Nothing Happens Without Chemical Reactions

Hundreds of thousands of different chemical reactions in the body occur continuously and simultaneously in every cell, enabling every process and endeavor of the body and mind. From extracting and storing energy from food to fighting off the flu, pumping blood, making decisions, to enjoying a good movie, nothing in any living organism happens without chemical reactions (biochemical reactions).

Root Cause of Disease

Perfect health would be all chemical reactions occurring as they normally occur and also when they normally would occur. Disease starts when a root cause (initial cause, starting cause) changes chemical reactions or stops, slows, or increases the frequency of chemical reactions. Many diseases are named for the root cause of the symptoms of a disease (malaria), but many other diseases are named for the symptoms stemming from the root of the symptoms (heart disease) because there is no known root cause or there are multiple root causes. Examples of root causes are viruses and bacteria (cause illness by releasing chemicals), nutritional deficiencies, free radicals, pollution, food additives, drugs, genetic errors, physical injury, etc. Changes in chemical reactions affect other chemical reactions leading to physical symptoms and or emotional symptoms.

Realize that the same elements and molecules under the same conditions react exactly the same way 100% of the time, therefore there’s no such thing as an incorrect chemical reaction. Because there’s no such thing as an incorrect chemical reaction, there’s no such thing as an incorrect symptom, even when chemical reactions result in harmful symptoms and death. Another absolute is that there’s no such thing as a spontaneous chemical reaction and therefore no such thing as spontaneous illness nor disease.

It’s impossible to heal an illness or disease by treating symptoms. Healing can only be accomplished by removing the root cause of an illness or disease. The body can heal a lot but not everything. But removing the root causes to allow the body to heal is not at all profitable in the U.S. compared to leaving people sick with a root cause and reducing the symptoms caused by the root cause. Reducing symptoms and leaving the root cause creates a lifetime of repeat business for the medical industry. Making people healthy by removing root causes ends business. This is why advertisements always talk about symptoms and rarely talk about the root causes of the illness or disease they’re advertising – they don’t want to develop and sell drugs that fix root causes of illnesses and diseases because that ends repeat business, besides many root causes are nutritional; there’s no cure nor drug substitute for a lifetime of nutritional needs.

Here’s an excellent way to better understand those drug commercials. Make believe there’s no noun “cause” but there is the adjective “cause” and “causes” (because symptoms cause other symptoms). In place of the noun “cause” figure out if the commercial really means “root cause” or “symptom”. Usually they mean “symptom”. Commercials often talk as if the illness and disease are spontaneous, just drop out of the sky on to people (and animals). For example, in a commercial on asthma you’ve heard, “Advair treats both main causes of asthma symptoms – airway constriction and inflammation.” Airway constriction and inflammation sound like root causes of asthma in the commercial – but where did the airway constriction and inflammation come from? There’s no such thing as spontaneous illness nor disease. Airways constriction and inflammation are not root causes but symptoms (of a root cause) that cause the inability to breathe symptom of asthma. The root cause of asthma for many is mycoplasma pneumoniae or chlamydophila pneumoniae, curable with antibiotics. They don’t want you to know that. Curing asthma would kill a lot of repeat business.

From Root Cause To Symptoms

Many chemical reactions, if not all chemical reactions, occur as part of a series of chemical reactions with each successive chemical reaction producing a “product” used by the next chemical reaction in the sequence. If the product is defective, the defective product will likely have an adverse affect on the next chemical reaction. The sequence of chemical reactions is called a chemical pathway or metabolic pathway (e.g. the Krebs Cycle). Chemical reactions altered by a root cause create an altered chemical pathway which leads to symptoms.

When it comes to chemical reactions, everyone is much more the same than different. A cure, solution, or prevention for an illness or disease for one person is usually a cure, solution, or prevention for another. But symptoms can also be the result of one root cause for one person and the same or similar symptoms can be the result of a different root cause for another person because there are an infinite more ways the chemistry of the body can be changed (stemming from a root cause) than there are resulting symptoms, because there’s only a few hundred symptoms. It’s similar to how rain leads to ground water, which leads to thousands of creeks, which leads to hundreds of rivers, which leads to only several oceans (oceans analogous to symptoms). Each rain drop ends up in one of several oceans (or seas).

Proteins

“Proteins are the nano scale machinery of all known cellular life. Amazingly, these large biomolecules, which contain up to 100,000 atoms, fold into unique three-dimensional shapes, in which they function. These functions include all cellular chemistry, including energy conversion (i.e. photosynthesis), oxygen transport, signal processing in the brain (neurons), and immune response, and work often with an efficiency unmatched by any man-made process.”

Model Of A Ribosome

Ribosomes are complex molecular machines that make the proteins found in all organisms. Messenger RNA (mRNA) carries the genetic coding for proteins from DNA to ribosomes. The ribosome model below was computer generated by Venki Ramakrishnan from decades of research on ribosomes. More

Image Credit: The Protein Data Bank

Endogenous and Exogenous Root Causes

There are two main types of root causes of illness and disease: endogenous and exogenous root causes. Something inside the body causing disease is an endogenous root cause. Something from outside the body moving into the body and causing disease is an exogenous root cause of disease.

Endogenous diseases are caused by genetic error, nutritional deficiencies, and free radicals. Endogenous diseases are often named for a collection of symptoms of a particular area of the body experiencing symptoms. Most, if not all, degenerative diseases are endogenous diseases.

Exogenous diseases are often named for the root cause of a disease. There are a number of exogenous root causes: occupational, industrial, infectious.