#197 Improving metabolic health and insulin resistance

The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

Dr Rupy Aujla

Medicine, Healthy Eating, Improving Health, Food And Lifestyle, 868329, Healthy Recipes, Doctor's Kitchen, Mental Wellbeing, Nutritional Medicine, Lifestyle, Mindset, Dr Rupy, Wellness, Health And Wellbeing, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health Goals

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

In today’s solo episode and I’ll be talking about insulin resistance, how this impacts your risk of disease and why insulin resistance could drive many chronic conditions and why certain lifestyle measures work for improving metabolic health.

By the end of the episode you will understand:

The relationship between IR and disease

The importance of sugar balance in the body

What insulin is and how insulin works

What happens when we become resistant to insulin

What are the causes of IR

What we can do to become more insulin sensitive and ultimately prevent disease

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References:

4 grams of glucose - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636990/

IR Overview - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507839/

Insulin resistance Mechanisms - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831809/

Insulin resistance, genes and mitochondria - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7341556/

Obesity Insulin and cancer - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7214048/

Insulin resistance from euglycaemic clamps - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3379600/

Sleep debt and Insulin resistance - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10543671/

Increased snacking with poor sleep - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19056602/

Impact of sleep disorders on endocrine systems - https://dmsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13098-015-0018-3

Shorterm sleep restruction reduces insulin sensitivity in young healthy adults - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557027/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Doctor's Kitchen.
0:02.0	Restorpees, Health, Lifestyle.
0:08.0	Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast.
0:13.0	The show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today.
0:21.0	I'm Doctor Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition,
0:25.0	and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine.
0:31.0	Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants
0:36.0	of what allows you to lead your best life.
0:44.0	Today's episode is going to be all about insulin resistance,
0:49.0	how it impacts your risk of disease,
0:51.0	why insulin resistance could be driving so many chronic diseases of our lifetime,
0:56.0	of our generation, and what lifestyle measures you can do right now
1:02.0	to improve your metabolic health by increasing your insulin sensitivity
1:07.0	and reducing the likelihood of insulin resistance.
1:10.0	By the end of this podcast, you should have a good understanding,
1:15.0	not just a general understanding, but a good understanding of the importance of sugar balance in the body.
1:20.0	You'll also understand what insulin is and how it actually works,
1:25.0	and it's a lot more complicated than it just being a hormone that allows sugar to go into cells
1:31.0	in and out, all that kind of stuff that you probably already know about.
1:34.0	We're going to go into a lot more depth.
1:36.0	We're going to talk about what happens to you when you become insulin resistant,
1:40.0	I resistant to that hormone, what the causes or the proposed causes of insulin resistance are,
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