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Do you realize that we can take advantage and commandeer the machinery of a common bacterium to produce the protein of human insulin used to treat diabetics?

This is not like human insulin; this is the same protein that is chemically indistinguishable from what comes out of your pancreas.

The same technology that has produced the human insulin in bacteria can make viruses that will not only protect you against themselves, but induce immunity against other viruses.

The daf-2 hormone receptor is very similar to the receptor for the hormone insulin and IGF-1.

Now you've all heard of at least insulin.

There's one called TOR, which is another nutrient sensor, like the insulin pathway.

And the reason is that these hormones, like the insulin and the IGF hormones and the TOR pathway, they're essential.

And also, there are other ways of activating FOXO that don't even involve insulin or IGF-1 that might even be safer.

And I recovered, thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, insulin and other things, and gained all my weight back and more.

You see, diabetes is an autoimmune disease where your body fights itself, and at the time people thought that somehow maybe exposure to a pathogen had triggered my immune system to fight the pathogen and then kill the cells that make insulin.

And somehow maybe the microbial community that's in and on me got off, and then this triggered some sort of immune response and led to me killing the cells that make insulin in my body.

And what was remarkable about it was in the past when we think of chemical messengers within the body, we thought of complicated things like estrogen and insulin, or nerve transmission.

You can think of insulin as this master hormone that controls what our body does with the foods we eat, whether we burn it or store it.

Now failure to produce enough insulin is incompatible with life.

And insulin resistance, as its name suggests, is when your cells get increasingly resistant to the effect of insulin trying to do its job.

Once you're insulin-resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.

More importantly, I don't have insulin resistance.

And underlying these questions, I became almost maniacally obsessed in trying to understand the real relationship between obesity and insulin resistance.

Now, most researchers believe obesity is the cause of insulin resistance.

Logically, then, if you want to treat insulin resistance, you get people to lose weight, right?

What if obesity isn't the cause of insulin resistance at all?

You can think of insulin resistance as the reduced capacity of our cells to partition fuel, as I alluded to a moment ago, taking those calories that we take in and burning some appropriately and storing some appropriately.

So now, when insulin says to a cell, I want you to burn more energy than the cell considers safe, the cell, in effect, says, "No thanks, I'd actually rather store this energy."

So for many of us, about 75 million Americans, the appropriate response to insulin resistance may actually be to store it as fat, not the reverse, getting insulin resistance in response to getting fat.

So what I'm suggesting is maybe we have the cause and effect wrong on obesity and insulin resistance.

Maybe we should be asking ourselves, is it possible that insulin resistance causes weight gain and the diseases associated with obesity, at least in most people?

We know that 30 million obese Americans in the United States don't have insulin resistance.

So if you can be obese and not have insulin resistance, and you can be lean and have it, this suggests that obesity may just be a proxy for what's going on.

So what if we're fighting the wrong war, fighting obesity rather than insulin resistance?

If you ask yourself, what's a cell trying to protect itself from when it becomes insulin resistant, the answer probably isn't too much food.

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