Endocrine system
The external world - every emotion, thought, sound, and smell induces the production of certain hormones. The pituitary gland, located in the brain, signals endocrine organs to start or stop producing hormones. The thyroid gland regulates metabolic processes, the pancreas produces insulin depending on the diet, adrenal glands produce cortisol and adrenaline, ovaries in women produce estrogen, and testes in men produce testosterone.
Hormones can be conditionally divided into two groups. The first group includes those that strengthen health, associated with love, happiness, joy, faith, forgiveness, hope, understanding, kindness, responsibility, patience, etc. The most well-known include: oxytocin, estrogens, endorphins, serotonin, phenylethylamine. The second group, which undermines health, often includes hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, associated with fear, hate, aggression, jealousy, envy, revenge, offense, unrest, sadness, etc. Cortisol rapidly decreases glucose levels in the blood, causing anxiety, increasing negative emotions, worsening sleep and memory. It disrupts the action of hormones regulating the sensation of satiety, leading to overeating and its consequences.
The body eliminates the hormone of fear, adrenaline, through urine, tears, and sweat.
Oxytocin could be called the hormone of sympathy, benevolence, and care for others' well-being. For example, in women during childbirth, it helps erase unpleasant memories about experienced pain to prevent the formation of unpleasant memories. It regulates the process of milk production.
There are hunger hormone ghrelin and satiety hormone leptin, which influence appetite.
The aforementioned are just a small part of more than 500 hormones that perform specific functions in the body. Most of them have not been fully discovered; there's only a notion that they exist. All hormones are united by the fact that the only way to regulate their secretion is through a healthy lifestyle. Diet must regularly provide essential amino acids for hormone production: tyrosine, phenylalanine, and threonine. For example, serotonin production is best suited to foods containing the amino acid tryptophan: chocolate, parsley, avocado, laminaria (seaweed), almonds, mustard, red and chili peppers. The thyroid gland is the most sensitive to micronutrient deficiencies, immediately affecting its hormone synthesis. Beekeeping products also fit well as they can replenish the micronutrient reserves necessary for maintaining hormonal balance.
Our mood and physical condition depend on the hormonal background. A deficiency in minerals also reflects on the hormonal system, manifesting as metabolic and hormonal disorders. Indicators of hormonal disorders include, for example, fear of trivial matters, excessive impulsivity, hysteria, etc. A lack of hormones in the blood and changes in the hormonal background can be the cause of serious diseases.
For example, the issue causing sharp public resonance related to mothers abandoning their children is primarily addressed by social workers and psychologists, although in reality, endocrinologists and biochemists should be involved. Three hormones most influence a woman's maternal feelings - progesterone (pregnancy hormone produced in the ovaries), thyroxine (thyroid hormone important for iodine), and prolactin (anterior pituitary hormone involved in milk secretion regulation), thus, addressing such problems should start from organizing the hormonal system.
Some essential amino acids for hormone production can only be obtained from food, but some hormones directly from food. The hormonal background, determining our body's condition, work capacity, and mood, directly depends on the food we consume.
The male sex hormone testosterone begins to decrease by about 1% per year after the age of 35, although this is not related to age but to the accumulation of errors and diseases associated with an unnatural lifestyle, leading to metabolic disorders and toxin accumulation. Especially harmful is the use of hormonal drugs.
As testosterone levels decrease, estrogen levels automatically increase, leading to a reduction in muscle mass, prostate inflammation, and a lack of collagen, which in turn causes skin problems.
Low testosterone levels significantly increase the risk of prostate cancer, so there must be no zinc deficiency in the body. For prevention, the diet should include asparagus, garlic, and onions, especially red, which contain the most luteinizing hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland's gonadotropic cells. This hormone stimulates testosterone secretion in men and estrogen production in the ovaries in women.
Low testosterone levels cause reduced muscle tone and make it harder to increase muscle mass, libido (sexual desire), loss of skin collagen (more hair loss, decreased skin elasticity). A sign of low testosterone levels is prostate enlargement (benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate adenoma).
