I said a few days ago that I would deal with glycation, and how I changed my lifestyle when I realized how badly that could affect you.

Glycation

Glycation is a process in the body when sugars combine problematically with protein or fats in our cells to produce non-functional, or glycated, tissue. Once formed, this tissue is difficult to break down.

This tissue, furthermore, produces substances – appropriately called AGEs or Aged Glycation Endproducts – which make the glycation worse and worse. So, the more glycated tissue you have, the more is piled on.

The best example of glycated tissue – which we all know about – is: WRINKLED SKIN. It wrinkles because the process of glycation is just destroying the functionality of the skin.

Glycation Affects Important Organs

However, glycation does not only affect the skin. The wrinkling is actually taking place throughout the body.

The skin can put up with a bit of wrinkling; but if organs which need to be flexible – primarily the heart, kidneys, eyes, brain – get too wrinkly, we have problems. Glycation also affects the inside of blood vessels helping cause atherosclerosis.

Most heart attacks, I’ve heard it said,  are because of glycated tissue in the left ventricle – the part of the heart which needs to be most flexible.

Glycation and Diabetes

Diabetes and Glycation

The reason diabetics get problems with these very organs is that their high blood sugar level is causing glycation – the combination of sugar and protein to form non-functional (glycated) tissue – to happen in the body much more.

Next, I will cover what causes glycation; and what I did to reduce it to a minimum for me.

Article on Glycation

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