Principle Three: Keeping the Body Healthy

The body does not like being stuck, mired, stalled, congested or stopped up. The highbrow medical (or technical) term is stasis—a situation that can be deadly.  

You have stasis if you have congestive heart failure, liver cirrhosis, pulmonary kidney fibrosis (including stone formers), endometriosis, cardio-vascular arteriosclerosis, thromboplebitis, edema of the extremities (dropsy, or lymph edema), brains swelling,  and other maladies.

What can we do to prevent or heal stasis? The most obvious answer is to stay active – keep everything moving – i.e. stretch it, aerobically train it, and build up muscles to assure your body is totally functional.

Also key is to get and keep your body hydrated. You should drink half your body weight in ounces on a daily basis. This means that if you weigh 144 pounds, you should drink 72 ounces of water per day.
Next, it’s important to appreciate that there are various fuels that keep you moving, the most important being your thyroid hormone. With thyroid (and likely all hormones, normal is not enough; being in range is not salubrity.

Ideally, all individuals should take thyroid hormones if their thyroid-stimulating hormone is elevated, indicating thyroid stress. Treatment is indicated if the thyroid-stimulating hormone level is greater than 3.0 units. Some physicians will begin treatment even when the level is between 2.5 and 3.0, especially if there is muscle pain and weakness.

When the thyroid is “stressed,” or overworked while trying to produce nearly normal thyroid hormone levels, a secondary fuel system is gradually triggered. This is your adrenaline system. Ideally, this system should be preserved for emergencies only. Some experts such as Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa (The Pain Cure) believe that cortisol stress responses are toxic and lead to  multiple types of degenerative and chronic inflammatory ailments. These include diabetes, arthritis, hypertensive heart disease, and other maladies associated with stasis.

Another toxic stress response occurs when oxygen levels become low, triggering increased output of lactic acid, and carbohydrate derived ketones, both alternative fuels that are best left unused. When lactic acids are used as fuel, the body cramps us, and a person experiences a lot of discomfort. Runners, especially quarter-mile competitors, frequently have this problem. The first three-quarters of the race, the oxygen supply is adequate, but then they run out of oxygen and use lactic acid. They begin to cramp up and get very tired.

If you watch competitive runners, you can easily see when this happens unless they very carefully pace themselves. Again, lactic acid causes stasis, as do highly saturated lipids that generate hardening of the arteries and various fibrous materials that are often laid down in liver cirrhosis or kidney failure.

The Healing Response Principle #3 teaches homeodynamics. The advice prompts one to become like a concert pianist playing a concerto on a Steinway piano. First there is the melody. The melody is augmented. Eventually, one is hearing a salubrious symphony. It sounds great. It feels great.

Your God given healing response wants to help you achieve salubrity – enviable, optimal health. You can do it. The information above will help.

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