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The prevailing view, your insulin resistant because you’re fat, but what if your insulin resistance preceded your obesity.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pops-accumulating-in-fat-cells-tn.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13612 size-full\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pops-accumulating-in-fat-cells-tn.png\" alt=\"pops accumulating in fat cells\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pops-accumulating-in-fat-cells-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pops-accumulating-in-fat-cells-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pops-accumulating-in-fat-cells-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></a><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/pops-fat-blame-metabolic-syndrome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too much fat may not be to blame for metabolic syndrome</a></p>\n<p>You can be metabolically healthy and obese. You cannot be metabolically healthy with a specific profile of POPs. Are POPs the cause of obesity ?</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-last symple-all\">\n<p><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/defining-a-healthy-fat-tn.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15026 size-full\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/defining-a-healthy-fat-tn.png\" alt=\"defining a healthy fat\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/defining-a-healthy-fat-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/defining-a-healthy-fat-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/defining-a-healthy-fat-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/defining-a-healthy-fat-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></a><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/healthy-fats-heart-versus-liver/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Those healthy fats aren’t as healthy as you believe </a></p>\n<p>Now, it’s okay to eat fats, as long as they’re “healthyâ€� fats. 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The “rightâ€� underwear can do the same thing from the outside.</p></div>\n<p>You feel it coming………… a gigantic sneeze. Your first instinct, to suppress it. This fails. It is coming, it’s coming. Hatchoo !</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh dear, there has been a dribble.</h3>\n<p>Or maybe you’re in your zumba class, wiggling your tush to the rhythm……… suddenly, a swing of the hips, causes a dribble.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It’s NOT a flood. But it’s uncomfortable, embarrassing………… DISTRESSING !</h3>\n<p>You’ve got stress urinary incontinence.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Stress urinary incontinence</strong></span></h2>\n<p>It is actually quite common.  Stats suggest somewhere between 11 to 42 % of women, between 30 – 60 years, experience the problem.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So you’re NOT alone.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I’m not sure that is comforting. Stress urinary incontinence is one of the things, NOT TALKED about.</p>\n<p>So what can you do ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Pelvic floor muscle training</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Dr google will suggest pelvic floor muscle training. For many ladies, it does work.  But you have to work at it.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19401\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/muscle-holding-a-plank.png\" alt=\"muscle holding a plank\" width=\"691\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/muscle-holding-a-plank.png 691w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/muscle-holding-a-plank-300x180.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/muscle-holding-a-plank-300x180@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" /></p>\n<p>And, this can be a challenge. Technique matters. So does motivation. It’s one of those times, the old adage of,  use it or lose, it applies.  Eish !</p>\n<p>So is there an easier option, besides surgery ?</p>\n<p>This is what a group of Japanese researchers wondered. They were looking for something that was non-invasive, economical and has no side effects.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The biology of the pelvic floor</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The team started with  thinking about the biology, of the pelvic floor.  It’s been described as a suspension bridge i.e. the structure and function are connected. The internal muscles, fascia and ligaments, keep the pelvic organs, suspended in the “rightâ€� place.</p>\n<h3><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19402\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-floor-as-a-suspension-bridge.png\" alt=\"pelvic floor as a suspension bridge\" width=\"635\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-floor-as-a-suspension-bridge.png 635w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-floor-as-a-suspension-bridge-300x157.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-floor-as-a-suspension-bridge-300x157@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" /></h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">For the bladder, the “rightâ€� place, requires the bladder neck to be lifted.</h3>\n<p>So NO LEAKS happen……</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Below the line</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, wear and tear and HORMONES, can make the suspension bridge…………….. MORE WOBBLEY.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : The HORMONES, are particularly problematic, the week or so, before you get the periods. This is when estrogen and progesterone are high, this makes ligaments, a little more springy.</em></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And that wobble, reverberates through the structure.</h3>\n<p>When there is a BIG increase in abdominal pressure, which can happen when you laugh, sneeze or do a jumping jack. The extra give, allows the bladder neck, to drop below the LINE. It is only there for a moment.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19403\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bladder-leaking.png\" alt=\"bladder leaking\" width=\"768\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bladder-leaking.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bladder-leaking-300x145.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bladder-leaking-300x145@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But that moment is all it takes, for a leak to happen.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It’s inevitable. The angle is “WRONGâ€�…………..gravity does the rest.</h3>\n<p>So to “fixâ€� the problem, you have to stop THE WOBBLE.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Exercises stop the wobble</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This is what pelvic floor muscle training does…. when it works, it minimizes the wobble, by making the structure, STRONGER.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The bladder experiences,  less bounce.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">So the bladder neck, never dips too low.</h3>\n<p>You’re holding it up, from the inside.  But, on paper, at least, you could hold it up, from the outside too.