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Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be talking about the topic of

insulin resistance. So I've talked about this topic before on a previous are going to be talking about the topic of insulin resistance.

So I've talked about this topic before on a previous episode.

I published an interview that I did with my friend Jordan Lips on his podcast,

the where optimal meets practical podcast.

And we went into depth on the topic of insulin resistance.

However, we talked about a variety of different things and the podcast

was quite long. It went over an hour. And what I want to do in this episode is give you a

brief overview of the topic of insulin resistance. We're going to talk about what it is,

why it's important, how to measure it and determine if you are experiencing insulin resistance

and what to do if you are experiencing insulin resistance and what to do if

you are experiencing it in order to improve your health. All right. So let's start off with

talking about what insulin resistance is because a lot of people are using this term. This has

become a bit of a buzzword on social media and elsewhere and most people are not using it correctly.

So when we eat carbohydrate-containing foods and protein-containing foods,

our body, our pancreas specifically will put out insulin in order to help the various

tissues throughout our body utilize those amino acids from the protein and the sugars

from the carbohydrates in the

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