 affected disproportionately. Autoimmune conditions represent a significant physical, emotional, and financial burden forsociety. Many separate mechanisms have been described that may contribute to the failure of theimmune system leading to autoimmunity. Among them, drugs and hormone interaction, geneticconfiguration, cross reactivity of some bacterial and virus immune factors, and the scarcity or theexcess of some specific food ingredients in the diet form a puzzling assortment of triggers. Links between food ingredients and immunity have become a hot topics of research. Recent
publications demonstrate a remarkable and close concordance between the host overallnutritional status and immunity. An example is:
Deficiencies of minerals, including iron and zinc, are well documented to impair immunefunction in experimental animals, and to the extent studied, in humans as well. One postulatedmechanism is that both of these metals are essential for the function of a number ofmetalloenzymes required for nucleic acid synthesis and cell replication. (Gerald T. Keusch, 2003)
Other links have been delineated between specific food ingredients in the diet and autoimmunity. Examples are the link between a scarcity of some carbohydrates and errors in cell identification,and the links between an elevated omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acid (EFA) ratio in the dietor an elevated blood sugar level and an exaggerated immune response. Here is how the links work: Target recognition directs the immune response, while theprostaglandins hormones we make from EFAs modulate its intensity. A - Target Recognition. Cells wear identification molecules protruding from their membranes. The cell's identificationmolecules are made of various carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives. Without the supplyof a variety of carbohydrates, cells have problems making their identification molecules. Errorsin these molecules confuse the immune system recognition system. Think of the identificationmolecules as bar codes and the immune system recognition system as a bar code reader. Think ofthe mess caused by errors in a bar codeA cell’s bar code contains the carbohydrates glucose, galactose, mannose, xylose, fucose, andderivatives. One of these carbohydrates— glucose, is in excess in our diet, while the othercarbohydrates are scarce or missing in our refined food. The missing carbohydrates exist in fruitand vegetables. 2 - Intensity Modulation
The intensity of an immune response is modulated by prostaglandins hormones. We make two
types of prostaglandins hormones. Type 1 increases immune response, type 2 reduces it. Auseful immune response depends on the balance between the two types. We makeprostaglandins from Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) exclusively. There are two types of EFAs,the Omega-6 and the Omega-3 EFAs. We use the omega-6 EFAs to make the prostaglandins thatincrease immune response, and the omega-3 EFAs to make the prostaglandins that reduce theimmune response. The omega-6 EFAs are abundant in our diet, while the omega-3 EFAs arevery scarce. The omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in the American diet is about 12 to 1, in theAustralian diet the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio is around 18 to 1, instead of an ideal 2 to 1. Withratios higher than 2 to 1, the immune system is overactive. With ratios around or higher that 10to 1 the immune system runs with no brakes. Hence, the proliferation of autoimmune conditions
with our omega-3 EFA deprived diet. To correct the ratio we should avoid omega-6 EFAs rich fats and oils and supplement the dietwith omega-3 EFAs rich fats and oils. Omega-3 EFAs are available in flax seeds, in cold oceanfish (sardine, salmon, mackerel, and herring), and in fish oil supplements like Ultimate E. F. A. and Ultimate E.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the primary function of the immune system?,
A: To distinguish between foreign molecules and the body's own tissues
Q: What is an autoimmune response, and what are some examples of autoimmune diseases?,
A: An autoimmune response is when the immune system attacks normal body tissues and organs. Examples of autoimmune diseases include diabetes type 1, irritable bowel syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and various skin conditions.
Q: What are some potential triggers of autoimmunity, and what is the recommended dietary approach to reduce the risk of autoimmunity?,
A: The passage mentions that autoimmunity can be triggered by a variety of factors, including drug interactions, genetic predisposition, and an imbalance in the diet. To reduce the risk of autoimmunity, it is recommended to avoid omega-6 rich foods and high glycemic index foods, and to supplement with omega-3 rich foods.
Q: What is the significance of the omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid ratio in the diet, and how can it be corrected?,
A: The omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid ratio is crucial in the immune system's functioning. A ratio higher than 2:1 can lead to an overactive immune response, and a ratio higher than 10:1 can lead to a complete loss of control of the immune system. To correct this imbalance, it is recommended to avoid omega-6 rich foods and supplements with omega-3 rich foods, such as flax seeds, cold ocean fish, and fish oil supplements.
Q: What is the recommended approach for people with autoimmune diseases, and what are some important considerations?,
A: For people with autoimmune diseases, it is recommended to avoid "offending" foods that stimulate the production of omega-6 derived prostaglandins and high glycemic index foods.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of
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FOREWORD
PART I: THE E2 DIET
1: ENGINE 2
2: MY  STORY
3: THE ENGINE 2 DIET
4: CRAZY  MYTHS ABOUT  FOOD
5: THE MEDICAL  PROOF BEHIND THE ENGINE 2 DIET
6: THE E2 EXERCISE PROGRAM
PART II: MAKING IT  WORK
1: THE E2 ATTITUDE
2: E2 VITAL SIGNS
3: LABEL  READING
4 : MAKING IT  WORK FOR LIFE! PART III: RECIPES AND MEAL  PLANS
INTRODUCTION
1: GETTING YOUR KITCHEN IN E2 SHAPE
2: E2 EASY  WEEKL Y PLANNER3: E2 RECIPES
BONUS RECIPES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
OceanofPDF.comFor my wife, Jill, and my son, Kole
OceanofPDF.comDear Reader:
I’m Rip Esselstyn and I want to thank you for picking up my book. I
hope that once you’ve read it, you will choose to embark on the
Engine 2 Diet in what will be a spectacular health makeover. Think
about it: In just twenty-eight days, you will plant the seeds of a long-
lasting, healthy life. I know that if I didn’ t follow this diet, I would
never have had the ener gy to be a world-class triathlete, or just as
grueling, a firefighter. The Engine 2 Diet is a snap to follow. Depending on which of two
programs you select, you will spend either two or four weeks eating
nothing but the most colorful nutrient-packed foods Mother Nature
provides: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. During this time period you will push to the back burner all meats and
dairy products, as well as refined and processed foods—including
extracted oils—while feasting on jillions of plant-diverse foods. That’ s the Engine 2 Diet in a healthy nutshell! To assist you on your quest for great health, I have also included
more than one hundred recipes that will make your mouth water, your
friends envious, and your body happy. I wish you only the best as you start what I hope will be a lifelong
love af fair with plant-beautiful foods. Remember, this isn’ t just a diet,
it’s an adventure in perfect health. Eat Plant-Strong! OceanofPDF.comForeword
The evidence is now in. What our grandmothers always told us to do
—eat your vegetables and have an apple a day to keep the doctor away—is
borne out by modern science. Increasingly, medical research is showing that
we should consume a plant-based diet for optimal health. But do people take this message seriously? I wish they did, but most do
not. Part of the reason is our cultural tradition. For too long we have been
accustomed, taste-wise, to animal foods


