The Triangle of Health is a map for understanding the balance of the body:

Health Comes From Within

Even in the case of infectious disease, the health of the body is usually more important than external exposure. We all know people who seem to get every cold that comes along while others with the same exposure never get ill. We have all grown up under the influence of a mechanical disease model inherited from Louis Pasteur. But this model says nothing about the importance of the state of health of the immune system. Marcel Beauchamp lived at the time of Pasteur and had the idea that what was going on inside the body is at least as important as what we are exposed to from the outside. He talked about the importance of the interior mileau, the health environment inside the body, which either supports or resists infection. The pendulum of scientific thought seems to be swinging back towards supporting the healing process.

This is not to say that drugs such as antibiotics are never needed. Mainstream medicine is now recognizing that antibiotics are used much too frequently. One consequence is that bacteria are becoming increasingly more resistant to even the new, powerful and increasingly toxic antibiotics. And conventional medicine is silent about building immune strength before exposure.

Allergy, in the broadest sense, means the body has a negative reaction to any substance or environmental exposure.

• Allergies = Seasonal hay fever, itchy eyes and runny nose, or hives and itching and swelling types of allergies are those reactions which produce immediate inflammation. This includes airborne allergies, such as reactions to pollens and molds, immediate allergic reactions to foods including anaphylactic reactions to such things as peanuts and shellfish.