Dr. Vonda Wright

Well, I'm sure you've spoken many times about the roles of high blood sugar in the body.

And at a very, very simple level, it's like we're barbecuing our body from the inside out, where high blood sugar causes this chronic inflammation in our body, which is the cause of many chronic diseases, which is high inflammation.

Sugar causes an internal process that produces these substances called AGEs, which literally I think of it as an internal barbecue.

It's crystallizing inside of our body.

No, it doesn't sound good.

It doesn't feel good.

High inflammation is one of the reasons people get joint pain, frozen shoulder.

One of the reasons we have the highly inflamed process of unchecked diabetes.

I mean, all these things work together.

And muscle is critical for helping control that glucose balance because when there's too much circulating, it is stored in fat.

There's only so much our liver can store, about 2,000 calories worth.

And then the rest of it has to be stored somewhere.

And I'm going to tell you for sure that I find...

In joints where we shouldn't have this, because I'm an arthroscopist, fatty stores.

It's like putting fat into the closets because there's nowhere else to put it.

We have so much excess energy.

Our body has to store it somewhere.

It stores it in fat and then it shoves the fat a lot of places.

You should not have big layers of fat in our shoulder joint, in the hip joint, for instance.

But yet I find it there pretty frequently.