Dmitry Trackin
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Everyone knows that bodies are made of organic cells. All organs, and even skeletal bones and teeth are made of cells. Those cells may be living or damaged (dead).
A body that contains no damaged cells may be considered to be in absolute good health. However, this hardly ever happens. Millions of cells die in a body every second, replaced by new ones. What is indicative of the body’s health at any given moment is the ratio of living cells to damaged ones.
Since all bodily functions are performed by cells, cellular resources play the primary role.
Cells get born and die all the time, so the tissues of any organ always have a certain number of damaged cells in them that need to be evacuated. This process is called utilization. The fewer damaged cells a particular tissue contains, the healthier it is.
Many systems and organs – bone marrow, spinal cord, the lymphatic and circulatory systems, liver and kidneys – participate in the utilization of damaged cells, albeit to a different extent. Improper functioning of any of these organs or systems may cause the cell utilization process to lag behind the rate at which damaged cells accumulate. What matters here is the average rates of cell death and utilization.
So why doesn’t the utilization function in the body pick up speed? The answer is quite simple: the body keeps trying all the time, yet it may not always have sufficient resources available. Resource deficit is a body-wide problem. While the body is young and growing, it has little need for cell utilization and is thus in position to beef up its resources; however, once the growth phase is over, soon thereafter these resources start to dwindle gradually.
When a body is lacking sufficient resources for maintenance of functional cells and timely utilization of damaged ones, it starts replacing functional tissue with connective tissue that is more resilient to damage. In this fashion, it saves itself, but at the cost oflower organ functionality and premature aging. The lower the organ functionality, the weaker the body’s ability to withstand adverse outside factors. Therefore, once started,in the absence of special countermeasures the aging process will progress further.
A larger share of connective tissue in the body leads to lower functionality of its organs; the kidneys and liver fail to regenerate blood properly, muscles weaken, reaction speeds go down and the memory suffers. Dead bone cells fail to get replaced with connective tissue and little by little get pushed out onto the surface, forming tophi – something that is popularly known as “salt deposits”.
If the body is unable to do that in a timely fashion, the percentage of damaged bone cells inside the bones keeps growing, and the bones lose their strength. This is how osteoporosis and other diseases develop.
Engaging in regular physical activity, the body increases the number of functional (healthy) cells in order to avoid overload in the future (that’s how athletes build up their muscles, remember?)
Now let us recall that muscle cells make up about 60% of body mass and 80% of all functional cells; moreover, muscle cells consume the most energy.
Consequently, the larger the number of functional cells, the more abundant the body’s resources as a whole. Additionally, the body becomes better at recycling old cells (removing dead cells from organic tissues) and replacing them with new cells faster.
It should now be clear that even when embarking on a diet one still needs to exercise in order to increase the body’s resources, stay healthy and keep the tissues resilient and elastic.
A body that contains no damaged cells may be considered to be in absolute good health. However, this hardly ever happens. Millions of cells die in a body every second, replaced by new ones. What is indicative of the body’s health at any given moment is the ratio of living cells to damaged ones.
Since all bodily functions are performed by cells, cellular resources play the primary role.
Cells get born and die all the time, so the tissues of any organ always have a certain number of damaged cells in them that need to be evacuated. This process is called utilization. The fewer damaged cells a particular tissue contains, the healthier it is.
Many systems and organs – bone marrow, spinal cord, the lymphatic and circulatory systems, liver and kidneys – participate in the utilization of damaged cells, albeit to a different extent. Improper functioning of any of these organs or systems may cause the cell utilization process to lag behind the rate at which damaged cells accumulate. What matters here is the average rates of cell death and utilization.
So why doesn’t the utilization function in the body pick up speed? The answer is quite simple: the body keeps trying all the time, yet it may not always have sufficient resources available. Resource deficit is a body-wide problem. While the body is young and growing, it has little need for cell utilization and is thus in position to beef up its resources; however, once the growth phase is over, soon thereafter these resources start to dwindle gradually.
When a body is lacking sufficient resources for maintenance of functional cells and timely utilization of damaged ones, it starts replacing functional tissue with connective tissue that is more resilient to damage. In this fashion, it saves itself, but at the cost oflower organ functionality and premature aging. The lower the organ functionality, the weaker the body’s ability to withstand adverse outside factors. Therefore, once started,in the absence of special countermeasures the aging process will progress further.
A larger share of connective tissue in the body leads to lower functionality of its organs; the kidneys and liver fail to regenerate blood properly, muscles weaken, reaction speeds go down and the memory suffers. Dead bone cells fail to get replaced with connective tissue and little by little get pushed out onto the surface, forming tophi – something that is popularly known as “salt deposits”.
If the body is unable to do that in a timely fashion, the percentage of damaged bone cells inside the bones keeps growing, and the bones lose their strength. This is how osteoporosis and other diseases develop.
Engaging in regular physical activity, the body increases the number of functional (healthy) cells in order to avoid overload in the future (that’s how athletes build up their muscles, remember?)
Now let us recall that muscle cells make up about 60% of body mass and 80% of all functional cells; moreover, muscle cells consume the most energy.
Consequently, the larger the number of functional cells, the more abundant the body’s resources as a whole. Additionally, the body becomes better at recycling old cells (removing dead cells from organic tissues) and replacing them with new cells faster.
It should now be clear that even when embarking on a diet one still needs to exercise in order to increase the body’s resources, stay healthy and keep the tissues resilient and elastic.
