Toxemia Is The Universal Cause Of Disease
Actually, there is only one disease, no matter how it manifests
itself. And the disease, which we call constructive disease, is
occasioned by the body itself and is known as a crisis of toxemia or
healing.
3.1 The Seven Stages of Disease
There are several stages of disease. The underlying cause of disease
in all stages is toxemia. Although toxemia may arise from many sources,
it basically exists because of insufficient nerve energy to sufficiently
eliminate exogenous poisons and body wastes. Toxemia is not broad
enough a term to cover the whole poisoning process for it means poison
in the blood. Actually toxicosis exists.
Tissues, cells and interstitial spaces are also toxic-laden. In short, the whole body is toxic.
Diseases present many different aspects because they evolve with the
progressing deterioration of the organism that suffers them. Disease has
seven distinct stages. These stages correspond to the distinct
differences of each stage of evolution.
3.1.1. Enervation
The first stage is not even recognized by physicians as a disease. Life Scientists call it enervation.
Most people call it nervous exhaustion. Enervation is a state in
which the body is either not generating sufficient nerve energy for the
tasks the body must perform, or the tasks the body must perform may be
greater than the normal nerve energy supply can cope with. In any event,
the body becomes impaired, and an impaired body generates less nerve
energy if the conditions of overwork or under-generation persist.
Most people know when they are nervously exhausted.
Enervation can be caused by depletion of nerve energy in any of
hundreds of ways. Sleep regenerates nerve energy. Obviously,
insufficient sleep will not supply us with our needs. It will not fully
recharge our batteries. We need sleep to regenerate nerve energy for the
brain and nervous system.
Nerve energy is a form of electricity measurable in millivolts. Sleep
laboratories have successfully substituted electricity in place of the
body's own. When this is accomplished it is called electrosleep. It
takes only two hours out of twenty-four to fully restore nerve energy in
this manner.
Demonstrating that nerve energy is electrical is easy. If you mashed
your finger, a message would immediately go to the brain and back would
come a command to remove the finger from that which applied the
pressure. Moreover, the brain would command the entire balance of the
body to cooperate in the extraction of the finger from the offending
pressure. Only electricity is capable of such speedy transmission. No
chemical process or circulatory process is capable of this dispatch.
It occurs only through a network of nerves with conductive abilities,
and electricity is the only form of energy it can conduct. If you take a
weak voltage and hook up to it while holding someone else's hand, the
other person gets a shock immediately when you touch the live electrical
source. I don't think anyone can doubt that we do generate electricity,
and that is the form of energy we use to conduct our physical and
mental activities. Sensations are transformed into electrical stimuli
and forwarded to the brain. The brain interprets these and sends out
commands based upon the interpretation.
Thus, if you put your finger to a hot object, the finger is commanded in a flash to withdraw from it.
The foregoing is to demonstrate that the body is primarily an
organism that works on the amount of electricity it generates and which
it has in its reserves. If this supply is depleted or otherwise
insufficient to cope with the needs of the body, then body functions
become impaired, including the processes of elimination of both
endogenous metabolic wastes and exogenous poisons introduced into the
body.
This impairment begets further impairment including diminishing the
body's ability to restore depleted nerve energy. The body starts going
downhill. The next stage of this decline is called toxemia.
3.1.2. Toxemia or Toxicosis
When toxic substances from whatever source saturate the blood and
tissues, the lymph system and interstitial fluids, then the conditions
of toxemia and toxicosis exist.
As functioning organisms, we generate a tremendous amount of toxic
by-products. We generate enough carbon dioxide to kill us within a few
minutes. If our lungs failed to function, carbon dioxide buildup and
lack of oxygenation would overwhelm us quite quickly. We can
accommodate only so much carbon dioxide. And this is but one of many
waste products. There are trillions of cells in the human body. Tens of
billions of these expire every day. They are replaced by new cells. The
old cells are broken down by lysosomes, enzymes that reside in a little
organelle within the cell itself. Upon cell death, these enzymes break
the cell down into many smaller components for elimination. These
components are cell debris. Some of these components such as iron,
protein, and amino acids are recycled by the body. Some 95% of the
body's iron needs and 70% of its protein needs are met by recycling.
