 gland. Dulse and Kelp are obtainable from your Health Food Store. Do
not use any of the Iodine dispensed by the drug stores on your food. LEEK JUICE
The juice of leeks is milder than that of onions and garlic. The
information on garlic juice applies to a great extent to that of leeks. LETTUCE JUICE
Lettuce juice has many essential values to the human body. It has
great quantities of iron and magnesium. Iron is the most active element
in the body, and it is necessary that it be renewed more frequently
than any other. The liver and spleen are the storage places of iron,
where it is stored for any sudden demand that may be made upon the
44 body, for example, the rapid formation of red blood corpuscles in the
case of a heavy loss of blood. The iron is stored in the liver for the
particular purpose, among others, of furnishing mineral elements to
any part of the body in an emergency, as in the case of a hemorrhage;
also in the event that the food eaten does not contain the necessary
quantity of this element in vital organic form. The storage of iron in the spleen acts as an electric storage battery
where the blood is recharged with the necessary electricity for its
proper functions. The magnesium in lettuce has exceptional vitalizing
powers, particularly in the muscular tissues, brain, and nerves. Vital
organic salts of magnesium are cell builders, especially of the nerve
system and of the tissues of the lungs. They also assist in maintaining
the normal fluidity of the blood and other functions without which it
would be impossible for metabolism to operate properly. As magnesium salts can operate efficiently only if there is
sufficient calcium present, the combination of these elements in the
lettuce makes this food exceedingly valuable. When combined with carrot juice, the properties of lettuce juice
are intensified by the addition of Vitamin A in the carrot and also the
valuable sodium therein which assists in maintaining the calcium in
the lettuce in constant solution until utilized by the body. Lettuce contains more than 38% potassium, 15% calcium, more
than 5% iron, and about 6% magnesium. Lettuce also contains more than 9% phosphorus, which is one of
the principle constituents of the brain, and an ample supply of sulphur,
which is one of the component parts of the hemoglobin of the blood,
acting therein as an oxidizing agent. Many nervous afflictions are
due chiefly to these two elements, sulphur and phosphorus, taken in
inorganic form as in cereals and meat. Together with silicon, which lettuce contains more than 8%,
sulphur and phosphorus are essential in the proper maintenance and
development of the skin, the sinews, and the hair. When one consumes
excessive amount of these elements in an inorganic form, i. e. cereals
and devitalized foods, the roots of the hair do not obtain their proper
nourishment: hence one of the reasons for hair loss. Drinking a daily abundance of juice composed of carrot, lettuce,
and spinach, will furnish food to the roots and nerves of the hair,
thereby stimulating growth. Hair tonics in this respect are of little or
no value except that they furnish massaging for the scalp. They cannot
feed the hair but merely stimulate the action of the nerves and blood
45 vessels and so assist the proper food in reaching the hair roots through
the blood stream. Another efficient juice combination to help the growth of hair
and restore it to its natural color is carrot, lettuce, green pepper, and
fresh alfalfa juice. (See preceding section on alfalfa juice. ) When making juice from lettuce for definite therapeutic purposes,
it is best to use the leaves that are of the darker shade of green, omitting
those which are inside the head of lettuce and have remained white,
as the former are much richer in chlorophyll and other vital important
elements than the latter. The juice of lettuce leaves has been a great boon and relief to
those suffering from tuberculosis and from gastric disturbances. It is
also a valuable diuretic. Because of its richness in iron and other valuable vital elements,
lettuce juice has been given to infants with carrot juice, with highly
satisfactory results whether they were breast or bottle-fed. COS or ROMAINE LETTUCE JUICE
Although a member of the lettuce family, Romaine Lettuce has
an entirely different chemical composition from that of Head lettuce. It originated in the Island of Cos, in the Greek Archipelago, and in
Great Britain it is known as "Cos Lettuce.,,
The juice of Romaine Lettuce, with the addition of a small amount
of kelp (seaweed) has been found to contain properties conducive to
helping the activity of the Adrenal Cortex in its function of secreting
its hormone, Adrenaline, to keep the body in balance. Its particular value is in its rich sodium content which is 60%
higher than its potassium content. This makes it one of the most
beneficial juices for conditions affecting the Adrenal Glands. For
instance a person with Addison's Disease requires the maximum
amount of vital organic sodium with a relatively low percentage of
potassium to compensate for Adrenal Cortex hormone deficiency. This specifically proportioned juice is therefore essentially very
relative to just such a person's needs. In the treatment of Addison's Disease, we have seen some
remarkable results when an ample supply of fresh-raw juices was
used daily in which this chemical composition more or less prevailed. The diet was held rigidly to the elimination of all concentrated starches
and sugars, all meat of every kind, and all vegetables containing an
excess of potassium over sodium. This narrowed the choice of
vegetables and their juices to: beets, celery, Romaine lettuce, spinach,
46 and Swiss chard. Also included in the diet were fresh pomegranate,
strawberries, tomatoes, and figs, honey, almonds, and beechnuts. Fresh-raw carrot juice was added to all or any of the above juices
with much benefit. In some extreme cases, some fresh-raw goat s
milk with carrot juice was found helpful. On this basis, with a regular cleansing program by means of
colonic irrigations and enemas excellent results were obtained. MUSTARD GREENS JUICE
Mustard greens are valuable in salads. The high content of mustard
oil, when the greens are made into juice, may be irritating to the
alimentary tract and to the kidneys. Mustard greens contain a high
percentage of oxalic acid. They should therefore never be eaten when
cooked. Read the chapter on Oxalic Acid. Although the juice of mustard greens, by themselves, may cause
some discomfort, nevertheless, a small quantity in combination with
carrot, spinach and turnip juice has been used with much benefit to
help dissolve hemorrhoids. As in watercress, the sulphur and phosphorus percentage is very
high in the mustard greens, and their effect on the system is almost
identical to that of watercress. See Watercress. ONION JUICE
Somewhat milder than garlic, with a less pungent aroma, onions
and their juices do, without question, build us up physically to a
remarkable degree, while at one and the same time they tear us down
socially. What we have said about garlic applies quite fully to the onion
and its juice, bearing in mind that what may be termed the repellent
atmosphere of the garlic and its juice is somewhat subdued in the
case of the onion. PAPAYA JUICE
While papaya is definitely a fruit and not a vegetable, it is pertinent
to refer to it here because of its remarkable therapeutic qualities. Until recently this fruit was practically unknown in the North as
it is strictly a tropical fruit. Like a melon or a squash in shape, it matures in many sizes from
less than one pound to as much as 20 and more pounds each. 47 Its particular qualification for our attention is its juice. When the
green fruit is triturated (pulverized) and pressed it is found to contain
a principle known as papain, which has much the same digestive effect
as pepsin in our digestive processes. It also contains fibrin, a principle
rarely found except in the body of man and animals. This fruit is
readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juices and is especially
valuable in the coagulation or clotting of blood, either superficial or
internal. The green, unripe papaya has much more active papain enzymes
than the ripe (this activity being somewhat dissipated in the ripening
processes). The juice of the green papaya has helped correct intestinal
disorders, including ulcerous and more serious conditions in an
incredibly short time. We have frequently seen the crushed pulp, including the skin, of
the green papaya applied as a poultice to serious lacerations and the
following day hardly more than the scar was apparent. We had a finger
seriously crushed in a machine, and the application of a similar poultice
left the finger usable within two or three days. As a juice, both the green and the ripe papaya are unsurpassed as
a remedy to help most afflictions of the body. Truly, Nature has given
us in this fruit the most comprehensive means of first-aid in both
internal and external ills. PARSLEY JUICE
Parsley is an herb. Raw parsley


, eggs, or dairy. In reality, proteins are composed of chains of roughly twenty dif ferent
amino acids. Of those, eight are found outside our body and must be
absorbed from our food. These eight are the “essential” amino acids. The
remaining acids are “nonessential” because they can be synthesized by our
bodies themselves. Plants supply all the essential and nonessential amino acids. All of them. While some plants may be low in (not missing) one amino acid and other
plants may be higher in another, your brilliant body sorts it all out and, at
the end of the day, complements your amino-acid profile so it is perfectly
balanced. In so doing, it creates a high-quality protein that is healthier,
safer, and better than animal protein. Thus, there is absolutely no need to combine certain plant proteins at
each meal in an attempt to achieve an optimal amino acid balance. Unfortunately, the protein-combination myth continues to be perpetuated
by any number of respected or ganizations. But the American Dietetic
Association gets it right. Its position statement reads: “Plant sources of
protein alone can provide adequate amounts of the essential and non-
essential amino acids, assuming that dietary protein sources from plants are
reasonably varied and that caloric intake is suf ficient to meet ener gy needs. Whole grains, legumes, vegetables, seeds, and nuts all contain essential and
non-essential amino acids.”
