SOLUTIONS AND CURES: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Generally, cures end a problem that exists such as a harmful parasite. Solutions prevent a problem or harm to the body such as nutritional supplements to prevent nutritional deficiencies. Cures cure a disease or illness after being used a finite number of times. Solutions are used continually.

CURE

A cure is a substance taken or a regimen or procedure performed a finite number of times which ends the root cause of a disease or illness. Cures do not heal the body. Cures don’t and can’t heal damage nor deterioration of the body; only the body can heal deterioration and damage of the body – if given all the materials (nutrients) it needs. Most cures are antibiotics used to destroy parasites or help the immune system destroy parasites. Certain surgeries cure the root cause of some illnesses, although most surgeries are solutions. Cure does not mean forever. Just as another injury can require another surgery, another harmful parasite (bacteria, virus) entering the body (infection) can require another regimen of the cure – if one exists.

Solution

Unlike a cure, a solution is a substance taken or a regimen or procedure or any means performed regularly and indefinitely resumes or improves the health of the body so the body can heal itself, typically nutritional supplements. Solutions also include strategies to help prevent disease, for example, keeping free radicals to a minimum, usually by avoiding free radicals and by using strategies to increase antioxidants. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals. Solutions include strategies that prevent disease (and illness) by avoiding harmful ingredients. For example, avoiding trans fats prevents lowering HDL which helps prevent plaque buildup. “Just don’t eat it.” sounds too simple to be a strategy for anything, but you have to know not to eat it – which wasn’t known about trans fats for 80 years. Solutions includes practical and logistical strategies to prevent, illness. For example, using a fine net to keep mosquitoes out to avoid malaria.

Medications that work and are not cures are solutions but do nothing about the root cause of the disease or illness. Of course there are diseases the root cause of which is unknown and very likely not related to nutrition, such as schizophrenia and epilepsy.

Limitation Of Cures

Most cures are antibiotics. Unfortunately, parasites can and do 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 it needs.

Limitation Of Medication

Many medications are designed to stop symptoms. Stopping symptoms is profitable because it leaves the cause of symptoms in place so the patient can become more sick months or years later, thus creating lots of repeat business.

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.

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.

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

What Is A “Cause” and What are the Causes

First, what exactly is a cause? A cause is something that causes disruption of normal chemical reactions in the body. Disruption of normal chemical reactions in the body is the starting point of all disease (and illness). The prefix “endo” means from the inside. Endogenous diseases and illnesses originate from inside the body and cause disruption of chemical reactions in the body. 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. Endogenous causes and exogenous causes are the two root causes of disease. Correcting endogenous causes usually requires a solution, while correcting exogenous causes can require a solution or a cure. So there are two main causes of disruption endogenous causes and exogenous causes.

Endogenous Causes

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 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 a 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 and 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

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.

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 USC 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.

Government Supplementation Of Food