Insulin Resistance Test AT HOME (How to Test Insulin Sensitivity)
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3 ways to test your insulin resistance (and sensitivity) at home! 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 ↓
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0:00 Intro
1:50 What is insulin resistance?
2:54 At-home test 1
3:57 At-home test 2
4:40 At-home test 3
6:29 HOMA-IR test
7:02 How to calculate HOMA-IR
7:26 HOMA-IR results
8:52 Reversing insulin resistance
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Have you been able to reverse insulin resistance?
Health Coach Kait, yes. Keto combined with OMAD. Within six months down thirty pounds, no more food comas, adrenal fatigue gone, and no more symptoms from arthritis.
It can take time. If your shortness of breath is improving, you're at least on the right track 🙏
What about if you have no gallbladder and you have digestion issues. Foods not digesting quickly so blood sugar takes awhile to go down. I don't feel hungry, have none of the signs of insulin resistance. Like thirsts, craving sugary foods as a matter of fact I don't like sweets like chocolates etc. I drink my teas or coffee without cream or sugars. I pee normal like 3 or 4 times a day. No skin tags or darkening skin, but my blood sugar is 6.7. My doctor said I am diabetic. What do you think?
@sploofmonkeythankyou for replying. No I don't eat fruits only occasionally strawberries or blueberries, and no refine flour, only gluten free. I drink warm water with lemons and apple cider vinegar first thing every morning!
@Tony L Thankyou for your reply. No I eat Gluten free very minute occassionally! My diet is one sometimes two meals a day! I eat my first meal around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. The rest of the day black tea, coffee and water. My stomach is not digesting food properly, so I am afraid to eat because of acid reflux. I just saw on Dr Eric Berg's channel a video about this. He is talking about low bile acid in the stomach that people with no gallbladder suffers from. He says to use nile salts. I will give this a try.
My oldest son is in his early 20's and he has type 1 diabetes. But thank God for this piece of article ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxVYhghKWmrUgXARZ_ydZTvmmcrw5L0I5i At first he thought he had the flu and was lying down on the bed for three days until his sister took him to the hospital. They took his blood and it was 600. What I do not understand is how he could have gotten it, since no one in the family has it. But he is winning the battle now. This is good stuff.
*My daughter drinks lots of water and urinates with the same rate, there are no other symptoms to show if those have anything to do with diabetes. This is a good information that I have gone through **Diabets.Care** She is 2 years 9 months, hale and healthy, have not done any blood test. But I am not certain if one can get diabetes at such a tender age. Please I will like to know more on that*
Just leave her alone and don't be paranoid
Don't let her eat much processed/machine made food, few treats, keep her drinking mostly water only, don't snack often, exercise daily.
Avoid comercial cereals and fruit juices.
I wonder if you can implement Glucose Goddess methods. Her Instagram is wonderful with techniques on how to eat. I have my 2 year old eat a salad with healthy fats before eating ice cream to prevent a sugar spike.
What?
It took me about 1 year to reverse mine. Being consistent in a healthy diet and regular exercise was the answer for me
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How robyn you reverses
I am starting to do and check in youtube for my insulin sensitive issue. How do you have to do in reverse in a year?
I’ve been doing Keto and IF for over 3 years now and I dropped 80lbs, reversed my fatty liver that I had for over 10 years and was told there was nothing I could do about it, all my health problems went away even my arthritis is 80% better, I just recently had my blood pressure checked and it’s down to 127 over 81, I can’t ever remember having a normal blood pressure and I’m now 60.
WOW 👏
@@HealthCoachKait I should also point out I drink ACV on a daily basis which helped with reversing my fatty liver
You are an inspiration, 😊 Thank you
Impressive! Congrats, although I find it hard to believe anyone with any credibility whatsoever would tell you there is "nothing you can do" about fatty liver.
@@justdrewit2219 He was my doctor for 30 years, I think he may have said eat more vegetables, lol, other than that there was nothing you could do.
9:37 i was diagnosed as pre-diabetic and my Dr. was ready to put me on medicine. I told her I wanted to try changing my diet first. At first I panicked! Then I watched YT videos on the topic. I was able to get back on track in 3 months. Maybe even sooner. I lost 18 lbs. This was by adding more veggies to my diet, intermittent fasting, cutting out high carb foods and sugar, and doing some low to medium intensity exercise.