Scream it from the mountaintops: Plant proteins are 100 percent
complete!Myth 3
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FOREWORD
PART I: THE E2 DIET
1: ENGINE 2
2: MY  STORY
3: THE ENGINE 2 DIET
4: CRAZY  MYTHS ABOUT  FOOD
5: THE MEDICAL  PROOF BEHIND THE ENGINE 2 DIET
6: THE E2 EXERCISE PROGRAM
PART II: MAKING IT  WORK
1: THE E2 ATTITUDE
2: E2 VITAL SIGNS
3: LABEL  READING
4 : MAKING IT  WORK FOR LIFE. PART III: RECIPES AND MEAL  PLANS
INTRODUCTION
1: GETTING YOUR KITCHEN IN E2 SHAPE
2: E2 EASY  WEEKL Y PLANNER3: E2 RECIPES
BONUS RECIPES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
OceanofPDF. comFor my wife, Jill, and my son, Kole
OceanofPDF. comDear Reader:
I’m Rip Esselstyn and I want to thank you for picking up my book. I
hope that once you’ve read it, you will choose to embark on the
Engine 2 Diet in what will be a spectacular health makeover. Think
about it: In just twenty-eight days, you will plant the seeds of a long-
lasting, healthy life. I know that if I didn’ t follow this diet, I would
never have had the ener gy to be a world-class triathlete, or just as
grueling, a firefighter. The Engine 2 Diet is a snap to follow. Depending on which of two
programs you select, you will spend either two or four weeks eating
nothing but the most colorful nutrient-packed foods Mother Nature
provides: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. During this time period you will push to the back burner all meats and
dairy products, as well as refined and processed foods—including
extracted oils—while feasting on jillions of plant-diverse foods. That’ s the Engine 2 Diet in a healthy nutshell. To assist you on your quest for great health, I have also included
more than one hundred recipes that will make your mouth water, your
friends envious, and your body happy. I wish you only the best as you start what I hope will be a lifelong
love af fair with plant-beautiful foods. Remember, this isn’ t just a diet,
it’s an adventure in perfect health. Eat Plant-Strong. OceanofPDF. comForeword
The evidence is now in. What our grandmothers always told us to do
—eat your vegetables and have an apple a day to keep the doctor away—is
borne out by modern science. Increasingly, medical research is showing that
we should consume a plant-based diet for optimal health. But do people take this message seriously. I wish they did, but most do
not. Part of the reason is our cultural tradition. For too long we have been
accustomed, taste-wise, to animal foods or foods and food supplements
derived from the wrong parts of plants, like their sugars, their oils (some of
which we solidify and convert to trans fats. ), and their refined flours
without their outer bran layers. Then we add salt to produce unhealthy
products that find their way to store shelves as convenience foods. As a result, we’ve been getting fatter and suf fering from an ever -
increasing number and variety of ailments and life-threatening diseases. America now has the highest per capita health care costs in the world, while
ignoring its 48 million citizens who lack medical insurance. Consuming the
right kind of plant-based foods can go a long way toward solving not only
our own personal health concerns, but our society’ s ills as well. There is
simply nothing that can so profoundly af fect our healing as eating fruits and
vegetables. How can we drive this message home. That is where Rip Esselstyn
comes in. What a story he has to tell. It’ s personal, it’ s inspiring, and it’ s
lifesaving. A world-class athlete and a firefighter, Rip managed to convert a
firehouse full of committed meat eaters to a plant-based diet, and in the
process improved everything from their weight to their blood pressure and
cholesterol. From there he branched out to a pilot group of fifty-eight
volunteers, all of whom achieved the same stunning results as the
firefighters—an average weight loss of ten pounds and a dramatic decline in
cholesterol—in a mere four weeks. Best of all, those who completed the program reported feeling so much
better—with improvements to conditions such as kidney stones,
constipation, and low ener gy—that few felt tempted to resume their old way
of eating. I am not surprised by Rip’ s accomplishments and motivations. He comes
from an extraordinary line of medical men and women. The Esselstyns and
the Criles (his mother ’s side) have served the public good for generations,
and they know as much about medicine as any family in America. I find it
fascinating that Rip, representing the first generation of the mer ger of these
two brilliant medical families, has chosen to share his experiences in what I
believe to be the most important health message to come upon the public
horizon in many years. I first met Rip in 1991 at a medical conference or ganized and hosted by
his famous father, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., who was sharing for the
first time his dramatic results on reversing and curing heart disease. He
boldly named the conference “The First National Conference on the
Elimination of Coronary Heart Disease” and had invited other researchers
to present our own findings. Rip was only able to attend part of the
conference, because of a prior commitment to compete in the Escape from
Alcatraz Triathlon, but he had stopped by to get a sense of what his father
and others were doing. I met Rip on three other occasions while I was
lecturing in Austin, Texas. On one of those occasions, he introduced me to
his Engine 2 firehouse buddies, and I sensed a remarkable story emer ging
that is now being told in these pages. I have spent five decades working as an experimental research scientist
in the field of diet and health. I believe in the message that Rip Esslestyn is
advocating and that his father and other clinicians have been adopting with
great success in their clinics. I was not drawn to this view by any particular
ideology but because of the experimental research done in my laboratory
(mostly at Cornell University). Our findings were often challenging, even
difficult to accept at times, because my background, both personally and
professionally, ran counter to what I was seeing. I was raised on a dairy
farm, milking cows, and my family lived of


 the same. They had spent years and often dec ades in the
program, going over the mistak es of the past and often repeating the same
mistakes in the p resent. I often h ear this story of people who stay in therapyfor many years. I don’ t believe in getting stuck in this sort of holding
pattern. For true spiritual develo pment to occur, you must contin ually grow. Programs and self-help books are wonderful and great. There a re layers to
personal growth  that can and do unfold with repetition. However, if you
find you rself repeating the same destructive behavior or mulling over past
behavior, feeling s, or emotions, you will find it dif ficult to rea ch the sixth
chakra l evel of consciousness. Instead of daydreaming about how you have
this defect or that ingrained behavior or emotion, visualize yourself as
healed and strong. Spend time daydreaming about living in a dif ferent
mind-set and staying there. Living your life dif ferently is as easy as a
decision. My philosophy: get the lesson and move on. W e all have a l imited amount of time on this planet. Y ou might have
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        One spr ing during Lent while I was living in France, I decided  to take
on a project that created a lot of discomfort in me. I wanted to do something
good for others during the forty days prior to Easter instead of the
traditional practice of giving up chocolate or sweets. In Aix-en-Provence,
France, near where I lived, the re were a lot of homeless people. Most of
them we re illega l immigrants, or gypsies, as the French called them. I made
the d ecision to p ack lunches every W ednesday during Lent and  to go seek
out hom eless in dividuals in the city and give them the bagged lunches. In
addition, I decided to take my three-year -old son with me. Coming from
suburbia in the United States, I wasn’ t accustomed to homeles s people or
comfortable arou nd them. I mad e the decision to put myself into discomfort
to help other people. I didn’ t fee l it was enough to give money or donate to
a food bank. I needed to be on the streets and spontaneously giving and
interacting with those less fortunate than I. It was the best thin g, I believe,
and the most dif ficult thing I’ve ever done. At first,  the homeless people I encountered were very skeptical of my
kindness. The French, in general, don’ t have a habit of taking kindly to
homeless people. They have so cial systems in place that can give even a
homeless person  a monthly source of income. However, as I  mentioned,
most of these pe ople were illegal immigrants and therefore no t eligible to
receive such aid. In the beginn ing I had to ur ge some of the homeless
people t o accept my lunches, especially those with children. But as time
went on, they received me with  open arms. I adapted to make e xtra for the
homeless childr en with their p arents or to include a little toy or plush
animal. Seeing them would usually bring me to tears. Some W ednesdays I
would get nervous because I d idn’ t want to go out there and face them. Other ti mes the  weather was b ad and I just didn’ t want to ge t out of my
comfort zone to fulfill the promi se I had made to myself and Go d. But I did. The level of com passion I achieved during that project was un matched by
anything else I’ve experienced. I believe the reason I was able to achieve
that level, at th at moment, was because I pushed myself to the edge of
discomfort. I learned: the grea ter the self-sacrifice, the greater the inner
reward. I do n’ t mention this story to p at myself on the back. Except for my
family, most people have no idea I ever did this. I tell this story to
demonstrate that you can heal your heart through acts of compassion. It
doesn’ t have to b e as big as making lunches for the homeless. Y ou can of fer
someone a smile, a joke, or a warm hug. Y ou can give a person the gift of
