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There is a new medical discipline called Nutritional Medicine being
practiced today by holistic doctors outlining how to address health
challenges. Many of the books written by nutritional medicine doctors
present information as to why degenerative conditions occur and logical step
by step solutions to such conditions through the use of diet and
supplements.
Thousands of people have followed the Nutritional Medicine health model and
as a result, they are experiencing health and vitality. We will share with
you in the next few pages what we have learned from these doctors, because
if the following information makes sense to you, then you’ll be motivated to
explore what we have to offer you to address your own health challenges.
Nutritional Medicine
The Nutritional Medicine principles support the following: 1) better
digestion and assimilation of foods through the use of probiotics and
enzymes; 2) better nutrition through nutrient rich food supplements and; 3)
increased protection against free radical damage (oxidative stress) through
whole food antioxidants.
Tens of thousands of people have used this health model to help themselves
from many chronic degenerative conditions. Additionally, many of the studies
and books written by Nutritional Medicine doctors give us the scientific
reasons behind why this specific health model and the supplements used have
helped with a wide variety of health-related conditions.
Today there is a very large number of alternative, allopathic and
naturopathic doctors practicing the Nutritional Medicine approach to health.
What Is Nutritional Medicine?
Nutritional Medical physicians believe that most degenerative conditions
have their origin in the malfunction of the digestive tract and the liver’s
elimination processes. In other words, illness can be directly related to
problems of the digestive and liver detoxification systems and their related
influence on immune, nervous and endocrine system functions. Therefore, when
the health of the digestive and liver detoxification systems is addressed,
the body is given the opportunity to reverse many degenerative conditions.
If the degenerative condition is labeled lupus, diabetes, or eczema, etc., a
Nutritional Medicine doctor will first recommend addressing the health of
the gastrointestinal tract. Once the GI tract is normalized, then the liver
detoxification system should be supported and strengthened.
Today, through the efforts of Nutritional Medicine doctors, we have hundreds
of clinical studies and scientific research that confirm what many of us
have heard so often from folk medicine practitioners: “Stomach problems are
the cause of all ills” or “Death begins in the colon.”
Jeffrey Anderson, M.D., wrote an article called “How Problems with Digestion
Can Cause Illness Anywhere”, and in this article he explains why you should
address the health of the gastrointestinal tract first, no matter what the
name of the degenerative condition. He explains that “new information on the
dynamics of the body make it clear that conditions in the digestive tract
affect the entire system” (Nichols, et al., 1999, p.125). The
“...degradation of the gastrointestinal environment is one of the primary
points at which health is lost. What we now know is that the same toxins
associated with GI dysfunction are frequently absorbed and distributed to
other parts of the body. First they place a burden on the liver and the
immune system. If liver overload occurs, there will be spill over, and some
of the toxins will be passed on to other organs or tissues” (p. 125).
“Often, it’s a weak link in the system that will be hit by the damage - an
organ that can be anywhere in the body that is most likely to be vulnerable.
The vulnerability may be inherited, caused by physical injury, toxic
exposure, or poor diet” (p.125). For example, “if the sensitive system is
the lungs, toxins that originate in the gut and circulate in the bloodstream
may manifest as asthma or allergies” (p.125).
Len Saputo, M.D., in his article,”Harmful Flora”, also believes that if the
gastrointestinal tract goes out of balance and the liver detoxification
system breaks down, our entire immune system can malfunction in three ways.
First, it can be weakened and the result called an immune suppression
disease (cancer and AIDS). Second, it can overreact and become hyper
responsive to normal stimuli; this occurs in asthma, eczema, migraine, and
food allergies. Third, a malfunctioning immune system can cause auto immune
reactions, where antibodies target our own tissues, as in rheumatoid
arthritis or lupus (p.60).
Jerry Stine, M.D., in his article, “How Digestion Works”, explains that the
gastrointestinal tract is the largest immune organ in our body. Eighty
percent of all our protective immune globulins are produced in the digestive
tract (p.16). It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that when this
large, strategically placed immune system member isn’t working well, our
defenses are lowered and once our barriers are down, it becomes more
difficult to defend against invaders.
Nutritional Medicine Strategies to Reverse Degenerative Conditions:
Nutritional Medicine doctors including, Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, Dr. Len Saputo
and Dr. Jerry Stine, believe that cleansing and supporting the GI tract and
the liver can and will clear the body of any and most degenerative
conditions.
• First you detoxify the GI tract.
• Then get the liver detoxification system working.
• And finally clean up the downstream consequences, which includes the
toxins in the tissues and cells.
Nutritional Medicine doctors believe that you can’t deal with the downstream
conditions (symptoms in the body such as lupus, arthritis, eczema,....etc.),
until you’ve treated the upstream problem(s) in the gut and liver (p.132).
When you clean up the upstream issues and the liver, then the downstream
consequences tend to go away.
