Humans tend to be rugged, long-lasting creatures. typical lifetime in the developed countries is actually up around 80 years! As scientific and medical awareness progresses, we’ve recently come to understand that there are both short term issues and also intermediate to long-term components which affect Our health and wellbeing.

For example, there is a generally accepted minimum daily Vitamin C intake necessary to prevent scurvy. Once we thought that this minimum amount was all that anyone needed. Subsequent scientific studies showed us that increased Vitamin C intake had significant health and well-being benefits.

If you don’t get any Vitamin C, you will contract scurvy in a few months. There is a longer general health cycle in play, measured in years, which calls for higher vitamin C consumption levels.

There are other, longer-lasting cycles of effects of deprivations of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, probiotics and others that affect us. These deprivations can lead to diabetes, circulatory problems, heart disease and maybe alzheimer’s disease and others.

On the dark side there are pollutants, toxins, carcinogens and other substances, both known and as-yet-unknown, that have cumulative life-shortening effects on us humans.

All this pushes us to avoid artificial drug solutions and move toward more natural cures.

Understanding this today enables us to effectively avoid fibroid surgery, discover the best psoriasis diet and benefit ovarian cyst removal effectively..

Our biochemistry is quite complex. There seem to be genetic links to more diseases and conditions than we ever suspected just a few years ago. As we continue to decode the complex interrelations of genetics, DNA, biochemistry and causes and effects of what we ingest, we have been finding new remedies to old problems in frequently unusual places.

Disclaimer: This posting is based on information freely available in the popular press and medical journals that deal with medical matters. Nothing herein is intended to be or should be construed to be medical advice. For medical advice the reader should consult with his or her physician or other medical specialist.

Courtesy of George Openheimer