“them” mentality that causes one group to rise up against another, and in the
end, everyone gets hurt. The negative form of philautia is the same as negative or unb alanced
third chakra ener gy. It’ s when the unruly child is ruling the world. Agape
The high est form of love and the one that best represents the fo urth chakra
is ag ape. This is  an altruistic for m of love. When the Greeks defined agape,
it was in relation to God’ s love for us and our love for God. This kind of
selfless love is extended to everyone, including strangers or enemies. As
Pope Francis so eloquently voiced  du ring the 20 16 US presidential
elections, love is about building bridges and not walls. Agape is about realizing that w hen you help others, you are helping
yourself. In the fourth chakra you begin to understand that there is no
separation. Society as a wh ole can make this shift in consciousness when  enough
individuals mak e the conscious choice to live at this level of lov e. Life is no
longer about survival or getting what’ s “mine” but about going through life
with the attitude “How can I help. ” and “How can I serve. ” When enough
of us make this decision and it reaches critical mass, we ca n all move
forward in a new direction to awaken to a dif ferent state of being. Living Life in the Anahata Chakra
The tran sition from living life in the lower chakras to living life in the
higher chakras is akin to awakening from a deep slumber for the first time. Life is no long er rooted in su rvival, procreation, attainment of worldly
pleasures, pleasing others, or self-serving goals. Life now becomes an
expression of service to others through compassion, giving, and
openheartedness. Fourth chakra living doesn’ t embody the go-getter attitude
of th ird chakra ener gy, but rathe r a passive openness, which att racts others
to it. Wh ile the third chakra embodies yang, or masculine ener gy, the fourth
chakra holds yin, or feminine ener gy. An air of peacefulness surrounds
Fourth chakra people. They’re lighthearted and laugh heartily. Their
laughter is contagious. Love flows from their beings. Fourth chakra people are compassionate to those around them. Their
hearts ache and feel deeply for those who suf fer. Their sense of empathy is
real. They readily cry or laugh with others out of genuine connection to
their experiences. Their giving comes from kindheartedness and not from
selfish m otives. The light that radiates from their hearts attracts others to
them. I’ve had the grea t pleasure of me eting Mata Amritanandamayi, o r as her
followers af fectionately call he r, Amma. She’ s known as the “hugging
saint. ” B esides running many charitable or ganizations, she goes  around the
world gi ving hu gs to people for  sometimes up to twenty-two ho urs per day,
not leaving a site until everyone who wants a hug receives one. Amma grew
up poor in south ern India. Even as a child with little to no resources, Amma
would give to others in need. According to her Hindu religion, suf feringcomes a s a result of karma, or p ast action that must be repaid. In pondering
this concept, Amma continually  asks, “If i t is one man’ s karma to su f fer,
isn’ t it our dharm a (duty) to help ease his suf fering and pain. ” Amma truly
represents fourth  chakra love. As you sit in her presence, you can feel the
peacefulness and calm that radiate from her being. Her eyes dance with joy
and laug hter. It’ s impossible to see any turmoil within her. Having felt her
powerful vibrational ener gy, I can only imagine what being in the presence
of Jesus must have been like. T rue love vibrates at a higher frequency than
most of us can imagine. Recognizing Fourth Chakra Imbalances
V ulnerability is an attribute of the fourth chakra. T o experience the rewards
that emanate from the heart requires openheartedness, a two-way exchange
of gi ver and rece iver in an authentic manne r. Intimacy and closeness are the
prizes to be gained by your willingness to be vulnerable. The lim itations arise in recognition that we don’ t live in a vacu um and
that even  those who live most o f the time in fourth chakra ener gy also live
in the ener gy of the first three c hakras. If you’ve read the limita tions of the
first three chakras, you’ve also learned how they can easily bring you back
down to lower states of consciousness. I’m sure you’ve experienced moments of vulnerability at some point in
your life. Y ou opened your heart to someone and received hurt i n exchange. Once th is happe ns often enough, you learn to put up walls or close your
heart to love a ltogether. The limitation lies in being selective in your
willingness to love and be loved based on past experience. Giving in to the fourth chakra limitations can lead to a continua l fear of
rejection and loneliness, and the refore putting up more walls. As you keep
people o ut, thos e same people w ho once opened up to you and approached
you with love w ill eventually leave, which further validates y our fear of
intimacy and vulnerability. The way to end this cycle is to access higher sources of love th at come
from your spiritual connection to your Creator. Healing your  heart each
time yo u’re af flicted by someone else or even by self-disappointment is
crucial to not falling prey to fourth chakra limitations. Maturity and growth in this chakra come from the realization that you
don’ t ne ed to remain in a state o f hurt. Y ou recognize that you have nothing
to gain and everything to lose when you refuse openness. Accepting Fourth Chakra Gifts
As many of us are used to the eros form of love, we become used to chaos
and dram a. W e tend to associate true love and real-life experiences with a
sense of disharmony that comes from passion. When we experience
moments of peace and harmony, we can disregard them or brush them of f as
boring as we look for the next intense experience. Some people will even
pick fig hts, find points to ar gu e, or surround themselves with dramatic
people just to “keep things interesting. ”
Being fully open to fourth chakr a gifts is about being able to find peace
in th e m idst of chaos. It’ s about letting go of drama in exchang e for deeper
enjoyment in the events of life. As I once heard Dr. Deepak Chopra say,
“Where is the enjoyment in chao s and hysteria. ”  Wh en you find your sense
of inner peace, life begins to flow. Y ou become lighthearted and you’re able
to laugh  in any life circumstanc e. Y ou’re aware that there is beauty in all
things, even in t ragedy, and that beautiful things can be born out of tragedy. One example is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), which was
formed in 1980 by moms who’d lost their children. This great or ganization
has managed to  lo wer the numb er of deaths by  drunk and drugged drivers
by 5 5 percent s ince its inception. I’m sure you’re able to think of other
or ganizations that were born as a result of tragic events. Living in laughter, love, peace, and harmony daily doesn’ t mean you
have to sit in a  drum circle singing “Kumbaya” all day, and  the world
wouldn’ t necess arily benefit from that anyway. When you live f rom a space
of inner  peace, you automatically raise the consciousness of those around
you, even as you go about the mundane activities of your day. Y ou get in
touch with a m ore spiritual existence in each moment. Y our experiences
become more meaningful as your perception widens. Healing AnahataDAIL Y AFFIRMA TION
Om mani padme hum. May the lotus flower contained within my heart be open to love, compassion, and
for giveness. Healing the Physical Body
Cardiovascular exercise is one  of the best things you can d o for your
physical health in the fourth chakra. Doing cardio every d ay is most
important and can be achieved  through brisk walking for thi rty minutes
daily. O f course, if you enjoy other cardio activities, you can mix up your
routine, but strive for movement  that will elevate your heart rate to between
50 a nd 8 5 percent of your maximum heart rate for at least thirty  minutes at
a time. As a member of a W estern and mostly sedentary society, you will
see enormous benefits when you add this simple routine to your day. T o preve nt block ages in the heart and cardiac plexus, as well as to keep
your res piratory health optimal, you can eat a mostly vegetarian  diet with a
heavy e mphasis on


 from nowhere, because love is inherent in
life itself. Emily  Dickinson, whose lovers were all in her imagination, is to
me a true lover nonetheless. She writes:
Not “Revelation”—tis—that waits
But our unfurnished eyes—
This is a message of compressed wisdom, which says that we are waiting
not on the day of redemption but on our own perception. The exquisitene ss of true ecstas y cannot dawn unless we can contain it;
our minds are so absorbed in relentless activity that quietness rarely lasts
more than an instant. The body by its nature is also active and restless. Since activity and stillness are opposites, the body generally registers some
degree of agitation or even discomfort as it moves into alignment with
spirit. The reputation that ecstasy has for being physically intense
contributes to the frenzy and mutilation that devotees have resorted to in
order to duplicate the opening to ecstasy—they are mistaking the symptom
for the cause. The divine has nothing to do with pain. Because it stands outside—
ekstasis —the envelope of time and space, spirit cannot be sensuous. Our
five senses cannot take us to where ecstasy dwells. But as true ecstasy
begins to manifest, our senses definitely react. The reaction is entirely
individual and unpredictable, since one person’ s intense erotic opening is
another ’s frightening collapse of defenses. What feels like the expansion of
the soul into infinite space to me may seem like a terrifying fall into the
void to you. When we say that ecstasy is like the drop melting back into the ocean, it
must be made clear that we are the drop and the ocean at the same time, just
on dif ferent levels. Ecstasy is the r elease of individuality back into wholeness. Whatever brings you closer to
wholeness brings you closer to ecstasy. Here I think we’ve reached the secret of ecstasy. Most of us do not see
ourselves as supreme sexual technicians, nor can we relate easily to the
extraordinary mysticism of a saint. Ecstasy will never be ordinar y, yet it can
be brought within our reach once we realize its real nature. Although often
experienced in the most extrem e situations, ecstasy is a quality  of spirit as
natural as any other. We do not have to sojourn into the darkness of the
mythic past to retrieve it. The patient work of inner growth is all we need. To promote stillness inwardly is to promote ecstasy. The inner being
doesn’ t have to be tricked or manipulated to achieve this stillness. Our
minds are like runners that only have to slow down in order to walk, then
slow down from a walk to standing still. This process of shifting from
activity to stillness is a simple yet very deep description of meditation. We
could modify the biblical injunction to “Be still and know ecstasy. ” There is
no single road to this quietness of meditation, yet to be genuine any
meditation must take the mind beyond its superficial nature, which is
restless and chaotic, to its deeper nature as the peace that passes all
understanding. REACHING  ECSTASY
The emer gence  into stillness can take place under any conceivable
circumstance. Arjuna achieved his moksha on a raging battlefield after the
bloody onslaught of family against family. Medieval saints found theirs in
complete retreat  from the world. At this very moment someone is finding it
in a bustling city or staring out to sea. The release is never incidental or
accidental. Tastes of ecstasy come and go, yet attaining compl ete stillness
of the mind means walking the spiritual path to its concl usion, with
discipline and faith. Expansion of consciousness is the r oad to ecstasy. Expansion of consciousness is a broad term that covers almost everything
I have discussed up to now, for the path to love is all about such expansion. Love pulls you out of ego boundaries, and when you are dedicat ed to acting
from love, you are able to live in spirit. Many of the most important themes
have already been covered:Seeing your beloved as a mirror of your higher Self. Surrendering to love as a guiding force. Letting go of attachment to the false self and its needs. Devoting every day to achieving true union and healing the wounds of separation. Countless people live with their beloved without following any of these
principles; their love doesn’ t provide a strong enough basis to escape their
old conditioning. Until they discover the spiritual path, few are able to heed
the voice of spirit, which speaks intuitively. If only you perceived it, you
are alrea dy in a state of ecstasy that is permanent and unshakab le. But only
at moments when your boundaries fade away do you have flashes of reality. Then direct intuitive knowing becomes possible, and you can see yourself
for who you are, sublime and ecstatic. Thousands of years ago the
Upanishads expressed our twofold nature in a beautiful metaphor:
Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal,
live in the same tree. The first one pecks at the fruit,
sweet or bitter; the second looks on without eating. Thus the personal self pecks at the fruit of this world,
bewildered by suf fering, always hungry for more,
but when he meets the true Self, the resplendent God,
the source of creation, all his cravings are stilled. The two birds in the tree, self and Self, are inseparable; both sit in the same
tree (the body) faced with the same fruit (the material world). Yet for all
their closeness the bird who craves the fruit does not know its mate. It takes
an awak ening to reveal the Self, and although in one sense it is awesome,
being “the resplendent God,” in another sense it is just one’s intimate
beloved, who has faithfully kept watch through all time, waitin g only to be
seen. Once it is seen everything in life changes. As the Upanish ads declare,
the life of the self, once united with the Self, rises to a blessed level:
Good and evil both vanish;
delighting in Self, playing like a child with Self,
he does whatever is called for, whatever the result. When self-realiz ation dawns, there is no longer any question of struggle
or effort. The spirit guides you to do whatever is called for, according to
your own makeup. In reality universal love requires only one thing, that the
sweet point in the heart expand until bliss and peace become the nature of
our life. This first happens within individuals, then it happens torelationships based on spirit, finally it extends to whole families and
societies. A single point in the heart can expand to liberate the world. Ecstasy is therefore not an individual feeling at all but a glimpse of the
wholeness waiting to be seen everywhere. The Upanishads state this very
explicitly:
Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,
unreachable, nearer than breath, than heartbeat. Our senses tell us that we are breathing and that our hearts beat,  but there is
a breath within the breath that is spirit (in Christian terms it has been called
afflatus, the breath of God). Near as spirit may be, centur ies of cultural prejudice have made it
necessary to rediscover our intuitive, direct knowledge of it. Many
disciplines and techniques can be employed here, particularly meditation. In
this book I have concentrated on the expansion of conscious ness that is
available throug h love, motivated by the tragic absence of love we see all
around us. Yet the road to the Self is not closed on any side—the
transcendent is “nearer than breath, than heartbeat”—and fortunately a
multitude of teachings exist to put our feet on the path. In the end the path does not actually ascend anywhere in time or space. The self is still the self, the ego is still the ego, the senses are still the
senses. How can you go anywh ere to capture what is already so close to
you. The mystery is that this “pathless path,” as the masters refer to it,
causes immense  transformation. There is a world of difference between
those who live in love and those who only touch upon it fitfully. Perhaps the
greatest differen ce is this qualit y called ecstasy, which is the actual feeling
of breathing God’ s breath and beating with His heart. I do not want to betray the intimacy of ecstasy; it is the most private of
love affairs. Being becomes your beloved, and the merging of yourself with
another person follows with complete ease and naturalness. If one had to
lay down some  kind of pattern for how ecstasy is attained, it would be
extremely general, as follows:The time comes when seeking is over and realization begins. First the
mind becomes aware of its own activity while standing apart from it. Ordinarily we are immersed in our own inner dialogue; the stream of
thoughts, wishes, fears, and fantasies running through our heads keeps us
fixated. We buy into a mental drama that has no conclusion. The mind gains
its restless energy from our participation. Being fixated on your own ment al
drama is all it takes to cause the drama to work itself up. At certain moments, however, the fixation is not so alluring. Some part of
ourselves detaches from the mind’ s activity—the first stage of ecstasy is
just this faint awareness of being a


 not really. For two years I’ve been growing
disenchanted with oncology. I don’t feel like doing my job anymore,and the prospect of seeing another cancer patient lls me with
revulsion. But what are my options? I feel trapped.”
I was caught o guard, but Liam rushed on without taking a
breath. “Cancer shakes peopl e up, Deepak. Some of my patients are
sti with fear. ‘I just don’t want chemotherapy,’ they insist. You and
I know that chemo is eectiv e a lot of the time. When it isn’t, I don’t
feel like pushing it, but if I don’t push it, of course I don’t get paid. A docto r can’t make a living just talking to patients, not nowadays. You have to run the procedu res that insurance companies reimburse
you for. My conscience hurts me, but I push chemo anyway. “I mean, look, all I’m trained  to do is give chemo. If I don’t, the
patient’s relatives start screaming, lawyers get involved. It becomes
very complicated very quickly. You get swallowed up in a system
that you didn’t invent. And everybody is very skeptical, every step
of the way.”
I began to sense a Liam very dierent from the one I had known
—guiltier and more vulnerable, but potentially far more self-aware. At the moment, however, this budding self-awareness came out
sounding very confused. “I’m caught in a terrible dilemm a,” he said
as his outpour ing was winding down. “I don’t want to go back to
work. As far as I’m concerned, work gave me this heart attack. But
my cardiologis t says my vessels are open. I passed the treadmill
stress test, I can walk three miles without chest pain. So I’m cured—
the fact that I hate my job and can’t stand to go back doesn’t count.”
The immediat e need was to calm the panic I kept hearing in
Liam’s voice. “Look, you’re not really trapped,” I began. “You could
make a new start tomorrow if you wanted to.”
“Deepak, everybody treats cancer this way.”
“You wouldn’t be the rst oncologist to change elds,” I replied. I
reminded Liam that he was selling his brilliant clinical abilities far
too short. “I can think of half a dozen internists who would give
their eyeteeth to have you for a partner,” I said, mentioning a
mutual friend of ours who had abandoned the city for a rural
practice in Maine. “He’d love to have you join him. You would be
doing the small town up there a service, and taking the pressure o
yourself can only help your heart.”“You’re right, you’re right,” Liam kept saying in respons e to my
encouragements. He thanked me profusely, promising to pursue the
lead, and we hung up. This incident preyed on my mind for the rest of the day and for
days afterward. What did I think about Liam now? My reaction was
not simple. When someone feels psychologically trapped, his body
can often speak louder than words. Liam was basically apologizing
for being so heartless as to have “pushed chemo” on frightened,
resistant patients. Perhaps he had to have a heart attack to prove
that he still had a heart. I felt very sorry for him if it had come to
that. I berated  myself too for not having more insight when he rst
called venting his partners’ complaints. Was he trying unconsciously
to ask for help? It certainly looked that way in retrospect. And what would happen now? People who nd themselves caught
at the crossroads of a life-threatening disease also face many deep,
painful choice s in their psyches and must make them with no
guarantee that they will choose right. It is much easier to settle for
the bypass. Patch up your heart, pay the bills, and hope the pain
stays away. This is the common tactic, but it is a perilous one. Being
a doctor, Liam knew that his fresh new graft was not a cure. It was
basically a stopgap, and in ve years or so he would probably have
to go in for another patch up, with possibly a third one ve years
after that. Would his bypassed emotions be any more merciful? After Liam did not call for a month, I heard—again at secondhand
—that he had returned to his oncology practice. I also got a call
from our mutual friend in Maine. “By the way, have you heard from Liam recently?” I asked in the
middle of our conversation. “Liam? No,” he said. “Don’t tell me he was thinking of coming up
here.”
“I don’t  know,” I said, feeling more disappointed than I had any
right to be. “Why should he?”
The Song of TruthNo one knows why people make sudden breakthroughs into self-
awareness, but when they do, the eect is often shortlived. The
moment of liberation may be earthshaking, but it passes quickly,
leaving no deep or lasting transformation in its wake. There is no
great mystery to this. The forces that uphold our familiar world
have returned with renewed  tenacity. Inertia, fear, the pull of old
habits—they all warn us to remain where we are. Who knows what
the unknown might bring? Could a completely new self even survive in this rough world? As
children we all learned not to be too sensitive, too open, too
vulnerable. We saw the obvious advantages of being as tough as
possible, of getting what you want from other people. In this way
there arose a very troubling conict—the clash between love and
power—that found lodgings deep inside each of us. Liam found himself confront ing this conict head on. Instead of
his having power over his patients because he could make life-or-
death decisions for them, their pain was starting to have power over
him. He was being put in a very awkward position: one part of him
keenly wanted  to retain control over others, while another just as
keenly wanted  to feel compa ssion for them. Compassion is a form of
love; it takes others as they are, without judgment or a sense of
superiority. It is therefore not the easiest feeling for the ego to
adjust to. On the other hand, compassion is true, and that is its great
attraction. By “true,” I mean that compassion is found at the core of human
nature, underneath the covering layers of selshness. In our time,
psychology has dwelt on selshness as a fundamental drive in the
human character, but in the yogi’s eyes, this is a profound
misjudgment. To him, compassion and its root feeling, love, are
primary in humankind. Whenever they appear, even in a ash, it is
our true self appearing, like the sun breaking through clouds. To the
yogi, love and nonlove are not striving for dominance. Love is
eternal; nonlove is temporary, a twist of the psyche that the small,
limited, fearful self falls prey to. I am not sure this position can be proved, but one can certainly
witness that love is welcomed with relief and joy whenever it issincerely given. This joy is the self’s natural response when it sees
its truthful reection. The same cannot be said for nonlove: to
achieve enormous power is rarely a joyful event. In Love and Will, Rollo May portrays a young patient who fell
victim to the unloving inue nce that power generally wields. This
boy, whose father was treasurer of a large European corporation,
entered psycho therapy with May during his early years at college. When therapy  was about to begin, the father called up to discuss
“maximizing the eectiveness of my son’s treatment,” exactly as if
he were conducting a corpora te board meeting. He had a controlling
interest in his son, although he would have called it paternal love. When the boy fell ill at school, his father ew out immediately to
take charge of the situation, but at the same time he became furious
when his son held hands with his girlfriend on the front lawn of
their resort house. May points out that the fathe r was superb at taking care of people
but had never learned to care for them, could give them his money
but not his heart, could direct them but never listen to them: “The
strong ‘will power’ which the father thought solved all his problems,
actually served at the same time to block his sensitivity, to cut o
his capacity to hear other persons, even, or perhaps especially, his
own son.”
This man exercised power over others casually, even
unthinkingly. At dinner one night he proudly told how he was
negotiating to buy a small business owned by one of his son’s
friends, but when the negotiations went too slowly, he irritably
canceled the deal, showing no remorse about driving someone into
bankruptcy with the snap of his ngers. It is no wonder that his son
had great diculty nishing school and spent years of anguish
before he could accomplish anything worthwhile on his own. One of the reasons that the yogi can endure


 go through a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or is broken down by the
vegetables own enzymes, but vegetables lose nutrition hundreds of times more rapidly than cereals. Produce was recently part of a
living plant. It was co nnected to the vascular system of a plant and with few exceptions, is not intended by nature to remain intact
after being cut. A lettuce or a zucchini was entirely alive at the moment of harvest, but from that point, its cells begin to  die. Even
if it is n ot yet attacked by bacteria, molds and fungi, its own internal enzymes have begun breaking down its own substances. Vegetables, especially leafy vegetables, are far more critical in this respect than most ripe fruits. All, however, deteriora te much
like ra dioactive material; they have a sort of half -life. The mineral content is stable, but in respect to the vitamins and enzymes and
other complex organic components, each time period or "half life" results in the loss of half the nutrition. Suppose a lettuc e has a
half life of 48 hours, two days after harvest only 50 percent of the original nutrition remains. After two more days, half th e
remaining half is gone and only 25 percent is left. After two more days half of that 25 percent is lost. Thus six days afte r harvest
and a lettuce contains only bout 12 percent of its original nutrition. A two day half -life is only hypothetical. Those types of
produce I classify as very perishable probably do have a half -life of from 36 to 48 hours. Moderately perishable produ ce has a half
life of about 72 hours; durable types of produce have half lives of 96 hours or longer. Vegetable Storage Potential
 Very Perishable  Moderately Perishable  Durable
lettuce  zucchini  apple
spinach  eggplant  squash
Chinese cabbage  sweet peppers  oranges
kale broccoli  cabbage
endive  cauliflower  carrot
peaches  apricots  lemons
parsley   beets

