Unless mutated, DNA is perfect and cells continuously strive to reach that perfection. Life processes follow the DNA blueprint from the moment of conception, but cellular vitality and immune systems
are determined by continuously exposed toxic agents.
Acids and Free Radicals
Free radicals and acids have virtually the same effect on the body. Free radicals are atoms or molecules (groups of atoms bound together by
shared electrons) which have lost electrons and have unpaired electrons
in their outermost orbits or shells, and which, while in that
unbalanced state, are seeking to gain electrons from another source in
order to become stable.
Acids contain positively charged hydrogen
ions (protons), while free radicals can be positively charged ions of
any element or molecule, (although not all positively charged ions are
free radicals.) Free radicals are defined as both unstable
and positively charged.
For example, the ion of calcium is
positively charged (Ca++), but the outer shell is composed of 8
electrons with no unpaired electrons, so the ion is stable and not
looking to replace electrons and therefore not a free radical.
The
positively charged oxygen radical is called Super-Oxide. It is the most
plentiful, aggressive and damaging free radical of them all.
"Antioxidant" is the term that was originally coined to name a substance
that can neutralize the oxygen radical, although the term is used to
indicate any substance that can neutralize any free radical.
Most
commonly free radical damage occurs near the DNA of the cells. Once an
electron is taken from an atom or molecule, that formerly stable atom or
molecule is now a positively charged free radical, which in turn will
be compelled to neutralize itself by taking electrons from another
stable atom or molecule.
The free radical/acidosis process
repeats as a chain reaction which, if not stopped, will eventually
result in the death of the body (acidosis is the term for the condition
in which your body's fluids are acidic).
The damage that occurs
from free radicals/acidosis is due to the fact that whenever an atom or
molecule is split apart, energy is released. This is the same principle
our body uses to produce energy from the breakdown, or splitting of the
molecules in the food we eat, but that is done in a controlled way
within the mitochondria of the cell, and the energy released is
channeled for use by the body. But the energy released when electrons
are torn from atoms and molecules due to acids or free radicals produces
tiny, uncontrolled atomic explosions which damage or kill cells. If the
cells live they will mutate, and when the mutated cells replicate
themselves, the daughter cells will have the same genetic defects as the
mother cells - a process that leads to cancer and other degenerative
diseases.
One can see the damage done by acidosis in a live blood
cell analysis under a microscope. Red blood corpuscles, normally round,
after free radical damage, look like cookies with big bites taken out
of them. This is called
poikilocytosis.
Damage associated with
acids does not come only from direct attack on cells.
When the body
fluids become acidic, oxygen carrying blood is
severely compromised and this is disastrous because every cell of the
body needs abundant oxygen continually.
Oxygen deficiency
The primary cause of disease is oxygen deficiency, which is brought about by other causes
such as acidosis, which is brought about by free
radical damage which is allowed by diets deficient in anti-oxidants.
The ultimate cause of disease is nutritional deficiency.
When nutrition is consistently and correctly applied, all functions
will fall into place. Acids, free radicals, bad bacteria, viruses,
yeasts, and funguses will be neutralized, oxygen and other essential
nutrients will be provided to the cells in due measure, and wastes will
be eliminated effectively.
A heart attack is
due to heart muscle cells deprivation of
oxygen and can no longer function.
The same continuous oxygen
requirement applies to every single cell in every single organ, gland,
muscle, nerve, and bone in our bodies. You can go without food for
months. You can go without water for days, but no matter how healthy you
are, if you stop breathing for several minutes, you die. That is
exactly what happens with acidosis, except it happens slowly over an
extended period of time.
The deficiency of oxygen caused by an
acidic environment combined with the direct damage due to the acids
causes degeneration that will continue to get worse until it kills
you... unless you make the changes necessary to correct the condition.
Credit to Mark Hathaway
