. I’ve always
understood the temptation to dope, and I understand because I’ve been
there. Th e perce ption of the T our de France now from the publi c is that it’ s
rotten, they all dope, and tha t saddens me because it sho uldn’ t have
happened.”
Fortunately for the future of sports, the culture is slowly changing, and
the majo rity of athletes do not partake in the unethical practice of blooddoping. Instead,  they choose naturally beneficial activities such as high-
altitude training  or other techniques designed to increase the bo dy’ s ability
to carry more oxygen.
The main purpose of altitude training and the Oxygen Advantage
techniques outlined in this book is to increase red blood cell count. By
practicing the breath-hold exercises outlined in this book, the kidneys
increase product ion of EPO and  the spleen releases red blood cells into the
blood circulation. Both of these ef fects increase the oxygen-carrying
capacity of the b lood above normal levels, giving an athlete a competitive
edge without the risks and e thical issues of illegal doping. A higher
concentration of red blood cells can benefit your sporting performance in
several ways, including:
•  Improving the oxygen-carrying capacity of your blood
•  Increasing your VO 2  max
•  Extending your endurance potential
Maximal oxygen uptake, or VO 2  max, re fers to the maximum capacity
of an individual’ s body to transport and utilize oxygen during 1 minute of
exhaustive exercise. The V refers to volume, the O 2  to  oxygen, and max to
the max imum c apacity of your body. Y our VO 2  m ax is measur ed by the
amount of oxygen that is used d uring 1 minute of exercise per kilogram of
body weight. VO 2  max is a factor that can determine an athlete’ s capacity
to sustai n physi cal exercise, and is considered to be the best indicator of
cardiorespiratory endurance and aerobic fitness. In sports that require
exceptional endurance, such as cycling, rowing, swimming, and running,
world-class athletes typically have a high VO 2  ma x. The goa l of most
endurance progr ams is to increase an individual’ s VO 2  m ax, and this ca n be
achieved by improving the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.
The rest of this  chapter explores several dif ferent training r egimens
along with their ef fects on VO 2  m ax and the ox ygen-carrying capacity of
the blood. In order to understand how and why these techniques work, it is
useful to know the following b asic information about the composition of
your blood and some common terms that we will be referring to regularly.Blood is made u p of three parts: oxygen-carrying red cells, whi te blood
cells, an d plasm a. Hemoglobin  is a protein fou nd within the re d cells. One
of the functions  of hemoglobin is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the
cells, tissues, and or gans of the body, where it is released in order to burn
nutrients for the production of e ner gy. Once oxygen has been r eleased, the
resultant carbon dioxide is collected by hemoglobin and returned to the
lungs, which exhale the excess.
Levels of hemoglobin will vary from person to person, but the
following figures provide a general guide for normal results:
Male: 13.8 to 17.2 gm/dL
Female: 12.1 to 15.1 gm/dL
(gm/dL = grams per deciliter)
Hematocrit  refers to the percentage of red blood cells in the blood.
Under normal conditions, hemat ocrit will relate closely to the concentration
of hemoglobin in the blood. Hematocrit is usually found to  be 40.7 to 50.3
percent for males and 36.1 to 44.3 percent for females.
Another measurement relevant to Oxygen Advantage techniques is the
oxygen saturation percentage of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin has a maximum
oxygen-carrying capacity, and oxygen saturation simply means how much
of that capacity is filled with ox ygen. Normal arterial oxygen saturation is
between 95 and 99 percent.
In the following sections w e look at research that investigates
supplementary training programs, including high-altitude training, high-
intensity exercise, and simulation of high altitude by breath holding, and
compare how these techniques can improve oxygen-carrying capacity and
athletic performance naturally.
The Merits of High-Altitude T raining
T raditional altitude training methods involve living and training at a high
altitude, forcing  the body to adapt to exercising with less oxygen and
therefore increasing the blood’ s oxygen-carrying capacity. Athletes still use
this technique today, particularl y those who live at high altitudes such as
Kenyan and Ethiopian runners. However, there is a significant drawback to
training at high altitude, since e xercising in such an atmosphere increasesresistance, which can prevent an athlete from achieving his or her
maximum work  rate. This reduction in exercise intensity can result in
muscle deconditioning.
T o limit  the detraining ef fects of working at high altitude while still
maintaining the benefits, Dr. Benjamin Levine and Dr. James Stray-
Gundersen from the University of T exas in Dallas developed th e “live high
and train low” m odel in the 199 0s. This model requires an athlete to live at
a moder ate altit ude of 2,500 meters but to train at an altitude lower than
1,500 m eters. T he premise of t he method is to enable athlete s to benefit
from the  positive physiological  changes associated with living at a high
altitude while enabling them to train at their maximum work rate.
Levine a nd Stra y-Gundersen co nducted a study of thirty-nine m ale and
female collegiate distance runners who were evenly matched in fitness
level. Each runner was assigned to one of three groups:
1.    Live low (150 meters) and train low (150 meters)
2.    Live high (2,500 meters) and train low (1,250 meters)
3.    Live high (2,500 meters) and train high (2,500 meters)
Results for the second group, “live high and train low,” showed a 9
percent i mprovement in red blood cell volume and a 5 percent im provement
in maximal oxygen uptake (VO 2  max). The improvement in maximal
oxygen uptake was in direct pro portion to increased red cell m ass volume.
This tran slated to an impressive performance improvement of 13.4 seconds
in a 5,000-meter run.
After returning to sea level, the “live high and train low” group  was the
only one to demonstrate significant improvements in both VO 2  max and
5,000-meter run  time. These im provements were attributed to the athletes’
acclimatization to altitude while  maintaining the velocity of their sea-level
training, most likely also accounting for the increase in their VO 2  max.
Another study replicated these results using national team distance
runners. Following 27 days of training at an altitude of 2,500 meters,
participants achieved an improv ement of 1.1 percent in a 3,000-meter time
trial. Alt hough a 1.1 percent improvement in performance may not seem to
be a lar ge ef fect, at an elite level, races are won or lost by small fractions ofa percent. Furthermore, the increase in running performance was
accompanied by a 3 percent improvement in maximal oxygen uptake.
The United States national team  for long track speed skating utilized the
“live hig h, train  low” model to  prepare for the 2002 W inter Olympics in
Salt Lak e City. That year they  enjoyed unprecedented success, with six
athletes winning eight medals (three of which were gold) and two world
records broken. During the 2006 T orino Olympics, the U.S. long track
speed skaters who continued to employ the “live high, tra in low”  model
brought home three gold, three silver, and one bronze medal.
The Merits of High-Intensity T raining
Another training method that receives considerable attention from athletes
and coaches is h igh-intensity training. The fundamental princi ple of high-
intensity training is to exercise in short, intense bursts, performing at
maximum work  rate—a technique that is certainly not for the fainthearted.
Numerous studie s have investigated the dif ferent responses from training at
dif ferent intensities, and in comparison to moderate exercise, high-intensity
training provides greater improvements to both aerobic and anaerobic
capacity. Aerobic exercise is related to endurance and ensures th at the body
is suppli ed with enough oxygen to continue to perform. Anaerobic exercise
means “ without oxygen” and is more concerned with speed, power, and
strength, leading to improved performance in a shorter space of time.
Japanese scienti st Izumi T abata and colleagues at the National Institute
of F itness and Sports in Jap an conducted a study of two training
experiments to compare moderate- to high-intensity training. The high-
intensity group participated in the


. 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 caused by vitamin deficiencies. Senility and many mental disordersfall in this category. Many old people live on extremely deficient diets comprisedlargely of devitalized starches, sugars, and fats, partly because many do not havegood enough teeth to chew vegetables and other high roughage foods, and theydo not have the energy it takes to prepare more nourishing foods. Virtually all oldpeople have deficiency diseases. As vital force inevitably declines with age, thequantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases, then the ability to breakdownand extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished, frequently leading to seriousdeficiencies. These deficiencies are inevitably misdiagnosed as disease or aging.
Suppose a body needs 30 milligrams a day of niacin to not develop pellagra,
but to be fully healthy, needs 500 milligrams daily. If that body receives 50milligrams per day from a vitamin pill, to the medical doctor it could not possiblybe deficient in this vitamin. However, over time, the insidious subclinical deficiencymay degrade some other system and produce a different disease, such as colitis.But the medical doctor sees no relationship. Let me give you an actual example.Medical researchers studying vitamin B
5 or pantothenic acid noticed that it could,
in what seemed to be megadoses (compared to the minimum daily requirement)largely reverse certain degenerative effects of aging. These researchers weremeasuring endurance in rats as it decreased through the aging process. How theymade this measurement may appear to some readers to be heartless, but the bestway to gauge the endurance of a rat is to toss it into a five gallon bucket of coldwater and see how long it swims before it drowns. Under these conditions, theresearcher can be absolutely confident that the rat does its very best to stay alive.
Young healthy rats can swim for 45 minutes in 50° Fahrenheit water before
drowning. Old rats can only last about 15 minutes. And old rats swim differently,less efficiently, with their lower bodies more or less vertical, sort of dog paddling.But when old rats were fed pantothenic acid at a very high dose for a few weeksbefore the test, they swam 45 minutes too. And swam more efficiently, like theyoung rats did. More interestingly, their coats changed color (the gray went away)and improved in texture; they began to appear like young rats. And the rats onmegadoses of B 5 lived lot longer—25 to 33 percent longer than rats not on largedoses of B
5. Does that mean “megadoses” of B 5 have an unknown drug-like
effect? Or does that mean the real nutritional requirement for B 5 is a lot higher
than most people think? I believe the second choice is correct. To give you anidea of how much B
5 the old rats were given in human terms, the FDA says the
minimum daily requirement for B 5 is about 10 milligrams but if humans took as
much B 5 as the rats, they would take about 750 milligrams per day. Incidentally, I
figure I am as worthy as any lab rat and take over 500 milligrams daily.
