107. About Flu Virus

Introduction
Everybody knows about influenza, the symptoms and how to cure the flu naturally. This time, I'd like to study the flu virus in detail. I want to know who that flu virus is. Flu is so trivial, yet we keep having it all the time. We even have avian flu, whatever flu and some other new flu.

I'm not aiming at the WHO recommended influenza vaccine here. My purpose is to find out how we can get rid of the flu from its source, like kill all the flu viruses once and for all, so our children see flu as ancient prehistoric disease.

Flu Virus Infection Process
The flu viruses can only replicate within living cells (just like alien, which can only breed within living organisms). Let's have a look at how the flu viruses infect us:

1. The flu virus encountered human body (or animal body, or a body). It has to find a way to attach itself to our cell (through nose, mouth, etc) first, like sticking itself to our saliva, or air we breathe in, so it can find a way to get inside the body.


2. Once inside our body, which is acidic by the way, and which is a suitable condition for it to breed, it will insert the body acid into its core. The core will then come out of its lair, and force itself to merge into our cells. It even has the power to undo infection on our body because of its entrance.


3. The virus core proceeds to travel to our cell core (yes, we have cell core too, just like the core of predator in Alien vs Predator movie). Some of the virus core go back out, some stay inside and wait for its mate to come do their thing. The child will be another flu virus.


4. The parent flu virus core then leaves our cell core.


5. The child flu virus reaches maturity and detaches itself from its womb (our cell core).


6. The child flu virus seeks protection from the blood.


7. The virus flu core finds a new cell core to mate. (and this is how flu virus evolves rapidly; flu virus child with our core cell's characteristic mates with another one more advanced, they mutate to become more resistant to our antibody)


8. After the release of the child flu virus, our cell core dies.

Our body doesn't have a guarding system, where it can detect which core cells are virus core cells, and which ones are our own core cells. Consequently, the flu viruses evolve and become more and more resistant to our immune system which protects the body (our predator army).

A single sneeze contains more than half a million virus particles. It contains up to 40,000 droplets. One droplet is capable of carrying the virus into our body and causes flu. The flu virus takes within one-half to one day to infect us. The flu can last for around 2 days to 5 days (on average), and in extreme cases, longer to around 9 days.

The flu virus travels across bodies through several means below:

• Direct contact
  An infected person sneezes mucus directly into the eyes, nose or mouth of a healthy person


• Indirect contact with polluted air
  A healthy person inhales droplets produced by an infected person by coughing, sneezing, or spitting


• Indirect contact with hand
  Hand-to-eye, hand-to-nose, hand-to-mouth transmission through direct contact with contaminated surfaces, or with personal contact such as handshake.

Flu Virus Inactivation
A flu virus can only survive for about fifteen minutes in a tissue, and five minutes on our skin. If you find mucus on a paper, the virus is protected by the mucus, and can last around 17 days. These viruses can live for 3 months in mineral water, 6 months inside colder water, 2 weeks in faeces, and they are resistant to bleaches and ammonia (cleaning products, crops fertilisers, pesticides, dyes, body fluids like pee and sweat, etc). Influenza viruses can live forever when frozen.

You can kill the flu virus by heating it under 60 °C (150 °F) for at least an hour. You can also throw acid to kill it. It should be more acidic then lemon juice. Battery acid shall kill it, but beware that battery acid can kill us too. Another way is by applying disinfectants, or detergents to easily kill the flu viruses. Therefore, washing hands with disinfectants can safeguard you from the flu virus. Furthermore, drinking warm water (of about 60 °C (150 °F) for at least one hour can drench the virus dead. However, drinking lemon juice doesn't kill the virus, drinking battery liquid or ammonia or detergent will kill the virus and us together along with it.

Flu Virus Prevention
I guess, let's treat the flu viruses as mosquitoes among us. They live among us, so it's important to maintain our hygiene by:

• Avoiding touching the eyes, nose or mouth
• Avoiding spitting


• Keeping away from sick people (not because we treat them differently, they ARE different and they must admit it and do something about it)
• Washing our hands often (with soap and water, or with alcohol-based hand rubs)


• Staying at home when you're sick
• Covering coughs and sneezes

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106. How Digestion Works

Hunger is just a sensation. We feel hungry after several hours of empty stomach. We feel hungry when we feel emotional rush. We also feel hungry after 12 hours or 24 hours of empty stomach. This is to keep our body functioning properly. The body needs to maintain blood sugars at a balanced level, and the digestive system must stay in liquid form (not hardened).

