This is a video re: personal denial of insulin resistance. I review 3 cases. All three are medical professionals. All 3 are respected lecturers in heart attack and stroke risk management. All 3 have given lectures on the information in the book Beat The Heart Attack Gene.

The 1st individual has actually had blood sugar values over 200. As I told the individual, that's one standard definition of full-blown diabetes. This individual, however, recently had normal OGTT and Kraft insulin surveys. That's the major confusion point in this case. It's related to the fact that pancreatic insulin function is cyclical. That's actually what creates the irony of the Agatston calcium score. Think through the logic. Let's humor me on a couple of statements and then review the conclusion. The first statement is that IR is the most common cause of inflammation. The second is that calcification of plaque is stabilization. If both of those are true, then pancreatic IR goes through cycles of inflammation and stabilization. When's the last time you heard someone discuss that? Or acknowledge that when they were discussing fasting glucose, HgA1c, OGTT, or Kraft insulin survey results? They don't.

The 2nd patient is a dentist leader in the field of oral-systemic health. He'd discussed his case with me a couple of times. When I told him I suspected IR, he was clear that he didn't have it. He'd seen Brad as a patient and was clear that he didn't have it. Then he shared his exam and lab results. He had had it for years.

The 3rd patient is a doc that does this for a living as well. He also saw Brad as a patient. He also was clearly told he had insulin resistance. He also didn't get it.

The 3rd patient was me. If I refused to acknowledge my own insulin resistance for years, what about you?