In this video, you'll discover how intermittent fasting can help you reverse insulin resistance.
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In this video, we're talking about intermittent fasting and insulin resistance.
This is a really important topic because you know a lot of people have this issue and they
don't know about it.
Many people are actually very familiar with type two diabetes where you have insulin resistance,
right?
You're actually being treated for it and it's a big problem, and if you don't get it taken
care of, then you're going to have serious health consequences as a result.
But you know what is not so obvious is when somebody has some insulin resistance related
to prediabetes and it's estimated that 84 million Americans have insulin resistance
and they also find it to be one in three adults and children have this too.
So many children are consuming poor-quality diets.
And then only 10% of these 84 million people actually understand that they have this problem
and they're making steps towards going and reversing it.
And so, it's a big issue for a lot of people and there's a lot of symptoms that come out
of it and it freaks people out and they don't know why it's happening and they go to 30
different doctors appointments.
And so anyway, let's go ahead and talk about insulin resistance, some of the symptoms that
are associated with it, and also what you need to do to actually get some incredible
results with fixing the issue.
So, when we look at insulin resistance, essentially what it is you're going to have a problem
getting the blood sugar into the cell.
And so, what happens is as a result of that, the cell receptors, you know, having some
issues and the insulin's been chronically high for very many years.
So now the cell is starting to resist to insulin.
So, the blood sugar goes way up and the insulin goes way up.
And so now you have chronically high blood sugar and insulin in the body, which causes
a whole bunch of different health conditions.
So, we have to make sure that we focus on reversing that.
Here's some of the symptoms that will pop up out of it.
First of all, increase hunger all the time.
So, if these people are typically hungry - more so than the average person.
But the other thing is that shows up is that when it comes to meal time or even if they
are approaching mealtime, they just get extraordinarily hungry.
And what happens is that they start to get shaky, brain fog, fatigue, just crashing,
just angry.
And so anyway, what happens is they have these huge swings in blood sugar and as a result
of that hunger issue is constantly an issue.
You know, conversely, you take somebody who's on the ketogenetic diet, sometimes you have
to remind them it's time to eat because they just don't get those hunger issues that the
people do who have blood sugar issues and insulin resistance.
Next is increased thirst.
Okay?
So, these same people are going to have a problem with just being a thirsty all the
time.
No matter how much water they drink, they just never feel satiated.
So, they just keep drinking and drinking, but still feel dehydrated.
It’s a really interesting concept.
But that's how these people feel.
Next is fatigue.
So, wake up in the morning after a good night's sleep, still fatigued.
People are going throughout the day, just crashing all throughout the day.
You know, lots of ups and downs.
Fatigue is a major issue here.
Frequent urination, partially because you're drinking so much water of the increased thirst,
but also, you know, these people are waking up throughout the night going to the bathroom.
And also, what they're finding is that throughout the day they're running to the bathroom as
well quite a bit.
High blood pressure.
Okay, now we're starting to see that metabolic syndrome kicks in.
We're starting to see high triglycerides, we’re starting to see high cholesterol.
This whole cascade of issues is coming into play and the cardiovascular system is struggling
here.
Tingling in hands and feet.
This is a common symptom that kind of freaks people out here.
But with the insulin resistance that can happen.
And then also weight gain.
With the insulin resistance, even if you're doing calorie restrictive diet, essentially
you have a hard time losing weight.
And the reason for that is because insulin is high and insulin blunts the weight loss.
So, let's talk about what to do about this.
Now, first of all, you've got to take the refined carbohydrates out.
The refined carbohydrates are going to just skyrocket that insulin in that blood sugar.
We got to take that out and focus on keeping the insulin and blood sugar very low.
Next is you ought to take out the sugar as well, okay?
Because you know, not only to sugar drive inflammation, and we need to make sure that
we're knocking that inflammation out of the body as we're focusing on healing the cell
receptor, but we also want to make sure that we're taking that sugar out because it's going
to once again drive that blood sugar and insulin level through the roof.
Now, here's the deal is when you look at diet alone, you'd get some pretty great results
when it comes to just dieting and following the proper diet and fixing this insulin resistance
issue.
But if you want to get incredible results, here's how you do it.
You add an intermittent fasting and the reason for that is intermittent fasting is going
to help you stabilize the metabolism.
It's going to help you drive that blood sugar down.
It's also going to help drive that insulin level down to a further extent.
Now, the reason that this is so powerful is because it breaks a very bad cycle that's
in the body and that's why people who are doing calorie restriction and just diet alone,
they just don't get the same good results.
They can kind of get some great results while they're putting those actions in the play,
but once they're done with it or once they try to go back to a different style of diet,
everything comes back to how it was.
And so, if you do intermittent fasting, it breaks that cycle and helps
improve insulin sensitivity.