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1. What is a variant?
2. The Benefits of Seeing a Chiropractor When You Have Diabetes
3. Vegetables - Go for the Green by Dr. Cindy Clayton
4. What are nutritional deficiencies and what do they do to your health?

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What is a variant?

We've heard a lot about the virus variants recently, but do you know what it really means?

Variant: Noun: a form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard. Varying usually slightly from the standard form variant readings

Adjective: variant strains of a disease

Derivation: Middle English variaunt, borrowed from Anglo-French variant, borrowed from Latin variant-, varians "variegated, various," from present participle of variāre "to make changeable, vary"

Why do variants form?

While viruses make people sick to a varying degree, we are not left defenseless. Hosts have immune systems and immune responses that act to fight off viruses, so many viral copies don’t end up leaving the host because the host is victorious in breaking the viral copies down and flushing them out of their body.

Viruses cannot survive without a host, which enables them to make more copies of themselves. So, if the host is good at clearing a particular version of the virus, then the virus will adapt and change its genome to make variants that are better at evading the host’s immune response, leading to more infectious versions of the virus.

This “immune memory” allows your body to recognize the virus if you are exposed to it again and to mount an immune response more quickly

But each time a virus is copied, there’s some risk the host’s cell will make one or more errors in the genetic code of that virus. These are known as mutations. Each new one alters the genetic blueprint of the virus a bit. Mutant viruses are known as variants of the original.

The immune system is responsible for knocking out a virus. This is whether the person gets infected or just comes in contact with the virus. When they do, they make a copy so that they will know if they come in contact with the virus again and can knock it out quickly. Apparently the immune system is adaptive and can recognize vaiants and knock them out as well.

Variants are always more communicable but weaker than the original.

The Benefits of Seeing a Chiropractor When You Have Diabetes

Diabetes is considered one of the leading causes of death in the US. According to statistics, at least 10% of Americans have been diagnosed with a form of diabetes. There are two different types of diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes– this form of diabetes is also referred to as diabetes mellitus and is mostly found in children and teenagers. Type 1 diabetes develops as a result of the immune system attacking and destroying insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, hence the name autoimmune disease. This leads to little or no insulin in the body, forcing patients to rely on pumped or injectable insulin.
Type 2 diabetes– this type of diabetes often occurs when we are older, mostly attacking overweight individuals. This form of diabetes is a metabolic disorder that arises from the excess production of insulin. In most cases, people rely on insulin therapy, exercise, and dietary restrictions to effectively manage type 2 diabetes.

Insulin is one of the essential chemicals in the body as it helps absorb glucose content in food and convert it into energy. Damage to the pancreas may lead to the production of incorrect amounts of insulin. This, in turn, could lead to a spike or reduction of blood sugar levels. Over time this could lead to severe health complications in the kidney, eyes, feet, and nerves, reducing a patient’s life expectancy by 10-20 years.

Seeing a chiropractor has shown to be one of the most effective ways to reduce or get rid of symptoms of diabetes. Chiropractic care has proven invaluable in neuropathy treatment, with healthcare providers exploring this option as a way to improve nerve function and reduce back and lower limb pains.

What Does A Chiropractor Do?

A chiropractor is a healthcare professional that specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and conservative treatment of joint and spine disorders. Aging, stress fall, or accidents can cause stress or misalignment on the joints. The chiropractor applies specific techniques and controlled force to these joints, pushing them back into the right place. Through chiropractic manipulation, the physician is able to improve the performance of your organs, soft tissue, nervous system, and joints.

The Connection Between Diabetes and Chiropractic Care

Most people find it difficult to piece together the relationship between chiropractic care and diabetes. However, there is a clear connection between the two. To understand the connection, you need to focus on how the entire body is interconnected.

The connection between these two lies in how the nerves on our middle back and upper neck affect the production of pancreatic juice, insulin, and enzymes responsible for the digestion of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. An imbalance of blood sugar levels and digestion can lead to diabetes and hypoglycemia.

With this connection, you can understand the importance of a diabetic patient exploring chiropractic care as a way of managing their condition. A chiropractor is tasked with coordinating the body’s immunity and hormone function in the body.

Benefits of Diabetic Patients Visiting a Chiropractor

There are several options when it comes to managing the symptoms of diabetes. However, chiropractic care has proven to be an effective way of reducing some symptoms and reducing a patient’s insulin dependency. Here are some of the benefits of chiropractic care to diabetics.

Help Reduce Dependency on Medication

For a long time, insulin and diabetes medications have been the sole source of reprieve for patients. However, leaning on chiropractic care has the potential of alleviating one’s symptoms and reducing their need for medication.

Studies show that patients previously dependent on insulin who opt for chiropractic care exhibit an overall improvement in their health. This practice reduces pressures on the nerves while boosting communication between the brain and the rest of the body, including the pancreas. In turn, this ensures the production of proper and effective insulin.

