	the	press	a

statement	from	his	workshop	in	the	University	of	Michigan	where	he	supposedly

was	engaged	in	examining	samples	of	blood	taken	from	the	"unknown"	little

children	who	had	been	"Salk	vaccine	poisoned"	during	that	orgy	of	last	year. The

good	doctor	admitted	to	newspaper	men—at	the	EXACT	time	the	March	of

Dimes	was	conducting	a	nation-wide	"scooping	up"	of	every	available	coin—

that	"no	one	in	this	country	knows	whether	the	Salk	vaccine	is	any	good	or	not. " This	was	his	complete	summary	of	that	great	"Salk	experiment". But	interesting

as	his	observation	is,	it	shades	into	nothingness	when	compared	with	another

item	which	slipped	from	his	lips	during	the	same	interview. Dr. Korns	admitted
—	according	to	these	newspaper	accounts,	that	"NONE	OF	HIS	FIVE	SMALL

CHILDREN	WAS	INOCULATED	WITH	THE	SALK	VACCINE". He	gave,	as	his	weak	excuse	for	this	oversight,	the	fact	that	"THE

COMMUNITY	IN	WHICH	HIS	FAMILY	HAPPENED	TO	LIVE	DID	NOT

PARTICIPATE	IN	THE	SALK	VACCINE	TEST. " Certainly	a	glorious	record	to	be	handed	down	to	medical	posterity. Laymen

everywhere	should	be	proud	to	honor	such	an	upstanding	doctor. This	good

follower	of	Hippocrates	was	entirely	willing—with	an	unproven	vaccine—to

sacrifice	YOUR	CHILDREN	on	the	altar	of	medicine’s	mad	Salk

experimentations	but	HIS	OWN	CHILDREN—ah,	they	were	far,	far	too

precious	to	be	"thrown’	to	the	tender	devices	of	these	wild	March	Hares. As	I	said	in	the	beginning—a	great	deal	has	been	written	about	polio	but	the	real

searing	stories	of	what	actually	happened	"behind	the	scenes"	during	the	15	year

unfoldment	of	this	flamboyant	farce	of	the	March	of	Dimes	is	probably	known

only	to	the	Man	Upstairs	Who	will	have	much	to	say	on	the	subject	whet	these

same	March	of	Dimes	practitioners	try	to	storm	the	Pearly	Gates. "LET	US	FACE	THE	FACTS"

By	T.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the reaction of the people in Oregon, Idaho, and California to the Salk vaccine concoction?,
A: The people in these states are not using the vaccine, as they have realized that it is not effective.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the Salk vaccine?,
A: The author strongly criticizes the vaccine, stating that it is dangerous and ineffective.
Q: What is the author's view on the March of Dimes organization?,
A: The author believes that the organization is a scam and is only interested in making money.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the use of vaccines and serums?,
A: The author is strongly opposed to the use of vaccines and serums, stating that they are not only ineffective but also dangerous.
Q: What is the author's view on the medical profession?,
A: The author is critical of the medical profession, stating that they are more interested in making money than in the well-being of patients.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>If	the	ignoramus	ever	stops	long	enough	to	ask	the

simple	question:	How	was	the	first	case	of	polio	"exposed"	to	polio,	he’ll	grab

his	hollow	needle	and	start	inoculating	every	child	in	sight. One	physician	who	estimated	that	he	was	inoculating	six	children	daily,	asked:

"When	mothers	come	in	and	ask	for	it	for	their	children,	what	else	can	we	do	but

give	it	to	them?" Behold	the	degradation	of	"medical	science!" It	is	reduced	to

the	base	position	of	a	mere	panderer	to	the	ignorant	wishes	of	the	frightened

layman. The	physician	is	no	longer	the	trusted	and	expert	adviser	of	the	people
—he	merely	keeps	a	supply	of	convalescent	juice	on	hand	and	sells	it	to

whomsoever	comes	to	buy,	just	as	the	dry	goods	salesman	sells	any	kind	of	cloth

his	customers	want. The	mother	prescribes,	the	physician	merely	carries	out	her

orders. What	can	they	do? They	have	frightened	the	wits	out	of	the	people	and	they	have

paraded	their	serum	in	the	public	press	in	the	most	dramatic	manner	for	days	and

weeks. They	created	the	demand	and	then,	with	an	air	of	hurt	innocence,	they

ask:	"What	can	we	do	when	the	people	ask	for	it?" I	could	tell	the	damned

rascals	what	they	could	do,	but	I	have	no	idea	that	there	is	enough	honesty	and

self	respect	left	in	the	profession	to	cause	them	to	do	it. This	thing	is	greatly

increasing	their	incomes	and	they	are	not	going	to	quit	it. It	is	significant	that	the	drug	stores	were	well	supplied	with	sufficient	gamma

globulin	to	meet	the	demand. Small	vials	containing	two	cc	of	the	serum	retailed

at	$6.75	a	vial	and	the	sales	were	described	as	"heavy." The	manufacturers	and

sellers	of	the	voodoo	concoction	were	ready	and	willing	to	cash	in	on	the

publicity	before	the	ultimate	failure	of	the	experiment	becomes	known. Every

physician	in	the	country	is	well	aware	that	the	gamma	globulin	will	not	prevent

polio. But	they	justify	their	pumping	of	this	soup	into	the	bodies	of	children	on

the	grounds,	to	quote	the	words	of	one	San	Antonio	pediatrician,	that	"We	don’t

want	to	support	any	useless	means	and	we	don’t	want	to	overlook	the

possibilities	of	its	success." The	gamma	globulin	is	not	only	expensive,	but	it	is	given	according	to	the

weight	of	the	child. One	pediatrician	explained	that	the	"cost	for	a	child	who

weighed	100	pounds	would	almost	be	prohibitive	and	the	shot	would	have	to	be

renewed	in	three	or	four	weeks." Even	before	the	results	of	the	experiment	are

known,	these	men	already	know	how	often	they	must	renew	the	"immunization." What	a	lucrative	source	of	income! Give	every	child	expensive	shots	of	gamma	globulin	every	three	or	four	weeks

throughout	the	summer	months,	nation	wide,	and	the	physicians	can	forget	about

the	remainder	of	their	practices. Who	would	want	to	fritter	away	his	time

looking	after	typhoid	cases	or	operating	for	appendicitis	or	bothering	about	oil

wells,	when	fifty	to	a	hundred	children	a	day	come	to	the	office	to	get	gamma

globulin	shots? Fear	was	expressed	that	the	gamma	globulin	supply	might	too	soon	be	exhausted

but	the	manufacturing	drug	houses	and	the	local	wholesale	distributing	firms,

knowing	what	the	publicity	would	do	for	business,	had	provided	against	this

contingency	in	advance. They	had	a	plentiful	supply	on	hand	in	San	Antonio. On

July	4,	a	spokesman	for	the	wholesale	drug	firms	of	San	Antonio	stated	to	the

press	that	these	firms	had	plenty	in	stock. The	demand	for	it	had	increased	four
	to	five	times	since	the	outbreak	of	the	Houston	crime,	but	there	was	no	shortage. Such	is	the	foresight	of	good	business	men. BEWARE	OF	THE	POLIO	VACCINE
DR.	SHELTON’S	HYGIENIC	REVIEW
SEPTEMBER,	1955

1)	You	need	not	have	your	children	inoculated	with	polio	vaccine	unless	you

want	this	inoculation	done. Every	parent	is	free	to	refuse	it,	and	the	Ministry	of


