By: COURTNEY SPERLAZZA, MPH
April 10, 2018
- Intermittent fasting is the best insulin resistance diet to help your cells respond to insulin.
- When your body gets the signal that you’ve eaten, beta cells in your pancreas produce insulin, a hormone that tells your cells to absorb glucose to use as fuel.
- Your cells respond by receiving the glucose from your bloodstream. This gives you the energy you need, and you don’t pack on body fat. But sometimes, this communication gets thrown off.
- Insulin resistance is when insulin tells your cells that fuel is coming, but they don’t open up to receive glucose. So, sugar stays in the bloodstream, and after a while your body stores it as fat.
- Read on to find out how intermittent fasting can fix insulin resistance. Continue reading “Reversing Insulin Resistance… with Intermittent Fasting”
