Insulin Resistance Symptoms

By >> Shen Torres 

Insulin Resistance is a condition wherein the cells of the body are already resistant to insulin. This is a serious condition, as insulin resistance symptoms destruct our healthy body functions. We need insulin to help us control the glucose level in our blood. If we have this kind of problem, greater chances that we will be developing Diabetes Mellitus due to chronic increase of sugar level in our blood.

Normally, cells use Insulin to get glucose. The vehicle of glucose of insulin, without insulin, cells could not use glucose for energy. However, in this case, the body is producing insulin normally, the problem is that, the cells are the ones who could not accept it. They developed resistance due to many factors, such as obesity, pregnancy, metabolic syndrome, stress, and a lot more. These are just the common factors that could trigger resistance. 

This disorder is associated to Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, which occur later in life. The problem in DM type is almost the same with insulin resistance. However, it is already the severe case of insulin resistance, because in DM type 2, the pancreas was altered. Due to chronic resistant of cells to insulin, it will then accumulate. High level of insulin signals the pancreas to stop producing insulin. When this happens, there would be lack of insulin in the body, thus glucose will increase as they will not be used up anymore for energy. Chronic insulin resistance will then lead to DM type 2.

A lot of insulin resistance symptoms involve physical changes. Since insulin is a hormone produced by the beta cells of pancreas, therefore when its functions will be altered, they can cause abnormal level of hormones in our body.