 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).

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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
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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. It was difficult for me to start it.
Our collective was skeptical about fasting as a
therapeutic method and they openly called  me
"the hunger doctor". I remember well that when
my first patient went to the canteen, the day of
his exit from the fast, the nurse brought him a
plate of cold porridge of salted millet and told
him: "come on, eat!".  Fortunately, he remem-
bered my advice and decided to wait for me. But
what would have happened if he had eaten it?!
Over time, however, seeing the good results
of therapeutic fasting, our collective began to
have a completely different opinion and some of
them even decided to personally experience a
course of fasting.
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, First and Only
Despite our technological advances, nutrition is a young science. We l ack both the knowledge and the technology to
reproduce in a laboratory the brilliant balance of nutrients found in whol e plant foods.
Anything short of whole plant foods—be they green juices, “healthy” oils, dehydrated “whole-food” supplements, or
white-powdered pharmaceutical-grade “superfoods”—always misses the mark, guaranteed.

All we can hope to accomplish through eating refined, fractional foods is s atiation and compromised nutrition.
All we can hope to achieve through supplementation with isolated nutri ents is to relieve symptoms while creating further
imbalances.

People tell me that hearing this discussion confuses them, for they of ten experience welcome increases in energy and apparent
reversal of health challenges through supplementation. I find that  these results come, however, at great cost. If these individuals
distance themselves from the supplement-vendor hype and slow their que st for quick relief, they usually notice that their life has
become an endless shell game, in which they shift symptoms but never r each true health, homeostasis, and peace.

Health and Feeling Good Are Not  the Same
This analogy sometimes helps people understand the difference between  creating health (the big picture) and treating
symptoms (the fragmented view):

Employment example: Suppose you work in a dreary office for too little pay and endure daily verbal abus e from a
tyrannical employer. If you quit that job and break free, would you now say that  you have just the perfect job, the work of your
dreams? Of course not. What you have is nothing  … no job at all. True, your newfound liberation may bring welcome reli ef from the
abuse, but alleviating your pain is a far cry from the target—i f your true desire is for fulfilling, rewarding work.  Without positive
action toward a better job, you may sit idle for a very long time, having trade d in one set of problems (an oppressive work
environment) for another (unemployment).

Health example:  Similarly, many people use treatments, pharmaceuticals, or “ natural” drugs to suppress symptoms such as
overweight, candida, allergies, or headaches, or even to eliminate tumor s and other forms of severe breakdown. Once they
experience relief—the headaches subside, the allergic wheezi ng abates, the tumor shrinks—they proclaim themselves “cured” a nd
believe that they have regained health. They may look and feel bett er, but their newfound absence of dis-ease is just that—a void.
Again, this is a vast improvement over pain and suffering. But it is not hing close to the vibrant energy and well-being that many of us
desire.
People are incredulous when they first hear this: “Y ou mean, if I get rid of my seizures  (or tumors, or migraines, or candida,
or lupus, or …), that doesn’ t mean I'm healthy?”
The answer is, unequivocally, no.  If they continue the cycle of living in ways that created their he alth issues in the first place—
and then attacking the inevitable symptoms with remedies and trea tments—they set in motion the aforementioned shell game,
repeatedly  trading in one set of health complaints for another seemingly unrela ted complex of maladies, never getting closer to the
goal of lasting, radiant health.
In both examples, the new liberation represents a zero point, a neutral posi tion from which health or recurring disease
(satisfying work or ongoing unemployment) can emerge. The person who is f ree of symptoms is no more healthy than the
unemployed person is professionally fulfilled.
To attain the (big-picture) goal of gratifying work or lasting well-be ing, we must take positive action toward  our desired result,
not just negative action away from  the condition we do not want (a fragmented solution at best). When we use re medies and
therapies to eliminate symptoms, we do nothing to address their original c ause, hence nothing to create health. We must educate
ourselves about the causes of health  (not disease) and include these  in our daily routine.
 Y our Doctor Cannot Help Here …
Many drugs, diets, and supplements are sold with an admonition to “consult your physic ian” before consuming them.
But is there value in looking to the medical profession for nutritional advice? Consider this sobe ring tidbit :
“In a medical journal article entitled ‘Bizarre and Unusual Die ts,’ the authors warn that the Atkins Diet had such questionable
safety that it should ‘only be followed under medical supervision.’ Bu t what do doctors know about nutrition? Even though the
United States Congress mandated that nutrition become an integrate d component of medical education, as of 2004, less than half of
all U.S. medical schools have a single mandatory course in nutrition. Th at explains the results of a study published in the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition that pitted doctors against patients head to head in a test of basic nutrit ion knowledge. The patients
won.” 10

Since doctors generally have nothing to offer us once we shift our focus  from treating disease to causing wellness, it is
important to familiarize yourself with the elements of health. The  following list of thirty-two key contributors to human well-being is a
good start. Though there is no official order or ranking, I would venture to say  that the first ten are actually indispensable—essential
—for even a moderate level of true health.

The big-picture approach that I espouse is based on this simple c oncept: “It is always better to correct a problem—to remove
its cause—than it is to supplement or suppress it.” Nutrition is a v ery complex field of endeavor, and it is easily misunderstood and
misinterpreted, just as the forest can become invisible when looking at  individual trees.
With 80/10/10, I endeavor to give a new interpretation of nutritional information, one t hat is not designed to incite fear in an attempt to stimulate product sales. By putting the parts together into on e simple but complete package, I hope that nutrition will
become a less daunting subject. True health is within everyone’s g rasp, but it is necessary to see the big picture.
This radically different view is unpopular, because it does not generat e any revenue. The 80/10/10  approach uses no repeat
products, no supplements, no high-priced, elitist “superfoods.” 80/10/10  uses a simple grocery-store approach to nutrition that
brings this program easily into the grasp of everyone.

Weight Watching: The Ultimate in Shortsightedness
Shifting this discussion to body weight, I think of how sad I feel when I see  people who are obsessed with losing (or gaining)
weight, to the exclusion of their well-being and vitality. Myopically  focused on body image, they consume all manner of nutritional
experiments, with little if any regard for possible consequences.
Despite our wishful thinking—and advertising to the contrary—our di gestive system is more than just a pleasure tube that
eventually eliminates whatever indigestible concoction we fill ed it with. Our bodies replace the vast majority of our cells within seve n
years or less. Some, such as the cells that line the mouth and digestiv e tract, are replaced daily. In a very real sense, the foods we
eat are constantly in the process of becoming “us.”
Given this fact, wouldn’t you want to ensure that every bite you take  is made of the highest-quality raw materials (pun
intended) from which to build the “you” that you are becoming? What w ould be the point of following a diet  that compromises your
health in the process? Is it worth ruining your kidneys, heart, or liver  just to lose or gain weight, especially when you can achieve
your goal without causing such damage?
Youth is forgiving; we can eat practically any abomination for some per iod of decades with no apparent adverse effects. But
eventually, the statistics say, virtually all of us have to admit t o ourselves that the gig is up. Eating garbage to look thin, consuming fat
to gain weight, stimulating ourselves to artificial highs throug h supplements that give us “energy,” and relieving one discomfort wh ile
unknowingly creating another, simply have not gotten us where we wan ted to go.
Herein lies the paradox: losing weight, feeling good, even ridding oursel ves of intractable diseases, does not necessarily mean
we have become healthier. Heroin users feel good. So do coffee drinkers. So too do supe rfood evangelists. Junk-food-eating
entertainers, anorexic runway models, and supplement-pounding body builders may look good…but are any of these people
nourishing their bodies on a cellular level? Are they eating whole, unrefined foods in the quantities and proportions on which their
bodies were designed to thrive? Absolutely not.

