It’s FACT that as many as 95% of men and 89% of women aged 50-65 have one or more metabolic risk factors! This is according to the new Public Health Report for Region Stockholm (SCAPIS 2013-2018). Metabolic risk factors are being overweight high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol (LDL) and impaired kidney function. This increases the risk of diseases, mainly cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, but also cancer, Alzheimer’s and general brain dysfunction.

However, it is perfectly possible and relatively quick to fix it, and take your own initiative by changing to a healthy lifestyle! It is very important to remove industrial starch syrups (soft drinks, pastries and sweets) as they are clearly linked to an increase in obesity and metabolic syndrome has been scientifically demonstrated. I advocate nutrient dense food cooked from raw ingredients, intermittent fasting and a well prepared VASS – water fasting Sanna special for those who can and want to.

• ADDENDUM 19/4: I have a plan! It will be pretty easy for you to stage for huge improvement in metabolic health, I’m putting together a package and instructing the Fasting Therapists! New blog coming when it is ready to launch!

What is metabolism?

Our metabolism determines both how quickly we can metabolize the nutrients that enter our system and how well our immune system works. We can control and influence this through what we eat and how we move. When the nutrient components of food are burned in cells using oxygen (called oxidation), energy, water, carbon dioxide and waste products are produced. The term metabolism is used to describe how well nutrients are burned and used at the cellular level. Learn how metabolism works and how to control it!

Many have multiple metabolic risk factors at the same time

From the report: Metabolic risk factors are very common among residents of Stockholm County. As many as 92 percent of individuals aged 50-65 years have at least one metabolic risk factor. The metabolic risk factors are partly caused by unhealthy lifestyles and they often also cause each other. This means that it is common for a person to have several metabolic risk factors.

In the 50-65 age group, 76% of those who have a metabolic risk factor have at least one additional risk factor, and as many as 7% of women and 13% of men have at least four metabolic risk factors. The metabolic risk factors are more common in men than in women (SCAPIS). Five different metabolic risk factors together cause almost one fifth of the total disease burden in Stockholm County.

My comment: What the study shows is madness and unfortunately a result of people being taught since the 1970s that “it doesn’t matter what you eat and how you live (your lifestyle), because we’ll fix the problems later”. That was a lie, one of many.

Metabolic risk factors

Are you aware of your metabolic risk factors? I’m taking text from Functional Medicine Peter Martin’s post on LinkedIn: “It’s time for middle-aged people to take charge of their health. This is not rocket science. How many of the following 11 metabolic risk factors have you checked in the past year?

• 1. BMI (body mass index)
• 2. Waist-to-length ratio
• 3. blood pressure
• 4. Fasting blood sugar
• 5. HbA1c – long-term blood sugar
• 6. total cholesterol
• 7. LDL cholesterol
• 8. HDL cholesterol
• 9. Triglycerides
• 10. c-reactive protein (hs-CRP)
• 11. Homocysteine
• 12. starch syrup (should be zero, my addition)

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Who is healthy today…? I belong to a unique 10% of women in Sweden who are metabolically healthy.

How do you know if you have metabolic syndrome?

This is a high risk given the report’s findings. Werlabs (which carries out a range of blood tests) states on its website that “Metabolic syndrome is usually not something you notice yourself, but is usually discovered when you come into contact with the healthcare system for some other reason. High blood pressure is rarely a symptom, provided that the blood pressure is not very high. The same applies to high blood sugar and high blood lipids. It is often not until you have a stroke or heart attack that it is established that you have metabolic syndrome.“

Warning signs: Being overweight and especially swollen (inflammation) around the stomach and abdomen is a warning sign. Metabolic syndrome is a result of an unhealthy lifestyle with high intake of fast carbohydrates, industrialized oils and fats (trans fats), soft drinks, fried foods. Consumption of fast food, junk food, whole and semi-finished products is common. Time to cut out the junk and start cooking your own, real food again… You will save a lot of time, as you will live longer – and most importantly healthier!

