4 Signs you are Treating Symptoms not Root Causes
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1. Manipulating the Result

Tired? Drink coffee. 
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Less obvious is the focus on “adrenal fatigue.” The tiny adrenal glands that produce stress hormones to mobilize stored energy, similar to coffee. Adrenal glands do not create energy but mobilize stored nutrients for energy if there is any left. Adrenal glands regulate energy partly through nutrient utilization but they are more like the gas pedal than fuel in the gas tank.
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Would you say that you have “coffee fatigue?”

2. Treating the Condition, not the Individual

​The condition is a symptom, while the individual is a complex system of balances with a jumble of problems.

Treating the condition can be seen in the “take this for that” approach, matching treatments to symptoms. But the same symptoms in individuals may have different causes.

“Taking this for that” often occurs in the form of taking a “natural” supplement. Look at pain and inflammation, for example: The herb turmeric is a great general treatment for pain and inflammation symptoms, that also offers a broad spectrum of healing effects that may also address some root causes that are nutrient related. Whole foods like herbs offer a broad spectrum of benefits.
At the same time, individuals suffer pain and inflammation for many reasons: a misalignment of the spine and muscles, toxins, allergic foods, etc. These causes should be determined.

3. Treating Body Parts

​Body parts are where symptoms show up. 
The cause is not inside the body part itself as if it genetic. 
Even genetics, as gene expression, are shaped by the environment—this is epi-genetics. 
Body parts do not causes their own problems.
What is affecting the body part? This questions leads to defining what root causes.

4. Not Knowing What a Root Cause Is

There are 3 major criteria for a root cause: 

• Something invading: a toxin, infection, accidental injury, or emotional abuse?
• Something missing: nutrients, a physical development process, or emotional support?
• The brain and minds responses to stress. 

By these criteria there are 6  root causes: 

1. Nutrition
2. Toxicity
3. Infection
4. Physical misalignment from teeth to toes. 
5. Emotions
6. How the mind makes health decisions (one aspect of a response to a stress). The problem of bias: How you look in the wrong direction and miss the truth staring you in the face according to paradigm blinders

Treating Root Causes is Simpler and More Systematic

Treating the few root causes relative to the many symptoms is simpler and more systematic, since each root cause can produce numerous symptoms. The mineral magnesium, for example, can help improve many symptoms from fatigue to pain and tension.

Give your body all the nutrients it needs so it can energize and heal itself.

Nutrition can be a good place to start to address the other root causes, too. For example, with adequate nutrients, cells work normally to detoxify. Until this is accomplished, more aggressive detoxes by “taking this for that” are more likely to crash your energy.

Health improvement depends on systematically addressing lifestyle factors for prevention and improvement, not just relying on medical style interventions that are sporadic and often overwhelming like IV chelation to detoxify heavy metals that can make a weak person worse.

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