Hello Health Champions. If you’re watching this
today you are probably insulin resistance because That’s something that affects most of the world’s
population today. So we’re going to talk about, In simple terms, what insulin resistance really
is and if you stay with me to the end and you Really understand and apply these 10 secrets to
reverse insulin resistance then you won’t have to Be one of the victims. The biggest part about
reversing insulin resistance is to understand What it is and what it is not so first of all it
is the most common disease in the world and it Is also the disease that claims the most lives
unfortunately it is also one of the most poorly Diagnosed the most misunderstood and the most
mismanaged but unlike what you will hear or Read when you do a search into this topic they
say that it is not curable it is not reversible But that is a misunderstanding and the hopeful
thing is that if you understand what we’re talking About today it is also one of the most easily
reversed conditions if we do a Google search For insulin resistance it’s going to reveal the
first problem because right away they’re going to Talk about glucose they’re going to talk about
glucose in the blood and they’ll explain that Insulin resistance is when insulin doesn’t work
or we fail to respond to insulin and therefore Blood glucose increases and if you notice all the
focus is on blood glucose but that’s not what the Condition starts with that’s not the first thing
that’s the last thing so what they’re saying on This page is that insulin resistance leads to
increased blood glucose and that is absolute True I’m not disputing that in any way but they
are starting with the last step they’re focusing All about blood glucose that’s how they diagnose
it that’s all they measure that’s all they treat They’re missing the bigger picture and they get
this backwards because if you’re gonna describe Insulin resistance in one word it would be in
my opinion it would be overload and when we Overload the body with carbohydrate with things
that stimulate insulin now we get a increase we Get a high insulin level and that’s not so bad
if it happens once or twice but if this becomes Chronic if we do this every day or several times
a day like we’re told to do we’re told to eat High Carbohydrate meals many times a day with frequent
snacks now this leads to insulin resistance and Now we have a chronic condition but the blood
glucose that they measure is the last thing To focus on we need to understand that insulin
resistance is a survival mechanism and it happens On two different levels first of all it’s at the
species level so if humans didn’t have the ability To develop a little bit of insulin resistance we
wouldn’t be as good at storing energy so back when We were hunter-gatherers when we had a lot to
eat maybe in the summer and not so much in the Winter it was a good thing to be a little insulin
resistant because that would allow us to overeat And to store the extra energy for future use if
we were a little extra padded with fat we could Survive the winter better if you were super
insulin sensitive and you couldn’t put on a Lot of fat you might have a six-pack to show off
but you may not make it through the winter but
That’s not so much a problem anymore I think you
would agree and the insulin resistance we talked About today is more about the cellular level
and that is what we need to have a look at so When you eat something let’s say that you have a
pile of food and you ingest that let’s call that 400 calories and let’s say that this is pure
carbohydrate just for purpose of illustration So that would be a hundred grams of carbohydrate
that doesn’t sound like a whole lot because most People eat many times that every day but we have
to realize that this has to be absorbed into the Bloodstream into our vascular system and we have
miles of blood vessels and they hold a total of About five liters of blood or about a gallon and
a half but that entire blood volume if we have a Hundred milligrams of glucose per deciliter that
amounts to a total of about three grams a little Bit more than half a teaspoon and if we convert
that to calories that would be 12 calories of Blood glucose at any given time and it is terrible
it’s an emergency if we allow that to rise very Much if that gets up to even double then we have
very very poor glucose tolerance or system our Physiology is basically broken we can’t handle
where carbohydrate intolerant if that even gets Up to 24 calories and yet we have to get these
400 calories through the bloodstream quickly and Some of this 400 calories will be used up in real
time but most of it we have to get into the blood Stream into the tissues and then store it so we
can store it in one of two ways first way is that We store it as carbohydrates so we basically take
these glucose molecules and we chain them together Into glycogen and now we can store them in a
type of container if you will and the muscles is One container and the liver is another container
but all in all we can store about 1500 calories Of carbohydrate in the body that’s all and I mean
that sounds a lot compared to the 12 calories in The bloodstream but if you realize that you use
up about 2 000 calories in a day then your total Carbohydrate wouldn’t even last you one day so how
do we survive longer periods without food and that Is because most of this is going to get stored as
fat and these containers are not proportional by Size or anything but the fat container can hold
almost unlimited amounts of fat so if you’re very Heavy you can have hundreds of thousands maybe
over a half a million calories of fat stored so The insulin takes the blood glucose it stores
