The fact that insulin resistance has become a global pandemic is also a topic of recent debate. Insulin resistance is a worrisome culprit in diseases from obesity to pre-diabetes to type 2 diabetes, to dementia.
But what is the root cause of insulin resistance?
“Insulin resistance is a pandemic that you’ve never heard of,” said Dr. Benjamin Bikman, a scientist and researcher at Brigham Young University, one of the nation’s top private research universities.
The seriousness of the insulin resistance situation in recent years is even more evident from a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health by UAE University in 2020….