How Insulin Works? – Insulin Resistance & Belly Fat Simplified by Dr.Berg | DrEricBergDC

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hi guys listen I wanted to create a

video to show you what happens inside

your body in relationship to insulin

fat-burning the effects that it can

create and give you a real inside

demonstration of what it looks like so

we’re gonna do some animation through

here okay let’s first start out with

this one image right here which we have

the pancreas right here and the pancreas

makes certain hormones one hormone it

makes is called insulin and the location

of the pancreas is underneath the left

ribcage but it extends over to the right

a little bit and it it’s triggered by

sugar okay so when you eat a

carbohydrate rich meal and the faster

that it turns into sugar like certain

things will turn the sugar fast other

things are slow that’s called like a

glycemic index like celery would turn

into sugar very slowly

candy it would be very fast so as soon

as the sugar spikes in the blood and it

goes above a certain level it triggers

the pancreas to make insulin so now we

have this insulin that connects into the

cell

so insulin actually will remove the

sugar out of the blood to bring the

sugar down okay and what it does is it

feeds the cell one of the functions that

it feeds the cell so it’s kind of like a

little chef that it feeds the cell it’s

food okay it’s fuel so you can look at

insulin also as a key that opens a door

allowing the cell to absorb glucose okay

so as glucose goes inside the cell now

we have a situation where the cell is

filled with glucose and it’s being fed

now there’s a signal that then we’ll go

from the cell back up to the pancreas

and tell the pancreas to turn off

because it’s been fed so we have this

on/off mechanism it’s called a feedback

loop and all the hormones have this

feedback loop where the the hormones is

sent across a distance it does its

function and then it’s once it’s done it

sends a signal back letting you know the

gland note it did its job as an

acknowledgment so

can turn off if this signal is off in

any way and the pancreas will continue

to communicate and send more hormone

when you really might not need it okay

so we know number one insulin feeds to

the cell fuel

okay then it helps you store sugar

so here’s insulin it comes in your takes

the sugar out feeds the cell number two

it actually stores sugar in the mainly

in the liver but some on the muscle as

well and some of the kidneys some of the

brain and some in the white blood cell

but mainly in the liver and kidney

that’s where the storage happens and the

body stores sugar as something called

glycogen that’s the name of it it’s

glycogen is a series of glucose

molecules strung together in a chain so

there’s two main types of fuel stores in

the body we have the glycogen reserve

and then we have the fat reserve okay

the glycogen reserve which is the sugar

reserve is roughly only 1700 calories

it’s very very tiny versus 70,000

calories on a not all beasts average

person so we have 70,000 calories for

fat versus only 1700 that’s 1700 for

sugar reserves

okay so insulin helps in the absorption

of fuel in the cell it helps in the

sugar storage which is called glycogen

reserve and number three it converts

excess sugar and carbohydrates into fat

okay so fat comes from the excess

carbohydrates so as soon as the blood

sugars go too high it convert insulin

converts it to fat in the liver so it’s

dumping fat into the liver and dumping

fat into the body specifically in the

belly area this is the storage around

the liver and starts spilling off into a

belly a fat belly that’s where it’s

coming from

so in this section I’m going to talk

about what is excess sugar in the blood

normal blood sugar is between eighty and

a hundred okay milliliters per deciliter

this basically means you have one

teaspoon of sugar per all of your blood

an average person it’s roughly one and

one-third gallons of blood that’s normal

an average American consumes 31

teaspoons of sugar so you can imagine

how much sugar that is in your body your

insulin needs to deal with it so it has

to get this toxic sugar out protect the

cells and dump it into the reserve which

is your belly so it’s converting the

excess sugar to belly fat and that’s how

it works okay so the next thing that

happens when you have too much sugar

over a long period of time and too much

sustained insulin we developed something

called insulin resistance where the

receptor that’s supposed to receive

insulin becomes blocked okay now what

happens is now the glucose the sugar

can’t get into the cell because the key

is not working

to allow the cell to be fed the fuel

that it needs okay so because there’s no

signals inside the cell that the glucose

is getting in there there’s no feedback

loop to the pancreas to turn it off so

we have an incomplete communication it’s

like someone’s talking so much but no

one’s listening so we have the situation

where no off switch the body compensates

to drive more insulin to try to connect

with this little key to try to drive the

key in there so a person with insulin

resistance has five to seven times more

insulin than a normal person

this is pre-diabetes okay so what

happens is all this excess insulin goes

throughout the body but it doesn’t it’s

not becoming effective in other words

it’s not bringing the sugars down it’s

not feeding the cells what it’s doing

its going in storage is belly fat so

we’re dumping more and more insulin

that’s converting this sugar into fat in

the belly and making a fatty liver other

symptoms there’s four main big symptoms

with insulin resistance your fatigue

especially after you eat like eat lunch

you want to take a nap number two you

have cravings for sugar and

carbohydrates number three you have

excessive urination at night because

wherever the excess insulin is going

fluid is following it so you’re actually

the sometimes you have glucose coming

through the urine you’re going to be

peeing more and also even have a lot of

brain fog memory issues you have

inflammation there’s a whole list of

symptoms that you can have so there’s

several other purposes of insulin that

go beyond just glucose going in the cell

number one protein goes in the cell with

the help of insulin without insulin you

can’t absorb protein amino acids in the

cell

that’s why diabetics have loss of muscle

collagen muscle weakness they can’t

build muscle they have joint issues disk

issues a lot of protein issues and

potassium the major mineral or

electrolyte which is potassium will not

go on the cell as well thereby having

fatigue high sodium that’s going to get

high pulse rate high blood pressure

arrhythmias heart is arrhythmias skip

heartbeat palpitations edema swelling in

your feet poor sleep because potassium

helps relax your body muscle cramps

constipation gout kidney stones

okay so insulin is needed for other

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a link down below thanks for watching