I have been reading up on oil pulling a bit more lately, and every site that talks about it mentions how it helps cure chronic fatigue.
I have also been reading more on chronic fatigue, and the sites that claim to have the answers to curing it ALL mention heavy metal poisoning, like mercury and such. Apparently, too much of the bad metals in your system cause all types of problems, and can affect the entire nervous system.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls the activities of organs, glands, and various involuntary muscles, such as cardiac and smooth muscles.
The ANS consists of two divisions:
· The sympathetic nervous system is involved in the stimulation of activities that prepare the body for action, such as increasing the heart rate, increasing the release of sugar from the liver into the blood, and other generally considered as fight-or-flight responses (responses that serve to fight off or retreat from danger).
· The parasympathetic nervous system activates tranquil functions, such as stimulating the secretion of saliva or digestive enzymes into the stomach. The parasympathetic nervous system is in play when you are calm and relaxed. It is the system in which you want your body to be spending most of its time.
In problems like adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues, the sympathetic nervous system is generally over engaged—when it only should be engaged in times of fighting or fleeing for safety. It’s interesting to me to find out that heavy metals are a cause to wreaking havoc in the nervous system. Every problem I have / have had goes back to the nervous system, and can be connected or related one way or another, as well as all the probable causes.
Un-integrated reflexes are also directly related to the nervous system, since it is the nervous system that controls our reflexes. Certain alarm state reflexes (like the Fear Paralysis reflex) can impose damage to the body if allowed to continue, because the body is put into a state of stress (i.e. the sympathetic nervous system) for too long. Read more about it here.
According to the Body Code muscle testing, I have too much metal toxicity—namely lead. I had gotten that answer a few times when muscle testing, but never took it seriously because I didn't realize how detrimental it is to health. Now when I think about it, in the Dr. Lam book on adrenal fatigue, he also talks about heavy amounts of metal in the body and its effect on the organs and its play in adrenal fatigue. As many sites suggest online, it is also bad for the thyroid. (I'm sure it's bad for everything.)
So, I decided I am going to get rid of the metals. There are obviously different ways to do it, but they say that the internal chelation drugs that a lot of people use are really harmful to the kidneys. There are quite a few safe, natural methods to detox and get rid of toxins, including: regular saunas (gets rid of the toxins through the skin), oil pulling (through the mouth of course...I want to get this book and read about it more), Bentonite clay (one form of which detoxes through the skin, and another which is ingested and then detoxes through the blood stream), and a zapper is supposed to help things along. Certain minerals help as well (like zinc and selenium), so when I get the chance I will try to get more minerals and muscle test them and see if I need them.
So that's my plan for now. I have an appointment with Dr. Woodworth for the 10th, but for some reason part of me feels like I shouldn't go to him. Doctors never care about you as much as you do yourself, and if I can research on my own and muscle test (using Kinesiology) to find answers directly from my body, than that almost seems like the best way to go. I know that I don't want to take any medication, not even thyroid meds. I know that there is a way to to find out the cause to low thyroid (and just thyroid and adrenal insufficiency in general), and that there is always a reason to your glands being weakened and drained.
Here's a random extra thing that just came to my mind: my test results I received while going to Dr. Kalcich showed incredibly low amounts of good gut bacteria, and digestive enzymes (which your body creates on its own). At first I thought it was an issue that was creating some of my problems, but now I know it’s the other way around. It has been found in people with high stress in their life—or those that are just in an almost constant state of stress—that they have very low levels of digestive enzymes and good gut bacteria.
It makes complete sense to me now: when your body is in a state of stress (the sympathetic nervous system), your body isn’t worried about much else other than preparing your body to fight or flee. If you are constantly in a state of stress, it only makes sense that your body would have low levels of digestive enzymes and an unhealthy level of good bacteria.
On the other hand, if you are usually calm and at peace (the parasympathetic nervous system), the opposite will be true. It is the parasympathetic nervous system that creates the digestive enzymes and keeps things balanced, so it makes sense that if your body healthily engages the parasympathetic nervous system the majority of the time, your gut will be a lot healthier, as well as your digestion and your overall health.
It is just all so interesting to me how everything is related. It’s just a matter of figuring out what caused what, and why. Lowered immune system, heavy metals, thyroid and adrenal insufficiency, un-integrated reflexes, poor diet, insufficient nutrition, trapped emotions, etc. It’s like the chicken and the egg: which came first?*
In the end, it doesn’t really matter all that much. All that matters are that answers are found, and the problems cured, and that’s what I am in the process of doing. :)
Love,
Linnaia
*However, in the case of the chicken and egg, I think the chicken would have had to come first. If there was an egg but no chicken to sit on it and keep it warm, how could it have hatched?
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