🚘 Insulin Edition

Is Your Metabolism Acting Like a 2:30AM Uber Ride?

Inside Health
November 18, 2025

Inside Health Weekly

Have you ever tried ordering an Uber after a night out and your phone glitches, your location won’t load, and every driver cancels?

Congrats! You’ve basically lived through the real-life version of insulin resistance.

This week, we’re driving straight into insulin and the metabolic process behind your cravings, energy crashes, and blood sugar. 🚗💬

POV: You’re in the back of the Uber at 3am after saying you weren’t going out…

💡The Big Idea

Every time you eat, your body orders an Uber for your sugar (glucose)…

Your cells = the destination
Insulin = the driver.

When all goes well, the ride arrives, you get dropped off and energy is made. But sometimes your body acts like it’s 2:30AM outside the club, crowded, chaotic, and impossible to get picked up.

That’s when insulin starts circling, arrival time’s are delayed, sugar stays outside, and your blood sugar rises.

Jennifer Lopez Dancing GIF by The Late Late Show with James Corden

When metabolism works, it’s basically carpool karaoke… smooth drop-offs, happy passengers, and HIGH energy all around.

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It’s probably happened to you…

You have a sugary snack, feel unstoppable for 20 minutes, and then crash harder than your ex’s promises. That roller coaster isn’t random, it’s your insulin trying to manage a sudden rush of glucose, and sometimes the system can get overloaded.

Quick Science: What Is Insulin?

Insulin is a hormone that is made by your pancreas that works like your body’s fuel-delivery access pass.

…Balanced insulin = smooth energy, steady mood, sharper brain

When you eat, carbohydrates break down into glucose, which enters your bloodstream. Insulin’s job is to take that glucose out of the blood and into your cells (especially muscle, liver, and fat cells) where it can be used or stored as energy.

Type 1 Diabetes:
Your body doesn’t produce insulin at all, like opening Uber and seeing no drivers available, ever.

Type 2 Diabetes:
Your body makes insulin, but your cells stop responding to it, like drivers show up but no one gets in the car anymore.

🔴Signs you may be riding the Spike-Crash Cycle

You feel hungry again soon after eating
Afternoon crash hits like a truck (especially after lunch)
Constant cravings for sweets or snacks
Mood or focus drops without explanation
Coffee becomes a personality trait, not a drink

🟢Steady Energy, Smart Habits:

- Eat Protein first = Slows Digestion, glucose release

- Pair Carbs with Protein = Prevents rapid blood sugar rise

- Walk 5-10 minutes after meals = Muscles absorb glucose like a sponge

- Prioritize sleep and stress care = Cortisol affects insulin sensitivity

…Not about perfection, just smart sequencing and small habits!

✨Is he giving… insulin resistance energy?

Bare-minimum king → Pancreas is doing the most, but the cells stay cold, unresponsive, and unavailable.
Can’t take a hint → Insulin keeps showing up louder and stronger (aka more insulin released), but cells ignore the message.
Loves the chase, hates commitment → Glucose stays outside the cells, wandering around the bloodstream like a situationship that never becomes official, leading to high blood sugar.

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📣“Oh Wow” Moments - Insulin

Sold for $1 → Fredrick Banting (co-inventor of insulin) believed insulin “belonged to the world,” so he sold the patent for one dollar.

A dog helped prove it works → a dog named Marjorie became the first long-term success story of insulin, making medical history.

24 hours → that’s how fast insulin normalized blood sugar for the first-ever patient, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson, in 1922.

Not a pill → Insulin can’t be swallowed because digestive enzymes would break it down, so it must be injected or pumped.

The Dogs of Diabetes: Survived 70 days with insulin injections.

💬From Cordelia:

Thank you tuning in today! I hope you enjoyed this week’s newsletter! Here is my final final reflection:

Last week we celebrated World Diabetes Day, a reminder that insulin plays a major role in metabolism, energy, and diabetes, yet many people never receive a clear explanation. My goal with Inside Health is to make this knowledge clear, accessible, and useful for real life…. and if you ever find yourself in an Uber after a late night out, I hope you remember how your glucose feels waiting for a smooth drop-off :)

- Cordelia de la Fuente; Founder Inside Health

That’s everything for now! Thanks for hanging out with Inside Health this week. Understanding how you function starts with education, and you’re already doing the work just by being here.

Until Next Time! —The Inside Health Team.