By James A. Ferrel M.D., CNC

Question: How does nutrition benefit and how does lack of nutrition harm the
body?

Answer: The growth, development, maintenance, and reproduction of all living
things is effected by what nurtures it. This concept is known as nutrition.

Each living thing has different nutritional needs. For example, a
bacteriologist would select a blood agar petri dish to grow the healthiest
strains of Staph. Aureus. The blood agar contains all the food nutrients
needed to grow the germ. If he then "tweaked" the formula by subtracting a
certain ingredient, we call a nutrient, from the petri dish, then added some
stressors such as U-V light, or chemicals, he might see changes. The first
change he would see would probably be colony growth quickly would decelerate
in the Petri dish. Later, he may see slowly emerging colony strains of
mutant Staph A. By selection these new mutant strains would be able to
produce from their different mutated DNA, via their new "central dogma"
genetics, the very nutrient that the bacteriologist subtracted from the
original blood agar. The evolved strain no longer needs that subtracted
nutrient. It is able to make that nutrient from the remaining ingredients in
the Petri dish. Probably a newly manufactured protein enzyme resultant from
the mutation makes it. A good bacteriologist knows what nutrients a specific
bacterial strain requires. That cognizance is in his fund of knowledge that
his science has accumulated.

Different strains of the same species of bacteria are comparable to
individual humans. Each individual homo-sapiens represents a different
individual strain of our species. There maybe one hundred or more different
strains of each species of bacteria, but there are five billion plus
different strains of humans. Most of us have species similar nutritional
needs, but we all have strain specific individual nutritional needs. We are
all different. There is not one carbon copy among us. Individual bacteria
from the same colony, on the other hand, are identical.

As good human nutritionist we must understand our species nutritional
requirements and also be aware of the polymorphism of our charge. We are all
orthomolecular different and our individual needs vary.
We need to understand and be able to communicate how human species specific
nutrients are best obtained from our environment, stored, prepared, and
consumed.

Examples of how species specific deficiencies of food nutrients harm the
body are:

1. Inadequate protein will cause Kwashiorkor disease
2. Inadequate B-12 will cause pernicious anemia.
3. Inadequate B-1 will cause beriberi disease.

For each of the remaining twenty plus vital human food nutrient
deficiencies, there is a corresponding, predictable, manifestation of
illness.

As a compassionate and good human nutritionist, we need to know everybody
requires more than just food nutrients to obtain optimal wellness. This "MAN
CANNOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE concept forms the basis of Life Dynamix. The
human petri dish of optimal nutrition must include physical motion;
spiritual, emotional, and waveform energy; rest; rhythm; safe function;
interpersonal contact; sensory stimulation; and others.*

Examples of how the lack of these "other vital" nutrients harm the body are:

1. Deny the body motion against gravity, despite adequate calcium,
magnesium, and vitamin D and it will develop osteoporosis.
2. Deny it rest and feed it every food nutrient in a perfectly tailored
formula and see how poorly the brain will function on an IQ test.
3. Deny it sunlight and watch it get SAD (seasonal affective disorder)
4. Disrupt its rhythm in relation to the earth's rhythm by an
intercontinental flight and watch it flounder with jet lag.
5. Deny it love and bonding and overcrowd our prisons with sociopaths.
6. Deny it's anabolic enzymes the vital and delicate physical milieu for
recycle of all our bodies parts, and see it's catabolic enzymes turn us back
into our dusty origins.
There are many other examples.*

However, give it spiritual energy and purpose and watch it beam that energy
to others in a healthier, longer, more productive life. Studies show that
people who attend church regularly live years longer than those who don't.
Regular prayer, meditation, self hypnosis, bio-feedback, yoga, all have
qualitatively similar benefits. Take advantage!

Life Dynamix attempts to interactively offer information on all possible
preventative interventions to help meet the challenges of our changing
world.

In 2050 there will be ten billion individuals of our species alive. The size
of our world Petri dish will be the same. How will we survive and prosper in
the depleted, polluted, agar of our *ATLAS DRUGGED?

*email your "others" to drferrel@lifedynamix.com
*Atlas Drugged is an upcoming book by Dr. Ferrel.


Dr. Ferrel is a board certified family physician and a certified nutritional consultant who specializes in preventative and environmental medicine. He currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.