 to age and are not
its important components. A 70 -year-old can be
young according to their physical and mental
state, and a 40 -year-old can be old, languid and
depressed. And yet the first person is already 70,
while the second is only 40. Knowing this, we
can ignore the widespread assertion, that ‘we’re
trying to turn back time’. The age -related
changes happening in the organism that are
called ageing, aren’t so much linked to the pass-
ing of time, as to the factors, absolutely unrelated
to time per se.
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son at 70 should have all the indications of old
age, inherent in this period of life, and a person
at 40 – all the indications of youth, found at this
age. The fact that the case is often the opposit e
makes us doubt the assumption that the state of
the body is irreversibly linked with the number
of years lived. We shouldn’t find it difficult to
understand that although age is expressed in
time, time isn’t the cause of the ageing process.
For example, let’s take a stone being washed by
water. It changes over time, but it’s not time that
polishes it, it’s water. The ageing process re-
quires time, but time isn’t the cause of polishing.
Two stones, polished by water in the to the
same extent, abrade at different speeds, depend-
ing on their hardness and density. Due to the
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identical destructive factors age at a different
speed, depending on their individual resistance
to the destructive factors.
A stone abrades faster or slower depending on
the amount of water flowing around it: if it’s
small, the stone abrades slowly, if there’s a lot of
water, the abrasion happens faster. A person also
ages fast or slowly depending on the number of
destructive influences this person is affected by.
Let’s expand our example somewhat: let’s im-
agine a self -restoring rock. At first it was being
polished by water, then the water stopped wash-
ing it. The rock begins ‘repairing’ itself and re-
storing the larger part of the lost matter. In the
human body, a natural process will take place
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the causes of ageing are eliminated.
The body is capable of destroying some of the
damaged structures, replacing them with fresh
ones, and renewing the cells  by dumping the
‘loads’ accumulated in them and ‘repairing’ their
damaged parts. Figuratively speaking, the hu-
man body can actively handle its business on its
own in a constructive manner.
Humans can live longer and better than they do
now. They should liv e much longer than now,
and enjoy absolute health and energy. They
shouldn’t waste away at 60 or earlier. But in fact,
excluding deaths from accidents and homicides,
people die from diseases. If we lived in a way that
prevented the development of diseases,  not only
could we live longer than what’s considered
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physical and mental powers.
Aging is defined as an ‘accumulation of
changes in the organism, increasing the proba-
bility of death of a given individual over th e
course of time.’ This simply means that aging is
a slow accumulation of pathological (unhealthy)
changes in the organs and tissues, injuries in the
structures of the body and a slow deterioration
of its vital functions. Old age is just another
chronic disease. And this is the reason why we
can age sooner or later, and some people at sev-
enty look younger than some 40 -year-olds.
Aging happens over time, but time is not its
cause. Consequently, it doesn’t matter, what
method we should use to precisely determ ine
human physiological age, what matters is that we
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ing. Eliminate the cause of aging, and let the
physiological age take care of itself. Nobody
knows for sure what the changes of the organism
leading to agi ng are, or what sort of changes they
are exactly. Let’s examine the experiments of a
well- known French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel16,
author of the book Man, The Unknown. Keeping
separate fragments of a chicken heart alive over
the course of many years, he  found out that they
aged, unless they got rid of the waste accumu-
lated in their cells. In other words, they aged

16Alexis Carrel  (1873 – 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist
who was awarded the  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in
1912 for pioneering vascular   suturing  techniques.  He wrote the
book Man, The Unknown.  New York and London: Harper and
Brothers, 1939.
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by their own metabolism in the culture medium
where they were placed. If this waste was regu-
larly removed, preventing the cells from getting
poisoned by it, the chicken heart didn’t age. This
is very important proof that aging is the result of
chronic saturation with toxic substances. Unfor-
tunately, the important discovery attracted too
little attent ion, perhaps, because a way to use it
was not discovered.
Carrel’s experiments and many other similar
ones helped scientists conclude that cells are po-
tentially immortal. In their normal state, they
keep dividing over and over again, but they
don't’ die. Death turns out to be an abnormal
phenomenon. Nevertheless, under the regular
life conditions we observe that cells actually age
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indefinitely, all the conditions have to be favora-
ble.
If cells are potential ly immortal, as scientists
currently think, and the body as a system gets
older, then it’s obvious that one of two things is
true. Either the functional specialization of cell
groups / body organs is mismatched, or there’s
no coordination of cell groups in  the organism.
Perhaps, both of these factors are true. If one or
both of these assumptions are true, this poses a
question:  is the discrepancy of specialization or
the discrepancy of coordination a primary (ini-
tial) condition of life or is it (the mismat ch) a re-
sult of established and resolvable causes? If it’s a
primary condition, then we cannot hope to pre-
vent the aging process for more than a short
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But if it’s induced by causes that can be avoided
or el iminated, which seems likely enough, then
we’re capable of doing a lot to prevent aging.
At least countless experiments on many lower
forms of life have demonstrated that it’s not only
possible to delay the aging process for an infi-
nitely long time, but also to reverse it, restoring
youth.
For more than 15 years, professor C. M. Child17
from the University of Chicago researched ani-
mal ageing. His results revealed that periodical
fasting usually promotes bodily rejuvenation.

17 Charles Manning Child  (1869 – 1954) was an American zoologist
noted for his work on regeneration (especially
on Coelenterates  and flatworm s) at the  University of Chicago.
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out that, when given abundant food, the insects’
life lasted for 3 -4 weeks, but if the amount of
food was decreased or the insects were forced to
fast, they would stay active and young for at least
3 years. Here’s his conclusion: “Partial fasting
prevents aging. The fasting person


 digestion demonstrates that this is not so. The mineral c ontent of a food is the primary determining factor as to whether
the food produces an alkaline or an acid reaction in the body. Once the food has been  digested, if acid minerals predominate, as
they do in meats and most nuts and seeds, for instance, the food will be said t o have an acid reaction in the body, or to be “acid-
forming.”  Since alkaline minerals predominate in almost all fruits, includin g the acid fruits, it is safe to say that fruit has an alkalizing eff ect
upon the body. Fruits may not be as alkalizing as greens, but their reputati on as acidifying foods is unfounded.
Cancer researchers have demonstrated that when cells in a petri di sh are bathed in an appropriate nutritive environment and
the toxic waste products of their metabolism are efficiently removed, h ealthy cells result. To date, it has not been possible to cause
cancer in these healthy cells no matter which carcinogens they  are briefly exposed to.
We can translate this good news to humans, for whom the high-fruit 80/10/10  diet represents, in my opinion, the ideal
“appropriate nutritive environment” in which to bathe the cel ls of our bodies. W e cannot, however, expect to eat acid-forming foods
like cooked proteins, heated oils, and fried chips and remain cancer-free jus t because we also eat large quantities of fruit and
greens.

Acid-Alkaline Balance
Most of our body fluids and cells require a neutral to slightly alkaline en vironment (a pH reading in the high-six to low-seven
range) in order to be healthy. By design, even if we live and eat very hea lthfully, our cells tend to acidify due to normal daily activities
and stresses. Nature in her infinite wisdom set it up so that our natur al diet of alkalizing raw fruits and vegetables would neutralize
those acids.
If the vast majority of our foods are alkaline forming, we can easily liv e in a state of balance, or homeostasis. (Meditation,
yoga, biofeedback, and gentle exercise may reduce acidity somewhat, but hav e not been shown to actually alkalize the body).
However, if we overwhelm our bodies with unnatural sources of acidity, th ere is no amount of raw fruit and vegetables that can
compensate.
What kinds of activities and practices acidify us in this way?

Consuming cooked foods, heated fats, animal-derived foods, grains (cooked or raw), or m ore than a very small amount of
nuts and seeds.
Eating poorly combined foods, cooked or raw.
Smoking or taking any drugs or stimulants, including caffeine.
Drinking alcohol, carbonated drinks, coffee or tea.
Lack of exercise, insufficient rest and sleep.
Sustained stress, anger, fear, or other negative emotions.

Rather than eliminating the unhealthful foods and practices from t heir lives, some people fall prey to salesmen who claim that
juicing greens or grasses or consuming highly concentrated “supe rfood” powders can provide enough concentrated alkalinity to
counteract an acidic condition in the body. Juices and superfoods, none of them w hole foods of our biological adaptation (despite
marketing to the contrary), serve only to create further imbalance s, however. Only healthful living results in health … there is no
shortcut.

Does Fruit Feed Cancer Cells?
Cancer cells, like all other cells, use glucose as their primary fue l. But it is not possible to starve cancer cells of their fuel without al so
starving all other cells, including vital brain, heart, liver, and kidn ey cells. Of course, to do so would be counterproductive and in
fact, deadly.
Cancer cells thrive in an anaerobic environment, meaning one wher e the oxygen content is very low. Eating a high-fat diet
decreases the oxygen content of the blood and tissues and creates an ideal  environment for cancer cells to flourish. When we
consume a diet such as 80/10/10, which is high in simple carbohydrates and water, we effectively rai se the oxygen-carrying capacity
of the blood, thus vastly reducing the likelihood that we will create canc er.
The point is not to try to starve the cancer cells of their fuel, as that  would effectively kill the patient as well, but to create a
well-oxygenated environment that is inhospitable to the creation an d subsequent survival of cancer cells.

