In Al -Jazeera, we offer health news tour and medical research on Friday, February 7, 2025:
Drinking ketones improves heart health in type 2 diabetes
We start our tour of the United Kingdom, where a unique study was conducted in which type 2 diabetes has a drink that contains ketogenic jackets, a supplement that aims to introduce the body in the case of ketze to monitor the effect of the heart.
The study revealed that ketones syrup improves heart health in patients, and ketze is the metabolic condition in which the body is forced to burn fat instead of carbohydrates.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, and its results were published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, and the Yurik Alrt website was written about.
Our bodies contain two different energy reservoirs, glucose (blood sugar) and free fatty acids, and healthy people use glucose because it is more efficient in terms of energy saving, but people with diabetes tend to use free fatty acids, because their bodies are unable to analyze glucose into energy due to resistance Insulin.
“For diabetics, glucose can remain in the bloodstream and become like rust, which leads to the gradual destruction of blood vessels, and for type 2 diabetics, their hearts use fatty acids and work gradually With greater effort, which means that they are at risk of death from various cardiovascular disease. “
The perfect time for lunch
Experts indicated that the best time to have lunch is the time that comes 4 to 5 hours after eating breakfast, and if you eat your breakfast at eight in the morning, you will start hunger after 12 pm, and therefore this time will be perfect for eating the main meal for this day.
These opinions show that the system followed by grandparents is the best, and that people should stop blaming them on the date of their very early lunch.
The Daily Mail exposed the opinions of experts about the perfect lunch time for those who want to maintain a healthy weight.
“If someone wakes up at seven in the morning and has a breakfast rich in nutrients at eight in the morning, it is likely to start hunger after about 4 to 5 hours, that is, between 12 and one in the afternoon,” says Lina Bakovic, a dietitian in the American city of Florida.
She explained that eating late lunch may make it difficult for the body to convert food into energy.
In Spain, scientists believe that people who have lunch late are burning fewer calories during comfort than those who eat at one o’clock in the afternoon.
A study published in the “Newton’s” magazine showed that people who have lunch at 4:30 pm also have an unstable blood sugar throughout the day, and they take longer to convert carbohydrates into energy.
In another context, I warned to us that eating at different times every day may also affect health, because it may disrupt the daily rhythms that govern our bodies from day to night and vice versa, and advised to eat meals every day almost at the same time.
Dr. Valter Longo, a researcher in aging and biological sciences at the University of Southern California in the United States, drew attention to another issue, which is that you must also eat early to leave 12 hours between dinner and the next day breakfast.
He pointed out that scientists say that this stimulates the process of self -accumulation, a process in which the old or damaged parts of the cell are recycled, which helps to slow aging.
Therefore, when you find your grandfather and grandmother sitting for lunch at one in the afternoon, sit and eat your lunch with them, all other times are bad.
A small tool implanted in the spine can help patients with muscle atrophy
We go to the United States, where researchers have found evidence that stimulating spinal cord may benefit individuals with neurological degenerative diseases such as spinal muscles, and the study included planting a device that sends electrical pulses to the spinal cord.
The study was led by Dr. Marco Kapogrosso of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, and its results were published in the magazine “Nature Midsen”, and the British newspaper Independent was written about it.
The results showed a temporary improvement, but noticeable in the function of the muscles of 3 participants suffering from spinal muscle atrophy, a genetic disease that gradually weakens the muscles.
The study participants – who were already suffering from a gradual muscle weakness – showed an unexpected improvement during a month -long experiment, as they motivated the implanted spinal cord device, and as a result they touched an increase in strength and improved the ability to stand and walk.