If the food is not built properly, for example, with large breaks (early breakfast - breakfast, and in the evening - lunch combined with dinner), then at some point there will be a situation where there is insulin in the blood, and there is no glucose. Low sugar levels are fraught with poor health, nausea, palpitations, can even lead to fainting. To save the body uses two methods: one provides the necessary level of glucose due to the sugar accumulated in the liver, and the second sends an excess of insulin into adipose tissue. So the more breaks between meals, the higher the level of insulin and the more fat that maintains the normal level of glucose. The normal level of insulin in the blood should be for every healthy person, but, to our regret, it does not all happen.
With excessive production of insulin, you can learn from the analysis of blood: the blood is taken on an empty stomach and an hour and a half after eating. The norm of insulin is from 2 to 27. But keep in mind: after a snack, the level of the hormone rises threefold. So on an empty stomach the ideal value will be from 8 to 12. (In different laboratories, different calculation systems, so the rates may vary.)
How to normalize?
To maintain insulin in the norm, it is worth remembering: the body has a period of insulin production - three hours. Therefore, try to eat so that every three hours in the mouth went carbohydrate. In the morning, you need to drink a glass of juice or a cup of coffee with a piece of sugar, eat a bowl of cereal or a slice of cereal bread. After three hours - the second breakfast with another carbohydrate. It's the same with dinner.
Stuck in traffic?
In this case in the purse should be a candy, a bag of juice. In the evening, too, a small dose of carbohydrates is needed. Remember that stress, physical activity significantly lower the blood glucose level - be sure to consider this when making the menu. During the menopause, some women begin to grow fat layer on the waist and hips, the figure becomes similar to the pear. Getting rid of fat is hard. If the level of insulin is normal, the cause of excess weight is the lack of estrogens. The female hormone is responsible not only for the regulation of the menstrual cycle, but also for the elasticity of the vessels, the level of cholesterol, and the assimilation of calcium. Therefore, with a deficiency of estrogens, the body begins to extract them ... from fat. Fatty tissue produces a substance very similar to estrogen. So it turns out that the body makes more reserves, so that the plump tummy with hips restore the hormonal balance. By the way, the hormone replacement function of lipids can also be included in girls. The fact that estrogen is produced little, testify to the fullness, irregularity of the menstrual cycle, infertility. To reveal that lipids are engaged in the production of estrogen, the indicators of the main female hormones will help: luteinizing, follicle-stimulating and prolactin.
How to normalize?
This is the case when the treatment is prescribed by a gynecologist and an endocrinologist. Sometimes a diet is enough, but sometimes hormone therapy is required. By the way, if during the menopause to maintain estrogens in the norm, you can avoid osteoporosis: because without a female hormone, calcium is not digested and the body starts to extract it from the bones.
For what answers?
Blame the thyroid gland in the appearance of 10-15 kg? Here, hormones have nothing to do with the problem of malnutrition. But if you see a few extra pounds that you can not get rid of, take a look at the thyroid gland - the catalyst for metabolic processes in the body. Measure the level of thyroid stimulating hormone. If it is high, then thyroxin and triiod - thyronin - other thyroid hormones - in the blood is small, metabolism is slowed down, cells "starve", and in the intercellular tissue space accumulate the products of metabolism: water, lipids, salts. So there is a small gain. The diet will not eliminate this problem, rather, on the contrary, it will aggravate the "starvation" of the cell. The level of thyroid hormones is analyzed.
How to normalize?
Excess weight appeared due to a malfunction in the thyroid gland? Increase the amount of iodine in the diet (enough 150-200 micrograms of iodine daily). In some cases, however, without additional reception of thyroid hormones can not do, but this must be solved together with the doctor.