Fruit and Acid Indigestion
The popular belief that fruit causes acid indigestion is another case  in which a nutritional misconception has mushroomed out of
proportion and acquired mainstream momentum. When a person eats a healthy, simple meal, it generally leaves the stomach rapidly,
usually in less than an hour. Difficult-to-digest foods can be held in t he stomach for twenty-four hours and longer.
When a person eats such foods for dinner, they are generally still sitt ing in his or her stomach the next morning. Should he then
have fruit for breakfast, an extremely volatile and incompatible combin ation is formed, and acid stomach is often the result. Not surprisingly, most people then blame the fruit they ate for the acid condi tion they experience.
I call this the “kick the dog” reaction. Picture a man having a bad day a t work, getting a speeding ticket on the way home, and
then running over his child’s bicycle as he pulls in to the gara ge. The dog rushes to greet him and puts his paws on the man’s pant
leg. The man then kicks the dog as if the dog had been the cause of his entire  bad day. The dog was simply the last straw, but not
the cause of the man’s troubles. Similarly, fruit is not the cause of  the indigestion problem but simply sheds light on the fact that  a
poor food choice was made the night before.

Fruit and Tooth Decay
Funny thing about teeth—everybody’s got them and almost everybody ha s problems with them. Ask a dentist what
percentage of his or her patients have problems with their teeth becau se they ate too much fruit. The percentage will be so low as to
approach zero.
People have problems with their teeth for a wide variety of reasons, incl uding these three:

Exposure to intense acids, such as the phosphoric acid in soft drinks, tannic  acid in tea, and the various acids in coffee erodes
tooth enamel.
Fluoride in the water supply often results in eventual tooth decay (as  well as other serious health problems). The late Dr. John
Yiamouyiannis wrote and spoke with great courage and conviction about the  significant dangers of fluoridation. 24
Excess acidity in the bloodstream causes the body to seek stored alkaline mi nerals (primarily calcium) to neutralize the acids.
Eating highly acid-forming foods like meats, dairy products, and grains el icits this intelligent bodily response. The acid minerals
in these foods can eventually cause erosion of tooth and bone structure, as  the body draws out calcium to neutralize them.
(See “The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein.”).

Eating fruit, at least according to the old adage, “an apple a day keeps the  doctor away,” is actually good for your teeth. So
what is it about dentists, teeth, and fruit that scares people? I t hink it is the fact that dentists don’t really understand the relati onship
between nutrition and tooth decay all that well, yet they are asked to expou nd upon it daily.
One dentist told a friend of mine that the reason she was having such s evere dental problems was that she ate too much fat.
Another dentist told another friend that the reason for her severe dent al problems was that she ate too little fat. I have heard dentists
tell clients that they need to eat more carbohydrates, while others te ll their clients to eat fewer carbohydrates. One dentist told me
that I was going to have tooth worries if I ate any carbohydrate at all.
It appears that going to the dentist for nutritional information is not m uch different than asking your local auto mechanic for
financial advice. Dentists eat and mechanics make money, but in neit her case does that qualify them as experts in the field. Dentists
are experts at repairing decayed teeth. Essentially they are con struction workers who work on tiny job sites—filling potholes,
building bridges, and the like. They are not specialists in nutrition or th e biochemistry of the mouth.

Dental Hygiene Itself Is a Culprit
So what exactly is it that results in tooth decay? Good evidence is emer ging that much of today’s tooth and gum disease is actually
caused by the “preventative” procedures we have been taught  to give our teeth. Aggressive brushing of the gums can wear them
away, resulting in receding gums. Gums are soft and can decay quickly w hen treated roughly. Receded gums expose the roots of the
teeth, which have no enamel and hence no protection from the acids in foods or  those produced by bacteria.
Flossing the gums, rather than gently flossing only the spaces betw een the teeth, can also be detrimental. Improper flossing can
irritate the gums and result in unnatural enlargement of the pocke ts between the teeth and gums. Food and microbes can then be
caught in these


 vegetables. I started my spa when my daughterwas about five years old and from that point she was, like it or not, a raw fooder.And all that raw food was Organic and much of it from Great Oaks School’shuge vegetable garden.
For my daughter to develop cavities on this diet is reminiscent of Woody
Allen’s joke in his movie “Sleeper.” Do you recall this one, made about 1973?The plot is a take off on Rip Van Winkle. Woody goes into the hospital for minorsurgery. Unexpectedly he expires on the operating table and his body is frozen inhopes that someday he can be revived. One hundred and fifty years later he isrevived.
The priceless scene I always think of takes place in his hospital room
immediately after he comes to consciousness. The doctor in charge of his case isexplaining to Woody what has happened. Woody refuses to believe he died andwas frozen, asserting that the whole story is a put on. Woody insists that the“doctor” is clearly an actor hired by his friends! It absolutely can’t be the year2123. “Oh, but it really is 2123,” insists the doctor. “And it is no put on by hisfriends; all his friends are long dead; Woody knows no one at all in 2123 and hadbetter prepare himself to start a new life.”
Woody still insists it is a put on. “I had a healthfood store,” he says, “and all
my friends ate brown rice. They can’t be dead!”
And my perfectly nourished daughter couldn’t have developed cavities! But
she did. And if she cheated on her perfect diet, bad food could not haveamounted to more than two percent of her total caloric intake from birth to ageten. I was a responsible mom and I made sure she ate right! Now my daughterwas demanding to know why she had tooth decay. Fortunately, I now know theanswer. The answer is rather complex, but I can give a simplified explanation.
The Confusions About Diets and Foods
Like my daughter, many people of all ages are muddled about the relationship
between health and diet. Their confusions have created a profitable market forhealth-related information. And equally, their confusions have been created bybooks, magazine articles, and TV news features. This avalanche of data is highlycontradictory. In fact, one reason I found it hard to make myself write my ownbook is that I wondered if my book too would become just another part of theconfusion.
Few people are willing to tolerate very much uncertainty. Rather than live with
the discomfort of not knowing why, they will create an explanation or find someanswer, any answer, and then ever after, assert its rightness like a shipwreckedperson clings to a floating spar in a storm. This is how I explain the genesis ofmany contemporary food religions.
Appropriately new agey and spiritual, Macrobiotics teaches the way to perfect
health is to eat like a Japanese whole foods vegetarian—the endless staple beingbrown rice, some cooked vegetables and seaweeds, meanwhile balancing the“yin” and “yang” of the foods. And Macrobiotics works great for a lot of people.But not all people. Because there’s next to nothing raw in the Macrobiotic dietand some people are allergic to rice, or can get allergic to rice on that diet.
Linda Clark’s Diet for a Small Planet  also has hundreds of thousands of
dedicated followers. This system balances the proportions of essential aminoacids at every, single meal and is vegetarian. This diet also works and really helpssome people, but not as well as Macrobiotics in my opinion because obsessedwith protein, Clark’s diet contains too many hard-to-digest soy products andmakes poor food combinations from the point of digestive capacity.
Then there are the raw fooders. Most of them are raw, Organic fooders who
go so far as to eat only unfired, unground cereals that have been soaked in warmwater (at less than 115 degrees or you’ll kill the enzymes) for many hours tosoften the seeds up and start them sprouting. This diet works and really helps a lot
of people. Raw organic foodism is especially good for “holy joes,” a sort of
better-than-everyone-else person who enjoys great self-righteousness by owningthis system. But raw fooding does not help all people nor solve all diseasesbecause raw food irritates the digestive tracts of some people and in northernclimates it is hard to maintain body heat on this diet because it is difficult toconsume enough concentrated vegetable food in a raw state. And some rawfooders eat far too much fruit. I’ve seen them lose their teeth because of fruit’slow mineral content, high sugar level and constant fruit acids in their mouths.
Then there are vegetarians of various varieties including vegans (vegetarians
that will not eat dairy products and eggs), and then, there are their exactopposites, Atkins dieters focusing on protein and eating lots of meat. There’s theAdelle Davis school, people eating whole grains, handfuls of vitamins, lots of dairyand brewers yeast and wheat germ, and even raw liver. Then there’s the Organicschool. These folks will eat anything in any combination, just so long as it isorganically produced, including organically raised beef, chicken, lamb, eggs,rabbit, wild meats, milk and diary products, natural sea salt in large quantities andof course, organically grown fruits, vegetables grains and nuts. And what is“Organic?” The word means food raised in compliance with a set of rulescontrived by a certification bureaucracy. When carefully analyzed, the somewhatillogical rules are not all that different in spirit than the rules of kashsruth or kosher.And the Organic certification bureaucrats aren’t all that different than the rabbiswho certify food as being kosher, either.
There are now millions of frightened Americans who, following the advice of
mainstream Authority, have eliminated red meat from their diets and greatlyreduced what they (mistakenly) understand as high-cholesterol foods.
All these diets work too—for some—and all demonstrate some of the truth.The only area concerning health that contains more confusion and
contradictory data than diet is vitamins. What a rats nest that is!
The Fundamental Principle
If you are a true believer in any of the above food religions, I expect that you
will find my views unsettling. But what I consider “good diet” results from myclinical work with thousands of cases. It is what has worked with those cases. Myeclectic views incorporate bits and pieces of all the above. In my own case, Istarted out by following the Organic school, and I was once a raw foodvegetarian who ate nothing but raw food for six years. I also ate Macrobiotic forabout one year until I became violently allergic to rice.
I have arrived at a point where I understand that each person’s biochemistry is
unique and each must work out their own diet to suit their life goals, life style,genetic predisposition and current state of health. There is no single, one, all-encompassing, correct diet. But, there is a single, basic, underlying Principle ofNutrition that is universally true. In its most simplified form, the basic equation ofhuman health goes: Health = Nutrition / Calories. The equation falls far short ofexplaining the origin of each individuals diseases or how to cure diseases butHealth = Nutrition / Calories does show the general path toward healthful eatingand proper medicine.
All animals have the exact same dietary problem: finding enough nutrition to
build and maintain their bodies within the limits of their digestive capacity. Rarelyin nature (except for predatory carnivores) is there any significant restriction onthe number of calories or serious limitation of the amount of low-nutrition foodsavailable to eat. There’s rarely any shortage of natural junk food on Earth. Exceptfor domesticated house pets, animals are sensible enough to prefer the mostnutritional fare available and tend to shun empty calories unless they are starving.
But humans are perverse, not sensible. Deciding on the basis of artificially-
created flavors, preferring insipid textures, we seem to prefer junk food andbecome slaves to our food addictions. For example, in tropical countries there isa widely grown root crop, called in various places: tapioca, tavioca, manioc, oryuca. This interesting plant produces the greatest tonnage of edible, digestible,
pleasant-tasting calories per acre compared to any other food crop I know.
Manioc might seem the answer to human starvation because it will growabundantly on tropical soils so infertile and/or so droughty that no other food cropwill succeed there. Manioc will do this because it needs virtually nothing from thesoil to construct itself with. And consequently, manioc puts next to nothingnourishing into its edible parts. The bland-tasting root is virtually pure starch, asimple carbohydrate not much different than pure corn starch. Plants constructstarches from carbon dioxide gas obtained the air and hydrogen obtained fromwater. There is no shortage ever of carbon from CO
2 in the air and rarely a
shortage of hydrogen from water. When the highly digestible starch in manioc ischewed, digestive enzymes readily convert it into sugar. Nutritionally there isvirtually no difference between eating manioc and eating white sugar. Both areentirely empty calories.
If you made a scale from ideal to worst regarding the ratio of nutrition to
calories, white sugar, manioc and most fats are at the extreme undesirable end.Frankly I don’t know which single food might lie at the extreme positive end ofthe scale. Close to perfect might be certain leafy green vegetables that can beeaten raw. When they are grown on extremely fertile soil, some greens develop20 or


