The Women Warriors

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*At this point, we should consider our own bodies directly and how we are designed brilliantly to deal with these (dis-ease) problems. Do not think that you must be a doctor to understand principles of how your body works. You do not need to be a Swiss watchmaker to know how to tell time. To understand our human body's immune system, we must understand that it is not a single organ or even one system. Rather, it is an alliance of organs and systems, working together to create an overall immune function. Just as the police, fire, and sanitation departments are independently systems within a larger city government, they coordinate and communicate to create an overall function that is for the protection of the whole. The T-lymphocytes, and the thymus gland that creates them, are the most famous and front-line parts of the immune system. But there are still postwar medical textbooks that say the thymus gland is a useless atrophied endocrine gland after childhood. Naturalist doctors have long supported the idea that the thymus gland must always be nourished with the right nutrients and herbs because it functions throughout our lifetime. If the thymus gland was not continuously active in creating immunity, why was it the foremost obstacle to be overcome in the procedure of organ transplants? It is the thymus that sets up the rejection of the foreign implanted organs because "they do not belong to this body."

Researchers are exploring nonsensical methods such as freezing our youthful, thymus-derived T-lymphocytes and injecting them back into our older bodies. The Novermber 1988 issue of Longevity magazine quotes one immune system researcher, who said, "I feel strongly that if we could counteract the shrinkage of the thymus, we would not only sustain the activity of the immune system but might extend the life span as well." Here is another example of highly funded medical researchers overlooking prior nutritional research hoping to find exotic (translation: "expensive") chemical substitutes.
Thirteen years earlier, in the September 1975 issue of the journal Infectious Diseases, Dr. Eli Seifter, professor of biochemistry of the New York-based Albert Einstein College of Medicine, wrote, "When the body is subjected to stress, the immune response suffers and the thymus gland, which is vital to the cell's protection, tend to shrink. Vitamin A increases the size of the thymus which apparently stimulates the body's defense against desease [emphasis added.]"

The thymus's shrinking comes after disease and malnutrition. As medical researchers return to the "useless gland" (as it is called in many post-World War II texts) for answers, nutritition will be the answer. The Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv, Isreal, reported as far back as 1976 the successful use of animal thymus gland extract to treat infectious diseases in children not responding to antibiotics. Dr. Royal Lee reported similar findings twenty years before that.

Yes, the immune system has some key players, but it functions across a broad range of the body's systems. When we have an infection of some kind, it is because there is a high count of pathogenic bacteria or viruses concentrated somewhere in the body, trying to break down dead or diseased tissue. I am not saying that the germ theory of medicine is totally without basis but, rather, without perspective.

The germ theory of medicine is a nineteenth-century concept, promoted by Louis Pasteur before vitamins, trace elements, and other nutrients had even been discovered. The germ theory is still believed to be the central cause of disease, because around it exists a colossal supportive infrastructure of commercial interests that built multi-billion-dollar industries based upon this theory. To the scientific satisfaction of many in the health field, it has long been disproven as the primary cause of disease. Germs are, rather, an effect of diesease.

Nervertheless, like dogs chasing their own tails, scientists go cross-eyed looking in microscpes (or should I say, "microbescopes") to discover new diesase-causing germs. In January 1989, the Atlantic Center for Disease Control reported that at least 200 different viruses can cause the common cold. A little common sense about the common cold would reveal the nonesense of that assertion. In my opinion, that statement does more to beg forgiveness from the chemical approach to disease than to show enlightened understanding about cause and effect. Surely, the guy on the street with a cold cannot fault medicine for not having a drug to cure his cold when he would need 200 different chemicals aimed at interfering with all the possibliities of the so-called "cause" of his problem. One ponders geometrically for a moment; if 200 viruses can cause the simple cold, think how many more evil microbes they believe must cause cancer.

Yet, false hope springs eternal in the human mind. In March 1989, mediacl researchers announced that they were perhaps five to ten years away from a cold-preventing drug. This hope derived from a discovery of the place in the cell attacked by the rhino virus, which they blame for one-third of all colds. This presumes, of course, that viruses actually attack cells rather than just act as a scavenger cleaning up the waste, which we will shortyly discuss. If, hypothetically, they could produce a cold-inhibiting drug, just what would the side effects be of stopping the elimination of all cell waste thrown off by cold symptoms? If you stop a cold, you stop what the body is accomplishing by the action of a cold.

