Why Does Insulin Resistance Cause Weight Gain? – Dr. Berg

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hey Dr Burke here I want to answer the question why does insulin resistance cause weight gain another common question people want to know this well we have this thing called the pancreas the pancreas makes this hormone called insulin insulin has a message to store fat in the presence of insulin you’re going to make a lot of fat okay that’s one of the functions so what happens is the pancreas reacts to certain foods like sugar bread pasta crackers pancakes and it starts to increasing right over a period of time the body says no no no that’s too much it’s rejecting it so it starts to build up a resistance to this insulin so it doesn’t allow it to go in the cell anymore it kind of like pretend like it has ear plugs right here it can’t hear so what happens all these hormones and glands are on a feedback loop okay so glands are the things that make hormones and hormones are the communications that travel between just like right now I’m talking to you and I’m sending messages to you you’re hearing me and I can’t quite see you but if you’re in here in person I would actually be able to communicate back and forth we just have a communication cycle going on here so what happens we don’t get a full return communication because it’s blocked at the cell level whether at the liver or at the cell level okay so now the pancreas never gets the offs off signals to turn it off okay it never gets the return communication it’s kind of like talking to your child and they’re ignoring you you’re going to increase your volume so now the pancreas will go oh really okay let’s pump out more and more and more insulin okay because it’s blocked it’s not getting through so then maybe a little get through so a person with insulin resistance has five to seven times more insulin than a normal person and that’s why they gain weight because of the excess insulin simply because this cell is blocked and the medication for diabetes especially type 2 would be called metformin metformin makes this receptor open up more it helps it receive it it actually kind of um kind of opens up the channel to allow this thing to feedback but what they don’t really do is correct the reason why the insulin’s spiking in the first place so you really have to correct the diet and get that person off sugar permanently and other things too okay so all right so I hope that helped thanks for watching hey guys thank you so much for watching please click the Subscribe button and I will see you in the next video