This article is the first part of Chapter 10 of The Declaration of the Age of Physical Medicine (Yoon Jong-won). It is an academic exposition presenting the author's hypothesis of physical medicine, and the body text, figures, and citations follow the original manuscript.
In the previous chapter we examined how one mother's thirty years have been connected as a single stream upon the five-stage collapse principle of the change of all things. It was the heartbreaking situation of a mother who had no abnormality at all in the basic health checkup thirty years ago, began to take medicine for the first time in her fifties, and even though her medicine increased to as many as five pills in her sixties, kept only getting worse in health. But here one weighty question arises. Even while passing through the same five stages of the same disease, some people recover their health, and some people lose their health completely. What on earth makes this enormous difference?
Let us suppose there are patients A and B who, in their late fifties, were both diagnosed with high blood pressure and prescribed the same medicine in the same amount. Five years later, patient A still maintains a healthy daily life taking only one pill. Patient B, on the other hand, has had their medicine increase to five pills and has come to have diabetes and renal failure on top. They started from the same starting line, but the results diverged by the difference between heaven and earth.
Modern medicine simply calls such a result an "individual difference." It says it is a difference of inborn genes or luck, of the patient's individual will, or of how well and on time they took their medicine. But in the actual clinical field, where the results differ even though the two people's family histories are similar and they took their medicine equally well, this explanation loses its force. There is one decisive difference that is invisible to the eye of existing medicine but appears only when seen through the new viewpoint of the five stages by which disease progresses, and this is precisely what divided their fate.
Seen through this viewpoint of the five stages, the fork of whether health is recovered or lost depends on the result of "the multiplication of two recovery efforts." If one makes an effort at only one side, it merely delays the disease for a while but does not prevent the eventual irreversible collapse; and if one makes an effort at only the other side, it improves for a moment but bad microcalcification piles up again. Only when the two efforts turn together like gears does one finally enter the road of true recovery. The difference between patients A and B was precisely the difference of whether this "multiplication" was properly achieved or not.
These two recovery efforts have formal names. The effort of tightly blocking bad microcalcification from piling up further in the blood vessels is called "defense (β suppression)," and the work of directly clearing away the microcalcification that has already hardened firmly in the blood vessels is called "removal (γ removal)." Earlier we confirmed the universal formula of nature that when a disease occurs the phenomenon of pathway and signal being blocked is also amplified by multiplication, and that the process of recovering from disease also grows by multiplication. Just as the catastrophe of two places being blocked simultaneously occurred when the disease arose, when recovering health too, the two efforts of defense and removal must meet as one, like a multiplication. In this chapter we unravel specifically how these two recovery efforts act inside one person's body.
Hereafter we will examine in turn the actual cases in which the results diverge starkly even after suffering the same disease, the factors that decide the fate, the physical principle that governs the golden time of recovery, the place where defense is achieved, and the place where removal is achieved. And lastly we arrive at the conclusion that "true recovery is not addition but the multiplication of defense and removal." When all this explanation is finished, you will see clearly onto what road of hope the mother's thirty years of walking a rough road can advance from here.
The Same Stage, Different Results
There are two patients, A and B, who in their late fifties were both diagnosed with high blood pressure and prescribed the same medicine. The two people were similar not only in family history but also in occupation and usual lifestyle habits. They were diagnosed in the same year by the same doctor at the same hospital, and the kind and amount of medicine prescribed were also the same. At the starting line there was no difference at all between the two people.
Right after the diagnosis, patient A changed three lifestyle habits. First, they began walking exercise of thirty minutes or more three times a week. Second, they reduced processed foods such as ham and sausage and sweet drinks and changed their diet to center on whole grains and vegetables. Third, in order to sleep deeply, they went to bed at a fixed time every day. Patient B, on the other hand, took the prescribed medicine faithfully every day but kept their lifestyle habits just as before.
Five years later, how did the two people differ? Patient A still maintains normal blood pressure well taking only one blood-pressure pill. There is also no newly contracted disease. Patient B, on the other hand, has had their medicine increase to five pills. Cholesterol medication, diabetes medication, and osteoporosis medication were added to the existing blood-pressure medication, and recently, because their memory seemed to be declining, they even began to receive neurology care. In five years, as many as five diseases piled up in the body.
From the eye of existing modern medicine, which treats disease by dividing it into different parts, it is very hard to explain this stark difference. They were prescribed the same medicine, and their diligence in taking the medicine was also similar. Since patient B, too, faithfully followed the doctor's instructions, one cannot say that they had less will than patient A. From the perspective of existing medicine, which treats only the phenomena revealed on the surface, the reason that divided the two people's fate is not visible at all.
