The nutrients that a human being needs for heat, energy, tissue growth, and body’s immunity to disease fall into two major categories: (1) macronutrients and (2) micronutrients.
Carbohydrates,
proteins and fats are macronutrients. Fibre is not a nutrient but it provides
grip for the gut to push the food and waste product from the mouth to the anus.
So it is essential for the digestive and elimination processes. Macronutrients
provide calories for heat, energy, and also material for tissue growth.
Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes are called micronutrients. Each of
these micro-nutrient categories has a number of sub-categories. These do not
contribute calories but help metabolize the digested macronutrients nutrients
into heat, energy, and tissue growth. Human body needs macronutrients as well
as micronutrients in appropriate ratios for efficient digestion and metabolism
to occur.
There
are many organs and organ systems in the human body. All the organs do not need
the same nutrients. Different organs need different combinations and
permutations of nutrients. Cell is the smallest organ in the human body. Not
many people are aware that conversion of digested carbohydrates, proteins, and
fats into heat and energy occurs at the cell level not in the stomach or in the
small intestine only. For conversion of digested food into heat, energy, and
tissue growth, cells need vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, hormones,
water and oxygen via the blood stream. All glands require their particular
nutrients to be able to produce secretions and hormones. Metabolism will be
severely impaired if all these are not available to the cells.
In human digestion and absorption, metabolism
encompasses both catabolism and anabolism. They both occur in the cells of
the gut. Catabolism involves breaking down of complex molecules of proteins,
carbohydrates, and fats into simpler molecules: glucose, amino acids and lipids respectively so that they
can be absorbed by the blood vessels. Anabolism,
also at the cell level is the building phase of metabolism. It uses energy to
synthesize different types of large molecules from small molecules. It
utilizes the smaller molecules absorbed from digestion to build larger, more
complex molecules needed for growth, repair, and energy storage in tissues by
different organs.
If
one or two macronutrients are eaten in excessive quantities or if
micronutrients are not eaten in adequate quantities to metabolize the digested
primary nutrients then the diet is called ‘nutritionally imbalanced diet’. If
digested food cannot be metabolized into heat, energy, and tissue growth
factors, liver will convert it into fat and will deposit it in different parts
of the body.
Most
of the present prevalent chronic diseases are not caused by bacteria or
viruses. The root causes of most of the present day chronic diseases are in
imbalanced nutrition, unhealthy lifestyle factors, sedentary life, mental
stress, and environmental pollution where one is living, working or travelling.
The following are some such diseases: Obesity, coronary artery disease,
blockages in arteries elsewhere, varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis,
rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, asthma, sinusitis, allergy, hay
fever, gas, acidity, indigestion,
constipation, piles, haemorrhoids, hair fall, acne, pimples,
hyper-pigmentation, loss of skin complexion and glow, kidney and gall bladder
stones etc. Western medicine does not have permanent cures for most of these
diseases. It has only life-long daily maintenance medicines for most of these
diseases.
Eating
macronutrients and micronutrients in the right ratios can significantly lessen
the problems of acne, pimples, white heads, black heads, blemishes, and skin
discolorations. Many skin problems that are attributed to UVA and UVB
radiations are in fact the problems of very imbalanced nutrition, food
adulteration, environmental pollution, and mental stress. Nutritious diet is
extremely important for radiant and bright skin complexion and lively glow.
For
maximum protection against aging and degenerative diseases, the recommended
daily intake of protein for healthy adult men of any age is 56 grams and for
women it is 46 grams. A diet which supplies more protein than the body needs,
actually causes deficiencies of essential vitamins, including B-3 and B-6. It
also leaches minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, and magnesium.
In addition, excessive consumption of protein can result in the accumulation of
protein breakdown by-products in the body that cause degenerative diseases such
as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer
etc.
There
are many pharmaceutically produced vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes
in the market. They come in the form of capsules, tablets, pastes, granules,
powders, syrups etc. Most of these include inorganic substances, sugar, salt,
fat, refined carbohydrates, colouring substances, preservatives, taste
enhancers etc. Our body can absorb only a small fraction of such manufactured
nutritional products.
Our
body can absorb natural organic foods far better than manufactured products.
Eating natural foods that contain a wide variety of primary as well as micro
nutrients and regular moderate physical and breathing exercises are the best
way to maintain robust health and a high level of immunity to disease. Even
communicable and contagious diseases cannot affect a person with a high level
of immunity to disease. The most important thing to remember is that at present
most of the micronutrients are stripped off from highly processed,
manufactured, and over cooked foods.
How
is Australian Herbal Clinic able to cure non-communicable diseases that others
are unable to cure and prescribe only palliative medicines on a life-long
basis? Dr Rao
and Dr Sailaja practise ‘Holistic, Participatory, Customised, Curative and Pure
Herbal Medicine, hereafter called ‘Holistic Herbal Medicine’. It is defined as
follows: Holistic medicine means the
whole background of patient is very important for identifying the root causes
of diseases and for designing medicines and counselling. Every patient is
unique in terms of the root causes of an ailment. Patient is empowered to
participate in healing and curing the disease. So, it is a participatory medicine as well. As every patient is unique, he or she is offered customised medicine and
counselling. Even when the medicine is the same for different patients,
counselling regarding diet, lifestyle factors etc has to be individualised to
eliminate the root causes. A vast majority of the present day chronic diseases
are curable with Holistic Herbal Medicine. Every patient is treated only to cure not just to manage
the disease on a life-long basis. Only edible and pure herbs are used for formulating medicines and for curing most
of the present day chronic diseases. As such there would not be any adverse side
effects.
Preventive medicine is an
integral part of Holistic Herbal Medicine. Every patient is advised s that
if his family members, relatives, friends, and acquaintances etc also adhere to
balanced nutrition, healthy lifestyle factors etc their health would be robust
and their immunity to disease would be at the highest level. Even the most
contagious and communicable diseases cannot touch them.