 blood cholesterol. Italso contains the highest levels of alpha-
and beta-caroten which protect against
heart disease, twice the lutein of olive oil
which protects against macular
degeneration, and high levels of several
essential vitamins and minerals including
the powerful antioxidant, vitamin E.
Flaxseed Oil
The flaxseed plant, also called Linum
usitatissimum, has its origin in Europe
where it was a source of fibre. Gradually
it came to be used as a healing herb and
was often used in the place of what is now
a multi-vitamin supplement. It is rich in
omega-3 fatty acids (EFAs) and is toutedto be useful in treating cardiac ailments
and even lupus. The EFAs are the key
components present in flaxseed oil
because similar acids are required to
protect cell membranes. The omega-3
acids are good for the heart and the
omega-6 are similar to those found in
vegetable oils.
Heart-healthy and loaded with cancer-
fighting antioxidants, flax and flaxseed oil
promise to follow soy to the supermarket
shelves as the next powerhouse food. The
main reason is that flaxseed is a super
source of lignans, fibre and omega-3 fats.
The concentration of lignans in flaxseed is
more than 100 times greater than that
found in any other lignan-containing foodssuch as grains, fruits and vegetables.
The health benefits of flaxseed oil are
extensive. It controls high blood pressure,
helps lower cholesterol and guards
against heart disease. The benefits also
extend to combating inflammation due to
gout and inflammation in the joints and
kidneys. The omega-3 acids present in
flaxseed oil help to absorb the iodine and
this is very useful in treating conditions
where iodine is present in small amounts.
It is also useful in controlling
constipation. The dietary fibre content in
the oil is considerable and helps ease
bowel movements.
Flaxseed oil also helps alleviate skinproblems. The EFAs target the sites of the
inflammation and bring about an overall
soothing. Acne, psoriasis, sunburn and
rosaccea have all been known to respond
favourably to flaxseed oil. The omega-3
acids ensure healthy hair and nails, and
they also help to revitalize skin and
prevent nails from cracking and breaking.
Flaxseed oil helps to reduce severity of
nerve damage and also aids in triggering
nerve impulses. It helps to combat the
effects of aging and the lignans present in
the oil guard against cancer. Another
important area where it is of great help is
the brain. The omega-3 fatty acids help
retain emotional health, thereby helping to
tackle depression and possiblyAlzheimer’s disease. Used externally, it
can soften dry skin.
The oil has a low smoke point and is used
in salads. It is also ingested in capsule
form for various other disorders.
Flaxseeds themselves can be crushed and
used in beverages (such as juices and
smoothies), bread and other baked
products. The oil should be kept away
from heat and light.
Grape Seed Oil
Grape seed oil is made from pomace, the
waste left in the grape press during the
winemaking process after the pressingcycle. The oil obtained from a further
dehydration and pressing process is rich
in nutrients, especially antioxidants and
fatty acids like linoleic acid.
The nutritional components in grape seed
oil provide a variety of health benefits,
one of the most important being their
ability to slow down and reserve free
radical damage and reduce the risk of
disease, especially heart disease. It also
slows skin aging. Grape seed oil is a
powerful antioxidant, fifty times more
potent than vitamin E and twenty times
more effective than vitamin C in
destroying free radicals, harmful
molecules that roam the body and damage
cells.Certain components in grape seed oil can
help protect the body from sun damage,
improve vision, flexibility in the joints,
arteries and body tissue, improve blood
circulation and reduce allergic and
asthmatic symptoms by inhibiting the
formation of histamines. Many studies
have been carried out to determine the
benefits of using grape seed oil and,
today, it is used in controlling various
health problems like heart disease and
cancer and for regulating blood sugar
levels. Grape seed oil is rich in vitamins
E and C, flavonoids and beta-carotene.
Grape seed oil presumably lowers
cholesterol, especially LDL (‘bad’)
cholesterol. On the other hand, it has beenfound to increase HDL (‘good’)
cholesterol, which reduces risks of
coronary diseases. Some studies have
shown that grape seed extract may be
helpful in checking the growth of
cancerous cells in the stomach, colon,
prostate and lung. Certain compounds
found in grape seed oil are believed to
improve vision, flexibility of joints and
blood circulation.
Grape seed oil is usually colourless with
a high smoke point and is widely used in
cooking. It can be used in baking, frying,
salad dressings, marinades and sauces.
Olive OilOlive oil contains monounsaturated fat, a
healthier type of fat that can lower your
risk of heart disease by reducing the total
and LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol levels in
your blood, making it a healthier choice.
In contrast, saturated and trans fats such as
butter, animal fats, tropical oils and
partially hydrogenated oils, increase your
risk of heart disease by increasing your
total and bad cholesterol levels. All types
of oils contain monounsaturated fat, but
extra virgin or virgin olive oils are the
least processed forms, so they are the
most heart healthy. Olive oil is rich in
antioxidants like chlorophyll, carotenoids
and vitamin E. Scientists have identified a
compound in olive oil called oleuropein,which prevents the LDL cholesterol from
oxidizing. It is the oxidized cholesterol
that sticks to the wall of the arteries and
forms plaque. Replacing other fats in your
diet with olive oil can significantly lower
blood pressure and reduce the risk of
heart attack.
A study published in the January 2005
issue of
Annals of Oncology
 has
identified oleic acid, a monounsaturated
fatty acid found in olive oil, as having the
ability to reduce the effect of an oncogene
(a gene that will turn a host cell into a
cancer cell). This particular oncogene is
associated with the rapid growth of breast
cancer tumours. The conclusion of the
researchers was that oleic acid whencombined with drug therapy encouraged
the self-destruction of aggressive,
treatment-resistant
 cancer cells thereby
destroying the cancer. Olive oil has been
positively indicated in studies of prostate
and endometrial cancers as well. Unlike
other fats, which are associated with the
higher risk of colon cancer, olive oil helps
protect the cells of the colon from
carcinogens. A study published in the
November 2003 issue of
Food Chemistry
Toxicology
 suggests that the antioxidants
in olive oil reduce the amounts of
carcinogens formed when meat is cooked.
Diabetics or those at risk of diabetes are
advised to combine a low-fat,
high-
carbohydrate
 diet with olive oil. Studiesshow this combination is superior at
controlling blood sugar levels compared
to a diet that consists entirely of low-fat
meals. Adding olive oil is also linked to
lower triglyceride levels which put
diabetics at risk of heart disease. The
body uses the healthy fats in olive oil to
produce natural anti-inflammatory agents
which can help reduce the severity of both
arthritis and asthma. Un-inflamed cell
membranes are more fluid and better able
to move healthy nutrients into the cells and
move waste products out. A lower
incidence of osteoporosis and dementia is
found in areas where people consume
large quantities of olive oil.
Do not place your bottle of olive oil onthe windowsill. Light and heat are oil’s
number one enemy. Keep your olive oil in
a cool dark place, tightly sealed. Oxygen
promotes rancidity and, when exposed to
air, light or high temparatures, olive oil
goes rancid. Olive oil has a higher smoke
point than virgin and extra virgin olive
oils, which makes it ideal for cooking.
Virgin and extra virgin olive oils are best
used for salads, dressing and dips.
Palm Oil
Palm oil has long been perceived as an
unhealthy tropical oil, but it is actually a
beneficial fat source when in its natural
form. Palm oil comes from the pulp of thefruit of the Elaeis guineensis tree, also
called the African palm oil tree. It has a
red-orange colour and is popular in the
preparation of dishes native to the
Caribbean and West African countries.
Though palm oil is known for its high
saturated fat content that is implicated in
increasing the chances of heart disease, it
also has nutritional benefits. Palm oil is a
rich source of antioxidants. It is the richest
vegetable source of tocotrienols, which
are a potent source of Vitamin E. Vitamin
E strengthens the immune system, protects
skin cells from toxins and UV radiation,
and helps protect against diseases such as
cancer and blood disorders


 the team’ s training
usually l asted th e length of a full match. Their training session consisted of
a warm-up and a 10-minute run followed by match practice and tactics. The
last 15 minutes included drills and interval training such as running back
and forth between cones set at dif ferent distances. T o incorporate the
Oxygen Advant age program as seamlessly as possible into this type of
session, I made only modest changes to the existing routine so that the
players could adapt to new breathing techniques while maintaining their
current form. The result not only  increased the ef fectiveness of the training,
but also the players’ endurance and performance during competition.
During t he 10-minute run at the beginning of training, I instructed the
players to switch from their usual habit of breathing through their mouth to
running at a comfortable pace with their mouth closed. Every minute or so,
each pla yer exhaled and held th eir breath until they felt a me dium to stro ng
air short age. No  changes were made to the match practice portion of the
training session,  as the introduct ion of nasal breathing adds an extra load to
the body that c an initially slow down an athlete, and possibly lead to
deconditioning of leg strength. The better approach, therefore, was to
incorporate nasal breathing into the 10-minute run and the final  15 minutes
of interval training only.
Since th e team had a tenden cy to experience fatigue during the
remaining 15 minutes of a gam e, introducing nasal breathing to the final
interval training  session added an increased challenge. Running flat out
from cone to cone with the mouth closed is no mean feat, and  although a
couple of the pl ayers experienced mild headaches during the first session,the t eam adapted to it easily. After a few more practice sessions, the players
had adapted well to the demands of nasal breathing, so I decided to
challenge them further by introducing breath-hold exercises. These
exercises (which can be found in the next chapter) subjected the players to
an even greater feeling of breathlessness and worked to furthe r delay the
onset of fatigue.
Bicarbonate of Soda—Mor e Than Just a Cooking Ingr edient!
In a  similar wa y that breath h olding delays the onset of fat igue during
sports, countless studies have shown that taking the alkaline agent
bicarbonate of soda r educes a cidity in the blood to impr ove endurance.
Who wo uld have thought that a cooking ingredient found in almost every
kitchen cupboard in the W estern world could also improve sports
performance? Not only that, but it is a very helpful tool to reduce your
breathing volume and increase your BOL T score.
