Molecules (Aug 2021)

Are Ancestral Medical Practices the Future Solution to Today’s Medical Problems?

  • José A. Lupiáñez,
  • Eva E. Rufino-Palomares,
  • Amalia Pérez-Jiménez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26154701
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 15
p. 4701

Abstract

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Our cells and organs are threatened and, in most cases, constantly subjected to the aggression of numerous situations, both endogenous, characterized by unfavorable genetics, and exogenous, by deficient or inadequate nutrition, and even by a hostile environment; in most cases, they ultimately cause a cascade of degenerative and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and infections, as well as those related to the metabolic syndrome, all of which eventually generate irreversible damage to the organism and, consequently, a significant deterioration in its survival [...]

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