	in	the	material	world	is	finite,	you
realize	how	amazing	it	is	just	to	be	able	to	make	a	phone	call. As	my	friend
Sarah	often	says,	“Time’s	a-wastin’. ”	Isn’t	that	the	truth. We	presume	on	things	we	have	no	idea	are	so	fleeting. When	we’re	young,
we	don’t	know—except	intellectually,	and	even	then	we	don’t	really	believe	it
—that	we	won’t	always	have	endless	energy	or	glow. When	age	forces	us	to
see	how	much	is	now	gone,	we	are	shocked	and	hurt	to	realize	all	the	things
that	are	over	and	will	not	come	again. But	then	something	happens	when	the	shock	wears	off	…	something	subtle
yet	immense. What	happens	is	counter	to	the	thinking	of	the	world. We’d
always	seen	older	people	at	dinner	or	at	the	theater,	and	we	looked	down	on
their	diminished	lives	with	pity. What	we	failed	to	realize—how	could	we
then. —	was	that	many	of	these	men	and	women	were	existing	in	a	parallel
universe	where	they	looked	at
us
	as	the	pitiable	ones,	having	not	yet	realized
what	life	was	about	or	even	really	for. They	were	having,	perhaps,	more	fun
than	we	knew. They	were	seeing,	perhaps,	what	we	had	not	yet	seen. What
has	happened	now	is	that	we’ve	entered	their	room. And	it	isn’t	what	we	had
expected. It’s	whatever	we
want
	it	to	be. Dear	God,
As	I	age,
make	me	ever	more
the	person	You	would	have	me	be. For	I	would	know	the	joy	of	life
before	my	days	are	done. Amen
I
INTERVIEWED	A	WOMAN	ON	MY	RADIO	SHOW
	who’d	had	lupus	for	two	decades;	had
been	married	to	a	man	for	many	years	who	told	her	on	Christmas	Eve,	while
she	was	wrapping	her	small	children’s	presents,	that	he	didn’t	want	to	bemarried	anymore;	had	lost	one	of	her	children	suddenly	in	a	violent	accident;
and	is	now	married	to	a	practicing	alcoholic. I	felt	such	admiration	for	her	that
she	simply	wakes	up	each	morning	to	face	another	day. Any	one	of	those
things	might	have	knocked	me	out	for	years. I	don’t	know	what	it	is	that	keeps	us	coming	back	up. When	I	think	of	what
people	have	experienced—from	Auschwitz	to	Rwanda	to	Iraq	to	everyday
Americans	just	trying	to	survive—I	can	hardly	stand	it. Sometimes	I	think
that	the	oceans	are	a	material	manifestation	of	humanity’s	tears. Clearly	there
is	some	tenacity,	some	deeper	longing	to	keep	keeping	on,	that	lies	at	the
heart	of	the	human	experience. I	don’t	think	we	cleave	to	life	for	no	other
reason	than	that	we’re	afraid	of	death. I	think	we	cleave	to	life	out	of	a	deeper
knowing	that	there	is	something	about	it	that	has	not	happened	yet. Like
salmon	rushing	upstream,	we	instinctively	know	that	we	are	here	to	continue
the	process	of	life. That	we
are
	the	process	of	life. And	as	such,	we’re	here	to
contribute	to	a	larger	drama	than	our	individual	selves	could	ever	fathom,
much	less	describe. At	the	end	of	Stanley	Kubrick’s	movie	masterpiece
2001:	A	Space	Odyssey,
an	infant	is	seen	floating	through	outer	space. Surely	that	is	the	ultimate	goal
here:	the	birth	of	a	new	humanity. Yet	if	that	child	is	to	be	born,	someone
needs	to	parent	it—and	that	means	you	and	me. Conceived	in	our	minds	and
hearts,	it	will	be	breast-fed	by	our	compassionate	action. And	this	new
delightful	and	delighted	being	is	gestating	inside	us	all. Wars	and	rumors	of
war	abound,	that	is	true. But	people	continue	to	fall	in	love. People	continue
to	atone	for	their	mistakes. People	continue	to	forgive	and	to	ask	for
forgiveness. And	people	continue	to	hope	and	pray. The	point,	when	staring
death	in	the	face,	is	to	proclaim	more	life. And	we	are	doing	that. I	believe	in	a	compassionate	God,	for	Whom	it	takes	only	one	moment’s
epiphany,	one	moment’s	prayer,	one	moment’s	genuine	and	humble	desire	to
do	right	by	love	to	inspire	His	intervention	in	the	irresponsible	drama	of	a
reckless	humanity. As	we	look	not	back	nor	forward,	but	deep	within,	we	see
a	light	that	is	greater	than	the	darkness	of	the	world,	a	hope	that	surpasses	the
understanding	of	the	world,	and	a	love	that	is	greater	than	the	hatred	in	the
world. Seeing	that	light,	we	shall	follow	that	light	through	the	birth	canal	toward
humanity’s	rebirth. While	our	labor	is	long	and	in	some	ways	hard,	we	are
being	born	to	something	huge	and	precious. We	are	being	born	to	our	own
true	selves. And	we	will	never	settle,	ever	again,	for	being	less	than	we	truly
are. Dear	God,
May	love	prevail. Amen
A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS
There’s	usually	only	one	name	on	the	cover,	but	most	every	book	is	in	some
way	a	collective	effort. Never	was	that	more	true	for	me	than	in	writing	this
one. My	deepest	thanks	to:
Maya	Labos,	for	starting	the	ball	rolling	that	would	bring	me	to	Hay	House. While	not	a	literal	homecoming,	it’s	a	homecoming	nevertheless. Reid	Tracy,	for	offering	me	a	home. Louise	Hay,	for	being	so	hot	and	happening	at	80. Shannon	Littrell,	for	generous	and	insightful	help	with	the	manuscript. Jill	Kramer,	Amy	Rose	Grigoriou,	Courtney	Pavone,	Jacqui	Clark,
Margarete	Nielsen,	and	Jeannie	Liberati	at	Hay	House—for	a	profound	blend
of	excellence	and	kindness. Wendy	Carlton,	for	the	wonderful,	tough	editing	that	both	teaches	and
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 on the physical plane. It
is helpful to understand the power of mind over body
and that what is held in mind creates the body's being
what it is, rather than the other way around. It is necessary to reverse the conventional, so
called 'common sense' of the left-brain logic that says
it is the body that creates the mind. Instead, we have
to look at the opposite, which is that what is held in
mind manifests within the body. Our thoughts and
beliefs about weight, activity, calories, and all the phec
nomena surrounding this have been affecting our
weight. For example, the following· is known from
cases of patients with multiple personalities. One
personality appears in the patient and takes over the
consciousness named Richard, who does not have any
eating or weight problems at all. In fact, he eats very
little, is spry and active, and while Richard is in the
body, the person is loses weight and becomes slim. Then the person goes into a trance state or
becomes intoxicated, and William comes into the
body.Williamloves to eat,gorging himselfonallkit;lds
of things, and the body's weight suddenly increases
dramatically. Now we can see that the response of the
body is therefore to the mind-the mindset, the 333 LOSING WEIGHT
mind's belief and attitude, and the way the person
holds the relationship to their body in their mind. It is
the mind that sets the appestat. It is using conscious
ness techniques within the mind that release the
weight problems, and one can let go of the weight
almost automatically. We will review the nature of consciousness itself
and the relationship between body, mind, and spirit,
with spirit being the energy field of consciousness
that is all pervasive throughout life itself. It is impor
tant to understand that the body has no capacity to
experience itself. At first this seems amazing because
most of us, unless we are enlightened, assume that we
are the physical body. We must realize that the body
has no way to experience itself.The arm cannot expe
rience the arm nor can the leg experience the leg. Instead, they have to be experienced in something
greater than themselves. We experience the body via
the senses, which tell us what is going on within it.As
the senses of the body have no capacity to experi
ence themselves, they have to be experienced in
something greater than what they are, which is in
mind itself, so the mind is the place where the sensa
tions in the body are experienced. Mind itself is incapable of experiencing itself. A
thought cannot experience its own thoughtness, nor
can a memory experience its own memoryness.A fan
tasy of the future cannot experience itself, nor can an
emotion experience itself. What goes on in the mind
has to be experienced in something that is greater
than the mind, that is, in consciousness itself.There is
the body's experience via sensation. Sensation is 334 HEALING AND RECOVERY
experienced in the mind, and the mind is experi
enced in consciousness. This can be seen very easily,
for example, when something happens to a portion of
the brain, and the person is unable to experience the
opposite side of the body. Without mind, the body cannot be experienced. The whole pOint of anesthesia illustrates that without
consciousness, one is not aware ofwhat is going on in
mind. If consciousness is deleted via the anesthetic,
there is no knowledge of the experience that is going
on in either mind or body, so consciousness is higher
than both of them.There is a state beyond conscious
ness itself that is still, unmoving, and allows us to be
aware ofwhat is going on in consciousness; it is called
the state of awareness. The state of awareness is an
aspect of the greater, powerful energy field behind
consciousness, which is the energy of life itself. This
is necessary to know in order to become aware of
where all experience takes place. All human experience is taking place within con
sciousness itself. Consequently, we cannot experience
the wall, the floor, or someone else. Instead, what we
experience is within our own consciousness of the
wall, the floor, or another person.This gives an under
standing of an area in which we can work that is less
restricted by commonly held belief systems. If the entire weight problem is a phenomenon
occurring within consciousness, then consciousness
is more powerful than the mind, which is more pow
erful than the senses, which are more powerful than
the body; therefore, we can bring about a shift in the
body by merely addressing that consciousness. Ifwe 335 LOSING WEIGHT
address the problem there, because the body will only
do what is held in mind, then we really do not have to
bother much with the body; it will just automatically
correct itself because the problem is really a problem
within the experience within consciousness itself. The techniques we use have to do with the mind
and consciousness, so we do not have to be very con
cerned with handling the body as such.The body is an
effect ofwhat happens in the mind. Consequently, the
attempts to solve the weight problem, which are
addressed to the body only, are notoriously unsuccessful. Nearly every month, there are headlines on endless
magazine covers and in newspapers that are selling a
new diet. This lets us know that diets do not work. When there are multiple solutions to a problem and
endless articles on the same phenomenon, it is obvi
ous they do not have the answer. If there were an
answer to the weight problem, there would not be
any articles on diets at all because everyone would
have handled it. Addressing it on the physical level
alone just does not work. It also does not work for any
other problems that involve complicated human
behavior. Problems such as alcoholism and many illnesses,
including duodenal ulcers and diverticulitis, are noto
riously nonresponsive to being addressed on the
physical level only.We have to become more sophisti
cated and conscious to bring about a resolution of
