Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life – 1

The definition of food is food is anything that your body takes in to maintain life and growth.  So strictly speaking oxygen is food.  It’s the fuel that burns the fat, source of all energy, the ignition key that makes sure that everything that body requires get done.  As oxygen is important to every cell in your body, without it, your cells can’t make energy and even a drop in oxygen requirement is one of the reason your body gets into imbalances state when the cells are deprived of oxygen, this deprivation if not corrected in time, causes illness because your cells metabolism slows down.  You switch from a highly efficient energy making machine to being less efficient and thus generate a lot of lactic acid, which builds up in your muscles and make you sore.  Without oxygen, we perform less efficiently.

Our body process requires three things to start with, food, water and oxygen.  While we might enjoy the food when hungry and water when thirsty, it’s the oxygen that actually provides the fuel that runs your body.  Oxygen, through a process called oxidation, chemically changes food and water into energy.  It’s this oxygen fire that contracts our muscles, repairs our cells, feeds our brain and even calms our nerves.  So you can see that breathing in oxygen to a required level is the first key to your body’s health and is one of our body’s chief cleansing tool.

As long as we breathe in oxygen properly and get plenty of oxygen, there is sufficient energy and the waste matter is easily eliminated.  The problem comes when we don’t take in enough oxygen.  You see, the body can store up food and water but it can’t store oxygen.  Every minute that we live, we must continually provide our cells with stream of fresh and pure oxygen.

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Role of Oxygen in human body and the basis for life

Oxygen is an important factor for survival of human being.  Oxygen is required by our body for our cells to breakdown complex food molecules into simple substances and finally for the end product, i.e. energy.  During this process, energy is released which are utilized for all the cellular and other functions of the body.

Oxygen is a colorless and odorless gas and you can find that this element abundantly in the universe and makes up more than 20% of the earth’s atmosphere.  In human body, oxygen is the single most abundant element, making up 65% of the body mass.  You are breathing in oxygen nearly every single second of day and oxygen is very important for your survival.  We are going to look into the ways a human body uses oxygen.

Oxygen that we inhale is brought into the lungs via breathing where it is transported by red blood cells to the entire body to be used.  The function of oxygen in the body relates to cellular respiration and this term is used to describe the phase of the digestive process when food breaks down to supply cells with energy.  During this cellular respiration, the cells use oxygen to break down sugar to produce adenosine triphosphate or ATP.  ATP is a molecule that supplies cells with energy and the byproduct of the process is CO2 and water.

You need to be aware that health status, activity level, and the hydration are factors that affect how much oxygen a person needs.  Without adequate oxygen, health problems are the first uninvited guests to your body and we need to ensure that we get clean oxygen, adequate oxygen level in your body to help in the chemical process.  You must have seen some people lying in the hospital with extraordinary measures to get their oxygen levels up.  Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is one way to increase oxygen levels and in certain circumstances required to address a variety of health concerns.

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What are cells in human body and the need to know – 1st

You need to know that the different types of cells in your body have different specialized jobs to do and they do it very well provided you provide the right nutrition and right environment for it to remain healthy and grow.  In current modern times, it is this nutrition and environment and thinking that is lacking in human and the cause for every increase auto immune disease and cancers.  The specialization of cells depends almost always on the exaggeration of properties common to cells.  Cells that line the intestine have extended cell membranes that increases the amount of surface area that is available to absorb food.  Nerve cells can be very long, which makes them efficient in sending signals from the brain to the rest of the body.  Cells in heart muscles process a lot of energy so they have a large number of mitochondrion, the part of the cells where energy is made.

You also need to know that in all living being cells die and an adult male loses 98 million cells per minute.  At the same time, there is always another 98 million cells divided and replacing those that just died.  Just as you shed dead skins, cells, dead cells from internal organs pass through and out of the body with waste products.

One last point, though you are fascinated by incredible things around you, take for instance the car, the plane, and various other fascinating technology, the most important and impressive and complex technology is your human body.  Though we have technology to improve on lots of non-human technology, when it comes to cancer cure technology or medicine or other auto immune disease, why are humans helpless, you need to ask the question why and why are lots of new disease evolving in the recent years for which medical science has no answer.

