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Copyright 2018 Elsevier Inc</p></div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The BAT cells begin spewing out fire and brimstone.</h3>\n<p>This is HOT WORK !</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Neurons get hot and bothered</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now among the neurons in the body, that are exquisitely sensitive to the heat, are a set of neurons, deep inside the ARC nucleus.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">These guys control your appetite.</h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The hot causes them to shut down feeding.</h2>\n<p>To avoid a case of heat stroke………….it’s the</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19122\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gut-secretin-bat-brain-axis.png\" alt=\"the gut-secretin-bat-brain axis\" width=\"671\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gut-secretin-bat-brain-axis.png 671w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gut-secretin-bat-brain-axis-300x123.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gut-secretin-bat-brain-axis-300x123@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This happens in mice and men.</p>\n<p>So how can this be exploited ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Turn up the heat<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19123\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thirsty-rat.png\" alt=\"rat drinking and excreting lots of water\" width=\"334\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thirsty-rat.png 334w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thirsty-rat-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" /></strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well one idea is to increase secretin.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The researchers tried it.</p>\n<p>They injected mice with recombinant secretin, this could stop them eating, but the effect on weight was small and it came at a price…………</p>\n<p>So don’t expect a secretin mimetic drug pill, to be on the market in the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>But this doesn’t mean, you can’t turn up the heat.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Eat for more secretin</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Your digestive tract notices what’s in the bites you take………….</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>It has to be, getting a fat “digestedâ€� requires a completely different set of tools, to a protein or carb.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">As a rule, more acid is needed to digest protein.</h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">More acid, needs MORE secretin.</h2>\n<p><em>So try to obey the rules of thirds, at every meal i.e. eat a little protein, a little fat and a little carb, to optimize gut hormone signalling.  And avoid using antacids meds on a routine basis !</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Bring on the BAT </strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now BAT is one of those things you can be blessed with lots of, or be “deficientâ€�.</p>\n<p>Your BAT levels are probably less about genetics and more about your living conditions. In short, if you want to be endowed with lots of BAT cells, you need to FREEZE YOUR TUSH off, on a regular basis.</p>\n<p>Seriously……….</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">BAT is your built in body heater.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19121 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BAT-cells-warming-person-up.png\" alt=\"lady being warmed by BAT cells\" width=\"674\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BAT-cells-warming-person-up.png 674w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BAT-cells-warming-person-up-300x177.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BAT-cells-warming-person-up-300x177@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" /></p>\n<p>If there’s not much call for it, you don’t make it. And, as a rule, people with weight issues, typically are somewhat “deficientâ€�.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>More BAT more burn</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Since BAT cells, burn lots of calories – they’re pretty useful, in and of themselves. But this research suggests, that they are more than a catabolic heater, they also control appetite.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And if you have a tendency to overeat, this can be most helpful.</em></p>\n<p>More BAT, would mean a bigger burn, after eating. 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src=\"//spoonfulofscience.audello.com/player/YmFyb3JlY2VwdG9yc2F2ZS5tcDM=/?container=audello-YL0GDCXRU8\" async></script></p>\n<div id=\"audello-YL0GDCXRU8\" class=\"audello-player audello-file\" data-role=\"audello-file\" data-audello-id=\"YmFyb3JlY2VwdG9yc2F2ZS5tcDM=\"></div>\n<p><a href=\"https://prezi.com/p/ruipndp5p8zr/\">Click here</a> to view the prezi.</p>\n<p>When you’re insulin resistant, that is, you’ve got  metabolic syndrome, pretty much every chemical in the body is NOT QUITE RIGHT. Some are up. Some are down. Few are actually at physiologically NORMAL levels.</p>\n<p>Traditionally the focus is on the big guns.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sugar</li>\n<li>Insulin</li>\n<li>And cholesterol</li>\n</ul>\n<p>In this series, we  take a look at some of the other players.</p>\n<p>Who they are, what they’re up to and how they’re part of the state of insulin resistance.</p>\n<p>This week, we’re not actually looking at a chemical <em>per se</em>, instead we take a look at the behaviour of tiny 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width:100%;\"> <strong><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5603/CJ.2013.0130\">Baroreceptor sensitivity and diabetes mellitus.</a></strong> Cardiology Journal (2013) 20 (5) :  453–463.  Olumide Olatubosun Rowaiye, Ewa Anita Jankowska, Beata Ponikowska.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1751_16/\"><strong>Contribution of insulin resistance to decreased baroreceptor sensitivity & cardiometabolic risks in pre-obesity & obesity.</strong></a> Indian J Med Res (2018) 148 : 151-158.  Jagadeeswaran Indumathy, Gopal Krushna Pal, Pravati Pal, Palakkad Hariharan Ananthanarayanan, Subash Chandra Parija, Jayaraman Balachander & Tarun Kumar Dutta.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.09.002/\"><strong>Enhancing cardiac vagal activity: Factors of interest for sport psychology</strong></a>. Prog Brain Res (2018) 240 : 71-92. Sylvain Laborde, Emma Mosley, Lea Ueberholz.</div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12632\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/happy-heart-giving-tn.png\" alt=\"heart with a monocle\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/happy-heart-giving-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/happy-heart-giving-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/happy-heart-giving-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/heart-disease/volunteering-lowers-inflammation/\">Volunteering creates a little slack in tight blood vessels</a></p>\n<p>Volunteering might be just the thing you need to loosen up those “tightâ€� blood vessels. 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Paying cash, will help you limit the number of unhealthy items that land in your grocery basket.</p></div>\n<p>A trip to the grocery store is like walking through the valley of temptation, you’re tempted by hundreds of items, that are NOT, on your shopping list.</p>\n<p>You know you shouldn’t but… the unhealthy snacks call out “TAKE ME HOMEâ€�, as you stroll up and down the various aisles.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">You TRY to RESIST.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>But resistance is futile</strong></span></h2>\n<p>You’re battling million dollar marketing campaigns and your sugar gremlin.</p>\n<h3><strong>Psychology and biology conspire against you.</strong></h3>\n<p>Nine times out of ten – you give in, adding “JUNKâ€� to your shopping basket or trolley.</p>\n<p>And once the item it homeward bound, you will consume it, sooner or later.  If you’re like me, it is SOONER, sometimes before you’ve actually left the parking lot.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>But you can resist…</strong></span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19041\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/show-me-the-cash-s.png\" alt=\"till demanding cas\" width=\"327\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/show-me-the-cash-s.png 327w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/show-me-the-cash-s-300x260.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" />All you need to do, is when you get to the till, pay CASH.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">i.e. DON’T PAY electronically.