Your glucose is “normal”. Your metabolism may not be.
Your doctor glances at your fasting sugar, says “all fine” and sends you home. Yet the earliest sign of trouble isn’t glucose, it’s insulin, which almost nobody tested.
You wake up with no energy, even after a full night’s sleep. You gain weight around the middle while eating less than your friends. After lunch, brain fog and an urge to nap.
You get sweet cravings a few hours after eating, and your waist grows no matter how many times a week you train.
It isn’t in your head. It’s in your blood, but nobody measured the right thing.
“Fasting glucose is normal, so all is well.”
The most dangerous myth of the lot. The pancreas can hold sugar in check for years, pumping out ever more insulin, while the metabolism is already on fire. Glucose looks tidy, and the problem builds quietly for well over a decade.
There’s another way. It starts with a handful of numbers from your blood that nobody has shown you yet.
This isn’t a guide about miracles or reversing a condition in two weeks. It’s a practical guide: how to understand the mechanism and give your body the conditions in which insulin sensitivity genuinely returns. No magic, no scaremongering, no promises nobody can keep.
Inside, I break down what the mainstream doesn’t tell you:
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It isn’t sugar alone. The problem appears when your blood is flooded at once with excess carbohydrate and industrial fats with insulin permanently high (the glucose-fatty acid cycle, described by the physiologist Philip Randle).
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Insulin shouts first. The earliest sign of resistance is fasting insulin, raised for years before glucose so much as twitches.
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Fructose takes its own route. Industrial fructose goes straight to the liver and there, in excess, turns into fat. Robert Lustig described how it acts on the liver in many ways like alcohol, just without the warning label.
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The resistance is selective. The pathway that lets glucose in goes deaf while the growth signal carries on. That links insulin resistance with PCOS, fatty liver and high blood pressure.
What's inside
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An “is this you?” test — seven signals to tick off.
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A marker table — what to order (fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, HbA1c, triglyceride to HDL, C-peptide) and how to read the results: lab normal versus optimal.
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Three diet levels — standard, active, optimal. You pick the one you’ll keep to.
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Supplements with ranges — and learning to read labels (form and purity, not the brand name).
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A printable tests checklist — you take to the lab, an end to being fobbed off with “all normal”.
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Your first 30 days — one thing at a time, week by week.
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A shopping list to start — what goes in the basket, what comes out of the cupboard.
This is for you if
- ✓you have “normal” results but feel awful
- ✓you gain weight around the middle despite your efforts
- ✓you have PCOS, an underactive thyroid or metformin and want to understand what to actually do
- ✓you’re slim but suspect something is off
This isn't for you if
- ✕you want a quick pill without changing your lifestyle
- ✕you want a ready-made diet without understanding why it works
Changing your lifestyle is part of working on your health, not an experiment to run on your own. The guide gives you clear red flags (when to call for help) and a hard rule: if you take blood-sugar-lowering medication, you don’t change your diet without supervision, and only your doctor decides on the dose. Naturopathy does not compete with emergency medicine, and it never should.
Your body isn’t broken. It’s responding to the conditions you keep it in.
Insulin resistance is a consequence of how you live, and a consequence of how you live can be reversed. Change the conditions and the body answers. It’s not a sentence or a pill for life.
Insulin resistance — have it right now
The PDF lands in your inbox the moment you pay. Read it on your phone, tablet or computer. Your copy is marked with your details (a named licence), for your own use.
Insulin resistance rarely travels alone. With the three-guide bundle you can pair it with, say, PCOS and Hashimoto’s for less, while All-Access gives you every guide. See the bundles.
“The first thing I read that made me understand what to actually test. Written plainly, no scaremongering, with a concrete list to take to the lab.”
A guide hands you the map. If you would rather go through your case with me, with a plan built around your results and your medication, come to a consultation.
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