Healing The Body

Eliminating Disease Through Cleansing and Rebuilding Tissue

 

Most healthcare systems today, especially the allopathic, focus on treating symptoms. These include fevers, infections, sugar imbalances, neurological failure, and skin rashes, just to name a few. Statistics now tell us that cancer is in every other male and in every third female. With diseases just about to eliminate us as a race, it is obvious that this treatment concept isn’t working. With the treatment method, symptoms are only controlled or temporarily eliminated, only to return when treatment is stopped. Oftentimes, the symptoms come back with a vengeance, as in cancer. You cannot “treat” chronic or degenerative conditions, as treatment just worsens the condition.

Regeneration and detoxification, on the other hand, mean the complete elimination of the cause of the symptoms. If you correct the cause of the problem, the symptoms will automatically go away. Regeneration means rebuilding tissue that is failing; and detoxification is the method used to remove the inflammation and toxins that have caused these tissues to fail in the first place. Always ask yourself what the cause of your symptoms may be, and focus on that. People are too busy chasing effects.

As we learned in detail in the previous chapter, there are only three basic causes of disease symptoms: 1. acidosis, which causes inflammation, leading to congestion, ulceration and atrophy (tissue failure); 2. toxicity, which causes congestion, inflammation and cellular damage, thus leading to tissue failure; and 3. tissue weakness or tissue failure itself caused by genetics, acidosis, and/or toxicity. Acidosis (over-acidity or inflammation) and toxicity are the main causes of tissue failure, which can cause innumerable effects or symptoms. This is true especially when this “tissue failure” affects the endocrine gland system. These three causes are behind 99.9 percent of all diseases.

In thirty years of clinical work I have never seen a condition that could not tremendously improve, or in most cases completely disappear, with these methods of regeneration and detoxification. These two concepts are interdependent, as you cannot regenerate the body without detoxification. They are the twin pillars of health and vitality.

I have seen bones and backs straighten and strengthen themselves—from curvatures (scoliosis), old fractures, and similar conditions. I have also seen complete spinal cord severations reconnect after more than ten years. I have seen glands and all types of tissue rebuild themselves.

Your body is a living, conscious machine. It can rebuild itself after surgeries, major cuts and wounds, so why not after nerve damage or atrophy? The truth is, it can! But not on a diet of dead animals and other cooked, dead foods.

Regeneration has three main components to it: Alkalize, Detoxify and Energize. All three work together and are inseparable. Alkalization is vital to tissue regeneration because it is anti-inflammatory It builds electrolytes for proper ionizacion, oxidation and neutralization. It allows for proper cellular respiration and for disbursement of nutrients throughout the body.

Detoxifying, of course, cleans all the obstructions, irritants and stimulants, like mucus, heavy metals, chemicals and pesticides out of your body. This allows for proper digestion, absorption, utilization and elimination.

Energizing your cells with energy from living foods is also vital to robust health. Without the power of live foods, which are full of nutrition and electricity, you cannot accomplish alkalization and detoxification.

Detoxification is the only way to establish a true homeostasis within the body. This homeo-stasis can then be elevated to unlimited heights.

Vitality and vibrancy should always be one’s goal. Life then becomes exciting, joyful, and bubbling with energy.

Take the time for yourself and don’t settle for anything less than total health—free of disease. The road to regeneration is not the easy way. It can be filled with ups and downs depending upon your toxicity levels and weaknesses. However, regeneration is the only way to lasting health, vitality and longevity.

Up to this point we have covered a lot of information about you—the type of species your physical body belongs to, and the types of food that are best suited for your body. We’ve examined how your physical, emotional and mental bodies work. We’ve discussed foods and their chemical make-up, and we’ve covered those foods and chemicals that are toxic to you. We’ve also covered various disease symptoms, what they are, and what causes them.

Now let’s get to the heart of the matter: What do we do about our health issues? How do we start this journey into health? This chapter will begin with Naturopathy and the Science of Detoxification, and then cover the detoxification process in detail. You may want to tag this chapter for ongoing reference, as it will supply you with step-by-step guidelines, warnings, and hints to take you through this vital process.

 

The Science of Detoxification

Naturopathy and the Science of Detoxification Naturopathy is one of the greatest sciences, for it is the study and practice of nature. Its basic foundation is health and vitality, and it encompasses all aspects of nature that influence regeneration.

In nature, all forms of life consume some sort of food to sustain health. Most of nature eats intuitively. Human beings have lost a great deal of this intuitiveness, and therefore they primarily consume what society teaches them to eat. Since money is one of the major motivating factors in today’s world, many products and foods are sold for financial gain at the expense of personal health. As our species has become the sickest and most disease ridden on this planet, Naturopathy was born out of a desire to regain this lost intuition for what truly are the appropriate foods to sustain human life.