How many hours did you fast?
First thing they do is push pills!!!! I know dope dealers that don’t wanna sell you drugs as fast as physicians do!
That's great! 👍🏾
@@charlesspechtjr8184 except for pain... they push every other pill under the sun but none needed for pain
Good for you. I did similar. I used to put about 1/4 cup of honey to sweeten my daily tea, now I've learned to like it unsweet. I also mix my yogurt "half-sweet" with plain yogurt. I must admit, once in a while I really get a hankering for pizza and ice cream, but is passes. Oddly, I don't seem to miss pasta. I'm also down two pants waist inches. Now all I have to work on is becoming taller. :)
I'm fat, (around the middle). Can't loose the weight. I've been insulin resistant for YEARS and didn't know what it was. Now I can turn this around.
You can do it! Never met you but rooting for you!!
Same here 🎉🎉🎉
Buy some iodoral and magnesium. Your welcome and you can do it!
Eat the food u used to eat before ur current relationship. We women always summon to diet of our guys. And do it for u. Not for anyone else. Feel happy about little improvement. God speed sister!
@@mariet4687 omg this is so true
I spent 3 yrs going to doctors to find out what was wrong with me, they had me on 10 different medications saying I was depressed and had anxiety, one video from you and within a month I have no more shaking,starving, sugar drops, peeing every 5 min. I feel my energy coming back. I refuse to ever go to a doctor again and absolutely refuse pharmaceutical medications. I'm 100% all natural now including making natural hygiene and cleaning products. 65 and walking 2 miles a day thanks to you.
Thank you. Just knew today that I am an IR.. Beginner stage. Thank you for your clips & I think I am able to plan my meals properly.
First time at your site. Sounds educated in this topic. Thank you.
Really impressed with your content and presentation. Especially like that you provide insights that are actionable and can be used to facilitate a fact-based convo with one’s doctor. Well done!
Girl! Thank you. Amazing. I'm on top of it, and will pull it together. I thought it was my age, lol. New subscriber! Glad to be on board.
I just assume that I'm insulin resistant and eat accordingly.
I check off 8 out of 9 boxes. I'm already changing my diet. These videos are very helpful.
Have to do a BG reading and A1C test. I thought I was diabetic for sure, come to find out I'm pre-diabetic and at the low end of that also, so a lot I can do to reverse it. Preventative eating a good practice. I think everyone should adopt that attitude and we will all be better off.
Me too, I'm avoiding all kind of sugars and keep my carbohydrates intakes to the minimum.
Lol that works too
Thank you, Health Coach Kait! We reversed my husbands IR. Just by getting rid of sugar, grains and processed "foods".
Amazing! 🙏
A simple test for IR is your fasting a.m. glucose should be less than 99 and A1c below 5.6. This big dose of glucose intake is inflammatory, onerous and not accurate. Treatment: 1. remove all grains, sugars and fruits (are really candies growing on trees and plants) from your diet 2. IF like 16/8, 3. Substitute good fats (salmon, avocados, nuts, olive and coconut oil, etc) and low carb veggies (avoid potatoes, cooked carrots and roots) .3. exercise (even walking 30 minutes daily), preferably after eating.
@@ashsharma3169 You cannot burn fat by exercise after eating because insulin is up.
@@PeopleHealthTec The exercise blunts insulin release because during exercise glucose enters cells without the need for insulin.
@Lake TitiCaca I'm skeptical anytime someone says not to eat things that are natural and nutritious.
Thank you for all this Kait. Been having elevated fasting glucose recently and adopting your methods have helped normalise it in the past month. 🥰 🙏🏻
keep up ur wonderful
I'm moving back and forth between insulin sensitivity and resistence depending on stress levels. Doctors di not acknowlege this, so I'm trying my own approach. Right now I'm resistent and working to reverse it again. This has been going in for about 6 years. Lockdown, resulting money issues and an unsettling relationship did not help, but I'm on it.