My point is that there is a big difference between preventing a gross vitamin
deficiency disease, and using vitamins to create optimum functioning. Any sickperson or anyone with a health complaint needs to improve their overallfunctioning in any way that won’t be harmful over the long term. Vitamin therapycan be an amazingly effective adjunct to dietary reform and detoxification.
Some of the earlier natural hygienists were opposed to using vitamins.
However, these doctors lived in an era when the food supply was better, whenmass human degeneration had not proceeded as far as it has today. From theirperspective, it was possible to obtain all the nutrition one needed from food. Inour time this is unlikely unless a person knowingly and intelligently producesvirtually all their own food on a highly fertile soil body whose fertility is maintainedand adjusted with a conscious intent to maximize the nutritive content of the food.Unfortunately, ignorance of the degraded nature of industrial food seems toextend to otherwise admirable natural healing methods such as Macrobiotics andhomeopathy because these disciplines also downplay any need for foodsupplementation.
Vitamins For Young Persons And Children
Young healthy people from weaning through their


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by W alter Last
You may beneﬁt from using herbal remedies instead of drugs.
I believe that there are at most a handful of medical drugs that may be beneﬁcial for the user while all the thousands of other drugs
are only beneﬁcial for the prescriber and the pharmaceutical industry. Almost all drugs are designed to alleviate only symptoms
without really improving our health. On the contrary, in addition to numerous side effects, they commonly become a burden on the
liver or kidneys by increasing our load of toxic chemicals, and with this accelerate our health deterioration. Many also tend to become
addictive and when withdrawing the drug produce the same symptoms that they originally made to go away.
Herbs are not completely harmless either but damage due to commonly used herbs is extremely rare while beneﬁts are usually more
genuine and lasting. In contrast to culinary herbs medicinal herbs should be used on a long-term basis only if there is a reason for
using them and not just in case they may do some good. Herbs for a wide range of health problems have been listed in Speciﬁc
Health Problems. Here I just like to enlarge on a few herbs and condition s that I regard as being particularly important on the road to
better health.
A good combination to cleanse the gastro-intestinal tract is a mixture of chilies with a sufﬁciently large quantity of gingerroot. Blend or
crush these in lemon juice and olive oil and refrigerate. Use this as a salad dressing or generally for ﬂavoring meals. Gradually
increase the intake to just below your tolerance level for several weeks. Then you may continue to use it just in normal amounts for
ﬂavoring your food. With serious infections, inﬂammations or cancer of the gastro-intestinal tract you may also add fresh garlic for a
limited period.
Peppermint tea is especially good to stimulate the digestion and uplift the spirit while slippery elm powder soothes the digestive tract.
Sage is highly esteemed. An ancient saying is: 'Why die (of a disease) when sage grows in your garden?' It may be combined with
other herbs and is prepared by adding 2 teaspoons of dried sage to 1 pint of boiling water. After 3 minutes take off the heat and let
draw for another 10 minutes. Other  fragrant or leaf herbs such as peppermint or St Johnswort may be added while drawing. The
latter, of course, is very effective against depression. In a comparative clinical trial it has been found to be as effective as
antidepressant drugs.
The immune system may be strengthened with echinacea, propolis, Euro pean mistletoe (viscum album), Easter lily, Reishi and other
oriental mushrooms. Echinacea may be added to all other herb combinations. However, there are some ﬁndings that echinacea can
cause problems if taken uninterruptedly for several months. Therefore it may be preferable to interrupt its use after a month and then
take it again a few weeks later.
Wormwood and garlic are excellent against all kinds of parasites as well as Candida. A combination of golden seal, ginger and
slippery elm powder is good with gastro-intestinal inﬂammations and also multiple sclerosis. In addition to being an excellent wound
healer, comfrey is also a good detoxiﬁer. You may drink a cupful of comfrey tea two or three times a week.
To aid digestion it is generally beneﬁcial to drink half a cup of bitter herb tea after a large or cooked meal. Suitable are centaury,
dandelion (not roasted), devil's claw, gentian and others. These also help to restore liver functions. With any lung conditions,
including lung cancer, have a daily steam inhalation (with a towel over the head) of hot chamomile tea, possibly with the addition of
eucalyptus or tea tree oil or some onion.
Maca is a root vegetable from the Peruvian Andes. It is by far the best remedy for balancing the activities of our endocrine glands and
hormone systems. It appears to act directly on the hypothalamus and pituitary systems to regulate especially the thyroid, adrenals
and sex glands. It is especially effective with underactive thyroid, as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy, including
hysterectomy, for age-related declin e in the production of sex hormones and with general lack of energy. An average daily intake is
about 10 g but start with less.
Licorice, too, has some effect on sex hormones but is most useful as a stimulant of adrenal functions. With this it can raise low blood
pressure and energy levels and is useful for chronic fatigue syndrome, peptic ulcers, skin inﬂammations and HIV/AIDS, it also
increases pancreas secretions. However, it causes retention of sodium and low potassium levels and should not be used with high
blood pressure, kidney disease or during pregnancy. The normal therapeutic range is from 2 to 6 g daily.
For an overview of herbs in cancer treatment see Overcoming Cancer Part 6: Remedies.
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 the externals and have your
fulfillment as well. Now if neither choice will change your reality or how
others choose to react to you, why wouldn’ t all people here simply make the
better and incidentally the correct choice?”
“When you put it like that, I don’ t have a reply, except to say that most
people have learned to make the ‘incorrect choice,’ as you put it, becauseit’s easier to blame someone else for their anxiety than to accept
responsibility for it and rid themselves of it,” I of fered.
“That is precisely my concern,” she said. “I have concluded that people
on Earth want to avoid taking responsibility for their problems, including
their anxiety. This gives them an excuse when it comes to doing what is
necessary to change. As long as they continue to believe that anxiety comes
from without rather than from within, they can never do anything to bring
about happiness for themselves, and since they also go around drugged,
their chances are minimized even further.”
“So you feel that this self-deception or ‘wrong-way reality’ can be the
cause of total unhappiness,” I asked.
“Yes, emphatically,” she answered. “Not only does it preclude total no-
limit happiness, but it can lead to even more devastatingly incorrect
choices.”
“But how can anything be more devastating than an absence of happiness
and no chance of reversing it?” I wondered to her aloud.
“I actually heard several people talking about their anxiety attack having
led to a nervous breakdown,” she told me.
“Yes, that can happen,” I of fered.
“But it can’ t happen on Earth, it is plainly an illusion,” she answered.
“You wouldn’ t say it was an illusion if you’d ever seen these broken
souls that reside in mental institutions,” I reminded her.
“But I did see them, I visited them and talked with their friends and
relatives,” she replied.
“So you see, it’ s not an illusion, is it?”
“The results are not illusions, they are very real indeed. But that doesn’ t
change the fact that the reasoning that got the people in the institutions in
the first place is an illusion. First of all, nerves don’ t break down as they do
on Uranus. I checked all the autopsy reports of persons who had actually
died from these choices. I couldn’ t find one single report in which nerves
broke down. The nerves do their job on Earth, and you don’ t know how
lucky you are, compared to a real nervous breakdown à la Uranus. Second,
the people who have these fictitious nervous breakdowns, which seem to be
the final result of too many nonexistent anxiety attacks, don’ t really believe
they chose their infirmities. They literally believe that someone else created
this monster—and what is even more puzzling, the ‘someone elses’ also
believe they are responsible for the anxious thinking of their friends andfamilies. They feel guilty almost all of the time, without benefit of a guilt-
prodder, which I’ve yet to see on Earth. These people actually are prone to
illusional anxiety attacks of their own, which can even lead to their own
mythical nervous breakdowns. It is indeed a vicious circle that stems from
one thing: incorr ect thinking. It is just plain incorrect for you on Earth to
say ‘anxiety attacks,’ ‘they make me nervous,’ or ‘I’m having a nervous
breakdown.’ Now how, please tell me,” she asked, “can I state it any clearer
than that?”
“You can’ t,” I admitted. For the first time I experienced the frustration
that she must have felt with these incorrect Earthlings who could have it all
as far as happiness and fulfillment were concerned. She knew that our
reality, unlike her own, gave us the freedom to be whatever we wanted. I
could almost hear her thinking, “If we didn’ t have anxiety attacks, feeling-
hurters, and the like, as integral parts of our reality, there would be no
barriers to our potential happiness. Earthlings are a collection of people
with no reason in their reality to be unhappy, and yet almost all of them
choose unhappiness and blame someone or something else for their
troubles.” But she didn’ t say it. Instead, almost as if she knew I was reading
her thoughts, she changed her tactics completely.
“Speaking of blame,” she said, “there seems to be a lot of that here, and
I’ve yet to hear of blame points or blame bankers.”
I was reminded of our conversation on Uranus, in which Eykis explained
the blame points, which were controlled by elected blame of ficials. Each
person on Uranus was assigned a set number of blame points which were
kept in a blame account at the blame bank. Thus when someone blamed
another for his problems, or ascribed responsibility for his lot in life to
externals, it was because he was reacting to his own reality the only way he
could. That is, realistically. On Uranus people indulged in blaming because
they had an allotment of blame points, and that was that. When I asked
Eykis why they would have such a neurotic system, she had replied in a
way that I didn’ t understand at the time, but that was crystal clear now.
“Do you question why you need fresh water for drinking, when 75
percent of the Earth’ s surface is salt water? W ouldn’ t it make much more
sense to use salt water to drink? Why isn’ t your planet that way?” she had
asked rhetorically, answering her own question instantly.
“You need fresh water because of your physical evolution, it is your
reality. We have blame points, feeling-hurters, and everything else you findso incomprehensible because of our social evolution.”
