HEALTH FUNDAMENTALS
Biological Environment
According to the definition by the World Health Organization (WHO), life is a continuous rearrangement of amino acids in a living organism through water and amino acids.
The biological environment is the environment in which the cells of our organism live. Each type of living organism requires certain environmental conditions to live. Good bacteria (acidus, bifidus) also live in our organism. They play a significant role in digestion processes, especially in the synthesis of vitamin B, and are considered the largest organ of immunity. Pathogenic microorganisms, such as viruses, disease-causing bacteria, fungi, and parasites, prefer a different biological environment, which is more acidic. If the biological environment of a human changes in favor of pathogenic microflora, diseases inevitably begin.
Reducers
In nature, nothing is baked or boiled. Nature does not intend for food to be processed in this way. There are very few organisms in nature that can consume such food without harm. This includes a small group of bacteria, viruses, and fungi known as reducers. In nature, they are intended, for example, to decompose corpses after a forest fire.
Homeostasis
Homeostasis is the main condition for life and is the indicator of the autonomy and constancy of ongoing processes. It is also a necessary condition in the oxidation-reduction processes of life.
Bacteria
The oldest form of life on Earth is bacteria. They are mostly single-celled organisms that appeared about 3.5 billion years ago. They make up 90% of the living cells in the human body. Bacteria can influence our thoughts, cravings, mood, and cause stress. Each of us has our own individual strains of bacteria. There is even a practice of treating people with someone else's strains of bacteria.
The size of bacteria is 5 microns (1mm=1000 microns), but the reproduction rate, when in a favorable environment, can reach a million bacteria originating from one bacterium. This should be considered when getting infected. The human mouth primarily contains disease-causing bacteria. For instance, when kissing, people exchange several million bacteria, but the handles of shopping carts in supermarkets are the places where they are most abundant, and they have a great variety. It is also very important to observe hygiene when interacting with animals.
Bacteria tend to break down a product, feed on it, and proliferate in it, forming colonies. They decompose complex organic substances, such as polysaccharides, fiber, and proteins through hydrolysis, thereby obtaining energy. For bacteria, carbon, which is the main chemical element consumed by bacteria, is part of all amino acids that make up the human body. When bacteria decompose nitrogenous compounds, a smell always appears. From feet, mouth, armpits, sweat, sputum, pus - all this indicates that bacteria have settled there and are active. Therefore, it is pointless to fight unpleasant smells, for example, with deodorants or breath fresheners; the fight should be against bacteria.
There is a notion to consider bacteria as agents causing diseases. Yes, there are such pathogenic bacterial species. They cause infectious diseases, but there are not many of them – about a hundred. The majority of them help us process food, synthesize nutrients not obtained from food, help get rid of other harmful microbes and toxins. The full diversity of microbes accumulates in the body during the first five years of life. To properly form the microflora and thus ensure the immune system functions well, it is very important for a child to avoid using antibiotics as much as possible.
The most dangerous bacteria for humans are considered to be: Anthrax (Anthrax), Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli), Clostridium, Acinetobacter baumannii (Acinetobacter), syphilis caused by Treponema pallidum (Treponema pallidum), Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, tuberculosis, botulinum bacillus (Clostridium botulinum), Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi), and cholera (Vibrio cholerae).
About Cell Life
The human body is made up of approximately 75 – 100 trillion (10^14) living cells. The mechanisms of life are not triggered by genes but by the cell's awareness of the environment. Environmental signals activate processes in the cytoplasm, which can change gene expressions and thus control the cell's fate, affecting cell movement, controlling their survival, or even deciding their death. Environmental signals select, modify, and regulate gene activity. Genes are the physical memory of the organism's learned experiences, which are autonomously transformed in response to environmental changes over time. Our lives, like individual cells, are determined not by genes, but by the reaction to environmental signals that stimulate life. Environmental information is entered into the cell's 'computer' through membrane receptors, which act as the cell's 'keyboard'. Receptors activate membrane effector proteins, which act as the cell's 'central processing unit'. Cells form tissues, tissues form organs, organs form 12 organ systems, which make up a person. Cells are similar to us, humans. They eat, work hard, and excrete waste, cells communicate with each other to ensure their tasks are fulfilled. A cell, like us, can have constipation, digestive disorders (if we consume few 'living' products), cells can be hungry (if we consume food that contains only calories) and thirsty (if we do not drink water). It is to be believed that every cell in the body is alive and even more, cells possess intelligence (for example, a sperm cell, once in a woman's body, immediately begins to fulfill its entrusted duty). Each of our cells is like a miniature factory that produces signal molecules, enzymes, and new cells. Each of our healthy cells can divide 30 times, but then, to prevent genetic deviation, a cell destruction mechanism is activated. This process is called apoptosis. The more calories we get from food, the more often cells divide.
A blood cell lives for 3 months, a heart cell for 2 years, a liver cell for 4 years, etc. Every day, 100 million cells die and just as many are formed anew. Therefore, it can be said, healthy is not the one who does not get sick, but the one who knows how to maintain health.
What do cells need?
Minerals.
Minerals are the only thing that neither the organism itself nor the symbiotic microflora can synthesize. They must be obtained with food. Unfortunately, in the soil used in conventional agriculture, the amount of minerals catastrophically decreases several times every 10 years. Just like water, minerals are the most important thing needed by the organism, because without them, it is impossible to rearrange amino acids in the necessary order. It is important that minerals are of organic origin, as inorganic ones are poorly assimilated and accumulate in the body. In nature, organic minerals that the human body can assimilate are found in the form of amino acid chelates. Only plants can synthesize them.
Amino acids.
They are the building material for all living beings: humans, animals, and plants. Humans receive proteins from plant and animal sources. During digestion, proteins are broken down into amino acids, and with the help of minerals, they are rearranged into human proteins; otherwise, we would look like those we eat. There are 28 amino acids, the same for both plants and animals. If even one is missing, the synthesis of complete protein becomes problematic.
