Ben Azadi explains how to fix insulin resistance by restricting carbs to about 50 grams daily while increasing protein and fat, teaching the body to burn fat instead of glucose. For severe cases, he recommends under 20 grams of carbs. This shift typically takes 6 to 12 weeks before reintroducing carbs.
Taking someone walking in who's metabolically unhealthy, meaning they are more insulin resistant, so they're having trouble accessing stored fat for fuel, they're really relying on having to use sugar— where would you take them? What would you do?
So the first step is to look at the 3 macronutrients, right? Keep it simple for them. We know it's carbohydrates out of the 3 macronutrients that spike glucose and insulin the most. Of course, processed carbs will spike it more than, uh, whole foods carbs, but If a person is insulin resistant, we need to restrict their carbohydrates at least in the beginning as we increase protein, one of your favorite macronutrients, and fat, right? We want to teach that metabolism to switch over to— from burning sugar to burning fat. For most people, they could get away with 50 grams of carbs per day total to make that shift. Now, if somebody's really insulin resistant, maybe type 2 diabetic, they might need to restrict it to under 20 grams of carbs per day. This is just short term, maybe for 6 to 12 weeks as the metabolism is now getting familiar with burning fat. That's the first step.
