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And when this happens, they limp along, functioning inefficiently, or worse………………. stop functioning at all.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19532\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mitochondria-not-functioning.png\" alt=\"mitochondria overheating\" width=\"547\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mitochondria-not-functioning.png 547w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mitochondria-not-functioning-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" /><em>Mitochondrial dysfunction, is implicated in a whole host of diseases – including, neuropathies, diabetes, Parkinson’s etc.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Which fuel ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>To be honest – the mitochondria aren’t all that fussy.</p>\n<p>They’re happy to accept ANYTHING that will burn. Their definition of ANYTHING that will burn, includes</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carbohydrates</li>\n<li>Fats</li>\n<li>Proteins (specifically branch chain amino acids)</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Now, they can burn anything – but they do have preferences.</h3>\n<p>The process is carefully regulated……………..</p>\n<p>As a rule, they burn carbs when carbs are available and switch to fat, when carbs are not available.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Translated, this means, they only burn fats when you’re “FASTINGâ€�.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Fast and furious</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This is one of the reasons why munching 24/7 is not a recipe for fat burning. Eating lots of little meals, all day long, just keeps the furnace churning on carbs. Your fat reserves remain UNTOUCHED.</p>\n<p>And…………. if you want to lose weight, specifically fat, not muscle – you have to burn up some of the fat that is in storage.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">FASTING can be a deliberate endeavour. Ouch !</p>\n<p>But, that is not really the FASTING the mitochondria have in mind.  Mitochondria expect you to be fasting,</p>\n<ul>\n<li>when you’re in bed sleeping and</li>\n<li>when you’ve been for a workout</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This is why sleeping is CRITICAL to weight loss and exercise can be helpful.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Fat burning the process</strong></span></h2>\n<p>So……………… it all happens in the mitochondria.</p>\n<p>The question is WHAT HAPPENS ?</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N</h3>\n<p>For some of you, the very word is conjuring up nightmares. You’re seeing some very long complicated chemical equation.</p>\n<p>The gist of the equation…..</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">FUEL + OXYGEN = CARBON DIOXIDE + WATER + ENERGY</h3>\n<p>If you want to be fancy, we can put some real numbers in………….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Fat as a fuel</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The thing about fat is there are lots of “carbonsâ€� to burn.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19533\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/formula-for-a-fat.png\" alt=\"fat as a fuel\" width=\"465\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/formula-for-a-fat.png 465w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/formula-for-a-fat-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" />A typical fat is made up of three fatty acids plus a glycerol. Fatty acids come in a range of sizes from short chain, to medium chain to long chain fatty acids.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The ones we typically store are around 16-18 carbons long.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19534\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/formula-for-a-carb.png\" alt=\"carbohydrate as a fuel\" width=\"280\" height=\"167\" />So……………. if we want to put something REAL into the fuel part of the equation, we’re probably looking at something quite monstrous, like C<sub>55</sub>H<sub>104</sub>O<sub>6</sub>.</p>\n<p>Contrast this with a little old glucose molecule which is C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>O<sub>6</sub>.</p>\n<p>Now you know why everyone has their nickers in a knot about fats. They are FULL of energy. Although, it is not quite that simple.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Plugging it all in</strong></span></h2>\n<p>If we plug this into our equation above….</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19535\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/adding-up-the-chemistry-of-fat-burning.png\" alt=\"burning fat as a fuel\" width=\"754\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/adding-up-the-chemistry-of-fat-burning.png 754w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/adding-up-the-chemistry-of-fat-burning-300x146.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/adding-up-the-chemistry-of-fat-burning-300x146@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" /></p>\n<p>So far so good………….</p>\n<p>But, energy is not something tangible. It is important, but you cannot weight it.  Carbon dioxide and water are real. You can actually weigh them……………. and this is important.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When fat is BURNED, it produces carbon dioxide and water.</p>\n<p>Mostly carbon dioxide…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>You breathe out your fat</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Since we breathe out carbon dioxide…………………</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The fat you burn, exits your body, via your lungs.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19536\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-turns-to-carbon-dioxide.png\" alt=\"breathing out fat\" width=\"745\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-turns-to-carbon-dioxide.png 745w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-turns-to-carbon-dioxide-300x178.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-turns-to-carbon-dioxide-300x178@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Yup. You breath it out.</h3>\n<p>If you follow the atoms in 10 kilograms of fat as they are ‘lost’, 8.4 kilograms is exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs. The remaining 1.6 kilograms becomes water, which may be excreted in urine, faeces, sweat, tears OR BREATHED out as, water vapour.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : So if you want to burn MORE fat, you NEED your lungs to be star performers, unfortunately, if you have metabolic issues………………..they’re often not. But, all is not lost, lung function can be improved, through lung workouts. <a href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/ir/lungs-insulin-resistance/\">Click here</a>, to learn more. </em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>A clue, to burn more fat ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>You do need to create the physiology that encourages your mitochondria to choose to burn fat.</p>\n<p>It will also help to supply enough oxygen, because lots of oxygen, a whopping 78 molecules, is needed to get the reaction going.</p>\n<p>NOTE : This is the reason exercising helps fat burning.  You breathe in more oxygen. Hopefully ! And you simulate “FASTINGâ€�.</p>\n<p>Of course, you do have to do A LOT of exercise to burn through all that energy contained in a molecule of fat.  Eish !</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This is why losing weight and keeping it off, is so……………………..challenging.</h3>\n<p><br />\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a title=\"Link to journal article\" href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?</strong> </a><em>BMJ</em> (2014) 349 (dec16 13): g7257 R. Meerman, A. J. Brown. </div>\n<h2>Further reading</h2>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13821\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/big-meals-win-in-the-fat-cell-games-tn.png\" alt=\"big meals win in the fat cell games\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/big-meals-win-in-the-fat-cell-games-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/big-meals-win-in-the-fat-cell-games-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/big-meals-win-in-the-fat-cell-games-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></h2>\n<p><a title=\"It might sound counterintuitive, but when you’re battling insulin resistance, you don’t want to aim to eat like a bird, you want to eat like a horse. Go BIG.\" href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/ix-nibbling-overcome-insulin-resistance/\">Nix the nibbling and overcome that insulin resistance</a></p>\n<p>It might sound counterintuitive, but when you’re battling insulin resistance, you don’t want to aim to eat like a bird, you want to eat like a horse. Go BIG.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-first symple-all\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13428\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/smoking-hot-mitochondria-leads-to-insulin-resistance-tn.png\" alt=\"smoking hot mitochondria\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/smoking-hot-mitochondria-leads-to-insulin-resistance-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/smoking-hot-mitochondria-leads-to-insulin-resistance-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/smoking-hot-mitochondria-leads-to-insulin-resistance-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></h2>\n<p><a title=\"If your body rhythms are off, there is a good chance your mitochondrial furnace never turns off. This means ROS 24/7 and oxidative stress is what kills .