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How Sugar Ages You Sugar can add years – quickly We are regularly asked what other practical anti-aging things a person can do along with taking an HGH supplement. Here is one you’ll definitely want to consider. It is well known that elevated blood sugar levels [1] are bad for you. Diabetics don’t live as long as other people and that very few centenarians are diabetics - but I’ll bet you don’t know why. It’s because of the adverse effect that blood sugar elevations have on our body’s organs. The process where sugar creates a process called glycosylation. [2] Once you know how glycosylation can age you, you may never enjoy another desert again.
Sugar = Premature Aging
The process has been well researched, but it’s not widely known among the general public, so let me explain it to you. Sugar is sticky, as you discover every time you spill some and have to wipe it up. When there’s additional sugar mvong through your bloodstream, the sticky glucose molecules bind to proteins. That binding process is known as glycosylation or, sometimes referred to as glycation. When glycosylation happens in locations where it does not belong, it sets in motion a chemical reaction that eventually ends with the proteins combining together, and forming a new chemical structure. Anthony Cerami, the biochemist who discovered the glycosylation process in living tissue, gave these new structures an appropriate name: Advanced Glycosylation End-products, or AGEs. [3]
Why AGEs are so dangerous Here’s an analogy that may make it clearer: What’s happening to your tissues from exposure to excess glucose is exactly what happens to meat when you brown it. You’re slowly cooking yourself from the inside. Glycosylation alters the very structure of proteins and keeps them from doing what they’re supposed to do. Collagen is one of the first proteins to be affected. Collagen is the connective tissue that literally holds your skeleton together, attaching muscles to bones and serving as the structural foundation for blood vessels, skin, [4] lungs, and cartilage. When collagen is glycosylated and AGEs form, it destroys collagen’s ability to remain flexible. This means that blood vessels, lungs, and joints all get stiffer; skin sags; proteins in the lens of your eye cloud over, creating cataracts.
Other proteins impacted by AGEs