The Surprising Facts about Insulin You Never Knew
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today I want to share something about insulin that you may have never heard before and clear up some confusion regarding insulin.
The main reason why the keto diet and intermittent fasting work so well to support a healthy body is that they both help lower insulin.
However, insulin has certain benefits. This is where the confusion starts. How can insulin be harmful and also have health benefits?
Potential health benefits of insulin:
• It helps lower blood sugar levels
• It supports muscle growth
• It protects against muscle atrophy
• It supports the arteries
• It helps lower LDL cholesterol
• It helps lower blood pressure
• It lowers the production of glucose in the liver
• It supports the absorption of potassium and magnesium
• It suppresses lipolysis
• It is a potent anti-inflammatory
• It has antioxidant properties
• Insulin nasal spray is used to help people who have dementia
• It helps increases testosterone
• It helps lower uric acid
The real problem is with the insulin receptors. When the receptors become resistant, as in insulin resistance, we lose the function of insulin.
When someone has insulin resistance, they actually have an insulin deficiency. You may have excess insulin in your blood, but it’s not affecting the receptors.
A high level of insulin is what creates insulin resistance. The more you increase insulin, the less the receptors will work.
The best ways to fix insulin resistance:
1. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet
2. Start doing intermittent fasting
3. Get regular exercise
4. Reduce your stress
5. Get plenty of sleep
The best natural remedies for insulin resistance:
• Apple cider vinegar (1 Tbsp in water)
• Berberine
• Cinnamon
• Chromium
• Zinc
• Vitamin D
• Magnesium
• Potassium
• Omega-3 fatty acids
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to share something about insulin that you probably have never heard before, |
| 0:05.1 | and this is extremely revealing because most people are sitting on a confusion |
| 0:11.4 | relating to insulin. They don't even know it's a confusion. And then at the end of this, |
| 0:15.5 | everything is going to make total sense. There's a lot of great truths that you can figure out by looking in a subject that involves |
| 0:25.1 | paradoxes and conflicting information. And in this area, there's some conflicting information |
| 0:31.3 | that we need to sort out. Conflicting information is where you have fact A, conflict with fact B, right? |
| 0:40.8 | You can't have two facts that conflict, right? One of them is not a fact. So when you get these |
| 0:46.8 | conflicting facts, you just have to go deeper and just figure out what is going on. But then you |
| 0:52.3 | usually can find some really interesting information. |
| 0:54.9 | Let's talk about this in relationship to insulin. |
| 0:57.6 | The main reason why keto works, okay, for so many problems and intermittent fasting, |
| 1:04.7 | is the benefits of reducing your insulin. |
| 1:07.1 | So anytime you reduce your insulin, you get all these amazing benefits. |
| 1:11.9 | And so there's even books on hyperinsulinemia, which is a state where you have this high insulin in the blood. So even if |
| 1:18.7 | someone's a type one diabetic, they have to take a lot of insulin. And of course, the more they |
| 1:24.4 | take, the worst things are for their health, right? |
| 1:30.5 | I mean, the idea would be to take the minimal amount. |
| 1:37.4 | But if we go through the function of insulin, okay, most people do know that insulin lowers your blood sugar. |
| 1:38.5 | That's a good thing. |
| 1:41.6 | Other people might know that insulin helps your muscles grow. |
| 1:43.9 | Okay, it has an anabolic effect on your muscles. And this is why even |
| 1:44.9 | certain bodybuilders might take insulin or consume carbs to increase their insulin so they can |
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