Why some people never recover
Taking our health into our own hands means to stop being a patient, as these two terms simply exclude one another. It is therefore important to recognize the difference between a patient, that is a purchaser of medicines and medical services, and a person who has decided to take decisions freely regarding the most important issues in the life of every human being, rather than having a medical specialist telling them what to do or prescribing unnecessary medications.
5. Patient characteristics
Patients can be easily identifiable by external features such as always seeing the cause of a disease in deficiency of some substances - vitamins, minerals, medicines, herbs, extracts, preparations, enzymes, supplements, or other random products invented by medicine. Due to this characteristic feature, the patient can only think of one thing: - What tests do I need to find out the cause of my disease, and what else can I take to recover as soon as possible?
6. The process of converting from patientism
To stop thinking like a patient, it is important to realize that the cause of a disease is not any deficiency of substances. It is not difficult to adopt a new spectrum of knowledge. It is based on fundamental laws of nature. The main difficulty that people face during the process of converting from patientism is getting rid of the multi-generational impact of pharmaceutical and medical indoctrination. It's simply difficult to forget everything we've been taught about health from the earliest years of life, and now, all of a sudden, someone's telling us that we were fed lies and illusions just to increase profits of the already profitable business.
Patientism can also be found among doctors. Paracelsus, the father of modern medicine, described this phenomenon as follows: - It's not about learning what you don't know, but forgetting what you already know or believe that you know.
7. What does it mean - to recover
In order to recover, you should get sick first. This indicates that there is a cause of the disease that needs to be eliminated for successful recovery, which seems to be quite obvious. Does this mean that not using a cleansing mixture (chapter 1) is the cause of diseases? It most certainly is, but not the only one.
The purpose of using cleansing mixture is to eliminate the objective cause of diseases, which is an increase in the amount of negative factors that result from the occurrence of manmade chemicals in the environment. A prerequisite for good health is homeostasis, or the balance between the amount of harmful factors and the possibility of their removal. The body is, of course, not defenseless and has a proper system of maintaining homeostasis. The core problem is that excretory systems of our bodies have a fixed capacity. What happens when this capacity is exceeded? In this case, the body is forced to store the excess quantity of harmful factors.
A pathological state in which the body becomes a trash of harmful factors is called toxemia and is the cause of all diseases. Under these circumstances, even if we maintained a balanced diet and led the healthiest possible lifestyle - we wouldn't have the slightest chance of being healthy. This brings us to the point that the cleansing mixture is not a medicine that treats diseases, it's simply a necessary response to the existing situation.
8. Deficiency caused by excess
Apart from the objective cause of all diseases, which is the permanent increase in environmental pollution, there is also a subjective cause, which is a deficiency of certain substances resulting from the excess of other substances. A typical example may be white sugar obtained from sugar beets. It is common knowledge that children who eat a lot of high-sugar meals are affected by tooth decay, but most people believe that it is sugar that erodes tooth enamel, creating cavities infected by bacteria that result in tooth decay.
Damage to tooth enamel caused by sugar, which is a carbohydrate, is a medical myth. In reality, carbohydrates have no destructive properties on tooth enamel. Otherwise, people eating fruit, vegetables and starch products would be toothless.
Metabolic processes (volume 2, p. 87) generate substances called metabolic products. These are toxic substances which should be neutralized and then excreted.
Neutralization of active toxins occurs as a result of combining them with neutralizing substances, usually calcium, magnesium and vitamin B9. The inert chemical compounds thus created have to be excreted. This process requires other substances, mainly vitamins C and E. In nature all nutrients exist in the form of a set, which means that when we get a supply of energy substances, we also get a supply of all substances necessary for the neutralization and excretion of metabolic products.
This is not the case for products cleared of certain substances found in natural products. Sugar manufacturers pride themselves on high purity of their product, which exceeds 99%. This is a success from the manufacturer's point of view, but from a health point of view this means that 99% of substances needed to neutralize and excrete metabolic products, resulting from sugar metabolism, will have to be "borrowed" from somewhere. But from where, if there is no excess? The only way is to borrow them from tissues, thereby affecting their strength.
