How the Circadian Rhythm of Your Kidneys Affects You
Like many organs, the kidneys have their own circadian rhythm. This internal clock affects your electrolyte balance, hydration and a variety of factors.
The kidneys play a variety of roles in the human body. They create urine, which disposes of metabolic wastes, but this is just the first of their vital functions. A new study has discovered the internal circadian rhythm of the kidneys, which may be used to improve health care in a variety of ways.
Kidney Function: A Key to Good Health
Your kidneys lay just below your rib cage, embedded in the tissue on either side of your back. As the main organs in the renal system, they filter your blood constantly throughout the day to remove wastes that are excreted as urine. Your blood enters a nephron, where wastes diffuse out. Through an intricate series of tubules, the kidneys excrete substances, reabsorb others and maintain a healthy water and electrolyte balance.
Your kidneys are important in the metabolism of many hormones and pharmaceutical drugs. They also sense how hydrated your body is and adjust the excretion of water, salt and other electrolytes accordingly. Although we can live with just one healthy kidney, we have evolved to have two of these bean-shaped organs. This is likely due to their importance in the human body. We cannot live long without functioning kidneys as waste products, water and electrolytes will quickly build to dangerous levels, so Mother Nature has made sure we have a spare.
The Circadian Rhythm of the Renal System
Doctors and medical scientists already knew that kidneys have a complex 24-hour rhythm, but a new study has linked this system to light and dark phases. Excretion increases in the early dark hours, which lowers fluid levels and likely contributes to the dip in blood pressure that most people experience at night. However, the kidneys slow their production of urine as the night goes on, to allow us to sleep uninterrupted.
This internal rhythm appears to be caused by the expression of the well-known circadian rhythm master gene BMAL1. When research subjects had this gene turned off, their kidneys no longer followed a light-dark cycle. Excretion of drugs in the kidneys also appears to be controlled by a circadian rhythm, which means that drugs taken at different times of day may have differing effects and different levels of side effects and toxicity.
The Health Impact of a Renal Light-Dark Cycle
What does this new chronobiology research mean for average people? While this may seem like a small discovery, better knowledge of the circadian rhythm of kidneys may affect health care in a variety of ways. For example, blood pressure and cardiovascular function are dependent on the electrolyte and fluid balance maintained by the kidneys. High blood pressure can cause renal damage, which in turn creates higher blood pressure in an endless cycle. In addition, many drugs are excreted by the kidneys. If kidneys are processing these drugs differently throughout the day, adjusting doses or the timing of medications can increase healing, decrease side effects and reduce the chances of overdose or toxicity.
The kidneys affect many aspects of our bodies, keeping blood clean and balanced so it can effectively deliver nutrients and excrete waste. Understanding the innate light-dark cycles of these tiny organs can improve health care for a variety of diseases.
ADANO LEY
SOLAR NUTRITION - CHEMISTRY FOLLOWS LIGHT
GROWTH ZONE 1
Eat Growth Zone 1 foods from trees in the morning.
They get first choice when it comes to the ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared energy necessary for photosynthesis.
These foods are your highest choice for your Growth Zone 1 organs, glands, muscles, and bones ... ... from the top of your skull to the bottom of your ribcage.
Growth Zone 1 Tree foods are brain foods.
Trees generally do most of their photosynthesis in the morning.
Some trees are so tall they can’t photosynthesize after 12:00 noon.
Trees climb skyward. They seek the Sun.
Trees don’t suck. They use the “conspicuous exhibition of mechanical response” (in the words of Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose) to lift liquid to their topmost leaves, where water pressure is the highest and photosynthesis is the lowest, ceasing the entire process at the height of 420 feet above the ground.
420 feet is also the limit for the cohesiveness of the water column of a tree. Adano Ley wrote ...
“Trees receive radiation from the Sun at dawn as it comes up over the horizon. Fruit and nuts are
vitalized for nourishment early in the day. Also, cellular bodies secrete the necessary substances to handle such types of food at this time. The Creative Intelligence has supplied the right types of protein, carbohydrate, fat, oil, water, and air to be utilized at that period of the day. Too, bodily secretions are geared to respond better and to handle these forms of energy as nourishment at breakfast.”
