Unleashing Your Inner Pharmacy

When foreign invaders come into our body and attempt to upset the balance, it would make any of us feel good if we could see the armies unleashed by our immune system. 

It not only fights it back, but just like an evolving, ever learning computer system, it will archive the new data it has learned throughout generations of immune cells and once it knows the sequence of these pathogens, our innate immune system will destroy them many times without us realizing we made contact with something bad. Our immune system is adaptive and just like our muscles and bones, when exposed to new stressors, and given the proper amount of recovery after the new stressor, will become stronger. 

Our inner pharmacy knows the designer medicine it needs to release to kill these pathogens, but just like any manufacturing and production facility, it has a few things that it needs from us. This is a checklist I like to hand out to everyone and is something I feel we all need to check ourselves against before unnecessarily seeing a doctor or taking things created in a laboratory that can oft times create another problem while attempting to correct the current one.

1. Am I getting fresh air? We die most rapidly without the ingredient it contains, (oxygen)! Don’t breath in bad things especially not on purpose…

2. Am I drinking enough water? We are made up of several trillion cells and can die within 3 days without hydration, so in a very short amount of time we can dry out and kill several billion cells, causing things to hurt and fatigue!

3. Have I been eating healthy foods? We are what we eat, look closely at it and then ask a simple question, do I want cells to be made of this? Your body likes foods that contain only one ingredient. The more ingredients it has, the more its processed and the further it is from natural and the less your body recognizes it as good nutrition.

4. Have I been staying active, or getting exercise? Our body and its functions work better physiologically if we move our body parts and when these hold still for too long circulation suffers in the short term and weakening of muscle, tendons ligaments and bones in the long term, causing us to lose our good economy of movement as we age.  

5. Am I staying at the proper weight? Just like a vehicle that is loaded down with a lot of extra weight for long enough, will begin to experience wear and tear on small minor parts and eventually if not relieved of its load will prematurely age the vital part. The difference is that our human body parts are not so easily replaced or replicated.

6. Am I getting adequate rest? If you’re not getting deep rest, figure out why not, it is that important! This is when your body repairs things and gradually you will not only feel run down, your body’s defenses will lose their armor and can be much easier for bad things (pathogens) to breach and make you sick.

7. Am I getting plenty of sunshine? Your immune system doesn’t care about that certain tanned look that many want only certain times out of the year, what it cares about is that it helps restore vitamin D levels naturally. After scaring people into believing the sun is bad for us, (something that’s been around since God created the world and is important to life) research has linked all sorts of illness and disease to vitamin D deficiency! Length of exposure should be gradual and based on skin type.

When we do the above consistently, it empowers a system that is like a personal doctor at work within us 24/7, 365 days a year that knows exactly what is wrong and what to do to fix it!