Ω Increased amount of estrogen,
Ω Fatty liver and its damage,
Ω Increased amount of the enzyme aromatase, which creates an increased level of estrogen (nettle roots can be used for neutralization of aromatase, zinc is also useful),
Ω Soy protein isolate (contains a lot of estrogens),
Ω Elevated insulin levels in the blood (food with a lot of fast carbohydrates),
Ω Alcohol, especially beer,
Ω Medications, especially the statin group,
Ω GMO products,
Ω Use of pesticides in agriculture,
Ω Food packaging and household chemicals,
Ω Hormonal drugs in animal-derived food.
If hormones are received from the outside, the body reduces or even stops producing them on its own, which can cause serious health problems. This is called negative feedback.
Important factors for maintaining normal testosterone levels are less stress, enough sleep, vitamin D3. The increase in testosterone levels is also promoted by the so-called growth hormone, whose production is encouraged by, for example, hemp protein, amino acids obtained from food (arginine, tryptophan, lysine), as well as intermittent fasting, which promotes autophagy. Food should only be consumed when feeling a strong sense of hunger.
For prevention, it's best to use nettles and vitamin D3. Egg yolks and butter also fit well, but from chickens and cows that live in the wild during the summer. It's important to get enough sleep and experience as little stress as possible. Consume as little sugar and soy products as possible, the main enemies of testosterone. The larger the excess weight, the less testosterone. Beer is the most effective means of lowering testosterone levels.
Flaxseeds contain not only the very necessary polyunsaturated fatty acid omega-3 but also lignans, which, acting as phytoestrogens, replace missing hormones in women during menopause.
Everything is interconnected. For example, the adrenal glands release the hormone adrenaline, which raises blood pressure, maintains muscle tone, physical and emotional activity, while the corticosteroids they release regulate tissue formation, supply bone marrow, liver with everything necessary for the production of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, hormones, vitamins, etc. Corticosteroids manage the synthesis of blood cells, hemoglobin, and tissue immune cells. Since the adrenal glands play an important role, they are well protected and rarely get sick unless there is interference in their operation, for example, with hormonal drugs.
The entire system of the body's internal secretion glands can self-regulate thanks to the information that the hormones themselves convey. When the concentration of a hormone in the blood increases, the hypothalamus immediately stops the production of that hormone.
Corticosteroids are widely used because they have anti-inflammatory effects, but it must be understood that the inflammatory process did not start without reason; it is the body's response to something disturbing, so the cause should be sought.
The consequences of hormonal therapy are already being faced by the third or even fourth generation. Parents should understand that treating children with hormonal drugs causes immune system function disorders, and every microbe becomes dangerous, suppressing the body's protein synthesis in ribosomes. Even if a child becomes dependent on hormonal drugs, detoxification can free them from it within a week.
Increased activity (hyperfunction) is characterized by an increased amount of the thyroid hormone thyroxine. It manifests with a slightly elevated temperature and weight loss, possibly diffuse toxic goiter. To avoid problems, it's also necessary to ensure that the diet provides enough micronutrient iodine.
The thyroid gland is located near the tonsils, where lymphoid tissues are located, acting as a kind of internal environment filter. That is why various pathogenic flora often settle there, for example, staphylococci (tonsillitis). Nowadays, along with the general decrease in tissue immunity, the immunity barrier of the thyroid gland, as well as the tonsils, also decreases. Frequent tonsillitis results in lymphatic tissues transforming from protectors to distributors of purulent processes. Treating them with antibiotics creates resistant bacterial flora and, through the surrounding dense network of blood vessels as a promoting factor, inflammation develops in relation to the thyroid gland (thyroiditis). Further possible outcomes are cysts, adenomas, or even malignant formations.
