“Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a condition that involves insulin resistance and a reduced ability to control blood glucose. Science and logic indicate that reducing the very nutrient that raises blood sugar, ie carbohydrate, would be worth consideration, yet it’s been overlooked for many years.”
Insulin resistance is a response of cells to an excess of insulin in the blood over an extended period. This is the root cause of many metabolic problems in the body, beginning perhaps with excess fat in the liver, but obesity, and pre-diabetes follow, and over time the vascular and nervous system is damaged.
What is Insulin Resistance?
Dr Jason Fung explains that the problem with Type II Diabetes, is that simple control of your blood sugar, doesn’t solve the problem if you have fatty liver and are overweight. That means there is too much energy stored in the body, and to correct the problem you need to lose weight.
Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome
Dr. Ben Bikman explains metabolism and how insulin resistance damages the internal organs of the body.
Metabolism, just to be very precise, is the balance of all of the chemical reactions that are happening in the body. There are biochemical reactions in every cell that are trying to build up molecules. Those are called anabolic reactions or anabolism, and there are chemical biochemical processes that are degrading molecules, breaking them down. That is catabolism and metabolism is the fusion or the balance of all of those things. The sum of all of those reactions.