Bicarbonate of soda is a salt that is found dissolved in many natural
mineral springs and is usually sold as baking soda, bread soda, or cooking
soda. Th is ingre dient has a wid e variety of uses ranging from  baking to
brushing your teeth to cleaning your fridge.
T aken internally, bicarbonate of soda helps to maintain pH of the blood,
and it’ s also the  active ingredient in a number of over -the- counter antacid
medications. Dr. Joseph Mercola, a leading authority on natural health,
suggests taking bicarbonate of s oda for the relief of a number of ailments,
including ulcer pain, insect bites, and gum disease.
The ther apeutic potential of bicarbonate of soda may soon become more
widely known, since Dr. Mark P agel from the University of Arizona Cancer
Center w as recently awarded a grant of $2 million from the National
Institutes of Health to study the ef fectiveness of bicarbonate of soda therapy
in treating breast cancer.
Over the years many studies  have demonstrated the benefits of
bicarbonate of soda as a met hod to help improve sports p erformance.
During high-intensity training, the availability of oxygen for working
muscles decreases, which causes an accumulation of acid, leading to muscle
fatigue. By ingesting bicarbonate of soda, you can help to maintain normalblood pH by dec reasing lactic acid buildup during anaerobic exercise. This
alkaline soda neutralizes the acid that accumulates during high-intensity
training, resulting in greater endurance and power output.
Bicarbonate of soda can also ha ve positive ef fects on maximum breath-
hold time. As noted throughout this book, improved breath-hold time has
positive implica tions for breathlessness during exercise and your ability to
improve your VO 2  max. The inges tion of bicarbonate of soda prior to the
practice of breath-hold exercis es has been shown to increase maximum
breath-hold time by up to 8.6 percent.
For swimmers, the addition of bicarbonate of soda has resulted in an
improvement of several seconds during test trials, as well as having
significant ef fects on resting blood pH. Researchers who have investigated
the ef fects of bicarbonate of soda on swimming performance have
concluded that the ingestion of bicarbonate of soda can act as an ef fective
buf fer during high-intensity interval swimming and could be used to
increase training intensity and overall swimming performance. These
benefits have even been appli ed to boxers, leading to impr oved punch
ef ficacy!
What is consistent throughout all these studies is that the pra ctice of
ingesting bicarbonate of soda before exercise successfully neutralizes acid
buildup in the blood. In terms of fitness and performance, this means:
•  Improved endurance
•  Increased maximum breath-hold time
•  Reduced breathlessness
•  Higher average power output
All i n al l, quite an impressive array of benefits from a househo ld agent
that has no known side ef fects when taken in small doses!
  How to T ake Bicarbonate of Soda
I find the following recipe beneficial for improving breathing
habits and increasing breath-ho ld time, and I use it quite often.
T ry it and take note of its ef fects on your exercise performance.Y ou can take b icarbonate of soda an hour or so before
training. When you are used to taking it before training, you may
also wish to do so before a com petition. But like anything else,
there is no point in overdoing it. As a precautionary measure,
please talk to your doctor before using this approach.
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda  (also known as baking soda
or bread soda)
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1. Put the bicarbonate of soda in a glass.
2. Add the apple cider vinegar and stir for about 1 minute, or
until the soda is thoroughly dissolved.
3. Drink the mixture. It will taste a little acidic.
It’ s as simple as that. Alternativ ely, you can try drinking ordina ry soda
water from the grocery store. While traditionally used as a  mixer for
alcoholic beverages, the carbon ation of the water can provide an added
ef fect.
If y ou drink so da water, please also make sure that you dri nk your
required intake of ordinary stil l water to ensure adequate hyd ration. The
color of  your urine will allow y ou to determine when you are  adequately
hydrated; drink enough plain w ater to ensure it is not too dark, but don’ t
drink so much that your urine  is completely clear throughout the day.
Drinking too much water is pro bably just as bad for you as drinking too
little. It is about  getting the balance right! Until recently, water intoxication
or hyponatremi a was a little-known and even less understood medical
condition. Most people understand that it is sensible to stay hyd rated during
and after exercise, but when this advice is taken to excess a nd athletes
overdo it, dangerous side ef fects can result. Marathon runners are
particularly susceptible to drinking too much during training and
competition—whether water or sports drinks—and this excessiv e hydration
can cau se the brain to swell a s sodium levels decrease to cr itically low
levels. In a 2002 study of Boston Marathon runners, 13 percent of the
runners sampled  showed low sodium levels, putting them at risk of seriousor e ven fatal illness. In that very same marathon, twenty-eig ht-year -old
Cynthia Lucero collapsed and died. The state medical examiner ’ s of fice
concluded that the cause of death was a series of medical events  brought on
by drinking too much fluid during the event. Commenting on the tragedy,
Dr. Arthur Siegel of McLean  Hospital advised for athletes to weigh
themselves prior to a race and write their weight on their race b ib. Then, if
runners felt unwell during the race, they could be weighed again and treated
for dehy dration if it was found  that their weight was down. If, however,
their weight had increased, it w ould mean that they were overhydrated and
that they should retire from the race and stop drinking.
Br eath Holding to Pr epar e for Ascent to High Altitude
Every year, millions of sea-le vel residents make the journey to high
altitudes for recreational skiing and climbing, or for religious, spiritual, or
other purposes. Adventurers, climbers, walkers, and sports enthusiasts have
ventured to altitudes of over 1,500 meters for the challenge and thrill of the
mountains.
British adventurer Bear Grylls reached the summit of Mount Everest in


 I would be very reluctant to buy my vitamins at a discount departmentstore or supermarket; when experimenting with new suppliers I have at timesbeen severely disappointed.
Co-enzyme Q-
10. This substance is normally manufactured in the human body
and is also found in minuscule amounts in almost every cell on Earth. For thatreason it is also called “ubiquinone.” But this vitamin has been only recentlydiscovered, so as I write this book Co-enzyme Q-
10 is not widely known.
Q-10 is essential to the functioning of the mitochondria, that part of the cell that
produces energy. With less Q- 10 in heart cells, for example, the heart has less
energy and pumps less. The same is true of the immune system cells, the livercells, every cell. As we age the body is able to make less and less Q-
10,
contributing to the loss of energy frequently experienced with age, as well as thediminished effectiveness of the immune system, and a shortened life span.
Q-
10 was first used for its ability to revitalize heart cells. It was a prescription
medicine in Japan. But unlike other drugs used to stimulate the heart, at anyreasonable dose Q-
10 has no harmful side effects. It also tends to give people the
extra pick up they are trying to get out of a cup of coffee. But Q- 10 does so by
improving the function of every cell in the body, not by whipping exhaustedadrenals like caffeine does. Q-
10 is becoming very popular with athletes who
measure their overall cellular output against known standards.
Besides acting as a general tonic, when fed to lab animals, Co-Enzyme Q- 10
makes them live 33 to 45 percent longer!
DMAE  is another extremely valuable vitamin-like substance that is not widely
known. It is a basic building material that the body uses to make acetylcholine, the
most generalized neurotransmitter in the body. Small quantities of DMAE are
found in fish, but the body usually makes it in a multi-stage synthesis that startswith the amino acid choline, arrives at DMAE at about step number three andends up finally with acetylcholine.
The body’s nerves are wrapped in fatty tissue that should be saturated with
acetylcholine. Every time a nerve impulse is transmitted from one nerve cell to thenext, a molecule of acetylcholine is consumed. Thus acetylcholine has to beconstantly replaced. As the body ages, levels of acetylcholine surrounding thenerves drop and in consequence, the nerves begin to deteriorate. DMAE israpidly and easily converted into acetylcholine and helps maintain acetylcholinelevels in older people at a youthful level.
When laboratory rats are fed DMAE they solve mazes more rapidly,
remember better, live about 40 percent longer than rats not fed DMAE and mostinterestingly, when autopsied, their nervous systems resemble those of a youngrat, without any evidence of the usual deterioration of aging. Human nervoussystems also deteriorate with age, especially those of people suffering fromsenility. It is highly probable that DMAE will do the same thing to us. DMAE alsosmoothes out mood swings in humans and seems to help my husband, Steve,when he has a big writing project. He can keep working without getting writersblock, fogged out, or emotionally rollercoastering.
DMAE is a little hard to find. Prolongevity and VRP sell it in powder form.
Since the FDA doesn’t know any MDR and since the product is not capped up,the bottle of powder from Life Extension sagely states that one-quarterteaspoonful contains 333 milligrams. Get the hint? DMAE tastes a little like soursalt and one-quarter teaspoonful dissolves readily in water every morning beforebreakfast, or anytime for that matter. DMAE is also very inexpensive consideringwhat it does. A year’s supply costs about $20.
Lecithin  is a highly tonic and inexpensive food supplement that is underutilized
by many people even though it is easily obtainable in healthfood stores. It is an
emulsifier, breaking fats down into small separate particles, keeping blood
cholesterol emulsified to prevent arterial deposits. Taken persistently, lecithinpartially and slowly eliminates existing cholesterol deposits from the circulatorysystem.
In our cholesterol-frightened society lecithin should be a far more popular
supplement than it currently is. It is easy to take either as a food in the granularform or when encapsulated. Lecithin granules have very little flavor and can beadded to a homemade vinegar and oil salad dressing, where they emulsify the oiland make it blend with the vinegar, thickening the mixture and causing it to stick tothe salad better. Lecithin can also be put in a fruits smoothie. A scant tablespoona day is sufficient. Try to buy the kind of lecithin that has the highest phosphatidylcholine content because this substance is the second benefit of taking lecithin.Phosphatidyl choline is another precursor used by the body to build acetylcholineand helps maintain the nervous system.
Algae.  Spirulina or sun dried chlorella are also great food supplements. Both
make many people feel energized, pepped-up. It is possible to fast on eitherproduct and still maintain sufficient energy levels to take of minimal workresponsibilities. Algae reduces appetite and as a dietary supplement can assist inweight loss. It contains large amounts of highly-assimilable protein due to it’s highchlorophyll content, as well as a large amount of beta carotene. It also assists indetoxification of the lymphatic system. It can be purchased as tablets or powder.Take a heaping teaspoon daily, or at least six tablets.
