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Article: Maintaining glucose control and taming an Inflamed Brain with nutraceuticals.(Therapeutic Nutrition)
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Somewhere deep in the origins of aging and chronic disease states is a fundamental disturbance in glucose homeostasis. Insulin resistance is believed by many to be the origin of the metabolic syndrome. Following closely on its heels is hyperglycemia and glucose toxicity. Both insulin and glucose in excess amounts are directly toxic to the body, disrupting many metabolic pathways and damaging both cells and biochemicals.
The insulin-glucose relationship has direct effects upon the stress reaction and, consequently, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and cortisol resistance, which is a fundamental cause of Inflamed Brain (Sickness Syndrome*). Insulin increases ...