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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 23:17:55 GMT -5
Bile acid sequestrants are primarily used to treat hypercholesterolemia, but can also be used to treat the pruritus, or itching, that often occurs during liver failure due to the liver's inability to eliminate bile.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:53:18 GMT -5
analyzed using a standardized two-dimensional liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method WHY CAN'T WE USE THIS TO DETERMINE IF WE ARE FILTERING CORRECTLY?
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:41:27 GMT -5
Disruption of Kidney Function | Back to Top Infection, environmental toxins such as mercury, and genetic disease can have devastating results by causing disruption of kidney function. Many kidney problems can be treated by dialysis, where a machine acts as a kidney. Kidney transplants are an alternative to dialysis.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:38:52 GMT -5
The Human Excretory System | Back to Top The urinary system is made-up of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. The nephron, an evolutionary modification of the nephridium, is the kidney's functional unit. Waste is filtered from the blood and collected as urine in each kidney. Urine leaves the kidneys by ureters, and collects in the bladder. The bladder can distend to store urine that eventually leaves through the urethra.
Human excretory system and the details of the kidney. Images from Purves et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition, by Sinauer Associates (www.sinauer.com) and WH Freeman (www.whfreeman.com), used with permission.
The Nephron The nephron consists of a cup-shaped capsule containing capillaries and the glomerulus, and a long renal tube. Blood flows into the kidney through the renal artery, which branches into capillaries associated with the glomerulus. Arterial pressure causes water and solutes from the blood to filter into the capsule. Fluid flows through the proximal tubule, which include the loop of Henle, and then into the distal tubule. The distal tubule empties into a collecting duct. Fluids and solutes are returned to the capillaries that surround the nephron tubule.
Filtration of the blood in the fine structure of the kidneys. Image from Purves et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition, by Sinauer Associates (www.sinauer.com) and WH Freeman (www.whfreeman.com), used with permission.
The nephron has three functions:
Glomerular filtration of water and solutes from the blood. Tubular reabsorption of water and conserved molecules back into the blood. Tubular secretion of ions and other waste products from surrounding capillaries into the distal tubule. Nephrons filter 125 ml of body fluid per minute; filtering the entire body fluid component 16 times each day. In a 24 hour period nephrons produce 180 liters of filtrate, of which 178.5 liters are reabsorbed. The remaining 1.5 liters forms urine.
Urine Production Filtration in the glomerulus and nephron capsule. Reabsorption in the proximal tubule. Tubular secretion in the Loop of Henle. Components of The Nephron Glomerulus: mechanically filters blood Bowman's Capsule: mechanically filters blood Proximal Convoluted Tubule: Reabsorbs 75% of the water, salts, glucose, and amino acids Loop of Henle: Countercurrent exchange, which maintains the concentration gradient Distal Convoluted Tubule: Tubular secretion of H ions, potassium, and certain drugs. Kidney Stones In some cases, excess wastes crystallize as kidney stones. They grow and can become a painful irritant that may require surgery or ultrasound treatments. Some stones are small enough to be forced into the urethra, others are the size of huge, massive boulders (or so I am told).
Kidney Function | Back to Top Kidneys perform a number of homeostatic functions:
Maintain volume of extracellular fluid Maintain ionic balance in extracellular fluid Maintain pH and osmotic concentration of the extracellular fluid. Excrete toxic metabolic by-products such as urea, ammonia, and uric acid. Hormone Control of Water and Salt | Back to Top Water reabsorption is controlled by the antidiuretic hormone (ADH) in negative feedback. ADH is released from the pituitary gland in the brain. Dropping levels of fluid in the blood signal the hypothalamus to cause the pituitary to release ADH into the blood. ADH acts to increase water absorption in the kidneys. This puts more water back in the blood, increasing the concentration of the urine. When too much fluid is present in the blood, sensors in the heart signal the hypothalamus to cause a reduction of the amounts of ADH in the blood. This increases the amount of water absorbed by the kidneys, producing large quantities of a more dilute urine.
Aldosterone, a hormone secreted by the kidneys, regulates the transfer of sodium from the nephron to the blood. When sodium levels in the blood fall, aldosterone is released into the blood, causing more sodium to pass from the nephron to the blood. This causes water to flow into the blood by osmosis. Renin is released into the blood to control aldosterone.