-grain brown rice is a good substitute. 1 cup long-grain brown rice
2'/» cups water
1 tablespoon unrefined safflower oil
In a large saucepan, combine all ingredients, bring to a boil, stir gently. Simmer, covered, over low heat for 40 minutes. Remove from heat with
out lifting cover. Allow to sit for 10 minutes before lifting cover. OR
156 • FIT FOR LIFE 1 cup basmati rice
2 cups water
1 tablespoon unrefined safflower oil
In a large saucepan, combine all ingredients, bring to a boil, stir gently. Simmer, covered, over low heat for 20 minutes. Lift cover immediately,
and fluff with fork. Prepare the zucchini. Heat oil in wok or large skillet. Add zucchini slices, and toss in oil. Sprinkle with water and continue tossing for several minutes until zuc
chini turns a brighter color. Add basil and oregano. Toss gently and set
aside. GARLIC HERB DRESSING:
1 clove garlic, minced or crushed
5 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice
Vi teaspoon dried chervil
Vi teaspoon dried marjoram
lA teaspoon dried mint
Vi teaspoon dried thyme
Vs teaspoon dried tarragon
Vi teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Fresh ground black pepper
Prepare the dressing,
Place all ingredients in bowl, and whip with fork or whisk, or combine
ingredients in blender or food processor. Assemble the salad. Wash and dry lettuce, and break into bite-size pieces, and combine in
large bowl with spinach or arugula and sprouts. Add rice, zucchini,
olives, and dressing. Toss well to combine all flavors. Serves 2. Remember, if you are hungry, a fruit snack at least three hours after dinner is
very much to your advantage, since the added water content will aid elimina
tion on the following day. A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OP THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 157 DAY THREE—WEDNESDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Nut Butter Dip * with raw vegetables, or Energy Salad (with Light
Dressing or dressing of your choice) (see page 149)
DINNER:
Corn Chowder*
New York Goodwich*
Spinach-Sprout Salad *
NUT BUTTER DIP 1 Min. In this recipe, unsalted raw almond, cashew, sesame, or sunflower seed
butters are best. Peanut butter may be substituted, if desired. V* cup nut butter, smooth or chunky
Vt cup water
Whip nut butter and water with fork until light, creamy dipping sauce
forms. Use as dip for celery, carrots, zucchini, green or red peppers,
jicama, raw cauliflower or broccoli, fennel, or sliced Jerusalem
artichokes. COUNTRY CORN CHOWDER 55 Min. 6 cups water
6 medium all-purpose potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 stalk celery, chopped
158 • FIT FOR LIFE 2 vegetable bouillon or 1 vegetable bouillon and 1 tablespoon light
miso
'/» teaspoon dried sage
Vi teaspoon dried thyme
Vi teaspoon dried oregano
Vi teaspoon sea salt (optional)
Vi teaspoon seasoned salt or salt-free seasoning
Fresh ground pepper to taste
3—4 cups fresh or frozen corn
1 tablespoon butter
lA cup green pepper, minced
Vi cup scallions, minced
XA cup heavy cream (optional)
1 tablespoon fresh dill, minced (optional)
Bring water to a boil. Add potatoes, onion, garlic, and celery. Return
water to a boil and add bouillon and seasonings. Cover and simmer over
medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender but not
mushy. Cool slightly. Remove 2 cups of potatoes from stock and set
aside. Blend remaining chowder in small increments. Reheat over low
heat. Add corn and reserved potatoes. Simmer, stirring to insure that
chowder does not stick, for 5 minutes. Melt butter in a small skillet. Add
green pepper and scallions. Saute until vegetables turn a bright green,
approximately 3 minutes. Stir into simmering chowder. Add cream and
dill, if desired. Adjust seasonings. Serves 4. NEW YORK GOODWICH 25 Min. Believe it or not, this conglomeration of vegetables results in an absolutely
delectable "handwich"—something that can really become a great addic
tion! Seven hundred and fifty people devoured sixteen hundred of these at
one of our seminars on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. It was
a new experience, and they loved it! 1 cup broccoli
Vi cup cauliflower (optional)
2 tablespoons carrot, finely grated
2 tablespoons red cabbage, finely grated
2 tablespoons yellow squash, finely grated
lA cup Barbecued Onions (see below) (optional)
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 159 1 whole-wheat tortilla, chapati, or pita
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
3 thin slivers dill pickle
Vz cup lettuce, finely shredded
Vi cup alfalfa sprouts
2 slices avocado (optional)
Dash of sea salt, Spike, or salt-free seasoning (optional)
Prepare the vegetables. Cut broccoli into thin lengths, using only florets and upper portion of
stalk. Break cauliflower into tiny florets. Place broccoli and cauliflower in
vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling water for 5 minutes or until veg
etables are tender when pierced with tip of sharp knife. Combine carrot,
cabbage, and squash, and mix thoroughly. Barbecued Onions for Goodwich:
2 teaspoons safflower oil
1 small white onion, sliced
Vi tablespoon Hain or Robbie's barbecue sauce
Prepare the Barbecued Onions. In small skillet, heat oil. Add onion, and saute until it begins to soften. Add barbecue sauce, and continue sauteing, stirring frequently, until
onion is thoroughly wilted. Makes enough for 3 or 4 Goodwiches. Left
over Barbecued Onions are delicious in any vegetable soup. Assemble the Goodwich. In hot dry skillet, heat tortilla or chapati, turning from one side to the
other until soft but nor crisp. Place on large sheet of plastic wrap. If using
pita, heat in oven for a few minutes to soften it, and cut a sliver from top
so pocket opens easily. Combine all other ingredients, mix well, and stuff
into pocket. Spread tortilla with mayonnaise. Add a line of broccoli down center. Crumble cauliflower and place a line of it on broccoli. Add a line of
pickle, a line of grated vegetables, a line of Barbecued Onions. Top with
lettuce, sprouts, and avocado. Sprinkle with Spike, if desired. Roll tortilla
tightly, crepe-style, around vegetables. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap until
ready to serve. This Goodwich will keep for 2-3 days in the refrigerator
(if you hide it from your friends and family!). Cut it in half and push
plastic wrap partially down, but leave one end closed to catch the drippy
sauces, YUM! Serves 1. 160'FIT FOR LIFE SPINACH-SPROUT SALAD IS Min. 2 cups lettuce, chopped
2 cups spinach, chopped
2 cups alfalfa sprouts
1 cup assorted sprouts—lentil, mung bean, aduki, radish, fenugreek,
pea, red clover, wheat berry
1 cup cucumber, peeled and cubed
1 medium tomato, sliced
1 cup arugula, chopped (optional)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons Bragg Liquid Aminos, soy sauce, or Vi teaspoon Dijon
mustard
Combine vegetables and sprouts in large bowl. Add oil and toss. Add
lemon juice and Liquid Aminos or soy sauce or mustard, and toss again. Serves 2. DAY FOUR—THURSDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Nuts and Cukes,* or Energy Salad (see page 149) with cottage cheese, if
desired
DINNER:
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail (see page 152)
Stew for Two*
Caesar Salad *
Curried Cabbage*
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 161 NUTS AND CUKES 2 Min. Vi— 1 cup ran' almonds, pecans, walnuts, Brazil nuts, or filberts
1 medium cucumber, peeled and cut into spears
Make sure nuts are raw. If they have been roasted, they are unusable in
the body and only toxify it. Nuts and Cukes may not sound like much of
a lunch, but it is a very satisfying finger-food meal, which takes a while to
eat because nuts must be chewed well. The flavors are very complemen
tary—the nutritional benefits are impeccable! This is the perfect way to
eat nuts. STEW FOR TWO 40 Min. 8 tiny new potatoes
3 large carrots
2—3 tablespoons butter
1 small


, and the work of defense
mechanisms improves so strongly that even the
most severe infections subside rather fast. The
microbes are simply consumed by the body.
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gets angry, manifests pride or boasts about fast-
ing.

10.16. What to do if menstruation occu rs
during a dry fasting practice?
Continue with the fasting practice, without
problems; in fact, the occurence of the period is
a sign of good functioning of the organism. It is
possible to get washed, taking care, however, to
prevent any water from entering the mouth.

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fast?

11.1. Before fasting
After you've cleansed your intestines and liver
and performed a water  fast, you may proceed
with dry fasting. One of the crucial things that
allow dry fasting to go well is  the consumption
of polyunsaturated fatty acids prior to fasting.
During the preparation for winter and summer
hibernation, an important characteristic of the
animals' diet is an enhanced consumption of
fatty acids, which increase the organism's ro-
bustness  to prolonged dry fasting. The term 'fats'
denoted substances that contain glycerin and
fatty acids, connected by etheric bonds. In more
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tain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are di-
vided into two major groups according to the de-
gree of fatty acid saturation – solid fats (lard, an-
imal fat, butter), which contain saturated fats,
and liquid fats (sunflower, olive, nut, seed oils,
etc.), which mostly contain polyunsaturated
fatty acids. Scientists have been long aware that
during hibernation, particularly in the winter,
the water in all of the examined animals' blood
was replaced with glycerin. It's a polyatomic al-
cohol produced by the body by oxidizing fatty
acids as a required element. It does not dry out,
does not freeze when chilled, does not expand or
contract during temperature variations; basi-
cally, it preserves all of the body's liquid ele-
ments, wherever they are – in the blood, in the
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blood, freezing when c hilled and expanding, or
increasing in volume, would mechanically rip
these cells and blood vessels to pieces. Of course,
a person does not hibernate when dry fasting,
but there are many similar physiological mecha-
nisms that resemble those of hibernating a ni-
mals.

11.2. Essential benefits of fatty acids con-
tained in fish
The chief characteristic of fish oil fatty acids is
the fact that they participate in the synthesis of
energy by the body. Omega -2 is a structural sub-
stance of the brain and the retina of the eye, and
is required for normal brain activity, since it pro-
vides a fast input of energy that assists in impulse
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to another. It helps us think better, retain infor-
mation in memory and retrieve it when re-
quired. These fatty acids, as they bond to oxygen
molecules in the body, transport the electrons
and provide the body with energy for an entire
range of chemical reactions. There is a number
of practical observations that prove that con-
sumption of food rich in fish oil promotes the
relief of general fatigue, clears up thou ghts and
brain activity, increases physical activity.
Omega -3 fatty acids increase human energy en-
durance and activity, and also improve concen-
tration and memory to the same degree. The
statement that fish is the food of the genius is, in
fact, rather scientific, since the main bonds
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acids, which contain docosahexaenoic acid.

11.3. The importance of fish oil fatty acids in
sustaining health and vessel health
Omega -3 fatty acids, which fish oil is rich in,
thin the blood, lower the risk of blood thickening
and of formation of cholesterol plaques and
blood clots. The speed at which blood moves
through a healthy person's vessels is  60 km/hr,
blood's normal viscosity, its thickness, amount
and speed of flow throu gh the vessels are the
most important health indicators.
The greatest danger for our organism is the in-
creased blood coagulation and lowered viscosity
of blood in the vessels (although blood
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acids don't allow the thrombocytes (blood cells
that coal thickening and coagulation of blood
during bleeding) in the blood to adhere to each
other, thus thinning the blood and increasing its
flow speed.
An increase of thrombocyte count in the blood
and the lowering of blood viscosity is dangerous
for the functioning of all vital organs. In this
case, the heart, the brain, vision and the kidneys
suffer from insufficient oxygen intake, and these
organs' functioning is impeded by insufficient
blood delivery, which may, wit h time, lead to a
full loss of all vital functions by these organs.
For instance, due to increased blood coagula-
tion, an artery may slowly fill with stagnant
blood, and severe illness may develop in the
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as an infarction, a vascular accident, etc.
Omega -3 fatty acids play an important role in
the body's production of hemoglobin molecules,
which are responsible for transporting oxygen in
erythrocytes, participate in controlling the nutri-
tional elements that pass through the cell mem-
brane, and lower the negative effect of the dan-
gerous fats on the organism.
Recent medical research clearly testifies to the
efficiency of Omega -3 fatty acids in not only
fighting heart disease and preventing infarc-
tions, but in res olution of problems linked to bad
mood, frayed nerves, postpartum depression,
menopause symptoms, psychological crisis, and
other reasons that lead to depression.

