Metabolic Syndrome Is Really A Problem With How We Store Energy
How long have we been hearing that the spare tire around your mid-section is to blame for developing metabolic syndrome? The same metabolic syndrome that leads to heart disease, prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia can be defined as this…
Insulin resistance is a condition in which the body’s cells become resistant to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas that plays an essential role in regulating the carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins obtained from food.
Yes, I am talking about your belly fat. Now, before you go and get all offended, listen up. We all have it, that nasty little roll right below the ol’ belly button. Well, most of us do anyway. Researches have now discovered that the spare tire alone may not be to blame for causing metabolic syndrome. Your skeletal muscle’s may have a little something to do with it as well…
But with the help of powerful new imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Yale University School of Medicine has found that insulin resistance in skeletal muscle leads to alterations in energy storage that set the stage for the metabolic syndrome.
So long story short, they are thinking that this metabolic syndrome, or pre-diabetes if you will, is really a problem with how we store energy from food. This is fairly good news because there is a simple cure to that… exercise. Now, get out there y’all and do something healthy for yourself!
via Science Daily
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