The adrenal glands themselves are very high in ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Since we know that vitamin C is used in large doses to help fight infection, the bottom line now is that this vitamin helps stimulate the adrenal glands to produce more curtain, the disease-fighting hormone. Because this pair of glands was designed by nature to spill adrenaline in moments of physical danger or emotional crisis, continuous mental or emotional stress overloads your ’emergency glands’ to the point where your nerves and vital organs are constantly maintained. triggered for fever due to too many false “emergency” messages from the brain, sending the powerful hormone adrenaline into the bloodstream when not really needed. During times of stress, the adrenal glands also release a substance called cholesterol (the waxy substance now credited with hardening of the arteries into the bloodstream. See Chapter 9). For this reason, many physicians believe that arteriosclerosis and other “ age diseases ” such as coronary thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage can develop as a result of this constant overstimulation of the adrenal glands by high stress life and the day to day. -no mental or emotional tension.
This emergency function of the adrenal glands to act as a powerful stimulant on the organs of the body is a holdover from the days when man needed instant physical and mental reserves to save himself from animal or human enemies. But today, when most of our emergencies are primarily emotional or mental, this continuous flow of high-powered adrenaline into the bloodstream causes the heart and blood vessels to get a terrible pounding. And because adrenaline continually spills into the blood under the stress and strain of our highly emotional civilization, the curtain is also constantly needed in large doses to bring the body’s machine back to normal. Since we know that the adrenal glands use vitamin C to make the cortical hormone, it is not difficult to understand that a continuous life of high tension (whether physical, mental or emotional) consumes a lot of vitamin C and releases a lot of cholesterol in the body. blood. The result is the depletion of vitamin C stores, unless special attention is paid to replacing this vitamin through the diet; an increased tendency to infection (note how easily an influenza epidemic hits its victims during times of local or national crisis); and high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries: That excess amount of cholesterol from the overstimulated adrenal glands has to land somewhere, and where it is more convenient than on the walls of the arteries, where it obstructs the free flow of blood, What makes the arteries ‘harden’? If you want to feel and look younger than you are, you’d better stop setting off those mental and emotional ‘false alarms’ that keep your body taut as a mainspring. The old proverb that “ worry kills more people than guns ” was unconsciously aimed directly at the adrenal glands, since the reckless use of its powerful hormone by an emotionally unstable mind is equivalent to killing your youth, also yourself, by centimeters. One final tip on adrenal gland care: feed them plenty of high-quality protein; give them plenty of vitamin C (the best sources are citrus fruits, melons, apricots, strawberries, green vegetables, and particularly tomatoes); make sure that foods rich in vitamins A and B-complex are consumed at least twice a day; and provide them with the minerals magnesium and silicon (the richest sources are citrus and other fruits, green leafy vegetables, yellow vegetables, nuts, and egg yolks).
The pancreas, your insulin factory
To impress you with the importance of this endocrine gland, I just need to mention the word ‘diabetes’. Although diabetes has been attributed to the kidneys for years, medical science has found that this stealthy disease actually begins in the pancreas – that is, after the pancreas falls into the job of secreting insulin, one of its hormones. When not enough insulin is produced, the bloodstream becomes overloaded with sugar. Insulin helps the body “burn” your sugar, turning it into energy. When not enough insulin is produced due to a sluggish or diseased pancreas, the unused sugar is found in the bloodstream as unburned charcoal on a stove. The quickest way to upset the pancreas is to continually gorge on sweet and starchy foods. After years of committing this dietary crime, the pancreas becomes discouraged and stops trying to produce enough insulin to burn off all the sugar that builds up in the bloodstream. So, my friend, you have diabetes, a controllable disease, but definitely not curable, and a possible cause of death at any time without surveillance. As if the job of burning sugar isn’t working enough, the pancreas must also dump enough enzymes (substances that speed up digestion in the body) into the upper part of the intestine to help digest starches and sugars before they can be converted to sugar. in blood. From this, you can easily appreciate the never-ending task that ultimately becomes for the pancreas of the sugar and starch eater: working hard to produce enough enzymes and insulin to care for a carbohydrate-rich meal, and then being forced to do the same one. again in a few hours, not just today or tomorrow, but year after year. Any organ or gland in the body is destined to wear out under the load of greater work than nature designed it to do. If you want to show some consideration for his working pancreas, give him plenty of protein foods, as protein is needed in the body to ensure normal production of the hormone insulin. The minerals sulfur and chlorine (found in green vegetables, all berries, fresh coconut, egg yolks, cheese, particularly Roquefort, dairy products, lean meats, saltwater fish, lobster, crabs, mussels, and shrimp) they stimulate the pancreas. .
