Why Dis-ease?

I think we manifest illness and dis-ease because our spirits are trying to get our attention. We each have a "mission" on this planet in this lifetime. In my opinion. It is our spirits job to guide us, but it can't do that if it can't get our attention. Since we are physical bodies in a physical world we manifest physical illnesses in that physical body. But it's only a side track to what we're really here for. So to explore WHY we are sick, I think we need to look at the metaphysical side of the illness. Also embrace the BODY, MIND and SPIRIT aspects of each individual person.

What is YOUR mission? and does your dis-ease keep you from fulfilling it? Mine is keeping me from fulfilling mine, but I feel a shift in the next few weeks. A huge shift. The INPUT of information I've had in the last 4 weeks has been phenomenal and I'm almost ready to implement all that I have learned. It's an exciting time to say the least. I feel the shift already occurring.

My MISSION is to teach.

~Amy~

Stage 5: Ulceration

An ulcer can be viewed as a consequence of body degeneration. Ulceration can occur with any body tiisue, but the usual connotation of ulcers has to do with the skin. Tissues are distroyed. the body ulcerated, forming an outlet for the poisonous buildup. The toxic sufferer experiences a multiplication and worsening of symptoms while the pain intensifies.

Modern medical practice is usually to continue drugging, and often commence with surgery and other forms of treatment at this stage. Remember, diabetic foot complications are the most common cause of nontrauma-based lower extremity amputations in the industrialized world. Neuropathy, a major etiologic component of most diabetic ulcerations, is present in more than 82 percent of diabetic patients with foot wounds. The incidence og gangrene is twenty times higher as compared to nondiabetics, and the risk of lower extremity amputation is fifteen to forty-six times higher in diabetics than in people who do not have diabetes mellitus.

Stage 4: Inflammation

The enervated body is now suffering the results of toxemia. The cells have initially become irritated. The next step of cellular changes and body degeneration is inflammation. The inflammation process produces the common "-itis". With skin it is dermatitis. In the throat it may be tonsillitis and, further on, esophagitis. In the stomach we find gastritis. In the small intestine, ileitis. In the colon, colitis. The heart may have carditis. With the liver it is hepatitis. You can have an inflammation ( an-itis) anywhere in the body.

The medical community has named many of the 20,000 distinctly different diseases. Allopathic practice tends to name the disease after the site where the toxins have accumulated and precipitated their symptoms. Once the set of symptoms is named, doctors usually prescribe pharmaceuticals at Stage 4, which do not remove the underlying causes that we are now familiar with. With diabetes and its complications, we see this stage of disease in the heart, kidneys, pancreas, liver, and nervous system. By allowing the accumulation of toxemia to advance, the body will continue to decline in energy and vitality. Further cellular changes will be found. Left unchecked and unheeded, the next stage of disease is ulceration.

Stage 3: Irritation

The body becomes irritated by the toxic buildup in the blood, lymph, and tissues, and the interstitial space between the cells begins to resemble a toxic waste dump. The cells and tissues where buildup occurs are irritated by the toxic nature of the waste, resulting in inflammation. The waste products interfere with the proper oxygenation and feeding of the cells as well as causing the accumulation of excess water in the tissues. Pain signals coming from the tissues have at least three causes: lack of oxygen, lack of nutrition ( cellular food), and pressure. The cells, subjected to the lack of oxygen, the lack of food, and the increased pressure from the retained water, begin to send out pain signals. The cells are hence irritated. The conventional answer is either to ignore the pain and discomfort, or to take a "pain" pill, adding more to the toxic burden as the sufferer continues living in the same manner. The toxic sufferer can feel exhausted, queasy, irritable, itchy, even irrational and hostile. This leads to the next stage of disease and body degeneration, inflammation.

Stage 2: Toxemia

The stagnation of Stage 1 leads to the buildup of toxins in the body, and these substances begin to saturate the blood, lymph, and cells. Stage 2 is typified by sluggish energy, and in the case of diabetes, we already have cells that are developing the preconditions for being insensitive to the signaling of insulin due to their toxic state. John Tilden writes in the chapter "Toxemia" in Herbert Shelton's The History of Natural Hygeine:

"The toxin theory of the healing art is grounded on the truth that toxemia is the basic source of all diseases. So sure and certain is this truth that I do not hesitate to say that it is by far the most satisfactory theory that has been advanced in all the history of medicine. It is a scientific system that covers the whole field of cause and effect-a system that synthesizes with all knowledge, hence a true philosophy.

