What is Disease?
'Deficiency in the normal functioning of the body', would be the most obvious answer. By and large, chronic diseases are due to inefficiency in the in-built compensation mechanisms in the body, homeostasis, that is; not the lack of it. In most cases, the body overcompensates and this leads to further damage to the body or limit to function. There is, first, deficiency and over-activity, usually inefficient and prone to errors, which causes damage. Compensation then sets in. Overcompensation is usually due to deficiency in the output from the nutrients; that is, the amount of ATP and intermediate metabolites, with the initiating oxygen, that are available for the body to perform its functions, with optimal(not maximum)output, are inadequate. There is, usually, maximum activity with limited output, since stress, in itself, is an inefficient process, which accounts for errors in the execution of functions in this yearning to re-establish constancy in the internal milieu(enviro...