Dr. John T. Richter & Vera M. Richter (Nature: The Healer, 1936, 1946, 1962) wrote
...
“Fruits are not night foods. They should be eaten in the morning, because they are an eye-opener, a tonic, the eliminators of waste that has been produced in your body during sleep.”
Valerie Gennari Cooksley (Aromatherapy: A Lifetime Guide to Healing with Essential Oils, 1996) wrote ...
“It is very interesting how most essential oils useful in respiratory ailments are those that are distilled from the bark, leaves, berries, and branches of certain trees.”
Classical music (especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach) stimulates the brain.
The sound of SILENCE stimulates the medulla oblongata (the Mouth of God).
GROWTH ZONE 2
Eat Growth Zone 2 foods from bushes, vines, and grasses (grains) at
midday.
They get second choice when it comes to the ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared energy necessary for photosynthesis.
They need special defenses against heat, dryness, and predators.
Sunlight plus warmth equals metabolic processes moving at top speed.
Adano Ley wrote ...
“At noon the radiations of the Sun are directly overhead and the leaves of the trees act as an umbrella for the fruits and nuts. But all the vegetables that grow above the surface of the earth have opened up to absorb the radiations. A greater variety is more in demand due to the body’s increased activity and secretions.”
Dr. John T. Richter & Vera M. Richter (Nature: The Healer, 1936,1946, 1962) wrote ...
“The daylight foods are leafy herbs, like lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, cresses, celery, and endive. These are grown in the light of the sun. We do not eat their roots, just their tops.
These are very good for tissue building. They make you strong, healthy, and robust, as they are rich in earth salts.”
These foods are your highest choice for your Growth Zone 2 organs, glands, muscles, and bones ... ... from the bottom of your ribcage to the top of your hipbones.
Most animals that feed on grass, grain, or vine foods are, in turn, Growth Zone 2 foods.
Growth Zone 2 vine foods are heart foods.
Midday foods (especially vines) tend to favor a spiral shape, seeking neither the Sun nor the center of the Earth.
Country-western music stimulates the heart.
Ditto the ringing of a bell (especially bells with twin-tone capability).
GROWTh ZONE 3
Eat Growth Zone 3 foods from the forest floor or below the soil, and from the water of lakes, seas, or oceans.
Roots, rhizomes, fungi, and seafood are almost always Growth Zone 3 foods.
They get third choice when it comes to the ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared energy necessary for photosynthesis.
Growth Zone 3 flora are especially versatile at obtaining their energy from photosynthesis.
Regarding the visible spectrum, Growth Zone 1 and 2 plants are usually confined to red and blue light.
Many plants confined to the forest floor can also use green light (the leftovers from the trees).
Many types of algae and seaweed can use orange and yellow light.
Both groups can use infrared radiation.
Fish (a Growth Zone 3 food because they feed on Growth Zone 3 foods) are especially sensitive to ultraviolet light, which is omnidirectional in water, and can be detected by fish as deep as 600 feet below the surface.
Fish, like birds, can navigate by starlight.
Growth Zone 3 foods are your highest choice for Growth Zone 3 organs, glands, muscles, and bones ... ... from the top of your hipbones to the bottom of your feet.
Growth Zone 3 foods are gut and groin foods.
Adano Ley wrote ...
“At evening when the rays of the Sun are diminished, foods that grow underground are ideal. Nature did not intend us to consume large quantities of food at night, therefore selections and varieties are limited, but balanced, in their chemical relationship.”
Dr. John T. Richter & Vera M. Richter (Nature: The Healer, 1936, 1946, 1962) wrote ...
“In the evening you will want something to help repair your body while you are asleep. What type of food will do this? The roots that grow in darkness, under the ground, that see no sun, but are rich in earth salts because the edible portion grows in the soil itself.”
Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D. (Potatoes Not Prozac, 1998) wrote ...
