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TrigonSpawn OP t1_iydwwzm wrote

Reply to comment by Moskau50 in ELI5: How does Insulin Resistance work and why does it effect day to day life and/or weightloss??? by TrigonSpawn

Hm. Is it known how insulin resistance happens? For example does insulin resistance start first from a cause on it's own and then the resistance causes diseases like PCOS/Diabetes or do the diseases cause insulin resistance? Or neither/some mix of the two??

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lowflier84 t1_iydyq4l wrote

Insulin resistance is a precursor to diabetes. Insulin rises and falls in response to blood glucose levels. Depending on what and how you eat, those blood glucose levels may not fall enough, and you can eventually put yourself in a situation where the amount of insulin needed to get your body to use blood glucose gets so high that your pancreas can no longer produce enough.

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TrigonSpawn OP t1_iye0khr wrote

Hm so insulin resistance is caused by diet. Is insulin resistance reversible with diet change then or is it kind of one of those things where the damage is done but diet change can mitigate it to a certain point? I've seen where it's been said diabetes can be reversed depending on the type of diabetes (not the type where you're born with it, only the type where you acquire the disease) and now I'm assuming since the two are linked that if you reverse insulin resistance that equally reverses diabetes? Not sure if that's an accurate way to look at that

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