Depending on the definition of what an amino acid is, the number 28 can be less. In some sources, it is 26 or 20.
Vitamins.
Activate the mineral exchange process in amino acids, provide energy to minerals for the rearrangement of amino acids. Only natural vitamins are assimilated. Synthetic ones very poorly.
Enzymes.
Enzymes or enzymes act as catalysts for chemical reactions – directors. They break down proteins into amino acids, thus participating in food digestion. Life energy from food can only be obtained with the presence of enzymes. The organism needs plant kingdom enzymes, not those bought in pharmacies, produced by the pancreas. Such preparations inhibit the natural synthesis of enzymes in the human body.
Essential and polyunsaturated fatty acids.
All fatty acids have an even number of carbon atoms. Unsaturated fatty acids differ from saturated ones in that these carbon atoms in unsaturated fatty acids are connected by one bond, but in saturated ones by two bonds. Fatty acids form the basis of cell membranes, ensuring the necessary permeability. Without a healthy membrane, cells lose the ability to retain water, amino acids, and other nourishing substances. The ability to transmit genetic information is lost. Moreover, essential fatty acids are very important for the functioning of the nervous system and the brain.
Energy.
All energy arises from the interaction of hydrogen and oxygen. Carbohydrates and fats are the main sources of energy, but if necessary, it can also be obtained from amino acids in the so-called gluconeogenesis process. One day of fasting occurs at the expense of glycogen (the form of glucose reserve storage). The cells of the heart, brain, and liver can receive energy directly from glucose. Other body cells (mainly muscles and adipose tissue) need an intermediary, insulin (a pancreatic hormone), which, so to speak, acts as a transporter. Insulin activates the expression of the GLUT4 glucose channel in the cell membrane, this channel then transports glucose, that is, introduces it into the cell.
Fats are the form of long-term energy storage. If a person has not eaten for more than one day, the body, to ensure energy, begins to use reserve fats, and the person feels normal up to 10 days. If the body is not polluted and there are enough enzymes, fats dissolve completely. If it is different, while the body switches to qualitative fat cleavage, on the second day of fasting, an acidic environment forms in the body, because when fats are cleaved, their metabolism forms ketone acids, for example, acetone. Weakness, headaches, etc., set in.
The body adapts to your daily routine, eating habits, and produces just as much insulin as needed. If we consume products containing sugar substitutes or, for example, marmalade (cannot be split because there are no such enzymes), taste buds signal that something sweet has been received, but we actually do not receive energy. There is a lack of energy and the body again sends a signal that something sweet would be desirable. You can eat and eat. As a result, depletion of strength and pollution of the body with harmful substances (for example, methanol), which arise as a result of the breakdown of sugar substitutes. It is different with honey. Energy and the necessary enzymes are indeed there. Therefore, you will not eat too much honey. Sweets can be replaced with fats (vegetable oils, butter).
All this together, and of course, water is needed by the body's cells every day. It is a unified chain. Enzymes activate vitamins, which with the help of minerals participate in the chemical reactions of amino acid rearrangement. The exchange of minerals in the amino acid matrix causes changes in the amino acid molecules themselves. If there are no enzymes, vitamins and minerals practically become ineffective. All nutrients must be received with food products. The diet should consist of at least 50% thermally unprocessed ('living') products. When consuming food with preservatives, flavor enhancers, flavoring agents, etc., the vitamins and enzymes already in the body are destroyed.
What fats do cell membranes need?
Regardless of the specificity of the functions performed, cell membranes are essentially organized according to one principle. Since human cell membranes have a liquid crystal structure, characterized by perfect order, fluidity, and lability or functional mobility in shaping. It is important that the microviscosity created by cholesterol is suitable for the saturation of membrane lipids, as lipids provide membrane mobility. These properties largely depend on cholesterol. If there is little cholesterol, the membranes will be more fluid, but if there is a lot, they will be more viscous and harder. Therefore, the condition of the liver and cholesterol metabolism in the body, which plays a primary role in the functioning of all organs and systems, is very important. Cholesterol metabolism regulation occurs in the hepatobiliary system, in the liver part, so the condition of the gallbladder, bile ducts, and liver is very important.
The membrane structure includes phospholipids, glycolipids (carbohydrate compounds with fats), and glycoproteins, which are complex carbohydrates in combination with proteins. This system is very mobile, for example, a phospholipid molecule in the membrane structure performs about a million movements in one second - this is a normal and necessary process for the functioning of ion channels, through which the necessary nutrients are absorbed and unnecessary waste products are excreted. If disturbances appear in this process, which occur if the chemical processes in the cell no longer proceed normally, this is the beginning of diseases. Therefore, to keep cell membranes in good condition, it is necessary to consume both plant and animal fats in the diet. If a person's diet is predominantly animal fats, blood vessels become more fragile, on the other hand, if they are only plant fats, cell membrane fluidity increases and the functioning of ion channels is disturbed.
Oxidation-Reduction Potential ORP
As a rule, a healthy child is born with a neutral biological environment. In the child's body, there are many negatively charged hydrogen ions (H-), which neutralize harmful radicals and promote normal biological reaction processes. With the first drops of mother's milk, the child receives the mother's immunity experience, antibodies, and good bacteria, which, entering the child's body, strengthen its immune system.
