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Ms. Erlinda N. Suarez
631 Peregrine Drive
Palatine, IL 60067-7005
The specimen w ill be tested immediately upon arrival. Results w ill be sent by email
as soon as they become available to the patient's and/or physician's email address if
they have email addresses. The official report w ill be sent back by air mail. 43
M etabolic Medicin e ’s Can ce r  Cure
P ro g ram
M e ta b o lic  M e d icin e's C ancer C ure P rogram  is based on
th e  best s c ie n tific  kno w le dg e a va ila ble and has been
condensed to  a sim ple w e ll-b a la n ce d  system. I t  can be com pared to  a fin e  w a tc h ;
each p a rt m ust be th e re  and
fu n c tio n in g  p ro p e rly, o r it does n o t w o rk  a t a ll. Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program
"Metabolic" pertains to metabolism: The chemical and physical processes
continuously going on in living organisms and cells, comprising those by which
assimilated food is built up (anabolism) into protoplasm and those by which
protoplasm is used and broken down (catabolism) into simpler substances or waste
matter, with the release of energy for all vital processes. The person who has the metabolic malfunction should be addressed, not the
disease that has the person. We call our system of addressing cancer "Metabolic"
because the total person and all of his chemical and physical processes must be
considered, and new habits of health developed in order to obtain a reasonable state
of health. We advise a very comprehensive program. It is extremely effective and inexpensive
when compared to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Those who are willing to
faithfully and tediously follow it w ill be successful. Those who follow it in part or
haphazardly w ill be completely unsuccessful. Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program is based on the best scientific
knowledge available and has been condensed to a simple well-balanced system. It
can be compared to a fine watch; each part must be there and functioning properly,
or it does not work at all. Each step of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program
must be followed exactly or there will not be any relief of the symptoms. 44
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The Five Steps of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program
1. Adequate, Proper, Well-Balanced Diet (Chapter V)
2. Neurological Stimulation (Chapter VI)
3. Spiritual Attitude (Chapter VII)
4. Detoxification Of The Body (Chapter VIII)
5. Metabolic Supplementation (Chapter IX)
1. Halting or stopping the malignant growth with the use of supplemental
metabolic nutrition, is relatively simple. The growth is usually stopped from within 3
hours to 12 days of metabolic nutritional supplement support, depending upon the
amount and method of administration. This is usually noted by a sharp elevation of
body temperature lasting about three days. 2. The clinical problem in treating a cancer patient is step two, clearing the body of
accumulated toxins. This takes from 3 weeks to 18 months, depending upon the
location and mass (amount) of growth. Many cancer patients have had their tumors
successfully treated only to die of toxic poisons as the mass is dissolved and excreted
from the body. In a case such as this, the clinician treated the disease and not the
patient, or failed to treat "metabolically." 3. Diet for the cancer victim is as important as diet for the diabetic, and should be
carefully followed during the fist year of the recovery process. Later, diet can be
altered to a more acceptable program. However, for the rest of one's life food intake
and enzymes must be considered to remain "cancer-free." 4. The nerve pathways to the pancreas must remain functional, turning the
pancreas on and off as needed. When this process fails, the pancreas does not know
what to do. Osteopathic and chiropractic adjustments as well as acupuncture and
other newer neurological therapies have also proven helpful to the cancer victim. 5. Spiritual attitude often means the difference between life and death. Many are
not dedicated to the hard work and faith required for success. One patient recovered
by renting funny movies like Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin
and other noted comedians. He literally laughed himself well! We find that the rate of recovery is subject to another law — that of blood supply. If the rate of blood supply to an area is great, recovery is fast. If the blood supply to an
area is inadequate, recovery is very slow. Thus, we find those with leukemia respond
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quickly, while those with bone afflictions have a much slower response. We have
also noted that in tumors of large diameter (three or more inches) the outside
diameter is quickly dissolved, but the interior, where there is a lack of blood supply,
often takes several months to dissolve. This is a very wonderful thing; the body has
time to detoxify, and the death rate from toxemia is greatly reduced. The prognosis for a cancer patient is very good when the liver, kidney, and lung
functions are at least 50% of normal, and an optimistic spiritual attitude is
maintained. Unfortunately, we have found many people who have lost hope, or their
next of kin have lost hope, to the degree they were resigned to death and refused to
try our Cancer Cure Program. Metabolic Cancer Defense
There are only two physicians: the Almighty and your own body
The pancreas is a complex organ and has many functions and purposes. We will
briefly mention three here:
A. Carbohydrate (Sugar) Metabolism. If this pancreatic function fails, the resulting disease process is what we call
diabetes. B. Production of Digestive Enzymes:
1. Amylase, which digests starches, glycogen and other carbohydrates. 2. Lipase, which digests fats. 3. Protease, which digests proteins. If this pancreatic function fails, the
resulting disease process is called:
a) Cystic Fibrosis (usually in children) and/or;
b) Malnutrition, starvation, cachexia, wasting, or emaciation (usually
in adults). C. To Digest or Cannibalize:
1. The intercellular metabolic waste and toxic metabolic materials. 2. The intracellular waste products and dead or dysfunctional normal cells. 46
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3. The normal dormant pre-placenta cells as they become cancer cells. When this pancreatic function fails we have the resulting disease process we call
cancer. Metabolic Ignorance
There are many causes for the failure of our pancreatic metabolic function. Often
more than one cause exists simultaneously within the cancer patient. All must be
considered as possible, or ruled out as non-causative, in each cancer patient:
1. The pancreas fails to produce an adequate quantity of enzymes. 2. We take into our bodies such large quantities of foods which require
pancreatic enzymes for their digestion, that there are no enzymes available
for cancer digestion. 3. Diet: incorrect type, amount, and timing of nutritional intake. 4. Nutritional components are not available (vitamins, minerals, amino acids,
etc.) that are necessary for normal metabolism within the pancreas. 5. We may fail to take into our diet enough minerals, which are essential to
release the enzymes into activity. 6. We may produce enough enzymes but we fail to take into our diet enough
coenzymes (vitamins) to make the enzymes work. 7. Failure to make adequate pancreatic activators. 8. Obstruction of pancreatic secretion flow. 9. Often we produce enough enzymes, but the blood supply to a cancer area
is so poor that the enzymes we produce are not carried to the area. 10. Proper ph balance (acid/alkaline balance) within the intestinal tract and/or
within the malignant cancer tumor mass. 11. Infection: bacterial or viral. 12. Chemical poisons within the patient's body from the environment, food
chain, drugs, metabolic wastes or medications. 47
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13. Man-made biologicals such as viruses or infectious agents. 14. Emotional instability and/or trauma. 15. Non-absorption of pancreatic secretions: pancreatin from the intestines
into the body due to scarring or damage to the small intestine from various
diseases. 16. Our bodies produce anti-enzyme factors. These factors keep the enzymes
from digesting our own bodies. Sometimes we produce an over-abundant
supply of these anti-enzyme factors. 17. Balance: instability and weakness of the autonomic nervous system. 18. Genetic: inheriting a very small, or weak or defective (ineffective)
pancreas. 19. Radiation damage such as from therapeutic procedures, etc. and
20. Spiritual weakness. Racial Gene Pools
The pure white race, Aryans, and in particular, the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic,
Scandinavian, Germanic, French, Scottish, Irish and British peoples, genetically
appear to have a much higher incidence of cancer than other races. The Jewish race,
as well as Blacks


