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Vitamin D Deficiency and Chronic Inflammation: Impact on Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Health

People with high blood sugar, but also with too many kilos deposited, invariably have too little vitamin D. We also look into the blood vessels.

Too little vitamin D also exists in the disease called atherosclerosis. Chronic inflammation is the reason. Vitamin D regulates inflammatory reactions in infections, but also in diseases that are accompanied by inflammation. It is about diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases. Smoking is also a chronic inflammatory disease.

Chronic inflammation rapidly consumes this vitamin, so after you determine its blood levels, you will be given supplements.

How do we avoid chronic inflammation?

Andreea Groza: Why do we need exercise after eating? And this is prevention for metabolic diseases, whether we are talking about diabetes or cardiovascular diseases or obesity. After a meal, the pancreas secretes insulin. So-called counter-regulatory hormones also appear. In battle, it is normal to have only one winner.

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Dr. Antonela Burlacu, primary endocrinologist: “This game between insulin and counter-regulatory hormones is victorious in favor of insulin. When I do sports, I ease the work of the pancreas, it helps the poor insulin because, during the effort, some transporters are opened in the muscles, in particular, but also in the adipose tissue and in the viscera, where the sugar enters by itself, it no longer needs insulin, and then we protect the pancreas”.

Exercise causes muscles to become more sensitive to insulin. It means that you help the body not to develop insulin resistance, the pre-diabetes phase. We find insulin resistance in the liver, in skeletal muscles, in fat.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gabriela Radulian, diabetes and nutrition disease primary physician: “In the liver, insulin resistance causes an overproduction of glucose, especially in fasting conditions of hepatic overproduction of glucose.”

In the fat deposited between the organs we also find insulin resistance. It means that over time, blood fats will increase. In the pancreas, the cells, which produce insulin, can no longer.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gabriela Radulian, diabetes and nutrition disease primary physician: “This insulin resistance causes a decrease in the reserves of pancreatic beta cells and, in this way, the insulin secretory deficiency of diabetes mellitus appears.”

Abdominal obesity is associated with insulin resistance. In pharmacies you can test your diabetes risk for free.

Denisa Cernăianu, pharmacist manager: “It is done on the basis of a risk assessment questionnaire, it is free. It doesn’t take much time. A risk score comes out. There is a time between 10 and 20 years when the disease can be asymptomatic”.

Source: Pro TV

Publication date: 12-11-2023 10:28

2023-11-12 08:30:20
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