TAKE BACK YOUR LIFEWritten by Stephen Ayers
It seems today that for every mood swing, inconvenient behavior, irritating symptom, unwanted pain, or side effect there is a distinctively colored pill to smooth way for our hectic life styles. The advertisements are all over TV, radio, and every form of print media telling us to ask our doctor about this or that pill that will make everything all right. You would think that, for all their sincerity, these advertisements are saying that silver bullet cure for every little thing has arrived. Our environment is toxic enough without adding lots of these laboratory concocted synthetic substances to our bodies. If our bodies have correct raw materials to work with, then they are capable of protecting, defending, and repairing themselves. Of course, this not only requires education necessary to know what to feed our bodies, but also requires a whole new way of thinking about our health. We must develop a culture of wellness instead of a consciousness of sickness and symptoms. Wellness is a way of thinking as well as a condition. Much of what ails us today can be linked to improper immune function. Our immune systems have been compromised to point where their activity has been turned 180 degrees from protecting us, and instead are attacking very cells they are supposed to protect. The human immune system, though much more complicated than I have time to go into in this article, has a straight forward and simple method for keeping us well. The human immune system, using white cells produced by blood, goes in search of other cells and other organisms that cause trouble and negatively impact our body systems. If cells that are on their search and destroy missions recognize problems, then our immune system functions to protect, defend, and repair our tissues. This is how our bodies are supposed to take care of unhealthful bacteria, viruses, toxins, cancers, and other potentially harmful things. The process described above works well automatically when conditions are favorable and proper raw materials are available and present for our bodies to accomplish what, by design they were meant to achieve. In past, properly grown, harvested, and prepared foods were a good source of necessary raw materials with which our bodies could pave way for proper immune function at cellular level maintaining wellness. When this balance is achieved, healthy cells, with cell surface sugars transmitting vital information, exist to help our bodies take care of problems and conditions that may arise. However, absence of these cell surface sugars, that provide means by which accurate identification takes place, will produce disastrous consequences resulting in destruction of healthy cells and tissue. This destructive process is one of main reasons why autoimmune diseases such as asthma, arthritis, lupus, and a host of allergies are rising to epidemic proportions today.
| | Increase Your Production Of Nitric Oxide Written by Seth Hoffman
The Science Behind Nitric Oxide (NO) Putting your time in at gym will certainly help you achieve your goals for a more fit looking body. But new research suggests that exercise may also help increase production of nitric oxide. What Is Nitric Oxide (NO)? Nitric oxide (NO) is produced by healthy endothelial cells. The discovery of its function is possibly one of most important in history of cardiovascular medicine. In 1998 three Americans (Robert F. Furchgott, PhD, Louis J. Ignarro, PhD, and Ferid Murad, MD, PhD) were awarded Nobel Prize for their independent discoveries concerning "nitric oxide" as a signaling molecule in cardiovascular system. Nitric oxide (NO) is essentially a signaling molecule that helps control a range of processes in body, including nerve signaling, immune functions, muscle growth and dilation of blood vessels. Nitric Oxide And Increased Positive Blood Flow Since discovery that Nitric oxide (NO) is able to induce vasodilation a large number of other roles have been described for Nitric oxide (NO). It is also known to play a role in immune system, nervous system, in inflammation and in programmed cell death (apoptosis). Nitric oxide (NO) has also been implicated in smooth muscle relaxation, pregnancy and blood vessel formation (angiogenesis).
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