Why do people come down with diseases, especially renal failure? It is because of toxins in their system and lack of oxygen, says a naturopath, Dr Benjamin Afolabi.
According to him, people have toxic in their system because of the kind of food and drinks they take. This, he added, causes lack of adequate flow of oxygen in their system.
Most people, he said, do not eat healthily as they consume junk food only.
This, according to him, usually affects their system because the food would have formed mucus that causes blockages to the flow of oxygen to various parts of the body.
Besides, this usually prevents the body from protecting itself from external attacks.
Afolabi, Chief Executive Officer of Health Eternal Naturopathic Clinic in Ile Ife, Osun State, said many suffer from all kinds of ailments because they have abused themselves over the years with what they consume.
“Some food and drinks are dangerous to people’s health. So, troubles usually start when the system is overwhelmed as immunity wanes,” he said.
He identified food made of white flour such as bread and cake as mucus forming food that can clog the body.
He added: “Dairy products, such as cheese, yoghurt and milk are other foods that can affect the system. People cannot keep away from these food because they are delicious”.
The disease, he said, often brews when oxygen cannot reach some vital organs of the body. “Bacteria in the body like an environment where oxygen cannot reach. But when the body is flooded with oxygen diseases are put at bay. Anybody with kidney disease or renal failure, has many problems with bacteria and lack of oxygen,” he said.
He said people should eat organically grown food because chemicals, such as fertilizers, additives, colouring and preservatives usually end in people’s body to form toxic.
“When they are in the body, they provide environment for disease to develop. Seventy percent of the body is water and once the water is clogged oxygen cannot flow to all parts of the body,” he said.
The kidneys, he said, do a lot of work to filter junks circulating in the body. The liver detoxifies the chemicals to correct them to something that can be passed to the kidney.
“If the body is not well-made by God, people would not last for five years because poor eating habit,” he said.
The human system, he said, would succumb to toxicity and lack of circulation of oxygen. People, according to him, can do without food and drinks for days, but not so with oxygen.
“People die within minutes when there is no oxygen. Oxygen is one of the principal things the body needs to survive. So, when water and blood are clogged because of “murky” environment caused by food, they automatically lose the oxygen. They would not be able to carry oxygen to all parts of the body,” he said.
Oxygen, he said, is very important, adding that once the heart cannot take oxygenated blood to some parts of the body, the person dies.
He said human system makes all organs linked, and as such, holistic care must be initiated.
Afolabi said the first step to nurture the sick to life was to detoxify the system with herbs.
“For kidney disease, herbs such as juniper berries and palsey roots are used. We use wormwood, barberry and wild yam for liver detox,” he said.
The naturopath said most people having the treatment may first look worse-off because the herbs would have gone to all nooks and crannies of the body to push out the toxins into the blood stream.
Why? The body would have been overloaded with toxins. This makes the patient feel groggy and weak. He may also be vomiting, but he should not be alarmed because it is the healing process taking place.
To make the detoxification effective, he said, the elimination channels, such as the bowels must be opened, that is, the sick must pass out waste products.
“It should be one meal in and one meal out. If there is no waste coming out it can cause what naturopathic doctors called auto-detoxification, which is the back flow of waste product,” Afolabi said.
He recommended that the body be nourished or fed with all the vitamins, minerals and enzymes it needs to repair all the damage. This, he said, comes after cleansing and detoxification.
“One thing we all should be mindful of is the fact that it’s the body that heals itself, not the doctor or drugs or any outside influence.
“What we can only do is to provide the body all the tools it needs to heal itself and these can be found in proper nourishment that contains all the building blocks of the human cells and organs, that is, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids, among others,” Afolabi said.