 mune, lym phatic and elim ination system s. Norm al pharm aceutical antib iotics possibly destroy
anim als’ enzym es, but colloid al silver leaves these tissu e-cell enzym es intact, as th ey are radically different
from the enzymes of primitive sin gle-celled  life. So  that co lloidal silv er is safe for humans, reptiles, plants
and other multi-celled  living matter.
High concentratio ns of silver do not kill disease g erms more effectiv ely th an the safe range of 3 to 5
parts per million (ppm ). 1 teaspoon of 5 ppm  colloidal silver equals about 25 m icrogram s (mcg) of silver.
1-4 teaspoons per day (25-100 mcg) is generally considered to be a "nut ritional am ount" and is reported to
be safe t o use for ext ended peri ods of t ime. Am ounts higher t han this are general ly consi dered "therapeut ic
amounts" and should only be used peri odically. In cases of illness, natura l health practitioners have often
recom mended taking double or triple the "nutritional amount" for 30 to 45 days, then dropping down to a
smaller maintenance dose. Am ounts from  1-32 ounces per day  have report edly been used i n acut e
condi tions.
There are three types of silv er that are lab eled and sold on the market: (1 ) colloidal silv er (ionic silver);
(2) si lver prot ein; (3) true col loidal silver. The t hree types of product s norm ally labeled as “col loidal silver”
can be categorized as ionic silver solutions, silver protein, and true colloidal silv er.
Silver is also wi dely used i n the bioassay s (Koshi, 2005). For exam ple, by  Zagoski na’s st udies, fi tness
of dot immuno-anal ysis for detection of Brucella antigens l abeled wi th colloid silver was eval uated.
Soluble lipopolysaccharides and protei n-saccharide antigen and corpuscular antigens of  22 Brucella strains
(7 speci es) pat hogeni c for hum ans and ani mals in the S and R  form s were used. The speci ficity of the
method was t ested on 10 het erologous m icroorgani sms whose antigens were closely related. The suggest ed
test system  was sim ple, econom ic, highly sensitive (from 62 thousands to 8 m illion CFU/m l) and specific,
requi res no expensi ve equi pment, and was an al ternative to enzy me immuno-assay  and dot immuno-
analysis with gold immunosol e (Zagoski na, et  al, 2002).
In the silver appl ication, the size of si lver is important. As Chairman of Natural-Immunogeni cs Corp.
Stephen L. Qui nto, emphasi zed at  3rd International Silver Conference (C hangsha, C hina, Oct ober 20t h-
21st, 2004):  “The si lver hy drosol  we have devel oped present s with almost perfect  dispersi on [in electron
microscopy]. That dispersion dem onstr ates the powerful charge each partic le possesses. Thus isolated, they
have a m ean di ameter of 0.8 nm  (or 8 Angst roms), al though t hat has been rounded up t o 1 nm  in the
electron m icroscopy lab at the University of Miam i Medical School where such work was recently done.
We won’t  quibble over 2 Angst roms!” (Qui nto, 2004).

Research reports on colloidal silver
Multiresistan t bacteria h ave become an important problem in prosthetic joint infectio ns. Their frequent
resistance agai nst gent amicin, whi ch is com monly used i n antibiotic-loaded bone cem ents, makes a new
prophylaxis necessary. In Alt’s st udy, NanoSilver bone cem ent did not show any significant differences
compared to the non-t oxic control group. If these prom ising in vitro resul ts can be confi rmed in vivo,
NanoSi lver bone cem ent may be of consi derabl e value in total joint arthroplasty (Alt, et al, 2004).
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Journal  of Am erican Sci ence, 3(3), 2007, M a Hongbao, Horng Dengnan, C herng Shen, C olloidal Silver

Argy ria is a rare cause of cut aneous di scolourat ion caused by silver deposi tion. In 2003, W hite and t he
colleagues report ed a case of dram atic and diffuse argyria secondary  to ingest ion of col loidal silver prot ein
over a 1-y ear peri od. St ained el ectron m icroscopy  with spectral analysis was used to confirm the clin ical
diagnosi s. Silver-prot ein com plexes are deposi ted in the skin and reduced t o inert silver sal ts by sunl ight in
a process si milar to that harnessed i n phot ography  (White, et al, 2003).
Accordi ng to Gosheger’s report : Infect ion of m egaprostheses has a seri ous com plication in orthopedi c
tumor surgery. Despi te the use of sy stemic and l ocal antibiotic prophy laxis the report ed infection rat e is
between 5% and 35%. Si lver-coat ed medical devi ces proved t heir effect iveness i n reduci ng infections.
Their studies exam ined in vivo th e antim icrobial efficacy and possibl e side-effects of a silver-coated
megaprosthesis. In a first study, 30 rabbits (15 titanium  versus 15 silver-coa ted Mutars-endoprostheses)
were infected with Staphy lococcus aureus. In a second st udy, toxicological side effect s were anal yzed i n
10 rabbi ts with a si lver-coat ed megaprost hesis. The silver group showed si gnificantly (p<0.05) lower
infection rates (7% versus 47%) in com parison with the titanium  group. Measurem ents of the C-reactive-
protein (CRP), neutrophilic leukocyt es, rectal tem perature and body we ight showed significant (p<0.05)
lower si gns of i nflammation in the silver group. The anal ysis of the silver concent ration in blood (median
1.883 ppb) and i n organs (0.798-86.002 ppb) showed el evated si lver concent rations wi thout pathologic
changes i n laborat ory param eters and wi thout histological changes of organs. In concl usion, the new si lver-
coated M utars-megaprost hesis resul ted in reduced i nfection rat es wi thout toxicological side effect s,
suggesting that this prosthesis m ight be a prom ising device in tum or surger y exhibiting antim icrobial
activity (Gosheger, 2004).
Colloidal silv er preparations are m arketed on the internet as om nipotent antimicrobial agent s, but
scientific support  for t hese cl aims is lacking. In 2004, van Hassel t, et al report ed the resul ts of in vitro tests
of col loidal silver's antimicrobial activity against several  pathogeni c or non-pat hogeni c microorgani sms.
They  took t hree sam ples of col loidal silver: one avai lable com mercially on t he internet (silver
concent ration of 22 ppm ) and t wo sam ples (concent rations of 403 and 413 ppm ) whi ch were prepared in
our l aborat ory using st andard chem ical methods. Thei r resul ts showed that in an agar-wel l diffusion assay
none of the three colloidal silver sol utions had any  effect  on t he growt h of the test organi sms. Al l tested
bacterial strain s were sen sitive to ciprofloxacin. Colloidal silv er 22 ppm showed no bactericid al activ ity in
phenol  coeffi cient tests. Thus, t hey concl uded t hat as the tested colloidal silver solutions did not show any
antimicrobial effect  in vitro on t he microorgani sms, claims of colloidal silv er's antim icrobial potency are
misleading and there is no place for it as an  antiseptic (van Hasselt, et al, 2004).
In 2003, Tobi n and B ambauer publ ished a revi ew. I t he revi ew art icle they descri bed


