THE METABOLIC PROCESSES IN THE BODY

Why some of us are fat and some are not? What causes it? Why our belly was easily expand gaining weight to restrict easy movement? The change in the condition of our body has something to do with metabolism that governed the kind of shape we have and the existing health condition we are experiencing. Sugar is carbohydrates. All foods that are rich in carbohydrates or protein is converted into energy.

Speeding up the metabolic process depends on the kind of food we take. Low fat food is less harmful compared to foods that were heavy laden with saturated fat. But they both give changes to a shape that we want to avoid but hesitant to make alteration in our own dietary plan.

Many of us are trying to regain control what has been lost in the normal condition of the body. They initiated certain kind of physical exercise for the purpose of losing weight but the effort becomes a failure.

The body insisted on speeding up the metabolism maybe because of other factors that involve that cause the slowing down of its responses.

Metabolism is one kind of process that allows the body to convert food into energy. The body needs large amount of energy level for the various body organs to be able to carry-out its essential and individual function. Any failure in metabolic process will result to disease. The internal processing system temporary stopped reacting. The life-circulating blood as the basic building block for life was affected.

Metabolism is responsible in the conversion of oxygen into carbon dioxide. It is responsible in removing any harmful and potentially lethal waste out of the body through the kidneys. It protects the basic building block the life circulation blood from impurities that may affect its life-giving performance.

Metabolic process is one aspect of body function. There are many interaction happened inside the body, series of chemical conversion taking place every day or at all times through metabolic functioning.

Metabolism is a continuing process that involves 2 opposing faction. The anabolism create cell by using certain amount of energy while catabolism create energy by breaking down cells. So metabolism allows the body to create or breakdown cells depending on the urgency of its use.

Anabolism principal function is to create tissues and cells to replace that are considered dead cells or dysfunctional (inactive) cells. The purpose of creating new skin cells is to clot the blood. The function enables the cut skin to heal slowly and easily. But catabolism functioned in different directions. The activity of the body is to breakdown the cell is to create energy to be able to carry out its normal function.

It is a fact to know that the body needed enough oxygen. If there is additional energy, it caused the breathing to increase considerably. The body taking in oxygen and getting rid out of the body the carbon dioxide. This was the normal process for the normal body functioning.

To measure energy we used a unit of measure called calories. The body has no ability to differentiate was in good or bad energy. It doesn’t care to know the source of the energy. The incapacity of the body to determine what energy is healthy or not healthy is the reason of laxity of control of gaining weight. The body always accepted whatever kinds of foods taken to the mouth. As the body received a calorie from the food eaten, he converted the energy to something he chooses.

 He may use the energy (calories) to create new cells and tissues or he will that energy (calories) to breakdown the cells. The body can utilize energy it can afford to handle and used in any given time. If there were excess calories from the food taken, the body is forced to use that energy to create cells. With the process of anabolism, the extra amount of calories will become additional weight. It further increases weight gain to higher level. Too many calories in the body brought higher energy level. The body was forced to convert the excess calories to become fat.

Getting rid of weight gain can only be done through physical activity. Burning calories is the only solution to be able to reduce weight. Exercise can cause energy output, thereby reducing fat quantity in the body. Developing a strong muscle tone can burn calories more as it boost metabolism to handle excess calories and burned it down before it can establish to become fat. 

It is important that there is a continues building of muscle and maintaining it at all times so that only extra calories in the body can be handled properly to bring goodness instead bringing harm to the already fragile situation of the body form.

WHY BODY DETOXIFICATION IS IMPORTANT

Our body was full of toxic materials from the food we eat, from the polluted environment that surround us affecting land, water and air. We knew the many threats to our health but we can minimize the impact if we are willing to change our lifestyle, the main cause of our diseases.

One way of getting rid of toxins is through the process of detoxification. It has many benefits because through these, it can remove lead and mercury, the heavy metals we knew. It cleanses our liver, kidneys and other important body organs. The brain is protected from harm from the heavy metals that will affect mental development and performance.

 It replenishes the friendly bacteria with useful probiotic bacteria. It helps the immune system to act strong, recharging its function with its powerful anti-oxidant properties to be able to have strong defenses against foreign invaders. It changes our emotional state, cleanse and replenish the mind from many bothering circumstances that brought stresses in life. It is relaxing, recouping and re-training the mind. It reduces the impact of worries and many troubles that makes us weak and defenseless. It cleanses us spiritually, physically and emotionally.

The detoxification process is a specific action that leads to the rejuvenation of the body. It cleanses the colon from many impurities. It gives way to the prevention of disease. It boosts energy and keeps the immune system strong in defense of the many toxic materials we acquired every day. It gives good and healthier skin and restores its natural glow. Healthy skin is healthy life and sign of inner health. An unhealthy life because of toxins will cause the skin to dry, brittle, wrinkles, pale and age fast.

