Low Carb Down Under
Breckenridge 2017
HOMA-IR:
glucose x insulin / 405
How much insulin
does it take to
hold my
blood sugar &
fat stores
steady?
HOMA-IR:
glucose x insulin / 405
You want to be: 1.0 or lower
Over 2.5 = insulin resistant
HOMA-IR: too high...
-cardiovascular
-heart attack
-cancer
-Alzheimer's
-mortality
Abdominal fat:
-the more you have…
the more insulin resistant you are
Adipocytes can...
expand in diameter
-about 20x
-from 20 to 200 microns
-volume expands 8000x
-as get bigger...
more insulin resistant
People can reverse
insulin resistance
rapidly...
before losing weight
Original Youtube: /watch/81tH5DFQ8dJQH