Disruption of Kidney Function | Back to Top Infection, environmental toxins such as mercury, and genetic disease can have devastating results by causing disruption of kidney function. Many kidney problems can be treated by dialysis, where a machine acts as a kidney. Kidney transplants are an alternative to dialysis.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:31:19 GMT -5
i think it is our filter system. Our kidneys are not filtering out the impurities or can not filter out some unknown substance, probably from some of the ingredients laced in our foods from scientists working for food industry, trying to make our food safer and last longer, and this ingredient has backed up our filter system and therefor our bodies won't excrete through the urinary tract system, and it backs up into our bodies and clogs up our pores, the body overproduces to try to get rid of the stuff in the blocked pore, overproducing a get rid of that stuff fluid, which is overreacting, pushing the substance out of our bodies, heats up our system, and expels the black sooty like stuff, so much so that the bacteria from the air attacks our bodies and causes the feelings of crawlies.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:16:36 GMT -5
Why the pods? Does the fluid house this stuff and what is stuff? When I use and astringent on my face, even though my face is just washed, the cotton turns dark, grayish black, the more I swab, the darker the cotton gets. Could it be our bodies are producing this black stuff in drodes? Micro drodes? We don't even see it, until perhaps there is an over sized one, or group, then we see it as a black spec. Could, just maybe, this black like substance is being produce or filtered in our kidney's? This sort of reminds me of how a house filter works. It also reminds me of a printer and how that black soot like substance comes out of the container even though the container is not open , somehow it finds its way out and gets all over. Could it be, that our filter system in our body is not working, and the bodies impurities back up into our main system, then the body over produces a substance to try to rid the impurities, but can not, which cause the pores to open up and spill out the impurities MORE so than usual and the bacteria in the air attacks the impurities causing the crawly feelings? ? Maybe>
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:10:14 GMT -5
The way it was stiched like looking looked like what I have on my hands and on the top of my feet from time to time. Weird.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 22:00:26 GMT -5
I read your replies and yes that example of the Morse code thing was sorta like what I saw in my tub. But my hair looks different. As though it was divided into increments. Pods of light and dark dark fluid, spaced intermittently horizontally along my hair strand.
A dark round pod, a oblong light pod, then a semi-dark pod, then a oblong like pod, and on it went. Say about ten pods in each hair strand. My tub water was real hot and clear of any detergents etc, and it was not even half full, the light was canned recessed. Typically when i take a bath, I don't even take time to look into the water, and even if I did my body would block the light. It is when I sat down next to the tub, to take off my shoes that I noticed the odd looking thing floating in my tub. My eyes probably bugged out of my head. I just could not believe I was seeing it.
Like I said, I went to touch it and just as my finger tip touched the water, there it was, a hair strand, which was so small that I did not even notice it. Little did I know that it was causing the picture I described above. I tried to take a photo, but it did not come out. So I am buying a disposable camera and will take and post the photo, that is if i can capture "it" cause you just have to see this, it was and is unbelievable. Chicago Bonnie
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 22, 2007 21:28:16 GMT -5
Sorry everyone, my car broke down a long way from home yesterday and I had triple AAA tow it to a garage, then the garage called today and said they can't fix it come and get it, and so I called triple AAA again and they said they would tow it again free again today, so I been busy with the car situation. I will read right now. Chicago Bonnie
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 21, 2007 0:39:01 GMT -5
I was about to take a bath, tub filled up as I sat down to take off my shoes i looked over at the water and saw a long clear worm like silhouette at the bottom of my tub. I thought wow, what is that floating in the bottom of my tub, I have never seen anything like it. It was a sight to behold.
The large worm like structure at the bottom of my tub, was clear except for intermittent circular dark round shapes that lie inside the clear worm like structure and spanned horizontally throught out the worm. (i hope this makes sense)
Still amazed, I had to find out what this was in my tub so I reached down through the water to touch it and as my finger tip touched the surface of the water above the shape, I discovered a strand of my hair, sitting on top of the water, directrly above the worm silhouette.
I drew back as I realized what I was actually seeing "it", our disease and how it lies within our hair. The light from my ceiling had acted like an Xray and penetreated my light blonde hair shinging through to the bottom of the tub and created the image I was now looking at, and the darkness was the areas inside the hair that were housing our disease. A sight you absolutely must see, if you haven't already.
You can call me crazy, I don't care, I have never seen this before and wondered if some of the rest of you had?. My next step is to get a strand of hair from someone else and see if the same shape and shadows appear.
Someone please try this and see. Or has anyone out there ever seen this before cause I have never read where any one has. Please someone tell me it isn't so., that I have actually now seen it.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 17, 2007 16:26:01 GMT -5
i have been scaping my lesions with a antiacid and a little water and it seems to be drying them up. Anyone else have that happen?