I might encourage you to enjoy daily morning/evening brisk walks that you use to listen to the song birds, and to include 5-10 minutes of moderate strength training. Could be body weight exercises + some old gallon jugs with tap water you fill/empty depending on your challenge level. Work different muscle groups. Enjoy the anti inflammatory "Myokines" muscles produce that also help the brain
Oh my gosh, your video website it's helpful for my AC1 results of 13.8 after 2 months my result AC1 level 7.8. Thanks for sharing your help thank you again 😍😍😍💡💡💡🙏💕💕💕
Heyy great news. I just want to ask are you type 1 diabetic?
Ive waited for this topic so much! Thanks for sharing
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This was so helpfull, thank you. I recently found your channel and enjoy all the help and tips
Welcome to the channel! 😁
You do amazing work, thank you for all the useful information. In 12 months I reduced my HOMA IR from 2.2 to 0.94. I was also having low testosterone so a lot of things compunded but IF and high fat is a life saver. I can go back to my old self because of it and because of all the good work you and other well informed health and nutrition providers have put out there.
Are u diabetic or only insulin sensitive ???
You explain things so well. Thank you!
Thank you for these videos--new to insulin resistance and low carb etc. Learning a lot from you.
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IR is nearly gone per the numbers --- since March have taken off 40 lbs (which, at 65, is not as easy as it used to be) ... learning about all of this has been a true eye-opener and one worth never losing...
Thank you so much for uploading such extremely important life saving information video!!! I'm 35 years old male expat living in chennai southern India n I watch Doctor berg's as well as Doctor Jason fung's videos both are experts on insulin resistance,Intermittent fasting their videos are extremely simple explained so life saving I've lost 15 kgs after watching their videos and following their advice but before watching their videos I knew nothing about insulin resistance or intermittent fasting because of which I was eating frequently high sugar refined carbs along with carbonated drinks like coke all of which made me gain weight rapidly I ended up being 100 kg at 5'8
Things dieticians, nutritionists and doctors never tell you about. Clearly I have IR resistance and have struggled to lose weight. Each time I to hospital I I'm told you are eating wrong foods like eggs etc, then others tell you to eat certain things that are totally low carb and moderate protein but keep this important factor of IR out,so you donot understand and unlock the secret why when you donot lose weight. Then you go back for consultation and pay more money for tests for hormones.
I wish I knew this, but I realized this year that bread, butter and rice are my worst enemy and soda.
Thank you coach, I will apply all your advice and eat the right foods, IF and I believe I will unlock the secrets to lose all this weight.
Thank you.
Wow your channel is more polished than ever.So helpful.I appreciate it
Due to your help I think I have receded insulin resistant. I started working on it after watching some video you had on the topic. Diabetes runs prevalently on both sides of my family and most members have had to have limbs amputated, dialysis, or organ transplants because of it. I refuse to be next. When my cousin stated she was in the transplant list at age 36, I knew I needed to do something. Being overweight I looked to solve that at came across your videos. My waist to height was much higher but now0.51 from starting in February. My goal is to be within my BMI by my 40th birthday in February 2022.
Awesome! Sounds like you are making some great progress! 👏
You do excellent clips very informative
Just recently know about having insulin resistance.. your video really helpful!
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Oooh, Miss Kait has a test for us today.
Lucky for me I've been paying attention. 🤓
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Thank you for creating such an insightful video!
Fantastic video for those who wants to know if they have IR
I am very thin, but I’ve been battling severe acne for 10+ years. My first culprit was dairy. Cleared up significantly, but it kept popping up, so I had hormones, pituitary, etc tested, and it was WNL. That said, my dad is type II diabetic, and I’ve always had hypoglycemia issues as a kid. It makes sense, and I notice that I break out after more carbs or sugars. Def getting these specific tests because beyond the acne, I crash like crazy and have all the symptoms. Thanks for this!
I think you’d find the video from Myzerocarblife about What IR really is and how to fix it. They talk about how a skinny person can have IR while an “obese” person doesn’t. It’s was quite interesting as it relates to the health of a person inside. Being fat inside while skinny outside.
This really was great video Kaitee 😘
Thank you Dr. Kait, very inspirational.
Dr. Berry posted on the same subject 2 minutes after you today! lol Like minds :) I can't wait to wait both!
I saw that! 😁
Link?
