What is Insulin Resistance?

In Type II diabetes, there is a condition that is referred to as insulin resistance. This simply means that the insulin you have is not as effective as it should be.

The good thing here is that there still is insulin being produced. If you were not able to produce it, your body would need insulin injections immediately - and from then on. The problem is that the insulin is not doing the job it is supposed to do.

When this happens, it causes the sugar in your blood stream to stay in your blood stream much longer than it should. Your muscles and organs will not receive their energy from it. In order to compensate for the additional sugar, your body will produce more insulin than normally would be required.

The extra insulin and the maintained higher sugar levels will start to cause damage. All of your organs are affected by it, and soon begin to deteriorate. Also, the increased production of insulin soon wears out your insulin producing cells and they soon stop - that is when you have full-blown diabetes.

While it does not happen overnight, by doing nothing about your prediabetes, you are guaranteeing that you will have it before long. Why take that risk, or play with that... to read the rest of the information on insulin resistance click this.