Sunday, June 21, 2009

Disease Begins In The Gut

By Lee Jacobs

The human body is susceptible to hundreds of diseases. Scientists have researched and continue to research as many as they can to determine their pathology. Many have concluded that the place where many diseases begin is in the bowel. Responsible for riding the body of waste and by products, the bowel has an extremely important function. It only makes sense that if the bowel is not functioning properly and removing toxins at a proper pace, that in time the ill-effects will mount up to cause illness and disease.

The bowel was not designed to hold fecal matter for any length of time, and when transit time becomes any longer than roughly 24 hours, food remains begin to putrefy and expel poisonous toxins within the bowel, which are then quickly reabsorbed via the portal vein, in which toxic compounds pass through the liver and in to the body.

The modern diet has become the biggest threat to our health. Our body has had to adapt to enormous changes in our diet and has done so by altering the immune system. The immune system has relocated itself to fight off the body's attackers at the site where it is needed the most - the gut. Now a large majority of the immune system, over 80%, is located in the gut. This is called Gut Associated Immune Tissue or GALT.

Our diet has changed racially in the last 100 years. We have gone from consuming foods that consisted of fruit, vegetables, and legumes, much of it raw and uncooked to a diet that consists principally of processed and overcooked food. Even though the body is good at adapting to changes in the diet, this change has occurred rapidly not giving the body enough opportunity to adapt. Therefore, the immune system views it as an enemy and struggles to ward it off.

When we consume food that has been processed, our immune system launches an attack against this invading mass - which is nothing short of being a problem in the long term, as this is the beginnings of an auto immune type disease. When we say processed food, we mean grains that have had their outer husks removed, fats that have been hydrogenated, sweeteners that do not have a glucose base, etc. This immune response even begins before the food mass hits the lower aspects of the bowel, but rather starts when we begin to chew, as the body has such intelligence that it homeopathically intuits the nature of the food and prepares the lower digestive system accordingly. White blood cells, phagocytes, leucocytes and other immune markers pour into the digestive system in preparation for what is about to come. The whole immune system response can be circumvented by eating a healthy portion of raw food before the cooked or otherwise processed food.

Over cooked and processed food depletes the body's supply of enzymes and it does so very rapidly. The body has only a fixed amount of enzymes and once they are gone, they are gone. Natural and raw foods do not consume enzymes nearly as quickly and therefore allow the body to conserve them.

One thing for sure is that the body has a tremendous potential to regenerate itself if given the chance, but it goes without saying that we need to work to make this happen. As mentioned above, cleaning the bowel and removing the years of decay from within it is of utmost importance. It has been reported in many instances whilst bowel cleansing that objects eaten long ago have been seen again. One woman reported half a crayon eaten 40 years prior coming out, and another who hadn't eaten peas in over 25 years was visited by them again!

When you begin the detoxification process it is helpful to also begin taking the supplement Miracle Mineral Suplement, a compound that is made of chlorine dioxide, to aid in the process. It is a potent parasite killer in addition to its detoxification support properties.

Here's to restored health!

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