Surgery Or Physiotherapy: What Helps With Pain

If you want to stay fit and exercise regularly, you are also subject to a certain risk of pain. Tensions, injuries such as strains or sprains, that's all part of it. But sometimes the pain persists. Then what works best?

Physical Therapy Is Better Than It's Reputation

This form of treatment sometimes has the reputation of being a kind of gymnastics for old people, but that misses the point. Physiotherapy is a specialized type of therapy that focuses on the musculoskeletal system and can help to eliminate the cause of pain. Not only massages and mobilizing measures are used, but also targeted training to build up the necessary muscles.

The Biochemistry Of Starvation Metabolism

Let's talk plain language about starvation metabolism. The biochemistry and physiology behind this is not well understood. Why? Because you would have to do starvation experiments, and no doctor or researcher is allowed to do that.

Not on humans, not on monkeys, not even on rats. That's why diet advisors like to argue about the fastest way to lose weight without going into starvation. There is simply no scientific data on it.

This Is What Happens In The Radically Starved Body 

Gluconeogenesis Simply Explained

Gluconeogenesis - literally: sugar rebuilding - is a clever trick our body uses to keep blood sugar levels stable. Our brain needs sugar all the time. The liver does have some stores in the form of glycogen, but not much, and it's reluctant to release that store. Muscles also have glycogen, but they don't give it away easily.

 So as soon as you haven't eaten for a few hours and your blood sugar levels start to drop, the liver starts making its own sugars for the brain. She gets the signal to do this from the pancreas: the sugar-scavenging hormone insulin disappears from the blood, and glucagon appears in its place. This hormone tells the liver,We need sugar!