Carbs are the Cause of Most Diseases

Diet and Nutrition
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It Turns Out that Many Degenerative Diseases Are Caused by Carbohydrates: Are You Surprised?

Since 1987 and the release of the Glycation Theory of Aging, there are now many published papers that describe the damaging effects of glucose-derived glycation end products:

* diabetes
* obesity
* heart disease
* even osteoporosis
* neurological diseases including bi-polar disorder, alzheimerâ??s disease, and parkinsons and many others
* aging skin and all body proteins

Glycated Proteins: 5,000 Plus Medical Research Papers Published Since 1984

I Rarely Find Anyone, Lay Public, Medical Doctor, or Scientist Who Has Ever Heard About Glycated Proteins

Why? Because everyone is still stuck on fat and cholesterol.

My mission: to teach you about glycated proteins that arise when a glucose molecule attaches itself to your bodyâ??s structural proteins including your DNA and RNA.

Forget cholesterol, thatâ??s old news.

Since the collective wisdom and thinking process ended when cholesterol got blamed for heart disease and other diseases, looking at other possibilities stopped.

Even though all these papers have been published, our policy wonks fail to look at the data.

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“I Rarely Find Anyone, Lay Public, Medical Doctor, or Scientist Who Has Ever Heard About Glycated Proteins”

Are you… fucking… kidding me?! No medical doctors or other healthcare practitioners ever check glycated hemoglobin (A1C)!!!

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People here aren’t dietary fat-phobic. Hell I’d say a majority of my diet comes from fat. If anything you’ll have more people here agreeing with you about the evils of carbs (which many people take way too far).

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[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
“I Rarely Find Anyone, Lay Public, Medical Doctor, or Scientist Who Has Ever Heard About Glycated Proteins”

Are you… fucking… kidding me?! No medical doctors or other healthcare practitioners ever check glycated hemoglobin (A1C)!!!

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But did you catch the part where he said, “Even though all these papers have been published, our policy wonks fail to look at the data”

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That’s a good response and it’s true that glycated hemoglobin is checked in diabetics to seek infomation about glucose control but it goes no further than that in terms of what the glycation process does to our body.

The main cause of glycation is the glucose from the carbohydrates we eat so this means that there is a big disconnect between the process of glycation and what can be done about it.

Most diabetics are managed by glucose measurements and a scant amount of medical people have any idea about how dangerous glycation is and that one way to avoid it is to restrict carbohydrates.

The problem with that is that the vast majority of health professionals and government agencies support a low fat diet.

Further, only a diabetic hears about glycated hemoglobin so that still means that more than 280 millions Americans know nothing about glycation and their health care providers are not talking about it.

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Good write up by Mike Roussell:

[quote]One of the hottest nutritional supplements to hit the market recently has been beta-alanine. Basically, beta-alanine is a precursor to the compound carnosine; which, works by “quenching” the acidic environment created by working muscles. If the cellular environment within the muscle becomes too acidic, then the muscle stops working- the theory is that carnosine attenuates the onset of an acidic environment allowing you to do more work (lift more weights, run faster, etc). As you can imagine this has gotten a lot of people in the fitness and performance industry excited, because the more work you can do and weights you can lift, the bigger, faster, and stronger you can become.

You may be wondering, “Why supplement with beta-alanine? Why not supplement with carnosine?” Carnosine is made up of beta-alanine and histidine (an amino acid). In the gut carnosine is split into beta-alanine and histidine and then re-assembled back to carnosine in muscle or other cells in the body. Since histidine is already very abundant in the body and food supply the limiting factor with carnosine synthesis is beta-alanine. Supplementing beta-alanine has been show in studies to increase intramuscular carnosine concentrations. That is why people supplement with beta-alanine and not carnosine.

As you can probably tell from a performance perspective, carnosine and beta-alanine have the potential to make a huge impact; however, what may be even more interesting is the role that carnosine may play in slowing the aging process
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One cellular process that is thought to play an integral role in the aging process is a non-enzymatic reaction known as glycation. Glycation, is a reaction that occurs between sugars and proteins in which sugar molecules bind to proteins altering their structure and function. These modified proteins are known as advanced glycation end products. (AGEs). In addition to aiding in the aging process, AGEs have also been implicated in the progression of heart disease, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s).

So how do carnosine and beta-alanine come into play? Carnosine prevents the negative effects of AGEs by two different mechanisms. One of the detrimental effects of AGEs is that they can cause oxidative damage. Carnosine is a potent anti-oxidant and can help prevent the oxidative damage caused by AGEs. Carnosine has also been shown to act as a “suicide peptide” preventing bodily proteins from being glycated.

As you can see there is a lot of very interesting (and valuable) research regarding beta-alanine and carnosine going on around the world. It is too early to start making claims about carnosine’s ability to “prevent Alzheimer’s disease”, but the research to date shows very promising health and performance effects for beta-alanine supplementation.

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Further reading:
http://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/2005/18/pe12

lef.org/magazine/mag2003/jan2003_abs_02.html#carnosine