Metabolic Syndrome is a collection of health risk factors that can increase your chance of developing diabetes, stroke and/or heart disease. The condition is also known by other names including Syndrome X, Insulin Resistance Syndrome, and Dysmetabolic Syndrome. The statistics on this disease are alarming! According to a national health survey, more than one in five Americans has metabolic syndrome!
The chance of being affected by metabolic syndrome increases with age, affecting more than 40 percent of people in their 60s and 70s. What is more alarming is that syndrome X begins with our eating habits when we are young.

Do I Have Metabolic Syndrome?

An individual is diagnosed with Syndrome X if they display at least three of the factors below:

1. Abdominal Obesity: A waistline of more than 40 inches for men, more than 35 inches for women.
2. Elevated Blood Pressure: 130/85 or higher
3. Atherogenic dyslipedemia (characterized by high triglycerides (above 150 mg/dl) high LDLs, and low HDLs(less than 40 mg/dl men, less than 50 mg mg/dl women).
4. Fasting blood sugar level greater than 100mg/dl

A patient may also exhibit:

Prothrombotic state (high fibrinogen or plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in the blood).
Proinflammatory state (e.g. elevated C-reactive protein in the blood).


People with metabolic syndrome are at an increased risk for coronary heart disease and other diseases related to plaque buildups in the arterial walls, and type two diabetes.
The seriousness of the disease cannot be over stated. It is now estimated that over 50 million Americans suffer from this disease.

What causes Metabolic Syndrome?

The exact cause of Syndrome X is not known. It is believed to be a combination of genetic predispositions but more importantly lifestyle choices. Lifestyle choices that include the foods that you consume and the amounts of physical activity that you perform... At AMS we believe that one of the major causes of Syndrome X is the long-term consumption of highly refined carbohydrates. Long term consumption of refined carbohydrates cause pain syndromes and what is referred to as Insulin Resistance.
What is Insulin Resistance?
As the body consumes high amounts of carbohydrates, they are converted to simple sugars in the bloodstream. The pancreas releases a hormone to deal with these sugars, Insulin. These sugars are normally shuttled across cell membranes and utilized for energy. The problem occurs when your body is constantly inundated with large amounts of carbohydrates. The body is now constantly secreting the hormone Insulin and the insulin receptors become immune or resistant to the Insulin, thus causing a reduction in the amount of sugars shuttled across the cell membranes. The results are feelings of decreased energy and eventually Type II Diabetes.

Can Metabolic Syndrome be reversed?

In most cases yes. You have to understand that dietary habits and lack of physical activity were the pre-disposing factors so it stands to reason that if we can change these factors we can go a long way towards a cure. At AMS we have developed a program that is a direct result of extensive research on the subject combined with cutting edge exercise physiology and biotechnology.

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