tell our brain when we are hungry or thirsty and breathing is an automatic, continuous process. Special cells within our body extract specific nutrients, vitamins, minerals and other compounds to provide energy and carry out many other functions. Human cells, for example, are designed to die and we are constantly rebuilding these cells as necessary. Our body provides the tools and the food, liquid and air provide the materials. Occasionally, stress, physical damage or some other factor causes a disturbance in these processes, which leads to an illness or disease. Sensors then activate special cells to go to battle against the disease and marshal the correct nutrients and compounds to remove the “diseased” cells, repair them where possible and, in some circumstances, completely rebuild the cells. This is a continuous process and happens every day. Quite often we are not even aware of it. The body is always striving to achieve a “balance” between defence, rebuilding, removing waste and the bit we know about – living. Sometimes things don’t quite work to plan and the defence systems are temporarily overpowered. We know something is wrong because we identify “Symptoms” – pain, headache, lack of energy, rash, swelling, bruising, stiffness and so on.


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