Until you understand how disease occurs, every time you do these things you are creating a beautiful environment for disease to take hold. It’s really hard to change what we do and change that environment.
Martin has called this triumvirate of disease – the three headed monster – the three main causes of disease…
- Toxicity (presence of stuff that shouldn’t be here)
- Malnutrition (absence of stuff that should be here)
- Stagnation (lack of movement)
The three-headed monster that causes untold suffering – degenerative and inflammatory disease – for millions of us can be conquered. You can directly influence it with your choices. It is not easy, because the mainstream culture conspires against you. From your earliest days you are taught to behave in ways that will haunt you later.
It starts with well-meaning doctors injecting you with toxic vaccinations, good relatives using sweets as rewards, the food processors adding neurotoxins to your drink or food, farmers growing hollow foods on depleted soils, grocers soaking their carrots in chlorinated water to keep them clean, teachers sterilizing every surface with antibacterials, soap makers adding fragrance to your detergent, and everybody else asking you to sit, take a ride, and avoid hard work.
There are two ways the combination of these three major influences will translate into your life: either through a massive catastrophic event, or through a slow incremental set of changes. You can think either of an earthquake, or a slow drip that builds a stalactite in a cave. Another great saying that illustrates it well is the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”