Is it not ironic, indeed pathetic, that as human beings, the potentially highest form of life expression on this planet, we have built the vast pharmaceutical industry for the central purpose of poisoning the lowest form of life on the plant - germs? As Dr. Royal Lee said almost thirty years ago, "One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedence of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy over natural, or poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons [drugs], trying to correct the reactions of starvation."

Harmful germs are a natural reaction to starved tissue. Nowadays, the medical obsession with killing microbes would stun even the "father of antibiotics," Nobel-Prize-laureate Selman Waksman, M.D., who wrote in 1954, "It is usually not recognized that for every injurious or parasitic microbe there are dozen of beneficial ones. Without the latter, there would be no bread to eat or wine to drink, no fertile soils and no potable waters, no clothing and no sanitation. One can visualize no form of higher life without the existence of the microbes. They are the universal scavengers. They keep in constant circulation the chemical elements which are so essential to the continuation of plant and animal life."

So germs or microbes flourish as scavengers at the site of disease. Enlightened understanding is that they are not the cause of disease, any more than flies and maggots cause garbage. Flies, maggots, and rats do not cause garbage but rather feed on it, and that's why I refer to the germ theory of medicine as "the rat theory of garbage." That is, if germs cause disease, then rats must cause garbage. Show me a town that's full of rats and I'll show you a town that's full of garbage. I'll show you a town with a sanitation problem, I guarantee it. Take me to the cockroaches. Come to think of it, I always see firemen at burning buildings...


Are We Missing The Point?

Think of this for a moment. The immune system of the human body is remarkably sophisticated. It makes the most advanced computer software in the world look like a child's toy. The immune system of plants is comparatively simple, isn't it? Once you understand it, it's not that difficult to explain.
What happnes when we take an antibiotic (penicillin or its derivatives) into our bodies? Penicillin is a specific antibacterial secretion of a fungus. Penicillin was seen as a great miracle and, certainly, when introduced in the middle of World War II, many soldiers' lives were saved because of penicillin. However, there's always a price to pay down the road when you do something left-handed with nature. When we use a plant's method of killing bacteria in our own bodies, we reduce our human level of immune function to that of a vegetable.


Antibiotics And The Loss Of Immunity

Antibiotics in our bodies cannot tell the cops from the robbers. With no discretion, they kill friendly as well as harmful bacteria. The vast majority of bacteria are helpful, actually working for us, like the microflora in our intestines. Destruction of this microflora produces a common side effect of antibiotic therapy in humans and animals: diarrhea. Overgrowth of the yeast organsism, Candida albicans, is another common side effect of antibiotic therapy. Our own immune systems, now placed on welfare by the medical doctor, decide not to work. A false sense of temporary resistance is acquired by the body. The antibiotic can also weaken our immune system by creating certain B-vitamin deficiencies. The micro-intestinal flora, the friendly bacteria that protect the GI tract, synthesize certain B vitamins such as B12, the anti-pernicious-anemia vitamin (made form the trace mineral cobalt). Minute levels of this powerful vitamin, measured in micrograms (thousandths of a gram), maintain the health of billions of red blood cells that sustain life. Antibiotics kill the firendly bacteria that manufacture vitamin B12 in the gut. Where is the logic behind depressing our immune system to fight an infection artificially - especially when we run the increased risk of developing super strains of pathogenic bacteria that have mutated to circumvent the antibiotic? These super strains are showing up in more and more hospitals, known as "super infections."
An antibiotic is a plant's immune system. Why do we use another species' method of protecting ourselves? We have our own, more-sophisticated internal mechanism for self-defense. Animals and humans do not produce antibiotics, nor do they need to, if their endocrine, immune, and nervous systems have the mineral, vitamin, protein, and enzyme substances found in foods grown on mineral-rich soil. Armed with these tools, the Earth's highest form of life - humans and animals - are well equipped to fight the Earth's lowest forms of life - bacteria and virus. Let's learn how that works, strengthen it, and use it effectively. It has kept human beings surviving for thousands of centuries. Nature's track record for being right should inspire our trust.


Empty Harvest Understanding the Link Between Our Food, Our Immunity, and Our planet. ~ by Dr. Bernard Jensen & Mark Anderson




"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." ~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow


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"Cast down what is in your right hand. It will swallow up what they have wrought. Verily they have wrought only a sorcerer's stratagem; and a sorcerer does not succeed (no matter) from whatsoever (skilled group) he may come." (Quran-20:69)

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A Familiar Example: The Flu


The word "flu" comes from the Italian word "influenza." In the Middle Ages, people believed that when you had a flu you were under the "influence of the stars." Our modern concept isn't superior. The flu hits people when? What time of year? If you notice, most flu epidemics begin when seasons change. Flu gets into full flight when the new season has fully arrived.