What are cells in human body and the need to know

Human needs air to breathe, it is the oxygen in air that your body really needs.  Every cell in your body needs oxygen to help it metabolize or burn the nutrients release from food for energy.  You need the food that gives you energy but oxygen is also needed to break down the food into pieces that are small enough for your cells to use and this is what is called as cellular respiration and it is the process of oxidizing food molecules like glucose to carbon dioxide and water.  The energy release is chemically trapped for use by all the energy consuming activities in the cell.  Your cells are the energy converters in your body.

As you can see all the parts of your body are made up of cells.  Your body has many different kinds of cells, though they may look different under a microscope, most cells have chemical and structural features in common.  In human there are about 200 different types of cells and within these cells you will find that there are about 20 different types of structures or organelles.

Different cells have different jobs to do and each cell has a size and shape that is suited for its job.  Cells that do the same job combine together to form certain body tissue, such as muscle, skin or bone tissue.  Groups of different types of cells make up the organs in your body such as lungs, liver and heart.  Each organ then has its own job to do, but all these organs work in synchronization to maintain your body and all the systems in your body are like members of a team whose job is to keep you alive and healthy.

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Coming back to human body – What are cells

Cells are the building blocks of all living things, large or small, plant, animal or human beings.  Water makes up about two thirds of the weight of cells.  Cells are very small and can only be seen through a microscopy.  Human being are composed of trillions of cells and each cells have their own specialized functions.  It is these cells that provide structure for our body, use the nutrients from our food and carry out important functions.  Cells are capable of reproducing themselves so each cells in your body was made from an already existing cell.  Cells group together to form tissues in our body, which in turn group together to form organ such as brain and heart and other organs.  Our cells contain function structures called organelles and the responsibilities of these organelles is to carry out tasks such as making proteins, processing chemicals and generating energy for the cell.  At the centre of the cell is nucleus and is the control room for the cell.  The genome is found within the nucleus.  A genome is an organism’s complete set of DNA, including all of it’s gene.  Each genome contains all of the information that is needed to build and maintain that organism.  In humans, a copy of the entire genome or more than 3 billion DNA base pairs is contained in all cells that have a nucleus.

All the cells have a membrane.  Cell membranes are the outer layers that hold the cells together.  The let in nutrients pass into the cell and waste products pass out.  Note that not everything can pass through a cell membrane.  What gets in and what doesn’t get depends on both the size of the particle trying to get in and the size of the opening in the membrane.

Cells also have a nucleus.  This is the cell’s control center.  Cells continually dived to make more cells for growth and repair in your body.  The nucleus contains the information that allows cells to reproduce or make more cells.  An important part of the cell is the mitochondrion.  This is the part of a cell where food and oxygen combine to make energy.

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Do you really think that you do not have any cure for auto immune disease or even cancer, if you think so then you are absolutely wrong

Here is a story of Sam Girod, a Kentucky farmer.  He runs a small business which sells natural skin salves made from herbs such as chickweed, which help to relieve a host of skin conditions including psoriasis, allergic rashes and even skin cancers.  This is a story of how FDA using the so called rules framed would go to any length to get hold of a person and ensure that he spends his rest of his days in jail even though there is no proof of him having harmed anyone due to his sale of natural skin salves.  It shows how they are out to get him and make an example of him, it boils down to two agent who were not allowed to take photos of his farm and in turn the sequence of events leading to his case, this episode upset the agents and convinced the FDA to throw the books at Sam, Girod and thus this case against Sam Girod.  This is also how the Government of any country tries to ensure that nobody stands up against their interest after coming to power. 

