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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov
b) Defense reactions of the body’s immunological system (active phase of the disease).
c) Secreted toxins and metabolic waste products discharged into the body by the
infecting agent.
d) Structural changes in the diseased organs and systems.
Let us now look more closely at how diseases develop in the human organism.
When infection enters the body, the “intruders” at first are not very numerous, so
scarcely elicit any reaction at all on the part of the organism: the latter requires a certain
concentration of poisons and metabolic waste. Thus, initially, the infection develops
without any response from the human organism. This is the so-called incubation
period, the first stage of the disease. It is only after the developing pathogens
collectively inject a certain level of toxins into the bloodstream that the brain is alerted
to triggering the body’s defense mechanisms.
The immune system’s immediate response is to try to destroy the invaders. Its first
active defense reaction is to increase the bodily temperature. This is because most
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pathogens cannot survive a temperature elevation above 39–40 C. Thus, the organism,
without knowing “the face of the enemy” delivers a thermal strike against the
aggressor. Therefore, any therapeutic attempt to bring down a rise in temperature is
totally incorrect – except in the following cases:
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a) When the temperature reaches a certain critical level of about 42 C, which is the
point at which proteins start to coagulate. It is particularly important to prevent the
coagulation of fibrinogen (a blood protein) and the resultant production of fibrin, i.e.,
blood clots, which are potentially lethal to the body.
b) When the body on its own is unable to cope with the temperature elevation.
In all other instances, an active fever is simply a sign of an intense defense reaction on
the part of the body.
Meanwhile, as the pathogens try to recover from the thermal blow dealt by the
organism, the latter is busily keeping them under surveillance and starts producing
antibodies in an attempt to annihilate them. Phagocytes (white blood cells) also rally
to the defense – by absorbing the invader – killing themselves in the process and
producing a huge concentration of pus, which has an adverse effect on the organism.
The pathogens start adjusting to the new unhealthy conditions which the organism’s
survival battle creates for them.
They start changing – mutating – in order to continue their development any way they
can. It is, after all, a life and death struggle for them as well. Failure to adapt spells
their demise, for the human body represents their needed habitat. Thus, a competition
unfolds between the organism and the infection: whichever adapts faster will emerge
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