 things that used to upset me into love situations
these days. For example, I came back to my car one day and f ound that a
parking attenda nt was writing me a ticket for being approx imately 30
seconds over the allotted time. My reaction to that 10 years ag o would’ve
been one of anger: “How dare you?!” I have since developed a kind of
internal shield against the way o thers behave; it is on them, not me. I don’ t
let other  people ’ s behavior own me any longer, since it’ s not me they’re
talking to but my role of rent-a-W ayne-Dyer.
This tim e, I walked over and st arted talking to the attendant. I  engaged
her in general, re latable chatter— for example, “Do you have any children?”
and all that. She was halfway through the ticket, determined that she was
going to keep writing it. I said, “If you have to write the ticket, it’ s all right.
I don’ t have any  problem with you doing your job. Y ou’re a ve ry pleasant,
nice person.” W ith that, she tore up the ticket. Now, whether she would or
wouldn’ t have given me a ticket would’ve been okay. My choice was to
give love without being attached to any outcome.
Similarly, I often talk to people in service professions—particularly
waitstaf f, flight attendants, cab drivers, and the like—and I’ve found that
the highest-functioning people in those professions are those who
understand this concept: People ar e not talking to me. They’r e talking to
this r ole. So they’r e tr eating the  r ole of server this way, and it has nothing
to do with me.
The way you get harmony within you is through your thinking. So if
someone sends you hate, but y ou have only love inside, then love is all
you’ll have to g ive away. Furthermore, your giving will help  dif fuse the
hate. It’ s  really hard to hate somebody who sends you back love. It’ s hard to
fight with som ebody who doesn’ t want to fight. I don’ t know if you’v e ever
tried to ar gue wi th somebody who refuses to ar gue with you, wh o’ s just not
interested, who isn’ t going to pl ay your game. Y ou have to learn how to dothat with  children all the time, because they’re constantly tryin g to corner
you or get you trapped into their illogic. And once you buy into it, you’re
completely sucked in.
So my server friends act at the highest levels toward others. That is, when
they’re sent anguish, hatred, and bitterness, they send back love because
that’ s al l they have inside to sen d away. They do the same thing with their
bosses. They have gotten to the  point where they understand, These people
ar e difficult, behaving in foolish and obnoxious ways, but that has nothing
to do with me. That’ s not mine in any way. I am going to send them back
love.
As you become totally awake, w ith your heightened spiritual awareness,
you find yourself less and less consumed with how other people treat you.
If it gets  too bad or dif ficult for  you, you move on without bitterness. Y ou
don’ t say, “He shouldn’ t be acting this way,” or She’ s no good,” or
whatever. Y ou just move away, e ven if you can only do it in your mind. The
way that you process all this is really the key.
Y ou can take almost the worst of situations, and if all you hav e to give
away is harmony because that’ s  all that you are, you can turn the situation
into something positive very qu ickly. Especially if you’re focused on the
big p icture, not attached to bein g upset or angry at the way that  this person
is treatin g you. Y ou understand, This is not r eally me that they’r e tr eating
this way. Because the r eal me, the very essence of who I am, is not this body
that they ’r e talk ing to. It’ s how I choose to think. It’ s my thoughts, and they
can never have that.
What also happens is you beg in to avoid conflict and conf rontation
altogether. Y ou may have been taught that you hav e to prove that you can
“deal wi th” thos e who challenge you. W ell, the more awake and aware you
get, the more yo u realize that conflict is a violation of harmony.  Y ou realize
that if you participate in it, you become part of the problem rath er than part
of the solution. It gets easier to avoid conflict and confrontation when you
don’ t have to be  right anymore, when you see other people for where they
are on life’ s path and you let them be there. If they want to be upset because
they’re s tuck in traf fic or their r emote control isn’ t working right now, then
that’ s absolutely fine.
I do  this with my children all the  time. They get an emotional attachment
to wheth er this person calls, or whether they have to do the di shes, or any
number of things; I don’ t even talk about it anymore. They know  what theirresponsibilities are. I think, I’m not going to  join you. I’m simply not going
to get seduced into having this kind of discussion, and I move away from it.
At f irst, it’ s like you’re acting—there is an aspect of “fake i t till you
make it.” But af ter a while, it becomes second nature. Discord isn’ t in your
life any longer; you don’ t even notice it. Y ou don’ t have to be a wimp or be
pushed around. Y ou don’ t need to have anybody victimizing you at all. Y ou
just refu se to participate in anything that’ s going to drag you down. Y ou
know yo u don’ t have to engag e in order to prove that you’re better than
somebody else. That wouldn’ t make you right, and it wouldn’ t  make them
wrong. When you understand where other people are, you don’ t need to be
drawn into conflict at all. Y ou can simply move on.
If enough human beings shied away from disharmony—if we agreed that
it wasn’ t going to be a part of our lives anymore—imagine how much war
and conflict we could eliminate.
LET GO OF JUDGMENT
Each and every one of us is part of the perfection of the univers e. W e are
all o n the same path, but each of us is on dif ferent places alon g that path.
Once you understand this, it makes harmony that much easier.
I heard an interview recently in which the hosts were putting down rock
music as being u ncivilized or barbaric. The fellow being intervi ewed was a
classical musici an who said, “W hen I was much younger, I loved rock. I
would play that stuf f real loud, and it would drive my family cr azy. Then I
moved into ballads and things like that, and I had very little to do with rock
’n’ roll. Now, of  course, I compose classical music.” Then he said, “I don’ t
like to put down any type of mu sic. I know that I needed to be at each one
of th e places I was along the path in order to be here.” This ta lented artist
was trying to explain that there  is no need to think of someon e as wrong,
improper, or uncivilized just because they make a particular choice such as
playing the kind of music you don’ t like.
Judgment is the mark of the ego, and you must work to get it out of you
completely. After all, when you judge another person, you don’ t define
them; you define yourself. I f you’re going to try to understand others in
your life, you have to understan d that wherever they are on the path of lifeis where they ha ve to be in order to get to the next place. See them not so
much as where you think they s hould be but where they are, knowing that
where they are is absolutely necessary. Don’ t judge any of it; work on
accepting it.
Not only is this very sensible when relating to other people, it also
applies to yourself. When it comes to the things you’re doing that aren’ t
working for you—the constant seeking of approval, the depression you may
be g oing through, the controllin g relationships you’re drawn to, the pursuit
of stuf f in order  to simply have it, and so forth—don’ t judge y ourself and
say, “I shouldn’ t be doing this.” There’ s no room for judgment in a person
who is truly awake and aware.
Once yo u get to that point, you’ll catch yourself all the time. I k now I do:
I’ll be talking to someone and say, “W ell, not to be judgmental, but...,”
and then I


