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ALOE VERA:
HOLISTICALLY PERFECT PLANT
According to
Dr. John Finnegan, mucopolysaccharides are made in the human body
and perform many key functions in our health, including growth and
immune system functioning. Unfortunately, after puberty we cease
manufacturing mucopolysaccharides and must obtain them from outside
sources. Mucopolysaccharides are found in large amounts in fresh
aloe vera and in properly prepared aloe vera juices. Following are
a few of the vital functions this substance has been found to perform.
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· They become incorporated
into the cellular membrane and make the cell more resistant
to viruses and pathogenic bacteria. |
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They improve overall cellular metabolism and functioning. |
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· They have anti-inflammatory
properties. |
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· They provide critical lubrication
of joints; helping to prevent arthritis and to heal it
once it has developed. |
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· They aid in the absorption
of water, minerals, and nutrients in the GI track. |
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· They improve macrophage
(white blood cells) activity making them up to ten times
more effective in engulfing foreign matter. |
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· They enhance the macrophage's
effectiveness in modulating the entire immune system. |
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· They enhance the macrophage's
effectiveness to stimulate and direct the production and
release of antibodies (increasing the body's own production
of interferon, interleukins and more). |
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· They increase the number
of antibody forming T-cells in the spleen and increase
the number and activity of killer T-cell and monocyte
activity. |
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They are responsible for aloe's special penetration properties.
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In conjunction with their cellular detoxification support
and immune enhancement, they improve allergic reactions. |
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· They stimulate bone marrow
activity. |
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They stimulate the fibroblasts to release collagen and
elastin to make new tissue (inside and out). |
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· The mucopolysaccharides
in aloe vera enhance the functioning of the entire immune
system, and repair and detoxify the digestive and elimination
systems of the body. (51) |
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Dr. John Finnegan
prescribed aloe vera for me, and at the time I had no idea that
it was anything more than expensive cactus juice. After taking it
for two days, the diarrhea I'd had most of the time since my four
blood transfusions was gone. There was a true feeling of reversal
from sicker and sicker to a leveling off and a healing taking place.
Of course, Dr. John Finnegan prescribed several other things in
the first few months, only a few of which I could afford. Aloe vera
was one item I purchased by the case from him. He has had great
successes in using aloe with his hepatitis clients. Properly prepared
aloe vera is a must in the quest against hepatitis C. In chronic
hepatitis C cases there is suffering from severe joint pain. Aloe
vera helped eliminate this pain for me better than anything else
I've tried. The cost can drive you to the poor house, but at least
the physical suffering on the way isn't as bad. Wouldn't it be great
if you were one of those fortunate enough to have insurance and
they would pay for at least a portion of this product? It's better
than most things you'll ever buy in a bottle.
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FDA allows aloe vera companies to label their products "cold
pressed" if they are kept under 400 degrees. However, heating
aloe vera over 90 degrees shortens the mucopolysaccharide molecule.
Most of the aloe on the shelves in health food stores has been
heated. Herbal Aloe Force is one of the companies that guarantee,
in writing, that their aloe is never heated! |
John Pittman,
M.D. writes in The Immune Enhancing Effects of Aloe:
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Beta-glucomannans
are a class of very long chain sugars derived from plants,
which have been shown in laboratory and clinical studies to
have a wide variety of immune stimulating and protective effects
within the body. In studying the different sources of this
polymer, it has been discovered that the aloe barbadensis
plant contains the greatest concentration of acetylated polymannans,
which is also the most active form of mannans. These long-chain
complex polysaccharides are often called beta-glucomannans,
mucopolysaccharides or Acemannan. These aloe polysaccharides
have been shown to have many effects in the body, mostly impacting
the gastrointestinal and immune systems, which are intricately
related. Before elaborating on their beneficial effects, it
is appropriate to discuss the type of pathology often present
in individuals experiencing immune system depression.
