It may
come as a surprise to some, especially those with conventional medical
training, but the default state of the body is one of ceaseless regeneration. Without
the flame-like process of continual cell turnover within the body – life and
death ceaselessly intertwined – the miracle of the human body would not exist.
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In times of illness, however, regenerative processes are overcome
by degenerative ones. This is where medicine may perform its most noble feat,
nudging the body back into balance with foods, herbs, nutrients, healing
energies, i.e. healing intention. Today, however, drug-based medicine
invariably uses chemicals that have not one iota of regenerative potential; to the
contrary, they almost always interfere with bodily self-renewal in order to
suppress the symptoms against which they are applied.
Despite the outright heretical nature of things which stimulate
healing and regeneration vis-à-vis the conventional medical system which frowns
upon, or is incredulous towards, spontaneous remission in favor of symptom
suppression and disease management, over the course of the past few years of
trolling MEDLINE we
have collected a series of remarkable studies on the topic...
Nerve Regeneration –
There are actually a broad range of natural compounds with proven
nerve-regenerative effects. A 2010 study published in the journal Rejuvenation Research,
for instance, found a combination of blueberry, green tea and carnosine have
neuritogenic (i.e. promoting neuronal regeneration) and stem-cell regenerative
effects in an animal model of neurodegenerative disease.[1] Other
researched neuritogenic substances include:
There is another class
of nerve-healing substances, known as remyelinating compounds,
which stimulate the repair of the protective sheath around the axon of the
neurons known as myelin, and which is often damaged in neurological injury
and/or dysfunction, especially autoimmune and vaccine-induced demyelination disorders.
It should also be noted that even music and falling in love have
been studied for possibly stimulating neurogenesis, regeneration and/or repair
of neurons, indicating that regenerative medicine does not necessary require
the ingestion of anything; rather, a wide range of therapeutic actions may
be employed to improve health and well-being, as well.
[View the first-hand
biomedical citations on these neuritogenic substance visit our NeuritogenicResearch
page on the topic]
Liver
Regeneration – Glycyrrhizin, a
compound found within licorice, and which we recently featured as a
powerful anti-SARS virus agent,
has also been found to stimulate the regeneration of liver mass and function in
the animal model of hepatectomy. Other liver regenerative substances include:
Beta-Cell
Regeneration –
Unfortunately, the medical community has yet to harness the diabetes-reversing
potential of natural compounds. Whereas expensive stem cell therapies, islet
cell transplants, and an array of synthetic drugs in the developmental pipeline
are the focus of billions of dollars of research, annually, our kitchen
cupboards and backyards may already contain the long sought-after cure for type
1 diabetes. The following compounds have been demonstrated experimentally to
regenerate the insulin-producing beta cells, which are destroyed in insulin
dependent diabetes, and which once restored, may (at least in theory) restore
the health of the patient to the point where they no longer require insulin
replacement.
Hormone
Regeneration –
there are secretagogues, which
increase the endocrine glands' ability to secrete more hormone, and there are
substances that truly
regenerate hormones which have degraded (by emitting
electrons) into potentially carcinogenic "transient hormone"
metabolites. One of these substances is vitamin C. A powerful electron donor, this vitamin has the ability to
contribute electrons to resurrect the form and function of estradiol (estrogen;
E2), progesterone, testosterone, for instance. [2] In
tandem with foods that are able to support the function of glands,
such as the ovaries, vitamin C may represent an excellent complement or
alternative to hormone replacement therapy.
Cardiac Cell
Regeneration – Not
too long ago, it was believed that cardiac tissue was uniquely incapable of
being regenerated. A new, but rapidly growing body of experimental research now
indicates that this is simply not true, and there is a class of heart-tissue
regenerating compounds known as neocardiogenic substances. Neocardiogenic
substances are able to stimulate the formation of cardiac progenitor cells
which can differentiate into healthy heart tissue, and they include the
following:
Another
remarkable example of cardiac cell regeneration is through what is known as
fetomaternal trafficking of stem cells through the placenta. In a recent
article we discussed the amazing process known as "fetal microchimerism" by
which the fetus contributes stem cells to the mother which are capable of
regenerating her damaged heart cells, and possibly a wide range of other cell
types.
Cartilage/Joint/Spine
Regeneration – Curcumin and resveratrol have been shown to improve recovery
from spinal cord injury. Over a dozen other natural compounds hold
promise in this area, which can be viewed on our Spinal Cord Injury page. As far as degenerative
joint disease, i.e. osteoarthritis, there are a broad range of potentially
regenerative substances, with 50 listed on ourosteoarthritis research page.
Ultimately,
regenerative medicine threatens to undermine the very economic infrastructure
that props up the modern, drug-based and quite candidly degenerative medical system. Symptom
suppression is profitable because it guarantees both the perpetuation of the
original underlying disease, and the generation of an ever-expanding array of
additional, treatment-induced symptoms.
This is
the non-sustainable, infinite growth model which shares features characteristic
of the process of cancer itself - a model, which by its very nature, is doomed
to fail and eventually collapse. Cultivating diets, lifestyles and attitudes
conducive to bodily regeneration can interrupt this pathological circuit, and
help us to attain the bodily freedom that is a precondition for the liberation
of the human soul and spirit, as well.
Source: GreenMedInfo
