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 Hello and good morning. We're back down by the lake and it's a lot windier today. Actually you can see some big swirls coming in and the waves are breaking.



 Hello we're down by the lake again today and we're having a little bit of exercise but there's a lot windier today. If you can just see in the middle distance there we've got some large swirls coming in and the waves are breaking. There's some white caps out there on the water.



 Let's take a moment to talk about stress and anxiety and diabetes.



 I cover stress and anxiety both in quite a bit of detail in my book Prevent and Reverse Naturally Type 2 Diabetes, which is available on Amazon. There is a constant difference between stress and anxiety related to diabetes and stress and anxiety related to everyday life.



 So what is the difference between stress and anxiety? Stress is a demand placed on your brain, your emotions or your physical body. Anxiety is a feeling of unease with no specific trigger or event that causes it. Stress is not necessarily a bad thing and it can be the energizer to help you achieve certain things or complete certain tasks.



 Anxiety on the other hand because it has no specific focus is much more ill-defined and can lead to depression.



 Regardless of their cause unmanaged stress and anxiety can very detrimentally affect your daily life and that is where diabetes comes into it.



 Let's think for a moment about a trigger.



 Well obviously the trigger for me was a lot of stress around being diagnosed as diabetic.



 But it was also stress around what could happen, what should not happen if I take appropriate action.



 And anxiety around the ongoing need to monitor my body and the food that I eat and drinks that I consume in a way that I had not done so before.



 Symptoms of stress can be, I've got some notes here, dizziness, muscle tension, digestive issues including nausea and diarrhea, trouble sleeping, anger or irritability.



 Other symptoms of stress include headaches, increased sweating, feelings of being overwhelmed, restlessness, changes in appetite and increased heart rate. And anxiety can include any of those but they can also include a feeling of impending doom, tingling or numbness and brain fog. Diabetes when I was diagnosed was definitely very stressful and I got a quote here from my book.



 When I was first diagnosed it was a very dark place.



 Fortunately I had taken time off for Christmas.



 But when the holiday was over and I went back to work, diabetes seemed to be a stress factor or load added to everything I did work wise.



 I found myself worrying about my time in range which is information in my CGM monitoring app.



 What I had eaten and what I would consume next while participating in 8 hours of meetings each day.



 Here's one of the important things from Diabetes UK. Stress alone doesn't cause diabetes but there's some evidence that there may be a link between stress and the risk of type 2 diabetes.



 Diabetes UK researchers think that a high level of stress hormones might stop insulin producing cells in the pancreas from working properly.



 As a result they reduce the amount of insulin they make and in turn this might contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes. That is an interesting insight.



 From the point of view of being a type 2 diabetic and looking at stress factors in my life and trying to reduce the ones that are not related to diabetes.



 So that diabetes does not escalate other stresses beyond what is reasonable. I am anxious about that relationship and I am anxious about the ongoing need to monitor food and monitor what I consume.



 That drives me to check my CGM, perhaps more regularly than even my doctor anticipated. I am at around 20 to 25 reviews on my CGM app every day and she thinks that is way too much.



 For me it contributes to a feeling of reduced stress and anxiety because I know where I am, what I am doing, what my body is doing and I know when I ate, what I ate and what the result of my body was.



 One of the things that occurs regularly for diabetics is diabetic burnout. That is when things not necessarily go wrong but the repetition of checking your CGM results, your CGM monitor, see where it is at and what you are doing, what you are eating, what you should not be eating to maintain a healthy diet.



 All of those things do tend to pile up and you tend to, they refer to it as diabetes burnout, you don't give up but you can become careless.



 Not necessarily eating sugar but perhaps buying bread that causes a blood spike or having a snack which causes a blood sugar spike. I will go into more detail when I talk about stress and anxiety.



 Just be prepared if you are pre-diabetic and you are wondering about what diabetes has in store for you and the lifestyle changes that you need to make to avoid becoming diabetic. That is what you are trying to do. You are trying to avoid becoming a type 2 diabetic.



 You want to make that happen. You do not want to become a type 2 diabetic and have to monitor your food and your intake and the way you do.



 As I have mentioned a couple of times, I am now off medication. I only wear a CGM to collect information about my blood glucose levels.



 That was my goal in completing the lifestyle changes that I have. I am trying to encourage everybody to do that who is pre-diabetic or even get off taking medication if you are type 2 diabetic already. But managing stress and anxiety related to diabetes is a big factor that you will have to learn. I am going to try to encourage and help you and teach you about so that it becomes less crucial for you.



 It is a beautiful day here. You can hear the surf.



 Definitely a lot more wind out on the lake pushing the water against the shore.



 I hope you enjoyed the video. Have a look at my book.



 It is all education at this stage.



 I hope you have a great day. Have as good a day as I am having right now and take care.



 Have a great day. Bye now.