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Is It Curable or Is It Reversible?

Almost all cures that exist today cure bacteria and virus infection. Almost all cures in the future will cure bacteria and virus infection. Thanks to these cures, many people throughout the world have been cured of an infection that would have killed them. But many in the U.S and other countries are busy dying of degenerative disease, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. Degenerative diseases are not curable, although for some degenerative disease is reversible, for many at least stoppable, and for most preventable. How can a degenerative diseases be reversible but not curable?

You can stop (cure) an intruder (i.e. bacteria, virus), but you can’t cure (undo) the damage an intruder causes. Stopping the intruder stops the intruder from causing damage. You can’t cure damage, but damage can be healed to varying degrees by the body. Some people are cured of an intruder and still die because of the damage the intruder caused. You can’t cure damage. Many types of damage can be healed (reversed) by the body if well fed and given enough time. Another source of damage is lack of maintenance of the body due to lack of nutrition causing deterioration of the body. Deterioration significant enough to pose a danger to the body is degenerative disease. Nutritional needs not being met for a long time, long term nutritional deficiencies, causes degenerative disease. A deficiency of a nutrient is literally starvation of that nutrient. Foreign chemicals in the body over many years (trans fat, smoking, pesticides, pollution, medication, etc.) damages the body and can also cause degenerative disease.

There are two approaches to degenerative disease that won’t work. Try to cure the damage (deterioration) of a degenerative, which is an impossibility because you can’t cure damage. Second, try to cure the nutritional needs of the body that causes degenerative disease, which would make use of the ability of the body to heal itself. This is an impossibility because nothing will ever cure (remove) the regular need for nutrients throughout life. The only realistic approach is a solution - giving the body all of what it needs day in and day out so it can heal itself, reversing as much damage as it can.

Another way to look at degenerative disease is to look at dehydration. Dehydration is not thought of as degenerative disease but is a form of deterioration. Just as you can’t cure degenerative disease, you can’t cure dehydration. Nothing will ever remove the continuous need for water, making a continuous supply of water a solution for dehydration not a cure for dehydration. Of course, it’s a lot less work and worry to prevent degenerative disease than to stop and reverse degenerative disease.

How Nutritionally Starved Is The U.S.?

Believe it or not, in the U.S. 8 times more people lose their lives to a degenerative disease than to all other causes of death combined. In other words, 8 times more people lose their lives to a disease they could have prevented than to all other causes of death combined. Below you’ll find a chart of the 10 most common causes of death in the U.S. by gender.

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.”

Normal And Excessive Deterioration

Deterioration is any part of the body weakening or not working normally. The heart of someone 80 years old has been pumping blood for over 700,000 hours, or about 60 million heart beats. No doubt 60 million heart beats results in plenty of normal wear and tear deterioration. “Died of natural causes” means a person reached an age where natural wear and tear over the years (normal deterioration) caused a vital organ to stop working resulting in death. When deterioration is excessive and endangers the body sooner in life than normal, the excessive deterioration is called degenerative disease.

Cause Of Degenerative Disease

The nutrients necessary for thousands of functions and structures of the body have been known for decades and published in books on nutrition found in local libraries and bookstores. Without any reason, many in the medical community contradict themselves saying that although nutrients are necessary for all structures and functions, degenerative disease is not caused by nutritional deficiencies. Factually, lack of any nutrient will result in deterioration of numerous if not thousands of structures and functions of the body - otherwise they wouldn’t be called nutrients.

Another cause of degenerative disease is too many free radicals and not enough antioxidants to neutralize free radicals. Free radicals, usually oxygen free radicals (oxidative stress), degrade the many functions and structures of the body. According to the USDA,

“Oxidative stress has been associated with the development of many chronic diseases, including cancer and heart disease. The human body has developed a very delicate system, although not 100% effective, to eliminate free radicals from the body. … Oxidative stress results from free radicals produced during the normal metabolism of oxygen as well as from external sources. “

Animal food contains few, if any worthwhile antioxidants. Almost all antioxidants are found in fruits and vegetables, although it’s not certain that all antioxidants in food survive the digestion process. Some of the natural chemicals in certain foods happen to be antioxidants but help the body with free radicals by causing beneficial chemical reactions in the body that don’t occur as often as normal or not at all. The body also makes its own very powerful antioxidants, which requires the nutrients zinc, manganese, and selenium.

In general, degenerative diseases start out as one or more long-term nutritional deficiencies (a nutritional condition). The deficiencies cause deterioration. When deterioration develops to the point where the deterioration poses a danger or has resulted in damage, the deterioration is a medical condition. Nutritional conditions don’t become medical conditions, rather medical conditions are complications of nutritional conditions. If the long-term nutritional deficiencies aren’t corrected, the medical condition will continue to worsen until the deficiencies are corrected or obviously until the medical condition causes death.

Why So Many In The U.S. Develop Degenerative Disease

Excessive deterioration is caused by the inability of the body to keep itself healthy due to what isn’t eaten that should be eaten. Of course, excessive deterioration is also caused by what is eaten that shouldn’t be eaten. Long term nutritional deficiencies and excessive creation of free radicals are by far the most common causes of degenerative disease. (Too much physical labor and lack of sleep in life can also contribute significantly to deterioration.)

The main reason why so many develop degenerative disease is that so many eat much more protein and fat (meat) than needed. In the USDA’s quote above you read, “…free radicals produced during the normal metabolism of oxygen.” The metabolism of fat and protein involves much more handling of oxygen than metabolism of carbohydrates, thus too much fat and protein creates too many free radicals. The only way to overcome the problem is to cut down on large portions of meat. (The RDA for protein is equal to only 5oz of meat a day.) Of course too little protein and fat is just as unhealthy as too much protein and or fat.

Free radical damage is hastened by a lack of plant food because plant food contains hundreds of different kinds of antioxidants which neutralize free radicals. Many eat too many unnatural foods. White bread does not contain the mineral rich portion of the grain (bran) and is made from only the starch portion of the grain. Soda is sugar and synthetic chemicals mixed with water and then carbonated and has no nutritional value at all. The carbonation alone lowers pH making the body more acidic causing bones to lose minerals, deteriorating bones and the body in general.

The result is, the U.S. is plagued with degenerative diseases. Of the 15 main causes of death in the U.S. in 2003, 1,692,000 people lost their lives to a degenerative disease and 208,000 lives were lost to all other causes of death combined. Simple math shows 8 times more people in the U.S. lose their lives to degenerative diseases than to all infectious, industrial, genetic, and occupational causes combined.

Healing Deterioration

Depending on the extent of deterioration, deterioration can be completely repaired by the body, significantly repaired by the body, stopped by the body, or not repaired or stopped at all. Deterioration is inevitable, but excess deterioration is preventable and to varying degrees repairable if the body is given the nutrients it needs to make the repairs. It can be difficult to satisfy all nutritional needs with food, making nutritional supplements an obvious solution. Herbal supplements are not nutritional supplements and have little nutritional value. Herbal supplements are essentially over-the-counter drugs and often mask nutritional deficiencies, just like prescription drugs.