	be	repudiated	now. It’s	time	to	transcend	modernity’s
limited	perspective	and	lay	claim	to	a	more	enlightened	worldview. It’s	said	that	when	Ralph	Waldo	Emerson	visited	Henry	David	Thoreau	in
jail	after	he	was	sentenced	for	his	protests	against	the	Mexican-American
War,	he	asked	his	friend	what	he	was	doing	in	there—and	Thoreau	responded,
“What	are	you	doing
out	there? ”	That’s	how	it	feels	to	be	someone	shouting
“Foul!”	at	the	top	of	your	lungs	today;	anyone	who	isn’t	doing	so	must	be
nuts. Age	gives	you	a	sense	that	what	you	know	is	what	you	know,	and	whoever
doesn’t	agree	with	you	no	longer	has	the	power	to	make	you	change	your
mind	or	shut	you	up. The	only	justification	you	need	for	having	an	opinion	is
that	it’s	your	opinion. You	might	be	right	and	you	might	be	wrong,	but	under
no	condition	will	you	be	silent	about	what	you	believe	any	longer. As	Jesus
said	in	the	Gospel	of	Thomas:	“That	which	you	have	will	save	you	if	you
bring	it	forth	from	yourselves. That	which	you	do	not	have	within	you	will
kill	you	if	you	do	not	bring	it	forth.”
One	of	the	ways	we	can	give	birth	to	a	new	world	is	by	speaking	it	into
existence. And
love
	is	not	a	weak	word. One	word,	one	prayer,	one	book,	one
speech,	one	conversation,	one	poem,	one	script,	one	song	at	a	time
…	we	will
speak	of	love,	and	our	word	will	prevail.“M
INE	EYES	HAVE	SEEN	THE	GLORY
	of	the	coming	of	the	Lord:	/	He	is	trampling	out
the	vintage	where	the	grapes	of	wrath	are	stored;	/	He	hath	loosed	the	fateful
lightning	of	His	terrible	swift	sword:	/	His	truth	is	marching	on.”
I	remember	watching	Judy	Garland	sing	those	lyrics	to	“The	Battle	Hymn
of	the	Republic”	on	television	after	the	assassination	of	President	Kennedy. I
was	too	young	to	appreciate	the	full	import	of	what	was	happening,	but	I
could	tell	from	my	parents’	tears	and	Judy	Garland’s	performance	that	this
situation	was	bad,	and	that	it	was	history. A	mental	snapshot	of	Garland
singing	that	song	has	stayed	in	my	head	for	over	40	years. Its	message	is	still
one	of	my	favorite	affirmations	that	no	matter	what	happens,	no	matter	how
much	cruelty	or	injustice	fills	the	world,	God’s	truth	will	somehow	prevail. I	have	a	friend	who	has	been	in	prison	since	she	was	17	years	old. She	is
now	34. Her	crime	was	that	she	drove	the	car	in	a	marijuana	sale	during
which	someone	was	killed. Later	that	night,	after	more	than	nine	hours	of
intense	interrogation	by	the	Detroit	police,	a	confession	to	having
masterminded	the	drug	sale	was	manipulated	out	of	her. (“Just	sign	here,	and
you	can	go	home	to	your	mother.”)	No	reading	of	Miranda	rights;	no	presence
of	counsel. And	now	this	beautiful	woman,	who	at	the	age	of	17	would	not	in
a	million	years	have	known	how	to	deal	with	police	pressure,	sits	in	a	prison
cell	unable	to	procure	the	commutation	of	her	sentence	that	any	reasonable
person’s	interpretation	of	justice	would	demand. She	dreams,	and	many
dream	for	her,	that	the	day	will	come	when	she’s	released	from	the	hell	of	her
confinement	and	is	free	to	live	out	the	rest	of	her	days	with	some	version	of	a
normal	life. I	once	asked	her	what	she	wanted	to	do	when	she	got	out	of	prison. I	told
her	that	as	soon	as	she’d	visited	with	her	family,	I’d	take	her	anywhere	she
wanted	to	go. I	was	thinking	a	spa. A	beach. Wherever. Her	response? Get	ready	for	this. Her	eyes	brightened. “CVS	pharmacy,”	she	said. “I	would	love	to	go	to
CVS. I	would	love	to	be	able	to	pick	out	my	own	shade	of	lipstick. I	hear	they
have	a	lot	of	them	there. We	only	get	one	shade	in	here.”
Her	eyes	were	bright	with	hope;	my	eyes	were	bright	with	tears. And	on	any	day	when	I	feel	that	my	life	isn’t	exactly	what	I’d	wish	for	in
this	way	or	that,	I	think	of	Toni. If	you	still	have	the	chance	to	get	up	each
day,	do	basically	what	you	want	to	do,	and	make	every	attempt	to	make	right
what	went	wrong	before,	then	you’re	still	in	the	game. Some	people	mademistakes	in	their	past	for	which	they	cannot	just	atone	and	start	over. In	order	to	“[trample]	out	the	vintage	where	the	grapes	of	wrath	are	stored”
(cancel	out	hate)	and	“[loose]	the	fateful	lightning	of	His	terrible	swift	sword”
(
karma
	and
justice
	are	gentler	words,	but	I’m	not	going	to	edit	Julia	Ward
Howe),	God	needs	our	help	as	much	as	we	need	His. Later	in	the	song,	Howe
wrote:	“As	He	died	to	make	men	holy,	let	us	live	to	make	men	free.”	If	only. God	needs	us	to	surrender	ourselves	to	be	used	for	His	purposes. And	in
order	to	be	of	use	to	Him,	we	need	to	be	channels	through	which	He	can
operate. That	is	why	we	do	what	we	do—not	only	for	ourselves,	but	for	Toni
and	the	millions	like	her	who	we	know	in	our	hearts	could	so	easily	have	been
us. A
ND	THEN,	OF	COURSE,	AT	THE	END	OF	ALL	THIS
—after	all	the	years	of	yearning	and	strife,
achievement	and	disappointment—we	will	lay	down	the	body. All	of	us	hope
for	that	tunnel	of	light,	the	otherworldly	peace	we’ve	read	about,	and	the	joy
of	feeling	that	in	the	final	analysis,	this	lifetime	wasn’t	bad	at	all. Death	has	been	called	our	“next	adventure,”	and	the	older	we	get,	the	more
that	seems	to	ring	true. In	the	words	of	Carl	Jung,
“Shrinking	away	from
death	is	something	unhealthy	and	abnormal	which	robs	the	second	half	of	life
of	its	purpose.”	That	doesn’t	mean	death	is	something	to	be	excited	about,
necessarily. But	it’s	something	to	be	accepted	in	faith—faith	that	nothing
exists	outside	the	love	of	God,	the	perfection	of	God,	or	the	plan	of	God. If
He	has	us	leave	here,	then	it’s	by	definition	into	greater	light. For	myself,	the	greatest	sorrow	of	death	is	the	thought	of	leaving	those	I
love	the	most. But	then	I	think	of	those	I	love	who	have	already	died,	whom
I’ll	get	to	see	again. And	I	think	of	those	I	might	leave	behind	when	I	die,	but
who	themselves	will	cross	over	and	join	me	on	the	other	side	one	day. The
smallest	child,	even	if	blessed	with	the


 of pain. The sensations coming from a painful injury are
going on, and who cares about it? The sensations from
the amputation are going on, but I do not care about it. It makes no difference. Ifthey are there, they are there,
and if they are not there, they are not.That all comes
about through the very simple practice in which we
are totally indifferent. Most of the pain I have experi
enced in my own life eventually disappeared of its 316 HEALING AND RECOVERY
own. It may take minutes in the case of an acute injury,
or it may take months for chronic pain. Other people
have reported the same experiences from using this
technique. I had one illness that took well over a year of con
stantly letting go, constantly releasing, and constantly
surrendering before it finally disappeared, so I know
that the sensations will eventually disappear, but I am
not doing these things to try to achieve that. That
would be trying to change it and get rid ofit. I do know
as a matter of clinical observation that as a person lets
go of resisting the pain, there comes a point where
they don't care ifit is there or not, and then suddenly
one morning they wake up and it is gone.We don't let
go of resisting it in order to get rid of the pain-that is
a happy side effect. When we reach the point where
we do not care whether the pain is present or not, then
what difference does it make, because at that point,we
are immune to the pain. It is very good to know that our mind has this
power and capacity, and that all we need is someone to
point it out to us and encourage us to try itsowe can
see that it works.There is no need to be in a state ofsuf
fering over pain of any kind. Pain is one thing; suffering
is another.We have to say that over and over to ourself
and begin to utilize these techniques. Then we will
experience there is a'me' that is separate from the
pain. It is like we are not connected with it anymore,
and we are something even greater than and beyond
that which is painful. What is the meaning of life's experiences? The
meaning determines how we experience them, how 317 PAIN AND SUFFERING
we feel about them. Isn't that so? It does not make any
difference at all what happens in the world if we can
be with it in a certain way. It is not what is happening
out there but how we are with it. People who are quite
evolved can be with situations that look dramatically
tragic and yet be unaffected by them. One of the things we can do about pain is to con
sciously progress in the movement and growth of our
own consciousness. Pain proneness comes about as a
result of holding a lot of negative thoughts and feelings
within ourselves. Spiritual work and evolution have an
overall value.The whole process offorgiveness was not
really heard about much except within religion, and
now it has become almost a social phenomenon. When
we.go about our social life now and somebody brings
up a resentment, the other people will look at the
person because they know the next step for them is to
learn how to forgive it, or they will be at the painful
effect of it. All pain and suffering come about as a result of
what we are already holding in mind. Why are some
people so susceptible to pain and suffering, and for
others, it is very transitory? The pain and the suffering
go through the surface of them but not into their core. They can get extremely upset over something, but who
they really are within remains unruffled. Somehow
there is a differentiation between who one is and the
experience. The true Self is totally unruffled and allows
the experience to flow through the self. The upset,
such as emotional conflict or whatever it happens to
be, may last for hours, but the true inner Self does not
even participate in the upset. That is the differential 318 HEALING AND RECOVERY
between what is one's real self and what is being expe
rienced. It is the letting go of the habit of identifying
that one is the experience. One is that in which the
experiencing is happening, but one is not the experi
ence itself. How can we bring about this evolution and growth
in ourselves? That takes us back to the Map of
Consciousness to fmd how we re te to chronic pain in
order to transcend it and no 10 ger be in a state of
suffermg about it. Near the bottom of the chart is the energy field of
Guilt at calibration level 130. Pro onged and excessive
guilt, for example, makes us pron to sickness, accident
injury, pain, and suffering. The vi w of the world that
comes out of this guiltiness resuI s in a constant habit
of sin and suffering and brings bout self-hatred. The
process in consciousness is on of self-destruction
arising from the self-hatred.As a r suit, one ofthe belief
systems to give up is that guilt a d suffering have any
particular value.As we go up the energy fields, we can
see· that those who approach t e fields of the saints
and the great beings are gettin closer to God and
farther from guilt, pain, and sufferIng.As we experience
the Ultimate Reality, we go thrhugh the doors of a
progressive lovingness becaUS!love increases and
expands as one moves up throu joy and ecstasy to a
state of peace. We have to give up worshipin the god ofsuffering. Christians have to give up solelyl worshiping the God
of the cruciflxion, the Christ of the cruciftxion, and
move on to the Christ ofthe resurrection. The message
was not that of death, sin, and suffering. People who 319 PAIN AND SUFFERING
identify themselves as a body-the strict materialists
look at the Christ on the cross as a body and come out
with pain, sin, guilt, and suffering. Was that the mes
sage? Is that what Christ died for, to teach everybody
that we are a physical body? Or was his message the
direct opposite? His message was that we are not limited. We have to substitute our confused ideas and begin to
look at moving towards a lovingness and a higher state
of consciousness to learn that the message was the
Christ of the Resurrection. Now we have to give up the belief that penance,
guilt, sin, and suffering are somehow of enormous spir
itual benefit. Frankly, all the thousands of people I have
clinically treated over fifty years who had chronic pain,
guilt, sin, and suffering were the most selfish and self
centered persons I have ever met. Chronic pain and
suffering does not make people enlightened, loving
beings. It usually makes them cranky, horrible, selfish,
and self-centered, which brings them up to the next
level-that of self-pity. Most people with chronic pain
are into self-pity, grief, 'poor me', and the endless fear
ofthe continuation ofthe state,wondering ifit is going
to get worse. They continually resist it and have the
constant desire to get away from it. The bottom area of the Map of Consciousness
reflects the negative energy fields. The people are
very, very angry. The anger of the people in chronic
pain is enormous. They are stuck in it. Some are even
proud of the fact that nobody has been able to help
them.They grimly tell about all the doctors they have
seen, all the treatments they have had, and how all of
those things have not worked. 320 HEALING AND RECOVERY
It is necessary to move up to Courage, which con
tains the capacity to look at the fact that something can
be done about the way we can be with the pain.The
way to be with it is by using the simple 'letting go of
resisting' and having the willingness to do so. Are we
willing to try something? Do we have the courage to
try letting go of resisting the pain and ending up at
least detached from it in order to move out ofthis state
of suffering? The lower energy fields are all negative
states of suffering. The arrows ofthe energy fields above 200 all point
upwards. This means there is less and less sufferin~ as
we move up into Joy. How can we be with that chr6niC
condition? Can we be willing to be with it and let go of
resisting it? Can we begin to differentiate and accept
that we are that which is with the pain? Can we accept
our capacity to be with it in a state of nonsuffering? When looking at the emotions that go with the
energy fields below 200, we can see those that go with
chronic pain. There are self-hatred and the feeling of
being a victim.The process going on in consciousness
is a destructive one of hopelessness. We think nothing
can be done about our condition. It is worth remem
bering the nature ofthe power of the mind-that what
we hold in mind literally creates our experience. The
person who says, "My condition is hopeless" then
creates a condition that is hopeless and resistive to
treatment. If


