Tissue Repair, Growth and Health

The body organs operate many sub-biological clocks; these superimposed on the main clock, regulating wakefulness and sleep.

Most organs will grow(cell division) at certain times of the day and repair at night. Human energy resources are well managed so that repair(maintenance) has a priority over everything else. Physical activity(eustress) generates growth hormone which leads to food and devitalized tissue breakdown, followed by organ growth(cell division). When such exercise reaches the level of distress, stress hormones(corticosteroids) get to be released, counteract the growth hormone, and vital tissue breakdown takes over and this prevents growth. Other forms of distress such as disease and immune distress, psychological distress, inflammation and aging, have a similar effect on the body. Most organs deteriorate and degenerate under such conditions.

Following a good dose of exercise in the day, autophagy(recycling of devitalized tissue) results and repair takes place in the night and these become rejuvenating to the body. Telomeres stay long, from repair, and further growth is programmed for the next day. It should be observed that fasting has a similar effect of stimulating growth hormone and autophagy, as insulin secretion is suppressed, which insulin provides nutrients that suppress the need for the body cell to feed on devitalized tissue, paving the way for subsequent repair and growth to take place. Therefore, following fasting, there is corresponding rejuvenation of the body. Such rejuvenation prevents a wide range of degenerative diseases. Ideally days of exercise and/ or fasting should be followed by those of balanced nutritional replenishment.

Studies are showing that one way diseases, notably cancers, are prevented, by eating fruits and vegetables, is that these plant foods contain a molecule that prevents the double splicing of the messenger RNA, which double splicing results in the suppression of the protein that checks excessive cell division.

Cancer cells grow throughout the 24 hour-day-cycle, unlike the normal cells.

Dr. Oliver Verbe Birnso, M.D.

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