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Environmental Stress
by John Morley, MBAcC, MMAA, MSocBiol Med |
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 Venomous snakes, Tarantula spiders, Box jellyfish, Stingrays, Puffer fish and Gila monster lizards have been on the earth since before man. So have botulism, cholera, rabies, polio and salmonella. So have mercury, lead and cadmium. Contact with them can mean the introduction of a very acute environmental stress factor into your body. The environment has always been potentially very stressful and one of the most important determinants of our health is our ability to adapt to a changing environment. Humankind is the most adaptable creature on the planet, but if we don't act quickly to one of those poisonous or infectious stresses we may not survive to tell about it.
Since we started making things we have produced some man-made objects that also require a very quick adaptive response for survival - things like bullets, knives, nerve gas, crossbows, cannonballs and nuclear fallout. These kinds of stress factors also produce a very obvious result that is easy to link with its cause.
We have also produced many things that are not so clearly linked with the stressful result that they cause. Industrial chemicals, asbestos, solvents, dyes, weedkillers, insecticides, food additives, exhaust fumes and some drugs can all cause the body to function incorrectly if they are taken into the system, sometimes in only tiny amounts. They poison the system. Some people are not able to eliminate some of these toxins and so they stay in the body and the body continues to function incorrectly. They may have very strange symptoms, or nagging symptoms that keep recurring. If their immune system is affected by poisons they may have malfunctions of the immune system such as allergies, where the body is trying to defend itself against something that is not really a threat.
Some man-made toxins are made in labs and factories from chemicals, while others are made by doing unusual things with naturally occurring substances. An example of this is the combining of mercury with other metals to form an amalgam which is then used to fill holes in teeth. Mercury is very toxic to the human body and in some people the mercury in their fillings can leak into their system and poison them. It can take many years for the effects to be noticeable and they are often not linked with the original amalgam fillings.
On the infectious side there are viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeasts that get into our body and live there, reproducing themselves as long as we remain a welcome host. Some of these organisms may be normal inhabitants of the intestines, such as Candida Albicans, which if they migrate to other parts of the body can upset normal function. Others are quite clearly opportunistic invaders that will make home in the body of someone who has reduced immune power. They all place an extra burden on one or more of the systems of the person they are living in, thus reducing biological vitality. Some infectious organisms can be killed with drugs and some can not. One complication of this is that some of the drugs that kill unfriendly organisms also kill some of the friendly organisms that are useful to us. They can also weaken the immune system and so make us more likely to become infected again with the same or a different invader.
There are also some completely invisible environmental stress factors, both naturally occurring and man-made. These are the geopathic, electromagnetic and radioactive factors. Geopathic stress builds up in a person who spends a lot of time in a place that is subject to distortion in the earth's natural radiation caused by underground water, caverns, mineral deposits or the convergence of natural ley or energy lines. Electromagnetic and radioactive stresses come from single or repeated exposure to electromagnetic fields, X-rays and nuclear fission and fusion. The effects of these kinds of stress factors can range from poor concentration and irritability to increased likelihood of degenerative disease.
For Practitioners and Clinicians
There are four fundamental difficulties for the Practitioner or Doctor in dealing with these kinds of stresses. Firstly, most of them are not recognised by orthodox medicine and therefore not tested for. Secondly, they are on the increase as the environment gets more polluted. Thirdly, they are very difficult to remove or resolve by conventional medical methods. Fourthly, not only do they tend to interfere with normal function, they also tend to interfere with treatment, so that the correct and appropriate treatment for a particular symptom picture will not work if one or more of these toxic or infectious factors is well entrenched. It was this aspect, of too many patients getting stuck or not progressing to a satisfactory treatment conclusion, that led me to investigate the detection and removal of these areas of environmental stress. When they are removed it can lead to a resolution of symptoms, sometimes dramatically, and a much more effective and quicker treatment protocol.
The third challenge for the practitioner, of helping the patient to remove toxicity and infection, is much easier to achieve with an active patient who is taking full initiative with their own lifestyle, even when using provocative remedies to tease out the toxins. When doing reports for practitioners I make suggestions and recommendations whenever relevant, as well as reporting on the indications.
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