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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