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What is insulin resistance?

 


 

Insulin resistance isn't the newest

rebel group in town nor is it a crossfit training exercise

but it is important to understand what

exactly insulin resistance is, when it comes to

diabetes the main organ involved in the

development of diabetes is the pancreas.

This is a corn on the cob shaped gland

that sits snug against the liver right 

behind the stomach. The pancreas 

lowers blood sugar by producing a 

hormone called insulin. Insulin is made

by very specialized cells that react to blood

sugar levels if blood sugar levels increase after 

eating a meal. Insulin secretion rises accordingly

in order to keep sugar levels steady.

Sugar decreases due to long periods of

starvation or exercise, insulin levels fall

this insulin sugar balance system

is extremely well organized like a

healthy economy at any given moment the

perfect amount of insulin is produced

to maintain blood sugar levels within

the normal range. No more no less insulin

resistance can be explained using

the economy as an example as insulin

resistance develops the same amount of insulin

that previously lowered blood sugar into the

normal range. No longer works effectively in other

words the pancreas used to spend one

insulin dollar to bring the blood sugar

down when insulin resistance develops this

dollar is no longer enough. The pancreas must

produce 10 insulin dollars to do the same job

that had before only cost one this is just like

inflation but it's called insulin resistance because 

the body appears to be resistant to insulin 

requiring higher levels in order to have the 

same effect as before in business. Inflation 

is generally thought to be unhealthy for the 

economy the same is true for insulin resistance

in the body people cannot feel insulin resistance

at first from the outside all appears well and the 

measured blood sugar level is still within normal 

range inside the body however the pancreas is

working over time forced to produce many more 

insulin dollars than what is comfortable in order 

to maintain sugar levels within the normal range.

Before long the pancreas reaches its maximum 

ability to produce more money and the fasting 

blood sugar levels become elevated. Elevated 

fasting blood sugar what doctors call impaired 

fasting. Glucose may be one of the first clues the 

body gives about having insulin resistance.

 


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