 must be spent in
dealing with it. Unfortunately some of this gooey substance hardens and
adheres to the lining of the intestines and prevents the absorption of nu
trients into the body. Result: lethargy. Also the by-products of milk diges
tion leave a great deal of toxic mucus in the body. It's very acidic, and
some of it is stored in the body until it can be dealt with at a later time. The next time you are going to dust your home, smear some paste all
over everything and see how easy it is to dust. Dairy products do the same
to the inside of your body. That translates into more weight instead of
weight loss. Casein, by the way, is the base of one of the strongest glues
used in woodworking. Dr. Norman W. Walker, the hundred-and-sixteen-year-old health spe
cialist referred to earlier, has studied this subject for well over half a
century and considers himself an expert on the glandular system. He
states that a major contributing factor to thyroid problems is casein. The
fact that dairy products are highly processed and always have traces of
penicillin and antibiotics in them places even more of a burden on your
system. Many people are allergic to antibiotics, and no one suggests taking
drugs when well. One should endeavor to ingest as few drugs as possible. The body must expend energy to break them down and remove them. In
the New England Journal of Medicine, Doctors Holmberg, Osterholm, et
al., reported that "The widespread practice of feeding antibiotics to cattle
to speed their growth creates potentially deadly bacteria that can infect
humans. Seventeen persons became sick and one died because a herd of
South Dakota cattle was fed antibiotics. "1 In an editorial in the same
issue Dr. Stuart Levy, the senior editor of the journal, said, "Surely the
time has come to stop gambling with antibiotics. Although their use as
feed additives had a major role in advancing livestock production in the
past, the consequences of this practice are now too evident to overlook. "2
It was pointed out that "thousands of pounds of antibiotics were used in
the fifties. Today it is millions of pounds." The danger is there! 'Holmberg, Osterholm, et al. "Drug Resistant Salmonella from Animals Fed Antimicrobials." New
England journal of Medicine Ml (1984): 617. 2Stuart Levy. "Playing Antibiotic Pool." New England )ournal of Medicine 311 (1984): 663. DAIRY PRODUCTS • 83 The most serious difficulty with dairy consumption is the formation of
mucus in the system. It coats the mucous membranes and forces every
thing to transpire in a very sluggish fashion. Vital energy is always being
squandered. It is a situation that must be rectified and avoided. Weight
loss is made two or three times more difficult when the system is over
laden with mucus. Have you ever talked to people who every ten words or so make a kind
of guttural sound as they try to release the mucus from behind their
noses? Sounds something like slurf! The next time you meet a person like
that, inquire as to what extent he or she eats dairy products. The chances
of the answer being seldom or never is very small! One of the most outspoken authorities challenging the traditional view
of dairy products is Dr. William A. Ellis, a retired osteopathic physician
and surgeon. Dr. Ellis is a highly respected individual in the scientific
community and has researched milk and its related problems for forty-two
years! The link he shows between dairy products and heart disease, arthri
tis, allergies, and migraine headaches is impressive. He also makes two
other important points. First, he says that there is "overwhelming evi
dence that milk and milk products are a major factor in obesity." Sec
ond, he states, "Over my forty-two years of practice, I've performed more
than twenty-five thousand blood tests for my patients. These tests show,
conclusively, in my opinion, that adults who use milk products do not
absorb nutrients as well as adults who don't. Of course, poor absorption,
in turn, means chronic fatigue. "3
Now, all these problems exist even if dairy products are eaten properly
combined. Since any dairy product is a concentrated food, no other con
centrated food should be eaten with it. However, milk is usually con
sumed with a meal or with cake or cookies, or in oatmeal—all violations
of proper food combining. Cheese is usually eaten on crackers, or in a
sandwich, or with fruit—all violations of proper food combining. Taken
alone, dairy products are enough of a hindrance to the body, but im
properly combined they are a catastrophe. And, yes, this includes yogurt. What? "Why, yogurt is a health food!" Hardly. It is made from cow's
milk, and cow's milk is for baby cows. The friendly bacteria you are
supposedly getting when you eat yogurt are something that your body
already produces in quantities about which it knows best. All that busi
ness about Russians living to be one hundred and thirty years old by
eating one of the current commercial yogurts is a joke. They never saw
that product before the film crew showed up with their cameras. It's
'Samuel Biser. "The Truth About Milk." The Healthview Newsletter, 14, Charlottesville, Virginia
(Spring 1978): 1-5. 84 • FIT FOR LIFE plenty of fresh air, hard physical labor, pure water, and pure foods raised
by their own hands that contribute to their longevity!4
If you are going to eat dairy products, please combine them properly
for the least amount of detriment. Milk should be taken absolutely alone. It's the most mucous-forming food on the planet, and it doesn't go well
with anything. If you want cheese, either chop it up in chunks and have
it in a salad (without croutons) or melt some over some vegetables. Don't
eat yellow cheeses, because they're soaked in chemical dyes. There may
be some pizza fans out there who are getting ready to tear out these
pages. If you want pizza once in a while, fine. At least be aware of the
potential harm it causes and don't abuse it. If you have pizza one day,
the next day clean up. Do what is in the best interest of your organism. Want some Haagen-Dazs? Don't have it right after a spicy Italian meal. Have it once in a while on an empty stomach so your system will at least
have a fighting chance. Same with yogurt. Don't have it with fruit on the bottom; it will all
ferment and putrefy in your system. Have it plain on an empty stomach,
or make it into a salad dressing. Fix a salad and mix yogurt through it. Some people insist that dairy products are necessary for calcium. We're
led to believe that milk is a major source of calcium, and if we don't
drink milk, our teeth will fall out and our bones will collapse. First of all,
the calcium in cow's milk is much coarser than in human's milk, and is
tied up with the casein. This prevents the calcium from being absorbable. Second, most milk-drinkers and cheese-eaters consume pasteurized, ho
mogenized, or otherwise processed products. This processing degrades the
calcium, making it very difficult to utilize. Even if raw products are con
sumed, there's so much harmful potential in milk, it's not worth some
possible good. Would you eat tobacco leaves for their high amino acid
content? The human body is remarkably adaptable, but cow's milk sim
ply isn't designed for humans.5
The fact is that all green leafy vegetables contain calcium. All nuts
(raw) contain calcium. And raw sesame seeds contain more calcium than
any other food on earth. Also most fruit contains ample calcium. If
you're eating fruits and vegetables daily and some raw nuts even occa
sionally, you can't have a calcium deficiency. The best sources of cal-
4The Russians do cat yogurt, but in small amounts. The yogurt is quite fresh, and it is not fermented
to the degree that commercial yogurt is. 'Herbert M. Shclton. Ph.D. The Hygienic Care of Children. Bridgeport. Connecticut: Natural
Hygiene Press, 1970. N. W. Walker, M.D. Diet and Salad Suggestions. Phoenix, Arizona: Norwalk Press, 1971. Hannah Allen. "Lesson #33, Why We Should Not Rat Animal Products in Any Form." In The Life
Science Health System. Austin. Texas: Life Science, 1984. DAIRY PRODUCTS • 85 cium are raw sesame seeds, all raw nuts, kelp, dulse, all leafy greens, and
concentrated fruits such as figs, dates, and prunes. And if you're still
worried, sprinkle some ground raw sesame seeds on your salad or on your
vegetables every so often, and you couldn't have a calcium deficiency
even if you wanted one. We certainly are not dependent on our bovine
friends for calcium. From what does the cow attain all its calcium? Grain
and grass! Cows sure as life don't drink milk or eat cheese for it. It is important


 they had nothing else
to do. During dry fasting, however, the phago-
cytes are left without food, i.e. without fat, so
they begin to perform their direct tasks: capture
and digest bacteria, viruses, cell residues, dead or
dying cells, thus fostering renewal and the reju-
venation of the organism. Cancer cells, always
present in the body, are also digested. The de-
struction of diseased cells, and not of healthy
cells during DF is also associated with the release
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tive system.
Abstinence from water and food for many days
creates the conditions for the withdrawal of the
powerful army of b -lymphocytes from the front-
line gastrointestinal positions. They accumulate
from the lymph nodes and lymphat ic collectors
of the long digestive path. In particular many of
them come from the small intestine. Once they
have transitioned to the reserve position, the
army of b -lymphocytes can be utilized for its di-
rect purpose: to suppress and eliminate all path-
ogens and foreign bodies. Infections in a
dormant state practically do not surrender to
modern antibacterial therapies (treatments with
antibiotics, sulphanilamides and other pharma-
ceutical drugs). Indeed, in this stage of their
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tective envelopes and become more resistant to
these drugs and other medicines. However, dur-
ing the course of dry fasting their envelopes are
destroyed by the acidosis activated by phago-
cytes and enzymes.
During the dry fast, body fluids rea ch the high-
est concentrations of biologically active sub-
stances, hormones, immunocompetent cells and
immunoglobulins.

8.3. The mechanism of acidification of the in-
ternal environment of the organism: the first
and second acidotic crises
To obtain a good therapeutic effect from the
fasting practice it is necessary to observe certain
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lasts for 2 -3 days in case of water fasting while it
lasts 1 -2 days with dry fasting. The "food excite-
ment" phase is a stress for the body. This stress
mainly causes the activation of the hypothala-
mus that begins to secrete a variety of substances
that have a particular impact on the body's en-
docrine glands with the aim to adapt the organ-
ism to a mode of subsistence without food or wa-
ter. After 24 hours of fasting in human beings,
the secretion of the growth hormone, somatro-
pin, by the pituitary gland increases abruptly.
According to recent data, this is the reason why
dry fasting seems to have a rejuvenating effect on
the body. The growth hormone also activates the
pancreatic hormone glucagon, which intensifies
the breakdown of glycogen in the liver thus
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Dry fasting also removes the body's toxicity
through beneficial ef fects on the thyroid gland.
The second phase is that of intensifying acido-
sis. Usually this phase in dry fasting lasts from 2
to 4 days. As soon as food and water are com-
pletely renounced, the body begins to consume
the accumulated reserves and secondary t issues.
The breakdown of nutrients and tissues during
fasting leads to the accumulation of byproducts
inside the body. Consequently, there is a rapid
shift of the body's pH towards acidity (acidosis)
even if the acidification values do not exceed the
physi ological norm.
The acidosis that occurs during the fast is the
first and most important physiological mecha-
nism that triggers a chain of other therapeutic
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diet. The acidification of the organism’s internal
envir onment determines the autolysis, the pro-
cess of disintegration of the tissues. In fact, in an
acidic environment certain phagocytes and en-
zymes are activated to destroy the organism’s
weakened tissues and all the foreign elements.
The processes associated with autolysis, in turn,
trigger the body's detoxification mechanisms to
remove toxins, and weak and pathologically al-
tered tissue. Tissue decomposition ensures that
all the waste contained in it is released and re-
moved from the body, while the altered tis sue is
destroyed. The acidification of the body and the
increase in phagocytic activity lead to the nor-
malization of the organism's microflora.
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bon dioxide and nitrogen from the air. This pro-
cess helps to fix  the carbon dioxide dissolved in
the blood according to the principle of photo-
synthesis, the best synthesis of nature. The at-
mospheric air we breathe turns into a nutritious
environment. In other words, the intensified as-
similation of carbon dioxide by the  cells, to-
gether with the intense consumption of nitrogen
from the air, creates the optimal conditions for
the production of high quality nucleic acids, pro-
teins and other biologically active substances
necessary for normal human activity. In other
words, by practicing dry fasting we use the car-
bon dioxide and nitrogen present in the air and
thanks to them we create the proteins necessary
for the functioning of our organism. But the
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let's remember what plants do. They take energy
from the sun and thus can convert the same car-
bon dioxide and nitrogen from the air into min-
eral salts and organic compounds. But humans
also have similar abilities and can nourish them-
selves with natural and cosmic energies, alt-
hough this normally does not happen or occurs
only in a small number of people. Currently only
a few people are known to live without eating or
drinking14. When this mechanism starts it
means that the organism has already switched to
a mode of full internal (endo genous) feeding
that guarantees the complete synthesis of amino
acids and other biological compounds. During