 you and the other are one.  And this is because...
There is naught but You.
All the Ma sters who have walked your
planet have taught this. (“Verily, verily, I say
unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my brethren,  ye
have done it unto Me.”) Yet this has
remained for most people merely a grand
esoteric truth, wi th little practical
application. In fact, it is the most practically
applicable “esoteric” truth of all time.
It is important in relationships to remember
this truth, for without it relationships will  be
very difficult.
Let’s go back to the practical appli cations
of this wisdom and step away from the
purely spiritual, esoteric aspect of it for
now. So often, under the old understandings,
people —well-meaning and well -
intentioned  and many very religious —did
what they thought would be best for the
other person  in their relationships. Sadly,
all this produced in many cases (in most
cases) was  continued abuse by the other.
Continued mistreatment. Continued
dysfunction in the  relationship.
Ultimately, the person trying to “do what is
right” by the other —to be quic k to forgive,
to show compassion, to continually look
past certain problems and behaviors —
becomes resentful, angry, and mistrusting,
even of God. For how can a just God
demand such unending suffering,
joylessness, and sacrifice, even in the
name of  love?  The answer is, God does not. God asks
only that you include yourself among those
you love.
God goes further. God suggests —
recommends —that you put yourself first.
I do this knowing full well that some of you
will call this blasphemy, and therefore not
My wor d, and that others of you will do what
might be even worse: accept it as My  word
and misinterpret or distort it to suit your own
purposes; to justify unGodly acts.
I tell you this —putting yourself first in the
highest sense never leads to an ungodly
act.
If, therefore, you have caught yourself in an
unGodly act as a result of doing what is
best for you, the confusion is not in having put yourself first, but rather in
misunderstanding what is best for you.
Of course, determining what is best for you
will req uire you to also determine what it  is
you are trying to do. This is an important
step that many people ignore. What are
you “up to”? What is your purpose in life?
Without answers to these questions, the
matter of what is “best” in any given
circumstances w ill remain a mystery.
As a practical matter —again leaving
esoterics aside —if you look to what is best
for you in these situations where you are
being abused, at the very least what you
will do is stop the abuse. And that will be
good for both you and your abuser. For
even  an abuser is abused when his abuse
is allowed to continue.  This is not healing to the abuser but
damaging. For if the abuser finds that his
abuse is acceptable, what has he learned?
Yet if the abuser finds that his abuse will  be
accepted n o more, what has he been
allowed to discover?
Therefore, treating others with love does
not necessarily mean allowing others to do
as they wish.
Parents learn this early with children.
Adults are not so quick to learn it with other
adults, nor nation with nation.
Yet despots cannot be allowed to flourish
but must be stopped in their despotism.
Love of Self, and love of the despot,
demands it. This is the answer to your
question, “If love is all there is, how can
man ever justify war?”  Sometimes man must go to war to make
the grandest statement about who man
truly is: he who abhors war.
There are times when you may have to give
up Who You Are in order to be Who  You
Are.
There are Masters who have taught: you
cannot have it all until you are willing to  give
it all up.
Thus, in order to “have” yourself as a man
of peace, you may have to give up the  idea
of yourself as a man who never goes to
war. History has called upon men for  such
decisions.
The same is true in the most individual and
the most personal relationships. Life  may
more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an  aspect of
Who You Are Not.
This is not so difficult to understand if you
have lived a few years, though for the
idealistically young it may seem the
ultimate cont radiction. In more mature
retrospection it seems more divine
dichotomy.
This does not mean in human relationships
that if you are being hurt, you have to  “hurt
back.” (Nor does it mean so in relationships
between nations.) It simply means  that to
allow another to continually inflict damage
may not be the most loving thing to  do—for
your Self or the other.
This should put to rest some pacifist
theories that highest love requires no
forceful  response to what you consider evil.  The discussion here tur ns esoteric once
more, because no serious exploration of
this statement can ignore the word “evil,”
and the value judgments it invites. In truth,
there is nothing evil, only objective
phenomena and experience. Yet your very
purpose in life requires you to select from
the growing collection of endless
phenomena a scattered few which you call
evil—for unless you do, you cannot call
yourself, nor anything else, good —and
thus cannot know, or create, your Self.
By that which you call evil do you define
yourself —and by that which you call good.
The biggest evil would therefore be to
declare nothing evil at all.
You exist in this life in the world of the
relative, where one thing can exist only  insofar as it relates to another. This is at
one and the same time both  the function
and the purpose of relationship: to provide
a field of experience within which you find
yourself, define yourself, and —if you
choose —constantly recreate Who You  Are.
Choosing to be God -like does not mean
you choose to be a martyr. And it cert ainly
does not mean you choose to be a victim.
On your way to mastery —when all
possibility of hurt, damage, and loss is
eliminated —it would be well to recognize
hurt, damage, and loss as part of your
experience,  and decide Who You Are in
relationship to it.
Yes, the things that others think, say, or do
will sometimes hurt you —until they do  not
anymore. What will get you from here to there most quickly is total honesty —being
willing to assert, acknowledge, and declare
exactly how you feel about a thing.  Say
your truth —kindly, but fully and completely.
Live your truth, gently, but totally  and
consistently. Change your truth easily and
quickly when your experience brings  you
new clarity.
No one in right mind, least of all God, would
tell you, when you are hurt in a relationship,
to “stand aside from it, cause it to mean
nothing.” If you are now  hurting, it is too late
to cause it to mean nothing. Your task now
is to decide what it  does mean —and to
demonstrate that. For in so doing, you
choose and become  Who You Seek to Be.
So I don’t have to be the long -suffering wife
or the belittled husband or the victim of my  relationships in order to render them holy,
or to make me pleasing in the eyes of God?
Good grief, of course not.
And I don’t have to put up with attacks on
my dignity, assaults on my pride, damage
to my  psyche, and wounds to my heart in
order to say that I “gave it my best” in a
relationship; “did  my duty” or “met my
obligation” in the eyes of God and man?
Not for one minute.
Then, pray God, tell m e—what promises
should I make in relationship; what
agreements  must I keep? What obligations
do relationships carry? What guidelines
should I seek?
The answer is the answer you cannot
hear—for it leaves you without guidelines
and renders null and void ever y agreement in the moment you make it. The answer is:
you have no obligation. Neither in
relationship, nor in all of life.
No obligation?
No obligation. Nor any restriction or
limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor
are you bound by any circumstances or
situations, nor constrained by any code or
law. Nor are you punishable for any
offense, nor capable of any —for there is no
such  thing as being “offensive” in the eyes
of God.
I’ve heard this before —


