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The 'Terrain'
The late great Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctor Ni Hai Sha once told a story in his lecture: "Mosquitoes proliferate in the summertime, but when winter comes, the mosquitoes all disappear. It is the same analogy as cancer; it doesn't matter where the cancer is found, when the internal environment changes, it simply cannot survive." A cancerous state means the terrain, the body's tissue status, or the internal body environment becomes cold and weak, it becomes highly
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Apr 232 min read
Inflammation of the blood vessel linings and atherosclerosis
The Disease process. In healthy state, our body cells are able to oxidise the glucose broken down from carbohydrates, to be used as primary fuel source (instead of breaking down fats from fat tissues or protein from our muscles). The brain, with around 2% of the body weight, consumes around 20% of the body's total energy, and depends on a steady supply of glucose to function optimally. Glucose is broken down through a process called glycolysis to create adenosine triphosphate
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Apr 223 min read
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