There is a general belief that angina is caused by colds, but dead tissues (pus) accumulate in the body not because we catch a cold but because of the food we eat, which later becomes a food base and favorable environment for microbes that release toxins such as the enzyme streptokinase or similar. Over time, as they multiply, they penetrate the thyroid tissue, resulting in thyroid tissue inflammation (thyroiditis) and further pathologies. The most popular treatment method is surgical intervention, followed by thyroid hormone replacement therapy, which uses levothyroxine, whose side effects are similar to those of thyroid hyperfunction.
Eco-medicine believes that a full detoxification course with cellular and tissue purification should be conducted. In this way, without surgical intervention, cysts and fibrous nodules disperse within less than a year, and other organs are simultaneously purified, and many other chronic ailments disappear.
During menopause, latent infection foci in the female body become active, toxins enter the bloodstream and further into the tissues, disrupting ATP synthesis, resulting in elevated temperature. Previously, these pus foci, located in the sinuses, appendix, lymph nodes, tonsils, gums, and elsewhere, were strictly limited by a strong immune system, formed with active participation of sex hormones. Similarly, when small children often get sick but stop getting sick upon reaching puberty, the reason is the strong tissue immune barrier created by active sex hormones. Diseases are not eliminated but "driven inward."
The increase in blood pressure during menopause is not related to periodic blood loss, as before, but to the activation of the inflammatory process in the kidneys.
In eco-medicine, the consequences of menopause are neutralized by detoxifying the body at the tissue and cellular levels, then transitioning to a biologically full-fledged diet. The role of replacement therapy is played by the diet, necessary not only for the gonads. Berries, greens, and fruits contain plant hormones, analogous to those lacking in a woman's body during menopause.
It is not advisable to use food supplements or toothpastes containing fluoride, as it adversely affects the pineal gland. Also, a deficiency of the amino acids glycine and tryptophan causes problems with melatonin production. Products containing caffeine pose problems. It is also not recommended to consume sugar-containing products before sleep, except for high-quality honey, as they provoke rapid insulin production, later leading to a decrease in sugar levels and the production of the stress hormone adrenaline and the fear hormone cortisol, which interfere with melatonin synthesis. Bedrooms should be cool and ventilated. Blue light adversely affects melatonin production, but red light is beneficial. Aromatherapy and teas with a sedative effect also help. Electrical outlets and devices connected to electricity should not be near the bed. The electromagnetic field negatively affects melatonin production. It is not recommended to obtain melatonin from the outside (for example, in tablet form), as it reduces natural melatonin production.
√ Blue light (there are special protective glasses and computer programs to avoid it),
√ High-frequency electromagnetic radiation (mobile phones, computers, etc.), nearby electromagnetic field (various electrical devices including those turned off but not disconnected from the electrical network),
√ Potassium deficiency, manifested as an accelerated pulse (for example, hearing heartbeats in the ears when lying down), potassium deficiency promotes cortisol production, also cramps indicate potassium and magnesium deficiency in the body,
√ Sugar - promotes the production of the hormone insulin (reduces glucose levels in the blood), but as sugar levels decrease, stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol are produced in large quantities, which are antagonists of the sleep hormone melatonin,
√ Deficiency of magnesium and vitamin D3 (causes muscle spasms),
√ Fatty, protein-rich diet,
especially in the second half of the day,
√ Acidic internal environment of the body, promoted by animal-derived proteins (produces nitric acid),
√ Insufficient amino acids glycine and tryptophan necessary for melatonin production,
√ Sleeping on the left side (should sleep on the right side, especially if overweight, because the liver presses on the heart),
√ Irregular breathing (inhalation and exhalation should be even, 4-5 seconds inhale and the same exhale,
√ Fluoride, as it is toxic to the pineal gland, which produces melatonin (contains toothpastes with fluoride, possibly also tap water),
√ Stress (can be reduced with sports activities during the day, evening walks, and relaxation events, but it is not recommended to watch, for example, horror movies before sleep),
√ Deficiency of B vitamins,
√ Caffeine, as it disrupts melatonin production (coffee, chocolate, black and green tea).