,how and ,when to ,be ,your ,own ,doctor by ,dr4 ,isabelle ,a4 ,moser with ,steve ,solomon ,steve ,solomon1 ,june1 #aiig4 ,table of ,contents ,forward by ,steve ,solomon ,chapter ,one3 ,how ,i ,became a ,hygienist ,chapter ,two3 ,the ,nature and ,cause of ,disease ,chapter ,three3 ,fasting ,chapter ,four3 ,colon ,cleansing ,chapter ,five3 ,diet and ,nutrition ,chapter ,six3 ,vitamins and ,other ,food ,supplements ,chapter ,seven3 ,the ,analysis of ,disease ,states--,helping the ,body ,recover ,appendices ,forward ,tis a gift to be simple ,tis a gift to be free1 ,tis a gift to come down ,where we ought to be4 ,and when we find ourselves ,in a place just right1 ,it will be in the valley ,of love and delight4 ,old ,shaker ,hymn ,favorite of ,dr4 ,isabelle ,moser ,i was a physically tough1 happy-go-lucky fellow until ,i reached my late thirties4 ,then ,i began to experience more and more off days when ,i did not feel quite right4 ,i thought ,i possessed an iron constitution4 ,although ,i grew a big food garden and ate mostly vegetablitarian ,i thought ,i could eat anything with impunity4 ,i had been fond of drinking beer with my friends while nibbling on salty snacks or heavy foods late into the night4 ,and until my health began to weaken ,i could still get up the next morning after several homebrewed beers1 feeling good1 and would put in a solid day's work4 ,when my health began to slip ,i went looking for a cure4 ,up to that time the only use ,i'd had for doctors was to fix a few traumatic injuries4 ,the only preventative health care ,i concerned myself with was to take a multivitamin pill during those rare spells when ,i felt a bit run down and to eat lots of vegetables4 ,so ,i'd not learned much about alternative health care4 ,naturally1 my first stop was a local general practitioner_/,,md4 ,he gave me his usual half-hour get-acquainted checkout and opined that there almost certainly was nothing wrong with me4 ,i suspect ,i had the good fortune to encounter an honest doctor1 because he also said if it were my wish he could send me around for numerous tests but most likely these would not reveal anything either4 ,more than likely1 all that was wrong was that ,i was approaching #dj2 with the onset of middle age ,i would naturally have more aches and pains4 ',take some aspirin and get used to it1' was his advice4 ',it'll only get worse4' ,not satisfied with his dismal prognosis ,i asked an energetic old guy ,i knew named ,paul1 an '#hj-something homesteader who was renowned for his organic garden and his good health4 ,paul referred me to his doctor1 ,isabelle ,moser1 who at that time was running the ,great ,oaks ,school of ,health1 a residential and out-patient spa nearby at ,creswell1 ,oregon4 ,dr4 ,moser had very different methods of analysis than the medicos1 was warmly personal and seemed very safe to talk to4 ,she looked me over1 did some strange magical thing she called muscle testing and concluded that ,i still had a very strong constitution4 ,if ,i would eliminate certain bad foods from my diet1 eliminate some generally healthful foods that1 unfortunately1 ,i was allergic to1 if ,i would reduce my alcohol intake greatly and take some food supplements1 then gradually my symptoms would abate4 ,with the persistent application of a little self-discipline over several months1 maybe six months1 ,i could feel really well again almost all the time and would probably continue that way for many years to come4 ,this was good news1 though the need to apply personal responsibility toward the solution of my problem seemed a little sobering4 ,but ,i could also see that ,dr4 ,moser was obviously not telling me something4 ,so ,i gently pressed her for the rest4 ,a little shyly1 reluctantly1 as though she were used to being rebuffed for making such suggestions1 ,isabelle asked me if ,i had ever heard of fasting8 ,yes1 ,i said4 ,i had4 ,once when ,i was about twenty and staying at a farm in ,missouri1 during a bad flu ,i actually did fast1 mainly because ,i was too sick to take anything but water for nearly one week4 ,why do you ask8 ,i demanded4 ,if you would fast1 you will start feeling really good as soon as the fast is over4 she said4 ,fast8 ,how long8 ,some have fasted for a month or even longer1 she said4 ,then she observed my crestfallen expression and added1 ,even a couple of weeks would make an enormous difference4 ,it just so happened that ,i was in between set-up stages for a new mail-order business ,i was starting and right then ,i did have a couple of weeks when ,i was virtually free of responsibility4 ,i could also face the idea of not eating for a couple of weeks4 ,okay6 ,i said somewhat impulsively4 ,i could fast for two weeks4 ,if ,i start right now maybe even three weeks1 depending on how my schedule works out4 ,so in short order ,i was given several small books about fasting to read at home and was mentally preparing myself for several weeks of severe privation1 my only sustenance to be water and herb tea without sweetener4 ,and then came the clinker4 ,have you ever heard of colonics8 she asked sweetly4 ,yes4 ,weird practice1 akin to anal sex or something8 ,not at all1 she responded4 ,colonics are essential during fasting or you will have spells when you'll feel terrible4 ,only colonics make water fasting comfortable and safe4 ,then followed some explanation about bowel cleansing 7and another little book to take home7 and soon ,i was agreeing to get my body over to her place for a colonic every two or three days during the fasting period1 the first colonic scheduled for the next afternoon4 ,i'll spare you a detailed description of my first fast with colonics2 you'll read about others shortly4 ,in the end ,i withstood the boredom of water fasting for #ag days4 ,during the fast ,i had about #g colonics4 ,i ended up feeling great1 much trimmer1 with an enormous rebirth of energy4 ,and when ,i resumed eating it turned out to be slightly easier to control my dietary habits and appetites4 ,thus began my practice of an annual health-building water fast4 ,once a year1 at whatever season it seemed propitious1 ,i'd set aside a couple of weeks to heal my body4 ,while fasting ,i'd slowly drive myself over to ,great ,oaks ,school for colonics every other day4 ,by the end of my third annual fast in #aiha1 ,isabelle and ,i had become great friends4 ,about this same time ,isabelle's relationship with her first husband1 ,douglas ,moser1 had disintegrated4 ,some months later1 ,isabelle and ,i became partners4 ,and then we married4 ,my regular fasts continued through #aihd1 by which time ,i had recovered my fundamental organic vigor and had retrained my dietary habits4 ,about #aihc ,isabelle and ,i also began using ,life ,extension megavitamins as a therapy against the aging process4 ,feeling so much better ,i began to find the incredibly boring weeks of prophylactic fasting too difficult to motivate myself to do1 and ,i stopped4 ,since that time ,i fast only when acutely ill4 ,generally less than one week on water handles any non-optimum health condition ,i've had since '#hd4 ,i am only #ed years old as ,i write these words1 so ,i hope it will be many1 many years before ,i find myself in the position where ,i have to fast for an extended period to deal with a serious or life-threatening condition4 ,i am a kind of person the ,spanish call autodidactico1 meaning that ,i prefer to teach myself4 ,i had already learned the fine art of self-employment and general small-business practice that way1 as well as radio and electronic theory1 typography and graphic design1 the garden seed business1 horticulture1 and agronomy4 ,when ,isabelle moved in with me she also brought most of ,great ,oak's extensive library1 including very hard to obtain copies of the works of the early hygienic doctors4 ,naturally ,i studied her books intensely4 ,isabelle also brought her medical practice into our house4 ,at first it was only a few loyal local clients who continued to consult with her on an out-patient basis1 but after a few years1 the demands for residential care from people who were seriously and sometimes life-threateningly sick grew irresistibly1 and ,i found myself sharing our family house with a parade of really sick people4 ,true1 ,i was not their doctor1 but because her residential clients became temporary parts of our family1 ,i helped support and encourage our residents through their fasting process4 ,i'm a natural teacher 7and how-to-do-it writer71 so ,i found myself explaining many aspects of hygienic medicine to ,isabelle's clients1 while having a first-hand opportunity to observe for myself the healing process at work4 ,thus it was that ,i became the doctor's assistant and came to practice second-hand hygienic medicine4 ,in #aiid1 when ,isabelle had reached the age of #ed1 she began to think about passing on her life's accumulation of healing wisdom by writing a book4 ,she had no experience at writing for the popular market1 her only major writing being a ,ph4,d4 dissertation4 ,i on the other hand had published seven books about vegetable gardening4 ,and ,i grasped the essentials of her wisdom as well as any non-practitioner could4 ,so we took a summer off and rented a house in rural ,costa ,rica1 where ,i helped ,isabelle put down her thoughts on a cheap word-processing typewriter4 ,when we returned to the ,states1 ,i fired-up my big-mac and composed this manuscript into a rough book format that was given to some of her clients to get what is trendily called these days1 feedback4 ,but before we could completely finish her book1 ,isabelle became dangerously ill and after a long1 painful struggle with abdominal cancer1 she died4 ,after ,i resurfaced from the worst of my grief and loss1 ,i decided to finish her book4 ,fortunately1 the manuscript needed little more than polishing4 ,i am telling the reader these things because many ghost-written books end up having little direct connection with the originator of the thoughts4 ,not so in this case4 ,and unlike many ghost writers1 ,i had a long and loving apprenticeship with the author4 ,at every step of our colaboration on this book ,i have made every effort to communicate ,isabelle's viewpoints in the way she would speak1 not my own4 ,dr4 ,isabelle ,moser was for many years my dearest friend4 ,i have worked on this book to help her pass her understanding on4 ,many people consider death to be a complete invalidation of a healing arts practitioner4 ,i don't4 ,coping with her own dicey health had been a major motivator for ,isabelle's interest in healing others4 ,she will tell you more about it in the chapters to come4 ,isabelle had been fending off cancer since its first blow up when she was #bf years old4 ,i view that #cj plus years of defeating ,death as a great success rather than consider her ultimate defeat as a failure4 ,isabelle ,moser was born in #aidj and died in #aiif4 ,i think the greatest accomplishment of her #ef years was to meld virtually all available knowledge about health and healing into a workable and most importantly1 a simple model that allowed her to have amazing success4 ,her system is simple enough that even a generally well-educated non-medico like me can grasp it4 ,and use it without consulting a doctor every time a symptom appears4 ,finally1 ,i should mention that over the years since this book was written ,i have discovered contains some significant errors of anatomical or psysiological detail4 ,most of these happened because the book was written off the top of ,isabelle's head1 without any reference materials at hand1 not even an anatomy text4 ,i have not fixed these goofs as ,i am not even qualified to find them all4 ,thus1 when the reader reads such as 'the pancreas secreates enzymes into the stomach1' 7actually and correctly1 the duodenum7 ,i hope they will understand and not invalidate the entire book4 ,chapter ,one ,how ,i ,became a ,hygienist ,from ,the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,doctors4 #a ,in the matter of disease and healing1 the people have been treated as serfs4 ,the doctor is a dictator who knows it all1 and the people are stupid1 dumb1 driven cattle1 fit for nothing except to be herded together1 bucked and gagged when necessary to force medical opinion down their throats or under their skins4 ,i found that professional dignity was more often pomposity1 sordid bigotry and gilded ignorance4 ,the average physician is a fear-monger1 if he is anything4 ,he goes about like a roaring lion1 seeking whom he may scare to death4 ,dr4 ,john4 ,h4 ,tilden1 ,impaired ,health3 ,its ,cause and ,cure1 ,vol4 #a1 #aiba4 #b ,today we are not only in the ,nuclear ,age but also the ,antibiotic ,age4 ,unhappily1 too1 this is the ,dark ,age of ,medicine--an age in which many of my colleagues1 when confronted with a patient1 consult a volume which rivals the ,manhattan telephone directory in size4 ,this book contains the names of thousands upon thousands of drugs used to alleviate the distressing symptoms of a host of diseased states of the body4 ,the doctor then decides which pink or purple or baby-blue pill to prescribe for the patient4 ,this is not1 in my opinion1 the practice of medicine4 ,far too many of these new miracle drugs are introduced with fanfare and then reveled as lethal in character1 to be silently discarded for newer and more powerful drugs4 ,dr4 ,henry ,bieler3 ,food is ,your ,best ,medicine2 #aife4 ,i have two reasons for writing this book4 ,one1 to help educate the general public about the virtues of natural medicine4 ,the second1 to encourage the next generation of natural healers4 ,especially the second because it is not easy to become a natural hygienist2 there is no school or college or licensing board4 ,most ,,ama-affiliated physicians follow predictable career paths1 straight well-marked roads1 climbing through apprenticeships in established institutions to high financial rewards and social status4 ,practitioners of natural medicine are not awarded equally high status1 rarely do we become wealthy1 and often1 naturopaths arrive at their profession rather late in life after following the tangled web of their own inner light4 ,so ,i think it is worth a few pages to explain how ,i came to practice a dangerous profession and why ,i have accepted the daily risks of police prosecution and civil liability without possibility of insurance4 ,sometimes it seems to me that ,i began this lifetime powerfully predisposed to heal others4 ,so1 just for childhood warm-ups ,i was born into a family that would be much in need of my help4 ,as ,i've always disliked an easy win1 to make rendering that help even more difficult1 ,i decided to be the youngest child1 with two older brothers4 ,a pair of big1 capable brothers might have guided and shielded me4 ,but my life did not work out that way4 ,the younger of my two brothers1 three years ahead of me1 was born with many health problems4 ,he was weak1 small1 always ill1 and in need of protection from other children1 who are generally rough and cruel4 ,my father abandoned our family shortly after ,i was born2 it fell to my mother to work to help support us4 ,before ,i was adolescent my older brother left home to pursue a career in the ,canadian ,air ,force4 ,though ,i was the youngest1 ,i was by far the healthiest4 ,consequently1 ,i had to pretty much raise myself while my single mother struggled to earn a living in rural western ,canada4 ,this circumstance probably reinforced my constitutional predilection for independent thought and action4 ,early on ,i started to protect my little brother1 making sure the local bullies didn't take advantage of him4 ,i learned to fight big boys and win4 ,i also helped him acquire simple skills1 ones that most kids grasp without difficulty1 such as swimming1 bike riding1 tree climbing1 etc4 ,and though not yet adolescent1 ,i had to function as a responsible adult in our household4 ,stressed by anger over her situation and the difficulties of earning our living as a country school teacher 7usually in remote one-room schools71 my mother's health deteriorated rapidly4 ,as she steadily lost energy and became less able to take care of the home1 ,i took over more and more of the cleaning1 cooking1 and learned how to manage her--a person who feels terrible but must work to survive4 ,during school hours my mother was able to present a positive attitude1 and was truly a gifted teacher4 ,however1 she had a personality quirk4 ,she obstinately preferred to help the most able students become even more able1 but she had little desire to help those with marginal mentalities4 ,this predilection got her into no end of trouble with local school boards2 inevitably it seemed the ,district ,chairman would have a stupid1 badly-behaved child that my mother refused to cater to4 ,several times we had to move in the middle of the school year when she was dismissed without notice for insubordination4 ,this would inevitably happen on the frigid ,canadian ,prairies during mid-winter4 ,at night1 exhausted by the day's efforts1 my mother's positiveness dissipated and she allowed her mind to drift into negative thoughts1 complaining endlessly about my irresponsible father and about how much she disliked him for treating her so badly4 ,these emotions and their irresponsible expression were very difficult for me to deal with as a child1 but it taught me to work on diverting someone's negative thoughts1 and to avoid getting dragged into them myself1 skills ,i had to use continually much later on when ,i began to manage mentally and physically ill clients on a residential basis4 ,my own personal health problems had their genesis long before my own birth4 ,our diet was awful1 with very little fresh fruit or vegetables4 ,we normally had canned1 evaporated milk1 though there were a few rare times when raw milk and free-range fertile farm eggs were available from neighbors4 ,most of my foods were heavily salted or sugared1 and we ate a great deal of fat in the form of lard4 ,my mother had little money but she had no idea that some of the most nutritious foods are also the least expensive4 ,it is no surprise to me that considering her nutrient-poor1 fat-laden diet and stressful life1 my mother eventually developed severe gall bladder problems4 ,her degeneration caused progressively more and more severe pain until she had a cholecystectomy4 ,the gallbladder's profound deterioration had damaged her liver as well1 seeming to her surgeon to require the removal of half her liver4 ,after this surgical insult she had to stop working and never regained her health4 ,fortunately1 by this time all her children were independent4 ,i had still more to overcome4 ,my eldest brother had a nervous breakdown while working on the ,,dew ,line 7he was posted on the ,arctic ,circle watching radar screens for a possible incoming attack from ,russia74 ,i believe his collapse actually began with our childhood nutrition4 ,while in the ,arctic all his foods came from cans4 ,he also was working long hours in extremely cramped quarters with no leave for months in a row1 never going outside because of the cold1 or having the benefit of natural daylight4 ,when he was still in the acute stage of his illness 7,i was still a teenager myself7 ,i went to the hospital where my bother was being held1 and talked the attending psychiatrist into immediately discharging him into my care4 ,the physician also agreed to refrain from giving him electroshock therapy1 a commonly used treatment for mental conditions in ,canadian hospitals at that time4 ,somehow ,i knew the treatment they were using was wrong4 ,i brought my brother home still on heavy doses of thorazine4 ,the side effects of this drug were so severe he could barely exist3 blurred vision1 clenched jaw1 trembling hands1 and restless feet that could not be kept still4 ,these are common problems with the older generation of psycho tropic medications1 generally controlled to some extent with still other drugs like cogentin 7which he was taking too74 ,my brother steadily reduced his tranquilizers until he was able to think and do a few things4 ,on his own he started taking a lot of ,b vitamins and eating whole grains4 ,i do not know exactly why he did this1 but ,i believe he was following his intuition4 7,i personally did not know enough to suggest a natural approach at that time47 ,in any case after three months on vitamins and an improved diet he no long needed any medication1 and was delighted to be free of their side effects4 ,he remained somewhat emotionally fragile for a few more months but he soon returned to work1 and has had no mental trouble from that time to this day4 ,this was the beginning of my interest in mental illness1 and my first exposure to the limitations of 'modern' psychiatry4 ,i always preferred self-discipline to being directed by others4 ,so ,i took every advantage of having a teacher for a mother and studied at home instead of being bored silly in a classroom4 ,in ,canada of that era you didn't have to go to high school to enter university1 you only had to pass the written government entrance exams4 ,at age #af1 never having spent a single day in high school1 ,i passed the university entrance exams with a grade of #ig percent4 ,at that point in my life ,i really wanted to go to medical school and become a doctor1 but ,i didn't have the financial backing to embark on such a long and costly course of study1 so ,i settled on a four year nursing course at the ,university of ,alberta1 with all my expenses paid in exchange for work at the university teaching hospital4 ,at the start of my nurses training ,i was intensely curious about everything in the hospital3 birth1 death1 surgery1 illness1 etc4 ,i found most births to be joyful1 at least when everything came out all right4 ,most people died very alone in the hospital1 terrified if they were conscious1 and all seemed totally unprepared for death1 emotionally or spiritually4 ,none of the hospital staff wanted to be with a dying person except me2 most hospital staff were unable to confront death any more bravely than those who were dying4 ,so ,i made it a point of being at the death bed4 ,the doctors and nurses found it extremely unpleasant to have to deal with the preparation of the dead body for the morgue2 this chore usually fell to me also4 ,i did not mind dead bodies4 ,they certainly did not mind me6 ,i had the most difficulty accepting surgery4 ,there were times when surgery was clearly a life saving intervention1 particularly when the person had incurred a traumatic injury1 but there were many other cases when1 though the knife was the treatment of choice1 the results were disastrous4 ,whenever ,i think of surgery1 my recollections always go to a man with cancer of the larynx4 ,at that time the ,university of ,alberta had the most respected surgeons and cancer specialists in the country4 ,to treat cancer they invariably did surgery1 plus radiation and chemotherapy to eradicate all traces of cancerous tissue in the body1 but they seemed to forget there also was a human being residing in that very same cancerous body4 ,this particularly unfortunate man came into our hospital as a whole human being1 though sick with cancer4 ,he could still speak1 eat1 swallow1 and looked normal4 ,but after surgery he had no larynx1 nor esophagus1 nor tongue1 and no lower jaw4 ,the head surgeon1 who1 by the way1 was considered to be a virtual god amongst gods1 came back from the operating room smiling from ear to ear1 announcing proudly that he had 'got all the cancer'4 ,but when ,i saw the result ,i thought he'd done a butcher's job4 ,the victim couldn't speak at all1 nor eat except through a tube1 and he looked grotesque4 ,worst1 he had lost all will to live4 ,i thought the man would have been much better off to keep his body parts as long as he could1 and die a whole person able to speak1 eating if he felt like it1 being with friends and family without inspiring a gasp of horror4 ,i was sure there must be better ways of dealing with degenerative conditions such as cancer1 but ,i had no idea what they might be or how to find out4 ,there was no literature on medical alternatives in the university library1 and no one in the medical school ever hinted at the possibility except when the doctors took jabs at chiropractors4 ,since no one else viewed the situation as ,i did ,i started to think ,i might be in the wrong profession4 ,it also bothered me that patients were not respected1 were not people2 they were considered a case or a condition4 ,i was frequently reprimanded for wasting time talking to patients1 trying to get acquainted4 ,the only place in the hospital where human contact was acceptable was the psychiatric ward4 ,so ,i enjoyed the rotation to psychiatry for that reason1 and decided that ,i would like to make psychiatry or psychology my specialty4 ,by the time ,i finished nursing school1 it was clear that the hospital was not for me4 ,i especially didn't like its rigid hierarchical system1 where all bowed down to the doctors4 ,the very first week in school we were taught that when entering a elevator1 make sure that the doctor entered first1 then the intern1 then the charge nurse4 ,followed by1 in declining order of status3 graduate nurses1 third year nurses1 second year nurses1 first year nurses1 then nursing aids1 then orderlies1 then ward clerks1 and only then1 the cleaning staff4 ,no matter what the doctor said1 the nurse was supposed to do it immediately without question--a very military sort of organization4 ,nursing school wasn't all bad4 ,i learned how to take care of all kinds of people with every variety of illness4 ,i demonstrated for myself that simple nursing care could support a struggling body through its natural healing process4 ,but the doctor-gods tended to belittle and denigrate nurses4 ,no wonder--so much of nursing care consists of unpleasant chores like bed baths1 giving enemas and dealing with other bodily functions4 ,i also studied the state-of-the-art science concerning every conceivable medical condition1 its symptoms1 and treatment4 ,at the university hospital nurses were required to take the same pre-med courses as the doctors--including anatomy1 physiology1 biochemistry1 and pharmacology4 ,consequently1 ,i think it is essential for holistic healers to first ground themselves in the basic sciences of the body's physiological systems4 ,there is also much valuable data in standard medical texts about the digestion1 assimilation1 and elimination4 ,to really understand illness1 the alternative practitioner must be fully aware of the proper functioning of the cardiovascular_/pulmonary system1 the autonomic and voluntary nervous system1 the endocrine system1 plus the mechanics and detailed nomenclature of the skeleton1 muscles1 tendons and ligaments4 ,also it is helpful to know the conventional medical models for treating various disorders1 because they do appear to work well for some people1 and should not be totally invalidated simply on the basis of one's philosophical or religious viewpoints4 ,many otherwise well-meaning holistic practitioners1 lacking an honest grounding in science1 sometimes express their understanding of the human body in non-scientific1 metaphysical terms that can seem absurd to the well-instructed4 ,i am not denying here that there is a spiritual aspect to health and illness2 ,i believe there are energy flows in and around the body that can effect physiological functioning4 ,i am only suggesting that to discuss illness without hard science is like calling oneself a abstract artist because the painter has no ability to even do a simple1 accurate representational drawing of a human figure4 ,though hospital life had already become distasteful to me ,i was young and poor when ,i graduated4 ,so after nursing school ,i buckled down and worked just long enough to save enough money to obtain a masters degree in ,clinical ,psychology from the ,university of ,british ,columbia4 ,then ,i started working at ,riverview ,hospital in ,vancouver1 ,b4,c41 doing diagnostic testing1 and group therapy1 mostly with psychotic people4 ,at ,riverview ,i had a three-year-long opportunity to observe the results of conventional psychiatric treatment4 ,the first thing ,i noticed was the 'revolving door' phenomena4 ,that is1 people go out1 and then they're back in1 over and over again1 demonstrating that standard treatment--drugs1 electroshock and group therapy--had been ineffective4 ,worse1 the treatments given at ,riverside were dangerous1 often with long term side effects that were more damaging than the disease being treated4 ,it felt like nursing school all over again2 in the core of my being ,i somehow knew there was a better way1 a more effective way of helping people to regain their mental health4 ,feeling like an outsider1 ,i started investigating the hospital's nooks and crannies4 ,much to my surprise1 in a back ward1 one not open to the public1 ,i noticed a number of people with bright purple skins4 ,i asked the staff about this and every one of the psychiatrists denied these patients existed4 ,this outright and widely-agreed-upon lie really raised my curiosity4 ,finally after pouring through the journals in the hospital library ,i found an article describing psycho tropic-drug-induced disruptions of melanin 7the dark skin pigment74 ,thorazine1 a commonly used psychiatric drug1 when taken in high doses over a long period of time would do this4 ,excess melanin eventually was deposited in vital organs such as the heart and the liver1 causing death4 ,i found it especially upsetting to see patients receive electroshock treatments4 ,these violent1 physician-induced traumas did seem to disrupt dysfunctional thought patterns such as an impulse to commit suicide1 but afterwards the victim couldn't remember huge parts of their life or even recall who they were4 ,like many other dangerous medical treatments1 electroshock can save life but it can also take life away by obliterating identity4 ,according the ,hippocratic ,oath1 the first criteria of a treatment is that it should do no harm4 ,once again ,i found myself trapped in a system that made me feel severe protest4 ,yet none of these specialists or university professors1 or academic libraries had any information about alternatives4 ,worse1 none of these mind-doctor-gods were even looking for better treatments4 ,though unpleasant and profoundly disappointing1 my experience as a mental hospital psychologist was1 like being in nursing school1 also very valuable4 ,not only did ,i learn how to diagnose1 and evaluate the severity of mental illness and assess the dangerousness of the mentally ill1 ,i learned to understand them1 to feel comfortable with them1 and found that ,i was never afraid of them4 ,fearlessness is a huge advantage4 ,the mentally ill seem to have a heightened ability to spot fear in others4 ,if they sense that you are afraid they frequently enjoy terrorizing you4 ,when psychotic people know you feel comfortable with them1 and probably understand a great deal of what they are experiencing1 when they know that you can and intend to control them1 they experience a huge sense of relief4 ,i could always get mentally ill people to tell me what was really going on in their heads when no one else could get them to communicate4 ,a few years later ,i married an ,american and became the ,mental ,health ,coordinator for ,whatcom ,county1 the northwestern corner of ,washington ,state4 ,i handled all the legal proceedings in the county for mentally ill people4 ,after treatment in the state mental hospital ,i supervised their reentry into the community1 and attempted to provide some follow up4 ,this work further confirmed my conclusions that in most cases the mentally ill weren't helped by conventional treatment4 ,most of them rapidly became social problems after discharge4 ,it seemed the mental hospital's only ethically defensible function was incarceration--providing temporary relief for the family and community from the mentally ill person's destructiveness4 ,i did see a few people recover in the mental health system4 ,inevitably these were young1 and had not yet become institutionalized1 a term describing someone who comes to like being in the hospital because confinement feels safe4 ,hospitalization can mean three square meals and a bed4 ,it frequently means an opportunity to have a sex life 7many female inmates are highly promiscuous74 ,many psychotics are also criminal2 the hospital seems far better to them than jail4 ,many chronically mentally ill are also experts at manipulating the system4 ,when homeless1 they deliberately get hospitalized for some outrageous deed just before winter4 ,they then recover when the fine weather of spring returns4 ,after a year as ,mental ,health ,co-ordinator1 ,i had enough of the system and decided that it was as good a time as any to return to school for a ,ph4,d41 this time at ,university4 of ,oregon where ,i studied clinical and counseling psychology and gerontology4 ,while in graduate school ,i became pregnant and had my first child4 ,not surprisingly1 this experience profoundly changed my consciousness4 ,i realized that it had perhaps been all right for me to be somewhat irresponsible about my own nutrition and health1 but that it was not okay to inflict poor nutrition on my unborn child4 ,at that time ,i was addicted to salty1 deep-fat fried corn chips and a diet pop4 ,i thought ,i had to have these so-called foods every day4 ,i tended to eat for taste1 in other words1 what ,i liked1 not necessarily what would give me the best nutrition4 ,i was also eating a lot of what most people would consider healthy food3 meat1 cheese1 milk1 whole grains1 nuts1 vegetables1 and fruits4 ,my constitution had seemed strong and vital enough through my twenties to allow this level of dietary irresponsibility4 ,during my early #bjs ,i had even recovered from a breast cancer by sheer will power4 7,i will discuss this later47 ,so before my pregnancy ,i had not questioned my eating habits4 ,as my body changed and adapted itself to it's new purpose ,i began visiting the libraries and voraciously read everything obtainable under the topic of nutrition--all the texts1 current magazines1 nutritional journals1 and health newsletters4 ,my childhood habit of self-directed study paid off4 ,i discovered alternative health magazines like ,let's ,live1 ,prevention1 ,organic ,gardening1 and ,best ,ways1 and promptly obtained every back issue since they were first published4 ,along the way ,i ran into articles by ,linus ,pauling on vitamin ,c1 and sent away for all of his books1 one of these was co-authored with ,david ,hawkins1 called ,the ,orthomolecular ,approach to ,mental ,disorders4 ,this book had a profound effect on me4 ,i instantly recognized that it was ,truth with a capital ,t1 although the orthomolecular approach was clearly in opposition to the established medical model and contradicted everything ,i had ever learned as a student or professional4 ,here at last was the exciting alternative approach to treating mental disorders ,i had so long sought4 ,i filed this information away1 waiting for an opportunity to use it4 ,and ,i began to study all the references in ,the ,orthomolecular ,approach to ,mental ,disorders dealing with correcting the perceptual functioning of psychotic people using natural substances4 ,in the course of delving through libraries and book stores1 ,i also came across the ,mokelumne ,hill ,publishing ,company 7now defunct74 ,this obscure publisher reprinted many unusual and generally crudely reproduced out-of-print books about raw foods diets1 hygienic medicine1 fruitarianism1 fasting1 breathairianism1 plus some works discussing spiritual aspects of living that were far more esoteric than ,i had ever thought existed4 ,i decided that weird or not1 ,i might as well find out everything potentially useful4 ,so ,i spent a lot of money ordering their books4 ,some of ,mokelumne ,hill's material really expanded my thoughts4 ,though much of it seemed totally outrageous1 in every book there usually was one line1 one paragraph1 or if ,i was lucky one whole chapter that rang true for me4 ,recognizing capital ,t ,truth when one sees it is one of the most important abilities a person can have4 ,unfortunately1 every aspect of our mass educational system attempts to invalidate this skill4 ,students are repeatedly told that derivation from recognized authority and_/or the scientific method are the only valid means to assess the validity of data4 ,but there is another parallel method to determine the truth or falsehood of information3 ,knowing4 ,we ,know by the simple method of looking at something and recognizing its correctness4 ,it is a spiritual ability4 ,i believe we all have it4 ,but in my case1 ,i never lost the ability to ,know because ,i almost never attended school4 ,thus it is that ,i am absolutely certain ,how and ,when to ,be ,your ,own ,doctor will be recognized as ,truth by some of my readers and rejected as unscientific1 unsubstantiated1 or anecdotal information by others4 ,i accept this limitation on my ability to teach4 ,if what you read in the following pages seems ,true for you1 great6 ,if it doesn't1 there is little or nothing ,i could do to further convince4 ,i return now to the time of my first pregnancy4 ,in the face of all these new ,truths ,i was discovering concerning health and nutrition1 ,i made immediate changes in my diet4 ,i severely reduced my animal protein intake and limited cooked food in general4 ,i began taking vitamin and mineral supplements4 ,i also choose a highly atypical ,ph4,d4 dissertation topic1 ,the ,orthomolecular ,treatment of ,mental ,disorders4 ,this fifty cent word1 orthomolecular1 basically means readjusting the body chemistry by providing unusually large amounts of specific nutrient substances normally found in the human body 7vitamins and minerals74 ,orthomolecular therapy for mental disorders is supported by good diet1 by removal of allergy-producing substances1 by control of hypoglycemia1 plus counseling1 and provision of a therapeutic environment4 ,my proposed dissertation topic met with nothing but opposition4 ,the professors on my doctoral committee had never heard of the word orthomolecular1 and all of them were certain it wasn't an accepted1 traditional area of research4 ,research in academia is supposed to be based on the works of a previous researchers who arrived at hypothesis based on data obtained by strictly following scientific methodology4 ,scientific data requires control groups1 matched populations1 statistical analysis1 etc4 ,in my case there was no previous work my dissertation committee would accept1 because the available data did not originate from a medical school or psychology department they recognized4 ,due to a lot of determination and perseverance ,i finally did succeed in getting my thesis accepted1 and triumphed over my doctoral committee4 ,and ,i graduated with a dual ,ph4,d4 in both counseling psychology and gerontology4 ,my ambition was to establish the orthomolecular approach on the west coast4 ,at that time ,i knew of only two clinics in the world actively using nutritional therapy4 ,one was in ,new ,york and the other1 was a ,russian experimental fasting program for schizophrenics4 ,doctors ,hoffer and ,osmond had used orthomolecular therapy in a ,canadian mental hospital as early as #aiej1 but they had both gone on to other things4 ,the newly graduated ,dr4 ,isabelle ,moser1 ,ph4,d4 was at this point actually an unemployed mother1 renting an old1 end-of-the-road1 far-in-the-country farmhouse2 by then ,i had two small daughters4 ,i strongly preferred to take care of my own children instead of turning them over to a baby sitter4 ,my location and my children made it difficult for me to work any place but at home4 ,so naturally1 ,i made my family home into a hospital for psychotic individuals4 ,i started out with one resident patient at a time1 using no psychiatric drugs4 ,i had very good results and learned a tremendous amount with each client1 because each one was different and each was my first of each type4 ,with any psychotic residing in your home it is foolhardy to become inattentive even for one hour1 including what are normally considered sleeping hours4 ,i have found the most profoundly ill mentally ill person still to be very crafty and aware even though they may appear to be unconscious or nonresponsive4 ,psychotics are also generally very intuitive1 using faculties most of us use very little or not at all4 ,for example one of my first patients1 ,christine1 believed that ,i was trying to electrocute her4 ,though she would not talk1 she repeatedly drew pictures depicting this4 ,she had1 quite logically within her own reality1 decided to kill me with a butcher knife in self-defense before ,i succeeded in killing her4 ,i had to disarm ,christine several times1 hide all the household knives1 change my sleeping spot frequently1 and generally stay sufficiently awake at night to respond to slight1 creaky sounds that could indicate the approach of stealthily placed small bare feet4 ,with orthomolecular treatment ,christine improved but also became more difficult to live with as she got better4 ,for example1 when she came out of catatonic-like immobility1 she became extremely promiscuous1 and was determined to sleep with my husband4 ,in fact she kept crawling into bed with him with no clothes on4 ,either we had to forcefully remove her or the bed would be handed over to her--without a resident man4 ,christine then decided 7logically7 that ,i was an obstacle to her sex life1 and once more set out to kill me4 ,this stage also passed1 eventually and ,christine got tolerably well4 ,christine's healing process is quite typical and demonstrates why orthomolecular treatment is not popular4 ,as a psychotic genuinely improves1 their aberrated behavior often becomes more aggressive initially and thus1 harder to control4 ,it seems far more convenient for all concerned to suppress psychotic behavior with stupefying drugs4 ,a drugged person can be controlled when they're in a sort of perpetual sedation but then1 they never get genuinely well1 either4 ,another early patient1 ,elizabeth1 gave me a particularly valuable lesson1 one that changed the direction of my career away from curing insanity and toward regular medicine4 ,elizabeth was a catatonic schizophrenic who did not speak or move1 except for some waxy posturing4 ,she had to be fed1 dressed and pottied4 ,elizabeth was a pretty little brunette who got through a couple of years of college and then spent several years in a state mental hospital4 ,she had recently run away from a hospital1 and had been found wandering aimlessly or standing rigidly1 apparently staring fixedly at nothing4 ,the emergency mental health facility in a small city nearby called me up and asked if ,i would take her4 ,i said ,i would1 and drove into town to pick her up4 ,i found ,elizabeth in someone's back yard staring at a bush4 ,it took me three hours to persuade her to get in my car1 but that effort turned out to be the easiest part of the next months4 ,elizabeth would do nothing for herself1 including going to the bathroom4 ,i managed to get some nutrition into her1 and change her clothes1 but that was about all ,i could do4 ,eventually she wore me down2 ,i drifted off for an hour's nap instead of watching her all night4 ,elizabeth slipped away in the autumn darkness and vanished4 ,needless to say1 when daylight came ,i desperately searched the buildings1 the yard1 gardens1 woods1 and even the nearby river4 ,i called in a missing person report and the police looked as well4 ,we stopped searching after a week because there just wasn't any place else to look4 ,then1 into my kitchen1 right in front of our round eyes and gaping mouths1 walked a smiling1 pleasant1 talkative young woman who was quite sane4 ,she said1 ,hello ,i'm ,elizabeth6 ,i'm sorry ,i was such a hassle last week1 and thank you for trying to take care of me so well4 ,i was too sick to know any better4 ,she said she had gone out our back door the week before and crawled under a pile of fallen leaves on the ground in our back yard with a black tarp over them4 ,we had looked under the tarp at least fifty times during the days past1 but never thought to look under the leaves as well4 ,this amazing occurrence made my head go bong to say the least2 it was obvious that ,elizabeth had not been 'schizophrenic' because of her genetics1 nor because of stress1 nor malnutrition1 nor hypoglycemia1 nor because of any of the causes of mental illness ,i had previously learned to identify and rectify1 but because of food allergies4 ,elizabeth was spontaneously cured because she'd had nothing to eat for a week4 ,the composting pile of leaves hiding her had produced enough heat to keep her warm at night and the heap contained sufficient moisture to keep her from getting too dehydrated4 ,she looked wonderful1 with clear shiny blue eyes1 clear skin with good color1 though she was slightly slimmer than when ,i had last seen her4 ,i then administered ,coca's ,pulse ,test 7see the ,appendix7 and quickly discovered ,elizabeth was wildly intolerant to wheat and dairy products4 ,following the well known health gurus of that time like ,adelle ,davis1 ,i had self-righteously been feeding her home-made whole wheat bread from hand-ground ,organic wheat1 and home-made cultured yogurt from our own organically-fed goats4 ,but by doing this ,i had only maintained her insanity4 ,elizabeth was an intelligent young woman1 and once she understood what was causing her problems1 she had no trouble completely eliminating certain foods from her diet4 ,she shuddered at the thought that had she not come to my place and discovered the problem1 she would probably have died on the back ward of some institution for the chronically mentally ill4 ,as for me1 ,i will always be grateful to her for opening my eyes and mind a little wider4 ,elizabeth's case showed me why ,russian schizophrenics put on a #cj day water fast had such a high recovery rate4 ,i also remembered all the esoteric books ,i had read extolling the benefits of fasting4 ,i also remembered two occasions during my own youth when ,i had eaten little or nothing for approximately a month each without realizing that ,i was fasting4 ,and doing this had done me nothing but good4 ,once when ,i was thirteen my mother sent my little brother and ,i to a residential fundamentalist bible school4 ,i did not want to go there1 although my brother did2 he had decided he wanted to be a evangelical minister4 ,i hated bible school because ,i was allowed absolutely no independence of action4 ,we were required to attend church services three times a day during the week1 and five services on ,sunday4 ,as ,i became more and more unhappy1 ,i ate less and less2 in short order ,i wasn't eating at all4 ,the school administration became concerned after ,i had dropped about #cj pounds in two months1 notified my mother and sent me home4 ,i returned to at-home schooling4 ,i also resumed eating4 ,i fasted one other time for about a month when ,i was #ba4 ,it happened because ,i had nothing to do while visiting my mother before returning to ,university except help with housework and prepare meals4 ,the food available in the backwoods of central ,b4,c4 didn't appeal to me because it was mostly canned vegetables1 canned milk1 canned moose meat and bear meat stews with lots of gravy and greasy potatoes4 ,i decided to pass on it altogether4 ,i remember rather enjoying that time as a fine rest and ,i left feeling very good ready to take on the world full force ahead4 ,at that time ,i didn't know there was such a thing as fasting1 it just happened that way4 ,after ,elizabeth went on her way1 ,i decided to experimentally fast myself4 ,i consumed only water for two weeks4 ,but ,i must have had counter intentions to this fast because ,i found myself frequently having dreams about sugared plums1 and egg omelets1 etc4 ,and ,i didn't end up feeling much better after this fast was over 7although ,i didn't feel any worse either71 because ,i foolishly broke the fast with one of my dream omelets4 ,and ,i knew better6 ,every book ,i'd ever read on fasting stated how important it is to break a fast gradually1 eating only easy-to-digest foods for days or weeks before resuming one's regular diet4 ,from this experiment ,i painfully learned how important it is to break a fast properly4 ,those eggs just didn't feel right1 like ,i had an indigestible stone in my belly4 ,i felt very tired after the omelet1 not energized one bit by the food4 ,i immediately cut back my intake to raw fruits and vegetables while the eggs cleared out of my system4 ,after a few days on raw food ,i felt okay1 but ,i never did regain the shine ,i had achieved just before ,i resumed eating4 ,this is one of the many fine things about fasting1 it allows you to get in much better communication with your own body1 so that you can hear it when it objects to something you're putting in it or doing to it4 ,it is not easy to acquire this degree of sensitivity to your body unless you remove all food for a sufficiently long period2 this allows the body to get a word in edgewise that we are willing and able to listen to4 ,even when we do hear the body protesting1 we frequently decide to turn a deaf ear1 at least until the body starts producing severe pain or some other symptom that we can't ignore4 ,within a few years after ,elizabeth's cure ,i had handily repaired quite a few mentally ill people in a harmless way no one had heard of2 many new people were knocking at my door wanting to be admitted to my drug free1 home-based treatment program4 ,so many in fact that my ability to accommodate them was overwhelmed4 ,i decided that it was necessary to move to a larger facility and we bought an old1 somewhat run-down estate that ,i called ,great ,oaks ,school of ,health because of the magnificent oak trees growing in the front yard4 ,at ,great ,oaks initially ,i continued working with psychotics1 employing fasting as a tool1 especially in those cases with obvious food allergies as identified by ,coca's ,pulse ,test1 because it only takes five days for a fasting body to eliminate all traces of an allergic food substance and return to normal functioning4 ,if the person was so severely hypoglycemic that they were unable to tolerate a water fast1 an elimination diet 7to be described in detail later7 was employed1 while stringently avoiding all foods usually found to be allergy producing4 ,i also decided that if ,i was going to employ fasting as my primary medicine1 it was important for me to have a more intense personal experience with it1 because in the process of reviewing the literature on fasting ,i saw that there were many different approaches1 each one staunchly defended by highly partisan advocates4 ,for example1 the capital ,n ,natural1 capital ,h ,hygienists1 such a ,herbert ,shelton1 aggressively assert that only a pure water fast can be called a fast4 ,sheltonites contend that juice fasting as advocated by ,paavo ,airola1 for example1 is not a fast but rather a modified diet without the benefits of real fasting4 ,colon cleansing was another area of profound disagreement among the authorities4 ,shelton strongly insisted that enemas and colonics should not be employed2 the juice advocates tend to strongly recommend intestinal cleansing4 ,to be able to intelligently take a position in this maze of conflict ,i decided to first try every system on myself4 ,it seems to me that if ,i can be said to really own anything in this life it is my own body1 and ,i have the absolute right to experiment with it as long as ,i'm not irresponsible about important things such as care of my kids4 ,i also feel strongly that it was unethical to ask anyone to do anything that ,i was not willing or able to do myself4 ,just imagine what would happen if all medical doctors applied this principal in their practice of medicine1 if all surgeons did it too6 ,i set out to do a complete and fully rigorous water fast according to the ,natural ,hygiene model--only pure water and bed rest 7with no colon cleansing7 until hunger returns1 something the hygienists all assured me would happen when the body had completed its detoxification process4 ,the only aspect of a hygienic fast ,i could not fulfill properly was the bed rest part2 unfortunately ,i was in sole charge of a busy holistic treatment center 7and two little girls72 there were things ,i had to do1 though ,i did my chores and duties at a very slow pace with many rest periods4 ,i water fasted for #db days dropping from #ace pounds to #he pounds on a #e' #g frame4 ,at the end ,i looked like a ,nazi concentration camp victim4 ,i tended to hide when people came to the door1 because the sight of all my bones scared them to death4 ,despite my assurances visitors assumed ,i was trying to commit suicide4 ,in any case ,i persevered1 watching my body change1 observing my emotions1 my mental functioning1 and my spiritual awareness4 ,i thought1 if ,moses could fast for #db days so can ,i1 even though the average length of a full water fast to skeletal weight for a person that is not overweight is more in the order of #cj days4 ,i broke the fast with small amounts of carrot juice diluted #ej_/ej with water and stayed on that regimen for two more weeks4 ,after ,i resumed eating solid food it took six weeks to regain enough strength to be able to run the same distance in the same time ,i had before fasting1 and it took me about six months to regain my previous weight4 ,my eyes and skin had become exceptionally clear1 and some damaged areas of my body such as my twice-broken shoulder had undergone considerable healing4 ,i ate far smaller meals after the fast1 but food was so much more efficiently absorbed that ,i got a lot more miles to the gallon from what ,i did eat4 ,i also became more aware when my body did not want me to eat something4 ,after the fast1 if ,i ignored my body's protest and persisted1 it would immediately create some unpleasant sensation that quickly persuaded me to curb my appetite4 ,i later experimented with other approaches to fasting1 with juice fasts1 with colon cleansing1 and began to establish my own eclectic approach to fasting and detoxification1 using different types of programs for different conditions and adjusting for psychological tolerances4 ,i'll have a lot more to say about fasting4 ,after my own rigorous fasting experience ,i felt capable of supervising extended fasts on very ill or very overweight people4 ,great ,oaks was gradually shifting from being a place that mentally ill people came to regain their sanity to being a spa where anyone who wanted to improve their health could come for a few days1 some weeks or even a few months4 ,it had been my observation from the beginning that the mentally ill people in my program also improved remarkably in physical health2 it was obvious that my method was good for anyone4 ,even people with good health could feel better4 ,by this time ,i'd also had enough of psychotic people anyway1 and longed for sane1 responsible company4 ,so people started to come to ,great ,oaks ,school of ,health to rest up from a demanding job1 to drop some excess weight1 and generally to eliminate the adverse effects of destructive living and eating habits4 ,i also began to get cancer patients1 ranging from those who had just been diagnosed and did not wish to go the ,,ama-approved medical route of surgery1 chemotherapy1 and radiation1 to those with well-advanced cancer who had been sent home to die after receiving all of the above treatments and were now ready to give alternative therapies a try since they expected to die anyway4 ,i also had a few people who were beyond help because their vital organs had been so badly damaged that they knew they were dying1 and they wanted to die in peace without medical intervention1 in a supportive hospice cared for by people who could confront death4 ,great ,oaks ,school was intentionally named a school of health partially to deflect the attentions of the ,,ama4 ,it is1 after all1 entirely legal to teach about how to maintain health1 about how to prevent illness1 and how to go about making yourself well once you were sick4 ,education could not be called practicing medicine without a license4 ,great ,oaks was also structured as a school because ,i wanted to both learn and teach4 ,toward this end we started putting out a holistic health newsletter and offering classes and seminars to the public on various aspects of holistic health4 ,from the early #aigjs through the early #aihjs ,i invited a succession of holistic specialists to reside at ,,gosh1 or to teach at ,great ,oaks while living elsewhere4 ,these teachers not only provided a service to the community1 but they all became my teachers as well4 ,i apprenticed myself to each one in turn4 ,there came and went a steady parade of alternative practitioners of the healing arts and assorted forms of metapsychology3 acupuncturists1 acupressurists1 reflexologists1 polarity therapists1 massage therapists1 postural integrationists1 ,rolfers1 ,feldenkries therapists1 neurolinguistic programmers1 biokinesiologists1 iridologists1 psychic healers1 laying on of handsers1 past life readers1 crystal therapists1 toning therapists in the person of ,patricia ,sun1 color therapy with lamps and different colored lenses a la ,stanley ,bourroughs1 ,bach ,flower therapists1 aroma therapists1 herbalists1 homeopaths1 ,tai ,chi classes1 yoga classes1 ,arica classes1 ,guergieff and ,ouspensky fourth-way study groups1 ,,est workshops1 ,zen ,meditation classes4 ,refugee ,lamas from ,tibet gave lectures on ,the ,book of the ,dead and led meditation and chanting sessions1 and we held communication classes using ,scientology techniques4 ,there were anatomy and physiology classes1 classes on nutrition and the orthomolecular approach to treating mental disorders 7given by me of course72 there were chiropractors teaching adjustment techniques1 even first aid classes4 ,and we even had a few medical doctors of the alternative ilk who were interested in life style changes as an approach to maintaining health4 ,classes were also offered on colon health including herbs1 clays1 enemas1 and colonics4 ,so many of my client at ,great ,oaks were demanding colonics in conjunction with their cleansing programs1 that ,i took time out to go to ,indio1 ,calif4 to take a course in colon therapy from a chiropractor1 and purchase a state of the art colonic machine featuring all the gauges1 electric water solenoids and stainless steel knobs one could ask for4 ,during this period almost all alternative therapists and their specialties were very interesting to me1 but ,i found that most of the approaches they advocated did not suit my personality4 ,for example1 ,i think that acupuncture is a very useful tool1 but ,i personally did not want to use needles4 ,similarly ,i thought that ,rolfing was a very effective tool but ,i did not enjoy administering that much pain1 although a significant number of the clients really wanted pain4 ,some of the techniques appealed to me in the beginning1 and ,i used them frequently with good results but over time ,i decided to abandon them1 mostly because of a desire to simplify and lighten up my bag of tricks4 ,because of my enthusiasm and successes ,great ,oaks kept on growing4 ,originally the estate served as both the offices of the ,holt ,adoption ,agency and the ,holt family mansion4 ,the ,holt family had consisted of ,harry and ,bertha ,holt1 six of their biological children1 and eight adopted ,korean orphans4 ,for this reason the ten thousand square foot two story house had large common rooms1 and lots and lots of bedrooms4 ,it was ideal for housing spa clients and my own family4 ,the adjoining ,holt ,adoption ,agency office building was also very large with a multitude of rooms4 ,it became living space for those helpers and hangers-on we came to refer to as community members4 ,my first husband added even more to the physical plant constructing a large1 rustic gym and workshop4 ,many alternative people visited and then begged to stay on with room and board provided in exchange for their work4 ,a few of these people made a significant contribution such as cooking1 child care1 gardening1 tending the ever-ravenous wood-fired boiler we used to keep the huge concrete mansion heated1 or doing general cleaning4 ,but the majority of the 'work exchangers' did not really understand what work really was1 or didn't have sufficient ethical presence to uphold the principle of fair exchange1 which is basically giving something of equal value for getting something of value and1 perhaps more importantly1 giving in exchange what is needed and asked for4 ,i also found that community members1 once in residence1 were very difficult to dislodge4 ,my healing services were supporting far too much dead wood4 ,this was basically my own fault1 my own poor management4 ,still1 ,i learned a great deal from all of this waste4 ,first of all it is not a genuine service to another human being to give them something for nothing4 ,if a fair exchange is expected and received1 positive ethical behavior is strengthened1 allowing the individual to maintain their self-respect4 ,i also came to realize what an important factor conducting one's life ethically is in the individual healing process4 ,those patients who were out exchange in their relationships with others in one or more areas of their life frequently did not get well until they changed these behaviors4 ,toward the end of #aihb1 after providing a decade of services to a great many clients1 many of these in critical condition1 ,i reached to point where ,i was physically1 mentally1 and spiritually drained4 ,i needed a vacation desperately but no one1 including my first husband1 could run ,great ,oaks in my absence much less cover the heavy mortgage4 ,so ,i decided to sell it4 ,this decision stunned the community members and shocked the clientele who had become dependent on my services4 ,i also got a divorce at this time4 ,in fact ,i went through quite a dramatic life change in many areas--true to pattern1 a classic mid-life crisis4 ,all ,i kept from these years was my two daughters1 my life experiences1 and far too many books from the enormous ,great ,oaks library4 ,these changes were however1 necessary for my survival4 ,any person who works with1 yes1 lives on a day-to-day basis with sick people and who is constantly giving or outflowing must take time out to refill their vessel so that they can give again4 ,failure to do this can result in a serious loss of health1 or death4 ,most healers are empathic people who feel other peoples' pains and stresses and sometimes have difficulty determining exactly what is their own personal 'baggage' and what belongs to the clients4 ,this is especially difficult when the therapy involves a lot of 'hands on' techniques4 ,after leaving ,great ,oaks it took me a couple of years to rest up enough to want to resume practicing again4 ,this time1 instead of creating a substantial institution1 ,steve1 my second husband and my best friend1 built a tiny office next to our family home4 ,i had a guest room that ,i would use for occasional residential patients4 ,usually these were people ,i had known from ,great ,oaks days or were people ,i particularly liked and wanted to help through a life crisis4 ,at the time ,i am writing this book over ten years have passed since ,i sold ,great ,oaks4 ,i continue to have an active outpatient practice1 preferring to protect the privacy of my home and family life since ,i was remarried by limiting inpatients to a special few who required more intensive care1 and then1 only one at a time1 and then1 with long spells without a resident4 ,chapter ,two ,the ,nature and ,cause of ,disease ,from ,the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,toxemia4 #a ,toxemia is the basic cause of all so-called diseases4 ,in the process of tissue-building 7metabolism71 there is cell-building 7anabolism7 and cell destruction 7catabolism74 ,the broken-down tissue is toxic4 ,in the healthy body 7when nerve energy is normal71 this toxic material is eliminated from the blood as fast as it is evolved4 ,but when nerve energy is dissipated from any cause 7such as physical or mental excitement or bad habits7 the body becomes weakened or enervated4 ,when the body is enervated1 elimination is checked4 ,this1 in turn1 results in a retention of toxins in the blood--the condition which we speak of as toxemia4 ,this state produces a crisis which is nothing more than heroic or extraordinary efforts by the body to eliminate waste or toxin from the blood4 ,it is this crisis which we term disease4 ,such accumulation of toxin when once established1 will continue until nerve energy has been restored to normal by removing the cause4 ,so-called disease is nature's effort to eliminate toxin from the blood4 ,all so-called diseases are crises of toxemia4 ,john ,h4 ,tilden1 ,m4,d41 ,toxemia ,explained4 #b ,toxins are divided into two groups2 namely exogenous1 those formed in the alimentary canal from fermentation and decomposition following imperfect or faulty digestion4 ,if the fermentation is of vegetables or fruit1 the toxins are irritating1 stimulating and enervating1 but not so dangerous or destructive to organic life as putrefaction1 which is a fermentation set up in nitrogenous matter--protein-bearing foods1 but particularly animal foods4 ,endogenous toxins are autogenerated4 ,they are the waste products of metabolism4 ,dr4 ,john4 ,h4 ,tilden1 ,impaired ,health3 ,its ,cause and ,cure1 #aiba4 ,suppose a fast-growing city is having traffic jams4 ,we don't like it6 protest the voters4 ,why are these problems happening8 asks the city council1 trying to look like they are doing something about it4 ,experts then proffer answers4 ,because there are too many cars1 says the ,get ,a ,horse ,society4 ,the auto makers suggest it is because there are uncoordinated traffic lights and because almost all the businesses send their employees home at the same time4 ,easy to fix6 ,and no reason whatsoever to limit the number of cars4 ,the asphalt industry suggests it is because the size and amount of roads is inadequate4 ,what do we do then8 ,tax cars severely until few can afford them8 ,legislate opening and closing hours of businesses to stagger to'ing and fro'ing8 ,hire a smarter municipal highway engineer to synchronize the traffic lights8 ,build larger and more efficient streets8 ,demand that auto companies make cars smaller so more can fit the existing roads8 ,tax gasoline prohibitively1 pass out and give away free bicycles in virtually unlimited quantities while simultaneously building mass rail systems8 ,what8 ,which8 ,when we settle on a solution we have simultaneously chosen what we consider the real1 underlying cause of the problem4 ,if our chosen reason was the real reason4 then our solution results in a real cure4 ,if we picked wrongly1 our attempt at solution may result in no cure1 or create a worse situation than we had before4 ,the ,american ,medical ,association style of medicine 7a philosophy ,i will henceforth call allopathic7 has a model that explains the causes of illness4 ,it suggests that anyone who is sick is a victim4 ,either they were attacked by a bad organism--virus1 bacteria1 yeast1 pollen1 cancer cell1 etc4--or they have a bad organ--liver1 kidney1 gall bladder1 even brain4 ,or1 the victim may also have been cursed by bad genes4 ,in any case1 the cause of the disease is not the person and the person is neither responsible for creating their own complaint nor is the victim capable of making it go away4 ,this institutionalized irresponsibility seems useful for both parties to the illness1 doctor and patient4 ,the patient is not required to do anything about their complaint except pay 7a lot7 and obediently follow the instructions of the doctor1 submitting unquestioningly to their drugs and surgeries4 ,the physician then acquires a role of being considered vital to the survival of others and thus obtains great status1 prestige1 authority1 and financial remuneration4 ,perhaps because the sick person is seen to have been victimized1 and it is logically impossible to consider a victimizer as anything but something evil1 the physician's cure is often violent1 confrontational4 ,powerful poisons are used to rejigger body chemistry or to arrest the multiplication of disease bacteria or to suppress symptoms2 if it is possible to sustain life without them1 bad1 poorly-functioning organs are cut out4 ,i've had a lot of trouble with the medical profession4 ,over the years doctors have made attempts to put me in jail and keep me in fear4 ,but they never stopped me4 ,when ,i've had a client die there has been an almost inevitable coroner's investigation1 complete with detectives and the sheriff4 ,fortunately1 ,i practice in rural ,oregon1 where the local people have a deeply-held belief in individual liberty and where the authorities know they would have had a very hard time finding a jury to convict me4 ,had ,i chosen to practice with a high profile and had ,i located ,great ,oaks ,school of ,health in a major market area where the physicians were able to charge top dollar1 ,i probably would have spent years behind bars as did other heroes of my profession such as ,linda ,hazzard and ,royal ,lee4 ,so ,i have acquired an uncomplimentary attitude about medical doctors1 a viewpoint ,i am going to share with you ungently1 despite the fact that doing so will alienate some of my readers4 ,but ,i do so because most ,americans are entirely enthralled by doctors1 and this doctor-god worship kills a lot of them4 ,however1 before ,i get started on the medicos1 let me state that one area exists where ,i do have fundamental admiration for allopathic medicine4 ,this is its handling of trauma4 ,i agree that a body can become the genuine victim of fast moving bullets4 ,it can be innocently cut1 smashed1 burned1 crushed and broken4 ,trauma are not diseases and modern medicine has become quite skilled at putting traumatized bodies back together4 ,genetic abnormality may be another undesirable physical condition that is beyond the purview of natural medicine4 ,however1 the expression of contra-survival genetics can often be controlled by nutrition4 ,and the expression of poor genetics often results from poor nutrition1 and thus is similar to a degenerative disease condition1 and thus is well within the scope of natural medicine4 ,today's suffering ,american public is firmly in the ,,ama's grip4 ,people have been effectively prevented from learning much about medical alternatives1 have been virtually brainwashed by clever media management that portrays other medical models as dangerous and_/or ineffective4 ,legislation influenced by the allopathic doctors' union1 the ,american ,medical ,association1 severely limits or prohibits the practice of holistic health4 ,people are repeatedly directed by those with authority to an allopathic doctor whenever they have a health problem1 question or confusion4 ,other types of healers are considered to be at best harmless as long as they confine themselves to minor complaints2 at worst1 when naturopaths1 hygienists1 or homeopaths seek to treat serious disease conditions they are called quacks1 accused of unlicensed practice of medicine and if they persist or develop a broad1 successful1 high-profile and 7this is the very worst7 profitable practice1 they are frequently jailed4 ,even licensed ,m,ds are crushed by the authorities if they offer non-standard treatments4 ,so when anyone seeks an alternative health approach it is usually because their complaint has already failed to vanish after consulting a whole series of allopathic doctors4 ,this highly unfortunate kind of sufferer not only has a degenerative condition to rectify1 they may have been further damaged by harsh medical treatments and additionally1 they have a considerable amount of brainwashing to overcome4 ,the ,,ama has succeeded at making their influence over information and media so pervasive that most people do not even realize that the doctors' union is the source of their medical outlook4 ,whenever an ,american complains of some malady1 a concerned and honestly caring friend will demand to know have they yet consulted a medical doctor4 ,failure to do so on one's own behalf is considered highly irresponsible4 ,concerned relatives of seriously ill adults who decline standard medical therapy may1 with a great show of self-righteousness1 have the sick person judged mentally incompetent so that treatment can be forced upon them4 ,when a parent fails to seek standard medical treatment for their child1 the adult may well be found guilty of criminal negligence1 raising the interesting issue of who owns the child1 the parents or the ,state4 ,it is perfectly acceptable to die while under conventional medical care4 ,happens all the time1 in fact4 ,but holistic alternatives are represented as stupidly risky1 especially for serious conditions such as cancer4 ,people with cancer see no choice but to do chemotherapy1 radiation1 and radical surgery because