NUTRITION AND STEM CELLS, FASTING FOR STEM CELL REJUVENATION AND THE USE OF THE 3DBIOPRINTER
A project made by Sofia Wergiskosky and Felicia Cuschevici, two students in Escola Secundária de Mem-Martins
RESEARCH
NUTRITION AND STEM CELLS
Stem cells are cells that are capable to create other specialized cells, with regenerative abilities and indefinite self-renewal. They specialize during the embryonic development, creating specialized cells with different structural functions.
RESEARCH 2
STAGES OF INTERMITTENT FASTING
The food we eat is broken down by enzymes in our intestines and ends up becoming molecules in our bloodstream. Between meals, as long as we don’t snack, our insulin levels will go down and our fat cells will release their stored sugar, to be used as energy. We lose weight if we let our insulin levels go down. The entire idea of intermittent fasting is to allow the insulin levels go down far enough and long enough so that we burn off our fat.
There is four types of intermittent fasting:
Stage one- Post-Absorptive Stage (blood sugar leves rise)
Stage two- Gluconeogenesis Stage (blood sugar level drops)
Stage Three- Ketogenic Stage
Final Stage- The body reach the feeling of homeostasis.
RESEARCH 3
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE STEM CELLS/HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS DURING FASTING AND LOW CALORIE CONSUMPTION DIET?
Teories:
1. The body gets used to low insulin levels:
HCS will be reprogrammed, in protein synthesis, translation will obtain different amino acids or a mutation will happen, in order to have a biological and natural adaptation, causing the next stem cells to be reproduced (these will be renewed because the body enters panicked due to caloric deficit) with low sugar levels.
I. This can happen in the low-calorie diet, since the body does not enter into such aggressive biological stress and has the time necessary to adapt, if this really happen, it is possible a healthy and long-term adaptation of cells stem cells (since hematopoietic stem cell reproduce during life time)
2. Due to a lack of nutrients, the body panics, thus producing more stem cells to replenish tissues and insulin that has 'disappeared':
II. However, if there is a new production of glycosis due to the caloric deficit in a 2nd fast, that deficit may not happen due to the glycosis already replenished;
III. Fasting does not work properly (if applicable), but the risks of fasting can decrease as the body does not go into stress;
IV. If there is really an increase in glycosis, will the body suffer from hyperinsulinemia?
RESEARCH 4
3D BIOPRINTING IN GASTROENTEROLOGY
The field of gastroenterology provides care for organs that reside on the gastrointestinal tract’s route. This abnormalities can lead to various derivatives of swallowing disorders, salivar gland cancers or even esophageal cancer.
Stem cells and biodegradable polyester are both intermixed to compose the
bioink. The bioink is then filled into the printer’s cartridge and released in an orientation akin to the shape ofthe esophagus.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
ABOUT US
SOFIA WERGISKOSKY
Hey there, I’m Sofia and I’m going to do my self presentation.
I don’t know how this is going to be because I think that it is my first time doing something like this but that’s okay. Stuff about me, I’ve been always an individualistic person, I’ve always just counted on myself without counting on the others too, and driving cannot be that. I rate myself as an anxious person and sometimes a dramatic one too but that’s because I give much more significance to things when probably I shouldn’t, I consider that’s a flaw of mine, especially about school, maybe I care too much and that’s the problem, I care about having the highest grades and at the end of the day I end up with average grades and disappointments , because I know for sure that I work a lot and I can’t get de ideals that I’ve always had, and that’s really frustrating. I’ve always had been an altruistic person, I’ve always had the tendency to put someone that I care and like over me, maybe that’s a bad thing, but I’ve learned with my mistakes that I committed, however, I like to have the conscience that the people around me are happy and comfortable. This feature can be a bad thing and a good thing, but personally I think that it’s both, I had moments in my life that I ended up hurt and upset but I also had moments that my happiness came from the others happiness and achievements. I always had some hobbies, I’ve always been a fan of sports, I’ve done a lot of them during my childhood, also at some point of my life, I decided that I wanted to learn how to play a few instruments, what can I say, it was fun indeed but not for me, but at the moment I don’t practice anything in specific I just like to try and learn new things. At the moment, like, right now, I think my life is in a good place, I mean, I’m happy with everything that’s happening around me and with me, I feel that I’m mentally stable to start a new school year and honestly that didn’t happen since I started high school, I guess I can be grateful to the persons who made this discipline a real thing, because I mean, the level of stress that this requires compared tho the other subjects it’s minimum. The concept itself it’s much more interesting and curious, I’m much more excited to start to work at this subject that the others, it’s easier and fascinating. For me, just the fact that we need to work in english makes it everything easy peezy and much more educational and also the fact that it’s a discipline of investigation makes it funnier.
I know for a fact that some people think that being mentally unstable does not mean that I can’t be at school and do all the stuff that the teachers ask me to do, that also I don’t even have age to be mentally unstable just because I’m a child after all, but that’s not the true, the true is that a mentally unstable person can indeed do all that stuff but it won’t be done like it should be or with the same concentration or satisfaction, maybe it won’t do it at all just because of the pressure that school puts on us, to a person like me, that pressure can be really toxic for the mental health.
Just to end this presentation , I just wanted you to know something I don’t like. I don’t like the educational sistem, I don’t like the way ‘they’ try to teach us things and make us decorate all this things in just like two weeks because we have a test, I don’t like the way we are evaluate. I don’t like the way we are judge by the grades that we have, it is not the certain way to do things, you know the saying “don’t you ever judge a book by his cover” ( I know you know though ), well, that’s what ‘they’ do us.
Sincerely,
Sofia
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