Sentences with phrase «healthy cells break»

«Young, healthy cells break down and recycle old or damaged proteins,» he said.

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Vitamin B6 helps maintain healthy brain function, normal nerve function, forming red blood cells, and breaking down and digesting proteins.

James Christiansen, professor of biology at Drake University in DesMoines, is studying how telomeres, the simple, non-genetic DNAsequences that sheathe the ends of chromosomes, function in reptiles.Each time a healthy human cell divides, it loses a little bit of thetelomere, until the strands are too short to protect the chromosomes.At that point the DNA in a cell begins to break down, which triggerssenescence and death.

In healthy people, muscle cells make an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase, which breaks down chylomicrons.

Proline also helps your body break down proteins for use in creating new, healthy muscle cells.

Liposuction This fat - removal surgery (docs use a thin surgical instrument to break up fat cells in a particular area, then vacuum out the cells with a suction device) is best for healthy people who have localized fat deposits they want to get rid of — saddlebags, love handles, tummy fat — not those who want to lose lots of weight, says John Canady, MD, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Your bones» matrix is broken down during your daily activities, and, if you're healthy, collagen cells (the building blocks of bone tissue) are filled in to restore and strengthen our skeletal structure through a process called remodelling.

Because Age Related Macular Degeneration comes from the breaking down of retinal cells, the vitamins and nutrients which have been found to protect eyes from AMD are aiding the body by keeping the eyes healthy and improving eyesight.

Suspect that it has an odd electron balance that prevents it from entering healthy cells, but gets into the cells that form the stones and disrupts their function or breaks them up.

Lectin break down the membranes of harmful invaders: cancer cells (reducing prostate, colon and other cancers), fungi, bacteria and viruses is part of the reason that most plants are healthy.

For healthy bone remodeling we need more cells rebuilding bone rather than breaking it down.

And in the midst of all of this, your gut must break down all the food you eat into its individual components, separate out all the vitamins and minerals and shuttle everything across that one cell thick layer into your bloodstream for you to stay healthy.

Some foods which contain carotenoids or lycopene (orange vegetables and tomatoes) actually become healthier during the cooking process because the heat breaks down the cell wall and allows the nutrients in the plant to become more bioavailable and easier to absorb by our bodies.

Similarly, in our bodies it breaks down healthy systems and cells, and is a key ingredient to aging.

Cortisol is a catabolic hormone by nature and its primary purpose is fight - or - flight response at the moments of danger and to break down healthy muscle tissues in order to convert that protein into sugar to feed your cells.

Softens and lubricates healthy skin cells, breaks down dead cells, heals acne and hydrates skin.

The viral spikes are covered with the enzyme, neuraminidase, which helps break down the healthy cell wall.