The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons

and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Hi, Brad Kern's reading today's post titled,

Do Low Carb Diets Cause Insulin Resistance?

A few weeks back in the How to Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity Post, which you can listen to on the channel, I apparently dropped a bit

of a bombshell that very low-carb diets can induce insulin resistance. Many of you wrote to me

asking about the effects of low-carb dieting on

insulin sensitivity and wondering whether you should begin eating more carbohydrates to counter it.

Well, maybe, but there's a right way and a wrong way to eat carbs if you're low-carb. The wrong

way is to just add a ton of carbohydrates on top of your low-carb primal eating plan without changing anything else.

Doing that, especially in perpetuity, will likely lead to weight gain hyperinsulinemia and even more insulin resistance, bad all around.

Now, many people are perfectly happy on a perpetually low-carb diet.

I function quite well on a low, but not very low, glucose diet,

hovering around 100 to 150 grams a day and often dipping below that.

I might go even lower if I didn't love vegetables and berries so much.

But assuming you're experiencing physiological insulin resistance caused by a very low-carb

or ketogenic diet, what happens when you do want to incorporate carbohydrates into your diet?

What if you want to pursue high-intensity training or high-performance goals that your current

diet isn't supporting? What if you'd like to try out a few more carbs on your

ketogenic diet? Is such a thing even possible? What if you need to take and pass an oral glucose

tolerance test? How do you eat the carbs, get the benefits, and avoid or limit the negative effects

that normally accompany carb consumption in an insulin-resistant state.

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