 is perverted,and the demands of the body are whollyunnatural." True! But abnormality of that sortcan be corrected in a very short time. A "poorchap " who is lucky enough to have to gowithout food long enough to " whinney like ahorse " at the smell of fresh-baked bread and
the thought of good Danish butter on it, is notgoing to " turn up his nose " at even a crispbaked potato; neither is he likely to requiresweetbreads to coax himself to eat. Correctingperverted appetite is like purifying a streamwhich is being polluted at its source and runsmuddy all the way to the sea. Stop thepollution, and the stream will purify itself asfast as ever it can by hurrying along with itsimpurities to the great ocean sewerage.CHAPTER X
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FLETCHERITE
Fletcherism and Longevity—W. E. Gladstone, Fletcherite —
Fletcherizing Liquids—Getting the Best out of Everything— TheStudy of Mother-Nature.
SINCE the term "Fletcherite" is incorporated
in some of the latest dictionaries, it is properthat the person whose name has been used forthe designation should define what constitutesa Fletcherite.
Any person who eats in a healthy manner is a
Fletcherite.
Any person who eats in a polite manner is a
Fletcherite.
Any person who is faithful to his end of
responsibility in securing healthy nutrition forhimself is a respectable eater and a goodFletcherite.
WHAT  IS NOT A FLETCHERITE.
The above definitions are fully compre-
hensive, but sometimes it is more effective todescribe a thing by telling what it is not, andleaving the remainder as an inferential
description.
Following this suggestion: it is safe to say,
that :
Anyone who eats when he is not hungry or
what his appetite does not approve, is not aFletcherite.
All this presupposes the ordinary opportunity
for selection in civilized communities where thisbook is liable to be read and where itsrevelations and recommendations are mostneeded.
Any one who does not give his appetite a
chance to guide him to healthy nutrition is not aFletcherite.
Any one who does not extract all of the taste
from his food, while it is in the region wheretaste is developed, is not a Fletcherite.
Any one who succumbs to greed of " getting
the worth of his money," because he has paid forfood, or can get food free of cost, or takes it onthe insistence of Aggressive Hospitality, or tokill time, or for any purpose other than for thesatisfaction of a real appetite, is not aFletcherite.FLETCHERISM  AND LONGEVITY.
Returning to positive definition of a
Fletcherite : it is a good safe betting propositionthat all persons who have passed the seventyyear-mark in the life race are Fletcherites inthe fundamental requirement of healthy eating.If they reach beyond the eighty year-mark it iscertain that they have been fairly decent eatersfor many years, even if they abused themselvesearlier in life. For example : vide the
autobiography of Luigi Cornaro,* which wasconcluded only when he was nearly onehundred years old. Vide also, occasional
newspaper statements attributed tocentenarians or near centenarians who claim tohave been Fletcherites before Fletcher wasborn. Some of them have had the " constitution "necessary to attain the respectable longevityand have used tobacco and alcohol at the sametime, but there is no evidence that eithertobacco or alcohol lengthened their lives. In thesame category of questionably-profitableindulgences may be put any of the stimulants or
* London: Ewart, Seymour & Co., Ltd., 12, Burleigh. Street,
Strand, W.C. Price 1s.narcotics which do not actually nourish the
body.
W. E. GLADSTONE —FLETCHERITE.
The Epicureans, who were true to the
principles of Epicurus, were Fletcherites, beforethe name of Fletcher had evolved from theoccupation of arrow making and archery. Mr.Gladstone was a philosophical Fletcheritebefore Fletcher discovered that he had a mouththat was worth while studying and using, butthe name did not get into the dictionaries asdescribing his most statesman-like inspiration.
A Fletcherite does not confine his
Fletcherizing to food. He is encouraged, by thebeneficial results of careful eating, to try thesame method of co-operating with Opportunityon anything that has good and bad possibilitiesin it.
FLETCHERIZING  LIQUIDS.
For example: careful tasting of food reveals
felicities of taste which lead to seeking similarrewards wherever taste is to be found. Takeliquids: The only liquid that does not invite
Fletcherizing with some deliberation, but seemseager to get into the blood to quench thirst isWater. If it is not pure water, soft, cool as iffrom a spring, and delicious in its purity, it hasan inclination to stop a little in the mouth andgive taste a chance to investigate or to getsomething worth while out of it. Do not thinkthat inanimate things have no sense ofpropriety!
Everything natural is as full of propriety as
an " egg is full of meat." Nature is Propriety!
Mineral waters, lemonade, beer, wine, and
even milk have delicate senses of propriety.They do not rush to be sucked up for the mererelief of thirst, like pure water, but they linger abit in the domain of taste and inferentially say :" I am tasty ; don't you want to taste me : WhenI am swallowed my gustatory charm is dead andgone forever ; please let me leave my taste withyou, good Mr. Taste."
Do not think this is a fanciful personification
of the liquids which have taste. Don't take myword for it. I am only telling you what Taste hastold me, and also told me to tell it to you. Thenext time you are thirsty and have a chance to
get good pure water, note if it doesn't rush toswallow itself in about one-ounce swallows untilthe thirst is satisfied. If it is too cold it will wantto wait a minute to get to the temperature of thebody in the hot room of the mouth, beforerushing in to chill the stomach, and if it is toowarm it will not give the full satisfaction thatspring-cool water gives, showing that Taste hasa wider usefulness than mere glorifying of sapidsubstances. Or : is it Feeling that assists Tastein expressing approval or disapproval of liquidas well as solid nutriment?
GETTING  THE BEST OUT OF EVERYTHING..
From Fletcherizing things which pass
through the laboratory of the mouth, it is mostnatural to call on Mother Nature in her statelypropriety to assist in getting the best and mostout of everything from a kernel of corn to theWorld at Large.
In the personal equipment, muscular exer-
cise, mental discipline, and habits of effective-
ness come in at once for analysis and separation.Outside the personality, companionship is of
most vital concern, and the wonder will be howsoon the Natural Appetite for profitablecompanionship will choose some dogs inpreference to some human beings, for thequalities of sympathy, approval and faithfulnessthat every social being craves.
Of course, there are some companionable
combinations among men that are moresatisfactory and profitable than any dumbanimal can possibly supply, but it is for thepurpose of finding such combinations that theFletcherizing of friends is useful. There is muchgood in every one, as there is in everything thatNature offers as nourishment for the body, buteverything has its Appropriate place and time,its harmonious supplements and compliments,and this is true regarding companionships." What is one man's food, is another man'spoison," is a truism applicable alike tocompanionship and friendship. It is equally trueregarding honesty and dishonesty; truth anddeceit.THE STUDY  OF MOTHER  NATURE.
The foregoing constitutes a pretty stiff
proposition for the measurement of idealFletcherism, but when you come to considerthat the aim is nothing less than getting asclose to Mother Nature as possible and listeningto her orders relative to good team-workbetween us, the contract does not seem soimpossible. It was close study of Mother Natureand her laws of gravity and resistance that ledLillienthal, the German, to try to glide on the"wings of the wind" with imitations of the wingsof birds, and it was following Chanute's leadthat led the Wright Brothers to develop theflying-machine. It was because of tutelage inthe honest school of Mother Nature that theWright Brothers prefaced their first account oftheir " invention " by giving the French aviatorcredit for the initial suggestion.
In similar manner, it was the close, objective
study of the psychology of digestion under thehonest direction of Mother Nature in asomewhat drastic form that led Pawlow, theRussian physiologist, to preface his account ofhis great achievement by calling up the memoryof the French physiologist Blondlot, and telling
that he had described the true process ofdigestion from logical deduction fifty yearsbefore.
In like manner, Professor Cannon, of
Harvard University Medical School, insistedthat dear Dr. Bowditch, his preceptor inPhysiology, had laid out for him the line ofX-ray studies of the " Mechanism of Digestion,"which has given him distinguished researchfame. Getting close to Mother Nature opens up


 Candida problems.
Chronic overacidity has a serious effect on the body. It causes a continual loss of minerals needed to neutralize excess acid; the
body becomes hypersensitive to pain and outside inﬂuences and the whole metabolism becomes more and more inefﬁcient.
Furthermore, the more acid the tissues are the more histamine is being released. This means acidity causes and greatly
increases inﬂammations and allergies and makes the skin very sensitive to insect bites and other irritants.
Overacidity is on the one hand a cause and on the other hand an effect of a poor blood-sugar metabolism, as in diabetes,
hypoglycemia and in the widespread conditions leading to these diseases. People with a weak carbohydrate metabolism cannot
properly oxidize glucose to carbon dioxide and water. These end products are normally expelled with the urine and the air, and
leave the body in a neutral balance. However, in a weakened condition, any excess of glucose, as after eating sweet foods, is
only partly metabolized to form organic acids.
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arthritis and rheumatism. If the alkaline reserve is insufﬁcient to neutraliz e these acids, more and more calcium will be mobilized
from the bones for this purpose causing the bones to become brittle and the tissues and joints to calcify. Furthermore, tumors
grow only if the surrounding tissue is too acid. This acidity may be due to the lactic acid production of the tumor itself. However,
sensitive individuals are too acid all over which leads to rapid tumor growth and much pain.
Alkaline Foods become Acid-Forming
Because of this incomplete oxidation sugars, which are chemically neutral and even fruits, which are chemically alkaline, are
highly acid forming in mineral-deﬁcient bodies. It is similar with lactose.  If this cannot be properly utilized, it forms a mucic acid,
which causes mucus congestions as well as pain.
Other foods, which often form mucus and acids because of partial oxidation, are reﬁned starches and wheat products. Also
incorrect food combinations can cause normally alkaline-forming foods to become acid forming, and so can disturbed emotions
during or after a meal, and eating when not well.
Basically, this shows us the vicious circle - or downward spiral - in which many diseased people are caught:
Because the food lacks sufﬁcient alkalizing minerals, the metabolism becomes inefﬁcient, and acids accumulate in the body,
which require additional alkaline reserves for neutralization and cause the metabolism to become even more inadequate. This in
turn produces more acids and so forth.
Alkalizing the Body
Fresh green vegetable juices and vegetable broths are the strongest alkalizing foods, especially the broth of boiled potato
peelings. Fruits and their juices, including cider vinegar, however, increa se the acidity of those who are calcium deﬁcient and with
a tendency to allergies and colds.
However, dissolving dolomite or eggshells in vinegar or lemon juice until nearly neutral, produces a highly alkaline remedy.
Alternatively, baking soda or potassium bicarbonate may be used to neutralize acid fruit juices and alkalize the body. For those
with a normal carbohydrate metabolism, on the other hand - often those with raised blood pressure, being insensitive and
showing signs of too much calcium - unneutralized fruits and their juices, especially acid citrus fruits, are excellent.
Using large amounts of vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid increases body acidity. This can lead to inﬂammation, increased
pain and other problems in susceptible people (overacid/low-calcium type). Therefore, it is advisable to use either the neutral
sodium or calcium ascorbate or to neutralize the ascorbic acid with dolomite, eggshell powder or baking soda.
If, on the other hand, one is too alkaline, it is preferable to use ascorbic acid supplements unneutralized or only partly neutralized
with potassium bicarbonate, milk of magnesia or magnesium oxide in order to dissolve calcium deposits and stone formations.
During acute allergic reactions it is advisable to alkalize the body quickly. This may be done by taking repeatedly a teaspoonful of
baking soda with plenty of water, best before breakfast or during the reaction.
A newcomer in the health arena is ionized alkaline water. This is produced with electrodes that divide the water into an acid and
an alkaline fraction. The alkaline water has a pH of 8 to 10 and an exce ss of electrons and antioxidant activity. Drinking a liter or
two daily is a good way to neutralize  overacid conditions. A similar product in capsule form is Microhydrin produced by Royal Body
Care to recreate the health-giving properties of Hunza water. You can ﬁnd a variety of water ionizers as well as Microhydrin
advertised on the Internet.
However, it should be stressed that the best alkalizing. Food or water cannot bring lasting improvement if one continues to eat
food to which one is allergic, or if one eats sweet foods when the blood-sugar regulation is poor.
Using Sodium Bicarbonate
Baking soda (not baking powder) or sodium bicarbonate together with carbonic acid (dissolved carbon dioxide) is the main buffer
system that maintains the blood at a constant pH of about 7.4. When there is not enough sodium bicarbonate in the blood, it
becomes too acid and histamine is liberated - the body becomes oversensitive to pain as well as to allergenic inﬂuences, such as
insect stings. In addition, mucus production increases, providing a breeding ground for germs.
The recommendation to use sodium bicarbonate for quick neutralization is contrary to the frequently stated opinion that baking
soda is always harmful. Baking soda  should not be used in cooking, as any alkaline reaction tends to destroy vitamins and makes
many minerals less available, it is not advisable with gastric ulcers either, as it causes an acid over-reaction afterwards. If used
with a meal, baking soda interfere s with the digestion. However, these problems do not arise if baking soda is used as
recommended by sensitive individua ls to neutralize fruit acids and ascorbic acid or to minimize allergic reactions. If there is the
possibility of an allergic reaction from a meal, it is best to use the alkaliser already 30 minutes after the end of the meal or as soon
as any discomfort develops.
Sensitive individuals easily become overacid when eating fruits or drink ing fruit juices. This happens especially with oranges or
tomatoes or any other acid fruits. To neutralize fruit juices add a pinch of baking soda several times until it does not ﬁzz anymore
when stirred. You have to be careful not to add too much as that gives a rather unpleasant taste. If that does happen, then just
add a little more acid. When eating whole fruit you may just drink a small  amount of water in which half a teaspoon of baking soda
has been dissolved.
Furthermore, baking soda, possibly in combination with potassium bicarbonate, is valuable in order to neutralize the duodenal
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supplement, it is preferable to wait about two hours in order to allow sufﬁcient time for the gastric phase of digestion. With a light
meal this interval may be somewha t shorter and after a heavy meal or with ﬂesh foods one may wait even longer for at least 3
hours.
Body too Alkaline
With insensitive people the body metabolism usually is too alkaline. This is associated with potassium deﬁciency and may lead to
calcium deposits, as with arthritic deformations and kidney stones. Another problem is a lack of gastric acid resulting in poor
protein digestion and mineral absorption. Bacterial overgrowth may extend into the stomach, causing belching, foul breath and
gastric complaints.
A main reason for this condition is a weak liver, usually in combination with a high meat diet. If amino acids, the building blocks of
proteins, are used as fuel, the amino group is split off and converted to urea in the liver. But this process requires additional
energy as well as speciﬁc enzymes, both of which are in short supply in a weak liver.
Therefore, an increasing amount of ammonium salts are formed which use the body store of acid anion groups, such as
phosphates and chlorides. In active people, there is a plentiful supply of metabolic acids, such as lactic acid from muscle activity.
However, if these people lead a sedentary lifestyle then not sufﬁcient metabolic acids are produced to neutralize the excess
ammonia and the body becomes too alkaline.
An additional factor is the formation of ammonium salts in the kidneys from glutamine and other amino


