Blood Sugar Control
The Dangers of Elevated Blood Sugar Levels Over Time!
Learn about the dangers of elevated blood sugar levels over time and how millions of Americans are pre-diabetic and do not even know it.
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Control The Spike exists to help guide the many individuals suffering from poor metabolic health, blood sugar control issues and diabetes that has already led to or is leading to alarming rates of obesity chronic health and metabolic conditions. Control The Spike seeks to provide information, guidance, and helpful solutions to help individuals assess their health, take control of it, and make true, lasting lifestyle changes that will improve their quality and quantity of life!
Control the Spike was founded in 2022 by Gary D’Alessio who has struggled with blood sugar control issues since his early 20s. Persistently high fasting blood glucose levels led to years of frustration, desperation, and indifference which led to the furtherance of poor lifestyle choices for a long period of time. These issues began for him at age 21 in 2011.
Fast forward to today, he is now a competitive physique athlete and even with low levels of body fat and vastly improved body composition, blood sugar control remains to be an almost daily struggle. Pictured here is Gary at two vastly different levels of physical fitness. While he struggles with lingering effects from his old ways, he now has years of personal trial and error developing solutions to undo the previously caused damage and maintain both healthy blood glucose levels and a healthy, active lifestyle. While some issues remain, his mission is to share his knowledge, solutions and support with those looking to make similar changes and at the very least get their metabolic health under control and in-check.
Diabetes is currently the 7th leading cause of death in the United States. An alarming 13% of the adult population is suffering from diabetes and this figure has steadily increased over the past few decades. For example, in 1980, there were roughly 108 million adults suffering from diabetes globally. Fast forward to today (2022) and that number has skyrocketed to well over 400 million adults. Let that sink in for a second.
This does not even include the rapid increase in cases of pre-diabetes and insulin resistance. It is estimated that approximately one third (1/3) of adults in the United States are pre-diabetic and roughly 89% have some form of metabolic disorder or disease which is an almost guaranteed road to developing prediabetes, diabetes, and other chronic diseases and disorders.
Just the diagnosed cases of diabetes in the United States exceed $300 billion per year in costs. We also have a healthcare system that is fixated on pharmaceutical intervention that masks the symptoms of the disease without actually addressing any of the root causes. We also live in a society that normalizes the consumption of calorically dense and nutritionally void, processed food and living a sedentary lifestyle as “normal.”
The rates of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic disease are truly concerning.
Diabetic treatment has traditionally been and is non-existent until someone’s biological markers such as fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1C and fasting insulin are completely out of a healthy range. It is at this point where patients will typically be prescribed things like insulin therapy or metformin. While these interventions are very effective at managing blood glucose in the short-term, when used chronically they typically become less effective, cause side effects, and even contribute to the onset of other diseases. What our healthcare system does is mask the symptoms without ever addressing the root cause of why someone is diabetic or metabolically unhealthy.
Only roughly 5% of all diabetes is due to genetics or genetic predisposition. Which leads us to the question: why are so many people diabetic in the United States. This simply boils down to lifestyle. This huge influx is due to the “standard American diet” which is consists of processed, nutritionally void foods, lack of activity and exercise, lack of quality sleep and chronic stress levels.
Just simply improving and optimizing these lifestyle changes could lead to the reversal of a large percentage of the cases of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic disorders.
The problem is that there is a lack of education and proactive intervention. It is important for people to be empowered through education as to what causes these chronic diseases and how they can be reversed or prevented. Control The Spike was started to help educate and provide solutions and guidance on how to live a healthy, disease-free lifestyle. Check out our blog and other content to find out how you can prevent or reverse metabolic disease and diabetes.
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