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Chapter 7 - What Damages and Pollutes Your Body
In the last chapter we touched on a few of the things that can damage your body from the outside. In this chapter we deal more with the things that can damage your body from the inside. Things like parasites and funguses, and their role in diseases, regularity, harmful ingredients in almost every food you eat, and that dreaded word, exercise. Don't be alarmed by the discussion to follow because if you want to live a long, healthy, high-quality life, you need to take steps now, not in the future when you become seriously ill.
Parasites are everywhere. Pretty much everyone has them and you can't avoid them no matter how you live or what you do. How do we know this? Simple. When volunteers come to us, we look at their blood in a microscope. We don't send it off to some lab; we actually look at it. Then, after we look at it, we let the volunteer look at it and tell them what they are looking at. If you want to see an impact on someone who you are trying to teach to live healthier, have that person look at a sample of his or her own blood in a 15,000 power microscope. It gets their attention.
In almost every case we have studied, we have found one or more parasites present in the blood. Now don't let anyone kid you about them being harmless. Most of all, don't fall for the "everyone has them" statement. Parasites are just that, parasites. We have heard all the statements from medical experts about how everyone has them and they are nothing to worry about, blah, blah, blah, but that's just not true.
Why do you think they call them parasites? A parasite needs a host to live on. Without a host, they die. This means they must eat the host to live. Got your attention yet? Put simply, when you have them, parasites eat you from the inside out. The trick in helping yourself is not avoiding them, because you simply can't do that. The trick is in knowing how to manage them and stop them from doing too much damage when you pick them up. The diets and maintenance programs listed later in this book will help you keep them at bay...