 isn’ t like a jam. I think I have hit just
the right balance, thanks to th is newfangled no-cook pectin pr oduct. It’ s
easy to find, especially in summer pr eserving season. The cinnamon is optional and could be r eplaced by up to 1/2 cup (125 mL)
chopped fr esh cilantr o, added just befor e serving. If you wish to use the
salsa as a condiment for ice cr eam, cakes and other desserts, omit the onion
and garlic, but keep the chipotle peppers; they add a mildly hot and smoky
element to the mixtur e.
Y ou may be able to tell that I used fr esh cantaloupe and fr ozen peaches in
the salsa, pictur ed above. MAKES 6 CUPS (1.5L)
3 cups (750 mL) diced peaches, nectarines or apricots (1/4 inch/5 mm)
3 cups (750 mL) diced cantaloupe (1/4 inch/5 mm)
1/4 cup (50 mL) diced r ed onion (1/4 inch/5 mm)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, drained and chopped
3 tbsp (45 mL) liquid honey or agave nectar
2 tbsp (25 mL) fr eshly squeezed lime juice
2 tbsp (25 mL) chopped candied ginger
1 tsp (5 mL) gr ound cinnamon, optional
2 tbsp (25 mL) fr eezer jam pectin
 1. Combine the peaches, canta loupe, red onion, garlic, chipotle peppers,
honey, lime juice, candied ging er and cinnamon, if using. Add pectin and
stir for 3 minutes. 2. Ladle  jam into freezer contain ers (bags or jars), leaving a 1/2-inch (1 cm)
headspace. Apply lids tightly. Let salsa stand at room temperature for 15 to
20 minutes. It will not thicken as much as a jam. Freeze for up to 9 months. Refrigerate after opening for up to 2 weeks. Fr eezing Peaches
1. Select Equipment:  Se lect suitable-size freezer c ontainers, bags or
Mason jars ( Freezing ). 2. P ack in Syru p:  I n a saucepan, c ombine 2–1/2 cups (625 mL) granulated
sugar an d 1/2 tsp (2 mL) crysta lline ascorbic acid or three 500 mg vitamin
C tablets. Stir in 4 cups (1 L) water. Bring to a gentle boil over high heat,
stirring f requently. Reduce heat and gently boil for 3 minutes. Let cool. Fill
pint (2-c up/500 mL) or quart (1  L) freezer containers with halv ed or sliced
peaches to within 3 to 4 inches (7 to 10 cm) of the top. Pour syr up over top;
use 1 cup (250 mL) syrup per qu art (1 L) of prepared fruit. Squeeze out air;
leave 1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. Seal, label and freeze. OR
Dry Pack:  F ill pint (2-cup /500 mL) or qu art (1 L) freezer containers with
halved or sliced peaches to within 3 to 4 inches (7 to 10 cm) of the top. Pour dry granulated sugar over top; use 1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar per quart (1
L) o f pre pared f ruit. Squeeze out air; leave 1-inch (2.5 cm) head space. Seal,
label and freeze.P l u m s
SMOOTH-SKINNED AND HEAR T -SHAPED,  oblong or round, plums
have a flat seed that is dif ficult t o remove in most varieties. Plum s (Prunus)
have dar k blue, pink, red, purple, green, gold or black skins, and their flesh
may be red or yellow. Get to kno w the variety of plum that suits your needs,
because there is a wide range in  flavour (very sweet and fragrant to acidic
and tart), texture (firm to mealy  and soft) and colour. Y ou may start to see
plums in your area as early as May and as late as October, b ut the peak
harvest is in late summer. Good Pr eserving V arieties
Even wi th over 2,000 varieties of plums in the world today, m ost can be
traced to three important species: Japanese (Prunus salicina),  native to
China, not Japan; American (Prunus Americana);  a nd European (Prunus
domestica). Eur opean Plums
Damson  ( P. insititia ): W ild European native with a long history, named
after Damascus in Syria; blue skin, firm, tart flesh with less water content
than oth er varieties; keeps its t exture and shape when canned. Mirabelles
are a Damson-type plum grown  mostly in France; excellent for  jams, jelly,
stewing and canning. Gages or Gr eengages (Brit ain), Reine Claude (Franc e):  Green,
European-type p lums; round, green or golden skinned; used f or canning. Dennistons Superb and Jef ferson are good Gage varieties. Italian Prune  and Bradshaw  are other European varieties. Japanese Plums: Santa Rosa, Gold  ( fru it is golden  yellow), Red Heart
(lar ge fruit, red skin and flesh) and Methley  (juicy, red plum) are all goodpreserving varieties. American Plum s: Best of A ll, Black Hawk  (freestone), Brittlewood
(clingstone), Cheney  (cli ngstone) and Cottr ell  are all good preserving
varieties. Pur chasing/Storing
• 1 lb (500 g) yields 2 to 2-1/2 cups (500 to 625 mL) plum halves. • Y ou will need 1 to 1-1/2 lb (500 to 750 g) for each quart (1 L) jar. Select firm fruits with a pleasant aroma and that are heavy and firm yet
yield to gentle p ressure. Ripe plums will be slightly soft at the stem end,
and the  skin should have a powdery “bloom.” A void hard  or mushy,
bruised, stained plums. Plums with cracks, blemishes or broken or
shrivelled skin should not be used for preserving. Umeboshi Plums
Ume is the Japanese word for a fruit in the Prunus  genu s that is called a plum, but
which is more like an apricot. The fruit is dried and then pickled. I have often thought
that I  would like to try to make my own umeboshi paste because it is used by Asian
herbalists to treat su gar addiction and cr avings. Perfect. Perhaps I can shake my
maraschino cherry obsession. Before the paste is made, the plums are laid out on
bamboo m ats to dry i n the sun. The cycle of drying, softening slightly with dew, and
drying aga in is repeated until the fruit are shrivelled and deeply wrinkled (and very
ugly). The next step on the ume’ s journey is to be layered with crude sea salt and packed
into barrels. Often perilla—a herb that tints the fermenting ume a light pink and adds
iron—is ad ded. The dried salted plums a re pressed with weights, causing them to
give up a s alty, sour liquid called umezu (ume vinegar), which is used like vinegar,
but is not true vinegar. Once ferm entation is complete, the plums are dried or made into a paste. Along with
their reputa tion for curbing “expansive” conditions like my sweet tooth, ume plums
are hi ghly valued as a digestive and for their antibacterial properties—sort of like the
Asian equivalent of the North American “apple a day.”Good W ith
• Spices such as allspice, black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg. • Herbs such as basil, bay, thyme, ginger. •Y ogurt, sour cream, crème
fraîche, honey
• Nutty semi-soft cheeses such as Oka, Bel Paese, Emmenthal, Port Salut,
Esrom. • Other fruit, such as oranges, nectarines, peaches, apricots. • Port, white wine, red wine, orange liqueur, balsamic vinegar. • Full-flavoured fish such as red snapper, cod. Pr eparation
Stem and wash plums in cool water to which a drop of food-sa fe soap has
been added. Rinse well, drain and pat dry. For most canning recipes, the pits
and skins are n ot removed. Prick skins of whole plums with a fork to
prevent splitting. Freestone varieties may be halved and pitted. If a recipe requires plum skins to be removed, blanch in boiling water for 30
to 45 seconds. I mmerse in cold water for