your ful l attentio n by turning of f your phone when you’re with him or her. If you know yo ur friend or fam ily member has had a rough day, you can
ask, “Is there anything I can do for you. ” Then do it. A wareness of others’ suf fering and a desire to alleviate their pain are all
it takes. ANAHA T A GUIDED MEDIT A TION
Sit c omfortably  and close your eyes. Bring your awareness to  your
heart center, your source of lov e and compassion. Imagine, think, or
feel an emerald green color radiating from your heart. This sparkling
green li ght is shining outward in every direction. Breathe into thisspace, a nd feel the circumference of the light surrounding your heart
getting w ider and wider. Feel the  balance between physical matter and
spirit here. Feel yourself grounded and open and awakened to spirit at
the same time. Now that you’re aware of your radiating, compassionate light
moving out of your body and into the world, bring your attention back
to your heart ce nter. Search within your heart for any discomfort that
resides there. If you find any, s end the discomfort flowers and then
escort it away from your he art. As you’re escorting away the
discomfort, whi ch can come di sguised as hurt, shame, blame, anger,
or lack of for giveness, thank it for its message and let it know that it
can go now. Re peat this with every source of discomfort that comes
up i n your hear t center, until y ou’re only left with light and ease of
breath. Y ou will know when you have let everything go because your
heart will feel l ighter, as if a lar ge weight has been lifted of f your
chest. Feel how easy it is to breathe now. Now tha t your heart is clear, feel flooded with unconditional lov e. Allow th is love to flow in and fill your heart space. Feel the w armth
and expansiven ess of this love. Allow yourself to receive. Allow
yourself to feel vulnerable and open to this great love, of which you
are worthy. Y ou are becoming a vessel of love with each and every
breath. Love flows to you and through you. Y ou become a conduit for
this love, and as  this love fills every cell of your body, you feel lighter
and mor e joyful. Y our joyfulness radiates throughout your being. Y ou
may eve n find yourself smiling for no apparent reason. Let it b e as it
is, for this is the state of love. At this moment you may even  feel a
tingling sensation pulsating through your body. This is normal, as you
have raised the vibrational fre quency of your being. Sit wit h this
sensation. It’ s here, and you can always access it whenever you desire. Y ou can sit in this silent meditation for as long as you like before
opening your eyes and slowly returning to activity. T o enhance the
vibrations, chant the mantra sound YUM  three times. E NERGY -B ODY  H EALING WITH  G EMS AND  C OLORSAs m entioned earlier, the color for the fourth chakra is emerald green. Y ou
can wear this color or keep it in your awareness while healing your heart. Rose qu artz is the most beautiful and ef fective stone for bringing love
and compassion  into your life. Keep a rose quartz stone with you
throughout the day. If you can, wear the stone close to your hea rt. Y ou can
even get a rose quartz in the shape of a heart to remind you of healing each
time you hold it. Fourth Chakra Mindfulness Ideas to Ponder
1. I am ready to release hurt from my heart and for give everyone who
has harmed me, including myself. 2. I am open to giving and receiv ing love and know I am worthy of
love. 3. I fe el compassion toward others, especially those whom I don’ t
understand. 4. I a m a v essel of God’ s love, transporting unconditional acceptan ce to
all who need it. T5  T H E  T H R O A T  C H A K R A
V i s h u d d h a
ELEMENT :  Space (Akasha)
COLOR:  Sky Blue
MANTRA SOUND:  HUM
he fi fth chakra, which is the firs t chakra totally on the spiritual plane,
is located in th e throat and governs communication and cr eative
verbal e xpression such as singing, chanting, reading poetry out loud, and
recitation. Whe n the fifth chakra is illuminated, all the low er chakras
transcend their limitations. The anatomical  region of the fifth chakra includes the throa t


236–37
and spirit, 12, 14
Spirit:
being attuned to, 97
direct experience of, 10–14, 23–24
vs. ego, 156, 164, 168, 204
as God, 13
heeding, 251–60
and inner truth, 38
and love, 2–3, 1 1–12, 23–24, 29, 33, 37, 39, 65
play in, 225–26
and power, 227, 238
vs. psychology, 89–93
and reality, 14–15, 23–24, 38
as Self, 12–13, 33
surrender to, 159, 160–63
as truth, 97
voice of, 258–60
wholeness of, 243
Spiritual master, 38
Stillness, and ecstasy, 290, 294–95
Stress, release of, 173–74
Support, 59–60
Surrender, 156–88, 189
and being in love, 4
and commitment, 157, 159
and dharma, 158–63, 166–68
and ego, 156–57, 163–64, 168, 169
and faith, 156
and falling in love, 164, 165
loving practice, 169–78and marriage, 162–63
and need, 164–65
in our lives, 179–88
to passion, 134
to the path, 157–58
in a relationship, 158–63
and sex, 136–37
to the spirit, 160, 161–63
struggle against, 165–66
and “the W ay,” 163–68
Sutra, 304–13
Sutras, writing, 305–13
Symeon the New Theologian, 287–88
Tagore, Rabindranath, 131–32
Tao, 161
Teresa, Saint, 286–87
Thou art That, 275
Tolerance, 203
Transcendence, 92–93, 94
Transformation, 293, 295
Trust:
and courtship, 109–1 1
and marriage, 160
Truth:
vs. falsity, 111–16
inner, 38
and knowledge, 1 1–12
in phenomenon, 97
spirit as, 97
Veda as, 1 1
Unity:
and attachment, 191
and healing, 43
and love, 35Unreality, and false love, 1 13–14
Upanishads, 274–75, 291, 292
Veda, 10–1 1
Vedic scriptures, 10–15, 36, 195, 225–26, 242
Vishnu, 243
“The W ay”:
and surrender, 163–68
Tao as, 161
Whitman, W alt, 103, 105, 217, 226, 282
Will, 242
Willingness, 59–60
Wordsworth, W illiam, 89–90, 91
Worship, and bhakti, 35, 36, 87–88
You are loved, 322–28
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and from the outset I realized that it would have to be born in an
atmosphere of love. Some other people understood this as well,  and it is to
them in particular that I owe deepest gratitude. To Peter Guzzardi, whose sensi tivity and nurturing went far beyond the
duties of an editor—you opened the way and kept it open against all odds. To Patty  Eddy and Tina Cons table, who stand behind the scenes at
Harmony Books and accomplish wonders. To my agent Muriel Nellis, godmother to my whole career as a writer. To my support staff at The Chopra Center for Well Being and Infinite
Possibilities International, especially to David Simon, Richard Perl, Deepak
and Geeta Singh, Roger Gabriel, and Arielle Ford Ford—without your
loyalty and immense enthusiasm, I would not have found the opportunity to
write this book at all. And, as ever, to my family, who walk the path to love with me, no matter
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 friends
in suburban Boston. By her own count, Karin has been to ten dierent doctors in the
past two years, none of whom has helped her. To begin  with, herbasic complaint is extremely dicult to pin down. She says that she
doesn’t feel real anymore. In everyday situations such as talking on
the phone, walking down the street, or eating in a restaurant, she
has persistent doubts about her existence: “Someone will call my
name, and I’ll go through one of my experiences: ‘Did I answer that? Is this really me?’ Sometimes I’ll be talking and think, ‘How come I
can talk? How can I breathe?’ It’s as if my mind is going, ‘Does not
compute, does not compute,’ and I start to cry.”
Physically, Karin no longer feels comfortable in her own body, a
sensation that psychologists call derealization: “It’s as if someone
else is in my body, doing everything with me, or for me.” Her
feeling of being unreal becom es quite profound at times, and yet she
continues to function normally. Other people have a hard time
believing that there is actually anything wrong with her. “When I’m
miserable, my brother will say, ‘Look, I have the same thoughts you
do, but I don’t  have the same  responses. I don’t want to ruin my life
over the question, Why am I here? or Who am I?’ ”
Her brother is right in spotting that Karin is wrapped up in a great
deal of intellectual confusion. She is constantly assaulted by
questions that seem crazy to her: Can one be real and unreal at the
same time? Is thinking that you are unreal the same as being
unreal? When  her head begins to whirl with these existential
riddles, she becomes as bewildered as Alice down the rabbit-hole. I asked Karin if she felt real talking to me. She said that she did
and she didn’t: “I am sitting  here having a conversation with you,
but a part of me says I’m not. It’s impossible. How can I be saying
such a thing to myself? My mind doesn’t comprehend it. I know  I’m
talking to you, but another part knows  I’m not. I can’t gure that
out.”
As a yogi would see it, there must be some element of witnessing
involved here—that is, Karin is having an experience and at the
same time watching herself have it. That does not have to be an
unreal way to relate to things. Quite the contrary—it could be seen
as the most real way, once the silent witness is acknowledged as the
core of the self. In ancient India, witnessing would have been calmlyaccepted and welcomed as a gateway to higher spiritual
experiences. Karin was not totally surprised when I brought this up to her, but
it did not make her any happier. “People have told me that my
awareness has risen too high, that it has become my enemy,” she
said, “but I don’t know how to turn it o.” Turning her awareness
o is all she wants to do at this point. Time and again she has
intuited things that I would consider profound truths, only to reject
them as “sick.” Here is one example:
“I have this experience of talking to someone and feeling  that I’m
on automatic. It’s like a reserve mechanism kicking in. I want to
shut it o. I want to be able to walk into a room and not think, ‘Oh,
look at that. I converted myself into matter.’ The top layer of my
mind is now above automatic, but that doesn’t seem like a gift to
me, it’s just neurotic. How do I get rid of this high awareness or
sensitivity, whatever you want to call it?”