Three other members of his Gland family
The four small parathyroid glands (two on each side of the thyroid gland) are primarily concerned with regulating the supply of calcium in your body. For this reason, the parathyroids are an important quartet, as calcium is vital for the health of the heart, nerves, muscles, teeth, and bones; all of them are the foundation of a young mind and body. Parathyroid hormone is needed to unblock calcium stores in the bones before this essential mineral can reach the bloodstream for distribution to your “regulars.” All the dietary calcium, calcium tablets, or mineral concentrates in the world are of no use to your health if your four small parathyroid glands can’t secrete enough hormone to get that calcium out of your bones and into your bloodstream where it can. be used. It’s worth remembering that while controlling the body’s calcium supplies, the parathyroids themselves need calcium to stay healthy. Therefore, a diet low in calcium is a double-edged sword: There is not enough calcium for the parathyroids, which then retaliate by failing to produce the hormone that releases calcium from bone into the bloodstream for the nerves, muscles, heart, teeth and bones. In addition to meat and eggs, the best sources of dietary calcium are found in dairy products, such as skimmed milk powder, buttermilk, yogurt, and cheese. The thymus is in your chest, not far below your thyroid. When he is born, the thymus weighs about half an ounce, then increases to almost triple his weight until the time of adolescence, after which it begins to shrink again, until when he is fifty years old, the thymus returns to its normal state. original size. Medical science still does not fully understand the full functioning of this endocrine gland, although it is suspected that it helps control the body’s use of phosphorus and calcium, and that it is involved in the production of white blood cells, one of its guardians against infections. . Furthermore, we know that any failure of the thymus to behave properly is caused by improper development of the frontal lobe of the pituitary gland. The main precautions for the normal behavior of this gland involve keeping the pituitary gland healthy and well nourished with foods rich in protein. The most mysterious of all your endocrine glands is the pineal. This is a small cone-shaped organ, no larger than a grain of wheat, suspended by a stalk just behind the midbrain. It is known that there is some connection between the pineal gland and your brain, as well as your sexual organs. Sometimes the pineal shrinks and fills with salt deposits known as “brain sand.” This abnormal condition is caused by faulty nutrition, and recent scientific experiments have shown that a degenerating pineal gland will respond to a protein diet in a remarkably short period of time. The minerals potassium and sodium are also known to feed the pineal gland. The richest sources of these minerals are potato skins (especially potassium), eggplant, celery, corn, green vegetables, berries, melons, black olives, citrus and other fresh fruits, lean beef and lamb, cottage cheese, and other cheeses. , buttermilk and skimmed milk powder. , lobsters and oysters.
Your sex glands (gonads)
I saved for last the glands that should perhaps come first in your effort to retain the appearances and sensations of youth, since staying young is tantamount to saying ‘stay sexually attractive and sexually capable’.
What qualities or attributes make people say of a certain man or woman: ‘He (or she) is so young for his age’? My first answer would be sexual vitality, because in these two words are contained the confidence, the inner feeling of power, energy, vitality, enthusiasm, mental alertness, a sense of attractiveness, security, resistance and radiant radiance that are gifts for young people in years . , and it can also be found in people of any age whose sex glands are healthy.