On Sun, 13 May 2001 17:46:29 -0700, R Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

><<But read up on hyperinsulinimia and insulin resistance before reaching
>conclusions>>
>
>Here's a good overview:
>
>...  The cells in your brain and the rest of the nervous
>system appear to be the first to become insulin resistant.  In order to
>protect you from a flood of insulin, your body simply closes these cells
>down (that is, it makes them resistant to insulin).  Unfortunately, when
>the
>doors to the cells in your brain and nervous system close to insulin, they
>also close to the blood sugar that insulin ushers in and that would
>normally
>nourish them.

All good and nice, but here's a little complaint:

Isn't it that brain cells are one type of the few
that *don't* take insulin as a signal to allow glucose in?
Therefore brain cells cannot become insulin resistant.
If brain cells would stop to let glucose in, they would die within short.

However brain and nerve cells would be the first to show symptoms like
described later in turn of unnatural elevated and particularly of
too low glucose levesl.

Amadeus