What causes high insulin levels?

If the insulin level is high, you should pay attention to the common causes, especially for people with high blood pressure and obesity, who are prone to this symptom. Therefore, these people must pay attention to conditioning and treatment, strengthen physical exercise, and improve their diet structure.

1. What is the cause of high insulin levels?

Hypertension or obesity impairs the biological effects of insulin in hypertensive patients. At this time, the human body becomes resistant to insulin. In order to maintain a relatively normal blood sugar level, their body's self-regulating mechanism causes its pancreatic beta cells to secrete several times or even dozens of times more insulin than normal to lower blood sugar, which results in hyperinsulinemia. Hyperinsulinemia was defined as fasting insulin ≥85

pmol/L.

High insulin levels generally mean that your insulin sensitivity is not enough, your blood sugar is high, and your insulin is being secreted but cannot be lowered.

2. Problems that may occur if insulin is too high:

Excessive insulin levels can lead to hypoglycemia, especially during exercise. In addition, hyperinsulinemia is a common cause of coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and stroke.

3. What to do if insulin is high?

1. Strengthen physical exercise: Physical activity can increase tissue sensitivity to insulin, reduce body weight, improve metabolism, reduce insulin resistance, relieve hyperinsulinemia, and reduce cardiovascular complications.

2. Improve the dietary structure: If people’s dietary structure is mainly high in calories and fat. If calorie intake exceeds consumption, it will cause fat accumulation in the body and lead to obesity. Therefore, the diet should be diversified to maintain nutritional balance and avoid overnutrition.

3. Drug treatment: If the disease needs to be treated with drugs, it must be taken under the guidance of a doctor while monitoring to adjust hormone levels to a healthy index range.