14 Common Insulin Resistance Treatments That Stops Your Weight Loss & May Hurt You

Fourteen insulin resistance treatments that could make things worse if we don't understand the mechanisms and what insulin resistance is and what the treatment does then the treatment could actually make things worse it can make it harder to lose weight it could make us more insulin resistant and it could promote metabolic syndrome leading to all the complications of cardiovascular disease and stroke and so forth today we're going to explore these topics so that you understand it and you can decide what's right for you coming right up I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former

Olympic decathlete and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really works make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you don't miss anything instantly resistance is a big deal the majority of the population is insulin resistant and if we don't understand it and it progresses it can or will lead to diabetes which is the leading cause of blindness amputation kidney failure and a host of other problems so the authorities are becoming more responsive more aware of this and they're promoting campaigns to get people to get tested and

so that they can get the proper treatment but what is proper treatment that's what we're going to talk about today so just want to read something we'll quick which kind of represents what the mainstream thinks insulin resistance is and I got this off of endocrine web.com so it says what is insulin resistance insulin resistance is when cells in your muscles body fat and liver starts resisting or ignoring the signal that the hormone insulin is trying to send out and the purpose of insulin is to help the sugar from the bloodstream into the cell of course

so here's some interesting words start resisting or ignoring that sounds awfully random so now we need to decide and try to understand is the body smart or stupid is it random or is it on purpose does it do things for some reason or for no reason so when we say start resisting or ignoring that sounds kind of willy-nilly it sounds like well you know the the cells they're just having a bad day they don't feel like dealing with insulin today okay but nothing could be further from the truth because the body is incredibly intelligent it

is supremely intelligent it has infinite intelligence built-in it processes a billion bits of information every second to try to orchestrate and regulate and figure out exactly how to guide every little process to its optimum in the body there's nothing random about it and that's the first thing that we have to understand and then it goes on to say that glucose also known as blood sugar is the body's main source of fuel for those of you who have studied a little bit of low carb and keto you know that of course the main source of fuel

is fat and that you can live really well you can live better on 75 80 % fat than you can and majority carbohydrate but if you don't know that if you believe that glucose is the main source of fuel now we we have trouble because if you can't live on anything else how do you get rid of it and it continues we get glucose from grains fruits vegetables dairy products and drinks that break down into carbohydrates so again if we think that's the main source of fuel now we think that grains fruits dairy and sweet

drinks are a necessity just because that's what humans have had an abundance for a few generations we think that normal well again that's a fallacy it's a myth it's a misconception and it goes on to answer how insulin resistance develops and it says while genetics aging and ethnicity plays a role the driving forces behind insulin resistance include excess body weight too much belly fat lack of exercise smoking and even skimping on sleep no mention of food no mention of carbohydrates no mention of anything that would raise blood sugar and here's where the problem is that

we it's such a total disconnect between the mechanisms and the expression of the problem so let's just look real quick at the mechanisms of how how these things work together so first we eat something we digest the food it ends up in the bloodstream and we increase our blood glucose the food turns into blood glucose then the insulin is there to help the glucose into the cell and now the cell has a few different options it can use some of that fuel or it can store some of that fuel and it can store a little

bit as glycogen that's a carbohydrate form of storage and when those stores are full because they're very very tiny in comparison then the rest gets converted to fat and stored as fat so insulin is a fat storing hormone it's a storage hormone in general but the end result the main thing it stores is fat because that's the body's main currency of long-term energy storage so the key factors in how much insulin is made and how much storage motion how much force is in the in the storage of this is the amount of carbs carbs drive

more insulin carbs stimulate more insulin and it is the frequency with which we eat the food so if you eat a lot of carbs and you eat them frequently now you're gonna have a lot of insulin very often to tell that cell to store because anything it can't use in the moment it's going to store and then when the cell is full when it can't store anymore it says I don't want any I'm it's developing insulin resistance when we think that the cell just randomly ignores the the signal then we're not thinking things through we

have to understand that if the cell says no I don't want anymore if it starts ignoring if it starts resisting insulin there's a reason and the reason is that the cell is full we have filled it too much so the more carbs we eat and the more often we eat the more blood sugar we develop the more insulin we develop the more insulin resistance we develop so now we need to think back a little bit and just ask ourselves so if blood sugar is high which is the problem according to medicine then how do we

reduce blood sugar and there's only four ways once the sugar is in the blood or in general as far as having a certain amount of sugar in the blood there's only four ways to reduce that amount of sugar one is to cram the sugar from the bloodstream into the cell that's what insulin does okay the more insulin we can always give it so much insulin that it just jam-packed that cell so we can cram the the sugar into the cell that's one way of getting it out of the bloodstream second we can convert it into

something else and that's what also happens when our triglycerides go up it's because the sugar is getting higher but the cells don't want it so now the liver converts it into something else it turns the sugar into triglycerides the third way is that the blood sugar goes so high that the kidneys can't reabsorb it anymore so it starts spilling out into the urine so we can pee out the sugar and the fourth way to not have so much sugar in the blood is the absolute most obvious a kid could tell you and yet millions and

millions of people miss it are you ready don't put so much sugar in right it sounds too simple but if we believe that glucose is our main fuel and we have to have grains and sweet drinks to survive then then we have a problem but it is the best possibility it's the best option don't put so much in so now let's start looking at the treatments what what do people what do people do what people receive for treatment the treatment the first option is called metformin and metformin is the first-line treatment first choice for type