What then changes our biological environment? Firstly, a diet unsuitable for humans as a species, polluted environment, and stress. The body's internal environment pH becomes more acidic and such an environment becomes more favorable for pathogenic microflora. Secondly, many harmful radicals are formed in the body, their formation is facilitated by solar radiation (UVS), physical exertion, smoking (including passive), stress, chemical substances in food and water, antibiotics, food products containing hydrolyzed fats, and polluted air. Every day our cells withstand billions of free radical attacks. Free radicals are unstable molecules that lack one or more electrons. Moving through the body, they try to recover the missing electrons, damaging cell membranes. The biological environment is characterized by three main parameters: acid-alkaline balance, oxidation-reduction potential ORP, and the specific electrical conductivity of the organism. ORP characterizes the number of electrons that can be donated for the neutralization of free radicals. When there are enough free electrons (H-) in the blood, all biological reactions proceed at an optimal level. Conversely, if there are too few free electrons in the blood, the course of biochemical reactions is hampered or even becomes impossible. This causes cell damage. The average ORP in the human body is from minus -100 to minus -200mV (microvolts), within limits. ORP in the cell is from minus -100 to minus -150 mV, but in the intercellular fluid minus -80 mV. In the blood, it is -10 to -50mV, in saliva -50 to +50mV. In nature, water's ORP ranges from minus -400 to +700 mV. For tap water, this number is usually from +220 to +380mV, for distilled water +300 to +450mV, for juice in tetra packs +300mV, while for example, for freshly squeezed orange juice, it is +50mV and lower, but for fresh carrot juice - 75mV. To equalize this difference, the cell membrane's electrical energy is spent, which is actually the energy of food substance transformation in biochemical chains. Therefore, it is very important to use negatively charged water, so this difference is as small as possible and the body does not have to expend extra energy.
Bioflavonoids and Polyprenols
Plants in their natural environment are exposed to various factors, including temperature fluctuations, ionizing and ultraviolet radiation, microorganisms (such as fungi and micromycetes), and oxidative stress. As a result, plants have developed a type of immune system—various complexes of flavonoids that function as antioxidant systems. Scientists estimate that the number of these flavonoids approaches ten thousand. They are classified into different groups, such as anthocyanidins, flavones, and catechins.
Bioflavonoids (vitamin P) are natural phenolic compounds with capillary-strengthening properties. They inhibit the oxidation of ascorbic acid and the peroxidation of lipids.
Polyprenols, found in plants, are converted into dolichols upon reaching the liver and participate in the dolichol phosphate cycle. In the human body, they perform the following functions: cell regeneration, energy exchange, protection, metabolic regulation, cell division and the formation of new cells, as well as participation in glycoprotein synthesis and acting as antioxidants.
In nature, the record holder for the highest content of bioflavonoids and polyprenols is coniferous tree needles.
Photosynthesis
It is a unique natural process that occurs only in plants. No animal can accumulate solar energy, only plants can do this by fixing energy in macroergic bonds. The energy-rich chlorophyll bonds later transfer to macroergic bonds in carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, which can be stored in fruits, grains, nuts, root vegetables, becoming a source of biological energy for the life processes of animals and also humans.
In contrast, from thermally processed denatured animal-derived products, we receive heat calories, which are counted by dietitians. Since a human is not a heat machine but a complex biological system, heat energy has to be converted into biological energy, or 'revived' in our tissues, spending our enzymes and biological energy. As a result, a deficit of biological energy is formed. Consequences – premature aging and diseases.
Since humans do not have the physiological ability for complete fermentative cleavage of denatured animal-derived proteins, fermentation occurs in the gastrointestinal tract with the resulting consequences.
Solar energy and thermally unprocessed products
All edible parts of plants contain solar energy in the form of carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, starch, etc.). In all fresh thermally unprocessed fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, solar energy is converted into macroergic ATP compounds, and then into chemical bonds of nutrients, thus becoming available to our body and is fully assimilable, because it is in an undegraded form. In fresh products, the unspoiled structure of biological molecules contains the maximum amount of energy resources, as well as the maximum amount of micro and macro elements in ion form, not in the form of salts, which are formed by boiling and baking products, that is, by thermally processing them above +650C. In thermally unprocessed products, the ionized state of microelements and other components – fatty acids, organic acids, carbohydrates, amino acids is a great advantage, because they directly integrate into our tissues and cells without the intensified action of our enzymatic systems, resulting in fewer enzymes being needed. This is because lysosomes in cells have lysing or cleaving enzymes - plant tissue proteases. A few drops of pancreatic or gastric juice are enough to start an avalanche-like self-digestion process (autolysis). The energy saved in enzymatic processes is redirected to the body's recovery, that is, to the degradation of inferior tissues and the renewal of organs.
Nothing is superfluous in nature
Exactly, because problems start when humans declare something as unnecessary and start to destroy it, reducing biological diversity. There are no weeds in nature. Dandelions get water from the earth up to 3m deep, but corn extracts minerals from the earth from the same depth. Old oaks send their roots down to 60m deep underground and also extract minerals, which are later used by other plants.
In mountains, where there are no trees, nature has foreseen another mechanism for enriching the soil with minerals. Mountain rocks disintegrate both in the form of dust and with water from the rocks, all possible minerals come out. This forms mountain valleys with very fertile soil.
Just 150 years ago, the amount of oxygen in the air was 26%, now it's only 21%, in cities, this number is even lower. Tropical forests and deciduous forests are neutral – they produce as much oxygen as they consume. Coniferous forests provide oxygen. Cutting down trees near rivers changes the groundwater level, etc. Any interference in nature inevitably causes further chain reactions.
In long-standing deciduous forests, very complex symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi form mycorrhiza, that is, when fungal hyphae take over plant roots.
The plant root system together with fungal mycelium forms a complex symbiotic union. Plants give fungi proteins, nitrogen, sugar, but fungi synthesize natural antibiotics, polysaccharides, and fungal phytoncides, which protect plants from lower fungi effects, such as mold and yeast. The number of lower fungi species in nature is measurable around 500. Nature has developed a mechanism where higher fungi can suppress lower ones, such as yeast, mold, powdery mildew, rust fungi, etc. Many of these substances have been discovered and their chemical formulas are known, but when synthetically synthesized, these same substances turn out to be ineffective, similar to synthetic vitamins.
