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Nutritional Deficiencies, Free Radicals Often Root Cause Of Common Diseases

Almost all cures that exist today cure bacteria and virus infection. Almost all cures in the future will cure bacteria and virus infection. Thanks to these cures, millions of people throughout the world have been cured of an infection that would have killed them. But each year millions of people lose their lives to nutritional deficiencies and free radicals causing deterioration leading to heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases. These diseases are forms of degenerative disease. According to the USDA,

“Oxidative stress has been associated with the development of many chronic diseases, including cancer and heart disease. The human body has developed a very delicate system, although not 100% effective, to eliminate free radicals from the body. … Oxidative stress results from free radicals produced during the normal metabolism of oxygen as well as from external sources.”

In the U.S., long-term nutritional deficiencies and free radicals cause eight times more degenerative disease deaths than all other causes of death combined. Literally hundreds of thousands of people each year in the U.S. die of a degenerative disease. Degenerative diseases are not curable, but degenerative for most people are preventable, for others at least stoppable, and for some people reversible.

Is It Curable or Is It Reversible?

How can a degenerative disease be reversible but not curable? If the root cause of an illness is something from outside the body coming into the body, such as a harmful organism or harmful chemical, then the root cause is an adversary. When an adversary is removed, the substance or method used to remove the adversary is a cure and the body heals as much of the damage caused by the adversary as it can. A cure doesn’t heal the body. A cure stops an adversary and therefore stops an adversary from damaging the body; the body heals the damage caused by the adversary.

Degenerative disease is a disease of deterioration, not a disease caused by an adversary. The root cause of degenerative disease is the body being unable to heal from normal wear and tear due to long term lack of maintenance of the body. “Long term lack of maintenance of the body” means long term lack of nutrients and long term lack of protection from free radicals. “Degenerative disease is reversible” means that for many, depending on how significant the deterioration damage is, the body can heal the deterioration damage, if the body is given the nutrients and protection from free radicals it needs to heal. Of course, it’s a lot easier to prevent degenerative disease than to stop and reverse degenerative disease. In degenerative disease, there’s no adversary to be removed, therefore there’s no cure for degenerative disease.

Another way to look at degenerative disease is to look at dehydration. Dehydration is not thought of as degenerative disease but dehydration is deterioration damage and, of course, you can quickly die from dehydration. You can’t cure dehydration because nothing will ever remove the need for water throughout life. Just as you can’t cure dehydration, you can’t cure degenerative disease because nothing will ever remove the need for nutrition throughout life nor remove the need for protection from free radicals throughout life. When a degenerative disease is reversed, it’s done by getting sufficient nutrition, avoiding excessive free radicals, and avoiding food and food additives that increase nutritional needs. Cancer is an exception because it is a degenerative disease that creates an adversary; a normal cell deteriorates due to a poor environment and adapts to the poor environment or it’s damaged condition by becoming a cell that has fewer nutritional requirements – a cancer cell.

Degenerative disease is often referred to as chronic disease. A number of common degenerative diseases are called “lifestyle” diseases. According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC), “Chronic diseases are among the most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all health problems.”

How Nutritionally Starved Is The U.S.?

In the U.S. diseases caused by long-term nutritional and antioxidant deficiencies cause 8 times more deaths than all other causes of death combined. In other words, 8 times more people lose their lives to a disease they more than likely could have prevented than to all other causes of death combined. Below you’ll find a chart of the 10 most common causes of death in the U.S. by gender.

There are, of course, many, many examples of food excesses and chemical additives in food that require more nutrition than normal for the body to process and deteriorate the body in ways unrelated to nutrition, both of which contribute to development of degenerative disease. For example, the processing of excess fat, sugar, and protein in the diet creates excess free radicals, soda pushes body pH down causing the body to pull calcium and magnesium from bone to raise pH, trans fat lowers HDL, coffee is a diuretic keeping the body dehydrated, and liquid sugar raises blood sugar abnormally high causing unnecessary wear on the body in its effort to normalize blood sugar. These substances aren’t really adversaries but are nutritional antagonists to be avoided.