By Dr. Gary Samuelson, PhD
This statistic is based on extensive research by the NIH, WHO, and several top-rate medical investigators (see the references to news articles below). It might seem surprising to some of you. You might ask, “Well if we know how to prevent more than 80% of cardiovascular disease (the number one cause of death in the world) why aren’t we doing it?” It seems like saving hundreds of millions of lives would be worthy of the money and effort we, the people, put into our health care systems. We have the technology, we can build it better, stronger, faster.
Sometimes the most complex questions have the simplest answers. This is certainly the case for the solution to universal health care. The question reads like this: Considering all the factors that influence our health, how can we define the best universal health care system? The question is complex, there are genetic factors, environmental factors, cultural factors, lifestyle factors, and at least as many individual factors as there are individuals. This question seems to imply that we must consider the billions of factors that influence our health. How could we possibly come up with a health care system that covers them all? Yet as we gain more technology, we see that the optimal solution is surprisingly simple. Mother nature, over the time life has been on our planet, has done all the hard work for us.
Our current health care systems are focused on knowing everything about diseases (the lack of health) and their pathologies (patterns or symptoms of these diseases). This certainly occupies the greatest amount of time in the medical student’s curriculum. We can identify hundreds of diseases by looking at blood work, body images, chemical shifts and myriads of different pathologies and symptoms. While this knowledge helps us to know what is wrong, when defining the best health care system, we need to focus on the best ways to make things right.
All of us know that our body heals itself. Our tissues, blood vessels, nerves, glands, and even organs can regenerate themselves when given the chance. The cure for a broken bone is to set the bone in place and protect it while it grows back. This mostly happens while we sleep. The methods to prevent 80% of cardiovascular disease are no less difficult. Provide our heart cells and blood vessels with the things they need to grow strong, and they will do it. Take away the things that they don’t need, that get in the way (called toxins) and they will do it faster.
These methods can be distilled down into 10 natural cellular laws, these are all we need to make all health happen, for the cardiovascular system, and everything else. These laws are the topic of my new book. They will redefine health care.
Cardiovascular diseases: Avoiding heart attacks and strokes (who.int)
Numbers to know for a healthy heart | NHLBI, NIH
Dr. Gary Samuelson 
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