I told her that other people have spent years on the spirit ual path
trying to achieve the very state of nonattachment that she has fallen
into. To a spiritual person, the feeling of being “on automatic”
implies that God or the higher Self has taken over from the small,
isolated self. Many saints, both Christian and Eastern, have reported
that they lived in such a blessed state. They considered it a kind of
second birth, freeing them from the bondage of the esh and the
ties of the past. After this rebirth, a person has nothing to fear from
the snares of Maya and can go forth to explore what lies beyond. Yet the everyday world seems to have no relationship to the
boundless one, and to stand on the threshold of the higher Self,
where Karin nds herself, can generate deep fear. No one can feel
her experiences with her. There is no objective standard for
weighing them, and their scientic validity remains marginal (the
renowned English physicist Sir Arthur Eddington once remarked
that any attempt to scientically measure a subjective experience
was like trying to nd the square root of a sonnet). In this light, the words that have come to us from the ancient
spiritual traditions are all the more valuable, since they can serve as
lifelines to the present. In India the Bhagavad-Gita  is taken as thequintessence of the collected wisdom on the nature of reality. There,
Lord Krishna tells the warrior Arjuna that every person shelters a
“dweller in the body” who is wholly unlike the isolated, vulnerable
ego:
Weapons cannot cleave him,
Fire cannot burn him,
Water cannot wet him,
Wind cannot dry him away …
He is eternal and all-pervading,
Subtle, immovable, and ever the same. Although this invulnerable dweller may seem to be a religious
concept—what most devout people call the soul—Lord Krishna
asserts that it is the same self that gives everyone his sense of “I
am.” In Sanskrit several dierent words are needed to describe the
full range of the self, from the most local to the completely
universal. Each of us has an individual spirit that underg oes unique
experiences in life—this is called the jiva in Sanskrit; it comes
closest to being the soul. If you remove  all personal boundaries, the jiva expands into the
Atman, pure spirit without individual experiences. Emerson and the
other Transcen dentalists called this the Over-soul. (I will follow the
simple convention of calling it the Self with a capital “s.”) When jiva
and Atman fuse, merging the individual and the cosmic self without
losing the qualities of either, one arrives at Brahman, or totality. A
person who has realized Brahman retains his individuality but
experiences himself as unive rsal, “under the aspect of eternity,” as
the church fathers phrased it. Brahman is also used to describe
reality as a whole, taking in both the objective and subjective elds
of existence, the manifest and the unmanifest. Beyon d the all-
inclusive Brahman, there is nothing. The jiva, then, is like a single wave on the ocean; Atma n is the
water that all waves partake of equally; Brahman is the ocean itself. If you ask which of these three is you, the answer is “all of them.”
To say that one aspect of the self is dierent from the others may beuseful on an everyday basis, but it is not the nal truth. The self I
call “me” seems to respect the boundary of my skin, but at the same
time I naturally feel my kinship to other selves. When a child suers
in Afghanistan, I feel the pain. My sensation may not be as intense
as when I cause pain to my own body, but that simply says that I do
not share a particular set of nerves with the child. The ancient sages knew that each person is grounded in a
concrete reality that gives him his bearings in time and space. Nevertheless, they maintained that all selves are woven into the
same fabric of life. Karin could easily be stumbling into this state of
greatly expand ed self. However, she wants no part of it. She has
frequently stated to me in crisp tones that she did not have a
religious upbringing and nds no spiritual signicance in what is
happening to her. Clearly there is a knowledge gap here. No
tradition validates her experience for her; no elders or guides exist
to educate her further. She has been cast adrift. On the Outside Looking In
It is not easy to live with an original experience, and Karin would
much rather return to the mundane experiences that all of us put on
like ready-to-w ear clothes. “I want to watch TV on Satur day night,
drink a glass of wine, and not think about anything,” she complains. “I want  to be upset when my car gets dented and not feel detached
about it. I want to go back to feeling like I’m a part of life. Is that
even a possibility anymore?”
At mom ents like this, one realizes how much in limbo Karin is. Since no convincing versio n of her present reality exists, she
remains comm itted to the unreal. Yet she is not as detached as she
appears. I sense that she is trying to connect with others all the time
but in hidden ways. I might have missed this except for a telling
incident


 toward the
chronically ill category. People who are acutely ill should stop eating to whatever extent that they are able until the  symptoms are gone. During an acute
illness, the appetites is probably pretty dull anyway, so why not give a brief fast on water or fruit juice a try. Most acute conditions are short in duration, usually not lasting more than a week. Allergy attacks, some types of flu, and a first
bout of pneumonia may well last for three weeks or a month. The general rule is to eat as little as possible until the sympto ms have
passed, self -administer colon cleansing, even if you have a horror of such things, and take vitamin supplements, including
megadoses of Vitamin C, bioflavinoids, and zinc. (See the chapter on vitamins.) Those having a little experience with natural
medicine make teas of echinacea, fenugreek seeds and red clover and quit eating. Eating as little a s possible can mean only water
and herb teas, only vegetable broth, only vegetable juice or non -sweet fruit juice, even only cleansing raw foods. If you eat more
than this you have not relieved your system of enough digestive effort. After your sympto ms are gone it is very important to change your life -style and improve your diet so that you aren't so toxic and
don't have to experience an acute illness several times a year when your body is forced to try an energetic detox. Diet For A Healthy Person
    I doubt that it is possible to be totally healthy in the twentieth century. Doctors Alsleben and Shute in their book How to S urvive
the New Health Catastrophes state that in -depth laboratory testing of the population at large demonstrated four universa lly present
pathological conditions: heavy metal poisoning, arteriosclerosis, sub -clinical infections, and vitamin/mineral deficiencies. Those of
us who consider ourselves healthy, including young people, are not really healthy, and at the very least would  benefit from
nutritional supplementation. In fact the odds against most people receiving adequate vitamin and mineral nutrition without
supplements are very poor as demonstrated by the following chart. Problem Nutrients in America
 Nutrient  Perc ent Receiving Less than the RDA
B-6 80%
Magnesium  75
Calcium  68
Iron 57
Vitamin A  50
B-1 45
C 41
B-2 36
B-12 36
B-3 33

A genuinely healthy person almost never becomes acutely ill, and does not have any disturbing or distracting symptoms; nothin g
interferes with or handicaps their daily life or work. A healthy person has good energy most of the time, a positive state of  mind,
restful sleep, good digestion and elimination. Healthy people do not have to live simon -pure lives to remain that way. Healthy people can afford 10% dietary indiscretions by
calorie count –eating or drinking those things that they know are not good for them but that are fun to eat or are "recreational foods
or beverages." Such "sinning" could mean a restaurant bash twice a month, having a pizza, French bread, beer or wine in
moderation, ice cream, cookies, cake, turkey for festive occasions, etc. The  key concept of responsible sinning is keeping within
that ten percent limit. A diet for a healthy person that wants to remain healthy should not exceed the digestive capacity of the individual, either i n
terms of quantity or quality. All foods that ca n not be efficiently digested should be removed from the regular diet and relegated to
the "sin" category, including those you are allergic to and those for which you have inadequate digestive enzymes. I have
encountered very few people that can efficientl y digest cooked meat, chicken, or fish, but some can, and some can with the
assistance of digestive enzyme supplements. In order to digest meats, the stomach must be sufficiently acid, there must be en ough
pepsin, pancreatin, and bile, etc., and the meat s hould be eaten on the extremely rare side (not pork), in small quantities (not more
than five or six ounces), and not combined with anything except nonstarchy vegetables. If you must include meat in your dieta ry, it
should represent a very small percentage  of your total caloric intake, be eaten infrequently, with the bulk of the calories coming
from complex carbohydrates such grains, legumes and nuts, as well as large quantities of vegetables and fruits. The healthy person that wants to stay that way f or many, years is advised to fast one day a week, to give the organs of
elimination a chance to catch up on their internal housecleaning. If water fasting seems impossible, try a day of juicing it;  if that is
too rigorous, try a day on raw foods. A similar  technique, though less beneficial than even a one day each week on raw foods, is
delaying breaking your overnight fast for as long as possible each day. Try giving up breakfast altogether or postponing brea king
your overnight fast, because from the time y ou stop eating at the end of one day to the time you start eating the next is actually a
brief, detoxifying fast. Eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt can be assimilated by some healthy people with or without digestive aids. It is possible to tak e
lactase to  break down the milk sugars for example; sometimes aids such as hydrochloric acid, pepsin, and pancreatin help. If you
can buy it or are willing to make it raw milk yogurt containing lactobacillus bulgaris or acidophilus may be digested more re adily,
espec ially if it prepared from healthy cows or goats fed on unsprayed food, and served very fresh. Eggs should come from
chickens that run around outside, eating weeds, and scratching bugs. The yokes of those eggs will be intense orange, not yell ow. Few people these days have ever eaten a real egg. Surprisingly, for those of you who fear cholesterol, the healthy way to eat eggs
is use just the raw yolk from fertile eggs. It is enjoyed by many people in a smoothie –fresh fruit blended up with water or milk. Eggs c ontain lecithin, a nutrient that naturally prevents the body from forming harmful fatty deposits in the arteries. Sea weeds are a wonderful source of minerals and should be eaten in soups and salads. Other invaluable fortifying foods are
algae of all k inds (such as chlorella and spirulina), lecithin, brewers yeast, and fresh bakers yeast. Many people have had very
unpleasant experiences trying to eat living bakers yeast and so use brewers yeast instead. But brewers yeast is cooked and th e
proteins it co ntains are not nearly as assimilable as those in raw yeast. Raw yeast is so powerful, it feels like pep pills! It takes a special technique to eat raw yeast because in the stomach and intestines the yeast does the job it is supposed to do:
convert sug ars into alcohol and carbon dioxide gas. The entire digestive tract then bloats with gas and the person will feel very
uncomfortable for some time. However, raw yeast is a marvelous source of B vitamins and proteins and can make someone feel
very energetic –if they know how to use it. The secret is to eat live yeast very first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and
then, not eat anything at all for about two hours, giving the stomach acids and enzymes time to kill the yeasts and digest th em
before addi ng sugars from another meal. Some like to eat yeast in fresh cake form, buying it from a bakery. Others prefer dry
granular baker's yeast blended with water into a sort of "shake." This is not a bad place to put your raw egg yoke either. If  you
need it swe etened to drink it, use an artificial or herbal sweetener like nutrisweet or stevia. Live yeast cannot consume milk sugars
very well. So if you can handle dairy, try one or two tablespoons of granulated live yeast, an egg yoke and a little raw milk  or
yogu rt, well whizzed. Wheat germ is also a great, rich food, but is usually rancid unless it is taken out of the refrigerated display; unless it is
refrigerated, in a dated package and fresh, don't eat it. Herb teas and roasted grain beverages are healthy beverages, along with
