Today, most people with insulin resistance are only treating the symptoms and not getting to the root of the problem.  Furthermore,  many medications given to people with insulin resistance are compounding problems instead of getting to the root cause.

The best way to manage your insulin resistance condition is to address the actual cause.  Doesn't that make more sense?  Let's look at what insulin resistance really is.

The Simple Explanation.

Other than the genes you inherited, there are two primary causes of insulin resistance:

1) a long-term diet that has been high in carbohydrates and
2) nutritional deficiencies.

Your body breaks down carbohydrates into sugar (glucose) which then enters your blood stream. The more carbohydrates consumed, the higher your blood sugar goes, the more insulin your body produces to keep those blood sugar levels in a normal range. Insulin's job is to push the sugar out of your bloodstream and into the cells.

On the surface of the cells in your body are insulin receptors, which act like little doors that open and close to regulate the inflow of blood sugar.

After many years of consuming a high-carbohydrate diet, your cells have been bombarded with so much insulin that these doors begin to malfunction and shut down.

With less doors open, your body needs to produce even more insulin to push the glucose into the cells. More insulin causes even more doors to close and as this vicious cycle continues, a condition called "insulin resistance" sets in.

The insulin resistance can get so bad that your body can no longer produce enough insulin to push the blood sugar into the cells. The blood sugar then rises out of control with the result of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is simply an extreme case of insulin resistance.

The key point for you to understand is that your energy, wellness and longevity are primarily dependent on improving the sensitivity of your cells to insulin - how well your cells open and close the doors and clear sugar from the blood.

What's the Bottom line?

Since type 2 diabetes is really a severe case of insulin resistance, the solution to your condition and to help prevent diabetes is to find a way to increase the sensitivity of your cells to insulin and help your body get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells so it can be metabolized and turned into energy.  (This inability to metabolize sugar is one of the reasons why most people who are insulin resistant often feel tired and fatigued.)

The Deadly Effects of Excess Insulin!

*Diabetes
*Heart Disease
*Hardening of the Arteries
*Damage to Artery Walls
*Increased Triglycerides
*Fat Burning Mechansim Turned Off
*Accumulation & Storage of Fat
*Weight Gain!

Your "metabolism" is the food processing and energy production system of your body. It is made up of extremely fine-tuned internal processes.

Insulin is the master hormone of your metabolism. When it is out of balance and your insulin levels are consistently elevated, a long list of deadly complications are created:

Chromium is critical to blood sugar metabolism and, and being insulin resistant you can be pretty sure that you are severely deficient in this nutrient. If you ever wondered where your "sweet tooth" and sugar cravings come from, now you know - chromium deficiency!

Calcium and magnesium are also depleted by excess insulin, which can cause many problems, as they are critical to over 200 biochemical processes in your body.

Other very important nutrients which excess insulin causes you to be deficient in are Zinc, Selenium, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Vanadium, B Complex vitamins, essential fatty acids and many more.