“Make sure you have a baked potato before you go to bed. It will help your serotonin function and will support the normalization of your sleep patterns.”
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is a Growth Zone 3 disease, so it requires a Growth Zone 3 therapy.
AZT (azidothymidine), the original AIDS drug, was first synthesized from anchovies.
Now it’s synthesized from coal tar, making it a Growth Zone 2 solution for a Growth Zone 3 problem.
Egg lecithin resonates with the genitals and Growth Zone 3.
That’s why egg lecithin and AL 721 are used against AIDS, NOT Growth Zone 2 soy lecithin.
AL 721 is a membrane fluidizer containing three ingredients — all extracted from egg yolk.
Roots use gravity to seek nutrients and water below the ground.
Some tree roots can grow as deep as a tree is high.
Roots have penetrated the ceilings of mines 197 feet below the surface of the ground.
Rock & roll music stimulates the gut and the groin (and the hips).
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You wouldn’t show up at daycare at 12:00 midnight, and you wouldn’t show up at a nightclub at 12:00 noon.
Adano Ley repeated (over and over and over again) ...
“Light doesn’t follow chemistry. Chemistry follows light.”
Sun Sync Nutrition is about “working the angles” of the light (and color spectrum).
Angles are used by both light energy and hydraulic energy.
Arthur Zajonc (Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind, 1993) wrote ... “Slowly vary the angle of the nozzle [of a garden hose] from straight forward to directly up, and note the changing distance the water travels. Initially, as the angle increases, so does the distance. However, when the nozzle is at a forty-five-degree angle, the water reaches its farthest; increasing the angle still more only causes the angle to retreat. As Galileo first noted for artillery, maximum range is achieved at forty-five degrees, with shorter distances being traveled for angles both greater and less than that.”
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Sun Sync Nutrition is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Foods come from only 3 Growth Zones of the ecology.
The 3 Growth Zones evolved out of the 5 habitat levels of the rainforest ecology.
1) Growth Zone 1 evolved out of the primeval forest’s ... emergent layer (varying between 148 to over 260 feet tall) canopy (classically between 98 and 148 feet tall)
2) Growth Zone 2 evolved out of the primeval forest’s ...
understory layer (everything lying between the canopy and the forest floor)
3) Growth Zone 3 evolved out of the primeval forest’s ...
floor (pedosphere, receiving only 2% of the available light) subfloor (rhizosphere, receiving nothing but residual radiation)
Many Growth Zone 2 and 3 plants made fundamental changes in their geometry and chemistry to adapt to the prairies, deserts, and oceans arising after the great forests of the planet had their millennium of fame.
The hydrosphere of the ocean is part of Growth Zone 3.
According to Adano Ley, Dr. Emanuel Revici, and Meher Baba, life began in the MUD on the land, not in the ocean.
It evolved out of silicate-bearing CLAY.
Adano explained ... “Algae puts out tendrils.
“Tendrils move upward and downward, forming tree, bush, root.
“Tree throws out resin, which is an oil, or a lipid.
“Resin flows to salt water, where sodium and chlorine cause lipids to put out tendrils, creating tissue as
amoeba, sperm, and sea life.
“The dolphin and the whale decide to use lungs — respiration.
“Then came legs to cause ambulation, and reptilian life jumps up to become birds.
“Then come mammals.
“Neanderthal man was a mammal too, till intellect made him human, but not man yet, who has
intuition .
“There is no Superman, only intellectual man evolving from 5-sense operative man.
“Flying like a bird, walking on water, walking through walls to be at 2 places at the same time are not
impossible to the intuitive man.
“The intuitive man doesn’t have attachments or fixations.
“Animan has 5 senses that are photographic.
“Human has intellect that is analytic, diagnostic, and computing.
“Man has intuition — timing.
“Jesus was the Son of Man.
“Intuition is WHEN to function.
“I may know what’s ahead, but I can’t experience ‘ahead.’
“It’s the moment of acting that validates intuition, that IS intuition.”