Pharmacy-bought medicinal plants are most often cultivated, that is, grown as agricultural crops and harvested with combines. The medicinal value of such plants will be significantly lower because they have not grown in complex symbiotic connections that exist between trees, plant root systems, and fungal mycelium. Thanks to these connections, unique nourishing elements, medicinal phytoncides, and other active components are formed. All these multifaceted connections cannot be replicated by humans in their backyard garden, let alone in laboratories, not to mention conventional agricultural fields. Only untouched nature can do this.
If the soil is alive, not depleted and 'killed' with pesticides, and there is a symbiosis between plants and soil microflora, i.e., synergy, then in such soil, vitamin B12 is synthesized by bacteria. Plants will also have this vitamin. Many substances in medicinal plants can only be formed in symbiosis with other plants and fungi. For example, carrot juice typically has an ORP of -50 to -80 mV, but carrots grown in mineral-rich soil can reach minus -400 mV.
Lectins
Nature has created plant defense mechanisms so they are not eaten by animals. All plants contain lectins in greater or lesser amounts. They are most abundant in legumes including peanuts, which are actually legumes, not nuts. Grains and nightshade family plants also have a lot of them.
Lectins are proteins that are poorly assimilated in animal organisms because enzymes can hardly process them. In the human body, their effect can be very diverse. They damage the epithelial lining of the intestinal villi, making the intestinal walls more permeable (leaky gut syndrome). Entering the bloodstream, they can damage erythrocytes, causing anemia, but entering the joints, they promote inflammatory processes, which is a very current problem today. Lectins spreading throughout the body can affect the brain, nerve cells, heart, thyroid, or promote autoimmune processes, as their cells are often similar to human cells. Lectins can also cause celiac disease, fibromyalgia, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease.
Since lectins are water-soluble, they can be dissolved and poured out with water through soaking. Therefore, to avoid the undesirable effects of lectins, legumes - beans, soy, peas (except for green ones) should preferably be soaked in advance, best the day before, as our ancestors did. Nuts and grains should also be soaked in advance. Buckwheat does not need to be soaked. Therefore, to improve the value and safety of the dough being prepared, it should be made the day before.
Lectins are also in nightshade family plants, for example, in tomato skins and seeds. Each plant has different lectins. The negative effect of lectins is weakened by the thermal processing, soaking, and fermentation of the product. For example, to completely avoid their negative impact on tomatoes, one can peel off the skin and separate the seeds, as 95% of lectins are concentrated in the skin and seeds. In small doses, lectins also have medicinal properties, for example, in treating colorectal cancer.
Nitric oxide and nitrates
Nitric oxide (NO) operates throughout the body. It is necessary for all cells, organs, and systems because it inhibits (prevents) platelet aggregation and thrombus formation, regulates skeletal muscle contraction, promotes oxygen transport with erythrocytes, affects erythrocyte osmotic resistance, participates in information exchange between neurons (neurotransmitter function), and is an endogenous vasodilator (expands or dilates smooth muscles of blood vessels).
The body synthesizes nitric oxide from the amino acid L-arginine with the enzyme NO synthase (NOS). However, there is another way to obtain it - it can also be obtained through utilization and recycling. The produced nitric oxide oxidizes and turns into nitrates (NO3). Part of it is excreted with urine, but another part with blood reaches the salivary glands, where its concentration is dozens of times higher than in the blood. These nitrates, reaching the oral cavity, interact with the bacteria living there and turn into nitrites (NO2). With saliva, nitrites reach the stomach, in the stomach walls, they are processed into nitric oxide (NO) and further reach the small intestine, from where nitric oxide enters the bloodstream, and further into all tissues.
This mechanism also applies to vegetables and greens, which contain a lot of nitrates, so there is no need to fear nitrates, only they need to be chewed as long as possible to better mix with saliva, because in it there is not only the enzyme ptyalin, which begins to break down carbohydrates in the oral cavity, but there also work about 500 – 700 species of various bacteria and, to not disrupt the bacterial balance, it is important not only to use adequate nutrition but, for example, not to use toothpaste containing triclosan and laurel sulfate.
There is a myth in society that greens and vegetables with a high amount of nitrates are dangerous. However, they are only dangerous if used in conjunction with large molecular amino acid compounds (meat, cottage cheese, cheese, etc.), because it complicates the assimilation of oxygen from the air, may cause nausea and diarrhea. Otherwise, they are valuable and necessary. With naturally grown vegetables and greens, it is impossible to overdose on nitrates.
In youth, as long as the amino acid arginine and NO synthase enzyme are produced in sufficient amounts, there are no problems with nitric oxide, but over the years, this problem becomes relevant, so all possible ways of obtaining it in the body should be promoted. Daily physical activities are very important. It is necessary to use products containing nitrates (vegetables, greens). The champion in the amount of nitrates is beet juice. Only it must be freshly squeezed, because thermal processing causes nitrates to decompose. The juice should be drunk very slowly, maximally mixing it with saliva. On average, with 100ml of juice, an adult can provide the necessary daily amount (6.2mg of nitrates per 1kg of weight).
If there is a nitrate deficiency, physical endurance, work capacity decrease, blood pressure increases, but it should be taken into account that, if there is not enough nitric oxide, hypotensive preparations do not work, that is, blood pressure-lowering medications work worse.
If you still have concerns about any product that may contain excessively high amounts of nitrates, their possible negative impact can be well neutralized by products containing a lot of vitamin C, as well as vegetable oils, which contain a lot of unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids.
What is necessary to maintain health?
1.For a person following a traditional diet, approximately 30 ml of pure water per 1 kg of weight is needed daily - structured, weakly alkaline, enriched with free hydrogen molecules, non-carbonated, soft water. Of course, if a person consumes an adequate diet, as intended by nature, this number can be smaller.