 R oad led to India. China also embarked on great
navigational explorations to open up  sea links to the south and east. By the 2nd
century B.C., boats from impe rial China had reached far sho res in the Indian
Ocean, r eportedly to present day Sri Lanka, at the time when I ndian civilization
and religion were rapidly spreading.
The arrival of A yurveda accompanied Sri Lanka’ s conversion to Buddhism
by Mahinda, the brother of King Ashoka, the enlightened ruler of the Maurya
empire o f northe rn India. King Ashoka, who after a long and bloody campaign to
capture the Kingdom of Kalinga  felt great remorse at all the sla ughter, converted
to Budd hism in 260 B.C. and re nounced foreign aggression. After conversion, he
sent out  emissa ries to all the neighboring lands, and possibly to more distant
realms such as Greece and China, to spread his new-foun d beliefs. Hindu
invasions of Sri Lanka began perhaps as early as the second century B.C., and by
100 A.D. Hinduization of the Malay peninsula, Indochina an d the islands of
present day western Indonesia had successfully begun.
Indeed, along with religion and  culture, A yurvedic concepts and practices
spread throughout South-East Asia. In Cambodia, for example, Sanskrit
inscriptions of A yurvedic doctrines and quotations from Sushruta’ s treatise dating
back to the ninth century A.D. can still be found carved on stone. Another
example of A yurveda’ s influence in this region is the incorporation of the Nadis
and Marma theory into Thai massage, and practiced even to this day.
This period of o utward expansio n and external focus of both cultures also
favored the introduction of Bu ddhism from its native Indian soil into China.
Indeed b y 100 A.D. already there were many regional strongholds of Buddhism
in C hina. The B uddhist monks Kasyapa, Matanga and Dharma raksa carried the
gospel o f Buddh a to the imperia l Chinese court from India som etime during the
1st centu ry A.D., and the first Buddhist texts from Sanskrit an d Pali translated
into Chinese are known to have been written then. The  introduction of
Buddhism, naturally due to Buddhist belief in compassion and removal of
suf fering, also led to the propag ation of ef fective medical care. Buddhist medicalconcepts incorp orated the A yurvedic model, but expanded and emphasized the
spiritual causes and treatment of illness as well.
An interesting figure of this per iod was Hua T uo (110- 208 A.D.) who is
revered as a brilliant physician a nd sur geon, and also as the originator of various
T aoist physical  exercises (tao yin), especially the system  based on the
movements of five animals. R eports on his sur gical techniques bear striking
resemblance to the sur gical methods expounded in A yurvedic texts, in particular
the u sage of a concoction of hemp (ma fei san) to engender an analgesic ef fect in
the patient prior to the operation. Circumstantial evidence strongly indicates that
Hua T uo in all probability learn t at least some of his skills from Indian sources
(see illustration 18).
India, w hose wr itten tradition of sur gery begins with the Sushruta Samhita
(perhaps 600 B.C.), has had a longer and more sustained sur gical  tradition than
China. I n this text the use of hemp decoctions for sur gical an algesia is clearly
mentioned. Inde ed, India has a  long tradition of using hemp in medicine. The
gifted 5th century B.C. physici an and sur geon Jivaka, attended on the Buddha
himself. He was also a patron of the medical arts and sciences to the Buddhists in
India, as was Hu a T uo to the Chinese. A few centuries later, eve n the removal of
cataracts by sur gery seems to have been introduced into China from India.W ith the  growth  and influence of Buddhism both in India and China a
great deal of religious, cultural a nd medical interchange took place. Many Indian
monks transversed the frontier regions of India to spread Buddh ist teachings into
the adjoining kingdoms. By the  3rd century A.D., Chinese mo nks and scholars,
too, started to jo urney to the lan d of Buddha’ s birth in search of knowledge. The
first wel l-documented Chinese p ilgrim during this early period of exchange was
Fa X ian (337-422 A.D.) who went overland to India. Fa Xian studied for 14
years in the Buddhist lands of S outh Asia, including Sri Lanka, before returning
to China via the by then well established southern sea route.
The gold en age of Buddhism in Asia coincides with the glorious period of
A yurveda in India and of Chinese Medicine in China approximately from the 4th
to 10 th c entury A.D. During this period Buddhism found popu lar appeal, and at
times of ficial sanction, promoting closer relationships between various Buddhist
kingdoms in Asia. However, Buddhism did not completely supplant either
Hinduism in India or T aoist-C onfucian teachings in China. This period saw
intense development in all sciences and brought significant social changes,
especially durin g the time of the Gupta Empires (4th to 6th centuries A.D.) in
India and the Six Dynasties period (3rd to 7th centuries A.D.) in China.
One imp ortant Buddhist sage of South Indian origin, Boddhidharma (479-
543 A.D.), traveled by ship to China in the beginning of the 6th century A.D. and
originated a new religious community. After spending some time at the imperial
court in Nanjing he continue d his journey until he reached the Sungshan
Mountains whe re he founded the Shaolin monastery. The unique meditative
practices taught by him there ar e considered to be the origin of the Chan (Zen in
Japanese) school, and therefore he is recognized as the first patriarch of one of
the extent preeminent systems of philosophy and spiritual disciplines.
Boddhidharma a lso introduced a form of martial arts (shaolin kung fu) that has
become famous the world over in modern times. The scholars generally believe
that what this sa ge had actually introduced was kalarippayattu, the South Indian
martial art from the state of Kerala, but as usual it under went a thorough
transformation into a characteristically Chinese form (see illustration 19).
Buddhist doctrine was also subject to such transmutation; for example, the
masculine figure of A valokitesv ara, the Boddhisattva of Divine Compassion who
plays a significant role in the healing arts, had by the  7th ce ntury A.D. been
transformed into Guan Y in, the Goddess of Mercy, a distinctly feminine figure.In China, Buddh ist medical teachings emphasized the Indian concepts of
the Elements, although Buddhists refer usually to a four Element system, the five
Great Elements  of A yurveda minus Ether (akasha). It is possible that the
Buddhist concept reflects a Hellenistic influence, but deducing correspondences
by num ber alone can be mis leading. In India, for example, the venerable
Sushruta advocated a four Dosha concept. He included blood as one of the
doshas because of the importan ce of blood to a sur geon. It is also known that
Hellenistic medicine borrowed heavily from India through the writings of
Pythagoras (circ a 6th century B.C.) the philosopher and inventor, who, it is
known, had journeyed to India and later had such a significant influence on the
Hippocratic school.
Ef forts were indeed made in C hina to reconcile the Buddhist-A yurvedic
concept of the Elements with the doctrines of Chinese Medi cine. The Indian
teachings referred to the great Elements as generating and dif ferentiating the
human b ody’ s various tissues, while the Five Chinese Elements envisioned more
the f unctional relationships betw een processes. The A yurvedic concept of Three
Doshas, howeve r, presented a dif ficult challenge for reconciliation from the
Chinese viewpoint, and it was never really incorporated into the Chinese
paradigm, mainly due to the strangeness of the concept and the dif ficulty
translators had in finding adequate terms. V arious Buddhist scriptures from the
2nd cent ury A.D. onward, in fact, reveal great inconsistency in  their translations
of A yurv edic terms and doctrines. For example, the term Dosha was translated
into Chi nese as poison (tu) or at other times into grave illnesses (da ping) which
only vaguely convey its origin al connotation as a fundamental fault; nor does
either term reflect the basic concept that the doshas actually arise from and are a
condensed form  of the Five Elements. And the individual Dosha s were translated
into the terms w ind for V ata, he at for Pitta and cold for Kapha. Such superficial
translation of the Doshas inadequately denotes their unique


