Immunity and the Immune System

Humanity dreams of being immune - invulnerable and invincible - equipped with an "internal Armour". We would like to be able to resist and be impermeable to everything that could bring illness and suffering.

Orthodox medicine's promise to arm the body against all kinds of "attackers" (germs, viruses, bacteria etc.) hits a very archaic nerve. Installing an inner army of fighters in the form of antibodies sounds reasonable. The body, like a computer, is given the newest anti virus program (vaccinations). But what to do with a new "worm" that the defence program doesn't recognise?

How tempting in this chaotic world, to be immune against disease and suffering and maybe sometime also against death.

The wish to spare children the experience of illness and suffering and to protect them from the "rough" world is legitimate. From an orthodox medical point of view it is a logical development to want to exterminate certain illnesses with a global vaccination programme.

The manifold supply of vaccinations promise safety in a world which is becoming ever more unsafe.

According to the analytical methodology of orthodox medicine, the immune system is dissected into separate parts and, like the organs, considered in isolation.

The knowledge of how the human immune system functions is constantly changing and even experts have difficulty maintaining an overview.

Antigen - Antibody Theory

Orthodox medicine's proof for the immunity against an illness is the so-called seroconversion = the existence of antibodies in the blood after vaccinations.

Vaccination introduces germs into the circulation, which are meant to encourage the immune system to form antibodies. In an emergency this "stand-by army" should fend off the illness. The existence of antibodies is meant to ensure continuing protection.

If sufficient antibodies are present, orthodox medicine assumes that the organism is immune against the vaccinated illness and during contact with germs from this illness there is no danger of infection or falling ill.

If this theory corresponded with reality and if illness were something totally pointless and useless, then this idea would be impressive.

Seen as a whole, the body is the "glove of the soul" (Samy Molcho - Bodylanguage). The immune system's reactions cannot be separated from the psychological state of mind. If worries, troubles and fears or even a relative's death have weakened us, then the body's tendency to fall ill is heightened. We can no longer defend ourselves against sick-making external influences. The background of physical integrity is the mental constitution. The following text demonstrates that the body possesses a competent defence system.

Extract from Ulrich Warnke, "Risiko Wohlstandsleiden", Popular Academic Verlags-gesellschaft, p. 208

A Brief Overview of Immunology

"The immune system is spread out throughout the body. It consists of 10­12 (a million million)cells, the lymphocytes, and 10­20 (100 million billion) antibodies which are formed by the lymphocytes and their derivatives, the plasma cell. The continuous production of lymphocytes and antibodies is enormous. Every couple of minutes 10 million lymphocytes and a million billion various antibodies are made. All alien systems, such as viruses, bacteria, cancer cells, which intend to spread out through the body are recognised by their anti-gens and attacked."

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This shows how complex the immune system is and that it cannot be reduced to the mere presence of an anti body concentration.

For a while now the developments in Biophysics dramatically contradict the linear thinking in orthodox medicine (cause - effect). If external circumstances - microbes, germs, viruses etc. - really were the causes of illnesses, how have we survived so far? Countless epidemics have plagued humanity, why have enough people always survived? Orthodox medicine's way of thinking ignores the complexity of life.

When you separate and analyse something alive you destroy that life. Our organism consists of interlocking cycles and complex systems. This microcosm is unpredictable. We consist of a conglomerate of regulatory cycles - there are about 1500 enzyme cycles, which operate rhythmically and interlock. The interactions and feedback mechanisms are manifold. It is a multidimensional system to which many unforeseeable factors contribute. Also, the results cannot be calculated.

Sticking to the theory of antgen-antibody reactions only picks out a single system in the cornucopia of regulatory cycles and negates all other factors.

Natural laws are valid for the body just as they are in nature.