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Immume system healthy & strong!
When you consider all that your immune system is responsible for, it's more important than ever to give it the tools it needs to do its job right. The immune system is your body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, but you don't need to arm it with swords or guns. Here are few things you can do to insure that you have the best shot at staying healthy:- SLEEP: We need to rest our body in a leisurely manner for at least six to eight hours daily. Sleep is a great way to increase the strength and functionality of our immune system.
- HYDRATE: Drink plenty of water. By drinking six to eight glasses of water daily we flush out toxins from our bodies. For an extra nutritional boost, add REHYDRATION and SPECTRAMIN to your water. Cut down on, or try to avoid as much as possible, coffee, tea and carbonated drinks.
- NUTRITION: Increase your intake of organic fresh fruits and vegetables and multi-grain meals in your daily diet and cut down on frozen, processed and fatty food.
- WASH HANDS: Practice good hygiene by washing your hands before meals. When we wash our hands, we also get rid of germs that might infect us with illnesses.
A strong immune system is especially important when the body is detoxifying.
Keys to Health-Homotoxicology
In today’s information-overloaded world, it seems harder than ever to make informed decisions, especially when it relates to health issues. Parents particularly have a hard time as, understandably, there is a depth of concern to provide the very best for their families. However, it is increasingly difficult to know what that “best” would be. A lack of understanding about the miracle of the human body and a mass media exploitation of “parental concern” has led to a fear-based society, where the overuse and abuse of many pharmaceutical drugs is the norm.
How then does a parent know when to act or when not to act? When would nutritional supplements or homeopathics be the best course of action over an antibiotic or steroid and, if so, which one(s)? Can we trust the cashier at our local health food store with these decisions and recommend which of the hundreds of brands available would be the best to use? Many parents are proactive and spend hours on the internet doing their own research, but many do not have that luxury. What, then, is the solution?
First, we need to re-awaken the awareness of how the human body attempts to maintain health and work sensibly and practically with its innate intelligence. Watch and observe. Can the individual’s immune system handle the situation on its own? If so, that is usually the best course of action. If the immune system is healthy, it has the ability to combat even the most virulent of pathogens and, consequently, develop antibodies that offer lifelong immunity to that pathogen. Good nutrition plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy immune system. Plenty of organic fruits and vegetables and not too much sugar or processed foods are key factors. Something else that is key to making wise choices is how we view a fever. Watch the fever; it’s doing something vitally important in the body, and as long as it’s not too high (>102), it will do more good than harm.
A number of years ago, a medical doctor by the name of Dr. Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg (1905-1985) outlined very clearly how the body attempts to maintain health. Every health practitioner and parent should be aware of this process but, sadly, this is far from the case. Dr. Reckeweg documented how the body very deliberately and systematically attempts to heal itself after invasion from a pathogen, be it fungal, viral, parasitic or bacterial. Understanding this process is key to understanding the healing process and could help one to make more informed decisions when dealing with health challenges.
The body’s first attempt to maintain health is the Excretion Phase, where the body attempts to eliminate the problematic pathogen by expulsion—sneezing, coughing, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea. If this phase is not successful, either because we have inadvertently hampered its effectiveness with over-the-counter remedies like cough suppressants or the likes of Pepto Bismol, or because the immune system was just not able to expel the organism, then the body’s next line of defense is to attempt to burn the organism up by elevating the body temperature. This phase is called the Reaction/Inflammation Phase. There is an old saying in naturopathy that goes, “Give me a fever and I’ll give you a cure.” If the likes of Tylenol is administered in an attempt to reduce the fever, this vital phase of the healing process can be significantly exacerbated. Should this occur, the body does not just throw up its arms in despair; rather, it activates the third phase of the healing process called the Deposition Phase, which results in the body attempting to isolate the organism in a wart, or a cyst, or a polyp. Better to have the organism contained in one place rather than have it damaging vital organs like the heart, lungs or brain! Here is evidence of innate intelligence at its best, the wise and systematic protection offered time and time again.
In these first three phases of homotoxicology, which is what Dr. Reckeweg’s observations have subsequently been called, we’ve touched ever so briefly on the body’s ability to heal itself. Nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies can assist greatly in facilitating, rather than compounding, this healing process, offering support to the immune system rather than undermining it. Once an individual crosses over the biological divide into the last three phases of homotoxicology, we are looking at more complex and chronic situations, which we will address further at another time. But suffice it to say that if just these first three phases were comprehended and the body was given the opportunity to marshal its own resources, we would have less chronic illness and many more healthy people around as a result.
Millicent Holliday, R.N., C.T.N.
How then does a parent know when to act or when not to act? When would nutritional supplements or homeopathics be the best course of action over an antibiotic or steroid and, if so, which one(s)? Can we trust the cashier at our local health food store with these decisions and recommend which of the hundreds of brands available would be the best to use? Many parents are proactive and spend hours on the internet doing their own research, but many do not have that luxury. What, then, is the solution?
