I love watching the home and garden channel. First comes the before pictures of a room or house that is a hodge podge lacking of any style or just a broken down place in need of some tender loving care. But bring in the expert and the miracle transformation takes place creating beauty and style and wonderful well being.
I love helping the human body. A body that is a hodge podge of problems and broken down is an opportunity to use knowledge about the design of the body to help it heal like a professional you hire uses the knowledge of design of color and form to shape a real mess into a beautiful room.
Living in your body doesn't automatically give you knowledge of how it works every day any more than living in your house means you can understand the electricity you depend on every day.
Hiring a professional to help you get well is a great way to begin your new year.
You don't hire an electrician who shows his skill at his work by showing lots of beautiful fixtures or selling you truckloads of light bulbs. He or she has their primary skill based on their real understanding of electricity itself. Without the proper wiring and knowledge of you to use an incredible power, all the fancy fixtures and cases of bulbs are worthless.
The information you get from a skilled and well trained professional can save your life. A person who is trained on how the body works, what supports real health instead of what just looks good or sells well is your best chance at getting to the goal of being well.
The focus is so much on weight and obesity. These are symptoms just like any other symptom of a body that is failing to function well. Find out what to do to build health from the inside and it will shine to the outside. Like a properly wired house is the best showcase for beautiful decorating to be placed.
Accept only the best care this year. Don't settle for what you settled for last year. Get well.
Our focus is to inform, reform, and transform. We want to teach you how your body works, update your education on what is good to eat and supports healing, and participate in helping you be transformed from sick to well.
Come in for a nutrition response testing consultation--you will be amazed at how much can be improved in your health!
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Monday, November 19, 2007
We learn in basic science class that everything in the world goes toward breaking down. Think about your car abandoned in a field or even parked in the garage and not moved at all for one year. The tires begin to show signs of rot and loose air and get a flat side. The working parts all begin to deteriorate. Your house would be about the same. A house that is not in use by anyone breaks down and eventually disappears. I was looking at a website for a book called "the world without us". It goes through in great detail, the process of the earth reclaiming itself if it was suddenly and completely unpopulated by humans.
The first effect would be the breaking down of all the things we have built and are familiar with in day to day life. The illustrations show the action of big bugs and small bugs like fungi and bacteria that nature enlists to reduce and return all things to a state of future usefulness.
We are often given an explanation of disease and degenerative conditions as being part of the aging process. This is a rather euphemistic way of saying you are breaking down faster than you are rebuilding. The problem with ending the explanation here is that the whole point of breaking down becomes absolutely pointless.
In the natural world, bugs and other processes break down everything for a reason. The reason is that it is an essential part of the cycle of rebuilding. The key is that the breaking down part of the effort doesn't overtake and overwhelm the rebuilding part.
Your body is part of the natural world and has the same processes built in to it. What is so often stated as a final judgement--"you're getting old"--is a poor understanding of the beginning of the life cycle. Having raw materials available to rebuild is foundational to new life.
Degeneration of human tissue is an essential part of regeneration of fresh life. Your body is constantly breaking down. It is also constantly building up and creating replacement parts out of the raw materials. The next stage of life is only as good as the raw materials available to rebuild with.
To build genuine replacement parts, you have to use the best materials possible to start with. This is the real problem with the typical explanation of aging. We use bad raw materials, products we falsely label as food, and expect to rebuild our body each day with something that can't be broken down into useful raw materials. This process goes on for years and decades and we blame the years and decades.
Don't let it happen to you. You are designed to regenerate at a faster rate than you degenerate for your life time. If this isn't working out for you correctly, come in and see how to reverse the old age trend and rebuild health.
The first effect would be the breaking down of all the things we have built and are familiar with in day to day life. The illustrations show the action of big bugs and small bugs like fungi and bacteria that nature enlists to reduce and return all things to a state of future usefulness.
We are often given an explanation of disease and degenerative conditions as being part of the aging process. This is a rather euphemistic way of saying you are breaking down faster than you are rebuilding. The problem with ending the explanation here is that the whole point of breaking down becomes absolutely pointless.
In the natural world, bugs and other processes break down everything for a reason. The reason is that it is an essential part of the cycle of rebuilding. The key is that the breaking down part of the effort doesn't overtake and overwhelm the rebuilding part.
