Chronic Infections
Evidence is mounting that a variety of common germs long thought to cause only mild, short-lived illnesses such as the flu play a role in causing chronic health problems ranging from allergies, asthma and arthritis to obesity, heart disease and cancer. Long after one recovers from the microbe’s initial insult, viruses, bacteria and other germs silently chew away at the body’s tissues and organs, causing insidious, permanent damage, it is believed.
For some conditions, many scientists feel certain that microbes play at least a contributing role where none was suspected previously. A microbe may be suspiciously present in people who have a disease, for example, and not in those who don’t, suggesting causality.
Microbe hunters now estimate that anywhere from one-third to more than one half of chronic diseases will eventually be explained by infection with a variety of microorganisms. They point to new research that links germs to some forms of infertility, kidney disease, diabetes, stomach problems and even obsessive-compulsive disorder.
No one can avoid the wide variety of microorganisms that are in our environment. Within minutes of birth and continuing throughout our lives, our bodies are exposed to virus after virus, bacterium after bacterium. Under normal circumstances, the body’s natural defenses fight off harmful microbes, but when our immune systems are weakened, when our normal defense barriers are not intact, or when we come in contact with a highly invasive infectious agent that is either new to our bodies or present in large numbers, the balance shifts in favor of the microbes.
Modern living leading to a weakened immune system: has helped to tip the scales in favor of the tiny, microscopic bugs, brought on by the post industrial revolution change in dietary habits, misuse and overuse of antibiotics, air pollution, food supply, chemical exposure and stress levels, to name a few.
In any case, when the body ecology breaks down, our solution is to test function, address any malfunctioning organs or hormones, adjust nutrition, deal with infections, cleanse the body and then to build up the immune system.
In our clinic, the use of UBI (Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation) using UVA and UVC rays has been useful in eradicating bugs in the body system.