Articles — metabolism

Among the many factors that can promote insulin resistance, weight gain and even obesity, abnormal bacterial growth in the gut is clearly a very common factor. Abnormal bacterial growth can be a significant contributing factor to the occurrence of metabolic syndrome and its many adverse health consequences. Scientific research has shown that obese people have a significantly different bacterial composition in their gut than lean people. The type of bacterial overgrowth in overweight people have the ability to increase body inflammation and as a result, insulin resistance. Inflammation of the GI tract as the result of bacterial overgrowth will cause...

Excess of free radicals caused by buildup of metabolic waste in the cells can cause toxic effects including injury to proteins, lipids, and DNA. Excessive accumulation of free radicals can also cause negative impacts in the standard functioning of our cells. In humans, excess of free radicals is believed to be involved in the growth of cancer and a multitude of other destructive diseases. Research has shown that there is an increase accumulation of free radicals in women of normal weight that have metabolic syndrome, compared to overweight or obese women who are metabolically healthy. The research suggests that the...

How Does The Protein Boost Diet Work? When you become overweight or obese, regardless of the cause, the hormones that regulate your body fat become imbalanced as a result of the weight gain. This imbalance can be observed at both the tissue and cell level. The metabolism-energizing hormones that normally make you burn fat to generate heat, leptin and thyroid hormone become inefficient. Now you suffer from both leptin and thyroid hormone resistance. The Protein Boost Diet utilizes foods to energize your mitochondria and make these hormones work more efficiently. It also improves and re-balances the activity of growth hormone,...

We are all aware of the link between weight gain and low thyroid. Hypothyroidism slows metabolism, enhances your appetite and makes you eat the wrong foods at the wrong time, making you gain weight. Studies have shown that the frequency of hypothyroidism among obese patients is slightly higher than among normal weight people. Besides thyroid dysfunction, several hormonal and endocrine disorders are associated with being overweight or obese. Research conducted on a large number of obese patients, prior to their bariatric surgeries, evaluated the function of their thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, and pituitary gland. The research has shown that nearly half...