, until you reach your coffin. It is a fact that great men
remind you of no other, and their greatness is generally discernible
in the quality of exploration and the boldness with which they ex-
plored the unknown. Opening yourself up to new experiences means surrendering the
notion that it is better to tolerate something familiar than to work
at changing it because change is fraught with uncertainty. Perhaps
you’ve adopted a stance that the self (you) is fragile, and easily
shattered if you enter areas where you’ve never been before. This is
a myth. You are a tower of strength. You are not going to collapse
or fall apart if you encounter something new. In fact, you stand a
much better chance of avoiding psychological collapse if you elim-
inate some of the routine and sameness in your life. Boredom is de-
bilitating and psychologically unhealthy. Once you lose interest in
life you are potentially shatterable. You won’t choose that mytholo-
gical nervous breakdown if you add a little spicy uncertainty to your
life. You may also have adopted the “if it’s unusual I must stay away
from it” mentality, which inhibits your openness to new experiences. Thus, if you see deaf people using sign language, you watch with
curiosity but never attempt to converse with them. Similarly, when
you encounter people who speak a foreign language, rather than
work it out and attempt somehow to communicate, you very likely
just wander off, and avoid the vast unknown of communicating in
other than your own spokenEXPLORING THE UNKNOWN  / 119language. There are uncountable activities and people who are
considered taboo merely because they are unknown. Thus homo-
sexuals, transvestites, the handicapped, the retarded, nudists and
the like, are in the category of the obscure. You are not quite certain
how to behave, and therefore you avoid the entire business. You may also believe that you must have a reason for doing
something; otherwise what’s the point of doing it? Balderdash! You
can do anything you want just because you want to, and for no
other reason. You don’t need a reason for anything that you do. Looking for a reason for everything is the kind of thinking that keeps
you from new and exciting experiences. As a child you could play
with a grasshopper for an hour, for no reason but that you liked it. Or you could climb a hill, or take an exploratory trip in the woods. Why? Because you wanted to. But as an adult, you have to come up
with a good reason for things. This passion for reasons keeps you
from opening up and growing. What freedom to know that you
don’t have to justify anything to anyone, including yourself, ever
again. Emerson, in his Journal of April 11, 1834, observed
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that
I could see. Not to eat. Not for love…But only gliding. You can do whatever you want because you want to and for no
other reason. This kind of thinking will open up new vistas of exper-
ience and help to eliminate the fear of the unknown that you may
have adopted as a life-style. Rigidity vs. Spontaneity
Take a hard look at your spontaneity. Can you open up to some-
thing new or do you rigidly hang onto your accustomed be-120 / Your Erroneous Zoneshavior? Spontaneity means being able to try anything, at the spur
of the second, just because it is something you’d enjoy. You may
even discover that it’s something you don’t enjoy doing but you did
enjoy attempting it. It is likely that you will be condemned as irre-
sponsible or incautious, but what does the judgment of others matter
when you’re having such a marvelous time discovering the un-
known. There are many people in high places who find it difficult
to be spontaneous. They live out their lives in a rigid fashion, oblivi-
ous to the absurdities they blindly follow. Democrats and Republic-
ans support the statements of top party leaders and vote the party
line. Cabinet officials who speak spontaneously and honestly are
very often ex-cabinet officials. Independent thinking is discouraged,
and there are official guidelines for how one should think and speak. Yes-men are not spontaneous men. They desperately fear the un-
known. They fit in. They do what they are told. They never challenge
but rigidly adhere to what is expected of them. Where are you on
this dimension? Can you be your own person in this area? Can you
spontaneously take the avenues that don’t always lead to a sure
thing? The rigid never grow. They tend to do things the same way they’ve
always done them. A colleague of mine who teaches graduate
courses for teachers frequently asks the old-timers, who have spent
thirty years or more in the classroom, “Have you really been teaching
for thirty years or have you been teaching one year, thirty times?”
And you, dear reader, have you really lived 10,000 or more days or
have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to
ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life. Prejudice and Rigidity
Rigidity is the basis of all prejudice, which means to prejudge. Prejudice is based less on hate or even dislike for certainEXPLORING THE UNKNOWN  / 121people, ideas, or activities than on the fact that it’s easier and safer
to stay with the known. That is, people who are like you. Your pre-
judices seem to work for you. They keep you away from people,
things and ideas that are unknown and potentially troublesome. Actually they work against you by preventing you from exploring
the unknown. Being spontaneous means eliminating your prejudg-
ments and allowing yourself to meet and deal with new people and
ideas. The pre-judgments themselves are a safety valve for avoiding
murky or puzzling provinces and preventing growth. If you don’t
trust anyone you can’t get a “handle on”; it really means you don’t
trust yourself on unfamiliar grounds. The “Always Having a Plan” Trap
There is no such thing as planned spontaneity. It is a contradiction
in terms. We all know people who go through their lives with a road
map and a list, unable to vary their life a single iota from the original
plan. A plan is not necessarily unhealthy, but falling in love with
the plan is the real neurosis. You may have a life plan for what you’ll
do at age 25, 30, 40, 50, 70, etc., and then you simply consult your
agenda to see where you ought to be, rather than making a new
decision each day and having a strong enough belief in yourself to
be able to alter the plan. Don’t let the plan become bigger than you. Henry was a client of mine who was in his middle twenties. He
suffered desperately from the having-a-plan-neurosis, and as a
consequence he missed out on many exciting life opportunities. When he was twenty-two he was offered a position in another state. He was petrified about the move. Would he be able to make it in
Georgia? Where would he live? How about his parents and friends? The fear of the unknown literally immobilized Henry, and he turned
down what might have been a chance at advancement, exciting new
work and a brand new en-122 / Your Erroneous Zonesvironment, in favor of staying where he was. It was this experience
that brought Henry to counseling. He felt that his own rigid adher-
ence to a plan was keeping him from growing, and yet he was afraid
to break out and try something new. After one exploratory session,
it was revealed that Henry was a veritable plan freak. He always ate
the same breakfast, planned his clothing days in advance, had his
dresser drawers arranged perfectly by color and size. Moreover, he
imposed his plan on his family as well. He expected his children to
have things in their place and his wife to conform to a rigid set of
rules that he had laid down. In short, Henry was a very unhappy,
albeit organized person. He lacked creativity, innovation and per-
sonal warmth. He was in fact, a plan unto himself, with his goal in
life to get everything into its proper place. With counseling, Henry
began to try some spontaneous living. He saw his plans as manipu-
lators of others, and as convenient escapes from wandering into the
risky unknown. He soon eased up on his family and allowed them
to be different from what he expected them to be. After several
months, Henry actually applied for a job in a firm that would require
him to move frequently. The very thing that he originally feared
became desirable. While Henry is by no means a totally spontaneous
person, he has effectively challenged some of the neurotic thinking
that supported his previously planned-out existence. He is working
on it every day, and learning to enjoy living, rather than living out
his life in a ritualized fashion. Security: Internal and External Varieties
A long time ago you learned how to write a high school theme or
essay. You were taught that you need a good introduction, a well-
organized body and a conclusion. Unfortunately, you may have
applied the same logic to your life, and come to see the whole busi-
ness of living as a theme. The introductionEXPLORING THE UNKNOWN  /


icing an urgent call to change the way we administer oral health in our
country. “Dentistry, we need you to change!”
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Your Bite: A Hidden Cause of Cavities and
A Fresh Look at Orthodontics and TMJ
I want to introduce you to an extraordinary world that is literally right under your nose: your bite. Your bite has a substantial relationship to your overall health, your strength, your vitality, your level
of attractiveness as well as your susceptibility to tooth decay. Super athletes know these facts and
regularly wear mouth guards such as the Pure Power Mouthguard™ which slides the jaw into a more
correct muscular and skeletal position. These adjustments increase overall muscle strength and
endurance. In this chapter you will discover the reasons for temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, a
deeper understanding of the mechanics of orthodontics and braces, and the important connections
between the position of your bite to tooth decay and your overall health. Best of all, you will discover
how to improve your health through correcting the position of your bite. Theories about the treatment
and alignment of the bite are often obscured by contention, closed-mindednc9ess and limited vision. Therefore be prepared to be met with that attitude from many practitioners in the field if you bring
them information that is beyond the realm of their belief systems, such as what I will present here.Your Ideal Jaw Position and Enjoyment of Life
To understand how our jaw and skull are supposed to be aligned, let us look at examples of ideal
physical development as our template. Native peoples across the globe who displayed immunity to
tooth decay also possessed what Weston Price called “splendidly formed dental arches.”
1
 The dental
arch is comprised of the maxilla, the upper palate of the mouth, and the mandible, the jaw bone. In
general, the better the nutrition of the individual throughout life, beginning from before conception, the
wider the dental arches (the upper and lower jaws) will be. Wider arches mean wider, rounder faces
that we subconsciously associate with both robust health and natural attractiveness. These qualities
can influence how one chooses a partner who will likely be a successful mother with excellent
reproductive capacities, since generally a wide dental arch indicates the pelvic brim will also be
spacious enough to ensure easier births. I describe this in more detail in my book about
preconception, pregnancy, parenting, and children’s health called


