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If you have more glucose in your body than your cells need, insulin takes extra blood glucose and transports it into fat storage. Blood sugar then returns to normal. This step is important because having abnormally high levels of blood glucose is called diabetes and is very damaging to the body.
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― The Insulin-Resistance Diet
― The Insulin-Resistance Diet
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There’s a model of understanding the disabled community uses that I think can also be applied to other situations, including this one. It’s called the Social Model of Disability, and it states that it is not a person’s condition that disables them, but rather society through inaccessibility and stigma. So it is not PCOS that makes someone less of a woman, it’s society’s definition of ‘woman’ that might make someone feel that way.
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― The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods
― The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods
