Insulin Resistance

#1

I got this from Marksdailyapples latest post. I would be interested in your thoughts.

  1. Go low carb, but not too low carb.

Huh? Isn’t low-carb the greatest and most effective path to insulin sensitivity? Partly because it’s often the easiest way to lose weight, low-carb eating can and usually does improve insulin sensitivity. But when you go very low carb, low enough to start relying primarily on ketones and free fatty acids for energy, your peripheral tissues enter an insulin-resistant state to preserve glucose for the parts of the brain that require it. This is normal, and as long as you don’t try to eat a high-fat, high-carb diet, this physiological insulin resistance should pose no harm.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

I don’t know about tissues’ going insulin-resistant; that sounds wrong. I do know that the body manufactures what little glucose the brain absolutely has to have, and that apart from that minimum of glucose, the brain is fine metabolizing beta hydroxybutyrate for all the rest of its needs.