 given an intravenous
injection of Laetrile some fifteen minutes prior to going into the bath. Laetrile, also known as
Vitamin B-17, is derived from apricot pits. It is non-toxic, even though it contains a cyanide
fraction. This substance is not damaging to normal healthy cells (after all, the full name of Vitamin
B12 is cyano -cobalamine! ),  for these cells contain an enzyme, rhodanase, that neutralizes the
cyanide fraction. Tumor cells, however, lack this enzyme, hence the laetrile is able to attack
and destroy them. It has also been experimentally established that after a laetrile injection the
temperature of the tumor rises by up to one degree. When the patient’s full body temperature is
raised by the hyperthermia treatment, this additionally helps to attack and destroy tumor tissue. Oxygen Treatments

Two compounds containing extra oxygen are useful tools of pain control. One is hydrogen
peroxide, H2O2, namely water, H2O, plus an extra oxygen atom attached to it with a single bond. The other basic compound, oxygen, O2, can also have an additional oxygen atom attached, resulting
in O3, i.e., ozone. Despite ozone’s reputation as an irritant, properly used oxygen treatments are a
powerful aid in pain control and healing.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 125Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comThese are the four benefits of the oxygen treatment:
• It attacks and kills germs and viruses;
• It attacks and destroys tumor tissue;
• It increases oxygenation of the blood stream; and
• It attaches to toxic free radicals and helps the body to excrete them. H2O2, or hydrogen peroxide, is easily and inexpensively available in drug stores or even
supermarkets. It comes in a 3% solution, which is safe to apply to the skin, or use in a tub of bath
water (NON-fluoridated), adding some 2 quarts to the tub. It is even more effective to rub the
peroxide into the skin after a warm tub bath, to be absorbed through the pores directly into the
blood stream. It is more difficult to obtain ozone treatment, since this requires a special ozone generating
machine, and that is generally only available to persons trained in its proper use. There are also
machines that generate ozone to mix into the bath water, but these are expensive, require an
oxygen tank, and are not recommended for use in the patient’s home. Rebounding
A small trampoline for gentle rebounding may sound a surprising choice for pain control,
yet it can serve that purpose extremely well. The patient must be told clearly that he/she must
not jump vigorously up and down on the trampoline, only raise his/her heels as though he was
walking, but staying on the spot. This movement causes an increase of weight on the way down,
and makes the patient feel weightless for an instant on the top of the bounce. This stimulates and
increases the lymphatic circulation, which in turn helps to overcome blockages and pain. The
gentle ‘walk’ on the trampoline may be repeated up to five or six times a day, but each exercise
must not last longer than 30 seconds.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 126Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 16
Understanding Healing Reactions

Healing reactions, also known as flare-ups, are an essential part of the Gerson Therapy. It is
important that patients should understand their nature and function before embarking on the
full treatment, since healing reactions are somewhat paradoxical experiences: although they can
produce a number of unpleasant symptoms, they should be welcomed as evidence that the therapy
has kicked in and is working well. So let’s see how and when this necessary process is likely to begin. As a rule, after the first
few days on the full Gerson program the patients feel better, suffering less pain, their appetite
improves, their external or palpable tumors are beginning to reduce; naturally they are greatly
encouraged by these positive developments. That is the moment to remind patients that a healing
reaction may be on the way, and to explain how it is going to promote detoxification. Without
proper preparation the sudden shift from well-being to its opposite would be hard to bear! When the body is first turned around from advancing cancer (or other chronic diseases)
towards healing, what Dr. Gerson called the healing mechanism  is being activated, and the
immune system begins to kick in. What happens is that the body produces a healing inflammation
and releases toxins from the tissues, producing a massive toxic load that has to be eliminated from
the liver. The process is sometimes accompanied by a healing fever and even spells of depression
and panic. On top of all this the patient may also experience nausea, toxic stools, lack of appetite
and even aversion to food or drink, especially to the green juices. There can also be more gas than
usual, plus difficulties with the coffee enemas (due to increased toxic pressure from the liver). Without advance warning the patients may feel that their condition is worsening; they are weak,
nauseated, uncomfortable, sometimes even the pain that had been reduced returns to some extent. What with the risk of depression, which is one of the possible side effects, patients may even
wonder whether the Gerson Therapy is causing their condition to worsen. However, the Gerson
doctor or practitioner, who recognizes these symptoms as signaling a welcome healing reaction,
is able to reassure patients and dispel their panic. The first flare-up is usually relatively short, since the body is not yet able to carry out
serious healing in its weakened condition and is only just beginning to respond. But even that
early start can produce impressive results. Along with the attack on malignant tissue, the body
also begins to heal old injuries, fractures, lumpy scars, and serious conditions including long-
standing high blood pressure and even age-onset diabetes. This process cannot be held back or
stopped, since the body is not able to heal selectively! In other words, it does not only heal the Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 127Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.compresent life-threatening disease but also clears up all other damage, whether old or new. That
is what the totality of the Gerson Therapy means. Thanks to it, cancer patients have overcome
allergies, long term migraines, arthritis, fibromyalgia and other conditions that have troubled
them for any length of time. How do patients react to a flare-up? Only a general answer can be given, based on the
reactions of a majority of cases. Since each person is different and has a different medical past
with different damages to the body, each healing reaction is also different! Neither is it possible
to give an exact answer to patients who wish to know how long a flare-up will last. In many
cases the first reaction is mild and only lasts from a few hours to a day or two. The second one
is normally longer and somewhat heavier, since the body and its immune system have to some
extent been detoxified, strengthened with the enzymes and nutrients contained in the raw juices
and supported by the medication, and as a result it is able to respond more powerfully. In most cases this second flare-up can be expected around the sixth week of the therapy. The
third reaction occurs usually around 3-3 1⁄2 months into the treatment and is the heaviest one. But
please remember that this is not a timetable cast in concrete, only what we have observed in a
majority of cases. Reactions are also different in chemotherapy pre-treated patients (see Chapter
18.) What to do for the patient in a flare-up, who is unwell, upset, dismayed? What NOT to do
is to stop the Therapy, give no coffee enemas or juices, for doing so would drastically stop the
healing process! Yet we must help the patient to endure the discomforts of the flare-ups. Here are
the best ways to do so:
Nausea :  If despite the nausea the patient is able to drink the juices, by all means continue
to provide them. If he or she develops a severe aversion to the green juice, warm it gently
(undiluted) to body temperature by standing the container in a warm water bath, pour the juice in
the enema bucket and infuse it rectally as a retention implant. This is not an enema and should not
be expelled. The patient should lie comfortably in bed, with legs pulled up in the fetal position,
and allow the juice to be absorbed. Patients who are temporarily unable to drink any juices can
have them administered rectally (all, except the orange juice), and should be encouraged to drink
warm oatmeal gruel and plenty of peppermint tea, partly to settle the stomach and also to supply
the necessary liquids which would normally be provided by the juices. To prepare Oatmeal Gruel,  place one ounce of oats and 5 ounces of water into a


