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Metabolism, for optimal body functioning

Metabolism, for optimal body functioning

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Created by: Top Doctors editorial
Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 14/03/2019

Metabolism is a series of vital processes that are responsible for maintaining the proper functioning of the body. Metabolic disorders are associated with virtually all diseases and treatment focuses on correcting defects that cause such disorders.

Dr. Salvador Escorcia Vargas

It is metabolism Metabolism is the word that comes to expressing the vital processes of cells designed to keep all cell functions, such as reproduction, repair and actually keeping life in balance, also called homeostasis.

Main metabolic processes

Metabolism in general can be divided conceptually into many parts but is usually done in 2 mainly is anabolism and catabolism.

Anabolism refers in simple terms to generate complex substances from simple elements and the catabolism otherwise. These processes mainly support sub processes that are important such as reproduction, repair and search for cell structure. When these complexes are lost diseases are generated. All diseases are implicit in these complexes or metabolic disorders. Then normal metabolism is healthy and abnormal metabolism is disease.

metabolic disorders

Generally all diseases are actually changes in metabolic processes. Regularly we interact with patients and doctors often some diseases with metabolic disorders. Among them the most common are for example diabetes, cholesterol disorders, disorders of calcium and other substances such as uric acid. Metabolic alterations may occur even before birth, such as insulin deficiency or deficiencies of multiple enzymes that carry diseases sometimes not compatible with life. Others are eg thyroid diseases through alterations in a single hormone or a group of hormones of this gland, generate diseases that people known as hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism. These and many others are metabolic diseases.

Correction of metabolic defects

Treatment of metabolic diseases or diseases in general seek mainly is to correct the defect over which the metabolic disorder is generated. Almost all diseases have today forms of treatment and are almost always aimed at correcting the underlying abnormal element, optimizing metabolic processes and therefore the vital balance. In the case of diabetes , for example, it is much better to have the effect of insulin or to recover the same hormone in organisms. In diseases due to lack of hormones (eg hypothyroidism, menopause, short stature, type 1 diabetes, etc ...) are treated by replacing the hormones and in other cases where these hormones are excessive they are modulated or glands from which extirpated in order to have disease control.

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism