5-hour glucose tolerance tests amongst insulin assay. You hollo upwardly those, right? The ones that suggested far to a greater extent than people are inwards the early on stages of diabetes in addition to insulin resistance than anyone ever would receive got guessed, based on their “normal” fasting glucose in addition to hemoglobin A1c results.
In instance anyone’s stumbling upon this serial for the start time, hither are links to the 7 posts that preceded this one:
- Part 1: Introduction to insulin resistance in addition to the piece of occupation of Dr. Kraft: What is diabetes in-situ?
- Part 2: Health consequences of hyperinsulinemia & hyperglycemia unrelated to torso weight.
- Part 3: Deep-dive into the pancreas in addition to the balancing human activeness betwixt insulin and GLUCAGON.
- Part 4: The role of insulin inwards the gain & loss of torso fat.
- Part 5: More on insulin & the rule of torso fat—how do unlike eating patterns (such as intermittent fasting in addition to refined saccharify reduction) touching on insulin, in addition to what does that hateful for torso fatty in addition to loose energy levels?
- Part 6: The concept of “normal weight obesity” or TOFI—thin outside, fatty inside, in addition to what this way for overall health. (Summary: “thin” doesn’t automatically hateful healthy.) Also: how come upwardly some people don’t locomote overweight when they’re insulin resistant?
- Part 7: “Calories in, calories out” in addition to “eat less, displace more.” Are these audio bytes the to the lowest degree chip helpful? In a word, no. If yous receive got fifty-fifty the smallest appreciation for the complexity of the biochemical rule of human metabolism, inwards general, in addition to torso fat, inwards particular, in addition to hence yous volition concord that these phrases are laughably simplistic in addition to i pace shy of existence completely meaningless.
Okay! Let’s teach downwards to business.
Having covered some of the gnarly wellness weather in addition to debilitating downstream effects of insulin resistance (IR), hyperinsulinemia, in addition to hyperglycemia—which tin lav touching on your eyes, your ears, your brain, your kidneys, your ticker & blood vessels, your nerves, in addition to your human being parts or lady bits, non to advert brand yous the 3 Fs: fat, fatigued, in addition to foggy-headed—it’s fourth dimension to address perhaps the most of import questions of all...
What causes insulin resistance,
and what tin lav nosotros do nearly it?
and what tin lav nosotros do nearly it?
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| Insulin resistance served upwardly for breakfast? Maybe not… |
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I swear, if I hear i to a greater extent than freaking thing nearly the Kitavans… |
I receive got already mentioned another issues that mightiness hold upwardly at play when it comes to the evolution of IR. There are many more, some of which are nether our control, in addition to some of which are not. If/when necessary, nosotros tin lav all observe ways to ameliorate care stress, teach to a greater extent than sleep, construct to a greater extent than muscle, maintain adequate vitamin & mineral stores, in addition to even—with the guidance of a knowledgeable physician or clinical nutritionist—chelate or “detoxify” heavy metallic buildups, optimize thyroid function, in addition to address other hormonal imbalances that mightiness hold upwardly affecting glucose & insulin disposal. We tin lav also tinker amongst our gut flora, but to hold upwardly honest amongst you, I don’t think anyone knows plenty exactly even hence nearly what constitutes a “healthy” microbiome, in addition to it's possible people loading upwardly on resistant starch in addition to probiotics could goal upwardly doing themselves to a greater extent than impairment than good.
All that existence said, at that topographic point are even hence other factors that mightiness contribute to the evolution of IR—factors nosotros receive got zero command over. If whatsoever of yous are familiar amongst the enquiry of Weston Price, DDS, in addition to hence yous know that the diet of our parents—and our grandparents, in addition to maybe fifty-fifty their parents—influence our ain physical development, in addition to nosotros receive got no argue to suspect they don’t also influence our physiological or endocrinological development. That is, maybe our refined saccharify tolerance, or our caffeine tolerance, or FODMAP sensitivity, or liver detoxification capacity, or methylation efficiency, or whatever else, is out of our hands. We tin lav manipulate all of these things to some extent, but overall, some of the wacky things our bodies do mightiness merely hold upwardly the paw we’re dealt. We already know for sure that maternal hyperglycemia tin lav predispose offspring to some pretty serious wellness issues downwards the road. Maybe it doesn’t outright cause them, but it surely makes them harder to avoid, particularly inwards the context of the modern American diet in addition to lifestyle. (For an updated but every bit impactful version of Dr. Price’s findings, I recommend the majority Deep Nutrition. Be warned, though: reading these plant may Pb yous to start scrutinizing the faces of strangers—particularly children—and boundary to conclusions nearly their ancestors’ dietary habits. Happens to a lot of us!)
