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NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published October 11 2006
Medical myths explained: Why health researchers mistakenly think one disease
causes another
Health researchers are making all sorts of discoveries about the
correlations between various diseases. They're finding out that gum disease
is correlated with heart disease. The problem is, they're jumping to the
conclusion that there is a direct causal relationship between these two
things. They're saying gum disease causes heart disease. They're saying
diabetes causes heart disease, and now they are even saying diabetes causes
Alzheimer's disease. Why are they jumping to these odd conclusions? How do
they think one disease causes another disease?
The real answer, as you'll discover here, is that one disease doesn't
actually cause another disease; they both just have the same common cause --
a cause which goes unacknowledged or undiscovered by conventional medical
science.
For example, the reason diabetes is correlated with heart disease is not
because one causes the other, it's because there is a common underlying
cause for both diseases, and that underlying cause is poor nutrition. More
specifically, the consumption of foods and beverages that actually deplete
the body of its essential nutrients, and the lack of foods and beverages
that provide good nutrition -- the vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, amino
acids, fiber and all the other elements that the human body needs in order
to be healthy and free of chronic disease.
Today, the conventional medical community is looking at these disease
correlations, such as the correlation between diabetes and heart disease,
and using that as a justification to more aggressively treat the symptoms of
one of those diseases. They're saying, "Well, since diabetes causes heart
disease, which can lead to other complications, then we have to treat
diabetes very, very aggressively," which to them means pushing more
pharmaceuticals. The "urgency" to treat these conditions by claiming they
can cause other conditions is really just another way to push more drugs
onto patients.
Understand, the core claim here by conventional medicine is that the
symptoms of one disease cause another disease. They say, for example, that
high blood sugar from diabetes is a contributing factor for Alzheimer's
disease. And thus, the thinking goes, it is crucial to "manage" the symptoms
of diabetes (high blood sugar) with drugs in other to prevent Alzheimer's.
The logic almost sounds reasonable, but they're actually jumping to the
wrong conclusion.
Multiple symptoms usually have common causes
What they're failing to do here is notice that there is a common underlying
cause of both diseases, and that underlying cause cannot be corrected with
prescription drugs. In this case, in talking about type-2 diabetes and
Alzheimer's disease, what the patient usually has is a severe imbalance in
blood sugar metabolism caused by three main factors: 1) Massive
over-consumption of refined sugars and refined grains, 2) Lack of physical
exercise, and 3) Lack of key nutrients such as trace minerals, B vitamins,
essential fatty acids and others.
Notice that none of these contributing factors are "a lack of
pharmaceuticals?" What the patient really needs is a complete nutritional
overhaul, which means they need to avoid all the ingredients in foods and
beverages that promote disease, and take steps to get superfoods and
high-density nutrition into their bodies. They need to eat more fresh foods,
more raw fruits and vegetables. They need to eat less meat or eliminate
saturated animal fats from their diet altogether, including dairy products.
(Dairy products, in my view, are not healthy for long-term consumption by
human beings.)
At the same time, those people need to get nutritional supplements into
their bodies. They need things like sea vegetables, spirulina, chlorella
(www.IntegratedHealth.com), goji berries and whole food concentrates like
blueberry powder or multi-fruit superfood powders. They need things like raw
chocolate (www.NavitasNaturals.com) or super foods like chia seeds
(www.GoodCauseWellness.com) or ancient grains like quinoa. These are the
kinds of things that people need to put into their bodies in order to
reverse the underlying causes of all of these diseases.
Nutritional deficiencies diagnosed as physical defects
It is absolutely amazing how frequently nutritional deficiencies are
diagnosed as physical diseases or disorders. Let me give you an example.
There's a common heart disorder called mitral valve prolapse. This is the
diagnosis you're given when you have a heart valve that doesn't maintain the
correct shape. They'll tell you it's a congenital defect. They'll say it's
something you were born with and, unless the valve is repaired through
surgery, your heart will never beat correctly and you'll have heart problems
for the rest of your life. What they won't tell you is that this is almost
exclusively a nutritional problem. The heart valve isn't misshapen due to a
congenital defect; it is misshapen because the heart is a giant muscle
that's sagging out of shape due to a lack of nutritional support.
When you don't have B vitamins and the proper amount of magnesium, zinc and
calcium in your body, guess what happens to all the muscles in your body?
They all start to sag. The muscles lose their proper shape. This includes
the muscles in your heart, biceps, hamstrings, and chest. When the heart
valve is misshapen, even in a minor way, things can start to go wrong in
your circulatory system. If you were to take nutritional supplements, or get
nutrition through whole food concentrates, then your heart would begin to
literally "shape up." It would become more firm and the posture of your
heart would rapidly improve, thereby eliminating the symptoms that were
previously called "mitral valve prolapse."
The answer to mitral valve prolapse is almost always nutrition, but you
won't hear that from surgeons. First of all, they don't know this
information. Second of all, if they were to send people home with vitamins,
how would they stay in business performing surgical procedures that generate
tens of thousands of dollars in revenues? There's no money in telling people
how to prevent these diseases. There's only money in promoting drugs,
surgical procedures and fictitious diseases.
The medical industry sensationalizes diseases because they're profitable
There's a direct correlation between the marketing and popularity of a
so-called disease condition and the size of profits generated by that
disease for the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine in
general. The reason you hear about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) all the time is not because it's a legitimate physiological disorder
(it isn't). The reason you hear about it is because it's very profitable to
treat. There are lots of drugs to sell to children for this disease or
condition.
Similarly, the reason you have heard so much propaganda about
hormone-replacement therapy over the past 20 years is not because women
actually need synthetic hormones, the reason is the incredible profitability
of HRT drugs. You hear about these diseases because they are generating
money for the companies that manufacture the so-called solutions to these
conditions. Those solutions are simply prescription drugs and surgical
procedures that don't solve the underlying problem in the first place. All
they do is mask the symptoms of disease.
The real reason why disease symptoms appears together
Every time I see another headline about how research scientists have
discovered another correlation among various chronic diseases, I just have
to sort of laugh about it. Of course, diabetes and heart disease are going
to emerge together. Of course, gum disease and heart disease go
hand-in-hand, because they all have the same underlying causes.
A deficiency in a single nutrient can lead to numerous diseases that all get
diagnosed and treated as if they had separate causes. Take vitamin D, for
example. A lack of vitamin D renders the body unable to absorb calcium.
Without adequate calcium, the heart has trouble functioning correctly, and
the nervous system may also suffer. A person deficient in vitamin D may
experience heart disease, prostate cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis,
pancreatic cancer, gum disease, schizophrenia and many other conditions all
stemming from a lack of this single nutrient. Scientists then come along and
discover numerous correlations among these diseases. They actually seem
astounded, too, because they have no concept of the true underlying causes
of disease.
The real causes, of course, are all the same: lack of nutrition, inability
to eliminate metabolic waste products, exposure to toxic chemicals,
excessive stress and a lack of circulation and energy. These core causes can
express themselves in a myriad of different ways, and conventional medicine
has made a habit of attaching a different disease name to each of these
expressions. But underneath all the complicated medical jargon, there are
really only a few fundamental causes of disease, and by correcting those,
all the various measurable symptoms disappear on their own as the body comes
back into a state of balance.
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