@@sidmichael1158 ua-cam.com/video/BUp6JBMTw0o/v-deo.html
I keep going back to your past videos. I'm glad to find out that I am not insulin resistant 😁
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Great video, get's right to the points, new sub, thank you.
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Your hair looks amazing!
Wow thanks for this. Just getting into fasting, I asked my doctor for Metformin since diabetes runs in my family and I’m obese. She said since my test results are good she wouldn’t give it to me. I just did the waist to height and triglycerides to hdl and I come out as being very insulin resistant. We really have to help ourselves.
I need to be more strict but helped lower my a1c lockdown by eating a lot of eggs, bacon, cheese, butter and the wonders of frozen vegetables that I had never bought before. I think staying away from coffee helped too
Very very very useful! Thank you
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Very informative, thank you
Thank you. I knew I was insulin resistant but couldn't find a way to check it for sure. Happened to have recent blood work and sure enough TG to HDL was over 3.0 also the waist to height was over. I feel really let down by medical doctors. I have been indicating I might be diabetic based on symptoms for a number of years but always they do the a1c test and I pass. If I could have gotten this information sooner I would have been much more serious with carbs and sugar. Good news is I followed my intuition and did a lot of positives to mitigate increased damage but no where close enoght to reverse the resistance and that sucks because I have been willing. Gratefully I am on the road now with fasting and renewed commitment to what I eat. With this information it will be paramount that I let go of the sugars, starches and carbs. Thank you
Mine is 0.61. I'm just now learning about this. Thank you for your help 💕💕
Same here.
Me too!
this was not even on my radar, but i am now going to monitor the waist-to-height ratio. thanks!
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@@HealthCoachKait It seems like waist-to-height ratio is much better then BMI it takes into consideration muscle mass
You are a genius- for the first time I understand everything about diabetes.You are awesome! Thanks for saving my life! I love you!
What a beautiful explanation
Great tips.
Excellent video. Great information
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Probably saved our lives thank you for your knowledge and sharing it.
Thanks for that video, it really helped me
thank goodness im only a little insulin resistant that gives me an immense amount of hope thank you so much for this video. about how long does it take to reverse insulin resistance? Im struggling with what to eat because I love carbs and food and I cant afford to totally relpace what's in my pantry. cinnamon has been helping me a lot but i really want to reverse it Ive watched your other videos and I just want to say thank you soo much for making it less daunting
very nicely done!
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Some pretty useful information here. I pass the first test (87cm/170cm) = 0.51.
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Thanks for the example I was doing it in inches
Thanks Kait :D
Thank you for this!
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Our medical system truly is broken. I learned more about insulin resistance with your 10 minute video than I did with doctors in the past 10 years. Doctors see my A1c is normal and send me on my "merry" way. My TG/HDL is not normal. No doctor has tested my blood cholesterol for this. No doctor has even suggested an OGTT of HOMA-IR. This, even though the doctors know family history has diabetes. Thanks for taking the time to make this video, excellent content and well explained!
Great info ….thx x
Great content, Coach Kait! Thank you!
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Great video thank you!😄. What are the books in the background?
healthcoachkait.com/books 🤗
Thanks very much coach just came across to your channel accidentally that was very helpful you are beautiful soul much love and positive energy ❤️
I had really bad insulin resistance and it was affecting my daily life. I changed my eating habits and diet and became more active and also have been intermittent fasting and I have seen a huge improvement in only 2 months! The best part is that I still eat all the foods I love, but properly portioned. I’ll take that over a crash diet any day
That's where most of the gains are . The first two months
Love this !
Awesome work Angela.
How long did you fast?
Hey how many carbs would you consume daily?
I calculated mine at 0.48. I'm lucky to not have reached 0.53 but I'm not content with that result. Thanks for the helpful hint.
I am very sceptical of the OGTT. I have read that someone who has been on LCHF/keto for awhile might fail the test if they don’t eat carbs for a few days prior to taking the test. A sudden deluge of sugar into a body not used to burning glucose might not be able to produce enough insulin to deal with 75 grams of glucose all at once.
I tested it doing the ratio between my waist size and height. I'm 0.529....... and I can feel it.
@ Kait, This was a good video. If know I am diabetic, do you still recommend for me to do the homa IR, or OGTT. My HBA1c has been 5.4% for the last six months?