If you want to observe a big flu epidemic, just look for some real back-and-forth weather, like Indian summers. Let's say October blows cold and snowy as it can here in Colorado. You might get a big snowstorm in October, then in November, you can be out in a short-sleeved shirt, hiking. Later in November you get the blizzards again, then December might warm up. Colorado does several hesitation dance steps coming into winter - very mild then cold and then mild then cold. That's all you need for the making of a good flu season. Why? Well, for one thing, because of the thyroid gland. The thyroid is the endocrine gland of metabolism; it helps the body adapt between hot and cold. When the summer is here and it's hot, the thyroid is running comparatively low. We don't need to interanally warm the body when it's already externally warm. When it's 80 F or 90 F out, the thryroid can have a long summer rest.

When winter comes along and we need to warm up the engine, so to speak, and get metabolism up, the thyroid releases thyroxin and its other gland-stimulating hormones to speed up metabolism. Many naturalist doctors feel that what occurs at this point, because most people have such unresponsive thyroid glands, is that their bodies do not respond appropriately to such temperature changes. This results in unprocessed metabolic waste, in tissues and from undigested food, accumulating in the system. As waste empties from tissues, it becomes a circulating fluid called "lymph."
This waste builds up in the intestines, liver, kidneys, spleen, and lymph glands, and generally in the blood and tissues. When waste-loaded lymph backs up, it may back up into the spleen, tonsils, and lymph nodes and vessels. The bowels get very sluggish. The body wants to generate heat but the thyroid's not doing it, so we spend two hundred dollars on a down jacket and say, "I'm healthy. I'm warm. The cold doesn't bother me." So, L.L. Bean sells us a warm down jacket, while the unprocessed metabolic waste continues to build up and up. What we get next is the flu.

What does the flu do? It's a turbulent detoxification reaction of the body. Every symptom of a cold or the flu - every symptom (the body is not general, it's specific) - every symptom of a cold or the flu is a sympotm of detoxification. What are the major symptoms of the flu? High fevers (burning off waste, and bacteria); the pores of the skin open for profuse sweating; diarrhea, the bowels dump; chills, which generate internal heat; vomiting, and coughing up and expectoration of respiratory mucus - all the cleansing actions.

This is a way that the body can violently and quickly get rid of the unprocessed metabolic waste. The waste is a smorgasbord for bacteria. Then we start talking all kinds of antihistamine cold pills and drugs to try to stop the body's correct response because we misunderstand what is going on. Advertising strives to convince us that symptoms are universally bad. In this way, they can sell "relief."

Let's say there's a concentration of strep bacteria in some organ. The T-lymphocytes are in the bloodstream and attack the strep. They go to the infection and stimulate reactions to isolate, cluster, and then destroy this infectious bacteria. They create a free radical molecular instability in the infectious bacteria and cause them to break down. The dead bacteria is transported in lymph and blood for removal. These are methods that the body uses to get dead bacteria out. But the bacteria is just living on the unprocessed metabolic waste and diseased, malnurished, nonresistant tissue in the first place. The immune system can't do anything about the malnourished tissue.

All the immune system is trying to do is get rid of the bacteria that is building up too high. It doesn's mind if there are some bacteria working on waste; it's a matter of degree. The presence of the germs does not consitute the presence of a disease. Tubercle bacilli (associated with tuberculosis), for instance, can be cultured in a large percentage of the population that does not have and never will develop tuberculosis. The Centers for Disease Conrtol recently reported that 50% of America's homeless population tested positive for tuberculosis, but only 5% had any active stage of the disease. When the body (terrain) is too toxic and weak, there is too much pollution in the system. If the thyroid is unable to stimulate enough matabolic function to help cleanse the tiissues, then the bacteria levels build up even higher and the militant lymphocyctes or phagocytes go into action. But, these "swat teams" of the immune system require nutrients such as vitamins to be effective. The role of vitamins and minerals in fortifying the body against infection is not generally embraced by pharmaceutical-based medicine. But that has not prevented hundreds of prominent research biochemists from reporting their myriad findings over the last fifty years about infection-fighting aspects of various vitamins.




Psychology of disease:

Flu ~ Response to mass negativity and beliefs. Belief in Stats. Fear (solar plexus).

Affirmation for Flu:

"I am beyond group beliefs and calenders, I am free from congestion and influences."


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