 raisin
compote - 1000
• 7 pm – Drink vegetable broth (cabbage, car-
rots, beets, onions, potatoes, dill, parsley) - 200
• 10 pm – Drink herbal Java tea or compote -
200

The 2nd day:
• 8 am – Drink herbal Java tea with honey or
compote - 200
• 11 am – Eat bu ckwheat soup – 250; starting
on the second day, eat one raw quail egg 3 times
a day on an empty stomach during the whole pe-
riod of coming out of a fast (don’t be afraid be-
cause quails don’t carry salmonellosis). This is
required because quail eggs contain the entire
periodic table elements, including natural stem
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the body after dry fasting. Women can apply fa-
cial masks: mix quail eggs with cedar oil, apply
this mixture for 20 minutes overnight. Eat pollen
and royal jelly during the entire period of com-
ing out of a fast (put 1 teaspoon under the
tongue on an empty stomach in the morning).
• 2 pm – Eat vegetable soup (cabbage, carrots,
beets, onions, potatoes, dill, parsley) – 200
• 7 pm – Eat rice soup - 200
• 10 pm – Drink compote and herbal Java tea
with honey - 200

The 3rd day:
• 8 am – Eat a fresh cabbage salad - 200, drink
fermented milk 200
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humpback salmon), drink tea, compote, kefir,
eat honey
• 6 pm – Eat boiled beets, cereals, drink tea,
compote, or kefir
• 10 pm – Drink herbal tea with honey

The 4th day:
• 8 am – Drink fresh juice, eat salads or cereals
• 12 am – Eat buckwheat porridge 200, a vege-
table salad
• 3 pm – Eat a fresh cabbage salad - 100, fish
soup, drink fermented milk 100
• 6 pm – Eat vegetable soup - 200, drink fresh
juice
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real

The 5th day:
• 8 am – Eat oatmeal with dried apricots - 150,
drink green tea - 100
• 1 pm – Eat steamed vegetables (carrots, beets,
cabbage) - 150, drink fresh juice - 200
• 5 pm – Eat soup (carrots, beets, cabbage, dark
bread crackers or bran sticks), 1 apple, drink
herbal tea with honey
• 9 pm – Drink fermented milk 200, eat fresh
fruits

The 6th day:
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• 1 pm – Eat a vegetable salad and a vegetable
soup with a piece of bread or porridge with a tea-
spoon of oil. Drink fresh juice - 250
• 5 pm – Eat soup (carrots, beets, cabbage, dark
bread crackers or bran sticks), 1 apple,  drink
herbal tea with honey
• 9 pm – Drink fermented milk -  200, eat fresh
fruits

The 7th day:
• 8 am – Eat raw grated vegetables or fruits -
250
• 1 pm – Eat 200g of lean fish cooked in any
way, except for frying. Combine it with a green
salad. Drink fr esh Juice - 200
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tea with honey 200
• 9 pm - Drink fermented milk - 200, eat fresh
fruit

The 8th day:
• 8 am – Eat fruit, drink herbal tea with honey
- 200
• 1 pm – Eat fish baked in foil, a vegetable salad
- 200, drink dry red wine half diluted with boil-
ing water - 200
• 5 pm – Eat borscht - 250, 1 apple, drink herbal
tea with honey - 200
• 9 pm – Drink fermented milk - 200, eat fresh
fruits

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The 9th day:
• 8 am – Eat raw grated vegetables or fruits -
250
• 1 pm – Eat fish soup, a vegetable salad - 200,
drink dry red wine half diluted with boiling wa-
ter - 200
• 5 pm – Eat borscht 250, 1 apple, drink herbal
tea with honey - 200
• 9 pm – Drink fermented milk - 200, eat fresh
fruit

A nutritional program for coming out of a
fast
After fasting, you can normalize digestion eas-
ily and quickly.
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low it, you will sleep well at night and feel
fresh in the morning. Your body will self -de-
tox and  your fat content will be balanced.
• Eat breakfast anytime between 8 -10 am (ear-
lier if possible). Eat fresh vegetable salads; in-
clude carrots, cabbage, and greens (braised
vegetables in the winter). Bread from
sprouted grains with honey or seaweed or
porrid ge with a drop of oil will be your main
course. Together with cabbage, carrots, and
greens, they will stimulate your digestive
tract functioning and healthy microflora; re-
store endocrine system functioning through
feedback. Eat a salad first. It will activ ate a
number of processes that underlie the normal
functioning of the body. For example, it
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because raw vegetables are rich in natural
stimulants. After a few years of this type of
nutrition, you will feel that  your body prefers
this food. As a result, fresh vegetables and
fruits can constitute 60% of your daily diet.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and juices are rich in
energy and vitality.
• People who are prone to obesity should avoid
eating sugar, bread, and cereals or eat them in
minimal quantities, though porridge must be
fresh. It’s absolutely necessary to chew them
carefully. When eating fast, a person eats 3 -5
times more porridge than necessary. It leads
to obesity. If you eat a small amount of it,
chewing it to the state of milk (according to
H. Fletcher), you’ll get rid of constipation,
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times while chewing), and eliminate conges-
tion in the gastrointestinal tract.
• For very effective body detox, take Zal-
manov’s mixed turpentine baths when com-
ing out of a fast. A full course consists of ten
baths.

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dry fasting?

19.1. Dry fasting for acute diseases.
First of all, let’s clarify what a disease is. Let’s
call a disease a certain temporary state of the
body, during which it goes from its stable state
(health) of functioning into another (unhealthy)
state, which is not characteristic of it. The body
unbala nced by a disease puts efforts (therefore,
vitality and energy) to return to its original
(healthy) state. An acute disease is a time period
when the body tries to restore its former
(healthy) state by activating vital forces and
wasting energy. The signs of an acute disease
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. I rarely
forget an appointment or a commitment. I am more productive in my job, and can work for longer periods of time in a single s tretch.
I realize that I now have a memory more closely resembling that whi ch I’m supposed to have at my age—one that works, and one that works well. My days of using diabetes as the generic scapegoat for an y mental or physical health symptom are officially over.
Learning the 80/10/10 philosophy has helped me develop a holistic understanding  of nutrition that opposes the basic desire to
obsess about the intake of a subset of nutrients. Nutrition education in th is country makes it almost impossible to know where to
look for essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, and calcium, to na me a few. It is also difficult to know how much of each
nutrient one should aim to consume on a daily basis. After all, the recomm ended daily allowance values change almost every year,
and intake values seem to change constantly, in a seemingly arbitra ry fashion. There seems to be little logic to this system.
Many Americans ponder about what the best source of omega-3 fatty  acids is, whether it’s necessary to consume bran flakes
to keep “regular,” whether organic produce is really worth the pri ce differential, whether dairy products are the best source of
calcium, and whether supplementation is really necessary. One day y ou read an article in the newspaper that claims one point of
view; the next day you read an article in a magazine that contradict s it completely. The information comes from hundreds of sources,
most of it is confusing, and almost nobody knows what to believe.
It wasn’t until learning the 80/10/10 philosophy that I finally lea rned how to filter mainstream nutrition information to achieve
optimal health. Dr. Graham’s coined statement, “Increase the pe rcentage of whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic fruits and vegetables in
your diet” was so simple and so sensible that I felt like a fool for not under standing it previously. In fact, after feeling the difference
that whole fresh, ripe, raw, organic fruits and vegetables made in my body, I  never stopped to question my nutrient intake. I stopped
obsessing about individual nutrients and started focusing on creating  holistic health.
The message that I’ve taken from the 80/10/10 lifestyle is simple: eat ing a low-fat vegan raw foods diet makes me feel like a
natural human being. Besides feeling like a million dollars every ti me I awake from deep slumber, I enjoy a feeling of simplicity that
was never present in my life on a cooked food diet. My perception of the world has ch anged for the better, and I am more at peace
with my friends, family, and daily routine.
At first I thought that in order to become a raw food vegan you had to have a rea son, an ailment, or a condition. I thought that
you had to be a cancer patient, a diabetic, or someone suffering from chronic f atigue syndrome. After all, why else would anyone
want to deprive him- or herself of the good food they grew up loving?
Today, however, I realize that the only reason you need to adopt the 80/10/10 lifest yle is that you want to feel like a natural
human being. If you’re already athletic, be prepared to experie nce increased performance and a shockingly efficient ability to
recover. If you’ve lost track of what’s important in your life, be pre pared to experience the simplicity of all that life has to offer. If
you suffer from a clouded mental state, be prepared to experience a n ew sense of clarity. And if you’re like me, and have a
condition like diabetes, be prepared to look to the future with an overwhelming s ense of hope, a gift that both the 80/10/10
nutritional philosophy and Dr. Graham have taught me to never give up.

