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a16z Bio + Health #3: Metabolic Health with Casey Means

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Is It Possible to Improve Inslan Sensitivity Overnight?

When you eat carbohydrates, they're broken down in the blood stream into a glucose. Glucos rises in the blood, and we have to get that out of the blood stream into the cells for either use to burn for energy or to store. A and inslan is the harm s released to help us to do that. And when this happens over and over, a glucose spike and an insolan surge, if that's happening really frequently, our cells can become resistant to the effects of inslen. They actually say like, hay, there's too much of this happening. There's too much of the signal. I'm going to block the signal. That has huge implications for weight

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