 as well as repair from injury a nd replacement of worn-out cells.

Official Guidelines Recommend 10% Protein
Sometimes I wonder whether the official nutritional guidelines for  caloronutrient consumption are intentionally vague and
confusing in order to better serve influential market forces. I mean, a fter 100 + years of testing we have a fairly good idea of which
foods are most nutritious for us. Still, the U.S. government officially re commends that our protein intake should be somewhere
between 10 and 35% of total calories consumed. It is extremely difficult to con sume more than a quarter of your calories from
protein, however, unless you are following a strict regimen of refined pr otein powder and egg whites. Currently fewer than 5% of
Americans eat more than 21% of their calories from protein, with the bell  curve ranging from 11 to 21%. 36
Despite the advertising hype of the meat and dairy industries, humans require an extraordinarily low amount of protein in
their diets.  Many official groups, including the World Health Organization, 37  the U.S. National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, 38
and the National Research Council 39  suggest that eating a mere 10% of our total calories as protein is suffi cient.
Mother’s milk provides on average approximately 6% of calories from pr otein for growing infants. 40  This should be ample
proof that adults do not need more protein per calorie than this, as infants, wi th their extremely rapid rate of growth, have the highest
need for protein per calorie of all humans.
Proteins (or more accurately, amino acids) are the building blocks of livi ng cells. Once we have done our growing, we have
very little requirement for the raw materials of which we are made. Think of the analogy of building a brick house: you need
truckloads of bricks during the construction stage. Once the house is buil t, however, if trucks continue to deliver bricks, you have a
problem on your hands. The same is true of protein in the human diet: too much c reates emergency conditions and keeps the body in
a constant state of toxicity.
For those accustomed to seeing your protein recommendation in terms of gra ms or calories per unit of body weight, the 2003
U.S. RDA for protein is 0.36 grams per pound of body weight, or 0.8 grams per kilogram (1 kilogra m = 2.2 lbs). The RDA
calculates these numbers for a “typical” (sedentary) female a nd male who eat 1,600 and 2,200 calories per day, respectively,
arriving at a suggested 44 grams of protein for a female and 55 grams for a  male. See the sidebar entitled “Calculating Y our Protein
Intake” later in this chapter for sample calculations.

10% Protein Includes a Wide Safety Margin
The national and international organizations that set nutrient g uidelines build into their numbers a margin of safety that increase s
the recommendations substantially, often near double. The 1989 U.S. RDA for prote in of 0.8 g/kg/day, for example, was designed
to meet the needs of 97.5% of a normally distributed population. It was calculate d as follows: 41

Conduct nitrogen balance studies to determine the mean amount of pr otein required to replace daily “obligatory losses”
through sweat, urine, feces, and sloughed skin, hair, and nails.
Add two standard deviations (25%) to this mean value.
Add margins for digestibility and protein quality.
In his book The China Study, renowned Cornell University professor emeritus of nutritional bioche mistry T. Colin Campbell
states that we require only 5–6% of our total calories to come from protei n in order to replace the protein we routinely lose, and that
“About 9–10% protein has been recommended for the past fifty years  to be assured that most people at least get their 5–6%
‘requirement.’” 42
In addition to the safety margin, this recommendation assumes that peopl e eat their protein cooked. Given that cooking
substantially deranges protein and other nutrients, we can safely c onsume far less raw plant protein and still be assured of sufficient
nourishment. Thus, you can see that 10% protein (maximum) is both suffic ient and reasonable.
The additional protein afforded by the built-in safety factor is not a problem, per se, except that overconsumption of protein
can lead to health problems, which will be discussed later in this chapte r. The more important concern is relative overconsumption
of protein. In other words, if we overconsume one of the three caloronutrient s, we are likely to underconsume one or both of the
others.
The fact that our protein needs actually run in the single digits (u nder 10%) often surprises people. Most all of us have
unwittingly fallen prey to meat-industry propaganda that would lead us  to believe otherwise. Truly, advertising has influenced our
perception of reality so widely that the concept of “getting enough protein” is embedded in the culture.

Athletes and Bodybuilders: 10% Still Plenty
Bodybuilders have long consumed extra protein and lowered carbohydrate inta ke in the mistaken belief that dietary protein
builds muscle. In reality, only weight-bearing exercise builds musc le. When insufficient carbohydrates are supplied, it is true that
protein requirements go up, as the body transforms the protein into carbohydra te (an energy-expensive process) and utilizes it for
fuel. This does not, however, bring about the result they desire.

No Extra Protein Required for Physical Activity
Bodybuilders may be interested to note that in its extensive study of prote in requirements, the Institute of Medicine/Food and
Nutrition Board determined that no additional protein needed to be added to the RDA  to account for physical activity:
“There is little evidence that muscular activity increases t he need for protein, except for the small amount required for the
development of muscles during physical conditioning  (Torun Et al., 1977). Vigorous activity that leads to profuse sweating, such
as in heavy work and sports, and exposure to heat increases nitrogen loss fr om the skin, but with acclimatization to a warm
environment, the excessive skin loss [loss by perspiration throu gh the skin—DG] is reduced and may be partially compensated by
decreased renal excretion (WHO, 1985). In view of the margin of safety in the RDA, no increment is added for work or
training. ”43

Bodybuilders following the 80/10/10  program have found that if they supply sufficient calories from carbohy drate, their protein
needs go down dramatically, and their energy to train and their muscula r growth both increase.
Lisa Oborne, a professional bodybuilder in Canada for many years, says that s he got the best results of her career when
switching to the 80/10/10  diet, gleaning a growth spurt the likes of which none of her trainers ha d ever seen.

All Plant Foods Contain Protein
Consuming approximately 5% of calories from protein is difficult to avoid if  you are eating enough food to meet your daily
calorie needs. All plant foods contain protein, and even if you ate a diet of onl y white rice, (not recommended) you would still end
up with 8% protein for the day! But would it be the “right kind” of prote in?
Proteins are complicated molecules made by assembling simple b uilding blocks (amino acids) together in a “polypeptide”
chain. Some 20 different amino acids are used to synthesize proteins, eigh t or nine of which are designated essential (depending
upon whose information you read). The term “essential” in nutrition m eans that the nutrient in question must be eaten or otherwise
consumed, as the body cannot synthesize it.

The Complete Protein Myth
In the 1970s, people often concerned themselves with combining proteins so tha t all of the essential amino acids were available at
each meal. Later research has determined that this is not necessa ry, and in fact the author of the “incomplete protein theory,”
Frances Moore Lappe, recanted 20 years later, saying that she was utter ly mistaken. We do  need all of the essential amino acids,
but we do not have to eat them together, or even each day.

Sources of Protein
Dietary protein is not the only source for building the proteins we need. In stead, our bodies efficiently recycle between 100 and 300 grams of our own protein every day. We have an amino acid pool from which to build n ew proteins. We add amino acids to the
pool by breaking down the proteins we eat and the proteins in our bodies.
We can easily meet our protein requirements on a vegan diet, with no part icular attention focused on combining proteins or
selecting certain foods for each meal.
The table below shows the percentage of calories from protein in twenty- one common fruits and vegetables and in five animal
foods, for comparison.

Another chart more specific to the 80/10/10  diet can be found in the back of this book. This chart shows values not only for
protein but also for calories, carbohydrates, fat, water, and fiber for select ed whole plant foods. In them, you will see that fruits
generally contain 4 to 8% protein,


