The great philosophers throughout history teach harmony – in your life, in your mind and in your relations with others. Your body with its network of glands and organs needs harmony too; chaos of any kind is very harmful. This physical harmony is achieved by means of “HOMEOSTASIS: (medical definition) stability and equilibrium in a physiological system through feedback.” Homeostasis is the internal dialogue of harmony going on inside all of us all the time. Homeostasis is also the basis of natural therapeutics including nutrition and acupuncture, and therefore an important key in finding natural solutions to health and disease. By achieving physical harmony, that is, working with and not against your own internal homeostasis, you nurture and build mind-body-spirit wellness.

The physical world confounds and thwarts the human mind at every turn, but it often hides a solution in plain sight. Not so many centuries ago, our ancestors looked up at the sun and full moon in wonder and saw only round, sacred objects. A new perspective would change the world forever. During the Renaissance, a corps of discoverers saw spheres and the shadow of a sphere on the moon, and realized that that said something profound about the earth and its place in the solar system. Somewhere health hides a similar secret and simple key… perhaps as follows.

The delicate, complicated physical body lives a hard reality indeed. Eat, drink and breathe or there’s no thinking, acting, living output. Food is the primary input, and food consists of four distinct compositional types: carbohydrates, proteins, fats and fibers. Why four, and does that say something profound about the human body, how it developed and how it handles the challenges of life?

A breakthrough theory of human health called Equilibrium Theory provides the following new understanding of the inner workings of homeostasis. Within the human body and its network of glands and organs, four interconnected functions – ENERGY, HEALING, STRESS and IMMUNE – work in healthy equilibrium, or internal balance. The body’s response to all internal needs and external forces lies within and must adhere to this four-part harmony. Moreover, these tasks are the template for all nutrition. Thus with the perfect symmetry of nature, each food type nourishes one of the four functions: carbohydrates for energy, proteins for healing, fats for stress (cells burn fat instead of glucose, a true definition of stress!), and fibers for immune. The same direct relationship and necessary equilibrium apply to all other nutrients and their nutritional categories: B vitamins, fatty acids, minerals and herbs.

Two significant applications come from Equilibrium Theory. First, the theory identifies human nutritional requirements in this fundamental new way – a direct correlation between physiology (body functions and activities) and nutrients. The resulting nutritional program provides simple and flexible on-target nutrition that adjusts easily for lifestyle and current needs. This balanced, complete nutrition is life giving, restorative and forgiving.

Second, in examining the four-part harmony of energy, healing, stress and immune functions and what happens if homeostasis is lost, Equilibrium Theory solves the mystery of chronic diseases, revealing the mechanisms behind and solutions to osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and many more!

Universal in its application, Equilibrium Theory agrees with the wisdom of traditional medicine and the science of Western medicine. In particular, Equilibrium Theory fits perfectly into Chinese medicine, the principles of Qi and the yin and yang duality of life. The theory reveals new functional and nutritional yin and yang balances essential for health. Equilibrium Theory also conforms to modern Western medical science, and then goes beyond that science to resolve baffling physiological evidence.

Like all theories, Equilibrium Theory involves subjective insight and discovery. However, two objective findings give immediate credence and weight to this theory: (1) Equilibrium Theory correctly predicts the pathologies of chronic diseases (their origin, nature and course), for example it reveals why arthritis divides into two types, and then describes the nature of both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis precisely, i.e. osteoarthritis is a degenerative (hypoactive healing) disease in the protein structures of cartilage, while rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune (hyperactive immune) disease in the connective tissue of cartilage. And (2) the central concept of a four-part harmony in energy, healing, stress and immune functions explains all observed human physiology including copper-zinc antagonism.

Examples of Equilibrium Theory in action… functional balances such as energy-healing balance necessitate corresponding nutrient balances. Medical science describes nutrient balances as “antagonisms,” and copper-zinc antagonism is well documented in the scientific literature. Here the risk of copper deficiency or zinc deficiency increases with high intake of the other. Given that copper plays an essential role in the human nervous system and energy and zinc is necessary for protein and DNA synthesis and proper wound healing, Equilibrium Theory provides the first physiological explanation for copper-zinc balance. Similarly, Vitamin A-Vitamin D balance is a natural consequence of immune-stress balance.