Where Diet and Health Meet
I struggled with how to position this book, debating with several colleagues  whether 80/10/10  referred to a weight-
management plan or a healthy eating guideline. As you may have g uessed, it’s really a bit of both.
I have spent the last several pages driving home the differences bet ween fragmented thinking and the big-picture perspective
for one purpose: to cement in your mind the obvious and inextricable relation ship between the goals of weight management and
healthful living.
If you picked up this book looking for guidance in losing or gaining


 and raise well. But white flour islacking the bran, where most of the fiber is located. And many other processedfoods are missing their fiber.
In an earlier chapter I briefly showed how digestion works by following food
from the mouth to the large intestine. To fully grasp why becoming constipated isalmost a certainty in our civilization a few more details are required. Food leavingthe small intestine is called chyme, a semi-liquid mixture of fiber, undigested bits,indigestible bits, and the remains of digestive enzymes. Chyme is propelledthrough the large intestine by muscular contractions. The large intestine operateson what I dub the “chew chew train” principle, where the most recent meal youate enters the large intestine as the caboose (the last car of a train) and helps topush out the train engine (the car at the front that toots), which in a healthy colonshould represent the meal eaten perhaps twelve hours earlier. The muscles in thecolon only contract when they are stretched, so it is the volume of the fecal matterstretching the large intestine that triggers the muscles to push the waste materialalong toward the rectum and anus.
Eating food lacking fiber greatly reduces the volume of the chyme and slows
peristalsis. But moving through fast or slow, the colon still keeps on doing anotherof its jobs, which is to transfer the water in the chime back into the bloodstream,reducing dehydration. So the longer chime remains in the colon, the dryer andharder and stickier it gets. That’s why once arrived at the “end of the tracks” fecalmatter should be evacuated in a timely manner before it gets to dry and too hardto be moved easily. Some constipated people do have a bowel movement everyday but are evacuating the meal eaten many days or even a week previously.
Most hygienists believe that when the colon becomes lined with hardened fecal
matter it is permanently and by the very definition of the word itself, constipated.This type of constipation is not perceived as an uncomfortable or overly fullfeeling or a desire to have a bowel movement that won’t pass. But it has insidiouseffects. Usually constipation delays transit time, increasing the adsorption of toxinsgenerated from misdigestion of food; by coating and locking up significantportions of colon it also reduces the adsorption of certain minerals andelectrolytes.
Sometimes, extremely constipated people have almost constant runny bowels
because the colon has become so thickly and impenetrably lined with old fecalmatter that it no longer removes much moisture. This condition is oftenmisinterpreted as diarrhea. The large intestine’s most important task is to transferwater-soluble minerals from digested food to the blood. When a significant part ofthe colon’s surface becomes coated with impermeable dried rigid fecal matter ormucus it can no longer assimilate effectively and the body begins to experiencepartial mineral starvation in the presence of plenty. It is my observation fromdozens of cases that when the colon has been effectively cleansed the person hasa tendency to gain weight while eating amounts of food that before onlymaintained body weight, while people who could not gain weight or who werewasting away despite eating heavily begin to gain. And problems like softfingernails, bone loss around teeth or porous bones tend to improve.
The Development Of My Own Constipation
The history of my own constipation, though it especially relates to a very rustic
childhood, is typical of many people. I was also raised on a very constipating dietwhich consisted largely of processed cheese and crackers. Mine was acceleratedby shyness, amplified by lack of comfortable facilities.
I spent my early years on the Canadian prairies, where everybody had an
outhouse, and not the fancy modern versions frequently seen on constructionsites. These are chemical toilets, quiet different than the ones I was raised withbecause somebody or something mysteriously comes along, empties them andinstalls toilet paper. The ones I’m familiar with quickly developed a bad-smellingsteaming mound in the center—or it was winter when the outhouse was so coldthat everything froze almost before it hit the ground in the hole below. (And myrear end seemed to almost freeze to the seat!) The toilet paper was usually an outof season issue of Eatons mail order catalogue with crisp glossy paper. Perhaps itis a peculiarity of the north country, but at night there are always monsters lurkingalong the path to the outhouse, and darkness comes early and stays late.
When nature called and it was daylight, and there was no blizzard outside, the
outhouse received a visit from me. If on the other hand, when it was dark (we hadno electricity), and there was a cold wind creating huge banks of snow, I wouldjust skip it, because the alternative—an indoor chamber pot, white enamel with alid—was worse. This potty had to be used more or less publicly because thebedrooms were shared and there was no indoor bathroom. I was always verymodest about my private parts and private functions, and potty’s were only usedin emergencies, and usually with considerable embarrassment. No one everexplained to me that it was not good for me to retain fecal matter, and I neverthought about it unless my movements became so hard that it was painful toeliminate.
Later in life, I continued this pattern of putting off bowel movements, even
though outhouses and potties were a thing of the past. As a young adult I could
always think of something more interesting to do than sitting on a pot, besides it
was messy and sometimes accompanied by embarrassing sound effects whichwere definitely not romantic if I was in the company of a young man. During twopregnancies the tendency to constipation was aggravated by the weight of thefetus resting on an already sluggish bowel, and I won’t foregt the discomfort ofstraining to pass my first hard bowel movement after childbirth with a tornperineum.
Rapid Relief From Colon Cleansing
During fasting the liver is hard at work processing toxins released from fat and
other body deposits. The liver still dumps its wastes into the intestines through thebile duct. While eating normally, bile, which contains highly toxic substances, ispassed through the intestines and is eliminated before too much is reabsorbed. (Itis the bile that usually makes the fecal matter so dark in color.) However,reduction of food bulk reduces or completely eliminates peristalsis, thus allowingintestinal contents to sit for extended periods. And the toxins in the bile arereadsorbed, forming a continuous loop, further burdening the liver.
The mucus membranes lining the colon constantly secrete lubricants to ease
fecal matter through smoothly. This secretion does not stop during fasting; in fact,it may increase because intestinal mucus often becomes a secondary route ofelimination. Allowed to remain in the bowel, toxic mucus is an irritant while thetoxins in it may be reabsorbed, forming yet another closed loop and furtherburdening the liver.
Daily enemas or colonics administered during fasting or while on cleansing
diets effectively remove old fecal material stored in the colon and immediatelyease the livers load, immediately relieve discomfort by allowing the liver’s effortsto further detoxify the blood, and speed healing. Fasters cleansing on juice or rawfood should administer two or three enemas in short succession every day for thefirst three days to get a good start on the cleansing process, and then every other
day or at very minimum, every few days. Enemas or colonics should also be
taken whenever symptoms become uncomfortable, regardless of whether youhave already cleaned the colon that day or not. Once the faster has experiencedthe relief from symptoms that usually comes from an enema they become morethan willing to repeat this mildly unpleasant experience.
Occasionally enemas, by filling the colon and making it press on the liver,
induce discharges of highly toxic bile that may cause temporary nausea. Despitethe induced nausea it is still far better to continue with colonics because of thegreat relief experienced after the treatment. If nausea exists or persists duringcolon cleansing, consider trying slight modifications such as less or no massage ofthe colon in the area of the gall bladder (abdominal area close to the bottom ofthe right rib cage), and putting slightly less water in the colon when filling it up. Italso helps to make sure that the stomach is empty of any fluid for one hour priorto the colonic. Resume drinking after the colonic sessions is completed. If you areone of these rare people who “toss their bile,” just keep a plastic bucket handyand some water to rinse out the mouth after, and carry on as usual.
Enemas Versus Colonics
People frequently wonder what is the difference between a colonic and an
enema.
First of all enemas are a lot cheaper because you give them to yourself; an
enema bag usually costs about ten dollars, is available at any large drug store, andis indefinitely reusable. Colonics cost anywhere from 30 to 75 dollars a session.
Chiropractors and naturopaths who offer this service hire a colonic technician
that may or may not be a skilled operator. It is a good idea to find a person whohas a very agreeable and professional manner, who can make you feel at easesince relaxation is very important. It is also beneficial to have a colonic therapistwho massages the abdomen and foot reflexes appropriately during the session.
Enemas and colonics can accomplish exactly the same beneficial work. But
colonics accomplish more improvement in less time than enemas for several
reasons. During a colonic from 30 to 50 gallons of water are flushed through thelarge intestines, usually in a repetitive series of fill-ups followed by flushing with acontinuous flow of water. This efficiency cannot even be


