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THE HEALTH MODEL
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THE SIX SUBCLINICAL DEFECTS
THE HEALTH MODEL VS. THE DISEASE MODEL
Decades of research led to the development of the Health Model upon which much of the Institute for Health Realities’ programs and products are based. This Model is markedly different from the Disease Model, which is currently the basis of traditional health practice.
The Disease Model is based on the assumption that health is simply the absence of disease and established risk factors. When medicine is practiced this way, a doctor is expected to assume that disease is mostly the result of flaws in the genetic pool. As a result, the focus of treatment is on making a diagnosis, putting a label on that diagnosis, and then treating the label. This approach works well in crises situations, such as a heart attack, but fails miserably when used to handle chronic disease and infections. The flaw rests in the fact that symptoms and risk factors are less often the cause–and more often a reflection–of underlying defects. As a result, treating the symptom by dictating to the body what you would like to have happen–rather than supporting natural mechanisms–does little more than hide the underlying defect.
The Health Model begins, instead, with the premise that it is necessary to know how something works in order to repair or improve it. It further proposes that health changes must be addressed from the perspective of their impact on total health, rather than just focusing on how a procedure impacts a specific symptom.
Our Health Model addresses health from a broader framework than the conventional approach. Sam Queen has identified six subclinical defects that are common to every degenerative disease. For someone to get completely well from any disease, these six must first be identified, and then addressed in a particular order...a process that we call Free Radical Therapy (FRT). FRT recognizes that each person is biologically unique, and slight alterations in treatment approach must be made for each individual. This is why a one-size-fits-all approach to wellness doesn’t work for many people. By addressing and treating these defects, the doctor and patient are able to get at the cause of disease, rather than simply treating symptoms for a lifetime
THE SIX SUBCLINICAL DEFECTS
pH (Acid/Base) Imbalance – Acid or Alkaline Stress
This is a condition in which the pH of body fluids are abnormally out of balance, leaning generally to the acidic side. In health, the body makes every effort to remain alkaline, but this is made difficult by the volume of acid produced by normal metabolism. Rarely does the body experience ‘alkaline stress’. Acid stress occurs far more often…when alkalinity is lost due to the acid challenge. Acid stress sets the stage for infection and underlies 80% of all diseases.
Anaerobic Metabolism
In health, the body derives energy from a mix of aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, but favors high energy aerobic metabolism over low energy anaerobic metabolism. As the energy pendulum swings towards the anaerobic state (which generally coincides with acidity), fatigue, disease and infection begins to set in. A near total switch to anaerobic metabolism accompanied by severe acid stress results in cell death and disease. This is typical of heart attack and stroke.
Free Calcium Excess
In health, 55% of serum calcium is bound to protein or alkaline buffers, while 45% is left unbound in the "free" state. As the ratio narrows, resulting in an excess of free calcium, the body experiences calcification, bone resorption, and alterations in cell signaling, resulting in a wide range of diseases. The list especially includes heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer.
Chronic Inflammation
Inflammation, when acute, is a healthy event; helping the body to repair itself, fight infections, deal with cancer and handle toxic exposures. Chronic or prolonged inflammation begins to fail its intended purposes, thereby raising the risk of infection, toxicity, and all disease conditions, especially heart disease, arthritis and cancer.
Connective Tissue Breakdown
Connective tissue makes up the body’s "superstructure" and "guy-wires" that literally hold the body together. Enzymes produced by chronic inflammation, combined with damaging free radicals and alterations in the other subclinical markers assessed, cause a breakdown in connective tissues. Failure to use proteins, or a deficiency of proteins, is often fundamental to this problem, which is characteristic of aging and all chronic diseases.
Oxidative Stress
Oxidative stress occurs when protective antioxidant status falls short of what’s needed to handle the output of damaging free radicals. Free radicals are extremely reactive chemical entities that arise normally from metabolism, and also from toxic exposure. An excess amount of free radicals relative to antioxidant capacity leads to uncontrolled oxidation that destroys cell components and destabilizes healthy cell function, laying the groundwork for disease, infection, and disability from aging, and toxicity.
Using the Health Model as the starting point,
and then looking for those things which violate the model,
the relationship of the Six Fundamental Defects
to chronic disease and infections becomes apparent.
Addressing them allows getting at the cause of disease, rather than temporarily eliminating the symptoms. Where disease is not yet present, the Health Model allows the avoidance of future health problems. The focus dramatically shifts from symptom management to supporting natural mechanisms. The secret to long-term success in the handling of symptoms–such as high cholesterol–is to address the fundamental defects in such a way that the response is tailored to the individual.
Using the Health Model-based approach, we’ve seen some remarkable results. People with chronic fatigue, sleep disorders, memory difficulties, numerous aches and pains, digestive disorders, chronic depression, systemic impairments, coronary diseases, cancer, autoimmune dysfunction and a host of other maladies have made profound improvements.
Here at the Institute for Health Realities the Health Model is our frame of reference for both understanding and attaining health. Through this approach we've gained the insight that directs us to those steps necessary to not only prevent disease, but also to overcome it. It is truly a revolutionary approach.
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