In this episode we discuss:
- Why insulin resistance and diabetes are not caused by excess carbohydrate consumption and are not actually an insulin signaling problem
- The problems with the idea of metabolic flexibility, earning your carbs, and the carb-insulin model of obesity
- Why carbs are beneficial even for people who have insulin resistance or diabetes
- The role of fat burning and stress in driving insulin resistance
- Specific diet, movement, and supplement recommendations to reverse insulin resistance and diabetes
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Timestamps:
0:00 – intro
1:14 – metabolic flexibility, earning your carbs, the carb-insulin model of obesity, and dispelling other common insulin resistance myths
7:48 – low-carb, keto, and carnivore diets may improve symptoms but are not the solution for insulin resistance
13:13 – what the mainstream views of insulin resistance gets wrong when it comes to what causes insulin resistance
15:50 – why you might not want to use a continuous glucose monitor and the unnecessary fear of blood glucose spikes
17:48 – whether insulin is harmful and whether we want to keep insulin levels as low as possible
22:15 – whether we can restore optimal insulin sensitivity without low-carb diets
25:16 –the bioenergetic view of insulin resistance
27:12 – insulin resistance as an adaptive evolutionary process that is crucial for survival
31:22 – the difference between physiological and pathological insulin resistance
34:40 – how inhibited glucose oxidation causes insulin resistance
40:46 – how fatty acid oxidation causes increased production of ROS, slows cellular respiration, and blocks glucose oxidation (The Randle Cycle)
51:06 – the harms of ROS production from fatty acid oxidation and other forms of stress
53:04 – insulin resistance as an energy deficient state
54:19 – insulin resistance is not an insulin signaling problem, it’s an energy production problem
58:30 – the role of stress hormones (like cortisol) in insulin resistance
1:02:09 – how insulin and carbohydrates decrease stress
1:05:59 – how to fix insulin resistance and restore insulin sensitivity by fixing our capacity to produce energy
1:10:38 – specific diet, movement, and supplementation recommendations for insulin resistance and diabetes
1:17:55 – why you don’t need to tailor your carb intake to your carb tolerance
The Energy Balance Podcast