QUENCY upon which we live. You might
say wave length, or vibrations, which mean the same thing.
However, frequency is the correct word. When God made man,
Adam, He made him in His own image and Adam had a log frequency of 24 (.0000024). Then God made woman, and He made her on a log frequency of 26 (.0000026). Everything He created He created on a frequency according to his kind. He created a dog on a log frequency of 38 (.000038) for the male, and 40 (.000040) for the female. He cre-ated horses on a log frequency of 44 (.000044) for the stud, and 46 (.000046) for the fern ale or mare. When He created citrus He created a different log frequency, an odd number with the frequency of 9 (.0009).
Animals and plants that have an even number for their frequency,
require male and female. They have to breed, or, there has to be a 42 cross between the male and fern ale plant in order for fruit blossoms to
form. In plums there are male and female trees. The sour plums are
the male trees and the female are the sweet plums. It is the same with cherries. It takes a male and a female plant to make the cherry blos-soms fertile, or to pollinate the cherry blossoms so they will be sweet or sour cherries.
In citrus there is an amazing fact that does not have any particular
bearing upon the frequency but it just happens to be peculiar. The fern ale blossoms have five petals, and the male blossoms have four petals. The female blossoms come out first, and just when they are ready to fall then the male blossoms come out, and then the bees take the pol-
len from the four-petal blossoms to the five-petal blossoms and ferti-lize it, then fruit sets on  the tree. The thing that is amazing about this is that five plus four is nine-which just happens to be a coincidence. I don't think it has any real scientific va lue, but it brings us back to the
first chapter of Genesis when God said: Go and produce after his own kind. The "kind" is cattle, moose, elk, deer, buffalo-all having the same frequency. There are many different species of sheep, and they have the same frequency. There are many different species of cats, house cat, bob cat, etc., and they have the same frequency. This is true of lions, squirrels, etc., which are in the cat family.
All plants, according to their kind have the same frequency. There are many different varieties of peaches, yet all have the
same frequency. There are many different varieties of oranges, grape-fruit, tangerines and yet they have the same log frequency.
It is beautiful how God created each thing after its kind, and some
of the species are so far off from the original and yet it will not cross with its own kind. But still the way God made or designed is shown in the Book of Genesis.
You might ask, "Well, if everybody is on the same frequency, why
don't all people look alike? Why are there different species?"
There are different species because there are different ways to
place the atoms together, in which the patterns of anions and cations even within the same organs come together to make what we call MI-CRONAGE. 43 The difference in micronage is the difference in species and or-
gans within any individual. It is also what keeps one human being
from looking exactly like another human being. It is the way the ani-ons and cations are stacked together in the element which makes the compound, which makes the micron of the structure to the person and still be in the same frequency according to its kind.'
You might also ask, "If that is true, then why the difference in col-
or?"
Milli-micronage is the path of the electron in orbit which deter-
mines the color. The light strikes the electron shell and a prism of
light forms what is known as color. Where there is no light there is no color. Under milli-micronage we ha ve milli-milli micronage, which is
identity. Even identical twins are different.
They are not exactly alike in God's sight. No two blades of grass,
drops of water, or snowflakes are alike because of the difference in the anionic and cationic molecular structure from which the atoms are made.
Every kind and species of life can be expressed in mathematical
terms because of the above facts. The frequency, the micronage, make It possible for every degree of life from perfect health to bad health to be expressed in mathematical terms. The following facts prove that this RBTI equation is accurate and without these facts there would be no way to prove tha~ the equation of perfect health would be accurate.
It is the varying patterns of compound energy that determines the
structure of plants and animals, the difference in various organs of the plant and animal.
This brings us to one of the essential rules of physics and all bio-
logical life: Anionic plant load makes growth. and cationic plant load
makes Fruit. There is no exception to this rule.
Plants that come to bearing age and shed their blossoms instead of
making fruit have plant food that they are taking from the soil that is anionic plant food, or alkaline. If it is very acid (cationic) too early then the plant tries to bear fruit when it is too small. Many times women when they are pregnant crave sour pickles because their body is too alkaline, and they need more energy. By taking in something on 44 the acid side (acetic acid or vinegar), it gives them more energy from
their food, and therefore supplies the body with the energy needed to
produce another person. If the body is too acid the mother does not crave pickles but is in need of more calciums in her diet. RBTI labora-tory tests indicate the balance that determines resistance which indi-cates cause and effect, which also may be used to calculate the potas-sium or the calciums, or any other element needed to cause the body chemistry to be perfect again. Nature does its best to do this without outside help, but the Bible says that in the time of the end "the earth shall wax old like agarment" (Isa. 51 :6). This means that the soil will be depleted of many of its vital min eral elements, and especially cal-
ciums, which are so essential to human life.
All plants and all animals use more calciums by weight and by
volume than all the other elements combined. It is a very necessary el-ement in the human diet.
Calcium is a single and plural ward. There are more than a quar-
ter of a million different kinds of calciums. In this book we will use the word calciums to emphasize the plural aspect.
Calciums can be divided into seven different classifications. Six of these CALCIUMS are essential to biological life. There is
only one of the classification of calciums that is fatal to biological life, which would be pure calcium hydroxide. However, it is very easy to add too much of one classificati on kind and not enough of the other
five kinds, or any combination between these extremes.
The second element our bodies need most is PHOSPHATES. Without phosphates you will not have any bones, fingernails or
teeth. It is the phosphate of calciums that form the foundation struc-ture for our bones and teeth.
The next element in volume that is needed is POTASSIUM. I'm speaking of it in this order because I do not count water as an
element but as a compound.
WATER is the best and finest catalyst known throughout all na-
ture. A catalyst is something that joins two or more elements or com-pounds together without becoming a part of the union as such. As a minister may marry a man and a woman without becoming a part of 45 the union. The minister would be the catalyst. Also, as a wrench
would join a nut and a bolt together without becoming a part of the
union. The wrench would be the catalyst, it is the joining agent.
Water is also the best of all cleansing agents known to man. There is nothing as good to cleanse this temple that God has given
us as clean, clear, distilled drinking water. Most people do not drink enough water. I often have people say to me, "Mr. Reams, I never drink any water."
My reply is: "What do you think you are? A Volkswagen!" We are water-cooled mechanisms, and water is just as essential to
us as it is to plants. If we do not drink enough water to wash out the worn-out cells then our bodies will temporarily store or collect these worn-out cells. Just as a bad apple in a barrel of good apples, it will make the other apples bad more quickly.
This also happens in our bodies. In our bodies these worn-out cells collect in the weakest part, of-
ten causing pain in that part of the body-the knees, or joints, or mus-cles. The doctor will diagnose the pa in and treat the hurts, without
knowing where those worn-out cells originated.
However, he is doctoring the effect and not the cause. In the RBTI
we work on the CAUSE and pay very little attention to the effect. The effect is the result of a cause, and th e cause is a result of a mineral de-
ficiency. Therefore, we can conclude that all diseases


