Fasting insulin is high

Insulin is also an important element for our body. This element can maintain blood sugar in our body. If our blood sugar is high, our insulin secretion will definitely be insufficient. Some people will have high insulin when fasting. This is normal because there is no energy in the body when fasting. So what should we do if fasting insulin is high?

1. What is high insulin?

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 your insulin level 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.

The above are some methods to improve high insulin. If you hope that your insulin can be controlled more reasonably, then when you encounter problems, you must use the above three treatment methods to help yourself improve the problem. Only in this way can you ensure that your insulin problem can be improved soon.