they have been following a typical American diet.
If the chronically ill had been following a vegetarian diet, perhaps a diet
including with eggs and dairy, if they had been using no addicting substances, thenone month on raw foods is sufficient preparation for fasting. If the person hadwater or juice fasted for at least a week or two within the last two years, and
followed a healthy diet since that time, one or two weeks on raw foods should be
a sufficient runway.
During preparation for a fast, I never recommend that a chronically ill person
quit taking prescription medicines because doing so can seriously disrupt theirhomeostasis. However, if their symptoms lessen or vanish during the pre-fastingclean up, the person might try tapering off medications.
The length and type of fast chosen to resolve a chronic illness depends largely
on available time, finances, availability of support people, work responsibilities,and mental toughness. If you are one of those fortunate people rich enough to givetheir health first priority, long water fasting is ideal. If on the other hand you can’tafford to stop working, have no one to take care of you and assist with somehousehold chores, and/or you are not mentally tough enough to deal with self-denial, compromise is necessary.
Ideally the chronically ill person would fast for an extended period under
supervision until their symptoms were gone or greatly improved, with a fall-backplan to repeat the whole process again in three to six months if necessary. If youare not able to do that, the next best program is to fast for a short period, like oneor two weeks, with a plan to repeat the process as often as possible until you arehealed.
I have had clients with potentially life-threatening conditions such as obesity
with incipient heart failure, or who came to me with cancer, that were unable tostop work for financial reasons, or who could not afford a residential fastingprogram, or who felt confident in their own ability to deal with detoxification intheir own home. These people have fasted successfully at home, coming to seeme once a week. Almost inevitably, successful at-home fasters had already donea lot of research on self healing, believed in it, and had the personal discipline tocarry it out properly, including breaking the fast properly without overeating.
Foods To Heal Chronic Illness
Sprouts Baby Greens Salad Juices Fruit
alfalfa sunflower lettuce beet grapefruit
radish buckwheat celery celery lemon
bean zucchini zucchini lime lime
clover kale kale orange orange
fenugreek endive radish parsley apple
wheat tomato tomato raspberries
cabbage cabbage cabbage blueberries
carrot carrot grapes
spinach apple peaches
parsley grapefruit apricots
sweet pepper lemon strawberry
Fruits should be watery and lower in sugar. Some examples of poor fruit
choices would be pineapple, ripe mango, bananas, dates, raisins, figs. Fruitsshould not be combined with vegetables.
Vegetables should not be starchy, packed-full of energy. Poor vegetable
choices would be potato, parsnip, turnip, corn, sweet potato, yam, beet, wintersquash. Sprouts and baby greens are vegetables and may be included in salads.
Juices should not be extremely sweet. Apple, orange, beet and carrot juice
should be diluted with 50% water. Fruit juices should not be mixed with vegetablejuices or with vegetables at the same meal.
Salads should include no fruit. Salad dressings should be lemon or lime juice,
very small quantities of olive oil, and herbs. No salt, soy sauce nor black pepper.Cayenne can be okay for some.
I have also helped chronically ill people that were not mentally prepared to
water fast, but were able to face the long-term self-control and deprivation of araw food cleansing diet that included careful food combining. These people alsoregained their health, but it took them a year at minimum, and once well they hadto remain on a diet tailor-made to their digestive capacity for the rest of their life,usually along with food supplements.
Jim was such a case. He was 55 years old, very obese, had dangerously high
blood pressure poorly controlled with medication, and was going into congestiveheart failure. He was on digitalis and several other heart medications plusdiuretics, but in no way was his condition under control. He had severe edema inthe feet and legs with pitting, and fluid retention in the abdominal region caused ahuge paunch that was solid to the touch not soft and squishy like fatty tissue.
Jim had long dreamed of having his own homestead with an Organic garden
and now he had these things but was too sick to enjoy them or work in his gardenwithout severe heart pain and shortness of breath. Jim had retired early in order toenjoy many years without the stresses of work, and he was alarmed to realize thathe was unlikely to survive a year.
The day Jim came to see me the first time I would have classified his condition
as critically ill because his life was in immediate danger; but he responded soquickly to his detox program that he was very soon out of danger and would bemore accurately described as a chronically ill person. Jim was not prepared towater fast. He was attached to having his food and he was aware that at hisextreme weight he was going to have stay on a dietary program for a long, longtime. He also wanted to choose a gradient that he could manage by himself athome with little assistance from his wife. He had been on a typical American dietwith meat, coffee, etc., so that in spite of his dangerous condition it did not seemwise to me to add the heavy eliminatory burden of a water fast to a body that wasalready overwhelmed with fluids and waste products.
Jim immediately went on a raw food cleansing diet, with no concentrated
foods like nuts, seeds, or avocados, and with one day each week fasting onvegetable juice and broth. He did enemas daily even though it wasn’t his favoritething. In one month he had lost 30 pounds, his eyes had started to sparkle, andhis complexion was rosy. The swelling had disappeared from his feet and legs,and he had to buy new pants.
Starting the second month he gradually withdrew from prescription
medications. From the beginning I had put Jim on a program of nutritionalsupplements including protomorphogens (see chapter on vitamins and foodsupplements) to help the body repair it’s heart and the kidneys. In only fourmonths he had returned his body to glowing health, and looked great for his age,though he was still overweight. At the end of one year he had returned to anormal weight for his height, and only cheated on the diet a couple of times whenattending a social event, and then it was only a baked potato with no dressing.
He was probably going to have many qualitative years working his garden and
living out his dreams. The local intensive care ward lost a lot of money when theyfailed to get Jim.
Diet For The Acutely Ill
The acutely ill person experiences occasional attacks of distressing symptoms,
usually after indiscretions in living or emotional upsets. They have a cold, or a flu,or sinusitis, or a first bout of pneumonia, or a spring allergy attack. The intensesymptoms knock them flat and force them to bed for a few days or a week. Ifthey are sick more often than that, they are moving toward the chronically illcategory.
People who are acutely ill should stop eating to whatever extent that they are
able until the symptoms are gone. During an acute illness, the appetites isprobably pretty dull anyway, so why not give a brief fast on water or fruit juice atry.
Most acute conditions are short in duration, usually not lasting more than a
week. Allergy attacks, some types of flu, and a first bout of pneumonia may welllast for three weeks or a month. The general rule is to eat as little as possible untilthe symptoms have passed, self-administer colon cleansing, even if you have ahorror of such things, and take vitamin supplements, including megadoses ofVitamin C, bioflavinoids, and zinc. (See the chapter on vitamins.) Those having alittle experience with natural medicine make teas of echinacea, fenugreek seedsand red clover and quit eating. Eating as little as possible can mean only waterand herb teas, only vegetable broth, only vegetable juice or non-sweet fruit juice,even only cleansing raw foods. If you eat more than this you have not relievedyour system of enough digestive effort.
After your symptoms are gone it is very important to change your life-style and
improve your diet so that you aren’t so toxic and don’t have to experience anacute illness several times a year when your body is forced to try an energeticdetox.
Diet For A Healthy Person
I doubt that it is possible to be totally healthy in the twentieth century. Doctors
Alsleben and Shute in their book How to Survive the New Health
Catastrophes  state that in-depth laboratory testing of the population at large
demonstrated four universally present pathological conditions: heavy metalpoisoning, arteriosclerosis, sub-clinical infections, and vitamin/mineral deficiencies.Those of us who consider ourselves healthy, including young people, are not reallyhealthy, and at the very least would benefit from nutritional supplementation. Infact the odds against most people receiving adequate vitamin and mineral nutritionwithout supplements are very poor as demonstrated by the following chart.
Problem Nutrients in America
Nutrient Per cent Receiving Less than the RDA
B6 80%
Magnesium 75Calcium 68Iron 57Vitamin A 50B
1 45
C4 1B
2 36
B12


