Cleanliness Is An Essential Of Life. However, more important than external cleanliness is internal purity.
We Americans are habituated to many eating and drinking practices that fill our bodies with unwholesome materials that must be eliminated, always taking their toll on the eliminative organs. Nonfood materials are usually inherently toxic, especially the harmful substances the average American eats and drinks. A constant load of toxic materials taxes the eliminative faculties. Thus we Americans are often saturated in toxins from exogenous sources and, due to their impairing influences, from endogenous sources, too. By waste we mean all end-products of all the metabolic activities occurring in every cell and organ of the body. Elimination must equal the processes of supply if balance and health are to be maintained. To cope with its eliminative needs, the body must enjoy conditions favorable to elimination. As well, it should not be taxed with toxic materials from without.
Internal debris damages the body in two ways:
The mere physical presence of pollutants clogs and interferes with body processes.
All contaminants within are unhealthy! The body not only objects vigorously to the physical presence of debris but it also objects to its chemical presence. The body tries to maintain physical and chemical integrity. Anything that alters the consistency of body elaborated fluids and compounds; anything that threatens cell well-being due to its chemical nature is anti-vital, hence toxic. Thus we can see that for best performance the body must not be hampered physically or chemically in its operations.
The sum total of all the processes whereby the body is cleansed or kept pure is called elimination or drainage. Elimination is the sequel of feeding or alimentation. Ideally the body must eliminate the unusable debris from food ingestion, spent cells, the wastes of metabolism and extraneous substances that may be admitted in some manner. The more thoroughly elimination is effected, the purer is the body. A thoroughly clean body is necessary to realize the highest level of function—to achieve the highest level of health. Inasmuch as the basic cause of dis-ease is body toxicity, we need to realize the importance of keeping our bodies clean internally as well as externally.
Body Elimination Must Be Equal to the Need Obviously, to remain free of burdensome accumulations, both physical and chemical in nature, the body must have full use of its eliminative faculties. If these faculties are impaired by lack of nerve energy, if they have been disabled by toxic materials or if ingestion of toxic matters exceeds ability to cope, then elimination is likewise impaired. Accumulations further vitiate the elimination process until the body must undertake an eliminative crisis (dis-ease) to free itself of its morbid load.
Eliminative processes never cease. Every exhaled breath is an act of elimination of toxic gases. The skin exudes some small amount of wastes continuously. But there is one time in each day when the body heightens its eliminative processes. This time is, roughly, from three to four o'clock in the morning until from ten to twelve o'clock noon. The body passes through rather distinct cycles daily.
These are roughly as follows:
4:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. — eliminative
12:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — alimentary
8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. — assimilative
These cycles are consistent, more or less, with the way things are with healthy humans who observe the natural norm of working days and sleeping nights. Thus we eat when hungry. This is followed by body assimilation and, upon completion, the body turns its energies to elimination of wastes.
A Brief Look at the Body's Primary Organs of Elimination:
Lymphatic system (adenoids, tonsils, appendix, spleen, nodes, vessels, etc.). These chemicalize wastes in such a manner as to render them less toxic in preparation for expulsion. The lymphatic system also plays other roles.
Liver. The liver further detoxifies wastes. It is the largest organ and performs myriad nutritive and eliminative tasks. Kidneys. The renal system filters non-utile wastes from the blood and dispatches it to the bladder. The kidneys perform many other functions as well.
Lungs. The lungs, like most body organs, perform a dual role as supplier and eliminator. They obtain oxygen from the air and supply it to the bloodstream In addition, they remove carbon dioxide and certain other wastes from the bloodstream.
Bowels or colon. The bowels perform few nutritive tasks other than supplying the body with water in emergencies, and electrolytes should the body require them. On the other hand it carries out of the body digestive wastes and metabolic wastes as may be excreted into it by tubes from other organs.
Skin. The skin is the most extensive organ of the human body. Among its many functions are protection of the body from outside influences that would disturb homeostasis, temperature maintenance, cooling and warming and elimination of certain wastes in extremely small amounts. In vicarious eliminative processes such as acne, boils, psoriasis, eczema, rashes, measles, poxes, itches, etc. the skin is used as an organ of elimination. The skin performs a nutritive role in receiving sunlight for conversion into vitamin D.
