Disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrong we have done to it. It is the body's attempt at keeping us alive despite the damage we have inflicted upon it.

In Doctor talk: Pathological changes are the cell's response to stress. These changes or compensations allow the body to survive - maintain homeostasis - as long as the stress continues. These tissue changes, which result in disease, are the outward manifestation of the internal damage caused by stress. Until the cause of stress is removed, the condition will remain in one form or another. (Dr. Joel R. Robbins, MD)

Dr. Henry G. Bieler says: "Whereas other medical men appear to accept sickness, physical decrepitude and degenerative disease as a natural circumstance following middle age, I consider them a consequence of unnatural living habits; improper high caloric diets; stimulating drugs.

Over and over I explain to patients, "Your pain, misery and illness result from your own dietary mistakes and drugs. You are suffering because you are filled with toxic wastes caused by your diet of poorly selected food filled with artificial flavorings, preservatives, synthetics, over-processed ingredients-too much stimulating food, too few natural vitamins from vegetables and fruits. Even if you selected wholesome, natural foods, they were probably improperly prepared, boiled to death or overheated in oil, then covered with harmful condiments. The normal chemistry of your digestion is upset not only by these toxic wastes, but also by harmful drugs and unhealthy living habits that include lack of exercise. So, highly poisonous materials-toxins- which have stagnated in your blood, impair the filters and eliminative organs, chief of which are the kidneys, liver, bowels, and skin. These re-absorbed TOXINS are the villains-the real cause of disease; they must be eliminated if the body is to be restored to health.

Illness, then as we know it , is nothing more or less than a terrific "attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific [ toxic ] matter.

"It has been estimated that 80% of diseases are caused by improperly digested foods and their by-products being absorbed into the body"

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See other stressors: Parasites, Exercise, DRUGS, and Stress