Can apple cider vinegar actually reverse insulin resistance there's some studies that suggest
that apple cider vinegar can lower blood sugar but is that always a good thing and if not
then when is it not a good thing today we can explain it so you really get it coming
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study that suggested that if you ate a high start meal and you took a couple of tablespoons
of apple cider vinegar with it then you would have 30% less rise in your blood sugar spike
then if you didn't take the apple cider vinegar understand the big picture the mechanism so
we can tell if that is a good thing or a bad thing or sometimes a good thing so let's get
to it the very first thing we want to understand and the reason I like physiology is that it
helps you understand that the body is smart there is nothing random about it so if the
body becomes Insel resistance if the cell start resisting insulin then there's a reason
the body is never stupid it never does anything random or unintelligent it's like gravity
it always works okay the cells are always doing what they're supposed to do take it
wouldn't work if gravity he would go up half the time and down half the time or next week
gravity we just work sideways deny nature doesn't operate like that sells our intelligence
intelligence is built into our cells so that's where we have to start understanding some
of this because when they define insulin resistance they say that it is when for some reason the
cells start resisting the action of insulin their kind of assuming that there's some random
stupid behavior of the cell is cause whatever the body does something it's adapting to something
so there is a reason what causes insulin resistance will it sort of in the name that your body
if there is an appropriate amount of insulin then there is balance but anything that is
introduced to the body or generated in the body or that is generated in the body in response
to something introduced like sugar stimulates insulin if it gets to access it will shift
the balance the body will start adapting to that change so insulin causes insulin resistance
there is no mystery there insulin causes insulin resistance a type 1 diabetic who has zero
insulin production can become insulin-resistant by eating a lot of carbohydrate and injecting
the amount of insulin that controls that blood sugar insulin is the cause of insulin resistance
plain and simple and what is the goal of insulin the goal of insulin is to get sugar into the
cell through the things that can get insulin into the cell is 1 insulin itself we if we
have insulin resistance and we want to try to get that sugar into the cell anyway then
we can use more insulin or we can use something that improved the effect of insulin such as
metformin or apple cider vinegar or cinnamon or herbs or other drugs that enhance that
effect what is that a good thing while sometimes so let's take this a little bit further and
let's look at a picture of why the cell May behave the way that it does so we eat some
food it gets down into the stomach and then it goes through the intestines and then he
gets absorbed into the bloodstream so that's this portion here and now there's glucose
there's blood glucose in the bloodstream and it's goes by the cell and then there is a
an insulin molecule and we're going to sort of imagined that this insulin molecule is
a sales person is trying to do a sales job on this cell so the first time if insulin
comes around and it knocks on the door the cell opens the door and Insulin says I've
got some sugar for you and this is old great I was looking for that perfect the first time
around it says yes please and then it says I'll check back with you later alright so
then an hour later insulin comes back again cuz blood sugar is still high so insulin comes
back and knocks on the door again and then the cell opens the door and it says all you
know I'm kind of stuff right now I'm good for right now so so at this moment I don't
want anymore so sell closes the door again insulin goes away but now insulin gets a call
from the sales office and the sales office says hey you haven't met your quota because
levels are still too high we got to get this out of here so now insulin comes back a third
time the cell opens the door and it says you again alright it's not so happy now.
