Causes of Disease, Toxins

You hear doctors talk about toxins or poisons in your system every so often.  I am unsure of their total definition.  Natural medicine has its own thoughts on what toxins are and it’s very simple.  Toxins are any item in the body that is non-nutritive.  Dead cells, waste material from the digestive process, chemicals that enter the body through our skin, the air, or water including drugs toothpaste deodorants, make-up, are all toxins.  The body has elaborate systems for removing the toxins, breath, sweat, mucous, urine, and feces.  As long as the body has the ability to dispose of the toxins we are able to function properly.  But what if we had an excess of toxins, what could the body do with them?  If it was unable to get them out it would have to store them in as safe a place as possible.  Why?  When toxins overwhelm an area they block communication. It’s like the insulation on an electrical wire except it holds out the energy pulses rather than holding them in.  Without instructions the part is unaware of what it’s supposed to do.  It is unable to accept nutrition normally.  The role the tissue plays with other functions is hampered.  Deterioration of the tissue or diseases begins. 

The material cause of disease, then, is toxic overload.  The toxicity of our environment, the food we eat with its insecticides, herbicides, and additives, even the chlorine and fluoride in our water cause a build up in the system that overloads the body.  We are forced to use detoxifying programs twice yearly if we are going to stay ahead of the game.  Detoxifying agents are usually special herbs that flush out the body.  One of these detoxes can be for the colon alone as it is the major player in detoxifying.  The other should involve detoxing agents for the colon and for each of the glands and organs of elimination as well.  Good health can only be maintained by including interior cleansing as part of your health regimen.

(See, “Germs are a result of disease.”)