long-standing behavioral problems. The technique, which I used personally to lose
thirty percent of my body weight (ftfty pounds) some
years ago, enabled me to reach my desired weight. It 336 HEALING AND RECOVERY
only takes a matter of minutes over a day or two-col
lectively, about only sixty to ninety minutes of a per
son's time and attention. You can actually do this
while you are going about your daily activities at
home or in the office, and even while driving back
and forth to work. Itworks right into your life and eas
ily fits into your daily routine.You do not have to stop
your life in order to use this technique. In order for
something to be effective, it has to fit in with your life
pattern. We found that any behavioral modification
technique works if it fits in with a person's daily life. If you have to change your whole lifestyle, the results
are then usually temporary. With this technique, when the sensation arises
that you had previously called hunger, you ignore the
thoughts that go with this, especially canceling that
thought of hunger. Instead, you go right into the sen
sation, directly into the inner experience of what you
are actually experiencing. You go to where you are
experiencing it without labeling it, naming it, or call
ing it anything. You just experience it and begin to let
go of resisting those sensations. You silently go into
consciousness itself, into the inner experience of
what you are experiencing, and let go of resisting it. In the beginning we are so controlled by the
Pavlovian conditioning that the minute we feel the
sensation, we label it 'hunger'. Our behavior goes into
immediate action to satisfy it. Like Pavlov's dog that
salivated every time the bell rang, we have set up a
conditioned reflex that we now want to unset. How
can we unset it, how long does this take, and how
much effort is required? 337 LOSING WEIGHT
Actually it takes very little effort and very little
time. When we get this sensation, which was labeled
as 'hungry' in the past (I'm 'hungry' now), we let go of
labeling and resisting the sensation itself. We just
agree and are willing to be with the sensation but to
do nothing about it.We let the experience run within
us and are willing to be with that inner experience or
sensation of whatever it is. Some people may sense it
in the stomach, and some may sense it as sort of a
physical weakness. Whatever sensation is felt, we stop
talking about it in our minds; we stop languaging it
and giving it a label. Instead, we go into the inner
experience and let go of resisting it. In letting go of
the resistance, we can move up to a higher level, ifwe
are willing to choose it, and say to ourselves, "I want
more of whatever that is." The reason for that and the way it becomes
acceptable is because there is a limited amount of the
sensation that comes up. The mind thinks, "If I don't
satisfy this, I'm going to have this hungry feeling con
tinuously:' That is not so because the feeling results
from resisting it


 system is boosted or weakened, switched on or off; and that quality, in turn, depends
on our emotions, prevailing mood, beliefs and self-image.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 166Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comA positive, hopeful, determined attitude strengthens immune competence, while despair,
negativity and fear weaken it. A traumatic event or lasting depression can overwhelm our cells
and disturb their normal functioning. In that light our every thought and feeling can be seen
as a biochemical happening. According to neuroscientist Dr. Candace Pert 2, co-discoverer of
endorphins,  “Cells are conscious beings that communicate with each other, affecting our emotions
and choices.” It is equally true that our emotions and beliefs af fect the activity of our cells. Fear Is The Enemy
As a recovered Gerson patient and practicing psychotherapist myself, I know the devastating
emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis. It is a major trauma, which evokes powerful emotions:
panic, shock, rage—or hopeless resignation and numbing despair. To make things worse, there
is also a sense of isolation, as if having cancer excluded one from the rest of humanity and from
normal everyday life. But the overriding and overwhelming feeling is fear. I know this profound
fear from my own experience, and that of the many patients I have worked with over the past 23
years. Although there are many other life-threatening diseases, probably none of them is able to
induce the same abject, debilitating fear as cancer. There are good reasons for this. One is the growing incidence of the disease. Most people
know someone who has died of cancer after much suffering, having endured drastic treatments
with horrendous side effects but no hope of a cure. To find oneself suddenly confronted with
the same fate is truly terrifying for all those who see a cancer diagnosis as an automatic death
sentence. Then there is a non-rational fear, too, that interprets cancer as an intruder, an evil alien
that has breached our defenses, is growing and spreading beyond our control and will eventually
kill us. Panic-stricken patients are in no state to realize that tumors don’t come from outer space
but from their own malfunctioning organisms, where ‘law and order’ on the cellular level has
broken down. The shock of the diagnosis is usually made worse by the average physician’s way of
announcing it. Doctors are not trained in the art of communication. They hate to give bad news
and protect themselves by becoming withdrawn, remote and cold, at the precise moment when
the sick person would most need human warmth and support. If the patient then spends time in an
average hospital, the sense of dependence, loss of autonomy and privacy will make the prospects
look even bleaker. The patient becomes a passive sufferer, with no say in what is being done to
him or her. In the telling phrase of the brilliant thinker and author, the late Ivan Illich, “Modern
medicine turns the patient into a limp and mystified voyeur in the grip of bio-engineers.”3
 These observations apply to cancer patients diagnosed and treated in a conventional medical
framework. But as almost all patients come to the Gerson Therapy after that system had failed
them, it is important to recognize their depressed or scared state and do something about it at once. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 167Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comOrdinary human empathy and caring demand that we try to dispel their fear and hopelessness. Just as importantly, in the light of PNI’s findings there are sound medical reasons for urgently
relieving the patients from their huge emotional burden and steer their negative orientation
towards a positive outlook. “No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul,” wrote
the Greek philosopher Plato nearly 2,400 years ago—a powerful endorsement of the body-mind
link in healing from an unimaginably remote past. If something deep down in the patient’s inner world does not want to live, even the tried
and tested Gerson program cannot do its best. That something may have nothing to do with the
cancer diagnosis. It could be an almost forgotten early emotional wound, a severe loss, a deep
resentment, or some unfinished business with a loved or hated person. Or else we may be dealing
with someone who conforms to the so-called ‘cancer-prone personality,’ as defined by Lawrence
LeShan4, pioneer researcher of the body-mind link in malignant disease.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        However, if this extra effort brings
on new symptoms or excessive fatigue, outside help must be brought in. Some people, particularly
the breadwinner, are able to return at first to part-time work, later to a regular job. There is just
one important condition: the patient must never eat lunch in a restaurant. He/she needs to eat the
usual Gerson lunch at home, together with the freshly made green juice (which cannot be taken
along to work), and also have some rest plus the midday enema. The carrot/apple juices can be
taken to work in the morning, in a glass-lined thermos flask; another thermos full of juice needs
to be ready for the patient to drink during the afternoon. Then on returning home the balance of
the green juices can be taken, along with the missing enemas and followed by  rest. This arrangement only works if there is a person at home able to prepare all the Therapy Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author. Page 145Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www. thegersonway. comitems needed by the patient. The Trouble With Sunshine
Sunshine can be a source of good health; it can also be a killer. The difference lies in the degree
of exposure we choose. The human body needs Vitamin D, which helps to maintain several organ
systems and is essential for forming and maintaining healthy bones. However, very few foods are
naturally rich in Vitamin D (some commercial foods are fortified with synthetic versions of the
substance), so we need the Vitamin D, which is produced in our skin exposed to sunlight. The trouble is that the ultra-violet (UV) rays contained in sunlight can cause severe damage
to cells. This partly explains why the widespread fashion for deep tanning has been accompanied
by the doubling of skin cancer cases in the last few decades. Even those who don’t lie for hours
practically naked on a sunny beach but have an outdoor job may develop skin cancer, since 30-
50% of UV rays reach us even on a cloudy day. All this means that Gerson patients must take great care to avoid sunburn, which causes
immediate harm in the form of blisters, reddening and discomfort, but can also produce long-term
damage, with dry, wrinkled skin as its mildest, and melanoma as its worst effect. The first rule
is to keep out of sunshine between 10 a. m. and 3 p.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: How long will I have to do the therapy? How long until the tumor is gone? How long until,
A:
Q: With all the enemas being used in the course of the two years on the therapy, will I,
A:
Q: Since this therapy bans animal products, where do I get my protein? A: It is a mistake to believe that all protein is of animal origin. On the contrary. Most vegetables,
A:
Q: What is the most important condition for a patient to follow when returning to work?,
A: The patient must never eat lunch in a restaurant.
Q: Why is it not recommended to use commercially available sunscreens?,
A: Because they contain a toxic chemical called Octyl methoxycinnamate (OMC) which is toxic and doubles its toxicity when exposed to sunlight.
Q: Can patients use supplements or vitamins?,
A: No, because they are poorly absorbed and can be harmful.
Q: Can a patient start exercising immediately after starting the Gerson Therapy?,
A: No, they should start with short walks and gradually increase the duration and intensity of their exercises.
