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Take Back Your Life
by Stephen Ayers
It seems today that for every mood swing, inconvenient behavior, irritating
symptom, unwanted pain, or side effect there is a distinctively colored pill to
smooth the way for our hectic life styles. The advertisements are all over the
TV, radio, and every form of print media telling us to ask our doctor about this
or that pill that will make everything all right. You would think that, for all
their sincerity, these advertisements are saying that the silver bullet cure for
every little thing has arrived.
Our environment is toxic enough without adding lots of these laboratory
concocted synthetic substances to our bodies. If our bodies have the correct raw
materials to work with, then they are capable of protecting, defending, and
repairing themselves. Of course, this not only requires the education necessary
to know what to feed our bodies, but also requires a whole new way of thinking
about our health. We must develop a culture of wellness instead of a
consciousness of sickness and symptoms. Wellness is a way of thinking as well as
a condition.
Much of what ails us today can be linked to improper immune function. Our immune
systems have been compromised to the point where their activity has been turned
180 degrees from protecting us, and instead are attacking the very cells they
are supposed to protect. The human immune system, though much more complicated
than I have time to go into in this article, has a straight forward and simple
method for keeping us well. The human immune system, using white cells produced
by the blood, goes in search of other cells and other organisms that cause
trouble and negatively impact our body systems. If the cells that are on their
search and destroy missions recognize the problems, then our immune system
functions to protect, defend, and repair our tissues. This is how our bodies are
supposed to take care of unhealthful bacteria, viruses, toxins, cancers, and
other potentially harmful things.
The process described above works well automatically when conditions are
favorable and proper raw materials are available and present for our bodies to
accomplish what, by design they were meant to achieve. In the past, properly
grown, harvested, and prepared foods were a good source of the necessary raw
materials with which our bodies could pave the way for proper immune function at
the cellular level maintaining wellness. When this balance is achieved, healthy
cells, with cell surface sugars transmitting vital information, exist to help
our bodies take care of problems and conditions that may arise. However, the
absence of these cell surface sugars, that provide the means by which accurate
identification takes place, will produce disastrous consequences resulting in
the destruction of healthy cells and tissue. This destructive process is one of
the main reasons why autoimmune diseases such as asthma, arthritis, lupus, and a
host of allergies are rising to epidemic proportions today.
If these cell surface sugars are missing, then we must provide them. These cell
surface sugars, not being abundant in our daily modern diet, must be supplied on
a supplementary basis if we are to enjoy a healthy and vibrant life and maintain
a state of wellness. Drugs, synthetically produced, adding to the toxic content
of our bodies, addressing only symptoms, and having negative side effects are
certainly not the answer to encouraging our bodies to produce a desired state of
wellness. And yet I am certain that there is a pharmaceutical representative
periodically stationed in every doctor’s waiting room, a pharmaceutical industry
lobbyist at the ready in every law maker’s reception area, and a paid-in-cash
advertisement for every available television, radio, and print media spot that
exists today. Drugs do not produce wellness, but rather mask symptoms. If the
pain of a headache can ignored long enough for you body to fix whatever
condition caused that problem in the first place, then we hasten to deduce that
the pain pill cured the discomfort. Nothing could be further from the truth. The
systems of our bodies are what heal, correct, and repair what goes wrong with
us. This is true no matter what those sincere looking actors on the tube are
telling you about the newest red, blue, pink, orange, or purple pill that you
should ask your doctor about.
The science of cell surface sugars and its importance is no longer on the fringe
of scientific research. The last four Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine
were awarded for discoveries in the field of cell surface sugars and their
related functions in our bodily systems. Wellness today mandates that you become
educated about this new science and it’s relevance to our physiology and how
providing these nutrients to your healthy lifestyle is absolutely necessary for
proper cell function resulting in the wellness that we all desire. We can sum up
by saying we all need to exercise, eat well, and supplement wisely.
Whenever I launch into one of the obscure popular songs of my generation, my
children look at me strangely and ask how I come up with such gibberish. When I
tell them this gibberish is a real popular song from my past that made somebody
a lot of money, they stare in disbelief and declare that this cannot be true and
that I must have made it up. To which I reply, “Well, someone definitely made it
up”. So, at the risk of being slightly nostalgic, even though the words aren’t
quite as notorious as “It was a one eyed, one horned flying purple people
eater”, take a proactive approach to your wellness and move your body, eat well,
supplement wisely, and don’t be a pin headed, TV drug ad watching zombie-eyed
paisley colored pill eater. Take back your life.
About the Author
To read more about why Steve is so passionate about moving toward wellness and
how you can head that way through a healthy lifestyle, that includes proper
supplementation, visit his website at:
http://steve.myglycostore.com.
This article is reprinted with permission from www.WritingCareer.com
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