Western medicine has gone astray. Drugs rule instead of nature’s bountiful nutrition. Health care has become the #3 killer in America, behind only cardiovascular disease and cancer. Adverse drugs events (ADE) such as adverse and allergic reactions, drug interactions and medication errors kill approximately 100,000 hospitalized Americans every year. “Safe and effective” is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standard, but these words doublespeak a dark language. Society will continue to suffer terrible consequences for some time to come. Individuals can walk away from perverted science, and chart a new course. Instead of today’s money-driven patent medicine, nature’s chemistry holds the true solution to nature’s human body.

Of course, nature’s chemistry does not adhere to the human desire for a pill to fix everything. Nutrition does not give instant results; rather it’s a slow building process of one nutritional factor upon another until there is synergy, a nutrition and resulting health effect much greater than the sum of the parts. Good raw material input equals good end product output – here is the inviolable rule of all chemical systems including life’s most advanced creation. Specifically for the human body, good raw material input from the four macronutrient food types, B vitamins, fatty acids, minerals and herbs produces good end product output: your hormones, neurotransmitters, enzymes and the rest of life’s chemistry.

A fundamental shift is occurring in medicine from the disease-based approach of Western medicine to a prevention- and healing-based approach. Naturopathic medicine is at the forefront of this revolution in health care. The basic principles of naturopathy are:

– Do the patient no harm.

– Nature can heal; the human body has the power to heal within it.

– Treat causes, not effects.

– Prevention is the best cure.

– Treat the whole person. Mind-body-spirit wellness.

Equilibrium Theory adds one more vital principle to this holistic model:

– Internal balance. The body’s response to all internal needs and external forces lies within and must adhere to a four-part harmony in energy, healing, stress and immune functions. This key unlocks the inner world of health.

Life is a balancing act. As we grow older, we learn moderation and limits. These lessons really reflect the necessity for this four-part harmony of tasks. With this new and detailed understanding of the internal mechanisms of homeostasis, we can optimize health using targeted nutrition for each gland and function in the body. Nutrition supplies the raw materials, and physiology turns out the end products of life’s amazing chemistry. Equilibrium Theory goes a long way toward achieving Hippocrates’ ideal, “Let food be your medicine.” And not surprisingly, the mystery of health seems to move in never-ending circles – balance, equanimity, harmony – the spiritual teachings of the great philosophers may be rooted in our physical nature, the internal physiology of homeostasis and a four-part harmony in crucial energy, healing, stress and immune systems.

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SIDEBAR

Title: What is a Theory?

Significant advances in science often come through theories, for example Pasteur’s germ theory, Darwin’s theory of evolution and Einstein’s theory of relativity. In these and many other theories, an underlying general principle explains complicated observations and phenomena. By finding this general principle, a theory organizes and simplifies knowledge in a particular field. It transforms thinking – the old familiar world gives way to new understanding.

The search for truth remains the grand adventure of life. The human mind has two ways of thinking and coming to the truth about anything in existence, and the ancient Greeks were the first to describe and put names to both methods: (1) empiricism is practical experience – what your senses, observations and experiences tell you about this complicated world. Your mind interprets these facts; therefore empiricism is subjective. And (2) rationalism is the search for truth independent of experience. Rationalism is objective, i.e. evidence determines true or false. It is reason over opinion and belief. These two different ways of thinking can be at loggerheads, or they can be combined to solve difficult problems. This combined effort is the essence and purpose of a theory – integrate proven, objective science with subjective insight and discovery to explain the currently unexplainable and understand the world more completely. Rationalism supplies the pieces to a jigsaw puzzle; empiricism can put the puzzle together to form a beautiful picture!

John Goetz was trained in science and spent many years in scientific research. After suffering sever breakdowns in health, he discovered Equilibrium Theory, a simple, common sense method to build health and eliminate disease from the human body. He is now retired in St. Petersburg, Florida.

John has recently written a 579-page health and nutrition book, To Health… Naturally! Unfortunately, Equilibrium Theory cannot be fully explained in a short article; it took 579 pages to present a thorough, detailed discussion and how-to guide, including reviews of the scientific medical literature for all vitamins, fatty acids, minerals and many herbs – over 2000 references report what medical experts have proven on the safety and efficacy of nutrition. The book may be ordered through the NHF Suggested Reading listing by clicking the following link:
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