Q: Why are patients advised not to return to their normal diet after being cured?,
A: Because it is important to ensure that the body's defenses are fully restored before reintroducing foods that may have contributed to the development of their disease in the first place.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>LeShan, also known as
‘the father of psycho-oncology,’ has observed over several decades that certain personality traits
seemed to pre-dispose some people to cancer. These traits include low self-esteem, difficulty
in expressing anger or aggression, an urge to please others and ignore their own feelings and
needs, and inhibited emotions. The true self of such people has been banished behind a false self,
probably developed quite early in life to ensure parental approval, and maintained in adulthood,
too, when it was no longer necessary. Of course this personality profile does not apply to all cancer patients, although in my work
with sufferers I have often come across similar character traits. Together or separately they suggest
a dispiritingly


 of the mucus
and/or poisons. The immune system becomes suppressed and overworked as
it battles this tremendous insult to the body. Remember: what you don’t
eliminate, you accumulate. This eventually leads to chronic and degenerative
issues, not to mention simple boils or tumor masses. Many people eat predominantly acid foods. Consequently, notice how
many types of inflammation (itis’s), ulcerations, congestive disorders, and of
course cancers dominate our world today. Because of the high nitrogen or
phosphorus content of these foods, we lose our calcium and other
electrolytes, as our body uses these alkaline minerals to buffer acid elements. It is best to only have 10-20 percent of acid foods in your diet. Alkaline
foods should especially be eaten in the spring, summer and fall when
temperatures are warmer. In the cold alkaline winter, one should increase acid
foods somewhat. Remember, opposites attract, creating harmony. When it’s
hot (acid) outside, you need to consume cold (alkaline) foods, and vice versa. You may wish to look ahead at the Alkaline/ Acid Food Chart now (see
Chapter 7
,
Module 7. 2
). This chart will help you to know which foods are
which. This section also explains how the alkaline or acid nature of foods is
determined. Remember, because homo sapiens are an alkaline species, our
bodies are biologically suited for predominately alkaline-forming foods. These foods will bring health and vitality, whereas acid-forming foods will
bring disease and despair. The choice is yours.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What are the potential side effects of a sudden change to a diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables?,
A: The text warns that this can lead to extreme cleansing symptoms, such as multiple abscesses, tumor-like swellings, and skin oozing pus.
Q: What is the recommended approach to detoxification for individuals with chronic and degenerative cases?,
A: The text advises against water fasting for these individuals, as it can lead to severe reactions.
Q: What is the purpose of the body's natural detoxification process?,
A: The body is designed to eliminate toxins and restore vitality, and it will do so by any means necessary, including eliminating weak tissue.
Q: What should you do if you experience a high fever during detoxification?,
A: The text recommends drinking plenty of water, fresh fruit juices, and applying cold compresses to the body to help cool down.
Q: What is the recommended approach to breaking a fast?,
A: The text advises to break a fast by eating only fruits for a few days, and then gradually introducing vegetables, to allow for a slower and generally easier cleansing process.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Many of these foods inflame and weaken their structure. Some foods act like
glue and actually adhere to its walls. Many other foods are so abrasive that
they cause excessive mucus to be produced from the intestinal walls to protect
itself. This mucus is stored along the bowel walls and interstitially in its
structure. All of the above affect your GI tract’s ability to digest food and
absorb nutrition. Your GI tract also plays a valuable role with the lymphatic system. The
lymphatic system is your sewer system. It must have a way to eliminate
wastes from the body. The kidneys, GI tract and the skin are its main avenues
for this purpose. When the skin, kidneys, and especially the colon become
impacted or obstructed, the lymphatic system becomes backed up. You can
imagine what would happen in your home if your septic tank became
blocked. The wastes from your toilet would back up and spill over. Most
people would leave their house at this point. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves of the autonomic nervous
system control your digestive tract through the neurotransmitters produced
from the adrenal glands. Weak adrenal glands can cause nerve weakness,
causing constipation. Many overlook this relationship that the adrenal glands
have to both nerve weakness
(which can cause constipation) and their steroid
production in response to inflammation. It always pays to strengthen your
adrenal glands at the same time that you are regenerating your GI tract. The importance of keeping your intestinal tract clean and healthy cannot
be overstated. Remember that this is your main canal of digestion, which is
where the breakdown of your foods into fuels and building materials takes
place. After your food is digested, it is then absorbed through the lining of
the intestines through the villa. Absorption of the nutrients from the foods
you eat is just as essential as the digestive process. The billions of cells that
comprise the body depend upon the absorption from the bowels for their
nutrition. As previously stated, proper nutrition can be blocked from the cells
by retained waste in the colon. This leads to a toxic buildup and the
accumulation of a gluey substance throughout the intestines called “mucoid
plaque.” This plaque causes inflammation and the breakdown of the tissues of
the intestinal walls. Mucoid plaque is mostly a by-product of refined starches, sugars anddairy products. When the walls of the intestines are coated with layers of
sticky plaque, the nutrients the body needs to properly function and perform
to its highest potential cannot be absorbed. In addition, the sticky mucoid
plaque is a breeding ground for parasitic infestation. These destructive
parasites consume any remaining nutrients left in the GI tract. We require certain intestinal parasites (known as intestinal flora) for
positive and beneficial breakdown of various by-products of digestion. A
great example of this is B-vitamins, which are created by intestinal flora
action upon starches. Generally your intestines are colonized by nonharmful
organisms which aid digestion and the breakdown of foodstuffs into other
nutrients. However, there are many destructive parasites that can flourish in
the intestines. This is especially true in the case of meat consumption, which
can perpetrate the formation and growth of all types of worms (pin, hook,
tape, etc.) and proteolytic (protein-splitting) microorganisms. It is important
to clean the intestinal walls and heal the inflammation at the same time that the
elimination of toxic substances is taking place. A healthy diet will create a bowel movement approximately thirty
minutes after you eat. It is important to move your bowels two-to-three times
per day. If your bowels become sluggish, this will cause additional
fermentation and putrefaction of your foods. We absorb these toxins and gas
particles directly into our blood stream. This can cause headaches, cloudy or
foggy thinking, bloating, abdominal pain, and even heart arrhythmias. I’ve
known people to go thirty days without moving their bowels. Don’t miss
even one day! Diarrhea is just as bad as constipation— moving your foods too quickly
through the GI tract is just as bad as holding your foods too long. Some say
diarrhea is just another form of constipation. The former creates lack of
proper breakdown of your foods, yielding poor absorption; and the latter
causes fermentation and putrefaction of your foods yielding alcohol, acidosis,
gas and inflammation. Both create starvation within the body. FOUR WAYS TO CLEANSE THE BOWELS

Herbal Bowel Formulas
A good bowel formula (a preparation of herbs that you take on a daily basisduring your cleanse) will help break down mucoid plaque, kill only the
destructive parasites, remove the inflammation and strengthen intestinal walls. When I designed my stomach and bowel formulas, I wanted ones that
would gently move you. A formula that would be anti-inflammatory
(removing the inflammation), and would clean the mucoid plaque off the
walls, as well. My formulas would also clean out the pockets (diverticulum)
that were formed from impactions. I wanted a formula that would also
strengthen the GI tract, eliminating these pockets, as well as the ballooning
and/or the spastic conditions that we all suffer with. The problem with most
bowel formulas is that they have heavy Cayenne Pepper, Aloes, Buckthorn or
other stimulating and habit-forming herbs that cause gripping, cramping, or
excessive mucus production. These types of formulas can cause a great deal
of abdominal discomfort and are oftentimes hard to regulate. Many intestinal
formulas can become addicting; that is to say, the body becomes dependent
upon these as it does with other stimulants, leaving the opposite effect when
you stop taking them—constipation. A good bowel formula will not be addicting. It will gently move you,
clean you, remove the inflammation, and strengthen—all at the same time. Additionally, it will stimulate lymph flow and circulation within the intestinal
wall tissues themselves. (See
Chapter 8
,
Module 8.3
 for herbal formulas for
the stomach and bowels; also see Resource Guide for companies that make
good bowel formulas.) Colonics
Colonic therapy may also be used to assist the cleansing of the colon (large
intestine). However, the small intestine must be cleaned and cared for as well
—which is why an herbal bowel formula is also recommended. Colonics are
like a “high” enema, but have a “washing” effect upon tissue. Colon
therapists, who are generally licensed massage therapists, perform colonics. (In my opinion, every Emergency Room should have a colonic machine and
a trained colon therapist on staff.) Colonics are great at removing impactions
of the large bowel, aiding in relief of acidosis, distention of


 cattle were slaughtered regularly,so killing has always been repulsive to me! I have never
been a hunter or a fisherman because I do not like to
take another life. I have made
 13 expeditions to distant
lands and I have found many robust, healthy people
living on a vegetarian diet. On the other hand, I have
found people in other cultures who also enjoyed higherhealth and yet included animal products in their diets. I roamed the South Seas for over a year at one time and
in those far flung islands I found supermen and wonderwomen. They not only lived on an abundance of fresh
fruit and vegetables, but they included fish, fowl and
some meat in their diet. So you see I have tried to be asfair as I could about this question of Vegetarianism versus
Meat Eating. I feel that as we cleanse and purify our
bodies we develop a keen sense of what is healthiest
and best for us to eat. Keep a daily journal and see. Nutrition directly affects growth, development, reproduction, well-being
and an individual’s physical and mental condition. Health depends uponnutrition more than on any other single factor. –  Dr. Wm. H. Sebrell, Jr.94Eliminating Meat is Safer and Healthier
Most uninformed nutritionists call meat the #1 source
of protein. Those proteins coming from the vegetable
kingdom are referred to as the #2 proteins. This is a sad
and terrible mistake. It should be the other way around! In this day and age, almost all meat is laden with
herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and other chemicals
that are sprayed on or poured into the feed which theseanimals consume. They are also pumped full of
hormones, antibiotics, growth stimulators and all kinds
of drugs to fatten them up and keep them from dyingfrom the extremely unhealthy conditions most of them
live in! This is not to mention the admitted fact that
many of them are fed the dead, ground up carcasses ofother feed lot animals who, for a variety of reasons, didn’t
make it to the slaughterhouse. Speaking of the slaughterhouse, what kind of
chemical reaction do you suppose would occur in your
