 be. What’s going on inside us matters; everything else is
cosmetic and should be treated as such. Once we remember we’re
cosmic queens, these issues won’t arise. That’s the only solution to
all our shallow traumas. We can stop trying so hard to win love and power and inuence
in the world, because on some days we’ll have those things and on
others we won’t. But if we look to them for sustenance, we will nd
despair. And growing more desperate, we will grow old. Age appalls
us because maturity appalls us, responsibility appalls us. Our thirties
are the time to get serious about being an adult, taking
responsibility for our communities and our families. Our forties
become the time for getting good at those things, for achieving some
mastery. In our fties, we should be able to shine. People in their
fties are like full-bodied wine. In our sixties and seventies, we
could, in addition to shining, start teaching others, those coming up
after us, how to do what we have done. Without a spiritual life, what are we left with? What is there to
strive for? Where do we look for clues? In magazines? Here are some basics for spiritual renewal. First of all, meditate. Do transcende ntal meditatio n (my favorite), Christian meditation,
Jewish meditation, Buddhist meditation, open-eye meditation, full-
moon meditation, Quaker meditation—it doesn’t matter. Just do it. Also, pray. Engage in some sort of daily spiritual practice—
nonreligious, religious, whatever. Above all else, try to forgive. Andlastly, treat your body well. Practice yoga or some equivalent form
of concentrated physical exercise. Do not look to your husband, your lover, your children, your job,
your money, or your therap ist to make you happy. It’s not their
function, nor within their capacity to do so. Look to yourself, to the
Goddess within you, and take responsibility for your own state of
mind. Women can be masters at negative programming. We constantly
tell ourselves what is not right: our gure, our hair, our relationship,
our job, the weather, someone else’s behavior. Sometimes, we do
this because we have legitimate complaints; at other times, we
criticize simply because it is the turn of our minds to do so. Every
time we do, regardless of why, we attack ourselves. We are
programming our subconscious—the part of the mind that hears
what we tell it and then creates more of the same—to manufacture
the life we’re describing. And then—magicians that we are—lo and
behold, we have a new, even more negative life the following day. Someone once gave me a coee mug on which is printed  ENTERTAIN
NO NEGATIVITY. If only I could be so strong. As 1992 was drawing to a
close and I gathered with friends at the approach of midnight, I
scribbled on a piece of paper, “In 1993, I will repeat no negative
stories.” We are not a little powerful; we are enormously  powerful. Every time we say a negati ve word, we lay the menta l plans for
negative thing s. There is no escaping this law of the mind. As we
think, so shall it be. Here’s another  helpful hint. Choose an armation that ts you,
your hopes and your desires. Try to stay away from specics, and
concentrate instead on the woman you want to be. You could say, “I
am a glorious  child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and
loving.” Write it on several pieces of paper. Pin them up in your
house or tape them to the dashboard of your car. The mind is more
powerful than are any external conditions. If you repeat your
armation ten times a day, particularly in combination with
meditation, your life will change.Spiritual techn iques cannot not work. The question is not whether
they work but whether or not we actually do them. If we remind
ourselves often of the woman we want to be, then the woman who
has been masquerading as us all these years will breathe her last
breath and give us back our life. On the days when I do these things—and having turned forty
myself, I have nally learned  how important it is to do them all—I
feel good. On the days when I don’t do them, I don’t feel as well. And I must admit that there are often days during the month when
nothing makes me happy, and that’s it. PMS is PMS. Chemical
depression is an even harder nut to crack. There are times and
conditions when despite our exercises, we continue to cry and we
continue to feel pain. I’m talking here about the broad strokes, the
vast majority of our days. Try those things—meditation, prayer,
yoga, armations—and the fabric of your life will become more
beautiful and peaceful. At times, we can nd sustenance in a spiritual retreat, a woman’s
retreat, a vacation, a time o. It’s important to have the chance to
get away from it all. But we must remember that the serenity and
peace a retreat provides should not be limited to our time away
from home; we must commit ourselves to incorporating the
conditions that foster peace and serenity into our daily lives. So
much inside us can ourish when we turn o the worldly  noise. The
search for inner peace is a life-style decision. Even when we have
children, they can learn that at certain hours Mommy needs quiet
time. As much as we crave the rest a vacation oers, we often resist it. Many of us have set up our lives so that we are consta ntly busy,
living on a kind of adrenaline that poses as energy. This is an
insidious trick of the negative mind: building a wall of frantic
activity that mitigates the experience of a meaningful inner life. We
lose a tremend ous amount of personal power and healthy energy by
allowing ourselves to be lured away from daily spiritual practice. The spiritual life is our inner life, and a woman is lost without her
connection to the God and Goddess within her.As for physical appearance—as we age, gorgeous young hunks
may or may not be interested in us anymore. For that matter, men
our own age and older might not be interested anymore. My
response to that is “So what?” We could have met up with these
same guys when we were young, and they would still have been
turned o to us anyway once we got older. Have faith in men. There’s a new breed forming, just as we’re a
new breed of women. They are quite young, some of them, and they
are older also. They are learning, they are growing, and they are
everywhere. Hold on. Just take care of yourself. Strive to live a
more loving, more beautifu l life. They won’t not nd you. Your
appeal is huge and invisible and real. What now? Agreements. Agreements that we will not hurt one
another, that we will support one another. We will protect the
children and heal the earth. We will make love an art, and we will
love like artists. A woman is meant to hold the heart of the world within her
hands. She must cater to it and minister to it and kiss it when it
cries. We are meant to keep the home res burning, the res in our
hearts. We are meant to prepare the food, the spiritual food of love
and compassion. We are meant to care for the children, not just our
own, but every child. When we do not recognize our cosmic
function, our own hearts break, and so does the heart of the world. Just as children grow by playing games in which they imagine
themselves to be grown-ups, so are we meant to grow by imagining
ourselves to be bigger than we are right now. You need not
apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart. Your
success doesn’ t take away from anyone else’s. It actually increases
the possibility  that others can have it too. Your money  increases
your capacity to give mone y to others, your joy increases your
capacity to give joy to others, and your love increases your capacity
to give love to others. Your playing small serves no one. It is a sick
game. It is old thinking, and it is dire for the planet. Stop it
immediately. Come home to the castle. OceanofPDF.comFOUR
Embracing the Goddess
A true conception of the relation between the sexes
will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows
but of one great thing; to give of one’s self
boundlessly, in order to nd one’s self richer, deeper,
better. —Emma Goldman
The story of many modern relationships is a variation
on a common theme: the conspiracy between men and women to
murder the Queen. Wheneve r a woman sells herself cheap or a man
is unkind to a woman or a woman gives her body where she is not
adored or a man rejects his true love—we are trying to murder the
Queen.


 of that divine will that
inexorably leads humankind upon the path of evolution. The surface mind
and ego are products of the five senses, of that knowledge that we acquire
during the period of our lifetime, and since they are the results of limited
knowledge and partial experience, they are the poorest vehicles for theconduct of action. Absolute ef fectiveness comes to those who immerse ego
in universal mind and allow the Secret Self to guide them. Their
psychological position is that of a listener; their inner mind and heart
become attuned to a wider consciousness, a greater sense of being;
impressions, knowledge, and intuitive ur gings come to them from out of
this source with an authority greater than anything received through their
sensory or gans. “Ever and anon the trumpet sounds from the hid battlements of eternity,”
wrote the English poet and mystic Francis Thompson. And to each of us as
we go through life, a moment comes, however fleeting, when a crack
appears in the hard wall of consciousness, and we see through briefly, into
regions of eternal light and infinite knowledge, and in that moment we truly
are possessed of a sixth sense; something paranormal happens, some
example of intuitive knowledge; we read the thoughts of others or see at a
distance or understand coming events. Such an experience leaves us shaken. Our absorption in the material world is for gotten for the moment. W e begin
to see the astounding possibilities of mind and consciousness. W e become
convinced that when we deal with material things we deal with results, not
causes; we know that all causes exist in mind. W e begin to perceive infinite
possibilities, vast scopes, subtle nuances that have been hidden from us by
our limited consciousness. Such understanding may come to us from a
small event or lar ge. It may result from such a simple thing as the sudden
apprehension of the thoughts of another person. A light may burst upon us,
and we may have sudden knowledge of a coming event. Perhaps one of our
dreams comes true, or a loved one materializes and instructs us as to a
course of action. In any case, intuitive phenomena come to all people. The
dice player ur ging the goddess of fate to smile on their next cast does not
always beseech Lady Luck in vain. Sometimes they open up a channel
between themself and omnipotent intelligence, and the dice repeat magic
numbers at such length as to reduce mathematical odds to absurdity. Intuition and Reason
 Intuition is much more reliable than reason, for reason charts its course with
limited access to facts, while intuition has at its fingertips all the knowledge
that has ever existed, that ever will exist. Using the sixth sense, however, is
not such a simple matter as trusting one’ s life to one’ s feelings. It is very
easy to fall into the trap of being guided by the emotions, under the
misapprehension that emotions are intuitive feelings. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. Emotion is a wild horse, running away with the
inhabitant in the body, and those who are ruled by emotion are in the grip of
something worse than limited knowledge; they are the blind tool of egoistic
fears, hates, envies. Such a life is an idiot’ s tale, without design. Reason can
control the emotions, and reason is a far better guide. Reason is limited in
both ef fectiveness and knowledge, however, and when it has achieved
sufficient supremacy over the emotional nature, it may safely be
subordinated to the guidance of intuition; thus the whole life is brought to a
level of competence and attunement. Charles Steinmetz, the celebrated engineer of the General Electric
Company, wrote, “Some day people will learn that material things will not
bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and
powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories to the
study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly
been scratched. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement
in one generation than it has seen in the past four.”
Reason enables us to deal ef fectively with our immediate surroundings, but
only within the scope of the information available to the five senses. Reason
tells us we may go coatless on a sunny day, but the storm that is gathering
over the horizon is outside the scope of reason, and when it rains in the late
afternoon, reason has been wrong. The wider consciousness in the depths of
each of us must be trusted before our actions can be guided with a
knowledge of all factors. Reason is a tool, and logic is an ef fective method
of thinking, but each is only a means and no more reliable than the
information fed into it. In the eyes of the world intuitive people often act
unreasonably, for their actions are based upon a secret knowledge that is
hidden from more logical minds. Reasonable people have dif ficulty
discerning between the emotionally guided person and the intuitively
guided person. T o them, they are both unreasonable. They see that theemotionally guided person is almost never right, and they correctly attribute
this fact to such a person’ s psychic blind spots. They see the intuitively
guided person act unreasonably but with continued success, and they
attribute this to luck rather than to any ef fective means of coping with the
world. In consequence, the reasonable person is almost as blinded as the
emotional person, for the reasonable person has shut their eyes to the
possibilities of intuitive knowing. Logic and Science