mineral and distilled water avoiding where possible chlorinated and fluoridated water. Diet Is Not Enough
    Those isolated, long -lived peoples discovered by Weston A. Price had to do hard physical labor to eat, had to walk briskly up
and down steep terrain to get anywhere. But today, few North Americans output very much physical energy in process of daily l ife
or work. Not only cars, but all of our modern conveniences make it possible to live without ever breaking into a sweat. We p ay for
this ease; it costs us a significant degree of health. Exercise has many benefits when combined with excellent nutrition. It creates an overall feeling of well -being that can not be
created by diet alone. Exercising temporarily makes the heart beat faster, increasing blood circulation throughout the body right
out to the tips of your fingers and toes. This short -term elevated flow of blood flow brings increased supplies of oxygen and
nutrients to all parts of the body, facilitating healing and r epair. Without revving up your engine every day many of the body's
systems never get the sludge


 to control gonorrhea throughout the world had been registered. Instead of wiping out the disease as the first optimistic prediction promised us, there had been
for a few years an increase in the number of cases. They estimated that there are 60,000,000 new
cases of gonorrhea each year in the world, an incidence that they blame largely on the teen-agers—
young people who had been taught that a shot of penicillin will “fix you up” in jig time. Figures the Committee accumulated reveal that gonorrhea is more common between the ages of
fifteen and twenty-five than at any time in the past. Many sections of the United States have reported an alarming increase in venereal disease that
is swamping clinics and control centers. Just to take the figures released in 1962 by one state,
California: 26,932 cases of gonorrhea were officially reported by physicians. Compare this with 14,697 cases reported in 1955. It is asserted that these figures for 1962 do
not begin to tell the story, for although the law requires all physicians to report such cases, many
fail to do so. Indeed, it is said that such cases are rarely reported. Less than ten percent according
to estimates of the cases of gonorrhea have been reported. It is stated that teen agers and young
adults are the chief
victims
. The false security that was aroused by the first optimism for the anti-biotics, has now given way
to despair—and alarm. Physicians admit that penicillin and steptomycin are “no longer effective”
against the disease. The common explanation is employed: the germs have developed resistance to
the drug. Even progressively larger doses are now admitted to be resulting in more “treatment failures”
than did much smaller doses when the drug was first used. It is now realized that it is not possible
to treat gonorrhea out of existence with universal use of anti-biotics. While one may have gonorrhea numerous times in a lifetime, it is well known that one
infection
127does not confer
immunity
, as is claimed for many other infections; it is now said by the experts of
WHO that the only hope for the future resides in the possible finding of a vaccine that will confer
immunity
. It is strange that they never suggest that good behavior is a sure preventive. They take it
for granted that youth has started on a course of sexual laxity from which it cannot be returned, no
matter what the cost. My observations as well as statistics of the disease show that circumcision is a very poor
substitute for good behavior. The disease is very prevalent in circumcised as well as
noncircumcised peoples of the world. Before the days of penicillin I used to get numbers of cases of gonorrhea for care. Then came the
“wonder drugs” and the belief that one to three shots would rapidly cure gonorrhea. I ceased to get
these patients. Everybody who developed gonorrhea resorted to penicillin. Symptoms were thus
suppressed and recurrences were again suppressed. But suppressing symptoms does not provide
any lasting answers. Gonorrhea is a self-limited disease. This is to say, it runs a more or less variable course to
recovery. Patients get well under all kinds of treatment and they get well with no treatment at all. A
number of years ago some tests were made and it was discovered that warm water was as
effective as the drugs popularly used. The course of gonorrhea runs from four to six weeks. Its
course can be shortened by rest and fasting. Complications can be prevented in all cases by
fasting. Every enervating influence, such as tobacco, alcohol, overeating, lasciviousness, late hours,
over-activity, will delay recovery and increase the liability to the development of complications. My own experience has indicated that the disease gets well more rapidly in females than in
males and there is less suffering, due primarily to the fact that the female canals are larger and
drain better. Adequate drainage is
vitally important and any bandages or ligatures that interfere
with drainage are almost certain to cause complications. This is one condition in which I think that we may profitably alter our rule against drinking much
water, and permit the free taking of water. Much water drinking means frequent urination and this
helps to keep the urethral canal washed out. Injections into the canal tend to carry infectious
material further back into the canal, whereas urine tends to sweep it to the mouth of the urethra and
out. Externally, both in males and females, strict cleanliness is essential. While I prefer the fast in all such cases, if the circumstances of the patient are such that a fast of
any length is not feasible, the fruit diet may be substituted for the fast. Three meals a day of fresh
fruits, with no eating between meals and no heavy fruit meals taken, will enable the patient to carry
on his activities and get will without complications. Fasting or a light diet of this kind not only hastens recovery and prevents the development of
complications, but it also assures the patient greater comfort while the disease is at its height. There is less pain and in the case of the male, fewer painful erections. Again, I emphasize: the fast is not a
cure
; it does not
cure
 gonorrhea. The self-healing processes
of the body eliminate the cause of the gonorrhea and restore the normal state. When one fasts under
such conditions, one merely avoids putting hindrances in the way of the reconstructive processes
of life. 12832
Paralysis Agitans
A woman nearly forty years old arrived at a
Hygienic
 institution in this country, after suffering
with Parkinson’s disease for six years. Her home was in Costa Rica, her husband was an Austrian
engaged in the importing business. When her first symptoms appeared a physician was consulted. After a few local physicians had been given the opportunity to restore her to health, her husband
took her to Vienna, where she was given the best medical care Europe afforded at the time. Two years later she was brought to New York, where she was again treated by the best
specialists on the east coast. After a total of six years of
the finest care available, with no results
except that her condition had grown progressively worse, she was taken to the
Hygienic
institution. At this institution she was put to bed and placed upon a fast. As progressed, she gained control
of her limbs. After a fast of more than thirty days, she was allowed to resume eating. There was an
immediate recurrence of tremor, but it was not so bad as before the fast. The results were the
same, except that the tremor was much less, after the second fast as after the first. After another period of eating, she was given a third fast. There was no recurrence of tremor
afterwards. For more than ten years, thereafter, as long as the
Hygienist
 was able to maintain
contact with her, she had no recurrence of the tremor. She carried on the work of her household
and enjoyed better than average health. The total time during which she was under
Hygienic
 care
was nine months. The developments in this case are typical, with the exception of the completeness of recovery. Not all cases make full recovery; indeed, full recovery is not the general rule. The rule is that the
majority of these cases make sufficient progress to become useful again, but retain a part of the
tremor. There are a small number of cases, in late stages of the disease, that make no appreciable
improvement. It is correct to say that cases that make full recovery and cases that make no
improvement are both comparatively rare. This is apparently true for the same reason in both
instances:
Hygienic
 care is instituted much too late. It is rare that a patient with paralysis agitans
undergoes
Hygienic
 care at the first appearance of symptoms. Indeed, the author has never known
of such an instance. Paralysis agitans, also known as shaking palsy and Parkinson’s disease, was named after Dr.
James Parkinson, who was British. He first described the disease in 1817. It commonly develops
late in life, usually after the age of forty. It is slightly more prevalent in men than in women, and is
characterized by stiffness and rigidity of the muscles, which causes delayed action of the voluntary
muscles, and by tremor, which is chiefly noticeable when the patient is sitting still and disappears
when he is active. A description of a typical very advanced case reads: “Quaking of the limbs,
rigidity of the muscles, an abnormal slowness of movement, staring wild-eyed without blinking,
right facial expression, and often drooling from the mouth.”
There are an estimated 280,000 cases of paralysis agitans in the United States, with thirty-six
thousand new cases developing each year. Tremors, whether coarse or fine, result from alternate contraction and relaxation of opposing
muscles. They are not confined to paralysis agitans, but are seen in cases of venereal excess,
129chronic alcoholism, delirium tremens, opium, chloral, mineral drug and other forms of poisoning. They may also be seen in many cases of neurasthenia, debility, senility, arteriosclerosis, hysteria,
goiter, paresis, etc. Usually affecting the hands and feet, the tremor of senility is exceedingly fine. In paralysis
agitans the


throws away when she makes salad are the richest in vitamins and
minerals. Those elements are the catalysts which taken into the body help
keep its processes going. When any of those elements run short,
bodily functions are impaired and disease appears. For years and
years, I kept telling my patients those things. The typical patient
would listen with one ear, then go home and eat white bread, mashed
potatoes and gravy and lettuce hearts for supper. CHAPTER 8. As long as I practiced dentistr y in Albertville, it never occurred
to me that dental decay or crooked teeth or pyorrhea could be
prevented. In that Alabama country everybody's teeth decayed. One of my
patients in 1898 was 2 year old Willie McNaron. As she played in my
offices in her father's hotel, Willie  had watched my patients. So she
thought she had to spit a lot when sh e got into the dental chair. So I
had to wait for her afternoon nap hour  and fill her teeth as she slept. For another small patient, Jimmie C., 16 years old, I put 15
fillings in one day all in posterior teeth. Those two children had
typical mouths for that country. Among Alabama folk, most decay
occurs between the teeth; but among Hereford, Texas folk this is rare. As I later realized, those children had bad teeth because they had
been fed too much white bread, cake, pies, polished rice, syrup and
jelly. The worn out soil adds its part. They did not get enough raw
whole milk to supply the calcium and vitamins; or enough raw leafy
vegetables and fruit to supply the trace minerals (including fluorine)
needed to build sound teeth. Now our instructors at Vanderbilt had taught us dental students
to wait six months after pulling teeth for gum shrinkage before putting in a new set of teeth. But later I observed that when a patient had lost
his teeth purely from decay—that is, when he had no pyorrhea, and
that malady was rare in Alabama in those days—I could put in a plate
immediately, with little or no shrinkage. So the plates rarely had to be
refitted. I recall that soon after I opened my office in Albertville, young
Tom Boyd came in to get his bad teeth pulled out and a new set put in. When the last tooth was out, my patient asked:
"Doctor, when do I get my new teeth?" "Oh, in about six months," I told him. At that, young Boyd stretched himself about six inches taller and
yelled at the top of his voice:
"Good God, doctor, I'm going to be  married tomorrow. I've got to
have my teeth for the wedding." It was not according to the book ; but, sympathizing, I discarded
what Vanderbilt had taught me. "All right, young fellow," I answered. "Have a seat there and let's
get busy." I worked all that day and late that night. Before the wedding
hour, I had my patient's teeth ready for him. When I last saw Mr.
