Insulin resistance is where your body stops being able to “hear” insulin. You have been producing so much that the normal amount no longer gets the same result, so your body has to make more, and use more insulin to get the same job done. Over time this breaks the metabolism of the body. We start losing the ability to metabolize glucose properly, and we start to lose control of the glucose levels. Sometimes these levels get too high and the sugar damages the body — this leads to nerve damage, blood vessel damage, increased inflammation, and both of these lead to degradation of the entire body. Insulin resistance is a major biochemical player in heart attack and stroke, cancer, dementia, arterial plaque, endometriosis, PCOS (now called PMOS), ADD/ADHD, sexual dysfunction, and so many other things that damage the body.
The key is to change the way the body sees and processes sugars and insulin. We can do this by changing the metabolic chemistry of the body. This is done with hormones, exercise, peptides (like the GLP peptides), correcting sleep apnea, reducing visceral fat, reducing stress, and of course diet changes. When you combine all of these together, we can get changes never before seen with just one by itself. We often see changes in the first 3 months.
The process we are working on is the root cause of diabetes. So to be legal and technical, we are not treating the diabetes — we are treating the root metabolic cause of diabetes, dementia, and all the things I mentioned above. There is no way to be insulin resistant and healthy. This is also not something that is taught in medical school, as this is both hormonal and dietary. While the education in medical school is amazing for pharmaceuticals, the nutrition and hormones are currently not being taught.
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It’s when your metabolic system is not using, or listening to, insulin as well anymore. It’s often marked by higher fasting insulin, higher A1C levels, or things like PCOS, endometriosis, and some PMS issues.
Fasting insulin, glucose, and A1C are a great way to start looking.
Yes. It’s not uncommon when you reset the metabolic function.
Your brain creates insulin to communicate with itself. The more insulin resistance, the less the brain can hear itself thinking. It also allows systemic inflammation, which damages everything in the body. Insulin resistance also reduces the nutrients that get into the brain, so it gets starved of ATP (energy) and the chemicals it needs to function. In heart attack and stroke, it damages the cholesterol, and that makes it plaque.
When the need for the medication has been eliminated, you can come off your medications. We always watch glucose and insulin levels to let us know when the body has regained control of them; then we no longer need external control, and the medications are not needed. Never stop or change a prescription on your own; we adjust medications with you and your prescribing provider.
When you gasp for air, it creates a panic response in the body. That response releases adrenaline and cortisol. Those hormones release stored sugar from your liver so you can fight or run away. However, you are asleep and not fighting or running, so your body just raises insulin to put the sugar back into storage. If this happens 3, 5, or 10 times an hour and you sleep for 8 hours, that’s up to 80 times a night your insulin got spiked. That leads to systemic inflammation and higher fasting insulin, and that creates insulin resistance.
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