It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

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brain is clueless, so it turns your metabolism
down to conserve fuel, and tells you to eat
more. And isn’t this all too easy to do when
supernormally stimulating, nutrient-poor,
carbohydrate-rich foods are whispering in
your ear? Of course, overcarbsumption only
promotes more sugar-burning for fuel,
additional accumulation of body fat (and the
conversion of excess carbohydrates to fat),
and even-higher triglyceride levels in the
blood.


Which   makes   your    leptin  resistance  worse.
And ... takes us back to insulin.

BACK TO THE START


Remember insulin sensitivity? This is
when insulin’s message to “store nutrients” is
heard clearly by the cells, which remove
glucose from the bloodstream and store it,
keeping blood glucose levels from getting (or
staying) high.

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