Several memorable events were the inspiration for writing this book. First, many patients had documented benefit from adhering to contrary 'fringe' advice. These cases led to a growing curiosity about exploring the growing list of inconsistencies. These inconsistencies should not happen if one adheres to the official view of the medical universe. Back then it was beyond my education level to explain why a diet high in cholesterol and fat, but low in carbohydrate leads to a drop in harmful cholesterol parameters. Years later I have come to understand how the different hormones, that these diets promote, leads to improved cholesterol profile. The science is all there, but it largely is presented in a convoluted and fragmented manner. The reorganization of these scientific facts is presented throughout the manual.

An additional inconsistency occurred regarding obesity. I could never figure out why no one was organizing the hormones causing obesity as they relate to one another. The science was present, but like cholesterol knowledge it was fragmented and disorganized in its presentation in the medical texts. The obesity chapter provides what science knows about gaining and losing fat.

Another learning opportunity started about ten years ago and occurred shortly after I married a pretty chiropractor named Brenda. Humility describes the feeling about my MD degree as my knowledge base was forced into the captive position. I watched with humility what a competent chiropractor accomplished with two hands following a multitude of musculoskeletal complaints. My world was rocked on its medical underpinnings. Thinking outside the box was the next logical step.

Later, I had the opportunity to work alongside naturopaths, other chiropractors, acupuncturists, and homeopaths. Each of their various educational perspectives provided me with additional inconsistencies for the toxic symptom control paradigm that I had been groomed into believing.
Over the last several years I have had time to think about what is actually known about the aging process. Early on I could only come with five reasons for cellular deterioration. In the second year, it became clear that there was evidence for a total of seven mechanisms for how the body ages.

The Seven Paths to an Old Body
     1. Poor informational substance content
     2. Rusting processes
     3. Hardening processes
     4. Low voltage cell syndrome
     5. Deficient and/or excessive molecular building parts
     6. Failure to take out the cellular trash water
     7. A preponderance of energies that maim compared to the energies that heal

This manual is about helping the reader understand ways to combat these processes. There is a lot of bad information circulating around. Sometimes bad information continues to circulate because the good information negates the need for help from the medical industrial complex.
Without good information, owners will always be vulnerable to the clever advertising schemes of the medical industrial complex.

These informational sound bites are dispersed through various media outlets and are usually the most profitable ways of treating an owner's disease. Many of these popular approaches are based in a symptom control paradigm. Symptom control has little to do with how one heals and always has side effects. Many conventionally trained physicians haven't a clue (neither did I) that their complex funded educations left out many unifying and holistic scientific principles. Owners need to acquire a basic understanding of what is really known about the less profitable ways of treating the common diseases that begin around middle age. Accurate information about how one heals will lower gullibility. This is secondary to living in a profit driven health care system.

I have found that most owners will make life style changes if they understand that it leads to healing. Learning is somewhat painful and depleting. This book is not for the weak minded and lazy types. This manual was written for those owners who possess enough motivation to stay focused on the goal of becoming less gullible regarding their health care choices. The reward for such commitment comes in the form of personal empowerment that is evidenced by acquiring the basics on how to prevent the seven processes from manifesting in our lives.

As the reader endeavors to learn each chapter, awareness will come that the profit driven approaches of mainstream medicine are about symptom control with a price. The price paid to the owner's body is evidenced by side effects and toxicities. Common examples of diseases treated today in the symptom control paradigm instead of the healing paradigm include heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, obesity, and menopausal related disease.

Symptom control medicine has nothing to do with healing. True healing can only begin to occur when cause and effect are included in the decision making process. The seven processes are usually involved in this understanding. Science exists to understand and impact these seven processes. Often there is little incentive to publish or advertise this knowledge only because it is less profitable.

Combating these seven processes is fundamental to achieving lasting health. This manual facilitates the reader on ways to begin accessing and applying seven correcting principles that the holism of science revealed long ago.

It is also important to not get overly frustrated when a concept is not clear. Chances are it will be explained later in a way the reader can understand.

At the end of this manual there is a chapter for putting the entire proceeding chapters into practice beginning with a more complete inquiry as to where an owner stands regarding the seven processes in the context of the physical exam. By the time the reader makes it to this section of the manual these principles will make more sense.

William B. Ferril, M.D.

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