\" href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/stress/body-power-stations/\">Body power stations are not designed to run 24/7</a></p>\n<p>If your body rhythms are off, there is a good chance your mitochondrial furnace never turns off. This means ROS 24/7 and oxidative stress is what kills .</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-last symple-all\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11043\" src=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/liver-force-feeding-brain-fat-tn.png\" alt=\"liver force feeding brain fat\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></h2>\n<p><a title=\"The most effective strategy to decrease oxidative stress, is to simply eat less, but starving is not actually required.... burning fat is all that is needed.\" href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/oxidative-stress/eating-fat-oxidative-stress-problem/\">Eating more fat will take care of that oxidative stress problem</a></p>\n<p>The most effective strategy to decrease oxidative stress, is to simply eat less, but starving is not actually required…. burning fat is all that is needed.</p>\n</div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f0c;\">Interested in learning more about the chemistry behind those extra fat layers ?</span></h2>\n<div class=\'_form_1213\'></div><script type=\'text/javascript\' src=\'https://spoonfulofscience.activehosted.com/f/embed.php?id=1213&5D2E5700574C8&nostyles=1\'></script>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/fat-burn-diet/\">Where does all the fat you burn while on diet, actually GO</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:36:\"http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/\";a:1:{s:10:\"commentRss\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:59:\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/fat-burn-diet/feed/\";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:38:\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/\";a:1:{s:8:\"comments\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:1:\"0\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}}}i:2;a:6:{s:4:\"data\";s:42:\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \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:5:\"child\";a:5:{s:0:\"\";a:7:{s:5:\"title\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:35:\"Lung function in insulin resistance\";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:4:\"link\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:60:\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/ir/lungs-insulin-resistance/\";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:8:\"comments\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:68:\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/ir/lungs-insulin-resistance/#respond\";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:7:\"pubDate\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:31:\"Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:40:02 +0000\";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:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:2:\"IR\";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:4:\"guid\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:40:\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/?p=19512\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:1:{s:0:\"\";a:1:{s:11:\"isPermaLink\";s:5:\"false\";}}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}s:11:\"description\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:439:\"<p>Lung function, is diminished, when you’re insulin resistant. Don’t panic, it’s not enough for you to notice, but enough for your cell’s to notice…….and this matters.</p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/ir/lungs-insulin-resistance/\">Lung function 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:14219:\"<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-ipyMm06eI\" 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/bHVuZy1mdW5jdGlvbi1pbi10aGUtaW5zdWxpbi1yZXNpc3RhbnQubXAz/?container=audello-J9SJ5AGXPH\" async></script></p>\n<div id=\"audello-J9SJ5AGXPH\" class=\"audello-player audello-file\" data-role=\"audello-file\" data-audello-id=\"bHVuZy1mdW5jdGlvbi1pbi10aGUtaW5zdWxpbi1yZXNpc3RhbnQubXAz\"></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<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lung function when you’re insulin resistant</strong></h2>\n<p>Now, when you’re insulin resistant, your lung function is diminished. Don’t panic, not enough to stop you from breathing, in fact, you’re unlikely to notice it.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The reason, it turns out, we have BIG LUNGS.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19513 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs-the-size-of-a-tennis-court.png\" alt=\"lungs the size of a tennis court\" width=\"579\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs-the-size-of-a-tennis-court.png 579w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs-the-size-of-a-tennis-court-300x167.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs-the-size-of-a-tennis-court-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So breathing problems only become an issue, when around 50 % of the lung is “goneâ€�.</p>\n<p>At this point, EVERYONE knows, you have a problem and at this point, your days are numbered. But long before this happens……………your lungs are taking strain.</p>\n<p>So how would you know ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">Spirometry</span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19514\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry.png\" alt=\"spirometry\" width=\"774\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry.png 774w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry-300x170.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry-768x436.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry-320x180.png 320w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry-300x170@2x.png 600w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/spirometry-320x180@2x.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" /></p>\n<p>You blow in a tube and how well your blow, is calculated. Two measures that are commonly used to access lung function are :</p>\n<ul>\n<li>forced vital capacity (FVC) : this shows the amount of air a person can forcefully and quickly exhale after taking a deep breath.</li>\n<li> forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) : this shows the amount of air a person can forcefully exhale in 1 second of the FVC.</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now these will measure what your lungs are up to, on the day.</p>\n<p>But, lung capacity is going to depend on how big your lungs are, how old they are and your gender, so your lungs performance, is then compared to other sets of lungs.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">If yours are under performing – you have decreased lung function.</h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And if, you have metabolic syndrome, odd are, your lungs will not be star performers.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">Too fat for your lungs</span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19515\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/too-fat-for-your-lungs.png\" alt=\"too fat for your lungs\" width=\"778\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/too-fat-for-your-lungs.png 778w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/too-fat-for-your-lungs-300x179.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/too-fat-for-your-lungs-768x458.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/too-fat-for-your-lungs-300x179@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It’s NOT simply a fat thing, although being obese, can cramp you lungs style.  Even normal weight people, with metabolic syndrome have impaired lung function.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This potentially leads to oxygen “shortagesâ€�, particularly when there is a high metabolic demand. These oxygen shortages impact oxidative capacity i.e. the ability to burn “thingsâ€� to get energy.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">No oxygen means no fire</span></h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This ends up, impacting energy metabolism – not in a good way.</h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since cells burn less, they are not keen to take up sugar deliveries, leading to increased levels of, unburned fuels.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">So what does it take to breath better ?</span></h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, your lungs are not going to be immune, to bad body chemistry, so if you want to breathe better, you need to..</p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fix the body chemistry !</h1>\n<p><em>I know, I know…………you’re trying, that’s why you’re here. If you’re new to the blog, start by downloading the free, <a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/willpower-report/\">Willpower Report</a>, it will help you get started. </em></p>\n<p>Other things you can do, to keep your lungs in tip, top shape.