The tongue is sometimes used by the body as an extraordinary organ of elimination. This is very noticeable when you have a furred tongue. The tongue is not a regular organ of elimination but incidentally one in vicarious processes of extraordinary elimination. There are occasions when the body will undertake massive eliminative measures. The respiratory system and mouth may be utilized in vomiting; the bowels in diarrhea; the mucous membranes as outlets from the circulatory systems (lymph and blood); the kidneys are used for diuresis; and the skin is sometimes used for diaphoresis and eruptions.
Supplementary Organs of Elimination
I have cited the regular organs of elimination. Those nonregular organs through which the body eliminates in crises are called vicarious organs of elimination. As mentioned, the tongue, skin, respiratory system and mucous membranes (internal skin) are pressed into eliminative tasks in emergencies. The body can cause ulcers or lesions for the purpose of elimination, or it may utilize ulcers caused by tissue destruction as an extraordinary outlet. In emergencies the body may press any tissue system or organ into service as a vicarious organ of elimination. These may be the eyes, sinuses, bronchioles, lungs and so on.
The Liver as an Organ of DetoxificationThe liver detoxifies internal wastes and also attempts to detoxify exogenous poisons. It passes these detoxified materials either through tubes to the small intestine for passing on to the colon or back to the bloodstream for forwarding to the kidneys where they will be excreted in the urine. An example of liver detoxification may be seen in the case of alcohol ingestion or its formation within the body by bacteria due to indigestion. The stomach and intestines do not digest alcohol. Alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream as alcohol and circulates until eliminated. The liver detoxifies the alcohol to a great extent and passes it on to the kidneys for excretion. The liver, the body's foremost chemical factory, varies its chemicals to the need in neutralizing or detoxifying poisons in the blood which pass through it.
Due to unnatural practices or influences, humans frequently accumulate toxic substances in their bodies beyond normal capacity for elimination. When the accumulation becomes intolerable within the context of residual vitality, the body will preempt its nerve energy and redirect it to the task of extraordinary elimination or cleansing. When the body does this, disease exists. Acute disease is a body process. The energies normally available for muscular or nervous (brain) activities, digestion, etc. are preempted and redirected. Hence, the sick person has little or no energy for normal pursuits.
There are more ways to accumulate trash in the body than we can chart. Basically, all unwholesome influences and practices debilitate body eliminative faculties and especially lower the body's supply of nerve energy. The key to keeping the body clean is a way of life that neither distresses nor pollutes it.
Normal Activities of Life Essential to Internal Cleanliness. The eliminative capacity of the body is truly immense. The body has over-capacity in almost all its faculties. We can live well with one lung, one kidney, etc. The organism thus has safety margins to insure survival. Most of the world's people manage to exceed their generous capacity for elimination. Therefore, the necessity for illness or healing crises in order to remove excesses that accumulate. If we live within our capacities as developed in nature, our system will never become befouled in the first place; hence, there is never the necessity for a healing or eliminative crisis—disease. The living practices that are attuned to our adaptations will not fetter the organism; rather, they will enable us to thrive optimally. Those acts and indulgences which are contrary to human adaptations are bound to interfere with normal functions in many ways, the result of which is to burden the organism with uneliminated toxic materials. Health depends on internal purity, and this, in turn, depends on practices that promote health rather than practices that result in the retention of morbid matters.
Fasting is an Extraordinary "Housecleaning" measure whether the organism is clogged up or not, fasting is a constructive condition! Though a complete fast is not for everyone. There are many cleansing regimes that I will also explain that are not as intense. During the disease process, fasting can be very powerful, in that it can efficiently restore high-level function. In health, fasting rests the faculties, rejuvenates the cells and heightens functions. Fasting affords the body the rest it needs so that it may redirect its energies to the task of "housecleaning." Under the condition of the fast the body will expel retained wastes and impurities. Fasting for more than a few days should only be done with supervision.
Lets talk about PH balance.
Vibrant health and energy depends on PH balance in the body.
Your body is alkaline by design. The PH of your body needs to remain alkaline and will seek to retain PH balance.
Just as your body regulates its temperature, it will also try to preserve its PH in a very narrow range-especially in the blood.
Chronic acidity in your body wil interrrupt all cellular activites and functions-it interferes with life itself.
When your body is overly burdened and trying to compensate for PH imbalances, it suffers immensely. This excess stress eventually leads to toxicity and dis-ease.
Unfortunately, due to the lifestyle/diet today of most people they are overly, and chronicly in a PH acid condition.
I have a very simple way of testing your PH, which we will do regularly. This will help tremendously in monitoring your progress and what your particular body will need to get back to PH balance, and stay there.
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