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Outside support </strong></span></h2>\n<p>Could fancy underwear do the trick ? Our team of researchers went shopping for undies.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not the sexy kind.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The kind that hides imperfections, through strategic SUPPORT.</h3>\n<p><em>NOT E: You often see adverts for them on late night TV.</em></p>\n<p>They chose undies which are available in Japanese stores, under the brand name SLIM-up-pant and did a little experimenting.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>SLIM-up-pants hold the line</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The first set of experiments they did, was to see, whether SLIM-up-pants, could elevate the bLadder neck.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And as expected………… they did.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19404\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19404\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-magnetic-resonance-image.png\" alt=\"pelvic magnetic resonance showing bladder neck position\" width=\"581\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-magnetic-resonance-image.png 581w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pelvic-magnetic-resonance-image-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelvic magnetic resonance image of 34 year old lady, showing bladder neck position, wearing normal and supportive underwear. © 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd</p></div>\n<p>This shows a Sagittal T1-weighted pelvic magnetic resonance image, of  what happened to a 34 year old lady, with and without the underwear on.  The arrows show the position of the bladder neck, relative to the pubococcygeal line</p>\n<p>When she’s wearing the fancy panties, even when there is an increase in pelvic strain, the bladder neck, HOLDS the line.</p>\n<p>So  does this stop the dribbles ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Supporting underwear makes a difference</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Having confirmed that underwear, could hold the line, the team, wanted to see if it made a difference.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They recruited 50 ladies who “dribbledâ€�.</p>\n<p>To be part of the study, the ladies needed to dribble more than once a week, but to be otherwise healthy. <em>They excluded pregnant women and very new Moms, from the study. </em></p>\n<p>Each lady was issued with two pairs of panties. 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Too little vitamin B12 results in nerve damage and vascular complications. Metformin chews vit B12. Coincidence ?</p></div>\n<p>When sugar levels go awry – meds are often prescribed. The anti-diabetic drug which is widely prescribed, is metformin. This is the active ingredient in the pill, but will not be the name that you see on the pill box.</p>\n<p>To help you figure out, if the pill you’re taking has metformin inside, I’ve listed some of the common trade names of metformin.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Glucophage</em></li>\n<li><em>Carbophage</em></li>\n<li><em>Riomet</em></li>\n<li><em>Fortamet </em></li>\n<li><em>Glumetza </em></li>\n<li><em>Obimet </em></li>\n<li><em>Gluformin</em></li>\n<li><em>Dianben </em></li>\n<li><em>Diabex</em></li>\n<li><em>Diaformin</em></li>\n<li><em>Siofor</em></li>\n<li><em>Metfogamma </em></li>\n<li><em>Glifor</em></li>\n</ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Metformin mechanism of action</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Metformin works it’s magic, by decreasing glucose production  – the overall result, it helps keep sugar levels in check. Protecting the diabetic from the dire consequences of elevated sugar levels.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Unfortunately, it also does a few things that are not quite as helpful.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19387\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/benefits-and-risks-of-metformin.png\" alt=\"benefits and risks of metformin\" width=\"605\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/benefits-and-risks-of-metformin.png 605w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/benefits-and-risks-of-metformin-300x164.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/benefits-and-risks-of-metformin-300x164@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is the problem with drugs – there are always risks along with the benefits.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Metformin chews up 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src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/consequence-of-vitamin-b12-shortages.png\" alt=\"signs and symptoms of vitamin b12 deficiency\" width=\"884\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/consequence-of-vitamin-b12-shortages.png 884w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/consequence-of-vitamin-b12-shortages-300x174.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/consequence-of-vitamin-b12-shortages-768x445.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/consequence-of-vitamin-b12-shortages-300x174@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" /></p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nerve damage and vascular complications.</strong></h2>\n<p>Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…… these are two big problems facing someone with diabetes.  They have fancy names, neuropathy, retinopathy, macroangiopathy – but when all is said and done, the complications of diabetes, revolve around nerve damage and blood vessel damage.</p>\n<p>High sugar levels are usually blamed for this damage.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The priority in diabetes</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This is why priority number one in diabetes, is to keep those sugar levels within a normal range.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Something metformin is good at doing.</h3>\n<p>But…………</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>At a price ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Remember, diabetes is not something you’re CURED OF. It is more about management.  Sadly, even when sugar levels are managed well…………….complications can arise.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Specifically nerve damage and vascular complications.</h3>\n<p>Could metformin, our hero, be part of the problem ?</p>\n<p>Maybe.</p>\n<p>An unrecognized vitamin B12 deficiency, is going to impact.</p>\n<p>But, it doesn’t have to be……</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Make a plan</strong></span></h2>\n<p>So metformin chews vitamin B12, how it does it, is still not clear, but it does, so if you been taking metformin for 6 months or more, you need to make a plan, TO GET A LITTLE EXTRA vitamin B12.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Your body cannot make it.</h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Plants can’t either. Some bacteria can make it, most don’t, they steal it from you or their neighbours.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The only natural source of vitamin B12</strong></span></h2>\n<p>To get enough you need to consume animal products.