 to those with intrinsic
majesty that emer ges from humi lity and staying low. And this position isn’t
uniquely held by the great master. Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ, offers an almost identica l message in the New Testamen t, centuries
after the death of Lao-tzu:Be shepherds of God’ s flock that is under your care, serving as
overseers—not because you must, but because you are willing, as
God wants you to be; not greedy  for money, but eager to serve; not
lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the
flock (1 Pet. 5:2–3).
Change the way you think about yourself and others as model leaders by
looking to the massive life-giving sea, who’ s patient, accepting, and lower
than the streams that flow to it. Then imitate that water power yourself by
suspending your ego and releasing the need to lord anything over anyone.
The people you’re entrusted to lead will gravitate to you and the
watercourse way of the T ao’s natural flow.
You’re advised to learn from the way water behaves and imitate it as
much as possible in your life. Here are ways to apply the wisdom of
emulating the sea in your life today:
Never assume that you know what’ s best.
Even if you’re older, wiser, and richer than others and have more
influence and power than they do, never assume that you know what’ s best
for anyone. Instead, imagine yourself as the great ocean that allows and
encourages the smaller streams to come to you. Stay low, speak softly, and
remain humble—and let others be in control of their lives as much as is
humanly possible. By seeing yourself as the all-receiving sea, you remove
your ego from the picture and thus become like one of the leaders referred
to in this verse of the Tao Te Ching. No one should feel the heaviness of
your directions or be hurt by your instructions.
A situation that allowed me to implement this advice occurred on the day
I wrote this essay. I live on Maui, and my 90-year -old mother is in Florida,
where my daughter Saje also resides. My mother was experiencing a
stomachache and nausea from some strong medication she’d taken, so I
phoned my daughter to see if she had any suggestions for getting some
yogurt to her. Saje’ s immediate response was, “We have some yogurt right
here—I’ll take it over to Grandma’ s.” Rather than giving her an order and
instructing her to tend to her grandmother, I allowed my daughter to be of
service while I stayed in the lowest possible place.
Remain a servant.See yourself as someone who’ s on this planet to assist others. Look for
opportunities to be of aid, particularly to those who need your leadership.
Remember that the great sea serves everyone by being a life-supporting
receiver of all who wish to partake of her bounty, so practice emulating her
by expressing the T ao.
Do the T ao Now
Dedicate a day to leading by serving, as opposed to giving orders. Find
occasions to stifle your learned habit of interfering and telling other s what
to do, and allow them to flow to you instead. Commit to this principle
further by encouraging someone to make the decision rather than following
your orders.
OceanofPDF.com67th Verse
All the world talks about my T ao
with such familiarity—
what folly!
The T ao is not something found at the marketplace
or passed on fr om father to son.
It is not something gained by knowing
or lost by for getting.
If the T ao wer e like this,
it would have been lost and for gotten long ago.

I have thr ee treasur es, which I hold fast
and watch closely.
The first is mer cy.
The second is frugality.
The thir d is humility.

From mer cy comes courage.
From frugality comes gener osity.
From humility comes leadership.
Now if one wer e bold but had no mer cy,
if one wer e broad but wer e not frugal,
if one went ahead without humility,
one would die.

Love vanquishes all attackers,it is impr egnable in defense.
When heaven wants to pr otect someone,
does it send an army?
No, it pr otects him with love.
OceanofPDF.comLiving by the
Three Treasures
You’re being invited to change your life by seeing it through the prism of
this ancient verse of the Tao Te Ching, which instructs you on the three
things you need for a T ao-styled life of success:
— Mercy is the name used here for the first treasure, but additional terms
such as compassion, good-heartedness, love, kindness, and charity have
been employed in other translations. You’ve very likely been weaned on a
model of achievement that’s measured by accumulation, accomplishment,
and the acquisition of power and influence over others. Successful people
are usually considered to be narrowly focused on their own goals, oblivious
to anyth ing but getting to the top, and ruthless in preventing anyone else
from getting what they’re after.
Lao-tzu, howeve r, says that the first and most important treasu re is what
true courage stems from, not from a heartless and callous attitude. He even
tells you that boldness without mercy is a prescription for death! So you’re
encouraged to think of other s first by being willing to serve and exhibit
kindness and love, even toward your enemies, instead of seeking external
indicators to prove that you’re successful.
Shakespeare speaks of the first treasure in The Mer chant of V enice:
The quality of mer cy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain fr om heaven...

But mer cy is above this scepter ed sway,
It is enthr oned in the hearts of kings...
The great playwright then reminds us with his next lines why Lao-tzu
made mercy the top priority of the three treasures:
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’ sWhen mer cy seasons justice.
Mercy, compassion, and kindne ss are all attributes of God and the Tao.
Lao-tzu saw this truth many centuries before Shakespeare did.

— The second treasure is frugality, or what was referred to in other
translations as economy, moder ation, thrift, or simplicity. Now frugality and
moderation don’t generally spring to mind when those at the pinnacle of
achievement are described; however, according to Lao-tzu, being satisfied
with less rather than more resul ts in great generosity. So be willing to take
only what you need, and don’t accumulate or hoard. The less attached you
are to your stuff, the easier it is to be generous; the more you cling to it, the
more you feel you need, and the less concerned you are with the welfare of
others.

— The third treasure necessary for a successful life is humility, which
other translations refer to as “not presuming to be above nature,” “daring
not to be ahead of others,” and “not always trying to be number one.” From
this quality, Lao-tzu reminds us, comes true leadership that radiates Tao
energy.
Often our perception of strength, power, and triumph is influen ced by the
yang masculine qualities of arrogance, loftiness, and self-importance. So
when you change the way you think about enlightened leadersh ip, you can
discover what genuinely successful 67th Verse people have learned before
you—that is, that we’re all instruments for Tao or God or whate ver you call
the ener gy that writes the books, delivers the speeches, makes the lifesaving
discoveries, and so on. Humility is akin to surrendering to a force greater
than your ego, giving credit to that Source, and being grateful for any
wisdom and influence that’s given to you by that power. Be humble; stay
low; and be a generous, grateful leader.
Here are some ways to apply these three treasures to your daily life:
Live in harmony with the myriad manifestations of the T ao.The key to living in harmony is compassion and mercy. You’re not in
competition with anyone, so don’t feel as if you must defeat another person
or compare yourself on any level. Extend mercy and compassion toward
every form of life, including yourself! When you radiate love and respect
for all, you’ll be aligned with the Tao, which will protect you as if you were
a baby in the arms of a loving mother.
See the hidden str engths of simplicity and humility in those whom you
may have pr eviously judged to be weak or ineffective leaders.
Those who practice frugality  and refuse to hoard or engage in
conspicuous consumption deserve to be viewed as strong examples of how
to guide others—whereas those who speak and act forcefully while
stockpiling more and more goods are not in harmony with the Tao.
Moreover, such individuals’ actions tend to contribute to more dissension,
and as Lao-tzu reminds us here, those who go ahead with boldness and
without deference will die (and, I hasten to add, will lead others to their
deaths as well). As you notice examples of simplicity and humility in those
who are in positions to lead, make every effort to emulate the same qualities
in your own daily interactions.