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protect them from noxious chemicals, as much as you can.</li>\n<li>And give them a work out</li>\n</ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">Lung workouts…………..</span></h2>\n<p>Maybe you’re thinking, lungs don’t workout. Hearts do, muscles do, but lungs…………. not so much !</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Actually they do.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19516\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/benefits-of-lung-workouts.png\" alt=\"lung workouts elaborated\" width=\"781\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/benefits-of-lung-workouts.png 781w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/benefits-of-lung-workouts-300x177.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/benefits-of-lung-workouts-768x454.png 768w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/benefits-of-lung-workouts-300x177@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many activities can an do, give lungs a workout.</p>\n<p><em>Singing, playing a musical instrutment, swimming, yoga and blowing bubbles or a balloon, are all activities that put your lungs through their paces. Or you can put you lungs on a formal respiratory training programme.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">The benefits of better breathing</span></h2>\n<p>Numerous studies show, if you give your lungs a work out, you will not only improve your lung function, you will improve your body chemistry, because you blood vessels WORK better.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">So if you’re insulin resistant, consider implementing a respiratory training regimen.</h3>\n<p>I have two suggestions as to how to do it. The first involves getting your hands on some fancy equipment, which can be a bit pricey, the second, costs pennies, and is equally effective.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19517\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs12.png\" alt=\"respiratory training programmes\" width=\"617\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs12.png 617w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs12-300x171.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/lungs12-300x171@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" /></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The high tech option</span></p>\n<p>Invest in a respiratory training device eg. SpiroTiger®. These devices are marketed to asthmatics, you can programme the device to change the amount of resistance, it offers, when you blow into it. Over time, you can adjust the workload, as you get stonger.</p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The low tech solution</span></p>\n<p>Blow up a balloon, doing so, lying on your back, will maximize the resistance. For more details, download the pdf, you can find the link in the description.</p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Create better body chemistry</h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By putting your lungs through their paces. It will be pretty painless and have lots of benefits.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE :  Lung function, just one of hundreds of things in the body that are amiss when you’re suffering from metabolic syndrome. To learn more about some of the other players, go to our <a href=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/insulin-resistance-system/\">“Ups and Downsâ€� of Insulin Resistance page</a>. </em></p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203347\"><strong>Respiratory muscle training positively affects vasomotor response in young healthy women.</strong></a> PLoS ONE (2018) 13(9): e0203347. Angela Valentina Bisconti, Michela Devoto, Massimo Venturelli, Randall Bryner, I. Mark Olfert, Paul D. Chantler, F. Esposito</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1210/er.2017-00173\"><strong>Pulmonary Function and Sleep Breathing: Two New Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Care. </strong> </a>Endocrine Reviews (2017) 38: 550 – 573.  Albert Lecube, Rafael Simo, Maria Pallayova, Naresh M. Punjabi, Carolina Lopez-Cano, Cecilia Turino, Cristina Hernandez, and Ferran Barbe</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209575\"><strong>Metabolic health is more closely associated with decrease in lung function than obesity.</strong></a> PLoS ONE (2019) 14(1): e0209575. Hea Yon Lee, Hae Kyung Yang, Ho Jin Song, Hee Jae Chang, Ji Young Kang, Sang Haak Lee, Solji Han, Young Kyoon Kim.</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-14297\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-you-burn-exits-your-body-via-lungs-tn.png\" alt=\"burned fat exiting the body\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-you-burn-exits-your-body-via-lungs-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-you-burn-exits-your-body-via-lungs-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-you-burn-exits-your-body-via-lungs-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-fat-you-burn-exits-your-body-via-lungs-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/obesity/fat-burn-diet/\">Where does all the fat you burn while on diet, actually GO</a></p>\n<p>When fats are burned, they’re consumed by FIRE, generating heat. It makes sense. But, this picture of fat burning, is not scientifically accurate…..</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-5803\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tree-cleaning-up-the-air-tn.png\" alt=\"tree cleaing up the air\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/general/trees-deluxe-super-sucking-vaccum-cleaners-clearing-air/\">Trees are deluxe super sucking vaccum cleaners clearing the air </a></p>\n<p>Trees lining the streets of London, are hoovering up around 2000 tonnes of particulate pollution from the air, every year – you need a tree air filtering system.</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-6007\" 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Trim them with a little intestinal remodelling.</p></div>\n<p>You eat it…….. you absorb it.</p>\n<p>That’s the way we think about nutrition.  We don’t often think about, how it happens and/or the players.</p>\n<p>So let me introduce you to the body part of the moment…………</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">An intestinal villi.</h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You’ve got lots of them.</p>\n<p>Butting out from intestinal surface…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>In charge of absorption</strong></span></h2>\n<p>They’re quite a complex structure. Each villus is approx 0.5 mm – 1.6 mm in length and composed of many enterocytes. These enterocytes have microvilli projecting from their surface. Enterocytes are the cells that are tasked with mopping up the goodies, you eat.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well that’s the day job of the enterocytes.  It pays the bills.</p>\n<p>But, what every enterocyte dreams of, is to bungee jump, into the abyss.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">They are born daredevils.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">They live fast and die young.</h3>\n<p>And living faster, is their REAL objective.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>In the beginning….</strong></span></h2>\n<p>It all begins in the base station of the villi. Specialized intestinal stem cells, birth baby enterocytes.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">They jostle each other, for a place on “the travelatorâ€�.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19495\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/heaven-or-hell.png\" alt=\"enterocytes on the travellator\" width=\"679\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/heaven-or-hell.png 679w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/heaven-or-hell-300x179.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/heaven-or-hell-300x179@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" /></p>\n<p>The unlucky ones, get pushed down, not up…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Keeping good cells down</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Some end up, trapped in the base station, which is for the most part, is a BIG disappointment, but not a hopeless situation. The opportunity to float free, is delayed, not obliterated.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you’re in the base station, you are required to “go forth and multiplyâ€�.</p>\n<p>But multiplication has perks……</p>\n<p>There is always the possibility of escape. Cells that can position themselves, just right, can push their way out of the base station and hop on the travelator, and head for glory.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The hell of being a Paneth cell</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The really unlucky ones, get pushed into the basement of the travelator and put to work, as Paneth cells.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">It is hard labour.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19496\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/paneth-cells.png\" alt=\"Paneth cell maintaining the travellator\" width=\"620\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/paneth-cells.png 620w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/paneth-cells-300x158.