Wellness Wednesday - Our Interconnected Internals

This is a textual version of components from the September 10 Wellness Wednesday broadcast. The full show is archived for your listening pleasure at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PeterPocklington

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

On this day of alignment - the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of the century - a thank you to chiropractors everywhere.

For me especially a thank you to Dr. Chris Grenshaw, the chiropractor who literally saved my life when I was six months old and not breathing.

Thank you to my current chiropractor, Dr. Andrew Gottlieb of Eagle Chiropractic in Lionville, Pennsylvania - who, together with his wife Dr. Cynthia Glendenning, continuously further my own wellness education.

OUR INTERCONNECTED INTERNALS

Do you remember the song about the interconnectedness of the skeletal structure? From the head bone connected to the neck bone, to the ankle bone connected to the foot bone.... So it is with your internal body systems.

There are no fences in your body. Each organ system is interconnected by way of your blood. Let's consider the colon, the small intestine, the liver, the lymphatic system and the circulatory system. Did you realize that the health of your circulatory system can be affected by the health of your colon and small intestine? Because by way of the blood each system affects the other. The lymphatic system is part of your immune system and that can be affected by toxic, dirty blood. We should learn more about how these systems are inter-connected and how important it is to keep them cleansed.

So let's take a journey together, starting at the mouth and going all the way to the other end - the terminus of the digestive system. If you could straighten out your digestive system and shine a light down your mouth the light would shine out of your "other end". So a lot of things need to happen inside the digestive tract.

Firstly, we need to chew our food! Not take a few bites while driving along to work, school or play and then swallow. Your grandmother was right - CHEW YOUR FOOD! Because your saliva is going straight to work to break down your food to assist absorption.

Once you swallow the food goes down the esophageal tract to your stomach - which is a majorly acidic organ charged with liquefying the food you ate. It has hydrochloric acid available - more when you are younger, by the way, which may account partially for an increase in digestive problems for people over 40.

The stomach acid works on the food and liquefies it is a process that can take up to four hours. It turns the food into a liquid state that is isotonic - called "chyme" with a pH level of 2.5. When that state is reached the pyloric valve opens up to let the chyme into your small intestine.

The small intestine performs a vital function in regard to your health. In its 21' length and 1 1/2" diameter are so-called VILLI and MICROVILLI. As the chyme swims in and out of these villi the nutrients in the chyme - the vitamins etc. - are absorbed into the blood system.

Unfortunately, we have a tendency here to be white flour addicts. Now white flour and water make PASTE (think back to your elementary school days!).

Now look at this from the perspective of the VILLI. When these are free-flowing they have about 200 square metres of surface area working to extract nutrition. But when you are "eating paste" all day they get stuck together, reducing the effective absorption area.

The phrase "you are what you eat" would more accurately be "you are what you absorb"! If you eat poorly all day and then eat nutritiously in the evening you may not be absorbing all the nutrition you think you are.

Now to the last stage of your digestion - the large intestine and the colon. Unused food is passed into the colon - which is 5' long and 2 1/2" in diameter. Its job is to eliminate unused food out of the body. It should eliminate waste about two to three times a day. If not the unused food is lying in the 98 degree temperature of our body.

How long do you think it takes for food to begin to rot in these conditions? 24 hours? 48 hours? If this is not happening it will cause problems - through a process called auto-intoxication - the toxic chemicals produced by the colon bacteria and the continuous diffusion of these into the colon wall and ultimately the blood stream. So it causes more problems than just things as divericulitis - it can also affect the heart.

Our love of white flour and toxic food causes our colon to become infected and fill up with old fecal matter that lines the wall of the colon. [I was surprised to hear that when John Wayne died they took over 25 pounds of fecal matter out in his autopsy]

Now this auto-intoxication has more side effects. The blood takes it to the liver - and after years of detoxification our livers can become impaired. Think about the drug advertisements you see - how many of them note you need to be on the look-out for liver problems? Why? Because the liver's job is to filter out anything that is foreign to the body. So auto-intoxication will definitely affect the liver.

If the liver is impaired the next system affected is the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system runs parallel to the circulatory system, but it operates through movement. Which is another reason why we should add a lot of movement into our lives - for a health lymphatic system.

The lymphatic system has two main functions:

Firstly, to protect us from virus infections, bacteria, fungi etc., and

Secondly, to clean up inter-cellular waste products.

When functioning properly the waste is placed into the colon trapped in mucus and expelled from the body. So when your colon and your liver is not functioning properly this waste is dumped elsewhere - in your sinus or in your lungs. So colon cleansing and liver detoxification can help clear up chronic sinus problems. WHO'DA THUNK IT!

Now consider the circulatory system. This is the transport system for your blood. It consists of your heart, arteries and veins. Most people who have problems with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and circulatory disorders have most likely had a problem with digestion, elimination and auto-intoxication.

It is when all your body systems are working properly that you achieve optimal health. When you are better detectives, when you understand the relationships, when you don't wait too long, you won't have to resort to medications and surgery! When we compromise any of our body systems we don't function properly, we don't feel well and we don't achieve the optimal health we deserve.

Hopefully this will help YOU


For me,

I am Peter Pocklington
I am a Good News Merchant
I am a purveyor of prosperity, and
I am my own personal guarantee.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening

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GOD BLESS!