Except for gastric juice, tears, sweat, and urine, all fluids in the body are alkaline. Unfortunately, nowadays 95% of drinks and 90% of foods are acid-forming. Starting with spermatozoa, all life processes need a slightly alkaline or alkaline environment, which is also necessary for about 3000 enzymes involved in all metabolic processes occurring in the human body. The body tries to maintain such an environment by using all possible mineral reserves. When they are lacking, diseases begin, or a warning that it cannot continue this way. If that does not help, the natural selection mechanism is triggered.
2.The human body needs about 65 minerals. It is practically impossible to fully describe what happens if one or several minerals are missing. These are long and very complex chain reactions. Here are some examples:
ℵ If there is a lack of silicon for tissue construction, it is replaced with calcium, which without silicon cannot stay long in the body, calcium disintegrates and is excreted through the kidneys, even if there is enough vitamin D3.
ℵ Zinc is needed for magnesium. A lack of zinc in the body blocks about 80 different processes. A lack of copper – oxidation-reduction reactions. A lack of chlorine completely disrupts food processing. A lack of iodine promotes about 40 different diseases. To absorb iodine, selenium is needed.
ℵ Selenium is part of very many enzymes and hormones, which means that the activity of the enzymatic and hormonal systems depends on the adequacy of selenium.
ℵ Lithium is needed for energy exchange. If there is no lithium, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) will not be synthesized.
ℵ If there is a lack of sulfur (in colloidal form), protein synthesis is disturbed.
ℵ Calcium is like glue that holds the body together and is the most difficult element to assimilate because enough magnesium is needed. Magnesium and calcium are all around us, under our feet in green plants. The biggest deficiency of calcium in people
is observed in March, but the least in August. Only in ion form can calcium enter the cell, carrying a number of nutrients, it participates in a huge number of reactions. By the way, kidney stones and gallstones consist of calcium taken from bones. To assimilate thermally processed products and obtain calcium, a lot of hydrochloric acid is needed in the stomach.
Many diseases are caused by a deficiency of trace elements, for example, a lack of chromium and vanadium can cause diabetes, a lack of iodine – thyroid diseases, potassium is necessary for normal heart function, a lack of copper promotes early graying of hair and the appearance of wrinkles, a lack of calcium can cause diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, hypertension, caries, etc. Selenium deficiency causes oncological, cardiovascular, and endocrine diseases, which is a big problem worldwide. Our body is a self-renewing system, in which all cells are replaced within 7 years. Therefore, it is important to provide them with all necessary building materials, so that new cells are healthier than the previous ones.
Periodic cleansing from fungi, viruses, bacteria, parasites, and toxins is necessary (sweating in a sauna, antiparasitic agents, for example, ant tree, black walnut leaves, propolis in water, etc.).
Antioxidant protection from free radicals. Use as many fresh fruits, vegetables, and sprouted grains in your diet as possible. Drink negatively charged water.
Rest in nature. Recovery in the open air, especially near water bodies, occurs not only because there is cleaner air. Due to the surface tension coefficient between water and air, free electrons are released, which can pass through the human body. Erythrocytes feed on free electrons, that is, they receive part of the energy in the form of aeroions. When a person is in nature, for example, in a pine forest after rain or near waterfalls, he feels an influx of energy, whereas in cities, the opposite happens.
In the store, with your choice, you influence the surrounding environment
If we want to take care of our health, then not only will we carefully consider which doctor to visit and which not to visit, what medicines to buy or not to buy in the pharmacy, we should also much more carefully consider – from which farmer to buy products and from which not. By purchasing products grown in depleted soil by conventional agriculture, you are not only ruining your health but also with your wallet, promoting further degradation of this agricultural land, leaving an unpleasant legacy for future generations.
Glucose
The cell's electrical potential is approximately 40mV. If it drops, the cell loses its strength. An energetic person is one who has energy reserves. The cell receives energy in the form of glucose, which the body obtains mainly from fats and carbohydrates. Glucose is the main source of energy. It triggers the glycolysis process and the Krebs cycle, providing the body with energy. If fats and sugar are not received, then glucose can also be obtained from proteins by converting amino acids for a long time, but this is a very complex biochemical process. The presence of glucose is very important. For example, the brain cannot survive longer than a minute without glucose. Glucose deficiency is called hypoglycemia. If the sugar level drops below 5.5mmol/l, fatigue, headaches, nausea, lack of energy, apathy, and depression occur. Sugar in this situation will not save for a long time. After eating, for example, a teaspoon of sugar, sucrose will turn into glucose and quickly enter the blood, and the body will be forced to assimilate it. Therefore, to prevent fluctuations in blood sugar levels, it is better to consume so-called slow carbohydrates (cells enclosed in cellulose), for example, various muesli, oranges, sweet apples, various sweet fruits. This cellulose shell must first be broken down by the body, so glucose enters the blood gradually. Drinking freshly squeezed juice, a large amount of fructose enters the blood immediately. On the other hand, when eating dried fruits, this process is much more uniform.
Glucose is necessary for the body; however, when there is too much of it, a chemical process occurs—binding to proteins (the glycation process). This leads to the formation of pathological proteins, to which the immune system reacts, manifesting as systemic inflammation. This can present, for example, as atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis is not caused by excess cholesterol, as is sometimes believed. Instead, atherosclerosis is a chronic immune inflammation, while cholesterol is intended to compensate for this process. However, the opposite occurs.
Acid-Base Balance
All life processes occur in a water environment with a specific concentration of hydrogen atoms. Substances that release hydrogen atoms are called acids, while those that attract them are called bases. A certain acid and base ratio in any solution is referred to as acid-base balance. This is characterized by a special indicator, pH (power Hydrogen, meaning 'hydrogen power'), which indicates the number of hydrogen atoms in the given solution. The pH value depends on the ratio between positively charged ions (forming an acidic environment) and negatively charged ions (forming an alkaline environment). The human body autonomously strives to maintain a strictly defined pH level because disrupting the balance creates favorable conditions for many diseases.
