Qualifications: Human Being & self-awarded Honorary Doctorate from the University of Life. Principal Adviser to three children (1969 – 1995).
Knowledge of how your body works is quite essential for good health. Yet “Educational Systems” i.e. “schooling” told me precisely nothing as I grew up. It explained to me how to do Mathematics, but not how my body worked.
It is true that there was a Biology Class. However the “Life History of a Frog” did not appeal to my fairly critical way of thinking, so I took Physics instead. I doubt that you would have left school, and faced the world, knowing much more about your body than did I about mine.
Yet, in essence, it is relatively simple. One doesn’t need any kind of Medical Training in order to grasp the essential basics, because most of it is commonsense.
Well, it is if you think logically, or reasonably.
So, let’s start at the beginning.
You must have ancestry, otherwise you would not be here, reading this.
Your ancestry must go back to the dawn of the Human Species, otherwise you would not be here, reading this.
Now factor that against the simple statement that Pharmaceutical Companies have only been around for a couple of centuries.
And what do you get?
Commonsense tells you immediately that “Pharmaceutical Companies” cannot, therefore, be important to the survival of the Human Species.
Nor, of course (by the same arguments), to the Animal Kingdom.
So how did the Human Race survive before “pharmaceuticals” came along?
Did your ancestors never get ill, do you think? And mine? And everyone else’s?
That’s asking a bit much of a Human Being, don’t you think? Never became ill? Never had a cold? Never had ‘flu? Never had smallpox? Etc. etc.
Well, of course, we have all heard of the Black Plague, have we not?
Yes, our ancestors became ill, just as we do.
How did they survive? How was it that the plagues (yes, there have been more than one of course) did not wipe everyone out?
The answer to this question is bound up within these answers:
1) The Human Body, in fact all organisms, have the ability to cure themselves (called Immune Systems. Actually you have two);
2) Medicines – of the right kind – will give those Immune Systems the best chance of working.
And that’s how it’s done.
There is nothing else. You cure yourself, or you die. (Whatever any Doctor or Surgeon may tell you).
So, the only remaining question is: “Which medicines give my Immune System the best chance of working?”
That is the only relevant question.
Following on from what I have written above, it must be obvious that your ancestors must have chosen the right kinds of medicines for their ailments.
But the vast majority of them did not have “pharmaceuticals” (for example “antibiotics”) at their disposal.
And yet, they survived … and here you are … reading this.
Was this some form of magic?
Do you really think so?
Actually no, there was no ‘magic’ – only (one might say) “the magic of Mother Nature”.
Commonsense should tell you that you are:
1) What your parents created, to start with (i.e. a Human Being), and thereafter
2) What you eat, drink and breathe.
On the basis that your parents created a healthy baby, only (2), above is relevant throughout the rest of your entire life.
If you eat, drink and breathe the right things, you will stay healthy.
If you eat, or drink, or breathe the wrong things, you will not stay healthy.
So now the question moves to “What is right, and what is wrong?”
And the simple, obvious, commonsense answers are “What is right is what Nature – naturally - provided for you”.
Whereas “What is wrong is what Nature does not - naturally - provide for you, e.g. ‘synthetics’ or – to give them their other names ‘pharmaceuticals’, ‘petro-chemicals’”
And your ancestors survived by employing medicines that “Nature – naturally – provided for them”. Because that was all they had.
Statistics are readily available to prove that a swap to reliance on ‘pharmaceuticals’ considerably worsens health.
Which should be obvious anyway, because you can’t trump Mother Nature.
“Oh Doctor, I get these headaches”. “That’s OK, we have a pill for them”
(2 days later) “Oh, Doctor, those headache pills have made me very loose”. “That’s OK. We have a pill for that”
(2 days later) “Oh Doctor, those new pills are bringing me out in a rash”. “That’s OK. We have a pill for that”.
(2 days later) “Oh Doctor, those anti-rash pills are giving me headaches”
And so on. Round and round.
On the other hand, Mother Nature’s cure will stop the headaches, without any side-effects.
Just like it did for your ancestors.
Which would you prefer?
Simple answer: What you were designed to eat.
But, how do you know?
Well, one very good way is to use a little commonsense.
For example: Check your teeth.
Do you have ‘fangs’, such as a cat? ‘Fangs’ designed for piercing flesh, so as to get to ‘meat’?
No, you don’t have ‘fangs’, any more than I do.
Commonsense should, therefore, tell you that you are not a ‘carnivore’. You were not designed to eat meat.
And there is another commonsense test. The vast majority of Human Beings can only eat meat if it is ‘tenderised’, and cooked. Cooking requires ‘fire’. And ‘fire’ required discovery.
Prior to the discovery of fire, your original ancestors could not ‘cook’. So they eat what Nature intended: Fruits, vegetables, pulses, etc. And, in doing so, they survived well enough to procreate the species. They made healthy babies, in other words. If they didn’t, you would not be reading this.
After that bit of commonsense, you then need to check with those who are qualified in Naturopathics, for a complete list of do’s and don’ts. You’ll find that Dairy Produce is bad for you, as well – for reasons a Homeopathic Doctor can explain to you (based on knowledge accumulated over centuries. There is also your Digestive System to consider).