 each other and, after folding, will create a 3D struc -
ture with specific and essential biological functions. If the polypeptide does not fold correctly, it will not function properly and may damage the cell.
The problem with proteins is that, in some circumstances, they can become
 misfolded, that is, folded incompletely or incorrectly. This misfolding can lead to
serious illness because their correct molecular structure is degraded, denatured, or lost, and their specific function in the body no longer works. It has been estimated
that about half of all human diseases are caused by protein folding defects, making
this phenomenon a clearly important medical issue.
21
Misfolding disorders can result in neurodegenerative disorders. These disorders
include Gaucher’s disease (misfolded beta glucocerebrosidase), Marfan syndrome 6 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
(misfolded fibrillin), Fabry’s disease (misfolded alpha galactosidase), and retinitis
pigmentosa 3 (misfolded rhodopsin). Moreover, some cancers may be associated with misfolded proteins that become dysfunctional. One example is von Hippel Lindau disease, a dominantly inherited hereditary cancer syndrome that leads to a variety of malignant and benign tumors of the brain, spinal cord, eye, kidney, pancreas, and adrenal glands and is caused by a gene mutation that encodes the tumor suppressor protein known as pVHL.
Protein misfolding disorders are not necessarily characterized by the dis -
appearance of a protein but by its deposition in insoluble aggregates within the cell. Diseases caused by protein aggregation include Alzheimer’s disease, where excessive deposits of amyloid beta and tau are found in the brain; diabetes type 2, where deposits of amylin accumulate; Parkinson’s disease, where brain deposits of α-synuclein are characteristic; and the spongiform encephalopathies such as
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, described later. Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis is caused by the aggregation of transthyretin in various tissues, such as the heart where congestive heart failure can follow or the nerves where peripheral neuropa -
thy often occurs.
One of the most crucial biological activities of cells is to apply the correct folding
of a newly produced polypeptide in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell into a 3D conformation or complex. Doing so ensures the stability, intracellular trafficking, and targeting of the protein to its final destination and initiation of its specific function. Protein molecules in aqueous buffer are in equilibrium between unfolded and folded states,
22 and when a protective osmolyte is added to the buffer,
such as DMSO, there is a shift in this equilibrium toward the correct conformational shape of the protein. However, not all osmolytes are helpful in protein folding, and the most notorious in denaturing proteins is urea, a very simple molecule that is a waste product of nitrogen metabolism found normally in all our cells.
Proteins that have a particularly complicated or unstable conformation sometimes
cannot achieve their properly folded or assembled form. In these cases, other special -
ized chemical chaperones can help them return from their misfolded state to their correct folded form. It is not clear how chemical chaperones are able to nonselec -
tively stabilize the mutant proteins and facilitate their proper folding. One theory is that chemical chaperones may facilitate the proper folding of a polypeptide essen -
tially by unfolding improperly folded structures prior to their final assembly.
Enzymes known as proteases can degrade those proteins that have misfolded
incorrectly by cleaving the peptide bonds via a hydrolysis reaction. The process of protein degradation involves forming a complex with the protease, which after cleav -
age allows the released amino acids to be reused by the cell.
Chemical chaperones are usually osmotically active and include, besides
DMSO, glycerol and deuterated water.
23 These chaperones are presently being
investigated in conformational disorders where mutations involving improper pro -
tein folding occur.
Chemical chaperone research has largely focused on the central nervous system
because of the sensitivity of this system to folding diseases. This sensitivity to pro -
tein misfolding is due to the inability of the central nervous system to regenerate itself following neuronal death.7 Chemistry of DMSO
Chemical chaperones are usually osmotically active, and this is the case with
DMSO, glycerol, and deuterated water.23 Osmotically active compounds are known
to be potentially useful in treating or preventing conformational disorders where
protein folding is misguided.24
For example, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is a form of brain damage that can lead to
the rapid development of increased involuntary movements and progressive  d ementia.
The brain tissue develops holes much like a sponge, hence the name spongiform encephalopathy, which, like its medical name, takes on a sponge-like aspect.
24 This
encephalopathic outcome is due to an infectious protein called prion. Prions are mis -
folded proteins that replicate by converting their properly folded counterparts into acting as a template to guide the chronic misfolding of more proteins into a prion form.
25 It is theorized that a conformational change from the normal cellular prion
protein (PrPC) is the decisive step in the formation of the abnormal scrapie PrPSc
isoform.26
The prion found in Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease can become quickly lethal because
it induces refolding of native proteins into the diseased state.24 DMSO and glycerol
have been found to revert the mutated form of the scrapie form prion (PrPSc), the
protein responsible for the onset of prion disease,27 raising the hope of curing or
managing Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and other protein misfolding disorders.
Although the mechanism by which PrPC is converted into PrPSc remains obscure,
DMSO was used as a chemical chaperone and a protein-stabilizing solvent to explore the possibility of retarding the formation of PrP
Sc in scrapie-infected mouse neu -
roblastoma cells.28 It was found that DMSO proved to be effective in reducing the
extent of PrPC conversion into its detergent insoluble form in ScN2a cells, a model of
scrapie-infected neuroblastoma cells.28
Confirmation of these findings were reported by Shaked and his group.29 They
showed that DMSO acted as a chemical chaperone to partially inhibit the aggrega -
tion of either PrPSc or that of its protease-resistant core, designated PrP 27–30, the
major scrapie prion protein.
From this perspective, DMSO might be useful in conformational disorders where
protein misfolding may play an important role in the pathologic process. Such con -
formational protein disorders, as mentioned earlier, ostensibly include neurodegen -
erative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, which share some features with the prion diseases.
DMSO has been used as a chemical chaperone in the autosomal neurodegen -
erative disorder Machado–Joseph disease, a type of spinocerebellar ataxia affecting muscle control and coordination of the upper and lower extremities.
30 The disease is
caused by a gene that contains lengthy irregular repetitions of the code CAG, produc -
ing the truncated form of a mutated protein called ataxin-3.
Ataxin-3 causes aggregation and cell death in vitro  and in vivo. In one in vitro
study by Yoshida et al.,31 large intracellular aggregate bodies were remarkably
decreased when exposed to 0.5% of DMSO. At this concentration, DMSO also sig -
nificantly suppressed neuron and non neuronal cell death frequency.31
These studies suggest that the use of DMSO in conformational disorders is an
area of molecular research that could provide fundamental understanding of how and why proteins misfold and clues as to their eventual treatment.8 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Due to the pleiotropic nature of DMSO, it is reasonable to assume that the struc -
tural configuration of this molecule may have the ability to target a diverse spec -
trum of pathogenic events that emerge from trauma and disease either acutely or
chronically. This brings up the tantalizing possibility that further research into the structure of DMSO may uncover other more powerful and efficient molecules with similar molecular and chemical properties as DMSO.
DMSO AS AN ELECTROLYTE
One of the more curious chemical uses found for DMSO in the last few years is as an electrolyte in rechargeable batteries. Rechargeable batteries are widely used in mod-ern society for portable consumer devices, automobile starters, electric tools, light vehicles such as electric bicycles, motorized wheelchairs, golf carts, standby genera -
tors, and large-scale electricity storage in smart or intelligent grids. The performance of rechargeable batteries depends essentially on the thermodynamics and kinetics of the electrochemical reactions involved in the components. The components are made up of an anode, cathode, electrolyte, and separator of the cells. Extensive efforts have been dedicated in the last decade to develop advanced batteries with large capacity, high energy and power density, high safety, long cycle life, fast response, and low cost.
32
Prototype lithium–oxygen (Li+–O2) batteries typically are made of a metal Li+
anode


makes	no	sense	in	terms	of	our	worldly	thought	processes.	Only	the	actual
act,	in	which	you	give	gratitude	unconditionally,	brings	the	fantastic	results	of
seeing	clearly.	As	I	keep	extending	my	gratitude	to	everyone	in	my	past	and
my	present,	I	start	to	see	that	all	that	surrounds	me	is	actually	in	harmony.
I	begin	to	see	that	what	I	judged	as	harmful	and	unfair	was	really	a
misinterpretation,	a	faulty	judgment	based	on	my	perception,	which	is	very
limited	in	its	scope.
Human	perception	seems	very	powerful.	It	proceeds	from	our	limited	self-
concept.	From	this	view,	that	of	a	limited	and	unconnected	being,	we	look	out
at	a	world	filled	with	danger	and	pain.	If	we	refuse	to	act	on	this	perception
but	desire	to	see	what	is	happening	in	our	life	spiritually,	we	get	an	entirely
different	view.	We	begin	to	see	the	interconnected	and	intersupporting
relationships	of	reality.	We	begin	to	see	the	spiritual	dance	in	which	we	are
each	engaged.	It	is	important	that	you	not	try	to	figure	out	the	dance,	but
merely	let	it	reveal	itself	to	you	and	then	move	to	the	beat.	Unconditionalgratitude,	rather	than	seeking	to	control	the	situation,	frees	you	from	stress
and	pain.	Unconditional	gratitude	replaces	your	frustration	with	the	peace,
joy,	and	happiness	that	is	naturally	yours.
The	Circle	of	Gratitude
Terah	Kathryn	Collins
Terah	Kathryn	Collins

practices,	teaches,	and	lectures	on	Feng	Shui,	the
Chinese	art	of	placement,	in	San	Diego.	She	specializes	in	teaching	people
how	to	see	through	their	“Feng	Shui	Eyes,”	opening	the	vision	that	leads	to
living	in	optimal	harmony,	comfort,	and	balance.	She	is	the	author	of	THE
WESTERN	GUIDE	TO	FENG	SHUI:	CREATING	BALANCE,	HARMONY,
AND	PROSPERITY	IN	YOUR	ENVIRONMENT.
Expressing	gratitude	was	something	I	learned	by	watching	other	people.	At
first,	I	wasn’t	very	good	at	it.	I	often	forgot	or	simply	wasn’t	in	the	mood.
Besides,	I	figured	that	people	wouldn’t	notice	if	I	wasn’t	grateful.	It	was	like
giving	a	gift	they	weren’t	expecting	anyway.	But	on	those	occasions	when	my
mood	was	just	right,	and	I	did	grace	someone	with	a	sincere	thank	you,
something	magical	always	happened.	A	surge	of	joy	would	whip	through	my
body,	magnetically	connecting	me	with	the	other	person.	I	began	to	remember
to	be	grateful	more	often.
I	like	to	try	different	ways	of	expressing	gratitude	to	see	how	they	feel.
Surprising	people	with	a	thank	you	is	great	fun—their	faces	always	light	up,
and	we	laugh	and	hold	hands	for	a	moment.	Gratitude	sheds	a	rosy	glow
across	my	whole	life.	The	more	grateful	I	am	for	everything	in	life,	the	more
reasons	I	find	to	be	grateful.	There	are	the	big	things,	such	as	my	“tribe,”	or
my	friends	and	family.	There	are	the	personal	things,	such	as	my	good	health
and	wonderful	career.	And	gratitude	reaches	all	the	way	down	to	the	little
things—the	fresh	flower	arrangement,	the	bowl	of	oranges,	the	fire	in	the
fireplace.	Focusing	gratitude	on	anything	makes	it	grow!
Does	this	mean	that	because	I’m	grateful	for	the	food	on	my	table	today,	I’ll
soon	be	giving	thanks	for	everyone	around	the	community,	the	region,	and	the
world	having	plenty	to	eat?	Could	it	be	that	since	I’m	grateful	for	the	peace
that	exists	in	my	neighborhood	now,	I	will	soon	have	the	opportunity	to	be
grateful	for	peace	on	Earth?I’ve	decided	that	the	answer	is	YES.	The	circle	of	gratitude	gets	bigger	every
day.	One	grateful	thought	and	you’re	in.	And	once	you	are,	watch	the	circle
grow.
Gratitude—The	Vital	Ingredient	in	Our	Lives
Dr.	Tom	Costa
Dr.	Tom	Costa