The scientific approach to the solution of problems works from ef fect to
cause. Knowledge of a particular problem is contained in those facts
observable in the ef fect under scrutiny. This ef fect is the field of ef fort, and
logic is the method by which science works from the ef fect to the cause
which produced it. This procedure has made remarkable advances, but for
the most part they have been within the realm of known facts. Now and
again a creative thinker joins the laboratory armies and in one intuitive flash
spans years of painstaking experiment. Albert Einstein stated that his theory
of relativity was revealed to him in a moment of inspiration, and the
simplicity of the eventual mathematical formula, E = MC², could not have
been hidden from an army of researchers unless its significance was outside
the scope of their consciousness. All science and mathematics are in the end
philosophical, for they attempt to penetrate the mysteries of the universe
and the secret of life, and they represent the ef forts of humankind on the
boundaries of awareness to extend that awareness unceasingly. To recognize that there is a mind within us that knows the answers to all our
problems is the first step to acquiring the use of the infallible sixth sense. It
is not necessary to find a solution in the material world. In point of actual
fact the solution can never be found there. The secret lies within ourselves,
and we need go no farther than our very room to find each answer. There is
tremendous comfort in discovering within oneself an infinite and eternal
mind that holds the answer to each problem, to realize that the solution toeach perplexing situation may be found simply by searching one’ s soul. But
we are suf ficiently out of joint with life, we may find it extremely dif ficult
to commune with our inner and deeper nature, and may even become
neurotic through having severed psychic ties with our originator. When we
look into the reaches of our soul, those trackless corridors stretch toward
infinity and appall us with their emptiness; we are frightened and seek
quickly to return to the uneasy security of our material existence. It takes
courage to look upon the many faces of the Secret Self. The Divine does not
reside alone in beauty, comfort, love, and harmony, but is equally resident
in ugliness, hardship, hate, and discord. The Secret Self attains its purpose
in all areas of endeavor by the conflict of opposites, and before we are able
to live as mature human beings, we must accept all sides of life as being
part of an absolutely sure and perfect plan for the working out of the
purposes of the Divine. God Sense

The sixth sense is a God sense, an identification, however momentary, with
the Secret Self, which enables us, in that instant, to perceive future, past,
and present in one instantaneous tableau, to contain all space and time
within the confines of our own consciousness. Such awareness, if
constantly possessed, would make all our actions infallible, and the purpose
of evolution must lie in just such an end as this; the beginnings of such a
development are already perceivable in the lives of many people. The Ouija
board, the divining rod, the crystal ball, and the star gazer have been with us
since the dawn of recorded history. Such phenomena definitely are
indicative of humanity’ s recognition of a power of intuition — a sixth
sense. This paranormal facility of the mind has been lar gely ignored in the
past century of material conquest, but now that the searchlight of scientific
examination is being brought to bear, it appears inevitable that mental and
spiritual advances will overshadow material advances in the years ahead.A new approach, a new concept is necessary before investigation of the
paranormal will yield results. The methods of science have not
demonstrated that they are adaptable to the study of a world that is
invisible. By means of the


 Liszt - "Rakoczy March"  from Hungarian Rhapsody no. 15
"Liebestraum" (The Dream of Love)
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2
"Resurrected" from Christus
"Easter Hymn" from Christus
"March of the Three Kings" from Christus
"Benediction of God in Solitude"
Pietro Mascagni - "Intermezzo" from Cavall eria Rusticana  (Gabriel's keynote)
Jules Massenet - "Meditation" from Thaïs  GOD VICTORY : 11 o'clock line —Sagittarius
Jean Sibelius - "Finlandia"
Ludwig van Beethoven - Ninth Symphony
Emperor Piano Concerto
César Franck - Symphony in D Minor
"Panis Angelicus"
Bedrich Smetana - "Die Moldau" from Ma Vlast ("My Country")
"Vysehrad" from Ma Vlast

RAY: First   COLOR: Blue   ATTRIBUTE: God's Will and Power

Master/Attribute  Music  Composer  Retreat
Elohim Hercules and
Holy Amazon ia The Heavens are Telling  Beethoven
The Legions of Lady
Astrea and Michael
  "Tannhauser" Fest March
Wagner
Prelude to Act Ill
of "Lohengrin"
Archangel Michael and
His Legions  St. Michael Archangel
from "Church Windows”  Respighi  The Temple of Illumined
Faith and Protection
The Legions of
Archangel Michael  Karelia Suite  Sibelius  The Etheric Realm over Lake
Louise Banff, Canada  Soldier's Chorus
from "Faust ” Gounod
Lady Faith  The Moldau  Smeta na Temple of Faith
and Confidence
 Bridal Chorus
from "Lohengrin"  Wagner
El Morya  Believe Me If All Those
Endearin g Youn g Charms  Traditional  The Temple of
International Unity
Pomp and Circumstance
#1 and #4  Elgar
Soldier's Chorus finale  Gounod
Jerusalem from
"Chariots of Fire” Vangelis
Fairy Ring (excerpt)  Rowland
Mighty Victory  1st Plano Concerto -
3rd Mvmt  Beethoven
God Principa  Adagio in G Minor  Albinoni
Shri Magra  The Warsaw Concerto  Addinsell  The Temple of the Original
Lord of the World
over Warsaw, Poland
Godfré  Nimrod from Variations
on an Original Theme
-Enigma  Elgar  Focus of Obedience
Lady Geraldine  Panis Angel icus Franck  The Temple of
Divine Service

RAY: Second    COLOR: Yellow   ATTRIBUTE: God's Wisdom and Illumination

Master/Attribute  Music  Composer  Retreat
Lord Lanto  Song to the Evening Star
“Tannhauser”  Wagner  The Royal Teton Retreat  Entry of the Gods into
Valhalla
Lord Ling  Preludium in E Major  Bach
Abaresque #1  Debussy
The Wise Men  Prayer of Saint Gregory  Hovhaness
Beloved Kamakura  Dawn from "Peer Gynt"  Grieg  Temple of Illumined
Wisdom over Mt. Fuji
Lord Himalaya  Intermezzo from Carmen  Bizet
Lord Kenich Ahan  Greensleeves
 Traditional  The Temple of the Sun at
Yucatan, Mexico
Beloved God and
Godde ss Meru  Pictures at an Exhibition
(Excerpts)  Moussorgsky and
Tomita  Temple of God Illumination,
Lake Titicaca
Brotherhood of the
Teton Retreat  Au Fond du Temple from
Les Pecheurs de Perlas (In
the Depths of the Temple
from The Pearl Fishers)  Bizet
Temple Music  The F orce of
Destiny Overture  Verdi
Lady Soo Chee  Scene & Dance with
Golden Fingers from
"The Red Poppy"  Gliere
Confucius  The Lark Ascending  Vaughan -Williams
Confucius  and
Lady Soo Chee  Forest Scene & Ascent
to the Invisible
City o f Kitezh  Rimsky -Korsakov  Temple of the Golde n Lotus
-Tibet
Djwal Khul  Aria from Orchestral  Suite
#3 "Air on the G String ” Bach  The Royal Teton Retreat
Beloved Kuthumi  Gigue Pachelbel  Kuthumi’s Training Cente r
at Shamballa  La Source  Hasselman s
Kashmir i Song  Finden  Focus of Wisdom and
Understanding in the
Valley of Kashmir
Helios and Vesta  Helios Overture  Nielsen
The Hymn of
Thanksgiving from the 6th
Symphony, "Pastorale"  Beethoven  The City  of Shamballa
Beloved Gautama,
Lord of the World  Song of India
from “Sadko”  Rimsky -Korsakov
Daybreak  Ravel  Music of the Planetary
Three fold Flame

