An injury to my left palm
When I was closing the windows at home on
12th November 2018, my left palm got caught in between and a small
portion of skin got crushed. I gave Reiki immediately to subdue the pain and
for healing to start. I knew it would take at least three weeks to heal.
Healing progressing- 24 November 2018
Usually, the injured portion gets inflamed, swollen, then it gradually dries up and falls off as new skin regenerates beneath it.
Usually, the injured portion gets inflamed, swollen, then it gradually dries up and falls off as new skin regenerates beneath it.
Autophaging
Our human body is a self-healing machine
par excellence. If the body’s intelligence is left to operate, it can set right
any problem it encounters, majority of which are due to our negligence and
carelessness. All the body needs is just time and co-operation from us.
That the body eats up the damaged and
diseased cells has been proven in 2016 by Yoshinori Ohsumi,which led to him
winning the Nobel prize in Physiology of Medicine.
The word 'autophagy' — from the Greek for
'self-eating' — was coined in 1963 by the Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve,
who saw how cells broke down their parts inside a waste-processing sac that he
called a lysosome. Biologists now understand that this process is fundamentally
important to living cells.
"Without autophagy our cells won't
survive," says Juleen Zierath, a physiologist at the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm who was on the selection committee for the medicine Nobel. When
cells are starved, they can consume their own proteins for fuel. The same degradation
process can be used to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles — effectively,
to renew cells and clear out debris — or to ward off invading bacteria and
viruses.Disruptions in autophagy have been linked to Parkinson's disease,
type 2 diabetes and other disorders. It is now known that fasting provides the
greatest known boost to autophagy.
Fasting is actually far more beneficial
than just stimulating autophagy. It does two good things. By stimulating
autophagy, we are clearing out all our old, junky proteins and cellular parts.
At the same time, fasting also stimulates growth hormone, which tells our body
to start producing some new snazzy parts for the body. We are really giving our
bodies a complete renovation.
To activate autophagy
Remember, autophagy is turned on when your
body is in stress response mode. Stressing your cells is the natural way to
turn on autophagy. You can do this through intermittent fasting and protein
cycling to create nutrient deprivation in your cells. You can also create
cellular stress in the body through exercise.
For performing this function, the body
should be freed from other functions like digestion. This means a 12 hour
fasting is required every day for the body to do the overhauling function. And
you have an optimum functioning body. Isn’t it great?
The thought that crossed my mind
It came to my mind that I do 12 hour fast
daily. After my dinner of a small bowl of fruits at about 7.30 pm, I have my
breakfast at 9.15 am. That meant I was letting my body to do its job of
cleaning up. If it can eat up damaged cells from inside the body, I thought it
should be able to absorb the inflamed drying up part of my skin in the injured
area. I would consider it as the proof of autophaging mechanism.
And it really happened
To
my pleasant surprise, I noticed that the injured area was getting shrunken and
disappearing slowly. Just look at on 2nd December 2018, twenty days after the injury. It is almost gone, being absorbed by the body!
Two days later, it is totally resorbed.
Two days later, it is totally resorbed.
Be considerate to your liver and kidneys
If we don’t allow the body to do its
autophaging function, a whole lot of stress comes to the liver and kidneys that do the clean-up job.
When we overstuff ourselves with food, and daily medicines (which are chemicals
and need to be expelled on a daily basis), liver and kidneys suffer from
backlog work. This is why many people go for liver and kidney failure these days!
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So true ma'am..nothing like the intelligence of the human body.. Happened to read this just as I finished watching a documentary called heal on Netflix
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