Energy Detox: for improved health
The
four basic
routes of elimination and the
two ancillary ones
depend on an underlying network of internal cleansing, particularly the
lymph fluid. The lymphatic system drains the space between cells where
wastes collect as they are pushed through the cell membranes. The liver
receives toxic
chemicals from the lymph and "bundles" them into a form that won't cause damage until
they can be excreted through one of the exit organs. But for those with
health problems, the liver won't be doing this efficiently - which only
serves to increase the toxic load.
Where the
waste is able to come out of the cells and into the fluids (blood and
lymph), the kidneys filter chemical and metabolic waste out of the blood
and send it down the urinary tract. If the liver is
not working properly, it will be shunting gross toxins to the kidneys,
which cannot handle them. The kidneys, in turn, pass what they cannot
handle to the lungs and the skin. The liver and kidneys are often overstressed for
far too long - they are just not up to the huge demands
being placed on them with modern lifestyles.
But trouble
also accumulates at the stage of lymphatic drainage, just outside the
cells. When the cumulative load of environmental toxins and metabolic
wastes exceeds the body's capacity to clear it, it has to go
somewhere. The first place it is likely to build up is in the spaces
between the cells.
This space is
an example of the blind spots in medical research. The general tendency
in conventional medicine is to focus on specific, circumscribed components
of the body. What gets overlooked is the background. What is the context
in which the specifics operate? In the case of cells it is the
extracellular space or "ground substance".
Wastes pushed
out by the cells into body fluids but not allowed in elsewhere (for
instance, to the
liver, to be detoxified) may accumulate in this space. It constitutes an
extensive drainage system that takes up what is given off by the cells and
sends it away through the lymph tracts - or when that's not possible,
holds it in temporary storage in the lymph fluids or glands (causing
swelling and discomfort or even pain). (There is twice as
much lymph fluid in our bodies as there is blood.)
System waste
can come to load the fluids in this extracellular space and saturate the
connective tissue that runs through it. There are mechanisms that condense
the molecules of this extra matter into more compact forms so they take up
less room and are less disruptive to the processes around them. Even so,
the extracellular connective tissue space has limited storage capacity.
As it becomes
overburdened, we may begin to experience stiffness caused by the deposits
in it as well as pain throughout the body as a result of irritation from
them. Symptoms that sound very much like what is currently called "fibromyalgia"
or what was known as "rheumatism" a century ago. Perhaps the pain is there
to remind us that the buildup of substances in this extracellular space
must be eliminated. It cannot be allowed to become a sort of cesspool for
it has its own functions to carry out.
Though it has
been largely ignored by the cellular- and later the molecular-oriented,
medical scientists of the last two centuries, this space between the cells
is quite important. It is, in a sense, a living matrix - a place where
many systems interact and are coordinated. Here active substances, on
their way in or out of the cells or the capillaries, interact with nerve
endings - the connective tissue or "matrix through which secret currents
pass".
Recent
research confirms this is an intricate communications network operating
alongside of, and interacting with, the nervous and endocrine systems. If
the nerves are your cable TV and the hormones your mail, the ground matrix
might be thought of as your Internet. This matrix area is the first stop-off for all sorts of metabolic waste
and it is also the favored site for long-term deposits of protein waste.
Other types of waste have their storage destinations of choice too.
Fat-soluble toxic chemicals will tend to end up in fatty tissue;
cholesterol in the arterial walls and as stones in the gallbladder; and
minerals in the joint spaces or as kidney or bladder stones.
If this
extracellular connective tissue matrix is overburdened with toxic
substances, the communications it normally conducts (water
carries the messages) are blocked. Its "energy channels" are obstructed
and as a result you don't feel up to par.
Energy Detox
gives the body the needed boost to start to return integrity to
the body,
enabling it
to reverse
the decades of accumulated poisons.
It does not treat disease.
The information provided is intended for educational purposes;
it is not to be construed as providing medical advice or
substituting for professional services.
