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According
to Dr. John Finnegan, mucopolysaccharides are made in the
human body and perform many key functions in our health, including
growth and immune system functioning. Unfortunately, after
puberty we cease manufacturing mucopolysaccharides and must
obtain them from outside sources. Mucopolysaccharides are
found in large amounts in fresh aloe vera and in properly
prepared aloe vera juices. Following are a few of the vital
functions this substance has been found to perform.
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· They become incorporated
into the cellular membrane and make the cell more
resistant to viruses and pathogenic bacteria. |
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They improve overall cellular metabolism and functioning. |
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· They have anti-inflammatory
properties. |
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· They provide critical
lubrication of joints; helping to prevent arthritis
and to heal it once it has developed. |
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· They aid in the absorption
of water, minerals, and nutrients in the GI track. |
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· They improve macrophage
(white blood cells) activity making them up to ten
times more effective in engulfing foreign matter. |
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· They enhance the
macrophage's effectiveness in modulating the entire
immune system. |
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· They enhance the
macrophage's effectiveness to stimulate and direct
the production and release of antibodies (increasing
the body's own production of interferon, interleukins
and more). |
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· They increase the
number of antibody forming T-cells in the spleen
and increase the number and activity of killer T-cell
and monocyte activity. |
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They are responsible for aloe's special penetration
properties. |
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In conjunction with their cellular detoxification
support and immune enhancement, they improve allergic
reactions. |
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· They stimulate bone
marrow activity. |
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They stimulate the fibroblasts to release collagen
and elastin to make new tissue (inside and out). |
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· The mucopolysaccharides
in aloe vera enhance the functioning of the entire
immune system, and repair and detoxify the digestive
and elimination systems of the body. (51) |
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Dr. John
Finnegan prescribed aloe vera for me, and at the time I had
no idea that it was anything more than expensive cactus juice.
After taking it for two days, the diarrhea I'd had most of
the time since my four blood transfusions was gone. There
was a true feeling of reversal from sicker and sicker to a
leveling off and a healing taking place. Of course, Dr. John
Finnegan prescribed several other things in the first few
months, only a few of which I could afford. Aloe vera was
one item I purchased by the case from him. He has had great
successes in using aloe with his hepatitis clients. Properly
prepared aloe vera is a must in the quest against hepatitis
C. In chronic hepatitis C cases there is suffering from severe
joint pain. Aloe vera helped eliminate this pain for me better
than anything else I've tried. The cost can drive you to the
poor house, but at least the physical suffering on the way
isn't as bad. Wouldn't it be great if you were one of those
fortunate enough to have insurance and they would pay for
at least a portion of this product? It's better than most
things you'll ever buy in a bottle.
| The
FDA allows aloe vera companies to label their products
"cold pressed" if they are kept under 400 degrees. However,
heating aloe vera over 90 degrees shortens the mucopolysaccharide
molecule. Most of the aloe on the shelves in health food
stores has been heated. Herbal Aloe Force is one of the
companies that guarantee, in writing, that their aloe
is never heated! |
John Pittman,
M.D. writes in The Immune Enhancing Effects of Aloe:
| Beta-glucomannans
are a class of very long chain sugars derived from plants,
which have been shown in laboratory and clinical studies
to have a wide variety of immune stimulating and protective
effects within the body. In studying the different sources
of this polymer, it has been discovered that the aloe
barbadensis plant contains the greatest concentration
of acetylated polymannans, which is also the most active
form of mannans. These long-chain complex polysaccharides
are often called beta-glucomannans, mucopolysaccharides
or Acemannan. These aloe polysaccharides have been shown
to have many effects in the body, mostly impacting the
gastrointestinal and immune systems, which are intricately
related. Before elaborating on their beneficial effects,
it is appropriate to discuss the type of pathology often
present in individuals experiencing immune system depression.