RAY:  Third    COLOR:  Pink   ATTRIBUTE:  God's Divine Love

Master/Attribute  Music  Composer  Retreat
Lady Rowena  1st Piano Concerto -
2nd Mvmt - Romanze  Chopin  Temple of the Heart
Lady Charity,
Angel of Adoration  Piano Sonata #8
in C minor,
The Adagio  Cantabile  Beethov en
Chamuel and Charity's
Legions of Divine Love  The Lord Now
Victorious - from
“Cav alleria Rustican a” Mascagni   Holy Æolus  New World Symphony -
Mvmt II - Largo  Dvorak
Paul the Venetian  Plano  Concerto No. 2,
Adagio Mvmt  #2 Rachmaninoff
Lady Angelica  In Trutina  from
"Carmina Burana"  Carl Orff
Elohim Orion's
Expanding Radiation
of Divine Love  2nd Symphony -
4th Mvmt  Sibelius
Goddess of Liberty  La Marseillaise  Lisle & Berl ioz
David Lloyd,
God of Gratitude  5th Symphony -4th Mvmt
-Adagietto  Mahler
Lord Maitreya  Adagio Barber
Requiem "Sanctus ” Faure
Maitreya,
Sanat Kumara
and Gautama  Buddha  Ah, Sweet Mystery of life  Herbert
Caprice Viennois  Kreisler
Lady Sophia  "Alpha" from Cosmos  Vange lis
Lady Venus  2nd Symphony -
3rd Mvmt - Roman ce Rachmaninoff
Sanat Kumara  18th Varia tion on a
Theme b y Paganini  Rachmaninoff
Caprice Viennois  Kreisler
3rd Ray Music  Adagio from "Spartacus ” Khachaturian  Creation of the Univ erse-
Music of the Great
Central Sun
Concert for Harp
and Orchestra  Pierne Temple of the Holy Spirit
The G irl with
the Flaxen Hair  Debussy
Polovts ian Dances
#1 & #2 Borodin
The Swan  Saint -Saens
Turtle Dove -
English folk song

RAY:  Fourth    COLOR:  White    ATTRIBUTE:  God's Purity

Master/Attribute  Music  Composer  Retreat
Elohim Claire and
Lady Astrea  "Romanze ”- Opus 2 6 Johan Severin
Svendson
Elohim Claire  Piano Concerto #2,
Mvmt #1  Rachmaninov
Archangel Gabriel  Intermezzo from
“Cavalleria Rus ticana” Mascagni
Archangel Gabriel
And Lady Hope  Prelude of A ct I
of "Parsifal"  Wagner  Temple of Hope
Music of the
Ascension Flame  The Firebird Suite,
Tableau II  Stravinsky
Nessum Dorma
from Turandot  Puccini
Serapis Bey  Liebestraum  Liszt   Lady Isis  Violin Concerto, Opus 35
(Excerpt from  1st Mvmt)   Tchaikovsky
Archa ngel of
Restoration  Entends -tu les
Chiens Aboyer. Vangelis
Brotherhood of the
Ascension Temple  Piano Concerto No. 5 -
2nd Mvmt  Saint -Saens
4th Ray Music  Benediction of God in the
Solitude from "Harmonies
Poetiques et Religieuses"  Liszt   Music of the
Ascension Temple
Faust Symphonie - 2nd
movement, "Gretchen ” Liszt
9th Symphony -
3rd movement  Beethoven
Parsifal reprise  Wagner
Celeste Aida from "Aida"  Verdi

RAY:  Fifth    COLOR:  Green    ATTRIBUTE:  God's Truth, Science and Healing


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b r e a t h i n g,  a n d  a  g l a s s  t u m b l e r  h a s  b e e n  p u t  i n  t h e i r  m i d s t. A n d  n o w  h e r ec o m e s  y o u r  f i r s t  b r e a t h  s i n c e  y o u  l e t  g o  o f  y o u r  n o s e. A i r  b u b b l e s  i n t o  t h e
t u m b l e r  l i k e  s p a r k l i n g  m i n e r a l  w a t e r,  p l a i n  f o r  a l l  t o  s e e. T h e  w a t e r  ( i e  y o u r
f i r s t  i n t a k e  o f  b r e a t h )  c a r r i e s  o n  f i l l i n g  t h e  g l a s s,  r i g h t  t o w a r d s  t h e  b r i m. Y o u  h a v e  t w o  c h o i c e s. Y o u  c a n  e i t h e r  c a r r y  o n  b r e a t h i n g  a n d  f i l l  t h e  g l a s s
b r i m f u l,  o r  y o u  c a n  c h o o s e  n o t  t o  b r e a t h e  r i g h t  t o  t h e  r i m. A t  t h e  l o w e r  e d g e
o f  t h i s  r o u n d  r i m,  y o u  c a n  m a k e  a n  i m p e r c e p t i b l e  e x h a l a t i o n  t h a t  w i l l  r e s u l t
i n  a  s l i g h t  s h o r t a g e  o f  a i r,  a n d  y o u  s h o u l d  d o  t h i s  w i l l  a l l  s u b s e q u e n t
b r e a t h s. I  h a v e  d e s c r i b e d  t h i s  i n v i s i b l e  p r o c e s s  i n  a  v e r y  v i s u a l  a n d  e


	the	course	of	pellagra	in	our	south;	on	the	scourge	of	scurvy;	on	the

incredible	incidence	of	beriberi	among	the	white	rice	eating	peoples	of	the

Orient. He	might	even	have	seen	the	related	significance	of	this	latter	condition

to	the	present	problem	of	polio	in	the	symptoms	of	its	advanced	stages	known	as

polyneuritis,	in	which	control	of	the	muscles	of	the	feet,	legs	and	arms,	and	in

severe	cases	of	the	trunk	too,	is	affected. He	might	have	learned	that	these	too

were	epidemic	diseases	and	were	endlessly	ascribed	to	various	germs,	and	that	in

the	final	analysis	all	medical	research	in	their	behalf	turned	out	to	be

meaningless	medical	meandering	down	the	insidious	avenue	of	infection;

proving	that	medical	research,	if	not	a	disease	in	itself,	is	surely	a	pathological

compulsion	in	most	cases. In	the	end	pellagra,	scurvy	and	beriberi	turned	out	to	be	diseases	of	dietary

deficiency	that	could	be	controlled	by	the	simple	process	of	putting	back	into	the

nutriment	of	nature	some	of	the	vital	elements	that	commerce	saw	profit	in

removing. These	and	many	more	correlatives	could	he	have	seen	had	his

immunological	perspective	recognized	the	true	relationship	of	Virology	to

Symptomology,	as	that	of	tweedledee	and	tweedledum. Hygienists	do	not

discredit	the	presence	of	the	three	guilty	viruses. We	say	that	they	are	merely	a

symptom	of	polio	rather	than	the	cause. And	we	openly	admit	our	skepticism	of

any	approach	to	the	problem	of	polio	that	systematically	or	unwittingly	ignores

the	basic	enervating	and	toxemic	forces	that	nurture	the	soil	of	its	growth	in	the

human	body. Furthermore,	we	look	askance	on	any	data	that	disregards	the	clues	inherent	in

the	study	of	the	comparative	eating	habits	of	our	own	rich	country	with	its	high

polio	rate	as	against	the	eating	habits	of	the	poor	countries	of	the	East	with	their

low	polio	incidence. Our	superiority	in	the	matter	of	advanced	sanitation	and

hygiene	apparently	offers	no	advantages	in	the	way	of	polio	prevention,	or	at

least	not	where	our	respective	diets	remain	the	same. The	one	clear	spot	in	the

statistical	panorama	is	the	difference	in	the	overall	consumption	of	white	sugar. Explicitly,	their’s	is	but	a	fraction	of	ours. It	may	stun	you	to	learn	that	in	the

year	1939	the	per	capita	consumption	of	white	sugar	in	China,	where	only

sporadic	cases	of	polio	were	seen,	was	3. 2	lbs.,	whereas	in	the	United	States

103.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's opinion on the polio vaccine?,
A: The author is strongly opposed to the vaccine and believes it is a scam, stating that it is not a cure for polio, but rather a way for the medical industry to make a profit.
Q: What is the author's stance on the concept of "germs" causing disease?,
A: The author does not accept the idea that germs or viruses cause disease, instead, they believe that disease is caused by a disordered imagination or fear.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the Salk vaccine?,
A: The author believes that the Salk vaccine is a hoax and that it is not a solution to the problem of polio. They also state that the vaccine may actually cause more harm than good.
Q: What is the author's view on the medical industry?,
A: The author is highly critical of the medical industry, accusing them of profiteering and prioritizing profits over the well-being of the public.
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of vaccines and serums?,
A: The author is strongly opposed to the use of vaccines and serums, believing that they are ineffective and potentially harmful.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Not	many	years	ago	the	‘big

bugs’	in	the	medico-scientific	field	had	the	effrontery	to	calmly	state,	in	their

public	meetings,	that	the	‘appendix’	served	no	useful	purpose	in	the	body	and	the

tonsils	were	the	remains	of	our	‘gills’—left	over	in	our	bodies	when	man

emerged	from	the	sea	as	a	land	animal. Now,	students	realize	that	the	appendix

helps	to	keep	the	cecum	on	the	safe	side	by	holding	the	putrefactive	bacteria,	in

that	blind	sewer,	at	a	safe	level	and	that	the	tonsils	play	important	parts	in	killing

disease	organisms	that	would	otherwise	get	into	the	lymphatic	circulatory

system. "Yet	in	many	quarters	the	yanking	out	of	tonsils	for	a	fee	and	the	chopping	out	of

the	appendix	for	the	doctor’s	wife’s	fur	coat	continue	unabated. Gall	bladder

operations	are	still	sending	unfortunates	to	the	insane	asylums	as	of	yore	and	the

so-called	‘fixing’	of	stomach	and	intestinal	ulcers	by	‘removing	a	section	of	the

anatomy’	with	a	knife,	is	still	considered	good	‘practice’. Yet	even	the	most

obstinate	medical	physician	and	surgeon	KNOWS	that	ulcers	are	caused	by	too

strong	stomach	chemicals,	digesting	the	mucous	membrane,	and	that	the	proper

treatment	is	merely	to	reduce	the	strength	of	such	digestive	chemicals. Smallpox

vaccine—which	has	spread	syphilis	throughout	the	civilized	world	is	still

‘obligatory’	in	many	parts	of	the	universe	and	the	Schick	vaccine—that	arch

killer	of	Japanese	babies	in	the	hands	of	our	army	‘brass	hat	doctors’—is	still

being	used	as	a	‘professional	fee	getter’	although	it	still	curtails	the	infant

population. "Altogether	,	the	situation	seems	to	be	getting	worse—not	better. And	the	Salk

