Not exact matches
Having worked closely on major diabetes treatment medications like metformin and Sanofi's flagship
insulin Lantus, Chew was taken with the idea that such treatments, however innovative, don't have to be necessary
by default.
If it is necessary to
do something unusual in public - say, giving yourself a necessary
insulin injection - a simple explanation to those around you who might be distressed
by it, is the right (and polite) thing to
do.
Of course, I might be holding back out of fear of being invited
by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused
by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be
done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of
insulin)
I would monitor my body - weight, composition, cholesterol profile, chronic inflammation indicated
by C - Reactive Protein (CRP) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) whilst
doing so to help assess whether the diet was something to consider following periodically or continuously since
insulin sensitivity is very important but not the sole factor determining the healthspan supporting virtues of a dietary template.
So I suppose, considering what you and someone above said about the meter not catching stuff, my question would be (well two questions) why they follow up with someone who
DOES have gestational diabetes
by assigning a meter, and then whether, if the person was able to avoid huge
insulin peaks
by eating well and such that the meter showed them not going over their established (
by the doctor that is) threshold, would that mean that they were effectively mitigating the risks?
• Although dietary fats
do not cause a surge in
insulin levels, they could still play a part in diabetes — and thus Alzheimer's —
by contributing to obesity.
While diabetics can keep their glucose metabolism under general control
by injecting
insulin multiple times a day, that
does not provide the kind of exquisite fine tuning necessary to properly control metabolism, and that lack of control leads to devastating complications from blindness to loss of limbs.
Before her performances, she also downs high - protein foods like meat to deal with the acid and
insulin secreted
by the stomach and pancreas, which apparently don't realize that she is swallowing a sword rather than a yummy snack.
va Mezey of the NIH
did the job
by staining the same slice of tissue in two ways, once to pinpoint the secretion (either of
insulin or of saliva) and a second time to pinpoint the male, or Y, chromosome.
The cells the researchers produced respond to glucose
by producing
insulin, just as normal β cells
do.
By age 8 1/2, 46 of the children had autoantibodies to their own
insulin - producing beta cells; as weight and BMI went up, so
did their risk.
Other tests detect beta cells
by identifying receptors that are unique to those cells, «but even if cells are not functioning, the receptors are still there,» Cai says, «so that
does not tell you if they are making
insulin.
SOCS3,
by doing this,
by inducing degradation of a number of the receptor itself and potentially STAT3 and JAK2, can block this signal, so this, of course, can induce
insulin resistance.
This is quite a complex pathway and I don't have time to go through details, but just briefly, glucose metabolism is regulated
by insulin, so is lipid metabolism and this is one of many pathways where
insulin activates a number of kinases, but particularly Akt.
Liposuction
did not significantly alter the
insulin sensitivity of muscle, liver, or adipose tissue (assessed
by the stimulation of glucose disposal, the suppression of glucose production, and the suppression of lipolysis, respectively);
did not significantly alter plasma concentrations of C - reactive protein, interleukin - 6, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and adiponectin; and
did not significantly affect other risk factors for coronary heart disease (blood pressure and plasma glucose,
insulin, and lipid concentrations) in either group.
Reducing the
insulin receptors from one set of mice
did not significantly impair their glucose metabolism, says Rask - Madsen — certainly not enough to make the animals overtly
insulin resistant — but it
did increase the amount of circulating
insulin by reducing its removal from the blood.
The researchers found that, when stimulated
by insulin, diabetic fibroblasts produced less of the VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) signaling protein, a key player in boosting the growth of blood vessel cells, than normal fibroblasts
did.
In experiments
by Nadal and his colleagues, animals exposed to BPA ended up with
insulin resistance more often than other animals
did.
Furthermore, fish oil doesn't only make cells more sensitive to
insulin, it also reduces the production of
insulin by the pancreas.
It
does that
by regulating blood sugar levels and
insulin spikes.
I actually found accounts
by diabetes who had been able to go off
insulin by doing hoe - downs after every meal.
Conversely, within non-diabetic populations, periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days)
do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated
by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases
insulin secretion, can precede the onset of T2DM
by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating
insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic)
insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70
By doing this, they could then study how
insulin requirements changed on a low - fat diet, independent of weight loss.
Since we don't want to die, the body protects itself
by developing
insulin resistance.
However, they
did experience a 24 % decrease in
insulin resistance, as measured
by HOMA - IR.
It
does so not only
by delivering amino acids that elevate MPS and
insulin, but also
by inhibiting MPB (muscle protein breakdown) and cortisol.
