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Friday, December 18, 2009

Get Healthy Quick

By Dr. Gary Gendron

Unfortunately, this is an insidious process. Getting healthy quick is not a simple process. There are subtle changes over a long period of time before one can recognize the effects of poor nutritional status. An innate intelligence is there in all of our bodies that allow us to adapt to outside stressors. For example, a well-nourished individual may feel weak (due to protein depletion), but only for a short time. The body "knows" it has other fuel reserves until a regular balance is once again maintained. However, if nutritional status is not re-established continual compensatory mechanisms will result in further adaptation. Adaptation will continue, on a much worse level.

There is an "organ hierarchy" in most of us. We are made to preserve our most vital systems at the expense of the other organs. Our body will continue to break down until dis-ease and then death occurs. Sounds bad, but true and inevitable unless recognition and intervention is found early enough to reverse the process. If you or someone you know someone who falls in the following categories, you may want to help them regain optimum health and get healthy quick:

One of the largest of these groups is the elderly. South Florida has one of the highest concentrations of elderly compared to other regions of the country. And unfortunately they are often ignored as if getting old is a disease in itself! I think of it as another rite of passage and should be welcomed and celebrated! Yes, the body changes, but it should not deteriorate as some of us let it. I see patients who are 80 years old flying their private plane, or are out playing tennis: biological age unmatched by their chronological age. Why are other people not experiencing the same as with their same aged counterparts? They are suffering with depression (which may be due to an amino acid imbalance), lack of teeth (and therefore cannot chew their food), or medication (causing adverse side effects). As a result, anorexia may result and lack of nutrients is available, thus decreasing the availability of the body to do its proper work.

Obsessive dieters also are reaping the consequences of nutrient losses. Food fads that concentrate one kind of food that's predominant will offset the body's biochemistry. Some people have a greater food requirement for a particular type of food, such as athletes who exercise intensely. These people require more protein and complex carbohydrates, and supplements. They will find themselves subject to lowered immunity and resistance when their body composition is changed with accompanying chemical imbalances.

Chronic alcoholics can have impaired gastritis, impaired absorption of the gastrointestinal system, and therefore eat empty calories with no nutrient value. They suffer from a low thiamine status, necessary for the body's energy requirements.

Adolescents are victims of media marketing. Unrealistic expectations of ideal body proportions are template into their psyche. Normal weight girls think that they are fat. Well-developed boys think they are too thin or lacking in muscular development. Strange rituals and eating pattern then develop such as bulimia (throwing up food), diuretic use, anorexia, food fads, etc. This can result in lack of growth, impaired energy levels, moodiness, and irritability.

Infants of low birth-weight or those with birth abnormalities often have feeding difficulties and poor stores of nutrients. Decrease in vital nutrients will affect them later in life if not intervened.

Young adults with fast growth spurts have a larger nutrient demand. Without the necessary nutrition, poor growth and development will ensue. This also includes mental function and capacity.

Optimum health is hard work. It is not an inevitable right. We do have the ability to change and reverse the direction of our health. However, holistic changes take longer than drugs. However, my thought is such that natural is more advantageous when given a choice and if reasonably possible. For one, you do not suffer bad drug side effects. Another reason is that you are merely putting a temporary patch on the problem, rather than to find the cause. This thought is crucial however, for every week of a specific nutrient deficiency, it will require approximately four weeks for re-establishment of normal levels in the body

Dr. Gary Gendron

BS,DC,CCSP,CCN,DACBN - 17273

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