this is the current allopathic medical approach4 ,on some level people may know that these remedies are highly dangerous but they have been told by their attending oncologist that violent therapies are their only hope of survival1 however poor that may be4 ,if a cancer victim doesn't proceed immediately with such treatment their official prognosis becomes worse by the hour4 ,such scare tactics are common amongst the medical profession1 and they leave the recipient so terrified that they meekly and obediently give up all self-determinism1 sign the liability waiver1 and submit1 no questions asked4 ,many then die after suffering intensely from the therapy1 long before the so-called disease could have actually caused their demise4 ,i will later offer alternative and frequently successful 7but not guaranteed7 approaches to treating cancer that do not require the earliest-possible detection1 surgery or poisons4 ,if holistic practitioners were to apply painful treatments like allopaths use1 ones with such poor statistical outcomes like allopaths use1 there would most certainly be witch hunts and all such irresponsible1 greedy quacks would be safely imprisoned4 ,i find it highly ironic that for at least the past twenty five hundred years the basic principle of good medicine has been that the treatment must first do no harm4 ,this is such an obvious truism that even the ,,ama doctors pledge to do the same thing when they take the ,hippocratic ,oath4 ,yet virtually every action taken by the allopath is a conscious compromise between the potential harm of the therapy and its potential benefit4 ,in absolute contrast1 if a person dies while on a natural hygiene program1 they died because their end was inevitable no matter what therapy was attempted4 ,almost certainly receiving hygienic therapy contributed to making their last days far more comfortable and relatively freer of pain without using opiates4 ,i have personally taken on clients sent home to die after they had suffered everything the doctors could do to them1 told they had only a few days1 weeks1 or months to live4 ,some of these clients survived as a result of hygienic programs even at that late date4 ,and some didn't4 ,the amazing thing was that any of them survived at all1 because the best time to begin a hygienic program is as early in the degenerative process as possible1 not after the body has been drastically weakened by invasive and toxic treatments4 ,later on1 ,i'll tell you about some of these cases4 ,something ,i consider especially ironic is that when the patient of a medical doctor dies1 it is inevitably thought that the blessed doctor did all that could be done2 rarely is any blame laid4 ,if the physician was especially careless or stupid1 their fault can only result in a civil suit1 covered by malpractice insurance4 ,but let a holistic practitioner treat a sick person and have that person follow any of their suggestions or take any natural remedies and have that person die or worsen and it instantly becomes the natural doctor's fault4 ,great blame is placed and the practitioner faces inquests1 grand juries1 manslaughter charges1 jail time and civil suits that can't be insured against4 ,allopathic medicine rarely makes a connection between the real causes of a degenerative or infectious disease and its cure4 ,the causes are usually considered mysterious3 we don't know why the pancreas is acting up1 etc4 ,the sick are sympathized with as victims who did nothing to contribute to their condition4 ,the cure is a highly technical battle against the illness1 whose weapons are defined in ,latin and far beyond the understanding of a layperson4 ,hygienic medicine presents an opposite view4 ,to the naturopath1 illness is not a perplexing and mysterious occurrence over which you have no control or understanding4 ,the causes of disease are clear and simple1 the sick person is rarely a victim of circumstance and the cure is obvious and within the competence of a moderately intelligent sick person themselves to understand and help administer4 ,in natural medicine1 disease is a part of living that you are responsible for1 and quite capable of handling4 ,asserting that the sick are pitiable victims is financially beneficial to doctors4 ,it makes medical intervention seem a vital necessity for every ache and pain4 ,it makes the sick become dependent4 ,i'm not implying that most doctors knowingly are conniving extortionists4 ,actually most medical doctors are genuinely well-intentioned4 ,i've also noticed that most medical doctors are at heart very timid individuals who consider that possession of a ,,md degree and license proves that they are very important1 proves them to be highly intelligent1 even makes them fully qualified to pontificate on many subjects not related to medicine at all4 ,doctors obtain an enormous sense of self-importance at medical school1 where they proudly endured the high pressure weeding out of any free spirit unwilling to grind away into the night for seven or more years4 ,anyone incapable of absorbing and regurgitating huge amounts of rote information2 anyone with a disrespectful or irreverent attitude toward the senior doctor-gods who arrogantly serve as med school professors1 anyone like this was eliminated with especial rapidity4 ,when the thoroughly submissive1 homogenized survivors are finally licensed1 they assume the status of junior doctor-gods4 ,but becoming an official medical deity doesn't permit one to create their own methods4 ,no no1 the ,,ama's professional oversight and control system makes continued possession of the license to practice 7and the high income that usually comes with it7 entirely dependent on continued conformity to what is defined by the ,,ama as correct practice4 ,any doctor who innovates beyond strict limits or uses non-standard treatments is in real danger of losing their livelihood and status4 ,not only are licensed graduates of ,,ama-sanctioned medical schools kept on a very tight leash1 doctors of other persuasions who use other methods to heal the sick or help them heal themselves are persecuted and prosecuted4 ,extension of the ,,ama's control through regulatory law and police power is justified in the name of preventing quackery and making sure the ignorant and gullible public receives only scientifically proven effective medical care4 ,those on the other side of the fence view the ,,ama's oppression as an effective way to make sure the public has no real choices but to use union doctors1 pay their high fees and suffer greatly by misunderstanding of the true cause of disease and its proper cure4 ,if there are any actual villains responsible for this suppressive tragedy some of them are to be found in the inner core of the ,,ama1 officials who may perhaps fully and consciously comprehend the suppressive system they promulgate4 ,hygienists usually inform the patient quite clearly and directly that the practitioner has no ability to heal them or cure their condition and that no doctor of any type actually is able to heal4 ,only the body can heal itself1 something it is eager and usually very able to do if only given the chance4 ,one pithy old saying among hygienists goes1 if the body can't heal itself1 nothing can heal it4 ,the primary job of the hygienic practitioner is to reeducate the patient by conducting them through their first natural healing process4 ,if this is done well the sick person learns how to get out of their own body's way and permit its native healing power to manifest4 ,unless later the victim of severe traumatic injury1 never again will that person need obscenely expensive medical procedures4 ,hygienists rarely make six figure incomes from regular1 repeat business4 ,this aspect of hygienic medicine makes it different than almost all the others1 even most other holistic methods4 ,hygiene is the only system that does not interpose the assumed healing power of a doctor between the patient and wellness4 ,when ,i was younger and less experienced ,i thought that the main reason traditional medical practice did not stress the body's own healing power and represented the doctor as a necessary intervention was for profit4 ,but after practicing for over twenty years ,i now understand that the last thing most people want to hear is that their own habits1 especially their eating patterns and food choices1 are responsible for their disease and that their cure is to only be accomplished through dietary reform1 which means unremittingly applied self-discipline4 ,one of the hardest things to ask of a person is to change a habit4 ,the reason that ,,ama doctors have most of the patients is they're giving the patients exactly what they want1 which is to be allowed to continue in their unconscious irresponsibility4 ,the ,cause ,of ,disease ,ever since natural medicine arose in opposition to the violence of so-called scientific medicine1 every book on the subject of hygiene1 once it gets past its obligatory introductions and warm ups1 must address ,the ,cause of ,disease4 ,this is a required step because we see the cause of disease and its consequent cure in a very different manner than the allopath4 ,instead of many causes1 we see one basic reason why4 ,instead of many unrelated cures1 we have basically one approach to fix all ills that can be fixed4 ,a beautiful fifty cent word that means a system for explaining something is paradigm1 pronounced para-dime4 ,i am fond of this word because it admits the possibility of many differing yet equally true explanations for the same reality4 ,of all available paradigms1 ,natural ,hygiene suits me best and has been the one ,i've used for most of my career4 ,the ,natural ,hygienist's paradigm for the cause of both degenerative and infectious disease is called the ,theory of ,toxemia1 or self-poisoning4 ,before explaining this theory it will help many readers if ,i digress a brief moment about the nature and validity of alternative paradigms4 ,not too many decades ago1 scientists thought that reality was a singular1 real1 perpetual--that ,natural ,law existed much as a tree or a rock existed4 ,in physics1 for example1 the mechanics of ,newton were considered capital ,t ,true1 the only possible paradigm4 ,any other view1 not being ,true1 was ,false4 ,there was capital ,n natural capital ,l law4 ,more recently1 great uncertainty has entered science2 it has become indisputable that a theory or explanation of reality is only true only to the degree it seems to work2 conflicting or various explanations can all work1 all can be true4 ,at least1 this uncertainty has overtaken the hard1 physical sciences4 ,it has not yet done so with medicine4 ,the ,,ama is convinced 7or is working hard to convince everyone else7 that its paradigm1 the allopathic approach1 is ,truth1 is scientific1 and therefore1 anything else is ,falsehood1 is irresponsibility1 is a crime against the sick4 ,but the actual worth or truth of any paradigm is found not in its reality1 but in its utility4 ,does an explanation or theory allow a person to manipulate experience and create a desired outcome4 ,to the extent a paradigm does that1 it can be considered valuable4 ,judged by this standard1 the ,theory of ,toxemia must be far truer than the hodgepodge of psuedoscience taught in medical schools4 ,keep that in mind the next time some officious medical doctor disdainfully informs you that ,theory of ,toxemia was disproven in #aibg by ,doctors ,jeckel and ,hyde4 ,why ,people ,get ,sick ,this is the ,theory of ,toxemia4 ,a healthy body struggles continually to purify itself of poisons that are inevitably produced while going about its business of digesting food1 moving about1 and repairing itself4 ,the body is a marvelous creation1 a carbon1 oxygen combustion machine1 constantly burning fuel1 disposing of the waste products of combustion1 and constantly rebuilding tissue by replacing worn out1 dead cells with new1 fresh ones4 ,every seven years virtually every cell in the body is replaced1 some types of cells having a faster turnover rate than others1 which means that over a seven year period several hundred pounds of dead cells must be digested 7autolyzed7 and eliminated4 ,all by itself this would be a lot of waste disposal for the body to handle4 ,added to that waste load are numerous mild poisons created during proper digestion4 ,and added to that can be an enormous burden of waste products created as the body's attempts to digest the indigestible1 or those tasty items ,i've heard called fun food4 ,add to that burden the ruinous effects of just plain overeating4 ,the waste products of digestion1 of indigestion1 of cellular breakdown and the general metabolism are all poisonous to one degree or another4 ,another word for this is toxic4 ,if these toxins were allowed to remain and accumulate in the body1 it would poison itself and die in agony4 ,so the body has a processing system to eliminate toxins4 ,and when that system does break down the body does die in agony1 as from liver or kidney failure4 ,the organs of detoxification remove things from the body's system1 but these two vital organs should not be confused with what hygienists call the secondary organs of elimination1 such as the large intestine1 lungs1 bladder and the skin1 because none of these other eliminatory organs are supposed to purify the body of toxins4 ,but when the body is faced with toxemia1 the secondary organs of elimination are frequently pressed into this duty and the consequences are the symptoms we call illness4 ,the lungs are supposed to eliminate only carbon dioxide gas2 not self-generated toxic substances4 ,the large intestine is supposed to pass only insoluble food solids 7and some nasty stuff dumped into the small intestine by the liver74 ,skin eliminates in the form of sweat 7which contains mineral salts7 to cool the body1 but the skin is not supposed to move toxins outside the system4 ,but when toxins are flowed out through secondary organs of elimination these areas become inflamed1 irritated1 weakened4 ,the results can be skin irritations1 sinusitis or a whole host of other itises depending on the area involved1 bacterial or viral infections1 asthma4 ,when excess toxemia is deposited instead of eliminated1 the results can be arthritis if toxins are stored in joints1 rheumatism if in muscle tissues1 cysts and benign tumors4 ,and if toxins weaken the body's immune response1 cancer4 ,the liver and the kidneys1 the two heroic organs of detoxification1 are the most important ones2 these jointly act as filters to purify the blood4 ,hygienists pay a lot of attention to these organs1 the liver especially4 ,in an ideal world1 the liver and kidneys would keep up with their job for #hj years or more before even beginning to tire4 ,in this ideal world1 the food would of course1 be very nutritious and free of pesticide residues1 the air and water would be pure1 people would not denature their food and turn it into junk4 ,in this perfect world everyone would get moderate exercise into old age1 and live virtually without stress4 ,in this utopian vision1 the average healthy productive life span would approach a century1 entirely without using food supplements or vitamins4 ,in this world doctors would have next to no work other than repairing traumatic injuries1 because everyone would be healthy4 ,but this is not the way it is4 ,in our less-than-ideal world virtually everything we eat is denatured1 processed1 fried1 salted1 sweetened1 preserved2 thus more stress is placed on the liver and kidneys than nature designed them to handle4 ,except for a few highly fortunate individuals blessed with an incredible genetic endowment that permits them to live to age #ii on moose meat1 well-larded white flour biscuits1 coffee with evaporated milk and sugar1 brandy and cigarettes 7we've all heard of someone like this71 most peoples' liver and kidneys begin to break down prematurely4 ,thus doctoring has become a financially rewarding profession4 ,most people overburden their organs of elimination by eating whatever they feel like eating whenever they feel like it4 ,or1 they irresponsibly eat whatever is served to them by a mother1 wife1 institution or cook because doing so is easy or expected4 ,eating is a very habitual and unconscious activity2 frequently we continue to eat as adults whatever our mother fed us as a child4 ,i consider it unsurprising that when people develop the very same disease conditions as their parents4 they wrongly assume the cause is genetic inheritance1 when actually it was just because they were putting their feet under the same table as their parents4 ,toxemia also comes about from following the wrongheaded recommendations of allopathic-inspired nutritional texts and licensed dietitians4 ,for example1 people believe they should eat one food from each of the four so-called basic food groups at each meal1 thinking they are doing the right thing for their health by having four colors of food on every plate1 when they really aren't4 ,what they have actually done is force their bodies to attempt the digestion of indigestible food combinations1 and the resulting indigestion creates massive doses of toxins4 ,i'll have a lot more to say about that later when ,i discuss the art of food combining4 ,table #a3 ,the ,actual ,food ,groups ,starches ,proteins ,fats ,sugars ,watery ,vegetables bread meats butter honey zucchini potatoes eggs oils fruit green beans noodles fish lard sugar tomatoes manioc_/yuca most nuts nuts molassas peppers baked goods dry beans avocado malt syrup eggplant grains nut butters maple syrup radish winter squash split peas dried fruit rutabaga parsnips lentils melons turnips sweet potatoes soybeans carrot juice ,brussels sprouts yams tofu beet juice celery taro root tempeh cauliflower plantains wheat grass juice broccoli beets green drinks okra spirulina lettuce algae endive yeast cabbage dairy carrots ,standard dietitians divide our foods into four basic food groups and recommend the ridiculous practice of mixing them at every meal4 ,this guarantees indigestion and lots of business for the medical profession4 ,this chart illustrates the actual food groups4 ,it is usually a poor practice to mix different foods from one group with those from another4 ,the ,digestive ,process ,after we have eaten our four-color meal--often we do this in a hurry1 without much chewing1 under a lot of stress1 or in the presence of negative emotions--we give no thought to what becomes of our food once it has been swallowed4 ,we have been led to assume that anything put in the mouth automatically gets digested flawlessly1 is efficiently absorbed into the body where it nourishes our cells1 with the waste products being eliminated completely by the large intestine4 ,this vision of efficiency may exist in the best cases but for most there is many a slip between the table and the toilet4 ,most bodies are not optimally efficient at performing all the required functions1 especially after years of poor living habits1 stress1 fatigue1 and aging4 ,to the ,natural ,hygienist1 most disease begins and ends with our food2 most of our healing efforts are focused on improving the process of digestion4 ,digestion means chemically changing the foods we eat into substances that can pass into the blood stream and circulate through the body where nutrition is used for bodily functions4 ,our bodies use nutritional substances for fuel1 for repair and rebuilding1 and to conduct an incredibly complex biochemistry4 ,scientists are still busily engaged in trying to understand the chemical mysteries of our bodies4 ,but as bewildering as the chemistry of life is1 the chemistry of digestion itself is actually a relatively simple process1 and one doctors have had a fairly good understanding of for many decades4 ,though relatively straightforward1 a lot can and does go wrong with digestion4 ,the body breaks down foods with a series of different enzymes that are mixed with food at various points as it passes from mouth to stomach to small intestine4 ,an enzyme is a large1 complex molecule that has the ability to chemically change other large1 complex molecules without being changed itself4 ,digestive enzymes perform relatively simple functions--breaking large molecules into smaller parts that can dissolve in water4 ,digestion starts in the mouth when food is mixed with ptyalin1 an enzyme secreted by the salivary glands4 ,pylatin converts insoluble starches into simple sugars4 ,if the digestion of starchy foods is impaired1 the body is less able to extract the energy contained in our foods1 while far worse from the point of view of the genesis of diseases1 undigested starches pass through the stomach and into the gut where they ferment and thereby create an additional toxic burden for the liver to process4 ,and fermenting starches also create gas4 ,as we chew our food it gets mixed with saliva2 as we continue to chew the starches in the food are converted into sugar4 ,there is a very simple experiment you can conduct to prove to yourself how this works4 ,get a plain piece of bread1 no jam1 no butter1 plain1 and without swallowing it or allowing much of it to pass down the throat1 begin to chew it until it seems to literally dissolve4 ,pylatin works fast in our mouths so you may be surprised at how sweet the taste gets4 ,as important as chewing is1 ,i have only run into about one client in a hundred that actually makes an effort to consciously chew their food4 ,horace ,fletcher1 whose name has become synonymous with the importance of chewing food well 7,fletcherizing71 ran an experiment on a military population in ,canada4 ,he required half his experimental group to chew thoroughly1 and the other half to gulp things down as usual4 ,his study reports significant improvement in the overall health and performance of the group that persistently chewed4 ,fletcher's report recommended that every mouthful be chewed #ej times for half a minute before being swallowed4 ,try it1 you might be very surprised at what a beneficial effect such a simple change in your approach to eating can make4 ,not only will you have less intestinal gas1 if overweight you will probably find yourself getting smaller because your blood sugar will elevate quicker as you are eating and thus your sense of hunger will go away sooner4 ,if you are very thin and have difficulty gaining weight you may find that the pounds go on easier because chewing well makes your body more capable of actually assimilating the calories you are consuming4 ,a logical conclusion from this data is that anything that would prevent or reduce chewing would be unhealthful4 ,for example1 food eaten when too hot tends to be gulped down4 ,the same tends to happen when food is seasoned with fresh ,jalapeno or habaneo peppers4 ,people with poor teeth should blend or mash starchy foods and then gum them thoroughly to mix them with saliva4 ,keep in mind that even so-called protein foods such as beans often contain large quantities of starches and the starch portion of protein foods is also digested in the mouth4 ,once the food is in the stomach1 it is mixed with hydrochloric acid1 secreted by the stomach itself1 and pepsin1 an enzyme4 ,together these break proteins down into water-soluble amino acids4 ,to accomplish this the stomach muscles agitate the food continuously1 somewhat like a washing machine4 ,this extended churning forms a kind of ball in the stomach called a bolis4 ,many things can and frequently do go wrong at this stage of the digestive process4 ,first1 the stomach's very acid environment inactivates pylatin1 so any starch not converted to sugar in the mouth does not get properly processed thereafter4 ,and the most dangerous misdigetion comes from the sad fact that cooked proteins are relatively indigestible no matter how strong the constitution1 no matter how concentrated the stomach acid or how many enzymes present4 ,it is quite understandable to me that people do not wish to accept this fact4 ,after all1 cooked proteins are so delicious1 especially cooked red meats and the harder1 more flavorful fishes4 ,to appreciate this1 consider how those enzymes that digest proteins work4 ,a protein molecule is a large1 complex string of amino acids1 each linked to the next in a specific order4 ,suppose there are only six amino acids3 #a1 #b1 #c1 #d1 #e1 and #f4 ,so a particular 7imaginary7 protein could be structured3 #a1 #d1 #d1 #f1 #b1 #c1 #e1 #d1 #b1 #c1 #f1 #a1 #a1 #b1 #c1 etc4 ,thus you should see that by combining a limited number of amino acids there can be a virtually infinite number of proteins4 ,but proteins are rarely water soluble4 ,as ,i said a few paragraphs back1 digestion consists of rendering insoluble foods into water-soluble substances so they can pass into the blood stream and be used by the body's chemistry4 ,to make them soluble1 enzymes break down the proteins1 separating the individual amino acids one from the other1 because amino acids are soluble4 ,enzymes that digest proteins work as though they are mirror images of a particular amino acid4 ,they fit against a particular amino acid like a key fits into a lock4 ,then they break the bonds holding that amino acid to others in the protein chain1 and then1 what ,i find so miraculous about this process1 the enzyme is capable of finding yet another amino acid to free1 and then yet another4 ,so with sufficient churning in an acid environment1 with enough time 7a few hours71 and enough enzymes1 all the recently eaten proteins are decomposed into amino acids and these amino acids pass into the blood where the body recombines them into structures it wants to make4 ,and we have health4 ,but when protein chains are heated1 the protein structures are altered into physical shapes that the enzymes can't latch on to4 ,the perfect example of this is when an egg is fried4 ,the eggwhite is albumen1 a kind of protein4 ,when it is heated1 it shrivels up and gets hard4 ,while raw and liquid1 it is easily digestable4 ,when cooked1 largely indigestable4 ,stress also inhibits the churning action in the stomach so that otherwise digestible foods may not be mixed efficiently with digestive enzymes4 ,for all these reasons1 undigested proteins may pass into the gut4 ,along with undigested starches4 ,when starches convert best to sugars under the alkaline conditions found in the mouth4 ,once they pass into the acid stomach starch digestion is not as efficient4 ,if starches reach the small intestine they are fermented by yeasts4 ,the products of starch fermentation are only mildly toxic4 ,the gases produced by yeast fermentations usually don't smell particularly bad2 bodies that regularly contain starch fermentation usually don't smell particularly bad either4 ,in otherwise healthy people it can take many years of exposure to starch fermentation toxins to produce a life-threatening disease4 ,but undigested proteins aren't fermented by yeasts1 they putrefy in the gut 7are attacked by anaerobic bacteria74 ,many of the waste products of anaerobic putrefaction are highly toxic and evil smelling2 when these toxins are absorbed through the small or large intestines they are very irritating to the mucous membranes1 frequently contributing to or causing cancer of the colon4 ,protein putrefaction may even cause psychotic symptoms in some individuals4 ,meat eaters often have a very unpleasant body odor even when they are not releasing intestinal gasses4 ,adding a heavy toxic burden from misdigested foods to the normal toxic load a body already has to handle creates a myriad of unpleasant symptoms1 and greatly shortens life4 ,but misdigestion also carries with it a double whammy2 fermenting and_/or putrefying foods immediately interfere with the functioning of another vital organ--the large intestine--and cause constipation4 ,most people don't know what the word constipation really means4 ,not being able to move one's bowels is only the most elementary type of constipation4 ,a more accurate definition of constipation is the retention of waste products in the large intestine beyond the time that is conducive to health4 ,properly digested food is not sticky and exits the large intestine quickly4 ,but improperly digested food 7or indigestible food7 gradually coats the large intestine1 making an ever-thicker lining that interferes with the intestine's functioning4 ,far worse1 this coating steadily putrefies1 creating additional highly-potent toxins4 ,lining the colon with undigested food can be compared to the mineral deposits filling in the inside of an old water pipe1 gradually choking off the flow4 ,in the colon1 this deposit can become rock-hard1 just like water pipe scale4 ,since the large intestine is also an organ that removes moisture and water-soluble minerals from the food and moves them into the blood stream1 when the large intestine is lined with putrefying undigested food waste1 the toxins of this putrefaction are also steadily moved into the bloodstream and place an even greater burden on the liver and kidneys1 accelerating their breakdown1 accelerating the aging process and contributing to a lot of interesting and unpleasant symptoms that keep doctors busy and financially solvent4 ,i'll have quite a bit more to say about colon cleansing later4 ,the ,progress ,of ,disease3 ,irritation1 ,enervation1 ,toxemia ,disease routinely lies at the end of a three-part chain that goes3 irritation or sub-clinical malnutrition1 enervation1 toxemia4 ,irritations are something the person does to themselves or something that happens around them4 ,stresses1 in other words4 ,mental stressors include strong negative emotional states such as anger1 fear1 resentment1 hopelessness1 etc4 ,behind most diseases it is common to find a problematic mind churning in profound confusion1 one generated by a character that avoids responsibility4 ,there may also be job stress or ongoing hostile relationships1 often within the family4 ,indigestible foods and misdigestion are also stressful irritations1 as are mild recreational poisons such as soft drugs1 tobacco and alcohol4 ,opiates are somewhat more toxifying1 primarily because they paralyze the gut and induce profound constipation4 ,stimulants like cocaine and amphetamines are the most damaging recreational drugs2 these are highly toxic and rapidly shorten life4 ,repeated irritations and_/or malnutrition eventually produce enervation4 ,the old-time hygienists defined enervation as a lack of or decline in an unmeasurable phenomena1 nerve energy4 ,they viewed the functioning of vital organs as being controlled by or driven by nerve force1 sometimes called life force or elan vital4 ,whatever this vital force actually is1 it can be observed and subjectively measured by comparing one person with another4 ,some people are full of it and literally sparkle with overflowing energy4 ,beings like this make everyone around them feel good because they somehow momentarily give energy to those endowed with less4 ,others possess very little and dully plod through life4 ,as vital force drops1 the overall efficiency of all the body's organs correspondingly decline4 ,the pancreas creates less digestive enzymes2 the thymus secretes less of its vital hormones that mobilize the immune system2 the pituitary makes less growth hormone so the overall repair and rebuilding of cells and tissues slows correspondingly2 and so forth4 ,it does not really matter if there is or is not something called nerve energy that can or cannot be measured in a laboratory4 ,vital force is observable to many people4 ,however1 it is measurable by laboratory test that after repeated irritation the overall functioning of the essential organs and glands does deteriorate4 ,enervation may develop so gradually that it progresses below the level of awareness of the person1 or times of increased enervation can be experienced as a complaint--as a lack of energy1 as tiredness1 as difficulties digesting1 as a new inability to handle a previously-tolerated insult like alcohol4 ,long-term consumption of poor-quality food causes enervation4 ,the body is a carbon_/oxygen engine designed to run efficiently only on highly nutritious food and this aspect of human genetic programming cannot be changed significantly by adaptation4 ,given enough generations a human gene pool can adapt to extracting its nutrition from a different group of foods4 ,for example1 a group of isolated ,fijians currently enjoying long healthy lives eating a diet of seafoods and tropical root crops could suddenly be moved to the highlands of ,switzerland and forced to eat the local fare or starve4 ,but most of the ,fijians would not have systems adept at making those enzymes necessary to digest cows milk4 ,so the transplanted ,fijians would experience many generations of poorer health and shorter life spans until their genes had been selected for adaptation to the new dietary4 ,ultimately their descendants could become uniformly healthy on rye bread and dairy products just like the highland ,swiss were4 ,however1 modern industrial farming and processing of foodstuffs significantly contributes to mass1 widespread enervation in two ways4 ,humans will probably adjust to the first2 the second will1 ,i'm sure1 prove insurmountable4 ,first1 industrially processed foods are a recent invention and our bodies have not yet adapted to digesting them4 ,in a few more generations humans might be able to accomplish that and public health could improve on factory food4 ,in the meanwhile1 the health of humans has declined4 ,industrially farmed foods have also been lowered in nutritional content compared to what food could be4 ,i gravely doubt if any biological organism can ever adapt to an overall dietary that contains significantly lowered levels of nutrition4 ,i will explain this more fully in the chapter on diet4 ,secondary ,eliminations ,are ,disease ,however the exact form the chain from irritation or malnutrition to enervation progresses1 the ultimate result is an increased level of toxemia1 placing an eliminatory burden on the liver and kidneys in excess of their ability4 ,eventually these organs begin to weaken4 ,decline of liver and_/or kidney function threatens the stability and purity of blood chemistry4 ,rather than risk complete incapacitation or death from self-poisoning1 the overloaded1 toxic body1 guided by its genetic predisposition and the nature of the toxins 7what was eaten1 in what state of stress71 cleverly channels surplus toxins into its first line of defense--alternative or secondary elimination systems4 ,most non-life-threatening yet highly annoying disease conditions originate as secondary eliminations4 ,for example1 the skin was designed to sweat1 elimination of fluids4 ,toxemia is often pushed out the sweat glands and is recognized as an unpleasant body odor4 ,a healthy1 non-toxic body smells sweet and pleasant 7like a newborn baby's body7 even after exercise when it has been sweating heavily4 ,other skin-like organs such as the sinus tissues1 were designed to secrete small amounts of mucus for lubrication4 ,the lungs eliminate used air and the tissues are lubricated with mucus-like secretions too4 ,these secretions are types of eliminations1 but are not intended for the elimination of toxins4 ,when toxins are discharged in mucus through tissues not designed to handle them1 the tissues themselves become irritated1 inflamed1 weakened and thus much more subject to bacterial or viral infection4 ,despite this danger1 not eliminating surplus toxins carries with it the greater penalty of serious disability or death4 ,because of this liability1 the body1 in its wisdom1 initially chooses secondary elimination routes as far from vital tissues and organs as possible4 ,almost inevitably the skin or skin-like mucus membranes such as the sinuses1 or lung tissues become the first line of defense4 ,thus the average person's disease history begins with colds1 flu1 sinusitis1 bronchitis1 chronic cough1 asthma1 rashes1 acne1 eczema1 psoriasis4 ,if these secondary eliminations are suppressed with drugs 7either from the medical doctor or with over the counter remedies71 if the eating or lifestyle habits that created the toxemia are not changed1 or if the toxic load increases beyond the limits of this technique1 the body then begins to store toxins in fat or muscle tissues or the joint cavities1 overburdens the kidneys1 creates cysts1 fibroids1 and benign tumors to store those toxins4 ,if toxic overload continues over a longer time the body will eventually have to permit damages to vital tissues1 and life-threatening conditions develop4 ,hygienic doctors always stress that disease is remedial effort4 ,illness comes from the body's best attempt to lighten its toxic load without immediately threatening its survival4 ,the body always does the very best it can to remedy toxemia given its circumstances1 and it should be commended for these efforts regardless of how uncomfortable they might be to the person inhabiting the body4 ,symptoms of secondary elimination are actually a positive thing because they are the body's efforts to lessen a dangerously toxic condition4 ,secondary eliminations shouldn't be treated immediately with a drug to suppress the process4 ,if you squelch the bodies best and least-life-threatening method to eliminate toxins1 the body will ultimately have to resort to another more dangerous though probably less immediately uncomfortable channel4 ,the conventional medical model does not view disease this way and sees the symptoms of secondary elimination as the disease itself4 ,so the conventional doctor takes steps to halt the body's remedial efforts1 thus stopping the undesirable symptom and then1 the symptom gone1 proclaims the patient cured4 ,actually1 the disease is the cure4 ,a common pattern of symptom suppression under the contemporary medical model is this progression3 treat colds with antihistamines until the body gets influenza2 suppress a flu repeatedly with antibiotics and eventually you get pneumonia4 ,or1 suppress eczema with cortisone ointment repeatedly1 and eventually you develop kidney disease4 ,or1 suppress asthma with bronkiodialators and eventually you need cortisone to suppress it4 ,continue treating asthma with steroids and you destroy the adrenals2 now the body has become allergic to virtually everything4 ,the presence of toxins in an organ of secondary elimination is frequently the cause of infection4 ,sinuses and lungs1 inflamed by secondary eliminations1 are attacked by viruses or bacteria2 infectious diseases of the skin result from pushing toxins out of the skin4 ,more generalized infections also result from toxemia2 in this case the immune system has become compromised and the body is overwhelmed by an organism that it normally should be able to resist easily4 ,the wise cure of infections is not to use antibiotics to suppress the bacteria while simultaneously whipping the immune system2 most people1 including most medical doctors1 do not realize that antibiotics also goose the immune system into super efforts4 ,but when one chooses to whip a tired horse1 eventually the exhausted animal collapses and cannot rise again no matter how vigorously it is beaten4 ,the wise cure is to detoxify the body1 a step that simultaneously eliminates secondary eliminations and rebuilds the immune system4 ,the wise way to deal with the body's eliminative efforts is to accept that disease is an opportunity to pay the piper for past indiscretions4 ,you should go to bed1 rest1 and drink nothing but water or dilute juice until the condition has passed4 ,this allows the body to conserve its vital energy1 direct this energy toward healing the disordered body part1 and catch up on its waste disposal4 ,in this way you can help your body1 be in harmony with its efforts instead of working against it which is what most people do4 ,please forgive another semi-political polemic here1 but in my practice ,i have often been amazed to hear my clients complain that they have not the time nor the ability to be patient with their body1 to rest it through an illness because they have a job they can't afford to miss or responsibilities they can't put down4 ,this is a sad commentary on the supposed wealth and prosperity of the ,united ,states4 ,in our country most people are enslaved by their debts1 incurred because they had been enthralled by the illusion of happiness secured by the possession of material things4 ,debt slaves believe they cannot miss a week of work4 ,people who feel they can't afford to be sick think they can afford to live on pills4 ,so people push through their symptoms by sheer grit for years on end1 and keep that up until their exhausted horse of a body breaks down totally and they find themselves in the hospital running up bills to the tune of several thousand dollars a day4 ,but these very same people do not think they can afford the loss of a few hundred dollars of current income undertaking some virtually harmless preventative maintenance on their bodies4 ,given half a chance the body will throw off toxic overburdens and cleanse itself4 ,and once the body has been cleansed of toxemia1 disagreeable symptoms usually cease4 ,this means that to make relatively mild but unwanted symptoms lessen and ultimately stop it is merely necessary to temporarily cut back food intake1 eating only what does not cause toxemia4 ,these foods ,i classify as cleansing1 such as raw fruits and vegetables and their juices4 ,if the symptoms are extreme1 are perceived as overwhelming or are actually life-threatening1 detoxification can be speeded up by dropping back to only dilute raw juices or vegetable broth made only from greens1 without eating the solids4 ,in the most extreme cases hygienists use their most powerful medicine3 a long fast on herb teas1 or just water4 ,i will have a lot to say about fasting1 later4 ,when acutely ill1 the most important thing to do is to just get out of the body's way1 and let it heal itself4 ,in our ignorance we are usually our own worst enemy in this regard4 ,we have been very successfully conditioned to think that all symptoms are bad4 ,but ,i know from experience that people can and do learn a new way of viewing the body1 an understanding that puts them at cause over their own body4 ,it allows you to be empowered in one more area of life instead of being dependent and at the mercy of other peoples decisions about your body4 ,finally1 and this is why natural medicine is doubly unpopular1 to prevent the recurrence of toxemia and acute disease states1 person must discover what they are doing wrong and change their life4 ,often as not this means elimination of the person's favorite 7indigestible7 foods and_/or 7stress-producing7 bad habits4 ,naturally1 ,i will have a lot more to say about this later1 too4 ,chapter ,three ,fasting ,from ,the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,cure4 #a ,there is no cure for disease2 fasting is not a cure4 ,fasting facilitates natural healing processes4 ,foods do not cure4 ,until we have discarded our faith in cures1 there can be no intelligent approach to the problems presented by suffering and no proper use of foods by those who are ill4 ,herbert ,shelton1 ,the ,hygienic ,system1 v4 #c1 ,fasting and ,sunbathing4 #b ,all cure starts from within out and from the head down and in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared4 ,hering's ,law of ,cure4 #c ,life is made up of crises4 ,the individual establishes a standard of health peculiarly his own1 which must vary from all other standards as greatly as his personality varies from others4 ,the individual standard may be such as to favor the development of indigestion1 catarrh1 gout1 rheumatic and glandular inflammations1 tubercular developments1 congestions1 sluggish secretions and excretions1 or inhibitions of various functions1 both mental and physical1 wherever the environmental or habit strain is greater than usual4 ,the standard of resistance may be opposed so strenuously by habits and unusual physical agencies--that the body breaks down under the strain4 ,this is a crisis4 ,appetite fails1 discomfort or pain forces rest1 and1 as a result of physiological rest 7fasting7 and physical rest 7rest from daily work and habits71 a readjustment takes place1 and the patient is cured4 ,this is what the profession and the people call a cure1 and it is for the time being--until an unusual enervation is brought on from accident or dissipation2 then another crisis4 ,these crises are the ordinary sickness of all communities-- all catalogued diseases4 ,when the cold is gone or the hay-fever fully relieved1 it does not mean the patient is cured4 ,indeed1 he is as much diseased as before he suffered the attack--the crisis--and he never will be cured until the habits of life that keep up toxin poisoning are corrected4 ,to recover from a crisis is not a cure2 the tendency is back to the individual standard2 hence all crises are self-limited1 unless nature by maltreatment is prevented from reacting4 ,all so-called healing systems ride to glory on the backs of self-limited crises1 and the self-deluded doctors and their credulous clients1 believe1 when the crises are past1 that a cure has been wrought1 whereas the real truth is that the treatment may have delayed reaction4 ,this is largely true of anything that has been done except rest4 ,a cure consists in changing the manner of living to such a rational standard that full resistance and a balanced metabolism is established4 ,i suppose it is not quite human to expect those of a standardized school of healing to give utterance to discovered truth which1 if accepted by the people1 would rob them of the glory of being curers of disease4 ,indeed1 nature1 and nature only1 cures2 and as for crises1 they come and go1 whether or not there is a doctor or healer within a thousand miles4 ,dr4 ,john4 ,h4 ,tilden1 ,impaired ,health3 ,its ,cause and ,cure1 #aiba4 ,the accelerated healing process that occurs during fasting can scarcely be believed by a person who has not fasted4 ,no matter how gifted the writer1 the experiential reality of fasting cannot be communicated4 ,the great novelist ,upton ,sinclair wrote a book about fasting and it failed to convince the multitudes4 ,but once a person has fasted long enough to be certain of what their own body can do to fix itself1 they acquire a degree of independence little known today4 ,many of those experienced with fasting no longer dread being without health insurance and feel far less need for a doctor or of having a regular checkup4 ,they know with certainty that if something degenerates in their body1 their own body can fix it by itself4 ,like ,upton ,sinclair and many others who largely failed before me1 ,i am going to try to convince you of the virtues of fasting by urging you to try fasting yourself4 ,if you will but try you will be changed for the better for the rest of your life4 ,if you do not try1 you will never ,know4 ,to prompt your first step on this health-freedom road1 ,i ask you to please carefully consider the importance of this fact3 the body's routine energy budget includes a very large allocation for the daily digestion and assimilation of the food you eat4 ,you may find my estimate surprising1 but about one-third of a fairly sedentary person's entire energy consumption goes into food processing4 ,other uses for the body's energy include the creation or rebuilding of tissues1 detoxification1 moving 7walking1 running1 etc471 talking1 producing hormones1 etc4 ,digestion is one aspect of the body's efforts that we can readily control1 it is the key to having or losing health4 ,the ,effort ,of ,digestion ,digestion is a huge1 unappreciated task1 unappreciated because few of us are aware of its happening in the same way we are aware of making efforts to use our voluntary muscles when working or exercising4 ,digestion begins in the mouth with thorough chewing4 ,if you don't think chewing is effort1 try making coleslaw in your own mouth4 ,chew up at least half a big head of cabbage and three big carrots that have not been shredded4 ,grind each bit until it liquefies and has been thoroughly mixed with saliva4 ,i guarantee that if you even finish the chore your jaw will be tired and you will have lost all desire to eat anything else1 especially if it requires chewing4 ,making the saliva you just used while chewing the cabbage is by itself1 a huge and unappreciated chemical effort4 ,once in the stomach1 chewed food has to be churned in order to mix it with hydrochloric acid1 pepsin1 and other digestive enzymes4 ,manufacturing these enzymes is also considerable work6 ,churning is even harder work than chewing but normally1 people are unaware of its happening4 ,while the stomach is churning 7like a washing machine7 a large portion of the blood supply is redirected from the muscles in the extremities to the stomach and intestines to aid in this process4 ,anyone who has tried to go for a run1 or take part in any other strenuous physical activity immediately after a large meal feels like a slug and wonders why they just can't make their legs move the way they usually do4 ,so1 to assist the body while it is digesting1 it is wise to take a siesta as los ,latinos do instead of expecting the blood to be two places at once like los norteamericanos4 ,after the stomach is through churning1 the partially digested food is moved into the small intestine where it is mixed with more pancreatin secreted by the pancreas1 and with bile from the gall bladder4 ,pancreatin further solubilizes proteins4 ,bile aids in the digestion of fatty foods4 ,manufacturing bile and pancreatic enzymes is also a lot of effort4 ,only after the carbohydrates 7starches and sugars71 proteins and fats have been broken down into simpler water soluble food units such as simple sugars1 amino acids and fatty acids1 can the body pass these nutrients into the blood thorough the little projections in the small intestines called villi4 ,the leftovers1 elements of the food that can't be solubilized plus some remaining liquids1 are passed into the large intestine4 ,there1 water and the vital mineral salts dissolved in that water1 are extracted and absorbed into the blood stream through thin permeable membranes4 ,mucous is also secreted in the large intestine to facilitate passage of the dryish remains4 ,this is an effort4 7,intestinal mucous can become a route of secondary elimination1 especially during fasting4 ,while fasting1 it is essential to take steps to expel toxic mucous in the colon before the poisons are re adsorbed47 ,the final residue1 now called fecal matter1 is squeezed along the length of the large intestines and passes out the rectum4 ,if all the digestive processes have been efficient there now are an abundance of soluble nutrients for the blood stream to distribute to hungry cells throughout the body4 ,it is important to understand the process at least on the level of oversimplification just presented in order to begin to understand better how health is lost or regained through eating1 digestion1 and elimination4 ,and most importantly1 through not eating4 ,how ,fasting ,heals ,its an old hygienic maxim that the doctor does not heal1 the medicines do not heal1 only the body heals itself4 ,if the body can't heal then nothing can heal it4 ,the body always knows best what it needs and what to do4 ,but healing means repairing damaged organs and tissues and this takes energy1 while a sick body is already enervated1 weakened and not coping with its current stressors4 ,if the sick person could but somehow increase the body's energy resources sufficiently1 then a slowly healing body could heal faster while a worsening one1 or one that was failing or one that was not getting better might heal4 ,fasting does just that4 ,to whatever degree food intake is reduced the body's digestive workload is proportionately reduced and it will naturally1 and far more intelligently than any physician could order1 redirect energy to wherever it decides that energy is most needed4 ,a fasting body begins accessing nutritional reserves 7vitamins and minerals7 previously stored in the tissues and starts converting body fat into sugar for energy fuel4 ,during a time of water fasting1 sustaining the body's entire energy and nutritional needs from reserves and fat does require a small effort1 but far less effort than eating4 ,i would guess a fasting body used about five percent of its normal daily energy budget on nutritional concerns rather than the #cc percent it needs to process new food4 ,thus1 water fasting puts something like #bh percent more energy at the body's disposal4 ,this is true even though the water faster may feel weak1 energyless4 ,i would worry if sick or toxic fasters did not complain about their weakness4 ,they should expect to feel energyless4 ,in fact1 the more internal healing and detoxification the body requires1 the tireder the faster feels because the body is very hard at work internally4 ,a great deal of the body's energy will go toward boosting the immune system if the problem is an infection4 ,liberated energy can also be used for healing damaged parts1 rebuilding failing organs1 for breaking down and eliminating deposits of toxic materials4 ,only after most of the healing has occurred does a faster begin to feel energetic again4 ,don't expect to feel anything but tired and weak4 ,the only exception to this would be a person who has already significantly detoxified and healed their body by previous fasting1 or the rare soul that has gone from birth through adulthood enjoying extraordinarily good nutrition and without experiencing the stressors of improper digestion4 ,when one experienced faster ,i know finds himself getting run down or catching a cold1 he quits eating until he feels really well4 ,instead of feeling weak as most fasters do1 as each of the first four or five days of water fasting pass1 he experiences a resurgence of more and more energy4 ,on the first fasting day he would usually feel rotten1 which was why he started fasting in the first place4 ,on the second fasting day he'd feel more alert and catch up on his paper work4 ,by his third day on only water he would be out doing hard physical chores like cutting the grass1 splitting wood or weeding his vegetable garden4 ,day four would also be an energetic one1 but if the fast extended beyond that1 lowering blood sugar would begin to make him tired and he'd feel forced to begin laying down4 ,after a day of water fasting the average person's blood sugar level naturally drops2 making a faster feel somewhat tired and spacey1 so a typical faster usually begins to spend much more time resting1 further reducing the amount of energy being expended on moving the body around1 serendipitously redirecting even more of the body's energy budget toward healing4 ,by the end of five or six days on water1 ,i estimate that from #dj to #ej percent of the body's available energy is being used for healing1 repair and detoxification4 ,the amount of work that a fasting body's own healing energy can do and what it feels like to be there when it is happening is incredible4 ,but you can't know it if you haven't felt it4 ,so hardly anyone in our present culture knows4 ,as ,i mentioned in the first chapter1 at ,great ,oaks ,school ,i apprenticed myself to the traveling masters of virtually every system of natural healing that existed during the '#gjs4 ,i observed every one of them at work and tried most of them on my clients4 ,after all that ,i can say with experience that ,i am not aware of any other healing tool that can be so effective as the fast4 ,essentials of a ,successful1 ,safe ,fast #a4 ,fast in a bright airy room1 with exceptionally good ventilation1 because fasters not only need a lot of fresh air2 their bodies give off powerfully offensive odors4 #b4 ,sun bathe if possible in warm climates for #aj to #bj minutes in the morning before the sun gets too strong4 #c4 ,scrub_/massage the skin with a dry brush1 stroking toward the heart1 followed by a warm water shower two to four times a day to assist the skin in eliminating toxins4 ,if you are too weak to do this1 have an assisted bed bath4 #d4 ,have two enemas daily for the first week of a fast and then once daily until the fast is terminated4 #e4 ,insure a harmonious environment with supportive people or else fast alone if you are experienced4 ,avoid well-meaning interference or anxious criticism at all cost4 ,the faster becomes hypersensitive to others' emotions4 #f4 ,rest profoundly except for a short walk of about #bjj yards morning and night4 #g4 ,drink water6 ,at least three quarts every day4 ,do not allow yourself to become dehydrated6 #h4 ,control yourself6 ,break a long fast on diluted non-sweet fruit juice such as grapefruit juice1 sipped a teaspoon at a time1 no more than eight ounces at a time no oftener than every #b or #c hours4 ,the second day you eat1 add small quantities of fresh juicy fruit to the same amount of juice you took the day before no oftener than every #c hours4 ,by small quantities ,i mean half an apple or the equivalent4 ,on the third day of eating1 add small quantities of vegetable juice and juicy vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers4 ,control yourself6 ,the second week after eating resumed add complex vegetable salads plus more complex fruit salads4 ,do not mix fruit and vegetables at meals4 ,the third week add raw nuts and seeds no more than #a_/b ounce three times daily4 ,add #a_/d avocado daily4 ,fourth week increase to #c ounces of raw soaked nuts and seeds daily and #a_/b avocado daily4 ,cooked grains may also be added1 along with steamed vegetables and vegetable soups4 ,the ,prime ,rules ,of ,fasting ,another truism of natural hygiene is that we dig our own graves with our teeth4 ,it is sad but true that almost all eat too much quantity of too little quality4 ,dietary excesses are the main cause of death in ,north ,america4 ,fasting balances these excesses4 ,if people were to eat a perfect diet and not overeat1 fasting would rarely be necessary4 ,there are two essential rules of fasting4 ,if these rules are ignored or broken1 fasting itself can be life threatening4 ,but if the rules are followed1 fasting presents far less risk than any other important medical procedure with a far greater likelihood of a positive outcome4 ,and let me stress here1 there is no medical procedure without risk4 ,life itself is fraught with risk1 it is a one-way ticket from birth to death1 with no certainty as to when the end of the line will be reached4 ,but in my opinion1 when handling degenerative illness and infections1 natural hygiene and fasting usually offer the best hope of healing with the least possible risk4 ,the first vital concern is the duration of the fast4 ,two eliminatory processes go on simultaneously while fasting4 ,one is the dissolving and elimination of the excess1 toxic or dysfunctional deposits in the body1 and second process1 the gradual exhaustion of the body's stored nutritional reserves4 ,the fasting body first consumes those parts of the body that are unhealthy2 eventually these are all gone4 ,simultaneously the body uses up stored fat and other reserve nutritional elements4 ,a well-fed reasonably healthy body usually has enough stored nutrition to fast for quite a bit longer than it takes to clean house4 ,while house cleaning is going on the body uses its reserves to rebuild organs and rejuvenate itself4 ,rebuilding starts out very slowly but the repairs increase at an ever-accelerating rate4 ,the overhaul can last only until the body has no more reserves4 ,because several weeks of fasting must pass by before the overhaul gets going full speed1 it is wise to continue fasting as long as possible so as to benefit from as much rejuvenation as possible4 ,it is best not to end the fast before all toxic or dysfunctional deposits are eliminated1 or before the infection is overcome1 or before the cause for complaint has been healed4 ,the fast must be ended when most of the body's essential-to-life stored nutritional reserves are exhausted4 ,if the fast goes beyond this point1 starvation begins4 ,then1 fasting-induced organic damage can occur1 and death can follow1 usually several weeks later4 ,almost anyone not immediately close to death has enough stored nutrition to water fast for ten days to two weeks4 ,most reasonably healthy people have sufficient reserves to water fast for a month4 ,later ,i will explain how a faster can somewhat resupply their nutritional reserves while continuing to fast1 and thus safely extend the fasting period4 ,the second essential concern has to do with adjusting the intensity of the fast4 ,some individuals are so toxic that the waste products released during a fast are too strong1 too concentrated or too poisonous for the organs of elimination to handle safely1 or to be handled within the willingness of the faster to tolerate the discomforts that toxic releases generate4 ,the highly-toxic faster may even experience life-threatening symptoms such as violent asthma attacks4 ,this kind of faster has almost certainly been dangerously ill before the fast began4 ,others1 though not dangerously sick prior to fasting1 may be nearly as toxic and though not in danger of death1 they may not be willing to tolerate the degree of discomfort fasting can trigger4 ,for this reason ,i recommend that if at all possible1 before undertaking a fast the person eat mostly raw foods for two months and clean up all addictions4 ,this will give the body a chance to detoxify significantly before the water fast is started1 and will make water fasting much more comfortable4 ,seriously1 dangerously ill people should only fast with experienced guidance1 so the rapidity of their detoxification process may be adjusted to a lower level if necessary4 ,a fast of only one week can accomplish a significant amount of healing4 ,slight healing does occur on shorter fasts1 but it is much more difficult to see or feel the results4 ,many people experience rapid relief from acute headache pain or digestive distress such as gas attacks1 mild gallbladder pain1 stomach aches1 etc41 after only one day's abstention from food4 ,in one week of fasting a person can relieve more dangerous conditions such as arthritic pain1 rheumatism1 kidney pain1 and many symptoms associated with allergic reactions4 ,but even more fasting time is generally needed for the body to completely heal serious diseases4 ,that's because eliminating life-threatening problems usually involve rebuilding organs that aren't functioning too well4 ,major rebuilding begins only after major detoxification has been accomplished1 and this takes time4 ,yes1 even lost organ function can be partially or completely restored by fasting4 ,aging and age-related degeneration is progressive1 diminishing organ functioning4 ,organs that make digestive enzymes secrete less enzymes4 ,the degenerated immune system loses the ability to mobilize as effectively when the body is attacked4 ,liver and kidney efficiency declines4 ,the adrenals tire1 becoming incapable of dumping massive amounts of stress-handling hormones or of repeating that effort time after time without considerable rest in between4 ,the consequences of these inter-dependent deterioration's is a cascade of deterioration that contributes to even more rapid deterioration's4 ,the name for this cascading process is aging4 ,its inevitable result--death4 ,fasting can1 to a degree1 reverse aging4 ,because fasting improves organ functioning1 it can slow down aging4 ,fasters are often surprised that intensified healing can be uncomfortable4 ,they have been programmed by our culture and by allopathic doctors to think that if they are doing the right thing for their bodies they should feel better immediately4 ,i wish it weren't so1 but most people have to pay the piper for their dietary indiscretions and other errors in living4 ,there will be aches and minor pains and uncomfortable sensations4 ,more about that later4 ,a rare faster does feel immediately better1 and continues to feel ever better by the day1 and even has incredible energy while eating nothing1 but the majority of us folks just have to tough it out1 keeping in mind that the way out is the way through4 ,it is important to remind yourself at times that even with some discomfort and considering the inconvenience of fasting that you are getting off easy--one month of self-denial pays for those years of indulgence and buys a regenerated body4 ,length ,of ,the ,fast ,how long should a person fast8 ,in cases where there are serious complaints to remedy but where there are no life threatening disease conditions1 a good rule of thumb is to fast on water for one complete day 7#bd hours7 for each year that the person has lived4 ,if you are #cj years old1 it will take #cj consecutive days of fasting to restore complete health4 ,however1 thirty fasting days1 done a few days here and a few there won't equal a month of steady fasting2 the body accomplishes enormously more in #g or l#d days of consecutive fasting1 than #g or #ad days of fasting accumulated sporadically1 such as one day a week4 ,this is not to say that regular short fasts are not useful medicine4 ,periodic day-long fasts have been incorporated into many religious traditions1 and for good reason2 it gives the body one day a week to rest1 to be free of digestive obligations1 and to catch up on garbage disposal4 ,i heartily recommend it4 ,but it takes many years of unfailingly regular brief fasting to equal the benefits of one1 intensive experience4 ,fasting on water much longer than fifteen consecutive days may be dangerous for the very sick1 7unless under experienced supervision7 or too intense for those who are not motivated by severe illness to withstand the discomfort and boredom4 ,however1 it is possible to finish a healing process initiated by one long water fast by repeating the fast later4 ,my husband's healing is a good example of this4 ,his health began to noticeably decline about age #ch and he started fasting4 ,he fasted on water #ad to #ah days at a time1 once a year1 for five consecutive years before most of his complaints and problems entirely vanished4 ,the longest fast ,i ever supervised was a #ij day water fast on an extraordinarily obese woman1 who at #e' #b weighed close to #djj pounds4 ,she was a ,mormon2 generally members of the ,,lds ,church eat a healthier diet than most ,americans1 but her's included far too much of what ,i call healthfood junkfood1 in the form of whole grain cakes and cookies1 lots of granola made with lots of honey1 oil1 and dried fruit1 lots of honey heaped atop heavily buttered whole grain bread4 7,i will explain more about the trap of healthfood junkfood later on47 ,a whole foods relatively meatless diet is far superior to its refined white flour1 white sugar and white grease 7lard7 counterpart1 but it still produced a serious heath problem in just #cj years of life4 ,like many women1 she expressed love-for-family in the kitchen by serving too-much too-tasty food4 ,the ,mormons have a very strong family orientation and this lady was no exception1 but she was insecure and unhappy in her marriage and sought consolation in food1 eaten far in excess of what her body needed4 ,on her #ij day water fast she lost about #aej pounds1 but was still grossly overweight when the fast ended4 ,toward the end it became clear that it was unrealistic to try to shrink this woman any closer to normal body weight because to her1 fat represented an invaluable insulation or buffer that she was not prepared to give up4 ,as the weight melted away on the fast and she was able to actually feel the outline of a hip bone her neurosis became more and more apparent1 and the ability to feel a part of her skeleton was so upsetting to her that her choice was between life threatening obesity and pervasive anxiety4 ,her weight was still excessive but the solace of eating was even more important4 ,this woman needed intensive counseling not more fasting4 ,unfortunately1 at the end she choose to remain obese4 ,fat was much less frightening to her than confronting her emotions and fears4 ,the positive side was that after the fast she was able to maintain her weight at #bbe instead of #cge which was an enormous relief to her exhausted heart4 ,another client ,i fasted for #ij days was a #f' #a tall1 chronic schizophrenic man who weighed in at #djj pounds4 ,he was so big he could barely get through my front door1 and mine was an extraordinarily wide door in what had been an upper-class mansion4 ,this man1 now in his mid twenties1 had spent his last seven years in a mental institution before his parents decided to give him one last chance by sending to ,great ,oaks ,school4 ,the state mental hospitals at that time provided the mentally ill with cigarettes1 coffee1 and lots of sugary treats1 but none of these substances were part of my treatment program so he had a lot of immediate withdrawal to go through4 ,the quickest and easiest way to get him through it was to put him on a water fast after a few days of preparation on raw food4 ,this was not an easily managed case6 ,he was wildly psychotic1 on heavy doses of chloropromazine1 with many bizarre behaviors4 ,besides talking to himself continuously in gibberish1 he collected bugs1 moss1 sticks1 piles or dirt1 and switched to smoking oak leaves instead of cigarettes4 ,he was such a fire hazard that ,i had to move him to a downstairs room with concrete floor4 ,even in the basement he was a fire hazard with his smoking and piles of sticks and other inflammables next to his bed1 but all of this debris was his precious4 ,i knew that ,i was in for trouble if ,i disturbed his precious1 but the insects and dirt piles seemed to be expanding exponentially4 ,one day the dirt exceeded my tolerance level4 ,to make a long story short he caught me in the act of cleaning up his precious4 ,was he furious6 ,all #cej pounds of him6 7,by this time he had lost #ej pounds47 ,he barreled into me1 fists flying1 and knocked me into the pipes next to the furnace and seemed ready to really teach me what was what4 ,i prefer to avoid fights1 but if they are inevitable1 ,i can really get into the spirit of the thing4 ,i'd had lots of childhood practice defending myself because ,i was an incurable tomboy who loved to wrestle2 ,i could usually pin big boys who considered themselves tough4 ,so ,i began using my fists and what little martial arts training ,i had to good use4 ,after ,i hurt him a bit he realized that ,i was not going to be easily intimidated1 and that in fact he was in danger of getting seriously damaged4 ,so he called a truce before either of us were badly beaten up4 ,he had only a few bruises and welts1 nothing serious4 ,after that he refrained from collecting things inside the building 7he continued to collect outside74 ,this compromise was fine with me1 and the incident allowed me to maintain the authority ,i needed to bully him into co-operating with the program3 taking his vitamins1 and sticking to his fast until he finally reached #bjj pounds4 ,after #ij days on water he actually looked quite handsome1 he no longer smoked1 he was off psychotropic medication1 and his behaviors were within an acceptable range as long as your expectations were not too high4 ,he was well enough to live outside a hospital and also clear-headed enough to know that if he let too many people know how well he really was1 he might have to give up his mental disability pension and actually become responsible for himself4 ,no way1 ,jose6 ,this fellow knew a good thing when he saw it4 ,so he continued to pull bizarre stunts just often enough in front of the right audience to keep his disability checks coming in1 while managing to act sane enough to be allowed to live comfortably at home instead of in the hospital4 ,by keeping to my program he could stay off mind-numbing psychotropic medication if he kept up his megavitamins and minerals4 ,this compromise was tolerable from his point of view1 because there were no side effects like he experienced from his tranquilizers4 ,it is very rare for a mentally ill person who has spent more than a few months in a mental hospital to ever usefully return to society because they find mental illness too rewarding4 ,my ,own #ef ,day ,long ,fast ,fasters go through a lot of different emotional states1 these can get intense and do change quite rapidly4 ,the physical body1 too1 will manifest transitory conditions4 ,some can be quite uncomfortable4 ,but1 ,i don't want to leave the reader with the impression that fasting is inevitably painful4 ,so ,i will now recount my own longest fast in detail4 ,when ,i did my own #db day water fast followed by two weeks on carrot juice diluted #ej_/ej with water1 which really amounted to #ef consecutive days1 my predominant sensation for the first three days was a desire to eat that was mostly a mental condition1 and a lot of rumbling and growling from my stomach4 ,this is not real hunger1 just the sounds the stomach likes to make when it is shrinking4 ,after all1 this organ is accustomed to being filled at regular intervals1 and then1 all of a sudden1 it gets nothing1 so naturally the stomach wants to know what is going on4 ,once it realizes