My last post was about the basic biology of insulin resistance and about how it is the underlying root cause of type 2 diabetes, as well as a risk factor in its own right for many diseases.
Today I’m going to answer the question of how to tell if you have insulin resistance.
Tens of millions of Americans suffer from insulin resistance, and most of them don’t even know it. Left unchecked, insulin resistance can lead to heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and lots of other bad health outcomes. But before I can get into explaining how you can know if you have this condition, and what you can do about it if you do, I first need to explain what insulin resistance is.