 ater Method, Step by Step ).
2. In  the  top of a double boiler or a non-reactive bowl, combine eggs, lemon
rind and lemon juice. Set the pa n or bowl over a bottom pan of simmering
water (top pan s hould not touch the water). Add butter and sugar and stir
until bot h are dissolved. Cook, stirring constantly, for 15 to 20 minutes or
until the  mixtur e is thickened. T he mixture is thickened when it coats the
back of a meta l spoon and m ounds slightly. Be careful not to boil the
mixture because it will curdle.
3. F ill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. Run a thin non-
metallic utensil around the insid e of the jar to allow air to escape. Add more
hot curd, if nece ssary, to leave a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe rims, top
with flat  lids and screw on metal rings. Let cool on a wire rac k or towel.
Label and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
Use: En joy Lemon Curd as a filling in cooked pastry shells; as a custard
substitute in dessert trifles; to replace whipped cream as a topping on fruit
or desserts; as a pie filling with egg white meringue.A double boiler is essential for this recipe because it gently heats the delicate egg protein and
thickens the curd without curdling it. Double boiler sets can be made of glass (above), stainless steel,
or ceramic with copper bottoms. If you don’ t have a double boiler, set a smaller saucepan or stainless
steel bowl over a lar ger saucepan.
O r a n g e s
CITRUS PLANTS ARE EASIL Y HYBRIDIZED,  and  sometime in
antiquity the sweet orange (Citrus  x sinensis)  w as the result of a possible
cross be tween a pomelo and a tangerine. Except for the Seville orange,
which is used in marmalade, bitter oranges (Citrus aurantium)  are rarely
used in cooking.
Good Pr eserving V arieties
Blood : Or iginating in Italy, there are three popular strains: T ar occo, Mor o
(usually found in North America ) and Sanguigno,  but it may be dif ficult to
know what variety is in stores. Rind is deep orange with a red or purple
blush; f lesh is dark (blood) red to purple, making them good for curds,
jams, marmalades and other preserves. The antioxidant anthocyanin is
responsible for the deep red co lour. California blood oranges peak from
January through late spring; T exas blood oranges peak in January and
February.
Navel : H as seedless m eaty flesh in segments that separate easily. All navel
oranges have a r ound buttonlike  circle at the blossom end that resembles a
human navel. Thick rinds make them easy to peel and good for candied
peel. California navel oranges p eak in February. March and Ap ril; Florida
navel or anges, which have a h igher juice content and much thinner peel
than the California ones, peak in December and January.Seville : A var iety of the Chinese Bitter Orange  (Citrus aurantium),
Seville o ranges are tart, with a thick skin and lar ge seeds; naturally high in
pectin, which makes them perfect for marmalade and compotes. Peak from
mid-December to the end of February
V alencia:  S weet and juicy, V alencia is the  variety widely grown in Florid a.
Florida V alencia oranges peak in March and April.
c l a s s i c  d u n d e e  m a r m a l a d e
In my view, the bitter Seville o ranges  (Citrus aurantium) that appear in
markets just befor e Christmas a nd stay for a short month or two make the
finest or ange marmalade in the Scottish tradition. Be warned: this is very
close to the trad itional marmalade method and not a quick technique, but
it’ s not difficult—and you will be well r ewar ded.
MAKES 8 CUPS (2 L)
6 Seville oranges (about 2 lb/1 kg)
1 lemon
8 cups (2 L) water
7 cups (1.75 L) granulated sugar
1. In a sink full of warm, soap y water, scrub oranges and lemon using a
vegetable brush  to remove any wax film. Rinse well. Cut oranges andlemons in half crosswise. Using a hand or electric citrus juicer, squeeze
orange a nd lemo n juice. Strain into a Maslin pan or canning ke ttle, saving
the seeds and rinds.
2. On a 10-inch (25 cm) square of double-thickness cheesecloth, place seeds
and membranes.  Bring up sides  and tie the top with cotton string. Place in
pan with juice.
3. On a cutting board, stack 3 o range rind halves together and cut in half.
Keeping the 3 rind quarters sta cked, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch (5 mm)
thick strips. Add to the pan along with any accumulated juices. Repeat with
remaining orange and lemon rind halves.
4. Add water to the pan and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to
medium and stir in sugar, 1 cup (250 mL) at a time, stirring to dissolve
before a dding t he next cup. Boil lightly for 2–1/2 to 3 hours or until
thickened and setting point (see note, next page) is reached, stirring
occasionally. During the last 1/2 hour, skim of f and discard the foam that
rises to the top.
5. M eanwhile, sterilize eight 1-c up (250 mL) jars in boiling water, and scald
the lids, lifter, funnel and tongs. ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
6. F ill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. Run a thin non-
metallic utensil around the insid e of the jar to allow air to escape. Add more
hot marmalade, if necessary, to  leave a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe
rims, top with flat lids and screw on metal rings. Return jars to the hot water
bath, top ping up  with hot water, if necessary. Bring to a full rolling boil and
process jars for 10 minutes ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
7. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up
to 1 year.Setting Point
Marmalade has reached the setting point when a candy
thermometer reaches the jelly stage at 222°F (1 10°C).
If you don’ t have a thermometer: T o test for setting point,
remove the marmalade from the heat. Place a plate in the
freezer for 2 m inutes. Drop a spoonful of hot marmalade
onto the chilled plate.
Return t he plate  to the freezer for 1 minute. Push the spot
of m armalade with a fork. If  the surface wrinkles, the
marmalade is set and ready to p ack into hot, sterilized jars.If the marmalade is not set, ret urn to a boil and test at 3-
minute intervals, using a new chilled plate each time.
dundee almond cake
This is an unu sual cake in t hat ther e is no grain flour as the main
ingr edient. For a cake that r elie s on nuts for its structur e, it is surprisingly
light.
9-inch (23 cm) springform pan, base lined with par chment and sides lightly butter ed
Pr eheat oven to 350°F (180°C)
MAKES 1 CAKE
1 tbsp (15 mL) Anisette or other anise-flavour ed liqueur, optional
1/4 cup (50 mL) icing sugar
6 sprigs sweet cicely or other fr esh herb, optional
1–1/4 cups (300 mL) blanched almonds
4 eggs, separated
1 cup (250 mL) granulated sugar, divided
1/4 cup (50 mL) chopped fr esh sweet cicely grated rind and juice of 3
oranges (about 1–1/4 cups/300 mL juice and 3 tbsp/45 mL grated
rind)

1. Using a food processor, chop the almonds until coarse. At this stage, the
almonds should not be ground or finely chopped. Remove al monds to a
separate bowl. W ipe out food processor bowl and process the 1 cup (250
mL) sugar with the sweet cicely until the sweet cicely is fine. T ransfer the
herbed sugar to a bowl.
2. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks with 1/2 cup


 an oral irrigator with warm water and sea salt at least twice
per day. (
www.curetoothdecay.com/blotting
)
Practice oil pulling at least once per day.
Pick one topical herb or additional treatment to support your gum health.
Check if you have mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings and consider replacing them.
(Mercury poisoning is discussed in chapter 8.)
Eat iron-containing foods as well as foods that enhance iron absorption such as beef, lamb,
liver, clams or leafy green vegetables.
Avoid mouthwashes that are anti-bacterial that contain chemicals. We do not want to kill the
good bacteria.
Avoid normal tooth brushing that irritates your gums.
Chapter 7 References
1
Stroke.
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2
 "Oral Health for Older Americans - Fact Sheets and FAQs - Publications - Oral Health."
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2010. <http://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/publications/factsheets/adult_older.htm>
3
 Price, W. A.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 6th Edition.
La Mesa: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation; 2004: Chapter 19.
4
 Page, M. Abrams, L.
Your Body is Your Best Doctor
. New Canaan: Keats Publishing Inc.;1972:197.
5
 Ibid., 197.
6
 Price, W. A.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 6th Edition.
La Mesa: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation; 2004: 337-38.
7
 Ibid., 197.
8
 Mellanby, Ma. "Periodontal Disease in Dogs (Experimental Gingivitis and "Pyorrhoea")"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Medicine
 April 28, 1930 42-48
9
 MELLANBY, EDWARD.
NUTRITION AND DISEASE - THE INTERACTION OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK
.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1934. Print.
10
 "Client feedback."
Resources for Life
. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2010. <http://www.resourcesforlife.net/article.asp?article=93>.
11
 Phillips, Dr. J.E.. "Dr Phillips Blotting Technique Blotting Brushes"
Seventh Wave Supplements - Additive
Web. 28 Sept. 2010.<http://www.seventhwavesupplements.com/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=107&idproduct=73>
12
 Breiner, Mark A..
Whole-Body Dentistry: Discover The Missing Piece To Better Health
. 1 ed. Fairfield: Quantum Health Press,
1999. Print.* * *Chapter 8
Dentistry and its High Price
Modern dentistry is a profound failure. The enormity of suffering and disease caused by dentistry is
so massive that is beyond comprehension. Dentistry is built on the false premise that bacteria cause
cavities. Its treatment methods of drilling and filling are highly damaging to teeth. The materials used
in dentistry are extremely toxic and have been connected to diseases that are severe, painful and
widespread. Conventional dentistry has placed highly poisonous mercury in the mouths of hundreds of
millions of people. The mercury exposure of dentists and suffering caused by dentistry explains in
part why dentists have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. Tens of millions of needless
root canals have been performed. Modern dentistry has drilled deeply into healthy parts of millions of
teeth because of the failed treatment policy of “extension for prevention.” It has caused irreversible
pulp damage in millions of tooth nerves with drills that spin too fast. The profit-motivated system of
dentistry has led to tens of millions of needless dental procedures. Modern dentistry has poisoned
tens of millions of children by promoting the topical and internal use of the unproven poison fluoride.
And dentistry has in some cases killed innocent children slowly from the side effects of dental
surgery, from swallowing fluoride, and from deadly side effects of disease-inciting metals implanted
in children’s mouths. If this dental massacre had any benefits to show then perhaps it could be
exonerated. But it does not. After the age of sixty, the average individual has more than half of the
teeth affected by tooth decay. And after this age, the average person has lost more than eight teeth, not
including the wisdom teeth.
Many of us are literally carrying around dental trauma as mercury fillings from this war on bacteria. I
myself am also a victim. I had seven mercury-based fillings placed during my teenage years. None of
these teeth ever hurt me prior to their butchery by the dental drill. During a checkup large holes were
drilled unnecessarily into my teeth because of some tiny specks that appeared on an x-ray. Each one
of those teeth is now permanently and irrevocably damaged from the excavations of the dental drill. I
will discuss the disaster of modern orthodontics in the next chapter.
In light of all this, when people are hesitant to go to the dentist, or are afraid of the dentist, I am not
surprised.
How could you not be afraid of the dentist?
In this chapter you will learn how to navigate through the swamp of bad dentistry. You will learn
what the hazards of conventional dentistry are and how to avoid them. You will learn how to locate
the few good dentists that are out there to help you repair all the toxic and damaging dental work from
the past. You will learn how to communicate effectively with your dentist so that he serves your
needs. I will help guide you in understanding and identifying what exactly is and has happened to your
tooth that is causing you pain, so that you can take steps to resolve it with nutrition only, with surgery,
or with both.Toxic Dentistry
Conventional dentists drill holes in your teeth in exchange for money and then place a poisonous
substance in your mouth (mercury fillings) to prevent bacteria from making a hole in your teeth.
Conventional dentistry is so bad that many conscientious dentists are doing their best to get the word
out to the public. A majority of dentists who have become holistically oriented did not even start out
with a holistic mindset. Generally their transformation was inspired after a painful wakeup call, such
as their own symptoms of mercury poisoning, or the dentist sees the dreaded result of their poor
dental care failing their patients, or themselves. As a result, many dentists who see the problems
inherent in conventional dentistry feel extreme remorse for their years in practice of toxic dentistry.
And a few of the dentists who feel a duty to prevent the shameful practice of modern dentistry to
continue make a good effort to inform the public about diseases caused by dentistry. Some have even
written books in order to inform the public about the extreme danger that may be lurking in our
mouths. These books are valuable supplemental readings to this one, especially if you want more
details about the problems with dental materials and dentistry. They include
Whole Body Dentistry
by dentist Mark Breiner, published in 1999;
Uniformed Consent
 by dentist Hal Huggins, published in
1999;
The Key to Ultimate Health
 by Ellen Brown and dentist Richard Hansen, 1998;
It’s All In
Your Head: the link between mercury amalgams and illness
by Dr. Hal Huggins, 1993;
Are Your
Dental Fillings Poisoning You?
by dentist Guy Fasciana, published in 1986.
Diseases and Mercury
The first reported case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma was recorded in 1832 shortly after the first amalgam
fillings were used. Dr. Olympio Pinto introduced the subject of mercury toxicity to Dr. Hal Huggins
in 1973. When finishing his master’s degree at Georgetown University Dr. Pinto’s thesis topic was
mercury toxicity. His thesis was never published because the National Institute of Dental Research,
part of the National Institutes of Health, found out about his project and stopped it.
1
 Dr. Huggins
eventually published the material himself in the
Journal of the International Academy of
Preventative Medicine
 in 1976.
That mercury fillings are highly toxic is without question. According to the US government’s Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry mercury is ranked #3 of the most toxic chemicals or
metals on the planet. Arsenic and lead are slightly ahead of it, but chloroform, cyanide, and plutonium
are less toxic to humans than mercury.
2
 Mercury fillings are also wrongly called amalgam fillings or
silver fillings to disguise their main ingredient, mercury. Mercury accounts for approximately 50% of
a mercury filling. Imagine if you had a plutonium filling or a cyanide filling that this filling would
probably be safer for you than a mercury filling depending on how fast those poisons released from
the fillings.
A report by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry restricts the safe level of mercury
vapor for the average person to 0.28 micrograms. Various studies report that the average intake of
mercury vapor from mercury amalgams is between 4-19 micrograms, in other words 10-50 times
higher than the safe level of mercury vapor.
3
 Studies on 10-year-old fillings show that a large portion
of mercury has leaked out and evaporated by the end of the ten years


