In the last two posts, I have helped you understand how insulin makes you age faster develop chronic illness sooner, and how it varies depending on your carb and sugar intake. This graph shows you what happens to insulin levels in people with extra abdominal fat. The beginning on the left is the status as they begin to gain weight.
Moving to the right through time, the red line shows you that these people become more resistant to the effects of insulin. Insulin does not work as well for them and so they need more of it to maintain the same sugar level in the blood. The pancreas is the organ that produces insulin and it works very hard to keep the sugar normal. Fasting insulin levels may be three times normal in people with a large waist.
The blue line is the sugar level in the blood and it may be as low as 70 in a normal slender person. The yellow line is the insulin level and high insulin can keep the sugar low for some time. Ultimately high sugar and fat levels in the blood kill enough insulin producing cells that the pancreas can no longer maintain increased insulin levels. It is at the point that insulin levels fall and the sugar rises that type 2 diabetes begins. There is no such thing as a touch of diabetes or mild diabetes. When diabetes begins, over half of the ability to make insulin is gone. The disease is already destroying cells and organs.
The main point here is this. Insulin levels in the blood are increased if your waist is bigger than it should be. Then when you eat carbs and sugar, the insulin spikes after meals are even higher and total insulin exposure is much greater. Insulin is also a growth hormone that makes fat stores larger, the heart bigger and the arteries thicker. That is a big part of the reason people who love carbs and sugar have chronic diseases like diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, and strokes earlier than slender people. That is the reason they die earlier on average. You can do something about it. That is the good news. You can be healthier longer.
Yup! I have been applying this principal for more than 25 years to reverse insulin resistance in ALL my patients using our MCG Technology based diagnostic decision making, lifestyle optimization and primary prevention monitored . Nearly everyone has insulin resistance with very few exceptions.They are ALL with me and living much healthier lives without the need for cardiologists, hospitals, coronary interventions and many drugs AT ALL! It is a shame that the legacy medicine has denied this physiological fact wittingly or unwittingly for decades! It is criminal! Absolutely!
The issue is fundamentally deeper, unfortunately. Physicians are inherently sheepishly following the “guidelines”, the FDA/CDC/AMA/ACC concocted designed to plunder our tax dollars, without knowing the sad facts that most, (99% of the devices and 96% of the drugs), have no evidence to support the safety and effectiveness claims made by the big device and pharma. They are drug and device pushers, wittingly or unwittingly. Further more, since the 1960’s, the so-called medical “literature” is filled with cherry-picked “evidence” mainly designed to fit the narratives of the pay-to-play masters to sell devices and drugs. The corrupted medical industry throw out of the window the needs for seeking disease prevention, and potential cures. These priorities are unprofitable to them. This pandemic exacerbated and accentuated the systematic corruption of I call the American Medical Industrial Complex Kabuki Dance Theatre. A fundamental transformation must be created to demolish this ugly 19th Century Legacy Analog pretender.