 to understand calcium's role in the human body. One
of its main functions is to neutralize acid in the system. Many people
who think they have a calcium deficiency are on highly acidic diets, so
the calcium in their bodies is constantly being usurped to neutralize the
acid. They are getting plenty of calcium in their diets, but it is con
tinually used up. ALL DAIRY PRODUCTS EXCEPT BUTTER ARE EX
TREMELY ACID-FORMINC. Butter is a fat and is therefore neutral. Since
fat retards the digestion of protein, it is best nor to eat butter with any
protein. Butter can, however, be eaten with carbohydrates. The irony is
that people are consuming dairy products for calcium, and the existing
calcium in their systems is being used to neutralize the effects of the dairy
products they are eating. The idea should not be to load up the body with
calcium but rather to alter eating habits so that less acid is formed in the
system. That way the calcium will be utilized to its fullest potential. When you are cutting back on dairy consumption, you may notice
peeling or brittle nails or minor hair loss. These changes are not to be
mistaken for somewhat similar occurrences in very rare instances of pro
tein deficiency. If you are concerned, check with your physician. Your
body is making the adjustment from the absorption of the coarser calcium
found in dairy products to the absorption of the finer calcium found in
raw nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables. The body will replace fingernails and hair in the same way that
sloughed-off skin is replaced. It's difficult to notice, but your skin is reg
ularly sloughing off and being replaced by healthier tissue. In the same
way the body will replace lost hair with more lustrous hair, and lost
fingernails with stronger, sturdier nails. Raw nuts are particularly helpful if you do experience a change in your
nails or hair. They are incorporated in the program in combination with
raw vegetables. Half a cup of raw nuts a day is plenty for the average
person. If, when you cut back on dairy products, you immediately take
advantage of raw nuts and seeds and have them two or three times a
week, your nails and hair will in all likelihood become stronger and more
lustrous than ever before. It has been my experience over the last fifteen years that many allergies
86 - FIT FOR LIFF. and breathing problems can be directly tied to dairy consumption—espe
cially asthma. 1 have personally assisted over two dozen people in elim
inating asthma from their lives, and 1 know of many more people who
were helped by other Natural Hygiene practitioners. In all cases dairy
products were consumed by these individuals. My observations have been
similar to those of Beth Snodgrass and Dr. Herbert Shelton. The same
holds true of children with ear infections. Ear infections are so common
that they are actually considered to be a normal part of childhood! Any
child who has ever had an ear infection, I would be willing to wager, was
either fed dairy products or formula, or both! Kids not fed either dairy
products or formula rarely have ear infections. Kids who are fed these
products do. I know many kids who have never had ear infections, be
cause their parents had the wisdom not to hook their children on these
two nonfoods. I know you've heard experts say dairy products are an important part of
a healthy diet. And there are experts who say the opposite. To prevent
yourself from throwing your hands up in disgust or frustration, make your
own decision based on your own resources. Does it make sense for hu
mans to be consuming cow's milk? That's the answer to whether or not
you should eat dairy products. Because no matter in what form they are
eaten, no matter how tasty they are, if you eat dairy products, you're
vicariously suckling a cow. Does that make sense to you or not? There is one element common to any weight-loss program. Without it,
you stack the deck against yourself. That essential ingredient is, of
course... DAIRY PRODUCTS • 87 CHAPTER
Exercise
-L MO weight-loss program concerned
with your health is going to work for you without exercise, FIT FOR LIFE
is certainly no exception. To guarantee the benefits you deserve from the
effort you will put into this program, do some form of aerobics exercise
every day. For the body cycles to function effectively, it is imperative to
integrate the outlined principles of good eating habits with a well-bal
anced exercise program. You don't have to exercise yourself into a state of
exhaustion; that will only waste energy. But every day you should see to it
that your heart is exercised. An aerobics exercise is one that stimulates
the respiratory and circulatory systems. This way fresh oxygenated blood
reaches all areas of your body, a must if you want your body to operate
efficiently. The heart is a muscle, and just like any other muscle, if you
don't use it, you lose it. The idea is to do something every day to make
yourself pant and sweat. Actually horses sweat, men perspire, and women
glow. So get out there and glow and perspire, folks! THIS PROGRAM WILL
NOT WORK AS WEIX WITHOUT EXERCISE! The benefits extolled in the
prior chapters will be severely diminished by depriving the body of the
exercise it requires. There are many aerobic activities to choose from: swimming, tennis,
• 88'jumping rope, light jogging, bike riding, and brisk walking, as well as
aerobics classes. You can also do some stretching and weight lifting if you
wish, but the aerobics part is imperative. Many people are now choosing to own some kind of aerobics equip
ment that they can use in their own homes. There are reasonably priced
exercise bikes, rowing machines, rebounders (minitrampolines), and
many other excellent pieces of exercise equipment now being manufac
tured for home use. If your time is precious (and whose isn't? ), and you
can't always make it to the gym, consider owning some form of aerobics
exerciser that you can use whenever you have the time. Look into rebounding. It is a terrific way to insure yourself an excellent
full-body workout every day. You can own one of these reasonably priced
minitrampolines and jump on it right after you get out of bed in the
morning. No special attire necessary. No distances to travel. This is the
workout that astronauts and sports teams have been using for years—and
you can do it in the comfort of your own home (or better yet, out in the
fresh air, in your own garden). Rebounding is a terrific aerobics exercise
that people of all ages can enjoy, without the risks to the bone structure
that come from jogging on pavement, or to the lower back from stren
uous aerobic calisthenics. It strengthens and tones every cell of the body
because it works against the gravitational pull. There is a minimum of aerobics exercise that should be performed
every day. That minimum is a twenty-minute brisk walk. This is truly a
minimum. More would be great, but if you walk briskly for at least
twenty minutes, you will be performing enough aerobics to facilitate the
working of this program. The ideal time to do this exercise, or any exer
cise, is early in the morning. The air is freshest then, and so is your
body. There are physical benefits from early morning exercise because
your body is most capable of utilizing exercise at that time, but also there
are tremendous psychological benefits. I think that anyone interested in
losing weight or generally improving his or her well-being knows deep
down the importance of exercise. Unfortunately for some it's so easy to
find a reason not to exercise. Knowing one should exercise regularly but
not doing it can create negative feelings toward oneself, and that is an
energy drain. The way this happens is every time you think of exercise,
all day, if you haven't done any yet, you say to yourself, "Well, I haven't
done any yet today, and I probably won't be able to later, so I'll do it
tomorrow." Meanwhile you can't help feeling guilty. However, if you
exercise first thing in the morning, then every time you think of exercise
during the day, it's with a feeling like "Yeah! I've already exercised!" It
fills you with a fantastic positive feeling for yourself, and these feelings
spill over into other areas of your life. Everything is enhanced. Once you
EXERCISE • 89 get into the habit of exercising every morning, you'll get to the point
where you'll actually feel disappointed if you miss a day. In my own case I had the overweight person's typical resistance to
exercise, so I had to regiment myself to exercise every morning. Some
days I would wake up with thoughts like Boy, I've been so good, I'll just
take a well-deserved day off. Or Hey, even some pros say you should take
a day off once in a while. But while I was saying these things to myself,
which was just the old fat me, Blimpo, trying to hold on to the past, I
would be putting on my exercise clothes and preparing myself to work
out. Even as I would climb onto my bike for my regular


 email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frgeneral malaise. On the tongue the white patina
settles at a growing rhythm, the tongue and lips
become dry, mucus is felt on the teeth, the brea th
smells like acetone, the skin becomes pale and
dry, the sense of hunger and thirst are both con-
siderably. A general sense of malaise is the result
of the accumulation of toxins in the blood. At
this moment the patient may feel an internal
heat in the body, which comes  from the organ-
ism triggering its mechanisms of neutralization
of harmful substances. But as soon as the ketone
bodies begin to be utilized, their concentration
ceases to increase. The ketone bodies are high -
energy components, therefore they act some-
what as fuel to begin the synthesis of the new
amino acids that lead to tissue regeneration. The
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and it is necessary to be ready for this.
In the initial stages of DF the state of acidotic
intoxicat ion (or acidotic crisis) may occur on the
3rd- 5th day, after the 3rd or even the 2nd day
from the beginning of the DF. The sooner the ac-
idotic crisis appears, the sooner it passes, the
longer time is left for organic renewal. The high-
est acidification peak  arises at the same time of
the crisis and this causes an acute exacerbation
of all chronic pathologies. Based on the degree of
acute aggravation, it is possible to understand
how successful the fast has been to unhook one
or the other disease and to "eradicate" it from the
body. If the acute aggravation is pronounced,
complete healing can be expected. If instead it is
weak it means that the mechanisms induced by
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problems. In that case, after some time it will be
advisable to repeat the fast to ensure that it takes
care of the residual pathologies. After the aci-
dotic crisis has "eradicated" the disease from the
body, the defense forces previously occupied in
resolving the disease are released and therefore
become m ore available overall. Hence the con-
clusion: as long as the fasting organism does not
overcome the first acidotic crisis it will not be
able to establish the healing of chronic diseases
and the increase of its immune defenses.
The third phase of the dry fast is called the
"compensation or adaptation phase". The dura-
tion of this phase is individual. On average it
starts from the 5th day of DF and ends on the
8th. At this stage there can be an improvement
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comfort. T his improvement can follow a wave
pattern. The feeling of hunger disappears com-
pletely, while thirst may increase. The duration
depends on the fat deposits present in the body.
This phase ends with the second acidotic crisis,
which takes place from the 8th  until the 11th
day.
Between the end of the first acidotic crisis until
the beginning of the second, the organism makes
reserves of vital forces. During the metabolic ac-
idosis in some people the main disease worsens,
the state of mind and health deteriorate, strength
is lost, sleep disappears and body temperature
often increases. These symptoms indicate that
fasting has begun to "eradicate" the disease.
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ysis was the only source of nutrition, during the
secon d acidotic crisis autolysis basically acts as a
natural surgeon. Therefore, to achieve a com-
plete therapeutic effect it is necessary to go
through this second crisis. To express it in fig-
urative terms, it can be said that if the first aci-
dotic crisis eliminates "the stem of the disease",
the second destroys "the root". To understand
how tumors and pathological structures are dis-
solved in a fasting organism, it is necessary to
fully understand the process of autolysis, which,
although very common in nature, it is normally
ignored by physiologists.

