SOLUTIONS AND CURES: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

There are two root causes disease. Correcting endogenous causes usually requires a solution, while correcting exogenous causes can require a solution or a cure. What exactly is a cause? A cause is something that causes disruption of normal chemical reactions in the body. So there are two main causes of disruption of chemical reactions; endogenous and exogenous. Disruption of normal chemical reactions in the body is the starting point of all disease (and illness).

Endogenous Causes

The prefix “endo” means from the inside. Endogenous diseases and illnesses originate from inside the body.

1)Genetic

Genes essentially are molds for many different proteins. Proteins control almost all of the chemical reactions of the body (inside cells and between cells). If a gene received from a parent doesn’t have the coding the gene normally has, proteins made from the gene are not made properly and therefore less likely to start, coordinate, or stop chemical reactions normally.

2)Nutritional

The term nutritional deficiency (and deficiency) means malnutrition and it also means starvation. If you have a nutritional deficiency you are being starved of the nutrient.

While proteins coordinate chemical reactions of the cell, many of the chemical reactions require certain molecules and elements that cells can’t make, collectively called nutrients. The human body can’t make certain molecules, called vitamins, needed for chemical reactions to occur. Most of the chemical reactions of the body require elements, known as minerals. (Elements mined from the Earth are called minerals). Minerals cannot be made by any organism.

In general, vitamins go in the body, are used, and then broken down for spare parts or removed. Lack of ample and steady supply of a nutrient results in more of a nutrient leaving the body than going in the body, creating a deficiency. When one or more deficiencies occur, chemical reactions either don’t occur as often or more often than normal or chemical reactions occur that normally would not. In either case damage in some form is likely too occur.

As nutritional deficiencies continue over time, damage accumulates. Eventually the damage develops to the point where it is no longer reversible by correcting the deficiencies that caused the damage. Whether reversible or not, damage can develop to the point where it has the potential to cause additional harm to the body. For example, plaque buildup can develop to the point where it reduces blood flow which starves the heart of oxygen which often causes a heart attack.

Most, if not all degenerative diseases are endogenous illnesses. The exact cause of the different degenerative diseases is very likely different collections of nutritional deficiencies. It is correct to say that no one can claim a cure for a degenerative disease because it is impossible to cure nutritional deficiencies. There will never be anything that will remove the continuous need for any nutrient - just as there is no cure for dehydration; you have to continually drink water, or at least eat food with a fair amount of water, to stay alive.

3) Free Radical

Free radicals are atoms missing an electron. Without the electron, they react with other atoms when they wouldn’t normally. Free radicals indiscriminately change the structure of whatever they react with. Free radical damage is normal in all organisms. Even with the most perfect diet imaginable throughout life, death is caused by free radical damage. Too many free radicals is another significant cause of disease.

Exogenous Causes

The prefix “exo” means from outside. Exogenous diseases and illnesses originate from outside the body and move inside the body causing disruption of chemical reactions in the body.

1) Industrial

Power plants release methyl mercury (pollution) into the air, causing brain damage and weakening the immune system for all organisms. Occupational disease (a form of industrial disease) includes diseases like Black Lung disease, caused by breathing coal dust in mines.

2) Chemical Ingestion

Other forms of exogenous causes of illness are ingestion of non foods including smoking, drinking, and medication. On average 7000 people each year die from adverse reactions to prescription drugs. Many are allergic to food additives and don’t know it, including MSG, yellow dye #5 (tartrazine), and silicon dioxide.

Another source of exogenous causes of illness and disease are excessive use of unnatural foods. Sugar is an unnatural food. It is extracted from sugar cane and corn and not only completely void of its original nutritional content, but is a concentrate compared to its original form. Non whole grain flour (common flour, white flour) is one portion, the carbohydrate portion, of the grain (seed) and is the reason why white bread and similar breads raise blood sugar as quickly and as high as sugar.

3) Parasites

Viruses, bacteria, and bugs are collectively called parasites. Once inside the body their chemicals interfere with the chemistry of the body. Most of the time, the chemistry changes run out before causing harm. The chemicals of certain parasites cause a lot of disruption of the chemistry of the body right from the start. Bugs (Lyme disease), viruses (”the flu”), and bacteria (a “cold”, food poisoning) are well known examples of parasitic causes of illnesses and disease.

CURES

The common definition of cure is a substance taken or regimen or procedure performed a finite number of times which ends the cause of a symptom or collection of symptoms. Cures remove or help the body remove the cause of symptoms. Most cures are antibiotics used to destroy parasites or help the immune system destroy parasites.