is	founder	of	the	Religious	Science	Church	of	The	Desert	in
Palm	Desert,	California,	and	is	currently	on	the	Board	of	Directors	of
Religious	Science	International.	His	popularity	as	a	public	speaker	has
resulted	in	a	number	of	television	appearances,	as	well	as	lectures	and
seminars	throughout	the	United	States,	Canada,	and	England.	Tom	is	the
author	of	LIFE!	YOU	WANNA	MAKE	SOMETHING	OF	IT?
My	attitude	of	gratitude	has	been	developing	for	the	last	seven	decades	of	my
life.
My	deep	feelings	for	the	spiritual	privilege	of	being	grateful	were	tested	when
I	first	became	a	minister	in	1974.	I	was	counseling	a	man	who	was	quite
unhappy.	Here	was	a	man	who	was	in	good	health,	played	tennis	daily,	was
successful	financially,	and	who	loved	his	work.	I	had	just	performed	the
wedding	ceremony	for	him	and	his	new	and	devoted	wife,	and	he	also	had	a
loving	family	from	his	previous	marriage.	Yet,	although	every	area	of	his	life
—health,	wealth,	love,	and	work—seemed	fulfilled,	he	was	STILL	unhappy.
As	a	new	minister,	I	was	stymied;	what	could	I	pray	for?	How	could	I	help
him	move	through	his	depression?	As	we	continued	our	sessions,	what	came
out	was	this	man’s	lack	of	gratefulness.	He	never	gave	thanks	for	his	health,
his	wealth,	his	children,	his	home,	or	life	itself.	He	took	everything	for
granted.	This	inspired	me	to	find	out	more	about	this	nebulous	but	vital
ingredient	in	our	lives…GRATITUDE.
How	well	I	remember	years	ago	when	I	was	doing	what	is	referred	to	as	a
Fifth	Step	in	the	Twelve	Steps	of	the	Alcoholics	Anonymous	program.	The
Fifth	Step	is	the	one	where	someone,	perhaps	a	member	of	the	clergy,	would
listen	to	an	account	of	the	alcoholic’s	life	up	to	the	time	of	admitting	to	their
alcoholism.	A	young	lady	remarked	to	me,	“You	cannot	be	grateful	and
unhappy	at	the	same	time.”I	was	probably	about	40	years	older	than	she	was	at	the	time,	but	I	was
spiritually	stunned.	I	had	never	heard	that	“one-liner”	before,	and	it	made
sense!	Since	then,	I	have	used	that	thought	throughout	my	ministry—in
classes,	seminars,	and	in	my	personal	life.	YOU	CANNOT	BE	GRATEFUL
AND	UNHAPPY	AT	THE	SAME	TIME.	It	is	truly	emotionally	impossible	to
do	both.
As	I	think	about	this	concept,	I	flash	back	to	my	Catholic	upbringing,	where
we	used	a	rosary.	Personally,	now	I	have	what	I	call	a	mental	Rosary	of
Gratefulness.	I	count	the	“beads,”	if	you	will,	daily	and	often	in	my	morning
meditations	and	prayers.	This	is	when	I	count	MY	blessings,	and	not	someone
else’s.
This	period	of	gratitude	in	my	life	does	not	occur	just	on	the	third	Thursday	in
November.	This


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times longer than it would have lived in the r egular way.
This has also been pr oven with animals.” Life-extending
results have been proven again in a recently published
earthworm study.  Something to think about, indeed,
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Today, many of our foods are highly pr ocessed or refined,
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Delicious Hot or Cold Cider Drink – Add 2 to 3 cinnamon sticks and
4 cloves to water and boil. Steep 20 minutes or more. Before serving add
Bragg Vinegar and raw honey to taste. (Re-use cinnamon sticks & cloves )
Bragg Favorite Juice Cocktail – This drink consists of all raw
vegetables (please remember organic is best) which we prepare in our
vegetable juicer: carrots, celery, beets, cabbage, tomatoes, watercress
and parsley, etc. The great purifier, garlic, we enjoy but it’s optional.
Bragg Favorite Health Smoothie “Pep”Drink  –After morning stretch
Prepare following in blender, add frozen juice cube if desired colder;
Choice of: freshly squeezed orange or grapefruit juice; carrot and greens juice;
unsweetened pineapple juice; or 1 2 -2 cups purified or distilled water with :
2 tsps spirulina or green powder, barley, etc. 1 to 2 bananas, ripe
2 tsp raw wheat germ (optional) 1 tsp soy protein powder
2 Tbsp flax oil (or grind Tbsp of flax seeds) 1 tsp sunflower or chia seeds
2 tsp lecithin granules 1 tsp raw honey (optional)
1 tsp rice or oat bran 1 tsp vit C or emer'gen-C powder
2 tsp psyllium husk powder (optional) 2 tsp nutritional yeast flakes
2 dates or prunes, pitted (optional) 3 cup soy yogurt or tofu
Optional: 8 apricots (sundried, unsulphured ) soak in jar overnight in purified
water or unsweetened pineapple juice. We soak enough for several days, keep
refrigerated – also delicious topped with soy yogurt. Add seasonal organic
fresh fruit: peaches, strawberries, berries, apricots, etc. instead of banana. In
winter, add apples, kiwi, oranges, tangelos, persimmons or pears, and if
fresh is unavailable, try sugar-free, frozen organic fruits. Serv ings 1 to 2.
112 and exercises we often enjoy this drink instead of fruit. It’s delicious and
powerfully nutritious as a meal anytime: lunch, dinner or take in thermos
to work, school, sports, gym, hiking, and to park or freeze for popsicles.
     Bragg Health Smoothie “Pep” Drink
Patricia’ s Delicious Health Popcor n
Use freshly popped organic popcorn (use air popper). Try Bragg Organic
Olive Oil or flax seed oil or melted salt-free butter over popcorn and add
several sprays of Bragg Liquid Aminos and Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar …
Yes – it’s delicious! Now sprinkle with nutritional yeast (large) flakes. For
variety try pinch of Italian or French herbs, cayenne pepper, mustard
powder or fresh crushed garlic to oil mixture. Serve instead of breads! Bragg Lentil & Brown Rice Casserole, Burgers or Soup
Jack LaLanne’s Favorite Recipe
14 oz pkg lentils, uncooked 12 cups brown organic rice, uncooked
4 -6 carrots, chop 1” rounds or substitute grains of choice
2 onions, chop, (optional) 1 tsp Bragg Liquid Aminos
4 garlic cloves, chop, (optional) 4 tsp Italian herbs (oregano, basil, etc.)
2-3 quarts, distilled water 2 tsps Bragg Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Wash & drain lentils & rice. Place grains in large stainless steel pot. Add
water, bring to boil, reduce heat, then add vegetables & seasonings to
grains and simmer for 30 minutes. If desired, last 5 minutes add fresh
or canned (salt-free) tomatoes before serving. For delicious garnish add
spray of Bragg Aminos, minced parsley & nutritional yeast ( large) flakes.
Mash or blend for burgers. For soup, add more water. Serves 4 to 6.
  Bragg Raw Organic V egetable Health Salad
2 stalks celery, chop 2 cup red cabbage, chop
1 bell pepper & seeds, dice 2 cup alfalfa or sunflower sprouts
2 cucumber, slice 2 spring onions & green tops, chop
2 carrots, grate 1 turnip, grate
1 raw beet, grate 1 avocado (ripe)
1 cup green cabbage, slice 3 tomatoes, medium size
For variety add organic raw zucchini, sugar peas, mushrooms, broccoli,
cauliflower (try black olives & pasta). Chop, slice or grate vegetables
113fine to medium for variety in size. Mix vegetables & serve on bed of
lettuce, spinach, watercress or chopped cabbage. Dice avocado &
tomato & serve on side as a dressing. Serve choice of fresh squeezed
lemon, orange or dressing separately. Chill salad plates before serving.
It’s best to alw ays eat salad first before serving hot dishes. Serves 3 to 5.
Bragg Health Salad Dressing
2 cup Br


ateral Sclerosis, A.L.S.:   This is also known as Motor Neuron Disease
(M.N.D.), or popularly as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. While orthodox medicine considers its cause
unknown, in our experience all affected patients had had extensive exposure to pesticides.
Interestingly, while we were able to obtain healthy young calves’ livers and produce liver juice for
the treatment of these patients, a number of them showed considerable improvement. Since liver
juice is no longer safe, owing to widespread campylobacter infection, A.L.S patients have made
little progress toward healing with the Gerson Therapy, although they deteriorate more slowly
than they would without it. We consider that a failure.
Parkinson’s Disease, P.D.:   This belongs to a group of conditions called motor system
disorders, which result from the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. The four primary
symptoms of PD are tremor, or trembling in hands, arms, legs, jaw and face; rigidity, or stiffness of
the limbs and trunk; bradykinesia, or slowness of movement; and postural instability, or impaired
balance and coordination. As these symptoms worsen, patients have difficulty in walking, talking,
or completing simple tasks.
P.D. usually affects people over the age of 50, and is also known as paralysis agitans,  or
popularly as “shaking palsy.” The allopathic treatment normally uses dopamines and several
other drugs, which help the patient to function for a while, but do not cure the problem. The
Gerson Therapy has also failed to produce a cure.
Alzheimer’s Disease:  Described as pre-senile dementia, this condition is caused by the
atrophy (wasting) of the frontal and occipital (rear) lobes of the brain. According to Taber’s
medical cyclopedia, it causes “progressive and irreversible deterioration of intellectual function,
apathy, speech and gait disturbance, disorientation and loss of memory.” In many cases it responds
reasonably well to the Gerson Therapy, which alleviates and/or much improves the most severe
symptoms. However, only brain cells that are diseased or damaged can be improved and even
restored. Those that are dead are gone, so the disease is not cured.
Chronic Kidney Disease:  If this has advanced to the point of requiring dialysis, it cannot
be reversed. The specific function of the kidneys is to remove the waste products of protein
digestion (urea, uric acid, creatinine), as well as excess minerals (sodium, potassium) or other
toxic substances from the blood, in order to maintain homeostasis of the system. This is done via a
delicate filter system of structures, sacs, the glomeruli; if the latter lose their permeability through
inflammation and excess toxins and can no longer function, disease sets in.
However, if disease has damaged kidney function by no more than 80% and 20% is still
active, the condition can be treated and patients can improve and survive. Yet kidney tissue,
similar to brain tissue (see above), when dead is gone. Therefore the kidney patient whose
condition has been improved on the Gerson protocol can never revert to a so-called “normal”
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www.thegersonway.comaverage diet. The price of survival is to remain on the Gerson program for life. In brief, kidney
disease is treatable and can achieve long-term survival, but it is not curable. Once dialysis has
been started, normally when kidney function drops below 10%, the patient should NOT attempt
to go on the Gerson Therapy.
Emphysema:  This is another disease that can be greatly alleviated, but not cured. Also
referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,  emphysema causes changes in the structure
of the air sacs that filter out carbon dioxide for secretion, and allow oxygen to pass into the blood.
Here the lung tissue is severely damaged by smoking, air pollution toxins or inflammation, so that
it loses its permeability and the exchange of gases is seriously inhibited. The sick tissue can be
restored; dead tissue is gone. The patient can probably function normally with only about 50% of
functioning lung tissue, but he or she cannot be fully restored.
Muscular Dystrophy:  Thought to be a familial (genetic) disease, this condition causes
progressive atrophy (wasting away) of muscles and usually starts in childhood, more frequently in
boys than in girls. The underlying cause is described as “A disorder caused by defective nutrition
or metabolism” (Taber). In Dr. Gerson’s day it responded favorably to his treatment, but more
recently we have not seen good results and have to consider it incurable. In one case, diagnosed
as Duchenne’s Disease, which usually results in death at an early age, we have seen a more than
twenty year long survival.
TO SUM UP:
The Gerson Therapy would be useless and could even cause harm to the following, who should
not undertake it under any circumstances:
 •  Patients on dialysis
 •  Patients with organ transplants (the therapy would cause a rejection)
 •  Patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain (the only case in which
     melanoma, eminently curable in any other body part, does not respond)
 •  Patients with pancreatic cancer if chemotherapy has been administered.
     (Pancreatic cancer is curable, but only if not pre-treated with chemotherapy.)
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www.thegersonway.comReferences:
1. Budwig, J.  Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and
Other Diseases, Apple Publishing, 1994.
2. Taber’ s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, F.A.Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1993.
3.  Ibid.
4.  Booth, F. boothf@missouri.edu
5.  Robbins, J. Diet for a New America, New World Library, 1998.
6. McDougall, J. The McDougall Program for Women,  Plume, 2000.
7.  Price, W.A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Keats Pub., 15th edition, 2003.
8.  Meinig, G. Root Canal Cover-Up, Bion Publishing, Ojai, CA, 1994.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 7
Restoring the Body’s Defenses
“I look forward optimistically to a healthy,
happy world as soon as its children are taught
the principles of simple and rational living.
We must return to nature and nature’s God.”
          Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
“Physicians and the public have exclusively
focused on drug therapy to the detriment
of at least one of the foundations
of good health—appropriate nutrition.”
       Dr. Mary Keith, St.Michael’ s Hospital, Toronto
By now, two basic facts will have become clear to the reader:
1) Everybody’s health and well-being is under constant attack from those factors of modern life
that undermine the body’s natural defenses and self-healing ability, leading to a multitude of
diseases;
2) The complex, precision-built nutritional program of the Gerson Therapy is able to undo the
harm, restore the organism’s damaged defenses and enable the body to heal itself.
In his thinking Dr. Gerson always made a close connection between the body’s defenses and its
healing mechanism. Indeed, he invariably saw in his patients that the healing mechanism had
been disturbed or severely damaged before the body succumbed to disease. Moreover, he was
convinced that the appearance of malignant disease, i.e., cancer, represented the ultimate, most
severe kind of breakdown, and that it needed the best expert care and effort to reverse the
destructive process and achieve healing.
Perhaps the greatest of Dr. Gerson’s many revolutionary insights was his realization that the
underlying causes of chronic disease were deficiency and toxicity. This approach differs greatly
from that of conventional medicine, which prefers to assign a clear-cut cause to each individual
disease, but omits to look for the truly basic problems that are common to many. And this
difference in approach is one of many factors that separate the Gerson protocol from orthodox
treatments.
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www.thegersonway.comOnce the underlying problems are recognized, they can be treated: the deficiency  is eliminated
with hyper-alimentation, the toxicity with systematic detoxification. Despite their vital importance
these methods are simple, straightforward and transparent. Above all


