We're always told that insulin resistance is the root cause of diabetes type 2. But that may be wrong. Insulin resistance could be a GOOD thing.
Dr. Fung explains it well in this insightful new post. Basically insulin resistance is the way the cells protect themselves from excess insulin and glucose in the blood (the real problem):
Dr. Fung: Insulin Resistance is Good?I love Dr. Fung's take on inflammation in this post as well. It has bothered me for quite some long time when people claim that inflammation is the cause of X (i.e. heart disease). Inflammation is usually a symtom of a problem, it's the body's default response to damage. The cause is something else.
In the case of heart disease the cause is damage to the interior of the blood vessels. This damage results in inflammation - but that's just a symtom. The cause of the damage? Many things. High blood sugar. High blood pressure. Toxic chemicals (e.g. from smoking). And probably oxidized small dense LDL particles. Excess bad carbs can cause all these problems, except perhaps smoking.
The thing is that we can't solve the problem by attacking a symtom of the problem. Diabetes type 2 can't be cured by targeting insulin resistance. Heart disease can't be cured by targeting inflammation. We need to take away the cause, which in many cases is eating too many bad carbs, too often (i.e. a normal Western diet).
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