Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

All right, so someone wanted to know, is it possible to reverse insulin resistance and

how long does it take?

So this video is for that person.

First of all, what is insulin resistance?

It's a condition whereby the cells are no longer absorbing insulin.

So insulin is being rejected, okay?

And so in the receptor for insulin, it's just not receiving insulin anymore.

The consequence of that is this.

Without insulin, the cells can't get fuel, they can't get nutrition, so they're starving,

they're hungry, and you're craving carbohydrates.

There's a little signal sent back to the pancreas because it's not getting absorbed inside

the cell that tells the pancreas, hey, we don't have enough insulin, make more.

So the pancreas makes more and more insulin.

So an average person with insulin resistance has five to seven times more than normal.

The problem with this is that this high level of insulin creates damage in the body.

So the fact that it's not getting into the body that well, it can raise your blood

sugar.

So you got high blood sugars because the purpose of insulin is to lower the blood sugar.

So we have this dynamic of the hormone trying to do its work, but it can't, so then it

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