“You are right, Eykis,” I said, shaking myself out of my temporary
mental excursion back to Uranus. “Blame is definitely a common practice
in our world.”
“But again,” she retorted, “it’ s an illusion. Blaming is always a reality
error, and yet it’ s so commonplace here,” she reminded me.
I tried to explain. “Don’ t you see, Eykis, blame is really quite functional.
It enables people to blame others and avoid having to take risks. It makes it
easy for them to explain why they are unfulfilled, and it reduces the options
they have to change. It’ s really quite functional, even though it is certainly
neurotic.” I was feeling somewhat satisfied with myself. That was a pretty
good explanation.
“Of course it’ s functional,” Eykis responded, “but so would drinking salt
water be functional, there’ s such an abundant supply. So why don’ t the
people do that?” she asked.
“Well, it would kill them,” I said. “People can’ t swallow salt water
without being poisoned.”
“I rest my case,” she answered. “Blame and the resultant anxiety are just
as poisonous to the psyche as salt water is to the body. People don’ t drink
salt water because their reality won’ t permit it. When that same reality
screams at them not to blame, they ignore it and imbibe the poison, blaming
the poison rather than themselves for the ill ef fects. It’ s like blaming the
mirror for what it reflects.”
“Just what kind of blaming have you observed?” I asked her. She inhaled
deeply, as if she were going to say a great deal in that one breath.
“Why, it’s an international pastime,” she exclaimed. “I heard a man
respond to the question ‘Why are you so down today?’ with ‘The stock
market’ s performance depressed me. How can I be up when my stocks are
down?’ Now I ask you in all sincerity, how can a stock market control a
person’ s emotions? I checked into the stock market and I found that it has
no connection with human emotional conditions, yet I heard many, many
people blaming the ‘market’ for their unhappiness.”
I stifled a laugh at the absurdity of the image in my head: a stock market
actually dispensing depression. She continued.
“I heard one doctor ask an obese lady, ‘Who is responsible for your being
so overweight?’ She responded without even smirking (I thought she might
be a public satirist): ‘Sara Lee.’ Then she gave another name, ‘Big Bones,’ Ithink, who had also made her fat. I checked out Sara and discovered that it’ s
merely a bakery. Imagine, she believes a lady baker actually made her fat. I
still have an asterisk next to ‘Big Bones,’ and I’ve been meaning to find out
who that is, because from what I can discern, he or she is wreaking havoc
on people’ s lives by making them fat.”
I couldn’ t contain myself any longer. I burst into laughter at the image of
someone called Big Bones  rampaging the countryside and indiscriminately
dispensing fat to the unwary.
“So what’ s funny about that?” she wanted to know.
“Again, Eykis, it’ s an expression that fat people use. And your suspicions
are correct, there is no one called Big Bones here on Earth. People, in fact,
elect their obesity through self-defeating choices, and then blame others for
their conditions.”
“This is so prevalent, I can hardly believe you don’ t see the folly of this
way of thinking,” she said.
“Anything else


 circuit will be
seen to permit an understanding not only of electroos
mosis in tissue but also of several aspects of structural
development and function.
For the time being, we may preliminarily assume
that the prerequisites exist for electroosmotic water
transport. Fig. IX: 10 illustrates some consequences in
the lung. A tumour blocks the interstitial channels
which normally carry fluid centrally from peripheral
lung and the pleural space. Stasis results and fluid
collects between the tumour and the pleura. Let us
also assume that an electric field is superimposed be
tween the electroposi tive tumour and the surrounding
parenchyma and that the interstitial spaces are lined
with a surplus of fixed negative charges. Furthermore,
let us assume that a closed electric circuit exists be
tween the tumour and the surrounding tissue.
Given these prerequisites, water must move through
the tissue away from the surface of the tumour. The
hydrostatic (turgor) pressure and the electroosmotic
pressure must then equilibrate. A hydropeni c "A"
zone and a hydropic "B" zone will form.
The author has attempted to determine the actual
water content in the "A" and "Bn zones in human
lungs after pneumonectomy and in animals post mor
tem. Theseattcmpts have been unsuccessful in demon
strating changes in water content in lung peripheral
to tumours, despite radiologic demonstration in vivo
of the two zones. This negative result is readily ex
plained by the fact that the mechanical changes on
opening the chest will modify the pressure conditions
which allow tissue water to be retained in the hydropic
zones. As has radiographica lly been shown earlier, the
"B" zone, representing local accumulation of fluid in
tissue, disappears immediately after the introduction of
air into the pleural space.
(In the female breast "A" and "B" zones also may develop around carcinomas. In such cases it has been
possible to demonstrate a difference in water content
between the "A" and "B" zones. These studies are
reported in Chapter XVI.)
Later we will return to tbe problem of local elec
troosmotic water transports in vivo, in connection with
therapeutic polarization of tissues (Chapter XVII). At
this point, however, it is now appropriate to consider
the corpuscular effects of chemical concentration
forces and superimposed electric fields.
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ous injections a charged compound can accumulate
locally around an electrode. The polarity of the com
pound may, however, be changed during its intravas
cular passage. Thus, Evans blue dye, which is elec
tronegative, was injected into the aorta of a dog. As
current simultaneou sly passed between mesenteric
electrodes, the dye accumulated mainly around the
cathode. This finding may indicate that the dye com
bined after the injection with a compound of surplus
electronegat ive charge. More likely, however, the
mechanism of flow and field interaction (described
above for leukocytes ) caused the accumulation of the
dye. Possibilities may exist for electrophoretic accu
mulation in specific tissues of a wide range of radio
pharmaceuticals, cytostatic and antibiotic agents pro
vided with a suitable electric charge.
D. Artificial activation
of BCEC systems
Direct current treatment of cancer
The possibility of treating malipw111 tumours by means
of d£rect current merits particular attention. After a
careful review of hundreds of cases from the world's
medical literature, Everson and Cole (29) came to the
conclusion that cancers occasionally do heal spontane
ously. The mechanism has seemed obscure but is usu
ally ascribed to spontaneous hormonal or immunologic
influences. Theoretically, an additiona l explanation
may now be offered, i.e., the stimulation of BCEC
mechanisms sufficiently to heal the tumour in certain
326 Principles and consequences of BCEC fortunate situations. The injury that is the originating
stimulus might then include the development of spon
taneous necrosis, bleeding or infection inside the tu
mour. Such degrading processes are common inside a
tumour but usually have no obvious effect on continu
ing growth at the periphery of the tumour. Empyema
after thoracotomy for lung cancer, however, has been
reported to increase the patient's chances for cure, by
mechanisms which have been unclear (79). BCEC
mechanisms may explain this association.
If we now assume that in the fortunate patient the
degrading process releases sufficient energy to induce
the biologic reactions of healing over a VICC system,
then the degrading process will indirectly affect the
periphety of tumour tissue. The induced changes can
then be expected to include altered ionic composition
of the tissue fluid, electrophoretic attraction of leuko
cytes and creation of microthromboses in capillaries.
The presence of scar tissue (scirrhous cancers) and
microcalcifications, often encountered in association
with malignant tumours, may speak in favour of the
assumption that such a biologic process of healing over
the VICC can take place. Clinical behaviour shows it
to be in (almost?) every case insufficient to cause a
can:er to heal. Cancer is a progressive disease and
develops propessive injuries, in contrast to simple injur
ies such as an incision, which represents a nonprogres
sive injury. Logic should then encourage us to support
the tendencies of healing in malignancies, in hopes
that healing may become complete. Steps should then
be taken to deliver more energy than does the tumour
itself to activate the VICC system. The supply of
electric energy over implanted electrodes appears to be
such a step.
A clinical trial was therefore undertaken by posi
tioning one electrode in the tumour and one in the
interstitia l or vascular part of the VICC, i.e., about
4-5 em away from the tumour in the parenchyma or a
ves~el of the organ. Energy could then be delivered to
the tumour in the perspective of strongly activating the
biologic healing process. The process also included the
creation of an extended local electrochemical injury
inside the tumour. These attempts to induce healing
hy ~irecr current (Ch~pt er XVI!) of nonope111b le, but
relatively small cancers in the lung have shown encour
aging results. The technique of treatment can, howev
er, be varied in many ways, so future improvementS
should be possible. E. A possible role of BCEC
in biogenesis, including.. carcmogene sts
In the author's opinion, endogenous activation of
BCEC systems, leading to unidirectional flow of cur
rent over long time periods, may lead to modification of
cells and tissues. The mechanism involved in cell and
tissue modifications demonstrated in Chapters XIV
and XVI should function with endogeno usly generated
currents as well as with currents from an external
source of power. Strong currents will destroy cells and
tissue (Chapter XVII). Weak currents, on the other
hand, will more gently create new internal and exter
nal environments for cells. The currents will also di
rectly interfere with cellular metabolism and modify
structural elements of cells. Damage to structures,
e.g., the DNA molecule, is evidently one possible
effect of such modifications. Cells subjected to the
conditions described can be expected to show variable
abilities to survive and 10 adapt themselves to the new
living conditions. Thereby a variety of possibilities
should occur for the evolution of normal and patho
logical populations of cells. A continuous selection of
viable, reproducible cells, capable of adapting to envi
ronmental factors, which are slowly changing over
long time periods, might lead to the development of
normal biological tissues. An endogenous activation of
BCEC systems in this way should evidently represent
· an important biogenetic function. The underlying
mechanism can, however, also be anticipated to pro
duce a variety of less viable and adaptable cells. Some
of these cells may survive, leading to the development
of benign or malignant rumours. In this vinu the devel
opment of neoplastic tissue may depend on the same bio
logic mechanism as the development of n()Tma/ tissue.