The most
striking commonality found in individuals suffering with immune
depressive conditions such as Epstein-Barr virus, chronic
fatigue syndrome, systemic candidiasis, HIV infection and
others, is the high incidence of digestive dysfunction and
maldigestion. This has several effects that contribute to
stress on the immune system and weakening it.
Maldigestion
means that the consumed food is not properly broken down into
the elemental building blocks needed for the body to rebuild
itself and to generate energy for metabolism. This results
in a type of starvation at the cellular level, with all tissue
suffering malnourishment and therefore decreased effectiveness
of all internal chemical processes.
These
processes include breakdown and transport of toxins out of
the cell, movement of nutrients into the cell, and energy
production for cell functioning. This affects all the cells
in the body, including those of the immune system such as
white blood cells, (macrophages, and lymphocytes) and red
blood cells which carry oxygen throughout our bodies. Not
only do we lack enough fuel, but we're low on oxygen too.
However,
it is not this cellular starvation alone that causes the immune
depression. Maldigestion also results in pathologic reactions.
First, these remnants become irritants and cause inflammation
of the mucosal wall of the intestines. Many powerful enzymes
and damaging chemicals are released, injuring the intestinal
wall causing increased intestinal mucosal permeability. The
foreign proteins of the digested food can leak across the
mucosa into the lymphatic channels of the intestinal wall
and from there, gain access to the circulatory system. Here,
these absorbed proteins are recognized as foreign and are
attacked by the cells of the immune system. Antibodies bind
to the protein and then call in the macrophages and monocytes.
T-cells arrive later, releasing enzymes and using oxygen to
drive the metabolic breakdown of the foreign protein. The
total result is that the immune system is constantly turned
on and draining down like a battery. As these allergic reactions
to food breakdown products continue, the cells of the immune
system wear out faster, run out of fuel and aren't reproduced
in sufficient numbers.
In addition
to this chronic hyper-immune state, undigested food remnants
provide fuel for overgrowth of fermentative fungal organisms
such as Candida Albicans as well as several types of parasites.
Overgrowth of Candida in the intestines has significant effects
throughout the body due to the absorption of toxic by-products
of its metabolism. This can result in worsening of food allergies,
hypoglycemia, digestive disturbances, excessive mucus, bloating,
flatulence, skin rashes, and extreme fatigue. This
chronic infection further drains the immune system and complicates
the picture.
Further
damage is inflicted on all cell membranes from the effects
of the generalized inflammation occurring as a result of maldigestion.
These metabolic reactions utilize large amounts of oxygen
and produce oxidative free radicals as waste by-products.
The negatively charged oxygen molecules are desperately trying
to balance their electrical charge and immediately begin to
chop holes into cell membranes as they grab positive charges.
The result here is further damage to the intestinal mucosa
and a worsening of the increased permeability.
All these
processes work together in a vicious sequence of events leading
to progressive weakening of the immune system. It is clear
that many mechanisms are at play in orchestrating these processes.
Without definitive therapy directed at each component of the
immune system pathology, this is a downward spiral to death.
Fortunately, a thorough multidimensional treatment protocol
addressing each component has been shown to reverse these
processes. Aloe vera has been shown to have properties addressing
all these issues and appears to play a key role on many different
levels in boosting all immune functioning.
At the
intestinal level, the aloe polysaccharides have been shown
to act as potent anti-inflammatory agents, neutralizing many
of the enzymes responsible for damaging the mucosal wall and,
in effect, quenching the fire. They do this anti-inflammatory
action while at the same time boosting the immune system functioning.
This results in decreased leakiness of the intestinal wall
and less absorption of allergic stimulating foreign protein
as well as enhancing the repair of the tissue. Research has
also demonstrated their direct viricidal, bactericidal, and
fungicidal properties, which can help control Candida overgrowth
so the normal gastrointestinal bacterial flora can be restored.
