The Inflammatory Process: One of your bodyguards

You just stepped on a rusty nail it. It hurts to pull it out.* Chances are it's rusty and you know you "left behind" some debris. It starts to hurt and throb a bit.
Or maybe you got a paper cut on your hand: ouch that hurts! The area reddens very quickly.

Or maybe you banged your elbow and now this area is starting to get red also.
These are all examples of the inflammatory process in action.
The body doesn't like any type of "visitors" and sends out an army of extra fluid, including many white cells…white because they contain anti-oxidants which will lead the fight.

Yes, it depends on the type of visitors, (bacteria, virus, foreign body, etc.) but more likely it will depends upon the number of extra visitors. This army likes to do combat "one on one". The visitors in the body are called "free rads" and are not welcome. The job of the inflammatory system is to make the visitors harmless by neutralising them. How? They pair/neutralize them with an anti-oxidant. How can the body get a regular supply of anti-oxidants…through its food. What form does it food take…Nutrients such as vitamins. How does the body keep up with the constant demand? It can't unless you feed it these nutrients. If they aren't in the body to fight, the body is overwhelmed by these free radicals and the inflammatory process is unable to help…so the free radicals take over. The enemy has won and slowly all the remaining also are used up/eliminated. And disease takes over.

*Never pull out a nail that is deeply imbedded: you can cause more harm.

March 30/02
Karin.

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