The Disease List, Part 1

Superior nutrition produces superior health.

It seems so obvious. And once you try it, it’s even more so.

But the total impact is not completely obvious, because when you try it, you try it, you experience it, you can tell the effects. And there are so many opinions on quality nutrition, it’s hard to sift the diamonds from all the dirt.

There’s lots of dirt. The nutritarian concept appears to me to be a diamond.

It’s still not enough to tell that it’ll be effective for someone else, on some other condition, in another set of circumstances.

That’s what makes Dr. Furman’s experience and books so valuable. He’s seen a wide range of conditions, over a number of years, backed up by lots of high quality research.

(Most people though wouldn’t know quality research from a hole in the ground. I’m not saying I’m any great expert here, but I’ve found people who do know the difference, and I try to listen and learn from them.)

Nutritarian style eating is best at preventing disease, but it’s effective at curing and reversing many diseases. Sometimes, though, a disease process has gone on too long, done too much damage to be reversed or cured. Even so, it can still be dealt with way, way more effectively than medications alone.

But other times even serious and long term conditions are reversed. Sometimes even nearly fatal conditions are stopped in their tracks and symptoms and effects vanish.

Here’s an alphabetical list of conditions that nutritarian eating prevents, cures or just helps with. Any list is going to be incomplete, and I’m betting that many more conditions will be added in time. Some are duplicates, same disease different name. And I know I’ve missed some that are probably obvious and well known.

Even so, the list is simply amazing. When it’s worth a comment I’ll pause with a separate paragraph:

Acne, including cystic acne. Allergies. Alzheimer's. Amputations related to diabetes.

Anti-centennarianism, or the tendency to not live to be a hundred years old, healthy, happy and active up until you die (OK, I made that one up, but it’s true).

Appendicitis. Artheromas (fatty deposits hiding in blood vessel walls). Artherosclerosis. Arthritis. Asthma.

Autism. If ever there was a complex and difficult issue, this is one. My NMD (Naturopathic Medical Doctor) friend Jerry Taylor cures this with superb nutrition as the foundation of treatment, as with everything he treats. Smart man.

Autoimmune diseases. Lots more to tell, there are so many related conditions listed here, the words are just the tip of an iceberg. But it applies so often it suggests there is an overall affect on potentially most, many or all of these.

Back pain.

Bacterial infections. A huge category, with fabulous research and amazing results, if you’re open to reading about them.

Beriberi. Birth defects. Blindness related to diabetes. Bone fractures.

Cancer. Wait till you see how the research correlates cures vs. deaths related to nutritarian eating!

Colds. Constipation. Cretinism. Crohn’s disease. Dementia. Depression.

Diabetes. The vast majority with type 2 diabetes are proven to be better off with a nutritarian lifestyle, and most have a complete reversal of symptoms, as we did. Even type 1 diabetes is impacted, with less insulin, far fewer negative consequences, and normal life spans.

Diverticulitis.

Epigenetic conditions, which are passed down to children, can result from environmental or external factors - like eating! Healthy or unhealthy, we pass it down to our children, especially through the mother. But it also appears that negative effects we receive from our parents can be reversed by reversing our own unhealthy habits.

And here I’ll pause, lest you faint, or fade into incredulity (a serious mental disease than can actually be caused as a counter-reaction to nutritarian learning, where you stop believing in truth because it conflicts with things your mother, your doctor, and even your culture, civilization and experience teaches you).

More next time in Part 2.