I could locomote along in addition to on (and on!) regarding my theories on why some people tolerate carbohydrate, or stress, or brusk sleep, ameliorate than others—and why some of us tolerate these things exactly fine when we’re young, but less hence as nosotros age—but let’s remain on message here.
Having acknowledged that at that topographic point are several routes to the same destination of insulin resistance, I volition defer to the experts to explicate the details on the multiple inputs that are currently hypothesized to contribute to IR. The people at Meridian Valley Lab receive got position together a fantastic 3-part video lecture serial on the causes of insulin resistance, how to attempt for it, in addition to how to treat/reverse it. As it relates to this post, regarding the causes in addition to what to do nearly them, you’ll desire to ticker parts I in addition to III. (Part II looks at the glucose & insulin assays the lab uses to assess IR, in addition to they are pretty much the same ones Dr. Kraft used. It is worth watching, for reasons I’ll teach to inwards a minute. If null else, it’s worth it exactly to hear the speaker state that the outcome that puzzles them—the i they almost never run across in addition to tin lav barely brand feel of—is probable due to someone next a low-carb diet. [Approximately xxx minutes into the video.])
Part I volition give yous an appreciation for how far beyond “carbz” this all goes. Part III presents several answers to the “what to do nearly it” question.
Now dorsum to portion II. Part II provides answers to the query yous mightiness receive got later on reading all these posts in addition to existence skeer’d of developing insulin resistance, in addition to maybe existence especially skeer’d of developing whatsoever of the weather associated amongst IR, such as Alzheimer’s or cardiovascular disease. This question, inwards particular, is driven yesteryear what nosotros saw way dorsum in the start post inwards this series, amongst Dr. Kraft’s insulin assays. Remember: Dr. Kraft showed that, inwards many people amongst normal glucose tolerance, normal fasting glucose, in addition to normal A1c, hyperinsulinemia, or “diabetes in-situ” was lurking behind the scenes. As I explained, the reason those measurements were normal is because of sky-high insulin, which, as nosotros saw inwards the second post inwards this series, has real serious implications for wellness all on its own, apart from anything going on amongst blood glucose.
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| What should nosotros hold upwardly on the sentinel for in our diverse & sundry bodily fluids? |
I don’t receive got whatsoever groundbreaking answers for you. Most of them are pretty onetime intelligence if yous read other blogs in addition to hear to podcasts nearly this stuff. (If yous don’t, then, congratulations. You are non the gigantic nerd I am, in addition to yous are likely way likewise busy having fun in addition to living life to immerse yourself inwards this materials similar I do.) Okay, dorsum to what matters: if nosotros can’t mensurate insulin straight (many doctors don’t desire to, fifty-fifty some of the LCHF-friendly ones), what else tin lav nosotros expect at to run across how we’re doing?
Pretty much the commons suspects: If your glucose & A1c are elevated, in addition to hence you’ll know you’re already in unsafe territory. Beyond that, there’s triglycerides, blood pressure, HDL, LDL particle size (but non necessarily number), C-peptide, uric acid, in addition to fructosamine. (Possibly also CRP or hs-CRP [C-reactive poly peptide in addition to high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, respectively], which are markers of inflammation. I think they tin lav hold upwardly surrogate indicators of IR as well, since chronically elevated insulin is pretty damn inflammatory.)
For to a greater extent than on the markers to watch, in addition to what are currently believed to hold upwardly the optimal ranges, part II of the video lectures is your best bet. (You don’t receive got to ticker portion I first. I recommend watching all of them inwards order, but each portion stands lonely exactly fine.)
I’m sad if this post is a somewhat anti-climactic goal to what has otherwise been a pretty goodness ride. I jurist I exactly experience the videos explicate the nuances ameliorate than I can, in addition to there’s no betoken inwards reinventing the wheel.
HOWEVER, exactly hence I don’t leave of absence yous completely disappointed, allow me to portion some thoughts on the strategies that mightiness assist us protect ourselves from the horrible outcomes detailed inwards portion 2, or, if nosotros already have some of those issues, how nosotros mightiness halt them from progressing, in addition to maybe fifty-fifty opposite or cure them.
Can insulin resistance hold upwardly reversed?
