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Health & healing
Mūkūrwe-inī, Nyeri, Kenya
Author and administrator of Gĩkũyũ Centre for
Cultural Studies, Kĩgongona kĩa Ũũgĩ wa Bũrũri Witũ.
A modern Gĩkũyũ Shaman and Priest after the order of
Melchizedek. A Mũnjirũ wa Mbarĩ ya Kĩragũ.
Email: muiniwagicandi@gmail.com
the fuel that drives the
metabolism. Metabolism is, to
put it simply, the burning of
fuel that produces energy that
powers the cell machinery and
you. Oxygen is a necessary
ingredient at the centre of
this burning, and the output is
energy and carbon dioxide.
It is in this complex chain of
events that things go wrong.
most times things go wrong
because the quality of fuel
delivered to the cell happens
to have too many toxins, is
the wrong type of fuel, is
inadequate or even too much.
The important thing to know
is that we are dealing with
trillions of cells and things do
go and always go wrong.
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Once an error has happened,
it is carried forward and
replicated again and again
to grow into a big error,
unless it is stopped promptly.
Since most of what is called
oxidative damage is caused
by the oxygen, a process very
much like rusting of iron
through oxidation, the body
calls in the good guys. These
are called appropriately, Anti
Oxidants.
It so happens that there are
other living things that do
the exact opposite of us and
use carbon dioxide for their
metabolism spewing out
oxygen as waste. These are
called plants. Plants therefore
are the source of Antioxidants
and they are the base food
that keeps animals including
humans alive.
Back to these errors. Errors
begin small and if there is a
profusion of bad guys, Free
Radicals, and if there are not
enough of the good guys,
Antioxidants, the results are
an enlargement of the error.
This is what we call cancer.
Cancers are errors that are
happening within our bodies
at all times and in all of us.
Everybody has a cancer at one
level or another. The thing
is to keep it in check and the
trick is simple. Reduce the
Free Radicals and increase the
Antioxidants.
Take it upon yourself to learn
two things and your cancer
will remain a benign and
manageable thing, a thing of
no concern.
1. How can I reduce Free
Radicals and DNA damage in
the cells?
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