Ep. 191 - Insulin resistance: reversible or not? | If insulin is so important, why isn't it tested? | Why insulin matters for your weight & health | Which foods have the best (and worst) effect on insulin levels? | CGM to improve insulin & blood sugar
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In today’s episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy explore insulin's role in health and the benefits of fasting, how insulin resistance affects blood sugar levels, and link it to conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
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Fasting For Life Ep. 191 Transcript
Hello. I'm Dr. Scott Watier.
And I'm Tommy Welling.
And you're
listening to the Fasting for Life podcast.
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that we have learned along the way.
Hey everyone,
welcome to the Fasting for Life podcast.
My name is Dr. Scott Water and I'm here.
As always, my good friend and colleague,
Tom Welling.
Good afternoon to you, sir.
Hey, Scott,
How are you? Fantastic, my friend.
Excited for today's conversation.
We're going to be
talking all things insulin.
What are normal levels?
Why don't we test it more
and why it's so dang important?
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What a great episode to start to
because we're going to talk about
keeping the main thing, the main thing,
which is why fasting is so powerful
and how it affects insulin
and ultimately weight loss and weight loss
resistance as well as a whole host
of other health related metrics.
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So we appreciate you continuing to show up
and continue to be on this fasting
for life journey with us.
All right, Tommy.
So insulin, insulin and some more insulin,
that's where we're going to start.
But I want to set the stage first
and foremost
before we get into the normals
and why it's not tested.
And kind of explaining a little bit
more about it is really why it matters.
So we did an episode back in episode 143,
correct?
Yes. Okay.
Eight out of the top ten leading causes of
death are related to high blood sugar.
And we're not just talking about
diabetes, right?
We're talking about stroke cancers,
cardiovascular disease,
chronic lower
respiratory diseases, Alzheimer's disease,
obviously diabetes, influenzas,
pneumonias, kidney disease.
Yeah.
All of these things
have a strong relationship
to high elevated, long term,
elevated levels of blood sugars.
So beneath that or upstream from that
is this thing called insulin.
And it is not the only player
in this equation.
Okay.
So there is there to be fat gaining weight
gain.
You need to have or weight loss resistance
or fat loss resistance.
We need to take into account
both the hormonal side using insulin
and then also the consumption
side, the food choice.
Right.
That's
why we say fasting is a two part equation.
Fasting, you can fast, you set the timer,
you limit your foods, you don't eat time,
restricted feeding or excuse me, time
restricted eating for a period of time.
And then on the other end is, okay, well,
what food choices
are you making when you break your fast?
And one of the biggest things we see,
one of the biggest mistakes
is you don't intentionally put decisions
into that window.
And it's just kind of an all
you can eat buffet, right?
So when we look at insulin,
there is also an insulin resistance side
and an insulin sensitivity side,
meaning the effectiveness
of how your insulin works.
So as we walk through
what is normal levels of insulin,
the takeaway here is what are we going to
eventually be able to do to reduce,
prevent and control
this thing that really isn't understood
well in mainstream medicine
and or tested for often?
Yeah, and we get a lot of questions
about it too.
We just got one
just a few days ago,
which was something along the lines of,
Hey, what about this whole
insulin resistance thing?
If I'm insulin? It came in this morning.
Yeah.
Okay. Was it this morning.
Yeah.
I'm insulin resistant or if I am insulin
resistant is that forever
will always be that way.
Can it be reversed.
To what extent, how long does it take
all of the, the nitty gritty.
You know, this correlated
to a number of other things,
including the weight,
but also food choices like you mentioned.
And so there's a lot to unpack there.
But the reason why I brought that up
was because just understanding that it's
almost like you can think about it
as your your cellular sensitivity to
a hormonal compound that's coming out
for a lot of different reasons in the body
from the pancreas in relation
to what you're doing, what you're eating,
how much blood sugar has risen
or has dropped over time
and it's correlated with things
like food choices
like sleep and sleep
deprivation, cravings, exercise level,
how much fat you actually have
around your midsection, your visceral fat.
