WHAT DOES YOUR BODY WANT?

Consider the following list of health disorders and diseases: heart disease, cancers, mental disorders, diabetes, arthritis, obesity, hypoglycemia, and hypothyroidism. These afflictions cause 8 out of every 10 deaths in America. In fact heart disease, cancer and mental degeneration are credited for filling more hospital beds than all other illnesses combined. Even though these afflictions appear to be entirely different diseases, they have a lot in common. The basis of these diseases is the progressive degeneration of body systems due to continued lifestyle abuse and could have been avoided.

Most of the money spent towards health is on treatment rather than prevention. But the treatment of illness has never been the key to reducing its incidence. With all the research done on the cause of disease, have we come any closer to understanding the cause of health? You might say, "Well if you feel good then you are healthy." But many times symptoms do not appear at all until the disease is in a terminal stage. In heart disease the first symptom is often an attack that kills. It should be no surprise that medicine often fails if the first opportunity to treat comes only after vital organ systems are already dead. At this point what the patient needs is a miracle.

To get some clarity on this situation requires a closer look at how health is viewed. A person can have symptoms and be truly ill, but a person can also have symptoms as a by-product of becoming healthier. If a child runs a fever, has a runny nose, and vomits someone would say the child is sick.  But it is the body's intelligence that induces fever to fight infection, and produces a runny nose and vomiting to cleanse itself of toxins. If this makes sense to you then why give Tylenol for fever, antihistamine and other chemicals to suppress the body's healing responses?  Society has become conditioned to rely on external intervention to fix itself. This type of thinking can only exist when someone does not trust his or her own body's ability to heal. You might say this person has lost their power to heal and now tries to find it in a powder, pill, potion, lotion, surgical procedure etc. If these external interventions are in accordance with your body's needs at the right time and facilitate the systems of healing rather than over ride it, they can be of benefit. But far too often these methods are over-powering and prevent the body from doing it's own healing. These radical measures occur because most people do not really know what their body wanted and therefore had to trust an outside source. So that is the real question, how do you really know your body's needs?

We constantly communicate our needs in the way we speak, our posture, what we eat and so forth. The way we "feel" is subjective and therefore is harder to accurately evaluate. As shown earlier in this article, symptoms are not a good source for evaluating quality of health. The key is to treat the person, not the disease. The physical, mental and emotional qualities expressed by people are a reflection of their individual body chemistries. This chemistry affects indicators of health like vital signs, neuro-endocrine reflexes, urine and saliva chemistries. You cannot change the values of these indicators just because you want to appear healthier. They show up as they are, unaffected by the patient or doctor's desire. This is what makes these indicators objective and of extreme value in determining your body's real needs. Unfortunately our health care system or should I say disease care, chases symptoms in an attempt to control the body's healing process. Give your body a chance and take advantage of what it can do before putting your health in the hands of man-made chemicals and technology.

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