Sentences with phrase «between high levels of a protein»

Finally, we have reviewed a large - scale study on high blood pressure showing an association between high levels of protein intake (in the vicinity of 100 grams per day) and significantly decreased risk of high blood pressure over an 11 - year period of time.

Previously, Jonathan Tilly, a reproductive biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found a striking correlation between high levels of a protein called Bax (a key regulator of apoptosis) and cell death in healthy ovaries.

Not exact matches

Concentrations of plasma proteins were between 5 and 20 times higher than levels found at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Willette found that participants with higher levels of neuronal pentraxin - 2, the protein that regulates immune function and connections between neurons, showed little or no memory loss after two years.

Within two months, those derived from the Alzheimer's patients began secreting high levels of amyloid protein, which clumped together in the spaces between neurons, resembling the formation of plaques in a fully formed brain.

The FKBP51 protein acts as a link between the stress regulatory system and the metabolism, and higher levels of the protein can reduce the body's ability to absorb glucose.

Since many people either have low levels of vitamin d or low levels of cofactors needed for its metabolism, and animal protein increases IGF - 1 levels which may be problematic if vitamin d isn't doing its job, we can expect any associations between animal protein and cancer to be attenuated after controlling for vitamin d. Although it's not like that epidemiology is impressive if you control for cooking intensity (high heat is associated but not lower heat methods) or processed meat consumption.

When we controlled for the effect of plant - based protein, there was no change in the association between protein intake and mortality, indicating that high levels of animal proteins promote mortality and not that plant - based proteins have a protective effect» and for people aged 66 +, all - cause mortality...... «was not affected by percent calories from fat, from carbohydrates, or from animal protein.»

In long - term follow - up studies of the adult children of mothers who ate high protein diets while pregnant between 1948 and 1954, it was found that by age 40 offspring commonly had high levels of the stress hormone cortisol [6] and high blood pressure [7,8].

When we controlled for the effect of plant - based protein, there was no change in the association between protein intake and mortality, indicating that high levels of animal proteins promote mortality.»

Interesting new research has found a link between high childhood stress and elevated levels of the inflammatory marker called C - reactive protein in adults.

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

If we equate de facto ketogenic diets with high - protein diets (which is not always correct) then the risks proposed by critics of this type of dietary approach are essentially those of possible kidney damage due to high levels of nitrogen excretion during protein metabolism, which can cause an increase in glomerular pressure and hyperfiltration.12 There is not wide agreement between studies; however, some infer the possibility of renal damage from animal studies, 99, 100 whereas others, looking at both animal models, meta - analyses and human studies, propose that even high levels of protein in the diet do not damage renal function.101, 102 In subjects with intact renal function, higher dietary protein levels caused some functional and morphological adaptations without negative effects.103 There may actually be renal - related effects, but on blood pressure rather than morphological damage.

The researchers found that men and women in their 60s with higher - than - average levels of blood sugar (glucose) or insulin — two signs of type 2 diabetes — are between three and six times more likely to have certain protein deposits in their brains a decade or more later, according to the study, which appears in the journal Neurology.

In a classic study, Rogers, et al, compared the activity of several catabolic enzymes of amino acid metabolism in adult cats fed either a high - or low - protein diet or fasted for five days.29 Results showed little changes in the hepatic enzyme activities between the three groups of cats, with hepatic enzyme activities remaining set at high levels to cope with a high protein diet, even when they weren't being fed!