A few posts ago, you may have been surprised to read me say that our bodies have the capability to take care of themselves if they have the right resources. Well, it's true! There are many awe-inspiring and interesting things to be found out about the human body, and one of these ways is manifested is in sickness.
When your eating habits stray from the healthy necessity's, and you eat some stuff that is far from beneficial to your system, your body must clean that junk out somehow, and it usually does this through a cold or something. Many colds are caused, not by pathogens, but the need to get rid of the bad stuff. Even a fever is not directly caused by bacteria, but it is a reaction body creates in trying to get rid of the bacteria through raised body temperature, after it has identified that it actually has a virus. And isn't it a good thing that our immune system can identify viruses, and deal with them when it has identified them?
Next, our fingernails. Now you just look at your fingernails and tell me you don't need them. Without your finger and toe nails, the sensitivity of your fingertips would be greatly reduced, even though the nails don't have any feeling capacity's in themselves. The nails also act as a tool for diagnosing basic body health. Major illnesses and physiological imbalances will cause imperfections and maybe even damage to the nails, so that a basic diagnosis of your system can be made just by looking at your fingernails.
And earwax. Have you ever thought of why ears need that stuff? Well if something gets inside of your ear, such as dirt, earwax is created, and it manages to push that irritator out of your ear, and keep your ear clean enough to hear out of!
Psalm 117: Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!
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Good points, and that's just grazing the surface. Our bodies are amazingly complex. My dad always says he doesn't find it strange that something goes wrong with our body, he finds it incredible that it all works.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good post! It's true what you say, the body is a thing of incredible ingenuity. To some of us this shows Divine design. A complex organism such as the homosapien could not have come about by a series of chance mutations, it seems to me at least. By the way, about body parts: someone I knew at school lost his big toe in an accident, and did not think it would make a difference until he tried running a track race. Without his big toe he could not turn at the bend the way he used to. The toe had a reason for existing that he never realized.
ReplyDeleteThis modern lifestyle may make people wonder at this statement, but fingernails are also an amazing tool! I mean, how could one go picking ones nose without those things? But seriously, the human body is very incredible.
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