What is Syndrome W?
Millions of women, especially around the age of forty, are noticing an accumulation of fat around their middle, or midriff weight gain, despite beefing up exercise routines and dieting endlessly. Syndrome W is a metabolic problem with insulin that can cause this type of weight gain. Insulin is a powerful hormone. Normally it derives things like amino acids from protein and delivers it to muscle cells, and fatty acids to fat cells. It then stores any excess glucose, or blood sugar, in the liver and fat cells. When the body is in need of energy, insulin moves glucose to the appropriate areas of the body. Syndrome W is an insulin resistance, or hyperinsulinemia, meaning the cells reject that insulin. The body responds to the demand for more energy by releasing more insulin to compensate. This insulin then accumulates in the bloodstream. This persistent buildup of insulin could lead to increased health risks. For a while, insulin levels may be elevated, but the blood glucose levels can rem
Syndrome W is a cluster of clinical symptoms that include weight gain, waist gain, and “white coat hyper-tension” (blood pressure increases in a doctor’s office) in women with nor-mal blood sugar and elevated insulin levels “hyperinsulinemia.” It is the earliest indicator of diabetes down the road at a time when it’s easiest to fix.
