Cinnamon stars, nut cookies and vanilla crescents – Advent is cookie season. But for allergy sufferers, many ingredients in Christmas cookies are intolerable. So the sweet treats don’t put everyone in a contemplative mood: because Christmas stollen and other pre-Christmas pastries can trigger an allergic reaction in one in six people in Germany. “So-called cross-allergies … Allergy Risk with Christmas Cookies
In numerous events, people repeatedly refer to the learning and working successes as well as the incredible complexity of our “gray cells”. Incidentally, this term refers to the ganglion cells and marrowless nerve fibers that make up the central nervous system, which are not covered with a white insulating layer – hence their grayish appearance. … The Human Brain
When the doctor shines his light into your eyes or uses his reflex hammer, this action, unpleasant in itself, has the goal of checking your reflexes and thus the state of your nervous functions, because the multitude of bodily reactions, most of which are unconscious to us, shows exactly how our brain performance is doing. … Importance of Reflexes in the Body
An intrinsic reflex is characterized by the fact that the stimulus site and the responding organ are identical. Most intrinsic reflexes are muscle stretch reflexes that protect us, in which brief muscle stretch-whether caused by a reflex hammer or a sudden buckling of the knee joint, for example-leads to contraction and thus twitching of the … Reflexes: Intrinsic Reflex and Extrinsic Reflex
Pathological reflexes occur when there is nerve or brain damage. The best known pathological reflex is the Babinski reflex, which causes extension of the big toe and flexion of all other toes when the sole of the foot is brushed. It is one of the early childhood reflexes and is usually not triggerable after 12 … Reflexes: Pathological, Conditioned, Conditioned Reflex
Blushing when embarrassed, ashamed, angry or happy is a natural reaction of our body. The autonomic nervous system is responsible for this. It controls all processes that are not subject to our will and that we therefore cannot consciously control. These include primarily the so-called vital functions such as breathing, circulation, metabolism and water balance. … Why do we Blush When Embarrassed?
The range of possible allergies is huge – whether pollen, grass, animal hair, food, cosmetics, medications or fragrances: When the immune system strikes out against these actually harmless environmental substances, it can lead to many different complaints: The eyes burn, the nose runs and itches, severe allergy sufferers even have problems breathing. To alleviate the … Allergies: Symptoms and Causes
The most common form of allergy is hay fever, which is caused by pollen. In addition to birch, alder, hazel and grass pollen, recently, unfortunately, also the pollen of ragweed and ash cause runny noses and reddened eyes. If the lungs are also affected, this is called allergic asthma, which can already occur in children. … Allergies: Prevent and Relieve Discomfort
Tasks in digestion In order for the nutrients contained in food to be absorbed, i.e. absorbed into the cells of the small intestine wall and thus into the body, they must first be broken down into their smallest units. This is because only for these units do the small intestine cells possess the corresponding receptors. … Tasks in digestion | The role of enzymes in the human body
Tasks of enzymes in the stomach The stomach contains mainly the digestive enzyme pepsin. It is produced by the main cells of the stomach mucosa in the form of the precursor pepsinogen. Only the acidic pH value in the gastric juice then leads to the conversion of the pepsinogen into pepsin. This prevents the pepsin … Tasks of enzymes in the stomach | The role of enzymes in the human body
Introduction Enzymes are so-called biocatalysts, without whose intervention no regulated and efficient metabolism could take place. They can often be recognized by the suffix -ase, which indicates that the substance in question is an enzyme. In some cases, however, enzymes also have randomly chosen or historically determined names which do not allow any conclusions to … The role of enzymes in the human body