It has also been found that these polysaccharides stimulate
intestinal motility, improving the elimination process to
move allergenic proteins from the small intestine into the
colon. All these processes help to normalize gastrointestinal
wall structure and function and therefore stop the viscous
cycle of immune system damage.
In addition
to restoring gastrointestinal and elimination functioning,
large glucomannan polysaccharides also have direct effects
on the cells of the immune system.
They have
been shown to increase the number of and activate the intensity
of macrophages, monocytes, and T-cells as well as increasing
the number of antibody forming B-cells in the spleen. Enhancing
macrophage activity increases the effectiveness of the entire
immune and repair system of the body as it is responsible
for so many functions, including immune modulation.
These
polysaccharides have been shown in laboratory studies to act
as a bridge between foreign proteins (such as virus particles)
and the macrophage, facilitating phagocytosis ingestion of
the protein by the macrophage. Activating the receptor sites
of the macrophages is a key to the overall boosting of cell-mediated
immunity, which is deficient in HIV infection and other immune
disorders. These aloe polysaccharides also protect the bone
marrow from damage by toxic chemicals and drugs.
These
various effects, while seemingly wide spread and unrelated,
are in fact due to one simple process at the cell membrane
level. Acemannan (the name often used for aloe beta-glucomannans,
acetylated polymannans and mucopolysaccharides) is a long
chain sugar that interjects itself into all cell membranes.
This results in an increase in the fluidity and permeability
of the membranes allowing toxins to flow out of the cell more
easily and nutrients to enter the cell. This results in improved
cellular metabolism throughout the body and an overall boost
in energy production. The vicious cycle of maldigestion and
cellular starvation is finally broken as the Acemannan normalizes
absorption of nutrients and increases tolerance for allergenic
foods (from detoxification). The immune system is now stronger,
under control, and better prepared for any new threat.
As humans
living in the late twentieth century, our body's metabolic
and detoxification systems are under ever increasing stress
from foreign chemicals, nutrient depleted foods, and immune
damaging infectious agents.
In order
to control and prevent the inevitable progression of the immune
system destruction that these stresses cause, therapy must
be multifactorial involving all levels of health, diet and
lifestyle. These different areas consist of destruction of
pathogenic organisms, metabolic detoxification, intestinal
cleansing, increasing cellular metabolism, antioxidant agents
to combat free radicals, and direct stimulation of immune
system cells. Aloe vera's Acemannan, the active ingredient
in cold-processed, whole leaf aloe, has been demonstrated
in laboratory testing and clinical use to be effective on
all levels of this therapeutic program. (52)
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Jeri L. Heyman,
Ph.D. writes in The Secret Promise of Aloe Vera:
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I am a developmental psychologist who has
focused on psychological and emotional development for most
of my life and career. By becoming aware of the latest research
on aloe vera, I have become inspired to examine healthy physical
development more closely in addition to the biochemical contribution
to overall optimal health and balance. I found the aloe vera
plant to be the most fascinating and miraculous plant on the
planet. I have spent the last five years investigating aloe
vera, and it keeps getting more interesting all the time.
As you begin to look at the information on aloe, you may find
conflicting information. Please be aware that there is still
a great deal of misinformation and misunderstandings about
aloe vera and aloe vera products. It is very hard to believe
that all the scientific research on the properties of fresh
aloe vera could possibly be real - but they are.
The research raised many questions for me.
How could something be so profoundly and fundamentally effective
for so many areas of health and have only good side effects?
Why (if this research is real and aloe has been around for
so long) haven't we heard more about experiences of these
miraculous effects? What I found is that the research on fresh
aloe vera is real and the research on the constituents in
fresh aloe is real. However, most of the aloe vera products
available in the marketplace are not demonstrating the promises
documented by the research, even though they have some benefits.
Thus, aloe vera's true potential has remained a secret. (53)
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The
Effectiveness of Aloe Vera - Fundamental and Profound.
