How to Test for Insulin Resistance

It's important to know how to test for insulin resistance. Check this out!

Timestamps
0:00 What is insulin? 
0:40 What is insulin resistance?
1:11 Signs of insulin resistance 
2:27 Test for insulin resistance 
4:26 Share your success story! 

Let's talk about how to test for insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone that prevents sugar from building up too high in your blood. For example, if you consume too many carbs and your blood sugar rises too high, insulin comes in and removes it to help keep the blood sugars at a constant level.

Normally, sugar is used as fuel in the body. But, with insulin resistance, sugar is converted into fat. One of the purposes of insulin is to prevent fat-burning and encourage fat-storing. 

Insulin resistance is a situation where insulin is not working, so the body has to compensate by making more and more insulin. With insulin resistance, carbohydrates are not burned easily. Instead, they are shunted to the liver, where they start to develop fat within the liver. 

Indications of insulin resistance:
• High triglycerides in your blood 
• High LDL (specifically small-dense particles)
• Carb intolerance 

Symptoms of carb intolerance:
• Weight gain 
• Blood sugar levels are too high or too low 
• Bloating after eating carbs 
• Fatigue after eating carbs 
• Craving carbs 
• You're hungry all of the time 
• Excessive urination at night 
• Moodiness 
• Irritability 
• Loss of focus, concentration, and memory

There is also a really good test that you can do to determine if you have insulin resistance. Many doctors are not familiar with this test, but it is called HOMA-IR. This is the best objective test to measure insulin resistance. 

This test looks at the relationship between two things, your fasting blood glucose and your fasting blood insulin. This test tells you to what degree you have insulin resistance.

To help get rid of insulin resistance, get on the ketogenic diet and do intermittent fasting. 

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Dr. Berg, age 57, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps explain how to test for insulin resistance.

[woodrowallen]

I went from 240 lbs to 150, used to take 110 units of insulin and now take none. Blood glucose would be anywhere between 50 and 500+ now between 80 and 90. Thank you so much!

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[andreas]

I'm on Healthy Keto for over 2 years now and I got my HOMA-IR tested a few weeks ago. My marker is at 0.7.

[andrzejlukianczuk]

Beyond fasting and healthy keto diet. I learned from the book of Alexandre Doumenach MD I recommend that magnesium, zinc, potassium, vitamin K2-mk7 and even iodine are great for insulin resistance. I try to pay attention to this nutrients. Greeting! Informative video doc!

[abcdfa]

Hi doctor how are you, last 1 January 2024 was my last day i had easy going with food. Was 121 kg and prediabetic Homa - ir was 3.5.
Thanks to your education i start keto diet and intermetiet fasting. Now 3 September my Diabeti is 4.82 and Homa -ir is 1.2. Thanks alot for your hard work.

[rhizomove]

Wow!! This is the best explanation of insulin resistance and it’s relationship to diabetes I have ever heard!! The marker levels were not included in the information.

[HS]

Thank you again, pls keep this information coming. There should be some kind of national awareness, sugar is worse than Tobacco, people are dying and they don’t know why! Governments and health organizations know about it but they close their eyes for their own benefits. Sugar should be treated the same way as Tobacco!!! A bottle of sugary drink should have same warning signs as cigarette pack !! People are dying from obesity related illnesses!!

[moustafahamada]

There is no need for special preparations before testing for insulin resistance, but it is preferable to fast 8 to 12 hours before the test and the sample required is a blood sample taken from a vein.

[jantrevino]

68 female, hypothyroid, neuropathy, insomniac, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, breast cancer survivor. My doctor never tests for this, but, I have many of these symptoms.

[claratang]

I share one of my reading here: I find a research telling us BBR can reduce glucose when blood sugar is high, but not effect blood sugar when it is low. Very interesting. It is s study over ten years. Researchers also find out that there is a certain group of people their insulin is not sufficient when they are young, but later age will developed to IR at end it beta cell will die quickly than normal people. I will say it is true! I knew it, and it confuses me long time. The research said it could be the problem about calcium and potassium metabolism problems. I remembered Dr. Berg talk about it in one of his videos Re Mg. Anyone has any opinions? English is not my first language but I am trying to keep up with dr. Berg video. :)

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My A1C was 5.7, FBG was 110, was tired ALLLL the time, HUNGRY all the time. I was think but inside fat and getting unhealthy.

Although it was my endocrinologist he didn’t order further tests like Homa IR, etc but anyway I was so scared when the Dr told
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Thanks to Dr Berg, A1C is 5.0, FG normal, c peptide Normal, HOMA IR normal, insulin normal, energy improved…

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[KanwarGhotra-gh]

Would like to wish you a good health for spreading such quintessential information ❤

[ildikojakab]

Watching this video realised that the couse of my food cravings could be insulin resistance.. expecially when I am stressed. I am on Keto diet and intermittent fasting for about 3 months but seems to go further to fix it. And be just on banced diet. Thanks Dr Berg for all your advice.. incredible useful....xxx