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<blockquote data-quote="mpe" data-source="post: 605705" data-attributes="member: 60109"><p>Insulin is required for liver and fat cells to take up glucose. This is for any reason, including lipogenesis.</p><p>It also has a "fat storage" effect of causing fat (regardless of if it is from food or produced by the liver) to migrate from lipoproteins into fat cells. (Also inhibiting liposis within fat cells).</p><p>In effect insulin "encourages" cells to use glucose. Both by making it easier for glucose to be transported into the cell and by making fats (and fatty acids) less available.</p><p></p><p>The actual issue with T2 is abnormal insulin resistance, cells failing to take up glucose when insulin is present and the level of glucose (pyruvate) is low.</p><p>The idea behind increasing insulin levels (either by drugs or insulin injections) is that sufficiently high levels of insulin will be effective.</p><p>Even though this is likely to be repeating the same process which the body tried in the first place. With high levels of insulin also tending to increase insulin resistance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mpe, post: 605705, member: 60109"] Insulin is required for liver and fat cells to take up glucose. This is for any reason, including lipogenesis. It also has a "fat storage" effect of causing fat (regardless of if it is from food or produced by the liver) to migrate from lipoproteins into fat cells. (Also inhibiting liposis within fat cells). In effect insulin "encourages" cells to use glucose. Both by making it easier for glucose to be transported into the cell and by making fats (and fatty acids) less available. The actual issue with T2 is abnormal insulin resistance, cells failing to take up glucose when insulin is present and the level of glucose (pyruvate) is low. The idea behind increasing insulin levels (either by drugs or insulin injections) is that sufficiently high levels of insulin will be effective. Even though this is likely to be repeating the same process which the body tried in the first place. With high levels of insulin also tending to increase insulin resistance. [/QUOTE]
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