Western World Health

“Better Health Begins At The Cell.” -Dr. Bill Cole

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Hey guys, today, I want to talk with you about the state of affairs in our western world, health-wise that is. And I want to talk with you about some remedies for a lot of you that if you would just implement would make such a difference in your lives.

But guys, in our society, and understanding what I’ve seen in my over three decades, is this really deleterious, consistent slide downhill, where the health of the average person is really, really suffering.

In America alone, we are one of the sickest nations ever; probably the sickest. We have more diseases per capita than any other nation. We spend on healthcare more than the next 10 countries combined, and we have diseases today in existence that basically were not in existence not that long ago. Things are getting markedly worse. They’re not getting better. We comprise less than 5% of the world’s population, we consume by some estimates 50–60% of all of the world’s pharmaceuticals, and yet we’re continuing to see ourselves get sicker and sicker.

In fact, I just read something the other day that the current generation being born today in the United States of America is expected to be the first generation that will not outlive their parents in this country. That is because of what we’re being exposed to. The things we’re doing in our lives.

The amount of health issues that we see is daunting. I believe we’re at the tip of the iceberg. If people don’t start to do things, to start to address the root cause of why they’re sick, I think we are in for a tsunami of health crises.

So, I want to bring you down to the cell level. A lot of you have seen and heard me talk about this before. Guys, this is our foundation. The cells of our body are our foundation. But every single thing function-wise happens at the cell level. Everything! And anything that happens dysfunction-wise then is a result of a cell issue. It’s a cell problem. These are your building blocks. They’re your foundation. No disease, no symptom, is independent of what’s happening down at that building block level in your body.

This membrane of your cell, which we know now today is the brains of your cell, it’s how your cells communicate. It’s also how the good stuff like nutrients, hormones, and oxygen gets in, and it’s how the bad stuff like waste and toxins get out. This dynamic (good stuff in, bad stuff out) is what keeps you healthy. The reason why so many people are unhealthy is because of what’s happening at the cell level, the damage we’re creating.

So, what we have done is we’ve created a Four Exchange Diet that is a basic diet. If somebody comes to me and says, “What can I do for my health? What are the simple things that I can do?” The first thing that I’m going to tell them, obviously, is to make changes in terms of what they’re putting inside their body food-wise.

Here are our Four Exchanges:

#1. Fats

You have to get rid of bad fats, which are inflammatory fats. It’s inflammation on the cell membrane that is the beginning of what we would call dysfunction and disease. That inflammation is brought on by the consumption of bad fats, things like: vegetable oil, corn oil, canola oil, trans fats, margarines, and things like that. These are rancid fats. They drive inflammation at the cell level. Get rid of the bad fats.

You want to add in good fats though because this membrane is made of two layers of fat. It’s called a bilipid layer. That bilipid layer is supposed to be semi-permeable like I described, but if it loses its permeability because it’s being chronically inflamed, you need to mend that membrane. We need to heal the membrane.

To do that, we want to consume a lot of good, healthy fats such as: extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, avocados, avocado oil, organic raw nuts and seeds, wild-caught salmon, grass-fed beef, and grass-fed butter like our ancestors used. So these are going to be the healthy fats that are going to help to heal that membrane.

#2. Proteins

We also want to get rid of unhealthy proteins for healthy proteins. We want to make sure that we’re not consuming food like beef or chicken that are kept in a cage where a good portion of them develop glaucous or cancer because of the unsanitary conditions they’re being raised in. Another example would be fish that are raised in a pen on the side of the ocean and fed an unnatural diet that turns their meat gray which then they have to be dyed orange to make it look palatable for you. It changes the makeup of the meat, the way that these animals are being raised, and it goes from an antiinflammatory product to an inflammatory product.

The ratio, by the way, if you’re interested, in Omega-6 to Omega-3 in a healthy animal is about 4:1. It’s anti-inflammatory. The ratio in these unhealthy raised animals is about 20:1 Omega-6 to Omega-3. It’s highly inflammatory in the body, and it’s why we’re seeing so many problems.

So, you want to exchange that out. Get rid of the bad stuff for the grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, free-range eggs, and wild-caught fish. Avoid the farmed fish and conventionally farmed animals.

#3. Sugar

This is a big one. We consume way too many carbohydrates in our society today. It can be not only sugar itself, but also foods that contain sugar and foods that readily turn to sugar. Things like your rice, pasta, grains of all kind, breads, biscuits, cereals, and the other things that I was raised on. I came from the Food Pyramid time when they were telling us to have 6–11 servings of that a day. How absurd is that? It’s no wonder we’re so sick. It’s no wonder we’re so fat.

These foods that contain sugar or readily turn to sugar, we really need to eliminate them or largely eliminate them if you want to regain health. We need to do this because sugar is one of the things that drives inflammation at the cell level.

It’s important to understand, too, if I even go back to that ratio of 4:1 Omega-6 to Omega-3, that 4:1 ratio has been shown scientifically to be good for your brain. It improves brain function. The 20:1 ratio in addition to driving inflammation, it disturbs brain function. It creates brain inflammation. Brain fog, anxiety, depression, and these types of things are the result of disturbed brain function.

I want to just backtrack for a second there with those healthy proteins. But sugar, what happens when we’re consuming sugar is we’re damaging our gut in large part. Plus, we’re driving inflammation throughout the body. But we know that it upsets gut ecology. There is this thing that we call the gut-brain connection. If you have a damaged gut, so many people are going to wind up having brain symptoms as a result of that. It disturbs digestion. You’re not digesting and assimilating your food the way that you should. You could wind up with a chronically inflamed gut. That could lead to what we call a “leaky gut”, and it just creates inflammation throughout the entire body.

We want to change out that sugar. If you’re going to have any type of sugar, we want to have it be natural sugar. Things like raw honey in very moderate amounts. Fruit in moderate amounts. My favorite are berries and apples, but you want to go with the organic version of that.

#4. Water

Most people don’t drink enough water. Then the water they do drink is usually chlorinated and fluoridated. These chemicals such as chlorine are designed to kill things, right? Well, you don’t think it’s having that affect in your body? This natural microbiome that we have in our body that plays such a role in gut-brain connection and brain function? Even the ability to lose weight? Whenever we’re disturbing or destroying the natural bacteria in our body, and then we’re over- proliferating, we’re giving space for the bad bacteria to take hold. It’s creating all kinds of health issues in our body today. So, you want to go with clean water.

I personally have a well at my house. I’ve had my well tested, and it’s good. But I still bought a Berkey water filter. To me, it’s the Cadillac of countertop filters. You can just pour a gallon of water in there, and then you have your water for the day. But a Berkey filter is something that we utilize in my office as well as my home. It does a great job of cleansing and purifying the water.

I hope this helped you guys. Those four exchanges, if you’re willing to make them, I promise you will help make a difference. You need to be diligent. You can’t be dabbling around the edges. We see people all the time say, “Oh, but I eat this and I eat that.” I say, “Yeah, but you’re also eating this. You’re also having these bad foods. You’re throwing gasoline on a fire. You’ve got to put that fire out if you’re going to improve your health.”

So, for a period of time, what we say is 90 days. Set your mind to 90 days, and really clean up your diet. Clean up what you’re putting inside your body. Get rid of the bad stuff, and only put in the good stuff. Start healing yourselves, healing your gut, healing your brain, and you’re going to start to see a tremendous transformation in your health like we do with our patients. I’m really confident of that.

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Take care, guys. God bless.