    The half life of produce can be lengthened by lowering its temperature. For that reason, sophisticated produce growers usuall y
use hydrocooling. This process dumps a just -cut vegetable into icy water within minutes of being harvested, lowering core
temperature to a few degrees above freezing almost immediately. When cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures, and
stacks of those crates are put in a cooler, it can take the inside of the stack 24 hours, or longer, to become chilled. Home gardeners
should also practice hydrocooling. Fill your sink with cold water and wash/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilled b efore
draining and refrigerating it. Or, harvest your garden early in the morning when temperatures are lowest. Still, when yo u buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room temperature for hours or possibly days. The bottom line here: fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically grown! The Real Truth About Salt And Sugar
    First, let me remind c ertain food religionists: salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is sugar is sugar. There are no good forms of salt
and no good forms of sugar. Salt from a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect; white sugar, natural br own
sugar, hone y, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, whatever sweet have you. All are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects. I know of no harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty. Nutrisweet is basically harmless to most people and can be us ed as a
very satisfactory replacement for sugars. (A few people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet, causing the anti -chemicalists to circulate
much anti -nutrisweet propaganda, but you should carefully consider this thought before dismissing nutrisweet –there is almost no
food substance that some people are not allergic to or unable to digest. The fact that nutrisweet is made in a chemical vat a nd the
fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does not make it "of the devil." And its not all black and white with the oth er items either. Sea salt does have certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt
and under certain very special conditions, eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable. Similarly, some forms of sugar are not
quite as harmful as other forms, th ough all are harmful. The primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys,
though it does that. It is not that eating salt ruins the kidneys; salt probably does not do that. The  real problem with salt is that
sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering the release of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist
inflammation. When these hormones are at high levels in the blood, the person often feels very good, has a sense of well -being. Thus salt is a drug! And like many drugs of its type, salt is a habituating drug. However, we are so used to whipping our adr enals
with salt that we don't notice it. What we do notice is that we think we like the taste of salte d food and consider that food tastes flat
without it. But take away a person's salt shaker and they become very uncomfortable. That's because the addict isn't getting their
regular dose. What's wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fo rtitude is variable; many people's adrenals eventually fail to
respond to the prod of salt and the body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones. Often those inheriting weak adrena ls
manifest semi -failure in childhood. The consequence is that ordin ary, irritating substances begin causing severe irritation. The
person becomes allergic to pollen, dust, foods, animal danders, etc. We see asthma, hay fever, sinusitis, etc. Though one can  then
discover specific allergens and try to remove them from the e nvironment or diet, often this case can be solved far more easily by
complete withdrawal from all salt. This rests the adrenals and they may recover their full function; almost certainly their f unction
will improve. The asthma, allergies and etc., graduall y vanish. Most of us don't need to eat salt as a nutrient. There's enough sodium in one dill pickle to run a human body for a year. The re's
enough natural sodium in many types of vegetables to supply normal needs without using table salt. Perhaps athle tes or other hard
working people in the tropics eating deficient food grown on leached -out depleted soils, people that sweat buckets day after day
may need a little extra sodium. Perhaps. Not having practiced in the humid tropics myself, I have no definiti ve answer about this. Unfortunately, the average American is entirely addicted to salt and thinks food tastes lousy without it. To please the avera ge
consumer, almost all prepared foods contain far too much salt for someone suffering from exhausted ad renals. Interestingly,
Canadians do not like their foods nearly as salty as Americans, and prepared foods like soups and the like in cans and packag es
that look just like the ones in American supermarkets (though with French on the back panel) have to be r eformulated for our
northern neighbors. I've observed that Canadians are generally healthier than Americans in many respects. We would all be far better off consuming no salt at all. Those with allergies or asthma should completely eliminate it for a
month or two and discover if that simple step doesn't pretty much cure them. The trouble is that bakery bread is routinely two
percent salt by weight. Cheese is equally salted or even more so. Canned and frozen prepared food products are all heavily sa lted. Restaurant meals are always highly salted in the kitchen. If you want to avoid salt you almost have to prepare everything you rself,
bake your own bread, abstain from cheese (though there are unsalted cheeses but even I don't like the flavor of these), and  abstain
from restaurants. My family has managed to eliminate all salt from our own kitchen except for that in cheese, and we eat chee se
rather moderately. Sugar is a high -caloric non -food with enormous liabilities. First, from the viewpoint of the uni versal formula for health, no form
of non -artificial sweetener carries enough nutrients with it to justify the number of calories it contains, not even malt extract. W hite
refined sugar contains absolutely no nutrients at all; the "good" or "natural" sweet s also carry so little nutrition as to be next to
useless. Sweets are so far over on the bad end of the Health = Nutrition / Calories scale that for this reason alone they sho uld be
avoided. However, healthy people can usually afford a small amount of  sin; why not make it sweets? In small quantity, sugars are
probably the easiest indiscretion to digest and the least damaging to the organ systems. Although, speaking of sin, as Edgar Guest,
the peoples' poet, once so wisely quipped, (and my husband agree s) "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." Sugar is a powerful
drug! People who abuse sweets set up a cycle of addiction that can be very hard to break. It starts when the body tries to re gulate
blood sugar. Kicked up to high levels by eating sugar, the p ancreas releases insulin. But that is not the end of the chain reaction. Insulin regulates blood sugar levels but also raises brain levels of an amino acid called tryptophan. Tryptophan is the raw m a


 spreading and increase of pain. She journeyed to the States and
underwent a fast. The fast lasted only three weeks, but it freed her of all pain and inflammation and
restored normal movement to her joints. “I am going to advertise you all over Canada,” she said to the
Hygienist
 who conducted her fast
and after-care. She kept her word, but the important thing in this connection is that, after the
92passage of over three years, she is still free of arthritis. She has had no recurrence of pain and
inflammation. Her enthusiasm for fasting in particular and
Hygiene
 in general knows no bounds. These two cases may be taken as typical of hundreds of similar cases the writer has seen
recover during the past more than forty years. Not all of these recoveries have continued on for
years without recurrence; some of the individuals were foolish enough to return to their former
disease-producing mode of living, but they have been able to remedy the recurrences by returning
to good physical behavior, so that they have remained well. Keeping well requires that we give a reasonable amount of intelligent attention to the manner in
which we live. It takes no more time and effort to eat sensibly than it does to eat imprudently and
indiscriminately. One must breathe—it requires no more time to breathe pure air than it does to
breathe impure air. Indeed, in all the ways of living, not more time, often less time is required to
live rightly than wrongly. Why shall we go through life taking an antacid after each meal, when it is possible to eat in such
a way that we can at all times be comfortable after meals? Why shall we take aspirin for recurrent
headaches, when we can live in a manner to avoid headaches? Why take a daily laxative, when it
is easily possible to have normal bowel movements? The intelligent reader will have no difficulty
in answering these questions. Discomfort has meaning to the observing and reasoning individual. The intelligent man should
see in all discomforts and pains hints of warnings that he should slow down and eliminate some of
his indulgences. He should heed their warnings. Nature is a remarkable teacher and if we accept
her instructions and observe her warning signs, health and long life will be ours. Because of its very painful nature and its tendency to completely incapacitate the sufferer,
rheumatic arthritis is one of the most serious and most dreaded disease of man. Developing, as it
does in the joints, it soon, unless its causes are removed, makes an invalid or a semi-invalid of the
patient. The pain is so severe and so persistent that it rapidly destroys all peace of mind and
prevents rest and sleep. Although probably developing most frequently in cold, damp areas,
arthritis is found in all localities. Several varieties of arthritis are known, but listing then is of no practical importance. Were we
laboriously to draw a picture of each of the several varities in the forms of the disease, we would
be but filling up space and wearying the reader. All of these several variations are traceable to the
same underlying cause, and are remediable by eliminating this cause. Pain and swelling of the tissues surrounding the joints are prominent features of the early stages
of arthritis. As soon as inflammation develops, efforts are made to immobilize the joint. The
muscles and ligaments become tensed and contracted, the on-guard condition thus developed
seemingly increasing the pain. Involving as it does the joints, especially the surrounding tissues, arthritis presents a more
complicated problem than the more simple, transient pains and aches that may be called
rheumatism, such as lumbago, or so-called muscular rheumatism. Developing, as it frequently
does, in the cartilage that pads the ends of the bones of the joints, the arthritis may lead to
destruction of the cartilage and produce deformity. If the cause is not removed, the denuded ends of the bones will ultimately unite (ankylose) so
that the joint becomes fixed and immovable. When this bony union takes place the pain ceases, but
the joint is forever lost. Rheumatic arthritis is not built in a day. The vigorous and strong may practice enervating habits
for years before it evolves. Or such individuals may, after its first appearance, hold it in check for
93years before it becomes a serious crippling influence. We should know that arthritis represents an
end-point in a pathological process that has been years in its development. Before the development of the joint inflammation, there are aches and pains, with periods of not
feeling well, periods of not being able to sleep, of poor appetite, of indigestion, and of other
evidences that all is not well within. So long as we continue to close our eyes to the existence of
the many “minor” symptoms and refuse to recognize them as forerunners of the more complex
stages of disease, just so long will we refuse to make
those changes in our way of life that are
essential to the prevention of arthritis. How often do people who are bothered with vague musuclar pains, a little stiffening of the
joints, a “touch of neuritis,” an “attack” of lumbago or of sciatica, mistake the significance of these
warning signs. They palliate these symptoms with drugs, massage, manipulations, hot baths, and
persist in the way of life that builds trouble. Suppressing symptoms does nothing to remove their causes and fails to check the further
development of a chronic state and the possible development of invalidism. Fundamentally and primarily the cause of arthritis is toxemia. This is the summing up of a
multitude of abuses of the body in eating, drinking, emoting, in sexual activity, and in other forms
of activity. Eating too much from childhood lays the foundation for the toxemia. No one knows just
how many subtle toxins are involved in the cause of arthritis. It may be said that hundreds or even
thousands may be involved in its production. Years will elapse before it becomes possible to isolate all the compounds amino acids alone
are capable of forming with one another and with other by-products of proteins and carbohydrates. It is safe to assume that no single poison is alone and independently responsible for the evolution
of any complex pathology. How can we hope, in our present state of ignorance, to isolate and analyze one particular toxic
substance that is the cause of cancer or of Bright’s disease or of insanity? Can it be asserted with
any degree of assurance that the toxins responsible for any one or all of the so-called degenerative
diseases differ in any essential? The character of the disease resulting from the toxic saturation is
determined by individual factors rather than by the character of the toxin. I describe the cause of arthritis as a perversion of nutrition in a toxemic subject. There seems to
be no doubt that the primary irritation leading to the abnormal changes in the joints is due to the
presence in the blood and lymph of an unstable toxic material accumulating for months and years in
one who is enervated. These sufferers are always heavy eaters, but are especially prone to overeat
on sweets and starches—bread, potatoes, cakes, pies and candy. Their joints are likely to be stiff and they find it difficult to get around in the morning when they
first arise. Stiffness wears off after a little use of the limbs, but the knee joints, ankle joints, elbow
joints, and other joints of the body are likely to complain bitterly when used. There may be no pain
and there are rarely any constitutional symptoms, so that the patient is likely to think that the
stiffness is entirely local. Wrong food combinations, excesses of starches and sugars, condiments, coffee, tea, liquors, and
tobacco are potent factors in laying the groundwork for the evolution of arthritis. Added to these
factors may be any form of
enervating emotional unrest, sensual indulgence, and physical
overactivity. With all of this said, arthritis seems to develop only in those of the so-called gouty or
arthritic or rheumatic diathesis—or predisposition. Diathesis is only a word and will remain more
or less meaningless unless we understand the factors behind the predisposition. Rheumatic arthritis, as distinguished from traumatic and tubercular arthritis, represents an
94impaired state of nutrition in addition to the common toxemia. The calcium deposits and stone
formation that are part of the disease indicate that the nutritional perversion is similar to, if not
identical with, that which is back of the formation of gall stones, kidney stones, hardening of the
arteries, deposits of lime on the valves of the heart, deposits in the feet in gout, and the formation
of stones in other parts of the body. When enervation and toxemia have lowered resistance, anything that puts an added strain upon
the body may precipitate an arthritic crisis in one who is predisposed to the development of
arthritis. Acute illness, “infection,” a “focus on infection,” indigestion, an unusual meal, cold,
getting wet, anxiety and overindulgence of the emotions, may precipitate a crisis. So-called infections from abscessed teeth or abscesses elsewhere in the body should be
recognized for what they are—
secondary sources of trouble. Super-added to toxemia and
gastrointestinal putrefaction, they complicate the condition of the patient. They are never primary
causes. Yet, it sometimes happens that a patient is able to resist the other sources of troubles but not
these plus the secondary "infection,”


