* The human body is about 70 percent water and in it are found the same salts as the oceans waters have.  It also contains the same minerals and metals found in the earths lands: copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon.

   * Our body has about 6 quarts of blood which circulates throughout the body three times every minute. The human's heart will beat 3,000 million times and pump about 48 million gallons of blood throughout an average lifetime.

   * Our body recreates its cells constantly, on average about 2.5 million cells every minute, making a new layer of skin every month and a new a skeleton every 3 months. It can replace its stomach lining in 4 days and grow a new liver in 6 weeks. Science recently announced, contrary to what they originally believed,  the brain can continue to make new cells, even into old age, if a person remains mentally active.
 
   * The human brain is only 2% of the weight of the body but consumes about 20% of the total body energy and requires about 20% of the bodies total oxygen consumption when a person is at rest.
 
   * The brain has over 100 billion nerve cells and is comparable to a powerful computer that would have a processing speed of 3000+ Ghz. After death, the brain continues to send out measurable electric wave signals for approximately 37 hours.

According to my own heart rate, age, and height I produce 234 Watts of electricity!

    *  I Could light up 2 light bulbs
    *  I Could power 59 iPods
    *  I Could power 1 Xbox 360
    *  Four of me would be needed to keep a refrigerator running

    The human body is an amazing group of very specialized and intracrite systems where, at all times, it is sensing and absorbing its environment. Going beyond the natural elements it needs to survive from the air, water, food, and sun to the absorbing and processing the reality we find our self in the middle of each and every moment of our life.

            IMMUNE SYSTEM INFLUENCES

                            AUTONOMIC RESPONSE & DEFENSE SYSTEMS

The 5 physical senses all send chemical and electrical messages to the brain and into the area known as the Limbic System,  which connects to and directs the Endocrine (hormone) and Nervous Systems in how the body is able to constantly adjust to its environment and to what a persons present thoughts and state of mind is.  It is these 3 systems that provide people the ability to process and respond to everything in an experience- from what is sensed to the physical actions they stimulate and in the memories created from the whole experience. These 3 systems all working together contribute to how a person functions as a whole in body and mind functions...


The Limbic System:

   Located in the center of the brain are structures collectively referred to as the Limbic System.  Here everything a persons senses absorbs ( images, colors, odors, sounds, words etc.) from their present environment  is compared to any similar past life experiences that are stored in subconscious memories and to what their present conscious thoughts and beliefs are in their now experience.  These influences are all compiled  subconsciously and together influence the type of body response that will be engaged by the endocrine glands release of hormones.  This process continues in every experience that we have in of our life continually creating physical responses and more subconscious memories. It can be seen how physical responses that become triggered in a person are not always consciously directed or understood by the person as they happen.




                                         

                                    Limbic System Functions involve:

                                             * Controls Emotions
                                             * Emotional Responses        
                                             * Hormonal Secretions   
                                             * Mood     
                                             * Motivation
                                             * Pain and Pleasure Sensations

 
   One of the major structures located in the Limbic system is the hypothalamus:
The hypothalamus, by using hormones, sends instructions throughout the body directing organ changes such as blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, digestion, and prepares the body with its hormone balances needed for physical responses.


Endocrine System:
   
  Once an response is determined within the limbic system it sends out messages to the brains endocrine glands.  They respond accordingly by sending out their hormonal responses through the central nervous system which are then directed to the endocrine glands located in the body,  instructing them how to engage a final body response-  either prepare for physical action or to  be in a relaxed state.  The type of physical response that become engaged effects other body and brain functions.

