NOTHING HAPPENS WITHOUT CHEMICAL REACTIONS

Hundreds of thousands of different chemical reactions occur continuously and simultaneously in every living 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 (a.k.a. biochemical reactions).

Root Cause of Disease

Perfect health would be all chemical reactions occurring as when they normally would occur. Disease and symptoms of disease start when a root cause, or initial cause, changes or stops, slows, or increases the frequency of normal chemical reactions. Many diseases are named for the root cause of the symptoms of a disease (malaria), many other diseases are named for the symptoms stemming from the root of the symptoms (heart disease). Examples of root causes are viruses and bacteria (which release foreign chemicals) nutritional deficiencies, pollution, genetic errors, etc. Changes in chemical reactions often cause changes in other chemical reactions, which can result in physical symptoms, emotional symptoms, and death.

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.

It is impossible to heal a disease or illness by treating symptoms. Healing can only be accomplished by removing the root cause of a disease. But removing the root causes to allow the body to heal is not at all profitable compared to leaving people sick with a root cause and reducing the symptoms caused by the root cause. Reducing symptoms creates a lifetime of repeat business. Making people healthy by removing root causes ends business. This is why advertising (for endogenous diseases and illness) always talks about symptoms and rarely root causes of disease and illness.

Endogenous and Exogenous Cause

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

Occupational disease is caused by poor working conditions, such as black lung disease from coal mining.

Industrial disease is caused by companies releasing harmful chemicals into streams, rivers, and or the air (e.g. see “Erin Brockovich” movie).

Infectious diseases are caused by parasites (bacteria and viruses).

From Root Cause To Symptoms

When it comes to chemical reactions, everyone is much more the same than different. A cure, solution, or prevention for a disease (or illness) for one person is usually cure, solution, or prevention for another with the same cause of disease. But symptoms can be the result of one root cause for one person and the same symptoms can be the result of a different root cause for another person. There are millions of more changed chemical reactions stemming from a root cause than there are resulting 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 several oceans (symptoms).

How symptoms occur is like the creeks to oceans concept and happen by way of the domino effect. 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. 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.

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.”

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Image Credit: The Protein Data Bank (1969)