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hey guys I want to answer the question

what is insulin now I’ve done a lot of

videos in insulin resistance

ketosis talked about sugar but I think I

forgot to do a video on actual what is

insulin woops better late than never but

let’s talk about what it is insulin is a

hormone made by the pancreas so the

pancreas is a gland underneath the left

ribcage and insulin is a hormone so

hormones are communication particles

that are made by glands that travel

through the blood okay so the purpose

the main purpose of insulin is to lower

blood sugar okay so insulin lowers the

sugar in the blood now normally you have

about a teaspoon just a small amount of

sugar in all of your blood so an average

person roughly has about a gallon and a

half of blood okay

that’s only one teaspoon diluted in a

gallon and a half of blood so anything

more than that would be excessive and

your body would have to get it out of

the blood and it uses insulin to do that

okay so the average person consumes

thirty-one teaspoons of sugar every

single day so you can see that’s a big

problem and what I mean by normal sugars

I’m talking about like 100 milligrams

per deciliter

that’s one teaspoon per one and a half

gallons of blood so anything more your

body activates insulin to get it out of

the blood so so it allows the cells to

absorb glucose you can think of insulin

like a key that unlocks the cell opens

the door to lab glucose to go into the

cell to feed the cell okay so that’s

what it does now

it also stores sugar in the liver and

the muscles and that’s called glycogen

which is a like a string of sugar

molecules string of glucose that’s

called glycogen so you have that stored

sugar to be released if you need it for

quick energy okay so it stores sugar and

then anything extra it converts to fat

so it’s a fat making hormone especially

the visceral fat in the gut it also

helps you absorb amino acids

that’s protein wow that’s interesting is

that it also absorbs potassium so this

is a real key mineral and involved in so

many functions influen is necessary to

help you absorb potassium it blocks fat

burning in the presence of just a little

bit of insulin you are not going to burn

fat okay it retains sodium that’s why

after a sugar meal you could gain like a

pound of fluid and you feel like you

gain more weight okay so basically store

sugar stores fat reduces blood sugars

got that so far now what happens in the

body is you become a diabetic or a

pre-diabetic

that’s called insulin resistance so when

insulin becomes dysfunctional it starts

to be resisted in the cell so now the

key doesn’t work so if we were to block

that entry that’s called insulin

resistance okay

so now we’re going to actually have less

insulin in the cell and less glucose in

the cell now what’s going to happen

signals are going to go back to the

pancreas and tell the pancreas to

release more insulin so with insulin

resistance you have high levels of

insulin but it’s not working that’s why

you have all the damage okay if insulin

is blocked guess what’s going to happen

to the blood sugars it’s going to go

higher and higher and higher and that’s

diabetes so high sugar is diabetes

hyperglycemia so you have a situation

where you have out-of-control blood

sugars yet your cells of starving of

insulin and glucose inside the cell

that’s why you crave sweets okay and a

lot of other damaged insulin resistance

will cause a lot more conversion of fat

into your gut into the other cells of

the body

it’ll also starve the cells of glucose

in the brain that’s why you’re going to

lose your memory you’re going to have

all sorts prawns that you won’t be able

to absorb the amino acids that’s why I

diabetic they lose their muscle strength

in muscle mass

they won’t be able to sort potassium so

that’s what their blood pressure goes up

their energy goes down their sodium goes

up because it retains more sodium and

they’re not able to lose weight because

they have too much insulin and that’s

blocking any chance of burning fat okay

all right so you know what insulin does

now it’s very very very important isn’t

it but the problem is that you had too

much of it that’s where the there’s a

problem because it blocks the absorption

so your body dislikes a certain amount

what controls the level of insulin is

the sugar in the blood so whatever’s in

the blood so let’s talk about what

stimulates insulin sugar and anything

that converts to sugar refined

carbohydrates bread pasta cereal

crackers alcohol things like that if you

combine sugar with protein you’ll

exaggerate the spike of insulin even

more so it’s a compound effect excessive

protein will also stimulate insulin so I

like to recommend between 3 to 6 ounces

of protein per meal MSG monosodium

glutamate and it’s a modified food

starch that’s in a lot of junk food that

will increase insulin by 300% okay

eating in general stimulates insulin so

let me just show you one thing on that

here’s my favorite book guidance

physiology and I want to just show you

this one little point it says other

factors that stimulate insulin secretion

gastrointestinal hormones okay what does

that mean gastrointestinal it means

every time you eat anything you

stimulate insulin and this is why

intermittent fasting is so powerful

because you’re cutting down the time

that you eat the frequency of eating and

you’re dropping insulin you’re actually

correcting the dysfunction okay so

actually this goes beyond just cutting

out your carbs cortisol will increase in

some that’s the stress so stress

converts your muscle protein into amino

acids which is then converted into

so it basically changes your proteins in

the sugar and then it exhausts

themselves with pancreas and then you

get become a diabetic other than that

you’re perfectly fine and then we have

nicotine in excessive amounts will also

increase insulin and then you have

caffeine that in a large amount if you

drink coffee all day long will affect

the adrenals and increase cortisol but

if you’re just doing like one in the

morning you’re going to be fine but

excessive amounts of caffeine will

stimulate insulin now the things that

inhibit insulin turn it off would be

cutting out the sugar and the refined

carbs fasting in a minute fasting will

greatly help fix insulin resistance

consuming fat has kind of a neutral

effect on insulin apple cider vinegar

improves insulin sensitivity to tasks

IAM in foods and is acceptable increase

insulin and so will chromium okay so I

just want to give you an overview of

exactly what insulin is now you have a

foundation to understand even more the

other factors thanks for watching hi

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