The
most striking commonality found in individuals suffering
with immune depressive conditions such as Epstein-Barr
virus, chronic fatigue syndrome, systemic candidiasis,
HIV infection and others, is the high incidence of digestive
dysfunction and maldigestion. This has several effects
that contribute to stress on the immune system and weakening
it.
Maldigestion
means that the consumed food is not properly broken
down into the elemental building blocks needed for the
body to rebuild itself and to generate energy for metabolism.
This results in a type of starvation at the cellular
level, with all tissue suffering malnourishment and
therefore decreased effectiveness of all internal chemical
processes.
These
processes include breakdown and transport of toxins
out of the cell, movement of nutrients into the cell,
and energy production for cell functioning. This affects
all the cells in the body, including those of the immune
system such as white blood cells, (macrophages, and
lymphocytes) and red blood cells which carry oxygen
throughout our bodies. Not only do we lack enough fuel,
but we're low on oxygen too.
However,
it is not this cellular starvation alone that causes
the immune depression. Maldigestion also results in
pathologic reactions. First, these remnants become irritants
and cause inflammation of the mucosal wall of the intestines.
Many powerful enzymes and damaging chemicals are released,
injuring the intestinal wall causing increased intestinal
mucosal permeability. The foreign proteins of the digested
food can leak across the mucosa into the lymphatic channels
of the intestinal wall and from there, gain access to
the circulatory system. Here, these absorbed proteins
are recognized as foreign and are attacked by the cells
of the immune system. Antibodies bind to the protein
and then call in the macrophages and monocytes. T-cells
arrive later, releasing enzymes and using oxygen to
drive the metabolic breakdown of the foreign protein.
The total result is that the immune system is constantly
turned on and draining down like a battery. As these
allergic reactions to food breakdown products continue,
the cells of the immune system wear out faster, run
out of fuel and aren't reproduced in sufficient numbers.
In
addition to this chronic hyper-immune state, undigested
food remnants provide fuel for overgrowth of fermentative
fungal organisms such as Candida Albicans as well as
several types of parasites. Overgrowth of Candida in
the intestines has significant effects throughout the
body due to the absorption of toxic by-products of its
metabolism. This can result in worsening of food allergies,
hypoglycemia, digestive disturbances, excessive mucus,
bloating, flatulence, skin rashes, and extreme fatigue.
This
chronic infection further drains the immune system and
complicates the picture.
Further
damage is inflicted on all cell membranes from the effects
of the generalized inflammation occurring as a result
of maldigestion. These metabolic reactions utilize large
amounts of oxygen and produce oxidative free radicals
as waste by-products. The negatively charged oxygen
molecules are desperately trying to balance their electrical
charge and immediately begin to chop holes into cell
membranes as they grab positive charges. The result
here is further damage to the intestinal mucosa and
a worsening of the increased permeability.
All
these processes work together in a vicious sequence
of events leading to progressive weakening of the immune
system. It is clear that many mechanisms are at play
in orchestrating these processes. Without definitive
therapy directed at each component of the immune system
pathology, this is a downward spiral to death. Fortunately,
a thorough multidimensional treatment protocol addressing
each component has been shown to reverse these processes.
Aloe vera has been shown to have properties addressing
all these issues and appears to play a key role on many
different levels in boosting all immune functioning.
At
the intestinal level, the aloe polysaccharides have
been shown to act as potent anti-inflammatory agents,
neutralizing many of the enzymes responsible for damaging
the mucosal wall and, in effect, quenching the fire.
They do this anti-inflammatory action while at the same
time boosting the immune system functioning. This results
in decreased leakiness of the intestinal wall and less
absorption of allergic stimulating foreign protein as
well as enhancing the repair of the tissue. Research
has also demonstrated their direct viricidal, bactericidal,
and fungicidal properties, which can help control Candida
overgrowth so the normal gastrointestinal bacterial
flora can be restored. It has also been found that these
polysaccharides stimulate intestinal motility, improving
the elimination process to move allergenic proteins
from the small intestine into the colon. All these processes
help to normalize gastrointestinal wall structure and
function and therefore stop the viscous cycle of immune
system damage.
