 is transferred
from mature age to initial postembryonic stage,
he is almost born again.”
Child pointed out that in the organic world re-
juvenation is nothing but a normal cell renewal
process. This process is conti nuous throughout
the life of any organism.
Similar research was conducted by the employ-
ees of the Institute of Physiology of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Through the
introduction of a special dietary regimen, they
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for three -months -olds. English biologist Clive
McCay18 achieved a 1.5 -fold life extension in
mice, by means of two days a week without food,
and decreasing food intake by a third allowed the
mice to live twice as long.
Interesting experiments on animal rejuvena-
tion were conducted by a remarkable physician
Suren Arakelyan19. According to his data, aged

18 Clive Maine McCay  (1898 —1967) was an American  biochem-
ist, nutritionist, gerontologist, and professor of  animal hus-
bandry at Cornell University  from 1927 -1963. His main interest was
the influence of nutrition on aging.  He is best known for his work
in proving that  caloric restriction  increases the life span of rats,
which is seen as seminal in triggering further research and experi-
ments in the field of nutrition and longevity. (from Internet)
19 Suren A. Arakelyan (1928 -2002) was a famous Soviet and Rus-
sian veterinarian. He wrote a book about the  method of medical
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eggs again, began recovering their feather coat-
ing, their voices became higher and younger and
their bodies – more graceful and slender. Here’s
a photograph that Suren Arakelyan has kept
since his experiment. There are two aged layer
hens in his arms. The hens were sisters. One
fasted, the other didn’t. After the photo was
taken, the gluttonous sister lived for only a
month, while the rejuvenated hen lived for six
more years. It was definitely surprising: out of
1000 birds written -off because of their age, 910
laid an egg every day. And not just an egg! The
egg weighed 68 grams, while the one laid by a
pullet weighed only 48 grams. The biochemical

fasting on birds and animal, Budem zhit Trista lyet  (Let's live three
hundred years).
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better, too. There was a fear that hunger will lead
the birds to their death, but they, on the con-
trary, began living much longer: for 18 years, on
average, instead of the 6 allotted by nature. The
species’ lifespan was exten ded threefold. A
chicken named Krasavitsa reached a fantastic
age of 21. Proportionately, for a human this age
would equal 240 – 250 years.
After chickens, Arakelyan started working with
bulls belonging to a high -priced breed. Their
youth is short, lasting only four years. And then
they become meat. The bulls went on a fast, but
they took a complex stress -relieving drug. It was
stress -relieving because normal hunger induces
a distressed, restless state in animals. Taking
these substances, the bulls as though didn't
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The bulls grew thin, having lost 15 -20 % of their
fat mass, but those were temporary losses, the
weight soon came back, and with it came specific
reproductive capabilities. This allows to con-
clude that when fasting is employed during the
month -long rest once a year, bulls’ life expec-
tancy grows threefold!
Inability to preserve youth is caused by factors
that interfere with the perfect process of renewal.
Any elimination of these interfering factors at
any age leads to a shift – to renewal and youth.
However, it should be acknowledged that there
are clear limits to human rejuvenating capabili-
ties. Irreversible changes may occur in the tis-
sues of the human body, and any efforts to elim-
inate them are ak in to efforts to grow a new leg
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some of them are very complex organisms, pos-
sess the ability to grow new members or internal
organs (even new heads, brains and eyes); their
rejuvenating capabilities are substantially wider
than those of highly developed organisms. But a
human can be rejuvenated to a greater degree
than we had previously thought. Up until now,
we can agree that the larger is the number and
the degree of pathological changes that have oc-
curred in the human body, the smaller is its ca-
pability of restoring youth. However, I don’t
think that the greatest possibilities of rejuvena-
tion by means of fasting are of interest only to
people of both sexes in their advanced age. Fast-
ing is also extremely im portant to younger peo-
ple as a means of reversing the aging process,
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use fasting to prevent destructive processes in
the vital organs by periodically freeing the or-
ganism of its toxic load and providing these or-
gans with the much -needed rest. then we will be
able to achieve a much more prolonged effect in
aging prevention than in searching for the ways
to rejuvenate the organism.
When I began working at the Goryachinsk
health resort, the nurse brought me the case rec-
ords of the patients that were to have an appoint-
ment with me. When I was looking through
them, one drew my attention. The patient was 80
years old, his diagnosis was deforming coxar-
throsis of the hip and knee joints. Well, I was
wondering to myself how he was going to get
there, and what treatment I could possibly
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youthful man of about 50 came to me for an ap-
pointment and said that he’d just been swim-
ming in Baikal (it was November) and it was
great. When I asked for his name, it turned out
he was that 80 -year-old ‘grandpa’. My surprise
knew no bounds. I asked him at once, “ What
about your sore joints?” “Oh, I forgot all about
them a long time ago, doctor, and the diagnosis in
my rehabilitation and health resort card form is
there so that I can go to the health resort.” I was
very interested to know how he had achieved
these amazing results in the treatment of his dis-
ease and rejuvenation of his body. Here’s his
story:
“My problems began after I turne d 50, I started
having pains in my hip joints when moving, it
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quently began bothering me, too. I underwent all
kinds of treatment and went to all kinds of health
resorts. Granted, I felt somewhat better after  go-
ing to health resorts, but at some point, the pain
came back. I realized that if I didn’t cardinally
change something in my life, I would become
fully disabled and immobilized. I began collect-
ing information, talking to people with the same
diagnosis, w ho had improved their health by
natural means. At that time, there was practically
no information on body cleansing or fasting. I
learned about liver cleansing from a talented
healer from a neighboring village. I’d known
about fasting since childhood, beca use my
grandmother had rigidly observed the fast —
only water and nothing else. I cleansed my liver
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 a meal of raw fruit, there is  usually no discernable rise in the white count. So the rule is this: I f
we can’t eat the food “raw,” if it is not delicious and palatable in its  natural living state, it is not a food for us.

Second Criterion
Does the food introduce harmful or toxic substances into our digestive system?
If the food is proper to the human diet it must contain no  noxious or unwelcome substances. We do not want poisons in our
system, no matter how little or how “mild.” Anything that interfere s with vital activities or destroys cells and tissue is poisonous to ou r
system.
[Author’ s note: Since the time of this writing, science has progressed re markably. W e now know that various toxins
exist even in the most preferable of foods. Terry was correct in his concept, however; j ust the wording was off. I believe
that today he would likely replace the thought of “no” toxins with the reality of “t he lowest possible amount.”]

Third Criterion
Is the food easy of digestion and assimilation?
Foods to which we humans are ideally adapted require a minimum of vital en ergy for their digestion and assimilation. To be of
greatest value to us, foods must be efficiently digested and assimilat ed, granting, of course, that we have unimpaired digestive
systems.
Humans have become highly efficient at digesting and assimilati ng foods to which they, in nature, became adapted. Millions of
years of development made certain foods very easy of digestion—we devel oped constitutions, enzymes, and processes that
appropriated, digested and assimilated certain foods with a minimum expendi ture of vital resources and time.
The water and sugars of fruit, which make up almost its entire digesti ble portion, require virtually no digestion whatever. They
simply require absorption. Shortly after their absorption, they are very e asily and rapidly assimilated.