isely.
Then may I ask You —does it at least get
any easie r? Oh, my darling friend —it is so much easier
for you now than it was three lifetimes  ago,
I can’t even tell you.
Yes, yes —it does get easier. The more you
remember, the more you are able to
experience, the more you know, so to
speak. And the more you know, the more
you remember. It is a circle. So yes, it gets
easier, it gets better, it becomes even more
joyful.
But remember, none of it has been exactly
a drudge. I mean, you’ve loved all of it!
Every last minute! Oh, it’s delicious, this
thing called life!  It’s a scrumptious
experience, no?
Well, yes, I suppose.
You suppose? How much more
scrumptious could I have made it? Are you not being allowed to experience
everything? The tears, the joy, the pain, the
gladness,  the exaltation, the massive
depression, t he win, the lose, the draw?
What more is  there?
A little less pain, perhaps.
Less pain without more wisdom defeats
your purpose; does not allow you to
experience infinite joy —which is What I
Am.
Be patient. You are gaining wisdom. And
your joys are now increasingly available
without pain. That, too, is a very good sign.
You are learning (remembering how) to
love without pain; to let go without pain; to
create without pain; to even cry without
pain. Yes, you’re even able to have your
pain without pain, if you know what I mean.  I think I do. I’m enjoying even my own life
dramas more. I can stand back and see
them for  what they are. Even laugh.
Exactly. And you don’t call this growth?
I suppose I do.
And so then, keep on growing, My son.
Keep on beco ming. And keep on deciding
what you want to become in the next
highest version of your Self. Keep on
working  toward that. Keep on! Keep on!
This is God Work we’re up to, you and I. So
keep  on!
  Chapter 10
I love You, You know that?
I know you do. And I love you.
  Chapter 11
I’d like to get back to my list of questions.
There’s so much more detail I want to go
into on every one of these. We could do a
whole book on relationships alone, and I
know that. But then I’d never get to my
other questions.
There’ ll be other times, other places. Even
other books. I’m with you. Let’s move on.
We’ll come back to it here if we have time.
Okay. My next question, then: Why can’t I
ever seem to attract enough money in my
life? Am I destined to be forever scrimping
and sc raping? What is blocking me from
realizing my full potential regarding
money?
The condition is manifested not just by you,
but by a great many people.  Everyone tells me it’s a problem of self -
worth, a lack of self -worth. I’ve had a dozen
New Age teachers t ell me that lack of
anything is always traceable to lack of self -
worth.
That is a convenient simplification. In this
case your teachers are wrong. You do not
suffer from a lack of self -worth. Indeed,
your greatest challenge all your life has
been to contro l your ego. Some have said
it’s been a case of too much self -worth!
Well, here I am, embarrassed and
chagrined again, but You are right.
You keep saying you’re embarrassed and
chagrined every time I simply tell the truth
about you. Embarrassment is the res ponse
of a person who still has an ego  investment
in how others see him. Invite yourself to move past that. Try a new  response. Try
laughter.
Okay.
Self-worth is not your problem. You are
blessed with an abundance of it. Most
people are. You all think very  highly of
yourself, as rightly you should. So self -
worth,  for the great mass of the people, is
not the problem.
What is?
The problem is lack of understanding of the
principles of abundance together,  usually,
with a massive misjudgment about what is
“good”  and what is “evil.”  Let Me give you
an example.
Please do.  You carry a thought around that money is
bad. You also carry a thought around that
God is good. Bless you! Therefore, in your
thought system, God and money do not
mix.
Well, in a sense, I guess, that’s true. That
is how I think.
This makes things interesting, because this
then makes it difficult for you to take  money
for any good thing.
I mean, if a thing is judged very “good” by
you, you value it less in terms of money.  So
the “better” som ething is (i.e., the more
worthwhile), the less money it’s worth.
You are not alone in this. Your whole
society believes this. So your teachers
make a  pittance and your stripteasers, a
fortune. Your leaders make so little compared to  sports figures that th ey feel
they have to steal to make up the
difference. Your  priests and your rabbis live
on bread and water while you throw coins
at entertainers.
Think about it. Everything on which you
place a high intrinsic value, you insist must
come cheaply. The lonely research
scientist seeking a cure for AIDS goes
begging  for money, while the woman who
writes a book on a hundred new ways to
have sex  and creates tapes and weekend
seminars to go with it...makes a fortune.
This having -it-all-backwards is a propensi ty
with you, and it stems from wrong  thought.
The wrong thought is your idea about
money. You love it, and yet you say it is the
root of all evil. You adore it, and yet you call it “filthy lucre.” You say that a person is
“filthy rich.” And if a person doe s become
wealthy doing “good” things, you
immediately become suspect. You make
that “wrong.”
So, a doctor had better not make too much
money, or had better learn to be discreet
about it. And a minister —whoa! She’d
really better not make lots of money
(assu ming you’ll even let a “she” be a
minister), or there’ll surely be trouble.
You see, in your mind, a person who
chooses the highest calling should get the
lowest pay....
Hmmm.
Yes, “hmmm” is right. You should think
about that. Because it is such wrong
thought. I thought there was no such thing as wrong
or right.
There isn’t. There is only what serves you,
and what does not. The terms “right” and
“wrong” are relative terms, and I use them
that way when I use them at all. In this
case, relative to what serves  you—relative
to what you say you want —your money
thoughts are wrong thoughts.
Remember, thoughts are creative. So if you
think money is bad, yet think yourself
good...well, you can see the conflict.
Now you, in particular, My son, act out this
race consci ousness in a very big way.  For
most people the conflict is not nearly so
enormous as for you. Most people do  what
they hate for a living, so they don’t mind
taking money for it. “Bad” for the  “bad,” so to speak. But you love what you do with the
days and t imes of your life.  You adore the
activities with which you cram them.
For you, therefore, to receive large
amounts of money for what you do would
be, in  your thought system, taking “bad” for
the “good” and that is unacceptable to you.
You’d rather starve t han take “filthy lucre”
for pure service...as if somehow the  service
loses its purity if you take money for it.
So here we have this real ambivalence
about money. Part of you rejects it, and part
of you resents not having it. Now, the
universe doesn’t know  what to do about
that, because the universe has received
two different thoughts from you. So your life
with regard to money is going to go in fits
and starts, because you keep going in fits
and starts about money.  You don’t have a clear focus; you’re not
really sure what’s true for you. And the
universe is just a big Xerox machine. It
simply produces multiple copies of your
thoughts.
Now there’s only one way to change all
that. You have to change your thought
about  it.
How can I change the way I