vaccine—for	all	its	blatant	propaganda,	for	all	its	high	endorsement	by	the

Public	Health	Department	of	our	kindly	government—is	failing	dismally	just	as

Duon	H.	Miller,	of	Coral	Gables,	Florida,	predicted	it	would	fail. "Let	us	look	again	at	this	rotten	laboratory	concoction—this	Salk	vaccine	made

from	the	diseased	kidney	of	a	tortured	monkey. If	you	will	recall,	the	proponents

of	this	polio	medicine	never	CLAIMED	that	it	would	PREVENT	POLIO. Those

gentlemen	of	the	dollar	sign	merely	said	that	it	would	PROBABLY	prevent	the

paralysis	which	followed	or	accompanied	the	usual	polio. They	KNEW	that

nothing	that	could	be	‘shot’	into	the	clean	bloodstreams	of	the	youngsters	would

lower	the	sugar	content. And	manifestly	it	was	the	excessive	sugar—taken	into

the	infant’s	body	in	the	summertime	in	the	shape	of	ice	cream,	cola	and	other

soft	drinks,	candy	and	like	sweets—that	BROUGHT	ON	POLIO. No	question	about	that! All	medical	books	show	that	polio	does	not	exist	in

those	countries	where	the	consumption	of	sugar—refined	sugar—is	less	than	90

pounds	per	person. "Well,	anyway,	the	American	people	were	sold	a	‘bill	of	goods’	by	those	stuff-
shirted	individuals	back	of	this	Salk	concoction. And	it	was	the	sainted	‘March

of	Dimes’	parasites	who	did	that	‘selling’. No	question	about	it—the	‘March	of

Dimes’	had	to	come	up	with	some	new	‘gadget’	to	keep	the	dimes	rolling	in	so

that	the	motley	array	of	individuals	on	that	expanded	payroll	m


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        Serves 2-4. SWEET SPAGHETTI SQUASH 30 Min. 1 medium spaghetti squash
1 tablespoon butter
4 medium carrots, finely grated
1 shallot, minced
lA cup currants (optional)
Vz cup water
1 teaspoon fresh dill (optional)
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup (optional)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
6If you prefer crisper cucumbers with fewer seeds, use hothouse (English) cucumbers or pickling
cukes. A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 185 Vi teaspoon cardamom
Vi teaspoon sea salt (optional)
lA teaspoon fresh ground white pepper
Cut squash in half lengthwise. Remove seeds, and place facedown in
vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling water for approximately 20 min
utes or until squash is tender. Cool slightly, scrape squash from shell,
and set aside. In large saucepan, melt butter. Add carrots, shallot, and currants, and
saute briefly. Add water, cover, and simmer until carrots are almost ten
der. Add dill, maple syrup, cinnamon, cardamom, sea salt, and pepper. Stir in squash and combine well. Simmer, covered, over low heat for 10
minutes, then remove cover and continue simmering, stirring frequently,
until all water is absorbed. Serve with Curried Vegetables or in place
of rice or pasta. Any leftover squash can be added to soups or stews. Serves 6. MAIN-COURSE SALAD DAY
DAY THIRTEEN—SATURDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One. LUNCH:
Continue on fruit and juice throughout the day, or have the Easy Fruit
Salad. *
DINNER:
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail (see page 152), or 1 papaya, or 1 slice of
watermelon (1-3 inches thick, cut from half melon)
California Tostada4
EASY FRUIT SALAD 10 Min. 2 apples, cored, peeled, and sliced
¥i teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
2 oranges, peeled and sliced, or broken into sections
186 • FIT FOR LIFE 2 bananas, sliced
2 tablespoons currants
'/t-'/i cup fresh orange or apple juice (optional)
In large bowl, toss apples in cinnamon until evenly coated. Add oranges
and bananas. Add currants and juice, and mix well. The currants in this
salad are used to increase the concentration of fruit sugar. Since fruit is
sometimes less sweet than we'd like, adding currants makes the salad
more energizing. You can add currants whenever you feel a fruit salad
needs some extra spark. That extra spark is energy. Serves 2. CALIFORNIA TOSTADA 45 Min. 1 cup fresh or frozen carrots, diced
1 cup fresh or frozen string beans, cut into. /2-inch segments
1 cup fresh or frozen peas
1 cup fresh or frozen corn
6 cups iceberg lettuce, coarsely chopped
3 cups tortilla chips or 1 cup shredded Jack or Muenster cheese
Vi cup black olives
Fresh Tomato Salsa (see below)
Great Guacamole (see page 176)
Sour cream (optional)
Prepare the vegetables. Place carrots and string beans in vegetable steamer, covered, over boiling
water for 10 minutes. Add peas and corn, and steam for 5 minutes or
until all vegetables are tender. If using fresh vegetables, you can steam
carrots and string beans whole and then cut them. If using fresh corn,
you can steam or boil it whole for 5 minutes and then cut from cob. If all
frozen vegetables are used, the steaming time will be cut approximately
in half. Combine steamed vegetables in a large bowl, and set them aside. FRESH TOMATO SALSA:
3 tomatoes
3 tablespoons olive oil
V2 cup red onion, minced
1 small green chili, minced (optional)
I small red pepper, minced
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 187 1 small green pepper, minced
3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, minced
1 clove garlic, minced (optional)
Vi teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning (optional)
Prepare the salsa. Plunge tomatoes in boiling water for a few seconds. Remove from water,
and remove skins, chop into very small cubes, and set aside. Heat oil in
small skillet. Add onion, and saute until it begins to soften. Add chili and
peppers, and saute, stirring frequently, until they turn a bright color. Stir
in cilantro and garlic. Allow vegetables to cool slightly, then add to
tomatoes in small bowl. Add sea salt, and mix well. Set aside. Assemble the tostada. Mix half of vegetables with lettuce. Add half salsa to vegetable-lettuce
mixture, and toss well. Stir all but 'A cup of remaining salsa into remaining
vegetables. If you are using chips, rather than cheese, place one cup tortilla
chips on each of two plates. Spoon several dollops of guacamole over
chips. Spoon vegetable-lettuce-salsa mixture over chips and guacamole. Spoon remaining vegetables over top. Add a dollop of guacamole and a
dollop of sour cream, if desired. Spoon 2 tablespoons of remaining salsa
over each tostada. Garnish with black olives and remaining chips. If you
are using cheese, omit chips and sprinkle cheese on top of tostada. NOTE: If a creamier dressing is desired, combine 'A cup mayonnaise with
2 tablespoons ketchup or Main barbecue sauce, and mix into vegetable-
lettuce mixture before adding it


 cells have the ability to
quickly process damaged structures remaining
from the old cells and use them to build new or-
ganelles or replenish energy.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frUnfortunately, as cells age, they lose this ability,
which leads to the accumulation of damaged or-
ganelles and aging of the entire body. The exper-
iments on animals carried out by scientists prove
that fasting increases the ability of heart muscle
cells to self -detox in old animals up to 120%, and
it barely affects the state of cells in young ani-
mals.
The resistance of microorganisms and plants to
the effects of harsh external factors (high and
low temperatures, droughts, etc.), which make
them fall into a state of rest or anabiosis, should
be considered a protective mechanism devel-
oped during a long evolutionary process. Ironi-
cally, the most effective methods from the vari-
ety of tested and identified means of prolonging
life turned out to be the simplest ones: a body
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fasting and low -calorie diets in warm -blooded
animals.
These simple methods can lead to a two -or
three -fold increase in life expectancy. All the
data suggest that with aging or diseases, the most
important body systems, including regulatory
ones, have to be kept clean to allow them to func-
tion normall y. The increase in human life expec-
tancy brought on by periodic dry fasting or low -
calorie diets is similar to a prolongation of life in
animals achieved by hibernation when the body
nourishes itself with its own reserves at low body
temperature. It’s established that the higher the
total duration of hibernation in animals (during
their whole life), the longer their life expectancy
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.fr– both the whole life and the part that they spend
in their waking state.
After mastering the method of placing people
in anabiosis (hibernation) artificially, it’s possi-
ble to obtain powerful means to fight the most
severe pathological conditions and diseases,
many of which are difficult or simply impossible
to cure now.
I believe that any type of fasting is one of the
most affor dable methods of preventing diseases
and maintaining your health. It’s important to
understand that you can’t stay completely
healthy only by fasting, but it can significantly
reduce the likelihood of diseases. Therefore, the
best option is preventative fasting along with
proper nutrition and regular exercises.

Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.fr17. Dry fractional fasting. Who do we
recommend it to?
In my practice, there were patients who under-
went 11 -day, 12 -day, and even 13 -day dry fast-
ing treatments. Of course, this is a “between life
and death” option, since it’s recommended to
patients with serious pathologies after undergo-
ing powerful medical therapy. Besides, their vital
energy was lowered. Therefore, taking into ac-
count our experience and mistakes, we devel-
oped a milder and more phys iologically suitable
method, namely, dry fractional fasting, which
has the same effectiveness as long -term dry fast-
ing.
The essence of this method is that it stipulates
for several (usually two or three) consecutive dry
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frfasting courses (fractions). The first one lasts 5 -
7 days, the second one lasts 7 -9 days, and the
third one lasts 9 days. Restorative nutrition is
carried out according to a special method be-
tween these courses.
The first part of fasting is detoxing, and it lasts
as long as the patient can withstand; one may
swim in waterfalls and mountain rivers during
this period for better body detox. The first aci-
dotic crisis occurs during the first fasting course.
It’s characterized by effective body detox, and
patients realize what it is. Following the  crisis,
they come out of fasting through a special course
of Altai herbal medicine that provide the body
with a lot of energy.
The second dry fasting course is curative. It
should last as long as possible to go through the
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frmost curative acidotic crisis ( the second one).
The second fasting course is much easier than
the first one, both physically and psychologi-
cally.
Sometimes, a third (final) dry fasting course is
required for patients with very serious diseases.
The most important thing is that every f asting
course entails an increasingly faster transition to
endogenous nutrition and high -quality biosyn-
thesis. The fractional method is good because it
doesn’t allow obese people to gain weight.
Weight is lost progressively. As a result, obese
people not only lose their weight, but it also
drops 2 -3 kg below the norm. It activates their
bodies in a very powerful manner, and they
don’t gain weight subsequently, rather, it stays at
the same level. Besides, excessive fat cells die,
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frwhich means that their number is reduced.
Therefore, fat cells gain their content during re-
storative nutrition, but their number is lower,
and patients don’t feel weak. Fat cells only begin
to be destroyed following an acidotic crisis. After
a full fractional fasting course, the number of fat
cells in the body is normalized. There are as
many of them, as at a young age, and patients
look slim and youthful. The destruction of fat
cells is possible only during fasting. All kinds of
diets only deplete fat cells. As soon as people
start e ating normally, they quickly recover, and
patients gain weight again.
Fractional fasting is very effective in treating
obesity. This pendulum -like fasting cycle makes
it possible to improve the reserve defenses of the
body and its detoxification increasing ly more
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crease during fractional fasting? An additional
benefit of this method is that we gave the cell a
chance to detox, restored the functionality,
memory capacity, and cell energy potential after
the first detox stage, and then the second fasting
course provides it with the opportunity to com-
plete the started process - to find and fix what-
ever was missed. It’s just like switching on the
super -compensation mechanism in detoxifica-
tion through fasting. Everyt hing that was over-
looked to an extent is fully detoxed. It turns out
that the body approaches new positive stresses
with increased readiness each time. In this
method, one fasting course is followed by an-
other, and the therapeutic effect is increased.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frThis is the main difference from dry fasting ac-
cording to L.A. Shchennikov: he conducts dry
fasting for a maximum duration of 9, 10, 11 days
at once.
Cascade fasting by V.P. Lavrova. Patients un-
dergo dry fasting courses, with equal periods of
fasting and non -fasting, in cascades (one/one,
two/two, five/five). This fasting method is very
effective, but it must be conducted for a very
long time to reach the second therapeutic aci-
dotic crisis. In our method, the duration of dry
fasting increases with every cycle, so the second
acidotic crisis occurs in a shorter period of time.
I really like this method as it has powerful heal-
ing potential, and the effects of rejuvenation and
weight loss are quite evident. Most importantly,
patients undergo it with much greater eas e, and
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frthere are almost no complications. Ideally, you
can try this method after preparing for fasting
(healthy nutrition, bowel and liver detox, water
fasting, 5 -day dry fasting course). Undergo a 7 -
day dry fasting course followed by 2 -3 weeks of
coming out of fasting, and then a 9 -day dry fast


 although fruits and v egetables are not high in protein and fat content,
they still remain their ideal source.

What about vitamin B 12?
Almost every health and nutrition professional in the world holds the not ion that people must at least supplement their diets
with a B 12  source if they don’t eat meat. But the truth is, vitamin B 12  deficiency is not limited to vegetarians and vegans; it is common among meat eaters as well—not because they don’t eat enough B 12, but because they don’t properly produce and absorb it.  Let
me explain just a bit about how this all works.
As I see it, two primary vegan sources of natural vitamin B 12 exist for humans, either of which, under ideal conditions, should
be sufficient to provide the B 12  to meet our needs:
First, vitamin B 12  is a waste product of a bacteria that can be found in and on the foods we eat (of both  animal and  plant
origin).
Second, B 12  is also produced in the intestine and the mucosa of healthy humans.
An alleged but very unlikely third source of B 12  may be unheated algae, spirulina, chlorella, and other creatures (whi ch are not
plants, by the way, and thus not to be considered vegan), and also raw seaweeds  like nori, wakame, dulse, kombu, etc. Although
these substances apparently do contain some human-active B 12, they also contain significant amounts of noncobalamin analogs of
B12, which actually interfere with the absorption of true B 12. The analog form of B 12  registers on test results, masquerading as the
human nutrient, but the body cannot use it. To compound the problem, analog B 12  also occupies the body’s B 12  uptake sites or
“receptors,” thus lowering our ability to utilize true B 12.
From a health and biological-design perspective, the question of whether  the B 12 in these foods is the kind we need or an
analog (or some of both) becomes irrelevant. Regardless of the answer, I do not  recommend the consumption of sea life under any
circumstances. Humans are terrestrial creatures and as such ou r digestive capacities and nutritional requirements are adapted to th e
consumption of plants from the land. Aquatic plants and animals are not our  natural foods, nor does their nutritional makeup match
our needs.
If you disagree, take yourself to the oceanside one day and collect some of your  own fresh algae or seaweed. I think you will
find these “foods,” as they appear unprocessed in nature, to be abhorren t in taste. Compare this reaction to the sensory thrill that
you experience when you see, smell, and taste a perfectly ripe piece of fr uit picked fresh from the tree. Your visceral response to
these two scenarios should tell you unequivocally which of these item s is food for humans.
That said, I return to the first two B 12 sources mentioned above. If it is true that plant and  animal foods can contain B 12, and
that we make it within our bodies as well, then how is it that we find vita min B 12 deficiency in humans? This is an extremely complex
matter, but I will discuss four reasons for this phenomenon in a very sim plified manner.

1) Our produce no longer contains vitamin B 12.
Since the beginning of time, humans have acquired some of their vitam in B 12  directly from fruits and vegetables … but they did not
know they were doing so. You see, scientists did not discover vitamin B 12  until the 1950s, and by then our commercially produced
plant foods had spent about a decade devoid of vitamin B 12, a nutrient that had existed plentifully in plant foods since time
immemorial.
How did this come about? Well, plants do not make a lot of vitamins. Rather, they s oak them up from the soil through their
roots. Most of our vitamins are made by bacteria in the soil. Since the adven t of modern agriculture in 1942, when Bayer and other
chemical manufacturers began diverting leftover chemical wea pons from World War II into use as pesticides and fertilizers, 84
farmers have inadvertently sterilized the bacteria out of our soils. The resulting loss of plant-derived dietary vitamin B 12 is just one of
the unintended consequences of “better living through chemistry,”  an initiative that continues to devastate the balance of nature  in
ways we are only beginning to comprehend.
Given this historical perspective, it is easy to understand why nutr itional researchers generally encounter no vitamin B 12  in plant
foods since they take their samples from among produce grown in dead soils. Howe ver, organically grown plants specifically
cultivated in highly composted soils rich with organic matter can contain plenty of B 12  and a host of other nutrients not found (or
found in short supply) in industrially grown produce.
Organic matter, defined as anything that rots, is the root of organic fa rming and the engine that runs the entire web of life on
Earth. Fungi and bacteria eat the organic matter, and then they “p oop” … in the process contributing complex substances to the soil,
including vitamin B 12  and other nutrients, in profusion. Plants grown in such soils take up thes e nutrients through their roots.
When we add chemicals to the soil, we destroy not only “pests” and the bac teria that produce vitamin B 12, but also the entire
pyramid of soil life (which begins with organic material, then fungi  and bacteria but also includes mites, then predatory mites,
springtails, and worms). Most agricultural soil in the United States  contains only 1 to 2% organic matter, a level that qualifies it as
biologically dead. The practice of farming with chemicals and not retur ning any organic matter to the soil is now more than sixty
years old. The far-reaching devastating side effects of this prac tice on all forms of life on Earth—and their delicately balanced
ecosystems—are too numerous to adequately describe in anything less  than a separate book.
Therefore, I recommend getting to know the organic farmers at your local  farmer’s markets and making sure that they use
compost. (I prefer vegan fertilizers and compost that don’t contain a nimal products or manure.) People find this difficult to hear, but I also believe that if you live where farmer’s markets and organic ally grown tropical fruits are not available, you would do well to
consider relocating. Of course, growing your own food would be best of all, and I hig hly recommend doing so, whenever possible.

2) We wash our produce.
A hundred years ago, people tended to bathe once a week or less, on average, and they  did not concern themselves with
fastidiously washing the surfaces of their fruits and vegetables  as they do these days. In part, this is another result of agrochemical
food production, as people have been misled to believe that pesticide residues ca n be adequately washed off by rinsing or scrubbing
the outsides of their produce.
In the past, when people ate lettuce, celery, carrots, and other vegetable s fresh from the ground, the soil left clinging to the
vegetables often contained vitamin B 12. They also obtained the nutrient from the bacteria-laden dirt that acc umulates near the stems
of apples, peaches, pears, and other core and stone fruits. But between the che micals we apply to the soils and our obsessive fear
of germs and bacteria, we effectively eliminate this source of the n utrient, as well.

3) We cannot absorb the B 12  we eat.
Meat eaters easily consume enough B 12  because the bacteria that make it, live in the digestive tracts of li vestock, and it is distributed
in the muscle meats of the animals they eat. As described earlier, v egans who eat organically grown plants from richly composted
soils, and who don’t compulsively wash their produce, should also get ple nty of the nutrient.
In both of these cases, vitamin B 12  deficiency is usually only a problem if you lack a chemical calle d the “intrinsic factor,”
which causes people to be unable to absorb B 12. How does this occur? It seems that intrinsic factor production is reduce d as
dietary fat increases. This is by far the most common cause of B 12  deficiency. Doctors can easily test whether a person has a normal
ability to absorb B 12. For those who do not, no amount of the vitamin in the diet will help. Thus, all of u s, vegetarians and meat
eaters alike, are at risk of B 12  deficiency.
A high-fat diet increases this risk substantially, for two reasons. F irst, the colonies of B 12 -producing bacteria in our intestines
utilize carbohydrates for fuel. As the amount of fat in our diets goes up, t he amount of carbohydrate goes down, thus reducing the
quantity of fuel available to the microbe. Less fuel results in a smal ler colony and an overall decrease in B 12  production. Second, the
B12  uptake sites in our intestines become clogged when there is excess fa t in the diet, further reducing B 12  absorption. When
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<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Beat the
Bird Flu Virus
The true story of the coming inﬂuenza pandemic:
how it may infect 30% of the world’s population,
and what you can do to survive the outbreak even if there’s no vaccine.
BY MIKE ADAMS
BY MIKE ADAMS
The Health RangerBeat the
Bird Flu Virus
The true story of the coming inﬂuenza pandemic:
how it may infect 30% of the world’s population,
and what you can do to survive the outbreak even
if there’s no vaccine.
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Beat the Bird Flu Virus
ITable of Contents
The Coming Inﬂuenza Pandemic ............................................................................................................ 1
Conventional Medicine Offers No Real Defense ..................................................................................... 2
Primed for Infectious Disease ................................................................................................................. 3
Take Charge of Your Own Defense ......................................................................................................... 4
The Top Twelve Herbs ............................................................................................................................. 4
One Source Agrees to Manufacture It..................................................................................................... 4
What This Product Can Do ...................................................................................................................... 5
You Can Taste the Potency..................................................................................................................... 6
Don’t Wait Until the Pandemic Strikes to Prepare ................................................................................... 6
Most People Will Wait Until It’s Too Late................................................................................................. 7
The Government Won’t Save You........................................................................................................... 7
Reference ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Summary of Top Items............................................................................................................................. 27
Why the World Isn’t Ready for the Coming Inﬂuenza Pandemic, World Health Organization Warns..... 28
The pandemic can be beat with nutrition ................................................................................................. 29
Get the vaccine if you have access to it.................................................................................................. 30
Start getting healthy right now ................................................................................................................. 30
Flu pandemic could kill one billion people around the world, say experts ............................................... 31
Beat the Bird Flu Virus
1The Coming Inﬂuenza Pandemic
In the fall of 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) held a meeting of scientists, researchers, and
vaccine manufacturing company representatives. In that meeting, the World Health Organization reached some startling conclusions that many people still have not fully grasped. The organization stated that the next global ﬂu pandemic is fast approaching. There is a strong chance it may become an epidemic as soon as next year, and if that happens, literally 30% of the world’s population will become infected with inﬂuenza.
The particular inﬂuenza strain being watched is the H5N1 bird ﬂu virus. Should an outbreak occur, the total
deaths expected around the world, according to the WHO, numbers in the tens of millions of people. Further
-
more, the WHO says that the United States currently has no vaccine to distribute to the population  that
might offer protection from this ﬂu epidemic. In their own words, “...the H5N1 strain has demonstrated its ca -
pacity to infect humans and cause severe disease, with high fatality, on three separate occasions beginning in 1997. The disease in humans has no vaccine to confer protection and no speciﬁc treatment once illness
becomes severe.” Source: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_inﬂuenza/assessment2004_05_14/e n
Even with this clear threat to public safety, the United States currently has no plans to manufacture any vaccine whatsoever. Even if a vaccine theoretically existed, the U.S. doesn’t have a system in place to distribute it to citizens. And waiting for the ﬂu pandemic to appear will undoubtedly be too late. “Vaccines and antiviral agents are unlikely to meet demand, even for industrialized countries able to purchase them,” explains an investigative medical article entitled, The Next Inﬂuenza Pandemic: Lessons from Hong Kong,
1997  by René Snacken, Alan P. Kendal, Lars R. Haaheim, and John M. Wood, published by the Centers for
Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no2/snacken.ht m
It goes on to explain, “Waiting until a pandemic strikes to determine access to [vaccines and medicines] inevitably contributes to inequities in supply for countries lacking facilities to produce antiviral agents or vaccines or lacking resources to competitively purchase supplies at a time of scarcity. The issue of equity
cannot be resolved by individual governments or manufacturers.”
We should have learned that lesson many times over, but still the vaccine problems persist. The winter of
2004 saw a complete breakdown in the U.S. vaccine infrastructure when the winter ﬂu vaccine experienced a severe shortage because the vaccine manufacturer Chiron was found to be producing contaminated
product.
That left the entire country without adequate ﬂu vaccine, creating an instant shortage. Now imagine what
would happen if there were truly a global killer ﬂu, an inﬂuenza virus that mutated and made the cross-spe -
cies leap from birds to humans. Imagine that this virus is spreading around the world from city to city, being carried by travelers in airplanes, and then being spread from person to person in those cities through cough
-
ing, shaking hands, touching doorknobs or just from being in the same elevator with another person.
Beat the Bird Flu Virus
2Now imagine 30% of the United States population getting infected with this ﬂu. The result would be nothing
short of a national crisis. As the World Health Organization explains, “Vaccines, antiviral agents and antibi -
otics to treat secondary infections will be in short supply and will be unequally distributed. It will take several months before any vaccine becomes available.” They also explain, in their own words, that:
• Medical facilities will be overwhelmed.
• Widespread illness may result in sudden and potentially signiﬁcant
shortages of personnel to provide essential community services.
• The effect of inﬂuenza on individual communities will be relatively prolonged
 when compared to other natural disasters, as it is expected that outbreaks will reoccur.
Source: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/inﬂuenza/pandemic/e n
Incredibly, the above description may actually be the good news. A Russian scientist, Dr. Dmitry Lvov, head
of the Ivanovsky Virology Institute, estimates that this particular strain of the ﬂu is so aggressive and deadly that as many as one billion people around the world could die from it. He estimates that in the United
States alone, we could be looking at 700,000 dead. Granted, his estimates may be high, but this man is no stranger to infectious disease. In any case, it does give you an indication of the seriousness of this next
global outbreak.
Conventional Medicine Oﬀers No Real Defense
As I have been discussing these points with a few people, I’ve been met with looks of utter confusion. Peo -
ple tell me things like, “I thought we overcame infectious disease, I thought these ﬂu epidemics were things that just happened in history, they shouldn’t happen today, we have modern medicine...” Unfortunately, they
are dead wrong about conventional medicine.
As the World Health Organization explains on their site, “Although health care has improved in the last de -
cades, epidemiological models from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA project
that today a pandemic is likely to result in 2 to 7.4 million deaths globally. In high income countries alone, accounting for 15% of the worlds population, models project a