Boyd, 10 years after that, he told me his plates had not given him a bit
of trouble. They still fit perfectly. It was only a few days after that I pulled Miss Agnes Strickland's
teeth that were too far gone for repa ir. I told her, as I told all my
patients, what the book said: "Better wait six months for the gums to
shrink and heal before we put in a new set of teeth." But after 10 days
Miss Strickland was back. "I can't wait no six months, doctor," she challenged me. "I want
my new teeth and no foolin'." So I made her a new set right off. Like Tom Boyd, Miss
Strickland told me some years later that her plates had never given her
the least trouble. The explanation: Both those patients had perfectly healthy
mouths, no trace of pyorrhea and hence no bone shrinkage after the
denture was placed. During the 17 years that I had my office in Albertville I cannot
recall having a single patient coming back to have his dental plates refitted. By contrast, in the He reford, Texas country, numerous
patients had to have their plates made over. Pyorrhea, rare in Alabama
but prevalent on the Texas high plains had caused most of my
Hereford patients to lose their teet h. Long after the teeth were out the
underlying bone would keep shrinking even though wearing the new
denture. After questioning many such patient s, year after year, I was led
to connect pyorrhea with a heavy diet of meat and gravy. Too much
meat and animal fat consumed for a long time apparently causes the
bony structure to waste away. I simply observed the fact: I did not
then, and do not now, undertake to explain it, other than it is due to food. When I revisited Birmingham in May, 1947, Walker Fowler
showed me some gold fillings which I had put into his mouth 45 years
before. Though well along in years,  Mr. Fowler still had firm healthy
gums. All his life, he told me, he ate meat and drank milk sparingly. I
noted his numerous fillings and told him—correctly, he said—that he
habitually ate too heavily of white bread, potatoes, sugar and syrup. One day a stranger walked into my house at Hereford and
challenged me:
"Doctor, look at the gold fillings in my teeth. Do you know
anything about those fillings?" I looked, shook my head and asked my visitor: "Can you tell me
any reason why I should know?" Then he said: "You put those filling in 45 years ago. My name is
Lee Barnes." Lee is a cousin of mine, but I didn't recognize him. Like Mr.
Fowler of Birmingham, Mr. Barnes, a Government field man now,
had eaten lightly of meat but too he avily of starchy foods and he had
not consumed enough milk. That is, not enough from well fed cows. CHAPTER 9. I CONFIDE MY IDEAS TO FELLOW
DENTISTS

By 1910, as I recall, my persistent ideas concerning the effect of
food and drink on the building of a sound body, and with it, a sound set of teeth, had begun to take definite shape. It was at the Alabama Dental Association convention in
Birmingham that year at a luncheon  table with three fellow dentists,
that I first ventured to unload those unorthodox ideas on the
profession. I have about reached the conclusion, I told those dentists,
that a patient's diet has more to do with the condition of his mouth—or
for that matter, the condition of his body generally— than our medical
or dental scientists have any idea of. "It is my conviction, gentlemen,
that if a child, from its birth up, were fed a well-balanced diet, given
plenty of calcium in milk to build bones and teeth; plenty of protein in
meat or beans or whole wheat grains or similar foodstuff; given enough carbohydrates in bread, potatoes, sugar and white syrup to supply bodily energy, but none to lay up excess fat—that a child so
fed would grow up with perfectly sound teeth. As you know, Doctors,
our people on the farms feed their laying hens limestone grit and
oyster shells to produce egg shells. Their poultry bulletins from
Auburn tell them to do that. But it never occurs to those same people to see that children get lime enough to produce sound teeth." "Good cow's milk would supply that element, provided the cows
grazed on grass or were fed on grain or fodder that grew on limestone
soil. As we dentists know, and as our farm experts know, a lot of our
Alabama sandy land is sadly defici ent in lime. We know also that
cows and people habitually drink soft water from springs and shallow wells and consequently do not get enough lime in their diet. Give the
children, and the grownups as well the minerals they need and you
will have sound bones and sound teeth." I'm further persuaded, gentlemen, (I  went on to say) that wheat, if
it were consumed whole instead of being refined into white flour, as
our modern mills refine it, would be just about the perfect food. For
wheat contains protein, starch, phosphorus, calcium, iron and other
elements which it takes from the soil. In good soil wheat contains
nearly a complete ration. Feed this whole grain wheat to growing children and give them
all the milk they can drink, with a little meat and sweetening in their diet, not too much of either, and you will have healthy children. Now, there is some sense to refining wheat to make paste for
hanging paper, but no sense at all that I can see to taking out of the
wheat all those elements that nature put into it to feed people. It is
impossible to be ailing wh en the food is correct. My fellow dentists heard me out with respectful attention. When
I had finished my say, two sat silent and incredulous. But Dr. Young
of Anniston remarked: "If all our patients adhered to Dr. Heard's
ideas, we would be minus patients." CHAPTER 10. IN WHICH I WIN A HELPMATE
 Not long after I opened my office in Albertville, I met an
attractive school teacher


 exercise, it is necessar y to monitor your blood oxyge n saturation
with a pulse ox imeter, ensuring  that your SpO 2  d oes not drop below 80
percent. 1. W alk  for a m inute or so. Ex hale and hold your breath for
approximately 4 0 paces, then ta ke a sip of air into the lungs. A “sip” is a tiny  breath—just enough to reduce tension. Hold
the breath for a further 10 paces. 2. No w take a sip  of air in or out  of the lungs. Hold for 10 paces
or so. 3. Continue taki ng sips of air and repeating short breath holds
until you feel a fairly strong air shortage. 4. If the air shortage is too strong, then reduce the hold to 5
paces or less. W ith each successive breath hold, oxygensaturation will continue to decrease. 5. Challenge but do not stress yourself. 6. C ontinue to  monitor pulse oxygen saturation. Do not go
below 80 percent SpO 2. 7. Perform this exercise for 1 to 2 minutes.B r e a t h e  L i g h t  t o  B r e a t h e  R i g h t  ( A d v a n c e d
M e t h o d )
T he a dvanced version of Breathe Light to Breathe Right is best practiced
after yo u have mastered the basic exercise as described on page 74. The
following will teach you how to  combine reduced breathing with abdominal
breathing to increase your BOL T score. Please note that just like any fo rm of physical exercise, it is easier and
more beneficial if you practice reduced breathing exercises at least an hour
or more after eating a meal. This exercise involves three simple stages:
1. Activating and strengthening the diaphragm
2. Mer ging your breathing with the movements of your abdomen
3. Reducing your breathing to create an air shortage
By p racticing abdominal breath ing, you will allow it to become your
natural breathing method. This exercise is split into three parts to ensure
that you learn the technique correctly and to gradually incorporate
abdominal breathing into your normal breathing habits. First you must learn
to re lax the diaphragm muscle s o that it can be activated during breathing. Second, you must learn to match the movements of the abdomen with the
breath to  engag e the diaphragm. And finally, you will be able to practice
breathing lightly with abdominal breathing to maximize body oxygenationduring rest. Remember that to im prove your breathing during exercise, you
must first learn how to breathe ef ficiently at rest. Stage 1: Relaxing and Activating the Diaphragm
•   S it up straight but do not force yourself into a rigid upright
position, as doing so will only  increase the tension in your
body. Instead, try to lengthen th e distance between your navel
and sternum (chest); imagine a piece of string gently lifting you
up from the top of the back of your head.•   A s you guide your body upw ard, imagine the space between
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        Overbreathing can cause
numerous health  concerns, but there is a more disturbing risk  associated
with this condition that could literally make the dif ference betw een life and
death. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed during cardiac arrest
to help preserve  normal brain fu nction until further measures can be taken
to re store blood circulation and breathing. W e know that hyperventilationcauses reduced blood flow and reduced oxygenation of the heart, but
studies h ave also revealed that e xcessive ventilation during CPR is actually
detrimental to survival. Researchers inv estigated instanc es where CPR resulted in deat h due to
excessive venti lation applied by well-trained but overzeal ous rescue
personnel. Despite adequate training, these professionals hyperventilated
their patients while attempting resuscitation through higher than necessary
breathing rates. It is thought that the high airway pressure resulting from
administering more air into the patient than necessary had a detrimental—
and ultim ately f atal—ef fect on patients’ blood flow. One study concluded
with the following warning: “Additional education of CPR providers is
ur gently needed  to reduce these  newly identified and deadly co nsequences
of hyperventilation during CPR. ”
Reviewing the findings above,  it is shocking to think that the very
procedure designed to help save lives might in fact be having the opposite
ef fect. I t is even more shocking when we consider that the relationship
between breathing volume and blood flow to the heart was first documented
over a century a go. Thankfully, since 2007 there has been a m onumental
change in CPR procedures involving manual ventilation. Increasingly, the
emphasis during CPR is now on  chest compressions to maintain circulation,
rather than manual ventilation. Over the  years, I have witnessed many young athletes at all l evels of
fitness b reathing too intensely for their given level of exerc ise. In this
chapter, I have attempted to j oin the dots between excessive breathing
volume, reduced oxygenation of the heart, and resultant ECG abnormalities,
heart att acks, and chronic heart disease. It is only logical to su rmise that a
poorly o xygenated heart is less able to cope with the demands of intense
