Metabolic Syndrome is one of the greatest health problems facing people today, including so many Texarkana residents.

What Is Metabolic Syndrome?

The syndrome very significantly increases a your risk for diabetes, heart attack, and stroke.

Abdominal fat storage is driven to a large degree by chronically elevated insulin.

Over time, high insulin levels driven primarily by high dietary carbohydrate intake cause insulin resistance which leads to Type 2 Diabetes.

The most common sources of dietary carbohydrates in our diets include sugar (added to so many different processed foods, drinks, and sauces) and grain products like bread, pasta, wheat, rice, corn, oats, etc.

Factors that contribute to insulin resistance include a sedentary lifestyle (no or minimal exercise), your age, onset of puberty, genetics (epigenetics determine whether these potential genes are turned on or not),  mother having gestational diabetes, and diet.

Other factors exist, but the big idea is that the entire process is effected by our lifestyle choices… both positively and negatively.

A big contributing part of the problem is that high insulin and blood sugar levels are inflammatory in the body.

It leads to a process known as glycation where lipo-proteins are essentially sugar coated. This process is highly inflammatory.

One of the measures of glycation is a blood test many diabetics are familiar with… HbA1C.

HbA1C is a measure of glycated (sugar coated) hemoglobin in your blood.

It’s used as a marker of average blood sugar over the last 3 months. In general higher is worse – especially as you get progressively higher over 5.

Like other chronic disease processes, early intervention is better than late intervention.

Metabolic Syndrome doesn’t just lead to heart attacks and strokes.

It also damages every other body part AND results in poor soft tissue healing.

This is why many diabetics have very slow and poor wound healing.

It’s important to the best chiropractors in Texarkana because we see so many people that have been injured from a car crash, a sports injury, work injury, or some other mechanism.

It’s also important to chiropractors because we attempt to improve your body’s function, general health and wellness.

Later in the disease process many different parts of the body are damaged ranging from the brain, nerves (peripheral neuropathy for example), the cardiovascular system, and virtually every other part of your body.

We can not change what has happened in our past.

We can change what we do today and into the future.