Scared To Death

Are you scared to death about this kind of bug or that? Are you fearful of getting a bug or germ of some kind because someone sneezed in your presence without a handkerchief over their mouth or nose? Are you scared stiff because of germs of countless kinds? How miserable can you make yourself and others by needless fears? What should you do? The best thing to do is to get rid of your fears.

The American Public Health Association in New York shared publicly research regarding the control of communicable diseases. Here is what is said about pneumonia:

"1. Infectious Agent:  Defined as the various pathogenic bacteria commonly found in the nose, throat, and mouth, such as the pneumococcus, the bacillus of Friedlander, the influenza bacillus, etc.

2. Source of Infection:  The discharges from the mouth and nose of apparently healthy carriers, as well as of recognized infected individuals, and articles freshly soiled with such discharges.

3. Mode of Transmission: By direct contact with an infected person, or with articles freshly soiled with the discharges from the nose or throat of, and possibly from infected just of rooms occupied by, infected persons.

4. Incubation Period:  Short, usually two or three days.

5. Period of Communicability:  Unknown; presumably until the mouth and nasal discharges no longer carry the infectious agent in an abundant amount or in a virulent form.

6. Methods of Control: 
  A.  The Infected individual and their environment:
     1. Recognition of the disease, meaning the clinical symptoms. Specific infection organisms many                 be determined by serological and bacteriological tests early in the course of the disease.
     2. Isolation: Patient during clinical course of the disease.
     3. Immunization - None; vaccines are worthy of further careful trial.
     4. Quarantine - None.
     5. Concurrent disinfection - discharges from the nose and throat of the patient.
     6. Terminal disinfection - thorough cleaning, airing and sunning.

  B.  General Methods
        In institutions and social functions, when practicable, people in large numbers should not be congregated closely within doors. The general resistance should be conserved by good feeding, fresh air, temperance in the use of alcoholic beverages, and other hygienic measures.
"Note - The early reporting of pneumonia is highly desirable in view of its communicability."

Therein we have the medical attitude toward pneumonia and the germ theory; "much ado about nothing" as one of Shakespeare's plays is entitled. When you sum it all up, good common sense is of most importance in all diseases. Health comes from within outward and is determined largely through the nervous system that stems from the brain and spinal cord. Also, its numerous fibers that radiate from the spinal cord through openings provided between the vertebrae are for this purpose.

Sometimes, however, due to spinal shocks and strains one or more vertebrae are displaced to a degree so that nerves are "pinched", this in turn disturbs function, lowers resistance, and results in dis-ease determined to a great degree by the resistance of the body, the environment, and other factors.

Remember, health comes from within outward thus opening the way to a more abundant life, free from fear and the side effects of drugs.

"Fill your mind with forgiveness, faith, and love, and you will radiate blessing like the sky above."
       

Acne and Sickness

I hear from patients that they are "often sick and lately have had quite a problem with acne. Why?"

In most cases the answer is quite simple. We’re brought into this earth with a defense system planted within our bodies called immunity. To survive here, this defense system must maintain normal and optimum levels of function as it’s constantly being bombarded with germs, allergens, and foreign substances. Immunity is also tied very closely with skin health. That is one reason why many doctors now give antibiotics for acne (definitely not something I recommend).

Germs and those tiny, invisible entities floating around in the air are not the enemy. An inability to adapt and cope with your environment and all that floats in it is the problem. You are in charge, not some microscopic speck. Most of us spend an entire day working to lower our defenses and strain our immune systems rather than working on behalf of immunity and to strengthen it.

For example:

1. Exercise increases immunity to cancer, infection, allergies, etc. 30 – 80% depending on what research you read. Therefore, if you’re inactive, your immune system is 30-80% depleted, less active and efficient.

2. Sugar, caffeine, chemicals, refined carbohydrates, fast and fried foods, and any processed foods all deplete the immune system. Additionally, they lack any real nutrients so do not give the organs of immunity the nutrition they so desperately need. On the other hand, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds all support and boost immunity and pack it full of vital nutrients.

3. Negative stress zaps nutrients from the system and dramatically depletes immune energy. A double dose of immune damage.

4. Antibiotics, while killing bacteria, also destroy important bacteria necessary for a healthy, immune body. So ironically, while antibiotics may help with a cold or flu, the net is more sickness.

5. Flu vaccines, even more than other drugs, contain many harmful products like mercury and aluminum. Unless you’re body is significantly immune compromised, you absolutely refuse to take care of yourself, or you’re in an emergency state, the less often you use medication, if at all, the better. All chemicals lower health and immunity, the most toxic of which are drugs.

Bottom line? Get up and move every day, make 80% of your diet foods that contain actual nutrients and are foods that don’t kill immunity, and learn to manage your time and reprogram the way you look at life so as not to suffer from the deadly effects of stress. When seeing a physician, ask if you really need the drugs; most MD's assume you want them or feel pressured. I personally have found that if you ask not to be given a drug, they will generally give you some time to heal without the use of dangerous medications. If you don’t heal, you may in fact need the drugs.

REGARDING YOUR SKIN:  Your skin is the reflection of your blood stream. Toxins floating around in the intestine and poisons in the blood stream will eventually show themselves as blemishes, acne, discolorations, and wrinkles. A healthy blood stream with the right kinds of fats to help balance hormones will give you your best chance at cleaner, younger looking skin. In other words, all that we mentioned to improve immunity, improves your skin ... without the use of dangerous prescriptions and antibiotics.