Understanding Insulin Resistance & What You Can Do About It – Dr.Berg

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Hey, Dr. Berg here. I’m going to talk about insulin resistance. I’m going to make it really, really simple, so just track with me. Here’s what happens.

Your pancreas, which is located in the left, lower quadrant, right by your rib cage, makes a hormone called insulin and insulin responds to sugar. In other words it’s triggered by a sugar or anything that turns into sugar, so anything sweet and anything, like even refined grains can trigger insulin, and it kicks in there and it goes into your cells. Then, what it does is it removes the sugar from your blood, so that’s the purpose is to lower the sugar. Normally, in our blood, we need about 100 milligrams per deciliter, and basically what that means is you can just take and focus on the 100, so when you get your sugar test and your blood should be like a 100. The goal is to make it 100.

Anything higher is bad. Anything lower is bad. We need a 100. When it’s at 100, you’re at your mental best. You’re feeling the best but when it goes high, you get what’s called diabetes, so diabetes is the high sugar situation.

When the blood sugars go low, that’s hypo-sugar or hypoglycemia, okay. That’s kind of a pre-diabetes state. When I was twelve, I had hypoglycemia. I remember skipping a meal and feeling really dizzy and irritable and cranky, playing outside and I don’t know what it was but, of course, I was living on pure sugar. I would raid the cupboards and eat pure sugar all the time.

That’s really what causes hypoglycemia because what happens is you eat all this sugar and we get this hyper reactive, high insulin state, which is going to like take a sledge hammer and push that sugar right down, so we’re going to have low sugar, irritable, cranky, craving, dizzy, all those things. Now what happens over a period of time, when you’re hypoglycemic over a period of time, your body doesn’t like that so it’s going to say, “Stop,” so it’s going to try to protect itself and it’s going to turn off the receptor, the thing that receives, so it’s going to ignore that insulin response, so it’s not going to receive it anymore. Someone’s talking but no one’s listening, and that’s called a down grade or a blocked receptor, so it doesn’t receive as much as it did before, and that’s what insulin resistance is because it’s your body, your cells are resistant. It’s inhibiting this absorption because it’s saying, “Dude, why do you keep eating sugar. Would you please stop?

” What happens when this happens is it forces insulin to go higher because it’s compensating, it’s on a feedback loop here, so insulin resistance forces your body to make make more insulin to create the same effect because without this insulin, this sugar stays high and your body does not like that, so it has to lower it somehow, so it’s just going to wear the pancreas out. Diabetes is really a situation where you have high sugar and it won’t come down to 100. We already passed the hypoglycemic thing. We’re, type II diabetes is insulin resistance and because of the, you’ve been eating too much sugar. When this becomes like that, your body protects you and several things happen as a consequence, in addition to jacking up more insulin.

Number two, you’re going to be hungry. Why? Because insulin has a few other purposes. It not only lowers the sugar in your blood but it also helps you absorb the nutrition in your cells, so the nutrients, fatty acids, proteins, vitamins, so without insulin you can’t get the nutrition in your cells, so guess what you’re going … You’re going to be hungry all the time.

You’re not going to be satisfied. You eat but it doesn’t really go in, so you have this fat person that’s starving to death. You can’t get healthy like that, and then you’re also going to crave carbs like crazy. Just so you know, if you’re craving carbs or sweets, it is literally impossible to burn fat, so every time that you’re craving, you’re not burning any fat. Don’t worry.

I’ll show you how to fix that. We’ve got cravings, hunger and decreased nutrition, and that’s why, over a period of time, diabetics end up with all sorts of health problems. They go blind. They get their feet start getting, destructive nerves, so it’s called peripheral neuropathy and they get tingly in the feet and the hands, and they just kind of go down hill. Then also, this condition is going to prevent the storage of sugar.

It’s called glycogen, which basically is a stored sugar in your liver and your muscles, so we need that to live off of when we’re sleeping, between meals, and so if we can’t store the sugar as much anymore, what happens is we end up having all sorts of problems with storing more fat, if we’re not storing sugar we have to store more fat so you’re going to keep getting fatter and fatter and fatter. Also, in between the meals, because you can’t have a storage of sugar, you’re going to have too many highs and too many lows, so it’s going to come up and down too much. It’s the storage of that sugar that maintains a nice level sugar, and especially noted with you get up in the morning, after not eating for eight hours. There’s a couple things I want to cover. Let’s go back to this sugar.

We need 100 milligrams per deciliter. That would equal about five grams of sugar. That’s like a heaping teaspoon of sugar in your entire body, on an average person, they only need a teaspoon of sugar but not consuming sugar, but from the food that converts to the sugar, even protein and fat can convert to sugar, so we need about one teaspoon of sugar. We don’t need more than that. Check this out.

An eight ounce, typical can of soda, an eight ounce typical glass of orange juice, is about thirty-nine teaspoons of sugar. Okay, so now we went from five to thirty-nine. That’s a tremendous stress on the pancreas. Oh my gosh. What you’re doing is you’re just wearing the thing out.

It’s creating whiplash of your pancreas, and because the pancreas has two parts, one is a hormone part and the other is an enzyme part, called the exocrine gland, you’re going to start having all sorts of digestive problems, including possible pancreatitis, inflammation of the pancreas. Tension in your upper digestive system, bloating for sure, maybe even pain that goes around in your back, undigested proteins. You can’t digest protein anymore. All sorts of bowel problems, I mean you name it. It creates a lot of problems.

Now, the body is trying to protect itself from too much insulin so it’s going to block the resistance, the receptor, create more resistance in there, and then the sugar’s going to go high, so apparently the body is going to protect the cell and not necessarily the blood. That’s why the blood starts filling up with sugar and that’s where you get all this extra fat and triglycerides and cholesterol. In other words, triglycerides are blood fats, and because the cell can’t absorb nutrition anymore or protein or fat, it’s going to dump around the rest of the body as, in the blood as blood fats, out of post tissue and cholesterol. Those are the effects of this situation. We’ve got this hypoglycemia thing, which is high sugar, and then the receptor becomes resistant so it doesn’t absorb it anymore.

That’s type II diabetes, that creates all sorts of problems, and then down the road you end up with diabetes type I and in type I the pancreas is already asleep. It can’t produce this anymore, so now you have to be injected because the sugars are going higher and higher and higher and your insulin can’t keep up to lower them. Yes, there are other causes of diabetes type I, auto-immune, but the question is what causes auto-immune, that’s another video. The point is that type I diabetes is the worst situation because now you completely ran out of this whole situation and now you have to be injected or take insulin. What do we do about this?

What can be done? Well, there’