Sam Girod’s problem started years ago. The FDA went after him because he mentioned that one of the condition that salve was effective for was skin cancer and he was asked to remove the label that it was effective for skin cancer.  He called it “Chickweed Healing Salve.”  The FDA did not stop with that.  The problem started again when a local health department official saw Girod’s products on display in a small Missouri town’s convenience store, and reported them to the state health department official, who apparently referred the matter to the FDA who struck again seizing products from the store, contending that Girod included user testimonials, at the same store where he was selling the salve, he had to register it as a drug.  As per FDA, because the products claim to treat or cure disease but have not received FDA approval, and are not exempt from such approval requirements and moreover the seized products contain ingredients that could cause toxic or allergic reactions in consumers sensitive to these ingredients.  According to FDA, Chickweed healing salve contains comfrey, which may increase the risk of systemetic toxicity.  The US FDA had him indicted by a federal grand jury on a dozen criminal charges.  What you have to note here is that there is no death associated to use of Sam Girod’s Chickweed Healing Salve nor any one hospitalized due to using Sam Girod’s Chickweed, nor anyone complained against the product of Sam Girod, even if complainant is there, they were never called to the jury witness box.  Overlooking all these facts, US FDA went after him.

Unless the people come together and do something, the FDA will have total and complete control over every aspect of your lives and you will find that first you are feed with food which contains substance that cause ill health over the years, then FDA approved big pharmaceuticals bring out medicines that alleviate your sufferings but in the long run create more disease and in many unfortunate cases deaths and the cycle goes on repeating, there will be a day when every human being will be having one disease or the other since birth due to continuing of this system. 

So you can see there is a cure of everything but you need to have the will and determination.

Cure is possible for any disease, be it autoimmune disease or even cancer, provided you have the will and determination to cure the illness at whatever cost it may be - 3

Have you noticed that nowadays even in America, people have started a new movement of individually trying with various alternative medicines including cannabis which are illegal in USA, the reason for this simple, people are losing faith in the mainstream medicine backed by pharmaceuticals and why not because only lies, lies and only lies have been fed by the FDA and the big pharmaceuticals to the population to ensure that their product market does not dwindle.  Over the period they have infiltrated those countries where alternative medicine have been the main stay since ancient times and this is bad news for the people all over the world since pharmaceuticals will deep pockets can wipe out alternative medicine which in fact have cures for the most dreaded autoimmune disease and even cancer also.

You must have heard about the story that was the talk of the town and in all newspapers about young boy named Landon Riddle who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two.  His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he finding it difficult to breathe.  After 2 months of chemotherapy, Landon became sick and would refuse to eat and would vomit whatever he ate as these are the common side effects of chemotherapy and as there was no other solution than chemotherapy as per conventional doctors.  His mother suggested to the conventional doctors to look into alternative cannabis oil treatment but as you know the medical team will not and won’t listen to anything apart from what they have been taught and is the practice for that particular illness, hence they refused to accede to that child’s mother’s request.  Off course in a country like US, what could the mother do, instead of seeing her son die a slow death, she chose to try the option that was advised to her and fled from the state of Utah where they were living to the state of Colarado where alternative cannabis oil treatment was legal and started the treatment.  In just days, the boy, Landon vomiting started vomiting less and less and finally began to eat and started getting better and better.  He was smiling again and eating again.  So here you see, the state, the rules, the medical team, pharmaceuticals decides what is best but cannot provide the cure but still they want you to take their treatment and die rather take some other alternative treatment and live.  Not only this, the conventional doctors even went to the extent to warn the family that they will report to the authorities that she was not treating her son with chemotherapy.  Though this rule or report to authorities is applicable in US and some other countries, other countries are also framing rules and regulations to ensure that interest of the big pharmaceuticals, medical, business houses are not affected, hence it suits them to frame rules so that people are forced to take their conventional medicine and no other alternatives.

Although Landon’s cancer went into remission after the cannabis oil treatment, the government, the pharmaceuticals ensured that the mother was taken to court.  This is the way, the government, big pharmaceuticals ensure that no other people dare to go against the conventional medicine and this too in spite of the fact that numerous studies have shown that cannabis compounds can help kill cancer cells in both mice and humans.  Though currently he is forced to take that medicine which is harmful to his cure so all you people need to wake up to the conventional medicine lies, I say use it only for emergency cases only but try out alternative because may be it may cure or save your near or loved one.

