Table of Contents Show
Your body is incredibly resilient.
Every second, billions of electro-magneto-bio-chemical processes keep you alive.
Even slight disturbances can cause major consequences. Yet your body has a myriad of redundancies in place.
When those systems get overtaxed, however, slight symptoms magnify into serious conditions.
Your biochemistry/constitution/genetics/epigenetics determine how those conditions present.
For some, that may look like metabolic disorders (diabetes, insulin resistance, weight gain, etc). For others, this manifests as cardiovascular disease. Others yet experience this breakdown as autoimmunity or any of thousands of diagnoses.
While the traditional approach focuses on one molecule or therapy for one issue, top health professionals know a better approach.
Building fundamental health via the principles of bioharmony.
In this post, I’ll break down the most important root causes of potential diseases and conditions. By addressing these, other downstream problems may resolve themselves. And the side effect? You get to enjoy all the perks of better health too.
The Difficulty of Root Cause Medicine
Humans are cybernetic systems (systems of systems).
Aside from hereditary conditions, virtually all others arise from multiple contributing factors.
Sometimes, one cause dominates. Other times, other causes contribute to the final disease manifestation.
Most commonly, mild-to-moderate imbalances of multiple of the below factors play the largest role.
Address each, and you build a solid foundation predisposing you to optimal health.
Substance Imbalance
As a finely tuned system, the body requires precise ratios of many vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and other substances to run optimally. Improper ratio (or insufficient quantity) of even one substance, and your overall health may decline.
Declining overall health sets the stage for many chronic degenerative conditions Share on X
Deficiency is incredibly common, with some researchers estimating that 1/3 of Americans are deficient in 10+ minerals. And that’s just for minerals.
What’s causing this?
Increased nutrient needs because of nutrient-depleted soil, profit-maximizing agriculture, gut dysbiosis, polypharmacological chemical exposure, and chronic stress. Then you have electrosmog, concentrated levels of “anti-nutrients” within foods, poor lifestyle choices, circadian disruption, and countless other factors.
Deficiency is half the issue here. The other? Toxicity. Some nutrients, while essential in therapeutic dosages, also cause toxicity in excess. The classic examples include (but aren’t limited to) the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K).
More concerning, however, is the ever-increasing burden of toxic chemical exposure. 10,000+ endocrine disrupting chemicals now pollute our environment, food, water, and air. You simply cannot avoid them. Most people are exposed to 100+ before even leaving the house in the morning.
The polypharmacological effects of combining the chemicals—as inevitably occurs in your everyday life—have never passed rigorous safety tests. Nor have they even undergone study.
Certain toxicants, like heavy metals, clog up cells and prevent them from working properly. They lose the ability to clear their own waste, and become dangerous to the body. Your body has mechanisms to fix this, but the capacity rarely meets the needs.
That’s why many health practitioners begin treatment with a thorough cellular detoxification protocol.
Whether or not you work with a health professional, if you’re concerned about a major issue, I always recommend thorough testing. You can either go to a lab or use an at-home health testing kit or service.
When your body has higher levels of heavy metals, you become a magnet for electrosmog and certain kinds of infections.
Infection
The word “infection” probably conjures up memories of days spent bedridden and miserable with viral or bacterial illness.
As we’ve seen over the last five years, those can certainly cause long-term complications.
There’s also an entire world of undiagnosed infections. Before the most recent health crisis, the medical literature documented this same phenomenon of “asymptomatic spreaders” as “subclinical infection”. Meaning an infection without overt or indicative symptoms.
These can arise from the flu or more serious infections like Lyme’s Disease.
Or, your dysregulated biomarkers may stem from a parasite infection. Parasites are not very well understood by Western medicine. Tests usually return false negatives, so much so that many doctors call them pseudoscience. They’re not. Talk to a few of the most effective health practitioners, and they’ll have lots of stories.
While a larger issue in some places, parasite infections still pervade first-world countries too. Oddly, they can have important protective effects in the body (i.e. sequestering heavy metals).
Before beginning a scientific parasite removal protocol or trying to rid the body of other infections, I recommend first doing the cellular cleanse. That helps prevent serious complications.