 that he does. He has given everything he has to God and says that no one can steal anything from him because he has nothing. If
they take something that God has loaned him to use they have taken it from God.
On one occasion someone questioned him about riding in a Cadil-
lac with a chauffeur. He said, "That's not my Cadillac."
"Whose is it?" he was asked. "How come you are riding in some-
body else's car?"
He said, "It belongs to the Lord. The Lord just lets me use it, and
He also furnished me with a chauffeur."
He frankly says that his Father is so good to him He gives him all
of his needs, and supplies all of hi s wants. He has gotten to the place
now where he is afraid to ask God for anything because he believes that God will give it to him. He relates God is now often giving him things that he did not ask for, did not want, but yet the Lord said to him, "I want you to be the steward of this for me," to which Reams re-160 plied, "Yes, Lord. Show me how. Send me your people and give me
the victory and I will give You the glory."
Mr. Reams fought for his country on foreign shores in World War
II in the South Pacific. He was a Battalion Commander and Major and
was made so on the battlefront, and before it could be confirmed through channels he was in a truck that was blown up. Completely blinded in one eye, he had his helmet shot off of his head from the in-side and a bullet went around the side of his head, shaving off the hair just above his ear. Also a bullet went through his arm. The scar is still there today, it has never healed.
In regard to his instantaneous healing received at the Kathryn
Kuhlman meeting he reports, "Jesus made the biological laws of phys-ics, the laws of health, and He can change them any time He wants to for His glory and He can do it instantaneously, but God has only given me the gift of teaching people how to cleanse the temple. "
He learned how to handle men and designate authority. He says he
is not a business manager but an executive. He makes a distinction be-tween the two. God, he says, "is not a businessman either, because there is no other God for him to do business with. Consequently, He's in the miracle business and He has made us soldiers of the battlefront to do battle for Him. If we are not doing battle for Him, for the Father and the Son, then we may be on the supply line supplying things nec-essary for those who are on the battlefront. God did not call everyone to become soldiers, but he called upon all men to take up their cross
and follow Him." This Reams has done.
Carey Reams is not only a chemist, mathematician but is also a
biophysicist. He deals with chemicals with the expert ease that is as
skilled as a skilled mechanic uses tools. He can read equations and pronounce long chemical words as easily as a first grade teacher can read first-grade books.
Reams loves children very, very much, as well as adults and sen-
ior citizens. Children do not quickly take to him. They seem to be afraid of him because of the word "doctor," but very quickly he puts the child at ease and they become great friends. 161 He is also a farmer and agricultural engineer. He has owned an ag-
ricultural engineering firm, doing the impossible in agriculture all over
the free world. Reams retired in 1968 and had intentions of going into research. He maintained the laboratories, the mineral and research di-vision, and gave the business to the other engineers. His aim when he was a young man was to be a medical doctor, but the great Depression came and he was not able to get into medical college. He then decided to study foods and food chemistry to help prevent people from becom-ing ill. He was surprised that most farmers did not care whether or not their foods made people sick or kept them well. Their remark was, "I do not grow foods to eat. I grow them to sell. "
Carey Reams is a very good musician. He does not sing, but he
plays a number of instruments, including the bassoon, trombone, ac-cordian, baritone, alto horn, french horn, piano and organ. He is not a classical player, but does play well enough to get through a service.
He does not have time enough to stay in practice on any of these in-struments, but is a lover of music.
He is a lover of the great outdoors, and a fisherman. Plus being a
camera enthusiast. He loves to take pictures of landscapes and flow-ers, and has many albums of pictures taken in various parts of the world.
He has owned citrus groves and been highly successful as a
farmer. He knows food processing and makes the statement that much of our prepared foods today (canned and frozen) are 40 years behind of what science has developed for the preparation of higher nutritional foods. In order to prepare a higher nutritional food it must begin be-fore the seeds are planted, or before the trees come into blossom.
Reams is an excellent cook, and does not mind washing the dish-
es. If he is ever a visitor in your home, you will find that he makes his own bed, cleans the tub, keeps his room tidy, and you hardly know he's there. He realizes the heavy load the new mother has and does all in his power to lighten that load. He is more like a member of the fam-ily from the first day, and it seems you have known him forever. He does not seem a stranger, and he does not "put on the dog." 162 He is a very fine public speaker. On one occasion he was asked to
speak in a university in which half of the students didn't want him to
speak, and began to boo. As he stood to speak he waited a number of minutes for the booing to die down and It didn't. Very loudly he said, "Would you like for me to tell you about the time I was caught in bed with another man's wife?" A few in the front rows quieted down. After a second and third repeat of the same question most of the students were sitting on the edge of their seats. Then he said, "An honest con-fession is good for the soul."
He left them in suspense for a bit then said, "You know what that
man said to me?" The audience could hardly wait to hear what the man said to him. "I was five years old and my father said, 'Son, go get in your own bed. Your father is tired from a hard day's work and wishes to go to bed.' " It is remark able the wisdom that God has given
this man.
Carey is a man of great patience but  says the best of saints have
very sharp horns because they don't use them very often.
Horns mean power; power with God and power with man. C. Reams is a pilot of small airc raft. He became a pilot in 1936
and has continued flying until recently when his eyesight is not suffi-cient to either drive a car or to fly a plane without someone with him. He says that when he is flying he is "chicken."
He believes in obeying every rule of aerodynamics and that God
meant what He said when He said, "Tempt not the Lord thy God" (es-pecially when you are in the air flying light aircraft!).
Recently while teaching a class on the Reams Biological Theory
of Ionization he received word that his mother had died.
No one in the class had even suspicioned the message he had re-
ceived, but by the next morning the word was out that his mother had passed away the previous afternoon. Before the class began sympathy was expressed to him. He did not attend the funeral but continued his
Father's business and said, "Let the dead bury the dead." He 'knew his brothers and sisters could take care of it without his being there. He had taken care of his mother for the last few years of her life. After eu-163 logy was expressed in the class he said, "If it were not for Jesus today
I would be an orphan.”
He never shed a tear. The class shed the tears for him. A few days later he received the bill from the funeral home. With
the check he sent a note: "Thank you for delivering my mother to the angels, to be taken to the throne of my Saviour."
He does not perform his religion, he wears it. He thinks it. He breathes it. He talks it. You will not be around him very long
before he will be telling you something about the greatness of God.
Often when he lectures, Reams will say to the audience, "There is
one book on health I highly recommend, please get out your pencil and paper and write the name of th is book because I don't want you to
forget it." He waits for them to get their pencil and paper then says, "This is one book that I have never found to be wrong, and it's abso-lutely accurate. It will work every time, if you will follow the instruc-tions." By this time the audience can  hardly wait for the name of the
book. Then he says, "The name of the book is the Bible."
This man is impartial to race, religion, creed and sex. He treats all
al


 modern diet. Our bodies are not designed to eat grains
in their raw form so grains require us to use our intelligence to predigest the grains through the
process of fermentation and then cooking. In the absence of careful grain preparation including
fermentation, a host of diseases appear.
The famous professor and doctor Edward Mellanby wrote that "oatmeal and grain embryo
interfere most strongly" with the building of healthy teeth. He called the effect of the germ of grains on
teeth "baneful." He also found that a diet high in grain germ or embryo led to nervous system
problems in his dogs such as leg weakness and uncoordinated movements. Dr. Mellanby concluded
that most cereals contain a toxic substance that can affect the nervous system.
4b
 He pointed out the
connection of grains and legumes to pellagra, a niacin deficiency, lathyrism, which is immobility
caused by bean toxins in the lathyrus family such as a certain type of sweet pea, and pernicious
anemia which is related to a vitamin B 12 deficiency. Each one of these diseases is most effectively
treated with animal liver. And each one of these diseases can be produced in laboratory conditions by
feeding whole grains.
The Anti-Scorbutic Vitamin and Your Teeth and Gums
Scurvy was made famous as a common disease among sailors. It occurred after long sea voyages
when sailors had to subsist on dried foods including dried grain products such as hard tack. The
symptoms of scurvy include soft and spongy gums which eventually lead to tooth loss, slow woundhealing, poor bone formation, severe weakness, nausea and eventually death. Gum disease is a major
factor in tooth loss as we age. We learned from dentist W.D. Miller that healthy gums protect teeth
from tooth decay. Since tooth loss from gum disease is a symptom of scurvy, it is feasible that what
causes and cures scurvy might cause and cure gum problems as well.
Researchers were excited to discover an animal model with which to practice scurvy
experiments. Guinea pigs fed a high grain diet developed a condition that appears to be exactly the
same as scurvy in humans.
5b
 To cause scurvy, guinea pigs were fed mostly bran and oats. Another
scurvy-producing diet consisted of whole grains like oats, barley, maize, and soy bean flour. An
exclusive oatmeal diet would kill a guinea pig in 24 days from scurvy. This very same scurvy-
inducing diet produced severe tooth and gum problems in guinea pigs as well.
That whole grains are the cause of scurvy sheds light on the severity of plant toxins found
naturally in grains. Guinea pigs fed germinated oats and barley did not contract scurvy.
6b
 This reveals
that the sprouting process may disable anti-nutrients that cause scurvy. Research on scurvy eventually
led to the discovery of the anti-scorbutic (anti-scurvy) vitamin which we know as vitamin C.
Reintroducing vitamin C in the diet of guinea pigs with raw cabbage (sauerkraut would work for
humans) or orange juice resolves the disease.
Some scurvy researchers suspected that the lack of vitamin C was not the essential cause of
scurvy. Rather they believed that vitamin C protected against some injurious factor in the diet. Since a
scurvy-inducing diet largely consisted of whole grains, perhaps the injurious factor is something in
the grains. Today we know that grains contain numerous plant toxins and anti-nutrients including
lectins and phytic acid.
Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially the bran
portion of grains and other seeds. It is found in significant amounts in grains, nuts, beans, seeds, and
some tubers. Phytic acid contains the mineral phosphorus tightly bound in a snowflake-like molecule.
In humans and animals with one stomach, the phosphorus is not readily bioavailable. In addition to
blocking phosphorus availability, the “arms” of the phytic acid molecule readily bind with other
minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc, making them unavailable as well. Yet the
negative effects of phytic acid can be significantly reduced with vitamin C. Adding vitamin C to the
diet can significantly counteract phytic acid’s iron absorption blocking effect.
7b
 This leaves us with
compelling evidence that the symptoms of scurvy like soft and spongy gums leading to tooth loss are
the result of a lack of vitamin C, and too many grains, or other phytic acid-rich foods. Perhaps vitamin
C’s remarkable ability to heal and prevent scurvy is because of its ability to aid in iron absorption
which was disturbed by too many improperly prepared grains rich in phytic acid.
Giving rats and dogs a scurvy-producing diet did not lead to scurvy, it led to another disease,
rickets. Rickets is a disease that is known for producing severely bowed legs in children. Other
rickets symptoms include muscle weakness, bone pain or tenderness, skeletal problems and tooth
decay. To produce rickets in the laboratory, dogs were fed oatmeal. Professor Edward Mellanby
describes his findings of decades of research:
[M]ore severe rickets developed when the diet consisted mainly of oatmeal,maize or whole
wheat flour than when these substances were replaced by equalamounts of either white
flour or rice, in spite of the fact that the former cerealscontained more calcium and
phosphorus than the latter.
8b
The most severe rickets-producing diet was a mostly whole grain diet which included whole
wheat, whole corn, and wheat gluten.
9b
 Rickets has been identified as a disease of calcium,phosphorous and vitamin D metabolism.
10b
 In one study, hospital cases of rickets fell greatly in
June.
11b
 As previously mentioned, Activator X-rich butter was shown to prevent rickets. This is
because Activator X would appear in high quantities in June grass-fed butter. Germination of oats
itself did not reduce the rickets- producing effect of whole oats. But germination together with
fermentation of whole grains greatly reduced the severity of rickets.
12b
 On the rickets-producing diet,
teeth become abnormal. There is a known impairment of the ability for teeth to mineralize that is
associated with rickets. In rare cases of rickets, some children’s teeth do not erupt. Rickets is cured
or prevented by having adequate fat-soluble vitamin D in the diet. This is because vitamin D
increases the utilization of phosphorous and calcium in diets with phytic acid, and without phytic
acid.
Scurvy and rickets are both produced in laboratory experiments in different animals using a diet
consisting largely of whole grains. The connection between scurvy and rickets is not a random
coincidence; it has also been observed in humans. Dr. Thomas Barlow of England carefully studied
rickets cases in children, and published a report in 1883 suggesting that scurvy and rickets are closely
related.
13b
 Infantile scurvy is also known as Barlow’s Disease. Both scurvy and rickets are connected
to serious problems with teeth and/or gums. It seems both possible and reasonable that whole grains
can cause scurvy in the absence of vitamin C, and rickets in the absence of vitamin D.
Scurvy still occurs in modern times, and the cause is still the same. In one previously healthy
individual, strictly following a macrobiotic diet nearly caused death from scurvy within one year. Her
diet consisted mostly of whole brown rice and other freshly ground whole grains.
14b
The Effect of Oats on Children’s Teeth
It is not just in animal experiments that teeth disintegrate from consumption of whole grains. Dr.
May Mellanby published several articles in the prestigious
British Medical Journal
 about food and
tooth decay from 1924-1932. Multiple investigations were done to show the effect of oatmeal and fat-
soluble vitamins on children’s teeth. The children studied already had numerous cavities. A grain-
free diet high in fat-soluble vitamins A and D from cod liver oil produced the best results, with
essentially no new cavities forming. These grain-free children also showed signs of their decayed
teeth remineralizing. The tooth-healing diet included milk, meat, eggs, butter, potatoes and cod liver
oil.
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By accident medical doctor J.D. Boyd healed diabetic children’s decayed teeth by designing a
grain-free diet. The diet meant to control diabetes not only stopped cavities it turned soft tooth enamel
hard and glossy. These findings were published in 1928 in the
Journal of the American Medical
Association
. Dr. Boyd’s diet consisted of milk, cream, butter, eggs, meat, cod liver oil, vegetables
and fruit. Please note that both Dr. Mellanby’s and Dr. Boyd’s tooth-remineralizing diet came from a
time when milk, butter and cream were raw, farm-fresh and grass-fed.
Meanwhile in two other feeding experiments by Dr. Mellanby a low fat-soluble vitamin A and D
diet with the addition of ½ to 1 cup of oatmeal per day produced an average of six new cavities per
child during the trial period. Their preexisting cavities did not heal in any way. A diet with less
oatmeal and some fat-soluble vitamins produced an average of four and a half new cav