Bones and teeth constitute tissues that contain the most significant amounts of calcium, which are used by the body if this element is not supplied with food, as in the case of purified products. Deficiency of calcium in bones can't be observed, but tooth decay is a visible symptom of this process.
The patient will most likely draw a conclusion that the cause of tooth decay is calcium deficiency and will look for a medicine that contains a high content of this element, but well-informed people know that the actual cause is completely different. It is an excess of substances that require calcium in order to neutralize metabolic products.
In similar fashion, the excess of certain substances results in deficiencies of other substances. This can occur in all tissues, and it means that they will eventually run out of the substances necessary to build cells. This is important not only during growth, but also during the ongoing regeneration process in which the body seeks to replace consumed, and thus inefficient, cells with fully functional new cells. The body without proper tissue reserves can't produce healthy and nutritious cells, resulting in the presence of an increasing number of defective cells.
The purpose of a cell is to perform the function of the tissue it forms. If a cell can't do that, it's simply a hindrance. If there are no proper building blocks to replace that cell with a better one, it's vital for the body to get rid of it. Therefore, the body throws them to "predators" - viruses, bacteria and parasites - which consequently lead to common health problems: viral infections, bacterial infections with runny nose and sore throat, parasitic diseases.
A few examples of health problems that result from a deficiency caused by excess include: - magnesium deficiency caused by the direct effect of drinking excessive amounts of coffee - scurvy common among medieval sailors; a symptom of vitamin C deficiency resulting from drinking stale water and eating bad food - pellagra[2] caused by consumption of excessive amounts of flour products.
9. Rushing the body to heal
The most fashionable ways of rushing the body to heal include: speeding up the cleansing process, taking dietary supplements, removing parasites and practicing sports.
There's plenty of methods and techniques that can be used to cleanse our bodies. To tell the truth, it is currently difficult to find a product that does not have any cleansing properties. A basic precondition for good health is to cleanse the body of toxins. That's why many people are trying to speed up the effect of cleansing mixture That seems logical, yet in reality the effect is often exactly opposite to the one intended, as - after primary improvement of their general well-being - people experience a complete standstill. No one knows why this is happening. Well perhaps the body somehow becomes addicted to support and is waiting for further methods? We'll probably never know, but the fact remains that giving assistance to the body is delaying the recovery process.
Taking dietary supplements is the result of the patient's perception of the human body as a piece of trash that is not able to survive without a pharmacy or supplements. The most significant factors affecting the perception of one's own body include advertisements that offer medical products that are supposed to help with everything the customer wishes - immunity, digestion, absorption, heartburn, bloating, constipation, skin, hair, nails, sight, hearing, smell, taste, appetite, memory, concentration, youth, beauty, longevity. And apparently there's nothing wrong with that, after all it's just supplements - dietary supplements, as they're called. In fact, the leaflets of each of these products contain a long list of diseases they treat, and that suggests quite a serious matter, as treatment is nothing more than a fight against disease symptoms, which means that these products have an active impact on the functioning of our immune systems. The bodies subject to similar procedures are starting to act as if they were embalmed, like mummies which, as you know, stay preserved for a very long time, but they're lifeless. Therefore, it takes a lot of time before an embalmed body begins to respond to prophylactic and health-improving activities.
Total war against parasites is the latest trend of the so-called natural medicine. There is a great deal of literature about the role of parasites in all possible symptoms - from digestive disorders, constipation and abdominal pain to cough, allergies and bronchial asthma. Natural medicine uses less natural (if at all) electrical devices for detecting parasites - real and fictitious. It also uses a large arsenal of measure in the fight against parasites that include the above-mentioned electrical devices, as well as a variety of products, both natural and chemical. The fight against parasites appears to be reasonable, yet in reality it's more trouble than it's worth, given that these parasites are not carnivorous creatures that would kill us for consumption. They thrive on dead or decaying cells. If we get rid of them, then their nutrient substance (in the form of dead or decaying cells) remains in our bodies, and that is the cause of diseases much more serious than parasitoses. In addition, the fight against parasites, as is the case with all other microorganisms, is subject to a universal principle: what doesn't kill it, makes it stronger. That way, we are making a rod for our own backs, as we contribute to the development of parasite strains resistant to all fighting methods.