</h3>\n<p>Cut up those debit and credit cards, put away the mobile phone. They may be convenient, but they’re stripping you of your ability to defy those BUY ME urges.</p>\n<p>This  has been shown by several groups around the world. One study, carried by a group of marketing researchers, from State University of New York, went so far as to peek inside the shopping baskets of shoppers.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Peeking inside shopping baskets</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The researchers teamed up with a large retailer, whose till operations were able to record the items bought and how they were purchased i.e. cash, credit or debit card.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE :  This study pre-dates mobile payment methods.</em></p>\n<p>A 1000 shoppers agreed to have their grocery purchases scrutinized by the team, for a period of 6 months. To avoid the influence of hungry children and cranky mother-in-laws on shopping purchases, the shoppers were all from one person households i.e. they were shopping for me, myself and I.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The shopping experience</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Was highly variable.  Some people only used cash, some only used cards,  but most people mixed and matched.</p>\n<p>The mixers showed some interesting trends in their purchases.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>When they paid cash, they bought less JUNK FOOD.</li>\n<li>When they swiped either a credit or debit card, they bought more JUNK FOOD.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>NOTE : Junk food was defined as cookies, ice-cream, sweets, doughnuts, puddings and potato chips, basically sugar gremlin munchies. </em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Why cash is KING</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Paying cash for anything, is inherently PAINFUL.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19042\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/paying-cash-hurts.png\" alt=\"brain bleeding when paying cash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/paying-cash-hurts.png 480w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/paying-cash-hurts-300x169.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/paying-cash-hurts-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></p>\n<p>Digging through your wallet to find the precious notes and coins, carefully counting them out and then HANDING them over – feels like you’re losing something.</p>\n<p>And you don’t want to get to the till and NOT have enough money to pay for your purchases. Having to put things back IS EMBARRASING.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Swiping that card is painless</strong></span></h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In contrast, if you swipe a card – you feel nothing.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">IN THE MOMENT !</p>\n<p>That is not to say, you don’t notice – you do, but much later. There may be lots of regrets, but in the moment you make the purchase, you don’t feel a thing.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The effect of paying cash</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The research team speculate, that the sense of loss, that accompanies cash purchases, helps consumers focus. It forces them to ask that difficult question…</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DO I REALLY NEED THIS ? Aka is it actually on my shopping list !</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Especially if funds are low.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19043\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/are-cashless-purchases-to-blame-for-obesity.png\" alt=\"can electronic money be the cause of obesity\" width=\"290\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/are-cashless-purchases-to-blame-for-obesity.png 290w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/are-cashless-purchases-to-blame-for-obesity-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" />Is plastic money causing obesity ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Maybe.</p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, as the use of cash has decreased, obesity rates have increased.  Could this be more than co-incidence ?</p>\n<p>Pretty sure what is going on in my purse, impacts what ends up in my basket.  There a beginning of the month and end of the month shopping sprees.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Smart shopping </strong></span></h2>\n<p><u>For you</u></p>\n<p>Are you an impulsive purchaser ? Is the voice left standing invariably the BUY IT voice ?</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Give yourself an unfair advantage – lose the credit / debit card, only pay cash.</h3>\n<p>It might be a little inconvenient, but you will have to think through your purchase. And when you think about it, a box of doughnuts, washed down with a strawberry milkshake, probably is not really worth it.</p>\n<p><u>For junior</u></p>\n<p>A pay cash philosophy, will also help you, if you’ve got company when shopping….</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19044\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/not-giving-in-to-childs-buy-mes.png\" alt=\"mom stopping a buy me request\" width=\"915\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/not-giving-in-to-childs-buy-mes.png 915w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/not-giving-in-to-childs-buy-mes-300x172.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/not-giving-in-to-childs-buy-mes-768x440.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/not-giving-in-to-childs-buy-mes-300x172@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" /></p>\n<p>You won’t win any prizes for Mom of the year, but you will be able to curtail, juniors “BUY ME ….. THIS, THAT OR THE OTHERâ€�.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>What about my sugar gremlin ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>He is probably telling you, THIS WOMEN IS CRAZY !</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ignore her.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paying cash is like living in the dark ages !</h3>\n<p>A full blown sugar gremlin tantrum is NOT NICE. If your’s is out of control, you need to TAME HIM. <a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/willpower-report/\">Click here</a> to learn more.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657331/\"><strong>How Credit Card Payments Increase Unhealthy Food Purchases: Visceral Regulation of Vices</strong>.</a> Journal of Consumer Research (2011)  38 (1) : 126-139.  Manoj Thomas, Kalpesh Kaushik Desai, and Satheeshkumar Seenivasan.</p>\n<p><strong>The Impact of Mobile Payment Channel on Consumer Consumption: Evidence from Alipay</strong>. <em>SSRN Electronic Journal</em> 21 October 2018. Yuqian Xu, Anindya Ghose, Binqing Xiao.</div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11803\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/reading-the-food-label-tn.png\" alt=\"reading the food label\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/extra-reading-skinnier/\">A little extra reading can help you be skinnier</a></p>\n<p>If you’re one of those people who actually reads the food label, good news your somewhat eccentric habit is probably making you skinnier…</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13762\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/owning-something-equals-happiness-tn.png\" alt=\"owning something equals happiness\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/owning-something-equals-happiness-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/owning-something-equals-happiness-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/owning-something-equals-happiness-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/stress/luxury-therapy-requires-ownership/\">Using nice things is not enough, triumph requires ownership</a></p>\n<p>Luxury therapy maximizes body chemistry so go ahead, wander the isles looking for things that are frivolous, high quality, expensive – then buy them.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-last symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8484\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/grocery-bag-a-little-germ-infested-tn.png\" alt=\"grocery bag a little germ infested\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/bacteria/bringing-home-bacon-bagful-germs/\">Are you bringing home the bacon in a bagful of germs ?</a></p>\n<p>Everytime you hit the store, you fish it out your eco-friendly grocery bag and fill it up. 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aging…….</p></div>\n<p>We’ve all heard the advice</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">USE IT, OR LOSE IT</h3>\n<p>This sound bite, takes on a new dimension, as we age….