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Are sebaceous cysts and insulin resistance connected/?
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SHBG...: Shbg, or sex hormone binding globulin gets down-regulated in the Insulin resistance syndrome. This is why women get hirsutism, or a mustache, and why men get gynecomastia, or "man b##bs". If your shbg levels are low, you will see more expression of the minor sex hormone, testosterone in women, and estrogen in men. Cysts are hair follicles clogged with oil and dead skin cells, puberty gone wild!
Answered 9/28/2016
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Not directly: There is no direct connection between those two problems. Although an occult infection (in a sebaceous cyst) can cause your blood glucose to be persistently elevated.
Answered 9/28/2016
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