Today’s “normal” flu epidemics affect a lot more people and are accompanied by much stronger
symptoms than ever before. The viruses that afflict us now and a century ago are still very much the same.
What has changed dramatically among the general population, though, is the natural resistance of most
people to viral attacks. Today, our natural immunity to these germs is many times lower than it was just
100 years ago. Tooth decay and depleted vision among young people are very common now. Numerous
new and rapidly growing epidemics are now proliferating, a phenomenon unheard of just two centuries
ago. They include millions of people suffering from diabetes, heart disease, cancer and obesity—the latter
being the most common cause behind illness and death.
The fact that our modern societies are plagued with so many chronic illnesses shows that entire
generations possess weak constitutions, caused mainly by stress, unhealthy diets, and harmful lifestyles.
People who lived a hundred years ago and enjoyed good hygienic conditions were much less prone to
develop chronic illnesses than we are today. Heart disease, for example, which is today’s leading cause of
death, rarely killed anyone at the beginning of the 20th century.
Our time is characterized by overstimulation, which has a strong, energy-depleting effect on the body.
The following are but a few of the many possible factors that lead to a depletion of our physical energy:
- Watching television too often and for too many hours
- Emotional stress and trauma
- Time constraints and the pressure of having too much to do
- Excessive noise, air, water and soil pollution
- Constant exposure to artificial lights
- Pharmaceutical drugs
- Coffee, tea, alcohol and soda beverages
- Sugar, sweets and chocolate
- Meat and junk food
- Overeating food
- Sleep deprivation
- An irregular lifestyle/daily routine
- Excessive sex
- Too little water intake
This list is by no means complete, but it gives you a sense about the wide range of weakening
influences that we are generally exposed to in today’s modern world. All of these factors lead to the
retention of potentially toxic waste products in the body. Toxins are formed in the body when metabolic
waste products and debris from old, worn-out cells (totaling over 30 billion cells each day) are no longer
eliminated properly. If they remain in the body, they become subject to bacterial attack and are met with a
dramatic increase in free radical activity. Free radicals are generated in the body to oxidize and destroy as
much of the accumulated waste and weak or dead cells as possible. The resulting toxins generated by this
act of self-preservation act as stimulants. They stimulate the body into action to eliminate them from the
system.
Under normal circumstances, that is, if the body’s life force or vital energy is strong and efficient, the
body can do this without getting overtaxed or being harmed. Through balanced periods of rest and
activity, it spontaneously returns to its state of equilibrium. But when the body is exposed to too much
stimulation and is unable to rebalance itself, its “batteries” can no longer fully be recharged. With “flat
batteries,” the physical engine is unable to rid itself of all the metabolic and cellular waste generated
minute by minute, day after day, and year after year. As a result, much of the waste and its resulting