 resulting product must, in
terms of quality, correspond to the effort in-
vested. Here we are not dealing with the human
mind, which can be mistaken,  but with a natural
process that overseas each stage of development
and aims to ensure the continuation of life. Dur-
ing a dry fast the replacement of the old "dead
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quality, endogenous water, synthesized by  the
organism itself.
Many patients report that dry fasting is better
tolerated than water fasting because of the lack
of hunger. This is not surprising. The fact is that
the exogenous water and the body’s own water
are very different. When the organism re ceives
water coming from the outside, it has to rework
the molecules, erase the useless information,
structure it and transform it into "its" molecules,
having the properties of the organism itself. To
do this, as well as for the digestion of food, the
body is forced to spend a certain amount of en-
ergy and time.
With DF all these processes do not take place,
and in this sense it is a more complete practice
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If no food enters the body and no heavy ("dead")
wate r, the blood does not receive harmful sub-
stances and has the chance to be constantly
cleansed by the organism. The same blood com-
position is repeatedly cleansed through the filter
systems and thus becomes perfectly pure. Dur-
ing a DF practice the blood purifies all the super-
fluous substances and the blood plasma becomes
transparent like glass, everything is re -harmo-
nized, including the coagulation factors. The DF
in this sense purifies the blood more completely
than a treatment of blood cleansing, hemodialy-
sis or haemabsorption.
The anti -inflammatory effect of dry fasting is
much more powerful than the effect achieved
with a water  fasting practice. This is because
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frinflammation cannot exist without water. In-
flamed areas swell. Micro -organisms, such as
microbes and viruses, multiply can only in a suf-
ficiently watery environment. It follows that a
water deficit is extremely counterproductive for
the inflammatory process. With a DF external
water is missing, therefore pathogenic microor-
ganisms immediately find an unfavorable envi-
ronment. Thanks to the dehydration established
by DF, the cells of the body and the pathogenic
microorganisms undertake a very strong com-
petition for the appropriation of water. The cells
of the body, in their home field, easily manage to
seize the water from the microorganisms and
not only that. In DF mode the body not only syn-
thesizes endogenous water,  but can also acquire
it from the air through skin absorption. This is
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shifts to an absorpt ion mode. Healthy and
strong cells receive an extra dose of energy and
water while the sick ones, viruses and bacteria
cannot do it. Microbes, viruses and worms die
instantly without water.
During a water  fasting practice, to reinforce the
detoxification process, special treatments are
used, such as enemas, hydrocolonotherapy,
Turkish bath, sauna, etc. During a dry fast, these
treatments are not needed because the body trig-
gers its own unique mechanisms, which neutral-
ize poisons and toxins. This does not happen in
any other form of fasting. During DF the toxins
burn in their own furnace: every cell, in the ab-
sence of water, triggers an internal thermal reac-
tion. The result is a sort of extreme and
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the waste, superfluous and pathological ele-
ments. Each cell temporarily transforms into a
mini -reactor and the internal temperature of the
body increases. This change in temperature may
not even be detected by a thermometer, but dur-
ing a DF the patients feel it as an internal heat, "a
fire" or chills. The temperature is an important
part of a series of defensive reactions. From ex-
perience we know that with fever all toxins are
eliminated; poisons and even tumor cell s fully
suspend their activity. This process accelerates
the healing. By reacting with a fever the organ-
ism causes microorganisms to slow their growth.
Slimming effect: during DF in the patient's or-
ganism receives neither food nor water, so there
is no external energy supply. The organism is
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nously, i.e. within itself. For this reason, unusual
chemical reactions begin to occur within the or-
ganism and metabolic processes are modified.
For example, less muscle tissue is lost compared
to adipose tissue. During a water fast, muscle
and fat tissue are reduced roughly in equal pro-
portions. During DF, however, the patient acts
somewhat like a camel. The reason is that the or-
ganism maintains its vital capacity at the ex-
pense of reserve fat. The adipose tissue is de-
stroyed very efficiently and does not regain its
initial volume. In fact, it is destroyed 3 -4 times
faster than muscle tissue because fat tissue is
made up of more than 90% water, while muscle
tissue remains relatively intact. The organism
does not suffer because of lack of water, because
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In DF the adipose tissue burns 3 times faster
than during a water fast. The burnt fat reserves
are not restored, unlike in water fa sting. It is pos-
sible to observe an early and better digestion of
fat deposits, compared to water fasting. After a
water fast the adipose tissue is restored more
quickly, especially when resuming the same diet
as before the fast, but with DF this occurs to  a
lesser extent. The nutrition based on organism’s
own reserves is perfectly balanced. The body
takes only what it needs from its reserves, rather
than what is artificially imposed from the out-
side.
Anti -aging effect. Why is the rejuvenation ef-
fect on the  body during DF greater than with a
water fast? The diseased, degenerate and weak
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they die and decompose. Which ones remain?
The cells with a good organization and a wide
and efficient genetic engineering; the ones that
are not afraid survive and maintain their func-
tions. This way fasting helps to discard the use-
less, weak, sick and harmful parasitic cells. They
do not exercise their functions and it is better to
clear them in time, without allowing them to die
of natural death otherwise they would be able to
generate offspring of more weak and inoperative
cells. After DF the strong cells remain, which, by
dividing, produce high quality offspring cells
with the same properties of the mother cells.

Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.fr8. What mechanisms does a dry fast
trigger within the body?

8.1. The mechanism of toxins burning "in
their own furnace" and production of "endog-
enous" water
Many observe that dry fasting is better toler-
ated than water -based fasting, especially because
of the absence of hunger. This is not surprising.
The structure of the water from outside the body
and what the body actually assimilates are two
completely different things. The body processes
the molecules of the incoming water, it cleanses
superfluous informat ion, restructures and trans-
form them into its own molecules, with the
properties of the organism itself. To this end, as
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and energy is necessary. Dry fasting is more
complete precisely because it provides a fu


	smoothie	consistency	is	reached.

3.
Transfer	to	the	tall	glasses	and	serve.	Dust	with	a	little	cinnamon	powder
(optional).Yam	Banana	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	medium	yam

1.
1	½	cups	vanilla	yogurt

1.
1/2	cup	milk

1.
1	cup	ice	cubes

1.
1	teaspoon	sugar

1.
1	ripe	frozen	banana

Directions

1.
Prick	the	yam	with	a	fork.	Microwave	the	yam	for	8	to	10	minutes,	until
fork	tender.

2.
Allow	it	to	cool,	and	then	peel	the	yam.

3.
Combine	the	yam	with	remaining	ingredients	in	the	container	of	a	blender.
Blend	until	smooth.Zucchini	Orange	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	3)

Ingredients

1.
1	zucchini,	cubed

1.
5	ice	cubes

1.
1	cup	orange	juice

1.
2	tablespoons	sucralose	sweetener

1.
3/4	teaspoon	vanilla	extract

Directions

1.
Place	all	five	ingredients	into	your	blender.

2.
Cover,	and	mix	until	the	smoothie	reaches	the	desired	consistency.

3.
Serve	in	the	tall	glasses.Cocoa	Zucchini	Shake
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	frozen	zucchini,	grated

1.
2	large	frozen	bananas,	peeled

1.
2	tablespoons	cocoa	powder

1.
1/4	cup	peanuts,	chopped

1.
1/2	cup	sugar

1.
1	cup	half-and-half

Directions

1.
Place	all	of	the	ingredients	into	your	blender	or	a	food	processor.

2.
Cover,	and	mix	until	the	smoothie	reaches	the	desired	consistency.

3.
Serve	immediately.Cantaloupe	Yogurt	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	ripe	frozen	banana,	partially	thawed	and	cut	into	chunks

1.
1/4	ripe	cantaloupe,	seeded	and	cut	into	chunks

1.
1/2	cup	low-fat	yogurt

1.
2	tablespoons	skim	milk	powder

1.
1	tablespoon	orange	juice

1.
Honey	to	taste	(optional)

Directions

1.
Combine	all	ingredients	in	a	blender	and	process	until	smooth

and	uniform.

