Do you know how important your immune system is? Did you know that eight major diseases are not stand alone diseases but the result of an out of control immune system? 1-Diabetes, 2-Heart disease, 3-Cancer, 4-Autoimmune diseases (Lupis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis), 5-Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & Lou Gehrig's Disease, 6-some Kidney Diseases, 7-Inflammatory Bowel, Ulcerative Colitis & Chohn's Disease, and 8-Endometriosis & Some PCOS are the eight major diseases caused by an improper functioning immune system.

The most important thing to understand about the chart below is that when the immune system is not functioning correctly it is because of Oxidative Stressor what my friend TNYMED calls Metabolic Mayhem

Did you know that it may be that nothing is wrong with any ones immune system but rather with the Hypocretin system? The immune system is like a remote controlled car and only follows the controls given to it by the hypocretin system. Think of the immune system as an army of soldiers who go to battle following orders given to them. The immune system has no brain or means to think or react from anything other than the orders given to it.

Here is how it works! When you get an injury the injury sends a signal to the brain and the brain tells the immune system to go to the injury and kill the damaged cells. The immune system responds immediately like a first response ambulance and this function is to kill damaged cells. It is a vital and proper first response. The brain also send two other signals one to the hypocretin system and the other directly to the adrenals. They then create a blue print of chemical instructions telling the immune system to stop killing indiscriminately and what to do to repair the injury.

Just as the immune/hypocretin systems are the root cause of the eight diseases they too are caused by another disease called Oxidative stress. To repair the immune system one must reverse Oxidative stress. See also our page on How to repair the immune system.

In 1993 and 1994 I visited two different doctors and ask them the same question, "Something is wrong with my immune system what can you do for me?"  Each gave the same answer,"We know nothing about the immune system, we can do nothing to treat the immune system, we have no way to test the immune system, and we only treat diseases or symptoms that we can find imperial proof of its presence.  If we cannot prove it with a microscope, blood or lab test for us it does not exist."

I marvel that the most important defense in our body is considered by most doctors to have no significance and they know nothing about it.  It gets worse, most doctors when a patient asks about the immune system is diagnosed as a hypochondriac.  Doctors are taught that 20 to 50% of all patients are  hypochondriacs.

Currently doctors are becoming more aware of the immune system and new research is proving its significance in causing the eight diseases.

Many alternative health professionals as well as medical researchers are studying the relationship between the immune system and the environment. Toxic chemicals pesticides, and even treated drinking water are being found to affect the immune system. Death incident statistics are showing a longer life span yet immune system diseases have greatly increased in the last 30 years.

The following diseases are either the result of or cause of a dysfunctional immune system.

List of symptoms common in immune diseases.  Each of the diseases above have some or all of these symptoms. A person will seldom have all of these symptoms and each person may have different symptoms even if they share the same disease.

It is reported that it takes 10 to 20 years for front line doctors to implement medical research. One of many reasons for this is that doctors do not have the time to keep current. See health care problems

Consider these facts:

1. The affect on human health from toxic chemicals in our environment began to be discovered in the 70's.

2. Immune system diseases and Alzheimer's began to increase in the 70's.

3. Alzheimer's went from almost zero to one of the leading causes of death today. Cancer, mental and immune problems have a similar increase.

4. Medicine has provided longer life spans, we now live 10 to 20 years longer, yet the incidences of health problems have increased in relationship to toxic chemicals.

5. Toxic chemicals are in almost every food we consume today. Water purification with poisons such as chloride and fluoride are added to our water. Aluminum is reported to be a major cause of Alzheimer disease and is used in water purification. Pesticides are still reported to be present in much of our drinking water even after extensive treatment processes. Most soaps, tooth paste, shampoos and household cleaning products all have toxic chemicals.

7. Our skin is the largest organ of our body and it is reported that toxic chemical exposure to our skin enters our body in less than a minute. Our skin is a great filtering organ but it is not capable of filtering all of today's toxic chemicals.

6. The animal industry's practice of injecting hormones and antibiotics as well as numerous chemicals added to animal food to increase weight, shorten maturity and increase production correlates to the increased cancer, depression and immune system diseases.

7. Polyunsaturated fats are considered a source for immune and health problems. Meat is blamed for health problems yet it has less Polyunsaturated fats than 90% of other fat containing foods. See Oils

8. Added to all these toxins are the increasing reports and research of harm and deaths from medical pharmaceuticals. Some are reporting up to three hundred thousand a year in the US alone. Doctor Mistakes    Trasylol

9. Traditional and alternative medicine indiscriminate use of herbs without knowing their reaction to each other is another source of oxidative stress. see supplement problems

These facts indicate much of today's health problems are caused by toxic chemicals not a genetic weakness of the body. This chemical or toxin process is oxidative stress.

A magic pill to treat these diseases is foolhardy. There are herbs that aid but the first response needs to be avoiding toxic chemicals and improving our food and environment. In other words increase anti-oxidants and slow oxidation.