But seen through the viewpoint of the "five-stage principle" by which disease arises, the difference between the two people is clear. From the moment of diagnosis, patient A began to reduce the "Stage 1 bad habits (accumulating factors)" that become the seed of disease. As their exercise, diet, and sleep habits improved, the burden placed on the body decreased, and as a result the "Stage 2 crisis signal (trigger)" that melts bone to draw out calcium weakened. As the crisis signal weakened, the calcium flowing out of the bone decreased, and the speed at which microcalcification piled up on the blood-vessel wall also slowed noticeably. As the "Stage 3 blood-vessel blockage (dual blockade)," in which pathway and signal are tightly blocked, was delayed, even after five years passed the disease had not reached Stage 4, where it is revealed on the surface.
Patient B, on the other hand, left the "Stage 1 bad habits," the seed of disease, just as they were even after being diagnosed. The medicine suppressed the surface figure of blood pressure, but inside the body the crisis signal stayed on and microcalcification kept piling up in the blood vessels. The serious state in which the blood vessels of several organs are tightly blocked was festering more and more inside. In the end, five years later, the situation of blood vessels being blocked broke out simultaneously all over the body, and the symptoms of several diseases erupted at once. The as-many-as-five disease names and five pills are precisely that bitter result.
What divided the two people's fate was not the medicine. Nor was it the difference of the outward appearance that the hospital sees. The true difference lay in the very first of the five stages of disease, that is, "whether one reduced or neglected the bad living environment that calls forth disease." Precisely this difference of the first button created the enormous difference of the result of five diseases five years later.
Figure 1 organizes the five years the two patients spent, arranged side by side upon the five-stage collapse principle of disease. You can confirm at a glance at exactly which point two people who were prescribed the same medicine from the same starting line diverged, and how that small difference changed the state of health five years later.
[Figure 1] The Five-Year Timeline of the Two Patients: The Same Diagnosis, Divided Results
| Point | Patient A | Patient B | DTDMC place | The underlying reality of the divergence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 0, diagnosis | Essential hypertension | Essential hypertension | Stage 2 trigger activation | Starting place identical |
| 0-1 year | Started exercise, diet, sleep | Medicine only | Stage 1 factor difference | Accumulation blocked vs. accumulation continued |
| 1-3 years | Maintained one pill | Cholesterol medication added | Stage 3 dual blockade progression | A slowly, B rapidly |
| 3-5 years | Maintained stability | Diabetes, osteoporosis added | Stage 4 manifestation | A latent, B multiple manifestation |
| After 5 years | One pill, no additional diagnosis | Five pills, five diagnostic names | Progression degree of the five stages | The Stage 1 difference decides |
The Three Variables of the Fork: Timing, Depth, Operation
Earlier we examined actual cases in which the results diverge starkly even at the same stage of disease. Now it is time to formally organize the factors that decide that fork dividing the fate. The fork of health and disease is a place where not a single factor but three factors interlock and turn simultaneously. They are the three variables of "timing," "depth," and "practice (operation)."
The first variable is "timing." At the fork of health, the most decisive element is "when one intervened." Depending on at which point among the thirty years of bad habits piling up one started management, whether it is right after the body's crisis signal turned on, or after the blood vessels are already tightly blocked, the result differs greatly. The earlier the timing of intervention, the closer recovery becomes; the later, the more distant it grows.
The second variable is "depth." How seriously the microvasculature is blocked, and how steep the speed of the disease worsening has become, determine the result. If it is a stage where microcalcification has piled up only slightly, about one grain of sand, on the blood-vessel wall, recovery is easy. But if it is a state where microcalcification has spread widely and acceleration has attached to the process of the body collapsing, recovery grows distant. Even if management is started at the same timing, if the depth to which the disease has taken root differs, the result also differs.
The third variable is "practice (operation)." Whether the two recovery efforts of "defense (β suppression)," which blocks microcalcification from piling up further, and "removal (γ removal)," which clears away what has already piled up, are turning together like gears, whether only one side is rolling, or whether both have stopped, divides the fate. This is the factor that must be weighed most precisely, and it is also the core content that will be unraveled in the greatest detail in the latter part of this chapter.
These three variables do not move separately but combine as one, like a multiplication. Only when the timing of the response is early and the depth of the disease is shallow, and the two practices of defense and removal are achieved together, does true recovery become possible. But if even a single factor goes greatly astray (if the timing was too late, or the disease too deep, or the practices for recovery all stopped), the chance to recover health grows distant.
