Iron rules of health - 2

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In the first introductory post of this series (Message# 5886), we saw

that human body contains nearly 100 trillion cells having different

functions. As long as each cell gets its adequate nutrition as per

receipe required by its function, and all cells work in harmony,

health is the result. In today's part we see how body gets diseased

by lack of harmony and slowing down of our toxin elimination systems.

 

This body is not designed nor programmed to be diseased. It does not

know how to be diseased. The only thing the body knows is survival.

Disease is the body's effort at surviving in the face of violations

of natural laws that govern the body.

 

If the body has the intelligence to produce a disease, it is capable

of reversing the process to return to health once the cause is

removed. Disease is a compensation or reaction to a wrong committed.

The body holds on to the disease in order to survive in the face of

the violation of a natural law which continues to be committed. The

removal of the violation - physical or emotional - then would allow

the body to withdraw its survival mechanism and return to health. The

longer the body has had to be in a survival mode the longer it will

take to return to health.

 

We don't live off the food that we eat, we live off the energy in

the food we eat! How efficiently body converts food to energy is

indicated by several indicators. Blood, urine Saliva pH, body basal

temperature are just few indicators from the science viewpoint, but

an ayurvedist can judge efficient metabolism by pulse. The creation

of the human body is built on plant or animal derived substances,

not synthetic pharmaceutical compounds, the body is created to

recognize self from non-self. Anything synthetic is rejected as a

foreign substance. The disease process is triggered by the

accumulated toxins that we eat, breathe, drink, think, and bathe in

on a regular basis. If we take in more contaminants, carcinogens and

acids than what the body's filtration, elimination and immune system

can handle on a daily basis, it supersedes a threshold that

eventually overwhelms the body and pollutes the blood. Our blood is a

river of life. When it becomes overwhelmed with toxins it becomes a

river of disease and death instead. "Soil is everything, germ is

nothing", said Louis Pasteur on his death bed.

 

Here's an analogy of the toxic assault most of us are faced with on a

daily basis. We wake up Monday morning to a jolt of caffeine from a

cup of coffee and a sugar-laden breakfast. More toxins from

breakfast, lunch, and dinner that will introduce more sugar, white

floor, preservatives, additives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, cancer-

causing dyes, artificial flavors, rancid fats, hydrogenated fats, and

a litany of other toxic additives that eventually get into the blood

through digestion. According to Ayurveda, every food has its own

taste (rasa), a heating or cooling energy (virya) and post-digestive

effect (vipak). When two or three different food substances of

different taste, energy and post-digestive effect are combined

together agni can become overloaded inhibiting the enzyme system and

resulting in production of toxins in the system. While it is true

that an individual's agni largely determines how well or poorly food

is digested, food combinations are also of great importance. When

foods, (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) having different

attributes, tastes, heating or cooling properties, and post-digestive

effects are eaten together, agni will be slowed down. The foods can

then remain in the stomach for seven to eight hours. These same

foods, if eaten separately might well stimulate agni, be digested

more quickly and even help to burn ama. Thus, according to Ayurveda,

one should eat according to one's constitution and take fruits,

starches, proteins and fats separately at different times of the day.

Combining foods improperly can produce indigestion, fermentation,

putrefaction and gas formation. This condition, if prolonged, can

lead to toxemia and disease complex. For example, eating bananas with

milk can diminish agni, change the intestinal flora producing toxins

and may cause sinus congestion, cold, cough and allergies.

 

Then we step outside and breathe contaminated air, especially if we

are in a major city. It's possible we could be breathing 100,000

different environmental and industrial contaminants with every

breath. We have fluorocarbons, petrofluorocarbons, PCB's, dioxin,

industrial contaminants, fossil fuels, paint fumes, Chemtrails,

pesticides, herbicides, and other genocides.

 

Combine this with the chemical by-products from industry depending on

your profession. For example; if you're a painter or if you're a

mechanic that's dealing with turpentine solvents that leach through

the skin and into the bloodstream. A traffic regulating policeman

breaths pollution gases without perhaps even recognizing this.

 

Then we have beverage contaminants with Cokes, carbonated sodas, BHA,

BHT, sodium benzoate, caramel coloring, MSG, aspartame, Splenda,

phosphoric acid, and thousands of other chemicals that also get into

the blood through digestion.

 

Then we have our skin, which is literally a sponge with what we are

bathing and showering in and most people, out of ignorance, don't

have a shower filter to filter this garbage out of their municipal

water. When we bathe we are taking in chlorine dioxide, fluoride,

bromide, arsenic and all the other chemical by-products they use to

treat the water. An average person with a 10-15-minute shower is

going to drink six glasses of tap water by the absorption of the skin

pores.

 

A trip to the bathroom will assault our body with thousands of other

chemical toxins that are in our cosmetics and toiletries like

toothpaste, mouthwash, soap, deodorant, shampoo, hair spray, shaving

cream, lipstick, perfume, and cologne. In many cases manufacturers

are not even required by law to list what chemicals are in these

products.

 

So the big picture is by the time we breathe, eat, drink and bathe,

not counting our social habits, second-hand smoke, emotional toxins,

or the contaminants in our homes, businesses, or airplanes by

breathing in recycled air from the air ducts that haven't been

cleaned in five years, we are past a threshold that our body can

handle to stay well. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that

if we breathe, eat, drink and bathe in more contaminants than our

body can eliminate on a daily basis, eventually we encounter a

degenerative or metabolic disease.

