university.
In explaining the law of assumption, I stated that his present situation was only a manifestation of his
concept of himself and declared that if he wanted to change the circumstances in which he found himself,
he could do so by changing his concept of himself. In order to bring about this change of consciousness,
and thereby a change in his situation, I asked him to follow this procedure every night just before he fell
asleep: In imagination he was to feel he was retiring at the end of one of the most important and successful
days of his life. He was to imagine that he had actually closed a deal that very day to join the kind of
organization he yearned to be with and in exactly the capacity he wanted. I suggested to him that if he
succeeded in completely filling his mind with this feeling, he would experience a definite sense of relief. In
this mood his uneasiness and discontent would be a thing of the past. He would feel the contentment that
comes with the fulfilment of desire. I wound up by assuring him that if he did this faithfully, he would
inevitably get the kind of position he wanted.
This was the first week of December. Night after night without exception he followed this procedure. Early
in February a director of one of the wealthiest foundations in the world asked this executive if he would be
interested  in  joining  the  foundation  in  an  executive  capacity  handling  investments.  After  some  brief
discussion he accepted.
Today, at a substantially higher income and with the assurance of steady progress, this man is in a position
far exceeding all that he had hoped for.
The man and wife in this story have attended my lectures for a number of years. It is an interesting
illustration of the conscious use of this law by two people concentrating on the same objective at one time.
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 43 of 51This man and wife were an exceptionally devoted couple. Their life was completely happy and entirely free
from any problems or frustrations.
For some time they had planned to move into a larger apartment. The more they thought about it, the more
they realized that what they had their hearts set on was a beautiful penthouse. In discussing it together, the
husband explained that he wanted one with a huge window looking out on a magnificent view. The wife
said she would like to have one side of the walls mirrored from top to bottom. They both wanted to have a
wood-burning fireplace. It was a "must" that the apartment be in New York City.
For months they had searched for just such an apartment in vain. In fact, the situation in the city was such
that the securing of any kind of apartment was almost an impossibility. They were so scarce that not only
were there waiting lists for them, but all sorts of special deals including premiums, the buying of furniture,
etc., were involved. New apartments were being leased long before they were completed, many being
rented from the blueprints of the building.
Early  in  the  spring  after  months  of  fruitless  seeking,  they  finally  located  one  which  they  seriously
considered. It was a penthouse apartment in a building just being completed on upper Fifth Avenue facing
Central Park. It had one serious drawback. Being a new building, it was not subject to rent control, and the
couple felt the yearly rental was exorbitant. In fact, it was several thousand dollars a year more than they
had considered paying. During the spring months of March and April they
continued looking at various penthouses throughout the city but they always came back to this one. Finally
they decided to increase the amount they would pay substantially and made a proposition which the agent
for the building agreed to forward to the owners for consideration.
It was at this point, without discussing it with each other, each determined to apply the law of assumption.
It was not until later that each learned what the other had done. Night after night, they both fell asleep in
imagination  in the apartment  they were considering. The husband, lying with his eyes  closed, would
imagine that his bedroom windows were overlooking the park. He would imagine going to the window the
first thing in the morning and enjoying the view. He felt himself sitting on the terrace overlooking the park,
having cocktails with his wife and friends, all thoroughly enjoying it. He filled his mind with actually
feeling himself in the penthouse and on the terrace. During all this time, unknown to him, his wife was
doing the same thing.
Several weeks went by without any decision on the part of the owners, but they continued to imagine as
they fell asleep each night that they were actually sleeping in the penthouse.
One day, to their complete surprise, one of the employees in the apartment building in which they
lived told them that the penthouse there was vacant. They were astonished because theirs was one of the
most desirable buildings in the city with a perfect location right on Central Park. They knew there was a
long waiting list of people trying to get an apartment in their building. The fact that a penthouse had
unexpectedly become available was kept quiet by the management because they were not in a position to
consider any applicants for it. Upon learning that it was vacant, this couple immediately made a request
that it be rented to them, only to be told that this was impossible. The fact was that not only were there
several people on a waiting list for a penthouse in the building but it was actually promised to one family.
Despite this the couple had a series of meetings with the management, at the conclusion of which the
apartment was theirs.
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 44 of 51The building being subject to rent control, their rental was just about what they had planned to pay when
they  first  started  looking  for  a  penthouse.  The  location,  the  apartment  itself,  and  the  large  terrace
surrounding it on the South, West, and North was beyond all their expectations and in the living room on
one side is a giant window 15 feet by 8 feet with a magnificent view of Central Park; one wall is mirrored
from floor to ceiling, and there is a wood burning fireplace.
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                                     FAILURE
THIS BOOK would not be complete without some discussion of failure in the attempted use of the law of
assumption. It is entirely possible that you either have had or will have a number of failures in this respect
-many of them in really important matters. If, having read this book, having a thorough knowledge of the
application and working of the law of assumption, you faithfully apply it in an effort to attain some intense
desire and fail, what is the reason? If to the question "Did you persist enough?" you can answer Yes and
still the attainment of your desire was not realized, what is the reason for failure?
The answer to this is the most important factor in the successful use of the law of assumption. The time it
takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly proportionate to the naturalness
of your feeling of already being what you want to be of already having what you desire. The fact that it
does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure. Regardless
of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently you follow the law, if you do not feel natural
about what you want to be, you will not be it. If it does not feel natural to you to get a better job, you will
not get a better job. The whole principle is vividly expressed by the Bible phrase "you die in your sins" you
do not transcend from your present level to the state desired.
How can this feeling of naturalness be achieved.? The secret lies in one word, imagination. For example,
this is a very simple illustration: Assume that you are securely chained to a large heavy iron bench. You
could not possibly run, in fact you could not even walk. In these circumstances it would not be natural for
you to run. You could not even see that it was natural for you to run. But you could easily imagine yourself
running. In that instant, while your consciousness is filled with your imagined running, you have forgotten
that you are bound. In imagination your running was completely natural.
The  essential  feeling  of  naturalness  can  be  achieved  by  persistently  filling  your  consciousness  with
imagination, imagining yourself being what you want to be or having what you desire.
Progress can spring only from your imagination, from your desire to transcend your present level.
What you truly and literally must feel is that with your imagination, all things are possible. You must
realize that changes are not caused by caprice, but by a change of consciousness. You may fail to achieve
or sustain the particular state of consciousness necessary to produce the effect you desire. But, once you
know that consciousness is the only reality and is the sole creator of your particular world and have burnt
this truth into your whole being, then you know that success or failure is entirely in your own hands.
Whether or not you  are disciplined  enough to sustain  the required state of consciousness in specific
instances has no bearing on the truth of the law itself that an assumption, if persisted in, will harden into
fact