Blood has a pH of 7.43, a constant magnitude. A shift in blood pH towards the acidic side promotes inflammatory processes, while a shift towards the alkaline side promotes faster healing and self-renewal processes. If pH decreases to 7.1, death occurs. On the pH scale from 1 to 7, the environment is acidic. 7 is neutral. From 7 to 14 – alkaline. Blood is alkaline, whereas lymph and interstitial fluid are acidic for the majority of modern humans. Disease thrives in acidity, but health in alkalinity. The vitality and health of a human lie in the alkalinity formed by minerals and trace elements. Saliva pH = 6.0 – 7.0 (which can be quickly and simply assessed by oneself with litmus paper, keeping it in the mouth for a few seconds in contact with saliva), the secretion of the small intestine pH = 7.7 – 8.0, gastric juice pH = 1.5 — 2.0, urine pH = 4.5 – 8.0, bile pH = 7.8 – 8.2.
pH Indicator
pH is an indicator of the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution, indicating how acidic or alkaline the environment is. The pH of the body is regulated by the kidneys and adrenal glands. If the blood pH is below 7.35, it is acidosis, but if it is above 7.45, it is alkalosis. The pH in the blood is 7.35-7.45. The body will always use all means to keep this key marker within these ranges, even if it means diverting the necessary minerals from bone tissue, even if it threatens the tissue with decay in the future, because it is a vital indicator. This way, the norm reaction ensures blood homeostasis, i.e., the constancy of the body's internal environment, as well as the pH homeostasis of other tissues. For example, the common bile flow enters the duodenum, bringing bile, pancreatic juices, and hormones. The indicator of this flow is pH 8.0-8.6. If it is lower, the acidity of the gastric juice will not be neutralized, and ulcers can form in the duodenum. In an acidic environment, enzymes cannot process carbohydrates. Modern humans no longer have as acidic an environment as it should be, but the less acidic the stomach environment, the worse proteins, especially those of animal origin, are processed.
In the mouth, where the processing of food begins, the enzyme ptialin needs a slightly alkaline environment. Teeth also need such an environment because an acidic environment damages them. However, the acidity of the stomach can be as low as pH 1.3, because in this way the incoming food is disinfected, unless a person eats proteins together with carbohydrates or too large a portion.
Proteins create an acidic environment. The pH of urine should be acidic, because excess proteins are also excreted with urine. If this is not the case, it means there are problems with the kidneys.
Oncological processes develop best in an acidic environment; cancer cells also create such an environment. Inflammations and edema also prefer an acidic environment.
It is not easy for a healthy person's body to acidify the internal environment because it is protected by a buffer system that compensates for deviations from the norm of reaction. Metabolic end products that affect pH are carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, and lactic acid, which must be expelled through the lungs and kidneys, thereby deacidifying the body. The kidneys produce bicarbonate HCO3, but the hydrogen ions, partially produced by the body, bind it and convert it into carbonic acid H2CO3, which decomposes into water and carbon dioxide, expelled through the lungs. This means that hydrogen ions, i.e., molecular hydrogen, play a significant role in endurance under physical loads and overall health potential. Unfortunately, with today's lifestyle, humans have a severe lack of hydrogen ions. However, devices are available that can produce water with molecular hydrogen, and such devices can be purchased.
Increased acidity in the body causes drowsiness, accelerated heartbeat, fatigue, arrhythmia, and weakness.
Excessively alkaline environment formation can theoretically be influenced by antibiotics and steroids, destroying the microflora that secretes acids. The fear hormone cortisol not only acidifies but also, by intensively excreting acids with urine, deacidifies the entire body. The formation of an excessively alkaline internal environment can also be influenced by consuming alkaline water in large quantities.
What happens when the body's biological environment's acid-base balance changes?
1. When our internal environment becomes acidic, it becomes friendly to pathogenic microflora. The situation is further exacerbated by the fact that pathogenic microflora release toxins, increasing the acidity of the biological environment, making their surroundings even more pleasant. In an acidic environment, many free radicals are formed, damaging cell membranes as well as DNA and RNA structures, causing mutations at the cellular level, threatening with cell reprogramming to those that only know how to eat and reproduce, i.e., cancer cells.
2. Aging processes accelerate, for example, for the skin, this is directly related to the harmful impact of free radicals, which arise from the sun, wind, polluted environment.
3. In an acidic environment, oxygen atoms are in a bound state. Therefore, our cells, just like fish out of water, have nothing to breathe. Breathing more often won't help much. Oxygen can only be released by alkaline microelements (calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium).
4. Heart attacks and strokes occur when there is an acidic internal environment in the body. In acidic blood, erythrocytes – red blood cells become stiff, stick together, cannot change their shape, get stuck in small capillaries, and block them. Cells die without oxygen (erythrocytes are oxygen carriers).
5. It was proven in the 1930s that the cancer formation process is anaerobic (without oxygen).
6. In an acidic environment, most enzymes rapidly lose activity. As a result, intercellular interaction is disrupted. The metabolic process is hampered.
7. Until acids are neutralized, they damage blood vessels, for example, lactic acid can cause damage in arteries, and the body ‘’patches’’ with low-density lipoproteins (‘’bad cholesterol’’) to prevent bleeding. So, the real culprit is acid. And the reason for its appearance – mineral deficiency. Remember how muscles ache after heavy physical work or sports activities. In this case, lactic acid is to blame.
8. The kidneys also suffer. It has been proven that stones in the kidneys and gallbladder most likely consist of calcium taken from your bones, not from calcium that entered the body with food.
How to test pH level at home?
The pH level in saliva can be tested with a pH level indicator - a special litmus paper – by keeping it on the tongue for a few seconds. Depending on the color using a scale, one can determine the pH level in the body.
ꙮ Lactic acid – from physical exertion.
