 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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 weight, rest a ssured, you have come to the right place. Yet
I hope I have succeeded in persuading you that a perfect-looking body is not rea lly all you want. Shifting your focus to your health
will speed you toward optimal body weight, I promise … but chances ar e you will feel so great that your appearance will take
backseat—a mere sideshow to the vital main event your life has bec ome.
Eating healthfully does not represent deprivation; having our hea lth destroyed—literally taken away by the mouthful—that is
deprivation. People say, “Everything in moderation.” I suggest that  foods that are good for us are good only in moderation, but that
the foods that are harmful to us should be avoided, regardless of the dose.
Some say, “It is a sickness to try to eat too well.” I suggest that it is a s ickness to intentionally do anything that is self-
destructive. I believe it is time that we all started loving ourselv es a lot more, and that we demonstrate that love by nourishing our
bodies with foods that love us back.
My goal in writing this book is to provide a definitive resource for those who w ant to reach for the sky. I am committed to
having it all in life, and I want that for my loved ones, my clients, and my  audiences, as well.
In these pages, I define healthful nutrition and summarize some rel evant information about carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
and their roles in our bodies. I describe the 80/10/10  diet, my low-fat, low-protein program based on eating whole, fresh, ripe, raw,
organic, plant-based foods. I teach how to improve your diet in a gradual, easy wa y. Finally, I share numerous testimonials from
people who have transformed their lives by following this program.
Rather than coming out against fat or any other dietary choice, my int ention is to give voice to what has proven to be the
healthiest choice in the world of food and nutrition. I am convinced that th e 80/10/10  plan meets human nutritional needs as well as
can be hoped for in our modern world.

Chapter 1. Determining Our True Dietary Nature

How does one determine the correct food for any given creature? Let us suppos e that you were given a baby animal and you
had no idea what it was or what it was supposed to eat. Perhaps it was a gift fr om a foreign land. How would you know what to
feed it?
The answer is relatively simple. All you would have to do is offer the cr eature different types of foods in their whole, natural
state. That which it was designed for, it would eat. It would likely ignore a ll the other items, not even considering them as food. I
have done this successfully with orphaned animals that I have save d.
The same technique would work with a human child. Put the child in a room wi th a lamb and a banana. Sit back and watch to
see which he plays with and which he eats. We can be fairly sure of the  outcome. Try again with fats versus fruits by offering a
choice of (natural, raw, unsalted) nuts, seeds, avocados, or olives on the one  hand and any fresh sweet fruit on the other. Again, we
can safely predict that the child will choose the sweet fruit.

Aren’t We Carnivores?
Our anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and psychology all indicate that we  are not carnivores. To say that carnivores eat
carnage or flesh does not accurately portray such creatures. Anima ls that live on other animals usually eat raw meat, straight from t he
carcass, with relish. Carnivores consume most of the animal, not mere ly the flesh, eating the muscle meat as well as the organs and
lapping up the warm, fresh blood and other bodily fluids with gusto. They delight  in the guts and their partially digested contents.
They even crush, split, and eat the smaller bones and their marrow and gr istle (collagen or cartilage).
Dogs, for instance, require far more calcium than humans,  for animal flesh is extremely acid forming. The calcium (an alkali ne
mineral) in blood and bones offsets the acidic end materials of flesh foods. Th ey also require much more protein than humans do. 11
When you note the vigor with which dogs devour whole animals, you can be sur e that what carnivores need for their nourishment is
quite delicious to them.
Most of us love animals as fellow creatures on Earth. We do not salivate a t the idea of crushing the life out of a rabbit with our
bare hands and teeth, and the thought of eating one in a freshly killed sta te is repulsive. We certainly do not enjoy chewing on bones,
gristle, entrails, chunks of raw fat and flesh, and the hair and vermin  that inevitably accompany them. We can not imagine slurping
hot blood, getting it all over our faces, hands, and bodies. These behaviors are al ien to our natural disposition and are actually
sickening.
The sights and smells of the slaughterhouse and even the butcher sh op are those of death. Many people find them unspeakably
abhorrent. Slaughterhouses are so objectionable to most people that no one is a llowed to visit. Even the employees find
slaughterhouse conditions impossible to make peace with. Slaughterhous es have the highest employee turnover rate of any industry.
Meat eating does not fit in with our concepts of kindness or compassion. There  is no humane way to kill another creature.
We kill our animals by proxy, finding the actual carcass or corpse to be a thi ng of disgust. The vast majority of adults agree
that if they had to kill the animals in order to eat, they would not eat meat  ever again. We disguise animal flesh by eating only small
cuts of the muscle and some organ meats. Even then, we prefer to cook them an d camouflage them with condiments.
We disguise the reality of meat by changing the names of the foods from w hat they really are to something more acceptable.
We do not eat cow, pig, or sheep, but rather eat mutton, pork, ham, beef, steak, and veal. We  do not speak of eating blood or
lymph, but we salivate at the thought of a “juicy” steak. W e distort r eality even further by giving animal qualities to our natural f oods.
Hence we refer to the “skin” of the fruit, eat its “flesh,” dig out the “ meat” of the nut, and even slice the “cheeks” or “shoulders” off
fruit when we cut two sides away from the pit. These animal allusions  minimize the horror of eating true flesh, but those of us who
have not been desensitized are still aware of it.

The Evidence
When we weigh the evidence, we see that too many considerations exist  in physiology, anatomy, aesthetic disposition, and
psychology for us to even seriously entertain the notion that we were de signed to eat flesh. By the time you finish this chapter
(substantially derived from the writings of T.C. Fry), I think you will a gree that human beings simply are not equipped to be
carnivores.

Humans vs. Carnivores
The following is an incomplete list of the major differences between h umans and carnivorous creatures.
 Walking: We have two hands and two feet, and we walk erect. All of the carnivores ha ve four feet and perform their
locomotion using all fours.
Tails: Carnivores have tails.
Tongues: Only the truly carnivorous animals have rasping (rough) tongues. All other creatures have smooth tongues.
Claws: Our lack of claws makes ripping skin or tough flesh extremely difficult. We possess much weaker, flat fingernails
instead.
Opposable thumbs: Our opposable thumbs make us extremely well equipped to collect a meal of frui t in a matter of a few
seconds. Most people find the process effortless. All we have to do is pick it. The  claws of carnivores allow them to catch
their prey in a matter of seconds as well. We could no more catch and rip the s kin or tough flesh of a deer or bear
barehanded than a lion could pick mangos or bananas.
Births: Humans usually have children one at a time. Carnivores typically g ive birth to litters.
Colon formation: Our convoluted colons are quite different in design from the smooth colons of  carnivorous animals.
Intestinal length: Our intestinal tracts measure roughly 12 times the length of our tor sos (about 30 feet). This allows for the
slow absorption of sugars and other water-borne nutrients from fruit. In c ontrast, the digestive tract of a carnivore is only 3
times the length of its torso. This is necessary to avoid rotting or decompos ition of flesh inside the animal. The carnivore
depends upon highly acidic secretions to facilitate rapid digestion and abs orption in its very short tube. Still, the putrefaction of
proteins and the rancidity of fats is evident in their feces.
Mammary glands: The multiple teats on the abdomens of carnivores do not coincide with the pai r of mammary glands on
the chest of humans.
Sleep: Humans spend roughly two thirds of every 24-hour cycle


 30 consecutive days offasting to restore complete health. However, thirty fasting days, done a few days
here and a few there won’t equal a month of steady fasting; the body
accomplishes enormously more in 7 or l4 days of consecutive fasting, than 7 or14 days of fasting accumulated sporadically, such as one day a week. This is notto say that regular short fasts are not useful medicine. Periodic day-long fasts havebeen incorporated into many religious traditions, and for good reason; it gives thebody one day a week to rest, to be free of digestive obligations, and to catch upon garbage disposal. I heartily recommend it. But it takes many years ofunfailingly regular brief fasting to equal the benefits of one, intensive experience.
Fasting on water much longer than fifteen consecutive days may be dangerous
for the very sick, (unless under experienced supervision) or too intense for thosewho are not motivated by severe illness to withstand the discomfort andboredom. However, it is possible to finish a healing process initiated by one longwater fast by repeating the fast later. My husband’s healing is a good example ofthis. His health began to noticeably decline about age 38 and he started fasting.He fasted on water 14 to 18 days at a time, once a year, for five consecutiveyears before most of his complaints and problems entirely vanished.
