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What got me sick in the first place?
That is a very good question, which I get asked over and over again.
"We are fearfully and wonderfully made and our bodies will self heal given the right conditions"... Our bodies have around 383 viruses right now. We build antibodies and Our immune system takes care of it and we move on. Any virus, including the Corona Virus is no different, however it will impact those with weakened immune systems, through lack of nutrients, exercise, water, high sugar diets and fast food etc.
As a Functional Medicine Practitioner I focus on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual's illness.
You may be asking "WHat is functional medicine"? That too is a good question. Here is a link where Dr Anand Thakker explains it better than I could. https://www.blissmedicines.com/is-functional-medicine-legitimate-here-s-what-you-should-know
“Disease never comes without a cause. The way is prepared, and disease is invited by disregard of the laws of health...”
What is the immune system? Is it so frail that a virus can destroy it?
The way the media and medical establishments handle and treat situations like the COVID 19 for eg is very different to how we (Functional Medicine Practitioners) are taught.
The school for education for dr’s is based on a big pharma education model. They don’t understand the immune system and that is what our role is in health. If you ask many Drs about the COVID 19 they will tell you it will destroy your body. AND a vaccine will block that destruction.
The reality is if we look at well grounded science, we will understand that the immune system is a very complex system that is made up of multiple subsystems.
Innate immune system
Adaptive immune system
Interferon system
Microbiome
Gut Bacteria
The Virome
We have Nearly 380 trillion viruses, 60 trillion bacteria, the gut brain axis which is connected to your neuron system, including our brain. So you can see it’s a very complex system that work together to maintain your immune system. Much more complex than was understood at the time the national vaccine act was passed in 1962 by Kennedy.
This is what people believe the way the immune system works – a virus comes in and attacks our immune system which starts to attack our cells.
If this was the case many of us who grew up with microbes would not be here, but that is quite the opposite. Because we grew up with microbes, bacteria and viruses. A pathogen comes in, your body recognizes it – using the innate system, your mucus membranes and a whole set of infantry and it tries to knock it out right there and then. If it can't do it there, then over the next 72 hours your body goes into the adaptive immune system which starts creating antibodies.
There's a whole lot of other things that take place through your genetic changes, your microbiome changing etc.
The bottom line is your body gets these pathogens and your body fights back and resolves itself. This is called resilience due to the way your body was created!
IF you are not running on all 6 cylinders, if a couple of them have been knocked out through your immune system due to poor diet, high sugar diet, lots of processed foods, which cause candida which causes gliotoxins which take out your T cells, your body in its infinite wisdom (why infinite wisdom? Coz it is created by Our Creator) still tries to protect itself so it will start to use maybe two of its cylinders. They will over react and the over reaction of a dysfunctional and weakened immune system will not only try to attack the virus particle by trying to explode its cell wall and break it up, but It will also try to find parts of that virus particle. If it finds them in other parts of your body it will go there and attack it.
A couple of quick examples; In the case of Ebola, which attacks your arterial and epithelial tissue, your body will send it there and attack and try to kill it there and you will start bleeding from inside. In the case of the Corona Virus it goes to your epithelial cells in your lungs. It is your over reaction of your own body that’s doing it.
There are various reasons. Genetic, epigenetics or simply because you have been eating garbage for most of your life and your immune system is compromised, could be diabetes or your age. When you age your thyroid function decreases and you no longer produce enough Vitamin A.
Vitamin A is a hormone that literally builds walls around your cells to protect any pathogens from coming in. If you do not have enough Vitamin D, which is a nutrient from the sun, which your body uses to create a powerful chemical called Cathelicidins. Cathelicidins are like bullets. They poke holes in the walls of bacteria or viruses and it destroys them.
Therefore your immune system is very powerful but needs the right nutrients in order to function optimally and take care of itself. If you deplete your body of these nutrients your body becomes immune suppressed and that is when you will find yourself with dis-ease leading to disease.
WHY is nutrition so important for your immune system? The gastrointestinal system plays a central role in immune system homeostasis. It is the main route of contact with the external environment and is overloaded every day with external stimuli, sometimes dangerous as pathogens (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, viruses) or toxic substances, in other cases very useful as food or commensal flora. The crucial position of the gastrointestinal system is testified by the huge amount of immune cells that reside within it. Indeed, gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is the prominent part of mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) and represents almost 70% of the entire immune system; moreover, about 80% of plasma cells [mainly immunoglobulin A (IgA)-bearing cells] reside in GALT. GALT interacts strictly with gastrointestinal functions in a dynamic manner; for instance, by increasing intestinal permeability in replay to particular stimulations, or orientating the immune response towards luminal content, allowing either tolerance or elimination/degradation of luminal antigens, or sometimes provoking damage to the intestinal mucosa, such as in coeliac disease or food allergy. The immune mechanisms implicated in these actions are very complex and belong to both innate and adaptive immunity; innate immunity supplies an immediate non-specific response that is indispensable before specific adaptive immunity, which needs 7–10 days to be efficacious, takes place. The results of their interactions depend upon different contexts in which contact with external agents occurs and may change according to different genetic settings of the hosts.
What doe the world want to do to us… Vacinnes. Our bodies have around 383 viruses right now. We build antibodies and Our immune system takes care of it and we move on.
The corona virus is a flu virus, a variation of the sars virus. It has a high infectivity rate and a low mortality rate. It is a virus and our bodies have a way of dealing with it. If we have compromised immune systems like older people, look at Italy for an example. The median age is 80years old and that’s what viruses go after. They are a microbe fighting for their existance.
600000 people die of heart disease in the US each year and the country is not shut down. Another can of worms I will address next week.
