| We hear a lot about insulin resistance, but | | | | still producing a lot of insulin on his own, |
| stop and think a little bit, do you think our | | | | then we were able to measure his own insulin |
| cells only become resistant to insulin? The | | | | and it was still elevated, and then it took a |
| more hormones your cells are exposed to, the | | | | long time, maybe six months or longer to |
| more resistant they will become to almost any | | | | bring that insulin down.It will probably |
| hormone. Certain cells more than others, so | | | | never get to the point of the sensitivity of |
| there is a discrepancy. The problem with | | | | a ten year old, but yes, your number of |
| hormone resistance is that there is a | | | | insulin receptors increases, and the activity |
| dichotomy of resistance, that all the cells | | | | of the receptors, the chemical reactions that |
| don't become resistant at the same time.And | | | | occur beyond the receptor occur more |
| different hormones affect different cells, | | | | efficiently.You can increase sensitivity by |
| and the rate of hormone is different among | | | | diet, that is one of the major reasons you |
| different cells and this causes lots of | | | | want to take Omega 3 oils. We think of |
| problems with the feedback mechanisms. We | | | | circulation as that which flows through |
| know that one of the major areas of the body | | | | arteries and veins, and that is not a minor |
| that becomes resistant to many feedback loops | | | | part of our circulation, but it might not |
| is the hypothalamus. The various | | | | even be the major part. The major part of |
| interrelationships there I really don't have | | | | circulation is what goes in and out of the |
| time to go in to here.But hypothalamic | | | | cell.The cell membrane is a fluid mosaic. The |
| resistance to feedback signals plays a very | | | | major part of our circulation is determined |
| important role in aging and insulin | | | | by what goes in and out. It doesn't make any |
| resistance because the hypothalamus has | | | | difference what gets to that cell if it can't |
| receptors for insulin too. I mentioned that | | | | get into the cell. We know that one of the |
| insulin stimulates sympathetic nervous | | | | major ways that you can affect cellular |
| system, it does so through the hypothalamus, | | | | circulation is by modulating the kinds of |
| which is the center of it all."Insulin is by | | | | fatty acids that you eat. So you can increase |
| far your biggest poison." You may find an | | | | receptor sensitivity by increasing the |
| excellent source of insulin information at: | | | | fluidity of the cell membrane, which means |
| overcome-diabetes.comThe receptors | | | | increasing the omega 3 content, because most |
| self-regulate.If you want to know if insulin | | | | people are very deficient.They say that you |
| sensitivity can be restored to its original | | | | are what you eat and that mostly pertains to |
| state, well, perhaps not to its original | | | | fat because the fatty acids that you eat are |
| state, but you can restore it to the state of | | | | the ones that will generally get incorporated |
| about a ten year old.One of my first | | | | into the cell membrane. The cell membranes |
| experiences with this, I had a patient who | | | | are going to be a reflection of your dietary |
| literally had sugars over 300. He was taking | | | | fat and that will determine the fluidity of |
| 200+ units of insulin, he was a bad | | | | your cell membrane. You can actually make |
| cardiovascular patient, and it only made | | | | them over fluid.If you eat too much and you |
| sense to me that you don't want to feed these | | | | incorporate too many omega 3 oils then they |
| people carbohydrates, so I put him on a low | | | | will become highly oxidizable (so you have to |
| carbohydrate diet.He was an exceptional case, | | | | eat Vitamin E as well and monounsaturates as |
| after a month to six weeks he was totally off | | | | well) There was an interesting article |
| of insulin. He had been on 200 some units of | | | | pertaining to this where they had a breed of |
| insulin for twenty-five years. He was so | | | | rat that was genetically susceptible to |
| insulin resistant, one thing good about it is | | | | cancer.What they did was they fed them a high |
| that when you lower that insulin, that | | | | omega 3 diet, plus iron, without any extra |
| insulin is having such little effect on him | | | | Vitamin E and they were able to almost shrink |
| that you can massively lower the insulin and | | | | down the tumors to nothing, because tumors |
| its not going to have much of an effect on | | | | are rapidly dividing. This is like a form of |
| his blood sugar either. 200 units of insulin | | | | chemotherapy, and the membranes that were |
| is not going to lower your sugar any more | | | | being formed in these tumor cells were very |
| that 300 mg/deciliter.You know that the | | | | high in omega three oils, the iron acted as a |
| insulin is not doing much. So we could | | | | catalyst for that oxidation, and the cells |
| rapidly take him off the insulin and he was | | | | were exploding from getting oxidized so |
| actually cured of his diabetes in a matter of | | | | rapidly. So omega 3 oils can be a double |
| weeks. So he became sensitive enough, he was | | | | edged sword. |