Obesity and Injury Recovery

  So when we’re discussing diabetes, if I start as a normal individual and progress to the disease process of diabetes, it starts with an individual who has normal function, then you develop insulin resistance, which makes the pancreas work harder....

Peripheral Fat and Hormone Levels

  With respect to the endocrine system, when you carry too much weight, it will affect your hormone levels. In the peripheral fat, testosterone gets converted to estrogen. So for overweight men, they literally begin to have higher levels of estrogen than they are...