Healing with Nature

Most women who are still below menopause have their monthly cycles. There are often vast differences from one woman to the next as how long their menstruation period lasts and what happens to them before, during and after the period. Sometimes the periods will stop for a time and start up again. Often this happens when the woman is doing a lot of physical exertion.

When a woman is training to participate in a sporting event she often will experience this. In some cases the cycles stop for years and even for the rest of life. On average however women experience a menstrual period ranging from a day or two to as long as a week or so. This is seen as normal to most women as this is what they experience and most of their friends and relatives also experience. Even when asking a medical doctor about this, both male or female doctors, the answer they will give will be that this is normal.

Normal is relative, popular and common yes, but normal no. The human body has certain means to rid itself of the toxins that it picks up in the course of a day. These toxins come from many places. Probably one of the most common is metabolic waste or the waste that comes from the everyday activities of the body. These activities include breathing, digestion, cell creation and death, energy creation, muscle usage, and many other activities. When these activities occur there are waste products created in the body which need to be removed.

Besides the metabolic waste there are toxins that come in from the environment such as the air, which goes into the lungs, material that touches the skin and gets absorbed (for example makeup products and lotions), and most importantly from the foods and liquids that are ingested. If you do not live in a polluted city and breathe clean fresh air all the time, that is great but many people can not help but breathe whatever air is in the city that they live in. Everyone can avoid covering their body with toxins such as those in makeup products and skin lotions but this is such a common activity that it is accepted as generally safe.

It is not in fact a good idea to put anything on your skin except foods. As much as 65% of anything that is put on the skin gets absorbed into the body. If you wouldn’t eat the product that you apply to the skin, you should not be applying it to your skin. Finally there are massive amounts of toxins found in the average person’s food. These can be from cooked foods, improperly combined foods, the condiments that are toxic but people insist on eating such as garlic, onions, peppers, and all of their relatives.

When these toxins overwhelm the body the elimination systems can not keep up with the work of disposing them. The usual means to eliminate them are either overworked or just backlogged so much that the toxins start to build up. The usual elimination systems for toxins are the skin, the lungs, and the digestion system. Women however have one more organ that is used on a monthly basis to eliminate waste. This is the menstrual period. Normally this would be only the ovum that was left unfertilized with some of the surrounding tissues and fluids.

For a healthy woman the elimination of this would probably take but a few minutes to maybe an hour or so. The amount of elimination should be very small. Due to the enormous amount of toxins in the body that couldn’t be eliminated through the normal elimination channels, the body will take the opportunity to use the menstrual cycle to remove some of this excess burden. This is why many women (read most) have menstrual cycles that last as long as 7 days or more when a healthy woman’s will last but a few minutes. What is normal is not healthy at all and what is healthy is not ‘normal’ at all.

This is a little off topic for a natural hygiene blog but I thought I would address the enormous drug industry that is currently contributing to the grave sickness of modern society. This chain of huge wealthy conglomerates is a monster that controls our lives in many ways. I will speak mostly about the situation in the US because it is more familiar to me but the same conditions are true in most of the world as the rest of the world really tries to emulate the same structures that exist in the US.

There are many large, medium sized and small pharmaceutical companies throughout the world. Most started out as a much smaller company many years ago and grew by acquisition. As these companies grew they started to buy out some of the smaller companies in order to get new product lines and to remove the nuisance of competition. Now the largest companies average annual revenues are in the 25 to 50 billion US dollar range.

Here in the US there are very strict rules and laws that keep these corporations’ profits unusually high. There are laws that require their products be only sold through a drug dealer, these drug dealers are better known as medical doctors. These dealers write a prescription for the overpriced toxic chemicals for their patients who purchase them through their local pharmacy. In the US all prescription medications are sold through a network of licensed pharmacies who must employ a certified pharmacist to fill these prescriptions.

I see it as a very lucrative way to maintain a monopoly on unnecessary and useless poisonous products that have no value whatsoever to the human body. The evidence that the system is an economic monopoly in the US is that these same exact products that were actually manufactured in the same factories, on the same equipment are being sold in Canada and Mexico, the two neighboring countires to the US at substantially reduced prices.

