INSULIN

1 THING YOU SHOULD KNOW

When you eat carbohydrates, your digestive system breaks them down into glucose. Glucose enters your bloodstream. Your pancreas responds by releasing insulin.

Insulin opens the doors to your cells, allowing glucose to enter your cells and exit your bloodstream.

That's a good thing.

High blood glucose is toxic to your body.

One of the most dangerous health conditions I see today is insulin resistance. That's when your body doesn't respond to insulin as effectively as it once did.

With insulin resistance, the signal for the pancreas to stop producing insulin doesn't arrive because it's not sent until blood sugar normalizes. Your pancreas becomes desperate and produces more insulin. And here's why it's so important when someone tells me:

“Doc, I no longer look or feel like myself.”

One of the primary culprits of body and emotional changes is insulin resistance.

1 THING YOU SHOULD DO

This week, don't overhaul your diet.

Do one thing:

Look for the carbohydrates you're eating that don't fill you up.

The sweetened coffee.
The crackers you grab walking through the kitchen.
The afternoon cookie.
The handful of chips.
The sugary drink.

The foods you barely remember eating.

Choose one of those and remove it for seven days. Not because carbohydrates are evil. They're not. We're simply running another Weigh Less · Age Less experiment.

WHY YOU SHOULD DO IT

Willpower alone doesn't control insulin resistance.

Your hormones are participating in a body-wide conversation.

That's why HORMONES is the first strand of our approach to WEIGH LESS & AGE LESS.

Sometimes the question isn't:

“Why do I look or feel this way?”

A better question may be:

“What can I do to become more insulin sensitive?”

YOUR 7-DAY CHALLENGE

Find ONE unnecessary carbohydrate you eat or drink regularly. Remove it for seven days. Don't replace it with another snack. Don't compensate by starving yourself at dinner. Just remove it.

Then observe:

Your hunger.
Your cravings.
Your afternoon energy.
And your weight.

One change. Seven days. Pay attention.

That's the experiment.

WHAT WE DO

We specialize in women and men who want to look and feel better, but nothing they are doing is working.

After 46 years of life optimization practice, with over 10,000 patients, we know how to bring positive change to how you look and feel at this age.

If you want to discover which part of the four strands may be the obstacle to looking and feeling the way you wish, take our
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Doc & Vicky Mac

Vicky and I still have so much of the world to see. That makes our commitment to Live Younger, Longer stronger with every trip.

This newsletter is for general educational purposes and isn't a substitute for individualized medical care. If you have diabetes, take glucose-lowering medications, or have another medical condition, discuss significant dietary changes with your healthcare practitioner.