Fourth Criterion
Does the food contribute a broad range of nutrients? Does the food possess great biological value for us? Though many foods are rather complete in their range of nutrients, non e is suitable for a “mono diet” such as grass is for cattle.
But most of the fruits and vegetables are quite suitable for “monomea ls.” And, certainly, if properly combined, these foods furnish all
the nutrients we humans need.
The objective is not that we should eat a great variety in hopes of getti ng all the nutrients needed, but rather to eat simply to
afford our bodies every opportunity to easily digest and assimilate what th e foods offer. What does it matter the range of nutrients
we put into our bodies if we ingest them in such manner as to vitiate and t ax the digestive process? We can compromise digestion
such that we fail to derive the goodness intended. Thus we would penalize ou r bodies and rob them of nutrients as well.
We should never take more than four or five foods at a single properly prepared a nd combined meal. Almost no preparation
other than cleansing is necessary, but we must make sure to eat in st rictly compatible combinations. The ideal is a single food per
meal! There is no particular penalty in eating two to four different i tems at a meal if they are compatible in the digestive process.
To really simplify the digestive process and to assure ourselves of eas y digestion on a continuing basis, we may select a rather
narrow range of foods according to the season and stick with them. For instan ce, we may make one meal a day of just bananas with
some lettuce and celery and another meal of a salad with citrus and nut s. This can go on day after day in the winter season. In
summer we might have melon rather consistently for just one meal a nd at a second meal of the day, mangos, peaches, or other
summer fruit and a green salad with tomato. The objective is to eat a diet  to which we are biologically adapted, that gives the highest
potential for wonderful health.
Green leaves possess the highest and most complete range of micronutr ients. This is one of the primary reasons we must have
them often in our diet for the best health. Of course the body is provi dent––missing them on occasion is not particularly harmful and
would not prove disastrous unless we missed them for some length of time, us ually months or more.
While we do not spell out the nutrient contents of various foods––that knowl edge not being necessary––we should plan our
meals so that we receive the benefit of foods that complement each other  in their nutrient contents essential in human nutrition. A
variety of fruits and vegetables eaten throughout the year will ea sily guarantee nutritional sufficiency.

Chapter 4. Understanding the Caloronutrient Ratio

W e get our calories from three sources: carbohydrates, proteins, and f ats. I refer to these as “caloronutrients,” a term my wife (who
at that time was known as Professor Rozalind Gruben) and I coined. Thus, I re fer to the proportion of carbohydrates, proteins, and
fats in a person’s diet as their “caloronutrient ratio.” Y ou will s ee these terms used throughout this book. For consistency, I list all
ratios in my writings in the same order: carbohydrates/proteins/f ats (CPF for short), separated by slashes. Thus, “ 80/10/10 ” is
shorthand for 80% carbohydrates, 10% protein, and 10% fat.

“Goldilocks” Nutrition
I believe we benefit from fat—and all other nutrients—in appro priate, moderate amounts. In this book, I propose that too
much of a good thing (in this case fat) is as harmful, and in many cases  much more harmful, than not enough. I call it the “Goldilocks”
approach to nutrition: for best results, you don’t want too much of any nut rient and you don’t want too little; you want the amount to
be “ju-u-ust right.”

80/10/10 for Health, Beauty, Energy
That amount, I assert—at least in terms of caloronutrients—turns  out to be 80/10/10 : a minimum  of 80% of your calories
from carbohydrates, primarily from whole, sweet fruit, and a maximum  of 10% protein and 10% fat.
On the 80/10/10  plan, a person who eats 2,000 calories a day would shoot for approximately 1,600 of those calor ies to
come from carbohydrates, 200 from protein, and 200 from fat. Naturally, not all source s of these nutrients are the same, and I have
devoted much of this book to discussing just what forms those caloronutrient s should take for best results.
After two decades of research, coaching amateur and professional athle tes, and assisting health seekers worldwide, I have
come to believe that 80/10/10  is the overall target for long-term health and dietary success. Whe n we consume our food in this
proportion—the one for which our species was designed—we enjoy glowi ng health, superb energy, and ideal body weight,
effortlessly.
Sometimes in my lectures, I simplify this formula even further, re ferring to it in shorthand form as 811 —as in “Dial 811  for the
healthiest, trimmest you!” This short form is commonly used in conver sation, e-mail, and my online discussion group, as you will
notice in the testimonials in Appendix C.

80/10/10 for Longevity
Eating foods of low caloric density, such as fruits and vegetables, has bee n cited as a probable method of extending longevity.
Experts in the field of human longevity have long held that refraini ng from overeating is the surest method of extending the lifespan, as
it most effectively reduces the likelihood of obesity. Obese people live shor ter lives, on average.
One very healthful method of not overeating is to increase caloric dem and by raising activity levels while eating primarily fruits
and vegetables, foods that are relatively low in calories per bite.

Long-Lived Cultures Eat High Carbs, Low Fat
In John Robbins’ new book, Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the W orld’ s Healthiest and Longest-
Lived Peoples, he describes the lifestyles and eating patterns of the long-lived cu ltures of Abkhasia (Russia), Vilcabamba
(Ecuador), and Hunza (Pakistan). This table is taken from Robbins’ book:

The Abkhasians, Vilcabambans, and Hunzakuts have traditionally consu med high carbohydrates and little fat mostly out of
necessity, eating strictly from the foods that have been available t o them. They have done so naturally, without any science to guide
them and without options for choosing or adjusting their caloronutrient r atio.

The Ratio for Humans … By Design
People ask me how the 80/10/10  diet can apply equally well to people of all ages, sizes, activity le vels, etc. “Aren’t we all
individuals, with different nutritional requirements and differen t bodily makeups?” they ask.
Despite all the hype about metabolic typing, I do not believe this ratio vari es to any appreciable degree on the basis of our
individual needs. (See the FAQ entitled “What about individual differ ences?” on page 235.)
Like high-performance race cars, the human


