There are eight subcellular pathologies that underlie all chronic conditions—and all of them are nutrient-sensing (Chapters 7 and 8), meaning that they respond positively or negatively to specific components in food; yet none of these are considered diseases themselves. When you look carefully at the science of these eight pathologies, you realize that none are druggable, which is why they don’t respond to our current medications, and why people keep getting sicker despite the doctors’ best efforts. But they are all foodable