The Immune
System:
Scientific research
has demonstrated so many healthful properties of aloe that one's
immediate response has to be, "this can't be real." Aloe vera enhances
the body's own health and healing in so many ways that I wouldn't
even have dreamed to pray for them all. Certainly I couldn't have
imagined that they would be found all in one plant, in a natural
form and with only good side effects.
Fresh aloe vera
contains over 250 constituents including the full range of all sizes
of polysaccharides (complex sugar chains that feed the cells). The
largest long-chain polysaccharides have an intricate, multifaceted,
multi-functional biological design and are manufactured by the body
only until puberty. After puberty we must get these health and growth
producing polysaccharides from outside sources. Aloe vera has been
found to be the most concentrated plant source of these largest
known and most profound health supporting polysaccharides - the
beta-glucomannans (also known as mucopolysaccharides, Acemannan,
and acetylated polymannose).
Research by
a pharmaceutical company, Carrington Laboratories, has documented
some of the astounding properties of the various sizes of the aloe
vera long-chain sugars. As reported by Dr. Ivan Danhof, they discovered
that the smaller-chained polysaccharides have properties that help
in balancing blood sugar levels. Although this is still being studied,
there is evidence that they improve insulin receptor cells, with
importance for both Type I and Type II diabetes (not to mention
balancing sugar cravings). The research has also demonstrated some
anti-inflammatory properties of these smaller polysaccharides as
they mimic the action of steroids. The medium size polysaccharides
have been found to be potent antioxidants. The larger chains have
demonstrated direct antibacterial properties (staph, strep, E coli,
etc.), direct antiviral properties (herpes, influenza, HIV) and
the stimulation of the body's own tissue regeneration processes
(by fitting receptor sites of fibroblasts stimulating them to produce
collagen and other factors needed to make new tissue).
The largest
longest-chained polysaccharides, the beta-glucomannans (mucopolysaccharides),
have received the most attention and Carrington has patented the
beta 1, 4 glucomannan under the name "Acemannan." They documented
astounding immune enhancing and tissue production properties of
this aloe polysaccharide. They actually showed that when the Acemannan
meets the receptor sites of macrophages it stimulates the macrophage
into action and can increase its affectivity ten fold. The macrophages
are the main immune system cells. They are the white blood cells
that engulf foreign matter throughout the body, release growth factor
to stimulate tissue generation, modulate the inflammation processes,
and more. They command the other immune cells to release their antibodies
- how much, when, and where needed.
Carrington's
research showed that when the macrophage is stimulated it does increase
the production and release of interferon and the interleukins when
needed. This fascinates me because here is a natural way that actually
helps the body's own mechanisms to increase antibody production
as well as increase the effectiveness of getting to where it's needed.
The body was designed with all the mechanisms to heal
itself. Here there is a way to enhance the body's own systems
for healing! The macrophages are also responsible for orchestrating
and modulating all the other immune cells and the functioning of
the entire immune system. They command the immune cell army, signaling
where to go, when and how hard to attack and when to cease-fire.
The question
of how can one polysaccharide be so great in so many areas is partly
answered here because the macrophage does so many profound things
and the beta-glucomannan is making it ten times more effective.
So, when the literature on aloe vera talks about direct immune enhancement,
they are referring to this body of research on polysaccharides by
Carrington Laboratories.
Supporting
Fundamental Health By "Re-Naturing" the Cells.
Macrophage stimulation
and direct immune system support is just part of the story of how
aloe can have such a broad range of health benefits. Aloe vera is
known to be the most penetrating and absorbing of substances. It
permeates cells and tissues like no other substance on earth. Research
has shown that fresh aloe will absorb through to all seven layers
of skin. Understanding this action has profound implications understanding
the effects of aloe for cellular health. The aloe, led by the large
polysaccharide, is of a unique size and shape as to be able to penetrate
cell walls dramatically. Sometimes the polysaccharides can become
part of the cell membrane fortifying the cell wall. Sometimes the
aloe moves into a cell, bringing with it all its nutrients and co-factors.
