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I want to talk about how you test for insulin resistance.

Well, first let's talk about what insulin is.

Insulin is a hormone that prevents the sugar from building up too high in your blood.

So if you're consuming too many carbohydrates and your sugar goes too high, insulin comes in there

and removes it to keep the blood sugars at a constant level. And so normally sugar is used as fuel.

But in insulin resistance, this sugar is converted into fat because one of the purposes of insulin

is to prevent fat burning and encourage fat storing. So anytime we have insulin resistance,

we have a situation where this insulin is not working, so your body has to compensate.

So it's going to keep making more and more insulin. That excess insulin is going to really just

cause a lot of storage and prevent you from actually burning that glucose.

So with insulin resistance, the carbohydrates are not burned or oxidized very easily.

Instead, they are shunted to the liver where they start to develop fat within the liver.

And so there's many different clues if you have insulin resistance.

Number one, if you have high levels of triglycerides in your blood.

Number two, if you have high LDL, specifically in the small dense particles.

Okay. The way you would determine that is through an advanced lipid profile test.

Another very good way to determine if you have insulin resistance is if you have a carb intolerance.

So what are the symptoms of carb intolerance? Well, you don't do well with carbohydrates.

You start gaining weight with too many carbs. Your blood sugars either go too high or too

low, depending what's happening with insulin. You have bloating after you consume carbohydrates.

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