Health Section - Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss, as well as Diabetes

According to statistics, at least more than half of the Chinese population falls into the overweight and obesity range, and the vast majority of these individuals are in a state of insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance is a metabolic syndrome and a common pathophysiological mechanism for many other diseases, including: type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hyperuricemia, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, polycystic ovary syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, and some tumors.

In simple terms, this is the greatest common divisor, but most people do not pay attention to it because it does not cause obvious discomfort; they just love to eat sweets and gain a little weight. "That's all there is to it."

What is insulin resistance?

How does insulin resistance occur? Let's simplify this process: the food you consume (minus what you expend) becomes blood sugar, and insulin is the hormone that converts blood sugar into fat. Therefore, the fatter you are, the more your body resists the conversion of blood sugar into fat (otherwise, you would just balloon up), and this is insulin resistance.

What are the consequences? The consequence is that your pancreas has to secrete more insulin than usual to force you to continue converting blood sugar into fat. In other words, you will be in a state of excess insulin for a long time.

Another downside of excess insulin is that it also prevents your fat from being converted back into energy. So, people with insulin resistance are the ones who "gain weight just by drinking cold water"…

What is the next step of insulin resistance?

When you have long-term insulin resistance, it will gradually develop into "prediabetes" symptoms, meaning your blood sugar is slightly elevated, but it hasn't reached the diabetic state.

At this point, it indicates that your resistance is quite severe; although you are secreting more insulin, it is not enough to clear the blood sugar in your bloodstream - again, blood sugar is formed from the carbohydrates you consume (rice, sugar, sugary drinks, ice cream, etc.).

At this time, you are still in a state of slightly elevated blood sugar but with skyrocketing insulin levels. Here comes the problem: insulin is secreted by your pancreas, and when it is chronically over-secreted, it can prematurely damage your pancreas. When your pancreas starts to fail one day, meaning it either stops secreting insulin or secretes insufficient amounts, you will transition to the next stage: the diabetic stage.

What are the characteristics of this stage? You still consume the same amount of carbohydrates, which convert to blood sugar, but your pancreas has already failed and cannot secrete insulin, and you still have insulin resistance, meaning you cannot clear the blood sugar from your bloodstream… At this point, blood sugar levels will spike.

When blood sugar spikes, there will be obvious external symptoms, such as fatigue, frequent urination, palpitations, etc. What to do at this time? Inject insulin to clear the blood sugar in the blood vessels.

However, because your body's self-regulation mechanism has already failed, sometimes blood sugar is cleared too thoroughly, leading to frequent occurrences of hypoglycemia…

In short, when you enter a diabetic state, reversing it becomes very troublesome.

How to reverse insulin resistance:

At this point, your pancreas can still function, so unifying certain lifestyle changes should be able to reverse insulin resistance.

How to reverse it? By eating fewer carbohydrates, you prevent blood sugar spikes. A spike in blood sugar means your pancreas will immediately secrete a large amount of insulin, and both sides will work together to attack your conversion threshold…

One thing to note here is artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners themselves contain no energy, but they can also trigger insulin secretion - because your body thinks you have consumed sugar and starts to secrete insulin. However, the result is that you haven't eaten carbohydrates, which sends a signal to your body to urge you to eat carbohydrates… Therefore, it's best to also quit drinks with artificial sweeteners.

That's about it. In short, living is a struggle; if you don't actively manage it, it will control you. You choose.

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