Autointoxication

Virtually all disease no matter what its name, is either caused or severely complicated by autointoxication. Simply stated, autointoxication occurs when the body absorbs too much of its own toxic waste. Autointoxication is the outcome of an imbalanced diet, faulty bowel function, or an accumulation of metabolic wastes. It is the root cause of many of today's disorders and illnesses.

More commonly the problem begins in the large intestine, or colon. The colon is a muscle that has two basic functions: it moves along digested matter and rehydrates the blood supply. Bulk waste is pushed out of the body and the remaining water is recycled into the bloodstream. When we consume denutured, over processed foods, they act like glue once they are dehydrated and can adhere to the colon wall. This matter begins to putrefy, feeding unwanted bacteria and compromising our health.

If waste cannot be eliminated and is allowed to accumulate in the body, perhaps suppressed by drugs or extreme tiredness and fatigue, disease sets in. Bacteria and acidic wastes accumulate causing the body's pH to go from an 80% alkaline state to as much as an 80% acidic state. When the body's pH is balanced, it is an unfavorable environment for most pathogens. It is only when our body's have a highly acidic state that disease can get a foothold.

Today more doctors than ever are realizing that our health challenges begin in the bowels. Our body's deal with disease on a daily basis by throwing off all foreign invaders. It is only through our lifestyle choices that our body's become overburdened allowing both disease and the aging process to accelerate. It is our choice to consume over processed foods with little or no life to them, or to maintain an acid forming diet. It is also our choice to carry around unpleasant thoughts and emotions that stop peristalsis (the natural movement of the intestines). Dr. John Kellogg led studies that proved even slight anxiety, annoyance, apprehension or ill temper will stop all movement of the intestines, promoting a diseased state.

Some people are chronically constipated because of a state of ill will or anger. Grief shuts up the outlet of the body's system as tightly as does fear. The worried colon neither secretes not contracts. Both actions are needed - secretions for lubrication and contractions for transportation of waste. Stress from any cause can and will render the colon dysfunctional, promoting Autointoxication.

When the bowel is under active, toxic wastes are absorbed through the bowel wall into the bloodstream. The blood the circulates these toxins to every part of the body and deposits them in tissues. The greatest amounts of toxins are retained in the constitutionally weakest tissues. If any other elimination organ is compromised (lungs, kidneys, skin or lymph) more wastes are retained in the body. As these toxins accumulate, alterations in cellular function take place and organs begin to malfunction. In addition, as our ability to digest deteriorates, partially digested material starts to putrefy, furthering the toxic accumulation. Degenerative disease states are a definite sign that toxic settlements have accumulated in specific organs or systems.

When the body is overwhelmed by toxic accumulations as a consequence of fatigue of poor circulation, proper oxygenation cannot take place in the tissues. Without oxygen, the body loses energy and cannot throw off toxins, which is why sick people are always tired. The more tired we get, the greater the build up of toxins.

If you have any of the following symptoms, you may be experiencing autointoxication:

• allergy or intolerance to certain foods
• bad breath and foul smelling gas and stools
• constipation, diarrhea, sluggish elimination, irregular bowel movements
• frequent congestion, colds, or virus infections
• general aches and pains that migrate from one place to another
• intolerance to fatty foods
• low energy, loss of vitality for no apparent reason
• lower back pain
• lowered resistance to infections
• needing a lot of sleep
• pain in the liver or gull bladder
• PMS, breast soreness, vaginal infections
• skin problems, rashes, boils, pimples, acne, eczema, or psoriasis

Health care professionals are becoming more aware of the paramount importance of maintaining our elimination organs. We need to make sure that the bowel has sufficient water, good nerve tone, good muscle tone, adequate circulation and the correct biochemical nutrients in the proper amounts. Our skin and lungs must be kept clean in order to provide oxygen. We cannot possibly build or maintain a healthy body if it is toxic-laden.

Our medical doctors often fail to take autointoxication into account when dealing with disease. But this is understandable when you consider that they are taught to treat the symptom and not the causation. After all, there is very little money to be made in prevention. The big bucks are in drug therapy and surgery.

Consider this: the American Medical Association's own published figures state that in the year 1900 less than 3% of the North American population died of chronic disease. In the year 2000, after billions of dollars being spent on research, their published figures stated that 42% of the population born that year would develop cancer in one form or another within their lifetime. Cancer is just one form of chronic disease, so why the increase?

The fact of the matter is treatment of disease and disease research is "big business" that creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and generates billions of dollars every year. Disease prevention threatens this "big business". Our current medical system is supported by pharmaceutical companies whose only interest is to sell us drugs designed to treat symptoms of disease rather than correct the causation. After all, there is very little money to be made in health-care, but there are vast fortunes to be made through sick-care.

The only effective answer deals with prevention. Prevention begins with a complete cleansing program designed to re balance acid/alkaline levels, oxygenate the vascular system, and to clear the digestive system of accumulate matter.