It's been debated in science and layperson circles alike about which system in the human body is the most important to the human organism. This debate probably will continue for a while , but scientist if not the layperson are the ones waking up to a new health realization that is "rattling" the whole paradigm of how we define health today and re-establishing a new relationship we have with food by creating a new culture of health.
Neurologist will naturally say that the nervous system hands down is the most important and cardiologist will debate their own specialty convincingly, however there are several systems in the human body all trying to maintain balance. However only one system actually "unifies" the rest by actually speaking every organ-systems "language". The system is called Metabolism.
Many of us rarely take notice that this system is perhaps the most important in giving the body balance. Now it is time to give it the respect that it is due, because it has been doing its share of work with out you knowing it and our recogning it is long overdue. If you think about how practically no particular organ tissue of one organ is seen in any other organ we begin to realize this metabolic importance more. Sure,examples like the nervous tissue as nerves in organs is technically correct, but even that is limited. But, not every organ tissue has a nerve that can stimulate a metabolic factor into it. Unlike the Metabolic system which is the essential controlling mechanism in every cell because every cell either has DNA , mitochondria or the TCA cycle(tri-cyclic acid cycle).In other words whichever organ you look at metabolism is there.
Metabolism maintains what physiologist call homeostasis. Thats "Ph.D talk" for balance. This balance is literally for everything in the body for all the trillions of cells that exists , literally. From water, to electrolytes, production of protein, the production of energy, body heat, hormone production and nerve innervation;it is metabolism that signals and communicates when our body is "out-of-whack" in every organ system. Heart myocytes are limited to serving only its area, as are the pepcid cells of the GI tract that are limited to its area and osteocytes assigned to only the bones. But, metabolism keeps tract , signals and communicates to all of the organ cells and exists physically and intimately to all organs through their cells. The "master" gland of metabolism, the thyroid and the "master of the master" the hypothalmus are all controlled by metabolism, themselves.
THE CALORIE AND METABOLISM
Many of us do not know technically what a calorie is and what its purposes are. We just know that we are supposed to "burn" them. The calorie is a unit of measurement of heat production of the body due to metabolism. The human body acts as a type of furnace but perhaps even a better description is a generator and an engine. The amout of heat produced to raise temperature literally by one degree celsius is a calorie. Temperature, heat production and control is maintained in the "master" glands of the endocrine system.
When food is introduced to your body's system it normally raises temperature. When you exercise or even shiver from cold you generate heat. That means food represents potential calories gained and exercise represents a potential heat loss . By this we can manipulate calories based on control of what we eat and how much activity we do.
Each calorie type delivers a capacity load of energy that can be stored in the form of adipose tissue as primarily triglycerides are "burned" off by action. Fat calories which are slower to burn than carbohydrates and proteins have two-and-a-half times more the caloric value. It therefore can deliver more energy, but they are less efficient calories for quick energy sources. so we have to balance our calories through our sources!
METABOLIC TYPES AND HOW CAN WE NATURALLY MANIPULATE CALORIES
There are essentially three basic types of metabolisms but several more sub-types. The fast oxidizer burns energy rapidly and because of that generally needs more dense calories, slow oxidizers if over-eating tend to accumulate greatly their stores of energy and need to eonsume morecomplex carbs. Then, there is a grouping which most of us probably fit into today. The mixed-variable "out-of -whack" type.
Because of several exposures our body's are constantly being assaulted by metabolic toxins and our body's systems becomes derranged or out-of-control. Our food supply has several carcinogens and toxins. The air we breath as well as water we drink expose us to harmful effects. Today we are finally looking at exhaust from cars, carcinogens in gasoline and non-ionizing and ionizing radiation as all potential hazards. All which potentially harm us through making free oxygen radicals that destroy or mutate DNA and cell structures. The result of which are chronic diseases, cancers, immuno-suppressive ailments and obesity.
