Insulin Resistance With Long-Term Ketogenic Diet

There is a problem with the phrase insulin resistance in my opinion and that's where a lot of this confusion comes from. You cannot just be on a ketogenic diet for a year and then wake up one day and go do an OG TT you are going to look like a raging diabetic when you might actually be in excellent perfect health. Your body is so accustomed to burning mostly fatty acids mostly ketones and just Internally producing whatever small amount of glucose it needs that when you all of a sudden drink 75 or 100 grams of liquid glucose Your body doesn't know what to do with it. And so it's known It's not known among everybody but it's known among all the keto doctors

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