In the first introductory post of this series (Message# 5886), we saw
that human body contains nearly 100 trillion cells having different
functions. As long as each cell gets its adequate nutrition as per
receipe required by its function, and all cells work in harmony,
health is the result. In today's part we see how body gets diseased
by lack of harmony and slowing down of our toxin elimination systems.

This body is not designed nor programmed to be diseased. It does not
know how to be diseased. The only thing the body knows is survival.
Disease is the body's effort at surviving in the face of violations
of natural laws that govern the body.

If the body has the intelligence to produce a disease, it is capable
of reversing the process to return to health once the cause is
removed. Disease is a compensation or reaction to a wrong committed.
The body holds on to the disease in order to survive in the face of
the violation of a natural law which continues to be committed. The
removal of the violation - physical or emotional - then would allow
the body to withdraw its survival mechanism and return to health. The
longer the body has had to be in a survival mode the longer it will
take to return to health.

We don't live off the food that we eat, we live off the energy in
the food we eat! How efficiently body converts food to energy is
indicated by several indicators. Blood, urine Saliva pH, body basal
temperature are just few indicators from the science viewpoint, but
an ayurvedist can judge efficient metabolism by pulse. The creation
of the human body is built on plant or animal derived substances,
not synthetic pharmaceutical compounds, the body is created to
recognize self from non-self. Anything synthetic is rejected as a
foreign substance. The disease process is triggered by the
accumulated toxins that we eat, breathe, drink, think, and bathe in
on a regular basis. If we take in more contaminants, carcinogens and
acids than what the body's filtration, elimination and immune system
can handle on a daily basis, it supersedes a threshold that
eventually overwhelms the body and pollutes the blood. Our blood is a
river of life. When it becomes overwhelmed with toxins it becomes a
river of disease and death instead. "Soil is everything, germ is
nothing", said Louis Pasteur on his death bed.

Here's an analogy of the toxic assault most of us are faced with on a
daily basis. We wake up Monday morning to a jolt of caffeine from a
cup of coffee and a sugar-laden breakfast. More toxins from
breakfast, lunch, and dinner that will introduce more sugar, white
floor, preservatives, additives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, cancer-
causing dyes, artificial flavors, rancid fats, hydrogenated fats, and
a litany of other toxic additives that eventually get into the blood
through digestion. According to Ayurveda, every food has its own
taste (rasa), a heating or cooling energy (virya) and post-digestive
effect (vipak). When two or three different food substances of
different taste, energy and post-digestive effect are combined
together agni can become overloaded inhibiting the enzyme system and
resulting in production of toxins in the system. While it is true
that an individual's agni largely determines how well or poorly food
is digested, food combinations are also of great importance. When
foods, (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) having different
attributes, tastes, heating or cooling properties, and post-digestive
effects are eaten together, agni will be slowed down. The foods can
then remain in the stomach for seven to eight hours. These same
foods, if eaten separately might well stimulate agni, be digested
more quickly and even help to burn ama. Thus, according to Ayurveda,
one should eat according to one's constitution and take fruits,
starches, proteins and fats separately at different times of the day.
Combining foods improperly can produce indigestion, fermentation,
putrefaction and gas formation. This condition, if prolonged, can
lead to toxemia and disease complex. For example, eating bananas with
milk can diminish agni, change the intestinal flora producing toxins
and may cause sinus congestion, cold, cough and allergies.

Then we step outside and breathe contaminated air, especially if we
are in a major city. It's possible we could be breathing 100,000
different environmental and industrial contaminants with every
breath. We have fluorocarbons, petrofluorocarbons, PCB's, dioxin,
industrial contaminants, fossil fuels, paint fumes, Chemtrails,
pesticides, herbicides, and other genocides.

Combine this with the chemical by-products from industry depending on
your profession. For example; if you're a painter or if you're a
mechanic that's dealing with turpentine solvents that leach through
the skin and into the bloodstream. A traffic regulating policeman
breaths pollution gases without perhaps even recognizing this.

Then we have beverage contaminants with Cokes, carbonated sodas, BHA,
BHT, sodium benzoate, caramel coloring, MSG, aspartame, Splenda,
phosphoric acid, and thousands of other chemicals that also get into
the blood through digestion.

Then we have our skin, which is literally a sponge with what we are
bathing and showering in and most people, out of ignorance, don't
have a shower filter to filter this garbage out of their municipal
water. When we bathe we are taking in chlorine dioxide, fluoride,
bromide, arsenic and all the other chemical by-products they use to
treat the water. An average person with a 10-15-minute shower is
going to drink six glasses of tap water by the absorption of the skin
pores.

A trip to the bathroom will assault our body with thousands of other
chemical toxins that are in our cosmetics and toiletries like
toothpaste, mouthwash, soap, deodorant, shampoo, hair spray, shaving
cream, lipstick, perfume, and cologne. In many cases manufacturers
are not even required by law to list what chemicals are in these
products.

So the big picture is by the time we breathe, eat, drink and bathe,
not counting our social habits, second-hand smoke, emotional toxins,
or the contaminants in our homes, businesses, or airplanes by
breathing in recycled air from the air ducts that haven't been
cleaned in five years, we are past a threshold that our body can
handle to stay well. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that
if we breathe, eat, drink and bathe in more contaminants than our
body can eliminate on a daily basis, eventually we encounter a
degenerative or metabolic disease.