Cure is possible for any disease, be it autoimmune disease or even cancer, provided you have the will and determination to cure the illness at whatever cost it may be - 2

Continuing from yesterday’s episode, the reality is though we need to take conventional modern medicine to keep our symptoms under control, if the pain and sufferings are too much but at the same time we need to find the cause and cure it and we have options of weaning away from such conventional modern medicine why relieve only the symptoms and like I said symptoms is only the way of your body to tell you that something is wrong, you need to take action and that too immediately.  Now what you did here is using conventional modern medicine you relieved the symptoms but what the body was trying to tell you is that the there is a cause to it and you should cure the cause.  So you took the conventional medicine and got relief but have you ever wondered now what, now your body has to show you other symptoms to make you aware that you need to cure the cause and what does the modern conventional medicine do, it only aggravated the situation to cause a far severe health problem in the future, thus after some time, some other issue crops up in your body for which again you have to go to the doctor and this cycle continues.

From the above, you can understand that conventional modern medicine does not want to cure the cause but are only interested in symptoms treatment. Why do you think the big pharmaceuticals and mainstream medicine are not focusing on the cause to bring a cure, because the main aim is to generate money, money and only money and they know that for generation to generation they have already trained your mind to a certain way of thinking that is modern conventional medicine is the way to go and it is the only scientific researched way of treating an illness, and there is no other way to it, these pattern of thinking has been ingrained in our mind to such an extent that even the thought of thinking that there is cure for auto immune disease or cancer is an unthinkable and propagated by uneducated people but fact proves time and against that this is incorrect.

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Cure is possible for any disease, be it autoimmune disease or even cancer, provided you have the will and determination to cure the illness at whatever cost it may be - 1

More than 200 years back, cancer was nearly non-existent, has anyone of you every bothered to ask that important question to know why at that time cancer was non-existent, because if you had asked that important question you would find the answer to that questions which you are asking now and now disease and sickness have become a way of life since birth with consumption of processed food, dairy product, refined sugar and the fact is that the entire gamut of food that you eat from the day you get up till the time you go to sleep packed with substances that after consumption does not leave a trace that it is the cause of all your illness, disease and even cancer so the producer/manufacturers get away with it but it is a slow poisoning of your body and that which makes it susceptible to chronic inflammation to autoimmune diseases which are not curable and leading to cancer and death and though all these are reversible, none of us want to take that important step of crossing the line and reversal of the disease but are happy if the symptoms associated with the disease is cured.  To add to these, modern day lifestyles have contributed other other causes of illness and non curable diseases, to which I will come back to later.

So you see on one hand from dawn to dusk, you are eating all packaged food that contains substances that affect your health and takes it to a downturn very slowly to be noticed while the producer/manufactures of these product goes on reaping profit at your expense and on the other hand Modern medicine is also doing their bit to ensure you are always indebted to modern conventional medicine and keep their cash box ringing in money, therefore most of the researches and discoveries are in the area of symptoms management and the medicine that is given to relieve the symptoms associated with the particular disease though gives relief from symptoms misery and after which an ill person is more than happy but what all of you are not aware is that like the side effects of the food that you eat, the side effects of taking a particular medicine cannot be proved and the side effects are also slow poisoning to your body but since you are relieved of the symptoms misery for which you took the medicine, you are not aware and don’t want to know or are not concerned about anything and this is where you are wrong, the side effects of medicine that you are taking is also known after years and years of usage of the same medicine and that too does not leave a trace.  The side effects may be more severe that what you have been taking treatment for.

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Cure is possible for any disease, be it autoimmune disease or even cancer, provided you have the will and determination to cure the illness at whatever cost it may be

Cure is possible for any disease, be it autoimmune disease or even cancer, provided you have the will and determination to cure the illness at whatever cost it may be.

You must be wondering what nonsense is this, but cure is possible for any disease, even if it is cancer, if you have the will and determination, correct mental makeup, ready to shift your thought process from not possible to possible, change of lifestyle, and money.  The main hindrance in not wanting to believe this is possible is because since childhood we are used to the modern conventional medicine and with the pharmaceutical and conventional medical industry flush with funds, they have done everything in their power to see to it that people do not go for any other alternative medicine to cure their incurable disease or even cancer and anyone who goes against them are removed from the equation by framing rules and regulations and using agencies such as FDA and other regulating agencies to ensure that any cure outside conventional main stream medicine is shown as a devil and to ensure that their profiteering at the cost of human lives is not affected.  In US, 1 in every 4 person is diagnosed with something or the other, and the reason is there for everyone to see but nobody wants to believe it.