Your body is part of the natural world and has the same processes built in to it. What is so often stated as a final judgement--"you're getting old"--is a poor understanding of the beginning of the life cycle. Having raw materials available to rebuild is foundational to new life.
Degeneration of human tissue is an essential part of regeneration of fresh life. Your body is constantly breaking down. It is also constantly building up and creating replacement parts out of the raw materials. The next stage of life is only as good as the raw materials available to rebuild with.
To build genuine replacement parts, you have to use the best materials possible to start with. This is the real problem with the typical explanation of aging. We use bad raw materials, products we falsely label as food, and expect to rebuild our body each day with something that can't be broken down into useful raw materials. This process goes on for years and decades and we blame the years and decades.
Don't let it happen to you. You are designed to regenerate at a faster rate than you degenerate for your life time. If this isn't working out for you correctly, come in and see how to reverse the old age trend and rebuild health.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Electrical brilliance
If the light switch in your bedroom isn't working, you do what every smart person does--you flick the switch about a 1,000 times to see if that will help. It never does, so the next logical step is to call out, "Hey, the light isn't working," and, if anyone hears this, they will come to where you are and flick the switch about three times to verify that this is correct information.
Once everyone is satisfied, someone heads to the main electrical box to see if the problem is there. Often it is a safety feature of the breaker and when it is reset, the light in the bedroom comes on and everything works again.
This is a good system. There are local controls for electricity in each room and there is a master control in one place for every room. It is a good illustration of how the electrical system in your body works also.
We have local nerve controls that exit at each of the vertebra in the spine. There are symptoms that the control may not be working very well. Muscle pain or weakness and tingling can indicate this. And like the need to flick a switch about a thousand times, we often repeat a motion that confirms, "yes, this nerve is not doing what it is supposed to do because this doesn't feel right."
Like a well organized electrical system in your house, your body also has a well organized electrical system with not only a local control, but also a master control area for muscles and general body alignment. This central point is accessed best at one very special point in the body, the first spinal bone or atlas.
The atlas is positioned exactly where the brain stem and the spinal cord actually connect and so much of the body is affected when it is mal-positioned. Like a breaker that is causing an interference in a good electrical system, the atlas can cause an interference in an otherwise good working nervous system.
The check for atlas misalignment is simple, the adjustment is easy and does not cause a popping or need a twist, and the results can "turn on the lights" just like resetting a breaker to the proper position. Find out if you need to have your atlas adjusted to help clear pain away.
Once everyone is satisfied, someone heads to the main electrical box to see if the problem is there. Often it is a safety feature of the breaker and when it is reset, the light in the bedroom comes on and everything works again.
This is a good system. There are local controls for electricity in each room and there is a master control in one place for every room. It is a good illustration of how the electrical system in your body works also.
We have local nerve controls that exit at each of the vertebra in the spine. There are symptoms that the control may not be working very well. Muscle pain or weakness and tingling can indicate this. And like the need to flick a switch about a thousand times, we often repeat a motion that confirms, "yes, this nerve is not doing what it is supposed to do because this doesn't feel right."
Like a well organized electrical system in your house, your body also has a well organized electrical system with not only a local control, but also a master control area for muscles and general body alignment. This central point is accessed best at one very special point in the body, the first spinal bone or atlas.
The atlas is positioned exactly where the brain stem and the spinal cord actually connect and so much of the body is affected when it is mal-positioned. Like a breaker that is causing an interference in a good electrical system, the atlas can cause an interference in an otherwise good working nervous system.
The check for atlas misalignment is simple, the adjustment is easy and does not cause a popping or need a twist, and the results can "turn on the lights" just like resetting a breaker to the proper position. Find out if you need to have your atlas adjusted to help clear pain away.
The WHY and HOW
Inquisitive children ask WHY. Inquisitive adults ask HOW. The truthfullness of the answer to WHY leads to an effective HOW. For example, a child asks why we eat, why we poop, why the body works the way it does. If the answer to the WHY is true, then the question HOW can I best feed my body will be most effective and the outcome will be what you want it to be.
