Robert Lufkin MD reports on X:
I taught medical students that insulin resistance is a mystery. It’s not. A new study in Science Advances just identified the molecular trigger – mitochondrial oxidative stress.
Here’s what they found:
Lipid overload floods mitochondria with reactive oxygen species
This blocks GLUT4 – the glucose transporter your muscles need
Result: your cells can’t absorb sugar, even when insulin is screaming at them
Targeting mitochondrial oxidants improved insulin sensitivity by ~30%
This is the smoking gun for Type 2 diabetes.
We’ve spent decades blaming sugar and willpower. The real culprit is broken mitochondria – your cells’ power plants drowning in metabolic waste.
Fix the mitochondria, fix the insulin resistance. It’s that direct.
Full breakdown coming on the Health Longevity Secrets podcast.
Finish reading: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq4461
(Tom: Here is my effort to provide the nutrition the body uses to repair mitochiondria: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/NutriBlast_DNA_Heart_Mitochondria.html)