Now you will also be wondering, If cure is possible for any disease wouldn’t somebody have already invented the cure for my disease or any disease for that matter.  I have come to the wrong blog, there is no such thing as cure for my disease.  I have gone to the best and best of the expert in US and elsewhere in the world, and they are so highly qualified and decorated.  I have come across such claims about cure but nothing works and many more such justifications but I say to you, cure is in your hands provided you need it more than anything else, provide you are ready to go that extra mile to get it, provided you change your thought process, provided you are ready to go to the other part of the world to get it, and this is what is not an easy thing to do but whoever has tried to go into the unknown most of them have come out with relief from symptoms and cure for their chronic illness and even cancer but before that one needs to know something about how human body functions, what causes it to malfunction, hence these episodes on various issues of health.

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Something about metabolism in human body - 1

Metabolism is a word you must have heard of if you are having any health issues lingering on for a long time.  For understanding this, you need to know what happens to the food that you take in daily, after it enters your body.  As you take in the food through the mouth, food not only tastes good in your mouth but it also provides nutrition for all the components of your body, for the brain function, muscles, blood, bones, and much more.  Take for example, salad, it contains full of nutritional benefits but your body cannot do much with the food as it is, as the food enters your body, it gets broken down into molecular components so that you can actually use the nutrition these molecules provide.  All the activities including the chemical activities happens in your body to convert these molecules or use energy derived from it are called metabolism.  This energy drives our bodily process which is very critical for our survival.

Metabolism is a broad term, and it includes all the chemical activities in your body.  As mentioned, Metabolism is divided into 2 categories:

Catabolism:  Catabolism involves all of the metabolic processes that tear down the molecules that generate energy to drive our bodily process.  One way of understanding catabolism is to compare the food that we eat to a large building and other structures, when catabolism process starts, it is like earthquake which makes the large building and other structures fall apart and reduced to rubbles and dust, same is a type of process with Catabolism which makes our food are taken in are digested and thus generate energy.

Anabolism: Anabolism is the opposite of Catabolism.  Anabolism is the process by which organisms synthesize complex molecules of life from simpler ones obtained through our food that is few types of raw materials are used to synthesize a wide variety of end products required by our body.  Anabolic processes produce peptides, proteins, polysaccharides and lipids amongst others.  These molecules comprise of all the materials of a living cell, such as membranes and chromosomes, as well as specialized products of specific types of cells, such as enzymes, antibodies, hormones and neurotransmitters.

Although Catabolism and Anabolism occurs simultaneously in the cell, the chemical reactions of both are controlled independently of each other.  The reasons why the chemical reactions are controlled independently is because Catabolism is a so called downhill process during which energy is released, while Anabolism is an uphill process which require input of energy.  At certain points in the anabolic process, the cell must put in more energy into a reaction.

Something about metabolism in human body

Metabolism is a term that are used to describe any chemical reactions involved in maintaining a living state of the cells and the organism.  Same wise metabolism in human body is the process of breaking down large molecules like food into usable energy through chemical process.

Metabolism is divided conveniently into two categories

Catabolism – which means breakdown of molecules to obtain energy, it means disintegration.

Anabolism – which means the synthesis of all compounds needed by the cells, it means reorganization.

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Chemical composition of human body – Understanding Antioxidant & Oxidative Stress – 1

Free radicals in your body pose a legitimate threat to your long term health and longevity.

The take home message that is that if you want to reduce inflammation, reduce the risk of chronic disease and even cancers, be sure that your tissues are functioning efficiently, strongly and make antioxidants rich food eating a daily affairs.  An antioxidant comprises of atoms with excess electrons that it can donate to stabilize the free radicals and also stop the domino effects in its tracks.  It is associated with slowing the aging process because it slows or prevents cell damage such as that which occurs with aging.

Antioxidants are further categorized into non-enzymatic(found in foods) and enzymatic(produced by the body).  Enzymatic antioxidants cannot be supplemented orally because they require co factors in the form of trace minerals such as copper, zinc, magnesium, manganese, iron and selenium which are obtained via the diet.  The non-enzymatic antioxidants are found in food, supplement our internal antioxidant defense system, preventing possible depletion and onset of disease.

