Nick Norwitz explains that insulin resistance isn't total failure but selective: your muscles and liver stop taking up glucose, but your liver keeps making fat from carbs. The fix is straightforward—eat fewer carbs to lower insulin and let your body recover.
If you understand what I say in the next 90 seconds, you'll understand insulin resistance better than most doctors and how to handle it with diet. When you hear insulin resistance, you probably assume your organs and pathways are all resistant to insulin, right? Actually, no. Insulin resistance is selective, meaning it impacts certain pathways more than others. And that's the worst-case scenario. And here's why. When you eat carbs, insulin rises and it tells your body to do 3 things: clear glucose entering your blood into your muscles, tell the liver To stop making more glucose because you just ate it from this candy bar and tell your liver to start making some fat from the carbs. The cruel twist is that pathways 1 and 2 that I just described become far more resistant to insulin than pathway 3. So when your body spills more insulin into the blood to compensate for insulin resistance, that make more fat signal at the liver gets overstimulated. And the ultimate result is your muscles being Insulin resistant, don't clear the sugar and it lingers in your blood. And your liver, on top of that, makes excess sugar and makes excess fat, like it's trying to make a milkshake. But the good news is if you understand this, then there's a solution, an obvious solution. Just cut the carbs and lower the insulin. And when you do that over time, the body can start to recover. And this isn't just my opinion. It has been demonstrated in calorie-controlled human randomized trials. And I'll link to more detailed free information below. But now, How many doctors do you think really understand this?