aps,	not	to	mention	the
insecticides,	antibiotics	and	hormones. Artificial	flavors	and	aromas	are
added	to	trick	the	poor	animals	into	eating	this	stuff. The	animals	are	not	the	only	ones	tricked. The	consumer	is	“tricked”	into
buying	these	make-believe	foods	and	into	thinking	that	they	contain	the	nutrients
required	to	support	healthy	life. Dr.	Joseph	Beasley	in
The	Kellogg	Report
wrote
that	shortchanging	nutrients	over	a	period	of	time	“is	bound	to	involve	human
illness,	particularly	chronic	conditions	such	as	today’s	high-technology	medicine
can’t	seem	to	get	a	handle	on.”	Again	and	again,	well-meaning	parents	go	to	the
store	thinking	they	are	feeding	their	families	fresh,	wholesome	foods,	only	to	be
fooled	by	the	multitude	of	offerings	of	deficient,	make-believe	food	products. Carl	Pfeiffer,	Ph.D.,	M.D.,	related	in
Mental	and	Elemental	Nutrients
an
experiment	at	the	University	of	California,	Irvine. Healthy	rats	were	fed	foods
that	an	average	American	would	purchase	in	a	supermarket:	white	bread,	sugar,
eggs,	milk,	ground	beef,	cabbage,	potatoes,	tomatoes,	oranges,	apples,	bananas
and	coffee. The	rats	developed	a	variety	of	diseases. Dr.	Pfeiffer	concluded	that
if	the	average	human	diet	could	not	support	the	health	of	rats,	then	it	probably
would	not	do	much	better	for	humans. In
Diet	for	a	Poisoned	Planet,
David	Steinman	describes	an	experiment	in
which	four	sets	of	rats	were	fed	different	diets. The	first	set	ate	natural	foods	and
drank	clean	water. Throughout	the	three-month	experiment,	these	rats	remained
alert,	calm	and	social. The	second	set	was	fed	the	same	food	as	the	first,	with	theaddition	of	hot	dogs. These	rats	became	violent	and	fought	each	other
aggressively. The	third	set	ate	sugar-coated	breakfast	cereal	and	drank	fruit
punch. These	rats	became	nervous,	hyperactive	and	aimless. The	fourth	set	was
fed	only	sugar	donuts	and	cola. These	rats	had	trouble	sleeping,	became
extremely	fearful	and	were	unable	to	function	as	a	social	unit. The	poor	nutrition
of	these	foods	(not	to	mention	the	toxic	food	additives)	had	a	profound	effect	on
the	behavior	of	these	animals. Many	children	today	struggle	with	hyperactive,
antisocial	and	even	violent	behaviors. The	time	has	come	to	consider	how	their
diet	may	be	causing	this	behavior. More	Unreal	Than	Ever
As	if	our	foods	were	not	“make-believe”	enough,	modern	technology	has
taken	another	unhealthy	leap. We	now	have	totally	artificial,	synthesized
products	that	are	consumed	as	“food.”	The	food	industry	is	creating	products
such	as	artificial	sweeteners	(saccharine	and	aspartame)	and	man-made	fats,
including	margarine,	Olestra	and	nondairy	creamer. As	Paul	Stitt,	author	of
Fighting	the	Food	Giants,
wrote,	“An	ever	increasing	proportion	of	the	food	we
eat	is	no	longer	even	food	but	is	now	a	conglomerate	of	high-priced	chemistry
experiments	designed	to	simulate	food.”	More	and	more	Americans	are	eating
these	fabricated,	imitation,	processed	foods;	if	you	want	to	eat	a	good	diet,	you
cannot	subsist	on	foods	that	are	not	real—foods	that	are	completely	foreign	to
the	body. What	are	the	real	foods	that	your	body	needs	in	order	to	become	healthy	and
stay	healthy? Your	body	needs	nutrients:	vitamins,	minerals,	amino	acids,
essential	oils,	oxygen,	water,	sunlight	and	fuel	(calories). With	the	exception	of
water,	air	and	sunshine,	the	nutrients	necessary	to	keep	your	cells	healthy	must
come	primarily	from	the	healthy	plant	and	animal	cells	that	you	eat. If	the	fruits,
vegetables,	meats	and	other	foods	that	you	eat	are	not	healthy,	they	cannot	keep
you	healthy. If	you	are	hoping	for	health,	but	eating	a	diet	that	is	made	up	of
unhealthy	plants	and	animals,	or	foods	so	highly	processed	that	they	no	longer
resemble	plants	or	animals,	you	are	hoping	for	the	impossible. A	professor	of	chemistry	wanted	to	demonstrate	the	superiority	of	fresh	foods
to	his	class. He	purchased	“fresh”	oranges	at	a	local	supermarket	and	measured
their	vitamin	C	content. There	was	none! Unpleasantly	surprised,	he	traced	the
oranges	back	to	their	source. He	found	they	had	been	harvested	while	still	green,
stored	for	two	years	and	then	artificially	colored	prior	to	being	sold	as	“fresh
fruit.”	This	is	what	the	consumer	is	up	against	and	why	purchasing	fresh,	organicproduce	is	so	important. One	Size	Does	Not	Fit	All
The	amount	of	nutrients	required	for	optimal	nutrition	differs	for	every	person
and	changes	as	a	person’s	life	progresses. We	are	not	genetic	cookie-cutter
replicas	of	each	other. In	addition,	individual	factors	can	affect	our	nutritional
needs,	such	as	age,	physical	activity,	climate,	illness,	injury,	pregnancy	or
menstruation. Your	need	for	calcium	may	be	far	higher	than	your	neighbor’s;
your	neighbor’s	requirements	for	vitamin	C	may	differ	widely	from	yours. In	his	book
Nutrition	Against	Disease,
biochemist	Roger	Williams,	Ph.D.,
reported	on	laboratory	animals	that	were	bred	to	have	similar	genes	and,
theoretically,	have	similar	nutritional	needs. Yet,	some	animals	were	found	to
need	forty	times	as	much	vitamin	A	as	others. Similarly,	human	nutritional
requirements	operate	across	a	wide	range. Williams	described	another	study
performed	on	healthy	young	men	which	demonstrated	that	their	needs	for
calcium	varied	almost	sixfold. Does	someone	in	your	family	catch	colds	and	flus	noticeably	more	often	than
everyone	else? Have	you	considered	that	his	or	her	need	for	vitamin	C	(vital	for
immune	function)	might	be	higher	than	everyone	else’s? Is	vitamin	C	deficiency
a	problem	for	them,	not	because	they	get	less	of	it,	but	because	they	need	more? Researcher	and	Nobel	laureate	Linus	Pauling	was	plagued	with	frequent	colds
and	flu	all	of	his	adult	life	until	he	started	taking	high	doses	of	vitamin	C.
Likewise,	women	have	special	nutritional	needs	(especially	when	pregnant	or
menstruating),	as	do	elderly	people,	athletes	and	anyone	who	is	fighting	off	an
infection	or	suffering	from	a	chronic	disease. When	it	comes	to	nutritional	needs,
the	“average	person”	does	not	exist. Women	are	more	likely	to	be	nutritionally	deficient	than	men. Why? Because
women	typically	eat	less	food	but	still	require	roughly	the	same	amount	of
nutrients. That	women	are	more	susceptible	to	certain	diseases—including
osteoporosis,	chronic	fatigue	syndrome	and	autoimmune	diseases—is	no
coincidence. Because	of	reduced	activity	and	appetite,	older	people	require	few


 water, our natural diet should be water-sufficient just as it is in
the case of desert animals as well as numerous other crea
tures in nature. Healthy people eating their natural diet usually have a surplus of water without drinking. The addition of some foods without sufficient water, less than 25% water content, does not occasion thirst. However, substances with water content equal to or greater than our natural foods occasion thirst if ingested cooked, if they are biologically incorrect, if they are condimented, especially with salt, and toxic substances in general. While thirst generally arises from pathogenic conditions within, there are exceptions:
extraordinarily warm climatic conditions, extraordinarily low humidity, periods without 51
Fruiticulturenormal food intake, partaking of good foods that have been dried, heavy labor or exer -
cise under warm conditions, and yet other conditions. When thirst arises, always drink
water —pur
e water. With ready supplies of pure water and tools that facilitate drinking
such as cups, glasses, etc., we can easily drink the water necessary to make up deficits. Our Diet Must be Alkaline, Overall, in Metabolic End-ProductsHumans require a diet that is alkaline in its metabolic end-products. For practical pur -
poses this means at least 80% of alkaline-forming foods against not more than 20% of
acid end-pr oduct foods. The human homeostatic condition is alkaline with essential flu -
ids normally having a pH of 7. 40. Any significant variation in the pH can result in coma and dea th. Acidosis is deadlier than alkalosis. The body can rather easily discharge ex -
cess organic alkalis, but must first neutralize excess acids. In the absence of sufficient alkalis, the body must take alkaline miner als
, including calcium, from bones and fluids to
effect neutralization. Americans eat a predominantly acid-forming diet, a diet that is not only pathogenic in itself, but causes such complications as base mineral depletion char -
acterized by osteoporosis and metabolic disorders. What W ould
Y ou Eat in Nature. Considering Various Foods and Our Natural
DispositionDespite the gross perversion of our instincts, they are still alive and well and will reas -
sert should we be relegated back to nature. Therefore, this quest is to ascertain what we
would eat in natur e. Our instinctive foods, the foods which helped to develop us to our
magnificence, necessarily contain all that we need to thrive on. This assurance being soundly based, as you will soon determine for yourself, it then behooves us, as respon -
sible members of society, to undertake the course which makes us the most we can be so tha t we can maximally serv e ourselv
es and those who depend on us. This is a mutual
arrangement, as those whom we serve in turn serve us better. This exalts everyone and has a ripple effect that makes all in our society healthier and happier, more loving and more caring. In serving yourself best, you at the same time serve others best. This inqui -
ry will survey almost all the foods that humans, in their varied habits, eat. We’ll consider each as a possible food for ourselves as it oc curs in na
ture without benefit of cooking
apparati, tools and containers. Remember, your instincts will reject or cherish each food on its merits; that is, its appeals 52
Fruiticultureto your senses and palate; the only criteria that guided us to food selection in plentiful
nature. Our premises are: that Mother Nature, i. e., the sum of all factors and influences under which we lived in nature, served us correctly to start with, inasmuch as we thrived and attained our high station in its midst; that what was right for us then is still right for us in view that we’re still structurally and physiologically the same as we were during most of our sojourn as humans in Nature; that we can still, within our modern context, supply ourselves with natural foods substantially and significantly; and that we can also observe, meaningfully, the other requisites of life in our modern context. Pertinent Questions—the Answers to Which Determine Our Natural DietAre we herbivores. Are we graminivores. Are we root grubbers. Are we insectivores. Are we carnivores. Are we eaters of fermented and rotten foods. Are we sucklings of animals. Are we frugivores. Are we vegetarians. Are we nut and seed eaters. Are we fat eaters. Are we protein eaters. Are we starch eaters. Are we all the foregoing, that is, omnivores. Are We Herbivores. Herbivores are natural consumers of herbage such as grass, weeds, leaves, stalks and
stems. Does foraging in nature for grass, weeds and leaves appeal to you. Do grass and weeds attract your eye, tantalize your sense of smell and excite your palate. 53
FruiticultureOf course it is repulsive to you for
the very simple reason that it can-not satisfy your needs. You do not secr ete cellulase or other enz ymes