</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The ability to get back what is lost, is challenging, if not impossible. And, biology conspires to speed up the losses.</em></p>\n<p>We call the condition sarcopenia i.e. flesh poverty.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A pound of flesh</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Most of the time…………… when we think of flesh, we think of the “bodyâ€�. The muscles that make up our trunk and torso.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But, these are not the only muscles, being eroded.</p>\n<p>Lip muscles take strain too.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Orbicularis oris I don’t need you</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Maybe you’re thinking, so what…………</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">I am NOT DOING a whole lot of kissing, at seventy two.</h3>\n<p>Does it matter 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class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19024\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/food-slip-causing-pneumonia.png\" alt=\"food slip causing pneumonia\" width=\"563\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/food-slip-causing-pneumonia.png 563w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/food-slip-causing-pneumonia-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pneumonia is no picnic.</h3>\n<p>The other problem with slips and spills……….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Less nutrition</strong></span></h2>\n<p>If the bites that you take, have a mind of their own, it takes longer to eat your dinner.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So……… you eat less dinner.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And you get less of the good things you need, to maintain the muscle you do have. Eish !</p>\n<p>You also breath less efficiently 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srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/force-increased.png 604w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/force-increased-300x196.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/force-increased-232x150.png 232w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/force-increased-300x196@2x.png 600w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/force-increased-232x150@2x.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Changes in maximal lip closure force before versus after lip training. Copyright 2018 Elsevier</p></div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A result that is not unexpected.</p>\n<p>After all, bench pressing muscles, usually get stronger….</p>\n<p>But what was more interesting, is the lip boot camp, helped the lips work better.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Eating less messy</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Video footage of eating sessions, showed.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eating was more efficient AND less messy.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19028\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/eating-less-messy-and-more-efficient.png\" alt=\"3 old men eating\" width=\"570\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/eating-less-messy-and-more-efficient.png 570w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/eating-less-messy-and-more-efficient-300x168.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/eating-less-messy-and-more-efficient-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" /></p>\n<p>And, lip workouts, resulted in ….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Improved sleeping</strong></span></h2>\n<p>When the team measured the rest-activity rhythm of the oldies, by strapping an accelerometer, onto their wrists, they recorded significant fewer cat naps in the middle of the day.</p>\n<p>Now any time you NEED, to nap in the middle of the day…</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Odds are, you didn’t nap enough, in the middle of the night.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19029\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/day-time-napping.png\" alt=\"old man napping in the day\" width=\"672\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/day-time-napping.png 672w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/day-time-napping-300x171.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/day-time-napping-300x171@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" /></p>\n<p>Since, eighty something year olds, are not in the habit of partying all night, day time naps, are a proxy for poor sleep quality. Lots of things can cause poor sleep quality, top of the list, is sleep apnea.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When you’ve got sleep apnea, you STOP breathing, whilst you’re sleeping.  Not breathing constitutes an EMERGENCY, which “wakes you upâ€� – short changing you on sleep quality………… which had knock on effects on brain activity.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A brain wake up call</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Was provided by the lip muscle training.</p>\n<p>Near infrared spectroscopy of different brain regions, revealed lip training, produced improvements in the levels of oxygen, flowing through the prefrontal cortex….</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Anytime, oxygen delivery to the brain is improved, the ability to THINK, is improved.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Lip workouts mandatory for better body chemistry </strong></span></h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, as we age……. your lips, more often find themselves with less to do.</p>\n<p>Odds are,</p>\n<ul>\n<li>you eat softer foods,</li>\n<li>you talk less,</li>\n<li>you kiss less,</li>\n<li>you sing less etc.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It’s another case of USE IT or LOSE it.</h3>\n<p>So, look for opportunities to send your orbicularis oris muscle to boot camp – it will help you create BETTER BODY CHEMISTRY and BETTER HEALTH.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : This is the device that was used in the study – it’s pretty pricy, but if you’re keen, <a href=\"https://www.liptrainer.com/\">you can purchase it</a>, from the Japanese firm, that makes it.  </em><em>But, there are plenty of do it yourself, set ups to get the same effect. Two pretty easy options. Use a spoon or a button on a thread. <a href=\"http://myofunctionaltherapy.blogspot.com/2012/06/orofacial-muscle-re-education.html\">Click here to learn more</a>. </em></p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2017.09.002/\"><strong>Lip closure training improves eating behaviors and prefrontal cortical hemodynamic activity and decreases daytime sleep in elderly persons.</strong></a> Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (2018) 22 (3) :  810-816. Kouich Takamoto, Tsuyoshi Saitoh, Toru Taguchi, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Susumu Urakawa, Shigekazu Sakai, Taketoshi Ono, Hisao Nishijo.</div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18440\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/paracetamol-metabolites-tn.png\" alt=\"paracetamol metabolites\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/paracetamol-metabolites-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/paracetamol-metabolites-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/paracetamol-metabolites-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/paracetamol-metabolites-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.betterbodychemistry.com/meds/paracetamol-sarcopenia/\">Don’t let your pain medication put you in a wheelchair ?</a></p>\n<p>When it comes to medications, what goes in, must come out, and it’s getting paracetamol “outâ€�, that is it’s Achilles heal – putting you at risk of health problems</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17881\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mirror-improves-eating-in-elderly-tn.png\" alt=\"old man eating in front of a mirror\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mirror-improves-eating-in-elderly-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mirror-improves-eating-in-elderly-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mirror-improves-eating-in-elderly-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mirror-improves-eating-in-elderly-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/aging/power-mirror-impact-appetite/\">The power of a mirror to impact appetite</a></p>\n<p>Lost your appetite ? 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Not as much as we think.</p></div>\n<p>More and more people have a healthy respect for antibiotics.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am not sure it always translates into less use.</p>\n<p>But it does mean, when we do use them, “weâ€� like to mitigate the damage they’re doing.