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>100 g of liver will contain 26-58 ug of the stuff.</li>\n<li>100 g steak or a pork chop, gives you 1-3 ug</li>\n<li>anegg yolk , will give you 1-2.5 ug</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">If you’re a strict vegetarian, you’re GOING TO BE short changed.</h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">AND NEED TO SUPPLEMENT !</h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, even if you’re eating enough, it does 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brave and get a shot.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">Mitigate the metformin risk</span></h2>\n<p>If you’re managing your diabetes with metformin, make sure you’re keeping your vitamin B12 levels topped up.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> Relationship between metformin use, vitamin B12 deficiency, hyperhomocysteinemia and vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes. Endocrine Journal (2013) 60 (12), 1275-1280. Yuka Sato, Kenjiro Ouchi, Yoshiko Funase, Keishi Yamauchi and Toru Aizawa.</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-18342\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EPC-exposed-to-toxin-tn.png\" alt=\"EPC being exposed to a toxin\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EPC-exposed-to-toxin-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EPC-exposed-to-toxin-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EPC-exposed-to-toxin-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/EPC-exposed-to-toxin-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/heart-disease/epcs-fail-cholesterol/\">Cholesterol clogs up blood 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increased risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Do what you can to keep yours !</h2>\n<p>And help your gallbladder, to do it’s job. <a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/dine-dont-graze/\">Dine don’t graze</a> , so you create bile spikes, not bile trickles.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/labinvest.2017.95\"><strong>Cholecystectomy as a risk factor of metabolic syndrome: from epidemiologic clues to biochemical mechanisms.</strong> </a>Laboratory Investigation (2018) 98 : 7–14. Yongsheng Chen, Shuodong Wu and Yu Tian.  </div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19276\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gallbladder-crying.png\" alt=\"gallbladder crying\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" 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src=\"//spoonfulofscience.audello.com/player/Z2x5Y2luZS1pbi10aGUtaW5zdWxpbi1yZXNpc3RhbnQubXAz/?container=audello-AWY6VJRK7D\" async></script></p>\n<div id=\"audello-AWY6VJRK7D\" class=\"audello-player audello-file\" data-role=\"audello-file\" data-audello-id=\"Z2x5Y2luZS1pbi10aGUtaW5zdWxpbi1yZXNpc3RhbnQubXAz\"></div>\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<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Glycine in insulin resistant</strong></h1>\n<p>Now, glycine is DOWN, which in and of itself is a bit odd.</p>\n<p>You see 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src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/glycine-biology.png\" alt=\"glycine biology\" width=\"611\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/glycine-biology.png 611w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/glycine-biology-300x178.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/glycine-biology-300x178@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" /></u></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>You’re made of glycine</strong></span></h2>\n<p>11.5 % of the total amino acid content of the human body is glycine – so you’re made of it.   Now most of that glycine is found, in collagen and elastin.  Collagen is a protein made up of a triple helix. The individual strands have every third amino acid as glycine.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Now when it comes to collagen, SIZE MATTERS.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19347\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/humans-need-a-lot-of-glycine.png\" alt=\"rat versus human collagen requirements\" width=\"323\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/humans-need-a-lot-of-glycine.png 323w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/humans-need-a-lot-of-glycine-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>It is estimated that an average human, needs 630 times more collagen, than an average rat.</em></p>\n<p>Of course, if you’re bigger than average, you need more than that.  And if your collagen is taking a hit, because of bad body chemistry, you’ll need a little extra glycine, to take care of the trouble.</p>\n<p>Remodelling of collagen, is not the only time, glycine is involved in “fixingâ€� things.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Glycine protects against oxidative 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The foods we are choosing from, frequently have one thing in common, they are processed.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Not just a little, A LOT.</h3>\n<p>The technical  term for this is ultra-processed.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\"><strong>Before food was an industry</strong></span></h2>\n<p>It’s certainly not what our  ancestors did.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">They definitely processed food.</h3>\n<p>But, the extent of their processing was minimal. They washed, winnowed, hulled, peeled, ground, grated, squeezed, flaked, skinned, de-boned etc.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then cooked it.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Usually at a fairly low heat for an extended period of time.</p>\n<p>And if they were very progressive and sophisticated, they salted, pickled, smoked or fermented it.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\"><strong>Food processing is NOT evil</strong></span></h2>\n<p>They had to…..</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Food processing is indispensible.</h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">It made food safe, keepable, digestible and palatable.</h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\"><strong>The food industry</strong></span></h2>\n<p>We’re still doing this…………..</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">But  the tools and techniques are a lot more sophisticated and pervasive.</h3>\n<p>We’ve got to the point, that what we eat, is derived from foods i.e. the foods we consume, contain little or no whole foods.<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19331\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fish-fingers-versus-fish.png\" alt=\"grandma not recognizing fish fingers\" width=\"690\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fish-fingers-versus-fish.png 690w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fish-fingers-versus-fish-300x151.png 300w, 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src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-additives.png\" alt=\"food additives\" width=\"749\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-additives.png 749w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-additives-300x131.