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Discover the Symptoms of Insulin Resistance and Find Out If You Have Insulin Resistance

Insulin resistance symptoms and causes are varied. Insulin is a hormone which is released into the blood and travels around the body. It’s purpose is to control the way the body deals with carbohydrates, sugars, starch and proteins, and to regulate the cells of the body, particularly with regard to growth.

Insulin resistance is where the cells of the body become resistant to the effects of the insulin thus making the body produce higher levels in order for it to have it’s desired effect on the body.

As all major tissues become insulin resistant the pancreas starts putting out more insulin to try to compensate. The pancreas eventually becomes unable to keep up the high level of insulin production and starts to slow down.

Some of the symptoms are as follows:

Fatigue
Leading to a constant feeling of tiredness where simple tasks become a problem. The inertia can lead to feelings of inadequacy and depression. Constant fatigue also leads to an inability to focus of anything, forgetfulness and loss of interest.

Low Blood Sugar
This causes moodiness and agitation. If meals are too far apart it can cause nausea and dizziness, which is relieved after a meal. Read the rest of this entry »

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Planning for Travel with Insulin and Diabetes

Travel can be a lot of fun, but it takes some advance planning. People with diabetes have to plan a little more. Here are a few things to keep in mind about your insulin when you head out for that dream vacation.

Your Blood Sugar

When you are traveling, it is important to monitor your blood sugar more closely. This means checking your blood sugar every four hours when you are awake. Travel can be stressful, which can raise your blood sugar level. Don’t treat your blood sugar without monitoring it, and monitor it to make sure that you are giving the correct dosages of medication and/or insulin.

Insulin Storage

Keep your insulin with you when you travel, in your carry-on or purse. Insulin needs to stay in a fairly moderate temperature zone, and as such, cannot go with your luggage in the depressurized compartment. Also, if there were ever a baggage handling mishap, you would want your insulin to be with you: if your bags end up in Minneapolis-St. Paul’s when you are in Sao Paulo, you want to make sure you have your insulin.

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Insulin Resistance

We hear a lot about insulin resistance, but stop and think a little bit, do you think our cells only become resistant to insulin? The more hormones your cells are exposed to, the more resistant they will become to almost any hormone. Certain cells more than others, so there is a discrepancy. The problem with hormone resistance is that there is a dichotomy of resistance, that all the cells don’t become resistant at the same time.

And different hormones affect different cells, and the rate of hormone is different among different cells and this causes lots of problems with the feedback mechanisms. We know that one of the major areas of the body that becomes resistant to many feedback loops is the hypothalamus. The various interrelationships there I really don’t have time to go in to here.

But hypothalamic resistance to feedback signals plays a very important role in aging and insulin resistance because the hypothalamus has receptors for insulin too. I mentioned that insulin stimulates sympathetic nervous system, it does so through the hypothalamus, which is the center of it all.

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