 more percent completely digestible balanced protein with ideal ratios of allthe essential amino acids, lots of vitamins, tons of minerals, all sorts of enzymesand other nutritional elements–and very few calories. You could continually fillyour stomach to bursting with raw leafy greens and still have a hard timesustaining your body weight if that was all you ate. Maybe Popeye the Sailormanwas right about eating spinach.
For the moment, lets ignore individual genetic inabilities to digest specific foods
and also ignore the effects stress and enervation can have on our ability to extractnutrition out of the food we are eating. Without those factors to consider, it iscorrect to say that, to the extent one’s diet contains the maximum potentialamount of nutrition relative to the number of calories you are eating, to that extent
a person will be healthy. To the extent the diet is degraded from that ideal, to that
extent, disease will develop. Think about it!
Lessons From Nutritional Anthropology
The next logical pair of questions are: how healthy could good nutrition make
people be, and, how much deviation from ideal nutrition could we allow ourselvesbefore serious disease appears? Luckily, earlier in this century we could observeliving answers to those questions (before the evidence disappeared). The answersare: we could be amazingly healthy, and, if we wish to enjoy excellent health wecan afford to cut ourselves surprisingly little slack.
Prior to the Second World War there were several dozen sizable groups of
extraordinarily healthy humans remaining on Earth. Today, their descendants arestill in the same remote places, are speaking the same languages and possessmore or less the same cultures. Only today they’re watching satellite TV wearingjeans, drinking colas—and their superior health has evaporated.
During the early part of this century, at the same era vitamins and other basic
aspects of nutrition were being discovered, a few farsighted medical explorerssought out these hard-to-reach places with their legendary healthy peoples to seewhat caused the legendary well-being they’d heard of. Enough evidence wascollected and analyzed to derive some very valid principles.
First lets dismiss some apparently logical but incorrect explanations for the
unusually good health of these isolated peoples. It wasn’t racial, geneticsuperiority. There were extraordinarily healthy blacks, browns, Orientals,Amerinds, Caucasians. It wasn’t living at high altitude; some lived at sea level. Itwasn’t temperate climates, some lived in the tropics, some in the tropics at sealevel, a type of location generally thought to be quite unhealthful. It wasn’t a smallcollection of genetically superior individuals, because when these peoples left theirisolated locale and moved to the city, they rapidly began to lose their health. Andit wasn’t genetics because when a young couple from the isolated healthy villagemoved to town, their children born in town were as unhealthy as all the other kids.
And what do I mean by genuinely healthy? Well, imagine a remote village or a
mountain valley or a far island settlement very difficult to get to, where there liveda thousand or perhaps ten thousand people. Rarely fewer, rarely more. Amongthat small population there were no medical doctors and no dentists, no drugs, novaccinations, no antibiotics. Usually the isolation carried with it illiteracy andprecluded contact with or awareness of modern science, so there was little or nonotion of public hygiene. And this was before the era of antibiotics. Yet theseunprotected, undoctored, unvaccinated peoples did not suffer and die frombacterial infections; and the women did not have to give birth to 13 children to get2.4 to survive to breeding age—almost all the children made it through thegauntlet of childhood diseases. There was also virtually no degenerative diseaselike heart attacks, hardening of the arteries, senility, cancer, arthritis. There werefew if any birth defects. In fact, there probably weren’t any aspirin in the entireplace. Oh, and there was very little mortality during childbirth, as little or less thanwe have today with all our hospitals. And the people uniformly had virtuallyperfect teeth and kept them all till death, but did not have toothbrushes nor anynotion of dental hygiene. Nor did they have dentists or physicians. (Price, 1970)
And in those fortunate places the most common causes of death were accident
(trauma) and old age. The typical life span was long into the 70s and in someplaces quite a bit longer. One fabled place, Hunza, was renowned for having anextraordinarily high percentage of vigorous and active people over 100 years old.
I hope I’ve made you curious. “How could this be?” you’re asking. Well,
here’s why. First, everyone of those groups lived in places so entirely remote, soinaccessible that they were of necessity, virtually self-sufficient. They hardly tradedat all with the outside world, and certainly they did not trade for hard-to-transportbulk foodstuffs. Virtually everything they ate was produced by themselves. If theywere an agricultural people, naturally, everything they ate was natural: organic,whole, unsprayed and fertilized with what ever local materials seemed to produceenhanced plant growth. And, if they were agricultural, they lived on a soil body
that possessed highly superior natural fertility. If not an agricultural people they
lived by the sea and made a large portion of their diets sea foods. If their soil hadnot been extraordinarily fertile, these groups would not have enjoyed superiorhealth and would have conformed to the currently widely-believed notion thatbefore the modern era, people’s lives were brutish, unhealthful, and short.
What is common between meat-eating Eskimos, isolated highland Swiss living
on rye bread, milk and cheese; isolated Scottish island Celts with a dietary of oatporridge, kale and sea foods; highland central Africans (Malawi) eating sorghum,millet tropical root crops and all sorts of garden vegetables, plus a little meat anddairy; Fijians living on small islands in the humid tropics at sea level eating seafoods and garden vegetables. What they had in common was that their foodswere all were at the extreme positive end of the Health = Nutrition / Caloriesscale. The agriculturists were on very fertile soil that grew extraordinarily nutrient-rich food, the sea food gatherers were obtaining their tucker from the sea—theplace where all the fertility that ever was in the soil had washed out of the landhad been transported. Sea foods are extraordinarily nutrient rich.
The group with the very best soil and consequently, the best health of all were,
by lucky accident, the Hunza. I say “lucky” and “accident” because the Hunzaunknowingly developed an agricultural system that produced the most nutritiousfood that is possible to grow. The Hunza lived on what has been called superfood. There are a lot of interesting books about the Hunza, some deserving ofcareful study. (Wrench, 1938; Rodale, 1949)
Finding Y our Ideal Dietary
Anyone that is genuinely interested in having the best possible health should
make their own study of the titles listed in the bibliography in the back of thisbook. After you do, award yourself a BS nutrition. I draw certain conclusionsfrom this body of data. I think they help a person sort out the massive confusionthat exists today about proper diet.
First principle: Homo Sapiens clearly can posses extreme health while eating
very different dietary regimens. There is no one right diet for humans.
Before the industrial era almost everyone on Earth ate what was produced
locally. Their dietary choices were pretty much restricted to those foods that werewell adapted and productive in their region. Some places grew rye, others wheat,others millet, others rice. Some places supported cows, others goats, others hadfew on no domesticated animals. Some places produced a lot of fruits andvegetables. Others, did not. Whatever the local dietary, during thousands of yearsof eating that dietary natural selection prevailed; most babies that were allergic toor not able to thrive on the available dietary, died quickly. Probably of childhoodbacterial infections. The result of this weeding out process was a populationclosely adapted to the available dietary of a particular locale.
This has interesting implications for Americans, most of whose ancestors
immigrated from somewhere else; many of our ancestors also “hybridized” orcrossed with immigrants from elsewhere. Trying to discover what dietarysubstances your particular genetic endowment is adapted to can be difficult andconfusing. If both your parents were Italian and they were more or less pureItalian going way back, you might start out trying to eat wheat, olives, garlic, favabeans, grapes, figs, cow dairy. If pure German, try rye bread, cow dairy, apples,cabbage family vegetables. If Scottish, try oats, mutton, fish, sheep dairy andcabbage family vegetables. If Jewish, try goat dairy, wheat, olives and citrus. Andcertainly all the above ethnic derivations will thrive on many kinds of vegetables.Afro-Americans, especially dark-complexioned ones little mixed with Europeans,might do well to avoid wheat and instead, try sorghum, millet or tropical rootcrops like sweet potatoes, yams and taro.
Making it even more difficult for an individual to discover their optimum diet is
the existence of genetic-based allergies and worse, developed allergies. Later inthis chapter I will explain how a body can develop an allergy to a food that isprobably irreversible. A weakened organ can also prevent digestion of a food or
food group.
One more thing about adaptation to dietaries. Pre-industrial humans could only
be extraordinarily healthy on the dietary they were adapted to if and only if thatdietary also was extraordinarily high in


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OBESITY 103
CHAPTER 15 110
FADS OR FACTS 110
CHAPTER 16 119
MIN-COL 119
CHAPTER 17 123
CASE HISTORIES 123
CHAPTER 18 131
RBTI AND PASTORAL COUNSELING 131
CHAPTER 19 137
OXYGEN 137
CHAPTER 20 144
DIGESTING FOOD 144
CHAPTER 21 152
THE GREATEST LOVE OF MY LIFE 152
CHAPTER 22 158
THE MAN CAREY A. REAMS 158

