What is chronic disease and can it be cured?

A chronic disease is a medical condition that persists over a long period of time, typically for years. Chronic diseases can significantly impact your quality of life. Examples include diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis (arterial disease), dementia, and certain types of cancer. Chronic diseases are caused by an interaction of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.  They become more common as we age.

The chronic diseases listed above (among others) are comorbid, which means more than one typically coexist in the same individual. They interact to cause harm. The root causes include a refined, processed, carbohydrate-rich diet, sedentary lifestyle, high levels of stress, sleep disturbances, and smoking interacting with genetic tendencies.

At the CureCenter, we emphasize the bad S’s: Sweets, Starches, Snacks, Seed oils, Sitting Salt, Smoking, Sleep/Snoring disorders, Stress and Sexual Starvation. We promote a diet of real unprocessed food and exercise, augmented with supplements and medications for specific needs.  But at least stop eating processed food, sweats and starches.

Why is it important to reverse chronic disease into remission or cure?

Events such as heart attack and stroke can become lethal quickly. However, they are actually caused by years of silent, unknown chronic disease which progresses to atherosclerosis/arterial disease. Plaque rupture or erosion is the first step in the cascade leading to the blood clots that suddenly interrupt blood flow. Changing your lifestyle and reversing chronic disease is not just important for your overall general health. It significantly reduces your risk of serious, disabling and fatal events such as heart attack or stroke.

Reversal of chronic disease will also improve overall quality of life by reducing common symptoms such as fatigue or difficulty breathing. It can prevent further complications and development of other serious diseases.

I’ve always been told that chronic disease is manageable, but not reversible. Why is this incorrect?

Let’s be honest. The business of mainstream medical care is Chronic Disease Management. Mainstream medicine is simply overseeing our health decline with “management” of chronic disease. It sets you up to be vulnerable to inevitable exposure to Covid, flu, and other external threats. We can do better.

The “Standard of Care'' goal is to manage the disease and treat its complications. Costly and profitable drugs and procedures are the mainstay of treatment with this plan, with costs rapidly rising to unsustainable levels. We may live longer, but we’re sick and racking up costs and treatments. Keep in mind: Your costs are revenue for the medical system, including health insurance. You are not the customer. You are the product.

We have good news: Chronic disease can be Prevented, Reversed, put into Remission, and even Cured!

It is reversed by better choices about nutrition and activity interacting with our genes and environment. Quit smoking, avoid alcohol and drug abuse, avoid sugar and processed foods (sweets, starches, and snacks) and get off the couch. Be aware of the addictive nature of processed foods and find support to overcome craving for them.

Our mission is to discover and measure your chronic disease, identify your individual root causes, develop aPersonalized CurePlan to reverse it, and demonstrate measurable improvement.

When improvement or remission lasts long enough, it’s reasonable to call it “cured.” No cure is 100% effective or lasts forever, but this cure can endure for years if we do the right things.

At the CureCenter, we Measure, Motivate, Mentor, Measure again, and Maintain Momentum. We call these our healthy M&M’s! They are good for you and can cure your chronic disease by restoring your health.

Here is a fun and handy acronym to summarize: SAM

S’s - Sweets, Starches, Snacks, Seed oils, Sitting, Stress, (poor) Sleep/Snoring, Salt, Smoking & Sexual Starvation.

Causes:

ADDED - Arterial disease, Diabetes, Dementia, Erectile dysfunction, Depression

Cured by:

M’s - Measure, Motivate, Mentor, Monitor, Maintain Momentum