex is responsible for distributing energy. The adrenals allocate energy for emergencies, and the thyroid gland allocates energy for day-to-day activities. But when the blood sugar system is not delivering the proper nutrients that this system needs in order to produce the body-regulating energy hormones, everything goes haywire.
One of the reasons so many degenerative disease conditions start at this point has to do with the fact that the brain cannot regulate what is going on in the body. Stress is usually involved, and in combination with the high blood sugar situation, the stress hormones trigger the attack and breakdown of organs and systems of the body.
I could write an entire book about how the Triangle of Disease condition manifests itself into disease conditions. But the overarching point is that high sugar consumption is the biggest culprit for the beginning situation that leads to most all degenerative disease developments.
An ounce of disease prevention is worth a ton of disease cure. My greatest hope is that I can influence people to make the dietary change that will put you in the best position for avoiding suffering and breakdown altogether.
But I also hope to encourage everyone currently living with a chronic degenerative disease that a dietary change, specifically cutting sugar out of the picture, can help spur remission and healing!
Carlton Flowers
VitalHealth Discovery