In this post, I have purposely replaced the term 'immune system' with 'natural repair mechanism' in order to turn the focus away from 'immunity' so that we can think about the natural cleansing, healing and mending functionality of our bodies as a 'repair mechanism' instead.
This helps us to come to a better understanding of the different and complex ways our bodies look after us as we go about our daily lives, and how best we can support and service our in-built repair mechanisms for optimum health.
For example, there are 17 different cancers associated with low Vitamin D levels which means that just optimising time spent in the sunshine during midday with no sunscreen, and by exposing the skin to as much sunlight as possible, is fantastic for our health.
This is why in the Autumn, Winter and Spring, if you live closer to the North Pole than 40 degrees North, or closer to the South Pole than 40 degrees South, then you need to take supplements. It is when our bodies are lacking in nutrients that we see flu and colds in the colder months because people are immuno-suppressed due to their low vitamin D levels.
Nutritional deficiencies
There are common nutritional deficiencies within broad parts of our population such as magnesium and other minerals which is not at all helped by an obsession with
reducing cholesterol. The impact of actively 'removing' cholesterol from our bodies is devastating as this deprives our repair mechanism of its healing abilities. There are many things that undermine our repair mechanism and a chronic lack of cholesterol is contributing to the cancer surge which we are experiencing.
Another way to turn off our repair mechanisms is to focus on doom and gloom rather than consciously supporting the most beautiful and robust inbuilt system of repair with which we have been gifted. Our positive thoughts and intentions play a big part in keeping us healthy rather than thinking we are going to achieve anything from a depressed level. It is time for us to wake up to the reality of how destructive poor diet, nutritional deficiencies and negative thoughts can be.
Achieving optimum health
1. Forget about trying to get your cholesterol down, we must allow our body to produce what the need. Those of us whose bodies are good at keeping their cholesterol levels up live longer and fight disease more effectively. High cholesterol was never responsible for heart attacks and neither was fat.
2. Get your vitamin D levels up. Even high quality supplements are not as good as the real thing when full body exposure to sunshine is desirable. However, convention often gets in the way of that so don’t overdo it with those parts that you can expose. The average person needs between 5700 to 10000 IU per day which, in micro grams, is between 125 to 250 mcg. With most suppliers of vitamin D that would mean taking 10 tablets a day in Winter time.
3. Move your body. Get as much exercise or movement into your day as you possibly can because, referring back to item (1) it increases your levels of cholesterol. It is a myth that prolonged exercise wears out your joints. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love to run and when I am not running I am using my multi-gym. I started running long distance when I was 8 years of age and I am now 72. I have no idea what being 72 is supposed to feel like but this is not as bad as I had imagined.
4. Sleep is critical so don’t skimp on this. Aim for 7 hours if you can but 8 hours is better. I just wish I could sleep for 8 hours but not everyone is perfect.
5. What you eat matters a great deal and if you can buy organic food then do so or at least omit mass produced food as much as possible. If you ate an apple in 1950 you would get 26 times the nutrients that you would today so an organic apple (and ideally one picked straight from the tree) goes a long way to making up the difference.
Remember that trees - just like humans - do not respond well to nutrient deficiency, pesticides and herbicides so even if the apples in the supermarket look better, they certainly will not taste better. Pesticides and herbicides are carcinogenic (cancer causing) and also wreak havoc on the insect population which includes bees. We must look after our pollinators as they make it possible for our food to develop in the first place.
6. Watch the sweet stuff because it doesn’t just feed cancer cells but also reduces your levels of vitamin D and C. Scientists who want to deliberately reduce the levels of vitamin D in lab animals feed them high fructose corn syrup.
7. Human contact is essential to our repair mechanism and allows our bodies to learn how to cope with things that we may not have come across yet. It also boosts our feel good factor if it is with people whose company we enjoy.
8. Go hungry so as to burn ketones. Ketones are a clean fuel for the body which means going without food is good for us. Our bodies are designed to run on a duel fuel systems enabling it to swap between ketones and carbohydrates and back again.
It takes time for your body to switch into ketone burning so give yourself at least 12 hours break from eating each day if you can. I never eat before mid-day so that I usually get about 14 hours without food. I can still run 10 miles or more without the need for breakfast which proves that our bodies are much more wonderful than we often realise.
If these protocols are successful in helping to cure cancer then how much benefit can we bring to ourselves by adopting these healthy alternatives in support of our natural repair mechanism?
John Gilbert MD (AV), MCHI, SAC Dip, FGAV, MBCS, MIET, C.Eng., LCGI
Co-founder of the Community Assembly of the British Isles
Community Assembly Facilitator
Community Peace Constable
Community Light Brigade
