Aging is a Disease
"Aging is a Disease, not merely the passing of time"
Centenarians all have relatively low sugar for their age, and all have low triglycerides.
If there is a single marker for lifespan as they are finding in the centenarian studies, it is insulin, specifically insulin sensitivity. How sensitive are your cells to insulin? When they are not sensitive, the insulin levels go up. Who has heard of the term insulin resistance? Insulin resistance is the basis of all the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging. We know that aging is a disease. The other case studies that I mentioned, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer, all of the so-called chronic diseases of aging and auto-immune diseases, those are symptoms.
"If you have a cold and you go to the doctor, you have a runny nose." Dr. Rosedale was an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) physician for 10 years so he knew what the common treatment for that is: a decongestant. "I can’t tell you how many patients I saw who had been given Sudafed by their family doctors for a cold who then came to see me afterward because of a really bad sinus infection," he said.
What happens when you treat the symptom of a runny nose from a cold and you take a decongestant? Well, it certainly decongests you by shutting off the mucous, but why do you have the mucus? It is because your body is trying to clean and wash out the membranes. What else is in mucus? Secretory IgA, a very strong antibody to kill the virus. If there is no mucus, there is no secretory IgA.
Decongestants also constrict blood vessels, the little capillaries, or arterioles, that go to those capillaries, and the cilia, the little hair-like projections that flagellate to push mucus along to create a stream. They get paralyzed because they don’t have blood flow, so there is no more ciliary movement.
What happens if you dam a stream and create a pond?
In days, you’ve got larvae growing, but if the stream is moving, you are fine. You need a constant stream of mucus to rid and prevent an infection. Remember when we were kids, running up and down the hills and sledding, while our noses kept running? That’s normal and healthy. The problem is that in almost all cases, if you treat a symptom you are going to make the disease worse. The symptom is there as your body’s attempt to heal itself.
Now the medical profession is continually segregating more and more symptoms into diseases--they call the symptoms disease. Using ENT for example, a patient will walk out of the office with a diagnosis of Rhinitis, which is inflammation of the nose. Is there a reason why that patient has inflammation of the nose? I think so. Wouldn’t that underlying cause be the disease as opposed to the descriptive term of Rhinitis or Pharyngitis?
Someone can have the same virus and have Rhinitis, Pharyngitis or Sinusitis. They can have all sorts of "itis’s," which is a descriptive term for inflammation. That is what the code will be, and that is what the disease will be. So they treat what they think is the disease, but which actually is just a symptom.
The same thing happens with cholesterol. If you have high cholesterol it is called hypercholesterolemia. Hypercholesterolemia has become the code for the disease when it is only the symptom. So doctors treat that symptom, and what are they doing to the heart? Messing it up.
What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease. If you keep pulling a dandelion out by its leaves, you are not going to get very far. But the problem is that we don’t know what the root is.
The root is known by many other areas of science, but the problem is that medicine really isn’t a science; it is a business. You really need to look at the root of what is causing the problem. We can use that cold as a further example.
Why does that person have a cold?
If he saw the doctor, the doctor might tell him to take an antibiotic along with the decongestant. You see this all the time because the doctor wants to get rid of the patient. In almost all cases of an upper respiratory infection, it is a virus, and taking the antibiotic is going to do worse than doing nothing, because it is going to kill the bacterial flora in the gut and impair the immune system, making the immune system worse.
The patient might see someone else who will say, "No, you caught a virus, don’t do anything, go home and sleep, let your body heal itself." That’s better. You might see someone else who would ask why you caught a virus without being out there trying to hunt for viruses with a net. We are breathing viruses every day; right now we are breathing viruses, cold viruses and rhino viruses.
So why doesn’t everybody catch a cold tomorrow?
The Chinese will tell you that it is because the milieu has to be right, if the Chinese were to quote the French. Your body has to be receptive to that virus–only if your immune system is depressed will it allow that virus to take hold.
So maybe a depressed immune system is the disease. A person can take a bunch of vitamin C because his immune system is depressed and it is likely that he has a vitamin C deficiency. That’s where most of us are right now, where we would recommend a bunch of vitamin C to try to pick up the immune system. In fact, in one case, I decided that instead of taking 500 mg of the highest dose of antibiotic 4 times a day that I would take 500 mg of vitamin C. I was over the serious cold in less that three days.
In some people the vitamin C will not work. Vitamin C is made in almost all living mammals except humans and a couple of species. Vitamin C is made directly from glucose and actually has a similar structure; they compete for one another.
It has been known for many decades that sugar depresses the immune system. It was only in the 70's that they found out that vitamin C was needed by the white blood cells so that they could phagocytize bacteria and viruses. White blood cells require a fifty times higher concentration at least, inside the cell as well as outside the cell, so they have to accumulate vitamin C.
There is something called a phagocytic index, which tells you how rapidly a particular macrophage or lymphocyte can gobble up a virus, bacteria or cancer cell. In the 70's Linus Pauling knew that white blood cells needed a high dose of vitamin C and that is when he came up with his theory that you need high doses of vitamin C to combat the common cold.
But if we know that vitamin C and glucose have similar chemical structures, what happens when sugar levels go up? They compete for one another upon entering the cells. And the one thing that mediates the entry of vitamin C into the cells is the same thing that mediates the entry of glucose into the cells. If there is more glucose around, then less vitamin C will be allowed into the cell, and it doesn’t take much glucose to have this effect. A blood sugar value of 120 reduces the phagocytic index 75%.
Why all the attention to the roots of disease? It doesn’t matter what disease you are talking about, whether you are talking about a common cold or cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis or cancer, the root is always going to be at the molecular and cellular level, and insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not totally in control of it.
