insulin resistance

because Western medicine is incredibly good at reacting to really terrible situations.

But what we want to do, especially when it comes to chronic disease, when it comes to insulin resistance, when it comes to coronary disease, and a lot of these things are inextricably intertwined, we can actually use a few other biomarkers that aren't consistently done and understand the individual utility of all the things we're testing for in order to personalize our care for our patients, for our friends, for the people that we love and care about so deeply.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

The Western medicine is very reactive.

So there we go.

What's your home security system looking like? You know, we can check for parameters of glucose metabolism.

We can check for insulin resistance and we should.

We can check your blood pressure and we should.

That state of ketosis is not that far of an equation off from where you've been.

And then that answer becomes a version of that as they progress, as their insulin resistance gets a little less, as their body starts to listen to insulin better.

It scoops up the sugar and puts it inside the cell.

It stores cell.

Great.

Right.

So, but if you have insulin resistance, if you have a blood sugar in the morning, that's 95 and your ketones are in the drawer, I'm telling you, you're, you're, you're not insulin sensitive.

That's not what a healthy insulin sensitive person looks like.

I push my patients stalled in their weight loss to not eat anything after sunset.

If you want to know the seven best foods to reverse insulin resistance, check it out in this next video.

I'll see you there.

How long does it take to reverse insulin resistance? In order to answer that question there are several things that we need to understand like what are some of the mechanisms of insulin resistance and how can we measure and keep track of them so we know if we're making progress? What if we'd like to make it happen faster then what are some things that we can do to speed it up? Is there even such a thing as a complete reversal? What do we have to look forward to? And After we have reversed it, what kind of lifestyle do we have to adopt to stay insulin sensitive? Today we're going to talk about all those things so that you have a really clear picture coming right up.

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This is one of the most common questions I've received, so I decided to make a video to try to answer as many aspects as possible.

And when people ask, they want to know, why is my glucose still high? How long is it going to take for my fasting glucose readings to change? How long is it going to take for my A1c to come down? My doctor says my glucose, my A1c is too high.

They want to keep given me meds how long do i have to take those meds and then they ask once they understand a little bit more maybe they start asking about well what about insulin and and homa ir how long is going to take for that to change and then they want to know about set point does the body have a tendency to go back to a certain weight does it change its metabolism to get back to its set point it's like there's a cell memory and then finally there is the issue of genetics so all of these things are criteria that influence the mechanism or the measurement of insulin resistance so we'll deal with those in some more detail but just a real quick review to understand the mechanism that this is a long-term process that there's a lot of people whether it's diabetes or whether it's neck pain or some other ailment and people say oh well it just happened I was just diagnosed last week this is a new thing And when it comes to health, unless there was a trauma, unless you fell down the stairs or you were in a car accident, there is no such thing as a new thing.

It has developed over time.

It is an adaptation.

Coming right up.

Blood sugar and insulin resistance is very, very important and maybe the single most important factor in trying to avoid disease.

But we're often looking at the wrong thing.

Insulin resistance is affecting the majority of the Western population.

if you look around you at any given day and anyone that you see with some love handles or a belly or being overweight in general it is probably insulin resistance at work there but does sugar really measure insulin resistance that's what we're going to talk about so first of all though let's look at the traditional criteria for if you have insulin resistance and diabetes normal blood sugar fasting blood glucose that means that you don't eat anything after dinner and then you go you sleep through the night and in the morning typically you go and have your lab work done so they draw the blood when you haven't eaten for at least 12 hours it wouldn't have to be in the morning but that typically works the best and normal means that your blood glucose your fasting blood glucose is less than a hundred milligrams per deciliter and I'm of the opinion that that's still getting a little bit too high I think optimal is somewhere between 70 to 90 and if you're fasting or if you're in ketosis then it could go a whole lot lower than that it could get probably into the low 60s or even upper 50s without being a problem because you have ketones as an alternative fuel But typically we want to think of it 70 to 90.

Prediabetic would be anything over 100 but below 125. and then diabetic would be anything over 125 so then we're looking also at the corresponding these days they are looking at a1c and we've done videos on that to explain exactly what a1c is a1c is a better measurement than simply fasting glucose because it measures an average glucose over a few months So if you are in the optimal range, that means that your A1c is going to be somewhere around 5.

Again, it could be 4.5, 5.3, somewhere in there.

It's a degeneration.