Various nutrients can help your metabolism as well as your bones, often working in different, yet synergistic ways, to bolster your health.  Resveratrol, quercetin, and vitamin D are each excellent nutrients for metabolism and bones – and new science is showing that they work with each other for even better results.

Your bones are a metabolic powerhouse.  Stem cells within your bones can either become fat cells or osteoblasts (bone building carpenter cells).  Once your metabolism starts going down the wrong path then fat cell formation starts to dominate because your body needs some place to store extra calories, a process that unfortunately also occurs in your bones as a defense mechanism so that your bones are not poisoned by excess fuel.  The unfortunate consequence is that bone-building osteoblasts are reduced in number, contributing to bone loss.

If you keep eating too much your body will keep doing this to “protect” itself.  Even though this strategy will result in fatty bones, it is apparently better than being flat out poisoned by excess food.  On the other hand, if you cut back on calories your body may be able to clear out this problem, which is more likely to be the case when you are younger.  As you get older, your body’s ability to bounce back from stress is reduced.  This means your bones and metabolism may remain in poor condition even though you are trying to be better.

Resveratrol directly activates gene signals that boost the production of osteoblasts while reducing the production of fat cells, thus helping a person solve this problem.  Results are enhanced by quercetin and vitamin D, meaning that a nutrient team is a good way to approach this problem and more necessary as you get older.  There are actually many nutrients that can be of synergistic value for metabolism and bones. 

It is one of the amazing virtues of nutrition that most nutrients have multiple benefits and understand how to work with other team members on your nutrient team.  The ability of your body to put good nutrition to beneficial work on your behalf is a gift of tens of thousands of years of human evolutionary experience wherein health often depended on nutrient availability.

Posted by Byron J Richards at 01:57 PM.

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