Chapter Seven
The Analysis of Disease States:
Helping the Body Recover
From the Hygienic Dictionary
Diagnosis.  [1] In the United States, making a diagnosis implies that you are a doctor duly licensed to
engage in diagnostic function.... The making of a diagnosis is reserved only for doctors.... The term“analysis” does not have such an explicit legal definition. Thus, it is the term of choice of iridologistsand the one most often used by them. It is essential for the survival and promotion of iridology thatthose who choose to engage in its practice avoid naming any disease condition. As we have seen, to doso is to infringe on rights reserved exclusively for doctors and can land the iridologist, sooner or later,in a snarl of legal troubles.
It is better for the iridologist to refrain from suggesting to a person that he has any particular
disease, letting such diagnostics remain the province of licensed doctors. In so doing, the iridologistwill avoid transgressing the law and stepping on the toes of those who are legally qualified todiagnose.
It is indeed unfortunate that one of the greatest pitfalls awaiting the iridologist is the temptation
to name diseases. The feelings of satisfaction and power resulting from conferring a name are deeplyrooted in the human psyche. For example, the Bible tells us that man’s first task on Earth was to namethe animals, thus giving him power and dominion over them.
Strong is the temptation to name diseases because nearly everyone has come to expect that his
malady has a name. Patients have come to expect, and doctors have been trained to make, a diagnosis.... “After all,” the patient may reason, “how can you hope to deal with my condition if you aren’tknowledgeable enough to call it by name?”
It is not necessary to name diseases in order to exercise dominion over them. Dr. Bernard Jensen,
Visions of Health.
In self defense, I must make it very clear from the first word that hygienists and
most other naturopaths of various persuasions, and especially I myself, have neverin the past, never!, and do not now, diagnose, treat or offer to cure, disease orillness. Diagnosis and curing are sole, exclusive privileges of certified, duly-licensed medical doctors and may only be done with a grant of Authority to do sofrom the State. Should an unlicensed person diagnose, offer to treat or attempt tocure disease or illness, they will have committed a felonious act. With bigpenalties. Therefore, I do not do it.
When one of my clients comes to me and says that a medical doctor says they
have some disease or other, I agree that the medical doctor says they have somedisease or other, and I never dare say that they don’t. Or even confirm on myown authority that I think they do have some disease or other.
What I can legally do for a client is to analyze the state of their body and its
organs, looking for weaknesses and apparent allergies. I can lawfully state that Ithink their liver tests weak, the pancreas appears not to be functioning well interms of handling meat digestion, that the kidney is having a hard time of it. I cansay I see a lump sticking out of their body when one is obviously sticking out oftheir body; I can not say that lump is cancerous but I can state that the cells in thatlump test overly strong and that if I myself had a mass of growing cells testingoverly strong and if I believed in the standard medical model, then I would berushing my overly-strong-testing cells to an oncologist. But I don’t dare say theperson has a cancer. Or diabetes. Or is getting close to kidney failure. That is adiagnosis.
To me, diagnosis is a form of magic rite in which the physician discovers the
secret


mucosa, and reducing the thirst quenching capacity of the water.
This annex has been intensively reviewed by many scientifically oriented individuals, including
Dr. Lee Rozelle and Dr. Ronald L. Wathen.
Dr. Rozelle summarized his review:
The data for their conclusions, summarized in Annex 8 of the WHO unofficial
guidelines, are not very convincing from a scientific viewpoint. The volume of
water consumed per day was not indicated and the length of time of the
experiment for the human "volunteers" was not indicated (one year for rats). The
physiological changes reported apparently were based on rat and dog studies. For
dogs, the same physiological changes were observed for water containing 50
mg/L and 1,000 mg/L.
5 The conclusion of a minimum TDS of 100 mg/L is confusing and thus not very
convincing.
In the human studies, diuresis was observed particularly on the second day of the
study (the increase in urine output reported to be 18%). The volume of water in
the body from the "distillate" was reported to be 50 to 100% higher than the
"other groups." The Russians also reported increased elimination of sodium,
potassium, chloride, calcium, and magnesium in the urine, and the specific
gravity was reduced. In the blood serum, the sodium was increased and the
potassium decreased. Then it was reported that the "tendency" for similar
changes were observed after consumption of 100 mg/L TDS and 1, 000 mg/L
TDS. The water intake (based on thirst) of various TDS waters was not clearly
reported. In some cases it was difficult to determine if the data were from
animals or humans.
In summary, the Russian studies, as reported in Annex 8 of the WHO document
appeared not to be rigorously scientific.
Dr. Wathen reviewed it from a medical point of view and wrote the following:
The Annex VIII of the report is an alleged "review" of water and salt balance
under the influence of a variety of water and salt intakes, in a variety of animals,
including humans, exposed to a variety of conditions. The review is long on
deductions, but very short on (re) presentation of solid data. Moreover, probably
only a handful of references cited in this review (assuming they are cited
correctly) may be from creditable scientific journals, that is, journals which
demand proper scientific methodology and peer review of all work, prior to
publication. Many of the cited articles may be from journals of "personal
opinion": being versed only in English, it is impossible for me to establish the
credibility of the cited work.
This review cited observations on the organoleptic features of water (i.e.,
consumer appreciation of taste, odor, and color qualities) to underscore precise,
physiologic thirst slaking with specific levels of TDS --containing water in
response to volume depletion. To begin with, the quoted electroencephalographic
studies probably indicate only that a maximum number of receptor sites (taste
buds) have to be recruited through stimulation to provide a maximum brain
(alpha) wave response and that the TDS level in water providing the maximum
response was between 200-600 mg/L of salt.
One would expect such a response; one might also imagine that receptor response
(sensitivity) is considerably tempered by prior salt and mineral exposure for the
individual. Organoleptic features are very, very unlikely to define whether a
given water source is healthful on non-healthful or that the amount imbibed is
appropriate to need. Moreover, taste receptor electrical activity, being unlikely
to reveal preference by the consumer, means the consumer must be asked whether
he or she prefers a given type of water. More often than not, preference reflects
prior experience (learned behavior).
6 The review refers to exposure to desert and exercise conditions for humans and
how water lost in sweating should be replaced, not with purified water but with
salt water. Who would disagree with this conclusion? With GatoradeR, for
example, selling to extremely large U.S. and world markets, one hardly needs to
be reminded in this day and age that volume and salt losses encumbered with the
sweating of heavy exercise are best replaced with a fluid whose constituents are
more aligned with extracellular fluid in the human. GatoradeR, though billed a
being "low sodium" on its label, is in fact rather high in salt content (both sodium
and potassium) and it provides a rapid, convenient, and safe way to promptly
reconstitute vascular volume after heavy exercise. Dizziness, even syncope
(passing out), from volume depletion are thereby avoided and strength of the
individual is better sustained, due both to volume replacement and the glucose
contained within Gatorade.
GatoradeR is a water source to be taken only to replace severe fluid losses
accompanying sweating; it generally averts the need for supplemental salt tablets.
GatoradeR, in an opinion which may not be shared by the Gatorade Company
(Chicago, IL), is not a source which should be used to replace normal fluid and
electrolyte losses any more so than pure water should be used to accommodate
severe volume losses. In the presence of salt accompanying usual dietary food
intake (4-8 gm/day of sodium in U.S.), GatoradeR might conceivably lead to
volume excess. A 64 oz. serving of GatoradeR contains: 880 mg of sodium; 200
mg of potassium; and about 400 calories, as carbohydrate (112 grams). There
is no magical solution; one should drink what's appropriate to the circumstance.
Replacement of the large fluid losses accompanying heavy exercise or thermal
exposure, therefore, has nothing to do with using purified water for normal
drinking and cooking purposes, the latter being paired with normal food intake
to meet salt and mineral needs. In normal day-to-day activity not associated with
extremes in sweatloss, the salt and minerals accompanying normal food intake
more than meet daily dietary needs of such elements, whether consuming potable
water (e.g., TDS of up to 500 mg/L) or purified water (e.g., TDS 100 mg/L) or
pure water (e.g., 0.111 mg/L TDS).
Salts and minerals are· not "leached" from the human body; they are preferentially
retained or excreted, either of these events occurring relative to whether or not
one is surfeit in water or salt or both. In short, the human body is not a lead or
copper pipe which "leaches" in the presence of purified water. The Annex VIII
review is very misleading in this regard.
I also think it is incredible to suggest that, in the absence of abnormal water
loading experiments, consumption of demineralized water will cause distortion of
the mucosal cells lining the GI tract. Besides, in the normal human setting, such
water is often combined with other elements (e.g., coffee, tea, fruit juices, soft
drinks, etc.) which raises its TDS prior to consumption.
But, even if the TDS is not raised by some external means, through the additions
of saliva, gastric secretions, and small intestine secretions beyond the stomach,
7 there is an internal elevation in TDS of any dilute fluid one might drink. It
would be my opinion that the adsorptive portion of the GI tract, that is, the small
intestine, in the absence of extreme water loading, never sees a hypotonic solution
sufficient to cause the mucosal cells to swell or to appear damaged. There is a
tendency in this review to draw conclusions from observations in anhidrotic (non
sweating) laboratory animals (dogs, rats, and rabbits) and apply them to the very
hidrotic (sweating) human. That is, the review often draws conclusions from
fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base studies in "non-sweaters" and seems to transfer
these conclusions to the "sweaters." It is imprudent physiologically, if not
scientifically erroneous, to do so. I found the reported physiological data to be
very confusing, often at right-angles to prior knowledge. One wonders if the
responses to various levels of salt in water were confused when citing data from
the actual papers used in the review.