 the anti-microbial remedy, and
before eating or drinking anything containing carbohydrates.
Normally the intestinal wall is dense ly covered with microbes, either beneﬁcial or pathogenic ones. When we take beneﬁcial bacteria
during Candida overgrowth, then the good bacteria cannot get a foothold on the intestinal wall, and largely just pass through the
intestines.
Therefore we must ﬁrst make some free space at the intestinal wall by ingesting an anti-microbial agent, such as garlic. We need to
wait a while until the anti-microbial  has cleared the stomach and then we take a high-potency probiotic, commonly a culture of
acidophilus and biﬁdo bacteria.
Now these good bacteria can easily occupy the vacated spaces at the intestinal wall. However, if we do not follow up with probiotics,
then the next time we ingest any carbohydrates the fungus will quickly multiply and ﬁll the empty spaces again.
In this way we can quickly regenerate a healthy intestinal ﬂora. However, it takes much longer to eliminate the spores and fungal
roots growing through the intestinal wall. Therefore we need to be careful, use a suitable diet and continue to avoid or minimize drugs
and chemicals that may kill our beneﬁcial bacteria.
SYSTEMIC ANTIMICROBIAL  THERAPY
Furthermore, in long-standing condit ions the fungus or other microbes will have invaded the bloodstream and lodged in other parts of
the body, especially the lungs. For this we need to take stronger action. While continuing with high doses of raw garlic may initially
clear the blood, it is generally preferable to alternate between different anti-microbial remedies. Commonly used for this purpose are
wormwood, olive leaf and pau d’arco. Sometimes also oxygen therapy or colloidal silver are being used.10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Truth about Asthma
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Asthma.html 8/10A combination of these methods should be used from one to two months to eliminate not only fungi but also most harmful bacteria
and viruses from the body, giving the immune system a chance to get back into control.
It is advisable to use probiotics from time to time during prolonged anti-microbial therapy, and especially immediately after terminating
this therapy. Therefore, once a day or several times a week you may take a probiotic 30 to 60 minutes after the anti-microbial and
before ingesting any carbohydrate. After ﬁnishing the anti-microbial therapy continue to take probiotics for several weeks before
breakfast.
MINIMIZING MUCUS CONGESTION AND INFLAMMA TION
As pointed out previously, the muci c acid produced from lactose is highly irritating to the mucous membranes lining the bronchial
tubes and lungs. This stimulates the secretion of protective mucus, which then tends to clog up the airways, and it also increases
inﬂammatory tendencies. All this provides an ideal breeding ground for pathogenic microbes to thrive in this environment.
Therefore, an important rule is to avoid all lactose-containing products. Read labels, avoid any suspicious-looking food, and be aware
that not all food additives may need to be declared on the label. While pasteurized cows’  milk and skim milk products are the most
serious offenders, initially avoid even potentially beneﬁcial foods, such as goats’  milk yogurt. When you are free of asthma, you may
again cautiously re-introduce potentially beneﬁcial goats’  milk products, such as yogurt, keﬁr, and natural cottage cheese and cheese.
Small amounts of butter are usually alright, except if allergic to cows’  milk. However, even fats, especially saturated fats, ingested or
formed in the liver from excess carbohydrates, can increase mucus congestion if they are not properly removed from the blood.
Avoid Gluten
Gluten tends to damage the intestin al wall by having an irritating and inﬂammatory effect on the intestinal lining. It also blunts the
absorption villi of the small intestines and contributes to malabsorption. Many individuals knowingly or unknowingly are highly
sensitive to gluten and have varying degrees of celiac disease associated with mucus formation, inﬂammation and allergies.
However, basically everyone seems  to be temporarily affected when digesting gluten as this tends to make the intestinal wall more
permeable to only partly digested proteins. This greatly increases the likelihood of food allergies developing. The common gluten
grains are wheat, rye, barley and oats. Gluten is also routinely added to many processed foods.
While you still have asthma complet ely avoid all gluten products, and later be very careful. In previous centuries gluten was less of a
problem because on the one hand the gluten content of grains was much lower than today and on the other hand much of the gluten
was enzymatically predigested by proper sourdough baking. Therefore, if and when you want to re-introduce gluten products after
overcoming your asthma, continue to avoid or minimize wheat and use preferentially spelt and rye sourdough bread (also see Wheat
& Gluten ).
Avoid Mouldy Foods
Dietary yeasts and molds as well as mushrooms greatly increase the difﬁculties of susceptible individuals, frequently causing allergic
reactions and ﬂare-ups of asthma. In addition, some molds may dama ge the liver, for instance a mold that frequently grows on
peanuts and is present in peanut butter. Molds commonly grow on dried fruits and on poorly stored grains and nuts, also on the outer
leaves of cabbage and the skins of various fruits. Molds may be in food at such low levels that we cannot taste or smell it. Cooking or
processing does not help as allergic reactions commonly are against the cell walls, regardless if the fungi are dead or alive.
A study in the UK in 1977 found that molds and their poisonous myco-toxins (fungal toxins) were in all 318 samples of ﬂour tested.
This mold contamination is due to insufﬁcient drying in the process of combine-harvesting grain. Wholemeal ﬂour, bran and wheat
germ are even more af fected by mold than is white ﬂour. Rice is also frequently contaminated.
Washing whole grains and nuts, susceptible fruits and vegetables before cooking or eating helps to remove molds; drying in the sun
destroys fungi and prevents their development. Preferably remove environmental molds, for instance those on walls and bathroom
tiles.
Frequently antibiotics are routinely added to animal feed for meat production; this applies especially to poultry and pigs. Antibiotic
residues may impair the intestinal ﬂora of the consumer of such products and thereby encourage the spread of Candida. In addition,
the meat itself may be infested with Candida or other fungi because of the prolonged use of antibiotics while, on the other hand,
resistant strains of harmful bacteria may be present. I do not recommend habitually eating such meat. As a general rule I recommend
to avoid meat from feedlots.
Allergies
Food allergies, chemical sensitivities  and airborne allergens are major causes of inﬂammation and, with this, of deteriorating asthma
conditions. It is difﬁcult to do much about airborne allergens but fortunately these usually clear up when food allergies and chemical
sensitivities are corrected.
As explained before, this is mainly done by re-establishing a healthy intestinal ﬂora. Until this is accomplished it is recommended to
follow a low-allergy diet or to do elimination food testing to eliminate of fending foods.
A main reason why foods cause allergic reactions is a deﬁciency of digestive enzymes. Therefore, initially you may also use digestive
enzyme supplements to minimize allergy problems.
Other Causes of Inﬂammations
Allergies, molds, mucic acid, as well as Candida and other microbes are the most common causes of inﬂammations. If we are
persistently exposed to some or all of these, then the inﬂammation will be chronic or permanent.10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Truth about Asthma
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Asthma.html 9/10Another aggravating inﬂuence is an overacid body. The main reasons for this are allergens and microbial toxins which make the
energy metabolism inefﬁcient. Instea d of producing energy from glucose, cells produce only lactic acid, which makes the lymph ﬂuid
too acid. This can also happen if the diet is too high in sugar and reﬁned ﬂour products, or if the diet is too low in alkalizing minerals
as from fruit and vegetables.
The more acid the body ﬂuids are the more histamine is released, and this greatly intensiﬁes any allergic reaction. Therefore, make
the necessary dietary adjustments to avoid or minimize sweet food and reﬁned ﬂour products, and instead use alkalizing fruits and
vegetables.
Another inﬂammation booster is cooked food in general, and especia lly food that has been heated to above the boiling point.
Therefore maximize the intake of anti-inﬂammatory raw food, and do not heat the food to more than 100°C.
The linoleic acid in seed oils, an omega-6 fatty acid, is pro-inﬂammatory while the omega-3 fatty acids in ﬁsh oils and linolenic acid in
linseed are anti-inﬂammatory.
REDUCING STRESS
By sanitizing your intestines, eliminating microbial infestations, and minimizing allergens


attractive appearance.
A
Inorganic minerals and toxic acid cr ystals ar e a major
cause of poor posture. This can bring on all sorts of
disturbances by throwing the vital organs out of place,
unduly straining some muscles, while weakening others,
impairing cir culation, breathing and elimination.
Just stand on any busy city corner and watch the
people of all ages shuffle by you. What a miserable sight
most of them present – people whose feet are so loaded
with inorganic calcification and pain that they simply
lift their feet up and put them down! The spring’ s
absolutely gone from their step.
77
Inorganic Deposits Cause Bad Posture
B Inorganic Mineral
Deposits Between
the Bones of the
Toes (A and B) Cause
Stiffness and Pain
in the Feet. B
Many people walk like ducks with their toes pointing
outward. Others walk stooped and are bent out of shape.
Some walk stiff with no knee action. Y ou see many whose
steps are unsteady because their joints are so cemented
and others who are so out of balance that they sway
from side to side as they hobble along. Their heads are
carried too far for ward, throwing their bodies off balance.
Watch them as they tr y to sit down. They simply plop
into the chair, giving their lower back and hips a shock.
Water – Curse of Millions of Aching Backs
By the time they reach 40, millions of Americans are
plagued by lower back pains. When they bend over it is
absolute agony! Their whole lower spine is becoming
fossilized and cemented with inorganic calcification.
By the time people are 40, they’ve worn out much of
the cartilage that acts as a cushion to the spinal bones.
This is a painful condition which only gets progressively
worse on a constant diet of chemicalized and mineralized
water. Plus, most suffer from extreme dehydration that,
combined with their unhealthy acid cr ystal-for ming diet,
adds to their overall joint and health problems.
78
Proper
Walking
Posture
Proper walking posture. Always prepare a new base before leaving the old.
Proper
Lifting
Posture
Lifting weight. The weight of the baby is held close to
the center of gravity, directly above the pushing for ce.
The Parade of the “Living Dead”
Just remember that chemically, physically and
mentally we are what we eat and drink. Because most
humans are ignorant about what to put into their bodies,
very few escape being one of the “ living dead ”. So many
people, after their 20s, do not know what healthy,
vibrant, youthful living is! They drag themselves through
life, relying on some kind of medication to keep them
going. They need a “pep” pill to keep them going during
the day and a sleeping pill to put them to sleep at night.
Check Y our Mattress
During sleep, you recharge the batter y you ran down during
the day. The right kind of mattress is important! It’ s better to
sleep on the mattress; not in it. T ry the new 2” memor y foam
mattress topper or an air mattress. They are both great! Right – Fir m Bed Wrong – Sagging Bed
Mankind is Sick and Growing Sicker!
Throughout the whole of r ecorded histor y, man has
suffered with a variety of miseries, a great many of which
can be directly traced to har d, inorganic mineral water.
In a Milwaukee museum, we saw the backbones (spines)
of American Indians who lived in W isconsin over a
thousand years ago, all with calcification that showed
they were victims of arthritis. These Indians drank the
Lake Michigan water, which is heavily saturated with
inorganic calcium carbonate and other inorganic
minerals. Their spring and river waters wer e no better. 79 One thing early American Indians didn’ t have to
worr y about, however, was harmful chlorination and
fluoridation of their drinking water which would have
added more poisons to their already burdened bodies.
Sad fact: now by U.S. Law, all Indian Reser vations have
fluoridated water (bottom page 23). Even mummies of
ancient Egypt, some over 2,500 years old, show ravages
of arthritis and other diseases due to drinking Nile River
water, which is still heavily saturated with inor ganic
minerals. Y ou can see, even ancient people, living under
the most natural conditions, suffered and died long
before their time! Inorganically mineralized water truly
is the universal drink of disease and premature death!
Every time a person turns on the water faucet and
drinks water that has been treated and chemicalized with
fluoride, chlorine and toxins or is saturated with calcium
carbonate and other inorganic minerals, he is
calcification are broken facial capillaries. Study people’ s
faces. Look closely at the cheek, around the nose and
on the chin, where you will often see the smallest blood
vessels, slender as hairs, showing near the surface of the
skin. When these tiny capillaries become encrusted with
inorganic minerals, they expand in size and often
rupture, making purplish or reddish blotches. Blocked
by inorganic minerals and no longer able to handle the
circulation of the blood, except per haps to a small degr ee,
these broken capillaries not only give the face an
unhealthy appearance, but are often quite painful.
80 jeopardizing his health, his mind and his life!
Disfiguring Broken Capillaries
Among the many manifestations of inorganic
Cold Feet and Cold Hands
Many people of all ages suffer from poor cir culation,
in most cases due to or aggravated by inorganic mineral
encrustations in the arteries, veins and capillaries that
constitute the blood cir culator y system.
According to the ancient Hindu scriptures, the proper amount
of food is half of what can be conveniently eaten. Wehave frequently shaken hands with people whose
hands were ice cold even on the warmest days. Many
people also suffer from extremely cold feet, especially
in cool weather.  By age 60, many people have patches
of small blue, broken and expanded veins around their
feet and ankles, giving their legs an appearance of
blackness or dirtiness, even just after a bath.
Poor cir culation is first and most critically noticeable
in the hands and feet because the blood has farther to
go from the heart to reach these extremities. When the
pipes of the body become clogged and obstructed, the
blood has difficulty in getting through. Instead of
coursing through the capillaries of the hands and feet
in a warm, healthy stream, it trickles through – barely
able to bring nourishment, much less any warmth.
The entire body, of course, is affected when the pipes
of the cir culator y system are clogged.  People with poor
circulation find it difficult to keep warm in cold or even
cool weather.  Their overheated homes become like a
hothouse living arena. They must bundle up in sweaters,
coats and bulky clothing when they go outside.
Every sick person usually has a sluggish cir culator y
system that is operating on a ver y low level – chiefly
due to plugged-up pipes. Remember that the main
source of these encrustations is drinking water saturated
with inorganic minerals. Those who drink distilled water
and the juices of fruits and vegetables are helping to
keep their cir culator y systems clean and more healthy.
CLOGGED PIPES
81
Water Pipe Artery
An ar tery with heavy
inter nal deposits can be
compared to scale that
forms on the inside of a
water pipe. An ar tery
clogged like this results
in an increase in blood
pressure and may cause a
heart attack or str oke. 82 Stop Kidney Stones Cold
* It is hard to believe that something as small as a
kidney stone could cause such severe pain. Most people
who have suffered through such an episode are highly
motivated to do anything necessar y to avoid another
attack. By making certain lifestyle and diet changes,
kidney stone attacks can be prevented.
Kidney stones are composed of waste products –
things the body doesn’ t use or need. Normally these
wastes are eliminated through your kidneys in urine,
but when there is too much waste or not enough fluid
to flush it out, it all comes together to form a stone.
The body is tr ying to push out these stones, that is
what causes the excruciating pain.
You can prevent the recurrence of kidney stones by
drinking 8 or more 8 oz. glasses of distilled water daily
(add tsp Bragg V inegar to 3 of them ) and eat less foods
that form stones. Distilled water and healthy fluids
are the most important ingredients in eliminating and
also preventing stones. It’s important to not get
dehydrated and to stay away from hard and artificially
softened and mineral waters. Salt, alcohol, inorganic
calcium, animal proteins and oxalates are diet
“dangers” in the stone-forming process.
Calcium is