 he told me. I  have always been a determined person. I  did
everything as near right as I  could or knew to do. This helped me in my diet. If I  had
even once eaten sweets or anything that was on the list of "no-no's," I  wouldn't have
been able to win the game. That's what you need — determination to follow the
rules.
In six months the lumps in my breasts were gone. I  felt much better than I  had before. I
had not had surgery and the awful ordeal of that, or intravenous feeding, and I  still had a
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whole body. I  was telling everyone to eat right. But I  did not tell anyone (outside of my
family) that I  had cancer. People knew I  had been really sick, but not what was really
wrong with me. I  guess I  wanted to be sure myself that I  could do it before I  would tell
anyone you could lick cancer with proper lifestyle and nutrition. I  continued chiropractic
treatment for years, and still do. Mostly when I  talk to people about eating properly — not
eating food with preservatives, eating raw foods instead of cooked ones — they make light
of it and never really listen. Yet, many call me with all of their ills and ask me what they
should do. Some I  can advise and some don't believe what you say anyway.
Three years later in March, I  applied for another insurance policy with another
company. I  told him I  had been refused a policy because of the lumps in my breast. He
sent me for another health examination with another doctor. I  told this doctor also about
the lumps — that I  did not go to a doctor but I  started taking nutrition and eating raw foods,
etc. and the lumps went away. He couldn't find any lumps. They X-rayed my chest and
found nothing. Yet he would not believe the nutrition had anything to do with it. He told
me I  was in excellent health and I  got the insurance policy. It was a much larger policy
than the one I  had been refused because of the lumps in my breast.
In July after the X-rays, I  noticed the lumps in my breast again. I  had just read an article
in the paper that they were finding "hard evidence that X-rays are actually causing cancer."
On July 20, 1976, when I  discovered the lumps back again, I  immediately went back on
my original schedule and diet and within 6 months my lumps were gone again. My advice
to others would be — don't get X-rays taken. The radiation exposure is too dangerous.
After 5 years with Dr. Kelley, I  do not need tests as often as I  did. I  follow his diet list and
my own home grown foods when possible. I  continue to take all kinds of nutrition as he
recommends. I  am not as strict with my diet as I  was the first three years but when I  don't
eat right, or stop the nutrition, I  don't feel good and I  know what to do to get better again.
Dr. Kelley has answered personally all my letters to him about health problems that come
up. He takes my telephone calls when I  need to know something right away. Good health
is something you need to work at daily. Dr. Kelley's advice works. My illness has given my
husband and me a better, closer relationship than we have ever known. I  know Metabolic
Medicine works. It did for me.
Dr. Kelley: "It's hard to appreciate the sorts of obstacles patients had to overcome
to see me as a clinician. First of all, I  am not a medical doctor, I  am a dentist. Second,
my office was unbelievably unacceptable when compared to where a lot of these
people had gone — to the great clinics and hospitals of our world. They really had to
lower themselves to come into my meager surroundings. While adequately appointed
and kept immaculately clean by my receptionist, there certainly was no pretension in
any respect. On many occasions, people would drive up in their Cadillac or Rolls
Royce and drive away because they thought that they couldn't possibly find anything
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of worth in such an unpretentious office."
Stomach Cancer Testimonial
Elizabeth W ojt
Mrs. Wojt is a 47-year old woman from New Jersey alive 10 years since her diagnosis of
stomach carcinoma. Before her bout with cancer, Mrs. Wojt had a long history of general
poor health and chronic digestive problems. In 1974, she first experienced episodes of
severe abdominal pain that usually occurred between meals, and were relieved by eating.
Over the following three years, her symptoms gradually worsened, although she was not
normally evaluated until spring of 1977. At that time, a barium swallow revealed a tumor,
described in an official report as "suspicious lesion in the fundus and cardiac of the
stomach."
Mrs. Wojt was referred to a gastroenterologist, who biopsied the suspect tissue during
endoscopy (examination of the stomach with a flexible tube inserted down the esophagus).
After review, the specimen was identified as a carcinoma. She was admitted to Patterson
General Hospital on April 17, the following day, she went to surgery (for a radical subtotal
gastrectomy, which is resection of most of the stomach). The tumor had already metastasized
into the surrounding tissues and lymph nodes; the final pathology report describes:
"Adenocarcinoma of the stomach with metastases to the gastrocolic nodes and omentum."
Mrs. Wojt was told she most likely would not live a year. Nevertheless, after leaving
Patterson hospital in late April, she was referred to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York for possible experimental treatment. But Mrs. Wojt, who already knew
of Dr. Kelley's work, decided to refuse all orthodox therapy. Instead, that same month she
consulted Dr. Kelley and began the full Kelley program. Mrs. Wojt followed her nutritional
regimen for five years. At present, ten years after her diagnosis, she is in excellent health
apparently cured of her once metastatic disease. According to Mrs. Wojt, her doctors are
"dumbfounded" by her prolonged survival.
Mrs. Wojt is indeed a remarkable case. The five-year survival rate for patients with
metastatic stomach cancer is close to zero — even with aggressive therapy. Mrs. Wojt
received neither chemotherapy nor radiation after her surgery, and chose to follow only the
Kelley program.
Leukemia Testimonial
Thomas M., Alexandria, LA
5-Year Victory Over Leukemia
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At age 61, this lawyer, blessed with a lovely wife and eight children, was
diagnosed at Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, as having acute myelogenous leukemia.
My friends at Ochsner Clinic opined that the condition was terminal and that I  had at
best a few months and at worst a few days to live.
Following three courses of Cytosar and Thiogunine at the Clinic (from October 7,
1977 through about mid-December 1977), I  fortunately had a remission. I  was to
continue with maintenance therapy, which the medics told me would, at best,
improve the quality of life. There was slim, if any, hope for recovery.
Dr. Kelley's book miraculously came to my wife's attention. We visited him in
Washington in December 1977. We were enthusiastic and got on the program and
experienced dramatic improvement. The idea that you treat the body, or host, and not
the symptoms was so intellectually stimulating and sensible, I  wondered why my
medical friends and my doctor son could not understand and why they discouraged
and belittled my efforts. I  very shortly resumed my practice, golf and a normal but
different lifestyle.
About midsummer of 1978, it became apparent that to continue the chemotherapy
would destroy any hope I  had of bodybuilding. These shots would nauseate and
disrupt me and would knock my blood count from near normal to complete disarray.
My mind indicated that they be discontinued, despite advice to the contrary.
I  have continued with Metabolic Medicine and on the complete lifestyle change
that holistic medicine demands for optimum health. I  have no problems with
leukemia since the initial remission was obtained.
I  know that when I  took the chemo maintenance, my body was disrupted. I  know
that when it was discontinued, I  continued to improve without the disruption of the
blood picture and the nausea.
Metabolic Medicine is so sensible, it is hard to see why anyone could dispute that
it has a place in the lives of the acutely ill. Nothing is perfect and nothing makes one
eternal, but in my case, I  am thankful for the opportunity for the benefits of this non
toxic therapy and the miracle it brought for me.
Some call my luck "spontaneous remission," maybe so, I  believe that Metabolic
Medicine makes for "spontaneous remissions" from the symptoms of terminal illness
in those whose bodies have not been abused beyond repair, whether by neglect or
over treatment.
Some call letters such as this "testimonials" instead


