Why People Fall Sick
The body is a marvelous creation, a carbon, oxygen combustion
machine, constantly burning fuel, disposing of the waste
products of combustion, and constantly rebuilding tissue by
replacing worn out, dead cells with new, fresh ones.
Every seven years virtually every cell in the body is replaced,
some types of cells having a faster turnover rate than others,
which means that over a seven year period several hundred pounds
of dead cells must be digested (autolyzed) and eliminated.
All by itself this would be a lot of waste disposal for the body
to handle. Added to that waste load are numerous mild poisons
created during proper digestion. And added to that can be an
enormous burden of waste products created as the body's attempts
to digest the indigestible, or those tasty items we all love -
"junk food." Add to that burden the ruinous effects of just
plain overeating.
The waste products of digestion, of indigestion, of cellular
breakdown and the general metabolism are all poisonous to one
degree or another. Another word for this is toxic.
If these toxins were allowed to remain and accumulate in the
body, it would poison itself and die in agony. So the body has a
processing system to eliminate toxins. And when that system does
break down the body does die in agony, as from liver or kidney
failure.
The organs of detoxification remove things from the body's
system, but these two vital organs should not be confused with
what hygienists call the secondary organs of elimination, such
as the large intestine, lungs, bladder and the skin, because
none of these other eliminatory organs are supposed to purify
the body of toxins. That is the job of the liver and kidneys.
But when the body is faced with toxemia, the secondary organs of
elimination are frequently pressed into this duty and the
consequences are the symptoms we call illness.
The lungs are supposed to eliminate only carbon dioxide gas; not
self-generated toxic substances.
The large intestine is supposed to pass only insoluble food
solids (and some nasty stuff dumped into the small intestine by
the liver).
Skin eliminates in the form of sweat (which contains mineral
salts) to cool the body, but the skin is not supposed to move
toxins outside the system.
But when toxins are flowed out through secondary organs of
elimination these areas become inflamed, irritated, weakened.
The results can be skin irritations, sinusitis or a whole host
of other "itises" depending on the area involved, bacterial or
viral infections, asthma.
When excess toxemia is deposited instead of eliminated, the
results can be arthritis if toxins are stored in joints,
rheumatism if in muscle tissues, cysts and benign tumors. And if
toxins weaken the body's immune response, cancer.
The liver and the kidneys, the two heroic organs of
detoxification, are the most important ones; these jointly act
as filters to purify the blood.
In an ideal world, the liver and kidneys would keep up with
their job for 80 years or more before even beginning to tire. In
this ideal world, the food would of course, be very nutritious
and free of pesticide residues, the air and water would be pure,
people would not denature their food and turn it into junk.
In this perfect world everyone would get moderate exercise into
old age, and live virtually without stress. In this utopian
vision, the average healthy productive life span would approach
a century, entirely without using food supplements or vitamins.
In this world, doctors would have next to no work other than
repairing traumatic injuries, because everyone would be healthy.
But this is not the way it is.
In our less-than-ideal world virtually everything we eat is
denatured, processed, fried, salted, sweetened, preserved; thus
more stress is placed on the liver and kidneys than nature
designed them to handle. Except for a few highly fortunate
individuals blessed with an incredible genetic endowment that
permits them to live to age 99, most peoples' liver and kidneys
begin to break down prematurely. Thus doctoring has become a
financially rewarding profession.
Most people overburden their organs of elimination by eating
whatever they feel like eating whenever they feel like it.
Eating is a very habitual and unconscious activity; frequently
we continue to eat as adults whatever our mother fed us as a
child. It is therefore not surprising that when people develop
the very same disease conditions as their parents, they wrongly
assume the cause is genetic inheritance, when actually it was
just because they were putting their feet under the same table
as their parents.
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