The longest fast I ever supervised was a 90 day water fast on an
extraordinarily obese woman, who at 5’ 2” weighed close to 400 pounds. Shewas a Mormon; generally members of the LDS Church eat a healthier diet thanmost Americans, but her’s included far too much of what I call “healthfoodjunkfood,” in the form of whole grain cakes and cookies, lots of granola madewith lots of honey, oil, and dried fruit, lots of honey heaped atop heavily butteredwhole grain bread. (I will explain more about the trap of healthfood junkfood lateron.) A whole foods relatively meatless diet is far superior to its refined white flour,white sugar and white grease (lard) counterpart, but it still produced a seriousheath problem in just 30 years of life. Like many women, she expressed love-for-family in the kitchen by serving too-much too-tasty food. The Mormons have avery strong family orientation and this lady was no exception, but she wasinsecure and unhappy in her marriage and sought consolation in food, eaten far inexcess of what her body needed.
On her 90 day water fast she lost about 150 pounds, but was still grossly
overweight when the fast ended. Toward the end it became clear that it wasunrealistic to try to shrink this woman any closer to normal body weight becauseto her, fat represented an invaluable insulation or buffer that she was not preparedto give up. As the weight melted away on the fast and she was able to actuallyfeel the outline of a hip bone her neurosis became more and more apparent, andthe ability to feel a part of her skeleton was so upsetting to her that her choicewas between life threatening obesity and pervasive anxiety.
Her weight was still excessive but the solace of eating was even more
important. This woman needed intensive counseling not more fasting.Unfortunately, at the end she choose to remain obese. Fat was much lessfrightening to her than confronting her emotions and fears. The positive side wasthat after the fast she was able to maintain her weight at 225 instead of 375 whichwas an enormous relief to her exhausted heart.
Another client I fasted for 90 days was a 6’ 1” tall, chronic schizophrenic man
who weighed in at 400 pounds. He was so big he could barely get through myfront door, and mine was an extraordinarily wide door in what had been anupper-class mansion. This man, now in his mid twenties, had spent his last sevenyears in a mental institution before his parents decided to give him one last chanceby sending to Great Oaks School. The state mental hospitals at that time providedthe mentally ill with cigarettes, coffee, and lots of sugary treats, but none of thesesubstances were part of my treatment program so he had a lot of immediatewithdrawal to go through. The quickest and easiest way to get him through it wasto put him on a water fast after a few days of preparation on raw food.
This was not an easily managed case! He was wildly psychotic, on heavy
doses of chloropromazine, with many bizarre behaviors. Besides talking to himselfcontinuously in gibberish, he collected bugs, moss, sticks, piles or dirt, andswitched to smoking oak leaves instead of cigarettes. He was such a fire hazardthat I had to move him to a downstairs room with concrete floor. Even in the
basement he was a fire hazard with his smoking and piles of sticks and other
inflammables next to his bed, but all of this debris was his “precious.” I knew thatI was in for trouble if I disturbed his precious, but the insects and dirt pilesseemed to be expanding exponentially.
One day the dirt exceeded my tolerance level. To make a long story short he
caught me in the act of cleaning up his precious. Was he furious! All 350 poundsof him! (By this time he had lost 50 pounds.) He barreled into me, fists flying, andknocked me into the pipes next to the furnace and seemed ready to really teachme what was what. I prefer to avoid fights, but if they are inevitable, I can reallyget into the spirit of the thing. I’d had lots of childhood practice defending myselfbecause I was an incurable tomboy who loved to wrestle; I could usually pin bigboys who considered themselves tough. So I began using my fists and what littlemartial arts training I had to good use. After I hurt him a bit he realized that I wasnot going to be easily intimidated, and that in fact he was in danger of gettingseriously damaged. So he called a truce before either of us were badly beaten up.He had only a few bruises and welts, nothing serious.
After that he refrained from collecting things inside the building (he continued
to collect outside). This compromise was fine with me, and the incident allowedme to maintain the authority I needed to bully him into cooperating with theprogram: taking his vitamins, and sticking to his fast until he finally reached 200pounds. After 90 days on water he actually looked quite handsome, he no longersmoked, he was off psychotropic medication, and his behaviors were within anacceptable range as long as your expectations were not too high.
He was well enough to live outside a hospital and also clearheaded enough to
know that if he let too many people know how well he really was, he might haveto give up his mental disability pension and actually become responsible forhimself. No way, José! This fellow knew a good thing when he saw it. So hecontinued to pull bizarre stunts just often enough in front of the right audience tokeep his disability checks coming in, while managing to act sane enough to be
allowed to live comfortably at home instead of in the hospital. By keeping to my
program he could stay off mind-numbing psychotropic medication if he kept uphis megavitamins and minerals. This compromise was tolerable from his point ofview, because there were no side effects like he experienced from histranquilizers.
It is very rare for a mentally ill person who has spent more than a few months
in a mental hospital to ever usefully return to society because they find “mentalillness” too rewarding.
My Own 56 Day Long Fast
Fasters go through a lot of different emotional states, these can get intense and
do change quite rapidly. The physical body, too, will manifest transitoryconditions. Some can be quite uncomfortable. But, I don’t want to leave thereader with the impression that fasting is inevitably painful. So I will now recountmy own longest fast in detail.
When I did my own 42 day water fast followed by two weeks on carrot juice
diluted 50/50 with water, which really amounted to 56 consecutive days, mypredominant sensation for the first three days was a desire to eat that was mostlya mental condition, and a lot of rumbling and growling from my stomach. This isnot real hunger, just the sounds the stomach likes to make when it is shrinking.After all, this organ is accustomed to being filled at regular intervals, and then, allof a sudden, it gets nothing, so naturally the stomach wants to know what is goingon. Once it realizes it is on temporary vacation, the stomach wisely decides toreduce itself to a size suitable for a retired organ. And it shuts up. This processusually takes three to five days and for most people, no further “hunger pangs”are felt until the fast is over.
Real hunger comes only when the body is actually starving. The intense
discomforts many people experience upon missing a meal are frequentlyinterpreted as hunger but they aren’t. What is actually happening is that their
highly toxic bodies are taking the opportunity presented by having missed a meal
or two to begin to cleanse. The toxins being released and processed makeassorted unpleasant symptoms such as headaches and inability to think clearly.These symptoms can be instantly eliminated by the intake of a bit of food, bringingthe detox to a screeching halt.
Two weeks into the fast I experienced sharp abdominal pains that felt like I
imagine appendicitis feels, which compelled me toward the nearest toilet in a stateof great urgency where I productively busied myself for about half an hour. As Imentioned earlier, I was experimentally adhering to a rigid type of fast of the sortrecommended by Dr. Herbert Shelton,


par ent s
w ould use tur pentine
per iodic al l y, at least t w ic e a y ear, as a
pr e v enti v e
measur e.B ut y ou need t o ha v e f r equent bo w el mo v ement s t hat oc c ur v er y easi l y bec ause onc e
t he tur pentine
t ouc hes y our lips, t he par asit es w i l l r ush f or t he near est e x it. If y ou ar e
c onstipat ed, t he int estinal
e x it is not w ide open ; it is simi l ar t o people r unning f r om a
c r o w ded t heat er t hat’ s on f ir e. T he
par asit es ar e g oing t o g o t o y our lung s (y ou w i l l g et a
c oug h) t o see if t he y c an e x it t hat w a y, t he y ar e
g oing t o g o t o y our sk in (y ou ar e g oing t o
g et r ashes), and t he y ar e g oing t o g o t o y our head (y ou ar e
g oing t o g et a head ac he).<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>S o, w hen y ou ar e w el l -h y dr at ed and ha v e t he par asit es ’ pr ef er r ed e x it ( c olon) c lear ed out
so t he y c an
lea v e, t ak ing tur pentine and sug ar is une v entf ul. It has been m y obser v ation
t hat one should be
ha v ing at least 3 bo w el mo v ement s per d a y bef or e e v en t ak ing
tur pentine and sug ar. S o, bef or e
t ak ing tur pentine, one must pr epar e an e x it bec ause t he
par asit es w ould r at her lea v e y our bod y
t han f ig ht, but t he y w i l l st and and f ig ht if
nec essar y. T her ef or e, it is import ant t o c ooper at e, or let
t hem c ooper at e w it h y ou and
lea v e y our bod y so y ou don ’t e x per ienc e an y miser y.09
T his f ir st st ep is a c r uc i al st ep, w hic h is t o g et as muc h w ast e out of t he bod y
as
possi ble. A g ain, t his is c r itic al. Y ou c annot er adic at e a par asit e if y our bod y
is f i l led
w it h it s f a v or it e f ood or if t he pl ac es w her e t he immune s y st em w ould
t ak e t he
par asit e ar e f i l led. Y ou must t ak e out t he tr ash, and t his means
empt y ing t he gut.
