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hey Dr Burke here I want to answer the

question why does insulin resistance

cause weight gain another common

question people want to know this well

we have this thing called the pancreas

the pancreas makes this hormone called

insulin insulin has a message to store

fat in the presence of insulin you’re

going to make a lot of fat okay that’s

one of the functions so what happens is

the pancreas

reacts to certain foods like sugar bread

pasta crackers pancakes and it starts to

increasing right over a period of time

the body says no no no that’s too much

it’s rejecting it so it starts to build

up a resistance to this insulin so it

doesn’t allow it to go in the cell

anymore it kind of like pretend like it

has ear plugs right here it can’t hear

so what happens all these hormones and

glands are on a feedback loop

okay so glands are the things that make

hormones and hormones are the

communications that travel between just

like right now I’m talking to you and

I’m sending messages to you you’re

hearing me and I can’t quite see you but

if you’re in here in person I would

actually be able to communicate back and

forth we just have a communication cycle

going on here so what happens we don’t

get a full return communication

because it’s blocked at the cell level

whether at the liver or at the cell

level okay so now the pancreas never

gets the offs off signals to turn it off

okay it never gets the return

communication it’s kind of like talking

to your child and they’re ignoring you

you’re going to increase your volume so

now the pancreas will go oh really okay

let’s pump out more and more and more

insulin okay because it’s blocked it’s

not getting through

so then maybe a little get through

so a person with insulin resistance has

five to seven times more insulin than a

normal person and that’s why they gain

weight because of the excess insulin

simply because this cell is blocked and

the medication for diabetes especially

type 2 would be called metformin

metformin makes this receptor open up

more it helps it receive it it actually

kind of um kind of opens up the channel

to allow this thing to feedback but what

they don’t really do is correct the

reason why the insulin’s spiking in the

first place so you really have to

correct the diet and get that person off

sugar permanently and other things too

okay so all right so I hope that helped

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