Three "C" that cause swelling

What externally distinguishes the man who slept, from a man after a sleepless night? It is characterized by small, barely noticeable, but the swelling system, which lubricates the facial features. This delay is not a serious threat to your health, but does not add to your freshness and attractiveness. Today we will analyze the three major causes permanent swelling: stress, sweets and salt. In these three very important measure, so the puffiness is caused by excess and lack of salt, the same is true for carbohydrates. I want to emphasize that I do not relate to other causes of swelling: kidney problems, heart failure, anemia, venous insufficiency, low protein in plasma, etc.

Three “C” are strongly connected.Consider these reasons together, as they are usually associated on the behavioral level (in times of stress, you abuse confectionery, where a lot of sugar and salt) and at the cellular level.

Carbohydrates and sodium are both absorbed through the protein-Transporter SGLT-1, has receptors sensitive to both glucose and sodium ion. Transport of both nutrients inside the cell occurs when both receptors are excited simultaneously. Energy, causing the movement of sodium ions and glucose molecules from the outer membrane surface to inside, is the difference of the concentrations of sodium between the inner and outer surface of the cell. That is, you will still be able to metabolize carbohydrates, if you cut sodium, but in the presence of sodium absorption is accelerated.

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Sweet: carbohydrate-insulin swelling. Strictly speaking, they are two different groups of swelling, but details are not yet to climb. The fact is that, the more you have in the nutrition of sweet and/or precipitating the insulin, the higher the risk of swelling. The better your insulin sensitivity the less you have retained fluid. The more insulin resistance you have, the more you will be swollen.

Bosu illusion of no carb diets.

If you practice low/no carb diet, you usually badly after the diet and return to food normal kolichestvah carbohydrates. Usually takes about a week until normal fluid and electrolyte balance, disturbed by removal from the diet of carbohydrates. Many supporters nizkouglevodna often take it for instant fat gain after they "got off" with a "super efficient" methods of weight loss.

Such sharp jumps associated with changes in the amount of insulin. It has a direct action on the kidneys, leading to increased sodium reabsorption in the renal tubules. The result is inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system due to increased volume of circulating plasma. Also high rise of insulin causes the release of another hormone – aldosterone. Aldosterone directly detains sodium and water, leading to fluid retention.

Some people found caused by milk insulin fluid retention. Paradoxical insulin response may explain the frequently observed fluid retention after consumption of milk. High levels of insulin promotes the release of another adrenal hormone, aldosterone. Aldosterone retains sodium and therefore fluid, contributing to the withdrawal of potassium. Aldosterone is one of the most powerful sodium-conserving hormones, however, sodium retention on the background of excess of this hormone is transient. Mediated by aldosterone increase in the number of extracellular fluid lasts 1 to 2 days and leads to an increase in blood pressure.

  What to do? Avoid prolonged low and no carb diets without understanding why you need it. A small cycle and fluctuations in the amount of carbohydrates, on the contrary, can be useful. So, sometimes it happens that after a "sweet" day or refide, weight even out. A long period of strict restriction of carbohydrates for a period of more than 5-7 days makes your connective tissue more susceptible to fluid retention. Good water-salt balance is the key to make you look good. The three most important whale of the equation: sodium, potassium and water. And all three need to be balanced, the imbalance of each element can break. One of the most common causes – excess sodium. For example, too much salt in the diet. I draw your attention that the sodium is not just salt. Sodium is in almost all processed food (sodium sorbate, sodium benzoate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium glutamate, etc.). Excess sodium triggers the following violations:
  • swelling of legs and face;
  • increased blood pressure.
Excess sodium is manifested by thirst, oedema, nervous excitement, neurosis, fatigue, dysfunction of the adrenal glands and kidneys, osteoporosis. And every extra gram of it will "attract" an additional 100 g of water. This can be avoided by reducing salt content in food. Completely to refuse salt, of course, do not need: salt helps the natural process of preservation of body fluids, which are used subsequently. A complete rejection salt rejection of meat products may lead to deficiency of sodium and also fluid retention.

 

A sufficient amount of potassium.

Potassium and sodium are antagonists, they displace each other.

When potassium deficiency is observed fatigue, frequent pressure drops and a long time passing swelling.

Minor potassium deficiency can be replenished by the consumption of foods in which potassium is contained in large amounts: vegetables, fruits and nuts.

The optimal ratio is 2 parts potassium to 1 part sodium. Both of these substances we supply our body with food. However, the traditional diet sodium so much that it's in the tens or even hundreds of times more than potassium.

 

Swelling can be caused by dehydration. When dehydrated, the body retains salt and water balances in reserve — in case of future shortages. Rash fluid intake also easily knocks the water balance and also leads to swelling, this is especially dangerous when the fashion of drinking hard 3 or how many more liters a day, regardless of other factors.

Of course, every day to knock out all this is not necessary. A healthy diet will allow you to automatically maintain a good fluid balance.

 

Stress swelling The principle is quite simple: acute stress, facilitate the excretion of fluids, and any prolonged stress inhibits fluid.

About acute stress remarkably says in the joke: "Yesterday went skydiving, learned how to stand out adrenaline".

So you look puffy after a sleepless night on a diet. Blame cortisol, levels which grow on a low calorie diet and under conditions of excessive physical activity. Excess cortisol leads to a significant deposition of fat in the waist area, chest, upper back and arms, as well as to the appearance of facial swelling.

Feature of cortisol is that it has a circadian rhythm allocation, so of violations also adversely affect the appearance. At higher cortisol in the morning often suffer from headaches and facial swelling no other reason for it.

Cortisol increases the rate of filtration in glomeruli of the kidney, inhibits secretion in the blood of vasopressin, and reduces the sensitivity of renal tubules to the action of vasopressin, thus lowering the reabsorption of water in renal tubule. Under the influence of cortisol increased clearance of inulin and urea. Cortisol contributes to the delay in the body of sodium by stimulating its reabsorption in the tubules. The allocation of potassium ions under the influence of cortisol increases that binds to the active excretion of these ions by the cells of the seminiferous tubules. Cortisol increases the content of extracellular fluid and reduces the amount of intracellular fluid. Therefore, excess cortisol can worsen water and salt balance.

Strict diet or excess physical activity without recovery can lead to fluid retention. So, water retention pretty common phenomenon, often accompanies caloric restriction. In my experience, the more severe the diet, the more carefully you adhere to, the more likely the appearance of edema.

If you swell after a workout, you can help of carbohydrate refid of complex carbohydrates. It will reduce cortisol levels and prevent fluid retention. So explore yourself, normalize cortisol and you will see the effect on the face! published Author: Andrey Blueskin P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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