body if somebody put a choke chain around your neck
to keep you in line, shoved you onto a conveyor belt,and made you watch in horror as all of those in line infront of you were beheaded one by one? Well, your body
would be pumped so full of adrenaline from all that fear
you wouldn’t know what hit you! Unused adrenaline isextremely toxic. If you think for a minute that most of
the meat that you consume is not packed with this toxic
substance, you’re sadly mistaken! Also, consider the fact that cattle, sheep, chickens,
etc., are all vegetarians. When you eat them, you are
just eating polluted vegetables. Why not skip all thewaste and toxins and just eat healthy, organic vegetables? And what about that myth that you have to eat  meat
to get your protein? If that were so true, where do yousuppose farm animals, especially horses, get all their
protein? They are vegetarians! They get their protein
from the grains and grasses that they eat. You are nodifferent. You can get the proteins you need from the
large variety of whole grains, tofu, raw nuts, seeds, beans,
fruits and vegetables that God put on this planet for
your health. See Vegetable Protein
% Chart, page 233.95Meat Has Toxic Uric Acid and Cholesterol
Meat is the major source of toxic uric acid and
cholesterol, both harmful to your health. If you insiston eating meat, it should be an organically fed sourceand not eaten more than 2 to 3 times weekly. Fresh fishcan be the least toxic of the flesh proteins, but bewareof fish from polluted waters. They can be loaded withmercury, lead, cadmium,
DDT  and other toxic
substances. If you are unsure of the waters the fish comefrom, don’t risk eating it. Avoid shellfish – shrimp, lobsterand crayfish. They are garbage-eating bottom-feeders(the rats and flies of the water world). They eat decayingscum and refuse off the bottoms of the oceans, lakesand rivers. Chickens and turkeys are a sick bunch andcommercially mass fed and heavily drugged withantibiotics and hormones. Be selective and cautious inyour eating; seek only the healthiest food choices. It’s best people should not eat pork or pork products. The pig is the only animal besides man that developsarteriosclerosis. This animal is so loaded with cholesterolthat in cold weather, unprotected pigs will become stiff,as though frozen solid. Pigs are often infected with adangerous parasite which causes the disease trichinosis. Patricia and I enjoy being healthy vegetarians and
not polluting our bodies with unhealthy meat, fowl andfish proteins. It’s safer and healthier getting our proteinsfrom organic vegetables, beans, legumes, nuts, etc. Please
refer often to the Vegetable Protein
% Chart, page 233. My Beloved Health Teachers and Mentors
One of the greatest teachers and physicians in the
science of body purification and nutrition was Dr. JohnTilden,
M.D.,  of Denver. This great scientist will surely
go down in history as one of the finest physicians. Hisprogram included fasting and an abundance of freshfruits and vegetables. He lived into his
90s and was active
to the end of his life keeping his patients healthy. Another of the finest doctors who specialized in
nutrition was the famed Dr. John Harvey Kellogg,  M.D. He was the director for 60 years of the famous Battle
Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.96Dedicated Great Health Healers
Dr. Kellogg’s Sanitarium specialized in a vegetarian
diet and people from around the world were restored to
radiant health by following his health program. I hadthe privilege of studying under Dr. Kellogg and it was
one of the outstanding experiences of my early career. In my early career, I was associated with Bernarr
Macfadden, Father and Founder of the Physical Culture
Movement
(pg 145). Macfadden tried vegetarianism for
a time, but gradually went back to a mixed diet whichincluded meat and fish. He lived healthy and active to
nearly
 88 years of age and he believed in mixing proteins. Over my many years in the health field, I have met
many famous men and women who restored thousands
of people to health through natural methods. In the
1920s I worked with Dr. St. Louis Estes, D.D.S., who was
a pioneer and strict believer in the raw food diet. I saw
many broken, weak, sick people restored to health by
changing to his raw food diet. (I feel it’s best to have ahealthy balance of
60% to 70% raw foods. – P.B.) Dr. Benedict Lust, M.D., N.D.,  was Father and Founder
of Naturopathy in America. He established in New York a
great school of Naturopathy which educated and
graduated thousands of Natur opathic Doctors who have
used and spread his health teachings around the world. Dr. Henry Lindlahr, M.D., was a famous drugless
physician who lobbied for the return to natural methods
in the modern treatment and prevention of disease. Professor Arnold Ehret was one of the world’s greatest
food scientists. He was the discoverer and creator of “The
Mucusless Diet Healing System,” which is a strictly vegetarian
regime. I knew many of Professor Ehret’s students who,in their
80s and 90s, were still enjoying vigorous, robust
health by following his vegetarian health program. Fasting Credo of the famous Buchinger Clinics in Germany and Spain:
     We must restore fasting to the place it occupied in an ancient hierarchy of
values “above medicine”. We must rediscover it and restore it to honor becauseit is a necessity. A beneficial fast of several weeks, as practised in the earliest daysof the Church, was to give strength, life and health to the body and soul of allChristians who had the faith, dedication and courage to practice fasting.9797Your Tongue Never Lies –
It’s Your Inside Magic Mirror
Your tongue – your inside magic mirror – reveals how
much toxic material is stored in the cells and vital organsof your body. The tongue ( a spongy organ ) is mirror of
the stomach and the entire mucos membrane system. In your body there is a hose-like tube that averages
30 feet long, extending from the mouth to the anus. It
has the body heat of 98.6 °, plus body moisture. Through
this tube passes all the food you eat. Now, different foodstake different times to pass through the tube. Sad facts –
most people eat an unhealthy, refined, concentrated,
acid-forming diet. They eat large amounts of refinedwhite flour, white sugar, salt and saturated fats. Most ofthese commercial foods lack sufficient bulk, moisture
and lubrication to pass quickly through the
30 foot tube. I believe that there is a common factor that precedes
or is coexistent with most body ills that afflict us. This
common denominator is constipation. Definitions may
differ but it is logical that if outgo does not equal intake– either in terms of quantity or in frequency – then
constipation will occur and it can be the beginning
of more serious physical problems. Most people are brainwashed to believe there is no
h


oul  to ex/n-ess it,
ll'e rnddenly  forget  the words. The mcaning  is nol the contemplative,  twilight,
ancl,  pcrhaps,  superficially  iclyllic  acrnosphere  be-
loved  of Chinese  pocts. This  is already  exprcsscd,
ancl the poct does not gild the lily. He will  not, like
so many Western poecs, turn philosopher ancl say
that he is "onc with" the flowers, the fence, the bilis,
ancl thc birds. This, too, is gilding the lily, or, in his
own Oriental idiom, "putting lcgs on a snake. " For
when you really undcrstand thaL you are what you
scc ancl know, you do not run around thc country -
side  thinking,  "l am all this. " There  is sirnply  "ali
this. " The  feeling  that  we stand  face -co-face  wilh  thc
113  THE  WJSDOl \t OF INSECURITY
world, cut off and set apare, has the grealest
inAuence  on thought  and action. Philosophers,  for
example,  oflen  fail to recognize  that  their  remarks
about  the universe apply  also  to themselves  and
lheir  remarks. If the univcrse  is 111caninglcss,  so is
thc statcment  that it is so. If this world is a vicious
trap, so is ics ac - cuser,  and thc pot is calling  the
kcttle  black. In the scrictest  scnse,  we cannot  actually  think
about lifc an<l  realicy  at ali, bccause  this woulcl
have  to includc  thinking  about  thinking,  thinking
about  thinking about thinking, and so ad
infi11it11111. One  ca11  only  auempt  a rational,
descriptive  philosophy  of thc univcrse on the
assumption  that one is totally  separate  from  it. Bue
if you and your  thoughts  are pan of this  univcrse,
you cannot  stand  outsidc  them  to describe  thcm. This is why  ali philosophical  and theological  systcms
must. ulti111atcly  íall aparl. To "know"  reality you
cannot stand outside  it and  define  it; you muse
cnter  into  it, be it, and fccl it. Speculativc  philosophy,  as we know  it in the
West,
is almost cncirely a symptom of the divicled mind, of
man  trying  to stand outside  himsclf ancl  his cxperi -
ence in arder to vcrbalizc :111cl define it. [e is a
vicious  circlc,  likc cvcrything dsc which  che dividecl
mind  attcmpts. On che othcr hancl, thc rcalizalion that che mind is
acLUally  undividccl  must  havc  a corresponcling and
cqually  far-rcaching  influcnce  on thought  and
accion. 114  TI IE TRANSFORJ \f ATION  OF LIFE
As the philosopher tries to sLand outside himself and
his thoughL, so, as we  have seen,  the ordinary  man
lries  to sLand  outside  himsclf ami  his cmolions  and
scnsations,  his feelings  ancl  cksircs. Thc rcsulL  is a
fantastic  confusion  and misdirccLion  of conduct
which  discovcry  of Lhc mind"s  unity  musl  bring  to
an end. So long as  the mind is splil, lifc  is perpcLUal  con-
ílict,   tension,   frustration,  and clisillusion. uffering
is pilcd  on suffering,  fcar on fcar,  and borcclom  on
boredom. Thc more thc íly strugglcs lo gct out of the
honcy, thc fas ter he is sLUck. U nclcr thc prcssurc o( so
much strain and  (ULility,  it is no,rnndcr at ali that
men seek rclcasc  in violence ancl sensationalism, and
in the rccklcss  exploitation  of lhcir bodics,  lheir ap -
petites,  thc malerial  world,  and thcir  fcllow  mcn. What this must add lO die ncccssary and unavoidable
pains  of existencc  is incalculable. BuL thc undividcd  mind  is f1 ce from  this Lcnsion
of nying al\\'ays  to stand ouLside oneself and  LO be
clscwhcrc Lhan hcre and now. Each  momcm  is lived
completely,  ancl  therc  is Lhus  a scnsc  o( fulfillmcnt
and complctcness. Thc dividcd  mind  comes  Lo lhe
dinner  lablc  and pecks  at onc dish  aflcr  anochcr,
rushing  on wiLhout  digcsting  anything  to find  onc
bctter  than  thc last. lt fincls  nothing goocl,  becausc
there  is noLhing  which  it really  Lastes. \Vhcn,  on thc oLhcr  hand,  you realizc  Lhat  you THE  WISJ)OM  OF INSECURITY
live in, that in<leed you are this moment now, and no
other,  that  aparl  from  this there  is no past  and no
(ulllre,  you must  relax and  tasle  lo lhe full, whether
il be pleasurc  or pain. At once  it becomes  obvious
why d1is universc exists, why conscious bcings havc
bcen  produced,  why  sensitive  organs,  why  spacc,
time,  and change. The  wholc  problem  of justifying
naturc,  of trying  to make  life mean  something  in
tcrms  of its future,  disappears  uttcrl)'. Obviousl )', it
ali exists  for this moment. Il is a dance,  and when
you are dancing you are not iment  on getting somc -
whtrc. You  go round  and rouncl,  bul nol undcr  thc
illusion  that  you are pursuing somcthing,  or flccing
from  che jaws  o( hell. How  long  havc  thc planets  bccn  circling the sun. Are they gctting anywhere. and do thcy go fastet and
fastcr  in orcler  to arrive. How  oftcn  has the spring
rcturncd to l11c earth. Docs it come faster and fancicr
cvery year,  lO be surc  to be bcllcr than  last spring. and to hurry on its way to che spring that shall out -
spring  all springs. The mcaning ami purpose of dancing is che dance. Likc music, also,  it is fulfilled  in cach  inomcnt of its
coursc. You do not play a sonata in order to rcach thc
final chord, and  if lhc  meanings o[ things  wcre  si1n -
ply in ends,  coinposcrs  would  writc  nothing  but
finales. It might,  however,  be obscrvcd  in passing
that  the music spcciall)'  charactcristic  of our  culture
is progrcssivc  in sorne  respects,  and docs  at times scc111
116  THE  TRANSFORJ \·(ATION  OF LIFE
to be dccidedly on  its way to a future climax. But
whcn it gcts thcrc, it does not know what to do with
itself. Beethoven, I3rahms, and ·wagncr werc particu -
larly  guilty of working up to colossal climaxcs and
conclusions,  and then  blasting  away  at thc samc
chord over and ovcr again, ruining the moment by
bcing  rcluCLant  to lea ve it. When each  momcnt bccomes ;rn  cxpectation  lifc
is dcprived  of fulfillment,  and dcath  is dreaded  for