It also cleanses the cells by taking toxins out. The aloe feeds,
nourishes, fortifies, and cleanses the cell, improving cellular
metabolism and the cell's optimal functioning. I call this "Re-Naturing"
the cell because it can feed the cell in such a way as to make it
function as it was originally designed by nature. The health benefits
of this one property of fresh aloe are mind-boggling. Here is a
plant that can improve the health of the cells throughout the body.
When the cells are healthy and functioning as they should, all the
tissues, glands, organs, and systems of the body are also getting
"Re-Natured."
A
Myriad of Nutrients and Co-Factors
supporting overall Healthy Functioning.
Dr. Robert Davis
has done a great deal of research on fresh aloe vera, the properties
of its many nutrients, and how the aloe polysaccharides work. Research
has found that in addition to the full range of sizes of polysaccharides,
fresh aloe contains over 250 other constituents including: vitamins
(the only plant source of vitamin B12); minerals, amino acids, essential
fatty acids, a natural form of salicylic acid and plant sterols
(with antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties), two
enzymes that the body needs of which aloe is the only plant source,
glycoproteins, and more. These constituents have properties of their
own as well as serve as co-factors and support for many of the body's
biochemical processes. Dr. Davis' research, as explained below,
shows that all the nutrients in aloe vera are crucial to the aloe
polysaccharides' effectiveness and biological availability throughout
the body.
Isolated
Nutrients Extracted by Science
Versus The Original Designs Created by Nature.
Carrington Laboratories
isolated and patented Acemannan. They continued their research with
orally ingested capsules of Acemannan, which was isolated from freeze-dried
aloe. The clinical results must not have given them the results
they expected, because they switched to the study of injectible
Acemannan for which they have FDA approval for study with animals
and humans. What does this tell us? I can't imagine that a pharmaceutical
company would rather patent an injectible over a capsule. It certainly
made me wonder that maybe the research findings only are experienced
if the polysaccharides are injected right into where they are needed.
Is this why
we haven't heard of these miraculous immune enhancing effects? Is
it because the digestive system destroys the polysaccharides? Is
it because the polysaccharides can't get through to the lymph system?
It is Dr. Davis'
explanation of his "Conductor/Orchestra Theory" that helped me to
understand aloe's "Secret Promise." Dr. Davis describes how the
entire aloe molecule, with the polysaccharides laced in perfect
balance with the other myriad of constituents within a base of water,
is what is necessary for the aloe polysaccharides to be available
throughout the body and to effectively demonstrate the research
on the polysaccharides. The polysaccharide acts as the conductor
of the orchestra of all other nutrients. It is the entire "orchestra"
that is responsible for the benefits of aloe's "being heard" throughout
the body.
As I understand
it, the aloe molecule is balanced with the polysaccharide on one
end and the other constituents as the "orchestra" on the other end,
making it slightly charged on each end. In this form the aloe moves
through tissue and throughout the body with the biological design
that has a biological wisdom and intercellular communication properties.
The aloe works its way to special receptor sites in the digestive
tract that ingests the aloe led by the largest polysaccharides and
brings it in its whole form into the lymph system where it is then
available to move throughout the body and know exactly where to
go. Our immune cells send out chemotaxic signals when they are in
need of assistance that other immune cells as well as the whole
aloe are drawn to.
Thus, it is
in its whole form that the aloe polysaccharides are most biologically
active and biologically available to the cells of the body. The
isolated polysaccharide lacks the biological wisdom and ability
to move throughout the body to the cells in need. Thus, the properties
of polysaccharides that are not in their original design within
the aloe will only work when they happen to hit on particular cells.
It is of critical
importance that the aloe not only contain the full range of sizes
of polysaccharides but that they also need to be in their originally
designed form and balance. Thus, the full promise of aloe vera with
all the properties that the research has documented will only be
fully demonstrated if the aloe vera is intact.