Detoxification helps the mind free to think of negative feelings as it minimizes the fears of many uncertainties in the future. It gives us stress, worries and anxieties that sometimes put us in difficult situation how to handle them. It clogged the system and makes the body not to function normally.

We get the toxins from the food we consumed. It enters in the pores of the skin, in the lungs from the air we breathe. Any chemical that enters the body is considered toxins. The air we breathe was polluted. We inhaled dangerous smokes in the environment from transportation vehicles emitting petroleum fumes. Many consumer products have chemicals in it that affected us. We failed to notice its long-term effects to the wellness of the body.

The un-detox body system brings diseases, aging, skin rashes, nausea and indigestion. It gives behavioral change that causes depression and emotional disturbance.

Detoxification can be done through the following options. It can be done by juice fasting, water fasting, minimal eating or fasting, caloric restriction and colon cleansing. Having detox diet is effective. Eat fruits and vegetables often.

 Drinking the regular 8 glasses of water a day that will   helps to flush out any harmful materials embedded in the many organs in the body. You can use detox pills and tonics to aid in your detoxification routine.

Fasting is another kind of detoxification process that can cleanse the internal organs of toxic waste. It gives the liver, kidneys and colon a chance to function well.

If you want to detox the body, you have to stop your unhealthy lifestyle. Stop eating and drinking harmful foods and beverages especially those that contain higher acidity. If you want to get well then you have to stop the regular taking of sugary foods. 

Taking meat of any kinds should be reduced to the level that will not cause the accumulation of cholesterol in the body. You have to control your caffeine and alcohol intake or totally avoid them. Put a stop on your smoking habit. Avoid or reduce dependence of processed foods because there are many chemicals in it. Minimize or control drinking carbonated beverages or alcohol harmful to the digestive organs.

When doing the detoxification process, select a routine most fitted to your condition. Detoxification should be done often as necessary because toxin penetrate the body every second of it unless you are very determine to make big difference in your health.

As you go on with your detoxification routine, make a logbook of every activities or steps you make to monitor your achievement, improvement or failure. This will serve as you references in the future as your guide to improve yourself more. If you failed, try again and be consistent. Your success will depend on you.

It is not too late to make an effort to put the body healthy again. Changing your lifestyle will help you a lot. If the body does not function well and you become ill, you can’t enjoy life at all.

ALCOHOL INVITES TROUBLE

Can you afford living without taking alcoholic drinks? I don’t think so. It was a fact that alcohol is already part of our culture. History told us how liquor took part in their existence. So are we!

Now in the modern society, the same thing happened in our lives. If abused it control and slave us. This was the source of many conflicts in the family. An alcoholic ruined his future completely. By just thinking to stop gives him hell. It was the torture that if he can’t taste the liquid into his mouth, the thirst was too much to bear. Once it started drinking, stopping is the hardest.

Many drivers in the vehicles did not understand the phrase “Drinking liquor while driving is dangerous”. This was one of the problems we faced today, the ignorance of some people about safety precaution. If there is benefit in drinking a little - it outweigh the damaging effect to health.

The starting point of learning how to drink came from socializing with friends. As it goes on it becomes his obsession to drink. A group of drinkers will influence his sanity and destroy whatever left in his civility.

Some broken marriages started in few sip of drinks until the urge was established and hard to control. The security of the job was threatened. Better relationship with others was strained. A social drinker becomes an alcoholic, the life he started to destroy.

Here comes the damaging effect to one’s health:

If our cardiovascular system is healthy, the heart worked well. Any distortion will cause the heart to have a disease. Most often a diseased heart brought many complications, palpitation and even death. A small amount of alcohol taken even mildly will alter the normal heart function and affect other body organs.

 How much more if taken regularly or being abused? How many lives will be lost due to less concern to their health? How can they afford to trade it with their normal lives? Where their common sense go? 
 

The long term effect from alcoholism is frightening. Major terminal cancers (esophagus, larynx and throat) worsened when the body is in the influence of liquor.

Extreme alcoholic drinking was the cause of the cirrhosis of the liver. It damages the immune system responsible for the protection of many types of infection. It causes possible brain damage. It was the reason of many accidents in the streets, accident from the job and other situational accidents.

 There was carelessness in his movements, lacking mental alertness, unsteady posture because of grogginess and emotional explosion he can’t hold. It strained monetary capacity by spending his savings from his unproductive drinking habit. It causes trouble in the family, broken marriage and alienation of children’s feeling to their father and the reason of financial difficulties.

He neglected his function as breadwinner of the family. He doesn’t want to work and became lazy. His physical health is a mess. He can’t even do better physical hygiene to clean himself. The bad smell of liquor penetrated deep into his skin. His eyes were red and sleepy. He was the irresponsible man in the house neglecting himself and his family. He was a total wreck.

His emotional explosion causes him to harm anybody and got arrested due to inflicted physical injury he caused to a man.  It seemed he doesn’t care anymore about life and his responsibilities. The distortion of his thought process put him to be highly dangerous. His power of control he completely ignored.