First it was a real friendly exchange but now the cell is getting a little irritated
like what's up here and so it sends the insulin away without letting anything in and it just
kind of peaks through the door and says oh you again and it shuts the door now the insulin
starts getting some real pressure from the sales office and it says I don't care what
you do is like you got to go there so now insulin comes back and it disguises itself
it wears some funny glasses and it speaks in a foreign accent I need knock it doesn't
knock it uses the ringer next to the doorbell so oh this is difference of the cell opens
the door and the insulin starts pushing stuff on them again and now the cell recognizes
hey it's you again and I thought I told you to stay away you might check back with me
tomorrow but I'm good for today and now the cell start to become very very resistant it's
like what's up enough is enough and Insulin goes away and then the sales office says that
you know we we don't really don't care we got to get this sugar out your haven't met
your quota we've got some more powerful tools we got some tools for you there's some medicines
there's some stuff that will get that door open no matter what so now now insulin returns
with some stronger tools because there's resistance but the cell also has developed a lot of distrust
okay it's like I don't want to be disturbed all the time I'm trying to do my work in here
but the door just that is key knocking on the door I don't like those interruptions
I don't like insulin it is disrupting balance it's making it harder for me to do my work
I don't trust them anymore and so insulin returns with these this ammunition which is
basically a way of tricking the cell into opening the door anyway and every time that
happens and the cell opens the door then the distrust and the resistance increases all
right so I hope that made some sense now let's look at the typical treatment for insulin
resistance and type 2 diabetes and I made some videos on this but here's a quick summary
that the sole purpose the soul intention of treatment of insulin resistance and type 2
diabetes is to lower the blood glucose they see the blood glucose as the only problem
so and is a big problem if it gets way high so the treatment is aimed at lowering blood
glucose and they do that either by adding more insulin or by adding other medicine or
herbs or natural things that will enhance the effect of insulin again by this analogy
it is trickery it's making the cell open the door anyway but now it will understand this
cell is intelligent we know that there's a reason that the cell is resisting so if we
trick we're going to increase in balance we're going to make it that the body and the cells
are less healthy and sure enough the treatments for insulin resistance increases insulin resistance
and when it does that it increases body weight so they tell people with type 2 diabetes that
oh well you know you ought to lose some weight because then this can get better but then
they give you treatment that will increase the weight that will make it virtually and
recommence solved one problem and create another it reduces the diseases related to high blood
sugar which is blindness neuropathy and kidney failure but it increases its speed up the
development of metabolic syndrome which is associated with obesity cardiovascular disease
inflammation high blood pressure and stroke all right so now back to the question can
apple cider vinegar actually reverse insulin resistance well there's two scenarios that
we want to look at one is a low carb scenario a low carb keto intermittent fasting it's
a scenario where you're actively and forcefully reversing insulin resistance if you're reversing
insulin resistance that means that you are sending the salesman less often to the cell
you're withdrawing the pressure the sales pressure and now the cell relaxes the trust
increases the once in awhile it wants some glucose so it's not like this is the ultimate
bad guys just how often is he showing up and in this situation now apple cider vinegar
is a good thing it's sort of like the mediator at a peace conference okay it can bring the
parties back together a 10 facilitate the parties this cell and the insulin talking
to each other again however if you're on a high carb diet standard American diet lots
of grain lots of sugar lots of fruit lots of dairy then you are in the movement your
your tendency your momentum is to increase insulin resistance which means that the sales
pressure is increasing increasing increasing and the trust is going down down down the
cell is becoming more insulin resistant doesn't trust anybody just wants to be left alone
so in this case apple cider vinegar isn't really a good thing or a bad thing it is good
maybe maybe it's sort of neutral but maybe it's a little bit good that it can slow the
absorption of the carbohydrate maybe that helps you stay full a little bit longer so
that you don't eat as much at set Russell possibly it could have a slight slight benefit
is it going to reduce insulin resistance not really not in that scenario however if you're
just keeping eating this high carb diet and you think the hey apple cider vinegar is going
to fix the problem now apple cider vinegar is a problem because it tricks you into thinking
that you're doing something good for yourself and there is no way of reversing insulin resistance
unless you reduce insulin on and the carbohydrates that trigger the insulin and in that sense
apple cider vinegar it is sort of weak in comparison to some to metformin and and Insulin
injections but it it has sort of the same tendency it's just a weaker version of the
same principle participating in the same mechanism and all these treatments that we talked about
produces storage produces metabolic syndrome with all of those at degenerative diseases
that go with it to under the right circumstances which is a low-carb diet than apple cider
vinegar can assist but it can't do the job I itself if you take apple cider vinegar cuz
you think it's going to do the job but without reducing the carbs now you're shooting yourself
in the foot and you're actually making it more of a problem because you're sort of delusional
you think you got a solution but you're not really moving any closer to it automatically
looking for is balance balance in the body is called homeostasis is the state of keeping
things the same keeping things in Balance that's the ultimate goal when you have homeostasis
your imbalance when you have high blood pressure when you have stress when you have diabetes
when you're high insulin resistance the body has been pushed out of homeostasis it wants
nothing more than return to homeostasis but we have to remove pressure if you will and
another way of thinking about this is that there's a demand and supply and those two
have to be in Balance but when there's too much sales pressure when the supply exceeds
the demand there will be resistance so the only thing to get healthy the only way to
get healthy is to balance the supply and demand to balance the storage of food with the usage
of food so insulin again is a storage hormone that promotes and abolitionism and storage
and if we eat too much carbs we're doing too much storrings if we eat too frequently with
doing too much storing but if we reduce the carbs it allows us to use the stores if we
eat fewer meals it allows us to use the stores in between meals so we create a balance between
using and storing and supply and demand let me know if that made some sense to you and
if you like this video you're going to love that one thank you so much for watching and
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