Left unchecked, parasites (or other infections) weaken and dysregulate your immune system. They set you up for worse problems. In extreme cases, infections can cause organ failure and kill you.
Oral Health
For most of my life, I considered the mouth one of the more boring bodily systems.
Straighten and brush your teeth/gums and Voilà. Perfect oral health.
Then I learned about the link between the mouth and airway. I thought… since breathing’s a core human function, perhaps I should look into it.
After interviewing some prominent MDs, I realized…
The mouth is the gateway into the body Share on X
Inflamed and/or diseased gums give bacteria on food a direct line into the bloodstream. Letting them evade breakdown by the acidity of the stomach, processing by the liver, or neutralization by the immune system.
Every bite of food can either supply essential nutrients, or deliver pathogens and systemic inflammation—depending on the oral microbiome.
Ancient cultures knew that health begins in your mouth. 5,000+ years ago, the Ayurvedic medical system famously mentioned that digestion begins in the mouth. And that taste receptors play crucial roles. Western medicine has caught up, concluding that digestive enzyme production powerfully activates when food comes into contact with the mouth.
They could accurately diagnose conditions and whole-body health solely based on the mouth. The mouth shows signs of systemic diseases before other parts of the body do.
Gum disease alone is strongly linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, pregnancy complications, arthritis, COPD, and other inflammatory conditions.
If you’ve had a root canal, definitely work with a biological dentist to get it remediated.
If you’ve had cavities and fillings, make sure that they didn’t use any mercury or other toxic elements. Otherwise, these can off-gas and poison you every time your tooth is exposed to hot liquids or high pressure.
Avoid conventional mouthwash as it destroys the oral microbiome, shuts down nitric oxide production, and is linked to countless diseases later in life.
After fixing any root canals and cavities, I recommend using tongue scraping, oil pulling, hydrogen peroxide mouthwash, and flossing with either conventional floss or a Waterpik.
Gut Microbiome
You’ve probably heard the gut referred to as the “second brain”.
Or that the vast majority of the immune system resides in the gut. Or that the gut creates most of the brain’s chemicals (neurotransmitters).
Over the last few decades, one thing has become clear—the gut microbiome is intimately tied to every organ system and parameter of health.
So much so that researchers now include gut issues as one of the core hallmarks of the aging process.
Microbes outnumber your human cells 4-10X. Meaning that for every human cell, you have 4-10 microbes within you.
Research definitively shows that alterations to the gut microbiome can do some incredible things and have wide-reaching effects. For example, one famous study showed that…
A single course of antibiotics (imbalancing the beneficial gut microbes more than the pathogenic), increased risk of depression one year later by 20-25%.
Antibiotic exposure and the risk for depression, anxiety, or psychosis: a nested case-control study
Gut microbiome dysregulation is hypothesized to be a primary driver of cancer caused by meat-consumption.
Transplanting the microbiome of a healthy person into a sick person often causes incredible improvements. While transplanting the microbiome of a sick person into a healthy person harms the healthy one.
After testing Joel Greene’s gut-microbiome-manipulating protocol in the Immunity Code book, I cured my lactose intolerance.
Thorough gut analysis and optimization is an excellent idea to understand how this may contribute to whatever symptoms you’re experiencing.
Bioenergetics
Consuming the highest quality food and drink doesn’t do much good if your body—and cells—cannot use the nutrients.
You must digest, absorb, and assimilate nutrients to generate cellular energy efficiently. This energy powers every organ and biochemical process occurring throughout your body.
Bioenergetics is the study of this energy generation process. There are two key components of it. The net energy created, and the amount of cellular waste byproducts (like exhaust).
When there’s insufficient energy, the body must prioritize which systems to run. Anything not crucial to your immediate survival gets throttled and slowed down to conserve energy. Symptoms arise and over the long-term, symptoms morph into conditions.
The particular symptoms and eventual conditions depend on a wide variety of factors.
Insufficient cellular energy somewhere in the body underpins all diseases.
Bioenergetic health is about providing the body with ample energy. By understanding any potential bottlenecks or issues, bioenergetic practitioners help clients circumvent or resolve major issues.
That’s why levels of hormones like insulin, cortisol, thyroid, mitochondrial health, and other key nutrients have become so popular over the last decade.
