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States of Ill Health: The Ground of Clinical Presentations

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Deficiencies in the factors that determine health, as well as damaging factors to the body, can create weakened states in the body. These disordered states are not always, or immediately, pathologies that lead to a clinical presentation. They are the ground states of eventual pathology. In their earlier phases, they may lead to hypofunction of a system and some lower intensity symptoms. They are observable as a breakdown of the body via its extracellular matrix, its cellular proteasome, the microbiome, the immune system, and genetic repair mechanisms, as well as its bioregulatory control systems. In time, this will lead to disordered circulation and communication in that tissue or organ. This further leads to inflammation, immune involvement, and eventually fibrosis and drastic decline of function. These states are ones that naturopathic physicians and patients need to direct their efforts to ameliorating, reversing, and preventing, because they spawn processes of dysfunction and degeneration we know as disease.

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Smith, F. (2022). States of Ill Health: The Ground of Clinical Presentations. In: Naturopathic Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13388-6_7

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