By Matthew Sun
Every year multitudes of people supposedly ‘catch’ the flu and then take antibiotics, antihistamines, pain killers and a whole range of other drugs to get over it. They inevitably do end up feeling ‘better’ and think they have beaten the flu.
Before I continue with my understanding of the above situation I would like to tell a personal story.
My Story
Several years ago I did my first cleanse, the Arise and Shine cleanse, developed by an American naturopath named Richard Anderson. What lead me to do this was the fact that my body had been continuously oscillating from diarrhea to constipation and I knew something was wrong. My girlfriend at the time had done the cleanse previously and spoke very highly of it. So she gave me Richard’s book, I read it and was convinced.
Shortly thereafter I did the one month cleanse, and wow, I was amazed. The whole time I was one it, I had symptoms resembling that of the flu, and the things that came out of me were amazing (just read about mucoid plaque). After this I soon started realizing the powerful effects food had on the body. Some foods clean the body (alkalizing foods) and others don’t (acid forming foods). Within each group there are varying degrees of each.
So back to this flu business. It came as no surprise to me that since I have done this cleansing I never get sick anymore, and if I do, I just feel like I have a cold for a day where others are sick for weeks. It has been like this for years now. Call it a miracle if you will, but it’s just science.
What is the Flu?
‘Catching the flu’ is a modern excuse to blame someone else for our suffering (we caught it off someone) and quickly escape it and get back to our daily routine of work work work. What is really happening is the body needs a break to rid itself of the accumulated toxins and it starts cleaning it self. It is the bodies own natural defense mechanism against toxic build up. Taking over the counter medications merely slows or stops the cleansing reaction. The long term effects of doing this are often weight gain, cancer, liver malfunction etc. The reason people gain weight is because the body is forced to protect the organs from the large amount of toxins in the blood. The body then stores these toxins in fat cells where they can’t do any damage, except to your self esteem.
What should I do?
The first thing to do would be a cleanse in my opinion. This will clean the body out and give you a fresh slate to work with. Of course many people don’t want to go to this trouble, but it is a necessary step. The other way to approach it would be to slowly shift the diet to a healthier one of mostly fruits, vegetable, whole grains and nuts. Then when the ‘flu’ comes go onto a juice fast and let it run it’s course. Doing it this way you would expect to be in bed for a while and have to endure a fever, drink lots of water and have diarrhea. This may not sound like a walk in the park to many people but you will feel great in the end and that sluggish feeling you have every morning will be a thing of the past.
This is great information. Thank you. I know many of us are ‘programmed’ to ‘enjoy’ life through food, drink, cigarettes, etc. but the back lash, as we all seem to learn at some point, leaves me wondering what it would be like to breath fresh mountain air in rich golden sunlight, drinking water from a magnificent waterfall on a hike at 95 years old with my great grand children… It seems apparent that we might actually gain the leverage to undo the damage and embrace a higher meaning of life. There are books, friends, concerts, hikes, travel, unlimited levels of success and thousands and thousands of earth-shattering experiences out there. Shall we not pull humankind away from the precipice of harmful, pointless meaninglessness and together share an existence beyond our wildest imagination??
This is an oversimplification if not an outright fallacy about flu. There really are viruses which result in fever, head and body aches, congestion, nausea, diarrhea and so on. To say that flu is just a dump term for toxification is dead wrong.
Yes, toxification can result in some flu like symptoms but there’s a big difference between the two..
I suggest you do more reading about these things before presenting yourself as an authority. There are people who actually study both flu viruses and organ function who can clarify the difference between flu and toxification.
It’s a strange thing though that when people get truly healthy, they rarely, or never get the ‘flu’, while everyone around them gets it sometimes multiple times per year. One could argue that it’s because their immune system is now strong enough to fight off the bugs, but one could also argue that the bugs themselves actually feed on the toxic residues, thus serving in fact to actually help the body rid itself of them.
It’s a known fact that we all carry around pathogens like bacteria, viruses, and yeasts. They are simply there to protect us from organ failure. They eat up cellular wastes that the body can’t eliminate. Many of us are walking around with clogged lymphatic systems, kidneys that don’t filter well, plaque on our colon walls, skin that doesn’t sweat well, etc. When the junk reaches its limit, the body organizes a cleanse to clean us out. Otherwise we would succumb to organ damage or cancer. Fever causes us to sweat out the toxins, mucus and pathogens. The pathogens are present in the blood stream because of this. That’s why when your blood is tested during the flu, viruses are present. Makes sense? It’s science.
Wrong viruses are in your immune system and are the good guys. There is no virus that goes around every year giving people what they call the flu which is a byword through the medical system and a farce. I think you’re the one he needs to do you research on viruses. Another thing viruses are not Airborne fact
I’ve been saying this for two decades now but falling on deaf ears. The flu and discomfort is a cleansing process. I cleanse maybe twice a year, never get the flu. My dad gave me an argument that I needed to get a flu shot, he and my mom both took the shot, about two years later, they both ended up in the hospital, almost died from catching the flu. I told him by getting the shot, you stopped the cleanse of poison from leaving your body, once it need to get out or you would have major problems because of too much contamination. I’m 65 now, and try to keep self maintenance going.
The widespread fear and epidemic scares by the CDC are for the purpose of pushing immunizations, and pharmaceutical industry, big bucks!!! Feeds off the least healthy and least knowledgeable about healthy diet and building a strong immune system.
And see where we are now? The whole world fallen in the virus trap.
Wrong viruses are in your immune system and are the good guys. There is no virus that goes around every year giving people what they call the flu which is a byword through the medical system and a farce. I think you’re the one he needs to do you research on viruses. Another thing viruses are not Airborne fact