C lear ing t he smal l int estine c an be
ac c omplished b y dr ink ing 1 quart of
w at er
f or eac h 60 pounds of bod y
w eig ht eac h d a y
as a f ir st st ep. T hen,
t ak e c ast or oi l (3 t o 6
t ablespoons)
onc e a w eek, or 1 bott le of
mag nesium
c itr at e w eek l y, or D r D aniels ’
V it alit y
C apsules d ai l y as dir ec t ed
on
w w w. v it alit y c y c les. c om<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>M an y people
pr ef er D r D aniels ’ V it alit y
C apsules as
t he y c an be ad just ed f or y our
per sonal
c omf ort.
D ai l y w ar m w at er enemas using
disti l led
w at er (1 quart) ar e also v er y
helpf ul, espec i al l y
f or t he w eek
bef or e and w hi le y ou ar e t ak ing
tur pentine.w w w. vit ality cy c les. c omT he most neg lec t ed portion of t he gut is t he smal l int estines.
T his part must be
empt y, as t he f inal c ur e f or y east in v ol v es t he
immune s y st em dumping y east f r om
al l o v er t he bod y int o t he
smal l int estines v i a t he bi le duc t. If y our smal l int estine is
slug g ish, t he bi le duc t is bloc k ed, and t he immune s y st em
c annot do it s part t o heal
y ou.5 S teps to S uccess
S t ep 1
N ot e
If y ou ar e ha v ing 3 or mor e
bo w el
mo v ement s a d a y, y our smal l
int estine is most li k el y c lear.
1 9
In moder n times, w e ha v e al l t hese ne w f ang led diseases t hat ar e
w er e so r ar e just 2
g ener ations ag o. W h y is t hat? <|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>A f t er seeing t he mir ac ulous c ur ing po w er s of tur pentine, I
belie v e it
is bec ause our g r eat-g r andpar ent s t ook t heir tur pentine t w ic e a y ear.
B ec ause
m y obser v ation has been t hat in moder n man, onc e his
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 of your
religionists have described the Triune Truth as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Some of
your psychiatrists use the terms
superconscious, conscious and
subconscious. Some of your spiritualists
say mind,  body, and spirit. Some of your
scientists see energy, matter, ether. Some
of your  philosophers say a thing is not true
for you until it is tru e in thought, word, and
deed.  When discussing time, you speak of
three times only: past, present, future.
Similarly,  there are three moments in your
perception —before, now, and after. In
terms of  spatial relationships, whether
considering the points in the  universe, or
various  points in your own room, you
recognize here, there, and the space in
between.
In matters of gross relationships, you
recognize no “in -between.” That is because  gross relationships are always dyads,
whereas relationships of the higher realm
are invariably triads. Hence, there is left -
right, up -down, big - small, fast -slow, hot -
cold,  and the greatest dyad ever created:
male -female. There are no in -betweens in
these  dyads. A thing is either one thing or
the other, or some greater or lesser  version
in relationship to one of these polarities.
Within the realm of gross relationships,
nothing conceptualized can exist without a
conceptualization of its opposite. Most of
your day -to-day experience is  found ed in
this reality.
Within the realm of s ublime relationships
nothing which exists has an opposite. All Is
One, and everything progresses from one
to the other in a never -ending circle.  Time is such a sublime realm, in which
what you call past, present, and future exist
inter-relationally. That i s, they are not
opposites, but rather parts of the same
whole;  progressions of the same idea;
cycles of the same energy; aspects of the
same  immutable Truth. If you conclude
from this that past, present, and future exist
at one  and the same “time,” you are  right.
(Yet now is not the moment to discuss that.
We can get into this in much greater detail
when we explore the whole concept of
time—which we will do later).
The world is the way it is because it could
not be any other way and still exist in the
gross  realm of physicality. Earthquakes
and hurricanes, floods and tornados, and
events that you call natural disasters are
but movements of the elements from one  polarity to the other. The whole birth -death
cycle is part of this movement. These are
the rhythms  of life, and everything in gross
reality is subject to them, because life  itself
is a rhythm. It is a wave, a vibration, a
pulsation at the very heart of the All That  Is.
Illness and disease are opposites of health
and wellness, and are made manifest in
your reality at your behest. You cannot be
ill without at some level causing yourself  to
be, and you can be well again in a moment
by simply deciding to be. Deep  personal
disappointments are responses which are
chosen, and worldwide  calamities are the
resul t of worldwide consciousness.
Your question infers that I choose these
events, that it is My will and desire they
should occur. Yet I do not will these things
into being, I merely observe you doing  so. And I do nothing to stop them, because to
do so would be to thwart your will.  That, in
turn, would deprive you of the God
experience, which is the experience you
and I have chosen together.
Do not condemn, therefore, all that you
would call bad in the world. Rather, ask
yourself, what about this have you judg ed
bad, and what, if anything, you wish to do
to change it.
Inquire within, rather than without, asking:
“What part of my Self do I wish to
experience now in the face of this calamity?
What aspect of being do I choose to  call
forth?” For all of life exists as a tool of your
own creation, and all of its events  merely
present themselves as opportunities for
you to decide, and be, Who You Are.  This is true for every soul, and so you see
there are no victims in the universe, only
creators. The Masters who  have walked
this planet all knew this. That is why, no
matter which Master you might name, none
imagined themselves to be victimized —
though many were truly crucified.
Each soul is a Master —though some do
not remember their origins or their
heritages. Yet each creates the situation
and the circumstance for its own highest
purpose and its own quickest
remembering —in each moment called
now.
Judge not, then, the karmic path walked by
another. Envy not success, nor pity  failure,
for you know not what is success  or failure
in the soul’s reckoning. Call not a  thing
calamity, nor joyous event, until you decide, or witness, how it is used. For is a  death a
calamity if it saves the lives of thousands?
And is a life a joyous event if it  has caused
nothing but grief? Y et even this you should
not judge, but keep always  your own
counsel, and allow others theirs.
This does not mean ignore a call for help,
nor the urging of your own soul to work
toward the change of some circumstance
or condition. It does mean avoiding labe ls
and judgment while you do whatever you
do. For each circumstance is a gift, and in
each experience is hidden a treasure.
There once was a soul who knew itself to
be the light. This was a new soul, and so,
anxious for experience. “I am the light,” it
said. “I am the light.” Yet all the knowing of
it and all the saying of it could not substitute
for the experience of it. And in the realm  from which this soul emerged, there was
nothing but the light. Every soul was grand,
every soul was magnificent, and eve ry soul
shone with the brilliance of My awesome
light. And so the little soul in question was
as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the
grandest light —of which it was a part —it
could not see itself, nor experience itself  as
Who and What it Really Is.
Now it came to pass that this soul yearned
and yearned to know itself. And so great
was its yearning that I one day said, “Do
you know, Little One, what you must do to
satisfy this yearning of yours?”
“Oh, what, God? What? I’ll do anything!”
The little soul s aid. “You must separate yourself from the rest,
of us,” I answered, “and then you must  call
upon yourself the darkness. ”
“What is the darkness, O Holy One?” the
little soul asked.
“That which you are not,” I replied, and the
soul understood.
And so this th e soul did, removing itself
from the All, yea, going even unto another
realm. And in this realm the soul had the
power to call into its experience all sorts of
darkness. And this it did.
Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry
out, “Father, Father,  why hast Thou
forsaken me?” Even as have you in your
blackest times. Yet I have never forsaken
you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are; ready,
always ready, to call you home.
Therefore, be a light unto the darkness,
and cur se it not.
And forget not Who You Are in the moment
of your encirclement by that which you  are
not. But do you praise to the creation, even
as you seek to change it.
And know that what you do in the time of
your greatest trial can be your greatest
triumph.  For the experience you create is a
statement of Who You Are —and Who  You
Want to Be.