  ‘power’ that are key players and pushing the vaccine agenda as we know it today, for various reasons. One of  the key leaders behind all these vaccines today is none other then, Microsoft owner and Bill and Melinda Gates foundation CEO, who also seems to hold authority over the NIH, WHO, and many other major corporations but is not a licensed medical doctor in any shape or form, yet has given deadly vaccines to thousands of  children and adults around the world, in which many have died, some of  those most recently in India, which he did so posing as a philanthropist and humanitarian and was then kicked out, and rightfully so, and that very beings name is none other then Bill Gates. V ACCINES AND THE V ACCINE AGENDA WRITTEN BY REMI NAHARThere is so much more i could have shared and touched on with you all regarding vaccines and this so called pandemic, but i want to leave it like this…  Whatever you're views on vaccinations maybe at this point in time, i want you to simply consider this thought; We are humans that are born into a world without pain and sorrow, without hate in our hearts and lies on our tongues, without jealousy towards one another and without being in fear of  the world around us and everything in it, then why do we defend the very few people and corporations that have created such unethical, selﬁsh and vile systems to keeps us divided and sick as humans, without ever questioning the very acts they have us do, think, feel and say, in our everyday lives in order that it suits there agenda even  when deep down we know something isn't right about how life is being lived out. We are far greater then this and this is our health and we need to stand up for what is rightfully ours, which is our very being of  freedom, and that starts from within. If  we want to see good and kindness, if  we want to see compassion and love in this world, then we need to be that in ourselves and live that out. Start feeding your bodies foods that it deserves. The earth has given us those blessings for free yet here we are having to pay for natures blessing to all. If  this year has taught me anything, it is that my heart, body and soul is worthy to be cared for with kindness and that is what we all should be doing, not hating one another and living in fear and more importantly, not hating ourselves because that is what those very few in power have made us do, sadly. I thank you for reading this article/ thesis or whatever you may view it as, and i hope that after so much research and digging in regards to to the headlined topic, all that i have shared with you will help you in any way, to better yourselves and make better decisions on your children's health. Love does not cost. It is free and should be given out freely to a hurting world. Let that energy vibrate with truth, and let love lead. True liberation begins within ones heart and soul. Peace and Love Remi V ACCINES AND THE V ACCINE AGENDA WRITTEN BY REMI NAHAR

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This document is a reproduction of the book or other copyrighted material you
requested. It was prepared on for the exclusive use of Oriana, whose email address is
orianaoriana@gmail.com. This reproduction was made by the Soil and Health Library only for the purpose of
research and study. Any further reproduction or distribution of this copy in any form
whatsoever constitutes a violation of copyrights. MAN VERSUS TOOTHACHE

by DR. GEORGE W. HEARD

Dr. George W. Heard

Copyright 1952 — Dr. George W. Heard, Hereford, Texas
Published by
Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Printed in the USA

INTRODUCTION
 All worthwhile knowledge that is in the possession of civilized
man started first on what is termed a hunch. Observation of a series of
apparently coordinated phenomena has led men into wondering,
surmising and searching for more material to support his already
growing assumption. This book is an account of just such a procedure—which has led
the author, Dr. Heard, to the point wh ere he feels that he can offer his
readers suggestions which followed through would open the way to a
more healthful enjoyment of living,  and relieve physical and mental
suffering. Having lost his own health, the author, by will power
alone— the fortitude to carry out painstakingly such self-imposed
restrictions in diet and living habits as seemed to aid in the recovery of
his health—gained not only health but a new vision of life. His ideas
should be studied by all those wh o are suffering fr om ill-conceived
and ill-advised habits—such as can be  corrected only by the individual
practice of self-control, a control which cannot be imposed by another
person from the outside. In short, it is the individual's own efforts at
self-discipline which can bring about lasting good for himself. When I first read this work, I wa s inclined to advise that all
personal references be deleted— that the book be confined to
observations made and conclusions drawn therefrom. But, on a second
perusal, I saw that it was those very personal references which added
charm and interest: here is set down the life work of a man. The mere record of the author's lifelong observations and
conclusions, printed in a book, would not be read so widely or prove
so valuable to the many potential readers. I am personally grateful to the author for having set down so
clearly and concisely the rules for living a happy and useful life. I trust
that many readers will glean from this book helpful suggestions that
will be of immense value to them in their own quest for a happy,
useful life. C. A. Pierle. Canyon, Texas. September, 1951. DR. HEARD'S STORY

THE TOWN WITHOUT A TOOTHACHE

by Dr. George W. Heard

FOREWORD
 Since my discovery created a worldwide sensation when Dr.
Edward Taylor of Austin announced it to the dental profession some
10 years ago, uncounted millions of  words have been written and
published concerning "The Town Without a Toothache." Except for occasional articles in professional journals and
nutrition magazines, none of that vast volume of matter—some of it
scientific but far more of purely speculative—has come from my pen. Yet, I began writing more than 20  years ago and some inner urge
has kept me at it ever since. I have  kept a record of facts established
by my systematic inquiry into the cause and prevention of tooth decay. Too, I have set down at length my  inferences and conclusions from
those facts. But I have devoted more words to my ruminations—
thoughts that would come to me, of ten in the middle of the night,
about the nature of things, the Creator's gifts to man, and the challenge
every man faces to use those gifts wisely. Invariably, I felt a
compulsion to put those thoughts on paper. Consequently, I have writte n and accumulated enough
manuscript