Why
Aloe Vera's True Promise has Been Hidden.
So, again, I
ask myself - if this research is real then why aren't we hearing
more about these miraculous effects of drinking aloe vera? And why
are the aloe vera gels on the market just okay and not the miraculous
tissue regenerating gel that the research suggests?
Processing,
Processing, Processing! It dawned on me when I used two different
aloe juice products that were labeled the exact same way - whole
leaf, cold processed, aloin removed - but they tasted different,
and they were not equally effective. As my aloe investigation and
search for a good aloe product continued, I learned that it is important
to read labels very carefully - what they say and do not say are
both important.
It makes sense
that if the fresh, whole aloe works then we need an aloe that is
as close to fresh as possible.
Processed
Aloe Vera Versus Its Original Biological Design.
Although the
research is real, the effectiveness of any given aloe product will
depend on what "is in" and what "is not in" a given product. Demonstration
of the scientific research's promises will depend on having the
full range of sizes of polysaccharides in the form they need to
be to work best in the body. Thus, any processing of the aloe (to
stabilize and purify it) needs to capture and protect all the constituents
as well as maintain their original design and balance. Beware of
an aloe product that does not guarantee - in writing - that no heat
is ever applied from field to bottle. Beware of concentrated or
dried aloes. The processing can damage constituents as well as lose
their original proportions and design. Aloin is a bitter substance
found in Aloe that has unwanted, irritating, laxative properties
and is responsible for the contraindications for daily use. Be sure
your aloe juice has the aloin removed to less than 10 ppm (laxation
occurs at around 2 ppm).
Heat
and Biological Activity.
Heat can be
the most damaging to the important aloe nutrients. Heat can break
down the links between the sugars. When this happens, the long chain
sugars no longer have the same size and shape of the polysaccharides
that fit the receptor sites of key immune cells and tissue producing
cells, nor do they have the other properties that the research has
documented.
Heat also breaks
down the structure of the enzymes and can also damage amino acids
and all the other nutrients. Cells are designed with a biological
structure that breaks down with heat above body temperature. As
I understand it, the body produces fever, when all else is failing,
that helps to kill cells, but unlike other aspects of the immune
system, heat does not discriminate between our own cells and foreign
cells. Thus, it seems logical that temperatures of 100F- 110F are
designed to kill the biological activity (life) of cells in our
own bodies. I used to think a fever was a side effect of the body
not having enough energy to effectively fight off an illness. But
that doesn't make sense to me anymore. If the body has no energy
for maintaining the homeostasis (balance) of temperature, it is
more likely that the body's temperature would drop. When the immune
system is being overtaxed and failing it fires up and uses heat
to help to break down and destroy the biological structure for life
and growth.
This focus on
fever highlights the importance of biological temperatures. When
aloe vera (or any food) is heated, intricate biological structures
are destroyed along with their biological benefits. Additionally,
when aloe vera is heated, not only are the important polysaccharides,
enzymes and other factors destroyed, but the balance of the entire
aloe molecule is destroyed, and thus its biological availability
and effectiveness throughout the body.
Our
Bodies are Perfectly Designed.
Our body is
designed in perfect balance to take in, absorb and eliminate nutrients
and process and eliminate foreign and toxic matter, fight off ills,
repair tissue and grow. If given the proper tools, the body is designed
to be healthy and strong. The best thing we could do for our bodies
is to feed it the nutrients it needs, limit the toxins we take in,
not overtax any one system, and protect the balance of all the systems.
So look at what we are doing: we do not eat enough raw organic foods
that contain the nutrients we need in the form we need them; we
eat mostly cooked foods which changes the nutrients into forms that
not only do not give the body what it needs, but they burden the
body. By age five, the toxins in our environment have overtaxed
all the systems of our bodies, and we take medicines that put the
digestive system out of balance and do nothing to restore balance
and healthy functioning, thus starting a domino effect of problems
that eventually overtax the entire immune system's functioning.
