Insulin Resistance and ways to treat it....?

What are some tried and true ways that everyone has found to treat their insulin resistance?
I have recently been diagnosed and am taking meds, but what are some other things that I need to be doing. Also, what have your isnulin levels been at their highest? To me my numbers seem outrageous, but I have nothing to base them on or compare to.
Also, what have pregnancy success rates been without doing the fertility treatments of any kind?!

You treat it the same way a type 2 diabetic treats it. Diet, exercise, weight control, and supplements. If you don't.... guess what... You become diabetic, like me.

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You can find some of the answers you're seeking at www.radiantrecovery.com -- Click on the tab labeled "Resources" to find the articles on Insulin Resistance.

Lots of us who use that website have healed our Insulin Resistance. If someone gets "steady on Step 7" for more than 6 months, I'm fairly certain their Insulin Resistance would have to be healed, but you can ask Kathleen that when you get to the website.

I am also insulin resistant. I was taking 100 units 2 times a day and 40 units with lunch. I gain alot of weight with insulin so I refuse to take it anymore. I take high doses of a few different oral meds for it. Watch what you eat and excercise. Cut out sugars and use substitutes like Splenda. Stay away from the sweets. Watch your carbs and calories.

Exercise-induced reversal of insulin resistance in obese elderly is associated with reduced visceral fat.
鈥'Leary VB,
鈥archetti CM,
鈥rishnan RK,
鈥tetzer BP,
鈥onzalez F,
鈥irwan JP.
Schwartz Center for Metabolism and Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44109-1998, USA.
Exercise improves glucose metabolism and delays the onset and/or reverses insulin resistance in the elderly by an unknown mechanism. In the present study, we examined the effects of exercise training on glucose metabolism, abdominal adiposity, and adipocytokines in obese elderly. Sixteen obese men and women (age = 63 +/- 1 yr, body mass index = 33.2 +/- 1.4 kg/m2) participated in a 12-wk supervised exercise program (5 days/wk, 60 min/day, treadmill/cycle ergometry at 85% of heart rate maximum). Visceral fat (VF), subcutaneous fat, and total abdominal fat were measured by computed tomography. Fat mass and fat-free mass were assessed by hydrostatic weighing. An oral glucose tolerance test was used to determine changes in insulin resistance. Exercise training increased maximal oxygen consumption (21.3 +/- 0.8 vs. 24.3 +/- 1.0 ml.kg(-1).min(-1), P < 0.0001), decreased body weight (P < 0.0001) and fat mass (P < 0.001), while fat-free mass was not altered (P > 0.05). VF (176 +/- 20 vs. 136 +/- 17 cm2, P < 0.0001), subcutaneous fat (351 +/- 34 vs. 305 +/- 28 cm2, P < 0.03), and total abdominal fat (525 +/- 40 vs. 443 +/- 34 cm2, P < 0.003) were reduced through training. Circulating leptin was lower (P < 0.003) after training, but total adiponectin and tumor necrosis factor-alpha remained unchanged. Insulin resistance was reversed by exercise (40.1 +/- 7.7 vs. 27.6 +/- 5.6 units, P < 0.01) and correlated with changes in VF (r = 0.66, P < 0.01) and maximal oxygen consumption (r = -0.48, P < 0.05) but not adipocytokines. VF loss after aerobic exercise training improves glucose metabolism and is associated with the reversal of insulin resistance in older obese men and women.
PMID: 16373444 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]