2.
Pour	into	a	chilled	and	a	tall	glass	and	drink	immediately.Cantaloupe	Raspberries	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cantaloupe,	peeled,	seeded	and	cut	into	chunks

1.
1/2	cup	plain	yogurt

1.
1	cup	raspberries

1.
2	tablespoons	maple	syrup

Directions

1.
In	a	blender,	combine	all	four	ingredients.

2.
Mix	until	a	smooth	consistency	develops.

3.
Pour	into	two	glasses	and	serve.Cherry	Cantaloupe	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cantaloupe,	peeled,	seeded,	and	sliced

1.
1/2	cup	apricot	juice

1.
3-4	pitted	cherries

1.
1/4	cup	blackberries

1.
3-4	ice	cubes

Directions

1.
Put	all	five	ingredients	into	a	blender.

2.
Blend	until	smoothie	consistency	is	reached.

3.
Pour	into	a	glass	and	serve.Carrot	Apple	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	cups	carrot	juice

1.
1/2	cup	apple	juice

1.
6	ounces	plain	yogurt,	frozen

1.
1	banana

Directions

1.
In	a	blender	or	a	food	processor,	process	all	ingredients	until	the	mixture	is
nice	and	smooth.

2.
Pour	into	the	glasses	and	enjoy.Vegan	Vanilla	Cherry	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1/4	cup	cherry	sugar-free	syrup

1.
1/4	cup	vanilla	sugar-free	syrup

1.
2	scoops	Vege	Fuel

1.
1	½	cups	crushed	ice

Directions

1.
Purée	all	ingredients	in	a	blender	until	smooth	and	uniform.

2.
Pour	into	a	chilled	tall	glass	and	enjoy.Chocolate	Banana	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	frozen	banana	--	peeled

1.
6	ounces	light	frozen	cherry	yogurt

1.
2	tablespoons	chocolate	syrup

1.
1/2	cup	non-fat	milk

Directions

1.
Combine	all	four	ingredients	and	purée	with	an	electric	blender	or	a	food
processor.

2.
Transfer	to	a	glass	and	drink	immediately.Chocolate	Dream	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	milk	chocolate	bar

1.
2	scoops	chocolate	ice	cream

1.
1/2	cup	milk

1.
Ice	cubes	to	taste

Directions

1.
In	a	blender,	process	milk	chocolate	bar	first.

2.
Add	ice	cream,	milk	and	ice	cubes	and	pulse	until	the	mixture	is	creamy,
nice	and	smooth.Blueberry	Yogurt	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
6	ounces	frozen	fat-free	blueberry	yogurt

1.
1	cup	blueberries,	fresh

1.
1	cup	nonfat	milk

Directions

1.
Combine	all	three	ingredients	and	purée	in	order	to	make	a	mixture	smooth
and	creamy.

2.
Transfer	to	the	chilled	glasses	and	serve.Cantaloupe	Vanilla	Yogurt	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	5	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	ripe	cantaloupe,	peeled,	seeded,	and	cut	into	chunks

1.
1	cup	milk

1.
1	cup	vanilla	fat-free	yogurt

1.
1	cup	crushed	ice

1.
2	tablespoons	sugar

1.
Ground	cinnamon	to	taste

1.
Ground	nutmeg	to	taste

1.
Ground	cloves	to	taste

Directions

1.
Combine	all	ingredients	in	a	blender	and	purée	to	the	consistency	you
prefer.

2.
Pour	into	glasses	and	serve.Anti-aging	Smoothie
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cup	water

1.
1	plum,	pitted

1.
2	kiwis,	peeled

1.
2	cups	spinach

1.
1	teaspoon	ginger,	grated

1.
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Directions

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 in and out of their
lungs. And it’ s these breathing problems that slow, paced, less techniques
are so ef fective at fixing.
•       •       •
Over several months leading up to the Stanford experiment, I visited with
several Buteyko teachers and other low-breathing devotees. They told me
the same story, of how they’d been plagued by some chronic respiratory
illness that no drug or sur gery or medical therapy could fix. Of how they all
“cured” themselves with nothing more than breathing less. The techniques
they used varied, but all circled around the same premise: to extend the
length of time between inhalations and exhalations. The less one breathes,
the more one absorbs the warming touch of respiratory ef ficiency—and the
further a body can go.This shouldn’ t come as much of a surprise. Nature functions in orders of
magnitude. Mammals with the lowest resting heart rates live the longest.
And it’ s no coincidence that these are consistently the same mammals that
breathe the slowest. The only way to retain a slow resting heart rate is with
slow breaths. This is as true for baboons and bison as it is for blue whales
and us.
“ The yogi’ s life is not measured by the number of his days, but the
number of his breaths,” wrote B. K. S. Iyengar, an Indian yoga teacher who
had spent years in bed as a sickly child until he learned yoga and breathed
himself back to health. He died in 2014, at age 95.
I’d hear this repeated over and over again by Olsson during our early
Skype chats and again throughout the Stanford experiment. I’d read about it
in Stough’ s research. Buteyko and the Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, and
9/11 survivors were aware of it as well. By various means, in various ways,
in various eras of human history, all these pulmonauts discovered the same
thing. They discovered that the optimum amount of air we should take in at
rest per minute is 5.5 liters. The optimum breathing rate is about 5.5 breaths
per minute. That’ s 5.5-second inhales and 5.5-second exhales. This is the
perfect breath.
Asthmatics, emphysemics, Olympians, and almost anyone, anywhere,
can benefit from breathing this way for even a few minutes a day, much
longer if possible: to inhale and exhale in a way that feeds our bodies just
the right amount of air, at just the right time, to perform at peak capacity.
T o just keep breathing, less.Seven
CHEW
It’ s the nineteenth day of the Stanford experiment, and Olsson and I are,
once again, sitting side by side at the dining room table at the center of our
home lab. The place is of ficially a sty. W e’ve just stopped caring. Because
now we’re just a few hours away from it all being over.
I’m sitting with the same thermometer and nitric oxide sensor in my
mouth, and the same blood pressure cuf f around my biceps. Olsson’ s got the
same face mask around his head, the same EKG sensor on his ear. He’ s
wearing the same slippers as well.
W e’ve done this drill 60 times in the past three weeks. It all would have
been unbearable had it not been for the mounting ener gy, mental clarity, and
overall well-being we’ve felt, such vast and sudden improvements
experienced the minute we stopped mouthbreathing.
Last night, Olsson snored for three minutes while I clocked in at six, a
4,000 percent decrease from ten days ago. Our sleep apnea, which
disappeared the first night of nasal breathing, has remained nonexistent. My
blood pressure this morning was 20 points lower than its highest point at the
beginning of the experiment; on average I’ve dropped 10 points. My carbon
dioxide levels consistently rose and were finally nudging toward the “super
endurance” mark shared by Buteyko’ s healthiest subjects. Olsson, again,
showed similar improvements. W e did it all by breathing through our noses,
slowly and less with full exhales.
“I’m done,” declares Olsson, with the same smirk on his face. He walks
down the hallway one last time and goes back across the street. And one
last time, I’m left alone in the clutter, where I eat the same dinner I had ten
days ago.The last supper: a bowl of pasta, leftover spinach, a few soggy croutons.
I take a seat at the kitchen table in front of the same unread pile of the
Sunday New Y ork T imes, pour a little olive oil and salt into the bowl, and
take a bite. A few mashes in my mouth and it’ s gone.
•       •       •
As random as it might seem, this mundane act—that few seconds of soft
chewing—was the catalyst for writing this book. It’ s what inspired me to
turn the casual hobby of investigating what happened to me in that
V ictorian room a decade ago into a full-time quest to discover the lost art
and science of breathing.
At the beginning of this book, I began to fill in why humans have such a
hard time breathing, how all that tenderizing and cooking of food
eventually led to airway obstruction. But the changes that occurred in our
heads and airways so many years ago were only a small part of how we got
to here. There is a much deeper history to our origins, which is weirder and
wilder than anything I had anticipated when I first began.
And so, here, at the end of the Stanford experiment, it seems only
appropriate to start over again, picking up where we left of f, at the dawn of
human civilization.
•       •       •
T welve thousand years ago, humans in Southwest Asia and the Fertile
Crescent in the Eastern Mediterranean stopped gathering wild roots and
vegetables and hunting game, as they had for hundreds of thousands of
years. They started growing their food. These were the first farming
cultures, and in these primitive communities, humans suf fered from the first
widespread instances of crooked teeth and deformed mouths.
It wasn’ t terrible at first. While one farming culture was plagued by
facial and mouth deformities, another hundreds of miles away seemed not
to suf fer at all. Crooked teeth and all the breathing problems that come with
them seemed totally random.
Then, about 300 years ago, these maladies went viral. Suddenly, all at
once, much of the world’ s population began to suf fer. Their mouths shrank,
faces grew flatter, and sinuses plugged.The morphological changes to the human head that had occurred up to
this point—that lowering of the larynx that clogged our throats, the
expansion of our brains that lengthened our faces—all these were negligible
compared to this sudden shift. Our ancestors adapted to those gradual
changes just fine.
But the changes triggered by the rapid industrialization of farmed foods
were severely damaging. W ithin just a few generations of eating this stuf f,
modern humans became the worst breathers in Homo  history, the worst
breathers in the animal kingdom.
I had a hard time comprehending this when I first came across it years
back. Why hadn’ t I been told about it in school? Why didn’ t so many of the
sleep doctors or dentists or pulmonologists I interviewed know this story?
Because this research, I discovered, wasn’ t happening in the halls of
medicine. It was happening in ancient burial sites. The anthropologists
working at these sites told me that if I wanted to really understand how such
a sudden and dramatic change could happen to us, and why, I needed to
leave the labs and get into the field. I needed to see some of the Patient
Zeros of the modern obstructed human, the turning point when our farm-fed
faces fell apart on a mass scale. I needed to get my hands on some skulls:
old ones, and lots of them.
I hadn’ t been introduced to Marianna Evans yet, so I didn’ t know the
Morton Collection existed. I called some friends instead. One of them told
me that my best chance of stumbling upon a lar ge trove of centuries-old
specimens was to fly to Paris and wait beside a set of trash cans along Rue
Bonaparte. My guides would be waiting there on T uesday night at seven
p.m.
—
“This way,” the leader said. The rusting steel door behind us moaned and
squealed and the sliver of streetlight grew thinner until there was no more
light at all, only fading echoes. One of the guides I was following lit up her
high-powered headlamp, the two others cinched their backpacks, and went
down the first stone steps of a spiral staircase that led into pure blackness.
The dead were downstairs. Six million of them, spread out in a labyrinth
of halls, stalls, cathedrals, ossuaries, black rivers, and billionaire playrooms.
There was the skull of Charles Perrault, the author of “Sleeping Beauty”
and “Cinderella.” A little deeper were the femurs of Antoine Lavoisier, thefather of modern chemistry,