I personally have never heard of osmorceptors being present in the gut which
might serve to regulate fluid adsorption. And certainly, I have never heard of the
liver being a repository of salt to be released to reconstitute salt levels in the
vascular compartment. This statement, I think, is borderline preposterous. The
literature cited here has been misconstrued or is comprised of essentially factitious
observations. Salt in all body fluid compartments redistributes bidirectionally in
attempts to off-set excesses or insufficiencies in extracellular fluid constituents,
particularly in the vascular (blood volume) compartment.
The following responses have been received from different experts in many different fields:
WHO's Dr. Galal-Gorchev states that WHO has "no information that such (low TDS) water
would have and adverse effect on mineral balance".
U.S. EPA's Dr. Edward V. Ohanian, Chief of Human Risk Assessment Branch wrote,
Drinking water supplies a number of minerals that are important to human health.
However, drinking water is normally a minor


 t possibly do anything horrible to another person in the
name of ‘doing a job’ or ‘everybody else does it,’ could they? So you create
jobs of conformism and the system works,” she said, answering her own
question. “But maybe we can end that,” she said, almost under her breath.
She had apparently been giving some thought to the gifts she had alluded to
earlier.
“For the life of me,” she said after a few moments, “I still can’ t see why
you react to your reality so unrealistically. Many of you even get sick for no
real reason connected to reality. Many of you are fatigued and even old andsenile for reasons that escape my powers of perception. Let’ s stop for now,”
she said. “I do have something else I want to discuss with you.”
“Yes, yes,” I encouraged her. “You’ve mentioned a proposal or a gift to
Earth of some sort. I’m willing to do anything you ask of me.”
“As of now, we must stop thinking about what isn’ t working and why. In
the little time left we must direct our thoughts and ener gy to solutions.
Ways to make my proposal work. I’ll think more about it tonight, and
tomorrow we can go over it together.”
I had no idea what she had in mind. She had talked repeatedly about
thinking in terms of solutions rather than problems, and I’m sure our rather
lengthy discussions of the past two days had helped her or ganize her
thoughts. She saw our problems and understood how we thought, felt, and
conducted ourselves.
What could she of fer an entire planet? As we parted for the night, my
love for her was rekindled. I began to think about her leaving in a few days,
and I had to send these thoughts away. The idea of never seeing her again
was painful, and I didn’ t want to corrode this moment with my anguished
thoughts. Besides, I laughed to myself, I’ll connect the worry-wares to the
appropriate terminals and change them. As she left it occurred to me that
we had spent almost the entire day in a little picnic cove on a hard bench,
and I’d never noticed a moment of discomfort. As she walked away I was
sure I could hear her muttering over and over what she’d said so clearly a
few moments earlier: “Why do they react so unrealistically to their reality?
We can fix that, if they’ll allow it.”
OceanofPDF.com6
 Eykis’ Proposal
I’d spent the night tossing in my bed with my mind working overtime. I
didn’ t want to waste precious moments sleeping. My life had been deeply
touched by this remarkable woman. She was a guru of sorts. Not the kind
before whom one kneels in search of the unrevealed. In fact, she was quite
the opposite. She was a saint of common sense, asking you in terse,
objective language just to take of f your dark glasses and see for yourself
what you’ve allowed to become murky in your life.
Her clear logic and wonderfully sensible observations made me look at
myself and my world with new eyes, eyes that were now focused, without
the myopia of customs and habitual thought. She was awakening me: me, a
person who had prided himself on his “conscious posture” all his life. I was
now much more aware of how much I’d taken for granted as simply the
way we think here on Earth. I was beginning to challenge what had
previously been considered “only natural” a few days ago. My mind was
spinning with new thoughts and ways to convey what I’d begun to learn
from Eykis. As I finally drifted of f to sleep, I wondered what gifts this
remarkable woman would of fer tomorrow morning.
“What would you say to an entirely new way of thinking?” Eykis asked,
as her first inquiry the next morning in the cof fee shop where we had agreed
to meet.
“What do you mean, entirely new way of thinking? ”
“I mean, suppose I could provide the people of Earth, all of them, with an
entirely new way of perceiving their reality? I’m talking about the greatest
gift imaginable. The opportunity to tune in directly to their own reality in
such a way that virtually all the so-called problems you face would be
eliminated.”
“But how? In what way?” I asked excitedly.
“I’ve been giving this a great amount of Uranus-like thought,” she began,
almost repeating my Earthlike thought of the moment.“Almost all your problems stem from the way you teach your children to
think. If you’re ever going to achieve true evolution as a people, you must
somehow break the ‘thinking chain’ that keeps you in ‘behavioral bonds.’ I
think I might be able to provide your people with an opportunity for direct
contact with me and my unique reality-only approach to thinking. That
alone might enable your people to turn Earth into the place it was designed
to become.”
“How can you know what Earth was designed to become?” I asked, only
for the purpose of having her continue with her proposal.
“I can only consider what my home would be like if we were not bridled
by our own reality. We on Uranus are not self-destructive or neurotic
without positive purpose. It is our reality that makes us what we are. If your
choices were available there, the possibilities for creative living and
fulfillment would be staggering. Since it is clearly impossible for me single-
handedly to alter my reality system, perhaps I can instead of fer your people
the benefit of learning to live happily and comfortably within your own.”
“But aren’ t we altering our own reality system by not living within it?”
“Of course not,” she said, brushing of f my distraction. “Y ou on Earth are
still living each day within your own reality system. That is a condition of
your existence. But you’re deluding yourselves by thinking in ways which
have little to do with that very same reality. It’s as if you don’ t like what
exists, so you invent new thinking modes to help you pretend that life is
what you want it to be, rather than what it is.”
I agreed with her, but sometimes it took me a few moments of mental
gymnastics to understand why I agreed. “All right, so reality just is,  and we
aren’ t being realistic when we create ways to pretend that it is any other
way.”
“True,” she replied, “but I think we might be able to put some dents in
the armor. Would you be willing to help me set it up?”
“I’ll do everything I can—anything at all,” I insisted.
“Terrific. Here’ s what I have in mind: I’d like to call together
representatives of the top leadership of various fields of human activity.
Please inform your government of my presence here, and arrange an all-day
meeting, with representatives from various segments of your world society.
I’ll introduce myself to these people, and tell them about myself and our
visits together. I’ll explain how we spent our time together on Uranus and
what you discovered, how I came to accompany you back to Earth, and howI have observed your world culture incognito. Each of the representatives
attending the gathering will be able to question me. My reality-only
orientation will prevent me from distorting what I’ve seen, and I would
provide the representatives with genuinely truthful answers to their
questions. Since I’m incapable of telling them anything but what is, they’ll
be able to put the results of this day-long conference to work. Y ou will have
the greatest gifts that I can leave for you. And leave you I must, in just a
few days.”
I was thrilled at the notion of a reality conference peopled by
representatives of a variety of human enterprises. “But what if the
governments refuse to participate, what if they elect to appoint a series of
committees to study your proposal, or to study you through the use of lie
detectors, legislative inquiries, psychiatric analysis, and on and on, which is
the way we do things here? They’d put you in a prison or a zoo and
investigate you to death,” I said.
“That’ s your job,” she stated, seemingly unconcerned about my obsession
with Earthly red tape. “Y ou must explain that these methodological options
are unavailable to them. Y ou and I know that I can return to Uranus at will,
despite any Earthly protests to the contrary. You know that I am incapable
of studying a problem in a committee. That I am only able to work on
solutions and unable to focus on what hasn’ t been done,  or shouldn’ t be
done.  I am always focused on DOING. You’ll have to become one of the
humans in the first of the three categories I have observed.”
“What three categories?” I asked. I hadn’ t heard her mention them prior
to this moment.
“I’m sorry, I thought I had spelled them out to you. In all my research I
discovered three kinds of human beings on Earth: those who say, ‘Let’ s
make it happen’ those who say, ‘It can’ t happen’ and the lar gest category,
those who say, ‘What happened?’ Y ou are simply going to have to get into
category one and make it happen. Y ou’ll have to explain the zero-option to
the representatives. Y ou can give them the evidence you have, lay your


, showing radiating structures, a halo or "A" zone, a
higher concentration of grains outside the halo (a ''B" zone)
and small.,arches,. forming an "arcade" at the interface be·
tween the "A" and "B" zones. Note that each "arch" is
supported at the base by two radiating structures. (e) More
gl"ain s-ifrt:d Uluttumlyl'ln the p~raffin (cnnrinu~rt I.~ k-V ro
tential between ter.runals ). The local groups of grains within
the "B" zone in d now act as concentration foci. Molecular
forces compete with the electrostatic forces of the applied
field and attract the new semolina grains toward the concen
tration centra. (f) 20 seconds after e. State of equilibrium.
Density of the ''8'' zone has incrc-dscd. Size of the •'A" zone
has decrC1lsed. A. Experimental model:
molecular forces and a
superimposed electric field
combine in vitro to form
corona structures
Radiating structures, arches and "A" and "B" zones
can be shown in vitro as follows: a piece of aluminium
foil was shaped into a small ball, 2.5 em in diameter.
Its surface was made slightly irregular (Fig. X: 1). It
was connected to an electric cable and glued to the
centre of the bottom of a glass jar, II em in diameter.
The inner wall of the jar was covered with a thin
aluminium foil connected to another cable. The jar
was filled with a layer of liquid paraffin one em deep.
The cable of the aluminium ball was then connected to
one terminal of an electric DC generator and the cable
from the periphery of the jar to the second terminal.
An electric potential ranging between zero and I. 5 k V
could be applied between the ball and the periphery.
The jar was placed over a light box, permitting transil
lumination with cold light. A camera was mounted
above the jar for photography.
The jar (Fig. X: I a) is seen from above after both
the periphery and the central ball have been grounded.
Some semolina grains, which are dielectrics, have been
sifted onto the surface of the paraffin. The grains all
float on the surface and move together as a ring around
the ball (exposure duration, 5 seconds each, Fig.
X: I a-f). When a 1.5 kV positive (or negative) poten
tial is applied between the ball and the periphery, the
semolina grains start to move rapidly (Fig. X: I b).
