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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

98. Detailed Look At Vitamin K

Vitamin K is useful to thicken the blood, so we won't bleed uncontrollably. Imagine if we accidentally got a knife cut due to cooking. It's so trivial, but if we bleed non stop and the blood won't even dry up, knife becomes too dangerous, no, hazardous for us human.

Vitamin K also helps to bind calcium and bones together. Without Vitamin K, calcium might pile up in our veins and block blood circulation. Furthermore, we will get osteoporosis, which means we have weaker bones because there's no significant content that strengthen the bones. We fracture our bones easily, and become Mr. Glass.


We need around 70 μg to 120 μg dose of Vitamin K each day, but our body has a mechanism to recycle the existing Vitamin K in our body, so deficiency cases are rare. However, some medicine we take may decrease the concentration of Vitamin K (producing Vitamin K that isn't of high quality), resulting imperfect recycling process, and thus, the binding of calcium and bones gets weaker.

Here below is your reference to Vitamin K natural source:
  • 1/2 cup of spinach (cooked), 75 grams, or 450 μg of Vitamin K
  • 1/2 cup of collards (cooked), 75 grams, or 400 μg of Vitamin K
  • 1/2 cup of turnip leaves (cooked), 75 grams, or 265 μg of Vitamin K
  • 1 cup of broccoli (cooked), 150 grams, or 220 μg of Vitamin K
  • 1 cup of brussels sprouts (cooked), 150 grams, or 220 μg of Vitamin K
  • 1/2 cup of cabbage (cooked), 150 grams, or 80 μg of Vitamin K
  • 6 spears of asparagus (cooked), 90 grams, or 72 μg of Vitamin K

Some people say that Vitamin K is useful to slow down tumour growth, and since Vitamin K exists in most vegetables, some people try vegetable diet in attempt to cure cancer. This may not be true as there are no valid evidence to support this statement yet.

Consuming too much of natural Vitamin K doesn't have extreme effect, but please pay attention to over the counter Vitamin K supplements as FDA has banned several of them because they prove to be toxic to our body.


Several snakes release chemicals to activate our blood clotting system, causing blood to thicken and without treatment, blood stops circulating around our body, and we die.


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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

97. Why We Need Potassium

Potassium can turn water into electricity. Electricity is then used to help us connect the dots in the brain (neuro-transmission), to help blood circulates well (heart function), and to transfer energy to muscles so we can basically move (muscle contraction).


Potassium is available in most fruits and vegetables. The government recommends to consume potassium at 3,500 MG to 5,100 each day. One banana weighs around 150 grams, which means when we eat one banana each day, we have 525 MG of potassium to process each day. One California avocado weighs around 170 grams, which means when we eat one avocado each day, we have 820 MG of potassium to process each day.

Let's see how many fruits we have to consume each day as a routine to get a rough estimation of what a healthy individual according to government be like. Then, we can calculate how much we have to spend each month, and what the ideal consumption each day is.
  1. One banana, 150 grams, or 525 MG of potassium
  2. One cup of pinto beans, 250 grams, or 3400 MG of potassium
or
  1. One avocado, 170 grams, or 820 MG of potassium
  2. Two potatoes, @150 grams, or 1260 MG of potassium
  3. Three cups of spinach, @30 grams, or 500 MG of potassium
  4. One tomato, 120 grams, or 250 MG of potassium
  5. One cup of orange juice, 250 grams, or 500 MG of potassium
  6. One chicken breast, 170 grams, or 425 MG of potassium
You can continue to mix-match different kinds of fruits and vegetables to get an interesting diet plan. Note to remember, that lack of potassium in our body can lead to high blood pressure, diarrhoea, vomiting, cramps, muscle weakness, intestinal paralysis, decreased reflex response, and other related complaints.


Be very careful to decrease the amount of licorices consumption, as it can stimulate our body to excrete potassium through urine.

Stay smart, people


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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

96. Egg Digestion

One boiled egg contains:
  • Vitamin A, 19% of the required daily intake
    Vitamin A is an important nutrient for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system and good vision.

  • Riboflavin, 42% of the required daily intake
    Riboflavin or Vitamin B2 is an important nutrient to enable body cells to breathe, prevent migraines, and to remove toxic from the blood that comes from blood donor.

  • Panthothenic acid, 28% of the required daily intake
    Panthothenic acid or Vitamin B5 is an important nutrient to help transport carbon that's essential to digest carbohydrate, protein and fat. It's also responsible to activate or deactivate certain enzymes in the body.

  • Vitamin B12, 46% of the required daily intake
    Cobalamin or Vitamin B12 is an important nutrient to help make the blood cells reach maturity.


  • Choline, 60% of the required daily intake
    Choline gives names to each cells so other cells in the body know where to find what during digestion process. It also signals the "gates" on each cells to open whenever another nutrient is coming to provide assistance during digestion process.

  • Phosphorus, 25% of the required daily intake
    Phosphorus is an important nutrient in the body's DNA / RNA. Phosphorus helps to transport energy to all cells throughout the body, it helps to stiffen the bones, and it is the main component of the body's cell wrappers (read: cell membranes).

  • Zinc, 11% of the required daily intake
    Zinc is essential in DNA / RNA creation. It binds with almost all cells in the body. Zinc knows human gene well so it determines the different expression of human genes, also determines which genes should die. Furthermore, zinc has the responsibility to light the pathways to transport cells. This means zinc knows the necessary knowledge to replicate our DNA, and can even help make cancer cells to grow in peculiar manner. Semen is particularly rich in zinc.

  • Vitamin D, 15% of the required daily intake
    Vitamin D can only be active when it's exposed by sunlight. The amount of sunlight differs on each individuals. When skin reacts to sunlight exposure, the dormant Vitamin D in kidney activates (through nuclear reaction). This active Vitamin D mixes the right amount of calcium and phosphate to remodel bones. Vitamin D has a significant role to help immune system to work and reduce inflammation.

Can you see the important value of consuming one egg each day?
I said one is enough.


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