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Translated that means we take a probiotic, along side the antibiotic.</h3>\n<p>The thinking…….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Antibiotics KILL indiscriminately</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The antibiotic, while killing the organism that is making us sick, also decimates, all the “goodâ€� guys, living in our digestive tract.  The empty space, allows the “badâ€� guys to set up shop.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And if this happens, we can be in TROUBLE.</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In the short term, this can mean a case of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Stats suggest this happens in 5 – 35 % of people, taking an antibiotic.</li>\n<li>In the long term, we can end up with permanently disrupted gut microflora, which puts at risk of a multitude of chronic health problems, including obesity, auto-immune problems and inflammatory bowel disease.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Since NO one wants this………</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Probiotics save the day</strong></span></h2>\n<p>We swallow a specially formulated bacteria loaded pill and put back, the good guys.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19013\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-probiotic-fix.png\" alt=\"the probiotic fix\" width=\"992\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-probiotic-fix.png 992w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-probiotic-fix-300x121.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-probiotic-fix-768x310.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-probiotic-fix-300x121@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Problem solved.  Right !</h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not so fast.</p>\n<p>This is what a team of researchers from Israel, recently discovered. The team found, probiotics do not turn back the clock and “rightâ€� the “wrongsâ€� of the antibiotic.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Quite the opposite.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">They actually, prolong the “wrongsâ€� of the antibiotic.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19014\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/antibiotics-make-probiotic-domination-possible.png\" alt=\"the probiotic moves in\" width=\"546\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/antibiotics-make-probiotic-domination-possible.png 546w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/antibiotics-make-probiotic-domination-possible-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" /></p>\n<p>Let me explain what the team observed……….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A time for killing</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The team treated 21 healthy human volunteers, with a broad spectrum antibiotic, containing a combination of two antibiotics, ciprofloxacin and metronidazole, for 7 days.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : This is similar to what you might be prescribed to treat an infection.</em></p>\n<p>Using sophisticated techniques to track, what happened inside the guts, as well as the poop, of these people, the team confirmed……</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The antibiotic created a ghost town.</h3>\n<p>This was the start point of their experiment……</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A time for restoring</strong></span></h2>\n<p>They wanted to know, what could be done to restore the gut flora, to what it was like, before the antibiotic treatment.</p>\n<p>They used three approaches.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 people were given FMT i.e. they received a fecal microbial transplant, of their own poop.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>This is a very high tech solution, not currently an option for common mortals, like you and me. </em></p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 people were given a premium brand probiotic, containing 11 strains of bacteria and told to consume it, twice a day, for 4 weeks.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>They chose a commercially available formulation, which means this is, something a health conscious  consumer, could get their hands on, either as a prescription from their doctor or over the counter, at  their local pharmacy.</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li>The remaining 7 people, took nothing.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>The scenario that probably plays out most often.</em></p>\n<p>So what happened….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The miracle ‘cureâ€�</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Using several different approaches, the team showed the FMT, had everything back to normal within a day or too, shown in dark brown on the figure below.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19015\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19015\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/post-antibiotic-treatments.png\" alt=\"what happens with different post antibiotic treatments\" width=\"663\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/post-antibiotic-treatments.png 663w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/post-antibiotic-treatments-300x242.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/post-antibiotic-treatments-300x242@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recovery of the gut flora following different post-antibiotic treatments. Brown = FMT; Rust = no treatment; Green = probiotic treatment. <em>Copyright 2018 Elsevier Inc</em></p></div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Probably not a big surprise, but right now, not a practical option………</p>\n<p> WE want to know what happened in the case of the DO NOTHING or take probiotics.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Restoring the end goal</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well, the DO NOTHING, actually faired quite well – things were back to normal, within 21 days.   The story with the probiotic, was NOT so rosy. At the 21 day mark, things were still off….</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The composition, function and bacterial load was different.</h3>\n<p>In fact, at THE final check up, 5 months later, the gut microbiota, was still ALTERED. i.e. it had NEVER returned to what it was like, before the antibiotic treatment.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">EISH ! How could this be ?</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Probiotics are SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD !</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>They’re NOT SWEETS</strong></span></h2>\n<p>We’ve somehow been programmed to see them as harmless, but the reality is….</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">You’re swallowing LIVE bacteria, in rather large quantities.</h3>\n<p><em>Okay……………. the large quantities, is probably not always true, but, when you  buy a premium brand, you’re buying QUALITY.  And part of that QUALITY, is better manufacturing processes.</em></p>\n<p>The point is………….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>They’re ALIVE</strong></span></h2>\n<p>And they want to stay that way and have lots of ‘’babiesâ€� – this is the prime directive.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So they play dirty !</h2>\n<p>By tracking who was who, in the gut zoo, of the volunteers, the research pieced together….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The probiotic, post-antibiotic story</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Under normal circumstances, probiotics battle to move into our guts. More often than not, they’re transient i.e. they pass through. As they pass through, they can be helpful. Sometimes they move in, but it takes special circumstances.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is just TOO MUCH competition.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But, the antibiotic treatment, gives them a gap.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It REMOVES the competition.</h3>\n<p>With no competition, they move in, lock stock and barrel and then, they keep competitors in check. But, some of those “competitorsâ€� are actually, normal gut residents……… which leaves you, with a permanently ALTERED gut flora.</p>\n<p>Good or bad ? It’s hard to say….</p>\n<p>But, this study, shows, probiotics do not UNDO, the effects of antibiotics. Doing NOTHING, is more likely to UNDO, the effects of a course of antibiotics.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>What should I do ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>I’m not going to say, don’t take a probiotic, alongside an antibiotic, depending on the circumstance, it might be the right thing to do.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But, I do think, we need to adjust our attitude towards them.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">They’re “drugsâ€� not “sweetsâ€�.</h2>\n<p>Just because you can buy them without a prescription and manufacturers, proclaim their virtues, does not mean, you should be swallowing them on a routine basis.</p>\n<p>Improve you microbial diversity, the way Mother Nature intended……….</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19016\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/get-probiotics-from-nature.png\" alt=\"get probiotics from nature\" width=\"950\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/get-probiotics-from-nature.png 950w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/get-probiotics-from-nature-300x153.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/get-probiotics-from-nature-768x393.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/get-probiotics-from-nature-300x153@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://www.betterbodychemistry.com/bacteria/probiotics-in-a-bucket/\">Touch nature</a> and eat foods that <a href=\"https://www.betterbodychemistry.com/bacteria/plant-microbiome-probiotic/\">contain them</a> and sustain them.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.047/\"><strong>Post-Antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and </strong><strong>Improved by Autologous FMT.</strong> </a>  <em>Cell (2018) 174 : 1406–1423.</em> Jotham Suez, Niv Zmora, Gili Zilberman-Schapira, Uria Mor, Mally Dori-Bachash,Stavros Bashiardes, Maya Zur,Dana Regev-Lehavi,Rotem Ben-Zeev Brik, Sara Federici, Max Horn, Yotam Cohen, Andreas E. Moor, David Zeevi, Tal Korem, Eran Kotler, Alon Harmelin, Shalev Itzkovitz, Nitsan Maharshak, Oren Shibolet, Meirav Pevsner-Fischer, Hagit Shapiro, Itai Sharon, Zamir Halpern,  Eran Segal, and Eran Elinav.</div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://expectingmagic.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/horsing-around-can-calm-cortisol-tn.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13121\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/no-vacancies-at-gut-colon-tn.png\" alt=\"no vacancies at gut colon\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/no-vacancies-at-gut-colon-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/no-vacancies-at-gut-colon-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/no-vacancies-at-gut-colon-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/bacteria/probiotics-no-vacancies/\">Probiotics get turned away when there is no room at the inn</a></p>\n<p>Everytime you swallow your probiotic, you send billions of good bacteria into your gut, but these good guys don’t seem to stick around, they just pass through</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18867\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/brain-fog-tn.png\" alt=\"brain experiencing brain fog\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/brain-fog-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/brain-fog-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/brain-fog-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/brain-fog-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.betterbodychemistry.com/neurotechnology-tip/probiotic-lactic-acid-brain-fog/\">Could your probiotic be causing your fuzzy thinking ?</a></p>\n<p>Probiotics are typically lactic acid producing bacteria, the lactic acid they produce comes in two flavours. L-lactic acid is useful, D-lactic acid is toxic in large quantities.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-last symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://expectingmagic.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/horsing-around-can-calm-cortisol-tn.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17002\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bacteria-eating-gut-cell-lining-tn.png\" alt=\"bacteria eating gut cell lining\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bacteria-eating-gut-cell-lining-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bacteria-eating-gut-cell-lining-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bacteria-eating-gut-cell-lining-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bacteria-eating-gut-cell-lining-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/bacteria/gut-bacteria-eat-house-home/\">Don’t let your gut bacteria eat you out of house and home</a></p>\n<p>When a gut bacteria can’t find something fibrous to chew, it will just eat something else. 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Some are up. Some are down. Few are actually at physiologically NORMAL levels.</p>\n<p>Traditionally the focus is on the big guns.<br />\n• Insulin<br />\n• Sugar<br />\n• And cholesterol</p>\n<p>In this series, we’ll take a look at some of the other players.</p>\n<p>Who they are, what they’re up to and how they’re part of the state of insulin resistance.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">This week, we feature mannose</h2>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18979\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-insulin-resistant.png\" alt=\"mannose in the insulin resistant\" width=\"833\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-insulin-resistant.png 833w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-insulin-resistant-300x179.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-insulin-resistant-768x459.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-insulin-resistant-300x179@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mannose levels are up in someone who is insulin resistant.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Kissing cousins</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This probably is not a big surprise, since mannose, like glucose is a six carbon sugar.</p>\n<p>But, unlike glucose, whose levels are “upâ€�, both when the person has eaten NOTHING i.e. they are fasted, as well as when the person eats.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mannose is only up after a meal.</h3>\n<p>And no, although it is possible to consume small quantities of mannose, during a meal. The mannose, flitting about is actually home grown.</p>\n<p>Meaning the body is making it…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>From glucose</strong></span></h2>\n<p>But, it’s NOT the glucose being eaten. It’s the glucose being made by the liver.  The process is known as gluconeogenesis.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The liver is quite a whizz, it can turn a whole host of “thingsâ€� into glucose.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18980\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gluconeogenesis.png\" alt=\"liver turning "things" into sugar\" width=\"456\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gluconeogenesis.png 456w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gluconeogenesis-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" /></p>\n<p>This is something the liver pretty much does, 24/7 – it has to. If supplies of glucose dip, below an acceptable threshold – it’s tickets.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Siesta time</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now the only time, the liver takes a break from whipping up batches of sugar, is when sugar is coming in, courtesy of a meal.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The way the liver knows, it is siesta time, is insulin “tellsâ€� him.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18981\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/siesta-time.png\" alt=\"siesta time for the liver\" width=\"498\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/siesta-time.png 498w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/siesta-time-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It not a matter of insulin being courteous, insulin is striving to be efficient.</p>\n<p>Putting away, home grown and eaten sugar, at the same time, is seriously hard work.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>In the insulin resistant……</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The liver doesn’t get the memo, that a load of sugar has been received, timeously. So he doesn’t stop cooking up oodles of glucose. And he and everyone else, ultimately suffers, because insulin fails to keep up with his sugar deliveries.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So more glucose, means more mannose.</h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>So what does mannose “doâ€� ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well the mannose is NOT a fuel source, it’s actually used for decorating.</p>\n<p>I kid you not……………. lots of bits and pieces in the body, put on sugar makeup. They do it, to let “everyoneâ€� know, they’re part of the tribe.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The “rightâ€� decorations, impact how the various bits and pieces are treated.