Hidden Causes of 21st Century Disease

MaRi Eagar
M Phil Personal and Professional Leadership (cum laude)

April 2005

Report for University of Johannesburg

M Phil (HRM) (PPL)
Personal Health and Total Wellbeing – Hidden Causes of 21 Century Disease

MaRi Eagar M Phil (HRM) (PPL)
M Phil Personal and Professional Leadership (cum laude) Personal Health and Total Wellbeing
April 2005

Contents

1 The three primary life requirements of the cell and the
link to three primary manifestations of disease 1
1.1 The PPL need for a practical framework to analyse the cause of
the manifestation of disease 1
1.2 The essence of the linking of disease to the primary life
requirements of the cells 1
1.3 Small cells can be used to analyse overall health in a human
system 1
1.4 The three primary manifestations of disease 2
1.5 The three primary life requirements of the cell 2
1.6 The correspondence between disease and the primary life
requirements of the cell 3
1.7 Treatment of disease based on the three life requirements of
the cell 4

2 The hidden cause of most 21st Century disease 6
2.1 The PPL interest in the hidden cause of most 21st Century
disease 6
2.2 Linking the hidden cause of 2st Century disease to the primary
life requirements of the cell 7
2.3 Innervation 7
2.4 Nutrition 8
2.5 Drainage 9
2.6 The interrelatedness of the three primary causes of disease and
the hidden cause of 21st Century disease 9

3 Bibliography 10
3.1 Books 10
3.2 Articles 11
3.3 Other 11

Personal health - preventative perspective

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1 The three primary life requirements of the cell and the link to three
primary manifestations of disease

1.1 The PPL need for a practical framework to analyse the cause of the
manifestation of disease
As PPL addresses problems of existence, the PPL practitioner could be faced with
various options and information in terms of problems around personal health and
wellbeing, and thus need an essential framework to analyse models of health and
wellness, including diets and lifestyle interventions. Such a model would also be simple
enough to provide a balanced view of improving wellbeing.

1.2 The essence of the linking of disease to the primary life requirements of
the cells
Dr Rocco Joubert has developed an approach which links the manifestation of disease
to the three primary life requirements of the cell. These are innervation, nutrition and
drainage. This is like an analogy for a city (Smith, D, 2005). The city needs resources
to sustain life, electricity and road systems to generate life sustaining activities, and then
a good waste removal system to clean the environment. If resources do not arrive, the
people will starve. When the electricity stops, industry stops producing and the economy
is negatively affected. When waste removal is stopped, the city functioning is blocked.

1.3 Small cells can be used to analyse overall health in a human system

Personal health - preventative perspective 1

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Dr Dennis Gabor received the 1971 Nobel Prize for constructing the first hologram. In
essence in a hologram each piece of the hologram is an exact representation of the
whole, and will reconstruct the entire image.

Some authors view the human system as a hologram (Joubert, R, 2001). For example,
Dr Karl Pribam renowned brain researcher, accumulated evidence over a decade that
the brain’s deep structure is essentially holographic. Brain structures sight, hearing,
taste, smell and touch holographically (Brennan, Barbara Ann, 1988).

Through applying the concept of the hologram, and thus that, through addressing the
health and optimal functioning of the cells in the body (the smallest physical parts) the
whole party will similarly be affected (Joubert, R, 2001) (Brennen, Barbara Ann, 1988).

1.4 The three primary manifestations of disease
Per Dr Joubert (Joubert, R, 2001) there are three primary ways in which disease
manifest, namely
 Lowered vitality (such as overburdened nervous system due to stress and burn-out)
 Abnormal composition of blood and lymph (such as deficiency in minerals)
 Accumulation of waste material (such as the retention of free radicals)

1.5 The three primary life requirements of the cell
There are three primary life requirements for the cell, being
 Innervation (the inflow of life force and nerve supply)
 Nutrition (which contributes to the composition of blood, lymph and the other fluids of
the body)


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 Drainage (which removes accumulated waste as a result of the bio-chemical
processes in the cells of the body)
These, per Dr Joubert and Smith, D (2005) are based on the basic understanding of the
biology of cells.