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   The term "autolysis" is of Greek origin and lit-
erally means "self -dissolution". Autolysis is the
ability of biological entities to decompose their
structures through a hydrolytic method thanks
to the action of enzymes and phagocytes.
To better understand this mechanism we will
examine it on the basis of examples that exist in
nature. The plant kingdom abounds with exam-
ples of autolysis, but a few will be enough for il-
lustrative purposes. All bulbs,  such as an ordi-
nary onion, contain within themselves a new
plant, surrounded by enough nourishment to
survive a period of rest during which it has no
possibility to take nutrients from soil and air.
The onion can safely germinate in a bucket or in
the bag  where it is stored. It produces shoots and
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sprouts. The bulb gradually becomes soft and at
the end turns into a wrapping for the plant. As
the plant grows, it uses up the remaining con-
tents of the bulb and as similates the shoots.
Beets, turnips and many other tubers grow in a
similar manner. They get the nutrients for
growth through the autolytic absorption of the
contents of the tuber and even when they extract
nutrients from the earth they continue to pro-
duce stems and leaves and to grow.
Humans have general reserves located in the
bone marrow, in the liver, in the blood and in the
fatty tissues, and also private reserves, available
to every single cell. All living beings can use one
or the other reserves for  their nourishment if
they cannot obtain nutrients from external
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(in case of illness, for example).
It is possible to cite many examples of autolysis,
but the ones offered are sufficient to clarify that
it is a common phenomenon. It remains to be
said that the body itself manages this process,
like all other life processes, and that autolysis is
not an uncontrolled and blind action like an ele-
phant striding through glassware.
Fasting practices provide many examples of the
organism's control over the process of autolysis.
For example, it is possible to note that body tis-
sues disappear according to the degree of their
usefulness: fats and pathological thickenings dis-
appear first and other tissues follow only aft er-
wards. Within all living things, from worms to
humans, during the fasting period different
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their weight. Usually the liver loses more weight
than other parts of the body, especially in the in-
itial period, and this is due to the loss of glycogen
and fat. The lungs lose almost no weight and the
brain and the nervous system even less. Vital or-
gans feed off of accumulated reserves and less
important tissues, which means that abstinence
from food can eventually be harmful only after
the depletion of reserves.
The organism has the ability to shift its chemi-
cal component; fasting provides many wonder-
ful examples of this. The assimilation and reor-
ganization of the parts of the organism of living
beings during a period of food absence, the di-
gestion and the redistribution of the reserves, of
the superfluous elements and of the secondary
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fasting represent one of the most wonderful phe-
nomena in biology.
The organism is  not only able to build tissues,
it is also able to destroy them. It does not only
distribute its nutritive reserves, but can also re


 to take you t hrough your breakfast and lunch meals. Even your
vegetable meals should begin with fruit, as much as you like, until you a re certain that you will not crave sweets at the end of the
meal.

Chapter 2. Meeting Fruit Concerns Head-On

Do you know anybody whose candida was caused by eating fruit?
Do you know anybody whose diabetes was caused by eating fruit?
Do you know anybody whose cancer was caused by eating fruit?

If eating fruit didn’t cause these maladies,
why would you believe that avoiding fruit would correct them?

In spite of the fact that fruit has been treated as health food throughou t history, condemning fruit has come into vogue in many
circles of late. Invariably, when people hear me espousing a diet that is  exceptionally high in fruit, they respond with a well-rehearsed
litany of questions—the supposed “facts” about the many hazards of fru it eating.
Is there any truth to the allegations about the supposed evils of fruit?  Let us take some time to look at a few of them.

Fruit and Blood Sugar
The mistaken notion that eating fruit causes blood-sugar problems under lies most admonitions to steer clear of fruit, especially
sweet fruit. Granted, high blood sugar does lead to candida outbreaks, chronic fa tigue, hyper- and hypoglycemia, diabetes, and a
host of other conditions and diseases, even cancer. “Too much” sugar is inde ed bad for you, though it is almost impossible to get too
much sugar from the consumption of fresh fruit. Eating fruit is not t he cause of blood sugar problems … it’s just not that simple.
I know what I am saying sounds counterintuitive. It is something like t elling people that osteoporosis is not a calcium problem
(see “The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein”). Nevertheless, both are true: taking in more calcium cannot alone shore up
brittle, osteoporotic bones … and fruit sugar alone does not cause high blood sugar. Stick with me, if you will, while I explain the
real cause.
Eating a diet of mostly fruit, including generous amounts of fresh swe et fruit, does not create high blood sugar … not when you
are eating a low-fat diet, that is. When the system is not gummed up wi th excess fat, the sugar from even “high-glycemic” fruit moves
easily in and then out of the blood. Blood-sugar levels in a healthy individual  do not vary much in spite of changes in the diet.

Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
The glycemic index ranks carbohydrate foods based on how quickly they break down du ring digestion and thus how quickly
their sugars enter the blood. Essentially, the glycemic index tells  you how quickly carbohydrates turn into blood sugar. However, it
doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of any food. Bot h items of information are essential in order to
understand a food’s effect on blood sugar.
That is where the concept of “glycemic load” comes in. Used in conjunct ion with the glycemic index, glycemic load information
more accurately predicts the extent to which a food elevates blood glucose  than does the glycemic index by itself. This is because by
definition, the glycemic index measures carbohydrate quality  but not quantity.
The glycemic load is calculated by multiplying a food’s glycemic i ndex value by the amount of available carbohydrate per
serving (grams of carbohydrates less fiber), then dividing by 100. 13  Thus, fruits, which are mostly water, have a low glycemic load
even though they rate high on the glycemic index. For example, bananas  rate 52 on the glycemic index (where glucose = 100). But
because water accounts for 75% of the weight of a banana, its glycemic loa d is only 12 (52  24 grams of carbs, divided by 100 =
12; based on a 118-gram medium-sized banana). All fruits fall into the low or medium categories on glycemic load/glycemic
index charts  (with the exception of watermelon, whose GI ranks barely high).
It is best to eat fruit fresh, as drying and dehydrating both concentrate  fruit sugars to an unnatural level that the body is not
designed to handle. It is also important to eat fruit whole, not juiced, as the  fiber in fruit slows sugar absorption to its natural speed.
In all cases and with all foods, whole, fresh, ripe, raw, and unprocessed is the  way to go.
As you will see in the upcoming pages, the speed at which sugar enters t he blood is not really the most important factor. When
fruits are eaten whole, with their fiber intact, as part of a low-fat di et, their sugars do indeed enter the bloodstream relatively quickly.
But then they also exit just as quickly, making them the ideal food, one tha t provides the perfect fuel for human consumption.
The American Diabetes Association says, “The use of added fructose  as a sweetening agent is not recommended; however, there is no reason to recommend that people with diabetes avoid naturally oc curring fructose in fruits, vegetables, and other
foods.” 14

Fat, Not Fruit, Causes Blood-Sugar Problems
The raw food movement is renowned for its use of great quantities of nuts, s eeds, avocados, olives, flax and olive oil, coconuts, and
other high-fat foods. On a high-fat diet, whether cooked or raw, people experien ce nutritional deficiencies, plummeting energy,
hormone imbalances, intense cravings, and mood swings … everything goe s haywire, not the least of which is blood sugar.
The mechanism that causes blood sugar to rise out of control is actual ly very easy to understand. Let’s begin with a highly simplified description of how our bodies process sugar.

Sugar’s Three-Stage Journey Through the Body
To be used as fuel for our cells, the sugars we eat travel a three-stag e journey through our bodies:

Stage 1: Sugars start out in the digestive tract when we eat them.
Stage 2: They pass through the intestinal wall, into the bloodstream.
Stage 3: They then move smoothly and easily out of the bloodstream and into our  cells. This occurs rapidly, often in minutes.

When we eat a high-fat diet, the sugar gets trapped in stage 2, and the body w orks overtime, sometimes to the point of exhaustion
and disease, in an effort to move the sugar out of the bloodstream. 15  Meanwhile, the sugar backs up in the blood, creating sustained,
elevated blood sugar that wreaks havoc on the body in the form of candida, fatigu e, diabetes, etc.

The Role of Insulin
What happens in the presence of fat that causes sugar to pile up in our bloods tream? It has to do with the pancreas. Under the
direction of the brain, the pancreas is responsible for producing  a hormone known as insulin. One of insulin’s roles is to function as a
doorman, allowing sugar molecules in the blood to find an insulin receptor in  the blood vessel wall. The insulin can then transport the
sugar molecule through the blood vessel membrane to the interstitial  fluid (the fluid between the cells) and continue to escort sugar
across another barrier—the cell membrane—and into the cell its elf.
In the body, fat provides many needed insulating functions, including cons erving body heat, absorbing shock, preventing too
much water from escaping through the skin, and protecting nerve fibers. But excess dietary fat in the bloodstream creates some
negative insulating effects. When we eat too much fatty food, a thin coating of fat lines the blood vesse l walls, the cells’ insulin-
receptor sites, the sugar molecules, as well as the insulin itsel f. These fats can take a full day or more to “clear” from the blood, all
the while inhibiting normal metabolic activity, and preventing the se various structures from communicating with each other.
Thus, too much fat in the blood impedes the movement of sugar out of the bloodstrea m. This results in an overall rise in blood
sugar, as sugars continue to travel from the digestive tract (stag e 1) into the blood (stage 2) but cannot escape from the blood so
they can be delivered to the cells (stage 3), which await their fuel.

High-Fat, Low-Carb Diets Raise Insulin Levels 16
The entire theoretical framework of low-carb diets, like Atkins and The  Zone, hang upon the notion that insulin is the root of
all evil. In the view of their promoters, one needs to limit carbohydrate in take in order to limit insulin release. What they overlook is
that protein- and fat-rich foods may induce substantial insulin secr etion as well. For example:

A quarter pound of beef raises insulin levels in diabetics as much as a qu arter pound of straight sugar. ( Diabetes Care 7
(1984):465)
Cheese and beef elevate insulin levels higher than “dreaded” hi gh-carbohydrate foods like pasta. ( American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition 50 (1997):1264)
A single burger’s worth of beef, or three slices of cheddar, boost ins ulin levels more than almost two cups of cooked pasta.
(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 50 (1997):1264)

