The Immune System
So your immune system works like this:
Your body is like a nation and your skin is like a border. And then you bring in all kinds of stuff when you eat and breathe and this is why the lungs and gut are lined with mucus: So that when it turns out there are "invaders" in your food and air, your body can turn that mucus into quick dry cement and trap them and give the blood system time to send white blood cells to literally eat them.
So your gut contains about 70 to 80 percent of your immune cells and I think this is because food is a huge source of exposure to pathogens, more than we realize. And I think this is why fasting or semi-fasting help: It gives your body a break from having to constantly deal with the pathogens you eat and frees up immune cells to do OTHER neglected work.
All well fine and good until we get to chronic infection that has floated around in your system a long time. The immune system STOPS recognizing it as invaders and thinks "Eh. They live here. They belong here." and lets them go about their business.
"These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along!"
As you get sicker and deteriorate further, your immune system gets lazier and more or less stops checking ID's on all kinds of crap and goes "Eh. They ALL live here."
The way you heal is you track down your nutritional deficiencies symptomatically and you repair that stuff. And then one day your stronger body decides to start checking IDs again.
Typically, this happens by being exposed to something and catching a cold or whatever and then suddenly your body is like "Oh, hey, there are OTHER assholes hanging out here that look JUST LIKE THIS. They need to go TOO."
And then you need antimicrobials on top of nutritional support to deal with this battle.
This is a brain dump of antimicrobial tidbits:
Your body is like a nation and your skin is like a border. And then you bring in all kinds of stuff when you eat and breathe and this is why the lungs and gut are lined with mucus: So that when it turns out there are "invaders" in your food and air, your body can turn that mucus into quick dry cement and trap them and give the blood system time to send white blood cells to literally eat them.
So your gut contains about 70 to 80 percent of your immune cells and I think this is because food is a huge source of exposure to pathogens, more than we realize. And I think this is why fasting or semi-fasting help: It gives your body a break from having to constantly deal with the pathogens you eat and frees up immune cells to do OTHER neglected work.
All well fine and good until we get to chronic infection that has floated around in your system a long time. The immune system STOPS recognizing it as invaders and thinks "Eh. They live here. They belong here." and lets them go about their business.
"These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along!"
As you get sicker and deteriorate further, your immune system gets lazier and more or less stops checking ID's on all kinds of crap and goes "Eh. They ALL live here."
The way you heal is you track down your nutritional deficiencies symptomatically and you repair that stuff. And then one day your stronger body decides to start checking IDs again.
Typically, this happens by being exposed to something and catching a cold or whatever and then suddenly your body is like "Oh, hey, there are OTHER assholes hanging out here that look JUST LIKE THIS. They need to go TOO."
And then you need antimicrobials on top of nutritional support to deal with this battle.
This is a brain dump of antimicrobial tidbits:
- Tea is high in tannins and can be consumed as a liquid or used to make poultice if you need something more like a round of prescription antibiotics.
- Most spices can be used to kill stuff and if you need a medicinal dose, you can often buy them in pill form at places that sell supplements as their main business.
- When using spices (taken orally) I typically use a high "loading dose" -- which gets done with some prescription antibiotics but is not the norm -- and then follow it up with a lower "maintenance dose" until the infection is gone (or until I am ready for a loading dose again).
- Some things I have used to successfully kill infection without seeing a doctor include: cinnamon, olives, teas (especially mint and chamomile), oil of oregano and hot peppers.
- You can also use hot and cold treatments to kill stuff, which is why there are so many "baths" all over Europe that were historically used to help heal people long before antibiotics were invented. These old baths frequently are located at sites of natural hot springs.