 my early  twenties, but i t was only after I met with myofunctional
therapists Joy Moeller, Barbara  Greene, and Karen Samuel in 2006 that I
learned the correct position of the tongue. Until then, I hadn’ t given it a
moment’ s consideration, and most likely my tongue had been flopping
about without a home for the previous thirty-two years. Between them, Joy,
Barbara, and Karen have devo ted almost a hundred years to reeducating
people on the placement of the tongue and facial muscles in order to
address a variety of detrimenta l issues that af fect the development of the
jaws and teeth. S pending thousands of dollars on orthodontic treatment can
be in vain if po or habits such as mouth breathing, tongue th rusting, and
incorrect swallo wing are not addressed. And you may be ab le to avoidorthodontic treat ment altogether if these habits are not permitted to develop
in the first place. In th e correct re sting position, three-quarters of the tongue should press
gently a gainst th e roof of the mouth with the tip of the tongue placed just
behind t he top front teeth—the s ame place we put the tongue to make the N
sound “nuh.”  Just like nasal breathing, optimal resting tongue posture is not
a recent  discove ry; for thousands of years it formed an important part of
Eastern yoga and the religion o f Buddhism. Y ogi Bhajan, who introduced
Kundalini yoga to the United States in 1968, accredited the upper palate and
the tip of the tongue as the tw o most important parts of the  body. The
ancient Buddhis t scriptures of t he Pali Canon contain passages describing
how the Buddha pressed his tongue against the roof of the mouth for the
purposes of controlling hunger and the mind. This illustration  shows the facial characteristics of a nasal brea ther and
is based on the Irish International and LA Galaxy soccer captain Robbie
Keane:
Note the  forward position of th e jaws, high cheekbones, airway size,
and wid th of the face. The jaw i s strong and positioned well forw ard so that
the chin  is nearly as far forwar d as the tip of the nose. When  cartoonists
draw illu strations of a dominant male, his strength is often conveyed by arugged and exaggerated jaw. S ocially, a wide facial structure and strong
jawline are considered healthier and more attractive than a recessed chin. And not only is  the classic squa re jawline more likely to get you a date, it
might also be beneficial to your bank balance. In a paper written by
researchers from the School of Business at the University of California at
Riverside, men with wider faces were found to be stronger negotiators,
commanding a signing bonus of nearly $2,200 more than their narrow-faced
counterparts. In  a separate stud y by the same authors it was found that
companies led by men with wider faces also achieved superior financial
performance. Throughout our evolution, social anthropologists have regarded facial
appearance as a determinant in establishing societal rank and individual
roles. Beauty is not just skin de ep, and Aristotle was right whe n he stated
that “Beauty is a far great er recommendation than any  letter of
introduction.”
In the image ab ove, the jaws are set back and the airways are smaller,
resulting in diminished athletic performance. Had the jaws bee n in a more
forward position, the nose would be straighter and smaller. Th e eyes look
tired as the fac e sinks downward, and there is poor definition of the
cheekbones. Chronic, habitual mouth breathing is also associated withpostural changes that result in decreased muscle strength, reduced chest
expansion, and impaired breathing. Interestingly, researchers have found
that mouth breathers are more likely to be male. While the above image is exa ggerated somewhat, these features are
identifiable in thousands of children and adults who have fallen between the
cracks o f the health care system and were not encouraged  to breathe
through their nose. These same individuals often suf fer from poor health,
low ener gy, and reduced concentration. In the words of Dr. Y osh Jef ferson:
“These children do not sleep well at night due to obstructed airways; this
lack of sleep ca n adversely af fect their growth and academic p erformance. Many of these children are misdiagnosed with attention deficit disorder
(ADD) and hyperactivity.”
Dr. Egil Peter Harvold, an ex pert in orthodontics and craniofacial
anomalies, carried out extensive  research into the development of the facial
structure of monkeys in the 197 0s, discovering that the restriction of nasal
breathing over several years led to a lowering of the jaws, crooked teeth,
and other facial deformities. While today we would consider it  dreadful to
experiment on innocent anima ls in this way, hundreds of thousands of
children take part in a simil ar experiment and experience  the same
craniofacial ano malies due to the ef fects of mouth breathing. D r. Harvold’ s
studies paved the way for the treatment and prevention of th e improper
development of the jaws and fa ce and is accredited almost single-handedly
for introducing a branch of or thodontics known as functional appliance
therapy to North America. A 2012 study investigating the long-term changes to facial structure
caused by mouth breathing noted that this seemingly “benign” h abit “has in
fact immediate and/or deferred cascading ef fects on multiple physiological
and behavioral functions.” Infa nts and children who breathe through their
mouths due to n asal obstruction  are likely to develop crooked  teeth and a
longer, narrowe r face, permanently af fecting their appearan ce. Mouth
breathing also has a significant impact on the health of the chil d, including
restriction of the lower airways, poor quality of sleep, high stress levels, and
a lower  quality of life. Rese arch has suggested that habitual mouth
breathing may even be connected to sudden infant death syndrome.Hold On to Y our T eeth! Over the past few years I have been asked to give talks on nasal breathing at
dental c onferences in Europe, Australia, and the United States. Each
conference presents a wonderful opportunity to speak with international
experts in dentistry and related disciplines, including orthodontics. There
are two specific groups within  orthodontics that hold opposing views:
functional orthodontists and traditional orthodontists. A fu nctional orthodontist places  emphasis on attaining the correct facial
profile of the face as well as str aightening the teeth. Functiona l appliances
are worn by the child in order to help guide the growth of the face, jaws,
and teet h to reach their full gen etic potential. The commonly held view of
functional ortho dontists is that overcrowding of teeth is not because the
teeth are too big, but more likely because the jaw is too small as a result of
mouth breathing or thumb sucking. The course of action therefore is to
gently expand the jaws and guide them forward to make room for the teeth,
with extractions only carried out as a last resort. In c ontrast, the primary emph asis of traditional orthodontic s is to
straighten the teeth, with the facial profile and airway size receiving
secondary consideration. Crowded teeth are usually treated by extracting
four per fectly good premolars and retracting or pulling the fron t teeth back
to cl ose up the excess space created. This retraction sometimes  causes the
face, especially around the lips, to look caved in, and the nose and chin to
become more prominent. This retraction of the front teeth may  also cause
problems with the joint of the jaw if the lower jaw is forced back too far. When th e lower jaw is too far back, it encroaches on the upp er airways,
decreasing airway size and negatively af fecting athletic ability. If you are the parent of a child who may be under going orthodontic
treatment, I would like to impart some advice from i nternational
orthodontist Dr. John Mew, who has devoted his life to ensuring the normal
growth of children’ s faces:
•   F irst ask the orthodontist ho w many permanent teeth will b e
initially removed and how many more may need extracting
later. Sadly, most children who receive traditional retractive
orthodontic treatment lose 4 premolar teeth, and nearly half ofthese ch ildren will not have room for their wisdom teeth,
leaving them with 24 teeth. This  can be completely avoided by
helping to ensure normal growth of the face to accommodate
all 32 teeth. •   Ask your c linician whethe r he or she is confident about
avoiding an increase in the verti cal growth of your child’ s face. Y ou hav e the right to be inform ed of all types of treatment and
to be warned of likely problems. Knowledge is empowering. The best approach to determine the
treatment option s for you and your child is to research both fun ctional and
traditional orthodontic treatment. Selecting the correct approach will have
repercussions on  the well-being of your child; it is well worth  investing a
little tim e to determine a more noninvasive solution. Extraction s should