Fructose (in starch syrups) causes obesity by tricking your metabolism and interfering with normal appetite control, i.e. increasing cravings.

Starch syrups increase risk

Interestingly, the county council skips mentioning one of the main causes of increased risk factors for metabolic syndrome: eating starch syrup.

Did you know that starch syrup (industrially modified starch or fructose) can cause fatty liver and the same damage as an alcoholic – even if you don’t drink any alcohol? It causes the liver cells to inflate like balloons and burst – and then not repair themselves as the liver normally does (self-heals).

In addition, fructose causes obesity by tricking your metabolism and disrupting normal appetite control. You don’t get satiety, you just want more and more… High consumption of fructose leads to weight gain, potbelly, increased LDL (inflammatory cholesterol), decreased HDL (protective cholesterol), raised blood fats, raised blood sugar and high blood pressure – all symptoms of classic metabolic syndrome.

Modified starch is, unfortunately, the new sugar death, as it is found everywhere: in soft drinks, candy, baked goods, industrial processed foods, sauces, dressings, ready meals and so on. Read the packaging where it is called by different names such as starch syrup, maltodextrin, modified starch, maltitol.

Modified starch syrups should be banned because such a clear link has been scientifically demonstrated to increases in obesity and metabolic syndrome.

High fructose syrup hidden in food

On average, we eat just under 40 kg of sugar per person per year – but modified high fructose corn syrup accounts for at least as much (diffuse reporting and statistics on starch syrup). In the US, high fructose corn syrup accounts for 40% of sweetening, because it is a cheap industrial bulk product. Which is addictive.

So it is not nice to give your children or grandchildren soda and candy, because soda makes pork, both of which are slow killers and the children are at risk of health problems when they are around 30 years old. In the USA there is now the first generation where many are infertile and unfortunately will not outlive their parents either.

Facts: High-fructose corn syrup is made up of about 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose, and pure fructose tricks your metabolism and disrupts normal appetite control, increasing cravings and taking away satiety. High consumption of fructose leads to weight gain and potbelly (beer belly), increased LDL (inflammatory cholesterol), decreased HDL (protective cholesterol), raised blood lipids, raised blood sugar and high blood pressure – all symptoms of classic  metabolic syndrome. Which unfortunately paves the way for the new chronic diseases of industrial society.

• Read more and references in the blog The New Sugar Death and in New Self-Healing Man

The solution

As soon as you change what you put in your mouth – or don’t put anything at all – everything changes quickly. The body works like a computer, because input determines output. What you eat now produces hormones that are with your body for two months. So once you’ve made up your mind, it’s pretty quick! Because you’re the one who opens your mouth and puts the food in…

The solution is simple, says Dr. Sanna: do intermittent fasting and if you can VASS – water fasting Sanna special – because overeating and eating often and wrong kills people. 

For example, if you water fast every other day, research shows that you can eat a little bit of whatever you want every other day, including fried “donut” (donut). Nothing I recommend, but I offer via Fasteterapeuterna a well-thought-out program in 7 steps that prepares the body to be able to make a calm and healthy VASS fast.

WATERFAST is superior because it is easier to control what you eat when you don’t eat, and it kicks the big cleaner autophagy etc. Read more here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrF3V8HMWg6/

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Uplifting reading

– Lifestyle determines health

– Fasting boosts metabolism

– Fasting activates healthy genes

– 12 reasons to fast

– Bone broth is a filling and nutritious food

– Are you metabolically healthy ?

– Sugar makes you hungry and fat fills you up

– Industry produces addictive ‘food’ – Did you know that the food industry has spent billions to manipulate us consumers to the maximum? 

– Sannas Fastebok where the VASS fast is described and @sannasfastebok on Instagram

– Dr. Sanna Ehdin Linktree – with references to podcasts, articles, books and blogs