This episode dives into the link between diabetes and neurological conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer's. It explains how issues with insulin regulation in diabetes can lead to increased glucose levels in the cerebrospinal fluid, which over time damages brain function. The discussion highlights that the real problem lies in insulin management, not just blood sugar levels, and advocates for low glycemic diets and metabolic care to protect brain health.

The conversation also covers the harmful effects of inflammation, describing it as metabolic damage that can exacerbate conditions like arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. There is a critical look at how vaccines can induce systemic inflammation in infants, emphasizing the importance of proper nutrition, especially through breastfeeding, to support healthy brain, liver, and pancreatic development.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:03 - Introduction to the topic

01:30 - Diabetes as a blood sugar control problem

03:00 - Insulin and brain function

04:36 - Role of inflammation

06:02 - Preventing inflammation

07:37 - Vaccines and inflammation

09:05 - Importance of proper nutrients for babies

11:48 - Sugar and baby food concerns

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] A lot of questions. One of the questions was how does diabetes affect dementia effects, to mention Alzheimer's and all sorts of things. A lot of these things are not a. This thing causes that. So like Alzheimer's is a great example because know, we see a lot of high heavy metals like aluminum and things like that. A.D.D. ADHD is a. There's a there's a variety of ways that happens, the way that diabetes affects neurologic function. So you're talking diabetes, you're talking about dementia, Alzheimer's, and as like the way it affects all of it, because diabetes is bad for all neurologic function. What happens with diabetes? The amount of sugar that's in your blood doesn't doesn't really matter to the amount of blood. That's the amount of sugar that's in your brain and spinal cord. So the stuff that's in your brain and spinal cord, that's not blood. That's what's called cerebral spinal fluid. And it's got too much glucose in it. But there's a barrier between it's called the blood brain barrier that keeps the stuff that's in the blood, in the blood and the stuff that keeps in the brain, in the brain. And so that blood brain barrier is very well known. It's really awesome because keeps a lot of bad stuff out of your brain. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:30] So you can have high blood sugar, you know, today, tomorrow, next week doesn't really matter. It's not going to affect the amount of sugar or glucose that's in your cerebrospinal fluid. What happens, though, with diabetes is that diabetes is not a blood sugar problem. It's a blood sugar control problem. And so it's an insulin problem. So what ends up happening with diabetes is we have high resting fasting all the time, insulin levels and the transport mechanism that takes the sugar, the glucose from the blood to the cerebral spinal fluid is called a glut one receptor transporter. So think of it this way the bus that moves everything from the blood to the to the brain to the surface and fluid is called a glut one. That's all you to know. The messenger. The old little message that the bus gets. This has to take all this stuff across the pond, across the the barrier. It's insulin. So what ends up happening is that while your. When you have higher blood sugar for a long time. It's also correlating to the amount of insulin your body's naturally producing all the time. And so the higher levels of insulin you have, the easier it is to transport glucose from the blood to the spinal fluid. Long term, increasing the amount of glucose that's in the cerebrospinal fluid. That's what creates the damage there. So again, it's not a it's not necessarily a sugar thing. It's an insulin problem. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:00] But that's where you're going to end up seeing a lot of the is how diabetes directly affects dimension, Alzheimer's and anything else of the brain. So again, that's the issue. So decrease your your. You know, just fix the diabetes, decrease the exogenous sugar intake and rely more on endogenous sugar creation. And you should be you should be fine. Again, it's not going to work for everybody because nothing works for everybody. The body's more of a puzzle than that. But that's going to be the majority. That's the majority of the way to fix that for people. So again, monitor the sugars and make sure that your your lip allelic function is is high and your body can then create the sugars. It needs to be a liver function. So that's that's more or less how you're going to get around that. That's one of the things, that's one of the reasons why when people come in with neurologic issues, I always put them on extremely low glycemic. I try to get them on ketone if I can. I got I got i a closer to Carnivore. So I'm trying to get as much cholesterol back in the brain as I can while we pull out all the sugars. So that's basically how that one works as far as. Breaking down and fighting the rest of dementia and Alzheimer's. You just got to go feed the brain. And so feeding the brain is going to be the same things as always is. High levels of ATP. High levels of oxygen. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:36] Pull the all the inflammation out. The more information you pull out, the better. So let me stop on that first. And so inflammation is metabolic damage. You know, you could feel it in your shoulders. You can feel it in your joints. Arthritis is inflammation of a joint. And so if you have arthritis, your joints hurt and they don't move. Right. And there they're there. They're just bad. That's what inflammation is. And so when we start to understand that inflammation means damage of metabolically, that's metabolically messed up, we start to understand why it's so important to move, to not only pull out inflammation that is there, like the acid that's just sitting there eating things, but to correct the actual metabolic function that's creating the inflammation. So. The house is on fire. Right. That's the inflammation. How do we put the house out? Well, you know, there's all sorts of ways you can put it out. You can use foam, you can use water. You can you know, you can suck the oxygen out and make it go out that way. There's lots of ways of removing the fire. That is the information. The problem isn't how to pull it out, because we've gotten pretty decent at that. The problem is and I think that what we should start focusing is what caused the inflammation. Why do we have the inflammation? And if inflammation is so bad and creating all these issues, shouldn't we do everything we can to prevent it? That is not so. That's my position. We should reduce all the inflammation. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:02] We should give the body all the nutrients it needs to not create the inflammation. We don't want the house to catch on fire. We don't want to have to put the house out. We want the house to not catch on fire, which is not the same. So I'm going to walk that down just a little bit more. When you have inflammation today. It can if you fix it, if you have it today of metabolic dysfunction, you have inflammation. You give your body all the nutrients and puts out the fire. Everything's fine. You know, you had it for a couple hours. Probably not that big of a deal. Sometimes you can make the argument that it's good for you because you have to do that stress function great, whatever. Fantastic. When you have longer stress, when you have longer inflammation, it always creates massive issues. There isn't an itis pancreatitis, encephalitis. A pancreatitis is obviously the pancreas. Hepatic hep hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. Long term, that stuff's never, ever good. So I'm a big fan of preventing it from happening and clearing up as fast as we can. That is not the view of medicine. Medicine's goal is to create inflammation, hoping that this is very often their goal, hoping to create an immune response that will then go in and somehow prevent that inflammation in the future. That's the whole whole purpose behind vaccines. The purpose of the vaccine is to cause systemic inflammation systemically in the entire body. So we're trying to cause encephalitis, which is brain inflammation. We're trying to cause pancreatitis, which is inflammation of the pancreas. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:37] We're trying to cause hepatic. So so liver inflammation. We're trying to cause inflammation of the got to create to to force the body to mount an immune response. The problem I have with as you give these babies who don't have an immune system yet and so you're causing brain damage on purpose. And then we wonder where we get autism. We wonder where we get A.D.D., We wonder where we get all these issues. Then we're causing pancreatitis and we wonder why we have these giant levels of diabetes. We're causing all this intestinal damage. We're running where we have all these issues with people's guts and food systems and things like that. We're causing inflammation of the adrenal system. We wonder why we know we have psoriasis next month, things like that. So, you know, it's one of those things where if we're going to be creating inflammation. On purpose. We need to make sure the body is ready for it. And so, you know, that kind of goes back to this whole whole process of what are we doing metabolically for the body. And so the question I got about the dementia stuff, it kind of all of this stuff cycles back to how are we treating the body? What is the purpose of what we're doing and how do we prevent the long term damage in the future? And that is pretty simple. We recognize that the body was designed in a specific way and requires very specific nutrients or chemicals to make it run and function. There are chemicals that are beneficial. There's chemicals that are harmful. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:05] The more commit, the more we keep the harmful chemicals out and the more we keep the good chemicals in. The healthier we are all the way around. And so this is a little bit more difficult in babies and in people who are super picky about their food. But it's worse than babies who aren't breastfed. And the reason why breastfeeding is so awesome from my standpoint, and this is laziness on my side, I can give mom all kinds of nutrients. She can consume the nutrients, make her breast milk, super duper laden with nutrients, and then directly give it to the baby. And that's kind of the design. And that works really, really well. Trying to find a way to hide supplements or nutrients and something in, you know, baby's food or baby's milk is something that's really, really difficult. I know in our riding, breastfeed, there's ways we can enhance breast milk in this like that. But getting the nutrients into those kiddos is super duper important for all of the things that we're trying to talk about, like today, like, well, how does dementia it has Alzheimer's affect, you know, a three day old baby? Quite a bit because guess what? That baby is trying to do that. The baby, when you have a baby that's born, it's not an adult. It's not full grown. It's not even done. It's not done baking like the liver is not ready. The hepatic portal system is not ready. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:26] The brain has not even it's not even close to what an adult brain functions like or metabolically acts like. So we got a lot of stuff and you don't want to throw a bunch of inflammation to that baby and try to halt liver production, pancreatic function, intestinal development, and especially not neurologic or brain development. That is that is probably the worst thing you could possibly do is try to inflame that brain and decrease its metabolic function and stop its growth path or alter its growth path in a way that is, you know, deleterious to natural production. And that's that's kind of the goal of. Of Western medicine with the vaccines is to create that information that we know. Stops production and functionality of neurodevelopment for brain development. So if we're talking about how to sugars affect the brain, we start understanding how the brain actually functions. And so there's a lot of stuff that damages adult brains in higher quantities, but in very, very small quantities will do massive damage to brains, to non developed French or baby brains. So when you guys are looking at that, you need to make sure that you monitor the sugars, what type of sugars, what glycemic function that we're giving these kiddos. 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:48] I haven't done a whole lot of looking into glycemic function. Some of the baby foods just because nobody's asked. But because of this question, I will actually start looking at what's going on with with with some of the baby formulas and some of the baby foods. I know that some of the little packet things are higher glycemic than they should be. I don't know what to do about that, though, because it's one of those deals where like we use never ever use them because they're convenient and you kind of have to unless you can start making baby food at home, which is always has always been the best option. It's just not everybody has time. So. So that's that was that's the age of the question of how diabetes, how diabetes affects the brain. But so if he has any other questions from the comments or his have questions that Chalmers won't take home. Thanks for your time. 

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