. This makes a
person lose much less weight than during a
normal fast. As a result of the afor emen-
tioned processes, that occur during fasting,
the problems of radioactive exposure are
completely solved. And indeed, after
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cided to employ fasting in treating people
stricken by acute radiation sickness (when u l-
cers appear in the gastrointestinal tract).
Bone marrow transplantation and use of
powerful antibiotic therapy are nearly hope-
less in such cases, but thanks to fasting, the
affected people restored their health. For the
first time in the world practice, t he fasting
method helped in the case where other, most

21 Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov (born November 1, 1928, Moscow)
is a Soviet and Russian hematologist, academician of the USSR
Academy of Medical Sciences (1986) and RAS (2000), professor,
doctor of medical sciences, director of the Research Institute of He-
matology and Intensive Care,  head of the department hematology
and intensive care of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate
Education (RMAPO). He has been the First Minister of Health of
the Russian Federation.
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options proved to be powerless! And it’s no
wonder, since these treatment options are the
fruit of artificial conclusions, while fasting is
a natural process t hat has nothing in com-
mon with them.
After this introduction, let’s pass on to the
main question — why are fasts conducted at spe-
cific times of the year? If we combine the dates
when fasts are conducted and astrological signs,
then we’ll see that three out  of the four fasts fall
on ‘Fire Signs’. The Nativity Fast (40 days) falls
on Sagittarius. Great Lent (48 days) falls on Ar-
ies. The Uspensky Fast (14 days) fall on Leo. The
length of the Apostles’ Fast is not constant and
varies between 8 and 42 days. This  variation is
caused by adjustment to natural rhythms. In
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ergy, its duration increases. In cold years, on the
contrary, the length of this fast shortens. There’s
no ad -libbing — everything happens according
to nature’s laws. In the above -mentioned peri-
ods, an increased amount of energy reaches the
Earth from space. This energy, which works like
radioactive energy, can disrupt the organism’s
function. Remember A. L. Chizhevsky’s22 work
The Earthly Echo of the Solar Storms,  and a lot
will be clarified immediately.

22 Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky  (1897 – 1964) was a  So-
viet-era interdisciplinary  scientist, a  biophysicist  who founded " he-
liobiology " (study of the sun's effect on biology) and "aero -ioniza-
tion" (study of effect of ionization of air on biological en tities). He
also was noted for his work in  "cosmo- biology", biological
rhythms  and hematology.

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and an increased amount of solar energy will go
towards creation, intensifying biosynthesis. If
you still continue eating, then the energy won’t
assimil ate and will cause damage to your cells,
and free radicals will inhibit the cell’s function,
undermining the living potential of the whole
organism. But at the same time, bacteria and vi-
ruses convert to active state and successfully at-
tack the weakened org anism due to the abun-
dance of energy. It is exactly at this time that flu
(spring and the beginning of winter) and cholera
(summer) epidemics may be observed all over
the world. In years of active sun, these processes
are of such a pronounced nature, that in the
Middle Ages the majority of the European pop-
ulation died out because of it! You can fast
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nation of increased natural energy and fasting
produces the best effect, activating the ‘fire prin-
ciple’, which is  suppressed during fasting. An-
cient sages took absolutely everything into ac-
count and gave the best recommendations, we
only have to follow them.

Protection against adverse environmental
factors
Along with our own toxins, which are pro-
duced inside the organism, the toxic substances
from the chemicals that have infested our daily
lives, from our poisoned atmosphere, from our
water and our food, are removed from the body
during fasting. However, this was to be expected.
In our environmental conditions, it’s impossible
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duces an excellent preventive effect. For a long
time after the end of a dry fast, the highest pro-
tective potential is maintained, durin g periodic
fasting a person becomes almost invulnerable to
nitrates, phenols, sulphur dioxide and nuclear
power stations.

Prevention of oncological diseases
When I was studying calorie restriction therapy
with Professor Y. S. Nikolayev, he told me about
a curious experiment. Students of Stavropol
Medical Institute divided 120 white rats into 4
groups.
The first group was the control group, and the
remaining three were subjected to a 3 -day-long
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sarcoma before the fast, the second — during the
fast, and the third — after it. All the control
group members who hadn’t fasted, died. Half of
the 30 animals that had been inoculated with
sarcoma before the experiment a half died, out
of the 30 ones that had been injected during the
fasting a third did. All those who have been in-
jected after the fasting survived. As I’ve already
written, during dry fasting the strongest, most
viable cells survive, that’s why even short -term
dry fasts are a serious preventive t reatment
against malignant tumors. Another marvelous
impact of fasting was recorded by American sci-
entists. They studied the impact of fasting on the
development of severe forms of cancer. The ani-
mals were divided into two groups — the
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rats in the control group were subjected to radi-
ation. The dose was chosen so that it wouldn’t
cause a quick death, but 2 -3 weeks after the irra-
diation every member of the group had blood
cancer. The experimental group was luckier.
Prior to irradiation, the animals underwent a full
fast. You may think that the organism weakened
by fasting should react even more acutely to this
negative influence, and the sickness should be
more severe. But the results were exactly the op-
posite! Com pared to the control group, the ex-
perimental group had 70 % fewer sick rats.

8.8. Renewal of the organism’s energy
As I’ve already written, water is one of the best
carrier of energy information. This is achieved
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and variability of its cluster structure. It was also
proven by scientists that, long before any symp-
toms of illness appear, local areas of ‘heavy’ wa-
ter, water with irregular structure, or  pathologi-
cal zones, are formed in the human organism.
Any kind of evil eye, hex or just people’s envy,
in short, all the negative energy is located in
these pathological zones. During dry fasting the
old ‘dead’ water is replaced with high -quality,
energetically renewed, ‘live’ water, synthesized
by the body itself.
 Dry fasting is, first and foremost,


 in ter ms of “percentage of high-carbohydrate, high-protein, and high-fat
foods.” Given that the items raw fooders deem “high protein” (nuts and s eeds) average 75% of calories from fat, the problem
becomes apparent rather quickly.
When you follow this author’s “low-fat” guideline (“50% carbohydrate, 30 –35% protein, and 10–15% oils,”) you end up
eating about 30% fat. The high-fat version of his plan (“50% protein, 30–35% carbohydrate, an d 20–25% oils”) yields a minimum
of 60% fat. Although he acknowledges the necessity to moderate the fat con tent of “protein foods” by consuming expensive high-
protein powdered supplements, my experience is that adherents of his plan s lather on the fat with abandon, with little or no
awareness of the extent to which their diets are predominated by fat.
The table below provides another example of the misleading results we ge t when analyzing nutrient content by volume rather
than calories. Consider a salad made of just two ingredients: 6 cups of le ttuce and ¼ cup of almonds. As this table shows, the
almonds account for just 4% of the volume but—surprisingly to many— nearly 80% of the calories.

In Appendix A I provide analyses of sample meals that use real recipes  and quantities, to help you begin to get a sense of how
your daily meals stack up in terms of caloronutrient ratio.

The Bull’s Eye: 80/10/10rv
For those who choose to follow the healthiest version of 80/10/10  in order to achieve off-the-charts results in every aspect of
your well-being, we add the suffix rv, standing for “raw vegan,” to the 80/10/10  designation. Also called the “low-fat raw vegan
diet,” 80/10/10rv  presents you with the life-changing opportunity to partake exc lusively of Nature’s bounty—consuming only whole,
fresh, unprocessed and undressed plant foods in the form Mother Earth presen ts them to us.
I have eaten substantially this way and used the 80/10/10rv  program, as it has evolved, with clients for more than twenty years
—with astonishing results. This approach to diet and nutrition has p roven over that time to be the healthiest dietary regimen known
to man. By the time you finish this book, you will have the specifics you nee d to implement this program in your life.

How Close to 80/10/10 Am I?
How does 80/10/10  compare to your  caloronutrient ratio? Well, naturally, each of us is unique, but the ge neralizations are
telling. Various sources suggest that Americans consume 40 to 50% of ca lories from carbohydrates, about 16% protein, and about
35 to 45% fat. 28  After twenty years of doing dietary analysis for my clients, I have  observed that 42/16/42 is typical for most
people.
As this book explains, most of us in the U.S.—even vegetarians and veg ans—tend to gravitate toward this 42/16/42 average,
a proportion that provides far less fuel (carbohydrate) than our bodies need in order to thrive … and a seriously dangerous level of
fat.
You will also step through some calculations so that you can assess the  caloronutrient ratio of commonly consumed raw food
plans. You will see for yourself, through simple examples, something th at became apparent to me years ago: Raw fooders, for the
most part, are consuming astonishing levels of fat—sometimes twi ce that of the fast-food-eating mainstream! Naturally, cooked fat
carries with it a host of problems not present in raw fats, but high level s of either can wreak tremendous havoc with our health.
If you are new to the high-produce way of eating, consider yourself lucky t o have encountered this information early in your
quest. With this book, you can steer clear of the pitfalls that leave so man y vegetarians and raw food enthusiasts disheartened and
unsure of where to turn next. If you are a raw fooders, this book may catapult y ou into a whole new reality, as answers to long-
standing nagging questions begin to emerge. You may find light bulbs goi ng on as you begin to understand why you or your friends
may not have quite thrived as promised on this “healthiest of all diet s.”

