This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

Through education, motivation and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and

doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential.

Let's get started.

Hello, hello and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast.

I am your host, Elizabeth Benton and I'm very excited that you are checking out this

episode that I think is going to be a fantastic blend of some science and some real practical

tips for you to make food choices that are going to accelerate your fat loss.

And the way that they do this is by improving your hormonal balance and the foods or really

the ingredients that we are going to be talking about today, help with insulin specifically.

Now let's do a quick two minute insulin primer.

I've talked a lot about insulin on the show before but I think it is very important when

it comes to fat loss that we understand why balancing our insulin response and really

improving our responsiveness to insulin is so important for fat loss.

So first of all, insulin is a hormone and fat loss is all about your hormones.

Insulin's job is to usher nutrients, whether it's sugar or proteins or you name it from

your blood during the metabolic process into your cells where they are needed for fuel.

Okay.

Insulin is going to be most responsive to sugar in the blood because sugar cannot just linger

in your blood.

It can't stay there and hang out forever because it comes very toxic.

So insulin's job is it is this usher.

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