The movements are demonstrated by their motion
blur. About 15 and 25 sec after the application of 1.5
kV potential, the grains form radiating structures per
pendicular to the ball surface (Fig. X: I c-<f). Varying
distances separate the radiating structures of grains.
Between them appear small "arches", which together
form an "arcade". Each "arch" is supported at its
base by radiating structures. The radiating structures
and arches combine to give a picture similar to that of
the flat, inner surface of a divided citrus fruit (Fig.
X: I c-<f). A zone similar to the "A" zone is seen as a
"halo" around the ball. The regions with higher con
centration of grains correspond to the HB" z:onc. A
new photograph (Fig. X:!e) was obtained shortly
after some more semolina grains had been sifted un
evenly over the surface. The potential of 1.5 kV was
kept unchanged. Nearly all grains are seen to move
again to achieve a new "final" equilibriu m (Fig.
X: If).
If the posmve 1.5 kV potential on the ball is
switched to a 1.5 kV negative potential, the position of the structures does not change, indicating that the
switch does not induce any mechanical moment.
The structural developments in this experiment re
sult from interaction between molecular forces of the
semolina grains and cellular redistributions caused by
the superimposed electric field.
B. Molecular and electrostatic
forces in the development
of "A" and "B" zones
Mter the central ball and periphery were given the
same ground potential, semolina grains sifted onto the
surface of the liquid paraffin moved together to form a
ring between the ball and the periphery (Fig. X: I a).
This movement occurs as a result of the forces of
internal molecular anraction among grains (see Chap
ter VII[). Localization of the grains has produced "A"
and "B" zones around the ball. Had no metal ball
been present in the centre of the jar, the grains would
have produced a circular plate in the centre. The
presence of the ball in the centre constitutes a "foreign
body" in the system, which breaks the internal anrac
tion forces in a radial direction. This vector of radial
force therefore tries to make the doughnut -shaped ring
as thin as possible. This tendency is counteracted by a
vector of circular force. Under these circumstances a
"noncorpuscula r" "A" zone and a "corpuscu lar"
"B" zone must develop.
From this part of the experiment it is important to
realize that structural development creating "A" and
"B" zones can occur in ways other than as a resu.ll of
electroosmo tic movement of water (see Chapter IX).
Actually, it is not even necessary to assume that the
central ball (or in vivo a tumour) is polarized com
pared to its surroundings.
According to the laws of electrostatics, llux from the
surface of a charged body is proportional to its total
charge. Moreover, the electric field is a gradient of a
potential which declines as the square of the distance
from the body. The circulation of the field is zero.
When the central ball and periphery arc grounded,
the first semolina grains sifted onto the liquid paraffin
surface move immediately together to form a ring, as
described. When a potential difference is produced
between the ball and the periphery of the jar, the
location of the grains is disturbed immediate ly. Under
the inlluence of the cr~ated electrostatic field, dipole
moments are induced in the grains. These moments
orient their long axes along the steepest gradient of the
field, i.e., radially in these experiments. The tendency
of accumulation will produce one maximum locus
Molecular and electrostatic forces 95 close to the ball. A second maximum locus, but of
lower magnitude, is created at t.he periphery of the jar.
Initially, gr:Uns close to the charged ball will accelerate
toward it, while simultaneously those close to the pe
riphery will move in the opposite direction toward the
wall of the jar. A minimum (zero) is present some
where between the two terminals in the place where
the grains had previously formed a "B" zone.
The total electric field is therefore a plus-minus
potential gradient with an imaginary circulation of the
field equal to zero. In an intermediate zone adjacent to
the zero equipotential, where the applied electrostatic
field is weak, the attraction (concentration ) forces (IS)
of the grains will be powerful enough to influence their
internal arrangements. When the local concentration
of grains is high, they will even produce dense groups
or nuclei, which then compete with each other and the
applied field forces. In this way the irregular "B" zone
accumulation is created as seen in Fig. X: If.
The position of the zero potential in the applied
field is governed by the distance between the terminals
and the magnitude of the charge per surface unit of the
terminals. Because the ball is smaUer than the periph
ery, the zero equipotentia l will be positioned closer to
the periphery than to the ball.
C. Edge enhancement and
radiating structures
The basic situation just described is modified by the
irregular surface of the ball. Protrusion s of edges on
the surface of a charged body will always enhance the
electric field at such points. This fact was utilized in
constructing the artificial "tumour". Small protruding
edges, simulating the irregular surface of a tumour,
were all over the surface of the crumpled piece of alu
minium foil.
A smooth, polished, spherical ball in the centre
would present a "smooth", "homogeneous", out
wardly decreasing strength of the electric field. No
cl<arly visible, linear arrangement of grains could then
develop. The irregular surface of the central ball, how
ever, makes linear developments possible.
SmaU corpuscles, such as semolina grains, located in
the vicinity of the charged central ball will therefore
be attracted initially to protruding edges of the ball.
Single grains touching the surface of the ball or the
peripheral terminal will then rebound (they really
bounce back), be reattracted, and so


 outside
the insulating membrane over Ranvier's nodes (76).
Other axonal connections may also be considered. ln
Chapters Xll and XIII, theoretical and experimental
analogues have been presented for the formation and
transport of vesicles in endothelial cells. This view
may also be applied to dosed circuit electric transport
in nerves and various anticipated communicating outer
BCEC branches. Vesicles, which are produced at syn
aptic stimulation may then represent microergonars or
microergionars as a consequence of electrode reactions
at nerve-end -plates. The material of vesicles (consist
ing of an anticipated inactive transmitter precursor)
can then be transferred as an electrogenic, matrix-
332 Principles and consequences of BCEC ~rebro-
Jlodjly spinal Nerves
Ducts Tubes cavities spaces (uons)
see tat
mediated transport or, in the case the precursor is
ionic, be transported as hydrated cationic com
pounds (electropositively charged microergionars ) to a
second site of electrode reaction leading to the release
of the active transmitter substance. Evidently, a con
tinuation of the second, "outer, circuit branch (which
may be, e.g., vascular as well as interstitial ) has yet to
be identified.
This theory of an electrogenic development and
transport of an ergonic or ergionic vesicular content
for transmission of nerve impulses may be compared
with current views on the action of hormones. Thus,
hormones are produced in a source organ and trans
ported in an inactive state as the first messenger to a
target organ. There, the hormone exerts its specific
effects in an activated state over the machinery of the
second messenger, as described by Sutherland (91).
Compare also the transport of oxygen in a protected
ergonic state bound to haemoglobi n during transport
in the blood stream and bound to myoglobin in muscle
(Chapter XIII, page 155).
J. Oral galvanism
After the introduction of amalgams as dental filling
materials over 100 years ago, the possible development
of galvanic currents in the oral cavity has been dis
cussed from time to time. The symptoms of burning
mouth, oral pain or smart, and a taste of metal or salt
(18, 92) have been referred to as oral galvanism.
The secondary phenomena of oral corrosive pro
cesses have also been discussed in terms of local and
general biologic reactions (3, 4, 8, 15, 22, 23, 33, 34,
35, 37' 44, 55, 60, 61' 62, 68, 69, 74, 78, 80, 81, 82,
83, 85, 86, 87, 93). Many attempts have been made to
explain the symptoms as caused by electrochemical interaction of metals in the saliva (18, 23, 31, 42, 44,
49, 60, 68, 93). Galvanic currents in the oral cavity
have been assumed to develop between relatively ano
dic and cathodic parts of one metal or on contact
between two different restorations and the saliva. As a
result of corrosion, different metals or metallic com
pounds should then appear in the saliva (11, 12, 31,
32, 36, 42, 63, 65, 66, 67, 94) or in the tissues adjacent
to amalgam fillings (32, 36, 38, 39, 47, 78, 82, 94). A
large number of in vivo studies have been performed
of electric potentials between different dental restora
tions (for references, see Nilner, 1981). Different sur
faces of a restoration may present different degrees of
polarization, indicating inhomogeneity of the material
(11, 12, 47, 49, 51, 56, 65). Potential differences
between different restorative materials may gave rise
tO estimated galvanic currents of a magnitude of 1-36
pA (65). It has been judged that values above 5 pA
could possibly explain clinically apparent galvanism.
Surprisingly, however, some of the highest values of
galvanic current measured were found in a control
group of patients without symptoms. In a study of
dissolving Ag, Ca, Hg, Sn and Zn in the saliva, no
significant differences could be found between pa
tients with symptoms and patients without symptoms
in different control groups (65). Studies of this type
are imponant and informative, but illustrate also clear
ly that the mechanism of oral galvanism is still in many
respects unexplained. The possibility of overlying psy
chological factors has been suggested (38, 39). Neuro·
toxic effects by retrograde axonal transpons of dis·
solved metal (41) have also been suggested. The
mechanism of retrograde axonal transports (30, 84) is
also not very well understood. All explanations of oral
galvanism have been based on the assumption that an
intraoral closed circuit is created when two metals of
different electric potential make direct metal-to-metal
"electronic " contact (for example, via a silver spoon).
The "outer" part of the circuit is created by the
electrically conducting saliva. Anodic dissolutio n of
metal will then take place and may in some way pro
duce symptoms. One might then expect that the
amounts of dissolved metal in the saliva would corre·
late with the symptoms of oral galvanism, but no such
results have been found. Some of the largest amounts
of intraoral galvanic currents were even found in pa
tients without symptoms of galvanism (65).
The princi pie of BCEC may overcome this dilemma
(see also the description of in vivo corrosion, Chapter
XII, page 112). As indicated in Fig. XVIII: 8, differ
ent branches of BCEC systems may combine with "ac
cessory" or "temporary" conducting biological chan
nels or materials. Thus, in oral galvanism the intraoral
ionic conducting branch, formed over the saliva be
tween two electron conductors, may combine with one
or several parallel-coupled, biologi•al conducting branches in surrounding tissues. These branches, for
instance, may be represented by blood vessels and
interstitial channels. Such a circuit is outlined in prin
ciple in Fig. XVIII: 9a. Its different components re
present a set of individua l variables. A galvanic current
through the circuit can now develop between metals of
different electric potential even when these metals are
separated by a distance. No direct contact, such as
over a silver spoon, is therefore necessary. The inter
connecting branch between the metals is created by
the saliva.