that break down these plants as herbivores do. Therefore you can -
not derive your foremost need from them, namely simple sugars
which is your body ’
s primary fuel. Rather, the processing and prob -
lems caused by their ingestion oc -
casion a net loss of energies. Of course, humans do c onsume some her
bage such as lettuce, celery, cabbage family
members (kale, cabbage, collards, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, bok choy, etc. ), spinach and yet other leafy greens. Plain, as they occur in nature, these vegetables real -
ly do not appeal to us though we can cultivate a taste for much of it. At least cauliflower and broccoli do yield some calor ies and all yield
, to the extent when digested, proteins,
some essential fatty acids, mineral matter and vitamins. But, if we get enough of these nutrients from our natural foods, then these are not needed from plants that we do not eat raw with keen relish. If we had to rely on herbage exclusively for our foods, we’d adjust somewhat but, in all
likelihood, slowly starve as the calorie yield is negative or very low. While cooking de -
stroys most of the abundant nutrients, it also converts the cellulose, fibers and other components int o usable calor
ic values. Let’s face it: although we will include vegetables in our dietary, we’re not primarily veg -
etable eaters by nature. Obviously we’re not herbivores. Are We G
raminivores. Being graminivorous means we live from grasses and grass seeds though grass eaters
are really called herbivores. Strict grain eaters are called graminivores. Many birds in nature live on grass and weed seeds. Gramnivorous land mammals, such as horses, have large, flat teeth for grinding hard grain kernels and tough grasses. Grass seeds include
54
Fruiticulturewheat, oats, rye, barley and rice which were de -
veloped by human mastery of nature only with-
in the last 10,000 years. There are thousands of other g rass seeds that oc cur thr
oughout nature. Of course, we’d all reject grass seeds as items of diet in nature. First, they are in a condition we can neither masticate nor digest. Being heavy on starches, we would gag on the equivalent of a spoonful or two. You might try a mouthful of
wheat berries without husks removed as you must eat them in nature. Won’t work for us. Furthermore, if you ate a tablespoon of raw flour made from grass seeds (cereal grains), you’d gag. As grass seeds neither attract, tantalize nor arouse us in their raw natural state, we can
reject them as natural human fare even though most of the human race presently con -
sumes grains. Thus, we are not natural graminivores. Are W e Na
tural Root Grubbers. Animals that naturally grub for roots have snouts. As most roots are starchy, root grub -
bers secrete a plethora of starch-splitting enzymes whereas humans secrete only one
such enz yme, amylase, in v
ery limited quantities. Humans abhor dirt, are quite fastidi -
ous and refuse to eat anything dirt-covered or even dirt-tinged. Grubbers such as hogs and boars pass lots of dir t through their bodies. W
ithout tools, humans are very poor
diggers. They have no motivation to do so for there are no foods below ground that, in their natural state, please the palate. Humans can handle very little that comes out of the ground in its raw natural state. Some roots, notably turnips, rutabagas, sweet potatoes, yams, ground nuts, beets, carrots, parsnips and salsify can be eaten raw. In Nature we would be obligated to do without tools and would have to eat them raw or not at all. In our natural habitat of plenitude, we can be
55
Fruiticulturesure that roots which man could handle without tools received precious little attention
as food. In view of the considerations, you can write off humans as natural root grubbers and I’m
sure you’ll concur. Are We Insectivores. There are humans who eat insects, especially
grasshoppers and ants. But, by and large, hu -
mans would give insects a big “yuk” when it comes to eating them, especially in the r a
w


 it. We use our intelligence to further the ego's
goals of accumulation and achievement in the external
world, and lose track of our inner goal, which is to know
our real nature. This ego of intelligence is the hardest ego
to overcome because it is so primary a misconception. Some thinkers regard Buddhi or intelligence as the Self.42
This is a mistake, because the Self transcends all move-
ments of thought. However, since intelligence is close to
the Self, it can lead us gradually to it. Our deeper consciousness (Chitta) precedes the mani-
fest ego but itself contains a rudimentary or latent ego. As
a part of matter (Prakriti), consciousness has an inertia to
take form that develops through the ego. Ego uses our
deeper consciousness to cling to life and to sustain its
experience. The rudimentary ego hidden in our deeper
consciousness gradually evolves into all the diversification
of the mind-body complex. From ego arises the outer mind (Manas), senses and
body, through which we experience our separate existence. The sense-mind, by its outward propensity, is naturally
under the sway of the ego, and only with difficulty can be
brought under the control of true intelligence. Ego oper-
ates through the mind to acquire sensations that allow it
to expand and feel good about itself. The ultimate crystal-
lization of the ego is the physical body, in which we expe-
rience ourselves as completely separate from other crea-
tures. Whatever function occurs in consciousness, an ego is
automatically posited as part of its boundary. Each emo-
tion projects a kind of ego. For example, the ego of anger
is very different from the ego of love. We run into prob- Ego and Self 129
lems in our behavior when the ego of our emotions drives
us to actions that we later regret. Because ego is inherently limited and isolating, it must
bring unhappiness. It causes us to identify with some
things and not with others. When we lose those objects we
have identified with, we must feel pain. When we contact
what we are not identified with, what we regard as alien to
ourselves, we also experience pain. Ego and Perception
Ego arises automatically during the perceptual process. As the thought of I underlies all thoughts, so the sensation
of I underlies all impressions. The sense-mind (Manas)
provides a series of sensory impressions, for which the body
is the main focus and instrument. The ego inherent in
body-consciousness colors all these. Ego appropriates
impressions, such as "I like this" or "I do not like that," "I
love this," or "I hate that." Similarly, ego appropriates
intelligence and uses it to justify its own reactions. Its
logic is that "I must be right" or "I must be good." Ego
stops intelligence from perceiving the truth and instead
imposes its own opinion as truth. The ego cannot appropriate our deeper consciousness
(Chitta), but it can narrow and distort it. We can only
become aware of that part of our consciousness acceptable
to the ego. Ego is our most basic subconscious reaction
that keeps the greater field of consciousness suppressed. We must learn to observe our perceptual process to tran-
scend the ego. This requires that our deeper consciousness
is in a state of peace and that our intelligence functions
objectively. The ego as a form of ignorance (Tamas) and
distraction (Rajas) becomes reduced as we no longer pro-
vide the environment in which it can flourish. Ayurveda and the Mind
Cosmic Aspect of Ego
Each individual creature must have some sort of ego. Ego exists even in insects and rocks. It is ego that allows
for the gross elements and inanimate world to come into
being. The inanimate creation is pure ego, so contracted
that it does not allow any action of the vital force or sens-
es, which require consciousness of the external world. Ego exists as a cosmic principle. From it the root ideals
and archetypes of creation (which are inherent in Cosmic
Intelligence) can be diversified. Ego is responsible for the
creation of the different objects, creatures and worlds. From it the gross and subtle elements arise. We can per-
ceive higher cosmic states of ego once we expand our sense
of self into the deeper levels of consciousness. We can move
from being identified with our body to being identified
with our family, country, world, and universe — and ulti-
mately to being one with all beings. Composition
Ego is the seed of Tamas (darkness) or the Tamasic side
of consciousness (Chitta). It corresponds to the earth ele-
ment or the heavy matters in consciousness. Ego develops
from ignorance, not knowing our true nature as pure Con-
sciousness. It is the source of attraction, repulsion and
attachment, the emotional afflictions that bring pain and
sorrow. It puts us under the rule of all duality, the ups and
downs of our emotional experience. As the power of ignorance, ego relates to the mineral
kingdom in which no sensitivity has developed. The ego is
the inertia of the rock — matter asserting its existence
apart from the spirit. As isolation and fragmentation, it is
the source of decay, disease and death. Transcending the
ego is the basic evolutionary movement of life, through Ego and Self 131 A
which we form associations and seek to know the greater
universe in which we live. Energy
Ego relates to the heavy matters that accumulate in our
consciousness and so has an energy of inertia (Tamas). It
relates to Apana Vayu or the downward moving Prana that
brings about disease and decay. Ego drives us to fragmen-
tation and ultimately to self-destruction, unless we learn
how to control it. Its energy is negative, or entropy, and
leads to eventual loss of energy. Function
The ego allows us to identify with and feel one with
things. Through it we build up a self-identity based upon
the objects and conditions we have accepted as our own. It
functions in two ways: 1) self-sense, and 2) mine-ness. *'
Self-sense is the sense of owning a body, through which
we know the body as I or me. Self-sense also expropriates
the mind, identifying with its various thoughts, emotions
and sensations, such as "I am wise" or "I am happy." Mine-
ness is the sense of owning external objects, which we
accumulate around our bodily existence. Through it we
feel that particular objects, like our house, money, or job,
belong to us. Mine-ness depends upon and follows from
self-sense. Through mineness, the ego establishes its terri-
tory and grows and expands in the outer world. As long as
we have a sense of ownership or possession of anything, we
are caught in the ego and its bonds. The ego, like the sense-mind, has an outgoing energy,
but while the mind seeks enjoyment in the realm of the
senses, the ego seeks to embody itself in a material form. The ego's identification of the self with a body sets in
motion the entire cycle of rebirth. Ayurveda and the Mind
On the positive side, ego as self-sense provides a focus
of mind. It helps consciousness differentiate who we are
from the external nature. It causes us to evolve a personal
and social existence apart from the instinctual and animal
realm. But ego is not the final goal of Nature's evolution,
nor does it represent who we really are. Ego is the point of
transition between the material and spiritual evolution. It
is an intermediate phase between an outward-directed
mentality under the control of Nature, and an inward-
directed mind in harmony with the Spirit. The Soul — Our Divine Individuality
Ego is our sense of transient identity, that we are the
creature of a particular life or body. The soul, on the other
hand, is the sense that we are an immortal conscious being,
an individualized portion of Divinity. This soul is called
Jiva in Sanskrit, the life-principle, because it is the source
of all our vitality and energy, both physical and mental. It
is also called Jivatman, the individual or living (Jiva) Self
(Atman). It is our individual portion of the Divine Self
through which we have the sense of "I am." The individ-
ual soul is the higher self-sense behind our individual exis-
tence, our true individuality. The soul is the entity behind the causal body, composed
of our various kannas, that persists throughout the entire
cycle of rebirth. As a soul we recognize ourselves as immor-
tal conscious beings, bom in various bodies, seeking Self-
realization and liberation. The soul leads us back to unity
while the ego drives us into division and multiplicity. We are usually not conscious of the soul or reincarnat-
ing entity within us. Nevertheless it creates and sustains
all that we do. The soul exists everywhere in Nature, giv-
ing life and sustaining form in all things. The soul is latent Ego and Self 133
in the elemental kingdom. It sleeps in the plants, dreams
in animals, wakes in human beings, and becomes fully
conscious of itself in Self-real


