Why Drugs Don't Cure and Nutrients Help Heal

The New York Times reported recently that the average 75-year old American swallows 8 prescription drugs everyday. Dangerous drug side-effects harm more than 1,500,000 Americans and kill thousands a year, even when taking the prescribed dosages.

This is a direct result of billions of advertising dollars being spent persuading people to ask their doctors to prescribe them. Many of these expensive commercials portray the drugs as if they are a cure for any condition. To my knowledge there hasn't been a drug that has actually cured or prevented anything since the polio vaccine in the early 1950's.

Some of the commercials I've seen go so far as to suggest that people's lives won't be as boring and that after taking theses drugs, even have more friends. Exaggerating unrealistic expectations without emphasizing lifestyle changes and nutrition is very deceptive. More emphasis needs to be placed upon the body's natural ability to heal itself, versus drugs that supposedly cure.

It is important to understand that drugs are measured amounts of poisons, and that they are designed to give temporary relief to symptoms of disease. Furthermore, drugs tend to induce nutrient deficiencies that can complicate other conditions.

However, there is a growing body of evidence that specific nutrients can support healing mechanisms that focus on the root cause of an ailment, rather than only the symptoms.

The new science of nutrition is a perfect marriage between pharmaceutical blending technologies and natural non-toxic nutrients. Referred to as Molecular Medicine or Orthomolecular Medicine, nutrients are optimized in such a way that they target specific imbalances within the body by nurturing cellular health.

This revolutionary science lays heavy emphasis upon healthy lifestyle changes to promote and restore the body's innate healing responses, rather than claiming a magical cure. In the past poor blending technology has sacrificed the benefits high potency nutrients. Today successful nutraceutical companies are utilizing cutting edge technology, once only used in the pharmaceutical industry, to ensure potency, effectiveness and safety at an unprecedented level.

In February, 2007, the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service released a bulletin showing that there wasn't even one death caused by vitamins in 2005, based on statistics from the US poisoning and Exposure Database.

So get yourself some moderate exercise, plenty of clean water, sunlight and fresh air. Balance that with plenty of raw vegetables, fruits and sprouted grains, along with fresh fish, poultry and meats from organic sources if possible.

Yet due to a depletion of our topsoil, harsh ultraviolet rays, air pollution, pesticides and daily stress, you may want to shop around for a reliable source of supplemental nutritionals, vitamins and minerals, just to be sure.

Life From A Cellular Perspective!

Your body is far greater than the sum of its parts. That's a powerful statement considering that you have more than 600,000,000,000 cells. Your cellular body is constantly being born and dying and each type of cell has a unique lifespan ranging from a few hours to several years. It is fascinating to realize that every cell in your biological universe is in constant communication with the whole.

Imagine if the 6 billion people on our tiny blue planet all spoke the same language. With our modern ability to communicate wirelessly, it is easy to see how with computers, this is now very possible, in a real sense. Scientists are now taking notice that our individual cells actually communicate just like people do, but in a more consistent and efficient way within an amazing holographic panorama.

In fact our body systems are primarily electromagnetic in nature. Any chemical reactions are secondary to this fact. At any given moment all 600 Trillion cells are constantly sharing information through out your body. This communication network functions at measurable frequencies beginning at the speed of sound and reaching as fast as the speed of light.

This is all made possible because of specific microscopic nutrients, or molecules, that all healthy cells have in common. These microscopic nutrients act literally as antennae. These antennae grow on the surface or membranes of the cells and make it possible for the many different types of cells to transmit and receive vital information.

A healthy child is born with an abundance of these 'essential' nutrients literally candy coating every cell in the body, from the tip of the toe nail to every single hair cell on top of the head. These incredibly necessary nutrients need to be constantly available as old cells are being replaced by new ones. The scientific name for these nutrients is referred to as Glycans. It is through the Glycans that all cellular communication depends.

These Glycans are also called saccharides, which are simple molecular sugars, and are primarily found in our native diet. The problem is that the modern diet is lacking in several of these important Glycan molecules.

To emphasize how busy your cellular body is let's take a look at how often they replace themselves.

For example, the most abundant type of white blood cells that make up your immune system have a lifespan from as little as 10 hours to as long as 3 days. The cells that line your stomach need to be replaced every 2 days. The cells that make up the surface of your skin rejuvenate every 2 to 4 weeks, lymphocytes range from two months to a year. The pancreas cells are replaced every year or more and bone cells, every 25 to 30 years.

So there is no question that the body is a healing, regenerating and self repairing machine. The challenge is simply for us to support all these cells by providing the living nutrients required to fuel the natural regenerative healing mechanisms built into the body miraculous. In a real sense we are all stewards of our own biological universe.

So far molecular scientists have identified 9 'essential' Glycans used in the cellular signaling process. These Glycans are seen as the alphabet that all cells use to talk. MicroNutra™ Health is the first nutraceutical company to offer all 9 Glycans in a straight chain polymer for the most absorbable cellular formula available to date.

Live well,

Oscar Deerfield
Health Advisors, Ultimate Global Health™