Certain other of the body's needs are met by recycling as well. This
will give you some idea as to the immense providence and wisdom of the
body in meeting its needs. Other components of the decomposed cell are
the RNA and DNA. These are toxic while in the system. If they accumulate
as they do in most humans in today's society, a condition of
intoxication (toxemia and toxicosis) exists. These are what medical
people call viruses, and they mistakenly attribute to this dead debris
the powers of life and malevolence.
Tissue and blood saturation with toxic materials can be caused by
both internally generated wastes and pollutants taken in from the
outside which the body has not been able to eject from the vital domain.
Intoxication occurs when we overload the body with toxic materials from
the outside, or we fail to observe our capacities, and overwork, get
insufficient sleep, or are subjected to great stress, or when any
number of other factors deplete the body of nerve energy or prevent its
sufficient regeneration. For instance, stresses, emotional shocks, or
traumatic experiences can drain our bodies of nerve energy very quickly.
It's just like shorting out the battery of a car.
At some level of intoxication we begin to experience the next stage of disease which is called irritation.
3.1.3. Irritation
Irritation results from toxic materials being sensed by our nerve
network. Most of us pay this stage little mind, and certainly physicians
do not pay it heed. When we feel itchy, queasy, jumpy, uneasy, or when
we have bothersome but not painful areas, irritation exists. Tickling of
the nose is a form of irritation. Collections of mucus along the mucus
membranes irritate, although irritation is not painful. It is a gentle
prod that moves us to seek comfort, to establish freedom from it. For
instance, the urge to urinate or defecate is a form of irritation due to
accumulation of wastes greater than the body feels comfortable with.
However, the urge is not painful unless it is ignored until it creates
too much pressure in its area.
Near painful irritation forces us to deal with the problem.
When a person drinks too much alcohol we say that he or she is
intoxicated. That's a good example of exogenous intoxication. While all
alcohol intake is damaging to the organism, the body can speedily
eliminate a small amount before much damage has occurred. Increase the
intake, and the elimination is proportionately less and the damage
proportionately greater. The first drink of alcohol occasions only
irritation which we also call stimulation. But any toxic material, be it
salt, caffeine, or condiments will irritate or stimulate. This is a
condition wherein the body sets in force its defensive mechanisms and
accelerates its internal activities. This might well be likened to an
alarm aboard ship where all hands are summoned. A frenzy of activity
results in a bout with enemy forces.
Unfortunately, this often makes us feel good or hyper or even
euphoric. It is distressing to see a euphoric condition arise out of a
situation that is damaging to the organism.
If the causes of enervation/intoxication/irritation remain in force
and the body can't cope with it the body initiates a responsive crisis
called inflammation.
3.1.4. Inflammation
This is usually the stage in which physicians recognize pathology. It
is the stage where sufferers are keenly aware of a problem, for it
involves pain. As well, it involves bodily redirection of vital
energies.
The intestinal tract is closed down. Energy that would normally be
available for activity there is pre-empted and redirected to the massive
effort to cope with a severe condition of intoxication. Lest the
integrity of the organism be dealt a mortal blow or crippled, the body
musters its all to the emergency.
In inflammation, the toxicants have usually been concentrated in an
organ or area for a massive expulsive effort. The area becomes inflamed
due to the constant irritation of the toxic materials. When inflammation
exists we are said to have an "itis," appendicitis, tonsilitis,
hepatitis, or nephritis for example. Note that the "itises" just cited
are all due to overburdening of four different organs of purification
and elimination.
The names of "itises" are usually after the organ or tissue area that
is inflamed. Thus if we have a cold we have rhinitis. If we have
inflammation of the sinus cavities we have sinusitis. If we have
inflammation of bronchial tissue we have either bronchitis or asthma.
And so it goes. We have these peculiar pathologies because in each case
the body elected to eliminate the extraordinary toxic load through the
organ affected. For instance, asthma exists because the body has
selected the bronchi as an outlet for toxic materials. The condition is
chronic because the toxic condition is unceasing. While the sufferer
continues to intoxicate himself or herself, the body continues to
eliminate the overload through the bronchi or alveolar tissue.
