Sentences with phrase «increases circulating levels»

Other studies show that visceral obesity raises a person's risk of developing colon cancer, perhaps because it increases circulating levels of hormones that affect cell growth.

By providing 700 % Daily Value of Vitamin D, Nursing Blend helps to increase circulating levels of Vitamin D in nursing women, thereby ensuring that the breast milk produced by these women will have enough Vitamin D to prevent suboptimal Vitamin D status in their growing babies.

What worries some experts is that about 17 % of dairy cows are treated with the hormone rBST (or rBGH), which stimulates milk production by increasing circulating levels of another hormone called insulin - like growth factor (IGF - 1).

This hormone is secreted by the β cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans in response to increased circulating levels of glucose and amino acids after a meal.»

Insulin is secreted by β cells of the pancreas in response to increased circulating levels of glucose and amino acids after a meal.

In addition, conjugated estrogens can be re-activated in the intestines and returned to circulation via the action of beta - glucuronidase enzymes, which are produced by E. coli, Clostridum and Bacteroides12, thus intestinal dysbiosis may increase circulating levels of active estrogens).

Finding that oral L. reuteri therapy increased circulating levels of oxytocin in our animal model, we theorized that microbes associated with milk consumption may stimulate vagal pathways as for pleasure reward during infant - maternal bonding [29].

In a clinical study comparing oral estrogen alone with oral E&T therapy, E&T therapy significantly increased circulating levels of estradiol and free testosterone compared with baseline.13, 34 Circulating estradiol levels increased in a similar fashion to women assigned to estrogen - only therapy, while the increase in free testosterone and the reduction in luteinizing hormone and sex hormone — binding globulin levels were significantly greater among the E&T group compared with the estrogen - only group.34

Not exact matches

Higher levels of circulating ghrelin have corresponded with increased release of growth hormone by the pituitary gland.

Elevated levels of homocysteine circulated in our blood increases our risk for heart attack and stroke.

Excess adiposity or obesity causes increased levels of circulating fatty acids and inflammation.

But they do have something in common, which is, of course, the level of information which is now able to circulate within societies as well as leaking in from the outside has increased dramatically and, in historical terms, very recently.

When weight is lost, the system works in the opposite direction: Less fat means reduced levels of circulating leptin, increased appetite, and reduced energy expenditure.

At the same time their skeletal muscle ramps up production of an immune molecule that increases their response to insulin, resulting in reduced circulating insulin levels, protection against type 2 diabetes and longer lifespan.

«More advanced information regarding influenza activity can help alert health care professionals that influenza is circulating, help coordinate response efforts, and help anticipate clinic and hospital staffing needs and increases in visits associated with high levels of influenza activity.»

«Partial sleep deprivation may increase the risk of overeating in the evening due to low circulating leptin levels and additional time spent awake,» the researchers noted, adding that «evening and late - night hours are when overeating of less - healthful foods is most likely to occur.»

Kisspeptins circulating in the blood increase dramatically during normal human pregnancy, to several thousand times non-pregnancy levels, which makes them a novel predictive marker for assessing the risk of later complications.

They found that low circulating vitamin D levels in blood were associated with increased mortality risks from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other causes.

In addition, individuals with stage B HF had greater circulating concentrations of cardiac stress biomarkers levels, putting them at increased risk for death.

«A possible mechanism underlying this phenomenon is increased levels of serum lipoproteins associated with increased body fat, which may play a role in neutralizing circulating toxins and inflammatory proteins.»

In Cell Metabolism on August 13, the Harvard scientists who discovered irisin address this contentious issue by showing that human irisin circulates in the blood at nanogram levels and increases during exercise.

Researchers found evidence of reduced levels of circulating testosterone with increased phthalate exposure.

The brain is well buffered against the effect of arbitrary increases or decreases in circulating chemicals so that simply consuming food additives which are acetylcholine precursors will not normally increase your brain acetylcholine level.

«We found evidence reduced levels of circulating testosterone were associated with increased phthalate exposure in several key populations, including boys ages 6 - 12, and men and women ages 40 - 60,» said one of the study's authors, John D. Meeker, MS, ScD, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI.

TE and WBV increased circulating osteocalcin in db / db mice, relative to SED db / db mice, but did not restore levels to within the range of WT mice.

«Curtailed sleep produced marked changes in the secretion of growth hormone and levels of noradrenaline — which can increase circulating fatty acids,» Broussard said.

This would reduce the concentration of AS in the brain, but the circulating level might temporarily increase.

High sodium diets are commonly used to study diet induced hypertension, since increasing levels of circulating sodium cause cells to release water (due to osmotic pressure) which elevates the pressure on blood vessel walls.

