insulin resistance

All right, next question.

Is insulin resistance a real reason people can't lose weight? Okay, let's get into this.

I brought some studies so I could mention those specifically, but I wanted to be able to give you some studies.

I know that sometimes getting some studies can be a little bit bland, but I want to be able to have some ready information for you guys to have here.

Insulin resistance is not a physiological barrier that makes fat loss impossible.

A sustained energy deficit through the calories, you know, the regular calorie deficit, I mean, that reduces stored body energy.

People hate to hear this.

Having elevated insulin does not lock fat inside adipose tissue, just not permanently.

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So why am I discussing this? I have been talking about this subject on Facebook because I have become increasingly concerned about health information being presented without enough context.

Anyhow, so let's get back to what I was talking about.

I was recently told that I'm insulin resistant." I do remember Dr.

Paul, like the whole program's based on, on, on, on insulin really at the end of the day, and I used to always talk about insulin, and then people were like, "Oh, that's so pseudo-science, and you- that insulin resistance isn't a real thing." And so then I removed it from everything, and now here's the conversation.

It's such a...

I love this conversation by the way, Lin.

And that might be sleep, right? And once you have that down and you've peeled that, then you work on the movement piece, and then you work on the this piece, and you're slowly uncovering and peeling back all of the layers that you've built up, um, to get back to that core of who you are.

Yeah.

And even when we're talking about insulin resistance, right? Like, that's actually why it's so complicated, because there's so many layers to it.

Maybe y- if you are diabetic, a Type 1 diabetic, and you were born needing insulin, that's very different.

Music Playing Once I really started thinking about insulin resistance versus insulin sensitivity with diabetes and blood sugar in general, like everything made sense to me.

Everything makes sense to me now.

Why we have so much disease.

So what are the factors that are involved there that are in our control? Because we can't do shit about the things that are out of our control, like hormones.

So the things that would be in our control to help continue to help us not be insulin resistant are the things that athletes, especially high school athletes and I would say probably even college athletes that are not Division I, not an elite program, would be the nutrition, the sleep, hydration, not being drunk all the time.

Those are the things that are going to impact insulin resistance compounded over time.

This is why the exercise piece, the movement piece, the performing at a high level, the participating in multiple sports at a young age is so important because if those things aren't in alignment, which for most people they're not, if those things aren't in alignment, at least the exercise, at least you're playing this teeter-totter thing with insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity because you don't necessarily have everything in alignment with your nutrition, you don't necessarily have everything in alignment with your sleep.

Hopefully you do with your hydration.