Saturday, April 5, 2014

Vomit

Here is a scenario I want you to think about:

Two people go to a restaurant for dinner and order the same dish. Later that night person 1 notices discomfort in his stomach and procedes to throw-up all of the dinner that they ate at the restaurant. Person 2 went on feeling fine that evening. 

With the knowledge that both dinners were contaminated with some toxin, my question is, which one of these two people is sick and which one is well?

I propose that person number 1 is in fact the healthy one and person number 2 is sick. When you ingest a toxin would it not be more beneficial for the body to expel the toxin as quickly as possible? You would not want the thing that is harmful sticking around and doing more damage. Although person number 2 may have had a more enjoyable evening they are not better off in the long run and their body is not functioning at 100% if they did not immediately get rid of the toxin that they ate.

Too often we associate being "sick" to our symptoms and we have a multitude of drugs to suppress those symptoms. But most of your symptoms are positive responses your body makes to fight intruders and suppressing them actually prolongs the healing process. So next time you are feeling under the weather, before you run to the pharmacy, ask yourself am I sick or am I well, is my body working properly or is it malfunctioning? Trust in your body, it knows a heck of a lot more than any doctor knows. (If it is truly an emergency go to the hospital)

-Mike E

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