 think about every
other or gan in your body. Your heart, liver, spleen, all of which were created
to act in accordance with the central divine intelligence within them. Y et,
your mind is still the substance. If you so elect, your entire body will respond to the directives of your mind. From your mind you can tell all your body parts that God gave themfunctions and direct them to perform them. As you use your mind in this
manner to direct your body, eventually it will do so on its own. At first, you
tell it to do the business of God as it was so created to do, and then you will
see it doing so on its own. But always, your mind, that fount of high
spiritual invisible ener gy, is the substance of and in control over your body. Now extend this principle to all that surrounds you as well. Mind is where
you experience all matter, and your mind is the substance of all that you
experience. When you raise your ener gy field to include yourself in the
mind of God, you have that God field at your disposal. Every person on
earth is governed by the mind of God, yet most don’ t recognize this fact. Thus, they encounter the problem of the illusion of separation which ego
brings about. Even though I have said over and over that the mind of God is
your mind, I do not mean that you have a monopoly on this, as if you were
some chosen favorite. This unifying force is not only the intelligence of
every person, it is the intelligence of every cell in the universe. And this is
the scope of your mind. Direct, insist, demand if you must, that your mind
be in harmony with the divine mind and your ener gy will go from slow to
fast, from material to spiritual, from problems to solutions. The next time
you are faced with a problem, look at your hand for a moment and remind
yourself that although it has intelligence, its substance is your mind that
directs it to be a hand. Then face the problem with your mind  and God’ s
mind  as one. Mortal Sense Needs to Y ield to Make Room for Spiritual A wareness
On Beethoven’ s writing table, framed under glass, were the following
words, copied in his handwriting. He had discovered them in an essay on
the spiritual practices of Ancient Egypt. “I am that which is, I am all, what
is, what was, what will be; no mortal man has lifted my veil. He is only and
solely of himself, and to this only one all things owe their existence. ”
Imagine this great composer reading these words every day to remind
himself of the source of his creativity. You too can be inspired to decide to let go of your primary identification
with your mental, material self and yield to the one to whom all things owe
their existence. When confronted with a problem stop in the middle of itand remind yourself that God is on the field and that you can surrender to
that realization. When I do this, almost immediately the solution is obvious. I am always surprised that I didn’ t realize that I was attempting to resolve
my dif ficulty with my mortal self, feeling separated and anxious and facing
the issue all by myself. In the moments of yielding the mortal sense, the
energy field increases and you make room for the presence of spiritual
awareness. I received a letter from a woman who was diagnosed with cancer and given
only a few months to live. She decided to keep this information from
everyone she knew, including her husband and children. She rented a cabin
in the northern Minnesota woods and spent each day silently yielding her
mortal sense and opening herself to spiritual guidance. The days turned into
weeks, and the weeks into months, with every day devoted to communing
silently with God and releasing her attachment to her body and the cancer
that had invaded it. She began to feel stronger as she no longer identified
herself with her body. When she returned to her home she never again even
visited a medical facility. Today she thrives, some nine years after her
terminal illness diagnosis. The commitment to yield her mortal sense and
allow the calm, peaceful, serene, loving presence of God to handle the
cancer was what she intuitively felt was her pathway to healing. Any problem, I emphasize any, disassociates from your inner world when
you yield your material mortal self and allow the higher frequencies of
spirit to manifest in your life. Send Love to, and Pray for, Your Enemies
I use the word enemies  advisedly here. The poet Henry W. Longfellow
wrote, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we shall find in
each man’ s sorrow and suf fering enough to disarm all hostility. ”
Harboring anger and hatred toward anyone guarantees that you remain in
low ener gy fields where problems will continue to crop up repeatedly in
your life. I suggest that you examine every relationship in which you feel
judgmental thoughts of anger and hatred. Replace those thoughts with
energies of acceptance, kindness, cheerfulness, and love. Y ou will have to
make a personal commitment to, first of all, notice what you are feeling andthen exercise your ability to choose to send love. When your heart becomes
pure, your enemy becomes your friend, or even more significantly, your
teacher. Your worst enemies are your greatest teachers because they allow
you to examine the emotions of anger and revenge and then to transcend
them. They give you the exact tools you need to elevate yourself to the
spiritual ener gies that provide your solutions. When you send love in response to hate you accomplish one of the most
difficult things for anyone. As I look into my conscience I can now honestly
say, I have no one whom I can call an enemy, no one whom I could say I
hate. Over the course of my life I have been disappointed many times. Some have borrowed and never repaid. Some have for gotten their promises. Some have left me for others. Some have cursed me and spread rumors
about me. Some have stolen from me. I send love to them all, mindful of
the Buddha’ s words: “W e live happily indeed, not hating those who hate us. Among men who hate us we dwell free from hatred. ” It has been this
transformation in my own thinking, perhaps more than anything else, that
has allowed me to move out of those low ener gy problem regions of my
life. It is a powerful strategy for raising your spiritual awareness. God Is Not W ithholding
Imagine, for a moment, that you know a person who has stored away
everything you want or need for your happiness, but refuses to let you have
them unless you do his bidding, ask properly, and behave as he wants you
to. Furthermore, this person can heal you of disease but allows you to suf fer
for now, and maybe  will consider healing you at some future date. This
would not be a very nice person, let alone a very nice God. Is this the kind
of withholding God that you imagine the spiritual ener gy to be. In the
scriptures it clearly says, “And everything I have is yours. ” These six little
words may be the secret you’ve been looking for to raise your awareness to
a spiritual level. God is often perceived as an invisible being whom you pray to when you
find yourself experiencing some kind of shortage in your life. “Please God,
send me the money I need. Dear God, I want you to heal me of my disease. I beg you God, please bring back my spouse who left me for another man. ”On and on, praying for the things that you perceive to be missing. In this
mind-set you believe God decides whether to provide those missing
bounties from your life based upon how you behave and whether you do the
proper penance and ask in the fashion that God demands. Moving your ener gy up to the level of spirit involves knowing that God is
not going to be doing anything dif ferent one hour from now than he is doing
right now. Moreover, God isn’ t doing anything dif ferent now, than he was
doing an hour ago or one hundred years ago. God is only here in the present
moment, in the eternal now. God is inextricably intertwined with your
ability to move your thoughts out of yesterday and tomorrow and to escape
into the now, wherein is located God’ s only residence. The now is a speck in the universe of abundance that has no boundaries. “Everything I have” means the unbounded prosperity of this universe. “Is
yours” means you can have whatever you place your attention on with love,
now, not at some future time, but now. God is not holding back your share
of this unbounded pie waiting for you to conduct yourself properly. Nor is
God gleefully watching you suf fer in scarcity and illness until he decides to
stop withholding. Whatever solution you seek for whatever problem you
may have is available to you in this moment. It is in you, not in some
mythical Santa Claus like being with a long flowing beard floating around in
the heavens, dispensing “goodies” to some and “baddies” to others. Y ou are
always connected to this universal source of present moment ener gy. As Saint Paul put it in his letter to the Corinthians, “Do you not know that
you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you” (I
Corinthians 3:16). When you know this truth, you stop asking God to give
you


