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BEN BIKMAN c | Insulin resistance BENEFICIAL? pregnancy & puberty
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presents episode 948 | Dr Ben Bikman
Metabolic Health Podcast with Dr Dom D’Agnostino
Question: when is insulin resistance
a beneficial situation?
-physiological insulin resistance is
when it serves a healthful purpose:
to promote growth
-still insulin sensitive at other tissues
-body promotes anabolism
ESSENTIAL for:
1-pregnancy
2-puberty
Physiological insulin resistance,
-accompanied by hyperinsulinemia
-mother's body growing fat or
mammary tissue or placenta
& the fetus benefiting
-adolescent growing more than
any other time of life
NOT HARMFUL
In pregnancy: don't mitigate this!
-but don't let it go too far, could
become gestational diabetes
Physiological insulin resistance,
In healthy pregnant woman:
-glucose normal
-insulin elevated
If becomes so resistant to insulin
[genetics or diet]
-now: has gestational diabetes
"Yes, physiological insulin resistance
is possible, not low carb is not it"
In adolescents...
-some tissue still respond sensitively
to insulin
-bone does not become resistant
hyperinsulinemia:
-promotes bone growth
-defends muscle protein synthesis
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