A large variety of chemical, physical and biological
factors can induce cancer. This capability is not sur
prising. Many chemicals should have the capability to
activate BCEC systems with different magnitud es of
energies, either primarily by their own electro{phy
sico-)chemical potentials or secondarily over a chronic
injury polarization. It is therefore possible to under
stand thatBCEC systems rm<kr certain circumsumces may
funcJion as a common mechanism in carcinogenesis.
F. Morphog enetic capacity of
BCEC systems
Formation of membranes and organ capsules
The morphogenetic capacicy of BCEC systems should also be discussed briefly with regard to the development
of mnnbranes and organ capsules. The proposed mecha
nism anticipates that "fibrotic" material deposits on
the surfaces of many organs, e.g., liver and kidney, as
a result of their physicochemical polarization in rela
tion to surrounding structures, such as the abdominal
wall. In fact, cations and ·anions may deposit intermit
tently on their surfaces as a function of normal ionic
ebb and flow. An electric analogue to deposition of mate
rial at the surfaces of electrodes then pertains. The tis·
sues of the intraabdominal organs and the abdominal
wall include the function of electrodes, the peritoneal
fluid acts as the electrolyte, and the vessels to the
organs act as insulated cables connecting the electrodes
(Fig. XII: 20). Inside an organ, functional subunits
must also polarize against each other. They, too, there
fore must possess structural interfaces. For instance,
the normal existence of fasciae between muscle bun·
dies, basement mnnbranes or fibrous septa inside an
organ in this view may indicate the presence of differ
ences in time of activities or differences of function of
adjacent tissues. The apposition of material between
two adjoining tissues, e.g., two muscles, should con
tinue until their internal current ceases (during mor
phogenesis ), as is encountered in deposition of polar
ization products on the surfaces of ordinary electrodes.
The fibrous sheaths around the muscles will then serve
as electrically insulating media. The insulating capac
ity of the fibrous sheaths will balance exactly the
physiologic demand potentials of the muscles. These
considerations are examples of the suggested capability
of BCEC systems to contribute to normal structural
development.
Furt.her logical consequences can be inferred from
acceptance of the principle of BCEC systems.
G. Physiological capacity
of BCEC systems
Physwlogical effects of BCEC systems can be predict·
ed to exist. Thus, any closed electric circuit is not only
capable of transporting charges. Various functional
effects may take place by release or transformation of
energy. Such reactions may occu.r at sites of change of
density of current or as influences by triggering of
"local" reactions. With this background it may be
appropriate to give an example of the anticipated
structure and function of a BCEC which contains duc
tal conducting branches. In Fig. XVIII: Sa we have
positioned two electrodes of metal in rubber bags,
which are connected by a vessel containing a valve.
One bag is filled with an acid, the other


 all which  has  terrified  you  in the world  of human
action,  dissolves  and  disappears  before  the Call  to your
Great  Presence.
You must  understand  this definitely  and fully;  and  know
tonight,  that  you  are Master  of your  own  selves  and  your
world,  thru  your  attention  to your  "Mighty  I AM  Pres-
ence,"  which  brings  Its Intelligence  and  Power  into  action.
Tonight,  I thank  the Messenger,  especially  at this  time,
for having  read  the excerpt  from  the Magic  Presence.  We
have  brought  into  action,  a Powerful  Activity—the  Most
Powerful  so far in the class.  It is the Activity  from  the Cave
of Light  in India.  It is My Pleasure  to draw  forth  and  hold
you in Its Radiance  for this  hour;  so you  may  absorb,  re-
ceive  and  be blessed  eternally  by Its Action,  which  comes
alone  from  the Power  of Light.
You feel  quite  disappointed,  if at any  time  your  fixtures
are out of order,  your  connections,  and  you have  no Light.
This  Light  of which  We speak,  is far more  important  than
your  Lights  here.  The  lack  of Inner  Light  is darkness  of the
darkest  kind;  and  if you  were  to discern  those  whom  We
refer  to as earth-bound;  who  have  lived  depraved  lives
upon  This  Earth  and  cannot  leave  it, you  would  realize
something  of what  the lack  of Inner  Light  means!  Were DISCOURSE  XXII  309
you to observe  such  earth-bound  people,  you would  see each
one has created  for himself  a density  of darkness  which  is
unknown  in any condition  of the outer  life.  That  is what
mankind  so glibly  speaks  of as earth-bound  Individuals;
little  dreaming  in such  darkness,  the  Individual  suffers
agonies  beyond  anything  mankind  can suffer  in the human
form.
SOME  PEOPLE  DISCOURAGED  BY  THEIR  AT-
TEMPTS  TO  OVERCOME  THE  OBSTACLES  OF
HUMAN  LIFE,  CUT  OFF  THEIR  LIVES  BY  SUI-
CIDE;  AND  THEN  THEY  MEET  THE  FULL  FORCE
OF ALL  THE  DISCORD  AGAINST  WHICH  THIS
BODY  WAS  A SHIELD.  ALL  BECOMES  A MENTAL
WORLD,  AND  THE  AGONY  IS  SO  MUCH
GREATER!  THEN,  THEY  SEE  THEIR  MISTAKE
WHEN  IT IS TOO  LATE.  BELOVED  ONES,  IF SUCH
AN IDEA  HAS  EVER  ENTERED  YOUR  HEADS
ERASE  IT.  YOU  CANNOT  GET  AWAY  FROM
YOURSELF  EVER  IN  THE  WHOLE  UNIVERSE!
YOU  ARE  A WORLD  OF YOUR  OWN  CREATION
AND  THERE  IS NOTHING  CAN  CHANGE  IT BUT
YOURSELF!
Your  Call  to the Great  Presence  of Light,  is the Only
Power  which  can  dissolve  and  consume  your  creations.
That  Wondrous  Chart  gives  you  the eye picture  of the
Violet  Consuming  Flame,  by which  you  may  be set Free;
and only  then,  will  mankind  feel  and  understand  the Im-
portance  of the Presence. 335 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
You are no longer  subject  to your  mistakes,  because  you
have  made  them.  There  is not a thing  in the Universe  which
condemns  Individuals  but themselves.  They  think  them-
selves  very  wise.  They  criticize,  condemn  and  blame  each
other,  for what  is alone  within  themselves!  Do not forget
it! THERE  CANNOT  ANYTHING  ENTER  YOUR
WORLD,  UNLESS  THERE  IS SOMETHING  TO  AT-
TRACT  IT OR  CORRESPOND  TO  IT!
How  is it, Beloved  Ones,  as many  of you know,  the Mes-
sengers  live  in a charmed  world  of their  own,  untouched
by the viciousness  of mankind?  Is it not the proof  that,
when  your  attention  is withheld  from  any  destructive
force;  and  you  know  human  creation  has no power,  you
can move  in the world  untouched  by its discord ? There-
fore,  if you  will  but understand  this,  you  will  find  your-
selves  quickly  moving  in the world,  in your  own  Harmony
called  forth  from  your  Presence;  and  It becomes  the Gov-
erning  Power  and  Intelligence  of your  world!
The Privilege,  the Opportunity  is yours.  Therefore,  if
you will  take  this Opportunity,  make  your  Application,  We
will give  whatever  added  Assistance,  is required  to give  you
the Victory  and  quickly.
In the Power  of Radiance  which  has  been  released  to
the Earth;  and  in the Call  thus  far, the accumulated  appli-
cation  of mankind,  is sufficient  to hold  the Balance  for
every  earnest  sincere  student.  When  I see silly  ignorant
mankind  grinning  and  smirking  at the  Great  Wall  of
Light,  one  day,  they  shall  see how  they  have  missed  their DISCOURSE  XXII  311
Opportunity.  As if the Great  Light,  as if the Messengers,
as if We were  concerned  with  mankind's  belief  or unbelief!
They  are quite  Free  to accept  or reject;  but one day,  when
the Hearts  of the people  are wracked  in agony,  they  will
wish  they  had taken  the Opportunity  offered;  and  with  the
Assistance  of the Mighty  Radiation  which  is being  released
to mankind,  had  attained  their  Victory  and  Freedom
quickly.
Our Rejoicing  in being  able  to render  you  This  Service,
Beloved  Ones,  is very  Great.  You  cannot  possibly  imagine,
until  you  have  entered  into  Greater  Freedom  what  THIS
means!  When  We see the Hearts  of mankind  reaching  so
earnestly  for Freedom,  do you  wonder  at this  time,  We
make  every  Effort  possible,  to watch  and  guard  you,  as
though  you  were  little  children?  You  perhaps  do not ap-
preciate  that;  but when  the human  is silenced  sufficiently,
thru the feeling,  will  you begin  to understand  and  appreci-
ate all It means  to you individually.
The gathered  momentum  of the activity  of men's  minds,
is the governing  power  of a Nation.  If it be mis-directed,
then  the Nation  is filled  with  chaos;  and  unless  it be cor-
rected,  there  will  be the destruction  of that  civilization.
We have  watched  civilization  after  civilization  come  and
go upon  This  Earth.  We  have  watched  mankind  in em-
bodiment  today;  and  a few  think  they  know  something
about  Life.  They  think  they  know  something  about  the
Laws  of Life!  You  are just  beginning  to learn.  Believe  it,
Dear  Ones,  when  mankind  is willing  to turn  first  to the 312 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Presence  of All Life,  the "Mighty  I AM,"  and  then  to the
Ascended  Masters,  Individuals  will  come  to understand
and know  once  and for all time,  the Truth  of Life.  Only  a
Being  who  has set Himself  or Herself  Free,  by the Power
of that  one's  own  Application  and  the Understanding  of
Life,  is in a position  to convey  the Truth  to mankind.
