You may have already heard the term “insulin resistance,” as it has been widely discussed by doctors and the media. But did you know that it can be reduced or reversed in the vast majority of people?

Insulin resistance, i.e., the inability of the body’s cells, especially liver, muscle, and brain, to respond to insulin and allow blood sugar to enter cells, drives numerous abnormal health conditions including Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, fatty liver, Alzheimer’s dementia, and cancer. It is therefore a driving force behind so many modern and common chronic health conditions.

You can recognize insulin resistance because it:

The conventional medical response to even flagrant levels of insulin resistance? Mostly do nothing except to deal with overt consequences such as high blood sugar in the diabetic range (126 mg/dl or higher) or high triglycerides (400 mg/dl or higher). Some prescribe a class of drugs called glitazones or thiazolidinediones that modestly reduce insulin resistance but have been plagued with problems such as weight gain, massive fluid retention, and congestive heart failure.

The original drug in its class, troglitazone, was withdrawn from the market due to cases of liver damage, but pioglitazone (Actos) and rosiglitazone (Avandia) remain on the market. Rosiglitazone has also been associated with increased risk of heart attack. But that’s it: That is as far as conventional efforts go to reduce or reverse insulin resistance.

Yet there are SO many steps you can take to reverse insulin resistance and thereby reduce or eliminate risk for all those diseases —from Type 2 diabetes to dementia. This is not speculation—the evidence is overwhelming. Among the steps you can take include:

These strategies also enjoy a powerful synergy. Correcting iodine deficiency/hypothyroidism, for example, helps reduce visceral fat and metabolic endotoxemia. I call the powerful synergy that emerges from these efforts the “2 + 2 = 11” effect.

Do these strategies look familiar to you? They should, because they are the six basic strategic components of the Wheat Belly and Undoctored programs. This is a big part of the reason why these programs are so spectacularly effective in reducing blood sugar, reducing blood pressure, reducing triglycerides, reversing fatty liver, and reducing or reversing insulin resistance.

The list of strategies in my programs is not a random hodgepodge of nutritional supplements—they were carefully and thoughtfully picked and crafted to achieve specific effects, addressing nutrient deficiencies or, in the case of the microbiome, addressing disruptions that are painfully common in modern life. And you can appreciate that we go way beyond diet to achieve these benefits—diet alone is powerful, but not enough.

Republished from DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com