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fundamental problems exist that explain nearly every disease. It doesn’t matter what specialty your disease falls under. As Pierre Laplace, the eighteenth-century mathematician and astronomer, said in his
Mecanique Celeste,
a very few fundamental laws can explain an extraordinary number of very complex phenomena. 3
These underlying problems are the link between
all
of the diseases in the
ICD-9.
In almost every one of the diseases listed in that “bible,” the same few things go wrong. And those same few problems are all interconnected. One affects the other in a giant web of biology. Pull on one part of the web, and the whole web moves.
This web is built of the seven keys of UltraWellness. These keys are the underlying causes of
all
illness. And they are the keys that lead to an UltraMind.
These are the common pathways for all disease. Wherever you look, whatever problem you have, once you learn how to analyze these seven keys, you will find they are the root of all your health problems.
That’s all we need.
Once we learn how to navigate health and disease using these concepts, we can throw the two-volume
ICD-9
manual in the garbage, because it is the wrong road map for the territory of illness.
This new road map turns the myth of diagnosis on its head, and in doing so reveals one of the most radical concepts that emerges from this new medical approach: the
name
of the disease bears little relationship to the
cause
of the disease.
One Disease, Many Causes—One Cause, Many Diseases
One disease can have many, many different causes,
all
of which manifest the same symptoms. Take depression, for example. It may be caused by many different factors, yet the symptoms we see are the same across the board. The
DSM-IV
accurately describes these symptoms (100 percent accuracy), but it says nothing at all about the causes (0 percent validity).
Imagine a room full of people with depression. They all meet the
DSMIV
criteria for depression, and they would all be prescribed antidepressants for their “disease.”
However, neither this diagnosis nor the treatment provided takes into account their genetic individuality. It doesn’t tease out the reasons each of them became depressed in the first place.
These problems arise because the real causes of depression are not addressed with antidepressants.
It may be there are many “depressions,” not just one generic “depression.” These “depressions” may be the result of a multitude of causes: folate, B 6 , or B 12 deficiency; low thyroid function; “brain allergies” * to foods; an autoimmune † response to gluten that inflames the brain; mercury poisoning; abnormal proteins called gluteo-or caseomorphins from poorly digested food that alter brain chemistry; brain inflammation from a hidden infection; blood-sugar imbalances; low testosterone or other sex hormones; a deficiency of omega-3 fats; or adrenal-gland dysfunction from excessive stress among many other possible causes.
These are some of the real causes of “depression” as well as many other mental illness and neurological conditions. Without addressing core, underlying issues like these, we can never have optimal brain function or mood.
There is really no such thing as the “disease” called depression, just many different systemic imbalances that cause the symptoms we collectively refer to as “depression.” One disease, many causes...
On the other side of the spectrum, there can be one factor in a person’s diet, lifestyle, environment, or genetic makeup that can cause dozens of different and seemingly unrelated “diseases.”
Gluten, the protein found in the most common grain eaten in America—wheat—as well as barley, rye, oats, spelt, triticale, and kamut, is an excellent example. Gluten is one common factor that can create so many illnesses and diseases it would be hard to count them all.
The reasons are many. They include our lack of genetic adaptation to
Mecanique Celeste,
a very few fundamental laws can explain an extraordinary number of very complex phenomena. 3
These underlying problems are the link between
all
of the diseases in the
ICD-9.
In almost every one of the diseases listed in that “bible,” the same few things go wrong. And those same few problems are all interconnected. One affects the other in a giant web of biology. Pull on one part of the web, and the whole web moves.
This web is built of the seven keys of UltraWellness. These keys are the underlying causes of
all
illness. And they are the keys that lead to an UltraMind.
These are the common pathways for all disease. Wherever you look, whatever problem you have, once you learn how to analyze these seven keys, you will find they are the root of all your health problems.
That’s all we need.
Once we learn how to navigate health and disease using these concepts, we can throw the two-volume
ICD-9
manual in the garbage, because it is the wrong road map for the territory of illness.
This new road map turns the myth of diagnosis on its head, and in doing so reveals one of the most radical concepts that emerges from this new medical approach: the
name
of the disease bears little relationship to the
cause
of the disease.
One Disease, Many Causes—One Cause, Many Diseases
One disease can have many, many different causes,
all
of which manifest the same symptoms. Take depression, for example. It may be caused by many different factors, yet the symptoms we see are the same across the board. The
DSM-IV
accurately describes these symptoms (100 percent accuracy), but it says nothing at all about the causes (0 percent validity).
Imagine a room full of people with depression. They all meet the
DSMIV
criteria for depression, and they would all be prescribed antidepressants for their “disease.”
However, neither this diagnosis nor the treatment provided takes into account their genetic individuality. It doesn’t tease out the reasons each of them became depressed in the first place.
These problems arise because the real causes of depression are not addressed with antidepressants.
It may be there are many “depressions,” not just one generic “depression.” These “depressions” may be the result of a multitude of causes: folate, B 6 , or B 12 deficiency; low thyroid function; “brain allergies” * to foods; an autoimmune † response to gluten that inflames the brain; mercury poisoning; abnormal proteins called gluteo-or caseomorphins from poorly digested food that alter brain chemistry; brain inflammation from a hidden infection; blood-sugar imbalances; low testosterone or other sex hormones; a deficiency of omega-3 fats; or adrenal-gland dysfunction from excessive stress among many other possible causes.
These are some of the real causes of “depression” as well as many other mental illness and neurological conditions. Without addressing core, underlying issues like these, we can never have optimal brain function or mood.
There is really no such thing as the “disease” called depression, just many different systemic imbalances that cause the symptoms we collectively refer to as “depression.” One disease, many causes...
On the other side of the spectrum, there can be one factor in a person’s diet, lifestyle, environment, or genetic makeup that can cause dozens of different and seemingly unrelated “diseases.”
Gluten, the protein found in the most common grain eaten in America—wheat—as well as barley, rye, oats, spelt, triticale, and kamut, is an excellent example. Gluten is one common factor that can create so many illnesses and diseases it would be hard to count them all.
The reasons are many. They include our lack of genetic adaptation to
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