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daily before meals. It is also advisable:
• Rapeseed, sunflower, corn, soybean, walnut
oil - 1 tablespoon of any oil from this list once
daily;
• Sunflower, sesame, poppy, pumpkin seeds,
walnuts;
• Wheat sprouts;
• Many other plant and animal products that
contain these acids in various degrees of con-
centration: flax oil, soybean oil - 1 tablespoon
once daily.
• Flax seeds and walnuts
• Fish and seafood
• Soybeans
• Dark green leafy vegetables

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of Omega-3 fats, use the following advice:
• Use rapeseed, sesame, nut or at least olive oil
as salad dressing.
• Regularly consume 100 -150g. of fatty and
semi -fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, herring,
sardines, trout, tuna, etc.) 3 -4 times a week. It's
best to choose fresh rather than frozen fish, as
well as fish caught in th e wild, rather than one
that was grown at a fish farm, since the amount
of Omega -3 fatty acids in fish depends on the
type of the food it consumes, and fish is fed
mostly flour and compound feed, rather than
plankton.
Curing and salting leads to a loss of a certain
part of Omega -3 fatty acids, up to 50% are lost if
the fish is


 and a few contain more. Surprisingly, the  vegetables we commonly eat raw range from about 10
to 30% protein. (V egetables are so low in calories, however, that even hu ge quantities add very little overall to one’s daily protein
percentage.) Nonetheless, when we calculate the caloronutrien t ratio of a week’s worth of food consisting strictly of a variety of raw
fruits and vegetables, it generally weighs in just shy of 5% of calori es as top-quality protein. A few ounces of nuts or seeds puts us at
around 8% protein, well into the adequate and healthful range.
Mainstream nutritional science defines protein quality in terms  of how efficiently the protein promotes body growth, rather than
whether it produces health. Thus, milk and egg protein are considered the h ighest quality. However, in the words of T. Colin
Campbell, “There is a mountain of compelling research showing that  ‘low-quality’ plant protein … is the healthiest type of
protein.” 44
Although many people are surprised to hear it, they understand the logic of  this line of thought when they stop to consider
what anthropoid primates in the wild eat: a diet that is made up primarily  of fruits and vegetables. We have never heard that
chimpanzees or orangutans—which are typically five times str onger than humans, pound for pound—need more protein than the
amount they get from their plant-based diet.
 Americans Eat 16% Protein
As a percentage of calories consumed, the standard American diet, reple te with meat, dairy, and eggs, runs in the teens. As
stated above, the bell curve that describes protein consumption for the vast  majority of the population ranges from 11 to 21% of
calories from protein. Outliers on the low end include the small population  of people who eat low-fat vegan fare, who can easily and
healthfully reduce that number to single digits. At the high end, peopl e who intentionally consume high-protein diets can approach
30%, but only bodybuilders and athletes who eat massive quantities of egg whi tes and isolated protein powders are likely to reach
40 or 50 + percent protein.
People are generally doubtful that protein could comprise such a small per centage of their diets, but I am not making these
numbers up. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average U.S. protein consumption was 15.5% for men
and 15.1% for women in 2000. These numbers have been consistent for decades; in 1970 the y were 16.5% and 16.9%. 45
The U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowances, 10th Edition (1989) says, “Food consump tion data from the U.S. USDA ’s
1977–1978 and 1985 surveys indicate that 14 to 18% of the total food energy intake is derive d from protein. Despite wide
variations in food energy intake, this proportion remains similar for both s exes and all age groups except infants. There is also little
change as a function of household income, urbanization, or race. Food items li kely to be underreported in surveys (e.g., alcoholic
beverages, confections) would provide energy but little protein; hence, t he percentage of energy from protein may be
overestimated. 46
How can it be that as a nation we gorge on “high-protein” foods, yet we en d up with less than 20% of our calories from
protein? The answer is that the vast majority of our commonly consume d “protein” foods—meat, egg, and dairy products, as well as
all nuts and seeds, contain such an overwhelming amount of fat that th e protein numbers go way down as a percentage of total
calories consumed. For example:

Eggs contain more than 60% fat.
“70% lean” ground beef also weighs in at 60% fat.
Cheddar cheese contains 72% fat; cream cheese 88%.
Almonds and sunflower seeds each contain 73% fat.

In truth, there really is no such thing as a “high-protein” diet—a t least not one in which protein comprises the majority of a
person’s calories. Typical quantities of high-protein “superfoods”  increase protein consumption as a percentage of daily calories
very little. For example, 10 grams of spirulina provides about 7 grams of  protein, which might increase one’s protein percentage
from 16 to 17.2%. In other words, without serious powdered protein supplementation, most pe ople would find it extremely difficult
to consume even a third of their total calories from protein on a sustaine d basis.
This is good news, indeed, for even the 10% of calories from protein that I recomm end is in truth the maximum that can
reasonably be considered healthful, in my opinion.

The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein
To listen to the proponents of the meat industry, one would think we are in imm inent danger of disease and death if we fail to
eat meat three times a day. The truth is that eating meat this ofte n causes the very conditions we’re taught to fear. This is a surpris e
to most people, who have been taught, incorrectly, that they need large amou nts of protein to be healthy. Actually, the reverse is
true: Most people suffer from an overdose of protein each day, and this account s for a great deal of our ill health.
Too much protein in our diets is associated with all manner of health impa irments, including such symptoms as constipation and
other digestive disorders that often lead to toxemia (toxic blood and tissues ) and, eventually, cancer. Autoimmune dysfunction,
arthritis, and all other autoimmune conditions, premature aging, impai red liver function, kidney failure, osteoporosis, and many other
degenerative and pathogenic conditions result from eating more protein  than we need.
In general, protein-based foods are highly acid forming in the human body (e ven the high-protein plants, such as legumes).
This is because their predominant minerals are the acidic min erals—chlorine, phosphorus, and sulfur. To maintain homeostasis, the
body must counterbalance the acidity caused by excess protein consumption. Unfortunately, it does so in part by taking a precious
alkaline mineral—calcium—from our bloodstream. The body replaces  calcium into the bloodstream, where calcium levels must
remain relatively constant, by removing it from our bones and teeth, set ting the stage for osteoporosis and tooth decay.
It is no coincidence that fruits and vegetables contain just the rig ht amounts of protein to build and maintain the human body.
Nor is it a coincidence that the minerals they supply are predominantl y the alkaline ones: calcium, sodium, magnesium, and
potassium.

Calculating Your Protein Intake The following examples show how a to calculate protein intake and how to conv ert gram measurements to percentage of
calories. Calculations are based on the U.S. RDA of 0.36 grams of protein per pound of body  weight (the upper  limit of protein
intake on the 80/10/10  diet).
My guidelines vary from these slightly, as I make my recommendations  as a percentage of total calories consumed rather than
by body weight. I believe this system works far better, because it allows for  individual differences in fuel use, which can vary by a
factor of ten  for extremely sedentary people and extremely active people of the same w eight.

125-Pound Woman: 45g
0.36 grams of protein  125 pounds = 45 grams of protein per day.
45 grams of protein contain approx. 180 calories (45  4 = 180).
If this woman is sedentary and eats about 1,800 calories per day, this amount of pr otein would come to 10% of her total
calories for the day.
If this woman is more active and eats perhaps 2,300 calories per day, 180 calories of  protein would amount to 8%.

175-Pound Man: 63g
0.36 grams of protein  175 pounds = 63 grams of protein per day.
63 grams of protein contain approx. 252 calories (63  4 = 252).
If this man is sedentary and eats about 2,400 calories per day, this amount of prot ein would be just over 10% of his calories
for the day.
If this man is more active and eats 3,000 calories per day, 252 calories of protein w ould amount to 8%.

In light of the near-double safety factor of the U.S. RDA, I have no concern s when I see my clients consuming even less protein
relative to their size. In my experience, about 5% of calories from protein, especially when it is high quality and unadulterated by
heat, is adequate and healthful.
That last statement, “5% of calories is adequate and healthful,” is not  a radical concept, not by a long shot. If you have any
question whatsoever that this level of protein intake is healthy, or if  you want indisputable evidence of the toxicity of higher protein
consumption, I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of T. Colin Campbe ll’s outstanding book, The China Study. 47  I cannot
recommend it highly enough.
A consummate nutritional scientist, Dr. Campbell was