ꙮ Hydrochloric acid – from stress, fear, anger.
ꙮ Nitric acid – from salted meat, especially with the addition of potassium nitrate (colorant).
ꙮ Acetic acid – from sweets and fats.
ꙮ Formic acid – from black tea and coffee.
ꙮ Uric acid – from meat products.
ꙮ Nicotinic acid – from smoking.
ꙮ Oxalic acid – from cocoa and rhubarb (its amount increases in rhubarb in the second half of the summer).
ꙮ Painkillers also create acids.
To avoid chemical burns, the body neutralizes these acids with the help of minerals. As a result, salts or alkalis are formed. The body can take minerals from bones, nails (start to break), blood vessels, cartilage, joints (start to hurt), hair, blood, and skin.
The body excretes acids through sweat, urine, and exhaling through the lungs in the form of CO₂.
What ailments threaten when we are acidic (acidosis)?
Oxygen is retained by the four main minerals: calcium, potassium, sodium, and magnesium. There are also iron and molybdenum. If these minerals are lacking for acid neutralization, calcium is taken from bones, nails, connective tissues, and muscles (for example, osteoporosis and osteochondrosis are typical calcium deficiency diseases, because calcium is spent on neutralizing acids). Potassium – from the heart, brain, liver, and kidneys, magnesium - from blood vessels, etc.
Here are some typical problems.
֍ Musculoskeletal system: periodontitis, osteoporosis, dental caries, bone fractures, intervertebral disk damage, night cramps in legs, joint pain, brittle nails, etc.
֍ Urinary system: urethritis, cystitis, kidney stones, etc.
֍ Digestive system: dysbiosis, enteritis, colitis, etc. Fatigue after an acid-forming meal, mainly consisting of meat, fats, fish. Sweet food further increases blood acidity.
֍ Respiratory system: frequent colds, laryngitis, etc.
֍ Central nervous system: depression, increased irritability, headaches, etc.
֍ Reproductive system: itching in the genitals, vulvitis, infertility (very acidic vaginal pH and sperm die), etc.
֍ Circulatory system: stabbing and pressing in the heart area (angina pectoris). Heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias). Unpleasant sensations in the heart area, lying on the left side. The consequences of acidification of the body are also high blood pressure, because the body simply has no other way but to raise blood pressure to push the thickened blood through the small capillaries.
What products create an alkaline and which create an acidic environment in the body?
Creating such a strict grouping is not so simple, because it turns out the same products can be both alkaline and acidic. For example, dairy products, while fresh, create an alkaline environment, but with a bit longer storage – acidic. Grains and products made from them create an acidic environment, but sprouted grains create a very alkaline environment. Freshly squeezed lemon juice – alkaline, but as soon as sugar is added, the opposite process occurs. Egg yolk (uncooked) – is alkaline, but the white is acidic. Fruits and vegetables, when thermally processed, become acidic environment-forming products. It is important to remember that all products heated above +65°C always create an acidic environment, because minerals that provide alkalinity (sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, etc.) transition to an inorganic form. Minerals must be in the organic, that is, water-soluble, ionic or colloidal form. Only in this form can both humans and all animals assimilate them.
How does baking soda work when it enters the human body?
In the stomach, baking soda reacts with hydrochloric acid to produce common salt, water, and carbon dioxide.
NaHCO3 + HCL → NaCL + H2O + CO2 (baking soda + hydrochloric acid → salt + water + carbon dioxide)
When baking soda enters the stomach and reacts with hydrochloric acid, it binds hydrogen ions, which have a positive charge. Neutralizing the charge produces water, but the stomach cells that produce hydrochloric acid polarize, as they give away the positive charge in the form of a proton (H+) and create a negatively charged stomach wall, in which the inner surface's mesothelial cells acquire a negative charge and further transmit it to other organs, including the spleen. The charge is also transferred to immune cells, including the large immune cells macrophages and regulatory T-cells, which are found in large quantities in the spleen and also synthesized there. Macrophages polarize and, by acquiring a negative charge, change their properties – from promoting inflammation to reducing it, while T regulatory cells are activated and suppress overly active immune cells and prevent the development of autoimmune diseases.
Drink slowly, so that carbon dioxide does not release rapidly, and no later than 20 minutes before eating, to maintain stomach pH, which is necessary for normal digestion. The water temperature should not exceed +60°C, so that the soda does not turn into calcined soda, which is used in industry and household as a cleaning agent.
Negative charged water works on a similar principle, thereby promoting the reduction of inflammation processes.
Resistant Starches
Resistant starches, or complex carbohydrates, compared to regular or fast carbohydrates, pass through the small intestine untouched because they resist the action of enzymes like amylase that break down complex starches. This means that a large amount of sugar does not enter the bloodstream, nor does the level of sugar and insulin in the blood increase.
With resistant starches, which are found in large quantities in greens, vegetables, legumes, as well as millet, basmati rice, the wheat variety "Spelt", our intestinal tract feeds the intestinal microflora or probiotics. As a result of metabolism, such short-chain fatty acids as butyrate are formed, which is a very good food source for brain neurons.
Fiber - The Basis of Good Health
Fiber is divided into soluble (e.g., fruits) and insoluble (e.g., bran), fermentable (e.g., mushrooms) and non-fermentable (e.g., psyllium).
Here are some valuable properties of fiber or roughage:
☘️ promotes a feeling of fullness,
☘️ normalizes the intestinal microflora,
☘️ stimulates intestinal peristalsis,
☘️ absorbs toxins and helps to remove them from the body,
☘️ facilitates the synthesis of vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids,
☘️ normalizes bile excretion and delays the formation of gallstones,
☘️ balances insulin and glucose levels in the blood
☘️ promotes the excretion of ‘’bad’’ cholesterol.
Fiber is found in vegetables, apples, sprouted grains, properly prepared grain porridges, etc. It has been scientifically proven that fibers reduce the risk of cardiovascular and oncological diseases.