Justin Lelia, Miami, Florida
Dr. Graham is the strongest, most humane and effective health educa tors I know. His level of happiness and his high-energy
diet inspired my turnaround. Before Dr. Graham’s program, I weighed 190 p ounds, had chronic joint pain, worked in a fast-food
restaurant, and experienced dangerous levels of depression. Now, I play ten nis and basketball, have ridden my bike over 6,000
miles in three years, have lost close to fifty pounds, and I work at an outdoor  organic farmer’s market.
Dr. Graham’s emphasis on practicing a low-fat dietary regimen i s particularly noteworthy. Raw fats may be healthier than the ir
cooked counterparts, but high-fat diets remain unhealthy no matter how w e slice, dice, or soak them.
The standard of health Dr. Graham upholds is humbling; indeed, it’s inc redibly challenging, and for this he remains unpopular
with medically minded raw fooders. They overestimate the power of food, and can  often be heard giving others prescriptions,
treating foods as if they were drugs.
Doug refuses to promote fragmented nutrition, superfoods, supplements, flus hes, and other concepts designed to compensate
for people’s lack of willpower, persistence, and responsibility;  he refuses to encourage the medically brainwashed. He has taught  me
that the best way to help others heal is through friendship and attenti on, and by inspiring them with outstanding levels of
performance.
Dr. Graham is in a league of his own … another stratosphere. His humani ty is alien-like in a world that is often categorized by
greed and impatience. The amount of time and energy Doug has graciously  and patiently volunteered in order to help me and others
climb out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into blows my mind. Sometimes I  think he’s too human for the world.

Janie Gardener, Kauai, Hawaii
I first came into contact with Dr. Graham through his VegSource onli ne discussion board about raw foods and sports nutrition.
My visit there was prompted by my decision to eat raw again.
The first time I tried going raw I did it a differently—high fat, low fr uit with ferments, condiments, oils, and the like. It worked
better than any other diet I’d tried, but my body wanted me to do what Dr. Gr aham’s program is all about, even though I did not
know Dr. Graham or his program back then.
Too bad I didn’t have the guts to just go with it like he did. I’m glad I found my  way back. Thank goodness I came across that discussion board and found out about Dr. Graham’s 80/10/10 low-fat raw veg an diet. It has made all the difference in the
improvement of my health, well-being, and life. The differences are ra dically beyond anything I had experienced before, beyond my
hopes and expectations, and into a whole new realm of health and vitality.

Autoimmune Disease
Prior to starting back on raw, I could see my health rapidly deteriorating be fore my eyes. In the summer of 2001, I was diagnosed
with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. This autoimmune condition literal ly means that you have antibodies that are attacking your
own phosphorus fats. Symptoms are mostly related to a tendency of the blood to clot a nd/or bleed excessively but also include
heart attack, stroke, and easily bruised and sunburned skin, as well as misc arriages. The condition is found in lupus patients, but
does not always develop into lupus or in all lupus patients.
I had at least four miscarriages and a host of other health problems before  it was diagnosed. I spent some time following my
MD’s suggestions (aspirin), then my chiropractor’s suggestion s (fish oil), and a mix of alternating between the two, but it was j ust
getting worse—and I had the side effects of the “medicine” to deal with  as well. I tried eating more EFA-rich foods like salmon,
flaxseed oil, walnuts, etc., but that didn’t help either.
When I switched to Dr. Graham’s program, I decided to stop all of the fish  and fish oil, flaxseed oil, and aspirin I had been
taking. I started working on eating the 80/10/10  raw vegan way in June of 2002. At first I misunderstood the 10% (or lower) fat
recommendation, thinking it referred to overt fats, not all fats, as I coul dn’t imagine not eating much overt fat. I had been eating a
very high-fat diet all of my life, including when I ate raw/living  foods the last time around.
Thus, I started out by keeping my overt fat intake down to not more than 10% of c alories (about 20% overall), which isn’t
quite 80/10/10. This
intermediate step allowed me to get things going well enough to experie nce fantastic results and inspired me to keep on going.
About six months into it, I discovered my mistake and adjusted my diet and acti vity level so that I was able to meet the
recommendations soon afterwards. I don’t think I could have done 80/10/10  without this transition, even if I had understood it from
the beginning.
I had enormous improvements in my first six months, even with my 20%-ish  fat intake. The improvements were way beyond
those I had experienced eating any other way (including other varian ts of the raw/living-food diet