In
addition to restoring gastrointestinal and elimination
functioning, large glucomannan polysaccharides also
have direct effects on the cells of the immune system.
They
have been shown to increase the number of and activate
the intensity of macrophages, monocytes, and T-cells
as well as increasing the number of antibody forming
B-cells in the spleen. Enhancing macrophage activity
increases the effectiveness of the entire immune and
repair system of the body as it is responsible for so
many functions, including immune modulation.
These
polysaccharides have been shown in laboratory studies
to act as a bridge between foreign proteins (such as
virus particles) and the macrophage, facilitating phagocytosis
ingestion of the protein by the macrophage. Activating
the receptor sites of the macrophages is a key to the
overall boosting of cell-mediated immunity, which is
deficient in HIV infection and other immune disorders.
These aloe polysaccharides also protect the bone marrow
from damage by toxic chemicals and drugs.
These
various effects, while seemingly wide spread and unrelated,
are in fact due to one simple process at the cell membrane
level. Acemannan (the name often used for aloe beta-glucomannans,
acetylated polymannans and mucopolysaccharides) is a
long chain sugar that interjects itself into all cell
membranes. This results in an increase in the fluidity
and permeability of the membranes allowing toxins to
flow out of the cell more easily and nutrients to enter
the cell. This results in improved cellular metabolism
throughout the body and an overall boost in energy production.
The vicious cycle of maldigestion and cellular starvation
is finally broken as the Acemannan normalizes absorption
of nutrients and increases tolerance for allergenic
foods (from detoxification). The immune system is now
stronger, under control, and better prepared for any
new threat.
As
humans living in the late twentieth century, our body's
metabolic and detoxification systems are under ever
increasing stress from foreign chemicals, nutrient depleted
foods, and immune damaging infectious agents.
In
order to control and prevent the inevitable progression
of the immune system destruction that these stresses
cause, therapy must be multifactorial involving all
levels of health, diet and lifestyle. These different
areas consist of destruction of pathogenic organisms,
metabolic detoxification, intestinal cleansing, increasing
cellular metabolism, antioxidant agents to combat free
radicals, and direct stimulation of immune system cells.
Aloe vera's Acemannan, the active ingredient in cold-processed,
whole leaf aloe, has been demonstrated in laboratory
testing and clinical use to be effective on all levels
of this therapeutic program. (52) |
Jeri
L. Heyman, Ph.D. writes in The Secret Promise of Aloe Vera:
| I am a developmental psychologist
who has focused on psychological and emotional development
for most of my life and career. By becoming aware of
the latest research on aloe vera, I have become inspired
to examine healthy physical development more closely
in addition to the biochemical contribution to overall
optimal health and balance. I found the aloe vera plant
to be the most fascinating and miraculous plant on the
planet. I have spent the last five years investigating
aloe vera, and it keeps getting more interesting all
the time. As you begin to look at the information on
aloe, you may find conflicting information. Please be
aware that there is still a great deal of misinformation
and misunderstandings about aloe vera and aloe vera
products. It is very hard to believe that all the scientific
research on the properties of fresh aloe vera could
possibly be real - but they are.
The research raised many questions for
me. How could something be so profoundly and fundamentally
effective for so many areas of health and have only
good side effects? Why (if this research is real and
aloe has been around for so long) haven't we heard more
about experiences of these miraculous effects? What
I found is that the research on fresh aloe vera is real
and the research on the constituents in fresh aloe is
real. However, most of the aloe vera products available
in the marketplace are not demonstrating the promises
documented by the research, even though they have some
benefits. Thus, aloe vera's true potential has remained
a secret. (53) |
The
Effectiveness of Aloe Vera - Fundamental and Profound.
