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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / August 2008Becoming less insulin resistant?
I'm just wondering...... If you stay on a LC diet (long enough) , do you eventually become less insulin resistant? Does the body reset itself? I don't mean going back to eat sugar everyday.....but perhaps does it spike less down the road? thanx > I'm just wondering...... > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I don't mean going back to eat sugar everyday.....but perhaps does it > spike less down the road? Yes, if you low carb long enough, your insulin receptors become more efficient at using the hormone available. Susan > Yes, if you low carb long enough, your insulin receptors become more > efficient at using the hormone available. > Susan It is probably not a good idea to go back to eating sugar again as the OP indicated.  SignatureNewsoffice.de - Die Onlinesoftware zum Lesen und Schreiben im Usenet Die Signatur läßt sich nach Belieben anpassen ;-) >> Yes, if you low carb long enough, your insulin receptors become more >> efficient at using the hormone available. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > It is probably not a good idea to go back to eating sugar again as the > OP indicated. Of course not, one would just become IR again, unless they kept the total carb consumption considerably lower than it previously was. Susan > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Susan Thanks I'm sure its not the same for everyone, but roughly what are we looking at approx. 6 months or a year? Or does it adjust earlier? "Liam T." <Reproducethyself@gmail.com> wrote in > I'm sure its not the same for everyone, but roughly what are we looking at approx. 6 months or a year? Or does it adjust earlier? Once you realize what a real poison sugar really is to the body, you don't want to ingest any of it! Problem is, the food industry injects it into everything they make to give their cheap bland food some taste. > Thanks > I'm sure its not the same for everyone, but roughly what are we > looking at approx. 6 months or a year? Or does it adjust earlier? It's really hard to say, everyone's endocrine system, body and life styles are different. For me, it was 3-6 mos. But I'm still diabetic, despite being exquisitely insulin sensitive, with a fasting insulin of 5.7. In my case, it's due to pituitary/adrenal disfunction. Susan > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Susan You're propably a good person to ask this....I was thinking of getting one of those glucose monitors with the strips to see which foods make me spike. This way I would know what foods to stay away from. Is that something helpful? I also noticed on your post you quote "fasting insulin of 5.7". Is it possible to measure insulin also to see if something makes me spike? Thanks Liam > You're propably a good person to ask this....I was thinking of getting > one of those glucose monitors with the strips to see which foods make > me spike. This way I would know what foods to stay away from. Is that > something helpful? It's very helpful if you're already producing insufficient insulin, but if you're hyperinsulinemic, you can still be doing damage while preventing any spiking at all. This is often the cause of insulin resistance. Hormone receptors become less efficient in the presence of excess hormone, to avoid saturating your tissues with toxic levels of it, for one thing. > I also noticed on your post you quote "fasting insulin of 5.7". Is > it possible to measure insulin also to see if something makes me > spike? At home? No, it's not even that easy to get a clinical lab to handle your specimen properly (spinning it and freezing it in the proper time frame) enough to get an accurate result. Susan I can only report what happened to my wife. She was diagnosed with type II after taking a glucose tolerance test. That test registered 190. She has been on Atkins now for 9 years. We moved and she got a new doctor. They did a glucose tolerance test a year ago and she registered 100. Her doctor said that she must have been diagnosed with type II by mistake because the glucose tolerance test and her A1C were completely normal. My wife knows better. She knows she has type II and does not eat carbohydrates except for very complex carbs. So, I can only say that a low carb diet will put her type II in remission. All she needs to do to see it again is start eating carbs. I read about one other case like hers. A woman was diagnosed with type II at age 60 and treated with diet only. She just died of a stroke at 86. My wife sees this as reason to be optimistic about her future health. Type II does not have to mean that you must suffer the usual type II ills. > I'm just wondering...... > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > thanx |
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