When this truth first began to force itself upon me, years ago, I was not sure but that there was something wrong with my reasoning. I saw that it would bring me very largely in opposition to every established medical treatment. I held back, and argued with myself....I fought to suppress giving open utterance to a belief that would, in all probability, cause me to be hissed at-subject me to the jeers and gibes of the better class of people, both lay and professional.

Little by little I have proved the truth of my theory. I have tried it out daily for the past twenty years. I myself have personally stood the brunt of my experimenting, and have willingly suffered because of it. Every day this trying-out of the theory has convinced me more and more that toxemia is the universal cause of disease.

As has been stated continuously in my writings for the past dozen years, the habits of overeating, overclothing, and excesses of all kinds use up nerve energy. When the nerve supply is not equal to the demands of the body, organic functioning in impaired, resulting in the retention of waste products. This produces toxemia."

Common sources of toxemia include various exogenous and endogenous toxins, which will now be recognizable as the diabetogenic pre-conditions for diabetes.

Endogenous toxins include:
*Metabolic waste, ongoing, toxic byproducts on the cellular level
*Spent debris from cellular activity
*Dead cells
*Emotional and mental distress and excess
*Physical fatigue, distress, and excess

Exogenous toxins include:
*Unnatural food and drink
*Natural foods deranged by cooking, refining and preserving
*Improper food combinations that result in endogenous toxins
*Medical, pharmaceutical, herbal, and supplemental drugging
*Tobacco, alcohol, and all forms of recreational drugging
*Environmental, commercial, and industrial pollutants
*Impure air and water

The Seven Stages of Disease are...

I can't seem to keep up with this blog. It's been two months, but I'm back.
This is taken from the book by Gabriel Cousins; There is a Cure For Diabetes

Stage 1: Enervation
Enervation is the reduction of nerve energy, by which the body's normal maintenance and elimination functions are impaired, especially in terms of the elimination of endogenous and exogenous toxins, those created from within ( through normal metabolic processes) and from without ( in modern times including the 65,000 human-made toxins in our environment, and the excitotoxins, food additives, and toxins created by the cooking and processing of food). A person who is enervated is generally inactive, living in a toxic environment and consuming toxins that are not being released from the body in a timely manner.

Enervation is also created by stress, which uses up the vital energy in the body that would be applied to maintenance and elimination. Constipation occurs in the bowel, lymph, and tissues of the body. This is the diabetogenic diet and lifestyle we have been illistrating through out this book.

The Seven Stages of Disease

Taken from Dr. Gabriel Cousins book There Is A Cure For Diabetes( Why do I post something from a diabetes book on a site for thyroid? because itis all connected. When you begin to correct what's going wrong, you healeverything. You can't heal selectively and my thinking is if there is a way toCURE diabetes then there is a way to CURE anything else too!) :-)The Seven Stages of Disease, formulated by Dr. John Tilden more than 100 yearsago, gives another perspective in how to understand the degenerative process ofdiabetes and how to reverse the process. "Health is what you consistently do,"and the same can be said of ill health. Disease is an acquired state that isearned over the years with identifiable stages that lead to the manifestation ofsymptoms, and even death, if we are not prudent enough to reverse the diseaseprocess and go backward through the seven stages. Even an acute viral-basedType-1 onset requires a disturbed terrain that allowed a weakened immune statethat produced susceptability to a viral infection, resulting in insulinitis anda rapid onset of Type-1 diabetes. Diabetes is a disease process with stagesthat we can progressively degenerate along, advancing the disease condition andcreating complications-or we can reverse the disease process. It depends onwhether we are aware of what is required to live a healthy life. HerbertShelton called this understanding the laws of life. If you understand andfollow these laws you'll be healthy. If you break them you will get sick. Thisis the meaning of Crimes Against Wisdom.Shelton wrote:The laws of life are not something imposed upon the organization of man. Theyare imbedded in the very structure of our being, in our tissues, our nerve andmuscle cells, our bloodstream, into the total organism...Since these laws arefundamental parts of us, we cannot run away from the laws of being withoutrunning away from ourselves.IN the Tree of Life program we teach what these natural ways are, and empoweryou to love by them. Let's look now at the Seven Stages of Disease.To be continued...In the weeks to come we will look at these 7 stages.I'd like to see active discussion on these. :-)Eat well, live well, be well.~Amy~