Physiological insulin resistance or adaptive glucose sparing may happen when someone goes on a keto, carnivore or very low carb diet (<30g/day) for a long period of time. Your body, and specifically your muscles, are forced to change their fuel source from glucose to ketones.
Your body has two fuel sources: glucose or ketones. Some body parts such as certain parts of the brain and red blood cells, do not have mitochondria and therefore cannot use ketones nor manufacture glucose. They can only burn glucose. When you are on a low carb diet, blood glucose is in very short supply, so these body parts get priority for your scarce glucose.
On a very low carb diet there is very little glucose going into the body from your diet. Your body can burn body and dietary fats called ketones. Your body may also use proteins and fats in the gluconeogenesis process to manufacture glucose, but this is also in short supply.
On a low carb diet your muscles may adapt to burn primarily ketones, which are plentiful. Over time your muscles depend less on glucose and therefore insulin. Body parts that can only burn glucose, such as certain parts of the brain and your red blood cells, are given priority for the scarce glucose that you have. This results in a higher glucose reading in, for example, your red blood cells. This will result in a higher than normal glucose reading from a blood glucose monitor.
Higher glucose readings due to these low carb adaptations are your body's way of saving scarce glucose for those body parts, such as the red blood cells, that cannot burn ketones.
To detect for physiological insulin resistance test fasting insulin and c-peptides. If insulin is low but your A1C is high then you have physiological insulin resistance.
I’m Doing Keto – And My Fasting Glucose is Terrible!!!: 05:11 physiological insulin resistance
Temporary glucose intolerance is likely a natural consequence of the body’s transition to fat adaptation. In making this shift, the body makes innumerable metabolic changes to prefer fat to carbohydrates. Then, when you eat a large dose of concentrated carbs, the body is simply unprepared. It hasn’t turned on the carb-burning apparatus in some time.
Complained I have, about this travesty but to no avail. I am a regular at one of the City of Toronto’s fitness centres, here in Ontario, Canada. Policy changes within the last year have made these fitness centres not as safe as the were before these policy changes. This regression in safety may seem to not matter, but random violence in society is common, and fitness centres get no exception. I have written letters to City of Toronto staff on up to the mayor, my local councillor and Parks and Recreation staff, to no avail.
You travel along the path we call life, grow up and take for granted many things as gospel. Unfortunately there are some learnings related to diet that are so incorrect and can damage your health. It is like walking into a health trap set up for you by society at large. Family members and friends all believe in the same “truths” that you once believed. Here are some that I had to test and then was forced to change my stance on them.
I was not looking for an elliptical trainer, as I am not really heavily into cardio, but one popped up curbside, so I brought it home. The Thane Orbitrek elliptical trainer needed a lot of work in order to function. Thankfully it all turned out well and I now have another option for cardio to add to rope skipping and a stationary bike.
It is apparently very common for people who do strength training using lifting straps, to have wrist pain if not done properly. The wrist is not designed to carry your body weight. The tendons in your wrist and within your carpal tunnel can become inflamed causing tenderness and pain. I experienced this for 2 days and had a significant loss of hand strength. Thankfully with rest this has subsided.
Libodun baby fence: cute baby standing up. Made in China
My neighbour left a mess of long parts in a bag curbside, so out of curiosity I took it to try to figure out what it was and if I could use it for something else. The bag had metal tubes, metal brackets, padded baby blue metal bars and some plastic corner pieces. It looked like it had something to do with babies or small kids. It turned out to be a couple of sets of Libodun baby fence, used when a baby is small and prevents the kid from rolling off the edge of the bed.
Weight loss, from a conceptual viewpoint is actually quite simple, but there are so many nuances that make it quite difficult to achieve and maintain an ideal weight. Your body is designed by evolution, with vestiges from long-past times. Your body will do all it can to not allow you to diet down and die because you ran out of energy. To understand how this mechanism works will help you reduce down to a healthy weight.
A gas bubble will be injected into your eye after retinal detachment surgery. This gas bubble will press the detached retinal area back into your eyeball, sort of like an internal clamp. The surgeon takes advantage of the gas bubble’s property of floating upwards, opposite of gravity. This is where the purposeful “positioning” of your head angle and its importance comes into play. Your surgeon will tell you how to position your head in order to have the gas bubble push on a specific part of your eye that he wants to clamp in place.
“Do 5-30 good technique reps that take 2-9 seconds in mulitiple sets, taking those sets close to failure where the target muscle is the limiting factor, and repeat this approach as often as you are recovered enough to do so”
So much knowledge is wrapped up in this one sentence. While it is not perfect, follow this, to the letter when you can, and you will go far in gaining strength and muscle. There is more “embellishment” required to be complete, so watch the video and then think about it.
