Recently, training client who rarely gets sick and who is usually quite vigilant about nutrition her told me that she had an infection of the respiratory tract. This brief article describes what she learned by not sticking with their nutrition guidelines and are intended to be caution for those who find value in it.
Apparently, while the client was feeling under the weather, she simply pay attention to the usual, its healthful diet. One evening, after a day less attentive to eat – nothing really junky – she noticed that she felt, in her words, “absolutely terrible.” She noticed that her health had taken a turn for the worse, until she demonstrate how its “food day” had come.
Throughout the day, she had eaten almost no protein and lots of starchy carbohydrates. It was then that she remembered how insulin-triggering carbohydrates affect inflammation they call the Series 2 prostaglandins.
What are prostaglandins?
As stated in the previous article, are transient prostaglandins, hormone-like substances. They are out of the cells and travel through the interstitial fluid surrounding the cells target. Prostaglandins control many cellular functions and come in three sizes. All are made from food (certain fatty acids) and depend on enzymes to their formation.
What is insulin
Insulin converts enzymes acting on the fat we eat. When we eat large amounts of insulin-triggering foods (usually carbohydrates) – or when we eat carbohydrates with insulin triggering itself – enzymes shift toward establishing a series 2 prostaglandin synthesis.
Sugar was a good example of carb to avoid completely, since it is very insulin-triggering. People who eat a lot of sugar can get sick often.
Type 2 prostaglandins promote pain and swelling, but the types 1 and 3 work in the opposite direction and can reduce both pain and inflammation. From the description of training my client, she was experiencing, both by eating wrong all day.
We can fix things with food
Fortunately, the client was pro-active enough to return to normal diet its mainly vegetables, along with protein and moderate amounts of complex carbohydrates and healthful fats. She began to notice that she felt better within a few hours.