 eventually lead to cancer of the liver, or any other organ, if this condition is permitted to con-tinue over a long period of time. The weakest part of the body will be affected. 72 If there is a phosphate or calciums deficiency it could eventually
lead to cancer of the bone, and also  cavities in the teeth. There can be
two reasons for the mineral deficiency. One is that the gastric juices
are too dilute to digest the chlorine, fluoride, calciums, and phospho-rus which are necessary to make the enamel in the teeth. The second is even though the gastric juices are strong enough to assimilate them, the foods may not contain these elements. In the RBTI the tests denote these deficiencies and are shown in two ways:
LOSS OF ENERGY,
WHERE THE LOSS OF ENERGY IS.
Consequently, the RBTI tests can predict as much as ten years in
advance where cancer will strike, or whether or not the person is go-ing to have a heart attack, or whet her or not there are going to be
health problems. The deficiencies may linger for a long time. This is explained further in the discussion of the numbers which denote these deficiencies.
One of the great problems today is the deficiency of minerals in
the foods that we eat, whether it is fresh, canned, frozen or whatnot, it is a deficiency, or has a lack of mineral. I am going to lay this blame strictly where it should be: the agricultural experimental stations. I'm not casting reflections on any one person, all I'm doing is stating a fact for most of our textbooks on agri culture are written by the experi-
mental stations under the supervision of the fertilizer and the insecti-cide companies.
Most of our college graduates in agriculture today learn to do
three things: to buy fertilizers, machinery and sprays.
I was in the agriculture engineering business for 38 years, and had
32 engineers working for me when I retired in 1968. We were teach-ing farmers how to get a greater yield at less cost per acre. But the ex-perimental stations fought us in every way possible.
They never missed an opportunity to slander the work we were
doing. However, our work prospered, and we were never able to catch up with all the requests we had for help.
The average farmer in the United States today is producing less
than 25% of what that farm is cap able of producing. The greater the 73 yield per acre the higher the mineral content. The higher the carbohy-
drate content the higher the yield per acre.
The higher the yield of an acre the less time it takes to produce it.
High quality produce with a high carbohydrate content will not rot, it will dehydrate but it will not decay. A few years ago I showed in a fair in Orlando, Florida, for three consecutive years the same watermelons. They were marked and kept under supervision and under the eye of the county agent. The melons had been picked eight months before they appeared in the fair the first time.
The most successful farmers today have their own business, and
their own soil scientists to guide a nd direct them, and they are not giv-
ing out this information to anyone whatever. A very simple example is this: the difference in hard wheat and soft wheat is solely in the min-eral content that is in the soil. If the mineral content is high enough in the soil it is hard wheat. And if it is not high enough it is soft wheat. I know there are wheat growers who will disagree with this. However, 100 years ago much of that same soil produced hard wheat, and today it is producing soft wheat. This fact cannot be denied.
Many com growers used to produce 200 bushels of corn per acre,
and some of that same soil is down to 50 bushels yield per acre now. This is because the mineral has been taken from the soil and has not been replaced. The Bible prophecy is true: the earth shall wax old like
a garment. Men shall become weaker but wiser. These minerals are available, and are very economical to put back into the soil to help make American people more healthy.
Any farmer who is not producing 200 bushels of com per acre,
two tons of peanuts per acre, 20 tons alfalfa per acre, or 20 tons of wa-termelon per acre should be ashamed.
We are teaching seminars in agricultu re to teach the farmer how to
produce a greater yield per acre at less cost per pound or per capita. This system works, and is proven.
No one person, no one doctor, no one dietician, no one merchant,
no one farmer, no one dairy farmer, no one meat producer is responsi-ble. It is a chain reaction that is cause and effect of our entire society 74 regarding good health. Therefore, if we want to be healthy the best
way is to use a very, very great variety of foods.
In the laboratory tests that we do, the Reams tests are standard la-
boratory tests, made by standard laboratory instruments.
I was the first man to apply these biological needs to the function-
ing of these instruments. The Lord taught me how to do it, and this is the forty-sixth year that this system has been in use, and has been proven accurate.
One of the problems that we have been facing for the past 21 years
is the state laws made by the drug establishment, which has greatly re-stricted this knowledge, or greatly  kept this knowledge from the peo-
ple. Consequently, I have been in hot water so to speak with the drug establishment. I have been fighting them in the courts now for nine
years. And the battle still continues.
One of the great things that is going for the American people is the
National Health Federation, the International Cancer Society, and the International Association of Cancer Victims & Friends. These have done much to help in the fight for the freedom of choice and to en-lighten the people on their rights to choose whom to go to with their
health problems.
Humanity changes very slowly. An example of this is Moses lead-
ing the children of Israel from Egypt into the promised land when they were marching through the valley of snakes and serpents.
Moses put up on a pole a serpent and said to the people that all
who would look toward the serpent on the pole would be healed. Most of the people refused to look because they said it wouldn't do any good. So humanity today hasn't changed very much. They know to do better than they do. They are told what to do and they won't do it.
Many people come with dietary probl ems. They get tested and the
moment they think that they are goi ng to live they go back to the old
system until they again think they are going to die. Then they get test-ed again and get back to the point where they think they are going to live, and over and over they go through the same process. Never well, never sick enough to die.
This is human nature. 75 It is quite disheartening to the doctors and the testers who know
that they are able to help get the people practically well and the people
then not seeming to want to be perfectly well.
They just want to be able to think they are well. They want to do
what they want to do.
It is an interesting fact when Moses was leading the children of Is-
rael out of Egypt, in two years they arrived at the promised land. But the oldtimers were afraid of the enemy. They were afraid of change. They didn't want to rock the boat. Consequently they didn't get into the promised land. So for 38 years God let them march in the wilder-ness, until all the oldtimers died off.
Then God took the young people into  the promised land. Even so
today, the RBTI probably will be accepted by the young people.
People who break the rules of health grow old prematurely. So naturally they go to a premature grave. There are many names
for the diseases that caused them to die. However, the cause of the death was a mineral deficiency.
All illness is a result of a mineral deficiency. No drug can supply a
mineral deficiency. The reason most people get well in the hospital is because they rest. Some illness comes about because people do not rest, and lack of rest depletes minerals. The only way health can be re-stored is to supply the mineral needed for God to restore the decayed tissues.
If we will supply the minerals, God will do the rest. A famous doctor once said, "All I do is entertain a patient while
nature heals."
In the process of healing there is a divine process and a miracle in
itself. We cannot do miracles. We can onl y set the stage for God to do
His miracles.
One of the saddest things about Am erica is the fact of how much
we are abusing our children. The public schools are often giving them foods that their bodies cannot digest, and they are getting diets all alike regardless of whether or not their body chemistry is synchro-nized to accept it. If the body is not s ynchronized to take food then the
food moves the body chemistry out of the range of perfect, and the 76 further from perfect range the body chemistry gets, the more ill one
becomes.
It is not practical for every child in a public school to have the ex-
act same food. Some have diabetic tendencies, some have low blood sugar tendencies, and some have digestive problems, some are over-weight, some are underweight, some have worms, some have hyper-tension problems, and all of


 holistic/biological dental
organizations where I continued my education of the relationship of the teeth to the rest of the body.
Conventional dentists view the teeth and dental health as unrelated to the rest of the body, so they
cannot teach their patients any holistic practices that can help save their teeth. However, your entire
body is connected to your mouth. There are meridians, energy channels, and biological pathways such
as nerves, veins and arteries that run through your entire body, connecting everything. I hope to seemore preservative dentistry or minimally invasive dentistry in the future. In the holistic approach we
examine the effects of dental materials on the whole body both chemically and electromagnetically.
The end point of a meridian (bioelectrical pathway) is a tooth and what happens to that tooth and
related structures can affect the bioelectrical stability of the meridian and all glands and organs
associated with that meridian. An infected tooth can therefore also affect a gland at a distant site. An
infection or inflammation in the mouth can create a systemic (whole body) inflammation or infection.
This whole body inflammation cannot be cleared until the condition of the mouth is addressed first.
The immune system, minerals and hormones also interact with the tooth and related structures.
Cure Tooth Decay is an island of clarity in a sea of confusion as it provides you with practical insight
into how hormones control the decay process and what you can do to master the process with lifestyle
choices. I have observed that when my patients followed the recommendations outlined in this book
they created an anabolic drive to rebuild tissue by replenishing and balancing irregular levels of
hormones. As a result, they were able to actually stop, prevent and even reverse the deterioration.
Perhaps the greatest strength of Cure Tooth Decay is that so many disciplines are brought together in a
comprehensive package. The pioneering works of Drs. Francis Pottenger, Weston Price, and Melvin
Page are presented in a way that highlights their convergent messages. Until this book, dentists have
had a hard time bringing holistic dentistry concepts together in a way that is both practical and easy
for the public to use. Cure Tooth Decay gives the reader a comparative presentation of the different
concepts of tooth decay. It embraces new concepts and modern trends together in one elegant text.
Your diet is the key to creating a healthy mouth. There is no other way about it. This is the key issue,
and the central theme of Cure Tooth Decay. When people eat too many processed foods, especially
sugar and flour products, they wreak havoc on the body. Insulin levels spike, cortisol goes up, and the
flow of parotid gland hormone changes, resulting in cavities. When you consume too much sugar, the
hormones that control tooth mineralization change for the worse. When you have adequate healthy
hormones, the tooth is healthy and is engaged in the process of maintaining and building healthy tooth
structure, through the process of mineralization. When you don’t have a good diet, your body’s ability
to repair and maintain healthy teeth and gums is severely limited. And the result is tooth destruction,
or demineralization. If you learn one thing from this book, it should be that eating too much processed
sugar and flour products upsets the entire hormone system. This not only sets you up for tooth decay
or gum disease, but makes your entire body overly acidic. In the acidic state, harmful bacteria and
fungi can thrive.
When people are stressed they often crave comfort foods such as sugar and starch (flour products).
The metabolism of an individual who craves sugar is generally in a sugar burning, rather than fat
burning mode to produce energy. If people stay off the sugar for seven days and consume adequate
amounts of the good saturated fats, they lose their cravings for sugar and their tooth problems
significantly improve. After they have stabilized and lost their sugar craving they can have only low
sugar fruits: green apple, pear, kiwi and berries (no sugar on top!). If you are susceptible to tooth
decay, stay away from all sweet fruits; many of them have all been hybridized to make them as sweet
as possible. I once stayed away from all fruits for a period of time, then I bit into a Fuji apple—it
tasted like candy!
Cure Tooth Decay is nothing short of a lifesaver for people. The protocol in this book is veryeffective for preventing cavities and mineralizing teeth. Beyond that, I would expect people to
experience increased vitality and vibrancy due to the increased intake of nourishing vitamins and
minerals.
Cure Tooth Decay is a godsend for people; I cannot say it enough. It helps readers fully understand
how modern, devitalized food causes disease. As a dentist, I know that you don’t want to spend so
much money on your dental care. I am therefore rooting for all of you to change your lifestyles for the
better so that you won’t have to. The nutritional approach to treating cavities works! This means
people will need fewer fillings in their teeth, and they will walk away much happier from their dental
visits. There’s nothing better than keeping one’s original teeth. Wishing you a happy smile and a
satisfying visit to the dentist, with no new cavities!
Timothy Gallagher D.D.S.
President, Holistic Dental Association,
Sunnyvale, California* * *Introduction
Prepare yourself to be a part of the transformation of dentistry. By learning to utilize nutritional
wisdom to support the health of your teeth and gums, you will become one of a growing number of
people who will naturally remineralize and repair existing dental caries as well as prevent future
cavities from developing. And that change, that step towards dental health, begins with your next bite
of food.
The purpose
of this book is to empower you to take full control of your dental health, and to help you
create a feeling of safety regarding tooth decay.
Cure Tooth Decay
is the result of five years of research and trial and error. Many people have
reported positive results from applying the highly potent tooth remineralization guidelines in this
book. You too can hope to achieve the following:

avoid root canals by healing your teeth
stop cavities - sometimes instantaneously
regrow secondary dentin
form new tooth enamel
avoid or minimize gum loss
heal and repair tooth infections
only use dental treatments when medically necessary
save your mouth from thousands of dollars of unneeded dental procedures
increase your overall health and vitality.100% Real Dental Healing Testimonials
Leroy from Utah
I was ready to have the tooth pulled and a dentist told me I needed a root canal. I had no
money for either procedure. I was in pain and my cheek had already begun to swell. But
after over a month of following the dietary protocols it was hard for me to feel which
tooth was bothering me. Thanks a million, Ramiel. Unbelievable.
Ms. Steuernol from Alberta, Canada
I had several very painful cavities postpartum (after having twins) that kept me up all
night in pain and made it so I could barely eat. I could see the decay progressing as well
in some of my teeth. After following the advice in this book my tooth pain subsided
within 24 hours and no longer hurt at all, my teeth also look nicer and my gums no
longer bleed and are a nice pink color. I went to the dentist and there was secondary
dentin forming in my decaying teeth (as seen in my x-rays). The dentist was impressed.
Mike from Ashland, Oregon
The practical advice in this book really seems to be reversing my tooth
decay!!!Halleluiah, brother!!! The dentist wanted me to have two major root canals
immediately and two other teeth filled. When I asked him if there was anything I could
do with nutrition or supplements to get my teeth to heal, he said "maybe you could slow
the decay down a little bit" but that essentially the answer was NO. That dental visit was
three months ago and my teeth have stopped aching altogether, are way less temperature
sensitive, and feel generally stronger. Most of us have been totally disempowered
regarding the health of our teeth. This information has changed that for me. I bought the
book for $28. What a bargain! The dental work was going to cost well over $4,000.00.
Think I'm excited? You will be too if you use this info to take tooth health into your own
hands!
These seemingly amazing results are not miracles, even though to the individual it can feel like it.
These results come from understanding and abiding by our bodies’ biochemical and physiological
laws for building healthy teeth and bones.
These rules are not mine. They belong to Nature. I have synthesized these natural laws from my own
experiences of trial and error along with lifetimes of research by some of the world’s most influential
dentists and health researchers, many of whom have been forgotten by history. These include dentists
Weston Price and Melvin Page, and Professors Edward and May Mellanby. What I admire so much
about these researchers is that they don’t just propose theories; they have each spent dozens of years
treating and preventing people’s cavities successfully with diet. Furthermore,
Cure Tooth Decay
synthesizes published but forgotten research from dozens of dentists, scientists and researchers to
help you overcome the problem of dental decay.Pioneering Tooth Cavity Remineralization
In my younger years, I never spent much time thinking about teeth. More recently I assumed that my
good diet would keep me free from cavities for my entire life


 over the course of a year. Without proper and immediate treat -
ment, up to two-thirds of people with TB will die.
Multidrug-resistant TB is a type of TB caused by mycobacteria that do not
respond to isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most powerful, first-line, and standard anti-TB drugs. When bacteria fail to respond to first-line antibiotics, second-line antibiotics must be used.119 DMSO in Clinical Microbiology
As bad as drug-resistant TB can become, an even worse outcome is the develop -
ment of more severe drug resistance. This severe resistance to antibiotics can lead to
extensively drug-resistant TB, a form of multidrug-resistant TB that responds to even fewer available medicines, including the most effective second-line anti-TB drugs.
Multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis  and extensively drug-resistant TB are rec -
ognized as a one of the most serious challenges to global health with no solution in sight.
14
A strategy to alter cell membrane permeability to overcome multidrug-  r esistant
M.  tuberculosis  strains, using a combination of DMSO at varying doses and
ethambutol, was explored by Jagannath and colleagues.15 This group was aware of
DMSO’s ability to penetrate biological membranes16 and reasoned that combining it
with a membrane detergent such as ethambutol would enhance the delivery of anti-
tuberculous drugs at subminimum inhibitory concentrations.15
M. tuberculosis  bacilli contain an unusual lipid-rich outer layer, containing
mycolic acids, a unique characteristic among Gram-positive bacteria. This powerful lipid-rich layer in M. tuberculosis  represents a formidable barrier for antibiotics to
penetrate, although the synthesis of its cell wall has become a target of several effec -
tive antibiotics, such as isoniazid and ethambutol, which presumably interfere with cell wall mycolic acid production.
In the study by Jagannath and colleagues,
15 three multiple-drug resistant strains
of M. tuberculosis  resistant to rifampicin and ethambutol were suspended in broth
and incubated for 3–5 days with ethambutol and 2%–5% DMSO. Bacilli were then washed to remove traces of ethambutol–DMSO and exposed to isoniazid, streptomy -
cin, and rifampicin. It was found that combining DMSO with ethambutol resulted in a 16–64-fold increase for rifampicin inhibition of M. tuberculosis  strains, a 16–33-fold
increase for streptomycin, and a 4–16-fold increase of sensitivity to isoniazid.
15
Moreover, DMSO or streptomycin by themselves showed no significant inhi -
bition of M. tuberculosis  when compared to untreated controls, but combining
DMSO–streptomycin completely eliminated the cultured bacilli after 7 days incu-bation.
15 This study indicated that the action of DMSO combined with the effect of
ethambutol had a significant effect on delaying or damaging cell wall biosynthesis in M.  tuberculosis multidrug-resistant strains and may have altered the bacilli’s
cell wall permeability to enhance antibiotic delivery of rifampicin, isoniazid, and streptomycin (Figure 6.1).
15
This experiment has not been replicated in vivo, despite its clinical implications
in drug-resistant TB.
Another possibility that has not been explored as far as DMSO’s adjuvant action
to make multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis  bacilli more sensitive to antibiotic treat -
ment is the effect of DMSO on inner membrane protein synthesis associated with energy metabolism in microorganisms such as E. coli.
17 All cells are bound by a cell
membrane, but although the membranes of all cells are quite similar, those of bacte -
ria differ from eukaryotic cells.
Bacterial cell membrane differences allow for selective action of antimicrobial
agents. This little-studied action by DMSO on bacterial proteins responsible for energy metabolism would classify DMSO as a bacterial antimetabolite. Bacterial antimetabolites function in two ways: (1) by competitive inhibition of bacterial 120 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
enzymes and (2) by erroneous incorporation into bacterial nucleic acids, where
proper base pairs cannot form during DNA replication and transcription (Figure 6.1).
It is unlikely that DMSO would act on bacterial cell membrane disruption by the
second mechanism, since it lacks a structure and stereochemistry similar to purine and pyrimidine nucleotides found in microorganisms. This is not the case with some antibiotics, which have a similar chemical structure to purine and pyrimi -
dines in microorganisms and are able to disrupt these pathogens by damaging their DNA.
18
The mechanism involved in DMSO’s ability to alter bacterial cell membrane
remains unclear although it is known that DMSO affects the permeability of the cell membrane to facilitate the uptake of DNA,
19 and it is reported that DMSO destroys
or damages the integrity of various bacterial membranes by increasing their mem -
brane permeability.20
DMSO may act to facilitate transfection by opening transient pores or holes in the
bacterial cell membrane, a process that would allow increased uptake of antibiotics or nucleic acids isolated from bacteriophages, which are harmful to bacteria and are otherwise kept from entry into the inner bacterial membrane (Figure 6.1).
19
Recently, some support for this concept gained ground when it was reported that
DMSO can induce water pores in biological membranes, which in turn promotes the transport of active substances across cell membranes.
Such membrane transport activity by DMSO could have significant clinical appli -
cation for multidrug-resistant microorganisms.Action by DMSO in bacterial resistance to antibiotics
Protein synthesis inhibition by DMSO
Transcription Translation
Protein
Inhibition of ener gy metab olite s
Mycobacte rium tu bercu losismRNACell wall synthesis inhibition by DMSO
FIGURE 6.1  Potential inhibition of multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis  by DMSO when
used as an antibiotic adjuvant, based on in vitro  studies.15,17,19–21 DMSO may act to delay or
damage cell wall biosynthesis, thus allowing a greater concentration of first-line antibiotic penetration of the bacterial cell, a process that can alter transcription of mRNA and transla -
tion of protein synthesis impacting on the production of energy metabolites needed for bacte -
rial cell growth and function.121 DMSO in Clinical Microbiology
In summary, DMSO has two important qualities that can facilitate the treatment
of antibiotic-resistant organisms. The first is its potential as a powerful and safe sol -
vent of many water-insoluble compounds; this ability can diminish the final toxicity
of the antibiotic or antibacterial compound.
The second quality shown by DMSO is its ability to potentiate the penetration of
antibacterial drugs by either punching a hole  in the invading organism’s cell wall,15,21
for example, that of M. tuberculosis, to enhance antibiotic drug penetration and
concentration inside the cell wall. Another mechanism by DMSO may involve its inhibition of the growth of pathogens through its blocking action on the pathogen’s protein synthesis, which can impact the reduced production of the organism’s energy metabolites and pathogenic potential.
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When you receive whoever comes into the space of No w as a noble guest, when
you allow each person to be as they are, they begin  to change.

