Sugar and Aging

Sugar may actually make you age faster. While it sounds too horrible to be true, it is true. Sugar actually stimulates advanced glycation end products, or AGEs, which are a group of compounds that form when sugar reacts to amino acids. This can occur in the food that you eat and inside of your body.

This acronym, AGE, is appropriate to aging, because what happens is that oxidation occurs in your body and outside. This leads to aging, or the process of disease. Eventually, with too much sugar consumption, advanced glycation occurs. This causes diseases in your body to begin occurring. Some examples may include cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, inflammatory processes and other diseases that are the result of damage occurring in your body and your vital organs.

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Limiting Sugar for Longevity

Too much sugar can increase levels of hormones in your body including insulin and leptin. It also decreases your body’s sensitivity to these hormones. This makes you more susceptible to premature aging, and chronic diseases that are degenerative. A good example is heart disease. 

Your blood sugar normally rises after a meal that you eat. But, when you eat a meal with a lot of sugar, your blood sugar level rises excessively, and stays elevated. This causes the body’s tissues to break down. However, when you eat better quality foods, including low-glycemic grains and vegetables, your body actually uses that food as fuel, so that your blood sugar rises more slowly, and stays steady.

This provides your body with fuel, and nourishes your organs, including your skin. 

Glycation happens when too much sugar in the body bonds with protein, forming advanced glycation end products. This causes the body to become inflamed, which makes the immune system kick into high gear. Then certain immune system defense cells turn on, called RAGEs, to get rid of the damage in the body. However this process can cause damage to healthy areas of the body, leaving behind scar tissue and plaque.

The only cure is eating well, and limiting sugar intake.