Monday, February 10, 2014

The Need To Reverse Insulin Resistance

By Eliza Mendoza


The need to reverse insulin resistance as a medical syndrome, has never reached such heights as it does today. This is because a great number of people who are diabetic are already showing symptoms of this phenomenon. This is a disturbing trend because this syndrome is usually a precursor of type II diabetes and related diseases. Therefore, ways of reversing it have a potentially great preventive value.

The functions of this hormone within the body have to be fully understood in order to comprehend this problem. First of all, it is a hormone secreted in the pancreas and its purpose is to aid cell receptors capture glucose molecules from the blood stream. The pancreas cells first detect glucose in the blood and then release it so that the body can harness energy from the blood sugars. If this mechanism fails then it is termed as insulin resistance.

There are a number of ways to undo this phenomenon. Physical exercise is the most recommended way as most people suffering from this condition are overweight or obese. This is because excess fat tissue has excess glucose within and this leads the pancreas to produce excess amounts of the hormone in order to counter balance it. If they stay inactive, these levels continue to increase resulting in the health issues stated above.

Affected people should change and carefully program their diets. First, intakes of foods that have a reputation of high sugar levels should be avoided at all costs.Consuming a balanced diet will efficiently maximize the burning of glucose in an individual's body therefore bringing the desired balance of this hormone and glucose levels.

One should also take appropriate nutritional supplements. These supplements have various remarkable abilities that lower the hormone levels and blood sugars. For example, the Gymnema herb has the ability to aid in the regeneration of cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin. Another example is cinnamon, which has the double advantage of significantly increasing the metabolism of glucose and aiding people in losing weight.

A high correlation exists between stress levels and insulin resistance. It is therefore ideal to regularly manage stressful situation in order to rein in its effects. These effects can be very debilitating because they routinely disrupt various body metabolisms. Mostly, stress leads to rapid and irregular increases in blood sugars thereby sending different wrong messages to the pancreas cells. This can permanently damage the pancreas.

Lastly, doctors should simply recommend various pharmaceutical drugs to these patients. Obviously, it should be used as the last resort because drugs treat the symptoms instead of the cause. They also pose more threat to the individuals by subjecting them to more weight gain and high risk of heart failures. However, new drugs are produced currently that have less of these effects.

These are all preventive methods that should be adapted for the mitigation of the effects stated above. Failure to early reverse insulin resistance leads to difficulties in the protection and saving of lives. This is because diabetes subjects deadly effects to the patients.




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