This  is why


 turned to Renee McGregor for help. McGregor is a
sports and eating disorder therapist and cofounder of #TRAINBRA VE, an
initiative aimed at raising awareness of eating disorders in athletes. In the
first consultatio n, Wood was devastated to be told that she had to stop
exercising imme diately and that her heart could give way at any moment if
she didn’t. In the following months, she found it incredibly difficult to
increase her food intake while not exercising at all. Scans revealed that her
bone density was so low she was classed as osteopenic. She struggled to get
a prescr iption for HRT; a lack of understanding of sports-related eating
disorders among  general medical providers meant she had to seek private
healthcare.
In her article, she issues this caution against underfueling and
overtraining, “Periods stopping  is NOT a sign that you are training hard
enough, it is a sign you are training TOO hard and your body is not coping.
Please do not ignore these signs.”99
OceanofPDF.comPCHAPTER THIR TEEN
FEMALE SEX HORMONES AND THE
BREATH
PMS AND CYCLIC HYPER VENTILA TION
remenstrual syndrome (PMS) manifests with similar or identical
symptoms to chronic hyperventilation syndrome.1 A 2006 study
found that women with PMS experience a much greater decline in
blood carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the premenstrual phase than women who do
not experience symptoms. The symptoms appear as progesterone increases
and blood CO2 decreases. When the luteal phase ends, progesterone
decreases, CO2 levels normalize, and the symptoms disappear. The study
concluded that women with PMS have a higher -than-normal sensitivity to
CO2, perhaps caused by progesterone, resulting in “pron ounced
hyperventilation”—and that the hyperventilation is responsible for the
symptoms.2
Breathing plays  a role even from the perspective of physic al pain
experienced. Not only is pain perception heightened by low CO2 levels, the
drop in CO2 also causes constriction of smooth muscles. Since the uterus is
comprised of smooth muscle, this can directly contribute to pain
experienced as menstrual cramps.3
The authors of the 2006 study suggest that since the breath can be easily
manipulated using a variety of techniques, including respiratory and
biofeedback training, it would be promising to explore this phenomenon in
more detail to understand the mechanisms underlying PMS and find moreeffective ways to treat it, at least for some women.2 Their conclusion points
to the relevance of the techniques in this book. Science has yet to
adequately catch  up, but existing  research does point to the fact that women
can control symptoms of PMS by changing their breathing patterns to
restore slow, light, nasal breathing.
In the same study, researchers noted that selective serotonin-reuptake
inhibitors (SSRIs), commonly used as antidepressants and for alleviating
the symptoms of PMS, cause an increase in blood CO 2 levels. Serotonin is a
chemical messenger that has many complex functions. It is known as the
“happy chemica l” because it contributes to feelings of well-being. During
the luteal phase of the mens trual cycle, fluctuations in estrogen and
progesterone increase serotonin neurotransmission.4 But according to 2015
research, women who suffer with PMS or premenstrual dysphoric disorder
(PMDD—a more severe form of premenstrual syndrome) appea r to have an
abnormal seroto nin reaction to luteal hormonal changes5. Also, it has been
shown that changes in the serotonin system may be indirectly related to
breathing abnormalities6 and treatment with SSRIs may improve respiratory
responses to CO 2.7
The connection between PMDD  and panic disorder has been receiving
growing attentio n. Patients with both conditions experience high rates of
panic attacks, and PMDD and panic disorder may share the same
underlying pathology.8 The link betw een menstruati on, depression, and
mood swings is commonly acknowledged and frequently stereotyped, but
the symptoms of PMS and PMDD are no joke. At clinically significant
levels, they are severe enough to interfere with daily life.
We have explored the connection between headaches, menstrual
migraines, and hyperventilation, but there seems to be yet no scientific
literature examining the cyclical occurrence of depression, panic symptoms,
irritability, and mood swings in terms of hormone-induced respiratory
changes. This is despite the clear relationship between mood disorders,
dysfunctional breathing, and autonomic imbalance, and the fact that it is not
always possible to distinguish between depression and PMDD.9
According to a 2017 advisory document from a New Zealand
pharmaco-vigilance team, symptoms including depressed mood, feelings of
hopelessness, difficulty concentrating, lack of energy, decreased interest inusual activities, hypersomnia, and insomnia are included in the diagnostic
criteria for both disorders. However, differences in the regulation of the
stress response between women  with depressive disorders and those with
PMDD may suggest two distinct conditions. It is believed, for instance, that
premenstrual symptoms are not particularly influenced by familial or
environmental factors while a history of anxiety disorder, traumatic events,
and smoking can all contribute.9
EMMA ’S ST ORY
Emma is in her early thirties. She is highly active, enjoys eatin g a healthy
diet, doesn’t smoke, and rarely drinks alcohol. She has a sedent ary job with
an 8- to 10-hour  day, but she walks between four and five kilom eters, works
out every day, and sleeps well for seven or eight hours every night. Despite
the care she gives to her health, Emma found herself struggling with PMS
symptoms that gradually became more and more dif ficult to cope with.
Emma had been  taking an oral contraceptive since her late teens. In her
late twenties, she took a break  from her pill. After three years with no
hormonal contraceptives, she began to take a combined contraceptive pill.
This was when her “hormonal rollercoaster” began. At first, Emma chalked
her PMS  symptoms of mood swings, fatigue, bloating, and brain fog down
to the particular pill she was prescribed. Her doctor switche d her to a
different combin ed pill. For the next three months, Emma’ s symptoms were
constant. She was bloated all the time, her mood was low, she had problems
with her digesti on, and her energy levels were “on the floor.” Despite her
regular exercise regime and healthy diet, she gained two kilos in body
weight. She was in a constant state of stress.
After much research, Emma switched to a more localized contra ceptive,
opting to have an IUD inserted. The IUD is different from an oral
contraceptive in that the release of hormones is much more direct so that the
hormones are not constantly circulating in the bloodstream. Next, she
prioritized her well-being to combat the debilitating PMS symptoms she
had been experiencing. Synthetic hormones were still being released into
her body, even with the IUD, so she wanted to do everything she could to
support her health while her system adapted to the new contraceptive.In the following months, she did several things that significantly
improved her condition:
• She began taking daily supplements of diindolylmethane (DIM), magnesium, and a
vitamin B complex. DIM is a natural supplement found in vegetables including kale,
broccoli, and cabbage. It helps the body metabolize estrogen. Emma learned that
hormonal contraceptives deplete the body of key nutrients such as B vitamins10—
something she wished her doctor had told her.
• She made the switch to nasal breathing. While Emma was not a habitual mouth
breather, she did always breathe through her mouth during exercise. She worked to
ensure that she breathed only through her nose, even on a 100-km cycle. This left
her feeling much calmer during exercise and throughout the rest of the day.
• She began practicing breath holds and long, slow breaths. Emma never considered
herself a fast breather, but each month, around the same time she experienced PMS
symptoms, she noticed that her breath felt shallow. She would struggle to take a full,
deep inhalation, almost as though her body was not capable of getting the oxygen it
required. By becoming aware of her breath, she felt better able to control it. She now
uses breath holds to reset her system to get suf ficient oxygen into her body.
• Emma began practicing meditation. She found that stopping for 15 to 20 minutes a
day to “reset and reenter” had a profound ef fect on her PMS symptoms and on her
daily life. Her PMS lows became much easier to deal with, and she felt better able to
pull herself out of the “PMS hole” she found herself in on a monthly basis. Her
concentration became sharper, and she began experiencing the best sleep she had
ever had.
Emma had always been told that PMS is normal, that symptoms
including fatigue, brain fog, bloating, and low moods are par for the course,
and that she should “deal with it and take a painkiller.” She was shocked to
realize


 it says in part: "In spite of the great efforts
made by the health authorities in promoting vaccination, s mallpox is not on the point of
extinction."
After the limited health improvement programs we find that the plagues and scourges,
all declined noticeably except smallpox and respiratory diseases (tuberculosis) which is
a common after effect of vaccination.
A VERAGE DEATH-RATE FROM FEVERS AND OTHER CAUSES per
1,000 of the population:Diseases(India) 10 years1898-1907 16 years1921-1930
Fevers (Malaria. etc. 19.44 15.51
Plague 2.23.53
Cholera 1.66 1.02
Dysentery - diarrhea1.28.09
Smallpox.37.30
Other causes 7.79 6.31
Respiratory diseases
(T.B.).85 1.43
All causes 33.62 26.00
Edward Jenner had promised that vaccination would wipe out instead, all other diseases,
even the most persistent and deadly more rapidly without any serums than did smallpox
with its repeated vaccinations.
Around 1900, after the improvements in health due to sanitation and nutrition had had
time to be weighed against that of vaccination, most of the people of England began to
refuse vaccination, which resulted in a greater decline in smallpox, but in certain cities
of India the British government was still able to keep up rigid enforcement. The
following chart shows the high smallpox death-rate in three of these Indian cities as
compared to the decreased death-rate in London after the clean up (health) campaign:
A VERAGE ANNUAL SMALLPOX DEATH RATE PER MILLION PEOPLE
Period Bombay Calcutta Madras London
1888-1897   424    600 100 10.0
1898-1907 1,000 1,000 307 35.0
1908-1917    600    900 300   .3
1918-1927    524 1,242 663   .8
1928-1933    866 1,201 521 1.23
WORLD’S WORST RECORD IN MEXICO
Although India was reported by the League of Nations as the greatest center of smallpox
in the world in 1929 it has improved since gaining its freedom from Britain and relaxing
its vaccination enforcement program. This leaves the over vaccinated country of Mexico
holding the dubious honor as the world’s worst smallpox center.
The following chart shows the comparison between Mexico with its sparse population of
16,500,000 (1930 figures  — approx.) and British India with its dense, congested
population (300,000,000  — approx.) In spite of the disease breeding conditions of
India’s cities with inadequate sanitation, nutrition and housing facilities and the polluted
water, lack of sewers, extreme heat, etc., the smallpox death rate is far lower than that of
completely vaccinated Mexico.