Then it will be your choice as to what you intake. You may decide to continue your lifestyle as normal – running the risk of ailments and diseases, or not. It is your life, and anyone else can only advise, of course.
And this leads to another aspect.
As everyone knows, you have to eat in order to live. If you starve, you will die.
But … why?
I know that if I stop breathing I will die (suffocate), and I know that if I don’t eat I will feel hungry (and that is not pleasant), but why will I actually die if I stop eating for a long period of time?
The answer to this lies in knowledge of what your Blood Stream does, how it works, and what results from a “chemical action”.
You obviously know that your Blood Stream is essential. It carries oxygen around your entire body. The oxygen is picked up from the air you breathe into your lungs. Oxygen is an essential component of every living, healthy cell in your body.
(Serious lack of oxygen in any cell is the medical definition of a cancerous cell)
The characteristics of blood demand a specific temperature 37º C (98.6º F), together with lack of direct contact with air.
In air itself, together with the drop in temperature because it is now outside, rather than safely warmed inside, blood goes hard (coagulates - which is essential for stopping the outflow of blood if you cut yourself).
Put simply, if blood gets too hot, or too cold, it stops working correctly. It doesn’t flow properly. I doesn’t do its job properly.
So, what is it that maintains the temperature of blood, in other words your Internal Bodily Temperature?
The answer is: Food and drink.
But, make no mistake, it does not have to be hot food, nor hot drink.
Just the correct foods (that you were designed to eat), and the correct fluids (that you were designed to drink) is all that is necessary – because “chemistry”, in conjunction with your metabolism, will do the rest.
When whatever you eat or drink reaches your stomach, acids in your stomach react – chemically – with your intakes, and chemical reactions take place. Heat is released by these chemical reactions. This heat is available to be used by your metabolism, which can increase or decrease your heart rate … as necessary to distribute this heat throughout your body – thereby maintaining your Internal Bodily Temperature. At the correct Internal Bodily Temperature your blood flows smoothly. Your blood flow, constantly circulating oxygen around your body, is what keeps you alive.
If hot foods were essential, then how did anyone survive before the discovery of fire? Furthermore, everyone knows that hot food is cold within about a half-hour. (Perhaps an hour or so if it is covered, but nothing like hot enough to keep you going day after day, throughout your entire life)
There is nothing to stop you eating heated foods if they taste nicer when warmed, or hot. However there is no extra nutritional benefit over and above eating the same thing cold.
The only things to remember are:
1) Do not over-cook in such a way as to remove the ‘goodness’ (nutritional value), and
2) Only ever heat by ‘conventional’ means. In other words never use a Microwave Oven, which operates by ‘radiating’ the food. (People actually refer to it as ‘nuking’). Radiation is one of the prime causes of cancer. Microwave Ovens, therefore, ‘cancerise’ the food they heat. In other words what comes out of a Microwave Oven is a genetically-modified version of what went in. A genetically-modified apple (for example) is not the same as an apple. Eating genetically-modified foods is not ‘Nature’s Way’. It is not the way to stay healthy. Indeed, quite the opposite.
Yes, of course that is true. But there are a few things about ‘germs’ you need to realise.
First of all, ‘germs’ are the result of disease, they are not the initial cause. In other words (hypothetically) if no-one on this planet were ill, there would be no germs to ‘pick up’.
In practice, however, illness abounds. Primarily because Human Beings ingest the wrong substances. So these people become ill, and therefore become ‘Germ Factories’, incubating germs for others to ‘pick up’.
Conversely, the more people that are eating healthily, and staying healthy, the less germs will be ‘under manufacture’. There will be less to ‘pick up’ from. (We are all in this together).
After a lifetime of saying the opposite, an old fraud and plagiarist, called Louis Pasteur, recanted on his deathbed by saying “The microbe is nothing. The soil/host is everything”. Having expressed the truth, for the first time in his life, Pasteur died.
The next thing to remember is that your Immune Systems are fully designed to cope with germs ‘picked up’. All that is necessary is for your Immune Systems to be functioning well, given the best chance by means of the correct medicine, and you will recover – provided that the onslaught does not overwhelm your system. ‘System overwhelming’ is known as ‘fatal’.
If you encounter something ‘fatal’ you do not – under any circumstance – have much of a chance. However the number of ‘fatals’ are (relatively) small in number. Nothing like the number of ‘fatals’ that the orthodox, pharmaceutical-based, medical professions make it out to be.
Yes. There are snake bites that can kill within seconds. Nothing will give you much chance against such bites. ‘Nature’s way’ is to keep well away from such snakes. After all, Nature provided them with their means of survival, as well.
There is one other thing it is quite essential to know about germs. They are anaerobic. This means they cannot live in air. Oxygen, in the air, kills them. That same oxygen that gives you life, is deadly to germs. (That is Nature’s way). Within about 30 seconds of exposure to air, any germ is dead and, therefore, completely ineffective (harmless). You can pick up as many dead germs as you like. They will not harm you in the slightest. And your body knows that. So it will just flush them away, without so much as a murmur. It’s doing that all the time.
Yes, what your body ‘knows’ – what your parents endowed you with – is all pretty amazing (if you ever stop to think about it).