You have to realize that the slogan: - sport equals health - is simply false. Athletes are not healthy because they are practicing sports, in reality it's the opposite - you have to be healthy to practice sports. A stronger effort increases the excretion of toxins, as it increases the secretion of sweat, but it also speeds up metabolism, thus increasing the amount of metabolic products, which in turn increases the demand for substances necessary for their neutralization and excretion. If your body is healthy, and therefore has a sufficient supply of vitamins and minerals, there is nothing to prevent you from practicing sports. But what are our physiological limits? The first sign of crossing a physiological limit is the need for artificial supplementation. After crossing this limit, active participation in sport can become more pathological than healthy.
10. Elimination as a condition of recovery
According to Hippocrates, the most important thing is to do no harm: Primum non nocere, that is "first, do no harm". It is simply necessary to start from that step - elimination of harmful factors. However, people who are affected by patientism, even if they have acquired basic knowledge of health, are unlikely to accept a natural form of reasoning. They believe that taking care of their health means to "take" something "healthy", instead of eliminating harmful factors. They are convinced that drinking cleansing mixtures makes them healthy (after all, the mixture is healthy!), but is it enough? You can try oils, but is it really enough?
There's also a fiber cocktail (chapter 17) used to supplement substances that are missing in the most widely available food, but it also doesn't cure anything. And now you're being told that you have to introduce a pro-health diet (chapter 18), which doesn't include anything "healthy" - healthy oatmeal, super healthy muesli, extremely healthy rye bread made from natural leaven.
- You'll probably get even sicker on this diet - the patient thinks - And what if I'm skinny? Do they want me to get even skinnier?
Deceived by the patient way of reasoning, they will not only fail to implement the pro-health diet, but will also eat a lot of starch-based products to gain weight, or at least not lose any more weight.
- And what if I'm missing some vitamins and minerals? This diet would do more harm than good - someone else would deduce.
The truth is that in case of any health problems, the pro-health diet is a smooth transition from the past habits of eating any junk that have led to these health problems, to eating in line with the principles of healthy eating. The prerequisite for this transition is to firstly "reset" the pro-health diet, by eliminating the food components that most often hinder the recovery process, and, in subsequent stages, introducing those components again.
11. How long does it take to fully recover
Health is homeostasis, a dynamic balance, which means that it is not a state of stagnation, therefore it is not possible to fully recover and stay healthy. Health, as a useful value, is subject to the same laws as all other values: if you care about it, you have it. So, why does it matter whether we care about health to recover or to be healthy? If there's no difference, you might as well ask how long you should breathe, when you should get sick, make plans for the future, laugh - live.
There is also another advantage of taking care of your health that cannot be overestimated. The ubiquitous medical propaganda is teaching us that diseases come with age, so it's only a matter of time before medical help becomes a necessity. The pharmaceutical and medical business relies on the belief that people, at some point in their lives, must get sick and then recover, to finally die from "some disease".
In fact, the cause of diseases is not time, but what happens during that time. If toxins accumulate in the body throughout this time, at some point they will significantly impair the functioning of organs deciding about the proper functioning of the body as one inseparable piece. Then people can start relying on medicine that provides them with medicines improving the performance of individual organs, but can it restore their health?
When we take care of our health, we challenge medical propaganda, as with the passage of time the "promised" age-related diseases don't appear, but - on the contrary - we're getting healthier. The more time passes from taking health into our own hands, the healthier we are - all the symptoms slowly disappear, our general well-being improves, the body gets fit; we get younger. Should we really try to complete this process quickly?
If we're healthy, we can save a lot of time on visits to doctors and medical tests, as well as a lot of money spent on medicines and specialists in various medical fields. This investment is mostly profitable after retirement, given the fact that retired people are the most numerous customers of pharmacies.