CoQ10 is the most powerful antioxidant used by the body and it is particularly effective in protecting the heart, arteries and blood vessels, as well as slowing down premature ageing.

Glutathione is the master antioxidant produced in the body.  It is found in every single cell of your body.  Glutathione together with the mineral selenium makes the antioxidant enzyme Glutathione Peroxidase, which is very important for healthy liver function and longevity.

Superoxide dismutase or SOD is another major antioxidant produced by the body.

Alpha-lipoic acid is also one of the antioxidant which our body makes in small amount but then we can get it from food also.

N-acetyle cysteine (NAC) is another antioxidant that is there to enhance immune functions and maintain healthy lung function.  It also boosts levels of Glutathione.  If you have cataract, check for this antioxidant and Glutathione relationship and you will find the answer.

Vitamin C is another antioxidant is well known in its ability to help lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol as well as reduce risks of developing chronic disease such as heart disease.

Vitamin E is the major lipid or fat soluble antioxidant in the body and is the antioxidant that comes to the rescue when a free radical attacks the fatty acids in the cell’s linings.  Vitamin E is also important for diabetics, it enables insulin to reach healthy cell receptor sites that have not been damaged by free radicals.

Selenium is also another important antioxidant and is essential cancer protecting nutrient.

Chemical composition of human body – Understanding Antioxidant & Oxidative Stress

As already explained in previous episode, the role of free radicals and this is one of the main reason for disease leading up to cancer, if the free radicals are not brought under control by reversing our lifestyle, thought pattern amongst others.  As free radicals are produced, same way there is a protectionist mechanism in our body which is called as Antioxidants.  Antioxidants are that substances that work interactively inside our body cells, protecting cell membranes from damaging effects of highly reactive molecules called the free radicals.

Antioxidant substances are made in our body when we have a nutritional food that is the basis of creating energy in our body.  If you base your diet on a healthy nutritional food, exercise, positive thought pattern, your body has all the ingredients to make the antioxidant and which includes vitamin A, C, E and trace minerals copper, zinc, manganese and selenium amongst many others.  There are other powerful antioxidants but less well known than the above which include phenolic compounds, flavonoids, tannins and sulphur containing compounds.  From the above what you learn is that if you do not have nutritional food that contains the above, you are but giving invitation to free radicals to overpower your already worked up and reduced number of antioxidants.

What we also need to know about is Oxidative stress, now Oxidative stress is an imbalance that happens between production of free radicals and the ability of the body to detoxify or counteract their harmful effects through neutralization by antioxidants, in simple word it means that free radicals are produced at a faster pace than antioxidants can neutralize them.  This also means that the body is going from a healthy state to an unhealthy state.  When you eat the unhealthy food, do not address your stress issues, do not have positive approach, always have negative approach, it means that you are allowing your free radicals to have a free run and increase by leaps and bond, which ultimately makes your body give in to the modern day disease and leading to cancers.

Reduced antioxidant protection is the one of reason for ageing, even visible lines like wrinkles, blemished skin, joint stiffness, chronic aches and pains, when you notice these symptoms think of free radicals as one of the reason.

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Chemical composition of human body – Understanding Free Radicals

First, think of an area of your body which are made of cells. Our cells are made of various types of molecules, and these molecules are comprised of at least one atom.  Atoms in our body, in turn, contain at least one element (such as oxygen, carbon, etcetera).   It is the chemical bonds that join these elements together to form the atoms and molecules.  You should know that each atom in our body consists of a nucleus, neutrons, protons, and electrons.  The electrons surround the nucleus in two “shells”: an outer shell, which typically consists of eight electrons, and also an inner shell, consisting of two electrons. The chemical reactions these electrons produce create the bonds between atoms that hold the molecules together so that they remain stable in our body.

