Food Is Medicine
Why Is Food Medicine?
Consider the digestive system. Whatever we eat, later travels through more than 20 feet of an efficient intestinal tract that extracts certain molecules from food, then converts them to one common molecule, Acetyl Co-A. This creates building blocks the body needs to grow, build, and repair. We need:Protein, Glucose, and Healthy fats.
The intestines convert food molecules to Acetyl Co-A, because food has familiar combinations of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. When presented with inorganic and bizarre substances such as “Plastic Food” and synthetic chemicals used in pharmaceutical drugs, the body has no clue as to what to do with them.
Usually they are excreted. This might explain why “Placebos” (or sugar pills) often work as well as or better than pharmaceutical drugs in clinical trials. What happens more often is as the body tries to detoxify offending invader drugs, it creates new “Metabolites”. These have multiple side-effects which in most cases are worse than the effects of the pharmaceutical drugs themselves. Continue Reading »