In some cases the same medication is sold for 50% of the US price in Canada or Mexico. It’s no wonder that thousands of people in the US order their prescriptions from Canada or Mexico. Another factor here in the US is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). This government body supposedly exists to keep the people safe from the over greedy pharaceutical companies trying to sell useless or dangerous products that can cause harm or even death.

The government likes the people to think that is the purpose of the FDA but the real reason why the FDA exists is to keep the monpoly going and keep collecting the huge profits that these toxic products earn. It isn’t very difficult to find articles to confirm this fact, one of which is this one: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/092500-01.htm . The FDA advisors who make the decisions on which new drugs should be allowed to be sold through the monopoly network have financial ties to the companies who make the drugs. This is only one important factor, another is the number of executives of the pharmaceutical companies who were hired out of the FDA.

Every single FDA advisor knows that his future earning potential is going to be influenced by the decisions that he makes while he is an advisor. If he or she votes to allow the blockbuster drug to go on the market which earns the drug company billions of dollars that he or she will get a nice starting bonus plus many many other benefits when he or she decides to take that job offer from big pharm in just a few more years. The entire system is a big joke and the public just believes the whole system is for their protection.

As recent as last year the FDA attempted to stop allowing the public from taking out  class action law suits against the pharmaceutical companies http://www.newstarget.com/019497.html .

This is further proof that they are not working for the interest of the people but for the interests of the pharmaceutical companies. Companies like Merck whose product called Vioxx which has caused a large number of deaths and injuries is being forced to pay out large amounts of settlements to the families and victims of their toxic product for their negligence. See this article: http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/Merck_Vioxx_litigation.html .

If you live in the US or have ever visited the US you will see the large lineups at the fast food restaurant windows. The many large SUVs and pickup trucks with these toxic food addicts in them will line up for as long as 30 to 45 minutes waiting for their food. The funny thing I recently noticed is the large number of drive-thru pharmacies that are popping up all over the place.

I chuckle when I see them because these same SUVs and pickup trucks are now also lining up at the pharmacy drive-thru windows after they get their toxic food. I came up with a suggestion for these companies to merge and have the food pickup window and the pharmacy window in the same line so they do not need to wait twice. To make it really efficient they should also include a drive-thru undertaker at the end of the line of windows so there will be no need to get out of line and back in line at all.

Nothing that a company can ever manufacture can do any better than the systems that we already have in our body to control health. Taking medicine is never going to help anyone acheive health.

The word cancer is probably one of the most freightening words in the English language. Most people in the world know someone who either has had this disease, has it currently, or has died from it. There are many estimates that were stated by scientists and doctors that as many as 2 out of 3 people will have some form of this disease in their lifetime.

We are often afraid of the unknown and especially something that is potentially fatal and unknown. The majority of people do not understand disease, even less understand this one, including most of the medical community. Research has been going on for decades on trying to understand the causes and progress of cancer. I remember in the 1980’s when president Reagan began his “War on Cancer”.

He didn’t die of the disease but many people have died of it and probably more die of cancer today than when he began the so called war on cancer. Billions of tax dollars and billions of privately donated dollars have been spent trying to find a cure to cancer. Many researchers have made a career out of researching cancer. It’s quite easy to get funding for cancer research as it is a popular disease.

There is a lot of money that people donate to cancer charities. This money grows especially large when a prominent person such as a movie star or a politician dies of the disease. Often people will make a contribution to a cancer charity when a loved one passes away from cancer. Lots and lots of money has been spent on trying to find a cure. Decades and decades of time has been spent on the same thing. With all this money and time, if there was anything that is known as a cure, it would have been found by now. I have a different theory to all of this.

One possibility is that the search for a cure is much more lucrative to the ones searching for the cure than actually finding a cure. In other words there is so much money being donated by private individuals and corporations and tax dollars being diverted to this research that having a cure and selling it will not come close to this amount. Also if there was an actual cure then there would be no more patients to pay millions and even billions of dollars for the many treatments that are part of the cancer therapy. These treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and others.

Another possibility, which I find more believable is that cancer is not in fact a disease that can be cured.

I do not believe that cancer is even a disease as we know diseases. In fact I believe that cancer is as much of a disease as pregnancy is a disease. Cancer is simply the natural way our body reacts to a situation that we created. Just as pregnancy is the natural way a woman’s body reacts to the fertilization of an ovum in her womb, cancer is the natural way our body reacts to the grave mistreatments that so many people constantly place on their body.

