Could a little bump on a blood vessel be the reason you’re insulin resistant ?
Insulin needs wide blood vessels to work, but widening blood vessels causes blood pressure to drop – the…
It’s time diabetics stop seeing insulin as a knight in shining armour
SUGAR is the enemy and INSULIN is the saviour. The “success” of bariatric surgery, as a treatment for…
Metabolic syndrome begins when insulin isn’t removed efficiently
Slower insulin removal results in more insulin entering the circulation. Since more insulin is getting up to mischief,…
The diabetes timeline does not start with TOO MUCH FAT
The story of diabetes is always written like this…. you put on weight, become insulin resistant, then eventually…
You want LESS, not MORE insulin, in type 2 diabetes
Normal mice, fed a normal diet but given, EXCESS insulin, develop type 2 diabetes. More insulin is NOT…
Insulin has your body’s fire chief tied up – this causes inflammation
Low grade inflammation, is responsible for the metabolic upheavals of insulin resistance. Putting the fire out, should be…
Our sweet tooth is making mosquitoes sick which is not good news
More sugar, means more insulin – when mosquitoes bite, they get a mouthful of insulin leading to a…
Stress less by spicing up
Spicing up your dinner is a rather pleasant way to relieve a little of this oxidative stress, so…
More muscle knocks out insulin resistance
Insulin resistance happens when your cells hire a locksmith to change the locks on the glucose gates. Muscle…
Liposuction feels like the fat problem is fixed but it isn’t
If you’ve fantasized about hooking yourself up to a fat sucking vacuum cleaner and sucking your fat out…