"Injury reactions" at the interfaces between the
gingiva or root canals and the restoration metals pro
vide connections to BCEC channels in the tissues. The
"injury reactions" include many different processes
which lead to ionization and separation of charges.
Examples of such processes are local infection, degrad
ing of tissue or foreign material in the gingival pock·
ets, vascular thrombosis, and local toxic effects of
dissolved metal from the restorations (from so-called
general corrosion). Each of these processes should lead
to closing of the intraoral and the vascular-interstitial
channels of the circuit. Coinciding "injury reactions"
at two metal-tissue interfaces combined with two met
al-saliva interfaces should be sufficient to estabJish a
galvanic current. This system may then be recognized
to contain a minimum of four redox sites.
The driving electromotive force of this system need
not necessariJy be found in the potential difference
between relatively anodic and cathodic parts of the
metals. Locally degrading processes (injury potentials )
adjacent to the metals may also drive the system (see
Chapter XII, :•complicated CQrrosion", page 115).
Periodontitis or chronic periodontosis of different ori
gins, leading to focal toxic or infectious injuries in the
gingival pockets, should be able to induce transpon of
electric current in the described BCEC without the
presence of any metal. The driving electromotive force
in such systems may depend on differences in age of
two polarizing processes in the circuit (Fig. XVIII: 1).
In the case of healthy (noninjured ) tissue adjacent to
the metals, the biologic circuit is interrupted. Conse
quently, no current will flow even if the potential
difference between the two metals is relatively "large",
as was the case in the control subjects reponed by
Bergman, Ginstrup and Nilner (12). The concept of
BCEC makes it therefore possible to explain the seem·
ing inconsistencies between clinical galvanism on one
hand and the measured electric potential differences
between intraoral metals and amount of dissolved met
als in the saliva on the other.
Fig. XVIII: 9 b illustrates some of the possible bio
logic reactions adjacent to


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In every  city  where  there  are a thousand  or more  stu-
320 DISCOURSE  XXII  321
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derstand  the Presence  of Life  will  not  release  energy  any
longer  for destructive  purposes;  then  you  will  understand
why  all destructive  creations  of Individuals  or conditions,
are rapidly  becoming  helpless,  to further  interfere  with  or
intrude  upon  mankind,  to limit  or disturb  longer.
The Great  Cosmic  Light  which  is steadily  being  re-
leased  to the physical  world,  is doing  a Work  words  fail
utterly  to express.  Only  as you  would  see with  the  All-
Seeing-Eye  within  you,  could  you  comprehend  what  I
mean,  because  words  do not convey  it. Yet,  I say to you,  the
achievement  of the past  six months—in  the Calls  of the Be-
loved  Students  all over  America  and  the World,  is a Service
unparalleled  in the history  of the Earth.
As We,  in the  first  meeting  here,  established  these
Mighty  Currents  of Energy  for you  individually,  for your
city;  and  for all that  is required  here,  We want  you  to feel
all One.  San  Francisco,  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley  and
all the surrounding  environment,  won't  you  feel just ONE ?
Won't  you  feel  a Great  Happiness  thru  harmonious  co-
operation  in all you  call forth ? To do that,  means  a Power
released  which  you  would  scarcely  comprehend  at this time.
As you  are calling  for mankind's  Freedom  and  the Protec-
tion of America,  you  are rendering  a Service,  which  in-
tensifies  your  own  Individual  answer  to your  requirements
beyond  words  to explain.
These  Mighty  Decrees,  We have  suggested  for the Bless-DISCOURSE  XXII  323
ing of mankind  and  the Protection  of America,  are first,
rendering  a Great  Service  to the whole  of mankind;  and
also rendering  a Great  Service  to your  environment;  which
must  produce  COMPLETE  HARMONY  and  the release
of all you  require  in your  Individual  life.
You have  all understood  and  heard  it presented  from
various  angles,  it is more  blessed  to give  than  to receive.
That  is quite  true,  if you  understand  what  you  are giving!
Most  of you  interpret  that  to mean  money  alone;  or the
Out-pouring  of Love  and  Blessings  alone;  or health,
strength,  courage  and  all those  qualities  which  mankind
requires;  but  it is more  than  just  that.  The  Call  to Life
means  Absolute  Freedom,  which  your  Mighty  Goddess  of
Liberty  represents  to America  and  the  World.  You  will
remember  Those  Great  Ones  represent  to you  Freedom,
Victory  and  Peace.
They  are more  than  just  a thought,  Beloved  Ones.  Those
Beings  are Real!  Those  Beings  have  Cosmic  Power  and
wield  Cosmic  Power!  Therefore,  in all you  wish  to have
done,  They  are ready  and  willing  when  you  give  obedience
to Life;  to charge  your  feeling  world,  which  is your  Power-
house,  with  the Qualities  They  possess!
The Mighty  Victory  is the Power  of Victory  in action
in your  feeling  world!  The  Goddess  of Liberty  is the
Liberty  and  Glory  of Life!  The  various  Other  Ones  are
Freedom  and  Peace.  When  you  understand  what  the God-
dess of Peace  has  done—which  We  shall  mention  during
the Class  here,  you  will  know  It is a Transcendent  Service. 324 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
It could  not have  been  done,  if the war  entity  of the World
had not been  consumed.  She  would  not have  come  forth!
Had  She  not seen  and  known  this  could  be done,  She would
have  remained  within  the Great  Silence!
Think  of it, Beloved  Ones!  one  whole  hemisphere  in the
throes  of the destructive  power—the  worst  ever  expressed
upon  Earth!  Those  destructive  Individuals  are using  the
great  cunning  of the black  magicians,  who  are prompting
them—urging  these  destructive  forces  on, and  on, and  on.
They  find  their  urging  of little  avail;  for since  the consum-
ing of the war  entity,  there  is no power  there  to feed  and
sustain  them!  Therefore  the  things  they  did  easily  and
quickly  before  and  where  they  found  ready  response,  they
are failing  to find  that  speed  of response  today  and  they
are amazed.  They  cannot  understand  what


using hormonal contraceptives, but the study did not describe how levels of
BHR were affected by contrac eptive use.41 It makes sense  that women
whose asthma symptoms vary a lot through their menstrual cycle may
experience more  stability by using a hormonal contraceptive,  but studies
have returned contradictory results as to the relationship between overall
asthma susceptibility and contraceptive use.
Clearly, observational research examining the connection between oral
contraceptives and respiratory health often produces results that are difficultto analyze. Studies are subject to the problem of “confounding by
indication.” This is the scientifi c term for the difficulty in assessing a risk
factor or treatment in relation to an outcome when there are “confounding”
variables that could also be affecting the outcome. This is one reason why a
study may draw inaccurate conclusions. For example, in studies into the
side effects of a medication, patients who are prescribed the medication
may be inherent ly different from people who do not take it—they are, after
all, taking the drug for a reason. This very fact can distort the findings of
research. For example, oral contraceptives are often used to treat polycystic
ovary syndrome  (PCOS). PCOS is linked with asthma, lower lung function,
diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, PCOS may be a significant
factor confoun ding (complic ating) the relationship between oral
contraception and respiratory disorders. This, however, has not been
considered in any of the studies described. The relationship is further
complicated by the fact that hormone contraceptives can sometimes cause
irregular menstruation.41
In gene ral, the scientific literature on this topic is inconsistent and
problematic. The makeup of oral contraceptives has changed over time—
modern pills have a higher progesterone content and lower estrogen
compared with those that were used some years ago. Each pill used in the
early 1960s was roughly equivalent in terms of dosage to seven of today’ s
pills.48
The 2012 review concludes that it is “likely and biologically plausible”
that oral contraceptives affect the airways in diverse ways. While some
studies indicate that asthma can be caused by contraceptives in some
women, others demonstrate the opposite. It is important, therefore, for
healthcare professionals to be aware of the possibility that hormonal
contraceptives might affect respiratory health in different ways and to listen
to their patients and assess them on an individual basis. The likelihood that
these medication s impact the airway is sufficient for researchers to advocate
that respiratory symptoms and disorders be included in trials of new oral
contraceptive pills.
I recentl y talked  to Geor gie, a healthy 25-year -old woman who is very
fit with a high level of endurance. In the weeks before we spoke, Geor gie
had stopped taking her combine d oral contraceptive pill and returned to hernatural 28-day cycle. She tracks her cycle daily, logging her temperature via
a fertility and ovulation app called “Natural Cycles.” She also takes her
BOL T score every day. Geor gie’s average BOL T score is around 30 or 31
seconds at rest, but during the midluteal/luteal phase of her cycle, there is a
marked decreas e of between 6 and 10 seconds. At the same time, she
experiences increased anxiety, lower motivation and a lack of focus.
Since coming off the combined  contraceptive pill, she has noticed the
drop in her BOL T score is not so severe. Geor gie told me:
I know it usually takes around  three months for the hormone s to
fully adjust back into their natural rhythm when you come off the
pill, but for me an awareness of how my hormones fluctuate,
especially in terms of respiratory function, is comforting. It
improves my understanding about how to train in an athletic sense,
and it helps me to know when  I need to look after myself a little
more.
Besides oral contraceptives, other methods of contraception are also in
common use. Nonoral options include inter-uterine devices (IUDs) and
implants, both of which release a synthetic progesterone hormone called
levonor gestrel. There are also injectable medications. Most list depression
and anxiety as side effects,9 though no direct link has yet been made to
breathing pattern disorders or respiratory health.
It is possible, though the link has not been investigated, that the
recognized psychological side effects of hormonal contraceptives are linked
to low levels of blood CO2 triggere d by the hormone changes, just as
hyperventilation is a common factor in the luteal phase of the menstrual
cycle. The low levels of blood CO2 intrinsic to hyperventilation are
associated with panic attacks, and panic symptoms lessen when levels of
CO2 are normalized. Breathing exercises that normalize blood biochemistry
and decrease the ventilatory response to CO2 should help alleviate cyclic
depressive symp toms and create a positive feedback loop in which panic
symptoms are better controlled.