Environment
Everything so far has been about the inside of your body.
What goes on and around your biology matters equally.
Every environment you spend time in affects you. Your home, your car, your office, restaurants, social gatherings, walking outdoors, hospitals, etc. You can also break some of these up into sub-environments. Your home may comprise a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room.
With each environment, the greater the exposure or biological incompatibility, the more damaging.
24/7 and on autopilot, your living environments either deplete your health or help it recharge.
Some of the major factors that make a space biologically incompatible (and unhealthy) include:
- Mold (high levels of mycotoxins)
- Poor air quality
- Junk light (CFLs, fluorescents, cheap LEDs)
- Non-native EMFs
- Sanitation and sterility (excess)
- Toxic chemicals, furniture (VOCs), synthetic air fresheners
For example, hospitals contain junk lighting, bad food, and are extremely sterile, yet harbor dangerous pathogens. A week spent in a hospital will certainly disrupt many parameters of health.
On the other hand, perhaps your home has had issues with high humidity or water leaks. Meaning, you likely have black mold. People often discover that they can’t get healthy in a moldy environment. No amount of therapeutics, biohacking protocols, or supplements will overcome chronic toxic mold exposure.
Fix your environments, and you may address the very factors keeping you unwell (or suboptimal).
Autonomic Blocks
Your subjective qualitative life experience is likely the most important overlooked determinant of health. You can’t measure this directly via any lab test, and most health practitioners won’t ask about it.
The alternative medicine and spiritual communities have long-known something that mainstream Western medicine is only now coming around to.
Your interpretation of life experiences (stress) matters more than the events themselves Share on X
Mere thoughts can cause powerful biological changes. For example, right now close your eyes and vividly imagine biting into a yellow lemon. Just the thought alone will make you salivate.
This happens constantly when you experience what you perceive as stress or pain. Your mind can conjure up the same biochemical reactions as the original event.
Emotions/feelings link the physical-biochemical world with the mental. Emotional/autonomic blocks are so potent that they can cause “unexplainable” spontaneous remission. Conversely, the spontaneous generation of disease.
Emotions are not dumb or pointless. They carry crucial biological messages.
True emotional health is about tapping into the way you feel and extracting the message. When you allow and identify a feeling, it’ll often shift.
Conversely, if you block, ignore, or mask a feeling—it lodges as a stress into your nervous system. There, it disrupts cellular communication and alters your personality.
How can you get rid of cancer if you can’t even let go of what your mom said to you last week?
Dr. Joe Dispenza’s case studies nicely illustrate how, through emotional manipulation alone, folks have tremendous spontaneous remissions all the time.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s classic book, The Body Keeps The Score, explains how all this works.
You can also check out the work of Dr.DietrichKlinghardt. He sometimes injects clients with DNPS into the nerve plexus around an organ. After doing emotional healing work on it, they would immediately expel mercury and heavy metals.
There’s a strong relationship between your psychology and physiology, meditated by your emotional wellbeing.
Resolve any blocks and dysfunctions sometimes disappear overnight.
Understand What’s Making You Sick
For decades, symptoms and conditions have climbed at an increasing rate.
Although the human body’s incredibly resilient, the more we deviate from ancestrally compatible lifestyles, the more sick we’ll become.
The way those present—and your potential medical diagnosis—depends on your unique body and mind. Factors like genetics, epigenetics, anatomical structure, and bodily constitution all play a part.
To resolve them, you can go several routes.
First, the mainstream approach is to target a particular disease label. It’s the accepted standard of care, and doesn’t work very well.
Alternatively, you can solely focus on fixing the root causes. This can work to build overall health, and as a side effect, conditions may disappear. The success of this, however, depends on your ability to determine the root causes accurately.
My favorite approach—what will eventually become the standard of care—is to address each of the above root causes while simultaneously working on the particular disease expression.
In other words, marrying the best of both worlds.
When done right, your overall health improves and your conditions vanish. Improving quality of life and healthspan, over the long-term.
If you found this helpful, I’d be grateful if you sent the post to a friend or shared it on social media. Of course, if you have questions or comments, submit them below!
Thank you.