it sccms that herc cxpectation must come to an end. Whilc thcre is lif


 now minimal, vegetarianism is
particularly well suited to offer a life-pattern ideally adapted to
modern conditions, restoring a sense of purpose and participation in the natural world, without which human beings are only too
obviously alienated and distraught, the reason probably why an
increasing number of young are being attracted to the vegetarian ideology. With regards the bodily advantages, one can be less definite. In
the first place, some people become vegetarians as a result of
chronic ill-health, when all else has failed, a fact which tends to
falsify any comparative study. It is a sad fact that many people are congenitally less robust than othe rs, disadvantages all too often
intensified by wrong feeding in infancy and childhood. Such people are certain to' be better off as vegetarians, but they may remain handicapped compared with the more genetically robust, living so
called normal lives. But vegetarianism by itself may not be enough. A person giving
up meat and fish but indulging in eggs and dairy produce may be no better off. Indeed, it is possible that  a person having some lean meat
and fish, but no eggs and dairy pr oduce, would be less exposed to
the long-term disasters of cholesterol, saturated fats and uric acid,
what ever other insidious physical and mental effects attend. Vegetarian children eating the usual amounts of sweets, jams and sugar have teeth in every way as bad as the general population. As already mentioned, veganism without a supplement of
vitamin B
12 is dangerous. With this supplement, it is probably as
close as one can get to the ideal human diet, but perhaps for
economic reasons, fruits may not feat ure sufficiently. It is probably
as far as one can get practically in avoiding the usual long-term infirmities, gout and arthritis, colds and constipation, and the common afflictions of daily living. This should also apply to
vegetarians, provided a sufficienc y of uncooked foods and fruits is
the rule. In this context, the importance of activity cannot be
overemphasized. The human body, and mind, are only optimally adaptable in terms of a certain pattern of activity. This pattern must
have been originally set by the demands of ground living and food-
gathering, and has certainly not changed since, no matter how sedentary human beings have b ecome in urban conditions. This
pattern is characterized, not by bursts of violent activity, but rather by prolonged moderate activity. For a ground-living primate to be able to fulfil its environmenta l and social obligations, would
demand at least the equivalent of three hours walking a day. Medicine has now realized the importance of this kind of activity, of the risks of inactivity to the h eart, as those of excessive activity
which entails athletism, or the weekend violent games of tennis or squash. One must insist, that no matter how ideal the diet, optimal
physiological conditions will not be met unless this basic activity
pattern is simultaneously met. Life must simply be arranged to meet
it, an arrangement facilitated by the energy crisis. There are the half-hearted vegetarians, keen on keeping in with
the 'normals' in their smoking and drinking habits and not averse to
some meat and fish occasionally, 'for social reasons'. Such people
are often less well than most, the victims of fatigue, of disturbed sleeping and of petty inconveniences, which should not be the lot of vegetarians. The high levels of protein and vitamin B complex on a mixed dietary do undoubtedly protect, to some extent, from the damage of alcohol and other poisons. Vegetarians, particularly those
living on largely refined cereal foods, using sugar, are very
vulnerable. Although very modera te amounts of non-distilled drinks
like cider, beer and the lighter wines, are probably beneficial when consumed in the right circumstances, as we shall see, vegetarians are not equipped to keep up with common bad habits. People who become vegetarian in later life often do so as the
result of some dire warning or health disaster for which medicine can do little or nothing. Usually, such a change of diet brings much benefit, but it would be expecting too much to suppose that the unbiological trespass of many years can be completely annulled. It is the young who especially benefit from a vegetarian diet, the best
possible assurance that the developi ng tissues of brain and body are
formed under the most ideal conditions. To cut out breast feeding, and to feed infants on animal foods, is not only likely to lead to mental disquiet, but, in maturity, to a higher incidence of degenerative disease. 15. Beautiful People, Beautiful Things

The Creation is a whole, all isolation is disintegration. In the
making of the human, nature has attained its highest expression of
wholeness, in love, in the pursuit of beauty, order and harmony. But
for the wholeness of the human condition to be attained, a
wholeness in all things contri buting to human existence is
indispensable. The importance of food to life in general emphasizes
its supreme importance in the attainment of human wholeness, and
only a highly specific pattern of eating can meet this highest
achievement of evolution. Mankind on this planet has been the unfortunate victim of
terrible times and tribulations. Barely had humanization been
achieved, than the earth underwent a prolonged period of intermittent and devastating gl aciation, with world-wide
repercussions. During these terrible times, human beings were obliged to adopt ways of living in order to survive which departed
widely from the human ideal previously set by nature. Although
when the Ice Ages subsided some ten thousand years ago, the majority of human beings tended to resume ways of living more
tolerably human, inventing agriculture in the process to ward against further catastrophe, many bad habits have persisted,
particularly regarding feeding, which, as we have suggested,
accounts in large part for the horrors and abnormalities of human
behaviour. Many parts of the world today should be sympathetic to a
properly human condition, but because of the importance of cortical conditioning, these bad habits persist and remain a most
dehumanizing influence, responsible for the terrors of human
existence and the ugliness of the environment. As the means of
expressing anger and hatred against nature, against other creatures,
against man himself have increased  with the industrial age, so
nature has become increasingly soiled and desecrated, and man's
chronic inhumanity to man has become more sharpened. The
situation is critical, for every aspect of the contemporary crisis examined shows a course set on annihilation and extinction. If further appeals to reason, to scien ce, to politics, to sociology, to
economics are certain to be frustrated unless backed by a genuine change of heart, so are the more simpleton calls for a return to
nature, for a denial of civili zation. Man is too wounded and
humiliated a creature, too complicated by culture to be able to act from such purity. Salvation is likely to be very, very demanding. The change must begin from within, important as the tangible
aspects of life happen to be. One simply must first restore the belief
that the human being is a noble, sacred creature, holding the most
essential post in the creative enterp rise of the universe. Anything
less must entail alienation. Since no reasonable argument can change the colours of the soul, colour must be played, like music to the insane, in the hope that slowly, progressively, the divine
sensitivities will be recovered, and the mind made whole. Although ugliness tends to cancel the craving for beauty,
wholeness and purity, to be surrounded by beauty and harmony, to
practise it at every possible opportunity, must in the long run work. One has the examples of this in the arts. People are often drawn to the arts as a reaction against the puerilities and frustrations of living, the deceptions of gain and material power. While artists, musicians and poets themselves are usually simple people, little good at
worldly tasks, the patrons have always been people of power, in
their lives ruthless and hard, yet st rangely softened in the presence
of the beauty and divinity of ar t. They are not likely to become
gurus and saints as a result, but they are more whole and human for it, certainly worse without it. The sensitivities on which the arts
trade should be pursued in every possible aspect of living; nothing
which is not beautiful should be tolerated, whatever its apparent
lures. The aim of this book has been to emphasize that such
sensitivities are eminently applicable to man's most important
biological function, eating. Not only is it a matter of the choice of
the right kinds of foods. The attit ude towards food, the conditions
under which foods are eaten can provide a most important occasion for developing an overall, humanly compatible attitude and a recovery of the sensitivities, of the meaning of being human. This is not a new appeal. All ot her peoples had discovered that
sacrament and myth are the supreme means of incorporating
thought, feeling and action into a meaningful human cosmology. One finds, among primitives, as among other less materialistically preoccupied civilizations, that nothing is left out. All is made hallowed, meaningful and sacred. Part of the tragedy of the West,
thanks to misinterpretation of the significance of science to society,
has been to purge life of mythical  meaning. Eating is an excellent
opportunity to restore this indispensable strategy. How one eats is as important as what one eats. Eating cannot be
a matter only of belly filling,


 while I hit a plateau with my healing, and then started ha ving health problems again. I felt I must be doing something
wrong; I was sure that raw vegan was my best option, but I was starting t o get frustrated. All along my journey, I had been confronting and clearing up fears, misgi vings, bad habits, and preconceptions about nutrition
that were ingrained into me for years, and slowly but surely, I was makin g progress. I knew that the more simply I ate, the better I
felt, but I wasn’t ready to step into Dr. Graham’s 80/10/10, low-fat diet until after I heard him speak at the raw festival in wes tern
New York state for the third year in a row. What he says about food and health  makes a lot of sense. He also walks the talk about
exercise and is very inspiring in that respect. When we got home from the festival, my family and I went right to raw, fr esh, whole, ripe, and organic fruits and vegetables. Our health started improving again right away, and it is slowly gain ing every day. An added benefit is that life is much simpler now. I’m not spending hours prepping, dehydrating, and assembling fancy r aw meals. I buy a wide variety of fruits and veggies, and now
it’s easier for my family to just look around the kitchen and see what it  is their body wants for nourishment. W e also make sure we
exercise every day, and have fun doing it. So in the last weeks  that we’ve been eating this way, we’re doing better than ever w ithout all the nuts, oils, and dried “foods”
we once relied on. W e’ve also been doing very well without supplements  and powders, thank you. Our energy, strength, stamina,
and even mental attitude are improved. Our skin is healthier, our sleep be tter, and those little and not-so-little health problems that
were sneaking back are now sneaking away. It’s a great relief to hav e Dr. Graham’s science and experience guiding my family and
me. Carina Honga, Langley, B.C., Canada
In January 2005 my alarm clock went off. The time had been long coming, but now my  health was deteriorating rapidly, and
this time, my body wouldn’t let me hit the snooze. I was 22 years old, a full-time university student, and a  professional model. It was crunch time. I had the biggest project of my
academic career on my plate, no time for hiccups. However, amidst this ext ernal chaos was an invisible parallel crisis being waged
inside my body. Health had always been an issue for me; I had been given enough red flag s in my youth to make a bed sheet. Every second
bite of food I took seemed to bite back, increasingly so as time passed, and I quickly dev eloped an unbalanced relationship with
food. The bloating of my abdomen would often leave me appearing several months pr egnant. I spent my adolescence hiding my
inner pain, embarrassed by my symptoms. During this time, I was also very  active as a competitive figure skater, and so my caloric
intake was incredibly high, which only complicated my digestion furthe r.