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A genuinely healthy person almost never becomes acutely ill, and does not
have any disturbing or distracting symptoms; nothing interferes with or handicapstheir daily life or work. A healthy person has good energy most of the time, apositive state of mind, restful sleep, good digestion and elimination.
Healthy people do not have to live simon-pure lives to remain that way.
Healthy people can afford 10% dietary indiscretions by calorie count—eating ordrinking those things that they know are not good for them but that are fun to eator are “recreational foods or beverages.” Such “sinning” could mean a restaurantbash twice a month, having a pizza, French bread, beer or wine in moderation, icecream, cookies, cake, turkey for festive occasions, etc. The key concept ofresponsible sinning is keeping within that ten percent limit.
A diet for a healthy person that wants to remain healthy should not exceed the
digestive capacity of the individual, either in terms of quantity or quality. All foodsthat can not be efficiently digested should be removed from the regular diet andrelegated to the “sin” category, including those you are allergic to and those for
which you have inadequate digestive enzymes. I have encountered very few
people that can efficiently digest cooked meat, chicken, or fish, but some can, andsome can with the assistance of digestive enzyme supplements. In order to digestmeats, the stomach must be sufficiently acid, there must be enough pepsin,pancreatin, and bile, etc., and the meat should be eaten on the extremely rare side(not pork), in small quantities (not more than five or six ounces), and notcombined with anything except nonstarchy vegetables. If you must include meat inyour dietary, it should represent a very small percentage of your total caloricintake, be eaten infrequently, with the bulk of the calories coming from complexcarbohydrates such grains, legumes and nuts, as well as large quantities ofvegetables and fruits.
The healthy person that wants to stay that way for many, years is advised to
fast one day a week, to give the organs of elimination a chance to catch up ontheir internal housecleaning. If water fasting seems impossible, try a day of juicingit; if that is too rigorous, try a day on raw foods. A similar technique, though lessbeneficial than even a one day each week on raw foods, is delaying breaking yourovernight fast for as long as possible each day. Try giving up breakfast altogetheror postponing breaking your overnight fast, because from the time you stop eatingat the end of one day to the time you start eating the next is actually a brief,detoxifying fast.
Eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt can be assimilated by some healthy people with
or without digestive aids. It is possible to take lactase to break down the milksugars for example; sometimes aids such as hydrochloric acid, pepsin, andpancreatin help. If you can buy it or are willing to make it raw milk yogurtcontaining lactobacillus bulgaris or acidophilus may be digested more readily,especially if it prepared from healthy cows or goats fed on unsprayed food, andserved very fresh. Eggs should come from chickens that run around outside,eating weeds, and scratching bugs. The yolks of those eggs will be intense orange,not yellow. Few people these days have ever eaten a real egg. Surprisingly, for
those of you who fear cholesterol, the healthy way to eat eggs is use just the raw
yolk from fertile eggs. It is enjoyed by many people in a smoothie–fresh fruitblended up with water or milk. Eggs contain lecithin, a nutrient that naturallyprevents the body from forming harmful fatty deposits in the arteries.
Sea weeds are a wonderful source of minerals and should be eaten in soups
and salads. Other invaluable fortifying foods are algae of all kinds (such aschlorella and spirulina), lecithin, brewers yeast, and fresh bakers yeast. Manypeople have had very unpleasant experiences trying to eat living bakers yeast andso use brewers yeast instead. But brewers yeast is cooked and the proteins itcontains are not nearly as assimilable as those in raw yeast. Raw yeast is sopowerful, it feels like pep pills!
It takes a special technique to eat raw yeast because in the stomach and
intestines the yeast does the job it is supposed to do: convert sugars into alcoholand carbon dioxide gas. The entire digestive tract then bloats with gas and theperson will feel very uncomfortable for some time. However, raw yeast is amarvelous source of B vitamins and proteins and can make someone feel veryenergetic—if they know how to use it. The secret is to eat live yeast very firstthing in the morning on an empty stomach and then, not eat anything at all forabout two hours, giving the stomach acids and enzymes time to kill the yeasts anddigest them before adding sugars from another meal. Some like to eat yeast infresh cake form, buying it from a bakery. Others prefer dry granular baker’s yeastblended with water into a sort of “shake.” This is not a bad place to put your rawegg yolk either. If you need it sweetened to drink it, use an artificial or herbalsweetener like nutrisweet or stevia. Live yeast cannot consume milk sugars verywell. So if you can handle dairy, try one or two tablespoons of granulated liveyeast, an egg yolk and a little raw milk or yogurt, well whizzed.
Wheat germ is also a great, rich food, but is usually rancid unless it is taken out
of the refrigerated display; unless it is refrigerated, in a dated package and fresh,don’t eat it. Herb teas and roasted grain beverages are healthy beverages, along
with mineral and distilled water avoiding where possible chlorinated and
fluoridated water.
Diet Is Not Enough
Those isolated, long-lived peoples discovered by Weston A. Price had to do
hard physical labor to eat, had to walk briskly up and down steep terrain to getanywhere. But today, few North Americans output very much physical energy inprocess of daily life or work. Not only cars, but all of our modern conveniencesmake it possible to live without ever breaking into a sweat. We pay for this ease;it costs us a significant degree of health.
Exercise has many benefits when combined with excellent nutrition. It creates
an overall feeling of well-being that can not be created by diet alone. Exercisingtemporarily makes the heart beat faster, increasing blood circulation throughoutthe body right out to the tips of your fingers and toes. This short-term elevatedflow of blood flow brings increased supplies of oxygen and nutrients to all parts ofthe body, facilitating healing and repair. Without revving up your engine every daymany of the body’s systems never get the sludge burned out of them and neverperform optimally.
Exercise also changes the metabolic rate so your body burns more calories–
not only while you are exercising, but also for a 24 hour period following exercise.This maintains a healthful body weight into old age, or helps to lose weight. Mostpeople find that exercise in moderation does not increase appetite, so that it ispossible to consistently burn more calories in a day, and gradually reduce weight ifthat is desirable. It is necessary to burn 3,500 calories to lose a pound of weight.Most forms of exercise allow you to burn 300 to 600 calories per hour at amoderate pace which would be achieved by doubling the resting pulse. Withouteven considering the weight-loss benefit of achieving a raised metabolism, an hourof daily exercise continued for a week or two dependent upon the type ofexercise and pace should lead to one pound of weight loss if the caloric intake is
held constant.
The flip side of having a higher metabolism is rarely appreciated but is
extremely important. Recall the basic equation of health: Health = Nutrition /Calories. Exercise permits a person to eat somewhat more while not gainingweight. If the food is nutrient rich, the body has a chance to extract more vitamins,more minerals, more amino acids. The person who remains slender by rigidlyreducing their food intake to near starvation levels may lack vital, health-buildingnutrition.
And only exercise moves lymphatic fluid. The blood is pumped through the
body by the heart, but the lymphatic system, lacking a heart, requires muscularcontractions to move from the extremities of the body to the central cavity. Thelymphatic system picks up cellular waste products and conducts these toxins todisposal. Frequently, people with rheumatic aches and pains or other generalizedmuscular discomforts physicians like to give Latin diagnostic names to can give uptaking pain pills if they will but begin exercising regularly. Only when they beginmoving their lymph can they begin to detoxify properly.
There is another benefit from exercise which is not to be ignored, and that is
that it gives the person a chemical sense of well being. It actually will help toemotionally boost up people who are chronically depressed and make them smile.After a good workout, especially one done outside, everything seems brighter,more positive; whatever was bothering you somehow just doesn’t seem like thatbig of a deal now. I am not making pro-exercise propaganda. This is not a figmentof the imagination. An exercising body really does make antidepressantneurochemicals called endorphins, but only after about 45 minutes to an hour ofaerobic workout.
Endorphins are powerful, with painkilling and euphoric effects equal to or
greater than heroin, but without any undesirable side effects. If chemists couldlearn to cheaply synthesize endorphins I’m sure


 these can be corrected by diet. But in or-der to do that, tests have to be made.
There are three groups of food that will fit all categories of chil-
dren's diets that can be served in any school.
My dream is to see that the RBTI be used in all schools and diets
made to fit the children by groups instead of each child choosing what food he wants in his lunch. And also helping parents in the home to supply the need of the children.
The purpose of the RBTI test is to determine whether or not the
body chemistry is too acid or too alkaline, whether it has or is accept-ing too much carbohydrates, or whether it is not getting enough, whether the body is retaining too much salt or not enough, whether the body is digesting the proteins or not digesting the proteins, etc. It is God's plan in bringing anyone's health back to perfect. The RBTI works well on all people whose body ch emistry will receive or will re-
spond to diet. There is less than I percent of all the people who are placed on a diet to bring their body chemistry back into a perfect range whose body will not respond. This is because there is either brain damage, a tumor of the brain, a potassium deficiency, or low blood sugar in which the brain is not getting enough oxygen, or brain injury or damage to the central nervous system (which is the nerve that takes the message from the brain to the vital organs).
This plan of diet is not the practice of medicine in any shape or
form, because everyone is on some kind of a diet, either good or bad.
Some people are inhibited by cigarettes and some are not. Some people are inhibited by drugs, 80 percent given by medical
doctors. (The other 20 percent of the people on drugs buy them on the black market.) 77 Some people are inhibited by diet. Their body accepts too much of
one thing and not enough of the mineral and vitamin content of anoth-
er.
All the RBTI diet does is correct a person's mineral and vitamin
deficiency. If the person gets well, it's not my fault or anyone else's I have taught. God does it. No one can heal another; only God can heal.
There have been some very simple instruments made that will be
on the market soon that the housewife may use. Instruments that will be easy to use and read, as a watch dial which will show the mother how to prepare a diet for her family. If there is some member in the family that needs a different diet, these instruments will show her how to make the diet for this particular individual. This will be one of the greatest factors in the world to prevent family illnesses. This will give a family more money for pleasure and the things they want to do, and to be healthy. It will decrease the loss of man hours due to illness by hundreds of percent. More progress has been made in every field of science than has been made in the field of health for the people of this world.
The purpose of this book is to enlighten the people that it is easier
to be healthy than it is to be sick.   78 CHAPTER 9
REAMS BIOLOGICAL THEORY OF IONIZATION

