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Dear Friends,
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. It is my favorite time of the year. There's just so much to be thankful for. I thank God for He is ultimately responsible for my vibrant health. I have been teaching the healthy raw vegan lifestyle since January 2006. My clinical practice has evolved into a global approach to health. Instead of treating symptoms, I emphasize in treating the whole person and establishing total body health. I am learning as I go.
Cell Nutrition:
The human body is composed of 75-100 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a whole person. It communicates by way of chemicals, hormones, neurotransmitters, and electrical impulses in an electrically charged transport medium such as blood and lymph. Each cell respirates, reproduces, takes in nutrients, removes waste products, is involved in repair, regeneration, and synthesis of necessary elements such as hormones, neurotransmitters, enzymes, cellular infrastructure, and so forth.
Each cell requires specific nutrients to maintain optimal health. Among these nutrients are monosaccharides like glucose, essential fats such as omega 3, 6 and 9, essential amino acids like arginine and cysteine, oxygen, water, photons (from sunlight), phytonutrients like antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins and minerals. As long as the cells are able to assimilate these nutrients, and remove waste products and toxins via an intact blood and lymph circulation, the cells are able to maintain vibrant health.
I once had a conversation with a medical doctor who said that nutrition had nothing to do with health. He was very convinced but misinformed because the cells in our bodies are composed of the nutrients found in the food we eat, the air we breath, and the water we drink. So it makes sense that if we are missing nutrients, our cells will not be able to manufacture products needed for structure and function. Over time we will manifest disease of deficiencies such as osteoporosis.
On the other hand if our cells assimilate toxic chemicals such as salt, sugar, preservatives, drugs, food flavorings, pesticides, antibiotics, they would suffocate and eventually die. When enough of the cells of a specific tissue or organ die, that part of the body will manifest symptoms of chronic degeneration such as arthritis, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
The problem with dying cells or toxin assimilation is that toxic waste products accumulate in the body and if they are not eliminated they get deposited in places such as the joints (arthritis) and arterial vessels (atherosclerosis). The body becomes inflamed. The immune system becomes overwhelmed. Other organ systems become involved in this domino effect. Widespread malfunction of the intestinal tract or a reduction of blood or lymphatic flow due to blockages will prevent accumulated poisons from being released from the body. Toxemia results. The overall unhealthy condition will shorten the lifespan of the individual.
Therefore it is logical to state that to improve our health or to reverse chronic degenerative diseases, we must pay careful attention to what we eat, drink, breathe, and what our bodies are exposed to in the environment. As long as we can keep the flow of toxins going out more than accumulating in, and making sure there are no blockages in our internal circulation and sewage systems while at the same time making sure we are assimilating enough nutrient-dense foods to cellular level, we will experience vibrant health and longevity.
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31 (KJV).
Happy Thanksgiving!
Dr. Miven Donato