First, we need to re-awaken the awareness of how the human body attempts to maintain health and work sensibly and practically with its innate intelligence. Watch and observe. Can the individual’s immune system handle the situation on its own? If so, that is usually the best course of action. If the immune system is healthy, it has the ability to combat even the most virulent of pathogens and, consequently, develop antibodies that offer lifelong immunity to that pathogen. Good nutrition plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy immune system. Plenty of organic fruits and vegetables and not too much sugar or processed foods are key factors. Something else that is key to making wise choices is how we view a fever. Watch the fever; it’s doing something vitally important in the body, and as long as it’s not too high (>102), it will do more good than harm.
A number of years ago, a medical doctor by the name of Dr. Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg (1905-1985) outlined very clearly how the body attempts to maintain health. Every health practitioner and parent should be aware of this process but, sadly, this is far from the case. Dr. Reckeweg documented how the body very deliberately and systematically attempts to heal itself after invasion from a pathogen, be it fungal, viral, parasitic or bacterial. Understanding this process is key to understanding the healing process and could help one to make more informed decisions when dealing with health challenges.
The body’s first attempt to maintain health is the Excretion Phase, where the body attempts to eliminate the problematic pathogen by expulsion—sneezing, coughing, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea. If this phase is not successful, either because we have inadvertently hampered its effectiveness with over-the-counter remedies like cough suppressants or the likes of Pepto Bismol, or because the immune system was just not able to expel the organism, then the body’s next line of defense is to attempt to burn the organism up by elevating the body temperature. This phase is called the Reaction/Inflammation Phase. There is an old saying in naturopathy that goes, “Give me a fever and I’ll give you a cure.” If the likes of Tylenol is administered in an attempt to reduce the fever, this vital phase of the healing process can be significantly exacerbated. Should this occur, the body does not just throw up its arms in despair; rather, it activates the third phase of the healing process called the Deposition Phase, which results in the body attempting to isolate the organism in a wart, or a cyst, or a polyp. Better to have the organism contained in one place rather than have it damaging vital organs like the heart, lungs or brain! Here is evidence of innate intelligence at its best, the wise and systematic protection offered time and time again.
In these first three phases of homotoxicology, which is what Dr. Reckeweg’s observations have subsequently been called, we’ve touched ever so briefly on the body’s ability to heal itself. Nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies can assist greatly in facilitating, rather than compounding, this healing process, offering support to the immune system rather than undermining it. Once an individual crosses over the biological divide into the last three phases of homotoxicology, we are looking at more complex and chronic situations, which we will address further at another time. But suffice it to say that if just these first three phases were comprehended and the body was given the opportunity to marshal its own resources, we would have less chronic illness and many more healthy people around as a result.
Millicent Holliday, R.N., C.T.N.
Brain and Body Conection
Most people recognize that exercise is vital to a healthy body, but few realize the need to exercise their brain. Just as a weight lifting program can help define and build or rebuild your muscles, training your brain can improve physical and emotional states. Our physical health and emotional health are reflections of many things in our lives including the rhythms of our brains. For example, excess beta can generate anxiousness, too much frontal alpha could result in depression or elevated theta could produce ADD. Training your brainwaves into efficient patterns allows your central nervous system to learn how to self-regulate, directing it away from debilitating, painful, or destructive dis-regulation into effortless processing and optimal functioning.
Previously, for people with any degree of brain dis-regulation, such as ADD, OCD, moodiness, insomnia, learning challenges, anxiousness, there was traditionally very little that could be done. Their only options, other than simply living with it, seemed to be medications and/or psychotherapy. While both of these options have shown to be effective and sometimes necessary, they are not the only options. The fact is, if brain wave activity is sub-optimal, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to change the way you function no matter how many therapies or self-help methods you try.
NeuroIntegration Technology (NIT) is different! It actually teaches the brain to self-regulate its own activity in a healthy way. Through a reward system, it teaches the brain to return to the correct patterns of function, thus helps to restore the health of the brain and body. Because NIT involves the brain learning a new pattern of activity, the results are almost always permanent. Additionally, there are no harmful side-effects to NIT.
Contact us with any questions, for more information or to schedule a free initial consultation!
Previously, for people with any degree of brain dis-regulation, such as ADD, OCD, moodiness, insomnia, learning challenges, anxiousness, there was traditionally very little that could be done. Their only options, other than simply living with it, seemed to be medications and/or psychotherapy. While both of these options have shown to be effective and sometimes necessary, they are not the only options. The fact is, if brain wave activity is sub-optimal, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to change the way you function no matter how many therapies or self-help methods you try.
NeuroIntegration Technology (NIT) is different! It actually teaches the brain to self-regulate its own activity in a healthy way. Through a reward system, it teaches the brain to return to the correct patterns of function, thus helps to restore the health of the brain and body. Because NIT involves the brain learning a new pattern of activity, the results are almost always permanent. Additionally, there are no harmful side-effects to NIT.
Contact us with any questions, for more information or to schedule a free initial consultation!