HOUR 1
Insulin Resistance - Causes and Control-- Carolyn Dean MD ND
One in three Americans—including half of those age 60 and older — have a silent blood sugar problem known as insulin resistance. Insulin resistance increases the risk for prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and a host of other serious health problems, including heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s and cancer. ...
HOUR 1
Insulin Resistance - Causes and Control-- Carolyn Dean MD ND
One in three Americans—including half of those age 60 and older — have a silent blood sugar problem known as insulin resistance. Insulin resistance increases the risk for prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and a host of other serious health problems, including heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s and cancer.
Insulin resistance occurs when cells in your muscles, body fat, and liver start resisting or ignoring the signal that the hormone insulin is trying to send. Insulin’s job is to open up receptor sites on cell membranes to allow the influx of glucose, the cell’s source of fuel. Cells that no longer respond to the advances of insulin and refuse the entry of glucose are called insulin-resistant. As a result, blood glucose levels rise and the body produces more and more insulin, to no avail. Glucose and insulin rampage through the body, causing tissue damage that results in overuse and wasting of magnesium, an increased risk of heart disease, and type 2 diabetes.
How do you know if you are insulin resistant? Initially, insulin resistance presents no symptoms. However, there is a way to find out if you are insulin resistant, which can occur a decade before you develop prediabetes or diabetes. You can take a blood test for insulin! If it’s elevated then you follow the steps to reverse insulin resistance, which include saturation with magnesium; limiting sugar and simple carbs; and exercise.
Why don’t allopathic doctors find out your insulin levels on routine blood testing, since it can surely help to give you the heads up about developing diabetes and allow you to take preventive measures? It’s likely because doctors are really terrible at prevention. They have never been trained in preventive medicine; they would rather a person develop a disease and treat it with a drug than prevent it.
Fortunately you can order your own insulin test online at www.RequestATest.com.
The symptoms of insulin resistance only start to appear once it leads to secondary effects such as higher blood sugar levels as you slip into prediabetes and diabetes. The symptoms may include:
- Lethargy (tiredness)
- Hunger
- Difficulty concentrating (brain fog)
Other signs that often appear in people with insulin resistance include:
- Weight gain around the middle (belly fat)
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol levels
- Frequent urination
- Excessive thirst
One of the major reasons the cells don’t respond to insulin is lack of magnesium. In a 2013 study in The Journal of Nutrition, researchers looked at over 52,000 people with no known history of diabetes to see how magnesium affected blood sugar. What they discovered was simple: a higher intake of magnesium resulted in lower fasting blood sugar and lower fasting insulin levels.
Studies also confirm that when insulin is released from the pancreas, magnesium in the cell normally responds and opens the cell to allow entry of glucose, but in the case of magnesium deficiency combined with insulin resistance, the normal mechanisms just don’t work. However, the higher the levels of magnesium in the body, the greater the sensitivity of the cells to insulin and the higher the possibility of reversing the problem.
Those of you who are regular subscribers to Dr. Dean’s blogs and podcast know that magnesium is required in the metabolic pathways, such as the Krebs cycle, to allow insulin to usher glucose into cells, where glucose participates in making ATP energy for the body. If magnesium is deficient, the doorway into the cells does not open to glucose, resulting in the following events:
- Glucose levels become elevated.
- Glucose is stored as fat and leads to obesity.
- Elevated glucose leads to diabetes.
- Obesity puts a strain on the heart.
- Excess glucose becomes attached to certain proteins (the proteins become glycated), leading to kidney damage, neuropathy, blindness, and other diabetic complications.
- Insulin-resistant cells don’t allow magnesium into the cells.
- Further magnesium deficiency leads to hypertension.
- Magnesium deficiency leads to cholesterol buildup, and both these conditions are implicated in heart disease.
If you talk to most any doctor, they are going to tell you to get some exercise and take Metformin. If you talk to our very own and most wonderful Dr. Carolyn Dean she’s going to tell you to take saturation doses of magnesium, and THEN get moving!
Tonight on Dr. Carolyn Dean LIVE we’ll be talking with Dr. Dean about her three-tier approach to resetting an insulin resistant body to an insulin-responsive body combining a high fat, moderate protein, low carb meal plan with the Total Body ReSet and intermittent fasting. This powerful trifecta of strategies creates amazing outcomes for the physical body! The blood sugar lowering and stabilizing effect of magnesium will not only help a person fasting to realize a better long-term balance in their blood sugar, but also more energy when it comes time to be active. The reduced blood sugar will likely spare your glycogen stores for when you really need them, creating a preference for fat as a source of fuel. And, feeding your body fats and moderate proteins, versus carbs, will improve your body’s fat burning capacity as well.
Dr Carolyn Dean MD ND has been featured on national media for over 30 years offering practical strategies to improve health, vitality, and well-being the natural way. As a medical doctor, naturopath, certified clinical nutritionist and master of many modalities including acupuncture and homeopathy, Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND has authored over 33 books and 100 publications including The Magnesium Miracle, 3rd Edition, Hormone Balance, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Heart Health. Please note that the information and opinions expressed on these broadcasts are not designed to constitute advice or recommendations as to any disease, ailment, or physical condition. You should not act or rely upon any information contained in these broadcasts without seeking the advice of your personal physician. If you have any questions about the information or opinions expressed during these broadcasts, please contact your doctor.
Disclosure: Dr. Dean does have a financial interest in the sale of all the Completement Formulas.
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