The theory of ionization was discovered after a father with a three
and one-half-year-old child had been to a medical doctor.
The child was having seizures and was diagnosed as an epileptic. The doctor had told the parents that this child would go into a sei-
zure and would not come out and could not live to be five years old.
"You just have to do something for my child for drugs have
failed," the father of the child said. They lived two doors from us. I knew the boy well.
When I went to the laboratory that night I just sat for three days
and nights wondering where in the world to start. What could I do? What approach should I use? Mother would bring my meals to the lab, and from one meal to the next I would not have touched the previous meal. The days almost seemed like minutes as I was meditating around the clock. I didn't sleep at all, I was so engrossed in the prob-lem at hand. I was not even sleepy.
On the end of the third day the thought came to me that if I knew
the mathematical chemistry of perfect health, then tests could be run on the boy's body chemistry and we could find out how far from per-fect his body chemistry was, and then we could make a diet and bring his body chemistry back to perfect.
It was then I started from the knowledge of frequencies I had on
grapes. It was the only thing I knew the frequency of at that time to calculate, or you might call it "dead reckoning," what a human anato-my should read if it were perfect. I'm sure that an angel held my hand for in four days I had come up with a formula which I consider today to be perfect for human anatomy, regardless of the age of the person. This was almost four years before I had discovered the frequency of the human being, which proved that this equation was indeed correct.
I asked the parents to bring the little fellow in and we'd run tests
on him. The first equation was much longer than the equation we have now. We ran tests on stool, blood, tears, ear wax, finger and toe nails, 79 sweat, hair, urine and saliva. As far as I know I was the first person to
do a hair analysis. After a week I had completed the test and was
amazed at how much duplication there was. I began to drop off vari-ous things in the next three years until I had left only the equation I now use.
We had the parents come in and made a diet for the boy, and
found he was not an epileptic at all, but that he had low blood sugar, which was causing the seizures. His pancreas was manufacturing too much insulin. We corrected the diet by using fresh green, raw chloro-phyll. We used some St. Augustine grasses and ground them in a food chopper, put them in a strainer and pressed out the juice with a fork. We didn't have juicers at that time, as they had not yet been invented.
Immediately, the boy began to improve. In three months there
were no more seizures. In a year he was doing well. Then the family moved to Texas, and I didn't see them again for 35 years. I was on the streets of Orlando, Florida, near the corner of Church Street and Or-ange Avenue when a young man came to me and said, "Are you Carey
Reams?"
"Yes," I said. "I know you, but you do not know me," he said. I said, "No, sir, if I've ever seen you I don't remember." Then he told me, "I'm the little fellow who had the epileptic sei-
zures, and you gave me a diet. I remember you real well. I never had another seizure. When I was seven years old, we were in a little acci-dent and I had a light seizure and went into shock.
But I've never had another since that time." This was my first test of this ionization theory. From time to time I was called upon to do this test. I had talked to
different doctors about it. At this time I still had the medical laborato-ry, and doctors began to use it some and found the test to be accurate.
When I discovered frequency it was brought about by two police
officers bringing some ashes from a building that had been burned. They had reason to believe that the ashes were from humans, or possi-bly an animal. The undertaker had a crematory (he and my father had been friends). I had known him all my life. I went to him and told him 80 my problem, and asked to borrow some ashes of a corpse where he
knew the sex, age, height, weight, and color of hair. In two weeks I
had established the frequency upon which human beings live, and could even tell the race, but could not tell anything about the age be-
cause the age of carbon is measured in  thousand of years. I returned to
the crematory every atom of the ashes.
I was able to determine that there were two fern ales and one male
in those ashes. I did the work for the police department for a number of years, until I went to war and then I gave it to the Commission. They don't follow it anymore because it is an aggravation to sit in court for a few days waiting to testify for the little bit you get for the testimony of it. Police departments today can determine if it is human or animal ashes. This was one of the steps in which the RBTI was dis-covered.
I sold the medical laboratory, and then spent my time in the Agri-
cultural Engineering field. I knew I had something, but did not know where its strong and weak points were. When any chemist or physicist makes what he thinks is a discover y, the first things he wants to know
are:
Is it real? Is it true? Does it work every time? What are the exceptions? I did then what is the duty of every scientist and physicist: set out to prove that this theory was not true. The theory of the entire equation is: Whether the body has too much carbohydrate, or not enough. Whether the body chemistry is too acid, or too alkaline. Whether the body is retaining too much salts or not enough. (There are many different kinds of salts. Chloride salts, and salts
without chloride. Even insulin is a salt.)


. Yet the glass of my limited beliefs was
shattered the day my spouse and I observed that our one-year-old daughter had a small, light-brown
spot on the top of her front tooth. I wasn’t sure if this spot was a cavity or not.
Days, weeks, and then months went by. To our horror, the spot continued to grow and other teeth also
began discoloring. As a natural-healthcare-oriented parent, who protects my daughter from chemical
exposure in the forms of processed junk foods and western drugs, I was extremely concerned at the
thought of taking my precious little girl to a dentist for drilling and filling. Can you imagine what a
dental treatment would be like for a toddler? A one-and-a-half-year-old child cannot sit still for a
dentist and would not be able to understand the ordeal she was being put through. The typical dental
treatment prescribed for young children with many cavities involves surgery under general anesthesia.
Since I wished to avoid traumatic anesthesia and surgery for my daughter as well as the option of
having her teeth pulled, I was left with a grave dilemma. I had to decide whether to subject her to a
dental treatment—which to me was inappropriately forceful for a small child who was not
experiencing any pain or suffering—or I had to find the real cause of her cavities and stop them. At
the peak of my daughter’s tooth decay her teeth disintegrated so rapidly that the first decayed tooth
crumbled apart within a period of a few weeks. This caused me and my spouse Michelle much
distress, along with feelings of helplessness.
I know what it feels like to have tooth cavities. While my daughter’s teeth were decaying, I was
diagnosed with four new cavities. I was not prepared to have more synthetic materials added to my
already overburdened body. At the same time as the new cavities had been discovered, I was also
feeling a great deal of sensitivity on the sides of many of my molars, near the gum lines which
wouldn’t even be addressed by drilling and filling my four cavities.
Five years after the original decay, my teeth, once sensitive and loose in my mouth feel tight, firm and
strong like diamonds without sensitivity. Five years later, my daughter has four new, healthy, cavity-
free adult teeth, and her baby teeth have ceased to be a problem. Her decayed teeth have protected
themselves. Success is not just my own, it comes to people who follow the principles you will learn
in this book. It brings me joy every time a parent writes to inform me that their young child, who had
been suffering from tooth decay, has just been spared costly and painful dental surgery, or when I
learn of an adult who has saved a tooth from the dentist’s drill.
These results were not accomplished by luck, nor by some special product, chemical, or dental
treatment, but by food alone. And you will learn here everything you need to know to enjoy the same
results.
Important Considerations before We Begin
Please note there are now two versions of
Cure Tooth Decay
 available with identical content. New
copies of
Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition
 (ISBN 9780982021309)
will have the same content as
Cure Tooth Decay: Remineralize and Repair Cavities Naturally(ISBN 9780982021323). I have done this due to logistical and marketing hurdles related to online
book retail sales.
Anyone can remineralize their tooth cavities. However for some of us with severe health challenges, I
estimate between 1-3% of the readership, there will be added steps necessary that are beyond the
scope of this book or my knowledge. For these individuals good food alone cannot create optimal
health. If you have a serious or debilitating health problem, some of the advice in this book may not
benefit you. I also do not advocate avoiding dentists, but rather advocate that you make choices that
feel good to you.* * *Chapter 1
Dentistry's Inability to Cure Cavities
Your teeth are not designed to decay!
They were designed to remain strong, resilient and cavity
free for your entire life. Why would Nature plan for the failure and pain of disintegrating teeth?
Without healthy teeth and gums, we cannot digest food properly and we eventually will not thrive. In
this book you will learn that tooth decay is not a result of Nature’s failure or a “fact” of aging, but due
to the human error of poor food selection.
Decaying teeth can be a scary and painful process. When in a state of fear and panic, we tend to
disregard the most sensible decision we could make: to search for the real cause, rather than succumb
to the easy and passive response of allowing a dentist to “fix” the problem for us. Yet when searching
for the real cause of tooth decay, many people get lost in a maze of misleading information. Your
search is over; herein you will find real and natural solutions to tooth decay.
We have been taught, for the most part, that tooth decay is as inevitable as death and taxes, and that
we have no choice in the matter. In this chapter you will learn how the power to cure cavities is in
your hands. We will examine the history of dentistry so that you can become aware of how false and
misleading beliefs about tooth decay can turn you into a dentistry victim.Reaffirm Your Choice to Cure Your Cavities
Change begins with a decision. By picking up this book you have either made the decision already, or
are considering an important decision in your life: the decision to be responsible for your teeth in a
new way. For those who have decided “I want to cure my own cavities,” I want to affirm to you that
this is an enlivening decision to make. For those of you who have yet to decide, I urge you to look
deeply within for a moment and see if you are willing to commit to do what it takes to change the fate
of your teeth.
The essential keys to remineralizing teeth are found not only in this book. The answers are within
your biology but they simply have been lost or misplaced. This is a guidebook designed to help you
establish and implement your own tooth or gum healing diet and to restore a connection with your
body through food.
You are not a passive victim to tooth decay. Rather by mistake, you have likely contributed to your
teeth’s own demise. This principle of responsibility brings us self-respect, integrity, and a sense of
hope that what seems to be outside of our realm is actually under our personal control. I have found
that healing cavities is not just about the physical process of substituting nutrient-devoid foods for
their nutrient-rich alternatives. It is an opening up to life itself. It is reaching out and growing. It is a
small death of the old ways of being. Those who have successfully conquered their tooth decay have
embraced the principles of this book and have
taken it upon themselves to heal
. They looked within,
trusted themselves, and in some ways acted out of the involuntary consciousness that instructs and
guides us. Many people are faced with difficult choices about their teeth in shades of gray. I have
found that the answer to these dilemmas, whether concerning your teeth or other matters, bubble forth
from within you. I encourage you to take everything I have written in this book as a pointer to your
inner knowing and not as a replacement for it. You are the ultimate authority when it comes to your
dental health.
The Real Cause of Cavities
The essential causes of tooth decay have been known to the modern world for approximately eighty
years. Harvard Professor Earnest Hooton clearly and succinctly summarized the problem: “It is store
food that has given us store teeth.”
Remembering Your Connection
Healing cavities is about being connected to life. Our modern society generally exists in a fragmented
state of disconnection. When we are out of touch with life, or out of touch with ourselves, the
connection between the cause of disease and its effects is lost and we can feel like powerless victims
of disease, without any real recourse. Since modern society is based upon supporting our
disconnection from ourselves and others, it has not been able to support a real cure for cavities.
Healing cavities is about reconnecting with yourself, and Nature, through correct food choices.Fear of the Dentist
Many people are afraid of the dentist and there is a good reason why. Their bodies are giving them a
strong message, through the feelings of fear and avoidance. “Do not drill another hole in my teeth!”
How Conventional Dentistry Works
When you go to the dentist for a checkup he (or she) will use x-rays, a dental examiner, and visual
inspection to see if there are any cavities present. When a cavity is found, the dentist gives you the
bad news. As they are taught in dental school and legally required to do, dentists offer their patients a
surgical treatment for the disease of dental caries in the form of removing the diseased part of the
tooth by drilling and replacing it with a synthetic material.
Tooth Drilling
In the drilling procedure conventional dentists will use a high speed drill, because it saves time,
which drills as fast as 350,000 rotations per minute. High speed drilling creates high friction and
raises the temperature of the tooth nerve causing irreversible nerve damage in 60% of cases. In
addition, a negative vacuum pressure from the high speed shatters a portion of the fragile microscopic
nutrient tubules within each tooth.