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www.thegersonway.comthe apparent flu is very severe, persists for some weeks and finally slowly clears. That flu turns
out to have been pancreatitis, i.e., inflammation of the pancreas. A short time later the child is
diagnosed with diabetes.
In this case not enough natural insulin is produced, the child becomes insulin dependent and
must be injected daily with the missing hormone. Sadly, the problem is life-long and worsens
over time. Since the patient is advised to eat a largely protein-based diet, excluding carbohydrates,
eventually the kidneys are affected, leading to the need for kidney dialysis. Further difficulties
arise—plaque formation, circulatory problems, even loss of toes, feet or legs, due to insufficient
circulation and resulting gangrene. During adolescence such children are unable to concentrate or
do well in their studies, nor do they grow at the same rate as their peers.
Even these multiple problems arising at a young age have been relieved by the Gerson
Therapy. Obviously, the treatment has to be modified to suit the special needs of the patients:
they are given less carrot and apple juice, more green leaf juice. Potatoes are cut out in favor of
vegetables and raw foods, and little fruit is given, mainly apples and melons. Insulin is continued
as needed. However, most patients are able to cut down considerably on the dosage used. One
particular 12-year-old was able to decrease his insulin requirement by 2/3rds of the original dose,
he became an “A” student and even caught up with his classmates’ growth. In other words his
condition had greatly improved. However, he could not be cured, i.e., totally freed from his need
for insulin, for it was impossible to restore the destroyed Islets of Langerhans, which should
have produced the necessary natural insulin. This boy’s Gerson medication was augmented by
chromium piccolinate to boost his insulin output, but it did not come back to normal. (see Part III
of this Chapter, pg. 64).
Caution:  once a patient has been started on dialysis, the Gerson Therapy cannot be used!
Age Onset Diabetes Mellitus  is curable with the Gerson Therapy. About 85% of patients
suffering from this condition actually produce an adequate amount of insulin. The problem is
that this insulin is unable to reach the relevant receptors within the cells, for they are blocked by
excess cholesterol.
As far as the majority of Diabetes Mellitus patients are concerned, they benefit from the
Gerson program that, with its exclusion of animal products, is free from cholesterol. More
importantly, the restored enzyme activity together with the high Omega 3 content of the flax seed
oil is able to clear the cholesterol from the body tissues. In most patients excess cholesterol gets
cleared out within a week or two, even though they no longer take their cholesterol-lowering
drugs. It also takes only a short time before the available natural insulin reaches its destination in
the cells; the excess glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream is reduced to normal, so that there is no
further need for insulin supplementation.
These patients are also restricted at the start of the therapy in their intake of carrot and apple
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www.thegersonway.comjuice and sweet fruit, but they can before long embark on a regular Gerson Therapy with the usual
juices, potato-rich meals, and oatmeal with fruit for breakfast. They, too, are supplemented with
chromium piccolinate, but can drop this provided their blood sugar remains normal.
Case History:  Our most severely ill diabetic patient was R.H., a 41-year-old man weighing
over 300 pounds. His blood sugar ran over 340 (normal below 120), and was uncontrollable
with insulin and/or other medications. He had had a heart attack at age 38 and was left with
dangerously high blood pressure—240/110 (normal 120/80), also uncontrolled by drugs. In
addition he suffered from gout. If he omitted his gout medication for a single day, he had to
endure an excruciatingly painful attack.
On the Gerson Therapy he was eating mainly vegetables, raw salads with green juices, and
his diet was restricted to one potato a day; instead of oatmeal in the morning he received a plateful
of mixed raw vegetables. He also used the usual enemas and took chromium piccolinate along
with the other Gerson medication. Insulin had to be continued at the start of the treatment as
needed, the requirement being checked by regular blood tests.
R.H. lost 1-2 pounds a day without ever being hungry. On top of his three regular meals he
was given a plate of raw vegetables for snacks in his room. (Non-diabetic patients receive a fruit
plate to eat as snacks during the night or between meals, should they feel hungry.) His vegetable
plate contained carrot and celery strips, tomatoes, cauliflower florets, and radishes. His gout
medication was discontinued immediately after starting the treatment, without bringing on an
attack.
At the end of 10 weeks the patient’s blood sugar was normal and he was able to discontinue
the insulin injections. His weight had come down by almost 100 pounds, and at 6’2” he weighed
an almost normal 210 pounds. Finally his blood pressure had also dropped to a normal level
without the need for drugs.
Part II
Confronting Chronic Conditions
Unfortunately the diseases described so far are not the only ones inflicted on us by the faulty,
health-destroying dietary habits of modern civilization. Nowadays people truly dig their graves
with their teeth, not realizing the harm they are doing to themselves. And as various serious
diseases have crept up on us silently, becoming part of our way of life—and death, we tend to take
them for granted and no longer question their growing prevalence, or why they cut short the lives
of so many people in their prime.
Now is the moment to ask questions, listen to the answers and change our lives for the better.
The good news is that the severe health damages caused by the wrong diet can be undone by
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www.thegersonway.comthe right one. And this applies as much to the killer diseases we have reviewed as to the many
chronic degenerative conditions that can drag on for many years, causing much pain, discomfort,
depression and poor quality of life. Modern medicine can ease the pain with allopathic drugs,
but is unable to eliminate the basic problem; indeed many people believe that their arthritis or
osteoporosis is incurable. But they are wrong. And although the Gerson Therapy’s best-known
achievement is its successful healing of cancer, it also has an extraordinary track record in dealing
with so-called incurable chronic conditions.
Chronic Immune-Deficiency Diseases
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This condition is also known as ME, standing for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Along with
many other diseases caused by inadequate immune competence, it is spreading dramatically.
Sometimes referred to as “Yuppie Syndrome,” it used to be known as the Epstein-Barr disease.
That was a more accurate description, since its cause was found to be the body’s inability to
overcome the Epstein-Barr viral infection. As there are no medical treatments to overcome
viruses—antibiotics are useless against them—the disease is considered not only incurable but
also untreatable.
In due course, with people suffering from worsening symptoms of weakness, inability
to concentrate, aches and muscle pains, it was discovered that the underlying cause was not
exclusively the Epstein-Barr virus, viz. that this virus had possibly mutated into other forms, and
that perhaps other viruses were also involved. At this stage the disease was re-named as Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, referring to one of its main symptoms. Unfortunately the change of name still
left it ‘incurable.’
Case History: What we already know about the Gerson Therapy’s ability to rebuild a
damaged, severely deficient immune system should make it clear why it is so effective against
this condition. One patient’s dramatic response to the therapy illustrates the process well. It
concerns W.D., a middle-aged engineer who after twenty years was forced to leave his job, when
the viral infection hit him. He was given the California ‘Disabled Driver’ plaque, although there
was some doubt as to whether he was able to drive at all. At times he was even unable to find his
own car, could not balance his checkbook, and complained of “the black cheesecloth that falls
over me.” On the full therapy, in his own words he soon felt “not as well as my colleagues, as I
had wished, but much better, with new energy, a brighter outlook, and feeling again like 25 at age
55! My coordination, eyesight and


udies in the introduction to 1988 edition of his
book Golodaniye radi zdoroviya  (Fasting for
Health), published for the first time in 1973 with
200,000 copies.
At the end of the 1990s, the Republic of Burya-
tia hosted a pilot experience to introduce fasting
dietary therapy (RDT) in the practice of medical
and hospital facilities at the state level. Under the
scientific direction of Prof. A.N. Kokosov, a
training program for RDT specialists was estab-
lished in the republic, with lectures, seminars
and conferences on the method aimed at both
doctors and health personnel, and the interested
public.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frSince then, in Russia, the number of scientific
articles that have been released and authors who
have made contributions to the field of thera-
peutic fasting (including dry fasting) are un-
countable. This is evidenced by the materials re-
ported in Appendix 1 and th e relative bibliog-
raphy included in this book, which contains ref-
erences, as complete as possible, on the enor-
mous amount of medical and scientific research
carried out in the USSR -Russia in the last sixty
years.
Finally, I would like to add that 25 years since
the creation of the Russian fasting dietary ther-
apy (RDT) were celebrated on 10 August 2019,
in Goryachinsk, Republic of Buryatia, and I had
the pleasure of being present and of getting to
know the people who are still carrying out this
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the end of this book).

Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frPreface by Sergey Filonov

I was born in the Altai region in a family of
physicians; both my mother and my older sister
are pediatricians. Since early childhood at home
I regularly overheard conversations about med-
icine. With such a "family anamnesis" it was a
foreseeable predicament that my path would
lead me straight to the study of medicine, and so
it was indeed, even though, from what I recall,
during childhood and adolescence I was fond of
totally different things: like all the boys on our
street, I, too, wanted to become a pilot.
One day my father and I went skiing. After
our outing we visited some friends for a cup of
tea, and it was there that for first time in my life
I saw a cancer pat ient. He was very thin and
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strong impression on me. Once I reached home
I asked my mother if it recovering from this dis-
ease really was impossible, and she replied: " Un-
fortunately, my son, at this stage of the illness our
medicine is yet ineffective."
In eighth grade, by chance, I stumbled upon a
book. I do not remember the title, but I remem-
ber well that it spoke of a talented healer who
had cured a man suffering from cancer by treat-
ing it with herbs and fasting. Hence, the body
has the reserves and forces capable to treat such
a serious and insidious disease like cancer, I
thought.
For every poison, there must necessarily be an
antidote in nature. For each disease in the body
there must be forces able to heal it. After all,
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and doctors. They are guided by their natural in-
stincts. They know better than any herbalists,
which grass to take in the moment they need it,
or they heal themselves just by fasting. From that
moment, I became more interested in natural
ways of healing. I began to read books about fast-
ing, hypnosis, herbs, acupuncture. I began to un-
derstand: a man is a natural pharmacy, the or-
ganism has all it needs for the treatment of any
disease, it is  only necessary to discover these nat-
ural medicines and stimulate them to benefit the
organism, with work, patience and willpower.
My decision to enroll in medical school was ab-
solutely conscious, but I knew that I would not
be interested in sitting at the  clinic and to pre-
scribe tablets. I had to find a specialization and
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patients would be assisted and able to utilize
their huge hidden potential to heal diseases.
On the fourth year of my medical degree, I
was appointed to supervise a patient with bron-
chial asthma. When I went to her room, I could
not believe what I saw: a blooming woman with
a pink blush on the face and sparkling eyes. She
didn’t look at all like an asthmatic patient. I
wanted to apologize and  say, that I had entered
in the wrong room, but still I asked her name. It
turned out I was in the right place!
"Don’t be so surprised - she said  - that I don’t
look like an asthmatic person. I have been on a
twenty -day course of fasting, and now I'm at t he
end of it. After the tenth day of fasting I stopped
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frhaving asthma attacks and I stopped using an in-
haler.  "
Her appearance and her breathing impressed
me. It's one thing to read books about fasting,
and another thing to see in practice the results of
it. After this meeting, I definitely decided that I
needed to know everything about this wonderful
technique and make sure to specialize in it.
Professor Yu.S. Nikolayev authored the best
texts on therapeutic fasting at the time. His
book3 is written with such enthusiasm and faith
in this natural method, that after reading it I also
wanted to practice it. So I did, and got my whole
university group involved. We started a juice

3 Nikolayev Yu.S. Golodaniye radi zdoroviya (Fasting for Health),
Moskva,  Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1973.
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my group aba ndoned the experiment, but I con-
tinued. I particularly liked to fast before exams:
after fasting my head became light, clear, and
memory was very much improved, and most im-
portantly I would go take the exams without any
fear.
After graduating from the medi cal institute I
was appointed in the locality of "Goryachinsk",
in the Republic of Buryatia on the shore of the
sacred Lake Baikal. The nature and beauty of
these places enchanted me, especially the energy
and the magnificence of the Lake.
Working in this  sanatorium I was fortunate
to meet a very interesting person, Vladimir Ro-
manovich Verbul. He was suffering from
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to try the 24 -day fast in the domestic environ-
ment.
His work colleagues were shocked by the re-
sults of his therapeutic fast. Together they de-
cided to invite the famous Professor Yuri Ser-
geyevich Nikolayev to Buryatia. When the pro-
fessor arrived, they took him to our
"Goryachinsk" sanatorium, so I had the chance
to meet this extraordinary man for the first time.
Yuri Sergeyevich liked the sanatorium and the
surrounding nature very much. He said : "Here at
Lake Baikal, the place and conditions are perfect
for therapeutic fasting."
Professor Nikolayev invited me to follow him
to Moscow to practice in h is therapeutic fasting
ward.
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opened department for therapeutic fasting in
our sanatorium.


	a	juice	machine.

2.
This	juice	is	great	served	over	a	few	ice	cubes.

3.
The	juice	helps	to	prevent	constipation

and	inflammation.Party	Ginger	Drink
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/3	pound	fresh	ginger	root,	unpeeled

1.
1	½	cups	water,	or	as	needed	to	cover

1.
4	large	lemons,	juiced

1.
1/2	cup	honey

1.
6	cups	water

1.
Fresh	mint,	to	taste

Directions

1.
Put	ginger	and	water	into	a	blender;	blend	until	the	mixture	is	pasty.

2.
Strain	the	juice	from	ginger	mixture	into	a	pitcher.	Add	the	rest	of	the
ingredients	and	stir	to	combine.

3.
This	refreshing	drink	is	perfect	for	your	next	party.Pomegranate	Watermelon	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/3	medium	watermelon

1.
12	strawberries

1.
1	cup	pomegranate	seeds

1.
4	sprigs	mint

Directions

1.
Remove	rind	from	watermelon.

2.
Add	all	ingredients	through	your	juice	machine.

3.
It	may	help	fight	cancer,	arthritis,	fungal	infections,	and	so	on.Minty	Watermelon	Delight
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/4	medium	watermelon

1.
1	tomato

1.
1	handful	mint

1.
A	pinch	of	kosher	salt

Directions

1.
Remove	rind	from	watermelon.

2.
Add	all	ingredients	through	a	juicer.	Pour	into	two	chilled	glasses.

3.
This	is	a	natural	way	to	fight	stress.	Enjoy!Grapefruit	and	Cranberry	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	grapefruit,	peeled

1.
1	cup	cranberries

1.
1	pear,	cored

1.
1	sweet	potato,	peeled

1.
5	leaves	collard	greens

Directions

1.
Process	everything	through	a	juicer	according	to	the	manufacturer’s
directions.

2.
Fill	serving	glasses	with	ice	cubes;	pour	the	juice	into	the	glasses.	Serve
right	away.Pear	and	Yam	Magic
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
3	pears,	cored

1.
2	carrots,	trimmed

1.
1	medium-sized	yam,	peeled

1.
1/2	teaspoon	vanilla	extract

Directions

1.
First	of	all,	process	the	pears	through	an	electronic	juicer	according	to	the
manufacturer’s	instructions.

2.
Add	the	carrots,	followed	by	the	yam	and	vanilla	extract.	Shake	before
serving.

3.
The	juice	is	a	rich	source	of	vitamin	K	which	is	good	for	your	heart	and
bone	health.

Enjoy!Cucumber	and	Carrot	Cocktail
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	cucumber

1.
1	apple,	cored

1.
1	carrot

1.
1/2	head	lettuce

1.
Water	to	make	1	cup	juice

Directions

1.
Juice	the	ingredients	and	serve	over	ice	cubes.

2.
This	healthy	juice	is	loaded	with	vitamins	A	and	vitamin	C,	as	well	as	the
antioxidants.Cabbage	Apple	Cocktail
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	stalk	celery	with	leaves

1.
1⁄4	head	green	cabbage

1.
1	medium	apple,	cored

1.
1	lemon,	peeled

1.
1⁄2-inch	piece	ginger

1.
1⁄2	cup	parsley

1.
10	collard	leaves

Directions

1.
Process	the	celery,

cabbage	and	apple	through	an	electronic	juicer
according	to	the	manufacturer’s	directions.

2.
Add	the	rest	of	the	ingredients.	Serve	over	ice.
	3.
This	cocktail	is	great	for	weight	loss.ICED	TEA	RECIPESOrange	and	Lemon	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	1	hour	10	minutes	|	Servings	16)

Ingredients

1.
4	green	tea	bags

1.
4	orange	tea	bags

1.
6	cups	boiling	water

1.
1	(12-ounce)	can	frozen	lemonade	concentrate

1.
1/2	lemon,	juiced

1.
1/2	cup	honey

1.
Cold	water,	as	needed

Directions

1.
Place	tea	bags	in	a	1-gallon	glass	jar.	Now	pour	boiling	water	over	tea	bags;
then,	steep	for	15	to	30	minutes.

2.
Remove	tea	bags	and	stir	in	lemonade

concentrate,	lemon	juice,	and	honey.
	3.
Fill	your	jar	with	cold	water.	Afterwards,	allow	to	chill	in	the	refrigerator.
Serve	well-chilled	and	enjoy!Maple	Raspberry	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	10)

Ingredients

1.
1	gallon	water

1.
3	tea	bags

1.
1	cup	fresh	raspberries

1.
2	tablespoons	maple	syrup

1.
1/2	cup	powdered	lemonade	mix

Directions

1.
In	a	large-sized	saucepan,	bring	the	water	to	a	boil.	Add	tea	bags	and
raspberries.

2.
Allow	this	mixture	to	steep	for	about	5	minutes;	remove	tea	bags;	now	add
the	maple	syrup	and	lemonade	mix	and	stir	until	it	is	dissolved.

