These are the six stages of being ill

Is it just me, or do people always get sick after a long flight? You’ve just enjoyed a lovely month in the sun, step off the plane, and immediately you’re home with a runny nose and dead tired. Goodbye vacation feeling. Undoubtedly, it has something to do with all the bacteria that are transferred super quickly in the airplane. Maybe I’m particularly susceptible to this, as I can’t exactly call my lifestyle healthy. But anyway, aside from living healthy or not, how do you actually get sick?

According to the German naturopathic doctor Dr. Reckeweg, a disease develops in six phases and is almost always caused by an excess of toxins. Your body is built to quickly and efficiently eliminate waste products. Once this process stagnates, a disease arises, which is actually nothing more than an attempt by your body to get rid of the excess toxins and restore the natural balance.

Okay, so six different phases. The first three phases fall within the ‘humoral’ (strange term for something so sad) stage. In this stage, your liver fails to break down toxins properly, and toxins end up in your blood, tissues, and bodily fluids such as saliva, sweat, and urine. The last three phases fall within the ‘cellular’ stage. In this stage, toxins penetrate the cell structures, and a change in the cells occurs. The further you go into the cellular stage, the more serious the diseases become and the harder they are to heal.

Phase one: the first symptoms

Our liver is busy cleaning up toxins 24 hours a day. If you take in too much, your liver can become overloaded. Instead of breaking down the toxins, they end up in your blood, tissue, and bodily fluids. But fortunately, your body has a self-healing power and can eliminate an excess of toxins through your excretory organs. Your kidneys excrete urine, your intestines eliminate waste, your skin excretes sweat, and you breathe out through your lungs.

This excretion and elimination in the first phase of a disease is often accompanied by symptoms such as sneezing, nausea, coughing, fatigue, or reduced appetite. It can also be accompanied by a large amount of self-pity, especially when you’re lying in bed sweating and panting. Often, these kinds of symptoms just go away on their own, but when this is not the case, you can end up in the second phase.

Phase two: the onset of inflammation

You end up in the second phase when your excretory organs have become overloaded and the toxins can no longer be properly eliminated. Your body then seeks other ways out. Through inflammation, the body tries to neutralize and remove the waste products. This manifests itself in, for example, flu, allergies, pneumonia, bladder infections, or fever. In this second phase, many people also experience pain and go to the doctor for it.

Important: recover well, and your body will naturally return to the first phase. So let yourself be pampered by your loved one and make good use of it. Sick is sick. If you decide to ignore the symptoms? Then you risk ending up in phase three, as you only drive the symptoms further into your body this way.

Phase three: the onset of ‘sludging’

When your body fails to eliminate the toxins through inflammation, you enter the third phase. Your body then starts to store these toxins further in your fat and connective tissues and in the subcutaneous cell tissues. Dr. Reckeweg calls this process sludging. If this does not stop, other tissues will also sludge, such as your joints, heart muscle, nerves, and senses. Symptoms that can arise in this third phase include kidney stones, asthma, and heart rhythm disorders. If this process continues, the cells will be affected, and your organs will become overloaded, leading you to the cellular (last three phases) stage.

Phase four to six: the cellular stage

In the last three phases, toxins penetrate the cells and damage the cell structure. This can result in tissues, organs, and entire systems losing their ability to function normally. This all sounds a bit scary, but don’t worry: most people fortunately do not progress beyond the first three phases. If you find yourself in phase two or three? Just recover well and take good care of yourself, and you will be back in the first phase in no time.

(Source: Holistik.nl)