This is a YouTube video titled "Insulin Resistance Warning Signs You Need To Know" containing a monologue or informational talk recorded in 2025, discussing how to identify insulin resistance through symptoms such as high blood pressure, family history of type 2 diabetes, and specific skin conditions like acanthosis nigricans and skin tags.
How do I know if I have insulin resistance? If you have just been told you have high blood pressure, insulin resistance is the most common cause of idiopathic or just run of the mill hypertension. So if you have hypertension, that's definitely a check in favor of you having insulin resistance. If you have a family member with type 2 diabetes, you're on that spectrum as well. Maybe the final one of the symptoms is the skin itself, where there are two distinct skin manifestations that are a direct result of insulin resistance. One is called acanthosis nigricans, and the other one is skin tags. Skin tags is a little more obvious where it's not a big rounded mole, it's a teeny little bump. And then the more complicated term I just mentioned, acanthosis nigricans, the skin can get a little darker. The skin will also start to have a texture and appearance of, like, crinkled tissue paper.