glycogen it puts the glucose into the fat cells Where it’s converted into fat for future storage
and insulin is a wonderful thing that allows us To store this extra energy but I’m sure you’ve
heard the expression that too much of a good Thing is not so good and what happens if this
container starts filling up if we eat a bunch Of carbohydrate and we keep storing this because
we’re always in over feeding mode then pretty soon This container is going to fill up and once it
starts overflowing once it’s full that cell says For survival purposes that I don’t want anymore if
you push more stuff into me then I’m gonna burst And that is literally what happens eventually but
before that happens this container starts leaking It starts overflowing because we’re just pushing
too much into it and it’s the excess insulin that
Does that and then the body starts to resist the
action of insulin because it says I’m too full I Don’t want that insulin to push more stuff in me
but the body is desperate because it has to get That glucose out of the bloodstream because it’s
extremely toxic to the brain you can get into A coma with too much blood sugar so the body
is desperate to get it out of the bloodstream So it makes more and more and more insulin to
fill up this container and the container says No I’ve had enough and this is how we develop
insulin resistance and this is where a lot of People get confused because they hear that this
is primarily a fat cell that gets filled up it Starts leaking and it starts signaling that it’s
insulin resistance and this message spreads to Other tissues so it sort of signals a spreading
tendency of insulin resistance in the body so People erroneously think it’s about the fat cell
therefore fat is the problem but again they get It backwards because it didn’t start with the
fat it’s not the fat that filled up the fat cell It’s the glucose that through the influence of
insulin was converted into fat so it’s the high Carbohydrate consumption it is the high insulin
level that stuffs that cell to full so insulin Resistance is not caused by fat and this may be
the biggest health problem we have today that We have a fat phobia and there’s so much Recent
research that says that the more saturated fat You eat the lower your insulin levels the less
insulin resistance the longer you live the less Cardiovascular disease and the less inflammation
you have so it’s exactly contrary to what we hear Because we have a fat phobia we have decided once
and for all the fats the bad guy and then we kind Of stop using our common sense and understanding
how physiology works but if it’s not fat causing It what is it primarily and the number one
answer is sugar because sugar is 50 glucose which Stimulates raises insulin so starch and bread
and rice it’s all glucose but sugar is even worse Because 50 glucose raises insulin the other 50
percent is fructose and fructose is very similar To alcohol in the sense that fructose and alcohol
can only be processed through the liver the Majority the vast majority has to go through the
liver and if we push all that volume that’s enough Fuel for a whole body basically but we push it
through a three pound organ then the cells of that Organ are going to overflow very quickly and it
used to be that only alcoholics could get a fatty Liver but today it’s an epidemic of fatty liver
and type 2 diabetes in kids as young as teenagers Or even younger than that and for the most part
I’m sure it’s not because they’re alcoholics it Is because we feed them candy and cookies and soda
so sugar and alcohol are primarily responsible for Causing fatty liver and insulin resistance
but there’s also a lot of talk about car Carbohydrate and starch and why is that because
once you have started to become insulin resistant And your insulin levels are high and you feed your
body starch now that starch turns into glucose And you’re going to perpetuate you’re going to
constantly drive that insulin level higher and Higher and higher and to the extent that the
body was ever able or wanting to clean out and
Burn through that fat there’s no possibility of
doing that with chronically High insulin levels so Sugar and alcohol causes most of the problem but
starches and carbs contribute to it and perpetuate It insulin resistance is also not a mystery and I
understand why the American Diabetes Association Would post an article like this and say that
exactly why a person fails to respond properly is Still a mystery but this is more of a perspective
that that they are used to science and logic they Want to pin it down on a single mechanism that can
Define once and for all there it is but if we step Back a little bit and use some common sense and
have a different perspective on the body and we Recognize that the body is infinitely intelligent
it is as smart as anything on the planet gets it’s Way way way smarter than we are or will ever be
it is perfect it is incapable of making mistakes The only thing the body knows is to follow the
laws of physiology to follow the laws of nature So if we analyze the statement a little bit and
we look at these two words properly and mystery And we understand that physiology is as perfect
as gravity it is a law of nature then it is no Way there is no possibility for the body to act
improperly right it only knows how to do things One way and if we were to observe something that
contradicted that if we observe gravity and then One day we see a balloon floating up then if
we understand that gravity is consistent and Can only do things one way the perfect way then
we would explain that Balloon by something else We would understand that there are other forces
at play there are other influences just like we Would look at the body and say hmm I wonder why
