Hi Aggressivefatloss.com Lovers,
There are signs that you’re insulin resistant. You just need to pay attention to them.
As I was on my journey to becoming 100lbs overweight, I wish I had been able to see my glucose levels in real-time…. that would’ve been interesting to watch.
It would’ve warned me as to how much damage I was doing to my body, and I probably would have begun my transformation much sooner than I initially did… (nowadays I wear a continuous glucose monitor).
Just as a refresher, when you consume glucose (carbs), insulin is the hormone that shuttles the glucose out of your bloodstream and into your cells where it can be used for energy.
But when we overwhelm our insulin receptors and shut them down, it means that insulin can no longer be released into the bloodstream to handle the glucose…
Resulting in high glucose levels and…
Insulin Resistance
I probably did some irreparable damage to my own body when I was overweight… my glucose levels were so high that I became prediabetic and was practically insulin resistant as a result.
I was only in my twenties. Not a good start.
But being able to measure your blood glucose levels can be extremely useful for prediabetics and healthy individuals as it can give us information about how the food we are eating is affecting our glucose dynamics, and helps to avoid the risk of developing diabetes.
Monitoring your glucose is essentially an educational course about your own metabolism…
Having someone tell you that you shouldn’t have a sugar-laden soda is one thing, but seeing directly on the screen of your phone what happens inside your own body when you do drink a soda is a completely different – and invaluable – experience.
It’s why this study from Diabetes Care found that self-monitoring of glucose levels improved diabetic outcomes (lowered glucose levels) and food choices!
Getting an insight into your body helps you to understand how your own body responds to food!
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Testing to see if you have abnormal glucose levels is without a doubt the best way to go, but there are 5 telltale signs that your body might be venturing onto the path of insulin resistance…
Sign #1 – Weight Gain/Difficulty Losing Weight
Aside from making poor food choices, research shows that aging comes with a decreased ability to regulate glucose and an increased likelihood of developing insulin resistance…
And, unfortunately, insulin resistance causes damage to our mitochondria, due to an increase in reactive oxygen species, and this results in decreased beta-oxidation abilities, which is a fancy way of saying our body becomes worse at mobilizing and eventually burning our stored fat!
In more simple terms, when there’s a lot of excess insulin and glucose in our bloodstream, it signals our body to put that excess glucose into storage, meaning that our body is permanently switched into “storage” mode, making weight gain easy and weight loss difficult!
With each year that passes, I refer to my glucose monitor more and more; it provides me with such invaluable data showing how my body changes year after year.
Sign #2 – High Blood Pressure
High levels of glucose can damage the lining of our blood vessels, making it easier for things like cholesterol to become attached to the walls of our blood vessels…
And when this happens, your blood vessels harden, driving your blood pressure up.
If I’d had access to a glucose monitor back when I was a 100lbs overweight, I could’ve used my high glucose readings as an indicator that my blood pressure was also elevated (which it was)!
Sign #3 – Frequent Urination & Thirst
When you have excess glucose floating around in your blood, your kidneys are forced to work overtime to filter and absorb the excess glucose…
But eventually your kidneys become overwhelmed, and the excess glucose is excreted into your urine, dragging along fluids with it, making you dehydrate.
This, as you can probably guess, leaves you feeling thirsty.
But the more liquids you drink, the more you excrete… which can be a difficult cycle to break.
When I learned this a lightbulb went off in my head. It explains why I was alway running to the bathroom when I was overweight…
Sign #4 – Brain Fog
Glucose is the brain’s primary source of fuel, but too much, per research from Diabetes Care, impairs information-processing speed, working memory, and attention in those with type 2 diabetes…
What’s even more scary, however, is that additional research from Neurology found that blood glucose levels which were above normal range, but had not yet progressed to diabetes, caused brain fog and impaired learning ability and memory consolidation.
Nowadays, if I feel lethargic after a certain type of meal, I’ll check my glucose monitor to see if I’ve responded poorly and can adjust my food choices to steer clear of foods that make my brain sluggish.
It’s all about figuring out what works and DOESN’T work for YOU.
Sign #5 – Worsening Vision
Blurred vision occurs more often when insulin resistance has progressed quite a bit… but even so, it’s worth mentioning that chronically high levels of glucose can pull fluid from the lenses of your eyes, drying them out and making it so that your eyes can’t properly focus on whatever you may be looking at…
If this is something you’ve noticed, it may well be worth checking your glucose readings to see if your vision could be related to your diet.
I truly hope that this bit of information can prove useful for you.
If you are experiencing any of these signs, it may well be worth measuring your glucose levels for a time to see if your body is responding poorly to your diet. If not, well, you should probably consult with your doctor to understand what’s going on and get professional help.
Either way, I do recommend that everyone, regardless of your current health status, try a glucose monitor for a time. It really does provide you with unique insight into how your body is responding to not only food, but to stress, sleep, and many, many more variables that life throws our way!
You can also just use a regular glucose monitor and prick your finger from time to time, it just gets a bit old when you’re doing it all the time. So if you do go the Continuous Monitor route, definitely use Signos so that you can get all the cool features that come with it (plus save 20% with code THOME22 right here)
Cheers to No More Brain Fog,
Aggressivefatloss.com
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