Disease By Neglect

Is it time to change your thinking about health?

Before Christopher Columbus, western sailors refused to venture very far from shore because they believed that the earth was flat. Someplace out there, they would come to the edge of the world and then they could fall off into the great dark abyss. This belief explained why certain ships never returned when they ventured too far into the Atlantic Ocean. Later someone observed that when a ship sailed away from the harbour, the hull of the ship would disappear first, then the mast, and lastly, the flag at the top of the mast. That observation eventually led to the conclusion that the earth was round. Of course, the flat earth proponents ridiculed and persecuted those who opted for the earth being a sphere. Christopher Columbus proposed an expedition to India via the west, which was only feasible if the earth was truly round. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain took the risk that Columbus was correct and Spain reaped rich rewards with the discovery of what is now "The Americas". That Paridigm Shift from the 'flat earth' theory to the 'round earth' theory changed the way that Western European Nations explored and prospered. Those who made the change in their thinking first, prospered the most. Shifting paradigms paid off. Many of our current paradigms need challenging. For example, when it comes to understanding why people die, we believe sickness to be the normal cause of our death. This is a paradigm that dominates the thinking of our medical community. When we get sick, we go to the doctor and expect that they will do everything in their power to make the sickness go away. Surgery, drugs and marvelous interventions are the tools that keep the sickness at bay for another day, until the sickness no longer can be treated successfully. Our bodies succumb to the disease and we die. There is another paradigm that is gaining ground even though it still receives great derision from a majority of the medical establishment. The new medical paridigm is that you can prevent illness and die at a much older age from simply wearing out - true old age.

Scripture in fact supports this. To further support this idea is the fact that there are people living today who are over 100 years of age and who are healthy. When these older citizens are tested for glutathione, (the body's master antioxidant), their levels are high. When sick people are tested for glutathione levels, their levels are much lower. In the United States there are doctors called Anti-Aging Specialists whose practice revolves around the prevention of disease. The first thing that they do for their patients is to raise their glutathione levels. Until recently, that was difficult to do. Glutathione tablets do not raise glutathione. Even eating foods rich in glutathione does not increase glutathione levels. It is understood that a necessary precursor to raising your levels is cysteine, However, if you ingest cysteine tablets, the glutathione does not rise. Research has shown that the only way to raise your glutathione levels is to eat foods that are rich in cystine, a very special form of cysteine. Unfortunately most foods that contain cystine are no longer available. For example, we now pasteurize our milk and our cheese and we cook our eggs for obvious health reasons. As a result these foods no longer contain the once naturally occuring cystine. Cystine is very sensitive to heat. Fortunately, a cystine rich food is available. Immunotec Research, near Montreal, has researched and patented a very special food that is called HMS90 in Canada (Immunocal in the US) which raises glutathione levels. By keeping your glutathione at optimum levels it may be possible to prevent illness and add extra years to your lifespan. Current research is proving this. It may well be that a major reason why people get sick is the neglect of proper nutrition. As a result, we die from our own neglect. Imagine that: Disease by Neglect.   Reprinted by permission of The Family News. Vol. 3, #18,