it is on temporary vacation1 the stomach wisely decides to reduce itself to a size suitable for a retired organ4 ,and it shuts up4 ,this process usually takes three to five days and for most people1 no further hunger pangs are felt until the fast is over4 ,real hunger comes only when the body is actually starving4 ,the intense discomforts many people experience upon missing a meal are frequently interpreted as hunger but they aren't4 ,what is actually happening is that their highly toxic bodies are taking the opportunity presented by having missed a meal or two to begin to cleanse4 ,the toxins being released and processed make assorted unpleasant symptoms such as headaches and inability to think clearly4 ,these symptoms can be instantly eliminated by the intake of a bit of food1 bringing the detox to a screeching halt4 ,two weeks into the fast ,i experienced sharp abdominal pains that felt like ,i imagine appendicitis feels1 which compelled me toward the nearest toilet in a state of great urgency where ,i productively busied myself for about half an hour4 ,as ,i mentioned earlier1 ,i was experimentally adhering to a rigid type of fast of the sort recommended by ,dr4 ,herbert ,shelton1 a famous advocate of the ,natural ,hygiene school4 ,shelton was such a powerful writer and personality that there still exists a ,natural ,hygiene ,society that keeps his books in print and maintains his library4 ,the words ,natural ,hygiene are almost owned by the society like a trademark and they object when anyone describes themselves as a hygienist and then advocates any practice that ,dr4 ,shelton did not approve of4 ,per ,dr4 ,shelton1 ,i was going to fast from the time hunger left until the time it returned and ,i was not going to use any form of colon cleansing4 ,shelton strongly opposed bowel cleansing so ,i did no enemas nor colonics1 nor herbs1 nor clays1 nor psyllium seed designed to clean the bowel1 etc4 ,obviously at day #ad the bowel said1 enough is enough of this crap1 and initiated a goods house cleaning session4 ,when ,i saw what was eliminated ,i was horrified to think that ,i had left that stuff in there for two weeks4 ,i then started to wonder if the ,sheltonites were mistaken about this aspect of fasting4 ,nonetheless1 ,i persevered on the same regimen because my hunger had not returned1 my tongue was still thickly coated with foul-smelling1 foul-tasting mucus and ,i still had some fat on my feet that had not been metabolized4 ,shelton said that cleansing is not complete until a skeletal condition is reached--that is1 absolutely no fat reserves are left4 ,up until that time ,i did not even know that ,i had fat on my feet1 but much to my surprise1 as the weeks went on1 not only did my breasts disappear except for a couple of land marks well-known to my babies1 but my ribs and hip bones became positively dangerous to passersby1 and my shoes would not stay on my feet4 ,this was not all that surprising because ,i went from #ace pounds down to #he on a #e' #g frame with substantial bone structure4 ,toward the end of the fast my eyes became brighter and clearer blue1 my skin took on a good texture1 my breath finally became sweet1 my tongue cleared up and became pink1 my mind was clear1 and my spiritual awareness and sensitivity was heightened4 ,in other words1 ,i was no longer a walking hulk of stored-up toxemia4 ,i also felt quite weak and had to rest for ten minutes out every hour in horizontal position4 7,i should have rested much more47 ,i also required very little sleep1 although it felt good to just lie quietly and rest1 being aware of what was going on in various parts of my body4 ,during the last few weeks on water ,i became very attentive to my right shoulder4 ,two separate times in the past1 while flying head first over the handlebars of my bicycle ,i had broken my shoulder with considerable tearing of ligaments and tendons4 ,at night when ,i was totally still ,i felt a whole crew of pixies and brownies with picks and shovels at work in the joint doing major repair work4 ,this activity was not entirely comfortable1 but ,i knew it was constructive work1 not destructive1 so ,i joined the work crew with my mind's eye and helped the work along4 ,it seemed my visualizations actually did help4 ,ever since1 ,i've had the fasters ,i supervised use creative imagery or write affirmations to help their bodies heal4 ,there are lots of books on this subject4 ,i've found that the techniques work far better on a faster than when a person is eating normally4 ,after breaking the fast it took me six weeks to regain enough strength that ,i could run my usual distance in my regular time2 it took me six months to regain my full #ace pound weight because ,i was very careful to break the fast slowly and correctly4 ,coming off water with two weeks on dilute carrot juice ,i then added small portions of raw food such as apples1 raw vegetables1 sprouts1 vegetable juices1 and finally in the fourth week after ,i began drinking dilute carrot juice1 ,i added seven daily well-chewed almonds to my rebuilding diet4 ,much later ,i increased to #ad almonds1 but that was the maximum amount of such highly concentrated fare my body wanted digest at one time for over one year4 ,i found ,i got a lot more miles to the gallon out of the food that ,i did eat1 and did not crave recreational foods4 ,overall ,i was very pleased with my educational fast1 it had taught me a great deal4 ,if ,i had undertaken such a lengthy fast at a time when ,i was actually ill1 and therefore had felt forced into it1 my experience could have been different4 ,a positive mental attitude is an essential part of the healing process so fasting should not be undertaken in a negative1 protesting mental state4 ,the mind is so powerful that fear or the resistance fear generates can override the healing capacity of the body4 ,for that reason ,i always recommend that people who consider themselves to be healthy1 who have no serious complaints1 but who are interested in water fasting1 should limit themselves to ten consecutive days or so1 certainly never more than #ad4 ,few healthy people1 even those with a deep interest in the process1 can find enough personal motivation to overcome the extreme boredom of water fasting for longer than that4 ,healthy people usually begin protesting severely after about two weeks4 ,if there is any one vital rule of fasting1 one never should fast over strong1 personal protest4 ,anytime you're fasting and you really desire to quit1 you probably should4 ,unless1 of course1 you are critically ill4 ,then you may have no choice--its fast or die4 ,common ,fasting ,complaints ,and ,discomforts ,the most frequently heard complaints of fasters are headaches1 dry1 cracked lips1 dizziness1 blurred vision with black spots that float1 skin rashes1 and weakness in the first few days plus what they think is intense hunger4 ,the dizziness and weakness are really real1 and are due to increased levels of toxins circulating in the blood and from unavoidably low blood sugar which is a natural consequence of the cessation of eating4 ,the blood sugar does reestablish a new equilibrium in the second and third week of the fast and then1 the dizziness may cease1 but still1 it is important to expect dizziness at the beginning4 ,it always takes more time for the blood to reach the head on a fast because everything has slowed down1 including the rate of the heart beat1 so blood pressure probably has dropped as well4 ,if you stand up very quickly you may faint4 ,i repetitively instruct all of my clients to stand up very slowly1 moving from a lying to a sitting position1 pausing there for ten or twenty seconds1 and then rising slowly from a sitting to a standing position4 ,they are told that at the first sign of dizziness they must immediately put their head between their knees so that the head is lower than the heart1 or squat_/sit down on the floor1 ,i once had a faster who forgot to obey my frequent warnings4 ,about two weeks into a long fast1 she got up rapidly from the toilet and felt dizzy4 ,the obvious thing to do was to sit back down on the toilet or lie down on the bath rug on the floor1 but no1 she decided that because she was dizzy she should rush back to her bed in the adjoining room4 ,she made it as far as the bathroom door and fainted1 out cold1 putting a deep grove into the drywall with her pretty nose on the way down4 ,we then had to make an unscheduled visit to a nose specialist1 who calmly put a tape-wrapped spoon inside her bent-over nose and pried it back to dead center4 ,this was not much fun for either of us2 it is well worthwhile preventing such complications4 ,other common complaints during the fast include coldness1 due to low blood sugar as well as a consequence of weight loss and slowed circulation due to lessened physical activity4 ,people also dislike inactivity which seems excruciatingly boring1 and some are upset by weight loss itself4 ,coldness is best handled with lots of clothes1 bedding1 hot water bottles or hot pads1 and warm baths4 ,great ,oaks ,school of ,health was in ,oregon1 where the endlessly rainy winters are chilly and the concrete building never seemed to get really warm4 ,i used to dream of moving my fasters to a tropical climate where ,i could also get the best1 ripest fruits to wean them back on to food4 ,if the fast goes on for more than a week or ten days1 many people complain of back discomfort1 usually caused by over-worked kidneys4 ,this passes4 ,hot baths or hot water bottles provide some relief4 ,drinking more fluids may also help a bit4 ,nausea is fairly common too1 due to toxic discharges from the gall bladder4 ,drinking lots of water or herbal tea dilutes toxic bile in the stomach and makes it more tolerable4 ,very few fasters sleep well and for some reason they expect to1 certainly fasters hope to1 because they think that if they sleep all night they will better survive one more deadly dull day in a state of relative unconsciousness4 ,they find out much to their displeasure that very little sleep is required on a fast because the body is at rest already4 ,many fasters sleep only two to four hours but doze frequently and require a great deal of rest4 ,being mentally prepared for this change of habit is the best handling4 ,generalized low-grade aches and pains in the area of the diseased organs or body parts are common and can often be alleviated with hot water bottles1 warm but not hot bath water and massage4 ,if this type of discomfort exists1 it usually lessens with each passing day until it disappears altogether4 ,many fasters complain that their vision is blurred1 and that they are unable to concentrate4 ,these are really major inconveniences because then fasters can't read or even pay close attention to video-taped movies1 and if they can't divert themselves some fasters think they will go stir crazy4 ,they are so addicted to a hectic schedule of doingness1 and_/or being entertained that they just can't stand just being with themselves1 forced to confront and deal with the sensations of their own body1 forced to face their own thoughts1 to confront their own emotions1 many of which are negative4 ,people who are fasting release a lot of mental_/emotional garbage at the same time as they let go of old physical garbage4 ,usually the psychological stuff contributed greatly to their illness and just like the physical garbage and degenerated organs1 it all needs to be processed4 ,one of the most distressing experiences that happen occasionally is hair loss4 ,deprived of adequate nutrition1 the follicles can not keep growing hair1 and the existing hair dies4 ,however1 the follicles themselves do not die and once the fast has ended and sufficient nutrition is forthcoming1 hair will regrow as well or better than before4 ,there are also complaints that occur after the fast has been broken4 ,post-fast cravings1 even after only two weeks of deprivation1 are to be expected4 ,these may take the form of desires for sweet1 sour1 salt1 or a specific food dreamed of while fasting1 like chocolate fudge sundays or just plain toast4 ,food cravings must be controlled at all costs because if acted upon1 each indulgence chips away the health gains of the previous weeks4 ,a single indulgence can be remedied by a day of restricting the diet to juice or raw food4 ,after the repair1 the person feels as good as they did when the fast ended4 ,repeated indulgences will require another extended bout of fasting to repair4 ,it is far better to learn self-control4 ,the ,healing ,crisis ,and ,retracing ,certain unpleasant somatics that occur while fasting 7or while on a healing diet7 may not be dangerous or bad4 ,two types1 the healing crisis1 and retracing1 are almost inevitable4 ,a well-educated faster should welcome these discomforts when they happen4 ,the healing crisis 7but not retracing7 also occurs on a healing diet4 ,the healing crisis can seem a big surprise to a faster who has been progressing wonderfully4 ,suddenly1 usually after a few days of noticeably increased well-being1 they suddenly experience a set of severe symptoms and feel just awful4 ,this is not a setback1 not something to be upset or disappointed about1 but a healing crisis1 actually a positive sign ,healing crises always occur after a period of marked improvement4 ,as the vital force builds up during the healing process1 the body decides it now has obtained enough energy to throw off some accumulated toxins1 and forcefully pushes them out through a typical and usually previously used route of secondary elimination1 such as the nose1 lungs1 stomach1 intestines1 skin1 or perhaps produces a flu-like experience with fever chills1 sweat1 aches and pains1 etc4 ,though unpleasant1 this experience is to be encouraged2 the body has merely accelerated its elimination process4 ,do not attempt to suppress any of these symptoms1 don't even try to moderate fever1 which is the body's effective way to burn out a virus or bacteria infection1 unless it is a dangerously high fever 7over #ajb degree ,fahrenheit74 ,fever can be lowered without drugs by putting the person into a cool_/cold bath1 or using cold towel wraps and cold water sponge baths4 ,the good news is that healing crises usually do not last long1 and when they are past you feel better than you did before the crisis4 ,asthmatics seem to have the worst crises4 ,i have had asthmatics bring up a quart of obnoxious mucous from their lungs every night for weeks4 ,they have stayed awake all night for three nights continuously coughing and choking on the material that was being eliminated4 ,after that clearing-out process they were able to breath much more freely4 ,likewise ,i have had people who have had sinusitis have nothing but non-stop pussy discharge from their sinuses for three weeks4 ,some of this would run down the throat and cause nausea4 ,all ,i could say to encourage the sufferer was that it needed to come out and to please stand aside and let the body work its magic4 ,these fasters were not grateful until the sinus problem that had plagued them since childhood disappeared4 ,the interesting thing about healing crises are that the symptoms produced retrace earlier complaints2 they are almost never something entirely unknown to the patient4 ,usually they are old1 familiar somatics1 often complaints that haven't bothered the faster for many years4 ,the reason the symptom is familiar but is not currently a problem is because as the body degenerates it loses vital force2 with less vital force it loses the ability to create such acute detoxification episodes in non-life-threatening secondary elimination routes4 ,the degenerated body makes less violent efforts to cleanse1 efforts that aren't as uncomfortable4 ,the negative side of this is that instead of creating acute discomfort in peripheral systems1 the toxemia goes to more vital organs where it hastens the formation of life-threatening conditions4 ,there is a very normal and typical progress for each person's fatal illness4 ,their ultimate disease starts out in childhood or adolescence as acute inflammations of skin-like organs1 viral or bacterial infections of the same4 ,then1 as vital force weakens1 secondary eliminations are shifted to more vital organs4 ,allergies or colds stop happening so frequently2 the person becomes rheumatic1 arthritic or experience weakness in joints1 tendons1 ligaments1 or to have back pains1 or to have digestive upsets4 ,these new symptoms are more constant but usually less acute4 ,ultimately1 vital organs begin to malfunction1 and serious disease develop4 ,but a hygienist sees the beginning of fatal diseases such as cancer in adolescent infections and allergies4 ,retracing is generally seen only on water fasts1 not on extended cleansing diets4 ,the body begins to repair itself by healing conditions in the reverse order to that which they occurred originally4 ,this means that the body would first direct healing toward the lungs if the most recently serious illness was an attack of pneumonia six months previously4 ,in this case you would expect to quickly and intensely experience a mini-case of pneumonia while the body eliminates residues in the lungs that were not completely discharged at the time4 ,next the body might take you through a period of depression that you had experienced five years in the past4 ,the faster may be profoundly depressed for a few days and come out of it feeling much better4 ,you could then reexperience sensation-states like those caused by recreational drugs you had playfully experimented with ten years previously along with the trippiness if it were a hallucinogen1 speediness if it was speed or the dopiness if it was heroin4 ,retracing further1 the faster might then experience something similar to a raging attack of tonsillitis which you vaguely remember having when you were five years old1 but fortunately this time it passes in three days 7or maybe six hours71 instead of three weeks4 ,this is retracing4 ,please do not be surprised or alarmed if it happens to you on a fast1 and immediately throw out the baby with the bath water thinking that you are doing the wrong thing because all those old illnesses are coming back to haunt you4 ,it is the body's magnificent healing effort working on your behalf1 and for doing it your body deserves lots of well done1 good body thoughts rather than gnashing of teeth and thinking what did ,i do to deserve this4 ,the body won't tell you what you did to deserve this1 but it knows and is trying its darndest to undo it4 ,the ,unrelenting ,boredom ,of ,fasting ,then there's the unrelenting boredom of fasting4 ,most people have been media junkies since they were kids2 the only way they believe they can survive another day of fasting is by diverting their minds with ,,tv4 ,this is far from ideal because often the emotions of a faster are like an open wound and when they resonate with the emotions portrayed on most ,,tv shows1 the faster gets into some very unpleasant states that interfere with healing4 ,and the emotions many movies prompt people to sympathetically generate are powerful ones1 often highly negative1 and contrary to healing4 ,especially unhelpful are the adrenaline rushes in action movies4 ,but if ,,tv is the best a faster can do1 it is far better that someone fast with television programming filling their minds than to not fast at all4 ,i keep a library of positive ,,vhs tapes for these addicts--comedies1 stories of heroic over-comings1 depiction's of humans at their best4 ,boredom is probably the most limiting factor to fasting a long time4 ,that is because boredom is progressive1 it gets worse with each slowly-passing day4 ,but concurrently1 the rate of healing is accelerating with each slowly-passing day4 ,every day the faster gets through does them considerably more good than the previous day4 ,however1 fasters rarely are motivated enough to overcome boredom for more than two weeks or so1 unless they started the fast to solve a very serious or life-threatening condition4 ,for this reason1 basically well people should not expect to be able to fast for more than a couple of weeks every six months or year1 no matter how much good a longer fast might do4 ,exercise ,while ,fasting ,the issue of how much activity is called for on a fast is controversial4 ,natural ,hygienists in the ,herbert ,shelton tradition insist that all fasters absolutely must have complete bed rest1 with no books1 no ,,tv1 no visitors1 no enemas1 no exercise1 no music1 and of course no food1 not even a cup of herb tea4 ,in my many years of conducting people through fasts1 ,i have yet to meet an individual that could mentally tolerate this degree of nothingness4 ,it is too drastic a withdrawal from all the stimulation people are used to in the twentieth century4 ,i still don't know how ,shelton managed to make his patients do it1 but my guess is that he must have been a very intimidating guy4 ,shelton was a body builder of some renown in his day4 ,i bet ,shelton's patients kept a few books and magazines under their mattress and only took them out when he wasn't looking4 ,if ,i had tried to enforced this type of sensory deprivation1 ,i know my patients would have grabbed their clothes and run1 vowing never to fast again4 ,i think it is most important that people fast1 and that they feel so good about the experience that they want to do it again1 and talk all their sick friends into doing the same thing4 ,in contrast to enforced inactivity1 ,russian researchers who supervised schizophrenics on #cj day water fasts insisted that they walk for three hours every day1 without stopping4 ,i would like to have been there to see how they managed to enforce that4 ,i suspect some patients cheated4 ,i lived with schizophrenics enough years to know that it is very difficult to get them to do anything that they don't want to do1 and very few of them are into exercise1 especially when fasting4 ,in my experience both of these approaches to activity during the fast are extremes4 ,the correct activity level should be arrived at on an individual basis4 ,i have had clients who walked six miles a day during an extended water fast1 but they were not feeling very sick when they started the fast1 and they were also physically fit4 ,in contrast ,i have had people on extended fasts who were unable to walk for exercise1 or so weak they were unable to even walk to the bathroom1 but these people were critically ill when they started fasting1 and desperately needed to conserve what little vital force they had for healing4 ,most people who are not critically ill need to walk at least #bjj yards twice a day1 with assistance if necessary1 if only to move the lymph through the system4 ,the lymphatic system is a network of ducts and nodes which are distributed throughout the body1 with high concentrations of nodes in the neck1 chest1 arm pits1 and groin4 ,its job is to carry waste products from the extremities to the center of the body where they can be eliminated4 ,the blood is circulated through the arteries and veins in the body by the contractions of the heart1 but the lymphatic system does not have a pump4 ,lymphatic fluid is moved by the contractions of the muscles1 primarily those of the arms and legs4 ,if the faster is too weak to move1 massage and assisted movements are essential4 ,lymph nodes are also a part of our immune system and produce white blood cells to help control invading organisms4 ,when the lymph is overloaded with waste products the ducts and nodes swell1 and until the source of the local irritation is removed1 are incapable of handling further debris4 ,if left in this condition for years they become so hard they feel like rocks under the skin4 ,lumps in the armpits or the groin are prime sites for the future development of a cancer4 ,fasting1 massage1 and poultices will often soften overloaded lymph nodes and coax them back into operation4 ,the ,stages ,of ,fasting ,the best way to understand what happens when we fast is to break up the process into six stages3 preparation for the fast1 loss of hunger1 acidosis1 normalization1 healing1 and breaking the fast4 ,a person that has consumed the typical ,american diet most of their life and whose life is not in immediate danger would be very wise to gently prepare their body for the fast4 ,two weeks would be a minimum amount of time1 and if the prospective faster wants an easier time of it1 they should allow a month or even two for preliminary housecleaning4 ,during this time1 eliminate all meat1 fish1 dairy products1 eggs1 coffee1 black tea1 salt1 sugar1 alcohol1 drugs1 cigarettes1 and greasy foods4 ,this de-addiction will make the process of fasting much more pleasant1 and is strongly recommended4 ,however1 eliminating all these harmful substances is withdrawal from addictive substances and will not be easy for most4 ,i have more to say about this later when ,i talk about allergies and addictions4 ,the second stage1 psychological hunger1 usually is felt as an intense desire for food4 ,this passes within three or four days of not eating anything4 ,psychological hunger usually begins with the first missed meal4 ,if the faster seems to be losing their resolve1 ,i have them drink unlimited quantities of good-tasting herb teas1 7sweetened--only if absolutely necessary--with nutrisweet74 ,salt-free broths made from meatless instant powder 7obtainable at the health food store7 can also fend off the desire to eat until the stage of hunger has passed4 ,acidosis1 the third stage1 usually begins a couple of days after the last meal and lasts about one week4 ,during acidosis the body vigorously throws off acid waste products4 ,most people starting a fast begin with an overly acid blood p,h from the typical ,american diet that contains a predominance of acid-forming foods4 ,switching over to burning fat for fuel triggers the release of even more acidic substances4 ,acidosis is usually accompanied by fatigue1 blurred vision1 and possibly dizziness4 ,the breath smells very bad1 the tongue is coated with bad-tasting dryish mucus1 and the urine may be concentrated and foul unless a good deal of water is taken daily4 ,two to three quarts a day is a reasonable amount4 ,mild states of acidosis are a common occurrence4 ,while sleeping after the last meal of the day is digested bodies normally work very hard trying to detoxify from yesterday's abuses4 ,so people routinely awaken in a state of acidosis4 ,their tongue is coated1 their breath foul and they feel poorly4 ,they end their brief overnight fast with breakfast1 bringing the detoxification process to a screeching halt and feel much better4 ,many people think they awaken hungry and don't feel well until they eat4 ,they confuse acidosis with hunger when most have never experienced real hunger in their entire lives4 ,if you typically awaken in acidosis1 you are being given a strong sign by your body that it would like to continue fasting far beyond breakfast4 ,in fact1 it probably would enjoy fasting long beyond the end of acidosis4 ,most fasters feel much more comfortable by the end of the first seven to ten days1 when they enter the normalization phase2 here the acidic blood chemistry is gradually corrected4 ,this sets the stage for serious healing of body tissues and organs4 ,normalization may take one or two more weeks depending on how badly the body was out of balance4 ,as the blood chemistry steadily approaches perfection1 the faster usually feels an increasing sense of well-being1 broken by short spells of discomfort that are usually healing crises or retracings4 ,the next stage1 accelerated healing1 can take one or many weeks more1 again depending on how badly the body has been damaged4 ,healing proceeds rapidly after the blood chemistry has been stabilized1 the person is usually in a state of profound rest and the maximum amount of vital force can be directed toward repair and regeneration of tissues4 ,this is a miraculous time when tumors are metabolized as food for the body1 when arthritic deposits dissolve1 when scar tissues tend to disappear1 when damaged organs regain lost function 7if they can74 ,seriously ill people who never fast long enough to get into this stage 7usually it takes about ten days to two weeks of water fasting to seriously begin healing7 never find out what fasting can really do for them4 ,breaking the fast is equally or more important a stage than the fast itself4 ,it is the most dangerous time in the entire fast4 ,if you stop fasting prematurely1 that is1 before the body has completed detoxification and healing1 expect the body to reject food when you try to make it eat1 even if you introduce foods very gradually4 ,the faster1 the spiritual being running the body1 may have become bored and want some action1 but the faster's body hasn't finished4 ,the body wants to continue healing4 ,by rejection1 ,i mean that food may not digest1 may feel like a stone in your stomach1 make you feel terrible4 ,if that happens and if1 despite that clear signal you refuse to return to fasting1 you should go on a juice diet1 take as little as possible1 sip it slowly 7almost chew it7 and stay on juice until you find yourself digesting it easily4 ,then and only then1 reintroduce a little solid raw food like a green salad4 ,weaning yourself back on to food should last just as long as the fast4 ,your first tentative meals should be dilute1 raw juices4 ,after several days of slowly building up to solid raw fruit1 small amounts of raw vegetable foods should be added4 ,if it has been a long fast1 say over three weeks1 this reintroduction should be done gingerly over a few weeks4 ,if this stage is poorly managed or ignored you may become acutely ill1 and for someone who started fasting while dangerously ill1 loss of self control and impulsive eating could prove fatal4 ,even for those fasting to cure non-life-threatening illnesses it is pointless to go through the effort and discipline of a long fast without carefully establishing a correct diet after the fast ends1 or the effort will have largely been wasted4 ,foods ,for ,monodiet1 ,juice or ,broth ,fasting zucchini1 garlic1 onion1 green beans1 kale1 celery1 beet greens and root1 cabbage1 carrot1 wheat grass juice1 alfalfa juice1 barley green juice1 parsley juice1 lemon_/lime juice1 grapefruit juice1 apples 7not juice1 too sweet71 diluted orange juice1 diluted grape juice ,less-,rigorous-,than-,water ,fasts ,there are gradations of fasting measures ranging from rigorous to relatively casual4 ,water fasting is the most rapid and effective one4 ,other methods have been created by grasping the underlying truth of fasting1 namely whenever the digestive effort can be reduced1 by whatever degree1 whenever the formation of the toxins of misdigestion can be reduced or prevented1 to that extent the body can divert energy to the healing process4 ,thus comes about assorted famous and sometimes notorious monodiet semi-fasts like the grape cure where the faster eats only grapes for a month or so1 or the lemon cure1 where the juice of one or more lemons is added to water and nothing else is consumed for weeks on end4 ,here ,i should also mention the lemon juice_/cayenne pepper_/maple syrup cure1 the various green drink cures using spirulina1 chlorella1 barley green or wheat grass1 and the famous ,bieler broths--vegetable soups made of overcooked green beans or zucchini4 ,i do not believe that monodiets work because of some magical property of a particular food used4 ,they work because they are semi-fasts and may be extremely useful1 especially for those individuals who can not or will not tolerate a water fast4 ,the best foods for monodiet fasting are the easiest ones digest3 juices of raw fruits and nonstarchy vegetables with all solids strained out4 ,strained mineral broths made of long-simmered non-starchy vegetables 7the best of them made of leafy green vegetables7 fall in the same category4 ,so if you are highly partial to the flavor of grapes or lemons or cayenne and 7highly diluted7 maple syrup1 a long fast on one of these would do you a world of good1 just not quite as much good as the same amount of time spent on water alone4 ,if you select something more solid for a long monodiet fast1 like pureed zucchini1 it is essential that you not overeat4 ,dr4 ,bieler gave his fasting patients only one pint of zucchini soup three or four times a day4 ,the way to evaluate how much to eat is by how much weight you are losing4 ,when fasting1 you must lose weight6 ,and the faster the better4 ,pure absolute water fasting while not taking any vitamins or other nutritional supplementation has a very limited maximum duration1 perhaps #de days4 ,the key concept here is nutritional reserves4 ,body fat is stored1 surplus energy fuel4 ,but energy alone cannot keep a body going4 ,it needs much more than fuel to rebuild and repair and maintain its systems4 ,so the body in its wisdom also stores up vitamins and minerals and other essential substances in and in-between all its cells4 ,bodies that have been very well nourished for a long time have very large reserves2 poorly nourished ones may have very little set aside for a rainy day4 ,and it is almost a truism that a sick person has1 for quite some time1 been a poorly nourished one4 ,with low nutritional reserves4 ,this fact alone can make it difficult for a sick person to water fast for enough time to completely heal their damaged organs and other systems4 ,obese people have fat reserves sufficient to provide energy for long periods1 but rarely can any body1 no matter how complete its nutrition was for years previously1 contain sufficient nutritional reserves to support a water fast of over six weeks4 ,to water fast the very obese down to normal weight can take months but to make this possible1 rather diverse and concentrated nutrition containing few calories must be given4 ,it is possible to fast even a very slim a person for quite a bit longer than a month when their body is receiving easily assimilable vitamins and minerals and small amounts of sugars or other simple carbohydrates4 ,i estimate that fasting on raw juices and mineral broths will result in healing at #be to #ge percent of the efficiency of water fasting1 depending on the amount of nutrition taken and the amount the juices or broths are diluted4 ,but juice fasting can permit healing to go on several times longer than water might4 ,fasting on dilute juice and broth can also save the life of someone whose organs of elimination are insufficiently strong to withstand the work load created by water fasting4 ,in this sense1 juices can be regarded as similar to the moderators in a nuclear reactor1 slowing the process down so it won't destroy the container4 ,on a fast of undiluted juice1 the healing power drops considerably1 but a person on this regimen1 if not sick1 is usually capable of working4 ,duration of juice fasts can vary greatly4 ,most of the time there is no need to continue fasting after the symptoms causing concern have been eliminated1 and this could happen as quickly as one week or take as long as #fj days if the person is very obese4 ,fasters also lose their motivation once the complaint has vanished4 ,but feeling better is no certain indication that the need to fast has ended4 ,this points up one of the liabilities of juice fasting2 the person is already eating1 their digestive system never shut down and consequently1 it is much easier for them to resume eating4 ,the thing to keep in mind is that if the symptoms return1 the fast was not long enough or the diet was not properly reformed after the fast4 ,during a long fast on water or dilute juice1 if the body has used up all of it's reserves and_/or the body has reached skeletal condition1 and the condition or symptoms being addressed persists the fast should be ended1 the person should go on a raw food healing diet4 ,if three to six months on raw food don't solve the complaint then another spell of water or dilute juice fasting should be attempted4 ,most fasters are incapable of persisting until the body reserves have been used up because social conditioning is telling them their emaciated-looking body must be dying when it is actually far from death1 but return of true hunger is the critical indicator that must not be ignored4 ,true hunger is not what most people think of when they think they are hungry4 ,few ,americans have ever experienced true hunger4 ,it is not a rumbling in the stomach or a set of uncomfortable sensations 7caused by the beginning of detoxification7 you know will go away after eating4 ,true hunger is an animal1 instinctual feeling in the back of one's throat 7not in the stomach7 that demands you eat something1 anything1 even grass or shoe leather4 ,seriously ill people inevitably start the cleansing process with a pre-existing and serious mineral deficiencies4 ,i say inevitably because they likely would not have become ill had they been properly nourished4 ,sick fasters may be wise to take in minerals from thin vegetable broths or vitamin-like supplements in order to prevent uncomfortable deficiency states4 ,for example calcium or magnesium deficiencies can make water fasters experience unpleasant symptoms such as hand tremors1 stiff muscles1 cramps in the hands1 feet1 and legs1 and difficulty relaxing4 ,i want to stress here that fasting itself does not create deficiencies4 ,but a person already deficient in minerals should watch for these symptoms and take steps to remedy the deficiencies if necessary4 ,raw ,food ,healing ,diets ,next in declining order of healing effectiveness is what ,i call a raw food healing diet or cleansing diet4 ,it consists of those very same watery fruits and nonstarchy vegetables one juices or makes into vegetable broths1 but eaten whole and raw4 ,heating food does two harmful things3 it destroys many vitamins1 enzymes and other nutritional elements and it makes many foods much harder to digest4 ,so no cooked vegetables or fruits are allowed because to maintain health on this limited regimen it is essential that every possible vitamin and enzyme present in the food be available for digestion4 ,even though still raw1 no starchy or fatty vegetables or fruits are allowed that contain concentrated calories like potatoes1 winter squash1 avocados1 sweet potatoes1 fresh raw corn1 dates1 figs1 raisins1 or bananas4 ,and naturally1 no salad dressings containing vegetable oils or 7raw7 ground seeds are allowed4 ,nor are raw grains or other raw concentrated energy sources4 ,when a person starts this diet they will at first experience considerable weight loss because it is difficult to extract a large number of calories from these foods 7though ,i have seen people actually gain weight on a pure melon diet1 so much sugar do these fruits have1 and well-chewed watermelon seeds are very nourishing74 ,eating even large quantities of only raw fruit and raw non-starchy vegetables results in a slow but steady healing process about #aj to #bj percent as rapid as water fasting4 ,a raw food cleansing diet has several huge advantages4 ,it is possible to maintain this regimen and regularly do non-strenuous work for many months1 even a year or more without experiencing massive weight loss and1 more important to some people1 without suffering the extremes of low blood sugar1 weakness and loss of ability to concentrate that happen when water fasting4 ,someone on a raw food cleanse will have periods of lowered energy and strong cravings for more concentrated foods1 but if they have the self-discipline to not break their cleansing process they can accomplish a great deal of healing while still maintaining more or less normal 7though slower paced7 life activities4 ,however1 almost no one on this diet is able to sustain an extremely active life-style involving hard physical labor or competitive sports4 ,and from the very beginning someone on a raw food cleanse must be willing and able to lie down and rest any time they feel tired or unable to face their responsibilities4 ,otherwise they will inevitably succumb to the mental certainty that their feelings of exhaustion or overwhelm can be immediately solved by eating some concentrated food to give them energy4 ,such low-energy states will1 however1 pass quickly after a brief nap or rest4 ,something else gradually happens to a body when on such a diet4 ,do you recall that ,i mentioned that after my own long fast ,i began to get more mileage out of my food4 ,a cleansed1 healed body becomes far more efficient at digestion and assimilation2 a body that is kept on a raw food cleansing diet will initially lose weight rapidly1 but eventually weight loss slows to virtually nothing and then stabilizes4 ,however1 long-term raw fooders are usually thin as toothpicks4 ,once starchy vegetables like potatoes or winter squash1 raw or cooked1 or any cereals1 raw or cooked1 are added to a cleansing diet1 the detoxification and healing virtually ceases and it becomes very easy to maintain or even gain weight1 particularly if larger quantities of more concentrated foods like seeds and nuts are eaten4 ,though this diet has ceased to be cleansing1 few if any toxins from misdigestion will be produced and health is easy to maintain4 ,raw fooders are usually people who have healed themselves of a serious diseases and ever after continue to maintain themselves on unfired food1 almost as a matter of religious belief4 ,they have become convinced that eating only raw1 unfired food is the key to extraordinarily long life and supreme good health4 ,when raw fooders wish to perform hard physical work or strenuous exercise1 they'll consume raw nuts and some raw grains such as finely-ground oats soaked overnight in warm water or deliciously sweet ,essene bread1 made from slightly sprouted wheat that is then ground wet1 made into cakes1 and sun baked at temperatures below about #aae degrees ,fahrenheit4 ,essene bread can be purchased in some health food stores4 ,however1 little or no healing or detoxification can happen once concentrated energy sources are added to the diet1 even raw ones4 ,during my days at ,great ,oaks ,school ,i was a raw fooder for some years1 though ,i found it very difficult to maintain body heat on raw food during chilly1 rainy ,oregon winters and eventually struck a personal compromise where ,i ate about half my diet raw and the rest fired4 ,i have listed some books by raw fooders in the ,bibliography4 ,joe ,alexander's is the most fun4 ,complete ,recovery ,of ,the ,seriously ,ill ,its a virtual certainty that to fully recover1 a seriously ill person will have to significantly rebuild numerous organs4 ,they have a hard choice3 to accept a life of misery1 one that the medical doctors with drugs and surgery may be able to prolong into an interminable hell on earth1 or1 spend several years working on really healing their body1 rotating between water fasting1 juice or broth fasting1 extended periods on a cleansing raw food diet1 and periods of no-cleansing on a more complete diet that includes moderate amounts of cooked vegetables and small quantities of cooked cereals4 ,and even after recovery someone who was quite ill may have to live the rest of their life on a rather restricted regimen4 ,it is unrealistic to expect one fast to fix everything4 ,the body will heal as much as it can in the allotted time1 but if a dangerous illness has not been fully remedied by the first intense fast1 a raw food diet must be followed for three to six months until weight has been regained1 nutritional reserves have been rebuilt and it is safe to undertake another extended fast4 ,more than two water or juice fasts a year of thirty continuous days are not recommended nor should they be necessary unless the life is in imminent danger and there is no other option4 ,the story of ,jake's catastrophic illness and almost-cure is a good example of this type of program4 ,jake was from back ,east4 ,he phoned me because he had read a health magazine article ,i had written1 his weak voice faintly describing a desperate condition4 ,he was in a wheelchair unable to walk1 unable to control his legs or arms very well1 was unable to control his bladder and required a catheter4 ,he had poor bowel control1 had not the strength to talk much or loudly and most frightening to him1 he was steadily losing weight although he was eating large amounts of cooked vegetables and grains4 ,jake had wasted away to #ij pounds at #e' #aj and looked pathetic when ,i first saw him wheeled off an airplane at my local airport4 ,jake had seen a lot of medical doctors and had variously been diagnosed as having chronic fatigue syndrome1 chronic 7whatever that is7 meningitis1 and multiple sclerosis4 ,he had been treated by virtually every medical expert and many famous alternative practitioners1 utilizing a host of old and new techniques1 all to no avail4 ,he had even tried intravenous chelation therapy and colonics4 ,it had also been suggested that he enter a hospital for the treatment of eating disorders and_/or see a psychiatrist4 ,he had tried to gain admittance to a number of holistic fasting institutions back east1 but they all refused him because they considered the risk was too high to fast a person at such a low body weight4 ,but ,i had previously fasted emaciated people like ,jake1 and there was something ,i liked about his telephone presence4 ,perhaps this is why ,i foolishly decided ,i knew better than the other experts4 ,people commonly waste away and die while eating large amounts of food4 ,obviously they are unable to digest or assimilate nutrients or they wouldn't be wasting4 ,eating further increases their toxic burden from undigested meals1 further worsening their already failing organs4 ,the real solution is to stop feeding them altogether so that their digestive functions can heal4 ,in ,jake's case1 his body's nutritional reserves had already become sadly depleted due to poor absorption over such an extended period1 so ,i could not fast him on water4 ,i immediately put ,jake on a rich mineral broth prepared from everything left alive in our garden at the end of winter--leaves of kale1 endive plants1 whole huge splitting ,savoy cabbages1 garlic1 huge leeks including their green tops1 the whole stew fortified with sea weed4 ,it did not matter too much what vegetables ,i used as long as there were lots of leafy greens containing lots of chlorophyll 7where the most concentrated mineral nutrition is located74 ,jake was given colonics every day1 but had to be carried to the colonic table because he could not support his own weight4 ,whoever had given him colonics previously had not accomplished much for ,i must say that ,jake had the most foul smelling discharges that ,i had ever encountered in administering over #f1jjj colonics over many years4 ,it was as if his body was literally rotting from the inside out4 ,after #cj days on mineral broth ,jake1 who really did weigh #ij pounds when he arrived1 was only down to #he6 ,when a person already close to skeletal weight starts fasting1 to conserve vital tissue the body goes rapidly into a state of profound rest so it uses very little energy1 thus it loses very little weight each day4 ,this degree of resting also helps heal abnormal body parts earlier4 ,after one month on mineral broth ,jake began to show signs of mineral deficiencies in the form of a fine tremor of the hands1 and cramps in the feet1 so ,i put him on mineral supplements too4 ,jake was in my house for a long time4 ,at the end of the second month on broth he started two weeks on raw carrot juice with a lot of chlorophyll added from sources such as algae 7spirulina71 wheat grass juice1 alfalfa1 etc44 ,this was followed by two more weeks on small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables1 and then followed by two weeks with added steamed vegetables1 and finally1 he achieved a diet which included small amounts of grain1 cooked legumes and raw nuts1 plus the fruits and vegetables previously mentioned4 ,jake health steadily improved4 ,he gained control of his bladder1 bowels1 speech1 hands1 and legs4 ,he began to exercise in the living room on a stationary bike1 and walked slowly up and down our long driveway1 picking daffodils in the beautiful spring weather4 ,sadly1 though ,i could help his body to heal it was next to impossible to stem the tides of ,jake's appetites or to pleasantly withstand his tantrums when he was denied2 he always wanted more in terms of quantity1 more in terms of variety1 and at more frequent intervals4 ,though his organs had healed significantly1 his digestive capacity was not nearly as large as he remembered himself enjoying before he got sick4 ,and never would be4 ,jake was not happy about the dietary restrictions necessary for him to retain his newly attained health1 and unwilling to stay within the limits of his digestive system's ability to process foods4 ,he had gained weight and was back up to #abj pounds4 ,it was time for him to go home before ,i lost my good humor4 ,jake left with a lot of good lucks and stern admonitions to stick to his stringent diet and supplement program4 ,it was a big moment for ,jake4 ,he had arrived in a wheelchair three months before4 ,now he walked unaided to the airplane1 something he had not been able to do for two years4 ,back at home ,jake had no one courageous enough to set limits for him4 ,his immediate family and every one of his brow beaten associates were compelled to give him everything that he wanted4 ,so his appetite and lack of personal discipline got the better of him4 ,he started eating lots of dates and figs4 ,these had been eliminated from his diet because he was unable to process foods which such a high sugar content4 ,he also ate larger and larger quantities of grains1 nuts and avocados1 although ,i had warned him of specific quantity limits on rich foods4 ,most sadly1 he returned to enjoying spaghetti with lots of cheese grated on top4 ,within months of leaving my care his paralysis and weakness returned1 except that unfortunately for him1 he still retained the ability to assimilate food and maintain his body weight4 ,ironically1 the only ultimate benefit of his fasting with me was to permit him to suffer a far longer existence in a wheelchair without wasting away and escaping into death4 ,i would be failing my readers if ,i did not explain why ,jake became ill in the first place4 ,jake had started what grew to become a very successful chain of spaghetti restaurants with a unique noodles and sauces made to his own formula4 ,he ate a lot of his own spaghetti over the years1 and had been reared in a good ,italian family with lots of other kinds of rich food4 ,jake had a reputation for being able to outeat everybody in terms of quantity and in the amount of time spent eating4 ,in childhood1 this ability had made his ,italian mother very happy because it showed appreciation for her great culinary skill4 ,secondly1 ,jake the adult was still at his core1 ,jake the spoiled brat child1 with a bad1 unregulated temper4 ,he was in the habit of dumping his temper on other people whether they needed a helping of his angry emotions or not4 ,a lot of people in his employ and in his extended family tiptoed around ,jake1 always careful of triggering his wrath4 ,at my place as ,jake began to get well he began to use his increased energy and much stronger voice to demonstrate his poor character4 ,at meal times ,jake would bang the table with a fork hard enough to leave dents in the wood table top while yelling for more1 complaining loudly about the lack of rich sauces and other culinary delights he craved4 ,this was a character problem that ,jake could not seem to overcome1 even with a lot of intervention from the local minister on his behalf and my counseling4 ,jake was a ,catholic who went to church regularly1 but acted like a ,christian only while he was in church4 ,on some level ,jake knew that he was not treating others fairly1 but he would not change his habitual responses4 ,his negative thoughts and actions interfered with his digestive capacity to the extent that his gluttonous eating habits produced illness1 a vegetative paralyzing illness1 but not death4 ,to me this seems almost a form of karmic justice4 ,it is common for people who have been very ill for extended periods of time to realize what a wonderful gift life is and arrive at a willingness to do almost anything to have a second chance at doing life right4 ,some succeed with their second chance and some don't4 ,if they don't succeed in changing their life and relationships1 they frequently relapse4 ,luigi ,cornaro's left the world his story of sickness and rejuvenation4 ,his little book may be the world's first alternative healing text4 ,it is a classic example of the value of abstentousness4 ,had ,jake taken this story to heart he would have totally recovered4 ,cornaro was a sixteenth century ,venetian nobleman4 ,he1 like ,jake the spaghetti baron1 was near death at the young age of forty4 7,jake was also in his early #djs when he broke down47 ,cornaro's many doctors were unable to cure him4 ,finally he saw a doctor who understood the principles of natural healing4 ,this wise physician determined that this illness was caused by a mismatch between ,cornaro's limited digestive capacity and the excessive amount of food he was eating4 ,so ,cornaro was put on a diet of only #ab ounces of solid food and fourteen ounces of liquid a day4 ,any twelve ounces of any solids he wanted and any fourteen ounces of liquid4 ,it could be meat and wine1 salad or orange juice1 no matter4 ,cornaro soon regained his health and he continued to follow the diet until the age of #gh4 ,his health was so outstanding during this period that people who were much younger in terms of years were unable to keep up with him4 ,at #gh his friends1 worried about how thin he was 7doesn't it always seem that it is your so-called friends who always ruin a natural cure7 persuaded him to increase his daily ration by two ounces a day4 ,his delicate and weak digestive system1 which had operated perfectly for many years1 was unable to deal with the additional two ounces1 and he became very ill after a very short period of over eating4 ,worse1 his recent indulgence had even further damaged the organs of digestion and to survive ,cornaro had to cut his daily ration to eight ounces of solid food and eleven of liquids4 ,on this reduced dietary he again regained his health and lived to be #ajj4 ,cornaro wrote four books on the value of abstinence or sober living as he called it1 writing the last and perhaps the most interesting at #if years of age4 ,had my patient ,jake been able to confine his food intake to the level of his body's ability to digest1 he might still be walking and enjoying life4 ,but try as ,i might ,i could not make him understand4 ,perhaps he enjoys doing penance in his wheel chair more than he would enjoy health and life4 ,tissue ,losses at ,death ,by ,starvation ,fat #ig ,muscles #ca ,blood #bg ,liver #ed ,spleen #fg ,pancreas #ag ,skin #ba ,intestines #ah ,kidneys #bf ,lungs #ah ,testes #dj ,heart #c ,brain and ,spinal ,cord #c ,nerves #c ,bone #ad ,from ,keys1 ,ancel1 ,joseph ,brozek1 ,austin ,henchel1 ,olaf ,mickelson and ,henry ,l4 ,taylor1 7#aiej7 ,the ,biology of ,human ,starvation4 ,two ,vols4 ,minneapolis3 ,university of ,minnesota ,press4 ,starvation ,it is true that ethical medical doctors use the least-risky procedure they are allowed to use4 ,but this does not mean there are no risks to allopathic treatment4 ,the medical doctor justifies taking the risks by saying that the risk_/reward ratio is the best possible4 ,any sick person is already at risk4 ,life comes with only one guarantee3 that none of us gets out of it alive4 ,compared to the risks of allopathic medicine1 fasting is a far safer method of treating disease4 ,the oft-repeated scare stories medical doctors and their allies circulate about fasting are not true1 and it is important to remember that none of these people portraying fasting as evil and dangerous have ever fasted themselves--,i'll put money on that one4 ,or1 on the slim possibility that someone telling fasting horror stories did actually not eat for #bd hours 7probably because some accident or acute illness prevented them71 they had a terrible experience because they didn't understand the process1 were highly toxic1 and were scared to death the whole time4 ,or worse yet they fasted for a short period with an open mind--a very dangerous state in which to approach anything new4 ,i have found through considerable experience with people professing to have open minds that the expression ,i'm open minded usually means that someone has already made up their mind and new data just passes straight through their open mind--in one ear and out the other4 ,or sometimes1 the phrase open mind means a person that does not believe any information has reality and is entirely unable to make up their mind4 ,the most commonly leveled criticism of fasting is that in its efforts to survive self-imposed starvation the body metabolizes vital tissue1 not just fat1 and therefore1 fasting is damaging1 potentially fatally damaging4 ,people who tell you this will also tell you that fasters have destroyed their heart muscle or ruined their nervous system permanently4 ,but this kind of damage happen only when a person starves to death or starves to a point very close to death1 not when someone fasts4 ,there is a huge difference between fasting and starvation4 ,someone starving is usually eating1 but eating poorly and inadequately1 eating scraps of whatever is available such as sugar1 white flour1 rancid grease1 shoe leather1 or even dirt4 ,frequently a starving person is forced to exercise a great deal as they struggle to survive and additionally is highly apprehensive4 ,or someone starving to death is confined to a small space1 may become severely dehydrated too and is in terror4 ,fear is very damaging to the digestive process1 and to the body in general2 fear speeds up the destruction of vital tissue4 ,people starve when trekking vast distances through wastelands without food to eat1 they starved in concentration camps1 buried in mind disasters1 they starve during famines and starve while being tortured in prisons4 ,until water fasting goes on past the point where all fatty tissues and all abnormal deposits have been burned for fuel and recycled for the nutritional elements they contain1 vital muscle tissues and organs are not consumed4 ,and as long as the body contains sufficient nutritional reserves1 vital organs and essential tissues are rebuilt and maintained4 ,in fact the body has a great deal of intelligence that we don't give it credit for4 ,it knows exactly which cells are essential to survival1 which ones are not4 ,the body knows which cells are abnormal deposits1 and it goes to work to metabolize them first4 ,for example1 the body recognizes arthritic deposits1 cysts1 fibroids1 and tumors as offensive parts of the landscape1 and obligingly uses them for foods in preference to anything else4 ,a starving 7not fasting7 body also knows precisely in what order of priority body cells should be metabolized to minimize risk of death or permanent disability4 ,after a starving body has reached skeletal condition1 or where some small amount of fat remains but nutritional reserves 7vitamins and minerals7 are exhausted and there is insufficient nourishment forthcoming1 the body begins to consume nutrient-rich muscle and organ tissue in a last-ditch effort to stay alive4 ,under these dire circumstances1 the least essential muscles and organs from the standpoint of survival are metabolized first4 ,for example1 muscles in the arms and legs would be consumed early in the process1 the heart muscle used only toward the very end4 ,the very last part of the body to be metabolized when one is starving and as has come very close to death would be the brain and the nervous system4 ,starvation begins where fasting ends1 which is when real hunger begins4 ,if the return of hunger is ignored whenever it takes place1 whether it is in #cj1 #fj1 or #ij days depending upon body weight and type of fast1 at that point exactly1 not a day before1 starvation begins very slowly4 ,usually it takes a considerable period of time after that before death occurs4 ,it is important to note that this discussion applies only to the abstention from food1 not water4 ,death takes place very quickly in the absence of water4 ,the chart on the previous page shows numerically the phenomenal ability of the body to protect the most essential tissues of the body right up to the time of death4 ,if a person fasted for #cj days1 the average time it takes for the return of hunger in a person that is not overweight1 and then ignored the return of hunger1 and continued to abstain from food--if the person could avoid forced exercise1 keep warm1 and had enough hydration1 it could take as much as an additional #bj to #fj days to die of starvation6 ,at death the body would have experienced losses of #dj to #fj percent of its starting body weight4 7,ancel ,keys et al1 #aiej7 ,a emaciated person can not afford to lose nearly as much weight as an obese person1 and death under conditions of starvation will occur earlier4 ,in all cases of starvation the brain1 nerves1 heart1 lungs1 kidneys and liver remain largely intact and functional to the very end4 ,during a fast1 it is almost impossible to damage essential organs1 unless of course the person creates the damage by fears about the process1 or by internalizing the fears of others4 ,if those fears are present1 the fast should not be attempted4 ,weight ,loss ,by ,fasting ,loss of weight indicates1 almost guarantees1 that detoxification and healing is occurring4 ,i can't stress this too much4 ,of all the things ,i find my patients seem to misunderstand or forget after being told1 it is that they can't heal in a rapid manner without getting smaller4 ,this reality is especially hard for the family and friends of someone who is fasting1 who will say1 you're looking terrible dear1 so thin4 ,your skin is hanging on your bones4 ,you're not eating enough protein or nutrient food to be healthy and you must eat more or you're going to develop serious deficiencies4 ,you don't have any energy1 you must be getting sicker4 ,you're doing the wrong thing1 obviously4 ,you have less energy and look worse every day4 ,go and see a doctor before it is too late4 ,to succeed with friends like this1 a faster has to be a mighty self-determined person with a powerful ability to disagree with others4 ,medical personnel claim that rapid weight loss often causes dangerous deficiencies2 these deficiencies force the person to overeat and regain even more weight afterward4 ,this is largely untrue1 though there is one true aspect to it3 a fasted1 detoxified body becomes a much more efficient digester and assimilator1 extracting a lot more nutrition from the same amount food is used to eat4 ,if1 after extended fasting a person returns to eating the same number of calories as they did before2 they will gain weight even more rapidly than before they stated fasting4 ,when fasting for weight loss1 the only way to keep the weight off is to greatly reform the diet2 to go on1 and stay on1 a diet made up largely of non-starchy1 watery fruits and vegetables1 limited quantities of cooked food1 and very limited amounts of highly concentrated food sources like cereals and cooked legumes4 ,unless1 of course1 after fasting1 one's lifestyle involves much very hard physical labor or exercise4 ,i've had a few obese fasters become quite angry with me for this reason2 they hoped to get thin through fasting and after the fast1 to resume overeating with complete irresponsibility as before1 without weight gain4 ,people also fear weight loss during fasting because they fear becoming anorexic or bulimic4 ,they won't6 ,a person who abstains from eating for the purpose of improving their health1 in order to prevent or treat illness1 or even one who fasts for weight loss will not develop an eating disorder4 ,eating disorders mean eating compulsively because of a distorted body image4 ,anorexics and bulimics have obsessions with the thinner-is-better school of thought4 ,the anorexic looks at their emaciated frame in the mirror and thinks they are fat6 ,this is the distorted perception of a very insecure person badly in need of therapy4 ,a bulimic1 on the other hand stuffs themselves1 usually with bad food1 and then purges it by vomiting1 or with laxatives4 ,anorexics and bulimics are not accelerating the healing potential of their bodies2 these are life threatening conditions4 ,fasters are genuinely trying to enhance their survival potential4 ,occasionally a neurotic individual with a pre-existing eating disorder will become obsessed with fasting and colon cleansing as a justification to legitimize their compulsion4 ,during my career while monitoring hundreds of fasters1 ,i've known two of these4 ,i discourage them from fasting or colon cleansing1 and refuse to assist them1 because they carry the practices to absurd extremes1 and contribute to bad press about natural medicine by ending up in the emergency ward of a hospital with an intravenous feeding tube in their arm4 ,cases ,beyond ,the ,remedy ,of ,fasting ,occasionally1 very ill people have a liver that has become so degenerated it cannot sustain the burden of detoxification4 ,this organ is as vital to survival as the brain1 heart and lungs4 ,we can get along with only one kidney1 we can live with no spleen1 with no gallbladder1 with only small parts of the stomach and intestines1 but we can not survive without a liver for more than a day or so4 ,the liver is the most active organ in the body during detoxification4 ,to reach an understanding of detoxification1 it helps to know just what the liver does for us on an ongoing basis4 ,the liver is a powerful chemical filter where blood is refined and purified4 ,the liver passes this cleansed blood out through the superior vena cava1 directly to the heart4 ,the blood is then pumped into general and systemic circulation1 where it reaches all parts of the body1 delivering nutrition and oxygen at a cellular level4 ,on its return flow1 a large proportion of the depleted blood is collected by the gastric1 splenic and superior and inferior mesenteric veins that converge to form the large portal vein which enters the liver4 ,thus a massive flow of waste from all the cells of the body is constantly flowing into the liver4 ,the huge hepatic artery also enters the liver to supply oxygen and nutrients with which to sustain the liver cells themselves4 ,the liver is constantly at work refining the blood4 ,it is synthesizing1 purifying1 renovating1 washing1 filtering1 separating1 and detoxifying4 ,it works day and night without stopping4 ,many toxins are broken down by enzymes and their component parts are efficiently reused in various parts of the body4 ,some impurities are filtered out and held back from the general circulation4 ,these debris are collected and stored in the gall bladder1 which is a little sack appended to the liver4 ,after a meal1 the contents of the gall bladder 7bile7 are discharged into the duodenum1 the upper part of the small intestine just beyond the stomach4 ,this bile also contains digestive enzymes produced by the liver that permit the breakdown of fatty foods in the small intestine4 ,sometimes a large flow of bile finds its way into the stomach by pressure or is sucked into the stomach by vomiting4 ,excessive biliary secretion and excretion can also result from overeating1 which overcrowds the area4 ,sometimes colonics or massage can also stimulate a massive flow of bile4 ,extremely bitter and irritating1 when bile gets into the stomach the person either vomits or wishes they could4 ,and after vomiting and experiencing the taste of bile1 wishes they hadn't4 ,when no food at all enters the system1 the blood keeps right on passing through the liver_/filter just as it does when we are eating4 ,when the liver does not have to take care of toxins generated by the current food intake1 each passage through the liver results in a cleaner blood stream1 with the debris decreasing in quantity1 viscosity1 and toxicity1 until the blood becomes normalized4 ,during fasting1 debris from the gall bladder still pass through the small intestine and into the large intestine4 ,however1 if the bowels do not move the toxins in the bile are readsorbed into the blood stream and get recirculated in an endless loop4 ,this toxic recycling makes a faster feel just terrible1 like they had a flu or worse6 ,the bowels rarely move while fasting4 ,during fasting only enemas or colonics permit elimination from the large intestine4 ,if done effectively and frequently1 enemas will greatly add to the well being and comfort of the faster4 ,many times when a faster seems to be retracing or experiencing a sudden onset of acute discomfort or symptoms1 these can be almost immediately relieved by an enema or colonic4 ,a person with major liver degeneration inevitably dies1 with or without fasting1 with or without traditional medicine4 ,significantly impaired kidney function can also bring about this same result4 ,mercifully1 death while fasting is usually accomplished relatively free of pain1 clear of mind and with dignity4 ,that often can not be said of death in a hospital4 ,there are much worse experiences than death4 ,fasting is not a cure-all4 ,there are some conditions that are beyond the ability of the body to heal4 ,ultimately1 old age gets us all4 ,dr4 ,linda ,hazzard1 one of the greats of natural hygiene1 who practiced ,osteopathic medicine in the #aibjs1 had a useful way of categorizing conditions that respond well to fasting4 ,these she labeled acute conditions1 and chronic degenerative conditions4 ,a third classification1 chronic conditions with organic damage1 does not respond to fasting4 ,acute conditions1 are usually inflammations or infections with irritated tissue1 with swelling1 redness1 and often copious secretions of mucous and pus1 such as colds1 flu1 a first time case of pneumonia1 inflamed joints as in the early stages of arthritis1 etc4 ,these acute conditions usually remedy in one to three weeks of fasting4 ,acute conditions are excellent candidates for self-doctoring4 ,chronic degenerative conditions are more serious and the patient usually requires supervision4 ,these include conditions such as cancer1 aids1 chronic arthritis1 chronic pneumonia1 emphysema and asthma4 ,chronic degenerative conditions usually respond within a month to three months of fasting4 ,the fasting should be broken up into two or three sessions if the condition has not been relieved in one stint of supervised fasting4 ,each successive fast will produce some improvement and if a light1 largely raw-food diet is adhered to between fasts the patient should not worsen and should be fairly comfortable between fastings4 ,if there has been major functional damage to an organ as a result of any of these degenerative conditions1 healing will not be complete1 or may be impossible4 ,by organic damage1 ,i mean that a vital part of the body has ceased to function due to some degenerative process1 injury1 or surgery--so badly damaged that the cells that make up the organ can not be replaced4 ,i once had a twenty five year old man come to my spa to die in peace because he had been through enough diagnostic procedures in three hospitals to know that his liver was beyond repair4 ,he had been working on an apple farm in between terms at university when he was poisoned several times with insecticide from an aerial spray on the whole orchard4 ,he absorbed so much insecticide that his liver incurred massive organic damage4 ,when he came to me his body had reached the point where it was incapable of digesting1 and because of lack of liver function1 it was incapable of healing while fasting1 a condition in which death is a certainty4 ,he was a ,buddhist1 did not fear death and did not want to be kept alive in agony or in prolonged unconsciousness by any extraordinary means1 nor did he want to die with tubes in every orifice4 ,i was honored to be a supportive participant in his passing4 ,he died fasting1 in peace1 and without pain1 with a clear mind that allowed him to consciously prepare for the experience4 ,he was not in a state of denial or fear1 and made no frantic attempts to escape the inevitable4 ,he went quietly into that still dark night with a tranquil demeanor and a slight smile4 ,fortunately1 in my many years of practice ,i had the pleasure of seeing the majority of the people totally regain their health or at least greatly improve it by means of the fasting and healing diets4 ,many cancer patients watched with amazement as their tumors disappeared before their eyes1 many arthritics regained their function1 serious skin conditions such as psoriasis disappeared1 mental conditions improved1 addictions vanished1 fatigue was replaced by energy1 and fat dissolved revealing the hidden sculpture beneath4 ,i will talk more about procedures and the particular reasons bodies develop specific conditions in later chapters4 ,social_/,cultural_/,psychological ,obstacles ,to ,fasting ,numerous attitudes