14 The “Breatharians”.
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benefit from a physiological rest that allows
them to restore their damaged structures and
functions.
DF sets in motion an intense decomposition of
the tissues due to the autolysis and the restora-
tion of the digestive organs’ structure and func-
tion. These processes stimulate metabolism in
general and later, when feeding is resumed,
prove to support the overall digestive capacity of
the organism. During DF, the body's defense
functions are reinvigorated both at the cellular
level and at the level of the whole organism,
which becomes much more resistant to internal
and external harmful agents. All the physiolog i-
cal mechanisms illustrated above lead to a pow-
erful regenerating and rejuvenating effect, which
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ing the practice (after 21 days from the end of the
DF practice).
Therefore, during DF, the process of acidifica-
tion of the internal environment of the organism
grows rapidly. Usually the maximum acidifica-
tion is observed on the 2nd or 3rd day. Here's what
happens: at the beginning of the dry fast, the
body still has animal sugar reserves (glycogen)
and uses them. B ut once glycogen reserves are
depleted (this usually happens on the first day of
fasting), the acid byproducts from incomplete
digestion of fats (butyric acid, acetone) begin to
accumulate in the blood. The blood’s alkaline re-
serves are lowered and this is  reflected on the
state of well -being: the patient can have a head-
ache, feel nausea, a feeling of weakness, or
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 and physicians’ waiting rooms would be mostly  vacated.
Humans are most certainly designed by nature as sucklings—but onl y for their early years of life, and only of their own
mother’s milk. W e would do ourselves an astronomical favor if we had the good se nse to stop consuming milk after weaning age, as
does every other milk-drinking creature on Earth.

Are We Eaters of Nuts, Seeds, and Other High-Fat Plants?
There is no doubt but that early humans in nature did consume some nuts an d seeds, though certainly plants create them for
reproduction, not for consumption. The various types of seeds, most prominently g rains, weeds, fruit seeds, and nuts (all nuts are
seeds) have protective outer coatings that range in texture from fi brous to hard and woody. We do not have razor-sharp teeth and
massive jaw power that squirrels use to extract nuts from their she lls.
Both seeds and nuts are endowed with nutrients sufficient to initiat e and sustain a certain minimum growth of their plants. As
with all foods, we derive the greatest nutritional benefit from nuts a nd seeds when we eat them in their raw state. Heated fats and
proteins are quite pathogenic—even carcinogenic. W e should eat nu ts raw or not at all.
Most people in modern society, however, have never tasted truly raw nuts a nd seeds. High in water content, genuinely raw
nuts have a texture more like apples (in the case of almonds) or nut butte rs (in the case of macadamias). Virtually all commercially
available nuts and seeds have been oven-dehydrated at “low” temper atures, (perhaps 160 F) often for days, to prevent them from
going moldy, thus extending their shelf life.
Unfortunately, our ability to digest nuts and seeds—whether raw, dehy drated, or heated—is rather poor. Ranging from about
55 to 85% fat, nuts and seeds are best eaten infrequently and in very small a mounts. Even then, their breakdown into fatty acids,
amino acids, and glucose requires a drawn-out process that takes hours. Fat s may lie in the small intestine for several hours before
the gallbladder secretes bile with which to emulsify (break down and liqu efy) them.
In contrast, high-fat fruits like avocados, durians, akees, breadfruit, an d olives are rich in easily digestible fats (when ripe). These fruits range in fat content from 30% of calories (durian) to 77% (av ocado). Coconut meat, also high in fat (ranging perhaps
20 to 80%, depending on maturity), is easily digested in the jelly-like state  but almost impossible to digest when matured and
hardened.
Leafy greens and other vegetables, when eaten raw and fresh, contain  a small amount of fatty acids in an easily usable state.
However, some (primarily the cruciferous vegetables) contain unwa nted toxic sulfur compounds. We derive our best predigested
fats adequate to meet our fatty-acid needs from fruits and tender leave s.
Biologically we are not a species of fat eaters, but merely incidental  eaters of fats. Although an occasional avocado or small
handful of nuts and seeds is quite satisfying and complements our natur al diet, we are primarily carbohydrate eaters.

Are W e Omnivores—That Is, All of the Above?
Of course, humans are omnivores in practice, with the aid of cook stoves, condi ments, taste excitants, camouflaging seasonings,
spices and so on. But, in nature, we could not do more than eat foods in season, and we w ould have to eat them in the raw state on
the basis of their effect on our taste buds. Without tools, technology, packagi ng and containerization, and taste-masking agents, we
would soon lose our omnivorous tendencies out in the wild … and wet, sweet fruit  would look better and better every day.

We’re Frugivores!
In nature, humans would be frugivores only. A frugivore is a creature  that lives primarily on fruits, with the addition of tender
greens. (This includes the nonsweet seeded fruits we generally ea t with vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, okra,
zucchini and other squashes, and eggplant.) Like all animals, we can in deed survive (albeit less successfully) on a wide variety of
foods. Nonetheless, our bodies are designed to thrive on a diet of mainly fruit.
Some people adopt a totally fruitarian diet, meaning they attempt to live e xclusively on fruits, but I do not recommend this
practice. Dark-green leafy vegetables provide minerals and other nut rients essential for optimum nutrition and health.
Nutritionally, fruit comes closer to satisfying all of our needs (inc luding, of course, our desire for delicious soul-exalting fare)
than any other food, as meat does for a carnivore. Fruits are replete with  the nutrients our bodies require— in the proportions that
we need them.  Y es, some vegetables and other foods may have “more” of a particular n utrient or class of nutrients, but fruits tend
to contain the types and quantities of nutrients our bodies require. More does  not mean better.
Humans are sweet seekers by nature, designed to eat sweet fruits. Tas te buds on the very tips of our tongues recognize sweet
tastes. Most of us are attracted to sweet fruits in their raw state, r egardless of what else our culture and circumstances dispose us to
eat.
When ripened, fruits accommodatingly convert their carbohydrate compone nts into glucose and fructose, simple sugars we
can use without further digestion. Enzymes in the fruit convert prot eins into amino acids and fats into fatty acids and glycerols. Thus,
when we eat fruits, all we need do is savor their goodness.

Fruits and Tender Greens?
You may have noticed that I described the frugivorous diet as one consisti ng primarily of fruits, with the addition of tender greens.
Where do the rest of the vegetables fit into this picture?
This may shock you, but by every indication, our digestive physiology was desi gned to process the soft, water-soluble fibers in
fruits and tender leaves, almost exclusively.
It is true that cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kal e, collards, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage are loaded with
nutrients, including soluble fiber. But they also contain cellulose a nd other tough, difficult-to-digest fibers. These vegetables are best
digested when eaten in their youngest and most tender state. For best re sults, they must be thoroughly chewed or mechanically
predigested via the use of a blender or shredding device.
To assimilate completely, we need to digest completely, and every time we  eat foods that are more difficult to digest, we
compromise our nutrition and, over time, our health. To be sure, we are capable of  swallowing vegetation that contains cellulose and
other rough, insoluble fibers, but such foods put a great load on our organs of diges tion and elimination.
Where health is concerned, we want to derive the greatest benefits w hile minimizing the detriments or outright harm. When we
apply this idea to nutrition, we are looking for “enough” of the nutrients  we need, not necessarily the most we can get. The
indigestible fibers in the harder-textured vegetables are very dif ficult for our bodies to digest, relative to the soft, soluble fibers in
fruits and tender leafy greens. Thus, they are not among our ideal foods.

Our Senses Confirm
Imagine for a moment that you are about to eat some delicious piece of fr uit—perhaps a grape, peach, melon, banana, apple, plum,
orange, mango, fig, or berry … you choose the variety. Picture holding the f ruit in your hand, admiring its beauty. Y ou hold it to your
nose and smell its sweet and distinctive fragrance. It tempts you to ta ke a bite, but first you appreciate the fruit in your mind just a
little more, increasing the pleasure. At this point, your mouth should be  watering. The fruit requires no preparation; it is a finished product, ready to be consumed exactly as Nature prepared it. For humans, fruit s attract the eye, tantalize the sense of smell, and
taste divine in their raw, natural, ripe state.
Now, try the same thing again, this time imagining a field of wheat, or  a herd of cattle, or a flock of birds in flight. Does your
mouth water? When pressed to imagine themselves foraging for food in na ture, even those who vehemently question the frugivorous
disposition of man have to admit that they would choose little other than fr uits. This does not mean we should eat fruits totally and
exclusively in our present circumstances, but it does mean that, in n ature, they would comprise the overwhelming majority of our
food choices.
Allowing fruit to predominate in your diet makes succeeding on the 80/10/10  plan easier than any other approach to eating,
raw or cooked. To develop the healthiest and sanest relationship with food, and in  order to stick with a dietary plan that will work
for you for the rest of your life, have all the fruit you care for


