Glycogen Cancer Connection

   Success is the Sum of  Small Efforts Repeated Day in  and  Day Out.        

~ Robert Collier ~

   During the last three months  in the Archives of  this website.  I  have covered  a  tremendous  amount of  information  for  the  treatment  and  prevention of  cancer. Showcasing the various doctors, their treatments   and  procedures;  while  highlighting  estrogen  imbalances,  omega  3’s    and how they might increase your risk  for prostate cancer.  Also a cure through  the Ketogenic Diet  and  important links about the major types       of  cancer which is worth — a — scroll through the archives.

   While also dispensing information about supplementation especially during  chemotherapy.  With  vital  information  about  oxidative  stress,  and overcoming depression, the alkaline state of  your body and chronic inflammation.  Also  the  importance  of  keeping  your  liver  functioning properly through routine exercise  for a strong immunity, while keeping your verceral belly  fat  ~  Body mass index down to avoid syndrome-X.

   With the added information about managing cancer through palliative cancer care  in our  Cancer Hodge Podge Industry we have in this country. The cancer patient  must  understand  their cancer prognosis  to help them better  understand  what  they’re  up  against.  Until Government  and  our Business Leaders,  realize  and  recognize that working out the health care problem  from the  front door…  not  back routing cancer patients through the back door with all the cost.

     Treatment in the  future might be secondary as prevention of  chronic disease will be key  to our long term health care whoa’s.  We as American must  find ways to prevent chronic disease before it occurs with nutrition being one important aspect. When my father was terminally ill and I had   the  dubious  distinction of  running  him  to  his  treatments  occasionally.

   Sitting  there  in the waiting room  watching talk shows  like of  Dr. Oz    and  reading health magazines. While pondering to myself  ‘why’  isn’t all these health tips in one website centralized hub of  cancer research would   be nice.  It would do everybody  a lot of  good knowing  “what is”  and  for those  not  having  the  chance  to see this particular episode of  Dr. Oz  or haven’t  read  this  article  a vital resource  to turn to in their need.  Items    for instance like seleniumglutathione and a strong immune system are important information to know.

   While putting these  5 Rules into Practice  and  watch it revolutionize    your life  for  the  better:   1.  No Sugar    2.  No High Fructose Corn Syrup     3.   No Trans  Fat   4.  No Saturated Fat  and   5.  Nothing Enriched. While using the words  ‘NO’  or ‘NOTHING’  loosely meaning in moderation, so always think holding down your sugar cravings each day to 100 grams.

     However,  when  Nancy  Schuessler  found  the motivation  to lose more   than  200  pounds; while going from 400 pounds to 180 pounds in two years than appearing on  Dr. Oz in November 2009.  Eliminating trans fat, refined sugars,  high fructose corn syrup  and  enriched flour  from her diet  without  medical intervention.  It made people stand up  and  say, “what impact does  sugar really have on our health.”

     While Nancy Appleton,  PH.D.,  clinical nutritionist  compiled a list  of      146  Reasons  ‘why’  sugar ruins our health.  With  the  body  changing  that sugar into  2  to  5 times  more  fat into our blood stream  than does starches which is the other half  of  carbohydrates. With the unique role that various sugars  plays  in  exercise  being  well  illustrated  by  a  Study  published  in March’s  (2010)  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

    Involving a group of highly trained cyclists  and their livers  (which this  was my motivation to take up cycling.) The liver which is an organ of  detox  often over looked  when you consider organs integral to exercise.  However, it’s an important reservoir of glycogen which the body stores  from glucose. All the sugars, including sucrose, table sugar, high fructose corn syrup and the works that provides you with the burst to  finish strong.

    Usually  consisting  of  almost  equal  portions  of  glucose  and  fructose, they are converted into glucose  and  stored as glycogen in the body. Where strenuous exercise diminishes or exhaust this liver glycogen and until those stores are replenished.  The  body  isn’t  ready  for  another bout of  exercise, about like a seizure  from  low blood sugar…. it’s this balance that is vitally important to performance.

     In  this  study,  those scientist  used  magnetic  reasonance  imaging  to measure the size of  each riders liver.  Before  and after the rides and all the riders lost liver volume during their workouts,  a sign their livers were also depleted of glycogen. However, those whom afterwards drank fructose had replaced that volume rapidly.  Showing  a  9  percent  gain  in  volume  after  6 – and – half – hours versus  a  2 percent  gain among  the riders  drinking just  glucose – sweetened drinks.

     Overall the researchers concluded that fructose sweetened drinks were  twice as  –  effective – as  the  glucose  —  sweetened  drinks  stimulating  the livers  recovery  to  exercise. These  finding  concurs  with  a  large  body  of  earlier research suggesting  fructose is particularly useful of  avid athletes during long,  hard workouts  which they can burn through  their  glycogen storage and  produce bonking.   Beyond Hangovers and Liver Disease!?!

    In  a  2008  study,  involving  cyclist that  found  when  they  downed  a sports drink sweetened with glucose during a two – hour bout of  moderate pedaling event.  They  found  they rode  faster  during  the subsequent time trail  than the riders  whom had drank just water.  However,  if  the  sports drink  contained  both  glucose  and   fructose ( a – two – to – one – ratio.) The riders  were  8 percent  faster  in the time – trial  than  those  drinking  only glucose – sweetened  fluid?

    So  does  this suggest those whom regularly  and  moderately  work out might  want  to  consider ‘sugar  loading’ to  help  with  their  performance.   The million dollar answer to that question is ‘no,’   because  “if ”  somebody   goes for a thirty minute walk. That duration and intensity will be too short to  make  a  difference  in terms  of  performance.  Activity can significantly reduce the health risk associated with  fructose and other  forms of  sugar.

    Consider the liver in sedentary lifestyle  and  large amounts of  fructose   which is mostly metabolized in the liver.  This  association  has  been  linked with the development of a disorder known as  fatty liver. That condition can reduce  the body’s ability  to respond to insulin,  the  hormone  that  helps  to control blood sugar.  A  person with a  ‘fatty liver’  often develops resistance to insulin,  while  becoming  less  able  to control  levels  of  glucose, thereby,  drifting towards Type 2 Diabetes  (The Bitter Truth.)

    However,  exercise can derail  this  process  significantly  lessening  the amount of  fat in someone’s liver.  Overall  Dr. Richard Johnson,  whom is a  professor of  medicine  at  the  University  of  Colorado,   Anschultz  Medical Campus in Denver.  Concludes current science suggests  that exercise exerts    a positive physiological influence on some of the same metabolic pathways that sugar harms.

Exercise  may  make  you  resistant to the considerable effects of  sugar,” states Dr. Johnson whom also says, ” sugar isn’t all bad ~ but is hardly good nutritionally, the  best  sugars  come  naturally  and  can  be  found in fruit.”   It’s the best sweetener option and that  it comes  with a satiating dose of  all natural  fructose.  Therefore,  lets  take  a look  at  what impact sugar has on glycogen  in  the  liver  and  how  does  that  impact  your chances  of  getting cancer  or other types of  chronic disease.


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