Insulin Deficiency vs. Insulin Resistance – with Marc Hellerstein, MD, PhD - E71

Jul 23, 2019

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Marc Hellersteing, MD and in this episode we discussed the following:

• Basic biology of insulin resistance.
• Can Type 1 diabetics be insulin resistant?
• What is happening to your beta cells? Can they be preserved? 
• When is insulin necessary?
• How much insulin is necessary? Is it a good strategy altogether?
• Honeymoon phase of diabetes.
• Insulin deficient vs insulin resistant.
• There are many things you can do to use less insulin but not to get off of it as a type 1.
• Beta cell exhaustion.
• Physiology of insulin.

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