Those are hormonal, reactive,
active fat cells that actually influence
the release of more insulin.
So you have a bit of a positive
feedback loop, if you will, with insulin
resistance as well.
So the point here being that, no, it's
if you're insulin resistant
now, you are not doomed to stay that way.
But it's it's a matter of like
progressive numbness, if you will, like,
like cellular numbing
to the signal of the insulin.
So it's like your cells have seen it
so much of it
so often for so long
that they start to become numb to it.
And it's it's a process that can take
some time and correlated to the weight.
Do start to reverse that kind of peel back
those layers of the onion
to get back to healthier levels
of sensitivity over time.
I want to talk about a study
and it was the effect of sustained
physiologic hyperinsulinemia
and hyperglycemia on insulin secretion
and insulin sensitivity in man,
that's a mouthful.
I want to come right back to that.
First, I want to describe what insulin is.
So it's a hormone.
It's a chemical messenger,
circulates through your bloodstream,
triggers physiological events.
It has an effect
on every single cell in your body,
including bone, brain, muscle and skin.
And, of course, all of the cascades
that happen with stabilization
of energy, energy storage versus fat
burning versus fat storage.
So insulin, brain ears, heart muscle
fat, liver reproductive organs, nerves.
Right.
So insulin's anabolic in nature,
it promotes growth
in bones and skeletal muscles
in other tissues in the brain.
It can govern cognition.
That's
why we're starting to see, you know,
type three diabetes
being Alzheimer's and dementia is falling
into the category of it being an insulin
and a blood sugar problem,
not a plaque development problem.
And in the liver, which is a huge place
that we need to put some focus or shine
a light on when it comes to insulin
is it helps synthesize
alternative energy sources
such as glycogen and fatty acids.
So fat production and short
term 24 hour energy stores.
So when we think about this,
you know, your digestive tract,
when you eat or break down carbohydrates
and food and produce energy, so carbs
stimulate insulin,
the most protein,
the second and fats the least.
Right.
So glucose is the primary source
chemical energy in body.
We're not talking about ketones or or key
to production or if you've been fasting
and you're getting into ketosis
or maybe you're doing the keto diet,
but just on an A normal
like everyday process you eat, it
breaks down an energy and then the insulin
is secreted by the pancreas, which helps
shuttle
glucose from the blood into your cells
for energy use or storage.
Right.
So you were talking about these blood
sugar spikes and you were talking
about the symptomatology of what insulin
resistance can be on a day to day basis.
Yeah, but these big spikes
cause repeated insulin surges
and doesn't necessarily
have to be a big spike from like,
you know, the Dairy Queen blizzard. Right.
It can be repeated spikes from snacking
in grazing and keeping your fasting window
open too long.
Even some forms of medication
take even a protein shake right
quick, absorbing boom goes right in.
So that's why we talk a lot
about in our programs,
making sure that we're putting protein
and fat first.
Right.
And then or fiber protein fat. Right.
So each of these each protein fat
and then on the back end consume
the carbohydrates because it blunts that
that blood sugar response.
But the more and more the way
you described it is, I think, a bit
like the the Muppet babies, like back
in the day when the nanny would come in
and it would just you just hear like,
what was it like?
I think that was the sound. Right.
And you
you couldn't make out her words, right?
It was just this numbing sound. Right.
But what happens is eventually,
after repeated exposures are want
what's right
and you're not your body's not hearing it,
your cells aren't producing it, your body
can't keep up or make enough insulin
to keep up with the glucose production
or the glucose ingestion
or the glucose, the blood sugar
that's floating around in your body.
So it stays chronically high.
And that's when we see diabetes,
heart disease, cognitive decline,
reproductive issues, cancers and more.
The problem is, is that insulin
resistance can start in the muscle
cell long
before it shows up in the bloodstream.
