The tree of Life isn't a natural tree, just as the tree of knowledge of good and evil isn't a natural tree either!
Are the pains of child birth real?
But I understand, new revelations are always confusing when we've been convinced by the political church of the meaning of past revelations. The Jews had scripture based reasons for rejecting Jesus because their minds had been closed, seared shut by religious leadership.
Makes sense to me, Adam and Eve could no longer use the tree of life and live on indefinitely. Death and or translation is normal for man.
* The tree of knowledge was really allegorical, it's mans will verses Gods will. Adam and we've were thoroughly trained before coming to earth in what they could and could not do. Eve had sex with Cain's real father who was a superior man, pleasing to the eye, from the Nodite tribe. She was persuaded by the crafty beast that it would help speed up regeneration of our fallen, backward world.
To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children....
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.