SMALLPOX DEATHS AND DEA TH-RA TES PER POPULATION
MEXICO BRITISH INDIA
Deaths Death-Rate Deaths Death-Rate
1922 11,966 844 40,836 169
1923 13,074 903 44,084 183
1924 11,964 878 55,380 2291925 11,003 731 86,986 356
1926 5,477 357 117,086 485
1927 6,639 424 118,197 490
1928 6,694 420 96,133 399
1929 11,304 696 72,884 302
1930 17,405 1,053 71,815 140
1931 14,903 886 37,272 167
1932 8,307 485 44,925 183
This black record could exist only in a country where vaccination laws are rigidly
enforced. The Mexican law prescribes:
"(1) Children must be vaccinated within four months of birth.
(2) One compulsory vaccination and one compulsory re-vaccination for all inhabitants,
within the time limits and in the manner and under the conditions specified by the Public
Health Council.
(3) All persons are obliged to have themselves re-vaccinated at least once every five
years, and may be required to do so more frequently whenever the health authorities so
determine.
(4) The Army Medical Service vaccinates all soldiers. Employees in commercial,
industrial, etc., establishments must have all persons in their employ vaccinated within
the time-limits laid down."
In spite of the constant recurrence of smallpox epidemics cultivated by vaccination, this
medical dictatorship continues to rule with an iron hand. If the Mexicans were not a
hardy people by nature they would have been destroyed by this time reduced to
imbecility, by this continuous blood poisoning practice.
In Jenner’s day, smallpox was practically unknown in Mexico for which he promptly
claimed the credit. In 1811 Jenner wrote to Dr. Lettson as follows:
"For the great and grand effects of vaccination the eye must quit this little spot
(England) and survey it among other European countries and still more particularly
among the vast empires of Asia and America. In Mexico and Peru the disease is nearly
extinct.
Jenner didn’t wait around to see the results of his terrible invention. Even he admits that
smallpox was almost unknown when he started his work of destruction. Today,
vaccination has so intensified the development of smallpox that all vaccinated Mexicans
have either had it or are in danger of getting it.
Mexico has had the good sense to abolish the barbarous practice of capital punishment
and the cruel and useless practice of vivisection which puts that country a step ahead of
United States in that respect. It is to be hoped that those people who fought so hard for
freedom and democracy will also be able to throw off the heavy yoke of medical
oppression.
EVIDENCE FROM ITALYDr. Charles Ruta, professor of Materia Medica at Parugia University, Italy, presents
some interesting figures comparing the smallpox deaths of the vaccinated soldiers with
the women and boys outside the armed services. Vaccination is stressed in that country
(which accounts for the high smallpox rate among all ages) but more thoroughly
enforced in the Army. The boys are inducted at the age of 20 years. The figures show the
death-rate from smallpox is about twice as high among men over 20 (soldiers) as among
women of the same age.
SMALLPOX DEATH-RATE OF THOROUGHLY V ACCINATED ITALIAN
SOLDIERS COMPARED WITH THE LESS V ACCINATED WOMEN AND BOYS
Deaths1887 1888 1889 Totals
MenWomenMenWomenMenWomenMenWomen
Entire
Population
Under 20
Years5,9975,9837,4397,3535,6265,63118,97218,908
20-30 Years
(Military
Age)2,4591,8101,9901,4181,296   8635,7454,091
Dr. Ruta traced the records for many years following this published record and the
results continued with the same high death-rate among the completely vaccinated
soldiers and with the lower death-rate among the rest of the population.
Although England was the first country to adopt compulsory vaccination laws her
people soon found it was a disastrous practice and fought to have the law abolished.
About the time of the First World War the English people had succeeded enough in
resisting the law to notice a considerable decrease in small-pox, aided of course by the
sanitation program. Germany and Italy were still trying to enforce vaccination on the
entire population. The following chart shows a comparison of the smallpox deaths of the
three countries:
CHART SHOWING INCREASE OF SMALLPOX UNDER COMPULSORY
V ACCINATION
England and Wales Germany Italy
YearDeathsRate per
millionDeathsRate per
millionDeathsRate per
million
1918  20.060  1.0     926  25.0
1919280.7670411.016,580454.0
1920300.80332  5.011,037303.0
HIGH SMALLPOX RATE IN V ACCINATED EGYPT
The League of Nations’ Monthly Health report for October 15, 1929, gives a report on
Egypt with an effort toward justifying the re-occurring smallpox epidemics in spite of
the compulsory vaccination laws. However, the "whitewash" doesn’t cover the
inefficacy of this useless practice. The report states:"In Egypt, vaccination is compulsory under the Decree of 1890... Penalties are
provided for infringements... It has not been found possible as yet to enforce
vaccination everywhere, and smallpox continues to claim a fair number of victims every
year. The last great epidemic broke out in 1919 and extended into 1920. More than five
and a half million persons were vaccinated during these two years, and this completely
arrested the spread of the epidemic. In 1921, the number of cases had gone down to 92
as compared with 7,895 in 1919 and 3,004 in


istilla-
tion process, causes leukocytosis justascooked food does. Asyouadvocate distilled
water, what do you say to this?
This isuntrue. Leukocytosis, theproliferation ofwhite blood corpuscles, results
from poisons entering thebloodstream. Theinorganic debris resulting from cooked
foods willcause thismalady,butdistilled water causes nodecomposition orpoiso-
nous substances. Thedistilled water waswater before, during andafter theprocess
ofdistilling. Itwasnotchanged except thatimpurities itheld before distilling have
been leftbehind. Thetruth isthatmineralized water causes leukocytosis. Theinor-
ganic minerals ofwater aretoxic andcause atoxic reaction bythebody.Leukocy-
tosis isbutoneofthebody’ sdefensive mechanisms against toxic materials. Those
who employ thisargument aretrying todefend theuseofmineralized waters, but
there is no defense for using impure waters.
I’ve heard itsaid that distilled water willcause heart attacks. Infact, thisclaim
was made as a result of a scientific study in England. Do you deny this?
Yes,investigators ofthereport found that, inacertain English citywhose peo-
pledrank hard (heavily-mineralized) water,thedeath rate from heart attack per
100,000 was436peryear.Thedeath rateinanearby citythathadsoftwater (wa-
terwith fewer minerals) was 448peryear,just12deaths more. This implies that
perhaps softwater causes heart attacks andminerals insolution prevents them. But
these investigators found thefollowing significant omissions from thereport: The
softwater drinkers hadalead pipe system throughout thecitywhereas thehard wa-
terdrinkers hadacopper pipe system forthemost part. Lead ismuch more toxic
than copper.
Does fluoridation really make teeth stronger and healthier?
Absolutely not! Fluorides inaninorganic form aretoxic. Ingested fluorides
have anaffinity forcalcium. Insofar asthey unite with calcium they destroy bone
andteeth. Thebody defends against fluorides by,atfirst, hardening thebones and
teeth. Then they become brittle andbreak down under ordinary eating. St.David’ s,
Arizona, hasnatural fluorides totheextent ofabout eight parts permillion ofits
drinking water.Perhaps there isnoworse example ofpoor teeth inAmerica than
there. About 50% ofAmerica’ sdrinking water hasbeen fluoridated forsome 30
years. Forallthat, America’ scollective mouth isstillthebiggest disaster area of
thebody! Nearly 99% ofAmericans have badteeth. One inevery seven have no
teeth atall.Inasmuch asalmost allofthese areadults, thatmeans oneinevery five
adults have no natural teeth.Article #1: The Importance Of Body Temperature by Dr. Herbert M.
Shelton
Warmth isoneofthenecessities oflife.Vitalactivities arepossible only between certain
narrowly defined limits oftemperature. Cold inhibits andexcessive heat suspends them.
Body heat isenergy.Itisemployed notjustinresisting cold, butalso inaccelerating
cellular activities. Temperature, within certain narrow limits, issoabsolutely essential
tolifethatallfunctions areexcited byanyattempt atitsvariation. Animals arerough-
lydivided into twomajor classes: warm-blooded andcold-blooded. This isaccording
towhether they have means ofproducing andmaintaining their own temperature orare
dependent upon the surrounding medium (water or air) to provide it.
Theinvertebrates, although they breathe oxygen andcirculate fluids throughout their
bodies, have noredblood corpuscles andarecold-blooded animals. Fishes andreptiles,
vertebrates with redblood cells, arealsocalled cold-blooded animals, although they are
able tomaintain aninternal temperature above thatofthesurrounding water orair.In-
vertebrates have noheat oftheir own, butreceive their temperature from thesurrounding
media andadapt toit.Except forfishes andreptiles, whose heat-producing andheat-
regulating powers arevery limited, wemay saythatallvertebrates arewarm-blooded,
having redcorpuscles, while thereverse istrueoftheinvertebrates which have nored
corpuscles.
Itmay besuggested that since animals canlive without redcorpuscles andexist
without internal heat, theprimary officeofrespiration ismore universal than toprovide
fortheproduction ofanimal heat. Using apopular phrase inbiology,heat production is
only a “secondary adaptation.”
Ifwelook atalargenumber oflower animals, wefind them tobesmall andliving
inwater.This medium directly andpowerfully reduces them toitsown temperature, and
they aresurrounded andpermeated with water.Intheradiata water actually mingles in
largequantities with their digested food, sothatthey must ofnecessity remain atorvery
near water temperature. Even ifthey possessed sources ofheat within themselves, itbe-
comes evident thatheat production cannot bethegreat endofrespiration inthese ani-
mals. Its primary function must be something very dif ferent from this.