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-additives-300x131@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph showing the number and types of food additives © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC</p></div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\">Food pollution</span></h2>\n<p>Food additives and processing aids are not the only chemicals finding their way into dinner, in addition to the ones deliberately added, there are also things that accidentally arrive, during the production process.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These can be thought of as food pollution.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19333\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-pollution.png\" alt=\"food pollution\" width=\"672\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-pollution.png 672w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-pollution-300x191.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/food-pollution-300x191@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They include antibiotics, pesticides, microplastics, plasticizers and heavy metals.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\"><strong>The process of making food</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The food / chemical soup is subject to processes, that include</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">high heat, hydrogenation, extrusion and moulding.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19334\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food.png\" alt=\"cell enjoying ultra processed food\" width=\"343\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food.png 343w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food-150x150.png 150w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food-150x150@2x.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food-83x83@2x.png 166w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cell-enjoying-ultra-processed-food-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" />To finally be  packaged and distributed……….</p>\n<p>Ultra-processed foods are typically</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calorie dense</li>\n<li>High in sugar, fat and salt</li>\n<li>Low in micronutrients (unless these have been deliberately added back)</li>\n<li>Low in fiber and other bioactive substances</li>\n<li>Sterile</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">It is the Western diet.</h2>\n<p>And little by little, it is making us fat and sick.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\"><strong>The problem is not the fat content</strong></span></h2>\n<p>When it comes to eating healthy…….the debate often centres around</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">organic versus conventional, plant versus animal based and fats versus carbs.</p>\n<p><em>Now in the case of the low carb / high carb debate, I don’t think this is irrelevant, particularly if you are metabolically challenged and your body, has lost the ability to process carbs, efficiently. For more info, download the <a 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The shrill of the alarm clock rudely awakens you, eight or so hours later.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sleep issues don’t explain your weight issue !</h3>\n<p>Not so fast…….</p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Oxford University have found that you don’t have to have sleep problems <em>per se</em>, to have what is happening in the bedroom, impact your weight ………</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">NOT SLEEPING in the dark – might be making you fat.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>How dark is your bedroom ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This was the question the team asked 113 000 British women, aged between 16 and 103 years.</p>\n<p>Yes….. how cool, they gathered data on someone who was a 103 years old. But she was the exception, the average age of the ladies in the study was 47.2 years. 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So the team did the calculation again, using statistical techniques to account for these factors.</p>\n<p>And still…..</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Women sleeping in bedrooms with “lotsâ€� of light at night, were more likely to be overweight or obese.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The more light at night, the more likely they were to be overweight.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Outrageous !</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Not really.</p>\n<p>The light-dark cycle is the main synchronizer of your circadian clock, with melatonin, your night valet, running the night time show. And the night shift is when fat burning happens !</p>\n<p>Since melatonin abhors light………….</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Light in the bedroom, is going to cramp his style.</h3>\n<p>And this, can impact body chemistry.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Black outs required</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This study cannot say for sure that exposure to light at night, whilst sleeping will make you fat. It’s not that kind of study.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But it hints that light at night, is not ideal.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19326\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dog-with-eye-mask-on.png\" alt=\"dog with an eye mask on\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dog-with-eye-mask-on.png 672w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dog-with-eye-mask-on-300x169.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dog-with-eye-mask-on-320x180@2x.png 640w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dog-with-eye-mask-on-320x180.png 320w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dog-with-eye-mask-on-300x169@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" /></p>\n<p>One of the problems with urban living, is the neighbourhood ends up being lit up, like a Christmas tree. It improves security, but it is disruptive………… not just for the birds and other critters living in the neighbourhood, but it negatively impacts the human residents, too.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Make the effort to black out your bedroom.</h3>\n<p><em>If you can’t block out the light, by closing doors and hanging thick lined curtaining or blinds, slap on an eye mask, so you limit the light you’re being exposed to. </em></p>\n<p><br />\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/180/3/245.long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Relationship Between Obesity and Exposure to Light at Night: Cross-Sectional Analyses of Over 100,000 Women in the Breakthrough Generations Study.</strong> </a>American Journal of Epidemiology (2014) 180(3): 245-250. Emily McFadden, Michael E. Jones, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Alan Ashworth, and Anthony J. Swerdlow.  </div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14635\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ereader-preventing-man-from-going-to-sleep-tn.png\" alt=\"e-reader preventing man from getting to sleep\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ereader-preventing-man-from-going-to-sleep-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ereader-preventing-man-from-going-to-sleep-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ereader-preventing-man-from-going-to-sleep-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ereader-preventing-man-from-going-to-sleep-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/neurotechnology-tip/ereader-hinders-sleep/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Could your e-reader be keeping you from entering dreamland ?