Episode 58
Insulin Resistance After 35: When Cells Tune Out
Around 35, cells start ignoring insulin and the energy from each meal gets stored in the liver, the belly and around the organs. This short explains that signal fatigue and the peptides researchers are studying for it.
Now playing · Episode 58
Insulin Resistance After 35: When Cells Tune Out
Transcript
- around 35 something quietly changes inside your body every
- time you eat a hormone gets released
- it tells your cells to take in the energy from your food
- when you're young they listen but over
- the years the message keeps repeating the cells get tired
- of hearing it they stop responding so
- the energy gets stored in your liver in your belly around
- your organs your energy crashes in the
- afternoon you wake up tired you can't lose weight even when
- you eat less but recently something has
- changed molecular science created peptides that restore the
- signal one shrinks the deep fat that's
- drowning out the message another tells the cells to listen
- again energy reaches where it should
- hunger settles the body finally hears itself