A Sweet Fix: Rethinking Infections Like Roseola

Roseola is an inflammation in the dermis layer of the skin caused by bacteria. The symptoms include high fever, shivering, chills, fatigue, headaches, vomiting, and general weakness within 48 hours after the initial infection, and an inflammatory red rash, often on the shins. Treatment involves administering antibiotics orally or intravenously in the hospital, depending on the severity of the condition.

Maimonides, the great doctor, wrote in his Laws of Character that he guarantees that anyone who maintains a healthy lifestyle, as detailed in his book, will never fall ill during their life. How could he promise that? If we understand that the secret of "illness" is the accumulation of toxins inside the system, we can conclude that a healthy lifestyle will help the body not accumulate a lot of toxins and thus never get sick! (Laws of Character 4:30).

According to natural health theories, toxins, when they reach too high an amount, interfere with organ function, and the body expels them through "illness" (an emergency state). So what to do? Recognize that illness is actually the body's attempt to rid itself of excess toxicity. Roseola is also the body's attempt to expel toxicity. An illness isn't something external that just lands on a person out of nowhere; it's an internal process incubating for a long time before erupting. Therefore, the secret of natural health is to live a healthy lifestyle before the body forcibly cleanses you (through illness).

No matter the location of the illness or infection - it's the onset of a wonderful healing process that Hashem has embedded in our bodies through bacteria. To describe this process, which every bacteriologist is aware of, it's essential to understand the role of bacteria. Their role is to break down dead organic tissue and return its components to nature (the body's recycling workers). They do not feed on healthy, live cells and never attack them! Bacteria are present everywhere in the body and have been programmed by the Creator, blessed be He, to clean and break down only dead organic tissues.

Excess waste from various sources: poor dietary habits, medications, stress, etc., causes bacteria to work intensively in tissues affected by excessive toxicity and break them down (in an inflammatory process). So what’s important to know? If you want this cleaning process (inflammation) to end quickly, you must stop poisoning the body for several days to weeks (depending on the case) by drinking water, juices, or a diet rich in vegetables and fruits. That's the idea. Because once the body increases its healing powers over destructive forces, healing occurs quickly (including wonderful weight loss), and bacteria complete their work in no time (the inflammation ends quickly). Beneath the surface, new tissue cells form, resulting in rapid healing of inflamed tissues in all body organs: in the bladder, stomach, gums, intestines, skin, etc.

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