The
Immune System:
Scientific
research has demonstrated so many healthful properties of
aloe that one's immediate response has to be, "this can't
be real." Aloe vera enhances the body's own health and healing
in so many ways that I wouldn't even have dreamed to pray
for them all. Certainly I couldn't have imagined that they
would be found all in one plant, in a natural form and with
only good side effects.
Fresh
aloe vera contains over 250 constituents including the full
range of all sizes of polysaccharides (complex sugar chains
that feed the cells). The largest long-chain polysaccharides
have an intricate, multifaceted, multi-functional biological
design and are manufactured by the body only until puberty.
After puberty we must get these health and growth producing
polysaccharides from outside sources. Aloe vera has been found
to be the most concentrated plant source of these largest
known and most profound health supporting polysaccharides
- the beta-glucomannans (also known as mucopolysaccharides,
Acemannan, and acetylated polymannose).
Research
by a pharmaceutical company, Carrington Laboratories, has
documented some of the astounding properties of the various
sizes of the aloe vera long-chain sugars. As reported by Dr.
Ivan Danhof, they discovered that the smaller-chained polysaccharides
have properties that help in balancing blood sugar levels.
Although this is still being studied, there is evidence that
they improve insulin receptor cells, with importance for both
Type I and Type II diabetes (not to mention balancing sugar
cravings). The research has also demonstrated some anti-inflammatory
properties of these smaller polysaccharides as they mimic
the action of steroids. The medium size polysaccharides have
been found to be potent antioxidants. The larger chains have
demonstrated direct antibacterial properties (staph, strep,
E coli, etc.), direct antiviral properties (herpes, influenza,
HIV) and the stimulation of the body's own tissue regeneration
processes (by fitting receptor sites of fibroblasts stimulating
them to produce collagen and other factors needed to make
new tissue).
The largest
longest-chained polysaccharides, the beta-glucomannans (mucopolysaccharides),
have received the most attention and Carrington has patented
the beta 1, 4 glucomannan under the name "Acemannan." They
documented astounding immune enhancing and tissue production
properties of this aloe polysaccharide. They actually showed
that when the Acemannan meets the receptor sites of macrophages
it stimulates the macrophage into action and can increase
its affectivity ten fold. The macrophages are the main immune
system cells. They are the white blood cells that engulf foreign
matter throughout the body, release growth factor to stimulate
tissue generation, modulate the inflammation processes, and
more. They command the other immune cells to release their
antibodies - how much, when, and where needed.
Carrington's
research showed that when the macrophage is stimulated it
does increase the production and release of interferon and
the interleukins when needed. This fascinates me because here
is a natural way that actually helps the body's own mechanisms
to increase antibody production as well as increase the effectiveness
of getting to where it's needed. The body was designed
with all the mechanisms to heal itself. Here there is
a way to enhance the body's own systems for healing! The macrophages
are also responsible for orchestrating and modulating all
the other immune cells and the functioning of the entire immune
system. They command the immune cell army, signaling where
to go, when and how hard to attack and when to cease-fire.
The question
of how can one polysaccharide be so great in so many areas
is partly answered here because the macrophage does so many
profound things and the beta-glucomannan is making it ten
times more effective. So, when the literature on aloe vera
talks about direct immune enhancement, they are referring
to this body of research on polysaccharides by Carrington
Laboratories.
Supporting
Fundamental Health By "Re-Naturing" the Cells.
Macrophage
stimulation and direct immune system support is just part
of the story of how aloe can have such a broad range of health
benefits. Aloe vera is known to be the most penetrating and
absorbing of substances. It permeates cells and tissues like
no other substance on earth. Research has shown that fresh
aloe will absorb through to all seven layers of skin. Understanding
this action has profound implications understanding the effects
of aloe for cellular health. The aloe, led by the large polysaccharide,
is of a unique size and shape as to be able to penetrate cell
walls dramatically. Sometimes the polysaccharides can become
part of the cell membrane fortifying the cell wall. Sometimes
the aloe moves into a cell, bringing with it all its nutrients
and co-factors. It also cleanses the cells by taking toxins
out. The aloe feeds, nourishes, fortifies, and cleanses the
cell, improving cellular metabolism and the cell's optimal
functioning. I call this "Re-Naturing" the cell because it
can feed the cell in such a way as to make it function as
it was originally designed by nature. The health benefits
of this one property of fresh aloe are mind-boggling. Here
is a plant that can improve the health of the cells throughout
the body. When the cells are healthy and functioning as they
should, all the tissues, glands, organs, and systems of the
body are also getting "Re-Natured."