 is, is that thereis no Point to Life.  Life is pointless.
And that is God’s greatest gift.
Think about it.It is precisely because God has not emblazoned
His purpose across the pages of Life that Life itself is
an Open Book.  A book that we get to write. We get
to decide what purpose we choose.
If God had chosen a purpose — if God had a pur-
pose designed into the plan — would God not tell uswhat that purpose was?  Would God allow us to spend
years, decades, centuries, searching, searching, search-
ing for the point of it all?
Again, it must be said to those of you who are
now thinking, “But God did announce the purpose
of life!”: if that is so, God did a pretty bad job of it,because if you look around you, you will see that no
one got it.
Okay, a few.  A few think they have gotten it.  They10Bringers of the Light
know the purpose of life, and it’s just all the rest of
the people who don’t understand.
Well, that, of course, is the stance taken by many
of the Earth’s major religions!  These religions teach
that they know the purpose of life. There is even a
religion or two which says it is the purpose of life,
and that all we have to do is follow the dictates of
that particular religion and we will have pleased God
mightily — and be saved.
On the other hand, if we do not follow the dic-
tates of that particular religion, we will be sent to
the everlasting fires of hell.
None of this would be such a problem if it weren’t
for the fact that there are hundreds of organized re-
ligions making essentially the same claim.
Could God have really botched the job this badly?
If God really established a purpose for Life, and re-
ally wanted us to know what that was, do you sup-pose this is the best God could do when it comes to
communicating that to us in a way we could all un-
derstand?Neale Donald Walsch 11
Or is it possible that the reason we can’t seem to
agree on the point of it all is that there simply is no
point?
In fact, that is exactly the case.  Yet this may be
difficult to accept for many people until it becomes
clear why there is no point.
There is no point because God wants us to create  a
purpose for our life.  And if God had already cre-
ated that purpose, He would have robbed us of the
greatest opportunity, and the greatest tool, that wehave as we seek to perform the function  of life.
Because, you see, while Life does not have a pur-
pose, it does have a function.
Purpose  and function  are not at all the same thing.
A clock functions  by ticking, for the purpose  of telling
time.  A car functions  by internal combustion, for the
purpose  of moving people from place to place.  A
microwave oven functions by causing food molecules
to vibrate very fast, for the purpose of heating food.
Life functions in a particular way, but for no prede-
termined purpose.  That’s because God created as the12Bringers of the Light
function of Life the determining  of a purpose.  Put
another way:
God, you see, is in the constant process of creat-
ing and recreating Itself anew. God is in each mo-ment deciding what God is going to be next. This is
God’s most exciting function.  (In fact, it is God’s
only function.)  This is pure creation.
(For a better, and complete, understanding of this
Truth, see Conversations with God - Book One (Putnam
Publishing Company, New York City, NY).Your function
is to create the
point of your life.
In so doing, you create Your Self.
You decide
who and what you really are —
and who you are going to be.
Neale Donald Walsch 13
This principle is presented here so that you may
understand that God has not assigned  a purpose or a
point to your life.  God is waiting for you to do that.
It is you who must create a raison d’etre.  And that is
what you have not yet done.  You have not created a
reason for being.14Bringers of the Light
So Step 1  here is to decide and to declare  what life
is all about — for you.  What is the purpose of
your life?  If you can’t answer that question,  go to a
larger one: What is the Purpose of Life in general?
Now... and here’s the tricky part...  do not look any-
where else for an answer.  Just sit down and decide this
for yourself.   Don’t ask yourself...  tell yourself!
Tell yourself the purpose of Life in General, and
then tell yourself what your purpose in life is going
to be.
Now your first reaction to this suggestion may very
likely be a feeling of “overwhelm”...   as in “I’m on
overwhelm. ”
You may think that the subject is just too big; that
the topic is outside the sphere of your understand-
ing.  It is not.  And you will see that it is not themoment you give yourself permission to truly start
thinking about this.
Truly start thinking about the real purpose of life
and all sorts of ideas will begin to come to you.  They
will crowd in on you so fast, you won’t know whatNeale Donald Walsch 15
hit you. Soon, if you stay with the process, you’ll start
discriminating.  That is, your mind will start throw-
ing out the absurd ideas and will quickly find itselfleft with only a few good ones.  And just as soon as it
reduces the list to those few, it will reduce the list
even further.  Left to your own devices, you will comeup with what you think the purpose of life might be
before you know it.
That is to say, you will know it before you know it.
In truth, there is a great deal that you know that
you do not know that you know.  You are carrying
around knowledge you do not know that you have.Or, to put this another way, you don’t know the half of
what you know.
The only way to find out what you know is to  call
upon yourself to know it.
That is a mouthful right there, and you may want
to go over that statement again.
‘The only way to find out what you know is to call
upon yourself to know it.’
The problem will not be in your not knowing the16Bringers of the Light
purpose of Life, the problem will be in your believing
that you know it.
In other words, it will be easier deciding for your-
self what the purpose of Life is than it will be toagree with yourself that your answer could be cor-
rect!
The reason for this is that you still think that there
is a “correct answer” — and if there is, you couldn’t
possibly have just guessed it!
Yet there is no “correct answer!”The function of your life is to give the question an
answer  — and the answer that you give to the ques-
tion is the “correct answer.”
Yes... God has given you that much authority.
Yes...God has given you that much freedom.
Yes...God has given you that much power to create.
You do not believe this, and so you have spent
years trying to figure out the Purpose of Life.  And
all the while, Life (God) has been waiting for you to
decide  Its purpose.Neale Donald Walsch 17
For now, don’t try to understand this whole
process, or the why’s and wherefore’s of it.  For
now, just follow instructions.  It’ll all become more
clear to you later.  This book is about how to be-come a Bringer of the Light.  It is not about explaining
the metaphysics of the entire universe.  Because of
its limited scope, this book requires that you takesome statements on faith and simply follow instruc-
tions.
The instruction is:
Get clear about the
purpose of your life.
So do that now.  Right now, write out the Pur-
pose of your Life.
Make a Statement of Purpose.As suggested earlier, if you have to start with a
larger statement, do so.  Complete the following sen-
tence:The purpose of  life in general is...
_________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Then complete a second sentence:
The purpose of My Life is...
_________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Have you done that?  Good.  Now you can go on.
What?  Not finished yet?  Stuck?  Can’t seem to
do it?  Re-read Conversations with God.  Take notes
this time.  Then, re-read the first pages of this book.
Take more notes if you have to.  Look deeply at what
you don’t seem to understand.  Or, if you have un-derstanding, but just can’t seem to bring yourself to18Bringers of the Lightdo it, look deeply at what you cannot allow yourself
to do.
This is a process in itself, which will be very valu-
able to you.
When you feel you can clearly state the purpose
of life in general, and the purpose of your life in
particular, move on. Neale


