Ep.13 – What is Diabetes and Insulin?
This week:
- Why there so much said about insulin
- What diabetes is and why we want to avoid it
- What insulin does in our body
- The startling growth rates of diabetes
- Studies showing how excess insulin essentially requires us to gain fat
- Why insulin is not bad, it’s that too much insulin is bad
- Why eating less doesn’t necessarily help us avoid excess insulin nor diabetes
- How overeating is not the cause of obesity but a symptom of our hormonal clog
- Understand and avoid internal starvation
- The actual cause of obesity
- How to avoid leaking calories into your fat cells
- How obesity is actually a lifesaving response to eating an inSANE diet
- How eating SANE food and exercising smarter can reduce or eliminate the need for medication in ~80% of diabetics
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Jonathan Bailor
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Related Resources:
- Simple Science: How Excess Insulin Makes Us Fat
- Calories Aren’t All That Matter…Ask Anyone Taking Insulin
- How to Avoid Starving and Gaining Fat Simultaneously
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I wondering why you don´t think “undereating” also depends on insane food and hormonal clog, I think undereating and overeating have the same root.
Hi Mari – Interesting! Could you expand on that thought? – Jonathan Bailor
Another informative brilliant podcast. You explained the phenomenon of gaining body fat which Gary Taubes reviewed in his 2 books ” Good Calories Bad Calories” and “Why we get Fat and what to do about it”. Your block diagram was extremely helpful to explain these often misunderstood concepts even more eloquently than Gary Taubes did for a slow learner like myself. The 4 steps to the SYMPTOM of Gaining Body Fat was is extremely informative. Excellent job!
Cheers DoctorJohn
Thank you DoctorJohn! This one can certainly be a bit of a mind bender so it’s wonderful to hear that I made some sense :) Any sharing is appreciated and thank you again for your ongoing support!
- Jonathan Bailor
Hi Jonathan! I’m new to the podcast and am catching up on some of the older episodes. What great information! I’m really enjoying the information and the focus on science, rather than fad.
My question is: If your body has become insulin resistant, is there anything you can do to essentially turn back that clock? If you eat a “SANE” diet, will your insulin resistance start to go away/go back to “normal,” or are you doomed for life to always have a harder time losing weight because of the extra insulin your body will produce?
Give me some hope, please!! :-)
Liz
Hi Liz! Thank you for reaching out and for your kind words! To make sure other readers can benefit from our QnA could you post this as a public discussion in the SSoS Support Group at: http://thesmarterscienceofslim.com/community
Thanks for your support!
- Nichole Cameron
The Smarter Science of Slim