 

If we are taking in an accumulated combined total of 150,000

contaminants on Monday and the liver, kidneys, colon, lymphatic

system, the skin through sweat, and respiratory CO2 output are only

capable of dumping 100,000 contaminants, we are in trouble. By

Tuesday we haven't changed our lifestyle; we have the same job, the

same stress, the same eating habits, same social habits, and same

job. Day after day we maintain that toxic load at 150,000 or more,

and the body is only dumping 100,000 or less.

 

As time goes on, the immune system weakens, the liver, kidneys and

the lymphatic system get congested, and they slow down as far as

their filtering capability. Usually a lethargic condition or

sluggishness sets in at this time telling us that contamination is

occurring at the blood level. Most people, being tired like that, are

even more sedentary and ingest toxic stimulants to get them through

the day. Then at their jobs, they're sitting around watching

computers. At home they're watching television and they're not moving

the blood and they're not moving the lymph fluids. So as time goes

on, now the elimination systems, the filtration systems, and the

immune system are only capable of removing 90,000 contaminants, then

80,000, then 70,000. As time goes on, the toxic load is maintained

but the elimination capability is weakened.

 

What happens with these extra carcinogens, acids, and toxins is they

end up collecting in the blood. Once the blood becomes contaminated,

the body goes under what's called adaption response where it will

shove these toxins and poisons into a weak link in the chain of

organs; the path of least resistance. This is our genetic

predisposition given to us by our parents. Wherever our weakness is,

or the path of least resistance, is where the blood is going to

choose to store or deposit the toxins in order to keep the blood

clean and keep us alive. Thirteen symptoms of toxic build up in blood are given

in Message# 5820. Most common symptom can be considered as fatigue, lack of

vigor.

 

If the dump zone is the joints and the blood is shoving these acids

and contaminants into the synovial fluid producing cells for storage,

what happens next is billions of cells that produce synovial fluid or

bursa fluid become congested, contaminated, and suffocated.

Eventually it causes a cascading effect of cellular respiration

problems and the water, oxygen, and intelligent nutrients can't get

in through the phospholipid membrane.

 

When billions of cells in the joints can't produce the joint

protecting fluid, we get a dryness and then an immune response of T-

cells, macrophages, and NK cells to clean up the toxic mess like a

Pac Man. When the white blood cells fight anything, they release

histamines, cytokines, or prostaglandins which are inflammatory

chemicals. This inflammatory response is going to be called arthritis

or bursitis by medical science. Ayurveda calls this Vatic disease.

Medical astrology treats arthritis as caused by Rahu (Node). This is

compatible with other properties of Rahu, liking corners, dumpsites,

toxic and poisonous chemicals causing fear in the mind.

 

In reality arthritis is not even a disease. "Arth" means

joint; "itis" means inflammation. So inflammation of the joint is a

description of the cellular malfunction of the synovial fluid or the

bursa fluid producing cells. Hence ayurveda terms it Sandhigat Vata.

All such diseases ayurveda calls under the group Vata.

 

If the dump zone is the pancreas because that's our weak link in the

chain of organs where the beta cells are that produce insulin and

they get congested, suffocated, and contaminated, eventually the cell

receptors get clogged and they cannot produce the insulin or receive

glucose. When sugar is ingested, sugar regulation is affected and we

are about to go to a hypoglycemic condition eventually leading to

the label "diabetes mellitus." Again, this is cellular malfunction

just like bursa joint cell contamination would be cellular

malfunction. Two different locations, one disease: Cellular

Malfunction.

 

If the dump zone is the heart where the cardiac cells are located

that regulate electrical conduction for heart contraction, eventually

we are going to have arrhythmias or palpitations telling us what's

happening at the cellular level; that the toxic residues are impacted

in the arteries, coronaries, or the cardiac tissue. Eventually the

symptoms are going to scream louder in an angina pain to tell us that

cellular malfunction is more severe. When the cells malfunction in

the heart, our condition is likely to have a label called

cardiovascular disease, eventually a myocardial infarction, or a

heart attack, if it's not dealt with by non-toxic, non-invasive

treatments. Any traffic jam of nutrients or blockage by toxins can be

termed Vata, a basic transportation problem. On the other hand, blood

impurities due to toxins are Pitta disorders.

 

If the deposition is the frontal lobe of the brain, usually it's

heavy metals: aluminum, cadmium, lead, mercury from your teeth,

vaccines, etc. Heavy metals will leak in through the blood brain

barrier via the dopaminergic system then the lipid fatty tissue of

the brain will attract these heavy metals. If it's the frontal lobe

of the brain where cells regulate cognitive thinking, we are going to

get short-term memory problems and then eventually long-term memory

loss called Alzheimer's disease. Again, these are labels of the same

disease: Cellular Malfunction.

 

If the dopamine producing cells or the corpus striatum in the brain

just below the pituitary is the collection or deposition zone for

heavy metals and neurotoxins, we are going to have problems with

dopamine production; and we are going to display symptoms of

festination, or shuffling gait, called Parkinson's disease. There is

no such thing as Parkinson's disease. Parkinson is the name of a

doctor. Parkinson's disease is the descriptive label of cellular

malfunction of dopamine producing cells in the brain. Ayurvedic name

is Kamp Vata. The inadequate function of pituitary is also likely to

bring in deficiencies in the production ofhormones driving menses,

causing hormonal imbalances. Amenorrhea, dismenorrhea, menorrhagea

are all labels of single disease: Cellular malfunction.

 

This physiological pathway can be shown with every "dis-ease" label

known to man. There is only one disease, cellular malfunction with

two causes to the 10,001 "labels" on the one disease. The question is

what would be the treatment protocols if we knew that the

physiological pathway to this ONE disease is toxicities and

insufficiencies?

 

We will continue this discussion in next post, next week.

 

dr bhate