As a fat making hormone, insulin plays a big role. So let's begin with that and how insulin impacts on fat and how we can manipulate it to prevent weight gain, as well as accelerate our weight loss. Now, we know incident is important and that with arted, we will actually die. But we need just enough not too much. This is not one of those situations where more is better. In fact, as I will explain to you incident is a primary fat making hormone.

So what happens in our body when we actually have too much insulin? We know that insulin is secreted in the presence of carbohydrate and the more carbohydrate we eat, and the quicker the carbohydrates are digested. In other words, the higher the glycemic index, the higher will be our insulin requirements on top of it, if we eat too regularly, the pancreas is forced to eat On secreting insulin, and remember from a previous lecture, insolent as a hormone messenger that tells the body to store energy. But just as we become switched off when our children are nagging as constantly, the body cells do exactly the same thing. If we eating all the time, or eating very high glycemic foods, that mean that it takes time for our insulin to deplete. This constant supply eventually results in a condition known as insulin resistance.

So let's look at a simple diagram of incident response. Remember that incident is secreted every single time you eat. So if you snack continually, this incident in the body all the time so if you were to look at the pinks and the purples, as being the incident secretions, you can see there's a lot of pink and purple over 24 hours. period, the cells are constantly being bathed in this wash of insulin. Until the insulin receptors no longer respond to insulin, they shut off the supply they become David, normal insulin and insulin resistance begins. Now we looked earlier at a normal insulin response to food.

So let's look at insulin resistant response to food. So we eat our food. We eat carbohydrates and proteins and fats. As is normal, blood glucose is going to rise in the blood. And your pancreas is going to respond to that by secreting insulin. But now, because our cells have over time, become resistant to the insulin, they will no longer allowed insulin into the self so the incident cannot carry the sugars from the blood into the cell.

Now what happens is that the sugar remains high in the blood. The glucose because it's not allowed entry into the cell will not be able to get to the mitochondria, so that affects our energy cycles. Now we have a situation where we've got glucose in the blood. And with glucose in the blood, the body, the body doesn't know that the insulin is attached to the glucose and insulin is trying to get that glucose into the cell. All the body knows is that there's still glucose in the blood, so triggers a flood, a greater flood of incidents and others more insulin in the blood. The higher glucose that remains in the blood is now stored as fat and the excess insulin that's not in the blood has added dangers, which I will discuss later.

And again, because your insulin has not carried your sugar into your your mitochondria, Your body has a perception that it's starving. So, this now stimulates your hunger response and you get this vicious cycle developing. So the important points to note here are because the glucose has not been burned in the mitochondria, it has nowhere else to go. better fit exists incident has added dangers, which as I'm going to discuss later, an incident resistance and exist incident stimulate hunger. So then of course, we're going to eat more and we're going to snack more and we're going to add even more glucose to an already burdened system.