However, as nutrient levels become saturated in the body we start seeing diminishing returns from consuming additional nutrients and eventually negative effects.
Our bodies utilize the nutrients, they just don't sit there and stay forever. The nutrients needs to be constantly replenished.
Also, there is only so much that adequate nutrition can contribute to fight infection or deal with any other insult it may encounter either from environmental and/or genetic factors.
Our immune system is the ultimate fighter. It can absolutely deal with its own infections. By the time i got my 3rd pneumonia while taking humira I decided to treat it with food instead of antibiotics. I was able to overcome it in about the same time that antibiotics would have taken but even then my immune system was weak before i started to "saturate nutrients". Pneumonia can be a dangerous infection and as far as infections so I think the body has the ability to take care of them.
Our primal selves strengthened our genomes, so why can't we protect our genomes or even rebuild our genomes? It's only common sense. Researchers know that
antioxidants can protect from DNA damage.
Why can't other nutrients do the same?
or oils?
There are a bunch of other sources linking nutrition to the strengthening of DNA and chromosomes if you care to look into it. I'm not basing these opinions off of delusion, I'm basing them off of forgotten, "unimportant" science.
Whether he used Mercury or not matters why? Yes Mercury is toxic, but a physicians job is to decide whether or not the benefits out weigh the risks.
Mercury wasn't thought to be toxic back then it was used as an anti septic and a very successful one. The fact that he would use food and exercise over conventional treatments even at the time suggests he would stick to his guns. In my opinion, Hippocrates would be ashamed to be called the father of western medicine today if he saw the manner in which medications were being used and how even with western medicine this western nation is the sickest in the world, while those countries/populi whom have stuck to nutrition are clearly more healthy than us.
It's a pretty bold statement to say that every doctor that uses Remicade or any other life saving medication should probably put their prescription pad down in exchange for your juice menu.
I don't recall saying that, But i digress. I'm not saying Juicing is the end all, I don't even believe I have mentioned juicing in this thread yet. I'm talking about nutrition and when you repeat that sentence with put down their prescription pads in chronic conditions and prescribe nutrients, it doesn't sound so bad. Of course I recognize that these medications have their values in acute, life saving situations. Nutrition isn't a rescue drug but I believe it should be taken more seriously as a long term treatment. But people don't want to hear that, which is what i have such a hard time understanding. Its safe, its easy, it makes sense, you take matters into your own hands. But "if it was that easy my doctor would have told me".
Doctors receive little to no training in nutrition today. So they don't know as well. You can be wrong, and you can be sincerely wrong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/he...chen.html?_r=0
http://www.naturalnews.com/036702_do...atalities.html
Last year, a bill was introduced in California to mandate that physicians get continuing medical education in nutrition (see Nutrition Education Mandate Introduced for Doctors). Unbelievably, physician trade groups such as the California Medical Association came out in opposition to the bill, which would only require doctors to get a measly 7 hours of nutrition training anytime before 2017 (see Medical Associations Oppose Bill to Mandate Nutrition Training). Read more:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/how...#ixzz28sHp37yh
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/83/4/941S.full
There are plenty of other sources about doctors and nutrition. It's a pretty well known fact amongst the medical community and it's critics. Truth is, in undergrad they learn about the body, medical school they learn about medicine. Medicine, medicine and more medicine.
So I am not sure how you came to the conclusion that Hippocrates not use Remicade in that hypothetical situation
The same way you came to the conclusion he would.
"Hippocrates used food as his medicine because he had no other means at his disposal comparable to what is available today." (From your earlier post)
Also, even though I agree with you about some of the unknowns of GMO foods, before you go on to explain the danger GMO foods it might help your argument to explain exactly how the structure is different and why that difference prevents the human body from absorbing nutrients
Only unknowns because monsanto has patents on these GMO's and refuse to do long term health studies, and any independent researchers who do, do under the risk of litigation.
Plants are made of plant cells in the nucleus lies DNA. This DNA is how the body recognizes which plant has entered the body and what to do with it. Our pancreas and digestive tract doesn't have eyes or a nose so it reads the DNA to determine which enzymes are needed to digest the food if aid is necessary.
Monsanto and other GMO companies literally remove sequences of the DNA and insert their own. Therefore the DNA is unpredictable and the body treats it as a foreign invader and will actually elevate white blood cell activity. These genes that are inserted can actively release a toxic insecticide, these insecticides are now being found in high amounts in the blood of pregnant women.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670
ot all GMO is created equal and just because someth is GMO doesn't make it automatically bad. Try telling that to the Mayans who were responsible for domesticating and genetically modifying maize to form of corn that we eat today. It has been traded and grown since 2500 BC and is the definition of GMO food
I wouldn't call that Genetically engineering ha. They simply just soaked the corn and cooked and hulled it, not really using a virus to implant a gene inside the crop a gene that will create pesticides. Even so it isn't the point of the conversation as I'm sure everyone thinks of todays Gmo's rather than maize... even if you would consider it a GMO, which I would not.
The body has no idea that food is GMO or not, there is no warning that your body sees which says here comes GMO food ha ha you're not gonna get any benefits
I didn't say the body has an alarm system...? I'm unsure what you mean here.
As for health problems, you can do a google search and get some sources but here are some anyways.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/health-risks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html
Also watch
this video on GMO's, I found it very interesting.
By the way, my smoothy was delicious and the juicer is coming out tomorrow, going to try to extract juice from pomegranates from my dads tree. I have had a hard time extracting juice from them, any advice?
I am sure the wife will not be happy with me, they always make a big mess.
Ahh pomegranates, I ruined a few articles of clothing before I found
this awesome video on the best way to deal with a pomegranate.
Or you can try the ever popular
water method
Gianni