 swelling, redness, and often copioussecretions of mucous and pus, such as colds, flu, a first time case of pneumonia,inflamed joints as in the early stages of arthritis, etc. These acute conditionsusually remedy in one to three weeks of fasting. Acute conditions are excellentcandidates for self-doctoring. Chronic degenerative conditions are more seriousand the patient usually requires supervision. These include conditions such ascancer, aids, chronic arthritis, chronic pneumonia, emphysema and asthma.Chronic degenerative conditions usually respond within a month to three monthsof fasting. The fasting should be broken up into two or three sessions if thecondition has not been relieved in one stint of supervised fasting. Each successivefast will produce some improvement and if a light, largely raw-food diet isadhered to between fasts the patient should not worsen and should be fairlycomfortable between fastings.
If there has been major functional damage to an organ as a result of any of
these degenerative conditions, healing will not be complete, or may be impossible.
By organic damage, I mean that a vital part of the body has ceased to function
due to some degenerative process, injury, or surgery—so badly damaged that thecells that make up the organ can not be replaced.
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 thathis liver was beyond repair. He had been working on an apple farm in betweenterms at university when he was poisoned several times with insecticide from anaerial spray on the whole orchard. He absorbed so much insecticide that his liverincurred massive organic damage.
When he came to me his body had reached the point where it was incapable
of digesting, and because of lack of liver function, it was incapable of healingwhile fasting, a condition in which death is a certainty. He was a Buddhist, did notfear death and did not want to be kept alive in agony or in prolongedunconsciousness by any extraordinary means, nor did he want to die with tubes inevery orifice. I was honored to be a supportive participant in his passing. He diedfasting, in peace, and without pain, with a clear mind that allowed him toconsciously prepare for the experience. He was not in a state of denial or fear,and made no frantic attempts to escape the inevitable. He went quietly into thatstill dark night with a tranquil demeanor and a slight smile.
Fortunately, 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 bymeans of the fasting and healing diets. Many cancer patients watched withamazement as their tumors disappeared before their eyes, many arthritics regainedtheir function, serious skin conditions such as psoriasis disappeared, mentalconditions improved, addictions vanished, fatigue was replaced by energy, and fatdissolved revealing the hidden sculpture beneath. I will talk more aboutprocedures and the particular reasons bodies develop specific conditions in laterchapters.
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 fasting. Many people harbor fears of losing weightbecause they think that if times were really tough, if there was a famine or theybecame ill and lost a lot of weight they would have no reserves and wouldcertainly perish. These people have no idea how much fat can be concealed on aneven skinny body, nor of how slowly a skinny body loses weight while fasting.Substantial fat reserves are helpful as heat-retaining insulation in those rareaccidents when someone is dropped into a cold ocean and must survive until therescue boat arrives. Being fat might keep a person alive longer who is lost in thewilderness awaiting rescue with no supplies, no means of procuring food, and nomeans of keeping warm. On the other hand, fat people would have a far hardertime walking out of the wilderness. And extensive fat deposits are merely fuel anddo not contain extensive nutritional reserves. An obese person fasting withoutsignificant nutritional supplementation would begin starving long before theybecame really skinny. On the balance, carrying excess weight is a far greaterliability than any potential pro-survival aspects it might have.
There are other attitudes associated with weight loss that make it difficult for
people to fast. People hold rather stereotypical notions about what constitutes anattractive person; usually it involves having some flesh on one’s bones. Hollywoodand Hugh Hefner have both influenced the masses to think that women shouldhave hourglass figures with large, upthrust, firm breasts. Since breasts are almostall useless fatty tissue supporting some milk-producing glands that do not give abreast much volume except when engorged, most women fasters loose a goodpercentage of their breast mass. If the fast is extensive, there should also developan impressive showing of ribs and hip bones; these are not soft and cuddly.Husbands, lovers, parents, and friends frequently point out that you don’t lookgood this way and exhort you to put on weight. Most people think pleasantlyplump is healthy.
Skinny men, especially those who had lost a lot of weight during an illness, are
pressured by associates to put on weight to prove that they are healthy. I had aclient who was formerly a college varsity football player. Before his illness he hadlifted weights and looked like a hunk. His family and friends liked to see him thatway and justifiably so. Then he got seriously ill. On a long extended healing diethe lost a significant amount of weight and seemed downright skinny, causing allwho knew him well and cared about him to tempt him with all kinds ofscrumptious delicacies from the best of kitchens. But this case was like LuigiCornaro, a man who never again could look like a hunk. His “friends” made anabsolutely necessary change in life style and appearance far more difficult than itwas already. My client was torn between a desire to please others, and a desireto regain and retain his health. This problem a sick person doesn’t need.
If you have the independence to consider following an alternative medical
program in a culture that highly values conformity and agreement, you are alsogoing to have to defend your own course of self-determined action based on thebest available data that you have. But fasters are usually in fragile emotionalcondition, so I advise my clients who are subjected to this kind of pressure to begtheir friends and associates to refrain from saying anything if they can’t support thecourse of action you have chosen. After this, if friends or relatives are stillincapable of saying nothing (even non-verbally), it is important to exclude themfrom your life until you have accomplished your health goals, have regained someweight and have returned to eating a maintenance diet, rather than getting skinnieron a healing one.
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 strength.Inherent in this recommendation is an unstated belief that when the body isweakened by a disease state, the weakness can somehow be overcome withfood, and that the body needs this food to kill the virus, bacteria, or invadingyeast, and uses the protein to heal or rebuild tissue. Sadly, the exact opposite is
the case. Disease organisms feed and multiply on the toxic waste products of
misdigestion, and the body is unable to digest well when it is weak or ill.
There’s an old saying about this: “feed a cold, starve a fever.” Most people
think this saying means you should eat when you have a cold. What the sayingreally means is if you feed a cold then you will soon have to starve a fever.Chcken soup? Protein foods especially are not digested by a diseased body, andas mentioned before, the waste products of protein indigestion are especiallypoisonous. That is all the body needs when it is already down, another load ofpoison which it can’t eliminate due to weakness and enervation.
Weight loss is usually associated with illness, as it should be! In times of acute
illness an otherwise healthy body loses its appetite for food because it is pro-survival to stop eating. It is very hard to coax a sick animal to eat. Their bodies,not controlled by a mind full of complex learned responses and false ideas,automatically know that fasting is nature’s method of healing. Contrary to popularunderstanding, digestion, assimilation, and elimination require the expenditure ofconsiderable energy. This fact may contradict the reader’s experience becauseeveryone has become tired when they have worked a long time without eating,and then experienced the lift after eating. But an ill body cannot digest efficientlyso instead of providing energy extracted from foods, the body is further burdenedby yet another load of toxic material produced by fermented and putrefied food.This adds insult to injury in a sick body that is already drowning in its owngarbage.
Worse, during illness most available vital force is already redirected into
healing; it is not available for digestion. It is important to allow a sick body toproceed with healing and not to obstruct the process with unnecessary digestionor suppress the symptoms (which actually are the healing efforts) with drugs. Ifyou have an acute illness, and you stop all food intake except for pure water andherb teas, and perhaps some vegetable broth, or dilute non-sweet juice, you haverelieved your body of an immense effort. Instead of digesting, the body goes to
work on catching up on healing. The body can and will almost inevitably heal itself
if the sick person will have faith in it, cooperate with the body’s efforts by allowingthe symptoms of healing to exist, reduce or eliminate the intake of food to allowthe body


 y our mout h r emo v ing t he sug ar and tur pentine f r om t he
spoon. P ut w at er in
y our mout h and s w al lo w t he w hole mi x. DO NO T S W I S H t o
blend —just s w al lo w, letting t he
sug ar and tur pentine mi x tur e g o do w n y our
t hr oat. T ak e as man y sips of w at er as y ou need
t o in or der t o g et e v er y t hing
do w n.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>If y ou w eig h 241 pounds or o v er, y ou ma y ha v e mor e C andid a t han ot her s and
y ou should
ac tual l y use less tur pentine. A half -t easpoon amount w i l l g i v e less
die-off and disc omf ort. If
t his dose does not g i v e an y benef it, it’ s f ine t o inc r ease
t o 1 t easpoon o v er a per iod of 4
doses.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Instructions for Pe ople Who Hav e Had Candida Sy mptoms for More than 2
Years
If y ou f al l int o t his c at eg or y, y ou ma y benef it f r om t ak ing t he C andid a C leaner
onc e a d a y f or
4 d a y s, t hen t w ic e a w eek unti l y ou r eac h y our pr e-C andid a st at e.
T he long- t er m dosing is
onc e a mont h, or t w ic e a y ear, as our anc est or s did.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>FREQUENCY
R epeat t his dosing t w ic e a w eek, on eit her M ond a y and F r id a y, S atur d a y and
T uesd a y, et c.
T his c omplet es t he 5 st eps, and al lo w 1 w eek t o c omplet e eac h of
t he 5 st eps. In ot her w or ds,
st art w it h st ep 1. A f t er 1 w eek, add st ep 2.
T hese st eps must be done t hor oug hl y, or t her e w i l l
be C andid a
die-off c aused b y C andid a t hat ar e tr apped and unable t o lea v e
y our bod y. In
ot her w or ds, y ou ma y f eel w or se inst ead of bett er.2 4
S pec i al C as e s
Di e-o f f
P eop l e with C an di d a S y mpt o ms
f o r  m o r e th an 2 y ear sDizin e ss
T his is a head ac he or w or sening of an y
s y mpt oms. T his is c aused
b y not enoug h
w at er in y our s y st em. D r ink t he
r ec ommended
amount of w at er in st ep 1 f or
at least 1 w eek bef or e att empting
tur pentine
and w hi le y ou ar e t ak ing tur pentine.
T he sec ond c ause
is t oo muc h w ast e in t he
s y st em. T his means t hat t he int estines
ha v e
t oo muc h w ast e and w i l l not al lo w t he
C andid a t o e x it as t he y
w ish. T he solution is
t o st op t he tur pentine and c lear t he bo w els,
using t he sug g estions in st ep 1. T he t hir d
c ause is t oo muc h
tur pentine. R educ e y our
dose.
T he number one c ause of t his is t oo muc h
tur pentine or
t oo litt le sug ar.
W hen pour ing t he tur pentine ont o t he
sug ar,
pour onl y enoug h t o ent er t he bott om c ube. If
y ou
pour so muc h tur pentine t hat e v er y
g r anule of sug ar is
soak ed, y ou need t o t hr o w
t hat sug ar a w a y and st art
o v er.
DO NO T E A T T H A T SUG A R.
T he sug ar ac t s as t he
disper sing ag ent and
slo w s t he absor ption of tur pentine.
T his
means t hat y ou must use mor e sug ar t han
tur pentine or t he tur pentine g et s absor bed
t oo quic k l y.
If y ou f al l int o t his c at eg or y, y ou ma y benef it f r om
t ak ing t he C andid a
C leaner onc e a d a y f or 4 d a y s,
t hen t w ic e a w eek unti l y ou r eac h y our
pr e-
C andid a st at e. T he long-t er m dosing onc e y ou
r eac h y our
desir ed st at e of healt h is onc e a mont h
or t w ic e a y ear, as our
anc est or s did.15
Hist o ri cal E vi d e n ce
S o ho w do tur pentine and sug ar help, and ho w does one t ak e it? O r ho w has it been
t ak en in t he past,
I should sa y.
M y f ir st inc lination t o use tur pentine and sug ar w as f or people w ho had c hr onic,
se v er e,
long-st anding i l lness, f or w hic h not hing had w or k ed. A nd w hat c omes t o mind
ar e c onditions suc h
as lupus, multiple sc ler osis, and r heumat oid art hr itis. N o w, man y
of y ou w i l l r ec og nize t hese
c onditions as aut oimmune disor der s.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>W hat I f ound w as t hat t hese people benef it ed g r eat l y f r om g oing on an or g anic, v eg an,
w hole-f ood
diet f or a c ouple of w eek s, instituting enemas, and f ol lo w ing it up w it h a
w at er f ast of 5 t o7 d a y s, at
w hic h point t he y w er e g ener al l y out of t he w oods.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>B ut one pr oblem t hese people uni v er sal l y had is t hat t he y w ould ha v e sug ar c r a v ing s,
t he y w ould
ha v e meat c r a v ing s, and t hese c r a v ing s int er f er ed w it h t heir c ompli anc e
and healing. F or t hese
people, tur pentine and sug ar t w ic e a w eek c ut out t heir
c r a v ing s, pr e v ent ed t heir r el apses, and w as
of g r eat benef it. S o t hose w er e some
ar eas w her e it pr o v ed v er y helpf ul.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>I w i l l shar e t he st or y of one per son w ho w as helped b y it.
His w if e did t ak e tur pentine f or her c ondition and r ec ei v ed r elief, but af t er about 3
doses, she f elt
t hat tur pentine w as just not somet hing she r eal l y w ant ed t o t ak e.
N o w, t he ot her t hing I f ound about
tur pentine is t hat not onl y does it k i l l w or ms, but it
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t he of f ic e w a v ing t his book and y el ling, “ D oc t or, D oc t or, do y ou k no w
about y east? D o y ou k no w
about t he y east s y ndr ome? I ha v e c andidi asis t hr oug hout
m y w hole bod y