***

To know another human being in their essence, you d on’t really need to know
anything about them–their past, their history, thei r story. We confuse knowing
about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual.  Knowing about and knowing
are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the
formless. One operates through thought, the other t hrough stillness.

Knowing about is helpful for practical purposes. On  that level, we cannot do
without it. When it is the predominant modality in relationships, however, it
becomes very limiting, even destructive. Thoughts a nd concepts create an artificial
barrier, a separation between human beings. Your in teractions are then not rooted
in Being, but become mind-based. Without the concep tual barriers, love is naturally
present in all human interactions.

***

Most human interactions are confined to the exchang e of words–the realm of
thought. It is essential to bring some stillness, p articularly into your close
relationships.

No relationship can thrive without the sense of spa ciousness that comes with
stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or
sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable w ith being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be r eceptive to the stillness that is
already there, but is usually obscured by mental no ise.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and
can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain
anything.

***

True listening is another way of bringing stillness  into the relationship. When you
truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness  arises and becomes an essential
part of the relationship. But true listening is a r are skill. Usually, the greater part of
a person’s attention is taken up by their thinking.  At best, they may be evaluating
your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or t hey may not be listening at all,
lost in their own thoughts.

True listening goes far beyond auditory perception.  It is the arising of alert
attention, a space of presence in which the words a re being received. The words
now become secondary. They may be meaningful or the y may not make sense. Far
more important than what you are listening to is th e act of listening itself, the space
of conscious presence that arises as you listen. Th at space is a unifying field of
awareness in which you meet the other person withou t the separative barriers
created by conceptual thinking. And now the other p erson is no longer “other.” In
that space, you are joined together as one awarenes s, one consciousness.

***

Do you experience frequent and repetitive drama in your close relationships. Do
relatively insignificant disagreements often trigge r violent arguments and
emotional pain. At the root of it lie the basic ego ic patterns: the need to be right,
and, of course, for someone else to be wrong, that is to say identification with
mental positions. There is also the ego's need to b e periodically in conflict with
something or someone in order to strengthen its sen se of separation between me
and the other, without which it cannot survive. In addition, there is the accumulated
emotional pain from the past that you and each huma n being carries within, both
from your personal past as well as the collective p ain of humanity that goes back a
long, long time. This pain body is an energy field within you that sporadically takes
you over because it needs to experience more emotio nal pain for itself to feed on
and replenish itself. It will try to control your t hinking and make it deeply negative.
It loves your negative thoughts since it resonates with every frequency and so can
feed on them. It will also provoke negative emotion al reactions in people close to you, especially your partner, in order to feed on t he ensuing drama and emotional
pain. How can you free yourself from this unconscio us identification with pain that
creates so much misery in life. Become aware of it.  Realize that it is not who you
are and recognize it for what it is, past pain.  Wi tness it as it happens in your
partner or in yourself. When your unconscious ident ification with it is broken,
when you are able to observe it in yourself, you don't feed it anymore and it will
gradually lose its energy charge.

***

Human interaction can be hell. Or it can be a great  spiritual practice.

***

When you look upon another human being and feel gre at love towards them, or
when you contemplate beauty in nature and something  within you responds deeply
to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the es sence of that love or that beauty
within you, inseparable from who you are, your true  nature. The outer form is a
temporary reflection of what you are within, in you r essence. That is why love and
beauty can never leave you, although all outer form s will.

***

What is your relationship with the world of objects, the countless things that
surround you, and that you handle everyday. The cha ir you sit on, the pen, the car,
the cup.  Are they to you merely a means to an end or do you occasionally
acknowledge their existence, their being, no matter  how briefly, by noticing them
and giving them your attention. When you get attach ed to objects, when you are
using them to enhance your worth in your own eyes a nd in the eyes of others,
concern about things can easily take over your whol e life.

When there is self-identification with things, you don't appreciate them for what
they are because you are looking for yourself in th em. When you appreciate an
object for what it is, when you acknowledge its bei ng without mental projection,
you cannot not feel grateful for its existence. You  may also sense that it is not
really inanimate, that it only appears so to the se nses.  Physicist will confirm that
on a molecular level, it is indeed, a pulsating ene rgy field. Through selfless
appreciation of the realm of things, the world arou nd you will begin to come alive
for you in ways you cannot comprehend with the mind.

***
Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do  you acknowledge their
being by giving them your full attention, or are yo u reducing them to a means to an
end, a mere function or role. What is the quality o f your relationship with the
cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer?

A moment of attention is enough. As you look at the m or listen to them, there is an
alert stillness. Perhaps only two or three seconds.   Perhaps longer. That is enough
for something more real to emerge than the roles we  usually play and identify with.

All roles are part of the conditioned consciousness  that is the human mind. That
which emerges through the act of attention is the u nconditioned–who you are in
your essence underneath your name and form. You are  no longer acting out a
script. You become real. When that dimension emerge s from within you, it also
draws it forth from within the other person.  Ultim ately, of course, there is no other
and you are always meeting yourself.

Chapter 9
Death and the Eternal

When you walk though a forest that has not been tam ed and interfered with by
man, you will see not only abundant life around you, but you will also encounter
fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves an d decomposing matter at every
step. Wherever you look, you will find death as wel l as life.

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover th at the decomposing tree trunk
and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life,  but are full of life themselves.
Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearrangi ng themselves. So death isn’t
to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphos is of life forms. What can
you learn from this?

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no oppo site. The opposite of death is
birth. Life is eternal.

***

Sages and poets throughout the ages have recognized  the dreamlike quality of
human existence–seemingly so solid and real and yet  so fleeting that it could dissolve at any moment.

At the hour of your death, the story of your life m ay, indeed, appear to you like a
dream that is coming to an end. Yet even in a dream  there must be an essence that
is real. There must be a consciousness in which the  dream happens; otherwise, it
would not be.

That consciousness–does the body create it or does consciousness create the dream
of body, the dream of somebody?

Why have most of those who went through a near-deat h experience lost their fear
of death? Reflect upon this.

***

Of course you know you are going to die, but that r emains a mere mental concept
until you meet death “in person” for the first time :