Generally, the atom will move electrons between its inner and outer shells as needed as per requirement, or share electrons with other neighboring atoms, in order to maintain stability in the body. When this happens, both atoms (the ones that are sharing electrons) are considered stable and our body is working properly without going off track.  But when an atom’s outer shell is reduced to one electron, it essentially becomes so “desperate” to replace its electrons that it will actually steal electrons from other atoms that are nearby.  This, then creates a situation in the body where another atom is deprived of an electron.  An atom whose weak chemical bonds result in an electron-deprived state and that compels it to steal electrons from other atoms and destabilize them. This results in a sort of domino effect. The harmful destabilization of cells proceeds from one atom to another, thus destabilizing atoms and the molecules to which they are attached.  The chief danger comes when with the damage they do when they react with important cellular components such as the DNA or the cell membrane.  The cells may function poorly or die if there is a continuous onslaught and which ultimately leads to cancer of the cells.

You need to know that such free radicals in the body may be formed through natural human physiological processes as well as from the environment but modern day lifestyle has only speeded the process of creation of such free radicals.  They are the results of diet, stress, smoking, exercise, inflammation, and a variety of other processes.

The good news is that our body is equipped with all the counter neutralization defense system against free radicals called the Antioxidants.

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Chemical composition of human body – Understanding

In order to fully understand the mechanisms of human physiology, it is important to have an understanding of the chemical composition of the body but since this will take pages and pages, it is beyond the scope of this blog.  For the time being let us remember the following.  The human body is a complex piece of machinery and all these are kept running by a large number of small moving parts.  At the center of all those moving parts are molecules, the smallest of atoms that perform a function.  At any point of time, all sorts of complicated processes is going on in your body, and a lot of them are carried out by incredibly powerful molecules.  Here we are going to talk about the five of the molecules that keep you ticking.

Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is the only largest molecule in our human body and it is utilized every time our body produces a new cell, which it does two trillion times a day.

Pepsin is an enzyme responsible for digesting proteins in food and breaking them down into amino acids.

Hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells, is tasked with the life or death responsibility and carries oxygen from the lungs to the body’s tissues and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs.

Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, is not technically considered a macromolecule because it is small, but it has an important role to play in the human body. In fact, when it comes to the release of energy within the body, there’s no molecule more important than ATP.

Cholesterol is often tied to an increased risk for cardiovascular issues, such a heart attack or stroke. However, it is also responsible for producing hormones and chemical messengers that regulate processes that don’t need to happen all the time. 

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New Branch of Medicine touted to be a hidden movement and is gaining prominence across the world - 1

Even though Functional Medicine has been touted as a hidden movement, the pace at which it has moved over the years indicates that there is not much support and the mainstream medical community have not accepted it completely and neither the big pharmaceuticals have shown any interest in it and the reason for this is there is no money in it for them continuously as conventional medicine otherwise it would have become the sought after medicine in this modern technology world as it would cure instead of just treatment.  One reason for this is that our society, governments, education system have already feed this information to us that since childhood that conventional medicine is the only best choice out there for any medical condition and anything that go against conventional medicine belief is treated prehistoric practices and which does not have any scientific proof to back it up.

Though we have got the Functional Medicine started up long time ago, in spite of not recognizing that the main contributor of this idea comes from traditional medicine or the alternative as we call it, still it is not too late if we can bring this Functional Medicine focus on cause spear head a movement that will going forward cure many an autoimmune disease or cancer that is purportedly not curable by conventional medicine.  As the saying goes, it is never too late to start again.  Hope better sense prevail for the betterment of human race and continue not to take advantage or make money out of human sufferings.

New Branch of Medicine touted to be a hidden movement and is gaining prominence across the world

Yesterday, I wrote about how medical fraternity or conventional medicine physicians across the globe have come together and formed a branch of medicine called the Functional Medicine.  Though the conventional doctors have touted it as a hidden movement sweeping across the globe and the focus of which will be to find the cause and treat the cause and not the symptoms as is the current scenario all over the world, what all of you do not understand is that this idea has been borrowed from the Alternative Medicines which since centuries back have been only treating the cause and not symptoms unlike modern medicine.  Good to know that at least conventional medicine physicians have come to realize now that they need to forge ahead with the focus on finding the cause for the ailments.  What could be the reason behind such a movement, could it be because conventional medicine physicians are also human being, they too have their family, relatives and friends who are down with incurable disease and cancers, could it be that their near and dear ones have lost their life and till now they were afraid or whatever be the cause, could not forge ahead this idea of finding the cause because they were afraid to stand up against the big pharmaceuticals and FDA and other government authorities, whatever be the reason, it is never too late for those of us who are suffering now.  But borrowing idea from alternative medicine and not giving credit where it is due is not warranted but all the same at least there is a start to alleviate the sufferings of the people and that too when in modern times the autoimmune disease and cancers are increasing by leaps and bonds.  Some of the best alternative medicines since ages have been treating and curing people with the focus only on cause.