Inflammation or fever is a body crisis response to a life-threatening
situation. The body and the body alone creates the fever. It is an
evidence or symptom of increased and intense body activities directed at
cleansing and repair. The extraordinary energies employed for a fever
are at the expense of energies normally involved in digestion, work or
play, thinking and seeing, etc. Fever is a healing activity. The idea of
suppressing it is equivalent to hitting a drowning man over the head so
he'll cease his struggles. For instance, if rhinitis or influenza
sufferers are drugged it amounts to hitting the body's healer over the
head. Thus, the eliminative effort is suppressed, and the toxicity
increases until other organs, usually the lungs, become saturated—not
only with the toxicity but the drugs administered as well. When body
vitality reasserts itself a condition known as pneumonia is likely to
result.
Inflammation is the fourth stage of disease and is the body's most
intense effort to cleanse and restore itself. The next stage of disease
is destructive and degenerative. It will result if the causes of general
body intoxication are continued.
3.1.5. Ulceration
Ulceration means that a staggering amount of cells and tissue
structures are, being destroyed. Physiological systems are wiped out due
to the body's inability to live in an unceasing toxic media. Where
tissue is destroyed there remains a void. An example is a canker sore of
the mouth. Lesions or ulcers can occur in other areas of the body also.
These conditions are often intensely painful, for there are exposed
nerves.
While the body may use an ulcer as an outlet for extraordinary toxic
buildup thereby relieving itself, it will heal the ulcer if causes are
discontinued, or if the toxicity level is significantly lowered. This
process of repairing the damage is like patching up pants with holes in
them. This patching up process is called induration.
3.1.6. Induration
Induration is a hardening of tissue or the filling in of tissue
vacancy with hard tissue. Scarring is a form of induration. But in this
stage of disease, there is direction and purpose in hardening. The space
is filled, and the toxic materials that threaten bodily integrity are
encapsulated in a sac of hardened tissue. The ulcer and the toxic
materials are sealed off by the hardening of the tissue around them.
This is a way of quarantining the toxic materials, often called tumor
formation. It is this condition that is diagnosed as cancer nineteen
times out of twenty when, in fact, no cancer exists.
Induration is the last stage during which the body exerts intelligent
control. Should the pathogenic practices which brought matters to this
stage be continued, cells and tissue systems go wild. They survive as
best they can on their own. Cells become parasitic—living off the
nutrients they can obtain from the lymph fluid but contributing nothing
to the body economy. They have become disorganized. Their genetic
encoding has been altered by the poisons. Thus, they are not capable of
intelligent normal organized action within the context of a vital
economy. When cells go wild in this manner, the condition is called
cancer.
3.1.7. Cancer
The endpoint of the evolution of disease is cancer. It is the last
stage of disease and is usually fatal, especially if the causes that
brought it about are continued. Cessation of causes and indulgence of
healthful practices may arrest it, for they can so revitalize the body
that they may even destroy the cancer cells. It's all relative. Cancer
cells live in a hostile environment but still divide and flourish as
long as nutrients are available to them. Cancer cells may be regarded as
cells that have become independent and have reverted to the status of
uncontrolled primitive cells—cells that live entirely on their own as do
protozoa.
These stages of disease are quite distinct in their characters, yet
the lines are more or less arbitrarily drawn. This often happens in
attempts at categorization where one form evolves into another. The
dividing lines have no clear-cut delineation.
People sometimes ask when cancer begins. Hygienists or Life
Scientists say that it begins with the first cold or rash of childhood.
The first crisis a baby endures begins the pathological chain that leads
to cancer. This evolutionary chain begins then because the phenomenon
of life is one constant violation of the laws of life from beginning to
end.
3.2. Viruses And Bacteria—Their Role In Disease
After reviewing the seven stages of disease it should be obvious that
bacteria and so-called viruses do not cause diseases. Viruses do cause
diseases if you call toxic waste materials of decomposed body cells
viruses. Decomposed cell debris is precisely what virologists and
physicians are calling viruses. They regard viruses as living entitities
when, in fact, medics have not in all history observed any quality of
life they ascribe to viruses. What is called virus is always dead. It's
never been observed to be alive. It doesn't have the first prerequisites
of life, that is, metabolic and control mechanisms. Even bacteria have
that. I repeat that what is called viruses are nothing more than
components of decomposed cells.
