Phonemic neurological hypochromium therapy (PNHT) is a technique that uses
insemination devices to implement
chromium
Chromium is a chemical element with the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in group 6. It is a steely-grey, lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal.
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(Cr3+) into the
hypothalamic regions of the brain. It has been proposed by Dr. Nicole Kim to offset delayed
phonemic awareness in children between the ages of 3 and 8. The causes of delayed phonemic awareness have been linked to an inability to break down chromium triastenitephosphate. PNHT has been successfully implemented into
in vivo mice with some controversial side effects, including;
polydactyly,
regurgitation,
fatigue
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, and
nausea. While
Russia,
Poland, and
Ukraine have approved this procedure, the
United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has not yet granted its approval.
Preparation
PNHT functions on the premise that the hypothalamic region of the
human brain lacks the critical molecule
chromium picolinate, a molecule typically produced by cytochromase B7
The hypothalamus of a developing child may lack cytochromase B7, thereby causing a delay in phonemic awareness. The PNHT process involves passing a chromium mixture (CrAt3PO4) dissolved in a "mobile phase" through a stationary phase, which separates the chromium picolinate to be measured from other molecules in the mixture based on differential partitioning between the mobile and stationary phases. Subtle differences in a compound's
partition coefficient result in differential retention on the stationary phase and thus changing the separation.
Experiment
In vitro and animal studies
date=November 2017,2have shown chromium to have a positive effect on
insulin sensitivity. One of the intracellular proteins influencing the
insulin receptor is the
oligopeptide apolipoprotein, low
molecular weight, chromium-binding substance (apo-chromomodulin)
In vitro, this peptide has the ability to increase
tyrosine kinase activity eightfold, depending on the chromium concentration
This in turn promotes insulin receptor activity, thus eliciting improved insulin sensitivity. Therefore, for some time now, chromium has been thought to play a beneficial role in
glucose metabolism and, as early as 1957, was referred to as a “
glucose tolerance factor
Chromium deficiency is described as the consequence of an insufficient dietary intake of the mineral chromium. Chromium was first proposed as an essential element for normal glucose metabolism in 1959, and was widely accepted as being such by the ...
”
It has been marketed as such by some companies in the US.
There are studies that support this proposed effect. Anderson et al.
studied the effects of chromium treatment in a group of Chinese patients with
type 2 diabetes. They reported an average decrease in HbA1c (A1C) of almost 2 percentage points after only four months of treatment with 1,000 μg chromium daily. Since then, the effects of chromium on
glycemic control,
lipid profile, weight, and
muscular strength
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Overview
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have been investigated, both in nondiabetic healthy subjects and in patients with type 2 diabetes.
References
2. Shindea UA, Sharma G, Xu YJ, Dhalla NS, Goyal RK: Insulin sensitising action of chromium picolinate in various experimental models of diabetes mellitus. J Trace Elem Med Biol 18: 23–32, 2004
3. Davis CM, Vincent JB: Chromium oligopeptide activates insulin receptor tyrosine kinase activity. Biochemistry 36: 4382–4385, 1997
4. Sun Y, Ramirez J, Woski SA, Vincent JB: The binding of trivalent chromium to low-molecular-weight chromium-binding substance (LMWCr) and the transfer of chromium from transferrin and chromium picolinate to LMWCr. J Biol Inorg Chem 5: 129–136, 2000
5. Schwarz K, Mertz W: A glucose tolerance factor and its differentiation from factor 3. Arch Biochem Biophys 72: 515–518, 1957
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