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18982\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-tribe.png\" alt=\"cells wearing team colours\" width=\"549\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-tribe.png 549w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-tribe-300x170.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-tribe-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" /></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Glycosylation</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The official process of sugar decorating is referred to as glycosylation. It is driven by specialized enzymes and is all very civilized.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And mannose is one of the chief sugars used, in the decorating process.</h3>\n<p>So the extra mannose, found in someone who is insulin resistant, is put to good use.</p>\n<p>Up to a point….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Mannose really does like decorating</strong></span></h2>\n<p>So, if she finds herself, just hanging around……………… she sometimes, does a little self-decorating i.e. she sticks herself onto bits and pieces, unprompted.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This process is referred to as non-enzymatic glycation.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this decorating is not always aesthetically pleasing.  It can be downright destructive. The decorating mess, is referred to as advanced glycation end products, or AGEs.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18983\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ages.png\" alt=\"advanced glycation end products\" width=\"553\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ages.png 553w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ages-300x168.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ages-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The “victimsâ€� of these unsolicited decorations are pariahs.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They usually can’t do their job and spark the “wrathâ€� of the immune system.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">AGEs are often responsible for the complications, associated with high sugar levels.</h3>\n<p>Now mannose is not the only sugar, that goes decorating unescorted, glucose does this too. Mannose is just much more likely to do so.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Decorating tips</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now, this is not much you can do to stop mannose from decorating, beyond doing what you can to keep those glucose levels as low as possible, especially at dinner.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Following a low carb / slow carb diet, cuts insulin some slack……………</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For more tips and strategies to help minimize sugar spikes, <a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/willpower-report/\">download the FREE Willpower Report.</a></em></p>\n<p>It is way easier to put away, small amounts of sugar, than truck loads.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>What about mannose for urinary tract infections ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The science, suggests it does work, in the short term.</p>\n<p>Turns out, <em>E.coli</em>, this is one of the species of bacteria, that likes to get up to mischief in the bladder, uses a mannose sugar, to hold on to YOUR bladder.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18984\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-for-utis.png\" alt=\"mannose for utis\" width=\"557\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-for-utis.png 557w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mannose-for-utis-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When you swallow, mannose as a supplement, most of it, get’s peed out.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This means, that mannose levels are higher than normal inside the bladder.</p>\n<p>Since <em>E.coli</em> doesn’t have 20/20 vision – it grabs onto “the wrongâ€� sugar and……………………..get’s swished out.  Protecting you, from a UTI.</p>\n<p><em>That said, you might still be at risk of mannose doing dangerous “decoratingâ€�.  At this stage, no one has actually studied it.  So tread carefully.</em></p>\n<p><br />\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2016.05.026/\"><strong>Integrated network analysis reveals an association between plasma mannose levels and insulin resistance.</strong></a> <em>Cell Metab. (2016) </em>24 :172–184. Sunjae Lee, Cheng Zhang, Murat Kilicarslan, Brian D. Piening, Elias Bjornson, Bjorn M. Hallstrom, Albert K. Groen, Ele Ferrannini, Markku Laakso, Michael Snyder, Matthias Bluher, Mathias Uhlen, Jens Nielsen, Ulf Smith, Mireille J. Serlie, Jan Boren, and Adil Mardinoglu.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/jdi.12622/\"><strong>Plasma mannose level, a putative indicator of glycogenolysis, and glucose tolerance in Japanese individuals.</strong></a> <em>J Diabetes Investig. (2017) 8(4):489-495</em><strong>.</strong> K Yoshimur, S Hirano, H Takata, S Funakoshi, S Ohmi, E Amano, Y Nishi, M Inoue, Y Fukuda, H Hayashi, T Taguchi, S Yamada, I Miwa, Y Terada, S Fujimoto.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-013-1091-6/\"><strong>D-mannose powder for prophylaxis of recurrent urinary tract infections in women: a randomized clinical trial. </strong></a> <em>World J Urol (2014) 32(1):79-84</em>. B Kranj?ec, D PapeÅ¡, S Altarac.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2017.07.006/\"><strong>Plasma Mannose Levels Are Associated with Incident Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.</strong> </a><em>Cell Metab. (2017) 26(2):281-283.</em> A Mardinoglu, A Stan?áková, LA Lotta, J Kuusisto , J Boren, M Blüher, NJ Wareham, E Ferrannini, PH Groop, M Laakso, C Langenberg, U Smith.</div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2710\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/bacteria-hiding-among-the-sugar-covered-cells-tn.png\" alt=\"bacteria hiding among the sugar covered cells\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/diabetes/infections-difficult-overcome-diabetics/\">Why infections are difficult to overcome in diabetics </a></p>\n<p>Faced with an excess of sugar, it becomes increasingly difficult to spot the wrong sugars so invaders manage to slip under the radar and cause lots of mischief.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18108\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/asprosin-controls-postprandial-sugar-levels-tn.jpg\" alt=\"asprosin the sugar plum fairy\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/asprosin-controls-postprandial-sugar-levels-tn.jpg 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/asprosin-controls-postprandial-sugar-levels-tn-83x83.jpg 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/asprosin-controls-postprandial-sugar-levels-tn-55x55.jpg 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/asprosin-controls-postprandial-sugar-levels-tn-55x55@2x.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.betterbodychemistry.com/diabetes/asprosin-high-sugar-not-eating/\">Why are my sugar levels high when I haven’t eaten anything ?</a></p>\n<p>If your sugar levels are HIGH – logic says, the solution is just simply to STOP EATING. Does it work ? Not as much as one would think. Asprosin is to blame</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-last symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14720\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/siderocalin-hiding-the-iron-in-the-bladder-tn.png\" alt=\"siderocalin hiding th iron\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/siderocalin-hiding-the-iron-in-the-bladder-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/siderocalin-hiding-the-iron-in-the-bladder-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/siderocalin-hiding-the-iron-in-the-bladder-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/siderocalin-hiding-the-iron-in-the-bladder-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/bacteria/avoid-urinary-tract-infections/\">To avoid UTIs you need to shore up your body’s defences</a></p>\n<p>A urinary tract infection is definitely unpleasant. 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What happens most nights is not magical. You’re a victim of biology….</p></div>\n<p>You want bedtime, to be a magical bonding time – reflections of the day, fairytales & kisses.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">What happens most nights is not magical.</h3>\n<p>Each night, as bedtime looms, you feel like you step into the twighlight zone, your sweet little “angelâ€�, turns into a “monsterâ€�.</p>\n<p>The nice word to describe what happens, is bedtime resistance.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">The faces of bedtime resistance</span></h2>\n<p>Bedtime resistance, is more common than one would think – 25 % of little ones are having trouble going off to sleep.