Gary Brecka argues that chronic diseases like hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and addiction aren't genetic. What runs in families is the body's inability to process certain nutrients properly. Fix the deficiency, he says, and you fix the disease.
One of my favorite to dispel is that the majority of disease is genetically inherited. That is patently false. When you're diagnosed with high blood pressure, 85% of the time it's diagnosed as idiopathic hypertension—hypertension of an unknown origin. You just woke up one day, and for no apparent reason, your blood pressure is skyrocketing. And we did all these exams on your heart—EKG, EEG—we can't find anything wrong with your heart. So we're going to look at your family history. Oh, look at that! Your father's brother and your mother both had high blood pressure. You have familial hypertension. You have genetically inherited hypertension. And we use this theme in type 2 diabetes, in drug and alcohol addiction, in depression and anxiety, because we are told that these travel in families and they are genetic. Only the sad fact is that most of those conditions, that gene does not exist. We do not, with rare exceptions, pass disease from generation to generation. What we pass is an inability for the body to refine a raw material, which causes a deficiency, which leads to that disease. And that deficiency can be fixed. If we go back into the soil and we give it the nutrients that it needs, that leaf will heal.
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