Chronic Diseases and the "Hateful 8"

These 8 Chronic Diseases have completely taken over modern medicine:

  1. Type 2 Diabetes

  2. Hypertension

  3. Dyslipidemia

  4. Cardiovascular Disease

  5. Cancer

  6. Dementia

  7. Fatty Liver Disease

  8. Polycystic Ovarian Disease

These now account altogether for 75% of all healthcare costs.

None have a cure; none have a treatment.

But they all have a prevention.

The “Hateful 8” / Root Causes of Chronic Diseases:

  1. Glycation

  2. Oxidative Stress

  3. Mitochondrial Dysfunction

  4. Insulin Resistance

  5. Membrane Instability

  6. Inflammation

  7. Methylation

  8. Autophagy

These are all normal processes, but these are sped up or slowed down, depending on what we eat.

The more we speed these up with poor nutrition, then the faster we progress to developing Chronic Disease.

None of these have a cure or treatment.

We can prevent these, however.

Food, NOT Drugs, prevents these.

Protect the Liver, and Feed the Gut by keeping nutrition Low in Sugar, and High in Fiber.

If nutrition is the opposite of that by consuming too much sugar and ultraprocessed products, then the Liver starts to get sick, building too much Liver Fat.

Surpass these amounts of these 3 kinds of Body Fat and the Liver becomes sick:

Subcutaneous Fat - 10 Kilograms

Visceral Fat - 5-6 Pounds

Liver Fat - 0.5 Pounds

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