Insulin requirements plummeted by an average of 58 % in the group that ate a low - fat diet, whereas insulin requirements did not change in those eating the conventional diabete
Insulin requirements plummeted
by an average of 58 % in the group that ate a low - fat diet, whereas
insulin requirements did not change in those eating the conventional diabete
insulin requirements
did not change in those eating the conventional diabetes diet.
While they found that both «diets were equally effective in reducing body weight and
insulin resistance» and «reductions in total and LDL - cholesterol concentrations
did not differ significantly
by group... several participants following the [ketogenic] diet had marked increases in LDL cholesterol.»
Sure, if you're eating pastries, white bread, white pasta — all topped off
by copious amounts of sugar — it's certainly going to increase your risk of gaining weight,
insulin resistance, and diabetes, but that doesn't mean carbohydrates are innately bad.
What
do you
do, if you no longer have a gall bladder and your liver has been compromised
by insulin resistance and NASH?
At Parsley Health we recommend that members who don't have any conditions that would make intermittent fasting unsafe, such as
insulin dependent diabetes, begin
by doing a 12 - hour fast overnight.
People that have issues with lower carbs — I mean with higher carbs, they have to eat a diet that's more
insulin - sensitive so that it helps reduce their
insulin resistance so they can basically
do more metabolically
by shifting their body to burn their calories
by decreasing their
insulin level.
So if you're
doing more exercise, more CrossFit, more workout — well, workout, you should probably have to get a little more carbs in throughout the day from those safe starchy sources and you'll definitely wan na
do it post-workout to help blunt that cortisol response
by upping the
insulin.
Unfortunately, most medical schools around the world still
do not teach medical students about
insulin resistance, and one of the primary reasons for this is because medical schools are strongly influenced
by the food industry, which wants you to believe that eating fat is dangerous and eating sugars and grains (net carbs) is healthy.
That's the thing, everyone's like «Don't spike your
insulin if you don't know what you're
doing by eating just a Snickers bar.»
Hey... What
did u mean
by «spike your
insulin» with stevia?
There is a risk of under estimating or becoming sloppy in measuring / remembering number of gms.of carbs eaten and also risk of carb / hunger cravings being stimulated
by glucose /
insulin surges, resulting in reports of «it didn't work for me».
When blood sugars plummet dramatically — as they always
do after the
insulin surge that accompanies high - carb eating — cortisol will rush to save the brain from «starvation»
by sending a signal to convert amino and fatty acids into glucose (the brain's primary fuel).
Eat, Fast and Live Longer — Horizon
Did you know reducing IGF - 1 (
Insulin - Like Growth Factor 1)
by fasting is one of the best ways to...
«As it was explained to me
by Craig Thompson, who has
done much of this research and is now president of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the cells of many human cancers come to depend on
insulin to provide the fuel (blood sugar) and materials they need to grow and multiply.
But
do we know why, i.e., the mechanism
by which animal protein exacerbates the
insulin spike?
People without
insulin resistance can often get away with less dramatic changes to their diet, so I don't know if you might be able to get
by with a low glycemic index diet rather than limiting carbs to 18 grams, but that's possible.
Just today I've watched very interesting and thought provoking interview with Ori Hofmekler, who among other things basically says that the way to increase health and longevity is to lower
insulin as much as possible (beans immediately spanng to my mind after hearing this), which is
done, in part,
by correct food combining (or rather separation).
You could lower the glucose response
by diet, but you didn't necessarily lower the
insulin response.
* Since our body could CARE A LESS about calories, and is DOMINATED
by the hormones
Insulin and Cortisol,
does «food» like this undo a good day?
Knowing this, and putting 2 and 2 together and using common sense, obviously protein
does not spike
insulin when eating it
by itself or adding it to carbs.
Not only
did they recognize it, but they've come out with some very powerful policy statements targeting sugar, and recognizing that the metabolic syndrome, which is the soil out of which diabetes and heart disease rose, is fueled
by insulin resistance.
By getting into or very near Nutritional Ketosis this has the effect of lowering
insulin & increasing
insulin sensitivity so the body
does not lose significant capability to quickly metabolize carbs / sugars when ingested during training or competition.
It
does this
by helping glucose enter cells without forcing the pancreas to pump out more
insulin.
This idea is supported
by animal studies, showing that mice without any bacteria in their intestines had lower amounts of body fat, and
did not become obese or
insulin resistant when put on a high - fat diet.