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Weight loss is a major concern for a lot of people in the modern world and most people try multiple diets throughout their lives. If you’ve ever been on a diet, you’ve probably experienced a period in which you lost weight, and then suffered through a weight gain immediately afterwards. This is extremely frustrating, but it might also have an important effect on your personal health and wellbeing that you should know about.
Your Molecular Make up
As you go through your life, the molecular make up of your body and its systems changes radically. Weight gains and losses in particular causes dramatic changes to your molecules which can be connected to a number of health outcomes. Your molecular make up can be determined by a number of techniques including the following:
Changing Molecules and Health Outcomes
These numbers and techniques may seem random, but what they reveal is risk factors for your personal health and wellbeing. For example, certain changes in the bacterial levels in your body can cause inflammation, which can be linked to heart disease as well as certain types of cancer. And there are also certain molecular pathways that, when activated, put you at greater risk of having a heart attack. These types of changes may seem small but they have a vital effect on your health and should becoming aware of them should be a part of your regular health assessment routine.
Small Weight Changes and your Molecules
A recent study showed that even a small amount of weight loss or gain can have a big impact on your molecular make up. The participants in the study gained a small amount of weight for a brief time before losing it, and their molecular make up changed radically because of these changes. As the participants gained weight they showed the following changes:
Just a small amount of weight caused changes to all the systems of their body including their cardiovascular system, immune system and gene expression. These changes would present serious problems for their personal health, but they were short lived. At the end of the study, when the participants went back to their normal weight, the changes were corrected. In fact, their molecular make up went back to what it was before the weight gain. This suggests that, even if you’re at risk because of excess weight, you can completely erase these health threats by losing just a small amount of weight.
Insulin Resistance and your Molecules
Diabetes II is becoming more common in the modern world because of excess weight and lifestyle choices. But this study of molecular changes suggests new ways to assess and perhaps even control this health risk. An examination of the molecular make up of insulin resistant and non-insulin resistant participants found that the insulin resistant participants showed inflammation markers that the other group did not have. This suggests a way to determine people who are at risk of developing Type II diabetes before its onset because inflammation is strongly linked to this disease.
Personal Health Implications
This study indicates important strategies to help you fight health risks, such as a small amount of weight loss to improve the health and functioning of a range of different systems. It also suggests changes to the way you measure your health risks and new measurements that should be a part of your personal health assessment routine. So the next time you go to the doctor, make sure that monitoring and analyzing these small molecular changes is a part of your visit. Because as this study shows, they can and should be used to predict and avoid future problems and illnesses.
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Tags: Personal Health, health tracking, health assessment, health risk, weight loss