Our body is regulated, one way or another,  24 hours a day by its production and use of its hormones. The hormone system is what makes it possible for the body to reproduce life, bond with our offspring,  provide the body the means to protect and heal itself, they even contribute to the quality of dreams a person has. The body is continually absorbing and adjusting to its different environments and activities throughout the whole day by use of its endocrine system and the 200+ hormones it produces. Many of these hormones and their balances are determined by the type of foods that are consumed in a persons diet.
                                           

Autonomic Nervous System:
 
   Hormones produced by the endocrine glands in the brain travel through the central nervous system connecting to the autonomic nervous system which is divided into two separate sub nervous systems, known as the sympathetic nervous and the parasympathetic nervous systems, each directing the body's different organs to respond accordingly.  To accomplish this the autonomic nervous system uses a homeostasis(switching) process to go from its sympathetic system back and forth into the parasympathetic system and is UNABLE to engage both systems at the same time.

Sympathetic Nervous System:
           
   The sympathetic side of the autonomic nervous system provides the body with its needed physical responses,  becoming more engaged according to the different intensities of stresses involved (environmental, mental, and/or physical) which stimulate hormonal productions that create different levels of heightened or agitated physical states.  Having the body responding from this side of the nervous system is counterproductive to the learning process.

     Experiencing unexpected, intense,  or an overburden of continual amounts of stress, including negative conscious thoughts and beliefs, and the body and mind can respond by, or become conditioned to,  entering into what is known as the "fight or flight" response. This is a physical state where hormones produced in the body are directed in providing it increased physical strength(adrenaline),  blood flow and its pressure changes, eyes dilate , increased perspiration with a decrease in saliva. This is a physical, and defensive,  response to stress that has been proven that when a person is under increased to extreme amounts of stress their behaviors and mind functions can become effected to the point  where rational thought and memory processing becomes compromised.

 Hormone responses can become patterned within a person, just as an adrenaline addict needs to increasingly experience thrill rushes, where these imbalances can drive a persons emotional behaviors.  For some people having potent types of hormone imbalances can become so extreme that it causes them to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, ones that are very real,  like being stuck in a dream, or nightmare..  to them.

It is important for the body to be able to release the energy that is created from it’s stress responses if not these hormones remain effecting both thought processes and immune system functioning until it can find balance. . The following example shows how an imbalance of only one hormone can effect both the  body and mind...

People having higher and more prolonged levels of cortisol in their bloodstream ( associated with chronic stress) have been shown to have negative effects, such as:

    * Impaired cognitive performance
    * Suppressed thyroid function
    * Blood sugar imbalances such as hyperglycemia
    * Decreased bone density
    * Decrease in muscle tissue
    * Higher blood pressure
    * Lowered immunity and inflammatory responses in the body
    * Increased abdominal fat

Abdominal fat is seen to create a greater amount of health problems than fat deposited in other areas of the body. Some of the health issues associated with increased stomach fat are low self esteem, depression, chemical and heavy metal contaminations storing and released back into body higher levels of “bad” cholesterol (LDL) and lower levels of “good” cholesterol (HDL), with these influences leading to even more major health problems like heart attacks and strokes!

NOTE Cortisol secretion varies among individuals. People are biologically ‘wired’ to react differently to stress. One person may secrete higher levels of cortisol than another in the same situation.

Studies have also shown that people who secrete higher levels of cortisol in response to stress also tend to eat more food,  ones that are higher in carbohydrates than people who secrete less cortisol. If you’re more sensitive to stress, it’s especially important for you to learn stress management techniques and maintain a low-stress lifestyle.


  Parasympathetic nervous system:  
    
    This side of the nervous system becomes engaged when a person is experiencing a calm and relaxed mental state of well being, This is where the type of hormones being produced brings balance back to the body systems after being in the sympathetic side of the nervous system.   The parasympathetic is the side of the autonomic nervous system where the immune system is located and functions from. This is the place that the  body is best able to protect and heal itself.  It is also the place where the energy the body is conserving, while in a restful state,  shifts into areas of the brain where logical or creative thinking functions become stimulated.


So as you can see the immune system itself ultimately becomes effected by indirect, non physical, influences a person is subjected to from the environment they are in.