Therfore the " battle" that has to be waged against diseases at the cellular level or microbiotic level of cells , not macrobiotic or the organ level with the whole food itself. If we do , we are continuing to miss the actual machinery of determining health at the most important unit of health(life)-the human cell. Because of that Nano-Nutrition and molecular Bio-Fuels are necessary in our daily regimens. What are Nano-Nutritions? We know them commonly as supplements. Not just those pills you buy in your health food market, but the nutrition, biochemicals, antioxidants, minerals, enzymes , and herbals we eat in our diet from fruits and vegetables . Many of us are over-exposed to one logic of medial health thinking and sometimes begin to "cringe" when we hear the word supplement. But, supplements do what they say they do, they "supplement life" through your diet!
Long are the days of great biochemist who opened the door to supplements like Linus Pauling ( who discovered vitamin C's ability to fight disease and aging)or Watson and Crick who cracked the DNA code. We( I am talking primarily about allopaths) have forgotten there biochemical origins of health from plants and the human cell.
The paradigm has to shift now if we are to have what today is termed "total health". Total health can only be obtained if the battle is waged form a "mico-biotic approach" to diet and nutrition from the cells prospective. But , this applies probably to all apects of life really.
If metabolism is the "unifier" of all organ -systems in the human body, obesity has to be the "mother of all chronic illnesses" , because the majority of chronic illnesses are due to its cause. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, fertility problems, liver disease, pancreatic disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, stroke and other vascular diseases, body dismorphic syndrome, metabolic problems, obstructive and restrictive lung diseases(non-tobacco realted from musculo-skeltal impingement), arthritis, and depression are all due in some direct or indirect way to obesity.
Why aren't we directing the battle more towards its prevention as a real lifestyle change? That is where metabolism comes in to unify our health care crisis and the shift of the paradigm. For about 150 years we have moved towards synthetic and artificial products as substitute treatments when for 5000 years herbs, roots, berries, bark, salves, ointments, water, honey, minerals , relaxation, prayer and other natural products were effectively used, not to even mention the work of Linus Pauling and Noble Laureates of biochemistry like Watson and Crick!
We have to now take full responsibility as laypersons for our own health today. We really don't know what is down the pike when it comes to toxic exposures. Toxic exposures will continue to come in numerous forms. How will you prepare for them and how will your protect yourself?
Dr. Marcus Wells MD, MPH is a past Clinical Associate from the National Institutes of Health at the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute. He holds a Master's in Public Health. He also has served in the Health & Human Services , Public Health Service(PHS) and Commissioned Corp.
Learn more at http://www.tgx360.com/
Neurologist will naturally say that the nervous system hands down is the most important and cardiologist will debate their own specialty convincingly, however there are several systems in the human body all trying to maintain balance. However only one system actually "unifies" the rest by actually speaking every organ-systems "language". The system is called Metabolism.
Many of us rarely take notice that this system is perhaps the most important in giving the body balance. Now it is time to give it the respect that it is due, because it has been doing its share of work with out you knowing it and our recogning it is long overdue. If you think about how practically no particular organ tissue of one organ is seen in any other organ we begin to realize this metabolic importance more. Sure,examples like the nervous tissue as nerves in organs is technically correct, but even that is limited. But, not every organ tissue has a nerve that can stimulate a metabolic factor into it. Unlike the Metabolic system which is the essential controlling mechanism in every cell because every cell either has DNA , mitochondria or the TCA cycle(tri-cyclic acid cycle).In other words whichever organ you look at metabolism is there.
Metabolism maintains what physiologist call homeostasis. Thats "Ph.D talk" for balance. This balance is literally for everything in the body for all the trillions of cells that exists , literally. From water, to electrolytes, production of protein, the production of energy, body heat, hormone production and nerve innervation;it is metabolism that signals and communicates when our body is "out-of-whack" in every organ system. Heart myocytes are limited to serving only its area, as are the pepcid cells of the GI tract that are limited to its area and osteocytes assigned to only the bones. But, metabolism keeps tract , signals and communicates to all of the organ cells and exists physically and intimately to all organs through their cells. The "master" gland of metabolism, the thyroid and the "master of the master" the hypothalmus are all controlled by metabolism, themselves.
THE CALORIE AND METABOLISM
Many of us do not know technically what a calorie is and what its purposes are. We just know that we are supposed to "burn" them. The calorie is a unit of measurement of heat production of the body due to metabolism. The human body acts as a type of furnace but perhaps even a better description is a generator and an engine. The amout of heat produced to raise temperature literally by one degree celsius is a calorie. Temperature, heat production and control is maintained in the "master" glands of the endocrine system.
