Type 1 Diabetes: A Blessing and a Superpower - How to Take Control of Your Health and Your Life

Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Living with Type 1 Diabetes

I have always been extremely loud with my beliefs.

But never like I am with Type 1 diabetes. Whenever I THINK I am right about something, I always go with gut feeling, some extended research and logic. But with diabetes, I actually have HARD data.

People lie, glucose does not!

The second I became diabetic, I knew that this was an incredible blessing, a new super power that was entrusted upon me to go and conquer the world and save humanity!

That is exactly how I see it.

The greatest super power ever.

Most super powers that we wish to have are, super speed, teleportation, telekinesis or the ability to control elements, which are all mostly impossible during our own timelines, but the one power that most of us regret not having at some point is absolute peak health, and this is a power that we can all achieve, fairly easily.

Of course, easy is a big word that is easy to use.

This Substack is NOT about showing you easy ways to win your health and longevity. I am not sure anything worth having will ever be easy. For now anyway.

For the entirety of my life, I have always chosen the hardest paths in all of my ventures, that is why when I was announced that I had Type 1 Diabetes because my pancreas had stopped working, I believe that was one of my happiest days ever.

I had now a new opportunity, a new challenge, life in Hard mode. Nothing more fun than beating a game in hard mode.

Life is already hard mode by default, so imagine adding an extra layer of hard.

As I write this, I remember that most humans do NOT have the opportunity to drink fresh water or 3 meals a day with enough calories to survive, which means, none of this is hard at the end of the day. So we go back to, this is fairly easy.

Now let’s go through how Type 1 Diabetes can make you superhuman.

First, let’s figure what Type 1 Diabetes is and how it works.

Basically, your immune system randomly decides to start attacking your Beta cells, which secretes insulin like in the graphic below.

Your Beta cells are in a constant state of destruction, which means that even with current science where you can get a pancreas transplant, your immune system will most likely destroy your new pancreatic islets, after a year or 2 you’ll be back to being a full on Type 1 Diabetic.

Once your body stops creating insulin, your cells are no longer capable of accepting glucose into the cell, which at the end of the day, is the only real energy your body is capable of using.

We will have a deeper conversation on ketosis in another Substack post, which is your bodies creating energy by using fat instead of glucose.

Insulin is a key that opens the door to glucose to be able to enter the cell. Without this, you die.

And the way that you die is also fairly simple. Your cells are not capable of transforming glucose into energy, which means that sugar stays in your bloodstream and start recking havoc. Destroying your nervous system, destroying everything in it’s way.

Leading you into DKA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis)

VERY high levels of glucose and VERY low levels of insulin.

Your liver starts creating Ketones in very high doses very quickly, which build up to dangerous toxic levels in your body.

Usually DKA kills you by a stroke or a deadly coma.

These are ALL things I experienced before knowing I was Type 1 diabetic, expect for the death part, good for me.

Now you may ask, how in the WORLD can THIS be so awesome?

Because humans need some motivation.

Once we as humans are faced with Life or Death, that is the moment we see our true natures.

Most of us coward away, like a burning building, most of us would not go in it to save people, we would simply watch as others do or as no one goes in.

We fear the consequence of death it self, and that fear is much bigger than the self sacrifice for the good of others.

Now, I am not saying that Type 1 Diabetes gives us the choice to self-sacrifice for the good of others, but instead, self-sacrifice for self preservation. To save ourselves!

But the reason I put these 2 in the same bucket is because of the sacrifice part.

You see, for most people, sacrificing comfort, sacrificing social normality and sacrificing sugar, is much worse than death itself.

In fact, most diabetics would rather go into constant states of Hypoglycemia and coma than give up on carbohydrates.

We would rather LITERALLY DIE than stop eating sugar.

I ask myself, is this considered suicide?

Who knows, but it is in fact not self-preservation but clear self-destruction.

THIS is what gives you your super powers, the pressure to preserve yourself and live to your full capacity.

Type 1 Diabetes gives you the obligation to become the healthiest version of yourself, makes you become a math genius too, constantly calculating carbs and insulin need.

You become your own pancreas.

I remember a documentary that I watched about a guy who caught a cold and lost 100% of his taste.

He said it was his greatest blessing since now he would only focus on foods and nutrients that his body needed to heal itself, self preserve, grow, become stronger, and slow down the aging process. That inspired me and stayed with me for years, even before Type 1.

That is the definition of Type 1.

Feed your body what it actually needs, by force of nature.

You have no other choice.

Unless you want to constantly suffer the consequences of being in Hypoglycemia all day long, during your sleep and having to wear a bracelet that says ‘‘Type 1 Diabetic’’ for when you pass out in a grocery store, people know to give you a nasal shot of Glucagon.

That is not living, that is merely existing at the mercy of a destructive disease when it is not controlled.

As a Type 1 Diabetic, I have never experienced hypoglycemia just from eating or injecting insulin, never.

Because I do not participate in the norm.

I do not eat carbohydrates.

I do not eat sugar.

I am different than other humans, I am not normal, I am a Type 1 Diabetic, a new breed of super humans who need to eat as a different breed of humans.

Carbohydrates are our Kryptonite.

Feeding our bodies with what it deserves and needs is our super power.

In short, Type 1 diabetes can be seen as a blessing and a superpower that teaches us to take control of our health and our lives.

It is a constant reminder that we have the power to improve our health and our lives, but it takes hard work and dedication to do so.

I will go deep into the nutrition part.

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