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Want to Live Longer? Lose the Waist-Weight Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan Vaughan Integrative Medicine Greensboro, NC Do you have increased waist -weight? Are you obese or overweight? Check your BMI Waist to hip ratio Men 1.0 Women .8 Waist size: Men 40 inches Women 35 inches What are the illnesses clearly associated with increased waist-weight that shorten our lives? Cardiovascular diseases Hypertension Hyperlipidemia Thrombosis Atherosclerosis Diabetes mellitus, “Adult Onset” Alzheimer’s Disease Some cancers Metabolic Syndrome, “pre-diabetes” Stroke How do we age? How does an expanding waistline accelerate aging? Biological Clocks Wear and tear Increased damage due to free radicals Increased inflammation Increased glycation Increased accumulation of toxins Greater need for nutrients Wear and tear: Free radicals and oxidative stress Free radicals are like sparks on an electric line or smoke from burning fuel. You can’t generate heat and energy without producing them. When these hit your proteins or DNA or cell walls, they damage those structures. This is called oxidative stress. These structures have to be repaired. We make the most free radicals every time we eat. They are produced WHEN we metabolize our food, the more we eat at one time the more free radicals we make. Where we produce the most free radicals is WHERE we metabolize our foods, in our mitochondria. These are our power plants, damage them and we literally run out of energy and begin to die, cell by cell. Wear and tear: Inflammation Inflammation =pain Total response of our immune system to invaders: germs, viruses, fungi, parasites, and sensitizing agents. Its our police detectives scouting out and destroying cancer before we know it’s there. Localized hormones (eicosanoids and cytokines) work with lymphocytes and other immune cells to protect us. Necessary and useful. We’d be dead without it. Some of these hormones turn ON inflammation and some turn OFF inflammation when the battle