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Updated Spring, 2005
"My mother is my best and closest friend!" Yes, she has definitely been up there supporting your immune system with nutrition and love. But, your immune system still wins! "Even over my dog?" someone else may say. Yes, even though the "best friend" label, that automatically comes with your dog, is true in some ways, the dog cannot keep you healthy if you continuously make poor choices, or fail to defend yourself against the daily challenges to your health. So.......... 
Your immune system is still the winner!
Are You Your Immune System's Best and Closest Friend? Since the mid '80s, we have become aware of the term "the immune system." It became a widely heard term then, because of a disease that had "begun" in the early '80s: AIDS...Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome. We heard that people with AIDS had problems that eventually killed them because of their immune system's deterioration, and it's inability to cope with all the other bacterial and virus challenges we all face daily. Yes, the people died "of AIDS," but what they actually died FROM was NOT a challenged immune system like we have been told over and over again. No. What people died FROM was the inability of their immune system to FACE AND OVERCOME these challenges. They found themselves in a war we are all faced with, but without a 'ready army'...without an effective IMMUNE SYSTEM. People do not simply get sick FROM a disease: They have indications, or symptoms, which show that they are not up to fighting against everything that is constantly challenging them! Or they develop a 'condition' because of a deficiency...Another way to express a lack of good support for the body! When your immune system is weakened, or even disabled, even partially, it doesn't function to defend you from what it normally would, were it strong and whole. The immune system can be amazing... if the person it belongs to befriends it ...and doesn't pull the rug out from under it... or slowly chip away at it over the years! If we looked closely at what we are doing that makes our immune system much less efficient, we would probably wonder why we do as well as we seem to! And if we made consistently better choices that supported our immune system instead of impeding it, old age would look different, and we would stop taking for granted some of the symptoms that now seem to go with ageing. We would see them for what they really are: Symptoms of years of physical abuse, by our poor choices, and by the toxic environment in which we all live! Take some time to just think about it. Do you try to cause your best friend to fall suddenly? Do you slowly poison your best friend? Of course not. :O) Your doctor may or may not tell you about a lot of things you can do to repair and maintain your immune system. Likewise, your doctor may or may not tell you what you can STOP doing that takes your immune system down slowly to a point where you are faced with overwhelming health issues. Some doctors will tell you. I have heard that more doctors, if not many, are open to this approach. That's really good news: But, you still have to find out who they are...and who they aren't! Medical Board Disciplinary Action by States from Public Citizen I am sure there are more well-informed, brave, caring doctors around. Steven Bittiker is one. VRP: Alternative health information site There are other sites you can find for yourself that will have great information you can check out. You can certainly ask your doctor about an alternative approach to your health, and see how they respond: Take them a copy of a web page you find, and ask them to help you help yourself. Let them know that you see pharmaceuticals as shorter term therapies, only used in drastic situations, until the body can be brought back into balance with natural support methods. These kinds of doctors are helping a lot of people, including patients who are extremely ill... 'backed into' a corner healthwise, having no other hope from their regular doctors! "The Road Back, How to get Off Drugs Safely ™" There are lots of alternative health specialists that understand this kind of approach to health: Those who have good reputations all take the approach of bringing 'balance' to the person. We are, after all, much more than discomfort and drugs! We are people surrounded by opportunities to make bad choices, looking for those opportunities to make better ones! We just need more information...Which is one of the reasons thinkscapes.com is here: To help you get started gathering information from which you can make better choices! Article on pharmaceutical's effect on patients We, at thinkscapes.com, can tell you about some things that have helped other people. We can send you to other sites for information about specific over the counter products which are helping some people 'back out' of their corners. We can help you help yourself! We can help you be your own immune system's best friend! Years of undermining your own immune system may take months to 'back out' of... And once you do 'back out,' you would want to continue maintaining your healthier immune system. If this sounds like your problems are all your fault, I want you to consider that they probably aren't: None of us has had full control over our environment, and we have been exposed to many challenging agents and factors, both natural and 'man-made.' Better choices can be made that will support a healthier and healthier immune system, and some choices can eventually be eliminated that now challenge it. It turns out, without our bad choices, there are plenty being made for us. Our government has tried to make us think they would take care of it, passing legislation with misleading names like the "Clean Air Act." But reclaiming a clean environment and maintaining a clean environment is being replaced by bottom line mentalities lobbying for relaxation and suspension of these laws. To see what legislation 'watchdog' organizations do to keep us informed and active on our own behalf, go to Public Citizen.org. Click on SuperFund and see if you live near any 'clean up' sites. Our shopping mall posted a Clean Air Compliance plaque at the entrance, but it also refused to remove a smoke shop from the middle of the mall! It seems they had a contract...Oh...a contract...Gotcha.) We 'voted' against this loophole by doing two things: One: We filed a written complaint with the mall management at the corporate level. Two: We 'voted' against their refusal to put public safety above contractual agreements, and totally stopped going to their mall. We know we were not the only ones. This is where our real power lies: As consumers...and as non-consumers. But the lawmakers are successfully 'tempted' to compromise, and so they sell out the health of the American people for contribution money to get re-elected so they can compromise our healthy environment again! It's really understandable and I personally like the system. (Just choking!:O)) ...I meant joking!) We know that many industries have much to gain from this kind of compromising. Hmmmmmmmmmm. 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