Understanding Fat Storing Hormone Resistance

Dr. Eric Berg 08/31/2023

Do you want to know how to reverse Fat Storing Hormone resistance? It’s not as difficult as you think. I will explain what this condition is and how you can deal with it properly in this article.

In this article:

What Is Fat Storing Hormone?
How Hypoglycemia Triggers Fat Storing Hormone Resistance
What Are the Risk Factors of Fat Storing Hormone Resistance?
What Are the Symptoms of Fat Storing Hormone Resistance?
Diabetes and Other Health Problems
How to Reverse Fat Storing Hormone Resistance

How to Reverse Fat Storing Hormone Resistance: What You Must Know

What Is Fat Storing Hormone?

Let’s start by discussing what Fat Storing Hormone is. Your pancreas is located in the left lower quadrant right by your rib cage and makes a hormone called Fat Storing Hormone. Fat Storing Hormone responds to anything that has sugar or turns into sugar like bread.

Fat Storing Hormone removes sugar from your blood. Normally, in your blood, you need about 100 milligrams of sugar per desolator. Anything higher or lower than 100 is bad. When it goes higher than 100, you get diabetes. When it goes lower than 100, you get hypoglycemia.

How Hypoglycemia Triggers Fat Storing Hormone Resistance

Hypoglycemia is when you are skipping meals and eating way too much sugar, triggering high Fat Storing Hormone in your blood sugar to drop. Over a period of time, your body doesn’t like this, and it turns off the receptor and ignores the Fat Storing Hormone response – we call this a blocked receptor, and this is Fat Storing Hormone resistance. It forces Fat Storing Hormone to increase and make more to create the same effect. Without Fat Storing Hormone, your blood sugar stays high and wears out the pancreas.

What Are the Risk Factors of Fat Storing Hormone Resistance?

The causes of this condition are not fully understood, but several risk factors can lead to developing Fat Storing Hormone resistance.

Being overweight or obesity
Following a high-sugar, high-carb, high-calorie diet
Having zero to minimal physical activity
Taking high doses of steroids over a long period
Having chronic stress

What Are the Symptoms of Fat Storing Hormone Resistance?

At the beginning of Fat Storing Hormone resistance, the condition does not have any symptoms. The signs start to occur when it leads to secondary effects, like a very high sugar level. Once this happens, you may experience the following symptoms:

Difficulty concentrating
Hunger
Tiredness
Weight gain, especially around the abdominal area
High blood pressure
High cholesterol levels

Diabetes and Other Health Problems

Diabetes is a situation where you have high sugar and it won’t come down to 100. Then, there is Fat Storing Hormone resistance where your body produces more Fat Storing Hormone that can lead to the increase of blood sugar, which later on develops into Type II diabetes. This happens because you have been eating too much sugar. Your body protects you, and several things happen as a consequence like you feel hungry because Fat Storing Hormone also serves other purposes.

Fat Storing Hormone lowers the blood sugar level and helps you absorb the nutrients in your cells like fatty acids, proteins, and vitamins. Without Fat Storing Hormone, you can’t get the nutrients in your cells, and you’re going to be hungry all the time because you eat but you don’t absorb any nutrition. So, you end up starving and craving carbohydrates. If you are craving carbs or sweets, it is impossible to burn fat.

That’s why, over time, diabetes patients have other health problems – they may go blind, have destructive nerves in the feet and the hands, and it goes downhill healthwise. This condition prevents the storage of sugar in the liver and muscles, which we live off while we sleep.

If you are not storing sugar, you end up storing fat, and you get bigger and bigger. In between meals, because you can’t store sugar, you’re going to have too many highs and lows. It’s this storage of sugar that maintains a nice level of blood sugar. In your entire body, you only need 1 teaspoon (5 grams) of sugar - not directly from sugar but from the foods you eat. Your body can even convert protein and fat into sugar.

An 8-oz typical can of soda or orange juice has about 39 teaspoons of sugar. That puts tremendous stress on the pancreas. The pancreas has two parts – a hormone, and the other is an enzyme part called the exocrine gland.

Exocrine Glands Definition: Glands that create and release substances on an epithelial surface through a duct.

If you continue eating foods high in sugar, you’re going to have all sorts of digestion problems such as:

Inflammation of the pancreas
Pain in your back
Inability to digest protein
Bowel problems
Gas
Bloating

The body is trying to protect itself from too much Fat Storing Hormone by blocking receptors and creating resistance when the sugar is going to go high. It is going to protect the cell from too much Fat Storing Hormone and not the blood. That’s why the blood starts filling up with sugar.

Triglycerides are blood fats. Because the cell can’t absorb nutrition, protein, or fat, it’s going to dump these in the blood as blood fats and cholesterol. In Type I diabetes, the pancreas is asleep. It’s the worst that can happen because then, you need to have Fat Storing Hormone injections.

How to Reverse Fat Storing Hormone Resistance

You can lower Fat Storing Hormone by doing these things:

1. Consume No Sugar in Your Fat Storing Hormone Resistance Diet

To reverse Fat Storing Hormone resistance restrict yourself from eating sugary foods. If you are craving sugar, you should consume zero sugars. You can have substitutes like stevia, a natural sweetener without sugar.

2. Increase Potassium Intake

Increase potassium in your diet because it helps lower Fat Storing Hormone and helps you store sugar. You want to get potassium from eating plant-based diet foods such as cruciferous vegetables, about 7 to 10 cups per day, or you can have a kale shake. Eating vegetables helps lower cravings.

3. Get More Vitamin B1

Increase vitamin B1 not from a pill but from nutritional yeast that greatly assists in lowering Fat Storing Hormone. When you consume a bunch of sugar, you’re dumping B1 and other nutrients out of your body in your urine. This vitamin plays a crucial role in metabolizing blood glucose and is important for your heart, muscle, and nerve function.

4. Eat Protein

Consume protein during breakfast because it is a nutrient with minimal effects on your blood sugar levels. It can also help you feel fuller for a longer period, lowering the number of times you eat and the number of calories you consume. If you don’t eat protein, your blood sugar level will be off by the end of the day.

5. Perform More Workouts

Regular exercise is always good for increasing Fat Storing Hormone sensitivity and improving overall well-being. Physical activity aids sugar in moving into the muscle cells for storage, allowing a proper flow of energy in the body so you can lose weight. If you are a beginner, you can start with light exercises, such as a 30-minute walk, and then increase it later on. This allows your body to adjust to the phases of your physical activity.

6. Lower Stress Levels

How to reverse Fat Storing Hormone resistance also includes lowering stress. Stress primarily affects your ability to stimulate blood glucose as it promotes the fight-or-flight mode that regulates cortisol, a stress hormone. When you experience chronic stress, the stress hormones go high, making your body more Fat Storing Hormone resistant. To avoid stress, you need to stay away from people or situations that annoy or give you stress. You can also enroll in yoga classes to keep your mind and body calm and relaxed.

With the information about how to reverse Fat Storing Hormone resistance and what the condition is about, you’ll be guided on what to expect with your blood glucose levels. Keeping healthy blood sugar and Fat Storing Hormone levels start with changing to a healthy lifestyle, from eating the right foods and avoiding the bad ones to staying physically active.

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