Insulin
“One way door into cells” created by pancreas in response to ingestion of energy, mostly from carbs. Master Hormone.
Impacts blood sugar level – high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia) are harmful, so managing blood sugar is critical for long term health.
When your liver and muscles are full with glucose, your body converts the extra glucose into a type of saturated fat called palmitic acid, which can then bind together with in groups of three – Triglycerides. This leads to excess body fat, increased triglycerides, and free fatty acids in the blood. This then pushes Leptin out of balance.
Leptin
Tells you when you are hungry or not. low when you need food, high when you are full. Based off your bodies current stance, Leptin is pumped out to let your body know what it needs. If you have little fat, leptin is low and you crave food.
Leptin is stronger than your will power
Type 2 Diabetes
Excess Glucose needs to be stored. The cells are force fed the glucose which creates stress on the cells, damaging them. Cells become insulin resistant after a cycle.
Glucagon – “One way door out of cells”
Glucagon allows you to access the energy inside your cells that was stored. Chronic stress, protein intake, and low blood sugar stimulate glucagon release. It is inhibited by elevated insulin and free fatty acids in the blood.
How to naturally reduce insulin levels? What to do after eating carbs?
Cortisol – released when blood sugar is low, physical or psychological stress, intense and prolonged exercise, and sleep deprivation. Activates your energy. Highest right before you get up and activated by light, shut off by darkness.
Lights at night don’t let your body wind down which does not allow adequate deep, restorative sleep. This is important for memory and memory access.
Prolonged hunger for 12-16 hours sends your body a message to “preserve body fat” It erodes your muscle and stores fat. Think, prepping for war.
Genes are the gun that is loaded inside of you. Your environment is the trigger. What we do on a daily basis activates our ‘bad genes’
Eat meat, fish, and eggs
Veggies are better than fruits
Eat within 1 hour of waking up to optimize leptin
To help with not naturally grown and fed animals, cut all the fat off before you cook. Many of the toxins that are associated with this ‘unnatural meat’ are found in the fat.
Coffee: Coffee is alright, drink AFTER you eat food in the morning. If you ‘need’ coffee in the AM, your cortisol levels are off. Drink before noon.
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