So one of the things
why insulin resistance
hasn't been looked at very often
and it's not part of routine bloodwork
is because some people
still don't see insulin as a precursor
to other health problems.
And then we have the well,
if you actually do test for it, then
what the heck do you do with the test?
How do you interpret it?
We'll get into that in just a minute.
Yeah, I mean, that's that's going
to always limit the actual utilization
of figuring this stuff out,
like what's going on under the hood.
If the
if the next step is kind of a question
mark or an unknown, I mean, what provider
is going to want to be,
you know, face to face like, okay, well,
now we have some new information, great.
But I'm not really sure
what to do with it.
So we're we're left
knowing that this is an important thing.
Okay.
So, so what to do about it,
You know, so when we start understanding,
okay, blood sugars related, we have blood
sugars sensors all throughout our body
and they understand
what's happening with our blood sugar.
They know if it's on the rise
or on the decline.
And then this is leading to more
or less of bolus and and dripping
out of insulin from the pancreas,
from the beta cells in the pancreas.
And so then if we can understand it
like that, then it starts to make sense
why a few of the things
that you've alluded to already, like
how long is my eating window
open on a given day?
What are some of my food choices
even down to ha
if I have a particular plate
or a particular meal, but it's
in a different order, it might have
a different effect on my blood sugar,
on my insulin response,
which is kind of crazy, I'd say is crazy
when you're in the tracking world,
because as long as I stayed
in the tracking world, that right
there never felt like big enough
to feel like a big needle mover was like,
No, I got my I have my calories.
I even have my macros. I'm already
tracking those.
The order of the food
that I'm actually eating, it can't matter.
It can't matter enough to move the needle
and move the scale.
But in fact, it does,
because your body is actually constantly
seeing what's going on with your blood
sugar and and how you actually eat that,
how it comes
in actually does have a big effect.
So if I break a fast with a higher
more like a faster acting blood sugar
spiking agent,
you know, simple carbohydrates
that is going to immediately
start rising or raising my blood sugar,
which is going to immediately shoot out
insulin that can't really be turned down.
You know, that already happen.
The blood sugar is already starting
to spike at that point.
Whereas if I had started it
in a different way with some protein,
with some good fat,
and left that for later in the meal
or even just a few minutes later,
it can definitely have a different effect
on blood sugar, which is great.
And that yeah, I mean,
and that's why I so want to go back
to that research article
that I mentioned in just a second.
But the insulin dysfunction
and the insulin resistance,
the root contributing factor
to what we mentioned,
all those different disease processes,
more than 133 million Americans add up
to 88% of adults
have an issue with this process
that we're talking about right now.
Let's stop metabolic health like it's
the way our bodies make and use energy.
And that's where insulin comes into play.
It's the gatekeeper, right?
This is why the CGM has been
so incredibly impactful
at different stages of my fasting
weight loss and health journey.
And right now I'm in part of a six month
tracking period
and we've partnered with Nutrisense.
So Nutrisense combines cutting edge tech
and expert dietitian experts.
So the human component.
So you get to see what you were
just talking about,
how your body responds to different food,
exercise, stress and sleep, right?
So not just the food component
and the instant component
because it's not testing insulin.
I'll explain that in just a second.
But it's looking at how your blood sugar
varies, which means insulin is there,
like trailing it, Right.
Blood sugar
trails, the insulin response. Right.
So nutrition has the ability in real time
by pairing the technology,
which is the continuous glucose monitor
that you wear in your arm.
Completely painless to apply.
Last for two weeks
and you get a package of sensors
when you sign up for a six
or a 12 month subscription.
And it actually shows
you am I moving closer or farther away
to getting my insulin under control?
Because is my area under the curve
with my blood sugar response?
Is it getting smaller or bigger?
How big are my spikes?
How long do they last? What if I eat this?
What if I eat that?
What if I do change the order
that I eat my food and.
Right.