 vitamin or mineral sup
plementation at the beginning of the programme. I recommend putting
most effort into implementing the diet first and starting the healing pro
cess in the gut. Once the digestive system starts working properly in many
patients their nutritional deficiencies disappear without any supplemen
tation! They disappear the natural way through the body sorting it out for
itself. Of course, aU patients are different and some of them require targeted
supplementation. But that is a matter for a qualified practitioner to decide. Here are some important points to keep in mind. • Choose supplements without any ingredients which may aggravate
the gut condition. Supplements in a liquid form are better than in
powder, tablet or capsule. Substances, which are not allowed on the
diet, should also be out. • Choose supplements with a high absorption rate, for example, vita
min and mineral supplements with added fulvic acid. Fulvic acid (not
to be confused with folic acid) is produced by bacteria in soil. It can
ensure a very high absorption rate for a supplement the natural way. It
also has good chelating properties for heavy metals. Soil bacteria in
your probiotic will provide your gut with this acid. • Keep supplements to an absolute minimum! DETOXIFICATION FOR
PEOPLE WITH GAP SYNDROME
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck
We live in a polluted world. Every day we breath in car fumes and industrial
wastes. We eat foods containing pesticides, herbicides and other agricul
tural chemicals. We drink milk and eat meat from animals which are rou
tinely given antibiotics, steroids and other drugs. We eat a countless
number of various chemicals in processed foods. We use personal care
products full of various chemicals shown to be carcinogenic and generally
toxic for humans. Our modem energy-conserving homes and offices have
become toxic places. Modern building materials, insulation, paints,
domestic cleaning chemicals and fire retardants all outgas toxic sub
stances which we breathe day in and day out. For example, chemical anal
ysis on outgassing of common carpets and carpet adhesives in modern
homes found considerable amounts of toxic substances such as formalde
hyde, toluene, xylene, benzene, methacrylate, tetrachloroethylene, methyl
naphthalene, phthalates and styrene. All these chemicals are known toxins
for a human and we breathe them in large quantities all the time we are at
home. Hospitals and shopping centres have even higher amounts of toxic
substances in the air, that is why many people feel so tired and drained
after a shopping trip or a long visit to a hospital. And as if all that is not
enough, we routinely take prescription drugs, drink alcohol and smoke
tobacco. So, how do we survive? How do we manage to live our lives, go to work,
have children, without just dropping dead after our first breath of traffic-
jam air in the morning? We survive thanks to a very important system in our bodies. A system
which until recently we did not know much about - a DETOXIFICATION
SYSTEM. It is a system, which is like a cleaner in the body. It constantly cleans out
all the toxins, produced as a result of normal body metabolism, and toxins
arriving from the outside. It has got its headquarters in the liver and
departments in every cell of the body. The sophistication and complexity
of this system is staggering to even the most knowledgeable biochemists and there is a lot we still don't know about how it works so efficiently. But
what we do know is that this system, in order to function well, has to have a
constant supply of certain nutrients: zinc, magnesium, selenium, molyb
denum and other minerals and trace elements, hundreds of enzymes,
many amino acids and essential fats - all the substances which our GAPS
children and adults are deficient in. Due to these deficiencies the detoxifi
cation system cannot function at an optimum level in a GAPS person. At
the same time this system is overloaded with work, because GAPS patients
are very toxic people. Imagine a worker, who is being starved of food and
drink, and at the same time is being given more and more work to do. How
is he going to cope? He is going to put most of this work into a backlog,
hoping for easier times when he would be able to attend to it. That is
exactly what the detoxification system does in a GAPS patient - it stores
various toxic substances in different tissues in the body in order to deal
with them later. That is why when these patients are tested for heavy
metals, petrochemicals and other toxins they always test positive. Unfortunately, a lot of these chemicals have affinity for fats and therefore
get stored in body fats. A human brain and the rest of the nervous system
have a very high proportion of fats in its tissues and become a storage site
for these toxins. A brain clogged with toxicity cannot develop or function
well. We see this very clearly in GAPS patients. So, what do we do? How do we lift off this toxic load from our GAPS chil
dren's and adult's bodies to allow them to develop and function properly? The first and most obvious thing to do is to remove the main source of
toxicity, which means cleaning up and healing the gut. However, removing the major source of toxicity is not enough. What do
we do with all the toxins stored over the years in these patient's bodies? What do we do with all the heavy metals, which GAPS children and adults
test positive for? In recent years a new treatment has emerged - chelation of heavy
metals with chelating drugs, mainly DMSA (Dimercapto Succinic Acid)
and Alfa-Lipoic Acid. It is a group of drugs initially used in the army for
treating acute exposure to heavy metals and other toxic substances. It is a
hot topic at the moment within the circles of parent groups of autistic chil
dren. There are a number of practitioners, mainly in the USA, who will
administer these drugs to autistic children and who claim benefits for this
treatment. We hear stories from parents who feel that chelation has helped
their child. However, there are a number of issues here, which a lot of people, including me, do not feel comfortable about. Chelating drugs are
drugs. Like any drug they come with side effects and complications. These
are not benign substances. I have great concerns at the idea of using these
drugs without direct local medical supervision, let alone without regular
blood monitoring. Let's have a look at some known problems. 1. DMSA and other chelating drugs cause dose-related bone marrow
suppression, which manifests as neutropenia and thrombocytopenia,
which can affect blood clotting and blood immune response to infec
tions and other toxins. Patients, who are on a chelation programme
have to have their blood composition monitored on a regular basis. In
some children and adults this reaction is serious enough to discon
tinue chelation. 2. Chelating drugs cause an explosion of pathological fungal and bacte
rial growth in the gut, probably due to the immune system suppres
sion. That is why doctors who practice chelation advise their patients
to deal with their gut dysbiosis first before trying to chelate. Anybody
who has any experience with treating gut dysbiosis knows how diffi
cult it is to deal with it. GAPS patients have gut dysbiosis as their most
basic and primary pathology and with all the experience in treating it
we still cannot say whether you can completely get rid of it. 3. Apart from taking out heavy metals chelating drugs bind essential
minerals as well and take them out of the body. They chelate zinc, for
example, that is why zinc has to be supplemented in very high doses
prior and during chelation. However, doctors who have an experience
with supplementing zinc know that it has a very complex absorption
mechanism, which requires normal stomach acidity. GAPS patients
do not have normal stomach acidity, which impairs absorption of sup
plemented zinc. On top of that we know that GAPS patients are
already deficient in this essential mineral quite severely. Apart from
zinc, chelating drugs chelate other essential minerals, which these
patients are already deficient in, like magnesium, molybdenum and
others. That is why chelation protocols include very heavy supple
mentation with a large number of different nutrients. 4. Patients on chelating drugs show high amounts of enzymes called
transaminases in their blood, which is an indication of liver damage,
specifically damage to hepatocytes (liver cells). 5. Chelating drugs are contraindicated in people with any renal prob
lems because they have a damaging effect on kidneys. Kidney function as well as liver function has to be regularly monitored during
chelation. 6. During chelation a long list of side effects are reported by the parents
of autistic children: regression in autistic symptoms, anorexia, fatigue,
irritability, nausea, sleep disturbances, diarrhoea, flatulence, macu-
lar-papular skin rash. In some cases such serious complications were
observed by doctors as Stevens-J


ritable bowel syndrome?,
A: Constipation.
Q: What is the potential cause of restless leg syndrome?,
A: Excess adrenaline.
Q: What is the main cause of fibromyalgia, according to the author?,
A: Internalized anger due to excess adrenaline.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Knowing that I had a
hormone problem, which has been corrected with natural
products, and I don’t have a disease, I feel like living my life again. Please do not stop fighting to help people get well
because you’re one of the few who do really put people on
the right track. I cannot express enough how grateful I
am for the work that you do. And thank you, Dr. Platt, ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 76  |
for your continual work to give back lives, even against
all the aggression/oppression you have in your daily life. Sincerely,
L.C., Ph.D. CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
An estimated 750,000 to 1,000,000 women in the United
States suffer from a condition called chronic interstitial cystitis. It often manifests as severe pain in the bladder 24 hours a
day, along with uncomfortable burning during urination. Like so many other conditions discussed in this book, it has no known cause and, as a consequence, no known cure. It is most commonly treated with the drug Elmiron, which offers little or no help to the majority of women who use it. I consider chronic interstitial cystitis another manifestation
of adrenaline dominance. As we saw in the section on urinary
urgency (in the previous chapter), excess adrenaline can cause
not only the urge to urinate but also the need to urinate
frequently. However, some women, for one reason or another—
perhaps they work as teachers or cashiers—do not have the
luxury of being able to run to the bathroom every 20 minutes
or so. As a result, they tense up the muscles of the bladder in an
attempt to prevent leakage. Any prolonged tensing of muscles
can cause lactic acid to build up. This, in turn, can cause both
pain in the walls of the bladder and burning upon urination. Because of the role of lactic acid buildup in chronic
interstitial cystitis, I refer to it as fibromyalgia of the bladder. Not surprisingly, it is often associated with fibromyalgia
elsewhere in the body. |   77 ExCESS  ADRENALINE: THE  UgLy