                                            DIRECT STRESS

These are the influences that the body physically comes into contact with and/or becomes absorbed into it (foods, odors, substances placed on skin, etc) each having a different effect on its hormonal balances, autonomic nervous, and immune system responses according to how they are absorbed and physically effect cellular and DNA functions.


To clearly understand how indirect and direct  influences can effect the immune system a person needs to consider what is known about the physical senses ...  
                              


                                     
                               

                                     THE PHYSICAL SENSES

 * They provide people the ability to interpret the environment and perceive the reality they are in.

  
 * They initiate physical, emotional, and mental responses providing feelings from pleasure to fear and pain and everything in between in all that we do and experience.

 * The senses provoke both conscious and unconscious physical and mental reactions within people.

 * Each sense has a unique and complex way of providing messages to different area of the brain, stimulating past subconscious memories and responses while at the same time creating new short term  and subconscious memories.

 * Each sense absorbs environmental influences indirectly and directly both influencing hormonal responses within the body, which ultimately effects the immune system in either a positive or negative way.

 * Of our 5 physical senses there are 1, or 2,  that a person can be more dominate in and described as having a heightened sense.  Here is a perfect example of this...  
                       
                                     

                                        Sense of Smell: The Nose

Scientific research indicates the sense of  smell is strong at birth, and how a mother and child bonds.    A child’s sense of smell continues to heighten to around 8 years of age when it comes to a peak in life.   Read some interesting facts that science knows about the nose!

Other scientific research indicates there are 3 different type of smelling abilities that exist.  People tested were classified as having either a below average, average, or above average olfactory acuity and was also determined that 1/3 of our population each falls into one of these categories. This means 1/3 of our population has a heightened sense of smell and will be more sensitive to odor influences compared to the other 2/3 of the population.

  Of the 5 physical senses, the sense of smell is the only one that directly links to and communicates with the amygdala, these being part of the limbic system that are responsible for the formation and storage of memories associated with emotional events.  Memories that are created include the smells present in the environment as each of our experiences become imprinted into the subconscious mind. Similar emotional or physical influences can later trigger the same reactions and behaviors as the first experience had,  including many fear responses such as freezing (immobility), tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), increased respiration, and stress-hormone release that can also lead into what is known to be the flight or fight response.

It is known that the amygdalae are involved in emotional arousal by sending impulses to the hypothalamus for important activation of the sympathetic nervous system..      

Research on primates, as early as 1888,  provided explanations as to the functions of the amygdala where rhesus monkeys with lesioned temporal cortex's (including the amygdala) were observed to have significant social and emotional deficits. These findings prompted later research that confirmed significant findings of social and emotional deficits including overreaction to all objects, hypoemotionality, loss of fear, hypersexuality, and hyperorality, a condition in which inappropriate objects are placed in the mouth. inability to recognize familiar faces. Monkey mothers who had amygdala damage showed a reduction in maternal behaviors towards their infants, often physically abusing or neglecting them.

With advances in neuroimaging technology such as MRI, neuroscientists have had more recent significant findings concerning the amygdala in the human brain showing they play a substantial role in mental states, and is related to many psychological disorders. This means that unnatural chemical odors being breathed into the nose from the environmental pollutions are not only effecting physical responses, but may also be damaging this part of the  brain and having a huge effect on the social behaviors of millions of people in everything from child abuse to other forms of violent crimes or a persons increased chance of later suffering alzheimers disease..   
        

                                            Sense of taste: The Mouth


It is estimated that 70% of our ability to taste and distinguish different foods comes from the association the mouth has with the sense of smell. The mouth directs substances to the stomach as well as air to the lungs. If there are chemicals or heavy metals present in the air being breathed these enter the lungs and then directed into the blood system. If a child’s  blood brain barrier is underdeveloped or challenged many of these contaminations can also enter into the brain area, effecting its development and functioning.

