All treatment based on pharmaceutical products proceeds from the study and treatment of symptoms, categorised pretty much in isolation as evidence of separate "diseases". Western medicine has built a vast repertory of observed symptoms, and a vast array of unnatural products tailored by chemical companies to prevent these symptoms from manifesting. We even have comparatively simple conditions, like heartburn, being labelled as "diseases" to bring them within the scope of the prescription drugs industry.

Drugs suppress symptoms, which are the body's way of ridding itself of underlying illness. This drives the problem deeper into the tissues for the body to cope with in some other way, which leads to big trouble at a later date. Drugs may offer a "quick fix", but the price paid in side-effects and long-term illness is enormous, affecting both quality and length of life.

Click HERE for a list of the 20 top causes of death in the USA today. Cancer has now overtaken Cardiovascular Disease as the top killer. Note that Properly Prescribed and Used Drugs and Preventable Medical Misadventure both outrank all other causes of death (except Alcohol in the case of Medical Misadventure). These figures, of course, take no account of the thousands of people whose lifespan and quality of life are slowly destroyed by pharmaceutical drugs.

While modern western medicine excells at treating emergencies and injury, it has lost the plot completely when it comes to treating illness and disease. ALL disease manifestations are the result of the same basic "dis-ease" condition of the body. In reality, before the rise of pharmaceuticals, many natural treatments were used successfully for centuries to set the body's chemistry to rights.

Like the alternative and holistic remedies on this site, they were intended to supply the nutrients required to correct the underlying imbalance in the body tissues, restore the body to proper health, and so enable it to deal with whatever symptoms of disease were present.

The "diseases" mindset obscures the fact that all symptoms are manifestations of an underlying defective condition of the whole body caused by -

• Inadequate nutrition resulting in a weakened body structure and decreased immune function; and
• External factors such as toxins and stress.

• The body breaks down at its weakest link - and in each individual that weakest link will be determined by heredity (genetic factors) and nutrition (eating habits);
• Particular toxins or stresses on the individual (eg cigarette smoke, asbestos fibres, timber treatment chemicals or whatever) can produce different effects.

Body pH is the most important single factor that has to be corrected before healing can proceed. This can be achieved in a number of ways, but primarily by correcting mineral deficiencies and supplying the correct balance of healthy foods.

Note: The following foods are the worst culprits in producing acid reactions in the body and are the cause of much illness and disease in the western world:
white flour, white sugar, common salt, soft drinks, artificial colorings and flavorings, over-consumption of red meat and animal fats, hydrogenated fats, deep-fried fats, alcohol, and cigarette smoking
Consider the average western diet and you will realise why illness and disease are rampant killers in today's western world, where many people's daily food consumption comprises almost exclusively the above products. Consider also that in many third-world countries the introduction of western diets has been followed by a rising incidence of western diseases. Please read the following:

Body pH - Alkalinise or Die
80/20 Alkaline-Acid Food Theory for Healthy Living
Quitting Smoking and Alkaline-Acid Balance

Research reported in the Quit Smoking article actually indicates that our modern diet contributes to smoking addiction and makes it even harder for smokers to quit.

In supplying what our bodies really need for the rebuilding and healing processes, the prime consideration is usability. Minerals are the ground-floor building blocks and recent research now shows that mineral supplements MUST be supplied in a form the body can utilise. This is NOT ground-up rock NOR is it colloidals. What the body really needs is organic - ie Angstrom-sized minerals - because this and only this is what the body was designed to use. Please read the following:

Angstrom - What it Means
Water Divine
Minerals
Synergies

The reason why so many of today's natural juice formulations help people with health problems is the organic nutrients they contain. In natural products, be they derived from plants on quality soils (a rare commodity in today's world) or from the sea, the nutrients are naturally angstrom-sized.

On the other hand, juice does not suit everyone (candida sufferers have huge problems with juices), and their mineral balance cannot be adjusted to suit particular conditions.