Health is an Internal Thing
By Dan A Niequist D.C.
Health is more of an internal thing than an external thing. Centuries ago disease was thought to come from evil spirits which would attack a person and make him or her sick. Around the early 1900’s the germ theory became central and again the external was blamed for sickness, and the villains were the bacteria, viruses, pollen etc. Now we do think that these things are part of the disease process but are they the cause? How often we see a family of six who breath the same air, eat at the same table and share the same bathroom towel and one member gets sick and the other five don’t. Often in the work place were people are in close proximity of one another, we see a department of twenty people, three come down with the flu while the other seventeen remain healthy. How can this be if germs cause disease? At any given time we could run a throat culture on a healthy person who looks and feels fine and find bacteria (strep./staph.) and yet they are not sick. It is easy, by association, to come to a false conclusion. We always find flies around garbage but we should not conclude that flies cause garbage. Healthy organisms that are functioning properly and are demonstrating proper immune function are not made sick by natural contact with bacteria, viruses or pollen.
Health is an internal matter, not an external matter. It is the internal environment that is vital. We need to ask the question, how can we help the body become stronger and in better balance and harmony? How can we assist the natural immune system in its mission of homeostasis? I believe that if we could just see about a 5% increase in immune function of the human race world wide, many diseases would be eradicated over a short period of time.
The doctor of the future, in my opinion, will be more interested in the internal physiology of the body and the natural process, then fighting away at external factors such as germs, pollens and pollutants.
Dan A Niequist D.C.
