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From:	Dr. Doug Graham (DrGraham.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: Dr. Doug : Lip Sores, Skin Warts, No such thing as Immune System?
Date:	November 2, 2012 at 5:13 am PST

In Reply to: Dr. Doug : Lip Sores, Skin Warts, No such thing as Immune System? posted by Libre on November 1, 2012 at 4:17 pm:

Great questions. The short answers will leave you with many more questions, and the long answers are really long, too long for this forum. In Costa Rica, for instance, I give a presentation to my interns on this very topic, but it takes a full 90 minutes to introduce the subject, and a week to explore it fully. I'll do my best here, considering the restrictions.

No new anatomical structures were discovered at the time when the concept of an "immune system" was introduced. Instead, a new twist was added to anatomy, the idea of "physiological anatomy." In the old system, anatomical structures could only be classed in one system, at a time. This mean that bones were part of the skeletal system, muscles part of the muscular system, blood part of the circulatory system, etc. There was even the understanding that certain parts, such as red blood cells, (which develop in the marrow of long bones and eventually are transferred to the bloodstream) could switch from one system to another as they matured. But structures could only be in one system.

The new system considers the functions of structures. Traditionally, function has always been the domain of physiology, not anatomy. In this new version of anatomy, white blood cells are part of the circulatory system from a structural vantage point, and part of the immune system from a physiological view point.

Immunity implies that we are not going to be held responsible for our actions, not going to have to pay the price, so to speak. Personally, I don't believe that we can ever escape being responsible, and I do not believe an anatomical structure can be in two systems at once; hence I do not support the concept of an immune system.

Certainly I was not told "all my life" that stress taxes my immune system. The idea of an immune system was not even introduced until the 1980's.

Perhaps we are simply playing word games. My understanding is that when you lower your vitality, through exposure to stresses including insufficient recovery, body chemistry and other functional efficiency changes, and symptoms accrue. Remove the cause(s) and the body heals itself.

I hope this helps.

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