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