Ifwetake asecond look atthese animals, wediscover thatlargenumbers ofthem,
especially those thatliveinfresh water,vary intemperature with themedium inwhich
they live. Often they vary toagreat extent, being sometimes near thefreezing point and
atother times fifty toonehundred degrees above it.Although aparticular temperature
may bebest foreach ofthem, still, many ofthem canliveanactive lifeintemperatures
seventy,sixty,fifty andeven forty degrees less. Itisobvious thatthesmall extent they
could raise thetemperature oftheir bodies above thatofthewater,when itisforty or
fifty degrees, would beofnogreat importance. Intheir case atleast, there must besome
more important end for respiration than production of heat.
Heat supplies anecessary condition ofvital activity.Theactivities ofcold-blooded
animals riseandfallasthetemperature goes upordown. The higher thetemperature,
providing itdoes notgosohigh soastodestroy life,thegreater theactivity.Ifitbecomes
very cold, they suspend activity.Itisnotininorganic chemistry alone thatheat promotes
theenergyandintensity ofaction. In“vital chemistry,”thatis,inliving functions, the
same phenomenon isobserved. Anelevation oftemperature accelerates allvital func-
tions, both inthecold-blooded andinthewarm-blooded animals. Asimilar thing isseen
in plants.
Acceleration ofactivity increases with theriseintemperature until thetemperature
reaches acertain variable optimum, after which anyadded increase intemperature re-
duces activity.Therateofactivity forsome ofthelower forms may become sogreat as
the temperature rises that they “live too fast” and wear themselves out.
When temperature islowered, vital activities arelowered. Inthecold-blooded ani-
mals, some ofwhich may befrozen forlong periods andthen revived, allactivity ceasesafter thetemperature isreduced below acertain variable minimum. Most ofthewarm-
blooded animals diewhen frozen, their vital activities ceasing before they reach thestate
of freezing.
Higher animals arenotsodependent upon thesurrounding temperature. They arenot
only equipped with internal sources ofheat andmechanisms tocontrol itsproduction
andradiation, butthey also inmost instances have outer coats ofhair,feathers orwool
toprotect them from thecold. They possess means oflowering heat production andin-
creasing heat radiation iftheexternal temperature ortheir own internal heat duetoactiv-
ityisincreased. (Bytheoperation ofthesame internal heat-regulating mechanism they
produce fever when needed.)
Thus, while thevery form andhabits ofthelower orders oflifearedetermined by
external surroundings, theforms andhabits oflifeofthehigher animals arevery large-
lydetermined bypowers within them. These often prevail over powerful antagonistic
forces without.
Thelower animals aremore orlessslaves totheexternal world; thehigher animals
make theexternal world serve them. Itshould benoted thatthisindependence ofthe
higher animals, thisinternal energy,isingreat measure duetoacapacity formaintaining
their normal temperatures amid the changes in that of the surrounding water and air.
Theuniform temperatures maintained byhigher animals promote andsecure acon-
stancy,precision andenergyinthenutrition oftheir tissues, andinthevital functions
thatsupply theanimal with resources tocarry onactive lifeintheface ofopposing in-
fluences in the world.
Abrief glance atthemethod ofmaintaining body temperature may behelpful. Inthe
chapter onrespiration welearned oftheofficeofoxidation intheproduction ofheat. Itis
necessary thatweunderstand thatthebody iscapable ofboth increasing anddecreasing
itsrateofheat production astheexternal temperature falls orrises. These processes are
rigidly controlled bythenervous system andfailonly ingreatly enervated anddiseased
organisms.
Butthebody alsoincreases anddecreases theradiation ofheat from thebody


 andlook atyour emotional state. Areyouanx-
ious? Nervous? Worried? Ifyouareexperiencing anynegative emotional state, stay
away from thefood youarecraving. Thecraving isasign thatyouaretrying touse
the food as a substitute for facing your emotional problems.
Article #1: About Emotions And Health By Marti Fry
Herbert M.Shelton, thefather ofmodern Natural Hygiene, wrote anarticle entitled
“Emotions andHealth” forhismagazine, Dr.Shelton’ sHygienic Review,inOctober of
1978. Hedescribes therelationship between ourmental andemotional states andour
physiological processes, especially theprocess ofdigestion: “Under emotional stress,
anyorallofthedigestive secretions—saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice, intestinal
juice, bile—may bechecked, andthedigestion inprocess when thisinhibition occurs is
temporarily, at least, suspended.”
Dr.Shelton says thereason digestion ischecked during stress isbecause themanu-
facture andflow ofthesecretions needed inthedigestive process depends upon nerve
energy.Nerve energy“istransmitted toalltheorgans ofthebody through anintricate
network ofnerves. Emotional stressorshock interfer eswith both thegeneration and
transmission of nerve ener gy.” (Italics are ours.)
Hegoes ontosay:“Iftheshock orstrong emotion comes when eating isinprogress,
there may beasudden lossofdesire forfood andeating willbediscontinued. Inmany
cases, great grief, fear,orshock willresult inthefood inthestomach being vomited. It
isnotlikely thatemotions check theactions ofenzymes thathave already been poured
outupon thefood inthestomach andintestine, butthey inhibit thesecretion ofadded
juices thatmay beneeded. Certainly themuscular activities ofthese organs areinhibited
or suspended.
“This impairment ofdigestion will lastduring theentire period ofshock orstrong
emotion anduntil nervous balance isrestored. Ifenervation isprofound, reaction may
beslow indeveloping sothattheundigested food under goes fermentation andputrefac-
tion. Next toovereating andwrongeating, mental influences cause most ofthedigestive
impairments with which people suffer.” (Italics are ours.)“These functional impairments eventually result inorganic change. Organic changes
are endings resulting from repeated toxemic crises.”
After explaining therelationship between theemotional-mental condition andbodily
processes such asdigestion, Shelton tells ushow wecanusethisknowledge. “Our Gold-
enRule isthis: Ifnotcomfortable inboth mind andbody from onemeal tothenext,
miss thenext meal. Ifyouareworried, apprehensive, grieved, angry,jealous, depressed,
irritable, grouchy,petulant, fearful, orotherwise mentally distressed, wait upon there-
covery ofpoise before eating. This isasimportant asnoteating when inpain orwhen
there isfever.Itisasimportant asnoteating when fatigued. Good digestion depends up-
on emotional poise.”
Shelton also advises usthatwearebetter offeating light, easy-to-digest foods such
asfresh fruits than heavier foods, such asproteins (flesh oreven nuts orseeds) orstarch-
es,when weanticipate thepossibility ofupcoming emotional ormental stress. Hesays
that, toavoid discomfort andpoisoning from undigested orpartially digested food inour
system, “there aretimes andoccasions when weshould noteatatall.Ifweanticipate a
shock toournervous system orifoneisunavoidable, wewillfinditmuch wiser tomeet
the emer gency with an empty rather than with a full stomach.”
However,it’snotjusttoavoid temporary discomfort thatweshould refrain from eat-
ingoreatvery lightly during orinanticipation ofastressful situation. Weshould fol-
lowthisrule forthesake ofourlong-term health also. Notonly isdigestion inhibited
during stress1, butsoisexcretion (elimination). Continuous orfrequent mental oremo-
tional stress, “byinhibiting thefunctions oflife—secretion andexcretion—build chron-
icdisease.” Shelton recommends thatwe“free ourselves ofourimaginary troubles and
ingrowing grouches orlearn tocontrol oureating.” Hestresses thefollowing point:
“Tocease eating, tomiss afewmeals atexactly theright time—the psychological mo-
ment—thus avoiding indigestion andtheresulting poisoning, will domore toprevent
illness than almost anything elsethatmay benamed. Itisimportant, therefore, thatwe
learn to adjust our living habits and particularly our eating habits to our mental stales.”
Dr.Shelton says that a“big reason why somany epidemics ofcolds, tonsilitis,
diptheria, measles, scarlet fever,etc., follow soclosely upon theheels oftheholiday sea-
son” isbecause alargequantity oftheleast wholesome foods areeaten during atime
ofgreat excitement. Hesays, “Overexcitement andovereating build aseptic state of
thePrima Via,poisoning theentire body.”Inthewords ofDr.Weger,amedical doctor
turned Hygienist, youare“either poised orpoisoned.” Hewas, ofcourse, referring to
theretention ofwastes during stress. Dr.Shelton says, “But, ifthere were noother evil
effects ofoverworked emotions than thatofchecked orinhibited digestion, thisalone is
quite enough toresult indisease. The ductless (endocrine) glands have their functions
disturbed by the emotions, so that the whole process of nutrition is impaired.”
While abalanced mental state and acalm emotional disposition often reflect a
healthy physical condition andwholesome attitudes toward self, others, andlife, poise
isalso necessary inorder tomaintain ahigh level ofphysical health. When great ex-
citement orstresses doexist inourlives, however,let’sfollow Shelton’ s“Golden Rule”
andmiss thenext meal. Let’sremember that“good digestion depends upon emotional
poise.”
Article #2: Fruitarianism For Health And Long Life By Dr. O.L.M.
Abramowski
Great astheimprovement isinmybodily condition, thechange forthebetter inmymen-
talandintellectual faculties haskept pace with it.Myfather,when past fifty years, be-
came ahypochondriac andalsolooked atlifefrom avery gloomy point ofview.When I
approached thehalfcentury,Itoo,developed thispessimistic inclination, andIhadquite
accepted my fate—that I was to be an outspoken hypochondriac.Iwas dissatisfied with myself andmysurroundings andgave upthehope ofever
reaching abetter condition. Every year onwards seemed toprove tomecertainly thatlife
was not worth living!
Especially didInotice thisdespondent mood onawakening inthemorning, when
sometimes anactual fearofimpending disaster would gethold ofmeandrender mylife
absolutely miserable.
