How to lower the elevated leukocyte

hello everyone did you know nnly half the insulin your body makes each day is made because of the food you eat. what about the other 50%?you've changed the food, but you're not seeing the results you hoped for. if that's you,then let me tell you about the 50% percent insulin problem and what you can do aboutit. hello, this is old butter bob briggs,i lost 145 pounds and made a video about how i did it called “butter makes your pantsfall off” and you can watch that here on my youtubechannel. but, in this video i want to talk to you abouthow half the insulin your body makes, and

yes i said half the insulin, fifty percentof the daily insulin your body produces has nothing to do with the food you eat.i call this the fifty percent insulin problem. look, everyone in the low carb community understandsif you eat a high carb meal, or a snack cake, or even worse, one of those big belly washingsoft drinks, your insulin will go way up fast. the message seems so simple.carbs drive insulin and insulin drives obesity. cut the carbs, reduce the insulin and losethe weight. such a simple message, but is that the wholestory? the idea that carbs increase insulin is true,and for some simply cutting the carbs they eat is enough to solve their problem.but for others, maybe even for you, this might

not be enough, because half your insulin problemis not an eating problem. so changing what you eat alone, might notbe enough to reverse it. you might need to an add another strategy.in this video i want you to see a side of this insulin problem that isn’t very wellknown. i call this the fifty percent insulin problemi want to very quickly, show you a study that will explain what this problem is.below you can see the name of the study in this study they looked at insulin levels throughout the day in a group of people, halfthe people were fat, the other half thin. they tested these people's insulin after 10hours of sleeping and not eating and came

up with the lowest level of constant insulinthese people always have in their system, they called this the “basal insulin secretionrate”, but i'm going to call it their “fasting insulin” because whenever you see this numberin a study, they call it the “fasting insulin”. in other words, this fasting insulin numberis a marker that tells us the minimum constant level of insulin that's always circulatingin your blood regardless of whether you're eating or not eating, it's always there.you see, your body releases a certain amount of insulin all day long, it happens whileyou're eating and even when you're not eating, even when you're sleeping, and how high orhow low this constant minimum level of insulin is, can best be tested after an overnightfast.

this fasting insulin level could be thoughtof as the floor or the lowest constant level of insulin, while your level after eatingcould be thought of as jumping up to the ceiling, or the highest temporary level.we all know our insulin jumps up to the ceiling a few times a day but these high levels aretemporary and they depend on what we've been eating.on the other hand, the fasting level of insulin is constantly present, like the floor, itis the ground you stand on all the time. and this constant background level of insulin,this floor you stand on, this fasting insulin, tends to be much higher for fat people thanfor thin people. now here's the reason i'm telling you aboutthis stuff.

they tested the day's total insulin to seewhat percentage of it happened after eating and what percentage of it was this constantbackground amount. and do you know what they found?they found that this constant background level of insulin, this floor that your insulin nevergoes below, represented between 45 to 50% of the total insulin you produce each day.about half of the insulin you produce each day is this constant background pool of insulinyou always have circulating, regardless of whether you're eating or not.fifty percent of the insulin released each day is released as a constant background level,regardless of how fat or how thin you are. this fifty percent insulin problem is happeningall through the day and this is not dependent

on what you’re eating.the skinny people had a lower constant background level, they had a lower floor, on average,but this was still about half of the insulin they produced each day.the fat people had a higher constant background level, on average, but this was still abouthalf of the insulin they produced each day. this is the fifty percent insulin problem.and if half of your daily insulin is higher than it should be, and it probably is, ifyou're fat around the middle, then half the problem you have with insulin is not causedby what you eat alone. and if half the insulin you produce is notcaused by the food you eat, then simply changing your food alone may not be enough to fix thisproblem.

and i think that many people who have notbeen successful losing weight with a low carb diet alone, have found this out the hard way.if this 50% insulin problem is not related to food, what is it related to?the answer is - it is directly associated with how fat youare. as you can see from these graphs from severalother studies, the fatter you are, the higher your fasting insulin level.the higher your fasting insulin level, the more background insulin you have all day long.and the sad news is this, some people have higher insulin even when they are not eating,than normal people have after they eat. just look at this graph from the work of dr.joseph kraft.