Tracking Your Own Numbers
In Appendix D. Resources for Diet Analysis, I describe online tools and othe r resources that you can use to get a sense of
what you are eating. I encourage you to take the time to learn to use a nut rient-analysis tool, at least for a short while. Perhaps the
most important use of these automated calculators is to make sure you get  enough calories for your size and activity level. This is of
critical importance, as undereating in terms of calories is one of the  main reasons that people fail to thrive on a high-produce diet.
To keep it simple, a week or so of tracking your meals online can give you suffi cient information to begin seeing the true
composition of your diet. From there, you will be able to recognize pitfalls and s tart adjusting your caloronutrient ratio. After that,
you may want to log on and catalog a day’s consumption here and there, or as ne w foods come into season, just to make sure you
are still on track … but soon 80/10/10  will become second nature, and no such effort will be necessary.
 Relax … We’ll Get There Together
Most folks find dietary changes more challenging than almost anythi ng else in life. Many patients have come to me desperate
to solve some serious health issue, saying “Doc, I will do anything you sa y, follow any program you suggest. Just don’t mess with my
diet.”
Rare indeed (and gratifying) are the few who are so motivated to feel bet ter that they change directions on a dime. But I
acknowledge that dietary shifts are daunting for nearly everybody. Wit h this in mind, I created the 80/10/10  diet to allow everyone
to transition at a comfortable speed.
By focusing on the caloronutrient ratio (the percentage of carbohydrat es, proteins and fats), rather than on the specific foods,
this plan allows you to set your own pace. Succeeding on 80/10/10  is simply a matter of adjusting the volume of the foods you eat,
in relation to each other, to move yourself in the direction of your target. Gradually increasing healthful carbs from whole fruit and
decreasing fat will work just fine and is far better than making no cha nge at all. The results, especially when tracked with colorful
graphs on Nutridiary.com (See Appendix D. Resources for Diet Analysis  on page 332), will provide you with motivation to continue
making improvements.
Though food diaries and numerical analyses can be helpful, you do not need to buy  a food scale or log meals each day to
receive value from this book. On the pages that follow, I provide the informat ion, meal plans, and sample calculations to give you a
clear idea of how to incorporate the 80/10/10  formula into your life, with or without the high-tech tools.
Just giving conscious thought to what you eat with the caloronutrien t ratio in mind is a first step in the right direction. You can
spend as much or as little effort as you want becoming familiar with you r current diet and how it compares with the 80/10/10  plan.
Please, look to this book for inspiration and guidance toward the body and the health  you desire, but do not be discouraged.
Some people tell me that they feel overwhelmed as they become painfully  aware of how much fat they have been eating and how far
they have strayed from their goals. To those I say take heart … and relax. T he confusion will clear as we step through these pages
together.
By the time you finish reading this book, I venture to say that the road to su ccess will seem nearer and easier for you to follow.
If what you read makes sense and you are ready to take your health and your body t o new levels, simply start steering toward
80/10/10  … the results will come quickly. If you need support and more information, vis it my online discussion group, at
www.VegSource.com  (click on Raw & Sports/Graham).
Even when you have the 80/10/10  concept down to a science, you will never eat in that ratio at every meal, nor even every
day (nor should you). In reality, you will you eat more fat on some days and less  on others. The goal is to eat 80/10/10  as an
average, for an entire year or more. Once you have done that, I’d wager you w ill never look back.

Chapter 5. Carbohydrate: 80% Minimum

Nutritionists and health-minded diet professionals generally agre e that 60 to 80% of our calories need to come from carbohydrates.
Having established so far in this book that the percentage of total calori es in our diet to be provided by both fat and protein should
run in the single digits (not more than 10% each), we can


 perfection, the body chemistry could support healthy teeth andgums until death. By healthy here Page means free of cavities, no bone lossaround the teeth (no wobblers), no long-in-the-teeth mouths from receedinggums, no gum diseases at all. But when empty calories or devitalized foods ormisdigestion cuts our nutrient intake we begin experiencing tooth decay, gumdisease and bone loss in the jaw. How are your teeth?
I suppose you could say that I have a food religion, but mine is to eat so that
the equation Nutrition = Health / Calories is strongly in my favor.
Back to my daughter’s teeth. Yes, I innocently fed her less than ideally
nutritious food, but at that time I couldn’t buy ideal food even had I known what I
wanted, nor did I have any scientific idea of how to produce ideal food, noractually, could I have done so on the impoverished, leached-out clay soil at GreatOaks School even had I known how. The Organic doctrine says that you canbuild a Garden of ‘Eatin with large quantities of compost until any old clay pit orgravel heap produces highly nutritious food. This idea is not really true. Sadly,what is true about organic matter in soil is that when it is increased very muchabove the natural level one finds in untilled soil in the climate you’re working with,the nutritional content of the food begins to drop markedly. I know this assertionis shocking and perhaps threatening to those who believe in the Organic system; Iam sorry.
But there is another reason my daughter’s teeth were not perfect, probably
could not have been perfect no matter what we fed her, and why she willprobably have at least some health problems as she ages no matter how perfectlyshe may choose to eat from here on. My daughters had what Dr. G.T. Wrenchcalled “a poor start.” Not as poor as it could have been by any means, butcertainly less than ideal.
You see, the father has very little to do with the health of the child, unless he
happens to carry some particularly undesirable gene. It is the mother who has thejob of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body’snutritional reserves. The female body knows from trillenia of instinctual experiencethat adequate nutrition from the current food supply during pregnancy can notalways be assured, so the female body stores up very large quantities of mineralsand vitamins and enzymes against that very possibility. When forming a fetus thesereserves are drawn down and depleted. It is virtually impossible during thepregnancy itself for a mother to extract sufficient nutrition from current food tobuild a totally healthy fetus, no matter how nourishing the food she is eating maybe. Thus a mother-to-be needs to be spending her entire childhood and heradolescence (and have adequate time between babies), building and rebuilding
her reserves.
A mother-to-be also started out at her own birth with a vitally important stock
of nutritional reserves, reserves put there during her own fetal development. If that“start” was less than ideal, the mother-to-be (as fetus) got “pinched” andnutritionally shortchanged in certain, predictable ways. Even minor mineral fetaldeficiencies degrade the bone structure: the fetus knows it needs nutritionalreserves more than it needs to have a full-sized jaw bone or a wide pelvic girdle,and when deprived of maximum fetal nourishment, these non-vital bones becomesomewhat smaller. Permanently. If mineral deficiencies continue into infancy andchildhood, these same bones continue to be shortchanged, and the child ends upwith a very narrow face, a jaw bone far too small to hold all the teeth, and inwomen, a small oven that may have trouble baking babies. More importantly,those nutrient reserves earmarked especially for making babies are also deficient.So a deficient mother not only shows certain structural evidence of physiologicaldegeneration, but she makes deficient babies. A deficient female baby at birth isunlikely to completely overcome her bad start before she herself has children.
So with females, the quality of a whole lifetime’s nutrition, and the life-nutrition
of her mother (and of her mother’s mother as well) has a great deal to do with theoutcome of a pregnancy. The sins of the mother can really be visited unto the thirdand fourth generation.
This reality was powerfully demonstrated in the 1920s by a medical doctor,
Francis Pottenger. He was not gifted with a good bedside manner. Rather thanstruggling with an unsuccessful clinical practice, Dr. Pottenger decided to make hisliving running a medical testing laboratory. He earned his daily bread performing arather simple task, assaying the potency of adrenal hormone extracts. At thattime, adrenaline, a useful drug to temporarily rescue people close to death, wasextracted from the adrenal glands of animals. However, the potency of thesecrude extracts varied greatly. Being a very powerful drug, it was essential tomeasure exactly how strong your extract was so its dosage could be controlled.
Quantitative organic chemistry was rather crude in those days. Instead of
assaying in a test tube, Dr. Pottenger kept several big cages full of cats that he hadadrenalectomized. Without their own adrenals, the cats could not live more than ashort time By finding out how much extract was required to keep the cats fromfailing, he could measure the strength of the particular batch.
Dr. Pottenger’s cats were economically valuable so he made every effort to
keep them healthy, something that proved to be disappointingly difficult. He kepthis cats clean, in airy, bright quarters, fed them to the very best of his ability onpasteurized whole milk, slaughterhouse meat and organs (cats in the wild eatorgan meats first and there are valuable vitamins and other substances in organmeats that don’t exist in muscle tissue). The meat was carefully cooked toeliminate any parasites, and the diet was supplemented with cod liver oil.However, try as he might, Pottenger’s cats were sickly, lived short and had to befrequently replaced. Usually they bred poorly and died young of bacterialinfections, there being no antibiotics in the 1920s. I imagine Dr. Pottenger wasconstantly visiting the animal shelter and perhaps even paid quarters out the backdoor to a steady stream of young boys who brought him cats in burlap sacks fromwho knows where, no questions asked.
Dr. Pottenger’s assays must have been accurate, for his business grew and
grew. Eventually he needed more cats than he had cages to house, so he built abig, roofed, on-the-ground pen outdoors. Because he was overworked, he wasless careful about the feeding of these extra animals. They got the samepasteurized milk and cod-liver oil, but he did not bother to cook theirslaughterhouse meat. Then, a small miracle happened. This poorly cared for cageof cats fed on uncooked meat became much healthier than the others, suffering farfewer bacterial infections or other health problems. Then another miraclehappened. Dr. Pottenger began to meditate on the first miracle.
It occurred to him that cats in the wild did not cook their food; perhaps cats
had a digestive system that couldn’t process or assimilate much out of cooked
food. Perhaps the problem he had been having was not because the cats were
without adrenal glands but because they were without sustenance, suffering a sortof slow starvation in the midst of plenty. So Dr. Pottenger set up some cat feedingexperiments.
There were four possible combinations of his regimen: raw meat and
unpasteurized milk; raw meat and pasteurized milk; cooked meat and raw milk;cooked meat and pasteurized milk, this last one being what he had been feedingall along. So he divided his cats into four groups and fed each group differently.The first results of Pottenger’s experiments were revealed quickly though the mostvaluable results took longer to see. The cats on raw meat and raw milk did best.The ones on raw meat and pasteurized milk did okay but not as well. The ones oncooked meat and raw milk did even less well and those on all cooked foodcontinued to do as poorly as ever.
Clearly, cats can’t digest cooked food; all animals do better fed on what they
can digest. A lot of people have taken Pottenger’s data and mistakenly concludedthat humans also should eat only raw food. This idea is debatable. However, themost important result of the cat experiments took years to reveal itself and is notpaid much attention to, probably because its implications are very depressing. Dr.Pottenger continued his experiments for several generations. It was thetransgenerational changes that showed the most valuable lesson. Over severalgenerations, the cats on all raw foods began to alter their appearance. Their facesgot wider, their pelvic girdles broader, bones solider, teeth better. They began tobreed very successfully.
After quite a few generations, the healthiest group, the one on all raw foods,
seemed to have improved as much as it could. So Dr. Pottenger took some ofthese cats and began feeding them only cooked food to study the process ofnutritional degeneration. After three “de”generations on cooked fodder the grouphad deteriorated so much that the animals could barely breed. Their faces hadbecome narrow, their teeth crooked, their pelvic girdles narrow, their bones and
body structure very small, and their dispositions poor. Mothers wouldn’t nurse
their young and sometimes became cannibalistic. They no longer lived very long.
Before the degenerating group completely lost the ability to breed, Pottenger
began to again feed them all raw food. It took four generations on a perfect, rawfood diet before some perfect appearing individuals