How Do We Differ from Each Other?
Looking at it primitively, everything is quite simple. Animals mainly consist of proteins, which are made up of amino acids, while plants consist of carbohydrates. Fats are long carbohydrate chains, but proteins - they are amino acids, which differ from carbohydrates in that they have nitrogen added to them. All amino acids are made up of four elements – hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and only two amino acids contain sulfur (cysteine and methionine). To put them together with the help of vitamins and enzymes, about 65 macro and microelements are involved, but for them to be in the diet, it is necessary that the soil from which the food is obtained contains almost all elements of the Mendeleev’s table.
We differ from each other only in mineral and energy reserves, as well as in body pollution. This determines why one person gets sick and another does not. There is no other reason. I suppose someone might object to such a statement – but what about parasites, viruses, infections, etc. They act as additional factors that take minerals and energy but produce toxins.
Viruses
It is estimated that there are about 2 million different viruses in the world, but only 4 thousand have been studied so far. Viruses are one of nature's tools or mechanisms to perform natural selection and prevent the excessive proliferation of certain species to maintain biological diversity. In the animal world, this function is also performed by predators, such as wolves, lynxes, eagles, pikes, etc. However, if humans exterminate predators, attempting to protect herbivores, it leads to rapid proliferation of these animals, decreasing food resources, and viruses and bacteria begin to perform their function to stabilize these animal populations and maintain balance between plants and animals.
Similar mechanisms operate in the plant world. Through viruses, fungi, bacteria, pests (insects), nature tries to maintain biological diversity. A good example of the actions of viruses, bacteria, and fungi is monocultures. With these organisms, nature tries to prevent the expansion of one species and maintain species biological diversity. It is a very complex mechanism involving thousands of organisms, each performing its assigned natural function, including viruses, although they are non-living, as they do not reproduce, do not store energy reserves, and do not eat. Viruses reprogram the cell to produce copies of the virus.
In contrast, humans, in their selfish interests, unwilling to understand these natural mechanisms, interfere in this complex mechanism with pesticides, antibiotics, or vaccines, metaphorically speaking, 'shooting sparrows with a cannon'.
Barefoot on the Ground
In the modern age of technology, people often live in high-rise buildings and are isolated from the Earth's electromagnetic field. In the past, people wore shoes made of natural materials that did not insulate them from the Earth's electromagnetic field. Many people are unaware of their bioelectrical nature.
Physics, biology, and chemistry are closely interconnected. Every movement and action of a human being is powered by electrical energy. The movement of water and nutrients in cells, ATP synthesis in mitochondria—everything is regulated by electrical fields, and each cell type has its own frequency range. These are microscopic electronic mechanisms.
Even if a person follows an adequate diet and undergoes detoxification programs, weakness and depression may persist if there is no direct contact with the ground. This is because a positively charged electrical charge accumulates, disrupting the energy exchange between cells and within the body as a whole. For this reason, some people avoid wearing synthetic clothing, walk barefoot, engage in gardening, and also ground their bed mattresses and objects with which they have prolonged contact.
Did you know?
✦ When planting monocultures (one type of plants), bacteria and especially fungi quickly adapt because there is nothing else. If soil microflora is disrupted by pesticides, pathogenic microflora predominates. Plants can only obtain vitamin B12 (cobalamin) from soil if its natural symbiotic microflora has not been destroyed with fungicides and mineral fertilizers, but this has long been done in conventional agriculture fields. This is where the B12 vitamin deficiency begins.
✦ The heavy metal mercury and zinc are in the same vertical row in the Mendeleev's periodic table. They have similar biochemical functions and properties, so often zinc is replaced by mercury. In the body, zinc is involved in about 80 biochemical reactions, including the formation of immunity.
✦ The intestines are home to about 100 different symbiotic bacteria, 60 types of E. coli, for example, nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in the folds of the colon, found in nature on some plants like alfalfa, nettle, and legumes. They can bind nitrogen from the atmosphere.
✦ Dietary fiber contains neither fats, proteins, nor carbohydrates. The human body lacks enzymes to break down dietary fibers, that is, tobreak down the polysaccharide cellulose. Herbivorous animals have such enzymes.
✦ The so-called good bacteria that live in the intestines and feed on dietary fibers eventually die, and as a result, all amino acids appear, including those called essential, and they are more readily usable than those in fruits.
✦ Bacteria live in both acidic and alkaline environments, but leukocytes only in an alkaline environment.
✦ Compared to predators, the human stomach has a mildly acidic environment.
✦ A frog in the stomach acid of a predatory animal dissolves within 1 hour, but a cooked frog does not dissolve for 24 hours because after thermal processing, it no longer contains its enzymes, and autolysis does not occur.
✦ Symmetric division type stem cells and cancer cells can divide indefinitely, are autonomous and independent from neighboring cells, as long as there is something to feed on. Other cells have a limited division potential, determined by specialized nucleoprotein complexes telomeres, located at the ends of chromosomes and acting as protective caps. They indirectly indicate the number of cell divisions because each time a cell divides, telomeres shorten until the cells can no longer divide. This limits the number of cell divisions.
✦ Minerals that have turned into carbonates and sulfates at temperatures above +65°C can only be assimilated by plants along with symbiotic microflora.
✦ If naturally occurring water is warmer than +100°C, there is a high likelihood of being infected with viruses and bacteria, hence the need for special filters.
✦ Natural fermentation can only occur if the liquid contains less than 11% alcohol. Alcohol is the feces of yeast fungi. At concentrations above 11%, the fungi die. In biology, this is called the norm of reaction.
✦ Fats oxidize nearly 10 times faster in direct contact with air than when they are in water.
✦ In small children, before the mechanism for glycogen synthesis has developed in the liver, galactose serves the function of glycogen.