A
Myriad of Nutrients and Co-Factors
supporting overall Healthy Functioning.
Dr. Robert
Davis has done a great deal of research on fresh aloe vera,
the properties of its many nutrients, and how the aloe polysaccharides
work. Research has found that in addition to the full range
of sizes of polysaccharides, fresh aloe contains over 250
other constituents including: vitamins (the only plant source
of vitamin B12); minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids,
a natural form of salicylic acid and plant sterols (with antiseptic,
anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties), two enzymes that
the body needs of which aloe is the only plant source, glycoproteins,
and more. These constituents have properties of their own
as well as serve as co-factors and support for many of the
body's biochemical processes. Dr. Davis' research, as explained
below, shows that all the nutrients in aloe vera are crucial
to the aloe polysaccharides' effectiveness and biological
availability throughout the body.
Isolated
Nutrients Extracted by Science
Versus The Original Designs Created by Nature.
Carrington
Laboratories isolated and patented Acemannan. They continued
their research with orally ingested capsules of Acemannan,
which was isolated from freeze-dried aloe. The clinical results
must not have given them the results they expected, because
they switched to the study of injectible Acemannan for which
they have FDA approval for study with animals and humans.
What does this tell us? I can't imagine that a pharmaceutical
company would rather patent an injectible over a capsule.
It certainly made me wonder that maybe the research findings
only are experienced if the polysaccharides are injected right
into where they are needed.
Is this
why we haven't heard of these miraculous immune enhancing
effects? Is it because the digestive system destroys the polysaccharides?
Is it because the polysaccharides can't get through to the
lymph system?
It is
Dr. Davis' explanation of his "Conductor/Orchestra Theory"
that helped me to understand aloe's "Secret Promise." Dr.
Davis describes how the entire aloe molecule, with the polysaccharides
laced in perfect balance with the other myriad of constituents
within a base of water, is what is necessary for the aloe
polysaccharides to be available throughout the body and to
effectively demonstrate the research on the polysaccharides.
The polysaccharide acts as the conductor of the orchestra
of all other nutrients. It is the entire "orchestra" that
is responsible for the benefits of aloe's "being heard" throughout
the body.
As I understand
it, the aloe molecule is balanced with the polysaccharide
on one end and the other constituents as the "orchestra" on
the other end, making it slightly charged on each end. In
this form the aloe moves through tissue and throughout the
body with the biological design that has a biological wisdom
and intercellular communication properties. The aloe works
its way to special receptor sites in the digestive tract that
ingests the aloe led by the largest polysaccharides and brings
it in its whole form into the lymph system where it is then
available to move throughout the body and know exactly where
to go. Our immune cells send out chemotaxic signals when they
are in need of assistance that other immune cells as well
as the whole aloe are drawn to.
Thus,
it is in its whole form that the aloe polysaccharides are
most biologically active and biologically available to the
cells of the body. The isolated polysaccharide lacks the biological
wisdom and ability to move throughout the body to the cells
in need. Thus, the properties of polysaccharides that are
not in their original design within the aloe will only work
when they happen to hit on particular cells.
It is
of critical importance that the aloe not only contain the
full range of sizes of polysaccharides but that they also
need to be in their originally designed form and balance.
Thus, the full promise of aloe vera with all the properties
that the research has documented will only be fully demonstrated
if the aloe vera is intact.