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/paneth-cells-300x158@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paneth cells are in charge of travelator, maintenance and security.</h3>\n<p>Both worthy jobs, but from an intestinal cell perspective, this is like being banished to “hellâ€�. The problem, you live a whole lot longer, work hard everyday and never get to float free.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The highs and lows of being an enterocyte</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Don’t get me wrong, the “lucky” enterocytes, also WORK HARD.</p>\n<p>As they climb onto the travelator, bound for their moment of glory, they are expected to pull finger and fuel the machinery. They reach out and grab, all the nutrients, you have provided, sugars, fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The nutrients are processed and then passed on.</h2>\n<p>Using the supply lines that run beneath the travelator. Water soluble items get loaded into blood capillaries, fat soluble items, are shoved into lacteals.</p>\n<p>It’s hard work………… but rewarding.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Reaching the goal</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Directly rewarding……….</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The more nutrients grabbed, the faster and further the travelator moves.</h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">And everyone WINS.</h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Well the enterocytes do, the fat cells might feel differently.</h3>\n<p>This is what a team of researchers from ………………… discovered.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Building travelators</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The team investigated villi construction, in genetically disadvantaged mice (db/db mice).  The disadvantage these mice were suffering from, is they NEVER FEEL FULL.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Which means, they eat and eat and eat.</h3>\n<p>And if you eat non-stop, you end up being fat and diabetic.</p>\n<p>Ag shame !</p>\n<p>So what happens to your villi, in this situation ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The Long villi</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well, since the cells are receiving more nutrients, they are able to extend their reach and move along faster.</p>\n<p>This can be seen here…..</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19497\" style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-19497 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-in-different-mouse-models.png\" alt=\"villi length in different mouse models\" width=\"532\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-in-different-mouse-models.png 532w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-in-different-mouse-models-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jejunum section showing villi in mice. <em>Copyright 2013 by the American Diabetes Association</em></p></div>\n<p>The first panel, shows what happens in a normal mouse. The second panel, shows the villi in the genetically disadvantaged mice, who eat non-stop.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The continuous grazing, causes the villi to be about one third longer.</h3>\n<p>So what ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Longer villi are more efficient, OR NOT</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well it is a vicious cycle………..</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19499\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/vicious-cycle.png\" alt=\"The villi vicious cycle\" width=\"595\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/vicious-cycle.png 595w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/vicious-cycle-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" /></p>\n<p>The longer your villi are, the more nutrients you’ll absorb. And the more nutrients you absorb, the longer you villi will be.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And…………………. THE FATTER YOU WILL BE.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because, more calories in, mean there are more calories available.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">To use and TO STORE.</h3>\n<p>Eish !</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Driven by catenin signalling</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now the team, being science types, wanted to know, why the villi were longer.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And how to stop the process.</p>\n<p>Using radiographic probes and inhibitors, they established that the process was being driven by catenin signalling, inside the base station.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19503\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19503\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/catenin-signalling.png\" alt=\"beta catenin signalling\" width=\"613\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/catenin-signalling.png 613w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/catenin-signalling-300x166.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/catenin-signalling-300x166@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">mRNA expression patterns in the intestinal epithelium of the mice. <em>Copyright 2013 American Diabetes Association</em></p></div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Basically the cells in the base station, were being told to speed up their “go forth and multiplyâ€�.</p>\n<p>So what was sparking catenin signalling ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\">Food, glorious food…………</span></h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It really didn’t matter what the food was.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carbs did. So did fats.</p>\n<p>Would curtailing nutrient supply, shorten the villi ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Shortening the villi</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The team put their genetically disadvantaged mice ON DIET.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By taking away the food.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The mice were fed twice daily, instead of being allowed to eat whenever they felt like it. </em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was HARD on the mice, remember these little guys, NEVER FEEL FULL. NEVER !  But within a short space of time, the villi, returned to “normalâ€� levels.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19498\" style=\"width: 708px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19498\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-following-calorie-restriction.png\" alt=\"villi following calorie restriction\" width=\"698\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-following-calorie-restriction.png 698w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-following-calorie-restriction-300x152.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/villi-following-calorie-restriction-300x152@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jejunum section of db/db mice on standard diet and following calorie restriction (CR). <em>Copyright 2013 by the American Diabetes Association</em></p></div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Of course, as an added bonus, the mice lost weight.</h3>\n<p>This research suggests…………</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Intestinal remodeling </strong></span></h2>\n<p>Not a genetic disadvantage is behind the extra weight.</p>\n<p>We know INTESTINAL REMODELING can help melt away the pounds…..</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">In fact, this is the premise behind bariatric surgery.</h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Surgeons, re-wire the gut, to stop, nutrients passing through much of the small intestine. Ouch !</p>\n<p>But, you don’t have to re-wire the gut, to get the benefit.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>DYI intestinal remodeling</strong></span></h2>\n<p>You can do a little intestinal remodelling, without going under the knife. Since the presence of nutrients in the small intestine, IS THE TRIGGER.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Make sure, nutrients aren’t PRESENT 24/7.</h2>\n<p>Try restricting your eating to a defined time period,  shoot for an 8 to 12 hour window, so you give the little guys at the base station, a breather and keep your villi in shape.</p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.2337/db13-0035\"><strong>Overnutrition Stimulates Intestinal Epithelium Proliferation Through b-Catenin Signaling in Obese Mice.</strong></a> Diabetes (2013) 62:3736–3746. Jiaming Mao, Xiaomin Hu, Yao Xiao, Chao Yang, Yi Ding, Ning Hou, Jue Wang, Heping Cheng and Xiuqin Zhang. </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-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. 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#f21f02;\"><strong>Could your sleep, still be contributing to your metabolic troubles ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>This is what a group of European researchers asked…………… instead of focusing on sleep duration, they looked at sleep quality.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Specifically, what happens when you sleep in a “noisyâ€� environment.