When food is introduced to your body's system it normally raises temperature. When you exercise or even shiver from cold you generate heat. That means food represents potential calories gained and exercise represents a potential heat loss . By this we can manipulate calories based on control of what we eat and how much activity we do.
Each calorie type delivers a capacity load of energy that can be stored in the form of adipose tissue as primarily triglycerides are "burned" off by action. Fat calories which are slower to burn than carbohydrates and proteins have two-and-a-half times more the caloric value. It therefore can deliver more energy, but they are less efficient calories for quick energy sources. so we have to balance our calories through our sources!
METABOLIC TYPES AND HOW CAN WE NATURALLY MANIPULATE CALORIES
There are essentially three basic types of metabolisms but several more sub-types. The fast oxidizer burns energy rapidly and because of that generally needs more dense calories, slow oxidizers if over-eating tend to accumulate greatly their stores of energy and need to eonsume morecomplex carbs. Then, there is a grouping which most of us probably fit into today. The mixed-variable "out-of -whack" type.
Because of several exposures our body's are constantly being assaulted by metabolic toxins and our body's systems becomes derranged or out-of-control. Our food supply has several carcinogens and toxins. The air we breath as well as water we drink expose us to harmful effects. Today we are finally looking at exhaust from cars, carcinogens in gasoline and non-ionizing and ionizing radiation as all potential hazards. All which potentially harm us through making free oxygen radicals that destroy or mutate DNA and cell structures. The result of which are chronic diseases, cancers, immuno-suppressive ailments and obesity.
Therfore the " battle" that has to be waged against diseases at the cellular level or microbiotic level of cells , not macrobiotic or the organ level with the whole food itself. If we do , we are continuing to miss the actual machinery of determining health at the most important unit of health(life)-the human cell. Because of that Nano-Nutrition and molecular Bio-Fuels are necessary in our daily regimens. What are Nano-Nutritions? We know them commonly as supplements. Not just those pills you buy in your health food market, but the nutrition, biochemicals, antioxidants, minerals, enzymes , and herbals we eat in our diet from fruits and vegetables . Many of us are over-exposed to one logic of medial health thinking and sometimes begin to "cringe" when we hear the word supplement. But, supplements do what they say they do, they "supplement life" through your diet!
Long are the days of great biochemist who opened the door to supplements like Linus Pauling ( who discovered vitamin C's ability to fight disease and aging)or Watson and Crick who cracked the DNA code. We( I am talking primarily about allopaths) have forgotten there biochemical origins of health from plants and the human cell.
The paradigm has to shift now if we are to have what today is termed "total health". Total health can only be obtained if the battle is waged form a "mico-biotic approach" to diet and nutrition from the cells prospective. But , this applies probably to all apects of life really.
If metabolism is the "unifier" of all organ -systems in the human body, obesity has to be the "mother of all chronic illnesses" , because the majority of chronic illnesses are due to its cause. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, fertility problems, liver disease, pancreatic disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, stroke and other vascular diseases, body dismorphic syndrome, metabolic problems, obstructive and restrictive lung diseases(non-tobacco realted from musculo-skeltal impingement), arthritis, and depression are all due in some direct or indirect way to obesity.
Why aren't we directing the battle more towards its prevention as a real lifestyle change? That is where metabolism comes in to unify our health care crisis and the shift of the paradigm. For about 150 years we have moved towards synthetic and artificial products as substitute treatments when for 5000 years herbs, roots, berries, bark, salves, ointments, water, honey, minerals , relaxation, prayer and other natural products were effectively used, not to even mention the work of Linus Pauling and Noble Laureates of biochemistry like Watson and Crick!
We have to now take full responsibility as laypersons for our own health today. We really don't know what is down the pike when it comes to toxic exposures. Toxic exposures will continue to come in numerous forms. How will you prepare for them and how will your protect yourself?
Dr. Marcus Wells MD, MPH is a past Clinical Associate from the National Institutes of Health at the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute. He holds a Master's in Public Health. He also has served in the Health & Human Services , Public Health Service(PHS) and Commissioned Corp.
Learn more at http://www.tgx360.com/
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