Re: Re: Just Information

[Guest guest]

We have all had our share of problems and diagnosis and questions as to what

exactly is this disease all about so as to try to help ourselves as best as we

can.

I have concluded that for myself and maybe for others that a main problem is

that the GI tract is so big and such a great part of ones total health and

that when the whole process goes whacky from a pancreaus defect or deficiency,

it

just has a dramatic effect on our very lives. I've tried to learn about

digestion and it's process and have almost given up as it becomes so complicated

in

the physical part and the chemestry part that I'm not (and few are) equipped

to understand it all.

So, I'm reading a respected magazine the other day, National Geographic, and

there is a small article about the micro organisims in the human gut. It seems

like all people have between 5000 and 10,000 different kinds that have taken

up permanent residense in our intestimes. There are estimated to be about

100,000 different kinds. We don't know much about there little critters some are

harmful, some are helpful and some we just don't know anything about. They are

chemically active and do play a part in the course of our digestion and

nutrent separation from food we eat to material we use to live. They have their

separate DNA and we don't know yet how to grow them to study about them.

So considering that idea, and then add the defective function of the

pancreaus, is it any wonder that we have problems and that our doctors suggest

to try

this or that or maybe something else.

A single bite of a carrot gets a little Beta-carotene into our gut, there it

gets made into Vitimin A, and some of that that gets transformed into a few

molacules of a substance named retinol that makes it's way to our optic nerve

where it waits. Then when a single photon of light hits that retinol molacule it

breaks apart and in doing so stimulates the optic nerve at the back of out

eyeball, an electrical message is sent to the brain and thus by many messages in

a pattern that is recognized by the brain, thus we can see. And all from a

bite of a carrot. Without beta-carotine we are blind as a stone.

But by digestion we are able to see, and that's just one of likely thousands

of processes going on every minute of our lives.

Best wishes, Poncho - GA

[Guest guest]

Poncho,

We just had a test in my nutrition class on the transamination of beta

carotene to Vitamin A. We also learned about retinol, retinal, and retinoic

acid, all part of that bite of carrot. Thank you for making the process more

simplified. It helped with my test.

Crystal Galloway