In fact, the American Journal of


 little or no responsibility for change.The least popular prescription I can write is a monodiet of water for severalweeks or a month. Yet this is my most powerful medicine.
It is possible to resolve many health complaints without fasting, simply by
cleansing the colon and regaining normal lower bowel function. Colonics take littlepersonal effort and are much easier to get people to accept than fasting. So I canfully understand how perfectly honest and ethical naturopaths have developedobsessions with colon cleansing. Some healers have loudly and repeatedly (andwrongly) proclaimed that constipation is the sole cause of disease, and thus, theonly real cure for any illness is colon cleansing.
Even though it is possible to have a lot of successes with the simple (though
unpleasant to administer) technique of colon cleansing, degenerated lower bowelsare not the only cause of disease. I prefer to use bowel cleansing as an adjunct tomore complete healing programs. However, old classics of hygiene and even afew new books strongly make the case for colonics. Some of these books areentirely one-sided, single-cause single-cure approaches, and sound convincing tothe layperson. For this reason, I think I should take a few paragraphs and explainwhy some otherwise well-intentioned health professionals have overly-advocatedcolonics (and other practices as well).
Most Diseases Cure Themselves
If you ask any honest medical doctor how they cure diseases, they will tell you
that most acute disease conditions and a smaller, though significant percentage
(probably a majority) of chronic disease conditions are self-limiting and will, given
time, get better all by themselves. So for most complaints, the honest allopathicdoctor sees their job as giving comfort and easing the severity of the symptomsuntil a cure happens.
This same scenario, when viewed from a hygienist’s perspective, is that almost
all acute and many chronic conditions are simply the body’s attempt to handle acrisis of toxemia. For two reasons the current crisis will probably go away byitself. The positive reason is that the toxic overload will be resolved: the personchanges their dietary habits or the stressor that temporarily lowered their vitalforce and produced enervation is removed, then digestion improves and the levelof self-generated toxins is reduced. The negative reason for a complaint to “cure”itself is that the suffering person’s vital force drops below the level that thesymptom can be manifested and the complaint goes away because a new, moreserious disease is developing.
I view this second possibility as highly undesirable because strong, healthy
bodies possessing a high degree of vital force are able to eliminate toxins ratherviolently, frequently producing very uncomfortable symptoms that are not life-threatening. However, as the vital force drops, the body changes its routes ofsecondary elimination and begins using more centrally located vital organs andsystems to dispose of toxemia. This degeneration producing less unpleasantsymptoms, but in the long run, damages essential organs and moves the personcloser to their final disease.
A young vigorous body possessing a large degree of vital force will almost
always route surplus toxins through skin tissues and skin-like mucus membranes,producing repeated bouts of sinusitis, or asthma, or colds, or a combination of allthese. Each acute manifestation will “cure” itself by itself eventually. But eventuallythe body’s vital force can no longer create these aggressive cleansing phenomenaand the toxemia begins to go deeper. When the allopathic doctor gets a patientcomplaining of sinusitis, they know they will eventually get a cure. The “cure”however, might well be a case of arthritis.
This unfortunate reality tends to make young, idealistic physicians become
rather disillusioned about treating degenerative conditions because the end resultof all their efforts is, in the end, death anyway. The best they can do is to alleviatesuffering and to a degree, prolong life. The worst they can do is to prolongsuffering.
Thus, the physicians main job is to get the patient to be patient, to wait until the
body corrects itself and stops manifesting the undesired symptom. Thus comesthe prime rule of all humane medicine: first of all, do no harm! If the doctor simplyrefrains from making the body worse, it will probably get better by itself. But thepatient, rarely resigned to quiet suffering, comes in demanding fast relief,demanding a cure. In fact, if the patient were resigned to quiet suffering theywould not consult a doctor. So if the doctor wants to keep this patient and makea living they must do something. If that something the doctor must do does little orno harm and better yet, can also alleviate the symptoms, the doctor is practicinggood medicine and will have a very high cure rate and be financially successful ifthey have a good bedside manner. This kind of doctor may be allopathic and/or“natural,” may use herbs or practice homeopathy.
The story of Dr. Jennings, a very successful and famous or infamous
(depending on your viewpoint) physician, who practiced in Connecticut in theearly 1800s exemplifies this type of approach.
Dr. Jennings had his own unique medicines. Their composition was of his own
devising, and were absolutely secret. He had pills and colored bitter drops ofvarious sorts that were compounded himself in his own pharmacy. Dr. Jennings’patients generally recovered and had few or no complications. This must beviewed in contrast to the practices of his fellow doctors of that era, whose blackbags were full of mercury and arsenic and strychnine, whose practices includedobligatory bleeding. These techniques and medicines “worked” by poisoning thebody or by reducing its blood supply and thus lowering its vital force, ending thebody’s ability to manifest the undesirable symptom. If the poor patient survived
being victimized by their own physician, they were tough enough to survive both
their disease and the doctor’s cure. Typically, the sick had many, lengthycomplications, long illnesses, and many “setbacks” requiring many visits, earningthe physician a great living.
Dr. Jennings operated differently. He would prescribe one or two secret
medicines from his black bag and instruct the patient to stay in bed, get lots ofrest, drink lots of water, eat little and lightly, and continue taking the medicine untilthey were well. His cure rate was phenomenal. Demand they might, but Dr.Jennings would never reveal what was in his pills and vials. Finally at the end ofhis career, to instruct his fellow man, Dr. Jennings confessed. His pills were madefrom flour dough, various bitter but harmless herbal substances, and a little sugar.His red and green and black tinctures, prescribed five or ten drips at a time mixedin a glass of water several times daily, were only water and alcohol, some colorantand something bitter tasting, but harmless. Placebos in other words.
Upon confessing, Dr. Jennings had to run for his life. I believe he ended up
retiring on the western frontier, in Indiana. Some of his former patients wereextremely angry because they had paid good money, top dollar for “real”medicines, but were given only flour and water. The fact that they got better didn’tseem to count.
 If the physicians curative procedure suppresses the symptom and/or lowers
the vital force with toxic drugs or surgery, (either result will often as not end thecomplaint) the allopathic doctor is practicing bad medicine. This doctor too willhave a high cure rate and a good business (if they have an effective bedsidemanner) because their drugs really do make the current symptoms vanish veryrapidly. Additionally, their practice harmonizes with a common but viciousdramatization of many people which goes: when a body is malfunctioning, it is abad body and needs to be punished. So lets punish it with poisons and if thatdon’t work, lets really punish it by cutting out the offending part.
However, if the physician can do something that will do no harm but raises the
vital force and/or lowers the level of toxemia, this doctor will have a genuine cure
rate higher than either of the two techniques. Why does raising the vital forcehelp? Because it reduces enervation, improves the digestion, lowers the creationof new toxins and improves the function of the organs of elimination, also reducingthe toxic overload that is causing the complaint.
Techniques that temporarily and quickly raise the vital force include
homeopathy, chiropractic, vitamin therapy, massage, acupuncture andacupressure and many more spiritually oriented practices. Healers who use theseapproaches and have a good bedside manner can have a very good business,they can have an especially-profitable practice if they do nothing to lower the levelof toxemia being currently generated. Their patients do experience prompt reliefbut must repeatedly take the remedy. This makes for satisfied customers and arepeat business.
The best approach of all focuses on reducing the self-generated level of
toxemia, cleansing to remove deposits of old toxemia, rebuilding the organs ofelimination and digestion to prevent the formation of new toxemia, and then, toalleviate the current symptoms and make it easier for the patient to be patientwhile their body heals, the healer raises artificially and temporarily the vital forcewith vitamins, massage, acupressure, etc. This wise and benevolent physician isgoing to have the highest cure rate among those wise patients who will accept theprescription, but will not make as much money because the patients permanentlyget better and no longer need a physician. There’s not nearly as much repeatbusiness.
Colonics are one of the best types of medicine. They clean up deposits of old
toxemia (though there are sure to be other deposits in the body’s tissues colonicsdo not touch). Colon cleansing reduces the formation of new toxemia from


, and I ’v e been t o I don ’t
k no w ho w man y doc t or s, and no one has been
able t o help me. I don ’t e v en w ant t o see y ou unless
y ou ar e an e x pert in y east. "
I said, " W el l, I ’m not an e x pert in y east, but I t hink ma y be I c an be
helpf ul. "
She c almed do w n, I polit el y ac c ept ed t he book f r om her, and pl ac ed it on t he c ount er.
I
list ened t o her st or y of her y east and al l her y east s y mpt oms, and disc ussed w it h her
t he
diet ar y c hang es she mig ht w ant t o mak e, some w at er she should dr ink, and t hen I
sug g est ed tur pentine and sug ar.
She r eplied, “ W H A T?!”
“Y es, tur pentine and sug ar, ” I
r epeat ed.
She said, “Y ou k no w w hat, D oc t or, I am so f ed up. I am f eeling so lous y, I w i l l e v en do t hat. ”
I sa w her bac k in a c ouple of w eek s, w hic h w as onl y enoug h time t o t ak e 2 doses of
tur pentine.
" W el l, Miss J ones, ho w is y our y east doing?" I ask ed her. "Y east, w hat y east?” She said happi l y. “ I don ’t
ha v e an y y east. I ’m doing f ine. " I c an onl y deduc e t hat t o t he e x t ent she had y east, t he tur pentine w as
usef ul f or her.  N o w, at t his point, t he ot her t hing t hat mig ht be of int er est is a litt le mor e about t he
hist or y of tur pentine. M an y people ha v e ask ed me about r esear c h done on tur pentine
and e v idenc e
of tur pentine’ s eff ec ti v eness.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>I w ould li k e t o sa y, I ’m not muc h of a f an of r esear c h bec ause e v er y r esear c h pr o jec t I
ha v e been
in v ol v ed w it h, I ha v e been ask ed t o f alsif y d at a. S o e v en t houg h I do g o t o t he
li br ar y, e v en t houg h I do
look up r esear c h, and e v en t houg h I do r ead it, I r ealize t hat it
ma y not be as r eli able as it appear s.T his per son w as hig hl y educ at ed, and her husband w as a P h.D. sc ientist. W hen I
sug g est ed t o t hem t hat per haps tur pentine and sug ar w ould be of help, he w as
immedi at el y c onc er ned t hat his w if e of man y dec ades mig ht e v en t hink of
embar k ing
on suc h a t her ap y or int er v ention t hat e v er y one k ne w had t o be
let hal.
S inc e he w as at a v er y l ar g e uni v er sit y w it h g r eat r esear c h c apabi lities, he
did a
lit er atur e sear c h at his uni v er sit y w it h al l t he t ools at his c ommand. H e
f ound t hat
tur pentine had been used hist or ic al l y t o k i l l w or ms. Y es, w or ms. A nd
f or t his, it w as
v er y eff ec ti v e, and in c ert ain doses, w hic h he did not disc lose t o me,
it w as ac tual l y
quit e saf e and w it hout i l l eff ec t.
2 7
Q. H o w many times do I ha v e t o t ak e tur pentine?
Q. C an I use hone y or r a w tur binado?
Q. Y ou mentioned in st ep 2 that w e shouldn't blend any f oods. C an y ou g i v e some
c l ar if ic ation on that? S ee belo w :
S t ep 2: S t op eating C andida's f a v or it e f o o ds.
T his is an y f o o d t hat is blended, c o ok ed,
or mi x ed wit h somet hing else b ef or e y ou bu y
it.
A. M an y people f ind t hat onc e t he y do st eps 1 t o 4 abo v e, t he y c an t ak e 1 or 2 doses
w it h
r elief. S ti l l ot her s f eel t he y need mor e. It is ok a y t o t ak e it t w ic e a w eek f or
y ear s. S ee
spec i al c ases. O nc e y ou r eac h y our g oal, t ak e it less t han t w ic e a w eek.
T he f inal dose is
some w her e bet w een onc e a mont h and t w ic e a y ear. T his is due t o
r e-e x posur e t o C andid a.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>A. N o, y ou ma y not use hone y. H one y has t oo muc h nutr itional v alue. A lso, hone y
does
not ac t as a tr ansport f or t he tur pentine and c ontr ol it s absor ption, as sug ar
does.
W hit e sug ar is best, as it attr ac t s t he C andid a w it hout str eng t hening it.
H o w e v er, r a w
tur binado is ac c ept able, t houg h st e v i a or an y non-sug ar s w eet ener is
not ac c ept able.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>A. Y ou c an blend or mi x y our f oods. T he manuf ac tur er ma y not. T he det er ior ation of
t he
nutr itional v alue and t he addition of c hemic als nec essar y t o c onc eal t he
det er ior ation
pr omot es C andid a.
Y ou c an c onsume blended r a w or c ook ed f oods
t hat y ou blend. Y ou should not bu y
pr epac k ag ed f oods t hat ar e blended f or y ou. T he
instr uc tions “ heat and eat” or “ add
w at er and mi x” indic at e t hat t he f ood is
pr oc essed and should be a v oided.
Enjo y,
D r J ennif er D aniels
w w w. v it alit y c y c les. c om<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>20 10 F ir st P ublished 20 16 U pd at ed
Shar e Y our T houg ht s H er e
S o, did y ou enjo y t he C andid a C leaner?
C ONCL US ION:
I hope this g i v es y ou a g ood idea of ho w t o appl y the
mir ac le c ur e t o y our lif e. I ha v e
used it my self about e v er y 2 months f or
the past 20 y ear s.2 6
C an di d a C l ean e r  F A Q's
Q. Do I che w the sug ar or just s w al lo w?
Q. I ha v e a c ondition that does not al lo w me t o dr ink this amount of w at er. What
should I do?
Q. I f eel g r eat t ak ing the tur pentine, so c an I t ak e mor e than 1 t easpoon a d a y?
A. J ust s w al lo w and c hase w it h w at er.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>A. C on v ert al l y our be v er ag es t o disti l led or r e v er se osmosis w at er, t hen inc r ease
t he
amount of w at er t o t he hig hest c omf ort able le v el. T hen pr oc eed.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>A. NO