 ROS. ROS can target mitochondria by creating intracellular oxidative stress damage.
6
Although cells can adapt to mild forms of radiation damage, especially if only
one strand of DNA is damaged, heavy doses of radiation can overwhelm the defen-sive process that cells possess to fix DNA from ionizing damage. However, cells have trouble fixing the DNA double-strand breaks due to the two DNA ends generated by the breaks becoming physically dissociated from one another, making the repair dif -
ficult to perform. Cells that cannot fix the DNA double-strand breaks by themselves and do not undergo apoptosis can become cancerous.
Mammalian cells have two methods to repair DNA double-strand breaks, by
homologous recombination or by nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). The first method uses a duplicate set of DNA as a template to repair the damaged DNA, and
the second method (NHEJ) is able to repair the break directly without outside influ -
ence.
7 The first method of DNA repair, homologous recombination, is more accurate
than NHEJ because it uses the undamaged DNA strand from its template to make
sure the repair is done correctly and no nucleotides are lost in the transaction as it 84 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
often happens with NHEJ. How the cell determines whether homologous recombina -
tion or NHEJ will be used to repair a break is not entirely clear.
It is estimated that one DNA double-strand break in a key gene is enough to
kill the cell outright or cause the cell to trigger the more complex process of
apoptosis.8
The double-stranded DNA breaks can be repaired by the mammalian cell using
powerful methods to repair this damage as soon as it happens.9 To understand how
DMSO may help repair double-stranded DNA breaks, a review of the mammalian cell’s response to this type of genotoxic damage is in order. In the first place, the pathologic forms of double-stranded DNA breaks are repaired by NHEJ because they often occur when a nearby homology donor is not available.
10 Common causes
of double-stranded DNA breaks are ionizing radiation (Figure 4.1) and ROS from an overactive oxidative metabolism.
11
Ionizing radiation from x-rays and gamma rays passes through human bodies
every day at a rate of 300 million ionizing particles/h, and as they do, they create free radicals from water along their path. Radiation damage can strike DNA inside the living cell in two ways: first, by ionizing the DNA atoms and changing them to ions, and second, by ionizing water molecules to produce free radicals that can react with and damage DNA molecules. Free radicals formed in this manner can damage DNA by inducing single- and double-strand breaks. These breaks are easily fixed by the cells using NHEJ, which requires specific enzymes such as a nuclease to resect the damaged DNA, a polymerase to fill in new DNA, and a ligase to restore integrity to the DNA strands.
10 When these repair enzymes are unavailable, repair agents such
as DMSO can be used with relative success, as discussed later.
A second major cause of double-stranded DNA breaks occurs when ROS are
formed. ROS can form from environmental pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are industrial chemicals used as dielectrics in capacitors, as lubricants, and as flame retardants in cooling fluids.
12
Despite the fact that PCB production in the United States was halted in the late
1970s, it is estimated that more than a million tons of PCB particles have escaped into the environment worldwide where they persist and accumulate through the food chain in animal tissues, including humans.
13 Studies have reported a causal link
between exposure to PCBs and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a frequently fatal form of cancer
14 as well as other cancers, including liver and biliary cancer,15 breast cancer,16
and skin cancer.17
Double-stranded DNA breaks have also been linked to malignant brain tumors
such as gliomas, meningiomas, and medulloblastomas.18
These findings are of intense interest with respect to the properties DMSO is
observed to exert as an agent that can help repair DNA double-strand breaks and its potential as a therapeutic and chemosuppressor of various forms of cancer arising primarily from DNA damage.
The radioprotective properties of DMSO have been known for a long time and
were first reported by Ashwood-Smith
19 in 1961 following the work on the ability of
some sulfoxides to suppress the effect of irradiation. A series of other reports soon followed showing that the application of DMSO to newborn rat skin protected them from damage from x-ray exposure.
2085 DMSO in Genetics
A study on the fruit fly ( Drosophila melanogaster ) given DMSO via the abdomen
showed a significant reduction of x-ray-induced mortalities and sex-linked recessive
lethal mutations of male sperm.21 That report concluded that DMSO provided radio -
protection to the fruit fly at both the whole-body and genetic levels.21 However, that
conclusion was at odds with another experiment that showed DMSO did not protect mouse testes subjected to x-irradiation.
22
A common malady among elderly people exposed to solar radiation was shown
to have been completely prevented in mice after x-ray radiation (1000 radians) when DMSO was prophylactically applied topically to the eyes.
23
These early studies were rarely followed up by pharmaceutical firms or academic
institutions with human trials even when the therapeutic potential to neutralize or
lessen ionizing radiation damage from solar, nuclear reactions, radioactive  m aterials,
x-rays, and other external sources of beta and gamma rays to human and animal body parts seemed not only obvious but also medically warranted. This was par -
ticularly baffling especially because the sources for radiation damage were strongly linked to many types of cancer even in the early 1950s following the nuclear bomb -
ings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and a study of the populations affected by this radiation exposure.
To our knowledge and perplexity, the military forces in the United States, who
would have an extra interest in protecting its more vulnerable personnel from radia -
tion exposure and damage from any source, never showed an interest in either funding extracurricular investigations with DMSO or employing its own research facilities to study radiation prevention and treatment.
The exact explanation for the radioprotective effects of DMSO on tissue exposed
to ionizing radiation remains unclear, but the effects are generally attributed to the suppression of DNA damage caused by the indirect action of radiation and the for -
mation of hydroxyl radicals, which DMSO is able to scavenge and neutralize.
1,2,20
However, this conclusion was questioned by more recent experiments on golden
hamster embryo cells treated with DMSO after exposure to gamma rays. Although gamma ray damage to DNA single-strand breaks yielded hydroxyl radicals, the prin -
cipal protective effects of DMSO were observed to be not due to the scavenging of hydroxyl radicals, but rather due to the scavenging of H
+ atoms or other ions, which
created protective DMSO radicals.24,25
The finding that DMSO may act to protect golden hamster embryonic cells from
radiation damage by scavenging H+ ions does not negate that in other models, using
other conditions to produce DNA strand breaks, DMSO can also be effective in its protection of DNA strand breaks through the inhibition of free radicals, includ -
ing those cytotoxic molecules known to damage DNA including ROS and hydroxyl radicals.
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are a cell line derived from the ovary of the
Chinese hamster used routinely in biological and medical research in genetic studies and gene expression.
CHO are the preferred host cell lines in biological research and mutagenesis
studies because of their rapid growth, ease of manipulation, and high production of recombinant therapeutic proteins such as monoclonal antibodies, growth factors, hormones, blood factors, interferons, and enzymes.
2686 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Ionizing radiation-sensitive mutants of CHO cell lines that are deficient in DNA
repair of single- and double-strand breaks are a preferred model to unravel the com -
plexities of DNA repair and to screen potential therapies that can aid in the DNA
repair process.
DMSO was tested for its protective effects against the induction and rejoining of
DNA double-strand breaks and inactivation using CHO cells exposed to both high- and low-linear energy transfer (LET) radiations.
27 The cells were exposed under
aerobic conditions as monolayers to either low-LET photons or high-LEt alpha par -
ticle radiation. Gamma irradiation in the presence of 0.5 mol/dm3 DMSO, 90%, was
observed to be rejoined within a 3 h incubation. It was inferred that this action by DMSO was due to the scavenging of free radicals near the double-strand breaks after gamma radiation, but this was not the case after alpha particle radiation.
27 It seemed
likely that the severity of damage reduced by DMSO was due to minimizing the formation of hydroxyl-induced sugar/base assault forming near the vicinity of the double-strand breaks.
27
The frequency of human chromosomal aberrations induced by irradiation was
examined in the presence of 0.5 M DMSO.28 The number of aberrations of human
chromosomes 1–4,


 or transferred to a charitable foundation on behalf of the medical center.
When Jacob was a paid director of Research Industries, he was able to
purchase 50,000 shares of stock in the company at $6.50 a share. Today the
corporation is a publicly traded stock issued on NASDAQ, the over-the-counter
market of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Its 2,050,000 shares
traded at a high in 1980-81 of $15.50 a share. Plus, the doctor had the option to
purchase an additional 50,000 shares at $6.50 and another 50,000 shares at $9.50,
over the next four years. In 1982 the high price per share was $12.50. If he had
executed his options at the stock’s high 1982 price, the accrued value of all these
shares would have come to $1,875,000, for which Jacob paid $1,125,000—a clear
gain of $750,000.
Finally, when he ended his function as a physician-monitor for the DMSO
investigations, Jacob became, for a time, a consultant to the company at a salary of
$24,000 a year, which supplemented his University of Oregon salary.
It seemed not to bode well for Jacob’s financial future if the investment made
by Research Industries Corporation in DMSO research,
manufacturing, marketing,
and distribution proved invalid. The physician appeared to have too much invested
in RIC for him to let this happen so that an objective observer might see potential
conflicts of interest here for Stanley Jacob. Consequently, at the semi-annual
scientific conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 19, 20, 21, 1982, by
the American College of Advancement in Medicine, I interviewed Dr. Jacob on
exactly these potential points of conflict. The following is what Stanley Jacob
said:
“When I first went to work for Research Industries Corporation in 1973 they
offered to give me a quarter of a million shares of the company’s stock. I refused
it. At that time the stock sold for fifty cents a share. I turned the stock down
because I never wanted anyone to accuse me of vested interests before DMSO
was approved by the FDA.
“After DMSO won approval, however, I did take a stock option and executed
it for 50,000 shares by borrowing money with other directors (I was myself a
director of Research Industries Corporation) cosigning the loan note. I also held an
option to acquire another 100,000 shares, but the stock price had risen markedly to
$6.50 a share. I borrowed $325,000 to purchase the 50,000 shares.“My idea of taking the stock at that point was to donate any profits I made to
DMSO research. Unfortunately, it got into that time of 20 percent prime rate so
that the legal expenses and interest expenses reduced the profit return sharply. I
received less than $9.00 per share at the sale of my block of stock when I made
the sale two years later. My resultant loss on the entire transaction was $2,000.
“Before the Kennedy hearings, in June 1980, I completely disassociated myself
from Research Industries Corporation—dropped my directorship, sold the stock,
and gave up all rights to any other of the stock options. The particulars of my
disassociations were not in the hearings because I actually made the financial
transition with the stock the same month as the Kennedy hearings, in July 1980.
That’s because there was a legal two-year holding period for the stock. I had
acquired the 50,000 shares in July 1978.”
RESOLVING THE SCANDAL OF DMSO
What was the outcome of these various revelations? Of consequences connected
with irregular practices among DMSO researchers and other principals involved,
attorney Buc said, “There are a series of actions that will have to be considered.
Any of the clinical investigators who
have violated our regulations will have to be
considered for potential disqualification as clinical investigators. That is a process
that is begun by the Bureau of Drugs. The clinical investigators are entitled to a
hearing, and it ultimately reaches the Commissioner.”
The FDA did judge whether Dr. Shirley and Dr. Stewart should be eliminated
as qualified FDA clinical investigators. They were eliminated.
“In addition, to the extent that the information that the Inspector General or any
of us turn up results in allegations of criminal activity,” continued Ms. Buc, “I
know that we will be considering criminal prosecution as well, for the
investigators, if there are allegations of criminality there, and, if it comes to that,
the people at the agency as well.”
The FDA had already interrogated and discharged Dr. Pani, and the Justice
Department brought criminal charges against him. Dr. Pani pleaded guilty to a
single misdemeanor count of improperly receiving payments. The Indian-born
researcher openly accepted loans of $38,500 from Dr. Jacob to assist in paying for
cancer treatments for his wife and also for donations to an Indian religious leader.
Dr. Pani’s wife subsequently died from cancer.
The supervisor of Dr. Jacob’s work at the University of Oregon Health
Sciences Center, and a friend of his for many years, William W. Krippaehne,M.D., described the DMSO champion as a compassionate humanitarian who has
given large sums of money to friends and strangers alike without question. Dr.
Krippaehne said that his friend has treated patients from all over the country, often
without charge, has given money to people in need, including members of the
university staff, without requiring repayment, and has put extra money back into
university research programs. “If he didn’t do charity work,” Dr. Krippaehne said,
“his net income would be significantly into six figures.” He also said that Dr.
Jacob, an associate professor of surgery and author of over 100 medical journal
articles, was a “catastrophe” when it came to business matters.
Dr. Krippaehne made these statements on the witness stand, as the Justice
Department also brought criminal charges against Dr. Jacob for three counts of
improper payments to an FDA official and one count of conspiracy. The trial for
the surgeon and the FDA official took place in May 1982 but ended in a mistrial.
The government bureaucrats continued their attack and pursued Dr. Jacob in a
second trial after Dr. Pani pleaded guilty to misdemeanor.
Dr. Jacob welcomed the initial trial, stating that it would give him a chance to
vindicate the use of DMSO. At the second trial not only was he acquitted of all
the charges, but the Justice Department actually dropped the charges on the fifth
day of the trial, held October 29, 1982. Dr. Jacob was cleared completely and
received a semblance of an apology from the government. The grand jury
indictment was totally dismissed.
In our interview, Dr. Jacob explained what happened: “Dr. K.C. Pani is a
friend of mine. His wife was my patient. I got to know him well. He had
horrendous medical bills. I loaned him money by personal check which Dr. Pani
returned by personal check. And this exchange of checks was the basis of the
indictment for conspiracy and giving an illegal gratuity to a government official.
“I learned a lot from this experience. For instance, I was under the erroneous
impression that a Grand Jury of the United States hands down an indictment only
after it has sifted through all the evidence and has weighed it carefully. That isn’t
true at all. Most of the time the United States Grand Jury merely does what the
United States attorney tells them to do. This is what happened in my case. The
result is that the United States taxpayer has invested one to two million dollars in
investigating this case, sending inspectors and investigators across the country
several times, preparing for the trial, conducting the trial, and finally dropping the
charges to vindicate me and DMSO. Still, the prosecutors seemed to be
aboveboard. I developed respect for both United States attorneys. I had the feeling
that they were going through the motions of prosecution but that they almost wishthey hadn’t gotten involved in the case. Their hearts weren’t in it.
“The judge had strong feelings that the case should be dismissed and he
relayed his feelings to the Justice Department. So, my attorneys and the
prosecutors worked out an arrangement where we mutually read statements in
open court that said in essence, I understand where people could interpret that our
exchange of checks was a conflict of interest, and I’m sorry such an interpretation
was made.’ The federal attorneys in turn stated, ‘We are dropping all charges
against Dr. Jacob, and we wish to take this opportunity to commend him for his
good services to the community.’”
Additionally, Dr. Jacob admitted that it had been “wrong” and “inappropriate”
for him to make payments to an FDA scientist even though the payments in no way
involved a conspiracy to clear DMSO and win its approval for other uses. The
government, furthermore, excused its own action by saying that its sole purpose
was to simply
“ensure that the integrity of the regulatory process is upheld.” In
effect, Assistant United States Attorney Richard E. Dunne III said that the Justice
Department wasn’t after Dr. Jacob as a profiteer because of his early financial
connection with Research Industries Corporation, the producer of Rimso-50, but
the


