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Insulin Resistence: What Do
Some Researchers Say?
To review,
By Controlling
Insulin, You May Be Controlling Aging
When we eat, our bodies release insulin into our blood
stream so that we can process glucose (sugars) from our foods to
make energy, especially in our muscles.
Glucose belongs in our cells and
not in our blood. When it remains in our blood we produce more
insulin. Increased insulin, according to many researchers, is
the number one factor for accelerated aging.
Glucose
Our cells need glucose for many things including energy,
metabolism, and for mood and cognitive function. The short term
benefit of eating a candy bar, besides its good taste, has long
been know by athletes and students, sugar gives you energy and
makes you think straight, that is, in the short-term.
The reason we cannot eat glucose
all the time is obvious. It is not good for us, we would get
fat, develop insulin resistance, and then diabetes.
When we eat too much glucose, as
sugar or in the form of carbohydrates, the more insulin will be
needed to be released to usher the glucose into the cells. If we
are not "burning it off," the glucose is stored for later use.
When we have too much glucose in
our cells, our bodies try to stop insulin from stuffing more in
there. Suddenly we are programmed to ignore insulin's attempts
to process glucose. The pancreas, from where insulin is made,
still senses high levels of glucose in the blood, it thinks it
is not sending our enough insulin, therefore it sends out more.
Unfortunately the more it sends, the more gets ignored. We are
now resisting insulin's attempts at glucose regulation, we have
become "Insulin Resistant." This cycle continues until the
pancreas becomes exhausted and no longer produces insulin, this
is Type-Two
Diabetes (diabetes mellitus).
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