colon class 101

LARGE INTESTINE (Colon):

The colon receives solid wastes from the entire body. Like all tissues, it must be properly hydrated and cleaned to work. When the colon function is reduced, waste begins to back up into the blood stream and overload the liver, skin, kidneys and lungs’ capability to function, as they have to do the extra work the colon can’t. This back up of dead material is what viruses, bacteria, molds, funguses, and parasites live on and cause infections with their overgrowth. This is why in Naturopathy we say: “disease begins in the colon.”

When the immune system attacks the invaders with white blood cells, the “battle damage” or pus is transported to the skin because the colon can not handle it. As pus oozes from the pores, surface bacteria dine upon the waste and spread over the skin setting up pockets in nearby pores and the condition is called acne. As the bloodstream becomes overloaded with the backed-up waste it is unable to dump, the waste is transported back into the interstitial space poisoning our cells, overloading the lymphatic system, and altering our immune response ability.

This waste accumulation suffocates the cells by preventing absorption of nutrients leading to cellular dysfunctions such as mutation, impaired reproduction, poor enzyme interaction, and finally cellular death or necrosis. When the waste accumulation reaches certain levels, the surrounding bacteria and viruses are activated to feed upon the waste and break it down to be eliminated by the immune system. Histamine is released to flush out the waste through the organs of elimination previously disrupted via the pathogens (germs, viruses, etc.). This is often manifested in runny nose, watery eyes, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, sweating, and diarrhea. The body will also raise the temperature with a fever (inflammation) to kill off the excess pathogens. In deep-rooted waste, the body will use chills to help dislodge and move out the waste and pathogens. These are disease symptoms to be encouraged, not suppressed. If we suppress the symptoms, we suppress the functioning of the immune system and allow the waste to build to even greater levels resulting in more chronic and grave degenerative diseases.

As the interstitial spaces around the cells are filled with increasing backed-up waste, the blood cannot get nutrients in to operate or rebuild new cells, and your tissues die. The only other thing the tissue can do to survive is revert back to a state before cell-differentiation and begin rapid reproduction geared to living on the waste. We call this process cancer. This way of creating cancer has been known since the 1940’s. A doctor named Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize in medicine for the work demonstrating this and other processes involved in cancer. Nowadays, we even know the genes responsible for this “switching” on and off of rapid reproduction thanks to genetic research scientists. However, it will be a long time before drugs will safely reset these switches, so let’s get and keep our cells healthy so it won’t be an issue. An extra caution here about drugs would be that of the problem with antibiotics. Suppressive antibiotics complicate the issue further by destroying the germs that are trying to help detoxify our bodies especially in the small and large intestines. This allows more buildup of waste, the poisoning cycle starts over again, and now the immune system is suppressed from the antibiotic leading to recurrent infections that get closer together in occurrence.Antibiotics should only be used in rare life-threatening situations under the supervision of a licensed physician. Regular cleansing of the eliminative mechanisms of the body serves to prevent disease while regaining and maintaining health. If a condition is advanced, and needs direct treatment of the disease, methods like homeopathy and nutritional pharmacology can be used first with a higher level of success than antibiotics.