Patient A, examined earlier, was at a relatively "early timing" of right after the diagnosis, remained at a "shallow depth" where blockage was just about to begin, and above all the defense effort (β suppression) of correcting lifestyle habits was being actively "practiced." Patient B, on the other hand, though at the same timing and depth as A, had the most important practice variable of one's own effort stopped. The difference of a single factor completely divided the two people's fate five years later. Figure 2 organizes the relationship of these three factors that decide health so that it can be seen at a glance.
[Figure 2] The Three-Variable Matrix of the Fork: Timing, Depth, Operation
| Variable | Definition | Patient A | Patient B | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | When one intervened | Right after diagnosis | Right after diagnosis | Identical |
| Depth | Progression degree of dual blockade | Just-established point | Just-established point | Identical |
| Operation β | Blocking of additional deposition | Operating (lifestyle habits) | Not operating | The underlying reality of the difference |
| Operation γ | Removal of piled-up deposition | Not operating (before entering clinical medication) | Not operating | The underlying reality of the difference |
| Overall | Result of the fork | Recovery place | Progression place | Five diagnoses after five years |
Among the three factors mentioned earlier, the one we can control most proactively is precisely "practice." Passed time (timing) cannot be turned back, and a disease that has already deepened (depth) cannot be removed overnight. But "practice" alone can be started by the patient themselves, this very day, at any moment they resolve to.
If one starts today the defense that blocks bad microcalcification from piling up further and the removal effort that clears away what has already hardened, the speed at which the body collapses uncontrollably also begins to slow noticeably from that very moment.
Therefore this fork that divides health and disease is by no means an unavoidable fate. Whatever stage of disease the patient is now placed at, the moment they turn on the switch of "practice" themselves, the result of the future to come can be changed however much. Figure 3 shows at a glance how the result of health differs when these three factors all interlock and turn well together, and when only one of them turns idle.
[Figure 3] The Operation Scenarios of the Three Variables: The Branching of Recovery and Annihilation
| Scenario | β suppression | γ removal | Result | Clinical place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Both not operating | X | X | Self-reinforcing decline accelerates | Patient B's place |
| 2. Only β operating | O | X | Buying time, irreversible progression | Lifelong medication |
| 3. Only γ operating | X | O | Temporary recovery, re-accumulation | Clinical medication alone, no lifestyle intervention |
| 4. Both operating | O | O | Entry into the recovery place | Ideal recovery combination |
| Emphasis | Multiplicative combination | Both needed | One side alone is X | Core proposition |
The Physics of the Golden Time
Let us examine in more detail the "timing" among the three factors that decide health. Up to when among the five stages of disease is the "golden time" in which the disease can be turned back, and from when does it enter the stage of worsening uncontrollably? This answer is hidden in the "physical phenomenon in which acceleration attaches" examined earlier in the principle of the cosmos.
The five stages of disease are a completely different world before and after crossing the so-called "critical point." Before crossing the critical point, the possibility for my body to recover on its own is open, so simply removing the pressure called bad habits returns it to the original healthy state. But the moment it crosses the critical point, my body steps on the accelerator only in the one direction of collapsing. Precisely this time before crossing the critical point is the true "golden time" in which we can recover health.
Specifically, the golden time refers to the very short moment at the tail end of Stage 1, where bad habits pile up, and right after Stage 2, where the body's crisis signal has just turned on. It is the period when a bad environment has piled up quite a lot in the body but has not yet crossed the critical point, or the precarious period when the crisis signal has turned on but the thin blood vessels have not yet been tightly blocked with microcalcification. In the mother's thirty years examined earlier, the late forties to early fifties were precisely this period. The very moment she was first prescribed blood-pressure medication was the last golden time allowed to the mother.
The reason the before and after of the critical point differ so fearfully is because of the "principle of flow to which acceleration attaches." Earlier we examined how the flow of blood in the blood vessels changes. When a blood vessel narrows, the flow of blood drops by a far larger margin than that. Even if the pathway narrows only by half, the amount of blood that flows decreases sharply to as much as one-sixteenth. Before crossing the critical point one hardly feels the flow decreasing, but the moment it crosses the critical point, the flow of blood is blocked at an uncontrollable speed.
Once past the critical point, the "vicious cycle" in which the body collapses on its own begins. It is the fearful yoke in which the normal signal weakens so that organ function drops, function drops so that the blood vessel is blocked more tightly, and the pathway is blocked so that the signal is severed further. Once this vicious cycle begins to roll, it does not stop on its own unless there is powerful intervention from outside. Therefore if the golden time is missed, treatment far larger and harder than before becomes necessary, and the road of true recovery grows more and more remote.