make it difficult to fast or to provide moral support to friends or loved ones that are fasting4 ,many people harbor fears of losing weight because they think that if times were really tough1 if there was a famine or they became ill and lost a lot of weight they would have no reserves and would certainly perish4 ,these people have no idea how much fat can be concealed on an even skinny body1 nor of how slowly a skinny body loses weight while fasting4 ,substantial fat reserves are helpful as heat-retaining insulation in those rare accidents when someone is dropped into a cold ocean and must survive until the rescue boat arrives4 ,being fat might keep a person alive longer who is lost in the wilderness awaiting rescue with no supplies1 no means of procuring food1 and no means of keeping warm4 ,on the other hand1 fat people would have a far harder time walking out of the wilderness4 ,and extensive fat deposits are merely fuel and do not contain extensive nutritional reserves4 ,an obese person fasting without significant nutritional supplementation would begin starving long before they became really skinny4 ,on the balance1 carrying excess weight is a far greater liability than any potential prosurvival aspects it might have4 ,there are other attitudes associated with weight loss that make it difficult for people to fast4 ,people hold rather stereotypical notions about what constitutes an attractive person2 usually it involves having some meat on ones bones4 ,hollywood and ,hugh ,hefner have both influenced the masses to think that women should have hourglass figures with large1 upthrust1 firm breasts4 ,since breasts are almost all useless fatty tissue supporting some milk-producing glands that do not give a breast much volume except when engorged1 most women fasters loose a good percentage of their breast mass4 ,if the fast is extensive1 there should also develop an impressive showing of ribs and hip bones2 these are not soft and cuddly4 ,husbands1 lovers1 parents1 and friends frequently point out that you don't look good this way and exhort you to put on weight4 ,most people think pleasantly plump is healthy4 ,skinny men1 especially those who had lost a lot of weight during an illness1 are pressured by associates to put on weight to prove that they are healthy4 ,i had a client who was formerly a college varsity football player4 ,before his illness he had lifted weights and looked like a hunk4 ,his family and friends liked to see him that way and justifiably so4 ,then he got seriously ill4 ,on a long extended healing diet he lost a significant amount of weight and seemed down right skinny1 causing all who knew him well and cared about him to tempt him with all kinds of scrumptious delicacies from the best of kitchens4 ,but this case was like ,luigi ,cornaro1 a man who never again could look like a hunk4 ,his friends made an absolutely necessary change in life style and appearance far more difficult than it was already4 ,my client was torn between a desire to please others1 and a desire to regain and retain his health4 ,this problem a sick person doesn't need4 ,if you have the independence to consider following an alternative medical program in a culture that highly values conformity and agreement1 you are also going to have to defend your own course of self-determined action based on the best available data that you have4 ,but fasters are usually in fragile emotional condition1 so ,i advise my clients who are subjected to this kind of pressure to beg their friends and associates to refrain from saying anything if they can't support the course of action you have chosen4 ,after this1 if friends or relatives are still incapable of saying nothing 7even non-verbally71 it is important to exclude them from your life until you have accomplished your health goals1 have regained some weight and have returned to eating a maintenance diet1 rather than getting skinnier on a healing one4 ,the very worst aspect of our culture's eating programming is that people have been wrongfully taught that when ill they must eat to keep up their strength4 ,inherent in this recommendation is an unstated belief that when the body is weakened by a disease state1 the weakness can somehow be overcome with food1 and that the body needs this food to kill the virus1 bacteria1 or invading yeast1 and uses the protein to heal or rebuild tissue4 ,sadly1 the exact opposite is the case4 ,disease organisms feed and multiply on the toxic waste products of misdigestion1 and the body is unable to digest well when it is weak or ill4 ,there's an old saying about this3 feed a cold1 starve a fever4 ,most people think this saying means you should eat when you have a cold4 ,what the saying really means is if you feed a cold then you will soon have to starve a fever4 ,protein foods especially are not digested by a diseased body1 and as mentioned before1 the waste products of protein indigestion are especially poisonous4 ,that is all the body needs when it is already down1 another load of poison which it can't eliminate due to weakness and enervation4 ,weight loss is usually associated with illness1 as it should be6 ,in times of acute illness an otherwise healthy body loses its appetite for food because it is prosurvival to stop eating4 ,it is very hard to coax a sick animal to eat4 ,their bodies1 not controlled by a mind full of complex learned responses and false ideas1 automatically know that fasting is nature's method of healing4 ,contrary to popular understanding1 digestion1 assimilation1 and elimination require the expenditure of considerable energy4 ,this fact may contradict the reader's experience because everyone has become tired when they have worked a long time without eating1 and then experienced the lift after eating4 ,but an ill body cannot digest efficiently so instead of providing energy extracted from foods1 the body is further burdened by yet another load of toxic material produced by fermented and putrefied food4 ,this adds insult to injury in a sick body that is already drowning in its own garbage4 ,worse1 during illness most available vital force is already redirected into healing2 it is not available for digestion4 ,it is important to allow a sick body to proceed with healing and not to obstruct the process with unnecessary digestion or suppress the symptoms 7which actually are the healing efforts7 with drugs4 ,if you have an acute illness1 and you stop all food intake except for pure water and herb teas1 and perhaps some vegetable broth1 or dilute non-sweet juice1 you have relieved your body of an immense effort4 ,instead of digesting1 the body goes to work on catching up on healing4 ,the body can and will almost inevitably heal itself if the sick person will have faith in it1 cooperate with the body's efforts by allowing the symptoms of healing to exist1 reduce or eliminate the intake of food to allow the body to marshal its energies1 maintain a positive mental attitude and otherwise stay out of the way4 ,many people intensely dread missing even one meal4 ,these folks usually are and have been so toxic that their bodies had been stashing uneliminated toxins in their fat for years4 ,they are usually so addicted to caffeine1 cigarettes1 alcohol1 and so forth1 that when they had fasted1 even briefly1 their bodies were forced to dip into highly-polluted fat reserves while simultaneously the body begins withdrawal4 ,people like this who try to fast experience highly unpleasant symptoms including headache1 irritability1 inability to think or concentrate1 blurred vision1 profound fatigue1 aches1 etc4 ,most of these symptoms come from low blood sugar1 but combined with the toxins being released from fat and combined with going through multiple addictive withdrawals1 the discomforts are more than most people are willing to tolerate4 ,fasting on juice is much more realistic for cases like this4 ,it is little wonder that when a hygienist suggests a fast to improve health1 this type of case asserts positively that fasting is quite impossible1 they have tried it1 it is absolutely terrible and know that they can't do it4 ,this rejection is partly due to a cultural expectation 7one reinforced by western medicine7 that all unpleasant symptoms should be avoided or suppressed4 ,to voluntarily experience unpleasant sensations such as those mentioned above is more than the ordinary timid person will subject themselves to1 even in order to regain health4 ,they will allow surgery1 drugs with violent and dangerous side effects1 painful and invasive testing procedures and radiation--all unpleasant and sometimes extremely uncomfortable4 ,these therapies are accepted because someone else with authority is doing it to them4 ,and1 they have been told that it they don't submit they will not ever feel better and probably will die in the near future4 ,also people think that they have no alternative1 that the expert in front of them knows what is best1 so they feel relieved to have been relieved of the responsibility for their own condition and its treatment4 ,preventative ,fasting ,during the years it takes for a body to degenerate enough to prompt a fast1 the body has been storing up large quantities of unprocessed toxins in the cells1 tissues1 fat deposits1 and organs4 ,the body in its wisdom will always choose to temporarily deposit overwhelming amounts of toxins somewhere harmless rather than permit the blood supply to become polluted or to use secondary elimination routes4 ,a body will use times when the liver is less burdened to eliminate these stored toxic debris4 ,the hygienists' paradigm asserts that the manifestation of symptoms or illness are all by themselves1 absolute1 unassailable proof that further storage of toxic wastes in the cells1 tissues1 fat deposits1 and organs is not possible and that an effort toward elimination is absolutely necessary4 ,thus the first time a person fasts a great quantity of toxins will normally be released4 ,being the resident of a body when this is happening can be quite uncomfortable4 ,for this reason alone1 preventative fasting is a very wise idea4 ,before the body becomes critically ill1 clean up your reserve fuel supply 7fat deposits7 by burning off some accumulated fat that is rich in toxic deposits and then replace it with clean1 non-toxic fat that you will make while eating sensibly4 ,if you had but fasted prophylactically as a preventative or health-creating measure before you became seriously ill1 the initial detoxification of your body could have been accomplished far more comfortably1 while you were healthy1 while your vital force was high and while your body otherwise more able to deal with detoxification4 ,each time you fast1 even if it is only one day1 you allow your body to go through a partial detox1 and each time it becomes easier and more comfortable than the last time4 ,the body learns how to fast4 ,each time you fast it1 your body slips into a cleansing mode more quickly1 and each time you fast you lighten the load of stored toxins4 ,perhaps you have already eliminated the caffeine your body had stored1 which frequently causes severe headaches on withdrawal1 not to mention fatigue4 ,it certainly helps to have this behind you before you go on to the elimination of other irritating substances4 ,many people have gone through alcohol or tobacco withdrawal1 and understand that it is very unpleasant1 and also that it must be done in the pursuit of health4 ,why not withdraw from the rest of the irritating and debilitating substances we take into our system on an ongoing basis1 and why not grit your way through the eliminative process1 withdraw1 from food addictions such as sugar or salt1 and from foods that you may be allergic to like wheat1 dairy products or eggs4 ,it is very wise to invest in your own insurance plan by systematically detoxifying while you are still healthy4 ,plan it into your life1 when it is convenient1 such as once a week on ,sunday1 or even once a month on a quiet day4 ,take a few days of vacation1 go to a warm1 beautiful place and devote part or all of it to cleansing4 ,treat yourself by taking an annual trip to ,hawaii1 fasting at a hotel on the beach--do whatever it takes to motivate yourself4 ,and consider this3 vacations are enormously cheaper when you stay out of restaurants4 ,if you have accustomed your body to #bd hour fasts1 then you can work on #dh hour fasts1 and over time work up to #gb hour fasts1 all on a continuum4 ,you may find it becoming increasingly comfortable1 perhaps even pleasant1 something you look forward to4 ,fasting a relatively detoxified body feels good1 and people eventually really get into the clean1 light1 clear headed1 perhaps spiritually aware state that goes along with it4 ,by contrast1 fasting when you are sick is much more difficult because your vitality or vital force is very low1 you already have no energy1 and probably have unpleasant symptoms that must be dealt with at the same time4 ,there may be the added stress of being forced into a cleanse because you are too nauseous to eat4 ,most people let their health go until they are forced into dealing with it2 they are too busy living1 so why bother4 ,the truth is that our body does age1 and over time becomes less able to deal with insults2 the accumulated effect of insults and aging eventually leads most of us to some serious degenerative illness4 ,normally this begins happening around age #ej if not sooner4 ,some of us that were gifted with good genes or what ,i call a good start may have reached the age of #fj or #ge or even #ij without serious illness1 but those people are few and far between4 ,why not tip the scales in your favor by preventing or staving off health problems with systematic detoxification at your own convenience4 ,climb into the drivers seat and start to take control and gain confidence in your own ability to deal with your body1 your own health1 and your own life4 ,when it gets right down to the bottom line1 there is really only one thing in the world that is really yours1 and that is your life4 ,take control and start managing it4 ,the reward will be a more qualitative life4 ,chapter ,four ,colon ,cleansing ,from ,the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,autointoxication4 #a the accumulations on the bowel wall become a breeding ground for unhealthy bacterial life forms4 ,the heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host for putrefaction4 ,the blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins1 poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall4 ,all tissues and organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances4 ,here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level4 ,bernard ,jensen1 ,tissue ,cleansing ,through ,bowel ,management4 #b ,all maladies are due to the lack of certain food principles1 such as mineral salts or vitamins1 or to the absence of the normal defenses of the body1 such as the natural protective flora4 ,when this occurs1 toxic bacteria invade the lower alimentary canal1 and the poisons thus generated pollute the bloodstream and gradually deteriorate and destroy every tissue1 gland and organ of the body4 ,sir ,arbuthnot ,lane4 #c ,the common cause of gastro-intestinal indigestion is enervation and overeating ,when food is not digested1 it becomes a poison4 ,dr4 ,john4,h4 ,tilden1 ,impaired ,health3 ,its ,cause and ,cure1 #aiba4 #d a clogging up of the large intestine by a building up 7on7 the bowel wall to such an extent that feces can hardly pass through4 autointoxication is a direct result of intestinal constipation4 ,faulty nutrition is a major underlying factor in constipation4 ,the frequency or quantity of fecal elimination is not an indication of the lack of constipation in the bowel4 ,bernard ,jensen1 ,tissue ,cleansing ,through ,bowel ,management4 ,i am not a true believer in any single healing method or system4 ,i find much truth in many schools and use a wide variety of techniques4 ,the word for my inclination is eclectic4 ,the most effective medicine in my arsenal is water fasting followed closely in potency by other1 less rigorous detoxifying diets4 ,colon cleansing ranks next in healing power4 ,in fact it is difficult to separate colon cleansing from fasting because detoxification programs should always be accompanied by colon cleansing4 ,further down the scale of efficatiousness comes dietary reform to eliminate allergic reactions and to present the body with foods it is capable of digesting without creating toxemia4 ,last1 and usually least in effectiveness in my arsenal1 are orthotropic substances 7in the form of little pills and capsules7 commonly known as vitamins or food supplements4 ,interestingly1 acceptance of these methods by my clients runs in exact opposition to their effectiveness4 ,people prefer taking vitamins because they seem like the allopaths' pills1 taking pills demands little or no responsibility for change4 ,the least popular prescription ,i can write is a monodiet of water for several weeks or a month4 ,yet this is my most powerful medicine4 ,it is possible to resolve many health complaints without fasting1 simply by cleansing the colon and regaining normal lower bowel function4 ,colonics take little personal effort and are much easier to get people to accept than fasting4 ,so ,i can fully understand how perfectly honest and ethical naturopaths have developed obsessions with colon cleansing4 ,some healers have loudly and repeatedly 7and wrongly7 proclaimed that constipation is the sole cause of disease1 and thus1 the only real cure for any illness is colon cleansing4 ,even though it is possible to have a lot of successes with the simple 7though unpleasant to administer7 technique of colon cleansing1 degenerated lower bowels are the only cause of disease4 ,i prefer to use bowel cleansing as an adjunct to more complete healing programs4 ,however1 old classics of hygiene and even a few new books strongly make the case for colonics4 ,some of these books are entirely one-sided1 single-cause single-cure approaches1 and sound convincing to the layperson4 ,for this reason1 ,i think ,i should take a few paragraphs and explain why some otherwise well-intentioned health professionals have overly-advocated colonics 7and other practices as well74 ,most ,diseases ,cure ,themselves ,if you ask any honest medical doctor how they cure diseases1 they will tell you that most acute disease conditions and a smaller1 though significant percentage 7probably a majority7 of chronic disease conditions are self-limiting and will1 given time1 get better all by themselves4 ,so for most complaints1 the honest allopathic doctor sees their job as giving comfort and easing the severity of the symptoms until a cure happens4 ,this same scenario1 when viewed from a hygienist's perspective1 is that almost all acute and many chronic conditions are simply the body's attempt to handle a crisis of toxemia4 ,for two reasons the current crisis will probably go away by itself4 ,the positive reason is that the toxic overload will be resolved3 the person changes their dietary habits or the stressor that temporarily lowered their vital force and produced enervation is removed1 then digestion improves and the level of self-generated toxins is reduced4 ,the negative reason for a complaint to cure itself is that the suffering person's vital force drops below the level that the symptom can be manifested and the complaint goes away because a new1 more serious disease is developing4 ,i view this second possibility as highly undesirable because strong1 healthy bodies possessing a high degree of vital force are able to eliminate toxins rather violently1 frequently producing very uncomfortable symptoms that are not life-threatening4 ,however1 as the vital force drops1 the body changes its routes of secondary elimination and begins using more centrally located vital organs and systems to dispose of toxemia4 ,this degeneration producing less unpleasant symptoms1 but in the long run1 damages essential organs and moves the person closer to their final disease4 ,a young vigorous body possessing a large degree of vital force will almost always route surplus toxins through skin tissues and skin-like mucus membranes1 producing repeated bouts of sinusitis1 or asthma1 or colds1 or a combination of all these4 ,each acute manifestation will cure itself by itself eventually4 ,but eventually the body's vital force can no longer create these aggressive cleansing phenomena and the toxemia begins to go deeper4 ,when the allopathic doctor gets a patient complaining of sinusitis1 they know they will eventually get a cure4 ,the cure however1 might well be a case of arthritis4 ,this unfortunate reality tends to make young1 idealistic physicians become rather disillusioned about treating degenerative conditions because the end result of all their efforts is1 in the end1 death anyway4 ,the best they can do is to alleviate suffering and to a degree1 prolong life4 ,the worst they can do is to prolong suffering4 ,thus1 the physicians main job is to get the patient to be patient1 to wait until the body corrects itself and stops manifesting the undesired symptom4 ,thus comes the prime rule of all humane medicine3 first of all1 do no harm6 ,if the doctor simply refrains from making the body worse1 it will probably get better by itself4 ,but the patient1 rarely resigned to quiet suffering1 comes in demanding fast relief1 demanding a cure4 ,in fact1 if the patient were resigned to quiet suffering they would not consult a doctor4 ,so if the doctor wants to keep this patient and make a living they must do something4 ,if that something the doctor must do does little or no harm and better yet1 can also alleviate the symptoms1 the doctor is practicing good medicine and will have a very high cure rate and be financially successful if they have a good bedside manner4 ,this kind of doctor may be allopathic and_/or natural1 may use herbs or practice homeopathy4 ,the story of ,dr4 ,jennings1 a very successful and famous or infamous 7depending on your viewpoint7 physician1 who practiced in ,connecticut in the early #ahjjs exemplifies this type of approach4 ,dr4 ,jennings had his own unique medicines4 ,their composition was of his own devising1 and were absolutely secret4 ,he had pills and colored bitter drops of various sorts that were compounded himself in his own pharmacy4 ,dr4 ,jennings' patients generally recovered and had few or no complications4 ,this must be viewed in contrast to the practices of his fellow doctors of that era1 whose black bags were full of mercury and arsenic and strychnine1 whose practices included obligatory bleeding4 ,these techniques and medicines worked by poisoning the body or by reducing its blood supply and thus lowering its vital force1 ending the body's ability to manifest the undesirable symptom4 ,if the poor patient survived being victimized by their own physician1 they were tough enough to survive both their disease and the doctor's cure4 ,typically1 the sick had many1 lengthy complications1 long illnesses1 and many setbacks requiring many visits1 earning the physician a great living4 ,dr4 ,jennings operated differently4 ,he would prescribe one or two secret medicines from his black bag and instruct the patient to stay in bed1 get lots of rest1 drink lots of water1 eat little and lightly1 and continue taking the medicine until they were well4 ,his cure rate was phenomenal4 ,demand they might1 but ,dr4 ,jennings would never reveal what was in his pills and vials4 ,finally at the end of his career1 to instruct his fellow man1 ,dr4 ,jennings confessed4 ,his pills were made from flour dough1 various bitter but harmless herbal substances1 and a little sugar4 ,his red and green and black tinctures1 prescribed five or ten drips at a time mixed in a glass of water several times daily1 were only water and alcohol1 some colorant and something bitter tasting1 but harmless4 ,placebos in other words4 ,upon confessing1 ,dr4 ,jennings had to run for his life4 ,i believe he ended up retiring on the western frontier1 in ,indiana4 ,some of his former patients were extremely angry because they had paid good money1 top dollar for real medicines1 but were given only flour and water4 ,the fact that they got better didn't seem to count4 ,if the physicians curative procedure suppresses the symptom and_/or lowers the vital force with toxic drugs or surgery1 7either result will often as not end the complaint7 the allopathic doctor is practicing bad medicine4 ,this doctor too will have a high cure rate and a good business 7if they have an effective bedside manner7 because their drugs really do make the current symptoms vanish very rapidly4 ,additionally1 their practice harmonizes with a common but vicious dramatization of many people which goes3 when a body is malfunctioning1 it is a bad body and needs to be punished4 ,so lets punish it with poisons and if that don't work1 lets really punish it by cutting out the offending part4 ,however1 if the physician can do something that will do no harm but raises the vital force and_/or lowers the level of toxemia1 this doctor will have a genuine cure rate higher than either of the two techniques4 ,why does raising the vital force help8 ,because it reduces enervation1 improves the digestion1 lowers the creation of new toxins and improves the function of the organs of elimination1 also reducing the toxic overload that is causing the complaint4 ,techniques that temporarily and quickly raise the vital force include homeopathy1 chiropractic1 vitamin therapy1 massage1 acupuncture and acupressure and many more spiritually oriented practices4 ,healers who use these approaches and have a good bedside manner can have a very good business1 they can have an especially-profitable practice if they do nothing to lower the level of toxemia being currently generated4 ,their patients do experience prompt relief but must repeatedly take the remedy4 ,this makes for satisfied customers and a repeat business4 ,the best approach of all focuses on reducing the self-generated level of toxemia1 cleansing to remove deposits of old toxemia1 rebuilding the organs of elimination and digestion to prevent the formation of new toxemia1 and then1 to alleviate the current symptoms and make it easier for the patient to be patient while their body heals1 the healer raises artificially and temporarily the vital force with vitamins1 massage1 acupressure1 etc4 ,this wise and benevolent physician is going to have the highest cure rate among those wise patients who will accept the prescription1 but will not make as much money because the patients permanently get better and no longer need a physician4 ,there's not nearly as much repeat business4 ,colonics are one of the best types of medicine4 ,they clean up deposits of old toxemia 7though there are sure to be other deposits in the body's tissues colonics do not touch74 ,colon cleansing reduces the formation of new toxemia from putrefying fecal matter 7but dietary reform is necessary to maximize this benefit74 ,most noticeable to the patient1 a colonic immediately alleviates current symptoms by almost instantly reducing the current toxic load4 ,a well-done enema or colonic is such a powerful technique that a single one will often make a severe headache vanish1 make an onsetting cold go away1 end a bout of sinusitis1 end an asthmatic attack1 reduce the pain of acute arthritic inflammation1 reduce or stop an allergic reaction4 ,enemas are also thrifty3 they are self-administered and can prevent most doctor's visits seeking relief for acute conditions4 ,diseases of the colon itself1 including chronic constipation1 colitis1 diverteculitis1 hemorrhoids1 irritable bowel syndrome1 and mucous colitis1 are often cured solely by an intensive series of several dozen colonics given close together4 ,contrary to popular belief1 many people think that if they have dysentery or other forms of loose stools that a colonic is the last thing they need4 ,surprisingly1 a series of colonics will eliminate many of these conditions as well4 ,people with chronic diarrhea or loose stools are usually very badly constipated4 ,this may seem a contradiction in terms but it will be explained shortly4 ,a century ago there was much less scientific data about the functioning of the human body4 ,then it was easy for a hygienically-oriented physician to come to believe that colonics were the single best medicine available4 ,the doctor practicing nothing but colonics will have a very high rate of cure and a lot of very satisfied clients4 ,most importantly1 this medicine will have done no harm4 ,the ,repugnant ,bowel ,i don't know why1 but people of our culture have a deep-seated reluctance to relate to the colon or it's functions4 ,people don't want to think about the colon or personally get involved with it by giving themselves enemas or colonics4 ,they become deeply embarrassed at having someone else do it for them4 ,people are also shy about farts1 and most ,americans have a hard time not smiling or reacting in some way when someone in their presence breaks wind1 although the polite amongst us pretend that we didn't notice4 ,comedians usually succeed in getting a laugh out of an audience when they come up with a fart or make reference to some other bowel function4 ,people don't react the same way to urinary functions or discharges1 although these also may have an unpleasant odor and originate from the same private area4 ,when ,i first mention to clients that they need a minimum of #ab colonics or many more enemas than #ab during a fasting or cleansing program they are inevitably shocked4 ,to most it seems that no one in their right mind would recommend such a treatment1 and that ,i must certainly be motivated by greed or some kind of a psychological quirk4 ,then ,i routinely show them reproductions of ,x-rays of the large intestine showing obvious loss of normal structure and function resulting from a combination of constipation1 the effects of gravity1 poor abdominal muscle tone1 emotional stress1 and poor diet4 ,in the average colon more than #ej of the hastrum 7muscles that impel fecal matter through the organ7 are dysfunctional due to loss of tone caused by impaction of fecal matter and_/or constriction of the large intestine secondary to stress 7holding muscular tension in the abdominal area7 and straining during bowel movement4 ,a typical diseased colon ,the average person also has a prolapsed 7sagging7 transverse colon1 and a distorted misplaced ascending and descending colon4 ,i took a course in colon therapy before purchasing my first colonic machine4 ,the chiropractor teaching the class required all of his patients scheduled for colonics to take a barium enema followed by an ,x-ray of their large intestine prior to having colonics and then make subsequent ,x-rays after each series of #ab colonics4 ,most of his patients experienced so much immediate relief they voluntarily took at least four complete series1 or #dh colonics1 before their ,x-rays began to look normal in terms of structure4 ,it also took about the same number1 #dh colonics1 for the patients to notice a significant improvement in the function of the colon4 ,in reviewing over #aj1jjj ,x-rays taken at his clinic prior to starting colonics1 the chiropractor had seen only two normal colon ,x-rays and these were from farm boys who grew up eating simple foods from the garden and doing lots of hard work4 ,the ,x-rays showed that it took a minimum of #ab colon treatments to bring about a minimal but observable change in the structure of the colon in the desired direction1 and for the patient to begin to notice that bowel function was improving1 plus the fact that they started to feel better4 ,a ,healthy ,colon ,from my point of view the most amazing part of this whole experience was that the chiropractor did not recommend any dietary changes whatsoever4 ,his patients were achieving great success from colonics alone4 ,i had thought dietary changes would be necessary to avoid having the same dismal bowel condition return4 ,i still think colonics are far more effective if people are on a cleansing diet too4 ,however1 ,i was delighted to see the potential for helping people through colonics4 ,for me1 the most interesting part of this colonic school was that ,i personally was required to have my own barium enema and ,x-ray4 ,i was privately certain that mine would look normal1 because after all1 ,i had been on a raw food diet for six years1 and done considerable amount of fasting1 all of which was reputed to repair a civilized colon4 ,much to my surprise my colon looked just as mangled and dysfunctional as everyone else's'1 only somewhat worse because it had a loop in the descending colon similar to a cursive letter e which doctors call a volvulus4 ,surgeons like to cut volvululii out because they frequently cause bowel obstructions4 ,it seemed quite unfair4 ,all those other people with lousy looking colons had been eating the average ,american diet their whole life1 but ,i had been so 'pure6' ,on further reflection ,i remembered that ,i had a tendency toward constipation all through my childhood and young adulthood1 and that during my two pregnancies the pressure of the fetus on an already constipated bowel had made it worse resulting in the distorted structure seen in the ,x-ray4 ,this experience made it very clear that fasting1 cleansing diets1 and corrected diet would not reverse damage already done4 ,proper diet and fasting would however1 prevent the condition of the colon from getting any worse than it already was4 ,i then realized that ,i had just purchased the very tool ,i needed to correct my own colon1 and ,i was eager to get home to get started on it4 ,i had previously thought that ,i was just going to use this machine for my patients1 because they had been asking for this kind of an adjunct to my services for some time4 ,i ended up giving myself over a hundred colonics at the rate of three a week over many months4 ,i then out of curiosity had another barium enema and ,x-ray to validate my results4 ,sure enough the picture showed a colon that looked far more 'normal' with no vulvulus4 ,that little e had disappeared4 ,what ,is ,constipation8 ,most people think they are not constipated because they have a bowel movement almost every day1 accomplished without straining4 ,i have even had clients tell me that they have a bowel movement once a week1 and they are quite certain that they are not constipated4 ,the most surprising thing to novice fasters is that repeated enemas or colonics during fasting begins to release many pounds of undeniably real1 old1 caked fecal matter and_/or huge mucus strings4 ,the first-time faster can hardly believe these were present4 ,these old fecal deposits do not come out the first time one has enemas or necessarily the fifth time4 ,and all of them will not be removed by the tenth enema4 ,but over the course of extended fasting or a long spell of light raw food eating with repeated daily enemas1 amazing changes do begin to occur4 ,it seems that no one who has eaten a civilized diet has escaped the formation of caked deposits lining the colon's walls1 interfering with its function4 ,this material does not respond to laxatives or casually administered enemas4 ,anyone who has not actually seen 7and smelled7 what comes out of an average apparently healthy person during colonics will really believe it could happen or can accurately imagine it4 ,often there are dark black lumpy strings1 lumps1 or gravel1 evil smelling discs shaped like sculpted hemispheres similar to the pockets lining the wall of the colon itself4 ,these discs are rock-hard and may come out looking like long black braids4 ,there may also be long tangled strings of gray_/brown mucous1 sheets and flakes of mucous1 and worse yet1 an occasional worm 7tape worm7 or many smaller ones4 ,once confronted however1 it is not hard to imagine how these fecal rocks and other obnoxious debris interfere with the proper function of the colon4 ,they make the colon's wall rigid and interfere with peristalsis thus leading to further problems with constipation1 and interfere with adsorption of nutrients4 ,our modern diet is by its de-nature1 very constipating4 ,in the trenches of the ,first ,world ,war1 cheese was given the name 'chokem ass' because the soldiers eating this as a part of their daily ration developed severe constipation4 ,eaten by itself or with other whole foods1 moderate amounts of cheese may not produce health problems in people who are capable of digesting dairy products4 ,but cheese when combined with white flour becomes especially constipating4 ,white bread or most white-flour crackers contain a lot of gluten1 a very sticky wheat protein that makes the bread bind together and raise well4 ,but white flour is lacking the bran1 where most of the fiber is located4 ,and many other processed foods are missing their fiber4 ,in an earlier chapter ,i briefly showed how digestion works by following food from the mouth to the large intestine4 ,to fully grasp why becoming constipated is almost a certainty in our civilization a few more details are required4 ,food leaving the small intestine is called chyme1 a semi-liquid mixture of fiber1 undigested bits1 indigestible bits1 and the remains of digestive enzymes4 ,chyme is propelled through the large intestine by muscular contractions4 ,the large intestine operates on what ,i dub the chew chew train principle1 where the most recent meal you ate enters the large intestine as the caboose 7the last car of a train7 and helps to push out the train engine 7the car at the front that toots71 which in a healthy colon should represent the meal eaten perhaps twelve hours earlier4 ,the muscles in the colon only contract when they are stretched1 so it is the volume of the fecal matter stretching the large intestine that triggers the muscles to push the waste material along toward the rectum and anus4 ,eating food lacking fiber greatly reduces the volume of the chyme and slows peristalsis4 ,but moving through fast or slow1 the colon still keeps on doing another of its jobs1 which is to transfer the water in the chime back into the bloodstream1 reducing dehydration4 ,so the longer chime remains in the colon1 the dryer and harder and stickier it gets4 ,that's why once arrived at the end of the tracks fecal matter should be evacuated in a timely manner before it gets to dry and too hard to be moved easily4 ,some constipated people do have a bowel movement every day but are evacuating the meal eaten many days or even a week previously4 ,most hygienists believe that when the colon becomes lined with hardened fecal matter it is permanently and by the very definition of the word itself1 constipated4 ,this type of constipation is not perceived as an uncomfortable or overly full feeling or a desire to have a bowel movement that won't pass4 ,but it has insidious effects4 ,usually constipation delays transit time1 increasing the adsorption of toxins generated from misdigestion of food2 by coating and locking up significant portions of colon it also reduces the adsorption of certain minerals and electrolytes4 ,sometimes1 extremely constipated people have almost constant runny bowels because the colon has become so thickly and impenetrably lined with old fecal matter that it no longer removes much moisture4 ,this condition is often misinterpreted as diarrhea4 ,the large intestine's most important task is to transfer water-soluble minerals from digested food to the blood4 ,when a significant part of the colon's surface becomes coated with impermeable dried rigid fecal matter or mucus it can no longer assimilate effectively and the body begins to experience partial mineral starvation in the presence of plenty4 ,it is my observation from dozens of cases that when the colon has been effectively cleansed the person has a tendency to gain weight while eating amounts of food that before only maintained body weight1 while people who could not gain weight or who were wasting away despite eating heavily begin to gain4 ,and problems like soft fingernails1 bone loss around teeth or porous bones tend to improve4 ,the ,development ,of ,my ,own ,constipation ,the history of my own constipation1 though it especially relates to a very rustic childhood1 is typical of many people4 ,i was also raised on a very constipating diet which consisted largely of processed cheese and crackers4 ,mine was accelerated by shyness1 amplified by lack of comfortable facilities4 ,i spent my early years on the ,canadian prairies1 where everybody had an outhouse4 ,the fancy modern versions are frequently seen on construction sites4 ,these are chemical toilets1 quiet different than the ones ,i was raised with because somebody or something mysteriously comes along1 empties them and installs toilet paper4 ,the ones ,i'm familiar with quickly developed a bad-smelling steaming mound in the center--or it was winter when the outhouse was so cold that everything froze almost before it hit the ground in the hole below4 7,and my rear end seemed to almost freeze to the seat67 ,the toilet paper was usually an out of season issue of ,eatons mail order catalogue with crisp glossy paper4 ,perhaps it is a peculiarity of the north country1 but at night there are always monsters lurking along the path to the outhouse1 and darkness comes early and stays late4 ,when nature called and it was daylight1 and there was no blizzard outside1 the outhouse received a visit from me4 ,if on the other hand1 when it was dark 7we had no electricity71 and there was a cold wind creating huge banks of snow1 ,i would 'just skip it1' because the alternative--an indoor chamber pot1 white enamel with a lid--was worse4 ,this potty had to be used more or less publicly because the bedrooms were shared and there was no indoor bathroom4 ,i was always very modest about my private parts and private functions1 and potty's were only used in emergencies1 and usually with considerable embarrassment4 ,no one ever explained to me that it was not good for me to retain fecal matter1 and ,i never thought about it unless my movements became so hard that it was painful to eliminate4 ,later in life1 ,i continued this pattern of putting off bowel movements1 even though outhouses and potties were a thing of the past4 ,as a young adult ,i could always think of something more interesting to do than sitting on a pot1 besides it was messy and sometimes accompanied by embarrassing sound effects which were definitely not romantic if ,i was in the company of a young man4 ,during two pregnancies the tendency to constipation was aggravated by the weight of the fetus resting on an already sluggish bowel1 and the discomfort of straining to pass my first hard bowel movement after childbirth with a torn perineum ,i won't forget4 ,rapid ,relief ,from ,colon ,cleansing ,during fasting the liver is hard at work processing toxins released from fat and other body deposits4 ,the liver still dumps its wastes into the intestines through the bile duct4 ,while eating normally1 bile1 which contains highly toxic substances1 is passed through the intestines and is eliminated before too much is reabsorbed4 7,it is the bile that usually makes the fecal matter so dark in color47 ,however1 reduction of food bulk reduces or completely eliminates peristalsis1 thus allowing intestinal contents to sit for extended periods4 ,and the toxins in the bile are readsorbed1 forming a continuous loop1 further burdening the liver4 ,the mucus membranes lining the colon constantly secrete lubricants to ease fecal matter through smoothly4 ,this secretion does not stop during fasting2 in fact1 it may increase because intestinal mucus often becomes a secondary route of elimination4 ,allowed to remain in the bowel1 toxic mucus is an irritant while the toxins in it may be reabsorbed1 forming yet another closed loop and further burdening the liver4 ,daily enemas or colonics administered during fasting or while on cleansing diets effectively remove old fecal material stored in the colon and immediately ease the livers load1 immediately relieve discomfort by allowing the liver's efforts to further detoxify the blood1 and speed healing4 ,fasters cleansing on juice or raw food should administer two or three enemas in short succession every day for the first three days to get a good start on the cleansing process1 and then every other day or at very minimum1 every few days4 ,enemas or colonics should also be taken whenever symptoms become uncomfortable1 regardless of whether you have already cleaned the colon that day or not4 ,once the faster has experienced the relief from symptoms that usually comes from an enema they become more than willing to repeat this mildly unpleasant experience4 ,occasionally enemas1 by filling the colon and making it press on the liver1 induce discharges of highly toxic bile that may cause temporary nausea4 ,despite the induced nausea it is still far better to continue with colonics because of the great relief experienced after the treatment4 ,if nausea exists or persists during colon cleansing1 consider trying slight modifications such as less or no massage of the colon in the area of the gall bladder 7abdominal area close to the bottom of the right rib cage71 and putting slightly less water in the colon when filling it up4 ,it also helps to make sure that the stomach is empty of any fluid for one hour prior to the colonic4 ,resume drinking after the colonic sessions is completed4 ,if you are one of these rare people who 'toss their bile'1 just keep a plastic bucket handy and some water to rinse out the mouth after1 and carry on as usual4 ,enemas ,versus ,colonics ,people frequently wonder what is the difference between a colonic and an enema4 ,first of all enemas are a lot cheaper because you give them to yourself2 an enema bag usually costs about ten dollars1 is available at any large drug store1 and is indefinitely reusable4 ,colonics cost anywhere from #cj to #ge dollars a session4 ,chiropractors and naturopaths who offer this service hire a colonic technician that may or may not be a skilled operator4 ,it is a good idea to find a person who has a very agreeable and professional manner1 who can make you feel at ease since relaxation is very important4 ,it is also beneficial to have a colonic therapist who massages the abdomen and foot reflexes appropriately during the session4 ,enemas and colonics can accomplish exactly the same beneficial work4 ,but colonics accomplish more improvement in less time than enemas for several reasons4 ,during a colonic from #cj to #ej gallons of water are flushed through the large intestines1 usually in a repetitive series of fill-ups followed by flushing with a continuous flow of water4 ,this efficiency cannot even be approached with an enema4 ,but by repeating the enema three times in close succession a satisfactory cleanse can be achieved4 ,persisted with long enough1 enemas will clean the colon every bit as well as a colonic machine can4 ,enemas given at home take a lot less time than traveling to receive a colonics at someone's clinic1 and can be done entirely at you own convenience--a great advantage when fasting because you can save your energy for internal healing4 ,but colonics are more appropriate for some4 ,there are fasters who are unable to give themselves an enema either because their arms are too short and their body is too long and they lack flexibility1 or because of a physical handicap or they can't confront their colon1 so they let someone else do it4 ,some don't have the motivation to give themselves a little discomfort but are comfortable with someone else doing it to them4 ,some very sick people are too weak to cleanse their own colon1 so they should find someone to assist them with an at-home enema or have someone take them to a colonic therapist4 ,few people these days have any idea how to properly give themselves an enema4 ,the practice has been discredited by traditional medical doctors as slightly dangerous1 perhaps addictive and a sign of psychological weirdness4 ,yet ,northamericans on their civilized1 low fiber1 poorly combined diets suffer widely from constipation4 ,one proof of this is the fact that chemical laxatives1 with their own set of dangers and liabilities1 occupy many feet of drug store shelf space and are widely advertised4 ,is the medical profession's disapproval of the enema related to the fact that once the initial purchase of an enema bag has been made there are no further expenses for laxatives8 ,or perhaps it might be that once a person discovers they can cure a headache1 stop a cold dead in its tracks with an enema1 they aren't visiting the ,m4,d4s so often4 ,the enema has also been wrongly accused of causing a gradual loss of colon muscle tone1 eventually preventing bowel movements without the stimulation of an enema1 leading finally to flaccidity and enlargement of the lower bowel4 ,this actually can happen2 when it does occur it is the result of frequent administration of small amounts of water 7fleet enemas7 for the purpose of stimulating a normal bowel movement4 ,the result is constant stretching of the rectum without sufficient fluid to enter the descending colon4 ,a completely opposite1 highly positive effect comes from properly administered enemas while cleansing4 ,the difference between helpful and potentially harmful enemas lies in the amount of water injected and the frequency of use4 ,using a cup or two of water to induce a bowel movement may eventually cause dependency1 will not strengthen the colon and may after years of this practice1 result in distention and enlargement of the rectum or sigmoid colon4 ,however1 a completely empty average-sized colon has the capacity of about a gallon of water4 ,when increasingly larger enemas are administered until the colon is nearly emptied of fecal matter and the injection of close to a gallon of water is achieved1 beneficial exercise and an increase in overall muscle tone are the results4 ,correctly given1 enemas 7and especially colonics7 serve as strengthening exercises for the colon4 ,this long tubular muscle is repeatedly and completely filled with water1 inducing it to vigorously exercise while evacuating itself multiple times4 ,the result is a great increase in muscle tone1 acceleration of peristalsis and eventually1 after several dozens of repetitions1 a considerable reduction of transit time4 ,well-done enemas work the colon somewhat less effectively and do not improve muscle tone quite as much as colonics4 ,injecting an entire gallon of water with an enema bag is very impractical when a person is eating normally4 ,but on a light cleansing diet or while fasting the amount of new material passing into the colon is small or negligible4 ,during the first few days of fasting if two or three enemas are administered each day in immediate succession the colon is soon completely emptied of recently eaten food and it becomes progressively easier to introduce larger amounts of water4 ,within a few days of this regimen1 injecting half a gallon or more of water is easy and painless4 ,probably for psychological reasons1 some peoples' colons allow water to be injected one time but then freeze up and resist successive enemas4 ,for this reason better results are often obtained by having one enema1 waiting a half hour1 another enema1 wait a half hour1 and have a final enema4 ,a colonic machine in the hands of an expert operator can administer the equivalent of six or seven big enemas in less than one hour1 and do this without undue discomfort or effort from the person receiving the colonic4 ,however1 the ,,ama has suppressed the use of colonics2 they are illegal to administer in many states4 ,where colonics are legal1 the chiropractors now consider this practice messy and not very profitable compared to manipulations4 ,so it is not easy to find a skilled and willing colonic technician4 ,anyone who plans to give themselves therapeutic enemas while fasting would be well advised to first seek out a colonic therapist and receive two or three colonics delivered one day apart while eating lightly and then immediately begin the fast4 ,three colonics given on three successive days of a light1 raw food diet are sufficient to empty all recently eaten food even from a very constipated1 distended and bloated colon1 while acquainting a person with their own bowel4 ,having an empty colon is actually a pleasant and to most people a thoroughly novel experience4 ,a few well-delivered colonics can quickly accustom a person to the sensations accompanying the enema and demonstrate the effect to be achieved by oneself with an enema bag1 something not quickly discoverable any other way4 ,how ,to ,give ,yourself ,an ,enema ,enemas have been medically out of favor for a long time4 ,most people have never had one4 ,so here are simple directions to self-administer an effective enema series4 ,the enema bag you select is important4 ,it must hold at least two quarts and be rapidly refillable4 ,the best ,american-made brand is made of rubber with about five feet of rubber hose ending in one of two different white hard plastic insertion tips4 ,the bag is designed for either enemas or vaginal douches4 ,it hangs from a detachable plastic ,s hook4 ,when filled to the brim it holds exactly one-half gallon4 ,the maker of this bag offers another model that costs about a dollar more and also functions as a hot water bottle4 ,a good comforter it may make1 but the dual purpose construction makes the bag very awkward to rapidly refill4 ,i recommend the inexpensive model4 ,the plastic insertion tips vary somewhat4 ,the straight tubular tip is intended for enemas2 the flared vaginal douche tip can be useful for enemas too1 in that it somewhat restrains unintentional expulsion of the nozzle while filling the colon4 ,however1 its four small holes do not allow a very rapid rate of flow4 ,to give yourself an enema1 completely fill the bag with tepid water that does not exceed body temperature4 ,the rectum is surprisingly sensitive to heat and you will flinch at temperatures only a degree or two higher than #ih ,fahrenheit4 ,cooler water is no problem2 some find the cold stimulating and invigorating4 ,fasters having difficulty staying warm should be wary of cold water enemas4 ,these can drop core body temperature below the point of comfort4 ,make sure the flow clamp on the tube is tightly shut and located a few inches up the tube from the nozzle4 ,hang the filled bag from a clothes or towel hook1 shower nozzle1 curtain rod1 or other convenient spot about four to five feet above the bathroom floor or tub bottom4 ,the higher the bag the greater the water pressure and speed of filling4 ,but too much pressure can also be uncomfortable4 ,you may have to experiment a bit with this4 ,various body positions are possible for filling the colon4 ,none is correct or necessarily more effective than another4 ,experiment and find the one you prefer4 ,some fill their colon kneeling and bending forward in the bathtub or shower because there will likely be small dribbles of water leaking from around the nozzle4 ,usually these leaks do not contain fecal matter4 ,others prefer to use the bathroom floor4 ,for the bony1 a little padding in the form of a folded towel under knees and elbows may make the process more comfortable4 ,you may kneel and bend over while placing your elbows or hands on the floor1 reach behind yourself and insert the nozzle4 ,you may also lie on your back or on your side4 ,some think the left side is preferable because the colon attaches to the rectum on the left side of the body1 ascends up the left side of the abdomen to a line almost as high as the solar plexus1 then transverses the body to the right side where it descends again on the right almost to the groin4 ,the small intestine attaches to the colon near its lower-right extremity4 ,in fact these are the correct names given for the parts of the colon3 ,ascending1 ,descending and ,transverse ,colon along with the ,sigmoid ,colon or ,rectum at the exit end4 ,as you become more expert at filling your colon with water you will begin to become aware of its location by the weight1 pressure and sometimes temperature of the water you're injecting4 ,you will come to know how much of the colon has been filled by feel4 ,you will also become aware of peristalsis as the water is evacuated vigorously and discover that sensations from a colon hard at work1 though a bit uncomfortable1 are not necessarily pain4 ,insertion of the nozzle is sometimes eased with a little lubricant4 ,a bit of soap or ,,ky jelly is commonly used4 ,if the nozzle can be inserted without lubricant it will have less tendency to slip out4 ,however1 do not tear or damage the anus by avoiding necessary lubrication4 ,after insertion1 grip the clamp with one hand and open it4 ,the flow rate can be controlled with this clamp4 ,keeping a hand on the clamp also prevents the nozzle from being expelled4 ,water will begin flowing into the colon4 ,your goal is to empty the entire bag into the colon before sensations of pressure or urgency to evacuate the water force you to remove the nozzle and head for the toilet4 ,relaxation of mind and body helps achieve this4 ,you are very unlikely to achieve a half-gallon fill up on the first attempt4 ,if painful pressure is experienced try closing the clamp for a moment to allow the water to begin working its way around the obstacle4 ,or1 next time try hanging the bag lower1 reducing its height above the body and thus lowering the water pressure4 ,or1 try opening the clamp only partially4 ,or1 try panting hard1 so as to make the abdomen move rapidly in and out1 sort of shaking the colon4 ,this last technique is particularly good to get the water past a blockage of intestinal gas4 ,it is especially important for ,americans1 whose culture does not teach one to be tolerant of discomfort1 to keep in mind that pain is the body's warning that actual damage is being done to tissues4 ,enemas can do no damage and pose no risk except to that rare individual with weak spots in the colon's wall from cancers4 ,when an enema is momentarily perceived unpleasantly1 the correct name for the experience is a sensation1 not pain4 ,you may have to work at increasing your tolerance for unpleasant sensations or it will take you a long time to achieve the goal of totally filling the colon with water4 ,be brave6 ,and relax4 ,a wise philosopher once said that it is a rough ,universe in which only the tigers survive--and sometimes they have a hard time4 ,eventually it will be time to remove the nozzle and evacuate the water4 ,either a blockage 7usually fecal matter1 an air bubble1 or a tight ',u' turn in the colon1 usually at either the splenetic1 or hepatic flexures located right below the rib cage7 will prevent further inflow 7undesirable7 or else the bag will completely empty 7good67 or the sensation of bursting will no longer be tolerable4 ,go sit on the toilet and wait until all the water has passed4 ,then refill the bag and repeat the process4 ,each time you fill the colon it will allow more water to enter more easily with less unpleasantness4 ,fasters and cleansers should make at least three attempts at a complete fill-up each time they do an enema session4 ,water and juice fasters will find that after the first few enemas1 it will become very easy to inject the entire half-gallon of water4 ,that is because there is little or no chime entering the colon4 ,after a few days the entire colon will seem 7this is incorrect7 to be empty except when it is filled with water4 ,this is the point to learn an advanced self-administered enema technique4 ,an average colon empty of new food will usually hold about one gallon of water4 ,that is average4 ,a small colon might only hold #c_/d gallon1 a large one might accept a gallon and a half1 or even more4 ,you'll need to learn to simultaneously refill the bag while injecting water1 so as to achieve a complete irrigation of the whole colon4 ,there are several possible methods4 ,you might try placing a pitcher or half-gallon mason jar of tepid water next to the bag and after the bag has emptied the first time1 stand up while holding the tube in the anus1 refill the bag and then lie down again and continue filling4 ,you might have an assistant do this for you4 ,you might try hanging the bag from the shower head and direct a slow1 continuous dribble of lukewarm water from the shower into the bag while you kneel or lie relaxed in the tub4 ,this way the bag will never empty and you stop filling only when you feel fullness and pressure all the way back to the beginning of the ascending colon4 ,of course1 hanging from a slowly running shower head the bag will probably overflow and you will get splashed and so will the bathroom floor when your wet body moves rapidly from the tub to the toilet4 ,i've imagined making an enema bag from a two gallon plastic bucket with a small plastic hose barb glued into a hole drilled in the bottom or lower edge4 ,if ,i were in the business of manufacturing enema bags ,i'd make them hold at least one gallon4 ,a word of caution to those folks who have a pattern of overdoing it1 or tend to think that more is better4 ,this is not true when it comes to colon cleansing4 ,do not make more than three attempts to fill and clean the colon with an enema bag4 ,usually the colon begins to protest and won't accept any more fill-ups4 ,when having colonics on a colonic machine it is a good idea to continue until the water comes back reasonably clear for that session4 ,it is not a good idea for a faster to have colonics that last more than three-quarters of an hour to an hour maximum1 or it will be too tiring4 ,even non-fasters find colonics tiring4 ,after all1 the colon is basically a big muscle that has become very lazy on a low-fiber diet4 ,i've personally administered over five thousand colonics1 taught several dozen fasters to self-administer their own and stood by while they gave themselves one until they were quite expert4 ,in all that experience ,i've only seen one person have a seriously bad result4 ,this was a suicidally depressed water faster that ,i 7mistakenly7 allowed to administer their own colonics with my machine4 ,this person not only took daily colonics1 but allowed water to flow through their colon for as long as two hours at a time4 ,perhaps they were trying to wash out their mind8 ,after several weeks of this extreme excess1 the faster became highly confused and disoriented due to a severe electrolyte imbalance4 ,they had to be taken off water fasting immediately and recovered their mental clarity in a few days4 ,the loss of blood electrolytes happened because during colonics there occurs a sort of low-grade very slow reverse osmosis4 ,curing ,with ,enemas ,it is not wise to continue regular colonics or enemas once a detoxification program has been completed and you have returned to a maintenance diet4 ,the body should be allowed its regular functioning4 ,but because enemas immediately lower the toxic load on the liver1 ,i do recommend people use them for prevention of an acute illness 7you feel like you are coming down with something71 and for the treatment of acute illnesses such as a cold4 ,i also like to take one if ,i have been away traveling for extended periods1 eating carelessly4 ,but do not fall into a pattern of bingeing on bad food1 and then trying to get rid of it through colonics or laxative4 ,this is bulimia1 the eating disorder discussed earlier4 ,the ,sheltonite capital ,n ,natural capital ,h ,hygienists do not recommend any colon cleansing1 ever6 ,they think that the colon will spontaneously cleanse itself on a long water fast1 but my experience learned from monitoring hundreds of fasters is that it doesn't really4 ,herbert ,shelton also considered colon cleansing enervating and therefore undesirable4 ,colon cleansing does use the faster's energy but on the balance1 colon cleansing saves more work on the part of an overburdened liver than it uses up4 ,chapter ,five ,diet and ,nutrition ,from ,the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,food4 #a ,life is a tragedy of nutrition4 ,in food lies #ii4ii of the causes of all diseases and imperfect health of any kind4 ,prof4 ,arnold ,ehret1 ,mucusless ,diet ,healing ,system4 #b ,but elimination will never heal perfectly just so long as you fail to discontinue the supply of inside waste caused by eating and wrong eating4 ,you may clean and continue to clean indefinitely1 but never with complete results up to a perfect cleanliness1 as long as the intake of wrong or even too much right foods1 is not stopped4 ,prof4 ,arnold ,ehret1 ,mucusless ,diet ,healing ,system4 #c ,cooked food favors bacterial1 or organized1 ferment preponderance1 because cooking kills the unorganized and organized ferments1 and both are needed to carry on the body's digestion4 ,raw foods--fruits and vegetables--favor unorganized ferment digestion1 because these foods carry vitamins1 which are unorganized ferments--enzymes4 ,dr4 ,john4 ,h4 ,tilden1 ,impaired ,health3 ,its ,cause and ,cure1 #aiba4 ,recently1 my younger 7adult7 daughter asked my advice choosing between a root canal or having a bridge made4 ,this led to a discussion of her eating habits in general4 ,defending her currently less-than-optimum diet against my gentle criticism1 she threw me a tough riposte4 ,why1 she asked1 when ,i was raised so perfectly as a child1 when ,i ate only ,organic food until ,i was ten and old enough to make you send me to public school where ,i could eat those lousy school lunches 7her unfeeling1 heartless mother home-schooled her71 why even at that young age1 7before she spent her adolescent rebellion eating junk food7 why at that point did ,i still have a mouthful of cavities8 ,and she did4 ,at age ten my daughter needed about ten fillings4 ,this beautiful daughter of a practicing naturopath had received what1 at the time1 ,i considered virtually perfect nutrition4 ,she suckled hugely at her mother's abundant breast until age two4 ,during this time her mother ate a natural foods diet4 ,after weaning my daughter got only whole grains1 a little fresh goat's milk from my goat1 fruits and lots of ,organic vegetables4 ,i started my spa when my daughter was about five years old and from that point she was1 like it or not1 a raw fooder4 ,and all that raw food was ,organic and much of it from ,great ,oaks ,school's huge vegetable garden4 ,for my daughter to develop cavities on this diet is reminiscent of ,woody ,allen's joke in his movie ,sleeper4 ,do you recall this one1 made about #aigc8 ,the plot is a take off on ,rip ,van ,winkle4 ,woody goes into the hospital for minor surgery4 ,unexpectedly he expires on the operating table and his body is frozen in hopes that someday he can be revived4 ,one hundred and fifty years later he is revived4 ,the priceless scene ,i always think of takes place in his hospital room immediately after he comes to consciousness4 ,the doctor in charge of his case is explaining to ,woody what has happened4 ,woody refuses to believe he died and was frozen1 asserting that the whole story is a put on4 ,woody insists that the 'doctor' is clearly an actor hired by his friends6 ,it absolutely can't be the year #babc4 ',oh1 but it really is #babc1' insists the doctor4 ',and it is no put on by his friends2 all his friends are long dead2 ,woody knows no one at all in #babc and had better prepare himself to start a new life4' ,woody still insists it is a put on4 ,i had a healthfood store1 he says1 and all my friends ate brown rice4 ,they can't be dead6 ,and my perfectly nourished daughter couldn't have developed cavities6 ,but she did4 ,and if she cheated on her perfect diet1 bad food could not have amounted to more than two percent of her total caloric intake from birth to age ten4 ,i was a responsible mom and ,i made sure she ate right6 ,now my daughter was demanding to know why she had tooth decay4 ,fortunately1 ,i now know the answer4 ,the answer is rather complex1 but ,i can give a simplified explanation4 ,the ,confusions ,about ,diets and ,foods ,like my daughter1 many people of all ages are muddled about the relationship between health and diet4 ,their confusions have created a profitable market for health-related information4 ,and equally1 their confusions have been created by books1 magazine articles1 and ,,tv news features4 ,this avalanche of data is highly contradictory4 ,in fact1 one reason ,i found it hard to make myself write my own book is that ,i wondered if my book too would become just another part of the confusion4 ,few people are willing to tolerate very much uncertainty4 ,rather than live with the discomfort of not knowing why1 they will create an explanation or find some answer1 any answer1 and then ever after1 assert its rightness like a shipwrecked person clings to a floating spar in a storm4 ,this is how ,i explain the genesis of many contemporary food religions4 ,appropriately new agey and spiritual1 ,macrobiotics teaches the way to perfect health is to eat like a ,japanese whole foods vegetarian--the endless staple being brown rice1 some cooked vegetables and seaweeds1 meanwhile balancing the yin and yang of the foods4 ,and ,macrobiotics works great for a lot of people4 ,but not all people4 ,because there's next to nothing raw in the ,macrobiotic diet and some people are allergic to rice1 or can get allergic to rice on that diet4 ,linda ,clark's ,diet for a ,small ,planet also has hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers4 ,this system balances the proportions of essential amino acids at every1 single meal and is vegetarian4 ,this diet also works and really helps some people1 but not as well as ,macrobiotics in my opinion because obsessed with protein1 ,clark's diet contains too many hard-to-digest soy products and makes poor food combinations from the point of digestive capacity4 ,then there are the raw fooders4 ,most of them are raw1 ,organic fooders who go so far as to eat only unfired1 unground cereals that have been soaked in warm water 7at less than #aae degrees or you'll kill the enzymes7 for many hours to soften the seeds up and start them sprouting4 ,this diet works and really helps a lot of people4 ,raw organic foodism is especially good for holy joes1 a sort of better-than-everyone-else person who enjoys great self-righteousness by owning this system4 ,but raw fooding does not help all people nor solve all diseases because raw food irritates the digestive tracts of some people and in northern climates it is hard to maintain body heat on this diet because it is difficult to consume enough concentrated vegetable food in a raw state4 ,and some raw fooders eat far too much fruit4 ,i've seen them lose their teeth because of fruit's low mineral content1 high sugar level and constant fruit acids in their mouths4 ,then there are vegetarians of various varieties including vegans 7vegetarians that will not eat dairy products and eggs71 and then1 there are their exact opposites1 ,atkins dieters focusing on protein and eating lots of meat4 ,there's the ,adelle ,davis school1 people eating whole grains1 handfuls of vitamins1 lots of dairy and brewers yeast and wheat germ1 and even raw liver4 ,then there's the ,organic school4 ,these folks will eat anything in any combination1 just so long as it is organically produced1 including organically raised beef1 chicken1 lamb1 eggs1 rabbit1 wild meats1 milk and diary products1 natural sea salt in large quantities and of course1 organically grown fruits1 vegetables grains and nuts4 ,and what is ,organic8 ,the word means food raised in compliance with a set of rules contrived by a certification bureaucracy4 ,when carefully analyzed1 the somewhat illogical rules are not all that different in spirit than the rules of kashsruth or kosher4 ,and the ,organic certification bureaucrats aren't all that different than the rabbis who certify food as being kosher1 either4 ,there are now millions of frightened ,americans who1 following the advice of mainstream ,authority1 have eliminated red meat from their diets and greatly reduced what they 7mistakenly7 understand as high-cholesterol foods4 ,all these diets work too--or some--and all demonstrate some of the truth4 ,the only area concerning health that contains more confusion and contradictory data than diet is vitamins4 ,what a rats nest that is6 ,the ,fundamental ,principle ,if you are a true believer in any of the above food religions1 ,i expect that you will find my views unsettling4 ,but what ,i consider good diet results from my clinical work with thousands of cases4 ,it is what has worked with those cases4 ,my eclectic views incorporate bits and pieces of all the above4 ,in my own case1 ,i started out by following the ,organic school1 and ,i was once a raw food vegetarian who ate nothing but raw food for six years4 ,i also ate ,macrobiotic for about one year until ,i became violently allergic to rice4 ,i have arrived at a point where ,i understand that each person's biochemistry is unique and each must work out their own diet to suit their life goals1 life style1 genetic predisposition and current state of health4 ,there is no