</h3>\n<p>Now, the noise they were interested in, was not a screaming baby, or snoring bed fellow, they wanted to know, how transportation noise, impacted metabolism.</p>\n<p>For the record………..</p>\n<p>This is not a completely new concept.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Epidemiological links</strong></span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19484\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/epidemiology-sleep-noise.png\" alt=\"Epidemiological studies connecting sleep and metabolic troubles\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/epidemiology-sleep-noise.png 480w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/epidemiology-sleep-noise-300x169.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/epidemiology-sleep-noise-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></p>\n<p>Lots of epidemiological studies have suggested that people who routinely sleep in a noisy environment, are more prone to heart attacks and type 2 diabetes.</p>\n<p>The problem with these studies, is when the noise is measured, how loud the noise is <strong>on average</strong>, is what is primarily considered.</p>\n<p>But NOISE is relative…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Noise boyz</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Basically, there is a difference between the noise generated by a four lane highway and  a train track.  In the case of the four lane highway, the noise pretty much never stops, but it’s not THAT LOUD.  Contrast that with the railway line………… for most of the time, the track is empty, so there is NO NOISE.</p>\n<p>For most of the time……</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">But, every now and again, a seriously NOISY, train comes roaring through.</h3>\n<p>The acoustic characteristic of this noise would be described as a slow rise, to a moment or two of pronounced noise and then a gradual decline.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19485\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/the-choice.png\" alt=\"the noise choice\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/the-choice.png 480w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/the-choice-300x169.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/the-choice-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Now which scenario would be worse : the train track or the busy road ?</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Logic says</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The train.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The reason, the noise is AN EVENT.</h3>\n<p>And as an EVENT, it is significantly more likely to scare the bajeebs out of your sleeping brain.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : Your brain can still hear when you’re sleeping. </em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The eventful noise</strong></span></h2>\n<p>May not be enough, to actually wake you up, so you’re sitting bolt up right in bed. But is it enough to arouse you, so your heart pumps a little faster and you sleep a little less soundly ?</p>\n<p>This is  the question our research team asked.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Noises in the night</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The team enlisted the help of 21 adults in PERFECT HEALTH.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Perfect !</h2>\n<p>To be included, they had to be non smokers and have no medical disorders, no psychological disorders and no sleeping disorders and they had to have perfect hearing.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These perfectly healthy people, checked into the lab, for a 6 night vacation.</p>\n<p>Literally, they never left the lab and everything about their life was managed, what they ate, how much they moved, their light exposure. EVERYTHING !  Each night was spent in a windowless, sound proof bedroom, which was “blastedâ€� with sounds, played through a loud speaker.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Night sounds</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The night sound tracks were real, they had been recorded in different places.  The baseline, “noiseâ€� free night, corresponded with chirping crickets and distant traffic. In terms of numbers, this corresponded with a-weighted equivalent continuous sound pressure of 30 dB.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The two experimental conditions, were a little louder, clocking in at 45 dB.</h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">But, the acoustic pattern of the noise was different.</h2>\n<p>In the first scenario, the non-eventful simulation, the sound recording came from a 4 lane highway and a 2 lane country road. In the second scenario, the eventful  simulation, the sound track, was recorded on a 1 lane urban road and a railway track, servicing 4 freight trains and 1 regional train.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Noises in the night</strong></span></h2>\n<p>“Weâ€� take a look at what happened on the morning of day number 5……</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">More noise did alter the sleep structure architecture.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19482\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/data-from-noise-sleep-study.png\" alt=\"data from noise sleep study\" width=\"635\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/data-from-noise-sleep-study.png 635w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/data-from-noise-sleep-study-300x165.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/data-from-noise-sleep-study-300x165@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Those sleeping in “silenceâ€�………..had significantly fewer arousals.</h3>\n<p>But there was no real difference in sleep quality of the sleepers being blasted with “noiseâ€�.  Both groups were a little more grumpy………. there sleep had been interrupted, by the noise. But, there was little difference between the types of noise.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eish ! Noise, ALL noise, gets in the way of peaceful sleep.</h3>\n<p>But, it doesn’t really STOP you from sleeping…………….so what’s the BIG DEAL ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Eventful noise upsets your metabolism</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Well in addition to measuring the effect on sleep variables, the team also looked at what happened to insulin sensitivity.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And this is where there was  a difference, between the noise profiles.</h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_19483\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-19483 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/glucose-data-from-sleep-noise-study.png\" alt=\"glucose data from sleep noise study\" width=\"685\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/glucose-data-from-sleep-noise-study.png 685w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/glucose-data-from-sleep-noise-study-300x232.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/glucose-data-from-sleep-noise-study-300x232@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Relative change in the glucose AUC (Area under the curve), following different noise exposures. The black bar shows the median. <em>Copyright 2018 Elsevier Ltd</em></p></div>\n<p>Here is the data showing fasting blood glucose levels. People sleeping next to the equivalent of a train track, had slightly higher blood glucose levels.</p>\n<p>Now, these guys were SERIOUSLY healthy………….</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So the difference was not pathological, but there was a difference.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And when it comes to body chemistry, small things  add up.</h3>\n<p>This study suggests…………..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Silence is golden</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Even if YOU THINK, the noise is insignificant, your brain, might feel a little different.  In an ideal world, we would all sleep beside a gurgling brook, being serenade by chirping insects, but that is NOT what happens.</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">NOISE pollution is part of modern living.</h2>\n<p>If you must sleep with noise, try to choose an environment, where the noise you are exposed to while sleeping, is low and CONSISTENT i.e. less “eventfulâ€�.</p>\n<p>If this is NOT an option…………..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Mimic it</strong></span></h2>\n<p>One way to do this, is to create white noise while sleeping.   The idea, is to “drown outâ€� the eventful noises, so they fly under your sleeping brain’s radar.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/white-noise-machine.png\" alt=\"the benefits of a white noise machine\" width=\"704\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/white-noise-machine.png 704w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/white-noise-machine-300x184.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/white-noise-machine-300x184@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" /></p>\n<p>If money is not a problem, buy a white noise machine, otherwise hack it…………</p>\n<ul>\n<li>use a radio that is not tuned into a particular station</li>\n<li>use a noisy ceiling fan or a ticking clock</li>\n<li>download something off the internet and loop it</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>WARNING : This strategy won’t work for everyone !  