ed once more here.
Getting back to suffering —where did we
ever get the idea that suffering was good?
That the saintly “suffer in silence”?
The saintly do “suffer in silence,” but that
does not mean suffering is good. The
students in the school of Mastery  suffer in
silence because they understand that
suffering is not the way of God, but rather a
sure sign that there is still something to
learn of the way of God, still something to
remember.
The true Master does not suffer in silence
at all, but only appea rs to be suffering
without complaint. The reason that the true
Master does not complain is that the true
Master is not suffering, but simply experiencing a set of circumstances that
you would call insufferable.
A practicing Master does not speak of
sufferi ng simply because a Master
practicing  clearly understands the power of
the Word —and so chooses to simply not
say a  word about it.
We make real that to which we pay
attention. The Master knows this. The
Master  places himself at choice with regard
to that wh ich she chooses to make real.
You have all done this from time to time.
There is not a one among you who has not
made a headache disappear, or a visit to
the dentist less painful, through your
decision about it.
A Master simply makes the same decision
abou t larger things.  But why have suffering at all? Why have
even the possibility of suffering?
You cannot know, and become, that which
you are, in the absence of that which you
are not, as I have already explained to you.
I still don’t understand how we ever got the
idea that suffering was good.
You are wise to be insistent in questioning
that. The original wisdom surrounding
suffering in silence has become so
perverted that now many believe (and
several  religions actually teach) that
suffering is good, a nd joy is bad. Therefore,
you have  decided that if someone has
cancer, but keeps it to himself, he is a saint,
whereas if  someone has (to pick a
dynamite topic) robust sexuality, and
celebrates it openly,  she is a sinner.  Boy, You did pick a dynamite topic. And
You cleverly changed the pronoun, too,
from male to female. Was that to make a
point?
It was to show you your prejudices. You
don’t like to think of women having robust
sexuality, much less celebrating it openly.
You would rather see a man dying with out
a whimper on the battlefield than a woman
making love with a whimper in the street.
Wouldn’t You?
I have no judgment one way or the other.
But you have all sorts of them —and I
suggest that it is your judgments which
keep you from joy, and your expectat ions
which make you unhappy.
All of this put together is what causes you
disease, and therein begins your  suffering.  How do I know that what You are saying is
true? How do I know this is even God
speaking, and not my overactive
imagination?
You’ve asked th at before. My answer is the
same. What difference does it make?  Even
if everything I’ve said is “wrong,” can you
think of a better way to live?
No.
Then “wrong” is right, and “right” is wrong!
Yet I’ll tell you this, to help you out of your
dilemma: believ e nothing I say. Simply  live
it. Experience it. Then live whatever other
paradigm you want to construct.  Afterward,
look to your experience to find your truth.
One day, if you have a great deal of
courage, you will experience a world where  making love is c onsidered better than
making war. On that day will you rejoice.
  Chapter 7
Life is so scary. And so confusing. I wish
things could be more clear.
There is nothing scary about life, if you are
not attached to results.
You mean if you don’t want anything.
That’s right. Choose, but don’t want.
That’s easy for people who don’t have
anybody depending on them. What if you
have a wife  and children?
The path of the householder has always
been a most challenging path. Perhaps the
most challenging. As you  point out, it is
easy to “want nothing” when you are only
dealing with yourself. It is natural, when you
have others you love, to want only the  best
for them.  It hurts when you can’t give them all that
you want them to have. A nice home, some
decent  cloth es, enough food. I feel as
though I’ve been struggling for 20 years
just to make ends  meet. And I still have
nothing to show for it.
You mean in terms of material wealth?
I mean in terms of just some of the basics
that a man would like to pass on to his
children. I  mean in terms of some of the
very simple things a man would like to
provide for his wife.
I see. You see it as your job in life to provide
all these things. Is that what you  imagine
your life to be about?
I’m not sure I’d state it that way. This is not
what my life is about, but it sure would be
nice if  this could be a by -product, at least.  Well, let’s go back, then. What do you see
your life being about?
That’s a good question. I’ve had a lot of
different answers to that through the years.
What is your answer now?
It feels as though I have two answers to
that question; the answer I’d like to see,
and the  answer I’m seeing.
What’s the answer you’d like to see?
I’d like to see my life being about the
evolution of my soul. I’d like to see my lif e
being about  expressing and experiencing
the part of me I love most. The part of me
that is compassion  and patience and giving
and helping. The part of me that is knowing
and wise, forgiving  and...love.
Sounds like you’ve been reading this book!  Yes, well it’s a beautiful book, on an
esoteric level, but I’m trying to figure out
how to  “practicalize” that. The answer to
your question that I see being real in my life
is that it’s  about day -to-day survival.
Oh. And you think one thing precludes the
other?
Well...
You think esoterics preclude survival?
The truth is, I’d like to do more than just
survive. I’ve been surviving all these years.
I notice  I’m still here. But I’d like the
struggle for survival to end. I see that just
getting by from day to  day is still a struggle.
I’d like to do more than just survive. I’d like
to prosper.
And what would you call prospering?  Having enough that I don’t have to worry
where my next dollar is coming from; not
having to  stress and strain just to make the
rent, or handle  the phone bill. I mean, I hate
to get so  mundane, but we’re talking real
life here, not the airy -fairy, spiritually
romanticized picture of  life you draw
throughout this book.
Do I hear a little anger there?
Not anger so much as frustration. I’ve been
at the spiritual game for over 20 years now
and look where it’s gotten me. One
paycheck away from the poorhouse! And
now I’ve just lost  my job, and it looks like
the cash flow has stopped again. I’m
getting really tired of the  struggle. I’m 49
years old, and I’d like to have some security
in life so that I could devote  more time to
“God stuff,” to soul “evoluting,” etc. That’s where my heart is, but it’s not where  my life
allows me to go...
Well, you’ve said a mouthful there, and I
suspect you’re speaking for a whole lot of
people when you share that experience.
I’m going to respond to your truth one
sentence at a time, so that we can easily
track, and dissect, the answer.
You have not been “at this spiritual game”
for 20 years, you have been barely skirting
the edges of it (This is not a “spanking,” by
the way, this is just a statement of the truth.)
I’ll concede that for two decades you’ve
been looking at it; flirting with it;
experimenting now and then...but I haven’t
felt your true —your truest —commitment to
the game until just recently.  Let’s be clear that “being at the spiritual
game” means dedicating your whole mind,
your whole body, your whole soul to the
process of creating Self in the image and
likeness of God.
This is the process of Self -realization abo ut
which Eastern mystics