 a boy comes into
young manhood, or a girl young womanhood, because of the different ratio of the calciums used by the female. Also, it's important to know if this is a Caucasian, because the darker the color the more vitamin D the skin picks up from the sunlight and rays. The lighter the skin the less vitamin D the body picks up from the sun's rays.
The numbers indicate this male is a borderline diabetic. A man at
25 being a borderline diabetic means that the energy rating is going to drop down because if his pancreas ma nufactured too much insulin, or
not enough insulin, then the body will  not assimilate vitamin C. In tak-
ing insulin, the artificial insulin taken by tablets, or shots, will not make vitamin C available to the body, but the insulin that's manufac-tured by the pancreas will make vitamin C available. This condition might have just started a month or two before, or it might have started
a few years before, but we have reason to believe by the process of deduction, that because of this carbohydrate condition the pancreas is not manufacturing enough insulin, and is of a rather short duration. The reason we know that is his weight is still 180 pounds. If he stays in this low insulin condition very long his weight will begin to de-crease. Why would it decrease? The more sugar you have in the blood and in the system, the more nature will demand it and will begin to draw sugar from the body fats and carbohydrates from the muscles. It will leave a person hungry all the time. Their food is not satisfying them.
The second number 7.7 / 7.8 (the urine reading is at the top, the
saliva reading at the bottom) is the pH reading, which is a measure of
resistance indicating that the food is digesting too slowly and that it lies in the stomach. Since the food digests too slowly, it is gradually creating pockets in the colon because the elimination is too slow. This 16 number also indicates that the body contains too much calcium oxide
and not enough calcium lactate and phosphated calcium, and also do-
lomite calcium, calcium carbonate or tri-calcium phosphate. There is too much of one kind of calcium and not enough of five other kinds of calciums, which is creating a digestion problem because the liver has to have some of all six of the calciums every day in order to manufac-ture 5 to 6 billion enzymes necessary to keep the body in perfect health.
7.7 / 7.8 indicates that the liver is not manufacturing enough bile
to properly digest the food, and practically no gelatin at all, which could prevent an easy elimination.
The pH reading is not a measure of the amount of acids or alka-
lines it's a measure of resistance between acids and alkalines. By the resistance we can tell whether we ha ve too much or too little calciums,
or which calciums are enough and of which ones the man has too much. It is not a quantitative measure, it’s a measure of resistance. By a differential calculus by deduction we can tell what is happening in the man's system.
The next number 45C shows the body is retaining too much salt
and that the person is in the zone for a major angina heart attack, how-
ever, with his age it is probably 10 years away If this pattern contin-ues.
Since the body is retaining too much salt It shows us how this
reading is helping to exaggerate the conditions that we found in the pH 7.7 / 7.8 reading because the food is too long in the colon, and now the salt is very high and is causing th e intestines to lose their elasticity
and stretch bigger and bigger, and as they do this forms pockets. If the ability to expand and contract continues in the colon it will get very much out of shape. The transverse colon will begin to sag, giving the man a "beer-bottle stomach" appearance, whether he drinks beer or not. (Drinking beer will only aggravate the condition.)
This high salt content indicates that cholesterols beginning to form
in the veins and arteries. If this person were to go to a doctor and have a blood test it may show that his cholesterol is normal because the blood changes every few minutes, and at the particular time that he 17 was tested the cholesterol could have been low or it could have been
medium or high. The RBTI test give s an overall picture of what is
happening in the walls of the blood vessels, and in this person's case they are losing their ability to expand and contract.
The veins work differently from the arteries (I’ll not go into that
because it is rather technical), and unless nature puts oil in the veins and arteries to take the blood from the veins, from the capillaries back to the heart, the person will die much quicker because the vein would be so dilated until the blood cannot be pushed back to the heart. It is perfectly possible that his cholesterol, within a ten-year-period, would accumulate in such an amount that a piece of it could turn loose in the veins, go to the heart and block the heart and cause a very serious heart attack, or even death. However, this cholesterol would have to get above a saline reading of 47 total before it would be a fatal heart attack. Below 47 it would not be a fatal cholesterol heart attack. (i.e. there is no such thing as a minor angina heart attack. It is either Wham! you are dead, or you got lucky and lived.)
Now let's consider the last two numbers: 14 / 15. Add these two
numbers and you have the total amount of undigested proteins, which we call urea.
With the high urinary sugar, a high pH, and high salt, it indicates
that this man is in a fatal heart att ack zone and could have a fatal heart
attack at any time. Anyone with this set of numbers should be very careful not to over exercise, to get too tired, too excited, lose his/her temper and "blow his/her top," or even get in a hurry because any of these things could bring about instant death.
Now let's look at the overall picture. The numbers indicate that nature is trying to throw out the delta
cells, but the man's diet is so narrow he is not getting the mineral con-tent to maintain good health. He is not drinking enough distilled wa-
ter. (He should divide his weight by two, which would be 90, and call it ounces-drink 84-90 ounces of water a day.) He should drink 4 ounc-es of distilled water every half hour for approximately 10½ or 11 hours a day, and then this will be the first step in bringing his numbers
back to perfect. However, he could become discouraged. Anyone with 18 this set of numbers trying to do this at home could cause the body to
go into a withdrawal and cause a h eart attack. Bringing these numbers
from range C to range A in the RBTI test should be done under super-vision where every number could be watched very closely. If the uri-nary sugar, the first number, drops below 5.5 the first day or the first hour, then the man could go into a violent withdrawal and go into a heart attack.
In the retreat we do not put the person on lemon juice and water
immediately, but on water alone. until the urea (that's the last num-bers) is within a safe zone. After those numbers come down to a safe
zone, and probably the urea down below 20 total, and the salt below 35, then it would be safe to put the man on lemonade (lemon with sweetener) and water to bring him quickly to between 2 and 5.5 on the urinary sugar.
In the meantime the salt would continue to drop and many times
when the body chemistry starts to react it over-reacts and the sugar level would have dropped too low, too quickly and cause a seizure, or it could cause the person to go into a temporary coma, which is very easy to correct. The sugar level has dropped too low and there is not enough oxygen going to the brain. By pu tting a little sugar, or a little
honey, on the tongue, in one minute he would come back to reality again, with no serious damage done. This is an ordinary occurrence in every retreat.
This man would only need to be in the retreat two weeks, but he
still has serious problems. Whenever there's not enough insulin being manufactured to control the carbohydrates, there's not enough vitamin C for cuts, bruises or bums to heal. It's the beginning of serious prob-lems ahead. Yet, if the average medical doctor examined this man with all the modem tests we have today, he would probably not find a thing in the world wrong with him, simply because the medical pro-fession do not have tests that would indicate this problem. I'm not casting reflection upon anyone, I'm only stating a fact.
For example: Diabetes by the medical profession is determined
strictly by the glucose in the blood. If there is more than 120 milli-grams of glucose per gram of blood, the person is said to be a diabetic, 19 and is generally put on orinase or  diabinese until these numbers reach
145. After there is 145 milligrams of glucose per gram in the blood the
person is generally put on insulin.
The medical colleges do not teach to compare a ratio between the
glucose and the total carbohydrates, which is very, very important. It is the missing link in the treatme nt ·of the malfunctioning pancreas