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 case was pursued because DMSO could be considered the Laetrile (an anti-
cancer drug) of the eighties.
DMSO is a drug that hundreds of thousands of people are using, and for which
there is a great public pressure to make legal nationally. There is also tremendous
congressional pressure to approve DMSO for general use. But the bureaucratic
record thus far is enormously distressing. There is a failure on the part of the FDA
to properly handle DMSO. The agency has undergone internal conflict as a result,
and the Inspector General is investigating that situation. DMSO has had inefficient
and ineffective overall review. Problems that have been discovered were not
expeditiously corrected, and it took the FDA an overly long time to make those
discoveries. Perhaps the FDA has perpetuated the greatest failure of all those
committed, because it is supposed to be the regulator beyond reproach guiding the
others to do what is good and true.
The result is, as Senator Kennedy points out, that a travesty has been made on
the drug regulatory process and serious questions have arisen in the minds of
thousands of physicians and possibly millions of potential patients who need and
want to use DMSO. It may alleviate their suffering from a variety of ailments, but
the drug is being denied to them because of uncertainty as to its safety and
efficacy. The FDA itself has been a blot on the drug regulatory record.
Senator Kennedy assured the public that this entire matter of allegedmisreporting, misstatements, and alterations of data was going to be evaluated for
criminal content by the United States Department of Justice. And it has been.
Overall, charges have not been brought or they’ve been dropped without definitive
conclusions.
Doctors and patients continue to use DMSO in spite of the cloud concerning
its safety. In over fifteen years of use, I have not heard of one patient complaining
of vision problems, and some of these patients have been using DMSO regularly
for ten, twelve, and even fifteen years without complaint. Even if nuclear sclerosis,
or progressive myopia, does occur in some people, it is hardly of clinical
significance in that patients are unaware of changes and do not complain of visual
impairment. All of the studies done up to now show that lens changes seen in
experimental animals are reversible simply by discontinuing the medication.
A study by Dr. Jack de la Torre, reported in the
Journal of Toxicology
and
Environmental Health
 7:49–57, 1981, states: “Daily funduscopic examination
during the testing period failed to reveal any abnormalities in any of the monkeys
tested.... a double-blind slit lamp examination of the lens was performed the day
before saline or DMSO administration and then again 10 and 120 days after saline
or DMSO. No changes in refraction or translucency of the lens and no other
abnormalities were noted in any animal before, during, or eighteen weeks after any
drug administration.”
There is no therapeutically effective agent on the market that does not have the
potential of causing some untoward side effect. Although penicillin,
phenylbutazone, clofibrate, and even aspirin can cause death in some patients, no
one has suggested that these drugs be taken away from the people. “Adverse eye
findings” have been reported with
all
 of the arthritis drugs such as Anaprox,
Naprosyn, and Motrin (as per their package inserts). Yet, no one has suggested
that these minimally effective agents (about the same as aspirin) be taken off the
market because of these adverse eye findings.
Even if the Scherbel findings are verified, DMSO will still be one of the safest
and most important agents when it’s made available. If a person is dying from a
stroke or severe burn, it is unlikely that he or his loved ones will worry about
clinically insignificant lens changes.
Because of the question of eye changes, and in spite of many studies showing
that eye pathology does not occur, most physicians recommend, but do not insist
on, a slit-lamp eye examination every six months for patients using DMSO on a
continual basis.
I can only hope that this scientific and bureaucratic bungling doesn’t setDMSO therapeutics back another twenty years. It seems that the American people
are entitled to a better performance from everyone involved—the FDA, the
medical researchers, and the private business sector. In the interest of the patients
who are suffering and are full of anguish, we must have a quick, accurate, and
definitive approval of DMSO for general medical use, as it is, indeed, the new
healing power.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS CONFIRMING DMSO’S VALUE
FOR SCLERODERMA
In 1986, the German journal
Dermatologische Monatsschrift
 published a scientific
article that verified the value of dimethyl sulfoxide in the treatment of
scleroderma. The solvent was combined with dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, and
administered as a local treatment that worked well.
3
In 1983, the Dimexide brand of DMSO was applied to Russian patients for
counteracting their scleroderma. Good therapeutic results were reported as
circumscribed drug therapy.
4
Again in 1983, skin manifestations in the form of scleroderma were improved
by the patients receiving DMSO. The solvent is known to exert a palliative,
therapeutic effect on healing of cutaneous ulcers (ulcers on the skin) in systemic
sclerosis (scleroderma). In this study, which was described to the New York
Academy of Sciences, the therapeutic response was variable and, therefore, the
concentration of DMSO, as well as frequency and duration of treatments, were
individualized to obtain maximum healing effect with a minimum of adverse
reactions. There was no evidence of ocular (eye) toxicity or other serious toxicity
manifestations in this group of patients. They had been treated with topical DMSO
for one year or longer. Delayed improvement was observed in the untreated
extremity in the majority of patients studied. In no instance did improvement in the
untreated extremities exceed improvement in the other, treated limb. It is believed
by the investigators that this resulted from a systemic, carryover effect of DMSO
rather than spontaneous improvement in the disease course. “DMSO is a
worthwhile, supplemental, therapeutic agent providing the limitations of therapy
are understood,” said the investigator, Dr. A.L. Scherbel.
5
A prospective, randomized, double-blind trial was carried out in 1985 that
compared topical therapy with 0.85 percent normal saline (salt solution as a
placebo), 2 percent DMSO, and 70 percent DMSO for treatment of digital ulcersin 84 patients with systemic sclerosis. There were no statistically significant
differences among the three treatment groups in the improvement in the total
number of open ulcers, total surface area of open ulcers, average surface area per
open ulcer, number of infected ulcers, number of inflamed ulcers, or patient pain
assessment. While some patients improved during the study, improvement could
not be attributed to a specific treatment. Over one-quarter of the patients treated
with 70 percent DMSO were withdrawn from the study because of their
undergoing significant skin toxicity.
6
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS CONFIRMING DMSO’S VALUE
FOR INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
Interstitial cystitis is not an infectious disease, but it shows clinical manifestations
of bladder inflammation and irritation. The condition
may be related to the
collagen diseases, may be an autoimmune disease or an allergic manifestation, or
be secondary to an infectious agent not identified. At any rate, it’s apparent that
medical science does not know its cause and thus has no viable treatment for
interstitial cystitis except the administration of dimethyl sulfoxide.
Histologically, the bladder wall in interstitial cystitis shows a unifocal or
multifocal—single-site or multi-site—inflammatory infiltration with ulceration of
the bladder’s mucosa (lining). Scarring develops, which ultimately results in
contraction of the smooth muscle, diminished urinary capacity, and symptoms of
frequent, painful urination and hematuria (blood in the urine). Typically, middle-
aged women are affected.
To evaluate the effectiveness of dimethyl sulfoxide in the treatment of patients
with biopsies suggestive of interstitial cystitis, thirty-three patients underwent a
controlled crossover trial in 1988. The results were reported in the
Journal of
Urology.
 Patients were allocated randomly to receive 50 percent DMSO or salt
solution (saline) as placebo. The medication was administered intravesically every
two weeks for two sessions of four treatments each. Response was assessed
urodynamically (by checking urine) and symptomatically (by observing
symptoms). Thirty women and three men having an average age of 48 years and an
average duration of symptoms of 5.5 years were entered into the study. No
significant side effects to DMSO were noticed by the investigators. When
assessed subjectively by the patients, 53 percent of them felt markedly improved
compared to 18 percent on the placebo who felt improved. Of the dimethylsulfoxide group, 93 percent had objective improvement versus 35 percent of the
placebo group. Thus, DMSO proved to be superior to placebo


