DEEP DIVE · CHAPTER 4
Chronic Hyperinsulinemia
Insulin Is Starving Your Nerves
Chronic hyperinsulinemia is insulin held high to keep blood sugar normal, and it closes the vessels inside a nerve and turns up the pain alarm for twenty years before any sugar test turns positive. This Deep Dive is the evidence behind Chapter 4, claim by claim.
36 pages · 85 references, every one verified · written by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, and Dr. KrisJay Fucanan, MD
CHAPTER 4 ON VIDEO
The Hormone Nobody Measured Is Starving Your Nerves
Dr. Padda walks through this chapter on video. All twenty-two are on the The Pained Brain playlist on the Padda Institute channel.
The receipts behind Chapter 4
Your blood sugar was fine. Nobody asked what it cost to keep it that way. In Chapter 4 I explain chronic hyperinsulinemia: how the hormone that gives you energy closes the vessels inside a nerve, turns the gain up on your pain alarm for twenty years before any sugar test turns positive, and why I draw a fasting insulin before I put a needle anywhere near a patient.
The book makes the argument. This Deep Dive shows the evidence, claim by claim: the study, who was in it, the number and where it sits in the paper, what it does not show — and the questions to bring to your own physician. It is written to be handed to your doctor.
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Frequently asked questions
What is chronic hyperinsulinemia?
Chronic hyperinsulinemia is insulin held high, year after year, to keep your blood sugar normal. Your sugar test can look fine the whole time, because the extra insulin is what holds it there. Chapter 4 of The Pained Brain asks the question nobody asked: what it costs your body to keep that sugar number normal.
Can high insulin cause nerve pain?
Yes. Chapter 4 explains how chronically high insulin closes the vessels inside a nerve and turns up the gain on your pain alarm. That process can run for twenty years before any sugar test turns positive, which is how nerve pain shows up in people who were told their blood sugar is fine.
How do you check for high insulin if blood sugar is normal?
You measure insulin itself. A blood sugar test can stay normal for twenty years while insulin runs high to hold it there. That is why Dr. Padda draws a fasting insulin before he puts a needle anywhere near a patient. The Deep Dive gives the evidence behind Chapter 4, claim by claim, across 85 verified references.
Educational material. Not medical advice. If you are in the St. Louis area and want this looked at properly, that is what the Padda Institute is for.