be solved. That this is one of those You’re
going to let  me hang here with...  Perhaps this is a good time to go over once
more how it is that I interact with you,
because you think it is a question of My
desire, and I’m telling you it’s a question of
yours.
I want for you what you want for you.
Nothing more, no thing less. I don’t sit here
and make a judgment, request by request,
whether something should be granted you.
My law is the law of cause and effect, not
the law of We’ll See. There is nothing you
can’t have if you choose it. Even before you
ask, I will ha ve given it to you. Do you
believe this?
No. I’m sorry. I’ve seen too many prayers
go unanswered.
Don’t be sorry. Just always stay with the
truth—the truth of your experience. I  understand that. I honor that. That’s okay
with Me.
Good, because I don’t beli eve that
whatever I ask, I get. My life has not been
a testimony to  that. In fact, I rarely get what
I ask for. When I do, I consider myself
damned lucky.
That’s an interesting choice of words. You
have an option, it seems. In your life, you
can either be damned lucky, or you can be
blessing lucky. I’d rather you be blessing
lucky —but, of course, I’ll never interfere
with your decisions.
I tell you this: You always get what you
create, and you are always creating.
I do not make a judgment about the
creation s that you conjure, I simply
empower  you to conjure more —and more and more and more. If you don’t like what
you’ve  just created, choose again. My job,
as God, is to always give you that
opportunity.
Now you are telling Me that you haven’t
always gotten wha t you’ve wanted. Yet I am
here to tell you that you’ve always gotten
what you called forth.
Your Life is always a result of your thoughts
about it —including your obviously  creative
thought that you seldom get what you
choose. Now in this present instance  you
see yourself as the victim of the situation in
the losing of your job. Yet the truth  is that
you no longer chose that job. You stopped
getting up in the morning in  anticipation,
and began getting up with dread. You
stopped feeling happy about your  work and
began feeling resentment. You even began fantasizing doing something  else. You think
these things mean nothing? You
misunderstand your power. I tel l you this:
Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for
it. So what is your intention  now? Do you
inten d to prove your theory that life seldom
brings you what you  choose? Or do you
intend to demonstrate Who You Really Are
and Who I Am?
I feel chagrined. Chastised. Embarrassed.
Does that serve you? Why not simply
acknowledge the truth when you hear it,
and move toward it? There is no need to
recriminate against yourself. Simply notice
what  you’ve been choosing and choose
again.  But why am I so ready to always choose
the negative? And then to spank myself for
it?
What can you expect? You were told from
your ea rliest days that you’re “bad.” You
accept that you were born in “sin.” Feeling
guilty is a learned response. You’ve been
told to feel guilty about yourself for things
you did before you could even do  anything.
You have been taught to feel shame for
being born less than perfect.
This alleged state of imperfection in which
you are said to have come into this world  is
what your religionists have the gall to call
original sin. And it is original sin —but not
yours. It is the first sin to be perpetrated
upon you by a world which knows nothing
of God if it thinks that God would —or
could —create anything imperfect.  Some of your religions have built up whole
theologies around this misconception.  And
that is what it is, literally: a misconception.
For anything I  conceive —all that to  which I
give life —is perfect; a perfect reflection of
perfection itself, made in the  image and
likeness of Me.
Yet, in order to justify the idea of a punitive
God, your religions needed to create
something for Me to be angry about. So
that even those people who lead exemplary
lives somehow need to be saved. If they
don’t need to be saved from themselves,
then they need to be saved from their own
built-in imperfection. So (these religions
say) you’d better do something about all of
this—and fast —or you’ll go straight to  hell.
This, in the end, may do nothing to mollify
a weird, vindictive, angry God, but it does  give life to weird, vindictive, angry religions.
Thus,  do religions perpetuate  themselves.
Thus,  does power remain concentrated  in
the hands of the few, rather  than
experienced though the hands of the many.
Of course you choose constantly the lesser
thought, the smaller idea, the tiniest
concept of yourself and your power, to say
nothing of Me and Mine. You’ve been
taught to.
My G od, how can I undo the teaching?
A good question and  addressed to just the
right person!
You can undo the teaching by reading and
re-reading this book. Over and over  again,
read it. Until you understand every
passage. Until you’re familiar with every
word.  When you can quote its passages to others, when you can bring its phrases to
mind in the midst of the darkest hour, then
you will have “undone the teaching.”
Yet there is still so much I want to ask You;
still so much I want to know.
Indeed. You began with a very long list of
questions. Shall we get back to it?
  Chapter 8
When will I learn enough about
relationships to be able to have them go
smoothly? Is there a  way to be happy in
relationships? Must they be constantly
challenging?
You have nothing to learn about
relationships. You have only to
demonstrate what  you already know.
There is a way to be happy in relationships,
and that is to use relationships for their
intended purpose, not the purpose you
have designed. Relationships are
constan tly challenging; constantly calling
you to create, express, and experience
higher and  higher aspects of yourself,
grander and grander visions of yourself,
ever more  magnificent versions of yourself. Nowhere can you do this more
immediately,  impactfully, an d immaculately
than in relationships. In fact, without
relationships, you  cannot do it at all.
It is only through your relationship with
other people, places, and events that you
can even exist (as a knowable quantity, as
an identifiable something) in the  universe.
Remember, absent everything else, you
are not. You only are what you  are relative
to another thing that is not. That is how it is
in the world of the relative,  as opposed to
the world of the absolute —where I reside.
Once you clearly understand th is, once you
deeply grasp it, then you intuitively bless
each and every experience, all human
encounter, and especially personal human
relationships, for you see them as
constructive, in the highest sense. You see that they can be used, must be used, are
being used (whether you want them to be
or not) to construct Who You Really Are.
That construction can be a magnificent
creation of your own conscious design, or
a strictly happenstance configuration. You
can choose to be a person who has
resulted simply fr om what has happened,
or from what you’ve chosen to be and do
about what has happened. It is in the latter
form that creation of Self becomes
conscious. It is in the second experience
that Self becomes realized.
Bless, therefore, every relationship, and
hold each as special and formative of Who
You Are —and now choose to be.
Now your inquiry has to do with individual
human relationships of the romantic sort,  and I understand that. So let Me address
Myself specifically, and at length, to  human
love relationsh ips—these things which
continue to give you such trouble!
When human love relationships fail
(relationships never truly fail, except in the
strictly human sense that they did not
produce what you want), they fail because
they were entered into for the wron g
reason.
(“Wrong,” of course, is a relative term,
meaning something measured against that
which is “right” —whatever that is! It would
be more accurate in your language to say
“relationships fail —change —most often
when they are entered into for reasons not
wholly beneficial or conducive to their
survival.”)  Most people enter into relationships with an
eye toward what