By 2005 I had long since abolished gluten and dairy from my diet of my own volition, and following the indications of “health
care professionals,” animal meat became the staple of my diet. I w as told I needed it to build muscle for training. I was told I needed
it because of my blood type (O–). I was told that I needed it for my candida, f or calories, for this and that; in short, meat was the
answer to all of my problems. I conceded, and reaped the consequences. My symptoms  worsened. So, when my digestion slowed even further in the fall of 2004, and ulcer symptom s mounted, I was not caught off guard. I
listened to the suggestions of doctors and naturopaths and began to eat meat  several times an hour to subdue the burning in my
stomach. It was a stressful time, as I was heavily involved in a larg e-scale project that I was in charge of coordinating. Quickly, the
anxiety attacks began. By now, my outward appearance evidenced my intern al strife, to everyone but me. I maintained focus on
school and ignored my health, modifying my involvement in projects only to t he extent that I would pause for anxiety attacks. Life
went on. I made it through that semester with the help of family and friends. Com e January however, the alarm was sounding so loudly
that it became hard to ignore. My bowels were moving once every 10 days at best, and attempts to medicate my ulcer symptoms
lead to mouth lesions. I was experiencing dizzy and fainting spells, as m y blood pressure dropped and heart rate plummeted. I was
forced to drop half of my school course load, as I was all but bedridden. Unable to care f or myself sufficiently, I moved home. The deciding factor came when my mother, a registered nurse, came home  from work one day disturbed by a girl my age who
had just been diagnosed with colon cancer. Y ou’re next, she thought. E verything I had been told by the medical community had led
me to this. I dropped everything and began my own research. I soon happened upon information about raw food that changed my life. It didn’t  change my life because it was about raw—
this is key—but because it described the natural, physiologicall y sound relationship that humans are meant to have with food, and
with life. I first read David Klein’s Self Healing Colitis and Crohn’ s, which lead me to Dr. Graham. In retrospect, had I found the
wrong info on raw, I know that I would have continued to worsen. I was very lucky. My diet changed overnight. Let me rephrase that, my life changed overn ight. I stopped eating everything I had been eating and
started to eat fruit. Within days, I had the first normal bowel movements  I had ever experienced. However, my digestive system still
on the mend, I followed my instincts and ate  very small amounts of juicy fruit. This continued for about six  weeks, after which  I
finally started to increase the quantity; somewhere between two an d three  months, I added in vegetables. Also after six weeks, I noticed that my eyesight had normalized complete ly, after a decade of wearing glasses. Not just slightly
improved, but entirely normal. My nails began to grow thick and strong, as did my  hair, which thankfully stopped falling out. (I have
since learned that this is a common occurrence among people switching  to 811, predictably followed by a healthy regrowth of new
hair.) My eyes shone bright, my previously puffy face deflated, and I looked th e picture of health. So much so, in fact, that after a
few short months on this program, my parents became so convinced, that they  too began with 811. None of us have looked back. I must stress that I did not only alter my diet; I altered my life. The sc hool year ended for me, and I began a deep, extended
rest. I was sedentary for nearly six months before I began vigorous exer cise, and I avoided overt fats for this entire period. Each day
I sought fresh air and sunlight. All of this was made possible by m y family’s love and valuable support. This all began over a year ago. I have since been to Costa Rica as an inte rn for Dr. Graham at his fasting retreat, which
inspired me to pursue health studies in order to prepare myself for a caree r in the field. My experiences there, and the leadership Dr.
Graham has provided overall, have  been influential beyond measure. Having found my calling, and my mentor, I can enthusiastically
say that 80/10/10  was the turning point for the health of my family and me, and provided a founda tion upon which I will pave my
professional future. Ryan Earehart, Maui, Hawaii
The low-fat raw vegan diet has given me increased energy, more desir e to perform physical activity, the best digestion I have
ever had, and complete satisfaction with my pleasurable eating habits. Following a low-fat raw vegan diet has allowed me to achieve
levels of health I never dreamed imaginable. Overcoming chronic fatigue, severe allergies, annoying acne, and burdensome asthma were just the beginning. Over 3 ½ years
ago, I virtually eliminated overt fats from my previous raw diet and adopte d a diet of whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic, delicious fruits
and plants. Now I can eat as much of anything I want so long as it passes my two tes ts: first it mustn’t have a bar code, and second I have
to be able to make a meal of it by itself. Eating mostly mono fruit meals with  a nonfatty salad later in the day is my recipe for
success. Eating this way is just so easy— hardly any dishes, no fat t o clean out of my salad bowl, and hardly any time spent
preparing my food. Ten months ago, I changed my life dramatically and moved from the Arizon a desert to the jungles of Hawaii. I was feeling
great, excited to live off the land in a remote location without a vehicl e. I soon discovered that I was unable to forage enough
carbohydrates into my diet, so in order to


 magnetic field within the much lar ger, more
powerful field of a giant electro magnet. The phenomenological universe is
the expression of the interaction of endless attractor patterns of varying
strengths. The unending comp lexities of life are the reflections of the
endless reverber ations of the aug mentations and diminutions of these fields,
compounded by their harmonics and other interactions. Fractal:  Fractal patterns are characterized by irregularity and infinite
length, and strange attractors a re composed of fractal curves. A classic
example is the a ttempt to determine the length of the coastline of Britain. Ifone add s length s using smaller and smaller scales of measurement, it turns
out to be infinitely long. Fractal implies an infinite length in a finite area. Heisenberg’ s principle:  Quantum mechanics is the way out from the
restrictive linear domain of the Newtonian paradigm, via Heisenber g’ s
principle, which  holds that to observe something is already to change  it
because of the impact of con sciousness itself. The higher the level of
consciousness o f the observer, the more profound the ef fect on what is
being observed. Hologram:  A three -dimensional projection  into space of the image of an
object, created by projecting laser light so that half of the beam is directed
to the object and then onto a photographic plate, which receives the other
half of the beam directly. This c reates an interference pattern on the plate so
that a laser beam projected through the plate re-creates the image of the
object in three dimensions. It is of interest that every fragment of the
photographic pla te is capable of reproducing the entire image of the whole. In a holographic universe, everything is connected to everything else. Iteration:  R epeti tion. N onlinear iteration is present in innumerab le
systems. Because of this repetition, a very slight change in  the initial
condition will eventually produce a pattern dissimilar from the o riginal. In a
growth e quation, the output of t he prior iteration becomes the i nput for the
next seri es. For example, if a co mputer calculates to 16 decimal places, the
last digi t is the r ounding of f of t he 17th. This infinitesimal error, magnified
through many iterations, results in substantial distortion of the original data
and makes prediction impossib le. Thus, a slight change in a repetitious
thought pattern can bring about major ef fects. Law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions:  T his refers to th e fact
that a slight vari ation over a cou rse of time can have the ef fect of producing
a profound change, much as a ship whose bearing is one degree of f compass
will eventually find itself hundreds of miles of f course. Left-brain:  R eferri ng to thought sequenced in the linear style, which is
commonly desc ribed as “logic” or “reason. ” Processing of  data in a
sequence A
 B
 C. Analogous to a digital computer. Linear:  Seq uential, following a logic al progression in the manner of
Newtonian physics and, there fore, solvable by traditional mathematics
through the use of dif ferential equations. M-fields:  Morphogenetic fields, analogous to attractor patterns. In the
hypothesis presented by the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, mo rphogenetic
fields ar e part of the theory of formative causation, that ener g y fields of
form evolve and reinforce ea ch other. When someone advances in a
particular area, this success increases the likelihood for the rest of the
species to do the same. Roger Bannister broke through the “M-field” of the
four -minute mil e, and soon afte r his success, many more runners made the
same accomplishment. Neural network:  T he interlocking patterns of interacting neurons within
the nervous system. Neur otransmitters:  Brain chemic als (hormones, etc. ) that regulate
neuronal transmission throughout the nervous system. V ery slight chemical
changes can result in major sub jective and objective alterations  in emotion,
thought, or behavior. This is  the prime area of current research in
psychiatry. Nonduality:  Historically, all observers who have reached a consciousness
level ov er 600 have described the reality now suggested by advanced
scientific theory. When the limitation of a fixed locus of perception is
transcended, the re is no longer an illusion of separation, nor of space and
time as we know  them. All things exist simultaneously in the unmanifest,
enfolded, implicit universe, expressing itself as the manifest, unfolded,
explicit percept ion of form. These forms in reality have n o intrinsic,
independent exi stence but are the product of perception (that is, we merely
experience the content of our own minds). On the level of nond uality, there
is obser ving but no observer, as subject and object are one. Y ou-and-I
becomes the One Self experienc ing all as divine. At level 700, it  can be said
only that “All Is. ” The state is one of Beingness; all is conscious ness, which
