Syndrome X, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, prediabetes… many names for essentially the same condition. For simplicity, I will use the term insulin resistance to describe the underlying process for this very common phenomenon that plagues at least 25% of the population in the Western world.

The pancreas is a digestive organ that is tucked beneath the stomach. It has a digestive (exocrine) portion and a hormonal (endocrine) portion. In this article I will focus on the digestive part.