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 17, 2007 14:39:39 GMT -5
Hey easy on the fake boobs, i did this when i was young and regret it to this day, but i am still valuable with or without the fake boobs. In fact, i never wear any low cut or tight, so no one knows that I have them and i don't draw attention to them. If i had the money I would get rid of them in a heart beat.
Please, from you who have never had low self esteme and never needed a lift from what childbirth does to breasts and from old boyfriend making fun of me, be easy on us fake's.
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 15, 2007 1:48:44 GMT -5
Good listening, how can i forward that link to my family to listen too?
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COFFEE!
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 15, 2007 1:29:25 GMT -5
oh yeah, any stimulant makes my lesions worse for me and sugar makes my legs get that fluttering movement more often than usual. Alchohol, which I rarely if ever drink anymore gives me acid reflux so bad that it wakes me up in middle of the night and I run to the toliet and grab antacid on the way there. No wine for me please. ChicagoBonnie
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 10, 2007 3:42:06 GMT -5
I don't want to miss anyones birhtday, please could we do a monthly "it's my birthday?" Anyone else's birthday this month?? Please let us know and say below:
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 9, 2007 0:58:58 GMT -5
Wow, how do i watch the video or transfer this to a friend of mine in Chicago to read?
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 9, 2007 0:52:59 GMT -5
I had to laugh at this insane letter i received from a doctor i have not seen in three years and he is now charging every patient a annual fee. Hahahahahahahahahah. Just wait, some day we will do health care by computer and the doctors will be out out out, pushing a broom. hahahahahahaha Listen to this: Here at )(&*^%*(Internal Medicine, our overhead costs have riesent dramatiically at the same time that reimbursements from health care insurers have been steadily declining. In reponse to similiar issues, many medical practices in our area have chose: drop insurance charge for numerous fees for filiing raise fees to become private "boutique" (not sure what that means) WE HAVE POLLED A PORTIONOF OUR PATIENTS AND YOUR OVERWHELMING RESPONSE HAS BEEN TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE SERVICES FOR A MODEST PRICE(RIGHT, thats why insurance co is lowering reimbursments)RATHER THAN TO RISK COMPROMISING OUR PATIENT CARE. OUR PLAN IS TO CHARGE A MODEST ANNUAL SERVICE FEE PER PATIENT($120.00 PER PERSON ANNUALLY) I wonder what money making seminar he leared that one at? I think I will go to the next doctor seminar in Chicago and listen to what these sharks are planning for our near future. I dated an MD for sometime years ago, he said doctors spend more time at seminars on how to make money than on how to treat the patient. He hated the big medical machine. Over and out, Bonnie
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 10, 2007 3:37:40 GMT -5
Happy Birthday dear one and many more to come. May your day be blessed. ChicagoBonnie
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 8, 2007 23:57:06 GMT -5
V, when I went off my antibiotics a year ago, i thought I was cured too, then weeks later, it started and i was freaked out. I know it is held at bay with the antibiotics, and you with baking soda, but why? Why? What is it in this stuff that keeps it down? And why does it come back? We all ask ourselves this maddening question many many many time and still no answer. We can put a man on the moon, messages through wires and airwave, but we can not cure this unknown disease. I sure hope one of our scientists finds the answer and they get the kudo's and not some unknown goof who just gets lucky and finds the answer from all our facts and data. Please Randy find the cause soon. CB
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Post by zabrubon on Mar 10, 2007 1:17:41 GMT -5
I am grateful for your love and your kindness. My God I am blessed with you all. Your care is healing me. Everyday I read this board and your words of hope cause me to hang my head, hand over mouth and cry. Healing tears. Healing my tortured soul. Thank you for your hand, you all are the best of the best. I am blessed to know you all. I heard a sermon yesterday by John Orteberg(I love that guy)in Palos California and he said " the core of depression is the inability to treasure something" Well dear friends, you gave something yesterday to cherish, and that is you. Thank you for my journey back to sanity and hope. I will talk to you again in a few more days. I am resting and reading and relaxing after work. My doctor appointment is now set and I will be going after all. I must keep trying to get better. My meds are almost gone and I need to renew them and get back to a healthier me. I also wanted to know if anyone here knows how to look up and find a retired doctor. She is my old doctor and I want to find her and ask her to help us. I know she can, but I need to find her first. I am writing her and mailing it to her old address, perhaps it will forward. I also know where she goes to church, maybe I will find her there. Blessings to you all and God be with us and bring us a healing soon. Chicago Bonnie.
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