| We hear a lot about insulin resistance, but stop and | | | | of insulin on his own, then we were able to measure |
| think a little bit, do you think our cells only become | | | | his own insulin and it was still elevated, and then it took |
| resistant to insulin? The more hormones your cells are | | | | a long time, maybe six months or longer to bring that |
| exposed to, the more resistant they will become to | | | | insulin down.It will probably never get to the point of the |
| almost any hormone. Certain cells more than others, so | | | | sensitivity of a ten year old, but yes, your number of |
| there is a discrepancy. The problem with hormone | | | | insulin receptors increases, and the activity of the |
| resistance is that there is a dichotomy of resistance, | | | | receptors, the chemical reactions that occur beyond |
| that all the cells don't become resistant at the same | | | | the receptor occur more efficiently.You can increase |
| time.And different hormones affect different cells, and | | | | sensitivity by diet, that is one of the major reasons you |
| the rate of hormone is different among different cells | | | | want to take Omega 3 oils. We think of circulation as |
| and this causes lots of problems with the feedback | | | | that which flows through arteries and veins, and that is |
| mechanisms. We know that one of the major areas | | | | not a minor part of our circulation, but it might not even |
| of the body that becomes resistant to many feedback | | | | be the major part. The major part of circulation is what |
| loops is the hypothalamus. The various | | | | goes in and out of the cell.The cell membrane is a fluid |
| interrelationships there I really don't have time to go in | | | | mosaic. The major part of our circulation is determined |
| to here.But hypothalamic resistance to feedback | | | | by what goes in and out. It doesn't make any |
| signals plays a very important role in aging and insulin | | | | difference what gets to that cell if it can't get into the |
| resistance because the hypothalamus has receptors | | | | cell. We know that one of the major ways that you |
| for insulin too. I mentioned that insulin stimulates | | | | can affect cellular circulation is by modulating the kinds |
| sympathetic nervous system, it does so through the | | | | of fatty acids that you eat. So you can increase |
| hypothalamus, which is the center of it all."Insulin is by | | | | receptor sensitivity by increasing the fluidity of the cell |
| far your biggest poison." You may find an excellent | | | | membrane, which means increasing the omega 3 |
| source of insulin information at: | | | | content, because most people are very deficient.They |
| overcome-diabetes.comThe receptors self-regulate.If | | | | say that you are what you eat and that mostly |
| you want to know if insulin sensitivity can be restored | | | | pertains to fat because the fatty acids that you eat |
| to its original state, well, perhaps not to its original state, | | | | are the ones that will generally get incorporated into |
| but you can restore it to the state of about a ten year | | | | the cell membrane. The cell membranes are going to |
| old.One of my first experiences with this, I had a | | | | be a reflection of your dietary fat and that will |
| patient who literally had sugars over 300. He was | | | | determine the fluidity of your cell membrane. You can |
| taking 200+ units of insulin, he was a bad | | | | actually make them over fluid.If you eat too much and |
| cardiovascular patient, and it only made sense to me | | | | you incorporate too many omega 3 oils then they will |
| that you don't want to feed these people | | | | become highly oxidizable (so you have to eat Vitamin |
| carbohydrates, so I put him on a low carbohydrate | | | | E as well and monounsaturates as well) There was an |
| diet.He was an exceptional case, after a month to six | | | | interesting article pertaining to this where they had a |
| weeks he was totally off of insulin. He had been on | | | | breed of rat that was genetically susceptible to |
| 200 some units of insulin for twenty-five years. He | | | | cancer.What they did was they fed them a high |
| was so insulin resistant, one thing good about it is that | | | | omega 3 diet, plus iron, without any extra Vitamin E |
| when you lower that insulin, that insulin is having such | | | | and they were able to almost shrink down the tumors |
| little effect on him that you can massively lower the | | | | to nothing, because tumors are rapidly dividing. This is |
| insulin and its not going to have much of an effect on | | | | like a form of chemotherapy, and the membranes that |
| his blood sugar either. 200 units of insulin is not going to | | | | were being formed in these tumor cells were very high |
| lower your sugar any more that 300 mg/deciliter.You | | | | in omega three oils, the iron acted as a catalyst for |
| know that the insulin is not doing much. So we could | | | | that oxidation, and the cells were exploding from |
| rapidly take him off the insulin and he was actually | | | | getting oxidized so rapidly. So omega 3 oils can be a |
| cured of his diabetes in a matter of weeks. So he | | | | double edged sword. |
| became sensitive enough, he was still producing a lot | | | | |