What Is Disease? The breakdown / imbalance between mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual mind to body connection. Acute Disease is sudden onset with a clear beginning, middle and end. Symptoms and signs associated are the outcome of the body’s attempt to balance e.g. fever kills virus by raising the body temperature so it cannot survive. Chronic Disease is progressive onset. Signs and symptoms are an outcome of the building burden of outside and inside stressors (toxins) placing stress on susceptible areas. Biomedical definition = An impairment of normal state of being or one of its parts that interrupts or alters performance of vital functions manifesting signs and symptoms. Medical treatment is limited if there is an absence of disease in the symptoms. to edit. What is Health?
Health is different to disease, it is the body at its best without disease. It can be unhealthy but not in a disease state. It is the Mind Body balance, homeostatic balance between mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual mind to body connection. Biomedical Definition – state of being free from illness or injury. H₂O + CO₂ ↔ H₂CO₃↔ H⁺ + HCO₃⁻ Homeostasis is a feature of a system that normalises its internal environment irrespective of the external environment. As an example our internal body temperature will be kept as close as possible to 36.5 to 37.5 degrees irrespective of hot or cold external temperature.
If ill health is not controlled homeostasis will eventually no longer be able to normalise its internal environment. This means internal temperature increases or decreases, if this is not corrected it will lead to death. An internal environment that is of great significance is Blood pH. It plays a pivotal role in many biological functions. Blood pH is kept at a fixed value of 7.35 to 7.45 – slightly acidic through the blood buffer system. The blood buffer system compensates for excess carbon dioxide in the blood by altering the rate of respiration which releases carbon dioxide, this shifts the reaction to the right producing carbonic acid leading to a donation of hydrogen ions and increasing bicarbonate production. The renal and respiratory systems being kidneys and lungs are both involved in the regulation of blood pH by excreting respiratory and fixed acids. The kidneys excrete hydrogen ions if blood pH is acidic and if blood pH is alkaline they release hydrogen ions back to the blood to reabsorb filtered bicarbonate. If the body is unable to regulate blood pH it can lead to respiratory organ failure, kidney failure, shock, coma and inevitably death. The essence of life is movement: the everlasting cycles of birth to death.
Ocean tides rise and fall; the seasons move inexorably - spring, summer, autumn, winter, and back to spring. Every living thing moves. Sap rises, new leaves spring from tightly closed buds, flowers, blooms, birds migrate, rivers rush with new rains. Time never pauses. No sooner do we think of this movement as 'Present' than it is 'Past'. In the same way, our thoughts are in constant motion. One thought becomes a doorway to another and another. Even mountains, a symbol of solidarity, evolve over time. The great Himalayas move upward at a rate of about 5mm per year. And they fall away. Rocks cascade into river valleys; soil washes away, the faces of mountains change. All movement in humans of body, mind and speech comes from mobile force. Its force is responsible for the movements of our hands and legs, for the movement of every organ in the body and its nervous system. Every second of every day, we breathe in and out, our chests rise and fall, our blood moves. We process constantly changing information through our senses, emotions move through us; our sexual passions are aroused, we digest food and eliminate waste. In its normal, balanced state, mobile force maintains the body. |
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