The Effects of Glucose on Inflammation

estrogen and progesterone fluctuations in midlife cause enormous changes to energy metabolism in the brain. This panics the tissues who then radio out a message of SOS for another fuel. And this starts what we think is using lipids or fats as fuel. While this isn't forever, it gives the brain an alternative fuel source when these fluctuations cause the brain to falter. Now using lipids as a fuel, we think triggers inflammation. In fact, all of the major chronic diseases that we hear about cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc,. all have Alzheimer's, dementia, all have inflammation at their core.

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