 clarified.
HL-60 HUMAN CELL LINE
The HL-60 human cell line was developed from peripheral blood leukocytes in a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia, which are generally promyelocytes.
15
This HL-60 cell line has been used as a unique in vitro  model to study various 125 DMSO in Malignancy
important aspects of human myeloid cell differentiation. When these promyelocyte
cells underwent incubation for 5–7 days with appropriate concentrations of DMSO, they were able to differentiate into normal, peripheral blood granulocytes, despite their karyotypic abnormalities and leukemic origin.
18 These peripheral blood granu -
locytes were capable of phagocytizing bacteria and develop complement receptors.18
Treatment of human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells with DMSO is known
to cause differentiation of these cells along granulocytic/neutrophilic differentiation lineage.
19 After DMSO treatment, cultured granulocytic HL-60 cells eventually die
via apoptosis. This process of apoptotic death induced by DMSO involves enhancing the effector proteins Bak and Bad while downregulating the apoptosis suppressor protein Bcl-2.
19 The ectopic expression of Bcl-2 protein is able to prevent apoptosis
of granulocytes and monocyte/macrophage by a number of differentiating agents, but not when DMSO is used. Induction of apoptosis in macrophages by DMSO is of pathological significance because macrophages produce free radicals and inflamma -
tory cytokines that can damage normal cells.
20
METASTATIC LIVER DISEASE
Metastasis is the principal cause of death in cancer patients, and once it occurs, the most fundamental aspect of these cancer cells is their ability to sustain chronic growth. This growth differs from normal cell proliferation because the latter takes care to control the production and release of growth-promoting signals that ensure a homeostatic cell growth and cell number. Cancer cells have the unique ability to deregulate or block these signals and, essentially, do what they please.
21
Metastatic liver disease is a malignant tumor in the liver that has spread from
another organ affected by cancer. Metastatic liver disease is frequently associated with primary colorectal carcinoma. More than half of the patients with metastatic liver disease will die from metastatic complications. This disease is the sixth lead -
ing cancer worldwide and the second in cancer-related deaths in the United States.
22
The reason the liver is a common site for cancer metastasis is due to its abundant
blood supply, and since both lobes of the liver are usually involved, surgical removal is not possible unless a liver transplant is performed. Chemotherapy and a partial hepatectomy, especially in young people, is a possible treatment when only one lobe becomes cancerous. However, due to the rich blood supply of the liver, bleeding after surgery is a concern.
One procedure by Salim
23 using electrocoagulation + DMSO (500 mg by mouth)
attempted to destroy liver metastases spread from advanced colonic cancer and reduce bleeding complications. A significant 5-year survival rate was obtained with -
out major adverse effects in 78 patients with liver malignancy randomized to be treated with electrocoagulation + DMSO as compared to electrocoagulation only consisting of 77 patients.
23 The possible free radical–scavenging ability by DMSO
was considered as a major factor in the long-term efficacy of this procedure.23
Tumor cells in culture generally grow in disarray unlike normal nontumorigenic
cells. When these tumor cells are exposed to 1%–2% DMSO in culture, the random piling is drastically abolished within 3 days and instead, monolayers of cells in regular parallel orientation are seen to form, a pattern typical of nonmalignant fibroblasts.
24 126 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
These morphological changes from malignant to nonmalignant cells in culture could
be maintained indefinitely as long as DMSO was kept present.24
When DMSO was removed from the medium, reversal of these cells to the
malignant state occurred after 3 days. It is possible that some of the properties that characterize DMSO, such as its stability, highly polar nature, and dielectric con-stant greater than that of water, which can enhance cell permeability, may explain, at least in part, the influence of this solvent on the hydration and solvation shells that surround the membrane components of the malignant cells and their ultimate transformation to benign cells.
24 These findings suggest that cancer is a disease of
differentiation.25
However, the precise identification of the defect involved in the transformation
of normal cells to malignant cells as well as the induction of cell differentiation by DMSO to normal cells is not easy to explain. Cancer cells seem to lose important control systems due to damage or loss of the genes inside the cells, a process known as mutation. Damage to the cell can be caused by a variety of factors. These factors, or carcinogens, can make the cell multiply abnormally to create cancer.
DMSO COMBINED WITH ANTICANCER AGENTS
A strain of spontaneous rat lymphatic leukemia inbred rats exposed continually to low, oral concentrations of DMSO produces physiological changes in these animals that increases the therapeutic effects of the antineoplastic agent cyclophosphamide while also lowering its threshold toxicity.
26 This positive finding in a rat leukemic
model suggests that combining DMSO with antitumor compounds in the treatment of human cancer is both feasible and attarctive.
26 It also implies that the toxicity
seen with many of the anticancer agents may be lowered when DMSO is used as an adjuvant.
This suggestion was supported by a sequential study from the same authors who
reported that 12 anticancer agents administered to tumor-bearing rodents in the pres -
ence of 0.25% DMSO in the drinking water for over 1 year increased antineoplastic potency in 8 of these agents.
27 Several of the parenterally administered antineo -
plastic agents given with oral DMSO also inhibited the tumor growth rate in these animals.
27
Several trials of DMSO on human cancer were attempted using cyclophospha -
mide and large doses of DMSO. It was reported that when 5%–10% DMSO was given orally or intravenously to 10 patients with a brain tumor, no enhancing effects of cyclophosphamide in the cerebrospinal fluid or plasma was seen.
28 In another
study, 15 renal carcinoma patients were given thioTEPA combined with 2% DMSO by mouth, but no beneficial effects on the tumors were noted.
29
Basal cell carcinoma is a malignant epithelial neoplasm of the skin, which
remains the most common cutaneous malignancy in Caucasians, with as many as 2 million new cases expected to occur yearly in the United States.
30 Although basal
cell carcinoma is not usually life threatening, it has become a medical problem of growing concern. Surgical excision remains the standard treatment for this tumor, but nonsurgical modalities also have achieved acceptable cure rates, particularly photodynamic therapy.
31127 DMSO in Malignancy
The basis of photodynamic therapy depends on a photoactivating light, a photo -
sensitizer such as 5-delta-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA), tissue oxygen, and a target
cell. Photosensitizers can be given systemically or locally on the skin. Topical pho -
todynamic therapy is generally well tolerated, and the usual side effects following 5-ALA include erythema and pain at the site of application.
32
Recent studies have shown that topical photodynamic therapy with 5-ALA
and DMSO in 60 patients with basal cell carcinoma resulted in 81% of the patients becoming symptom-free 72 months after treatment with good cosmetic outcome.
33
A similar study evaluated the long-term follow-up for 19 cases of Bowen’s disease,
a neoplastic skin disease also called squamous cell carcinoma, in which patients were given topical 5-ALA plus DMSO with a single exposure to 630 nm diode laser at differing energy dosages. At 60 months, 57% of the patients treated with 5-ALA and DMSO showed no histologic signs of squamous cell carcinoma.
34
DMSO IN EXTRAVASATION
DMSO has been used to reduce extravasation of cytotoxic agents given to cancer patients intravenously. Extravasation or leakage of these agents from the blood into the surrounding tissue is a true medical emergency that requires immediate action to prevent ulceration or tissue necrosis. The only licensed drug that is used in the United States to reverse extravasation of anthracycline, a class of drugs used in
 cancer chemotherapy, is dexrazoxane,35 a derivative of ethylene diamine tetraacetic
acid (EDTA), which chelates iron ions bound to anthracycline to lower the formation of superoxide radicals.
36
However, cooling and topical DMSO over the area of extravasation has been
shown effective in reducing small anthracycline extravasations.37 The advantages of
DMSO and cooling are the rapidity of preventing anthracycline tissue damage fol -
lowing extravasation and substantial cost-effective savings due to the high cost of a hospital maintaining dexrazoxane in its inventory.
Although brief reports and anecdotal accounts have often appeared attesting the
usefulness of DMSO in the treatment of lymphomas


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 through a serious illness or an
accident that happens to you or someone close to yo u, or through the passing away
of a loved one, death enters your life as the aware ness of your own mortality.

Most people turn away from it in fear, but if you d o not flinch and face the fact that
your body is fleeting and could dissolve at any mom ent, there is some degree of
disidentification, however slight, from your own ph ysical and psychological form,
the “me.” When you see and accept the impermanent n ature of all life forms, a
strange sense of peace comes upon you.

Through facing death, your consciousness is freed t o some extent from
identification with form. This is why in some Buddh ist traditions, the monks
regularly visit the morgue to sit and meditate amon g the dead bodies.

There is still a widespread denial of death in West ern cultures. Even old people try
not to speak or think about it, and dead bodies are  hidden away. A culture that
denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superfi cial, concerned only with the
external form of things. When death is denied, life  loses its depth. The possibility
of knowing who we are beyond name and form, the dim ension of the transcendent,
disappears from our lives because death is the open ing into that dimension.

***

People tend to be uncomfortable with endings, becau se every ending is a little
death. That’s why in many languages, the word for “ good-bye” means “see you again.”

Whenever an experience comes to an end–a gathering of friends, a vacation, your
children leaving home–you die a little death. A “fo rm” that appeared in your
consciousness as that experience dissolves. Often t his leaves behind a feeling of
emptiness that most people try hard not to feel, no t to face.

If you can learn to accept and even welcome the end ings in your life, you may find
that the feeling of emptiness that initially felt u ncomfortable turns into a sense of
inner spaciousness that is deeply peaceful.

