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WHY WE GET SICK, AND HOW TO GET WELL
- Doctors give drugs because they believe that your body has lost the ability to correct itself and requires outside help. Drugs almost always work by covering up symptoms without correcting the underlying problems that led to the symptoms in the first place. In addition to their hoped-for action, they often have undesirable and harmful side effects, and, since most drugs are unnatural chemicals that our bodies were not designed to deal with, they add to our toxic burden.
- Natural health care practitioners feel that your body is fundamentally smart, and capable of correcting itself, rather than fundamentally stupid or flawed and requiring ongoing medical management. We feel that in many cases we are capable of excellent and remarkable self-healing if we are given what we need, that is, if the obstacles to our healing are removed, and if we are supplied with the nutrients and conditions that our bodies require.
- Poor health and illness are caused by more than bad luck or lousy genes. When we get sick it’s because of a breakdown of the function of one or more parts of our bodies. Often this breakdown happens because of inappropriate or suboptimal lifestyle choices we have made, and continue to make.
- Dictionaries define health as a “state of optimal physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity,” or a “condition of wholeness, in which all of the organs and systems of the body are functioning at 100% efficiency, all of the time.”
- We are supposed to be healthy. Illness is a departure from this normal state, and can only exist in the presence of obstacles that inhibit the body’s natural self-healing tendencies.
- These obstacles to healing are the causes of illness: trauma, deficiency, pathogenic factors such as toxicity and infection, and stress, which can express on any of the four worlds.
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