You’ll either LOVE IT or HATE IT !</em></p>\n<p>If you’re in the HATE IT CAMP, that would be me, then you need a plan B.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Noise blockers</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The cheap option here, is ear plugs, but a more long term solution would be to sound proof the room.</p>\n<p>The point……………….</p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Good sleep is important for metabolic health.</h2>\n<p><em>NOTE : Transportation noise is not the only thing that can lead to fragmented sleep – several sleep disorders, e.g. sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome, also cause fragmented sleep and metabolic chaos. If these are issues for you, they need to be addressed.</em></p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.05.036\"><strong>Adverse impact of nocturnal transportation noise on glucose regulation in healthy young adults: Effect of different noise scenarios.</strong></a> <em>Environment International (2018) 121: 1011–1023.</em> Laurie Thiesse, Franziska Rudzik, Karine Spiegel, Rachel Leproult, Reto Pieren, Jean Marc Wunderli, Maria Foraster, Harris Héritier, Ikenna C. Eze, Martin Meyer, Danielle Vienneau, Mark Brink, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Martin Röösli, Christian Cajochen. </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-8362\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/noise-pollution-making-a-flower-happy-tn.png\" alt=\"noise pollution making a flower happy\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/pollution/seperating-noise-pollution-flowers-trees/\">Seperating noise pollution from the flowers and the trees</a></p>\n<p>We live in a noisy world. 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style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Sleep aids for insomnia</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Now when “weâ€� think sleep aids, we typically think of swallowing something.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe it is a pill. Maybe it’s a tea.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Natural is preferable.</h3>\n<p>But, hey……………….when the problem is BIG ENOUGH, you’ll take ANYTHING !</p>\n<p>So why not try BREATHING !</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The biological solution to insomnia</strong></span></h2>\n<p>There are a multitude of routes, to get to insomnia……………. but when you’re there, the biological problem is you’re suffering from HYPERARROUSAL.</p>\n<p>Which translated in neurological speak, amounts to</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">TOO MUCH sympathetic nerve activity</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19465\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sympathovagal-balance.png\" alt=\"sympathovagal balance\" width=\"688\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sympathovagal-balance.png 688w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sympathovagal-balance-300x148.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sympathovagal-balance-300x148@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">and NOT ENOUGH parasympathetic nervous activity.</h3>\n<p>So you want to go TO VAGUS……</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Going to Vegas</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Not that Vegas – Las Vegas, is a city that NEVER SLEEPS. The vagus you want to go to, is the main nerve, that runs the parasympathetic nervous system.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It’s other name, is cranial nerve NUMBER 10 !</p>\n<p>It runs the length of your spine, branching off, at all the major organ systems along the way. It’s designated job, is to help you live and let live.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Which amounts to FEEDing and then BREEDing !</h3>\n<p><em>Eish ! Mother Nature has a one track mind. </em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Vagus branches</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Are dotted all along the spinal cord, they run your body………………BEHIND THE SCENES i.e. they’re automatic / autonomic.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The gut connections, get a lot of air time, in the medical world.</p>\n<p>For obvious reasons……..</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It’s not called the FEED and BREED system, for nothing.</p>\n<p>But, the lung connection, is actually one of the most malleable connections…….</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Breathing is automatic</strong></span></h2>\n<p>There is NO thinking required, but you can CONTROL, the depth of your breathing.</p>\n<p>You can………</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You probably don’t !</p>\n<p>But if you are having trouble falling asleep, then this is a lever you want to be tweaking.  This is what a group of researchers from Germany, recently demonstrated.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Breathing drills</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The team enlisted the help of 64 university students, ranging in age from 18 – 29 years old, to show just how, breathing can be used as a sleep aid.</p>\n<p>The students were divided into two groups.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group 1, were introduced to a paced breathing app and told to use it, for 15 minutes, every night just before bed.</li>\n<li>Group 2, were also using their mobile phone, for 15 minutes before bed, but they were socializing instead.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The sleep assessment</strong></span></h2>\n<p>At the start of the study and then a month later, the participants sleep was measured.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Both directly, in the lab, as well, on paper.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : The paper measure reflects their perception of the quality of their sleep.</em></p>\n<p>So what happened ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Breathing your way to vagus stimulation</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Those using the breathing app……………… slept better.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19466\" style=\"width: 647px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-19466\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sleep-data.png\" alt=\"sleep breathing app data\" width=\"637\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sleep-data.png 637w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sleep-data-300x245.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sleep-data-300x245@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Table showing descriptive statistics of sleep results, from two groups © 2019 Sylvain Laborde <em>et al</em></p></div>\n<p>Their Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score dropped from an average of 3.31 to 2.91. This didn’t happen in the control group, there sleep got marginally worse.</p>\n<p>So why does it work ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Sleepers go to vagus</strong></span></h2>\n<p>When  you fall asleep, the respiratory rate slows.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This slowing marks the transition towards a more parasympathetic dominant state.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19467\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/good-sleeper.png\" alt=\"good sleeper\" width=\"682\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/good-sleeper.png 682w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/good-sleeper-300x166.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/good-sleeper-300x166@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" /></p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The good sleeper, makes the transition, seamlessly.</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">In the bad sleeper, the sympathetic nervous system, think monkey mind, fights to keep control…………….. delaying or stopping, the transition to sleep.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19468\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/bad-sleeper.png\" alt=\"bad sleeper\" width=\"689\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/bad-sleeper.png 689w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/bad-sleeper-300x157.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/bad-sleeper-300x157@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" /></p>\n<p>By, deliberately slowing your breathing frequency,  before you fall asleep, you effectively unseat the the sympathetic nervous system, increasing the odds…….</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The parasympathetic system will take control – whisking you off to dreamland.</h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The goal is slow breathing</strong></span></h2>\n<p>In this study, a very modern, pretty cool technique was used to induce slow breathing.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The cell phone app, they used, added petals to a flower, to set the breathing pace. .   </em></p>\n<p>Unfortunately,  using an app was probably less than ideal, the problem being, as a mobile phone app, it requires you stare at a digital screen.</p>\n<p>Digital screens are a big NO NO, for anyone hoping to enter dreamland…..