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US_224-245_Jasmine_Harmala.indd   224 26/02/16   12:47 pm225Lactuca virosaOther medicinal plantsConstituents  Kigelia fruit contains norviburtinal,
coumarins, iridoids, flavonoids, fatty acids, sterols,
glycosides, and napthaquinones. Norviburtinal has
tumor-reducing activity, the iridoids and sterols are
anti-inflammatory, the flavonoids are antifungal,
and the napthaquinones are thought to
be cytotoxic.
History & Folklore  Prized by traditional
healers throughout sub-Saharan Africa, kigelia has
been put to many uses. The Shona of southern
Africa use the bark or root to treat skin infections
and ulcers, toothache, backache, and pneumonia.
In Central Africa, the unripe fruit is used as a dressing
for wounds, hemorrhoids, and rheumatism.
In West Africa, the leaves are given for stomach
and kidney problems, and the fruit is used as a
purgative and applied as a paste to sores. Kigelia
is commonly included in traditional herbal
formulations for malaria.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Thanks to the
knowledge and experience of African traditional
healers, kigelia is now understood to be a valuable
remedy for skin problems, particularly sores and
ulcers, produced by bacterial and fungal infection.
Kigelia has been described as a “natural antibacterial.”
Given its marked anti-inflammatory and wound
healing properties, kigelia is also being investigated
as a skin toner and restorer, as well as potential
treatment for skin disorders such as eczema,
psoriasis, and solar keratosis (a precancerous skin
problem caused by overexposure to sunlight).
Various patents exist for kigelia products, and
over time kigelia may become widely known as
a key herbal resource for the skin.
Kigelia  is a key remedy for treating skin problems. QCautions  T ake kigelia internally only under
professional guidance. Do not take during
pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
Krameria triandra  (Krameriaceae)
Rhatany
Description  Dense evergreen shrub growing
to 3 ft (90 cm). Has a deep root, oblong leaves,
and large red flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Rhatany is found
in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia on western slopes
of the Andes at altitudes of 3,000–9,800 ft
(900–3,000 m). The root is unearthed throughout
the year.
Part Used  Root.
Constituents  Rhatany contains 10–20%
tannins, including phlobaphene, benzofurans,
and n-methyltyrosine.
History & Folklore  A traditional South
American remedy, rhatany was used by indigenous
peoples as an astringent and a tooth preservative.
Its Spanish name, raiz para los dientes  (root for the
teeth), points to this traditional usage.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Rhatany is
astringent and antimicrobial. It is a useful remedy
taken principally for problems affecting the
gastrointestinal tract. It is most commonly used
for diarrhea and dysentery. In addition, rhatany
makes a good mouthwash and gargle for bleeding
and infected gums, mouth ulcers, and sore throats.
The plant’s astringency makes it useful in the form
of an ointment, suppository, or wash for treating
hemorrhoids. Rhatany may also be applied to
wounds to help staunch blood flow, to varicose
veins, and over areas of capillary fragility that may
be prone to easy bruising.
Related Species  The Mexican K. cystisoides
is an astringent remedy used in much the same way
as rhatany. Another species native to North and
Central America, K. parvifolia, was used by the
Papago as an eyewash. in the treatment of chronic arthritis, gout, and
rheumatic conditions. Applied externally as
a diluted essential oil, it has a slightly warming
effect on the skin and is thought to promote
the removal of waste products from underlying
tissues. Juniper also stimulates menstruation and
tends to increase menstrual bleeding.
Related Species  Oil of Cade is produced from
J. oxycedrus  and is applied to treat skin rashes. Savin
(J. sabina ) is toxic and a powerful abortifacient.
The Japanese  J. rigida  is used as a diuretic.
Cautions  Do not use juniper during pregnancy
or if prone to heavy menstrual bleeding. Do not
take if suffering from a kidney infection or kidney
disease. Do not take the essential oil internally
except under professional supervision.
Self-help Use  Urinary infections, p. 314.
K. pinnata  syn. K. africana
(Bignoniaceae)
Kigelia,
African Sausage Tree
Description  Semi-deciduous tree growing to
80 ft (25 m) with smooth, gray-brown bark and
brown-purple flowers. The tree gets its name
from the spectacular sausage-shaped fruit, up
to 3 ft (1 m) in length, which hangs from a rope-
like stalk and weighs up to 22 lb (10 kg).
Habitat  & Cultivation  Kigelia grows
throughout sub-Saharan Africa but is native to
the eastern half of the continent from T anzania
to South Africa. The tree is cultivated from seed
or cuttings and flowers after 6 years. The fruit is
harvested when ripe.
Parts Used  Fruit pulp, leaves, bark, roots. Juniper  is powerfully
antiseptic in the
urinary tract.
Lactuca virosa  (Lamiaceae)
Wild Lettuce
Description  Hollow-stemmed biennial growing
to about 4 ft (1.2 m). Has broad spiny leaves and
clusters of pale yellow composite flowers. All parts
of the plant exude a white milky latex.
Habitat & Cultivation  Common throughout
Europe, wild lettuce grows in open areas, along
roadsides, and in hedges. It is gathered when
in flower in late summer.
Parts Used  Leaves, latex, seeds.
Constituents  The latex contains sesquiterpene
lactones (including lactucopicrin and lactucerin);
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other medicinal plantsLamium aL bum
the leaves also contain flavonoids and coumarins.
The sesquiterpene lactones have a sedative effect.
History & Folklore  In Assyrian herbal
medicine, lettuce seeds were reportedly used with cumin (Cuminum cyminum, p. 197) as a poultice
for the eyes. Dioscorides (1st century ce) wrote that the plant’s effect resembled that of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum, p. 244).
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wild lettuce is a
safe sedative that can be given to adults and children to encourage a sound night’s sleep or to calm overactivity or overstimulation. Most commonly,
it is recommended for excitability in children. It is also taken to treat coughs, often in combination with herbs such as licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra,  p. 101). Wild lettuce is thought to lower the libido. It may also be used to relieve pain.
Research A 2011 Egyptian clinical trial found
that lettuce seed oil improved sleep in people suffering from insomnia. Lettuce seed oil has traditionally been used in Egypt for sleep problems.

Related Species  Garden lettuce (L. sativa) may
be used like wild lettuce, but has a much weaker therapeutic action.
Lamium album (Lamiaceae)
White Deadnettle
Description  Perennial growing to 2 ft (60 cm).
Has a square stem, toothed oval leaves, and clusters of white double-lipped flowers.History & Folklore  Deadnettle is so called
because it resembles true nettle (Urtica dioica,  p. 146), without the stinging hairs. It was also known as archangel, a plant “to make the heart merry,
to make a good colour in the face, and to refresh the vital spirits” (John Gerard, The Herball, 1597).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  White deadnettle
is astringent and demulcent. It is chiefly used as
a uterine tonic, to arrest intermenstrual bleeding, and to reduce excessive menstrual flow. It is also  a traditional treatment for abnormal vaginal discharge. The herb is sometimes taken to relieve painful periods. Its astringency helps treat diarrhea, and, used externally, it can relieve hemorrhoids and varicose veins.
Larix decidua
syn.


 venery is one of the most prominent causes, but lasciviousness when it is in control of
the mind is equally as pernicious. Excessive eating, coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, and a lack of
poise are among the most common causes. Salt eating undoubtedly contributes to its production,
but to blame high blood pressure on this alone is to ignore all the many other influences in the life
of the patient.
In traditional Alice in Wonderland fashion of starting with a result as a cause, hypertension is
said to cause heart disease, and the hypertension is blamed upon the nerves.
The fact that substances liberated by the kidneys, by the adrenal glands, perhaps substances
liberated by the thyroid and pituitary glands, can also cause high blood pressure, tends to reveal
that the condition may be more than simple nerve irritation—that it is a symptom of a general or
systemic state. This being true, the remedy is not some temporary forced reduction of pressure, but
a thorough removal of the causes of systemic impairment.
Treatment is commonly directed to depressing the nervous system. The surgical procedures of
removing the thyroid gland and portions of the sympathetic nervous system are both based on the
assumption that the organs of the body are causes of disease. The fact that high blood pressure
never develops spontaneously in animals is given as the reason for the thought that the nervous
107system is involved in the cause of hypertension in man.
Drugs given to depress the nervous system, to relax the arterial system, and to depress the heart
are the most common means of reducing blood pressure in cases of hypertension. It hardly needs to
be pointed out that such treatment removes no cause and provides reduction to the pressure only so
long as the drugs are being taken.
Indeed, in most cases, the blood pressure tends to rise in spite of the depressing effects of the
drugs, after they have been taken over a brief period. The drugs all result in more or less annoying
and often serious side effects, so that there is a constant search for new, and it is hope, less
injurious drugs. Certainly the treatments in vogue are not satisfactory, neither to the patients nor to
their physicians.
Multiple causation makes specific treatment a tragedy. The remedy must be as many-sided as the
cause. It will not do, for example, to have the patient discontinue the eating of salt and permit him
to continue to indulge in tobacco. Every element of cause must be removed to achieve certain and
lasting results. We should also recognize the fact that in high blood pressure we deal with a
symptom of a general systematic state that has been years in the making and is the result of many
correlated antecedents.
The whole of the systemic abnormality must be remedied if we are to be successful in our
efforts to provide permanent reduction of blood pressure. Treatment directed at the symptom
cannot do more than provide a brief palliation of the symptom.
The speed with which fasting results in a marked reduction of blood pressure indicates the
importance of rest in reducing systemic tension and excitement. The reduction may be so great in a
very few days as to astonish the patient. As the toxic load is reduced, the nervous system becomes
less irritated, the functions of the kidneys, adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands are restored to
normal, so that blood pressure falls to new levels, even to normal or slightly below, and tends to
remain down after eating is resumed. Indeed, it will remain at or about the normal level so long as
the patient continues to live in a manner to avoid the redevelopment of toxemia.
All of this is to say that the reduction of blood pressure secured by means of the fast is a genuine
reduction and not a forced state. The organism is not crippled in the process as it is when a gland
or portions of the sympathetic system are removed. If we cut out causes instead of cutting out
organs, we secure a genuine and lasting elimination of effects.
As in all things, the causes that have produced the condition in the first place, will reproduce it
if they are not permanently removed. Fasting is not a substitute for achieving—and holding to a
correct way of life.
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The Fast and the Heart
It was formerly widely held by physicians that if one were to go without food for six days the heart
would collapse and death would result. The myth that fasting causes the heart to collapse persisted
in scientific circles, in
spite of the great amount of evidence to the contrary, until after the famous
Cork hunger strike in 1920.
Protesting their arrest following the Easter Rebellion of Irish patriots, Terence Mac Swiney,
Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, and his co-fasters went without food for periods ranging from over
seventy days to ninety-four days. They demonstrated by their long fasts the fallacy of the “heart
collapse” from the lack-of-food theory.
Today we are foced to recognize the fact that instead of fasting weakening the heart, it results in
strengthening this wonderful organ.
Stunt or exhibition fasters had also shown that man may safely abstain from food for extended
periods and their sensational proofs had received sufficient publicity, even scientific study, to
have dispelled the fallacy. Indeed, fasts by early
Hygienists
 demonstrated the fallacy of this idea
of the early collapse of the heart, years before it was abandoned in the world of science.
On this subject, Hereward Carrington, Ph.D., author of
Vitality, Fasting
 and Nutrition says:
“That the heart is invariably strengthened and invigorated by fasting is true beyond a doubt. I take
the stand that fasting is the greatest of all strengtheners of weak hearts—being, in fact, its only
rational physiological care.” He attributed this improvement to the following three factors:
1.
The added rest for fast provides for the heart.
2.
The resulting improvement of the blood-stream.
3.
The absence of the “stimulants” that patients in general and heart patients in particular are
accustomed to take.
If we consider angina pectoris, a disease of the heart that grows out of constant stimulation with
tobacco, coffee, tea, wrong food combinations and excesses of carbohydrates, and observe the
effects of the fast in these patients, we are amazed at the speed with which the heart recovers from
its difficulties.
Individuals who are inclined to overeat greatly, who have not learned their limitations regarding
quantity and who tend to overdo everything they undertake are likely to develop angina pectoris.
Their mode of living places a heavy and constant strain upon the heart. Rest is its most urgent need.
It is said authoritatively that during the past twenty years more than fifty drugs and surgical
treatments have been advocated for the relief of angina pectoris. At the same time angina has been
called a “self-limited disease,” and some authorities have held the position that their advice tried
during recovery might get the credit.
How do we know that fasting is of genuine value in a case of angina? We do not claim that
fasting
cures
 angina. We state only that it takes a load off the heart so that it may restore it own
normal condition in a more certain and speedy manner.
“The ticker has certainly improved and slowed down; I can’t hear it any
 more,” this was a blind
Canadian discussing his condition with me after a few days of fasting, followed by a few days of
eating. Before beginning the fast he told me that for some time he had been able to hear the beat of
109his heart and that it was especially bothersome at night when he laid his head on the pillow.
There was also rapid heart action, which troubled him considerably. Nothing brings about a
quieting down of a rapid heart and an excited system generally like rest with fasting. This takes a
heavy load off the heart and results in a speedy reduction of blood pressure.
With a reduction of tension and a reduction of the number of repetitions of the heart’s pulsations,
this remarkable organ secures a real rest, something that nothing else can provide. With less work
to do, the heart repairs itself.
The fast, as has been repeatedly emphasized in the preceding pages, is a period of physiological
rest. It does not do anything, it is merely a cessation of doing. The rest provides opportunity for the
body to do for itself, under conditions of rest, what it cannot do under conditions of full-speed
ahead.
It can perform under abstinence what it cannot manage in a state of surfeit. So regular and
uniform is the improvement of the heart in the fast that it cannot be doubted that Carrington’s
statements are true. There are, of course, heart conditions that are beyond any possibility of
improvement and these will not be helped by the fast.
In the hundreds of cases of heart disease that I have watched through fasts of various lengths, all
but a few have developed stronger and better hearts. Many of them, even so-called
incurable
 ones,
have become entirely normal. Rapid hearts have slowed down, abnormally slow hearts have
speeded up, weak hearts have greatly improved in vigor, hearts that were irregular have become
regular in time and frequency, hearts that were missing pulsations (even as often as one pulsation
out of four) have resumed regular pulsation, and many other improvements in heart function have
been observed. (It should not be necessary to say that fasting does not enable the heart to grow a
new valve where one had been destroyed.)
Since fasting relieves the heart of a great burden, improvement should not be surprising. The
heart is nourished from the body’s nutritive reserves just as certainly, and often more adequately,
than from raw