Centenarians all have relatively low sugar for their age, and all have low triglycerides.
If there is a single marker for lifespan as they are finding in the centenarian studies, it is insulin, specifically insulin sensitivity. How sensitive are your cells to insulin? When they are not sensitive, the insulin levels go up. Who has heard of the term insulin resistance? Insulin resistance is the basis of all the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging. We know that aging is a disease. The other case studies that I mentioned, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer, all of the so-called chronic diseases of aging and auto-immune diseases, those are symptoms.
"If you have a cold and you go to the doctor, you have a runny nose." Dr. Rosedale was an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) physician for 10 years so he knew what the common treatment for that is: a decongestant. "I can’t tell you how many patients I saw who had been given Sudafed by their family doctors for a cold who then came to see me afterward because of a really bad sinus infection," he said.
What happens when you treat the symptom of a runny nose from a cold and you take a decongestant? Well, it certainly decongests you by shutting off the mucous, but why do you have the mucus? It is because your body is trying to clean and wash out the membranes. What else is in mucus? Secretory IgA, a very strong antibody to kill the virus. If there is no mucus, there is no secretory IgA.
Decongestants also constrict blood vessels, the little capillaries, or arterioles, that go to those capillaries, and the cilia, the little hair-like projections that flagellate to push mucus along to create a stream. They get paralyzed because they don’t have blood flow, so there is no more ciliary movement.
What happens if you dam a stream and create a pond?
In days, you’ve got larvae growing, but if the stream is moving, you are fine. You need a constant stream of mucus to rid and prevent an infection. Remember when we were kids, running up and down the hills and sledding, while our noses kept running? That’s normal and healthy. The problem is that in almost all cases, if you treat a symptom you are going to make the disease worse. The symptom is there as your body’s attempt to heal itself.
Now the medical profession is continually segregating more and more symptoms into diseases--they call the symptoms disease. Using ENT for example, a patient will walk out of the office with a diagnosis of Rhinitis, which is inflammation of the nose. Is there a reason why that patient has inflammation of the nose? I think so. Wouldn’t that underlying cause be the disease as opposed to the descriptive term of Rhinitis or Pharyngitis?
Someone can have the same virus and have Rhinitis, Pharyngitis or Sinusitis. They can have all sorts of "itis’s," which is a descriptive term for inflammation. That is what the code will be, and that is what the disease will be. So they treat what they think is the disease, but which actually is just a symptom.
The same thing happens with cholesterol. If you have high cholesterol it is called hypercholesterolemia. Hypercholesterolemia has become the code for the disease when it is only the symptom. So doctors treat that symptom, and what are they doing to the heart? Messing it up.
What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease. If you keep pulling a dandelion out by its leaves, you are not going to get very far. But the problem is that we don’t know what the root is.
The root is known by many other areas of science, but the problem is that medicine really isn’t a science; it is a business. You really need to look at the root of what is causing the problem. We can use that cold as a further example.
Why does that person have a cold?
If he saw the doctor, the doctor might tell him to take an antibiotic along with the decongestant. You see this all the time because the doctor wants to get rid of the patient. In almost all cases of an upper respiratory infection, it is a virus, and taking the antibiotic is going to do worse than doing nothing, because it is going to kill the bacterial flora in the gut and impair the immune system, making the immune system worse.
The patient might see someone else who will say, "No, you caught a virus, don’t do anything, go home and sleep, let your body heal itself." That’s better. You might see someone else who would ask why you caught a virus without being out there trying to hunt for viruses with a net. We are breathing viruses every day; right now we are breathing viruses, cold viruses and rhino viruses.
So why doesn’t everybody catch a cold tomorrow?
The Chinese will tell you that it is because the milieu has to be right, if the Chinese were to quote the French. Your body has to be receptive to that virus–only if your immune system is depressed will it allow that virus to take hold.
So maybe a depressed immune system is the disease. A person can take a bunch of vitamin C because his immune system is depressed and it is likely that he has a vitamin C deficiency. That’s where most of us are right now, where we would recommend a bunch of vitamin C to try to pick up the immune system. In fact, in one case, I decided that instead of taking 500 mg of the highest dose of antibiotic 4 times a day that I would take 500 mg of vitamin C. I was over the serious cold in less that three days.
In some people the vitamin C will not work. Vitamin C is made in almost all living mammals except humans and a couple of species. Vitamin C is made directly from glucose and actually has a similar structure; they compete for one another.
It has been known for many decades that sugar depresses the immune system. It was only in the 70's that they found out that vitamin C was needed by the white blood cells so that they could phagocytize bacteria and viruses. White blood cells require a fifty times higher concentration at least, inside the cell as well as outside the cell, so they have to accumulate vitamin C.
There is something called a phagocytic index, which tells you how rapidly a particular macrophage or lymphocyte can gobble up a virus, bacteria or cancer cell. In the 70's Linus Pauling knew that white blood cells needed a high dose of vitamin C and that is when he came up with his theory that you need high doses of vitamin C to combat the common cold.
But if we know that vitamin C and glucose have similar chemical structures, what happens when sugar levels go up? They compete for one another upon entering the cells. And the one thing that mediates the entry of vitamin C into the cells is the same thing that mediates the entry of glucose into the cells. If there is more glucose around, then less vitamin C will be allowed into the cell, and it doesn’t take much glucose to have this effect. A blood sugar value of 120 reduces the phagocytic index 75%.
Why all the attention to the roots of disease? It doesn’t matter what disease you are talking about, whether you are talking about a common cold or cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis or cancer, the root is always going to be at the molecular and cellular level, and insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not totally in control of it.
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