</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Digital devices are NOT sleep aids</strong></span></h2>\n<p>The problem is they emit blue light and this upsets melatonin, your night valet…….. the poor guy is so freaked out, he hides away in pineal cupboard, neglecting to draw the curtains and pull down the covers.</p>\n<p>It didn’t matter much in this study……………</p>\n<p>Both groups of people, participating in the study, were subject to blue light exposure in the moments before bed……….. the slow breathing, gave the app users an advantage.</p>\n<p>But in the ideal world………</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Insomniacs should avoid bedtime exposure to blue light.</h3>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19469\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/slow-breathing-without-the-light.png\" alt=\"slow breathing without blue light\" width=\"666\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/slow-breathing-without-the-light.png 666w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/slow-breathing-without-the-light-300x195.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/slow-breathing-without-the-light-232x150.png 232w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/slow-breathing-without-the-light-300x195@2x.png 600w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/slow-breathing-without-the-light-232x150@2x.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" /></p>\n<p>Is possible……in fact, traditional slow breathing routines use sound or counting techniques,  to promote slower breathing.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you WANT THE COOL, visual prompts, modern technology offers, no worries.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pop on a pair of blue blocking glasses, before building daisies in the cloud.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Otherwise, breath in for 6 counts…..1,2,3,4,5,6. Pause. Breath out for six counts…..1,2,3,4,5,6.</em></p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> Good night, sleep tight !</em></h2>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8020193\"><strong>Influence of a 30-Day Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention Compared to Social Media Use on Subjective Sleep Quality and Cardiac Vagal Activity.</strong></a> J. Clin. Med. (2019) 8: 193. Sylvain Laborde, Thomas Hosang, Emma Mosley and Fabrice Dosseville.</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=\"size-full wp-image-16575 aligncenter\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/foot-bath-tn.png\" alt=\"foot bath\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/foot-bath-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/foot-bath-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/foot-bath-tn-55x55.png 55w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/foot-bath-tn-55x55@2x.png 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/sleep/bath-helps-sleep/\">A good night’s sleep begins with warm toes</a></p>\n<p>A hot bath, on a cold night, is a sleep aid that works. 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IS GLUCOSE.</p>\n<p>One of the other significant things, it’s responsible for burning, are branch chained amino acids. There are three of these, leucine, isoleucine and valine.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>No spark….</strong></span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19447\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/no-spark.png\" alt=\"the effects of no spark\" width=\"708\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/no-spark.png 708w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/no-spark-300x112.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/no-spark-300x112@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" /></p>\n<p>It’s like you’ve got a choked engine in the car.  There is plenty of fuel, but you’re not GOING, because the fuel is not being burned, the same thing happens in a cell.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">And a build up of unburned fuel, is the FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM……</h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">when you’ve got metabolic issues.</h3>\n<p>Now, thiamine’s role in this process, is not to burn anything <em>per se</em>, thiamine provides the spark.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Sparking enzyme activity</strong></span></h2>\n<p>He does this by assisting key enzymes, in pretty much every cell in the body.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19448\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sparking-enzyme-activity.png\" alt=\"the enzymes thiamine sparks\" width=\"637\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sparking-enzyme-activity.png 637w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sparking-enzyme-activity-300x177.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sparking-enzyme-activity-300x177@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" /></p>\n<p>In addition, to kick starting carb burning, thiamine also lights a fire, under an enzyme called guanylate cyclase. This little guy, encourages the tiny muscle cells, encircling blood vessels, to CHILL.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">When they relax, blood flow around the body improves.</h3>\n<p><em>NOTE : Vasodilation is compromised when you’re insulin resistant. </em></p>\n<p>So thiamine is involved in some important body chemistry, much of which is not running optimally in someone with metabolic syndrome.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>So why has thiamine lost his spark ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Thiamine is not something we humans can make.  We have to get it from our diet. Good sources of thiamine in meats, eggs, legumes, nuts and whole grains. Foods that give you pretty much no thiamine, are dairy products, fruits and vegetables and REFINED GRAINS.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Unless they have been fortified.</h3>\n<p>Which is the case, in many countries, including the United States and Canada, the UK, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, and some Central Asian countries.  Visit the <a href=\"http://www.ffinetwork.org\">Food fortification Initiative</a>, to find out what happens in your neck of the woods.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Dietary deficiency NOT the problem</strong></span></h2>\n<p>So if you’re eating, the odds that you’re not getting enough thiamine from your diet, is low.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The  insufficiency problem, is more likely something else.</p>\n<p>Top of the lists of problems………. the thiamine never, actually makes it in or the amount that makes it in, is not enough to meet YOUR demand.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Getting the thiamine IN</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Depends on the thiamine sticking around long enough, to be picked up by thiamine transporters.  What and who else is in the gut, can pose a risk to thiamine’s staying power.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many creatures, including some gut residents, produce thiaminases, which shred the thiamine into little pieces.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19449\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiaminases.png\" alt=\"thiaminases pulling thiamine apart\" width=\"591\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiaminases.png 591w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiaminases-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" /></p>\n<p>And polyphenols, found in tea and coffee, stop the thiamine from reaching the  thiamine transporters, located on the cells that line the gut.</p>\n<p>And if that is not enough, the thiamine transporters, can fail, to move the thiamine in.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Thiamine transporter fails</strong></span></h2>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19450\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiamine-transporter-fail.png\" alt=\"causes of thiamine transporter fails\" width=\"709\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiamine-transporter-fail.png 709w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiamine-transporter-fail-300x190.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/thiamine-transporter-fail-300x190@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now you could be “unluckyâ€� and have inherited a dickey transporter.</p>\n<p>Or, your transporter could be overworked or “drunkâ€�.   Several commonly used drugs, including some drugs that are used to treat metabolic syndrome, such as metformin, use the same transporter.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : Alcohol causes the thiamine transporter, a lot of distress – this is why thiamine deficiency, is often seen in alcoholics.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Getting ENOUGH</strong></span></h2>\n<p>And of course, getting enough is relative.</p>\n<p>Some people just need more. The extraordinarily high demand, could be genetic or circumstantial.  Some of the circumstances, demanding more include :</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eating a high carb diet</li>\n<li>Being in a hypermetabolic state eg. hyperthyroidism</li>\n<li>Strenuous activity</li>\n<li>Acute illness/fever</li>\n<li>Adolescent growth</li>\n<li>Pregnancy and breast feeding</li>\n<li>Major trauma</li>\n<li>Major surgery</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">And INSULIN RESISTANCE</h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Extra thiamine </strong></span></h2>\n<p>There are quite a few studies, suggesting getting a little more thiamine, can help improve your body chemistry.