Medical myth busted: Your body doesn't break down from age

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One of the most pervasive myths in Western medicine is the idea that

your body wears out with age. This myth takes away your power to heal

yourself and just isn't true. Read today's NewsTarget feature to

learn how to prevent the breakdown of tissues and bones as you age,

and discover why this myth continues to thrive.

 

 

 

 

story at http://www.newstarget.com/019357.html

 

Bones and body parts don't wear out with age: Questioning the strange

metaphors of conventional medicine

 

Thursday, April 20, 2006 by Mike Adams

 

I was talking to a physical therapist today, and he was trying to

convince me that the human body wears out with use, sort of like car

parts. He said to me, " Bone is bone. " He explained that people who do

a lot of running or punching have a lot of joint problems when they

get older because the joints wear out when bone rubs against bone.

There is a lot of misinformation and distortion in that belief system,

though, as you'll see here.

 

For one thing, bone is not merely a solid, inanimate object. A bone

lying in the desert is a bone, but a bone inside the human body is

living tissue. It is not dead, and it is not rock solid. In fact, it

is quite porous. A bone is like a sponge. A bone is living, and it

grows or breaks down, depending on circumstances. A bone gets denser

when you use it and gets more fragile when you avoid using it.

 

Nowhere in the human body does bone rub on bone in a normal, healthy

human being. A bone is protected by synovial fluid. Ligaments,

muscles, joints and bones are well lubricated. If you've ever had bone

rubbing on bone in your body (and there are situations in which people

have such terrible nutrition that their body breaks down and doesn't

rebuild all the supporting tissues and fluids, so they can end up

having bone rubbing on bone), it's not a problem of use; it's a

problem of poor health. It's a problem of eating lots of processed

food and animal products and avoiding raw fresh juices and healthy

nutrition. It's a problem of having such a terrible lifestyle that the

body even begins to attack itself, resulting in autoimmune disorders,

such as arthritis or type-1 diabetes.

 

Any kind of joint pain, bone pain or bone arthritis has a cause. It's

not just that things wear out, and anyone who says the human body is

like a bunch of car parts is using the wrong metaphor. They are

flat-out incorrect, and they do not understand how the human body

really works. Car parts wear out the more you use them because you

have gears rubbing on gears, which creates friction and the breakdown

of metal, and, eventually, you end up with a gear that's worn out.

That does not happen in the human body. You don't have bone rubbing on

bone in a healthy human body. The more you use your body, in fact, the

healthier your body gets. The body doesn't wear out with use. You

don't just have a certain number of heartbeats in your life and then

you're dead. In fact, if you exercise your heart, you get stronger. If

you give your heart nutrition -- through B6 vitamins, calcium and

magnesium -- your heart gets stronger. If you exercise your muscles,

they get stronger. If you exercise your bones, they get stronger, too.

 

The human body is a miracle-class machine that adapts to stress by

repairing itself. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. That's

why you have people in their 70s, 80s or even 90s out there running or

jogging up a mountainside.

 

The " wearing out with age " myth dismantled

 

The metaphor of the body being some kind of a machine that wears out

through use is very prominent in the Western medical culture. It's a

very deceptive metaphor, as I've explained, but it's one that makes

sense to people because it seems intuitive. People think, " The body is

a bunch of parts, the parts rub together and they wear out. " This is

something that some surgeons and doctors rely on to convince people to

submit to their procedures. It's sort of a gimmick, in effect, and

it's a gimmick that works because people understand these concepts in

automobiles. However, it doesn't make the concept an accurate metaphor

when it comes to human beings. In fact, it's not, but that doesn't

stop doctors and health authorities from using it.

 

You can prove that what I'm saying is true by asking yourself, " Who

are the most diseased people I know? " Once you have those people

pictured in your mind, ask yourself, " What is their level of physical

activity? " You will most likely find that the most diseased people are

those who don't engage in physical activity. They are the sedentary

people who don't use their bodies. That's who is diseased. They are

the ones whose bodies are wearing out. If bones wore out through use,

people who didn't use their bones would have the strongest bone

density, and people who did use their bones would have the weakest

bones. Of course, that's the opposite of what happens in the real

world. In reality, people who don't use their bones have the weakest,

most fragile bones, whereas people who do use their bones have the

strongest bones. This is a very clear example of the inaccuracy of the

scientific theories and metaphors of Western medicine.

 

The healthiest people in society, in fact, are those who avoid

doctors and instead heal themselves through nutrition, Chinese

medicine, acupuncture, massage therapy, chiropractic care and so on.

The least healthy people in society are those who take lots and lots

of prescription drugs, who visit Western medical doctors, who ignore

nutrition and who think health is just a matter of luck. These are the

least healthy people in society. It's actually very clear, when you

look around, who is healthy and who is not. It's very clear which

medical theories are consistently true.

 

I can give you many examples of ways in which the theories behind

Western medicine or conventional medicine are utterly false. There's

really not even honest science behind most of Western medicine,

because virtually all the science has been distorted and selectively

reported. Take an informed look at what's really going on in the

medical science community, and you'll find lots of selectively

designed studies and outright fraud, because a lot of the sciences are

basically sponsored by drug companies.

 

As wrong as they are, however, these inaccurate metaphors (like " your

body wears out with age " ) exist in a pervasive way among the

practitioners of Western medicine. Metaphors such as the human body

being a system of parts are undoubtedly pervasive, and you will

probably continue to hear these types of metaphors in the future, so

be aware of them, and know that any time a doctor or a physical

therapist says that the human body wears out with age, they are either

simplifying the explanation for your benefit or they are simply

misinformed.

 

In reality, the human body is a self-healing system. Bone is living,

breathing tissue, and the only way to have healthy bones, joints,

ligaments and tissues is to use them. Give them space (through

stretching, yoga, Tai Chi, etc.) and nourishment (through circulation

of nutrient-rich blood). Use them on a regular basis and you'll be

active all the way up to 100 years of age. You won't live forever, but

that's because we are actually genetically programmed to expire at

some point in order to free up resources for future generations (it's

true!), but you will undoubtedly live longer than most, and you'll

live far happier.

 

 

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