Carbonated Water: For Weight Loss, Satiety, Or Just Gas?

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Kindly do pardon that yesterday’s newsletter had a broken link—for everyone who wanted the “5 Golden Rules To Lose Belly Fat” article, we’ve included it again today, with a working link this time, we promise!

In today’s email we cover carbonated water, supplements for energy levels, and insulin resistance well before diabetes or prediabetes.

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One-Minute Book Review

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease—and How to Fight It – by Dr. Benjamin Bikman

There’s a slightly buried lede here in that the title doesn’t offer this spoiler, but we will: the book is about insulin resistance.

However, unlike the books we’ve reviewed about blood sugar management, this time the focus is really and truly on insulin itself—and that makes some important differences:

Dr. Bikman makes the case that while indeed hyper- or hypoglycemia bring their problems, mostly these are symptoms rather than causes, and the real culprit is insulin resistance, and this is important for two main reasons:

1. Insulin resistance occurs well before the other symptoms set in (which means: it is the thing that truly needs to be nipped in the bud; if your fasting blood sugars are rising, then you missed “nipping it in the bud” likely by a decade or more)

2. Insulin resistance causes more problems than “mere” hyperglycemia (the most commonly-known result of insulin resistance) does, so again, it really needs to be considered separately from blood sugar management.

This latter, Dr. Bikman goes into in great detail, linking insulin resistance (even if blood sugar levels are normal) to all manner of diseases (hence the title).

You may be wondering: how can blood sugar levels be normal, if we have insulin resistance?

And the answer is that for as long as it is still able, your pancreas will just faithfully crank out more and more insulin to deal with the blood sugar levels that would otherwise be steadily rising. Since people measure blood sugar levels much more regularly than anyone checks for actual insulin levels, this means that one can be insulin resistant for years without knowing it, until finally the pancreas is no longer able to keep up with the demand—then that’s when people finally notice.

The book is divided into sections:

1. The Problem: What Is Insulin Resistance

2. The Cause: What Makes Us Insulin Resistant

3. How We Can Fight Insulin Resistance

The first two parts are essential for the reader’s understanding, but the third part is the practical part, with appropriately practical advice on the most insulin-friendly ways to exercise, eat, fast, and more. He also talks drugs, and discusses the pros and cons of various interventions—but of course, far better is the lifestyle management of insulin.

The style is mostly very pop-science in overall presentation, and then occasionally gets very dense at times, but when that happens, he will then tend to follow it with an easier-to-understand explanation, to ensure that nothing remains opaque.

Bottom line: if you care about your metabolic health and don’t mind reading a book where you may have to read a paragraph or two twice sometimes, then this is a top-tier book on insulin resistance and how to prevent/reverse it.

Click here to check out Why We Get Sick, and stay well instead!

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Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday full of wellness,

The 10almonds Team