Health Freedom Alliance » Primary Causes of Illness

Our current ‘health system’ tends to focus on symptoms and treatments. Disease is diagnosed through symptoms. And we often treat the symptoms instead of the illness ignoring the cause. Often we hear someone raising money to find ‘the cure’ for cancer –why? Is it because we have given up trying to find the causes. Is cancer is a monster of so many different causes – and our medical and health systems cannot deal with this reality. Or is it simply that you can ‘sell’ a cure, or sell the search for a cure – but you cannot sell a ’cause’. I believe that a more thorough study of disease causes, in general and in specific cases, will improve our health status.

Are diseases, illnesses and infirmities defined by their symptoms? Or their causes? Answering this question is not as simple as you might guess. However, we can clearly define and categorize the basic causes of disease and infirmity. Is it a disease, an illness, an infirmity? The words have similar, overlapping meanings. I will use the word ‘illness’ from this point forward.

There are six basic causes of illness. They are: genetics, nutrients, parasites, toxins, stress and growth. In each case, the illness can be tracked to a deficiency, or a surplus of some health factor. In this simple chart, you can visualize the scale for each of the six basic causes of illness as simple deviations from a healthy status.
Genetics - we are each conceived with a specific genetic code. In some cases, this genetic code is faulty, leading to illness, sometimes very quickly, and sometimes after a very long time.

Genetic factors can be deficient – where the person does not have genes to avoid an illness, or healthy, or excessive – where the genetic factors have a negative effect on the person’s health.

Nutrients are a key to health, but also a key to illness. Many essential nutrients have corresponding deficiency illnesses. Scurvy is a severe deficiency of Vitamin C. A healthy intake of nutrients leads to healthy cells and a healthy body. Excesses of essential nutrients can cause illness. Nutrients can clearly be seen as deficient, healthy or excessive depending on the amount consumed. The most challenging question about nutrients is ‘what is optimal’ at this point in my life, and my health. Illness caused by nutrient deficiencies or excess can be easily diagnosed if they occur in the short term. Illness caused by long term nutrient deficiencies or excesses are more difficult to understand.

Toxins are often cited as causes of illness. As with other health factors – we can demonstrate that many toxins can be deficient, leading to unhealthy states – or sufficient for health and health enhancement, to excessive, leading to health problems. As we create new chemicals daily – it is very difficult to track which might be fast, or slow toxins. Note: I have taken care to not label nutritional excess as toxicity – to clearly differentiate between nutrients and toxins. Nutrients are foods that we need to live a normal healthy life. Toxins are not. However, many foods contain toxins – plants and animals develop toxins to defend themselves from predators. And many plants create or use chemicals that are toxic to people.

Parasites, bacteria, viruses, etc -are one of the most commonly cited causes of illness. However, even with parasites, it is important to remember that you can suffer from a parasite deficiency. Your body may be blessed with healthy bacteria. Some parasites can cause illness. Like genetic and nutritional factors, parasites can be deficient, healthy or excessive.

Growth and healing systems are another potential cause of illness. Our bodies are well adapted to dealing with health issues. We have systems that protect us and heal us when any of the above five factors create health issues. We have growth and healing systems, and an immune system. But sometimes these complex systems go off the rails. Our bodies require healthy immune systems and healing systems to deal with the stress of day to day living. If these systems are deficient, as they often are elderly people, illness can creep in. Alternatively, healing and growth can also become excessive, running amok, leading to a specialized set of infirmity or illness, ranging from allergies to tumors.

Growth and healing systems can cause illness when they are out of balance. Like each of the others, these factors can be deficient, sufficient or excessive.

Stress is the final potential cause of illness. Too little stress, specifically in the forms of physical and mental exercise – can turn our muscles and brains to mush. A healthy amount of stress is vital. But excessive stress can lead to physical or mental illness and even to broken bones. Technically, we could view most illness causes as ‘stress’. Nutrient deficiency, toxin excess, etc. However, for the purpose of categorizing causes of illness we need to limit stress to stresses not covered by other categories. Things like physical, or mental ‘whacks on the side of the head’.

That’s it. Six causes of illness. When we speak about health and illness, we can clearly see how they are linked together. Healthy is the balance point for each of the factors. Go too low, or too high – and you throw your body out of balance, and illness is the result. This is one important way of looking at, and classifying all illness.

Note: the sequence has been updated from the original post to create a hierarchy that can be aligned with the hierarchy of health. It can also be noticed that each of the elements in the hierarchy of health can be a source of illness when they are out of balance.

We know it’s not that simple. Many illnesses are caused by secondary or tertiary health issues, or combinations of health issues. However, it is important to understand the primary causes of illness as a foundation to the study of health, and also to effectively study preventatives.

You may be suffering from several different deficiencies and excesses, from mild to severe. The health issue then becomes – which is most important – and what actions should be taken today, this week, this month?

