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What is the TRUE cause of insulin resistance? And how can YOU change it?

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You make plenty of insulin, it just doesn't get in the cell because the receptors are not working. Bingo. I talked to 5,000 doctors a couple years ago. They couldn't give me that answer. What can the insulin get to the cells?

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That's not not quite right. insulin resistance or what the answer to the question I asked you is you have insulin receptor dysfunction because it's like a think of it like a Ford motor Mercedes motor burn along when you're young and healthy and all this but as time goes by you get certain intracellular vitamin

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deficiencies that cause that really essentially are pieces of that insulin insulin receptor they fall off so the insulin receptor doesn't work as well and pretty soon it just fails and the longer it sits here fail They start to go away after a while, but you can get

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them early enough. We we do this all the time. We take type two diabetics that are which is Yeah, I got diagnosed a month ago. We do there's a interest vitamin panel called cell science system. I'm not being paid for that or anything, but we use it a lot. Uh and it

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tells you what their deficiencies are and why they're in insulin receptor dysfunction. So when you fix that, their type two diabetes goes away. Metformin doesn't fix that. flip side doesn't fix that. Those are band-aids and yes, they'll keep that patient alive long

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enough for someone to figure it out. I'm trying to figure out why their instincts don't. It's just a root cause issue. So that's the best answer I think I've ever gotten at a conference. Of course, it come from you. So the engineer cuz I think like an engineer, too. So fix the

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part that's broken on the tractor. Don't try and buy a new tractor. Don't bury it. So now you know you get type 2 diabetes. Don't buy into it. Turn around, figure out what's missing. And you'll be tired a lot too cuz those are vitamin deficiencies cause that. Look for that insulin receptor. Dysfunction reasons.

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