Good morning, you all! 🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑 @Dietrick Kooyman has just reached LEVEL 7 (AVOCADO LEVEL)! The very first to get to Level 7! 🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉 He is present on all leaderboards, he is active since he joined and I am so happy that he is here! Let me help congratulate him today!!!

Do you know what lab works you should ask you GP / Doctor on insulin resitance? Here you have the table with the biomarkers and.... THE OPTIMAL RANGES! Yes, we don´t go for the standards when you talk about insulin. We want to be in the optimal ranges in order to know for sure that we don´t go straight on the path of Insulin Resistance. Check the classroom to see the slides and keep the BIOMARKS OPTIMAL Ranges at hand when you will have your lab results. TASK: as soon as you can go and visit your doctor. Come back with results and let´s start measuring how powerful changes are.

Let us not complain!

Today I was outside with my younger girls, and they noticed a new nettle patch that had sprung up in the garden. And one of them said that we should pick some! She went and got a bowl, scissors and gloves and we spent 20 to 30 minutes picking nettle, blanched it for freezing and drank the tea that we had from blanching it. I made me pretty happy, having her decide that we should spend some time doing that together this evening! And now I have some nettle in my freezer!

One simple lab test can give you a powerful snapshot of your metabolic health and insulin resistance, even before blood sugar starts climbing: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 HOMA-IR. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 HOMA-IR stand for Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance and is a calculated score using two routine fasting blood tests: fasting insulin and fasting glucose. Formula: HOMA-IR = (Fasting Insulin × Fasting Glucose) ÷ 405 It’s an accessible way to estimate how well your body responds to insulin without needing fancy clamp tests. 🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼 What Your Score Typically Means: - < 1.0 → Excellent insulin sensitivity (optimal!) - 1.0 – 1.9 → Generally good range for many adults - 2.0 – 2.9 → Early insulin resistance - ≥ 3.0 → Significant insulin resistance (Note: Exact cutoffs can vary slightly by lab/population, but lower is almost always better.) 🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼🥼 Insulin resistance drives chronic inflammation, weight gain (especially around the middle), fatigue, hormone issues, and raises risk for many modern diseases. Improving your HOMA-IR through real food, movement, sleep, stress management, and targeted habits is one of the most powerful things you can do for long-term health and reduced inflammation. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 OUR FIRST TASK IN OUR MAY CHALLENGE: Get labs, ask for fasting insulin + glucose together. Calculate your HOMA-IR and track it over time as you implement changes in the community. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Have you had your HOMA-IR checked? Drop your thoughts or questions below - let’s support each other in reversing this root cause! 🔥