Sentences with phrase «cells in abdominal fat»

«Additionally, we showed that obesity increases the number and activity of NK cells in abdominal fat but not in other tissues,» says Lee, senior author on a paper published online in Cell Metabolism.

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have pinpointed a major inflammatory role for «natural killer» (NK) immune cells in abdominal fat — a type of tissue strongly implicated in insulin resistance.

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«Natural killer cells help to drive inflammation, insulin resistance: Study in mouse models of diabetes identifies key immune mechanisms in abdominal fat.»

So, not only does Rhodiola reduce the cortisol and blood sugar aspect of the belly fat equation, but it also turns on an enzyme called «hormone - sensitive lipase», a substance which allows your body to access and utilize the fat stored in abdominal cells.

Now it exists in multiple forms in most of the prepared food available to us (even the sugar - free options) and it perpetuates overall inflammation, dumps fat on our liver (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease); makes our cells resistant to the effects of insulin (insulin resistant); and then gives us metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity, cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes.

The new fat deposits in skeletal muscles takes up much of this fat, as do the fat cells in and around the abdominal organs leading to the central obesity that is an important component of metabolic syndrome.

In men who are overweight, particularly with abdominal obesity, the fat cells are usually making estrogen.

Scientists have known for some time that excess body fat, particularly abdominal fat, triggers the production of so - called «pro-inflammatory» immune cells, which circulate in the blood and promote inflammation in our bodies.

Abdominal fat, in particular, contains proinflammatory cytokines — the chemicals released by immune cells — and hormones secreted by fat tissue, which can generate and perpetuate chronic inflammation.