</a></p>\n<p>Electronic devices spit blue light. Since…………..blue light is something that in nature, is a morning thing, you’re more likely to have trouble falling asleep.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13814\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/paws-impact-your-dreams-tn.png\" alt=\"paws can impact your dreams\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/paws-impact-your-dreams-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/paws-impact-your-dreams-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/paws-impact-your-dreams-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/sleep/sleep-banish-that-loved-one-from-your-bedroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can’t sleep ? 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In the insulin resistant, ferritin fails……unleashing the reactive genius on iron, ON ALL AND SUNDRY, with horrible consequences.</p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/ir/ferritin-insulin-resistance/\">Ferritin in insulin resistance</a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com\">BBC</a>.</p>\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:8:\"Dr Sandy\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:40:\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:14289:\"<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/kE4Zxovq7W4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Click to listen to the audio…</p>\n<p><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"//spoonfulofscience.audello.com/player/ZmVycml0aW4ubXAz/?container=audello-GLV6FECT8N\" async></script></p>\n<div id=\"audello-GLV6FECT8N\" class=\"audello-player audello-file\" data-role=\"audello-file\" data-audello-id=\"ZmVycml0aW4ubXAz\"></div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://prezi.com/p/vv0symyeyumc/ferritin/\">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<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ferritin in the insulin resistant</strong></h1>\n<p>In metabolic syndrome, ferritin levels are typically HIGHER, than normal. This increase in ferritin, often goes, hand in hand, inflammation.</p>\n<p>So what exactly is ferritin ?</p>\n<p>Well, it’s NOT a hormone, it’s a housekeeping protein, produced by cells. It’s job is to keep iron molecules “in their placeâ€�.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Iron’s baby sitter</strong></span></h2>\n<p>You see, cells need iron. It is used to make, some pretty important proteins work.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19295\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/benefits-of-iron.png\" alt=\"proteins using iron as part of their chemistry\" width=\"393\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/benefits-of-iron.png 393w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/benefits-of-iron-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The problem with iron, is it is DANGEROUS, if just left hanging around.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It REACTS.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19296\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/risks.png\" alt=\"iron and the fenton reaction\" width=\"270\" height=\"256\" /></p>\n<p>This is a side effect of it’s ability to move electrons around,  when the electrons fly “awayâ€�, in an uncontrolled manner, it can result, in a free radical.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The value of iron</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This reactivity is actually what makes iron so valuable,  electrons,  MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19297\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-makes-things-happne.png\" alt=\"iron makes things happen\" width=\"713\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-makes-things-happne.png 713w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-makes-things-happne-300x209.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-makes-things-happne-300x209@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">But, their reactivity needs to be CHANNELLED.</h3>\n<p>The proteins that have iron atoms, buried deep inside of them, are designed to use the reactivity, to do some pretty cool chemistry.  But, if it just zoots around inside the cell, it can do quite a bit of damage. The ferritin makes sure this doesn’t happen.</p>\n<p>So maybe you’re thinking……………..more ferritin inside the cell is a good thing.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Location, location, location….</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The problem is the ferritin IS NOT INSIDE the cells.</p>\n<p>The ferritin inside the cell is good, but when ferritin levels are being measured, you’re looking at how much ferritin is in the blood i.e. IT’S NOT INSIDE cells.</p>\n<p>Which brings us to the issue……</p>\n<p>The ferritin is NOT doing a great job, holding onto the iron. And this is because, the cell is not doing a great job holding onto the ferritin.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19298\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/low-grade-inflammation.png\" alt=\"ferritin failing in someone with insulin resistance\" width=\"708\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/low-grade-inflammation.png 708w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/low-grade-inflammation-300x165.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/low-grade-inflammation-300x165@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" /></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Trouble with a capital T</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Basically, the ferritin in the blood is a sign of a “problemâ€�.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the “problemsâ€� is believed to be cell damage.</h3>\n<p>Now we can debate, why so many cells have been damaged.  It is likely that the immune system has a hand in the destruction, since ferritin levels typically rise in situations, where there is lots of inflammation.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">In fact, ferritin status, is a good proxy for INFLAMMATION.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Measuring your iron status</strong></span></h2>\n<p>When there is no inflammation, ferritin is a good proxy for iron status, because under these circumstances, how much ferritin is in the circulation, is proportional to the amount of iron in your body.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19299\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-status.png\" alt=\"ferritin a proxy for iron status\" width=\"623\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-status.png 623w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-status-300x228.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-status-300x228@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Basically,  the more iron stores you have, the more ferritin will be in the blood.</p>\n<p>The problem in metabolic syndrome is the ferritin IS NOT INSIDE.  