Interview With The Mango Man on Insulin Resistance

Yesterday I had the good fortune to interview Cyrus Khambatta, PhD on how he coaches people with insulin resistance to become sensitive to insulin again. His PhD is in Nutritional Biochemistry. He is able to coach his clients out of type-2 diabetes and pre-diabetes and is able to help those with type-1, to manage their insulin far more effectively than the conventional norm.

If you have read my no.1 bestselling book, The Vitality Secret, you will know that insulin resistance and inflammation go hand in hand. You will be inflamed to have insulin resistance and being resistant to insulin makes inflammation worse.

When you are inflamed your hormones will be imbalanced. This means that if you’re a guy, and you’re inflamed, your testosterone levels will be low. If you’re a woman with hormonal problems, then inflammation will more than likely, be a leading cause of this. Inflammation is the root of almost every health condition and our Western “healthy” diet and other factors are causing it.

Type-2 diabetes is a result of when your cells become completely resistant to insulin. This is due to over exposure of your hormone insulin (also your fat storing hormone). Insulin is released by your pancreas every time you consume foods high in sugar, or that are high on the glycemic index (high GI). Insulin’s job is to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. When you take in foods that are high in sugar, and therefore trigger a very sharp blood sugar response, insulin extracts it from your blood, to prevent it from becoming toxic, and it deposits it into either your fat stores, your liver stores or your muscle stores. Since we’re mostly sedentary these days, it’s normally your fat stores that are topped up. If you’re prone to storing fat, it’s the high glycemic carbohydrates such as those made from wheat, or rice, and sugar that will be doing this to you.

Too much insulin, leads to insulin resistance. One way to reverse insulin resistance is to stop eating the things that triggered it in the first place – sugar, high fructose corn syrup (a major villain in the US) and the high GI carbs – anything made from wheat, rice (brown and white) and starchy potatoes. It doesn’t meant to never eat these foods again. It’s a great way to become insulin sensitive again, (along with intermittent fasting and even a ketogenic diet – when your body fuels on fat, not glucose from carbohydrates.)

Cyrus has an additional perspective to mine. In fact, it’s almost the opposite – AND there are some commonalities in both of our diets that you will discover right here. As Rolf Harris would say…Can you guess what it is yet? Can you guess what it is yet?

See the interview here. It’s 58 minutes so make yourself comfortable! And grab a notepad. It’s scientific.