, these sugars must be
simple sugars, as found in fruits and vegetables. The complex sugars found
in grains, refined sugars, dairy products, and the like, cause fat storage and
are acidic and highly congestive. Eating a diet of raw fruits and vegetables gives you mega-nutrition,
including simple sugars and amino acids. These foods will slice the weight
off—especially if you eat them 100 percent raw. This will also clean you out
and start to enhance the thyroid and adrenal glands. Remember glands,
glands, glands! Your glands control all your 76 trillion cells. They affect your
digestive metabolism, sugar metabolism and fat metabolism, all of which
determine weight and energy levels. Excessive Thinness
Many people suffer the plague of excessive thinness due to poor digestion—
problems with the pancreas and malabsorption in the digestive tract. When
one fails to properly break down foods into building materials and fuels, orwhen the intestinal tract becomes so impacted that these nutrients can’t be
absorbed, the body will starve to death. Even in hypothyroid conditions,
where one would expect to see an overweight condition, if the person has a
weak pancreas and an impacted digestive tract, he or she can become quite
thin despite the underactivity of the thyroid. Sometimes it can take years to
correct this condition. However, the journey to health is always worth it. Many people, even medical doctors, associate excessive thinness with
deterioration, and often compromise their own health or that of their patients
by using or suggesting different foods to help put on weight. Typically, fats
from dairy-type products, and grains are the recommended foods. These,
however, cause even further weakness in the cells because of their congestive
and acidic nature. If one is following a detoxification program and losing weight, one of the
most important questions to ask is: “Why am I losing weight when I’m
putting more nutrition and superior amino acids into my body by eating a raw
food diet?”
One of the answers is that when your body becomes stronger and healthier it
will begin to shed the toxicity and weak cells within it, thus making room for
new healthier cells. You can lose fingernails or toenails, skin, muscles, etc., in
a detoxification process, especially if these tissues are too weak for the body
to strengthen. Don’t worry, they do come back; not as before, but much
stronger and healthier. NOTE: Some individuals who begin a diet of raw fruits and vegetables
will gain weight at first. Don’t panic! This is only “water” weight. Raw fruits
and vegetables are 90 percent water. If you do retain water, this is because
your body is far too acidic and has too many acidic deposits in its tissues. The
body holds water to buffer or alkalize and remove these conditions. This will
not last long and is very beneficial. Be patient and have fun as you set off on this new adventure of eating for
vitality and health. And watch the pounds melt away. MODULE 5.9
The Skin and Its Disorders
Your skin is the largest vital organ you have. Its jobs range from temperature
control and protection to elimination. Your skin is also the largest eliminative
organ you have and is sometimes referred to as your “third kidney.” Your
skin is supposed to eliminate each day as much as your lungs, kidneys and
bowels do. This elimination is in the form of mucus, toxins (acids) and gases. The effects or by-products of many of the foods you consume will
congest and inflame your system. Skin conditions are only signs of this
process. As the body attempts to eliminate these by-products, you can
experience anything from dandruff, pimples and rashes, to dermatitis,
psoriasis and skin cancer. Psoriasis and skin cancer being the most toxic and
parasitically involved of all the skin conditions. Parasites are scavengers. They are found anywhere there is toxicity and
dead or dying cells, including in the layers of the skin and on the top of the
skin. You can call all these symptoms “diseases” if you want, however the
cause is always the same. Only the degree of seriousness is different. Most
allopathic medical doctors use cortisone or steroids like prednisone to treat
these skin conditions, which only serve to drive the toxins and parasites
deeper into the tissues, thus blocking proper elimination even further. As the skin and eliminative organs become backed up with toxins, so
does the liver. If you have any skin conditions—from ordinary pimples to
dermatitis or psoriasis—you must detoxify yourself, especially the lymphatic
system, liver, kidneys and bowels. Stop eating dairy products and refined
sugars, all of which cause heavy congestion within the tissues of the body. Fungi love this type of congestion and toxicity as a food source. This creates
a condition called Candida albicans, which is a yeast overgrowth. Yeast is
part of the fungi family. You can kill most of these fungi (yeasts) with any
good herbal parasite formula. However, if you do not remove the toxicity and
congestion they feed on, they will be back. Fevers are one of the greatest tools the body uses to help eliminate
through the skin. Increasing the body’s temperature increases perspiration,
thus increasing the elimination of toxins, poisons and mucus. This is why the
body will produce cold and flu-like symptoms as a result of parasitic attacks,
stimulation, or detoxification (alkalization). Never stop a cold or flu-like
symptom or a fever. These are not diseases, but a natural response by the
body to increase the elimination that is vital to getting well. If you do not sweat, your skin becomes congested, leading to dryness orinflammation. Many females have this problem so they use moisturizers to
make the skin soft and oily again. This only adds to the problem, as these
lotions add to the congestion in the subcutaneous layers
of the skin. Congestion and toxicity block the skin’s oil ducts and exit pores, making the
skin dry and scaly. The health of your skin is an internal issue not an external
one. In other words, a healthy body inside means healthy skin outside. If you
must feed the skin externally, use pure, raw, organic grape seed oil or olive
oil. Or mixed tocopherol vitamin E, jojoba oil or pure essential oils would be
advised. If you have hypothyroidism, which 60 to 70 percent of the population
does, you will have a difficult time perspiring. The thyroid gland affects
one’s ability to sweat, either making you sweat too much or not enough. Lack
of exercise and low activity is another reason people do not sweat enough. Refer to
Chapter 9
,
Healthy Habits,
 and read the sections on cold-sheet
treatments and dry skin brushing. These are just two simple ways to increase
skin elimination. A raw food diet is just as essential to great skin health as it is
for the health of any cell. When your skin begins to prolapse (drop) or
wrinkle, this is not old age. This is skin weakness. You must care for your skin as you would any vital organ. Remember
that the thyroid and liver are related to the skin, so detoxify the liver and keep
your thyroid functioning properly. Use the Basal Temperature Test (see
Appendix A
) for a more accurate determination of your thyroid function. Enjoy healthy skin. As you detoxify and regenerate, your whole body
will thank you and pay you back with robust health. I have helped people of
eighty and ninety years of age to regain vibrant, healthy, wrinkle-free, toned
and tightened skin. The body is a most wondrous, intelligent machine. Take
care of yours, as it is your vehicle during your earthly stay. MODULE 5.10
Mind, Emotions and the Cells

Up to this point we have been discussing the impact and effect that the
various foods and toxins you consume have upon your body. Let’s examine
the more subtle processes that affect you and your body and also create
disease.The two most powerful tools you use to create your experience here in
the physical world are your mind and your emotions. Your physical body is
just a clay shell that carries your awareness around. You would not be able to
create the events in your life if it were not for the thought processes that allow
you to imagine the sequence of events you wish to experience. Without the
emotions, however, there would be no desire to create. As the mind takes
images of the past and present and puts them together to create the future, it is
the emotions that drive you to manifest these images. The stronger your
feelings are toward some idea or image, the more you’re going to “experience
the experience,” no matter what it is. Added to these twin creative aspects is
your ego, which is your sense of individuality. Put all these together and you
have the play of life. The mind and emotions can work for us in a positive manner, or against
us in a negative manner by controlling and enslaving us. I suggest that you
use your mind and emotions to enhance and revitalize you. Remember, the
mind works from images. What you imagine becomes your reality on one
level or another. So, turn this process to your benefit. Imagine yourself
healthy and vital. This is where your emotions can come in. Get excited about
a new life, full of vitality and vibrancy. Let your emotions be the


 pesticidesare still being used! My friend, Rachel Carson, in herclassic book, Silent Spring, exposed the harm the chemical
industry was causing to the human population, as wellas the environment and all wildlife. Please read Silent
Spring, available at most libraries. It’s a must read! For example: take a loaf of commercially refined,
“embalmed” white bread that’s been treated, bleached,colored, dyed, enriched, purified, softened, preserved,flavored, and given a fresh odor – all by synthetic toxicchemicals that your body doesn’t need or want!!! In most stores it’s almost impossible to get a healthy
loaf of
100%  whole grain bread that is free of toxic sprays
and synthetic food additives. It’s best to make your ownbread or shop health stores for healthy, organic wholegrain products that are the real staff of life and health! The amazing human body is a miraculous collection
of individual cells. When nourished by healthy foodsthat provide the basic needs for growth and normalfunction, humans can live to
120 years or more! But
when people toy with their body and pollute it withchemicalized, toxic, unhealthy foods, water and air,naturally the body responds adversely!<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        For Physical, Mental & Spiritual RejuvenationProven Throughout History
father of body chemistr y father of body chemistry
DETOX BODYRECHARGE HEALTHaThese are just a few of the thousands of testimonials we
receive yearly, praising fasting for the rejuvenation benefitsthey reap – physically, mentally and spiritually. We hope
in time to also receive one from you. What a wonderful difference I have felt physically, mentally
and, most important to me, spiritually. – Tully Strong,
Coos Bay, OR
For over 20 years I have been reading the Bragg Books. In
fact, The Miracle of Fasting  saved my life. Your father was a
God-sent humanitarian. – Raymond M. Webster, S. T. D. M.,  Chicago, Illinois
A  fast with distilled water can help you heal with greater
speed; cleanse your liver, kidneys and colon; purify yourblood; help you lose excess weight and bloating; flush outtoxins; clear the eyes, tongue, and cleanse the breath. Thanksto the Bragg Books for my conversion to the healthy way. – James F. Balch, M.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who are the pioneers of health and longevity mentioned in the text?,
A: The text mentions Dr. August Rollier, Bernarr Macfadden, Prof. Arnold Ehret, Dr. St. Louis Estes, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and Dr. Henry Lindlahr.
Q: What is mentioned as the most effective and safest way to increase elimination of waste and toxins from the body?,
A: Fasting is mentioned as the most effective and safest way to increase elimination of waste and toxins from the body.
Q: What is emphasized as a key to a healthy, long, and happy life?,
A: The text emphasizes the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, including a balanced diet, exercise, and spiritual practices.
Q: What is mentioned as a key to maintaining good health and longevity?,
A: The text emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including a balanced diet, regular exercise, and a strong spiritual connection.
Q: What is the recommended frequency of fasting?,
A: The text recommends fasting 3-4 times a year, with a 24-hour fast on each occasion.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>When food ispolluted and its entire composition altered by toxicchemicals, the body’s cells become sick, function poorlyand cannot keep adjusting to the irritating toxins forcedon them – causing illness, premature ageing and death! Man’s days shall be 120 years. –  Genesis 6:314
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President, 1801-1809Synthetic, Toxic Food Additives Can Kill! A vast amount of chemical poisons contaminate our
food. Most commercial interests are not concerned with
our health and lives. The economic bottom line is their
main concern. It’s best and safer to eat live, organicallygrown foods whenever possible. Avoid complicated,
chemicalized, preserved foods. Read the labels of all foods
you purchase! Ask questions about any special productsand foods you like – even write the company and ask
for a complete nutritional and chemical analysis. Fast faithfully
24 – 36 hours weekly to rid yourself of
toxins and help your body stay healthy and clean. When
you don’t feel up to par (colds, flus, mucus, pains, aches,
etc. ), then it’s time to take a 3, 5 or 7 day complete fast
and give your body a thorough body detox cleansing! When you fast, your Vital Force is doing the cleansing. •If you are going to keep your body clean, pure and
   healthy – you must faithfully fast regularly! •When you fast, wonderful miracles will happenin your body! •The body is cleansing, repairing and healing itself! •Following a fasting regime of one day a week youwill feel greater than you have ever felt. Internal
cleansing puts you on the road to Super Health. Beware of Harmful Salt
Would you use sodium, a caustic alkali, to season
your food? Or chlorine, a poisonous gas? “Ridiculousquestions,” you say. “Nobody would be foolhardy
enough to do that.” Of course not. But the shocking
truth is that most people do just that because they don’tknow that these powerful chemicals constitute the
inorganic crystalline compound known as salt. For
centuries, the expression “salt of the earth” has beenused to designate something good and essential. This
idea is erroneous! Salt may actually help to bury you!15
The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle followed daily will help you last a long lifetime!Salt: Some Startling Facts:
•Salt is not a food! There is no more justification
for its culinary use than there is for potassium
chloride, calcium chloride, barium chloride or any
other chemical on the druggist’s shelf. •Salt cannot be digested, assimilated or utilized
by the body. Salt has no nutritional value! Salt has
no vitamins, no organic minerals and no nutrientsof any kind! Instead, it is harmful and causes trouble
in the kidneys, bladder, heart, arteries, veins and
blood vessels. Salt is the main cause of waterloggedtissues that cause swelling and edema (dropsy). •Salt causes serious medical problems and can act
as a heart poison. It also irritates the nervous system. •Salt acts to rob calcium from the body, bones,
etc. and attacks mucous lining throughout the body. If salt is so dangerous to health, why is it used so
widely? Mainly because it’s a habit ingrained over the
years. But it’s a habit based on a serious misconception
that the body needs it. Many people never eat salt andnever miss it (
we don’t own a salt shaker )! Your wise body
doesn’t want it. Once a person is free of the salt habit,
salt becomes repulsive to the taste as tobacco is to a
nonsmoker! Among certain animal species, salt acts as apoison (particularly in the case of fowl), and pigs have
been known to die after ingesting large doses of salt. How Did the Salt Habit Originate? Gustav von Bunge, a biochemist, explains that in
prehistoric times there was a balance of organic sodiumand potassium minerals in the earth. But continuedrainfall over centuries washed away the more solubleorganic sodium salts. In time, many land-grown foodsand soils became deficient in sodium, but high inpotassium. The result was that animals and humansdeveloped a craving for something to replace thismineral deficiency. They found an ineffective and highly
dangerous substitute in salt (inorganic sodium chloride).16
Watermelon and its seeds (chew or grind them) contain cucurbocitrin
that helps reduce swelling (edema) due to excess retained water from
salt and the huge variety of salty processed foods Am ericans eat.Salt Causes Edema, Kidney Problems, etc. Swallowing salt to obtain natural organic sodium is
like taking inorganic calcium to get calcium. Both are
chemicals and neither can be assimilated. All inorganic
chemicals cause all the body harm, digestive organs, etc. That’s why the body sends out sudden SOS thirst signals,
calls for water, after salt is eaten! The stomach is reacting
to salt and demands water to quickly flush the salt outthrough the kidneys (page
55). Imagine what effect this
has on the delicate kidney filters. Millions suffer from
serious kidney problems! Of all body organs, kidneys are
most affected by salt. What happens when more salt is
eaten than kidneys can eliminate? The kidneys break
down, the excess salt is deposited in various body parts,especially lower extremities. To protect its tissues against
salt, the body automatically seeks to dilute it by pooling
water in needed areas to help flush out salt. As tissuesbecome waterlogged, swelling occurs in feet, ankles and
legs causing edem a and dr opsy. Salt
(sodium chloride ) also
causes puffy eyelids and water bags below lower eyelids. Salt Affects Millions With High Blood Pressure
Salt is harmful to the kidneys and heart