learning the most basic of skills. For a child,
picking up a cup or walking upstairs gives the brain practice in learning to use objects or initiate
motion. The body’s education does not end in
childhood, however. Because of the lifelong need
to adapt to the constantly changing environment,
the body requires continuing education in the
form of sensory information.  The awareness of feet and hands that is gained
when a child experiences reﬂexology can serve
throughout a lifetime. Just as brushing the teeth
preserves them, stimulating the feet and hands
through regular reﬂexology can act as a
preventive against loss of function later on.
At the other end of life, physical awareness of
hands and feet can help to maintain independent
living. Reﬂexology can help show elderly people
how to retain their mobility by making them
more aware of their feet, legs, and walking habits,
thereby reducing the likelihood of falls and
consequent health problems.  teaching children reflexology
techniques will give them an awareness of
their hands and feet that will stand them in
good stead throughout their life.
building physical awareness 45Improv Ing body funct Ion
Knowing that you are making a difference to
your health by applying reﬂexology techniques is
empowering, as it imparts a sense of control over
your body’s health. Research has shown that
reﬂexology creates positive change in the body,
improving the functioning of virtually every
organ and system. For example, during several
studies those who received reﬂexology work
showed improved blood flow to the kidneys and
intestines, benefiting the urinary system and
digestion, as well as strengthening the immune
system. These changes did not appear among
members of the control groups.
 Personal stories too demonstrate that the use
of reﬂexology can improve the aging experience,
help you to avoid the pitfalls of the later years,
and make you feel actively well. Even dramatic
change is possible. At a brain injury center, we
once met a stroke patient, John. Like many stroke
patients, John felt that his body had betrayed
him. After we had performed reﬂexology work
on his paralysed hand, he became able to swing
his arm around in a manner that had previously
been impossible for him. John had needed a
boost to reconnect with (from his viewpoint) his
disappointing appendage and the body that had Aiming for healthy aging
As the saying goes,  you’re only as old as you feel; and there’s nothing like
taking positive steps to give you a sense of choice in the aging process. By the
very act of seeking to ensure healthy aging, you take control and embrace the
concept of working toward optimal well-being. You will know that you are on
the right track, because research as well as personal stories demonstrate that
reﬂexology can make a difference in how we age.
46 benef Its for l Ifebetrayed him. He was very happy and excited
to see that change could take place. Using reﬂexology to boost healthy aging
means targeting particular areas. One elderly
gentleman, for example, explained that he used
the hand reﬂexology nail-bufﬁng technique,
which targets the head reﬂex area, to “get his
brain going” every morning.
prevent Ive act Ion
For younger individuals, it makes sense to direct
reflexology techniques toward specific areas of
concern in order to prevent future problems
arising. One young client was interested to learn
that her bunions were related to upper back and
neck reﬂex areas. She immediately wanted to
learn techniques to stave off upper back and
neck problems, which may have accounted for
the stooped posture of her mother.  For many people, using reflexology for
preventive purposes is of interest with regard to
hereditary diseases, common problems such as
high blood pressure and high cholesterol, or
one of the four “geriatric giants” (confusion,
falls, incontinence, and immobility). Whatever
the focus may be, reﬂexology provides an
instrument for maintaining your state of health. “Research has shown
that reflexology creates
positive change in the
body, improving the
functioning of virtually
every organ.”IncorporatIng reflexology
into your everyday life while
you are still young can bring
health benefits many
decades into the future.
aImIng for healthy ag Ing 47teaching self-reliance
Young children are great mimics, and people
practicing reflexology will not escape their notice.
Seeing their parents apply self-help techniques or
becoming aware that their parents visit a
reﬂexologist will make them want to experience
reflexology for themselves.
 The value of empowering a child to affect his
or her health through a tool such as reﬂexology
is beyond measure. How better to engender self-
reliance than to give a child a means to
communicate with his or her body? For example,
the parents of a ﬁve-year-old were driving their
son to a birthday party when he insisted they
return home to fetch his golf ball. Only then did
his parents realize he was using a reﬂexology
self-help technique to cope with his migraines;
his babysitter had used the golf-ball self-help
technique to cope with her sinus headaches and
he had picked up the information from her.  The application of self-help techniques allows
the child an opportunity to relieve his or her
“owies,” as one two-year-old puts it. Some
children are just too young to convey a message
about aches and pains, while older children
aren’t always in the presence of their parents to
report every stomach upset or painful tumble. Self-help reflexology
Just as other life skills  are passed on by parents to their children, self-help
reﬂexology techniques can be a part of everyday living and are a skill well
worth teaching. Far from being for children only, however, self-reliance with
regard to health matters is a good habit for everyone to acquire. Your own use
of reﬂexology and the benefits you gain from it will inspire your friends and
family members to take it up themselves.
48 benefits for lifeTeaching children elements of reflexology allows
them to address their day-to-day physical ups
and downs without parental help.
 Not only will your children be inﬂuenced by
exposure to your reﬂexology work; adults too
will take notice. One client was so pleased with a
golf-ball self-help technique he used for his sinus
problems that he took his golf ball to work. He
became tired of his ofﬁcemate’s complaints about
sinus problems, handed him a golf ball, and
soon there were two using the technique.
a rewarding experience
Encouraging the use of self-help reﬂexology by
older friends and relatives can be especially
rewarding. An Oregon Research Institute study,
for example, found that the use of self-help
cobblestone mat-walking by older adults led to
signiﬁcant improvements in both mental and
physical well-being, including reductions in
blood pressure and pain levels. In elderly
participants in the study, there were significant
improvements in their ability to perform
activities of daily living, increased psychosocial
well-being, and reduced daytime sleepiness and
pain. Participants also reported greatly improved
perceptions of control over falls.“Young children are
great mimics, and
people, especially
parents, practicing
reflexology will not
escape their notice.” perceiving reflexology  to
be an everyday tool that will help
with any troublesome physical
problems will encourage children
to give it a go.
self-help reflexology 49The rewards of using reﬂexology are considerable.
There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of
triumphing over a health concern through your
own efforts, partly because you have found a
solution within your own control and
also because you have avoided the
use of medication. One client is
delighted that she can turn off the
ringing in her ears not only for the Creating natural solutions
While research documents  the effectiveness of reﬂexology, it does not
give the human side of the story or the implications of ﬁnding natural solutions
to health concerns. Whether you are seeking help for yourself or a loved one,
there are many advantages to reﬂexology. It is available for use any time and
anywhere; there are no side effects; it works naturally; and the impact can be
achieved quickly. The sense of control over your symptoms is very empowering.
50“From the smallest
problem to some of life’s
greatest challenges, it
seems that reflexology is
the natural solution
with the gentle touch.”
benefits for liferelief from discomfort but also for the sense of
inﬂuence over her own body that this gives.
Another is so pleased to have alleviated his
allergy symptoms that he hands out
printed instructions so others can try
them. Reflexology can provide a
solution when nothing else seems
to work, for example in the case
of dysmenorrhea (menstrual older siblings  can have fun
working on the hands and feet
of a baby brother or sister, who
will appreciate