 easier because essentially, it involves gobbling nutritional supplements by thehandfuls without requiring self-discipline, though it can get quite expensive. I’llhave more to say about this approach in the next chapter, which is about vitamins. In this book I can’t explain all the aspects of prolongation of life through
conscious life-style choice. Those who are interested are referred to theBibliography. Chapter Six
Vitamins and
Other Food Supplements
From The Hygienic Dictionary
Vitamins. [1] The staple foods may not contain the same nutritive substances as in former times. Chemical fertilizers, by increasing the abundance of the crops without replacing all the exhaustedelements of the soil, may have indirectly contributed to change the nutritive value of cereal grains andof vegetables. Hygienists have not paid sufficient attention to the genesis of diseases. Theirstudies of conditions of life and diet, and of their effects on the physiological and mental state ofmodern man are superficial, incomplete, and of too short duration. They have, thus, contributed to theweakening of our body and our soul. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown. I have already explained the hygienist’s view of why people get sick. The
sequence of causation goes: enervation, toxemia, alternative elimination, disease. However, there is one more link in this chain, a precursor to enervation that, forgood and understandable reasons, seemed unknown to the earlier hygienists. Thatprecursor is long term subclinical malnutrition. Lack of nutrition effects virtuallyeverybody today. Almost all of us are overfed but undernourished. I have already explained that one particular head of broccoli does not
necessarily equal another head of broccoli; the nutritional composition ofapparently identical foods can be highly variable. Not only do different samples ofthe same type of food differ wildly in protein content, amino acid ratios andmineral content, their vitamin and vitamin-like substances also vary according tosoil fertility and the variety grown. These days, food crop varieties are bred for yield and other commercial
considerations, such as shipability, storage life, and ease of processing. In pre-industrial times when each family propagated its own unique open-pollinatedvarieties, a natural selection process for healthy outcomes prevailed. If the family’sparticular, unique varieties carried genes for high nutrition levels, and if the family’sland was fertile enough to allow those genes to manifest, and if the family kept upits land’s fertility by wise management, their children tended to survive the gauntletof childhood illness and lived to propagate the family’s varieties and continue thefamily name. Thus, over time, human food cultivars were selected for theirnutritional content. But not any longer. These days, farming technology with its focus on bulk yield
and profit, degrades the nutritional content of our entire food supply. Evencommercial organically grown food is no better in this respect. Subclinical, life-long, vitamin and mineral deficiencies contribute to the onset of
disease; the malnourished body becomes increasingly enervated, beginning theprocess of disease. Vitamin supplements can increase the body’s vital force,reversing to a degree the natural tendency towards degeneration. In fact, somemedical gerontologists theorize that by using vitamins it might be possible torestore human life span to its genetically programmed 115 years without doinganything else about increasing nutrition from our degraded foods or paying muchattention to dietary indiscretions. Knowing what I do about toxemia’s effects Idoubt vitamins can allow us to totally ignore what we eat, though supplements cancertainly help. More than degraded nutritional content of food prompts a thinking person to
use food supplements. Our bodies and spirits are constantly assaulted andinsulted by modern life in ways our genetics never intended us to deal with. Todaythe entire environment is mildly toxic. Air is polluted; water is polluted; our foodsupply contains traces of highly poisonous artificial molecules that our bodies haveno natural ability to process and eliminate. Our cities and work places are full of
loud, shocking noises that trigger frequent adrenaline rushes and other stress
adaptations. Our work places are full of psychological stresses that humans neverhad to deal with before. Historically, humans who were not enslaved have been in control of
determining their own hour to hour, day to day activities, living on their ownlargely self-sufficient farms. The idea of working for another, at regular hours,without personal liberty, ignoring or suppressing one’s own agenda andinclinations over an entire lifetime is quite new and not at all healthy. It takescontinual subconscious applications of mental and psychic energies to protectourselves against the stresses of modern life, energies that we don’t know we’reexpending. This is also highly enervating. Thus to remain healthy we may neednutrition at levels far higher than might be possible through eating food; even idealfood might not contain enough vitamins to sustain us against the strains andstresses of this century. And think about Dr. Pottenger’s cats. Our bodies are at the poorer end of a
century-long process of mass degeneration that started with white flour from theroller mill. Compared to my older clients I have noticed that my younger patientsseem to possess less vital force on the average, show evidence of poorer skeletaldevelopment, have poorer teeth, less energy, have far more difficulty breeding andcoping with their family life, and are far more likely to develop degenerativeconditions early. Most of my younger patients had a poor start because they wereraised on highly refined, devitalized, deficient foods, and grew up without muchexercise. Their parents had somewhat better food. Some of their grandparentsmay have even grown up on raw milk and a vegetable garden, and actually had towalk, not owning cars when they were young. Their great grandparents had a highlikelihood of enjoying decent nutrition and a healthful life-style. Unfortunately, most of my patients like the idea of taking vitamins too much for
their own good. The AMA medical model has conditioned people to swallowsomething for every little discomfort, and taking a pill is also by far the easiest
thing to do because a pill requires no life-style changes, nor self-discipline, nor
personal responsibility. But vitamins are much more frugal than drugs. Comparedto prescriptions, even the most exotic life extension supplements are much lessexpensive. I am saddened when my clients tell me they can’t afford supplements. When their MD prescribes a medicine that costs many times more they neverhave trouble finding the money. I am also saddened that people are so willing to take supplements, because I
can usually do a lot more to genuinely help their bodies heal with dietarymodification and detoxification. Of all the tools at my disposal that help peopleheal, last in the race comes supplements. One of the best aspects of using vitamins as though they were healing agents is
that food supplements almost never have harmful side effects, even when they aretaken in what might seem enormous overdoses. If someone with a healthcondition reads or hears about some vitamin being curative, goes out and buyssome and takes it, they will at very least have followed the basic principle of goodmedicine: first of all do no harm. At worst, if the supplements did nothing for themat all, they are practicing the same kind of benevolent medicine that Dr. Jenningsdid almost two centuries ago. Not only that, but having done something to treattheir symptoms, they have become patients facilitating their own patience, givingtheir body a chance to correct its problem. They well may get better, but notbecause of the action of the particular vitamin they took. Or, luckily, the vitamin orvitamins they take may have been just what was needed, raising their body’s vitalforce and accelerating the body’s ability to solve its problem. One reason vitamin therapies frequently do not work as well as they might is
that, having been intimidated by AMA propaganda that has created largely falsefears in the public mind about harmful effects of vitamin overdoses, the personmay not take enough of the right vitamin. The minimum daily requirements ofvitamins and minerals as outlined in nutrition texts are only sufficient to prevent themost obvious forms of deficiency diseases. If a person takes supplements at or
near the minimum daily requirement (the dose recommended by the FDA as being
‘generally recognized as safe’) they should not expect to see any therapeuticeffect unless they have scurvy, beri beri, rickets, goiter, or pellagra. In these days of vitamin-fortified bread and iodized salt, and even vitamin C
fortified soft drinks, you almost never see the kind of life-threatening deficiencystates people first learned to recognize, such as scurvy. Sailors on long seavoyages used to develop a debilitating form of vitamin C deficiency that could kill. Scurvy could be quickly cured by as little as one lime a day. For this reason theBritish Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today thatis why British sailors are still called limeys. A lime has less than 30 milligrams ofvitamin C. But to make a cold clear up faster with vitamin C a mere 30 mg doesabsolutely nothing. To begin to dent an infection with vitamin C takes 10,000milligrams a day, and to make a life threatening infection like pneumonia go awayfaster might require 25,000 to 150,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily, administeredintravenously. In terms of supplying that much C with limes, that’s 300 to 750 ofthem daily—clearly impossible. Similarly, pellagra can be cured with a few milligrams of vitamin B
3, but
schizophrenia can sometimes be cured with 3,000 milligrams, roughly a thousandtimes as much as the MDR. There are many many common diseases that the medical profession does not
see as being


 limit to this list. But everything on the list can be done
to pump up your ego or to serve others. Satisfying your ego ultimately
means being unfulfilled and questioning your purpose. This is because your
Source is egoless, and you’re attempting to connect to your Source, where
your purpose originates. If the activities on the list are in service to others,
you feel the bliss of purposeful living, while paradoxically attracting more
of what you’d like to have in your life. My daughter Skye is an example of what I’m presenting here. Skye has
known since she could first speak that she wanted to sing. It was almost as
if she showed up here in the world with a destiny to sing for others. Over
the years, she’s sung at my public appearances, first as a 4-year-old, and
then at every age up until now, her 21st year. She has also sung on my
public television specials, and the reaction to her singing has always been
gratifying. As a student immersed in a music program at a major university, Skye
studied from academic and theoretical perspectives. One day in her junior
year, we had a discussion that centered on her purpose and the silent inner
knowing she’s always had. “Would you be upset,” she inquired, “if I left
college? I just don’t feel like I can do what I know I have to do by sitting in
a classroom and studying music theory any longer. I just want to write myown music and sing. It’s the only thing I think about, but I don’t want to
disappoint you and Mom.”
How could I, who tells his readers not to die with their music still in
them, tell my 21-year-old daughter to stay in college because that’s the right
way, and it’s what I did? I encouraged her to listen to the silent knowing
that I’ve seen evidence of since she was a toddler, and to follow her heart. As Gandhi once said: “To give one’s heart is to give all.” This is where God
exists in Skye... and in you. I did ask Skye to make a supreme effort to live her purpose by serving
those who will listen to her music rather than focusing her attention on
being famous or making money. “Let the universe handle those details,” I
reminded her. “You write and sing because you have to express what is in
that beautiful heart of yours.” I then asked her to think from the end, and act
as if all that she wanted to create for herself was already here, waiting for
her to connect to it. Recently she voiced dismay at not having her own CD out in the world,
and she was acting with thoughts of not having a CD out in the world. Consequently, no CD and lots of frustration. I strongly encouraged her to
start thinking from the end by seeing the studio being available, the
musicians ready to collaborate with her, the CD as a finished product, and
her intention as a reality. I gave her a deadline to have a CD completed that
I could make available at my lectures. I told her that she could sing to these
audiences, as she has done sporadically in her life as well as on my public-
television pledge shows. Her thinking from the end materialized everything she needed, and the
universal Spirit began to work with her unbending intent. She found the
studio, the musicians she needed magically appeared, and she was able to
have the CD produced. Skye worked tirelessly day after day singing her own favorites, as well as
several that I wanted her to sing at my appearances, including “Amazing
Grace,” “The Prayer of St. Francis,” and her own composition, “Lavender
Fields,” which she sings from deep pride and passion. And lo and behold,today her CD, This Skye HasNo Limits, is now out and is being offered to
the public whenever she sings at my lectures. Skye’s presence on the stage with me brings so much joy and love to the
presentation because she’s as closely aligned with those seven faces of
intention as any human being I’ve ever known. So it’s no secret why this
book is also dedicated to her—one of my angels of spiritual intention. Inspiration and Purpose
When you’re inspired by a great purpose, everything will begin to work
for you. Inspiration comes from moving back in-spirit and connecting to the
seven faces of intention. When you feel inspired, what appeared to be risky
becomes a path you feel compelled to follow. The risks are gone because
you’re following your bliss, which is the truth within you. This is really
love working in harmony with your intention. Essentially, if you don’t feel
love, you don’t feel the truth, and your truth is all wrapped up in your
connection to Spirit. This is why inspiration is such an important part of the
fulfillment of your intention to live a life on purpose. When I left the work that no longer inspired me, every single detail that
I’d worried about was almost magically taken care of for me. I’d spent
several months working for a large corporation where I was offered a salary
three times higher than I’d been paid as a teacher, but I wasn’t in-spirit. That prodding inner knowing said, Do what you’re here to do, and
teaching/counseling became my manifested daily purpose. When I left a professorship at a major university for writing and public
speaking, it wasn’t a risk; it was something I had to do because I knew that I
couldn’t feel happy with myself if I didn’t follow my heart. The universe
handled the details, because I was feeling love for what I was doing, and
consequently, I was living my truth. By teaching love, that very same love
guided me to my purpose, and the financial remuneration flowed to me with
that same energy of love. I couldn’t see how it would work out, but I
followed an inner knowing and never regretted it! You may think it’s too risky to give up a salary, a pension, job security, or
familiar surroundings because of a dim night-light in your mind that draws
you to see why it’s turned on. I suggest that there are no risks at all if youpay attention to that light, which is your knowing. Combine your strong
knowing with the faith that Spirit will provide, and you acknowledge the
power of intention at work. Your trust in this inner knowing is all you need. I call it faith—not faith in an external god to provide you with a purpose,
but faith in the call you’re hearing from the center of your being. You are a
divine, infinite creation making the choice to be on purpose and to be
connected to the power of intention. It all revolves around your being
harmoniously connected to your Source. Faith eliminates the risk when you
choose to trust that inner knowing about your purpose and become a
channel for the power of intention. Making Intention Your Reality
Below are ten ways to practice fulfilling your intention to live your life
on purpose from this day forward:

Step 1: Affirm that in an intelligent system, no one shows up by
accident, including you. The universal mind of intention is responsible for
all of creation. It knows what it’s doing. You came from that mind, and
you’re infinitely connected to it. There’s meaning in your existence, and
you have the capacity to live from a perspective of purpose. The first step is
to know that you’re here on purpose. This is not the same as knowing what
you’re supposed to do. Throughout your life, what you do will change and
shift. In fact, the changes can occur from hour to hour in each day of your
life. Your purpose is not about what you do, it’s about your beingness, that
place within you from which your thoughts emerge. This is why you’re
called a human being rather than a human doing! Affirm in your own
words, both in writing and in your thoughts, that you are here on purpose,
and intend to live from this awareness at all times. Step 2: Seize every opportunity, no matter how small, to give your
life away in service. Get your ego out of your intention to live a life of
purpose. Whatever it is that you want to do in life, make the primarymotivation for your effort something or somebody other than your desire for
gratification or reward. The irony here is that your personal rewards will multiply when you’re
focused on giving rather than receiving. Fall in love with what you’re
doing, and let that love come from the deep, inner-dwelling place of Spirit. Then sell the feeling of love, enthusiasm, and joy generated by your efforts. If your purpose is felt by being Supermom, then put your energy and inner
drive into those children. If it’s felt writing poetry or straightening teeth,
then get your ego out of the way and do what you love doing. Do it from the
perspective of making a difference for someone or for some cause, and let
the universe handle the details of your personal rewards. Live your purpose
doing what you do with pure love—then you’ll co-create with the power of
the universal mind of intention, which is ultimately responsible for all of
creation. Step 3: Align your purpose with the field of intention. This is the most
important thing you can do to fulfill your intentions. Being aligned with the
universal field means having faith that your Creator knows why you’re
here, even if you don’t. It


leaves OR 2 teaspoons dried
-A clean towel
-Hot water1. Bring several cups of water to a boil and pour over basil leaves. Cover
and let steep for 10 minutes before straining the liquids. 2. Reheat the infused water if it has cooled-heat is needed here to help
muscles relax. Dunk your towel in the water once it has cooled to a safe,
but still toasty, temperature and wring out excess liquid. Wrap around
the part of your leg that is cramped, and relax. If you need to you can
reheat any leftover liquid and re-dunk the towel when it cools off too
much. Y ou may also place some fresh basil leaves between your leg and
the towel, and try some gentle stretching at the same time. 112Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Leg CrampsY ou will need… DirectionsMagnesium is a vital mineral that helps regulate muscle function, and a lot of people suffer from a severe
deficiency thanks to our diets these days. It is found in high amounts in Epsom salt, and is easily absorbed
transdermally (through the skin.) The warm water from the bath also helps clenched and cramped muscles relax. Add some lavender essential oil to the bath to help you relax overall as well. If you happen to be home and free
when a cramp strikes, climbing into the tub for a soak is great, but it’s not something you really want to do if
you wake up in the middle of the night with a cramp. If you tend to experience them at night, take a soak before
crawling into bed. It will help you relax and give a little magnesium boost that may help ward off a cramp, or at
least lessen the severity.Epsom Salt Bath
-2 cups of Epsom salt
-A warm bath
-Lavender oil
-1 tablespoon any liquid oil1. Pour 2 cups of Epsom salt into the tub and fill with warm water. When
it’s about halfway full, add the oil blend. Soak for 15-20 minutes when
needed, or before bed. 113Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Leg CrampsY ou will need… DirectionsThis is about as easy as it gets. It’s possible it’s the vinegar or turmeric in the mustard that makes it work so well,
but people swear a spoonful of yellow mustard relieves their cramps quickly and effectively. Y ou can also drink
straight vinegar. In a study that induced cramps in 10 college athletes, the ones that drank vinegar were relieved
up to 45% faster than those who didn’t. It’s deeply puzzling, since the vinegar would not have passed through
the stomach in the minute or so it took to relieve the cramp. Along the same lines as vinegar, pickle juice was
also used in the study and found to be effective as well.A Spoonful of Mustard, Vinegar or Pickle Juice
-1-2 full teaspoons of yellow
mustard OR 1 teaspoon of
white distilled vinegar OR 1
tablespoon of pickle juice1. Before exercising, bedtime, or even after a cramp sets in, swallow a
full teaspoon of yellow mustard. Follow it with some water to wash it
down and boost hydration as well. 114Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Leg CrampsY ou will need… DirectionsMotion sickness goes by several names, but whether or not you call
it carsick, seasick, or airsick; it’s all referring to the same miserable
thing.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        I am
lucky enough to have a plethora of wild raspberries growing up north, but if you cannot get fresh leaves, you
can order dried online or in a store bought tea blend. Red Raspberry Leaf Tea
-1/2 cup of fresh red raspberry
leaves OR 2 teaspoons of
dried red raspberry leaves
-Honey to taste1. Boil roughly 1 cup of fresh water and pour over leaves in a mug. Steep,
covered, for 10-15 minutes, and then drink in its entirety daily, or as
needed. Add honey for flavor if you want. The tea tastes like black tea,
but slightly less bitter. 67Copyright 2014 everydayroots. com CrampsY ou will need… DirectionsCinnamon’s essential oils have active components that can help with the pain of cramps, acting as an anti-
spasmodic and helping the uterine muscles to relax. The 4 main constituents are cinnamaldehyde, cinnamyl
acetate, eugenol, and cinnamyl alcohol. Y ou can purchase pre-made blends of cinnamon tea, but I find it easy
and quite enjoyable to make a simple infusion of powdered cinnamon/cinnamon sticks, honey, and water. Cinnamon “Tea”
-1 cup of water
-1 ¼ teaspoons of ground
cinnamon OR 5 cinnamon
sticks
-1 tablespoon organic, raw,
honey, or to taste1. In a small pot add water and cinnamon. Bring to a boil, and then
simmer for a few minutes. 2. Remove from the heat and add honey. Drink daily. It’s most effective if
you start drinking the day or two before you usually start to feel cramps. 68Copyright 2014 everydayroots. com CrampsY ou will need… DirectionsDiarrhea literally translates to “flowing through”, and I think most
people can say that’s a pretty accurate title. A number of diseases
and conditions cause diarrhea (viruses, bacteria, food poisoning, IBS,
etc. ) and one could actually go incredibly in depth with different kinds
and classifications, but I’ll avoid that part. Whatever the cause, what’s
happening is essentially the same whenever you have diarrhea. Food
and liquids you ingest move too quickly, or in too large an amount,
through the colon. The colon normally absorbs liquids from the food
you eat, but this doesn’t happen when stricken with diarrhea. The
unfortunate result is frequent and watery bowel movements, and many
trips to the bathroom. Diarrhea
-The single most important thing
you can do when you have
diarrhea is drink water and other
beneficial fluids because you are
losing so much. Y ou can easily
become seriously dehydrated and
throw your electrolytes all out of
whack if you don’t consciously
drink more. -A simple, delicious, way to put
a stop to diarrhea is pineapple. Pineapple contains bromelain,
which helps relieve digestive
discomfort as it breaks down hard
to digest proteins (hence why
pineapple is used to make meat
tender) and lessen inflammation
in the irritated colon. Studies
suggest that it may help diarrhea
especially in cases related to
E. coli. If you suffer from IBS, it
can help with inflammation, gas,
and other discomforts as well. However, there’s always too much
of a good thing, and pineapple
can also worsen diarrhea if eaten
in excess. -Avoid dairy like the plague, it’s
quite hard to digest even at full
health, and your body doesn’t
need the extra strain or irritation. Rice, Carrot, and Potato
-If you find the mixture too dry or
bland, soften the veggies in a little
bit of broth, chicken or otherwise,
and pour that over the rice as well. For some more variety, add in
some celery as well. 69Copyright 2014 everydayroots. comTips & TroubleshootingIt doesn’t sound like it would help with diarrhea, but it actually has a long history of use in Sweden, with
doctors “prescribing” it for patients who are afflicted. This is one I didn’t know of until recently, but I find it quite
fascinating, and love that there are some theories to back it up. Blueberries contain tannins, the same stuff in
wine that makes your mouth feel dry. They are natural astringents, contracting tissue and reducing inflammation. Both of those things are desperately needed when things aren’t passing through you quite right. They also have
substances that are antibacterial in nature (anthocyanosides) which are helpful if the upset is being caused by
bacteria, especially E.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is a natural remedy for relieving diarrhea?,
A: The text does not explicitly mention a specific remedy for diarrhea, but it does provide general advice to drink plenty of water and eat foods that are high in pectin, such as carrots, potatoes, and rice.
Q: What is a traditional remedy for treating migraines?,
A: The text does not mention a specific remedy for migraines, but it does discuss the importance of relaxation and stress relief in preventing insomnia.
Q: What is a natural remedy for heartburn?,
A: The text does not provide a specific remedy for heartburn, but it does recommend avoiding dairy products and drinking apple cider vinegar.
Q: What is a natural remedy for hot flashes?,
A: The text does not mention a specific remedy for hot flashes, but it does suggest avoiding triggers and using a fan to keep the room cool.
Q: What is a natural remedy for leg cramps?,
A: The text does not provide a specific remedy for leg cramps, but it does recommend soaking in an Epsom salt bath with lavender oil to relax muscles and provide magnesium.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>The nausea, dizziness, fatigue, and even vomiting that a sufferer