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Do you feel a little blue or down from time to time? Feeling down or blue for long periods of time, (lasting more than two weeks) is a serious problem. If this happens to you, full-blown clinical depression has set in, and treatment is needed.

The symptoms of depression are many. Some of the most common are: feeling down, fatigue, unexplained aches and pains, excessive sleeping or insomnia, feeling overwhelmed, feelings of hopelessness. Other symptoms might be a marked change in appetite, loss of energy, headaches, a diminished interest in things previously enjoyed, difficulty focusing or concentrating, and more.

Depression can be very mild or very severe and can lead to suicide — even in a person who feels that suicide is wrong. Depression does not occur only when there is a “visible” reason for it. Depression can even occur due to a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Natural internal cleansing is a practice more people should turn to for better health. In the modern society our bodies are bombarded with toxins from the air, water, chemical products and more. It is not easy to stay to a strict diet year around, but if you can do a natural internal cleanse even once a year you will help yourself greatly. There are a ton of gimmicks and fads out there, so I just wanted to list safe known ways to do a natural internal cleansing.

Water

You hear it all the time I am sure, but water really is one of the best ways to cleanse internally. We are all made of between 55 and 75 percent water, and every system in our body relies on water to keep things going smoothly. You lose water through urinating, bowel movements, sweating and even breathing (your lungs exhale between 2 and 4 cups of water a day). Usually your body is a good indicator of when you get thirsty and need to drink water. Although when you get older it is harder for your body to tell, so there is the old 8 glasses of 8 ounces of water a day rule.

Hypoglycaemia is the term applied when the glucose levels in the blood are low. In diabetics, because, diabetes is raised levels of blood sugar, hypoglycaemia can occur because of medication bringing sugar levels too low.

Glucose is what gives the body energy, and is absorbed by the cells of the body. Insulin is the gatekeeper to the body’s cells, being the hormone that lets the glucose into the cells. When a person has no insulin, as in type 1 diabetes, no energy is provided to the body.

In type 2 diabetes, the person is “insulin resistant” and needs either drugs to make the insulin the body generates work harder, or extra insulin to allow the glucose to be properly absorbed.

Although your doctor will have prescribed drugs and perhaps insulin to combat high levels of blood sugar, it is not a precise science. Exercising or missing a meal for example can cause your blood sugars to drop dramatically, resulting in a “hypo”.

When at your place of work it is important to take measures to keep yourself, your coworkers and anyone else nearby safe. However, accidents can happen and it is possible to suffer from a serious workplace injury even when you take the measures to combat on the job hazards. If you do suffer from a serious injury while working it is likely you will have to take time to recover, missing work and possibly missing paychecks. Luckily there are many options for being compensated for your suffering, such as long and short term disability.

Short Term Disability

Both short and long term disability policies exist to give injured workers the support they deserve after suffering in relation to their work duties. These policies differ in many ways. Short term disability exists to assist those who have to miss more than a few days of work following their accident, and they typically consist of the following components:

Contact with potentially infectious micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi is common. The body’s normal resistance is usually enough to prevent the organisms from taking hold in the body, but if the organisms are very virulent or if a your resistance is low, then an infectious illness results. Infections spread from person to person, sometimes directly and sometimes via food or another medium.

Bacteria

Bacteria come in three basic shapes: spherical (such as the streptococci and staphylococci), rod-shaped (such as E. coli and whooping cough bacilli) and spiral (such as cholera bacteria). Bacteria can live in a wide variety of environments such as in soil, food and in the body. Certain types are normally present in parts of the body such as the bowel and on the skin, and many perform useful functions, helping the body to run smoothly. Illness can be caused by an overgrowth of these ‘normal’ bacterial colonies or by invasion of the body by disease-provoking or ‘pathogenic’ bacteria. Bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics.