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Hi guys, I want to talk about why women get diabetes during pregnancy, okay?

This is called gestational diabetes.

What happens, late in pregnancy, there's a lot of stress going on.

You're going to get a spike in something called cortisol.

That's the adrenal stress hormone and other hormones too, which then will release protein

which converted to sugar and spike insulin, which leads to insulin resistance, okay?

So that's really a situation.

Insulin resistance is really a prediabetes situation, but when it becomes worse or more

chronic, it develops into diabetes.

So this is the mechanism that goes from cortisol, then right to insulin resistance, okay?

Now, if you take a woman who's insulin resistant and she becomes pregnant, it can worsen

that and flip right into a full-blown diabetes because of the stress that happens during

pregnancy.

Now, my advice to you is, before you become pregnant, make sure you don't have insulin resistance.

And if you do, get it fixed.

It's not hard to fix that.

I have a lot of videos on that.

You can do a search on that.

But insulin resistance will set you up for a diabetic situation while you're going through

this additional stress.

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