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some kids just REFUSE. The “I AM NOT GOINGâ€� message is accompanied by loud outbursts and sulking. The resulting tantrum is never pretty.</li>\n<li>Some kids REFUSE more subtly. They go through the motions – but drag out the process. They need, another story. Then they need a glass of water. 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The glucose is FUEL, but the fructose………is a challenge, for a dehydrated kidney.</p></div>\n<p>It’s a stinking hot day………..</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And you’ve been out and about, maybe you were doing something fun, maybe it’s duty.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">You’re dehydrated.</h2>\n<p>To quench your thirst, you reach for an ice cold soda. It’s wet. It’s cold. 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Right ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Chronic kidney disease</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Concerned, by the observation that more and more sugar cane workers, are succumbing to chronic kidney disease, because of recurrent dehydration,  the team decided to “digâ€� a little deeper.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So they put some rats to work in “the fieldsâ€�.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18950\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/rats-going-to-work-in-sugar-plantation.png\" alt=\"rats going to work in sugar plantation\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/rats-going-to-work-in-sugar-plantation.png 480w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/rats-going-to-work-in-sugar-plantation-300x169.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/rats-going-to-work-in-sugar-plantation-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></p>\n<p>The little guys didn’t actually have to cut or chop, sugar cane, but they did get seriously HOT, for one hour a day, every week day.  On Saturday and Sunday, they rested.</p>\n<p>This simulated the dehydration, experienced by the sugar cane labourers.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Recovering from the heat</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Following their “roastingâ€�, the rats were given an opportunity to rehydrate, with a “specialâ€� beverage.  The rats could drink as much, or as little as they liked, of this “specialâ€� beverage, for a two hour window.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some drank the equivalent of a coke (7.15% fructose and 3.85% glucose)</li>\n<li>Some drank tap water</li>\n<li>Some got a water, with a hint of sweet.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>NOTE : The sweet used in this study was stevia. The reason for sweetening up the water, was to make it more palatable. Ensuring both sets of rats, consumed the same amount of water. Rats, just like humans, can turn up their nose to plane water. </em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Drinking their fill</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The rats made merry until the next day – eating and drinking (water only) <em>ad libitum </em>i..e as much as they liked.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then it was “hiho hiho, it’s off to work I goâ€�.</p>\n<p>4 weeks later…………the scientific investigations began in earnest.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">Kidney vigour</span></h2>\n<p>Urine and blood was sampled, blood pressure was measured and then………………….</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was over.</p>\n<p>The team carefully extracted the kidneys – to assess, what shape they were in.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A sorry site</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Rehydrating with a soda, had put strain on the kidneys……..</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18945 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/histological-study-of-coke-rats.png\" alt=\"histology of kidney when animals rehydrate using soda\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/histological-study-of-coke-rats.png 480w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/histological-study-of-coke-rats-300x169.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/histological-study-of-coke-rats-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Histology studies showed glomerular and tubular alterations.</h3>\n<p>Fructose and uric acid levels, were higher in the cortex of the kidney and the tissue was clearly experiencing more oxidative stress, when the animals had used coke” to rehydrate.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18946\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/uric-acid-and-fructose-levels-in-kidney-cortex.png\" alt=\"fructose and uric acid levels following rehydration with coke\" width=\"825\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/uric-acid-and-fructose-levels-in-kidney-cortex.png 825w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/uric-acid-and-fructose-levels-in-kidney-cortex-300x93.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/uric-acid-and-fructose-levels-in-kidney-cortex-768x238.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/uric-acid-and-fructose-levels-in-kidney-cortex-300x93@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" /></p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18947\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-18947 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/oxidative-stress-in-kideney-cortex.png\" alt=\"oxidative stress following rehydration with coke\" width=\"390\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/oxidative-stress-in-kideney-cortex.png 390w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/oxidative-stress-in-kideney-cortex-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Markers of kidney “damage”. © 2016 the American Physiological Society</p></div>\n<p>In contrast, when the animals had used plain water or the stevia flavoured water, to rehydrate, there were no deleterious effects.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Fructose is a problem</strong></span></h2>\n<p>When you’re dehydrated………</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The rats, using the soda to rehydrate, drank 12 ± 1.1 ml in the 2 hour window, this is not an excessive amount.</p>\n<p>In fact, when the researchers allowed another group of rats, to work in “an officeâ€� for the month.  Despite sipping on 14 ml of soda / day, these guys, had NO SIGN of kidney problems.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : The office job came with air conditioner.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>So what’s the problem ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Too much vasopressin for one.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The researchers confirmed vasopressin receptors were up-regulated in the kidneys.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18948\" style=\"width: 928px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-18948 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/expression-of-vasopressin-receptors.png\" alt=\"vasopressin receptor levels when animals rehydrate with coke\" width=\"918\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/expression-of-vasopressin-receptors.png 918w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/expression-of-vasopressin-receptors-300x67.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/expression-of-vasopressin-receptors-768x172.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/expression-of-vasopressin-receptors-300x67@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renal cortex vasopressin V1a and V2 receptors expressions in mildly dehydrated animals. © 2016 the American Physiological Society</p></div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The other problem………..TOO MUCH fructose.</h2>\n<p>Remember, I said, it’s hard to handle.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Handling fructose is a team effort</strong></span></h2>\n<p>In fact, in an ideal situation, it should be handled by the small intestine, but when you swigged it down, without any food, the small intestine doesn’t get a chance to DO ANYTHING.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, the handling falls on the shoulders of the other organs.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The 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Then it takes a dip, in the afternoon, reaching it’s lowest point in the day, in the late afternoon,  before climbing for a second time, early in the evening. Once you’re tucked in bed, it should take a nose dive, dropping somewhere between 10 and 20 %.</p>\n<p>You might or might not be following this pattern…………..