All illness
can be traced to the body's own systems not working well. Medicine
is designed to be crisis intervention (and I am grateful for this)
not nutritional health support. We need to learn ways to work with
our bodies to support the perfectly designed systems we are. When
we treat only the symptoms of illness, we can be interfering with
our natural "wellness" processes. Often we are counteracting the
body's own wisdom and mechanisms for health. Is diarrhea a sign
of illness? Yes and no. Yes, it is a sign that the body is overloaded
with waste that needs to be flushed. But no, it is a sign of wellness
in that it is flushing the waste from successful immune warfare.
Diarrhea is not an illness, per se. It is a result of the body's
fighting an illness caused by harmful microorganisms. What an ingenious
wellness system: when the fluids from the fight (mucous) build up,
the body takes water and mucous from the system and flushes the
toxins out.
Enough on that
system, let's move on. Think about the mucous produced with allergies
and viruses. It is a waste product that needs to be eliminated.
We need to help the body get rid of the mucous, not stop it from
coming out. When we stop the mucous elimination process, what happens
to the toxic waste? We don't need things to dry up the mucous, but
we could use a "flush button" that would get rid of it in 5 minutes!
I wish all the resources available to medical science were actually
focused on wellness!
Our environment
and the foods we eat overtax our body's ability to eliminate toxins.
Traditional approaches to health care and medicine not only can
destroy the digestive system, but also overtax the elimination system,
especially the liver. When we stop the symptoms of an illness, we
are clogging up the body's immune and elimination systems' natural
processes. We can be stopping the body's natural wellness process
trying to rid the body of toxic waste. When we do this, we end up
overloading the other systems of elimination, especially the kidneys
and liver even more.
Aloe Vera - The Herbal Answer to Today's Health Crisis.
Aloe vera is
the best herbal answer I can imagine to support the health and healing
mechanisms of the body because it doesn't heal, rather, it FEEDS
THE BODY'S OWN SYSTEMS in order for them to function optimally and
be healthy. It does this, in part, by going into the cells and "Re-Naturing"
them to function optimally, as they were originally designed. Thus,
aloe is a fundamental tool that gives life to the cells, tissues,
glands, organs, and other systems of the body in order to support
optimal health, balance, and functioning. In addition, aloe vera
has been shown to have many specific properties that profoundly
enhance the functioning of body's own immune and repair systems
for health and healing to be up to ten times more effective, thus
healing can be ten times faster. Aloe vera is a remarkable plant.
I urge everyone to examine this for him or her self. To understand
that nutrients designed by nature were designed to feed our body
perfectly is to understand the importance of feeding the body the
fuel it needs to function optimally, as it was originally designed.
The promise
in the aloe vera plant has opened my eyes to the need to look at
nature's original design for life - to feed life, development and
health. It is as though GOD put the aloe vera plant here not only
as a gift for health, but also as a metaphor for the miracles that
are possible if we trust the design of the divine.
It is fortunate
that the aloe vera recommended to me by Dr. Finnegan happened to
be a unique aloe product that was enhanced with fantastic immune
herbs and processed in a special way. You just can't get any aloe
product. Processing will determine what is "in" and "what's not
in" the aloe and will determine the results. Once again it is difficult
to know the truth about products. So make sure your aloe company
guarantees - in writing - that heat is never applied from field
to bottle, that it never experiences temperatures above 90F at any
time during processing, that it has never been concentrated or diluted,
that the whole leaf is being used (more potent), and that the aloin
(which can irritate the bowel) is completely removed to 1 ppm or
less without any damaging processing. Remember, if it's not written
on the bottle, you can't assume anything.
During my
treatment I drank:
Four oz. of properly prepared aloe vera
two to four times per day, usually more.
By properly prepared I mean raw (unheated),
organic, whole leaf and never concentrated or diluted
aloe with all the aloin (laxative properties) removed.
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