PCOS-DIET Messages for June, 2001: Re: what does it mean to be insulin resistant?

Re: what does it mean to be insulin resistant?

From: Big (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:12:48 -0500 (CDT)

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I wrote this response to someone else but you may find it useful, but it is long.

Insulin is a very powerful hormone which controls glucose levels in the blood and also metabolises it as energy or stores it as fat.

Insulin resistance is an excess of insulin in the blood. Eventually our muscles become complacent (if you like) to insulin and "resist" it. Our bodies produce more and more insulin in an effort to get a response. This makes us tired and hungary constantly, as our bodies are not converting our food into energy, and then insulin lays it down as fat.

For PCOS suffers at this stage the high insulin levels in our blood interupt our normal female hormone cycle which is controlled by our pitutary gland (in the brain) and in short - stop our ovaries from receiving the right chemical commands which instruct them to produce and release eggs. After this has happened for some time the ovaries become cystic.

If you are overweight and try to lose weight the conventional way a la "WeightWatchers" you will not be successful. As these diets - which are rich in simple carbohydrates - which cause a spike in blood sugar levels and high insulin levels. The heavier you are the worse your IR and PCOS will become....and may also lead to diabetes.

Many women with PCOS and IR are on low carb - high protein diets. Two good books to read are Sugar Busters and Atkins diet revolution. Both completely understand the effect sugar has on some people. I have a diet which is a mixture of the two. I don't eat anything white or refined. So no sugar (under any circumstances), no potatoes, no white bread, no white pasta, no white rice. But I eat brown rice and wholegrain bread and brown rice. I live on Oatmeal, meat,poulty, cheese, eggs, salad, some fruit (not banannas or grapes, fresh vegetables, and use olive oil for everything. I have lost about 16 pounds and my acne disappeared.

Hope this helps!

t Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Jill wrote: >
>I just found out that I am insulin resistant, even though I was told a
>few weeks ago that I wasn't. What does this mean and how am I supposed
>to change things to correct it?

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