With the onset of the Corona virus and all the information put out to create confusion and fear, there has been an increased interest in how to make our bodies stronger against attacks from viruses and bacterial infections. When considering how the body reacts against these attacks, our minds conjure up pictures of little Lego men in hard hats headed out to an infected area of the body fighting monsters and building protective walls. In reality, the body’s response is a bit more complex. It involves the skin, intestines, nasal mucosa, blood, lymph and many other organs and tissues. So, the term immune system should really be the immune response since there is no particular system in place to take care of the infections. With this in mind, it is important that these organs and tissues be in good working order to keep us safe from these illnesses.
To be successful in protecting ourselves from illnesses we should take notice of two main concerns: exposure to pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites), and being a hospitable host. Unfortunately, we have been conditioned to view the attack on our systems by these bugs as the only way to fight against infection. I’m not suggesting that we should not pay attention to our personal hygiene, because washing hands with soap, not touching infected areas, not touching your mouth and nose, and keeping your body clean with soap will obviously help keep us well. Let’s just not forget about the contaminated air we breathe and treated water we drink and the ‘dirty’ food we consume, with all the ‘germs’ associated with them. It’s not enough, or feasible, to try and eliminate or kill all these infectious germs attacking us. What we need to work on is making our body a place these germs don’t want to inhabit.
Through nutritional balancing we can strengthen the body’s response to infection, limiting or eliminating most of the infectious attacks our bodies experience every day. In fact, when your body becomes an unwelcome host, even parasites are forced to vacate and search for more accommodating surroundings. I have a client that lives in an area where most of the people live with parasites. She had been on a nutritional balancing program for over a year and started experiencing some discomfort. I told her she may start seeing some activity from parasites evacuating her body. A month later she called me very distraught and concerned over the large number of ‘bugs’ she was seeing every time she had to go to the bathroom. Of course, though a bit disgusting, this was a good thing. It did leave her a little shaken knowing that she had hosted these live parasites for who knows how long. While it took several weeks for this house clearing to be done, now she has new energy, a clearer mind, a healthier body and a new lease on life since her unwanted passengers are no longer living in her body.
It is important to know that if you have healthy cells and enough of the right nutrients available for them to do their jobs, you have created an environment that is unacceptable to these pathogens. When you add to this, proper hygiene, a bit of exercise and activity, a clean environment and limited stress, your sign will read “No Vacancies” and you will no longer be viewed a hospitable host.
A simple hair test can reveal the necessary changes in your diet, and supplements needed to optimize your cellular efficiency, increasing your body’s ability to fight infections.
As a society we understand that infection is caused by the ‘germs’ we are exposed to in foods, water, the air we breathe, and our skin or mucus membrane. Considering we are exposed to millions of ‘germs’ on a daily basis, it is clear we need to be proactive in our fight to stay healthy. It should be obvious by now that by cleaning up our living space, taking proper steps in personal hygiene, and strengthening our bodies through nutritional balancing, that we can stop much of the infections caused by these exposures.