Insulin resistance is a condition in which the body’s cells become resistant to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas that plays an essential role in regulating the carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins obtained from food.

Yes, I am talking about your belly fat. Now, before you go and get all offended, listen up. We all have it, that nasty little roll right below the ol’ belly button. Well, most of us do anyway. Researches have now discovered that the spare tire alone may not be to blame for causing metabolic syndrome. Your skeletal muscle’s may have a little something to do with it as well…

But with the help of powerful new imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at Yale University School of Medicine has found that insulin resistance in skeletal muscle leads to alterations in energy storage that set the stage for the metabolic syndrome.

So long story short, they are thinking that this metabolic syndrome, or pre-diabetes if you will, is really a problem with how we store energy from food. This is fairly good news because there is a simple cure to that… exercise. Now, get out there y’all and do something healthy for yourself!

via Science Daily

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Metabolic Syndrome Is Really A Problem With How We Store Energy

Researchers found that depression alone, and not lifestyle factors like being overweight, can trigger Type 2 diabetes in adults 65 and older, a population with a high prevalence of diabetes and depression.

Researchers measured depressive mood and thoughts at a particular point in time as well as over the long term. By doing this, they were able to get a more conclusive and accurate view of depressive symptoms.

By measuring depressive symptoms before diabetes developed, researchers were able to investigate the causal effect between mood and diabetes.

We know that high stress hormones like cortisol can decrease insulin sensitivity and increase fat deposits around ones waist. The ol’ spare tire if you will. Oh joy!

“When you’re depressed or under stress your body is trying to keep glucose in the bloodstream because it needs it for immediate energy. So, it’s blocking insulin action. And you may even be producing more glucose because your body thinks it needs the sugar,” Carnethon said.

The bottom line is that doctors need to take depressive symptoms in patients, especially over 65, very serious. Seeing what it could lead to, it would be both health and cost effective.

via Daily India

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Depression Alone Can Trigger Type 2 Diabetes