.  And
even as you so honor the Mother/Father
God, and your father and mother on  Earth
(for they have giv en you life), so, too, will
you honor everyone.
5. You know you have found God when you
observe that you will not murder (that is,  willfully kill, without cause). For while you
will understand that you cannot end
another’s life in any event (all life is
eternal), you will not choose to terminate
any particular incarnation, nor change any
life energy from one form to another,
without  the most sacred justification. Your
new reverence for life will cause you to
honor all  life forms —including plants, trees
and animals —and to impact them only
when it is  for the highest good.
And these other signs will I send you also,
that you may know you are on the path:
6. You will not defile the purity of love with
dishonesty or deceit, for this is
adulterous. I promise you, when you have
found God, you shall not commit this
adultery.  7. You will not take a thing that is not your
own, nor cheat, nor connive, nor harm
another to have any thing, for this would be
to steal. I promise you, when you have
found God, you shall not st eal.
Nor shall you...
8. Say a thing that is not true, and thus bear
false witness. Nor shall you...
9. Covet your neighbor’s spouse, for why
would you want your neighbor’s spouse
when you know all others are your spouse?
10. Covet your neighbor’s goods, f or why
would you want your neighbor’s goods
when you know that all goods can be yours,
and all your goods belong to the world?  You will know that you have found the path
to God when you see these signs. For I
promise that no one who truly seeks God
shall any longer do these things. It would
be impossible to continue such behaviors.
These are your freedoms, not your
restrictions. These are my commitments,
not my
commandments. For God does not order
about what God has created —God merely
tells God’s chi ldren: this is how you will
know that you are coming home.
Moses asked in earnest —“How may I
know? Give me a sign.” Moses asked the
same question that you ask now. The same
question all people everywhere have  asked since time began. My answer is
likewise e ternal. But it has never been, and
never will be, a commandment. For who
shall I command? And who shall I punish
should My commandments not be kept?
There is only Me.
So I don’t have to keep the Ten
Commandments in order to get to heaven.
There is no such thing as “getting to
heaven.” There is only a knowing that you
are already there. There is an accepting, an
understanding, not a working for or a
striving.
You cannot go to where you already are. To
do that, you would have to leave where  you
are, and that would defeat the whole
purpose of the journey. The irony is that  most people think they have to leave where
they are to get to where they want to be.
And so they leave heaven in order to get to
heaven —and go through hell.
Enlightenment is understandin g that there
is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and
nobody you have to be except exactly who
you’re being right now. You are on a
journey to nowhere.
Heaven —as you call it —is nowhere. Let’s
just put some space between the w and  the
h in that word and you’ll see that heaven is
now...here.
Everyone says that! Everyone says that!
It’s driving me crazy!
If “heaven is now here,” how come I don’t
see that? Why don’t I feel that? And why is
the world such a mess?  I understand your frustration. It’s almost as
frustra ting trying to understand all this as  it
is trying to get someone to understand it.
Whoa! Wait a minute! Are you trying to say
that God gets frustrated?
Who do you suppose invented frustration?
And do you imagine that you can
experience something I cannot?
I tell you this: every experience you have, I
have. Do you not see I am experiencing  my
Self through you? What else do you
suppose all this is for? I could not know
Myself were it not for You. I created you that
I might know Who I Am.
Now I would not shat ter all of your illusions
about Me in one chapter —so I will tell  you
that in My most sublime form, which you
call God, I do not experience  frustration.  Whew! That’s better. You scared me there
for a minute.
But that’s not because I can’t. It’s simply
because I don’t choose to. You can make
the same choice, by the way.
Well, frustrated or not, I still wonder how it
can be that heaven is right here, and I don’t
experience it.
You cannot experience what you don’t
know. And you don’t know you are in
“heave n” right now because you have not
experienced it. You see, for you it is a
vicious circle. You cannot —have not found
a way yet to —experience what you do  not
know, and you do not know what you have
not experienced.
What Enlightenment asks you to do is to
know something you have not experienced  and thus experience it. Knowing opens the
door to experience —and you imagine it  is
the other way around.
Actually, you know a great deal more than
you have experienced. You simply don’t
know that you know.
You know tha t there is a God, for instance.
But you may not know that you know  that.
So you keep waiting around for the
experience. And all the while you keep
having it. Yet you are having it without
knowing —which is like not having it at all.
Boy, we’re going around in circles here.
Yes, we are. And instead of going around in
circles, perhaps we should be the circle
itself. This doesn’t have to be a vicious
circle. It can be a sublime one.  Is renunciation a part of the truly spiritual
life?
Yes, because ultimat ely all Spirit
renounces what is not real, and nothing in
the life  you lead is real, save your
relationship with Me. Yet renunciation in the
classic sense  of self -denial is not required.
A true Master does not “give up”
something. A true Master simply sets  it
aside, as he  would do with anything for
which he no longer has any use. There are
those who  say you must overcome your
desires. I say you must simply change
them. The first  practice feels like a rigorous
discipline, the second, a joyful exercise.
There  are those who say that to know God
you must overcome all earthly passions.
Yet to understand and accept them is enough. What you resist persists. What you
look at disappears.
Those who seek so earnestly to overcome
all earthly passions often work at it so  hard
that it might be said, this has become their
passion. They have a “passion for  God”; a
passion to know Him. But passion is
passion, and to trade one for the other  does
not eliminate it.
Therefore, judge not that about which you
feel passionate. Simpl y notice it, then see
if it serves you, given who and what you
wish to be. Remember, you are constantly
in the act of creating yourself. You are in
every moment deciding who and what you
are. You decide this largely through the
choices you make regarding w ho and what
you feel passionate about.  Often a person on what you call a spiritual
path looks like he has renounced all  earthly
passion, all human desire. What he has
done is understand it, see the  illusion, and
step aside from the passions that do not
serve him —all the while loving  the illusion
for what it has brought to him: the chance
to be wholly free.
Passion is the love of turning being into
action. It fuels the engine of creation. It
changes concepts to experience.
Passion is the fire that drives us to express
who we really are. Never deny passion,  for
that is to deny Who You Are and Who You
Truly Want to Be.
The renunciate never denies passion —the
renunciate simply denies attachment to
results. Passion is a love of doing. Doing is being, experienced.  Yet what is often
created as part of doing? Expectation.
To live your life without expectation —
without the need for specific results —that
is freedom. That is Godliness. That is how
I live.
You are not attached to results?
Absolutely not. My joy is in the creating, not
in the aftermath. Renunciation is not a
decision to deny action. Renunciation is


 as a solubilizing  e xcipient.
The  device was approved by the FDA in 2000. The implanted device contains a solution of 104 mg of DMSO and 72 mg of leuprolide acetate
66 (Viadur), a synthetic
form gonadotropin-releasing hormone that can decrease blood levels of the male hormone testosterone. Androgen deprivation using leuprolide acetate and DMSO as an excipient has been shown to have a salutary effect in men with advanced prostate cancer.
67 In two open-label multicenter studies, long-term efficacy and safety using
Viadur implanted device for 1 year was reported in a total of 122 patients.68
Among the many antiviral agents used against herpes simplex virus (HSV), idox -
uridine and adenine arabinoside have shown minimal therapeutic benefit. However,
when combined with DMSO, this treatment has been successful in acyclovir-  r esistant
strains of HSV. In a double-blind, randomized, patient-initiated treatment study at five medical centers, 301 immunocompetent patients experiencing a recurrence of herpes labialis were treated with topical 15% idoxuridine (IDU) in 80% DMSO.
69
Using this drug combination, the mean duration of pain was significantly reduced by 1.3 days and the mean healing time to loss of crust by 1.7 days.
69 When only patients
with classic herpes lesions (vesicle, ulcer, or crust formation) were considered, a greater drug effect using the idoxuridine–DMSO combination was seen for lowering the duration of pain by 2.6 days and increasing the mean healing time to normal skin by 2.3 days, a significant difference when compared to controls.
69
Idoxuridine–DMSO (IDU) has also been used for herpes zoster and for the pre -
vention of post herpetic neuralgia and compared to the antiviral agent acyclovir. After 4 days of topical treatment, IDU showed better control of vesicle formation, itching, and pain than oral acyclovir or placebo.
70
These studies support the concept of DMSO as a penetrant and enhancer of other
pharmaceuticals and suggest that additional combinations of DMSO and proven active medications for many illnesses should be further studied with the goal of lowering the dose of the active agent and consequently their systemic toxicity by localizing the treatment to a body part. This pharmacotherapeutic approach has not 59 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
been exploited to a greater potential, especially with newer active agents for disease
control that are replacing older, less efficacious, and more toxic medications. The effects of DMSO as a neuroprotective agent in the brain and spinal cord are dis -
cussed in more detail in Chapters 8 and 9.
INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a painful chronic bladder condition that causes debilitating bladder pain that can be associated with urinary urgency, frequency, and nocturia. It is characterized by inflammation, erosion, and thinning of the bladder epithelial cells, and its hallmark symptom is pelvic and perineal pain. IC affects about three to eight million women and one to four million men in the United States, reducing the quality of life and social function of those affected. IC often overlaps overactive bladder (OAB), which can make diagnosis of either one or both difficult.
71 It is gen -
erally accepted that the hallmark for IC is pain and abdominal tenderness, whereas for OAB, it is urgency, frequency, and nocturia. However, both conditions can share these complaints.
The cause of IC is not clear, and it is still a disease diagnosed by exclusion since
many other conditions resemble the symptoms of IC. There is no definitive test to identify IC, but other conditions mimicking IC can be ruled out by urinalysis, urine culture, cystoscopy, biopsy of the bladder wall, and, in men, laboratory examination of prostatic secretions.
IC is an understudied disorder lacking diagnostic and strategic treatment modali -
ties, most likely from the limited research funding available to investigators.
72 Oral
or intravesical therapies are the mainstay of treatment, while surgical procedures are reserved for refractory cases. This condition usually warrants a multidisciplinary approach for optimum outcome.
73
In 1978, Shirley and his colleagues74 introduced DMSO as a treatment for IC and
reported dramatic results. They treated 213 patients with a variety of inflammatory conditions involving the lower genitourinary tract. These conditions included intrac -
table IC, radiation cystitis, chronic prostatitis, and chronic female trigonitis.
74
In this series by Shirley and his colleagues, the use of intravesical instillation of
DMSO resulted in an excellent or good response in 54% of the female patients with no serious side effects noted. The treatments, however, are not curative and fre -
quently require long-term maintenance with periodic installation of DMSO.
This initial report was followed by more studies from the same group and by
others,
75,76 confirming the effectiveness of intravesical DMSO in controlling the
symptoms of IC. Some reports showed 93% improvement in IC symptoms compared to 35% in the placebo group.
76 These early reports were followed by independent
research studies from many countries, and by the end of 1978, DMSO was the first drug treatment approved by the FDA for the symptomatic relief of IC. Presently, DMSO remains the sole intravesical instillation agent for IC. The brand name for
DMSO use in IC is RIMSO-50.
In clinical practice, the urinary bladder is filled with 50% DMSO for 15  min
as a treatment for IC (Figure 3.2). This approach has the advantage that it reduces
side effects from systemic application by achieving a high concentration of the drug 60 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
locally in the bladder. The initial disadvantage of bladder instillation was that it
required a health-care provider to perform the procedure on patients during a clinic visit.
By 1987, patients did not need to go to a clinic to have DMSO instilled in their
bladders, but they could be taught to self-administer DMSO at home using special kits.
77 No complications have been noted when the patient is taught how to self-
administer DMSO.
The effectiveness of intravesical instillation of DMSO can be summarized as
follows:
 1.  I t reduces bladder inflammation and pain.78,79
 2.  I t helps relax the bladder and pelvic detrusor muscles, thus reducing muscle
spasm80; detrusor fibrosis is found in approximately 53% of IC patients and
may be a major factor in treatment failure.81
 3.  I t relieves pain by reducing small nerve fiber conduction of pain fibers, by
diminishing inflammation, and by lowering substance P (a neuropeptide associated with pain) from bladder nerves.
23,82,83
 4.  I t helps reduce scar tissue by preventing collagen formation that promotes
scarring.84
 5.  I t reduces erosion and thinning of the bladder wall by limiting inflamma -
tion78,79 (Figure 3.2).
The contractility of the bladder is attenuated after the intravesical treatment with DMSO, and it is reasonable to assume that the relaxant effect of DMSO is related to its therapeu -
tic effect in relieving the inflammatory-related symptoms associated with IC.
85,86
Erosion and thinning of
bladder epithelial cells
improve d with 50% DMSO
instillation
IC reduction of inflammation
with DM SO instilla tionNormal bladderKidne ys
Ureters
Bladder
Urethra
FIGURE 3.2  (See color insert.) DMSO instillation for interstitial cystitis.61 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
When IC is refractory to DMSO instillation, DMSO bladder cocktails  have been
tried with some success. These cocktails entail mixing DMSO with heparin, ste -
roids, hyaluronic acid, analgesics, and other substances.87,88
GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
Despite the presence of inflammatory changes in many gastrointestinal disorders,
not much research has been reported using DMSO as an anti-inflammatory agent in these conditions. Most of the studies using DMSO in inflammatory bowel disease have been done outside the United States.
One use of DMSO in gastrointestinal disorders has aimed at Crohn’s disease with
secondary amyloidosis (AL), which develops in approximately 1% of patients with Crohn’s disease. Oral administration of DMSO in 15 patients was found to be an effective treatment for amyloid A AL complicating gastrointestinal involvement and the early stage of renal dysfunction.
89 DMSO was given in three equal doses after
meals at a dose of 3–20 g/day in a 33% solution with water or juice for 8 weeks. This treatment was observed to improve the renal function in 5 out of 10 renal AL patients when DMSO was initiated early in the disease process but had no effect on those patients with severe and/or advanced renal dysfunction.
89 In six patients, specific
improvements were seen in gastrointestinal AL, gastrointestinal symptoms, includ -
ing diarrhea, and protein-losing gastroenteropathy.89
Salim90 used DMSO as a free radical scavenger


