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Is Insulin Resistance not just another name for Overactive Liver?

Caused by too many carbs and affected by alcohol?
 
ickihun said:
Is Insulin Resistance not just another name for Overactive Liver?

Caused by too many carbs and affected by alcohol?
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Insulin resistance is usually systemic...not just limited to our liver.
 
IR happens at a cellular level. Some teetotals develope T2 and some alcoholics never do.
 
I don’t drink alcohol and I got type 2 :(
 
I have been teetotal for over twenty six years though I did have a brandy to toast my son's wedding. Still ended up with fatty liver and T2. All that time wasted being sober! :banghead:
 
My ex partner had liver damage and other related conditions when he died and grossly overweight too ( due to the liver) but no diabetes.
 
I think if that was the case, virtually the whole world would have IR. It's like saying individuals have caused it themselves which we all know is not that simple. I reckon that each of these conditions is to do with a body's inability to cope with certain things for a variety of reasons. Once you have that condition of course, then not eating too many carbs or alcohol will surely help, or if you are aware that you are at a high risk of getting certain conditions, making efforts to avoid increasing that risk by not eating too many carbs etc, may help. All said and done there are far too many variables to say why one person gets it and another doesn't.
 
I didnt eat a lot of carbs, according to the eatwell plate. But my diet was 50% complex carbs. I didnt stuff my face on carby snacks or eat much sweet stuff. And i dont like alchohol, never have.

I think its a very complex thing and thats why some people can eat certain foods and some people cant.

I mentally put it in the 'intolerance' bracket. Which may not be accurate, but it works for my thinking process and for when people press me to eat more carbs or junk food. They seem to hear the word 'intolerance' and back off.
 
It is not easy for us modern humans still designed for hunter gatherer society to have all this food available to us.
We eat the wrong stuff and we have been misled by people who should know better but are signed up to the big food and big pharma gravy train.
D.
 
Insulin resistance has doubled since not able to walk/swim or bend. Movement and metformin reduces my fat making, and of course less insulin injected.
Metformin cannot work without a liver which co-operates.
My levels of carbs cannot justify my fatty liver alone. Weight gain must influence fatty organs.
I wonder if the liver performance influences why thin type2s come about?
The liver influences so much.

I'd love to see more help for type2's liver health.
 
I heard a boffin posit the idea that storing excess fat around the middle (seen) is the 'safer' way to store it as opposed to storing it in and around the organs (unseen) as can happen with T2s who do not display the symptom of weight gain.

As you know, ickihun, my mobility is severely restricted so I really do struggle with the concept of 'Eat less, Move more' purely for weight loss, though I do agree that excercise of some sort improves IR and that this can aid weight loss.
 
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