If you have not been to dr. Bernstein page; you have missed alot! Itis life saving.
I started off doing a one day fast.
Was not hungry so am now on day 4 still not hungry.
Seems I am insulin resistant so I looked up that and found your video.
My stomach is starting to growl at last so hopefully I will get hungry soon (hoping that is a good sign)
Now going to look at your other video.
My waist measurement is 0.68 and I have high blood pressure.
I asked my GP for a diabetic's test a year ago.
He refused which seems silly considering my weight and stomach.
National Health Service in the UK, we get refused a lot of things.
Lie to the GP and say you are worried as a few members of family Inc mom/dad are diabetic.... I.e. family history .
Awesome and insightful video I have to say.
Thank you for a clear explanation
You are f... AMAZING! THANK YOU
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omg my waist to height ratio is .74! and I have been in bed for a week with my diverticulitis again. i seem to have had this for over 20 years and have only just found out what that extreme pain is. so i am your channel to get some good ideas!
Hi Kait,
Just started carnivore and I’m really enjoying it. I was on strict keto for about 3 years before doing carnivore. I find this diet very sustainable. I’m just wondering if having a keto treat once in a while will affect me negatively? If I want to have some keto chocolate mousse( mostly animal products) every 3 weeks would this be a problem?
Is carnivore like keto in the same way that if you “cheat” it takes time to get back into the diet?
Probably ok, assuming you are not super sensitive to whatever you are putting in the mousse 🙂
It was nice to watch your video. You cited three home tests. My waist /height is 0.42 and Triglycerides-HDL is 0.52, both indicating good insulin sensitive. However, glucose at 2 hr after lunch is 10 compared with 5.2 before. So am I insulin resistant? FYI, I have been diabetic for 15 years and are taking 2000mg of meta form in each day. Look forward to your reply and thanks so much
Hi Kait, would you recommend a KETO diet as a long term way to go?
Thanks ,thanks a lot dear.
I started doing fasting for two days (and I'm on third day), slight keto during lunch and dinner, and so far my far eyesight improves like I can see a little bit of the letters from afar from being too blurry, and I don't feel skin itch that much compared to before, and my belly is going a little bit slim. I intend to continue doing this although it makes me suffer... 😭
Keep going, it gets easier!
It gets much MUCH EASIER. Persevere.
Good job fasting and healthy eating really works
What units of measurements do you use to work out weight/height test?
The test that my Dr. ran on me was called an A1C test, I've never heard of this HOMA-IR test before today, from watching these videos.
A1C only tests blood sugar and not insulin, so that it misses insulin resistance 😔 ua-cam.com/video/TJGyF6PkDiQ/v-deo.html
Excellent
info, my normal glucose in morning 140. after lunch 160. My fasting test, no calories, just caffeine tea. it took 3 days to lower glucose to 104. It took 4 days to lower to 86. It was 5 days to lower to 80. normal size male,5'10", 200lb, above active lifestyle,
Dr. Bikman has the best videos on Insulin resistance, and Dr. Berg does a great job of explaining IR in layman's terms as well ;) I assume, like Kimberly Cooper, that I am insulin resistant and eat Keto. I've lost from 136 down to 117 with no meds, and just walk for low-intensity exercise. I'm 68.
You eat Keto.?
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I did intermittent fasting twice. Both times for 1 month because I started to have heartburn. The first month I thought it was just a coincidence and I tried it again after 4-5 months, but after 1 month again I had the same problem 🙁
Some people say that by just drinking water with a little lemon juice the heartburn went away.
Coach Kait, what do you think about GOLO?
Super informative! Got a question: my waist to height ratio is crazy high (I’m still very overweight), but my recent triglycerides and HdL labs are at 1.89. Even being so overweight, my cholesterol has always been great. I have PCOS and was put on metformin because my fasting blood sugars and A1C were barely over the prediabetic range consecutively. But I was working out and now I started intermittently fasting. The labs also showed my A1C to be literally again just barely at the prediabetic level after about a year of having no labs done. I also have lost and continue to lose weight. I also don’t take the metformin as prescribed. I take a PCOS supplement, which helps with the insulin resistance, and just watch what I eat and make sure I am getting physical activity in daily. Could the recent cholesterol labs be an indicator that the insulin resistance is improving?