So the key here is your blood
sugar levels are going to vary
based on your body's ability
to produce insulin, which is then going
to have a level of effectiveness
you're going to see in real time.
It's going to allow you
to see it on your app.
You're going to have expert
dietician guidance from their team
to explain what the heck the ratings are.
When you look in one's green and one's
red, you're like, Why do I get a red?
My blood sugar was low.
Well, your variability wasn't
where it needed to be.
And it's really simple to walk out
because it makes it easy to identify
and control what you're doing well
and where there's room for improvement.
So yeah, especially for me, it's been key
at this point in my journey as it wasn't
previous points
where now I'm really working on
keeping that area under the curve,
like keeping my blood sugar pretty stable
for as long as I can
because I'm really working
on some visceral fat,
some visceral adiposity, right?
Yeah.
And for me, I've been doing Carnivore,
I've been trying to control my cravings
and get that insulin number down
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for blood sugar which nutrition starts,
but we can still get insight
into what our insulin's doing
while you then go strategize.
Okay,
how am I going to get my fasting
insulin number
and then what am I going to do
to interpret it?
So that's the next piece of today's
conversation that I want to talk about is
why is this not something that's ordered?
Why is fasting insulin? Well,
there's two main reasons.
There's no scientific consensus
on optimal insulin levels
because it was always thought
as a lag measure, not a lead measure.
When it comes to disease.
Right.
And secondarily,
there was some issues with accuracy
during the with the testing process.
So as of late,
there has definitely been it's
how do I say this more accurate,
the more variables you have.
So for instance,
this woman asked about once
I get my insulin tested, what's my number?
We'll talk about numbers here in
just a second. Is a high is it low?
Where should it be?
Well, it's
not the entire piece of the puzzle.
We also need to look at waist
circumference, high
waist ratio, triglycerides, HDL, apob.
Right.
There's other factors CRP,
inflammation, familial history, right.
Those types of things as well.
So it is a powerful piece
because once you have an insulin number
and a blood sugar number,
then you can look at something
called the Homa IRR,
which is the gold standard.
But I'm putting the cart before the horse.
So let's take a step back
for just a second and talk about Tommie.
The the discrepancy right between.
Dr. Mark.
Come in. Dr.
D'Agostino, Dr. Poor Mudder, Dr.
Ben Brickman and Dr.
Robert Lustig all have different levels
of where they think A
And these are researchers and pioneers
in this space, right?
And where they think
the normal levels should be.
And, you know, to be honest,
I had a client recently who was like,
I won't ask for this test,
and my doctor refused to order it.
And I said, okay, we'll go to any labs
tests now here in Houston,
order it yourself.
Okay, great.
Now I have the result.
What do I do with it? I googled it.
Now I'm confused.
Yeah,
that's actually what I ended up having to.
I actually utilized a neutral science
at home lab kit to get mine rechecked.
And so, you know, it's that can be
a frustrating part of the process.
I guess it's
it's part of why we
we hear these kind of questions
a lot because, you know, like you
just alluded to, we have five different
PhDs and clinicians here as well in a mix
and no consensus on exactly
what the best number is.
Although, you know,
when I look back at some previous lab work
and some friends of mine
shared with me theirs
while they were on their weight
gain journey and now trying to figure out
how to get the weight off, a few of them
showed me some alarming insulin numbers
that their doctors had recently ordered.
For them,
this was they were trying to decide
if they were putting them
into the pre-diabetic bucket or the.
Yeah,
you're you're right on the edge here.
Do we need to get, you know, a medication
involved. Right. Right.
For this.
And a few of them had we're like
right there on the line because what
we what we do normally see is, well,
you're going to want it under 25.
And so what that's meaning
is that sometimes on the on the lab work,
if it's at 24.8, it's
not showing up as any sort of a red flag.
And that's a problem
because that is crazy, crazy high.
But that's even if it gets ordered.
Yeah, well, right.
