Use these teachings to provide an invaluable service to clients & students. Help them frame their situation by differentiating symptoms, underlying conditions, and root causes.
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
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Use this Material to Support Your Work with Clients
Symptoms & Diagnoses
Underlying Conditions
Lifestyle Choices & Cellular Health
100% Evidence-Based Root Cause Index
How Providers Serve: A Series
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Use this Material to Support Your Work with Clients
You can help clients and students to frame and contextualize their situation by differentiating symptoms, underlying conditions, and root causes of health and disease.
Whether you’re in the midst of a consultation or presenting the foundations necessary to understand a health concept, here are some teachings to assist you in your communications.
Symptoms & Diagnoses
Symptoms are experiences of health imbalance such as chronic tiredness, low back pain, headache, fever, heart palpitations, rash, constipation, and depression.
Many diagnoses are simply a name given to a list of symptoms. A diagnosis of Hashimoto’s disease, depression, or rheumatoid arthritis, for example, is simply a name for a constellation of symptoms without reference to the underlying conditions that cause it.
The underlying conditions can certainly be discovered (e.g. microbiome imbalance, stress, chronic inflammation, excessive toxic load, vitamin D deficiency, etc.) but the diagnoses themselves are disconnected from them; they are therefore inadequate for defining and addressing the condition at hand. More information in Beyond Diagnosis.
Underlying Conditions
With chronic disease, there are a few underlying conditions that produce an extravagant number of possible symptom combinations. Chronic pain and chronic disease typically involve one or more of the following underlying conditions:
Chronic inflammation — The inflammatory response is a natural and supportive bodily process associated with the immune system. Chronic inflammation, however, overwhelms the immune system, causing additional symptoms. The list of manifested diseases associated with inflammation is long and the diseases are among the most chronic and painful. See the disease list and sources here.
Over-activated sympathetic nervous system, chronic stress — In a healthy situation, the sympathetic nervous system flows on and off in response to a variety of triggers, both positive and negative. After a stressful encounter is perceived to be over, the stress response is switched off. However, when distress is persistent and long-lasting, draining a person psychologically or emotionally, it is termed chronic stress. In chronic stress, the sympathetic nervous system is overactivated and the relaxation response doesn’t occur enough to achieve nervous system balance. Research shows that chronic stress can cause and exacerbate disease and mental health issues. See research synopses here.
Microbiome imbalance — Microbiome is the term used to describe that our body is made up of “an unfathomably complex array of microorganisms… Considering the immense contribution towards sustaining basic functions like digestion, immunity, and brain function, the microbiome could just as well be relabeled the macrobiome.” [Sayer Ji] There is a bi-directional link between the central nervous system (brain, spine and nerves) and the gut (digestive organs, microbiome and enteric nervous system); this link involves the autonomic nervous system (including the vagus nerve).
Unresolved trauma — As a natural human response to stress, a person exposed to trauma will experience elevated stress hormones. In people who have unresolved trauma, their nervous system takes much longer to return to balance and their response to stress goes into overdrive in daily life, “spiking quickly and disproportionately” in response to mild stress. The prolonged stress response caused by trauma contributes to such wide-ranging problems as memory and attention issues, irritability, depression, hyper-vigilance, angry outbursts and sleep disorders.
Lifestyle Choices & Cellular Health
Health and disease, at its root, is cellular health and cellular dis-ease. Cellular health is impacted by lifestyle factors:
Social connection
Purpose and spiritual health
See Also
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Establishment medicine promoted the belief that genes are a “blueprint” for a person’s biology and health, with “bad” or “defective” genes being the cause of illness. This was proven incorrect by the Human Genome Project completed in 2003.
Genes are better understood as potentialities. Genes express differently based on our cells’ environment — which means our exposure to toxins, nutrients, stress, exercise, and so on. Those environmental factors determine whether genes are “signaled” or not.
From 90 to 99% of diseases are proven by research to be caused by toxins, nutrient deficiencies, stress, and other controllable factors.
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How Providers Serve: A Series
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
Providers Face a Changed Wellness Landscape — We’re in the midst of a metaphorical storm. Shall we pause for a moment to assess and consider how we’re moving forward, individually and together?
Symptoms, Conditions, Root Causes (you’re here) — Use these teachings to help clients and students frame their situation by differentiating symptoms and diagnoses, underlying conditions, and root causes.
Evidence-Based Decision-Making — Help clients move from the illusion of making evidence-based decisions to actually doing so.
Using Context to Individualize Wellness Strategies — A decision can be helpful in one situation and not in another. Providers need concrete ways to evaluate context with authentic and practical tools that hold up under real world conditions.
Foundational Considerations, Universal Truths — A springboard for client discussions or workshops on health and wellness: universal truths. These significant and practical teachings create a strong foundation from which to build.
Incontrovertible Facts about Germs & Immunity — You know this, but many clients need to see the evidence for themselves. AMA research published in 1919 proves without a doubt that germs don’t cause disease. How immunity works and why we must dismantle false beliefs to inspire people to identify the real causes of illness.
Chronic Inflammation — Teach about chronic inflammation. It’s rampant and causes an extravagant number of symptoms & chronic diseases. Get comprehensive summaries of 100% evidence-based root causes & reversal therapies.
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