ic tissue damage or inflammation (e.g., Crohn’s disease or cystitis), but this type of pain is not as common as musculoskeletal or joint pain.
9
Peripheral nerve stimulation in humans has shown the involvement of two afferent
fiber groups subserving pain.10 Due to their higher conduction velocity, fine myelin -
ated fibers of the A- δ (gamma) pain group when activated evoke quick, shallow pain
interpreted as sharp or pricking,11 whereas activity in slow nonmyelinated C-fibers
responds to stimuli that have stronger intensities and account for the slow, but deeper and widespread pain over an unspecific area, often characterized as a burning sensa -
tion.
12 In response to single shocks, the A- δ pain is more severe than C-fiber pain.
But C-fiber pain is more severe when the stimulation is repetitive, which is the basis of chronic pain.
13 Strong C-fiber pain is thought to underlie the suffering felt in neu -
ropathic pain14,15 (see Chapter 2).
Due to the high subjectivity involved in pain sensation in humans, the assessment
of pain medications and even nonpharmacological interventions can be difficult to measure with respect to effectiveness of easing pain sensation since the perception of pain can change over time and even during the course of a day.
16
For example, chronic neuropathic pain has a complex pathophysiology and is dif -
ficult to treat.17 The clinical measures that evaluate pain alleviation involve patient-
reported outcomes where the patient is the most important evaluator of the analgesic being tested.
18 This can present a major problem involving bias for the clinician and
the patient as well as to regulatory agencies that must sift through the merit of such evidence before approving a prescriptive analgesic for the market, a market whose revenue classifies it as a billion-dollar industry.
The second problem related to pain medications in clinical studies’ assessments
is that analgesics are unusually assessed by a single pain rating.
19 This approach has
yielded conflicting and confusing results that put into question the true pharmaco -
logical action of an analgesic with that of a placebo effect or nocebo effect. The pla -
cebo effect describes the improvement seen when patients, unknowingly, are given a sham or inactive ingredient as a pain-relieving treatment that the patients believe
will alleviate their pain, as it often does.
20 This is a very real physiological effect that
remains a scientific mystery but nevertheless a valid response. The nocebo effect is
the opposite: patients believe that even a potent analgesic will make their pain feel worse, and often it does.
2151 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
Due to this lack of scientific objectivity in measuring analgesic properties of effi -
cacy, information derived from the impact of treatments on (1) the quality of pain
symptoms, (2) improved anatomic or physiological functioning, and (3) overall well-being of the patient can add to the validity and confidence that a particular analgesic for a particular pain complaint shows evidence or not that it is a useful pain reliever. We will call the criteria of using these three guidelines to measure analgesic efficacy, the QFW values, for quality of easing pain (Q), restoring or significantly improv -
ing anatomic–physiological function (F), and general well-being (W) subjectively expressed by the patient following treatment.
Thus, two subjective and one objective values complementary to each other to
assess the effectiveness of DMSO on pain add a level of accuracy and confidence into what was previously considered a purely subjective assessment of a drug’s action to alleviate pain.
Oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and cyclooxygenase-2-
selective (COX-2) inhibitors are frequently recommended for the management of osteoarthritis pain. However, serious gastrointestinal and cardiovascular systemic adverse events are associated with oral NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors, thus limiting their usefulness.
For these reasons, many clinicians treating patients with an assortment of painful
disorders turned to other possible remedies with a better safety margin.
Because pain is a primitive and conspicuously unpleasant sensation, it is gener -
ally regarded as a warning signal of danger. This unpleasant or aversive sensation originates from some specific region of the body. Since pain is highly subjective in nature, it is often difficult to treat clinically despite the fact that it is the most com -
mon complaint that patients describe when seeking medical help. Specific pain sen -
sations have been described as burning, pricking, stinging, aching, and soreness.
11
When the clinical potential of DMSO was first discovered,1 its topical application
for the relief of musculoskeletal pain was consistently shown.
DMSO and aspirin work similarly by blocking the production of certain prosta -
glandins by controlling the on–off switch in cells that regulate pain and inflammation, among other things. That is likely the reason why aspirin stops mild inflammation and pain. However, DMSO goes a step farther than aspirin in that it not only blocks the prostaglandins that can induce pain and inflammation, such as prostaglandin E
2
(PGE2),22 but also stops or slows down conduction of pain fibers when it is adminis -
tered topically or internally.23 PGE2 is of particular interest because it is involved in all
processes leading to the classic signs of inflammation: redness, swelling, and pain.24
Also, unlike aspirin, DMSO is not considered toxic to the stomach or gut where aspi -
rin can cause peptic ulcers or gastrointestinal tract irritation at therapeutic doses.25
DMSO has been found to block conduction of C-fibers when applied directly to
a sensory nerve, even in low concentrations (5%–7% v/v).23 Higher concentrations
 completely blocked C-fiber conduction, with a minimum blocking concentration of
9%.23 When the application of DMSO continues on a nerve, besides blocking large
C-fibers, it also blocks small pain fibers, such as A- δ (delta) and sensory receptors, such
as those associated with noxious stimuli response.26 This action makes the repeated
application of DMSO often show dramatic effects on musculoskeletal pain disorders 4–7 days after the initial application showed little to no response.
2752 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
One early study in the use of DMSO for musculoskeletal pain was on six patients
presenting with acute calcified supraspinatus bursitis, a painful condition due to
deposition of calcium hydroxyapatite within tendons, usually of the rotator cuff.28
All six patients had been refractory to conventional treatments whose duration of pain had varied from 2 days to 4 weeks. Following one or several topical DMSO applications at a concentration of 70%, dramatic symptomatic relief occurred in all six patients.
28 This relief consisted in pain alleviation, improvement in the range of
motion and mobility of the affected joint, and patient satisfaction of the treatment results indicated a significant reduction in disability.
28
Using the QFW values discussed earlier as the assessing criteria for the effec -
tiveness of DMSO, there is confidence in the conclusion that DMSO treatment improved the quality of symptoms, anatomic functioning of extremities and joints with increased mobility, and overall well-being of the patient. Local skin irritation and a characteristic clam-like  odor to the breath were the only side effects observed
in the study by Lockie and Norcross
28. In that early study by Lockie and Norcross,28
over 100 patients were treated with topical DMSO generally with similar results as those treated with calcified supraspinatus bursitis for such conditions as degenera -
tive arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, periarthritis of varying degrees of acuteness and severity, and various musculoskeletal complaints following muscle trauma sustained by professional football players.
28 In that study, it was observed that patients unable
to tolerate 70% DMSO, a 10% addition of glycerin avoided or lessened the skin irri -
tation when it occurred.28 The Lockie and Norcross28 study became the gold standard
for evaluating DMSO in other musculoskeletal and joint pain resulting in limited mobility of body extremities.
Several additional early studies on the activity of DMSO in musculoskeletal pain
disorders were reported. Blumenthal and Fuchs
29 reported on 122 patients ranging in
age from 17 to 89 years with musculoskeletal sprains or injuries to the chest, back, pelvis, and extremities, who were treated for several days or months with topical DMSO using undisclosed doses. These authors reported that 74% of patients given DMSO showed excellent–good response to treatment especially if the pain was acute rather than chronic, while 24% of the patients showed no improvement of symp -
toms.
29 This study failed to provide QFC values and other important information
involving treatment times, doses, and manner of assessment and can therefore be considered more anecdotal in nature.
DMSO has been used in gel form instead of an aqueous solution for lateral epi -
condylitis (tennis elbow) and humero-scapular pain. In a placebo-controlled double-blind study, 157 patients received either 10% DMSO gel applied three times per day for 2 weeks or the inactive gel excipient.
30 Treatment was started within 72 h after the
acute onset of symptoms and pain, and mobility of the joints was observed after 3, 7, and 14 days of treatment with DMSO as compared to the placebo


 use in scleroderma. Dr. Engel said, “One
sees dilatation of vessels in the upper dermis and perhaps the increase in blood
flow plays a role. DMSO is known to protect cells and tissue from freezing,
thawing, necrotic cutaneous changes, inflammatory and hemorrhagic processes.”
2
This protection may be related to cellular physiological enlargement.
In a two-year study of twenty sclerodermatous patients, Dr. Engel found
beneficial results using DMSO as the exclusive treatment. He said, “They had
increased mobility, rapid relief of pain and healing of persistent ulcers, arrest of
the spread of cutaneous disease, regrowth of hair, and return of sensation and
sweating. There was absolutely no sign of arrest of systemic disease, as shown by
the death of three
patients while on therapy and two in the immediate posttreatment
period, despite evidence of improvement of the cutaneous manifestations of their
disorder.”
Dr. Engel also noted that “the maximal activity of DMSO, after it is
swallowed, is in the organs and the parts of organs primarily involved in the
pathologic changes of progressive systemic sclerosis....  DMSO might halt or
reverse the process of systemic sclerosis.”
As it relates to the following section, what Dr. Engel added is quite significant:
“No evidence of ocular damage was found by funduscopic or slit lamp
examination in any of our patients.”ALLEGED MISREPORTING OF THE SCHERBEL STUDIES
Dr. Scherbel did similar, more extensive studies on patients having scleroderma,
and he performed them under the FDA supervisory investigational new drug (IND)
application number 10-778. This means the investigator and the sponsoring
pharmaceutical company, Research Industries Corporation, were liable to FDA
regulations. Violations of them would be a federal crime.
A statement by Jere E. Goyan, Ph.D., former Commissioner of the FDA, made
before the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, included the
following information:
“We are requiring that eye examinations be conducted as part of any study
involving chronic administration of DMSO in order to obtain additional data to
determine whether the drug causes ocular toxicity. The labeling for the approved
human drug product suggests that patients should receive thorough eye
evaluations, including slit lamp examinations, prior to and periodically during
treatment....  We have issued inspection assignments to audit the data of the
scleroderma studies. In all of these investigations our staff is being asked to pay
particular attention to whether or not these studies included eye examinations.”
Dr. Scherbel did his IND 10-778 studies on eleven patients with severe
progressive systemic sclerosis, using DMSO by oral administration. He had them
undergo eye examinations before, during, and after DMSO treatment, in
accordance with FDA rules, for this IND. The patients received a total daily dose
of DMSO ranging from 21 grams to 84 grams in four divided doses diluted in
concentrated juice and crushed ice. The duration of the treatment ranged from 1
month to 22 months with a mean average of 9.4 months. Its results were reported
to Henry Moyle, President of the Research Industries Corporation, Salt
Lake City,
Utah. In his letter, dated May 4, 1977, Dr. Scherbel advised Mr. Moyle that “in
four of eleven patients reported at this time, nuclear sclerosis or progressive
myopia have appeared during the study.”
This report of lens changes with the development of nearsightedness was
alarming news. It might have caused cessation of the investigation if the FDA had
been aware of the reported eye changes in these patients. Agency officials say that
no one at the FDA knew about them until the information was uncovered, almost
by accident, nearly three years later.
Michael J. Hensley, M.D., of the Division of Scientific Investigations, Bureau
of Drugs, FDA, told Senator Kennedy how this came about: “It was not officially
reported, as far as we can tell. We picked up on this during a routine inspection ofDr. Scherbel....  On April 22, 1980, I was standing there with an inspection
report in my hand of an oral DMSO study—a study of the use of DMSO orally in
scleroderma—a study wherein patients had been given doses very nearly
approaching the animal studies that had showed ocular toxicity, and it appeared
from the material that we had discovered during this very first, initial tipoff
inspection that the eye changes that were being reported in these patients were
identical to those seen in the animal studies back in the 1960s....  It turns out
that the initial report of the oral scleroderma patients had been noted by Dr.
Scherbel to Research Industries on May 4, 1977....  It appeared that Research
Industries had reported to them a possible adverse effect in 1977, and yet had
never reported it to the agency because, in our files, we found none of these
reports.”
From the testimony, Senator Kennedy learned that two inspections of the firm
uncovered correspondence that indicated the Scherbel report was received. A
letter from Moyle was sent in reply to Dr. Scherbel’s report indicating that Dr.
Jacob verbally informed K.C. Pani, M.D., an officer of the Division of Anti-
Infective Drug Products of the Bureau of Drugs, FDA, of this finding. Another
letter dated May 17, 1977, from Moyle to Scherbel implied that the Scherbel
report may have been provided to Dr. Pani. At least it said that “Dr. Jacob and I
showed him your letter of May 4, 1977, and Dr. Pani suggested lowering the
DMSO dosage for these patients affected with eye changes.”
Dr. Pani was interviewed, and denied he had ever been told any of this. He
said he was given no letter for the FDA files. Dr. Hensley said, “We therefore had
the possibility of a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and
also, perhaps, of title 18, section 1001—the making of false reports to the
Government.”
Compounding this alleged misreporting, on September 7, 1978,
Moyle wrote
Merle L. Gibson, M.D., Director, Division of Anti-Infective Drug Products,
Bureau of Drugs, a summarized progress report of IND 10-778 saying: “Our
investigations under this IND are still ongoing but to date our investigators have
reported no abnormalities relating to toxicity of the drug, nor have they reported
any ocular abnormalities. All updated patient reports throughout the year have
previously been forwarded to the FDA under separate cover.”
Commissioner Goyan considered this alleged misreporting extremely serious in
view of the fact that it was the eye toxicity that the FDA was most concerned
about. Under the IND regulations that govern this human experimental work, it is
mandatory that the sponsor shall promptly investigate and report to the FDA and toall investigators any findings associated with the use of the drug that may suggest
significant hazards, contraindications, side effects, and precautions pertinent to the
safety of DMSO. Eye changes in the scleroderma patients clearly fall within this
definition.
It is possible that lens changes are a complication of the disease, but there is
nothing reported in the medical literature indicating that eye symptoms are present
in scleroderma.
From the correspondence found three years later in the Research Industries
corporate files, it appears that Scherbel’s letter is the first DMSO report of human
eye toxicity ever, and that the pharmaceutical company had furnished the report to
Dr. Pani at the FDA. Commissioner Goyan said that if Pani had possessed this
information and not provided it to the FDA, it would be grounds for his dismissal
from the agency.
It looked like the FDA had a real health problem with DMSO—specifically,
eye toxicity in humans. Also, the agency learned that the odor-free DMSO, 87-2,
and another DMSO derivative called Satori, had no IND and no animal testing, but
were being distributed in interstate commerce and being used by the general
public. We saw at the start of this chapter that Jean Puccio almost daily paints on
87-2, which she acquired from Dr. Jacob. Use of this unapproved drug is illegal.
Dispensing it is a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Dr. Hensley brought all this information to the Inspector General of the United
States. “The Office of Inspector General went to the United States attorney in
Baltimore, because it is the judicial district, and briefed them on what they knew
of it,” said Dr. Hensley. “They interviewed a great many people during that week
[May 12, 1980] and had some very definite impressions as to what they ought to
do.”
The incident with which we opened
Chapter 2
, where FDA officials
holding a
Federal warrant entered Dr. Jacob’s office on November 10, 1980, looking for
documents on eye toxicity, is a direct outgrowth of this discovery and its eventual
public disclosure in the Congressional Record. In fact, one of the investigators
visiting Dr. Jacob’s office was Dr. Alan B. Lisook, who is Dr.


