Insulin for weight loss?

The feeling should be like this, that is, insulin injection has a certain weight loss effect, because insulin can achieve a good effect of controlling blood sugar. However, in daily life, it is often found that diabetic patients will gain weight after injecting insulin. The reason for this problem is that some patients will have low blood sugar after injecting insulin, which will cause patients to feel hungry and eat more, which is also a cause of obesity.

Insulin for weight loss?

The concept of low insulin weight loss comes from the treatment of diabetes, because diabetics cannot eat foods that easily increase blood sugar. Once blood sugar rises, insulin must be secreted. However, the insulin efficiency of diabetics is poor, so the blood sugar of diabetics will remain high, affecting blood sugar control.

For normal people, eating these foods that easily increase blood sugar will naturally accelerate the secretion of insulin, and insulin will make blood sugar easily utilized and even turn into fat. Therefore, if you want to lose weight, you must avoid these foods. For example, grapefruit is better than bananas because grapefruit is a "low insulin" food.

Effects of Insulin

1. Regulate sugar metabolism

Insulin can promote the uptake and utilization of glucose by tissues throughout the body, and inhibit the breakdown of glycogen and gluconeogenesis. Therefore, insulin has the effect of lowering blood sugar.

2. Regulate fat metabolism

Insulin can promote the synthesis and storage of fat, reduce free fatty acids in the blood, and inhibit the decomposition and oxidation of fat.

3. Regulate protein metabolism

On the one hand, insulin promotes the cell's uptake of amino acids and protein synthesis, and on the other hand, it inhibits protein decomposition, thus promoting growth.

4. Other functions

Insulin can promote potassium ions and magnesium ions to pass through the cell membrane and enter the cell; it can promote the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

Side effects of insulin

1. Allergies

Insulin allergy used to be more common in patients using animal insulin. With the popularity of high-purity human insulin and insulin analogs, insulin allergy has become rare.

2. Edema

Before hyperglycemia is controlled, the body often loses water and sodium, and the glucose in the cells decreases. After hyperglycemia is controlled, water and sodium retention may occur, leading to edema. This is called insulin edema, which is more common in patients who use insulin for the first time and use a large dose.

3. Blurred vision

If blood sugar drops rapidly after insulin treatment, it can cause water to escape from the lens of the eye and reduce the refractive index, resulting in hyperopia. The patient will feel blurred vision, which is more common in young patients who are in the early stages of insulin use or with large fluctuations in blood sugar.

4. Fat atrophy

Skin depression or indentation at the injection site due to atrophy of subcutaneous fat is more common in patients using unpurified animal insulin.