Sorry, I meant my triglycerides and hdl ratio is 1.89.
Hi Kait, i'm type 2 diabetic and insulin resistance. About 65 days ago i started IF and OMAD. also doing low carbs. i've started to lose weight, does that mean my cell have open up to receive insulin?
It's definitely a sign that your sensitivity is improving! 🙌
I've suspected that I have a high insulin resistance, but now I can gauge it. Thank you!! At the time of this comment, I'm 0.59
Did u divide the height in inches /cms /feet
How did u get that ratio 🤔
@KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC thank u so much
What are your thoughts on monkfruit as an alternative sweetener?
Awesome 👍
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Thanks Kait, if the triglyceride and HDL are both measured in mmol/l, then the ratio should be the same for mmol or mg right? I am just afraid that i am missing something here... thank you so much... info is really helpful😊
For some reason the ratio doesn't work out the same 😅 You have to convert the units first.
The units for conversion are different for HDL (38.67) and triglycerides (88.57). Triglycerides of .69 mmol/L equals 61.12 mg/dL.
HDL of 1.53 mmol/L equals 59.16 mg/dL.
.69 / 1.53 mmol/L equals a ratio of .45.
61.12 / 59.16 mg/dL equals 1.03.
For mmol/L 0.87 or less is good.
For mg/dL less than 2.0 is good.
Hi kait,thank you for the video ,its very informative...my husband is 64,on 2 different BP meds and hi BP is still 139 /75 and sometimes higher,hes on metform and fasting BS fluctuates129or higher ,sometimes a little bit lower ,A1c is 6.4 we've been on high fat low carb for 2 months..how long will it take to turn insulin resistance around?
As I understand it, it could take years, possibly as little as one year or maybe three. Depends on the degree of commitment. I would do some of the testing mentioned in this video every three to six months so you can see your progress.
I did EXCELLENT on the WAIST/HEIGHT and the TRIGLYCERIDE/HDL as well... but my morning fast glucose readings are in between 90-100 :\ don’t really want to do the last test because I don’t want to put any unnecessary sugar in my body. 2 outta 3. Ain’t bad.
anything less than 100 on a fasting blood sugar test/glucose is considered normal. greater than 125 is probably diabetes.
I had the dark patches of skin in my groin area. I have been eating OMAD for 8 weeks now and the darkness is virtually gone. Is this an indication that I may no longer be insulin resistant?
Most people with insulin resistance don’t even have that symptom so I would say no.
Kait! :-) You Rock!
I noticed the book on your shelf about red light therapy. Is there any truth to using red light to treat frozen shoulders ?
What health and fitness apps do you use? Have you ever tried Fitbit and Zero? Have you tried to connect the apps? If so, what was your experience?
I inquired about HOMA-IR a while ago with my Dr. He explained that it is only really worthwhile for people who are just starting to be insulin resistant, or pre-diabetes or syndrome x. I know I am i.r. for sure but still wish I could know my insulin level.
Well with most people being insulin resistant it is probably worthwhile for everyone 🙆♀️
A simple test for IR is your fasting a.m. glucose should be less than 99 and A1c below 5.6. This big dose of glucose intake is inflammatory, onerous and not accurate. Treatment: 1. remove all grains, sugars and fruits (are really candies growing on trees and plants) from your diet 2. IF like 16/8, 3. Substitute good fats (salmon, avocados, nuts, olive and coconut oil, etc) and low carb veggies (avoid potatoes, cooked carrots and roots) .3. exercise (even walking 30 minutes daily), preferably after eating.
Great video!
Can anyone help.. am I measuring my true waist or around my belly button line? Being an hourglass woman it changes the result. Thanks!
A++++ thanks Kait
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Before I started the Ketogenic diet and one meal a day intermittent fasting on 6/2022, my TG/HDL ratio was over 6 or severe insulin resistance. Nearly two years of Ketogenic diet, intermittent fasting, near 0 carbs and losing 90 pounds, my TG/HDL ratio dropped to 1.4, and reversed all my insulin resistance related conditions, like HTN, stage 3 kidney disease and abdominal fat...so if you have insulin resistance, see your doctor and give Ketogenic diet along with intermittent fasting a try...😊