Insulin resistance refers to the body becoming resistant to the hormone insulin. It’s the precursor to diabetes. Insulin resistance is classified as an arterial disease. Most people with cardiovascular disease have type 2D, it is just not diagnosed. We all have a degree of insulin resistance genetically and it progressively worsens with age as a result of increased carbohydrate, fructose, glucose, and low physical activity and the key abnormality is the increased rate of glucose production by the liver (hepatic insulin resistance).
The more insulin you secure, the more insulin resistant you become. Insulin therapy complicates insulin resistance. That’s why we should make sure we use as little insulin as possible. You have to measure insulin and not just glucose. In a normal healthy person, you store carbohydrate as muscle glycogen but in insulin resistance this does not happen, you store it in liver as fat. So every time an insulin resistant person eats carbohydrates, they develop fatty liver, and there is nothing in the muscle. It is not fat in the diet which causes fatty liver, it is carbohydrate.
We can put insulin resistance into remission by taking out the high carbohydrate diet. You will still have insulin resistance but it won’t turn into hyperinsulinemia, causing all these problems. There’s never been an effective drug to deal very effectively with insulin resistance. What works best is simple lifestyle changes, and the number-one change is a healthy diet that’s low in sugar and processed carbohydrates. Target all aspects of your lifestyle, diet, exercise, stress — at the same time if you can — and you’ll improve all your health markers like blood sugar, blood pressure, and yes, even cholesterol.
