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widespread enervation in two ways. Humans will probably adjust to the first; the second will, I'm sure, prove
insurmountable. First, industrially processed foods are a recent invention and our bodies have not yet adapted
to digesting them. In a few more generations humans might be able to accomplish that and public health could
improve on factory food. In the meanwhile, the health of humans has declined. Industrially farmed foods have
also been lowered in nutritional content compared to what food could be. I gravely doubt if any biological
organism can ever adapt to an overall dietary that contains significantly lowered levels of nutrition. I will
explain this more fully in the chapter on diet.
Secondary Eliminations Are Disease
However the exact form the chain from irritation or malnutrition to enervation progresses, the ultimate result
is an increased level of toxemia, placing an eliminatory burden on the liver and kidneys in excess of their
ability. Eventually these organs begin to weaken. Decline of liver and/or kidney function threatens the
stability and purity of blood chemistry. Rather than risk complete incapacitation or death from self-poisoning,
the overloaded, toxic body, guided by its genetic predisposition and the nature of the toxins (what was eaten,
in what state of stress), cleverly channels surplus toxins into its first line of defense--alternative or secondary
elimination systems.
Most non-life-threatening yet highly annoying disease conditions originate as secondary eliminations. For
example, the skin was designed to sweat, elimination of fluids. Toxemia is often pushed out the sweat glands
and is recognized as an unpleasant body odor. A healthy, non-toxic body smells sweet and pleasant (like a
newborn baby's body) even after exercise when it has been sweating heavily. Other skin-like organs such as
the sinus tissues, were designed to secrete small amounts of mucus for lubrication. The lungs eliminate used
air and the tissues are lubricated with mucus-like secretions too. These secretions are types of eliminations,
but are not intended for the elimination of toxins. When toxins are discharged in mucus through tissues not
designed to handle them, the tissues themselves become irritated, inflamed, weakened and thus much more
subject to bacterial or viral infection. Despite this danger, not eliminating surplus toxins carries with it the
greater penalty of serious disability or death. Because of this liability, the body, in its wisdom, initially
chooses secondary elimination routes as far from vital tissues and organs as possible. Almost inevitably the
skin or skin-like mucus membranes such as the sinuses, or lung tissues become the first line of defense.
Thus the average person's disease history begins with colds, flu, sinusitis, bronchitis, chronic cough, asthma,
rashes, acne, eczema, psoriasis. If these secondary eliminations are suppressed with drugs (either from the
medical doctor or with over the counter remedies), if the eating or lifestyle habits that created the toxemia are
not changed, or if the toxic load increases beyond the limits of this technique, the body then begins to store
toxins in fat or muscle tissues or the joint cavities, overburdens the kidneys, creates cysts, fibroids, and benign
tumors to store those toxins. If toxic overload continues over a longer time the body will eventually have to
permit damages to vital tissues, and life-threatening conditions develop.
Hygienic doctors always stress that disease is remedial effort. Illness comes from the body's best attempt to
lighten its toxic load without immediately threatening its survival. The body always does the very best it can
to remedy toxemia given its circumstances, and it should be commended for these efforts regardless of how
uncomfortable they might be to the person inhabiting the body. Symptoms of secondary elimination are
actually a positive thing because they are the body's efforts to lessen a dangerously toxic condition. Secondary
eliminations shouldn't be treated immediately with a drug to suppress the process. If you squelch the bodies
best and least-life-threatening method to eliminate toxins, the body will ultimately have to resort to another
more dangerous though probably less immediately uncomfortable channel.
The conventional medical model does not view disease this way and sees the symptoms of secondary
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elimination as the disease itself. So the conventional doctor takes steps to halt the body's remedial efforts, thus
stopping the undesirable symptom and then, the symptom gone, proclaims the patient cured. Actually, the
disease is the cure.
A common pattern of symptom suppression under the contemporary medical model is this progression: treat
colds with antihistamines until the body gets influenza; suppress a flu repeatedly with antibiotics and
eventually you get pneumonia. Or, suppress eczema with cortisone ointment repeatedly, and eventually you
develop kidney disease. Or, suppress asthma with bronkiodialators and eventually you need cortisone to
suppress it. Continue treating asthma with steroids and you destroy the adrenals; now the body has become
allergic to virtually everything.
The presence of toxins in an organ of secondary elimination is frequently the cause of infection. Sinuses and
lungs, inflamed by secondary eliminations, are attacked by viruses or bacteria; infectious diseases of the skin
result from pushing toxins out of the skin. More generalized infections also result from toxemia; in this case
the immune system has become compromised and the body is overwhelmed by an organism that it normally
should be able to resist easily. The wise cure of infections is not to use antibiotics to suppress the bacteria
while simultaneously whipping the immune system; most people, including most medical doctors, do not
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