Dr. Annette Bosworth

Had you come into my clinic, we'll put a label on it, call it PCOS, call it high blood pressure, call it autoimmune problems.

All of them are linked to high insulin.

Glucose, when you want to store it, we put it in a fancy string called glycogen.

And it's just an efficient way to store glucose.

But as soon as your body needs it, it will unlock all that sugar back into your access, back for you.

What you don't realize is, well, how much glycogen you got stored over there?

How much is there in storage?

And that is what high insulin has been doing.

Just put it in storage, put it in storage.

And then when you stop eating, you'll know if you emptied out all your stored sugar, which is some of the regular sugar you just ate, but then all this glycogen, this packaged sugar.

How empty are you?

I don't know.

Have you made a ketone yet?

You cannot make a ketone.

You cannot burn fat until that tank is empty.

Oh no.

Think of it as brown sugar.

So you package the sugar really tight and then you put it in the back of the drawer and it turned crusty because you never lowered your insulin.

I have patients that are overweight and we put them on a ketogenic, we put them on a 20 total carbohydrates per day.

So super low carbohydrate.