Pathway to Disease
By
Jerry Tennant, M. D.
The
principal control mechanism of the body is the autonomic nervous system. It has two parts, sympathetic (fight or run)
and parasympathetic (eat and sleep). When
the sympathetic turns on, the parasympathetic turns off.
The
sympathetic is turned on by the following mechanisms:
- You are really in
danger of being hurt (e.g., spousal abuse)
- You feel in danger
or you feel victimized (In a Box).
- Your pH is acidic
= too much calcium in the blood and too little magnesium and potassium in
the body.
- You become
allergic to the foods you eat = wheat (gluten), corn, dairy and eggs are
the most common because we tend to expose ourselves to them every day.
- Actual trauma
When
we are sympathetic-on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we develop typical chronic
disease and chronic fatigue because:
1.
Parasympathetic shutdown means we don’t make enzymes and don’t have
normal blood supply and enervation to the gut because the blood is sent to the
muscles so we can fight or run better.
That means that even if we eat a perfect diet and take $100 worth of
nutriceuticals a day, they won’t be absorbed.
2.
Parasympathetic shutdown also means the large intestine won’t work. It’s main function is to conserve water. As the digestive sludge is delivered to the
large intestine, it normally extracts the water. Without normal enervation and poor blood
supply, this doesn’t work well. There
develops a waxy, oily coating of the large intestine. The wall of the gut becomes leaky and
inflamed = leaky gut syndrome. This
allows large molecule proteins to enter the blood causing allergy. The blood tries to excrete them through the
sinuses = sinusitis. The debris invites
Candida and parasites to live there because they like to eat the waxy, oily
debris. Killing them does little = they
will keep returning until the parasympathetic system is re-activated.
3. When
the sympathetic system is on, it also turns on all of the endocrine glands so
that we can fight or run better. The
brain makes more serotonin, dopamine, and nor-epinephrine. The thyroid makes more hormone to increase
metabolism. The parathyroid makes more
hormone to increase calcium which is necessary for nerve conduction and muscle
contraction. The pancreas makes more
insulin. The adrenals make more cortisol
so more sugar is available. They also
make more adrenalin. The gonads make
more sex hormones which make us stronger.
4. As
we run out of nutrients since the gut doesn’t absorb them, we run out of raw
materials to make hormones. Since hormones
are made from fat, this ridiculous low-fat diet craze doesn’t help either.
5. In
addition to not having the proper building blocks to make hormones, the
endocrine glands also just wear out from running 24/7. That means the brain can’t think, your
metabolism slows down so you gain weight you can’t lose, lack of adrenalin
makes it hard for you to deal with stress, lack of cortisol and insulin makes
you hypoglycemic, and lack of sex hormones makes you impotent and then
disinterested in sex.
In
addition to the endocrine glands, the sympathetic system turns on the immune
system. It also runs 24/7 and wears
out. You are then susceptible to both
external infections and internal infections (the pleomorphic endobionts).
Now
you are set up for chronic fatigue and then organ failure. You are susceptible to all sorts of
infections. Because your brain doesn’t
have the chemicals to think and you are low on adrenalin, you go from anxiety
to anger to depression to anxiety to anger to depression. This causes your relationships to fail with
your spouse, your parents, your children, your co-workers and your God.
This
is what is called the Pathway to Disease.
To have any lasting affect, you must go back to the beginning to shut
down the sympathetic and turn on the parasympathetic systems. First you must replace the missing magnesium
and potassium (and often copper). You
must correct the pH with better food choices
and a short-term burst of sodium bicarbonate. You must eliminate the food toxins by
restricting wheat and corn. Eat fruit
for breakfast and meat and vegetables except corn for lunch and supper. Start desensitizing to the wheat and corn by
using homeopathics. Then start working
with the emotional things that turn on the sympathetic system.
Once
we can balance the autonomic system, the gut will start absorbing nutrients,
the endocrine glands will rest and recover, the immune system will recover,
etc. If you don’t, you’re wasting your
time. Killing Candida without turning on
the parasympathetic system is like taking the dent out of one fender of a car
which has been totaled. The fender may
look better, but the car is still a wreck.
