insulin resistance it means you've made way too much insulin and you've been doing it for too long let me teach you how to get rid of this nightmare for good insulin that hormone that insulates is required for life and our privileged lives filled with abundant food makes it really easy to make too much insulin there are three factors about your food that influence how much insulin you make the type of food the size of food and the time of food number one the type of food here's the super secret every single morsel of food that you swallow stimulates insulin yep that's a fact stop eating food altogether and produce no insulin now before you go on hunger strike do this sort your food into three categories carbohydrates protein and fat of these three categories the type of food that squeezes the most insulin out of your pancreas is carbohydrates yes carbohydrates cause the fastest and most robust amount of production of insulin protein comes in second with a slower amount of insulin and not quite as high of a peak swallow fat and your ryzen insulin is the slowest and least abundant notice how long it took for those insulins to return to normal four to six hours and this was measuring insulin in healthy people insulin resistant patients take three to four times that so if you're trying to produce less insulin stop eating carbs eat a sparse amount of protein and eat mostly fat oh that's the keto diet number two is the size of your food specifically i'm talking about the particle sizes within your food if you grind up your carbohydrates protein or fat all of them stimulate insulin in fact this chart is from powdered carbs powdered protein and powdered fat and these were the healthy patients pulverize your carbohydrates for the greatest production in insulin what's a pulverized carb flour cornbread sugar especially the powdered kind patients with insulin resistance are already overproducing this hormone those protein shakes are not doing them any favors if you crush or grind your protein into a powder and then blend it into a protein shake you're going to stimulate your insulin as much as a handful of carbs if you pulverize your fat it will stimulate insulin foods made from coconut or almond flour the label says that it's low carb high fat and high protein but your body will still produce the insulin and that insulin will be high for hours if you're insulin resistant remove processed carbs from your menu chew your protein chew your fat you cannot chew your food into the tiny particles found in that processed food number three time your food our pineal gland detects the rise in the sun it's hardwired into our existence sunrise signals our body to release stored glucose through our circadian rhythm circadian rhythm causes a bump in glucose every morning to give our bodies some fuel for the first moments of the day if you're insulin resistant you top the charts you along with diabetics produce the highest blood sugars of all the high blood sugars squeezes your pancreas for insulin and you never even swallowed a bite that is a dirty trick if you're trying to reverse things it's true you can't get away from that rise in insulin it's linked to the rise in the sun what you do have control over is the time you eat insulin resistant patients find great success with only swallowing food in the mornings this can be very difficult when i tell patients to only eat breakfast i tell my insulin resistant patients to begin with this rule eat when the sun is up if they get home at night and the sun has set it's too late to eat swallowing food at that hour keeps insulin and glucose high all night long which makes the next day even harder and that's where this cycle perpetuates and this problem becomes a nightmare i encourage them to protect the dark hours from food leave time for your body to recover your timer will restart at sunrise the more empty hours of no food swallowed between the last bite and sunrise the better my patients do restrict your eating by pulling all of the calories into the daylight hours then advance your restriction by sliding the meal closer to sunrise if you're trying to reverse insulin resistance stop making insulin eat mostly fat with a sprinkle of protein eat whole foods not processed foods and slide those calories as close to sunrise as possible if you're looking for a grocery list for insulin resistance i've got you covered check it out