Granted that in most cases when an ovum is fetilized in most women the results will be the same. With cancer there are different ways for people’s bodies to react to self-abuse, cancer is just one of the many ways. When people continuously abuse themselves for decades of their life their body eventually will have no other course of action but to defend itself and in doing so it creates a situation where cancer is the result. This abuse includes eating poor quality food such as cooked foods that do not allow the body to get the necessary nutrition.

It also includes taking drugs, both the ‘legal’ and illegal kinds. Other abuses are lacking sufficient physical activities, insufficient fresh air, sunshine, rest, sleep, negative thoughts, negative relationships, negative careers, and negative self esteem. Cancer is the result of years and years of these abuses.

The internal workings of the body have natural defense mechanisms to prevent it from getting sick. There are elimination systems that remove toxins that we consume from the body. When these systems are overwhelmed and have more work to do than they can accomplish the body will try to protect itself by other means. One of these is to block the offending toxins from entering the organ or tissue surrounding the toxin.

The manner in which this is done is to build a thick wall of cells that are impermeable to the toxin. This wall of cells and the toxin become unreachable by the normal red blood cells which carry oxygen. The cells inside the blocked off area still need to receive food for energy so they adapt to the situation by getting energy from sugars in the body and sometimes they will create their own blood vessels to get this sugar. This can become cancer as the toxins can easily damage the DNA of the cells inside this wall. What all this means is that cancer is not actually a disease but the result of poorly treating ourself.

It is a symptom of a bad lifestyle and not a disease at all. There can not be a cure to a symptom of a bad lifestyle except to improve the lifestyle. The research into finding a cure for cancer is all a waste of money and time. There are hundreds of charitable organizations that we hear from all the time to find a cure to this cancer or that cancer. Breast cancer is one of the leaders in this area. There must be about 100 breast cancer charities who are all seeking contributions to find a cure to this disease.

Prostate cancer is another cancer type that has many big charities. Does it make any sense to have these charities? I don’t think so, instead of wasting money and time on finding a cure to a ‘disease’ that is nothing but a symptom of bad life choices, these charities can be much better off educating people in the proper lifestyle choices. I would be glad to contribute to a campaign to educate the masses on how to prevent cancer, but I refuse to donate money to a complete waste of resources, money and time with the current cancer charity situation.

Most everyone has heard of fasting. Fasting is quite popular in many religions. Some believe that it purifies our body or our soul. Most people however do not know of the powerful health benefits of one of the simplest forms of treatment in the world. In modern society it is unheard of to accept an illness and just do nothing about it. At first sign of something being wrong we are taught to go directly to a doctor where we will get some type of treatment and it will all be gone in a short time.

This can be some pharmaceutical, a vitamin, herb, homeopathic medicine, or in some cases it might be a treatment like a blood transfusion or surgery. Unless you are close to death, are in such severe pain that you can’t survive with it much longer, or you are bleeding profusely, going to a doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist or the like is the exact opposite of what should be done. The right thing to do is to start a fast. The reason why we need to fast when we are ill is to allow our body to reverse the damage that we have done to it with our poor living decisions of the past.

The foods we chose to eat, liquids we chose to drink, the medicines and drugs which we chose to ingest, the amount of negative thoughts that we allowed ourselves to think, and many other things that we have done to ourselves are the cause of the illness. Our body is able to rid itself of most of these negative influences but it can not do so while we are busily going about our daily life. We need all our energy to work, think, move, and do the many demands that we put on our body every day.

There just is not enough energy in our body to do all that as well as heal the illness that we inflicted on ourself. The only way the body will be able to heal itself is by giving it the energy it needs. Many of you will think that giving our body energy is easy and all we need to do is eat high energy foods. That is simply not true because when we eat food we need to use nearly as much energy in digesting the food as we get back from it. What our body needs is to have nothing at all to digest.

If we stop eating for a period of 24, 48 or 72 hours our digestive tract will complete the digestion of the food that was already there and when no new food is introduced it will stop doing digestion completely (except for some minor metabolic functions). Unfortunately if we consume absolutely no food we will need to hydrate our body because the body will lose water even while we sleep.

