BEN BALD treats his thinning hair to a series of expensive scalp treatments, while Susie Sallow spends plenty of hard-earned money for creams and lotions advertised as 'rejuvenating' sallow, wrinkled skins. Both of them are deluded into attempting these costly, last-ditch measures for regaining a youthful appearance because they believe that the hair and the skin can be "nourished' from the outside. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Not one single product or method you are persuaded to try in an effort to 'feed' your body externally can erase those tattletale marks of the accumulating years. For by the time these signs of premature age show up on the outside, you may be sure that you've also started to age quite a bit on the inside. A youthful appearance begins inwardly-with healthy, properly nourished endocrine glands.
Before my efforts to help you recover your lost youth can progress any further, you must realize that these endocrine glands of yours are the dictators which determine whether or not your all-out campaign to look and feel younger will succeed or fail. These eight endocrine glands are the very core of your existence, your appearance, your sex life. There's no denying that some of us are born with healthier glands than others. Yet the fact remains that even an ordinarily healthy set of glands can be neglected and ill-nourished to the point of beginning the aging process years before it normally should set in. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce you to your endocrine glands and their functions, and to provide you with an outline of their food requirements. For your glands must be nourished with the proper food elements or you can't depend on them to lend you much aid in the effort to regain your vanishing youth. If a part of the human body could be described as 'temperamental,' then I would say the word was coined to fit our endocrine glands and their hair-trigger sensitivity.
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Always approach this subject of the endocrine glands with something akin to awe, for this group of eight vital little organs is the keystone of your health and happiness. They hold unlimited power over every human being, keeping one person young and vigorous despite the passing years, condemning another to a premature old age and thrusting a third into a morass of depressed thoughts and nagging ill health. Your endocrine glands are tyrants that must be propitiated and appeased. Otherwise their revenge is swift and relentless. The names of these eight glandular despots are pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, pancreas, thymus, pineal, parathyroids and gonads. Eight strange names that mean all the difference in the world between life and death, happiness and misery, youth and old age. How do these eight glands hold such vast control over your life? Hormones are the answer-a word that has become headline news in recent years.
Then it came time to name the secretions of these all-powerful endocrine glands, some imaginative scientist chose the appropriate Greek verb 'hormon,' meaning 'I excite.' For that, in brief, is the intended function of all hormonesto excite your bodily organs into performing at maximum efficiency so you may possess all the vitality, all the magnetism, all the radiance of a healthy, happy person. Each one of the endocrine group empties its precious hormones directly into the bloodstream without the ducts(tubes) which characterize most other body glands. For this reason you may often see the endocrines referred to as the 'ductless' glands.
No person can say with authority that any one of these glands is the 'most important,' because every one of the group has its work so closely tied in with that of the other seven that a slight upset in one member of the endocrine family reacts almost immediately on the efficiency of the others.
What one gland does, or does not do, is registered without fail in the activities of the entire clan. Unlike your digestive tract which can rebel with pains and rumblings because of the ill treatment suffered at your hands (with a knife and fork in them), your endocrine glands suffer in silence. The only way you can tell when your glands are not functioning up to par is when you begin noting the effects of their suffering. These effects often put in an appearance in spots quite remote from the seat of the original trouble.
For instance, the two adrenal glands (each about as large as a bean) are suspended one above each kidney. Yet when these adrenal glands are not behaving as they should, the skin becomes dark and sallow, with deep lines. Note, please, that the adrenals don't advertise their upset by a pain in the small of the back where they are located. Instead, the warning signs show up in a wrinkled, sallow, deeply discolored skin. As a further example of the devious ways in which the endocrine glands proclaim their unhappiness, there is the unpredictable thyroid, located at the front of the neck. Frequently any change in the normal functioning of this well-known gland may bring on ulcers in the stomach, or in the upper intestine. The pituitary gland, located behind the nose at the base of the brain, if seriously starved or injured, may cause you to lose all sexual power, since the sex glands (gonads) in men and women alike receive their impulses from the pituitary.
Here is the outstanding fact about this group of glands which you need to keep uppermost in your mind as you read through this chapter-and as you sit down to the table at your next meal: Your endocrine glands, as well as their youth-giving hormones, are made of protein. Protein foods are hormone builders and conditioners. Therefore, a continued lack of high-grade food protein in your diet can weaken these glands so seriously that old age has gained a head start on you almost before you realize it. Feed your glands-not your stomach-if you want to look and feel younger than the calendar says you are. Nor is protein the only item on the 'menu' for your endocrine glands. Foods-or concentrated diet supplements- that provide you with all the minerals and vitamins essential to keep a body glowing with health are likewise 'musts' in your program for feeding your glands. Let's take time for a simplified 'close-up' on each gland as it relates to your goal of Eat-and-Grow-Younger.
he Pituitary, Your 'Boss' Gland
The pituitary is no larger than a small-sized pea and lies at the base of the brain, immediately behind the root of your nose. The pituitary is the gland that bosses all the other glands, and helps keep them on the job. Although one of the smallest of the group, the pituitary is the hardest-working of them all. No fewer than 12 different hormones are secreted by this master gland, meaning that the pituitary has at least a dozen different tasks to perform for your body. Despite its miniature size, the pituitary is divided into two distinct parts, called lobes (anterior and posterior), each of which is a separately functioning organ. To simplify the many and complex functions of the two pituitary lobes, it's sufficient for you to have this summary, showing some of the blessings bestowed upon you by a healthy, properly nourished pituitary gland:
1. Normal blood pressure
2. Good muscular tone
3. Sturdy bones
4. Normal nerve tension
5. Efficient senses of sight, sound and smell
6. Normal flow of urine
7. Plenty of initiative
8. Zest for work and play
9. Sustained interest in life
10. Vigorous sex tone
11. Prolonged youthfulness
Whenever you see a person in the eighties or nineties whose youthful appearance belies his or her calendar years, and whose enthusiasm for living remains keen, you may be sure that this person has a healthy, well-nourished pituitary gland. Dr. Herman H. Rubin, distinguished gland specialist, says of the pituitary: 'While the thyroid makes available the supply of crude energy by speeding up cellular processes, the pituitary is responsible for the transformation, expenditure and conversion of that energy into healthful, youthful vitality. "Many persons are the nervous, worrying type (and please tell me, if you can, what ages a man or woman more than continual worrying) because their pituitary gland does not produce enough of the special hormones that feed the brain. Such persons are likely to become quite irascible, especially toward those closest to them.
The Eight Endocrine Glands Which Keep You Young PRESSURE ULCER GRADING
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