In our work we use the WHY as a standard of truth to the HOW. When you are trying to learn HOW to feed your body correctly it is most important to know WHY your body works the way it does. WHY your body works the way it does is a standard of truth. Our patients learn the WHY first. Then HOW should I feed it to best care for it becomes so much easier. A person who knows WHY is less likely to fall prey to wrong information about HOW to feed the body.
There has been so much bad information in the last 50 years regarding what to eat. We are seeing dire consequences of these marketed chemical products erroneously called food. People are sick and getting sicker simply because they didn't know what the body does with real food.
When you know WHY you need real food, you can learn HOW to best to feed your body. We give you the tools to be able to see past phony foods and gimmicks to the real right and need you have to be fed. You can know enough not to be fooled. Dr. Stacey Lang
In our work we use the WHY as a standard of truth to the HOW. When you are trying to learn HOW to feed your body correctly it is most important to know WHY your body works the way it does. WHY your body works the way it does is a standard of truth. Our patients learn the WHY first. Then HOW should I feed it to best care for it becomes so much easier. A person who knows WHY is less likely to fall prey to wrong information about HOW to feed the body.
There has been so much bad information in the last 50 years regarding what to eat. We are seeing dire consequences of these marketed chemical products erroneously called food. People are sick and getting sicker simply because they didn't know what the body does with real food.
When you know WHY you need real food, you can learn HOW to best to feed your body. We give you the tools to be able to see past phony foods and gimmicks to the real right and need you have to be fed. You can know enough not to be fooled. Dr. Stacey Lang
Monday, October 15, 2007
Antibiotics
Pencils and penicillin, camp and campylobacter. Back to school often means back to the doctor as well and one of the problems you may be faced with when you are sick, is whether antibiotics are needed or not.
The value of antibiotics is immense. We have enjoyed such relief and lifesaving benefits from them. But a real concern over the emergence of dangerous antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria due to improper use is important to consider.
Antibiotic resistance is not new. Penicillin was mass produced by drug companies in 1943, and less than a decade later, resistant organisms were isolated in hospitals, and then in the general public.
In order to slow this dangerous trend towards losing the ability to combat bacterial infections with antibiotics, it is important to know when they are needed, and how to help yourself need less of them.
Antibiotics are often prescribed for children suffering with ear pain. For middle ear infections, the number of prescriptions written rose from 15million in 1985 to 23.6 million in 1992. Many physicians are convinced that the use of antibiotics to treat otitis media (middle ear infections) can be reduced. In 2002, a hearing on the problems of antibiotic resistance was presented to the California state assembly and physicians were asked to speak about the severity of the problem and the options that are available to help patients who are sick but don’t need antibiotics.
Pediatricians were especially adamant about antibiotic abuse. Dr. Quynh Kieu stated that “95% of otitis media cases in children do not need antibiotics to be resolved”. Kieu, along with the other physicians in attendance expressed a need for alternative treatment to address the discomfort felt by children suffering from otitis media.
If you have been involved in trying to improve your life with a holistic approach to health, you have probably considered the pitfalls of antibiotic use and misuse. If you are just starting out on a holistic path to wellness, you may need more information about how to decrease your susceptibility to infection and improve your healing time when you do get sick.
Properly washing your hands with simple soap and water is still the single best way to limit the spread of disease from person to person and food to person. A good daily routine to follow is to wash your hands when you arrive at school or work, before you eat, after you finish eating, and before you leave school or work. Sing the “Happy Birthday To Me” song to ensure you have given the mechanics of hand washing enough time to get rid of harmful disease causing pathogens. (You may want to sing silently to your self to limit the spread of rumors about you as well!)
Thoroughly wash all fruits and veggies before you eat them. Even packaged, pre-washed salad mixes should be washed by you before eating. Not only are you washing away pathogens, but also harmful chemicals and pesticides. Reducing these in your foods helps to reduce the stress on your body to eliminate them. Any reduction of stress to your body will help your immune system work more efficiently to handle the “bugs” you do come in contact with.
Approximately 55% of antibiotics used in the United States are given to food animals. It would be nearly impossible to eliminate this source completely from your diet, so try to reduce the load somewhat. Changing to organic diary products is an easy and readily available source of antibiotic-free food for you and your children.
The value of antibiotics is immense. We have enjoyed such relief and lifesaving benefits from them. But a real concern over the emergence of dangerous antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria due to improper use is important to consider.