3.
Allow	to	cool	in	your	fridge	and	serve	over	ice	cubes.Classic	Lime	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	1	hour	10	minutes	|	Servings	8)

Ingredients

1.
8	cups	water

1.
3	orange	pekoe	tea	bags

1.
1/2	cup	lime	juice

1.
Honey,	to	taste

Directions

1.
In	a	saucepan,	heat	8	cups	water	to	a	rapid	boil.	Then,	drop	in	the	tea	bags
and	remove	from	heat.	Now	cover	and	let	steep	at	least	1	hour.

2.
In	a	large	glass	jar,	combine	the	steeped	tea	with	lime	juice	and	honey.
Refrigerate	until	chilled	and	serve	over	ice	if	desired.Mint	Lemonade	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	25	minutes	|	Servings	12)

Ingredients

1.
3	tablespoons	fresh	mint	leaves,	crushed

1.
1	tablespoon	fresh	sage	leaves,	crushed

1.
1	quart	boiling	water

1.
1/2	cup	instant	iced	tea	powder

1.
2	quarts	water

1.
1	(6-ounce)	can	lemonade	concentrate,	thawed

1.
1/4	cup	honey

Directions

1.
In	a	pitcher,	combine	the	mint	leaves,	sage	leaves,	boiling	water,	and	tea
powder.	Stir	to	combine	well	and	let	stand	for	15	minutes.

2.
Add	the	cold	water,	lemonade	concentrate,	and	honey.	Strain	out	mint	and
sage	leaves	and	serve	y


 and flus and lung
infections. Most of them breathed way too often, high in their chests.
Sprinters were the worst of f. The short and violent breaths they took during
runs put too much pressure on delicate tissues and bronchial tubes. As a
result, they suf fered from asthma and other respiratory ailments. At the
finish line, they coughed and sometimes vomited and collapsed, wheezing
in pain.
“I had observed that in recovering from performance, athletes tended to
adopt the same breathing characteristics as those the emphysema patients
exhibited,” Stough wrote. These runners had been trained to push through
the pain, and they did. They won competitions, but they were harming their
bodies.
Stough laid out a table at the Y ale indoor track, sat the runners on it, and
began running his hands up and around their chests in front of a crowd of
onlookers. He warned them to never hold their breath when positioned at
the starting line at the beginning of a race, but to breathe deeply and calmly
and always exhale at the sound of the starter pistol. This way, the first
breath they’d take in would be rich and full and provide them with ener gy
to run faster and longer.
After only a few sessions, all the runners reported feeling better and
breathing better. “I never felt so relaxed in my life,” one sprinter said. They
took half the time to recover between races and were soon breaking
personal bests and edging toward world records.
On the heels of the Y ale success, Stough moved to South Lake T ahoe to
train Olympic runners preparing for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico
City. Same therapy, same success. A decathlete went out to the track and
broke his previous record. Another broke his lifetime record. A runner
named Rick Sloan broke his two life records for three events.
“Through my work with Dr. Stough, I knew I had to exhale,” said Lee
Evans, an Olympic sprinter. “Y ou know, I exhale, which kept my ener gy up.
I didn’ t get tired. . . . But after the game, I found that this was for my life.”Y ou might recognize Evans. He’ s the man in the famous photograph
standing on the center podium at the Olympics awards ceremony, wearing a
Black Panther beret and jutting a fist in the air. He won gold in the 400
meters and another in the 400-meter relay. The rest of the 1968 U.S. men’ s
team under Stough’ s training went on to win a total of 12 Olympic medals,
most gold, and set five world records. It was one of the greatest
performances in an Olympics. The Americans were the only runners to not
use oxygen before or after a race, which was unheard of at the time.
They didn’ t need to. Stough had taught them the art of breathing
coordination, and the power of harnessing a full exhalation.
—
“He was doing so many things at once,” L ynn Martin says as we moved
from the futon back to the dining room table at the center of her studio
apartment. “The sensitivity of his hands, perfect pitch of his ears, the
natural knack for instruction—all of it.” For the past few minutes, Martin
has been telling me about her time working with Stough, how she’d gone to
see him in 1975 on the recommendation of another dancer and had come
out feeling transformed. She returned weeks later and took a job at the
clinic. Even though Martin would spend more than two decades working
with Stough as one of his closest associates, he never told her his secrets.
“He thought it was too dif ficult to put into words,” she said.
I could relate. I’d seen a video recording of Stough at the 1992 Aspen
Music Festival—the only existing footage that demonstrates what he did
and how he did it. It opened with a frame that read: An Intr oduction to
Respiratory Science: The Pr eventative Medicine of the T wenty-First
Century. Stough was at the center of a conference room, a massage table in
front of him. An open window looked out over a thicket of pine trees
glowing white in the summer sun. Stough was deeply tanned and dressed in
a black blazer with brass buttons and a pocket kerchief, as if he’d just flown
in on a Concorde from Monte Carlo.
He started of f by inviting a tenor named T imothy Jones to lie on the
table and proceeded to jiggle Jones’ s jaw, dig his hands into his waist, and
rock him back and forth. “Y ou see, I have to keep tapping right on the
chest,” said Stough, his yellow polka-dot tie dangling in Jones’ s hair. This
went on for several minutes, until Stough leaned three inches from Jones’ s
face and began to count from one to ten with him in a gibberishy harmony.“Everything’ s loosening very fast!” Stough announced. He wiggled Jones’ s
hips and neck so violently that the singer almost fell of f the table.
It was a bizarre spectacle, and the grabbing and pushing and deep
stroking looked at times like borderline molestation. After my own
experience in Martin’ s studio for an hour, babbling numbers and having my
chest poked and ribs squeezed, it became more clear to me why Stough’ s
work never caught on. It didn’ t matter that saxophonist David Sanborn and
asthmatic opera singers, Olympic runners, and hundreds of emphysema
survivors praised his treatments as a lifesaver. Stough wasn’ t a doctor; he
was a self-made pulmonaut, a choir conductor. He was just too far out there.
His therapy was just too weird.
“Although the process of breathing involves both anatomy and
physiology, neither branch of science has claimed it for thorough
exploration,” wrote Stough. “It was a little-known territory waiting to be
mapped and charted.”
Stough made his map over a half century of constant work. But when he
died, that map was lost. As soon as he left the V A wards, so did his therapy.
•       •       •
At the end of my two-hour Breathing Coordination session, I left Martin’ s
apartment and hopped on the train back to Newark Liberty International
Airport. As we rumbled across the marshlands and over the Passaic River, I
searched through the current treatments for the nearly 4 million Americans
now suf fering from emphysema. There were bronchodilators, steroids, and
antibiotics. There was supplemental oxygen and sur gery and something
called pulmonary rehabilitation, which included assistance to quit smoking,
exercise planning, nutrition counseling, and some pursed-lip breathing
techniques.
But there was no mention of Stough, or the “second heart” of the
diaphragm, or the importance of a full exhalation. No mention of how
expanding the lungs and breathing properly had ef fectively reversed the
disease or lengthened lives. Emphysema was still listed as an incurable
condition.Five
SLOW
“Could you hand me the oximeter?” Olsson asks from across the dining
room table. It’ s afternoon on the fifth day of the Recovery phase, and for
the past 30 minutes we’ve been testing our pH levels, blood gases, heart
rates, and other vital signs. This is the 45th time we’ve been through this
drill in the past two weeks.
Although both Olsson and I feel utterly transformed while nasal
breathing, the monotony of the days is becoming maddening. W e’re eating
the same food at the same time as we did ten days earlier, sweating through
the same stationary bike workouts in the same gym, and having many of the
same conversations. This afternoon we’re discussing Olsson’ s favorite
subject, his obsession for the past decade. W e are, once again, talking about
carbon dioxide.
It is hard to admit now, but when I first interviewed Olsson more than a
year ago, he was not a source I entirely trusted. On our Skype calls, he liked
to hammer the importance of slow breathing, and he’d sent me a half-dozen
PowerPoint presentations and reams of scientific studies on how paced
breathing relaxed the body and calmed the mind. This part made perfect
sense. But when he started in on the restorative wonders of a toxic gas, I
began to wonder. “I really think carbon dioxide is more important than
oxygen,” he told me.
Olsson claimed that we have 100 times more carbon dioxide in our
bodies than oxygen (which is true), and that most of us need even more of it
(also true). He said it wasn’ t just oxygen but huge quantities of carbon
dioxide that fostered the burst of life during the Cambrian Explosion 500
million years ago. He said that, today, humans can increase this toxic gas inour bodies and sharpen our minds, burn fat, and, in some cases, heal
disease.
After a while I began to worry that Olsson was nuts, or at least prone to
gross exaggeration, and that our hours of conversations had been a waste of
time.
Carbon dioxide, after all, is a metabolic waste product. It’ s the stuf f that


