Re: Metabolic syndrome (was common in treated schizophrenia)
Now that we’re on the subject metabolic syndrome, I’d like to
point out its three biggest causes - diet, toxin load as well as
lack of exercise.
Impaired HGH growth hormone release is behind metabolic syndome
in otherwise healthy people.
The easiest way to directly impair growth homone release and thus
metabolic rate is by eating carbohydrates. Carbs have recently
been identified as disease-causing; first the reseachers nailed
potatoes as a cause and the others aren’t far behind. Carbs also
result in acidity of the lymph, which impairs cellular
metabolism.
The most direct way to suppress metabolism with toxins in your
food is with the use of excessive inflammatory and thyroid-
suppressive oils, the omega-6 oils (corn, canola, soy, and
safflower, also nuts, and cream from cows that eat grain come to
mind).
The most prevalent way to reduce metabolic rate is chronic
arsenic exposure. Drinking water laced with arsenic will produce
a measuably elevated diabetes and cancer risk starting at about
.5 PPB, which is twenty times lower than the EPA’s "safety"
allowance of 10 PPB. At the 10 PPB "safe" level your cancer and
diabetes risk is elevated to about 1:500; someone may have the
exact figure.
Because arsenic is reduced in the body by the antioxidant
glutathione and selenium is part of that, that bings us back to a
lack of essential nutrients, the glutathione pecursors, as a
cause of metabolic syndrome.
Finally, lymph acidity, which impairs oxygen transfer and thus
metabolism, can be controlled by simply moving the lymph.
Stretching is NOT adequate to move the lymph; you’d need lymph
brushing as well, and lymph brushing can’t get deep enough towok
the inside tissues. Nope, one needs quite a lot of muscle
movement to drain the lymph and its toxins.
Here’s the answer: Rebounding, even a "sit bounce" for people
with bad knees, moves lymph up to 14 times better than jogging,
and it affects ALL of the cells of the body, even the ones not
directly involved in the exercise.
I’ve studied this at length and helped many people with metabolic
syndome using the above approaches and the more direct appoach of
using amino acids particularly in people over 50, and I must
disagree with David Henderson’s approach to metabolic control
with a stretching exercise. Although stretching is good for you,
it does not appreciably move the lymph, and it affects only the
stretched areas.
Incidentally, David; you mentioned your asthma on your page. In
addition to being relevant to metabolic syndrome, (glutathione is
used directly in metabolic energy creation) low glutathione is
linked to asthma. Oxidative stress and toxins cause inflammation,
mucous and airway restriction. This has been part of science for
more than ten years; some of it is posted to my website in
prewritten queries to the PubMed database.
Find answers in a Goooogle search on ("glutathione references"
"clinical studies" asthma); paste that into the search box.
David, you have a deficiency in glutathione; this will aggravate
the oxidative stress that is already high in diabetics and which
causes most diabetic complications, and it will aggravate
metabolic syndrome.