ing b owl, beat eggs until light in colour. Add sugar an d beat with
an electr ic mixe r until slightly th ickened, about 1 minute. Add flour, baking
powder, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla. Beat for about 1 minute or just until
the batter is smooth and creamy. Don’ t overbeat. Pour the batter into the
prepared springform pan.
2. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 30 minutes or until the top is golden and
a toothp ick inserted into the ce ntre comes out clean. Loosen around the
edge of the cake with a thin knife and let the cake cool completely on a wire
rack. Le aving the cake on the pan base, remove the side rim; w ash rim and
set a side. Cake b ase can be wrapped and stored for up to 2 days or wrapped
tightly, labelled and frozen for up to 1 month.
FILLING
Springform side rim, lightly oiled
1 lb (500 g) ricotta cheese
1/2 cup (125 mL) vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup (125 mL) mascarpone cheese
1/3 cup (75 mL) icing sugar
1 cup (250 mL) Raspberry Curd ( raspberry curd )
1 V anilla Cake Base on a springform base (r ecipe left)
1/2 cup (125 mL) fr esh or fr ozen raspberries
1. In a food processor or blender, combine ricotta cheese, yogurt,
mascarpone cheese and icing sugar; blend until smooth.
2. Fit the prepared side rim of  the springform pan back arou nd the cake
base. Spread about two-thirds of the raspberry curd over the cake.
3. Po ur t he ricotta mixture over the raspberry curd and spread ev enly with a
spatula. Some of the cheese mixture may flow down the sides of the cake.
4. Place the cake in the freezer, being careful to keep it level, for at least 30
minutes or overnight. Spread the remaining raspberry curd over the cheese
layer an d return  to the freezer or refrigerator until ready to serve. Remove
from the freezer at least 1 hour before serving. Remove the  rim of the
springform pan and arrange raspberries around the top of the tiramisù.
r a s p b e r r y  c u r d
I l ove having this buttery, rich cur d in my pantry because of it s versatility
and also because it makes a welcome gift any time of the year. It is similar
to L emon Cur d (or Lemon Butt er) but not as tart, so you can  use it with
sweeter desserts  than you would the lemon version. If you fr eeze fr esh
raspberries, you  can make Rasp berry Cur d any time of the year. It should
be used within thr ee weeks (if yo u can keep family fr om dipping  into it right
out of the jar!). Using the apples in the cur d lightens up the intense
raspberry flavour and colour, and helps to thicken the cur d.
MAKES 4 CUPS (1 L)
2–1/2 cups (625 mL) fr esh or fr ozen raspberries
(12 oz/375 g) 4 cups (1 L) chopped cooking apples (unpeeled)
grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
3/4 cup (175 mL) butter, cut into chunks1–1/2 cups (375 mL) granulated sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten

1. Heat four 1-cup (250 mL) jar s in boiling water, and scald the lids, lifter,
funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
2. In a s aucepan, combine raspberries, apples, lemon rind and juice. Bring
to a boil over m edium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce the heat to
medium and simmer for 15 mi nutes, stirring occasionally, or until fruit is
soft.
3. Pu rée the mixture by rubbing it through a sieve into a non-reactive bowl.
Discard seeds and pulp.
4. Add butter, sugar and eggs to the raspberry purée. Place the bowl over a
pan of simmering water and stir until the sugar is dissolved and the butter is
melted. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the curd thickens enough
to coat the back of a wooden spoon.
5. Fill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-in ch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe rims, top with
flat lids and scre w on metal ring s. Return jars to the hot water b ath, topping
up with hot water if necessary. Bring to a full rolling boil and process jars
for 10 minutes ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
6. Remove canner lid and wait 5  minutes before removing jars to a cooling
rack to cool completely. Check seals, label and store in the refr igerator for
up to 2 months.
Use: Th is is a rich, buttery, silky-smooth confection that st ands in for
custard as a bas e for fruit tarts  and flans. Substitute it for whipped cream
as a  topping for desserts, or thin with 1 tbsp (15 mL) rice vinegar and
drizzle over fruit salads. Use it as a spread on toast or scones and as a
filling for layer cakes and crêpes.s w e e t  r a s p b e r r y  v i n e g a r
Befor e r efrigera tion, a popular way to pr eserve the unique taste of
raspberries was to make vinegar fr om the macerated fr esh berries. Stor ed
in stone war e cr o cks or gr een g lass jars, the vinegar was mixe d with cool
spring w ater or carbonated water for a r efr eshing summer drink called a
“shrub.” Y ou can make it in the winter using fr ozen raspberries.
MAKES 3 CUPS (750 ML)
6 cups (1.5 L) fr esh or fr ozen raspberries, divided
1–3/4 cups (425 mL) r ed or white wine vinegar, divided2–1/2 cups (625 mL) granulated sugar

1. In a l ar ge non -reactive bowl or crock, combine 3 cups (750 mL) of the
raspberries with 1-1/4 cups (300 mL) of the vinegar. Cover and let stand at
room temperature for 24 hours.
2. U sing a potato masher, mash the raspberries to a pulp. Stra in the pulp
through a coarse sieve set over a lar ge non-reactive bowl or crock.
Press on  solids with the back of a wooden spoon to release as m uch juice as
possible.
3. Add remainin g raspberries and vinegar to the strained juice. Cover and
let stand for 24 hours at room temperature. Mash with a potato masher and
strain the mixture through a coarse sieve into a Maslin pan or saucepan,
pressing on solids with the back  of a wooden spoon to release as  much juice
as possible. Discard pulp and seeds.
4. Meanwhile, sterilize three 1-cup (250 mL) jars, and scald the lids, lifter,
funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
5. Bring the stra ined juice to a boil over high heat, stirring freq uently. Add
sugar, 1 cup (25 0 mL) at a time, stirring until the sugar has bee n dissolved
before adding the next cup. Boil lightly, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 15
minutes or until the mixture is thickened and is reduced to about 3 cups
(750 mL). Do not overboil.
6. Fill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-in ch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe rims, top with
flat lids and scre w on metal rin gs. Let cool on a towel or wire rack. Label
and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
Use: Substitute Sweet Raspberry V inegar for rice vinegar in stir-fry dishes
and fruit salads.s w e e t  r a s p b e r r y  v i n a i g r e t t e
T ry one  of the nut oils—hazelnut, almond or walnut—in plac e of vir gin
olive oil in this sweet and tangy dr essing. It’ s lovely on fruit and in light
spring salads with baby arugul a and other spring gr eens. Drizzle it over
avocado, aspara gus and almonds or walnuts. It is a beautiful r e d, with just
the right amount of tangy sweetness.
MAKES 1/2 CUP (125 ML)
1/3 cup (75 mL) nut oil (see above)
3 tbsp (45 mL) Sweet Raspberry V inegar ( sweet raspberry vinegar )In a  jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine nut oil and vinegar. Put the lid on
and shake well.

Fr eezing Raspberries
1. Select Equipment:  Se lect suitable-size freezer c ontainers, bags or
Mason jars ( Freezing ).
2. Dry Pack
a) If