«This is the first study to demonstrate that an increase in BAT significantly increases levels of circulating IL - 6.

The transplanted BAT affected metabolism throughout the body by increasing levels of circulating Interleukin - 6 (IL - 6).

«We know that your circulating glucocorticoid levels increase with age.

A reduction in TG levels also did not cause hepatic steatosis (Figure 3, A and B) or increase the production of ketone bodies (Figure 3C), and at most had only a modest effect on circulating nonesterified free fatty acid (NEFA) levels (Figure 3D).

Higher levels of circulating insulin have been linked to increased inflammation (a bad thing for many reasons), and the ketogenic diet may help to reduce insulin levels and thereby help to potentially reduce inflammation in the body.

Based on the way in which testosterone and estrogen work together in the body, increased estrogen levels lead to decreased levels of testosterone circulating in your body.

According to the researchers, it's possible that warmer temperatures could affect the composition of circulating blood, increasing blood sugar levels.

In fact, the five meal per day protocol has even led to an increased level of systemic inflammation and circulating endotoxins.

«A high level of circulating insulin could interfere with sex hormone activity and boost estrogen levels, both of which might increase the number of menstrual cycles and deplete egg supply faster, thus causing an earlier menopause.»

Alcohol impairs your liver's functioning so much that circulating estrogen levels increase significantly with just two drinks a day.

In the body, when you have an adrenal system that's out of balance because of stress as we talked about earlier, whether it is because a person is involved in excess exercise, very stressful schoolwork, a stressful career advancement, or even relationship difficulty, the adrenal glands will kick into overdrive, resulting in an increased level of estrogen circulating in the body.

Conversely, within non-diabetic populations, periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases insulin secretion, can precede the onset of T2DM by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic) insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70

Conversely ghrelin, produced mainly by P / D1 cells lining the fundus of the stomach, exerts appetite stimulating effects and so levels are typically at their peak pre-meal and decrease post - prandially.87 As weight - loss is associated with increased fasting levels of ghrelin 88 and reduced suppression in response to a meal in obese subjects 89, changes in circulating ghrelin levels have been assessed in several IER studies.

Two hormonal regulators which have been studied are leptin and ghrelin, whose effects on energy balance are in a large part mediated by the hypothalamus.87 Leptin, a peptide hormone secreted by adipose tissue, acts to reduce appetite.87 Circulating levels are proportional to adiposity and so decline during weight - loss, thus increasing appetite, however this reduction is believed to be disproportionately greater than the change in fat - mass.82 As expected, IER (60 - 85 % ER on restricted days) weight - loss interventions have all noted a decline in leptin levels 39, 41, 46 - 49, 52, comparable with energy - matched CER protocols after three months 48 and six months.41

Several trials have demonstrated that the cardiomyocytes of rodents maintained on IER become more resilient to ischaemic injury induced by occlusion of the left coronary artery 18, 21, 29, which translated into improved long - term survival following such injury in one study.21 In addition, within these studies, associations have been found between the cardiovascular improvements and markers of oxidative stress 24, 30, inflammatory responses 18, 24, 29, 30 and increases in circulating levels of adiponectin.29 Collectively, these reported changes in biochemical and physiological cardiovascular risk factors would be expected to suppress atherosclerotic development and preserve cardiovascular health.

but what are your thoughts on alcohol's ability to increase the circulating estrogen levels?

While researchers found no measurable change in breastfed babies» iron stores when they received an increased amount of meat, the levels of hemoglobin (iron - containing cells) circulating in the bloodstream did increase.

Sex hormone - binding globulin (SHBG): Levels of SHBG also increase with age, which makes the bioavailability of testosterone circulating in the bloodstream lower.

In addition to possible blood contamination, the presence of both corticosteroid - binding globulin and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) in uncontaminated saliva renders questionable whether salivary steroids can accurately reflect circulating free steroid levels 1 (particularly in the older patient since, as noted earlier, SHBG levels increase with age).

In addition, conjugated estrogens can be re-activated in the intestines and returned to circulation via the action of beta - glucuronidase enzymes, which are produced by E. coli, Clostridum and Bacteroides 13; thus intestinal dysbiosis may increase a man's circulating levels of active estrogens).

The results demonstrated that men with low circulating levels of testosterone had an 88 % increased risk of mortality.

It is hypothesized that excess levels of circulating insulin may decrease the concentration of sex hormone — binding globulin (SHBG — a beneficial hormone that helps removes excess dangerous hormones from the body), thereby increasing the amount of unbound free testosterone.