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.  

When we are born, we are strongly Anabolic.  When we are old, we are strongly Catabolic. The Chronic inflammation and Chronic disease states of old age are Catabolic.  It becomes very important to support the Anabolic system and its components as we age.  Aging at the higher end of our Anabolic Capacity represents a  vibrant and energetic state of aging.  Much of the secret to supporting the Anabolic system will have to do with exercise and movement.  The human system was made to move.  The principle of “Use it or Lose It” applies and helps determine your Anabolic versus Catabolic status as you age.  By exercising and eating appropriately, we can modulate or biochemistry to be more Anabolic than Catabolic, thereby creating an environment for  vibrant health.

Homeostasis is a key element of everything our bodies attend to.  The brain does everything it can to maintain a status quo on balance.  Normal aging moves the human organism from youthful growth (anabolic growth) to the disease states of aging (catabolic degeneration).  Homeostasis is interrupted and the brain/body connection keeps trying to establish balance.  Autoimmune is the term that has developed to describe a state where, after years of failing to correct a catabolic condition, the human system turns against itself, as the enemy causing such degenerative changes, and is catabolically taking everything apart in a degenerative process with it’s inflammatory response.  We can impact that process with it’s inflammatory condition, and manipulate our biochemistry to take a more anabolic approach to bodily processes.  Improved health is the result, at any age.

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Healthways Foundation

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