widespread. Conventional dentistry has placed highly poisonous mercury in the mouths of hundreds of
millions of people. The mercury exposure of dentists and suffering caused by dentistry explains in
part why dentists have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. Tens of millions of needless
root canals have been performed. Modern dentistry has drilled deeply into healthy parts of millions of
teeth because of the failed treatment policy of “extension for prevention.” It has caused irreversible
pulp damage in millions of tooth nerves with drills that spin too fast. The profit-motivated system of
dentistry has led to tens of millions of needless dental procedures. Modern dentistry has poisoned
tens of millions of children by promoting the topical and internal use of the unproven poison fluoride.
And dentistry has in some cases killed innocent children slowly from the side effects of dental
surgery, from swallowing fluoride, and from deadly side effects of disease-inciting metals implanted
in children’s mouths. If this dental massacre had any benefits to show then perhaps it could be
exonerated. But it does not. After the age of sixty, the average individual has more than half of the
teeth affected by tooth decay. And after this age, the average person has lost more than eight teeth, not
including the wisdom teeth.
Many of us are literally carrying around dental trauma as mercury fillings from this war on bacteria. I
myself am also a victim. I had seven mercury-based fillings placed during my teenage years. None of
these teeth ever hurt me prior to their butchery by the dental drill. During a checkup large holes were
drilled unnecessarily into my teeth because of some tiny specks that appeared on an x-ray. Each one
of those teeth is now permanently and irrevocably damaged from the excavations of the dental drill. I
will discuss the disaster of modern orthodontics in the next chapter.
In light of all this, when people are hesitant to go to the dentist, or are afraid of the dentist, I am not
surprised.
How could you not be afraid of the dentist?
In this chapter you will learn how to navigate through the swamp of bad dentistry. You will learn
what the hazards of conventional dentistry are and how to avoid them. You will learn how to locate
the few good dentists that are out there to help you repair all the toxic and damaging dental work from
the past. You will learn how to communicate effectively with your dentist so that he serves your
needs. I will help guide you in understanding and identifying what exactly is and has happened to your
tooth that is causing you pain, so that you can take steps to resolve it with nutrition only, with surgery,
or with both.Toxic Dentistry
Conventional dentists drill holes in your teeth in exchange for money and then place a poisonous
substance in your mouth (mercury fillings) to prevent bacteria from making a hole in your teeth.
Conventional dentistry is so bad that many conscientious dentists are doing their best to get the word
out to the public. A majority of dentists who have become holistically oriented did not even start out
with a holistic mindset. Generally their transformation was inspired after a painful wakeup call, such
as their own symptoms of mercury poisoning, or the dentist sees the dreaded result of their poor
dental care failing their patients, or themselves. As a result, many dentists who see the problems
inherent in conventional dentistry feel extreme remorse for their years in practice of toxic dentistry.
And a few of the dentists who feel a duty to prevent the shameful practice of modern dentistry to
continue make a good effort to inform the public about diseases caused by dentistry. Some have even
written books in order to inform the public about the extreme danger that may be lurking in our
mouths. These books are valuable supplemental readings to this one, especially if you want more
details about the problems with dental materials and dentistry. They include
Whole Body Dentistry
by dentist Mark Breiner, published in 1999;
Uniformed Consent
 by dentist Hal Huggins, published in
1999;
The Key to Ultimate Health
 by Ellen Brown and dentist Richard Hansen, 1998;
It’s All In
Your Head: the link between mercury amalgams and illness
by Dr. Hal Huggins, 1993;
Are Your
Dental Fillings Poisoning You?
by dentist Guy Fasciana, published in 1986.
Diseases and Mercury
The first reported case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma was recorded in 1832 shortly after the first amalgam
fillings were used. Dr. Olympio Pinto introduced the subject of mercury toxicity to Dr. Hal Huggins
in 1973. When finishing his master’s degree at Georgetown University Dr. Pinto’s thesis topic was
mercury toxicity. His thesis was never published because the National Institute of Dental Research,
part of the National Institutes of Health, found out about his project and stopped it.
1
 Dr. Huggins
eventually published the material himself in the
Journal of the International Academy of
Preventative Medicine
 in 1976.
That mercury fillings are highly toxic is without question. According to the US government’s Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry mercury is ranked #3 of the most toxic chemicals or
metals on the planet. Arsenic and lead are slightly ahead of it, but chloroform, cyanide, and plutonium
are less toxic to humans than mercury.
2
 Mercury fillings are also wrongly called amalgam fillings or
silver fillings to disguise their main ingredient, mercury. Mercury accounts for approximately 50% of
a mercury filling. Imagine if you had a plutonium filling or a cyanide filling that this filling would
probably be safer for you than a mercury filling depending on how fast those poisons released from
the fillings.
A report by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry restricts the safe level of mercury
vapor for the average person to 0.28 micrograms. Various studies report that the average intake of
mercury vapor from mercury amalgams is between 4-19 micrograms, in other words 10-50 times
higher than the safe level of mercury vapor.
3
 Studies on 10-year-old fillings show that a large portion
of mercury has leaked out and evaporated by the end of the ten years. It has leaked directly into theindividual’s body. Unfortunately the mercury loss does not make the fillings any safer to keep in your
mouth, as the mercury continually leaks out at the same rate for years and years. Due to a relatively
recent lawsuit settlement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now forced to admit that silver
fillings containing mercury “may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing
children and fetuses.”
4
Mercury is so poisonous that it and metal dental filling materials are known to cause birth defects,
chronic fatigue, indigestion, leukemia, hormonal imbalances, fibromyalgia, seizures, arthritis, Bell’s
palsy, allergies, and multiple sclerosis. Mercury fillings are banned in many countries including
Sweden, Germany, and Japan.
Despite this evidence, and volumes more about the extreme danger of mercury in the body, the code
of ethics of the American Dental Association specifically prohibits dentists from telling patients to
remove their mercury fillings because mercury is toxic.
ADA Code of Conduct 5.A.1 Dental Amalgam and other Restorative Materials
"[R]emoval of amalgam restorations... for the alleged purpose of removing toxic substances from the
body, when such a treatment is performed solely at the recommendation or suggestion of the dentist, is
improper and unethical."
5
Dentists who are caught disobeying the ADA code of conduct can lose their license. Dentists are
allowed to remove mercury fillings by your request, your doctor’s request, or if your fillings are
damaged. But they cannot say that they advise removing functional mercury fillings because mercury
is toxic. What happened to the dentist’s constitutional right of free speech and the ancient oath of the
physician to “first, do no harm”?
What to Do About Current Mercury Fillings?
There is no question that mercury fillings are highly toxic. Yet many people are able to resist this
toxicity for quite some time. The most concentrated exposure to mercury comes when fillings are
placed and when they are removed. Healthy people have high levels of glutathione and other
substances which naturally detoxify the effects of the mercury fillings. As people age or if they are in
otherwise poor health, their resistance to mercury poisoning from the fillings decreases, and thus the
fillings will eventually lead to disease. If you think your fillings might be making you sick, seek the
advice of a mercury-free dentist, a holistic M.D., or a naturopathic doctor who can perform a mercury
challenge test to see if indeed you are retaining mercury.
Replacing mercury fillings must be done with extreme care and timing. If your dentist does not follow
a careful protocol that includes protective devices such as a rubber dam, vacuum for the vapors, and
a mask, then you could be exposed to microscopic mercury particles and mercury fumes that are
highly toxic. At least six people have contacted me complaining of relentless tooth pain after having
their amalgam fillings replaced. The drill got too close to the nerve and was over stimulated. Having
several teeth drilled to remove mercury fillings in someone with a sensitive system can explain this
negative result. Some people whose bite is out of position will have an already hypersensitive
nervous system. This hypersensitivity is compounded


, cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen, CBF, and survival.
75–78
CPP is defined as the net pressure gradient that drives CBF to perfuse the brain.
It is generally measured as the MAP minus ICP (MAP − ICP). CPP in adults is normally between 70 and 100 mmHg, while the normal ICP ranges from 5 to 15 mmHg.
79,80
It is important that CPP be maintained at narrow limits during trauma to the
brain, because if it is too low, it can contribute to both brain ischemia and irreversible
brain damage and if it is too high, it can raise ICP and increase the risk of complica -
tions or death.79 One standard technique of lowering ICP after brain trauma in people
is to induce controlled hyperventilation in order to maintain PaCO2 at the low end of
normal, that is, 35–40 mmHg.79213 DMSO in Clinical Neuroprotection
The basic studies on the use of DMSO for traumatic brain injury previously
reported in monkeys75–78 led to several pilot clinical trials using IV DMSO on head-
injured patients. One early study by Waller et al.81 tested DMSO on 11 adult patients
with high ICP and a GCS score of 4–6 following brain trauma or subarachnoid
hemorrhage. All 11 patients had failed to respond to standard therapy and were con-sidered to be on the verge of dying. DMSO was given as a rapid bolus intravenously in a 40% or 10% solution at 1 g/kg. This dose was repeated every 6 h as needed to maintain the ICP below 20 mmHg.
81
In all patients, DMSO effectively increased diuresis and reduced the ICP where
standard therapy had failed. DMSO treatment showed that three patients who were expected to die survived with good recovery; the other eight patients died despite their initial normalization of the intracranial hypertension, which could not be con -
trolled after several days.
81
The ability of DMSO to maintain CPP above 60 mmHg as shown by
Brown et al.77,78 after severe brain trauma may explain the benefit seen in Waller’s
et al.81 results on patients with lethal ICPs. This conclusion has support from a pre -
liminary study showing the importance of maintaining CPP from sinking too low in the presence of high ICP.
77
The findings from the study by Waller et al.81 indicated that aggressive manage -
ment to keep CPP above 60 mmHg can lead to good neurological outcomes despite the presence of extremely high ICP. Such a process may work by lowering cerebro -
vascular resistance, which will increase CBF to supply low perfusion brain regions where undamaged but dysfunctional penumbral brain cells at risk of dying can be rescued.
A study by Marshall et al.
82 was reported several years after the Waller et al.81
clinical trial using DMSO for intractable, severe head injury. Six patients refractory to barbiturate and other standard treatments were given 10% DMSO intravenously at a dose of 1 g/kg.
82 Because of difficulties with fluid overload reflected by elec-
trolyte disturbances and increased pulmonary wedge pressure, DMSO was titrated against ICP and readministered as a 20% solution. DMSO was observed to rapidly lower ICP below 20 mmHg  in all but one patient within an average of 6 h, three patients responding after 3–4 h and the rest after 12–18 h. It was not clear from this report how many of the six patients died when ICP could no longer be controlled, but it must be assumed that poor survival resulted.
82 Both at 10% and 20% DMSO
volumes, electrolyte disturbances involving hypernatremia developed in all patients treated.
These investigators reported that DMSO was a rapid and effective agent  in
lowering uncontrolled ICP where standard therapy had failed but were also dis -
couraged from handling DMSO because they needed to use special plastic IV bags and IV tubing that were not made of polyvinyl chloride.
82 The reason for
not using polyvinyl chloride tubing and IV bags is that DMSO is known to leach this plastic when it comes in contact with it.
76 However, this problem can be
readily overcome by using glass dispensing IV bottles and teflon IV tubing or teflon catheters.
83 The electrolyte problems encountered in the Marshall et al.82
study were likely due to the high IV volumes given at 10% and 20% solutions at a concentration of 1 g/kg.214 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
A brief communication by Gumerlock and Neuwelt83 shortly following the clini -
cal study by Marshall et al.82 involved five closed head injury patients treated with
IV DMSO for increased ICP. DMSO 20% solution was given at 100 mg/kg as an
initial bolus followed by repeated hourly infusions of 100 mg/kg tapering off as ICP was lowered. A rapid response was observed after the DMSO bolus and ICP was reduced to normal levels using this regimen.
83 The aftermath of these treatments
with DMSO consisted of two outcomes. The first outcome involved two children given IV DMSO. The first was a 1(1/2)-year-old girl admitted with a GCS score of 7 (severe) and an ICP of 30 mmHg. This patient received DMSO for 84 h after being unresponsive to mannitol treatment and recovered slowly over a 3-week period when she was discharged from the hospital. Her electrolytes during treatment remained normal, including serum sodium values.
83
The second patient was a 7-year old child admitted with a GCS of 5 (severe) and
ICP of 25 mmHg.83 Using the same aforementioned regimen, DMSO was given for
36 h and ICP was controlled during that time. The patient recovered after 8 weeks and was discharged from the hospital. Serum electrolytes remained normal during treatment, including sodium values. The remaining three patients were adults rang -
ing in age from 17 to 52  years old who were admitted with GCS scores of 3–5 (severe).
83 Two of these three patients had ICPs above 50 mmHg. Although all three
patients initially responded to the DMSO regimen used before, the ICP escaped con -
trol and all three died. The sodium values in these DMSO nonresponders ranged from 159 to 172 mmol/L.
83
Although the number of patients in this trial was small, it is of interest to note
that age and ICP values may have played a role in the response and final outcome to DMSO and to the elevated serum sodium concentrations. The very high ICP seen in the three adult patients in the Gumerlock and Neuwelt
83 study and the time it took
to administer DMSO may have determined the irreversibility of the injury and the inability by DMSO to affect the eventual outcome recorded.
OPTIMAL DMSO DOSE FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
The findings published by Marshall et al.82 and by Gumerlock and Neuwelt using
DMSO in human head injury and the experimental findings by de la Torre et al.75,76
and Brown et al.77,78 using rhesus monkeys and by others using smaller mammals
subjected to a variety of brain insults84–86 indicated that the optimal  dose of IV
DMSO to be given after traumatic brain injury should be 28% solution at a staring concentration of 1–1.5 g/kg.
The aforementioned volume and concentration of DMSO were theorized in order
to avoid fluid overload, electrolyte disturbances, and significant hemolysis while ensuring a safer and more effective response to increased ICP. The DMSO fluid delivery time would also optimally range between a fast bolus and a fast drip as originally suggested by de la Torre et al.
76
The recommended dosing schedule for DMSO was adopted in a preliminary
study by Turkish investigators. IV DMSO was administered as a first-line treatment to 10 patients with severe closed head injury by Karaça et al.
87 using a 28% solution 215 DMSO in Clinical Neuroprotection
at a concentration of 1.12 g/kg delivered as a fast drip. On admission, the mean ICP
recorded was 73 mmHg and ranged from 40 to 127 mmHg.
The DMSO dose was reduced by half if and when the ICP reached <20 mmHg.
DMSO was continued for 10 days or until stabilization of the ICP or full recovery was observed. These investigators reported a dramatic lowering of ICP in all but three patients after a 6-day treatment. Neurological improvement and survival were observed in the remaining seven patients followed up for 3 months.
87 Two patients in
this series died, and one patient had poor neurologic outcome.
The modified DMSO dose and its application to severe head injury patients shortly
after admission differed substantially from the previous trials that used DMSO as a second-line treatment. These findings using IV DMSO as a primary treatment for severe closed head injury could be described as dramatic  due to the reduction in
permanent disability, 75% survival rate, and 25% mortality that historically has