? "" Is there any righteousness more respectablethan that which furnishes fuel for healthyefficiency and moral stability? " And thequestion may now be repeated, " Is there? "
As for indecency : Is there any conduct
having less propriety than regarding ourwonderful mouth, with its prodigious potencyfor protection and pleasure, as a mere food anddrink hopper for good material, which becomesreally swill in the alimentary canal if it is notproperly treated in the mouth? Can any onethink of anything more indecent than offensiveodours which are the inevitable tell-tale ofindecent eating, and which are eliminated frompossibility of development if eating has beendecently performed? The penance, or evenpleasure, of frequent bathing, in order that thetell-tales of indecency may not become public,does not atone for the sinning in the beginning.The real damage has been done in the, and tothe, delicate alimentary canal, with conse-quences to be realized later on in terms ofodious disease or premature death. These are
the inside facts in the case made bare by frankpresentation.
THE DISGRACE  OF SICKNESS.
I believe it was the great American
philosopher, Emerson, who said that it is " Agreater disgrace to be sick than to be in thepenitentiary. When you are arrested it isbecause you have broken a man-made statute,but when you are ill, it is because you havedisobeyed one of God's laws." As elsewhereremarked, it is almost impossible in civilizedsurroundings not to disobey some of the naturallaws: body-ventilation, first of all; but nosinning is so dreadfully punished as indecenteating persistently practised.
Some of the ancients believed that the
mysterious Something that they called the Soulwas located in the stomach and not in the heartor brain. There was reason for thus placing thelocation, because the bad effect of unhappythought or anything that " touches the heart" isfirst felt in the stomach if it has any troubles ofits own at the moment to worry about, due toindecent haste or carelessness in eating. To the
habitual Fletcherite such double disaster doesnot come. Easy digestion has been assured bybeginning it in the manner required by MotherNature, and to arrest it by unfavourable psychicinfluence for a little time does not result in theproduction of those poisons which wear out thebody faster than any other cause. The worst ofnews may be sprung on one as a terriblesurprise, and cloud the happiness for a timewithout causing damage to the delicate vitalorgans. Thus the misfortune, or its opposite in
disguise, as the case may be, does not set up a
vicious circle of accumulating bad effects. Thethorough Fletcherite is a philosopher, with asolid foundation for his or her faith in the Goodthat may be lodged in even seeming misfortune,and the recovery from the shock ofdisappointment, in order to discover the Good atnext hand, is as speedy as desired. The faithfulone is ever ready to go before the bar of Death'sTribunal for the approving judgment his dieteticrighteousness is sure to secure. Good circles ofhealthy cause and effect have been swirlingabout in the organism as the result of faithfuldecent eating, and Nature or Nature's God
never fail to perpetuate the evolution of theGood.
THE OPTIMISM  OF THE FLETCHERITE..
Fairness or politeness to the part of the
wonderful alimentary canal which MotherNature has assigned to herself to manage isnothing more than common decency; and noprivacy of privilege can ever excuse anyindecent eating. Just think of all the latitudeMother Nature has given her favourite childman in the way of easy convenience in doing theright thing in eating. He is not compelled to eatevery few minutes to keep himself alive, as he iscompelled to do in breathing : or every few days,as in hydrating his internal economy withmoisture. Never is he caught with his bunkersempty of food for fuel or repair material. Be heas thin as a hatpin, comparatively, he hasstored under his skin enough nourishment tolast him comfortably for a month. Neither is heterrorised by the conventional gnawings ofhunger. He is  per force wise as to the physiologyof nourishment and his stored resources within,
and turns any impatience for his habitualrhythm of feeding into a savings bank fund foruse when convenient. He is not frightened todeath, as indecent thinkers or eaters are, by theprospect of a fast lasting a few hours or days.He knows that he has on him and in himenough reserve supply of nourishment in theform of visible or interstitial fat, and othernecessary supply, to last for a long time, forty orfifty days, at least, and there is plenty of timefor expected or unexpected relief to happen. He
comes to know the value of his mechanism, and
the mental and soul essence it produces andsupports. His knowledge of his ownresourcefulness is sufficient to enable him toconserve all his vital strength until hoped forrelief comes. Or, being in tune with the goodintentions of the Universal Life of which he is apart, he never dreads the promotion we calldeath. It is merely a station on the road ofevolution, and just as sure as we are of deathand taxes, so is a faithful Fletcherite certainthat he is travelling the road of naturalevolution. He has not only eaten decently in theway of fulfilling the natural mechanical and
chemical requirements in the mouth, but he hasabstained from eating when the mental statewas not favourable, and has refrained fromworry when the prospect of a meal was deferredfor a little while or indefinitely. He may havebeen whinnying like a healthy horse inanticipation of revelling in the delights ofdelicious taste, and yet is not filled withdisappointment at the postponement of theexpected pleasure if the dinner appointment isupset or delayed.
This quite Utopian possibility of stable
equanimity is the assured result of consistentdecent eating, and thinking relative tonutrition. It is the constitution and bye-laws ofFletcherism.
As a natural presumption, when decency in
one direction leads to such delightful fruition,the opposite of it, indecency, must swing itspendulum to the extent of its full scope in thecontrary direction, and it does, for compensationis one of the laws of Nature that must befulfilled. It is true that Nature is always tryingto accommodate herself to any abuse. She maypermit being so much accustomed to it that the
punishment of it at the moment is not noticed.She even encourages the acceleration of thevicious circle that leads to momentarybankruptcy of resistance, penitence, and reform,as in the case of " bilious attacks." The man whotakes his daily or hourly prescription ofalcoholic stimulant is permitted to believe thatif a little seems good, more should be betteruntil he is landed under the table. He becomesmore and more efficient in " standing " theabuse until " under the table " means " underthe sod." The abuses have, however, been justas disagreeable to Normality all the way alongas the first drop of alcohol was distasteful to theinfant in arms. So, too, with tobacco, in a lessviolent form.
Faithful practice of decent eating reverses
the order of progress. Normality of taste is thenew direction taken. Appetite is given a chanceto discriminate, and it chooses simple food,having the chemical constituents required bythe body at the moment. It accommodates itselfto the daily activity, and can be trusted as theonly completely-wise prescriber of what food totake, and how much of it the body can utilize
just then.
Herein lies the value of decent respect for
Appetite in securing optimum digestion andnutrition. It does not treat all persons alikebecause no two persons can be alike. Infinitevariety is the fundamental law of Nature. Somepersons are born to carry more fat than others.To try to keep them thin is a sin against thenatural intention. To allow them to become toofat is also a sin. Strictly decent eating settlesthis question in conjunction with the sort andamount of activity that the particular person isintended by his or her " Hereditary Tendency "to exert.CHAPTER XII
FLETCHERIZING AS A TEMPERANCE
EXPEDIENT
Tramp Reform — A Remarkable Man — How to Enjoy Wine—
Fletcherism as a Cure for Morbid Cravings—A Trial of Fletcherismand its Results—Fletcherism as First Aid.
NOW we come to a phase of the merits of
Fletcherism which has already furnished anabundance of evidence to its credit. In my firstexperiment, not yet under academicsupervision, with no laboratory measurementswherewith to describe the results in chemicalterms, I was dealing with a company of ordinarytramps picked up in the streets of Chicago.They simply ate what they chose to order fromthe bill of fare of a cheap restaurant, but weretold to chew everything for all it was worth,which they made no objection to doing. Timewas of no value to them, and they reallydiscovered new delights of gustatory pleasurewhich they had not known before. Tramps aregenerally persons of resourcefulness and have a
cultivated appreciation. Their resourcefulnessconsists chiefly of being able to live withoutworking, and their appreciation is made keen bythe lottery of chance in seeking to get somethingfor which they give nothing.
My tramps were beery and bleery as tramps
generally