. Patients who had complained of nausea
and positional dizziness from the condition before treatment didn’t have these
sensations after it. They also lost their persistent insomnia, as well as headache,
neurotic anguish, and ear pain.
Dr. Zuniga said, “The disappearance of the tinnitus was permanent and no
recurrence of the symptoms was noted on the occasion of the periodic checkups
made during the course of one year. The tolerance of the Ipran injections and
external Plus-Par applications was satisfactory in all cases. The only undesirable
side effects were the garlic odor emanating from the patients undergoing DMSO
treatment and on rare occasions a slight tachycardia (rapid heartbeat) and/or
feeling of nausea shortly after the intramuscular injection. These temporary side
effects can be avoided if the patient remains seated and rests for a short while
after each injection.”
3
Since the early use of dimethyl sulfoxide for the protection of biological
specimens against freezing damage, this chemical has been put to use inmicrobiology.
4
 A bacteriostatic agent, DMSO retards the growth of bacteria. It is
also suspected of being quite a good bactericidal agent, an antiseptic that kills
bacteria. It definitely controls fungi, as was shown by its beneficial effect in
eliminating athlete’s foot, as described in
Chapter 8
.
One of DMSO’s most encouraging characteristics is its ability as an antiviral
agent and a transporter of certain antiviral drugs. It carries antiviral compounds
directly into the cell where they are most effective against intracellular parasites.
This is illustrated by its action against the herpes organisms, described earlier.
The more recently discovered and unexpected DMSO results against animal
parasites are really exciting to many clinicians. The drug can be administered for
various encysted helminthes (worms). Such hard-to-reach conditions as amebic
abscess of the liver, trichinosis of the striated muscles, schistosomiasis, and other
problems from animal parasites are now treatable by combining DMSO with
antihelmintic compounds. For instance, creeping eruption (cutaneous larva
migrans) has lent itself to experimental therapy with DMSO.
5
,
6
ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS INFECTIONS BENEFITTED
BY DMSO
In 1984, three Russian physicians reported that dimethyl sulfoxide was
incorporated into the program of critical care given to patients suffering from many
different types of infections. As an illustration, they utilized the case history of an
adolescent adult who overcame his infectious process more swiftly by the addition
of DMSO to their medical armamentarium.
7
Reporting in the June 1984 issue of the
Annals of Rheumatic Diseases
, three
American physicians described their use of DMSO in cases of leprosy resulting in
complications for the patients’ kidneys. Explaining that generalized amyloidosis of
the kidneys can be treated only if the underlying disease is eliminated, they
investigated the role of dimethyl sulfoxide in leprosy associated with secondary
amyloidosis. At first the physicians found that there was no effect on the patients’
creatinine clearance or twenty-four-hour proteinuria of the kidneys when a placebo
using colchicine was employed. However, when DMSO was added to the therapy,
renal function was considerably improved in three patients with moderate kidney
failure. But in those with severe renal impairment (a creatinine clearance of less
than 10 ml per minute), no particular improvement was observed. The
investigators wrote: “These findings point to a beneficial effect of DMSO inhuman secondary amyloidosis when given at an early stage of renal involvement.”
8
DMSO found use for venereal disease complications in 1989. An unusual
localization of lichen amyloidosus (a skin disease) in a patient with lgG k benign
monoclonal gammopathy (a non-malignant immune disease) was reported. After
topical treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide the skin lesions improved, but
histological examination still showed amyloid deposits.
9
The Russians stated in a 1988 published paper that they are routinely instilling
DMSO into surgical wounds to speed their healing and to provide general infection
control. As a result, their surgical patients are finding great advantages from faster
postoperative wound closure.
10
Boosting of the immunity among patients suffering from osteomyelitis (a bone
disease resulting from infection) occurred from the adjunctive use of DMSO, as
indicated in another 1986 Russian study. Their bone infections improved markedly
from a boosting of lymphocytes to fight off the chronic disease process. The
investigators stated in their clinical journal article, “The application of Dimexid
and Dekaris [their
two brands of DMSO] is shown to give better results in the
treatment of patients with chronic osteomyelitis.”
11
Orchitis, an inflammation of the testis that causes pain, redness, and swelling
of the scrotum, and may be associated with inflammation of the epididymis (part
of the spermatic duct system), usually is caused by infection. It is a condition that
affects one or both testes as the infection spreads down the vas deferens. The
orchitis may develop in mumps, and mumps orchitis affecting both testes may
result in sterility. Treatment of epididymo-orchitis often is by local support and
administration of analgesics for pain and antibiotics for infection. However, a
Russian urologist, Dr. V.N. Glozman, reported in a November/December 1986
Russian journal of urology that his patients suffering with orchitis and epididymitis
benefitted when he added dimethyl sulfoxide to the treatment regimen.
12
As recently as September 1992, biological physicians reported to the
Pharmacological and Biological Therapies panel of the newly created Office for
the Study of Unconventional Medical Practices that DMSO has found use for
infection with HIV, the virus suspected of causing AIDS (acquired immune
deficiency syndrome). This new office of the National Institutes of Health is
looking at DMSO and other unconventional medical practices as a means of
expanding health care in the United States.
DMSO has opened up a way to control practically all infections. Medical
scientists must now experiment with the substance in laboratories and clinics todiscover and label its vast storehouse of applications. For this purpose alone,
DMSO should be legalized for use nationally.CHAPTER 13
Misreporting of DMSO for
Scleroderma and Interstitial Cystitis
It was nine years before that Jean Puccio of Washington, D.C., had had a diagnosis
of scleroderma leveled at her. Supposedly this was a death sentence. But on July
31, 1980, Mrs. Puccio sat smiling at the United States Senate Subcommittee on
Health and Scientific Research and told the four presiding senators her story.
DMSO was responsible for the woman’s being free of pain at last and able to work
twelve- or thirteen-hour days as a hair stylist.
“I had been going for about a year and a half to the military doctors, and they
did not know what my problem was,” explained Mrs. Puccio. “When I finally got
to Walter Reed Hospital, I stayed a week and they did muscle biopsies and nerve
blocks. I was examined by thirty doctors and several civilian consultants. They
told me that I had scleroderma, which I had never heard of.”
Scleroderma, also known as progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), is a
potentially fatal disorder of the connective tissues, a chronic rheumatic disease of
unknown cause. It is characterized by fibrotic degeneration and blood vessel
abnormalities in the skin, joints, and internal organs (especially the esophagus,
intestinal tract, lung, heart, and kidney).
Advanced diffuse scleroderma is unmistakable, but the disease also exists in a
form in which there is only limited skin change, often confined to the fingers and
face. This variant is generally known as the CREST syndrome, which stands for
Calcinosis (lime salts deposited in body tissues, hardening them), Raynaud’s
phenomenon (spasms of tiny arteries), Esophageal dysfunction (blockage of the
food tube), Sclerodactyl (hardening of the skin on the fingers and toes), and
Telangiectasia (swelling of the small blood vessels). The CREST syndrome may
take many years to develop distinctive and fateful internal manifestations. Thus,
the disease may occur in a mild form compatible
with long life, or it may cause
early death due to heart failure, kidney disease, lung complications, or intestinal
malabsorption with extreme weight loss and weakness. PSS is more common in
women and comparatively rare in children.Learning that she had this serious form of collagen vascular disease, Mrs.
Puccio said to the doctors, “Okay; fine. What are we going to do about it?”
One of the physicians answered, “Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do
about it.”
She wondered, “No medication?”
He said, “No. The best you can hope for is a wheelchair, and within a short
time, you will probably die.”
“I went from doctor to doctor to doctor,” Mrs.