So then you order it and you're like,
Oh, I'm at 22.
Okay, I guess I'm normal. Well,
guess what?
I was at 22 and I was fat and I was sick
and I had a ton of visceral fat
and my blood pressure was up
and my liver enzymes are off.
And I was on my way to nonalcoholic fatty
liver disease and diabetes.
And it was like, what the heck? Right?
So the chronically elevated
and I was counting I was doing CrossFit.
I had a $10,000 functional nutrition
coach.
I was working out.
I was not stopping and getting fast food
and Dairy Queen and pizza on the way home.
I was literally doing this program
with my wife, right?
Like I wasn't a bad patient, right?
I was walking it out for six months
and the needle barely moved.
But once I started adding fasting in,
then I really started
to see some incredible change
really quickly.
So I mentioned this research article
because there's this thing with insulin
and they did this in a lab test,
like why this matters, Why someone
without blood sugar or diabetes
related issues would worry about insulin.
Sure. Well, here's the thing.
So they did this test
and they were looking at 72 hour, 96 hour
hyper insulin anemia status,
meaning high levels of insulin.
And it was done in a lab.
And what their takeaway was that
these results demonstrate
that chronic physiologic hyperinsulinemia
elevated insulin,
whether created by EXONDYS infusion,
which is what they were doing in the lab
or by stimulation of endogenous meaning,
your own body's
production of insulin leads
to development of insulin resistance
in which is characterized by a specific
defect in your glycogen synthetic pathway.
So how your body literally uses energy,
there's a defect in your cell,
in your muscle cells, in your liver.
It's not processing the energy properly.
So limit your calories.
Great.
Start working out more.
Great. The needles move month after month.
Well, guess what?
There's a resistance there, right?
So they say that these findings indicate
that Hyperinsulinemia should be considered
not only a compensatory response
to the resistance,
but also as a self-perpetuating
cause of the defect in itself.
So all of that word jargon that I just
said means it's a negative feedback loop.
So how are we going
to get off of that crazy train, right?
If they're able to do that
in just 48 hours inside of a lab,
inside of humans And these were in healthy
individuals, right?
Yeah.
To be able to create that,
then we need to start looking at
how do we get the test,
where's our number?
And then that becomes part of our tracking
every three, six, nine
or 12 months rather than you just routine
yearly bloodwork,
which isn't even going to have this on it.
Does that make sense?
So let's go over the ranges that we see,
right?
So 2252268 less than eight.
Dr. Ben Beckman Less than ten.
Dr. Rob Lustig Less than ten.
We like to see.
I know personally for me when I got
my number under
five is
when I really started to see change.
My wife's at two point something.
Tommy you're in the threes now, right?
I am, yeah.
I started at 22.
Right. Study of Chinese men.
They looked at it, found the insulin
levels ranged, their average was about 16.
There was another study that said
without diabetes found that people
with insulin levels around ten.
So there isn't an actual gold
standard for this.
But if you get sure we like to see
and what we see in most of our folks
is that the cravings, the lifestyle,
the lab work,
all the other related labs improve.
When you get into that around that 5
to 6 range.
Yeah, right.
The cool thing is if you get a fasting
blood sugar with that, you
then can put that into the homa
IRR equation.
And the Homa air equation has absolute
data to back up that if your number is
one and under you are a healthy
non insulin resistant individual.
Mm hmm.
It varies on the high end, 1.7, 1.8.
But if you take that fasting
insulin number, combine it with your blood
sugar number,
now you get a homa air, which you've done
a whole podcast episode on as well.
Okay, Now we have something
as a reference range,
not just one data point
that is going to confuse us
because there's no medical standard
for it,
because it's seen as a lag measure,
not a lead measure in disease.
And then the doctors in the system
don't have any way to help you do it.
Well, guess what?
That's why we fast
that's what transformed our lives
with the process of how we started.
The one word to you that we like to use
is always consistent, intentional fasts.