Never fast without at least drinking water. Try to drink a glass (8 ounce) of water every hour while fasting. The water will hydrate your body but also it will help eliminate toxins as your kidneys require water to do their job. When fasting be sure not to do more than read a book in bed. Once you start to do any kind of mentally or physically demanding task you are taking energy away from your body that could be used for healing. If you can sleep all day and just wake up to drink the glass of water every hour or two that would be best.

Depending on your state of health prior to the fast, you might experience detoxification symptoms. These symptoms can include headaches, skin rashes, acne, diarrhea, cramps, fever, or just a general malaise. Do not be alarmed by these kinds of symptoms as they are expected as your body begins to heal itself.

The healing that your body goes through when fasting is very different from what the average person thinks that healing is like. If you are used to taking medications to ‘heal’ illnesses you will not experience the same effects. Medications work by delivering a oftentimes toxic chemical directly into your bloodstream which will change metabolic activity almost immediately.

This might change the symptoms of your illness rapidly but it will not heal the underlying problem. The cause of the illness is not even considered when taking medication, medication only covers the symptoms by stopping the body from healing itself. Healing through fasting will get to the underlying problem which is a buildup of toxins in the body. As the body realizes that it has energy and time it will start to heal all of the outstanding illnesses which are there due to toxins and improper healing in the past. Reading motivational literature and meditating are suggested activities to do while fasting. Do not try to do any physical exercises, they will delay healing.

Never try to fast by yourself for longer than 72 hours. If you believe that you need to fast for a longer period of  time look for a supervisor of fasts. There are many experts who supervise fasts and know exactly what to do and how to do it.

It is best to use one of these specialists because they know what to do if there are unexpected events. Some of these fasting coaches require that you stay in their home or fasting retreat, while others will supervise your fast via telephone. The choice depends on how much experience you have with fasting, your motivational and emotional state, and your general state of health. Your body will do amazing things to keep you in the best of health given the right opportunity.

This is a very controversial topic these days. There is the whole Codex Alimentarius (http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp) issue which will virtually eliminate this category of products from any legal supplier’s shelves within the next 2 years, and the huge number of companies who make billions or even trillions of dollars selling these so called natural or in some cases not natural at all products which are known to cure or relieve almost any illness known to man.

What are supplements? They are parts of foods or complete foods and in many cases they are not made from any food at all but are actually a chemical or toxic substance that is made less toxic by dilution with water or other liquids. The purpose of these products as the industry wants to tell us is to prevent, cure, or relieve some sort of illness or to just generally improve health.

Nearly all supplements have the following disclaimer on the label (in the USA): “This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Although available as a dietary supplement, this product has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for human or veterinary use at this time.”

The reason why these products are sold to people with the intent of treating, curing or preventing a disease but at the same time the label says that they are not intended to do so is the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration). The FDA is a government arm of the US federal government and as such they uphold the interest of the wealthy executives who own the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

The government receives billions of dollars from these corporations both as tax dollars for the operations of their businesses and from private and public donations to political campaigns. Don’t forget the unofficial donations such as free trips and the like which in my opinion is another form of bribery. The FDA is basically there to make sure these large corporations do not lose any ground in their stranglehold on the people of the world. The disclaimer is there because of that but everybody knows this fact and it is ignored by 99% of consumers. Who would ever buy a supplement if it is not intended to do anything? If nobody bought them they wouldn’t continue to be on the market. 

This will all be resolved in 2009 with the Codex laws. These laws will make anything that even closely resembles a cure or substance to prevent or treat any disease a drug and as a drug they will be controlled by the FDA and sold through the same channels that the monopoly called the pharmacies sells their toxic potions and pills. In my opinion this will create a great opportunity for offshore internet businesses to sell what used to be available over the counter as supplements to residents of the USA. For those of you who are investors or entrepreneurs this might be a great investment but do your own due diligence I am only making a statement and this is not a suggestion.