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seeking. Check for those lyrics which reflect the way you’ve been
taught to feel, that is, that you can’t make it if someone disapproves
of you or lets you down. Rewrite the songs to fit a mind-set of per-
sonal mastery rather than approval-seeking. For example:
• I make myself feel like a natural woman; it has nothing to do
with you.
• I chose to love you. I must have wanted to do it then, but now
I’ve changed my mind.
• People who need people are the unluckiest people in the world.
But people who want love  and enjoy  people are making themselves
happy.
• I make myself so very happy because of the things I tell myself
about you.
• I am the sunshine of my life, and having you in it makes it even
brighter.
• I can stop loving you, but at this point I choose not to.
While they admittedly won’t sell, you can at least make a start on
redirecting the unconscious messages that you hear, and which re-
flect the way people in our culture have learned to believe. “Without
you I’m nothing” must be translated to “Without me I’m nothing,
but having you makes this present moment very nice.”
Television commercials make a special appeal to your approval-
seeking thinking. Many of these commercial skits are efforts by the
manufacturer to manipulate you into buying their products, by re-
inforcing the notion that other peoples’ beliefs are more important
than your own.
Consider the following dialogue when friends are coming over
to your house for an afternoon of bridge:YOU DON’T NEED THEIR APPROVAL  / 611st Friend (sniffing the air): “Fried fish last night dear?” said in a
very disapproving tone.
2nd Friend: “George still smoking a cigar, I see,” in a similarly
unaccepting tone.
You: Looking hurt, distraught—nay destroyed—because others
are disapproving of the odors in your own house.
Psychological message: “What others think of you is much more
important than what you think of yourself, therefore, if you don’t
please your friends you deserve to feel bad.”
Consider also the following two skits and the message:
1. A waitress putting a bib around a customer’s neck at a lobster
party notices “ring around the collar.” The wife shrivels in shame
at the thought of not receiving approval from a strange waitress.
2. A woman shrinks in fear as she contemplates how her friends
will view her if she has baggy pantyhose. “I just couldn’t stand it if
they thought something bad about me. I must have their approval,
so I’ll buy this brand over that one.”
3. The mouthwash, toothpaste, deodorants and special spray ad-
vertisements are filled with psychological messages that you must
have approval, and the way to get it is to purchase this particular
item. Why do advertisers stoop to such tactics? Because they work!
They sell. They recognize that people are infected with the need for
acceptance and they capitalize on this need by creating little sketches
that send out the right messages.
There you have it, a culture that prizes and encourages approval-
seeking. It is hardly surprising that you’ve found yourself placing
too much emphasis on what others think. You’ve been conditioned
to do so throughout your life, and even if your own family was
conscious of the need to help you to promote self-reliance, the ancil-
lary cultural factors worked against them. But you don’t have to
hang on to this approval-seeking behavior. Just as you work at
eliminating the habit of self-put-down, so too can you eradicate this
approval-seeking habit. Mark Twain, writing in Puddinhead Wilson’s
Calendar,  gives a62 / Your Erroneous Zonescogent description of how to break a habitual pattern such as approv-
al-seeking. “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window
by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
Coaxing Approval-Seeking Downstairs, A Step at a Time
Take a look at the way the world works. To put it succinctly, you
can never please everyone. In fact, if you please fifty percent of the
people you are doing quite well. This is no secret. You know that at
least half of the people in your world are going to disagree with at
least half the things you say. If this is accurate (and you need only
look at landslide elections to see that forty-four percent of the popu-
lation still voted against the winner), then you will always have
about a 50-50 chance of getting some disapproval whenever you
express an opinion.
Armed with this knowledge, you can begin to look at disapproval
in a new light. When someone disapproves of something you say,
instead of being hurt, or instantly shifting your opinion to gain
praise, you can remind yourself that you’ve just run into one of those
folks in the fifty percent who don’t agree with you. Knowing that
you’ll always get some disapproval for everything you feel, think,
say or do is the way out of the tunnel of despair. Once you expect
it, you won’t be inclined to hurt yourself with it, and you’ll simul-
taneously stop equating the repudiation of an idea or a feeling with
the repudiation of you.
You can never escape disapproval, no matter how much you may
want it to go away. For every opinion you have, there is a counterpart
out there with exactly the opposite view. Abraham Lincoln talked
about this in a conversation at the White House reported by Francis
B. Carpenter:
…If I were to read, much less to answer all the attacks made
on me, this shop might as well be closed for anyYOU DON’T NEED THEIR APPROVAL  / 63other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I
can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings
me out alright, what is said against me won’t amount to any-
thing. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I
was right would make no difference.*
Some Examples of Typical Approval-Seeking Behavior
Like self-rejection, approval-seeking encompasses a large category
of self-defeating behaviors. Among the most commom kinds of ap-
proval-seeking activities are those detailed below.
• Changing a position, or altering what you believe because
someone shows signs of disapproval.
• Sugar-coating a statement to avoid the reaction of displeasure.
• Apple-polishing in order to make someone like you.
• Feeling depressed or anxious when someone disagrees with
you.
• Feeling insulted or put-down when someone states a contrary
sentiment to your own.
• Labeling someone a snob, or “stuck-up,” which is just another
way of saying “Pay more attention to me.”
• Being excessively agreeable and head nodding, even when you
don’t agree at all with what is being said.
• Performing chores for someone and feeling resentful about not
being able to say no.
• Being intimidated by a sharp salesperson and buying something
you don’t want…Or…Fearing taking it back because he won’t like
you.
• Eating a steak in a restaurant that is not cooked the way
*Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months with Lincoln in the White House  (Watkins Glen,
N.Y.: Century House).64 / Your Erroneous Zonesyou ordered it, because the waiter won’t like you if you send it back.
• Saying things you don’t mean just to avoid being disliked.
• Spreading bad news about deaths, divorce, muggings and the
like, and enjoying the feeling of being noticed.
• Getting permission to speak, or to make a purchase, or to do
anything, from a significant other in your life, because you fear the
displeasure of that person.
• Apologizing for yourself at every turn—the excessive “I’m
sorry’s” that are designed to have others forgive you, and approve
of you all of the time.
• Behaving in nonconforming  ways for the purpose of gaining at-
tention, which is the same neurosis as conforming for the sake of
external approval. Thus, wearing tennis shoes with your tuxedo, or
eating a handful of mashed potatoes and wanting to be noticed is
still approval-seeking.
• Being pathologically late for all occasions. Here you can’t help
but be seen and it is an approval-seeking device which gets everyone
to pay attention. You may be doing it out of a need to be distin-
guished, and hence you are controlled by those doing the noticing.
• Trying to impress others with your knowledge of something
that you know nothing about by “faking it.”
• Begging for compliments by setting yourself up for approval,
and then feeling bad when they don’t come.
• Being unhappy about someone you respect having a contrary
point of view, and expressing it to you.
Obviously, the list can go on forever. Approval-seeking is a cul-
tural phenomenon that is readily observable in all corners of our
globe. It is only distasteful when it becomes a need, which, of course,
is tantamount to giving up the self, and placing responsibility for
how you feel in the hands of others whose approbation is being
sought.YOU DON’T NEED THEIR APPROVAL  / 65The Dividends for Approval-Seeking
A look at the why of this self-defeating behavior will be useful


 linseed.
If you cannot or do not want to use cottage cheese, you may use the amino acid L-cysteine as an alternative. In this case you may
add about 1 gram or one third of a level teaspoon of cysteine powder to a suitable meal together with a teaspoon of lecithin and 1 to
3 tablespoons of ﬂaxseed oil, depending on the size of the meal, also add ground linseed. Always mix the oil well with lecithin and the
rest of the meal.
Normally 85% of cysteine is degraded before absorption but in the presence of free fatty acids as from linseed oil, cysteine tends to
form a water-soluble combination with fatty acids for better absorption of both molecules. To ensure a higher absorption rate you may
also add to the 1 g of cysteine about 500 g of N-Acetyl Cysteine which is not so easily degraded. Alternatively you may also add
some cysteine to a small or moderate amount of cottage cheese.
For more detailed information see www.healingcancernaturally.com/budwig_protocol.html.
Restricted Diet
Active cancer is easier to control by eating only raw foods during the day, and have a cooked vegetable meal in the evening. Base
this diet on the oil-protein mix, protein powders such as spirulina, chlorella, bee-pollen, ground linseed, and wheat or barley grass
powder in addition to fresh fruits, vegetable or grass juice and salads.
Initially use much purple fruit and juices as from beetroot, wheat grass or barley grass. You may also eat, in small, spaced-out
amounts, black or purple grapes, blackberries, blueberries, blackcurran ts, or drink their juices in small sips. To reduce the insulin
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avocado, coconut oil or linseed oil.
Caution: Seed oils are high in linoleic acid, which is a growth promoter for tumors, partly because of its pro-inﬂammatory effect, and
also because a tumor needs linoleic acid as a vital growth factor. This also applies to the related arachidonic acid in egg yolk, meat
and fowl. Commercially processed fats and oils in addition contain pro-inﬂammatory trans-fatty acid.
Also cooked food and a diet high in phosphorus and low in calcium and magnesium tend to increase inﬂammations and pain. Foods
high in phosphorus are meat, ﬁsh, egg and many seeds. Therefore, avoid or minimize these while the cancer is still active.
The foods with the best phosphorus to calcium ratio are bone-jelly broth, kelp or seaweed, sesame seeds, carob ﬂour (unsweetened),
wheat and barley grass juice and powder, goats’  cheese and cottage cheese, vegetables, fruits, almonds, bee pollen, spirulina and
chlorella. Use this restricted diet for several weeks or in periods of crisis.
General Principles
You may start the day with a psyllium  drink, some fresh juice, ionized water or herb tea, possibly followed by a small amount of fresh
fruit. Somewhat later have the oil-protein mix or the protein powder mix, see Recipes.
For lunch try a sprout and vegetable salad, possibly with the oil-protein mix or hummus, goat’ s cheese or seed cheese; if the tumor is
no longer growing also marinated ﬁsh, raw egg yolk or minced meat may be used, egg white may be cooked or beaten. The evening
meal may be mainly vegetables, cooked and salads, with ﬁsh or legumes. The more advanced the cancer is, the more you may make
an ef fort to use suitable raw food. As things improve you may again increase the amount of cooked food.
The weaker the body, the more should food be in an easily digestible form as juices, broths, sprouted seeds and lactic acid fermented
foods. If chewing is difﬁcult then sprouted seeds and raw vegetables may be blended. As cooked foods use mainly vegetables with
cancer ﬁghting potential, such as beetroot, onion, asparagus, (red) cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Have a cooked meal with
a vegetable salad or with a fresh juice.
Generally it is preferable to eat mainly vegetables and legumes, and greatly restrict grains and cereals. Less harmful than the gluten
grains (wheat, rye, oats and barley)  are rice, millet, maize, buckwheat, as well as arrowroot, sago and tapioca. However, use these
only when the cancer is under control or in small portions and combined with legumes.
Legumes include lentils, peas and beans, fenugreek and chickpeas or garbanzo beans. Chickpeas in the form of hummus may be
used as a ﬂavoring addition to most meals. All seeds are best sprouted, for cooking soak these overnight. If beans cause wind,
replace not only the water in which they have been soaked but possibly also the cooking water.
Concentrate on the food ﬂavors while peacefully chewing. Initial weight loss on this diet is normal and mainly due to loss of water; if
you need to increase your weight, have a cooked evening meal, including potatoes and other vegetables. At other times try cooked
rice, arrowroot, sago or tapioca.
With advanced cancer restrict nuts and other oily seeds except if they have been soaked or sprouted to remove enzyme inhibitors.
Brazil nuts being high in selenium, almonds and linseed have special beneﬁts. Preferably sprout almonds and Brazil nuts if they are
still viable, otherwise soak, blend or grind them to make almond milk or nut butter. Linseeds do not need to be soaked.
Animal Protein
Generally, those with blood group O fare better with some meat, and generally should avoid or minimize grain products. After
sufﬁcient improvement and if the tumor is no longer growing, you may eat again some ﬂesh food, such as marinated ﬁsh or seafood,
or minced meat or blended fowl. These should be from healthy, organic or uncontaminated sources. Generally the smaller the ﬁsh the
less polluted they are. Preferably use sea ﬁsh rather than farmed ﬁsh which are more polluted and often lower in omega-3 fatty acids,
large predatory ﬁsh are also high in mercury.
Marinating in lemon juice or cider vinegar destroys parasites and makes raw ﬂesh food quite safe to eat. You may neutralize excess
acid before eating. You may also use raw minced meat or blend diced chicken or turkey and drink it as a broth.
Use only organic or otherwise safe meat from a reliable source. Avoid meat from a feedlot, or commercial chicken. Also pork is not
safe. The safest non-organic red meat is lamb and grass-fed beef. Freezing meat for about 10 days at minus 8°C or colder will kill
any tapeworm cysts. Avoid or minimize cooked meat.
SPECIAL  FOODS
Here I like to discuss some foods that are of special importance in overcoming cancer. These are coconut oil/milk, cod liver oil,
linseed oil, and ground linseed, purple foods, papaya or papaw, spirulina and bee-pollen.
Fats and Oils
Some studies show that high intakes of (heated) fats and oils tend to promote tumor growth. This applies especially to linoleic acid,
the main polyunsaturated fatty acid in seed oils, because of its inﬂammatory tendencies. Omega-3 fatty acids, on the other hand, are
anti-inﬂammatory and inhibit tumor growth. Most recommended is cod liver oil, in addition to linseed oil, ground linseed and possibly
extra virgin olive oil. Also the gamma linolenic acid in evening primrose oil is anti-inﬂammatory.
Preferably add some lecithin to oily or fatty food, and emulsify any directly taken oil or fatty food as described below for cod liver oil.
Keep unheated fats and oils refrigerated, place a bottle of solidiﬁed olive oil or coconut oil for a few minutes in water to liquefy.
Preferably add lipase to any oils or heated fats (see Cancer Nutrients).10/30/24, 4:46 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Diets
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Cancer/Cancer-Diets.html 2/8Coconut: Some of the fatty acids in coconut (caprylic, capric, lauric) have been shown to be very effective anti-microbial agents,
being especially effective against fungi and viruses. For this reason, even some heat-treated commercial coconut oil is beneﬁcial. I
have not been able to ﬁnd a commercial source of unheated coconu t oil. Even coconut oil advertised as ‘traditionally pressed,
unreﬁned and organic virgin coconut oil’  has been heated.
It is even better making your own coconut cream or milk by pressing pieces of coconut ﬂesh through a juice extractor. Alternatively,
you may blend coconut ﬂesh in a blender with the addition of some warm water, strain and press


