The "Overflowing Sugar Bowl" in Your Body
Hey Health Enthusiasts!
What if I told you that Type 2 Diabetes is not a disease of high blood sugar?
That might sound crazy. After all, you’ve been told to check your blood sugar, manage your blood sugar, and take medications to lower your blood sugar.
But the truth is, high blood sugar is just the symptom. It’s not the root cause.
Treating the symptom while ignoring the disease is like constantly mopping up a flooded floor without ever turning off the overflowing sink. It’s exhausting, and you never actually fix the problem.
The Real Cause: The Overflowing Sugar Bowl
According to Dr. Jason Fung, a leading expert on fasting and metabolic health, the root cause of Type 2 Diabetes is insulin resistance driven by chronically high insulin levels.
He explains it with a powerful analogy in his book, The Diabetes Code:
Imagine your body is a sugar bowl.
When you eat—especially carbohydrates—that sugar goes into the bowl. The hormone insulin then takes that sugar out of the bowl and delivers it to your cells for energy.
But what happens when we eat too many of the wrong foods, too often, for too long?
Our cells become full. They can’t accept any more sugar. They become “resistant” to insulin’s signal. This is insulin resistance.
When this happens, the sugar has nowhere to go. It backs up in your blood, and the sugar bowl starts to overflow. That overflow is the high blood sugar you see on your glucometer.
What do conventional treatments do? They prescribe medications that work by forcing even more sugar into your already-full cells. You’re just cramming more sugar into an overflowing bowl. This doesn’t solve the problem—over time, it can make the insulin resistance even worse.