 to eat.
Next week going to the Altai. I certainly was not in the Altai,
but on television saw what beautiful scenery there. I am Sergey
Ivanovic said - if a dry hunger will take place normally,
arrive on the third day of LFG. Weeks go by unnoticed, no
fear of the passage of dry fasting, I was not, so
more in such a beautiful place like the Altai, and the mood I was
going to win. Late at night my husband at the airport,
hugged and said: - You're my fellow and you will succeed. Flight
I had a good, unique - irritated by the smell of food and chewing
neighbors. But then we landed in the city of Barnaul.
We met Sergei, with its on-Siberian Health
nephew, Andrew. When we boarded the minibus "UAZ", I
thought, but on such a machine are going to trudge a long time. But
only in the Altai Mountains, when we went to the most beautiful places
I realized the true value of this car. Drive us to our
wellness center 320 km, Andrew said that about
five hours. All the way asleep, woke up only in aggregates, the Motherland
Shukshin. Vavilov, Andrei and Valentin (wife SI)
went to drink tea. What a funky splices market - such
the number and types of honey, I have never seen
and how many there were any yummy. Even in the stomach, something
327
327Home rumble. After Srostki appeared small mountain
and beautiful river of Altai - Katun ride was much more interesting.
Here we are at last arrived. Of course, I knew that the beautiful Altai,
but this has surpassed my expectations. Cozy clearing in the woods, mountains,
wooden houses, near a small lake (a mountain creek
blocked by the dam) and, most importantly, close - five hundred meters
- Beauty Katun. And what is the divine air - immediately
dry mouth dropped. I settled on the second floor, I like this
room immediately liked, is the balcony, and most importantly fresh
and cool. The only drawback, a toilet on the street, but we all
still on hunger, so I is not much worried. When we
all were seated, I went to bed rest. In the evening we have with a neighbor Irina
she had the same problems as me (polycystic ovaries), and went
walk. What good has a place that is ideal for a walk. By
forest is a road, about five miles. It ends where it is still
Sema one river flows into the Katun. On the third day of dry starvation
we quietly went back and forth for three hours. Time has passed on
surprisingly fast, yet important during the passage of hunger -
it will switch and do something.
That's how flying is my third day of dry fasting, the only
that bothered me - it's a small nausea during the trip
and dry mouth. When we came to walk, our entire team
sitting by the fire and talked with Sergei Ivanovich. I sat
a little bit and went to bed - you should sleep until sleep. Sergei Ivanovich
said that tomorrow we go on an excursion to Chemalsky GES, on the island
Patmos, where the small female monastery. I woke up hours
at six, slept well, failed again. Friend did not sleep,
went with her for a walk. Still, as beautiful in the Altai, - white mist
over the mountains, the air just nadyshatsya can not, you feel like
charging your whole body and every cell. They walked slowly,
quietly, enjoying nature, about thirty minutes sat on the
Katun meditate. When they came to the base, they were all ready
on the tour. Sergei Ivanovich we measured the pressure and we went
weighed.
So, Day 4 SH. Pressure 110/70, pulse - 75 bpm. min., weight 80 kg.
with an increase in 168 cm My weight loss with diet, cleansing
and starvation was 9 kg. (Was 89). This is certainly good news. Today
looked at his tongue, he is a very strong white-yellow
bloom, and, basically, until everything is tolerated. Excursion to me very
Bad, especially a good idea at the HES, where the river Chemal noise
water and dust falls from the dam. There, all was well, we
Sergei Ivanovich was asked to stay longer at the dam,
feel the body through the skin saturate with moisture. Very
beautiful place - the river flows into the Katun Chemal. Chemal such
black, brown and white Katun and she would not want to tolerate
in the river itself. two hours went to the base. Yes, Sergei Ivanovich
well thought out, sight-seeing time has flown by.
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328at four o'clock on my massage to Andrew. After the trip again
felt sick and was sick the waist. A massage to Andrew to go
scary - a machine of the weight of about 120, rising by 190, will break
FIG. To my surprise I really liked the massage. Andrei is very
strong, but at the same time soft and gentle hands. When he bent down
and went through my spine, I have it all began to crackle.
Really liked the massage mayonnaise jar banks, first
It was painful, but after that the full relaxation and a pleasant warmth
around the spine. Nausea and pain after a massage
passed immediately. In the evening, again walking with his girlfriend, were probably
Six kilometers, tried to keep quiet and breathe only through his nose, as
said Sergei Ivanovich, all the same it helps fight dryness
in the mouth. After a walk ill right side, pain tolerance, but
I remember the words of Sergei Ivanovich - anything that hurts the famine, the
treated, let him. In the evening, once again sitting near the fire, noticed how-
then I began to breathe better.
The fifth day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 72 beats. min., weight 78.8,
lost a kilo of two hundred, is very pleased with my feminine pride.
Sleep was no longer mattered, sleep well, probably two hours.
Dreamed a wonderful dream, as I have come to our clean mountain
rivulet, got his big mug, I want to get water, but
River recedes, then remembered after I did the famine. During
walk all of a sudden I went phlegm green-gray
with a very unpleasant smell. Think to myself: that's bronhitik
my hunger hooked immediately on the soul was somehow easier. Talk
harder, his voice goes down, ligaments dehydrated. Start
appear weak. Today went to the lake Manzherok is about
He sings Edita. Lake, of course, so-so, but there
grows a unique endemic nut "Chilim, Sergey Ivanovich
said that he grows still somewhere in Canada. Thought, of course,
already confused. Stopped for one of the coolest rapids on the river
Katun threshold "Manzheroksky. The spectacle of course, super. Such
power, Katun rages, I'd probably could not go rafting here.
Energy, of course powerful here, the body is very good
feels. Pobyli on the threshold of two hours, the water and attracts both want
bend down and drink. But still, as well on tour -
half a day has passed, and the body is treated, let my dear,
We must all go through. Today, massage is Andrew doing softer, so
as after yesterday's all sore. Still massage - it's good
and distracting, relaxing, and the spine is treated. In the evening went
walk alone, once everyone starts little by little annoying. Found
Katun on a quiet place, still good in our place
- No tourists, no music, silence and solitude. Pobyla on
Katun two hours, a little charged, still some strong
Energy river! Do not want to eat but to drink - drank
would probably have a bucket or two. Sergei Ivanovich said - this is an illusion
Look at the output. Sit by the fire already feel like, I'll go,
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329Try reading. Little esteemed, very reluctant, but at
dry hunger and feel like reading and watching television.
Sixth day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 60, weight 77.7 kg.
In the morning a long time lay a walk for some reason did not want. Overnight
conducted with an open balcony, fresh, cool mountain
air - is high. in the body began to appear some internal
fever, it was good - went to present the treatment process. Mouth full
related, general reluctance to talk. Today, Sergei Ivanovich
promised we got a very narrow space on the Katun River, said
try to come back later. It is very good - the
important that the time passed quickly. Place really
beautiful, and quite another nature than ours, although we passed
all from our site 80 km away. Of course, nature is not so
perceived as a normal well-fed condition. Necessarily
come here with her husband in a car as tourists. We arrived an hour
four, for a massage - in six hours. Took a camping mat,
went to the place where our little creek flows into the Katun. There
cool, this natural refrigerator, would lay the whole
day. Problem one - when you go