Why
Aloe Vera's True Promise has Been Hidden.
So, again,
I ask myself - if this research is real then why aren't we
hearing more about these miraculous effects of drinking aloe
vera? And why are the aloe vera gels on the market just okay
and not the miraculous tissue regenerating gel that the research
suggests?
Processing,
Processing, Processing! It dawned on me when I used two different
aloe juice products that were labeled the exact same way -
whole leaf, cold processed, aloin removed - but they tasted
different, and they were not equally effective. As my aloe
investigation and search for a good aloe product continued,
I learned that it is important to read labels very carefully
- what they say and do not say are both important.
It makes
sense that if the fresh, whole aloe works then we need an
aloe that is as close to fresh as possible.
Processed
Aloe Vera Versus Its Original Biological Design.
Although
the research is real, the effectiveness of any given aloe
product will depend on what "is in" and what "is not in" a
given product. Demonstration of the scientific research's
promises will depend on having the full range of sizes of
polysaccharides in the form they need to be to work best in
the body. Thus, any processing of the aloe (to stabilize and
purify it) needs to capture and protect all the constituents
as well as maintain their original design and balance. Beware
of an aloe product that does not guarantee - in writing -
that no heat is ever applied from field to bottle. Beware
of concentrated or dried aloes. The processing can damage
constituents as well as lose their original proportions and
design. Aloin is a bitter substance found in Aloe that has
unwanted, irritating, laxative properties and is responsible
for the contraindications for daily use. Be sure your aloe
juice has the aloin removed to less than 10 ppm (laxation
occurs at around 2 ppm).
Heat
and Biological Activity.
Heat can
be the most damaging to the important aloe nutrients. Heat
can break down the links between the sugars. When this happens,
the long chain sugars no longer have the same size and shape
of the polysaccharides that fit the receptor sites of key
immune cells and tissue producing cells, nor do they have
the other properties that the research has documented.
Heat also
breaks down the structure of the enzymes and can also damage
amino acids and all the other nutrients. Cells are designed
with a biological structure that breaks down with heat above
body temperature. As I understand it, the body produces fever,
when all else is failing, that helps to kill cells, but unlike
other aspects of the immune system, heat does not discriminate
between our own cells and foreign cells. Thus, it seems logical
that temperatures of 100F- 110F are designed to kill the biological
activity (life) of cells in our own bodies. I used to think
a fever was a side effect of the body not having enough energy
to effectively fight off an illness. But that doesn't make
sense to me anymore. If the body has no energy for maintaining
the homeostasis (balance) of temperature, it is more likely
that the body's temperature would drop. When the immune system
is being overtaxed and failing it fires up and uses heat to
help to break down and destroy the biological structure for
life and growth.
This focus
on fever highlights the importance of biological temperatures.
When aloe vera (or any food) is heated, intricate biological
structures are destroyed along with their biological benefits.
Additionally, when aloe vera is heated, not only are the important
polysaccharides, enzymes and other factors destroyed, but
the balance of the entire aloe molecule is destroyed, and
thus its biological availability and effectiveness throughout
the body.
Our
Bodies are Perfectly Designed.
Our body
is designed in perfect balance to take in, absorb and eliminate
nutrients and process and eliminate foreign and toxic matter,
fight off ills, repair tissue and grow. If given the proper
tools, the body is designed to be healthy and strong. The
best thing we could do for our bodies is to feed it the nutrients
it needs, limit the toxins we take in, not overtax any one
system, and protect the balance of all the systems. So look
at what we are doing: we do not eat enough raw organic foods
that contain the nutrients we need in the form we need them;
we eat mostly cooked foods which changes the nutrients into
forms that not only do not give the body what it needs, but
they burden the body. By age five, the toxins in our environment
have overtaxed all the systems of our bodies, and we take
medicines that put the digestive system out of balance and
do nothing to restore balance and healthy functioning, thus
starting a domino effect of problems that eventually overtax
the entire immune system's functioning.