 already wrote that in a state
hibernation can stay microorganisms in their protective
shells, plants in the form of "naked" or in different shells, seeds,
and protozoa, in a state of suspended animation
in capsules, pods, shells and other protective devices.
Close to anabiosis is dormant - winter and summer.
fall into hibernation already cold-blooded and some types of warm-blooded
animals. But if the state of suspended animation is different in length
time, sometimes - the years and even centuries, the different hibernation
seasonal - winter or summer.
As will be discussed on the fallen man in suspended animation, and this
the only known case in Russia among people, then we
noting that in humans with this should be before entering
in suspended animation, during the occurrence, during a stay in suspended animation
and upon exit - and all this in comparison with the hibernation of hibernating
as the most studied phenomenon. So, before hibernating hibernation
animals lose a lot of water - through increased urination,
through the gastrointestinal tract, sweating, breathing. When
This gastro-intestinal tract is fully cleansed of microbes,
there are only "own" harmless microbes saprophytes,
that hibernate along with the "boss" and wake up
with him.
If the body of Hambo Lama after immersion in suspended animation contained
a water, then over many decades of stay in a wooden
crypt of water evaporated from the body and it would, at best,
would become a mummy. We are witnessing a saved turgor
(Softness, elasticity) of the skin Hambo Lama, the mobility of all
joints (retained fluid lubrication of the joints), muscle tone,
capable of holding the head and body in the lotus position. When
scratches on the skin made ichor pinkish color -
that is, liquid blood. Analysis of blood tests showed low levels of
hemoglobin in it - anemia. But it was a false indicator, then
we will explain why. Taken for study under an electron
microscope microparticles hair, nail plates, leather
have shown that cells from the body of Hambo Lama completely preserved
its internal structure (core, cytochromes, Golgi bodies, even
chemically very active lysosomes - "killer" microbes) and were
ready for action. Without the fluid that fills the space
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52cells, a condition observed would not have been possible
- Cells would simply ssohlis.
So what is it for a neissyhayuschaya saving liquid?
Answer directly - it is glycerin! Scientists have long been known that when
inflow into hibernation, especially in winter, all the animals studied
water in the blood was replaced with glycerol. This polyhydric alcohol
as a necessary part of the body produces in it
by oxidation of fatty acids. It does not dry out, does not freeze at
cooling, not expanding and not "compressed" in a volume with a difference
temperatures - in general, contains all the keeping of the liquid
body, no matter where they were: in blood, joints, brain.
Water is also in cells in the blood, turning into ice during freezing
and expanding at the same time, that is increasing in volume, mechanical
would blow apart the cells and blood vessels.
Note that both the indigenous inhabitants of our North and Far
East are different from us, other Russians, amazing
Frost resistance: a severe frosts, they can walk without
headgear, sleep in snowdrifts can hold in your hands without
or the consequences of any peremorozhennuyu piece of iron - and nothing!
VK Arseniev, ethnographer, and writer, researcher Far
East, somehow surprised to see his hero Dersu Uzala sleeping
bareheaded on tridtsatigradusnom cold, and yet
a native only frosty hair.
The peoples of the Russian North and Far East, to which
owned and Buryatia, more blood than others, is contained
alcohols, mainly glycerol and ethanol, because they have, and it
found exactly in the blood are not the enzymes that destroy
alcohols. Consequently, they are genetically better adapted
to the transfer of colds.
But this adaptability in an age of brutal civilization
turns these peoples side: they are thus
unprotected from ethyl alcohol (vodka). That's why it's so fast
ruin oneself by drink Aborigines those edges - and not only men but also women:
due to the absence of alcohol enzymes.
Sometimes the body of Hambo Lama shown on television naked
from the back. Some observant viewers noticed, probably
attention to the fact that the lower part of the body Hambo Lama appears edematous
and has a bluish-purple color. Hematoma? No, it's liquid blood,
gravity descended downward and transmission
through intact vessels - red blood cells in glycerol. If we take on
analysis of a drop of blood from this part of the body, the analysis did not show anemia, as
Analysis of the upper body, and even high levels of hemoglobin.
Just in the body of Hambo Lama happened uneven distribution
red blood cells under the influence of gravity - he for many decades
was in the same lotus posture. But this is traditional for
Buddhists, the lotus posture is, if I may say so, very
suitable for long-term presence in her man.
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53If immersed in suspended animation, for example, the Orthodox, it
would put in the vault (tomb) in the supine position, and then on
the surface of his body in places where the skin predlezhat bones - and it is
occipital part, scapula, sacrum with coccyx, heel,
- In these places from the constant pressure would arise necrosis -
bedsores, as we see it in heavy lay motionless
patients. in the lotus posture is all the hard parts of the body, except
sacrum, outside pressure on them (selected), and accumulated
in the lower liquid nesminaemaya glycerol-red cells
"Cushion" safely and for a very long time, protects against pressure
and the sacrum.
In 2002, when extracting from the land of the crypt with the body of Hambo Lama
and the body itself, and a crypt were dry - no water allowed
body remain perfectly intact, indicating that
of very careful preparation of "home", which was to
long time to stay immersed in suspended animation man.
For the crypt was used planks of the resinous
cedar, which is very resistant to rotting, boards have been very carefully
adjusted to one another, and the joints were certainly prosmoleny.
On the tarred nothing in the available materials were not reported,
but this is very logical, and it can be easily verified,
carefully examining the vault inside. Osmolka could be made
and fire and heated stones, or heated metal
subjects, and traces of them should stay.
Thorough preparation for the burial vault him as a man
suggests that care in suspended animation and preparing Hambo Lama, the most
carefully. He is clever and literate man of his
time, the head of the Buddhists of the vast region, if so, and asked
approximate open tomb 30 years after burial, to
examine the state of his body - even in my thoughts could not
to imagine that his body had not decayed. He knew what
then the shame would fall on the reverence the memory of him is proizoydi.
He could not prevent. simple and logical conclusion: the mean
before the final immersion in suspended animation and were "rehearsing" for
confluence in suspended animation in and out of it, makes some adjustments
amendment, and future descendants will certainly be left secret
written (it is written!) - guidance, advice on
extracting the crypt with the body of the earth, his re-immersion.
Even body care Hambo Lama after the final extraction
from the crypt and put it into another glass already there,
In our opinion, the special instructions in writing. This can be
suggest, even watching as a professional, very clear
and confidently performed a ritual for body care Hambo Lama, though
people did it repeatedly. But precedents for this phenomenon is not
it was never just in Buryatia, but throughout the world. Is that a very
secretly and far away - somewhere in Tibet or the Himalayas. But we
this we know nothing.
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54As extracted in 2002 from the ground body Hambo Lama
Itigilova is in excellent condition and are not inspired
no fear, then moving it in a glass sarcophagus,
and without air-conditioning, at normal room temperature,
pursue other goals - not urgent. Maybe so ordered
Hambo Lama in his will, perhaps preparing his exit
of suspended animation, though judging by the fact that building a new church for his
stay, this awakening will not come soon. But if in this temple
provides a place to host a live person and not just
Friendly and with great honor, then we can assume
that the "awakening" will be held after completion of the
temple or a little later.
The mechanism of entry into suspended animation, though not as long as
a Hambo Lama, well-established, not only among Tibetan lamas, which
Itigilov belonged to himself, but also for yogis of India, Chinese, Japanese
monks, and possibly in other nations of Southeast Asia. These
people


