How ?
 
Well the first thing to understand is that our body runs off energy. Quite simply, the more powered up it is, the better every organ and every cell will function.

Everything from your heart to your kidneys to your brain needs power. The more it has the better and healthier it works. The less it has, the less able it is to carry out tasks around the body, leaving things to pile up and break, or leaving it vulnerable to infections and other ailments.

So maximizing your energy levels is therefore of the upmost importance to a healthy flourishing well-being.
 
Energy in essence is really heat and movement. The more active molecules become, the more they vibrate and heat up. If you think of a car engine or a machine, they heat up while they are running. Or even when you get active and exercise using your energy reserves, you will heat up. The sun also gives us an example of heat and energy in the form of solar power. In simple terms, heat and energy go hand in hand together.

I previously discussed the illnesses and effects caused by having too much heat in your body, now let’s turn our attention to how an excess of cold can make you feel sick and unwell.

This article is very useful for any students of Chinese Medicine who want to get a better understanding of how it works.

It is also very important for people, particularly in the Western world, who are “health addicts”, those who are good living fitness buffs who are into heavy exercising and into eating lots of vegetables, fruit and healthy foods.
 
The reason why is because working out and eating too many fruits and vegetables can start to use up and weaken the energy in your body, which can lead to internal coldness. How this comes about will be explained in the last part of this series.
 
With internal cold and weaker energy, every part of you will have less power to perform and function at its best. If your energy suffers too much you can even become quite ill.
 
Later in this series we will see how you can tweak your diet and lifestyle to maintain all the benefits of Western style “healthy living” and at the same time increase the energy levels in your body, making it much stronger and healthier.
 
This article also relates to people with cold constitutions or those living in cold climates, who may often have feelings of cold, tiredness and weakness.

In the last part of this series on cold, we took a look at the properties of cold and how it generally behaves. In this part we will take a deeper look at the symptoms and illnesses it can create in the body.

But firstly let’s briefly recap on its’ characteristics …
 
It slows things and reduces energy and power.
 
It impedes movement and can block things up.
 
It congeals, thickens and creates fluids.
 
As things become more damp, they become heavier and usually sink.
 
Cold causes reactions more slowly, so illnesses and pains caused by it tend to be more dull, achy, dragging and drawn out.
 
So now lets take a look at symptoms which can be caused by excessive cold ...

This is the final part in the series of articles relating to how having a cold and energy deficient body can make you run down, weak, tired, depressed and sick.
 
If you have not read the first two parts of this series then please read them before reading this part.
 
 
The first article explained how cold behaves in general and how it affects the body. The second one showed you how to recognize if your internal systems are too cold and the type of ailments that can manifest from this.
 
This last article will explain how a cold energy-less system may come about and what you can do to reverse or prevent it.
 
So here they are, the common ways a cold unproductive system may develop in your body ...

Chemotherapy are a group of drugs that basically act like very bitter poisons. Their aim is to destroy and kill cancerous cells; and then to get the body to push them (and the bitter chemical chemo poison) out of itself.
 
The problem is the chemo also often kills healthy cells along with cancerous ones. By destroying good healthy cells and by stripping away needed nutrients and hormones, it can cause major disruption to both short and long term health.
 
Unfortunately these drugs can be so harmful and dangerous that they can also often cause significant damage to and even the death of the patient before they have successfully removed all the cancer. The two most common ways this occurs is through the weakening of organs which leads to their failure; and through the destruction of the immune system which leaves your body defenceless. An ordinary common cold or a simple stomach bug, under these circumstances can have the power to turn into something very dangerous and even cause death.
 
Western doctors find themselves trapped in a very difficult dilemma: if they do not give enough chemo the cancer may kill the patient, but if they give too much then it can be the chemo (through organ failure, weak immunity and infections) that ends the patient’s life.

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The body likes to be warm and full of energy to function at its best. However, just like a machine or anything found in nature, if heat builds up excessively in it, then damage is caused.
 
The easiest way to see the destructive actions of too much heat in the body is to examine what it does in nature. The way heat behaves outside the body is also the way it behaves inside of it.
 
When we look at heat in nature we see it enlivens things and energizes them. It gives them power and makes them move faster. In spring and summer it brings animals out of hibernation and it grows flowers and plants. It warms and gives life, light and energy.
 
But if heat becomes too excessive it can start to burn and dry. Plants will wither. The ground will become barren, hard and even start to crack.

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In this update you will find a list of common symptoms and ailments that are usually evolved from an overall pattern of excessive heat inside the organs and cells of the body.

Unfortunately in the past Western Medicine presented the sun as a danger and threat to our health - a main cause of skin cancer. The advice was to cover up or to stay out of it.

This however has turned out to be yet another mistake; don't get me wrong - getting burnt in the sun is a really bad idea and can be a cause of both skin problems and skin cancer. Too much sun can even be a cause of wrinkles and making you look old before your time.

But science is now showing that when you don't get enough sun you will do more harm to your body and your health. You will actually increase your chances of getting lots of types of cancers and many other serious illnesses too - such as strokes and heart disease.

Science has also started to show how sun exposure if someone has cancer can actually help in their treatment - by making vitamin D which can destroy mutated cells, by boosting the immune system which again targets cancer cells and by generally strengthening their overall health (and mood) which keeps them powered up as they fight the disease. 

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So far we have talked about how internal heat can damage your body and the types of symptoms to look for to show that your body is overheating.

In this last part of the series, I will tell you some of the things you can do to reduce the levels of heat, and to bring your body and mind back into a more harmonious and healthy state.
 
Firstly let’s look at three of the most common ways which lead to the body overheating and causing problems on the inside; in areas like the brain, organs and tissues …
 
 
1) Diet – Heat can come about through the consumption of two different flavors of food. They are spicy and sweet foods.

In a series of articles to be posted to this blog, I will show you the many ways that Yoga and other exercises designed to build energy can be helpful in preventing and treating cancer.

Yoga has similar principles as those found in Tai chi and Qi Gong.

It is not merely a set of stretching exercises; as it also involves the stimulation of the bodies energy, advanced breathing methods and meditation techniques for the mind and soul too.

Along with Qigong it is an exercise system that I highly recommend, not just for preventing or helping to treat cancer, but for gaining superior health and well being.