 gel recipients. Mild undesired events were seen in 8 of 77 DMSO patients and 3 of 80 patients treated with the placebo gel.
30
One of the first studies to investigate the analgesic potential of DMSO in rheuma -
toid arthritis, osteoarthritis, tenosynovitis, and other articular disorders came from Japan in 1967.
31 These investigators reported using 50% aqueous solution of DMSO
topically for 3 days on 318 patients and reported DMSO significantly relieved joint 53 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
pain when assessed 14 days later, using a variety of tests involving articular symp -
toms and signs, such as spontaneous pain, tenderness on pressure, pain on motion,
local heat, grip strength, circumference of joint, and range of joint motion.31 They
concluded that DMSO improved grip strength, relieved pain, and increased the range of joint motion but had no effect on joint swelling as compared to placebo. DMSO seemed more effective in cases of short duration. The only unfavorable side effect was temporary local irritation of the skin, which disappeared after the last DMSO application.
31
As reports of the analgesic action of topical DMSO in arthritis and musculoskel -
etal disorders became known, other investigators looked into the possibility of using topical DMSO for surface tissue damage. One of these reports examined incisional pain after thoracotomy.
32 DMSO (60% concentrations) was applied directly to the
closed wound incision extending 10 in. on either side. The skin was then permitted to dry for 10 min, and a sterile dressing was applied. Six hours later, the dressing was removed, and the same DMSO amount and concentration were reapplied. The applications were repeated every 6 h for 3 days. Thereafter, from 4 to 6 days, 70% DMSO was applied to the healing wound, and the treated patients as a group were able to move about more easily both in and out of bed, to resume early motion in the arm and shoulder in the operative side, and, in general, to enjoy a more rapid and less complicated postoperative course than patients who had not been treated with DMSO.
32 Also, it was observed that treated patients showed fewer gastrointestinal
complications, such as nausea, vomiting, ileus, and constipation. The investigators, surgeons, and nurses providing the daily DMSO treatments were impressed with the apparent effectiveness of DMSO in relieving the usual postoperative thoracotomy pain.
32
Patients with painful furuncular otitis were treated with 90% topical DMSO
by applying DMSO into the auditory meatus and to the adjacent outer ear using a dripping-wet cotton-tipped applicator.
33 Patients were treated once daily or twice
daily in serious cases. Excellent and dramatic results with complete remission of symptoms were achieved in 28 cases, and marked improvement was observed in 52 cases, while 22 cases remained unimproved. Many of the patients treated with DMSO had been refractory to cortisone and antibiotic creams. A distinctly longer-lasting effect could be achieved when antibiotics such as tetracycline and erythromy -
cin dissolved in DMSO were applied.
33
Not all studies using topical DMSO for rotator cuff and tendinitis pain showed
positive results. In a year-long study involving 102 patients presenting with either medial or lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) or rotator cuff tendonitis were treated with topical applications of DMSO. Beneficial effects were assessed with respect to improvement in pain, tenderness or swelling, and increase in the range of motion. Forty patients treated with topical 70% DMSO aqueous solution did not report any more benefit from the drug than patients who received a 5% DMSO aqueous placebo solution.
34
A review of DMSO in otological conditions by Freeman35 in 1976 claimed that a
thorough review by him of the literature revealed no evidence that topical application of the drug was useful and concluded that although DMSO was not ototoxic, double-blind studies on patients with otological infections demonstrated that 90% DMSO 54 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
applied within the external auditory canal had no anti-inflammatory, antibacterial,
or analgesic properties, and there was no evidence that it potentiated the action of other medicines when mixed preparations were used. To support this conclusion, Freeman
35 cited 11 references in his review, most of which in fact supported the
opposite conclusion from that derived by Freeman,35 who referred to “many double-
blind studies” that demonstrated the lack of activity by DMSO but never once cited any of these reports or references.
Such shoddy and scientifically lazy conclusions failing to cite any report in sup -
port of its tenet would haunt DMSO for years as the shroud of its mystique and sometimes enthusiastic hyperbole by its supporters grew exponentially to the degree of putting into question the credibility of many evidence-based and well-performed experiments, both basic and clinical, that showed either positive or negative findings for the actions of this molecule on a variety of models and systems.
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as reflex sympathetic
dystrophy and causalgia, is a chronic systemic disease characterized by intense neu -
ropathic pain out of proportion to the severity of the injury.
36 CRPS can result from
even a mild tissue trauma to an extremity, and when it does, it is typically character -
ized by swelling and severe pain of the extremity and by dramatic color and tempera -
ture skin changes.37 There is no specific test that can diagnose CRPS, and diagnosis
is often made by the exclusion of similar pain conditions.
CRPS is divided into two types: CRPS-1, which lacks demonstrable nerve lesions,
and CRPS-2, formerly known as causalgia, where the pain is generally neuropathic and more severe than type 1 and where evidence of nerve damage is present.
38
The specific cause of CRPS is not known for certain, but dysfunction or damage
to the peripheral or central nervous system (CNS) may follow a nerve injury after trauma or surgery.
39
Another theory is that CRPS is caused by an immune response that leads to the
changes seen in the skin (redness, warmth, swelling, and pain) involving proin-flammatory mediators such as TNF-alpha, interleukins 1 β, 2, 6, 8, and C-reactive
 protein,40–42 as well as increased systemic levels of proinflammatory neuropep -
tides, including substance P and bradykinin.43 Other findings indicate that when
there are no clinical signs of peripheral nerve damage, posttraumatic focal CRPS-1 is nonetheless associated with significant loss of C-fibers and A- δ fibers in the
affected area.
44
About 50,000 new cases of CRPS are estimated to occur annually in the United
States alone (Bruehl), generally following surgery, simple fractures, crush injuries, and sprains.
38 When a limb is affected, loss of strength and decreased active range of
motion can disable the individual, resulting in continuous intense pain and psycho -
logical stress. In fact, the pain can be so intense in CRPS that it has the unfortunate honor of being described as the most painful syndrome or disease, scoring highest on the McGill pain scale (42 out of a possible 50), and considerably above such events as amputation of a digit and childbirth (see Figure 3.1).
After many randomized-controlled trials published, there is no clinical consensus
on how to treat or manage CRPS.
45
Pathophysiologically, oxidative damage by free radicals have been implicated in
the development of CRPS.46 In addition, pain sensation that increases with time, 55 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
also called wind-up, and CNS sensitization are important neurologic processes that
have been reported to be involved in the unfolding of CRPS.47 In this regard, it is
interesting to note that elevated CNS glutamate levels promote wind-up and CNS
sensitization.47
In addition, there is experimental evidence that demonstrates that N-methyl- d-
aspartate (NMDA) receptors are localized in peripheral nerves and appear to be activated following CRPS.
48 Moreover, there is compelling evidence that the NMDA
receptor has significant association in the CNS sensitization process involving CRPS.
49 This finding has led to the use of NMDA receptor blockers and free radical
scavengers as a primary target for neuropathic pain48 that can lead to central sensiti -
zation and wind-up  phenomena such as that seen in CRPS.50
Good to excellent results in pain control of patients with CRPS type 1 have
been shown after the topical application of 50% DMSO over the affected area.51
The results indicated significantly favorable pain management, particularly when the CRPS was associated with inflammatory symptoms.
51 The mechanism by which
DMSO is able to provide pain relief in one of the most difficult to treat pain condi -
tions remains unclear.
A clue may lie in the fact that DMSO acts as a powerful free radical scavenger,
and it is well known that free radicals following injury can be toxic to tissue and introduce acute or chronic pain sensation. DMSO is also an NMDA and glutamate receptor antagonist, and both substances can activate hyperalgesia and neuropathic pain.
CRPS
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 Hensley’s
supervisor at the Division of Scientific Investigations, Bureau of Drugs, FDA.
Lisook flew to Portland, Oregon, from Washington, D.C., to grab what reports on
eye toxicity he could out of Jacob’s files. You’ll recall that Lisook wasn’t allowed
access to the files.
Meantime, the Inspector General, in consultation with the Baltimore United
States attorney, investigated possible malfeasance on the part of some employeesof the agency. “The allegations have to do with the question of whether the
sponsor and the investigators were investigated promptly enough and in a proper
fashion,” explained Nancy L. Buc, Chief Counsel of the FDA, “and also may have
to do with questions that pertain to the sponsor and to the investigators.”
Dr. Pani, the medical officer with the primary responsibility for DMSO, who
was assigned to the drug in 1968, was transferred from the DMSO project. And
then he was forced to retire from the FDA under threat of outright dismissal. The
policy management staff at the FDA conducted an investigation of Dr. Pani and his
relationship with the sponsors, the clinical researchers, and the physician-monitor.
This physician-monitor was responsible for making sure the protocols of
investigations were being followed, the product being employed was pure, and the
records being kept were accurate. The FDA staff’s findings have not been made
public, but I have found out that the physician-monitor was Stanley Jacob. Dr.
Pani and Dr. Jacob were indicted by the Justice Department on criminal charges
rising from the FDA investigations.
A BUSINESSMAN PROTECTS HIS INVESTMENT
Henry Moyle and Louis Haynie created Research Industries Corporation (RIC) in
1968 out of an amalgamation of a land development firm and the Deseret Drug
Company. Early in the 1970s they expanded by purchasing three DMSO clinics in
Juarez, Tecate, and Nogales, Mexico, where patients were treated under the
direction of Mexican doctors. Not quite satisfied that DMSO was safe, the
businessmen called in Dr. Jacob to tour the clinics and coach them on suggested
changes in their therapeutic procedures.
After persuading Americans, for a time, to cross the border for DMSO
treatment, the partners decided to manufacture, market, and legitimize DMSO in
the United States. First they had to work with the FDA in trying to get approval of
the drug. This became Moyle’s almost full-time responsibility. Dr. Jacob became
associated with the company and put Moyle in touch with Dr. K.C. Pani for
discussions about INDs for DMSO.
The two indications that seemed most promising for INDs were scleroderma
and interstitial cystitis. American physicians treating these conditions with DMSO
were Dr. Scherbel and Bruce H. Stewart, M.D., respectively, both of the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Later, Dr. Stewart brought in Sheridan Shirley, M.D.,
of the University of Alabama, and these two doctors administered DMSO to
patients suffering from interstitial cystitis. Their patient experimentation was doneunder an IND initiated in 1974.
RIC acquired a wholly owned subsidiary known as Terra Pharmaceuticals,
Buena Park, California, to manufacture DMSO. It had once been owned by Nutri-
Lite, a subsidiary of the Amway Corporation. Twenty to thirty workers now
manufacture DMSO at the Terra Pharmaceuticals plant.
Data submitted by Dr. Shirley was a fifty-one-patient study; the data submitted
by Dr. Stewart was a fifteen-patient study. The research had gone on for more than
a year. Research Industries Corporation was the sponsor who submitted the
clinical trial reports to the FDA. The Shirley and Stewart studies sent along for
approval of DMSO in the treatment of interstitial cystitis were accepted, and the
drug came into legal use for this condition. About a year later, RIC was inspected
by the FDA to see what kind of monitoring the company was doing at the time.
Then the FDA checked with the two clinical investigators, randomly chosen, to see
how the monitoring that had been conducted actually stood up.
Their visit to Dr. Shirley’s research facilities was disturbing to the FDA
inspectors. Although the researcher had been given ten days’ notice, he had
difficulty producing the background information and other raw data that would
support the safety claims he had made. This led to another inspection the FDA
labeled “for cause.” The “for cause” inspection was designed to compare case
report forms—fifteen were chosen at random—to the patient records. The
inspectors wanted to learn if the underlying data that had previously been missing
were still missing. Dr. Hensley said, “The intent was also to pursue beyond that; to
go, in fact, to the laboratories that had allegedly done that data and, if necessary, to
the patients.”
The FDA uncovered virtually every possible deficiency in the Shirley studies,
according to Dr. Hensley. For example, there were no records of informed consent
by the patients. There was no institutional review board approval where it was
appropriate and necessary. The University of Alabama seemed not to have been
consulted at all about this patient experimentation under its jurisdiction.
More important from the FDA’s viewpoint were problems with the safety and
efficacy data, which tended to invalidate all prior approval of DMSO for the
treatment of interstitial cystitis. In the safety data, the eye examinations that were
supposed to have been done before the study began and every three months during
its course and after its completion appeared not to have been done at all. The
laboratory work, a battery of patient tests to be accomplished before the study,
then on a monthly basis during its course and after its conclusion, could not be
verified because the underlying records were not to be found.The FDA inspectors diligently pursued these failings and were unable to
confirm that the testing had been performed. They interviewed patients and learned
that neither the laboratory work nor the eye examinations had taken place. The
reports of such laboratory and eye tests were allegedly false, even though the case
report forms held in house by the FDA showed that all of this work had been done
and that the results were normal.
Hensley told Senator Kennedy that the efficacy data were also disturbing. The
agency had received two sets of case reports from RIC on Shirley’s study—one
near the end of 1975. It showed generally good to excellent results with treating
interstitial cystitis. The second arrived in early 1976 on a resubmission of the
NDA, which showed some of these patients deteriorating.
When the FDA did its “for cause” inspection, the review of Shirley’s records
looked a good deal worse; people treated had more than just minor deterioration.
The patients, although they might initially have had a very good response,
generally did seriously deteriorate and often required other medication or bladder
surgery.
The Division of Scientific Investigations then declared that the Shirley data
simply could not be used. It was unsatisfactory, to say the least, said Dr. Goyan.
Dr. Shirley came under FDA investigation; as a consequence his certification as an
FDA inspector was rescinded.
The FDA also turned its attention to the study done by Dr. Stewart and, after
completing its review, a decision was made as to whether or not a hearing would
be held and further action taken. Furthermore, at
least three other interstitial
cystitis studies came into question. Withdrawing approval of interstitial cystitis as
the only legal human use of DMSO was considered. A general pattern of
disinclination on the part of the investigating physicians to do the drug safety work
—the eye examinations and the laboratory tests—seemed to be developing.
Dr. Scherbel explained the reasons for not burdening patients, institutions, and
researchers with this drug safety work. He told the House Select Committee on
Aging: “For those patients who could indeed profit from the use of a very simple
drug, we cannot use it unless we carry out a very strict protocol. If I wanted to
give this drug to a patient today, I must obtain sophisticated eye examinations
every six months. This patient must have blood studies every three months. If this
patient lives 150 miles from Cleveland, he or she must come back at a determined
time and the studies must be carried out according to FDA regulations.
“Long ago we realized that toxicity was not a problem but we do not dare to
give this drug without carrying out a battery of very sophisticated laboratorystudies. Who pays for this?” asked Dr. Scherbel. “The patient might not have
funds to pay. Will the Cleveland Clinic? They will if I ask them to, but it is not
fair to the Cleveland Clinic to do this because it is the FDA request.
“If we obtain funds from a pharmaceutical firm and eventually they sense this
drug is not going to be approved, where do the funds come from to continue
treatment for this group of patients?”
These are valid questions; they require answers if drug safety is to be assured.
Unfortunately, Dr. Hensley disclosed another reason for the FDA’s
disinclination to accept DMSO studies strictly on the face value of researchers’
opinions. The investigating doctors tended to overlook, maybe not see, or perhaps
deliberately ignore possible adverse effects. For example, Dr. Hensley described
difficulties with accepting additions to the Stewart study. He said, “The original
NDA was twice submitted to the agency; the last time in 1976, and finally it was
approved in 1978. In September