single1 one1 all-encompassing1 correct diet4 ,but1 there is a single1 basic1 underlying ,principle of ,nutrition that is universally true4 ,in its most simplified form1 the basic equation of human health goes3 ,health ,nutrition _/ ,calories4 ,the equation falls far short of explaining the origin of each individuals diseases or how to cure diseases but ,health ,nutrition _/ ,calories does show the general path toward healthful eating and proper medicine4 ,all animals have the exact same dietary problem3 finding enough nutrition to build and maintain their bodies within the limits of their digestive capacity4 ,rarely in nature 7except for predatory carnivores7 is there any significant restriction on the number of calories or serious limitation of the amount of low-nutrition foods available to eat4 ,there's rarely any shortage of natural junk food on ,earth4 ,except for domesticated house pets1 animals are sensible enough to prefer the most nutritional fare available and tend to shun empty calories unless they are starving4 ,but humans are perverse1 not sensible4 ,deciding on the basis of artificially-created flavors1 preferring incipid textures1 we seem to prefer junk food and become slaves to our food addictions4 ,for example1 in tropical countries there is a widely grown root crop1 called in various places3 tapioca1 tavioca1 manioc1 or yuca4 ,this interesting plant produces the greatest tonnage of edible1 digestible1 pleasant-tasting calories per acre compared to any other food crop ,i know4 ,manioc might seem the answer to human starvation because it will grow abundantly on tropical soils so infertile and_/or so droughty that no other food crop will succeed there4 ,manioc will do this because it needs virtually nothing from the soil to construct itself with4 ,and consequently1 manioc puts next to nothing nourishing into its edible parts4 ,the bland-tasting root is virtually pure starch1 a simple carbohydrate not much different than pure corn starch4 ,plants construct starches from carbon dioxide gas obtained the air and hydrogen obtained from water4 ,there is no shortage ever of carbon from ,,co#b in the air and rarely a shortage of hydrogen from water4 ,when the highly digestible starch in manioc is chewed1 digestive enzymes readily convert it into sugar4 ,nutritionally there is virtually no difference between eating manioc and eating white sugar4 ,both are entirely empty calories4 ,if you made a scale from ideal to worst regarding the ratio of nutrition to calories1 white sugar1 manioc and most fats are at the extreme undesirable end4 ,frankly ,i don't know which single food might lie at the extreme positive end of the scale4 ,close to perfect might be certain leafy green vegetables that can be eaten raw4 ,when they are grown on extremely fertile soil1 some greens develop #bj or more percent completely digestible balanced protein with ideal ratios of all the essential amino acids1 lots of vitamins1 tons of minerals1 all sorts of enzymes and other nutritional elements--and very few calories4 ,you could continually fill your stomach to bursting with raw leafy greens and still have a hard time sustaining your body weight if that was all you ate4 ,maybe ,popeye the ,sailorman was right about eating spinach4 ,for the moment1 lets ignore individual genetic inabilities to digest specific foods and also ignore the effects stress and enervation can have on our ability to extract nutrition out of the food we are eating4 ,without those factors to consider1 it is correct to say that1 to the extent one's diet contains the maximum potential amount of nutrition relative to the number of calories you are eating1 to that extent a person will be healthy4 ,to the extent the diet is degraded from that ideal1 to that extent1 disease will develop4 ,think about it6 ,lessons ,from ,nutritional ,anthropology ,the next logical pair of questions are3 how healthy could good nutrition make people be1 and1 how much deviation from ideal nutrition could we allow ourselves before serious disease appears8 ,luckily1 earlier in this century we could observe living answers to those questions 7before the evidence disappeared74 ,the answers are3 we could be amazingly healthy1 and1 if we wish to enjoy excellent health we can afford to cut ourselves surprisingly little slack4 ,prior to the ,second ,world ,war there were several dozen sizable groups of extraordinarily healthy humans remaining on ,earth4 ,today1 their descendants are still in the same remote places1 are speaking the same languages and possess more or less the same cultures4 ,only today they're watching satellite ,,tv4 wearing jeans1 drinking colas--and their superior health has evaporated4 ,during the early part of this century1 at the same era vitamins and other basic aspects of nutrition were being discovered1 a few farsighted medical explorers sought out these hard-to-reach places with their legendarily healthy peoples to see what caused the legendary well-being they'd heard of4 ,enough evidence was collected and analyzed to derive some very valid principles4 ,first lets dismiss some apparently logical but incorrect explanations for the unusually good health of these isolated peoples4 ,it wasn't racial1 genetic superiority4 ,there were extraordinarily healthy blacks1 browns1 ,orientals1 ,amerinds1 ,caucasians4 ,it wasn't living at high altitude2 some lived at sea level4 ,it wasn't temperate climates1 some lived in the tropics1 some in the tropics at sea level1 a type of location generally thought to be quite unhealthful4 ,it wasn't a small collection of genetically superior individuals1 because when these peoples left their isolated locale and moved to the city1 they rapidly began to lose their health4 ,and it wasn't genetics because when a young couple from the isolated healthy village moved to town1 their children born in town were as unhealthy as all the other kids4 ,and what do ,i mean by genuinely healthy8 ,well1 imagine a remote village or a mountain valley or a far island settlement very difficult to get to1 where there lived a thousand or perhaps ten thousand people4 ,rarely fewer1 rarely more4 ,among that small population there were no medical doctors and no dentists1 no drugs1 no vaccinations1 no antibiotics4 ,usually the isolation carried with it illiteracy and precluded contact with or awareness of modern science1 so there was little or no notion of public hygiene4 ,and this was before the era of antibiotics4 ,yet these unprotected1 undoctored1 unvaccinated peoples did not suffer and die from bacterial infections2 and the women did not have to give birth to #ac children to get #b4d to survive to breeding age--almost all the children made it through the gauntlet of childhood diseases4 ,there was also virtually no degenerative disease like heart attacks1 hardening of the arteries1 senility1 cancer1 arthritis4 ,there were few if any birth defects4 ,in fact1 there probably weren't any aspirin in the entire place4 ,oh1 and there was very little mortality during childbirth1 as little or less than we have today with all our hospitals4 ,and the people uniformly had virtually perfect teeth and kept them all till death1 but did not have toothbrushes nor any notion of dental hygiene4 ,nor did they have dentists or physicians4 7,price1 #aigj7 ,and in those fortunate places the most common causes of death were accident 7trauma7 and old age4 ,the typical life span was long into the #gjs and in some places quite a bit longer4 ,one fabled place1 ,hunza1 was renowned for having an extraordinarily high percentage of vigorous and active people over #ajj years old4 ,i hope ,i've made you curious4 ,how could this be8 you're asking4 ,well1 here's why4 ,first1 everyone of those groups lived in places so entirely remote1 so inaccessible that they were of necessity1 virtually self-sufficient4 ,they hardly traded at all with the outside world1 and certainly they did not trade for bulky1 hard-to-transport bulk foodstuffs4 ,virtually everything they ate was produced by themselves4 ,if they were an agricultural people1 naturally1 everything they ate was natural3 organic1 whole1 unsprayed and fertilized with what ever local materials seemed to produce enhanced plant growth4 ,and1 if they were agricultural1 they lived on a soil body that possessed highly superior natural fertility4 ,if not an agricultural people they lived by the sea and made a large portion of their diets sea foods4 ,if their soil had not been extraordinarily fertile1 these groups would not have enjoyed superior health and would have conformed to the currently widely-believed notion that before the modern era1 people's lives were brutish1 unhealthful1 and short4 ,what is common between meat-eating ,eskimos1 isolated highland ,swiss living on rye bread1 milk and cheese2 isolated ,scottish island ,celts with a dietary of oat porridge1 kale and sea foods2 highland central ,africans 7,malawi7 eating sorghum1 millet tropical root crops and all sorts of garden vegetables1 plus a little meat and dairy2 ,fijians living on small islands in the humid tropics at sea level eating sea foods and garden vegetables4 ,what they had in common was that their foods were all were at the extreme positive end of the ,health ,nutrition _/ ,calories scale4 ,the agriculturists were on very fertile soil that grew extraordinarily nutrient-rich food1 the sea food gatherers were obtaining their tucker from the place where all the fertility that ever was in the soil had washed out of the land had been transported--sea foods are also extraordinarily nutrient rich4 ,the group with the very best soil and consequently1 the best health of all were1 by lucky accident1 the ,hunza4 ,i say lucky and accident because the ,hunza and their resource base unknowingly developed an agricultural system that produced the most nutritious food that is possible to grow4 ,the ,hunza lived on what has been called super food4 ,there are a lot of interesting books about the ,hunza1 some deserving of careful study4 7,wrench1 #aich2 ,rodale1 #aidi7 ,finding ,your ,ideal ,dietary ,anyone that is genuinely interested in having the best possible health should make their own study of the titles listed in the bibliography in the back of this book4 ,after you do1 award yourself a ,,bs nutrition4 ,i draw certain conclusions from this body of data4 ,i think they help a person sort out the massive confusion that exists today about proper diet4 ,first principle3 ,homo ,sapiens clearly can posses extreme health while eating very different dietary regimens4 ,there is no one right diet for humans4 ,before the industrial era almost everyone on ,earth ate what was produced locally4 ,their dietary choices were pretty much restricted to those foods that were well adapted and productive in their region4 ,some places grew rye1 others wheat1 others millet1 others rice4 ,some places supported cows1 others goats1 others had few on no domesticated animals4 ,some places produced a lot of fruits and vegetables4 ,others1 did not4 ,whatever the local dietary1 during thousands of years of eating that dietary natural selection prevailed2 most babies that were allergic to or not able to thrive on the available dietary1 died quickly4 ,probably of childhood bacterial infections4 ,the result of this weeding out process was a population closely adapted to the available dietary of a particular locale4 ,this has interesting implications for ,americans1 most of whose ancestors immigrated from somewhere else2 many of our ancestors also hybridized or crossed with immigrants from elsewhere4 ,trying to discover what dietary substances your particular genetic endowment is adapted to can be difficult and confusing4 ,if both your parents were ,italian and they were more or less pure ,italian going way back1 you might start out trying to eat wheat1 olives1 garlic1 fava beans1 grapes1 figs1 cow dairy4 ,if pure ,german1 try rye bread1 cow dairy1 apples1 cabbage family vegetables4 ,if ,scottish1 try oats1 mutton1 fish1 sheep dairy and cabbage family vegetables4 ,if ,jewish1 try goat dairy1 wheat1 olives and citrus4 ,and certainly all the above ethnic derivations will thrive on many kinds of vegetables4 ,afro-,americans1 especially dark-complexioned ones little mixed with ,europeans1 might do well to avoid wheat and instead1 try sorghum1 millet or tropical root crops like sweet potatoes1 yams and taro4 ,making it even more difficult for an individual to discover their optimum diet is the existence of genetic-based allergies and worse1 developed allergies4 ,later in this chapter ,i will explain how a body can develop an allergy to a food that is probably irreversible4 ,a weakened organ can also prevent digestion of a food or food group4 ,one more thing about adaptation to dietaries4 ,pre-industrial humans could only be extraordinarily healthy on the dietary they were adapted to if and only if that dietary also was extraordinarily high in nutrients4 ,few places on earth have naturally rich soil4 ,food grown on poor soil is poor in nutrition2 that grown on rich soil is high in nutrition4 ,people do not realize that the charts and tables in the backs of health books like ,adelle ,davis's ,lets ,cook ,it ,right1 are not really true4 ,they are statistics4 ,it is vital to keep in mind the old saying1 there are lies1 there are damned lies1 and then there are statistics4 ,the best way to lie is with statistics4 ,statistical tables of the nutrient content of foods were developed by averaging numerous samples of food from various soils and regions4 ,these tables basically lie because they do not show the range of possibility between the different samples4 ,a chart may state authoritatively that #ajj grams of broccoli contains so many milligrams of calcium4 ,what it does not say is that some broccoli samples contain only half that amount or even less1 while other broccoli contains two or three times that amount4 ,since calcium is a vital nutrient hard to come by in digestible form1 the high calcium broccoli is far better food than the low calcium sample4 ,but both samples of broccoli appear and taste more or less alike4 ,both could even be organically grown4 ,yet one sample has a very positive ratio of nutrition to calories1 the other is lousy food4 7,schuphan1 #aife7 ,here's another example ,i hope will really dent the certainties the ,linda ,clarkites4 ,potatoes can range in protein from eight to eleven percent1 depending on the soil that produced them and if they were or were not irrigated4 ,grown dry 7very low yielding7 on semiarid soils1 potatoes can be a high-protein staff of life4 ,heavily irrigated and fertilized so as to produce bulk yield instead of nutrition1 they'll produce two or three times the tonnage1 but at #h percent protein instead of #aa percent4 ,not only does the protein content drop just as much as yield is boosted1 the amino acid ratios change markedly1 the content of scarce nutritional minerals drops massively1 and the caloric content increases4 ,in short1 subsisting on irrigated commercially-grown potatoes1 or on those grown on relatively infertile soils receiving abundant rainfall will make you fat and sick4 ,they're a lot like manioc4 ,here's another4 ,wheat can range from #g to #ai percent protein4 ,before the industrial era ruined most wheat by turning it into white flour1 wheat-eating peoples from regions where the cereal naturally contains abundant protein tended to be tall1 healthy and long-lived4 ,wheat-eating humans from regions that produce low protein grain tended to be small1 sickly and short-lived4 7,mc,carrison1 #aiba1 #aicf1 #aihb2 ,albrecht1 #aige7 ,even cows have to pay attention to where their grass is coming from4 ,some green grass is over #ae percent protein and contains lots of calcium1 phosphorus and magnesium to build strong bodies4 ,other equally or even better looking green grass contains only six or seven percent protein and contains little calcium1 phosphorus or magnesium4 ,cows forced to eat only this poor type of grass can literally starve to death with full bellies4 ,and they have a hard time breeding successfully4 ,the reason for the difference3 different soil fertility profiles4 7,albrecht1 #aige7 ,when people ate local1 those living on fertile soils or getting a significant portion of their diet from the sea and who because of physical isolation from industrial foods did not make a practice of eating empty calories tended to live a long time and be very healthy4 ,but those unfortunates on poor soils or with unwise cultural life-styles tended to be short-lived1 diseased1 small1 weak1 have bad teeth1 and etc4 ,the lesson here is that ,homo ,sapiens can adapt to many different dietaries1 but like any other animal1 the one thing we can't adapt to is a dietary deficient in nutrition4 ,so here's another statistic to reconsider4 ,most people believe that due to modern medical wonders1 we live longer than we used to4 ,actually1 that depends4 ,compared to badly nourished populations of a century ago1 yes6 ,we do4 ,chemical medicine keeps sickly1 poorly nourished people going a lot longer 7though one wonders about the quality of their dreary existences47 ,i hypothesize that before the time most farmers purchased and baked with white flour and sold their whole1 unground wheat1 many rural ,americans 7the ones on good soil1 not all parts of ,north ,america have rich soil7 eating from their own self-sufficient farms1 lived as long or even longer than we do today4 ,you also have to wonder who benefits from promulgating this mistaken belief about longevity4 ,who gets rich when we are sick8 ,and what huge economic interests are getting rich helping make us sick8 ,the ,human ,comedy ,i know most of my readers have been heavily indoctrinated about food and think they already know the truth about dietetics4 ,i also know that so much information 7and misinformation7 is coming out about diet that most of my readers are massively confused about the subject4 ,these are two powerful reasons many readers will look with disbelief at what this chapter has to say and take no action on my data1 even to prove me wrong4 ,let me warn you4 ,there is a deep-seated human tendency to put off taking responsibilities1 beautifully demonstrated by this old joke4 ,a #ad year old boy was discovered masturbating by his father1 who said1 son1 you shouldn't do that6 ,if you keep it up you'll eventually go blind6 ,but father1 came the boy's quick reply4 ,it feels good4 ,how about if ,i don't quit until ,i need to wear glasses8 ,the ,organic ,versus ,chemical ,feud ,now1 regrettably1 and at great personal risk to my reputation1 ,i must try to puncture the very favorite belief of food religionists1 the doctrine that organically grown food is as nutritious as food can possibly be1 ,like ,woody ,allen's brown-rice-eating friends1 people think if you eat ,organic foods1 you will inevitably live a very long time and be very healthy4 ,actually1 the ,organic vs4 chemical feud is in many ways false4 ,many 7not all7 samples of organically grown food are as low or lower in nutrition as foods raised with chemical fertilizers4 ,conversely1 wisely using chemical fertilizers 7not pesticides7 can greatly increase the nutritional value of food4 ,judiciously used ,organic fertilizing substances can also do that as well or better4 ,and in either case1 using chemical fertilizers or so-called organic fertilizers1 to maximize nutrition the humus content of the soil must be maintained4 ,but1 raising soil organic matter levels too high can result in a massive reduction in the nutritional content of the food being grown--a very frequent mistake on the part of ,organic devotees4 ,in other words1 growing nutrition is a science1 and is not a matter of religion4 ,the food ,i fed to my daughter in childhood1 though ,organic according to ,rodale and the certification bureaucrats1 though providing this organic food to my family and clients gave me a feeling of self-righteousness1 was not grown with an understanding of the nutritional consequences of electing to use one particular ,organic fertilizing substance over another4 ,so we and a lot of regional ,organic market gardeners near us that we bought from1 were raising food that was far from ideally nutritious4 ,at least though1 our food was free of pesticide residues4 ,the real dichotomy in food is not chemical fertilizer versus ,organic1 ,it is between industrial food and quality food4 ,what ,i mean by industrial food is that which is raised with the intention of maximizing profit or yield4 ,there is no contradiction between raising food that the rabbis running ,organic certification bureaucracies would deem perfectly kosher and raising that same food to make the most possible money or the biggest harvest4 ,when a farmer grows for money1 they want to produce the largest number of bushels1 crates1 tons1 bales per acre4 ,their criteria for success is primarily unit volume4 ,many gardeners think the same way4 ,to maximize bulk yield they build soil fertility in a certain direction 7organically or chemically7 and choose varieties that produce greater bulk4 ,however1 nature is ironic in this respect4 ,the most nutritious food is always lower yielding4 ,the very soil management practices that maximize production simultaneously reduce nutrition4 ,the real problem we are having about our health is not that there are residues of pesticides in our food4 ,the real problem is that there are only residues of nutrition left in our foods4 ,until our culture comes to understand this and realizes that the health costs of accepting less than optimum food far exceeds the profits made by growing bulk1 it will not be possible to frequently find the ultimate of food quality in the marketplace1 organically grown or not4 ,it will not be possible to find food that is labeled or identified according to its real nutritional value4 ,the best ,i can say about ,organic food these days is that it probably is no less nutritious than chemically-grown food while at least it is free of pesticide residues4 ,the ,poor ,start ,for this reason it makes sense to take vitamins and food supplements1 to be discussed in the next chapter4 ,and because our food supply1 ,organic or conventional1 is far from optimum1 if a person wants to be and remain healthy and have a life span that approaches their genetic potential 7and that potential1 it seems1 approaches or exceeds a century71 it is essential that empty calories are rigorously avoided4 ,an accurate and quick-to-respond indicator of how well we are doing in terms of getting enough nutrition is the state of our teeth4 ,one famous dentally-oriented nutritional doctor1 ,melvin ,page1 suggested that as long as overall nutrition was at least #ge percent of perfection1 the body chemistry could support healthy teeth and gums until death4 ,by healthy here ,page means free of cavities1 no bone loss around the teeth 7no wobblers71 no long-in-the-teeth mouths from receding gums1 no gum diseases at all4 ,but when empty calories or devitalized foods or misdigestion cuts our nutrient intake we begin experiencing tooth decay1 gum disease and bone loss in the jaw4 ,how are your teeth8 ,i suppose you could say that ,i have a food religion1 but mine is to eat so that the equation ,nutrition ,health _/ ,calories is strongly in my favor4 ,back to my daughter's teeth4 ,yes1 ,i innocently fed her less than ideally nutritious food1 but at that time ,i couldn't buy ideal food even had ,i known what ,i wanted1 nor did ,i have any scientific idea of how to produce ideal food1 nor actually1 could ,i have done so on the impoverished1 leached-out clay soil at ,great ,oaks ,school even had ,i known how4 ,the ,organic doctrine says that you can build a ,garden of ',eatin with large quantities of compost until any old clay pit or gravel heap produces highly nutritious food4 ,this idea is not really true4 ,sadly1 what is true about organic matter in soil is that when it is increased very much above the natural level one finds in untilled soil in the climate you're working with1 the nutritional content of the food begins to drop markedly4 ,i know this assertion is shocking and perhaps threatening to those who believe in the ,organic system2 ,i am sorry4 ,but there is another reason my daughter's teeth were not perfect1 probably could not have been perfect no matter what we fed her1 and why she will probably have at least some health problems as she ages no matter how perfectly she may choose to eat from here on4 ,my daughters had what ,dr4 ,g4,t4 ,wrench called a poor start4 ,not as poor as it could have been by any means1 but certainly less than ideal4 ,you see1 the father has very little to do with the health of the child1 unless he happens to carry some particularly undesirable gene4 ,it is the mother who has the job of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body's nutritional reserves4 ,the female body knows from trillenia of instinctual experience that adequate nutrition from the current food supply during pregnancy can not always be assured1 so the female body stores up very large quantities of minerals and vitamins and enzymes against that very possibility4 ,when forming a fetus these reserves are drawn down and depleted4 ,it is virtually impossible during the pregnancy itself for a mother to extract sufficient nutrition from current food to build a totally healthy fetus1 no matter how nourishing the food she is eating may be4 ,thus a mother-to-be needs to be spending her entire childhood and her adolescence 7and have adequate time between babies71 building and rebuilding her reserves4 ,a mother-to-be also started out at her own birth with a vitally important stock of nutritional reserves1 reserves put there during her own fetal development4 ,if that start was less than ideal1 the mother-to-be 7as fetus7 got pinched and nutritionally shortchanged in certain1 predictable ways4 ,even minor mineral fetal deficiencies degrade the bone structure3 the fetus knows it needs nutritional reserves more than it needs to have a full-sized jaw bone or a wide pelvic girdle1 and when deprived of maximum fetal nourishment1 these non-vital bones become somewhat smaller4 ,permanently4 ,if mineral deficiencies continue into infancy and childhood1 these same bones continue to be shortchanged1 and the child ends up with a very narrow face1 a jaw bone far too small to hold all the teeth1 and in women1 a small oven that may have trouble baking babies4 ,more importantly1 those nutrient reserves earmarked especially for making babies are also deficient4 ,so a deficient mother not only shows certain structural evidence of physiological degeneration1 but she makes deficient babies4 ,a deficient female baby at birth is unlikely to completely overcome her bad start before she herself has children4 ,so with females1 the quality of a whole lifetime's nutrition1 and the life-nutrition of her mother 7and of her mother's mother as well7 has a great deal to do with the outcome of a pregnancy4 ,the sins of the mother can really be visited unto the third and fourth generation4 ,this reality was powerfully demonstrated in the #aibjs by a medical doctor1 ,francis ,pottenger4 ,he was not gifted with a good bedside manner4 ,rather than struggling with an unsuccessful clinical practice1 ,dr4 ,pottenger decided to make his living running a medical testing laboratory in ,pasadena1 ,california4 ,dr4 ,pottenger earned his daily bread performing a rather simple task1 assaying the potency of adrenal hormone extracts4 ,at that time1 adrenaline1 a useful drug to temporarily rescue people close to death1 was extracted from the adrenal glands of animals4 ,however1 the potency of these crude extracts varied greatly4 ,being a very powerful drug1 it was essential to measure exactly how strong your extract was so its dosage could be controlled4 ,quantitative organic chemistry was rather crude in those days4 ,instead of assaying in a test tube1 ,dr4 ,pottenger kept several big cages full of cats that he had adrenalectomized4 ,without their own adrenals1 the cats could not live more than a short time ,by finding out how much extract was required to keep the cats from failing1 he could measure the strength of the particular batch4 ,dr4 ,pottenger's cats were economically valuable so he made every effort to keep them healthy1 something that proved to be disappointingly difficult4 ,he kept his cats clean1 in airy1 bright quarters1 fed them to the very best of his ability on pasteurized whole milk1 slaughterhouse meat and organs 7cats in the wild eat organ meats first and there are valuable vitamins and other substances in organ meats that don't exist in muscle tissue74 ,the meat was carefully cooked to eliminate any parasites1 and the diet was supplemented with cod liver oil4 ,however1 try as he might1 ,pottenger's cats were sickly1 lived short and had to be frequently replaced4 ,usually they bred poorly and died young of bacterial infections1 there being no antibiotics in the #aibjs4 ,i imagine ,dr4 ,pottenger was constantly visiting the animal shelter and perhaps even paid quarters out the back door to a steady stream of young boys who brought him cats in burlap sacks from who knows where1 no questions asked4 ,dr4 ,pottenger's assays must have been accurate1 for his business grew and grew4 ,eventually he needed more cats than he had cages to house1 so he built a big1 roofed1 on-the-ground pen outdoors4 ,because he was overworked1 he was less careful about the feeding of these extra animals4 ,they got the same pasteurized milk and cod-liver oil1 but he did not bother to cook their slaughterhouse meat4 ,then1 a small miracle happened4 ,this poorly cared for cage of cats fed on uncooked meat became much healthier than the others1 suffering far fewer bacterial infections or other health problems4 ,then another miracle happened4 ,dr4 ,pottenger began to meditate on the first miracle4 ,it occurred to him that cats in the wild did not cook their food2 perhaps cats had a digestive system that couldn't process or assimilate much out of cooked food4 ,perhaps the problem he had been having was not because the cats were without adrenal glands but because they were without sustenance1 suffering a sort of slow starvation in the midst of plenty4 ,so ,dr4 ,pottenger set up some cat feeding experiments4 ,there were four possible combinations of his regimen3 raw meat and unpasteurized milk2 raw meat and pasteurized milk2 cooked meat and raw milk2 cooked meat and pasteurized milk1 this last one being what he had been feeding all along4 ,so he divided his cats into four groups and fed each group differently4 ,the first results of ,pottenger's experiments were revealed quickly though the most valuable results took longer to see4 ,the cats on raw meat and raw milk did best4 ,the ones on raw meat and pasteurized milk did okay but not as well4 ,the ones on cooked meat and raw milk did even less well and those on all cooked food continued to do as poorly as ever4 ,clearly1 cats can't digest cooked food2 all animals do better fed on what they can digest4 ,a lot of people have taken ,pottenger's data and mistakenly concluded that humans also should eat only raw food4 ,this idea is debatable4 ,however1 the most important result of the cat experiments took years to reveal itself and is not paid much attention to1 probably because its implications are very depressing4 ,dr4 ,pottenger continued his experiments for several generations4 ,it was the transgenerational changes that showed the most valuable lesson4 ,over several generations1 the cats on all raw foods began to alter their appearance4 ,their faces got wider1 their pelvic girdles broader1 bones solider1 teeth better4 ,they began to breed very successfully4 ,after quite a few generations1 the healthiest group1 the one on all raw foods1 seemed to have improved as much as it could4 ,so ,dr4 ,pottenger took some of these cats and began feeding them only cooked food to study the process of nutritional degeneration4 ,after three degenerations on cooked fodder the group had deteriorated so much that the animals could barely breed4 ,their faces had become narrow1 their teeth crooked1 their pelvic girdles narrow1 their bones and body structure very small1 and their dispositions poor4 ,mothers wouldn't nurse their young and sometimes became cannibalistic4 ,they no longer lived very long4 ,before the degenerating group completely lost the ability to breed1 ,pottenger began to again feed them all raw food4 ,it took four generations on a perfect1 raw food diet before some perfect appearing individuals showed up in the group4 ,it takes longer to repair the damage than it does to cause it and it takes generations of unflagging persistence4 ,i think much the same process has happened to humans in this century4 ,with the invention of the roller mill and the consequent degradation of our daily bread to white flour2 with the birth of industrial farming and the generalized lowering of the nutritional content of all of our crops2 our overall ratio of nutrition to calories worsened4 ,then it worsened again because we began to have industrial food manufacturing and national brand prepared food marketing systems2 we began subsisting on devitalized1 processed foods4 ,the result has been an even greater worsening of our ratio of nutrition to calories4 ,and just like ,pottenger's cats1 we civilized humans in so-called advanced countries are losing the ability to breed1 our willingness 7or the energy7 to mother our young2 we're losing our good humor in the same way ,pottenger's degenerated cats became bad tempered4 ,as a group we feel so poorly that we desperately need to feel better fast1 and what better way to do that than with drugs4 ,is it any wonder that the ,united ,states1 the country furthest down the road of industrial food degeneration1 spends #ad percent of its gross domestic product on medical services4 ,any wonder that so many babies are born by ,cesarean1 any wonder that so many of our children have crooked teeth needing an orthodontist8 ,the most depressing aspect of this comes into view when considering that ,pottenger's cats took four generations on perfect food to repair most of the nutritional damage4 ,in the specific case of my daughter1 ,i know somethings about the nutritional history of her maternal ancestors4 ,my daughter's grandmother grew up on a ,saskatchewan farm4 ,though they certainly grew their own rich wheat on virgin semi-arid prairie soil1 ,i'm sure the family bought white flour at the store for daily use4 ,still1 there was a garden and a cow producing raw milk and free-range fertile eggs and chicken and other animals4 ,there probably were lots of canned vegetables in winter1 canned but still highly nutritious because of the fertility of their prairie garden4 ,my mother consequently had perfect teeth until the ,great ,depression forced her to live for too many years on lard and white bread4 ,during this time of severe malnutrition she had her three babies4 ,the first one got the best of her nutritional reserves4 ,the second1 born after the worst of the malnutrition1 was very small and weak and had a hard time growing up4 ,fortunately for me1 for a few years before ,i 7the last child7 was born1 the worst of the economic times had past and the family had been living on a farm4 ,there were vegetables and fresh raw milk and fruit4 ,my mother had two good years to rebuild her nutritional reserves4 ,but ,grannybell did not managed to replace enough4 ,shortly after ,i was born my mother lost every one of her teeth all at once4 ,the bone just disappeared around them4 ,thus1 ,i was born deficient4 ,and my childhood and adolescent nutrition was poor too3 soda crackers1 pasteurized processed artificial cheese1 evaporated milk from cans1 hotdogs and canned beans1 hotdogs and cabbage4 ,it wasn't until ,i was pregnant with my first baby that ,i started to straighten up my diet4 ,i continued eating very well after my first daughter1 so my youngest daughter had another three years of good diet to draw on4 ,thus both my own daughters got a somewhat better start than ,i had had4 ,my teeth were not as good as my mother's had been before those years of malnutrition took them all4 ,instead of perfect straight undecayed teeth like a healthy farm girl should have1 mine were somewhat crowded1 with numerous cavities4 ,my jaw bone had not received enough minerals to develop to its full size4 ,my pelvic girdle also was smaller than my mother's was4 ,i had had a poor start4 ,my daughters did better4 ,the older one 7the first child typically gets the best of the nutritional reserves7 has such a wide jaw that there are small spaces between her teeth4 ,my second daughter has only one crooked tooth1 she has wider1 more solid hips1 stronger bones and a broader face than ,i do4 ,if my younger daughter will but from this point in her life1 eat perfectly and choose her food wisely to responsibly avoid empty calories and maximize her ratio of nutrition to calories1 her daughter 7if she gives us granddaughters as her older sister already has done7 may exhibit the perfect physiology that her genes carry4 ,along the lines of helping you avoid empty calories ,i will give you some information about various common foods that most people don't know and that most books about food and health don't tell1 or misunderstand4 ,butter1 ,margarine and ,fats in ,general4 ,recently1 enormous propaganda has been generated against eating butter4 ,its been smeared in the health magazines as a saturated animal fat1 one containing that evil substance1 cholesterol4 ,many people are now avoiding it and instead1 using margarine4 ,composition of ,oils ,saturated ,monosaturated ,unsaturated ,butter #ff #cj #d ,coconut ,oil #hg #f #b ,cottonseed ,oil #bf #ah #eb ,olive ,oil #ac #gd #h ,palm ,oil #di #cg #i ,soybean ,oil #ad #bd #eh ,sunflower ,oil #d #h #hc ,safflower ,oil #c #e #hg ,sesame ,oil #e #i #hj ,peanut ,oil #f #ab #gf ,corn ,oil #c #g #hd ,this is a major and serious misunderstanding4 ,first of all1 margarine is almost indigestible1 chemically very much like shortening--an artificially saturated or hydrogenated vegetable fat4 ,hydrogenated fats can't be properly broken down by the body's digestive enzymes1 adding to the body's toxic load4 ,margarine1 being a chemically-treated vegetable oil with artificial yellow color and artificial flavorings to make it seem like butter1 also releases free radicals in the body that accelerate aging4 ,so1 to avoid the dangers of eating cholesterol-containing butter1 people eat something far worse for them6 ,there are severe inconsistencies with the entire cholesterol-is-evil theory4 ,ethnic groups like the ,danes1 who eat enormous quantities of cholesterol-containing foods1 have little circulatory disease4 ,actually1 the liver itself produces cholesterol2 it's presence in the blood is an important part of the body chemistry4 ,cholesterol only becomes a problem because of deranged body chemistry due to the kind of overall malnutrition ,americans usually experience on their junk food diets4 ,avoiding cholesterol in foods does little good1 but eating a low-fat1 low-sugar1 complex-carbohydrate 7whole foods7 diet high in minerals does lower blood cholesterol enormously4 ,actually1 high quality fresh 7not rancid7 butter in moderate quantities is about the finest fat a person could eat4 ,but high quality butter is almost unobtainable4 ,first of all1 it has to be raw1 made from unpasteurized cream4 ,second1 butter can contain very high levels of fat-soluble vitamins1 but doesn't have to4 ,vitamin-rich butter's color is naturally bright yellow1 almost orange4 ,this color does not come from a test tube4 ,pale yellow butter as is found in the commercial trade was probably almost white before it was artificially tinted4 ,butter from grass-pastured cows naturally changes from yellow-orange to white and back again through the year as the seasons change4 ,spring grass1 growing in the most intense sunlight of the year contains very high levels of chlorophyll and vitamins4 ,cows eating this grass put high levels of vitamins ,a and ,d into their cream1 evidenced by the orange color of vitamin ,a4 ,by ,july1 natural butter has degraded to medium-yellow in color4 ,by ,august1 it is pale yellow4 ,industrial dairy cows fed exclusively on hay or artificial1 processed feeds 7lacking in these vitamins71 produce butterfat that is almost white4 ,i prefer to obtain my butter from a neighbor who has several dairy cows grazing on fertile bottom land pasture4 ,we always freeze a year's supply in late spring when butter is at its best4 ,interestingly1 that is also the time of year when my neighbor gets the most production from her cows and is most willing to part with #be pounds of extra butter4 ,in general1 fats are poor foods that should be avoided4 ,their ratio of nutrition to calories is absolutely the worst of all food types1 except perhaps for pure white sugar1 which is all calories and absolutely no nutrition 7this is also true for other forms of sugar4 ,honey1 too1 contains almost no nutrition474 ,gram for gram1 fats contain many more calories than do sugars or starches4 ,yet gram for gram1 fats contain virtually no nutrition except for small quantities of essential fatty acids4 ,the perverse reason people like to eat fats is that they are very hard to digest and greatly slow the digestive action of the stomach4 ,another way of saying that is that they have a very high satiety value4 ,fats make a person feel full for a long time because their presence in the stomach makes it churn and churn and churn4 ,fats coat proteins and starches and delay their digestion1 often causing them to begin fermenting 7starches7 or putrefying 7proteins7 in the digestive tract4 ,the best fats contain high levels of monosaturated vegetable oils that have never been exposed to heat or chemicals--like virgin olive oil4 ,use small quantities of olive oil for salad dressing4 ,monosaturated fats also have far less tendency to go rancid than any other type4 ,vegetable oils with high proportions of unsaturated fats1 the kind that all the authorities push because they contain no cholesterol1 go rancid rapidly upon very brief exposure to air4 ,the danger here is that rancidity in vegetable oil is virtually unnoticeable4 ,rancid animal fat on the other hand1 smells off4 ,eating rancid oil is a sure-fire way to accelerate aging1 invite degenerative conditions in general1 and enhance the likelihood of cancer4 ,i recommend that you use only high-quality virgin olive oil1 the only generally-available fat that is largely monosaturated4 7,pearson and ,shaw1 #aihc7 ,when you buy vegetable oil1 even olive oil1 get small bottles so you use them up before the oil has much time being exposed to air 7as you use the oil air fills the bottle7 or1 if you buy olive oil in a large can to save money1 immediately upon opening it1 transfer the oil to pint jars filled to the very brim to exclude virtually all air1 and seal the jars securely4 ,in either case1 keep now-opened1 in-use small bottles of oil in the refrigerator because rancidity is simply the combination of oil with oxygen from the air and this chemical reaction is accelerated at warmer temperatures and slowed greatly at cold ones4 ,chemical reactions typically double in speed with every #aj degrees ,c4 increase in temperature4 ,so oil goes rancid about six times faster at normal room temperature than it does in the fridge4 ,if you'll think about the implications of this data you'll see there are two powerful reasons not to fry food4 ,one1 the food is coated with oil and gains in satiety value at the expense of becoming relatively indigestible and productive of toxemia4 ,secondly1 if frying occurs at #aej degrees ,centigrade and normal room temperature is #bj degrees ,centigrade1 then oil goes rancid #b to the #acth power faster in the frying pan1 or about #h1bjj times faster4 ,heating oil for only ten minutes in a hot skillet induces as much rancidity as about #f weeks of sitting open and exposed to air at room temperature4 ,think about that the next time you're tempted to eat something from a fast food restaurant where the hot fat in the deep fryer has been reacting with oxygen all day1 or even for several days4 ,back to butter1 where we started4 ,if you must have something traditionally northern ,european on your bread1 you are far better off to use butter1 not margarine4 ,however1 ,mediterranean peoples traditionally dip their bread in high-quality extra-virgin olive oil that smells and tastes like olives4 ,its delicious1 why not try it4 ,but best yet1 put low-sugar fruit preserves on your toast or develop a taste for dry toast4 ,probably the finest use for butter is melted over steamed vegetables4 ,this way only small quantities are needed and the fat goes on something that is otherwise very easy to digest so its presence will not produce as many toxins in the digestive tract4 ,milk1 ,meat1 ,and ,other ,protein ,foods ,speaking of butter1 how about milk8 ,the dairy lobby is very powerful in ,north ,america4 ,its political clout and campaign contributions have the governments of both the ,united ,states and especially that of ,canada eating out of its hand 7literally71 providing the dairy industry with price supports4 ,because of these price supports1 in ,canada cheese costs half again more than it does in the ,united ,states4 ,the dairy lobby is also very cozy with the medical profession so licensed nutritionists constantly bombard us with drink milk and cheese is good for you propaganda4 ,and people naturally like dairy foods4 ,they taste good and are fat-rich with a high satiety value4 ,dairy makes you feel full for a long time4 ,dairy is also high in protein2 protein is hard to digest and this too keeps one feeling full for a long time4 ,but many people1 especially those from cultures who traditionally 7genetically7 didn't have dairy cows1 particularly ,africans1 ,asians and ,jews1 just do not produce the enzymes necessary to digest cows milk4 ,some individuals belonging to these groups can digest goats milk4 ,some can't digest any kind except human breast milk4 ,and some can digest fermented milk products like yogurt and kiefer4 ,whenever one eats a protein food that is not fully digestible1 it putrefies in the digestive tract1 with all the bad consequences previously described4 ,but no one1 absolutely no one can fully digest pasteurized cows milk1 which is what most people use because they have been made to fear cow-transmitted diseases and_/or they are forced to use pasteurized dairy products by health authorities4 ,i suspect drinking pasteurized milk or eating cheese made from pasteurized milk is one of the reasons so many people develop allergic reactions to milk4 ,yet many states do not allow unpasteurized dairy to be sold1 even privately between neighbors4 ,to explain all this1 ,i first have to explain a bit more about protein digestion in general and then talk about allergies and how they can be created4 ,proteins are long1 complex molecules1 intricate chains whose individual links are amino acids4 ,proteins are the very stuff of life4 ,all living protoplasm1 animal or plant1 is largely composed of proteins4 ,there are virtually an infinite number of different proteins but all are composed of the same few dozen amino acids hooked together in highly variable patterns4 ,amino acids themselves are highly complex organic molecules too4 ,the human body custom-assembles all its proteins from amino acids derived from digesting protein foods1 and can also manufacture small quantities of certain of its own amino acids to order1 but there are eight amino acids it cannot make and these are for that reason called essential amino acids4 ,essential amino acids must be contained in the food we eat4 4 ,few proteins are water soluble4 ,when we eat proteins the digestive apparatus must first break them down into their water-soluble components1 amino acids1 so these can pass into the blood and then be reassembled into the various proteins the body uses4 ,the body has an interesting mechanism to digest proteins2 it uses enzymes4 ,an enzyme is like the key for a lock4 ,it is a complex molecule that latches to a protein molecule and then breaks it apart into amino acids4 ,then the enzyme finds yet another protein molecule to free4 ,enzymes are efficient1 reusable many many times4 ,enzymes that digest proteins are effective only in the very acid environment of the stomach1 are manufactured by the pancreas and are released when protein foods are present4 ,the stomach then releases hydrochloric acid and churns away like a washing machine1 mixing the enzymes and the acid with the proteins until everything has digested4 ,so far so good4 ,that's how its supposed to be4 ,but4 ,dr4 ,henry ,bieler1 who wrote ,food ,is ,your ,best ,medicine1 came up with the finest metaphor ,i know of to explain how protein digestion goes wrong4 ,he compared all proteins to the white of an egg 7which is actually a form of protein74 ,when raw and liquid1 the long chains of albumen 7egg white7 proteins are in their natural form4 ,however1 cook the egg and the egg white both solidifies and becomes smaller4 ,what has happened is that the protein chains have shriveled and literally tied themselves into knots4 ,once this happens1 pancreatic enzymes no longer fit and cannot separate all the amino acids4 ,cooked proteins may churn and churn and churn in the presence of acid and pancreatic enzymes but they will not digest completely4 ,part becomes water soluble2 part does not4 ,but1 indigestible protein is still subject to an undesirable form of consumption in the gut4 ,various bacteria make their home in our airless1 warm intestines4 ,some of these live on protein4 ,in the process of consuming undigested proteins1 they release highly toxic substances4 ,they poison us4 ,what is true of the white of an egg is also true of flesh foods and dairy4 ,raw meat and raw fish are actually easily digestible foods and if not wrongly combined will not produce toxemia in a person that still has a strong pancreas4 ,however1 eating raw meat and fish can be a dicey proposition1 both for reasons of cultural sensibility 7people think it is disgusting7 and because there may be living parasites in uncooked flesh that can attack1 sicken and even kill people4 ,it has been argued that a healthy stomach containing its proper degree of acidity provides an impenetrable barrier to parasites4 ,perhaps4 ,but how many of us are that healthy these days8 ,cooked flesh and fish seems more delicious to our refined1 civilized sensibilities1 but are a poor food4 ,in my household we have no moral objection to eating meat4 ,we do have an ethical objection in that meat eating does not contribute to our health4 ,but still1 we do eat it4 ,a few times a year1 for traditional celebrations we may invite the children over and cook a turkey4 ,a few times for ,thanksgiving when the children were going through their holier-than-thou vegetarian stage1 ,i purchased the largest1 thickest porterhouse steak ,i could find at the natural meat store and ate it medium-rare1 with relish4 ,it was delicious4 ,it made me feel full for hours and hours and hours4 ,i stayed flat on the couch and groggily worked on digesting it all evening4 ,after that ,i'd had enough of meat to last for six months4 ,when milk is pasteurized1 the proteins in it are also altered in structure4 ,not so severely as egg white is altered by cooking because pasteurization happens at a lower temperature4 ,but altered none the less4 ,and made less digestible4 ,pasteurizing also makes milk calcium far less assimilable4 ,that's ironic because so many people are drinking milk because they fear they need more calcium to avoid osteoporosis and to give their children good teeth4 ,what pasteurized milk actually does to their children is make them calcium deficient and makes the children toxic1 provoking many colds1 ear infections1 sinusitis1 inflammations of the tonsils and lung infections1 and1 induces an allergy to milk in the children4 ,the ,development ,of ,allergies ,there are three ways a body can become allergic4 7#a7 ,it can have a genetic predisposition for a specific allergy to start with4 7#b7 ,it can be repeatedly exposed to an irritating substance such as pollen when1 at the same time1 the body's mechanism for dealing with irritations is weakened4 ,generally weak adrenals causes this because the adrenal's job is to produce hormones that reduce inflammation4 ,once the irritating substance succeeds at producing a significant inflammation1 a secondary reaction may be set up1 called an allergy4 ,once established1 an allergy is very hard to get rid of4 7#c7 in a way very similar to the second1 but instead of being irritated by an external substance1 it is irritated by repeatedly failing to properly1 fully digest something4 ,pasteurized milk for example1 basically impossible to completely digest even in its low-fat form1 often sets up an allergy that applies to other forms of cows milk1 even raw1 unpasteurized cows milk or yogurt4 ,eating too much white flour can eventually set off a wheat allergy4 ,my husband developed a severe allergy to barley after drinking too much home-brewed beer2 he also became highly intolerant to alcohol4 ,now he has allergic reactions to both alcohol and barley4 ,and gets far sicker from drinking beer 7two separate allergies7 than from wheat beer1 hard liquor or wine 7only one allergy74 ,eating too much of any single food1 or repeatedly eating too much of an otherwise very good food at one time1 can eventually overwhelm the body's ability to digest it fully4 ,then1 the finest whole food products may set up an allergic reaction4 ,worse1 this allergic reaction itself subsequently prevents proper digestion even when only moderate quantities are eaten4 ,an allergy may not be recognized as an allergy because it may not manifest as the instant skin rash or stuffy nose or swollen glands or sticky eyes4 that people usually think of when they think allergic reaction4 ,food allergies can cause many kinds of symptoms1 from sinusitis to psychosis1 from asthma to arthritis1 from hyperactivity to depression1 insomnia to narcolepsy--and commonly the symptoms don't manifest immediately after eating4 ,frequently1 allergic reactions are so low grade as to be unnoticeable and may not produce an observable condition until many years of their grinding down the vital force has passed4 ,when the condition finally appears it is hard to associate it with some food that has been consumed for years1 apparently with impunity4 ,thus it is that many ,north ,americans have developed allergies to wheat1 dairy1 soy products 7because many soy foods are very hard to digest71 corn and eggs4 ,these are such common1 widespread1 frequently found allergies that anyone considering a dietary cause of their complaints might just cut all these foods out of the diet for a few weeks just to see what happens4 ,and individuals may be allergic to anything from broccoli to bacon1 strawberries to bean sprouts4 ,unraveling food allergies sometimes requires the deductions of a ,sherlock ,holmes4 ,however1 food allergies are very easy to cure if you can get the suffered to take the medicine4 ,inevitably1 allergic reactions vanish in about five days of abstinence4 ,anyone with sufficient self-discipline to water fast for five days can cure themselves of all food allergies at one step4 ,then1 by a controlled1 gradual reintroduction of foods1 they can discover which individual items cause trouble4 ,see ,coca's ,pulse ,test in the ,appendix where you'll find step-by-step instructions for allergy testing that are less rigorous1 not requiring a preliminary fast4 ,flour1 ,and ,other ,matters ,relating ,to ,seeds ,one of the largest degradations to human health was caused by the roller mill4 ,this apparently profitable machine permitted the miller to efficiently separate wheat flour into three components3 bran1 germ and endosperm4 ,since bread made without bran and germ is lighter and appears more upper class it became instantly popular4 ,flour without germ and bran also had an industrial application--it could be stored virtually forever without being infested by insects because white flour does not contain enough nutrition to support life4 ,most health conscious people are aware that white flour products won't support healthful human life either4 ,essentially1 white flour's effect on humans is another demonstration of ,health ,nutrition _/ ,calories4 ,when the bran and germ are discarded1 remaining are the calories and much of the protein1 lacking are many vitamins and minerals and other vital nutritional substances4 ,whole wheat bread has been called the staff of life4 ,in ages past1 healthy cultures have made bread the predominant staple in their diet4 ,does that mean you can just go to the bakery and buy whole grain bread1 or go to the healthfood store and buy organically grown whole wheat flour1 bake your own1 and be as healthy as the ancients8 ,sorry1 the answer is almost certainly no4 ,there are pitfalls1 many of them1 waiting for the unwary4 ,white flour has one other advantage over whole wheat flour4 ,it not only remains free of insect infestation1 it doesn't become stale 7meaning rancid74 ,in the wheat germ 7where the embryo resides7 there is considerable oil1 containing among other things1 about the best natural source of vitamin ,e4 ,this oil is highly unsaturated and once the seed is ground the oil goes rancid in a matter of days4 ,whole wheat flour kept on the unrefrigerated shelf of the store is almost certainly rancid4 ,a lot of its other vitamin content has been oxidized too4 ,if the wheat flour had flowed directly from the grinder into an airtight sack and from there directly to the freezer1 if it had been flash frozen and kept extremely cold1 it might have a storage life of some months4 ,of course that was not the case4 ,maybe you're lucky and your healthfood store is one of the very few that has its own small-scale flour mill and grinds daily4 ,probably not4 ,how about your baker's whole wheat bread8 ,where does the baker get flour8 ,from the wholesaler's or distributor's warehouse6 ,in fifty pound kraftpaper sacks6 ,how much time had elapsed from milling to wholesaler to baker to baking8 ,the answer has to be in the order of magnitude of weeks4 ,and it might be months4 ,was the flour stored frozen8 ,or airtight8 ,of course not4 ,if you want bread made from freshly ground flour you are almost certainly have to grind and bake it yourself4 ,is it worth the trouble8 ,you bet4 ,once you've tasted real bread you'll instantly see by comparison what stale1 rancid whole wheat flour tastes like4 ,freshly ground flour makes bread that can be the staff of life and can enormously upgrade your health--if the wheat you use is any good4 ,but before we talk about wheat quality1 a more few words of warning4 ,if you think wheat goes rancid rapidly1 rye is even worse4 ,rye flour goes bad so fast that when you buy it in the store it usually is the rye equivalent of white wheat flour4 ,the germ has been removed4 ,the bag may not say so4 ,but it probably has4 ,if you are going to make rye breads1 even more reason to grind your own4 ,corn meal from the grocery store has usually been degerminated too4 ,if it hasn't been1 the oil in the seed's germ has probably gone rancid4 ,grinding flour at home is easy these days4 ,there is an abundance of at-home milling products and no shortage of hype about them4 ,you'll find staunch advocates of stone mills4 ,these produce the finest-textured flour1 but are costly4 ,the sales pitch is that stones grind at low temperature and do not damage the oils 7remember the development of rancidity is a function of temperature7 or the vitamins1 which are also destroyed at high temperature4 ,this assertion is half true4 ,if you are going to store your flour it is far better to grind it cool4 ,however1 if you are1 as we do1 going to immediately bake your flour1 what difference does it make if it gets a little warm before baking4 ,that only accelerates the action of the yeast4 ,on the negative side1 stone mills grind slowly and are very fussy about which grains they will grind4 ,if the cereal is a bit moist or if the seed being ground is a little bit oily1 the mill becomes instantly blocked4 ,steel burr mills grind fast and coarsely and are inexpensive4 ,coarse flour makes heavy bread4 ,the metal grinding faces tend to wear out and have to be replaced occasionally--if they can be replaced4 ,breads on the heavy side are still delicious2 for many years ,i made bread with an inexpensive steel burr mill attachment that came with my juicer4 ,some steel burr mills will also grind oily seed like sesame and sunflower4 ,however1 oily seeds can be ground far more easily half-a-cup at a time in a little inexpensive electric spice_/coffee mill1 the sort with a single fast-spinning propeller4 ,i currently think the best compromise are hammermills4 ,the grain dribbles into a chamber full of fast-spinning teeth that literally pound the grain into powder4 ,since air flows through with the grain the flour is not heated very much4 ,this type of mill is small1 very fast1 intermediate in price between steel mills and stone mill1 lasts a long time1 but when grinding1 sounds like a ,boeing #gdg about to take off4 ,it is essential to wear hearing protectors when using it4 ,awareness of bread quality is growing4 ,one excellent new ,u4,s4 business1 called ,great ,harvest ,bakery is a fast-growing national franchise chain4 ,they bake and sell only whole grain breads2 all their wheat flour is freshly ground daily on the premises in the back4 ,unfortunately1 as of the writing of this book1 they do not grind their rye flour but bring it in sacks4 ,i can't recommend their rye breads4 ,the founder of ,great ,harvest is a knowledgeable buyer who fully understands my next topic1 which is that wheat is not wheat4 ,there are great differences between hard bread wheats2 being organically grown is no cure all for making good or nutritious bread4 ,great ,harvest understands this and uses top quality grain that is also ,organic4 ,when ,i first stated making my own bread from my own at-home-ground flour ,i was puzzled by variations in the dough4 ,sometimes the bread rose well and was spongy after baking like ,i wanted it to be4 ,sometimes it kneaded stickily and ended up flat and crumbly like a cake4 ,since ,i had done everything the same way except that ,i may have bought my wheat berries from different healthfood stores1 ,i began to investigate the subject of wheat quality4 ,the element in the cereal that forms the rubbery sponge in risen bread so it doesn't crumble and rises high without collapsing1 is gluten4 ,the word glue derives from gluten4 ,the gluten content of various wheats varies4 ,bread bakers use hard wheat because of its high gluten content4 ,gluten is a protein and gluten comprises most of the protein in bread wheat2 the protein content and the gluten content are almost identical4 ,try this4 ,ask your healthfood store buyer or owner what the protein content is of the hard red wheat seeds they're selling4 ,you'll almost certainly get a puzzled look and your answer will almost certainly be1 we have ,organic and conventional4 ,demand that the store buyer ask this question of their distributor_/wholesaler and then report back to you4 ,if the distributor deigns to answer1 the answer will be the same--,i sell ,organic or conventional hard red wheat4 ,period4 ,when ,i got these non-answers ,i looked further and discovered that hard bread wheats run from about #ab percent protein to about #ai percent and this difference has everything to do with the soil fertility 7and to an extent the amount of rainfall during the season71 and almost nothing to do with ,organic or conventional4 ,this difference also has everything to do with how your dough behaves and how your bread comes out4 ,and how well your bread nourishes you4 ,thirteen percent wheat will not make a decent loaf--fourteen percent is generally considered #b quality and comprises the bulk of cheap bread grain4 ,when you hear in the financial news that a bushel of wheat is selling for a certain price1 they mean #b4 ,bakers compete for higher protein lots and pay far higher prices for more protein4 ,we prefer our bread about #be rye1 but rye contains no gluten at all4 ,mix any rye flour into fourteen percent wheat flour and the dough becomes very heavy1 won't rise1 and after baking1 crumbles4 ,so ,i kept looking for better grain and finally discovered a knowledgeable lady that sold flour mills and who also was a serious baker herself4 ,she had located a source of quality wheat with an assayed protein content and sold it by the #ej pound sack4 ,when ,i asked her if her wheat was ,organic she said it was either sixteen or seventeen percent protein depending on whether you wanted hard red spring wheat or hard white spring wheat4 ,organic or conventional8 ,i persisted4 ,no1 she said4 ,high protein6 ,so1 ,i said to myself1 since protein content is a function of soil fertility and since my body needs protein1 ,i figured ,i am better off eating the best quality wheat1 pesticide_/herbicide residues 7if there are any7 be damned4 ,think about it6 ,the difference between seventeen percent and fourteen percent protein is about #be percent4 ,that percentage difference is the key threshold of nutritional deficiency that makes teeth fall out4 ,we can't afford to accept #be degradations in our nutritional quality in something that we eat every day and that forms the very basis of our dietary4 ,please understand here that ,i am not saying that high protein wheats can't be grown organically4 ,they certainly can4 ,the founder of ,great ,harvest ,bakery performs a valuable service locating and securing high-protein lots of organically grown wheats for his outlets4 ,but often as not ,organic products are no more nourishing than those grown with chemicals4 ,until the buyers at ,organic whole food wholesalers get better educated about grain1 obtaining one's personal milling stock from them will be a dicey proposition4 ,sometimes ,organic cereal can be far worse than conventional4 ,to make a cereal ,organic is a negative definition2 if it hasn't had chemicals1 then its ,organic4 ,grain is one of the few foods that will still produce economic yields of low quality seed on extremely infertile soil or when half-smothered in weeds because herbicides weren't used for reasons of ideological purity4 ,vegetables will hardly produce anything under those conditions2 carelessly grown fruits and vegetables are inevitably small1 misshapen1 unmarketable4 ,but seed cleaning equipment can remove the contamination of weed seeds in cereal grains 7at a cost47 ,the price the farmer receives for ,organic cereal grain is much higher1 so it is possible to accept rather low yields or expend more money for cleaning out high levels of weed seeds from the field-run harvest1 and still make a good profit4 ,a lousy ,organic cereal crop like this might even make a higher profit because the farmer has been spared the expense of fertilization1 of rotation1 of weed control4 ,i remember once ,i bought a sack of ,organic whole oats that were the smallest1 most shriveled1 bitterest oats ,i've ever tried to eat4 ,we ended up throwing out that tiny1 light 7lacking density7 seed in favor of using the conventional whole oats that were plump1 heavy and sweet4 ,wheat is not the only cereal that is damaged by industrial milling4 ,so are oats4 ,most consumers have never seen whole oats2 they look very much like wheat berries4 ,but rolled oats become rancid and stale on the shelf much like wheat flour on the shelf4 ,another pitfall about using whole grains is that to be nutritious they must still be fresh enough to sprout vigorously4 ,a seed is a package of food surrounding an embryo4 ,the living embryo is waiting for the right conditions 7temperature and moisture7 to begin sprouting4 ,sprouting means the embryo begins eating up stored food and making a plant out of it4 ,all foods are damaged by exposure to oxygen1 so to protect the embryo's food supply1 the seed is surrounded by a virtually airtight seed coat that permits only enough oxygen to enter for the embryo's respiration 7yes1 seed breaths slowly74 ,often the embryo is located at the edge of the seed and has its own air intake port4 ,when the seed coat is removed or damaged1 the innards are exposed to air and begin deteriorating rapidly4 ,in the case of oats1 especially rapidly1 because oats are the only grass-based cereal that contains large quantities of oil--five percent oil1 more or less4 ,that's why oats stick to your ribs4 ,rolled oats become stale and lose their flavor 7and nutritional content7 and perhaps become rancid very rapidly4 ,so we make porridge from whole oat groats that we coarsely grind to grits 7steel-cut oats7 in an electric seed_/spice mill just before cooking4 ,it is not easy to cook oat grits4 ,they take a lot longer than rolled oats and if not done exactly to the recipe ,i'm about to give you1 will almost inevitably stick to the pot badly and may also froth over and mess the stove4 ,here's how to cook them4 ,coarsely grind 7like corn meal7 your whole oats until you have one cup of oat grits4 ,bring exactly four cups of water 7no salt7 to a very hard boil at your highest heat4 ,you may add a handful of raisins4 ,light or turn on a second1 small-sized burner on the stove and set it as low as possible4 ,into the fast boiling water1 slowly pour the ground oats1 stirring continuously4 ,take about #cj seconds to pour it all or you'll make clumps4 ,keep on the high heat until the water again boils vigorously4 ,suddenly1 the mixture will begin rising in the pot and will try to pour all over the stove4 ,this means it is all at boiling temperature again4 ,quickly move the pot to the low burner2 that instantly stops the frothing4 ,then cover4 ,let the porridge cook for #cj minutes1 stirring once or twice to prevent sticking4 ,then1 keeping it covered1 turn off the heat4 ,they can be eaten at this point but ,i think it is better to let the oats finish soaking on the stove for at least two to four hours4 ,then reheat in a double boiler1 or warm in a microwave4 ,we usually start a pot of oats at bedtime for the next morning4 ,see why people prefer the convenience of using rolled oats8 ,but once you've eaten oats made right1 you'll never prefer the flavor of rolled oats again4 ,and if the human body has any natural method of assaying nutritional content1 it is flavor4 ,nutritionally1 millet is almost the same story as oats4 ,millet seed is protected by a very hard hull4 ,cooking unhulled millet is almost impossible4 ,after hours of boiling the small round seeds will still be hard and the hulls remain entirely indigestible4 ,worse1 the half-round hulls 7they split eventually7 stick in your teeth4 ,but prehulled millet1 sitting in the sack for weeks and months1 loses a lot of nutrition and tastes very second-rate compared to freshly-hulled millet4 ,it is possible to buy unhulled millet1 usually by special order from the health food distributor--if you'll take a whole sack4 ,millet can be hulled at home in small batches4 ,here's how we figured out how to do it4 ,there probably are better ways4 ,using a cheap steel-burr flour mill1 set the burrs just far enough apart that the seed is ground to grits1 but not flour4 ,this pops the hulls loose4 ,an old mill with worn-out burrs works great for this job4 ,then you have to get some hand seed cleaning screens just large enough to pass the grits but not pass the hulls 7most of them74 ,window screen or other hardware cloths won't work4 ,seed cleaning screens come in increments of #a_/abh inch2 we use a #f_/fd round screen4 ,other batches of millet might work better with a screen one step larger or smaller4 ,it will take you a little ingenuity to find hand-held screens4 ,they're used by seed companies and farmers to clean small batches of seed for inspection and are usually about one square foot in size with a quality wooden frame4 ,larger frames made of the same screening material are used in big seed cleaning machines4 7,the hulls could also be winnowed out by repeatedly pouring the grit_/hulls mixture back and forth between two buckets in a gentle breeze47 ,after you've screened out most of the hulls1 the rest will rinse out1 floating off as you wash the grain prior to cooking4 ,we never hull more than enough millet for two or three meals and keep the uncooked 7unwashed7 millet in the freezer in an airtight jar4 ,it is interesting how people will accept poor nutrition and its consequent sickness as the price of convenience4 ,if you eat much buckwheat you should also figure out how to hull 7sometimes called groating7 it yourself4 ,someone should write a thorough book on the home milling of cereals4 ,and perhaps sell the equipment by mail4 ,probably would be a good little homestead business4 ,something else you need to keep in mind about seed4 ,even though the embryo's food supply is protected by the seed coat1 it still slowly deteriorates1 steadily oxidizing and losing nutritional value4 ,eventually old seed looses the ability