to 3 ft (1 m), hoodia has multiple spiny, grey-green stems and light purple flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the Kalahari
desert, hoodia is now extensively cultivated in Namibia and South Africa. The plant is grown from seed or cuttings. Trade in the hoodia plant is legally restricted due to its threatened survival in the wild.Barley has been
eaten since  Neolithic times.Hippophae rhamnoides
(Elaeagnaceae)
Sea Buckthorn
Description Thorny deciduous shrub growing to
16 ft (5 m). Has narrow silvery leaves, male or female
flowers, and clusters of brownish-orange berries.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
Asia, sea buckthorn grows mainly in sandy coastal areas and in dry riverbeds in mountainous regions. The berries are harvested in the autumn.
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   220 26/02/16   12:47 pm221 other medicinal plantsHyoscyamus niger
History & Folklore The Cherokee used
hydrangea as a remedy for kidney and bladder
stones. The 19th-century Physiomedicalist
herbal movement used a formula comprising
hydrangea, couch grass ( Agropyron repens, p. 162),
and hollyhock ( Althaea rosea ) to treat serious
kidney disorders, including nephritis.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Western
herbal medicine considers the diuretic
hydrangea as being particularly helpful in
the treatment of kidney and bladder stones.
It is thought both to encourage the expulsion
of stones and to help dissolve those that
remain. The herb is given for many other
troubles affecting the genitourinary system,
including cystitis, urethritis, enlarged prostate,
and prostatitis.
Cautions Do not take during pregnancy or
while breastfeeding. Wild hydrangea is best taken
on professional advice.
Hygrophila spinosa
(Acanthaceae)
Gokulakanta
Description Thorny, red-stemmed annual
growing to 2 ft (60 cm). Has bright blue flowers
and small, flat, dark red seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to India,
gokulakanta is now widely distributed throughout
tropical regions. It is gathered when in flower.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Gokulakanta contains mucilage,
fixed and volatile oils, and an alkaloid.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Commonly used
as a remedy in India, gokulakanta is taken chiefly
for its reputed aphrodisiac properties. Both the
aerial parts and ash of the burned plant are strongly
diuretic, and are used to flush water from the body
in cases of excess fluid retention.
Related Species The South American
H. guayensis  is bactericidal and has been used as a
local treatment for the tropical disease, leishmaniasis. History & Folklore Barley has been
consumed for many thousands of years.
Dioscorides (1st century ce) recommended
it “to weaken and restrain all sharp and subtle
humours, and sore and ulcerated throats.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses An excellent
food for convalescence in the form of porridge
or barley water, barley is soothing to the throat
and provides easily assimilated nutrients. It can
also be taken to clear mucus. Its demulcent quality
soothes inflammation of the gut and urinary tract.
Barley aids in the digestion of milk and is given to
babies to prevent the development of curds within
the stomach. It is commonly given to children
suffering from minor infections or diarrhea, and it
is particularly recommended as a treatment for
feverish states. Made into a poultice, barley is an
effective remedy for soothing and reducing
inflammation in sores and swellings.
Research The fiber in barley, like that in oats,
has an established action in reducing fat absorption
from the gut, aiding lower cholesterol levels. In
common with other fiber foods, it may also help
to stabilize blood sugar levels and to prevent
bowel cancer.therapeutic use in parts of Europe, including
England, and in North America. The leaves and
flowers are picked just after the plant has
flowered, in the first year for the annual variety
and in the second year for the biennial.
Parts Used Leaves, flowering tops.
Constituents Henbane contains 0.045–0.14%
tropane alkaloids, especially hyoscyamine and
hyoscine, and flavonoids. Hyoscyamine and hyoscine
are common to other members of the Solanaceae
family, but henbane’s relatively high hyoscine content
gives it a more specifically sedative action than its
relatives thornapple ( Datura stramonium, p. 200)
and deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna, p. 69).
History & Folklore Henbane has been used
as a medicinal herb for thousands of years.
Babylonian accounts and the Egyptian Ebers papyrus
(c. 1500 bce) record that henbane was smoked to
relieve toothache. In Greek myth, the dead were
adorned with henbane when they arrived in Hades.
Writing in the 1st century ce, Dioscorides
recommended henbane for insomnia, coughs,
congestion, heavy menstrual bleeding, eye pain,
gout, and as a general pain reliever, and advised
that the herb should be used within a year as it
deteriorates quickly. In the Middle Ages, henbane
had the Latin name dentaria, denoting its use as a
remedy against toothache. Henbane reputedly
produces a sensation of lightness, as though one
were flying, and it was one of the chief
components of witches’ “flying ointments.”Hydrangea arborescens
(Hydrangeaceae)
Wild Hydrangea
Description Woody-stemmed deciduous shrub
growing to a height of about 10 ft (3 m). Has oval
leaves and clusters of small, creamy-white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the eastern
U.S. from New Y ork to Florida, wild hydrangea
grows in woodlands and on riverbanks. The root
is dug up in autumn.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Hydrangea is thought to contain
flavonoids, a cyanogenic glycoside (hydrangein),
saponins, and a volatile oil.
Wild hydrangea  is used to treat kidney and bladder stones.Hyoscyamus niger (Solanaceae)
Henbane
Description Annual or biennial herb growing
to 3 ft (1 m). Has delicate, slightly lobed leaves
and bell-shaped flowers, pale yellow in color
with fine purple veining.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to western
Asia and southern Europe, henbane is now
found across much of western and
central Europe, and North and
South America. It is cultivated for Henbane has distinctive
yellow flowers veined with
purple. The plant was
used in classical times
as a general painkiller.
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   221 17/03/16   4:01 pm
222Hyssopus officinalisother medicinal plantsMedicinal Actions & Uses Henbane is
used extensively in herbal medicine as a sedative
and painkiller. Its specific use is for pain affecting  the urinary tract, especially pain due to kidney stones, though it is also given for abdominal cramping. Its sedative and antispasmodic effect makes it a valuable treatment for the symptoms  of Parkinson’s disease, relieving tremor and rigidity during the early stages of the illness. Henbane  has also been used to treat asthma and bronchitis, usually as a “burning powder” or in the form  of a cigarette. Applied externally as an oil, it can relieve painful conditions such as neuralgia, sciatica, and rheumatism. Henbane reduces mucus secretions, as well as saliva and other digestive juices. Like its cousin deadly nightshade, it dilates  the pupils. Hyoscine is commonly employed as  a pre-operative anesthetic and in motion  sickness formulations.
Related Species Other Hyoscyamus species
are used in a similar way. The North African  H. muticus is traditionally smoked by Bedouins  to relieve toothache. See also deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna, p. 69).
 RQ Cautions Use only under professional
supervision. Potentially toxic in overdose,
henbane is subject to legal restrictions in
some countries.
Hyssopus officinalis (Lamiaceae)
Hyssop
Description Semi-evergreen shrub growing
to 2 ft (60 cm). Has narrow leaves and clusters  of blue double-lipped flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to southern
Europe, hyssop grows freely in Mediterranean countries, especially in the Balkans and Turkey.  wood fire, ground, and then stored in sacks for  a year before being sold.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Maté contains xanthine
derivatives, including about 1.5% caffeine, about 0.2% theobrom


