Curious Cook: Insulin on the brain

Calorie intake should be limited to one that is suitable for the body and limits foods that are sugar-laden. — CAIO/Pexels

Everyone is aware that a consequence of insulin resistance in the body is Type 2 Diabetes, a depressingly common outcome of metabolic syndrome. Diabetes currently affects around 10.5% of the global adult human population (14.39% in Malaysia), and an estimated 31% of the entire human population has metabolic syndrome to some extent. Look around you. If you see two healthy persons next to you, then statistically, you are the one with metabolic syndrome.

Curiously, for many years insulin resistance was deemed to only affect the body and not the brain. This may be because glucose uptake by the brain is not affected by insulin levels (as the brain uses different glucose uptake transport mechanisms than that used by the body).