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The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson
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A “will do now” Versus A “Might do Later” - Mentality is needed to maintain health
In order to gain a full appreciation for the knowledge that your health is largely under your control, you need to appreciate that what you have been doing daily, over the years, has led to who you are. You need to examine the impact of your actions over “time”.
Read more: Live Lavishly Healthy Part 1: Your Health and Time
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It is important to know that in any study of human health, we must go to the cellular level to understand disease and human biochemistry. When at that level we need to appreciate that communications takes place in an electrical environment, through the exchange of electrons and other energy fields. We will come to see how Cells are not affected by their environment until they open a receptor to allow something to happen inside their cell membrane, and those receptors open and close because of certain energy transfers from their environment. An appreciation for the dimension of energy then, is fundamental to any study on human biochemistry.
In this video, we present the relationship between the system of mTOR and that of AMPK. mTOR is the system in the human body that is concerned with cellular proliferation. It senses nutrient intake and activity and assembles the building blocks needed to cause cells to grow. That “growth” process includes the breakdown of raw materials that will be made into usable components needed in the growth stages. This growth process also includes signals throughout the body to “develop”; develop cells, blood supply, oxygen utilization, phosphorylation and enzymatic activity, etc. The mTOR system senses nutrient availability- the more nutrient it senses the more active the system.
Read more: Live Lavishly Healthy Part 6: Foundational Health - Energy System Management
The human system is a highly regulated system that performs its daily activity pursuant to genetic information. That genetic information sets up and initiates activity throughout the body. It is the set of instructions from the DNA about how we are supposed to function. Science has discovered that this information is expressed under the influence of our diet and lifestyle. What we eat and our daily activity steers the genes to express their information and our state of health is the result. Every four hours, we have an opportunity to influence the genes expression by what we eat.
Read more: Live Lavishly Healthy Part 5: Foundational Health - Genetic Controllers
The Human system is always attempting to maintain a sense of balance; a term known as Homeostasis. That is why your blood pressure and pulse readings will be usually different every time you take them no matter how close in time the readings are. The CardioVascular system fluctuates to keep pace with the demand. Homeostasis requires two opposing forces to be able to correct one for the other, to keep balance. When it comes to full body health, The “Anabolic” system is responsible for creating an environment of “building” and “construction”, and is in full force as we grow from childhood to adulthood. The “Catabolic” system is for destruction and breakdown in the human system, like when you have been injured and there are injured and dead cells to be cleaned up and sent to the waste system, or when you are sick and under a bacterial or viral attack and the catabolic system is responsible for destroying the enemy invaders and the metabolic waste created from the fight.
Read more: Live Lavishly Healthy Part III: Anabolic vs. Catabolic