 is not all. There are people who almost do not suffer from the cold.
They suffer great famine in the winter and summer. But more still
starving to feel cold. They are worth more than a walk, take hot
bath (preferably conifers) and... pour cold water. Spill over oneself
long, only to "strike" on thermoreceptors.
If, despite all efforts, people continue to freeze, then
he can try to reduce the amount you drink or drink
hot water. Figuratively speaking, the water absorbs the element of fire, without water as
Fire erupted in full force.
Very often chilly spontaneously replaced by a fever. When
Strong tides, respectively, can be exposed and drink water.
Generally, chill and fever during the famine - the most ordinary phenomena.
But if the fever is not dangerous, then freeze during fasting is still
undesirable, and must somehow keep warm.
Breath
On the second or third day breathing becomes repulsive
smell (if the body is not clean enough). That smell allocated
oxidized compounds. Usually dominated by the smell of acetone,
but often is mixed into putrid, filthy, and other equally
"Pleasant" scents.
For those who are hungry to crisis for the first time, the breath can become so
smelly, that person will even be hard to be in the same
room. Imagine the amount of toxins he had worn
in my body! As the cleansing smell weakens and somewhere after the 12-18-th
the day is hardly noticeable.
300
300It is very important to help throw light as much as possible
toxins. The methods we already know: walking, physical
activity, water and other stimulating exchange procedure.
Darkening of the eyes, dizziness
This often happens when a sharp rise from a lying or sitting
provisions (the so-called gravity or orthostatic
collapse). After a few seconds, usually a darkening, but
During this time a person can manage to fall. Consciousness, as a rule,
all at the same time does not disappear.
Such a condition caused by a sharp redistribution of blood
volume is reduced by famine. There is no danger here
No, but get up everything, it should be quietly, holding on to
chair or the wall (especially in the bathroom, after a warm
bath).
Darkening of the eyes more frequently and clearly expressed
a lean tall people. Significantly less susceptible to these
trouble those who have a lot happens on the street, not lying in bed,
who are engaged in interesting work!
Headache
Headache - a sign of a very dirty blood. Most often, the pain
bother to crisis. After the crisis headaches come when a person
spends much time in a stuffy room in the transport, ie
When toxins can not normally be removed during respiration.
Headaches disappear if oxygen to help burn and
excretory system - to bring the slag. That is, should be more
walk, do not forget about enemas, water treatment, can be taken
sorbents. Stir in 1 cup water 3 tbsp. spoon sorbent.
Drink this solution. Small portions of the sorbent put in the mouth,
as tablets, and drink boiled water.
Of course, this method does not provide a sustainable and deep
detoxifying effects on the body, as in so
short period there is no significant adjustment in the
structures of the gastrointestinal tract and detoxification systems.
The main objective of a single dose of the sorbent - a solution
relatively simple household tasks. In this way we help
the body more quickly and efficiently get rid of toxic substances.
depending on whether you have achieved the desired result can be
again taking 2 - 3 times.
If severe pain can make an additional enema.
No medication will be taken hunger.
Sleep Disorders
Often, when hunger rolls irresistible sleepiness. Resist
she especially should not, sleep better as much as you want. But not
forget about cleaning and walking.
But sometimes the opposite, when sleeping with the hunger disappears. If it is not
delivers serious trouble, you can not sleep as much as necessary.
If the inability to sleep is seriously depressing, it is possible that
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301after 3-4 days of insomnia, having exhausted conventional means of (long-term
4-5 hours a day, walks, bathtub, shower), fasting is interrupted,
and 2-3 months to repeat the course. in severe cases, it is desirable
looked to the expert.
Pain in different parts of the body
Most frightening, when hunger begins to hurt something. Here
appropriate to recall the introduction of the law of order: the introduction of new
order is always a temporary mess. If you start with him
to fight the order and will not be introduced. All the symptoms of hunger
often short-lived and quickly pass. Symptom shows
that the body now reached the next purge of damaged tissues.
This - the only meaning of the symptom, and not look for other
explanations. If you hunger for ill - means the body seized
into it and started correcting. Dogolodal to something rannedetskogo -
Cleaning is nearing completion. During the famine of all of the disease appear
for a short time in reverse time order. Extremely rare
for a long time something hurts. Of course, it's frightening, but it should be easy to survive
it. I do not know of cases that someone has been harmed by ignoring the "hungry
symptoms. More likely to suffer, stopping starvation sooner than necessary.
Usually a few days pass without a trace of pain, but
sometimes after a while they return again. It depends
on in what order is updated. Guess here is that-
something difficult, because the set of diseases is always different. Usually follows
rely on the work of our subconscious, and to wait patiently.
Instinctive mind better than we know what and in what order should
"Fix".
Often quite unexpected pain, not associated with exacerbation
existing illnesses. Then burned yet manifested themselves
disease. For example, a distinguished painful joints indicates
Prevention of impending arthritis. Disturbing pancreas
iron indicates frustrated pancreatitis.
One lady was tortured so severe headaches that she was
compelled to 5 times clysterize and take sorbents. Scientific
approach has won, and the pain is gone.
Severe pain is when moving away from kidney stones. in such cases
You can take the no-silos and make a hot bath. But it happens that
stones disappear completely unnoticed, apparently dissolved.
Toothache
Before the beginning of prolonged fasting is recommended
seal up all the teeth, which are required to by them
There were no hassles. Severe pain, however, when
Famine is usually no, but still better teeth lead advance
in order. During the famine enough other worries.
If, however, the teeth "itch", there is pus, tenderness and other
discomfort, you can rinse your mouth slightly diluted
dry white wine.
Very often, during fasting there is a desire to clean
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302teeth. Many say that there is literally unstoppable
need for their purification. However, do not be so
as in starvation alters the composition of saliva, which becomes
ability to dissolve the enamel. Teeth, however, normally covered by plaque,
protects them from damage. However, with a strong desire to again
a week, teeth can be cleaned. If this is done too often,
Teeth can be lost.
Exit pus
In some diseases of gums, as well as sinus during
Hunger can be allocated to the pus entering the mouth. This
normally, and no special measures taken do not. Pus
better to spit and rinse your mouth with water, diluted with white wine
or a weak solution of lemon juice.
Nausea, retching and vomiting (required to use sorbents)
When the rolls weakness, nausea, and wants to quit hunger
knock out a wedge a wedge: a lot of walking and moving. Activity
makes us work all the organs and muscles, driving the blood and accelerates
cleaning. Dullness becomes smaller and goes faster after
three-hour walk. On the contrary, the weakness of indulgence strengthens
its cool and delays the process of cleaning the body. We must know that
the need for fresh air during the famine increases in several
times. Walk!
People with an upset stomach during the first fasting
often brash. When you see a burp
need to wash the stomach (drink water and induce vomiting), so as not to
self-poisoning occurred and the disruption of internal
supply. in the most severe cases, when a belch is added
and persistent heartburn, and washing (2-3 times a day) do not provide adequate
effect, we can gradually drink heavily dilute mineral
water (without gas) with the addition of sorbents.
When the liver is sick and vomiting green or even black
content. V omiting began talking about cleansing the liver. at this time
can worsen mood, irritability appear.
Sensible is simply to endure a few days.
Additionally, you can wash the stomach with warm or even hot
water and applying a heating pad to the liver.
When the discomfort will pass, gastric lavage
stop. Just because this procedure to do absolutely nothing
to anything.
Heartbeat
This in itself is not dangerous heartbeat. Heart rate during starvation may
falling to 40 and jump to over 100 beats per minute. If it is not
accompanied by severe weakness or pain, no special measures
not needed. otherwise, it is best to lie down and relax.
You can also receive warm soothing bath. In the first
week


