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Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

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Let me talk about insulin resistance and gluconeogenesis.

Now, first of all, let's talk about what gluconeogenesis is.

Glucose means glucose, that's sugar.

Neal means new, and genesis means the creation of.

So gluconeogenesis is the new creation of glucose made by your liver, and it's stimulated

by a hormone called glucagon, and it's inhibited or turned off by your favorite hormone called

insulin, which is triggered by more glucose from the diet.

But what happens with gluconeogenesis is that body is making new sugar out of non-carbohydrate

sources.

So it's making sugar out of protein, out of fat, out of ketones.

Why?

Because there's always a certain amount of sugar that your body does need, and it's not

required to come from the diet.

Your body can make it from other sources.

But what happens when you have insulin resistance, things kind of become a little crazy, because

insulin resistance is kind of a precursor for prediabetes, and when you have prediabetes,

you have insulin resistance, but also you're going to have insulin resistance when you become

a diabetic.

So when someone starts to cut out their carbohydrates because they're a prediabetic or a diabetic

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