I have told you this story —the parable of
the little soul and the sun —so that you
might better understand why the world is
the way it is —and how it can change in an  instan t the moment everyone remembers
the divine truth of their highest reality.
Now there are those who say that life is a
school, and that these things which you
observe and experience in your life are for
your learning. I have addressed this  before,
and I tel l you again:
You came into this life with nothing to
learn —you have only to demonstrate what
you already know. In the demonstration of
it will you function it out, and create yourself
anew, through your experience. Thus,  do
you justify life, and give it purpose. Thus,
do you render it holy.
Are you saying that all the bad things that
happen to us are things of our own
choosing? Do  you mean that


 with a high recovery rate (80%) of the cells after thawing.
42 The method has not been tested
clinically on patients yet but promises to provide storage of human pluripotent stem cells easily, effectively, and economically in the future.
The potential of gonadal cryobiology in the conservation of fertility is now fully
realized. Freezing semen to safeguard male fertility is an option available to men undergoing sterilizing chemotherapy.
DMSO is the cryoprotectant most commonly used in many hospitals as a stan -
dard procedure for autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation for the treatment of chemosensitive malignancies.
DMSO IN THE SEA AND THE ATMOSPHERE
A salty sea smell can usually be felt when one is near the ocean but the smell is not from the salt alone. The smell comes from wind-driven white caps and breaking waves, which is composed not only of salt but also of gases that diffuse across the air–sea interface, many of which are synthesized and emitted by microalgae and degraded by bacteria and phytoplankton.
43 One of these gases found to occur in
ocean surface waters is dimethyl sulfide, a DMSO metabolite with a sulfur-based compound that has a strong characteristic odor. While dimethyl sulfide may sound like a noxious pollutant, it is a naturally produced biogenic gas essential for the earth’s biogeochemical cycles.
Sulfur is also an element of the earth and is essential to life. It is the eighth most
prevalent element in the human body, not as sulfur itself but always in combination with other elements, most often, in complex molecules and, less often, in simple
molecules such as DMSO.
DMSO can be found in the atmosphere.
44 Water vapor is transferred to the atmo -
sphere as a gaseous dimethyl sulfide, which is then oxidized to tropospheric sulfate
aerosols, and these particle aerosols condense on cloud particles, forming the water 11 Chemistry of DMSO
droplets that make up clouds.45 Clouds as well as marine life can affect the earth’s
radiation balance and markedly influence its temperature and climate.
Recent findings show that the amount of dimethyl sulfide entering the atmo -
sphere could decrease in the future due to atmospheric oxidation of this DMSO
metabolite by greenhouse gases.46,47 Such oxidation of dimethyl sulfide can lead
to climate changes by increasing cloud albedo, a condition where clouds reflect more solar radiation contributing to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from the planet’s surface is absorbed by greenhouse gases, such as CO
2 in the atmosphere, and reradiated in all directions,
including back to the earth’s surface where the average temperature is increased.47
As  CO2 levels rise in the atmosphere due to human activities, the ocean pH is
 acidified, an effect that leads to lower plankton production of dimethyl sulfide con -
centrations, with the consequence of less dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere and more global warming.
48
Dimethyl sulfide makes up 95% of the natural marine flux of sulfur gases to the
atmosphere, and scientists estimate that the flux of marine dimethyl sulfide supplies about 50% of the global biogenic source of sulfur to the atmosphere.
46 Dimethyl
sulfide is oxidized in the marine atmosphere to other sulfur-containing compounds, such as DMSO and its second metabolite dimethyl sulfone, as well as sulfur dioxide, methanesulfonic acid, and sulfuric acid.
49
There is evidence that DMSO and its second metabolite dimethyl sulfone may
be as significantly present as dimethyl sulfide in marine rain and marine air masses. Measures in central equatorial Pacific rain were reported to contain 1–10 µg/L of
both DMSO and dimethyl sulfone, which are near the concentrations found for dimethyl sulfide in marine sulfur transport.
48,49 This observation suggests that a par -
tially reversible loop in the sulfur transport cycle of marine rain and air gases may be operating between DMSO and its metabolites and could play a critical role in climate, temperature, and marine life.
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 three to five hours per day without any pain; just sheer exhaustion fromworking himself so hard. He jumped from lifting two-and-a-half pounds of weights
on his right arm and wrist, to between fifty to sixty pounds; and from one-and-a-
half with his left arm and wrist to between thirty-five and forty. By being able to
accomplish this, he has worked back his triceps [muscle] in the right arm, which
up to then had been gone; and I might add, a very good biceps muscle of which he
is extremely proud, and ready to take on anyone in a good arm wrestling match.
And slowly but surely, the left triceps is coming around, and we are increasingly
confident that before long, he will also have all of that back.”
On March 13, 1980, Bill was taken back to Good Samaritan Hospital to have
the earlier tests rerun and reevaluated. The results were nothing short of amazing.
All readings in the prior tests indicated his dramatic improvement. Additionally,
the patient showed that he had nerve sensory motions in his right foot. The patient
was being restored to near what he had once been.
He was permanently dismissed from the hospital. Bill came home able to feed
himself, brush his teeth, shave, comb his hair, dress, and bathe himself.
Where six months before he was more dead than alive and the family prepared
for his lifetime of complete paralysis, now the young man was able to operate his
manual wheelchair aptly by himself. Even a month before, he couldn’t manipulate
the wheelchair alone. But DMSO intravenous injections had changed all that.
“During the last six months, I have spent many hours in Dr. Jacob’s clinic with
his beautiful and caring staff, watching miracle after miracle happen right in front
of my eyes,” wrote Clara M. Fox to Claude Pepper, then Chairman of the House
of Representatives Select Committee on Aging. “I have seen people who have
been totally paralyzed for twenty years or more being treated and starting to move.
The wonder in their eyes is indeed a sight to behold. I have witnessed the awe in
the eyes and actions of a young couple whose child is being treated for Down’s
syndrome, and listened with rapt attention as they relate how far that
child has
come from death’s door to today. I have sent or personally brought people with
various illnesses or pains to Dr. Jacob’s clinic and seen them smile with utmost
satisfaction at having been cured or helped after years of discomfort and pain. And
then I have sat back and watched Dr. Jacob absolutely ecstatic after another
successful case of treatment. How very proud and happy he is to be able to help
this human race of ours.
“I have also done a lot of reading and research into the full and real story of
this remarkable drug, and I can only summarize with all my hopes and prayers,
along with millions of others, that this humble man can see all his work and dreams
materialize into that final success of having DMSO returned to the market by theFederal Drug Administration, so that all Americans might have the chance to be
helped or saved through all those efforts. I urge everyone connected with this
possibility to please check carefully all the facts, and help to answer these
prayers.”
DMSO RESEARCH INTO REVERSING NEUROLOGICAL
DISORDERS
Laboratory experiments are continuing with DMSO used to treat simulated trauma
created in the spinal cords of monkeys. Under ideal conditions, the external factors
and reproducibility of the monkey injuries are closely controlled, and “the effects
of DMSO have been often dramatic, sometimes unusual, and seldom without
effect,” says Jack C. de la Torre, Sc.D., M.D., Chief of the Department of
Neurosurgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida. He was
interviewed at the semi-annual meeting of the DMSO Society of Florida, Inc., held
in Sarasota, Florida, in November 1980. “The important question facing our
research at the present time is not so much whether DMSO works, since this has
been repeatedly shown in our laboratory and those of others, but... how does it
work?”
Dr. de la Torre’s experience with DMSO currently spans twenty-four years,
and includes both basic and clinical research. He has been experimenting with
head and spinal cord injuries, stroke, burns, urine excretion, respiratory
stimulation, brain swelling, and cellular mechanisms. He uses seven different
species of animals, including human beings. He has discovered that DMSO exerts
a positive effect on a number of life-threatening conditions, including head and
spinal cord trauma, cerebral embolism, and respiratory distress.
Neurological head and spinal cord injuries and stroke are complex medical
problems. Nevertheless, DMSO’s wide range of action makes it useful in many of
these cases. Through a combination of increased diffusion of fluids across body
membranes and dehydration, the solvent relieves the damaging swelling and
pressure that often accompany head and spinal injury. This relief comes about by
the substance crossing both the skin barrier and the blood-brain barrier. The blood-
brain barrier is a protective mechanism that exists between circulating blood and
the brain, which limits the number of molecules reaching the brain. It prevents
certain foreign proteins, natural body proteins, and other substances from entering,
some of which may be toxic to nervous tissue.“At first we thought that this property of DMSO might be a disadvantage,”
says Dr. de la Torre, “because we assumed that once it penetrated the barrier, it
would simply accumulate in the nervous tissue and cause more swelling. What it
does in fact is enter the tissue, pick up water madly, and then rush it out of the
system, relieving the pressure.”
