Thanksgiving has a way of slowing life down just enough for you to actually notice what’s been happening underneath all the noise. You sit with people you love, share a big meal, breathe for the first time in weeks, and suddenly you’re able to feel things you usually ignore. Maybe this year, in that moment of stillness, you noticed something strange: your body feels strong, your training is dialed in, your glucose looks perfect… but your brain doesn’t match how good the rest of you feels. Maybe you felt foggy after a meal, mentally slower than usual, overwhelmed for no reason, or just “not as sharp,” even though everything on paper says you’re metabolically healthy. If that sounds familiar, you are not alone and there’s a real physiological explanation behind it. How can someone be physically insulin-sensitive yet mentally sluggish? How can your muscles get the fuel they need while your brain feels like it’s running on fumes? This article is written for you, to answer exactly that question. Central insulin resistance is the phenomenon where your brain becomes insulin-resistant even when the rest of your body remains highly insulin-sensitive. Many people experience this as a strange mismatch: they feel physically strong, metabolically healthy, and steady during training, yet their cognition feels foggy, slow, unpredictable, overwhelmed, or “under-powered.” This article explains why that happens, what the mechanisms are, how to recognize the patterns, and how to fix them, using simple language without sacrificing the biochemical accuracy that clinicians and experts expect. The first thing to understand is that the brain handles insulin differently from the rest of the body. Your muscles and liver respond directly to insulin in the bloodstream. The brain does not. For insulin to have any effect in the brain, it must cross the blood–brain barrier, bind to receptors on neurons, activate the PI3K-Akt pathway, and allow neurons to take up and use glucose. If anything disrupts that sequence, neurons will be under-fueled even if the entire rest of the body is functioning perfectly. This is why someone can have excellent fasting glucose, low insulin, perfect CGM curves, and still feel terrible cognitively. The brain can become insulin-resistant before the body gives any signal.

Curious, if there are Peptides to improve thyroid function for hypothyroidism. And/or if there are ones in particular that should be avoided

Curious, if there are Peptides to improve thyroid function for hypothyroidism. And/or if there are ones in particular that should be avoided

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