"We are fearfully and wonderfully made and our bodies will self heal given the right conditions"... Our bodies have around 383 viruses right now. We build antibodies and Our immune system takes care of it and we move on. Any virus, including the Corona Virus is no different, however it will impact those with weakened immune systems, through lack of nutrients, exercise, water, high sugar diets and fast food etc.
As a Functional Medicine Practitioner I focus on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual's illness.
You may be asking "WHat is functional medicine"? That too is a good question. Here is a link where Dr Anand Thakker explains it better than I could. https://www.blissmedicines.com/is-functional-medicine-legitimate-here-s-what-you-should-know
“Disease never comes without a cause. The way is prepared, and disease is invited by disregard of the laws of health...”
What is the immune system? Is it so frail that a virus can destroy it?
The way the media and medical establishments handle and treat situations like the COVID 19 for eg is very different to how we (Functional Medicine Practitioners) are taught.
The school for education for dr’s is based on a big pharma education model. They don’t understand the immune system and that is what our role is in health. If you ask many Drs about the COVID 19 they will tell you it will destroy your body. AND a vaccine will block that destruction.
The reality is if we look at well grounded science, we will understand that the immune system is a very complex system that is made up of multiple subsystems.
Innate immune system
Adaptive immune system
Interferon system
Microbiome
Gut Bacteria
The Virome
We have Nearly 380 trillion viruses, 60 trillion bacteria, the gut brain axis which is connected to your neuron system, including our brain. So you can see it’s a very complex system that work together to maintain your immune system. Much more complex than was understood at the time the national vaccine act was passed in 1962 by Kennedy.
This is what people believe the way the immune system works – a virus comes in and attacks our immune system which starts to attack our cells.
If this was the case many of us who grew up with microbes would not be here, but that is quite the opposite. Because we grew up with microbes, bacteria and viruses. A pathogen comes in, your body recognizes it – using the innate system, your mucus membranes and a whole set of infantry and it tries to knock it out right there and then. If it can't do it there, then over the next 72 hours your body goes into the adaptive immune system which starts creating antibodies.
There's a whole lot of other things that take place through your genetic changes, your microbiome changing etc.
The bottom line is your body gets these pathogens and your body fights back and resolves itself. This is called resilience due to the way your body was created!
IF you are not running on all 6 cylinders, if a couple of them have been knocked out through your immune system due to poor diet, high sugar diet, lots of processed foods, which cause candida which causes gliotoxins which take out your T cells, your body in its infinite wisdom (why infinite wisdom? Coz it is created by Our Creator) still tries to protect itself so it will start to use maybe two of its cylinders. They will over react and the over reaction of a dysfunctional and weakened immune system will not only try to attack the virus particle by trying to explode its cell wall and break it up, but It will also try to find parts of that virus particle. If it finds them in other parts of your body it will go there and attack it.
A couple of quick examples; In the case of Ebola, which attacks your arterial and epithelial tissue, your body will send it there and attack and try to kill it there and you will start bleeding from inside. In the case of the Corona Virus it goes to your epithelial cells in your lungs. It is your over reaction of your own body that’s doing it.
There are various reasons. Genetic, epigenetics or simply because you have been eating garbage for most of your life and your immune system is compromised, could be diabetes or your age. When you age your thyroid function decreases and you no longer produce enough Vitamin A.
Vitamin A is a hormone that literally builds walls around your cells to protect any pathogens from coming in. If you do not have enough Vitamin D, which is a nutrient from the sun, which your body uses to create a powerful chemical called Cathelicidins. Cathelicidins are like bullets. They poke holes in the walls of bacteria or viruses and it destroys them.
Therefore your immune system is very powerful but needs the right nutrients in order to function optimally and take care of itself. If you deplete your body of these nutrients your body becomes immune suppressed and that is when you will find yourself with dis-ease leading to disease.
WHY is nutrition so important for your immune system? The gastrointestinal system plays a central role in immune system homeostasis. It is the main route of contact with the external environment and is overloaded every day with external stimuli, sometimes dangerous as pathogens (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, viruses) or toxic substances, in other cases very useful as food or commensal flora. The crucial position of the gastrointestinal system is testified by the huge amount of immune cells that reside within it. Indeed, gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is the prominent part of mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) and represents almost 70% of the entire immune system; moreover, about 80% of plasma cells [mainly immunoglobulin A (IgA)-bearing cells] reside in GALT. GALT interacts strictly with gastrointestinal functions in a dynamic manner; for instance, by increasing intestinal permeability in replay to particular stimulations, or orientating the immune response towards luminal content, allowing either tolerance or elimination/degradation of luminal antigens, or sometimes provoking damage to the intestinal mucosa, such as in coeliac disease or food allergy. The immune mechanisms implicated in these actions are very complex and belong to both innate and adaptive immunity; innate immunity supplies an immediate non-specific response that is indispensable before specific adaptive immunity, which needs 7–10 days to be efficacious, takes place. The results of their interactions depend upon different contexts in which contact with external agents occurs and may change according to different genetic settings of the hosts.
What doe the world want to do to us… Vacinnes. Our bodies have around 383 viruses right now. We build antibodies and Our immune system takes care of it and we move on.
The corona virus is a flu virus, a variation of the sars virus. It has a high infectivity rate and a low mortality rate. It is a virus and our bodies have a way of dealing with it. If we have compromised immune systems like older people, look at Italy for an example. The median age is 80years old and that’s what viruses go after. They are a microbe fighting for their existance.
600000 people die of heart disease in the US each year and the country is not shut down. Another can of worms I will address next week.
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