Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition
Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition

Author: Derrick Lonsdale

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0128103884

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Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition explores thiamine and how its deficiency affects the functions of the brainstem and autonomic nervous system by way of metabolic changes at the level of the mitochondria. Thiamine deficiency derails mitochondrial oxidative metabolism and gives rise to the classic disease of beriberi that, in its early stages, can be considered the prototype for a set of disorders that we now recognize as dysautonomia. This book represents the life's work of the senior author, Dr. Derrick Lonsdale, and a recent collaboration with his co-author Dr. Chandler Marrs. - Presents clinical experience and animal research that have answered questions about thiamine chemistry - Demonstrates that the consumption of empty calories can result in clinical effects that lead to misdiagnosis - Addresses the biochemical changes induced by vitamin deficiency, particularly that of thiamine

Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults

Author: Jens O. L. Jørgensen

Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3805579926

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It has been known for over 40 years that GH-deficient-children benefit from replacement with the hormone. But GH, essential for longitudinal growth, also plays a role after completion of final height. With the introduction of biosynthetic human GH 20 years ago, the use of GH was no longer restricted to severe growth retardation in hypopituitary children. This book will take the reader behind the myths of GH and into the real world of clinical endocrinology. The contributions stem from recognized clinicians and scientists who have been working in the field for decades. The contents encompass traditional end points of GH therapy such as body composition, bone biology and physical performance. Attention is also devoted to diagnostic aspects and side effects. Additional features range from clinical epidemiology to quality of life, and novel areas such as the impact of traumatic brain injury on pituitary function are also covered. The present volume of Frontiers of Hormone Research is essential reading for health care professionals interested in clinical endocrinology and GH.

Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Disease
Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Disease

Author: Mildred S. Seelig

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1468491083

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There is a large and rapidly growing body of literature on the importance of mag nesium in biochemical and physiological processes. There is also much evidence that magnesium deficiency, alone and in combination with agents that interfere with its utilization, is associated with functional and structural abnormalities of mem branes, cells, organs, and systems. The manifestations of the changes caused by magnesium deficiency depend upon its extent and duration and on variable factors. Among the conditions that increase the risk of magnesium deficiency are (1) meta bolic factors that affect the absorption, distribution, and excretion of this mineral; (2) disease and therapy; (3) physiologic states that increase requirements for nutrients; and (4) nutritional imbalances. Excesses of nutrients that interfere with the absorption or increase the excretion of magnesium-such as fat, phosphate, sugar, and vitamin D-can contribute to long-lasting relative magnesium deficiency. All have been implicated in several of the diseases considered in this book. Whether their influence on the need for magnesium is a common denominator remains to be investigated further.

Nutritional Deficiency
Nutritional Deficiency

Author: Pinar Erkekoglu

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2016-07-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9535124374

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Intake of a sufficient diet will provide an individual to live a healthy and functional life. However, poor intake of different nutritional components, such as proteins, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, may lead to health problems that can cause morbidity and finally mortality. Assessment of nutritional status involves physical examination, comprehensive evaluation of biochemical tests, body composition, and organ functions. Both high and low intake of nutritional elements may lead to significant health impairment. The main aim of the book Nutritional Deficiency is to determine the relationships between nutritional status and general health. The authors, who are contributing to the book, particularly focused on iron, vitamin D, and zinc deficiencies, which are global health problems. Besides, some chapters mention the impact of different nutritional deficiencies in susceptible periods of life, such as pregnancy and elderly. Besides, as a result of these deficiencies, different health conditions, such as depression, anemia, loss of neuronal plasticity, and cancer, are widely scrutinized in the book. One chapter mainly focuses on the effects of disasters on nutrition and disaster-caused malnutrition in underdeveloped countries. This book will widen the knowledge store of the readers on the effects of nutrition on general health, how nutritional deficiencies arise when there is a health problem, and how the nutritional status affects susceptible populations.

Laboratory of Deficiency
Laboratory of Deficiency

Author: Natalie Lira

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0520975960

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Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,” justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how political concerns over Mexican immigration—particularly ideas about the low intelligence, deviant sexuality, and inherent criminality of the “Mexican race”—shaped decisions regarding the treatment and reproductive future of Mexican-origin patients. Laboratory of Deficiency documents the ways Mexican-origin people sought out creative resistance to institutional control and offers insight into how race, disability, and social deviance have been called upon to justify the confinement and reproductive constraint of certain individuals in the name of public health and progress.