Because of the role of lactic acid buildup in chronic
interstitial cystitis, I refer to it as fibromyalgia
of the bladder. Elimination of this condition makes for an extremely
grateful patient. One of my patients had been to doctors all
over the world looking for relief. Two weeks after visiting my
office, she sent a card thanking me and called me her “miracle
doctor.” The treatment, needless to say, was simply to lower
her adrenaline level. Trying to educate people who are in a position to change
how this condition is treated has been frustrating. As an
example, I approached the Interstitial Cystitis Association
and offered to write an article for their newsletter about how
I treat this condition, but they were not interested. Perhaps
they could not fathom that this devastating condition might have a relatively simple solution. ROAD RAGE
I have included road rage in the “ugly” category because it is
a potentially lethal condition, especially if two people with
road rage come into contact with one another. People with
road rage often tailgate other cars, they tend to drive too fast
and make unsafe lane changes, and they certainly antagonize
other drivers—especially those who also have road rage. It takes very little imagination to see that these people have
an excessive amount of adrenaline. They frequently wind up in anger management classes, although these classes provide
little benefit because they do not link the problem with its
real cause.ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 78  |
Road rage can have serious consequences. For example, a
medical doctor in Los Angeles with excess adrenaline got into
a road rage incident with two bicyclists who also had excess
adrenaline. The doctor wound up in prison for five years, and
both bicycle riders were hospitalized. One of them will never
ride a bike again. Those who have a tendency toward road rage should keep
in mind that their driving is monitored by law enforcement
personnel who usually have excess adrenaline themselves. When an officer pulls a driver over and tells the driver to get
out of the car and lie down on the ground, my recommendation
is to do what the officer says. One only has to remember what
happened to Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992. After a
long chase by highway patrol officers, he was pulled over and wound up attacking two policemen. He failed to heed their
request to lie down, which resulted in his being beaten by
over-adrenalized officers, an event that wound up precipitating
the infamous Los Angeles Riots. Of course, the treatment for road rage is to lower adrenaline. The following letter illustrates how quickly this can be
accomplished. This 30-year-old gentleman from the San Francisco
Bay Area came to see me with only one complaint: anger. Patient A.W. Since the first time I rubbed the progesterone cream on
my arms I could feel the effects. From that moment on, I have felt an inner calmness that had always seemed to be
missing. This was something I had been trying to control for
years by using different substances. I feel “normal” again,
I should say, I like myself again. The biggest thing for me is
driving. As you can imagine, where I live in Silicon Valley |   79 ExCESS  ADRENALINE: THE  UgLy
there is no shortage of traffic and bad drivers. Before coming to your office I would have times when
I would just choose not to go out because of the devastating
effect driving had on my attitude. Sometimes I just wanted
to run drivers off the road or honk at them, and I just felt
unusually frustrated with the whole experience. I should
mention there was a point in my life when I loved to
drive. Now, something amazing has happened, I can enjoy
driving again. The local driving habits of people, or the lack
thereof, haven’t changed. I have. It just doesn’t bother me
anymore. I am amazed, too, when this happens. I think to
myself, “Wow, that person just cut me off and that’s OK. I am OK with that.” Whereas I used to think, “Who in the f#*$ is that a%&#!+?” That is a big difference! I just feel so much better. I want to thank Dr. Platt and his team for their
courage to move forward and really try to heal people
during a time when people need it most. I know that there
will be/is a lot of resistance, there always is with change, but if I can ever be of help I am here! It has been less than a week since I was there and I am seriously a new person! Before coming in to your office I had been working so hard
on the physical and mental parts, but something was still
missing. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for filling
the missing part. I can now truly live my life. BIPOLAR DISORDER
In my opinion, understanding how excess adrenaline can
affect the body sheds light on the condition known as bipolar
disorder. The older term, “manic-depressive disorder,” was
perhaps a more apt name.ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 80  |
People with this condition go from periods of extreme
restlessness and hyperactivity to periods of extreme depression. In the hypomanic phase (a true manic phase is rarely seen
outside of an institution), the mind can go extremely fast and
the person may exhibit rapid speech or have grandiose ideas. These characteristics are symptoms of excess adrenaline in the
brain. This same output of adrenaline, the anger hormone, can
lead to depression when the anger is internalized. Subsequently,
the adrenaline causes a swing back to euphoria. There is no way of accurately determining the behaviors
through which a bipolar tendency will be expressed. It may
be that right-brained patients exhibit more rapid speech and
flow of ideas, while left-brained patients may manifest extreme
activity. I suspect that both can become severely depressed
and suicidal. I also suspect that everyone with this condition started out
with ADHD. People with ADHD  can actually be pushed into
a bipolar state simply with the use of commonly prescribed
antidepressants that are in the norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitor (NRI) category, or with stimulants. A partial list
of these drugs includes: Wellbutrin, Effexor, Cymbalta,
Lyrica, Pristiq, Adderall, Strattera, and Ritalin. The last three
are prescribed for ADHD  specifically, while the others are
commonly used for depression. Bipolar patients are often
placed on antidepressants, with Cymbalta and Lyrica added
for pain control. |   81 ExCESS  ADRENALINE: THE  UgLy

Doctors are giving bipolar patients medications that
increase the adrenaline level in the brain when they
have too much adrenaline in the brain to begin with. All of these drugs can increase the amount of adrenaline
in the brain. Reminiscent of how doctors often treat type II
diabetics with insulin or drugs


.” In fact, it is a part of greatness to know that sometimes a good deed
is not returned. The influence that our thoughts and feelings have is, in the world’ s
literature, called “the law of karma,” or “Y ou get what you give,” or “Y ou
reap what you sow.” Often we don’ t see this law in operation because of the
time delay. For instance, an acquaintance borrowed $200 and then failed to
pay it back as promised. For over a year, there was a resentment and
consequent avoidance of the person because of the emotional discomfort,
which was compounded by the guilt at holding the resentment in the first
place. Finally, when it became apparent that the only person suf fering from
the resentment was the person holding it, and that it was costing peace of
mind, the willingness to let it go emer ged. At that point, the resentment was
fairly easy to let go and the borrower was for given. The $200 was re-
contextualized as a loan to someone who had been in need. W ithin a few
months, there was an unexpected encounter with the person, who said out
of the blue, “I have been concerned about the money I owe you. Here’ s the
whole $200.” The loan was repaid without even asking for it. W e block receiving what we want from others by our expectations or
resentments of them. It is very ef fective to surrender our expectations of
others before we enter into a particular situation with them. Emotions arereally subtle attempts to force others and impose our will on them, which
they unconsciously resist. The way to facilitate satisfaction in relationships is lovingly to picture
the best possible outcome. Make sure it is mutually beneficial: a win-win
situation. Let go of all the negative feelings and merely hold the picture in
mind. W e can tell if we are really surrendered when we feel okay either
way; it’ s okay with us if it happens, and it’ s okay with us if it doesn’ t.
Therefore, to be surrendered does not mean to be passive. It is being active
in a positive way. When we are surrendered, there is no longer the pressure of time. Frustration comes from wanting a thing now instead of letting it happen
naturally in its own time. Patience is an automatic side ef fect of letting go,
and we know how easy it is to get along with patient people. Notice that
patient people usually get what they want in the end. One resistance to letting go is the illusion that, if we let go of our
wantingness and our expectations, we won’ t get what we want. W e fear that
we will lose it if we don’ t keep pressuring for it. The mind has the idea that
the way to get a thing is to want it. Actually, if we examine the issue, we
will see that events are due to decisions, and choices are based on our
intentions. What we get is the result of these choices, even though they are
unconscious, rather than what we think we want. When we surrender the
pressure of wantingness, we are clear to make wiser choices and decisions. W e think that our happiness depends on controlling events, and that
facts are what upset us. Actually, it is our feelings and thoughts about these
facts that are the real cause of our upset. Facts in and of themselves are
neutral things. The power we give them is due to our attitude of acceptance
or non-acceptance and our overall feeling state. If we get stuck in a feeling,
it is because we still secretly believe that it will accomplish something for
us. Sexual Relations
Because of the wide availability of sexual material and opportunities for
varied sexual experiences, most people nowadays consider themselves
rather sexually liberated. This liberation is primarily intellectual and
behavioral; there still exists a great deal of emotional and experiential
limitation, as well as sensory restriction. All experience takes place withinconsciousness itself; therefore, sexual experience, like any other, is
determined by our overall level of awareness and inner freedom. The degree to which our sexual experience has been restricted becomes
apparent the more we relinquish our feelings about it. When we are totally
surrendered on sexuality, it is like adding a third dimension to what was
before a two-dimensional experience. As one woman put it, “It’ s like I used
to hear only violins, then a cello was added, and then a flute, and so on, so
that now the experience is totally full and comprehensive.”
Besides the increased emotional pleasure of freedom of expression,
letting go brings a change in the sensory experience itself. T o most people,
men especially, sexual excitation and or gasmic pleasure are primarily a
genital sensation. As one gets freer, the locale of the or gasm begins to
expand and spread to the whole pelvis and abdomen, the legs and arms, and
eventually the whole body. Often, after this accomplishment, there is a
plateau that follows, and then suddenly and unexpectedly the or gasmic
location expands beyond the body, as though the space around the body was
having the or gasm instead of the person. Ultimately, there is no limitation of
the or gasm. It seems to expand into infinity and be experienced from no
particular center or locale. It is as if there is no individual person present. The or gasm is experiencing itself. This expansion is facilitated by becoming aware that the facial
grimacing and breath-holding are restrictions due to fear of loss of control
and attempts to limit the experience. If one breathes slowly and deeply,
smiling instead of grimacing, the fear will become conscious and can be
surrendered. Sexuality loses its compulsiveness. Freedom means not just freedom to
indulge but freedom not to have sex or or gasm. When we are surrendered,
we are not run by the desire for the or gasm. This unleashes creative
experiencing and awareness because the mind is not focused on the or gasm
itself. T o be free from the domination of the desire for or gasm allows sexual
experiences that have been described in spiritual literature as “T antric Sex.”
Most W esterners read a little about it and perhaps give it a try, but then they
give up because they approach it in a way that leads to suppression rather
than to greater freedom. The more truly liberated we become, the more we are motivated by
lovingness rather than by desire for gratification. This change of motivation
from wanting and hunger to the mutual sharing of pleasure and happinessbrings about major changes in the nature of sexual relationships. The
intimacy with another person becomes more encompassing and pleasurable. There is greater attunement to the other person’ s sexuality and intuitive
fulfillment of each other ’ s styles of satisfaction. One couple expressed it as
follows:
It is as though we just witness what our bodies are doing. It is as
though we are the space in which it is all happening. As soon as
one person has a desire or fantasy, the other automatically and
without even thinking, moves into the acting out of fulfilling it. It
is as though there is a psychic connection. There is an
acknowledgement of the inner feelings about the fantasies and a
letting go of how the other person might react. There is greater
variation and frequency with sexuality, also. It used to be mainly
Friday and Saturday nights. Now making love may happen for
days at a time, or sometimes weeks go by without it. It is always
new. It is never the same. Amazingly, it just keeps getting better
and better. Each or gasm seems better than the last, yet often the
lovemaking is so enjoyable that there is no bother to have an
or gasm. If it happens it’ s okay, and it’ s okay if it doesn’ t. The
intimate time spent together is satisfying and freeing, regardless of
any end result. Another man said:
I never really realized before how much sex ran my relationships. It was really compulsive. I was always afraid I would miss out on
a sexual opportunity. I didn’ t want to miss out on the opportunity
for pleasure. Now my pattern is more variable; in fact, now I have
no pattern. When it happens, it happens and it’ s great when it does. When it doesn’ t, I don’ t even think about it. I used to have sex on
my mind all the time. W omen would usually say ‘No.’ But now
that I really don’ t care that much about it, they usually either
suggest it or say ‘Y es’ if I ask. Now, I find that I am more
concerned about them instead of myself. Before, I was really just
using them for my own selfish ends and, intuitively, the women
knew it. Now I feel a lot of love for them. I really care about theirwelfare and happiness, even if it’ s only a single encounter. What a
relief not to have to lie anymore. From the above examples, it is clear that there is a change in
consciousness from lack to abundance. When we are self-centered and
focused on getting emotional or physical pleasure from sex with another
person, then we feel angry, frustrated, and deprived. The more loving we
become, the more we receive what others are giving us, and we discover
that we are all surrounded by love and opportunities for loving
involvements, all of the time