In very rare cases, contraceptive  devices have been known to negatively
affect the health  of the respirato ry system in a directly physical  manner. Inone case, a young woman who was experiencing shortness of breath and
severe chest pain attended the emer gency department, where an X-ray
revealed that her IUD had become displaced and was in her abdominal
cavity. The device was removed, resolving her symptoms. IUDs should be
regularly checked that they are still correctly positioned. A misplaced IUD
should be considered by doctors where the cause of symptoms is not
clear.49 In another case, a single-rod subdermal contraceptive implant
migrated into the lung of a 37-year -old woman.50 Only those with the
relevant training should ever undertake the insertion and removal of these
implants.
INFERTILITY AND BREA THING
In 2007, Austrian scientists examined changes in end-tidal CO2 pressure
during the menstrual cycle.51 End-tidal CO2 provide s a measure of how
much CO 2 is in the blood. Researchers examined 160 women with a histor y
of regular menstrual cycles, measuring levels of blood CO2 every day. The
women’ s menstrual cycles were monitored using ultrasound and by
recording levels  of hormones, including estrogen and progeste rone, in the
blood and urine. The change in end-tidal CO2 during the menstrual cycle
was found to follow a regular pattern. They concluded that this could
provide a promising method of natural family planning, and that it should
be possible to identify the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle by measuring
end-tidal CO 2.51
While CO 2 levels can help identify what’ s going on with the hormones,
there are clear aspects of health  that can cause complications for fertility.
One such factor, described in a 2018 study, is psychological stress.52 The
connection betw een stress and infertility has been debated for years.
Women who experience infertility report heightened feelings of depression
and anxiety, and it is clear that infertility causes stress. What is less certain
is whether stress can cause or contribute to infertility.
According to the 2018 review, recent research has documented the
effectiveness of psychological interventions in reducing mental distress and
significantly increasing rates of conception. The review concludes thattherapeutic approaches to reliev e stress may be the most effective way to
achieve both goals for women struggling to conceive. Cognitive behavioral
therapy (CBT) is suggested, but it is worth remembering that research has
found slow, diaphragm breathi ng to be as effective as CBT in treating
patients with panic attacks.53 Slow, deep breathing works via different
mechanisms, addressing the biochemical trigger for stress as well as the
psychological factors. It would therefore make sense that breathing
reeducation could be useful in supporting women with infertility-related
stress. At the very least, it will certainly do no harm!
Citing stress as a factor, a 2015  study examined the influence of sleep
on fertility. Stress certainly contributes to poor sleep, and the review set out
to exam ine by which mechanisms sleep disorders might affect fertility. In
the United States, infertility affects 15.5% of all women and 24.3% of
women who have never had a child.54 According to the review, many more
women than men have insomnia. Menstrual transitions, pregnancy, and
menopause all create a vulnerability to sleep continuity disturbance, and so
women are more at risk for sleep problems throughout their lives.
Traditionally, it was believed that mood swings, lifestyle changes, or
hormonal fluctuations create a susceptibility to insomnia. However, the
study suggests that the opposite  may be true—a disturbance in sleep may
influence fertilit y. If, for example, insomnia is caused by hyper arousal, the
body is reacting to a real or perceived threat. In this instance, insomnia may
be the evolutionary response to less-than-optimal circumstances for
reproduction.
Sleep disorders  and disturbances are increasingly recogn ized as
pertinent to women’ s health and well-being, particularly in relation to the
menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause.54 Little is currently known
about how and to what extent fertility is affected by sleep quality and
quantity, but sleep problems are frequently comorbid with infertility. The
review conclude s that, at the very least, treatment of sleep disorders would
enhance the quality of life for women with fertility problems. At best, one


 has been the means of disseminating (spreading) consumption, cancer,
syphilis, and many other fatal and loathsome diseases.
"(9) Tuberculosis is a disease common to cattle and to human beings and has frequently
been conveyed by vaccination from the former to the latter, by way of vaccination.
"(10) Edward Jenner shaddled a legacy of disease and death on the human race and
incidentally made $150,000 by the transaction.
"(11) Many doctors and some editors are making money by propagating this curse.
(vaccination)
"(12) Vaccination is called'successful' when it succeeds in making healthy people
diseased.
"(13) Disease as the result of vaccination is the logical harvest  from the seed sown.
"(14) Vaccination has no scientific basis  upon which to rest its claims and no analogy in
any ascertained principle or law in nature.
"(15) The so called 'spontaneous cow-pox'(from which vaccine is made) is a myth; the
disease so named, being  tubercular or syphilitic in its nature.
"(16) When vaccination kills its victims the facts are suppressed and the death
certificates name other diseases as the cause.
"(17) Compulsory vaccination has been abolished in England, Switzerland, and certain
other countries, while laws sustaining this crime still disgrace the statute books of many
states in free (?) America.
"(18) Vaccination is one of the foulest blots on the escutcheon of the ‘nobel art of
healing' ".CHAPTER 4
THE HISTORY OF V ACCINATION
"A mere assumption of belief unsupported by demonstrable facts is always open to criticism. It is easy to be carried away by
the beauty of an ideal or entranced by the overwhelming appeal of a pet delusion.... We hav, had much to learn but even
more to unearn. Many think they are thinking constructively when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." —George
S. Weger, M.D.
WHO STARTED V ACCINATION AND WHY’
It has been claimed, by an unenlightened few, that vaccination is based on scientific
principles and is of comparatively recent origin. But these claims have been proved
false, first, because inoculation was practiced and abandoned as useless by primitive
tribes many centuries ago, and second because Jenner and the modern experimenters in
vaccination were not scientists and did not test and prove their theories by any scientific
criteria before launching the hazarduous practice on the public.
For many years Edward Jenner was acclaimed a hero for what was thought to be his
discovery of cow-pox vaccination. But this dubious honor was later admitted to belong
to Benjamin Jesty, whom all the chroniclers name as the one responsible for
the original discovery of cow-pox inoculation. Jesty, a farmer, Plett, a teacher and
Jensen, a farmer, were named as ‘successful experimenters" in the field of cow-pox
vaccination several years before Jenner’s first inoculation These and all subsequent
vaccination experiments were then, and still are, haphazard and unscientific attempts at
solving the problem of disease prevention.
Before we trace the ancient history of vaccination let us review some of the outstanding
authorities who recognized that:
V ACCINATION IS NOT SCIENTIFIC
Many of the world’s greatest thinkers, scientists, statesmen and even doctors have
condemned vaccination as being a crime against humanity, a fraud promoted for private
gain, an insult to the race and a blot upon the name of civilization Yet, this treacherous
practice of blood pollution, which was cradled in the lap of. ignorant savage tribes, has
been adopted by, supposedly, enlightened government of the present day and forced on
the protesting population—for profit.
M.M. Gernerd in his book "The Vaccination Imposture"  says:
"Vaccination is not in any sense scientific; doctors never know what the result will be in
any case; they don’t absolutely know that it ever prevented smallpox; they never know
when they have pure vaccine; the practice is born of pure superstition; and it has been a
breeder of many kindred fallacies."
Florence Nightingale, the world’s most famous nurse and an authority on smallpox by
right of extensive experience, said:"Everyone who knows anything about public health questions will agree to the practical
unity of epidemics, and the determining causes, and that exemption from... disease
must be sought not by any one thing, such as vaccination, but by inquiring into and
removing the causes of epidemic susceptibility generally."
Alfred Russell Wallace, in his famous book,  "The Wonderful Century  (p. 314) says:
"The successive Vaccination Acts were passed by means of allegations which were
wholly untrue, and promises which have all been unfulfilled. They stand alone in
modern legislation as a gross interference with personal liberty and the sanctity of the
home; while as an attempt to cheat outraged nature, and to avoid a symotic disease
without getting rid of the foul conditions that produce or propagate it,  the practice of
vaccination is utterly opposed to the whole teaching of sanitary science, and is one of
those terrible blunders which, in their far-reaching evil consequences, are worse than the
greatest of crimes."
Among our best authoritative sources of information are the actual government records
showing the
INCREASED DEATH-RATE AFTER V ACCINATION WAS ESTABLISHED
The report of Dr. William Farr, Compiler of Statistics  of the Registrar-General, London.
states:
"Smallpox attained its maximum mortality after vaccination was introduced …..The
mean annual (smallpox) mortality to 10,000 population from 1850 to 1869 was at the
rate of (only) 2.04, whereas (after compulsory vaccination) in 1871 the death rate was
10.24 and in 1872 the death rate was 8.33, and this after the most laudable efforts to
extend vaccination by legislative enactments."
Other authorities and numerous records and case histories showing the failure of
vaccination are given elsewhere in this book.
The truly great minds of the world recognize the balanced economy of nature and know
that when the chemistry of the body is thrown out of balance by faulty nutrition and
other causes, toxins accumulate and the entire physical organism marshals its healing
forces in an effort to meet the emergency and make adjustment to the condition. This
healing effort may be expressed in many ways, such as accelerated circulation and  fever,
disturbed breathing, intensified bowel elimination ( diarrhea) and mucous discharges to
expel poisons, eruptions, swelling of lymphatic glands such as the tonsils to handle the
overload of toxic waste,  pain, indicating the presence of irritants, etc. All this display of
the vital energy at work to restore normalcy, is interpreted by the average physician,
as disease and something to interfere with by giving poison drugs, vaccines and
crippling operations., Modern medical methods delay and frustrate the unexcelled
healing efforts of nature.Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the few enlightened physicians expressed this point
in one powerful sentence when he said:
"THE DISGRACE OF MEDICINE HAS BEEN THE COLOSSAL SYSTEM OF SELF-
DECEPTION, IN OBEDIENCE TO WHIH MINES HA VE BEEN EMPTIED OF
THEIR CANKERING MINERALS, THE ENTRAILS OF ANIMALS TAXED FOR
THEIR IMPURITIES, THE POISON BAGS OF REPTILES DRAINED OF THEIR
VENOM, AND ALL THE INCONCEIV ABLE ABOMINATIONS THUS OBTAINED,
THRUST DOWN THE THROATS OF HUMAN BEINGS SUFFERING (merely)
FROM SOME WANT OF ORGANIZATION, NOURISHMENT, OR VITAL
STIMULATION."
