Obesity is the accumulation of excess fat in the body.

This pathology occurs when the body weight increases by 20% or more of normal. In this case, the patient suffers not only psychologically, but also from pathologies of the internal organs. Obesity is now an epidemic around the world, as it affects people of all ages. Treatment for this condition includes physical activity, diet, medication, and psycho-emotional correction.

The main functions of adipose tissue are:
Energy reserve.
Participates in water metabolism and passive detoxification of toxins.
Mechanical protection.
Vitamins A, D, E, and K are soluble and accumulate in adipose tissue.
Endocrine function (synthesis of leptin and estrogen hormones).

Leptin is a hormone that controls the time between meals. For example, a decrease in the amount of the hormone leptin causes a feeling of hunger, but its effect is not beneficial for obese people to lose weight. Even so, obese people have high levels of this hormone in their blood.

Estrogen – adipose tissue contains the enzyme P450 aromatase, which traps the male hormone and converts it into the female hormone estrogen. As a person gets older and is obese, this process accelerates.

Obesity type and levels

Hip type – more common in women, fat accumulates in the hips and buttocks;
Abdominal type – more common in men, mainly in the abdomen;
Combined type – fat is evenly distributed throughout the body.

Obesity can develop continuously or remain stable. If the mechanism of the disease is considered in detail, it is divided into primary, secondary and endocrine types.

Primary – as a result of alimentary (nutritional) or exogenous factors;
Secondary – often due to hereditary predisposition and some brain pathologies. This type can be called symptomatic;
Endocrine is the origin of obesity as a result of some dysfunction of the endocrine glands.

In all of the above cases, the patient has a state of hypodynamics (low mobility).

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