Health Corner: What’s Affecting Our Organs?
by Dan Allgyer, Amish farmer
According to a recent article in a local paper, a big breakthrough is about to happen with a recent project which scientists have long been working on and dreaming about. This article stated that, recently, a pig kidney was transplanted into a deceased recipient, and the body accepted it - unlike every other time this transplant was tried. The human body always rejected the pig kidney because the sugars in pig blood cells are foreign to the human body, so it always caused an immediate rejection. But the kidney from this animal came from a gene-edited animal, which was engineered to eliminate that sugar and to avoid an immune system attack.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the gene alteration in the pigs as safe for human use and medicine. This is a big breakthrough in science, since we currently have 90,000 people in the U.S. waiting for a kidney transplant and 12 people die every day while waiting for a kidney. The need for organs is becoming more and more urgent.
In China, Christians and other religious minorities who are in prison for their faith are often killed for their organs. This is a big money game for some doctors, and the organs are worth a lot more money if they are taken out of the person while he or she is alive. This is the way a lot of Christians die in China.
So maybe if pig organs were to become mainstream, it would take some of this pressure away for these organs. However, all this talk really has me wondering how we could become so smart as to figure out how to grow a pig which we can eat and use for organ transplants, but we never stop to question: Why do so many people need organ transplants? You would think it shouldn't take a very smart person to figure this out. Since the organs are filters for our bodies, it would make sense that something is wrong with the things we are putting into our bodies. It makes sense to me that there is a good explanation for why so many people are overloading their organs, and causing an all-time high in organ failure.
I believe this thought is completely dismissed by most people, and by many scientists, because of the FDA and because of all the rules and regulations we have in place in the U.S. to keep our food safe. If our house were to start burning or someone would show up and start shooting at us, we would call on our government and they would do their best to protect us. I believe this creates a big trust in our government, and we never bother to question the decisions they make for us pertaining to our food. So, I believe we are actually trusting “someone” whom we have never met and who doesn’t know a thing about us — and what they really want from us is our money in order to make our food safety decisions for us.
I believe food is the number one cause for the high rate of organ failure we are seeing, though it is not the only cause. I would like to explore some other reasons I believe we are having so many organ failures.
Our body, mind, and spirit are intimately interconnected. We are just scratching the surface of this, and I believe we need to return to a more Biblical method of understanding these connections. The ancient philosophers and Bible writers understood the intertwining of body, mind, and spirit. I believe the new sophisticated thinkers have lost their way as they dismiss past wisdom. So, we need to find the road back. Historically it was accepted that our emotions were tied to our physical bodies. Sadness, nervousness, tension, anger, worry, fear, grudges, and overwork are each associated with a particular organ in our body. When these emotion are out of balance, it can lead to disease, producing further stress.
Here is a list of emotions and how they are tied to our organs:
If we get offended, it will cause the gallbladder bile to be released, creating a sick feeling.
Anger will increase blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing - therefore affecting the lungs and heart.
Grief impacts the lungs, as well.
Frustration, bitterness, and resentment affect the liver and gallbladder.
Hate, disgust, and impatience affect the heart and small intestine.
Worry and anxiety affect the spleen, stomach, and pancreas.
Sadness and depression affect the lungs and large intestine.
Fear and fright affect the kidneys and bladder
I'm not sure what pride affects, but I'm sure it comes in somewhere.
A grudge will lock up the system, keeping the body from being able to heal correctly.
I once heard a person say it is better to eat at McDonald’s and be happy about it, than it would be to eat healthy and be disgusted with it — and I believe this has some truth to it. If we look at this list above, and top it off with what the news media is doing and talking about, it is no wonder to me that we have a lot of organ failure in our country.
The good news is that, similar to my ability to change my diet, I don’t have to be a victim to these emotions. I think that if we can rightfully understand our emotions, we can stop being so compulsively driven. I believe God will teach us to understand ourselves and others, and he will do this so that we can learn how to return to Him and abide in Him in the midst of our trials.
Remember that what we feed our bodies - and this includes what we eat and think - is what our organs need to filter in order to feed the body and brain. The cleaner we can eat and think, the less stress there will be on the organs, body, and brain.
I believe that the devil has many tools, and that he is trying his best to control what we put into our body, so he can have our mind and spirit as well.
We are body, mind, and spirit - all wonderfully and marvelously interconnected. I don't know of a better medicine than to be completely at peace with God, and to rest and abide in His presence.