If too drunk, it causes mental black-out, hang-over, vomiting, and memory lapses. If he can’t drink, he experienced nausea, bout of insomnia, heavy sweating, shakiness of his movement especially hands, tension muscles and waning strength to stop. 

His craving for satisfaction was so strong. Only by drinking he can possibly pacify his unquenchable thirst.

An alcoholic still has hope if he has strong will to make a change to be able to free himself from the claw of dependency. It was understandable that to completely stop is not an easy job to do unless the honesty in his heart and mind is pure to do the impossible.

The deterioration of the condition of his health is a proof how alcohol affected every fibers, organs and systems of the body that later on created an intentional health condition. There still hope for them. Total avoidance is difficult but responsible drinking can make a difference. Drinking is part of our culture. It can never be denied that we are a slave to it.

How about you?  If you really wanted to drink because of peer pressure, make it a point that it is not abused. If moderate drinking in allowed in our society then make it so. But remember, alcohol still a threat to health whether you take it little or more. If you insist then take it at your own risk.

KNOW YOUR SKIN AND ITS FUNCTION

Every parts and parcels of our body has useful intent. They have the responsibility they were borne to do. Any distortion of their function will bring ill-health we have to suffer. The skin has important role for the protection of tissues, blood, arteries, veins, ligaments, capillaries, bones and internal organs. It supports the structure of the bones and different parts of the body with exception. It protects all the connections that carry the blood to its destination. There were different activities of the body inside the skin necessary to put everything in order.

It was considered as the largest organs. I composed of integumentary systems of many layers of mesodermal tissues. It acted as shield against damaging pathogen. It was the defense initiated by the body from any damages caused by internal and external environmental sources.

It has many layers of nerve endings that can easily determine the presence of heat, cold, pressure, vibration and injuries to the tissues. It regulated heat and has high level of blood supply for purpose of controlling loss of energy due to radiation, convection and conduction activities. It dilated the blood vessels against perfusion and loss of heat. It also constricted the blood vessels to reduce the cutaneous blood flow and maintain heat conservation. It controls loss of fluid due to burns and other skin injuries. It prevents evaporation to avoid skin dryness.

The skin has the ability to determine mood swing, physical condition and feeling attractive. The skin becomes the depot for the storage of lipid and water. It synthesized vitamin D through the action of ultraviolet rays to the specific spot in the skin.

The epidermis was used as the inlet for the absorption of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in small quantity.

All nutrients that entered to the body is safeguarded by the skin that it is not wasted. The nutrients are to be fully utilized by the different organs for their regular and normal function. The body has colony of helpful micro-organism especially those that are found in the digestive system. The skin gives full support and protected the organisms to remain in the body and not wash out and wasted.

What is important is the epidermis to the general wellness of the body? Epidermis was found in the surface of the skin. It was the covering made up of cells served as the protecting body called keratinocytes, placed on top of each other to make different sub-layers for special purpose. Any dead cells were normally replaced regenerating itself into new cells. The cycle repeated many times when the live cells reached to the point of its normal death and then renew again.

The color of the skin was the result of the production of dark pigments called melanin. It was important for the protection of the skin against harmful ultraviolet rays. Melanin can be found at the bottom of the epidermis. It was the cells in the epidermis called melanocytes that was responsible for skin color.

The dermis were composed of thicker connective tissue that gives the skin more pliable and resistant. It regulates body temperature. It has vascular networks responsible to carry the nutrients to reach the epidermis. It has an organ that senses pain, temperature, blood vessels, nerve fibers, hair follicles and sweet glands.

Inside the skin, it contains many networks of tiny blood vessels. The blood was being circulated to supply the skin with nutrients and oxygen. The blood vessels were tasked to make passage of waste products away from the system.

 

The skin has hair follicles growing into the dermis of epidermal tissue responsible for the production of hairs. The visible and very tiny hairs covered the entire body. Only the hands, lips and sole of feet were free from set of hairs. It reacted to any changes in temperature during cold period. It stands upright in response to the changes. The arrectar pile muscles closes the skin pores to make it warm.

The sebaceous gland contains quantity of oil. The oil gland secretes sebum important in moisturizing the skin and hair. The oil was located all over the body concentrated heavily in scalp, nose, cheek, forehead and skin.

The sweat gland secreted sweats to cool the skin when it becomes hot. It thermo-regulate the temperature to normal level. The structure of the sweat glands composed of single tube, coiled body and superficial ducts, the important components in the sweat glands.

Langerhan cells removed and destroyed harmful materials (foreign) that are trying to control the epidermis. It ejected the threat out of the body. Other important parts are the meissner’s corpuscle which can detect touch and other movements.  The Pacinian corpuscles act as receptor for pressure and vibration. It has free nerve endings that senses pain, itchy and temperature changes.

It is important to protect your skin at all times because skin is the gateway to good and healthy body.