you	are	allergic	to.
Weight	Problems
Some	people	think	being	overweight	is	more	of	a	fashion	concern	than	a
serious	disease.	Many	people	attribute	weight	problems	to	“genetics,”	saying
that	such	problems	run	in	their	family.	The	truth	is	that	being	overweight	is	a
sign	that	cells	are	malfunctioning.	Often,	an	addiction	to	sugar	is	part	of	the
problem,	and	this	problem	needs	to	be	treated	like	any	other	addiction.	Proper
diet	and	lifestyle	changes	that	improve	cellular	health	are	virtually	guaranteed	to
solve	weight	problems.	Overweight	patients	need	to	heal	their	cells,	just	like
cancer	patients	and	heart	disease	patients.	Worse,	weight	problems	are
frequently	the	prelude	to	more	serious	chronic	diseases.
Mood,	Thought	or	Behavioral	Problems
The	ability	to	think	quickly	and	clearly—to	concentrate,	learn	and	remember
—are	the	benefits	of	healthy	cells	and	a	healthy	body.	A	problem	with	any	of
these	indicates	deficiency	and	toxicity	at	the	cellular	level,	usually	the	result	of
inappropriate	diets,	environmental	toxins,	lack	of	exercise	and	unresolved	stress.
Brain	cells	function	normally	when	they	have	all	the	nutrition	they	need	and	do
not	have	toxins	that	interfere	with	them.
The	person	who	flies	off	the	handle	with	little	provocation	is	often	seen	as
having	a	particular	personality	type.	The	same	for	those	who	have	problems
getting	along	with	others	or	working	out	conflicts	in	a	calm	and	rational	manner.
Most	of	the	time,	however,	these	problems	point	back	to	the	same	two	causes	of
disease:	deficiency	and	toxicity.	We	are	currently	experiencing	an	unprecedented
epidemic	of	depression,	learning	disabilities,	violent	behavior	and	other	types	of
mental	disease.	Many	of	these	“mental”	problems	actually	result	from	the	fact
that	the	function	of	our	brains	and	nervous	systems	has	never	been	more
compromised.	Worse,	physicians	usually	try	to	“solve”	these	problems	by	giving
those	afflicted	toxic,	mind-altering	chemicals.
Building	a	Better	YouNow	that	you	have	a	sense	of	your	state	of	health	and	have	perhaps	identified
some	early	warning	signs	of	disease,	start	to	build	the	foundation	of	a	new
lifestyle:
•	Keep	a	food	diary	for	a	week,	writing	down	everything	you	eat	and	drink.
How	much	of	your	diet	is	eaten	raw?	Do	you	buy	truly	fresh,	organic
vegetables	and	fruits?	Is	the	meat	you	eat	treated	with	antibiotics	and
hormones?	Do	sugar,	white	flour,	dairy	products	and	processed	oils	bog
down	your	diet?	Do	you	combine	the	wrong	foods	together	at	a	meal?	Is	the
food	you	buy	genetically	modified?
•	Keep	track	of	the	amount	and	kind	of	exercise,	movement,	or	other
physical	stimulation	(saunas,	etc.)	you	participate	in	during	the	week.
•	Consider	the	products	you	use	on	your	body:	Are	the	ingredients	in	your
deodorant,	toothpaste,	shampoo,	makeup	and	skin	cream	natural	and
nontoxic?
•	Take	a	look	at	the	products	you	use	to	clean	your	house.	Consider,	too,	the
furnishings,	including	your	rugs.	List	the	sources	of	emissions	within	your
house,	including	your	carpets,	furnace,	hot-water	heater	and	stove.
•	Consider	the	ways	in	which	social	connections,	work	and	community
involvement	nurture	you,	or	fail	to	do	so.
•	Take	stock	of	the	stress	in	your	life.
•	Think	about	the	doctors	you	visit,	the	treatments	or	tests	that	you	approve
of,	the	medicines	that	you	take.	Are	they	doing	you	more	harm	than	good?
Are	your	doctors	and	your	medical	treatments	addressing	all	your	pathways
to	health,	or	is	their	focus	narrow	and	incomplete?
•	Do	you	take	vitamins	or	other	supplements	consistently,	and	are	they	of
high	quality?	Do	they	contain	cheap,	ineffective	ingredients	such	as
carbonates	and	oxides,	or	toxins	such	as	artificial	colors?
Each	of	these	choices	is	part	of	an	ongoing	process	of	promoting—	or
antagonizing—your	health.	Keep	track	of	all	six	pathways	and	do	your	best
along	each	of	them,	all	the	time.	Doing	a	great	job	for	a	week	and	then	forgetting
about	it	is	pointless.	Track	the	process—there	is	no	endgame,	no	checkmate	to
seek—there	is	only	process.
Either	you	are	going	about	the	process	of	getting
well	and	staying	well,	or	you	are	going	about	the	process	of	getting	sicker.
Keep
trying	new	things	until	you	discover	what	works	for	you.
After	you	have	identified	some	of	the	problems	in	your	lifestyle—ways	in
which	your	body	is	becoming	deficient	or	ways	in	which	toxins	threaten	you—
begin	today	to	make	changes.•	Make	sure	at	least	some	and	preferably	most	of	your	diet	is	eaten	raw.
Buy	at	least	some	organic	fresh	fruits	and	vegetables,	as	well	as	organically
produced	meat.	Cut	down	or	eliminate	the	Big	Four:	sugar,	white	flour,
dairy	products	and	processed	oils.
•	Practice	tips	for	proper	food	combining	and	effective	food	preparation
methods	to	ensure	you	are	getting	the	best	nutrition	from	the	food	that	you
buy.
•	Begin	taking	high-quality	nutritional	supplements.
•	Make	exercise	and	movement	a	part	of	every	day.
•	Nurture	your	social	and	family	connections.	Make	a	plan	and	then	make	a
concerted	effort	to	make	it	happen.
•	Identify	the	drugs	you	take	(medical	or	recreational),	and	begin	to	imagine
how	well	you	might	function	without	them.
A	Radical	Shift	in	Perspective
As	you	consider	your	lifestyle	and	identify	the	areas	that	must	change,	take	a
close	look	at	your	overall	perspective	on	health	and	disease.	Health	is	something
we	all	want,	yet	so	few	of	us	give	it	serious	thought	until	we	get	sick.	That
approach	does	not	work.	The	practical	new	system	for	choosing	health	presented
in	this	book	is	different	from	typical	approaches.	This	new	way	to	“see”	health
and	disease	is	so	simple	it	empowers	the	individual	to	take	charge.	That
empowerment	can	help	to	end	our	current	epidemic	of	chronic	and	degenerative
disease,	dramatically	improving	the	health	of	our	people.
As	I	have	told	you,	one	of	the	first	people	whose	perspective	I	helped	change
was	my	brother,	diagnosed	in	1991	with	advanced	prostate	cancer.	The	specialist
who	made	the	diagnosis	informed	him	that	the	tumor	was	so	large	and	so
widespread	that	surgery	was	not	an	option.	My	brother	was	told	that	there	were
no	traditional	medical	treatment	options	available	for	his	advanced	stage	of
tumor.	“Modern	medicine”	had	nothing	to	offer,	and	my	brother	felt	he	was
doomed.	He	eventually	found	a	caring	physician	who	was	willing	to	operate,
despite	the	poor	odds.	The	surgery	was	a	success,	with	limitations,	as	the
surgeon	was	unable	to	remove	all	of	the	cancer,	and	bi


