HOW BEING INSULIN RESISTANT CAN PREVENT YOU FROM LOSING WEIGHT?
A major impediment to losing weight is insulin resistance. In fact, insulin resistance is far more common than just about any other condition that doctors routinely diagnose and treat – diabetes, insulinoma, insulin resistance associated with obesity and PCOS.
“I’m insulin resistant,” A lady told Dr Gundry in an office visit.
She came to this conclusion because her blood sugar was over 125mg/dL for several days in a row. He immediately asked her what she was eating and when he heard it included bread his jaw dropped. Dr Gundry told the lady.
· Bread raises blood sugar like crazy!
· insulin resistance prevents weight loss no matter how much physical activity you do or what you eat.
The above sounds strange doesn’t it but let me explain.
Insulin encourages the body to store calories as fat. When insulin levels are high, the body converts excess sugar into fat and then ships that fat out into the blood stream for storage throughout your body, especially in fat cells under the skin, but also around organs where it is one of several factors leading to “metabolically unhealthy” obesity.
Breaking insulin resistance allows insulin levels to drop so that calories are not stored as fat. New energy can be burned instead of being hidden away in fatty cells on your hips, stomach and thighs.
Back to the story. During Dr Gundry’s dietary consultation he specifically asked the lady if she ate carbohydrates like bread and she said yes. He then told her that insulin resistance is common with type 2 diabetes and it also prevents weight loss.
She had been trying to lose weight for several years and nothing worked and so when he explained insulin resistance, its impact on weight loss and how insulin can be lowered through diet, especially carbohydrates , her jaw dropped too!
“Carbs, how come” the lady asked.
Different diets work for different people but Dr Gundry’s plant-based diet addresses insulin resistance whilst also lowering insulin levels, increasing insulin sensitivity, and stabilising blood sugar levels.
It all starts with cutting out the foods that raise insulin – refined carbs such as pasta, breads, rice cakes etc., fruit juices (which give you a huge jolt of sugar) and fruit (although you can eat plenty of berries).
Dr Gundry’s diet plan encourages high insulin levels. The insulin index score is a useful guide for determining insulin response to different foods in our diet.
· insulin index score makes it easy to identify insulin raising foods
· insulin resistance prevents weight loss no matter how much physical activity you do or what you eat.
Some people are sensitive to carbs, others less so but when insulin sensitivity falls, carbs turn into fat in the abdomen – where they are most harmful .
The insulin index score is a useful guide for determining insulin response to different foods in our diet. It shows how much your pancreas has to release insulin in order to metabolise a set amount of carbs from different foods.
For instance, one slice of white bread raised insulin 36% more than the insulin required to deal with one serving (90 grams) of pure glucose sugar.
One boiled potato spiked insulin 150% higher than the insulin needed to process 1 gram of glucose. That’s enough insulin release to turn two slices of buttered toast into instant belly fat!
Did you know dairy has the same insulin index as white bread??? You don’t want to be eating that if you want your insulin levels to be normal.
The insulin index is an excellent tool for gauging how various carbohydrates affect our insulin levels. The lower the insulin response, the less insulin you need and that means that your body will be working on using energy rather than storing away excess calories as fat.
· insulin resistance prevents weight loss no matter how much physical activity you do or what you eat.
Low insulin, high insulin index score, the higher the insulin the more it stimulates your body to store calories away as fat so avoid these carbs when trying to lose weight: white bread, rice cakes, sweetened drinks like fruit juices and sweetened drinks like sports drinks.
want insulin to stay elevated for too long because eventually it will bring your blood sugar down too low don’t Most grains are insulinogenic which means that insulin goes up after you eat them. Dr Gundry’s diet plan encourages high insulin levels, and the insulin index score makes it easy to identify insulin raising foods.
The three most insulinogenic cereals: Cream of Wheat, Corn Flakes and Wheaties. These cereals don’t even rank as half as good as oatmeal which raises insulin by only 12%. This would mean you’d need more than twice as much insulin release if you ate a bowl of Cream of Wheat than you would if you ate a bowl of steel cut oats!
Bad carbs cause your insulin levels spike, whereas good carbs lower insulin levels so insulin stays in the normal range. Insulin spikes are bad news because insulin works like a key, opening cells up to glucose and depositing them into fat storage.
Lower insulin levels mean insulin resistance is less likely to develop, weight loss becomes easier, and you burn more body fat.
I know this can be confusing so I recommend reading Dr. Gundry’s book the Plant Paradox so you can get your head around how all of this works. I’ve read these books and although they do go against some of the works of other doctors at the top of their profession Dr. Gubdry’s research has produced stable findings over a twenty-year period.
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PS: the story above is not true I made it up to get the point across easier.
See also: HOW TO REVERSE HEART DISEASE WITH A PLANT-BASED DIET
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