By learning to die daily in this way, you open your self to Life.

***

Most people feel that their identity, their sense o f self, is something incredibly
precious that they don’t want to lose. That is why they have such fear of death.

It seems unimaginable and frightening that “I” coul d cease to exist. But you
confuse that precious “I” with your name and form a nd a story associated with it.
That “I” is no more than a temporary formation in t he field of consciousness.

As long as that form identity is all you know, you are not aware that this
preciousness is your own essence, your innermost se nse of I Am, which is
consciousness itself. It is the eternal in you–and that’s the only thing you cannot
lose.

***

Whenever any kind of deep loss occurs in your life– such as loss of possessions,
your home, a close relationship; or loss of your re putation, job, or physical
abilities–something inside you dies. You feel dimin ished in your sense of who you
are. There may also be a certain disorientation. “W ithout this...who am I?”

When a form that you had unconsciously identified w ith as part of yourself leaves
you or dissolves, that can be extremely painful. It  leaves a hole, so to speak, in the
fabric of your existence.

When this happens, don’t deny or ignore the pain or  the sadness that you feel.
Accept that it is there. Beware of your mind’s tend ency to construct a story around
that loss in which you are assigned the role of vic tim. Fear, anger, resentment, or self-pity are the emotions that go with that role. Then become aware of what lies
behind those emotions as well as behind the mind-ma de story: that hole, that empty
space. Can you face and accept that strange sense o f emptiness? If you do, you may
find that it is no longer a fearful place. You may be surprised to find peace
emanating from it.

Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolv es, God, the formless and
unmanifested, shines through the opening left by th e dissolving form. That is why
the most sacred thing in life is death. That is why  the peace of God can come to you
through the contemplation and acceptance of death.

***

How short-lived every human experience is, how flee ting our lives. Is there
anything that is not subject to birth and death, an ything that is eternal?

Consider this: if there were only one color, let us  say blue, and the entire world and
everything in it were blue, then there would be no blue. There needs to be
something that is not blue so that blue can be reco gnized; otherwise, it would not
“stand out,” would not exist.

In the same way, does it not require something that  is not fleeting and impermanent
for the fleetingness of all things to be recognized? In other words: if everything,
including yourself, were impermanent, would you eve n know it? Does the fact that
you are aware of and can witness the short-lived na ture of all forms, including your
own, not mean that there is something in you that i s not subject to decay?

When you are twenty, you are aware of your body as strong and vigorous; sixty
years later, you are aware of your body as weakened  and old. Your thinking too
may have changed from when you were twenty, but the  awareness that knows that
your body is young or old or that your thinking has  changed has undergone no
change. That awareness is the eternal in you–consci ousness itself. It is the formless
One Life. Can you lose It? No, because you are It.

***

Some people become deeply peaceful and almost lumin ous just before they die, as
if something is shining through the dissolving form.

Sometimes it happens that very ill or old people be come almost transparent, so to
speak, in the last few weeks, months, or even years  of their lives. As they look at you, you may see a light shining through their eyes. There is no psychological
suffering left. They have surrendered and so the pe rson, the mind-made egoic
“me,” has already dissolved. They have “died before  they died” and found the deep
inner peace that is the realization of the deathles s within themselves.

***

To every accident and disaster there is a potential ly redemptive dimension that we
are usually unaware of.

The tremendous shock of totally unexpected, imminen t death can have the effect of
forcing your consciousness completely out of identi fication with form. In the last
few moments before physical death, and as you die, you then experience yourself
as consciousness free of form. Suddenly, there is n o more fear, just peace and a
knowing that “all is well” and that death is only a  form dissolving. Death is then
recognized as ultimately illusory–as illusory as th e form you had identified with as
yourself.

***

Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all  events as modern culture would
have you believe, but the most natural thing in the  world, inseparable from and just
as natural as its other polarity–birth. Remind your self of this when you sit with a
dying person.

It is a great privilege and a sacred act to be pres ent at a person’s death as a witness
and companion.

When you sit with a dying person, do not deny any a spect of that experience. Do
not deny what is happening and do not deny your fee lings. The recognition that
there is nothing you can do may make you feel helpl ess, sad, or angry. Accept what
you feel. Then go one step further: accept that the re is nothing you can do, and
accept it completely. You are not in control. Deepl y surrender to every aspect of
that experience, your feelings as well as any pain or discomfort the dying person
may be experiencing. Your surrendered state of cons ciousness and the stillness that
comes with it will greatly assist the dying person and ease their transition. If words
are called for, they will come out of the stillness  within you. But they will be
secondary.

With the stillness comes the benediction: peace.

Chapter 10
Suffering and the End of Suffering

The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists hav e always known it and
physicists now confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event, it only appears
to be. The more we judge and label it, the more we isolate it.

 The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through o ur thinking. Yet the totality of
life has brought this event about. It is part of th e web of interconnectedness that is
the cosmos. This means whatever is could not be oth erwise.

 In most cases, we cannot begin to understand what role a seemingly senseless
event may have within the totality of the cosmos bu t recognizing its inevitability
within the vastness of the whole can be the beginni ng of an inner acceptance of
what is and thus a real


 L. europaea (Pinaceae)
Larch
Description  Deciduous conifer growing to 165 ft
(50 m). Has clusters of needle-like leaves, male and
female flowers, and small, light brown cones.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to the Alps
and the Carpathian mountains of eastern Europe, larch grows to altitudes of 6,600 ft (2,000 m). It is widely cultivated for its timber. The resin is tapped in autumn; the bark is collected when the tree is felled.
Parts Used  Inner bark, resin.
Constituents  Larch contains lignans, resins,
and volatile oil (consisting mainly of alpha- and beta-pinene and limonene).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Larch has
astringent, diuretic, and antiseptic properties.  The bark may be used to treat bladder and urinary tubule infections such as cystitis and urethritis,
and respiratory problems, including bronchitis.
The resin is applied to wounds, where it protects and counters infection. A decoction of the bark  is used to soothe eczema and psoriasis.
Caution  Do not take larch if suffering from
kidney disease.acid. The latter is reportedly harmful to the lymph glands and kidneys, though recent research shows that it has beneficial antidiabetic properties. U.S. research published in 1996 demonstrated that other lignans have antiviral activity against HIV.
History & Folklore  Widely used by Native
Americans, chaparral was taken in the form of a decoction to treat stomach troubles and diarrhea. Y oung twigs were used for toothache. The leaves were applied as a poultice for respiratory problems and as a wash for skin problems.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Until the 1960s,
chaparral remained in wide use in the U.S., with an average of 10 tons (9.07 tonnes) consumed each year. It was thought to be a beneficial remedy for rheumatic disease, venereal infections, urinary infections, and certain types of cancer, especially leukemia. Chaparral was also taken internally for skin afflictions such as acne and eczema, and applied as a lotion to sores, wounds, and rashes. In the early 1990s, sales of chaparral were banned in the U.S. and Britain due to concern over its potential toxic effect on the liver. It now seems likely that this is another herb that can, in rare cases, cause liver damage, as with some conventional medicines. In view of the uncertainty about its safety, any potential benefit from taking the herb must be weighed against the risks.
Related Species  The North American
L. divaricata, a close relative of chaparral, contains lignans, which have been shown to inhibit lymphoid tumor growth with no apparent harmful effect on normal lymphatic tissue.
 QCautions Only take chaparral on
professional advice. People with a history of liver disease should never take chaparral.
Laurus nobilis (Lauraceae)
Bay Laurel
Description  Aromatic evergreen shrub or tree
growing to 65 ft (20 m). Has leathery, dark green leaves, small yellow male and female flowers, and shiny black berries.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to
Mediterranean countries, bay laurel prefers damp and shady sites. It is also a popular garden herb, cultivated largely for culinary use. The leaves are picked year round.
Parts Used  Leaves, essential oil.
Constituents  Bay laurel contains up to 3%
volatile oil (including 30–50% cineole, linalool, alpha-pinene, alpha-terpineol acetate, mucilage, tannin, and resin).
History & Folklore  In ancient Greece, bay
laurel was used in divination by the Delphic Oracle. From ancient Rome comes the tradition that the sudden withering of a bay laurel tree bodes disaster Habitat & Cultivation  White deadnettle
is native to and widespread in Europe and
central and northern Asia. It thrives in fields
and in open areas. It is gathered when in
flower in summer.
Parts Used  Flowering tops.
Constituents  White deadnettle contains
a saponin, flavones, mucilage, and tannins.White deadnettle is used to treat gynecological
conditions.Larrea tridentata (Zygophyllaceae)
Chaparral,
Creosote Bush
Description  Thorny shrub growing to 61⁄2 ft
(2 m), with small finely divided leaves.
Habitat & Cultivation  Chaparral is found
in large numbers in the deserts of the
southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Chaparral contains about 12%
resin and lignans, including nordihydroguaiauretic
US_224-245_Jasmine_Harmala.indd   226 26/02/16   12:47 pm227 other medicinal plantsLepidium virginicum
for the household. In ancient Rome, bay laurel
leaves were used as a medicine, a spice, and a
decorative garland during the December festival of
Saturnalia. Bay laurel was sacred to the gods Apollo
and Asclepius, who together oversaw healing and
medicine. The herb was thought to be greatly
protective and healing. An infusion of the leaves
was taken for its warming and tonic effect on the
stomach and bladder, and a plaster made from
the leaves was used to relieve wasp and bee stings. Lawsonia inermis
syn. L. alba  (Lythraceae)
Henna
Description  Heavily scented evergreen shrub
or tree growing to 20 ft (6 m). Has narrow
pointed leaves, clusters of small white or pink
flowers, and blue-black berries.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to the Middle
East, North Africa, and the Indian subcontinent,
henna grows in sunny areas and is widely
cultivated for use as a hair restorative and dye.
The leaves are picked during the growing season.
Parts Used  Leaves, bark.
Constituents  Henna contains coumarins,
naphthaquinones (including lawsone), flavonoids,
sterols, and tannins.
History & Folklore  Henna has been used for
thousands of years in North Africa and Asia as a red
dye and as a scent. Mummies were wrapped in
henna-dyed cloth in ancient Egypt. In the Middle
East and India, the leaves have traditionally
been used to make a pigment for dyeing
intricate linear patterns on the fingers, palms,
and feet. The leaves have also been used to dye not
only human hair but the manes and tails of horses.
Before meeting Antony, Cleopatra reputedly
soaked the sails of her barge in heady henna flower oil.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Used mainly
within Ayurvedic and Unani medicine, henna leaves
are commonly taken as a gargle for sore throats,
and as an infusion or decoction for diarrhea and
dysentery. The leaves are astringent, prevent
hemorrhaging, and strongly promote menstrual
flow. A decoction of the bark is used to treat liver
problems. Applied in the form of a plaster, henna
treats fungal infections, acne, and boils.Motherwort  has been used to treat palpitations since
at least the 16th century.Culpeper stated that “there is no better herb to
drive away melancholy vapours from the heart, to
strengthen it and make the mind cheerful” (1652).
The Italian physician and herbalist Pierandrea
Matteoli held it “useful for palpitations and a
pounding heart, spasms and paralysis… [it] thins
thick and viscid humours [and] stimulates urine
and menstrual bleeding” (1548).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  A remedy for
the heart and nerves and often prescribed for
palpitations, motherwort strengthens heart function,
especially where it is weak. Antispasmodic and
sedative, the herb promotes relaxation rather than
drowsiness. However, motherwort stimulates the
muscles of the uterus, and is particularly suitable for
delayed periods, period pain, and premenstrual
syndrome (especially if shock or distress is a factor). It
should not be used if menstrual bleeding is heavy.
Bay laurel
adorned victors in
ancient Greece.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Bay laurel is used
mainly to treat upper digestive tract disorders
and to ease arthritic aches and pains. It is settling
to the stomach and has a tonic effect, stimulating
the appetite and the secretion of digestive juices.
When used as an ingredient in cooking, bay laurel
leaves promote the digestion and absorption
of food. The leaves have much the same kind of
positive effect as spearmint ( Mentha spicata ) and
rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis, p. 128) in assisting
the breakdown of heavy food, especially meat.
Bay laurel has also been used to promote the
onset of menstrual periods. The essential oil is
chiefly employed as a friction rub, being well
diluted in a carrier oil and massaged into aching


