Learning To Reverse Insulin Resistance Could Be Key To Prevent The Onset Of Diabetes


By Lela Perkins

Most people will have heard about the growing tide of diabetes that threatens to overwhelm medical services, but relatively few people are knowledgeable about the causes of diabetes. There is even less knowledge about the function of insulin and the impact resistance to this vital hormonal substance can have on health. Luckily research into how to reverse insulin resistance has produced many healthy options.


The hormone is created within the pancreas. Its critical activity is in aiding the breakdown of starch and fatty foodstuffs which contain energy providing glucose. Activity and normal organ functioning uses up much of the sugar, but if residual glucose is left in the blood stream a level of toxicity may develop. Hence the important process that makes it possible to store it in the liver, muscular and fatty tissues.

Failure of the body to effectively control these levels can result in diabetes. Type 1 diabetics depend on external sources of insulin, normally injected but sometimes in tablet form, because the body has ceased to produce the hormone. Type 2 diabetics differ in that they display resistance to the hormone and often receive other treatments to control blood glucose levels. Sometimes they have to resort back to insulin treatment if these fail. In a nutshell, this hormone makes possible and controls the release of energy within the body at a cellular level and so directly impacts on all bodily functions.

Patients who display resistance find their bodies do not use the substance properly. The pancreas tries to compensate for this by producing more, but due to the malfunction excess glucose accumulates in the bloodstream. The symptoms of this form of diabetes are often difficult to pin down, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis. They can include abdominal weight gain, extreme cholesterol levels and high blood pressure all of which lean towards problems in the cardiac area.

The over consumption of carbohydrate rich foods, which aggravates the sugar conversion issue, combined with a lack of activity, has resulted in widespread obesity which in itself is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. The sad reality is that many of these so called risk factors can be avoided as can many of the resulting diabetic conditions. Making informed choices about food intake, exercising regularly, taking the right vitamin and minerals will all help to either slowdown or stop the condition from arising altogether.

The weird aspect about human nature is that making life enhancing choices is not hard. Our shops are bursting with high healthy salad greens and vegetables. These foods are low in starch, full of fiber and extremely nutritious. As they have very little sugary compounds in the first place, much of the job is done. Exercise admittedly is going to be more demanding but it can be pleasurable.

Protein is vital in a healthy diet. Those coming from seafood, egg, chicken, soy and whey are the best due to the fact that they aid hormonal activity that prevent over production of insulin. The vitamin groups C, E, D, K and natural antioxidants are important in bringing about normal levels of sugar in the bloodstream. Do not forget the exercise, also a vital component of a healthy lifestyle.

In short many of the questions and problems required to be addressed, in order to reverse insulin resistance, are easy to determine and often require little more than will power to implement. Sufferers just need to want to do it.



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