As we’ve discussed previously, your body is like an engine that requires a fuel source, but it needs to be cleaned and rebuilt as time goes on. If you use bad fuels, your car won’t run properly and will eventually stop running. The same is true of your body. Since men and women have chosen to fill their bodies with bad fuels—foods that leave a lot of residues in their tissues —they must clean the body out, or suffer the consequences. Diseases are nothing more than signs and symptoms that reflect the body’s need to clean and rebuild itself. Fresh, uncooked foods, especially fruits, are self-cleansing. They not only feed the body, they keep it clean internally as well.

Detoxification is truly a science and an art unto itself; a necessary response to the consumption of toxic and congestive foods that have clogged and obstructed the human body. In nature, detoxification is a continual process that all of life goes through, at one level or another. The process of cleaning your body of toxins, mucus and acidosis can create symptoms that are seen as diseases by some doctors, and so we have been taught to fear this natural process.

All life in the physical world takes in energy, metabolizes it, and then excretes the remains and by-products. Most of the time this is done automatically. However, the human is the only species on this planet that chooses to eat foods that are not harmonious with its species. Humans also choose to alter the chemistry and energy of the foods they eat by processing and cooking them. This changes the nature of these foods and the way they are metabolized. Many of these foods then become irritating, mucus-forming, and inflammatory to the body. Some foods, like processed grains and dairy products, act like glue in your tissues; and others, like meat and processed foods, contain deadly chemicals and heavy metals. Added to this destructive situation is the chemicalized air we breathe and the products we use on our bodies and in our homes. The external environment also exerts its influence. “Acid rain” has resulted from so much acidic air pollution from factories. Now, almost every breath we take is acid-forming.

All these toxic and mucus-forming substances will change the way the body eliminates. In other words, cooked and processed foods slow down body elimination and, in most cases, the toxic by-products of these foods are stored or plaqued in the tissues. This blocks proper cellular respiration, causing a cell to become hypo-active, slowly losing its ability to function.

Many disease symptoms are nothing more than the body’s effort to eliminate these stored toxins and mucus, some of which we began storing in utero. Most pregnant women consume milk, meat and other toxic foods, thinking that they are building bones and muscle tissue in the fetus. This, however, just adds to her toxicity and acidosis, thus increasing tissue weakness. The same is happening in her fetus.

The body is always trying to keep itself clean and strong by means of detoxification. This is done through sweating caused by fevers, by vomiting, diarrhea, frequent urination, colds, flus, and by simple daily elimination. The more toxic a person becomes, the stronger the purging will be. Take simple bronchitis, for example. If the first time your body had symptoms of bronchitis you went to your doctor and he or she gave you antibiotics, or even extremely high doses of vitamin C, the symptoms of bronchitis would stop. These remedies did not cure the inflammation and congestion, they merely stopped the elimination process or symptoms. Results like these give the illusion that the condition was cured. However, the next time your body tries to clean itself out, it could have symptoms of pneumonia. This is because bronchitis and pneumonia are not diseases but are merely inflammatory/ congestive conditions trying to be eliminated by the body. Your symptoms can become worse and penetrate deeper because you did not allow the lungs and bronchi to clean themselves out properly the first time.

Throughout your life no one told you that many of the foods you were eating caused this congestion in the first place. So you continued eating foods that created additional accumulations of mucus and congestion. After a while, the body again reached the point where it needed to clean these congestions, and this caused you to experience an even deeper level of cleansing.

If you always stop your body from eliminating the congestion and toxins that you put into it, eventually you can create lymph node swelling, and then tumors, from holding all these toxins and mucus too long.

Your whole body comes into play during these cleansing cycles—or what we call a “healing crisis,” which may include fevers, sweats, coughing, mucus discharge, diarrhea, skin rashes and much more (See Module 6.6, The Healing Crisis). During these healing crises the functioning of your immune system is enhanced, as well as your eliminative organs, including the skin. This is why it is important never to treat, but to detoxify and regenerate. In the detoxification process the body will clean itself out. Many people, including healthcare practitioners, do not understand this process as they should.

True Naturopathy includes the science of detoxification and cellular regeneration. Because of the status-quo “treatment” mentality, many people use natural products, such as vitamins, minerals and herbs to treat symptoms. I use only herbs to assist the body in its detoxification efforts and to enhance the function of cells in related or weakened tissues, organs and glands. Herbs are also highly nutritious, as they are non-hybrid vegetables.