In a message dated 11/30/02 5:48:29 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>The cells in your brain and the rest of the nervous
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>system appear to be the first to become insulin resistant.  In order to
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>protect you from a flood of insulin, your body simply closes these cells
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>down (that is, it makes them resistant to insulin).  Unfortunately, when
>the
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>doors to the cells in your brain and nervous system close to insulin, they
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>also close to the blood sugar that insulin ushers in and that would normally
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>nourish them.

I don't know where the Hellers get this -- the brain doesn't even need
insulin to take up glucose -- the brain is freely permeable to glucose at all
times. Even skeletal muscle can freely take up glucose with insulin during
exercise (working muscle) as can the liver.

Namaste, Liz
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