The Surprising Facts about Insulin You Never Knew

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I’d like to share something about insulin that you probably have never heard before and this is extremely uh revealing because most people are sitting on a confusion relating to insulin don’t even know it’s a confusion and then at the end of this everything is going to make total sense there’s a lot of great truths that you can figure out by looking in a subject that involves paradoxes and conflicting information and in this area there’s some conflicting information that we need to sort out conflicting information is where you have fact a conflict with fact B right you can’t have two facts that conflict right one of them is not a fact so when you get these conflicting facts you just have to go deeper and just figure out what is going on but then you usually can find some really interesting information let’s talk about this in relationship to insulin the main reason why keto works okay for so many problems and intermittent fasting is the benefits of reducing your insulin so anytime you reduce your insulin you get all these amazing benefits and so there’s even books on hyperinsulinemia which is a state where you have this High insulin in the blood so even if someone’s a type 1 diabetic they have to take a lot of insulin and of course the more they take the worse things are for their health right I mean the idea would be to take the minimal amount but if we go through the function of insulin okay most people do know that insulin lowers your blood sugar that’s a good thing other people might know that insulin helps your muscles grow okay it has an anabolic effect on your muscles and this is why even certain um bodybuilders might take insulin or consume carbs to increase their insulin so they can develop their muscles but if insulin is so bad or so dangerous in high amounts why does it help you with your muscles okay that sounds like a real positive thing well when you start looking into the other purposes or functions of insulin you find some fascinating fascinating information you may have seen where I talk about people using insulin spray to spray insulin up their sinuses into this barrier that goes into their brain to help dementia wow that’s interesting because I thought like type 3 diabetes is considered Alzheimer’s and the more insulin the worse off you are for your brain and your cognitive function right but why would they use this nasal insulin spray to improve the symptoms of dementia also insulin is anti-athrogenic it means that insulin is actually supportive for your arteries hmm interesting because we hear so much about how insulin destroys your arteries contributing to the plaquing and cladding and calcification and heart disease now this is another thing that’s very interesting and I you probably need to be sitting down to hear this insulin actually lowers your LDL the so-called bad cholesterol now that’s totally conflicting of what most people know that too much insulin increases the bad cholesterol LDL especially the small dense particle size which is very pathogenic to your arteries now here’s another one insulin is the vasodilator and it helps to lower your blood pressure yes it’s totally true go ahead and look it up but what about this thing called metabolic syndrome where you have high blood pressure you have high LDL and you’re pre-diabetic how can that be here’s another one insulin actually lowers the production of glucose in your liver it’s called gluconeogenesis so in other words insulin reduces gluconeogenesis the formation of new sugar in the liver now what about all these people who are diabetics or pre-diabetics that wake up in the morning with Dawn phenomena where they have high blood glucose but they have not eaten any carbs the day before they had no sugar where is that Sugar coming from well the liver is making it well insulin inhibits that process now I already mentioned this thing with muscles so insulin helps you develop and grow new muscles it also prevents the breakdown of muscle protecting against muscle atrophy all right but why do people with high levels of insulin like hyperinsulinemia have a very high incidence of muscle atrophy fascinating all right here’s another one insulin helps you absorb potassium and magnesium yeah but how can that be if people with high levels of insulin in the blood hyper insulinemia have a deficiency of potassium and an efficiency of magnesium I mean it’s even correlated with the more insulin you have the less potassium you’re going to have the less magnesium you’re going to have in your body here’s another one that’s interesting this involves the adipose tissue there’s a term called lipolysis and this basically is a term to describe the breakdown of lipids or fats and Insulin suppresses lipolysis which is a breakdown of fat so it preserves adipose tissue for a survival mechanism it prevents the release of this fat but what’s interesting with people that have a lot of insulin in their blood they have an aberrated dysfunctional suppression of this lipolysis it’s not that they’re going to start losing weight at least initially but they will lose fatty acids from the fat cells that end up in the arteries okay creating high levels of blood fats or lipids okay and yes I’m talking about triglycerides and yes I’m talking about cholesterol and LDL so again we have another conflict of these so-called facts all right here’s another fascinating one insulin is a potent anti-inflammatory wow I mean this completely goes against what so many people have been taught that insulin creates more inflammation like in a diabetic where they have all this insulin in their bodies type 2 for example they’re just filled with inflammation right how can that be I’ll get to that point in about 30 seconds okay just one last point I want to bring up about this is that insulin is also an antioxidant it has antioxidant properties completely the opposite of what occurs when people have all this insulin in the bloodstream they have oxidation free radical damage they have these these massive complications from diabetes so it’s another conflicting piece of information I mean just go ahead and look up the symptoms of hyperinsulinemia that’s too much insulin in the blood you’ll see higher risk for sleep apnea you’ll see lower testosterone when in fact insulin actually normally is supposed to increase testosterone you also see high levels of uric acid well did you know that insulin is supposed to help you lower uric acid interesting and you also see a release or excretion of potassium with high levels of insulin but insulin is supposed to actually preserve or retain potassium so what the heck is going on here okay well here’s the piece of information that will make everything make sense and it has to do with the control of insulin you have the pancreas the beta cells that make insulin and it’s sent to the body and then it goes through the blood and then it gets connected to an insulin receptor it’s the receptor that sends back information the cells that make insulin to tell that cell how much to make or how little to make so really the brain of this whole communication feedback loop is the receptor and when that receptor becomes resistant as an insulin resistance then we no longer have the function of that hormone the function of insulin can only exist if the receptor is receding that insulin correctly and then it tells the body what to do an insulin resistance we actually have an insulin deficiency we have an insulin lack and all those negative things I’ve just talked about relating to insulin relate to a deficiency of insulin not an excess yes you may have an excess of insulin in your blood but it’s not affecting the receptor so really in diabetes in all these other conditions what we’re really dealing with is a deficiency problem now knowing that allows everything to make sense whe