Yellow fat disease by Atom Bergstrom
Yellow Fat Disease (Volume I)
The world’s largest producer of fish oils boasts, “Omega-3s from Menhaden Oil Can Save Billions in Healthcare Costs.” There’s a better way — Fill all the world’s industrial incinerators with all the world’s fish oil supplements, then we really can save billions in healthcare costs. Government guidelines advise eating fish only 2-3 times a week so we don’t get overburdened with mercury and other toxins. What if this warning is a sham? What if it’s for a more underhanded reason? What if it’s to keep human Yellow Fat Disease at a subclinical, “idiopathic” level so mega-corporations can keep banking billions of dollars selling us fish oil supplements and fish products that are dangerous to our health? What if many diseases of “unknown cause” really do have a cause — known only to certain corporate and government insiders? What if fish isn’t the ideal food we’re told it is? What if fish oil — just-made or completely rancid — is a poison for most of us? Can cod liver oil kill your dog? Your cat? Your horse? Your chickens? Can cod liver oil kill a human being? (sequel: Fish Oil is Snake Oil)
Fish Oil is Snake Oil — The Biggest Supplement Scam
This book could be considered Yellow Fat Disease — Volume II, and it asks the question, “Why is every animal on God’s green earth susceptible to yellow fat disease if they eat polyunsaturated
fat except human beings?” Are we immune to it? This book asks another question: “What if
humans do suffer from yellow fat disease, but scientists call it something else? Have you ever
heard of Progressive Lipofuscinosis? Or Cumulative Lipofuscinosis? Everyone with “liver spots”
has it to a greater or lesser degree. It’s the ongoing build-up of lipopigments throughout the
body, erythrocytes, lysosomes, nerve cells, ganglion cells, intestines, spleen, pancreas, liver,
kidneys, adrenals, heart, brain, retina, skin, etc. The chief causes of Progressive Lipofuscinosis are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and highly-unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs), especially, the
latter, and, more especially, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Why are schoolchildren forced to eat
DHA, and why is it being so heavily marketed to mothers and their babies? Did you know all DHA manufactured from algae is a product of biotechnology, even the DHA added to organic food? (Some of this book’s information is available on Sun Sync Nutrition and more is available for free on One Radio Network.) The few bucks you spend on this book will save you hundreds of dollars you may
be currently wasting on a toxic supplement advertised as a product that supports the health of your brain and heart.
Yellow Fat Disease — Volume III
My first two volumes about Yellow Fat Disease present overwhelming evidence about how bad fish oil and cod liver oil are for good health. Volume III is the clincher, definitely convincing anyone who reads it to avoid DHA, EPA, and ALA like the poisons they really are. They age and kill slowly but surely, usually taking years or decades in humans, and much sooner in your pets, especially cats.
If you research fish oil and cod liver oil on the Internet, all you’re going to find is mostly praise and commendation, but if you research it from the back door, Googling Yellow Fat Disease or its many other names, you’ll have a rude awakening. Billions of dollars are earned yearly from the fish oil and fish scrap industry, and the entire business is a total scam.
The Connection Between a Disrupted Circadian Rhythm and Anxiety
While depression is worse in the morning hours, anxiety appears to rear its ugly head more often in the late afternoon and evening. As a result, many people find themselves struggling with symptoms even as they are trying to get to sleep. This has led many researchers to believe that anxiety disrupts the circadian rhythm. However, according to new research, just the opposite appears to be true: A disrupted circadian rhythm may actually cause anxiety, particularly in the evening hours.
Links Between Circadian Rhythm and Anxiety
Doctors and scientists once believed that anxiety disrupted the circadian rhythm. Anxiety can make people hyper-vigilant and cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, all of which do not support a good night of rest. As a result, it was assumed that the anxiety itself disturbed the circadian rhythm.
To determine whether anxiety causes circadian dysfunction or just the opposite, researchers looked at a group of mice who had a mutation in the Clock gene, an important gene that, as its name suggests, controls circadian rhythm. These mice, as well as non-mutant counterparts, were then placed in a space that would cause them anxiety. The mice who had a mutated Clock gene exhibited symptoms typical of mania.