 intestines are being over-stimulated by the
laxatives and thereby slowly paralyzed. To continually increase the laxatives year after
year, instead of changing the diet, means SUICIDE--slow, but sure.
The Real and Deeper Cause
of Constipation
   Constipation itself is a disease, and a really "severe" one, at that, because in severe
cases it burdens the system with a heavy load of filth, sometimes weighing as much as
ten pounds or more. Disease as such is an abnormal, unnatural condition; even
"orthodox" physicians agree on that. We should expire slowly and painlessly, when
vitality is exhausted, had we not lived with disease and suffering. That cases of "natural
death" are becoming more infrequent nowadays is further proof of the depths we have
sunken into in the "swamps of civilization."
   Constipation--this most common disease--has not decreased or improved in spite of
thousands of remedies for sale on the market, and in spite of so-called medical science;
simply, because the "diet of civilization" is unnatural. The human intestines are not
organized at all for this unnatural food to either digest it perfectly, or to expel the unused
residue.
   Very little is known about foods that are constipating, and those of the opposite kind.
What I wrote and proved in my book, "Rational Fasting and Regeneration Diet,"
regarding the fundamental causative factors of all diseases, constitutes the deepest
insight known into the nature of chronic constipation.
   Don't you know that bookbinder's paste is made of fine white flour, rice or potatoes?
That glue is made from flesh, gristle and bones? Don't you know how sticky these
substances are? Don't you know that skimmed milk, buttermilk and cream are the best
ingredients to furnish sticky base for colors for painting? That the white of eggs will
stick paper or cloths so perfectly that it resists dissolution in water? Every housewife and
cook knows how oils and fats stick to the sides of a pan. At least 90 per cent of the "diet
of civilization" contains these sticky foods and man stuffs himself daily with awful
mixtures of them. Thus the digestive tract is not only clogged up through constipation,
but literally glued together with sticky mucus and feces.
   Herewith the "mystery" of chronic constipation is unveiled and the story told of the
fundamental causative factor of all diseases. Disease is but internal uncleanliness--this
simply states a true but woeful fact. Fruits, green leaf and starch less vegetables do not
contain these pasty, gluey mucus substances and are natural foods--yet little credit has
been given them by doctors or laymen. I will lift the veil and show why they fail to
understand. Fruit acids and mineral-rich vegetable juices dissolve the pasty mucus
encumbrances. Fruit sugar causes and develops their fermentation and forms gases. This
so greatly feared fermentation of the inside filth is another necessary stirring up
"process" to prepare them for elimination. Acid and fermented starch and glue lose their
sticky ability as soon as they ferment. If an average meat eater or a child fed mostly on
starchy foods accidentally eats too freely of good, sweet fruits, a "revolution" in the alimentary canal, with diarrhea usually sets in, and fever is caused through the increased
fermentation.
   In severe cases, if a doctor stops the diarrhea and feeds, as is usually the procedure, the
patient dies, because Nature was kept from accomplishing the cleansing process. The
partly dissolved poisons remain in the system, causing death.
   The patient literally suffocates in his own mire of filth, accumulated during his life
from wrong food material and over-eating. If he does not die, his case ordinarily
becomes chronic, which means: Nature is continually trying to expel poisonous mucus
and gases, in spite of all obstructions and counteracting remedies. The constipation
merely aggravates the process. Instead of eating less, and then only loosening foods, the
chronic patient stuffs himself more and more with wrong foods, becomes fatter every
day and even takes pleasure in his increased weight. In fact, this over-weight, called
health by the misguided ones, is mostly accumulated feces--water--and various kinds of
filth. In most cases of tuberculosis, these conditions are typical. Five to six meals a day
and one bowel movement or even less--no wonder he takes on weight, looks "full of
vigor"--but can never be cured.

Nourishing and Curing Laxatives
   No advance physician will deny the relation between any disease and constipation. But
today people are far away from Nature and the truth, and they are kept more and more in
darkness--when taken sick they do just the opposite of what they should do. The
slightest indisposition, a little headache or cold, which is the result of insufficient bowel
movement, is treated with more, and so-called better eating--in spite of a decreased
appetite. This is the main reason why Influenza, the "Flu," became a fatal disease.
Formerly "Flu" was as easy to cure as the harmless "Grippe"--a self-cleansing process of
the body, mostly prevalent in springtime. Knowing nothing of "scientific medicine,"
germs, eta., the patient instinctively followed his lack of appetite, took a mild laxative
and very rapidly recovered; usually he felt much better after than before the "healing"
disease. Today, he is falsely taught that a germ is responsible--and not his dangerous
unhygienic habits. He eats too much, which is against the law of Nature, instead of
fasting the way every ailing animal cures itself. But the amount of internal impurities
and auto-toxins of man exceed those of any diseased animal. A long fast, therefore,
would kill the majority of sick men; however, they would not die by starvation, but
would become suffocated from their own poisonous filth. As an authority in fasting I
know full well the reason why a fast is so feared by most people, and that it has been
misapplied by laymen. It is a crime to advise a constipated patient to fast until his tongue
is clean, before removing the "deposits of poisons" from his intestines. I could only
succeed in curing very old, severe cases of chronic constipation by relatively long fasts.
Man, in regard to health, is more degenerated than any kind of animal. He lost his
reason, so to say, about matters of which he thinks the animal has none at all. Yet! his intelligence places him far above the animal and enables him to assist Nature to
overcome obstructions and difficulties that could become dangerous. That is the
philosophical sense of the Art of Naturopathy.
   Therefore, if you want to cure chronic constipation perfectly and without any harm,
you must change your diet, and instead of using foods which produce disease and
constipation, eat really nourishing foods which loosen up, dissolve and cure. But people
are ignorant regarding this truth just as they are about fasting, and they try to do things
without previous experience or knowledge, and failure is usually the result. What I call
"Mucusless Diet" consists of fresh, ripe fruits and starchless vegetables, for they are the
ideal foods, and the fundamental remedies for all diseases. Of course, the application
must be intelligently advised by a practitioner graduated from my school of the
Mucusless Diet Healing System, or a personal knowledge can be received through the
study of my book, the "Mucusless Diet Healing System."*  ( *$l.95 + 35c Ehret's Publications, P.O. Box 777, Simi
Valley. CA 93065)
   It is an "eating-your-way-to-health" treatment, and consequently the most reasonable
method of curing, because wrong eating is the causative factor in all diseases.
   These mucusless, nourishing and "laxative," that is dissolving foods, form new blood;
the best blood that has ever run through your veins--and at once start the so-called
constitutional cure of the body. The circulation of the new blood, permeating every part
of the system, dissolves and eliminates the morbid mucus, which is clogging up the
entire human organism; it especially loosens the deep-seated impurities in the intestines
and renovates the whole system. This, then is the great enlightening fact--why
constipation not only can be perfectly cured, but why the "Mucusless Diet" cures when
all other treatments have failed.
   In severe cases of chronic constipation it is advisable in the beginning, to use as a help,
a harmless laxative, to remove the solid obstructions of feces in the intestines; in other
words, to eject the worst filth out of a clogged-up pipe system. Enemas consisting of
clear, warm water are also a good help in the beginning.
   Among numerous laxatives on the market those of botanical origin are the least
harmful. After many years of experience, I have prepared a "special mixture" of this
kind. It has the advantage of removing the old, solid feces, obstructions and mucus, from
the intestines, without causing the usual diarrhea and constipation as