While most substances do not remain in the mouth for long periods,  its soft tissues are known to be the most absorbent area of the body.  Substances placed under the tongue are rapidly absorbed and delivered directly to the blood and heart. This is why nitro glycerin tablets are placed under the tongue when a person is experiencing a heart attack.  It has been determined that 80% of medication administered under the tongue can be absorbed into the blood( stomachs absorption rate is less than 30%).


                                             Sense of  Vision:  The Eyes

 The eye of an adult measures 1 inch in diameter with only 1/6 of it being exposed,  it weighs approximately 28 grams. Your eyes are three and a half percent salt. The fluid that fills the eye is exchanged 15 times a day, providing a way for substances the eyes absorbs entering into the body.

The human eye is the only multi-focus lens in the world that can automatically adjust in 2 milliseconds, it has over 2 million working parts and processes 36,000 bits of information every hour. The most complex organ in the human body, aside from the brain, is the eye.    Your eyes use 65 percent of the total pathways to your brain and  85% of the total knowledge we receive comes from our vision.

The eyes can determine the intensity of the light as well as its color, or frequency. They can distinguish 500 different shades of gray, up to one million color surfaces, and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

The eyes are meant to absorb natural light, where they receive energy  from the sun’s  rays in similar way to how a plant processes the suns light. The eyes absorb colors and images which also effects a persons hormonal balances. They eyes physically absorb substances from the air or placed in or near them.

Sunglasses that do not offer UV protection are extremely harmful to the eyes because of how their shading  prevents the pupil from constricting when UV rays are present. Without their having a protective UV lens the eye ends up absorbing more UV rays than if a person wasn't wearing any sunglasses at all and the pupil constricted as it should.  A village in Africa having never experienced cancer before, started to once cheap sunglasses became popular there.

                               
                                              Sense of Hearing: The Ears

Just as the body responds with lightening speed (sympathetic response) to an unexpected loud noise by its rapid release of hormones rushing through the body making it possible for it to immediately jump, and run if needed, the body is effected by all other sounds it absorbs. Soft and enjoyable music can evoke pleasure ( parasympathetic nervous system engaged) and stimulate memories of past enjoyable experiences while contributing to new memories being formed in the now moment

The most influential to a persons mind and hormone balances are the words they hear and absorb subconsciously. Words have a very powerful effect to body responses where in testing negatives words used were seen to lower  muscle energy(vibrations) level in 3 seconds. You can see this in how a child's shoulders droop, they look down, and may release air in a sigh when being scolded or judged.  Positive words were measured to take 28 seconds for the body to respond in a positive way. You can see this response by how a person will come to stand straight, smile,  and having a sparkle in their eyes upon hearing positive words or receiving praise.

Hearing the same words repetitiously can lead to a conscious mind blocking them out, however, the words are still being absorbed into the subconscious and creating emotional triggers, that can still be very influential to how people respond and form beliefs in life. A person that listens to the same radio station all day that repeats the same stressing news all day can feel more stressed and depressed at the end of the day, although they may have closely listened to the report only once.       

Audio influences stimulate different hormonal responses and balances in a person which, as a whole,  will have either a positive or negative effect to behaviors, mental functions, quality of thoughts, memories being formed, and immune system functions, including potentially forming hormonal patterns and conditioned responses.

 A persons sympathetic nervous system can also become engage according to the images experienced in the mind (stimulated by the negative words, thoughts, experiences, and beliefs), where the body still prepares for action, using hormones to increase physical energy needed for response just as if the person were really experiencing these mental images in real life To better explain this... many people have experienced a visual hormonal response when they woke from a dream in which they were in the middle of a fall and felt how their body was actually “feeling”  the fall.

You can see a hormonal imbalance occur in people as they sit with unresolved frustrations and/or anger in how they become more and more agitated the longer they sit “brewing” over unresolved issues.   If a person does not release or balance these stressing hormones out, by physical activity or achieving  healthy mental conclusions,  these remain longer contributing to more negative consequences to the body and mind as a whole.

