"Based on the research and information I have on February 06 the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright © 2006

Reading up on longevity and factors that determine it, I find there have been dozens of experiments where calories or food in general were restricted and it lengthened life span considerably in nearly every species. In other words lots of food, high insulin levels and short life span. Sparse food and low insulin levels kept you around for a while longer.

In human beings you look at what is common among all the record holders in age and you discover the woman in France who holds the record of 122 smoked, drank and did everything wrong.

Others, did varying things and some did every thing perfect, etc but there is no one common thing except..... get this...they all had low insulin levels.

Insulin resistance builds up for some of us and this raises our insulin levels which is almost the determining factor on how long we will live.

We know that high insulin is going to kill us but we do not know how to get our insulin resistance down to help lower the insulin level.

We can however work at keeping our insulin as low as possible by keeping blood sugar and intake very low so there is no need for such high insulin.

What surprises me is that the doctor treating you for diabetes rarely even bothers to find out whether or how high your insulin level is.

My question is do i have extremely high insulin resistance and extremely high insulin to compensate for it...

or......

do i have fairly low insulin resistance but my pancreas has started to taper off and is not making as much as it should normally. My doctor does not know which and like yours, does not seem to even care one way or the other, he apparently is going to give you the same treatment either way.

You can research this and you will find high insulin called insulinnemia, is causing major damage to many organs.

High blood sugar causes damage but so does high insulin to combat it.

You therefore, to fill your desire to increase longevity etc will need to find a way to lower insulin resistance, ( we found nothing so far in researching that does much ) or you will need to find a way to keep blood sugar levels almost non existent so your insulin does not rise for that reason at least.

What angers me, is that doctors give you medication to further increase insulin levels so you can go right on eating your carbs etc.

They want to keep you happy and out of their office in 15 minutes. A prescription for an insulin raising drug does both. So they write it and they can get on to the next patient.

They seem to have total disregard for the damage that this raised insulin level is causing not only to your body but your life expectancy in general.

Our research has been basically ( in addition to keeping an eye for anything even smelling like a cure) is to find word of anything at all that shows promise in lowering your insulin resistance.

We know that body fat puts fatty acids in the blood stream that up insulin resistance and when you get rid of this body fat, (particularly around the waist) this insulin resistance goes down. ( you also have to get the fat out of your liver) (last to go apparently)

That resistance lowering however is not the total insulin resistance which you accumulated over years of good living is the final part we are looking for a solution and who has a clue to rid you of that?.

The other part or the solution is eating and not inputting anything or little that requires insulin to operate your body.

Such as the Greenland Eskimo who eats no carbs at all.

My point of view right now is that until something better comes along my emphasis is to eat very little that requires my body to make much insulin.

Perhaps, with really low insulin levels all the time, maybe over a long period of time of this, my cells will drop their defense against insulin and insulin resistance will drop automatically. That is only a hope.

The other thing I can do is build muscle mass which absorbs blood sugar so levels do not rise so high as they have been to require an insulin burst rescue.

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