scnsation  of dropping  into  unconsciousness  is
extraordinarily  pleasant. Unfonunately,  not very  many  of us die peace -
Eully. We die through accidents and painEul
diseases,  and il  is cragic indeed  when  a person
whose  "mind"  is still young  and alert  struggles
usclessly with  a dy - ing body. J am surc, however,
that the body dies be - cause it wants to. ll finds it
beyond  its power to resist  the disease or to mend
thc injury,  and so, tired  out with the struggle, turns
to death. If the consciousness  were  more  scnsitive  to
the feelings  and impulses  of the whole organism,  it
would  share  this desire,  and,  indeed, sometimes does
so. We come close  to it when,  in serious sickness,
we would justas soon die, though  sometimes  wc
survive,  either  because  medical  treat - ment
reinvigorates che body, or beca use therc are still
unconscious forces in the organism which are abl e to
heal. Accustomed,  as it is, to think  of man  as a
dualism
of mind and body, and to regard the former as "sen -
sible"  and the latter as a "dumb" animal,  our
culture  is an affront  to the wisdom of nature and a
ruinous  exploitation of the human  organism  as a
wholc. Wc are perpetually frustrated because che
verbal and ab - stract thinking of the  brain  gives  che
false  impression  of being  able  to cut loose  from
ali finite  limitations. lt forgets  that  an infinity  of
anything  is not a reality
67  THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
but an abstract concept, and persuades us that we
de- sire this fantasy  as a real  goal  of living. The externalized symbol of this way of thinking
is that  almost  entirely  rational  and inorganic
object,  the rnachine, which gives  us the scnse of
being able  to approach infinity. For the machine
can submit to  strains far beyond the capacity of
the body, and to  monotonous rhythms which the
human being could  never stand. Useful as it would
be as a tool anda serv - ant, we worship its
rationality, its efficiency, and its power to abolish
limitations of time and space, and thus pcrmit  it to
regulare our lives. Thus  the work - ing inhabitantS
of a modern city are people who live inside a
machine to be batted aroun d by its wheels. They
spend their days in activities which largely boil
clown  to counting and  measuring,  living in a
world  of rationalized abstraction  which  has little
relation  to or harmony with the great biological
rhythms and  processes. As a matter of fact,  mental activities of this kind
can now be done far more efficiently by  machines
than by men -so much so  that in a not  too distant
future thc human brain may be an obsolete
mecha - nism for logical calculation. Already the
human com - puter  is widely  displaced  by
mechanical  and elec - trical computers of far
greater speed and  efficiency. If, then, man's
principal asset and value is his brain  and his
ability to calculate, he will become an unsale - able
commodity  in an era when  the mechanical  op-
68 Tll. E  WISDOM  OF THE  BODY
eration of rcasoning can be done more cffectively by
machincs. 1
Already man uses innumerable gadgets to displace
thc work done by bodily organs  in thc animals, and
it wo11ld surely be in linc  with this tcndcncy to cx -
ternali1. c  thc reasoning íunctions of the brain -and
chus han<l over the government  of life  to elcctro -
magnctic monsters. In other words, thc intereses and
goals oí rationality are not those of man as a wholc
organism. I( we are Lo cominue to livc for the future,
and Lo rnakc thc chie( work o( thc mine. precliction
ami calculation, man must cvcntually become a para -
sitie  appcndage  to a mass  of clockwork. Thcre  is, indeed,  a viewpoint  from  which  this
"rationalization" of Iife is not rational. The brain is
clcvcr enough Lo scc thc vicious circlc which it has
madc for itself. llut it can do nothing abom it. Sccing
that iL is unrcasonaule to \l"OtT)' does not stop worry -
ing; rathcr,  you worry  thc more  al bcing  unrcason -
1 I takc my fact, on this maucr  írom  Norbcn  Wicncr·s  rcmark -
able book  Cy bern etics  (New  York  &: Paris. 19 ¡8). Dr. Wiener  is
onc of thc mathcm:llicia11s chiefly rcsponsible for thc dcvclopmcnt
oí the more  elaboratc  clectrical  computcrs. l laving  likcwisc  an
adva11,ccl knowledgc of 11c11rolo6y,  he i, well :1blc 10 ju<lgc thc
cxtcnt  10 which  1hc1c  invcntions  c;rn n:produrc  thc work  of thc
human organi>m. 1lis book contaim thc following pcnincnt ob -
scrvation: "lt  is intcresting w note th,11 wc m:,y he facing onc of
those limi1:1tions of nature. in whirh highly spcciali1ed organs
n:ach :, leve. o[ dcclining cfücicnry. and  ullimatcly lcad  to the
cxtinc1ion  of che specics. Thc human  brnin   may be  as far along
on its road to this dcstructivc spcciali1. a1ion  as the great nose
horns  of thc last of thc litanmhcrc<. " (p. 1So. ) G9 THE  WJSOOM  OF INSECURITY
able. It is unreasonable to wage a modern war,  in
which everybody loses. Neither side actually
wants a  war, and yet, because we livc in a vicious
circle, we  start the war to prevent the other side
from starting  first. We arm ourselves knowing
that  if we do not,  the other  side  will-which  is
quite  true,  because  if we do not arm the ocher
side will do so to gain its  advantage  without
actually  fighting. From this rational point of view we find
ourselves  in the dilemma of St. Paul -"To will is
present with  me; but how to perform that which
is good I find  not. For the good that I would l do
not. " But this is  not, as St. Paul  supposed,  because
the will or the "spirit" is rcasonable and the flesh
perverse. le is be - cause "a house divided against
itself cannot stand. " The whole organism is
perverse bccause the brain i s split from the bclly
and the head unconscious of its  union  with  the
tail. There are few grounds for hoping that, in any
im- mediatc future, there will be any recovery of
social  sanity. lt would seem that the vicious circle
muse be - come yet more intolerable, more
blatantly and des - perately circular beforc any
large numbers of human  beings awaken to the
tragic trick which they are play - ing on thernselves. Bu Lfor those  who sce  clcarl y thac  it is a circle and
why ir  is a circle, there is no altema - tive bue to
stop circling. For as soon as you see the  whole
circle,  the illusion  that  che head is separate  from
che tail disappears. THE WISDOM  OF THE BODY
And then, when experience stops oscillating
and writhing, it can again become sensitive  to the
wis- dom of thc body, to the hidden depths of its
own sub - stance. Becausc I speak of the wisdom of thc bod y and
of the necessity for recognizing that we are
material,  this is not to be taken as a philosophy of
"material - ism" in thc accepted sense. I am not
asserting that the  ultimatc rcality is


