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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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.
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