2 diabetics who are unable to control their sugars through diet and exercise alone that's where they mentioned diet that's the first time diet comes in but what's a normal diet what what diet are they trying to use to control their blood sugar they're trying to control it with 300 grams of carbohydrate every day half or more of which is sugar so of course it's not going to work because they tell them to eat most of their food as carbohydrate and they tell them to eat 3 meals plus snacks so there's no possible way to control

it by diet if you think that's an appropriate diet and then I read at e-medicine what the goal for this therapy is the pharmacotherapy for insulin resistance and for high blood sugar the goal is to reduce morbidity that means sickness that means symptoms and problems they want to reduce symptoms and problems and they want to reduce complications associated with high blood sugars and they say they use large quantities of insulin are used to overcome insulin resistance so what do they mean by that when they say overcome insulin resistance are they trying to reverse insulin resistance

to make the cell become more imbalance more sensitive or are they trying to overcome it by cram the cell full of more sugar by increasing the insulin to get it out of the bloodstream and into the cell and making the problem worse so the overcome in this sense is all focused on blood sugar it's not actually reversing or overcoming insulin resistance it's only overcoming it's tricking or forcing the cell to accept the glucose even though it doesn't want any and again if you think the body is random or stupid that might seem like a brilliant

thing to do if the cell is just randomly resisting insulin then hey let's step in and fix it let's just help this stupid cell along to do what it's supposed to do but if we understand the body is intelligent now this becomes the worst possible solution because the cell is saying hey I don't want it and we're just tricking or forcing it to accept more and then they say treatment should be aimed at restoring normal insulin sensitivity and secretion so we're going to come back just a little bit but first let's look at the mechanisms

of all these drugs so like we said the first drug of choice is metformin and what does it do it increases insulin sensitivity so it acts on the insulin receptor and it makes it more open it makes it more permeable it's it tricks or guides or persuades that receptor to accept more glucose - to have insulin have a stronger effect than it would have without that drug so I'll call that when it increases insulin sensitivity I'll call it that the cell is being tricked into accepting glucose all right the other thing that metformin does and

this is maybe the only thing that we can really argue for is it reduces the gluconeogenesis of the liver so it hinders it prevents it tells the liver to don't make anymore sugar don't develop more blood glucose from the stores if you have some glycogen or some other tissues where you could pull glucose from then hold off on that so in that sense it is the only thing that is trying to control glucose blood glucose without forcing it into the cell okay but anytime that you try to interfere once you try to to keep the

liver from doing something then we have to ask ourselves how healthy is it to try to prevent the liver from doing what it thinks is right the second thing is pure insulin that's just what people inject and I'll call that crammed so the first mechanism is to trick the cells into accepting it and the second mechanism is insulin which is just to cram more of this glucose into the cell against its will and the third drug on the list is called Bydureon and it's in a class called glp-1 and what they do is they trick

another kind of receptor into helping the pancreas make more insulin and that's the third mechanism so the first one is to trick the receptor into letting more in the second one is to use insulin to force the glucose into the cell and the third one is just to make more insulin so that feeds back into cram and this is all there is so I looked up a list that said top eight breakthrough diabetes treatments you may have missed so I looked at the eighth treatments and I listed those and that's from three to ten here

and they're all they have different names and so this is the glp-1 that increases insulin production then we have something called Humalog which is just another form of insulin that is fast-acting so now it helps cram earlier after the meal then we have something called which increases insulin sensitivity we have something called Lantus which is another form of insulin that is long-acting so this lasts for up to 24 hours so it just means it's slower to kick in but then it keeps cramming for the full 24 hours then we have Soliqua which is a mix

of something that cramps for a long time and a glp-1 that increases insulin sensitivity and then you have another one that's a long-acting you have another one that is a glp-1 and you have another one that's a glp-1 and some of these are subcutaneous some are long-acting some are mixed but they're all the same stuff they're all acting to cram or trick or push the body into making more insulin and to get more stuff out of the bloodstream and into the cell and in doing that we are making insulin resistance worse because the moment that

