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i want to talk about insulin resistance and  gluconeogenesis now first of all let’s talk about  

what gluconeogenesis is glucose means glucose  it’s sugar neo means new and genesis means the  

creation of so gluconeogenesis is the new creation  of glucose made by your liver and it’s stimulated  

by a hormone called glucagon and it’s inhibited or  turned off by your favorite hormone called insulin  

which is triggered by more glucose from the diet  but what happens with gluconeogenesis is the body  

is making new sugar out of non-carbohydrate  sources so it’s making sugar out of protein  

out of fat out of ketones why because there’s  always a certain amount of sugar that your body  

does need and it’s not required to come from the  diet your body can make it from other sources  

but what happens when you have insulin resistance  things kind of become a little crazy because  

insulin resistance is a kind of a precursor for  pre-diabetes and when you have pre-diabetes you  

have insulin resistance but also you’re going to  have insulin resistance when you become a diabetic  

so when someone starts to cut out their  carbohydrates because they’re a pre-diabetic  

or a diabetic or they’re on the ketogenic diet  because they finally realized that diabetes or  

pre-diabetes is high sugar and having a high carb  diet contributes to that and it makes it worse  

they finally had that realization so now what  they’re going to do is cut the carbs out but  

when they check their sugars sometimes their sugar  is too high now how can that be they’re not eating  

any sugar well if you’re not eating any sugar and  you have high sugar that means it must be coming  

from gluconeogenesis now the question is why  would the body be making more sugar well because  

the sensor the turn off signal the off switch is  apparently not there in sufficient quantities so  

obviously you don’t have enough insulin because  the insulin resistance is so strong you have so  

much resistance that insulin is not able to  get through and so your body is sensing a low  

insulin situation so then it’s just going to make  more sugar so if the blood sugars are that high  

then that’s the reason why oh i made a run just  give it more time keep doing keto keep doing  

fasting and eventually the insulin resistance  will improve to the point where your liver won’t  

keep making sugar anymore so we really have two  situations we have insulin resistance over here  

and then we have the pancreas making insulin over  here the beta cell and the pancreas makes insulin  

and so the pancreas cell will make more insulin  if you’re eating more sugar why because it’s  

trying to compensate for that and as you’re making  more insulin the insulin resistance will become  

more resistive simply because you have too much  insulin because your carbs are too high so there’s  

really two situations going on so here’s what  happens okay so you have this insulin resistance  

and then eventually you become a pre-diabetic  now that’s where the blood sugars are starting  

to creep up to a certain amount not  astronomical but just a certain amount  

so obviously there’s not enough insulin to push  it down because of the insulin resistance so this  

goes on for a period of time as a pre-diabetic  and then eventually you become a diabetic  

where the blood sugars start going really  out of control and that is a major deficiency  

of insulin both because we have the insulin  resistance and because the pancreas cell now  

can no longer compensate and make this excessive  amount of insulin to keep your blood sugars in  

check so we have a situation where we have insulin  resistance and a complete exhausted pancreas  

and if the person keeps doing more and more  carbs then the doctors will eventually give  

you insulin on top of that so i mean the  whole thing could be prevented and treated  

just by getting off these down carbs but  that never happens we use these medications  

to manipulate these values unfortunately the  whole point of this video is to tell you that  

we also have another situation involved in  diabetes and that is this gluconeogenesis  

this liver making sugar okay so this goes beyond  the carbs in the diet so when you’re diabetic  

a major contributing factor to your blood  sugars is gluconeogenesis the liver is making  

new sugar so the solution or the answer to this is  number one get unhealthy keto cut the carbs down  

make sure you provide all the nutrients and the  phytonutrients to counter all the complications  

that occur and then give it time because  it’s going to take time to reverse this  

it may take months to even a couple years so  don’t give up if you run into a barrier find  

the solution and stick with it so if you’re  enjoying my content which i hope you are  

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