“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
–Albert Einstein

The need to protect the body’s internal environment, more commonly known as the terrain, is outside the scope of traditional Western medicine and considered very unconventional thinking, especially in the United States. Western medicine has assigned our immune system a job it was not designed to do.  Most of us have been taught that the immune system is the primary line of defense against disease. This line of thinking is both untrue and making us sick. The internal terrain, not the immune system, was meant to be the body’s first line of defense against disease.  By polluting the terrain, we are a population who is operating on our backup system, the immune system.  By ignoring the body’s terrain as the first line of defense, “modern” Western medicine has seriously missed the mark of both disease prevention and treatment.

“…the terrain is everything.”
–Louis Pasteur
According to immunologist, Dr. Jesse Stoff, there are five key things that damage the body’s internal environment (terrain). They are poor eating habits and nutrition, man-made toxins in our environment, disease causing organisms and the toxins they produce, trauma on the immune system from things like x-ray radiation and cross country flights, and stress. These five will be the primary focus of this series.

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