we back off on the drugs then that cell is finally left alone and it has way too much fuel to burn so now it is more insulin resistant than ever but then we have some people who are more natural more holistic they claim so now they're saying oh well you shouldn't use synthetic drugs you shouldn't use any pharmaceuticals because they're bad but you should use natural things because they're good so now they start talking about green tea which can increase insulin sensitivity they talk about cinnamon which can increase insulin sensitivity apple cider vinegar chromium they

can increase insulin sensitivity and help lower blood sugar but now we again have to ask what are we actually doing sure we can help the sugar get out of the bloodstream we can we can introduce something into the body that will assist in lowering blood sugar that will have that will increase the drive to lower blood sugar but where is that sugar going it only has one place to go and that's into the cell and the cell is already full and if we increase insulin sensitivity by tricking the cell again it becomes more insulin resistance

so when we look at the official goals of pharmacal treatment they seem very reasonable indeed that to reduce morbidity to reduce complications to restore normal insulin sensitivity and secretion but is any of that happening is any of that happening even a little bit with these or are we actually doing the exact opposite ok so every one of these treatments whether synthetic or natural they only act to do one thing and that is to increase the insulin or increase the action of insulin so that we can get the sugar out of the bloodstream and into the

cell so when we look here at the four options to have less sugar in the blood then all the drugs are working at number one cram put more into the cell the liver is still going to do convert when it needs to and if we don't control it at all if we just let it go totally crazy we're going to pee some out so again the only way to create balance because that's what they say they want should restore normal insulin sensitivity and secretion that's balanced the only way to do that is to put less

in there is no other way and what do we need put in less the things that stimulate insulin which are primarily sugar and processed grains so once we understand this picture now and we look at the recommendations which was they say the driving forces is obesity and abdominal fat then we understand how absurd the recommendation is to lose weight and lose belly fat because it's not the fat creating the insulin resistance it's the insulin resistance creating the weight gain because insulin is a storage hormone the more insulin resistance you are it's like your fat is

in a deep freezer there's no way that you can touch it as long as you put in any more sugar on a regular basis so when they tell you to lose weight to control your insulin resistance first of all they have it backwards but then it's like the ultimate insult when every form of treatment serves to increase insulin resistance to increase the action of insulin which is to store more fat so with this treatment there's virtually no way to lose any weight or to reverse the insulin resistance and that's why it can be so frustrating

for people who follow the mainstream recommendations they eat their carbohydrates they exercise and they take their metformin or their insulin and they're being told that they're lazy and they eat too much when everything that being told to do is going to increase the insulin action and store more fat so let's create an intelligent goal once we understand the mechanisms let's create the only goal that makes any kind of sense and it doesn't have anything to do with blood sugar it has to do with withholding starches and sugars making the body produce less insulin until the

cell wants some fuel as long as we keep cramming the fuel into the cell it's not going to want anymore because it has too much the only way to create balance is to pull back on the supply until the cell wants some that's when insulin resistance starts reversing and how do you do that you do it with low carb diets with ketogenic diets with fasting intermittent fasting and with exercise and also as little I note everything that we've talked about here has to do with type 2 diabetes type 1 diabetes is a completely different things

and insulin is absolutely appropriate and life-saving so that's a completely different making mechanism the type 1 diabetic needs insulin because he can't make any on his own the type 2 diabetic insulin is the worst kind of treatment because they already have too much so things are really quite simple once we look at them and we want to eat some food we want to store some food we want to burn some food and when we eat low carb and we eat keto and we fast and we learned that it's not necessary it's not obligatory it's not

the only way to survive to eat six meals a day when we start skipping a breakfast or we skip a meal here and there now the body learns to regulate hunger and now if you eat once or twice or maybe three times a day you do it because your body has found the balance and it's telling you it's time to eat something so by getting the body into balance of eat store burn eat store burned that is how we become insulin sensitive and insulin sensitivity is the balance that we're talking about and that happens when

we find the balance at a level that makes the cell want some fuel once in a while when we have a balance between storing and burning and insulin pushes that balance towards storage and the more insulin resistance we are the more it pushes it towards storage and we have no chance of retrieving that energy to burn it so does it mean that green tea or cinnamon or apple cider vinegar or chromium are bad things or insulin is a bad thing no the type 1 diabetic needs insulin and these are just components of food and if

you do the right things if you start cutting back on some carbs if you do the Kido if you do the low-carb if you do the fasting now you're addressing the root cause you're turning this cycle around and now there's nothing wrong with helping your body use the blood glucose as long as you make it part of finding balance not just as a way of cramming more if you're new to the channel and you like having things explained so that you get the big picture make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell and if

you know other people which would probably be the case because this applies insulin resistance applies to at least 85% of the population to some degree whether they're officially classified or not then do them a favor and share this information so that they can start moving toward a healthier life thanks for watching