BIOCHEMICAL NEEDS IN CHEMICAL INJURY

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BIOCHEMICAL NEEDS IN CHEMICAL INJURY

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The body's biochemistry requires vital nutrients. DO NOT DISMISS THESE AS

UNNECESSARY or worse, " expensive urine " . Adequate levels are essential to

health

and preventing chronic illness, degenerative and autoimmune disease and

cancer.

 

 

DIETARY TIPS: Focus on diet to maintain nutrients

 

---- " Organic " /free range higher nutrient levels (nutrient richer soil/food).

 

---- More fresh - try juicing - processing reduces nutrients, increases

additives.

---- Best to rotate: reduces food intolerances, improves nutrient

completeness

---- Low glycemic carbohydrates/dietary balance Stabilizes blood sugar, helps

adrenal healing, reduces candida eg Blood Sugar Blues Dr. Rockwell

206-547-1814; www.drsallyrockwell.com

---- Non-vegetarian often needed due to low protein

---- Digestive enzymes with meal if low chymotrypsin on GI panel.

---- Chew food until liquid before swallowing to improve digestion

 

Proteins are needed to properly break down chemicals in the body. Certain

protein " building blocks " or amino acids-such as glycine, glutamine, taurine,

and

cysteine are necessary for detoxifying processing chemicals. They bind to

foreign chemicals (and many synthetic Rx) to make these substances water soluble

so they pass out in urine.1 Deficiencies of these protein building blocks can

interfere with detoxification. Deficiencies can occur with increased exposure

to certain chemicals, and can be aggravated by problems with absorption

(common in chemically ill patients) medications (ask your pharmacist who can

access, a database on this), and vegetarian diets. Protein deficient vegetarians

may wish to reconsider animal and seafood protein needs, especially if fatigue

is present.

 

Mineral, vitamin, and nutrients especially copper, iron, magnesium, zinc,

manganese and vitamins C, E, B complex, a natural mixture of bioflavinoids, and

glutathione are needed in the body's processing of petrochemicals and

deficiency can reduce the body's ability to handle foreign chemicals. 1, ,

 

Nutritional evaluation for nutrient deficiencies is recommended for toxic

injury patients with persistent chronic fatigue or with poorer absorption of

food

(frequent loose stools, frequent undigested food in stools).

 

See testing above. Others at increased risk of nutritional deficiencies

include: persons with significant recent exposure to petrochemicals, those with

a

poorly balanced diet, those lacking adequate animal (or seafood) protein, and

those with a long history of frequent consumption of processed or " junk " food.

Much commercially grown animal protein such as dairy, eggs, beef, chicken,

pork, mutton, etc. can accumulate antibiotics, synthetic hormones, and

pesticides

in the fat (often marbled in too well to effectively remove), so try to buy

organically raised and range-fed (or free-range) meat whenever possible. Food

grown without pesticides and using natural fertilizer often has much higher

nutrient and mineral content and free range/wild game has much higher essential

protein (amino acid) content.

 

Some textbook References:

MC Linder, Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism

Clinical Nutrition: A Functional Approach

B Levin, Environmental Nutrition

JA Bally and RS Lord, Laboratory Evaluation in Molecular Medicine

CD Klassen, Casarette and Doull's Toxicology

RK Murray, etal, Harpers Biochemistry

 

1. M Linder, Editor Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism. Appleton and

Lance.

 

2. B Levin, Editor, Environmental Nutrition: Understanding the Link Between

Environment, Food Quality and Disease, HingePin, Vashon Island, WA 1999.

 

3. H Kawano, Current Drug Targets - Cardiovascular and Hematological

Disorders, 4: 23-33, 3, 2004.