This connection is not limited to mice. Studies performed on humans have found a connection between circadian rhythm disruptions and anxiety and other mood disorders. People who have mutations in several different clock genes, such as BCL2 and DRD2, are more likely to develop anxiety disorders when they suffer insomnia or other circadian dysfunction.
Although these studies show a clear link between circadian dysfunction and anxiety, they failed to show which causes the other. However, a study performed this winter appears to have settled the age-old question of the chicken and the egg…on this topic, at least.
The Impact of Circadian Dysregulation on Anxiety and More
Researchers this winter presented new research at Neuroscience 2018, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, that shows that disruptions of our internal clocks can exacerbate not just anxiety, but a variety of brain disorders. According to the new study, deep slow-wave sleep actually calms areas of our brain that are overactive in anxiety. In fact, after experiencing insomnia, an increase in anxiety is seen in people who previously did not have any symptoms.
This research has huge implications for the treatment of anxiety and related disorders. Although the current gold standard treatment is SSRIs (commonly used as antidepressants) and therapy, therapies that target the circadian rhythm may also be beneficial.
If you have been blaming your insomnia on your mood, you may be approaching the issue from the wrong perspective. Although stress certainly affects the circadian rhythm, the circadian rhythm appears to have its own independent effect on anxiety. A disrupted or aberrant circadian rhythm can actually drive anxiety, or make existing anxiety even worse.
Calming Your Mind Through Sleep
How can an anxious person get the sleep that they needto feel calmer? First, practice good sleep hygiene. This means going to bed and arising at the same time every day, protecting your sleep time from the obligations that keep many of us far from our beds at night. Second, turn off all lights in your bedroom when it is bedtime. This includes nightlights and lamps, but also smartphones, tablets and televisions. If there is a great deal of ambient light in your area at night, consider blackout curtains.
In addition, consider taking a melatonin supplement. Melatonin is a natural hormone that helps us to fall asleep and stay asleep. A supplement can be very helpful to people who have an irregular sleep schedule that they are trying to correct.
Getting the sleep you need is essential to your mood and your lifelong health. Making a few simple lifestyle changes can help you in your battle against both insomnia and anxiety. If you want a calmer brain, consider giving it the high-quality rest that it needs.
LIFE ON EARTH AND THE SUN
The “forest ecology” consists of 3 floors (if you count the basement and the first floor as one floor).
Trees thrive on the third floor – the top floor.
Vines, grasses, and shrubs thrive on the second floor – the middle floor.
Roots and sea life thrive on the first floor and in the basement – the bottom floors.
1) Top Floor
Trees “eat” sunlight in the morning, beginning their “meal” as soon as the Sun rises above the horizon.
The highest trees get first choice – tall ones like pine, date, coconut, and eucalyptus trees.
Trees reach for the heavens.
Trees resonate with the brain, lungs, breasts, shoulders, arms, skull, ribcage, cervical vertebrae, and thoracic vertebrae.
2) Middle Floor
Vines, grasses, and shrubs “eat” the leftover sunlight.
Their compensation is, they receive the Sun’s strongest radiation – its heartiest and most nourishing victuals.
Vines travel up and/or down in a spiral. Grasses and shrubs reach upwards, but not for the heavens.
Vines, grasses, and shrubs resonate with the heart, small intestines, abdominal muscles, and lumbar vertebrae.
3) Bottom Floors
Roots and sea life “eat” the leftovers of the leftovers – infrared radiation (heat).
Roots reach for the center of the Earth, and sea life flourishes underwater.
Roots and sea life resonate with the genitals, hips, buttocks, legs, sacral vertebrae, and coccyx.
1) Top Floor Foods
Eat tree foods for breakfast to nourish your brain, throat, and lungs in the morning.
A walnut looks like a brain. So does a pecan.
An almond looks like the amygdala. Amygdala is a Greek word for “almond.”
The ideal time for breakfast (“break the fast”) is between 7:00-9:00 a.m.
2) Middle Floor Foods
Eat vine, grass and shrub foods for lunch to nourish your heart and small intestines at midday.