 ending. He believed that she was
wrong a nd he was right. He refu sed to accept his wife's decision to choose
for h erself. Because he would not stop contacting his wife, he w as arrested
and sentenced to jail. The man eventual ly realized that he was not giving love when he denied
his wife her freedom to choose what she wanted, and that he lost his
freedom as a result. The law of attraction  is the law of lov e and you cannot
break it. If you violate it, you break yourself.I am  sha ring thi s story because the ending of intimate relationships is very
challenging for some people. Y ou cannot deny someone else's right to
choose w hat the y want, because that is not giving love. It is a bit ter p ill to
swallow when your heart is breaking, but you must respect everyone's
freedom and right to choose. What you give to another person you receive
yourself, and when you deny another person's freedom to choose, you will
attract negative things that deny your own freedom. Maybe the flow of
money to you decreases, or your health weakens, or your job takes a
downturn, becau se all of these things would af fect your freedom. There is
no "other person" for the law of attraction. What you give out to  others, you
give to yourself. Giving love to other people doe s not mean you let people walk all over you
or abuse you in any way, because that's not giving love either. Allowing
another person to use you doesn 't help that person, and it surely doesn't help
you. Love is tough, a nd we learn and grow through its law, and as part of
that lear ning we  experience consequences. So it is not love to al low another
person to use or abuse you. The answer is, get yourself onto the highest
frequency of good feelings that you can, and the force of love will resolve
the situation for you. "Whenever anyo ne has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the
offense cannot r each it." (Rene Descartes 1596- 1650)

The Secr et to Relationships
Life pre sents ev erything to you so that you can choose what yo u love. And
part of the gift of life is that you are given all kinds of people,  so you can
choose what you love in those people and turn away from what you don't
love. Y ou are not meant to manufacture love for qualities in a person you
don't love, but simply to turn away without giving them any feeling. T urning away from what you don't love in someone means you're relaxed
about it, and you know life is giving you a choice. It doesn't me an that youar gue with them to prove they'r e wrong or you criticize or blame them, or
that you  want to change them because you think you're right. Because if
you do any of these things, you are not giving love - big time! "Y our ow n soul is nourished wh en you ar e kind; it is destr oyed when you
ar e cruel." (King Solomon Cir ca 10th Century BC in Pr overbs 1 1:17)

When you are on a feeling frequency of love, then only people who are on
the same feeling frequency as you are can come into your life. Y ou know some days you feel really happy, some days you feel irritated,
and othe rs you feel sad. Y ou can be many dif ferent versions of yourself. A
person in a relationship with you can also be many versions, including
happy, irritated, or sad. No doubt you will have seen them being many
dif ferent version s, but every version is still that person. When you're ha ppy,
then only the ha ppy version of other people can come into your life. But
you have to be happy to rece ive the happy versions of other people! It doesn 't mean you are respon sible for other people's happiness, because
everyone is responsible for their own lives and happiness. What it means is
there's nothing else for you to do but to feel happy yourself, and the law of
attraction will do the rest. "Happiness depends upon ourselves." (Aristotle 384-322 BC)

PET s
One way  to take the sting out of confrontational or dif ficult relationships is
to imagi ne peop le as your own "Personal Emotional T rainers"! T he force oflove presents you with a who le array of Personal Emotional T rainers,
disguised as everyday people, but they are all training you to choose love! Some pe ople may be soft Perso nal Emotional T rainers because they don't
push you  very hard and they're so easy to love. Some people may be tough
Personal Emotio nal T rainers because they push you to your lim its, as some
personal physica l trainers do, but they are the ones who are making you
stronger to choose love no matter what. Personal Emotio nal T rainers can use all kinds of situations and tactics to
challenge you, but the thing to remember is that every challenge is
presented so you will choose love and turn away from negativity and blame. Some trainers may challenge you to judge them or others, but don't fall for
that trap. Judgment is negative a nd it's not giving love, so if you can't love
the good in someone or something, simply turn away. Some tr ainers m ay test you by  provoking you to feel reveng e, anger, or
hatred. T urn away by looking fo r the things you love in life. So me trainers
may eve n hit you with guilt, feelings of unworthiness, or fear. D on't fall for
any of them, because negativity of any kind is not love. "Hatr ed paralyzes life; love r eleases it. Hatr ed confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatr ed darkens life; love illuminates it." (Martin Luther King 1929-1968)

If you imagine the people in your life as your Personal Emotional T rainers,
it will help you  with any dif ficult rela tionships. It's the tough trainers who
make yo u stronger and determined to choose love no matter what, but
they're also giving you a message. They're telling you that you've gotten
yourself onto a negative feeling frequenc y - and you need to feel better to
move of f it! No one can com e into your life and af fect you negatively,
unless you are already on the same negative feeling frequency. If you're on
a fee ling frequency of love, it w on't matter how tough or negati ve someone
is, they will not and cannot af fect you!Each person is just doing their job, just as you are doing your job of being a
Personal Emotio nal T rainer to o thers. There are no enemies, there are only
some great PET s, and some tough PET s who are making you great.The Law of Attraction Is a Sticky
Business
The law of attraction is a sticky business. When you rejoice in another
person's good fortune, their good  fortune sticks to you! When you admire or
appreciate anyth ing about another person, you're sticking those qualities to
yourself. But when you think or discuss negative things about someone
else, yo u're sticking those negative things to you too, and you're putting
them into your own life. The law of attraction is responding to your feelings. Whatever you give,
you receive, and so if yo u stick a label on any per son, circumstance, or
event in life, you are sticking the label on you, and that's wh at you will
receive. Now thi s is fantastic news, because it means you can stick everything you
love and  want to you by looking  for the things you love in other people, and
saying yes to them with all of your heart! The world is your catalogue, and
when " you understand the power of your love, it is a ful l-time job n oticing
everything you love in other people. But it's the easiest and best way to
change your whole li fe. It beats struggle and suf fering. All you have to do
is no tice the thin gs you love in other people, and turn away from the things
you don't so you don't give them any feeling. How easy is that? "T aking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a  good wor d,
and the thir d with a good deed, I enter ed Paradise.” (Cir ca 6th Century
Zor oastrian Religious T ext)
Gossip Is Sticky T ooGossip seems harmless on the surface, but it can cause a lot of negative
things in people's lives. Gossip is not giving love. Gossip is giving
negativity and that's exactly what you receive back. Gossip is not harmful to
the person who is being spoken of; gossip harms those gossiping! When y ou are talking with a fa mily member or a friend, and they tell you
about some negative thing that someone said or did they are gossiping and
they are giving out negativity. As you listen to them, you are giving out
negativity too because you are a feeling being, and you can't hear negative
things without your feelings dro p