  5 PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Freedom is a word that has been sounded, spoken, sung from one
end of America to the other for many years.
Freedom of religion. Freedom of choice. Freedom of the press. Freedom to speak, or freedom to be silent. Freedom to promote the progress of science.
America was founded on the principles that all men are created
equal, and that we could each wors hip, serve and obey God as our will
dictated.
Strange how this word called FREEDOM can become so confused
with law, rules and regulations. Such is the case of Carey A. Reams.
I have spent hours, days, and even weeks discussing with Mr.
Reams the health message of the Bible. I have watched him smile and weep as he described how God gave him the formula for perfect health. How God revealed to him in his laboratory the importance of obeying the Scriptures, even when it comes to the way we eat. He has suggested to people the world over the benefits of obeying the holy Scriptures. And for this he has been accused, persecuted, harassed, and yes-imprisoned. Not once, but many times.
Recently I found myself in Riverside, California. To my amaze-
ment this knowledgeable, sweet, gentle, spiritual, God-fearing old man had been placed in the Rivers ide County jail. The charge? Prac-
ticing medicine without a license.
No shots had been given, no drugs administered, no surgery per-
formed, no cobalt, no chemotherapy, no radiation-just minerals, good food, pure water and vitamins.
America, when I realize that God is just, I tremble. As I visited with him at the jail and went into the little cage and
awaited Carey Reams' appearance on the other side I couldn't help asking myself: Why, God? Why? Why would a man in his Seventies, 6 who loves You, loves people, and it is his desire that they be helped,
suffer like this?
I could hear the door creaking on the other side of the cage, and I
looked through the streaked, tear-stained glass and there was "Doc." Our hands lifted to the glass, and our desire was to hold hands but it was impossible.
We looked at each other and our hearts joined by the Spirit of
God.
Doc became very emotional as he saw me, and he kept saying, "Cliff... Cliff..." and held up two fingers. He did this several times
without being able to continue his sentence. Finally, through his an-guish and sobs he completed the sentence: "Two of my fellow inmates have found Jesus, and I'm working on two others." He told me not to worry, "it is all right, the Holy Spirit is in the cell with me."
Our time was soon up and we departed. His last words were:
"Don't worry. No one can lock out fro m my cell the Spirit of the living
Christ."
That was several weeks ago. I have just received word while Carey Reams has been awaiting
trial in the prison he became ill and has now been transferred to the Riverside General Hospital.
America, when I realize that God is just, I tremble.
-Cliff Dudley
  7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to express appreciation to all those who have worked with
me and stood by me in making this book a reality.
- to my children, Laverne Reams, Eugene Reams, and Betty
Brown, who worked diligently with me in my research laboratory from the time they were old enough to help until this day. Some have gone to prison with me and are also still willing to go to prison, if necessary.
- to my wife for putting up with me all these years. It has been her
prayers that have kept me on the battlefront for God. After one of our battles for the Lord she said, "Thank God He only made one like you!"
- to Cliff Dudley, his wife and family.
- to New Leaf Press, Inc., office staff.

* * * * *
 This book is only a book of information for laymen, not intended
for a text book for college graduate biologists, so therefore most col-
lege biologists and biophysicists are going to raise many questions that will not be answered in this book. Seminars are being taught to doctors, chiropractors, and people with degrees, those qualified with common sense to help this nation to be the healthiest on earth.

  8 PREFACE

The purpose of this book is to tell how God has revealed to
MODERN MAN His secret of how to live a long, healthy and useful life.
God desires all of His treasures to be in GOOD HEALTH. God never repairs a damaged cello He throws it away and replaces
it with a NEW CELL. God is not in the secondhand parts business,
and what is more, His charges are very reasonable and not grievous or painful to bear. In fact, His fees can be paid with absolute obedience to the laws He has made and written so plainly in the BIBLE.
This book will permit you to p eek through the keyhole about the
secrets of perfect health and how the fullness and joy may be attained. There are many now in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the world that are sharing this knowledge about the TRUE, God-given BIOLOGICAL THEORY OF IONIZATION (RBTI). It will be neces-sary to go to someone taught in the RBTI in order to know how to at-tain perfect health in what I term the eight-lane highway of physical,
mental, moral and spiritual obedience to perfect health. These tests can be made in minutes.
You may choose what direction you will travel-life or death. The laboratory tests are made with standard, orthodox laboratory
equipment. The tests will reveal secrets about your body chemistry that can be compared to the perfect God-given mathematical equation which will accurately denote the mineral imbalance of anyone's body. You will be instructed what to do about your diet problems indicated
in the laboratory tests. Follow the rules; they are God's way of a long, healthy, useful life. The more obedient you are to these health laws the greater your reward.
Would you like to go on a vacation while you are ill? Really, any-
one living a godly, useful, healthy life is just taking a vacation away from Heaven. Enjoy this vacation span between two ETERNITIES.
Plan on leaving for Heaven and taking your vacation away from
EARTH in perfect health. God never intended for anyone to become 9 so EARTHLY ILL until they were dying to go to HEAVEN, or wher-
ever they planned to go when they leave here.
Do not expect this book to tell you what is good for you and what
is bad for you. This book will tell you how to find out and know the four-lane expressway to PERFECT HEALTH.
HAPPY IS HE WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO AND DOES IT.
You will know how to choose LIFE or DEATH.
The RBTI test is the measure of excessive loss of ENERGY. As various organs contain more or less of the elements, it is  pos-
sible by analyzing the urine and sa liva to determine which organ or
organs are losing too much energy.
The excessive loss of energy of any organ will cause the analytical
readings of the specimens to arrange the numbers into a range pattern which will denote the exact area where the loss of energy occurs. A loss of ENERGY is the result of a mineral deficiency.
The excessive elementary energy, or the lack of it, is manifest in
the laboratory readings while it pinpoints the extent of the energy. This type of a test takes the guessing out of the practice of health, and also the guessing for those who practice medicine.
The loss of energy from one organ affects other organs. All of our
organs are more or less dependent upon another.
Too often a diagnosis, which according to Black's Legal Diction-
ary,
is only a GUESS limited by experience, only deals with one organ
and that one wherever the pain is greatest. Pain is often the result of a loss of energy in another area of the body and is settling in the weak-est spot, which causes the pain. Doctoring the pain without removing the cause is of no avail.
The RBTI tests analysis often disagrees with diagnosis because
the RBTI test is not a guess, it is an accurate chemical analysis.
Regardless of how many laboratory technicians performed the
RBTI Test, all counselors would come up with the same answer.
It is difficult to find two doctors that will make a diagnosis exactly
alike on the same problem even when made on the same day.
WHY GUESS WHEN YOU CAN BE SURE? 10 LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS to be guessing.
Please keep in mind as you read this book that God is the author
of mathematics and chemistry. He ma de the laws of life, solids, liq


agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad,
loving is bad.
No, no, my friend, you may not be very
clear about many things, but about one
thing  you are clear: you, and most of what
you desire, are bad. Having made this
judgment about yourself, you have decided
that yo ur job is to get better.
It’s okay, mind you. It’s the same
destination in any event —it’s just that
there’s a  faster way, a shorter route, a
quicker path.
Which is?  Acceptance of Who and What You Are right
now—and demonstration of that.
This is what Jesus did. It is the path of the
Buddha, the way of Krishna, the walk of
every Master who has appeared on the
planet. And every Master has likewise had
the same message: What I am, you are.
What I can do, you can do. These things,
and more, shall you also do. Ye t you have
not listened. You have chosen instead  the
far more difficult path of one who thinks he
is the devil, one who imagines he is  evil.
You say it is difficult to walk the path of
Christ, to follow the teachings of the
Buddha, to hold the light of Kri shna, to be
a Master. Yet I tell you this: it is far more
difficult to deny Who You Are than to accept
it. You are goodness and mercy and
compassion and understanding. You are
peace  and joy and light. You are
forgiveness and patience, strength and
courage,  a helper  in time of need, a
comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time
of injury, a teacher in  times of confusion.
You are the deepest wisdom and the
highest truth; the greatest  peace and the
grandest love. You are these things. And in
moments of your life you  have known
yourself as these things.
Choose now to know yourself as these
things always.
  Chapter 4
Whew! You inspire me!
Well, if God can’t inspire you, who in hell
can?
Are You always this flip?
I meant that not as a flippancy. Read it
again.
Oh. I see.
Yes.
However, it would be okay if I were being
flip, wouldn’t it?
I don’t know. I’m used to my God being a
little more serious.
Well, do Me a favor, and don’t try to contain
Me. By the way, do yourself the same  favor.  It just so happens I  have a great sense of
humor. I’d say you’d have to when you  see
what you’ve all done with life, wouldn’t you?
I mean, sometimes I have to just  laugh at
it.
It’s alright, though, because you see, I
know it’ll all come out all right in the end.
What do You mean by that?
I mean you can’t lose in this game. You
can’t go wrong. It’s not part of the plan.
There’s no way not to get where you are
going. There’s no way to miss your
destination. If God is your target, you’re in
luck, because God is so big, you can’t  miss.
That’s the big worry, of course. The big
worry is that somehow we’ll mess up and
not get to ever see You, be with You.
You mean “get to heaven”?  Yes. We’re all afraid of going to hell.
So you’ve placed yourself there to begin
with in order to avoid going there.
Hmmmmm. Interesting strategy.
There You are, being flip again.
I can’t help it. This whole hell thing brings
out the worst in Me!
Good grief, You’re a regular comedian.
It took you this long to find that out? You
looked at the world lately?
Which brings me to another question. Why
don’t You fix the world, instead of allowing
it to go  to hell?
Why don’t you?
I don’t have the power.  Nonsense. You’ve the power and the ability
right now to end world hunger this  minute,
to cure diseases this instant. What if I told
you your own medical profession  holds
back cures, refuses to approve alternative
medicines and procedures because  they
threaten the very structure of the “healing”
profession? What if I told you that  the
governments of the world do not want to
end world hunger? Would you believe  me?
I’d have a hard time with that. I know that’s
the populist view, but I can’t believe it’s
actually true. No doctor wants to deny a
cure. No countryman wants to see his
people die.
No individual doctor, that’s  true. No
particular countryman, that’s right. But
doctoring  and politicking have become
institutionalized, and it’s the institutions that fight these  things, sometimes very subtly,
sometimes even unwittingly, but
inevitably...because  to those institutions  it’s
a matter of survival.
And so, to give you just one very simple
and obvious example, doctors in the West
deny the healing efficacies of doctors in the
East because to accept them, to admit  that
certain alternate modalities might just
provide some heal ing, would be to tear at
the very fabric of the institution as it has
structured itself.
This is not malevolent, yet it is insidious.
The profession doesn’t do this because it is
evil. It does it because it is scared.
All attack is a call for help.
I read that in A Course in Miracles.
I put it there.  Boy, You have an answer for everything.
Which reminds Me, we only just started
getting to your questions. We were
discussing how to get your life on track.
How to get it to “take off.” I was discussing
the process of creation.
Yes, and I kept interrupting.
That’s alright, but let’s just get back,
because we don’t want to lose the thread
of something that’s very important.
Life is a creation, not a discovery.
You do not live each day to discover what it
holds for you, but to create it. You are
creating your reality every minute, probably
without knowing it. Here’s why that is so,
and how that works.  1. I have created you in the image and
likeness of God.
2. God is the creator.
3. You are three beings in one. You can call
these three aspects of being anything  you
want: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; mind,
body, and spirit; superconscious,
conscious, subconscious.
4. Creation is a process that proceeds from
these three parts of your body. Put  another
way, you crea te at three levels. The tools of
creation are: thought, word, and  deed.
5. All creation begins with thought
(“Proceeds from the Father”). All creation
then moves to word (“Ask and you shall
receive, speak and it shall be done unto
you”). All  creation is fu lfilled in deed (“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us”).
6. That which you think of, but thereafter
never speak of, creates at one level. That
which you think of and speak of creates at
another level. That which you think,  speak,
and do becomes  made manifest in your
reality.
7. To think, speak, and do something which
you do not truly believe is impossible.
Therefore, the process of creation must
include belief, or knowing. This is absolute
faith. This is beyond hoping. This is
knowing of a certa inty (“By your faith shall
ye be  healed”). Therefore, the doing part of
creation always includes knowing. It is a
gut-level clarity, a total certainty, a
complete acceptance as reality of
something.  8. This place of knowing is a place of
intense and incred ible gratitude. It is a
thankfulness in advance. And that,
perhaps, is the biggest key to creation: to
be grateful before, and for, the creation.
Such taking for granted is not only
condoned,  but encouraged. It is the sure
sign of mastery. All Masters know  in
advance that the  deed has been done.
9. Celebrate and enjoy all that you create,
have created. To reject any part of it is to
reject a part of yourself. Whatever it is that
is now presenting itself as part of your
creation, own it, claim it, bless it, be
thankful for it. Seek not to condemn it (“God
damn it!”), for to condemn it is to condemn
yourself.
10. If there is some aspect of creation you
find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply  change it. Choose again. Call forth a new
reality. Think a new  thought. Say a new
word. Do a new thing. Do this magnificently
and the rest of the world will follow you.  Ask
it to. Call for


