Today, we are going to explore the concept of the “internal terrain,” a highly relevant topic in today’s world. The word “terrain” comes from the Latin “terrenum,” which means “produced in or from the earth.” Essentially, it refers to a particular space, a geographic (organic, physiological or anatomical) zone where a being develops. Your health depends on the quality of your internal terrain.
Your Health Depends on the Quality of Your Internal Terrain
The concept of a stable internal environment was introduced by Claude Bernard in 1865. When we refer to the terrain of the human body, we are talking about all the bodily fluids that bathe the tissues and organs, especially human plasma and the extracellular space (the space surrounding all the cells in the body).
The human terrain can be compared to seawater. The marine ecosystem and its mineral balance are nearly identical to the human internal environment. This internal environment is a site for the exchange of metabolites, energy and information. The composition, structure, and balance of the internal environment or its homeostasis, depend entirely on cellular activity. In turn, the quality of cellular functioning depends on the integrity of this internal terrain.
Terrain refers to the set of predispositions a person has to develop certain types of pathologies. Its state perfectly reflects the health of the organism itself.
The Concept of Homeostasis
Homeostasis refers to the maintenance of the internal environment in a stable state, regardless of external fluctuations. The concept of homeostasis essentially means that the body seeks its own balance and will do whatever it takes to achieve it. We can consider the internal environment or terrain as consisting of a set of fluids that circulate and surround all cells.
Interstitial Fluid
Interstitial fluid is the liquid that surrounds all cells. As Dr. Alfred Pishinger stated, it is like an internal sea.
Relationship Between Internal Terrain and the Marine Environment
It is well known that the marine environment is the Earth’s most important ecosystem and could be considered a living marine organism with its own homeostasis, offering an impressive analogy to the human body’s internal environment.
For example, in the human body, the main buffer is the carbonate-bicarbonate system, whose cycle, linked to respiration, helps counterbalance the constant production of acidic metabolic byproducts to maintain a slightly alkaline pH.
The same process occurs in the marine internal environment, but the sea is an open circuit, while our body is a closed system, making it more susceptible to acidification.
Therefore, it can be unequivocally stated that our internal environment and seawater fulfill the same functions. Both are the result of continuous, programmed and essential processes that maintain the physical and chemical conditions necessary for life. In fact, analyses have shown that their respective compositions are identical.
Your Health Depends on the Quality of Your Internal Terrain
By understanding how the marine environment functions, we can better understand our own internal terrain. The sea is an open system that self-regulates; however, while our body possesses all the mechanisms needed to self-regulate, it can become imbalanced due to nutritional deficiencies, mineral and trace element deficits, lack of vitamins, environmental toxins like hormone disruptors, physical and emotional stress, our lifestyle and mindset.
Another analogy we like to use to describe our internal terrain is that of a fish tank.
Imagine your body is like a fish tank with all its filters. Now you know that our bodily fluids are similar to marine plasma, the water of the fish tank where the “cells” swim in their fluids.
The health of our “cells” (fish) depends directly on how clean and oxygenated is their environment — the water surrounding them.
If we fill the fish tank with more waste than it can eliminate, overfeed the fish, provide them with artificial foods devoid of vitamins and minerals, or stress them out, their immunity will decrease, and they are likely to become sick. Their terrain would become compromised.
Therefore, the solution is to keep the waters clean and oxygenated, regularly clean the filters so that the fish tank (your body) regains its homeostasis and balance, allowing the “cells” (fish) to stay healthy and maintain a strong, bulletproof immune system.
Don’t miss the second part of this article, where we will share everything you can do to positively support your terrain and enjoy powerful, bulletproof immunity.
