Lower Your Blood Sugar With An Insulin Resistance Diet Plan
Insulin resistance is a condition I’m very familiar with because it’s a battle I fight every day. Insulin resistance is where the body produces insulin, but it doesn’t use it properly. Your body will break down the food you eat, into glucose, which is then moved through the bloodstream to the hungry cells. Insulin is [...]
Insulin Resistance and Infertility
Some things we don’t talk about and some we just don’t talk about enough. Did you know that insulin resistance was one of the leading causes of infertility in women. Thousands of women suffer every year wondering why they are unable to conceive when the problem is not in their reproductive organs but in their [...]
Thyroid and Weight Gain
Is your thyroid making you gain weight? Have you ever wondered if you have trouble losing weight because your thyroid is under active? Almost 10% of us have this problem, and many more of us have many of the symptoms of low thyroid, even though our blood test show our levels to be in the [...]
Cortisol and Belly Fat
If you care about how you look – at all – you don’t want a fat belly. Though often no matter how much you diet there it is. You may lose weight in your arms and legs, but your belly is right out there in front, begging to be seen. What are you doing wrong? [...]
What’s The Healthiest Diet To Follow?
There are hundreds of diets out there, and it can be mind boggling to keep track of them all. But whether you’re trying to lose weight, or are simply wanting to stay healthy by eating a healthy diet, you’re going to have to weed through them to find the one that’s best for you. The [...]
Reduced Carbohydrate Diets
Most of us find when we eat a meal high in carbohydrates, even if they are complex carbohydrates, we get hungry more rapidly and the hunger pains are stronger. And to add insult to injury, we remain hungry (or at least hungrier) for the rest of the day. So if this happens to you, you [...]
Insulin Resistance and the Cortisol Connection
Confused about Cortisol and the Insulin Resistance Connection? Many people are until they realize there’s a link between insulin levels and cortisol. They rise and fall in unison. When insulin levels rise, so do cortisol levels. When cortisol levels rise, so does insulin. So as your insulin and cortisol levels rise, it puts stress on [...]