Can it hold upwardly cured?
Can it hold upwardly cured?
Those 2 words are quite interesting: reverse, in addition to cure. Can insulin resistance hold upwardly reversed? Dr. Fung seems to think so. He routinely uses that give-and-take inwards his videos in addition to tweets.
@TheSugarFreeMan Certainly. I suspect insulin resistance is reversible inwards 95% of people given the right approach. — Dr. Jason Fung (@drjasonfung) November 8, 2015 Can it hold upwardly cured? Probably not, but really, it’s exactly semantics. Dr. Fung has taken an 80/20 diet drifts precariously toward 60/40, or you’ve been gunning for a advertisement at piece of occupation or maybe are the rear of a newborn, in addition to your stress levels are at an all-time high, acre your character slumber is at an all-time low—whatever the interfering circumstances, nosotros tin lav teach dorsum on rail as presently as nosotros direct to. Many of the presumed causes of IR are firmly within our control, in addition to when nosotros start to run across or experience things getting out of whack—or objective lab values tell us they’re out of whack—we tin lav receive got corrective measures immediately. It mightiness receive got a few weeks or months for the effects of those measures to hold upwardly reflected inwards the bloodwork, but nosotros tin lav receive got command as presently as nosotros create upwardly one's heed to. (Kind of similar gaining weight: nosotros don’t receive got to hold off until we’re 50, 100, or 200 pounds overweight earlier nosotros do something nearly it. You’d likely notice if yous gained xx or xxx pounds, in addition to yous tin lav start doing something nearly it before it becomes 50 or 150.)
If I desire to hold upwardly a existent stickler for semantics (and I ordinarily do), in addition to hence I jurist nosotros really are ameliorate off maxim insulin resistance/T2D is “managed,” rather than cured. Or perhaps a ameliorate give-and-take is remission: “Thanks to a reduced-carbohydrate diet, to a greater extent than sleep, weightlifting, occasional fasting, in addition to appropriate supplements, my type-2 diabetes is in remission.” I think that sounds pretty great, actually.
So no, none of us is “immune” to diabetes or insulin resistance. Frankly, exactly yesteryear existence 21st Century inhabitants of industrialized nations, I’d state we’re all “at risk.” Those of us who receive got never been officially diagnosed amongst T2D or insulin resistance are at exactly as much risk as those “in remission,” right? If they screw upwardly their diet & lifestyle, those things come upwardly back, in addition to if nosotros screw upwardly our diets & lifestyles, there’s a goodness risk we’ll prepare those things, too. (Or, if non T2D, in addition to hence maybe ticker disease, or a stroke, or PCOS, or BPH, or i of the myriad other manifestations of insulin resistance that are non diagnosed via elevated blood glucose.)
Of course, the funny thing nearly this is, conventional doctors in addition to dietitians volition insist that IR & T2D are progressive in addition to irreversible. They volition state it’s non possible to position T2D into “remission,” because people exclusively ever teach worse in addition to worse; no i ever gets better. But that’s exclusively because those practitioners receive got never seen it stopped inwards its tracks, allow lonely reversed. Why not? Because they prescribe insulin in addition to a high-carb, low-fat diet, to hold upwardly eaten inwards the shape of several little meals per day. (As nosotros showed in portion 5, this is an absolute metabolic disaster.) Like nosotros covered in portion 1, giving insulin to individuals who are hyperinsulinemic (most T2 diabetics) is pouring fuel on the fire. T2D is non an insulin deficiency, in addition to inwards many ways, more insulin really makes things worse. So, yes, IR is abso-tively, posi-lutely reversible. It does NOT need to hold upwardly progressive, in addition to tailspin into an unmanageable sh*tstorm of neuropathy, kidney failure, blindness, in addition to amputation. Knowledgeable MDs, such as Ted Naiman, Rakesh “Rocky” Patel, Jeff Gerber, in addition to Andreas Eenfeldt, opposite diabetes inwards their clinics all the time. They teach their patients off medication, rather than on ever-increasing amounts of increasing numbers of drugs, in addition to they do it amongst a low-carb high-fat diet, intermittent fasting, lifestyle recommendations, targeted supplementation, and, when necessary, yes, pharmaceutical medication.
