On several occasions, speaking of diets or studies, I have mentioned insulin resistance , a condition for which our body, on a cellular level, shows itself, as the term itself says, “resistant” to the action of the hormone insulin. To quickly understand what this means, imagine you’ve been taking a headache medication for years. After a while, you have realized that the dose of medication you used to take to relieve the pain is no longer enough for you. You will get the same pain-relieving effect now only if you double the doses of the drug, but after a while you realize that even so the pain prevails and so on. In this case we speak of drug resistance. There. If you have this concept in mind, think that your cells do the same with insulin.
Insulin is in fact a very important hormone in our body , and which has many more functions than we suppose, functions that are still being studied today: what we know, of course, is that insulin nourishes our cells, providing them with glucose. When insulin resistance occurs, cells do not absorb glucose from insulin properly, so blood glucose rises. As blood glucose increases, the pancreas secretes more insulin because the body carries that glucose into the cells. But because the cells are resistant, insulin builds up