to sprout4 ,the decline in germination ability matches a decline in nutritional quality4 ,any seed you are going to use for eating should possess the ability to sprout1 strongly and rapidly4 7,after you've comparatively sprouted a few grain samples1 you'll know what ,i mean by this47 ,fortunately1 cereal grains usually sprout well for quite a few years after harvest if they have been stored cool and dry4 ,eating dead or near-dead seeds will help move you closer to the same condition yourself4 ,finally1 one more warning about buying store bread4 ,salt-free bread tastes funny to most people4 ,it bakes fine1 salt is not necessary to the leavening process1 but no bakery could stay in business without salting their bread4 ,the standard level of salt is two percent by weight4 ,that is quite a lot6 ,two percent equals one teaspoonful per pound4 ,i'll have more to say about the evils of salt later on4 ,i imagine some of my readers are feeling a little overwhelmed by all these warnings and bewares ofs1 and intricacies4 ,they are used to taking no responsibility for securing their own food supply quality and have come to expect the system to protect them4 ,i believe it is not because of lack of government intervention1 but because of government intervention itself1 our food system is very perverse4 ,until our mass consciousness changes1 if you wish to make yourself and your family truly healthy1 you are going to have to take charge and become quite a discriminating shopper4 ,unconscious consumers are on a rapid road to the total unconsciousness of death4 ,and again1 let me remind you here that this one small book cannot contain everything you should know4 ,the bibliography at the end of should become your guide to earning your post-graduate education in nutritional health4 ,freshness ,of ,fruits ,and ,vegetables ,most people do not realize the crucial importance of freshness when it comes to produce4 ,in the same way that seeds gradually die1 fruits and vegetables go through a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or is broken down by the vegetables own enzymes1 but vegetables lose nutrition hundreds of times more rapidly than cereals4 ,produce was recently part of a living plant4 ,it was connected to the vascular system of a plant and with few exceptions1 is not intended by nature to remain intact after being cut4 ,a lettuce or a zucchini was entirely alive at the moment of harvest1 but from that point1 its cells begin to die4 ,even if it is not yet attacked by bacteria1 molds and fungi1 its own internal enzymes have begun breaking down its own substances4 ,vegetables1 especially leafy vegetables1 are far more critical in this respect than most ripe fruits4 ,all1 however1 deteriorate much like radioactive material2 they have a sort of half-life4 ,the mineral content is stable1 but in respect to the vitamins and enzymes and other complex organic components1 each time period or half life results in the loss of half the nutrition4 ,suppose a lettuce has a half life of #dh hours1 two days after harvest only #ej percent of the original nutrition remains4 ,after two more days1 half the remaining half is gone and only #be percent is left4 ,after two more days half of that #be percent is lost4 ,thus six days after harvest and a lettuce contains only bout #ab percent of its original nutrition4 ,a two day half-life is only hypothetical4 ,those types of produce ,i classify as very perishable probably do have a half-life of from #cf to #dh hours4 ,moderately perishable produce has a half life of about #gb hours2 durable types of produce have half lives of #if hours or longer4 ,vegetable ,storage ,potential ,very ,perishable ,moderately ,perishable ,durable lettuce zucchini apple spinach eggplant squash ,chinese cabbage sweet peppers oranges kale broccoli cabbage endive cauliflower carrot peaches apricots lemons parsley beets ,the half life of produce can be lengthened by lowering its temperature4 ,for that reason1 sophisticated produce growers usually use hydrocooling4 ,this process dumps a just-cut vegetable into icy water within minutes of being harvested1 lowering core temperature to a few degrees above freezing almost immediately4 ,when cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures1 and stacks of those crates are put in a cooler1 it can take the inside of the stack #bd hours1 or longer1 to become chilled4 ,home gardeners should also practice hydrocooling4 ,fill your sink with cold water and wash_/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilled before draining and refrigerating it4 ,or1 harvest your garden early in the morning when temperatures are lowest4 ,still1 when you buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room temperature for hours or possibly days4 ,the bottom line here3 fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically grown6 ,the ,real ,truth ,about ,salt ,and ,sugar ,first1 let me remind certain food religionists3 salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is sugar is sugar4 ,there are no good forms of salt and no good forms of sugar4 ,salt from a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect2 white sugar1 natural brown sugar1 honey1 molasses1 corn syrup1 maple syrup1 whatever sweet have you4 ,all are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects4 ,i know of no harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty4 ,nutrisweet is basically harmless to most people and can be used as a very satisfactory replacement for sugars4 ,a few people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet1 causing the anti-chemicalists to circulate much anti-nutrisweet propaganda1 but you should carefully consider this thought before dismissing nutrisweet--there is almost no food substance that some people are not allergic to or unable to digest4 ,the fact that nutrisweet is made in a chemical vat and the fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does not make it of the devil4 ,and its not all black and white with the other items either4 ,sea salt does have certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt and under certain very special conditions1 eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable4 ,similarly1 some forms of sugar are not quite as harmful as other forms1 though all are harmful4 ,the primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys1 though it does that4 ,it is not that eating salt ruins the kidneys2 salt probably does not do that4 ,the real problem with salt is that sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant1 triggering the release of adrenal hormones1 especially natural steroids that resist inflammation4 ,when these hormones are at high levels in the blood1 the person often feels very good1 has a sense of well-being4 ,thus salt is a drug6 ,and like many drugs of its type1 salt is a habituating drug4 ,however1 we are so used to whipping our adrenals with salt that we don't notice it4 ,what we do notice is that we think we like the taste of salted food and consider that food tastes flat without it4 ,but take away a person's salt shaker and they become very uncomfortable4 ,that's because the addict isn't getting their regular dose4 ,what's wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fortitude is variable2 many people's adrenals eventually fail to respond to the prod of salt and the body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones4 ,often those inheriting weak adrenals manifest semi-failure in childhood4 ,the consequence is that ordinary1 irritating substances begin causing severe irritation4 ,the person becomes allergic to pollen1 dust1 foods1 animal danders1 etc4 ,we see asthma1 hay fever1 sinusitis1 etc4 ,though one can then discover specific allergens and try to remove them from the environment or diet1 often this case can be solved far more easily by complete withdrawal from all salt4 ,this rests the adrenals and they may recover their full function2 almost certainly their function will improve4 ,the asthma1 allergies and etc41 gradually vanish4 ,most of us don't need to eat salt as a nutrient4 ,there's enough sodium in one dill pickle to run a human body for a year4 ,there's enough natural sodium in many types of vegetables to supply normal needs without using table salt4 ,perhaps athletes or other hard working people in the tropics eating deficient food grown on leached-out depleted soils1 people that sweat buckets day after day may need a little extra sodium4 ,perhaps4 ,not having practiced in the humid tropics myself1 ,i have no definitive answer about this4 ,unfortunately1 the average ,american is entirely addicted to salt and thinks food tastes lousy without it4 ,to please the average consumer1 almost all prepared foods contain far too much salt for someone suffering from exhausted adrenals4 ,interestingly1 ,canadians do not like their foods nearly as salty as ,americans1 and prepared foods like soups and the like in cans and packages that look just like the ones in ,american supermarkets 7though with ,french on the back panel7 have to be reformulated for our northern neighbors4 ,i've observed that ,canadians are generally healthier than ,americans in many respects4 ,we would all be far better off consuming no salt at all4 ,those with allergies or asthma should completely eliminate it for a month or two and discover if that simple step doesn't pretty much cure them4 ,the trouble is that bakery bread is routinely two percent salt by weight4 ,cheese is equally salted or even more so4 ,canned and frozen prepared food products are all heavily salted4 ,restaurant meals are always highly salted in the kitchen4 ,if you want to avoid salt you almost have to prepare everything yourself1 bake your own bread1 abstain from cheese 7though there are unsalted cheeses but even ,i don't like the flavor of these71 and abstain from restaurants4 ,my family has managed to eliminate all salt from our own kitchen except for that in cheese1 and we eat cheese rather moderately4 ,sugar is a high-caloric non-food with enormous liabilities4 ,first1 from the viewpoint of the universal formula for health1 no form of non-artificial sweetener carries enough nutrients with it to justify the number of calories it contains1 not even malt extract4 ,white refined sugar contains absolutely no nutrients at all2 the good or natural sweets also carry so little nutrition as to be next to useless4 ,sweets are so far over on the bad end of the ,health ,nutrition _/ ,calories scale that for this reason alone they should be avoided4 ,however1 healthy people can usually afford a small amount of sin2 why not make it sweets8 ,in small quantity1 sugars are probably the easiest indiscretion to digest and the least damaging to the organ systems4 ,although1 speaking of sin1 as ,edgar ,guest1 the peoples' poet1 once so wisely quipped1 7and my husband agrees7 ,candy is dandy1 but liquor is quicker4 ,sugar is a powerful drug6 ,people who abuse sweets set up a cycle of addiction that can be very hard to break4 ,it starts when the body tries to regulate blood sugar4 ,kicked up to high levels by eating sugar1 the pancreas releases insulin4 ,but that is not the end of the chain reaction4 ,insulin regulates blood sugar levels but also raises brain levels of an amino acid called tryptophan4 ,tryptophan is the raw material the brain uses to manufacture a neurotransmitter called serotonin4 ,and serotonin plays a huge role in regulating mood4 ,higher brain levels of serotonin create a feeling of well-being4 ,eating sugar gives a person a chemical jolt of happiness4 ,heavy hits of high-glycemic index starch foods are also rapidly converted to sugar4 ,so don't give your kids sweets6 ,or huge servings of starch to mellow them out4 ,it is wise not to start out life a happiness addict with a severe weight problem4 ,now that the chemistry of sugar addiction is understood1 there currently is a movement afoot to cast the obese as helpless victims of serotonin imbalances and to treat them with the same kinds of serotonin-increasing happy drugs 7like ,prozac7 that are becoming so popular with the psychiatric set4 ,this promises to be a multiple billion dollar business that will capture all the money currently flowing into other dieting systems and bring it right back to the ,,ama_/drug company_/,,fda nexus4 ,the pitch is that when serotonin levels are upped1 the desire to eat drops and so is weight4 ,this approach is popular with the obese because it requires no personal responsibility other than taking a pill that really does make them feel happy4 ,however1 the same benefit can be had by strict adherence to a low-fat1 low-carbohydrate diet4 ,eventually1 the brain chemistry rebalances itself and serotonin levels stabilize4 ,glycemic ,index 7compared to glucose1 which is #ajj7 ,grains all bran #ea brown rice #ff buckwheat #ed cornflakes #hj oatmeal #di shred4 wheat #fg muesli #ff white rice #gb white spagetti #ej whole wheat spagetti #db sweet corn #ei ,fruits apples #ci bananas #fb cherries #bc grapefruit #bf grapes #de orange juice #df peach #bi orange #dj pear #cd plum #be raisins #fd ,vegetables baked beans #dj beets #fd black-eyed peas #cc carrots #ib chic peas #cf parsnips #ig potato chips #ea baked potato #ih sweet potato #dh yams #ea peas #ea ,baked ,goods pastry #ei sponge cake #df white bread #fi w_/w bread #gb whole rye bread #db ,sugars fructose #bj glucose #ajj honey #hg maltose #aaj sucrose #ei ,nuts peanuts #ac ,meats sausage #bh fish sticks #ch ,dairy ,products yogurt #cf whole milk #cd skim milk #cb ,remember1 the pancreas has another major service to perform for the body3 secreting digestive enzymes to aid in the digestion of proteins4 ,when the diet contains either too much protein or too much sugar and_/or high-glycemic index starch foods1 the overworked pancreas begins to be less and less efficient at maintaining both of these functions4 ,sometimes a stressed-out pancreas gets overactive and does too good a job lowering the blood sugar1 producing hypoglycemia4 ,hypoglycemia is generally accompanied by unpleasant symptoms such as fatigue1 dizziness1 blurred vision1 irritability1 confusion1 headache1 etc4 ,this condition is typically alleviated by yet another hit of sugar which builds an addiction not only to sugar1 but to food in general4 ,if the hypoglycemic then keeps on eating sugar to relieve the symptoms of sugar ingestion1 eventually the pancreas becomes exhausted1 producing an insulin deficiency1 called diabetes4 ,medical doctors treat diabetes with insulin supplements either oral or intramuscular plus a careful diet with very low and measured amounts of sugar and starch for the remainder of the persons inevitably shortened and far less pleasant life4 ,however1 sometimes diabetes can be controlled with diet alone1 though medical doctors have not had nearly as much success with this approach as talented naturopaths4 ,sometimes1 long fasting can regenerate a pancreas4 ,it is far better to avoid creating this disease6 ,the dietary management of hypoglycemia requires that not only refined but also unrefined sugars and starches with a high glycemic index be removed from the diet4 7,the glycemic index measures the ease with which the starch is converted into glucose in the body1 and estimates the amount of insulin needed to balance it out47 ,this means no sugar1 no honey1 no white flour1 no whole grains sweetened with honey1 no sweet fruits such as watermelons1 bananas1 raisins1 dates or figs4 ,potatoes are too readily converted into sugar4 ,jerusalem artichokes are a good substitute4 ,people with hypoglycemia can often control their symptoms with frequent small meals containing vegetable protein every two hours4 ,when a non-sweet fruit is eaten such as an apple1 it should be eaten with some almonds or other nut or seed that slows the absorption of fruit sugar4 ,hypoglycemics can improve their condition with vitamins and food supplements4 ,see the next chapter4 ,allergies to foods and environmental irritants are frequently triggered by low blood sugar4 ,mental conditions are also triggered by low blood sugar levels1 frequently contributing to or causing a cycle of acting out behavior accompanied by destruction of property and interpersonal violence1 as well as psychosis and bouts of depression4 ,it is not possible to easily deal with the resulting behavior problems unless the hypoglycemia is controlled4 ,unfortunately most institutions such as mental hospitals and jails serve large amounts of sugar and starch and usually caffeinated beverages1 with a high availability of soda pop1 candy1 and cigarettes at concessions4 ,if the diet were drastically improved1 the drugs given to control behavior in mental hospitals would be much more effective at a lower dose1 or unnecessary4 ,the insulin-cycle overworked pancreas may eventually not be able to secrete enough enzymes to allow for the efficient digestion of foods high in protein4 ,as stated earlier1 poor protein digestion leads to a highly toxic condition from putrefied protein in the intestines4 ,this condition is alleviated by eliminating animal proteins from the diet and taking digestive aids such as pancreatin pills with meals to assist in the digestion of vegetable proteins4 ,food ,combining ,and ,healthfood ,junkfood4 ,this brings us to a topic ,i call healthfood junkfood4 ,many people improve their diet1 eliminating meat and chemicalized food in favor of whole grains and organically grown foods1 but they then proceed to make these otherwise good foods into virtual junkfood by preparing them incorrectly4 ,in my travels1 ,i've noticed this same thing happens everywhere on ,earth4 ,what should be health-producing dietaries are ruined by frying1 salting and sugaring4 ,healthfood junkfoods include organically grown potato chips deep fried in cold pressed organic unsaturated canola oil 7made rancid by frying7 sprinkled with natural sea salt2 organically grown oat and nut granola roasted with cold-pressed unsaturated oil 7made rancid by roasting7 hideously sweetened with honey2 carrot cake made with rancid whole wheat flour1 cold pressed unsaturated oil 7made rancid by baking71 honey1 and cream cheese 7salted72 whole wheat cookies 7stale1 rancid flour7 sweetened with honey1 made with vegetable oil baked at high heat 7rancid72 whole wheat pizza vegetarian style with lots of soy cheese2 whole wheat pizza vegan style with lots of real raw milk cheese2 organically grown corn chips deep fried in cold pressed vegetable oil with or without natural sea salt1 yogurts made from powdered milk without an active culture of beneficial bacteria and covered with highly sugared fruits1 etc4 ,these foods may well represent an improvement over the average ,american diet1 but they still are not healthy foods1 and should never be used in a diet for a sick person4 ,nor are they worthy of a person attempting to maximize health4 ,the problem with healthfood junkfoods is not their major ingredients1 but how they were combined and processed and adulterated4 ,remember1 fats1 animal or vegetable1 subjected to high heat become indigestible and toxic and make anything they're cooked with indigestible2 salt is a toxic drug2 cheese1 hard enough to digest as it is1 when raised to high temperatures as it is when making pizza1 becomes virtually indigestible and cheese inevitably contains a lot of butterfat which1 though saturated animal fat1 when raised to high temperatures1 still becomes slightly rancid4 ,and all these foods represent indigestible combinations4 ,my clients almost never believe me when ,i first explain the idea of food combining4 ,they think if it goes in one end1 comes out the other1 and they don't feel any unpleasant symptoms in between1 then it was digested4 ,but bad food combinations have a cumulative degenerative effect over a long period of time4 ,when the symptoms arrive the victim never associates the food combination with the symptom because it seems to them that they've always been eating the food4 ,mainstream nutritionists have brainwashed the public into thinking that we should have a representative serving from each of the four basic food groups at each and every meal1 plus a beverage and a desert4 ,or1 as my husband ,steve is fond of quipping1 a balanced meal has four colors on every plate3 something red1 something green1 something white and something yellow4 ,but the balanced meal is a gastronomic catastrophe that can only be processed by the very young with high digestive vitality1 the exceptionally vital of any age1 people with cast iron stomachs which usually refers to their good heredity1 and those who are very physically active4 ,few seem to realize that each type of food requires specific and different digestive enzymes in the mouth1 stomach1 and intestine4 ,carbohydrates1 fats1 proteins--each requires differing acid or alkaline environments in order to be digested4 ,proteins require an acid environment4 ,starch digestion requires an alkaline environment4 ,when foods in complex combinations are presented to the stomach all together1 like a meal with meat1 potatoes1 gravy1 vegetables1 bread1 butter1 a glass of milk1 plus a starchy sweet desert1 followed by coffee or tea1 the stomach1 pancreas1 liver and small intestine are overwhelmed1 resulting in the fermentation of the sugars and starches1 and the putrefaction of the proteins1 and poor digestion of the whole4 ,it is little wonder that most people feel so tired after a large meal and need several cups of strong coffee to be able to even get up from the table4 ,they have just presented their digestive tract with an immensely difficult and for some an impossible task4 ,for the most efficient digestion1 the body should be presented with one simple food at a time1 the one bowl concept1 easily achieved by adherence to the old saying1 one food at a meal is the ideal4 ,an example of this approach would be eating fruits for breakfast1 a plain cereal grain for lunch1 and vegetables for supper4 ,if you can't eat quite that simply1 then proper food combining rules should be followed to minimize digestive difficulty1 maximize the adsorption of nutrients from your food1 and reduce or eliminate the formation of toxemia1 and of course foul gas4 ,in general1 fruit should be eaten alone unless you happen to be hypoglycemic or diabetic in which case fruit should be eaten with small quantities of a vegetable protein such as nuts1 or yogurt and_/or cheese if able to digest dairy4 ,starches should be eaten with vegetables1 which means that a well combined meal would include a grain such as rice1 millet1 buckwheat1 amaranth1 quinoa1 corn1 wheat1 rye1 oats1 spelt1 potatoes1 or starchy winter squash combined with raw or cooked vegetables4 ,protein foods such as meat1 eggs1 beans1 lentils1 tofu1 split peas1 should be combined with vegetables1 raw or cooked4 ,but protein should never be combined with starches4 ,the most popular ,north ,american snacks and meals always have a starch_/protein combination1 for example3 meat and potatoes1 hamburger in a bun1 hot dog with bun1 burrito with meat or cheese1 meat sandwiches1 etc4 ,it is little wonder that intestinal gas is accepted as normal1 and that over time these hard to digest combinations eventually cause health problems that demand attention4 ,another sure fire way to ruin any food1 including the very best available is to eat in the presence of negative emotions generated by yourself or others4 ,negative emotions include fear1 anger1 frustration1 envy1 resentment1 etc4 ,the digestive tract is immediately responsive to stress and or negative thoughts4 ,it becomes paralyzed in negative emotional states2 any foods eaten are poorly digested1 causing toxemia4 ,it is natural for a person who has lost a loved one or suffered a great loss of any kind to lose their appetite for a period of time4 ,this reaction is pro-survival1 because while grieving1 the body is griped by powerful negative emotions4 ,there are people who1 under stress or when experiencing a loss1 eat ravenously in an attempt to comfort themselves4 ,if this goes on for long the person can expect to create a serious illness of some kind4 ,individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and personality and who is generating the negative emotions4 ,self generated negative emotions are very difficult to avoid4 ,if you are unable to change your own emotional tone or that of others around you1 then it is important to eat very lightly1 eat only easily digested foods such as raw fruits and vegetables1 raw juices1 steamed vegetables1 and small servings of whole grains1 nuts and seeds4 ,diets ,to ,heal ,the ,critically ,ill ,a critically ill person is someone who could expire at any moment2 therapeutic interventions are racing against death4 ,can the body repair itself enough before some essential function ceases altogether8 ,if there already exists too much damage to vital organs the person will die4 ,if there remains sufficient organ function to support life1 enough vital force to power those functions1 and a will to live1 the body may heal itself if helped by the correct therapeutic approach4 ,but the therapy does not do the healing2 the body does that by itself--if it can4 ,this reality is also true of allopathic medicine4 ,i believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person their very best chance of recovery4 ,if a patient dies while fasting they almost certainly would have died anyway1 and if death comes while fasting1 it will be more comfortable1 with less pain1 and with more mental clarity4 ,critically ill people may have1 among other things1 any of the following diagnoses3 advanced cancer1 advanced aids1 heart failure1 very high blood pressure1 kidney failure1 advanced liver disease1 advanced emphysema1 pneumonia or other catastrophic infections1 especially those that seem unresponsive to antibiotics1 strokes1 emboli1 sclerotic vessels as found in arteriosclerosis1 severe nerve degeneration interfering with nerve transmission to vital organs4 ,treating the critically ill does not have to be an all or nothing1 ideological choice between holistic medicine and ,,ama style medicine4 ,it is important for the critically ill and their families to know that if they use standard medical treatment such as drugs or surgery1 these measures can and should be combined with natural healing methods4 ,it is always desirable to quit all addicting substances1 start a whole foods diet1 7as light as possible71 and add meganutrition 7supplements7 to the medical doctor's treatments4 ,few medical doctors are so arrogantly partisan as to assert that natural measures will do any harm as long as the ,,md is still allowed to prescribe as they please4 ,holistic support will not only lessen the side effects of the medical treatments but will speed up healing and often reduce the required dose of prescribed drugs4 ,i have had several clients with cancer who chose to have surgery1 radiation and chemotherapy1 but stayed on a raw food diet and took high doses of supplements throughout the treatment4 ,these people amazed the attending physician by feeling good with little if any fatigue1 no hair loss1 or flu symptoms4 ,the same can be true of other conditions4 ,food ,in ,the ,order ,of ,digestive ,difficulty ,individual digestive weaknesses and allergies are not taken into account in this list4 ,hard ,to ,digest3 ,meat1 fish1 chicken1 eggs 7if cooked71 all legumes including soy products1 peanuts and peanut butter1 beans1 split peas1 lentils1 chick peas1 dairy products such as cheese1 milk1 butter milk1 nuts and seeds and their butters4 ,intermediate3 all grains--quinoa1 amaranth1 millet1 spelt1 rye1 wheat1 oats1 barley4 ,fairly ,easy3 ,brussels sprouts1 green beans1 green peas1 broccoli1 cauliflower1 raw cultured milk products1 asparagus1 cabbage1 sprouts especially bean sprouts1 kale1 other leafy greens4 ,very ,easy3 fruits1 vegetable juices1 fruit juices1 broth 7clear74 ,no ,effort3 herb tea1 water4 ,ethyl always comes to my mind when ,i think of how much healing power can still be left in a dying body4 ,she 7accompanied by her husband for support7 came to ,great ,oaks ,school with terminal cancer1 heart failure1 advanced diabetes1 extreme weakness1 and complete inability to digest4 ,any food ingested just came back up immediately4 ,ethyl had large tumors taking over the breast1 sticking out from her skull1 and protruding from her body in general4 ,the largest was the one in the left breast which was the size of a big man's fist4 ,she did have one crucial thing going for her1 ,ethyl was a feisty ,irish red head who still had a will to live1 and a reason to do so4 ,she and her husband1 who had just retired1 had dreamed their whole life of touring the ,,us and ,canada in their own ,,rv the minute he retired4 ,the time had finally arrived but ,ethyl was too ill to support her own weight 7only #ij pounds7 and to top it off was blind from diabetic retinopathy4 ,the doctors had done everything they could to her1 and now judged her too weak to withstand any more surgery 7she had already had her right breast removed74 ,radiation or chemotherapy were also considered impossible due to heart failure4 ,they sent ,ethyl home to die1 giving her a few days to a month at most4 ,any sensible hygienist trying to stay out of jail would have refused to take on this type of case because it was a cancer case where death was likely4 ,treatment of this highly lucrative disease is considered the ,,ama's exclusive franchise1 even when the medical doctors have given up after having done everything to a body the family can pay for or owe for4 ,whenever a person dies under the care of any person who is not a licensed ,m4,d4 there must be an autopsy and a criminal investigation in search of negligence4 ,if the person dies under the care of an ,m4,d4 the sheriff's assumption is that the doctor most assuredly did everything he could and should have done and death was inevitable4 ,by accepting ,ethyl ,i had a reasonable likelihood of ending up in trouble2 but being foolish1 brave and 7stupidly7 feeling relatively immune to such consequences 7,i was under #dj at the time71 it seemed important to try to help her4 ,so1 undaunted by the task1 regardless of the outcome1 ,i proceeded logically1 one step at a time4 ,today1 with more experience and a modest net worth ,i wouldn't want to have to defend in a lawsuit1 and at age #ee4 possessing no spare five to ten years to give to the ,state to pay for my bravery1 ,i would probably refuse such a case4 ,fortunately ,i have not been confronted with this problem lately4 ,since ,ethyl was unable to digest anything given by mouth1 she was fed rectally with wheat grass juice implants three times a day4 ,she was carried to the colonic table for a daily colonic4 ,wheat grass and clay poultices were applied to her tumors three times a day4 ,she received an acupressure massage and reflexology treatments during the day1 plus a lot of tender loving care4 ,this program continued for a month during which the tumors were being reabsorbed by the body1 including the large1 extremely hard tumor sticking out the flesh of the right breast4 ,ethyl complained of severe pain as the large tumor in her breast shrank4 ,while it had been getting larger and pressing ever harder on all the nerves1 she had little or no sensation1 but as it shrank1 the nerves were reactivated4 ,most people think that a growing tumor would cause more pain than a shrinking one4 ,often the opposite is true4 ,pain can be a good sign that the body is winning1 an indicator to proceed4 ,by the second month1 ,ethyl1 gradually gaining strength1 was able to take wheat grass and carrot juice orally1 and gradually eased into raw foods1 mostly sprouts and leafy greens such as sunflower and buckwheat greens grown in trays4 ,she started to walk with assistance up and down the halls1 no longer experiencing the intense pain formerly caused by a failing heart1 and most surprising of all1 her eyesight returned1 at first seeing only outlines1 and then details4 ,the third month ,ethyl enlarged her food intake to include raw foods as well as the carrot and wheat grass juice and sprouts1 plus vitamin and mineral supplements to help support her immune system and the healing process4 ,all the tumors had been reabsorbed by her body and were no longer visible1 her heart was able to support normal activity such as walking1 and nonstrenuous household chores1 and her diabetes had corrected itself to the point that she no longer required insulin and was able to control her blood sugar with diet4 ,her husband was then instructed in her maintenance and they went home to continue the program4 ,the last ,i heard from them they had made two lengthy trips around the ,,us in their ,,rv and were enjoying their retirement together after all4 ,my treatment worked because the most important factor in the healing of the critically ill person is not give them more nourishment than their body is able to process4 ,the moment the digestive capacity of the sick person is exceeded1 the condition will be exacerbated and in a critically illness1 the person is likely to die4 ,if the body still has sufficient organ integrity and vital force to heal itself1 it will do so only if given the least possible nourishment that will support life--provided no essential organs are hopelessly damaged4 ,if the liver and kidneys are functional1 and the person has done some previous dietary improvement and_/or cleansing1 success is likely1 especially if the person wants to live4 ,a person in critical condition does not have time to ease into fasting by first spending a month or two on a raw foods diet4 ,this means that the person who is taking care of the critically ill person must be experienced enough to adjust the intensity of the body's healing efforts and accurately assess the ability of the person to process toxic waste products clamoring for removal so the ailing body is not drowned in it's own poisons4 ,it is often necessary to use clear vegetable broth1 vegetable and wheat grass juices1 and fruits juices1 or whole sprouts to slow down the cleansing gradient and sometimes1 to resupply the tissue's exhausted nutritional reserves4 ,i wish all cases of critical illness had such a positive outcome as ,ethyl's1 but unfortunately they don't4 ,i had ,marge on the same program at the same time4 ,she also had cancerous tumors all over her body and had similarly been sent home to die4 ,in some ways ,marge's body was a more likely candidate for survival than ,ethyl's4 ,marge did not have heart failure or diabetes and was still able on arrival to at least take small amount of water orally and walk to the bathroom4 ,put on a similar program1 her tumors also shrunk and were reabsorbed and she too went home4 ,but ,marge did not really have a strong reason to live4 ,although her husband was by her side throughout the treatment program1 ,marge was deeply upset because she was estranged from one of her sons who she had not seen for over #aj years4 ,when she went home from ,great ,oaks1 the son finally consented to see his mother1 went to the effort of trying to work things out with her1 and finally confessed that under it all he still loved her4 ,at that point ,marge died in peace4 ,she had accomplished the last thing she wanted to take care of and her will to live did not extend beyond that point4 ,had she died several months earlier as predicted by the medical profession1 ,marge would have been unable to resolve this relationship4 ,this was what ,marge's life was pivoting on at the end4 ,i was glad to assist her in doing what she needed to do4 ,her husband and other family members found it difficult to understand1 and they were hurt that ,marge did not wish to continue her life with them4 ,diet ,for ,the ,chronically ,ill4 ,the chronically ill person has a long-term degenerative condition that is not immediately life threatening4 ,this condition usually causes more-or-less continuous symptoms that are painful1 perhaps unsightly1 and ultimately will be disabling or eventually capable of causing death4 ,to qualify as chronic the symptoms must have been present a minimum of six months1 with no relief in sight4 ,people with these conditions have usually sought medical assistance1 frequently have had surgery1 and have taken and probably are taking numerous prescription drugs4 ,some examples of chronic conditions are3 arthritis1 rheumatism1 diabetes1 early onset of cancer and aids1 asthma1 colitis1 diverticulitis1 irritable bowel syndrome1 some mental disorders1 arterial deposit diseases1 most of the itises 7inflammations74 ,before fasting1 the chronically ill often do have time to prepare the way with limited dietary reform1 and frequently begin to feel relief quite quickly4 ,before actually fasting they should limit their diet to raw foods and eliminate all toxic foods like alcohol1 coffee1 tea1 salt1 sugar and recreational drugs for two months if they have been following a typical ,american diet4 ,if the chronically ill had been following a vegetarian diet1 perhaps a diet including with eggs and dairy1 if they had been using no addicting substances1 then one month on raw foods is sufficient preparation for fasting4 ,if the person had water or juice fasted for at least a week or two within the last two years1 and followed a healthy diet since that time1 one or two weeks on raw foods should be a sufficient runway4 ,during preparation for a fast1 ,i never recommend that a chronically ill person quit taking prescription medicines because doing so can seriously disrupt their homeostasis4 ,however1 if their symptoms lessen or vanish during the pre-fasting clean up1 the person might try tapering off medications4 ,the length and type of fast chosen to resolve a chronic illness depends largely on available time1 finances1 availability of support people1 work responsibilities1 and mental toughness4 ,if you are one of those fortunate people 'rich' enough to give their health first priority1 long water fasting is ideal4 ,if on the other hand you can't afford to stop working1 have no one to take care of you and assist with some household chores1 and_/or you are not mentally tough enough to deal with self-denial1 compromise is necessary4 ,ideally the chronically ill person would fast for an extended period under supervision until their symptoms were gone or greatly improved1 with a fall-back plan to repeat the whole process again in three to six months if necessary4 ,if you are not able to do that1 the next best program is to fast for a short period1 like one or two weeks1 with a plan to repeat the process as often as possible until you are healed4 ,i have had clients with potentially life-threatening conditions such as obesity with incipient heart failure1 or who came to me with cancer1 that were unable to stop work for financial reasons1 or who could not afford a residential fasting program1 or who felt confident in their own ability to deal with detoxification in their own home4 ,these people have fasted successfully at home1 coming to see me once a week4 ,almost inevitably1 successful at-home fasters had already done a lot of research on self healing1 believed in it1 and had the personal discipline to carry it out properly1 including breaking the fast properly without overeating4 ,foods ,to ,heal ,chronic ,illness ,sprouts ,baby ,greens ,salad ,juices ,fruit alfalfa sunflower lettuce beet grapefruit radish buckwheat celery celery lemon bean zucchini zucchini lime lime clover kale kale orange orange fenugreek endive radish parsley apple wheat tomato tomato raspberries cabbage cabbage cabbage blueberries carrot carrot grapes spinach apple peaches parsley grapefruit apricots sweet pepper lemon strawberry ,fruits should be watery and lower in sugar4 ,some examples of poor fruit choices would be pineapple1 ripe mango1 bananas1 dates1 raisins1 figs4 ,fruits should not be combined with vegetables4 ,vegetables should not be starchy1 packed-full of energy4 ,poor vegetable choices would be potato1 parsnip1 turnip1 corn1 sweet potato1 yam1 beet1 winter squash4 ,sprouts and baby greens are vegetables and may be included in salads4 ,juices should not be extremely sweet4 ,apple1 orange1 beet and carrot juice should be diluted with #ej water4 ,fruit juices should not be mixed with vegetable juices or with vegetables at the same meal4 ,salads should include no fruit4 ,salad dressings should be lemon or lime juice1 very small quantities of olive oil1 and herbs4 ,no salt1 soy sauce nor black pepper4 ,cayenne can be okay for some4 ,i have also helped chronically ill people that were not mentally prepared to water fast1 but were able to face the long-term self-control and deprivation of a raw food cleansing diet that included careful food combining4 ,these people also regained their health1 but it took them a year at minimum1 and once well they had to remain on a diet tailor-made to their digestive capacity for the rest of their life1 usually along with food supplements4 ,jim was such a case4 ,he was #ee years old1 very obese1 had dangerously high blood pressure poorly controlled with medication1 and was going into congestive heart failure4 ,he was on digitalis and several other heart medications plus diuretics1 but in no way was his condition under control4 ,he had severe edema in the feet and legs with pitting1 and fluid retention in the abdominal region caused a huge paunch that was solid to the touch not soft and squishy like fatty tissue4 ,jim had dreamed of having his own homestead with an ,organic garden1 now he had these things but was too sick to enjoy them or work in his garden without severe heart pain and shortness of breath4 ,jim had retired early in order to enjoy many years without the stresses of work1 and he was alarmed to realize that he was unlikely to survive a year4 ,the day ,jim came to see me the first time ,i would have classified his condition as critically ill because his life was in immediate danger2 but he responded so quickly to his detox program that he was very soon out of danger and would be more accurately described as a chronically ill person4 ,jim was not prepared to water fast4 ,he was attached to having his food and he was aware that at his extreme weight he was going to have stay on a dietary program for a long1 long time4 ,he also wanted to choose a gradient that he could manage by himself at home with little assistance from his wife4 ,he had been on a typical ,american diet with meat1 coffee1 etc41 so that in spite of his dangerous condition it did not seem wise to me to add the heavy eliminatory burden of a water fast to a body that was already overwhelmed with fluids and waste products4 ,jim immediately went on a raw food cleansing diet1 with no concentrated foods like nuts1 seeds1 or avocados1 and with one day each week fasting on vegetable juice and broth4 ,he did enemas daily even though it wasn't his favorite thing4 ,in one month he had lost #cj pounds1 his eyes had started to sparkle1 and his complexion was rosy4 ,the swelling had disappeared from his feet and legs1 and he had to buy new pants4 ,starting the second month he gradually withdrew from prescription medications4 ,from the beginning ,i had put ,jim on a program of nutritional supplements including protomorphogens 7see chapter on vitamins and food supplements7 to help the body repair it's heart and the kidneys4 ,in only four months he had returned his body to glowing health1 and looked great for his age1 though he was still overweight4 ,at the end of one year he had returned to a normal weight for his height1 and only cheated on the diet a couple of times when attending a social event1 and then it was only a baked potato with no dressing4 ,he was probably going to have many qualitative years working his garden and living out his dreams4 ,the local intensive care ward lost a lot of money when they failed to get ,jim4 ,diet ,for ,the ,acutely ,ill ,the acutely ill person experiences occasional attacks of distressing symptoms1 usually after indiscretions in living or emotional upsets4 ,they have a cold1 or a flu1 or sinusitis1 or a first bout of pneumonia1 or a spring allergy attack4 ,the intense symptoms knock them flat and force them to bed for a few days or a week4 ,if they are sick more often than that1 they are moving toward the chronically ill category4 ,people who are acutely ill should stop eating to whatever extent that they are able until the symptoms are gone4 ,during an acute illness1 the appetites is probably pretty dull anyway1 so why not give a brief fast on water or fruit juice a try4 ,most acute conditions are short in duration1 usually not lasting more than a week4 ,allergy attacks1 some types of flu1 and a first bout of pneumonia may well last for three weeks or a month4 ,the general rule is to eat as little as possible until the symptoms have passed1 self-administer colon cleansing1 even if you have a horror of such things1 and take vitamin supplements1 including megadoses of ,vitamin ,c1 bioflavinoids1 and zinc4 7,see the chapter on vitamins47 ,those having a little experience with natural medicine make teas of echinacea1 fenugreek seeds and red clover and quit eating4 ,eating as little as possible can mean only water and herb teas1 only vegetable broth1 only vegetable juice or non-sweet fruit juice1 even only cleansing raw foods4 ,if you eat more than this you have not relieved your system of enough digestive effort4 ,after your symptoms are gone it is very important to change your life-style and improve your diet so that you aren't so toxic and don't have to experience an acute illness several times a year when your body is forced to try an energetic detox4 ,diet ,for ,a ,healthy ,person ,i doubt that it is possible to be totally healthy in the twentieth century4 ,doctors ,alsleben and ,shute in their book ,how to ,survive the ,new ,health ,catastrophes state that in-depth laboratory testing of the population at large demonstrated four universally present pathological conditions3 heavy metal poisoning1 arteriosclerosis1 sub-clinical infections1 and vitamin_/mineral deficiencies4 ,those of us who consider ourselves healthy1 including young people1 are not really healthy1 and at the very least would benefit from nutritional supplementation4 ,in fact the odds against most people receiving adequate vitamin and mineral nutrition without supplements are very poor as demonstrated by the following chart4 ,problem ,nutrients in ,america ,nutrient ,percent ,receiving ,less than the ,,rda ,b-#f #hj ,magnesium #ge ,calcium #fh ,iron #eg ,vitamin ,a #ej ,b-#a #de ,c #da ,b-#b #cf ,b-#ab #cf ,b-#c #cc ,a genuinely healthy person almost never becomes acutely ill1 and does not have any disturbing or distracting symptoms2 nothing interferes with or handicaps their daily life or work4 ,a healthy person has good energy most of the time1 a positive state of mind1 restful sleep1 good digestion and elimination4 ,healthy people do not have to live simon-pure lives to remain that way4 ,healthy people can afford #aj dietary indiscretions by calorie count--eating or drinking those things that they know are not good for them but that are fun to eat or are recreational foods or beverages4 ,such sinning could mean a restaurant bash twice a month1 having a pizza1 ,french bread1 beer or wine in moderation1 ice cream1 cookies1 cake1 turkey for festive occasions1 etc4 ,the key concept of responsible sinning is keeping within that ten percent limit4 ,a diet for a healthy person that wants to remain healthy should not exceed the digestive capacity of the individual1 either in terms of quantity or quality4 ,all foods that can not be efficiently digested should be removed from the regular diet and relegated to the sin category1 including those you are allergic to and those for which you have inadequate digestive enzymes4 ,i have encountered very few people that can efficiently digest cooked meat1 chicken1 or fish1 but some can1 and some can with the assistance of digestive enzyme supplements4 ,in order to digest meats1 the stomach must be sufficiently acid1 there must be enough pepsin1 pancreatin1 and bile1 etc41 and the meat should be eaten on the extremely rare side 7not pork71 in small quantities 7not more than five or six ounces71 and not combined with anything except nonstarchy vegetables4 ,if you must include meat in your dietary1 it should represent a very small percentage of your total caloric intake1 be eaten infrequently1 with the bulk of the calories coming from complex carbohydrates such grains1 legumes and nuts1 as well as large quantities of vegetables and fruits4 ,the healthy person that wants to stay that way for many1 years is advised to fast one day a week1 to give the organs of elimination a chance to catch up on their internal housecleaning4 ,if water fasting seems impossible1 try a day of juicing it2 if that is too rigorous1 try a day on raw foods4 ,a similar technique1 though less beneficial than even a one day each week on raw foods1 is delaying breaking your overnight fast for as long as possible each day4 ,try giving up breakfast altogether or postponing breaking your overnight fast1 because from the time you stop eating at the end of one day to the time you start eating the next is actually a brief1 detoxifying fast4 ,eggs1 milk1 cheese and yogurt can be assimilated by some healthy people with or without digestive aids4 ,it is possible to take lactase to break down the milk sugars for example2 sometimes aids such as hydrochloric acid1 pepsin1 and pancreatin help4 ,if you can buy it or are willing to make it raw milk yogurt containing lactobacillus bulgaris or acidophilus may be digested more readily1 especially if it prepared from healthy cows or goats fed on unsprayed food1 and served very fresh4 ,eggs should come from chickens that run around outside1 eating weeds1 and scratching bugs4 ,the yokes of those eggs will be intense orange1 not yellow4 ,few people these days have ever eaten a real egg4 ,surprisingly1 for those of you who fear cholesterol1 the healthy way to eat eggs is use just the raw yolk from fertile eggs4 ,it is enjoyed by many people in a smoothie--fresh fruit blended up with water or milk4 ,eggs contain lecithin1 a nutrient that naturally prevents the body from forming harmful fatty deposits in the arteries4 ,sea weeds are a wonderful source of minerals and should be eaten in soups and salads4 ,other invaluable fortifying foods are algae of all kinds 7such as chlorella and spirulina71 lecithin1 brewers yeast1 and fresh bakers yeast4 ,many people have had very unpleasant experiences trying to eat living bakers yeast and so use brewers yeast instead4 ,but brewers yeast is cooked and the proteins it contains are not nearly as assimilable as those in raw yeast4 ,raw yeast is so powerful1 it feels like pep pills6 ,it takes a special technique to eat raw yeast because in the stomach and intestines the yeast does the job it is supposed to do3 convert sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide gas4 ,the entire digestive tract then bloats with gas and the person will feel very uncomfortable for some time4 ,however1 raw yeast is a marvelous source of ,b vitamins and proteins and can make someone feel very energetic--if they know how to use it4 ,the secret is to eat live yeast very first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and then1 not eat anything at all for about two hours1 giving the stomach acids and enzymes time to kill the yeasts and digest them before adding sugars from another meal4 ,some like to eat yeast in fresh cake form1 buying it from a bakery4 ,others prefer dry granular baker's yeast blended with water into a sort of shake4 ,this is not a bad place to put your raw egg yoke either4 ,if you need it sweetened to drink it1 use an artificial or herbal sweetener like nutrisweet or stevia4 ,live yeast cannot consume milk sugars very well4 ,so if you can handle dairy1 try one or two tablespoons of granulated live yeast1 an egg yoke and a little raw milk or yogurt1 well whizzed4 ,wheat germ is also a great1 rich food1 but is usually rancid unless it is taken out of the refrigerated display2 unless it is refrigerated1 in a dated package and fresh1 don't eat it4 ,herb teas and roasted grain beverages are healthy beverages1 along with mineral and distilled water avoiding where possible chlorinated and fluoridated water4 ,diet ,is ,not ,enough ,those isolated1 long-lived peoples discovered by ,weston ,a4 ,price had to do hard physical labor to eat1 had to walk briskly up and down steep terrain to get anywhere4 ,but today1 few ,north ,americans output very much physical energy in process of daily life or work4 ,not only cars1 but all of our modern conveniences make it possible to live without ever breaking into a sweat4 ,we pay for this ease2 it costs us a significant degree of health4 ,exercise has many benefits when combined with excellent nutrition4 ,it creates an overall feeling of well-being that can not be created by diet alone4 ,exercising temporarily makes the heart beat faster1 increasing blood circulation throughout the body right out to the tips of your fingers and toes4 ,this short-term elevated flow of blood flow brings increased supplies of oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body1 facilitating healing and repair4 ,without revving up your engine every day many of the body's systems never get the sludge burned out of them and never perform optimally4 ,exercise also changes the metabolic rate so your body burns more calories--not only while you are exercising1 but also for a #bd hour period following exercise4 ,this maintains a healthful body weight into old age1 or helps to lose weight4 ,most people find that exercise in moderation does not increase appetite1 so that it is possible to consistently burn more calories in a day1 and gradually reduce weight if that is desirable4 ,it is necessary to burn #c1ejj calories to lose a pound of weight4 ,most forms of exercise allow you to burn #cjj to #fjj calories per hour at a moderate pace which would be achieved by doubling the resting pulse4 ,without even considering the weight-loss benefit of achieving a raised metabolism1 an hour of daily exercise continued for a week or two dependent upon the type of exercise and pace should lead to one pound of weight loss if the caloric intake is held constant4 ,the flip side of having a higher metabolism is rarely appreciated but is extremely important4 ,recall the basic equation of health3 ,health ,nutrition _/ ,calories4 ,exercise permits a person to eat somewhat more while not gaining weight4 ,if the food is nutrient rich1 the body has a chance to extract more vitamins1 more minerals1 more amino acids4 ,the person who remains slender by rigidly reducing their food intake to near starvation levels may lack vital1 health-building nutrition4 ,and only exercise moves lymphatic fluid4 ,the blood is pumped through the body by the heart1 but the lymphatic system1 lacking a heart1 requires muscular contractions to move from the extremities of the body to the central cavity4 ,the lymphatic system picks up cellular waste products and conducts these toxins to disposal4 ,frequently1 people with rheumatic aches and pains or other generalized muscular discomforts physicians like to give ,latin diagnostic names to can give up taking pain pills if they will but begin exercising regularly4 ,only when they begin moving their lymph can they begin to detoxify properly4 ,there is another benefit from exercise which is not to be ignored1 and that is that it gives the person a chemical sense of well being4 ,it actually will help to emotionally boost up people who are chronically depressed and make them smile4 ,after a good workout1 especially one done outside1 everything seems brighter1 more positive2 whatever was bothering you somehow just doesn't seem like that big of a deal now4 ,i am not making pro-exercise propaganda4 ,this is not a figment of the imagination4 ,an exercising body really does make antidepressant neurochemicals called endorphins1 but only after about #de minutes to an hour of aerobic workout4 ,endorphins are powerful1 with painkilling and euphoric effects equal to or greater than heroin1 but without any undesirable side effects4 ,if chemists could learn to cheaply synthesize endorphins ,i'm sure that millions of people would want to become addicted to them4 ,because ,i make such a point of getting in my workout every day1 my husband has accused me of being an endorphin junkie1 and he is right6 ,i admit it1 ,i'm really hooked on the feeling of well being ,i consistently get from any sustained exercise4 ,i defend my addiction staunchly because it is the healthiest addiction ,i know of4 ,i have also been accused of carrying exercise to extremes1 and ,i admit to that also4 ,for a few years ,i trained for ,ironman triathlons4 ,i now think doing ironman distances is immoderate and except for a few remarkable individuals with iron constitutions1 training that hard can only lead to a form of exhaustion that is not health promoting4 ,i have become much more sensible in my old age1 and in recent years have limited my participation to the ,olympic distance triathlons4 ,i was on the ,canadian team at the ,world ,championship in #aiib1 and intend to do it again in #aiie4 ,i do not find the ,olympic distance exhausting1 in fact ,i think it is great fun and truly exhilarating4 ,i get to see all these wonderful age group competitors from all over the world who look and feel fantastic4 ,it does my soul good to see a group of people aging so gracefully1 not buying into the popular notion that old age is inevitably disabling1 depressing1 and ugly4 ,sport brings a degree of balance to my life after spending so much time in the presence of the sick4 ,i plan to maintain my athletic activities into old age1 barring accident or other unforeseen obstacles to fitness4 ,to maintain basic fitness it does not matter so much what form of exercise is chosen1 as long as it is not damaging to the skeletal system or connective tissues4 ,many people are unable to run due to foot1 knee1 hip1 or back problems1 but almost everyone can walk4 ,walking outside is better than inside on a treadmill1 and walking hills is better than walking on flat ground4 ,exercise machines such as stationary bikes1 cross country ski machines1 and stair steppers work well for a lot of people who live in the city1 especially in the winter1 or for those who hate exercise4 ,whatever you choose to do1 it is important to at least double the resting pulse for #cj minutes no less than four days a week4 ,this is the absolute minimum required to maintain the health and function of the cardiovascular-pulmonary system4 ,if your resting pulse is #gj1 you must walk1 jog1 ski1 bike1 swim or what have you1 fast enough to keep the pulse at #adj beats per minute for at least #cj minutes4 ,i have a strong preference to exercising outside in isolated places where there is only me and the forest1 or only me and the river4 ,running along logging roads in the hilly back country1 or swimming in the green unpolluted water of a forest river is a spiritual experience for me4 ,it is a time to meditate1 to commune with nature1 and to clear my mind and create new solutions4 ,the repetitive action of running or walking or swimming1 along with the regular deep breathing in clean air1 with no distractions except what nature provides is truly health promoting4 ,sharing these activities with friends or family can also be great fun and some of the best in social interactions4 ,it is one of my favorite ways of visiting with people4 ,i don't expect other people to be as enthusiastic about exercise as ,i am1 but ,i do hope that everyone will make an effort to be minimally fit as an ongoing part of their health program into old age4 ,diet ,for ,a ,long1 ,long ,life ,some people not only want to be healthy1 but they want to live in good health long past the normal life span projected by statistical tables for ,homo ,sapiens4 ,dr4 ,roy ,walford1 a well-respected medical research gerontologist who has been actively studying longevity for many years1 is one of those4 ,he has scientifically demonstrated with accepted studies that a qualitative life span up to at least #aae years of age is reasonably attainable by the average person if they start working on it no later than about #ej years of age1 though earlier is much better4 ,walford's principles of extending life are very simple4 ,all you have to do is restrict your caloric intake to about #a1ejj per day1 and water fast two days a week4 ,or alternatively1 reduce your caloric intake to #a1bjj per day and fast only one day a week on water4 ,and make sure that every single bit of food you do eat is packed with nutrition1 every single calorie1 without exception4 ,you continue this program for the rest of your life along with moderate daily exercise and high but reasonable dosages of vitamins1 minerals1 and also take a few exotic food supplements4 ,the supplement program is not particularly expensive nor extreme1 ,walford's supplement program is more moderate than the life extension program ,i recommend for all middle-aged and older people4 ,the best foods for this type of program is a largely raw food diet 7#hj7 with a predominance of sprouts and baby greens1 some cooked vegetables1 and raw nuts and seeds4 ,and make sure you get #cj minutes of cardiovascular exercise every other day4 ,while ,dr4 ,walford's focus is on caloric reduction while maintaining sufficient nutrition1 most other life extensionists focus on increasing the nutrition side of the equation for health without bothering to reduce caloric intake4 ,this approach is much easier because essentially1 it involves gobbling nutritional supplements by the handfuls without requiring self-discipline1 though it can get quite expensive4 ,i'll have more to say about this approach in the next chapter1 which is about vitamins4 ,in this book ,i can't explain all the aspects of prolongation of life through conscious life-style choice4 ,those who are interested are referred to the ,bibliography4 ,chapter ,six ,vitamins and ,other ,food ,supplements ,from ,the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,vitamins4 #a ,the staple foods may not contain the same nutritive substances as in former times4 4 4 4 ,chemical fertilizers1 by increasing the abundance of the crops without replacing all the exhausted elements of the soil1 may have indirectly contributed to change the nutritive value of cereal grains and of vegetables4 4 4 4 ,hygienists have not paid sufficient attention to the genesis of diseases4 ,their studies of conditions of life and diet1 and of their effects on the physiological and mental state of modern man are superficial1 incomplete1 and of too short duration4 ,they have1 thus1 contributed to the weakening of our body and our soul4 ,alexis ,carrel1 ,man the ,unknown4 ,i have already explained the hygienist's view of why people get sick4 ,the sequence of causation goes3 enervation1 toxemia1 alternative elimination1 disease4 ,however1 there is one more link in this chain1 a precursor to enervation that1 for good and understandable reasons1 seemed unknown to the earlier hygienists4 ,that precursor is long term sub-clinical malnutrition4 ,lack of nutrition effects virtually everybody today4 ,almost all of us are overfed but undernourished4 ,i have already explained that one particular head of broccoli does not necessarily equal another head of broccoli2 the nutritional composition of apparently identical foods can be highly variable4 ,not only do different samples of the same type of food differ wildly in protein content1 amino acid ratios and mineral content1 their vitamin and vitamin-like substances also vary according to soil fertility and the variety grown4 ,these days1 food crop varieties are bred for yield and other commercial considerations1 such as shipability1 storage life1 and ease of processing4 ,in pre-industrial times when each family propagated its own unique open-pollinated varieties1 a natural selection process for healthy outcomes prevailed4 ,if the family's particular1 unique varieties carried genes for highly nutritious food1 and if the family's land was fertile enough to allow those genes to manifest1 and if the family kept up its land's fertility by wise management1 their children tended to survive the gauntlet of childhood illness and lived to propagate the family's varieties and continue the family name4 ,thus1 over time1 human food cultivars were selected for their nutritional content4 ,but not any longer6 ,these days1 farming technology with its focus on bulk yield and profit1 degrades the nutritional content of our entire food supply4 ,even commercial organically grown food is no better in this respect4 ,sub-clinical1 life-long1 vitamin and mineral deficiencies contribute to the onset of disease2 the malnourished body becomes increasingly enervated1 beginning the process of disease4 ,vitamin supplements can increase the body's vital force1 reversing to a degree the natural tendency towards degeneration4 ,in fact1 some medical gerontologists theorize that by using vitamins it might be possible to restore human life span to its genetically programmed #aae years without doing anything else about increasing nutrition from our degraded foods or paying much attention to dietary indiscretions4 ,knowing what ,i do about toxemia's effects ,i doubt vitamins can allow us to totally ignore what we eat1 though supplements can certainly help4 ,more than degraded nutritional content of food prompts a thinking person to use food supplements4 ,our bodies and spirits are constantly assaulted and insulted by modern life in ways our genetics never intended us to deal with4 ,today the entire environment is mildly toxic4 ,air is polluted2 water is polluted2 our food supply contains traces of highly poisonous artificial molecules that our bodies have no natural ability to process and eliminate4 ,our cities and work places are full of loud1 shocking noises that trigger frequent adrenaline rushes and other stress adaptations4 ,our work places are full of psychological stresses that humans never had to deal with before4 ,historically1 humans who were not enslaved have been in control of determining their own hour to hour1 day to day activities1 living on their own largely self-sufficient farms4 ,the idea of working for another1 at regular hours1 without personal liberty1 ignoring or suppressing one's own agenda and inclinations over an entire lifetime is quite new and not at all healthy4 ,it takes continual subconscious applications of mental and psychic energies to protect ourselves against the stresses of modern life1 energies that we don't know we're expending4 ,this is also highly enervating4 ,thus to remain healthy we may need nutrition at levels far higher than might be possible through eating food2 even ideal food might not contain enough vitamins to sustain us against the strains and stresses of this century4 ,and think about ,dr4 ,pottenger's cats4 ,our bodies are at the poorer end of a century-long process of mass degeneration that started with white flour from the roller mill4 ,compared to my older clients ,i have noticed that my younger patients seem to possess less vital force on the average1 show evidence of poorer skeletal development1 have poorer teeth1 less energy1 have far more difficulty breeding and coping with their family life1 and are far more likely to develop degenerative conditions early4 ,most of my younger patients had a poor start because they were raised on highly refined1 devitalized1 deficient foods1 and grew up without much exercise4 ,their parents had somewhat better food4 ,some of their grandparents may have even grown up on raw milk and a vegetable garden1 and actually had to walk1 not owning cars when they were young4 ,their great grandparents had a high likelihood of enjoying decent nutrition and a healthful life-style4 ,unfortunately1 most of my patients like the idea of taking vitamins too much for their own good4 ,the ,,ama medical model has conditioned people to swallow something for every little discomfort1 and taking a pill is also by far the easiest thing to do because a pill requires no life-style changes1 nor self-discipline1 nor personal responsibility4 ,but vitamins are much more frugal than drugs4 ,compared to prescriptions1 even the most exotic life extension supplements are much less expensive4 ,i am saddened when my clients tell me they can't afford supplements4 ,when their ,,md prescribes a medicine that costs many times more they never have trouble finding the money4 ,i am also saddened that people are so willing to take supplements1 because ,i can usually do a lot more to genuinely help their bodies heal with dietary modification and detoxification4 ,of all the tools at my disposal that help people heal1 last in the race comes supplements4 ,one of the best aspects of using vitamins as though they were healing agents is that food supplements almost never have harmful side effects1 even when they are taken in what might seem enormous overdoses4 ,if someone with a health condition reads or hears about some vitamin being curative1 goes out and buys some and takes it1 they will at very least have followed the basic principle of good medicine3 first of all do no harm4 ,at worst1 if the supplements did nothing for them at all1 they are practicing the same kind of benevolent medicine that ,dr4 ,jennings did almost two centuries ago4 ,not only that1 but having done something to treat their symptoms1 they have become patients facilitating their own patience1 giving their body a chance to correct its problem4 ,they well may get better1 but not because of the action of the particular vitamin they took4 ,or1 luckily1 the vitamin or vitamins they take may have been just what was needed1 raising their body's vital force and accelerating the body's ability to solve its problem4 ,one reason vitamin therapies frequently do not work as well as they might is that1 having been intimidated by ,,ama propaganda that has created largely false fears in the public mind about harmful effects of vitamin overdoses1 the person may not take enough of the right vitamin4 ,the minimum daily requirements of vitamins and minerals as outlined in nutrition texts are only sufficient to prevent the most obvious forms of deficiency diseases4 ,if a person takes supplements at or near the minimum daily requirement 7the dose recommended by the ,,fda as being 'generally recognized as safe'7 they should not expect to see any therapeutic effect unless they have scurvy1 beri beri1 rickets1 goiter1 or pellagra4 ,in these days of vitamin-fortified bread and iodized salt1 and even vitamin ,c fortified soft drinks1 you almost never see the kind of life-threatening deficiency states people first learned to recognize1 such as scurvy4 ,sailors on long sea voyages used to develop a debilitating form of vitamin ,c deficiency that could kill4 ,scurvy could be quickly cured by as little as one lime a day4 ,for this reason the ,british ,government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today that is why ,british sailors are still called limeys4 ,a lime has less than #cj milligrams of vitamin ,c4 ,but to make a cold clear up faster with vitamin ,c a mere #cj mg does absolutely nothing6 ,to begin to dent an infection with vitamin ,c takes #aj1jjj milligrams a day1 and to make a life threatening infection like pneumonia go away faster might require #be1jjj to #aej1jjj milligrams of vitamin ,c daily1 administered intravenously4 ,in terms of supplying that much ,c with limes1 that's #cjj to #gej of them daily--clearly impossible4 ,similarly1 pellagra can be cured with a few milligrams of vitamin ,b#c1 but schizophrenia can sometimes be cured with #c1jjj milligrams1 roughly a thousand times as much as the ,,mdr4 ,there are many many common diseases that the medical profession does not see as being caused by vitamin deficiencies4 ,senility and many mental disorders fall in this category4 ,many old people live on extremely deficient diets comprised largely of devitalized starches1 sugars1 and fats1 partly because many do not have good enough teeth to chew vegetables and other high roughage foods1 and they do not have the energy it takes to prepare more nourishing foods4 ,virtually all old people have deficiency diseases4 ,as vital force inevitably declines with age1 the quantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases1 then the ability to breakdown and extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished1 frequently leading to serious deficiencies4 ,these deficiencies are inevitably misdiagnosed as disease and as aging4 ,suppose a body needs #cj milligrams a day of niacin to not develop pellagra1 but to be fully healthy1 needs #ejj milligrams daily4 ,if that body receives #ej milligrams per day from a vitamin pill1 to the medical doctor it could not possibly be deficient in this vitamin4 ,however1 over time1 the insidious sub-clinical deficiency may degrade some other system and produce a different disease1 such as colitis4 ,but the medical doctor sees no relationship4 ,let me give you an actual example4 ,medical