DEGENERATIVE DISEASES ARE PREVENTABLE EVEN STOPPABLE

Each year millions of people around the world  lose their lives due to nutritional deficiencies and free radicals. The deterioration of the body caused by nutritional deficiencies and free radicals is a common root cause of many many diseases eg heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and other diseases. Diseases due to deterioration are called degenerative disease.

According to the USDA, ''Oxidative stress results from free radicals produced during the normal metabolism of oxygen as well as from external sources…Oxidative stress has been associated with the development of many chronic diseases which including cancer and heart disease.” Oxidative stress is another term used for free radical damage.

Degenerative diseases are not curable, but for most people they can be prevented, for others at least they can be stopped, and for many people some degenerative diseases are 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 bacteria, virus, 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. A cure doesn’t heal the body. A cure stops an adversary from damaging the body and the body heals the damage caused by the adversary. Without a cure many adversaries will damage the body to death.

Degenerative disease is damage caused by deterioration, not by an adversary. The root cause of degenerative disease is the body being unable to heal properly from the deterioration of normal wear and tear on the body due to long term lack of nutrients and antioxidants. (Antioxidants neutralize free radicals.) “Degenerative disease is reversible” means the body can heal many types of deterioration if the deterioration is not too severe and if the body is given the nutrients and protection from free radicals it needs to heal. Of course, it’s 100 times easier to prevent degenerative disease than to stop and reverse degenerative disease. With degenerative disease, there’s no adversary to be removed, therefore there’s no adversary to cure.

Another way to look at degenerative disease is to look at dehydration. Dehydration is not thought of as degenerative disease but dehydration causes 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 the nutrition the body needs to heal, avoiding excessive free radicals, and avoiding nutritional antagonists.

Food excesses require increased nutritional needs and food additives can disrupt normal biochemistry, both of which contribute to development of degenerative disease. For example, excess fat, sugar, and/or protein from eating too much food 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 causes a thiamin deficiency and is a diuretic, keeping the body weak and dehydrated. Drinking high fructose corn syrup (HFC) causes or contributes to diabetes, which leads to a number of degenerative diseases. These aren’t adversaries but are nutritional antagonists.

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.”