Got anemia or other blood disorders? What's the cause? There's a strong chance it's heavy metals including aluminum, copper, lead or mercury. Could also be antibiotics or a nutrient deficiency.
A series on identifying the root causes of disease. Use quick links to verify research and sources.
Aluminum Causes Horrific Damage
It is known that there is a causal role for aluminum in dialysis encephalopathy [fatal brain damage] … anemia, and osteomalacia [“soft bones” from nutrient deficiency].
Toxicology and Industrial Health
Aluminum is Widely Used
Aluminum is widely used to manufacture beverage cans and antacids, as a base for paints and cosmetics, and so forth.
Lead Causes Extremely Serious Health Damage
Lead poisoning can cause anemia, hypertension, risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease, and central and peripheral neurotoxicity.
Drinking Water is Contaminated with Lead
The samples came from water systems that together service more than 19 million people… In total, 118 out of 120 samples had detectable levels of lead.
Contents
Genes Aren’t the Problem (So, What Is?)
Implications
Anemia & Pernicious Anemia
Root Causes of Blood Disorders: Anemia, Thrombocytopenia (Low Levels of Blood Platelets), Raynaud’s Phenomenon (Constricted Blood Vessels)
Toxic Drugs as First-Line Treatment? Used for a Prolonged Period?
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Context
Genes Aren’t the Problem (So, What Is?)
With knowledge of causal factors, true healing is possible.
Establishment medicine has long promoted the belief that genes are a “blueprint” for a person’s biology and health. This was proven incorrect by the Human Genome Project completed in 2003.
Defective genes are spoken about as if they are “disease time bombs,” fatalistically programmed to go off inside of us... And yet, despite common misconceptions… diseases that result from errors in the nucleotide sequence of a single gene… [account for] less than 1% of all diseases… Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, it is no longer accurate to say that our genes “cause” disease.
Genomic researcher Craig Venter remarked… “Genes have very little impact on life outcomes. Our biology is way too complicated for that and deals with hundreds of thousands of independent factors. Genes are absolutely not our fate. They can give us useful information about the increased risk of a disease, but in most cases they will not determine the actual cause of the disease, or the actual incidence of somebody getting it.” … As we migrate from one country to another, our chances of being diagnosed with most chronic illnesses are determined not by the country we come from but by the country we migrate to… [and] the concordance between identical twins for breast cancer was found to be only 20%. Instead of our genes, our lifestyle and environment account for 90–95% of our most chronic illnesses.
Genes are better understood as potentialities.
Genes express differently based on the cells’ environment — which means our exposure to toxins, nutrients, stress, exercise, and so on.
Those environmental factors determine whether genes are “signaled” or not.
Implications
The presumption that conditions that seemed to “run in the family” were due to genetic inheritance overlooked all the other things (the “environment”) that family members may share: the food they eat, the toxins in their water, the electro-magnetics in their area, the chemicals in their cleaning products, the way they deal with emotions, their stress levels and so on.
The implications of the genetic “blueprint” model were profound and long-lasting. Western medicine promoted the false belief that disease is due to genetic inheritance, propagating a medical system built on the false belief of fated outcomes and “no cures”, resulting in:
Helplessness, disempowerment
A focus on symptom management
Excessive use of pharmaceutical drugs
Distraction from identifying and addressing root causes
Dr. Bruce Lipton: “We are not victims of our genome”
My research on how environment [toxins, nutrition, exercise, stress relief, etc] shapes genetic activity was published in 1977… Twenty years after I started my stem cell research, the same conclusions were officially recognized by science in advancing the revolutionary field of Epigenetics … the science of how environment controls genetic activity. The most exciting consequence of these studies is the revelation that we are truly masters of our genome… We are empowered creators, not victims of our genome.
While genes play a role in life and disease, there are innumerable epigenetic triggers that differentiate us from mice and each other [and express as health or illness].
Anemia & Pernicious Anemia
Anemia is the name for a low level of red blood cells, or a low level of hemoglobin within them, resulting in insufficient oxygen being supplied to the body. [source]
Pernicious anemia refers to an autoimmune process that leads to a vitamin B-12 deficiency and anemia. In cases where anemia symptoms are being caused by a vitamin B-12 deficiency that is in turn caused by an autoimmune process, please also see root causes of Autoimmune Diseases. [source]
Root Causes of Blood Disorders: Anemia, Thrombocytopenia (Low Levels of Blood Platelets), Raynaud’s Phenomenon (Constricted Blood Vessels)
Quick links to verify research for each root cause are at Wellness Resource Center: Root Cause Index
