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What is Insulin Resistance? 🩸 #InsulinResistance #BloodSugar

25 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief explanatory segment, Dr. Anne Truong describes insulin resistance. She outlines the normal process: after eating, the pancreas releases insulin, which enables glucose from food to enter cells, lowering blood sugar. She then explains that in insulin resistance, despite insulin being released, glucose fails to be absorbed into cells, remaining in the bloodstream. This persistent high blood sugar leads to elevated hemoglobin A1C levels, the clinical hallmark of insulin resistance.

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What insulin resistance means is that when you eat, like, say bread, or when you eat, like, sweet, your body will release out insulin from the pancreas into the blood, and then the blood sugar that is dissolved by the food then goes into the cell. However, insulin resistance means that when the insulin is secreted into your blood from the pancreas, the blood sugar doesn't get absorbed. It just kind of hangs in there in the blood. So that way the blood sugar seems high, and that's what kind of gives you that high hemoglobin A1C or the high blood sugar count. And that condition is called insulin resistance.