Those decisions are personal. Actions to prevent illness and to deal with illness are also personal. It’s about Personal Health Freedom.

Sources:

http://personalhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/08/primary-causes-of-illness.html

2 Comments »

Randall Bryhn says:

May 1, 2012 at 1:59 am

I suggest you do research on B17 and it’s sources. There are many cures out there that are folk remedies and such. There are also medicines such as B17 that are used in other parts of the world, but are not used in the US.
If a cure for cancer was found and it was free….what would that do to untold medical jobs in the US….
Lou says:

May 7, 2012 at 11:14 pm

“Is cancer is a monster of so many different causes – and our medical and health systems cannot deal with this reality.”

Cancer Prevention Protocol Overview

“One has to remember that cancer is not just one disease. Not only that, but even a single type cancer is often not just one disease. As I have written extensively about before, cancer is incredibly complex. Because of that complexity, it’s incredibly unlikely that any one drug will be any sort of “magic bullet” to cure cancer.” Cancer Researcher

The above quote is by a cancer researcher who is well versed in modern cancer theory. This is the myth we have been sold all my life. This “incredible complexity” shrouds cancer in a veil that has confounded the layman as well as the cancer professional.

But what if most, if not all, cancer had a prime cause? What if one simple thing usually caused cancer? This is a thought that troubled me my entire life as I struggled to understand cancer. Then one day I found a few extremely simple words so powerful they knocked the breath out of me, literally.

“Just by decreasing a cell’s oxygen content by about one-third, cancer is automatically induced. Nothing more is required for cancer to develop.” Doctor Otto Warburg 1924

The cancer magic bullet is OXYGEN.

And guess what OXYGEN is not a “drug”

There are Nine Main Problems in Cancer Prevention

“In group 3 which consisted of raw food and high vitamin C a very satisfying 35-times decrease in cancerous lesions was achieved. The incidence of severe cancerous lesions in these experiments was caused to vary over a 70-fold range by nutritional measures alone.” Doctor A.B. Robinson PhD, Linus Pauling Institute, Note WHAT you eat can decrease your risk of each of your cells becoming cancerous by at LEAST 70 times.

“The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination” Doctor Robert Bell, Vice President International Society for Cancer Research at the British Cancer Hospital.

“According to John Gofman, MD, PhD, there is strong evidence that HALF of all cancer deaths, and 60 percent of the death rate from ischemic heart disease are induced by ionizing radiation treatments.”

97% of Terminal Cancer Patients Previously Had a Root Canal

1) Prevent cancer by refusing Root Canals

2) Prevent cancer and heart disease by refusing ALL radiation.

3) Prevent cancer and protect your immune system by refusing ALL vaccination.

4) Prevent Cancer by assuring a continuous sufficient supply of oxygen to all 10 trillion of your human cells. This is easy if you eat well and are aware of oxygenating your cells.

5) Prevent Cancer by assuring a slightly basic body pH. This is trivial if you eat well and are aware of the importance of your pH.

6) Prevent Cancer by Avoiding SUGAR in ALL its many forms especially FRUCTOSE, This is not so easy but let the thought of a horrible prolonged wasting away death give you a little incentive to turn off or at least control your sweet tooth.

7) Prevent Cancer by Avoiding Processed Vegetable Oil and all Processed Food and Fast Food made with them. As a bonus you will be helping to prevent CVD also.

8) Deal with precancerous and cancerous cells by making sure you get some Vitamin B17 foods each day. Once you understand the importance of vitamin B17 this will become an ingrained habit.

9) Deal with precancerous and cancerous cells by assuring your other anti-cancer mechanisms are fully functional. This requires knowing your body’s anti-cancer mechanisms.

Your Chief Anti-Cancer Mechanisms

Avoiding ALL Root Canals

Avoiding ALL radiation

Avoiding ALL Vaccination

Vitamin B17

Vitamin D

Vitamin C

Enzymes

Iodine

Magnesium

Selenium

Flax

Simple Anti-Cancer Steps

Avoid ALL Root Canals

Avoid ALL Radiation

Avoid ALL Vaccination

Avoid SUGAR in ALL its many forms especially FRUCTOSE

Avoid Processed Vegetable Oils and all “foods” made from them

Eat a mostly raw whole food plant based diet

Assure good Oxygen levels for ALL tissue in your body

Assure a slightly basic body pH

Make sure your Vitamin D levels are at least 60 ng/ml, get good noon sun or Vitamin D3

Make sure your Vitamin C levels are sufficient IMO by ingesting at least 3 grams/day

Make sure you eat about 75 mg of Vitamin B17/day in B17 containing food

Make sure your Omega 3 EFA and Omega 6 EFA are balanced and undenatured

Make sure you eat some freshly ground Flax at least weekly

Assure good Omega EFA, Enzymes, Iodine, Magnesium, Selenium, Folate and other anti-cancer agents