If we are taking in an accumulated combined total of 150,000
contaminants on Monday and the liver, kidneys, colon, lymphatic
system, the skin through sweat, and respiratory CO2 output are only
capable of dumping 100,000 contaminants, we are in trouble. By
Tuesday we haven't changed our lifestyle; we have the same job, the
same stress, the same eating habits, same social habits, and same
job. Day after day we maintain that toxic load at 150,000 or more,
and the body is only dumping 100,000 or less.

As time goes on, the immune system weakens, the liver, kidneys and
the lymphatic system get congested, and they slow down as far as
their filtering capability. Usually a lethargic condition or
sluggishness sets in at this time telling us that contamination is
occurring at the blood level. Most people, being tired like that, are
even more sedentary and ingest toxic stimulants to get them through
the day. Then at their jobs, they're sitting around watching
computers. At home they're watching television and they're not moving
the blood and they're not moving the lymph fluids. So as time goes
on, now the elimination systems, the filtration systems, and the
immune system are only capable of removing 90,000 contaminants, then
80,000, then 70,000. As time goes on, the toxic load is maintained
but the elimination capability is weakened.

What happens with these extra carcinogens, acids, and toxins is they
end up collecting in the blood. Once the blood becomes contaminated,
the body goes under what's called adaption response where it will
shove these toxins and poisons into a weak link in the chain of
organs; the path of least resistance. This is our genetic
predisposition given to us by our parents. Wherever our weakness is,
or the path of least resistance, is where the blood is going to
choose to store or deposit the toxins in order to keep the blood
clean and keep us alive. Thirteen symptoms of toxic build up in blood are given
in Message# 5820. Most common symptom can be considered as fatigue, lack of
vigor.

If the dump zone is the joints and the blood is shoving these acids
and contaminants into the synovial fluid producing cells for storage,
what happens next is billions of cells that produce synovial fluid or
bursa fluid become congested, contaminated, and suffocated.
Eventually it causes a cascading effect of cellular respiration
problems and the water, oxygen, and intelligent nutrients can't get
in through the phospholipid membrane.

When billions of cells in the joints can't produce the joint
protecting fluid, we get a dryness and then an immune response of T-
cells, macrophages, and NK cells to clean up the toxic mess like a
Pac Man. When the white blood cells fight anything, they release
histamines, cytokines, or prostaglandins which are inflammatory
chemicals. This inflammatory response is going to be called arthritis
or bursitis by medical science. Ayurveda calls this Vatic disease.
Medical astrology treats arthritis as caused by Rahu (Node). This is
compatible with other properties of Rahu, liking corners, dumpsites,
toxic and poisonous chemicals causing fear in the mind.

In reality arthritis is not even a disease. "Arth" means
joint; "itis" means inflammation. So inflammation of the joint is a
description of the cellular malfunction of the synovial fluid or the
bursa fluid producing cells. Hence ayurveda terms it Sandhigat Vata.
All such diseases ayurveda calls under the group Vata.

If the dump zone is the pancreas because that's our weak link in the
chain of organs where the beta cells are that produce insulin and
they get congested, suffocated, and contaminated, eventually the cell
receptors get clogged and they cannot produce the insulin or receive
glucose. When sugar is ingested, sugar regulation is affected and we
are about to go to a hypoglycemic condition eventually leading to
the label "diabetes mellitus." Again, this is cellular malfunction
just like bursa joint cell contamination would be cellular
malfunction. Two different locations, one disease: Cellular
Malfunction.

If the dump zone is the heart where the cardiac cells are located
that regulate electrical conduction for heart contraction, eventually
we are going to have arrhythmias or palpitations telling us what's
happening at the cellular level; that the toxic residues are impacted
in the arteries, coronaries, or the cardiac tissue. Eventually the
symptoms are going to scream louder in an angina pain to tell us that
cellular malfunction is more severe. When the cells malfunction in
the heart, our condition is likely to have a label called
cardiovascular disease, eventually a myocardial infarction, or a
heart attack, if it's not dealt with by non-toxic, non-invasive
treatments. Any traffic jam of nutrients or blockage by toxins can be
termed Vata, a basic transportation problem. On the other hand, blood
impurities due to toxins are Pitta disorders.

If the deposition is the frontal lobe of the brain, usually it's
heavy metals: aluminum, cadmium, lead, mercury from your teeth,
vaccines, etc. Heavy metals will leak in through the blood brain
barrier via the dopaminergic system then the lipid fatty tissue of
the brain will attract these heavy metals. If it's the frontal lobe
of the brain where cells regulate cognitive thinking, we are going to
get short-term memory problems and then eventually long-term memory
loss called Alzheimer's disease. Again, these are labels of the same
disease: Cellular Malfunction.

If the dopamine producing cells or the corpus striatum in the brain
just below the pituitary is the collection or deposition zone for
heavy metals and neurotoxins, we are going to have problems with
dopamine production; and we are going to display symptoms of
festination, or shuffling gait, called Parkinson's disease. There is
no such thing as Parkinson's disease. Parkinson is the name of a
doctor. Parkinson's disease is the descriptive label of cellular
malfunction of dopamine producing cells in the brain. Ayurvedic name
is Kamp Vata. The inadequate function of pituitary is also likely to
bring in deficiencies in the production ofhormones driving menses,
causing hormonal imbalances. Amenorrhea, dismenorrhea, menorrhagea
are all labels of single disease: Cellular malfunction.

This physiological pathway can be shown with every "dis-ease" label
known to man. There is only one disease, cellular malfunction with
two causes to the 10,001 "labels" on the one disease. The question is
what would be the treatment protocols if we knew that the
physiological pathway to this ONE disease is toxicities and
insufficiencies?

We will continue this discussion in next post, next week.

dr bhate