is infinite, which is God and which has no parts or a beginning or end. The physical body is a manifestation of the One Self, w hich, in
experiencing this dimension, had temporarily for gotten its reality, thuspermitting the illusion of a thre e-dimensional world. The body  is merely a
means o f comm unication; to identify oneself with the body as “I” is the fate
of th e unenlightened, who then e rroneously deduce that they are mortal and
subject t o death. Death itself is an illusion, based on the false id entification
with the body as  “I. ” In nondual ity, consciousness experiences i tself as both
manifest and unmanifest, yet there is no experiencer. In this Reality, the
only thing that has a beginning and an end is the act of percepti on itself. In
the i llusory world, we are like t he fool who believes that thing s come into
existence when he opens his eyes and cease to exist when he closes them. Nonlinear:  U npredictably irregular in time, “noisy,” nonperiodic, random,
and stochastic. Illustrated by mathematical series such as formulized
stochastic evolution equations of the form dx ( t ) dt = F ( xt ) + w ( t ), where w ( t )
is th e noise ter m of the stocha stic process. The term also d escribes the
mathematics of chaotic signals, including the statistical analy sis of time
series for deterministic nonlinear systems. Nonlinear  me ans dif fuse or
chaotic, not in accordance with probabilistic logical theory or m athematics,
not solvable by dif ferential equations. This is the subject of the science of
chaos theory, which has given rise to a whole new non-Newtonian
mathematics. Phase space:  A map that af fo rds the condensation of time-space data into a
pattern in multiple dimensions. A Poincaré map is the graphic depiction of a
slice through a multidimensional pattern that demonstrates the underlying
attractor. Positionality:  Positionalities are structures that set the entire thinking
mechanism in motion and activate its content. Positionalities are programs,
not the real Sel f. The world ho lds an endless array of positions that are
arbitrary presumptions and totally erroneous. Primordial positionalities are:
(1) ideas have significance and importance ; (2) ther e is a dividing line
between opposites ; (3) ther e is a value of authorship, su ch that thoughts ar e
valuable because they ar e “mine” ; (4) thinking is necessary for contr ol, and
survival depend s on contr ol. Al l positionalities are voluntary and can be
surrendered out of love. The Presence of God as Love is self- revealing as
the duality of perception ce ases as a consequence of surrendering
positionalities. Love is therefor e the doorway between the linear and thenonlinear domains. The spiritual will is enforced and activated by love and
devotion and its willingness to surrender. Love is without form  and is that
capacity through  which one bec omes willing, out of that love, to surrender
one’ s positionalities to God. The surrender of willfulness/positionality
brings peace in all circumstances. Right-brain:  Genera lly meaning “holistic”; enabling such functions as
evaluation, intuition, and comprehension of significance, meaning, and
inference. Nonlinear; operating from patterns and relationships rather than
through the logical sequences of Newtonian causality. The ri ght brain is
assumed to deal with wholes rather than parts. Like an analog computer, it
deals with processes and is g enerally capable of operating without the
necessity of time reference. Rig ht-brain perception detects essence within a
complex field of data that mig ht not otherwise lend itself to meaningful
cognitive analysis—such general phenomena as “falling in love” or
creativity. (The terms left-brain  and right-brain  originated in reference to
dif ferent styles of perception once thought to be localized to certain cerebral
areas, but as Ka rl Pribram has s hown, the brain


 for saturation, placed special needles. Thanks to acupuncture I did not want to have (I even
could be present at the feast). Tests are normal! The first cycle of starvation dalsya uneasy -
the body was too intoxicated, I was sick and wanted it all
stop. But even then, I firmly decided: Walk all the way to the end,
because I've got a great goal! Subsequent cycles I had a very
easily and soon regular refusal of food was for me literally
a necessity. After the first strike I passed
analysis for hormones. It turned out that after some
five days of clearing my hormones completely leveled! Soon the breast fibroadenoma resorbed, but not from mastitis
disappeared. Moreover - in the ovaries were mature full
follicles with eggs! I was delighted with what miracles
occurring in my body! and the belief that I could get pregnant,
strengthened in me even more. Prayer for motherhood. When I finished the seventh time in fasting,
we have at work, organized a trip to Pochaev monastery. There is the font of St. Anna, an assistant in childbirth. The water temperature in this font 4 C °. To be glimpsed as
at least thrice. When immersed in cold water I had such a
sensation as if blood run cold and your heart stops. But
I believed that bathing will help me conceive. Returning from
trip, went to the ultrasound. It was found in ovarian follicles grown
size 18 mm, which was supposed to explode any day, releasing
egg! This cell and gave my son life. In the labor saved by a miracle. Throughout pregnancy, contrary to the predictions
professionals, I was flying as if on wings. with my doctor we discussed
natural childbirth, until I let slip that was waiting for her baby
6 years. Hearing this, he said: "Only Caesar, I will not take risks." But I wanted to give birth to yourself! July 9, I moved the water. When the obstetrician arrived,
cervix is??fully opened - it would seem, before the birth of a son
188
188remained a matter of minutes. From idea to Caesar immediately refused
- No need to. But not everything went according to plan. in vain attempts I was 4 hours (on average
This period takes about 30-40 minutes). The head of the child is displayed,
then disappeared. eventually, with full disclosure I still have
cesarean. During the operation, it became clear that I have bicornuate uterus is not as
spoke on ultrasound, but with a partition. and this partition "tighten"
child back. If I had not been operated on, and stimulated
contractions, partition could tear - and opened to obstetrical
bleeding. Save in such a situation can be few. That is so
second time in my life was literally hanging by a thread, but, fortunately,
ended well. Happened to me yet another miracle! I hope to become a mother again and again. After birth, I quickly
recovered. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to breastfeed
(Lactation, maternal body too hard). But when I
found that breastfeeding can hurt me, not the child,
decided - and nursed her son for three months. My synochku for ten months. Philippe - strong and healthy
boy. I am very happy that she decided to go all the way
and gave him life. and really hope that I have yet to be children - let
even now, several years later. I'm ready to wait! ". All the time I
convinced that there is no limit of human capabilities, it will
and patience. Infertility - the inability to conceive a child. medical
literature also frequently uses the term "sterile
marriage ", implying the absence of pregnancy in women
reproductive age in three years of regular sexual
Life without using any contraceptives. Approximately 25% of women in Russia suffer from infertility. In the West
This figure approaches the terrifying figure of the imagination - 44%. It
therefore, there is such demand for surrogate mothers, and doors
sperm banks are open round the clock - the nation approached the problem
which is called does not sterile, and survival. Modern medicine still can not completely solve this
problem. Medical centers are concentrated in the treatment
consequences of infertility, when you need to find its cause
and work with it. Often, physicians are limited to only attempt to
artificial conception and remediation courses, but
and such methods are not always effective. Come to us people who have tried most methods
infertility treatment, which offers modern medicine. The main modern infertility
- Lack of Ovulation: the egg does not have time to ripen, so
sperm do not fertilize it. - Hormonal failure: may be missing not only a qualitative
ovulation, and menstruation. 189
189- Untimely menopause: early menopause is rare,
mainly of women suffer from congenital underdevelopment
ovaries or to their absence. - Ovarian dysfunction: with ovarian dysfunction is broken
hormones in the hypothalamus-pituitary gland. As a consequence
egg loses its vitality. - Polycystic ovary: polycystic ovary is characterized by
appearance of cysts, the ovaries increase in half and coated
their white envelope. Due to illness violated an exchange of hormones,
appear immature follicles, mature cells are absent. - Problems in the cervical canal: cervical mucus so
thick that the sperm get there, dying. - Erosion of the cervix. - Damage to or obstruction of the fallopian tubes. - Scars on the ovaries: may be the result of operations. Scarring
hinder the development of follicles and ovulation. - Unexploded follicle: oocyte remains in the ovary
and is not involved in fertilization. - Endometriosis: a disease disrupts the maturation of the egg
its fertilization or attachment of the mature and fertilized
cells to the uterine wall. - Violation of the structure of the uterus: for this reason that the egg can not
attach to the endometrium, the inner layer of the uterus. If there are no birth defects, and the absolute sterility
then dry limotherapy very effectively removes many
causes of infertility. During dry fasting is:
- Normalization of hormonal levels and eliminate dysfunction
ovaries. came to us a woman, she was 42 years old, she passed
surgery and chemotherapy for breast cancer, after she had
early menopause. She underwent a course of treatment of dry fasting, and
She has fully recovered normal monthly cycle. Another
came to be treated with uterine she was 46 years old, she took two courses
dry starvation. When, after which she returned to the survey
to the gynecologist, she told her that her ovaries, as a young girl
and she can safely give birth. - All chronic infectious foci are destroyed,
dissolve adhesions, scars disappear erosion occurs
restoration of normal vaginal microflora
content. - Normalize the work of the gastrointestinal tract,
crashes in which - one of the reasons of pathology of gynecologic
Disease
- A huge number of free forms of hormones,
flooding the blood during fasting leads to a sharp rise in
sexuality. Contrary to popular opinion, hunger is not
suppresses sexuality, but instead exacerbates it. 190
190Rarely what a woman suffers an absolute sterility