The ability of DMSO to rapidly cross skin and blood-brain barriers enables it
to assist in the penetration of other drugs, as was pointed out earlier. “For
example, some tumors in the brain must be treated with chemotherapy injections.
Huge quantities have to be injected before the drug begins to work, and at that
point the toxicity of the drug may kill the patient,” said de la Torre. “If you have a
drug, such as DMSO, that can transport the anti-cancer agent into the tumor and
the immediately surrounding area, you can use decreasing concentrations of the
chemotherapy agent.”
Because DMSO can penetrate skin barriers with ease, but not damage cells,
DMSO is in a class by itself as a new healing principle. Furthermore, it protects
the cells from mechanical damage.
Ramon Lim, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Research
Associate in Biochemistry at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has
conducted some experiments using DMSO with glial cells. Glial cells comprise
the supporting tissue of the brain and spinal cord. Dr. Lim prepares cultures of
glial cells and DMSO, which he then subjects to sound vibrations. DMSO prevents
cellular membranes from breaking under the vibrations, preserving the contents of
each cell. The saclike lysosomes contained within cells, for example, would
release enzymes harmful to other cell systems if they escaped the confines of their
parent cells, and thus aggravate swelling and pressure. With DMSO instilled within
the cells, this enzyme release by lysosomes doesn’t take place, as shown by Dr.
Lim’s experiments on the glial cells.
Much of the permanent neurological damage in head injury and stroke is
caused by a reduction of blood flow into the brain. An interrupted blood flow
results in an inadequate supply of oxygen and nutrients to brain tissue. DMSO
permits better blood flow by lessening platelet adhesiveness and aggregation and
clot formation. Ordinarily, these are conditions that can clog the veins and arteries.
DMSO stimulates the release of a prostaglandin that increases blood vessel
diameter. It also inhibits the release of another prostaglandin that constricts vessels
and reduces blood flow.
Dr. de la Torre stresses that spinal cord injury patients who are candidates for
DMSO treatment have to meet two criteria. First, the accident victim’s injury mustbe recent, for if it is more than a few hours old, the pathologic consequences will
have been well established. It won’t be reversible by any means. “In our DMSO
research experience, one-and-a-half hours has been the limit,” says the
neurosurgeon. “We do not know how long this limit can successfully be extended,
because it depends upon the site and extent of the lesion.”
The second criterion for a patient is that he has to have so serious a spinal
cord injury that conventional treatment would be of no use, and spontaneous
recovery would be impossible. “Many patients arrive with a loss of sensory
sensation, and even a loss of motor ability, and yet they recover, sometimes
without treatment,” de la Torre says. “If DMSO is administered to such patients,
there is no way to determine whether their recovery is spontaneous or due to the
action of the drug.”
How does a doctor isolate the patients who will not recover with conventional
therapy? “We have a test, called the somatosensory evoked response,” he says,
“which measures activity at the somatosensory cortex in the brain when a stimulus
is applied to a peripheral nerve. If there is permanent damage to the spinal cord, no
activity will be recorded. From our experience with laboratory animals, we believe
patients with no response will probably not recover motor function. By


 important role in ensuring the normal operation
cardiovascular system, in removing fluid from the body.
Magnesium has vasodilator properties, which is why
Products containing it include in the diet at
hypertension.
Contraindications: bran is not recommended for use in acute
period of gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, colitis and enteritis
infectious etiology. As the attenuation of the inflammatory
process can resume taking bran, beginning with small doses.
Typically, the bran used finely shredded in the form of flour. For
15-20 minutes before each meal, ie, usually 3 times a day, taking on 2
Art. tablespoons (10 grams) of milled bran and eat with water.
Bran should always drink water (1-2 cups), otherwise the whole
sense of their consumption is reduced to nothing.
Daily dose of bran - not more than 1930 Demonstrating excess
used, it would seem useful bran, we risk amass
exacerbation of bowel disease, abdominal bloating, flatulence,
violation of bowel function and a minimum of hypovitaminosis -
nutrients and vitamins are so rapidly
leave our gut, that little will have time to assimilate the body.
Once again I draw your attention - the bran without water do not work!
Those fibrous food substances, for which we eat
bran, have meaning only when they absorb water
and swell.
But fiber is not only in the bran, but also in many other
vegetable products. and there are endless
opportunities not only for intestinal cleansing, restoration
microflora, but also for the treatment of various diseases. To
separate fiber from plant foods, you can use
a universal instrument, as a juicer. Vegetables, fruits
or other plant is put in a juicer, juice pressed
and consumed or discarded, but the plant remains pressed -
cakes - we'll use to clean the intestines and associated
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266treatment of certain diseases.
For the first time at this unique property cakes drew attention
Academician, Doctor of Technical Sciences BV Bolotov. According to his
Research, cakes have a negative potential, which
persists for several weeks until the fibrous substance cakes
not drawn ionized elements of air.
Fresh cakes by electropotential at about
10-30 eV are capable of pulling out of the stomach wall and bulbs
duodenum metals (including radionuclides
and heavy metals). They can also remove the carcinogens
and free radicals. In addition, the cakes themselves absorb not only
remnants of the salt of gastric fluids, but also are important
filling the intestine, are also capable of restoring
epithelium of the intestinal tract. Besides cakes bind
and deduce from the intestine, bile acids formed
in the liver and reduce the putrefactive processes in the intestine. Pomace
bind and display up to 25-30% saturated fat, falling
in the diet, reduce the overall level of blood cholesterol
and carcinogens.
Cakes are encouraged to eat before meals 2-3 times a day, but no more than 3
tablespoons at a time. Wash down cake is not recommended.
Consider the action of cakes of various plants.
For weight loss are very effective from the beet cake. The fact is
beetroot cake that reduce appetite. If we eat
some cakes before each meal, then, firstly,
the body does not receive any of these cakes calories as
Fiber is not digested at the time, as the stomach is full,
Second, after taking the cakes from the beet appetite vanishes. So
can a person lose weight in the total absence of desire that any
there. Procedure with beetroot cake named BV Bolotov
methodology fed starvation.
If we want to not just lose weight, but at the same time to recover
from some diseases, the cake takes on special significance.
The same cake from beets are useful in hypertension - they
reduce blood pressure. Pressure drops and cakes from the leaves
lime and raspberry, flowers and leaves of coltsfoot, elderberry flowers.
In the case of low blood pressure and a great weakness, including
and low body temperature (especially limbs)
appropriate to apply the cake of cabbage, sorrel, plantain,
trifoli, cow-parsnip. Procedure swallowing these cakes continue to
until the body is not warmed up, arms and legs do not stop freeze
in the cold and the pressure will be a reference - 120/80.
If a person suffers from diabetes, it is necessary
make cakes from the leaves of water-pepper (bitterling), dandelion
chicory (Petrova with a whip), mustard (available from the leaves bittercress)
yastrebinki grass, leaves of aspen (can be from the leaves of poplar trees), leaves
blueberry leaves erect cinquefoil, magnolia leaves. In
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267all cases, the number of meal should be small and the dose
selected on the sensations, but it should be no more than three
tablespoons.
If a person has heartburn, it is removed from the carrot cake or
apples.
When pulmonary diseases is better to eat cakes made of black
radish. These cakes are also very useful in deriving the stones from
gallbladder and its ducts. Roughly the same properties
have cakes of parsley, leaves, coltsfoot, turnips,
turnip.
EYES generalization INTESTINAL SC
Probably the pre-cleaning the intestines, think
you come up with all these boring theorists who do not understand that
hungry people want to work somewhere, and because people busy.
and you start fasting, completely unprepared.
in the colon, which is pumped anal in pockets
guts hiding greenish clay, with a very unpleasant
smell of the mass, which is called fecal stones. It is very
difficult washed with water and common over the years, growing
so that it can completely block the passage in the intestine, and then
man lay on the operating table and make it painful
operation, cleaning the stones. In some special running
cases of bowel above the operated pull up
25 kilograms of stones. Just say, from such a deficiency, without
intestinal cleansing, prosecutors enough. In - the first, you're in the process of starvation
always feel a wild hunger. And all because the stool,
fecal stones, the juice from them, draws the body from the intestine
during the famine, poisons you finally. besides, when you
Finally, in good faith and stoic doterpev whole process to end,
at the appointed day, starting out from starvation, you are once again
perfect the technique of fasting and eats right and to satiety.
