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...

The impact of excess weight!

  When discussing the cardiovascular system, the inflammatory nature of excess weight and unhealthiness, because of excess weight, affects our immune system. Similar to smoking or diabetes or some other disease processes, obesity increases the inflammation which...

Why is weight loss important to overall health?

  Weight management is important to overall health because it affects every aspect of a person. It affects the cardiovascular system as well as the muscles, bones, and joints. It affects the endocrine system and how well your body responds to certain nutrients,...

Treatment Options

  How do you treat type 1 diabetes? As I mentioned before, type 1 diabetics are not resistant to insulin. They just don’t have any. All we have to do is give them insulin. Easy right? Well, yes, it’s easy in the sense that it is very straightforward...

What Causes Diabetes?

  The causes of type 1 diabetes are genetic and possibly environmental factors that cause your body’s immune system to destroy the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. There’s a theory that the routine viral illnesses we all get might stimulate...