. The Impoverishmen ts of Prosperity

The Industrial Revolution was prec eded, and has been accompanied,
by a frantic commercial adventuring, which has brought the
European with his trading practi ces all over the world. The essential
feature of European trading is the exclusive priority it places on
profits. Profitability has conditione d, and still conditions, practice,
often at the detriment of the less easily definable human values. The
introduction of rice refining in India is an example. Previously, the
removal of the husk, the sifting away of the chaff, left much of the
germ behind, the ritualized preoccupation of women, a labour of
love and gratitude. Mildew, insects and rats no doubt took a
considerable toll of the rice stores, but this was taken as one of the
inevitables of existence; the rats also had a right to live! The
European influence brought in qu ite another mentality, and a new
class of European and Indian merc hants, who set about correcting
these wastes, by proper storage follo wing the refining of the rice. In
an age when the merits of hygiene were being widely promoted,
white rice could be put over as a superior, cleaner product; with the
losses due to spoilage overcome, the refined rice could be sold more
cheaply while still leaving large profits to the merchants. There was at first much resist ance against these changes, which
the Indian felt was a dismantling of a ritualized act of immense
importance, but cheapness, and the withdrawal of whole rice by the
merchants, forced the habit upon the Indian masses, aided perhaps
by the fact that the European, because of his'mixed diet', found the fibreless white rice more congenial to his taste. But the consequences were soon calamitous. Deficiencies of the B vitamins
had been virtually unknown in India before. Now they became
rampant, affecting whole communities, resulting in an apathy which in return affected the labour ava ilable to the colonial powers. An
attempt was made, as soon as it w as realized that the essential
vitamins were contained in the e ndosperm and germ, to remedy this
state of affairs by parboiling the rice before it was refined. Thereby
some of the B vitamins penetrated the white grain. This not only added to the cost of the eventual product, but left behind an unpleasant soggy taste and smell. When the British Government attempted to make the eating of parboiled rice compulsory, there were riots. The effect of rice refining in India, as elsewhere, has been
utterly disastrous, leading to a chronic malnutrition that has debased the enterprise and the viability of the people. It is unfortunately true that a vegetarian is all the more damaged by eating refined cereals than a mixed eater, for the latter obtains considerable amounts of the
B vitamins from the animal ingredient in his diet, whereas the
vegetarian depends very largely on the B vitamins in cereals. Sugar is another example of an impoverishment in the name of
technical progress. By itself, sugar should not be considered a food. Although the natural fuel of all anim al life, it is offered in nature with other essentials—particularly Vitamin C in the case of fruits—
and is intended to be part of a whole dietary which supplies the essentials needed by the body for the proper metabolism of sugar,
chiefly the B vitamins and certain minerals. Taken by itself, sugar is
an anti-food. In combination with other refined foods, deprived of
the B vitamins and minerals, it becomes a pernicious and evil
ingredient in the diet, especially in one already inadequate and impoverished, the case in many parts of the world today. It is depressing to contemplate how a delightful inducement,
the primate love of sweetness, which is the natural demand for
fruits, should have become so deceived, with deleterious consequences only now becoming better understood. Besides the well established responsibility for dental caries, sugar has recently been incriminated in a particular  form of listlessness in children,
often with fit-like attacks and destructive behaviour, seriously
affecting the ability of such children to learn and to behave in a socially constructive manner. Sugar has been also invoked in heart
attacks, in diseases of the skin and eye, in diabetes and other metabolic disturbances, as well as being the main contributor to the
diseases of overweight. Although other questionable crops, such as the vine, are grown
on lands often inappropriate to the production of primary foods,
beet sugar has become an established rotational crop on some of the best lands in Europe. Easy to gr ow and profitable, the acreage under
beet has had to be limited, but it is a perversion of land use to grow
sugar beet at all. Its place could be better taken by other rotational
crops which could be used as a primar y food. As for cane sugar, it is
true that it is the most efficient means of fixing solar energy—were it not for the present clamour for sugar, converted into alcohol it could rival petrol at present prices—but human food is much more
than calories. With the increasing world pressure on the primary
foods, there is no doubt that the cane producing lands would do better to grow primary foods ra ther than sugar—less cars and
gadgets, and less foreign exchange, but better health, and a happier
people. But it is the use of lands, capable of growing primary human
foods like cereals, for meat production, that constitutes the greatest
economic folly. It requires some tw elve to fifteen times more land
to produce a pound of meat than a pound of cereal, which means that some two to three thousand million more people could be fed if the world became vegetarian. It is not suggested that the world
population should so increase. Rather, the aim is to emphasize how
wasteful it has become to use land for the production of animal food, a wastefulness which the planet can no longer tolerate. Since the power of demand is still largely in the hands of the
industrial communities, and their clamour for meat, far from being satiated, is for ever increasing,  and since much of the animal
feeding stuffs is produced in the po orer parts of the world, it means
that the nutrition of the poorer two thirds of the planet is being increasingly sacrificed so that the gluttony of the more prosperous communities can be met. One can doubt that such a situation will be tolerated for much longer, for more  than oil, the West has been
meeting its protein surfeits at the expense of a planetary majority. The situation is already threatening. The shortage of animal
food is boosting prices, a main factor in the inflationary costs of feeding. Those countries formerly exporting animal foods are now
consuming it themselves. And there is no unexploited land left on the planet. If the industrial communities do succeed in even
maintaining their present levels of consumption of animal foods, it
can only be at the cost of a deteriorating world situation, leading inexorably to worldwide starvation. And starving people are desperate people. With the means of making atomic weapons now well within the capacity of the poorer, increasingly more poorly fed peoples of the world, it is not impossible that the planetary
holocaust will be the result of greed. Wisdom would conclude that a worldwide adoption of a
vegetarian dietary is the proper means of planetary justice and
survival. Wisdom would also prepar e for this inevitable change in
good time, so that it came about in good order, without the
widespread disaster which such momentous change will exact if it
comes about in violence and chaos. Unfortunately, it is not only the greed of the presently prosperous countries that is involved. Many of the poorer peoples have come to imitate the dietary habits of the West, as they have attempted to catch up with its industrial
advantages. Former peasantries, only eating animal foods on rare
festive occasions, now insist on a daily intake, as the mark of emancipation. And many of the poorer peoples are, by culture and tradition, the opposite of vegetarian. The prospects are undoubtedly grim. Success is only likely to
be achieved if the overall bad habits of civilization, as well as the
mounting pressure of population, can become corrected. In all
probability, all these problems are interconnected. Wrong eating must in some way at present unrealized, play its part in the population stampedes of recent times, just as this stampede has its reverse influence on world food resources. The challenge of a world
food reform calls for a better understanding of the forces at work
behind the extraordinary rise in the human population of this planet. II. The Unloving Crowd

Although the earth could support a considerably larger number
of people than exist at present on a vegetarian dietary, congestion is fast becoming a dehumanizing influence. Human society differs from the often vast aggregations of individuals one finds among
other animals, wherein the individual is subordinate to the group
structure, in that society is the radiation of the humanizing predispositions engendered within each  individual. It  is only when
such conditions* are fulfilled in the individual that society is itself a humanizing force. Constraint, limitation of individual freedom, subordination of the individual to the needs of vast societies are thus
inherently antihuman. Human love is so powerful a force, that it can no doubt be
exercised in large social groupings, possibly extending to a planetary scale. But this requires first of all the reality of love and its achievement between individuals, as well as a social structure
which preserves individual liberty, in the sense of allowing and
encouraging every individual to develop along humanizing lines.


