Nutrition. Vitamins. You.
When it comes to taking care of your health, it can be hard to know where to start. Tune into this episode to hear Amanda Williams, MPH offer recommendations for the basic nutrients you need to add to your daily routine today.
Your lifestyle choices can impact your triglyceride levels. This includes the foods you eat, your exercise habits and the medications you take. Tune into this podcast episode for more information on how to support healthy triglycerides.
triglycerides
InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.
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Triglycerides are a type of fat in your blood that you use for energy, but when they’re too high, they’re extremely dangerous. Testing your blood for triglycerides has turned out to be an important measure of your future heart health and future heart risk.†
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We call triglycerides lipids because they’re not totally fat. There’s some protein in there, as well as some other components. When you overeat, your body converts any calories that you’re not using right away for energy into triglycerides. These triglycerides are stored as fat and they are released by hormones in between meals so you have a constant source of energy.†
If you regularly eat more calories than you need to burn for energy, especially from high carbohydrate sugary foods, you likely have high triglycerides. This is called hypertriglyceridemia. This can be destructive to your heart, brain, pancreas and liver.†
Triglycerides are also closely linked to sugar levels in the body. When you eat an excessive amount of sugary foods like pasta, white bread and potatoes, you can only store so much of it as glycogen, which is the storage form of sugar. When the glycogen storage sites get full, then you start to convert the excess sugar into triglycerides. This is then stored as fat on the belly. This is how triglycerides are related to both sugar and diabetes.†
Triglycerides are a greasy fat, but not all will be stored as fat. If the triglyceride level in your blood goes high, this can lead to heart disease and it’s strongly connected with cardiovascular events such as strokes and heart attacks.†
A study in the journal Scientific Reports looked at almost 3000 patients over a period of many years. Over those years, the researchers recorded 114 heart attacks and 185 strokes. The factors that they found were connected to a first heart attack included being 75 years old or older, elevated blood sugar, low good cholesterol and elevated diastolic blood pressure. The risk factors for a first stroke included being 75 years of age or older, atrial fibrillation, a poor kidney filtration rate, elevated bad cholesterol and high triglycerides. Triglycerides were strongly connected with an increased risk of having your first stroke.†
When triglycerides are present in excess, they can be stored as fat, which may lead to obesity and all the health conditions that accompany it, such as your blood sugar, blood pressure and inflammation going up. Over time, high triglycerides can contribute to hardening of the arteries, which is the biggest killer on the planet.†
In this episode, Jerry Hickey, Ph. explains what triglycerides are and why they are both helpful and harmful to the body. He details studies on how they contribute to obesity, heart disease and other chronic disease states. Stay tuned for Part 2 of this episode, coming soon!†
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The micromineral chromium is needed for healthy blood sugar, energy production and more, but this nutrient is frequently overlooked. Learn why it’s important to ensure you have enough of this mineral within your body.
The activated form of the B-vitamin folate plays an important role in the body by helping to fend off high levels of homocysteine. Learn about how this impacts brain and heart health from Jerry Hickey, Ph.
air pollution
InViteⓇ Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Amanda Williams, MPH
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Today I want to talk a little bit about the impact that air pollution has on our overall health, including the detoxification process, heart health, liver health and brain health. It’s very essential that we really get into why it is that healthy lifestyle choices, such as the foods you eat, the supplements you take and limiting your exposure to things that can be detrimental to your health.†
Let’s talk about chronic low-grade inflammation. If you keep that in check in your middle ages, you’ll do much better when you get into your 70s. This is one of those areas that you always want to be aware of and you want to make sure that you are incorporating good omega-3 fatty acids into your everyday diet.†
A study that came out of the UK talked about how air pollution may be linked to heightened dementia risk. They said that air pollution is now an established risk factor for heart disease, stroke and respiratory disease, but they really wanted to look at the impact of air pollution when it came to neurodegenerative disorders, such as the development of dementia.†
The researchers looked at data from over 130,000 people in the UK between the ages of 50 and 79. These are people who had not been diagnosed with any cognitive dysfunctions. The researchers then looked at their exposure to air pollution based on their proximity to the airport or heavy traffic road areas. They wanted to see if there was a correlation between how the air pollutants themselves were actually impacting the overall brain. Interestingly enough, they were able to draw that conclusion. They found that those who were living in areas with the highest percentage of pollutants in the air had about a 40% greater risk of being diagnosed with dementia than those that were living in areas where air pollutants were much lower.†
So what can we do to mitigate the harmful impacts of air pollution? This is where products such as the Detox HxⓇ and the Oranges HxⓇ both come into play.†
When you’re looking at the Detox HxⓇ, for example, this is basically combining key nutrients and antioxidants that really help the body when it comes to the proper detoxification of all these different things that we’re exposed to. It contains NAC, which is this really wonderful nutrient that helps our body in terms of enhancing our glutathione production. Glutathione matters because it is the body’s primary antioxidant. However, toxins and pollutants in the body can cause glutathione levels to diminish, which leaves us open to a lot of cellular damage.†
You can also combine the Oranges HxⓇ with this. This formulation is very beneficial for heart health, brain health and liver health. It contains key nutrients, such as the amino acid taurine, which plays a role in cardiovascular health, eye health and liver function. This formulation also provides antioxidants in the liver. The more antioxidants we have in our system, the better off we are when it comes to being able to fend off oxidative stress. The Oranges HxⓇ is a simple supplement to take because you just mix a scoop in with water, but you’re getting really important nutrients.†
When we think about what we do every single day, I think we frequently overlook the impact of pollutants. Oftentimes, people try to eat healthy and take supplements like a multivitamin and fish oil, which is all great. But if you’re in the city, you have to think about other things that can arise, such as your overexposure to air pollutants. Nutrient-rich supplements such as Detox HxⓇ and Oranges HxⓇ can help.†
In this episode, Amanda Williams, MPH discusses how air pollution can impact many systems in the body. She shares research on how pollutants affect cognition and also gives details about Detox HxⓇ and Oranges HxⓇ.†
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