physical exercise. Y et every month I see reports of children, teenagers, and
young a dults w ho were in the prime of life dying from undetected heart
conditions. Upo n hearing the ne ws I often wonder: Could this tragedy have
been av oided if the victim had been encouraged to breathe normally and
through the nose. The breathing volume of athletes and nonathl etes alike is
crying o ut for attention, and greater awareness would be wort h all of the
ef fort, if even just one young life were saved. CHAPTER 12
E l i m i n a t e  E x e r c i s e - I n d u c e d  A s t h m a
I n childhood, treatments for fort y-three-year -old Julian’ s asthma included
cough medicine, trips to the coast for the benefits of sea air, and inhaling
steam from a boiling kettle. On some nights, Julian remembers his
wheezing being so bad that he st ayed up most of the night with his head out
the w indow in an ef fort to breathe. Any individual who experien ced asthma
as a  child durin g the 1970s and  1980s can probably testify to the lengths
that similarly worried parents took to try to help their children to breathe. By the late 198 0s Julian had been prescribed various relievers and
preventative me dications, in addition to regular trips to the hospital for
nebulizer treat ment. This never -ending cycle of medication and
hospitalizations continued for many years, and although Julian tried to keep
fit, he often found he was unab le to breathe, particularly during the small
hours of the night. Fast-forward to 2006, and Julian was taking higher doses of asthma
medication while his fitness level gradually reduced, a totally u nproductive
cycle th at was beginning to s eriously af fect his health and well-being. Julian’ s story is typical of any individual with moderate to severe asthma;
although physic al exercise can be very beneficial, many persons with
asthma simply tend to avoid it for fear of having an attack. In early 2007, Julian attended one of my Dublin courses at which we
focused on breathing through the nose, breathing light, and practicing
breath h olds while walking. Julian took his last dose of reliever medication
the day after the course. W ithin s ix mon ths, Julian’ s asthma had drastically improved,  and by
Christmas 2007,  he had his last dose of preventative medication. His fitnessalso improved and he was able to swim a mile per day, five times a week. In
2008, J ulian’ s GP agreed to reclassify his medical record as “asthma
resolved. ”
Over the next three years, Julian’ s exercise plan evolved to include eight
hours of  high-in tensity indoor cycling, circuits, and stretching  classes per
week, as well as  the techniques of nasal and reduced-volume breathing he
learned from my course. These changes, along with adj ustments to his eating habits, allowed
Julian to  improv e his performance and enjoy more ener gy and stamina at a
higher level of activity. At the age of forty in 2012, Julian ran five half-
marathons and covered over 750 training miles. He achieved a personal best
of 1 :46 i n his third half-maratho n; two weeks later he complete d the Berlin
full mar athon in 3:57. Following the Berlin Marathon, he ran  the Dublin
City Ma rathon in 4 hours. In six months, Julian had knocked over 8 minutes
of f his first half-marathon time. In si x ye ars, Jul ian progressed from a chance encounter with one of my


 a part of my firstaid kit because if I experience a laceration, a sprain, broken bone, or a burn, Ican increase my internal intake as well as apply it liberally directly on the damagedskin surface. Vitamin C can be put directly in the eye in a dilute solution withdistilled water for infections and injuries, in the ear for ear infections, and in thenose for sinus infections. If you are using the acid form of C (ascorbic acid) and itsmarts too much, make a more dilute solution, or switch to the alkaline form of C(calcium ascorbate) which can be used as a much more concentrated solutionwithout a stinging sensation. Applied directly on the skin C in solution makes avery effective substitute for sun screen. It doesn’t filter out ultraviolet, it beefs upthe skin to better deal with the insult. I believe vitamin C can deal with a raging infection such as pneumonia as well
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        This means that the person who istaking care of the critically ill person must be experienced enough to adjust theintensity of the body’s healing efforts and accurately assess the ability of theperson to process toxic waste products clamoring for removal so the ailing bodyis not drowned in it’s own poisons. It is often necessary to use clear vegetablebroth, vegetable and wheat grass juices, and fruits juices, or whole sprouts toslow down the cleansing gradient and sometimes, to resupply the tissue’sexhausted nutritional reserves. I wish all cases of critical illness had such a positive outcome as Ethyl’s, but
unfortunately they don’t. I had Marge on the same program at the same time. Shealso had cancerous tumors all over her body and had similarly been sent home todie. In some ways Marge’s body was a more likely candidate for survival thanEthyl’s. Marge did not have heart failure or diabetes and was still able on arrivalto at least take small amount of water orally and walk to the bathroom. Put on asimilar program, her tumors also shrunk and were reabsorbed and she too wenthome. But Marge did not really have a strong reason to live. Although her husband
was by her side throughout the treatment program, Marge was deeply upsetbecause she was estranged from one of her sons who she had not seen for over10 years. When she went home from Great Oaks, the son finally consented to seehis mother, went to the effort of trying to work things out with her, and finallyconfessed that under it all he still loved her. At that point Marge died in peace. She had accomplished the last thing she
wanted to take care of and her will to live did not extend beyond that point. Hadshe died several months earlier as predicted by the medical profession, Margewould have been unable to resolve this relationship. This was what Marge’s lifewas pivoting on at the end. I was glad to assist her in doing what she needed todo. Her husband and other family members found it difficult to understand, andthey were hurt that Marge did not wish to continue her life with them. Diet For The Chronically Ill. The chronically ill person has a long-term degenerative condition that is not
immediately life threatening. This condition usually causes more-or-less continuoussymptoms that are painful, perhaps unsightly, and ultimately will be disabling oreventually capable of causing death. To qualify as “chronic” the symptoms musthave been present a minimum of six months, with no relief in sight. People withthese conditions have usually sought medical assistance, frequently have hadsurgery, and have taken and probably are taking numerous prescription drugs. Some examples of chronic conditions are: arthritis, rheumatism, diabetes, early
onset of cancer and aids, asthma, colitis, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome,some mental disorders, arterial deposit diseases, many of the itises(inflammations). Before fasting, the chronically ill often do have time to prepare the way with
limited dietary reform, and frequently begin to feel relief quite quickly. Beforeactually fasting they should limit their diet to raw foods and eliminate all toxicfoods like alcohol, coffee, tea, salt, sugar and recreational drugs for two months ifthey have been following a typical American diet. If the chronically ill had been following a vegetarian diet, perhaps a diet
including with eggs and dairy, if they had been using no addicting substances, thenone month on raw foods is sufficient preparation for fasting. If the person hadwater or juice fasted for at least a week or two within the last two years, and
followed a healthy diet since that time, one or two weeks on raw foods should be
a sufficient runway. During preparation for a fast, I never recommend that a chronically ill person
quit taking prescription medicines because doing so can seriously disrupt theirhomeostasis. However, if their symptoms lessen or vanish during the pre-fastingclean up, the person might try tapering off medications. The length and type of fast chosen to resolve a chronic illness depends largely
on available time, finances, availability of support people, work responsibilities,and mental toughness. If you are one of those fortunate people rich enough to givetheir health first priority, long water fasting is ideal. If on the other hand you can’tafford to stop working, have no one to take care of you and assist with somehousehold chores, and/or you are not mentally tough enough to deal with self-denial, compromise is necessary. Ideally the chronically ill person would fast for an extended period under
supervision until their symptoms were gone or greatly improved, with a fall-backplan to repeat the whole process again in three to six months if necessary. If youare not able to do that, the next best program is to fast for a short period, like oneor two weeks, with a plan to repeat the process as often as possible until you arehealed. I have had clients with potentially life-threatening conditions such as obesity
with incipient heart failure, or who came to me with cancer, that were unable tostop work for financial reasons, or who could not afford a residential fastingprogram, or who felt confident in their own ability to deal with detoxification intheir own home. These people have fasted successfully at home, coming to seeme once a week. Almost inevitably, successful at-home fasters had already donea lot of research on self healing, believed in it, and had the personal discipline tocarry it out properly, including breaking the fast properly without overeating. Foods To Heal Chronic Illness
Sprouts Baby Greens Salad Juices Fruit
alfalfa sunflower lettuce beet grapefruit
radish buckwheat celery celery lemon
bean zucchini zucchini lime lime
clover kale kale orange orange
fenugreek endive radish parsley apple
wheat tomato tomato raspberries
cabbage cabbage cabbage blueberries
carrot carrot grapes
spinach apple peaches
parsley grapefruit apricots
sweet pepper lemon strawberry
Fruits should be watery and lower in sugar. Some examples of poor fruit
choices would be pineapple, ripe mango, bananas, dates, raisins, figs. Fruitsshould not be combined with vegetables. Vegetables should not be starchy, packed-full of energy. Poor vegetable
choices would be potato, parsnip, turnip, corn, sweet potato, yam, beet, wintersquash. Sprouts and baby greens are vegetables and may be included in salads. Juices should not be extremely sweet. Apple, orange, beet and carrot juice