Allthisisgone now; hypochondria anddespondency arelong leftbehind. Outof
thepessimist preparing fordeath hasdeveloped anirrepressible optimist who feels he
should liveafullcentury andspread thejoyful gospel ofhealth andrejuvenation among
suffering humanity with all his youthful vigour and endurance.
Intellectually,theimprovement isjustasmarked—my memory isvastly improved
andIcanconcentrate mythoughts now asInever could before. Outofadecided fol-
lower ofauthority,public Vaccinator,etc., Ihave developed into aself-thinking critic,
anintellectual seeker after truth. Ihave been able notonly togetridofanincalculable
amount ofoldanderroneous ideas, buttogoinforquite afewfields ofstudy andobser-
vation with a zest and interest I had not known since my days at the University:
Timenever hangs heavily now; allmydifferent occupations, studies andenterprises
aretreated with thesame absorbing interest. Still, Ifind time forplay andexercise with
thevery fascinating babies inmyfamily andforasocial chat with friends intheevening.
Ihave nofear ofanydisease noranycommon everyday accident, asInow know my
body creates thedisease andisquite able tocope with accidents. Imake myplans with
thefirm conviction thatmany useful years areyetinstore formeandthatmine should
beagreen oldagewith aquiet, painless death astheclosure ofmyvisible existence
when the doors open into Life Eternal.
Article #3: The Mind-Benders by Kecki R. Sidhwa, N.D., D.O.
When people show symptoms ofmental instability ormental sickness, weinvariably
swallow theoldgobbledygook thatmodern psychiatry with itsdrugs, injections, electric
shock treatments, prefrontal lobotomy orpsychotherapy alaFreud, Jung orAdler will
right allthewrongs inafewshort sessions. Butifthetruth betold


 than baking. Root vegetables canbesteamed
until thestarch isdextrinized andtheflesh ispalatable, andwillrequire longer cooking
time (about 20 to 30 minutes).
Baked rootvegetables require higher temperatures andlonger cooking times, result-
ing in greater destruction of nutrients.
27.2.6 Cooking Fruit
There isalmost noexcuse orreason forcooking fruit. Ialmost omitted theword
“almost”. There may besome exceptions—I canthink ofone. Plantains (similar toba-
nanas) arefruits, anddorequire cooking, ifyouusethem. They areripewhen very dark,
and may be steamed or baked until the starch is dextrinized.
Asforbaked apples andcooked applesauce, itisashame tocook good, organically
grown apples. Commercial apples, however,arenotmuch good raworcooked. Butit
ispossible thatsome extremely debilitated people may temporarily beunable totolerate
the raw fruit and therefore resort to cooked fruit.
Some people think they must cook dried fruit—not so!Buy untreated dried fruit and
soak overnight or longer—it will be tender and palatable.
Dates, moist figs, dried bananas anddried apples require nosoaking—they aremuch
better andtastier without soaking. Dried raisins, prunes orcherries may beused either
way. Dried apricots, peaches, pears and hard, dry figs should be soaked.
Saturating fruits with sugar and baking them into pies is a sacrilege.
27.2.7 Nuts
Nuts should beeaten without anyroasting, frying orother cooking. Cashews (not
really nuts, andnotreally raw) may sometimes beused asatopping forcasseroles. (See
Eggplant Casserole recipe.)
Chestnuts (starchy protein) may beeaten raw,ifnotbitter,butaredelicious roasted.
Ifyouprefer them thatway,prepare them asfollows: wash anddiscard those thatfloat.
Withasharp knife, make aslash along theflatside ineach chestnut. Putinboiling wa-
ter,boilfiveorsixminutes. Bake inacovered dish forabout 20minutes at375to400
degrees (oruntil skins areslightly browned). Both skins (theoutside shell andtheinside
skin) canthen beremoved together,either byhand pressure, orbyusing aknife, usual-lyleaving thenutwhole andunbroken. Chestnuts may also becooked orsteamed until
tender—this takes less time than roasting (baking)— perhaps about ten minutes.
27.2.8 Eat as Much Raw Food as Possible
Cooking atanytemperature destroys alltheenzymes—they areinactivated byatem-
perature only a few degrees above body temperature.
Dr.Paul Kouchakof f,aSwiss researcher,found thatalargely rawfood dietoffsets
theadverse effects ofcooked food, soasnottocause leukocytosis (anexcessive number
ofwhite corpuscles intheblood). Most people cantolerate adietof80% rawfood with
2OKo cooked food, asatransition diet(with thegoal ofeventually progressing toan
all-raw food diet, or,atleast, toless, andlesscooked food). Thecritical temperatures at
which most cooked foods become subject toproduction ofthis“pathological” reaction
(leukocytosis) is 191 to 206 degrees.
27.2.9 “Cooking” at Low Temperatures
There isaway to“cook” food anddextrinize starch without heating thefood tothese
critical temperatures. Many years ago, before Iknew about Natural Hygiene andthe
“no-breakfast plan” (orfruit only forbreakfast), Iused toprepare mybreakfast thenight
before byputting wheat orryeberries, orwild ricekernels, inawide-mouthed thermos,
pouring boiling water over it, and quickly capping the thermos.
Itismyunderstanding thatthismethod produces atemperature ofperhaps 150de-
grees inthefood, although itwasalways softandfluffyandready toeatthenext morn-
ing.This method ofpreparation also neutralizes thephytic acid inthewheat andrye.
(Phytic acid is antagonistic to calcium and other minerals, as pointed out previously.)
Anarticle inTheHealth Crusader revived mymemory ofthispractice. Thearticle
stated thatthismethod could beused forbrown ricebysoaking itovernight, draining
inthemorning, then putting itinawide-mouthed thermos, pouring boiling water (dis-
tilled), over it,andquickly capping thethermos. Thericewillbesoftandfluffyintime
fortheevening meal. Potatoes oryams orother vegetables canalso be“cooked” inthis
same manner.Experimentation willdetermine thelength oftime necessary totenderize
the various vegetables.
27.2.10 Steaming
Thenext bestway tocook food issteaming. Most vegetables may besteamed unpre-
pared, whole anduncut. Verylargecarrots may becutintwoormore pieces, rutabaga
may be cut into medium-sized pieces.
Ipreviously used asteam marvel (astainless steel perforated platform inside the
pot), butdiscontinued thepractice forthesame reason thatIdiscontinued theuseofall
metal cookware. IuseCorning ware forsome purposes, butIprefer mytight-lidded,
porcelain-enameled “Show pans”.
Thestainless steel steam marvel darkened thesteaming water,soitwasobvious that
there was some leaching of tiny metal fractions.
Steam vegetables inavery small amount ofwater avery short time. This requires
care and watchfulness, but the vegetables are not drenched with contaminated steam.
Dr.Vetrano agrees onthispoint. Shesays shedoes notusethesteam marvel, orany
rack, forseveral reasons. Ittempts youtoaddmore water than necessary,thewater be-
comes steam, condenses onthelidandflows down over thevegetables anyway.Without
the rack and all that water, the cooking juice tastes better and the vegetables taste better.
Shesuggests theuseofthree layers ofthediscarded outer leaves oflettuce toprotect
the vegetables from burning, in which case very little water will be necessary.
Steam justlong enough toslightly tenderize without losing shape orcolor.(See Dr.
Vetrano’ s article in this lesson.)27.2.11 Other Cooking Methods
Other types ofcooking, athigher temperatures, andforlonger periods oftime, are
progressively more destructive andlessadvisable. However,some recipes will bein-
cluded inthislesson forcasseroles andother combinations thatrequire such lessadvis-
able cooking methods, andareintended toserve only asreplacements foreven worse
cooking practices, since many people willnotbeweaned away from conventional meals
immediately,andrequire recipes other than those forsimply prepared, lightly steamed
vegetables.
Inallcases, theleast destructive method ofpreparation willberecommended, con-
sistent with thepreparation oftasty vegetarian meals which willbeacceptable fortran-
sition meals, reluctant families, children, or entertaining.
27.2.12 Cooking Vessels
Many years agoIdiscarded myaluminum “waterless cooking” pans, having been
convinced thattheleaching ofaluminum fractions into thefood was harmful. About
eight years ago, Istopped using mystainless steel cook ware, having seen evidence that
even stainless steel cookware leached metal fractions (aspreviously described intheuse
of a stainless steel steam marvel, and also confirmed by other reports).
Iused Corning ware foralong time, finding itlessthan satisfactory,because thelids
areriottight enough. Now Iamusing “Show pans,” agood quality ofheavily enameled
ware, with tight covers. These utensils spread heat quickly andevenly andhold theheat.
Verylittle water isrequired, andavapor sealforms between theedges ofthepotandthe
cover.Theoxidation isthus minimal andthevegetables aretenderized inashort time.
Flavor is retained, and loss of vitamins and minerals is minimal.
Itismyunderstanding thatnoleaching occurs intheuseofglass, Corning ware,
orenameled cookware. Ifenameled cookware ischipped, itshould bediscarded. Good
quality enameled cookware is highly chip-resistant.
27.2.13 General Information About Cooking
Leafy vegetables (orany vegetables) should never becooked solong that they
change color. Cook as short a time as possible, and serve immediately.
Thepractice ofadding bicarbonate ofsoda tovegetables topreserve their green color
destroys their food value andtaste, impairs their digestibility,andiscertainly notnec-
essary.
Butter,cream oroilshould never beadded tovegetables while cooking—fats should
never becooked. Ifyoumust usethem, addwhen serving. Asmall amount ofbutter
ispreferable, tooil.Better yet—try using apiece ofavocado instead—it istastier,and
farsuperior nutritionally.Eggplant isanexcellent andtasty vegetable, butrequires extra
care inpreparation (see recipes). Ifvery young andsweet, eggplant may beused raw