¼ cup of flax oil each and eve ry day … that’s 480 calories of pure fat right
there! I often ate a second avocado at dinner, the two of them probably totaling  about 450 fat calories. The nut/seed concoctions I
made for dinner (mock tuna, salmon nori, etc. ), contributed another 400 calories  of fat. That’s 1,580 calories of overt fat in my day. My total calories probably ran about 2,000 per day—which meant that I  was eating about 79% fat! WOW!! My “healthy” eating was somewhat legendary within my own little  world. Goodness! The salads I would concoct in the
lunchroom at my Silicon V alley offices … It was the company joke. On the  way out to local restaurants for lunch each day, the
analysts I worked with would take a field trip past the lunchroom to see w hat “shrubbery” Laurie was eating today! They called my
salad bowl “the trough.” At 88 pounds and five feet tall (I’ve been t hat size since I was 14; it has nothing to do with raw food), I
could pound down a lot of salad. Or at least it looked that way to mainstream eater s.
I spent an ungodly amount of time in the kitchen each day, even buying a se cond food processor, blender, and juicer to keep
in my office so that I could now also whip up mock tuna and other such concocti ons for lunch if I wanted … which did nothing for
my caloronutrient ratio, let me tell you! I enjoyed my food (who wouldn’t, with all that fat and salt), and I enjoyed the a ttention I received (“Where is a tiny person
like you putting all that FOOD!?”). But I had one problem: my longs tanding fatigue and lifelong recurring bronchial infections we re
NOT getting any better than they were when I ate cooked food. It was maddeni ng! As a child, I recall having a cold at least once every two months. Without  fail, I’d get swollen glands a day or two before the
full-on bronchial affront would begin. Next, I’d get a croupy cough, a  sore throat, and sometimes earaches. I’d always hope that the
cold would stay in my head this time, but darned if it didn’t “go down to my lung s” every single time. These “colds” never lasted less
than 8 or 10 days. I lived on antibiotics. Mom would have us stop them early when our sympt oms went away, so we could “save” some
antibiotics. That way, we would have some on hand and wouldn’t have to wait f or a doctor’s appointment the next time. At the
slightest indication of swollen glands, I’d pop the pills … “to nip it  in the bud,” you know? W e were smart consumers! It’s a wonder I got through school at all. I was often absent a full week of s chool in a month. I’d do my schoolwork from
home, my bedroom desk stocked with antibiotics, throat lozenges, vitamin C, and ex pectorant cough syrup. I spent a good portion
of each winter “under the vaporizer,” as we called it. The bedroom wall s and windows would be wet with condensation from the
mentholated vaporizer steam mom used to try to keep me breathing. Somehow, though, I managed never to manifest a diagnosable disease … main ly just those incessant chest colds. They
continued unabated through my young adult life. Chronically underslept  and overstressed, I worked ridiculously long hours at my
college studies and at my jobs, living on adrenaline and working right  through my ongoing illnesses. I’d come to work with no voice. I’d take work home and work from bed. I’m quite sure I exhausted my body to a devas tating degree. By 1990, newly married and still working crazy hours as operations manager a t a small electronics company, I was diagnosed
with Epstein-Barre virus. Regularly sick, and dragging myself to wor k each day, I continued the downward spiral of ignoring my
body and pushing through the colds, flus, episodes of strep throat and bronchitis, a nd occasional cases of pneumonia. I remember nearly falling asleep on the road driving home from work just about eve ry day that summer. Sometimes I’d pull over and nap for
awhile, but mostly I’d talk or sing or scream out loud, slap my own face, and blast the music while I drove, trying to push my
exhausted body another 20 minutes until I could get home. In the eighties I worked for a wealthy stockbroker who took us on incentive bonus  trips to places like New Orleans, where
we would eat at five-star restaurants night after night. I learn ed to love rich, gourmet foods and ate more than my share of prime rib
and creamy risotto. After nine years of working for this broker and her hus band, I could no longer afford my own taste in food. Always interested in what I believed to be health and nutrition, howeve r, I tended more toward grilled vegetables and fish,
rarely if ever eating fast food. I pored over magazines for “healthy”  recipes. At home I would broil oil-coated vegetables and pour
them over corkscrew pasta topped with pine nuts and herbs, sure that I was ea ting a supremely healthful meal. Then at age 34 (1997), I learned about raw foods from Pam Masters, a light-fille d soul who taught hundreds of people in the
San Francisco Bay Area to eat raw food and heal their bodies as she had done h erself. Pam shared with us dozens of hand-written
recipes that she had learned to make at Hippocrates Health Institut e years before. W ow! This rich, salty, fatty “health food” was
right up my alley! I loved  what I was learning, and my taste buds loved it even more. Yet it never added up: I ate all this healthy food but still had endless sev ere head colds. Instead of getting better, it seemed as
if my colds were coming more frequently and were increasingly more vi rulent. They never lasted less than three weeks, usually
dragging on a month or more at a time. I would lose my voice completely, every t ime. I would cough violently. I would still work
right through it all. In the late 1990s, it seemed I spent more of the year wi th a cold than I spent feeling good. Finally one day in total desperation, I phoned Doug Graham in Florida. I still  have the audiotape of that phone conversation. W e were friends by then, so he knew of my history of chest colds … but I had n ever asked him for help, so he hadn’t laid it on the
line to me. Now I was asking, and I was in tears. First, he asked me to list for h im what I ate on an average day. He listened
patiently, then he told me what he tells nearly every raw fooders who c onsults with him: “Laurie, you’re eating way too much fat and
not nearly  enough fruit.”
Never having had a weight problem, I had no concept of how many calorie s or how much fat was in the foods I ate. I didn’t
believe that my diet could be as full of fat as he claimed, but I started inv estigating. Over the past half-dozen years, I have delved
deeply into caloronutrient calculations, verifying for myself the t remendous amounts of fat that raw fooders are eating. I learned that
nuts and seeds average about 75% fat. (Who was the rocket scientist who told u s these were protein  foods?) This kind of
information gave me motivation to make some serious changes! Now, I have learned to eat pretty darned close to an 80/10/10  diet (cooked and raw, not the rave version). A lot of people
fall over when they hear the quantity of fruit I eat each day. Togethe r with my partner, Tim Trader, I buy bananas by the case—we
go through about 250 a week. W e frequent farmer’s markets, and our kitchen coun ter is a beautiful cornucopia of dozens and
dozens of colorful fresh fruits at all times. I start every day with a 12- banana smoothie to which I add about a pound of one or two
other types of fruit: pears, strawberries, mangos, stone fruits … wh atever catches my eye. (Y es, all that plus a couple cups of
distilled water does  fit into one Vita-Mix container; it makes nearly three quarts.) Or I ’ll eat a banana/celery smoothie, sometimes
adding parsley or kale or cilantro or other greens to it. Most days I continue e ating fruit in the afternoon (grapes, mangos,
watermelon, nectarines, etc.) and then eat a salad for dinner, usually  with cooked vegetables as well. I am working on incorporating
more whole foods and fewer smoothies … but for now this is what works for me. My fat consumption has dwindled dramatically. These days when I eat at h ome, I eat about 2 avocados a week and virtually
no nuts or seeds, except some ground flax on my salads. I am just not attracte d to heavy foods anymore. My salad dressing is often
a Mexican salsa, or sometimes


 than they th ink. The awareness of the presence of God is preceded by
surrender. It is often in the pit of despair that the ego lets go, so that all
crises can be turned into the opportunity for spiritual discovery. 11. Realize that “T ruth” is dependent on context. All  truth is only so
within a certain level of co nsciousness. For instance, to for give is
commendable, but at a later stag e, one sees that there is actually nothing tofor give. There is no “other” to be for given. Everyone’ s ego  is equally
unreal, including one’ s own. Perception is not reality. 12. Practice nonattachment, which  is an attitude of withdrawal of
emotional entanglement in worldly af fairs. It leads to serenity and peace of
mind. It is supp orted by refusing the emotional seduction of other people’ s
upsets and problems. It also involves a willingness to allow the world to
work o ut its own problems and destiny. Reactive involvement and
intervention in the world can be  better left to people who have a dif ferent
calling. A “ good person” is one thin g; Enlightenment is another. Y ou are
responsible for the ef fort and n ot the result, which is up to G od and the
universe. Nonattachment is not the same as indif ference or detachment. Misunderstanding it to mean that the development of detachment is
required often ends up as flatn ess or Apathy. In contrast, no nattachment
allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes. 13. Accept that everything serves a purpose. Acceptance is the great
healer o f strife, conflict, and u pset. It also corrects major imbalances of
perception and precludes the dominance of negative feelings. Humility
means th at we will not understand all events or occurrences. Acceptance is
not pass ivity but nonpositionali ty. The development of a spiritual ego can
be avoid ed by the realization that spiritual progress is the result of God’ s
Grace and not our personal endeavors. 14. A void false gurus. Th is cannot be overemphas ized. The naïve
spiritual initiate is easily swayed by trappings and reputations of spiritual
figures a nd the charisma of tho se who have many followers. W ithout the
spiritual awareness of advanced  states of consciousness, the spiritual seeker
has no means of guidance, and popularity clouds judgment. At t his time in human history, not a single guidepost can be relied upon
other than the kinesiologic test of the actual calibration of the level of
consciousness of a teacher, or ganization, or teaching. The naïve are
impressed by outward piety and claims of supernatural powers, paranormal
feats, an d fancif ul titles and sp ecial “spiritual” garments. Serio us spiritual
students are encouraged to verify each teacher or teaching acco rding to thecalibrated list of “Characteristic s of Integrous T eachers and T eachings” in
Chapter 8. Q&A
Q: What is the value of being in the physical pr esence of the
consciousness of the teacher. A:  W ithin your aura is much that you have learned in this world, most of
it nonve rbal, wh ich you cannot share. Y ou don’ t have enough  time to sit
down and describe to everybod y everything you’ve ever known about life
in a line ar way. The total of yo ur entire life and all the collective wisdom
and exp erience exists as an ene r gy field. When you share that  which you
have be come with others—sim ply by being with them—they pick up the
ener gy field of all that knowingness. That’ s h ow it is that the spiritual teacher transmits the state of
Enlightenment via an ener gy field. The aura of the advanced, realized
teacher has within itself the coll ective wisdom throughout all time. There is
no amount of world time in which all of this can be laid out in a linear
lecture. Y ou could extract som e principles from it, but the principles are
only basic ones. Whatever is speaking to you right now is the accumulation
of th e in fluence of teachers going back to the Buddha. So the ener gy field
of the Buddha is here, now av ailable (calibrates as true). That which is
speaking to you right now is empowered by all the great teache rs who have
ever live d. Every great teacher w ho has ever lived leaves the power of that
field within the collective co nsciousness of humankind. T hat is why
humanity progresses. Otherwise, if every generation had to start from
scratch, humanity would not be where it is today. Q: What is due to the teacher. A:  Nothing at all. The listener ’ s interest is more than suf ficient. The only
obligation you should accept is the obligation to your own self to institute
the wisdoms that were learned and to practice them in order to transcend the
ego. Respect the teacher, but save reverence only for God. Q: How would one characterize or term the teaching and pathway that
you r epr esent. A:  It is the way of the mystic and represents “devotional nonduality. ”
Q: May we use that term to denote these teachings. A:  Y es, that would be correct. It is the way of radical truth. Q: Ar e gr eat leaps in consciousness possible. A:  Great leaps in consciousness result from surrendering yourself to God. This is seen in our societ y in people who have “hit bottom. ”
W illfulness/Pride is surrendered and transformation occurs. From the pits of
hell, par adoxically, heaven is close by. W e see this in so-called conversions,
where a convict is transformed into a peaceful, loving, and alm ost saintly
person. Prisoners frequently go through major realizations and become
transformed int o the opposite of their former selves. These sudden
revelations also occur concomitant with near -death experiences. Thus,
many le vels of consciousness ca n be suddenly t ranscended. These are often
preceded by long periods of inn er agony. A true conversion is corroborated
by a major jump in the calibrated level of consciousness. When spiritually  oriented people are exposed to the information provided
here, the y show a measurable el evation of consciousness. After each lecture
on this materia l, the calibrated consciousness level of the audience
generally shows  an increase, on  average, of between 10 and 40 points for
the group as a whole. This may vary individually from a low of four points
to as high as hundreds of points. W ithin the group, there is gre at variation
due to “karmic ripeness. ” Given  that most people only advanc e about five
points during a lifetime, these numbers are significant. Q: What is an “advanced” seeker. A:  The more advanced seeker has heard that there is no “out there”  or “in
here” and thus takes responsibility for all that happens. T here is the
dawning awareness that all that seems to occur really represents what isbeing held in wh at was previously considered “within. ” Thus, the proclivity
to project is undone. The “innocent victim” positionality, with all its
spurious “innocence,” is unmasked. Adversity is thus seen to be the r esult of what had been previous ly denied
and repr essed into the unconscious. By looking within, you find  the source
of adver sity, suc h that it can be addressed. Beliefs are the determinant of
what you experience. There are no external “causes. ” Y ou discover the
secret payof fs that are obtained from unconscious secret projections. Y our
underlying prog rams can be discovered by simply writing down your litany
of griev ances and woes and then merely turning them aroun d into their
opposites. People hate me  stems from your own inner hatreds. People don’ t car e
about me  s tems from you r narcissistic absorption with your own happine ss
and you r person al gain, instead of that of others. I don’ t get enough love
stems from not giving love to others. People ar e rude to me  s tem s fr om lack
of cordiality to others. People ar e jealous of me  arises from inner jealousy
of others. Thus, if you take responsibility for being the author of your
world, you come close to its source, where you can correct it. By bein g loving  toward others, you discover that you are surrounded by
love and lovingness. When you unreservedly support life without expecting
gain, life supports you in return. When you abandon gain as a motive, life
responds with unexpected gene rosity. When you perceive in th is way, the
miraculous begins to appear in your life. Harmony manifests as the
unexpected discovery, the fortui tous coincidence, and the lucky break, and
finally t he realiz ation occurs that these are the ripples coming back to you
from the seat of consciousness. Q: What if one is pr esuming to live at the level beyond what one r eally
is. A:  I n addit ion to the ego/mind’ s presumption that it “know


