Skin signs of insulin resistance? Many skin conditions we chalk up to bad genetics and/or bad luck actually have a hidden root cause that can be discovered and corrected. Only by understanding the connection between your skin condition and your metabolic health can you begin to take corrective steps.
So many of us with skin conditions all over the world we think well i just have acne or i just have rosacea or i just have psoriasis there’s i just have it maybe it’s genetic maybe i was exposed to something what if there was a root cause behind numerous very very common skin conditions and by taking control of this root cause after you detect it you could actually
Greatly improve your skin condition yeah that sounds like a big deal right i’m dr ken berry a family physician with 20 years of clinical practice and this video is going to explain to you seven skin signs of insulin resistance and you may have never heard of insulin resistance but even if you haven’t it can still really affect your health and affect your skin
This video is going to help you understand that and more first of all let’s discuss three different terms and uh help you understand what they mean and also the fact that they mean effectively the same thing the first term is insulin resistance and most doctors have heard of this term before and most doctors and most patients take that to mean that our cells
Just don’t respond to insulin like they once did and that therefore your blood sugar goes up you can’t get blood sugar from your bloodstream into your cells the second term is metabolic syndrome and there’s a this is a formal diagnosis there are multiple different signs of this if you have a certain number of those signs then you have metabolic syndrome but
It’s basically the same thing as insulin resistance then the third term which i think describes both insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome the best of all is hyperinsulinemia which means you’ve got a chronically elevated level of insulin in your bloodstream and so you can really think of all three terms interchangeably uh they are different from each other
In little ways but the overarching paradigm of thinking about these is your insulin level in your blood is chronically high and that leads to either causing the skin conditions i’m about to tell you about in many people and then other people making these skin conditions much much worse than they would be otherwise these skin conditions are very very common and
If you don’t suffer from one i guarantee you you have a friend or a loved one who does suffer from one of these skin conditions while i’m going through this list of conditions if you hear a condition you’re like oh yeah my buddy fred has that or my daughter amy has that please consider sharing this video with them because knowing this root cause behind their
Skin condition can make all the difference in the world at the end of this video i’m going to tell you about three lab tests that you can go to your doctor and request respectfully and lovingly or demand either way demand these three tests and they will give you insight into whether you have metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia all
Three of which are intimately linked to all of the skin conditions i’m about to tell you about are you ready here we go number one is early onset male pattern baldness now you may have thought that this was a sign that you had too much testosterone or that you had bad genetics and indeed both of these do play a small role but male pattern baldness is very very
Closely linked to insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia especially the earlier the onset so and this can be in men or women this is male pattern baldness not just male baldness and so some women suffer from male pattern baldness if you’re a man or woman and you have early onset male pattern baldness you need to go to your doctor and demand the three tests i’m
Going to tell you about at the end the next skin condition is skin tags now many many millions of people have skin tags if you just have one or two tiny ones that may not be a big deal but if you have three or more that are medium to large in size you almost certainly have some degree of insulin resistance and you should ask for the three tests i’m going to tell
You about the next skin condition on the list is acanthosis nigricons this is a brownness or a darkness of the skin on the back of the neck or under the arms or in the groin this is almost 100 of the time a sign of insulin resistance metabolic syndrome or hyper insulinemia this usually happens to people with darker skin pigment but it can happen in lighter skin
Pigments as well it is it is a very very concerning sign that you’re insulin resistant and that you need these three tests the next skin condition is hydratingitis suprativa this is a very very annoying skin condition that you can have in your armpits or in your groin that is just chronic and comes and goes and it’s just it’s just a terrible condition to have
And many many many people in most doctors have no idea that it is very very tightly related to having insulin resistance and the three tests at the end of this video will help you tease this out the next skin condition is one of the most common skin conditions in the world and that’s acne yeah acne is very very closely related to having insulin resistance now
If you’ve heard much about insulin resistance in the past you know that typically people who are overweight or obese and older in age typically have insulin resistance here’s the thing very young people and also very slender people can have insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia very commonly if they’re if you have a teenager or someone in their 20s and they
Have not just a pimple or tube i’m talking about a substantial case of acne a severe case of acne they almost certainly have hyperinsulinemia or insulin resistance and there’s no need to wait til you’re 40 or 50 or 60 years old to get these tests checked if you have a teenage loved one who has moderate to severe acne they need these tests checked asap the next
Skin condition is rosacea i actually have rosacea although you can’t tell it now because i got the the test check that i’m going to tell you about and then i did the things that make my insulin resistance my hyperinsulinemia get better and go away and therefore my rosacea went away as well rosacea can be quite concerning you can actually have a buildup of blood
Vessels in the skin of your cheeks and nose you can wind up with a severe condition called rhinophyma where your nose actually becomes bumpy and enlarged because of years and years of damage from the rosacea so if you if you have even a mild case of rosacea get these tests checked i implore you and the last two skin conditions are eczema or atopic dermatitis and
Psoriasis millions of people of all ages suffer from these conditions and almost every single one of these people have no idea that both of these conditions are very very closely linked with having insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia even very very young children can have hyper hyperinsulinemia and that’s why the three tests i’m about to tell you about are so
Important if you were just surprised by one of the skin conditions that i talked about being related to insulin resistance and you’re like no my doctor said it was genetic or it was just luck of the draw i’ve included lots of research links down in the show notes below that you can find your particular skin condition or the skin condition of a loved one and look
It up and so when you go to your doctor to ask for these three tests if your doctor says you have acne that doesn’t mean you have insulin resistance you can whip out the studies that you printed off from doc off of dr barry’s video and say actually doctor these studies seem to suggest that this skin condition is very very closely related to insulin resistance
Will you please check my labs so the three lab tests that you really need to strongly yet gently requests from your doctor are a hemoglobin a1c which is going to give you a three month average of what your blood sugar has been doing it’s a great test for checking if your blood sugar spikes high occasionally or daily you can see that on a hemoglobin a1c the second
Test is a c peptide this is a beautiful proxy marker for how much insulin your pancreas is having to produce each day and then the third test is a fasting insulin test and this is going to be elevated if your pancreas is having to excrete lots and lots of insulin every day now finally what do you do okay so you you got one of these skin conditions and you went
To the doctor and you got these three tests checked and sure enough you have insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia or metabolic syndrome now what do you do these all three of these conditions and all of these skin conditions are either caused by or made worse by eating a high carbohydrate diet you need to start to investigate and start to implement a very low
Carbohydrate diet some people call this a ketogenic way of eating or ketogenic diet keto diet some people have to go even lower carb than that to a ketovore diet which is a ketogenic diet that’s mainly fatty meat and a little bit of veg some people have to go all the way to a full carnivore diet in order to get the carbohydrates in their diet low enough that
Their insulin level will come back down to normal and their insulin resistance will go away or at least get a lot better at the end of this video i’m going to have playlists pop up here and here for keto or carnivore so if you’re if you’d be happy just eating meat check out the carnivore 101 playlist if you need a little veg in your life then check out the keto
101 playlist either one of these dietary strategies is going to reduce your chronically elevated levels of insulin and cause all of your cells to be more insulin sensitive and cause all of these skin conditions we talked about in this video to improve if you enjoyed this video and the pictures and would like to see more like it in the future don’t forget to hit
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7 Skin Signs of INSULIN RESISTANCE (Root Cause 2022) WARNING: Graphic By KenDBerryMD
