The Key Factors that Affect Health

 Poor Diet & Nutrition

We rely heavily on convenience or manufactured foods. We do not eat nearly enough vegetables and fruits, and consume an extremely high amount of fat, animal products, salt, and refined carbohydrates such as flour and sugar. These dietary habits cause the body to become both depleted of essential nutrients for proper function, and overloaded with unwanted toxic substances.

Sedentary Lifestyle

A sedentary job and lack of regular exercise are contributing factors of poor health. Obesity is a serious problems for both adults and children.

Chronic Stress

“Stress” occurs when our body has a “fight or flight” response to any situation. Stress can come from anywhere at any time. It could be a barking dog, a disagreeable boss, a car that needs repair, an unpaid bill, a relationship that isn’t working, or living alone.

When stress is repeated over and over, it is called chronic stress, which seriously depletes our energy and vital reserves. It produces hormones which have a long-term weakening effect on the body and which accelerate the aging process and leads to chronic degenerative diseases.

Apart from mental/emotional stress, the body will have a very similar stress response to a variety of physical factors, including infection, physical trauma, and chemical pollution.

Destructive Habits

Smoking, excessive alcohol and recreational drug use devastates your health and can have lingering effects for many years after you stop these habits. In some cases, the damage is irreversible.

Environmental Pollution

Chemical and other kinds of pollution are a serious threat to our health. The amount of chemical pollution today is unprecedented in human history. We are exposed to chemicals from the air, the water and food that are either toxic or have unknown health consequences. A large amount of scientific evidence supports the idea that these accumulated chemicals are a factor in the majority of degenerative diseases. Negative effects of environmental toxicity include decreased immune function, nervous system problems, depression, irritability, fatigue, and memory loss.

Internal Pollution

Internal pollution is a result of metabolic processes. It is a very important but often overlooked cause of poor health.

One example is incompletely digested food particles that leak through the gut wall into the blood. These food antigens excite the immune system, resulting in food allergies/intolerance. Some contributors to this health problem are weakened digestive ability, unsuspected gut infection, or hormonal imbalances.

Another example of internal pollution is pathogenic organisms such as candida albicans. Candida produces a large variety of toxins, including alcohol. Negative effects of candida overgrowth include fatigue, gas, bloating, depression, diarrhoea, constipation, a muzzy head, vaginal yeast infections, chronic urinary tract infections, and chronic prostatitis.

A third example is chronic constipation. Toxic waste matter that is not removed in time will be reabsorbed by the lower intestine into the bloodstream.

Genetic Expression

Most people believe that the genes that we inherit from our parents are immutable. While this is partly true, we can work to produce a different result. For example, improving our diet, a healthy lifestyle and regular exercise to reduce the incidence of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. There are many components of our diet that can influence genetic expression. Avoidance or removal of chemicals from the body and environment is a profoundly important method of altering the instructions to our genes.

The best way to treat any disease is to prevent it from developing. And most diseases are preventable. Once you have a chronic disease or disability, it will take considerable time to reverse a process that has been developing for many years. There is no "quick fix" for most chronic degenerative disorders because many cells are already damaged or malfunctioning. If you allow the malfunctioning to continue, your lifespan will be shortened.