Antibiotic resistance is not new. Penicillin was mass produced by drug companies in 1943, and less than a decade later, resistant organisms were isolated in hospitals, and then in the general public.
In order to slow this dangerous trend towards losing the ability to combat bacterial infections with antibiotics, it is important to know when they are needed, and how to help yourself need less of them.
Antibiotics are often prescribed for children suffering with ear pain. For middle ear infections, the number of prescriptions written rose from 15million in 1985 to 23.6 million in 1992. Many physicians are convinced that the use of antibiotics to treat otitis media (middle ear infections) can be reduced. In 2002, a hearing on the problems of antibiotic resistance was presented to the California state assembly and physicians were asked to speak about the severity of the problem and the options that are available to help patients who are sick but don’t need antibiotics.
Pediatricians were especially adamant about antibiotic abuse. Dr. Quynh Kieu stated that “95% of otitis media cases in children do not need antibiotics to be resolved”. Kieu, along with the other physicians in attendance expressed a need for alternative treatment to address the discomfort felt by children suffering from otitis media.
If you have been involved in trying to improve your life with a holistic approach to health, you have probably considered the pitfalls of antibiotic use and misuse. If you are just starting out on a holistic path to wellness, you may need more information about how to decrease your susceptibility to infection and improve your healing time when you do get sick.
Properly washing your hands with simple soap and water is still the single best way to limit the spread of disease from person to person and food to person. A good daily routine to follow is to wash your hands when you arrive at school or work, before you eat, after you finish eating, and before you leave school or work. Sing the “Happy Birthday To Me” song to ensure you have given the mechanics of hand washing enough time to get rid of harmful disease causing pathogens. (You may want to sing silently to your self to limit the spread of rumors about you as well!)
Thoroughly wash all fruits and veggies before you eat them. Even packaged, pre-washed salad mixes should be washed by you before eating. Not only are you washing away pathogens, but also harmful chemicals and pesticides. Reducing these in your foods helps to reduce the stress on your body to eliminate them. Any reduction of stress to your body will help your immune system work more efficiently to handle the “bugs” you do come in contact with.
Approximately 55% of antibiotics used in the United States are given to food animals. It would be nearly impossible to eliminate this source completely from your diet, so try to reduce the load somewhat. Changing to organic diary products is an easy and readily available source of antibiotic-free food for you and your children.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Hormone Connection--excerpt from upcoming talk
You will have to attend my Seminar on Hormones and the human body (at First Security Trust Bank in Florence on August 18th, 2007) to hear the rest!
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What an intriguing topic hormones is! How many people here are completely confused by the information available on hormones? How many people here are completely confused by how their body is behaving presumably because of hormones?
Is it reasonable to expect that anything you don't understand will cause you to feel afraid of it? How many of you experience fear because of the symptoms you are experiencing?
The greatest asset of the education I have received is related to the understanding of how the human body works. My great passion is to pass this information on to the people in my practice and anyone else who will listen—knowing how your body works is your greatest tool to loving and appreciating yourself and being able to take care of yourself.
There are no maps to the territory of hormone replacement therapy. All we have to go on is clinical experience or guessing. The only way to actually have a map to know what to do to help your body back to health is to use the maps we do have. The best way to know is to use what we do know as the basis for what to do next. By going back to basic, NORMAL, physiology it is possible to then honor and support how the body actually works instead of guessing your way through unknown territory and using female patients experimentally.
The cycling woman has a number of different phases she passes through during a typical cycle of approximately 28 days. The beginning of the cycle is called the follicular phase.
We begin by using a natural health approach. To change the body you have to change the situation. But changing the situation doesn't mean declaring war on the body. Wellness is in you—in fact it is your birthright. To wait for disease to happen, then declare WAR on it is like turning out the light, then getting donations to fight the darkness. BETTER TO JUST TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON!
So we always start by just supporting your natural right to health, because at any age and in virtually any condition the body can come through and regenerate a healthier self. As we get older, we are designed to change—but we are not designed to fall apart.
I cringe when I hear Doctors quoted in my office who have said to patients, “what do you expect? You're getting older!”
