Immune System

Illness develops because one’s immune system is weakened. This is indisputable yet often not acknowledged. Alternative Medicine is based upon this premise.

The disease itself represents a large "red warning sign" that a person has sustained immune system deterioration for some time. To eliminate illness, your immune system needs to be revitalized. Alternative Medicine uses therapies and remedies that allow your body to restore its own immune system. Only your own immune system will rid your body of illness.

Though "Five Primary Causes Of Weakened Immune Systems" would more accurately title this article, it doesn’t have the same allure as the word "Illness." So where does illness really begin?

A single vulnerability in one’s immune system creates favorable conditions for a vast array of diseases. More commonly, many factors attack the immune system over time.

While symptoms are not immediately recognizable, the slow deterioration of the immune system leads to chronic illness that isn’t linked to one specific cause. Unlike most conventional medicine that often focuses on a narrowly specified area of the body, alternative medicine examines the whole person as a means to discover the clues necessary for proper therapy.

Five Primary Factors

Five primary causative factors of immune system deterioration are: Heavy Metal Toxicity, Parasites, Food Allergies, Poor Diet and Nutrition, and Dental Problems. This article specifically addresses Heavy Metal Toxicity. Other factors are addressed in other articles.

Heavy metal toxicity is among the most disregarded destroyers of immune systems and therefore causes of illness. It stems from air pollution, water pollution, and pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides found in food. Dental amalgams, or silver-mercury fillings, are another primary source of heavy metal toxicity.

Toxic Mercury: Unperceived Degeneration

Mercury is a major neuro-toxic substance. It is one of the most widespread forms of heavy metal toxicity. So called "silver" tooth fillings or "amalgams" are typically at least 50% mercury plus silver, tin, and copper, and possibly other metals.

For more information on the health effects of mercury amalgams, see the web site for DAMS, Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome at www.dams.cc. (The web site isn’t fancy but the content is well documented.)

The effects of mercury toxicity are subtle and accumulate over time. Other common heavy metal toxicities are lead, aluminum, cadmium, nickel, tin, copper, and arsenic.

Heavy metal toxicities have been associated with a vast range of "illnesses" including chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, ADD/ADHD, autism, thyroid problems, depression, insomnia, anxiety, excessive salivation, ringing in the ears, neuropathy, osteoporosis, memory loss, irritability, moodiness, headaches, intestinal problems, muscle weakness, unexplainable cardiovascular problems, and many others.

Symptoms vs. Illnesses

Although the above are routinely labeled "illnesses" by conventional medicine, alternative medicine views these as "symptoms" indicative of an imbalanced condition of the body. As "symptoms" they’re a collection of conditions that can be eliminated through proper nutrition, detoxification, drainage remedies and appropriate chelation therapy for specific heavy metal exposures.

Tissue hair mineral analysis is a simple and non-invasive means to measure heavy metal toxicity. Chelating agents can also be used to discover hidden heavy metal toxicity.

With the goal of long-term good health, rather than merely attempting to cover up or stop an immediate illness, nutrition therapy and chelation treatments provide a gradual and rewarding recovery from heavy metal toxicity.

If you, or anyone you know, feel chronically "unwell" with multiple vague complaints, you probably won’t fit into a standard medical classification. If your doctor reports that everything is fine – but you know you aren’t "fine" – you may want to seek out an alternative medicine practitioner who understands these five destroyers of immune systems.

If you need a recommendation, I strongly recommend Dr. Simon Yu, M.D., as you know if you’ve read "Ed Mass – Alternative Medicine Background" in the sidebar. Check out his web site at preventionandhealing.com.