And naturally, when a person stops eating, the nth
day of the abstinence he begins cleansing crisis
accompanied by unpleasant sensations, and fast
believes that he is dying from what is not eating, and panics,
again from there.
Exit toxins, which are always accompanied by
starvation, is fraught with discomfort, weakness and pain
in some parts of the body. Therefore, the unenlightened in matters
fasting gives the impression that his body during starvation
irreparably destroyed.
Doctors proctology joke: that the human body is not that
otherwise, as an improved intestinal tube. and I must say
that they are not so much to exaggerate the importance of this organ.
After all the vital processes of digestion are taking place
in the intestine.
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268Through its walls absorbed from the food most of the necessary
body substances. It turns out that human health depends
the state of his bowels. But irregular, unbalanced
nutrition leads to the fact that accumulate on the walls of the intestine
slag. These dense deposits impede absorption of nutrients
substances that produce poisonous toxins in violation of peristalsis
intestine. as a result - weakness, irritability, constipation,
skin rashes, weight problems. Hard Work
internal organs that cause serious illnesses.
From all parts of the intestine is particularly vulnerable zashlakovke
colon.
Since the gastrointestinal tract is rich in its own
endocrine "cranes" that change their activity under the
the influence of changes related to metabolism in the intestine, this
system in our body primarily provides normal
regulation of metabolic processes, and their corresponding exchange
and adaptation (adaptive) changes. And, of course
same on all of these systems was dominated by nervous redundant system, which
the overall coordination of all systems.
It is therefore quite natural that the diseases of the organs and systems,
seemingly unrelated to the intestine, with its
development is accompanied by a violation of the intestine
and, in particular, the decrease of its barrier function. At the same time sharply
increasing flow of intestinal toxins in the blood and lymph patient
body, which significantly increases the accumulation in the body
endotoxin and leads to the development of endotoxemia - accumulation
in tissue and intracellular accurate liquid toxic substances,
able to influence the course of metabolic processes
in the cell, disrupt the regulation of biological processes. Gastro-
intestinal tract may cause more than 100 different complications:
food allergies, eczema, arthritis, spondylitis, schizophrenia...
The list goes on.
According to scientists, chronic bowel disease
one of the reasons of pathology of internal organs and systems can be
associated with malabsorption of important components of food.
This may be caused by loss of nutrients as a result of
diarrhea, and excessive growth of bacteria, and changes in permeability
bowel wall.
Patients with these disorders bowel function quickly
and easily develop a variety of other diseases


 also in other temperate regions.
The flowers are harvested as they open in summer.
Parts Used  Flowers, essential oil.
Constituents  Roman chamomile contains up
to 1.75% essential oil (including tiglic and angelic
acid esters, chamazulene and other sesquiterpene
lactones), flavonoids, coumarins,
and phenolic acids.
History & Folklore
Though called Roman
chamomile, this herb was
not cultivated in Rome
until the 16th century,
probably arriving there
from Britain.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  A remedy for
the digestive system, Roman chamomile is often
used interchangeably with German chamomile
(Chamomilla recutita, p. 77). However, an infusion
of Roman chamomile has a more pronounced bitter
action than its German namesake. It is an excellent
treatment for nausea, vomiting, indigestion, and
loss of appetite. It is also sedative, antispasmodic,
and mildly analgesic, and will relieve colic, cramps,
and other cramping pains. By stimulating digestive
secretions and relaxing the muscles of the gut,
it helps normalize digestive function. Roman
chamomile may also be taken for headaches
and migraine, even by children. Its marked anti-
inflammatory and antiallergenic properties make
it helpful when applied to irritated skin.
Cautions  Do not use the essential oil
internally except under professional supervision.
The essential oil is subject to legal restrictions in
some countries.Habitat & Cultivation  Native to southern
Europe, wallflower is now found throughout the
continent. It grows on cliffs and old walls, and is
a common garden plant.
Parts Used  Leaves, flowers.
Constituents  The herb contains cheiranthin and
other cardioactive glycosides.
History & Folklore  In 1735, the Irish herbalist
K’Eogh described wallflower thus: “It provokes
urination and menstruation and expels a stillborn
child, and the afterbirth if a decoction of the dried
flowers or a little seed is drunk in wine.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Although
wallflower was formerly used as a diuretic, there
was no understanding of its powerful effect on
the heart. In small doses it is cardiotonic, supporting
a failing heart in a manner similar to foxglove
(Digitalis purpurea, p. 202). In more than small
doses it is toxic, and is therefore rarely used in
herbal medicine.
 RQ Cautions  Use only under professional
supervision. Do not take during pregnancy.
The Greek physician Dioscorides (1st century ce) used
wallflower roots to treat gout. Chamaenerion angustifolia
syn. epilobium angustifolium
(Onagraceae)
Rosebay Willowherb
Description  Perennial growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m).
Has an erect stem, narrow leaves, and long spikes
of pink-purple flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  This herb is found in
Europe and western Asia, and grows in clearings,
along roads, and in open areas. It is picked
when in flower in late summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Rosebay willowherb contains
flavones and tannins.
History & Folklore  In Siberia, an alcoholic
drink has been made from this herb and the fly
agaric mushroom ( Amanita muscaria ).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Demulcent and
astringent, rosebay willowherb treats diarrhea,
mucous colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. It has
also been made into an ointment to soothe skin
problems in children. Rosebay willowherb is used
to treat prostate problems.
Cheiranthus cheiri (Brassicaceae)
Wallflower
Description  Evergreen perennial growing
to 18 in (45 cm). Has lance-shaped leaves and
yellow-orange flowers appearing in spring.
Dried flower headsChelidonium majus
(Papaveraceae)
Greater Celandine
Description  Thin-stemmed perennial herb
growing to a height of 3 ft (90 cm). Has indented
yellow-green leaflets and 4-petaled flowers, which
appear in clusters in late spring.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
western Asia, and North Africa, greater celandine
flourishes close to human habitation, preferring
open areas, the banks of roadsides, and damp
places. The aerial parts of the herb are collected
in late spring or early summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts, latex.
Constituents  Greater celandine contains
isoquinoline alkaloids, including allocryptopine,
berberine, chelidonine and sparteine. Several
of these alkaloids are analgesic. Chelidonine is
antispasmodic and also lowers blood pressure.
Sparteine, by contrast, raises it.
History & Folklore  In folk medicine, greater
celandine has often been viewed as a cure-all. It
has also been used for thousands of years to treat
and clear the eyesight, especially cataracts. According
to Pliny and Dioscorides (both writing in the
1st century ce), swallows used the latex that
flows from cuts in the stems or leaves as a
means to sharpen their eyesight. In 1598, Gerard
recommended the herb for eye disorders “for it
clenseth and consumeth awaie slimie things that
cleave about the ball of the eie.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Greater celandine
acts as a mild sedative, relaxing the muscles of the
bronchial tubes, intestines, and other organs.
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188Chelone glabraother medicinal plantsHabitat & Cultivation  Balmony is native
to eastern North America, balmony thrives in
habitats such as marshland, wet woodland, and riverbanks. It is harvested when in flower during summer or autumn.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Contains resins and bitters.
History & Folklore  Balmony’s genus name,
Chelone, means “tortoise” in Greek, referring to the flower head’s supposed resemblance to the head of the tortoise.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  A strongly bitter
remedy, balmony is principally used to treat gallstones and other gallbladder problems. It stimulates bile flow and has a mildly laxative action. It can be taken to relieve nausea, vomiting, and intestinal colic, and to expel worms. It may also
be antidepressant. Balmony is a suitable remedy  for children.henricus), a species that is native to Europe, is  both eaten as a vegetable and used medicinally  to treat anemia.
 RQ Cautions  Use only under professional
supervision. Wormseed is toxic when taken in overdose. Do not take during pregnancy. The herb is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.
