Understanding The "Change" From Healthy to Sick and Back

Nutritional Balancing is all about helping you get your health back and this chapter is going to outline how to do this. In order to accomplish these healing goals we need to have a starting point.

Our starting point is the question that is asked in thousands of offices around the world every single day and it is "How did I end up like this?" Intuitively we know that we didn't get sick in just one day and that it takes time, but most of us don't really understand how we got sick. Here are the facts that will allow us to answer the question.

FACT #1. Physical, emotional and chemical stresses are the negative driving factors of chronic degenerative disease.

FACT #2. If you can measure or see a change in the body then our chemistry has changed from normal to abnormal.

Now that we know the basic facts that explain how we get sick, the next question that becomes critical to ask if we are to reclaim our health is;

"How did these stresses change the body chemistry from normal to abnormal?"

It turns out that there are only five factors that drive this process and they are genetics, deficiencies, excesses, imbalances and toxins. So in a nutshell if you wish to regain your health and reverse the dis-ease process these factors must be dealt with in addition to the emotional, chemical and physical stresses. You will notice genetics is not listed and the reason is explained below.

Let's briefly explore these driving forces because when you truly understand these you will know more than many health professionals.

1. Genetics. Bruce Lipton in his book "The Biology of Belief" sums this up beautifully. He makes the point that unless you are unfortunate enough to have a genetic disease expressed at birth such as cystic fibrosis then genetics is not what is causing you to be unwell. Genes are present at birth but they need to be "turned on" or expressed if they are going to have an effect on the body.

The relatively recent discovery of epi-genetics has shown that it is our environment that turns on genes. By environment we mean the physical, emotional and chemical stresses. If you have a gene for a particular condition, unless you trigger it with environmental factors it will never express itself and the dis-ease will not develop.

The conclusion here is that if we live a good healthy and clean lifestyle our negative genes should never turn on and be expressed. Genes are not a significant factor in chronic degenerative disease and probably only applies to about 5% of the population. This is great news as it means the problem is lifestyle based and we can address and fix this.

The rest to follow next week........