ving a car. But if the outer function of intellect is not bal-
anced by the inner function of intelligence, it leads to dis-
tortion and can become destructive. Ayurvedic
psychological methods bring about the proper develop-
ment of intelligence so that we can perceive our problems
and their causes, and change them in a lasting manner.
The language and tools of Ayurveda are not merely man-
made, but reflect Cosmic Intelligence and help us attune
our life and behavior to it. 109 A
8. The Outer Mind:
The Field of the Senses
ur lives revolve around the vast array of senso-
Ory impressions that are ever coming to us from
the external world. At almost every moment
of the day we are engaged in selecting, filtering and orga
nizing this data and seeing what it means for our welfare
and happiness. We are seldom aware of our minds because
we are always using them to deal with the external world
and its demands. Like a car we are always driving, we do
not have the time to stop and see if it is working properly,
unless it breaks down. It is mainly in the outer, sensory
part of the mind that we live, unless we learn to look with-
in.
Our ordinary awareness remains immersed in the sea of
impressions that constantly streams in through the senses.
Most of what we call the mind is this surface part of con-
sciousness through which we handle impressions. This
outer mind is called Manas in Sanskrit,54 which means the
"instrument of thinking." Manas is the most complex
aspect of consciousness, consisting of the senses, emotions,
and outer thinking capacity. Such diversity is necessary for
dealing with the manifold influences of the external world.
We will refer to Manas as the "outer" or "sense mind,"
or as simply "mind" itself, as opposed to "intelligence"
(Buddhi) and "inner mind" or "consciousness" (Chitta).
However, we should not forget their Sanskrit meanings. 110 Ayurveda and the Mind
Including emotion, mind (Manas) is not simply mental or
conceptual.
The Five Senses and Motor Organs
We possess five senses and five motor organs through
which we take in the energies of the five elements and act
upon them in the outer world.
Sense and Motor Organs
Element Humor Sense
Quality Sense
Organ Motor
Organ
Ether Vata Sound Ears Vocal Organ
Air Vata Touch Skin Hands
Fire Pitta Sight Eyes Feet
Water Kapha Taste Tongue Reproductive
Organs
Earth Kapha Smell Nose Organs of
Elimination
The mind coordinates the five senses and their data. It
functions as the screen on which sensory data is gathered
and scrutinized. Through the mind, for example, what the
eye sees is correlated with what the ear hears. Otherwise,
the data coming in from the different senses would remain
separate and disorganized.
The mind itself is the sixth sense organ because
through it we take in ideas and emotions — mental
impressions. When we read a book, for example, the mind
is also functioning as a sense organ, taking in emotional
and mental information. All our sensory inputs involve The Outer Mind: The Field of the Senses
some mental and emotional component. Similarly, the
mind is the sixth motor organ and rules over the other five.
As an organ of action, it is our main means of expression
in the outer world. Only what we have first formulated as
a mental intention can we express through our motor
organs. For example, we must first think of what to say
before we actually speak. As an organ of action, the mind
serves to express ideas and emotions — mental conditions.
As a sense and a motor organ, the mind can coordinate
the two types of organs, connecting sensory data with
motor actions. For example, if we see food on the table, the
mind connects that sensory data with the hands to allow us
to pick up the food and eat it. The mind is the central cir-
cuit board for both sensory and motor organs. It is like our
mental computer, while the senses are its software.
Though the mind relates to both sense and motor
organs, it connects more with the motor organs because its
main concern is action in the outer world. The mind is
ever driving us to do things. It is ever thinking, planning,
reacting emotionally or otherwise seeking to engage us
externally. Through it we are conscious of ourselves as
beings in the world.
The Pranas
Both motor and sense organs are closely aligned to
Prana and its functions. The motor organs exist to fulfill
various vital urges, from eating to self-expression. The
sense organs exist to provide knowledge and experience of
the external world. The mind manages the Pranas, operat-
ing through the sense and motor organs. The mind is
influenced by the Pranas and can easily be disturbed by
them. Whatever affects our vital nature, like hunger, fear
or insult, quickly affects the mind. 112 Ayurveda and the Mind
The senses possess their own instincts and energies that
can dorpinate the mind. The eye has the urge to see, the
tongue the urge to taste, the hands the urge to grasp, and
so on. These urges influence the mind to pursue their aims.
The eyes can tell the mind what to see, for example, as
when the image of a beautiful woman draws the mind of a
man outward automatically. This happens to all of us with
one sense organ or another. We are always struggling to
control our senses, which otherwise would fragment our
awareness.
Animals are dominated by their sensory impulses. For
example, a dog barks automatically when another dog
comes into its sensory field. The sense mind predominates
in children, who have not yet learned to master their sen-
sory capacities. The outer mind is conditioned through the
sense organs and Pranas. In itself it is largely a reaction
mechanism, not a self-aware consciousness which only
comes through intelligence.
Thought and Emotion: The Two Sides of the Mind
The outer mind does not merely coordinate sensory
data, but interprets it. Sensory data, being potentially end-
less, must be filtered and selected according to what is rel-
evant for the mind. We determine this by where we place
our attention. For example, if we are driving a car, we must
give our attention to the road and not let it wander or we
might get into an accident.
Interpretation of sensory data is twofold — both objec-
tive and subjective. Objectively we organize sensory data,
gathering in the proper impressions to determine their
meaning. To identify an object, like a house, for example,
we must take in enough objective impressions to ascertain
its nature. This creates the factual part of the mind. The The Outer Mind: The Field of the Senses 113
outer mind governs factual information and data of all
types, much like a computer. This it transfers on to the
Buddhi for judgment.
Subjectively, we must relate sensory data to our own
personal condition. For example, when we are crossing a
street and see that a car may hit us, we react quickly to
protect ourselves, getting scared and moving aside. This
creates the emotional part of the mind. Emotion allows us
to respond to sensory data in an immediate and personal
manner. Emotion is our personal reaction to sensory data,
giving us fear of what causes pain and desire for what
brings pleasure.
The outer mind includes thought of an informational
nature and emotion based on sensation and functions
between the two. We need some degree of objectivity to
organize sensory data, but some degree of subjectivity to
relate it to ourselves. Of the mind's two functions, emo-
tion, which is subjective, has the greatest capacity for caus-
ing pain. Emotion can distort the informational capacity of
the mind and create misperception. The emotional side of
the mind connects more with the Pranas and the motor
organs, which serve mainly to fulfill various Pranic activi-
ties. The mental side connects more with the sensory
organs and intelligence.
Emotion
Emotions are characterized by a sensory component —
the sights, sounds or other sensations that convey them.
Sensation gives rise to emotion. If we contact something
pleasurable, it makes us happy. If we contact something
painful, we feel sad. This emotional vulnerability is built
into the mind.
Temporary emotional reactions come through the outer 114 Ayurveda and the Mind
mind. Enduring emotional states, however, belong to our
deeper consciousness (Chitta). Repeated emotions move
from reactions of the outer mind into conditions of the
inner consciousness. For example, when we first meet an
attractive partner, our emotion is aroused. After we've
been in a long-term relationship, the person becomes part
of our deeper consciousness, and we take on aspects of his
or her personality.
Specific emotions, tied to particular objects, belong to
the outer mind, but the essence of emotion belongs to our
deeper consciousness. There the moods or flavors (rasas) of
emotions dwell — like love, anger, fear, and joy— beyond
any association with particular sensations.35 For this rea-
son


biochemical picture in autistic children. However, in almost all cases as
soon as the drug was stopped, all the symptoms and biochemical abnor
malities returned. Unfortunately, anti-clostridia drugs are toxic, they have
serious side effects, so we can not prescribe them for long periods of time
to children or adults. Clostridia are spore-forming bacteria, which makes
them impossible to eradicate. We can only control them and the best way
to do it is Nature's way - with beneficial bacteria.
Another large group of bacteria, which commonly overgrow in the gut
dysbiosis situation are sulphate-reducing bacteria. There are many
species of sulphate-reducing microbes. To mention just a few:
Proteobacteria, Thiobacilli, Chromatiaceae, Desufotomaculum spp., some
gram-positive bacteria, some fungi and Bacteroids. These microbes
metabolise sulphate coming from food into sulphites, many of which are
toxic. Severe deficiency in sulphates has been found in 95% of autistic chil
dren. Undoubtedly, sulphate-reducing bacteria play an important role in
causing this deficiency. Sulphates are needed in the body for many func
tions, some of which are detoxification and normal metabolism of brain
neurotransmitters. An overgrowth of sulphate-reducing bacteria would
make sulphur unavailable for the body to use, turning it into toxic sub
stances like hydrogen sulphide, which is the gas with a rotten egg smell.
Many parents of autistic children tell me that their child's stool and flatus
has this characteristic smell.
Here we have looked at some pathogens found in the gut of GAPS
patients. To their happy company we can add the measles virus found by
Dr A. Wakefield's research group. This is only one virus, which received such detailed attention. There are some indications in literature that mem
bers of the herpes virus family are also very active in these patients. How
many other viruses may there be in the GAPS gut, which have never been
studied? How many other pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa and other
microbes are there, which we have no methods to detect or study yet? I
have no doubt that sooner or later science will catch up with them and we
will learn what they are and how to deal with them. In the meantime, what
should we do to help our GAPS children and adults now? As always, Nature
has a good answer - the beneficial flora. Having good bacteria in the gut is
the best way to keep Clostridia, Candida, Bacteroids, viruses and many
many other microbes under control. Well-functioning healthy gut flora
would not only keep those pathogens down but would maintain the
integrity of the gut wall so it does not let through the toxins from those
pathogenic microbes. This is Nature's way of dealing with them and the
smart thing for us is to try and copy it.
Due to the absence or greatly reduced numbers of beneficial bacteria,
the GAPS digestive system gets taken over by opportunistic and pathogenic
microbial flora, constantly producing a river of toxicity flowing from the
gut to the brain. This is the toxicity, which is probably making these chil
dren and adults autistic, schizophrenic, hyperactive, dyspraxic, dyslexic,
psychotic, depressed, obsessed, etc., etc.
We have already looked at some of these toxins. Let us have a look at
more. 6. THE GUT-BRAIN
CONNECTION
One only sees what one looks for,
one only looks for what one knows.
Goethe
Modern medicine has divided us, human beings, into different systems
and areas: cardio-vascular system, digestive system, nervous system, etc.
According to this division different medical specialities have been created,
each concentrating on a particular bit of the human body: cardiology
gastroenterology gynaecology neurology, psychiatry etc., etc. There is a
reason for that. Medical science over the years has accumulated an enor
mous amount of knowledge. No doctor in the world can possibly know it
all in detail, so specialising allows doctors to concentrate on a particular
area of knowledge, to learn it thoroughly and to become an expert in that
area.
However, from the early years of this specialisation many doctors have
recognised a problem developing. A specialist in a particular area tends to
pay attention to the organs, which he or she knows best, ignoring the rest
of the body. The fact that every organ in the body exists and works in con
tact with the rest gets forgotten. The body lives and functions^as a whole,
where every system, organ, tissue and even cell depend on each other,
affect each other and communicate with each other. One should not look
at, let alone treat, any organ without taking the rest of the body into
account, f
One area of medicine is particularly prone to look at its organ separately
from the rest of the body. That area is psychiatry. Mental problems are
examined from all sorts of angles: genetics, childhood experiences and
psychological influences. The last thing that would be considered is look
ing at the patient's digestive system. Modern psychiatry just does not do
that. And yet medical history has plenty of examples, where severe psychi
atric conditions were cured by simply "cleaning out" the patient's gut. A
renowned Japanese Professor Kazudzo Nishi has estimated that at least
one in ten psychiatric conditions are due to self-intoxication coming from
the bowel.
The vast majority of psychiatric patients suffer from digestive problems, which are largely ignored by their doctors. The gut-brain connection is
something which, for some reason, many modern doctors do not under
stand. As they give out millions of prescriptions for antidepressants, sleep
ing pills and other drugs, which the patients have to place into their diges
tive systems in order to affect their brains, they still fail to see the
connection between the digestive system and the brain. Everybody knows
what effect alcohol has on our brains. Where do we place alcoholic drinks?
Into our digestive systems of course. However, we don't have to consume
toxic substances to affect our brains. Having particular microbes in the
digestive system can provide us with our own permanent source of toxicity.
As discussed in the previous chapters, a GAPS (Gut And Psychology
Syndrome) person's digestive system becomes a major source of toxicity in
the body. An unknown number of various neurotoxins are produced by
abnormal flora in the gut of these children and adults, which get absorbed
through the damaged gut wall into the blood and taken to the brain. The
mixture of toxins can be very individual and this is one of the reasons why
all GAPS patients are so different. As I mentioned, the number of different
toxins is unknown. However, we have accumulated a considerable knowl
edge of some of the neurotoxins, commonly found in GAPS children and
adults. These are the kind of toxins, which can make anybody mentally ill.
In the previous chapter we looked at some of them. Unfortunately, there
are more to examine.
Ethanol and acetaldehyde
Thinking about autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, dyslexia, dyspraxia and
other psychological problems, not many people would think about alco
holism. And yet there is a very serious connection. We know that due to
various factors GAPS children and adults develop an overgrowth of patho
logical flora in their bodies. One group of these pathogens, almost without
exception, are yeasts, including Candida species. Yeast requires glucose as
food. Glucose comes from the digestion of carbohydrates. In healthy
people dietary glucose gets converted into lactic acid, water and energy
through a biochemical process called glycolysis. In people with yeast over
growth Candida highjacks the glucose and digests it in a different way,
called alcoholic fermentation. In this biochemical process Candida and
other yeasts convert dietary glucose into alcohol (ethanol) and its by
product acetaldehyde. This phenomenon was first described in adults,
who appeared to be drunk without consuming any alcohol. Later on it was found that these adults had an overgrowth of yeast in their gut, which
produced alcohol and made them permanently "drunk". These people
were particularly "drunk" after a carbohydrate meal, because carbohy
drates get consumed by Candida with the production of alcohol. Despite
the fact that these people did not consume alcohol, they developed some
typical symptoms of alcoholism.
Alcohol and its by-products have a small molecular weight, which makes
it very easy for them to cross any barrier in the body. They get absorbed
into the blood very quickly and have a very good ability to get through
placenta to a developing foetus. Pregnancy is a natural state of immune
suppression. If a woman already has Candida overgrowth in her body,
pregnancy would make this problem worse. Overgrowing yeast in a preg
nant woman would produce alcohol and its by-products, affecting the
child's development. After the child is born it will continue to get alcohol
and its by-products through breast milk, which usually contains the same
amount as the woman's blood. Then as the child inherits the mother's
bodily flora, overrun by