 of honey with citric acid, or about
What starvation issue is no longer - you get excellent food
(After all, the honey gives more fructose and biologically active substances).
Citric acid, combining with amines, forming aminolimonnuyu
acid with a negative electrical charge. And of the 21 essential
only three amino acids are negatively charged.
You can use lemon. in the juice of one lemon 10%
citric acid.
Good idea to add a little soda water - 1 gram per 3 liters of water. Carbonic
gas produced in conjunction soda with citric acid, we
very necessary.
During this fasting with worsening state of health must
to do enemas at home is best done
7-day fasting. Before exiting be sure to take
drug "Linex" to restore the normal microflora
intestine.
The yield of 7-day hunger (it's worked out for the author
those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract)
Be sure to take before going "Linex", 3 capsules
glass of water, it contributes to the rapid restoration of microflora
intestine.
Day 1
9.00 - compote of dried apricots, prunes - 200,0
12.00 - compote - 200,0
15.00 - compote of dried fruits - 200,0
18.00 - compote of dried fruits - 200,0
21.00 - compote - 200,0
Day 2
9.00 - svezheotzhaty cabbage juice, diluted 1:2 with water - 200,0
12.00 - concoction of oats - 200,0
15.00 - vegetable broth (cabbage, beets, carrots) - 200,0
18.00 - concoction of oats - 200,0
21.00 - buckwheat soup - 200,0
3rd day
9.00 - svezheotzhaty apple juice - 200,0
12.00 - 5% of the porridge-gruel "Hercules" - 200,0
15.00 - fish broth (preferably sea fish) - 200,0
18.00 - vegetable broth - 200,0
21.00 - dairy drink with no sugar - 200,0
Day 4
9.00 - decoction of dried fruit (raisins, apricots, prunes) - 200,0
12.00 - buckwheat groats - nincompoop - 200,0
15.00 - cabbage salad with 100.0, and fish ear, dairy
Drink - 100,0
18.00 - vegetable broth - 200,0
21.00 - sour milk drink - 200,0
297
2975-day
9.00 - porridge "Hercules" with dried apricots - 150,0
Green Tea 100.0
13.00 - stewed vegetables (carrots, beets, cabbage) - 150,0
Juice - 100,0
17.00 - soup (carrot, beet, cabbage, croutons of bread, or gray
bran sticks)
5.00 apple 1 pc.
21.00 - sour milk drink - 200,0
Then you can proceed to the usual diet, but ideally
desirable
2 weeks meals dominated by fresh fruits and vegetables.
ECH M ACCOMPANYING TSYA Starvation?
Every starving people starving in their own way. Even
identical in terms of starvation in one and the same person
are different. This is due to our individual
features, and with thorough preparation for fasting
- Preliminary purification procedures,
being at the beginning of starvation, season, food
to starvation, mental state, and many others
factors. It must be remembered that the better you prepare
to starvation, the better the tune, the easier it will proceed
the process itself and less will be all sorts of complications. But completely
to avoid unpleasant sensations you still can not. Most often,
they are not dangerous, only need to know what to do in one way or another
case.
First - fear. This is no joke. No one should begin long
Abstinence, not knowing enough about it, and not knowing how to
pursue abstinence. If possible, it would be good to
next was a man who has already done it. Should not be round
worried: aunts, cousins??and others who would say that
He was pale as death, that his heart rate below 40, that his heart may
stay the night...
On the third day of abstinence, after returning from a walk
despite the fact that never rested, I felt good,
and I remembered the case, described in the paper that the remaining
alive after the earthquake, people were tearing each other like wild
Animals in a rage of hunger. People stayed without food for 72 hours. I
also spent 72 hours without food or drink. The difference was that they
die of hunger. I deliberately refrained from food and drink
for the sake of health.
And yet. If you happen to such a crisis during the conscious
patience, if you feel a nervous tension, mild
and doubters - remember that all around you and with you - People
which is stronger than you in spirit and able to lift your mood and
Your doubts will disappear.
298
298Hunger
That is what is usually fear most. Indeed, if
the last days before the start of fasting to overeat, and then with horror
listen to the slightest their feelings, it would be nice
small. But when a person takes it easy, do not overeat
and cleans the intestines, hunger and as such does not happen.
At the 4-5-day food reflex usually fades completely, the form
food and it smells no longer cause even saliva. But sometimes
that starving, constantly thinking about food, looking forward, how nice it
to be treated with after-excites your thoughts (and even more -
images), the food center. Then, the appetite may be partially preserved,
especially with a dirty bowel.
To fight hunger is easy. First, one must try
not to think about food. That is distracted to engage in any
activities. Secondly, we need a strong spirit. If the firm
say to yourself: "Today I do not eat!" - and the body will know that this is not cheating,
a major concern not cause famine.
The first days, however, are hungry spasms, which are removed
two or three sips of water or disregard these sensations.
If the "sucks" so very much to drink 1 - 2 liters of water and cause
vomiting.
In general, starving all the time usually carry a bottle
with water, from which sup gradually as needed.
But we must bear in mind that the food center at Starter reflex
excited at any contact with food, even if a person wants
be indifferent to it. This greatly hampers the normal inclusion
of the internal power supply. Starving is better to refrain
from cooking and did not attend the meal. Violation
this rule often leads to sleep disorders, headaches,
heartburn, irritability. That's a good exercise to relieve
hunger.
This exercise is performed on an empty stomach. When you are feeling
hunger should relax the stomach, put his hands below the navel;
one to another. Performing breath, draw in the stomach, helping himself with his hands.
At the height of breath hold their breath for 3-4 seconds. Relaxed,
exhales. Exercise should be repeated 10 times. Duration
the entire procedure is 1 minute. This exercise is effective for people with
weakly expressed obesity. During our practice we have not yet
come across patients who can not be eliminated
hunger or gastronomic fantasy. "
Weakness
Weakness, drowsiness, and reluctance to move during the fasting
talk about lack of energy. Its reserves can and should be recharged.
Many methods. These include the already well-known water treatment,
massage, walking. Summer is very beneficial and sun bathing
bath. Quite a powerful way - walking barefoot on the ground, according to
possible with a minimum of clothing.
299
299The effect of any method magnified if the person
feel their relationship with nature. After all, you can just swim
pour, walk barefoot, and can be mentally welcome
Earth and the sun, air and water, feel the inextricable relationship with them,
harmony and mutual understanding. and the elements will respond to greetings,
we just have to feel their response.
But, in general, some weakness - a normal phenomenon, to him
just be prepared. Usually on the second day people
begins to tire, and in the future there may be periods when the
hard to even get up. But this is not cause for concern.
At any time when there is severe fatigue, it is worth squat
or lie down to rest. But especially should not be stale after
Rest is better to walk in the fresh air, and feeling right
noticeably improved.
Relief is usually felt after the crisis, people are no longer
wants to sit on the ground, it pulls to walk, talk. in such excellent
frame of mind, many staying until the end of fasting.
Chill or heat (more typical of dry fasting)
In the cold season, many starving much cold. This
also no cause for worry. You just have to dress warmer. Winter
Some put on 2-3 pairs of warm clothes, a few sweaters
etc.
But freezing