these people have a fasting insulin rate thatis higher than normal people have, even after they eat.is it any wonder why some people find losing weight almost impossible even on a low carbdiet? especially if they try to solve their 50%insulin problem by changing what they eat alone, but not changing when they eat, andwe'll talk about that more in a couple minutes. as you'll see before the end of this video,changing when you eat is more effective at attacking this 50% insulin problem, than changingwhat you eat alone. this fifty percent insulin problem happensall the time, but as we're about to see, the higher that background insulin is, the higheryour insulin goes after eating.

so even though the fifty percent insulin problemis not about food, it does effect how high your insulin spikes after you eat. as you'll see, in this study published many years before the one we just talked about,they found your insulin levels after you eat are likely to rise 5 to 7 times higher, byone hour after eating, than whatever your fasting insulin level was.if you're diabetic or prediabetic the spike is likely to come two hours after eating.they found whatever your fasting insulin number is, after you eat, your body will releasean amount of insulin an average of 5 to 7 times higher than whatever that level of constantbackground insulin is.

remember these are averages, for some thespike could be much higher or a little lower. but the important thing to remember is this- the spike in insulin after you eat is based on how high or how low your fasting insulinlevels are. to make this a little more clear, let's lookat an example with some real numbers. if a person has a fasting insulin level ofsay 8 microunits. after that person eats, their insulin willspike an average of 5 to 7 times higher. their after eating insulin will rise to anaverage level of between 45 to 56 microunits, which is within the normal range.they ate a meal, but because their fasting insulin number was fairly low, their aftereating numbers stayed in the fairly normal

range.but lets say a person had a high fasting insulin level of 30 microunits. first, that personis likely to be fat if they have a number that high, and so, after that fat person witha fasting number of 30 eats the same meal the skinny person ate, their insulin wouldrise to 150 to 210 microunits, which is 5 to 7 times higher than that fat person's fastinginsulin number, but more than that, it is is 3 times higher than the skinny persons,who just ate the exact same food. both people ate the same meal, but the higherthe constant background insulin, or what we're calling the fifty percent insulin problem,the higher their insulin spiked after eating. both of these people had a spike after eating,which is normal, but because the 50% insulin

problem was much higher in the fat person,their insulin jumped to a level three times higher than the thin person's who ate thesame food that they did. by the way, i found this to be true for myselfwhen i took an insulin/glucose tolerance test in october of 2015. since being normal weight,i have a fasting insulin level of about 3 microunits and after taking a glucose testmy insulin level rose to 18 which is about a 6 fold increase. then by the third houri was back down to the 3 microunits of my fasting insulin level.let’s sum up what we know: some foods like carbs and lean processed protein,like whey protein powders, cause your insulin to go very high after eating, but this insulinonly amounts to 50% of your insulin problem.

what you eat determines this number, so whenyou eat low carb, you keep this number lower. the other 50% of your daily insulin is associatedwith how fat you are. it is an insulin problem and the best wayto solve it is to periodically hold insulin very very low, as low as possible and thislow insulin will allow us to begin burning up that extra body fat around your belly,your butt and your chinny, chin chins. the association between how fat you are andhow high your constant background insulin levels are, could be pictured as an internalfat thermostat which has been called the “body set weight”.in other words, the higher the fasting insulin level, that constant background insulin thatwe've been talking about, then however high

or low that rate is, will determine how highyour insulin spikes after eating. all these things are like a thermostat, athermostat that sets how much fat the body holds onto.the more insulin, the higher the body “sets” your fat weight thermostat.if insulin levels cause the body to set the amount of fat you carry to a certain level,then the question becomes, could you turn down that thermostat by lowering and keepinglow your constant background insulin levels? i think the obvious answer is yes.and if you want to turn down this thermostat, you need use the most effective strategy youcan find to get insulin down as low as possible and hold it there as often as possible.and when i say as often as possible, i'm talking

about adding an element of timing to the lowcarb idea. the low carb idea is about what to eat andwhat not to eat to keep insulin low, but what i'm talking about is not about what to eat,it is about the timing of eating. not eating for a period of time, even a shortperiod like 16 to 24 hours, is very effective at lowering insulin.a short fast actually lowers insulin better than low carb and it's cheap, it's simpleand best of all, not eating for short periods of time is nature's way to balance the books.low carb high fat is great because in many ways, it imitates fasting, and low carb isvery effective at lowering insulin. but fasting is the real deal, because anyeating raises insulin, no matter what you

eat.low carb foods are great at keeping the after eating insulin spike lower, but a short 16to 24 hour fast is fifty percent more effective than even low carb at lowering insulin. andthe most sustainable strategy you can take is - combining them into a two front attackon your problem, low carb high fat eating, combined with and followed by, fasting forshort 16 to 24 hours periods is powerful. so what does fasting do?fasting 24 hours every other day has been shown to increase how sensitive your bodyis to insulin. being more sensitive to something is easilyunderstood by thinking of how alcohol effects you, if you aren't used to drinking. justone or two drinks and you'll really feel it.