Chimaphila umbellata (Pyrolaceae)
Pipsissewa
Description  Evergreen plant with several stems,
growing to 8 in (20 cm). Has shiny wedge-shaped leaves and small flat-topped clusters of white flowers tinged with red.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to North
America, Europe, and Asia, pipsissewa grows in woods and shady places, in sandy soils. The leaves are gathered in summer.
Parts Used  Leaves.
Constituents  Pipsissewa contains hydroquinones
(including arbutin), flavonoids, triterpenes, methyl salicylate, and tannins. The hydroquinones have
a pronounced disinfectant effect within the urinary tract.
History & Folklore  Pipsissewa was much used
by Native North Americans to induce sweating and treat fevers, including typhus. European settlers used the herb for rheumatism and for urinary and kidney problems. It was listed in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States from 1820 to 1916.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Astringent, tonic,
and diuretic, pipsissewa is mainly used in an infusion for urinary tract problems such as cystitis and urethritis. It has also been prescribed for more serious conditions such as gonorrhea and kidney stones. By increasing urine flow, it stimulates the removal of waste products from the body, and is therefore of benefit in the treatment of rheumatism and gout. The fresh leaves of pipsissewa may be applied externally to rheumatic joints or muscles, as well as to blisters, sores, and swellings.
Research  In tests on animals, pipsissewa leaves
appear to lower blood-sugar levels.
Balmony’s bile-inducing
property makes it useful
for gallbladder problems.In both Western and Chinese herbal traditions, it has been used to treat bronchitis, whooping cough, and asthma. The herb’s antispasmodic effect extends to the gallbladder, where it helps to improve bile flow. This would partly account for its use in treating jaundice, gallstones, and gallbladder pain, as well as its


In a later series of experiments, Bloom permitted a faster to go four consecutive weeks without
food, with no ill effects. In reading his report of experiments to the 111th Annual Meeting of the
American Medical Association, Duncan declared: “Although short periods of total fasting may
seem barbaric, this method of reduction is marvelously well tolerated.” He added that we have
evidence that these obese persons fully enjoyed the total fasting periods, due probably in part to
their elation that hunger is not a problem while major reductions in weight are being
accomplished.
Both men reported that in longer fasts the weight loss levels off to about a pound a day. Bloom
stated fasting has also proved to be an extremely effective method of weight control.
In the healthy individual, fasting only to lose weight, I do not insist on rest in bed, but permit
considerable exercise—even at times giving a prescribed course of physical workouts. This does
not increase the rate of loss as much as one might expect, but it does assist in retaining the tone of
the tissues.
The amount of exercise required to reduce weight by exercise alone is far more than the average
person is willing to undertake and more than many of them should undergo. To lose one pound of
fat requires playing twenty-three holes of golf, sawing wood for ten and one-half hours, riding a
horse for approximately forty-three miles.
Exercise always has the added hazard of increasing the appetite. During the fast it should be
controlled and used only to the extent that the adviser feels desirable for the individual undergoing
the fasting process.
While there are varying rates of metabolism, my experience indicates that most overweight is
due, not to glandular disorders but to habitual overeating. There is little truth in the idea that with
some people everything they eat turns to fat. The real truth is that they are eating not only more than
they should, but more than they really want.
How much weight loss per day is safe in fasting? The answer here is that since fasting is total
abstention, the body itself decides what rate loss is proper. When fat tissue is soft and flabby,
weight is usually lost rapidly in the early days of the fast. I have seen losses ranging from four to
six pounds a day in fasting. The loss of twenty pounds in a week is not at all difficult in a great
many cases.
With those who have a very low rate of metabolism, the rate of loss from the outset of the fast is
slow—at times even disappointingly so. Let me reiterate once more, any fasting of more than a few
days should be done only under experienced supervision. In all cases where there is any organic
defect or chronic ailment, such as heart disease or blood deficiency, even the shortest
fast should
be supervised. Again let me say there is no essential danger in fasting but one must be properly
safeguarded against any danger from hidden conditions that might reveal themselves when no food
25is taken.
I cite the possibility in order to give the rounded picture of fasting. Let me reassure the reader,
however, that such dangers are rare. If the reader is in good health, if he follows the proper
procedures under proper experienced guidance, the fast should be for him not only a way of losing
poundage, but an exhilarating and exciting adventure, the beginning of a new way of thinking about
himself.
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Living without Eating
In March, 1963, newspapers around the world described the almost incredible story of the seven
weeks deprivation of food and the survival of Ralph Flores, a forty-two year old pilot of San
Bruno, California, and twenty-one-year old Helen Klaben, a co-ed of Brooklyn, New York,
following a plane crash on a mountain side in Northern British Columbia. The couple was rescued
March 25, 1963, after forty-nine days in the wilderness in the dead of winter, over thirty days of
this time without any food at all.
By means of a fire, a lean-to and heavy clothes in which they wrapped themselves, they
managed to withstand the bitter cold. During the first four days after the crash, Helen Klaben ate
four tins of sardines, two tins of fruit and some crackers. Twenty days after the crash, the pair took
their last “food”—two tubes of toothpaste. Melted snow became their diet, for breakfast, lunch and
the evening meal. “For the last six weeks,” she explained, “we lived on water. We drank it three
ways: hot, cold and boiled.” Varying it in this way helped reduce the monotony of their single item
menu of snow.
Miss Klaben who was “pleasingly plump” at the time of the plane crash, was happily surprised,
at the ordeal’s end, to learn that her weight loss totalled thirty pounds.
Flores, who was more active during their enforced fast, had lost forty pounds. Physicians who
examined them after the rescue, found them to be in “remarkably good” condition.
Many thousands of men and women
 have gone without food for much longer periods, not only
without harm, but with positive benefits. Periods of abstinence under such taxing conditions as the
ones these two people endured and survived are extremely rare.
Whatever our view of the origins of life, we must all recognize the fact that nature provides for
need, including provision for plants and animals over periods of food scarcity. Famine is more
frequent in nature than we commonly realize. Winter, floods, periods of drought, often leave wild
animals less well fed and watered than domestic animals who can generally depend upon their
masters to store food for continuous food supplies. In the wild state, both herbivorous and
carnivorous animals often subsist on reduced food supplies. Most wild dogs are gaunt: like the
dogs, lean, hungry wolves whose skeletons have shrunk with their bowels, are common; “half-
starved” wild cattle and horses were once common. What happens to these creatures under such
stringent conditions? Do they die of starvation? The answer is they rarely do.
In his
Zoological Sketches
, Dr. Felix L. Oswald writes: “In a sparsely settled country, animal
refugees soon accustom themselves to the vicissitudes of their wild life. The ten months’ drought
back in 1877, which almost exterminated the domestic cattle of southern Brazil, was braved by the
pampas cows, whom experience had taught to derive their water supply from bulbous roots, cactus
leaves, and excavations in the moist river-sand. Solid food is only a secondary requirement.
“The Syrian Khamr dogs manage to eke out a living in regions where no human hunter would
discover a trace of game and where water is as scarce as in the eternal abodes of Dives; nay, they
multiply, for the Khamr bitch, like other poor mothers, is generally over-blest with progeny; six
youngsters is said to be the minimum.
“A sausage-maker would probably decline to invest in Khamr dogs: the word
leanness
 does not
begin to describe their physical condition;
strappedness
 would be more to the purpose, if an
27Arkansas adjective admits of that suffix—skin and sinews tightly stretched over a framework of
bones. I saw their relatives in Dalmatia, and often wondered that they did not rattle when they ran;
but Dalmatia is still a country of vineyards and sand rabbits, while the Syrian desert has ceased to
produce thorn-berries. Without moisture not even a curse can bear fruit.”
That animals do survive such conditions and go on generation after generation is a fact of utmost
significance. A weasel hiding in a closed room will survive for days without food and seek food
when released. The hibernating bear, taking no food for prolonged periods, will give birth to her
cub, and secrete milk upon which it feeds. The fasting salmon and fur seal bull are very active
while abstaining from food. These few examples of activity while fasting suffice to reveal that the
fasting body does have means of meeting its energy requirements, even if these are at a low ebb
and this is far from being true
in the case of the salmon and the seal.
One of Sweden’s distinguished biochemists, Dr. Ragnar Berg, a Nobel Prize winner, and an
authority on nutrition, says, “One can fast a long time; we know of fasts of over a hundred days
duration, so we have no need of fearing that we will die of hunger.”