In a natural health practice, we are not doing something to you, we are doing something with you. You don't drop your body off on Tuesday with a pick-up receipt for Friday. “Here's my body doc—fix it and I'll be back for it when you are done!”
Natural health correction is a participation sport, you must be willing to participate and make some changes—mental and physical. You are receiving messages via symptoms from your body that it is doing the best it can under the current situation, and in order to help it do better and make the symptoms go away, you will probably need to make a few changes in the current situation.
The first situation to change is energy. You must increase the energy available to the body. Nothing happens without energy. If you first improve energy pathways you will enable the body to use the tools such as hormone replacement therapies that you are giving it.
What is the source your body gets energy from? Food. Does anybody here feel guilty when you eat? Has anyone ever explained the energy pathway of food to you? No wonder the hormone system is so confusing to you. Feeling guilty about eating, but needing to know how complicated systems work in the body is the equivalent of wanting to drive somewhere, but being unable to put gas in the car until you understand how the entire engine system works!
We are not going to go into a detailed discussion about food today (that's another full day entirely), and when we talk in depth about food, we need to talk about how badly food is being changed today, but let's start our talk about hormones by a basic understanding about the one most important thing your body needs to be able to make hormones...
Call 859.331.2800 to make your reservations for my lecture. The cost is 15$ for an individual, 25$ for a pair. Call or email if you would like to be informed of our upcoming lectures and events by email or snail mail. visit NWHIC.com for details and more about us.
...
What an intriguing topic hormones is! How many people here are completely confused by the information available on hormones? How many people here are completely confused by how their body is behaving presumably because of hormones?
Is it reasonable to expect that anything you don't understand will cause you to feel afraid of it? How many of you experience fear because of the symptoms you are experiencing?
The greatest asset of the education I have received is related to the understanding of how the human body works. My great passion is to pass this information on to the people in my practice and anyone else who will listen—knowing how your body works is your greatest tool to loving and appreciating yourself and being able to take care of yourself.
There are no maps to the territory of hormone replacement therapy. All we have to go on is clinical experience or guessing. The only way to actually have a map to know what to do to help your body back to health is to use the maps we do have. The best way to know is to use what we do know as the basis for what to do next. By going back to basic, NORMAL, physiology it is possible to then honor and support how the body actually works instead of guessing your way through unknown territory and using female patients experimentally.
The cycling woman has a number of different phases she passes through during a typical cycle of approximately 28 days. The beginning of the cycle is called the follicular phase.
We begin by using a natural health approach. To change the body you have to change the situation. But changing the situation doesn't mean declaring war on the body. Wellness is in you—in fact it is your birthright. To wait for disease to happen, then declare WAR on it is like turning out the light, then getting donations to fight the darkness. BETTER TO JUST TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON!
So we always start by just supporting your natural right to health, because at any age and in virtually any condition the body can come through and regenerate a healthier self. As we get older, we are designed to change—but we are not designed to fall apart.
I cringe when I hear Doctors quoted in my office who have said to patients, “what do you expect? You're getting older!”
In a natural health practice, we are not doing something to you, we are doing something with you. You don't drop your body off on Tuesday with a pick-up receipt for Friday. “Here's my body doc—fix it and I'll be back for it when you are done!”
Natural health correction is a participation sport, you must be willing to participate and make some changes—mental and physical. You are receiving messages via symptoms from your body that it is doing the best it can under the current situation, and in order to help it do better and make the symptoms go away, you will probably need to make a few changes in the current situation.
The first situation to change is energy. You must increase the energy available to the body. Nothing happens without energy. If you first improve energy pathways you will enable the body to use the tools such as hormone replacement therapies that you are giving it.
What is the source your body gets energy from? Food. Does anybody here feel guilty when you eat? Has anyone ever explained the energy pathway of food to you? No wonder the hormone system is so confusing to you. Feeling guilty about eating, but needing to know how complicated systems work in the body is the equivalent of wanting to drive somewhere, but being unable to put gas in the car until you understand how the entire engine system works!
We are not going to go into a detailed discussion about food today (that's another full day entirely), and when we talk in depth about food, we need to talk about how badly food is being changed today, but let's start our talk about hormones by a basic understanding about the one most important thing your body needs to be able to make hormones...