 blue
and extraordinary purity - water directly turquoise - my mother talked
I swim there - something she was bathing in all the lakes and rivers that we
come across, despite the envious looks hungry (remark:
dry starvation in its pure form - no contact with the water - even
can not wash their hands and brush their teeth, but since we have no problems with
health, we had a few indulgences such as brushing teeth
with water and permission to swim).
We spent 2 days - the second was particularly noteworthy,
because both were marked by the release of starvation. The technique
This doctor went compote of dried fruit - my God, in life
seen such a fuss over cooking compote! at the end
ends of all took into his hands the businessman from St. Petersburg. a result, instead of
6 am people crept up to compote at midnight. Then returned
to the base, and began a vegetarian gluttony - we have 7-day,
the people - 5. It was just an incredible amount eaten watermelons
and melons - especially watermelons. At the exit we were again taken to the trip,
for rafting - I really did not go, because well, I do not like the cold
in any form.
And then began the second stage. It the weather is slightly marred
- 3 days have been rainy and cold - mostly house stoked
stove and all the people going there - a small one and half
324
324sofa housed 5 people - 3 povdol and 2 feet. Sex
distinctions blurred - we held hands. So it was easier
to spend time - on hunger as it would slow down as well - so far
waiting for their turn to massage until it is done - that evening
pass, and in the morning somewhere drove... in reserve, for example, where
bred guinea fowl, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks - it's nice
was to feed livestock warm bread (from the smell of which
just giddy), and just chat with brazen goats
Lisa and Masha, but still there was a red deer - deer, quite simply, a
still a huge owl - an impressive birdie two feet in height,
girth with a decent wood yardstick claws and completely
zingy yellow-orange, his enormous eyes - feed the bird
live pigeons and rats. And there lives a wild goose, which
1964! Very family-style by the way - it there a separate
"Premises", where he lives only with his family.
When the weather is established, we were taken to the camp next to Teletsk
Lake: something about 80 km from thereof. The base was called "the devil
Lake and apparently was organized by former military - big
double-layer canvas tents with wooden beds,
wooden floor in a tent, wooden sidewalks - all very clearly
thought out down to the mat at the entrance and urns with trash bags.
Lake there is a small, pretty murky with silt bottoms (that
did not stop the mother from swimming). But there were pedal boats
and the people enjoyed this, even though very remote, contact
with water. We sunbathed, but since there was no sweat at all, I am personally
long lacked.
Stayed there for 2 nights, went to second on Teletskoe lake - it
very large, 80 km in length, in the form of a comma - the widest
position in width - 5 km, the deepest place - 365 meters Madly
beautiful water - is black, but transparent. it flows into rivers in 1975
and rivulets, and follows only one - Biya. We take a walk
katerke on the lake to the waterfall (carbonate, in my opinion) 2,5 hours the road
at one end - a waterfall is very beautiful and powerful energy there.
In the evening the same day my mother came out of dry fasting - we
given herbal tea with honey - it was a thrill (compote in the first
time for some reason has not made such an impression on me), mom
me a laugh, because after the first cup
I was kind of like an alcoholic - a red nose, face osolovevshee
and ears are almost on their shoulders.
Returned to base, where our people have suffered a further 2 days. at one
women in their second fasting resorbed tumor in his chest. someone
then bled from the nose at someone - from the gums, the heat was almost everyone,
but in general people are caught stable and almost no one is whining.
The main problem - the almost complete lack of sleep, 2 hours
a day, and some do not sleep. And then there was a second output,
and again vegetarian gluttony.
My personal feeling - a feeling of lightness, energy, purity,
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325force. All the troubles during the famine were as strong
heart rate during a sharp rise in the mountain, feeling weak and very
the slow passage of time. Did not want to drink, although water dreaming
severe dry mouth appeared only when I started
rinse your mouth with water. The dream was nice.
During the exit - the feeling of fullness in the stomach, a headache for 1-e
day - that's all trouble. Chair recovering from their own
and very fast, at the very first day out. Mama younger,
prettier, has blossomed. In general, the unpleasant memories of the famine,
how about something terrible there - apparently, after all, for an organism is
natural process of purification. More subjective impressions: not
was "a marble grid" after a bath, and the famine was breathing for some reason
breast, although usually breathe stomach.
Filonov Sergey - a doctor with a very rich clinical
experience, a true professional, I think some did not survive
to starvation, if not for him and his support.
For those who want to talk, my e-mail: mailto: mariam-g@list.ru
Mariya Zhukova
My dry starvation in the Altai.
Of course, I wanted to write a diary for myself, but when after two
month has passed inspection, I have not found a cyst and I am now
pregnant. I sent my diary Sergei Ivanovich - let
he publishes it online. in our town a lot of young, yes
and in general women with similar diagnoses, they have absolutely no
know what to do and so many are afraid of starvation, not to mention
of dry. I took it all herself, has achieved its goal. Yes were
moments when he wanted to quit, but I knew that no way back.
Operation, of course, is not so terrible they make thousands, but most
the main reason remains. Just change something in your life
and attaching the will and patience we can achieve success
in his recovery.
Here is my story.
From his childhood as I can remember, I was constantly treated. Colds,
colitis, stomach, liver, spine, etc. After another cold
and treatment with antibiotics, earned more, and chronic bronchitis
with asthmatic component. Autumn in cold weather
begin to worry asthma. A year ago, I began
pain in the right abdomen, irregular menstruation. Asked
in a local clinic, it became clear that I still have a cyst and the right
ovary. The doctor prescribed me medication. I'm pierced, but the pain
disappeared for a while and resumed again.
The doctor said that it makes no sense to treat further, you need to do
laparoscopy. I am 27 years old, married five years, no children, then
age remain without hope of becoming a mother.
Decided, all sufficient, it is necessary to do thorough with their health.
I read many books and articles. Talking with people who have achieved
improve their health without drugs. Went on different courses,
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326seminars. Accidentally found on the Internet site of Sergei Ivanovich
Intuition prompted - it's mine. Called Sergei Ivanovich
In April, he told me that you can help me and the chances I have,
but to go dry starvation and get good results
need to prepare well and come in June. He explained to me
that with my sores I had better go and dry fractional
starvation. Its meaning is that at first I'm going through the first dry
hunger as much as I can, the first hunger like soap
coaching. Then we make a good quality output,
and the second a hunger for the maximum, it is already healing. Here is how to hunger
overrides hunger and obtained performance as if
if we were just eleven days, but go directly to a
term for an untrained person is very, very difficult, so
physiological and easier to pass SFG. I sat on a vegetarian
diet, cleaned intestines, liver. It is very hard for me dalas cleaning
Liver: me nauseous, and vomiting was good although my husband supported.
But after cleaning I was the first time in his short life
felt that such health. Began to try dry starvation.
The first day of the SG passed unnoticed, I was starving on a Sunday and we
My husband and I all day went to the cottage to his parents. We have a good
Nature. After cleansing the liver, I somehow lost my appetite, and
hunger it did not exist. The first sip of water was very tasty -
how can we, in our boring life not paying attention to simple
things! After the first week of fasting, the weekend did
two days of the LFG as the parents at the dacha. Hunger was relatively
easily, the only reason for the second day very much like