Helps Fight Diabetes

There scientific adjustments that are made by a chiropractor to help ease the symptoms of diabetes. However, it’s advisable to find a practitioner with enough experience and expertise to get the job done. Diabetes is considered a lifestyle disease. This is mainly because it results from a lack of exercise and activity or the food we eat. Leading a sedentary lifestyle puts you at risk of getting diabetes. Through this care, you can improve your health and regain the ability to exercise and engage in activities.

With chiropractic care, the spine is realigned, making it easier for the body to receive signals and commands from the brain. This also helps to improve your posture, making it easy for you to move correctly.

Improves Posture and Overall Health

Aside from alleviating some of the symptoms of diabetes, a chiropractor can also help with several other health-related problems. They employ gentle neurologically-based adjustments to help improve your body posture, reduce pain in multiple parts of the body, increase the range of motion of limbs and improve body systems.

Helps to Improve Blood Flow

Over time diabetes can cause damage to the skin or create sores. This is usually because of poor blood flow in the body. Unchecked, this can lead to skin infections which ultimately lead to amputation of the limbs. With chiropractic care, you can improve blood flow, reducing the risk of getting a skin infection. This treatment method is also effective in slowing the progression of diabetes in the body.

A chiropractor’s role is basically to help the body communicate better and improve the connection between the brain and the rest of the body. This way, the body is able to fight diabetes effectively and heal itself.

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Vegetables - go for the green

One of the most important foods you can eat is raw organic vegetables. The leafy green type is the best.

This includes spinach, kale, chard, greens, broccoli, etc. Raw vegetables are preferred, with slightly steamed or sautéed as your second choice. Use only olive oil, sesame seed oil or butter to sauté..The darker the green, the better. Iceberg lettuce from a fast food restaurant should be avoided.

You will find your digestion improving if you eat some raw green vegetables before each meal. Far too many people never eat vegetables and if they do, they first cook most of the nutrition out of them.

Raw vegetables are very easy on the liver and pancreas and give the body vitamins, minerals, materials for building hormones and other essentials.

By Cindy Clayton, D.C. & Nutritionist - Practices in the Portland, Oregon Area.

What are nutritional deficiencies and what do they do to your health?

A deficiency is basically a nutrient that your body does not have enough of to function properly.

What if you forgot to put enough oil in you car? Despite the fact that it was getting the air, gas, functioning spark plugs and good combustion, the car wouldn’t work properly. Sure the piston would go up and down and the car would move forward – just like normal. But soon the engine might run a little hot. Down in the engine different things might start happening. The rings around the piston that stopped oil from getting up into the combustion area might be giving way. The normal straight camshaft might start to bend a little. The engine just won’t work right. Perhaps the car will need a small repair, or maybe a major overhaul – or ignored the engine will just seize up and “die”.

It’s the same with your body – except that you can’t just buy another engine and repairs made to a damaged body might not put things back together again.

Let’s look at some of the many varied things that can happen when you don’t put the needed nutrients into the body, and wind up with a deficiency.

Gingivitis is created when plague (sticky deposits of bacteria, mucus and food particles) adheres to the teeth, hardens and irritates the gum. The accumulation causes the gums to become infected and swollen. As the gums swell, pockets form between the gums and the teeth and act as a trap for more plague. Irritated gums bleed and eventually start to recede.

This irritation can be fought by introducing Vitamin C, which fights the formation of plaque. Now gingivitis, untreated, can progress to periodontal disease, which means loose teeth and false teeth. Seems like it would be easier just to get enough C. C would have fought the formation of plaque to begin with.

Does that sound too easy? Remember in the fast food lifestyle that we live in, we need a Vitamin C to fight the many problems in that lifestyle – processed foods, polluted air, etc. You need enough so that your gums get enough.

Vitamin B12 comes from meat, eggs, fish and milk, but not everyone eats these and they do not eat enough to fight the depletion that happens from day to day living. Alcohol, coffee, tobacco to name a few can also deplete the body of vitamin B12.

What happens when you have a deficiency of Vitamin B12? It can bring about nerve degeneration. Vitamin B12 supports the sheathing that protects nerve cells. Damage to the nerve sheathing can produce numbness, tingling and the pain. It’s called neuropathy. Neuropathy can be a side effect of cancer treatments, certain medications, toxins, diabetes, and many other things. And the funny part about it is that all reasons one can get neuropathy could have been prevented in the first place with the proper nutrients.

We have all heard the problems from someone smoking, but even if you smoke, you can still take vitamins to compensate for the depletion of vitamins that it causes.

There are a lot of problems that deficiency causes. One of the reasons for the website is to help you understand those deficiencies and allow you to fix nutritional deficiencies and build good health.

Remember when you build good health, disease tends to fade away.

What can you do daily?

Because commercial farmland today is extremely depleted of minerals, eating fresh fruits and vegetables no longer ensures you will receive the vitamins and minerals that your body needs to maintain health and vigor.

As a result, most people supplement with vitamins and minerals.

Unfortunately the "vitamins" and "minerals" one finds in drug stores and health food shops are just isolated man-made chemicals, manufactured in pharmaceutical plants.

They are not even close to the real vitamins and minerals found in fresh fruits and vegetables!

For more information go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/WSN/whole-food-supplements.htm

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