This fact awakens a very bitter truth when we treat disease. The point at which one is commonly diagnosed with a chronic disease such as high blood pressure or diabetes is already well after crossing this critical point. It means that the moment the patient visits the hospital because they are sick is Stage 4, where the disease has erupted to the surface, and by then Stage 3, "blood-vessel blockage," has already been completed. The treatment that begins together with the hospital's diagnosis is, regrettably, a belated cleanup that begins only after the golden time has already well passed.
That is why, to catch the true golden time, one must not wait until the hospital's diagnosis comes out. Before bad habits pile up and approach the critical point, the patient must realize it themselves and act first. One must not blindly relax just because the figures on the health-checkup result sheet are all normal, but rather notice for oneself that invisible fatigue and a bad environment are piling up in one's body, and start management. This is precisely the meaning of the true "prevention" that this book means to speak of.
Figure 4 organizes into a single picture the timetable of the golden time that flows away like this and the principle of blood-vessel blockage to which acceleration attaches. You can confirm at a glance how fearfully the flow of blood decreases before and after the critical point, and when the true golden time is in which the patient can turn back their health themselves.
[Figure 4] The Golden-Time Timeline and the Physics of Nonlinear Accumulation
| Period | Degree of accumulation | Flow loss | Clinical place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30s to early 40s | Slight | Slight | Standard checkup normal |
| Late 40s to early 50s | Approaching threshold | Gradual | First signal appears |
| Late 50s to 60s | Threshold breached | Accelerated (r⁴) | Multiple diagnoses |
β Suppression: The Blocking of Additional Deposition
Let us first learn about "defense (β suppression)," the first of the three factors that divide health and disease. Defense, put simply, is the work of tightly blocking microcalcification from piling up any further in the blood vessels. Here one must be sure to remember one most important fact. The top priority task for defense is not taking hospital medicine. It is preventing in advance the very "Stage 1 bad habits," that is, the bad lifestyle habits and eating habits that turn on the four major crisis signals (DIAH) that make calcium flow out of the bone, becoming the seed of disease.
The ways to block bad habits are as follows. Steadily sweating with exercise for thirty minutes or more three times a week; quitting processed foods such as ham and sausage and sweet drinks and increasing whole grains and vegetables; going to bed at a fixed time every day in order to sleep deeply; managing chronic stress; quitting smoking; and reducing drinking. When these efforts gather, the burden placed on our body decreases, the crisis signal that melts bone weakens, and in the end the amount of old calcium flowing out of the bone drops sharply. In particular, regular exercise opens up the flow of the microvasculature that had been blocking, and when the blood circulates well, the environment changes to a clear one where stones are hard to form in the blood vessels, greatly slowing the speed at which microcalcification piles up further. In a large-scale study published in the world-renowned medical journal The Lancet, an analysis of the data of 130,000 people from 17 countries around the world also confirmed that steady exercise noticeably lowers the risk of heart disease and mortality. The core of thorough defense lies precisely in this "correcting of bad habits."
The second task for defense is taking "good-quality calcium that is well absorbed by the body" in order to maintain the calcium concentration in the blood at normal. When good calcium that entered from outside firmly fills the concentration in the blood, our body no longer needs to declare a state of emergency and forcibly melt bone to draw out calcium. Naturally, the entrance of old calcium that would pile up as microcalcification on the blood-vessel wall narrows. When the first priority, "correcting bad habits," and the second priority, "taking good calcium," interlock and turn together, the most powerful and deep defensive wall is finally raised.
The blood-pressure medicine prescribed at the hospital (calcium channel blockers, etc.) corresponds to the third. Most of the chronic-disease medicines that modern medicine prescribes belong here. But these medicines only put out the urgent fire on the surface (the symptom); they do not reduce the true cause of the blood vessels being blocked. The reason blood pressure or blood sugar figures shoot up again as soon as the medicine is stopped, and the number of hospital medicines only increases for a lifetime, is precisely because of this.
But defense (the work of blocking further accumulation) alone merely buys a little time from the disease worsening; the microcalcification already firmly embedded in the blood vessels remains as it is. Even if newly piling microcalcification is blocked, the yoke of the vicious cycle created by the already-piled stones does not stop but keeps turning among themselves. However hard the patient practices the first-priority and second-priority efforts, the serious state in which the blood vessels are already tightly blocked is not resolved by defense alone. The defense that blocks microcalcification from piling up is merely one process for true recovery; with this one thing alone, health cannot be fully recovered.
Figure 5 organizes into a single sheet the methods of "defense" that block microcalcification from piling up further like this, and its clear limits. You can confirm at a glance the differences and limits of the first priority (correcting bad habits), the second priority (taking good calcium), and the third priority (hospital medicine).