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Cells can become resistant to insulin and when that happens it is because the receptors on the cells’ surfaces that are designed to react to insulin malfunction. This basically means that the cells’ receptors need more insulin to function right so that they can remove the sugar from the blood. Before, the cells only needed a small amount of insulin to lower the sugar in the blood. Now they need the continuous supply of the insulin to keep the sugar within the healthy range.

As time goes by the blood sugar rises and stays high longer after a high carbohydrate meal even though there has been a lot of insulin made to lower it. You need to keep in mind that if your doctor were to check your sugar at this stage it would appear to be completely normal. The major silent change taking place is the ever-growing quantity of insulin needed to keep it that way.

The liver becomes resistant first, then the muscle tissue, then the fat. What is the effect of insulin on the liver? It is to suppress the production of sugar by the liver.

The sugar floating around in your body at any one time is the result of two things, the sugar that you have eaten and how much sugar your liver has made. When you wake up in the morning it is more of a reflection of how much sugar your liver has made. If your liver is listening to insulin properly it won’t make much sugar in the middle of the night. If your liver is resistant, those brakes are lifted and your liver starts making a bunch of sugar so you wake up with a bunch of sugar.

After your liver stops responding to insulin your muscles will be next. The muscles are designed to burn sugar that is made by your liver. If they are not responding to insulin the will not know that they need to burn the sugar. If you haven’t noticed there is a vicious chain going on, your liver is making too much sugar and your muscles can’t burn it off. So now what is affected?

Next are the fat cells that are affected by poor insulin. The fat cells are what stores the fat. They take sugar and store it as fat. Therefore, until your fat cells become resistant to insulin you are likely to gain more weight. You may gain a little or you may gain a lot, but what matters is that you are gaining weight and you need to know why.

Too much insulin floating around can cause plaque build up, blood clotting and cells to accumulate fatty deposits. . Every step of the way, insulin’s got its fingers in it and is causing cardiovascular disease. It fills it with plaque, it constricts the arteries, it increases platelet adhesiveness and ability of the blood to coagulate [clot]. Any known cause of cardiovascular disease, insulin is a part of.

But eventually they plateau. They might plateau at three hundred pounds, two hundred and twenty pounds, one hundred and fifty pounds, but they will eventually plateau as the fat cells protect themselves and become insulin resistant.

As all these major tissues, this massive body becomes resistant, your liver, muscles and fat, your pancreas is putting out more insulin to compensate, so you are hyperinsulinemic [having an abnormally high level of insulin in the blood] and you’ve got insulin floating around all the time.

Insulin floating around in the blood causes a plaque build up. Insulin causes the blood to clot too readily. Insulin causes cells that accumulate fatty deposits. Every step of the way, insulin’s got its fingers in it and is causing cardiovascular disease. It fills it with plaque, it constricts the arteries, it increases platelet adhesiveness and ability of the blood to coagulate [clot]. Any known cause of cardiovascular disease, insulin is a part of.

If you want to know if insulin sensitivity can be restored to its original state, well, perhaps not to its original state, but you can restore it to the state of about a ten year old.

You can increase sensitivity by diet and a lot of supplements.

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