Terms
Metabolism
How the sum of all chemical and physical processes that happen inside a living body to convert food into energy and keep life going
filter out toxins, extra water, and metabolic waste products—such as urea (from protein breakdown) and creatinine (from muscles)—to create urine, main organ involved in elimination
Trycyclic antidepressants and SSRIs
Most commonly prescribed antidepressants
Schizophrenia
Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking patterns and actions
Wafarin
An anti coagulant that ’competes’ with vitamin K in the liver, basically blocking the liver from using vitamin K to produce clotting factors
Catabolism
What is the process breaks down food and nutrients (like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) into smaller pieces to release energy. For example, breaking down sugar (glucose) to power your cells
Liver
Has over 500 tasks/ actions it performs
Including: Filters blood - clearing out old or damaged red blood cells, toxins, bacteria
Detoxification
Manages energy and sugar
Chemotherapy
Defined as the use of chemicals/pharmaceuticals to destroy cancerous cells. It is a systemic treatment directed at disseminated cancers. It targets fast growing cells, a side effect is destroting fast growing healthy cells - like hair cells and those in gut.
Migraine
a common neurological disorder that causes recurrent, moderate-to-severe throbbing or pulsing head pain—usually on one side of the head. Has four phases
prodrome, aura, headache, postdrome
Lithium Toxicity
Dehydration can raise lithium concentration in the blood to dangerous levels
Anabolism
This process uses the energy and small pieces from catabolism to build and repair tissues, grow muscle, and make new proteins or DNA
a medical treatment that uses your body's natural immune system to fight diseases like cancer and manage conditions like autoimmune disorders or allergies - drugs that boost or alter the body’s immune system
Psychosis
Characterized by personality disintegration and loss of contact with reality
Thiazolidinediones
Are a class of oral medications used primarily to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus. They work as insulin sensitizers to help your body use insulin more effectively and lower blood glucose levels
Beta-adrenergic agonists
Used as an inhalant with asthma
Expectorants
A type of medication that thins and loosens mucous in the lungs. This can be by stimulated goblet cells which increase fluid production.
Chronic bronchitis
Characterized by increased mucus activity and congestion, productive cough, and a tendency to recurrent respiratory tract infections. It is a set of degenerative changes in the immune and clearance functions of the bronchial passageways rather than a distinct disease state.
Calcium channel blockers
Used with high blood pressure, influence the smooth muscle tone of vessel walls
Heart
You all have great heart! You got this!
Lithium Carbonate
Used in treating Bipolar Depressive syndromes
Asthma
There is a mast cell breakdown to liberate proinflammatory substances - which results in a narrowing of the bronchioles and increased mucous production
The side effect of Gas and bloating
Starch Inhibitors- prevent blood glucose spikes after a meal by slowing carbohydrate digestion - used to treat type 2 diabetes.