Hi, and welcome to module number two. This is where we actually start to get the nitty gritty of all of the information that you need to understand about how diabetes affects your body going to look at what happens normally and our body's functioning to give us optimal health, how it starts to go awry, which starts to create, create dis ease or disease in our body as we move away from wellness, and what some of the symptoms and complications that show up around diabetes when our body has moved from wellness, to going towards that scale of illness. So let's get started with kind of the basics of just the wellness model. I'm going to start with talking about the wellness model. So this idea that our body wants to be healthy is actually Absolutely a true statement, our body finds what we call normal and for each of us normal is a little bit different.

And it continues to want to operate on that same level of normal and balance for our entire lives. What happens though, is as we start having more stresses associated with us, now that might be, we're not eating appropriately, because that's a stress on our body, we may not be moving our body appropriately, we may be not getting enough sleep. All of those things are examples of stressors that actually move our body from this normal optimal range into a range of less well, right, or move it more towards illness. So in our wellness model, we have wellness on one side, we have illness and disease on the other. And what happens is we start here on the wellness continuum, and then we begin to move Slowly, slowly, slowly out of that range if we're not paying attention, until finally, we move into where we are ill or we have disease.

So you have to see that what happens when you say that you're fine, and then all of a sudden you go to the doctor and you're sick and you have a disease. It's not really true. Our body has been moving in this direction. And we've just been unaware of it until we actually have symptoms, or we see lab work that then says, Your body is out of the normal range, and now it's in a disease range. We're talking about diabetes or pre diabetes. It's when our lab work starts to show those numbers and our HPA one C, or fasting blood glucose levels.

And what you'll learn in the future is we can look at our insulin levels and inflammatory markers to also give us information about where we are. So I think that It's really important for us to understand that if you're diagnosed with pre diabetes or diabetes, your body has been operating out of the wellness and normal range for quite a period of time. And when you become aware of it, that is when you want to start making changes as soon as possible to get you back to that wellness model. And if you have questions, then you can feel free to hit the discussion and type in your notes of what you want to ask so that you can have the answer and that if you're asking the question someone else wants that answer to so please make this a hearty discussion so that we can all be part of this healthy healing community.

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