You Are Your Hormones - Endocrinology (1-Disease...1-Pathology)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 2011

Open Class 5:30pm

Baseball/Softball Class 6:30pm

ENDOCRINOLOGY

You Are Your Hormones

Modern pathologies are a result of insulin resistance. Chronically high blood glucose levels, whether it be from dietary or stress reasons, as well as lack of sleep, and inactivity impair tissue sensitivity to insulin. If we are stressed glucose levels increase because of another hormone called cortisol, which I will cover in depth later.

• Note that Pathology derives its meaning from two root words. First is patho, which translates to "suffering", "disease", or "feeling", and secondly is logos, which literally means "study of". The definition of pathology can take on several different forms as it is used and related to so many different things. For our purposes pathology means, "The scientific study of the nature of a disease and its causes, processes, development and consequences." Plainly, I like to think of it as meaning the anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease.

A major problem we see in the medical field today is that medical professionals have a 1 disease, 1 pathology mindset when, in fact, most diseases probably have a number of cumulative reasons (or pathologies) for thier manifestation in a body. I believe this is because our success with antibiotics clouded our perception of disease.

An analogy to insuin sensitivity as well as the 1 disease, 1 pathology concept that is identical to the hormonal signaling within our body goes something like this...Imagine you walk into a room with a STRONG aroma of perfume. The longer you're in the room the more your ability to sense/smell the perfume decreases. Our body naturally down-regulates our sensitivity to the perfume just like it does insulin in our body. What happens is we become insensitive to insulin but we still have high levels within our body. This is already not good as we've previously learned, however, doctors think we need to bombard the body with more insulin to get the body to react! This is like prescribing a tanning bed to a sunburn victim! It just flat out doesn't make sense. In the long run, giving the body more insulin simply creates more problems and increases insulin resistance.

AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT I ATE TODAY

Breakfast: 4 omega-3 enriched eggs / 3 oz grass-fed ground beef cooked in Trader Joes roasted tamatillo salsa / half an avocado / large glass of water / 1g fish oil...everything cooked was cooked in extra virgin coconut oil

Snack: 4 oz pan-seared ahi tuna steak / half cup mixed vegetables / half handful raw almonds...fish and vegetables cooked in coconut oil

Lunch: 6 oz left over grass-fed ground beef / apple pie Lara bar

Dinner #1: 6 oz baked chicken breast seasoned with pepper, crushed garlic, dried basil / 12 spears asparagus seasoned with lemon juice and minced garlic / half an avocado...everything cooked was cooked in extra virgin coconut oil

Dinner #2: 6 oz left over ahi tuna steak / spoonful raw, unsalted almond butter / 1g fish oil / 1 tsp Natural Calm (magnesium supplement)

Coach Justin

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