infertility is largely the result and consequence of any
diseases. To many women the ability to get pregnant back together
to restore health, and hunger, as they themselves
have seen, provides invaluable assistance to it in the destruction
results and effects of diseases leading to their infertility. It may be noted that those women who get pregnant easily,
but have abortions because of the inability to inform the child may
fully restore health through fasting, to give birth
normal children. The disappearance of the toxic state
and further improved nutrition allow them to avoid abortions. I have in my practice have been no cases of habitual abortion,
but here he writes about it, Herbert Shelton:
"The most striking case of this kind in my practice
occurred to women who have had 28 involuntary abortion-
miscarriages. After a 10-day period of fasting and improved
and normalized power, she became pregnant and gave birth to the term
healthy baby boy. The birth went fine. " Term starvation in cases of infertility varies
the state of women. I recall a case which has occurred
with a relatively young woman who was married
10 years and all could not get pregnant, though not applied
No relief funds. She suffered greatly during the
menstruation every month, laid her in bed, and facilitate
pain drugs. Ten-day fasting was enough
to put an end to this suffering, and shortly after fasting
she became pregnant for the first time and gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Other
woman, the weaker and bolevshaya for several years, conducted
Several short fasts, before she got pregnant. During its
infertility and was 10 years. And Professor YS Nikolaev. emphasized how effectively starving in habitual abortion. Thus, the repeated use of short courses of starvation (3-5 days)
allowed women with recurrent abortion,
a pregnancy to term and to bring it to normal, safe
childbirth. I was very young couples often ask the same questions. Helpful if fasting before conceiving a child and whether to starve in
during pregnancy? When I went to Professor YS Nikolaev. to school, he told me


 also reduces any pesticide residues, myco -toxins from
fungal contamination, and lectins that may irritate the intestines or cause
allergies. Food Combining is based on  the following biochemical rules:
1. Proteins, with oil or fat, require strongly acid gastric juices
2. B vitamins, magnesium & chlorides activate digestive enzymes
3. Sweeteners, sugars and acids inhibit the digestion of starches
There are three main groups of food to consider when working out
correct combinations:
1. Proteins, sweet and acid foods, fruits
2. Neutral foods such as fats & oils, vegetables, avocados, olives
3. Starches such as cereals, bread, potatoes & non -oily legumes
Neutral foods may be combined with either one of the other groups
while the two extreme groups are better kept apart. Therefore, eat meat, fish or nuts at the beginning of the meal for proteins
to receive the strong gastric juices in the pit of the stomach. The rest of
the meal, if not too liquid, will remain in distinct layers on top. Next eat
some vegetables and  leave any starches for the last part. You may mix a small amount of flavouring vegetables with meat or fish,
or eat fruit together with some nuts. It is preferable to have either some
fresh vegetable ju ice or a vegetable salad or fruit before, with or after a
cooked meal. 16
 The weaker the digestion, the larger the meal, and the less it is chewed,
the more important is correct food combining. Intestinal Fermentation: Combining food high in fibre with swee t food
is likely to cause wind. This gave rise to the frequently quoted rule not to
combine vegetables with fruit. In this case some of the sugar from the fruit is not absorbed and then
over-stimulates bacterial activity in the large intestine, causing excessive
wind, flatulence or  bloating. However, moderate intestinal fermentation
can ease constipation. How much sweetness we can tolerate tog ether
with fibre is very individual. The more efficiently we absorb our food, the
larger the amount of sweetness that we can handle without getting into
trouble. However, presently most indigestion is due to the presence of
Candida. To avoid problems with beans, these may either be soaked or sprouted
before eating, or the water in which they have been cooked may be
renewed and discarded once or several times. When soaking beans,  you
may add a few drops of Saturated Solution of Potassium Iodide or SSKI
to inactivate an enzyme inhibitor that causes increased wind. Removing Pesticides:  Vegetables, cooked and raw, in addition to fresh
fruit, are recommended to be used as the bulk of the food intake. This
causes a pesticide problem for those that cannot obtain or afford
sufficient organic food. A good way to remove pesticide sprays is to soak
and wash the produce for 5 to 10 minutes in warm water with the addition
of about 10g or 2 tsp of sodium bicarbonate per litre, finally rinse with
fresh water. High -Quality Diet
As a general rule, the more you follow a diet that is ideally suited for  you,
the better will be your health, and your weight will gradually normalize. If
you are on a conventional diet at present, change only gradually onto the
high-quality diet but if confronted with a serious disease, you may do so
very rapidly or even adop t a raw -food diet. 17
 You need not be afraid that you may never eat your favourite food again. The long -term impact on our health comes from what we eat daily, not
from occasional treats or transgressions. When you eat out you may eat
what is available; if it does not agree wit h you, you will know better the
next time. The following is a low -allergy diet based on fresh vegetable juices,
sprouted seeds, legumes, non -gluten grains and a high intake of raw
food. Fats, oils and proteins are much healthier if eaten raw, while most
vegetables are easier to digest if cooked or juiced. To gain weight eat
more cooked food, to lose weight eat more raw food. Minimize cooking flesh foods, especially heating above the boiling point. The best fish is deep -sea fish of small or non -predatory  species or
seafood from uncontaminated coastal regions. Large predatory fish is high in mercury. Farmed fish may be polluted with
chemical residues and low in omega -3 fatty acids. Chicken or other  fowl
is best home -grown, organic or otherwise free of chemicals. Beef and
chicken broth are strengthening with general weakness and debility. Marinating in lemon juice or cider vinegar destroys parasites and
microbes to make raw flesh food safe to eat  and easier to digest. You
may simply  soak fish filet or thinly sliced or minced raw meat for a day
or two in any kind of vinegar while keeping it refrigerated. Vinegar and
lemon juice are beneficial for digesting proteins and improving energy
production. During marinating  the acid concentration is greatly
reduced. You may also blend  small amounts of raw minced meat, chicken or
turkey and drink it as a broth. This, too, is better if marinated. Use only
organic or otherwise safe meat from a reliable source. Avoid meat from
a fee dlot, or commercial chicken. Also,  pork is not safe. The safest non -
organic red meats are lamb and grass -fed beef. As further precautions you may periodically use an anti -parasite
program, and  possibly  freeze the meat for ten days or more to kill any
tape-worm cysts. With these precautions raw meat is generally safe, 18
 while cooked meat is inherently unhealthy, due to lack of enzymes and
the formation of carcinogenic chemicals when heated above boiling  point. Those with type O blood group generally feel better and remain healthier
with flesh food in their diet. Raw minced meat may be flavoured with
grated or chopped onion, garlic, and ginger, tomato or radish, lime or
lemon juice. Raw minced organic or fre e-range meat may be flavoured
with chopped onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, radish, lime or lemon juice,
while raw fish may be marinated in lemon juice or vinegar. Eggs  should preferably be genuinely free -range or organic and
preferably not produced with commercial pellets. Fresh, raw egg yolk
is a health food that improves vitality and immune functions. It may be
used as part of a salad dressing or mixed with other food. It does not
increase but rather prevent the risk of heart disease. Alternatively eat
egg soft -boiled or coddled. Egg white  is best cooked to remove the
strong enzyme inhibitors and to make biotin available. You can see if
an egg is fresh by immersing it i n water. If it lies flat on the bottom it is
fresh, the more one end rises up the older it is. Milk products are best as cottage cheese and cheese or yogurt from
goat's milk, or from fresh, raw organic cows’ milk (preferably A2 milk). Sour cream is prefer able to normal cream. A high content of lactose as
in commercial yogurt and milk, especially in skim milk products, tends to
cause mucus congestion and susceptibility to colds. Nuts, almonds and other oily seeds should be used with caution. They
contain anti -nutrients; raw nuts are especially high in enzyme inhibitors. They are healthier and easier to digest if soaked overnight. Peanuts must
be vigorously washed to reduce any fungal contamination. Nuts and
other oily seeds may be used as pastes or  nut butters, preferably raw,
after soaking or fermenting. However, freshly ground or refrigerated
linseed may be used for its laxative action without prior soaking. Oils and fats  should preferably be raw or unheated. However,
commercial oils have been heated to keep them from getting rancid. Good fats and oils are extra virgin olive oil, fish oils, avocado s, sprouted 19
 or soaked almonds and Brazil nuts, as well as fats and oils in raw butter,
sour cream, raw egg yolk, ra w fish and other seafood. Preferably add
some lecithin to oily or fatty food  to emulsify any oil or fatty food. However, coconut oil does not need added lecithin. Open oil capsules, such as fish oil and oil -soluble vitamins and mix with
food or coconut oil. The body cannot properly digest a blob of fat or 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. Coconut oil  is possibly the best food to overcome  diseases caused by
Candida, including overweight, underweight  and lack of energy. It is also
a good microbicide  consist ing of about 65% medium -chain triglycerides
or MCT. There are 12%  MCT  in butterfat but none in other commonly
used fats and oils. MCT can  be absorbed without needing bile or
pancreatic lipase and  can be metabolised even with damaged liver
mitochondria. In addition,  MCT a re strong fungicides. If more MCT are ingested than needed for liver energy then surplus fatty
acids are exported to the rest of the body in the form of water -soluble
ketoacids. These are suitable as a source of energy for mitochond