this cell is behaving that way and if we know That it can only behave perfectly then we have to
come up with another explanation and say maybe we Are doing something that the body isn’t equipped
to tolerate the body only knows how to adapt if we Push it it’s going to adapt if we leave it alone
it’s going to return to balance so maybe if we Push it too far maybe we just have to undo what
we were doing stop creating that insult and the Body would return to balance and that is what we
see happening and here’s what medical news today Says we have to know about insulin resistance and
it tries to outline what the current understanding Is on how insulin resistance develops and
they say first insulin loses its ability to Support body cells effectively so what they’re
saying is insulin resistance is where it starts Right that’s the last step is there any Wonder or
in such a mess if that’s our current understanding Now first we induce a stress on the body then the
body adapts over a period of many many many years Often 10 years 15 20 years then we abuse the body
it adapts it resists and then we get to insulin Resistance which they think is the first step and
why do they think that because they only focus on Blood sugar number two they say at first the body
responds by increasing insulin well that’s what it Does all along when we eat too many carbohydrates
and frequents meal that is when it responds with a Lot of insulin then number three they say that
eventually as the body becomes more resistant Glucose levels go up the body can’t keep up when
making more insulin and that is extremely rare
Because most people who are type 2 diabetics they
make tons and tons of insulin but it’s more like The body’s intelligence again just throwing its
hands up and said I don’t know what you’re doing But there’s only so much I can do sure I could
release more insulin but what would be the point All we’re doing is we’re exploding these poor fat
cells and number four they say that if we maintain These high blood sugar levels then that can lead
to pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes again only Focusing on blood sugar as if it was the blood
sugar that led to the diabetes rather than the Insulin resistance and then they say this will
happen unless we can get treatment and control Blood sugar levels so you see the problem they’re
focusing only on blood sugar as if that was some Completely independent variable that had nothing
to do with anything else going on or anything Else that we’re doing but if we stop focusing on
the blood sugar and we start looking at what does The body adapt to over a period of many many years
then it’s not a mystery and we stop focusing on The blood sugar and we start looking at the whole
system and the behavior and what they’re saying At the end here is basically that if a person was
able to get treatment to control blood sugar then We might be able to avoid the pre-diabetes and
the diabetes and this is the biggest fallacy of All because the treatment is aimed at blood
sugar not reversing insulin resistance and Therefore insulin resistance treatment makes
insulin resistance worse now at first it’s not So bad it’s not my favorite solution but they give
you metformin and what this does is it helps the Tissues become a little more insulin sensitive
so it helps bring some of the glucose down Without increasing so much insulin but it doesn’t
help reverse the problem in the least bit because The problem is still that we were putting
more in the system than it could burn up And the metformin isn’t going to change that in
any way it will just buy us a little bit of time So the metformin will improve somewhat temporarily
and it really won’t bring the A1C down but it will Probably take a little bit longer before it gets
worse but eventually it kind of loses its effect Because we keep doing the thing that caused the
problem and then the only solution they have left Is to inject insulin or to give you something
to stimulate your body’s own insulin production And what’s the problem with that well the problem
is that we were already doing something to create Chronically High insulin levels so if you take
fasting insulin test then a healthy level for Someone who’s very insulin sensitive ideally
insulin sensitive is somewhere between two and Five and before they get to that point where they
have where they give them additional insulin their Insulin levels it are already at around 25 to 30.
so they’re basically eight to ten times higher Than a healthy level these people are not short on
insulin they have too much they have way too much And what happens now when we give them more we are
making the problem worse because we’re giving them More of the thing that created the problem in the
first place so basically what we’re doing is by Focusing purely on treating blood sugar then we’re
making the blood sugar a little bit better at the
Expense of Health at the expense of making the
problem worse and if you seek help for insulin Resistance the first thing they’re going to tell
you is that it would help if you lost weight and That’s probably true but you can’t because your
insulin is too high and Insulin keeps packing that Fat Cell full and now when they give you insulin
when they inject insulin or give you something to Stimulate more insulin they are automatically and
every time making you gain weight so the treatment Does the opposite of what they tell you would help
to get healthy as a result you will most likely Die sooner because this treatment of increasing
insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome is Going to increase two to three fold the rate of
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