With all the modern technology and industrializing of our food and medicine of the past century, we never deal with the core issues causing illness. When the symptom(s) disappear or even reappear as something else, we think of the disease as cured. It is almost the same as dealing with an overflowing pantry with mice crawling around, to put out a mouse trap to get rid of the mice. And then spray air freshener to kill the odors of the dead mice.
“We humans can never claim to do nothing; we breath, we pulse, we regenerate”
Suzanne Weyn
It is interesting that with COVID – 19, the people at most risk to get seriously ill and die, are those suffering from chronic metabolic diseases, which were unknown a century ago. I have asked myself how much damage these modern diseases and treatments have done to break down our innate immunity to protect us from viruses or other pathogens.
In his recently published book, ‘Regenerate,’ Sayer Ji explains how the new Biology reveals how our bodies regenerate all tissues. Nature sourced our bodies’ maintenance to plants and other natural foods to keep us healthy. When eating the right foods, cells that are no longer functional will be replaced by healthy ones. This action promotes health and is the opposite of eating unhealthy, fake foods that promote disease.
It is common knowledge by now that our bodies need antioxidants to prevent cancer caused by oxidants in our bodies. We know that resveratrol and other deep red and purple food, not only are antioxidants, but it also blocks blood flow to tumors. Some foods like milk thistle and leafy greens enhance the liver’s purifying effect to prevent disease and premature aging.
New knowledge in this field reveals how plants carry messengers from their DNA to the nucleus (the brain of the cell) of animal cells (1, 2). These messengers derived only from natural food, have a direct, positive effect on genes responsible for our health and aging. It is also proof of the idea that we are what we eat and not only who our grandparents were.
While it is not an untruth to say our bodies regenerate every 7 – 15 years, it is not exactly that simple. Tissues that work the hardest replace itself every five days or so. These tissues include the epidermis of our skin and the lining of the GI tract. Some tissues, such as our bones, take much longer, and the enamel on our teeth never gets replaced. However, the replaced tissues will be healthier when we eat natural, non-GMO, non processed, non preserved foods. This way, we age better and stay healthier.
REFERENCES
1. T. P. Ong and M. M. Rogero, “Nutrigenomics: importance of nutrient-gene interaction for health promotion,” Journal of the ABESO, no. 40, 2009
2. Anoek Zomer et.al. Exosomes: Fit to deliver small RNA. Communicative & Integrative Biology 3(5):447-50 · September 2010