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Dipping into health</strong></span></h2>\n<p>When blood pressure is measured over a 24 hour period, this is referred to as ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, three patterns arise.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here are samples of three different individuals….. let’s call them Dick, Tom and Harry.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18922\" style=\"width: 948px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-18922\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/different-patterns-of-blood-pressure-across-the-day.png\" alt=\"Graphs showing abnormal blood pressure patterns across the day\" 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and Tom – will both have been diagnosed with high blood pressure.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dick, REALLY has a problem.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tom, NOT SO MUCH.</h3>\n<p><em>NOTE : He is likely taking blood pressure lowering meds, probably un-necessarily,  they’re costing a fortune and putting him at risk of other health problems. Remember, drugs always have side effects.</em></p>\n<p>What about Harry ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Masked hypertension</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well, if his doc, didn’t do the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, he would have been slapped on the back, with a jolly well done……… your blood pressure is NORMAL.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But, it’s NOT.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This guy is in T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Serious TROUBLE !</h3>\n<p>More and more scientific studies, show the risk from high blood pressure, is coming when blood pressure is high, when you’re “sleepingâ€�.</p>\n<h2><span 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week, we feature Irisin.</strong></h1>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18902\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-on-prezi.png\" alt=\"irisin in insulin resistance banner\" width=\"748\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-on-prezi.png 748w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-on-prezi-300x179.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-on-prezi-300x179@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" /></p>\n<p>Irisin is typically lower in someone with metabolic problems.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">So who is irisin ?</span></h2>\n<p>Irisin, is named after the Greek goddess, Iris. In Greek mythology, iris was the messenger of the gods, she typically delivered bad news.</p>\n<p>In the body, she is an 112 amino acid hormone, derived as a product of fibronectin type III domain containing 5 (FNDC5).</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18903\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/formation.png\" alt=\"formation from FNDC5\" width=\"347\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/formation.png 347w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/formation-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Irisin, is dispatched by skeletal and cardiac muscles, when they’re IN a spot of TROUBLE.</p>\n<p>Specifically, they’ve been called upon to push and pull, like crazy and they’re finding it tough going, because they are suffering an energy crunch.</p>\n<p>The message goes forth, to all and sundry……………….</p>\n<p>Irisin’s dispatch, brings relief to the stressed out muscle…………. she facilitates the uptake of glucose.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Allowing the muscle to keep going, a little bit longer.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>So where does the fuel come from ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>At this stage, how the message is “heardâ€� is still a bit of a mystery, but among the cells, that pick up the “distressâ€� signal, are fat cells.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">It sparks them to up their game.</h2>\n<p>After all, situations like this, is what FAT CELLS live for……</p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Fat cells heed the call</strong></span></p>\n<p>They’ve spent their days, squirreling away resources – now when muscles call, they’re ready.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They pull out all the stops.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Switching from being fat storers, to fat burners.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18904\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/browning-of-fat-cells.png\" alt=\"browning of fat cells\" width=\"321\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/browning-of-fat-cells.png 321w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/browning-of-fat-cells-300x293.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/browning-of-fat-cells-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/browning-of-fat-cells-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" /></p>\n<p>Now to do this, requires some major changes in their chemistry. Mitochondrial enzyme activity sky rockets, so do mitochondrial numbers.</p>\n<p>And fat cells with more mitochondria, look and act, a little different.</p>\n<p>The transformation is described as “browningâ€�…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Fat cells firing on all four cyclinders</strong></span></h2>\n<p>It’s a good thing !</p>\n<p>For muscles and for waist lines………………</p>\n<p>So, although irisin is BAD news for muscle, it’s good news for metabolic health.   Mice given recombinant irisin shots, show improvements body chemistry.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18905\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-effects.png\" alt=\"the effects of irisin\" width=\"340\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-effects.png 340w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/irisin-effects-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" /></p>\n<p>Bone and muscle mass increases and irisin shows, anti-diabetic , anti-hypertensive and anti-depressant activity,</p>\n<p>So is irisin-based therapy coming soon ?</p>\n<p><em>Probably, lots of research groups around the world, are working create these.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are metabolically challenged,  getting more irisin, should be on your shopping list.  But you don’t need to wait for big pharma, to get more. You can do it yourself !</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Things to do, to dispatch irisin </strong></span></h2>\n<p>Since freaked out muscles are the source of irisin, to get more, you need to  get more muscle and you need to  make the muscle you’ve got, work HARD, in the moment.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18906\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/build-muscle.png\" alt=\"build muscle\" width=\"602\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/build-muscle.png 602w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/build-muscle-300x184.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/build-muscle-300x184@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" /></p>\n<p>Multiple studies have shown, irisin levels increase when you exercise hard or VIBRATE. The increase doesn’t last terribly long, but it does good things, in the long run.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"http://10.1007/s40519-017-0431-8\"><strong>Does iris(in) bring bad news or good news? </strong></a>Eat Weight Disord (2018) 23(4):431-442. Silvio Buscemi, Davide Corleo, Carola Buscemi, Carla Giordano.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://10.1111/sms.12904\"><strong>Effect of an acute exercise bout on immediate post-exercise irisin concentration in adults: A meta-analysis.</strong></a> Scand J Med Sci Sports. (2018) 28:16–28. J. Fox, B. V. Rioux, E. D. B. Goulet, N. M. Johanssen, D. L. Swift, D. R. Bouchard, H. Loewen, M. Sénéchal.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://10.3831/KPI.2017.20.029\"><strong>A review of the role of irisin in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus</strong></a>. Journal of Pharmacopuncture (2017) 20(4) : 235 -242. Mamo Gizaw, Pandi Anandakumar, Tolessa Debela</div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18660\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-chicken-or-the-egg-tn.png\" alt=\"the chicken or the egg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-chicken-or-the-egg-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-chicken-or-the-egg-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-chicken-or-the-egg-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-chicken-or-the-egg-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/metabolic-syndrome-muscle-mass/\">Metabolic syndrome is not a fat thing, it’s a muscle thing</a></p>\n<p>Teens with metabolic syndrome, that are not obese are slightly muscle deficient. 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