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Understanding Insulin Resistance – By Dr Harold Gunatillake “Commemorating Sri Lankans worldwide. Compiled and presented by Dr. Harold Gunatillake.” Dear audience, I’d like to express my gratitude for your regular viewership of my channel. The consistent growth in the number of subscribers is genuinely commendable. Today’s discussion centres on a compelling subject that will engage you and our esteemed medical colleagues. Specifically, our focus will be on diabetes and the need to revolutionise its management, shedding light on the current practices. First, why not consider renaming type 2 diabetes as ‘Insulin Resistance Disease’? This terminology would aptly reflect the essence of the condition. Unfortunately, we cannot proceed because there are other clinical conditions in which insulin resistance is causative. Insulin resistance is a clinical condition shared by many diseases besides type 2 diabetes (T2DM), such as obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In all these ...