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


 told her to take the
medicine to one or both of the hospitals and show the medical personnel taking
care of Clyde just what she was having him swallow.
Mrs. Lindsey returned the next day totally distraught. Between heavy sobs and
tears, she explained how the Texas Children’s Hospital staff became enraged and
told her never to come back if she used Tucker’s medicine for her son’s cancer.
This meant that her supply of Pitressin for treating the little boy’s water diabetes
was completely cut off, since she had no money with which to buy more.
This scene took place within earshot of other patients sitting in Tucker’s
reception room. They passed the hat and in a couple of minutes raised $75 for the
mother to buy her child’s diabetic medicine.
Since then, the mother has married a fine and respectable man. She has
continued to give Clyde the DMSO-hematoxylon solution all of these years, and
today, he is a big, strong young man of twenty-nine who takes his anti-cancer
medicine every day. Seeing him again, otolarynogologist George Stout expressed
utter amazement that the man was still alive and seemingly so well. Recently I
interviewed Clyde and his mother and confirmed the details of this dramatic
patient history.
The addition of dimethyl sulfoxide to the intravenous infusion bottles of cancer
patients who are undergoing biological (non-drug) therapy has become almost
routine today. The pharmaceutical grade of DMSO is broadly adapted by those
unconventionally-practicing physicians with open minds and love in their hearts for
people who come to them for health assistance. In contrast to so-called orthodox
oncologists, the holistic oncologist (and such a physician is rare and should be
cherished) does not experiment on his or her patients with toxic ingredients. Side
effects are almost nonexistent. Indeed, DMSO is nontoxic altogether, offers little
or no side effects, and brings about swift healing qualities for the cancer victim.DMSO—in particular its combination with hematoxylon solution—removes cancer
pain and reduces or eliminates free radical pathology that characteristically is
present in most cancer patients. Any cancer patient who has received
chemotherapy or radiation therapy has, in fact, burdened his or her body with vast
amounts of free radicals as manifested by sores at the corners of lips, metallic
taste in the mouth, dry mouth, loss of head hair, nausea, and more. Drinking a
small quantity of diluted dimethyl sulfoxide will tend to relieve or reduce many of
these free radical symptoms and signs.
The 1990s are witnessing a resurgence of interest in dimethyl sulfoxide for the
treatment of cancer, especially hard tumor carcinomas and lymphomas. The patient
who has not subjected himself to chemotherapy or radiation therapy benefits
exceedingly from DMSO intravenous infusions, intramuscular injection, topical
applications, and oral solutions. At the start of the third millenium, in the year
2000, DMSO is predicted to be the salvation of cancer patients worldwide. It is
medicine’s newest therapeutic principle.
A further discussion of DMSO therapy for cancer can be found in the book
Coping With Cancer
, by John L. Sessions, D.O., and Morton Walker, D.P.M.,
available by mail order from Freelance Communications, 484 High Ridge Road,
Stamford, Connecticut 06905-3095, (203) 322-1551.CHAPTER 12
Infectious Diseases Respond to DMSO
In April 1980, a nutrition and health counselor, Mrs. Vernice Reed of San
Francisco, sixty-six years old, contracted a severe infection in her mouth. She
sought medical attention from the outpatient department of a general hospital near
her home but was turned away with the admonition that her disorder belonged in
the province of a dentist.
The next afternoon the woman’s dentist told her, “Vernice, you have herpes
zoster!”
“Shingles! I don’t believe it,” she said.
“Well, you’ve had enough pain, haven’t you?”
“Yes!”
“That’s what it is, a viral infection,” said the dentist. “And I’m sorry, but
there’s nothing we can do for you, especially when herpes hits the mouth.”
Herpes zoster or shingles is a viral nerve infection that produces a painful
inflammation of the sections of nerves emerging from the spinal cord. The
varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox, is responsible.
Fever and prostration frequently accompany the pain. There are associated chills,
gastrointestinal disturbances for three or four days, and a feeling of overall
discomfort. On the fourth or fifth day, characteristic crops of tiny, red, acutely
sensitive blisters appear on the skin. They mostly erupt on the chest, and spread
along one side of the body following the course of the affected nerve. (
Herpes
means “creeping,” and
zoster
 means “girdle.”)
A form of herpes zoster that inflames the nerves leading to the face and eyes,
such as the type invading Vernice Reed’s mouth, is especially dangerous because
it may damage vision.
An ordinary attack of shingles runs its painful course in a few days or weeks
and does not leave residual difficulties. One attack will
usually confer immunity.
In some cases, most frequently in elderly people, there is a persistence of pain
called postherpetic neuralgia that may be disabling, and which hangs on long after
the blisters of shingles disappear.
Mrs. Reed’s dentist was correct in this case. There is no specific therapy forherpes zoster. Sometimes corticosteroids help if given before the symptoms
become established; otherwise, the patient just has to wait for the disease to run its
course.
Mrs. Reed decided to experiment on her own with DMSO, for she keeps it on
hand all the time as a first-aid remedy. She took one teaspoonful of the full
strength concentration and combined it with one teaspoonful of distilled water to
make a 50 percent swabbing solution for her whole mouth and upper throat. She
swabbed and gargled three times through the day and by the evening she had no
more pain.
“The next day I did the swabbing again,” Mrs. Reed said. “I combined aloe
vera with the mixture this time, because aloe vera eases the stinging that
accompanies use of DMSO. The following day there were absolutely no more
blisters. I didn’t need to swab anymore. My mouth has never had any blisters
since.”
DMSO FOR HERPES ZOSTER: A STUDY OF FORTY-SIX
PATIENTS
Whether you call it shingles or herpes zoster, the disease is a pain for the victim.
The condition is especially disconcerting when it appears around the breast area of
women and the belt area in men, probably because of constant friction of clothing
in those particular places. If it strikes the face or rises in the scalp, the symptoms
are a terrible itch and searing pain.
In 1971, Dr. William Campbell Douglass, now of Clayton, Georgia, did a
clinical investigation on the local application of DMSO for patients suffering with
herpes zoster and had some fine results.
Table 12.1
 summarizes the study. It
illustrates that the sooner DMSO treatment is given for herpes zoster, the better the
skin lesion response will be. And it’s probably true that when the condition is
treated with DMSO early enough in the acute phase, the postherpetic neuralgia
syndrome won’t occur either.
If you are going to use DMSO to relieve the symptoms of shingles, I suggest
you do it under the supervision of a physician following a certain procedure. The
material is applied directly to the skin lesions. Put the 75-percent liquid strength
onto the sensitive area as often as it is tolerable, realizing that it will sting. If the
blisters are too sensitive to accept this high-strength DMSO, dilute it with water to
bring down
the concentration. Experiment with how much water to add. You mayfind it comforting to sit in front of a revolving fan to cool the burning feeling from
DMSO application on the lesions. Caution: While it is less effective, I recommend
only a 50-percent solution be used for treating the face, neck, and scalp.
In his study, Dr. Douglass frequently combined dexamethasone (Decadron)
with DMSO. There was no noticeable difference with this drug combination as
compared to the DMSO used alone. In Table 12.1, the spinal areas are listed
merely as location markers showing the approximate place the herpes zoster was
present. Note the unusual cases where good results were acquired even after
patient number 24 had the condition for four-and-a-half years and patient number
37 had it for one-and-a-half years.
DMSO has become a specific remedy to overcome the symptoms of herpes
zoster, particularly to relieve the pain that follows the course of the involved
nerve. Those patients who have itching but no neuralgia do not feel much relief of
the itching; in fact it may increase. In general, DMSO applied to herpes zoster with
skin eruption appears to shorten the course of the disorder and to prevent
postherpetic neuralgia.
AN ENGLISH STUDY OF SHINGLES
Just before the Douglass study


 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.
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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


). Has palm-shaped leaves and long-
stalked greenish flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Central
and South America and the Caribbean islands,
contrayerva is generally gathered from the wild.
Part Used Rhizome.
History & Folklore Contrayerva means
“antidote” in Spanish, indicating its traditional use
in the treatment of poisoning and venomous bites.
The herb was employed in Mayan and Aztec
medicine for a variety of purposes, including as
a poultice to draw pus.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Contrayerva
rhizome is considered aromatic, stimulant, and
sweat-inducing. Occasionally used in the early
stages of serious fevers such as typhoid, it is also
given for gastrointestinal problems such as
diarrhea and dysentery. There is no scientific
substantiation of its reputation as an antidote.
Related Species D. convexa, native to Zaire, is
used as a wound healer; D. klainei  is used in tropical
Africa as a gargle.
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other medicinal plantsEclipta prostrata
History & Folklore As its name suggests,
viper’s bugloss was once considered a preventative
and remedy for viper bite. In his 1656 The Art of Simpling, herbalist William Coles described the plant: “its stalks all to be speckled like a snake or viper, and is a most singular remedy against poison and the sting of scorpions.” Four years earlier, the English herbalist Nicholas Culpeper had praised its action against “the biting of vipers.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses In many respects,
viper’s bugloss is similar to borage (Borago officinalis, p. 179), in that both herbs have a sweat-inducing and diuretic effect if taken internally. Viper’s bugloss has also been taken to treat chest conditions, as its mucilage soothes dry coughs and encourages expectoration. The significant mucilage content in viper’s bugloss has also proved helpful in treating skin conditions. Prepared in a poultice or plaster,  it is an effective balm for boils and carbuncles. In recent times, this herb has fallen out of use, due partly to lack of interest in its medicinal potential, and partly to its pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which in isolation are toxic. Viper’s bugloss may be safely used externally on unbroken skin.
 RCaution Do not take internally.Embelia ribes (Myrsinaceae)
Embelia
Description Climber with short, elliptical leaves,
white or white-green flowers, and round red or black fruits.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to India and
Southeast Asia, embelia grows in hilly regions.  The fruit is harvested when ripe.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents Embelia contains naphthaquinones,
including embelin. Embelin stimulates the production of estrogen and progesterone, and it may have a contraceptive effect.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Embelia has
been used in Asia as a home remedy for expelling worms. The herb is also diuretic and relieves flatulence, and is used for indigestion, colic, constipation, and debility.
 QCautions Use only under professional
supervision. Do not take during pregnancy.
Trailing eclipta is taken in India and China to stop premature
graying of the hair.Eclipta prostrata syn. E. alba
(Asteraceae)
Trailing Eclipta
Description Multi-branched annual growing
to 2 ft (60 cm). Has lance-shaped leaves and
white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Trailing eclipta is
native to Africa, Asia, and Australia. It is now found
throughout the tropics, being particularly common in India, China, and Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. It is harvested in early autumn.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents Trailing eclipta contains
triterpenoid saponins, including ecliptine and  alpha-terthienylmethanol, isoflavonoids,  and phytosterols.
Viper’s bugloss makes a
soothing poultice for treating boils and carbuncles. Emblica officinalis
(Euphorbiaceae)
Indian Gooseberry
Description Deciduous tree with feathery
leaves, pale green flowers, and round pale green
or yellow fruit. Also known as amla.
Habitat & Cultivation Indian gooseberry
grows in China, India, and Southeast Asia and is widely cultivated for its fruit.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents Indian gooseberry contains
tannins, polyphenols, flavonoids, a fixed oil, and  a volatile oil.
History & Folklore The Indian gooseberry
features in a 7th-century Ayurvedic medical text. The sage Muni Chyawan reputedly restored his vitality with this fruit.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The astringent
Indian gooseberry is given to allay the effects of aging and to restore the organs. In Ayurvedic medicine, the fruit juice is given to strengthen
the pancreas of diabetics. It is one of the three herbs in the classic Ayurvedic herbal formula known as “Triphala.”
Research Recent research suggests that Indian
gooseberry might have a remarkably wide range of potential medicinal benefits. A study in Kerala, India, showed that it may have protective activity against liver cancer. Other studies indicate potential anti-inflammatory and fever-inhibiting effects, and a cholesterol-lowering action.
A study undertaken in Bombay concluded that
the fruit might prove useful in the treatment of acute pancreatitis. History & Folklore Trailing eclipta is first
mentioned in herbal literature in the Chinese
Tang Materia Medica of 659 ce. The herb contains a black pigment that has been used to color the hair in India, and mothers wash babies’ heads in a decoction of the leaves to encourage hair growth. It is also used as an ink for tattooing. The leaves
are also eaten as a vegetable.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Trailing eclipta has
remarkably similar uses in Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal medicine. In both of these traditions, a decoction is used to invigorate the liver, to prevent premature graying of the hair, and to staunch bleeding, especially from the uterus. In the Chinese tradition, the herb is considered a yin tonic;
in Ayurvedic medicine it is thought to prevent aging. In the Caribbean, the juice is sometimes taken for asthma and bronchitis. Trailing eclipta
is also used there as a treatment for enlarged glands, as well as for dizziness, vertigo, and
blurred vision.
Research Several laboratory experiments
have shown that eclipta regulates enzyme levels within the liver and exerts a protective activity
on it.
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Entada phaseoloides (Fabaceae)
Matchbox Bean
Description Woody vine with compound
leaves and clusters of pea-type flowers. Huge,
flat brown seed pods, containing black glossy
seeds, grow to 5 ft (1.5 m) in length, making
them the largest-growing legumes in the world.
Habitat & Cultivation Matchbox bean is
native to Australia and tropical regions of Asia
and Africa. The seeds are collected when the
pods are ripe.
Parts Used Seeds.
Constituents Matchbox bean contains
significant amounts of saponins.
History & Folklore The young leaves and
roasted bean are eaten as vegetables, whereas
fiber from the stems is made into nets, ropes, and
sails. Due to the plant’s high saponin content, it is
used as a shampoo.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Australian
Aborigines use the seeds to treat female
sterility and indigestion, and as a painkiller.
In the Philippines, juice made from the bark
is used to treat conjunctivitis.tied to the tails of livestock to help them ward off
flies. It was long considered a wound-healing herb.
The English herbalist John Gerard, writing in 1597,
recounted: “Dioscorides saith, that the horse-taile
being stamped and laid to, doth perfectly cure
wounds, yea although the sinues be cut in sunder, as
Galen addeth.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses As its traditional
usage indicates, horsetail is an excellent clotting
agent. It staunches wounds, stops nosebleeds, and
reduces the coughing up of blood. In addition,
horsetail has an astringent effect on the
genitourinary system, proving especially valuable
where there is bleeding within the urinary tract,
and in cases of cystitis, urethritis, and prostate
disease. Horsetail helps to speed the repair of
damaged connective tissue, improving its strength
and elasticity. The herb is also prescribed to treat
problems related to rheumatic and arthritic
problems, for chest ailments (such as emphysema),
for chronic swelling of the legs, and for various
other conditions. A decoction of the


