This clip is from “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode #17, originally released on November 9, 2020.
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Show Notes
Ways to reverse insulin resistance
Insulin resistance can be combated with all 5 tools in the toolkit:
- 1) Pharmacologic agents
- 2) stress/cortisol management
- 3) sleep strategies
- 4) exercise, and
- 5) nutrition
Stress/cortisol management
- When you’re under stress (physiologic or psychological), you’re producing cortisol and that’s going to exacerbate insulin resistance
- Stress (i.e., hypercortisolemia) can be addressed pharmacologically and therapeutically (e.g., psychotherapy and/or meditation)
⇒ Patient example:
- Peter had a patient who was dialed in on basically everything but metabolically he wasn’t responding
- This patient had never dealt with a very traumatic event in her life
- And it was only when attention was finally turned to really dealing with that with psychotherapy and the correct pharmacotherapy that all the other metabolic things got in place
- This patient was discussed in the episode of The Drive with Paul Conti
“There’s a clear mind/body connection that is not just some sort of touchy-feely nonsense. It’s completely and it can’t be discounted.”
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