ulation.
What	is	especially	notable	is	how	rapidly	a	modern	diet	will	cause	health	to
decline.	Researchers	have	noted	that	health	begins	to	deteriorate	within	six
months	of	introducing	modern	diets	into	populations	previously	eating	only	their
traditional	foods.	The	Hunzas	were	an	incredibly	healthy	population	just	a	few
decades	ago.	Today,	they	face	increasing	levels	of	chronic	disease—just	like	the
rest	of	the	“civilized”	world.	However,	because	of	their	prior	isolation,	the
Hunzas	provided	a	perfect	control	group—an	ideal	people	for	the	study	and
measurement	of	the	potential	for	human	health.
If	the	Hunzas	had	been	the	only	extraordinarily	healthy	people	in	the	world,
we	might	dismiss	their	health	as	an	aberration.	However,	numerous	other
examples	of	long-lived	and	healthy	populations	are	available,	including	people
living	in	mountainous	areas	of	Bulgaria	and	Hungary,	the	island	of	Crete,	the
lake	district	of	Titicaca	in	Peru,	the	Vilcabamba	Valley	in	Ecuador,	and	the
Caucasus	region	of	Russia.	They	all	have	a	similar	story.	They	eat	high-quality,
nutritious	foods.	They	get	a	lot	of	exercise	and	plenty	of	fresh	air,	sleep	and
sunshine.	They	live	a	life	of	low	stress	in	communities	that	emphasize	family
and	human	relationships.	As	a	result,	they	enjoy	a	level	of	health	and	quality	of
life	that	we	can	barely	imagine.
Unsanitary	Conditions,	but	Healthy	People
In	another	region	of	Ecuador,	we	find	another	story	of	superior	resiliency	and
longevity:	the	Indians	of	the	mountainous	region	of	Cuenca.	In	his	book,
How	to
Survive	Modern	Technology,
Charles	McGee,	M.D.,	reports	experiences	he	had
as	a	Project	Hope	physician	in	this	region,	starting	in	1965.	McGee	had
awesome	tales	to	tell	about	the	resilience	of	these	people,	who	ate	excellent	diets
and	lived	low-stress	lifestyles.	Otherwise,	however,	their	living	conditions	were
what	we	would	consider	primitive.	These	Indians	usually	walked	around
barefoot	and	lived	in	one-room,	dirt-floored	houses	that	had	no	glass	in	the
windows.	They	had	extremely	poor	sanitary	conditions,	no	running	water,	no
toilet	facilities,	and	their	animals	wandered	haphazardly	in	and	out	of	their	living
spaces.	As	a	result	of	these	filthy	conditions	and	a	contaminated	water	supply,
infant	mortality	was	very	high	from	bacterial	and	parasitic	infections.	(Infants
are	more	susceptible	to	infections	because	their	immune	systems	are	not	yet	fully
developed.)	Examinations	of	the	local	children	showed	that	95	percent	had
intestinal	parasites.
Given	the	above,	one	would	certainly	expect	these	Indians	to	be	sickly	andweak.	To	the	contrary,	McGee	found	them	to	have	perfect	teeth,	extremely	high
resistance	to	infections	and	amazing	resistance	to	physical	trauma	resulting	from
accidents.	He	described	incidents	where	he	treated	a	man	with	a	ruptured	bladder
(from	a	bus	accident)	and	a	woman	with	a	ruptured	uterus	(from	childbirth).
McGee	said	that,	considering	the	severity	of	the	damage	and	the	quality	of	the
medical	facilities,	neither	of	these	people	“should	have”	survived.	These	people
not	only	survived,	they	walked	home	to	their	mountain	villages	after	treatment	at
McGee’s	hospital.	Yes,	by	our	standards,	they	should	not	have	survived;
however,	our	standards	are	substandard.
Our	assumptions	about	the	capabilities	of	the	human	body	are	significantly
underestimated.	The	good	nutrition	of	these	people	contributed	to	their	cellular
health,	which	allowed	them	to	recover	from	severe	injuries	that	would	have
probably	killed	the	typical	American.	Likewise,	absent	in	these	Indians	were	the
typical	American	diseases,	such	as	heart	disease,	cancer,	diabetes,	allergies,
asthma,	senility	and	mental	illness.	Also	compelling	is	that	in	one	year	of	doing
surgery,	under	very	basic	and	unsanitary	conditions,	McGee	observed	only	one
postoperative	infection;	in	modern,	technologically	advanced	hospitals,
infections	are	bewilderingly	rampant.	In	fact,	many	people	in	our	society	are
afraid	of	hospitals	for	this	exact	reason.	The	resistance	to	disease	of	these
Indians,	under	exceptionally	challenging	conditions,	was	truly	amazing.
Germs	and	parasites	are	everywhere,	and	we	have	been	living	with	them	for
millennia.	Despite	the	presence	of	intestinal	parasites	in	most	of	the	Cuenca,	few
of	them	ever	became	sick	from	them.	Only	since	the	germ	theory,	and	the
discovery	of	microscopic	organisms,	has	medicine	focused	so	obsessively	on
isolating	and	killing	germs.	Medicine	has	developed	few	or	no	protocols	for
promoting	basic	human	health	and	immunity,	yet	promoting	health	is	the	only
thing	that	consistently	works,	as	we	can	see	from	these	healthy	populations.	The
Cuenca	had	virtually	none	of	the	diseases	that	are	so	common	among	us.	Why?
Because	they	were	fundamentally	healthy—that	is,	they	had	healthy	cells.
McGee	contrasted	their	superior	health	to	the	poor	health	of	the	population	of
a	nearby	city,	where	toxic	junk	foods	like	sugar,	white	flour,	soda	pop	and	white
rice	had	been	available	for	several	years.	In	this	city,	not	surprisingly,	heart
attacks,	diabetes	and	other	chronic	diseases	had	begun	to	appear.
Modern	“Progress”—
Toward	DeteriorationHaving	seen	how	healthy	people	are	capable	of	performing,	living	long	lives
free	of	disease	and	enjoying	boundless	energy,	why,	with	all	of	our	technology,
are	we	doing	so	poorly	by	comparison?	The	many	changes	we	have	made	in
modern	society	have	taken	us	away	from	the	factors	that	enhance	health	and
created	new	conditions	that	damage	health.	Never	before,	in	all	of	human
history,	have	so	many	health-related	factors	changed	so	rapidly	and	so
completely.	The	basic	nutritional,	environmental	and	behavioral	dimensions	of
our	society	have	been	severely	and	rapidly	altered.	Since	the	Industrial
Revolution,	and	especially	during	the	past	century,	humanity	has:
•	Completely	changed	its	diet.
•	Created	a	new	environment.
•	Developed	new	patterns	of	behavior	and	lifestyle.
Granted,	in	this	millennium,	most	of	us	simply	cannot	grow	our	own	food	and
harvest	it	when	ripe,	walk	to	our	destinations,	or	totally	avoid	the	stresses	of
modern	industrial	society.	However,	in	recognizing	what	contributed	to	the
health	of	traditionally	healthy	people,	combined	with	an	understanding	of	the
significant	changes	we	have	made	to	our	own	environments	and	lifestyles,	we
can	begin	to	see	how	we	must	compensate.	We	need	to	learn	how	to	create
healthy	h