researchers studying vitamin ,b#e or pantothenic acid noticed that it could1 in what seemed to be megadoses 7compared to the minimum daily requirement7 largely reverse certain degenerative effects of aging4 ,these researchers were measuring endurance in rats as it decreased through the aging process4 ,how they made this measurement may appear to some readers to be heartless1 but the best way to gauge the endurance of a rat is to toss it into a five gallon bucket of cold water and see how long it swims before it drowns4 ,under these conditions1 the researcher can be absolutely confident that the rat does its very best to stay alive4 ,young healthy rats can swim for #de minutes in #ej degree ,fahrenheit water before drowning4 ,old rats can only last about #ae minutes4 ,and old rats swim differently1 less efficiently1 with their lower bodies more or less vertical1 sort of dog paddling4 ,but when old rats were fed pantothenic acid at a very high dose for a few weeks before the test1 they swam #de minutes too4 ,and swam more efficiently1 like the young rats did4 ,more interestingly1 their coats changed color 7the gray went away7 and improved in texture2 they began to appear like young rats4 ,and the rats on megadoses of ,b#e lived lot longer--#be to #cc percent longer than rats not on large doses of ,b#e4 ,does that mean megadoses of ,b#e have an unknown drug-like effect8 ,or does that mean the real nutritional requirement for ,b#e is a lot higher than most people think8 ,i believe the second choice is correct4 ,to give you an idea of how much ,b#e the old rats were given in human terms1 the ,,fda says the minimum daily requirement for ,b#e is about #aj milligrams but if humans took as much ,b#e as the rats1 they would take about #gej milligrams per day4 ,incidentally1 ,i figure ,i am as worthy as any lab rat and take over #ejj milligrams daily4 ,my point is that there is a big difference between preventing a gross vitamin deficiency disease1 and using vitamins to create optimum functioning4 ,any sick person or anyone with a health complaint needs to improve their overall functioning in any way that won't be harmful over the long term4 ,vitamin therapy can be an amazingly effective adjunct to dietary reform and detoxification4 ,some of the earlier natural hygienists were opposed to using vitamins4 ,however1 these doctors lived in an era when the food supply was better1 when mass human degeneration had not proceeded as far as it has today4 ,from their perspective1 it was possible to obtain all the nutrition one needed from food4 ,in our time this is unlikely unless a person knowingly and intelligently produces virtually all their own food on a highly fertile soil body whose fertility is maintained and adjusted with a conscious intent to maximize the nutritive content of the food4 ,unfortunately1 ignorance of the degraded nature of industrial food seems to extend to otherwise admirable natural healing methods such as ,macrobiotics and homeopathy because these disciplines also downplay any need for food supplementation4 ,vitamins ,for ,young ,persons ,and ,children ,young healthy people from weaning through their thirties should also take nutritional supplements even though young people usually feel so good that they find it impossible to conceive that anything could harm them or that they ever could become seriously sick or actually die4 ,i know this is true because ,i remember my own youth and besides1 why else would young people so glibly ride motorcycles or1 after only a few months of brainwashing1 charge up a hill into the barrel of a machine gun4 ,or have unsafe sex in this age of multiple venereal diseases4 ,until they get a little sense1 vitamin supplements help to counteract their inevitable and unpreventable use of recreational foods4 ,vitamins are the cheapest long life and health insurance plan now available4 ,parents are generally very surprised at the thought that even their children need nutritional supplements2 very few healthy children receive them4 ,a few are given extra vitamin ,c when acutely ill1 when they have colds or communicable diseases such as chicken pox4 ,young people require a low dose supplement compared to those of us middle-aged or older1 but it should be a broad formula with the full range of vitamins and minerals4 ,some of the best products ,i have found over #be years of research and experimentation with young people are ,douglas ,cooper's ,basic ,formula 7low dose and excellent for children7 and ,super ,t ,formula 7double the dose of ,basic ,formula1 therefore better for adolescents and young adults71 also from ,douglas ,cooper ,company2 ,bronson's ,vitamin and ,mineral ,formula for ,active ,men and ,women and ,bronson's ,insurance ,formula4 ,vitamin #ge ,plus2 and ,formula #b from ,now ,natural ,foods are also good and less costly4 ,healthy very small children who will swallow pills can take these same products at half the recommended dose4 ,if they won't swallow pills the pills can be blended into a fruit smoothie or finely crushed and then stirred into apple sauce4 ,there are also ,children's ,chewable ,multi-,vitamins ,iron 7#a-e years old7 from ,douglas ,cooper that contains no minerals except iron1 ,bronson's ,chewable ,vitamins 7make sure it is the one for small children1 ,bronson makes several types of chewables7 and a liquid vitamin product from ,bronson called ,multivitamin ,drops for ,infants4 ,these will be a little more costly than cutting pills in half4 ,there is also an extraordinarily high quality multivitamin_/mineral formula for children called ,children's ,formula ,life ,extension ,mix from ,prolongevity1 ,ltd4 7the ,life ,extension ,foundation71 it is in tablet form1 and slightly more expensive4 ,i hope that my book will be around for several generations4 ,the businesses whose vitamin products ,i recommend will not likely exist in twenty years4 ,even sooner than that the product names and details of the formulations will almost certainly be altered4 ,so1 for future readers discovering this book in a library or dusty shelve of a used book store1 if ,i1 at my current level of understanding1 were manufacturing a childrens and young adults vitamin formula myself1 this is what it would contain4 ,any commercial formulation within #be percent of these figures plus or minus would probably be fine as long as the vitamins in the pills were of high quality4 ,vitamin ,c #ejj mg ,b-#a #cj mg ,vitamin ,e #ej iu ,b-#b #cj mg ,vitamin ,a #ejj iu ,b-#c niacinamide #ajj mg ,vitamin ,d #be iu ,b-#e #ej mg ,magnesium #ajj mg ,b-#f #cj mg ,calcium #djj mg ,b-#ab #cj mcg ,selenium #aj mcg ,chromium #bj mcg ,manganese #b mcg ,biotin #cj mg ,zinc #e mg ,iodine 7as kelp7 #e mg ,,paba #bj mg ,bioflavinoids #ajj mg ,vitamins ,for ,an ,older ,healthy ,person ,someone who is beyond #ce to #dj years of age should still feel good almost all of the time4 ,that is how life should be4 ,but enjoying well-being does not mean that no dietary supplementation is called for4 ,the onset of middle age is the appropriate time to begin working on continuing to feel well for as long as possible4 ,just like a car1 if you take very good care of it from the beginning1 it is likely to run smoothly for many years into the future4 ,if on the other hand you drive it hard and fast with a lot of deferred maintenance you will probably have to trade it in on a new one after a very few years4 ,most people in their #gjs and older who are struggling with many uncomfortable symptoms and low energy lament1 'if ,i'd only known ,i was going to live so long ,i would have taken better care of myself4' ,but at that point it is too late for the old donkey2 time for a trade in4 ,gerontologists refer to combating the aging process as squaring the curve4 ,we arrive at the peak of our physical function at about age eighteen4 ,how high that peak level is depends on a person's genetic endowment1 the quality of the start they received through their mother's nutritional reserves1 and the quality of their childhood nutrition and life experience4 ,from that peak our function begins to drop4 ,the rate of drop is not uniform1 but is a cascade where each bit of deterioration creates more deterioration1 accelerating the rate of deterioration4 ,if various aging experiences were graphed1 they would make curves like those on the chart on this page4 ,because deterioration starts out so slowly1 people usually do not begin to notice there has been any decline until they reach their late #cjs4 ,a few fortunate ones don't notice it until their #djs4 ,a few 7usually7 dishonest ones claim no losses into their #ejs but they are almost inevitably lying1 either to you or to themselves1 or both4 ,though it might be wisest to begin combating the aging process at age #ai1 practically speaking1 no one is going to start spending substantial money on food supplements until they actually notice significant lost function4 ,for non-athletes this point usually comes when function has dropped to about #ij percent of what it was in our youth4 ,if they're lucky what people usually notice with the beginnings of middle age is an increasing inability for their bodies to tolerate insults such as a night on the town or a big meal4 ,or they may begin to get colds that just won't seem to go away4 ,or they may begin coming home after work so tired that they can hardly stay awake and begin falling asleep in their ,lazy ,boy recliner in front of the ,,tv even before prime time4 ,if they're not so lucky they'll begin suffering the initial twinges of a non-life-threatening chronic condition like arthritis4 ,the thinnest line demonstrates the worst possible life from a purely physical point of view1 where a person started out life with significantly lowered function1 lost quite a bit more and then hung on to life for many years without the mercy of death4 ,if one can postpone the deterioration of aging1 they extend and hopefully square the curve 7retard loss of function until later and then have the loss occur more rapidly74 ,someone whose lifetime function resembled a square curve7the thickest1 topmost line7 would experience little or no deterioration until the very end and then would lose function precipitously4 ,at this point we do not know how to eliminate the deterioration but we do know how to slow it down1 living longer and feeling better1 at least to a point close to the very end4 ,vitamin supplements can actually slow or even to a degree1 reverse1 the aging process4 ,however1 to accomplish that task1 they have to be taken in amounts far greater than so-called minimum daily requirements1 using vitamins as though they were drugs1 a therapeutic approach to changing body chemistry profiles and making them resemble a younger body4 ,for example1 research gerontologists like ,walford reason that if pantothenic acid 7vitamin ,b#e71 in fairly substantial 7but quite safe7 doses can extend the life and improve the function of old rats1 there is every indication that it will do a similar job on humans4 ,medical researchers and research gerontologists have noticed that many other vitamin and vitamin-like substances have similar effects on laboratory animals4 ,some will object that what helps rats and mice is in no way proven to cause the same result on humans4 ,i agree4 ,proven with full scientific rigor1 no4 ,in fact1 at present1 the contention is unprovable4 ,demonstrable as having a high likelihood's of being so1 yes6 ,so likely so as to be almost incontrovertible1 yes6 ,but provable to the most open-minded1 scientific sort--probably not for a long time4 ,however1 the ,life ,extension ,foundation is working hard to find some quantifiable method of gauging the aging process in humans without waiting for the inarguable indicator1 death4 ,once this is accomplished and solidly recognized1 probably no rational person will be able to doubt that human life span can be increased4 ,experiments work far better with short-lived laboratory animals for another reason2 we can not control the food and supplement intakes of humans as we can with caged mice4 ,in fact1 there are special types of laboratory mice that have been bred to have uniformly short life spans1 especially to accelerate this kind of research4 ,with mice we can state accurately that compared to a control group1 feeding such and such a dose of such and such a supplement extended the life-span or functional performance by such and such a percent4 ,a lot of these very same medical gerontologists nourish their own bodies as thoroughly as the laboratory animals they are studying1 taking broad mixes of food supplements at doses proportional to those that extend the life spans of their research animals4 ,this approach to using supplementation is at the other end of the scale compared to using supplements to prevent gross deficiencies4 ,in the life extension approach1 vitamins and vitamin-like substances are used as a therapy against the aging process itself4 ,will it work8 ,well1 some of these human guinea pigs have been on heavy vitamin supplementation for over thirty years 7as of #aiie7 and none seem to be suffering any damage4 ,will they live longer8 ,it is impossible to say with full scientific rigor8 ,to know if life extension works1 we would have to first determine live longer than what8 ,after all1 we don't know how long any person might have lived without life extending vitamin supplements4 ,though it can't be proven1 it makes perfect sense to me to spend far less money on an intensive life extension vitamin program than ,i would certainly lose as a result of age-related sickness4 ,besides1 ,i've already observed from personal use and from results in my clinical practice that life extension vitamin programs do work4 ,whether ,i and my clients will ultimately live longer or not1 the people who ,i have put on these programs1 including myself and my husband1 usually report that for several years after starting they find themselves feeling progressively younger1 gradually returning to an overall state of greater well-being they knew five or ten or fifteen years ago4 ,they have more energy1 feel clearer mentally1 have fewer unwanted somatic symptoms4 ,sometimes the improvements seem rather miraculous4 ,after a few months on the program one ninety year old man1 an independent-minded ,oregonian farmer1 reported that he began awakening with an erection every morning2 unfortunately1 his #hi year old cranky and somewhat estranged wife1 who would not take vitamins1 did not appreciate this youthfulness4 ,a few months later 7he had a small farm7 he planted a holly orchard4 ,most of you won't appreciate what this means without a bit of explanation1 but in ,oregon1 holly is grown as a high-priced and highly profitable ornamental for the clusters of leaves and berries4 ,but a slow-growing holly orchard takes #be years to began making a profit6 ,a few older clients of mine reported that they noticed nothing from the life extension program1 but these are unique people who have developed the ability to dominate their bodies with their minds and routinely pay their bodies absolutely no attention1 driving them relentlessly to do their will4 ,usually they use their energies to accomplish good1 ,christian works4 ,eventually1 these dedicated and high-toned people break down and die like everyone else4 ,will they do so later on life extending vitamins than they would have otherwise8 ,i couldn't know because ,i can't know how long they might have lived without supplementation and since they refuse to admit the vitamins do them any good1 they won't pay for them4 ,many on life extension programs experience a reverse aging process for awhile4 ,however1 after the full benefit of the supplementation has worked itself through their body chemistry1 they again begin to experience the aging process4 ,i believe the process will then be slowed by their vitamins compared to what it would have been without supplements4 ,but ,i can't prove it4 ,maybe we will have some idea if the program worked #bj to #dj years from now4 ,at this time ,i know of only two companies that make top quality life extension vitamin supplement formulas4 ,one is ,prolongevity 7,life ,extension ,foundation71 the other1 ,vitamin ,research ,products4 ,i prefer to support what ,i view as the altruistic motives behind ,prolongevity and buy my products from them4 ,unfortunately1 these vitamin compounders can not put every possibly beneficial substance in a single bottle of tablets4 ,the main reason they do not is fear of the power-grabbing ,food and ,drug ,administration4 ,this agency is threatening constantly to remove certain of the most useful life-extending substances from the vitamin trade and make them the exclusive property of prescription-writing medical doctors4 ,so far1 public pressure has been mobilized against the ,,fda every time action was threatened and has not permitted this4 ,if some product were included in a mix and that product were prohibited1 the entire mixed1 bottled and labeled batch that remained unsold at that time would be wasted1 at enormous cost4 ,were ,i manufacturing my own life extension supplement ,i would include the following4 ,by the way1 to get this all in one day1 it is necessary to take #f to #ab large tablets daily1 usually spread throughout the day1 taken a few at a time with each meal4 ,if you compare my suggested formulation to another one1 keep in mind that variations of #be percent one way or another won't make a significant difference1 and adding other beneficial substances to my recommendations probably is only helpful4 ,however1 ,i would not want to eliminate anything in the list below1 it is the minimum3 ,beta-,carotene #be1jjj iu ,selenium #ajj mcg ,vitamin ,a #e1jjj iu ,taurine #ejj mg ,b-#a #bej mg ,cyctine #bjj mg ,b-#b #ej mg ,gluthaianone #ae mg ,b-#c niacinamid #hej mg ,choline #fej mg ,b-#e #gej mg ,inositol #bej mg ,b-#f #bjj mg ,flavanoids #ejj mg ,b-#ab #ajj mcg ,zinc #ce mg ,,paba #ej mg ,chromium #ajj mcg ,folic ,acid #ejj mcg ,molybdenum #abc mg ,biotin #bjj mcg ,manganese #e mg ,vitamin ,c #c1jjj mg ,iodine 7as kelp7 #aj mg ,vitamin ,e #fjj iu ,co-,enzyme ,q-#aj #fj mg ,magnesium #a1jjj mg ,,dmae #ajj mg ,potassium #ajj mg ,ginko biloba #abj mg ,calcium #a1jjj mg ,vitamin ,d-#c #bjj iu ,please also keep in mind that there are many other useful substances not listed above4 ,for example1 every day ,i have a green drink1 an herbal preparation containing numerous tonic substances like ginseng and also various forms of algae and chlorophyll extracts4 ,my green drink makes my body feel very peppy all day1 so it certainly enhances my life and may extend it4 ,it costs about #be1jj a month to enjoy that4 ,i also use various pure amino acids at times4 ,phenylalyanine will make me get more aggressive whenever ,i am feeling a little lackluster2 this nutrient has also been used as an effective therapy against depression4 ,melatonin taken at bedtime really does help me get to sleep and may have remarkable life-extending properties4 ,other amino acids help my body manufacture growth hormones and ,i use them from the time ,i begin training seriously in spring through the end of the summer triathlon competition season4 ,pearson and ,shaw's book 7see ,bibliography7 is a good starting point to begin learning about this remarkably useful subject4 ,the ,future ,of ,life ,extension ,i beg the readers indulgence for a bit of futurology about what things may look like if the life extension movement continues to develop4 ,right now1 a full vitamin and vitamin-like substance life extension program costs between #ej and #ajj dollars per month4 ,however1 pharmaceutical researchers occasionally notice that drugs meant to treat and cure diseases1 when tested on lab animals for safety1 make these animals live quite a bit longer and function better4 ,though the ,,fda doesn't allow any word of this to be printed in official prescribing data1 the word does get around to other researchers1 to gerontologists and eventually to that part of the public that is eagerly looking for longer life4 ,today there are numerous people who routinely take prescription medicines meant to cure a disease they do not have and plan to take those medicines for the rest of their long1 long life4 ,these drugs being patented1 the tariff gets a lot steeper compared to taking vitamins4 7,since they are naturally-occurring substances1 vitamins can't be patented and therefore1 aren't big-profit items4 ,perhaps that's one reason the ,,fda is so covertly opposed to vitamins47 ,right now it would be quite possible to spend many hundred dollars per month on a life extension program that included most of these potentially beneficent prescription drugs4 ,as more of life-extending substances are discovered1 the cost of participating in a maximally effective life extension program will escalate4 ,however1 those who can afford chemically enhanced functioning will enjoy certain side-benefits4 ,their productive1 enjoyable life spans may measure well over a century1 perhaps approaching two centuries or more4 ,some of these substances greatly improve intelligence so they will become brighter and have faster reaction times4 ,with more time to accumulate more wisdom and experience than short livers these folks will become wiser1 too4 ,they will have more time to compound their investment assets and thus will become far more wealthy4 ,they will become an obvious and recognizable aristocracy4 ,this new upper class will immediately recognize each other on the street because they will look entirely different than the short-lived poorer folk and will probably run the political economic system4 ,and this new aristocratic society ,i see coming may be far more pleasant than the one dominated by the oligarchy we now have covertly running things4 ,for with greater age and experience does really come greater wisdom4 ,i have long felt that the biggest problem with ,earth is that we did not live long enough4 ,as ,george ,bernard ,shaw quipped when he was #ij 7he lived to #if71 here ,i am1 #ij years old1 just getting out of my adolescence and getting some sense1 and my body is falling apart as fast as it can4 ,vitamin ,program ,for ,the ,sick ,no matter which way you look at it or how well insured you may be against it1 being sick is expensive 7not to mention what it does to one's quality of life71 and by far the best thing to do is to prevent it from happening in the first place4 ,however1 most people do not do anything about their health until forced to by some painful condition4 ,if you are already sick there are a number of supplements you can take which have the potential to shorten the duration and severity of the illness1 and hopefully prevent a recurrence4 ,the sicker you are1 the more supplements you will require2 as health is regained1 the dosage and variety of substances can be reduced4 ,in chronic illness1 megadoses of many nutrients are usually beneficial4 ,any sick adult should begin a life extension vitamin program unless they are highly allergic to so many things already that they can not tolerate many kinds of vitamins as well4 ,in addition to the life extension program1 vitamin ,c should be taken by the chronically ill at a dose from #aj to #be grams daily1 depending on the severity of the condition4 ,many people want to know whether or not they should take their regular food supplements during a fast4 ,on a water fast most supplements in a hard tablet form will not be broken down at all1 and often can be seen floating by in the colonic viewing tube looking exactly like it did when you swallowed it4 ,this waste can be avoided by crushing or chewing 7yuck7 the tablets1 before swallowing4 ,encapsulated vitamins usually are absorbed1 but if you want to make sure1 open the capsule and dump it in the back of your mouth before swallowing with water4 ,powdered vitamins are well absorbed4 ,on a water fast the body is much more sensitive to any substance introduced1 so as a general rule it is not a good idea to take more than one half your regular dose of food supplements4 ,most fasters do fine without any supplements4 ,many people get an upset stomach from supplements on an empty stomach1 and these people should not take any during a water fast unless they develop symptoms of mineral deficiencies 7usually a pre-existing condition7 such as leg cramps and tremors1 these symptoms necessitate powdered or well-chewed-up mineral supplement4 ,minerals don't taste too bad to chew1 just chalky4 ,the same suggestions regarding dosage of supplements for a water fast are also true for a juice fast or vegetable broth fast4 ,on a raw food cleansing diet the full dose of supplements should be taken with meals4 ,there exists an enormous body of data about vitamins2 books and magazine articles are always touting some new product or explaining the uses of an old one4 ,if you want to know more about using ordinary vitamins you'll find leads in the bibliography to guide your reading4 ,however1 there is one old vitamin and a few newer and relatively unknown life extending substances that are so useful and important to handling illness that ,i would like to tell you more about them4 ,vitamin ,c is not a newly discovered vitamin1 but was one of the first ever identified4 ,if you are one of those people that just hate taking vitamins1 and you were for some reason willing to take only one1 vitamin ,c would be your best choice4 ,vitamin ,c would be the clear winner because it helps enormously with any infection and in invaluable in tissue healing and rebuilding collagen4 ,if ,i was going on a long trip and didn't want to pack a lot of weight1 my first choice would be to insure three to six grams of vitamin ,c for daily use when ,i was healthy 7,i'd take the optimum dose--ten grams a day--if weight were no limitation74 ,i'd also carry enough extra ,c to really beef up my intake when dealing with an unexpected acute illness or accident4 ,when traveling to far away places1 exposed to a whole new batch of organisms1 frequently having difficulty finding healthy foods1 going through time zones1 losing nights of sleep1 it is easy to become enervated enough to catch a local cold or flu4 ,if ,i have brought lots of extra vitamin ,c with me ,i know that my immune system will be able to conquer just about anything--as long as ,i also stop eating and can take an enema4 ,i also like to have vitamin ,c as a part of my first aid kit because if ,i experience a laceration1 a sprain1 broken bone1 or a burn1 ,i can increase my internal intake as well as apply it liberally directly on the damaged skin surface4 ,vitamin ,c can be put directly in the eye in a dilute solution with distilled water for infections and injuries1 in the ear for ear infections1 and in the nose for sinus infections4 ,if you are using the acid form of ,c 7ascorbic acid7 and it smarts too much1 make a more dilute solution1 or switch to the alkaline form of ,c 7calcium ascorbate7 which can be used as a much more concentrated solution without a stinging sensation4 ,applied directly on the skin ,c in solution makes a very effective substitute for sun screen4 ,it doesn't filter out ultraviolet1 it beefs up the skin to better deal with the insult4 ,i believe vitamin ,c can deal with a raging infection such as pneumonia as well or better than antibiotics4 ,but to do that1 ,c is going to have to be administered at the maximum dose the body can process4 ,this is easily discoverable by a 'bowel tolerance test' which basically means you keep taking two or three grams of ,c each hour1 7preferably in the powdered1 most rapidly assimilable form7 until you get a runny stool 7the trots74 ,the loose stool happens when there is so much ,c entering the small intestine that it is not all absorbed1 but is instead1 passed through to the large intestine4 ,at that point cut back just enough that the stool is only a little loose1 not runny4 ,at this dose1 your blood stream will be as saturated by vitamin ,c as you can achieve by oral ingestion4 ,it can make an important difference which type of vitamin ,c is taken because many people are unable to tolerate the acid form of ,c beyond #h or #aj grams a day1 but they can achieve a therapeutic dose without discomfort with the alkaline 7buffered7 vitamin ,c products such as calcium ascorbate1 sodium ascorbate1 or magnesium-potassium ascorbates4 ,vitamin ,c also speeds up the healing of internal tissues and damaged connective tissue4 ,damaged internal tissues might include stomach ulcers 7use the alkaline form of vitamin ,c only71 bladder and kidney infections 7acid form usually best71 arthritic disorders with damage to joints and connective tissue 7alkaline form usually best74 ,sports injuries heal up a lot faster with a therapeutic dose of vitamin ,c4 ,as medicine1 vitamin ,c should be taken at the rate of one or two grams every two hours 7depending on the severity of the condition71 spaced out to avoid unnecessary losses in the urine which happens if it were taken ten grams at a time4 ,if you regularly use the acid form of vitamin ,c powder1 which is the cheapest1 be sure to use a straw and dissolve it in water or juice so that the acid does not dissolve the enamel on your teeth over time4 ,and this is as good a point as any to mention that just like broccoli is not broccoli1 a vitamin is not necessarily a vitamin4 ,vitamins are made by chemical and pharmaceutical companies4 ,to make this confusion even more interesting1 the business names that appear on vitamin bottles are not the real manufacturers4 ,bronson's ,pharmaceuticals is a distributor and marketer1 not a manufacturer4 ,the same is true of every vitamin company ,i know of4 ,these companies buy bulk product by the barrel or sack2 then encapsulate1 blend and roll pills1 bottle and label1 advertise and make profit4 ,the point of all this is that some actual vitamin manufacturers produce very high quality products and others shortcut4 ,vitamin distributors must make ethical 7or unethical7 choices about their suppliers4 ,it is beyond the scope of this book to be a manual for going into the vitamin business4 ,however1 there are big differences in how effective vitamins with the same chemical name are and the differences hinge on who actually brewed them up4 ,for example1 there are at least two quality levels of vitamin ,c on the market right now4 ,the pharmaceutical grade is made by ,roche or ,,basf4 ,another form1 it could be called the bargain barrel brew1 is made in ,china4 ,top quality vitamin ,c is quite a bit more costly2 as ,i write this1 the price differential is about #dj percent between the cheap stuff and the best4 ,this can make a big difference in bottle price and profit4 ,most of the discount retail vitamin companies use the ,chinese product4 ,there's more than a price difference4 ,the vitamin ,c from ,china contains measurable levels of lead1 cadmium1 mercury1 iron and other toxic metals4 ,the ,,fda allows this slightly contaminated product to be sold in the ,,us because the ,recommended ,daily ,allowance for vitamin ,c is a mere #fj milligrams per day4 ,taken at that level1 the toxic metals would1 as the ,,fda sees it1 do no harm4 ,however1 many users of vitamin ,c take #ajj--bjj times the ,,rda4 ,the cheap form of ,c would expose them to potentially toxic levels of heavy metal poisons4 ,the highly refined top-quality product removes impurities to a virtually undetectable level4 ,i buy my ,c from ,bronson who ethically gives me the quality stuff4 ,i know for a fact that the vitamin ,c sold by ,prolongevity is also top quality4 ,i've had clients who bought cheaper ,c than ,bronson's and discovered it was not quite like ,bronson's in appearance or taste4 ,more importantly1 it did not seem to have the same therapeutic effect4 ,the distributors ,i've mentioned so far1 ,bronson1 ,,now1 ,cooper1 ,prolongevity and ,vitamin ,research ,products are all knowledgeable about differences between actual manufacturers and are ethical1 buying and reselling only high quality products4 ,other distributors ,i believe to be reputable include ,twin ,labs1 ,schiff and ,plus4 ,i know there are many other distributors with high ethic levels but ,i can not evaluate all their product lines4 ,and as ,i've mentioned earlier1 businesses come and go rather quickly1 but ,i hope my book will be read for decades4 ,i do know that ,i would be very reluctant to buy my vitamins at a discount department store or supermarket2 when experimenting with new suppliers ,i have at times been severely disappointed4 ,co-enzyme ,q-#aj4 ,this substance is normally manufactured in the human body and is also found in minuscule amounts in almost every cell on ,earth4 ,for that reason it is also called ubiquinone4 ,but this vitamin has been only recently discovered1 so as ,i write this book ,co-enzyme ,q-#aj is not widely known4 ,q-#aj is essential to the functioning of the mitochondria1 that part of the cell that produces energy4 ,with less ,q-#aj in heart cells1 for example1 the heart has less energy and pumps less4 ,the same is true of the immune system cells1 the liver cells1 every cell4 ,as we age the body is able to make less and less ,q-#aj1 contributing to the loss of energy frequently experienced with age1 as well as the diminished effectiveness of the immune system1 and a shortened life span4 ,q-#aj was first used for its ability to revitalize heart cells4 ,it was a prescription medicine in ,japan4 ,but unlike other drugs used to stimulate the heart1 at any reasonable dose ,q-#aj has no harmful side effects4 ,it also tends to give people the extra pick up they are trying to get out of a cup of coffee4 ,but ,q-#aj does so by improving the function of every cell in the body1 not by whipping exhausted adrenals like caffeine does4 ,q-#aj is becoming very popular with athletes who measure their overall cellular output against known standards4 ,besides acting as a general tonic1 when fed to lab animals1 ,co-,enzyme ,q-#aj makes them live #cc to #de percent longer6 ,,dmae is another extremely valuable vitamin-like substance that is not widely known4 ,it is a basic building material that the body uses to make acetylcholine1 the most generalized neurotransmitter in the body4 ,small quantities of ,,dmae are found in fish1 but the body usually makes it in a multi-stage synthesis that starts with the amino acid choline1 arrives at ,,dmae at about step number three and ends up finally with acetylcholine4 ,the body's nerves are wrapped in fatty tissue that should be saturated with acetylcholine4 ,every time a nerve impulse is transmitted from one nerve cell to the next1 a molecule of acetylcholine is consumed4 ,thus acetylcholine has to be constantly replaced4 ,as the body ages1 levels of acetylcholine surrounding the nerves drop and in consequence1 the nerves begin to deteriorate4 ,,dmae is rapidly and easily converted into acetylcholine and helps maintain acetylcholine levels in older people at a youthful level4 ,when laboratory rats are fed ,,dmae they solve mazes more rapidly1 remember better1 live about #dj percent longer than rats not fed ,,dmae and most interestingly1 when autopsied1 their nervous systems resemble those of a young rat1 without any evidence of the usual deterioration of aging4 ,human nervous systems also deteriorate with age1 especially those of people suffering from senility4 ,it is highly probable that ,,dmae will do the same thing to us4 ,,dmae also smoothes out mood swings in humans and seems to help my husband1 ,steve1 when he has a big writing project4 ,he can keep working without getting 'writers block'1 fogged out1 or rollercoastering4 ,,dmae is a little hard to find4 ,prolongevity and ,,vrp sell it in powder form4 ,since the ,,fda doesn't know any ,,mdr and since the product is not capped up1 the bottle of powder sagely states that one-quarter teaspoonful contains #ccc milligrams4 ,get the hint8 ,,dmae tastes a little like sour salt and one-quarter teaspoonful dissolves readily in water every morning before breakfast1 or anytime for that matter4 ,,dmae is also very inexpensive considering what it does4 ,a year's supply costs about #bj4 ,lecithin is a highly tonic and inexpensive food supplement that is underutilized by many people even though it is easily obtainable in healthfood stores4 ,it is an emulsifier1 breaking fats down into small separate particles1 keeping blood cholesterol emulsified to prevent arterial deposits4 ,taken persistently1 lecithin partially and slowly eliminates existing cholesterol deposits from the circulatory system4 ,in our cholesterol-frightened society lecithin should be a far more popular supplement than it currently is4 ,it is easy to take either as a food in the granular form or when encapsulated4 ,lecithin granules have very little flavor and can be added to a home-made vinegar and oil salad dressing1 where they emulsify the oil and make it blend with the vinegar1 thickening the mixture and causing it to stick to the salad better4 ,lecithin can also be put in a fruits smoothie4 ,a scant tablespoon a day is sufficient4 ,try to buy the kind of lecithin that has the highest phosphatidyl choline content because this substance is the second benefit of taking lecithin4 ,phosphatidyl choline is another precursor used by the body to build acetylcholine and helps maintain the nervous system4 ,algae4 ,spirulina or sun dried chlorella are also great food supplements4 ,both make many people feel energized1 pepped-up4 ,it is possible to fast on either product and still maintain sufficient energy levels to take of minimal work responsibilities4 ,algae reduces appetite and as a dietary supplement can assist in weight loss4 ,it contains large amounts of highly-assimilable protein due to it's high chlorophyll content1 as well as a large amount of beta carotene4 ,it also assists in detoxification of the lymphatic system4 ,it can be purchased as tablets or powder4 ,take a heaping teaspoon daily1 or at least six tablets4 ,chapter ,seven ,the ,analysis of ,disease ,states3 ,helping the ,body ,recover ,from the ,hygienic ,dictionary ,diagnosis4 #a ,in the ,united ,states1 making a diagnosis implies that you are a doctor duly licensed to engage in diagnostic function4444 ,the making of a diagnosis is reserved only for doctors4444 ,the term analysis does not have such an explicit legal definition4 ,thus1 it is the term of choice of iridologists and the one most often used by them4 ,it is essential for the survival and promotion of iridology that those who choose to engage in its practice avoid naming any disease condition4 ,as we have seen1 to do so is to infringe on rights reserved exclusively for doctors and can land the iridologist1 sooner or later1 in a snarl of legal troubles4 ,it is better for the iridologist to refrain from suggesting to a person that he has any particular disease1 letting such diagnostics remain the province of licensed doctors4 ,in so doing1 the iridologist will avoid transgressing the law and stepping on the toes of those who are legally qualified to diagnose4 ,it is indeed unfortunate that one of the greatest pitfalls awaiting the iridologist is the temptation to name diseases4 ,the feelings of satisfaction and power resulting from conferring a name are deeply rooted in the human psyche4 ,for example1 the ,bible tells us that man's first task on ,earth was to name the animals1 thus giving him power and dominion over them4 ,strong is the temptation to name diseases because nearly everyone has come to expect that his malady has a name4 ,patients have come to expect1 and doctors have been trained to make1 a diagnosis4 4 4 4 ,after all1 the patient may reason1 how can you hope to deal with my condition if you aren't knowledgeable enough to call it by name8 ,it is not necessary to name diseases in order to exercise dominion over them4 ,dr4 ,bernard ,jensen1 ,visions of ,health4 ,in self defense1 ,i must make it very clear from the first word that hygienists and most other naturopaths of various persuasions1 and especially ,i myself1 have never in the past1 never61 and do not now1 diagnose1 treat or offer to cure1 disease or illness4 ,diagnosis and curing are sole1 exclusive privileges of certified1 duly-licensed medical doctors and may only be done with a grant of ,authority to do so from the ,state4 ,should an unlicensed person diagnose1 offer to treat or attempt to cure disease or illness1 they will have committed a felonious act4 ,with big penalties4 ,therefore1 ,i do not do it4 ,when one of my clients comes to me and says that a medical doctor says they have some disease or other1 ,i agree that the medical doctor says they have some disease or other1 and ,i never dare say that they don't4 ,or even confirm on my own authority that ,i think they do have some disease or other4 ,what ,i can legally do for a client is to analyze the state of their body and its organs1 looking for weaknesses and apparent allergies4 ,i can lawfully state that ,i think their liver tests weak1 the pancreas appears not to be functioning well in terms of handling meat digestion1 that the kidney is having a hard time of it4 ,i can say ,i see a lump sticking out of their body when one is obviously sticking out of their body2 ,i can not say that lump is cancerous but ,i can state that the cells in that lump test overly strong and that if ,i myself had a mass of growing cells testing overly strong and if ,i believed in the standard medical model1 then ,i would be rushing my overly strong testing cells to an oncologist4 ,but ,i don't dare say the person has a cancer4 ,or diabetes4 ,or is getting close to kidney failure4 ,that is a diagnosis4 ,to me1 diagnosis is a form of magic rite in which the physician discovers the secret name of the devil that is inhabiting one's body and then1 knowing that secret name1 performs the correct rite and ritual to cast that demon out4 ,i don't know why people are made so happy knowing the name of their condition6 ,does it really matter8 ,either the body can heal the condition or it can't4 ,if it can1 you will recover 7especially if you give the body a little help74 ,if the body can't heal a condition you will die or live a long time being miserable4 ,no scientific medical magic can do better than that4 ,by describing a disease in terms of its related organ weaknesses1 instead of pinning a ,latin name on it1 ,i am able to assist the body to achieve recovery in a superior way that the physician rarely does4 ,by discovering that the body with the lump of overly strong cells also has a weak spleen1 liver and thymus gland1 ,i can take actions to strengthen the spleen1 liver and thymus4 ,if the body can strengthen its spleen1 liver and thymus1 then the overly strong cells miraculously vanish4 ,but of course ,i and what ,i did did not cure any disease4 ,any improvements that happen ,i assign 7correctly7 to the body's own healing power4 ,the way ,i analyze the organic integrity of the body is through a number of related methods1 including the general appearance of the body1 the patient's health history1 various clues such as body and breath odor1 skin color and tone1 and especially1 biokinesiology1 the applied science of muscle testing4 ,biokinesiology can be used to test the strength or weakness of specific organs and their function4 ,a weak latissimus dorsi muscle indicates a weak pancreas1 for example4 ,specific acupuncture points can be tested in conjunction with muscle strength to indicate the condition of specific organs or glands4 ,the strength of the arm's resistance to downward pressure could be calibrated with a spring scale and precisely gauged1 but experienced practitioners have no need for this bother1 because they are able to pick up subtle changes in the arms resistance that are not apparent to the testee4 ,thus muscle testing becomes an art form1 and becomes as effective as the person using it is sensitive and aware4 ,biokinesiology works because every organ and gland in the body is interconnected with other parts of the body through nerve pathways and nerve transmissions1 which are electrical and can be measured through muscle testing4 ,this may seem too esoteric for the scientific among you1 but acupuncture points and energy manifestations around and in the body--are now accepted phenomena1 their reality demonstrated by special kinds of photography4 ,acupuncturists1 who heal by manipulating the body's energy field with metal needles1 are now widely accepted in the western hemisphere4 ,kinesiology utilizes the same acupuncture points 7and some others too7 for analytic purposes so it is sometimes called contact reflex analysis4 ,i have studied and used ,kinesiology for #be years with the majority of my clients with very good success4 ,there are some few people who are very difficult to test because they are either too debilitated1 lack electrical conductivity1 or their state of mind is so skeptical and negative about this type of approach that they put up an impenetrable mental barrier and_/or hold their body so rigidly that ,i can hardly determine a response4 ,a skilled can overcome the obstacle of a weak body that can barely respond1 but the person who is mentally opposed and determined to prove you wrong should not be tested4 ,if you proceed it is sure to have an unsatisfactory outcome for all concerned4 ,for even if ,i manage to accurately analyze the condition of a skeptical client1 they will never believe the analysis and will not follow suggestions4 ,the scientific1 open-minded1 reasonable client can be better approached using an academic-like discussion based on published literature that demonstrates how people with similar symptoms and complaints do very well on a particular dietary regimen and supplements4 ,this type of person will sometimes follow dietary recommendations to the last letter1 because their scientific background has trained them to be obedient4 ,when a client comes to me1 ,i like to take a real good look at who is sitting in front of me4 ,i take my leisure to find out all about their history1 their complaints1 their motivation to change1 their experience with natural healing1 their level of personal responsibility1 whether or not they have to work1 whether or not they can take time out to heal1 will they fast or take supplements1 do they have sufficient finances to carry a program through to a successful completion1 do they have people closely connected to them that are strongly opposed to alternative approaches1 can they withstand some discomfort and self-denial1 do they have toxic relationships with other people that are contributing to their condition1 are they willing to read and educate themselves in greater depth about natural healing1 etc4 ,i need to know the answers to these questions in order to help them choose a program which is most likely to succeed4 ,even though fasting is the most effective method ,i know of1 it is not for people who are compelled to keep up a work schedule1 nor is it for people who are very ill and do not have anyone to assist them and supervise them4 ,nor is it for people who do not understand fasting and are afraid of it4 ,people who have associates that are opposed to it1 and people who do not have a strongly-functioning liver or kidneys should not fast either4 ,seriously ill people that have been on a meat-heavy diet with lots of addicting substances need a long runway into a fast so as to not overwhelm their organs of elimination4 ,does the person in front of me have an eating disorder1 or an otherwise suicidal approach to fasting1 etc4 ,clearly fasting is not for everyone1 and if ,i recommend it to the wrong person1 the result will be a bad reputation for a marvelous tool4 ,given that many clients can not fast without a lot of preparation1 the majority of my clients start out with a gentle detox program that takes considerably more time1 but works4 ,these gradients have been outlined under the healing programs for the chronically ill1 acutely ill1 etc4 ,to help rebuild poorly functioning organs1 ,i sometimes use a specialized group of food supplements called protomorphogens4 ,these are not readily available to the general public and perhaps should not be casually purchasable like vitamins1 because1 as with many prescription drugs1 supervision is usually necessary for their successful use4 ,if the ,,fda ever succeeds at making protomorphogens unavailable to me1 ,i could still have very good results4 7,at this time the ,canadian authorities do not allow importation of protomorphogens for resale1 though individuals can usually clear small shipments through ,canada ,customs if for their own personal use47 ,but protomorphogens do facilitate healing and sometimes permit healing to occur at a lower gradient of handling4 ,without them a body might have to fast to heal1 with the aid of protomorphogens a person might be able to get better without fasting4 ,and if protomorphogens are used 7chewed up--ugh67 while fasting1 healing is accelerated4 ,protomorphogens are made from freeze-dried1 organically-raised animal organ meats 7usually calf or lamb7 combined with very specific vitamins1 herbs and other co-factors to potentiate the effect4 ,i view protomorphogens as containing nutritional supplementation specific for the rebuilding of the damaged organ4 ,doctor ,royal ,lee1 a medical genius who developed protomorphogens therapy in the #ejs and who spent several stints in prison in exchange for his benevolence and concern for human well-being1 also founded the company that has supplied me with protomorphogens4 ,after decades of official persecution and denial of the efficacy of protomorphogens by the power structure1 it looks like they are about to finally have their day4 ,as ,i write this book cutting-edge medical research companies are developing therapies using concentrated animal proteins 7protomorphogens7 to treat arthritis1 multiple sclerosis1 eye inflamations and juvenile diabetes4 ,the researchers talk as though they are highly praiseworthy for discovering this approach4 ,unfortunately1 this development is likely to cut two ways4 ,on one hand1 it vindicates ,dr4 ,lee2 on the other1 when these drug companies find a way to patent their materials1 they may finally succeed at forcing protomorphogens 7currently quite inexpensive7 off the non-prescription market and into the restricted and profitable province of the ,,md4 ,i divide clients into two basic types3 simple cases and complex ones4 ,when ,i was treating mental illness1 occasionally ,i had a client who had not been sick for too long4 ,i could usually make this client well quite easily4 ,but if the person had already become institutionalized1 had been psychotic for many years1 had received much prior treatment1 then their case had been made much more difficult4 ,this sort had a poor prognosis4 ,a very similar situation exists with physical illnesses4 ,many people get sick only because they lack information about how to keep themselves healthy and about what made them sick4 ,once they find out the truth1 they take my medicine without complaint and almost inevitably get better very rapidly4 ,some of these people can be quite ill when they first come to me but usually they have not been sick for very long4 ,their intention when coming into my office is very positive and have no counter intentions to getting better4 ,there are no spiritual or psychological reasons that they deserve to be sick4 ,if this person had not found me1 they almost certainly would have found some other practitioner who would have made them well4 ,this type of person honestly feels they are entitled to wellness4 ,and they are4 ,however1 some of the sick are not sick for lack of life-style information2 they suffer from a mental_/spiritual malady as well1 one that inevitably preceded their illness by many years4 ,in fact1 their physical ailments are merely reflections of underlying problems4 ,this patient's life is usually a snarl of upsets1 problems1 and guilty secrets4 ,their key relationships are usually vicious or unhealthy4 ,their level of interpersonal honesty may be poor4 ,there are usually many things about their lives they do not confront and so1 can not change4 ,with this type of case1 all the physical healing in the world will not make them permanently better because the mental and emotional stresses they live under serve as a constant source of enervation4 ,cases like this usually do not have only one thing wrong with them4 ,they almost always have been sick for a long time2 most have been what ,i call doctor hoppers1 confused by contrary diagnoses and conflicting ,,md opinions4 ,when ,i get a case like this ,i know from the first that healing is going to be a long process1 and a dubious one at that4 ,on the physical level1 their body will only repair one aspect of their multiple illnesses at a time4 ,simultaneously1 they must be urged to confront their life on a gentle gradient4 ,there is usually a lot of backsliding and rollercoastering4 ,the detoxification process1 physical and psychological1 can take several years and must happen on all the levels of their life4 ,this kind of case sees only gradual improvement interspersed with periods of worsening that indicate there remains yet another level of mental unawareness that has to be unraveled4 ,few medical doctors or holistic therapists really understand or can help this kind of case4 ,to do so1 the doctor has to be in touch with their own reactive mind and their own negative1 evil impulses 7which virtually all humans have74 ,few people1 including therapists1 are willing to be aware of their own dark side4 ,but when we deny it in ourselves1 we must pretend it doesn't exist in others1 and become its victim instead of conquering it4 ,anyone who denies that they have or are influenced by their own darker aspects who seem to be totally sweet and light1 is lying2 proof of this is that they still are here on ,earth4 ,all this generalizing about diagnostic methods and clinical approaches could go on for chapters and more chapters1 and writing them would be fine if ,i were teaching a group of health clinicians that were reading this book to become better practitioners4 ,but ,i'm sure most of my readers are far more interested in some complaint of their own or in the health problem of a loved one1 and are intensely interested in one might go about handling various conditions and complaints1 what types of organ weaknesses are typically associated with them1 and what approaches ,i usually recommend to encourage healing4 ,and1 most importantly1 what kind of success or lack of it have ,i had over the past twenty five years1 encouraging the healing of various conditions with hygienic methods4 ,in the case studies that follow ,i will mostly report the simpler1 easier-to-fix problems because that is what most people have2 still1 many of these involve life-threatening or quality-of-life-destroying illnesses4 ,i will tell the success story of one very complicated1 long-suffering case that involved multiple levels of psychological and spiritual handling as well as considerable physical healing4 ,arthritis ,some years back my #gj years old mother came from the family homestead in the wilds of northern ,british ,columbia to visit me at the ,great ,oaks ,school4 ,she had gotten into pathetic physical condition4 ,fifteen years previously she had remarried4 ,tom1 her new husband1 had been a gold prospector and general mountain man1 a wonderfully independent and cantankerous cuss1 a great hunter and wood chopper and all around good-natured backwoods homestead handyman4 ,tom had tired of solitary log cabin life and to solve his problem had taken on the care and feeding of a needy widow1 my mom4 ,he began doing the cooking and menu planning4 ,tom1 a little older than my mother1 had no sense about eating but could still shoot game4 ,ever since their marriage she had been living on moose meat stews with potatoes and gravy1 white flour bread with jam1 black tea with canned milk1 a ritual glass of brandy at bedtime1 and almost no fresh fruit or vegetables4 ,in her youth1 my mother had been a concert pianist2 now she had such large arthritic knobs on all of her knuckles that her hands had become claws4 ,though there was still that very same fine upright in the cabin that ,i had learned to play as a child1 she had long since given up the piano4 ,her knees also had large arthritic knobs2 this proud woman with a straight back and long1 flowing strides was bent over1 limping along with a cane4 ,she was also #cj pounds overweight and her blood pressure was a very dangerous #baj over #adj1 just asking for a stroke4 ,instead of a welcoming feast1 the usual greeting offered to a loved one who has not been seen for a few years1 ,i immediately started her on a juice fast4 ,i gave her freshly prepared carrot juice 7one quart daily7 mixed with wheat grass juice 7three ounces daily7 plus daily colonics4 ,she had no previous experience with these techniques but she gamely accepted everything ,i threw her way because she knew ,i was doing it because ,i loved her and wanted to see her in better condition4 ,she also received a daily full body massage with particular attention to the hand and knees1 stimulating the circulation to the area and speeding the removal of wastes4 ,every night her hands and knees were wrapped in warm castor oil compresses held in place with old sheeting4 ,i did not use any vitamins or food supplements in her case4 ,i did give her flavorful herbal teas made of peppermint and chamomile because she needed the comfort of a hot cupa2 but these teas were in no way medicinal except for her morale4 ,in three weeks on this program1 ,grannybelle1 as ,i and my daughters called her1 had no unsightly knobs remaining on either her knuckles or knees and she could walk and move her fingers without pain within a normal range of movement4 ,the big payoff for me besides seeing her look so wonderful 7#bj years younger and #bj pounds lighter7 was to hear her sit down and treat us to a ,beethoven recital4 ,and her blood pressure was #acj over #ij4 ,breast ,cancer ,i have worked with many young women with breast cancer2 so many in fact1 that their faces and cases tend to blur4 ,but whenever ,i think about them1 ,kelly inevitably comes to mind because we became such good friends4 ,like me1 ,kelly was an independent-minded back country ,canuck4 ,at the age #bf1 she received a medical diagnosis of breast cancer4 ,kelly had already permitted a lumpectomy and biopsy1 but had studied the statistical outcomes and did not want to treat her illness with radical mastectomy1 radiation and chemotherapy because she knew her odds of long-term survival without radical medical treatment were equal to or better than allowing the doctors to do everything possible4 ,nor did she want to lose even one of her breasts4 ,she knew how useful her breasts were because she had already suckled one child1 not to mention their contribution to one's own self-image as a whole person4 ,i admired ,kelly's unusual independent-mindedness because she comes from a country where universal health coverage is in place2 her insurance would have paid all the costs had she been willing to accept conventional medicine1 but ,canadian national health insurance does not cover alternative therapy4 ,kelly stayed with me for nearly two months as a residential faster1 because she needed to be far from the distractions of a troubled family life4 ,with financial support from her parents and child-care from her friends she was able to take time out to give the recovery of health top priority in her life without worrying about whether her small son was being well cared for4 ,this peace of mind was also very important to her recovery4 ,analysis with biokinesiology showed a pervasively weak immune system1 including a weak thymus gland1 spleen1 and an overloaded lymphatic system4 ,her liver was weak1 but not as weak as it might have been1 because she had become a vegetarian1 and had been working on her health in a haphazard fashion for a few years4 ,kelly's body also showed weaknesses in pancreatic and adrenal function as well as a toxic colon4 ,most immediately worrisome to her1 biokinesiology testing showed several over-strong testing lumpy areas in the breasts and over-strong testing lumpy lymph nodes in the armpits4 ,cancerous tumors always test overly strong ,kelly's earlier life-style had contributed to her condition in several ways4 ,she had worked for years in a forestry tree nursery handling seedling trees treated with highly toxic chemicals4 ,she had worked as a cook in a logging camp for several seasons1 eating too much meat and greasy food4 ,and she had also spent the usual number of adolescent and young adult years deeply involved in recreational drug use and the bad diet that went with it4 ,kelly started right in on a rigorous water fast that lasted for one entire month4 ,she had a colonic every day1 plus body work including reflexology1 holding and massage of neurolymphatic and neurovascular points1 and stimulation of acupuncture points related to weak organ systems and general massage to stimulate overall circulation and lymphatic drainage4 ,she took protomorphogens to help rebuild her weakened organs2 she took ten grams of vitamin ,c every day and a half-dose of life extension vitamin mix in assimilable powdered form2 she drank herbal teas of echinacea and fenugreek seeds and several ounces of freshly squeezed wheat grass juice every day4 ,twice each day she made poultices out of clay and the pulp left over from making her wheat grass juice1 filled an old bra with this mixture and pressed it to her breast for several hours until the clay dried4 ,shortly1 ,i will explain all the measures in some detail4 ,these physical therapies were accompanied by counseling sessions dealing with some severe and long-unresolved problems1 response patterns and relationships that triggered her present illness4 ,her son's father 7,kelly's ex7 was suppressive and highly intimidating4 ,fearful of him1 ,kelly seemed unable to successfully extricate herself from the relationship due to the ongoing contact which revolved over visitation and care of their son4 ,but ,kelly had grit6 ,while fasting1 she confronted these tough issues in her life and unflinchingly made the necessary decisions4 ,when she returned to ,canada she absolutely decided1 without any nagging doubts1 reservations or qualifications1 to make any changes necessary to ensure her survival4 ,only after having made these hard choices could she heal4 ,i one respect1 ,kelly was a highly unusual faster4 ,throughout the entire month on water1 ,kelly took daily long walks1 frequently stopping to lie down and rest in the sun on the way4 ,she would climb to or from the top of a very large and steep hill nearby4 ,she never missed a day1 rain or shine4 ,at the end of her month on water ,kelly's remaining breast lumps had disappeared1 the lymphatic system and immune system tested strong1 as well as the liver1 pancreas1 adrenals1 and large intestine4 ,no areas tested overly strong4 ,she broke the fast with the same discipline she had conducted it1 on carrot juice1 a cup every two hours4 ,after three days on juice she began a raw food diet with small servings of greens and sprouts well chewed1 interspersed at two hour intervals with fresh juicy fruits4 ,after about ten days on rabbit food1 she eased into avocados1 cooked vegetables1 nuts1 seeds1 and whole grains and then went home4 ,as ,i write this1 it is eight years since ,kelly's long fast4 ,she still comes to see me every few years to check out her diet and just say hello4 ,she has had two more children by a new1 and thoroughly wonderful husband and suckled them both for two years each2 her peaceful rural life centers around this new1 happy family and the big1 ,organic garden she grows4 ,she religiously takes her life extension vitamins and keeps her dietary and life-style indiscretions small and infrequent4 ,she is probably going to live a long1 time4 ,i consider ,kelly's cluster of organ weaknesses very typical of all cancers regardless of type or location1 as well as being typical of ,,aids and other critical infections by organisms that usually reside in the human body without causing trouble 7called opportunistic74 ,all these diseases are varieties of immune system failure4 ,all of these conditions present a similar pattern of immune system weaknesses4 ,they all center around what ,i call the deadly triangle1 comprised of a weak thymus gland1 weak spleen1 and a weak liver4 ,the thymus and spleen form the core of the body's immune system4 ,the weak liver contributes to a highly toxic system that further weakens the immune system4 ,to top it off1 people with cancer invariably have a poor ability to digest cooked protein 7animal or vegetable7 7usually from a weak pancreas unable to make enough digestive enzymes7 and eat too much of it1 giving them a very toxic colon1 and an overloaded lymphatic system4 ,whenever ,i analyze someone with this pattern1 especially the entire deadly triangle1 ,i let the person know that if ,i had those particular weaknesses ,i would consider my survival to be at immediate risk ,i'd consider it an emergency situation demanding vigorous attention4 ,it does not matter if they don't yet have a tumor1 or fibroid1 or opportunistic infection2 if they don't already have something of that nature they soon will4 ,here's yet another example of why ,i disapprove of diagnosis4 ,by giving the condition a name like lymphoma or melanoma1 chronic fatigue syndrome ,epstein-,barr syndrome or ,,aids1 systemic yeast infection1 hepatitis or what have1 people think the doctor then understands their disease4 ,but the doctor rarely understands that all these seemingly different diseases are essentially the same disease--a toxic body with a dysfunctional immune system4 ,what is relevant is that a person with the deadly triangle must strengthen their immune system1 and their pancreas1 and their liver1 and detoxify their body immediately4 ,if these repairs are accomplished in time1 the condition goes away1 whatever its ,latin name may have been4 ,now1 about some of the adjuncts to ,kelly's healing4 ,let me stress here that had none of these substances or practices been used1 she probably still would have recovered4 ,perhaps a bit more slowly4 ,perhaps a bit less comfortably4 ,conversely1 had ,kelly treated her cancer with every herb1 poultice and vitamin known to man but had neglected fasting and colonics1 she might well have died4 ,it has been wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctly determine differences1 similarities1 and importances4 ,i want my readers to be intelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment and useful supporting practices4 ,echinacea and chaparral leaves1 red clover flowers1 and fenugreek seeds are made into medicinal teas that ,i find very helpful in detoxification programs1 because they all are aggressive blood or lymph cleansers and boost the immune response4 ,these same teas can be used to help the body throw off a cold1 flu1 or other acute illness but they have a much more powerful effect on a fasting body than on one that is eating4 ,echinacea and chaparral are extraordinarily bitter and may be better accepted if ground up and encapsulated1 or mixed with other teas with pleasant flavors such as peppermint or lemon grass4 ,these teas should be simmered until they are at the strongest concentration palatable1 drinking three or four cups of this concentrate a day4 ,if you use echinacea1 then chaparral probably isn't necessary and visa versa4 ,red clover is another blood cleanser1 perhaps a little less effective but it has a pleasant1 sweet taste and may be better accepted by the squeamish4 ,if there is lymphatic congestion ,i always include fenugreek seed tea brewed at the strength of approximately one tablespoon of seeds to a quart of water4 ,expect the tea to be brown1 thick and mucilaginous1 with a reasonably pleasant taste reminiscent of maple syrup4 ,kelly used poultices of clay and wheat grass pulp on her lumps1 somewhat like the warm castor oil poultices ,i used on my mother's arthritic deposits4 ,poultices not only feel very comforting1 but they have the effect of softening up deposits and tumors so that a detoxifying1 fasting body is more able to re absorb them4 ,poultices draw1 pulling toxins out through the skin1 unburdening the liver4 ,clay 7freshly-mixed potters clay ,i purchase from a potters' guild71 mixed with finely chopped or blended young wheat grass 7in emergencies ,i've even used lawn grasses7 makes excellent drawing poultices4 ,without clay1 ,i've also used vegetable poultices made of chopped or blended comfrey leaves1 comfrey root1 slightly cooked 7barely wilted7 cabbage leaves1 slightly steamed onion or garlic 7cooked just enough to soften it74 ,these are very effective to soften tumors1 abscesses and ulcers4 ,aloe poultices are good on burns4 ,poultices should be thought of as helpful adjuncts to other1 more powerful healing techniques and not as remedies all by themselves1 except for minor skin problems4 ,poultices1 to be effective1 need to be troweled on half an inch thick1 extending far beyond the effected area1 covered with cheese cloth or rags torn from old cotton sheets so they don't dry out too fast4 ,fresh poultices needs to be applied several times daily4 ,they also need to be left on the body until they do dry4 ,then poultices are thrown away1 to be followed by another as often as patience will allow4 ,do not cover poultices tightly with plastic because if they don't dry out they won't draw much4 ,the drawing is in the drying4 ,sometimes poultices cause a tumor or deposit to be expelled through the skin rather than being adsorbed1 all with rather spectacular pus and gore4 ,this phenomena is actually beneficial and should be welcomed because anytime the body can push toxins out through the skin1 the burden on the organs of elimination are lessened4 ,wheat grass juice has a powerful anti-tumor effect1 is very perishable1 is laborious to make1 but is worth the effort because it contains powerful enzymes and nutrients that help detoxify and heal when taken internally or applied to the skin4 ,as a last resort with dying patients who can no longer digest anything taken by mouth ,i've implanted wheat grass juice rectally 7in a cleansed colon74 ,some of them haven't died4 ,you probably can't buy wheat grass juice that retains much medicinal effect because it needs to be very fresh and should be drunk within minutes of squeezing4 ,chilled sharply and immediately after squeezing it might maintain some potency for an hour or two4 ,extracting juice from grass takes a special press that resembles a meat grinder4 ,the wheat is grown in transplant or seedling trays in bright light4 ,i know someone who uses old plastic cafeteria trays for this4 ,the seed is soaked overnight1 spread densely atop a tray1 covered shallowly with fine soil1 kept moist but not soggy4 ,when the grass is about four inches high1 begin harvesting by cutting off the leaves with a scissors and juicing them4 ,if the tray contains several inches of soil you usually get a second cutting of leaves4 ,you need to start a new tray every few days2 one tray can be cut for three or four days4 7,kulvinskas1 #aige7 ,more wheat grass juice is not better than just enough2 three ounces a day is plenty6 ,it is a very powerful substance6 ,the flavor of wheat grass juice is so intense that some people have to mix it with carrot juice to get it down4 ,,do ,,not ,,overuse4 ,the energizing effects of wheat grass can be so powerful that some people make a regular practice of drinking it4 ,however1 ,i've seen many people who use wheat grass juice as a tonic become allergic to it much as antibiotic dependent people do to antibiotics4 ,better to save wheat grass for emergencies4 ,i also have treated my own breast cancers--twice4 ,the first time ,i was only #bc years old4 ,one night ,i noticed that it hurt to sleep the way ,i usually did on my left side because there was a hard lump in my left breast4 ,it was quite large--about the size of a goose egg4 ,having just completed ,,rn training two years prior1 ,i had been well brain washed about my poor prognosis and knew exactly what requisite actions must taken4 ,i scheduled a biopsy under anesthetic1 so that if the tumor was malignant they could proceed to full mastectomy without delay4 ,i was ignorant of any alternative course of action at the time4 ,i might add that before ,i grew my first tumor ,i had been consuming large amounts of red meat in a mistaken understanding gained in nursing school that a good diet contained large amounts of animal protein4 ,in addition to the stress of being a full time psychology graduate student existing on a very low budget1 ,i was experiencing ,i very frustrating relationship with a young man that left me constantly off center and confused4 ,a biopsy was promptly performed4 ,the university hospital's ,,sop required that three pathologists make an independent decision about the nature of a tumor before proceeding with radical surgery4 ,two of the pathologist agreed that my tumor was malignant1 which represented the required majority vote4 ,but the surgeon removed only the lump1 which he said was well