 cough, muscle spasms, and the
symptoms of Parkinsonism. It relaxes the muscles
of the gastrointestinal, bronchial, and urinary tracts,
and reduces digestive and mucous secretions. Like
deadly nightshade, thornapple may be applied
externally to relieve rheumatic pains and neuralgia.
Related Species  D. metel  and D. innoxia  are both
native to India. These plants are employed in treating
asthma, coughs, fevers, and skin conditions.
 RQ Cautions  T ake only under professional
supervision. Since it is toxic at more than small
doses, thornapple is subject to legal restrictions
in most countries.Parts Used  Seeds, root, leaves.
Constituents  Wild carrot seeds contain
flavonoids, and a volatile oil including asarone,
carotol, pinene, and limonene. Cultivated carrot
root contains sugars, pectin, carotene, vitamins,
minerals, and asparagine. Carrot leaves contain
significant amounts of porphyrins, which stimulate
the pituitary gland and lead to the release of
increased levels of sex hormones.
History & Folklore  The origins of the familiar
garden carrot are a mystery—it was cultivated as a
nutritious and cleansing food at least as long ago as
ancient Greece and Rome. In the 1st century ce, the
physician Dioscorides recommended the seeds to
stimulate menstruation, to relieve urinary
retention, and to “wake up the genital virtue.”
The cultivated variety did not reach Britain until the
16th century, when women used its beautiful,
finely divided leaves to adorn their hair.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  This common
vegetable is also a wonderfully cleansing medicine.
It supports the liver, and stimulates urine flow and
the removal of waste by the kidneys. The juice of
organically grown carrots is a delicious drink and
a valuable detoxifier. Carrots are rich in carotene,
which is converted to vitamin A by the liver. The
raw root, grated or mashed, is a safe treatment for
threadworms, especially in children. Wild carrot
leaves are a good diuretic. They have been used to
counter cystitis and kidney stone formation, and
to diminish stones that have already formed. The
seeds are also diuretic. They stimulate menstruation
and have been used in folk medicine as a treatment
for hangovers. Both leaves and seeds relieve
flatulence and settle the digestion.
Research  In a study published in 1995, a carrot
extract was shown to protect the liver from toxicity.
Cautions  Do not take carrot seeds during
pregancy. Use only organic carrot juice since
the root concentrates artificial fertilizers
and insecticides. Medicinal Actions & Uses  Desmodium is
chiefly a remedy for asthma and has been used as
an antiasthmatic in Ghanaian hospitals. In France,
the herb is taken for liver disorders including viral
hepatitis—both A and B—apparently having most
effect during the early stages. Desmodium may
also be used to relieve headache, backache, and
muscle and joint pain—a decoction being taken
internally or applied as a lotion.
Research  Ghanaian research has shown the herb
to have antispasmodic and antiasthmatic activity. It
also appears to increase the resistance of liver cells
to inflammation, whether resulting from infection
or toxicity. When taken in the early stages of
illness, it normalizes liver function.
Caution  In rare cases, desmodium can cause
nausea or diarrhea.Thornapple  seeds and
leaves ease asthma, but are
hallucinogenic in large doses.
Seeds
Daucus carota  (Apiaceae)
Carrot
Description  Annual (cultivated varieties) or
biennial (wild). Has erect stem, which grows to a
height of 3 ft (1 m), with feathery leaves, small
white flowers, and flat green seeds. Cultivated
subspecies have fleshy orange taproots.
Habitat & Cultivation  Wild carrot is native
to Europe, although cultivated subspecies are now
grown around the world. The root is harvested in
late summer, and the seeds are gathered in late
summer or early autumn.Desmodium adscendens  (Fabaceae)
Desmodium
Description  Perennial, much-branched herb,
growing to 20 in (50 cm). Desmodium has light
purple flowers, and the leaves each have three
small oval leaflets.
Habitat & Cultivation  A native of West
Africa, including Sierra Leone, northern Liberia and
Ghana. The aerial parts are harvested as required
or after flowering.
Parts Used  Leaves and stems.
Constituents  Contains indole alkaloids.
History & Folklore  Desmodium has long
been used in West African herbal medicine as a
treatment for asthma, and also for jaundice.Dianthus superbus
(Caryophyllacaea)
Fringed Pink,
Qu Mai (Chinese)
Description  Upright perennial herb growing to
32 in (80 cm) or more. Has narrow, lance-shaped
leaves and large, delicate, fragrant pink or lilac flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Fringed pink is native
to Europe and northern Asia (including China
and Japan) growing at altitudes of up to 7,900 ft
(2,400 m). It grows in clumps on hillsides and
crevices, and is cultivated from seed in eastern
China. It is only harvested when in flower.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Fringed pink contains saponins,
dianthins, tannins and flavonoids.
History & Folklore  Fringed pink is first
mentioned in the Chinese herbal known as the
Divine Husbandman’s Classic (Shen’nong Bencaojing),
which was written in the 1st century ce.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Although fringed
pink is common in Europe, there is little indication
that people there have used it as anything other
than a vegetable (the young leaves are best boiled
or steamed). In Mongolia, it is used to promote
contractions and childbirth, and is considered a
diuretic, hemostatic, and anti-inflammatory. In
Chinese medicine it is widely used for “damp-heat”
conditions, and prescribed for kidney stones and
urinary tract infections.
Research  Research, mostly conducted in
Korea and China, indicates that fringed pink has
marked anti-inflammatory activity and possible
cancer-fighting properties.
Related Species  The gillyflower ( D. caryophyllus ),
of Mediterranean origin, has similar constituents
and is traditionally prescribed in European herbal
medicine for coronary and nervous disorders.
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202
OTHER MEDICINAL p LANT sDictamnus albus
Dictamnus albus (Rutaceae)
Dittany,
Burning Bush
Description  Strongly aromatic, bushy, and hairy
perennial growing to 32 in (80 cm). Has compound
leaves and spikes of 5-petaled white or pink flowers streaked with purple.
Habitat & Cultivation This herb grows in
southern and central Europe and northern Asia, preferring warm, wooded areas. The flowering tops are gathered in late summer, the root generally in autumn.
Parts Used  Root, flowering tops.rapidly strengthens the heartbeat, but is excreted very slowly. Digoxin is therefore preferred as a long-term medication.
History & Folklore In medical history, foxglove
is best known as the discovery of William Withering, an 18th-century English country doctor. Curious about the formula of a local herbalist, he explored the plant’s potential medical uses. His work led to the production of a life-saving medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Foxglove has a
profound tonic effect on a diseased heart. Heart disease worsens when the heart’s ability to maintain normal circulation decreases. Foxglove’s cardiac glycosides enable the heart to beat more strongly, slowly, and regularly, without requiring more oxygen. At the same time, it stimulates urine production, which lowers the volume of blood, and thus lessens the load on the heart.
Related Species Woolly foxglove (D. lanata)
is today the main source of cardiac glycosides.
 RQ Cautions
Potentially fatal in  overdose. Use only  under professional
supervision. This
plant is subject to
legal restrictions.
Common foxglove
enables the heart
to beat more
evenly and is an
invaluable remedy
for heart disease.Digitalis lutea (Scrophulariaceae)
Y ellow Foxglove
Description Erect perennial growing to 3 ft
(1 m). Has narrow, lance-shaped leaves, and long spikes of yellow, bell-shaped flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to western
and central Europe, this herb grows in woodland areas, on roadsides, and in mountainous regions. It is cultivated for medicinal use in Russia. The leaves are harvested in the second summer of growth.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Y ellow foxglove contains
cardiac glycosides (including the


