The Diabetes Secret: It's Not About High or Low Sugar, It's About Your Emergency Fuel.

Let’s talk about one of the biggest fears for anyone concerned with blood sugar: fainting. We’re told there are two culprits: high sugar and low sugar. But what if I told you that, from my perspective, both high sugar and low sugar are symptoms of the exact same underlying problem? What if the numbers on the meter aren't the real story?

This might sound strange, but I want you to follow me on a journey of thought. I believe understanding this one concept can change your entire relationship with your body and your health.

The Fainting Paradox: High or Low?

Let's imagine a scenario. A person eats a meal, but their digestion isn't great. Out of 500 units of sugar that enter their blood, only 100 are "good sugar," and 400 are "bad sugar." To make matters worse, let's say their body's emergency sugar savings—the stored glycogen—are completely empty.

Here's what happens. The 100 good sugars get their insulin key from the pancreas and enter the cells to provide energy. The 400 bad sugars are useless and are marked for disposal through the urine. But the body is still desperately short on energy and has no savings to draw from. The cells starve, and the person faints.

Now, here are the two possibilities:

• Scenario A: The "Low Sugar" Diagnosis. If we test their blood after their amazing kidneys have filtered out the 400 units of bad sugar, the meter will show a very low sugar level. A doctor would say, "You fainted because of low sugar."

• Scenario B: The "High Sugar" Diagnosis. If we test their blood before the bad sugar has been flushed out, while those 400 useless units are still floating around, the meter will show a very high sugar level. The doctor would then say, "You fainted because of high sugar."

Do you see what happened? The person fainted for the exact same reason in both scenarios: their cells were starved of energy because their glycogen savings account was empty. The "high" or "low" reading was simply a matter of timing—it depended on whether the body's garbage disposal system had finished its work yet.

The reason for fainting, in my view, is not the number on the screen. It’s the empty fuel tank.

Why You Should Stop Chasing 'Normal' Blood Sugar

This brings me to another point I feel strongly about: the obsession with maintaining a "normal" blood sugar level is, I believe, fundamentally misguided and a major source of anxiety and disease.

Have you ever noticed how you can feel perfectly fine, full of energy, but the moment you see a test report with a high number—say, 300 or 400—you suddenly feel weak and sick? That’s because we’ve been conditioned to believe that this number is a sign of disease. The fear itself creates the illness.

In reality, your blood sugar is supposed to fluctuate! It’s a sign that your body is intelligently responding to life.

Think of your kitchen. If you normally cook for two people but suddenly have ten guests arrive, you're going to cook a lot more food. Is the larger quantity of food in your kitchen a "problem"? Of course not! It's an appropriate response. Similarly, if your body's cells need more energy, your blood sugar will rise to meet that demand.

Let me give you a classic example. Imagine you're sitting calmly with a "normal" sugar level. Suddenly, someone tosses a snake onto your lap. You panic! If you were to test your blood in that moment, your sugar level would be sky-high. Did you suddenly get diabetes? No! Your brilliant body, anticipating that you might get bitten and will need a massive amount of energy to fight the poison, flooded your system with fuel from its reserves. Ten minutes after the snake is gone, your sugar will be back to normal. Was that a disease, or was it an act of self-protection?

The same thing happens if you get a cut. Your blood sugar and blood pressure will rise because the cells in that area need energy to begin the healing process. If we measure that rise and call it a disease, we’re misunderstanding a miracle.

The Role of Modern Medicine: Lifesaver or Lifelong Crutch?

Now, let me be clear. If someone faints, we need to save their life. In an emergency, sugar medicines, tablets, and insulin are marvelous, life-saving inventions. They should absolutely be used to stabilize someone in a crisis.

But using them every single day for the rest of your life is a different story. What do these medications actually do?

From my perspective, a sugar tablet doesn't magically turn bad sugar into good sugar. Instead, it goes to the pancreas and acts like a bully. It essentially holds the pancreas at gunpoint and says, "Give insulin keys to those 400 units of bad sugar, right now!" The pancreas knows these sugars are junk and will harm the cells, but the medicine forces it to comply. It gives a bogus "Good Sugar" certificate to bad fuel.

The Business of Sickness

When these bad sugars are forced into your cells day after day, what do you think happens? The cells get sick. This, I believe, is why people who take diabetes medication often find their health spiraling downwards.

Think about it with simple logic. Does the dosage for diabetes medication typically go up over time, or down? For most, it steadily increases. That can only mean one thing: the underlying problem is getting worse, not better.

First, your eyes might be affected. Then your kidneys. Then other organs. All while you're diligently "maintaining" your sugar levels. The tragic irony is that all these new diseases are often blamed on you not controlling your sugar well enough, when in my opinion, they are the direct result of forcing your body to run on bad fuel.

The body needs to raise its sugar level to heal itself. By artificially keeping it "normal," we are robbing our body of its ability to repair itself. I have come to believe that the so-called "sugar disease" is one of the most brilliant business plans ever devised. Create a problem out of a normal bodily function, sell a solution that creates more problems, and you have a customer for life.

My final message is this: please do not live in fear of your body's numbers. Diabetes is not a disease you can "catch." It is, in my opinion, a condition born from misunderstanding how our magnificent bodies work. Stop checking the numbers and start focusing on giving your body what it truly needs: properly digested, high-quality food that it can turn into the good, clean fuel it deserves.