Jaundice, or yellowing of the skin and eyes, occurs when a normal substance, bilirubin, builds up in the newborn's bloodstream
faster than the liver can break it down and excrete it through the baby's stool.
«The glands recover much
faster than the liver when normal nutrition is resumed,» he writes, «so hormone levels soar unchecked.»
But trouble starts when toxins enter the bloodstream
faster than the liver can break them down; the liver becomes overwhelmed, sluggish and even toxic.
Not exact matches
Normally, it easily poisons the
liver faster than it can deal with detoxing this poisonous pharmaceutical.
Bilirubin may be produced
faster than your baby's still maturing
liver can eliminate it.
«Some tissues showed
faster methylation
than others, for example in the
liver, colon and spleen, and that's exactly where we saw the tumours grow,» says Shen.
Interestingly, ActD - induction of p53 expression was much
faster in
liver cells
than in kidney cells.
While the drive to win can be rather fierce and it's true that steroid usage can get you to the top
faster than anything else, performance - enhancing drugs can also have fatal side effects, including heart problems,
liver abnormalities and tumors, drug dependence, impotence and infertility.
«If we're consuming carbohydrates at a
faster rate
than our bodies are utilizing them for energy, that extra glucose gets stored in the fat cells of the
liver, which decreases its ability to break down excess estrogen and allowing it to hang around in our systems longer
than it should.
Once
liver glycogen levels begin to drop and exercise continues the body becomes increasingly hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) mainly because blood glucose is depleted
faster than it is replaced by gluconeogenesis.
In healthy human subjects, a 24 hour
fast decreases
liver glycogen stores no more
than 57 % and in absence of vigorous exercise does not lead to muscle glycogen consumption, suggesting that
liver glycogen stores are sufficient after a 24 hour
fast to keep blood glucose levels within normal range (73).
This condition seen in prolonged
fasting, type 1 diabetes and high - fat / low - carbohydrate diets leads to the production of higher -
than - normal levels of so - called ketone bodies (KBs), that is, acetoacetate, β - hydroxybutyric acid and acetone — a process called ketogenesis and which occurs principally in the mitochondrial matrix in the
liver.6
Aerobic exercise also did a better job
than resistance training at improving
fasting insulin resistance, and reducing
liver enzymes and
fasting triglyceride levels.
And while this does invoke some certain negative connotations, the taboo of the subject matter is vanishing
faster than Charlie Sheen's
liver.
Our
livers metabolize chemicals much
faster than in others.
It is far worst
than fasting force feeding a cat with an upset stomach causing it to further vomit and dehydrate, making the cat more prone to fatty
liver disease if the cat does not eat for a longer time..
Alcohol can have an extremely damaging effect on your cat's brain and
liver the same way it affects your own, though the consequences will be much
faster for your cat
than they are for you.
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