Insulin is your master energy hormone. 🦸

Not only is insulin in total charge of your blood sugar loss, but it’s also the fat storage controller.

Your muscles, fat, and liver cells all respond to insulin.

It’s a complicated hormone, but we can simplify its role in metabolic health with these two known points:

👉 High insulin levels promote fat storage
👉 Low insulin levels promote fat burning

Metabolically inflexible people have increased insulin levels all the time.

Metabolically flexible people have insulin that goes up when they eat carbs, shuttles the blood sugar to the muscle cells to be stored (as glycogen rather than fat), then goes down again. Making way for fat-burning to resume in the body. This is what gives us a slower, more steady production of energy needed for every day movement and physiology.

👆 That’s how you want the machine to run.

Metabolically unhealthy people become resistant or less sensitive to their own insulin. Their carbs aren’t being sent to the cells, but rather are left to the alternative, being stored as fat.

The body starts to create more insulin to try to get those carbs sent to the cells. More insulin means even more fat-storing in the body.

It’s NOT just about how much food or carbs you’re eating. It’s about how well your body is using those carbs.

When it gets bad enough, it’s known as insulin resistance. The main contributing factor being metabolic disease. But remember! There’s a broad range between ‘optimal’ and ‘disease.’

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