 working through every department
times 10 (and later to 30). After these exercises in the spine
great feeling of lightness and increased flexibility.
- During the passage of the SG Wear lightweight, simple, "breathable"
clothing, the best lnya-ing, is strictly prohibited
synthetics.
- Good morning, walking barefoot, it tones the body and is
diuretic. At night, if possible, better
to sleep outdoors. During the day it is better not to sleep.
- Periodically, ventilate the room, which are,
night to leave the window open, window or balcony door.
- Very useful during the passage of the SG to make hypoxic
training.
They do so: a calm breath, exhale, breath holding,
as you can. Gradually, you should increase the delay. This is a very
useful for the organism during the SG.
When the cells live in a comfortable environment, they become accustomed
to a constant level and volume of the incoming oxygen and lose
ability to effectively communicate and use oxygen for
obtain the necessary energy. Why save when the good
and so lacking? Cells, as it were "too lazy" to synthesize the structure,
in which there is currently no special need. Therefore,
the sudden deterioration in coronary blood flow such
cells are not able to move quickly, move to another type of
intracellular metabolism. Number of generated energy
in the cell drops, and it dies.
If, however, occasionally give dosage hypoxic stress,
cells of the body, including heart muscle, will experience
oxygen starvation. Rapid deterioration of the situation does not occur,
because the load is strictly metered, all cells remain fully
intact functionally. But artificially
created new conditions require the adaptation of an organism
reaction. Heart muscle cells begin to consider this factor,
altered metabolism, "materialize" structures
antihypoxic protection.
Now a sudden uncontrolled hypoxic load
will not cause damage to the structures of the myocardium, because its cells have
taught, they have a machine capable of effectively binding
and use the blood oxygenation, providing a full energy
even in the face of repeated blood flow impairment.
- The hardest thing for dry hunger - it's a dry mouth and thirst.
While searching for water during the dry hunger introduced
mode of its economy:
- Decreased sweating;
- Dry mucous membranes of the nose;
- Decreases the amount of moisture in the mouth. It lasts for several
minutes of talk time;
311
311- On the lips appear slime that glues her lips. There
special yoga exercise that helps to reduce
these manifestations.
Exercise from yoga to stave off hunger and thirst
This exercise appears in the manuals of prana yoga under
entitled "Breath through language."
Pull the tongue, roll it into a tube and begin to breathe air
through the formed tube. Hold your breath for breath as
long as possible, but not overexert. Slowly exhale through
both nostrils. Repeat this exercise 12 times. Yogi says that
exercise that helps to satisfy hunger and thirst, as well as
cools the body in the heat. Blood oxygen saturation, etc.,
and other... In any case, focus on your breathing
and helps account for the time to distract from the obsessive thoughts about food
and water. Exercise perfectly simple.
If we are quite difficult, we can take into the mouth the usual stone
or flavor, to start salivate - a natural
structured liquid - and the thirst for calm down. But most importantly -
nose breathing and silent.
- Lack of sleep in about 80%. Bring their experience in fighting
with insomnia. A person can not sleep because of the internal
voltage, this causes a subconscious muscle tension,
so they need to relax (relax). If you want to
include relaxation in its program of action, but do not have
appropriate training, the first Take some time
the next exercise, which details the process developed
relaxation based on the series "concentration - muscle tension
- Delay of stress - stress relief - relaxation for
each muscle group.
Exercise for relaxation
This exercise requires twenty minutes and a quiet room where
You will not be distracting. It is more convenient to perform in a free clothes.
Write down the instructions into a tape recorder or ask them to you
slowly read aloud while you do not remember the sequence
stages. Lie on your back on a firm surface and soak a couple of
minutes of calm, focus on your breathing.
Then switch attention to the hand and forearm, right hand.
Clench a fist and tense muscles of the forearm. Keep them
in a strained state for a few seconds, and then as soon as possible
quickly "reset" voltage. Continue to remove the voltage
until the muscles become completely relaxed. Relax one
minute, and then move the spotlight on his right hand above
elbow. Bend your right arm at the elbow and tighten your biceps. Hold
In this state, then remove the stress, relax your muscles
and wait one minute. Then focus on the hand and forearm
left hand. Squeeze the left fist and tense muscles of the forearm.
Hold the tension - pull it off and relax.
312
312Wait a minute, then move on to his left hand above
elbow. Bend your left arm at the elbow and tighten your biceps. Delay
V oltage - removal - relaxation - wait a minute. Now
Focus on your forehead. Raise your eyebrows as high as possible -
delay - the removal - relaxation - waiting. Focus on
their eyes, nose and cheekbones. Zazhmurte eyes tightly and wrinkle your nose
- Delay - removal - relaxation - waiting. Next, enjoy a neck
and throat. Lower your chin down so that it almost touched the
breast while putting pressure on them to his chest - the delay - the removal of
- Relaxation - waiting. The next turn of the chest and shoulders.
Keep the shoulder blades together and take a deep breath - the delay - the removal -
Relaxation - waiting. Now the stomach. Tighten your stomach muscles,
as if for protection from shock - the delay - removal - relaxation -
expectation. Right thigh. Tighten the muscles of the upper portion of the right
feet - the delay - removal - relaxation - waiting. The right calf.
Pull your right leg and pull the sock over - delay - removal -
Relaxation - waiting. Right foot. Bend the fingers of his right leg
and rotate the foot with the toe inward - delay - stress relief -
Relaxation - waiting. Left thigh. Tighten the muscles of the upper
of the left foot - the delay - stress relief - relaxation -
expectation. The left calf. Pull the left foot and pull the sock over
- Delay - stress relief - relaxation - waiting. Left
stop. Bend the fingers of his left foot and swing foot toe inward -
delay - stress relief - relaxation - waiting.
This sequence should be repeated until
until you achieve full automaticity in the performance. When you
reach such a stage, you can also learn a short procedures
relaxation to help you relax on the go and constantly
maintain good health. Their meaning is to achieve
deep relaxation, having spent a minimum of time and effort.
Another option - simultaneous muscle relaxation,
tighten all the muscles at once, the tension is held certain
time, then removed and the muscles relax. After this you should
switch to the good image of nature: forests, mountains, etc. However,
maybe you're not asleep, but still get a good rest,
And time will pass quickly, which is important during the SG.
Now describe in detail the passage of a 5-day SG Daily
Day 1. It is desirable to hunger sit all day on
milk products. You must configure the psychologically
that everything will be fine, I'll go completely SG, in extreme cases
I always, without prejudice can not get out fast. If you're good
prepared for the SG and you have something to do, it's usually the first day
flies by unnoticed.
Day 2. On Day 2 can usually be tempted to eat, but
it has to be overcome. Do exercises to relieve hunger.
Sometimes it can be dizziness, headache, sucking a
spoon. These symptoms should not be afraid - it starts the process
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313endogenous adjustment and cleanse the body. Need more
walk and be outdoors in the evening before going to sleep about it
relaxation exercises.
Third day. this day is usually most conductive SG
begins acidosis. A very important point SG - it acidotic
crisis, which occurs after the transition to endogenous nutrition.
Do not be afraid of the illness in this period, for beginners
it usually occurs at the 3 - day. (But for some people during the
transition to endogenous nutrition within 5 days of SH may
pass without the express acidotic crisis).
Acidotic crisis occurs when the concentration of ketone
bodies (products of incomplete breakdown of triglycerides, or fat)
in the body increases, and their method of disposal was not found. during this period
appears unwell, feel the typical signs
intoxication. However, once the recovery begins ketone
bodies, their concentration ceases to increase, and because the ketone
bodies are high-energy components to them as
fuel begins the synthesis of new amino acids, which can lead
to tissue regeneration. The process of regeneration can occur
with severe pain, and this should be ready. In the initial
phases of the SG acidotic crisis can occur at 4 -, 3 - or even
2 days after the beginning of the SG. with each new fasting, he


professional supervision.Euphrasia spp. (scrophulariaceae)
Eyebright
Description Creeping semi-parasitic annual
growing to 20 in (50 cm). Has tiny oval leaves and
small scallop-edged white flowers with yellow spots
and a black center, somewhat resembling an eye.
Habitat & Cultivation Common in Europe,
eyebright thrives in meadows and open grassland.
It is gathered in summer when in flower.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Eyebright contains iridoid
glycosides (including aucubin), flavonoids, tannins,
lignans, and phenolic acids. Aucubin has antibac -
terial, anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic activity.
History & Folklore Eyebright’s use for eye
problems was due in part to the Doctrine of
Signatures, an ancient belief that the way that a
plant looks—its “sign”—indicates the ailments
for which it should be used as a medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Eyebright relieves
inflammation and tightens mucous membranes
and finds specific use in the treatment of
conjunctivitis and blepharitis. Its ability to counter
mucus means that it is often used for infectious
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other medicinal plantsEut ErpE  olE rac E a
and allergic conditions affecting the eyes, middle
ear, sinuses, and nasal passages. Eyebright counters liquid mucus, but it should be used guardedly for dry and stuffy congestion, which tends to be made worse by the plant’s astringency.
Self-help Uses Allergic rhinitis with mucus,
p. 300; Conjunctivitis, p. 310; Prevention of nosebleeds, p. 310. Medicinal Actions & Uses Less a medicine
than a nourishing addition to the diet, acai supports vitality and a healthy heart and circulation. Acai  juice has much in common with blueberry and pomegranate (Punica granatum, p. 259) juices— all helping to sustain good health. The Acai palm is the main source of palm hearts, which are eaten worldwide as a vegetable.
Evodia rutaecarpa (Rutaceae)
Evodia,
Wu Zhu Yu (Chinese)
Description Deciduous tree growing to 33 ft
(10 m). Has compound leaves, clusters of white flowers, and greenish-red fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to China,
Tibet, and the eastern Himalayas, evodia is cultivated in China. The partially ripe fruit
is gathered in late summer.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents Evodia contains the alkaloids
evodine, evodiamine, and rutaecarpine.
History & Folklore Evodia is listed in the
Divine Husbandman’s Classic (Shen’nong Bencaojing) of the 1st century ce.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Evodia has a
marked warming effect on the body, helping to relieve headaches and a wide range of digestive problems. In Chinese herbal medicine, evodia is used mainly for abdominal pains, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, and a weak pulse.
Research Chinese studies indicate that
evodia is analgesic and reduces blood pressure.
 QCaution Use evodia only under
professional supervision.during the Crusades (11th and 12th centuries),  or it was brought to Spain by the Arabs several centuries earlier.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Used for a wide
range of circulatory problems, buckwheat is best taken as a tea or tablet, accompanied by vitamin C or lemon juice (Citrus limon, p. 85) to aid absorption. Buckwheat is used particularly to treat fragile capillaries (seen as small bruises with no apparent cause), but also helps strengthen varicose veins and heal chilblains. Often combined with linden flowers (Tilia spp., p. 276), buckwheat is a specific treatment
for hemorrhage into the retina. Buckwheat is also commonly taken in combination with other herbs for high blood pressure.
Related Species Recent research has shown
that the Chinese F. dibotrys and F. cymosum are immunostimulant. They are prescribed for
chronic bronchitis, inflamed gallbladder, and pulmonary abscesses.
Cautions  Interacts with blood-thinning
medication. Do not take as a medicine if taking prescribed anticoagulants.
Self-help Uses High blood pressure &
arteriosclerosis, p. 301; Poor circulation & high blood pressure, p. 319.
Feronia limonia (Rutaceae)
Wood Apple
Description A spiny tree growing to 30 ft
(9 m), it has feathery leaves, red flowers, and round whitish fruit the size of oranges.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to southern
India, wood apple is cultivated in tropical Asia.
Parts Used Fruit, leaves.
Constituents The fruit contains fruit acids,
vitamins, and minerals. The leaves contain tannins and a volatile oil.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wood apple
fruit is used mainly to stimulate the digestive system. In India, the fruit forms part of a paste applied to tone the breasts. The astringent leaves are used to treat indigestion, flatulence, diarrhea, dysentery (particularly in children), and hemorrhoids. It is traditionally thought to act  as a male contraceptive, although there is limited research to support this.Eyebright, as its
name suggests,
helps eye problems.
Euterpe oleracea (Arecaceae)
Acai
Description A rainforest palm reaching 80 ft
(25 m), with 4–8 slender trunks and pinnate leaves up to 10 ft (3 m) long. The berries (about the size of a grape) hang down in large bunches.
Habitat & Cultivation Found throughout
much of Central America and northern South America, the acai palm is widely grown for its berries and palm hearts.
Parts Used Drupe (the “berries”), seed, root,
palm heart.
Constituents The berries contain high
levels of polyphenols, especially anthocyanins
and proanthocyanidins (as found in other dark purple berries, such as blueberry). They are
strong antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.
History & Folklore Acai berries and their juice
are a nutritious part of many Brazilians’ diet. In Brazil and Peru, the crushed seeds (which make up 80% of the berry) are used to treat fever. Traditionally, the essence of the root is extracted to treat conditions such as hepatitis and enlarged prostate.Ferula assa-foetida (Apiaceae)
Asafoetida,
Devil’s Dung
Description Perennial plant growing to about
61⁄2 ft (2 m). Has a fleshy taproot, hollow stem,
compound leaves, and many white flowers in umbels.Fagopyrum esculentum
(Polygonaceae)
Buckwheat
Description Annual growing to about 20 in
(50 cm). Has arrow-shaped leaves and clusters of
white or pink 5-petaled flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Buckwheat is native
to central and northern Asia, and is cultivated extensively in temperate regions, especially the  U.S. It is harvested in summer.
Parts Used Leaves, flowers.
Constituents Buckwheat contains bioflavonoids,
especially rutin, which is strongly antioxidant. Rutin strengthens the inner lining of blood vessels.
History & Folklore Buckwheat’s French name,
blé Sarrasin, alludes to its ancient Middle Eastern origins. The grain was either introduced to Europe
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Habitat & Cultivation Native to Iran,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan, asafoetida produces a
gum obtained in summer from 4-year-old plants.
The stems are cut off and successive slices are
made through the roots. The gum wells up and
is collected after it has hardened.
Part Used Oleo-gum-resin.
Constituents Asafoetida exudate contains
6–17% volatile oil, as well as resin and gum. The
volatile oil contains disulphides (about 58%),
which have an expectorant action. The oil also
settles the digestion. Asafoetida resin contains
sesquiterpenoid coumarins, including foetidin.
History & Folklore In the 4th century
bce, Charaka Samhita, a Hindu medical treatise,
proclaimed asafoetida the best remedy for
clearing gas and bloating. The name devil’s
dung notwithstanding, the plant is thought to
have been the most popular spice in ancient
Rome. Asafoetida is as persistent in aroma as
garlic ( Allium sativum, p. 59), and is still used
as a flavoring.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In Middle Eastern
and Indian herbal medicine, asafoetida is used for
simple digestive problems such as gas, bloating,
indigestion, and constipation. Asafoetida


