4 Signs you are Treating Symptoms not Root Causes
1. Manipulating the Result
Tired? Drink coffee. Everyone can see the limitation with this one, not that coffee is all bad.
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.
Would you say that you have “coffee fatigue?”
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.
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.
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 23major criteria for a root cause:
1. Nutrition
2. Toxicity
3. Infection
4. Physical misalignment from teeth to toes.
5. Emotions
6. The Brain's responses to stress.
The brain can get stuck in stress response mode to react in a stressful way so that you can’t sleep or digest fully after the external stress is gone. This applies even more to the mind as negative beliefs that make us afraid and stressed.
The brain was originally stressed by one of the five root causes: emotions, misalignment of the bones of face and cranium, toxicity, infection or lack of nutrients like neurotransmitters made in the gut. While it is important to address those root causes, the brain and mind can take on a life of their own that can become the top treatment priority: if you cannot rest or digest then the other treatments are not well utilized.
The mind is the one thing that can be treated as the cause of itself because it can imagine things that aren’t true. The mind is also your source of being an autonomous agent in the world instead of being a victim. Not seeing yourself as a victim is absolutely necessary to relax your body and believe that you can find solutions to your health so that you will keep searching and implementing 100% until you succeed.
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 waste. 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 sporadic and often overwhelming medical style interventions like IV chelation to detoxify heavy metals that can make a weak person worse.
- Something invading: a toxin, infection, accidental injury, or emotional abuse?
- Something missing: nutrients, a physical development process, or emotional support?
- The brain’s response to stress.
1. Nutrition
2. Toxicity
3. Infection
4. Physical misalignment from teeth to toes.
5. Emotions
6. The Brain's responses to stress.
The brain can get stuck in stress response mode to react in a stressful way so that you can’t sleep or digest fully after the external stress is gone. This applies even more to the mind as negative beliefs that make us afraid and stressed.
The brain was originally stressed by one of the five root causes: emotions, misalignment of the bones of face and cranium, toxicity, infection or lack of nutrients like neurotransmitters made in the gut. While it is important to address those root causes, the brain and mind can take on a life of their own that can become the top treatment priority: if you cannot rest or digest then the other treatments are not well utilized.
The mind is the one thing that can be treated as the cause of itself because it can imagine things that aren’t true. The mind is also your source of being an autonomous agent in the world instead of being a victim. Not seeing yourself as a victim is absolutely necessary to relax your body and believe that you can find solutions to your health so that you will keep searching and implementing 100% until you succeed.
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 waste. 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 sporadic and often overwhelming medical style interventions like IV chelation to detoxify heavy metals that can make a weak person worse.
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