A bell pepper looks like a heart. So does a tomato.
The ideal time for lunch is between 12:00 noon-3:00 p.m.
3) Bottom Floor Foods
Eat roots and sea food for supper to nourish your genitals and sexual glands.
Yogis advise us to avoid root foods because they stimulate the Root Chakra. I ask, “What’s wrong with that?” I meditate in the morning and save sex for the evening. Tantric Sex (Sacred Sex) is the exception to the rule.
Ginseng root is well-known for stoking sexual energy and supporting potency and fertility.
So is ginger root.
And garlic root.
And dong quai root (“female ginseng”).
And maca root.
And sarsaparilla root.
And yohimbe root bark.
And mushrooms.
Mushrooms and other sexual foods usually work the “night shift.”
Sea life also supports sexual potency and fertility.
Oysters contain zinc and dopamine, raising testosterone levels and increasing desire.
Oysters boost semen production and increase vaginal lubrication.
An oyster changes its gender back and forth from male to female several times a year.
A mature sturgeon is capable of laying 3,000,000 eggs.
You can probably think of many more examples now that you see the PATTERN.
are your kids mal-illuminated?
SUNLIGHT — nature’s full-spectrum light — is the most overlooked wellness essential. Without the sun, there would be no life on this planet. Research shows that our genes are programmed to respond to exposure to full spectrum light now believed to be critical for the healthy development, growth and maintenance of your child’s body and mind.
Just like a green plant, our bodies require the full-spectrum of light exposure to thrive similar to the process of photosynthesis; a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy. Light striking the skin manufactures essential vitamin D (actually a hormone rather than a vitamin). Vitamin D has a major impact on our bodies and increases activation in more than 2000 genes that allows the body to combat disease. Light entering the body though the eyes regulates circadian rhythms (internal time clock), which are calibrated by exposure to natural light and darkness. Vital circadian rhythms control appetite, energy, mood, sleep, libido and other body-mind functions.
Our bodies are adapted to very specific lighting conditions: bright, balanced, full-spectrum light during the day and low level light in the evening followed by darkness. This rhythm of light and dark is what drives our circadian clock. Disregarding the biological adaptation to sunlight is a recipe for poor health because so much of our biology is regulated and influenced by the full-spectrum of light. Unfortunately for millions of people, including our children, the advent of the computer age has created an indoor lifestyle of ‘contemporary cave dwellers’ that are unwittingly starving for light! Weight gain, poor sleep, depression, fatigue and student learning disabilities are some of the negative side effects associated with being out of sync with the natural rhythm and radiant energy of sunlight.
The natural hours of light and dark each day regulate hormones like insulin, serotonin anddopamine. Light curbs melatonin production at the pre-optic site connecting to the pineal gland. Research on rats showed that light, even less than that of a candle, in the dark phase (night), disrupts the production of the antioxidant melatonin (the sleep hormone) and increases tumor growth. On the other hand, long dark nights change the metabolism from sugar burning to fat burning.
Artificially long hours of light—every day, all year long—eliminate seasons, as far as the body can tell. Some people get depressed in the winter. They may go for months with little or no exposure to natural sunlight. This can be countered by getting adequate sunlight or balanced, ‘sunlight quality’ full-spectrum light when indoors during the day, especially early morning light and by reducing the amount of artificial light in one’s environment at night. When using night-lights, use a soft/dim red (red does not interfere with melatonin production at night). When children get adequate light during the day and a good night’s sleep, they are better able to think, learn, and heal from illness, and the same is true for their parents.
In short, the full blend of light wavelengths in sunlight enables our bodies to react in a balanced and beneficial way, which is one of the reasons why regular sun exposure is such a critical component of a healthy lifestyle. Absorbing daily sunlight or balanced, full-spectrum light when indoors is an all-year ideal for optimum wellness and disease prevention. Additionally, it’s also important to reduce indoor environmental lighting (half hour to an hour) prior to bedtime, especially blue light emitted from cell phones, computers and TV, which inhibits the production of melatonin.