It’s outside. And a lot of the iron molecules, so carefully stacked inside the ferritin are not along for the ride.  They’ve fallen off.</p>\n<p>And they’re circulating…………………….. creating “reactionsâ€� everywhere they go.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Reactions = DAMAGE</strong></span></h2>\n<p>So what gets damaged ? Pretty much everything that an unaccompanied iron molecule bumps into.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In addition to oxidizing things, left, right and centre…….those floating iron atoms, wake up the dead.</p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZHOx57-iw3k\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<p>So you don’t want high ferritin levels, if you can help it.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Options to lower ferritin</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now, stopping inflammation, is a worthy goal, but the practicalities are not so simple.</p>\n<p>So if you cannot directly stop the ferritin from being released, you want to do something about stopping it’s cargo, from floating around, unaccompanied.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19300\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mitigate-iron-damage.png\" alt=\"options to lower ferritin levels\" width=\"699\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mitigate-iron-damage.png 699w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mitigate-iron-damage-300x152.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mitigate-iron-damage-300x152@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" /></p>\n<p>First things first…..</p>\n<p>Get enough iron. Not too little, not too much.  The more iron stores you have, the more iron will spill out, when cells get damaged.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Only supplement when you are REALLY deficient.</h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/OSdAGbuyRWQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<p>If you are already a little “topâ€� heavy, one way to decrease your iron stores, is to regularly donate blood.</p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/qp3ySo7A84g\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?</span></iframe></p>\n<p>It’s a win-win story. You’ll save someone else’s life and improve your body chemistry.</p>\n<p>Finally mop up the excess. Remember, the problem is free iron, when the iron is attached to “somethingâ€�, it’s not that big of a deal. Chemicals that “mopâ€� up iron are called iron chelators.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There quite a few options.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19301\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-chelators.png\" alt=\"iron chelators mopping up excess iron\" width=\"466\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-chelators.png 466w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/iron-chelators-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" /></p>\n<p>Since I like ‘naturalâ€� solutions, I would encourage you to include them in your diet, they are typically found in fruits and vegetables,  but there are pharmacological options, you might consider, if the situation warrants them.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : Ferritin is just one of hundreds of chemicals in the body that are amiss when you’re suffering from metabolic syndrome.  You can learn more about some of the other players, in our “<a href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/insulin-resistance-system/\">Ups and Downs of Insulin Resistance”</a> series.  </em></p>\n<p><br />\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2F1471-2458-14-483/\"><strong>Ferritin levels and risk of metabolic syndrome: meta-analysis of observational studies.</strong></a> BMC Public Health(2014) 14:483. Victoria Abril-Ulloa,  Gemma Flores-Mateo, Rosa Solà -Alberich, Begoña Manuel-y-Keenoy and Victoria Arija</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/c3mt00347g/\"><strong>Serum ferritin is an important inflammatory disease marker, as it is mainly a leakage product from damaged cells.</strong></a> Metallomics (2014) 6 : 748. Douglas B. Kell and Etheresia Pretorius</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1177/0267659113505637/\"><strong>Cardiovascular benefits of phlebotomy:relationship to changes in hemorheological variables.</strong></a> Perfusion (2014) 29(2):102-16. RE Holsworth,  YI Cho, J J Weidman, GD Sloop, and JA St. Cyr.</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-11523\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/estrogen-being-ordered-out-during-a-hysterectomy-tn.png\" alt=\"estrogen being ordered out during a hysterectomy\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/aging/brain-iron-causes-rust/\">If you want to stop brain rust – install a red robot</a></p>\n<p>Iron accumulates inside the human body, especially the brain. Iron and oxygen don’t mix……. the combination leads to rusty parts and serious breakdowns.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11521\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/iron-causing-the-pancreas-to-rust-tn.png\" alt=\"iron causing the pancreas to rust\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/diabetes/iron-pump-diabetes/\">Turning down an iron pump – irons out diabetes</a></p>\n<p>When an iron pump in the pancreas runs full steam for too long, beta cells die and diabetes begins. 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src=\"//spoonfulofscience.audello.com/player/dGhlLXZhc2EtdmFzb3J1bS13aGVyZS1ibG9vZC1jbG90cy1yZWFsbHktaGFwcGVuLm1wMw==/?container=audello-5JYZ2XKLVB\" async></script></p>\n<div id=\"audello-5JYZ2XKLVB\" class=\"audello-player audello-file\" data-role=\"audello-file\" data-audello-id=\"dGhlLXZhc2EtdmFzb3J1bS13aGVyZS1ibG9vZC1jbG90cy1yZWFsbHktaGFwcGVuLm1wMw==\"></div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The real story of cholesterol plaques, not the Hollywood version</h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_19278\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19278\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cholesterol-block-location-fb.png\" alt=\"cholesterol stuck in a blood vessel\" width=\"403\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cholesterol-block-location-fb.png 403w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cholesterol-block-location-fb-264x300.png 264w\" 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center;\">The marcophages work like crazy – trying to save the day. And they do………… kind of.</p>\n<p>They mop up all that cholesterol.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A suicidal mission</strong></span></h2>\n<p>But it is a suicidal mission.</p>\n<p>They transition from being macrophages to foam cells. From being active cleaner upper, to an engorged laggard, to dead beat bunging up the works. And then as they die…………….. they release the cholesterol they have so diligently squirreled away.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The cholesterol flood becomes another macrophages problem………..</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And so it goes.</p>\n<p>Initially this awful scenario plays out, deep inside the blood vessel.