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Exploring how your body interacts with insulin is essential for maintaining health, particularly when considering dietary interventions like the ketogenic (keto) diet. Insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity are fundamental concepts that describe your body's ability to process insulin, while the keto diet presents a potential avenue for improving insulin sensitivity and managing conditions such as diabetes. Let's delve into each of these areas to gain a deeper understanding of their significance in health and nutrition. Insulin Resistance Vs Insulin Sensitivity Insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity represent opposite ends of how your body responds to insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin Resistance This occurs when your cells don't respond properly to insulin. As a result, your pancreas produces more insulin to help glucose enter cells. Over time, this can lead to high insulin levels in the blood, which is associated wit...

Whether you are on the low end of the spectrum with pre-diabetes or higher up the scale with early type 3 diabetes, also known as Alzheimer’s disease, you can take back control of your health. There are natural steps you can take to reverse the symptoms of this group of chronic conditions. 1. Heal Your Gut Nearly 80% of your entire immune system is located in your gut, and your gut wall is only one cell layer thick, connected by a tight junction. Your gut is the foundation of your health! Your gut is naturally semi-permeable, which means these tight junctions open a tiny bit to allow micronutrients in — this is how you absorb nutrients from food.   But when we bombard our gut with inflammatory foods (especially gluten), infections, toxins, and stress, these tight junctions open up, and large molecules that were never meant to get into your bloodstream get in. Gluten is one of the main foods which can not only cause these tight junctions to open but also cause them to...

A keto diet is well known for being a low carb diet, where the body produces ketones in the liver to be used as energy. It’s referred to as many different names – ketogenic diet, low carb diet, low carb high fat (LCHF), etc. What is a Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic diet is a very low carb, high fat diet that shares many similarities with the Atkins and low carb diets. It involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat. This reduction in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis. When this happens, your body becomes incredibly efficient at burning fat for energy. It also turns fat into ketones in the liver, which can supply energy for the brain. Ketogenic diets can cause significant reductions in blood sugar and insulin levels. This, along with the increased ketones, has some health benefits. In regular diet, the body mostly uses glucose from carbohydrates for energy. In ketosis, the body shifts to using ketones derived from...