When we read of primitive witch doctors experimenting with inoculation by rubbing the
pus from the diseased into scratches on the body of the  well, we look upon it with
tolerance because they did not have enough knowledge about physiology to understand
that nature does not produce health by contaminating the blood stream with filth.
Although we are willing to make excuses for the mental immaturity of those backward
races, what excuse can be make for our modern doctors who do the same thing — on a
larger scale — with a longer needle?
Vaccination has been a tragic failure because it is based on the false theory that disease
is a ruthless enemy that must be fought and killed by poison drugs or outwitted by
(supposedly) implanting anti-bodies from vaccines into the blood stream. These
mythical anti-bodies are said to make war on disease germs. But germs are not the cause
of disease in the first place and are useful wherever they are found in nature, whether
they are serving as scavengers working on the decaying waste products, or whether they
are helping with the decomposing and renewing of cell structure that takes place
continually, they are inseparably a part of the great pattern of pulsating life. (For
detailed, scientific experiments proving the importance and nature of germs, bacteria,
microbes, etc., read the findings of  Antoine Bechamp  as recorded in the remarkable
book, BECHAMP OR PASTEUR, by  E. Douglas Hume  — English Pub. see
bibliography.)
As has been stated before, disease is a cleansing effort of the body in its attempt


, beaware andsensitive tolifethatisgoing onall
around us.Poise means balance, equilibrium, stability,ease ofmind andbody.Mental andemo-
tional poise isanormal state ofbeing, inwhich weexperience harmony andease within
ourselves. Itdoes notmean wehave nochallenges orproblems. Wearefaced with these
even inthevigorously healthy state ofbeing atpeace. Itmeans weneed notbehurt or
disturbed inanyway bythem. Itmeans alsothatlifeisajoy,andeach moment offers us
another opportunity to learn, to love, and to understand.Lesson 5 - Introduction To Nutritional Science
5.1. What Constitutes Nutrition (Definitions And Concepts)
5.2. Food Is An Element Of Nutrition
5.3. Physiological Criteria Foods Must Meet
5.4. Nonfood Nutritional Factors
5.5. Discussion Of Conventional Nutritional T eachings
5.6. Discussion Of Human Eating Habits The W orld Over
5.7. Negative Nutrition: Harmful Foods And Practices
5.8. A Survey Of Unconventional Dietic Schools And Their Fallacies
5.9. The Physiological Necessity Of Proper Food Combining
5.10. Nutritional Miscellany
5.11. Questions & Answers
Article #1: The Paradise Diet by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
Article #2: The Elements Of Nutrition by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton
Article #3: Nutrition, A Hygienic Perspective by Ralph C. Cinque, D.C.
5.1. What Constitutes Nutrition (Definitions And Concepts)
5.1.1 Nutrition Is the Sum of All Processes That Promote Growth and Function
5.1.2 Nutrition IsModified BytheEntire Spectrum ofLife Conditions andActivities
5.1.3 Nutrition Involves theProcesses ofGrowth, Development, Supply andInvigo-
ration
Conventional attitudes regard nutrition asbeing almost exclusively involved with
foods andfeeding, butthisisonly onefacet ofthenutritional scene (albeit animportant
one). Attheoutset itisprudent todefine what nutrition isand, inview ofthemany mis-
conceptions, what nutrition is not.
5.1.1 Nutrition Is the Sum of All Processes That Promote Growth and Function
Nutrition does notmean food only.Nutrition isthesum ofalltheprocesses thatsup-
ply,develop andsustain anorganism’ sfaculties andfunctions attheoptimal level of
existence. Inshort, nutrition isthetotal ofallthatsupplies life’sneeds. Itembraces all
requirements for perfect health and supplying these requirements constitutes nutrition.
5.1.2 Nutrition Is Modified By the Entire Spectrum of Life Conditions and
Activities
Thesum ofnutritional processes adds uptoourhealth quotient; thatis,ourstate of
health equals the total of the nutritional processes that created it.
Anything thatmodifies nutrition ortheprocesses ofsupply andusage also modifies
health. Everything wegetinvolved inordoinallspheres oflifeaffects insome way our
nutritive disposition, either for the better, for the worse or equivalently.
Withrespect tofoods andfeeding, wehave specific adaptations foracquiring and
processing particular foods tomeet ournutritive needs. Anything thatchanges inthe
whole process af fects our nutrition and, consequently, our health.
Because ofitsimportance, were-emphasize: Nutrition islargely dependent upon our
health and, likewise, our health is dependent on nutrition.
5.1.3 Nutrition Involves the Processes of Growth, Development, Supply and
Invigoration
Dr. Herbert M. Shelton has defined nutrition as follows:Perfect nutrition isdependent onperfect organs, perfect functions andnormal
health. Each isdependent upon andgrowsoutoftheother.Allprocesses andfunc-
tions areinterdependent and interact harmoniously formutual well-being. They
cannot betaken apart andcategorized. Every aspect oflifeisbutapart ofaunified
whole.
This idea ofinterdependence andinteraction leads totheprinciple thattheap-
propriate way torecover anddevelop strength andvigor isthrough theactivities
andprocesses thatgive risetogrowth. Werecover arid develop strength andvigor
inthesame way thatwekeep well, inthesame way thatababe growsintovigor
andadulthood. Thepowers andforcesthat brought usinto being, that sustain us
inexistence, thatcause ustogrowthrough allthephases oflifetomanhood and
womanhood, ar e sufficient to r estor e us if health becomes impair ed.
5.2. Food Is An Element Of Nutrition
5.2.1 Food Is an Inert Substance—Merely Raw Materials
5.2.2 Food UseIsSubject totheBody’ sAbility toProcess, Appropriate, Assimilate,
Metabolize and Eliminate
5.2.3 Food Is But One of Many Needs in Nutrition
Asstated earlier,food constitutes only apartoftheneeds oflife.Itconstitutes some
oftherawmaterials which become partoftheoverall nutritive processes. When thebody
receives food, itbreaks itdown mechanically andchemically into components which
canbeabsorbed andsynthesized bytheorganism into special substances tomeet the
special needs of the or ganism.
5.2.1 Food Is an Inert Substance—Merely Raw Materials
Many people believe thatfoods have different actions inthebody.However,thisis
erroneous. Foods donotactinthebody butare,instead, acted upon bythebody.Tobe
appropriated thefood must loseallitscharacter.Itismechanically crushed, comminuted
andmixed with digestive fluids, then chemically reduced tobasic components forab-
sorption, synthesis and use.
Letusagain review nutrition asDr.Shelton hasexpressed itinyetanother definition:
Nutrition isavital process carried ononly byaliving organism. Itisaprocess
ofgrowth, development andinvigoration. Toeatgood food andenough ofit,to
drink purewater andbreathe pureair,inandofthemselves, arevery desirable, but
something moreisneeded inordertoacquir ehealth, strength andvigor.Nutrition
isdependent onfunction. Wecanhave better nutritive function only when wehave
a capacity for better nutrition.
Food isofvalue only initsphysiological connections with air,water,sunshine,
restandsleep, exercise oractivity,cleanliness andwholesome mental andmoral
influences—in short, allthenatural ornormal circumstances which weknow tobe
necessary for the pr eservation of health.
What Dr.Shelton issaying isbutareiteration ofwhat hasbeen emphasized here,
thatthebetter your health thebetter willbeyour nutrition andthebetter your nutrition
thebetter willbeyour health. Every factor andcondition oflifemust besupplied opti-
mally to assure best health.
Again, tohighlight itsimportance, werepeat thatfood does notusethebody ordo
anything tothebody.Thebody does unto thefood anduses it.Increating foods, plant
lifedesigned them tobeutilized byanimals inexchange foraservice totheplant. This
issymbiosis. Human service toplants istheincidental broadcast oftheir seeds. Wasever
a reward so great for such a small service?Asanutritionist youmust ever keep thisinmind: Foods donothing inthebody.They
have nopowers ofcleansing, healing oranything else. Foods have nowillorpurposes
of their own. T o be consumed and used is their inherent design.
5.2.2 Food Use Is Subject to the Body’s Ability to Process, Appropriate,
Assimilate, Metabolize and Eliminate
Abody thatisimpaired isunable toproperly process andusefood. Totheextent that
theimpairment causes withdrawal offunctional energies from digestive processes, the
body isunable tobefed.When thebody’ snutritive functions areinanyway impaired,
andthiswill usually beevidenced bydepressed orlostappetite, make thisastanding
rule: donotpartake offood. Guide clients away from food. Missing ameal orafew
meals is most constructive.
Ifthebody isinanyabnormal condition, food should notbetaken orgiven. Infever,
pain, emotional upset, fatigue, worry,sleeplessness andmany other conditions, thebody
isunable tomuster theneeded energiesfortheprocesses ofdigestion, appropriation, and
assimilation. Insuch conditions thebody does notcreate thecondition ofhunger orgive
rise to appetency.
5.2.3 Food Is But One of Many Needs in Nutrition
Our capacity toreceive, process andassimilate food isnecessary tothenutritive
process. Intheabsence offunctional energies inthese areas, feeding results inlowered
body energies andthewaste offoodstuf fs.Itispassed ontothebowels andthebody is
worse of f for it.
Toappropriately receive, digest andassimilate foods, other physiological needs must
also bepresent. Oxygen, water,digestive fluids, nerve energyandamultitude ofother
factors andinfluences must favorably coalesce toeffectthese processes. Should anyim-
pairment inthenutritive faculties exist, theinterference may prove insurmount