The Most Important Concept in Cleansing: Introduction to Internal Terrain

1. We each have an internal ocean of fluids, made up of our blood, our lymph, and our interstitial fluids. This "internal terrain" runs everywhere in our body.

2. This internal liquid terrain is a completely dynamic fluid. By "dynamic", I mean it changes. Constantly. All of the time. Our internal terrain's overall composition changes every day—every moment— by our lifestyle. We change its composition—meaning its pH, its mineral content, its levels of sludge, and sugar and fat, etc. —with what we eat, what we drink, with our daily activity (or lack of), even with our thoughts.

Think of a fish aquarium. It is possible to change the composition of the water that makes up the aquarium into one that is healthy for life (the fish, the plants, the snails), or one that is not healthy for life. You can even start with perfectly healthy water. But aquarium water is dynamic; its composition changes over time. It is affected by the plants, the fish, the overall environment. If the water's composition becomes a certain way, the fish thrive. If it becomes another way, the fish start getting symptoms; symptoms that show that they are no longer in peak health. Our own "internal aquarium" is very similar.

3. This composition of our internal terrain can be made into one that produces a healthy human, or one that produces a sick human, a human that starts getting symptoms.

4. One of the biggest ways we change our internal terrain is through food. A graphic example of the impact that food has on our internal terrain is the 2004 movie, Supersize Me, about a guy who ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month. Watch it at some point during your program. One of the best parts about it was the shock on his doctors' faces, as they saw the damage his diet was doing, far beyond anything they'd have thought possible inside of a few weeks.

5. In the processing of life—cells living and dying, muscles moving, blood building, lymphs draining, brains thinking, food digesting, everything—our internal terrain creates waste products.

An example. Eat a sandwich. Wait a day. What happened to the sandwich? Did the body use up every minute particular of that sandwich? No. We poop out what's left. This one of the body's many forms of metabolic waste.

Another example: take a breath in. Hold it a second. Now breathe out. Is what you breathed in the same thing as what you breathed out? No. You breathed in air. You breathed out carbon dioxide, one of elements that the body ends up with after it uses the air. Carbon dioxide is one of the body's forms of metabolic waste.

6. Normally, our body deals with waste products by moving them out through different channels: peeing (our kidneys and bladder), pooping (our stomach and intestines), breathing (lungs), etc. One of the least known ways our body gets rid of metabolic waste is our skin. In fact, our skin is our largest elimination organ.

7. The classic American diet produces a huge amount of metabolic waste, Over time, this waste clogs up the system (you'll prove this to yourself within the first month of a cleansing program). Instead of getting moved out through these elimination systems, it backs up. It is left in the body. This becomes poisonous/toxic to the body as a whole.

8. The large majority of every skin problem is the result of this backup of metabolic waste. When the amount of sludge (difficult to digest foods) is more than the other elimination systems can handle, it gets pushed out through the skin.

9. Anyone who personally witnesses the changes that occur to their body during any cleansing program comes to this same conclusion: the large majority of every digestive problem, skin condition, heart condition, blood/ bacteria/ fungus/ yeast/ internal terrain mess is the result of a metabolic toxic overload, stemming directly from the life-deadening and historically new food chain we and our children are currently consuming. Any witness to this process would conclude that Crohn’s and Proctitis are not some disease that just happens, but instead are each the end, visual result of a nutritional toxicity process that started a long time ago, and are as close to home as hand to mouth.

Learn to focus on your internal terrain. Stop getting sidetracked by your symptoms. Focus on a clean, life-producing internal terrain.