The Safest Carb in the World (Why Some People Can Eat Any Carb)
In a Nutshell
Insulin resistance from refined carbs, sedentary living, stress, and sleep loss blocks fat burning and raises disease risk, while muscle, fiber, and whole foods blunt blood sugar spikes. Non-starchy vegetables are the only carbs that actively improve insulin sensitivity via fiber, phytonutrients, and minerals without raising glucose. Test fasting insulin and aim for <5 to confirm healthy carb tolerance.
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I want you to get a piece of bread, which is not necessarily sweet, but I want you to take a bite and start chewing it. What you're going to notice within 20 seconds, it's going to go from not being sweet to being very, very sweet. Almost like you're chewing on sugar. Now, what's really interesting is this bread has no sugar in it, but it turns into sugar from the enzymes in your mouth that break down what's in that bread.
A carbohydrate is not one thing. It's three things. You have either a sugar, a starch, or a fiber. Most people know what sugar is. A starch is just sugar packaged in a different way. So starch is a chain of sugar molecules. Our bodies cannot digest fiber, but we feed the microbes in our gut the fiber. But the fiber does not turn into sugar.
Certain people can tolerate and get away with any carbohydrates and other people can't. It really boils down to this one hormone called insulin. If someone has a healthy system with insulin and it's able to process the blood sugar correctly, they don't seem to have a problem because what happens when you consume carbohydrates, the blood sugar goes up and then insulin comes in there and clears out the glucose from the blood.
In a person with unhealthy insulin, the term for that is insulin resistance, they can't lose weight. So in other words, when they eat carbohydrates and insulin goes up, they don't burn fat anymore. They retain salt. They develop a fatty liver. They eventually develop type 2 diabetes. They get high blood pressure. They develop belly fat. Their nervous system is more in the fight or flight mode. So they're kind of stuck in stress. People with insulin resistance do not tolerate carbohydrates that well.
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