, and problems related to eating and digestion, including anorexia, flatulence, colic, and worms. The bark is used to treat skin problems and fever. A paste made from the leaves is applied to heal wounds.Erythroxylum coca
(Erythroxylaceae)
Coca
Description Evergreen shrub growing to
10 ft (3 m). Has alternate oval leaves, small white
flowers, and small red berries that each contain  a single seed.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Peru and
Bolivia, coca grows in high-rainfall areas of the eastern Andes to altitudes of 4,900 ft (1,500 m).
It is mostly cultivated for the illegal market. The leaves are picked when they begin to curl.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Coca contains cocaine and
various other alkaloids, a volatile oil, flavonoids, vitamins A and B
2, and minerals. The plant’s
stimulant and anesthetic action is due largely  to cocaine.
History & Folklore The indigenous peoples
of the Andes carry pouches containing coca leaves and lime, which they chew throughout the day. Early European travelers noted that individuals chewing coca never had tooth or gum problems, other medicinal plants
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and local folk medicine traditionally considered the
plant a treatment for toothache. Coca leaf extract
is still used as a flavoring for cola drinks—but
cocaine has long been banned from the formulas.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In Bolivia and
Peru, coca leaves play an important part in the
culture and herbal medicine of the indigenous
Aymara and Quechua peoples. High altitudes,
cold, and an impoverished diet place great physical
demands on the population. Coca leaves, chewed
with lime or ashes, release small amounts of the
active constituents, which act as a tonic and help
block the effects of cold, exhaustion, and poor
nutrition. Coca leaves are also used in South
American herbal medicine to treat nausea,
vomiting, and asthma, and have been used to
speed convalescence. Cocaine extracted from
coca leaves is used legally in conventional medicine
as a local anesthetic. It is also taken illegally as a
narcotic, stimulant drug. As an isolated chemical,
cocaine is extremely addictive.
 QCautions T ake only under professional
supervision. Coca is subject to legal restrictions
in most countries.
History & Folklore Native American
peoples were known to use the sap of California
poppy for its pain-killing properties, particularly
for toothache. The leaves were also eaten as a
vegetable. Early settlers used California poppy
for sleep problems, especially in children, and for
whooping cough. It is California’s state flower.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Though the
California poppy is a close relation of the opium
poppy ( Papaver somniferum, p. 244), it has a
significantly different effect on the central
nervous system. California poppy is not a
narcotic. In fact, rather than disorienting the user,
it actually tends to normalize psychological
function. California poppy’s gently antispasmodic,
sedative, and analgesic effects make it a valuable
herbal medicine for treating physical and
psychological problems in children. The herb
may prove beneficial in attempts to overcome
nervous tension and anxiety, bedwetting, and
difficulty in sleeping.Research A French study confirmed the
traditional usage of California poppy by showing
that extracts were sedative, reduced anxiety levels,
and were non-toxic.
Eucalyptus smithii (Myrtaceae)
Gully Gum
Description Aromatic evergreen tree growing
to 165 ft (50 m).
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Australia,
eucalyptus now grows in temperate and subtropical
zones across the globe. It prefers moist soil, and so
is found in swamps, gullies, and at the foot of slopes.
Part Used Essential oil.
Constituents The volatile oil contains about
70% eucalyptol (1, 8-cineole), as well as pinene,
limonene, alpha-terpineol, and linalool. While it is
similar to the oils of related species, this oil appears
to be better tolerated by the skin.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Eucalpytus smithii
oil is an antiseptic and decongestant, and is used
for inhalations as well as aromatherapy massages.
See eucalyptus ( Eucalyptus globulus, p. 96) for
further details.
Cautions Though less toxic than the oils of other
eucalyptus species, E. smithii  essential oil should be
used with care. Follow the label instructions, or take
on professional advice.
Coca is cultivated in the Andes and chewed as a tonic to help
counter the effects of cold.California poppy contains a
latex that has sedative, pain-
killing, and antispasmodic
properties. It is a gentle
remedy, suitable for children.
Eschscholzia californica
(Papaveraceae)
California Poppy
Description Annual or perennial growing to
2 ft (60 cm). California poppy has finely cut leaves
and bright orange, yellow, pink, or red flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation California poppy
is native to western North America. Widely
cultivated as a garden plant, it prefers sandy soils.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents California poppy contains iso -
quinoline alkaloids (including protopine, crypto -
pine, and chelidonine) and flavone glycosides.Eucommia ulmoides
(Eucommiaceae)
Eucommia Bark,
Du Zhong (Chinese)
Description Deciduous tree growing to 65 ft
(20 m). Has elliptical leaves, with male flowers in
loose clusters and solitary female flowers in the
leaf axils.
Habitat & Cultivation Eucommia bark grows
in temperate zones in China. It is cultivated, but
only in small amounts.
Part Used Bark.
Constituents Eucommia bark contains gutta-
percha, alkaloids, flavonoids, iridoids and other
glycosides, and phenolic compounds.
History & Folklore The herb is mentioned
in the Chinese herbal, the Divine Husbandman’s
Classic  (Shen’nong Bencaojing ), which was written
in the 1st century ce.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Eucommia bark
is considered an excellent tonic for the liver and
kidneys. Eucommia bark is said to “tonify the yang,”
to improve the circulation, and also to prevent
miscarriage in women who are weak or suffering
from back pain.
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other medicinal plantsEuonymus atropurpurE us
Research Much interest has been aroused
by eucommia bark’s ability to reduce high blood
pressure, which it is thought to do by increasing nitrous oxide levels within the arteries. In a clinical trial in China involving 119 people, 46% of those treated with the herb showed a significant blood pressure reduction. However, eucommia bark appears to have little effect in cases of severe hypertension. Recent studies indicate that eucommia bark is an antioxidant and may help to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. A small clinical trial in Japan published in 1996 concluded that an infusion of eucommia bark reduced the body’s exposure to mutagen-forming compounds naturally present within the diet.
Euonymus atropurpureus
(Celastraceae)
Wahoo Bark
Description Deciduous tree growing to
26 ft (8 m). Has smooth branches, serrated
elliptical leaves, clusters of purple flowers,
and 4-lobed scarlet fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to eastern
North America, wahoo bark thrives in damp woods and close to water. The bark is gathered in autumn.
Parts Used Stem bark, root bark.
Constituents Wahoo bark contains
cardenolides (cardiac glycosides) similar
to digitoxin, asparagine, sterols, and tannins.
History & Folklore The Sioux, Cree, and
other Native American peoples used wahoo  bark in various ways, for example as an eye lotion, as a poultice for facial sores, and  for gynecological conditions. Native Americans introduced the plant to early European settlers, and it became very popular in North America as well as in  Britain in the 19th century.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wahoo
bark is considered a gallbladder remedy with laxative and diuretic properties. It is prescribed for biliousness and liver problems, as well as for skin conditions such as eczema (which may result from poor liver and gallbladder function) and for constipation. In the past, it was often used in combination with herbs such as gentian (Gentiana lutea, p. 99) as a fever remedy, especially if the liver was under stress.


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77Should he be fed? Or could he be fed without adding to his discomfort and without danger?
Loss of desire for food is one of the first symptoms of acute disease. Go over the whole list—
smallpox, typhoid fever, typhus fever, pneumonia, diphtheria, measles, cholera, and you realize
that one of the first developments in these crises is the suspension of all desire for food. Wisely,
nature cuts off all demand for food when it cannot be used. Fasting is a means of getting through
such crises.
The fast is a temporary expedient by means of which the body achieves some of its urgently
needed work, an expedient employed by the living organism to help it over many of the
emergencies of life. It is almost correct to say that fasting and surgery are all that are of value in
disease. But we can say this only if we recognize that the regular or ordinary elements of nature’s
great plan of
Hygiene
 are as essential in illness as in health, except that their use must be modified
to conform to the crippled powers of the organism.
Instead of fasting being a
cure,
 it is an essential and integral part of the healing process. When
the digestive system is prostrated and all desire for food is cut off, as it is in acute disease, we
have an expedient that is as much a part of the remedial process, the process of restoration, as the
concomitant prostration of the body as a whole that sends the sick person to bed. To be extremely
precise, the fasting process is an actual part of the
remedial process
 that we call disease.
Including surgery among the useful expedients in disease does not imply approval to all surgery
performed today. Skillfully done, as much of it is, it is performed all too often for purely
commercial motives rather than only
when there is a legitimate reason for it. The fact will
someday be known that fasting will obviate the supposed need for much of the surgery that is
performed today. In stressing the fact that much surgery is without valid reason I am stating no
more than has been repeatedly stated by leading members of the surgical profession itself.
On the plane of instinct this lack of desire for food is duly respected. The sick dog hides. He
will not eat. He refuses a wet compress on his brow. He does not feel sorry for himself and does
not seek for sympathy. He refuses to permit his friends to hold his paws.
All he wants is to be left alone. He wants no food and he takes none. Rest, quiet, warmth, air
and, sometimes, a little water, are all he wants. He will not take juices or diluted milk, if offered
these, nor will he take the juice of flesh. Vitamins, if proffered, will be rejected. Resting in
seclusion, preferably in a dark place, while awaiting the completion of the reparative work done
by his own self-healing power—he recovers.
There is order in the processes of nature; the haphazard nowhere reigns supreme. There must be,
thus, some profound reason for the suspension of digestive processes and the simultaneous
suspension of the desire for food in states of acute illness. The sick man’s dislike of food would
seem to be as significant as his dislike of noise, motion, light, close air and cold. Yet, while these
latter dislikes are commonly respected, we are inclined to disregard the first and attempt to feed in
spite of the most obstinate repugnance to food.
If the patient is chilly, we warm him; if noise disturbs him, we seek to protect him from this; if
light disturbs him, we lower the shades; if the air is close, we open the windows; we respect his
desire to lie quietly and not move about. But we urge him to eat.
There is a story told of Pope Leo XIII, that, in his last illness in his ninety-third year, he said to
his physicians: “Gentlemen, you require me to eat more than I ate in health.”
This practice was all too common and is still responsible for much unnecessary suffering and
death. Going without food in acute disease not only relieves pain, but rests the heart and relieves
the kidneys. The ancients well understood the value of abstinence in acute disease and an
78understanding of its value was carried down even into late times. Fasting in fevers was commonly
employed by Neapolitan physicians over a hundred and fifty years ago. They frequently permitted
their fever patients to go for as many as forty days without food.
It should not be thought, however, that fasting should be instituted only in states of serious
illness, that one should continue to eat so long as any digestive power remains. On the contrary,
missing a few meals at the beginning of the trouble is often enough to prevent the development of
serious trouble. If functional impairment is only slight, as indicated by a coated tongue, headache,
a general malaise, and similar “insignificant”
 symptoms, a short fast will enable the body to
eliminate the systemic toxemia before more formidable trouble evolves.
If, when the first symptoms appear, the patient were put to bed, strict repose enjoined, no good
given, many cases of acute disease would be light and of short duration. The patient should be kept
warm and given all the water demanded by thirst. The room should be light and airy, and visitors
should be excluded. Rest is the important thing.
When the acute sufferer fasts his discomforts are less severe, his pains are less intense, his fever
does not rise so high, complications are rare, loss of weight is often less than in the patient who
does not fast, and the duration of the disease shortened. Less weight loss is almost, if not entirely
due to the fact that the duration of the disease is shortened. Typhoid fever, as an example, lasts in
the average case from eight to twelve days instead of the usual twenty-one days. The courses of
measles, scarlet fever and pneumonia are correspondingly shortened.
Again we reiterate: Fasting is not a
cure.
But, conducted properly, the physiological rest it provides the body’s organs can often help the
recovery forces of nature carry out the healing work.
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Fasting in Chronic Disease
“I have lost my appetite.”
“Nothing tastes good to me any more. I eat only as a matter of routine.”
“I suffer with distress after every meal.”
These are some of the complaints of patients who suffer with some chronic form of disease,
such as colitis, chronic gastritis, hay fever, asthma, arthritis, nervousness, stomach ulcer or cancer.
These people eat, only because they honestly think that they must eat—regularly, every day,
three times a day—to stay alive. Some of them are overweight, but great numbers of them are thin
and remain so, although they may be overeating.
Another class of chronic sufferers are, as they put it, “always hungry.”
They eat at all hours of
the day and night. They habitually overeat, whipping up their jaded sense of taste with condiments,
strong flavors, and in other ways. Often they suffer after each meal but they don’t cut down on their
intake. Then there are those among this class who suffer almost as much when they do not eat as
when they do.
“Hunger” here, as we have seen in other cases, is not hunger at all, in a true sense, but a morbid
sensation or set of sensations mistaken for hunger. It may be a “gnawing” in the stomach, pain in
the stomach or some other symptom of gastric irritation. This is the reason the sensation cannot be
satisfied. The fact that eating palliates the discomfort for a few moments, does not prove that food
was actually needed, any more than the need for a cup of coffee is proven when it temporarily
relieves a coffee addict’s headache. The surest, simplest way for those who are “always hungry”
to overcome their supposed hunger is to fast.
Man tends to abstain from food when under great emotional distress. Rejection of food is
frequent among the insane. Although it is the present practice to use force to feed mentally ill
patients, it is doubtful if such enforced feeding is proper. Man instinctively fasts under certain
conditions, as do the lower animals, and the rejection of food by the mentally ill is probably an
instinctive act that will, if not interrupted, prove very beneficial. Indeed, my experience with such
patients has convinced me that this is true.
The most important feature about fasting in chronic disease is the marked acceleration of
elimination that it occasions, thus speedily freeing the body of its accumulated toxic load. The
disappearance of symptoms, sometimes of years standing, when one fasts, is often dramatic.
Fasting provides opportunity for the body to do for itself what it is unable to do under conditions
of surfeit. Surfeit makes impossible the cleaning of the fluids and tissues in a physiological
housecleaning.
A properly conducted fast will enable the chronically ill body to excrete the toxic load that is
responsible for the trouble, after which a corrected mode of living enables the individual to evolve
into a vigorous state of health.
It should not be thought that eating must be continued so long as the body does not vigorously
rebel against food. When there is functional impairment, symptoms of impairment, sluggishness
and unease, then is the time to institute what may be described as a
preventive fast.
 A fast at this
point need not be long. Improvement


