Joachim, Dr. med. Mutter - Eat Green!

The people that come to see me only have one wish: They want to stay or rather get healthy, and want to increase their performance and vigor up until old age. To me, it is important to research, recognize and find the main causes of the diseases. When we know what causes illness, we ultimately find the best cure. This makes the concept of therapy relatively simple: Avoid main causes of illnesses – and people should also be aware of the factors that mainly benefit their health.

The conventional established opinions on things that cause and cure diseases in humans often completely deviate from what practically, in real life, shows the best and safest results. This sounds provocative, but it is possible to, through the aid of few and cheap measures, significantly reduce the majority of today’s disease burden in the world. As this is not happening up to date, the question arises, whether it would be beneficial to certain interest groups to have many sick people for as long as possible. A trenchant answer was given in the Journal of the German Medical Association. In the Deutsches Ärzteblatt – the most popular medical journal in Germany – Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörner (psychiatrist and author 2) criticized the following tendency:

“Competition urges the development of new markets. The aim has to be the conversion of all healthy people to sick people. Sick people being people that in order to “live healthy” believe to require therapeutic, rehabilitating and preventive manipulation in a chemical-physical as well as psychiatric manner by experts, for as long as they live. In the area of physical illnesses this is already working relatively well but even better in the area of mental diseases, especially as there is no lack of theories according to which almost all humans are unhealthy.” 3

This was put with a little more humor by the author Eugen Roth (1895–1976):

“What robs the doctor of his wealth? a) Death, b) health.

Hence the doctor keeps us to remain in a state in between those two, so he can gain.”

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For decades, people have spent several quadrillions of dollars in order to prevent or cure diseases. And in fact, this partially resulted in very significant successes: in hygiene, acute infectious diseases, with emergencies, accidents and injuries. Many more lives can today be saved and preserved through intensive care medicine. And certain acute illnesses that used to be more common have become less frequent. However, medicine remains to be mostly powerless against chronic diseases. The absolute number of diseases in the world is getting bigger and bigger. By now, chronic diseases constitute to more than 80 % of all registered diseases. These include the so-called “widespread diseases.” In addition, many acute illnesses (such as heart attack, pulmonary embolism or stroke) normally occur in the course of chronic diseases (such as hypertension or arteriosclerosis).

I have already described the eight most important causes of diseases in my books that have been published so far (see bibliography, no. 49) You will find here the top important cause of diseases in this book as well as a very effective “prescription” for your health.

Presenting the backgrounds in the most commonly understandable way is very important to me. However, for the sake of scientific foundation, it is unavoidable that the text will also include a number of medical terms. The most important terminology is explained in the appendix. You will, however, be able to understand the basic statements of the book even if you are not familiar with every single term.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine (approx. 460–370 BC)

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Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with a seed in it. They will be yours for food.

From the book of Genesis 1:29 4

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Hence the human is, above all, a continued nutritional process … Perhaps one day a scientist will discover how to make significant people out of regular children just the way the bees convert a random grub to a queen only by giving them special food, which they know how to prepare.

Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize winner

Most of the foods we consume today are, from a genetic perspective, not meant to be eaten by humans. While they give us energy, they lead to illnesses after years or decades of malnutrition. Due to an unfitting diet, our intestine can even produce highly toxic substances that are even more harmful than environmental toxins. (Especially ammonia or ptomaines should be mentioned here.) An inappropriate diet, this includes many of the so-called healthy diets (I will explain later on in the book), is jointly responsible for almost 70 % of all diseases, including cancer and heart attack. The German Nutrition Society (DGE) commented on the “results of the nutritional report of the DGE in 2004” (1/18/2005): “Cardiovascular diseases with 47.3 % and malignant tumors with 25.1% continue to be the most common causes of death in Germany … Excluding all mortalities associated with smoking then the illnesses where nutrition is a contributory cause are responsible for more than two thirds of all causes of death. The causes of death related to a false diet and lifestyle can be reduced with a balanced nutrition and regular physical exercise.”

Research of the past years has proven that all chronic diseases, which also include the “widespread diseases”, are mainly caused by the following two factors:

• Malnutrition and lack of micronutrients

• Harmful factors (poisons, also included in foods, and artificial radiation; for further information see bibliography, no. 49)

A third complex of causes could be attributed to psychological factors that in turn contribute to a wrong choice of diet and reduced exercise and as a consequence to the propagation of widespread diseases.

The sickening effect of malnutrition is not due to “overeating” but rather to an insufficient supply of micronutrients. Micronutrients are not nutrients that contain an energy value (such as fat, protein, carbohydrates), but they are indispensable for a healthy life as well as for reproductive purposes.

These do not only include the known vitamins but also vitaminoids (e.g. co-enzyme Q1, Q10, carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid, taurine, glutathion), trace elements (such as molybdenum, chromium, selenium, manganese, iodide, zinc, boron, vanadium, lithium, germanium, strontium), living raw enzymes, thousands of vegetable molecules (often called secondary plant compounds), vital polyunsaturated cis-fatty acids, genetic material (RNA and DNA) and certain types of sugar (such as ribose), that do not contain an energy value (calories). The positive effect of micronutrients has partly been discovered and researched only recently (vegetable dyes, polyphenols, phenolic acids, salvestrols, oligomers, procyanides, microRNA). The influence of countless other substances contained in natural foods on humans is, up to this day, still unknown.

The malnutrition addressed here also significantly promotes the sickening effect of pollutants. The consequence: Our diet plays the biggest role in the occurrence of diseases – but also in curing such afflictions or vibrant health. This is what this book is about.

The human body consists of quadrillions of single cells and the space in between those cells (the cell interstices, mostly connective tissue). The cells, the blood and the cell interstices consist of precisely the building molecules that are supplied by the diet. A cell membrane, for example, the outer shell of the cell, consists of fatty acids. Now, if the diet consists only of rancid or toxic trans-fatty acids, then these are included into the cell membranes and significantly disturb the functions of the cells for a long time, often for months or even years. They cannot produce as much “bioenergy” and are no longer flexible. Our cells may also contain the cellular poison acrylamide which is supplied by acrylamide polluted foods or arises due to high blood sugar values as measured as HbA1c. The human body also absorbs a lot of undesirable heavy metals or chemical toxins from food.