Other manifestations of the metabolic syndrome: High blood pressure, skin manifestations, but also snoring.

It is not well known that the hormone insulin also controls your blood vessels, their muscles and blood flow, even in the smallest, capillaries. Normally, insulin increases the permeability of blood through capillaries, but insulin resistance reduces this ability. The dilation of blood vessels (vasodilation) takes place through nitric oxide (NO). However, there is the exact opposite process of diameter reduction (vasoconstriction), so that normally different vessel responses to insulin occur in large and small vessels.

In large vessels, dilation is compensated by contraction, so they are virtually unaffected by insulin. In small ones, vasodilation and reduction of capillary resistance predominate. The flow increases and the pressure decreases. However, this only applies if you do not have insulin resistance. If you have it, vasoconstriction outweighs vasodilation, blood flow patency decreases, blood pressure rises, and tissue supply decreases. For example, this has been found in obese rats. We see that the effect of insulin is dependent on the level of free nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA).

In my post on metabolic syndrome, I tried to explain that the main problem is poor fat burning, which will increase the level of free fatty acids (FFA, NEFA). And here we have it again. The level of free fatty acids affects the sensitivity of our vessels to insulin, insulin resistance of blood vessels, and reduces the patency of vascular capillaries and thus increases blood pressure. If we solve the metabolic syndrome, we will also solve high blood pressure. And we already know how to solve it, right?

Other manifestations of high insulin levels can be, for example, fatty skin growths (papillomas), various darkening of the skin and streaks such as on the neck, darker skin around the joints on the fingers, but also problems with hair loss. Fat can also be stored in muscles or various organs. From these signs, you can easily recognize that you have a problem with high insulin. If you find something like this on yourself, you should deal with it. The doctor will tell you it's nothing, and he's right. But the real cause needs to be addressed in time, you don't want to end up like a diabetic.

Usually, with higher insulin, the fat is stored close to the inflammation site. If it is stored as visceral fat inside the abdomen around the intestines, you are probably eating foods that cause mild inflammation in the intestines. If you have inflammation in your teeth, you may build up fat in your tongue or around your neck. Inflammation occurs where something needs to be broken down, where there is some material to disassemble. If your immune system is not able to break it down, bacteria or viruses will act  as cleanup crews. Where there is food for bacteria, you will also find them there. If there is no food for them, they will not survive.

Therefore, it is important not to consume poisons and substances that bring nothing to the body and which it gets rid of. Among the organs with which the body gets rid of unnecessary substances are the skin, lungs, lymphatic system and dental canals, which open into places where dental plaque appears, ie if your dentist has not destroyed these canals. If you eat something that the body does not need, it will be deposited around the teeth. You'll know right away. If you eat only what your body wants and needs, you will have clean teeth with even minimal cleaning. Plaque is formed from the inside, not from the outside, as dentists claim. But I turned away.

One such organ where fat is stored in the muscles may be the tongue. This study looked at whether sleep apnea was related to fat content in different parts of the airways and in the tongue, especially in the lower parts. And the difference is there, and it is statistically significant (not random). The tongue is larger in people with sleep apnea and contains more fat in comparatively equally obese people without sleep apnea.

This also tells us that this problem is solvable too. Just lose weight on the tongue. 

Snoring can be cured by exercise.

First, correct the metabolic syndrome as I described in the earlier post. Then apply the following exercises to strengthen the muscles of the tongue and pharynx.

  1. Push your tongue forward, to the fullest. Then bend it to the left and to the right. Try to push it as far as possible. 
  2. With your tongue out, open more of your mouth and slowly switch to swallowing. Slow swallowing strengthens all the muscles of the tongue. It should last as long as possible. It's as if an imaginary bite is slowly running down your throat. 
  3. Repeat this exercise every day before bed time, about 3 minutes.


Now just persevere and the result will definitely come.

Tongue Fat and its Relationship to Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Mouth And Throat Exercises to Help Stop Snoring and Improve OSA

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