For the authorities notation I’d similar to unopen on, I came across a comment on someone else’s spider web log lately that I idea was pretty awesome. My apologies for non remembering where I saw it, but the gist was something similar this: nosotros should halt using the phrase “pre-diabetes” in addition to telephone telephone it what it is: stage-1 diabetes. Don’t yous concord that calling metabolic syndrome in addition to pre-diabetes “stage 1 diabetes” would scare the shit out of wake people up? Hearing that they ARE DIABETIC, albeit inwards the early on phase, would likely receive got people leaving doctors’ offices far to a greater extent than determined to do something nearly it than if they were merely told that their blood glucose, A1c, triglycerides, CRP, in addition to uric acid are “kinda on the high-ish side,” in addition to their HDL is “kinda on the low-ish side,” but they’re non diabetic yet, so exactly maintain an oculus on things. [AYFKM?!] Now, granted, if their physician is a full moron non well-versed inwards the scientific discipline of refined saccharify reduction in addition to semi-useless cliche nearly eating less in addition to moving more—with emphasis that eating less pertains exclusively to high-fat foods, because yous absolutely must—MUST!—be sure to eat lots of whole grains. But nosotros tin lav hope that, inwards the historic menstruation of the cyberspace in addition to social media, inwards looking for data to assist dig themselves out of the hole they’re in, those stage-1 diabetics mightiness stumble across the low-carb, Paleo, and/or Primal communities, in addition to it exactly mightiness salve their lives.
And that, my friends, is the goal of this brief foray into insulin! It’s fourth dimension for me to piece of occupation on some posts I’ve had on the backburner for a while. (Topics include: why fatty loss doesn’t e'er come about similar magic on a low-carb diet; the deviation betwixt existence “in ketosis” in addition to existence fat-adapted, and why people demand to the cancer series.)
Do yous receive got whatsoever questions nearly anything you’ve read here? Is at that topographic point something I missed but yous were hoping I’d cover? I tin lav guarantee yous I don’t receive got all the answers, in addition to if at that topographic point were another aspect of this that I idea was essential to address (without turning this spider web log into a graduate seminar inwards biochemistry [like this one]), I’d receive got written nearly it. But I’m happy to receive got requests. If at that topographic point are additional topics related to this that you’d similar me to write about, allow me know inwards the comments, or contact me straight at tuitnutrition [at] gmail [dot] com. Or yous tin lav ship me a tweet! @TuitNutrition
In the meantime, check out this post yesteryear Georgia Ede, MD. It's a fantastic primer on all this for newbies, in addition to would hold upwardly a corking thing to demo people inwards your life who are curious nearly this stuff.
In the meantime, check out this post yesteryear Georgia Ede, MD. It's a fantastic primer on all this for newbies, in addition to would hold upwardly a corking thing to demo people inwards your life who are curious nearly this stuff.
P.S. Regarding tracking bloodwork: I’m non a doc (and I don’t fifty-fifty play i on TV), but if I were one, I would effort to avoid becoming alarmed based on whatsoever one-time snapshot. I think it’s to a greater extent than of import to pay attending to how things are trending over time. This is especially truthful when it comes to prescribing side-effect riddled medication. This is completely unlike from the electrical flow touchstone of care, which would receive got everyone amongst a full cholesterol over 200mg/dL on statins (which nosotros know are disasters), in addition to similarly demands that other drugs hold upwardly prescribed for other unmarried measurements that are out of the normal range. Obviously, many of us inwards the LCHF/Paleo worlds are ameliorate educated inwards some of this materials than the average patient. But we’re non immune to freaking out if something inwards our bloodwork surprises us. SO: what I said above, nearly keeping an oculus on trigs, HDL, CRP, etc.? The same thing holds true. Don’t teach overly alarmed if i or 2 things seem out of whack, peculiarly if they’ve been fine inwards the yesteryear in addition to yous haven’t made whatsoever dramatic changes (for the worse) to your diet & lifestyle. Some of the markers nosotros maintain an oculus on—fasting glucose in addition to blood pressure, for example—can hold upwardly affected yesteryear things that come about exactly days—and sometimes minutes—before the blood is drawn. Did yous teach stuck inwards a traffic jam on the way to the lab or doctor’s office? Your BG could easily hold upwardly xx points higher than it would otherwise be. Did yous receive got an intense workout the black before, or do yous receive got a mild infection somewhere, or receive got yous had dental piece of occupation recently? Any of those things tin lav temporarily elevate serum cholesterol. So yes, nosotros should maintain an oculus on these things, but nosotros should maintain an oculus on how they’re moving over time, in addition to non scare ourselves giddy over one marking at one betoken inwards time.
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