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So I've done a lot of videos on insulin resistance, but I had someone ask me, well, how do

I test insulin resistance?

So this video is about how to test for insulin resistance.

There's a test called HOMA IR, stands for Homostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistence.

And that's a mouthful, so let me just break it down.

Homostatic comes from the word homeostasis, which basically means a condition whereby the

body is adjusting the internal function based on the environmental or outside environment

to maintain a constant.

So in other words, your body likes to keep things the same.

By temperature, 98.6, blood pressure, 120 or 80, pulse rate, 72, blood sugars, like 82.

Then we have a condition called Insulin Resistence, which is a situation where the body is

protecting itself against the high levels of insulin by basically stopping the absorption

of insulin.

So it takes the receptor that's supposed to absorb insulin and it just starts creating

the resistance.

And there's a whole series of things that happen and symptoms that you can have from this.

But the point is, it follows this homeostatic type principle.

So when you have high HOMA IR, that equals high levels of insulin resistance.

You have a lot of insulin resistance.

If you have low HOMA IR, that means you have low insulin resistance.

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