Call 859.331.2800 to make your reservations for my lecture. The cost is 15$ for an individual, 25$ for a pair. Call or email if you would like to be informed of our upcoming lectures and events by email or snail mail. visit NWHIC.com for details and more about us.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Hormones--a little information for y'all
(Entry taken directly from my lecture notes for this month's Weston A. Price meeting--Northern KY chapter) Visit nwhic.com or call 859.331.2800 for more information on how you can be involved in this wonderful organization.
What is a hormone?
Hormones are biochemical messengers that exert profound and specific metabolic influences throughout the body.
The endocrine system produces a multitude of hormones that work together as a synergistic whole.
The gastro-intestinal tract is a key producer of brain hormones. We now know that all currently known brain hormones are also produced in the GI tract.
Hormones are very tightly controlled by body because they are so powerful. Tiny amounts of hormones are released directly into the bloodstream and exert profound effects on body processes. Hormones are not food. Hormones are not nutritional supplements. Hormones are not like vitamins or minerals. Hormones are not herbs and hormones are not nutriceutical products. Hormones are chemicals that cause cellular changes that enter the deepest internal workings of your body cells and effect the growth and development of human tissue and the necessary physiological changes that will be needed to support the cellular changes.
Hormones levels in the body are measured in parts per billion or nanograms and parts per trillion or picograms. One part per billion is like putting a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potato chips. One part trillion is like putting one drop of water in a train that is 660 tank cars long stretching out over six miles of track!
Hormones work with nerves as the body’s control system . Together they coordinate all adaptation to the world around as well as integrating every physical, mental, and emotional function.
They govern, among other things:
All metabolism--this is the building up, and the breaking down of the body and the extraction of energy from food.
Development and reproduction. The ability not only to desire sex, but to be successful is under hormonal control.
Mental, emotional and behavioral processes. The way you act, think and feel is a hormonal function.
Growth, repair and maintenance. A single hormone can function in many ways. For example, testosterone is the great building hormone for muscle and strength, but only in very small amounts. Testosterone is actually a catabolic hormone which will cause a breakdown of body tissue in improper amounts.
Many of the processes of fetal development including brain and nerve tissue.
Where are we exposed to hormones?
Until recently, all human exposure to hormones was simply to those we made in our own body, termed endogenous hormones, and those that naturally occur in plants termed phyto-hormones.
In the last 60 years, 87,000 new man-made chemicals have been introduced into our food, water and air.
Many, many of these 87,000 chemicals are now known to be hormone disruptors.
One category of this special class of hormones is termed Xeno-hormones or Xeno-estrogens.
Xeno comes from the greek word for foreign.
Estrogen is a female hormone.
Today we have 10’s of thousands of xenoestrogens which easily enter the human body, attach themselves to receptor ports on cells and start overriding the normal hormone controls of all biochemical processes.
Unlike normal hormones, a Xeno-hormone is forever. Your human hormones are produced in very small amounts with opposing hormones to control and prevent abnormal and destructive cellular events.
For example, progesterone is an opposer to estrogen but is no match for the powerful xenon-hormones. Normal hormones are easily metabolized and then broken down by the liver. Xeno-hormones bind permanently to the cell receptor site, accumulating in fat tissue, and ultimately disrupting normal biological processes.
Such normal processes under hormonal control include:
The proper amount of acid to digest food--not too much acid, not too little acid. Gastrin is the group of hormones that actually control normal and appropriate acid production. Nexium and other meds seem to be necessary now to perform this vital role.
Normal sleep and waking pattern. Melatonin is the “sleep” hormone. It is interestingly, also an estrogen opposing hormone, easily used up by xenon-estrogen overload. Lunesta and other sleep aids seem to be absolutely necessary today.
Sugar handling is done by normal insulin production. Insulin is a hormone. We have an explosion of diabetic disease and pre-diabetic disease that is out of control and shows no sign of slowing down.
Normal reproductive interest and capability. Pre 40 infertility clinics and post 40 sexual performance are common parts of our lives today.
Depression is affecting nearly everyone. Mood is definitely under hormone regulation--seratonin receptor sites are the target for SSRI medication .
And don’t even get me started on PMS!!
Just exactly how harmful are the consequences of these hormone disrupters?
