I’ve recently been tested for and confirmed to be “insulin resistant.” I know that it has to do with sugar and energy and glucose, but I’m confused about it. I’d like to work on reversing it, but I need to understand what it is better for me to convince myself to change my habits. TIA
ETA: I’m aware of the consequence that it can become diabetes & im very willing to make changes, I just have a weird brain that needs to understand WHY changes are important. I don’t want to be diabetic, but I want to know a basic explanation of what insulin resistance is.
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Your body has reached a point where insulin no longer works properly due to having too much sugar intake. It doesn’t properly regulate your blood sugar levels, and if you keep going the way you are without doing anything about it, you will become diabetic and it will eventually kill you. Do what you doctor is telling you, don’t be stupid and ignore it or not care, unless you don’t care about what you are going to do to yourself through willful negligence.
Insulin is a hormone that rises and falls in response to blood sugar (glucose) levels. Higher blood sugar = higher insulin. Its purpose is to signal insulin-sensitive tissues to take in more glucose from the blood. These tissues will then use glucose for energy, or convert it to glycogen or fat for storage. Then, as glucose levels fall, insulin levels also fall.
Unfortunately, the modern Western diet, especially in the U.S., is packed with sugar, and this sugar-laden food is readily available. This means we tend to spend a lot of time with a high level of glucose in our blood and so we have a high level of insulin, and our bodies become desensitized to insulin. Over time, we have to have higher and higher levels of insulin to achieve the same result. Eventually, we can’t produce enough insulin to achieve any result.
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The first thing you need to know it’s that every part of your body adapts to its environment, even the tiniest parts like your cell. The second is that insulin is the hormone in charge of telling your cell to absorb the sugar in your blood, and the last one is that the more sugar there is in your blood the more insulin your will release. So if your blood is always high in sugar there will always be a lot of insulin being released into the blood, and your cell will start to adapt to these new environment by needing more insulin to absorb the same amount of sugar, make it them resistance to insulin.
Note: the info use for the text was greatly summarized and it’s writer isn’t a native English speaker so any grammar or spelling correction will be appreciated.
I’m type 2 diabetic. If you have insurance, ask you doc to set you up with a nutritionist. They can answer every question about the how and why’s and what foods to have and what to reduce- I didn’t have to completely stop having soda and Snickers, but I can no longer have one every day.
If you still produce insulin you can alter your lifestyle (diet and exercise) so that the insulin resistance ‘fixes’ itself- your cells will slowly get used to taking in insulin properly- and you can go on to live a normal life. If you don’t get your blood sugar under control, the effects start with peeing yourself all the time and go all the way to blindness.
it’s caused by down regulation. When there are too much of a certain hormone in your circulation, your cells responds by decreasing the number of receptors on cell surface. When there’s no enough insulin receptor, the glucose can’t be used despite the insulin level being high.
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