 cardenolides  alpha-acetyldigitoxin, acetyldigitoxin, and
lanatoside). All act to strengthen the beating  of a weakened heart.
History & Folklore Unlike the closely
related common foxglove (D. purpurea,  following entry), yellow foxglove does not  appear to have played a significant role in  European herbal medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Y ellow foxglove
is little employed in herbal medicine, but in fact
it is a less toxic alternative to purple foxglove and woolly foxglove (D. lanata). It has similar medicinal actions but its alkaloids are more readily metabolized and flushed out by the body. Like other foxgloves, this plant supports a weakened or failing heart, increasing the strength of contraction, slowing  and steadying the heart rate, and lowering blood pressure by strongly stimulating the production  of urine, which reduces overall blood volume.
Related Species Common foxglove
(following entry).
 RQ Cautions Excessive doses of yellow
foxglove can prove fatal. Use only under professional supervision. This plant is subject
to legal restrictions in some countries.Dittany flowers were formerly used to make a preparation
that was sniffed up the nose as a treatment for head colds.
Constituents  Dittany’s potent volatile oil
contains estragol and anethole, and a toxic
alkaloid, dictamnin.
History & Folklore  Dittany exudes such large
amounts of volatile oil that in hot, dry conditions, a match held close will cause the whole plant to burst into flames. The plant has been used to flavor liqueurs and has been brewed as a tea in parts  of Siberia. In European folk medicine, dittany was considered an antidote to poison, pestilence, and  the bites of all types of venomous animals.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Very rarely used
by herbalists today, dittany has an action similar
to that of rue (Ruta graveolens, p. 265), in that
it strongly stimulates the muscles of the uterus, inducing menstruation and sometimes causing abortion. By contrast, its effect on the gastrointestinal tract is antispasmodic. Dittany relaxes the gut and acts as a mild tonic for the stomach. The plant has also been used as a treatment for nervous conditions.
 RQ Cautions  This herb is toxic. T ake only
under professional supervision. Do not take  during pregnancy.Digitalis purpurea
(Scrophulariaceae)
Common Foxglove,
Purple Foxglove
Description  Perennial growing to 5 ft (1.5 m).
Has a single erect stem, broad lance-shaped leaves,
and bell-shaped, purple-pink or white flowers in long spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation This herb is native to
western Europe. Though it is also cultivated, the wild plant is considered superior. The leaves are picked in summer.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Foxglove contains cardiac glycosides
(including digoxin, digitoxin, and lanatosides), anthraquinones, flavonoids, and saponins. Digitoxin
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   202 26/02/16   12:47 pm203 OTHER MEDICINAL p LANT sEchium vulgar E
Dipsacus fullonum  (Dipsacaceae)
Teasel
Description Perennial with a spiny ridged stem
growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m), lance-shaped leaves, and
lilac-colored flowers blooming from hooked heads.
Habitat & Cultivation Common throughout
Europe and western Asia, teasel thrives on open
areas, roadsides, and banks. It is cultivated only on a
small scale. The root is unearthed in late summer.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Teasel contains inulin, bitter
substances, and a scabioside.
History & Folklore Traditionally, the root
was used to treat conditions such as warts, fistulas
(abnormal passages opening through the skin), and
cancerous sores. The water that collects in the leaf
was called “Venus’s bath” by early herbalists, and was
thought to be very beneficial for the eyes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Teasel root is
little used medicinally today, and its therapeutic
applications are disputed. It is thought to have
diuretic, sweat-inducing, and stomach-soothing
properties, cleansing the system and improving
digestion. Due to its apparent astringency, teasel is
considered helpful in diarrhea. It is also thought to
increase appetite, to tone the stomach, and to act on
the liver, helping with jaundice and gallbladder
problems. A new application of teasel, so far
unsubstantiated, is in the treatment of Lyme disease.Sundew was once considered a refreshing herb because
it maintained its “dew” even in full sun.
Dorema ammoniacum (Apiaceae)
Ammoniacum
Description Very large perennial herb growing
to a height of 10 ft (3 m), with a stout stem,
compound leaves, and umbels of white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Ammoniacum is native
to central Asia, Iran, and northern Russia. When
pierced, the stem exudes a milky gum, which is
pressed into blocks and then ground into a powder.
Part Used Oleo-gum-resin.Constituents Ammoniacum contains a resin
(60–70%), gum, volatile oil (including ferulene and
linalyl acetate), free salicylic acid, and coumarins.
History & Folklore Ammoniacum’s medicinal
value has been appreciated since ancient times, and
is mentioned by Hippocrates (460–377 bce). The
herb’s common name reputedly derives from
the Temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya, in an area
where it was commonly collected.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Used in both
Western and Indian medicine, ammoniacum is still
listed in the British Pharmacopoeia  as an antispasmodic
and as an expectorant that stimulates the coughing
up of thick mucus. It is a specific treatment for
chronic bronchitis, asthma, and persistent coughs.
Ammoniacum is also occasionally used to induce
sweating or menstruation.
Other Species Ammoniacum is medicinally
similar to asafoetida ( Ferula assa-foetida, p. 210)
and galbanum ( Ferula gummosa, p. 211).Habitat & Cultivation Sundew grows in
Europe, Asia, and North America, and is found
in marshy ground at altitudes up to 5,900 ft
(1,800 m). Formerly it was picked while in flower
in summer. As it is now rare, it should not be
gathered from the wild.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Sundew contains naphthaquinones,
enzymes, flavonoids, and volatile oil. The
naphthaquinones are antimicrobial, antispasmodic,
and also cough-suppressing.
History & Folklore In the 16th and 17th
centuries, sundew was thought to be a remedy
for melancholy. In his Irish Herbal  (1735), K’Eogh
advised using sundew to “eat away rotten sores.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Sundew is of
greatest value in the treatment of spasmodic chest
conditions such as whooping cough, bronchial
asthma, and asthma. In relaxing the muscles of the
respiratory tract, the plant eases breathing, relieves
wheezing, and lessens the spasms of whooping
cough. Commonly mixed with thyme in a syrup,
sundew is a helpful remedy for coughs in children.
The herb is also prescribed for gastric problems.
Teasel  was traditionally used to treat warts and fistulas.
Drosera rotundifolia
(Droseraceae)
Sundew
Description Evergreen, insectivorous perennial
growing to 6 in (15 cm). Has small white flowers.
The hinged, spoon-shaped leaves edged with spines
secrete a sticky fluid (“sundew”), which traps
insects. They are digested when the leaf closes. Echium vulgare (Boraginaceae)
Viper’s Bugloss
Description Abundantly hairy perennial growing
up to 3 ft (1 m). Has narrow prickly leaves and pink
to violet clusters of flowers in dense spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe,
viper’s bugloss is commonly found on uncultivated
land, by roadsides, and in low-lying and coastal
regions. The flowering tops are gathered in
late summer.
Parts Used Flowering tops.
Constituents Viper’s bugloss contains
pyrrolizidine alkaloids, allantoin, alkannins, and
mucilage. In isolation, pyrrolizidine alkaloids are
toxic to the liver. The alkannins are antimicrobial
and allantoin helps wounds to heal.Dorstenia contrajerva (Urticaceae)
Contrayerva
Description Stemless perennial herb growing
to 1 ft (30 cm


