Insulin Resistance & Diabetes: Understanding the Hormone That Regulates Blood Sugar

Insulin is one of your body’s most critical hormones – produced by your pancreas to regulate blood sugar and control how your cells use glucose for energy. When this system works smoothly, you maintain stable energy levels and healthy metabolism. When it doesn’t, the consequences affect your entire body.

Insulin Resistance & Diabetes explores what happens when your cells stop responding effectively to insulin’s signals. Insulin resistance is often called “prediabetes” – a reversible condition where your body needs increasingly higher insulin levels to do the same job. Left unaddressed, it can progress to Type 2 diabetes, where your pancreas can no longer keep up with demand.

Learn what causes insulin resistance (beyond just sugar intake), why it’s linked to weight gain, fatigue, and inflammation, how it affects other hormones like cortisol and sex hormones, what role genetics and lifestyle play, and why conditions like PCOS are often rooted in insulin dysfunction. We explain the warning signs, what blood tests reveal, and what evidence-based lifestyle strategies research supports.

Important: This is serious medical territory. We educate – your doctor diagnoses and treats. If you suspect insulin issues, professional medical evaluation is essential.

Insulin health affects everything. Understanding it is the first step.