Thyroid cancer is one of the few cancer types that are on the rise.  Also swelling are the waistlines of Americans.  A new study connects the emerging science to show that leptin problems are a likely cause of thyroid cancer and many other cancers.

Leptin is made in your white adipose tissue following the ingestion of food, released into your blood, travels to your brain, and gives you a full signal so you know when to stop eating.  Leptin actually does many other things in your body, including regulating your energy level and all other hormones including thyroid hormone.  Proper leptin function is vital to your health, vitality, and general survival.

One type of leptin problem is when you start gaining weight and your hormonal communication starts becoming inefficient.  Your fat makes too much leptin and it doesn’t get into your brain very well – a problem known as leptin resistance.  This is a main factor in over-eating and trouble losing weight.  However, that is only part of the problem.  Are bodies are genetically designed to survive food scarcity, not food excess.  Our bodies are expert at conserving during times of famine, a low-lepin situation.  We simply do not have genetic expertise to deal with excessive food consumption.

When leptin levels stay to high too long, which is typically when food is eaten in too great an amount and eaten too often, then cells everywhere are exposed to excessive leptin.  Leptin is the big-boss hormone, when it barks out an order cells jump into line.  As you might expect, when it barks out faulty orders cells still respond.  These are powerful gene-level orders being given directly to cells. 

When a person is gaining weight it is also typical that the thyroid gland is in a high state of stress, prone to inflammation and potential cell mutation that could cause cancer.  The natural antioxidant defense system is compromised.  The new research shows that leptin receptors within the thyroid are forced to receive excessive orders, resulting in the growth of mutagenic cells, thereby causing thyroid cancer.  The cancer hijacks leptin signaling and uses it to foster its own growth, including the development of a blood supply to feed nutrition to the cancer. 

Such leptin receptors are present on many types of tumors, especially those related to hormones such as female cancers and prostate cancer.

The study illustrates the importance of you taking charge of leptin and getting it to work right in your body.  The foundation for this is following the Five Rules of the Leptin Diet, along with exercise and dietary supplements as needed or helpful.  And remember, once you get in a good weight loss trend, even though you still have pounds to lose, your blood levels of leptin will come down and so will the risks.  As long as you maintain your trend in the right direction your risks stay low.  Once you reach your goal weight and maintain your healthy habits you will have fully taken charge of this issue and thereby prevented potentially serious health problems.

Posted by Byron J Richards at 05:32 PM.

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