The Truth About Chronic Disease – Greg Glassman Reveals All

If you are of the opinion that chronic diseases including type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes) and even cancers, strike unlucky people, this video is a must watch. Greg Glassman, CEO of CrossFit reveals how chronic disease is created and how 70% of deaths are premature and down to chronic disease. In fact, even if you know that chronic disease is self-created, this will add more value to understanding how to avoid disease and remain in peak health & vitality.

A little gem before I present my notes on this video that you may want to make note of: food is epigenetic. This means we can override a genetic predisposition to developing a disease by what we put in our bodies and also how we move and strengthen our bodies. It doesn’t matter if you come from a family of cancer sufferers or if all of your relatives have diabetes and heart disease. You can make the choice to avoid them by what you put on the end of your fork each and every time it enters your mouth!

Here are my notes of this video that I highly recommend watching:

Fitness is defined as work capacity measured across broad time and modal domains.  

Examples of blood work and body fat to measure fitness:

1. Cholesterol HDL “good cholesterol” (If < 35 => you’ve got a problem)
2. Triglycerides (400 => you’re sick)
3. Bone density
4. Muscle Mass
5. Blood pressure
6. Body fat
7. A1C – average blood sugar over the last 90 days.

• As you get fitter, A1C goes down, triglycerides go down, body fat goes down, muscle mass goes up, bone density goes up, blood pressure comes down, HDL goes up. All great indicators. In all cases of chronic disease, these measures worsen. If you have any chronic disease, you’ll have unfavourable readings for all of these. This includes most cancers.  95% of PET positive cancers are chronic disease. 
• MEDICINE HAS NO EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC DISEASE
• It is crushing the medical system. Docs are ripping their hair out. They can’t figure it out. Diet and Exercise are the only things that have a positive impact on chronic disease.
• Cross Fit stimulus includes this diet: meat, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Some fruits, minimal starches. This diet increases work capacity across all domains. This diet, coupled with high intensity functional movement – improves all measures of chronic disease.
• Fitness is a hedge against being sick. It’s undeniable.
• 70% of all deaths are a result of chronic disease. With all cancers, it’ll increase to 85%.
• Medicine has no solution. You do. 
• Remaining 30% are accidents (kinetic – eg car accidents), genetic, toxic (being poisoned), microbic.
• We can affect our genetic expression through exercise. [Food is also epigenetic]
• Who’s most vulnerable to viral pneumonia? The unfit.
• Doctors have their place for emergencies. Not for chronic disease.
• Accidents (kinetic – eg car accidents), genetic, toxic (being poisoned), microbic.
• When you’re fit, you don’t worry about catching some kind of bug or unfavourable genes. You’re able to fight things off.
• Medical expenditure – $4 trillion a year.
• Two thirds of your premium goes to health insurance company profits One third goes to treatment. 86% of the one third goes to INEFFECTIVE treatment of chronic disease. 14% of the one third goes to effective treatment. 4.6% of health insurance premium is not wasted. On chronic disease is a waste.
• We can’t change profits that health insurance companies keep. What we can do is not take part in it by being fit and eating real food. Meats, fish, veggies, nuts, seeds, fish oil. REAL FOOD. You get a pass on chronic disease. #Boom.
• Fitness + luck = health
• Cancer is a metabolic disease.
  • Recommended books: Cancer as a Metabolic Disease by Thomas Seyfried
  • Tripping Over The Truth by Travis Christofferson.
• ALL THE RESEARCH CURRENTLY BEING DONE ON CANCER IS WRONG!! This is in full alignment with what The Truth About Cancer documentary series reveals – an absolute must see!
• Cancer will be amenable to treatment prevention and reversal with what Cross Fit are doing as with heart disease. 95% of cancers are chronic disease.
• CANCER FUELS OFF GLUCOSE – Cancer cells cannot metabolise by proteins and fats. Only glucose. They have a veracious appetite for glucose. Cancer cannot feed or fuel off protein and fat. ONLY GLUCOSE. This is why The Ketogenic Diet is so effect in starving cancer cells to death. The mitochondria LOVE ketones.
• Cancer is an epigenetic stressor placed on the mitochondria. The mitochondria is destroyed by sugar.  The mitochondria has immense control over cell health. Alzheimer’s is a chronic disease. It’s diabetes of the brain. [Aka type-3 diabetes.]
• By 2050 we’ll have 100 million diabetics in America. This will affect everyone’s dreams. 13,000 feet were amputated to diabetes in California last year. Every 30 seconds there is an amputation related to diabetes in the US.
• We tend to live in fear of cancer and heart disease. Docs live in fear of diabetes. Everything stops working when you have diabetes [and our conventionally healthy diet is putting us on the road to developing it.]
• Insurance companies have been given $5 trillion over the next 15 years. Big Pharma has no problem with all of this information – lack of educating people fuels their industry. It fills their pockets. [DON’T FALL PREY TO THE PHARMA INDUSTRY! Drugs have their place in emergencies and anaesthesia, not in chronic disease or most common illnesses.]
• 7 of 10 people die early due to  chronic disease which is self-created.
• Sedentary lives coupled with malnutrition is the perfect recipe for disease.
• High carb low fat diet was a smoke screen to cover the harm sugar was /is doing. State sponsored malnutrition.
• You can take full control of your health by what you put in your mouth and how you move and strengthen.

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