Are you Ready to Feel Better?
Your health is a skill you can develop - you have much more control over your health and quality of life than you may think!
One area that can have a huge return on investment:
Avoiding or reversing insulin resistance
Why Avoid/ Reverse Insulin Resistance?
Insulin resistance (IR) is a precursor to many chronic diseases including prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and cancer
Risk of IR increases with increasing age over 45
It is easier to address factors that influence IR before hormone decline
How do I know if I have IR?
Knowing your current hemoglobin A1c and fasting insulin helps identify where you are relative to insulin resistance
Signs can include: abdominal weight gain, elevated fasting triglycerides, elevated fasting glucose, low HDL
How can I avoid/reverse IR?
A 14 day Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) can help you learn what your body sees as a high glycemic (sugar/simple carb) load
Identify what foods, food combinations or timing cause YOUR blood sugar to spike
Get moving - increasing physical activity, reducing abdominal weight, and increasing lean muscle all work to improve metabolic health
Wait, what is insulin resistance?
For years the body will try to keep up with high glycemic loads, using insulin to maintain normal blood levels
Early insulin resistance includes weight gain and elevated insulin levels as the body requires more insulin to manage the same load
The body produces plenty of insulin but the system to transport the glucose into the cells has become less able to respond to the constant heavy load
Baseline blood sugar levels rise and excess glucose that can’t be transported into the cells is used to make fat