AS you read through the archives of this website often you will read about the importance of vitamins, minerals and macronutrients. But for some reason I neglected to inform the visitants of the importance of the other chemicals in the body that regulate important bodily functions as well. Your body’s nerve reactions and muscle functions are dependent upon the proper exchange of electrolyte ion’s outside and inside your cells (a.k.a. calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium.)
There are many causes of electrolyte imbalances: loss of body fluid from prolong vomitting, diarrhea, sweating or high fever. Inadequate diet and lack of vitamins from food or malabsorption due to a variety of stomach disorders, medications or how food is digested. Also it could be a complication from hormonal or endocrine disorders.
Another possibility is a complication arriving from chemotherapy is tumor lysis syndrome, being an interaction of the cancer and treatment. This occurs when your body breaks down tumor cells rapidly after chemotherapy, causing a low blood calcium level, high blood potassium level and other electrolyte imbalances. With other medications causing an electrolyte imbalance being diuretics, antibotics and corticosteroids.
An electrolyte imbalance may create a number of symtoms, if your blood test results indicate an altered potassium & sodium, magnesium, or calcium factor — you may experience muscle spasms, weakness, and twitching or convulsions. While blood levels showing low levels may lead to irregular heartbeat, convulsions, blood pressure changes, nervous system or bone disorders.
And Blood levels that are to high may lead to weakness, or twitching of the muscles, numbness, fatigue, irregular heartbeat and blood pressure changes. A minor electrolyte imbalance may be corrected by diet change, for example eating a diet rich in potassium, calcium and magnesium or by restricting water intake if your blood levels are low in sodium.
Similarly, Dr. Harvey Risch of Yale University and his colleagues at the University of Toronto; authored a study on estrogen imbalance and determined. For every 10 grams of saturated, or animal fat a women ate per day, their risk of ovarian cancer rose 20 percent. Conversely, women who lowered their saturated fat consumption by 10 grams a day reduced their risk 20 percent (the North American women consumes on average 30 grams of saturated fat per day.)
Nobody knows exactly “why” saturated fat would affect a hormone caused cancer. However, Dr. Risch has a theory including animal fat may contain estrogen or increase a womens natural production. Whereas when a women eats a plant based phytoestrogen, it may signal the ovaries to slow estrogen production and the fiber in the plant may bind estrogen. So that it is eliminated instead of being continually circulated throughout the body.
Some health food guru’s will lead you believe yet another important imbalance is faulty enzymatic reaction as we age. Systematic enzyme therapy may indeed be the answer for your health whoas. Being their is differences between proteolytic enzymes and digestive enzymes. These systematic enzymes are something that you can take on an empty stomach so they freely enter into the bloodstream.
Once there, they dismantle problem proteins that are involved in your immune system’s inflammation process. In general, proteolytic enzymes have been found to clear the harmful immune complexes that form as a result of antibody reactions. Therefore: 1. they regulate cytokine activity and help clear inflammatory cytokines. 2. enhance the clearance of damage protein, remove fibrin and their fragments found in the blood during inflammation. 3. reduce advance glycation end – product (AGEs) and their receptor cells. 4. improve white blood cells to fight off infections.
With all the Imbalances: one can be presented in your body and with the NEW allegations surrounding baseball concerning a test positive list of baseball players swirling about using performance – enhancing drugs. My question is it really worth ruining ones health showcasing to our youth a negative example for them to follow. Back in the day when seven- time Tour de France winner Lance Armstong caught Americans Admiration.
The very thought of “illegal enhancer,” was from my mind as I was taken in by his feat. That substances called steroids, testosterone, cortisone, growth hormones and EPO [an illegal performance enhancer] played a part. After all, both endogenous and exogenous hormone are know to be involved in the development of various cancers. While before his death with brain cancer May 14, 1992 that Lyle Alzado admitted he believed his disease was a result of more than two decades of steroid and HGH use.
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