The body works diligently to maintain itself in the best possible health by adapting itself to internal and external environmental changes. If the outside temperature rises, the body takes steps to cool down. If it is too cold, the body works to maintain it’s warmth. Every significant change in the external environment triggers an adaptive reaction in the body.
The same is true with the internal environment. When a virus or other foreign substance invades the system, the body produces the responses which are required for that specific circumstance. Often, knowing that it needs to rid itself of an invader the body will elevate its internal temperature or increase waste elimination. These are normal actions which the body takes to adapt to changes and maintain health.
Unfortunately, these actions are often looked upon and treated as a disease. We force our body down to a normal temperature and consume bottles of medicine to prevent us from evacuating the toxic wastes we need to get rid of. By doing so we work against the body’s own instincts and make it even more difficult to adapt as it should.
This not to say that the body will always be able to adapt totally to every change. Subluxations can reduce the flow of Innate Energy through the body reducing the ability to adapt. Lack of proper nutrition, exercise, and sleep set up barriers to efficient adaption. Air pollution and food additives along with physical and emotional stress make it difficult or impossible for us to adapt totally to every environmental demand.
In addition, even a “perfect” body does not have infinite abilities. All Innate Matter has certain inherent limitations. It cannot overcome major structural defects, and it cannot adapt immediately to all changes. If it is expending energy fighting off and invading virus, it may not be able to respond as readily to the increased demands of physical exertion. There is nothing we can do to expand the given limitations of the body, but there is much we can do to eliminate the artificial barriers to health.
On a societal level we can work towards improving the quality of our environment. On a personal level we can improve our diet, increase our exercise, get enough sleep, and learn to reduce emotional stress. To help us we need to gather a good health care team , providers that listen to us and understand our needs.
We should also take care not to be miss directed by the adaptive actions of the body and focusing treatment on symptoms which may be a normal bodily function. This means avoiding the unnecessary use of therapies and medications which force the body to alter its normal function.
While it is difficult to believe this when you’re lying in bed with a temperature of 101 degrees, you’re lucky to have symptoms. Sometimes that is the only way you know that something is wrong with you body. For instance, if you put your hand on a hot stove and did not feel pain you would injure you self.
The real problem arises in the absence of symptoms. Too often adaptive patterns in our normal function do not exhibit any warning signs like pain. Our ability to adapt to internal and external stress distorts our normal function. The changes may be so subtle that no disfunction is noticed. However the subtle changes in function are compounded until they become symptomatic, and by then the pain shows up in the latest part of the body to try and compensate for all of that adaptation. So if a therapy only focuses on pain management the underlaying problem will continue and so will the cycle.
That is why everyone, those who suffer from symptoms and those who are ” healthy” should be evaluated for dysfunction so function can be restored strength increased and your maximum performance achieved.