THE ROOT CAUSE OF DISEASE by Dr. Ward Coleman, N.D. & President of Four Mountains, Inc.

Additionally, the Standard American Diet causes blood sugar

dysregulation, hormonal disorders, acidosis, and digestive system overload

and weakness. The bottom line is that the average person's diet is killing

them in more ways than one. Despite loads of media attention and books from

our nation's top nutritional gurus, the majority of people in this country

are still digging their graves with their teeth.

6) Chronic Dehydration

When we don't drink enough healthy fluids we become dehydrated. The

problem is that it's possible to be dehydrated more or less continuously for

many years and not even know it. This in turn creates chronic and severe

hormonal stress that leads directly to pain and disease. Research indicates

that a simple water deficiency afflicts many millions of Americans.

7) Touch Deprivation

Detachment style parenting, body issues, and neglect of the body

promotes a condition known as 'touch deprivation'. For millions of people

this is a condition to simply accept. However, the stress and pain that

results is more than many people can bare and drives them to extreme and

desperate behavior in an unconscious effort to remedy a touch deficiency.

However, there is no substitute for touch. Without enough skin to skin

contact human beings become extremely imbalanced, and mentally and

physically diseased.

8) Tissue Oxygen Starvation

Ninety percent of Americans are oxygen starved and eighty percent of

these don't even realize it. The cause for this widespread problem is

twofold. First, few if any of us are actually taught healthy breathing

habits, we simply ignore it all together. The second reason is due to a

predominantly indoor (and sedentary) lifestyle. Living inside schools,

offices, homes, cars, and shopping malls combined with unconscious shallow

breathing creates hypoxia, and hypoxia is an anaerobic condition that breeds

infection, cancer, heart disease, inflammation/pain and chronic fatigue.

9) Chronic Inflammation, Lesions and Restrictions

Most, if not all, people suffer with multiple inflammations, lesions and

restrictions in their various membranes, connective tissues, muscles,

ligaments, tendons and organs. Not only do these inflammations and lesions

limit mobility and motility, they also add substantially to the body's total

stress load, and frequently become the site for accumulated toxins and

future cancers. Preventing disease and creating optimal health necessitates

that we locate and eliminate these physical problems.

10) Structural Subluxations

Gravity, injuries, sitting in chairs, bad shoes, and poor posture can

all cause spinal and joint mis-alignment, which in turn leads to

neuro-muscular, multiple organ and system dysfunction. Autopsy research

indicates that in most cases, diseased organs are directly linked to

subluxated vertebra. Subluxations of the cranial joints (sutures) have also

been shown to cause serious dysfunction in body, mind and behavior. For

optimal health and disease prevention, alignment of the whole body is vital.

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Secondary Processes:

11) Endocrine Dysregulation

The endocrine (or hormonal) system is one of the master systems of the

body, controlling all basic metabolic processes. As the roots of disease

take hold in the body the hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal (HPA Axis)

becomes imbalanced and the body begins to lose the capacity for self-defense

and self-repair. Thyroid, pineal, pancreas, ovarian and testicular problems

will develop manifesting excessive and deficient cycling of hormones. The

spectrum of symptoms that result from endocrine dysregulation is vast.

In general, if you have hormonal problems, it is a mistake to assume that

the primary problem is with the gland itself. For example, thyroid problems

are common, but it is wrong to assume that it is a primary thyroid disease,

as this is rarely the case. When the deeper (upstream) imbalances have been

corrected, our hormonal system can return to balance. Ignoring the roots of

disease and taking hormones is the wrong approach. Balancing endocrine

dysregulation by pulling the deeper roots of disease, is the correct

approach.

12) Immune Dysfunction

The body does not 'have' an immune system as much as it 'is' an immune

system. When ALL our body's systems are functioning properly we are immune

to infection, illness and disease. And when our body systems are deeply

imbalanced we are unable to effectively resist infection, illness and

disease. Building a powerful immune system therefore suggests that we need

to pull all the roots of disease and take care of the WHOLE person.

13) Inherent Weaknesses

This is where our genetic constitution enters the picture. If our family

tree suggests a history of weak lungs, livers, kidneys, the chances are we

have inherited these same weaknesses, whatever they are. In other words, you

don't just have your daddy's eyes and your mommy's chin, you have their

liver and spleen too! It is said that 'we die from our inherent weaknesses'.

This means that as the imbalances in our body's persist, the wear and tear

on our organs and systems is not equal throughout. Eventually, it will be

our weakest link that finally snaps. Even if our heart had another twenty

years of function left in it, when our weakest link finally breaks, it

brings the rest of the body down with it. It helps to know your inherent

weaknesses so you can be mindful and adjust your self-care routine

accordingly.

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BIO:

Dr. Ward Coleman, N.D. is President of Four Mountains, Inc., a privately held Clinical & Research Laboratory dedicated to synthesizing all available data in the fields of alternative medicine, disease prevention, wholistic mind/body health and anti-aging technology.

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