Sentences with phrase «driven by insulin»

High testosterone levels are driven by insulin resistance resulting from persistently high sugar consumption.

Weight gain, of course is driven by insulin.

Thompson believes that many pre-cancerous cells would never acquire the mutations that turn them into malignant tumors if they weren't being driven by insulin to take up more and more blood sugar and metabolize it.»

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As pressure mounted over the pharmaceutical giant's rising insulin prices, investors drove its stock down by a third, fearing that policymakers would cap price tags and hurt profits.

The choice to look at insulin production was driven by the equipment they used to generate the radio waves and magnetic fields.

In addition to its effect on the insulin pathway, the let - 7 microRNA appears to drive these metabolic and functional changes by acting on other key gene regulators.

This alternative hypothesis of obesity implies that the ongoing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (which stems to great extent from insulin resistance) are largely driven by the grains and sugars in our diets.

Rigorous Experiments In the past 20 years significant evidence has accumulated to suggest that these diet doctors may have been right, that the hormone hypothesis is a viable explanation for why we get fat and that insulin resistance, driven perhaps by the sugars in the diet, is a fundamental defect not just in type 2 diabetes but in heart disease and even cancer.

In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin - producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, funded by JDRF and the National Institutes of Health, and published online in Nature Medicine.

Another method is for cells to throttle back the processing of glucose during lean times by becoming insulin resistant, which blocks insulin from entering the cell and in essence rations the supply of glucose to last longer while also creating a powerful hunger impulse to drive people to find food.

IGF prevents frailty by increasing skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia), sex drive (infertility), brain thymus (immunosenescence, centenarians maintain a strong immune system), skeletal bone mineralization and marrow stem cell formation (osteoporosis and immune system by bone marrow immune cells working in tandem with thymus and lymphs nodes), I understand that diabetes, an accelerated aging phenotype, is insulin IGF and blood glucose driven.

Specifically, consuming high GI foods within the first 30 minutes after training will help you replenish depleted glycogen levels in the muscle by elevating your levels of insulin, which is responsible for driving crucial nutrients into your starving muscles.

According to Lewis Cantley, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, as much as 80 percent of all cancers are «driven by either mutations or environmental factors that work to enhance or mimic the effect of insulin on the incipient tumor cells,» Gary Taubes reports, vii adding:

The pancreas responds by increasing the secretion of insulin to the level where it will drive down blood sugar.

The problem is that by labeling carbohydrate intolerance as a problem of carbohydrate toxicity rather than a problem of fat toxicity, most people are driven towards a low - carb diet to stop them from needing more oral medication and insulin over time.

The point is that their insulin is driven largely by resistance and not their diet.

Fattening and obesity are caused by a hormonal imbalance, which can be driven by diet (e.g. insulin secretion).

Homeostasis you mention has a set point; it clearly has been reset to the lower number during weight loss drive, by lowering insulin resistance / insulin levels, which IS the mechanism of setting that point.

Even critics of the Insulin Hypothesis (like Stephan Guyenet) would agree with some of what Taubes is saying — it's just that they believe CICO is an important part of the equation, the over eating is driven by the brain and changes to the brain and the hormone of interest is leptin.

It was only recently discovered that exercise - induced increases in insulin sensitivity are driven by increased ROS production (5), and totally suppressed by antioxidant supplements.