Low Grade Metabolic Acidosis May Eat Away Your Bones and Blow Up Your Belly Via Empowering Glucocorticoids!
The way we eat and live is not just obesogenic it is also acidogenic... or is the former just a consequence of the latter? I've written about the nasty effects of low grade metabolic acidosis which include calcium loss and brittle bones, nitrogen / protein loss and decreased protein synthesis, impaired growth hormone and IGF-1 production and more in a 2013 SuppVersity Science Round-Up ( read it ). For you, as a SuppVersity veteran who's read this and related articles , it should thus not be surprising that scientists from the German Aerospace Center in Cologne were now able to establish a new, mechanistic link between the "long-term ingestion of habitually acidifying western diets may constitute an independent risk factor for bone degradation and cardiometabolic diseases" (Buehlmeier. 2015). As Judith Buehlmeier and her colleagues point out, we have long been aware of the ill effects of low-grade metabolic acidosis (LGMA), as induced by high dietary acid lo...