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Then the heart attack happens</strong></span></h2>\n<p>At some point in time – the whole lots blows. The plaque ruptures, clumps of congealed up cholesterol spews forth……………</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If the clump is big enough – and it often is.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It lodges in a blood vessel.</h3>\n<p>Starving the blood vessel of oxygen and YOU HAVE a problem.</p>\n<p>But let’s go back to the beginning…….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Locating the block</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The actual location of the problem is not on the edge of the blood vessel. The problem is layers and layers below.  It is actually at the border between the little layer of muscles that whip the blood around and the edge of the border that separates the blood from “the bodyâ€�.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19279\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/where-plaques-form.png\" alt=\"The location of cholesterol plaque\" width=\"629\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/where-plaques-form.png 629w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/where-plaques-form-300x175.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/where-plaques-form-300x175@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" /></p>\n<p>These layers all have fancy latin names. The muscle layer is the <em>tunica media</em> and the border layer is the <em>tunica intima</em>.  For the record, there is another layer after the muscle layer, this one is made of fibrous tissue and fat – it’s called the <em>tunica adventia.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is a cross section through an actual tissue sample.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19282\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-19282 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tissue-sample-showing-where-plaques-form.png\" alt=\"tissue sample showing where cholesterol plaques form\" width=\"635\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tissue-sample-showing-where-plaques-form.png 635w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tissue-sample-showing-where-plaques-form-300x154.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tissue-sample-showing-where-plaques-form-300x154@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The arrows show the border between the tunica intima and the tunica media. The red staining shows where the lipids are located. <em>© 2016 Vladimir Subbotin</em></p></div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The point………….. it is not a surface problem.</h3>\n<p>So what ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>LDL particles</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well have you “seenâ€� what cholesterol travels in. It’s an enormous particle – made up of fats and protein AND cholesterol.</p>\n<p>This BLOB of blobs, has to cross around thirty or more layers of cells-cum-matrix, to arrive at this point. The “crossingâ€� must be fast and seamless …………</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You’re on the border, then you’re on the other side. There is nothing in between.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Teleporting LDL particles !</h2>\n<p>Sounds a bit far fetched ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>LDL particles won’t teleport</strong></span></h2>\n<p>But this is what we’re told happens in atherosclerosis.</p>\n<p>Lipoprotein particles drifting around in the blood, going about their business of making deliveries. Specifically cholesterol deliveries, “spontaneouslyâ€� move across the blood vessel border, drilling through 30 layers…………</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And once here, they proceed to become damaged.</span></h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Necessitating a clean up by the immune system.</p>\n<p>Which for the record, also dug their way through 30 layers of cell. Eish !   It doesn’t make sense.</p>\n<p>This cannot be the full story.</p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The REAL story</strong></span></p>\n<p>Well let’s start at what these BIG blood vessels looks like when you’re little.</p>\n<p>When you’re little, all three layers are there. But the inner layer is skinny, really skinny 1-2 layers thick. LDL particles would be able to cross in a jiffy. But they don’t. All sorts of protective layers keep them in their place.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">As you grow bigger, so do your blood vessels. Specifically the <em>intima tunica</em> layer.</h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_19280\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-19280 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-across-the-years.png\" alt=\"cross section through blood vessel at different ages\" width=\"592\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-across-the-years.png 592w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-across-the-years-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tissue samples of blood vessels at different life stages. The I shows the location of the tunica intima and the M, shows the location of the tunica media. <em>© 2016 Vladimir Subbotin</em></p></div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By the time you get to 15, it has thickened up to be about 10-15 layers thick.</p>\n<p>You keep growing….. and your <em>intima tunica</em>, get’s thicker. So by the time you’re 30, it’s now about 30 layers thick.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Now 30 layers thick is the sweet spot.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Blood vessels thicken up</strong></span></h2>\n<p>It is thick enough to do the job of ensuring blood moves around seamlessly, but NOT too thick that the cells at the bottom go hungry.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You continue aging and get bigger (hopefully not).</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So by 40, it’s 40 layers thick, at 50 it is 50 layers thick. ……….</p>\n<p>I’m joking.</p>\n<p>Actually if all is on track, the layer should not get thicker.  Unfortunately, if you’ve got BAD body chemistry, the layer has a tendency to expand.  Now the fact that it get’s thicker is NOT in and of itself BAD.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The cells divide because they feel compelled too.</h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_19283\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-19283 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-based-on-body-chemistry.png\" alt=\"Cross section through blood vessel of healthy versus metabolically challenged\" width=\"624\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-based-on-body-chemistry.png 624w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-based-on-body-chemistry-300x156.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/intima-thickness-based-on-body-chemistry-300x156@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tissue samples of blood vessels in someone who is healthy, compared to someone with metabolic problems. The I shows the location of the tunica intima and the M, shows the location of the tunica media. <em>© 2016 Vladimir Subbotin</em></p></div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The impetus for their division is fixing damage.