The whole idea behind supplements no matter what they were derived from is to help the body do something that it can already do on it’s own if given the opportunity to do it. In fact the body has better knowledge and better materials to do what any supplement is intended to do. For example if you have a headache which undoubtedly was caused by some external factor and not a normal occurance of the working of the body, maybe it was a food, drink, or a situation like a stressful event, watching the television for too long or whatever, and you wanted to rid yourself of the pain. The logical solution is to remove the cause. This means if you ate something that caused the headache then do not eat it again and dilute what you already ate with water or just wait a long enough time while the ingested food is removed from the body. The headache will go away at that time. No drug or supplement is ever needed to make the headache go away. Taking a drug or supplement will only make things worse as there will now be one more substance that your body needs to remove in order to be healthy.

Out of the millions of supplements on the market none can do any better than the body can do on it’s own. No vitamin pill or mineral pill can ever replace the vitamins and minerals in the natural raw ripe and organic fresh foods that the earth has created for our consumption.

All fruits that are eaten at their peak ripeness and in season contain a vast array of needed vitamins. Vegetables contain nearly all of the minerals that we need. Both fruits and vegetables have the right ingredients in the right proportions to give our body the ability to assimilate these nutrients. All the co-factors and combinations of nutrients are just right for the best health possible. Trying to remove one ingredient and make it into a pill is not going to allow our body to get the best of health. Trying to get the right amount of every single nutrient known by taking supplements is not going to be healthy at all.

 Recent scientific studies have shown that taking supplements not only doesn’t help our health but can actually hurt our health (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2003592944_vitamins280.html), especially when we take these supplements and reduce our intake of natural foods since we believe (in error) that we are getting the required amount of the nutrient from the supplement.

 Here is my advice, do not worry about the Codex rules for supplements, just wean yourself off of them if you already use them, if not just never start taking them and eat all the delicious ripe fruits and vegetables that you can.

The television has been a part of most household’s inventory in developed and most developing countries for decades. The vast majority of our free time is wasted in front of the box with the lights emanating from it. Is this a good healthy habit? Do we even question this behavior? Just because the majority of the world population stares at this box for countless hours a week doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do. While in front of this box our bodies are usually idle and not getting any exercise.

Our minds are usually on absorb mode and we stop most cognitive thinking while in front of this media delivery station. There is almost nothing left to the imagination as every scene and picture is clearly and graphically shown. In the US the nightly news is always filled with graphic violent scenes to keep the ratings high. I have no idea why people love to see blood and guts, but it seems that is the way to get the high ratings.

Science has shown that our pulses quicken and adrenalin pumps through our body when we see this kind of horror. The bad part about this is that adrenalin is used by the body for emergency purposes like when we are being threatened. It allows us to either fight or get away from the threat. We need to use our muscles at that time to dissipate the adrenalin, otherwise it will create a situation where all of the systems in our body are ready for activity but there is no activity. Having this occurance happen over and over is not healthy and can even cause health problems.

Life is meant to be lived and we are to participate in it and we are not meant to be a bystander watching while others live. This is a major contributor to illness and poor health. The thoughts and feelings that we experience do a lot to maintain our health and wellbeing. When these are negative we eventually get sick, when these are positive our health will thrive.

Another big issue with the television is that most people watch the commercial stations. These channels are paid for by these companies who want to sell us their wonderful products and services. This is not in the best interest of the people who purchase these products and services but are in the best interest of the large shareholders and executives of the companies who sell these products and services.

Most of these products are not healthy and do not encourage positive and healthy lifestyles. Next time you are in front of a TV, take note of the commercials. Do you really think you need to use the new improved skin softener with an artificial coconut scent? Wouldn’t just eating a fresh young coconut with the full spectrum of nutrients be much healthier to your body than a new improved skin softener with atrificial coconut scent?

 Most healthy products such as fruits and vegetables do not get air time, the commercials we see are all for overpriced useless products and foods that have been overprocessed to add ‘value’. This added value is called profit to the company producing the product, if we, the consumer refuse to buy these useless products these products will be removed from the store shelves leaving more room for the good wholesome foods that are healthy to us and the planet.

Next time you find yourself with some time on your hands and you feel like turning on the tube, instead put a tape on yoga or pilates on instead and participate. Take a walk outside. Engage in a conversation with your significant other or friend to pass the time. Read a book with positive encouraging messages. Your life will be improved in many ways and you will be on the natural path to a new healthy existence.