enlarged in all diameters. The liver was enlarged to the iliac crest (the crest of the hip bone).
There was slight effusion into the pleura, edema of the lower extremities and slight difficulty in
breathing. Previous to admission to the institution this patient had been treated with the usual heart
medicines.
At the institution he was given a fast of seven days. By the third day there was distinct
improvement in his condition. The liver shrank at the surprising rate of two-finger-breadths a day.
112The edema fluid was rapidly absorbed through the fast. By the end of the seventh day the liver was
but three fingerbreadths below the ribs and the generalized edema had disappeared.
There was much improvement of the pleural effusion. The urinary output in this case was
significant. Being but 250 cc at the outset, it increased rapidly until by the fifth day it reached 3700
cc and remained at about 2000 cc thereafter. The diuresis in this case accounted for the removal of
the edema.
Dagnini’s observation that fasting has been employed beneficially in many types of cardiac
decompensation and that this has suggested that its benefits are drawn, not from a single one of its
effects, but from multiple effects, is worthy of careful consideration.
He suggests that “possibly many diverse effects are summed and potentiated with a resulting
restoration of normal or near-normal cardiovascular function.” Unfortunately his fasts were of
short duration, never long enough for complete results, and he fails to tell us how they were
followed up—how the patients were fed after the fast, what activities they were permitted, what
subsequent developments resulted. But his observations, limited as these cases were, certainly, so
far as the length of the fasts were concerned, are enough to reveal the beneficial effects of the fast
in a wide, variety of severe heart abnormalities.
The intelligent individual will employ the fast long before his heart condition reaches the stage
represented in the cases described by Dagnini. In spite of the benefits described, there is no doubt
that these were terminal cases and no genuine recovery could have been expected in any of them.
The fast should be employed at a time when there is still possibility of genuine recovery.
I should not have to add, again, that it should be undertaken under competent and experienced
direction and supervision, but the warning is important in these cases. No sufferer from heart
disease—or the possible incipient stages of heart disease—should ever attempt to fast on his own.
11328
Colitis
Colitis is inflammation of the colon.
To understand what the colon is let us examine a brief physiological description. Anatomically,
the human colon or large bowel, which is often likened to a sewer, is divided into three distinct
sections: the ascending, transverse and descending colon. It begins with a blind pouch, the cecum,
where the small intestine ends. The vermiform appendix is attached to the cecum. Immediately
above the appendix, the cecum receives the small intestine, almost at right angles.
The upper end of the cecum merges into the first part of the ascending portion of the colon. This
passes upward on the right side to a point near the liver, where an angle is formed (the hepatic
flexure) and the second portion, the transverse colon, begins.
The transverse colon passes in a slight curve across the abdomen immediately under the
stomach and, at the left side forms another angle (the splenic flexure). Below the spleen, the colon
becomes the descending colon, which merges into the sigmoid flexure, and curves irregularly
downward in an S shape. Between the end of the small intestine (the ileum) and the cecum, there is
a valve formed by a sphincter muscle and known as the ileo-cecal valve. At the end of the rectum,
another such valve (the rectal sphincter) closes the rectum.
The colon functions by carrying the residues of digestion upward from the cecum, across the
transverse colon, and downward through the sigmoid to the rectum and to the outside world.
Digestion is completed in the small intestine and it is there that the digested portions of the food
are absorbed. Some water may be absorbed from the colon, but the small intestine is specially
adapted for the absorption of food. There seems to be no absorption of toxins from the colon.
The colon, like all the rest of the alimentary tract, is lined with a skin or membrane that is called
mucous membrane
. Irritation, or inflammation of the colon is known as colitis or colonitis.
Supposed by some authorities to be perhaps the most common disease of cilivized man, colitis is
asserted to be very rare among uncivilized peoples. Constipation is perhaps the most annoying
symptom of colitis, although it is likely to be alternated with
diarrhea. If the colitis is acute
(diarrhea) there may be mucus in the loose, watery stools. All the forms of colitis discussed in this
chapter come under the general technical classification of “mucous colitis.”
A state of spasm of the colon is common in cases of colitis, especially if the condition is
marked. Frequently, also there is a sagging of the transverse colon—
enteroptosis
. The colon may
sag in the absence of colitis and colitis may exist without sagging, but spastic colitis is almost
certain to accompany both conditions.
It is a mistake, however, to think of the spastic constipation as the cause of the mucous colitis.
This view is no more rational than to think of the colitis as the cause of the spastic constipation.
In chronic colitis the more marked inflammation may be located at different parts of the colon,
the acute exacerbations of which will be named after the location of the more severe inflammation,
as sigmoiditis, proctitis, etc.
For long periods the condition may be obscure, the individual merely being conscious of
abdominal distress, which he may attribute to constipation or to gas. When mucus appears in the
stools, the condition is already well advanced. As the colitis becomes more marked the mucus may
appear in the stools in masses of jelly-like consistency, in suspicious looking ropy shreds like
114casts of the bowels, or the feces may be coated with mucus and this may be streaked with blood.
There is now no mistake that colitis is present.
I do not intend here to attempt to cover all the variations from the common picture of colitis.
These may occur, often, but for all practical purposes, they are of little significance. As the colon
is divided into a few sections, it becomes possible to have such special forms of colitis as
proctitis, sigmoiditis and others, but the so-called disease is the same in each case.
Let us look at the two “diseases” just named. There is no actual dividing line between the
sigmoid and the rectum. If we imagine a hair line dividing the two continuous sections of the colon,
we may recognize the folly of naming inflammation on one side of this line sigmoiditis, and, if it
extends only an eighth of an inch over the line into the lining membrane of the rectum, calling this
proctitis. It is like naming pimples on the left cheek one disease and pimples on the right cheek
something else.
We make the same confusing classifications of inflammation according to locations throughout
all parts of the body. Inflammation of the lining membrane of the nose is rhinitis, inflammation of
the lining membrane of the nasal sinuses is sinusitis, inflammation of the bronchial tube is
bronchitis; but these are only different names for precisely the same condition in the different
locations. Gastritis is the same condition in the lining membrane of the stomach. To call all of
these local inflammations different diseases is only to add to growing confusion.
Often great skill is needed to diagnose correctly the form of colitis with which the patient
suffers, and to detect just where the inflammation is located. Skill in diagnosis may not indicate
familiarity with cause. The greatest diagnostic technique is often harnessed to the most ineffective
means of mere palliation.
We are here more interested in what is causing the patients trouble than in what particular
section of the colon may be irritated or spastic. Symptoms of colitis are alike in kind, differing
only in location and degree. One significant fact that has received much notice is that every case
that presents the marks of chronicity has a
colon
 complex; this is to say a negative or depressive
psychosis.
People who are ill or who suffer are rarely cheerful and happy. Anxiety, apprehension and
consequent depression form the rule in sickness of every nature. It is rarely possible for one to
remain mentally or emotionally indifferent to physical discomfort. A certain measure of self-pity
creeps into the consciousness of the most sanguine and stoical. When we consider the nature of
colitis, it is not surprising that the sufferer becomes depressed and anxious. Many so-called
neurotics
 and
psychotics
 are such only because of long standing colitis.
In at least ninety-five percent of cases of chronic colitis, constipation is an outstanding feature. It
frequently continues over a period of years, during which time the sufferer tries laxatives,
purgatives, teas, oils, enemas, colonic irrigations, and other means of securing “relief’ from his
constipation, never once realizing that the constipation


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