The actual time period of abstinence forced upon Mr. Flores and Miss Klaben was of relatively
moderate duration. The question is not how long man can fast, but what are the provisions of nature
that enable him to do so.
Wear and waste, repair and replenishment, are continuous and almost simultaneous processes in
all living structures, and none of these processes halt during a fast. The hibernating animal in the
far north must produce sufficient heat to maintain body warmth. Both man and animal, while
fasting, must breathe and the heart must continue to pulsate. The blood must continue to flow and
the organs of elimination must continue their work of freeing the tissues of waste. The vital
functions of life must be carried on, even if at a slightly reduced rate. Cells must be replenished,
wounds must be healed. All of this, as I know from years of observations, goes on during a fast,
moreover, and I will cite examples of this fact later, physical development and growth may take
place, even while no food is being taken.
All manifestations of life


 or uncooked
applesauce is the only applesauce that is beneficial in our systems.
Cooked applesauce is acid and does far more harm than good. Make sure
this is only eaten on an empty stomach. Serves 1-2.
OLD-FASHIONED LENTIL SOUP 1 Hr. 15 Min.
IVi cups water
1 clove garlic, minced
1 large white onion, chopped
2 large carrots, coarsely chopped
2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped
1Vz cups lentils
1 vegetable bouillon or I tablespoon red miso
Vz teaspoon dried thyme
218 • FIT FOR LIFE 1 teaspoon dried oregano
1-2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1 teaspoon sweet Hungarian paprika
Vz teaspoon Spike (optional)
Vi teaspoon sea salt (optional)
1 cup fresh or frozen com (optional)
In soup kettle, bring water to a boil. Add garlic, onion, carrots, celery,
lentils, and bouillon or miso. Return to boil. Add seasonings. Mix well.
Simmer, covered, over low heat for 60 minutes. If you want a creamier
consistency, you can puree Vi the soup in blender or food processor.
Return to heat and add corn, if desired. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in
parsley. Serves 3 as a main course.
HONEY CORN BREAD 35 Min. to 1 Hr.
1 cup yellow cornmeal, or *A cup yellow cornmeal and lA cup bran
1 cup whole-wheat flour
Vz teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
lA cup raw honey
1 beaten egg or 1 teaspoon egg replacer whipped in 1 tablespoon
water
l7/s cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon butter
2 cups fresh or frozen com (optional)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine dry ingredients. Stir in liquid
ingredients. Stir in corn. Do not overmix! Corn bread batter must be a
little lumpy. Pour batter into well-buttered 8-by-8-inch pan. Bake for Vi
hour without corn or 55 minutes with corn until toothpick inserted in
center comes out clean. Cool slightly and cut into 2-inch squares.
NOTE: The batter for this corn bread can be prepared hours in advance
and refrigerated (covered) in the baking pan until Vi hour before baking.
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 219 PITA TOASTS 10 Min.
2 whole-wheat pita breads, separated into halves
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 small clove garlic
Vi teaspoon dried thyme
Vi teaspoon dried summer savory
Use garlic press to crush garlic and blend it into butter. Add herbs and
mix well with fork. Spread butter on pita halves. Place under broiler for 5
minutes or until toasted. Serves 4.
Freeze 2~2'/2 bananas for tomorrow's shake before going to bed.
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT—SUNDAY
BREAKFAST:
Fresh juice, Smoothie (see pages 189 and 201), or Breakfast Fruit
Platter,4 if desired
LUNCH:
Leftover Lentil Soup and Grandma's Coleslaw from yesterday, or The
Properly Combined Sandwich (see page 150), or Banana Shake*
DINNER.
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail, if desired (see page 152)
New York Goodwich (see page 159)
Crusty Roasteds*
Leftover Grandma's Coleslaw, or Summer Greens with Creamy Avocado
Dressing *
BREAKFAST FRUIT PLATTER 15 Min.
1 cantaloupe or Persian melon, cut into bite-size cubes
3 cups watermelon balls
4 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
220 • FIT FOR LIFE 1 large or 2 small papaya, peeled and sliced
2 cups seedless green grapes
6 small bunches grapes
1 large Bosc pear, peeled and cut into spears
On large round platter, combine melons, kiwi fruit, papaya, and grapes.
Arrange bunches of grapes around edges of platter, alternating with pear
spears.
Serve with Fruit Dip of your choice (see page 170). Serves 6.
BANANA SHAKE 3 Min.
1 cup Fresh Almond Milk (see page 195)
2—21/2 frozen bananas (depending on size and desired thickness of
shake)
Nutmeg
In blender, combine Fresh Almond Milk, bananas, and nutmeg to taste.
Blend until creamy. Serves I.
CRUSTY ROASTEDS 35 Min.
These are a delicious alternative to french fries, and you'll love them if
potatoes are one of your addictions. You'll find them to be a really terrific
"non-fried potato treat." Although they are wonderful, overeating them
will halt your progress. Take it easy! Don't stuff yourself. Look at this as a
treat and not a binge so you can enjoy these roasteds in your new life-style
repertoire.
5 new potatoes
1-2 tablespoons butter, melted
Dash of Spike, Herbit, or seasoning of your choice
Place potatoes in vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling water for 20
minutes or until they test tender when pierced with tip of sharp knife. Do
not allow them to get too soft. Cool potatoes and cut into '/t-inch slices.
Place on cookie sheet, and brush evenly with butter. Sprinkle with sea
soning, and place as close as possible to heat of broiler until crusty and
golden, approximately 10 minutes. It is not necessary to turn them.
Serves 2-3.
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFESTYLE • 221 SUMMER GREENS WITH CREAMY
AVOCADO DRESSING IS Min.
An assortment of lettuce—several leaves each of butter, romaine,
salad bowl, and red leaf
2 cups spinach
1 cup arugula (optional)
1 small cucumber, peeled and sliced, or 2 pickling cukes, peeled and
sliced
2 cups sprouts—alfalfa, buckwheat, or sunflower
Vi cup olives (optional) or 1 cup enoki mushrooms
Prepare the salad.
Wash and thoroughly dry lettuce and break into bite-size pieces, discard
ing center rib. Break spinach into bite-size pieces. Combine lettuce and
spinach in large bowl. Add arugula, if desired, cucumber, and sprouts.
CREAMY A VOCADO DRESSING:
1 avocado
1 small clove garlic, minced
'A cup water
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill
Vi teaspoon honey
'/: teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Prepare the dressing.
Cut avocado in half. Peel, remove pit, and cut into large cubes. Place all
ingredients in food processor or blender. Process until creamy and
smooth. Use as dressing for Summer Greens, as dip for raw or steamed
vegetables, or as topping on sandwiches. Makes 2 cups.
Assemble the salad.
Pour xh cup of dressing over greens. Toss well. Add a few tablespoons
additional dressing, if desired. Add olives or enoki mushrooms, if desired.
Toss lightly. Serves 2.
222 • FIT FOR LIFE ^
IN CONCLUSION
A J. \- tremendous effort has gone into
perfecting this system over the last fifteen years. Obviously it is not a "hit-
and-run," on-again off-again approach. Its purpose is to put you in har
mony with your physiological needs and your natural body cycles and to
show you how to eat to optimize both. With this information you will
always have control over your energy and your weight.
If you are not yet the weight you wish to be, be assured that you will
arrive there if you continue to eat properly combined, high-water-content
meals and nothing but fruit in the morning, just proceed! You are still in
the process of acquiring your LIFEIIME ENERGY LIFE-STYLE. If you con
tinue to do what has been outlined, the weight will continue to come off,
and it will be gone for good as you become more energetic and healthy.
If you wish to accelerate your progress, skip around in the program and
emphasize the high-energy days that call for fruit all day with a high-
water-content Main-Course Salad or a New York Goodwich in the eve
ning. These are the days when you will experience maximum weight
loss. Two exceedingly important guidelines should be kept in mind: First,
that concentrated foods, proteins and carbohydrates, should be properly
combined and not account for more than 30 percent of your food intake
• 223 • for any one day; second, fruit is your absolute best friend in the upkeep
and care of your body. Correctly consumed and eaten in sufficient quan
tities, fruit will insure that you will never have a weight problem again.
The most important feature of this approach to eating is the fact that
it's a LIFE-STYLE, not a dogmatic set of rules that must be adhered to by
rote. This affords you the opportunity to participate to the extent that it
appeals to you personally. You can pick and choose what


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