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The body always wants to come back into balance. Example of a healthy vs. sick person…

Healthy:
- comes back to homeostasis quickly
- doesn’t get sick as often

Sick:
- slow to homeostasis, or doesn’t come back at all
- open to infectious and degenerative diseases.

Modern life has many more stressors than our body was designed to handle. God has given us adaptive abilities to endure various environmental conditions/lifestyle indiscretions.

Enzymes cannot function without minerals
Minerals cannot function with vitamins.
Vitamins cannot function without minerals.

Hormones cannot function without minerals.
Hormones are very important to keep the body in homeostasis.

Metabolic Enzymes:
- exist throughout the whole body organs & tissues.
- do the work to keep things running
- don’t work without minerals

Digestive Enzymes
- help digest food and utilize nutrients
- food can become toxic without digestive enzymes
- you can get tested for enzyme deficiency

Learned the definition of homeostasis—maintenance of internal stability through coordinated body systems even through environmental changes.

God designed our bodies to be able to withstand various environmental conditions and lifestyle indiscretions!

- You are in control of your body’s chemistry balance through lifestyle choices.
- Unbalancing effects of lifestyle choices leads to health breakdowns—upset body chemistry
- We have built-in adaptive abilities to help us rebalance after making better choices!

Homeostasis: The body functions best when it is in balance. Glands secreting right amount of hormones and ability to detoxify from the environment.

Write out all the ways we can upset our body chemistry and throw it out of homeostasis.

Write out what it takes to be in continuous healing mode.

The concept of homeostasis should be at the core of any health treatment plan.

Food combination & portions to allow for proper digestion.