Overview

A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet. Thus, the term is conditional both on the circumstances and the particular organism. For example, ascorbic acid functions as vitamin C for some animals but not others, and vitamins D and K are required in the human diet only in certain circumstances.

Vitamins are classified by their biological and chemical activity, not their structure. Thus, each "vitamin" actually refers to a number of vitamer compounds, which form a set of distinct chemical compounds that show the biological activity of a particular vitamin. Such a set of chemicals are grouped under an alphabetized vitamin "generic descriptor" title, such as "vitamin A," which (for example) includes retinal, retinol, and many carotenoids. Vitamers are often inter-convertible in the body. The term vitamin does not include other essential nutrients such as dietary minerals, essential fatty acids, or essential amino acids, nor does it encompass the large number of other nutrients that promote health but are otherwise required less often.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Rhythms of Life

"There are times to create and maintain, if you maintain your world and the birth of new ideas and projects. There are times of bloom and the abundance in the life feels in full bloom, and energetisiert expanding. And there are also times of fruits, When things come to an end. you have reached its peak and must be harvested before they begin to fade. Lastly, of course, there are times, the cold, and the cutting and empty, when in spring The new beginnings seems like a distant dream. these rhythms in life are natural events. weaving them into another as night follows day that is not news, hope and fear, but news of how things are ."(-- Chogyam Trungpa

Seasonal Rhythms

The dynamics of the body in an expanded broaden your spectrum and physiology is linked to the world and the universe at large. your body changes with the seasons, with the weather, with the atmospheric conditions. many people can say in their bones, if a change of the weather. human organs are in sync with the gravity, planetary changes, the cold and heat, light and darkness, humidity and all the other variants, that the seasons bring. you respond and shift their function according to these natural dynamics. your body rises and decreases in response to certain functions to surrounding influences.

Biological and Geophysical rhythms and Frequencies

All living organisms are composites of different rhythms and frequencies.

The heart beats about once per second, but this rate speeds up in the morning and slows during the night, electrical activity of the human brain in cycles fraction of a second, breathing is about sixteen times per minute; many hormones released in pulses lasting several hours.

Across all types of natural daily rhythm cycles run in twenty to twenty-eight hours for a natural day. striking cycles in plants and animals, these daily rhythms (Circadian). under mesh with other cycles that are longer or shorter than a day.

Biological activities and processes are closely linked with lunar cycling than in the processes like monthly menstruation, and the rotation of the earth As the sun to be in such activities as the computer into hibernation each year, migration and reproduction.

The week, seven days geophysical no obvious correlation, but studies show that these cultural convention in May reflected deep biological rhythms. seven-day rhythms, we see in many diseases, such as the common cold, and beard growth in men following a seven-day cycle.

Annual seasonal rhythms are less noticeable than in humans and other animals, but they exist. suction secretions of the male hormone testosterone surges in autumn, sperm concentration and the activity is highest in the winter, and the rates of conception peak in the winter. more children are born in August and September than in other months. babies born in the summer and fall tend to weigh a little more than children born in other seasons, and they have a graere probability of survival. Miscarriages Graer are in the fall.

Deaths also have a seasonal pattern. Fatal heart attacks are more common in winter. This is also the mild climate, such as Hawaii and also in in the southern hemisphere, where seasons are reversed. winter months are the time lower resistance to infection and higher cholesterol and levels.

Disorders Seasons Rhythms

It was found that people who suffer from depression, have skewed body rhythms and cycles. This is also the rhythms of sleep, body temperature, hormone and release. Seasonal rhythms have also come under the microscope. Suicides summit in the spring usually in May. visitor figures for the clinic for nervous depression also soar in the spring. There is a small increase in suicides and hospital Visitor numbers in the autumn. an external environmental factor - the length of daylight is - Glaubten an influence on factor.

The body has a master's Clock

In the 1960 researchers found the key generator of body rhythms. Injuring part of a small region in the middle of the brain, the hypothalamus as a cause the loss of many normal rhythms. hypothalamus commands the sympathetic nervous system. accelerates breathing and heart rate in moments of danger, regulates body temperature, and stimulates the appetite and controls reproductive hormone secretion. Further research found that a critical area of the hypothalamus, the suprachiasmatic nucleus-SCN-a tiny cluster of nerve cells, which sits on top of the optical abyss, is the body's master clock. SCN, the body of different rhythms to work together. SCN uses daylight signals from the eyes to direct each body rhythm to do their part in the Gegebener time, day after day.

Seasonal Changes

Regardless able, in the traditional cultures, there was an awareness that it is continuous, by the changing seasons. you can live longer and healthy, if your health care to the natural rhythms of the earth. Learning to live in the seasonal fluctuations believes to health, harmony and strength for the body . It also provides a natural rhythm and timetable for a good service check and health program for the maintenance and upkeep to prevent accumulated stress from degenerating body Responses.

Many people get the flu in the shift from summer to autumn. in the peak of winter, many suffer from depressive moods. Some people find that if they drink fruit juice or eat a lot of fruit in the winter months, they feel cold and wet and you get a cold. If it is difficult to switch from one to the Next season, our bodies react by lowered immune responses can leave us vulnerable to that later illness.

Sometimes the body is a little out of step with all the changes from one season to another. This is the reason why many people tend to become ill in those times relocate. Sometimes we fail our habits to more compatible with our changing body functions as a response to seasonal changes. by the knowledge of some of these cyclical changes in the whole year we can relocate body dynamics support for the changes effect. We can also take advantage of this natural shift points to extend that momentum to grow Outs flows and those who are falling /ebbing. Many cultures have traditional associations of food, drinks, activities, energy, clothing, the bodies of body, and emotions associated with and affected by the seasonal shifts.

Are You Connected With Your Natural Rhythms?

Your biological clock is on cue to certain types of activities during certain times of the day. Bodies have thousands of natural rhythms for any biological function. your moods, your biological clock. your brain power is just like your other natural rhythms - high at certain times of the day and low at other times of the day. your energy and vitality follow the same natural ebb and flow . If you try to push through the natural rhythms of the temporal harmony lose your biological clock and desynchronization, malaise, dysfunction and poor performance set in. It will run but you never If your best.

When all your biological samples are ebbing and flowing according to their natural rhythms of your body is synchronized and leads to the summit of his art. effortlessly You have energy and vitality, if you live in accordance with your inner, daily values, and seasonal Rhythms.

Are you aware of any energy cycles that you have? you pay attention to these cycles, and adjust your activities as required?

Are you will be able to go and the rest to the inside, if necessary, or are you more likely to resist and keep going?

Are you know of changes in alertness and your thinking skills and use this awareness beneficial?

Do you have the energy and passion for projects that you want to do?

When have your best to remain calm, focused and positive regardless energetisiert The situation?

Are You can, of course, the challenges of a situation? Or it is apparently too much for you, and you only get as good as you can?

Can a state of calm, attention, concentration and positive energy, whenever you need to, regardless of the situation?

If you are worried or feel upset you these feelings aside and be fully engaged, what happened to you at the moment?

Do you have the energy and motivation to be involved in interesting and challenging situations that call you at your best and most creative work ?

Copyright () 2008 Mary Ann Copson

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