| Have you been ill lately? | | | | optimally makes you also feel better. |
| You are probably sound and well yourself and are | | | | Both work very well at the moment, but afterwards it |
| never ill or have a cold! | | | | might get worse! |
| But then maybe you know someone who suffers | | | | The result is seen everywhere! Have the expenses to |
| from time to time..... | | | | sick people gone up or down the last years? |
| This first article is about the mysteries of the immune | | | | If you freeze you better prevent further loss of heat |
| system, which is all-important to our well-being. | | | | with a warm sweater and let the body warm up |
| A lot of people do not know the difference between | | | | slowly from inside. That is the most natural. |
| symptom treatment and cause treatment, and this | | | | What I am talking about here is giving the body the |
| creates unnecessary suffering. | | | | necessary building blocks that the body needs for it to |
| To many people there will, however, not be any news | | | | function optimally! This is how the body was designed |
| in these articles. Still the metaphors, and the way I | | | | to do from the very beginning. |
| explain connections, might be different from what you | | | | To do what is was created to do it needs all the basic |
| know. | | | | nutrients. |
| Why are some people always well and healthy? | | | | Not just one or seven different basic nutrients but all of |
| The answer lies in the immune system - also called the | | | | them. |
| immune defence. | | | | Everybody needs ALL the many nutrients in the form |
| If you have a well-functioning immune system your | | | | of natural vitamins and minerals and amino acids and |
| body is able to defend against the "enemies", - but if | | | | so on. All in different quantities of course, because you |
| your immune defence is weakened you are more | | | | only need some of the nutrients in very small portions. |
| easily ill. Any illness is a sign that the body is out of | | | | The similarity between a car and a human body |
| balance. | | | | Here is a picture to illustrate what I mean: |
| What can weaken the immune defence? | | | | You use less oil on your car engine than gasoline or |
| Daily things like too much stress, pollution, medicine, | | | | washer fluid. They have their different functions to |
| sugar, alcohol, tobacco, and shock/trauma. | | | | make your car work optimally. |
| Also too little exercise and a poor diet can also be | | | | But all three mentioned are important for your car to |
| causes of a weakened immune defence. | | | | run, and for you as the driver to be able to look |
| Do you recognize something from the above? | | | | through the windscreen. |
| Is your immune defence optimal??? | | | | The consequences with deficiencies are different too: |
| Don't worry, because things can be changed by | | | | Without gasoline your car stops and you won't move |
| neutralizing the effects. | | | | a metre, - but you have not destroyed anything in the |
| Now, what can strengthen the immune system? | | | | car. |
| That could be healthy food, exercise, and sufficient | | | | Without lubricating oil the engine will slowly get warmer |
| supply of the basic nutrients, quality sleep, good | | | | and eventually be totally destroyed. |
| relationships, and high self-esteem. | | | | Without washer fluid it will be difficult for you to look |
| Does it sound reasonable or out-in-the-woods? | | | | out through the windscreen and you risk an accident. |
| Let me explain it to you. | | | | Different consequences..... |
| You can strengthen your immune system either quickly | | | | To make it crystal clear to you what I mean I will ad |
| or slowly. | | | | one more example: |
| My experience, both personally and professionally, is | | | | The symptom of lacking cooling water in your car is a |
| that if you want to gain the most, in the shortest time in | | | | flashing lamp at the dashboard. The problem cannot |
| the healthiest manner, you should start with the body. | | | | be resolved from the driver's seat but by opening the |
| That means doing a little more exercise, changing a | | | | engine hood, screwing off a lid, and pouring in some |
| little in your diet habits, and taking healthy, natural, active, | | | | water. Not just a couple of drops, but maybe a whole |
| quality supplements. If the body does not get the | | | | litre. |
| necessary vitamins, minerals, and amino and fatty | | | | If you do not know better there is no logical connection |
| acids you will still have a weakened immune defence. | | | | between a flashing lamp at the steering wheel - and |
| The slower way in the long run to strengthen the | | | | the engine under the hood. |
| immune defence is to make a personal choice to | | | | Hypothetically an ignorant person would be annoyed |
| change a stressful job situation, or stop smoking | | | | by the flashing lamp and maybe paste a piece of tape |
| drinking, or change bad relationships, or whatever your | | | | over it so that they are not being disturbed by it. |
| situations asks for. | | | | Only if you KNOW it, is there a logical connection. |
| What is your first impulse if your body protests by for | | | | Knowing that the flashing lamp is a symptom of |
| example a headache, a cold sore, cough, | | | | deficiency in cooling water at the engine, and it could |
| stomach-ache or fungal decay? Do you rush down to | | | | be fatal. |
| the pharmacy to buy something to stop it, - or do you, | | | | You know it, when you know it - not before!!! |
| like more and more people, take responsibility for their | | | | It is in fact exactly the same with your body. |
| own life and give their body the building material it | | | | If you have a pain in your body (or in your life) you |
| needs to defend the imbalance itself. | | | | either have to supply something necessary - or |
| Whatever your first impulse is, tells you where you are | | | | remove something harmful. |
| regarding your connection to natural health. | | | | In the long run the best and most effective ways to |
| If you only want to get rid of the symptoms then the | | | | get rid of unwanted symptoms is to remove the |
| quickest way is to take some medicine. In a few hours | | | | causes. For the body it is done most easily by eating |
| the symptoms can disappear - but that doesn't mean | | | | organic varied food and taking natural healthy |
| that the original problem and the cause of the | | | | supplements to your food, so your body has the |
| symptoms has disappeared for ever! The challenges | | | | optimal possibilities to function as it is supposed to. |
| might grow bigger after some time with allergies, | | | | Who has the desire or time to lie in bed and feel |
| hypersensitivity and complications. | | | | miserable? |
| So taking medicine might not be the smartest way.... | | | | To me, the only thing that matters is practical |
| Are there other ways, then? | | | | experiences. |
| The difference between a sweater and a scotch | | | | Does it work - or doesn't it work? |
| whisky | | | | Can it be avoided? |
| Let me give you a picture of this metaphor: | | | | Isn't THAT the most important thing? |
| One winter day you are freezing cold. | | | | Now - you might ask me from where I know all this.... |
| What do you do? | | | | How could Christopher Columbus know that the Earth |
| - Do you put on a jacket? | | | | was round and not flat? |
| - Or do you drink alcohol to get warm? | | | | He brought together available pieces of information |
| What a choice....! | | | | and looked at it in another way - and DID something |
| Drinking alcohol gives you a immediately feeling of | | | | by sailing out and discovering what really was. |
| warmth, but the alcohol makes the blood vessels in the | | | | Without knowing so he RE-DISCOVERED, in a |
| skin open. By that you lose heat! That is the reason | | | | practical way, that the Earth is round. |
| why it is so dangerous to mix cold weather and | | | | Even though everybody around him, 500 years ago, |
| alcohol! - A drunkard who walks home insufficiently | | | | held on to the idea that it was flat. |
| dressed on a ice-cold winter night ...... gets tired..... wants | | | | Columbus created a new paradigm. A new universal |
| to rest.... fall a sleep!!! Death! | | | | conviction and consciousness. |
| Drinking alcohol when you are cold makes you feel | | | | Read in the next article about the choices in life, |
| warmer. | | | | poisoning and deficiencies. |
| Taking medicine when your body is not working | | | | |