Do you know what we are made of?
The human body is compose of trillions of cells. Cells are the fundamental unit of life, composed of billions of molecules. Cells are small compartments that hold the biological equipment necessary to keep an organism alive and successful. They provide structure for the body, take in nutrients from food, convert those nutrients into energy and carry out specialized functions.
Cells are like little factories inside your body, each assigned to do specific function to give us the gift of life. Not all cells look the same.
Cells come in thousands of different shapes and sizes, individually has its own task for the benefit of the body.
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Every second, millions of your cells die, and need to be replaced with new ones. Our bodies are producing new cells 24 hours per day. Old cells die and new cells are formed all the time. Most cells are constantly growing and dividing. Mitosis is the process of cell division. This is controlled by the cell cycle, which allows a cell to grow, duplicate its DNA and divide. While young, your body is creating more cells than it loses; as you age, this gradually turns around.
Necrosis occurs when a cell is damaged by an external force, chemotherapy, a bodily injury, an infection or getting cut off from the blood supply (which might occur during a heart attack or stroke).
Apoptosis, on the other hand, is when a cell will self-destruct. It’s sometimes referred to as programmed cell death. In neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, apoptosis is thought to account for much of the cell death and progressive loss of neurons.
A cell’s inability to undergo apoptosis can result in the development of cancer. Cancer is just really a by-product of a broken or dysfunctional cell that keeps on replicating itself.
Everything from reproduction to infections to repairing a broken bone happens down at the cellular level. In order for these cells to function properly each cell must be protected from damage as much as possible.
Disease and its symptoms exist first at the cellular level. The cellular level is the level of cells, the most basic structural unit of the human body. It is essential that a cell is able to respond to its environment and communicate with surrounding cells to regulate both its own activities and the actions of its neighbor.
If your body doesn’t receive proper nutrition and building materials, it will produce bad, dysfunctional cells, deficient in the basic ingredients that constitute a healthy cell. Providing your body with proper nutrition plays an important role in nourishing overall health. In addition, certain nutrients also protect your cells from damage, and nutrients from food support your body’s energy production machinery.
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