This Functional Medicine branch could have been started more than 100 years back, do you think the physicians back then did not know this, the reason why this approach was not taken was only greed, greed and only greed by the big pharmaceuticals and doctors alike who would not allow such an idea to progress since there is no continuous money into their cash box for them if patients are cured.  If you google, you will find that even then many a doctors went against these big pharmaceuticals and FDA and government agencies and did their own treatment and even cured though it was against the law and many were even jailed and stopped from practicing medicine because big pharmaceuticals had FDA and other regulatory agencies under their influence to ensure that no one has a different line of thought of curing the patients and thus minimizing their profits.  Hence now I understand why many pharmaceutical companies do not support the idea of Functional Medicine and whether they will pump in the money required for the research which is need of the hour to ensure that the Functional Medicine approach does not die down for want of funds for research and development. 

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Various causes for inflammation in your body - 4

Poor Sleep: When you have poor sleep, means that you have a habit of getting up at night or those with insomnia, the inflammatory cytokines are secreted at a much higher rate in these people than those who have deep sleep and do not get up till morning.  As all of you know that during sleep, the body regenerates and the immune system calms down.  Lack of restorative sleep is a major promoter of inflammation.  So remember that adequate sleep and that too deep sleep is very important and if you do not have deep sleep it means that there is inflammation in your body.

Nutrient Deficiencies: As earlier mentioned your body needs real nutrients and when it does not get real nutrients then there is going to be nutrient deficiencies which normally will have a negative impact on the body.  One of which is vitamin D, though vitamin D is got from sun, a deficiency in getting enough vitamin D can not only result in chronic inflammation but can also cause depression, decreased immunity and a number of different autoimmune disease.  The other is Vitamin B, especially B6 and B12.  If you are not getting enough vitamin b, this can also cause inflammation.

Environment Toxins and Free Radicals: There are also a number of environmental toxins that results in unwarranted inflammation.  From the polluted air to various air fresheners in vehicle and household, household cleaners, plastics that we use on a daily basis, there are many different toxins and free radicals floating around that can quickly lead to inflammation and when you are subjected to these toxins for a long period of time, the end result is chronic inflammation.

You need to remember that many of causes above will have some other cause also, one needs to find the cause of the inflammation and cure it, that is what the alternative medicines should do and does. 

You might be glad to know that off late the medical fraternity or conventional medicine, that too a minuscule proportion of physicians, medical bodies have starting to realize that the need is to locate the cause like all alternative medicines have been doing since ancient times but they are calling it 'functional medicines', so here we go a new branch of medical treatment, old wine in a new bottle. But conventional medicines is where the money comes in ringing for the medical fraternity or conventional and pharmaceuticals, so do not expect the big pharmaceuticals to release their hold so easily. 

Various causes for inflammation in your body - 3

Excess weight of body: Your body needs only food that it can convert into energy.  When you eat more than what your body requires, it will either try to expel it from the body and if that process is hindered due to any reasons,  it will save it somewhere in some form to use it later when in needed hence when you go on binge eating, eating more than required every day, unhealthy food, and if you do not exercise or if you are aging and your metabolism process in the body is reducing, excess will be stored somewhere in the body on a daily basis and the fat cells in your body begins to bulge and when they bulge the fat cells starts sending signal to your immune system for help and naturally the immune system responds to the alarm, by going to that inflamed cells to help slow down the inflammation and cure but remain unsuccessful, thus over time the inflammation can make healthy cells resistant to insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar which in turn leads to diabetes.  When you overeating on high sugar, high carb, high fat foods, what you are actually doing is just feeding your inflammation risks.  Studies have also found that inflammation markers tend to be significantly increased just three hours after eating high-glycemic foods like baked potatoes, waffles and others.

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