Not only you, I have also wondered in my teen age, why we
catch cold or any disease that will result in us feeling horrible...?
After I entered my college and started learning medical
science, that’s when I got the perfect answer.
Let me give you a one liner reply...
Dis – Ease means any condition that disturbs our body’s
normal pattern, either by invasion of a microorganism or by other means – Side effect of Medicine, Familial Disease history etc...
Now,
Let’s understand the root cause of us falling sick in DETAIL...
Diseases could be classified in 4 Groups: - Physiological
Diseases, Hereditary Disease, Deficiency diseases and Infectious Diseases.
All of those are self explanatory. Still, we will analyze
each of them in detail. So, let’s go......
Physiological Disease ---
- Any disturbance in the physiology – internal environment – of the body will cause physiological disease.
- For example, you have been binge
eating everyday for 30 years that led to burn out of your pancreatic cells that
are responsible for producing Insulin.
- So, now it will produce very less insulin or not at all. This is called Diabetes. That could have been cured in the first place by intermittent fasting. So, Lifestyle modification is absolutely necessary from early age.
- Second Example , if you have been eating junk food and fatty diet since 20-30 years, your body fat will continue rising in that time till the point when you will have fatty deposits in your arteries; that will make them narrow.
- This will result in heart exerting more pressure to pump the blood to the distant organs....that is called High blood pressure. You could have improved your eating habits to lose fat and stay healthy.
- The moral of the story is, taking care of the body from the early age will not result in any negative consequences later in your life.
- If you are our follower of Let's live better and implement our advice from every blog, Congratulations. You are gifted with long life.
Hereditary Disease –
- Hereditary word itself means that it was given to an individual from his family like property.
- This, if curable, should
be cured at earliest – Viral infection transmitted to baby from mother Ex.
Hepatitis B.
- On the other hand, there are few disease, like Diabetes type 1 , that could not be cured. So, one needs to take treatment for that life long. If the disease is life-threatening, supportive care is required.
Deficiency Disease --
- Self explanatory right?When the person is deprived of certain type of foods or environment for long time, this particular nutrition’s store in the body will deplete – Deficiency.
- For treating these diseases, Ex: Vit D deficiency due to less or no Sunlight exposure or supplementation, we need to administer it from outside via food or medication.
Infectious Disease ---
- These are caused by invasion of microorganism – bacteria,
Virus, Fungi – in the body. They produce toxins and it will make us sick.
- For detailed information on that, we highly recommend you check out these articles –
https://beneficiallifestyle.blogspot.com/2020/03/communicable-disease-spread.html
https://beneficiallifestyle.blogspot.com/2020/04/immunity-approach-to-longevity.html
Apart from these mentioned, there are few instances – Ex. Road
traffic accident – that are classified as Accidents.
That could be prevented by
driving properly....you got it right...!
So,
This is it...The science of sickness...!
Still confused ...Leave your questions in the comment
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