the same for insulin, if you become more sensitive,then a little insulin will do the job it takes a lot to do now.if your body is more sensitive, then you need less insulin to get the same job done.in the short time of just 22 days of fasting every other day, people became seven timesmore sensitive to insulin. seven times more sensitive.just fasting every other day for about 3 weeks, makes you seven times more sensitive to insulin,folks this is amazing stuff. and it get's better, on the every other fastingday, their fasting insulin was 57% lower. that's a lowering of the background insulinand a lowering of the 50% insulin problem every other day by over half, by almost 60%.and this not eating every other day, increased

the body's fat burning by 58%.that 58% increase in fat burning is freaking amazing.that's your belly being burned up at a rate almost 60% higher.and i want to point something out about this study that these graphs come from - the peoplein this study who were fasting every other day, were not eating low carb on their eatingdays. they were eating whatever the heck they wanted,so you can just imagine how much lower their insulin would have been if they had eatena low carb diet on their eating day. just image how much faster their results wouldhave been, if they had held their insulin lower even on their eating days.in another study, not eating carbohydrates

at all for three days lowered insulin 48%.but not eating anything for three days, or fasting, lowered insulin by a whopping 69%.as you can see, low carb is great, but fasting is almost 50% better than low carb at loweringyour insulin. and this one - two punch of eating lchf duringeating times and then short 16 to 24 hour fasts is the strategy i used and the one irecommend to you. no other strategy is more effective. and itis more sustainable. this is something you can do long-term folks.as we've seen, not eating for three days lowered insulin almost 70%, but fasting that longmight be too hard for some people to do, but the good news is, two-thirds of that 70%reduction in insulin over a three day fast,

is achieved in the first 24 hours. in otherwords, if three days of fasting makes your insulin go down 70%, the good news is, duringthe first day of that fast, 70% of all the insulin reduction is already happened.so even a 24 hour fast reduces insulin almost as much as a 3 day fast could do and a short24 hour fast from dinner time today until dinner time tomorrow is really easy to doand much more sustainable long term than a long 3 day fast.just look what happens during a short fast. after just 11 hours, fatty acids, this isyour fat being released folks, fatty acids being released are greatly increased. justlook at that steep rise around 11 hours. that's your big belly slowly but surely being burnedup with a little fasting time each day.

after just 13 hours, ketones are greatly increased.as you know, ketones are made from your body fat and used by the body as a substitute energysource. everybody in the low carb world worries aboutwhether or not they are in ketosis, but as you can see, after 13 hours ketones are greatlyincreasing. you are making ketones while fasting. and these ketones can continue to rise higherand higher for days so long as the fast continues. longer fasts have a higher rate of ketones,but you don't have to do long fasts, simply do a good 16 to 24 hour fast and know theketones are on a steep rise after 13 hours. and insulin falls a lot by 3 to 4 hours aftereating and then falls even further by 10 hours after eating.remember, 70% of the fall in insulin during

a long fast, a three day fast, happens duringthe first 24 hours. so most the insulin reduction that happensin a long fast, happens during your short fast.so eat a lchf diet during eating times and use the complete appetite control that dietgives you to not eat when not hungry, this not eating when not hungry is fasting.it's easy to do, you're already doing it now when you sleep, all you need to do is extendthe time. delaying eating breakfast for a few hours can give you a 16 hour fast andmost of that time you were asleep. easy. now, a video like this can't go into all thebenefits of fasting, so if you want to really learn about intermittent fasting, the mostcomplete source of information, and i mean

the most complete source, can be found ondr. jason fung’s excellent blog. he has an huge free 26 part blog series about fastingthat is a wealth of information on this topic. there simply is not a better resource aboutthis on the internet and here's the link. thank you for watching and i hope this helpsyou. while you're here on youtube, i hope you'll watch some of my other videos, or visitme on facebook or visit my blog at www.buttermakesyourpantsfalloff.com