Certain surgeries cure the cause of some illnesses. Other cures are surgery used to fix physical damage. Cure does not mean forever. Just as another injury can require another surgery, another infection of a harmful organism entering the body can require another regimen of the cure - if one exists. If the body is too poorly fed to have a strong immune system, or a parasite is too tough, one can be infected and cured again and again.

Solution

A solution is anything that resumes nutritional health or other ways to prevent illness. Obviously solutions would include eating better and using nutritional supplements.

Solutions include strategies that prevent illness and disease by avoiding harmful ingredients. For example, avoiding hydrogenated fats (trans fats) prevents lowering HDL which helps prevent plaque buildup. (HDL molecules move oxidized molecules and other harmful molecules to the liver where they are broken down and moved out of the body.) “Just don’t eat it.” sounds too simple to be a solution for anything, but you have to know not to eat it - which wasn’t known about trans fats for 80 years.

Solutions also include keeping free radicals to a minimum with an antioxidant rich diet, and getting enough zinc, manganese, and selenium. These nutrients are used by the body to make it’s own powerful antioxidants.

Medical Treatment

There are medications that are not cures and are extremely valuable, such as medications that prevent schizophrenic delusions and epileptic seizures. If a person with schizophrenia (or epilepsy) ate a perfect diet and took the best nutritional supplement imaginable, he or she would still suffer with delusions (or seizures). The medications stopping or modifying the abnormal chemical reactions of the body that cause these illnesses are medication solutions.

Some things look like cures but are merely a replacement part. Getting a heart transplant but eating the same nutrient and antioxidant deficient diet, will result in heart disease again. Getting a metal heart devices is nice, but a new heart (real or man-made) won’t stop arteries from clogging and choking off blood supply to the new heart.

Most medications taken these days are prescribed for degenerative diseases and for some are necessary to stay alive. For others medications are temporarily necessary, and for some not necessary at all. It all depends on the level of deterioration and willingness of the person to get serious about getting and staying healthy.

Limitation Of Cures

Most cures are antibiotics. Unfortunately, parasites can become resistant to antibiotics.

Limitation Of Solutions

Solutions won’t help much with non nutritional illnesses like schizophrenia and epilepsy. If long term deficiencies and free radicals have caused too much damage, the body can repair only so much, and medication may be needed, although it’s pretty surprising what the body can repair if given the nutrients and antioxidants.

Limitation Of Medication

Many medications are designed to stop symptoms. Stopping symptoms is profitable because it leaves the cause of a symptom in place so the patient can become more sick months or years later.

Most medications cause symptoms, known as side effects. Many medications don’t do anything at all. All medications are dependent on correct diagnosis. Factually, incorrect diagnosis’ are profitable. For example, day in and day out kids are diagnosed with ADHD when actually the problem is the numerous chemicals in soda, loss of minerals caused by soda, caffeine in soda and chocolate, and soda being eaten in place of food like fruit juices, also causing nutritional deficiencies, causing moodiness, irritability, and restlessness. One school in Syracuse, NY banned all junk food.

Many medications cause nutritional deficiencies, requiring a supplement of the nutrients, not another medication to hide the symptoms of the nutritional deficiencies. According to the FDA, statins (for lowering cholesterol) cause a deficiency of the nutrient coenzyme Q10.

Medications for illnesses caused by nutritional deficiencies do not replace the nutrients that caused the illness. If the deficiencies causing the degenerative illness continues (which is what usually happens), the deterioration of the degenerative illness will continue no matter what medication is being taken.

The medical industry’s true strengths are in fighting off parasites, repairing injuries (from accidents, age, etc.) and coming up with devices to measure, see, and work on the body.

The FDA on Disease

Here’s the FDA’s latest definition for disease, found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR):

“Disease Claims. (1) For purposes of 21 U.S.C. 343(r)(6), a “disease” is damage to an organ, part, structure, or system of the body such that it does not function properly (e.g., cardiovascular disease), or a state of health leading to such dysfunctioning (e.g., hypertension); except that diseases resulting from essential nutrient deficiencies (e.g., scurvy, pellagra) are not included in this definition. “

It’s rather absurd that there’s no studies going on to find the exact collections of nutritional deficiencies that cause the different degenerative diseases. It’s a fact that trans fats are a major contributor to developing heart disease. Instead of the FDA banning hydrogenated fats, The FDA allows drug companies to develop more drugs to “treat” the damage caused by trans fats.

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