should be diluted with 50% water. Fruit juices should not be mixed with vegetablejuices or with vegetables at the same meal. Salads should include no fruit. Salad dressings should be lemon or lime juice,
very small quantities of olive oil, and herbs. No salt, soy sauce nor black pepper. Cayenne can be okay for some. I have also helped chronically ill people that were not mentally prepared to
water fast, but were able to face the long-term self-control and deprivation of araw food cleansing diet that included careful food combining. These people alsoregained their health, but it took them a year at minimum, and once well they hadto remain on a diet tailor-made to their digestive capacity for the rest of their life,usually along with food supplements. Jim was such a case. He was 55 years old, very obese, had dangerously high
blood pressure poorly controlled with medication, and was going into congestiveheart failure. He was on digitalis and several other heart medications plusdiuretics, but in no way was his condition under control. He had severe edema inthe feet and legs with pitting, and fluid retention in the abdominal region caused ahuge paunch that was solid to the touch not soft and squishy like fatty tissue. Jim had long dreamed of having his own homestead with an Organic garden
and now he had these things but was too sick to enjoy them or work in his gardenwithout severe heart pain and shortness of breath. Jim had retired early in order toenjoy many years without the stresses of work, and he was alarmed to realize thathe was unlikely to survive a year. The day Jim came to see me the first time I would have classified his condition
as critically ill because his life was in immediate danger; but he responded soquickly to his detox program that he was very soon out of danger and would bemore accurately described as a chronically ill person. Jim was not prepared towater fast. He was attached to having his food and he was aware that at hisextreme weight he was going to have stay on a dietary program for a long, longtime. He also wanted to choose a gradient that


 Look past the
judgments of others’ appearance, failures, and successes, their status in
society, their wealth or lack of it... and extend appreciation and love to the
Source from which they came. Everyone is a child of God—everyone! Try
to see this even in those who behave in what appears to be a godless
fashion. Know that by extending love and respect, you can turn that energy
around so that it’s heading back to its Source rather than away from it. In
short, send out respect because that is what you have to give away. Send out
judgment and low energy and that is what you’ll attract back. Remember,
when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as
someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at
you. Step 4: Affirm to yourself and all others that you meet, I belong! A
sense of belonging is one of the highest attributes on Abraham Maslow’s
pyramid of self-actualization (which I discuss at the beginning of the next
chapter). Feeling that you don’t belong or you’re in the wrong place can be
due to a lack of self-respect. Respect yourself and your divinity by knowing
that everyone belongs. This should never come into question. Your presence
here in the universe is proof alone that you belong here. No person decides
if you belong here. No government determines if some belong and some
don’t. This is an intelligent system that you’re a part of. The wisdom of
Creation intended you to be here, in this place, in this family with these
siblings and parents, occupying this precious space. Say it to yourself and
affirm it whenever necessary: I belong! And so does everyone else. No one
is here by accident! Step 5: Remind yourself that you’re never alone. My self-respect stays
intact as long as I know that it’s impossible for me to be alone. I have a
“senior partner” who’s never abandoned me and who’s stuck with me even
in moments when I had seemingly deserted my Source. I feel that if the
universal mind has enough respect to allow me to come here and to work
through me—and to protect me in times when I strayed onto dangerous
nonspiritual turf—then this partnership deserves my reciprocal respect. I
recall my friend Pat McMahon, a talk-show host on KTAR radio in
Phoenix, Arizona, telling me about his encounter with Mother Teresa in his
studio before interviewing her for his program. He pleaded with her to
allow him to do something for her. “Anything at all,” he begged. “I’d just
like to help you in some way.” She looked at him and said, “Tomorrow
morning get up at 4:00 A.M. and go out onto the streets of Phoenix. Find
someone who lives there and believes that he’s alone, and convince him that
he’s not.” Great advice, because everyone who wallows in self-doubt or
appears to be lost... has lost their self-respect because they’ve forgotten
that they’re not alone. Step 6: Respect your body! You’ve been provided with a perfect body to
house your inner invisible being for a few brief moments in eternity. Regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, it’s a
perfect creation for the purpose that you were intended here for. You don’t
need to work at getting healthy; health is something you already have if you
don’t disturb it. You may have disturbed your healthy body by overfeeding
it, underexercising it, and overstimulating it with toxins or drugs that make
it sick, fatigued, jumpy, anxious, depressed, bloated, ornery, or an endless
list of maladies. You can begin the fulfillment of this intention to live a life
of self-respect by honoring the temple that houses you. You know what to
do. You don’t need another diet, workout manual, or personal trainer. Go
within, listen to your body, and treat it with all of the dignity and love that
your self-respect demands. Step 7: Meditate to stay in conscious contact with your Source, which
always respects you. I can’t say this enough: Meditation is a way to
experience what the five senses can’t detect. When you’re connected to the
field of intention, you’re connected to the wisdom that’s within you. That
divine wisdom has great respect for you, and it cherishes you while you’re
here. Meditation is a way to ensure that you stay in a state of self-respect. Regardless of all that goes on around you, when you enter into that sacred
space of meditation, all doubts about your value as an esteemed creation
dissolve. You’ll emerge from the solemnity of meditation feeling connected
to your Source and enjoying respect for all beings, particularly yourself. Step 8: Make amends with adversaries. The act of making amends
sends out a signal of respect for your adversaries. By radiating this
forgiving energy outward, you’ll find this same kind of respectful positive
energy flowing back toward you. By being big enough to make amends and
replace the energy of anger, bitterness, and tension with kindness—even if
you still insist that you’re right—you’ll respect yourself much more than
prior to your act of forgiveness. If you’re filled with rage toward anyone,
there’s a huge part of you that resents the presence of this debilitatingenergy. Take a moment right here and now to simply face that person who
stands out in your mind as someone you hurt, or directed hurt to you, and
tell him or her that you’d like to make amends. You’ll notice how much
better you feel. That good feeling of having cleared the air is self-respect. It
takes much more courage, strength of character, and inner conviction to
make amends than it does to hang on to the low-energy feelings. Step 9: Always remember the self in self-respect. In order to do this,
you must recognize that the opinions of others toward you aren’t facts,
they’re opinions. When I speak to an audience of 500 people, there are 500
opinions of me in the room at the end of the evening. I’m none of those
opinions. I can’t be responsible for how they view me. The only thing I can
be responsible for is my own character, and this is true for every one of us. If I respect myself, then I’m relying on the self in self-respect. If I doubt
myself, or punish myself, I’ve not only lost my self-respect, I’ll continue to
attract more and more doubt and lower-energy opinions with which to
further punish myself. You can’t stay linked to the universal mind, which
intends all of us here, if you fail to rely on your self for your self-respect. Step 10: Be in a state of gratitude. You’ll discover that gratitude is the
final step in each succeeding chapter. Be an appreciator rather than a
depreciator of everything that shows up in your life. When you’re saying
Thank you, God, for everything, and when you’re expressing gratitude for
your life and all that you see and experience, you’re respecting Creation. This respect is within you, and you can only give away what you have
inside. Being in a state of gratitude is the exact same thing as being in a
state of respect—respect for yourself, which you give away freely, and
which will return to you tenfold. I close this chapter with the words of Jesus of Nazareth, speaking through
his apostle Saint Matthew (Matthew 5:48): “Be perfect, therefore, as your
heavenly Father is perfect.” Reconnect to the perfection from which you
originated.You can’t have any more self-respect than that! OceanofPDF.comIT IS
MY INTENTION TO:
LIVE MY LIFE
ON PURPOSE
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose
of living.”

— Buddha
“Your sole business in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.”

— Sivananda
A sense of purpose is at the very top of the pyramid of self-actualization
created by Abraham Maslow more than 50 years ago. Through his research,
Dr. Maslow discovered that those who feel purposeful are living the highest
qualities that humanity has to offer. During the many years I’ve been in the
fields of human development, motivation, and spiritual awareness, this is
the topic that more people inquire about than anything else. I’m repeatedly
asked questions such as: How do I find my purpose? Does such a thingreally exist? Why don’t I know my purpose in life? Being on purpose is what
the most self-actualized people accomplish on their life journeys. But many
individuals feel little sense of purpose, and may even doubt that they have a
purpose in life. Purpose and Intention
The theme of this book is that intention is a force in the universe, and that
everything and everyone is connected to this invisible force. Since this is an
intelligent system we’re all a part of, and everything that arrives here came
from that intelligence, it follows that if it wasn’t supposed to be here, then it
wouldn’t be here. And if it’s here, then it’s supposed to be, and that’s
enough for me. The very fact of your existence indicates that you have a
purpose. As I mentioned, the