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Wednesday 31 OctOber 2018

Growing Health

starts in an unhealthy cell. Like the environment grows rapidly.
of the land, the environment of your body can Cancer cells do not wait for glucose to natu-
grow health or disease. rally get in the cell, but eat the glucose right
Common environmental factors that contribute out of your blood, which drains energy from the
to disease are unhealthy food choices, obesity, body. It is nearly impossible to prove exactly
infections, radiation, stress, lack of physical ac- what caused cancer in any individual, because
tivity, and pollutants. According to medical re- most cancers have many potential causes. For
search, cancers are primarily an environmental example, if a person who uses tobacco heav-
disease with 90-95% of cases attributed to envi- ily develops lung cancer, then it was probably
ronmental factors and only 5-10% due to genet- caused by the tobacco use maybe together
ics! All of us are exposed in some way to many with other environmental problems. Since ev-
of these causes, yet one man in two and one eryone has a small chance of developing lung
woman in three will develop cancer. Why is it cancer as a result of air pollution or radiation,
then that some people get cancer while others then there is a tiny chance that the smoker’s
do not? lung cancer actually developed because of air
All lifestyle choices change the environment pollution or radiation.
of your body. It may not be easy to change Whatever outside environmental problems we
our entire environment. Toxins seem to be ev- come into contact with daily, if we want to be
erywhere these days, but most of us are lucky as healthy as possible, we need to do our best
enough to be able to choose clean water and to create an inside environment that promotes
By: Dr. Carlos Viana good food to support our body. What hap- good health. Starting with drinking clean wa-
pens if your food choices are less than healthy ter daily to cleans and hydrate our body. Next,
When a new patient comes to me, I evaluate though? choose foods good for your metabolic or blood
their medical tests, but I begin by observing Our cells need clean water and good nutrition type. Everyone should stay away from heavily
them the way my Uncle Julio use to look at his to produce energy to grow and reproduce processed, unnatural foods. Eat as many fresh
land. Julio was a farmer who was considered more healthy cells. Without proper water and fruits and vegetables as possible. Cook with
in his native Portugal, a soil expert. During my food, a cell cannot produce an adequate a small amount of healthy fats, like olive oil or
childhood I had the opportunity to travel with amount of energy. Without this energy, water clarified butter.
my Uncle as he appraised land. Uncle Julio that has become salty from collecting waste Avoid cow’s milk and milk products. Too much
showed me there is no “bad” land, just land from the body enters the cell causing swelling. calcium in the blood is made worse by milk, milk
that is better suited to grow different crops. For This swelling often of legs and feet is known as products and calcium medications and even
example, green peppers needed rich, dark, or- edema. Edema is an indication that an un- natural supplements. For a more “cell friendly”
ganic rich soil. If you try to grow grapes in this healthy body environment is developing. easily processed calcium intake, healthy food
soil, you get mushy, tasteless grapes. Grapes The salt water in the cell pushes the cell’s calci- choices include dark green vegetables, sar-
need poor, rocky ground to produce wine qual- um and phosphorus out into the blood vessels. dines, brown rice or quinoa.
ity grapes. I learned that all soil can be good This loss of important minerals from our bone cells Have your free calcium and phosphorus tested
for growing; however different soil produces dif- and escaped or “free” calcium (not cholester- to see if you are losing bone minerals and risk-
ferent plants. Now, just like Uncle Julio, I check ol) in the blood builds up inside blood vessels ing calcium deposits on arteries, veins and in
to see what your body is good for growing, as arteriosclerosis, then heart disease develops. joints. Supplement with magnesium and boron
healthy cells or diseased cells. The free calcium can enter your joints, produc- not calcium! Of course my other basic supple-
In conventional medicine we have different ing joint pain and inflammation. With increased ments for good health always include vitamin
theories about how we get or “grow” diseased calcium in the blood, heart rhythm becomes C, zinc and lecithin. A hair analysis, available
cells. Louis Pasteur, known for the food Pasteuri- irregular and finally, without adequate oxygen at our clinic can detect toxic heavy metal build
zation process, developed the medical Germ being pumped by the heart and glucose from up which needs to be safely cleaned from your
Theory. The Germ Theory says that something good nutrition to produce more energy, the cell body.
outside the body, bacteria, virus, and pollution begins to die. Get The Point! Louis Pasteur’s on his deathbed
causes disease. Cells die every day. However, if too many cells is alleged to have said - “Bernard was right; the
Another biologist, Antoine Béchamp, disagreed die too fast, organs and muscles deteriorate. pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.”
with Pasteur; Béchamp maintained that bacte- In some cases, poor environment together When you nourish your body with what it needs
ria are not the cause of, but the result of dis- with poor lifestyle habits will “turn off” you cell’s to rebuild and clean itself you are making your
ease. This has also been called the Cellular natural switch witch tells it to die when it is body a host with for growing health. Make an
Disease Theory, and is the premise of Natural not healthy. If your cell’s switch is turned off, appointment to have an expert assess your in-
Medicine. Natural Medicine states that disease it changes your cell, so that it eats more and ner environment. q