Save $50 off the Lumen’s Metabolism Tracker with code: KAIT50 (first 100 only) Here is how you can overcome prediabetes and insulin resistance using metabolic flexibility. 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 ↓
In today’s video we’re going to be going over how to overcome pre-diabetes and insulin resistance specifically by improving metabolic flexibility pre-diabetes is diagnosed when fasting blood deciliter or 5.6 to 6.9 millimoles per liter more than one in three americans has pre-diabetes and this rate is comparable for others
In western countries such as canada and australia as well if you catch pre-diabetes early it’s easier to bring your fasting blood sugar back down than if you catch it later and when you are pre-diabetic your body is not efficient at using energy the cells in your body are not taking in glucose properly which
Is what is leading to your high fasting blood sugar but because your blood sugar is but thankfully there are things you can do to improve your metabolic health improve your metabolic flexibility and ultimately overcome hey guys welcome back to my channel if you’re new here my name is kait i’m a health coach and i
Post videos on a high fat nutrient dense way of eating if you like this video please give it a thumbs up feel free to share and make sure to subscribe and make sure to follow me on instagram twitter facebook and now tick tock where i shoot new posts every single day as i mentioned at the start of this video pre-diabetes
Is characterized by having high fasting blood sugar higher than enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes with pre-diabetes will eventually develop type 2 diabetes so the odds of avoiding it are not in your favor but just because the odds are not in your favor does not mean it is impossible to avoid you
Can overcome pre-diabetes and reverse the diagnosis and that’s what we’re going to be talking about today so in today’s video we’re going to start out talking about what pre-diabetes is and what causes it and then we’ll get into how you can overcome it by improving metabolic flexibility and improving your metabolic
Health overall what causes pre-diabetes as previously mentioned pre-diabetes is very likely going to eventually lead to type 2 diabetes but there is something that occurs before pre-diabetes years before in fact and that is insulin resistance insulin is the hormone that is responsible for transferring excess
Sugar from our bloodstream to our cells but over time our cells can become resistant to the signals of insulin this means they aren’t taking in glucose efficiently more insulin to deal with the excess glucose so for a while the extra insulin that’s being pumped out is enough to keep your blood sugar in check
But eventually it can no longer keep up and this is when you’re going to start to see a rise in your fasting blood sugar and you’ll be diagnosed with pre-diabetes so you can think of insulin resistance as on a spectrum on one end you have someone who is just beginning to be resistant their blood sugar is normal but they
Might start seeing some of the side effects of having high insulin such as weight gain skin tags and hair loss and then on the other end of the spectrum diabetes who requires insulin or other medication to keep their blood sugar in check they are going to be dealing with more serious side effects hands and
Feet so what can you do to overcome flexibility is one very effective strategy metabolic flexibility so our bodies have two fuel sources they can use carbs or they can use fat and metabolic flexibility is the ability to switch between burning these two fuel sources seamlessly now you’ll remember that at the start of
This video i said that people with pre-diabetes are metabolically flexible because insulin is glucose burning fat is difficult essentially when insulin is high this is a signal to the body that there’s excess glucose in the bloodstream aka energy that’s ready to be used so it doesn’t see a need to tap into our
Fat stores for energy because there’s already energy readily available if that makes sense but the issue is is that our cells are resisting the signals of insulin so they’re not taking in glucose as they should and this is why symptoms such as fatigue sugar cravings and hunger after eating are so common for
Those with pre-diabetes but the good news is is that becoming more metabolically flexible improves insulin sensitivity and with a few simple diet and lifestyle tweaks you can become more metabolically flexible and eventually overcome pre-diabetes and one tool that can help you achieve this is lumen a metabolism tracker
That lets you know if you are burning mainly carbs or fat for energy lumen provides insights and guidance to enhance your body’s use of its fuel sources and it does this by measuring your carbon dioxide concentration in your breath so for example ideally you want to wake up in a fat burning state overnight your body
Should have burned through your glycogen which is to burning fat instead and lumen’s nutrition recommendations throughout the day can help you to make sure you wake up in a fat burning state especially in the beginning when you first start using lumen it’s going to make recommendations that are low in carbohydrates
And this is going to help you to keep your insulin levels low and your blood sugar more stable carbohydrates are the macronutrient that triggers the greatest release in insulin so by keeping carbs low in your diet your circulating insulin levels are going to be lower helping your cells to become more insulin sensitive
Again staying under the carb limit that lumen recommends will help your body to burn fat more efficiently based on your morning reading and your exercise plan for the day lumen will formulate a nutrition plan and recommend recipes readings before and after you eat to see how the meal affected your metabolism and you
Can take readings before and after exercise as well exercise can help you to use up the glucose that’s in your bloodstream and your stored glucose as well and help you to get back into fat burning mode faster all of this to say lumen is a very valuable tool for monitoring your metabolic health and your lumen flex
Score will help you to track mentioned before improving your metabolic flexibility is going to help you to become more insulin sensitive ultimately helping you to overcome pre-diabetes if you want to check out lumen you can click the link in the description box down below and be quick because the first 100
People to use the code kait50 are going to save 50 off their order i’ve been using lumen since i think early december and i find it really helpful but also for planning to fuel my workouts and even holding myself accountable with lumen i’ve discovered that if i eat too close to my bedtime i’m more likely to wake up
Burning more carbs than fat and i’ve also made the connection that i feel way better throughout the day if i wake up burning fat but anyways guys that’s all i have for today i hope this video helped you to understand the connection between metabolic flexibility and pre-diabetes and insulin resistance let me know
In the comment section down below if you knew what metabolic flexibility was before this video and remember to click the link in the description enjoy this video you might also enjoy my video where i do a full day of eating for metabolic flexibility you can check that out here if you want to catch up on my most
Recent upload you can find it here and if you want to check out my keto diet and cardboard coaching programs you can find those here thanks guys i’ll see you next time bye
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Overcome Prediabetes and Insulin Resistance Using Metabolic Flexibility! By Health Coach Kait
