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Do You Know What Makes Me Sick?
By Rodger Bailey
There are a lot of directions one could take in writing an article with this title. It could be humor or political commentary or personal opinions. But, I want to address something that I touched on in recent intel about children's health and diet. I want to talk about the process our body goes through to get sick. A little background will be helpful to understand this idea. I will jump around a little from one concept to another, but please follow along as I lay the foundation for this idea. The natural state of our body is good health. Our body has a series of systems which are designed to keep us in good health. When we get sick, there are processes that our body performs which eventually will bring us back to health. For these systems to keep us in health, there needs to be an appropriate culture for our bodies. I'm using the gardener's concept of 'culture' here. A plant needs a certain regimen of light, water, nutrients, temperature, freedom from pests, etc. . . to grow in a healthy manner. If this culture is not correct, the plant can get sick and fail. If we do not have the appropriate culture for ourselves, we will get sick and fail. For us humans, the culture has some of those same requirements that a plant has, but there are some other elements needed as well for our culture to be okay for us. Yes, the need light, water, nutrients, temperature, freedom from pests. But, we also need some other stuff like an appropriate social and emotional environment and we need movement as well. Our immune system protects us There is the 'dark side' in our culture. Our immune systems are designed to protect us from things in our environment (our culture) which are harmful to ourselves. If we are in contact with something to which our immune system reacts, we can start to get sick. Often, under those circumstances, we don't get sick because our immune system is strong at that moment and does its job of protecting ourselves. The difference between our immune system keeping us healthy and not being able to keep us healthy is related to our immune system's state. We often talk about our immune system being strong or weak and for this discussion, that is enough to get the point across. When our immune system is strong it protects us and when it is weak, it has limited ability to do its job. The immune system is always on the job. It is operating in a dynamic way to adjust its responses to our body and the environment. This dynamic action is the key to staying healthy. As we move through the day, we move through different cultural environments. The dynamic nature of our immune system is alert to this changing culture and adapts its responses to those changes. What keeps the immune system strong and what makes it weak? The things which stress our immune system involve inappropriate culture. When we do not have appropriate light, water, nutrients, temperature, freedom from pests, as well as not having appropriate social, emotional, or movement environmental elements, our immune system becomes stressed and becomes weak. If our immune system is chronically weak, we will be chronically sick, because the systemic and dynamic aspects of our immune system which keep us healthy cannot do their job appropriately. As long as the immune system recognizes that the environment is okay for us, the immune system has all its resources available to maintain our health. Under these circumstances, our immune system is considered to be strong. When the immune system is constantly having to make major adjustments to keep the body healthy, it starts to be weakened because it does not have unlimited resources to do its job. If our environment or our emotional state is stressful for us, it is also stressing our immune system. The more our immune system is stressed, the more likely our chances of becoming chronically ill. How do we know when our immune system is weak? If we are often sick, it is a signal that our immune system is weak. If we get sick after a highly stressful event, our immune system is weak. For me, when my immune system is weak, I start to get more highly sensitive. This could be emotionally reacting more strongly than the situation warrants. It could be that I get a skin rash for no apparent reason. It could be that I react to the smell of things more strongly than normally. For each of us the specific signals of a weak immune system may be different, but in a way, they are all the same. We are more ill than we have been and we are more sensitive than we have normally been. |
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Great intel Rodger. Keep it comin'...
We are complex beings. I think for years physicians failed to recognize the whole person, the role of emotional health on physical health and so forth. I think increasingly, the medical community is beginning to recognize kind of what you describe. Our environment, state of mind, and so forth have a lot to do with our overall physical health. Good reading.
Hopfully, with the use of computers, doctors will be able to communicate better with specialist to give us better care.
Keep up the great intels.
Frederick
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