 issue is not whether you can take
control of your feelings, but whether you will. What must you endure
before you’ll make such a choice? Some people choose to go insane
rather than take control. Others merely give up and succumb to a
life of misery because the dividend of pity received is greater than
the reward of being happy.
The issue here is your own ability to choose happiness or at least
not to choose unhappiness at any given moment of your life. A mind-
blowing notion perhaps, but one that you should consider carefully
before rejecting, since to discard it is to give up on yourself. To reject
it is to believe that someone else in-TAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF  / 17stead of you is in charge of you. But choosing to be happy might
seem easier than some things which daily confound your life.
Just as you are free to choose happiness over unhappiness, so in
the myriad events of everyday life you are free to choose self-ful-
filling behavior over self-defeating behavior. If you drive in this day
and age, chances are you find yourself frequently stuck in traffic.
Do you become angry, swear at other drivers, berate your passengers,
take your feelings out on anyone and anything in range? Do you
justify your behavior by saying that traffic always sends you into a
snit, that you simply have no control in a traffic jam? If so, you are
accustomed to thinking certain things about yourself and the way
you act in traffic. But what if you decided to think something else?
What if you chose to use your mind in a self-enhancing kind of way?
It would take time but you could learn to talk to yourself in new
ways, to become accustomed to new behavior which might include
whistling, singing, turning on a tape recorder to write verbal letters,
even timing yourself with thirty-second postponements of your an-
ger. You have not learned to like the traffic but you have learned to
practice, very slowly at first, new thoughts. You have decided not
to be uncomfortable. You have chosen to substitute in slow progress-
ive steps healthy new feelings and habits for old self-defeating
emotions.
You can choose to make any experience enjoyable and challenging.
Dull parties and committee meetings are fertile territory for choosing
new feelings. When you find yourself bored, you can make your
mind work in exciting ways, by changing the subject with a key
observation, or writing the first chapter of your novel, or working
on new plans which will help you to avoid these settings in the fu-
ture. Using your mind actively means assessing the people and
events which give you the greatest difficulty and then deciding on
new mental efforts to make them work for you. In a restaurant, if
you typically get upset over poor service, think first of why you
should not choose to18 / Your Erroneous Zonesbe upset because someone or something is not going the way you
would like it to go. You’re too worthy to be upset by someone else,
especially someone who is so unimportant in your life. Then devise
strategies to change the setting, or leave, or whatever. But don’t just
get perturbed. Use your brain to work for you, and eventually you’ll
have the terrific habit of not being upset when things go wrong.
Choosing Health Over Illness
You can also choose to eliminate some physical sufferings which
are not rooted in a known organic dysfunction. Some common
physical ailments, which often do not have an origin in a physiolo-
gical disorder, include headaches, backaches, ulcers, hypertension,
rashes, skin eruptions, cramps, fleeting pains and the like.
I once had a client who swore she had a headache every morning
for the past four years. Each morning at 6:45 she waited for it to ar-
rive and then took her pain pills. She also kept each of her friends
and co-workers informed of how much she was suffering. It was
suggested to the client that she wanted the headaches, and had ac-
tually chosen them as a means of being noticed and as a means of
receiving sympathy and pity. It was also suggested that she could
learn not to want this for herself and to practice making the headache
shift from a point located centrally on her forehead to one on the
side of her head. She was going to learn that she controlled the
headache by making it move around. The first morning she
awakened at 6:30 A.M., and lay in bed awaiting her headache. When
it arrived she was able to think  it to another place in her head. She
had chosen something new for herself and ultimately she stopped
choosing headaches completely.
There is a burgeoning amount of evidence to support the notion
that people even choose things like tumors, influenza, arthritis, heart
disease, “accidents” and many other infirmities,TAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF  / 19including cancer, which have always been considered something
that just happens to people. In treating what have been labeled
“terminally ill” patients, some researchers are beginning to believe
that helping the patient not to want the disease, in any form, may
be a means of ameliorating the internal killer. Some cultures treat
pain in this way, taking complete power over the brain, and making
self-control synonymous with brain -control.
The brain, which is composed of ten billion, billion working parts,
has enough storage capacity to accept ten new facts every second.
It has been conservatively estimated that the human brain can store
an amount of information equivalent to one hundred trillion words,
and that all of us use but a tiny fraction of this storage space. It is a
powerful instrument you carry around with you wherever you go,
and you might choose to put it to some fantastic uses which you’ve
never even considered up until now. Keep that in mind as you go
through the pages of this book and try to choose new ways of
thinking.
Don’t be too quick to call such control quackery. Most doctors
have seen patients who have chosen a physical malady for which
there is no known physiological cause. It’s not uncommon for indi-
viduals to become mysteriously sick when confronted with some
kind of difficult circumstance, or to avoid illness when being sick is
simply “impossible” at that time, and so postponed the effects, per-
haps the fever, until the big event is over, and then collapse.
I know of a case of a thirty-six-year-old man trapped in a horrible
marriage. He decided on January 15th that he was leaving his wife
on March 1st. On February 28th he developed a 104 degree fever
and began vomiting uncontrollably. This became a recurring pattern;
each time he built himself up, he got the flu, or an attack of indiges-
tion. He was making a choice. It was easier to be sick than to face
the guilt, fear, shame and the unknown that go with separation.
Listen to the advertisements we see and hear on television.
“I’m a stockbroker…. So you can imagine the tension and20 / Your Erroneous Zonesheadaches I must have. I take this pill to make it go away.” Message:
You can’t control how you feel if you work in certain kinds of jobs
(teachers, executives, parents) so rely on something else to do it for
you.
We are bombarded with messages like this every day. The implic-
ation is clear. We are helpless prisoners who must have someone or
something else do things for us. NONSENSE. Only you can improve
your lot or make yourself happy. It is up to you to take control of
your own mind, and then practice feeling and behaving in the ways
that you choose.
Avoiding Immobilization
As you consider your potential for choosing happiness, keep in
mind the word immobilization  as the indicator of negative emotions
in your life. You might believe that anger, hostility, shyness and
other similar feelings are worth having at times, and so you want
to hang onto them. Your guide should be the extent to which you
are in any way immobilized by the feeling.
Immobilization can range from total inaction to mild indecision
and hesitancy. Does your anger keep you from saying, feeling, or
doing something? If so, then you are immobilized. Does your shyness
prevent you from meeting people you want to know? If so, you are
immobilized and missing out on experiences that are rightfully
yours. Is your hate and jealousy helping you to grow an ulcer or to
raise your blood pressure? Does it keep you from working effectively
on the job? Are you unable to sleep or make love because of a negat-
ive present-moment feeling? These are all signs of immobilization.
Immobilization:  A state, however mild or serious, in which you are
not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead
to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of
them.
Here is a brief checklist of some instances in which you mayTAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF  / 21be immobilized. They range from minor to major states of immobil-
ity.
You are immobilized when…
You can’t talk lovingly to your spouse and children though
you want to.
You can’t work on a project that interests you.
You don’t make love and would like to.
You sit in the house all day and brood.
You don’t play golf, tennis, or other enjoyable activities,
because of a leftover gnawing feeling.
You can’t introduce


 health and wellbeing. You can prevent general anesthesia and
dental surgery, as well as completely avoid or greatly limit the need for any type of dental treatment
on your child’s teeth by making wise nutritional choices today. This process may not be the easiest
path, but it is definitely possible.
Knowledge can also be used to combat fear. The fear says, “One day my child will have atoothache.” But knowledge tells you that today your child is happy and has no toothache. Knowledge
and awareness are a part of how I help dissolve the fear. I know that I am giving my child the best
foods possible. Her decayed teeth continually remind me of the delicate balance of the foods that are
required to keep her healthy.
I remind myself that when I give her these special foods, her body builds defenses against pain,
infection, and decay. If I experience fear, when in the real world there is nothing to fear, then I have to
challenge and examine that fear. If it arises when my daughter is not experiencing pain or discomfort,
I choose to seek out its origins within me. Where did it come from? How do I justify it? What am I
afraid of, and how can I hold a compassionate and aware presence in the face of this fear?
Knowledge is also obtained by examining your child’s tooth decay and closely monitoring it. Most
people are better off monitoring tooth decay with a dentist, but I understand the difficulty this poses in
some cases and people have had problems finding supportive dentists that are open to the “watch and
wait” approach. “Watch and wait” used to be the way children’s cavities were treated. If the tooth got
infected, the tooth was simply pulled out, and although that is not a pleasant procedure, it is short and
quick. There was no drama about general anesthesia surgery, no metals placed in the child’s mouth,
and plenty of patience in monitoring a little decay in a baby tooth.
Children's Tooth Decay is Not an Easy Road for Most
For many parents, including myself, dealing with children's tooth decay is not an easy thing. It can
challenge you at the deepest level. Today, I still find myself occasionally overly concerned about my
daughter’s teeth. I still feel that twinge of fear within me that says, “Her teeth are not sound enough as
they are.” One day my daughter complained of a minor toothache. Because I was carefully monitoring
her diet, I knew the cause and I knew how to stop it. She had been eating too much raw honey. The
honey had caused her blood sugar to be elevated for too long, and thus her blood levels of calcium
and phosphorus became imbalanced, resulting in decay. We began to be more careful and restrictive
about the honey and other sweets in her diet. That was over a year ago and she has not had a
toothache since. Removing the honey caused her blood chemistry to remain balanced, and thus her
tooth remineralized and the pain stopped.
Several years ago, my daughter apparently had a tooth infection and was restless for several nights.
One day she woke up with a slightly swollen face. I thought to myself, “This is not good.” In the midst
of my nervousness and discomfort at the sight of my daughter's partially swollen face, Michelle added
her words of wisdom and said, “Don't worry about it.” I exclaimed, “What do you mean ‘Don't
worry’?!” I expressed my fear that this was the worst thing that we had come up against. Upon review
of the past several days, we together saw that our hurried ways, our laziness, and our hunger had
resulted in improper food preparation. This chain of events leading up to the infection was clearly the
cause. We had allowed our daughter to eat too many grain products of mediocre quality. The day we
saw the infection we immediately put her on a food protocol similar to the best protocol which I
describe in this book. The diet included fish (cooked and raw), oysters, eggs, some bacon,
vegetables, vegetable juice, cod liver oil and butter oil. We greatly limited sweet foods, were careful
about grain products, and we made sure to establish boundaries so that she had balanced meals.
Gradually over a few days, the swelling disappeared and the abscess healed. Not all parents need towork this hard to prevent their child’s tooth decay. It really depends on how fragile their child’s body
and system are.
I continue to learn lessons from these experiences. I am learning that we need to be vigilant
concerning our family’s diet. I continue to challenge myself to feel the fear, to experience that “what
if” scenario that my mind always worries about. Then I also begin to experience periods of feeling
great happiness and satisfaction. There are times when I can move beyond the emotional fear and see
my daughter's tooth decay in an honest and mature way. I trust and understand this part of life because
I have faced it emotionally, through feeling my feelings, mentally, through knowledge and research;
and I have faced it with my will, through taking positive steps to treat her condition. That is how I
have found safety and peace in the face of illness. The result is a happy and carefree child, free from
tooth pain.Treating Children's Tooth Decay Naturally
We have successfully treated severe early childhood tooth decay for five years now, without fluoride,
dentists, or dental surgery. I estimate we have achieved about a 90-98% reduction in the rate of tooth
decay. Many parents have achieved 100% or more reduction in tooth decay, by which I mean the
complete cessation of cavities, and even occasionally the disappearance of previously visible tooth
decay. How successful you will be is a factor of how committed you are to health, the quality of
foods that are available, your ability to maintain a healthy diet for your child, and how severely
deficient your child was when you begin the program of improvement.
One of my daughter's baby teeth is black and worn to the gum line. Even with this, her gums are
healthy, with no sign of infection, or pain. Her adult teeth do not have any cavities.Surgery on Children for Tooth Decay?
In the U.S., 27.9% of all children ages 2-5 have had some tooth decay, with a total average of about 5
out of every 100 teeth in young children exhibiting signs of some tooth decay.
1
 Young children cannot
sit still in order to undergo normal dental procedures. Until the child is somewhere around the age of
6-8 years, the child is not really capable of understanding what a dental procedure is.
A mother's lap can be appropriate for certain dental treatments which are done quickly, but not for
substantial dental treatments. Many mothers will find that their toddler will protest sitting in a dental
chair. Some may not even open their mouths. Young children are fearful of the dentist putting his
hands or cold, hard metal instruments into their mouths. Young children do not have the cognitive
ability to fully comprehend what is happening. Their interpretation of the experience is that some
strange person is shining bright lights at them and forcing them to do things which are uncomfortable
and invasive. This makes it challenging to treat young children's teeth without violating their will and
without causing them pain or fear. Forcing the child to go through dental procedures before he is
ready may cause emotional trauma.
Local anesthesia may not work on young children. It may or may not be effective in preventing pain
and it is difficult to tell if a young child's tooth is numbed properly prior to dental surgery. This is
because it is almost impossible to get reliable feedback from a child if they are under stress,
especially if they are younger than six.
Treating children as if they are mini adults is a backwards way to go about dentistry, but this is the
common pediatric dentistry model. This means that dentists will use crowns, root canals, and fillings
in a vain attempt to try to remove the infestation of bacteria on a child’s teeth. If the child’s cavities
are extensive, dentists recommend significant surgery for decayed baby teeth. The two common
methods of pediatric dentistry for children with significant tooth decay are barbaric. One is to heavily
sedate the child with an oral sedative. The child is still awake, just immobile and groggy. It is
common for many dental offices then to strap the drugged child to the dental chair in order to restrain
the child during treatment, including drilling. The other method is administration of full general
anesthesia, in which the child is separated from the parents, put to sleep while teeth are extracted and
typically metal is placed into the child’s mouth. Some children may be able to cope with these
harrowing experiences, but for many others they may cause indelible emotional scars.
I told a friend from another country that this is how they treat children with several tooth cavities in
dental offices in the U.S. She thought I was joking at first because she could not believe parents
would submit their children to such a procedure, nor that dentists would even offer it. I understand
surgery with general anesthesia if a child has a life-threatening medical condition, but for tooth
decay? No way.
Since young children's bodies are immature and delicate, the administration of general anesthesia
comes with the risk of death. This risk of death seems to be quite low for young children although it
does happen. I could not find a reliable and conclusive statistic on what the percentage is. With adults
the risk of death during dental surgery using anesthetics is extremely small.
2
 There is an approximate
35% risk of an adverse event (other than death) from general anesthesia on young children