3. Later on he added vitamin C and some other nutrients to his treatment
protocol.
The GAPS nutritional protocol will supply the patient with a lot of vita
min B3. However, based on Dr Hoffer's research I believe that schizophren
ics, apart from following the GAPS Nutritional Protocol for the first few
weeks should supplement vitamin B3: niacin or niacinamide, 1-2 grams
twice a day. Niacin causes flushing of the skin for 15-25 minutes. This is a
benign reaction and should not alarm the patient. If it is a problem then
"non-flush" niacin is available. It is always best to administer treatment
under professional supervision.
On the whole there is a general opinion that schizophrenia is incurable.
That is what the patients and their relatives are usually told at the time of
diagnosis. However, according to the experience of doctors, like Abram
Hoffer, Curtis Dohan, Carl Pfeiffer and many other medical practitioners,
who treated their patients with nutrition, schizophrenia is not incurable at
all. There are thousands of patients around the world who recovered com
pletely through using appropriate diet and nutritional supplementation.
Nutritional treatment is the way forward for these patients and more and more psychiatrists are becoming aware of it. However, the way official psy
chiatry is presently organised, it is the patients and their families who have
to administer nutritional treatment. It is not an easy undertaking, but
extremely rewarding. As one of my patients said recently: "You were right
about the diet! I feel absolutely normal now. I am going to stick to my diet
and supplements religiously!" PART TWO: TREATMENT
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient
while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
A human body has an incredible ability to heal itself, given the right help. It
is particularly true for children. I do not believe, that any child, no matter
how ill or disabled is beyond improvement. When working in neurosurgery
it never ceased to amaze me, how remarkably well children's brains recover
after some serious operations, when large parts of the brain were removed.
The child would leave the hospital in a wheelchair and then come back for
a yearly check-up with hardly any neurological deficit detectable.
However, Nature does not work fast. It can be very fast getting ill, but to
recover always takes much longer. I tell the parents of GAPS children and
carers of GAPS adults to brace themselves for at least two years of hard
work. In some GAPS patients it takes longer. The purpose of the treatment
is to detoxify the person, to lift the toxic fog off the brain to allow it to
develop and function properly. In order to achieve that we need:
First; To clean up and heal the digestive tract, so it stops being the major
source of toxicity in the body and becomes the source of nourishment, as it
is supposed to be. Second: To remove toxicity, already stored in various tis
sues of the patient's body
These two targets are achieved by means of The Nutritional Programme.
This programme has evolved through the personal experience with my
own child and clinical experience with hundreds of GAPS children and
adults in the UK and other European countries.
So, what does this programme involve?
The Nutritional Programme for Gut and Psychology Syndrome
1. Diet.
2. Supplementation.
3. Detoxification and life-style changes.
In the next chapters we are going to look in detail at these three points.
However, apart from the nutritional programme there is another inter
vention, which is extremely important to implement, particularly with children. This intervention is an appropriate education. It is beyond the
scope of this book to discuss education. However, this is an important
point to make: as the child starts to detoxify with the use of the nutritional
programme he or she will be more capable of learning. Teachers and
parents frequently comment on how much faster the child starts to
progress through his or her educational programme when the GAPS
nutritional protocol is implemented. DIET
I. THE DIET - A DISCUSSION
Nowhere there is so much misunderstanding and confusion, as on the sub
ject of diet. At one end of the spectrum there are plenty of medical profes
sionals and other people, involved in caring for people with autism,
schizophrenia, ADHD and other GAPS conditions, who will tell you that
diet has nothing to do with these problems. At the other end of the spec
trum there are a few books, mainly written by parents, about the miracu
lous effects of dietary changes on their children's condition. In between
there are many families who have tried various dietary interventions with
different results: from no effect to some improvement.
The amount of different information available on the diet for autism
alone must be bewildering for the parents. The most heavily promoted is
the gluten-and casein-free diet. Then there are diets without salicilates and
phenols. The anti-candida diet has to be taken into account, as GAPS
people are without doubt affected by this yeast. Food allergies and intoler
ances are a big issue for many GAPS children and adults. And, as if all that
is not enough, many parents of GAPS children have to battle with the fact
that their child will eat hardly anything, as majority of GAPS children are so
finicky with food. Consequently it is no surprise that many families try dif
ferent dietary interventions for a while, see no results and drop the whole
idea, joining the camp of cynics.
There is no doubt that appropriate diet is of paramount importance in
treating any chronic degenerative disorder, including GAPS. But what diet?
Before we start talking about what is the appropriate diet for GAP
Syndrome, we need to clear up some misunderstandings.
The Gluten and Casein Free Diet
In the previous chapter we talked in detail about research, done by Dohan,
Reichelt, Shattock, Cade and others, where gluten and casein peptides, called gluteomorphins and casomorphins, were detected in the urine of
autistic children, patients with schizophrenia, psychosis, depression,
ADHD and some autoimmune disorders. These peptides have a similar
chemical structure to opiate drugs and are thought to effect the brain in a
similar fashion. The Gluten Free and Casein Free diet (GFCF diet) is based
on this research. This diet has been very heavily promoted and has almost
become the official diet for autism. Let us have a look at it in detail.
Gluten is a protein found in grains, mainly wheat, rye, barley and oats.
Casein is a protein found in milk and milk products. GFCF diet aims to
remove all sources of these two proteins. The theory behind this diet is
sound, the problem is the application. Autistic children due to abnormali
ties in their gut flora crave processed carbohydrates - the very foods that
feed pathogens in their gut. The typical pattern of autistic development
includes the fact that somewhere in the first two years of life the child
limits his/her diet to processed carbohydrates, dairy and sugar: breads,
biscuits, cakes, sweets, crisps, breakfast cereals, pasta, milk and sweet
yoghurts. In the majority of cases it is extremely hard to change the child's
food preferences: he/she just would not accept any other foods. So, to
transfer this child to GFCF diet, processed carbohydrates containing
gluten get replaced with gluten free processed carbohydrates, made with
rice, sugar, potato starch, tapioca flour, soy, buckwheat flour, etc. This sort
of foods will feed the abnormal flora in the child's gut just as much as the
previous diet did, perpetuating the vicious cycle of a damaged leaky gut
and toxicity escaping from this leaky gut into the blood and brain. Of
course, the fact that out of dozens of various toxins, flowing from the gut
into the body, two toxins have been removed: gluteomorphin and caso
morphin, does some good. In some children it has quite a noticeable effect.
But unfortunately in the majority of cases it has very little or no effect at all,
because the rest of the toxicity is still there, being produced by abnormal
gut flora. As long as Candida, Clostridia and many other pathogens popu
late the gut, the inflammation will persist, the gut will stay leaky, allowing
hundreds of different undigested and toxic substances into the body.
The fact that this kind of GFCF diet gained such a world-wide accep
tance as the diet for autism is very unfortunate, because it addresses only a
small part of the whole picture of autism: the gluteomorphins and caso
morphins. As it always happens a lot of commercial companies jumped on
the bandwagon, ready to supply GFCF pre-prepared foods, full of sugar,
processed carbohydrates, denatured and altered fats and proteins and
many other substances, which autistic children must not have. Every pub-lication on autism is full of advertisements for these foods, lulling the par
ents into a sense of false security: if it is GFCF it must be fine for my autis
tic child. Books are written full of recipes, based on these processed carbo
hydrates, sugar, altered fats and proteins.