Yeah, it absolutely.
That's a great point to highlight,
because if we're actually looking back at
what those numbers were doing over time,
I want to say this
When my insulin was at three,
it got into the threes.
I didn't have all the weight off.
I wasn't at the perfect number, so
I still got a few pounds of visceral fat
and my numbers in the fives.
Yeah, yeah. So that's the really cool.
Of course you're beginning. Thanks.
Oh, yeah.
Hey. Hey. Who's counting?
I love a good competition, but I just love
that, you know, you got a test done.
Sneaky. It's good stuff.
You don't have to have
the perfect body composition.
You don't have to have all the weight off
to start getting a really,
really good handle on that, you know?
But the consistency is going to matter.
And hey, that's that's what a CGM
helped me get some of that consistency
under my belt, even just like being
really intentional about my fast
this isn't always about hitting home runs.
This is about multiday fast.
Those rolling 70 two's seven day fast
once a month.
Unless you're trying to like
I don't know man.
That's just that's not sustainable, right?
What do you do when you stop fasting?
There's a lot of decisions whenever you
whenever you stop the fasting.
So it can almost be like,
if I feel like I'm avoiding decisions,
then I know
I need to be doing some shorter fast,
but I need to be getting those right
more often, more of the time,
because we're talking
about fasting insulin levels.
I mean, that's stuff
that's baked into the system in your
in your blood work that's going to be over
the last 30 to 60 days.
I mean, it's going to take a while
to move the needle on that
and it's going to take some consistency
to get somewhere different 30 or 60 days
from now when you retest.
There was an article that I was rereading
and what disagreed on whether or not
in my own head whether or not we should do
an article or an episode on it.
And it was talking about the differences,
and we've written this a few times
in the past too,
about whether or not we should actually be
looking at certain lab metrics
in a fast or non fasted
state over the last 10 to 15 years.
It's like, well,
we should actually be looking
at some metrics in a fasted state
and some not.
When you have your routine bloodwork
done, well, guess what?
There's no disparity here.
Fasting, insulin, go get it done.
And now you have an interpretation, right?
You have a number that you can track
that you know is moving the needle away
from metabolic disease
and all of the conditions we mentioned
earlier metabolic syndrome, diabetes,
heart disease, cancer, stroke, etc.
and again, just a piece of the puzzle.
But the easiest way to get control of this
and stop the want
that want that numbing that you mentioned
is to fast, consistently
and make better food choices
when you break your fast.
And if you're looking for guidance
on that, you can head to the show notes
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If you say yes or no to the questions on
some of the other symptoms
that go along with having
insulin resistance or elevated insulin
while you're trying to figure out
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So one takeaway from today, Tommy, for you
as we wrap up today's episode,
head to the show notes.
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So one takeaway, Tom,
as you wrap up today.
Yeah, I love it.
A takeaway for me
is let me get some consistency going here.
So regardless of how much experience
you have with fasting or what your longest
fast is, we're looking for consistency
here in both my ability to set my timer
and then complete the intended fast
as well as the choices
that I'm putting on my plate
when I whenever I am breaking my fast.
Because those are the two things
that are going to add up the most,
they are going to have the biggest impact
on my insulin
resistance and my fasting insulin number
whenever I do have it checked.
So writing those two
and checking those boxes consistently
rather than swinging for the fences,
especially if you haven't been knocking it
out of the park lately, then absolutely.
Go, go do that. Go focus on consistency.
Make one or two better food choices today
and tomorrow and keep that ball rolling
and you're likely to see an improvement
here in some of the things
that we've been talking about today
that are so important.
Absolutely. Love it. Tommy, as always,
appreciate the conversation.
Sure. Head to the show notes,
Check out Nutrition.
Been inspirational.
It's now
part of a signature piece of our programs.
We've been working with them for a while.
Just an incredible experience.
Tommy, as always,
thank you, sir. We'll talk soon.
Thank you. Bye.
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