Principle 8: Eliminating Life’s Toxins

These, my granddaddy said, are the key factors in moving the boulders, plowing the Iowa farmland and getting through the sad times of children and animals dying.

In the early 19th century, they didn’t have stress (the word wasn’t lingo then). Taking your vitamins meant to get in line for grandma’s never ending tablespoon of cod liver oil and the only pills in the house were salt tablets. These were for the cattle in summer. If you got sick, you got a tonic, and lord knows what was in it.

Survival – thrival – is what Healing Response Principle VIII is about. It is not enough to survive; we need to succeed at living, to live long and abundantly. We need to thrive. We do that by understanding that most of us do not move boulders or plow fields on an Iowa farm. Our generation has a new set of challenges. They are the thermal, chemical, and mechanical toxins of modernism. They produce free radicals – which are renegade energy particles looking for a soft landing. Usually they plop right on a soft healthy membrane unless they are snapped up by buffers, anti-oxidants, or fast acting macrophages. Membranes are like your internal skin, protecting your cells 24/7. Ingestion of nutrients, elimination of toxins, and all health communication are membrane dependent. 

For those who are lumpers instead of splitters, there is only one cause of biological aging and that is failure to protect against oxidative stress, the category name for lectures on this topic. It is not surprising that the late Dr. Linus Pauling took a whole lot of vitamin C, E, and the amino acid lysine (18 grams of C, 800 units of E, and 1600 mg of Lysine daily). He did so because C and E are great anti-oxidants, and he knew that both vitamin C and lysine were strong protectors against viral threats.
Lest you or I be accused on non-holism, don’t think for a moment that evil thoughts, bad sense of humor or inhospitality are well tolerated by the thriving you. A glimpse at a random mind/body health journal will show you your Trip-Tic to disease.

This is not the Garden of Eden; our planet, shall we kindly say, is our daily tribulation.

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