How Does Insulin Resistance Happen?
Under certain conditions the chemistry of the body can become unbalanced, causing problems with metabolic processes and resulting in an array of serious health concerns. How does the body get so out of balance? Genetic predisposition certainly appears to be a culprit in the case of excess weight gain and associated fatigue; however, evidence indicates that lifestyle factors such as high fat and carbohydrate diets, physical inactivity and smoking are the triggers for widespread metabolic malfunction and possibly influence “mis-signaling” in the genetic pathway. An article published by the Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara quotes Gerald Reaven, MD, professor of medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine, as saying that about “50 percent of a person’s degree of Insulin Resistance can be attributed to genetics and 50 percent can be attributed to lifestyle factors. For example, obesity, physical inactivity, and smoking all increase the degree of Insulin Resistance.” (1) Energy-starved Cells