1.6 The correspondence between disease and the primary life requirements
of the cell

The table below indicates how the core manifestation of disease can be linked to the
primary life requirements of the cell:

Primary life Examples of primary Example of primary
requirements of manifestation of disease – manifestation of disease –
the cell Einsteinian view Newtonian view
Innervation Lowered vitality results in Imbalance in the nervous
slower vibration. This results in system, such as anxiety, could
resistance to poor nutrition and result in spasms in the bowel
inability to remove waste (clogs and bladder, some people can
the draining process of the cell) even experience fainting (Wilkie,
(Joubert, R, 2001). w, 1999: 23) (Smith, D, 2005).
Stress reduces the capacity of
the body to utlise nutrition
(Hafen et al, 2002: 80).
Nutrition Imbalance of the optimum Per Dr Christiaan about 30% of
elements in food and lymph as cancer is directly related to diet
a result of improper food (nutrition) (Dr Christiaan, 2001:


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combinations fail to supply the 28).
cell with proper proportions of Fat in your abdominal muscles
food elements for optimum are related to incorrect eating
functioning (Joubert, R, 2001). (Joubert, R, 2001).
Drainage The vibrationary activity of the Free radicals damage the
cell can be lowered when there delicate structures in the body’s
is insufficient drainage cells (Dr Christiaan, 2001: 228).
(Joubert, R, 2001) (Smith, D, Homocysteine is a protein that
2005). These can be removed is prominently linked as a
through increasing vital energy, deadly player in disease, for
or removing vital energy example, through clot forming in
blockages (Joubert, R, 2001) the arteries (Elstein, M, 2001:
(Holford, 2001: 203) (Smith, D, 89).
2005)

1.7 Treatment of disease based on the three life requirements of the cell

Instead of treating disease with traditional healing methods, such as surgery and
synthetic drugs, Dr Joubert indicates that the disease should be addressed via the three
primary life requirements.

From the Newtonian perspective, this treatment would focus on the quality and
combination of nutrition, improvement of problems with the nervous system, and the
waste removal process (detoxing process) (Smith, D, 2005). From the Einstein
perspective, the disease would be address through applying the idea that the cell is
made up of atoms who vibrate at certain speed frequencies. The disharmony which is
manifested in the disease would be addressed through improving the speed of vibration


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in the cells and affected organs (Gerber, 2001) (Smith, D, 2005) (Joubert, R, 2001)
(Brennen, A, 1988).

For the PPL practitioner the benefit in this approach is that all problems with personal
health and wellbeing can be analysed using this framework. For example, a wellbeing
program can be reviewed to determine the impact on the three primary life
requirements. Should it address the three primary requirements in a balanced manner,
the PPL practitioner would be able to utilize the principles of such a wellbeing model.


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2 The hidden cause of most 21st Century disease

“When the United States is compared to other countries in terms of longevity, it
does poorly. The American male ranks twenty first and the American female
ranks twentieth. Infant mortality rates are even worse at twenty-third among the
twenty-nine industrialised nations – a pretty poor showing for a country that
spends more on medical treatment per capita than any other country in the
world”.

(Data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development as quoted by
Dr Gerard Anderson, professor of health policy and management, Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health – Travis and Ryan, 2004, 5).

2.1 The PPL interest in the hidden cause of most 21st Century disease

The mainstream medical system is based on crisis medicine – treating the person only
when disease is already manifest (Holford, P, 1998: 15). In terms of the PPL health and
wellbeing principles, this does not address the hidden causes of most 21st Century
disease. From the PPL perspective the diseases are the tip of an iceberg, and to
address these adequately in terms of wellbeing, the deep rooted causes would need to
be addressed – these would occur below the waterline (Smith, D, 2005) (Travis and
Ryan, 2004).

An example of the importance to determine hidden causes of disease is that given byer
Dr Christiaan: “hypertension is also called the silent killer. Most people initially have no
symptoms of high blood pressure. For about 25% of people with untreated high blood
pressure the first symptom of is sudden death” (Dr Christiaan, 2001: 68). Below is a
diagram representing the concept:


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Iceberg view of disease
WHAT WE CAN SEE ABOVE THE WATERLINE – manifestation of disease

Waterline

HIDDEN CAUSES OF DISEASE - UNMANIFEST

2.2 Linking the hidden cause of 2st Century disease to the primary life
requirements of the cell

For PPL purposes, the link to three primary life requirements of cell – nutirion,
innervation and drainage would be used to analyse the hidden causes of modern
disease.

2.3 Innervation
Dr Candice Pert states that the current culture in general does not apply the fact that
our thinking and our emotions fundamentally affect how our cells can utilize food.


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Constant negative emotions, such as anger, frustration could ultimately create long term
damage to the cell receptides to such a degree that the cells will not be able to absorb
the nutrients required for optimum functioning (Dr Spinoza) (Candice Pert) (2004). This
view is supported by Dr Joubert (2001). This has serious implications when we
consider the high levels of stress related emotions experienced by most people, for
example constant anxiety, anger frustration and helplessness.

The impact of our thinking and emotions are often not considered as a fundamental
cause of modern day illness, and we are therefore not encouraged to cultivate positive
states of being to increase our overall vitality (Smith, D, 2005) (Pert, C, 2004).