 materials arriving daily from the digestive tract. What more natural than that, given
the rest that fasting provides, it should be able to repair itself and renew its functional vigor?
The rest provided for the heart is accounted for in two primary ways:
1.
There is a marked lessening of the number of pulsations of the heart.
 A heart that is
pulsating eighty times a minute will fall to sixty or even fewer beats a minute. If the heart is
pulsating at a more rapid rate than eighty a minute, the fall in the pulse rate is even more dramatic.
If we use the first figure of eighty pulsations a minute to work from and take the figure of sixty
beats a minute to represent the level to which the pulsations fall, we have a saving of twenty
pulsations a minute or twelve hundred pulsations an hour or 28,800 pulsations in twenty-four
hours. This represents a great reduction in the amount of work the heart does.
Of course there are the usual fluctuations of the heart rate due to exertion and emotion.
2.
Another restful factor is the fall of blood pressure.
 If the pressure is 160 mm. it will
speedily fall to 140, 130, even 115, where it will remain for the rest of the period of fasting. I saw
one case of a woman who had a systolic pressure of 295 mm. in which the pressure was reduced
in less than two weeks to 115 mm. This means that the heart is working against lessened
resistance. It beats with less force. Less forceful pulsations coupled with reduced number of
pulsations provide a rest for the tired and impaired heart. Under such conditions it repairs and
strengthens itself, and in a good number of cases that have been declared to be
incurable
, the heart
has been fully restored.
I call the foregoing sources of heart rest,
primary
. There are other sources of rest for the heart
110that may be called
secondary
. First among these is the reduction of weight. This is most marked in
fat individuals whose size is such that the heart has to labor to keep the blood circulating through
so much bulk. While the pressure often falls in these cases more rapidly than the flesh is lost, the
loss of pounds relieves the long-suffering heart of a burden. Every pound that is lost relieves the
heart of work it has been forced to do.
Another factor to consider is that, in decompensation, the fall in the rate of pulsation is not as
immediate and rapid as in ordinary fasting cases.
Decompensation is the inability of the heart to maintain adequate circulation. It is characterized
by difficult breathing (dyspnea) blueness of the lips and fingers (cyanosis) rapid, but feeble heart
actions, venous engorgement, a decreased urinary output, with, in severe cases, an accumulation of
fluid in the tissues—edema, dropsy, anasarca.
Although already greatly weakened, the increased work of the heart occasioned by the
accumulating fluid, adds to its difficulties. The heavier burden on the heart becomes intolerable
and it slowly weakens under the load. As the heart weakens the dropsy increases and as this
increases, the work of the heart is increased. A vicious cycle is established from which it is
difficult to escape.
Another source of edema is the taking of common table salt (sodium chloride). This salt is non-
usable and poisonous. It is excreted with difficulty, hence it tends to accumulate in the body of the
salt-eater. It is stored in the surface tissues just under the skin and in cavities, along with water that
is needed to dilute it, thus forming brine. This salt-occasioned edema, often sufficiently marked in
supposedly healthy individuals to be easily
 detected (in others existing as a hidden edema) places
an added burden upon the heart and kidneys.
The body of the fasting patient is able to bring the salt and water back into the circulation, from
where it is excreted. There is commonly an enormous urinary excretion of sodium chloride, in such
cases, up to 78 grams of salt a day having been observed to be excreted during a fast. It has been
shown by careful biochemical observations that fasting results in an absolute increase in the
amount of sodium chloride excreted, even in cases in which the total urinary output is small.
As the sodium chloride content of the blood remains normal during the fast, the indication is that
the salt excreted is from the edema and effusion flud accumulation.
The first step in the excretion of the salt-water accumulation is the return of the water and salt to
the blood stream. Fasting favors the absorption of the fluid from the tissues and its subsequent
excretion. When the fast is instituted and all intake of salt is entirely discontinued, the body is
enabled to rapidly withdraw the water and sodium chloride from the edematous tissues. The
hidden edema and dropsy disappear at a rapid rate.
The principle of lightening the work of the circulatory system and particularly that of the heart
by decreasing the food intake and by eliminating salt from the diet is carried to its ultimate stage
when the heart patient fasts. Often it is even found necessary to reduce greatly the amount of water
taken. Especially in cases of marked edema (dropsy) is it important to reduce the water intake in
order to facilitate the excretion of the fluid from the tissues.
In decompensation of the heart, there is commonly renal (kidney) stasis—stoppage of the blood
flow—which impairs the function of the kidneys. The fast seems to result in an instantaneous
improvement in the function of the kidneys, so that there is an immediate increase of elimination.
There are different views about water intake in this condition, some fasting advocates favoring
taking water freely, on the theory that the kidneys can function better if plenty of water is taken;
others holding that the intake of liberal quantities of water slows down the excretion of the
111edematous accumulation. I favor limiting water intake.
With the increased excretion, through the kidneys, of water and sodium chloride, so that the
edema is reduced or obliterated, the heart is greatly relieved. It has also been suggested that fasting
may favorably affect certain vaso-motor centers, (the nerve centers that control circulation), thus
causing improvement in the condition of the heart and arteries.
Certainly it would be folly to say that the excretion of water and sodium chloride in dropsical
conditions is alone responsible for the wide relief of symptoms that occur. The concomitant
general improvement of the heart and circulatory condition must be taken into full consideration,
but there is reason to think that the increased urinary outpout and the absorption of
 water and salt
from the tissues is due, in great measure, to the improvement of the general circulatory action, the
improvement tending to persist after eating is resumed.
An Italian physician, Giorgio Dagnini, M.D., studied the results of fasting in sixteen cases of
cardiac decompensation and presented a detailed account of his observations in the
Institute of
General Medicine and Therapeutics
 of the University of Modena, Italy. I am indebted to an
American physician, who is interested in fasting, for an English translation of the account.
Dagnini says of these sixteen cases, many of whom had previously proved “refractory of therapy
with cardiac drugs,” that all of them suffered with severe cardiac decompensation. In addition to
the fast, the patients were all given bed rest and all the water desired but no drugs. Twelve of
these patients suffered with edema of the serous cavities; four had no edema.
Of the twelve edematous patients the clinical diagnoses were myocardial sclerosis (hardening
of the heart muscle) in six cases; mitral stenosis (narrowing or stricture of the mitral valve of the
heart) in two cases; mitral and aortic stenosis (stenosis of both the mitral and aortic valves) in one
case; mitral insufficiency (failure of the mitral valve to close) in one case; malignant hypertension
and cardiac asthma in one case; hypertension and cardiovascular disease, fibrillation and
myocardial sclerosis in one case.
Both sexes were involved and their ages ranged from 24 years to 75 years. The fasts ranged
from five days (the shortest) to seven days (the longest). Of the non-edematous group, three had
mitral stenosis, one had hypertension with myocardial sclerosis. There was but one man in this
group. The youngest of the group was thirty-eight years, the oldest, sixty-four years. These patients
all fasted seven days.
All the fasts in these heart cased were short, but Dagnini says: “It was consistently observed that
cardiac patients treated with fasting show increased urinary output and a rapid resorption of edema
fluid and peritoneal and pleural effusions.” In the non-edematous group sodium chloride excretion
was about “normal.” This may indicate that the edema in the other cases was as much the result of
salt-eating as of heart weakness.
From among his twelve edematous patients, I would like to cite one case only, to picture the
developments as they occur when a cardiac patient is fasted.
The patient was a twenty-four-year-old man who had a clinical diagnosis of mitral stenosis. He
was in a grave condition, with failure largely on the right side of his heart. The heart was much