Feeling hungry lasts for about 30 seconds, and the rest of it was a mere echo which lasts for about 30 minutes. Once we get food in our mouth, and starts eating, the sensation will change into feeling full in about 5 minutes later. This is like computer program which relates to time (biological clock).

Digestion in Mouth
Digestion mainly focuses on breaking food into smaller pieces so it's easier for the body to absorb nutrients. It begins when food enters the mouth. Saliva and teeth helps to break food into small chunks (like a ball), before it slowly passes through the throat and into the stomach.

Special treatment was given to Vitamin B12, which was detected early by the saliva, because Vitamin B12 cannot stand acidic environment. Therefore, the saliva wraps Vitamin B12, so it can travel through our acidic stomach.

Digestion in Stomach
Stomach puts in some more enzymes which further break food into vomit-like. After an hour or two, when food has become thick semi-liquid (similar to pure tomato juice), it enters the spleen.

Digestion of Blood Cells
Spleen will then recycle all red blood cells and white blood cells that are used for digestion so far (the blood cells have gotten old). After breaking down the red blood cells and white blood cells, it will send iron and the recycled blood cells to liver.

Digestion of Carbohydrates and Proteins
Inside the liver, all toxins and dirt will be filtered and removed. It also breaks down carbohydrates and proteins. Excess sugars from carbohydrates digestion will be stored, and excess proteins will be stored in two types; body fat and cholesterol.

Fat is then further broken down in the gallbladder, and then salt was attached to the fat so the fat won't crystallise. When there are too much fat in the gallbladder, the digestion won't finish properly, and when calcium binds to the fat, gallstones will form. The enzymes used to process fat in the gallbladder is then recycled for further reuse.

Sugar is then further processed in the pancreas. When it detects that there are too many sugars in the blood, it will move sugars into muscles for energy storage. On the other hand, when it detects that there aren't enough sugars in the blood, it will take sugars stock from the liver, and release it for circulation through blood.

Absorption
The pancreas will also release more enzymes to the small intestines to help digestion process. The small intestines absorb 95% of the food. There are other mixtures added to the digested food, and when the composition is right, the blood can start absorbing nutrients from the small intestines. When food doesn't reach small intestines in time, the released gastric acid would damage the walls of the intestines.

In the case of Vitamin B12, there will be another enzyme (from pancreas) that opens the saliva wrapper, so the transporter enzyme can stick to Vitamin B12, and circulate it through the blood. When small intestines have finished absorbing nutrients, the remaining food (semi-solids, or feces) will go to the large intestines (colon).

Inside the colon (large intestines) where the environment is more acidic, blood absorbs water, minerals, Vitamin K, and other vitamins. The digestion process slows down because food undergoes fermentation process. There are good bacteria to help with the fermentation process too. It takes about 12 to 50 hours before food is removed from the body by defecation.

Digestion Final Step
When everything is done, the blood will then travel to the liver, to remove any toxic components first, before circulating the nutrients throughout the body.

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105. Detailed Look at Bone Marrow

  

Bone Marrow Brief Introduction
Bone marrow is gel-like tissue exists inside the bone. Human adult bone marrow weighs around 2.6 kg and it's the heaviest of all parts of the body. Bone marrow produces blood cells every day, ranging from red blood cells, white blood cells, and a component that's thickening the blood to prevent it from spilling everywhere (causing bleeding everywhere).

Blood Cells and Bone Marrow Description
Our red blood cells deliver oxygen throughout the body. It contains iron that binds oxygen, so red blood cells can transport oxygen to the lungs, through veins, and the entire body. The skin of red blood cells contain protein and fat, which balances and stabilises the cell so it can travel across the body without bursting or spilling everywhere.

Our white blood cells is responsible to remove foreign invaders, while protecting the body from infectious disease. The white blood cells are also produced in bone marrow. The amount of white blood cells must be at 1% of the total amount of blood cells in the body (Red blood cells are 45% of the total amount of blood cells).

