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Fat and Inflammation
Here are some crucial facts about fat and how it impacts your health.
As a group, fat cells are considered the largest and most active endocrine organ. The endocrine system secretes hormones into the bloodstream to regulate the body functions.
Hormones regulate many functions, including mood, growth and development, tissue function, and metabolism.
Fat has recently been thought to be an immune system organ which means, healthy fat can help to fight off disease.
When our bodies are at our ideal body weight, fat cells should be in a healthy state and will regulate many body functions.
A healthy fat cell can:
- Repress hunger and increase energy metabolism
- Keep the immune system regulated and working efficiently
- Fight inflammation
- Decrease your chance of getting diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity
- Make your muscle system work more efficiently by increasing fatty acid oxidation, glucose uptake, and lactate production
- Lower your triglycerides (bad fats) by increasing free fatty acid metabolism
- Keep cholesterol from forming in your arteries
However, when fat cells get engorged or unhealthy, problems arise in the body. Enlarged fat cells used to be necessary for survival because food was scarce and humans could live off of the stored fat. But today, food is in abundance and our lives are, by comparison, sedentary.
When a person gains weight, their fat cells get larger. When a fat cell fills up, more fat cells will be created for storage (it has to go somewhere).
A fat cell is not programmed to stay fat. It will try to return to a healthy state by releasing what it doesn’t need into the blood stream and into any organs around it, including the immune system. When the immune system is stimulated, inflammation occurs in the body.
Inflammation is a secret killer
Diseases like heart disease, diabetes, strokes, cancer and others have been attributed to the amount of inflammation found in our bodies on all of organs and in all of our systems.
Medical professionals are making the connection with inflammation and obesity (too many engorged fat cells) to atherosclerosis, hyper-tension, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s, cancer, and even depression!
Steps to take to get or stay healthy
- Get Moving - Exercise had the largest influence on fat levels and returning fat cells to a more normal state. One source found that fat cells behaved better following an exercise program even when weight loss did not occur. (think of those huge professional linebacker types)
- Change your Diet — the ones you’ve likely heard about a million times. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, eat more fish (preferably cold water fish such as salmon), eat some nuts and reduce the refined sugars and carbohydrates.
- Take supplements - supplements that have been associated with reducing inflammatory response: Fish oil (Omega 3s), Vitamin D, CoQ10, and spices such as Garlic, Ginger and Tumeric. Take Nopalea cactus juice on daily basis.
The danger of engorged (unhealthy) fat cells goes beyond your size. It means your body will have a harder time fighting off disease because its dealing with the harmful release from the fat cells.
Healthy fat is necessary and good for you and can help maintain a healthy immune system so focus on healthy habits not only the scale.
David Ogden
CEO TheInterbiz LLC
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