 that they are not worth the effort required to bring them about. To this objection
there are two important replies.
First: A temporary regeneration is all that is needed to remove many structural defects and to
improve the functioning efficiency of the organism. The removal of the toxic load is not evanescent
and this is vitally important to the future of the organism.
Second: In making their investigations, as already noted, these research men have guaranteed the
evanescent character of the gains made by the readiness with which they have returned the subjects
of the experiments to their prior toxogenic ways of life.
In 1960, Tara Singh of India underwent a 48-day fast for political reasons. He was seventy-six
years of age and his physicians gave it as their belief, after examining him, that his period of
abstinence had “increased his life span by at least ten years.”
This statement of his physicians, issued from New Delhi, added that the fasting period had
“relieved illness from which he was suffering.” While the improvement of the health of Singh was
a by-product of his fast, it is both interesting and significant to find that his physicians are candid
enough to give credit to the period of abstinence for the benefits to his health. It is usual for
physicians to discredit all reports of benefits resulting from fasting. Perhaps this incident
represents a turning point in their attitude.
We hope that physicians will soon come to recognize in fasting a natural means of rejuvenation
that is actually superior to gland grafts, the mascerated
organs of unborn lambs, and the use,
generally, of animal and insect products, which, so far, have provided no genuine rejuvenation.
Perhaps this change in attitude can lead to a recognition of the fact that whatever rejuvenation an
organism is capable of effecting, is the product of the operation of intrinsic forces and processes
under favorable conditions, and not a forced state resulting from exotic impositions. Recovery of
health (this is to say, clearing up of pathological states) and rejuvenation may yet be seen to be one
and the same process.
Brown-Sequard’s seminal fluid rejuvenator; Steinach’s subcutaneous division of the
vas
deferens
 (the duct or tube carrying the secretion of the testes), supposed to result in rejuvenation;
Voronoff’s monkey gland transplantation; Brinkley’s goat gland transplantation; Funk’s vitamin
rejuvenation plan all having failed, perhaps we can turn our attention to a more rational approach
to the problems created by aging.
If we can see in fasting a means of enabling the body to free itself, not alone of its accumulated
toxic load, but also of its burden of accumulated abnormal changes in its tissues, we can use this
means of rejuvenation to great advantage.
Recognizing its limitations and not expecting the impossible, we may still find in the fast an
avenue perhaps not to eternal youth but to a protracted youth that endures long into what we once
considered—old age!
6815
Fasting to Gain Weight
Almost everybody can understand fasting to lose weight, but it may be difficult for many of the
readers to understand fasting to gain weight. However, it is a common experience with fasting, that
in a great number of cases, the first weight gains made, follow a fast.
Overfeeding with loss of weight is a familiar pattern; every day we meet underweight people
who are eating valiantly to gain weight and they complain that the more they eat the more they lose.
They try first one weight-gaining diet and then another but remain thin or grow thinner. The overfed
organism is often undernourished to a degree that reveals itself in rapid emaciation.
Food and nutrition are not synonymous. One is not nourished in
proportion to the amount of food
ingested, but in proportion to how much one digests and assimilates. When digestion and
assimilation are impaired, overeating in an effort to put on weight defeats its purpose. Emaciation
is due to impairment of health, rarely to lack of food. The emaciation is commonly proportionate to
the extent of the impairment of health. What such patients need is not more food but a properly
functioning de-toxified system able to digest and assimilate food. Given this they have no difficulty
in gaining weight.
Because fasting results in a rejuvenation of assimilation, it commonly enables chronically
underweight patients to gain weight where everything else fails. Naturally they lose weight during
the fast, but they regain more after the fast is broken than they lose during the fast. This is in
harmony with both experience and experiment in the animal kingdom.
Experimental fasts have demonstrated that after a fast less food is required to maintain physical
energies, physiological activities, nitrogen balance, and weight, because fasting produces a more
efficient physiological machine. This is the reason that the emaciated person, who remains thin on
the various “weight gaining” diets, commonly finds that after a fast he will gain weight on much
less food than he has been in the habit of taking.
From long observation farmers report the following. If a pig smaller than other members of the
litter because of insufficient milk is taken from the litter and fed adequately, it grows more rapidly
than the others in the litter, catching up with and even passing them in size.
Osborn, Mendel and Thomson, three standard authorities in dietetics and biochemistry, in a
series of classical experiments, confirmed these observations under test conditions. They found
that the growth which is resumed after an arrest by insufficient food, proceeds at a more rapid pace
than usual, attaining, for a time, a magnitude which they ascribe to an excess of compensation.
A similar phenomenon is observed to occur after a fast by the emaciated. The period of
physiological rest provided by the fast, results in better digestion, better assimilation and a better
and more economical use of food. It has been shown that fasting results in an intense nitrogen
hunger and, at the same time, a greatly increased capacity to utilize nitrogen. This provides for the
production of a better type of tissue than the fatty tissues which result from overeating on starches,
sugars and fats.
Reduced to simplest terms, this means that the body calls for and utilizes proteins more readily
and thus puts on a very different type of flesh from that which results from stuffing on sugars,
starches and fats. Where this latter type of eating often results in a gain of weight it is nothing more
significant than the laying on of pounds of useless fat. Protein-built tissue, on the other hand, is
69good, sound and useful tissue and provides for a
much better appearance of body. It is important in
gaining weight to gain it properly and healthfully.
There is a wealth of evidence to show that metabolism is accelerated by fasting, a fact which
can only mean a more efficient turn-over of nutritive materials. Metabolism is the term applied to
the overall process by which foods are transformed into flesh and by which the used up substances
are disassimilated. It is especially the building up phase of metabolism (called anabolism) that is
accelerated by the fast. The fact is undeniable that after a fast the tissues are more receptive to
food elements and readily assimilate and utilize vitamins, minerals and proteins, even in
individuals who failed to do so before.
In well-fed, indeed over-fed America, we meet few emaciated individuals who are underweight
from eating too little food. Their lack of weight is most often due to failure to digest and assimilate
the food they eat. Such individuals need not more food, but added capacity to digest and assimilate
their food. Added capacity can be acquired only by remedying the functional and organic
impairments that are responsible for the crippled states of their nutrition.
It is rarely possible to do this so long as the patient continues to eat his regular daily ration of
what he considers “good nourishing food.” The curious fact is that many of these patients will gain
weight if they eat much less than they are in the habit of taking. They are especially helped by a fast
of proper duration.
Subjects with poor nutrition commonly have a poor appetite. It is usual to assume that their
nutrition is poor because they do not eat enough; whereas, the opposite is true; reduced eating is
the result of poor nutrition. When the food is not used, the body cuts off demand—hunger ceases.
Nature is wiser than we are in these matters. Not more food, but more capacity to use food, is what
is needed.
Fasting sharpens appetite. Not only do these patients have keener relish for food and a stronger
demand for food, following a fast, but they have better digestion and increased capacity to
assimilate their food. They also gain weight, and in many instances they gain it rapidly. I have seen
amazing gains of this kind and have seen individuals long underweight gain so much that they had
to reverse the field and begin to reduce.
Exceptions to this experience are seen almost wholly, in those long, skinny individuals who
suffer with what is commonly referred to as nervous exhaustion or nervous collapse. Such people
are benefited by the fast but they rarely gain rapidly after the fast. The profound depression of the
nervous system in these patients, and the consequent depression of their functions, require an
extended period of careful control not alone of their eating, but of their total way of life, to restore
functioning power to the point where they are able to put on solid weight.
How long should the underweight individual fast to secure improvement
in his nutritional
processes? There is no absolute undeviating


