Fasting Insulin Levels Explained: Why It Matters | Dr. Robert Lustig
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- 💉 Fasting insulin is a measure of insulin levels unaffected by a recent meal. It is a crucial biomarker of metabolic health, according to Rob Lustig, MD.
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Dr. Lustig is right. You can change your life for the better. Each person has to decide if they want to change eating habits. It is a major decision. Almost 8 years ago I stopped gluten and sugar, but sugar was still a hard fight back and forth for four years. Then the pandemic. I went on keto four years ago. In total eight years of effort and with a hard fought almost 70 pound weight loss, Keto was the best routine for me. I think my body was a hard case. Some peopie have to work longer at it. It is highly individualized. I wish the best to anyone who works at this, and hope they can achieve their goals.
My sugar addiction is tough to manage!!!
Congratulations you fought the hard fight, with wonderful results, no doubt, I sure you feel marvelous!!!, again Congratulations ♥️
@@johnmartin4332 you can go keto like anyone else
I was very addicted to sugar and went full Keto in April of 2023. Both my grandmother and my mother had Alzheimer's and sugar is the main contributing factor to alzheimer's, I quit sugar cold turkey. Fear can sometimes be a good motivator!
@@s.p642 well done. IM 100 % carnivore. My BG is 4.4 mmol in the morning. I fast 18 hrs every day. Eat within 6 hrs. Since xmas I have come down from 122 kg to 109 kg. I eat 2 steaks a day and 4 eggs.
Love Dr Lustig's work and inspiration. His lectures opened my eyes. Thank you Dr Lustig 🙏
Dr. Lustig is a fantastic doctor looking out for the general population's well being. Thank you for fighting the good fight against big pharma and fake food manufacturers.
His focus on insulin is second to none and the most important key to health missing in the world today.
Thank you Dr Lustig you are helping to save so many lives. ❤
Learned a lot from Dr Lustig
Dr. Lusting info is very valuable. Although, most studies are in overweight people but lots of people are not.
So what you're saying is our best chance at prevention of mitochondria issues would be to fast and eat primarily meat and greens if I understand this correctly. So OMAD and intermittent fasting does have some merit. Easy. Thanks
OMAD is all you need. Omad with real food.
Not sure where that summary came from but OMAD is not recommended long term. Looking for easy is the worst thing you can do for your health. OMAD is not a recommended longterm lifestyle by any metabolic doctor or scientist.
@@hmm___1111 post your credentials, random know-it-all commenter
Dr lustig is my hero ❤
Thanks channel very much 🎉
He's my hero too ...although he has left me terrified as I have been addicted to sugar since 6 y.o.
At 74, any processed carbs now affect me very badly and almost INSTANTLY.
It's terrifying.
My back is now to the wall. 😢
Thankyou doc .I've got sleep deprecation .but I am not fat . cortisol is my problem .
Wish they knew this when I was younger.
Excellent summary
Thanks so much 🙏
P.S.: Mitochondrial Dysfunction:
Dear Dr. Lustig, at the end you’re saying
"all carbohydrates in general".
Recently I learned from you, that fibers, which are carbs, don’t count as such for the human body, but as nutrition for the gut microbiome.
“All calories in general”
He is changing the world for those that listen! Big pharma and Big food are probably not his fans! I am! Thanks Dr. Lustig
Thank you prof Lustig
Read his book Metabolical, excellent knowledge gained, highly recommend!
Wow. Love the straight talkThanks a lot doctor.. Great respect
Thank you doc. Keep up the good fight.
So informative, and I am so happy I stumbled across Dr Lustig’s videos. It is an eye opener.
Very well explained👍🏼
Should have included coconut oil which works wonder for insulin resistance. Check out the videos from Bruce Fife.
What is the test used for metabolic dysfunction-thyroid testing T4?
Since I've been using Mitotaur supplement, my mitochondria have been superb.
Thankyou Dr Lustig, you have helped me a great deal!
Thank you doctor
Thank you
Thank you for educating us❤
Amen.
Thank you. You are so appreciated 🎉
Thank you for your knowledges to the community. For making easy to understand. 💕
So how do we fix it!?!?
He explained it. No more sugar and refined carbs. Start exercising/walking and increase fiber. Stay consistent!
Do you think that magnesium deficiency can cause mitochondria dysfunction?many thanks.
It definitely plays a role in many processes in the body, including a lot of chemical reactions that have to do with your metabolism. And it can’t hurt to supplement with it.
Every nutritionist functional medicine doctor nutrition researcher says at least half the people are deficient in Magnesium. Thus Magnesium supplementation is a must for us.
@brucehutch5419 we're deficient in everything these days
How do you know when your mitochondria are fit?
what about zero carb zero sugar diet for 1 year, my fasting glucose is 118+ , soon as i eat, glucose drops into 90s, and by bed time, its 80.
Strange.
thank you Doctor, what is the acceptable fasting insulin level
I love his work. ❤
Good start.. but we need a copy of your book to read.. digital preferred and signed by you
Buy a glucose meter and test strips and learn how to use it.
That’s a start BUT fasting insulin and fasting blood sugar are not the same thing, obviously.
Dr Lustigs point was that the high fasting INSULIN is the primary indicator of insulin resistance.
So why isn’t routine testing for IR done?
Not measurable.
Because they need you sick.
I’m sure fasting insulin can be measured with a blood test. Supposedly, in about 5 years, we will have continuous insulin monitors.
