I’m not saying this for the clicks, or the links, or the fame. I’m telling you this because it’s the truth.
If you’re someone who struggles with insulin sensitivity, or is struggling, but are among the 67% of people who have no idea that they are, than you need to read this, as it could be the difference between used to struggle, and currently having to inject insulin.
But before I get into why I’m saying this with as much brashness as you will see, let’s go over some words and definitions so we are all on the same page (Hint if you want to skip all of the reading, you can watch my YouTube video at the bottom of the page)
What is Insulin, why should you be sensitive to it?
For simplicities sake, Insulin is a hormone that your body makes, and send into your blood to grab sugar when it is either LOW or there is a WHOLE BUNCH in there.
The degree in which you LACK sensitivity to sugar is the degree in which you are diabetic. No bueno.
We want to be as sensitive to diabetic as a baby is to taking away their blankey or favorite doll.
What happens if you lack Insulin sensitivity for a long time?
Bad things happen to good people.
To start, just a bit of tingly in your toes and finger tips, that eventually gets to no feeling, that eventually getting them chopped off.
If you enjoy your eye sight, you definitely don’t want increase your insulin sensitivity, because it destroys your eye sight as well.
Stick around there long enough, without medical intervention with either injectable insulin (not to mention the cost of being diabetic aka having LOW insulin sensitivity, costs American’s on average 19,000+ per year ) and you’ll go into a diabetic coma until your very last breath unless a doctor has anything to do with it.
and if you think being healthy is expensive, this is far more expensive, and makes your life go from full of opportunity to a straight lie of “this is your destiny”
So who’s lying and why should you listen to me?
Keep in mind, this is America, and i’m only teaching you stuff, not advising you to do NOTHING, HOWEVER….
Here is what the biggest heads in the “insulin sensitivity coach” space are trying to tell you,
Avoid ALL carbohydrates, even making enemies out of the Tomatoes and Carrots, in the name lowering your A1C.
S#&T. Forgot to tell you what that was.
Real quick, A1C, in simplist form, is the 90 day average of your blood sugar.
This, along with a fastest glucose tolerance test, are the 2 tests to determine how diabetic someone is.
BUT here’s the kicker, Your A1C WILL be lower.. not because you are LESS Diabetic… But because you have had LESS CARBOHYDRATES TO MAKE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR GO UP!
It’s kind of like getting bit by sharks once a month, and then never again… because you just stopped going into the ocean.
Are you any less of a silly goose by not going into the ocean? NO.. You have been bit by sharks more than most of people so the result of NOT GETTING BIT BY SHARKS doesn’t determine your full silly goose…ness.
In other words.
It’s a pour, yet often used measure, to determine if you are diabetic or not.
Also take XYZ Carb crusher product that just gives you really bad diahrea when you eat anything.
With a side of high heart rate and gittery-ness this’ll get people convinced that they are burning fat, and doing something!
WRONG.
And after helping 100’s of clients who were pre-diabetic, to not, and having clients who were type 2 diabetic, to no longer showing ANY symptoms of diabetes, and the ONLY thing that changed was following these 3 things.. I might be on to something
The 3 Things You ACTUALLY can do to Increase Your Insulin Sensitivity
- Food.
So yes, what you eat IS important, but do you need to avoid anything that has a carbohydrate in it? HELL NO!
Should you avoid eating an entire cake? Yes.
Monitor your blood sugar, and steer clear of higher glycemic index carbohydrates for a while, that’ll be very helpful as your blood sugar won’t spike so high, so fast. - Drop some LBS.
Not because I said so, science does. By losing some excess fat, your body is less inflammed, which causes excess disorder in how your body works. You can even follow my 30 LB Body Breakthrough Blueprint, where I show you the exact steps I use to help my clients lose 30 lbs. - The most important, High Intensity Interval Training.
By forcing your body to go above your Lactate threshold (your bodies limit to intake oxygen to support your bodies movement), which further forces your body to use carbohydrates as energy (which is blood sugar)
Doing things as simple as 20 seconds of movement, 10 seconds of rest, for 8 rounds (4 TOTAL minutes of work created by Dr. Tabata) of push ups, squats, jumping jacks, and sit ups. Follow these workouts here if you’re wanting to try them out
You can see an increase in insulin sensitivity of 40% Post Exercise for up to 2 hours after just 1 bout.
Continuing to do that will further your bodies ability to feel for when it needs to get sugar from the blood, or from your stores to use.