 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!
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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


 the staff of the Battle CreekSanatorium—are of prodigious importance intheir relation to the possibilities of humanendurance through simple Fletcherizing.
The reports include a test in what is termed
" deep-knee bending," or squatting on the heelsand then lifting the body to full height as manytimes as possible. John H. Granger, of theBattle Creek Sanatorium staff, did this feat5,002 times consecutively in two hours andnineteen minutes and could have continued. Hethen ran down a flight of steps to theswimming-pool, plunged in and had a swim,slept sweetly and soundly for the usual time,and showed no signs of soreness or otherdisability afterwards.
Doctor Wagner gave his strenuous
contribution to our knowledge of possibilities ofendurance by holding his arms out horizontallyfor 200 minutes without rest—three hours andtwenty minutes. At the end of that time heshowed no signs of fatigue, and stopped only
because of the weariness shown by those whowere watching and counting the minutes. Thesestatements seem like exaggerations, but theyare not.
Both of these tests can be tried by any one in
the privacy of his or her own bedroom.
Doctor Anderson, Director of the Yale
Gymnasium, taking advantage of the cueoffered by the Yale experiments, which hesuperintended, practised Fletcherizing in all itsbranches. At the end of six years he put themuscles thus purified to the test, with theresult that he added fifteen pounds of puremuscle to a frame that never carried more than135 pounds before in the half century of itsexistence, and demonstrated that the sameprogressive recuperation that I have enjoyed isopen and available to others who have passedmiddle life.
Mr. Stapleton, one of Professor Chittenden's
volunteers, grasped the same valuable cue whileserving as one of the heavy-weight test-subjectsin the Yale experiments. He reduced his waistmeasurement to thirty inches and a half,increased his chest measurement to forty-four
inches; and has refined his physique until hisribs show clearly through his flesh, while hismuscles mount tall and strong where muscle isneeded in the economy of efficiency. In themeantime, without training other than thatconnected with his teaching, he increased thetotal of his strength and endurance more thanone hundred per cent. ; and reduced his amountof food by nearly, if not quite, half—as have alsoDoctor Anderson and myself.
MY ENDURANCE  TEST AT YALE.
These are merely typical cases of distinuished
and measured improvement.
How the movement went on from step to step
others have told, and I need not follow it furtherhere.
Two years after I began my experiments my
strength and endurance had increased beyondmy wildest expectations. On my fiftiethbirthday I rode nearly two hundred miles on mybicycle over French roads, and came homefeeling fine. Was I stiff the next day? Not at all,and I rode fifty miles the next morning beforebreakfast in order to test the effect of my severe
stunt.*
When I was fifty-eight years of age, at the
Yale University Gymnasium, under theobservation of Dr. Anderson, I lifted threehundred pounds dead weight three hundred andfifty times with the muscles of my right legbelow the knee. The record of the best athletethen was one hundred and seventy-five lifts, soI doubled the world's record of that style of testsof endurance.
The story of this test at Yale, when I doubled
the " record " about which so much has beenwritten, is this: Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale,had devised a new form of endurance-testingmachine intended to be used upon the musclesmost commonly in use by all persons. Obviouslythese are the muscles used in walking. Quite alarge number of tests had been measured by theFisher machine, but it was still being studiedwith a view to possible simplification.
I was asked to try it and to suggest any I
* Detailed account of this test is given in The New Glutton or
Epicure London: Ewart, Seymour & Co., Ltd., Burleigh St.,
W.C.changes that might improve it. I did so, and
handled the weight with such seeming ease thatDr. Anderson asked me whether I would notmake a thorough test of my endurance. This Iwas glad to do.
The Professor Irving Fisher Endurance
Testing Machine is weighted to 75 per cent. ofthe lifting capacity of the subject, ascertained bymeans of the Kellogg Mercurial Dynamometer.The lifting is timed to the beats of a metronome.
When I began, Dr. Anderson cautioned me
against attempting too much. I asked him whathe considered " too much," and he replied : " Fora man of your age, not in training, I should notrecommend trying more than fifty lifts." So Ibegan the test, lifting the weight to the beat ofthe metronome at the rate of about one in twoseconds, and had soon reached the fifty mark." Be careful," repeated Dr. Anderson, " you maynot feel that you are overdoing now, butafterward you may regret it."
But I felt no strain and went on.When seventy-five had been exceeded, Dr.
Anderson called Dr. Born from his desk to takecharge of the counting and watching to see thatthe lifts were fully completed, and ran out into
the gymnasium to call the masters of boxing,wrestling, fencing, etc., to witness the test.When they had gathered about the machine, Dr.Anderson said to them, " It looks as if we weregoing to see a record-breaking." I then asked," What are the records? " Dr. Anderson replied," One hundred and seventy-five lifts is therecord ; only two men have exceeded onehundred; the lowest was thirty-three, and theaverage so far is eighty-four."
In the meantime I had reached one hundred
and fifty lifts, and the interest was centered onthe question as to whether I should reach thehigh record, one hundred and seventy-five.
When one hundred and seventy-five had been
reached, Dr. Anderson stepped forward to catchme in case the leg in use in the test should notbe able to support me when I stopped andattempted to stand up. But I did not stop liftingthe three-hundred-pound weight. I kept righton, and as I progressed to two hundred, twohundred and fifty, three hundred, and finally todouble the record, three hundred and fifty lifts,the interest increased progressively.THE AUTHOR  UNDERGOING  A TEST AT YALE WHEN  HE MADE  A
WORLD 'S RECORD  ON THE IRVING  FISHER  ENDURANCE  TESTING
MACHINE.
After adding a few to the three hundred and
fifty I stopped, not because I was suffering fromfatigue, but because the pounding of the ironcollar on the muscles above my knee had madethe place so pummelled very sore, as if hit agreat number of times with a heavysledgehammer. I had doubled the record, andthat seemed sufficient for a starter in thecompetition.
As I stood up, Dr. Anderson reached up his
arms to support me. But I needed no support.The leg that had been in use felt a trifle lighter,but in no sense weak or tired.
Then I was examined for heart-action,
steadiness of nerve, muscle, etc., and was foundto be all right, with no evidence of strain. Aglass brimming full of water was placed first inone hand and then in the other, and was heldout at arm's length without spilling any of thewater.
Next morning I was examined for evidence of
soreness, but none was present. There was thenormal elasticity and tone of muscle.
Later in that same year, at the International
Young Men's Christian Association TrainingSchool at Springfield, Massachusetts, I liftedseven hundred and seventy pounds with the
muscles of the back and legs — a feat thatweight-lifting athletes find hard to perform.And I did these stunts eating two meals a day,one at noon and the other at six o'clock, at anaverage cost of eleven cents a day.
Still another examination at the University of
Pennsylvania resulted in my breaking theCollege record of lifting power with the backmuscles. I do not cite these instances as feats ofextraordinary prowess, but just to show thedifference in my condition then and twentyyears before. All this I have done simply bykeeping my body free of excess of food and thepoisons that come from the putrefaction of thefood that the organism does not want andcannot take care of.
As to myself, I am now past sixty-four. I
weigh one hundred and seventy pounds, whichis a good weight for my height. During themany years of experiment I have rangedbetween two hundred and seventeen and onehundred and thirty pounds, but have " settleddown " to my present quite convenient figure. Ifeel perfectly well; I can do as much work as cana man of forty—more than can the average man
of forty, I believe. I rarely have a cold, andalthough I am always careless in this regard,my work is never delayed. I do not know what itis to have " that tired feeling," except asexpressed by sleepiness. When I get into bed Iscarce ever remember my head striking thepillow, and after four and one-half hours Iawake from a dreamless slumber with a happywaking thought in process of formation.
I usually find it agreeable to court
supplemental naps, to be followed by morepleasant waking thoughts : but these are pureluxury. I can do with five hours sleep if need be.CHAPTER III
WHAT I AM ASKED ABOUT FLETCH