88), quite unlike the case of active electronic
instruments.  This is, of course, consistent both with the fact that not every exposed person is
adversely affected (as is also the case with smoking*, for example,
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
* In the case of smoking, it is often claimed that the odds ratio is here much higher than it is in the case of
electromagnetic exposure; but this is necessarily so, because the former compares heavy smokers with non-
smokers, of whom there is effectively no electromagnetic counterpart, everyone being unavoidably at least lightly exposed.
where not all smokers get lung cancer!) and with the difficulties encountered in some laboratory
attempts to replicate non-thermal effects, particularly under in vivo conditions.  For depending on a
person’s genetic predisposition, and the fact that stress is cumulative, it is quite possible that exposure to an electromagnetic field simply supplies the final contribution that raises a particular person’s level of stress above some critical value, thereby ‘triggering’ the manifestation of some pathology that is already in a well advanced state, but which, in the absence of any exposure, would
have remained latent.  On the other hand, as already mentioned in Section B-3.2, difficulties
sometimes experienced in attempts to independently replicate certain frequency-specific non-thermal
effects are actually to be expected,  in consequence of the highly non-linear, non-equilibrium nature
of living systems, whereby even the slightest differences in the physiological state of the biosystems used and in conditions obtaining in a particular experiment can, in consequence of deterministic chaos, assume singular importance.   Accordingly, the oft-repeated statement that......‘ There are no established adverse health effects of
exposure to GSM radiation (of sub-thermal intensity) ’....... is actually quite true, but, in view of the
above, this is necessarily so, thus making the statement essentially vacuous.  The more relevant
consideration is whether there is an established risk to human health.  It must be concluded that such
a risk does indeed exist, but - in view of the above considerations- the actual number and identity of those at risk are necessarily unknown, a priori, although, for the reasons identified, children and
highly stressed people - particularly those with already compromised immune systems (as well as those on certain prescribed psychoactive drugs) - must be considered more vulnerable.   For the Mobile Phone Industry, regulatory bodies and government to deny this risk is not only untenable, but also, more significantly, lays them open  to the charge that they attempted to ‘ shield
the public from uncertainty. ’
89.  There is nothing to be lost - and a lot to be gained - by frankly
admitting the existence of this risk, albeit possibly only to a minority of the public, and, in accordance with the recommendations of the Stewart Report
86, taking the necessary steps to
minimise it, such as those specified in Part A

21
 B-8. The Inadequacy of Existing Safety Guidelines

Existing Safety Guidelines, based solely on consideration of the SAR, afford no protection against the
frequency -specific90 effects that have been the subject of this Study, since they limit only the
intensity  of the microwave radiation sufficiently to ensure that tissue heating by absorption of energy
from the microwaves is not in excess of what can be coped with by the body’s thermoregulatory mechanism, so that temperature homeostasis is not compromised. Furthermore, it must be appreciated that the aliveness of the organism here enters only in so far as it dictates the magnitude of the temperature rise above which adverse health effects set in, the heating itself  occurring
irrespective  of whether the organism is alive or dead.
  In justifying the exclusion of any non-thermal  input into the formulation of their Safety Guidelines,
ICNIRP  conclude
2:
 …...‘ Overall, the literature on athermal effects of amplitude modulated electromagnetic fields is so
complex, the validity of the reported effects so poorly established, and the relevance of the effects to human health is so uncertain, that it is impossible to use this body of information as a basis for setting limits on human exposure to these fields. ’

It is to be stressed that this is not equivalent to denying the existence of non-thermal influences of
this kind of radiation, or their potential to provoke adverse health reactions  - as is often
maintained by the Mobile Phone Industry – but simply that in ICNIRP ’s view (because for the
reasons stated) such effects cannot be used as a basis for setting exposure limits.  Let us consider each point in turn.  As an example of the complexity of athermal ( i.e. non-thermal) effects, the
following statement appears in the paragraph preceding the one from which the above quotation is taken:  …..‘Interpretation of several observed biological effects (of this kind of radiation) is complicated by
the apparent existence of ‘windows’ of response in both power and frequency domains.  There are no accepted models that adequately explain this phenomenon, which challenges the traditional concept of a monotonic relationship between the field intensity and the severity of the resulting biological effects.’    An absence of such a monotonic (‘dose-response’) relationship is, however, actually to be expected,
since one is dealing with living  organisms whose very aliveness means that they are far from thermal
equilibrium, and hence well beyond the regime where such a m onotonic relationship can be expected
to hold.  Being held far from thermal equilibrium, their res ponse to an external electromagnetic field,
for example, necessarily depends on the state of the organism at the time when it is exposed - i.e. one
is dealing with what are known as non-linear  systems, for which exposure to a weak microwave
field does not necessarily entail a correspondingly weak response, or vice versa,  and for which the
‘window’ phenomena referred to are actually to be expected
9, 10!  (In this connection, it should be
remembered that the concept of a dose-response relationship is one inherited from toxicology, and as such, is in general, inappropriate  in the present context.  For electromagnetic fields are not alien  to
the alive organism, but play a fundamental and integral role in its organisation and control, as already noted.)

22
 This dependence of non-thermal influences on the state of the alive organism must, in general, be
expected to undermine the reproducibility of their detection, thus accounting for the reported effects being (in some cases) ‘ poorly established ’.  Accordingly, such difficulties should, more positively,
be considered as a biological fact of life – indeed as a ‘hallmark’ of aliveness!  It should be noted that the ‘poorly established’ claim is not universally accepted, as evidenced both by the Vienna Resolution
3 of 1998, signed by 16 researchers of international standing, and by a recent analysis91 of
the ICNIRP  document, which claims that it contains….‘ a consistent pattern of bias, major mistakes
and deliberate misrepresentations’.    The least contentious part of the quotation is, of course, the question of the relevance of non-thermal effects (assuming their existence is accepted) to human health - it being, of course, essential to appreciate that the occurrence  per se  of non-thermal effects does not  mean that they necessarily
entail adverse health consequences, as already stressed.  In order that the radiation can exert  non-thermal influences, it is essential that the organism be alive,
for only then are the various oscillatory endogenous electrical activities excited, via which the
radiation can access the system: the Dead have no ECG  or EEG  with which an external
electromagnetic field can interfere!  Thus, just as a radio or another piece of electronic instrumentation has to be switched on (or energised) before it can respond to or be interfered with by an extraneous incoming signal, so the organism has itself to be energised ( i.e. be alive) if it is to be
non-thermally sensitive to radiation.  Existing Safety Guidelines thus neglect the most discriminating
feature of all, namely, the aliveness  of the irradiated organism ; they address only ‘one side of the
coin’ - the thermal side - leaving the exposed person vulnerable to the possibility of adverse health effects provoked by the neglected non-thermal  side.  The same indictment, of course, applies to any
protection device that acts simply to reduce - either by screening or by an employing an ear-piece, for example - the intensity of the microwave radiation emitted by a mobile phone into the head of the user; for the user is still left vulnerable to any adverse health effects that might be provoked by the neglected frequency dimension.
Clearly, non-thermal influences are connected more with the transfer of information  from the
irradiating field to the alive organism, through the latter’s ability to ‘recognise’ certain frequency
characteristics of the radiation
92, than with its ability to absorb energy from the field.  In order,
however, for the organism to be able to discern such weak radiation against the level of its own thermal emission  at physiological temperatures, the radiation must have a certain minimum intensity.
 In the case of microwave radiation, this minimum intensity is, however, far below  (of the order of
10
-15 Watts/cm2) even that at which non-thermal effects manifest themselves, in consequence of the
radiation’s rather well-defined carrier frequency (or relatively high degree of coherence).  It should be noted that the magnitude of this minimum power density is close to those that characterise the human thresholds of  EEG  response
93, and also of sight and hearing.  Given that the