All illness
can be traced to the body's own systems not working well.
Medicine is designed to be crisis intervention (and I am grateful
for this) not nutritional health support. We need to learn
ways to work with our bodies to support the perfectly designed
systems we are. When we treat only the symptoms of illness,
we can be interfering with our natural "wellness" processes.
Often we are counteracting the body's own wisdom and mechanisms
for health. Is diarrhea a sign of illness? Yes and no. Yes,
it is a sign that the body is overloaded with waste that needs
to be flushed. But no, it is a sign of wellness in that it
is flushing the waste from successful immune warfare. Diarrhea
is not an illness, per se. It is a result of the body's fighting
an illness caused by harmful microorganisms. What an ingenious
wellness system: when the fluids from the fight (mucous) build
up, the body takes water and mucous from the system and flushes
the toxins out.
Enough
on that system, let's move on. Think about the mucous produced
with allergies and viruses. It is a waste product that needs
to be eliminated. We need to help the body get rid of the
mucous, not stop it from coming out. When we stop the mucous
elimination process, what happens to the toxic waste? We don't
need things to dry up the mucous, but we could use a "flush
button" that would get rid of it in 5 minutes! I wish all
the resources available to medical science were actually focused
on wellness!
Our environment
and the foods we eat overtax our body's ability to eliminate
toxins. Traditional approaches to health care and medicine
not only can destroy the digestive system, but also overtax
the elimination system, especially the liver. When we stop
the symptoms of an illness, we are clogging up the body's
immune and elimination systems' natural processes. We can
be stopping the body's natural wellness process trying to
rid the body of toxic waste. When we do this, we end up overloading
the other systems of elimination, especially the kidneys and
liver even more.
Aloe Vera - The Herbal Answer to Today's Health Crisis.
Aloe vera
is the best herbal answer I can imagine to support the health
and healing mechanisms of the body because it doesn't heal,
rather, it FEEDS THE BODY'S OWN SYSTEMS in order for them
to function optimally and be healthy. It does this, in part,
by going into the cells and "Re-Naturing" them to function
optimally, as they were originally designed. Thus, aloe is
a fundamental tool that gives life to the cells, tissues,
glands, organs, and other systems of the body in order to
support optimal health, balance, and functioning. In addition,
aloe vera has been shown to have many specific properties
that profoundly enhance the functioning of body's own immune
and repair systems for health and healing to be up to ten
times more effective, thus healing can be ten times faster.
Aloe vera is a remarkable plant. I urge everyone to examine
this for him or her self. To understand that nutrients designed
by nature were designed to feed our body perfectly is to understand
the importance of feeding the body the fuel it needs to function
optimally, as it was originally designed.
The promise
in the aloe vera plant has opened my eyes to the need to look
at nature's original design for life - to feed life, development
and health. It is as though GOD put the aloe vera plant here
not only as a gift for health, but also as a metaphor for
the miracles that are possible if we trust the design of the
divine.
It is
fortunate that the aloe vera recommended to me by Dr. Finnegan
happened to be a unique aloe product that was enhanced with
fantastic immune herbs and processed in a special way. You
just can't get any aloe product. Processing will determine
what is "in" and "what's not in" the aloe and will determine
the results. Once again it is difficult to know the truth
about products. So make sure your aloe company guarantees
- in writing - that heat is never applied from field to bottle,
that it never experiences temperatures above 90F at any time
during processing, that it has never been concentrated or
diluted, that the whole leaf is being used (more potent),
and that the aloin (which can irritate the bowel) is completely
removed to 1 ppm or less without any damaging processing.
Remember, if it's not written on the bottle, you can't assume
anything.
During
my treatment I drank:
Four oz. of properly prepared aloe vera
two to four times per day, usually more.
By properly prepared I mean raw (unheated),
organic, whole leaf and never concentrated or diluted
aloe with all the aloin (laxative properties) removed.
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