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Insulin Resistance And Low Testosterone

Did you know that the root cause of many chronic illnesses is inflammation and more precisely, chronic inflammation? What’s also interesting is that most chronic illnesses are triggered by insulin resistance. We need to be insulin sensitive to be healthy and to be producing healthy levels of testosterone. Insulin resistance is linked to low testosterone. It occurs when your cells get to a stage when they are no longer receptive to insulin. The reason this happens is because you’ll have been exposed to elevated levels of insulin, consistently, over a long period of time. This is why leads to type-2 diabetes and type-3 diabetes and inflammation and that leads to serious illnesses. Fear not, it’s not hard to build back your sensitivity to insulin as the video below explains.

Unfortunately, much of what we consume in our modern diet triggers a very sharp blood sugar spike every time, and it’s continues blood sugar spikes that lead to continues insulin spikes. In case you didn’t know, insulin is your body’s primary fat storying hormone. One of its functions is to prevent the blood from becoming toxic. When you consume high GI carbs and sugar (from the likes of common breakfast cereals, bread, pasta and rice), your blood sugars spike rapidly. Your pancreas secretes insulin and extracts the excess glucose from your blood to prevent it from becoming toxic and deposits it into either your liver stores, fat stores or muscle stores. In our modern day environment, with very little physical activity, our liver and muscle stores are normally full, and the excess blood sugar gets converted into fat. That’s it in layman’s terms.  Here’s an interesting citing about insulin resistance and how it affects testosterone levels.

Low Testosterone and Diabetes: What’s the Link?

Low testosterone levels in men are associated with insulin resistance or reduced insulin sensitivity, says Ahmer Farooq, DO, assistant professor of urology at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill.

When you have insulin resistance, your body produces insulin but doesn’t use it properly. As a result, glucose builds up in your blood rather than being absorbed by cells. Insulin resistance can lead to type 2 diabetes and increase your risk for a number of health problems, including heart disease.

A study published in 2013 in the journal BioMed Research International found that low testosterone levels may help predict if a man will develop insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes in the future. According to the researchers, in a group of more than 300 obese and non-obese men, 44 percent had both type 2 diabetes and low testosterone, compared with 33 percent who had low testosterone but did not have diabetes. The researchers also noted that 25 percent of those with type 2 diabetes and low testosterone were not obese, concluding that low testosterone is linked to insulin resistance regardless of body weight.

Yet, body weight can be a factor. A 2010 study published in the journal Diabetes Care found an inverse relationship between body mass index (BMI) and testosterone levels in men with type 2 diabetes. That means that as a man’s BMI increases, his testosterone level falls. Obesity may also be a reversible risk factor for low testosterone levels.

Research also suggests that low testosterone could be a complication of type 2 diabetes involving the pituitary gland. A 2004 study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that one-third of 103 men with type 2 diabetes had low levels of what’s called free testosterone, or testosterone circulating in the blood that is not bound to a protein called sex hormone binding globulin. Researchers also found that the pituitary glands of these men were not producing enough luteinizing hormone, the hormone that triggers the production of testosterone in the testes.

The great news is that if you do have type-2 diabetes, it’s completely reversible with diet and physical activity, and also intermittent fasting as mentioned last week.
Check out how to reverse type-2 diabetes. It’s a dietary disease which means it’s purely triggered by your diet. This means it’s reversible with diet most of the time:

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  1. Jeff miller

    February 28, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    Very excellent video love it!!
    I love learning new things all the time thank you.,
    I’m a health expert in cancer. But consistently growing in my education by learning other things.
    I cured my own testicular cancer about 2 years ago. I’m still cancer free today.
    I don’t have a website right now working on it.
    Will have one up soon!

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    • Neil

      February 29, 2016 at 7:55 pm

      Glad you liked it Jeff. What’s your favourite type of information?

      Reply

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