…to pregnant women
…to children
…to adults
No one knows for sure.
…to normal intelligence
…to behavior
…to the health of future offspring?
No one knows for sure.
…the cumulative affect of many pollutants building up in the body over time?
No one knows for sure.
What is a hormone?
Hormones are biochemical messengers that exert profound and specific metabolic influences throughout the body.
The endocrine system produces a multitude of hormones that work together as a synergistic whole.
The gastro-intestinal tract is a key producer of brain hormones. We now know that all currently known brain hormones are also produced in the GI tract.
Hormones are very tightly controlled by body because they are so powerful. Tiny amounts of hormones are released directly into the bloodstream and exert profound effects on body processes. Hormones are not food. Hormones are not nutritional supplements. Hormones are not like vitamins or minerals. Hormones are not herbs and hormones are not nutriceutical products. Hormones are chemicals that cause cellular changes that enter the deepest internal workings of your body cells and effect the growth and development of human tissue and the necessary physiological changes that will be needed to support the cellular changes.
Hormones levels in the body are measured in parts per billion or nanograms and parts per trillion or picograms. One part per billion is like putting a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potato chips. One part trillion is like putting one drop of water in a train that is 660 tank cars long stretching out over six miles of track!
Hormones work with nerves as the body’s control system . Together they coordinate all adaptation to the world around as well as integrating every physical, mental, and emotional function.
They govern, among other things:
All metabolism--this is the building up, and the breaking down of the body and the extraction of energy from food.
Development and reproduction. The ability not only to desire sex, but to be successful is under hormonal control.
Mental, emotional and behavioral processes. The way you act, think and feel is a hormonal function.
Growth, repair and maintenance. A single hormone can function in many ways. For example, testosterone is the great building hormone for muscle and strength, but only in very small amounts. Testosterone is actually a catabolic hormone which will cause a breakdown of body tissue in improper amounts.
Many of the processes of fetal development including brain and nerve tissue.
Where are we exposed to hormones?
Until recently, all human exposure to hormones was simply to those we made in our own body, termed endogenous hormones, and those that naturally occur in plants termed phyto-hormones.
In the last 60 years, 87,000 new man-made chemicals have been introduced into our food, water and air.
Many, many of these 87,000 chemicals are now known to be hormone disruptors.
One category of this special class of hormones is termed Xeno-hormones or Xeno-estrogens.
Xeno comes from the greek word for foreign.
Estrogen is a female hormone.
Today we have 10’s of thousands of xenoestrogens which easily enter the human body, attach themselves to receptor ports on cells and start overriding the normal hormone controls of all biochemical processes.
Unlike normal hormones, a Xeno-hormone is forever. Your human hormones are produced in very small amounts with opposing hormones to control and prevent abnormal and destructive cellular events.
For example, progesterone is an opposer to estrogen but is no match for the powerful xenon-hormones. Normal hormones are easily metabolized and then broken down by the liver. Xeno-hormones bind permanently to the cell receptor site, accumulating in fat tissue, and ultimately disrupting normal biological processes.
Such normal processes under hormonal control include:
The proper amount of acid to digest food--not too much acid, not too little acid. Gastrin is the group of hormones that actually control normal and appropriate acid production. Nexium and other meds seem to be necessary now to perform this vital role.
Normal sleep and waking pattern. Melatonin is the “sleep” hormone. It is interestingly, also an estrogen opposing hormone, easily used up by xenon-estrogen overload. Lunesta and other sleep aids seem to be absolutely necessary today.
Sugar handling is done by normal insulin production. Insulin is a hormone. We have an explosion of diabetic disease and pre-diabetic disease that is out of control and shows no sign of slowing down.
Normal reproductive interest and capability. Pre 40 infertility clinics and post 40 sexual performance are common parts of our lives today.
Depression is affecting nearly everyone. Mood is definitely under hormone regulation--seratonin receptor sites are the target for SSRI medication .
And don’t even get me started on PMS!!
Just exactly how harmful are the consequences of these hormone disrupters?
…to pregnant women
…to children
…to adults
No one knows for sure.
…to normal intelligence
…to behavior
…to the health of future offspring?
No one knows for sure.
…the cumulative affect of many pollutants building up in the body over time?
No one knows for sure.
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