The number (1%) is so important, because if the body is missing 1% of its white blood cells, the body immune system may suffer tremendously because nothing is guarding our body against malicious substance (like dust particles which causes allergy, asthma, or flu).

The white blood cells may increase a little bit when it's trying to fight diseases (which is often the case). Surely, too many white blood cells may cause problems too. There are two types of bone marrow; red bone marrow that produces blood (normally in babies), and yellow bone marrow that contains mostly fat (normally in adult). The yellow bone marrow may turn into red bone marrow, especially when the body needs to produce more blood.

Note that, the bone marrow only produces blood and release them out, and it's Vitamin B12 that helps blood cells to reach maturity.

Bone Marrow Damage
Radiation or chemotherapy can break bone marrow cells into parts, so bone marrow may produce lesser blood cells. Consequently, the person may get sick easily, because blood is transporting nutrients across the body, and blood is scarce, so nutrients cannot travel across smoothly and the body's immune system suffers.

In some cancer radiation treatment, the patients' bone marrow is taken from the back waist (it hurts), so after chemotherapy, the bone marrow is injected again to restore the patient's immune system. Bone marrow may be donated, or taken for disease diagnosis, but it's advised not to do it too often. I'd prefer to refrain from anything related to sampling the bone marrow though.

Bone Marrow Caution
In the case of bone marrow donation, since each bone marrow produces unique blood cells, the donor must ensure the bone marrow matches that of the patient. Then, doctors first kill the patient's bone marrow by radiation, and then injected a new bone marrow to the patient, so the new one can begin to produce blood.

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104. Alzheimer - Explained

Alzheimer Brain Description
There are several (four) bone-like structure at the centre of the brain. These bones produce liquid that acts like a cushion; it protects the brain, all the way to the spinal cord. When brain decreases its size, these liquid fills the entire holes to protect the brain (can't let the brain dries away). Alzheimer patients' brain decreases, so the body should produce more liquid to cushion the brain.

Alzheimer Symptoms
Alzheimer Disease is a disease that has no cure. The brain keeps decreasing in size, causing the patient to lose his ability to remember things, starting from being forgetful, to forgetting how to speak the language, to forgetting his way home, to finally forgetting how to move his muscles. However, most Alzheimer patients die from pressure ulcers, or pneumonia, not because of the disease.

A patient with Alzheimer may also forget how he felt just minutes ago, resulting in mood swings. Patient may forget that he was so angry just seconds ago, turning to a loving state towards his enemy, or feeling happy because he thought his enemy is his long lost son.

Like normal people who sometimes forget to take medicines, Alzheimer patients may forget to clean himself, or forget his willingness to work or do something a second ago. Sometimes, these symptoms cause a person to be removed from society, or given special treatments.

Being ignored, or being treated unequally can change a person's mood, and nobody will pay attention to his needs anyway because everybody knows he's sick (or old, or just different). This can cause a person to have different (or challenging) behaviour too. Add it with forgetting how to express himself, and you'll get very bad behaviour.

Alzheimer Cause
The body uses enzymes to digest food into energy and helps the body to function properly. In daily life, certain enzymes are used to clean the air from pollution. These air pollution consists of several chemicals which manually need different environment to neutralise. By releasing these enzymes into the air, they can clean the air in one go, saving time and energy.

In Alzheimer patients, the body doesn't have enough enzymes to digest food, so the proteins are broken down into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces can easily react to any materials, and when wrong reaction takes place, it forms a plaque outside the brain.

Every cells consist of a skeleton, a messenger and the outer layer (skin). The messenger provides guidance, or road tracks so when the cell is attached with other protein (another cell), they can collaborate well. There's also a stabiliser which stabilises the binding between the two cells, so activation or deactivation of certain enzymes can go smoothly.

When a stabiliser binds to more than two cells, the neurons or cells don't know which way to go, causing tangles and disintegration on the cell transport system. These tangles and disintegration may be toxic, cause cancer, and other anomalies in our body.

Alzheimer Prevention
It is believed that learning second language later in life, getting more physical exercise, playing musical instruments, reading more books, playing more puzzles, and having more social life can decrease risk of Alzheimer.

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