what is INSULIN RESISTANCE?

Quick biology lesson: the body’s main source of fuel is glucose, also known as blood sugar. We get glucose from the carbohydrates contained in grains, fruit, vegetables and dairy products. Our livers are also able to make the glucose our bodies need, from glycogen stored in the liver. This process occurs when we’re in a fasted state – for example, when we sleep or skip meals.

Insulin is a hormone that helps your body to remove glucose (sugar) from the blood and use it for the production of energy in the cells. Put more simply, insulin is like the chaperone that ‘knocks on the doors’ of muscle and fat cells. The cells hear the knock, open up, and insulin ushers the glucose in.

With insulin resistance,