Inflammation or Obesity Which Comes First?

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Kim Buchanan ID 11225081 USA

In a 2004 Time magazine article entitled “The Secret Killer”, chronic inflammation in the body was targeted as the main issue behind a number of health problems including allergies, joint pain, high blood pressure, heart attacks, ulcers and even cancer. For many years now medical science has backed up these finding, due to continual research, as well as adding obesity to this growing list.

It has long been known that obesity increases inflammation all throughout the body, which begs the question, could inflammation in the body be a cause, not an effect of the obesity?

A study based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and University of California, San Diego targeted two areas: One being the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates the body’s energy balance and two a so called Master Switch of inflammation that is usually turned off. In lab tests mice that had the Master Switch of inflammation turned on in the brain, and feed a high fat diet, ultimately gained weight. Then another test was performed on test mice where genetic engineering turned the Master Switch “off” in the hypothalamus of the brain. These subjects were very much protected from becoming obese, and showed it via the results even after being on a high fat diet.

Our bodies need inflammation in the body to fight off infection, the problem comes when this much needed inflammation can not or will not shut off, becoming chronic. The researchers concluded that finding out how to control the switch in the hypothalamus might open the door to fighting obesity and related diseases.

Further studies regarding obesity and inflammation were found by Dutch researchers writing in the journal PPAR Research. The article outlined the complex relationship between fat storage, insulin resistance and secreted proteins. The affect of obesity on tissue in body parts including the liver, scientists findings conclude there is a growing recognition that obesity represents a state of chronic low-level inflammation in the body.

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Inflammation in the Body

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Kim Buchanan ID 11225081 USA

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