Nutritional Medicine Solution for Most Degenerative Conditions. The 4Rs
Solution:
1) Remove: Abnormal kinds/amounts of intestinal microorganisms (parasites,
bacterial pathogens, small intestinal overgrowth such as yeast, and food
antigens). This can be done by repairing “leaky” intestinal membranes.
2) Replace: Hydrochloric acid, enzymes, and fiber deficiency can be
addressed and replaced with friendly bacteria, digestive enzymes and fiber
supplements.
3) Restore: Symbiotic bacteria and GI bacteria through the use of full
spectrum friendly bacteria (L. acidophilus, B. bifidus, L. planetarium, L.
salivarius, L. bulgaricus, etc.).
4) Repair: Replace or augment with nutrients necessary to support healing of
intestinal lining, plus adequacy of calories, and adequacy of fiber. Support
the liver detoxification system through the use of antioxidants and food
based nutritional supplements (pp. 181-182).
The Difference is in the Quality Of The Nutritional Supplements:
There are a multitude of allopathic and naturopathic doctors practicing
Nutritional Medicine today, and they recommend supporting better digestion,
better nutrition, and better protection against oxidative stress. However,
when it comes to supplements, most Nutritional Medicine doctors recommend
standard man-made supplements in their isolated, single, separated or
chemically-manufactured form, such as zinc, copper, vitamins B, C, E and
beta carotene, to reverse degenerative conditions.
Vitamins and minerals should not be taken in single and
chemically-manufactured forms. For example, Vitamins are intricate,
interrelated, integrated, united organic nutritive groups. Nature made them
as an indistinguishable part of foods for the benefit of human health.
Vitamins are inseparable as working nutrients from trace elements, minerals,
proteins, and other nutrients.
Chemists have attempted to isolate and identify some of the components of
these food complexes, labeling the seemingly “active” elements as vitamins
or other nutrients. Yet there is no possible way that even the sum of the
parts is equal to the whole. It is only the whole food, intact and
unaltered, that works as a nutritional source. The isolated parts are not
recognized by the body as foods. In large amounts, these isolated chemicals
function more like drugs, which stimulate or suppress biochemical functions,
instead of providing nourishment for the cells to carry on their vital
activities.
Natural, food-source vitamins are enzymatically alive. Man-made, synthetic
vitamins are dead chemicals. Human health requires “live” biochemicals. It
is simply a matter of chemistry versus biochemistry.
We believe that nutritional medicine doctors are “right on the money” when
it comes to explaining why degenerative conditions occur, but when it comes
to the solution which is their supplement program, they are mainly providing
the typical man-made and chemically-manufactured supplements. Many of us
prefer the use of whole food supplements based on the philosophy that “Food
is the best medicine.”
Searching for the Ultimate Whole Food Supplements:
There are certainly better alternatives than man-made supplements; i.e.
organic whole food supplements. Whole food supplements are far superior in
their quality and effectiveness for reversing degenerative conditions
because they are produced in their natural and complex configuration.
Why whole food products work better is based on the philosophy that the
human body is a marvelously designed living organism with the ability to
grow, regulate, repair, and defend itself when given natural, high quality,
full spectrum nutrients.
Not too many companies produce high quality whole foods supplements.
However, one such company that has been in the whole food supplement
business for twenty plus years is Cell Tech, International from Klamath
Falls, Oregon. Their philosophy of producing whole food supplements is very
impressive and they believe in preserving the quality of their whole food
supplements from the time the foods are harvested to the time they are
introduced to the public as supplements.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been helped with our whole food
products. This should not be a surprise to anyone because when it comes to
healing the body, there is nothing more powerful than supplementing with
whole foods, especially if they are organically grown.
If your goal is to find a natural remedy for your health challenge, may we
recommend that you follow this health model which is the same as the
Nutritional Medicine health model with the exception that we recommend the
use of wholefoods and not man-made supplements:
1. Better digestion and assimilation of foods through the use of probiotics
and enzyme supplements.
2. Better nutrition through food-based supplements (consuming nutrientrich
foods such as wheat grass, bee pollen, blue green algae...etc.).
3. Better protection against free radical damage (oxidative stress) through
whole food supplements (wheat sprouts, red algae, wheat grass..etc.).
With the use of whole food supplements you can improve the GI tract
environment, decrease the burden of the toxins and thereby take the stress
off the liver. With less toxins there is less need for a constant high level
defense effort and everything in the body just starts to work better. Dr.
Jeffrey Anderson summarizes the whole concept of healing so beautifully when
he said: “you can’t deal with the downstream problems (symptoms in the body)
until you have addressed the upstream problem(s) (i.e., malfunctions in the
gut)” (p. 132).
References:
Nichols, Trent W., and Faass, Nancy. (1999). Optimal Digestion. New York:
Avon Books, Inc.
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