WHY DETOXIFICATION IS A PATH TO BETTER HEALTH

Vertical illness is where you have symptoms that keep recurring and that make the quality of your life uncomfortable. These symptoms are present for a few days or weeks, then improve - only to reappear every few weeks.

If you happen to go to your General Practitioner (Family Physician) or Specialist Physician, numerous tests, scans and investigations reveal nothing amiss - yet you distinctly feel the uncomfortable symptoms and you don't feel well.

Vertical Illness implies that your body is in imbalance and is drifting toward a disease state that has not been detected yet by your Medical Practitioner.

Inevitably, the cause for the progressively worsening symptoms, are TOXINS in your body. But these cannot be detected by the blood tests, scans or x-rays used in conventional medicine.

The question therefore is:

WILL YOU WAIT FOR THE DISEASE TO MANIFEST BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?

Detoxification is that "something" you can do to reverse the accumulating impact of the toxins in your body. The process is simple but highly effective and can give you an extraordinary quality of life, if you are consistent with using this health skill regularly in your life.

• Where Do Toxins Come From?
  

Toxins are substances that can either be formed in your body through a sluggish metabolism or they can be ingested.

INTERNALLY FORMED TOXINS

Every cell in your body is performing some function vital to your health. In each organ in your body, there are millions of cells and each of these cells require energy to carry out their functions.

There are critical enzymes and co-enzymes operating in each cell to create energy and carry out its functions. A by product of these enzyme actions is waste material, which has to be eliminated from the cell and the body.

When these enzymes become weakened or are suppressed for some reason, the metabolism in the cells becomes slowed down and sluggish. The metabolic waste that is produced in the cell is now not eliminated effectively from the cell (due to the weakened enzyme activity) and accumulates in the cell.

This accumulating waste in the cells blocks the micro channels in the body preventing nutrients and oxygenated blood from reaching the cells. As a consequence the cell begins to become malnourished, its function deteriorates and a breakdown in the cell function occurs (the disease).

Another way toxins form in the body is when substances that we eat are not completely digested or metabolized by the various enzymes in the body. An example of this is when we have too much of glucose in the blood and it cannot be transported into the cell by the insulin hormone and the accompanying cell surface enzymes. The incompletely metabolized glucose now begins to act as a toxin. In this example the condition is called glucose toxicity, which if it persists for a prolonged period of time will result in diabetes.

A common area in your body where incomplete digestion or metabolism occurs is in your gut. Digestive enzymes produced by your pancreas can be substantially weakened by various mechanisms and result in a semi-digested substance forming in the gut.

Drinking iced drinks frequently, especially immediately before, during or after meals, eating left over foods and heavy, oily or fried foods or eating when you are highly stressed - all these substantially weaken the pancreatic digestive enzymes which results in the semi-digested material being produced in the gut

This semi-digested substance is a toxin and causes various gut symptoms such as bloating, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea and excessive gas. Besides producing gut symptoms, this toxin is absorbed into the blood and is carried to various organs in the body.

Toxins will tend to accumulate in the weakest tissue in the body and thereby create disease in that tissue (an example of this is when gut toxins are absorbed and get deposited in joint tissue that has already been weakened through stress, to cause rheumatoid arthritis).

Internal toxins can be formed in any organ in the body. The commonest organs that are affected are the gut, liver, gall bladder, the blood, sinus, middle ear and lung membranes, the skin and the lymphatic's and the brain.

Dr Rajen Cooppan (MBChB, MD) runs a wellness detoxification Clinic in Durban. He has had over 35 years of clinical experience helping people restore their health through regular detoxification. https://www.drcooppan.com 031-309 3036.