encapsulated and for some reason did not proceed with a radical mastectomy4 ,these days many surgeons routinely limit themselves to lumpectomies4 ,i never did find out why ,i awakened from general anesthetic with two breasts1 but ,i have since supposed that due to my tender age the surgeon was reluctant to disfigure me without at least asking me for permission1 or giving me some time to prepare psychologically4 ,when ,i came out of anesthesia he told me that the lump was malignant1 and that he had removed it1 and that he needed to do a radical mastectomy to improve my prognosis over the next few years4 ,he asked me to think it over1 but he signed me up on his surgery list for the following ,monday4 ,i did think it over and found ,i was profoundly annoyed at the idea of being treated like ,i was just a statistic1 so ,i decided that ,i would be unique4 ,i made a firm decision that ,i would be well and stay well--and ,i was for the next fifteen years4 ,the decision healed me4 ,when ,i was #cg ,i had a recurrence4 ,at the time ,i had in residence ,ethyl and ,marge1 the two far-gone breast cancer cases ,i already told you about4 ,i also had in residence a young woman with a breast tumor who had not undergone any medical treatment1 not even a lumpectomy4 7,i will relate her case in detail shortly47 ,i was too identified emotionally with helping these three1 overly-empathetic due to my own history4 ,i found myself taking on their symptoms and their pain4 ,i went so far into sympathy as to grow back my tumor--just as it had the first time--a lump mushroomed from nothing to the size of a goose egg in only three weeks in exactly the same place as the first one4 ,just out of curiosity ,i went in for a needle biopsy4 ,once again it was judged to be malignant1 and ,i got the same pressure from the surgeon for immediate surgery4 ,this time1 however1 ,i had an alternative system of healing that ,i believed in4 ,so ,i went home1 continued to care for my very sick residents1 and began to work on myself4 ,the first thing ,i had to confront about myself was that ,i was being a compassionate fool4 ,i needed to learn how to maintain my own personal boundaries1 and clearly delineate what stuff in my mind and my body was really mine and what was another's4 ,i needed to apply certain mental techniques of self-protection known to and practiced by many healers4 ,i knew beyond doubt that ,i had developed sympathetic breast cancer because a similar phenomena had happened to me before4 ,once1 when ,i had previously been working on a person with very severe back pain with hands-on techniques1 ,i suddenly had the pain1 and the client was totally free of it4 ,so ,i protected myself when working with sick people4 ,i would wash my hands and arms thoroughly with cold water1 or with water and vinegar after contact4 ,i would shake off their energy1 have a cold shower1 walk bare foot on the grass1 and visualize myself well with intact boundaries4 ,these prophylaxes had been working for me1 but ,i was particularly vulnerable to people with breast cancer4 ,i also began detoxification dieting1 took more supplements1 and used acupressure and reflexology as my main lines of attack4 ,my healing diet consisted of raw food exclusively4 ,i allowed myself fruits 7not sweet fruits7 and vegetables 7including a lot of raw cabbage because vegetables in the cabbage family such as cauliflower and broccoli are known to have a healing effect on cancer71 raw almonds1 raw apricot kernels1 and some sprouted grains and legumes4 ,i drank diluted carrot juice1 and a chlorophyll drink made up of wheat grass and barley green and aloe vera juice4 ,i took echinaechia1 red clover1 and fenugreek seeds4 ,i worked all the acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system1 including the thymus gland1 lymph nodes1 and spleen4 ,i also worked the meridians1 and reflex points for the liver1 and large intestine4 ,i massaged the breast along the natural lines of lymphatic drainage from the area4 ,last1 and of great importance1 ,i knew that the treatment would work1 and that the tumor would quickly disappear4 ,it did vanish totally in three months4 ,it would have gone away quicker if ,i had water fasted1 but ,i was unable to do this because ,i needed physical strength to care for my resident patients and family4 ,eighteen years have passed since that episode1 and ,i have had no further reappearance of breast tumors4 ,at age #ee ,i still have all my body parts1 and have had no surgery except the original lumpectomy4 ,many1 viewing my muscles and athletic performance1 would say my health is exceptional but ,i know my own frailties and make sure ,i do not aggravate them4 ,i still have exactly the same organ deficiencies as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on my lifestyle4 ,if for some reason ,i wanted to make my life very short1 all ,i would have to do would be to abandon my diet1 stop taking supplements1 eat red meat and ice cream every day and be unhappy about something4 ,incidentally1 ,i have had many residential clients with breast cancer since then1 and have not taken on their symptoms1 so ,i can assume that ,i have safely passed that hurdle4 ,i've helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where my treatment began before the cancer broadly spread4 ,kelly's case was not the easiest of this group1 nor the hardest4 ,sometimes there was lymphatic involvement that the medical doctors had not yet treated in any way4 ,all but one of my early-onset breast cancer cases recovered4 ,i believe those are far better results than achieved by ,,ama treatment4 ,before ,i crow too much1 let me stress that every one of these women was a good candidate for recovery--under #dj years old1 ambulatory and did not feel very sick4 ,and most importantly1 every one of them had received no other debilitating medical treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lumpectomy4 ,none of these women had old tumors 7known about for more than six months7 and none of the tumors were enormous 7nothing larger than a walnut74 ,clearly1 this group is not representative of the average breast cancer case4 ,hygienic therapy for cancer is a radical idea these days and tends to attract younger people1 or older1 desperate people who have already been through the works4 ,in every one of my simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by the body during the thirty days of water fasting and the client left happy4 ,except one4 ,i think ,i should describe this unsuccessful case1 this dirty case1 so my readers get a more balanced idea of how fearsome cancer really isn't if the sick person can clearly resolve to get better and has no problem about achieving wellness4 ,marie was an artisan and musician from ,seattle who grew up back ,east in an upper-middle class dysfunctional family4 ,she was in her late twenties4 ,she had been sexually abused by an older brother1 was highly reactive1 and had never been able to communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover 7maybe1 about some things74 ,three years prior to coming to see me ,marie had been medically diagnosed as having breast cancer and had been advised to have immediate surgery4 ,she ignored this advice2 ,marie never told her friends1 said nothing to her family and tried to conceal it from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life together4 ,on her own1 she did begin eating a ,macrobiotic diet4 ,in spite of this diet1 the tumor grew1 but grew very slowly4 ,after two years the tumor was discovered by her lover1 who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments1 forced ,marie to seek treatment4 ,since ,marie adamantly refused to go the conventional medical route1 she ended up on my doorstep as a compromise4 ,by this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken through the skin of the left breast4 ,it was very ugly1 very hard4 ,biokinesiology showed the usual deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typical of cancer4 ,marie began fasting on water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and counseling and supplements4 ,at the end of the water fast1 ,marie looked much healthier1 with clear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her1 but the tumor had only receded enough for the skin to close over it2 it was still large1 and very hard4 ,to fully heal1 ,marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal length interspersed with a few months on a raw food diet4 ,but she lacked the personal toughness to confront another fast in the near future4 ,nor was she emotionally up to what she regarded as the deprivation of a long-term raw foods healing diet4 ,so ,i advised her to seek other treatment4 ,still unwilling to accept standard medical management of her case1 ,marie chose to go to the ,philippines to have psychic surgery4 ,she was excited and optimistic about this2 ,i was interested myself because ,i was dubious about this magical procedure2 if ,marie went ,i would have a chance to see the results 7if any7 on a person ,i was very familiar with4 ,marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover1 against ,marie's directly-stated wishes1 called her parents and informed them of what was happening4 ,the parents had known nothing of ,marie's cancer and were shocked1 upset1 outraged6 ,they had not known ,marie was a lesbian1 much less that their daughter was flirting with 7from their view7 obvious quackery4 ,their daughter needed immediate saving and her parents and brother 7the one who had abused her7 flew to ,oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of violent rage4 ,they threatened lawsuits1 police1 incarceration1 they threatened to have their daughter civilly committed as unable to take care of herself4 ,they thought everything ,marie had done for the last three years was my fault4 ,i was lucky to stay out of jail4 ,of course1 all of this was why ,marie had not told them in the first place2 she had wanted to avoid this kind of a scene4 ,marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of her immediate family4 ,they put her in a hospital1 where ,marie had a radical mastectomy1 chemotherapy and radiation4 ,assured that they had done everything that should have been done1 the self-righteous parents went back home4 ,marie never recovered from chemotherapy and radiation4 ,she died in the hospital surrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated1 ever-so-sympathetic turns maintaining an emotional round-the-clock vigil4 ,marie's death was partly my fault4 ,she was an early case of mine4 ,at the time ,i did not yet understand the total effect of lack of ethics and irresponsibility on illness4 ,had ,marie really wanted to live in the first place1 she would have sought treatment three years earlier4 ,in our counseling sessions she always evaded this question and ,i had not been wise enough to pin her down with my knee on her chest and make her answer up4 ,marie had too many secrets from everybody and was never fully honest in any of her relationships1 including with me4 ,i think she only came to ,great ,oaks at her lover's insistence and to the day she died was trying to pretend that nothing was wrong4 ,all ,marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving attention4 ,in the end1 her dramatic death scene gave her that1 which is probably why she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually1 died from it4 ,the name for this game is secondary gain4 ,a lot of sick people are playing it4 ,their illness lets them win their deepest desire2 they get love1 attention1 revenge1 sympathy1 complete service1 pampering1 create guilt in others4 ,when sick people receive too much secondary gain they never get well4 ,one of the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever-enlarging series of dirty1 failed cases like this one4 ,it is depressing and makes a person want to quit doctoring4 ,whenever ,i get involved with a case ,i really want them to get better4 ,my life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealing with a residential faster4 ,my schedule is disrupted2 my family life suffers2 my personal health suffers4 ,no amount of mere money could pay for this4 ,and then some of these people go and waste all my help to accomplish some discreditable secret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others4 ,constant ,complaints ,alice was a middle-aged woman who couldn't understand why she had always felt tired1 even when she was young4 ,her life had been this way ever since she could remember4 ,most puzzling to her was why her life was so ,job-like4 ,she did everything the proper way4 ,doing things correctly was important to her1 and fitted her ,puritan background4 ,alice supported all the right causes1 did good works1 was active in a ,unitarian church and bought all her food at the healthfood store--and made sure it was organically grown4 ,but in spite of ,alice's righteous living1 her existence was a treadmill of constant1 minor complaints4 ,she was constantly exhausted1 so much so she had difficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatigue syndrome 7whatever that is74 ,alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts like these1 and had many acute illnesses like colds that hung on interminably and would not go away4 ,she had a constant post-nasal drip4 ,though she enjoyed life1 her body was a millstone around her neck4 ,i've had a lot of clients exactly like ,alice4 ,sometimes they complain of headaches2 sometimes constant yeast or bladder infections4 ,whatever the complaints1 the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves as someone who is seriously ill1 but their symptoms rarely go away and they almost never feel good4 ,medical doctors rarely find anything wrong with them1 though they will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection1 or an antihistamine for sinus symptoms4 ,getting a new prescription drug makes the complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is lowered again and the very same complaint returns4 ,these people frequently depend on over the counter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedies and antidepressants4 ,if instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fix and afterwards are amazed that it was all that simple and that so much of their life has been less than it could have been4 ,alice had been through the medical doctor route4 ,she had become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu1 and also took synthetic thyroid hormone--the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive thyroid1 which was partly correct--but the thyroid medication didn't give her much more energy4 ,alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand style for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought4 ,i put ,alice through my usual two hour first-time-visit thorough analysis4 ,for two weeks before coming to see me she had saved tiny samples of everything she ate1 wrapped them in plastic film1 carefully labeled1 and put them in the freezer4 ,along with these food samples and a typed list of all these foods1 she brought a big box full of her condiments1 herb teas1 vitamins1 spices1 prescription medications1 over the counter drugs1 oils1 grains1 breads1 crackers and small samples of her usual fresh vegetables and fruits4 ,even her water4 ,her entire kitchen6 ,by biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions4 ,i also tested the integrity of her organs and glands and in the process1 got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints4 ,alice had exhausted adrenals1 and they probably had been that way for thirty years4 ,her pancreas was now too weak to digest the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetarian diet4 ,she was allergic to wheat1 soy1 and dairy products and had especially been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it was necessary to keep up her protein intake4 ,really very typical4 ,so many health food store shoppers these days mistakenly believe that1 because they are vegetarian and do not eat meat1 they especially need to boost their protein intake with dairy and soy4 ,unfortunately1 so many ,north ,americans are highly allergic to dairy and unfortunately1 soy products are as hard or harder to digest than cooked meats4 ,alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods as cabbage family vegetables1 alfalfa sprouts and citrus4 ,most people don't think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sprouts4 ,the doctor was right about one thing2 her thyroid was underperforming4 ,he had not noticed that her heart was weak4 ,medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually begins to catastrophically fail4 ,a busy honest doctor will usually tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them3 go home1 take two aspirin1 accept the fact that your body is not perfect and don't worry about it4 ,a hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests1 seeking any possible reason for the complaint4 ,this can go on as long as the patient has money or as long as the insurance company will pay4 ,they rarely find anything wrong and the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn't discover something serious to treat because their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than the complaint4 ,for example1 ,i have seen dozens of people whose lives were virtually ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain4 ,biokinesiology is actually a far more sensitive system of analysis than lab tests4 ,it picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so total organ failure can be prevented4 ,rarely will any of the organ weaknesses ,i discover be confirmed by a medical doctor4 ,first ,i put ,alice on a six week cleanse4 ,she did one week on fresh1 raw food2 one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy vegetables juice too2 one week on water fasting2 and then she repeated the series4 ,after six weeks of detoxification1 ,i gave ,alice a life extension megavitamin formula1 discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin ,c 7that she had already been taking7 and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakened endocrine system1 her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas4 ,she also began taking pancreatic enzymes when she ate vegetable protein4 ,she was put on a maintenance diet that eliminated foods she was allergic to2 the diet primarily consisted of whole grains1 nuts1 cooked and raw vegetables1 and raw fruits4 ,on her maintenance diet ,alice had a profound resurgence of energy and rediscovered a sense of well-being she had not known for decades4 ,she began to feel like she had when she was a child4 ,her constant sinus drip was gone4 ,she was able to stop taking synthetic thyroid hormones and instead1 supported her endocrine system with protomorphogens4 ,a ,rampaging ,infection ,at the age of #dj1 ,john1 an old bohemian client of mine1 came into a moderate inheritance and went native in the ,fiji ,islands in the ,south ,pacific4 ,he spent about four months hanging out with the locals4 ,life there was so much fun that ,john completely forgot that his body was actually rather delicate1 that many of his organs were weak1 and that to feel good1 he had to live a fairly simon-pure life4 ,but the jovial1 accepting1 devil-may-care ,fijians enjoyed a constant party1 even more so because ,john's money allowed the ,fijians to manifest powerful1 tropical1 home-grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance1 beer and rum and worse1 the ,fijians 7and ,john7 constantly used a very toxic though only mildly-euphoric narcotic called kava1 something ,europeans usually have no genetic resistance to4 ,the ,fijians 7and ,john7 also ate a lot of freshly-caught fish fried in grease1 well-salted1 and huge1 brain-numbing bowls of greasy starches1 foods that they call i'coi1 or real food as opposed to things like fruit and vegetables that aren't real food because they don't knock you to the floor for hours trying to digest them in a somnambulant doze4 ,john miraculously kept up with this party for a few months and then1 while scuba diving1 got some small coral scratches on his leg4 ,these got infected4 ,the infections got worse4 ,soon he had several huge1 suppurating1 ulcerous sores on his legs and worse1 the infections became systemic and began spreading rapidly4 ,he was running a fever and was in considerable pain4 ,so ,john booked an emergency ticket home and fled to find ,doctor ,isabelle4 ,when ,i met his plane he was rolled out in a wheelchair1 unable to walk because of pain and swelling in his legs4 ,john was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment2 he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions that first brought ,john to my care4 ,john used his last strength to get to me because he knew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors would have done exactly as they pleased4 ,i gave ,john a colonic1 a gentle1 mental spanking1 and put him to bed without any supper4 ,he started water fasting and did colonics every day4 ,he began gobbling vitamin ,c 7as calcium ascorbate7 a few grams every hour4 ,i put huge poultices on his sores made of clay and chopped lawn grass 7we needed a week or so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready74 ,john's sores were amazing4 ,every day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body4 ,the old ones kept getting bigger and deeper4 ,the largest original ones were about three inches in diameter1 smelled horribly and had almost eaten the flesh down to the bone4 ,his pain was severe2 there was no position ,john could assume that didn't irritate one sore or another1 and it was a good thing my house was remote because ,john frequently relieved his pain by screaming4 ,john was never delirious1 but he was always original4 ,he did not have to scream1 but enjoyed its relief and howled quite dramatically4 ,i wore earplugs4 ,after about two weeks of water fasting1 ,john counted up the total of his sores4 ,there were forty three4 ,seven or eight of them were enormous1 two or three inches in diameter and well into the flesh1 but the last ones to appear were shallow1 small and stayed small4 ,after that point no more new ones showed up and the body began to make visible headway against the infection4 ,very slowly and then more and more rapidly1 the sores began to close up and heal from the edges4 ,john's fever began to drop4 ,and he had less pain4 ,i should mention that ,john brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism into our house to which we ,americans had no resistance4 ,both my husband and ,i were attacked where the skin had been broken4 ,however1 unlike ,john1 in our cases1 our healthy bodies immediately walled-off the organism and the small1 reddened pustules1 though painful1 did not grow and within a week1 had been conquered by our immune systems4 ,and after that we had an immunity4 ,after about three weeks of his fasting we were thoroughly tired of hearing ,john's cathartic howls1 tired of nursing a sick person4 ,we needed a break4 ,john at this point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better4 ,john had previously water fasted for #cj days and knew the drill very well4 ,so we stocked up the vitamin ,c bottle by his bed and went to town for the weekend to stay in a motel and see a movie4 ,as they say in the ,canadian backwoods1 we were bushed4 ,john had promised to be good4 ,but as soon as we left he decided that since he felt so very much better1 he could break his fast4 ,he knew how to do this and fortunately for him1 7it was very much premature for ,john to eat7 did it more or less correctly1 only eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables4 ,but by the time we got back home three days later1 ,john had relapsed4 ,the pain was rapidly getting much worse2 the sores were growing again and a few small new ones appeared4 ,dr4 ,isabelle again took away his food and gave him another verbal spanking a little more severe than the one he'd had a few weeks earlier and put him to bed again without his supper4 ,after two more weeks on water1 ,john had gained a great deal on the sores4 ,they were filling in and weren't oozing pus1 looked clean and the new forming meat looked a healthy pink instead of purple-black4 ,but ,john had been very slender to start with and by now he was getting near the end of his food reserves4 ,he probably couldn't have fasted on water for more than one more week without starvation beginning4 ,but this time1 when he broke his fast1 it was under close supervision4 ,i gave him dilute juice only1 introduced other sustenance very cautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would not permit the organism to gain4 ,this time it didn't4 ,john's own immune system1 beefed up by fasting1 had conquered a virulent organism that could have easily killed him4 ,before the era of antibiotics1 before immunizations to the common childhood illnesses1 people frequently died of infections as virulent as the one that attacked ,john4 ,they usually died because they ate to keep up their strength4 ,most of these deaths were unnecessary1 caused by ignorance and poor nursing care4 ,for example1 standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to consist of spoon-fed milk--sure to kill all but the strongest constitution4 ,even without the assistance of massive doses of vitamin ,c1 if people would but fast away infections they could cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger1 without the side effects of antibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria4 ,dr4 ,john ,tilden1 a hygienist who practiced in the '#bjs1 before the era of antibiotics1 routinely fasted patients with infectious illnesses4 ,supporting the sick body with wise nursing1 he routinely healed scarlet fever1 whopping cough1 typhoid1 typhus1 pneumonia1 peritonitis1 ,rocky ,mountain fever1 tuberculosis1 gonorrhea1 syphilis1 cholera1 and rheumatic fever4 ,the one common infection he could not cure was diphtheria involving the throat4 7,tilden1 ,impaired ,health1 ,vol4 ,,ii74 ,recently1 medical gerontologists have discovered another reason that fasting heals infections4 ,one body function that deteriorates during the aging process is the production of growth hormone so the effects of growth hormone have been studied4 ,this hormone also stimulates the body to heal wounds and burns1 repair broken bones1 generally replace any tissues that have been destroyed and1 growth hormone stimulates the immune response4 ,growth hormone also maintains muscle tone and its presence generally slows the aging process4 ,growth hormone might make a wonderful life-extension supplement2 on it a middle-aged person might readily maintain the muscle tone of youth while slowing aging in general4 ,unfortunately1 growth hormone cannot at this time be inexpensively synthesized and is still far too costly to be used therapeutically except to prevent dwarfism4 ,however1 any technique that encourages a body to produce more of this hormone would be of great interest to life extensionists4 ,the body only produces growth hormone at certain times and only when certain nutrients are present in the blood4 ,gerontologists call these nutrients precursors4 ,the precursors are two essential amino acids1 argenine and ornithine and certain vitamins such as ,c and ,b#f4 ,but having the precursors present is not enough4 ,growth hormone is only manufactured under certain1 specific circumstances3 for about one hour immediately after going to sleep and then only if the blood supply is rich with argenine and ornithine but contains few other amino acids2 it is also manufactured during heavy aerobic exercise that goes on for more than thirty minutes2 and growth hormone is produced at an accelerated rate when fasting4 7,pearson and ,shaw1 #aihc74 ,i did not know this when ,i was fasting ,john1 but now1 ,i would give argenine and ornithine to someone with a serious infection as well as massive quantities of vitamin ,c4 ,chronic ,back ,pain ,barry was a carpenter who couldn't afford to lose work because he was unable to bend or twist or lift4 ,he frequently had bouts of severe back pain that made working almost impossible4 ,upon analysis by biokinesiology ,i found that he had a major problem with large intestine weakness and secondarily1 adrenal weakness4 ,constipation frequently causes back pain4 ,the muscles of the back have nerve pathway connections to the large intestines2 weakness in the intestine causes weakness of the back and makes it prone to injury4 ,but the problem is the intestine1 not the back4 ,and the only way to make the back stay better is to heal the intestine4 ,many athletes have very similar problems4 ,for example1 they get knee injuries and think there is something wrong with their knee4 ,or they get shoulder injuries and think their shoulder is weak4 ,these people are only half right4 ,yes1 their knee or their shoulder is weak4 ,but it could become strong and almost uninjurable if the underlying cause of the weakness is corrected4 ,the knee for example1 has nerve pathway connections to the adrenal glands and kidneys4 ,the shoulder has similar connections to the thyroid4 ,the foot is weakened by the bladder4 ,the treatment should first be on the weakened gland or organ and secondarily1 on the damaged muscle tissue4 ,i have solved numerous sports-related knee problems with protomorphogens for the adrenals and elimination of food allergies that make the adrenals work overtime4 ,i have fixed bad shoulders by rebuilding the thyroid4 ,in ,barry's case1 it was the intestine4 ,i asked him about his bowel function and he said that he was never constipated1 had a daily bowel movement without a lot of straining4 ,but having given some #f1jjj colonics1 ,i knew better4 ,there should have been no straining2 ,barry was trying very hard to be regular--he should not have had to effort4 ,fortunately1 it struck him as true that he needed to detoxify and ,i managed to convince him to water fast4 ,he probably figured1 why not since he couldn't work anyway4 ,barry was a tall1 skinny man to start with and you would think he hardly carried any fat at all1 but he fasted on water for #cj days1 receiving a colonic every day1 while ,i did bodywork on his damaged back4 ,he sure was constipated and couldn't deny the evidence that floated by through the sight tube of the colonic machine4 ,by the end of the fast his colon was fairly repaired and free of old fecal material4 ,and ,barry had become a tall1 gaunt-looking guy who had lost about #bj pounds you wouldn't think he had to spare4 ,after a few weeks of careful weaning back on to food1 ,barry felt pretty good1 terrific even4 ,he had no back pain and found out for the first time what not being constipated meant4 ,it no longer took not very much effort to move his bowels2 they moved themselves4 ,that was ten years ago4 ,a few months ago1 ,barry looked me up1 just to say thanks and to let me know that he had not had any more back problems and had generally felt good because he had more or less stayed on the improved diet ,i had instructed him about during his fast4 ,painful ,menstruation ,elsie was twenty4 ,she came to see me because ,i had helped ,elsie's mother overcome breast cancer many years earlier4 ,elsie began to have very painful periods with profuse bleeding and abdominal pain4 ,her nutrition had been generally good because her mother couldn't survive on the average ,american diet and had long ago converted her family to vegetarianism4 ,and like her mother1 ,elsie had been taking vitamins for many years4 ,a medical doctor diagnosed ,elsie as having endometriosis1 meaning1 the lining of her uterus had migrated to the fallopian tubes1 where it continued to bleed regularly into the abdominal cavity1 following the same hormonal cycle as the endometritial tissue that lines the uterus4 ,the doctor offered to try hormonal manipulation and if this proved unsuccessful1 offered a hysterectomy4 ,that would certainly eliminate the symptoms6 ,but ,elsie did not wish to eliminate her ability to have children and preferred not to risk throwing her hormones off balance4 ,so she came to me4 ,my analysis showed that she had weak ovaries and weak uterus4 ,these were secondary to a toxic colon1 toxic because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas that reduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined ,organic1 vegetarian legume-rich diet into toxemia4 ,checking her foods for allergies ,i discovered the normal pattern3 ,elsie was intolerant to dairy1 wheat1 eggs1 corn1 soy and concentrated sugars4 ,being no stranger to fasting 7her mother had fasted at length ten years previously7 ,elsie undertook a #cj day cleanse on vegetable juice with daily enemas1 taking vitamins in powdered form4 ,after the fast ,i put her on protomorphogens for her reproductive organs and pancreas4 ,the gall bladder had healed by itself during fasting--gall bladders usually heal easily4 ,her maintenance diet included using pancreatic enzyme supplements when eating vegetable proteins and ,elsie eliminated most fats so her gall bladder would not be stressed4 ,the fasting also overcame her allergic reactions to corn and wheat but she was still unable to handle soy products1 eggs or dairy4 ,after six months ,elsie no longer needed protomorphogens1 had no abdominal pain and her periods were normal4 ,you may well be wondering how or why detoxification of the bowels allowed the body to repair the uterus4 ,the large intestine is a sort of nest that cradles the reproductive organs1 including the ovaries1 uterus1 and in the case of the male1 the prostate gland4 ,a toxic colon is like having one rotten apple in a basket1 it contaminates the whole batch4 ,many problems in the abdominal area are caused by a toxic colon1 including chronic back pain1 ovarian cysts1 infertility1 birth abnormalities1 bladder infections and bladder cancer1 painful menstruation1 fibroids and other benign growths as well as malignant ones1 and prostatitis or prostate cancer4 ,detoxing the body and cleaning out the colon should be a part of the healing of all of these conditions4 ,irritable ,bowels ,some peoples' lives don't run smoothly4 ,jeanne's certainly didn't4 ,she was abandoned to raise three little kids on welfare4 ,her college diploma turned out to be useless4 ,jeanne used to help me at ,great ,oaks in exchange for treatment4 ,during those early years she had done a #cj day juice fast with colonics4 ,twenty years later at age #fj1 having survived three children's growing up1 surviving the profound1 enduring loss of one who died as an adult1 after starting up and running a small business that for many years barely paid its way1 and experiencing an uninsured fire that took her house1 she began to develop abdominal pains the doctors named irritable bowel syndrome or colitis4 ,the ,,md offered antibiotics and antispasmodics but ,jeanne had no insurance1 the remedies were unaffordable4 ,she also retained considerable affinity for natural medicine4 ,prior to these symptoms her diet had been vegetarian1 and had included large quantities of raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains4 ,but the bran in bread was irritating to her bowels1 she could no longer digest raw vegetables or most raw fruit4 ,jeanne's vital force was low2 her healing took time4 ,she started on a long fast supported by powdered vitamins1 vegetable broth and herb teas1 but after three weeks was too weak to do her own enemas at home and could not shop for vegetables to cook into broth4 ,so she had to add one small serving of cooked vegetable per day1 usually broccoli or steamed kale4 ,this lasted for one more week but ,jeanne1 having no financial reserves1 had to return to work1 and needed to regain energy quickly4 ,though not totally healed1 she progressed to a maintenance diet of cooked grains and vegetables and food supplements1 very much like a ,macrobiotic diet4 ,she felt better for awhile but wore down again after another stressful year4 ,her abdominal pains gradually returned though this time she noticed they were closely associated with her stresses4 ,about one year after ending her first fast1 as soon as she could arrange to take time off1 she began another4 ,this time to avoid extreme weakness1 she took vegetable broth from the outset1 as well as small amounts of carrot juice and one small serving of cooked vegetable a day for three weeks4 ,again1 this rest allowed the digestive tract to heal and the pain went away4 ,she returned to her ,macrobiotic diet with selected raw foods that she could now handle without irritating her bowel4 ,she was now healthier then she had been in many years4 ,with improved energy and a more positive attitude1 ,jeanne returned to ,university at age #fe and obtained a teaching certificate4 ,now she is making good money1 doing work she enjoys for the first time in #ce years4 ,i hope she has a long and happy life4 ,she is entitled to one6 ,a ,collection of ,gallbladders ,gallbladder cases are rather ho-hum to me2 they are quick to respond to hygienic treatment and easy to resolve4 ,i've fixed lots of them4 ,but an inflamed gallbladder is in no way ho-hum to the person afflicted with it4 ,i've been frequently told that there are no worse pains a body can create than an inflamed gallbladder or the sensations accompanying the passing of a gall stone4 ,i hear from kidney patients that passing a kidney stone is worse but ,i've never had a patient who experienced both kinds of stones to give me an honest comparative evaluation4 ,the only thing dangerous about simple gallbladder problems is ignoring them 7between the bouts of severe pain they can cause7 because then the inflamed gallbladder can involve the liver4 ,i already told the story of how my own mother lost half her liver this way4 ,the condition is usually caused by a combination of hereditary tendency1 general toxemia1 and_/or a high-fat diet1 especially one high in animal fats4 ,the liver makes bile that is stored in the gallbladder1 to be released on demand into the small intestine to digest fat4 ,a toxic1 overloaded liver makes irritating sediment-containing bile that inflames the gallbladder and forms stones4 ,a high-fat diet forces the liver to make even more of this irritant4 ,a toxic1 overloaded1 inflamed1 blocked gallbladder is capable of causing an enormous array of symptoms that can seem to have no connection at all to their cause4 ,in part these same symptoms are caused by a toxic1 constipated colon that1 in part1 got that way because of poor fat digestion over a long time4 ,these symptoms include3 severe back pain2 headache2 bloating2 burping2 nausea2 insomnia2 intestinal gas2 generalized aches and pains4 ,medical doctors used to remove a troublesome gallbladder without hesitation2 it was an organ they considered to be highly dispensable4 ,without one1 the bile duct takes over as a bladder but its capacity is much smaller so the person's ability to digest fats has been permanently crippled1 leading to increased toxemia and earlier aging if fats are not eliminated from the diet4 ,these days the medicos have a new1 less invasive procedure to eliminate stones2 they are vibrated and broken-up by ultrasonics without major surgery4 ,inflamed gallbladders are usually removed because gallbladder inflammations resist treatment by antibiotics4 ,there are several very effective natural gallbladder remedies4 ,the best is a three week fast1 taking the juice of one or two lemons every day1 along with colonics4 ,the lemon juice tends to clear the bile duct4 ,the fast allows the gallbladder to heal from inflammation4 ,in cases that aren't too severe ,i have had very good results simply eliminating fats from the diet and using a food supplement derived from beet tops called ,,af ,betafood4 ,however1 in all these cases1 once the gallbladder is no longer acting up1 the person must stay on a low fat diet4 ,any fats they do eat must be vegetable and in small quantities4 ,by healing their gallbladders and cleansing their colons1 several of my clients have resolved severe1 debilitating back pain1 pain so severe that the suffers were becoming bedridden4 ,medical doctors don't associate gallbladder disease with back pain4 ,the ,frightening ,heart ,heart disease is one of the major causes of death among ,north ,americans4 ,it evokes images of resuscitation1 of desperate races against time1 trying to restart an arrested heart before the brain dies4 ,it makes people think of horribly expensive surgery1 last wills and testaments1 terrible1 paralyzing pain4 ,heart disease is a great profit center for the medical profession4 ,most heart problems are very easy to fix by holistic approaches1 even many hereditary weaknesses and malfunctions can be healed1 if the work is done before too much organic damage occurs4 ,but it rarely is easy to get the people to take the necessary medicine2 everything in their lives must change--and fast4 ,first of all1 people with heart problems must rapidly reach and maintain normal weight4 ,this can be done by fasting or by dietary change1 usually by eliminating all fats1 sugars and refined starches4 ,alcohol and tobacco must instantly and forever become only past memories4 ,it is almost as essential to eliminate flesh protein foods and dairy4 ,should that prove entirely too painful1 fish in small quantities and only one or two times a week is tolerable4 ,for starters1 a long fast1 especially one involving lots of bed rest1 is ideal4 ,this gives the heart a chance to heal while the body weight is adjusted4 ,a period of intense rest even without water fasting will accomplish almost as much4 ,even someone with the potential for heart disease who has not yet had a heart attack would be well-served to spend a month in bed1 losing weight on juice1 or sitting in a rocker on the porch eating only raw foods4 ,after the weight is down to normal or close to normal and the heart tests stronger1 an exercise program should be started4 ,exercise has to become a religion4 ,a daily aerobic program must be started on a carefully managed gradient1 using the pulse rate as an regulator1 at first raising their maximum heart rate to a point just below #aej percent of its resting pulse and keeping it there for thirty minutes4 ,one can walk1 jog1 ride a bicycle or use an exercise machine4 ,actually1 everyone should do this1 even those with no heart problems4 ,my husband1 who hates the boredom of exercise1 enjoys a ski machine in front of the ,,tv while the stock market program is on4 ,he finds the ,,tv interesting enough that he pays no attention to his workout4 ,daily aerobic exercise will strengthen the heart1 gradually slowing the heart's resting pulse rate1 indicating that the heart has become much stronger1 pumping more blood with each pulse4 ,as the resting pulse drops the exercising heartbeat can be increased to double the resting rate4 ,highly aggressive1 competitive1 stress-oriented people have to give up being adrenaline junkies and learn to relax and assume a laid-back approach to living4 ,or die soon4 ,an adrenaline junkie is someone that enjoys the feeling they get when operating under stress4 ,stress and the adrenaline it releases produce a kind of a drug-high4 ,many stressaholics cannot give up their adrenaline addiction while maintaining their previous employment and life-style1 even though their life is at stake4 ,in this sense they are like alcoholics1 who should not take employment tending bar4 ,to survive for long these people may have to retire or change professions4 ,stockbrokers may have to become ,organic farmers2 journalists may have to operate a news stand or bookstore1 or work part-time covering the society page and dog shows4 ,women frequently turn their family life into a stress-filled drama too4 ,with heart problems a life extension megavitamin program is essential1 even for twenty somethings if they have heart disease4 ,the sixty milligrams of ,co-,enzyme ,q-#aj ,i recommend for the average middle aged person will not be enough for heart cases2 they should take at least #abj milligrams daily and consider up to #bej mg4 ,this much ,q-#aj greatly boosts the energy output of the heart on a cellular level4 ,vitamin ,e should also be increased1 to between #fjj and #b1jjj iu daily4 ,i also rebuild diseased hearts with protomorphogens2 usually they must stay on protomorphogens for the rest of their lives4 ,niacin taken several times a day in doses1 sufficient to dilate the capillaries and cause a skin flush 7#ej to #bjj milligrams71 increases the blood flow to nourish the heart4 ,the amino acid ,l4 ,carnitine is also useful by increasing the energy output of the heart much like ,co-,enzyme ,q-#aj4 ,when ,i put people on this program1 the supplements and other measures gradually take effect1 and over months the patient begins to feel enormously better4 ,inevitably they come to dislike the side-effects of the various medications their medical doctor has put them on and they begin to wean themselves off of heart-stimulating poisons like digitalis4 ,another benefit of my program is that inevitably1 blood pressure also drops to a normal range so if they have been on blood pressure medication they quit that too4 ,their diuretics also become unnecessary4 ,the money they save more than pays for their supplements and the sense of well-being they feel is beyond value4 ,other ,kinds ,of ,cancer ,there seem to be many other kinds of cancer1 at least if you believe the medical doctors4 ,they divide up cancers and their treatments by their location in the body and by the type of cancer cells present4 ,i do not see it that way4 ,to me1 a cancer is a cancer is a cancer1 and there is only one kind3 it is an immune system collapse1 consequence of the deadly triangle of weak spleen1 thymus and liver1 plus a toxic large intestine and weak pancreas4 ,that organ profile is found in skin cancer1 prostate cancer1 leukemia1 brain cancer1 cancer of what have you4 ,how fast or how slowly the cells multiply or spread1 where they are located1 what the cancer cells look like in a microscope1 these are irrelevant factors compared to the body's ability to conquer the disease4 ,or die from it4 ,if the body's immune system can stop the growth of the cancers and begin to turn them back before the cancer cells impinge catastrophically on some vital function1 the person can usually survive4 ,even if the body cannot completely eliminate all the cancer cells1 but regains enough immune function to keep the existing cancers in permanent check1 a person can survive many years with an existing1 stable cancer without undue pain or discomfort4 ,still having a non-growing tumor after a long fast indicates that a person is a lot better than they were before fasting4 ,i believe that virtually everyone has cancer cells in their body1 just like viruses and bacteria4 ,but most people do not develop cancer as a disease because their immune function is strong so these misbehaving cells are destroyed as fast as they appear4 ,mutated1 freely-multiplying cells are caused by peroxidized fats1 by free radicals in the body1 by radiation 7there has always been background radiation on ,earth71 by chance mutation4 ,there are naturally occurring highly carcinogenic substances in ordinary foods that are unavoidable4 ,in fact some of these naturally occurring substances are far more dangerous than the toxic residues of pesticides in our foods4 ,the body is supposed to deal with all these things2 they are all called insults4 ,it is rarely the insult1 but the failure of the body to eliminate cancerous cells promptly that causes the disease called cancer4 ,so the treatment ,i recommend for cancer in general is the same as the one described for breast cancer cases4 ,restore the immune function4 ,however1 as much as ,i lack respect for conventional medical cancer therapies1 ,i do think surgery can have a useful place in cancer treatment along with hygienic methods4 ,some people just cannot confront the lump7s74 ,or they are so terrified of having a cancer in their body that their emotions suppresses their own immune function4 ,even though surgery prompts a cancer to spread more rapidly1 without their lumps some cancer patients feel more positive4 ,if surgery is done in conjunction with rebuilding the immune system1 the body will prevent new cancers from forming4 ,removal of a large mass of cancer cells can also lighten the immune system's task4 ,not having to kill off and reabsorb all those cells one-by-one from a huge cancer mass1 the body can better conquer smaller groups of cancer cells4 ,and the die-off of large cancers produces a lot of toxins1 burdening the organs of elimination4 ,this is an argument for the potential benefit of a lumpectomy4 ,however1 ,i do not support mastectomies1 or the type of surgery that cause massive damage to the body in a foolish attempt to remove every last cancer cell1 as though the cells themselves were the disease4 ,sometimes cancer tumors are well-encapsulated1 walled off and can be easily removed without prompting metastasis4 ,this type of tumor may not be completely reabsorbed by the body in any case2 though the immune system may have killed it1 an empty shell remains1 like a peanut shell4 ,sometimes the judgment calls about surgery can get dicey4 ,when surgery involves removing an organ4 ,i oppose the loss of useful body parts4 ,i have also known and helped people who believed they couldn't recover without radiation and chemotherapy4 ,what people believe is1 is4 ,the emotions generated when a personal reality is suppressed1 ignored or invalidated will overwhelm an immune system4 ,i always tell those people who sincerely believe in it to go ahead with standard medical treatment 7while ,i'm privately praying the doctors won't cause too much damage74 ,however1 when ,i am supporting a body with supplements and dietary reform1 have put that body on a raw-food cleansing diet or even a raw food diet with nuts and grains that hardly detoxifies1 and then the person has had chemotherapy and radiation1 the medical doctors in attendance are inevitably amazed that the side effects are much milder than anticipated1 or non-existent4 ,and fewer courses of chemotherapy are needed than the doctors expected4 ,for example1 ,i worked with a little boy with leukemia4 ,his mother brought him to me while trying to resolve a conflict with her ex-husband about the boy's treatment4 ,the father demanded the standard medical route2 the mother was for natural therapy4 ,eventually the father won in court1 but ,i had the boy on my program for three months before the doctors got their hands on him4 ,even during chemotherapy and radiation the mother kept the boy on my program4 ,throughout the doctors' treatment he had so few bad side effects that he was able to continue in school and play with the other children2 he did not lose his hair 7which would have made him feel like a freak74 ,he recovered4 ,i don't mind that the medical doctors took credit1 but to my thinking1 he recovered despite their therapy4 ,onion ,cases ,all too many of my cases are what ,i privately refer to as onion cases4 ,by this ,i mean the opposite of a simple case4 ,there are multiple complaints4 ,i call them onion cases because these people get better in layers1 like pealing an onion4 ,as each skin comes off1 the next becomes visible4 ,sometimes when the patient overcomes an existing complaint1 another appears that was not there in the beginning1 probably this new one is a complaint that they had at an earlier point in their life1 one that had gone away4 ,onion cases take a long time to completely heal1 sometimes years4 ,there frequently are psychological aspects to the case that surface with different physical problems4 ,if ,i were not an effective psychologist ,i could not succeed with most of them4 ,the average medical doctor probably considers onion cases to be hypochondriacs1 but they usually are not4 ,almost always the first symptoms that demand attention are the most life-threatening1 like immune system failures1 liver failures1 pancreatic failures1 nervous system failures and heart failures4 ,with these eliminated1 new complaints appear4 ,often these are endocrine system imbalances or weak endocrine glands1 anemias1 mild heart conditions4 ,then it gets down to eye or ear infections1 muscular or skeletal weaknesses1 mild skin problems1 sinusitis1 teeth problems2 things that aren't serious but that do degrade the quality of life4 ,each one of these layers also carries with it a psychological component2 each of these layers can take three to six months to resolve4 ,i had a pretty good idea from the first visit that ,daniel1 not yet #cj1 was going to take some time to get well4 ,he already had a degenerative condition not usually seen until middle age--crippling gout and arthritis4 ,he had badly distorted joints1 walked with considerable pain1 lacked a full range of movement1 had enormous fatigue and consequently1 a well-justified depression4 ,daniel was about to give up working as no longer possible1 but he liked his job4 ,and he certainly needed it4 ,daniel's analysis showed massive allergies to foods1 a systemic yeast and multiple virus infections and multiple organ weaknesses3 a life-threateningly weak immune system1 weak pancreas1 weak adrenals1 weak large intestine4 ,because he could hardly accept anything he wasn't allergic to and because he could not afford to quit working even for a few weeks 7though he was about to be forced into complete disability7 ,i put him on a ,bieler fast4 ,this is a monodiet of fairly substantial quantities of either well-cooked green beans or well-cooked zucchini1 the choice between these two foods depending on the acid-base balance of the blood4 7,henry ,bieler1 #aife7 ,in ,daniel's case my choice was zucchini1 one pint of plain zucchini puree with a little kelp and garlic added 7no salt1 no butter1 no nothing else7 every few hours4 ,i also put him on heavy vitamin support and protomorphogens for his desperate immune system4 ,while on the ,bieler fast he did daily enemas at home4 ,had colonics been available to him1 ,daniel couldn't have afforded them4 ,within three weeks he was far more comfortable1 had less pain1 more energy even though he was still eating nothing but zucchini1 had less swelling in his joints4 ,during the first month he lost about ten pounds and had been skinny to start with4 ,i then added other cooked nonstarchy vegetables to his diet and we continued the same protomorphogen and supplement program for another month4 ,once each month ,daniel came to see me4 ,each time he had slightly improved organ strength and was able to tolerate a few more foods4 ,by the third month he stopped losing weight because we added small quantities of cooked rice and millet to his diet4 ,however1 to continue his detox1 ,i had him water fast one day a week1 staying in bed and resting all day4 ,at the start and end of the fasting day he also took an enema4 ,he continued a weekly one-day fast for many months4 ,by the fourth month1 his immune system testing stronger1 a new problem appeared4 ,daniel had intestinal parasites4 ,so ,i also put him on a six month program to eliminate those4 ,daniel required monthly dietary adjustments because he quickly became allergic if he ate very much of anything very often--broccoli or rice for example4 ,during this time he became aware of many negative emotions associated with childhood1 of young adult frustrations and disappointments4 ,he was really very angry about many things in his life1 even though he had for many years maintained an invariably pleasant social veneer4 ,but now he began expressing some of these feelings to me and to his associates4 ,daniel had an abusive girlfriend1 but as he improved this relationship became insufferable4 ,so he broke off with this woman and found a new relationship that was much more positive1 one based on mutual respect and admiration4 ,there are frequently strong connections between repressed anger and depository diseases like arthritis and gout4 ,daniel could not permit himself to constantly be made angry and still get well4 ,his next layer of symptoms did not appear until nearly eighteen months after he had first come to see me4 ,by this time he had good energy1 had returned to hiking and skiing1 camping and canoeing4 ,he had worked as a printer but was now bootstrapping his own print shop on a shoestring1 and became entirely self-employed4 ,he had a good romantic relationship4 ,the parasites were gone2 his gout and arthritis was virtually gone2 many of his food allergies were gone4 ,now his body was demanding that its acid_/base balance be adjusted and he began to pay attention to the minor back problems he had all along4 ,daniel had also developed a new problem--inflammation of the eye4 ,it was so severe that he went to an opthamologist seeking immediate relief because he could hardly see4 ,i put him on massive doses of vitamin ,c and protomorphogens for the eye and we attacked the other problems4 ,now ,i still see ,daniel every three months for minor dietary and supplement adjustments4 ,his emotional space is very positive4 ,his business is doing well4 ,his love life is doing well4 ,he has developed no new problems and all the old ones are under control4 ,his organ systems1 though better1 will never tolerate many insults1 physical or mental1 but if he lives within his limits1 he has every chance of a long and happy life4 ,daniel has become a friend of mine by now and ,i like to see him but ,i expect ,i won't see ,daniel very much at all any more4 ,he has learned what he needs to know to take care of himself4 ,this is a typical onion case that resolved successfully4 ,however this case might not have worked out so well had ,daniel not possessed a high degree of personal integrity and bravery1 had he not faced and resolved his emotional conflicts4 ,fortunately1 ,daniel had always conducted an ethical life1 without dishonesty or a secret collection of disreputable acts4 ,bodies are easy to fix2 they are carbon oxygen engines that work on chemistry and respond unfailingly to physical measures4 ,but the entity that runs the body is not so simple4 ,the thoughts and emotions of the spirit impinge on a body as powerfully or more powerfully than all the vitamins1 dietary reform or protomorphogens ,i can provide4 ,the mind1 and the spirit behind that mind1 can make a body sick or can prevent it from getting well or staying well despite everything ,i do4 ,unethical ,illness ,i see a lot of spiritually-induced physical illness in my practice4 ,maybe more than my share4 ,maybe its karmic2 it tends to find me because ,i understand it4 ,and it comes up my driveway because people who have it often become doctor shoppers1 and seek out a naturopath as a last resort after exhausting everything that modern medical science has to offer4 ,i have had large numbers of undiagnosable people that suffer greatly but who medical doctors can find nothing wrong with and label psychosomatic4 ,i have also repaired people given specific medical diagnoses that standard physical remedies cannot make better4 ,in most of these cases1 the physical illness is secondary to1 is an overlay of a more fundamental spiritual cause4 ,on this type of case there are inevitably severe problems connected with close friends1 relatives and business associates4 ,the sick person inevitably blames the friends1 relatives and business associates and takes no responsibility4 ,the problems seem unresolvable4 ,when ,i probe deeply enough into these problems1 ,i begin to discover the real infection below4 ,the sick person1 so fond of complaining about all the terrible things done to them by the people they have or have had problems with1 or sometimes1 so proud of not complaining about all the terrible things done to them4 ,actually1 almost inevitably this person has committed a huge mass of secret crimes1 viciousness and betrayals1 rarely indictable felonious acts1 but crimes none the less1 disreputable deeds that must be kept secret4 ,these deeds are always completely justified2 the sick person always claims to have been right for having done them and it is next to impossible for me as a therapist to get them to take responsibility for their sins4 ,but at the deep1 center of almost all people is an honest1 decent soul that knows what it has really done and feels guilty and judges itself4 ,that is why it says in the ,bible1 'judge not1 lest you be judged'4 ,it is not the judgment of the ,deity we have so much to fear2 we are own worst judge1 jury1 and executioner1 and eventually extract from ourselves full payment with compound interest for all harmful acts4 ,people frequently punish themselves with severe1 incapacitating illness or even death4 ,a spiritual illness will not respond very well to physical treatment until the spiritual malaise's is resolved4 ,this case has to find enough courage to become honest with themselves1 to admit their deeds in all their disgusting detail and then to make amends1 or if amends are not possible1 to at least cease and desist4 ,they have to take personal responsibly for what they really are being and what they have really done and most importantly1 accept that they are responsible for creating their own illness4 ,it is not a virus1 a cancer cell or something that just fell out of the universe and struck them1 innocent victims that they are4 ,they have made their illness and only they can uncreate it4 ,unfortunately1 few people who have spent a lifetime indulging themselves in this degree of irresponsibility have the integrity to change4 ,this is a tough case4 ,especially so because they think they are physically ill1 they did not come to me to be defined as a mental case and tend to reject such approaches4 ,there is no shortage of additional degenerative conditions that ,i could describe4 ,there are eating disorders1 shingles1 skin problems1 kidney disease1 ,alzheimer's1 senility1 mental illness1 addictions1 chronic fatigue syndrome1 aids4 ,there's macular degeneration1 carpal tunnel syndrome1 chronic ear infections 7especially in children71 tonsillitis1 bronchitis1 pancreatitis1 cystitis1 urethritis1 prostatitis1 colitis1 sinusitis1 osteomyelitis and a dozen other itises1 including appendicitis4 ,there's algias 7itises of the nerves73 neuralgia1 fibromyalgia4 ,there's ism's 7really itises of the muscles74 ,there are 'onias like pneumonia2 omas like carcinoma1 melanoma and lymphoma4 ,i could 7but won't7 write a page or two on every one of these conditions and turn this book into an encyclopedia4 ,after twenty five years of practice1 there is little ,i have not seen4 ,or helped a body repair4 ,generally1 everyone of those following pages ,i'm not going to bother to write would repeat the same message4 ,that the medical profession has little understanding of the real causes or cures of disease2 that the world is full of unnecessary suffering2 that there are simple1 painless1 effective1 harmless approaches to eliminating most of the ailments of mankind except the ultimate ailment1 old age1 the thing that takes us all eventually2 that essentially all the diseases resolve from the same approach4 ,but ,i have already explained the theoretical basis of natural hygiene1 the key role of toxemia1 enervation1 constipation1 the essentials of good diet1 fasting and colon cleansing1 the importance of regular exercise1 and the rational for vitamin supplementation4 ,i have revealed a lot of the secrets in my bag of tricks1 like my favorite herbs1 poultices and wheat grass4 ,what concerns me most about medicine today is that there seems to be ever fewer hygienists practicing4 ,the young holistic practitioner is overwhelmed with confusing data and approaches and is increasingly less able to discern what is really important and what is distraction1 and is increasingly intimidated by the ,,ama1 made fearful of accepting people with serious conditions4 ,too many young practitioners become ideologues1 clinging to the rightness of a single rigid discipline1 missing the truths that exist in other approaches and worse1 missing the limitations that exist in their own personal healing methods4 ,the current concern about the cost of medical care and resorting to government-run insurance programs and regulations will do little or nothing to reverse the trend to more and more sickness that costs more and more to treat4 ,the root causes of our current crisis are two fold4 ,one1 our food1 just as it comes off the farm1 is getting ever worse4 ,this is not even recognized as a problem4 ,after we process it for an industrial food distribution system1 much nutrition is lost too4 ,this is barely recognized as a problem4 ,until we are better nourished1 we will be ever sicker and each generation will become a degeneration4 ,secondly1 our society is suffering from all the evils of monopoly medicine4 ,this is barely recognized4 ,the ,,ama has a stranglehold on the sick4 ,there is no effective competition for its methods4 ,alternatives are suppressed4 ,in my version of a better world1 if anyone that wanted to could hang out a shingle and offer to diagnose1 treat and cure disease1 a few quacks would really hurt a few people4 ,but many genuine therapies would appear and the public would be exposed to workable alternatives4 ,if anyone that wanted to market it could put a label on a bottle of pills1 power or tincture that said its contents would heal or cure disease1 yes1 a few people would be poisoned4 ,and a few would die needlessly by failing to get the right treatment4 ,but on the positive side1 all this liberty would result in countless new therapies being rediscovered and many new uses for existing substances would appear4 ,fundamentally1 this is the issue of liberty4 ,i believe it is better to allow choice and options1 to permit the dangers that go with liberty to exist4 ,and to allow unfortunate outcomes to occur without intervention into individual lack of intelligence and irresponsibilities4 ,the opposite is our current path--an attempt to regulate and control away all dangers4 ,but this overcontrol results in institutionalized violence and cruelty1 inefficiency that is not checked or exposed by the bright light of a better way4 ,as ,churchill said1 'democracy is the worst form of government there is--except for all the others4' ,what he meant is that we must accept that this is an imperfect world4 ,the best this planet can be is when it is at its freest1 when restrictions are minimized and when people are allowed to make their own choices1 be responsible for their own outcomes and experience the consequences of their own stupidities4 ,appendix ,pulse ,testing ,for ,allergies ,coca's ,pulse ,tests are extraordinarily useful and simple tools for at-home allergy detection4 ,my clients have succeeded at using this approach without supervision4 ,coca's test works on this simple principle3 pulse elevations are caused by any allergic reaction4 ,if you know what your normal range of pulse rates are1 you can isolate an offending food or substance and eliminate it4 ,success with ,coca's ,pulse ,test requires only motivation and a little perseverance1 because in order to test for food allergies1 the diet must be restricted for a few days and your pulse must be accurately taken at specific intervals during the testing period4 ,the test is based on measurement of the resting pulse rate1 something most people have no difficulty learning how to do4 ,the resting rate is how fast the heart beats after a person has been sitting still1 comfortably relaxing for three to five minutes4 ,when a person is active the heart beats faster than the resting rate4 ,one measure of aerobic fitness is how quickly the heart is able to return to its resting rate4 ,well-trained athletes' hearts can adjust from working very hard to a resting rate in only a minute or so2 those who are deconditioned can take three to five minutes for their heart to slow from even mild exertion to its stable1 resting pace4 ,those who cannot readily find their own pulse on their wrist or throat can inexpensively purchase a digital watch that gives a pulse reading2 this kind of watch is used by athletes to make sure their training pulse is in an acceptable range4 ,preparatory to doing ,coca's ,pulse ,test it is necessary to as much as possible eliminate allergic food reactions4 ,this requires the application of discipline for a few days before testing begins4 ,allergic reactions can go on for several days after a food has been eaten and if you are having a reaction to something eaten many hours or several days previously1 it may obscure a reaction to a food just eaten4 #a4 ,stop smoking entirely for at least five days before you do a cigarette test2 allergies to cigarettes can take five days to clear4 ,besides1 you shouldn't smoke1 anyway6 #b4 ,for the first three days1 count your resting pulse immediately after awakening in the morning 7for one entire minute71 and record the reading4 #c4 ,during the first three days1 take your resting pulse half an hour and again one hour after each meal4 ,it if has elevated more than #ab beats above the resting rate you found upon arising that morning1 you may assume that some food at the meal you just ate was an allergen4 ,temporarily1 eliminate from your diet all the foods eaten at the previous meal until you can check them one-by-one a few days later4 ,at the end of these first three days you may not have many foods left that you can eat4 ,that is okay and to be expected2 it is time to begin adding foods back to the diet4 #d4 ,most people who are allergic to foods are allergic to one or more of the following3 corn1 wheat1 milk and cheese1 yogurt1 meat1 alcohol1 tobacco4 ,it would be very wise to eliminate these foods too for the first three days1 until they are tested4 ,after three days on this regimen1 you can assume that many of your usual allergic food reactions have ceased or at least diminished significantly and that you probably can get reasonably accurate testing results on individual foods4 ,a good indicator of having problems with food allergies in general can also show up during these initial days4 ,if you have eliminated a large number of foods and your resting pulse upon awakening has slowed down by several beats1 you can assume you are allergic to foods you were eating4 ,i would not be at all surprised that by the end of the third day you were only eating a very few fruits and vegetables and had eliminated everything else4 ,a more effective variant of the testing procedure calls for a three or four day water fast to clear all allergies with absolute certainty1 and then to introduce foods one at a time as described below4 ,on the fourth and subsequent few days1 take your resting pulse upon arising and then eat a modest quantity of a single food3 for example1 eat a slice of bread1 or a medium sized glass of milk1 or an orange1 or two tablespoons sugar in dissolved in water1 or a few dried prunes1 or a peach1 or an egg1 or a medium-sized potato1 or a cup of black coffee without sweetener1 or a few ounces of meat1 or a stick of celery1 or half a cup of raw cabbage1 or an onion1 or a date1 or a few hazelnuts1 etc4 ,count the pulse one half hour later and again one hour after eating the test item4 ,if any food raises the resting pulse over #ab beats per minute above your morning resting pulse1 that food should be eliminated2 you are certainly allergic to it or can't digest that much of it4 ,if your pulse has not returned to its morning resting rate one hour later1 you are still having an allergic reaction to the food you ate previously and cannot get a decent result on another food until either your pulse slows again or until the next morning4 ,you may1 however1 continue to eat other foods that you know do not provoke allergic reactions4 ,because reactions to a food may not clear for many hours1 it is wise to eat only small quantities of individual foods if you wish to test many of them in a single day4 ,if a food causes no acceleration of pulse 7at least #f beats above your estimated normal maximal7 that food can be tentatively labeled non-allergenic4 ,after a few days of testing one food an hour1 you will become weary of the routine and wish to eat more normally4 ,it may also occur that you cannot test more than one or two foods a day from the very first day because allergic reactions do not clear quickly enough4 ,no problem1 the testing period can go on at a lower level of intensity for many weeks1 trying one new food each morning upon arising4 ,as you eliminate allergens from your diet one by one1 your resting pulse should drop somewhat and it should be easier to discern allergic reactions4 ,after you have worked through all the items in your normal dietary1 it would be wise to retest the foods a second time1 breaking your fast with one different test item each morning4 ,this second testing round may reveal a few more allergic reactions that were obscured by other allergic reactions the first time through4 ,vitamin and ,supplement ,suppliers ,bronson ,pharmaceutical #aide ,craig ,road ,p4,o4 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