 he is advised to skip a feeding or two. But this rarely
occurs as it does when the fast is broken on juices. There is no compulsory amount of food he must
take during this period.
On the third day we give twelve ounces of whole orange or melon for breakfast, two or three
oranges, or two or three tomatoes, depending on their size for lunch, and three or four oranges for
the evening meal. After the third day it is no longer necessary to weigh the food as the body again
becomes accustomed to handling food. Instead of oranges, the third day, an equivalent amount of
grapefruit or other juicy fruit in season may be given. The particular food given is not so important
as avoiding overfeeding the faster. These fruits should be fresh, well ripened, and well chewed.
Any tendency of the feeder to hurried eating should be discouraged.
On the fourth day the faster gets a small breakfast composed of citrus fruits or one or two other
fresh fruits, or melon in season; at noon, a vegetable salad without salt, oil, vinegar, lemon juice or
dressing of any kind, and one cooked nonstarchy vegetable. For the evening meal I feed fruit again.
This meal should be light, but may be slightly larger than the breakfast.
On the fifth day, another fruit breakfast; a salad, two cooked green vegetables and a baked
potato or a protein (small quantity) at noon, and a fruit meal again in the evening. I permit a glass
of sour milk, (made from unpasteurized milk) at this fruit meal for those who are not vegetarians.
On the sixth day the feeding is about the same as on the fifth day, except that the amounts are
increased. By the end of the first week the faster should be able to take normal amounts of food.
No between meal eating is permitted and no eating in the evening before retiring is allowed. Three
meals a day, simple and composed of fresh foods, constitute the best plan of feeding following a
fast. If, later, the individual desires to adopt a two-meal or a one-meal plan of eating, this is best
done after he has acquired some weight.
Bed rest should be continued through the first week of eating and activity begun very gradually.
It is common for the faster to want to become active as soon as he resumes eating. This is unwise.
He is not so strong and he does not have the endurance he thinks he has. Also activity retards his
gain in weight if he has fasted to add weight.
Some fasters want to take long walks as soon as eating is resumed. Such activity is often over
indulged to the extend that it often retards recuperation and causes the individual's weight to stand
still. One must take it easy for a few days before resuming normal activities.
If the fast has been less than two weeks in duration, breaking it may be done with eight ounces of
whole fruit every two hours the first day, then the preceding program followed from there. Less
caution is required in
breaking a short fast of this kind, and activity may be resumed sooner after a
short fast.
59All of this is true, of course, in those individuals who are in a fair state of health. If there is need
for added rest and for light eating for some time after breaking a short fast, the faster must be
guided by the judgment of his adviser.
But the most important advice, for all fasters at the breakfast point, is this:
Go slowly!
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Can Fasting Keep You Well?
There is no such miracle as permanent recovery in the sense that we can become so healthy we
need give no further attention to our health. Nor is there any such thing as permanent weight
reduction in the sense that we can eat all we want and stay thin.
Caring for the needs of life to secure health and proper weight maintenance is a constant
Hygienic
 responsibility. We have all the health we deserve and no more.
No genuine recovery can be made until the cause of the impairment of health is removed and no
perpetuation of the recovery is possible except upon a basis of continued avoidance of the causes
of ill health.
To remain well requires that we live in a way to perpetuate good health. Whatever breaks down
health in the first place will do so again, if it is returned to after health has been restored. Fasting
will not provide man with a license to debauch himself. Fasting followed by gourmandizing is
stupid. The drunk who sobers up can and will get drunk again if he returns to drink. If he ignores
the drink he will not again become drunk.
When a man learns his limitations in food consumption, and respects these, he will remain well.
If he habitually oversteps these, he will build disease and no plan of
immunization
 can prevent
him from becoming ill.
A return to coffee and tobacco, to alcohol and poisoned soft-drinks, to overwork and late hours,
to unventilated bedrooms and slothfulness, to overeating and the conventional diet, in a word, to he
old disease-producing way of life will build again physical troubles that have subsided with
fasting. The only basis upon which to establish and maintain high-level health is supplied by first-
class living habits.
What are the causes of disease? Any and all habits of mind and body that use up nerve energy in
excess. Whatever factor or combination of factors that produces enervation is a cause of disease. If
we squander our energies in many ways, we will enervate ourselves and begin the evolution of
more disease. It is inevitable, under such circumstances, that elimination shall be checked and
waste accumulate in the body.
Thus it becomes apparent that a corrected pattern of life involves far more than a mere change in
eating habits. The sexual life, emotional life, working life, domestic life and all other elements of
living that make up the complex of our lives are each vital to health. Each habit must be ordered
and controlled in keeping with the unchanging laws that govern the living organism.
Fasting results in a radical cleansing of the fluids and tissues of the body, but it cannot prevent
the subsequent fouling of these same fluids and tissues brought on by the return to overeating
patterns. We can stay well only so long as we live in a manner to maintain and increase the gains
we have made.
If we cannot return to these old and discarded routines, what should we eat? Can we continue at
least in buying the ordinary dishes of average families?
To answer that I must point out certain facts of modern food that affect all of our civilization.
We are living in an over-processed age, in terms of our diet. Everything is refined, stripped of its
essential food values, baked, fried, cooked, over-stuffed. This is one of the great perils of our age.
It is also one of the great problems of any person who wants to live on natural foods.
61Natural products, coming from the hands of nature before they have been tampered with by the
processors and refiners, are the one source that has consistently proved, throughout the ages,
dependable both for man and animal. In spite of claims that processed and packaged substitutes for
foods are as good or better than nature’s products, the fact remains that no truly adequate
substitutes for the products of nature have been discovered and prepared in the laboratories. The
acid test of a food, it seems to me, is its fitness to serve the nutritive needs of the human organism
just coming off a prolonged fast.
In all of my experience with feeding I have found nothing turned out synthetically by foods
manufacturers to equal the untouched products of garden, orchard and field. Processing removes
vitally important minerals from the foods, and either removes or makes valueless some or all of
the precious vitamins. Enzymes are destroyed and many of the amino acids of the proteins in the
food are destroyed. (Amino acids are destroyed by heat.)
Because of the destruction of food values by cooking and the removal of
essential food factors
by processing and refining, I emphasize the importance of eating fresh, uncooked fruits and
vegetables daily. Indeed, these foods should constitute no less than sixty percent of the daily diet.
There can be no doubt that less protein will be required to supply the daily amino acid needs of the
body if these are taken in the uncooked state.
Cooking also has the added disadvantage of leeching out much of the values of the food.
Nourishment is lost in the juices that ooze from the foods in cooking; it is lost in the water in which
the foods are boiled or steamed. Food values are evaporated by the high temperature and are
chemically altered and rendered unusable as foods.
One should make it a rule, from which there should be no variations, to have one meal of fresh,
uncooked fruit each day and at least one large raw vegetable salad daily. The salads commonly
eaten are too small to meet our needs and are often made up of such things as mashed potatoes,
boiled eggs, pickled olives and other such substances, to which is added a greasy dressing—but
with little in the way of either fresh fruits or vegetables. Some of them contain a leaf or two of
semi-wilted lettuce, a slice of half-ripened tomato, and dressing. Hardly enough to nourish a
canary.
Salads of raw vegetables and meals of fresh fruits are essential sources of minerals and
vitamins. These foods are more abundant in these food factors, and are as necessary to the nutrition
of man as an abundance of green grass is essential to the horse or cow. He who partakes of these
foods each day


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Hypoglycemia. 101-102
Ice cream, 85
lees, Cantaloupe, 204
Indigestion, 40,41,42, 52
Inglefinger, Dr. Franz, xiiin.
Ingrasci, Dr. Rick, xiiin.
Insulin, 96
Integrative medicine, xi-xiv
International Congress on Obesity, 50
International Society for Research on Civilization
and Environment, 79n.
International Society for Research on Nutrition and
Vital Statistics, 79
Intestinal Tract, The (Spencer), 78n.
Intestines, 75
"Intrinsic factor," 78
Jennings, Dr. Isaac, 1 5
Jerusalem artichokes, 128
Jicama, 128
Johns Hopkins University, 49
School of Medicine, 44
loumal of the American Medical Association, 37,
77,78
Joy, Dr. Brugh, xiin.
juicer, 114, 118, 119, 204
Juices
fruit, 4
breakfast suggestions, 114-17
fresh. 53-54T 118-19 _
when to consume, 51-52, 54-55, 56-57. 59
vegetable. 5. 54. 118-19
Cocktail. Fresh. 152
Kale. 74. 128
Kasha. 132
Keeler, Richard O., 81
Kelp, 86
Kettle Chips—N. S. Khalsa, 132, 134
Kidneys, 9, 95, 96, 99. 100, 101
Kiwi, 125
Breakfast Fruit Platter, 220-21
Strawberry-, Salad, 170
Kleeman, Dr. Charles, xiiin.
Kling, Jovce M., I03n.
Kulvinskas, Viktoras. 49n.. 68. 72n., 81
Kuzu. 136
Labels, reading, 122
lactase, 83, 103
Lapp£, Frances Moore. 71
Law of minimum. 100
Learning disabilities. 116
Lee, Dr. Royal. 97-98
U-ck(s), 128'
Carrot-. Bisque, 192
Legumes. 134
JNDEX • 237 Lemon Butter Sauce
Broccoli in, 213
Steamed Vegetables in, 206-20
Lentil Soup, Old-Fashioned. 218-19
Leonard, George, xiiin.
Leonardo, Blanche, 50n., 68
"Lesson #8, Proteins in the Diet," 68n., 75n.,?8n.
"Lesson #33, Why We Should Not Eat Animal
Products in Any Form," 85n.
"Lesson #55, Prenatal Care for Better Infant and
Maternal Health and Less Painful Childbirth,"
103n., 104n.
Lettuce, 128
California Tostada, 187-88
French Peas and, 202
The Properly Combined Sandwich, 150-51
Romaine Roll-Ups, 208
see also Salad(s)
Leukemia, 49
Levy, Dr. Stuart, 83
Lewis, David L., 46-47
Life Science llealthSystem, The (Fry), 72n.
Life span, xii, 6, 35
Lifestrcam Natural Foods, Ltd., 131, 133
Life-style, 6-7, 59, 65-66, 223-24
guidelines, 143-46
Light Dressing, 150
Lima beans, 128
Yam Stew, 211-12
List of foods you ate in one day, 28, 35
Live Food Products, 136
Liver, 72. 75, 79, 99, 100
cancer, 49
Lo Mein with Shredded Vegetables. Stir-Fried,
179-80
Loquat, 125
Los Angeles Times, 34-35, 81, 99
Lumholtz, Dr. Carl, 79
Lunch, 5
four-week sample menus and recipes, 149-222
substitution of fresh fruit for. 144
Lungs, 17
Lychee, 125-26
Lymph system, 72
McBean, Eleanor. 97
McCay. Dr. CHve. 97
Macrobiotics, 54
Main-course salad, 139-42
as dinner substitute, 140, 143
substituting one, for another, 140
Malic acid, 97
Mammalian Protein Metabolism (Munro et. al), 73n
Mammals, eating patterns of, 32-35, 45
Mango, 125
dried, 12
"Man Who Lives with Corillas, The," 70n.
Marinated Pasta Salad, 192-93
Mayo, William)., 49-50
Mayo Clinic, 49
Mayonnaise, 136
Dressing, Curried. 165
Meal, see Flour and meal
Meat, 69-78, 111, 181
carnivore versus human physiology, 75-76
chemicals given to animals, 76—77, 79, 83
hints to minimize negative effects of eating.
76-78
shopping list. 134-35
when to eat fruit after eating, 55
see also Chicken; Fish
"Meat for B,2," 78n.
Mediterranean Rice Salad, 156
Melons, 114, 115, 117, 124
Cantaloupe
Breakfast Fruit Platter, 220-21
Ice. 204 Supreme, Blueberry-, 204
Menstrual cycle, 144
Menus, four-week sample, 149-222
Metabolic imbalance, theory of, 24-27
Mi-Del Honev Crahams—Health Foods. Inc.. 132.
133
Migraine headaches, 81, 84
Milk, xii, xiv, 81-85, 110-11, 119
Almond, Fresh, 195
digesting^ 82-83, 103
see also Dairy products
Minerals, 29-30, 36, 50, 53, 103
supplements, 99-101, 104
Miso, 136
Modern Products, Inc., 137
Mother Earth Chips—Enterprises, Inc., 132, 134
Mucus, 63, 83, 84. 85, 116
Munro, H. N., 73n.
Muscular system, 17
Mushrooms, 129
Black, with Zucchini and Chinese Greens, Stir-
Fried, 214-16
Cream Gravy, 172
Marinated Pasta Salad, 192-93
Perfect Sautecd, 198
Mustard, 136
Dijon Dressing, 181
Mustard greens, 129
Nasset, E. S., 73
National Academy of Science, xiii
National Cancer Institute, 64-65
National Geographic, 35
National Institutes of Health, 151
Natural and Kosher Foods, Inc., 131, 133
Natural body cycles, 21-23, 59-60, 112
Natural Hygiene, 13-20, 29, 110, 112
as basis for Fit for Life program, 20
definition of, 15-16
history of, 14-15
proponents of, 15
see also Fit for Life program
Natural laws, 6. 7, 16
Natural Weight Control (Walker), 34
Nausea, 63
Nectarines, 124
Nephritis, 101
New England journal of Medicine, 81
New York Goodwich, 159-60
New York Times, 49
Noodles, Lo Mein, with Shredded Vegetables, Stir-
Fried, 179-80
Norman, Dr. Philip, 37
Nutrition, xii, xiii—xiv
well-being and. 19-20
"NutritionalNecds Greater for Pregnant Teen
agers, Over 30s," 104n.
Nutrition Health Review, 77
Nuts. 74. 85, 86, 103, 104, 144
butters, 131
Dip, 158
and Cukes, 162
shopping list, 130
Oasis Health Breads, Inc., 131, 133
Obesity, 20, 22, 35, 40, 44, 52, 84
of mammals, 32-33
theory of metabolic imbalance, 24-27
Oils shopping list, 135
Okitani, A.,75n.
Okra, 47
Old-Fashioned Lentil Soup, 218-19
Old Monk products, 135
Olives, 136
Onions