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!

Avoid Starvation Metabolism - Here's how

Starvation metabolism is a mechanism of the human body that is caused by evolution. The body has some sort of emergency mechanism in case there isn't enough food for a period of time.

So if a person takes in fewer calories than they use up over a longer period of time, then the body switches to a kind of emergency mode in order not to waste energy and not to starve for as long as possible.

Slow Down Hunger Metabolism    

With a diet, where the goal is to lose weight, you have to avoid this starvation metabolism in order to be able to achieve the goals of the diet. Normally one can assume that the organism then switches to emergency mode if it consumes around 500 fewer calories a day than it uses up for three to five days.

When It Gets Too Much: Recognize Overtraining

While most amateur athletes struggle with not exercising enough, there's also the other extreme: overtraining occurs when you don't give your body time to recover.

Tiny injuries are piling up, your stress hormone levels are permanently high, your performance is declining. Once you overtrain, the symptoms won't go away until you switch back and give your body - and mind - a long rest.

Detox The Body

Many blogs and magazine articles are about detoxification of the body and many people are wondering what that actually means. Can you really rid your body of toxins by eating certain foods or by fasting, or is it all just exaggerated hype that certain corporations are once again trying to use to sell their magic bullets?

In fact, there are countless suppliers of detox teas, detox tablets and detox cures that advertise on the internet. So what's the deal with the detox craze?

Food And Attitude: Are Vegetarians The Better People?

Vegetarians and vegans have fewer prejudices. They also prefer to be treated as equals, while among meat eaters, a larger proportion tend to favor authority and hierarchical structures.

This is the result of a survey by the University of Mainz among almost 1,400 people. The differences can be found across all age groups, but are more pronounced in men than in women. 

Cause, Effect And Wild Speculation