 massive neurodegeneration and stop communication between neurons, thus leading to loss of cognitive function and eventually dementia.
However, a conceptual shift in our understanding of dementia came in 1993, when
de la Torre and Mussivand
241 proposed that sporadic AD was a vascular disorder with
neurodegenerative consequences rather than vice versa. This proposal was supported by strong epidemiological, pathological, pharmacotherapeutic, and neuroimaging data, which collectively explained how the metabolic, inflammatory, hemodynamic, and physiopathological events seen to develop preclinically in AD are associated with a cerebral energy crisis secondary to chronic brain hypoperfusion. Reduced blood flow to the brain appears to result from the presence of one or more of two dozen described vascular risk factors.
242 These risk factors include atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, car -
diovascular disease, diabetes type 2, and stroke, all which commonly affect elderly individuals who are more vulnerable to damage from these conditions during advanced aging.
243
It is not surprising that many animal models have been created to study this dev -
astating dementia. The animal models used mainly serve to test and screen potential pharmacotherapy aimed at arresting, slowing, or reversing the pathological process
that begins at the onset of AD. Models of AD include transgenic mice that produce
abnormally high levels of Abeta peptides,
244,245 animals whose cholinergic system
can be manipulated,246 animals with induced amnesia,247 knockout mice for tau,248
animals with lesions of  me mory-related sites,249 and even the nematode C. elegans.250179 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
A rat dementia model was developed251 and used to study the ability of DMSO
combined with the glycolytic intermediate FDP.252,253
This model was unique in the sense that most other models previously used
induced brain ischemia by lesioning the brain with cytotoxic chemicals, cold freez -
ing, or focal electrolytic lesions. Temporary or transient bilateral common carotid
artery occlusion (2-vessel occlusion [2-VO]) did not injure the brain directly, allow -
ing instead a process where chronic brain hypoperfusion and its effect in producing memory impairment take place. This pathologic and progressive process mimics severe human carotid artery stenosis or occlusion, which over a protracted period of time results in mild cognitive impairment, the preclinical precursor of AD.
254,255
Older rats 14  months old were subjected to either permanent bilateral carotid
artery occlusion (2-VO) ( Figure 8.11) or sham occlusion where surgery but no occlu -
sion was done. Following surgical recovery, rats were tested for visuospatial memory function every 2 weeks for a total of six sessions.
252 On week 14 postsurgery, four
rats from the 2-VO group who in previous trials had shown persistent and severe visuospatial memory impairment were selected to receive DMSO + FDP pharmaco -
therapy. These four rats were given once a day, a combined 28% solution composed of DMSO–FDP (250:130 mg/kg) intraperitoneally for seven consecutive days.
Nontreated 2-VO rats that only showed moderate visuospatial memory deficits
and sham controls that had no memory impairment were given an equivalent volume of the vehicle, dextrose 5% intraperitoneally for 7 days. On week 15, after 7 days of daily treatments, all rats were retested in a water maze for memory function. Following this testing session, all treatments were discontinued for an additional
Carotid ar teryCarotid ar tery
2-Vessel occlusion
Mild co gnitive impairment model
FIGURE 8.11  (See color insert.)  Permanent occlusion of both common carotid arteries
(2-VO) in 14-month old rats. After 1 to 14 weeks, mild cognitive impairment characterized by progressive visuospatial memory impairment is observed that can be quantified and reversed with DMSO treatment. (From de la Torre, J.C. et al., Brain Res., 779, 285, 1998.)180 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
3 weeks and rats were tested again in the water maze on weeks 16 and 18.252 The
results showed that after 14 weeks of 2-VO, rats given DMSO + FDP had a 54%
improvement in their visuospatial memory task, which nearly reached controls who had no carotid artery occlusion ( Figure 8.12). Moreover, when treatment of DMSO +
FDP was discontinued, the marked memory improvement seen on weeks 15 and 16 regressed to almost pretreatment level
252 (Figure 8.12).
Postmortem microscopic and densitometric analysis of brain sections stained for
neurons and axonal fibers showed only mild loss of hippocampal neurons in rats with 2-VO regardless of treatment, and an increase in glial density was observed only in untreated 2-VO animals.
252
The results of this study imply that DMSO + FDP is an effective treatment for
improving severe ischemic-induced visuospatial memory impairment in aging rats. The effect of DMSO + FDP on visuospatial memory improvement and its partial loss after discontinuation of therapy on week 16 is suggestive of a drug cause and effect. It also suggests that in order to maintain memory improvement during induced brain ischemia, this drug combination must be maintained. Studies have suggested that
from 2 to 3 years before clinical dementia symptoms begin at a stage called mild
cognitive impairment, there are already changes occurring in patients’ slowdown of visuospatial skills involving speeded tasks that require coordination of eye and visual representation needed for normal short-term memory function.
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Weeks of tria lDMSO–FDP in ischemic memory loss
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FIGURE 8.12  Old rats subjected to permanent bilateral carotid artery occlusion (2-VO)
for 14 weeks. Rats with severest rate of visuospatial memory impairment selected by high -
est platform location latency (PLL) were given DMSO-FDP (triangles) for 7 days on weeks
14 and 15. Significant (54%) improvement is seen in PLL after DMSO-FDP as compared to untreated 2-VO in reference to non occlusion rats. Following discontinuation of DMSO-FDP on weeks 16–18, gained memory improvement is partially lost. Untreated rats with 2-VO (circles) show unchanging moderate rate of visuospatial memory impairment, while rats with no 2-VO (squares) show no memory deficits throughout the 18 weeks of trials. Bars are ±
SEM. See text for details. (Adapted from de la Torre, J.C. et al., Brain Res., 779, 285, 1998.)181 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
Since visuospatial memory deficit is one of the earliest signs of impending AD
during the mild cognitive impairment stage,257 DMSO + FDP may have interven -
tional value in preventing irreversible memory impairment in patients at high risk of
developing AD.
Confirmation of DMSO-FDP study was reported using the brain hypoperfusion
model of bilateral carotid artery occlusion (2-VO) to test DMSO without FDP in rats.256
DMSO at doses of 0.25 mL administered intraperitoneally for 5 consecutive days 11 weeks following 2-VO was seen to improve spatial memory learning as compared to nontreated 2-VO animals whose memory capacity was markedly worse.
258 In addition,
microscopic examination of rat brains showed that 2-VO without postoperative treat -
ment induced hippocampal and cortical neuronal loss in nontreated animals, but it was observed that in DMSO-treated rats, this loss of neurons was significantly reduced.
258
An interesting study using Lurcher mice was recently reported by Markvartova
and her colleagues.259 Lurcher mutant mice represent one of the frequently used
mouse models of olivocerebellar degeneration. It is caused by a mutation in the δ2
glutamate receptor subunit encoding gene.260
Lurcher mice suffer from almost complete degeneration of cerebellar Purkinje
cells after birth and develop decreased density of granule, stellate, inferior olivary neurons, and basket cells but mild changes in deep cerebellar nuclei.
261
With almost total disruption of cerebellocortical signal processing, loss of
Purkinje cells makes walking progressively more difficult for heterozygous Lurchers and clearly abnormal by 30 days postnatally. Homozygous Lurchers die at birth.
Another characteristic of Lurcher mice is the link between cerebellar pathology
and a physical activity that can influence the long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampal region.
LTP is widely considered one of the major cellular mechanisms that underlie
learning and memory.
262
In this setting, DMSO was found to attenuate the age-related deterioration of some
cognitive functions, including spatial learning abilities in 21-day-old treated Lurcher mice.