Another way people can be directly stressed in the ears is to have microbial infections present.


                                Sense of Touch & Sensations: THE SKIN

It’s easy to think of the skin as just a thing covering the bodies internal organs. But skin itself is an organ, that has multiple functions:

        * Protects against infection, abrasion, and water loss

        * Contains nerve endings sensitive to touch, pain, heat, and cold

        * Excretes water to regulate fluid and salt balance in the body          

        * Produces vitamin D from absorbing the rays in sunlight

        * Regulates body temperature (thermoregulation)

   The skin helps maintain constant body temperature while in different environments. When the body becomes too warm, blood vessels in the skin dilate, allowing heat to escape from the surface of the skin. Sweat glands produces a salty perspiration that evaporates off the surface of the skin, taking heat with it. The body also releases 30 percent of its toxins through its perspiration, and can reabsorb these if they are not rinsed or washed away.  The human skin sheds and re-grows itself completely every 27 days. Every day millions of dead skin cells fall from our body including the microorganisms and chemicals present on them.

The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin, making it the largest of our sensing organs.  In 1 square inch of skin there resides 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.  In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.  When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph. The skin, having so many nerves, is very responsive to vibrations and energy present in an environment, ones that cannot be seen or heard but still influences a persons hormonal responses.

The skin is absorbent where chemical substances placed on it can be delivered to the blood, lymphatic and nervous system in the same way the skin absorbs the medicine or nicotine from a skin patch. Once in the body these have a direct effect upon how the body produces and utilizes some of it several hundred hormones which regulate all the body does in functioning and in maintaining health.


Considering the synthetic chemicals used in consumer and industrial products today it becomes important to understand skin absorption factors of contaminants, the immune system effects,  and the lymphatic system relationship.


LYMPHATIC SYSTEM:

  What becomes absorbs into the skin enters either into the fat cells, blood system, or first into a closely integrated system called the lymphatic. Lymph vessels surround most veins and arteries absorbing any excess fluids released by them that circulates in the surrounding soft tissues.  What these vessels absorbs becomes directed to its lymph nodes where the immune system meets the fluids fighting and filtering out foreign substances (i.e bacteria, germs, chemicals) found in it before the lymph fluid becomes recycled back into the blood system.

The lymphatic system is very similar to the blood system only there is about four times the amount of lymphatic fluid compared to the volume of blood. Where the blood has the heart to pump it through the body,  the lymphatic system has no pump but instead relies of the bodies physical motion and its valves to keep its fluid going in only one direction. This system plays a critical role in moving and transporting fluids containing both nutrients and waste. It is known that if a persons lymphatic system fails to move a person has about 3 hours left to live, before all organs become overburdened by the non moving toxic waste and shut down.

When the lymphatic system is overburdened by chemicals or heavy metals they effect the ability of the immune system to properly function and in protecting the body from free radical damages or microorganism invasion.

By understanding their senses, and how they trigger hormonal and physical responses, a person can easily see the more serious concerns involved with the direct and indirect influences that people, especially children, are being unknowingly stressed by in unnatural diets, odors, lighting, noises, negative energy, and by numerous chemical and heavy metal contaminations. These all contributing to negative thought processes which further stimulate hyper or agitated responses as their bodies produces imbalanced amounts of stress hormones( i.e. cortisol, ACTH, and adrenaline),and they are unable to find a relaxed state to be in to be able to concentrate and learn.

Synthesized chemical and heavy metal contaminations effect a child growth and development where they can eventually become depressed, overweight, lacking physical and mental energy and/or experiencing neurological and emotional imbalances that increase their chances of later having serious health problems.

We have come to a critical time where I believe its of utmost importance for ALL people, for the childrens sake, to have a basic understanding of the pollutions and contaminations they are unknowingly being subjected to and how these are effecting the IMMUNE SYSTEM EFFECTS by visiting www.EndTheContaminations.com .