 Vinaigrette, 199
Harvest Soup, 165
Marinated Pasta Salad, 192-93
Mediterranean Rice Salad, 156-57
Steamed Vegetables in Lemon Butter Sauce,
206-207
Stir-Fried Black Mushrooms with, and Chinese
Greens, 214-16
Yam Stew. 211-12
INDEX • 241 <|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>THE AUTHOR.
F L E T C H E R I S M :
WHAT IT IS ;
OR
HOW  I  BECAME  YOUNG
AT  SIXTY
BY
HORACE FLETCHER, M.A.,
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
AUTHOR OF
"THE NEW MENTICULTURE"; "THE A.B.—Z. OF OUR OWN
NUTRITION"; THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE," ETC., ETC.
LONDON
EWART, SEYMOUR & CO., LTD.,
TWELVE BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND
Reprinted by Photolithography
LEE FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH
Milwaukee 1, Wisconsin
July — 1960BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.INTRODUCTION
FLETCHERISM  has become a fact.
A dozen years ago it was laughed at as the
" chew-chew " cult; to-day the most famous menof Science endorse it and teach its principles.Scientific leaders at the world's foremostUniversities—Cambridge, England; Turin,Italy; Berne, Switzerland ; La Sorbonne,France; Berlin, Prussia ; Brussels, Belgium ; St.Petersburg, Russia; as well as Harvard, Yaleand Johns Hopkins in America—have shownthemselves in complete accord with Mr.Fletcher's teachings.
The intention of the present volume is that it
shall stand as a compact statement of theGospel of Fletcherism. The author relatesbriefly the story of his regeneration, of how herescued himself from the prospect of an earlygrave, and brought himself to his presentsplendid physical and mental condition. He tellsof the discovery of his principles, which havehelped millions of people to live better, happier,and healthy lives.Mr. Fletcher writes with all his well-known
literary charm and vivacity, which have won forhis works such a wide-spread popular demand.
It is safe to say that no intelligent reader will
peruse this work without becoming convincedthat Mr. Fletcher's principles as to eating andliving are the sanest that have ever beenpropounded ; that Fletcherism demands noheroic sacrifices of the enjoyments that go tomake life worth living, but, to the contrary, thatthe path to Dietetic Righteousness, which Mr.Fletcher would have us tread, must be thepleasantest of all life's pleasant ways.
THE PUBLISHERSPREFACE
" What is  good for the richest man in the world, must be also
good for the poorest, and all in between." Daily Express, London,May 15th, 1913.
THIS quotation was apropos of an
announcement in the Evening Mail, of New
York, telling that the Twentieth CenturyCroesus and financial philosopher, John D.Rockefeller, had uttered a Confession of hisFaith in the fundamental principles of DieteticRighteousness and General Efficiency as follows:
" Don't gobble your food. Fletcherize, or chew
very slowly while you eat. Talk on pleasanttopics. Don't be in a hurry. Take time tomasticate and cultivate a cheerful appetitewhile you eat. So will the demon indigestion beencompassed round about and his slaughtercomplete."
At the time this compendium of physiological
and psychological wisdom concerning the sourceof health, comfort, and happiness came to my
notice I was engaged in furnishing mypublishers with a " compact statement of theGospel of Fletcherism," as they call it, andhence the able assistance of Mr. Rockefeller waswelcomed most cordially. Here it was in anutshell, crystallized, compact, refined,monopolized as to brevity of description,masterly, and practically leaving little more tobe said.
The Grand Old Man of Democracy in
England, William Ewart Gladstone, had had hissay on the same subject some years before, andwill be known to the future of physiologicalfitness more permanently on account of hisglorification of Head Digestion of food than forhis Liberal Statesmanship.
In like manner, Mr. Rockefeller will deserve
more gratitude from posterity for havingprescribed the secret of highest mental andphysical efficiency in thirty-three words, thanfor the multiple millions he is dedicating toScience and Sociological Betterment.
It will be interesting, however, to seekers
after supermanish health and strength to knowhow the author took the " straight tip" of Mr.Gladstone, and " worked it for all it was worth "
until Mr. Rockefeller referred to the process ofcommon-sense involved as " Fletcherizing."
I assure you it is an interesting story. It has
taken nearly fifteen years to bring thedevelopment to the point where Mr. Rockefeller,who is carefulness personified when it comes tocommitting himself for publication, is willing toexpress his opinion on the subject. It has costthe author unremitting, completely-absorbing,and prayerful concentration of attention, andnearly twenty thousand pounds sterling($100,000), spent in fostering investigations andsecuring publicity of the results of the inquiries,with some of the best people in Science,Medicine, and Business helping him withgenerous assistance, to accomplish this triumphof natural sanity.
In addition to other co-operation, and the
most effective, perhaps, it is appropriate to saythat there is scarcely a periodical published inall the world, either technical, news-bearing, orotherwise, on the staff of which there has notbeen some member who has not received somepersonal benefit from the suggestions carried bythe economic system now embodied in the latest
dictionaries of many nations as " Fletcherism."
The first rule of " Fletcherism " is to feel
gratitude and to express appreciation for and ofall the blessings which Nature, intelligence,civilization, and imagination bring to mankind ;and this utterance will be endorsed, I am sure,by the millions of persons who have foundeconomy, health, and general happinessthrough attention to the requirements ofdietetic righteousness. It will be especiallyapproved by those who, like Mr. Rockefeller,gained new leases of life after having burnedthe candle of prudence at both ends and in themiddle, to the point of nearly going out, in thestruggle for money.
Yet the secret of preserving natural efficiency
is even more valuable than cure or repair ofdamages due to carelessness and over-strain. Inthis respect the simple rules of Fletcherizing,embodying the requirements of Nature in co-operative nutrition, are made effective byformulating exercises whereby habit-of-conformity is formed, and takes command of thesituation so efficiently, that no more thoughtneed be given to the matter than is necessary in
regard to breathing, quenching thirst, orobserving " the rule of the road " in avoidingcollisions in crowded public thoroughfares.
Mr. Rockefeller's thirty-three words not only
comprise the practical gist of Fletcherism, butalso state the most important fact, that by thesemeans the real dietetic devil, the devil of devils,is kept at a safe distance.
The mechanical act of mastication is easy to
manage ; but this is not all there is to headdigestion. Bad habits of inattention andindifference have to be conquered before goodhabits of deliberation and appreciation areformed. These requirements of healthynutrition have been studied extensively andanalyzed thoroughly, to the end that we knowthey may be acquired with ease if sought withserious interest and respect.
I began the preface by quoting the statement
that  " What is good for the richest man in the
world must be also good for the poorest, and all
in between." I will close by asserting that
" Doing the right thing in securing right nutrition
is easier than not if you only know how."CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR 'S PREFACE
I. H OW I B ECAME  A FLETCHERITE
II. S CIENTIFIC  TESTS OF FLETCHERISM
III. W HAT I AM ASKED  ABOUT  FLETCHERISM
IV. R ULES OF FLETCHERISM
V. W HAT IS PROPER  MASTICATION ?
VI. W HAT IS HEAD DIGESTION ?
VII. C HITTENDEN  ON CAREFUL  CHEWING
VIII. T HE THREE  INCHES  OF PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY
XI. Q UESTION  PRESCRIPTION  AND
PROSCRIPTION
X. W HAT CONSTITUTES  A FLETCHERITE
XI. A LL DECENT  EATERS  ARE
FLETCHERITES
XII. F LETCHERIZING  AS A TEMPERANCE
EXPEDIENT
XIII. T HE MENACE  OF MODERN  MIXED
MENUS
XIV. T HE CRUX OF FLETCHERISM
XV. F LETCHERISM  AND VEGETARIANISMLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE AUTHOR Frontispiece
THE AUTHOR  TESTING  HIS ENDURANCE  BY MEANS  OF
THE KELLOGG  MERCURIAL  DYNAMOMETER
THE AUTHOR  UNDERGOING  A TEST AT YALE WHEN