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It also drives muscle loss as we age, leading to sarcopenia, which takes us down a rapid spiral into metabolic chaos and disability.
Insulin resistance affects 88 percent of Americans to some degree. Ninety percent of people who have it are not diagnosed and have no clue they have it.
Hacking your blood sugar and insulin is the best way to live a long, healthy life.
A prominent Harvard cardiologist once said that if you found a group of 100 year olds with perfectly clean arteries, they would have one thing in common: They would be insulin sensitive, and their cells would require very little insulin to manage blood sugar.
Most doctors never check fasting insulin levels or glucose levels after a sugar load. Want a perfect test of how you are aging? This is it.
How does insulin resistance happen?
Simple: When you overeat starch and sugars in any form, your pancreas pumps out loads of insulin. Your cells become resistant to its effects, meaning more and more insulin is required to keep your blood sugar normal. Until it can’t, and then you get type 2 diabetes and a host of other problems, like increased belly fat, muscle loss, inflammation, hormonal imbalances, and brain damage.
We eat an average of 152 pounds of sugar and 133 pounds of flour per person every year. Overall, processed food makes up 60 percent of our calories. No wonder half of Americans over age 60 have insulin resistance. It’s happening to younger folks too. Kids as young as three years old now have type 2 diabetes.
Over time, reducing starch and sugar, and possibly even removing them altogether for a length of time, will make you insulin sensitive. Then, you can ease back into eating starchy veggies, fruits, beans, and whole grains with greater metabolic flexibility.