 kidney action as the fast itself. The bowels empty
themselves during a fast as often as there is a need for them to do so. If no need arises, they take a
long-needed rest. The skin is not an eliminating organ and sweat baths are delusions. These
measures further enervate the faster and tend to inhibit rather than accelerate elimination. These
suggested techniques are harmful and should be avoided.
9.
SUFFERING
It has been said that the fast should not be continued when the faster is suffering greatly, as in
some general health impairment. The fact is that it is precisely under these circumstances that
digestive and assimilative powers are lowest. The greater the suffering the less able is the sufferer
to take and digest food. When the discomfort passes, the practitioner will know when to feed the
patient.
Fasting tends to end suffering and the faster suffering may expect relief in a much shorter time if
he continues to fast than if he breaks the fast.
5612
Breaking the Fast
It is strange that the following simple truth, so obvious a truth indeed, is so difficult for many to
grasp: the ideal moment to break the fast, of course, is at the time when hunger returns. As hunger
returns, the tongue clears, the breath becomes sweet and there is a clean taste in the mouth. All the
indications are that the body has completed the work of cleansing itself and is ready to resume
eating.
There is usually a watering of the mouth and a strong desire for food. Does hunger always
return? The correct answer is: nearly always. In terminal cases, such as advanced cancer,
advanced tuberculosis, serious heart disease, and other conditions where death is merely a
question of time, hunger rarely recurs. In all savable cases, and in those near normal individuals
who fast, hunger never fails to put in its appearance at the right time.
Indeed it frequently recurs well in advance of the exhaustion of the body’s reserves. This is
particularly true following an acute disease. Within a day or two after all acute symptoms have
subsided, in almost all such cases, the invalid will express a desire for food, although his body
may still be amply supplied with reserves to carry him through many more days of abstinence.
With the exceptions noted, the fasting chronic sufferer can count on the same thing. Indeed, the
difficulty he is likely to experience is not a failure of hunger to return, but in controlling himself
and his appetite when it does.
After a fast of considerable length there is a period of several days, lasting up to two weeks,
during which the individual feels hungry most of the time. If he will control his eating until this
initial period of hunger has passed, he will settle down to a more normal appetite and the danger
of overeating will pass.
Uncontrolled, he may eat so much during this period that he loses much that he gained in the fast.
One important advantage of fasting in an institution is that control continues until the normal eating
level is stabilized. In such an institution the health seeker’s diet is carefully supervised;
 he is not
permitted to overeat. At home, he must be a more self-disciplined man than the average if he is to
avoid overeating.
For numerous reasons most fasts are broken before the return of hunger. In a small percentage of
cases, the faster is too thin or too weak to carry the fast to a natural termination. In many instances,
there is a lack of time or funds, or there may be an unwillingness to fast so long.
Some fasters, even when fasting solely for health reasons, object to getting so thin. Most of them
are anxious to end the fast as soon as they are free of their annoying symptoms. Many have the idea
that they can complete the recovery begun with the fast by shifting to a diet. This is a mistaken
notion, but it is not easy to convince those who are attracted to this half-way notion. They usually
regret their action—afterward.
Some go on a fast during their vacation and have but a limited time for fasting, breaking the fast,
and getting ready to return to work. Others feel that they can be away from their business or their
family for only a certain period of time. There are a thousand personal reasons for ending the fast
short of its natural termination. In many instances the results of these short fasts are disappointing.
In some instances the premature breaking is the difference between complete success and partial
failure.
57A job only half done is not done at all. Certainly health is worth a little added effort. Missing a
few more meals is a small price to pay for the results that can accrue to the individual willing to
make the effort required.
The animal breaks his fast on whatever food is available at the time he resumes eating. On the
whole, animals seem to be better controlled than man. They are not inclined to glut themselves
when they break a fast, but may take but a small portion of food in doing so. A dog that has fasted
for nearly a month, for example, may take but a few sips of milk at a time and may refuse all flesh
for the first four to six days after he resumes eating. If man’s instincts were still as reliable guides
to eating as are those of the animals, I doubt that we would need to supervise the breaking of a fast.
It is possible to break a fast with any food available. Either whole fruits or whole vegetables
may be used. In order not to overconsume food, we have found it advisable to weigh the food for
the first few days.
Dr. Virginia Vetrano, who has been my able associate for a number of years has been breaking
fasts on whole foods for several years and finds that in most cases it is far superior to breaking the
fast on juices, as was formerly advised. She reasoned that animals in the wild have no juicers or
blenders and therefore have to break their fasts naturally on whole foods. Why should man be an
exception?
Using her knowledge of physiology, she further reasoned that the bulk in the food is necessary to
promote both peristalsis and mixing contractions in the stomach and intestines. Bulk is also
necessary to promote secretion of the digestive juices of the stomach and intestines. The bulk of the
food touching the stomach and intestinal walls is the
stimulus
 for muscular
contractions as well as
for proper digestive secretions. Because of this, solid food is digested and handled more
efficiently than juices. It is held in the stomach and intestines long enough for proper digestion and
absorption, whereas juices, lacking this bulk are hurried along the digestive tract. Lacking in bulk,
juices do not occasion strong peristaltic waves and do not elicit the gastrocolic reflex as strongly
as solid foods. Because of these facts when the fast is broken on juices the first bowel movement
after a fast is delayed. When solid foods are used to break the fast, bowel movements are
reestablished much earlier.
Chewing of food is necessary both psychologically and physiologically. Another advantage of
breaking the fast with solids is that the faster does not become bloated and over-filled with fluids.
Taking the bulk with the food prevents overeating and the post faster is more satisfied with his
meals. When fruit or vegetable juices are used there is a loss of vitamins and nutriments by
oxidation no matter how carefully nor how quickly the juice is prepared. Some fasters are afraid to
drink the juice rapidly and take one sip every fifteen minutes. By the time they have taken four
ounces of juice in this manner almost two hours have passed with the juice oxidizing all the while.
Breaking the fast with four ounces of whole orange, a section at a time may be eaten with a
minimum of oxidation.
The fast may be broken at any time of the day or night that hunger recurs. If broken in advance of
the return of hunger, it may be broken arbitrarily at 8:00 a.m. A number of techniques for breaking
the fast have been worked out. Indeed, almost every man who conducts fasts has his own favorite
plan. The main need is wholesome food; but not too much of it.
Dr. Crane, previously mentioned in these pages, used to give a faster an orange to eat in
breaking the fast. The well-known Henry Lindlahr, M.D., now deceased, formerly of Chicago and
Elmhurst, Illinois, who was director of the College of Natural Therapeutics in Chicago, broke fasts
with a handful of pop com. His reason for this was that the com served as a broom to sweep out
58the digestive tract. In any case the pop com did no harm.
The care exercised in breaking a fast is commonly proportioned to the length of a fast. Let me
describe the plan we now employ. Assume that the fast has extended beyond fourteen days. We
start the faster with four ounces of whole orange (weighed without the peeling) every two hours
during the first day feeding is resumed. We prefer to start feedings at eight o’clock in the morning
and stop at six in the evening—obviously this can be done only when the fast is broken in advance
of the return of hunger. When hunger returns the fast should be broken without regard to the time.
No harm is done, however, if the faster waits until 8:00 a.m. should hunger recur at midnight or in
the wee hours of the morning.
On the second day, we give the faster eight ounces of orange or any
other fresh juice fruit in
season (weighed without rind or peeling) every two hours. A different fruit may be used for each
feeding. If a faster has no desire for a feeding


 38, 43, 45, 46, 47, 64
Energy Salad, 149-50
Erythorbic acid, 97
Evaluation of Proteins for Humans (Bodwell), 75n.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About
Nutrition (Reuben), 19
Exercise, 78, 88-91
Eyes, circles under the, 52
Fad diets, 5-6, 7, 8-9
Farmer's Chop Suev, 200
Fat (dietary). 64. 75, 86. 134
Fatigue, 62, 83, 84
Fatty acids, 50, 51, 53
Feces during detoxification period, 62-63
Fennel, 128
Fermentation, 40-41, 42, 43. 58. 98
Fiber. 74, 98
Figs, 86, 104, 124, 127
Fingernails. 86
Finn Crisp-Wasa Bread-Shaffer Clarke, Inc., 132,
133
Fish
shopping list, 134-35
Steaks, Broiled, 184-85
Fit for Life program
breakfast, see Breakfast
conclusion. 223-25
dairy products. 80-87
dinner, see Dinner
encrgv increases from, see Energy
the Energy Udder. 120-21
exercise as part of. 88-91
four-week example of. 147-222 guidelines
breakfast, 117
life-style, 143-46
lunch, see Lunch
the main-course salad. 139-42
menus, 149-222
natural body cycles, 21-23
Natural Hygiene, 13-20
permanent results of, 4, 5-6
portion size, 113, 114-15, 143
positive beliefs and, 92-94
principle of correct fruit consumption, 48-60,
102, 115 143
principle of high-water-content food, 28-36, 58
principle of proper food combining. 5. 37-47. 84
protein, 67-79
questions and answers about, 95-106
recipes, 149-222
shopping list for, 122-38
substitutions, 140, 143, 144
theory of detoxification, 61-66
theory of metabolic imbalance, 24-27
what it isn't, 3-4
when to eat, 5. 55-57
fruit. 51-52. 54-55. 56-57, 115, 143
Flatulence, 41, 42, 45, 63
Flesh food, see Meat
Flours and meal, 133
Food and Drug Administration, 77
Food combining, see Combining foods, principle of
properly
Food for Life, 131, 133
Food Reform—Our Desperate Need (Hur),
78n., 103n.
Ford, Henrv, 45-46
Formula, 110
Foundation for Nutritional Research, 98
Four-food-group myth, 44-45
Fourteenth Annual Nutrition Conference, 104
Framingham Study on Heart Disease, 50
French Dressing, 173-74
French Green Salad, 154-55
French Peas and Lettuce, 202
Fresh air, 90-91
Fresh Applesauce, 218
Frieda of California, 125
Fructose, 50, 51. 102
Fruit. 29, 34, 64-65, 74, 86, 98, 100, 103
Breakfast, Platter, 220-21
breakfast suggestions, 114-17
calcium content of, 85, 86
canned, 4
Dip, 170
dried, 54, 86, 115. 127
exotic, 125-26
fresh, 4, 3, 53, 54, 143, 144
as high-watcr-content food. 29, 31, 32, 50
hypoglycemics and, 101-102
juices, see Juices, fruit
principle of correct fruit consumption, 48-60,
102
the digestive process, 50-51, 53, 59
instinctive cravings, 48-49
when to cat fruit, 51-52, 54, 55, 56, 59. 115.
143
Salad, Easy, 186-87
at salad bars, 141
shopping list, 123-27
Smoothie, 189
vegetable, 127
see also individual types of fruit
Fry, T. C, 15, 21, 68, 72n., 73, 75n., 78«.
Gaer-Luce, Cav, 21
Calilco, 44-45
Garden of Eatin'. 131. 133
Carlic, 128. 144
236 • INDEX Broiled Chicken, 198
Croutons. 163
Herb Dressing. I 57
String Beans, 154
Gas. 41, 42, 4?, 62. 63
Cavclord Hauser Products, 137, 138
Glucose, 51, 53, 102, 103
Glucose Tolerance Test, 102
Glycerine. 51
Coldcn Eagle products, 135
Coodwich, New York, 159-60
Gould, George M.. 79n.
Gout, 68
Cove. Dr. Mary, 15
GraberCo.,C. C, 136
Craham, Dr. Svlvester, 15
Grains
shopping list, 131-33
see also individual types of grains
Grandma's Coleslaw, 197
Grapefruit, 124
Grapes, 124
Breakfast Fruit Platter, 220-21
Gravy, Mushroom Cream, 172
Great Guacamole, 176
Greece, 14
Green beans, 128
California Toslada, 187-88
Garlic String Beans, 154
^ Steak-Lovers' Salad, 181
Grocers Journal of California, 81
Gross, Jay, 7, 71n.
Guava, 125
Guidance Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton).
68n.
Guidelines
breakfast, 117
life-style, 143-46
Guyton, Arthur C. 68n., 72n., 73
Habits, changing vour eating, 65
Hain products, 131, 135. 136
Hair
balding. 52
graving, 52
loss, 86
Harris, David, xiiin.
Harris poll, Louis. 10
Harvard Medical School, 50, 65
Harvard University, 92
Harvest Soup, 167
Hav-A-Corn—Hav-A Natural Foods, 132, 134
Hay fever, 81
Health Reporter, 6
Health Vallev Natural Foods, 132, 133, 135
Heart, 16. 88. 90
Heartburn. 40. 41,42, 52
Heart diseases, 19-20, 30. 31. 35, 50, 66, 68, 75,
78, 81. 84
"Heat Induced Changes in Free Amino Acids on
Manufactured Heated Pulps and Pastes from
Tomatoes." 75n.
Hcrb(s)
Dressing, Garlic^ 157
shopping list. I 37
Hcrbcd Butter Sauce, 210
High blood pressure, 68, I0l
High-water-coiitcnt food. 42. 58. 116. 141
principle of. 28—36
see also Fruit; Vcgetablc(s)
Ililf. Russell. 73n.
Hindus, 73
Hippocrates. 14
Holistic approach to health, xiii
Holmbcrg, Dr.. S3
Hollywood Health Foods. 135. 136
Homeostasis, xii. xiv Honey Corn Bread. 219
Hot Buttered Corn Tortillas. 167-68
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your
Doctor (Mendelsohn), 110
Hufnagel, Dr. Vicki C, 104-105
Human bodv, Natural Hvgicnc and a hcalthv,
16-19
Hunzas. 73
Hunzukuts of Pakistan, 35
Hur, Robin A., 78n., I03n.
Hygiene, see Natural Hygiene
Hygienic Care of Children, Tne(Shelton), 85n.,
103n., 104
Hygienic System, The (Trail), 15
Hygienic System, Vol. II, The (Shelton), 41
Hypertension, see High