Brigid Titgemeier uses a school-bus metaphor to explain insulin resistance. When you eat too many processed carbs, your body keeps making more insulin to push glucose into cells. Eventually cells stop listening to insulin's signals, glucose builds up in your blood, and chronic inflammation follows.
I want you to think about insulin as a school bus driver and glucose as the students. So after a meal, the bus is going to pick up the students, which is the glucose, and then deliver the students into the school, which is your cells. If you have an influx of too many students that all need to ride the bus at once, like what happens with the blood sugar spike from eating, you know, a meal that's too high in processed carbohydrates, has too many starches in general, not enough protein, or has too much added sugar, the bus will get overwhelmed, and your body then needs to produce more insulin. Col for extra buses and bus drivers. And after years of eating imbalanced meals, experiencing high levels of stress and physical inactivity, your cells will become more resistant to your insulin signals. And as insulin resistance builds, like a school security guard, your insulin receptors and your glute four transporters, they stop recognizing the students, and they refuse to let them in. So then you have a buildup of the students and nowhere for them to go, which is when you have more glucose actually in your bloodstream, that's you start to experience more of this chronic inflammation and other symptoms that take place.
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