Understanding Insulin Resistance: Its Impact on Your Body Usually realizing it, you may have insulin resistance for years. Since this illness usually doesn't cause any obvious symptoms, it's critical to have your blood glucose levels checked by a doctor on a frequent basis. Improvement in insulin sensitivity, or insulin resistance, is the result of your muscles, fat, and liver cells not responding properly to insulin, a hormone produced by your digestive system that is necessary for survival and controls blood glucose (sugar) levels. In certain situations, insulin resistance can be treated and can be either temporary or chronic. Insulin usually carries out the following actions under normal conditions: Your body absorbs glucose, or sugar, from the food you eat as its primary energy source. When glucose enters your bloodstream, your liver releases insulin in response. Insulin promotes the uptake of blood glucose by muscle, fat, and liver cells, allowing them to either use it imm...
 
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