How Insulin Affects Fat In Your Body
Most people don't know anything about insulin until they learn that they or someone in their family has diabetes.
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates the level of glucose in the blood. Glucose is a simple sugar that provides energy. The human body requires a steady amount of glucose throughout the day, and that glucose comes from the foods people eat.
Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscles and fat tissue to take up glucose from blood and store them for later use. When excessive insulin is used to control your blood sugar level, more glucose gets into your cells. Glucose that your cells don't use get accumulated as fat. Insulin at high concentrations stops the use of fat as an energy source. When insulin is low or absent, glucose is not taken up by body cells and the body begins to use fat as an energy source.
Our objective is not to eliminate insulin, but to control it. You can do this yourself with proper meal combinations and timing of meals. Please note insulin in very much required has a number of important functions in your body.
To control the amount of insulin released, it is important to eat foods that do not cause a sudden spike in blood sugar. The rate at which blood sugar levels rise is based on the type of carbohydrates we eat. We'll discuss this in our next article.
We hope this has given you a simple explanation of how insulin affects fat in your body. In out next article we'll discuss how certain foods cause insulin spikes and therefore lead to fat accumulation.
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