Iodine Deficiency Disorders and Their Elimination
Iodine Deficiency Disorders and Their Elimination

Author: Elizabeth N. Pearce

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 3319495054

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Iodine is an essential micronutrient and an integral component of the thyroid hormones, which are required for normal growth and development. The iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) encompass a spectrum of adverse health effects including goiter, cretinism, hypothyroidism, growth retardation, and increased pregnancy loss and infant mortality. This volume summarizes the current understanding of the effects of iodine deficiency as well as iodine excess. It also discusses best practices for salt iodization, the mainstay of global IDD prevention efforts, and other forms of food fortification. The effectiveness of iodine supplementation for vulnerable populations, an evolving strategy in many regions, is also described. Low level environmental exposure to chemicals such as perchlorate and thiocyanate, which competitively block thyroidal iodine uptake, appears to be ubiquitous worldwide. There has been recent concern that such environmental exposures might pose a health hazard by inducing or aggravating underlying thyroid dysfunction. This up-to-date volume explores both the effects of iodine deficiency as well as the best strategies for IDD prevention.

Born With a Junk Food Deficiency
Born With a Junk Food Deficiency

Author: Martha Rosenberg

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1616145943

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This hard-hitting exposé blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could have ever imagined. Rosenberg’s message is clear: the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries are tainting public health through marketing disguised as medical education and research, aggressive lobbying, and high-level conflicts of interest. If you’re concerned about the safety of the drugs you take and the food you eat, you owe it to yourself to read this important book. Having gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were willing to come forward and finally tell all, reporter and editorial cartoonist Rosenberg presents us with her shocking findings. Explosive material from whistle-blowers, scientists, unsealed lawsuits, and Big Pharma’s and Big Food’s own marketers exposes how these industries put profits before public safety and how the government puts the interests of business before the welfare of consumers, creating a double whammy that "pimps" the public health. What Rosenberg reveals about government complicity, regulatory food- and drug-safety lapses, and legislative injustices will both shock and appall.

Thiamine Deficiency and Associated Clinical Disorders
Thiamine Deficiency and Associated Clinical Disorders

Author: David W. McCandless

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-08-29

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1607613115

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Thiamine deficiency and related clinical disorders represent an intriguing area of both basic and clinical investigation. Modern imaging strategies have facilitated the rapid treatment, and potential reversal of these clinical disorders. The fusion of laboratory and clinical knowledge serve as an example of how research can translate to successful treatment. The goal of Thiamine Deficiency and Related Clinical Disorders is to bring together cogent results from basic and clinical investigation and to stimulate further investigations in these areas. This data will be useful to neurologists, internists, nutritionists, biochemists, neurochemists, neuroscientists, and others with interest in thiamine deficiency.

A Treatise on the Scurvy
A Treatise on the Scurvy

Author: James Lind

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781230473932

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1772 edition. Excerpt: ... would not have published any thing upon, the subject. There is an edition of Roujjetii put down by Mercklin si J and Lipeniusk in the year 1564; arid of Wierius observa* tions in 1567. The learned Dr. AJiruc (/) Is of opinion, that these last were not pub* listied till 1580. It is thus far certain, that those authors corresponded together; and upon Wierus sending to Ronjfeus Ecbthius's letter, now called his Epitome, he published it, together with his own work, Wierus*s observations, and two of Langius's epistles* in the year 1583. CHAP. IL Bibliotheca scorbutica: or, A chronological /view of what has hitherto been published on tbejcurvy. A. D. DEGREESfOan. Echthii defcorbtito, velscorbu* 1541**/ tica pqffione DEGREES epitome. He proposes it as a question, Whether the blood in the scurvy may not be corrupted* without the spleen or any other of the bowels being affected ? but is inclined to think the spleen often is. He assigns as causes of this disease, gross and unwhole some si) Linden, rtnwat. sk) Bibliotheca rial, medic. (I) Lib, dt morbit venereis. some food, such as salted, dried, or putrid flesh and fish, rancid pork, spoilt bread, bad water, &c. He distinguishes the symptoms into two classes. The first contains such as appear at the beginning, and are common to it with other diseases; the second, the succeeding and more certain signs of the malady. Under the first, he comprehends a heaviness of the body, with an unusual weariness, generally most sensibly felt after exercise; a tightness of the breast, and a weakness of the legs; an itching, redness, and pain of the gums; a change of colour in the face to a darkish hue: and observes, that where all these symptoms concur, we may fortel an approaching scurvy. But the more certain