MCT for Health

It is not well known that the hormone insulin also controls your blood vessels, their muscles and blood flow, even in the smallest, capillaries . Normally, insulin increases the permeability of blood through capillaries, but insulin resistance reduces this ability. The dilation of blood vessels (vasodilation) takes place through nitric oxide (NO). However, there is the exact opposite process of diameter reduction (vasoconstriction), so that normally different vessel responses to insulin occur in large and small vessels. In large vessels, dilation is compensated by contraction, so they are virtually unaffected by insulin. In small ones, vasodilation and reduction of capillary resistance predominate. The flow increases and the pressure decreases. However, this only applies if you do not have insulin resistance. If you have it, vasoconstriction outweighs vasodilation, blood flow patency decreases, blood pressure rises, and tissue supply decreases. For example, this has been found in obese

The etiology deals with the causes of diseases. It is not about risk factors, but about the real causes. If the cause is, the disease arises, if it is not, the disease does not arise. It is so simple as this, when the etiology of the disease is known. Do we know the etiology of type 2 diabetes? The one you grow yourself? In this picture, you can see how diabetes gradually develops from obesity (OB) through inconspicuous glucose intolerance (OB-GLUINTOL) to diabetes (OB-DIAB), first with high insulin and gradually with less and less insulin production. At the same time, you can see in the upper graph a gradually decreasing rate of glucose uptake from the blood, which is compensated by the increasing secretion of insulin, so you will not know anything with standard fasting blood glucose measurements. You can easily recognize it by the OGTT test in the chart below, but no one does it. So it continues farther until you reach the maximum insulin and then you gradually follow the path to

And again, a topic to which there will probably be no clear answer. Never mind, I'll try to find correlations and some of it will come out. Let's look first at what the experts say. There has been a lot of talk lately about intermittent fasting, such as Dr. Jason Fung using this method to treat diabetic patients. He claims that fasting is easier than following a diet. He does not have to explain to patients what can be eaten and what can't, it's cheaper, they do not have to look for anything special. Just eat every other day. One day you eat more, the next day you just drink, so overall you eat less. In patients with worse diabetes, he then uses longer fasts of several days. It is said that when you do not eat anything, it is easier, you are not hungry and the body does not go into "energy saving mode". Undoubtedly, you will strengthen your health with a reduced caloric intake. This is evident from a number of studies . Reduced caloric intake can, for example,

A little thought at the beginning. The human body is not a simple device at all. It is full of all sorts of complex self-regulatory mechanisms. However, nature uses slightly different principles for the construction of systems than man does. I'll try to explain it on the principle of an equalizer, it's such a box for sound adjustment. You can add or subtract trebles, mids, lows  in the sound of your radio or television. When such a device is man-made, it uses a series of sliding controls, each controlling a single frequency. So if we have five controllers, they can have frequencies such as 100, 300, 1000, 3000, 10000 Hz. The controller marked 2000 Hz only controls the frequency 2000 Hz. It has no effect on any other frequency. That's how man creates. Nature creates differently. For the same case, five controlled frequencies will have at least five, but rather six or seven controls. In addition, each element will control multiple frequencies, perhaps all, each differently. S

MCT oil is a fat (triglyceride) composed of three medium-length saturated fatty acids linked by glycerol. In particular, Caprylic acid C8:0 and Capric acid C10:0 are valued. We find them mainly in the most historically common animal and some vegetable fats, butter, goat and cow's milk and in coconut oil and palm kernel oil (but not in palm oil), I don't know the content in lard, but beware, it is not contained in margarines, sunflower, rapeseed or olive oil. Butter, for example, contains up to 13% short or medium chain fats, ie four to ten carbons. They can also be bought separately as a dietary supplement, I recommend select by the composition so that they should contain mainly C8:0 and C10:0. From twelve carbons upwards, fats are characterized as long, although there is no complete agreement on this. Sometimes twelve-carbon fats are referred to as medium, which only encourages the confusion surrounding fats. Unlike shorter acids, lauric acid C12:0 can cause insulin resistan

If you ask doctors what causes metabolic syndrome, they will probably tell you that it is complicated, many factors such as insulin resistance, stress, sweet drinks, etc. When you ask what causes insulin resistance, you will probably learn that there are a number of risk factors, it may lead to genetics, it's a common excuse when they don't know the cause.  This is a desperate situation, especially when you consider that the metabolic syndrome is, according to recent research, at the beginning of all the so-called diseases of civilization - type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure but also cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's disease, etc.  At the same time, it is known how to produce insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia within 48 hours , according to a study from 1995, for example, an infusion of intravenous nutrition containing vegetable oils is enough. Don't you believe? Producers of intravenous nutrition have to know this for decades, they are obviously tryi

OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test)  or a test of the body's reaction to 75 g of glucose.  Why this test? It is based on the findings of a study that divided people into five groups. It has been shown that fasting blood glucose, which is commonly used, has very little to do with metabolic health, thus indicating some other disease or being accidental. The test that evaluates the differences in glucose levels in a stress test is far more accurate. It would be even better to measure the level of insulin in the blood, but you will not measure it yourself at home.  You will need a regular glucometer and glucose or dextrose sugar, both from a pharmacy. We will measure blood sugar four times during one test, it is a good idea to set the test time in the morning so that you can repeat the test at the same time and be able to have a drink with MCT oil an hour before the test.  The self-test is performed by dissolving 75 g of glucose or dextrose in a glass of water. You really let it dissolv

So this is a question that probably does not have a clear answer. Maybe it's best to deal with what not to eat. There will hopefully be a solution.  When I became interested in the effect of diet on humans about ten years ago, it was because I subconsciously felt that official dietary recommendations were going nowhere. There is no point in repeating the same mistake over and over again and waiting for a different result.  At that time I found the so-called Optimal Diet by Dr. Kwasniewski, a Polish military doctor. He noticed that dietary recommendations do not make military pilots super healthy individuals, but quite the opposite. They suffer from diseases more than usual. It was already in the sixties of the last century. At that time, the food in Poland was still quite clean, and historically proven feeds were used to feed the animals. Therefore, his experience cannot be directly applied today. However, it is worth exploring.  His optimal diet could be described as one, two, th