Some people insist that syphilis is caused by bacteria, more
specifically spirochetes. Though the term spirochetes has given way to
viruses called Herpes these days—that's today's fashion—it was easy to
demonstrate that spirochetes were never responsible in the first place.
When you ask a bacteriologist which comes first, the soil or the
bacteria, he will answer that the soil must exist first for bacteria to
thrive, for bacteria are presented a deadly environment by living cells.
So, bacteria never exist in a proliferating state where there is no
food or soil for their propagation. They multiply when there is feast,
and they die off when there is famine or adverse environment, hence,
bacteria no more create their food supply than flies cause garbage. The
garbage must preexist the flies and, on the same order, the garbage or
soil on which bacteria thrive in our bodies must preexist their presence
and propagation. In other words, they do not cause the condition—they
are there because of the condition.
When the body has a highly toxic condition such as inflammation, it
will absorb bacteria from the intestinal cavity and transport them to
the point where deadly materials have been concentrated.
The bacteria then symbiotically assist in breaking up these toxic
materials for elimination. Of course, the excreta of bacteria are toxic,
too.
Ignorant physicians regard these bacteria not as our symbiotic
partners in the process of combating disease, but as the cause of the
disease. Koch destroyed Pasteur's original theories by his four
postulates. The first two state that if a disease is caused by a certain
type of bacterium, then that form of bacteria must always be present
when the disease exists. The other says that the disease must always be
occasioned by the presence or introduction of the bacteria said to be
responsible.
Although these cardinal principles are self-evident, so many
exceptions existed as to disprove totally the germ theory of
disease-causation. Koch laid down his postulates in 1892; the medical
profession never has given them credence. To this day the profession
clings to the disproven germ theory except that germs in the form of
bacteria are taking a back seat to an even more elusive entity called a
virus.
Bacteria exist in a multitude of strains, forms, and metabolic
capabilities. Bacteria are versatile and in many cases change forms and
lifestyles in keeping with the character of the soil available to them.
Round bacteria can become rod shaped and vice versa.
It used to be said that pneumococcus caused pneumonia. But it was
noted that this type of bacteria was absent in nearly half the cases.
Moreover, administering the bacteria to healthy organisms never
occasioned pneumonia. The plain fact that bacteria are in the human body
as they are everywhere else is not recognized by the medical
profession. Bacteria are symbiotic partners of all creatures in nature.
In order to come to exist in nature in the first place, humans had to
establish a state of symbiosis with all natural forces.
In the second place, if bacteria invaded organisms and laid them low
as they're supposed to do—if the body could be laid low while in a state
of health—then the impetus or momentum the bacteria had built up would
become more pronounced and overwhelming as the organism receded in
disease.
It would be a one-way trip the same as vultures picking the bones of a
cadaver. If bacteria and viruses cause disease, once they have
overwhelmed the body and actually debilitated it, how does the much
weakened body regain ascendancy? If you were to inquire into this deeply
and pursue it to its logical conclusions, you'd find that, once a body
has lost the battle while in a state of health, it's going to lose the
war after being disabled.
3.3 Disease Complicated by By-Products of Symbiotic Bacteria
At their strongest, bacteria complicate disease because the
byproducts of bacterial fermentation or putrefaction are deadly poison.
In fermentation the by-products are lactic acid, acetic acid or
vinegar, and alcohol. Putrefaction involves nitrogenous foods or
proteins. The by-products of rotting protein are ammonias, indoles,
skatoles, purines, etc. They are toxic within organisms, although the
body can normally eliminate these poisons. In fact, our feces and urine
are loaded with the by-products of protein decomposition, both from our
body decomposition and bacterial decomposition.
You've heard of the ideal of living in a germ-free environment. That is an impossibility, of course.
Trillions of bacteria are in and on our bodies at all times. If we
were free of these minute organisms, we'd soon die. They perform many
essential services for us which will be discussed in a later lesson.
Suffice it to say that we live symbiotically with bacteria.
Bacteria are wrongfully blamed for our own indiscretions. It's the
rare medic who doesn't find a scapegoat for his client and remove
responsibility for problems from the shoulders of the sufferer.
