Striking the Right Balance
The importance of staying healthy has never been contested. By staying in good health, we preempt taxing our body, and our systems function at their optimum. Enzymes and chaperones, which depend on energy resources, work best when these resources are not stretched thin.
Our cells are saved from toxins that stress them to damage and inflammation. Regulatory processes set in and keep the body healthy by slowing cell division, thus allowing for repairs or allow for the death of severely damaged cells. Too much need for repairs stops cell division altogether. This stoppage results in a failure to replace naturally dying cells. Functional tissue is replaced by scar. The regulatory processes that control the cell division to allow for repairs to take place can be further stressed. This leads to further damage to cells, which now lose self-control and divide uncontrollably. This way cancer is produced.
Damage can be prevented, in the first place, by avoiding the insult, which could be physical (toxins) or psychological (stress).
One way to combat damage is to assist our body get rid of the toxins by eating food substances that help detoxify our systems and by carrying out regular physical exercise. Another is good stress management.
Exercise and good nutrition have a therapeutic effect on both the mind and the body cells as they assist in the repair process, making the time put in to get this done to be shorter and alleviating the burden on regulatory(control) processes, which processes are energy-intensive and highly demanding(taxing) to the body, a source of stress and hence damage. Indulgence in taking pain killers may only serve to mask the damage and make it insidious. Eating the wrong foods, high in fats suppresses the innate immune system(inflammation) and gives a false impression that the insult has gone.
One insult, once in a while, may not be so bad as the body's detoxification, repairs and regulatory processes set in, in time to arrest any permanent negative imprint. But several insults over a length of time act together to cause more severe, irreparable damage to our body.
Our brain cells control our body cells and vice-versa. When one group suffers, the other, inevitably, does as well. So both mental and physical healths are intrinsically tied together. Keeping the one upbeat, inevitably, revives the other. The whole body works in unison and not in parts. The best treatment is, therefore, one that targets the affected part, which should be taking much of the whole body's resources, which may be meager, while keeping all other parts in good balance, through proper nutrition and exercise. Damage to one cell type will spill toxic substances not only to neighboring cells but also to distant cells, through circulation.
The watch word is to strike the right balance between overindulgence and inactivity. If you don't use your muscle, muscle cells atrophy or die because they lack the stimulus to grow; if you overuse them, they eat up themselves through stress or die, but if you use them moderately you build them up, recruit new stem cells(satelite cells) into muscle cells and strengthen them. When you eat a lot, you build more fat cells in relation to muscle cells; when you don't eat, you break down both, but when you eat moderately, you have more muscle than fat, which is good for the heart and the brain; the kidney and the liver; the lungs and the skin.
Dr Oliver Verbe Birnso, MD
Our cells are saved from toxins that stress them to damage and inflammation. Regulatory processes set in and keep the body healthy by slowing cell division, thus allowing for repairs or allow for the death of severely damaged cells. Too much need for repairs stops cell division altogether. This stoppage results in a failure to replace naturally dying cells. Functional tissue is replaced by scar. The regulatory processes that control the cell division to allow for repairs to take place can be further stressed. This leads to further damage to cells, which now lose self-control and divide uncontrollably. This way cancer is produced.
Damage can be prevented, in the first place, by avoiding the insult, which could be physical (toxins) or psychological (stress).
One way to combat damage is to assist our body get rid of the toxins by eating food substances that help detoxify our systems and by carrying out regular physical exercise. Another is good stress management.
Exercise and good nutrition have a therapeutic effect on both the mind and the body cells as they assist in the repair process, making the time put in to get this done to be shorter and alleviating the burden on regulatory(control) processes, which processes are energy-intensive and highly demanding(taxing) to the body, a source of stress and hence damage. Indulgence in taking pain killers may only serve to mask the damage and make it insidious. Eating the wrong foods, high in fats suppresses the innate immune system(inflammation) and gives a false impression that the insult has gone.
One insult, once in a while, may not be so bad as the body's detoxification, repairs and regulatory processes set in, in time to arrest any permanent negative imprint. But several insults over a length of time act together to cause more severe, irreparable damage to our body.
Our brain cells control our body cells and vice-versa. When one group suffers, the other, inevitably, does as well. So both mental and physical healths are intrinsically tied together. Keeping the one upbeat, inevitably, revives the other. The whole body works in unison and not in parts. The best treatment is, therefore, one that targets the affected part, which should be taking much of the whole body's resources, which may be meager, while keeping all other parts in good balance, through proper nutrition and exercise. Damage to one cell type will spill toxic substances not only to neighboring cells but also to distant cells, through circulation.
The watch word is to strike the right balance between overindulgence and inactivity. If you don't use your muscle, muscle cells atrophy or die because they lack the stimulus to grow; if you overuse them, they eat up themselves through stress or die, but if you use them moderately you build them up, recruit new stem cells(satelite cells) into muscle cells and strengthen them. When you eat a lot, you build more fat cells in relation to muscle cells; when you don't eat, you break down both, but when you eat moderately, you have more muscle than fat, which is good for the heart and the brain; the kidney and the liver; the lungs and the skin.
Dr Oliver Verbe Birnso, MD
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