Know Your Human Cell

My human cell looks after everything to do with metabolism and heredity. What on earth am I talking about?

To give you an idea: I spent years at work where I would eat breakfast before 7am, midmorning snack at 10.30 (anything on the kitchen table), lunch at 12 and dinner sometime after 17.00. I would be so sleepy between 13.00 and 15.30 that I sometimes wondered how I would stay standing. Needless to say I had to do something with my eating habits.

At that time I was looking into spicing up my menus, I was getting bored with the food I knew how to and had time to cook. It was suggested to me by a nutrionist that I could perhaps see a change in my sleepiness in the early afternoon if I concentrated on a mid morning snack high in protein...OK I thought...any other suggestions?

I found a protein bar which didn't have sugar in it, tasted of chocolate and had the 9 essential amino acids. So I cut them up into tiny bits and had them in a small ziplock bag to dip into for the snack. To tell you the truth, I didn't really believe it until...I noticed that I was no longer sleepy in the early afternoon. Could it be? Proteins and metabolism

So what was really going on, and if I with all my anatomy and physiology education, didn't know this, could there be others that could benefit from my new found knowledge.

What sort of undue stresses are we placing on our human cell if we're not giving them what they need?

Of course I had to get to the bottom of what was going on inside the human cell to understand my metabolism and the exchanges through the cell membrane before I could start offering knowledge.

How can we look after our human cell?

Here's another thought: within one year all your cells have renewed. They just copy the blueprint of its predecessor (the old one). If the old one is ill do you think the new one is healthy?...NO...it also is ill!

So where can this lead? Too many sick cells being copied can lead to symptoms that you start noticing in your daily life...swollen ankles, pain in your joints, brittle bones...you're seeing it now aren't you.

What if there were something you could do to look after your cell membrane and allow the right stuff to get in to where its needed and wash out the bad stuff?

This is a healthy cell; one that can effectively pass good nutrients in and bad toxins out. Copy this and you have less symptoms. Start early and you are on the road to highly effective prevention.

So if you can learn how your cell works (metabolism) and learn to provide it with the stuff it needs to work (nutrients) I think you will be well on your way to giving your body a shot at good health. Ready for Biology 101?

I couldn't begin to explain all the cells functions but I need to grab some of them that are applicable to why nutrition is important in affecting them. THe links below lead to descriptions of each. Those that I will look at are
nucleus
mitochondria
golgi apparatus
cell membrane

Why is nutrition important