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Feeding the masses</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The trouble is…………more cells need feeding.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So to keep the more cells going, a plan must be made.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The plan……………..involves growing new blood vessels.</h3>\n<p>But hooking up a direct line across the thirty plus layer of cells making up the <em>tunica intima</em> is fraught with difficulties. So, lines are sent from the other side – from the tunica media side.</p>\n<p>It’s a quick an easy solution………..</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19284\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19284\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vasa-vasorum-providing-blood.png\" alt=\"vasa vasorum\" width=\"595\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vasa-vasorum-providing-blood.png 595w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vasa-vasorum-providing-blood-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The location of the blood vessels (known as the vasa vasorum) that are formed in response to bad body chemistry. <em>© 2016 Vladimir Subbotin</em></p></div>\n<p>But, a “dirtyâ€� solution.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Not designed for blood flow</strong></span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19285\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hillbilly-cell.png\" alt=\"hill billy cell \" width=\"313\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hillbilly-cell.png 313w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hillbilly-cell-300x271.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" />You see the cells on the border where never designed to have blood vessels, they’re mean to be a-vascular i.e. blood vessel free. Being avascular, they’re not by their nature, very mindful of how clean and tidy their matrix is.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So dotted around are matrix proteins such as biglycan etc.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">These matrix proteins are a magnet for LDL particles.</h3>\n<p>So, as these new blood vessels come on line to feed the additional layers, blood leaks have unintended consequences.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>LDL particles begin to stick…….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Clean ups inside blood vessels</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Macrophages “seeâ€� this “sticky’ situation – and intervene. Firing ROS tazzers at the stuck LDL particles, encouraging them to move on.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The trouble is………… being tazzered with ROS, causes the serious damage to the LDL particles.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Battered and bruised, things go from bad to worse.</p>\n<p>Clean ups are required…..</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19288\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cleaning-up-the-cholesterol.png\" alt=\"macrophages cleaning up cholesterol\" width=\"670\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cleaning-up-the-cholesterol.png 670w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cleaning-up-the-cholesterol-300x164.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cleaning-up-the-cholesterol-300x164@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" /></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Atherosclerosis </strong></span></h2>\n<p>And before you can say, Bobs your Uncle, there is protrusion DEEP inside the blood vessel. It protrudes into the lumen……………</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Interfering with blood flow.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And at some point in time – the whole lots blows.</h3>\n<p>The plaque ruptures, clumps of congealed up cholesterol spews forth……………</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">You know the rest of the story.</h2>\n<p>And it is a story YOU want to avoid…………</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Cholesterol lowering </strong></span></h2>\n<p>Which is why you’re doing what you can to avoid cholesterol.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">But cholesterol wasn’t the cause of the trouble, <em>per se.</em></h3>\n<p>So the war on cholesterol, although laudable, is not going to “fixâ€� atherosclerosis.  The fix is to manage the expansion of the <em>tunica intima.</em>  A good place to start……</p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rein in insulin</h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This will limit the expansion, decrease the ROS damage and maximize clean ups.</h3>\n<p>Need help getting started ? Download the free <a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/willpower-report/\">Willpower Repor</a>t here.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2016.05.017\">Excessive intimal hyperplasia in human coronary arteries before intimal lipid depositions is the initiation of coronary atherosclerosis and constitutes a therapeutic target. </a> Drug Discovery Today (2016) 21 (10):  1578-1595. Vladimir M. Subbotin</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-14754\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sugar-stripping-the-glycocalyx-lining-the-blood-vessel-tn.png\" alt=\"sugar stripping the glycoccalyx\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sugar-stripping-the-glycocalyx-lining-the-blood-vessel-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sugar-stripping-the-glycocalyx-lining-the-blood-vessel-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sugar-stripping-the-glycocalyx-lining-the-blood-vessel-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sugar-stripping-the-glycocalyx-lining-the-blood-vessel-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/blood-vessels-clog-sticky/\">Blood vessels clog up when they become sticky</a></p>\n<p>A special non-stick layer, known as the glycocalyx, prevents things from sticking to the sides of blood vessels. When it’s not there, atherosclerosis happens.</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-17034\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/autophagy-tn.jpg\" alt=\"autophagy\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/autophagy-tn.jpg 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/autophagy-tn-83x83.jpg 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/autophagy-tn-55x55.jpg 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/autophagy-tn-55x55@2x.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/diabetes/dustbin-men-insulin-resistance/\">Deploying your body’s dustbin men will clean up your health</a></p>\n<p>Your dustbin men sit tight, when you’re insulin resistant. So cleaning up barely happens. Wastes pile up and this has health consequences – diabetes, CVD, NASH</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-10655\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cholesterol-is-not-part-of-the-heart-attack-tn.png\" alt=\"cholesterol is not part of the heart attack\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/cholesterol/putting-high-cholesterol-perspective/\">Putting high cholesterol in perspective </a></p>\n<p>High cholesterol is seen as the kiss of death….. If your LDL level has crept up, a little – IT MUST BE BROUGHT DOWN. 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