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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Gastro Paresis and Garlic


What Is Gastroparesis is a condition that affects the normal spontaneous movement of the muscles (motility) in the stomach preventing the stomach from emptying properly.

Cause: It's not always clear what leads to gastroparesis; in many cases, gastroparesis is believed to be caused by damage to a nerve that controls the stomach muscles.
 

The vagus nerve helps manage the complex processes in your digestive tract, including signaling the muscles in your stomach to contract and push food into the small intestine.
 

A damaged vagus nerve can't send signals normally to the stomach muscles. This may cause food to remain in your stomach longer, rather than move normally into your small intestine to be digested. The vagus nerve can be damaged by diseases, such as diabetes, or by surgery to the stomach or small intestine.



Vagus Nerve: Our bodies have two brains. There’s the one we all know about and a second one – in our guts. Both of these brains begin to form almost from the moment an egg is fertilized and develop from the same clump of tissue.  As this embryonic tissue divides during fetal development, one section evolves into the central nervous system, another into the enteric nervous system. The vagus nerve stretches from the brain stem through the neck and finally ends up in the abdomen providing continuous two-way line of communication between the gut and the brain. In the last decade or so scientists have discovered that each brain influences the other and imbalance in one can mean imbalance in the other.

Commentary: Understand why doctors may advocate Stem-cell Therapy; replace and regenerate old vargus nerve cells w/ those directly from original source. This maybe a viable treatment although expensive and question medical ethics w/ respect to donor harvesting cells and selective placement etc.

The gut brain:  The Second Brain, by a professor of anatomy and cell biology says: “The brain is not the only place in the body that’s full of neurotransmitters. A hundred million neurotransmitters line the length of the gut, approximately the same number that is found in the brain…”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Those butterflies in your stomach are real and caused by a surge of stress hormones released by the body in a “fight or flight” situation. Nearly every chemical that controls the brain in the head has been identified in the gut brain, including hormones and neurotransmitters (like serotonin). The gut’s brain and the head’s brain act the same way when they are deprived of input from the outside world.
 

Commentary: Is this why emotions surge and descend seemingly without warning with appetite demands? Would sunshine, natural green vitamin D3 supplements, wheat grass affect stress?



Drugs designed to have psychic effects on the brain are very likely to have an effect on the gut as well. For instance around a quarter of people taking Prozac or similar antidepressants that alter serotonin levels in the body, can end up with gastrointestinal problems like nausea, diarrhea and constipation. Evidence suggests that IBS (irritated bowel syndrome) originates from a change in serotonin levels. In a healthy person, serotonin in the gut is cleared from the bowel by a serotonin transporter found in the cells that line the gut wall.

A holistic view

Recent studies suggest that a healthy gut in infancy can in addition to helping to maintain immunity have a profound effect on our mind and emotional health later in life. Other data suggest the “cross-talk” between bacteria in our gut and our brain plays an important role in the development of psychiatric illness, intestinal diseases and probably other health problems including obesity.


But he opposite is also true. Our psychological, social and environmental environment can influence symptoms like pain and inflammation in the gut as well as how efficient our digestive process is.

Research suggests that some people with functional gastrointestinal tract (GI) disorders perceive pain more acutely than other people do because their brains do not properly regulate pain signals from the GI tract. Stress can make the existing pain seem even worse.

Maintaining that balance from early in life has as much influence on our mental and emotional health as it does our physical health.

Practice stress reduction. Both yoga and meditation are excellent ways to relax. Regular exercise is also important. But any hobby that absorbs you completely will substantially lower your levels of stress hormones and this will have a knock on effect on gut health. So remember – make space for yourself and the things you enjoy. http://www.nyrnaturalnews.com/article/get-smart-take-good-care-of-your-second-brain/

Commentary: Would the movement and the weight of hula-hooping help as stomach massage? [Giant hula hoop of PCP pipe].
Tonic Herbs are able to [naturally] achieve the following 10 effects: Restore and maintain balance throughout all of the body systems - Increase energy through normal metabolic means not artificially - Increase overall resistance to infections of all kinds fortifying immune system … http://thehealthalert.blogspot.com/2012/02/elixirs-snake-oils-tonics.html
Garlic used to flavor food has been used to treat certain medical conditions including cancer. Garlic is associated with decreased risk of some cancers … by decreasing tumor cell growth or stimulating the immune system. Clinical trials suggest that high garlic consumption may lower the risk of [certain] cancers. http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/garlic

Commentary: It appears that the natural actions of garlic can help the systems and organs affected by Gastro Paresis; even stress is connected to the nervous system
FYI

Q. Effect GM food on human body? A. Purging GM toxins weakens immune system rendering it defenseless.

1.      Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk.http://www.sott.net/article/226724-Genetically-modified-cows-produce-human-milk      

2.      Designer Babies; Monsanto Cafeteria Bans GMO foods; Campbell hamsters fed GM Soy lost ability to birth cubs rendered sterile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esk7k5KkhXE

3.      Memorial Sloan Kettering falsified studies showing Laetrile and apricot seeds were ineffective. Click here for the studies that were falsified. Watch:"World Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin   http://www.quantumbalancing.com/news/cancer.htm
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