Sentences with phrase «driven by insulin resistance»

High testosterone levels are driven by insulin resistance resulting from persistently high sugar consumption.

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This alternative hypothesis of obesity implies that the ongoing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (which stems to great extent from insulin resistance) are largely driven by the grains and sugars in our diets.

Rigorous Experiments In the past 20 years significant evidence has accumulated to suggest that these diet doctors may have been right, that the hormone hypothesis is a viable explanation for why we get fat and that insulin resistance, driven perhaps by the sugars in the diet, is a fundamental defect not just in type 2 diabetes but in heart disease and even cancer.

The point is that their insulin is driven largely by resistance and not their diet.

Homeostasis you mention has a set point; it clearly has been reset to the lower number during weight loss drive, by lowering insulin resistance / insulin levels, which IS the mechanism of setting that point.