Medical logic is not very logical. According to medical
thinking, bacteria or viruses invade our bodies and destroy our cells.
It would seem that our body defenses permit this by their intimations.
It would seem that once these invading entities have a headstart they
would not stop destroying the rest of the cells of the organism,
especially as the first strike has crippled the organism and lessened
its ability to defend itself. By medical logic, the bacteria are there
in greater numbers, for they proliferate astronomically when they've
found a feast situation. How can the body reverse this situation and
recover? '
The medics believe that they administer drugs that kill off the
bacteria so that the body can have a chance to recover. Also, they have
people believing that medicines are healing agents or that they assist
in healing.
When you start asking deep penetrating questions into the causes of
disease, the medical theories fall of their own weight. They cannot be
sustained in the face of self-evident truths. So we have to find the
rational basis for disease causation.
Disease has a sole unitary cause. It is instituted and conducted by
the body itself. It is the only organized entity capable of coordinating
the various processes of disease. Disease is occasioned when toxic
materials that we have generated within or taken in from without are
uneliminated due to the body's inability to cope with them. These
debilitate and devitalize the organism until, at a point where it can no
longer tolerate the growing toxic load at its mean level of vitality,
the body institutes a crisis, redirecting its body energies to the enemy
within.
Let's go back to pneumonia. Physicians worry that when a person has a
cold or the flu, it will become pneumonia. It occurs so many times
among their patients that they make "heroic" efforts to prevent this.
They administer drugs galore. Yet, pneumonia occurs so frequently
despite the drugging that doctors feel powerless in the face of
pneumonia, one of the primary causes of death in our society. The
question arises: what causes pneumonia then? Does pneumococcus survive
the drug onslaught and cause pneumonia anyway?
If colds are, as we teach, a cleansing process, how does a body that
is in crisis get yet worse? If the body is eliminating toxic materials
profusely through the respiratory tract as in colds and flu, then how do
the lungs also become contaminated?
All cases of colds and flu recover very quickly if the sufferer goes
to bed in an airy room with lots of natural daylight. Almost total rest
is called for. Total abstention from food but plenty of pure water is
needed.
Under these conditions debility ceases in from one to three days.
But, if the sufferer refuses to rest and continues to eat the same bad
food that contributed heavily to the crisis in the first place, the
eliminative effort may be less than the continued toxic buildup, in
which case pneumonia may be a concomitant. But, if the sufferer goes to a
medic and gets drugged in addition, the body turns its attention to
eliminating the drugs. It may cease the cold or flu altogether in face
of the greater enemy.
The continued toxic buildup spreads to the lungs. The drugs and toxic
materials may concentrate so strongly in the lungs as to cause death or
to set the stage for cancer. Many autopsies reveal people who have had
pneumonia or who have smoked or lived in highly polluted air have
tumors, indurated sacs of lung tissue which encapsulate toxic substances
in the lungs. Many cases of long fasts have been conducted in which
pneumonia had been suffered many years before. The drugs that had been
given had been noted to make their exit from the lungs during the course
of the fast as the body autolyzed the tumors and expelled their
contents.
Yet, despite the obvious causes of pneumonia, medical professionals
are still saying that pneumococcus causes pneumonia when, in fact, more
than 25% of pneumonia cases never have pneumococcus. Now that medics are
getting more and more away from the germ theory of disease causation
they're invoking viruses as the culprits. This is true only if by
viruses we mean uneliminated metabolic wastes. But when you start
probing into what viruses are and how they cause disease, you might call
this the "evil spirit" theory of disease, for the medics imbue viruses
with all the qualities of malevolent spirits.
Such blindness characterizes the medical profession. The purpose of
disease is so evident that medics can't see it. Just as with the guard
in the concentration camp, they are looking for something that doesn't
exist and they overlook that which they see so plainly all the time.
Medical researchers have chronicled over 20,000 different diseases.
They name almost every variation. They have multiple names because of
the number of organs or tissue systems that exhibit symptoms. All of
this is only one disease. And the disease, which we call constructive
disease, is occasioned by the body itself and is known as toxemia or
toxicosis.
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