Striking the Right Balance
The importance of staying healthy has never been contested. By staying in good health, we preempt taxing our body, and our systems function at their optimum. Enzymes and chaperones, which depend on energy resources, work best when these resources are not stretched thin. Our cells are saved from toxins that stress them to damage and inflammation. Regulatory processes set in and keep the body healthy by slowing cell division, thus allowing for repairs or allow for the death of severely damaged cells. Too much need for repairs stops cell division altogether. This stoppage results in a failure to replace naturally dying cells. Functional tissue is replaced by scar. The regulatory processes that control the cell division to allow for repairs to take place can be further stressed. This leads to further damage to cells, which now lose self-control and divide uncontrollably. This way cancer is produced. Damage can be prevented, in the first place, by avoiding the insult, which could be phy...