? Let's disease
called a special temporary state of the organism, during which
organism from a stable state (health) functioning
transferred to another (painful), not peculiar to him. Bred
disease of the body's balance of effort (and hence
life force energy) to return to the home (healthy)
state. Acute illness is the point in time
when using the activation of vitality, energy losses
the body tries to regain its former (healthy) state. Signs of acute illness (such as temperature rise,
lack of appetite, general weakness) indicate:
- The temperature rise - the life force is activated and
work on exclusion of causative organism from the beginning as
Diaphoresis;
- Lack of appetite - indicates that the economy is vital
power by eliminating waste energy on digestion;
- Weakness - indicates that the economy is vital
power by eliminating waste energy on the physical
and secondary functional activity of the organism. People recover fully in acute condition in
if it has an adequate supply of life force,
when he saves her refusal to accept food and keeps quiet. Medication, antipyretic drugs, etc. This natural process has no place. They, on the contrary, tear it,
suppress and harm. The true doctors of antiquity and modernity did
All to help facilitate this natural process. 168
168Do not think that fasting should only be used under severe
disease that can continue to eat as long as it remains still
ability to digest food. Conversely, to skip a few
meals at the beginning of the disease is often enough
to prevent serious illness. If the functional
violations still weak, as indicated by the coated tongue,
headache, malaise, and others like them are not important
symptoms, short of starvation is sufficient to
that the organism eliminated intoxication before the develop
serious illness. If the person at the first signs of disease
take a famine in a calm atmosphere, in most cases
acute illness has been mild and non-lasting. State of discomfort for a person less pain less
temperature does not rise high, the complications of the disease
rare, weight loss is less, duration of illness
significantly reduced than that of the same person who continues
there is a diseased state. Only one conclusion - as soon as you have symptoms of acute
disease: lack of appetite and fever - once
begin to starve, and you will quickly and without complications recover. Fasting in acute infections (ARI, influenza)
Fasting during viral infection - it is the most usual
and naturally. In fact, acute infection, which manifests itself
inflammatory changes of the upper respiratory tract,
runny nose, cough, sore throat and fever,
a cathartic crises. with his help the body tries to
free from excessive power to save overload
stress and other negative factors. The effectiveness of dry
fasting is extremely high. Any inflammatory disease
is 2-3 times faster than conventional, water fasting. All
The fact that inflammation can exist without water. Any
sore place swells (swells with water). Just enough
aquatic environment can breed microorganisms: bacteria
and viruses. Water scarcity is extremely damaging to the inflammation. Organism
person is able to withstand the 10 - day of water deprivation (low
locomotor activity and high temperature). Microbes
without water are killed instantly. Oddly enough, the body itself
able to synthesize water. Oxygen, it takes from the air and hydrogen
from adipose tissue. Therefore, during dry fasting weight loss
can reach 3 kg per day, but only at the expense of water. I must say that the body has also identified water
stocks. in only one skin is deposited up to 2 liters of water. There are deposits
water in some of the cavities of the body (serous cavities), some
internal organs. Somehow, but even with the active motor
mode, the body is always last for 5 days. As I have said,
effectiveness of treatment using dry fasting is 2-3 times
169
169higher than that of water. OCR can be cured in one day. Influenza in
2-3 days. Pneumonia within 4-5 days. Of course, subjective dry starvation
tolerated rather difficult and is accompanied by weakness. However,
I have met people who have it during the
dry fasting weakness was completely absent, and even appeared
mild euphoria. Sometimes we are placed in conditions where
time for conventional treatments, and even normal fasting almost
left. During flights or journeys with changes in complicated
conditions where there is no opportunity even to clean the intestines, can be
attempt to dry starvation without bowel cleansing. Subjectively, a starvation diet will be transported much worse, but
anti-inflammatory result will be exactly the same, and since
self-treatment because of the high efficiency takes very little
time, and the recovery period will also be small. Short-term therapeutic fasting, as wet and dry
can be successfully used not only in the treatment of colds
diseases but also in all those cases where there is inflammation
any internal organ (and outside too). Starvation with the same
successfully treats boils on the skin and liver inflammation (hepatitis)
inflammation of the inner ear and periostitis. Regardless
the location of the inflammatory effect is always very good. And how to cure ARI in the shortest time? I really do not know
more effective than short-term fasting. Sometimes, people started fasting, stepping on the plane, being
a cold, and descending the ladder is fully healthy. all
due to short-term starvation. Malfunction - is by and large not the most
head injury, which brings us cold. on average 25 years of life rob us of nothing but cold. Most
frequent complication of influenza is pneumonia, and, as
Typically, a secondary bacterial infection. More rarely
meets the combined infection (viral and bacterial
pneumonia). Primary viral pneumonia - a rare complication
characterized by high mortality. It arises in the case
if the flu is caused by a virus the highest virulence. At the same time
develop fulminant fatal hemorrhagic pneumonia
last no longer than 3-4 days. True primary influenza
Pneumonia may occur particularly in patients with
chronic heart or lung disease, accompanied by
stagnant in the lungs. Other secondary bacterial infections that often occur
after influenza - rhinitis, sinusitis, bronchitis, otitis media. Flu and SARS
ranks first in frequency and number of cases in the world,
and accounts for 95% of all infectious diseases. Annually in the world
ill up to 500 million, 2 million of whom die. registered annually in Russia from 27.3 to 41.2 million cases
influenza and other acute respiratory viral infections. 170
170So, you have not had a cold time. Let's be realistic
and immediately try to determine their capabilities, as it is in no small
depends on the shape of a cold. If this is a simple OCR, then you
to cure enough for 1-2 days. If the flu, then the case is serious,
less than a 3 - day you do not get off. If, God forbid, inflammation
light, I saw only one man who managed
with such disease in only 4 days of fasting. There is more than 140
ARI pathogens and only a few viruses (although
different strains). How to distinguish acute respiratory flu? ARI usually occurs
with a temperature of less than 38 °. This is usually the temperature of the order of 37,5 ° -
37,8. ° C, not more. and lasts for a disease without treatment is not more
2 - weeks. Influenza - something more serious. Influenza is difficult
infectious disease. It occurs at temperatures above
38 ° C and lasts much longer than 3 - weeks. The diagnosis of pneumonia
you can put a doctor. Already a specific pattern
respiratory sounds and murmurs on auscultation (listening to)
thorax. If you suddenly feel unwell, sore throat
and nose, then fasting should begin immediately, without delay
even for an hour. Viruses - a very tricky matter. Once they had
cellular structure, but then during the evolution of acquired
structure is simpler than a cell. Virus - it's just a chain of
DNA (there are also RNA-containing viruses), surrounded by a shell. So it is much easier to live. The virus allocates special
enzymes that dissolve the nasal mucosa, and enters
into the mucosa. Penetrated into the mucosa, the virus integrates its
DNA into the DNA of the mucous obolochkoi. as a result of the previously normal
cell instead of its own DNA begins to synthesize DNA
virus (no more, no less!) and as a result dies, and viruses
a huge amount of ejected out and invade other
cells. Avalanche-like reaction develops very quickly. Therefore,
to start treatment should not hesitate even for an hour, rather than something that
day. Dead cells secrete biologically active substances
or abbreviated as BAS. Together with viral toxins cause BAS
inflammation, which loosens the cell membrane and promotes
Further more rapid spread of viruses. Following
lesion of the nasal cavity, the development of such unpleasant phenomena
as a runny nose and sneezing, affected the trachea and bronchi with the development of
symptoms such as cough, chest pain, etc. Initially, inflammation
is viral in nature, but then in the inflamed tissue begin
breed bacteria, which