Optimizing Health: Insights from Stanford's Multi-Omics Research

Some unknown benefits of proper insulin sensitivity

In a fascinating research paper from Stanford University, researchers evaluated the effects of healthy and unhealthy insulin sensitivity and blood glucose levels on different systems and multi-omics in the body. Amongst all the findings, I want to highlight the following:

First, if you don’t have good insulin sensitivity, you won’t be able to efficiently activate your immune system in the presence of respiratory viral infections.
Second, if your BMI is elevated or you have pre-diabetes, you won’t be able to metabolize polyphenols, which are very healthy compounds.
And third, if your fasting blood glucose is elevated, you will show higher levels of lipopolysaccharides and a higher incidence of gut permeability.

This shows how important it is to achieve proper insulin sensitivity and to maintain healthy and stable glucose levels.