How about reverse mortgage in this case??
‘ Ultimately all calories in general ‘ that’s the key, higher the calories, higher the chances of diseases.
How do you know what your “level” is supposed to be?
Duh
My insulin fasting is
Has anyone else tried to explain this shit to people and explain sugar is the problem and not fat and had people get so fucking angry that it’s beyond irrational? It’s crazy how people are so brainwashed into the low saturated fat high carb trash
Exactly!
Awesome
🧠Golden!
What is healthy reference range. Less than 4? No range given, and often times those ranges are way off
Less than 8 is considered optimal by most
@@iitkanpur6597 is it 8 uIU/L - micro international units per liter
I love your explanatios but l do not understand why cells budy develop insulin resistant and in the same time they need more energy ie food thus hunger. If cells need food they would lower their insulin tessiten isn't it?. In specific what is exactly the mechanism that develop insulin resistant?
Insulin is a fat storage hormone, and drives glucose into the cell, thus lowering the blood glucose. When blood glucose is lowered, but insulin remains high, the fat stores will not be released for energy, and the cells look for more glucose and you experience hunger. As insulin resistance increases (chronically elevated blood sugar & chronically elevated glucose) cells become stuffed with fat which they can't use, and, eventually cells cannot accept/use much glucose either. Metabolic syndrome progresses to pre-diabetes and fatty liver and then type 2 diabetes. Dr. Lustig's book "Metabolical" goes into the science in depth. Dr. David Ludwig's book "Always Hungry" and Dr. Jason Fung's book "The Obesity Code" are also excellent. Dr. Fung also has many good videos on TH-cam.
carnivore the proper human diet. dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Shawn Baker, Dr Anthony Chaffee, ect. My blood sugar is now normal
Seed oils???
I heard fat rocks mitochondrial issues!!!
Can someone help
All dietary fats block the 3rd proton pump of our mitochondria leading to insulin resistance. Nuts are ok, but not in abundance and not for people struggling with type 2 and overweight. Source for the biochemistry stuff: dr. Peter Rogers' videos on diabetes/cancer/autoimmune disease
The primary driver of weight gain is calorie intake. Insulin and leptin are the primary drivers of appetite which influences calorie intake, not weight gain per se
That is imprecise use of language which makes me question his critical thinking skills. He said the pancreas keeps working which leads to insulin resistance. Well the signal the pancreas uses to decide to secrete insulin is the presence of glucose in the blood stream which is not going down. Therefore if resistance in the muscle and nerve tissue exists it precedes the pancreas overdrive. Where the theory falls apart is when people go on a high fat, moderate protein, zero carb diet the cell wall resistance should go down and sensitivity should be restored hence a reversed diabetes. But that doesn't seem to be happening. This needs some serious biochemical, histological, genetic research to be done but NIH where are they. Most of US population is now metabolically unhealthy but the monied interests of big ag, big pharma, ADA, AHA and big medicine have no interest in getting to the root causes and true cures, not just management.
Cholesterol 263 ldl 184 is my problem going on crestor😮
Please don't get on any statins!
When these drugs came out in the early 80's, they lowered the total cholesterol number so more people would get on these drugs.
Most doctors do not tell you what your ratios are.
Here's one of his other videos explaining ratios.
th-cam.com/video/C3rsNCFNAw8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Li7-eQYs4821w0FK
He has other videos online talking about cholesterol levels and how bad cholesterol medications are.
Just asked my Dr for this last week and was told it was not something they test as it is usless. So very disappointed, I have to go to Any Lab corp. to get this done now.
This is strange, China is already testing fasting insulin. What happened to the doctors?
@@wilsont1010 it maddens me. I have little faith in these Drs in the USA.
I just ate some chips I fcking loved it.
my fasting insulin was 8.1... how do i get it down?
Use coconut oil.
Cut refined sugars, pasta, rice & do Intermittent fasting
Ketogenic diet.
Do we need any sugar in our diet?
NO sugar is okay if you eat a small amount and you can eat sugar foods occasionally. As important is not eat much other carbohydrates -bread potatoes.
Most all processed foods contain a lot of sugar and carbohydrate.
Our bodies make the sugars it needs, Alzheimer’s is caused by Fructose and Glucose Diabetes III. I do use a little pure monk fruit in my coffee or the amino acid glycine which is sweet. I am very happy eating Carnivore our bodies heal very quickly restoring health.
It's ok to eat small amounts of sugar or carbohydrates but ONLY if you're thin.
There are no proofs that sugar is food at all for any mammal. Plenty of evidence it is a poison according to Dr Lustig.
@@mylifeistrash9591 That is so false !
And fasting fix all of that!
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Can’t these specialists tell as what to eat to help, what to drink to help, what not to do to help, they don’t give us beneficial things to do!
So... no more gin&tonics or red wines. 😮
CHOLESTERAL263 LDL 184 IS MY PROBLEM
IF and Carnivore?
COME ON Lustig... when will you start mentioning linoleic acid?
That is false. On so many levels.
Well it could a hell of a lot of help if there was a way to measure insulin levels and literally stop stress. Stress is deadly.
Of course there's a way to measure insulin levels
Eat bean soup.
no
I luv potatoes. Which non-organic potato has the least pesticides?
what quackery... calories matter most.
Why is Lustig overweight if he is preaching about metabolic health?
Vaccination