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There two ways to go about getting more.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19451\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ways-to-get-extra-thiamine.png\" alt=\"ways to get extra thiamine\" width=\"642\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ways-to-get-extra-thiamine.png 642w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ways-to-get-extra-thiamine-300x141.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ways-to-get-extra-thiamine-640x302.png 640w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ways-to-get-extra-thiamine-300x141@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" /></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can make an effort to eat foods that are thiamine rich, or supplement.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : You don’t store it, so you need to consume thiamine on a regular basis.</em></p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>When supplementing with thiamine</strong></span></h2>\n<p>Supplementing, with thiamine,  is a low risk strategy, BUT it must be thiamine, NOT a vitamin B complex. To date, here is no evidence to suggest, extra thiamine, will do any harm.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">If you take more than you need, you will simply pee out the excess.</h3>\n<p><em>NOTE : The flip side of this, if you are pee-ing more,  than you should, which can happen if you’re battling to control your sugar levels, you will need more, anyway ! Eish ! Welcome to the bad body chemistry rollercoaster.</em></p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.afnr.2017.11.001\"><strong>Thiamine.</strong></a> Advances in Food and Nutrition Research (2018) 83 : 1-56. Derrick Lonsdale</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3945/an.114.007526\"><strong>Thiamin Deficiency in People with Obesity</strong></a>. American Society for Nutrition. 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Getting up and going every morning is a mammoth undertaking. FOR EVERYONE ! Not just the sleep deprived.  So, to get you up and going, a dollop of cortisol is drop kicked into play, shortly before you open your eyes.</p>\n<p>Now the way cortisol get’s you moving, is he diverts sugar to your brain.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>The cortisol rhythm</strong></span></h2>\n<p>So cortisol is there to get you going,  but once you’re going, you should be okay.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Unless something BAD HAPPENS.</h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So cortisol levels peak around 9 am in the morning and then they steadily decline.</p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19422\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cortisol-circadian-rhythm.png\" alt=\"cortisol circadian rhythm\" width=\"647\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cortisol-circadian-rhythm.png 647w, 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And if you or your little one, is one of the statistics, it’s alarming, because being overweight is just the beginning. Yes, you don’t look terribly good in a bikini, but that is not really the biggest issue. It’s the bad body chemistry that typically (not always), comes with being fat, that is the real problem. 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And the decades extended from the 1970s to the 2000s.</li>\n<li>The 46 chimpanzees, living at the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre, between 1985 and 2005, managed a 33.6 % increase in weight per decade. Yikes. 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But cats……………… are fussy critters ! They demand quality dinners and are not sugar addicts, actually <a href=\"http://betterbodychemistry.com/fructose/fat-cats-sugar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cats cannot taste sugar</a>.</p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">So the fact, that cats are top performers in the who is getting fatter stakes, is odd.</h3>\n<p>It’s a chink in the armour of the EATING TOO MUCH, MOVING TOO LITTLE lobby.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>Lab rats don’t move much</strong></span></h2>\n<p>But, this situation is not new. 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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. The ladies wore the fancy underwear, during waking hours, for the duration of the study, which lasted 12 weeks. Through out the study, they kept tabs on their dribbles using a dairy.</p>\n<p>So what happened ?</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>“Fixingâ€� stress urinary incontinence</strong></span></h2>\n<p>It worked,  in 85,4 % of the ladies it had disappeared completely and/or there had been a dramatic improvement.</p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19405\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-19405 size-full\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fancy-panties-decrease-stress-urinary-incontinence.png\" alt=\"fancy panties decrease stress urinary incontinence\" width=\"692\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fancy-panties-decrease-stress-urinary-incontinence.png 692w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fancy-panties-decrease-stress-urinary-incontinence-300x175.png 300w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fancy-panties-decrease-stress-urinary-incontinence-300x175@2x.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" /><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">© 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd</p></div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">No one got worse.</h3>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the improvement was seen across the board……</p>\n<p><em>The “curesâ€� had happened in </em><em>two of the three women, with moderate urinary incontinence, and in all three women, classified as having severe urinary incontinence.</em></p>\n<p>And when the team asked the ladies, if they would continue, wearing the pants. With NO EXCEPTION, the ladies, indicated, the pants would be part of their normal wardrobe, going forward.</p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #f21f02;\"><strong>What is your underwear doing for you ?</strong></span></h2>\n<p>If you’ve got a problem with the suspension bridge, try tightening up the girders, with a pair of supportive underwear.</p>\n<p>It might just make all the difference……..</p>\n<p>It’s a two for one deal,  you’ll look GOOD in your jeans, and your jeans, will ALWAYS smell, as fresh as daisies.</p>\n<p><em>NOTE : When you are considering buying a pair of supportive underwear, the team think you should look for something that not only,  pushes you in from the front, but also lifts you up, at the back. They’re not a 100 % sure, but they think what is going on at the backend, is the key. </em></p>\n\n<div class=\"symple-box yellow none \" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/luts.12023/\"><strong>Single-Arm Pilot Study to Determine the Effectiveness of the Support Power of Underwear in Elevating the Bladder Neck and Reducing Symptoms of Stress Urinary Incontinence </strong><strong>in Women.</strong></a> LUTS (2014) 6, 81–87. Sanae NINOMIYA,Izumi SAITO, Kiyoko MASAKI, Yoshihiro ENDO, Shigehiro MORIKAWA, and Hisayo OKAYAMA. </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-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\" /></a></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. But, before you reach for the antibiotic, you might want to try something really simple.</p>\n</div>\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-14165\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/enlarged-prostrate-flattening-the-hosepipe-tn.png\" alt=\"enlarged prostrate flattening the urethra\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/enlarged-prostrate-flattening-the-hosepipe-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/enlarged-prostrate-flattening-the-hosepipe-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/enlarged-prostrate-flattening-the-hosepipe-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/sleep/enlarged-prostate-exercise/\">Want to avoid bathroom trips in the middle of the night ? </a></p>\n<p>You can exercise a little during the day, to keep you and your prostate gland in shape. Or you can exercise at night, as you run to the bathroom to pee.</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-13948\" src=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/little-boy-peeing-out-a-new-heart-tn.png\" alt=\"little boy peeing out a new heart\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/little-boy-peeing-out-a-new-heart-tn.png 125w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/little-boy-peeing-out-a-new-heart-tn-83x83.png 83w, https://betterbodychemistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/little-boy-peeing-out-a-new-heart-tn-55x55.png 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.betterbodychemistry.com/biotechnology/turning-human-waste-golden-river-life/\">Turning human waste into a golden river of life</a></p>\n<p>Just a quick swish swish in a cup. 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