 discomfort. Accumulatingappetite (true hunger) is like the multiplicationof uncut and uncashed coupons on a railwaybond or on a Government bond. The feeling ofpossession is a joy of itself; and the ability tocollect the proceeds when needed and at leisureis comfortable rather than uncomfortable.Under circumstances of intelligent nutrition, ifwe pass one mealtime we wait patiently for the
next, with the knowledge that we areaccumulating appetite coupons.
SECOND  RULE.
Have you yet learned what true hunger is?
Don't go on unless you have done so. Take a
little more time ; skip a meal or two, and giveNature a chance to show you what real appetite(true watering of the mouth) is. Having learnedto recognise healthy hunger and appetite, andto know what it is to have both of them begging
you for satisfaction, proceed with the second rule.
From the food available at the time take that
first which appeals most strongly to theappetite. It may be a sip of soup, or a bite ofbread and butter, or a nibble of cheese, or,perhaps a lump of sugar. It may be a piece ofmeat, though I doubt that a true appetite willcall for such at the beginning of a meal. Nevermind what it may be, give it a trial. If it besomething that should be masticated in order togive the saliva a chance to mix with it andchemically transform it, chew it " for all that itis worth."" For all that it is worth " means for the
extraction and enjoyment of all the good tastethere is in it.
If the food selected by the appetite happens to
be soup, or milk, or some mushy substance, getall the good taste out of it, doing all you can toaccomplish this ; for to get the taste out of foodis an assurance of digesting it, and the pleasureit gives in the process is Nature's way of gettingyou to do the right thing in helping her tonourish yourself properly. Sip, taste, bite, presswith the tongue against the roof of the mouth,the food in the mouth, not because of anysuggestion of mine, but in response to thenatural instinct to move it about and get out ofit all the taste there is in it.
THIRD  RULE.
The moment appetite begins to slack up a bit,
the moment saliva does not flow so freely as atfirst, the moment there is any degree ofsatisfaction of the appetite, stop eating!
You will have a return of appetite; you will
have another chance to eat; appetite isbeginning to have " that tired feeling " herself ;be kind to her as she has been kind to you. Give
her a rest! Give her a rest! Give yourself a rest!
Rest is the antidote of "that tired feeling "!
Therefore rest the appetite before it gets tired,Stop eating before you are overloaded.
Now, having learned how to do the right
thing in eating so as never more to have " thattired feeling," don't begin to overdo. Don't bendbackward too far. Don't ever overdo a goodthing.
Be temperate ; be deliberate. Be thoughtful;
be forethoughtful ; be forethoughtful withoutbeing fearthoughtful. Don't overdo chewing, forthen you take away much of the pleasure ;smother the psychic enjoyment of eating, andraise the very mischief again.
Just be natural, and know that being natural
is being deliberate in enjoying the thing you aredoing, for that is Nature's way.
To the above simple rules I will append a few
recommendations which occurred to me andwhich I wrote while in a respirationcalorimeter, an experience which I will relate ina subsequent chapter. This list of recommen-dations has since been included in theInstructions to the Medical Department of the
United States Army, under the heading :
Method of attaining Economic Assimilation of
Nutriment and Immunity from Disease,
Muscular Soreness and Fatigue.
(1) Feed only when a distinct appetite has
been earned.
(2) Masticate all solid food until it is
completely liquefied and excites in anirresistible manner the swallowing reflex orswallowing impulse.
(3) Attention to the act and appreciation of
the taste are necessary, meantime, to excite theflow of gastric juice into the stomach to meetthe food—as demonstrated by Pawlow.
(4) Strict attention to these two particulars
will fulfil the requirements of Nature relative tothe preparation of the food for digestion andassimilation ; and this being faithfully done, theautomatic processes of digestion andassimilation will proceed most profitably, andwill result in discarding very little digestion-ash(fæces) to encumber the intestines, or to compelexcessive draft upon the bodily energy forexcretion.(5) The assurance of healthy economy is
observed in the small amount of excreta and itspeculiar inoffensive character, showing escapefrom putrid bacterial decomposition such asbrings indol and skatol offensively intoevidence.
(6) When digestion and assimilation have
been normally economic, the digestion-ash(fæces) may be formed into little balls rangingin size from a pea to a so-called Queen Olive,according to the food taken, and should be quitedry, having only the odour of moist clay or of ahot biscuit. This inoffensive character remainsindefinitely until the ash completely dries, ordisintegrates like rotten stone or wood.
(7) The weight of the digestive-ash may range
(moist) from 10 grams to not more than 40-50grams a day, according to the food; the latterestimate being based on a vegetarian diet, andmay not call for excretion for several days ;smallness indicating best condition. Foods differso materially that the amount and character ofthe excreta cannot be accurately specified. Somefoods and conditions demand two evacuationsdaily. Thorough and faithful Fletcherizingsettles the question satisfactorily.(8) Fruits may hasten peristaltis * ; but not if
they are treated in the mouth as sapid liquidsrather than as solids, and are insalivated,sipped, tasted, into absorption in the same waywine-tasters test and take wine, and tea-tasterstest tea. The latter spit out the tea after tasting,as, otherwise, it vitiates their taste, and ruinsthem for their discriminating profession.
(9) Milk, soups, wines, beer, and all sapid
liquids or semi-solids should be treated in thismanner for the best assimilation and digestionas well as for the best gustatory results.
(10) This would seem to entail a great deal of
care and bother, and lead to a waste of time.
(11) Such, however, is not the case. To give
attention in the beginning does require strictattention and persistent care to overcomelifelong habits of nervous haste ; but if theattack is earnest, habits of careful mouthtreatment and appetite discrimination soonbecome fixed, and cause deliberation in takingfood unconsciously to the feeder.
(12) Food of a proteid value of 5-7 grams of
* Forwarding muscular movement which advances food
along the whole  extent of the alimentary canal.nitrogen and 1,500-2,500 calories of fuel value, *
paying strict attention to the appetite forselection and carefully treated in the mouth,has been found to be the quantity best suited toeconomy and efficiency of both mind and body insedentary pursuits and ordinary businessactivity; and also, such habit of economy hasgiven practical immunity from the commondiseases for a period extending over more than
* The organic materials of human diet are usually classified
into three divisions :—
(1) The Proteids, or Albuminates—the characterising
element occurring being nitrogen. The nitrogenous foods are :
flesh (without the fat), eggs, milk, cheese, legumes (peas, beans,lentils, etc.).
(2) The Fats, or Hydro-carbons. All animal and vegetable
fats and oil. Emulsions of mineral oils have been shown to passthrough the system unchanged, and therefore cannot be
regarded as food.
(3) The Carbo-hydrates (sugars and starches): bread,
potatoes, and grain generally.
Protein is the tissue builder; heat and energy are derived
largely from the non-nitrogenous foods.
A Calorie (large) is the unit of heat required to raise one
kilogram of water to 1° C. The full value of a food is ascertained
by means of the calorimeter, or apparatus used to determinethe specific heat of substances, or the amounts of heat evolved
or absorbed in various physical and chemical changes.
Calorimeters take very diverse forms, varying from quite simplevessels to highly complex apparatus, according to the particular
kind of determination to be carried out in them.fifteen years, whereas the same subject was
formerly subject to periodical illness. Similareconomy and immunity have shown themselvesconsistently in the cases of many test subjectscovering periods of ten years, and appliesequally to both sexes, all ages, and otheridiosyncratic conditions.
(13) The time necessary for satisfying
complete body needs and appetite daily, whenthe habit of attention, appreciation anddeliberation have been installed, is less thanhalf an hour, no matter how divided as tonumber of rations. This necessitates industry ofmastication, to be sure, and will not admit ofwaste of much time between mouthfuls.
(14) Ten or fifteen minutes will completely