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CLA ABILITY TO ENHANCE INSULIN SENSITIVITY AND PREVENT CANCER – (10-15-03)

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Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Regulation of Adiposity and Insulin Sensitivity

CLA has gotten quite a bit of press over the past few years in regards to its ability to enhance insulin sensitivity and prevent certain types of cancer. Remember that in an ideal (read: non-commercially grown…) situation, cattle will eat grass and other greens. The fats from this diet then gets converted by beneficial bacteria in the gut to produce CLA which shows up in the meat as well as the milk of the animal. However, commercial cattle these days are fed corn and loaded with antibiotics…

nutrition.org — Abstracts: Brown and McIntosh 133 (10): 3041

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HOW DOES HPA AXIS IN OUR BODY DEAL WITH STRESS? – (03-08-10)

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Salivary cortisol, serum lipids, and adiposity in patients with depressive and anxiety disorders

HPA axis refers to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and is how our bodies deal with stress. As a search term, “HPA axis” on PubMed brings about thousands upon thousands upon thousands of articles. This is a heavy focus of much research. But don’t expect your doctor to bring it up because we don’t have a medication to “treat” it. Sometimes it seems that we can’t learn about some aspect of medicine until there is a drug and a drug rep and drug commercials to do the work.

There is not surprise that this study finds alterations in cortisol levels and rhythms in patients with depression or anxiety. Medicating these conditions will not fix the HPA axis problem, and this will leave the patient at risk for things like heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

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