I had become insulin resistant.

This is a typical insulin injection.

More importantly, I don't have insulin resistance.

So now, when insulin says to a cell,

Now you've all heard of at least insulin.

And insulin resistance, as its name suggests, is when your cells get increasingly resistant to the effect of insulin trying to do its job.

But insulin accelerates the conversion of calories into fat.

I'll start with insulin, diabetes medication in the U.S.

Now failure to produce enough insulin is incompatible with life.

This is a pen, it's called an insulin pen, preloaded.

Once you're insulin resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.

Now, most researchers believe obesity is the cause of insulin resistance.

What if obesity isn't the cause of insulin resistance at all?

Adherence rates. How many people are taking their insulin every day?

Your pancreas makes insulin to bring it back down, which is good.

There's one called TOR, which is another nutrient sensor, like the insulin pathway.

So for many of us, about 75 million Americans, the appropriate response to insulin resistance may actually be to store it as fat, not the reverse, getting insulin resistance in response to getting fat.

When we become insulin resistant, the homeostasis in that balance deviates from this state.

So what if we're fighting the wrong war, fighting obesity rather than insulin resistance?

Have you been keeping up a normal diet since the last shot of insulin?

We know that 30 million obese Americans in the United States don't have insulin resistance.

Avandia, which debuted in 1999, is an insulin sensitizer , used for treating Type 2 diabetes.

A generous contribution of human insulin from a United States corporation channelled through a non governmental organization helped the Agency to meet its requirements for treatment of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus Agency wide in 1997 and 1998.

Logically, then, if you want to treat insulin resistance, you get people to lose weight, right?

I became almost maniacally obsessed in trying to understand the real relationship between obesity and insulin resistance.

So what I'm suggesting is maybe we have the cause and effect wrong on obesity and insulin resistance.

The daf 2 hormone receptor is very similar to the receptor for the hormone insulin and IGF 1.

Insulin is a hormone that promotes the uptake of nutrients into your tissues after you eat a meal.

On Medicaid if you're fairly poor you get Medicaid, or if you have health insurance insulin is pretty straightforward.

And the reason is that these hormones, like the insulin and the IGF hormones and the TOR pathway, they're essential.

And also, there are other ways of activating FOXO that don't even involve insulin or IGF 1 that might even be safer.

We discussed, in the prior film, some of the old things that we did, like stents and insulin pumps for the diabetic.

This means that 40 or 45 percent of all school aged children could be insulin dependent within a decade. Within a decade.

If you ask yourself, what's a cell trying to protect itself from when it becomes insulin resistant, the answer probably isn't too much food.

But step one is accepting the possibility that our current beliefs about obesity, diabetes and insulin resistance could be wrong and therefore must be tested.

Maybe we should be asking ourselves, is it possible that insulin resistance causes weight gain and the diseases associated with obesity, at least in most people?

You can think of insulin as this master hormone that controls what our body does with the foods we eat, whether we burn it or store it.

One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.

Now, we know that refined grains and starches elevate your blood sugar in the short run, and there's even reason to believe that sugar may lead to insulin resistance directly.

They put tens of thousands of these in the blood cell they tried this in rats it lets insulin out in a controlled fashion, and actually cures type 1 diabetes.

And what was remarkable about it was in the past when we think of chemical messengers within the body, we thought of complicated things like estrogen and insulin, or nerve transmission.

So if you can be obese and not have insulin resistance, and you can be lean and have it, this suggests that obesity may just be a proxy for what's going on.

Among the donations received were a one year supply of the Agency apos s requirements for human insulin to treat diabetes in all five fields, and a donation of computer equipment for vocational training centres.

Well we think that insulin and IGF 1 hormones are hormones that are particularly active under favorable conditions in the good times when food is plentiful and there's not a lot of stress in the environment.

You can think of insulin resistance as the reduced capacity of our cells to partition fuel, as I alluded to a moment ago, taking those calories that we take in and burning some appropriately and storing some appropriately.