Hypo-active lifestyles and poor body connection contribute towards poor innervation
within our bodies (Holford, 2001) (Travis and Ryan, 2004). Constant anxiety impacts the
optimum functioning of the nervous system (Hafen et al, 2002). Poor vital life force
prevents optimum

2.4 Nutrition
The Koffman article indicates how high carbohydrate diets are directly linked to
increases in heart disease, diabetes and other lifestyle diseases. This link can be clearly
seen in case studies where people switch from diets consisting of high protein and low
carbohydrate diets to that of western high-carbohydrate diets (Koffman article: PPL
Class 2005).

Per Koffman the chemical composition of breads and pasta are very similar to that of
refined sugar. Through eating these foods, your body experiences an instant rush of
sugar, with the pancreas producing glycogen to turn this into fat to be available for
usage in the long term. Apart from fat increases, your body has an increase in
triglycerides which are one of the main causes of heart disease. Ultimately you could


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experience insulin resistance, a condition where you body can no longer respond in a
normal manner to insulin, increasing pancreas production of insulin, finally resulting in
diabetes where the pancreas are unable to respond properly to sugar.

Sugar in refined foods reduce your immune system. Cancer cells flourish with a high
sugar diet.

In the documentary movie, Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock went through a thirty day
experiment with careful medical monitoring, including testing of blood content. The
experiment clearly showed how lack of exercise and a diet comprising mainly of starch
and fried foods, resulted in major physical damage, as well as impacting on his overall
feeling of wellbeing (Spurlock, M, 2004).

2.5 Drainage

Poor nutrition as well as improper innervation ultimately also result in poor drainage of
waste material in cells. Other factors, such as poor breathing, also contribute towards
poor removal of wastage. Poison and wastage in cells cause disease in the cells.

2.6 The interrelatedness of the three primary causes of disease and the
hidden cause of 21st Century disease

Joubert, R (2001) and Smith, D (2005) indicate that the three primary life requirements
of the cells are interconnected. Poor innervation could negate good nutrition. Poor
nutrition could impact on innervation and poor drainage. Ultimately the hidden causes of
21st Century disease can be found through analysing the lack of the three primary life
requirements of the cell.


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3 Bibliography

3.1 Books

Brennan, Barbara Ann (1988) Hands of Light: A guide to healing through the human
energy field Bantam Books

Dr Christiaan (2001) Lifetime Health Everybody’s guide to sustained wellness Tafelberg

Elstein, M (2001) Eternal health: The comprehensive guide to anti-ageing Struik

Gerber, R (2001) Vibrational medicine: The number one handbook of subtle-energy
therapies (Third Edition) Bear & Company, Rochester, Vermont

Hafen, et al (2002) Mind/body health: The effects of attitudes, emotions and
relationships Second Edition Benjamin Cummings

Holford, P (1998) 100% Health: The drug free guide to feeling better, living longer and
staying free from disease Piatkus

Holford, P (2001) written with Dr Myra Cass Natural Highs: Increase your energy,
Sharpen you mind, Improve your mood, Relax and beat stress with legal, natural and
healthy mind-altering substances Piatkus

Joubert, R (2002) Handout: Module 5: Health and Total Wellness: The Mind/Body/Spirit
Connection – extract handed out in PPL Classnotes


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Pressman, A (1999) The complete idiot’s guide to alternative medicine – Dr Alan
Pressman with Sheila Buff (Alpha Books)

Shealy, Norman MD Ph. D (1999) The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Alternative
Healing Therapies Element

Travis, J W and Ryan, R S (2004) Wellness Workbook: How to achieve enduring health
and vitality (3rd edition) Celestial Arts

Wilkie, W (1999) Understanding stress breakdown Newleaf

Wolf, F A (2001) Mind into Matter: A new alchemy of science and spirit Moment Point
Press

3.2 Articles

(Koffman article: New Health Revelations) (handed out in PPL Class: Health and
Wellness Module: January 2005)

Lutz, B: Your unique body story (The South African Journal of natural medicine) (Issue
17, 2005: pages 9 – 10)

3.3 Other


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Smith, D (2005) Classnotes from PPL lecture: Module 7 Personal Health and Total
Wellbeing (PPL p7X8) (University of Johannesburg, January 2005)

Smith, D (2005) Classnotes from PPL lecture: Module 7 Personal Health and Total
Wellbeing (PPL p7X8) (University of Johannesburg, March 2005)

Pert, C (2004) The little book of bleeps – Ponder these for a while – Quotations from the
movie “What the bleep do we (k)now!?” Captured Light Distributions

Dr Spinoza (2004) The little book of bleeps – Ponder these for a while – Quotations
from the movie “What the bleep do we (k)now!?” Captured Light Distributions

Spurlock, M (2004) Supersize Me –A film of epic proportions Hart Sharp Video (DVD)


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