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Tay-Sachs disease may manifest as blindness, deafness, toneless, mental retardation, dementia, listlessness, seizures and stunted growth. To bad luck of the patient and the parents, Tay-Sachs has no treatment except conservative management like to cover the symptoms to make the patient’s life somewhat comfortable. It may needed by the patient to reach the emergency when he/she has seizures or breathlessness. No known preventive measures have been yet settled except for the genetic testing of…

Health and wellness are essential for optimal well-being. According to the World Health Organization health and wellness is, “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity” (Edlin & Golanty, 4). Health affects every aspect of life. Authors of Health and Wellness Edlin and Golanty state, “Health is not static, it is a dynamic process that takes into account all the decisions we make daily, such as the foods we eat and the amounts…

They should be your main source of energy. Simple carbs (faster digesting carbs such as sugars) have their use in places such as post workout meals as they spike insulin and drive glycogen into your muscles, but should not be used in excess as they are not a building block of muscle. Simple carbs are also useful in driving aminos into your muscles post workout but they provide short lived energy. Good examples of simple carbs include…

Lourenso 1 Cristina Lourenso May 19th 2016 English 621A Mrs. Becker Are the Bees Worth Saving? Bees are often thought of as annoying yellow and black flying insects that make honey and attack with a painful sting. However that is far from the truth as bees are some of the most crucial organisms to live on this Earth. Bees are flying insects that are found on every continent except Antarctica and live in enormous colonies consisting of worker bees, drones, and the queen. Of the Order…

PTEN regulation of PI3K/AKT Pathway In the first lecture of class we discussed a diagram from Saltiel and Kahn 2001. The diagram presented the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and Serine/Threonine Kinase (AKT)/ Protein Kinase B (PKB) pathway inhibition of the insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrate (IRS) through activation of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and a recent study reports similar findings (Mathew et al. 2016; Saltiel and Kahn 2001). Activation of PI3K/AKT signaling…

Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people in the world. This disease prohibits people from eating certain foods and doing certain things. Patients have to carry supplies with them when they are out and about. Diabetes is a serious disease but by understanding the symptoms, causes, and treatments, patients can live a normal life. The symptoms of Diabetes vary from person to person and the type of Diabetes the person has. In type one diabetes, symptoms that people with this face are…

One such disease would be Pompe disease type 2. This disease affects the lysosomal enzymes. Patients will have a total absence or a partial deficiency of this enzyme, therefore the body is not able to breakdown lysosomal glycogen leading to extremely high accumulation of this compound and cellular dysfunction. Symptoms in infants can include hypotonia "Floppy baby syndrome," respiratory and cardiac problems and problems feeding. Without treatment death usually occurs within…

Ensuring adequate nutrition can significantly improve quality of life in HCV patients. Good nutrition results in improved compliance with pharmacologic therapy and has also been found to hinder disease progression by preventing the development of HCV complications like Cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy. In the absence of Decompensated cirrhosis or comorbid conditions like Diabetes Mellitus, HCV patients usually do not require special diets. However, it is imperative that they consume a…

Many studies state that caffeine can “improve memory, decrease fatigue, improve your mental functioning...” (Doheny, 2) Another benefit is using caffeine to supplement muscle glycogen after exercise, it can help restore important nutrients that were lost after vigorous work. Plus, caffeine is many times necessary for daily functioning and upholding a typical day. In an article from occupytheory.org the author names numerous ways…

in our body is the conversion of glucose throughout respiration to yield carbon dioxide and water. In order to maintain the body’s basal metabolism during a period of caloric deficit the body will pull energy predominantly from liver carbohydrate glycogen stores. If nutrition is still not received after a deficit periods, the body will break down muscle to use as…