	We	don’t	knowingly	choose
disease,	but	we	do	choose	diets	and	lifestyles	that	lead	to	disease.	Unable	to
predict,	prevent	or	conquer	disease,	most	people	and	most	physicians	pursue
treatment—such	as	prescription	or	over-the-counter	drugs—	once	obvious
symptoms	have	presented,	after	massive	cellular	malfunction	has	already
occurred.	Patients	and	their	physicians	treat	body	parts	or	body	systems	as
unrelated.	The	mainstream	medical	community	has	no	unifying	theory	of
disease,	no	unifying	treatment	and	no	plan	for	prevention,	and	therefore	true	and
lasting	health	is	an	illusion.
This	book	describes	how	to	keep	your	body—all	your	cells—truly	healthy.
Understanding	the	six	pathways	toward	health	and	following	them	in	the	right
direction	will	change	your	life.	You	will	learn	things	about	nutrition	that	you
have	probably	never	heard	before,	including	how	the	way	you	shop,	the	way	you
cook	or	the	foods	that	you	combine	at	a	meal	spell	the	difference	between	health
and	disease.	You	will	learn	to	recognize	hazards	in	your	home	and	how	to	stop
toxins	from	being
created
within	your	own	body.
You’ll	learn	specifics,	down	to	the	kind	of	vitamin	supplements	you	should
take,	the	toothpaste	you	should	use	and	the	olive	oil	you	should	buy.	I	name
names	and	identify	brands	based	on	how	the	products	affect	cells,	because
buying	the	wrong	products	does	nothing	to	keep	you	healthy.	Certain	products,
in	fact,	make	you	unhealthy.
Consider	your	own	life:	Do	you	suffer	from	a	health	condition	that	you	have
given	up	trying	to	cure	and	now	accept	as	fate?	Do	you	bounce	from	one
medical	specialist	to	another,	dizzy	with	conflicting	diagnoses	and	different
ideas	about	which	treatments	are	best?	Is	your	cabinet	full	of	medications	thatyou	take	regularly	without	any	sense	that	you	are	healing?	Are	you	tired	most	of
the	time?	Do	you	expect	to	live	past	your	eighties?
This	book	guides	you	out	of	the	maze	of	medical	specialists	and	on	a	path
toward	wellness.	This	book	teaches	you	how	to	question	your	doctors’	advice
and	how	to	evaluate,	on	your	own,	the	medicines	you	should	take,	if	any.	You
can	regain	the	kind	of	energy	for	living	that	you	may	have	thought	was	lost
forever.	With	this	book	you	can	learn	how	to	live	beyond	one	hundred	years	of
age.
By	looking	at	health	and	disease	in	entirely	new	ways,	and	understanding	how
to	choose	health,	you	can	reevaluate	illnesses	that	you	may	have	come	to	accept
as	unavoidable.	You	may	be	shocked	to	discover	how	often	you	choose	not	to	be
healthy.	My	code	for	living	shows	you,	in	big	ways	and	in	small	ways,	how	to
stop	making	yourself	sick.	I	describe	a	potential	for	human	health—and	long	life
—that	you	never	thought	possible.	Horizons	will	open	up	as	you	consider	the
possibility	that	you	can	live,	fully	and	vigorously,	decades	beyond	what	you	now
consider	old	age.
Many	people	know	more	about	how	their	automobiles	work	than	about	what
their	bodies	need	in	order	to	function,	and	people	often	pay	more	attention	to
maintaining	their	cars	than	themselves.	People	feel	they	just	don’t	have	the
knowledge	or	medical	training	to	figure	out	what	is	wrong	with	their	own	bodies
or	how	to	heal.	The	truth	is	that	knowledge	and	power	are	within	one’s	reach.
No	theory	about	health	is	so	simple	yet	so	powerful.	This	approach	clears	up
the	confusion	surrounding	thousands	of	so-called	“diseases,”	and	eliminates
most	modern	medical	treatments—drugs	and	surgery—as	toxic,	invasive	and
rarely	necessary.	The	focus,	instead,	is	on	the	common	problems	of	disease	and
how	to	solve	them.	This	book	bypasses	the	complex	and	confusing	world	of
illness	and	remedies	and	simplifies	our	understanding	of	health	and	disease,
enabling	people	to	prevent	and	reverse	disease	by	addressing	its	causes.	From
the	tangle	of	all	the	complexity	emerges	a	straightforward	approach	to	becoming
well	and	staying	well—an	island	of	clarity	in	a	sea	of	confusion.
In	its	simplest	terms,	how	health	is	determined	can	be	expressed	as	an
equation:
Health	=	positive	things	minus	negative	things
The	quality	of	your	health	is	determined	by	the	positive	things	you	do
for
your
body	minus	the	negative	things	you	do
to
your	body.	This	concept	is	not
complicated,	sexy	or	original;	it	is	simply	the	truth.	The	problem	is	that	accurate
information	about	the	factors	that	affect	this	equation	is	hard	to	obtain.	Accurateinformation	about	what	is	positive	and	good	for	you	and	what	is	not	does	not
come	easily.	Contradictory	information	and	myths	circulate,	and	people
disseminate	opinions	as	if	they	were	facts.	Many	health	writers,	untrained	in
science,	misinterpret	scientific	information	or	parrot	each	other.	The	blind	are
often	leading	the	blind.	To	choose	health,	you	must	know	how	to	distinguish
between	good	choices	and	bad	choices	regarding	diet,	toxic	exposure,	exercise,
prescription	and	recreational	drug	use,	stress	and	other	factors.	This	book	shows
you	how	to	make	these	distinctions.
You	may	already	read	the	labels	on	the	foods	you	buy,	the	warnings	on	the
prescriptions	you	take	and	the	coverage	limits	of	your	health	plan,	but	if	you	are
to	achieve	health	and	stay	healthy,	you	must	first	understand	what	your	body
needs.	Many	health	books	provide	recipes,	diet	lists,	exercise	regimens	and	the
like—routines	to	be	blindly	followed	with	no	real	understanding	of	the	rationale
behind	them.	This	book	is	different.	This	book	provides	a	powerful	and	logical
conception	of	health,	a	framework	that	assists	you	in	coming	to	your	own
conclusions	and	making	your	own	choices.	With	this	framework,	you	will	have	a
basis	for	understanding	which	choices	need	to	be	made,	when	you	should	make
them	and	why.
Your	body	is	made	of	cells.	When	a	large	number	of	your	cells	malfunction,
body	systems	become	disrupted,	leading	to	the
one	disease:	cellular
malfunction.
Cellular	malfunction	has	only
two	causes:	deficiency,
cells	not
getting	what	they	need,	and
toxicity,
cells	poisoned	by	something	they	do	not
need.	Finally,
six	pathways
exist	between	health	and	disease	through	which	the
health	of	our	cells	can	change	for	better	or	worse.	We	can	become	healthy	or
sick	(i.e.,	deficient	and/or	toxic)	through	the	following	pathways:
•	Pathway	1—Nutrition	You	are	what	you	eat.	Learn	how	to	select	and
prepare	the	types	of	foods	that	will	enable	your	cells	to	function	at	their
best.
•	Pathway	2—Toxin	A	toxin	is	a	substance	that	interferes	with