 a weight-loss aid.  It is argued that because coleus stimulates cellular metabolism, it will help to promote weight loss. There is no evidence to support this, though it may be of use if weight gain is due  to poor thyroid function.
Dried leaves Fresh leavesNative to India, coleus is used in Indian folk medicine
rather than within the Ayurvedic tradition, and is a traditional digestive remedy. It shot to fame in Western medical circles when one of its constituents, forskolin, was first isolated in the 1970s. Research by an Indian/German company showed that forskolin was a powerful medicine for various conditions, including heart failure, glaucoma, and bronchial asthma.
 RCautions Do not take for circulatory problems or glaucoma
without professional advice.
Dried rootLeaves have valuable
medicinal properties and are also eaten in pickles.Root is unearthed in autumn when the active constituents are most concentrated.
US_084-085_Coleus_Commiphora.indd   84 26/02/16   3:58 pm85Commiphora molmolkey medicinal plants Commiphora molmol syn. C. myrrha  (Burseraceae)
MyrrhMyrrh
A spiny, deciduous tree
growing to 16 ft (5 m),
with yellow-red flowers
and pointed fruit.
Myrrh trees yield a thick, yellow resin
that has a distinct, aromatic odor.
It is used in mouthwashes.
Habitat & Cultivation
Native to northeast Africa, especially
Somalia, myrrh is now also found in
Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, and Thailand. It grows in thickets and
likes well-drained soil and sun. Myrrh
is propagated from seed in spring
or from cuttings at the end of the
growing season. The resin is collected
from cut branches and is dried for use.
Related Species
A number of closely related
Commiphora  species are used
interchangeably with myrrh.
See guggul ( C. mukul, p. 193).
Key Constituents
■ Gum (30–60%), acidic
 polysaccharides
■ Resin (25–40%)
■ Volatile oil (3–8%), including
 heerabolene, eugenol, and
 many furanosesquiterpenes
Parts Used Key Preparations & Their UsesKey Actions
■ Antiseptic
■ Astringent
■ Antiparasitic
■ Anti-inflammatory
■ Antiulcer
■ Wound healer
Research
■ Antibiotic Egyptian research
confirms that myrrh is a key treatment
for certain parasitic infections, notably
liver flukes and schistosomiasis (both
common and serious waterborne
diseases). In one clinical study, myrrh
extract cleared all signs of liver fluke
infection within 6 days, with patients
remaining clear 3 months later.
Others have been similarly
successful. It is also being studied as
a gastric ulcer remedy and for anti-
cancer properties. The gum resin
has thyroid-stimulating activity.
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Mouth & throat remedy  Being
astringent and strongly antiseptic,
myrrh is a favored remedy for sore
throats, canker sores, and gingivitis
(gum disease). As myrrh is not soluble in water, tincture or essential oil is used
and diluted. The resulting mouthwash
or gargle is often swiftly effective
(though tastes very bitter). Myrrh’s
key actions also make it valuable in
countering infection throughout the
digestive tract, while at the same time
it promotes healing in inflamed areas,
notably gastric ulcers.
■ Ayurvedic remedy In Ayurvedic
medicine, myrrh is considered a tonic
and aphrodisiac and to cleanse the
blood. It has a reputation for improving
intellect. Myrrh is also taken for
irregular or painful menstruation.
■ External uses Myrrh is an
underused treatment for skin
problems such as acne, boils, and
inflammatory conditions. The herb’s
drying and slightly anesthetizing effect
has led to its use in Germany as a
treatment for pressure sores caused
by prosthetic limbs.
Self-help Uses
■ Acne & boils, p. 305.
■ Mouth & tongue ulcers, p. 306.
■ Canker sores & gum
 problems, p. 306.
■ Oral thrush, p. 314.
■ Sore throats, p. 311.Myrrh has been used in perfumes, incense, and
embalming, and, as a symbol of suffering, was one of
the three gifts offered to the infant Jesus by the Three
Wise Men. Myrrh is also one of the oldest known
medicines and was extensively used by the ancient
Egyptians. It is an excellent remedy for mouth and throat
problems, with a drying, slightly bitter taste, and it is also
useful for skin problems.
 QCautions Do not use in pregnancy. Do not take the essential oil internally. Gum resin  oozes from fissures or
cuts in the bark of the tree and dries
into yellow-red solid pieces.
Tincture  (to make, p. 292).
For mouth ulcers, carefully
dab on a little every hour.
Capsules  (to make, p. 292). For
bronchial congestion, take a
300 mg capsule twice a day.Mouthwash  Dilute 1 tsp
tincture (to make, p. 292)
with 1⁄2 cup (100 ml) water
and use as a mouthwash or
for sore throats.
Essential oil  For congested
sinuses, dilute 3 drops in
1 tsp carrier oil and massage
gently ( see p. 297).
Powder  Rub a little onto
sore gums 3 times daily. Dried gum resin
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86Corydalis yaNHUs U okey medicinal plantsCorydalis yanhusuo (Papaveraceae)
Corydalis, Y an Hu Suo (Chinese) Corydalis
A small herbaceous plant growing to  8 in (20 cm) with narrow leaves and pink flowers.
Corydalis is commonly prescribed
by the Chinese in formulations for
period pain.
Habitat & Cultivation
Native to Siberia, northern China, and
Japan, corydalis is commonly cultivated in eastern and northeastern parts of China. It is propagated from seed in early spring or autumn, and the rhizome is harvested in late spring and early summer when the aerial parts have withered.
Related Species
C. cava, a related species from southern Europe, has been shown
to provide relief from involuntary tremors and ataxia (shaky movements). C. gariana, native to the Himalayas, is used in India as a detoxifying and tonic herb for skin problems and genito-urinary infections. Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis, p. 213), used to treat skin problems, is also closely related.
Key Constituents
■ Alkaloids (including corydalis L,
 corydaline, tetrahydropalmatine   [THP], protopine)
■ Protoberberine-type alkaloid
 (leonticine)
Parts Used Key Preparations & Their UsesKey Actions
■ Analgesic
■ Antispasmodic
■ Sedative
Research
■ Analgesic properties Research
in China from the 1950s onward has shown that corydalis has useful pain-relieving properties. The powdered rhizome has up to one-tenth of the analgesic potency of morphine—an alkaloid derived from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum, p. 244). Morphine is highly concentrated and the strongest analgesic in medical
use. Although this research shows corydalis to be much weaker in its effect than morphine, it nonetheless indicates the value of corydalis in
pain relief.
■  Alkaloids The strongest analgesic
alkaloid in corydalis is corydaline. Tetrahydropalmatine (THP), another alkaloid, is analgesic and sedative and has been shown to work, at least in part, by blocking the dopamine receptors in the central nervous system. This constituent is also
known to stimulate secretion of the adrenocorticotro phic hormone
(ACTH) by the anterior pituitary gland, which controls aspects of stress.■  Menstrual pain Several clinical
trials in China have shown corydalis
to be very effective in relieving menstrual pain.
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Pain relief Corydalis is specifically
taken to treat pain, and is used in
Chinese herbal medicine to relieve pain resulting from almost any cause. It is rarely taken on its own, being combined with various other herbs as appropriate.
■ Period pain Corydalis is well
worth trying as a natural treatment for period pain, and combines  well with cramp bark (Viburnum opulus, p. 150).
■ Abdominal conditions Many
types of abdominal pain, whether in the lower abdomen as in appendicitis, or in the upper abdomen as


, unless otherwise stated.
Reputable herbal suppliers are the best place
to buy powdered herbs and, in general, the
finer the powder the better the grade and quality. Gelatin or vegetarian capsule cases
are also available from specialist outlets. Powdered slippery elm (Ulmus rubra, p. 145) makes a useful base for poultices (see p. 295), and astringents such as witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana, p. 102) may be applied to weeping skin or mixed into ointments (see p. 295) for hemorrhoids and varicose veins.Tinctures
Tinctures are made by soaking an herb in alcohol. This encourages the active
plant constituents to dissolve, giving tinctures a relatively stronger action than infusions or decoctions. They are convenient to use and last up to two years. Tinctures can be made using a jug and a jelly bag, instead of a wine press. Although mainly used in European, American, and Australian herbal medicine, tinctures play a part in most herbal traditions.
Capsules & Powders
Powdered herbs are most easily taken as capsules but can be sprinkled on food or taken with water. Externally, they can be applied as a dusting powder to the skin or mixed with tinctures as a poultice (see p. 295).Standard Quantity
200 g dried or 300 g fresh herb chopped into
small pieces to 1 quart (1 liter) alcohol—vodka of 35–40% alcohol is ideal, although rum hides the taste of bitter or unpalatable herbs
Standard Dosage
T ake 1 tsp (5 ml) 2 –3 times a day diluted in  1 tbsp plus 1 tsp (25 ml) of water or fruit juice.
Storage
Store in sterilized, dark glass bottles in a cool dark place for up to 2 years.
Standard Quantity
Fill size 00 capsules, which contain approximately 250 mg of powdered herb
Standard Dosage
T ake 2 –3 capsules twice a day.
Storage
Store in airtight, dark glass containers in a cool place for up to 3–4 months. 1Place the herb in a large, clean glass jar and pour on
the alcohol, ensuring that the herb is covered. Close and
label the jar. Shake well for 1–2 minutes and store in a cool dark place for 10–14 days, shaking the jar every 1–2 days.
2Set up the wine press, placing a muslin or nylon mesh bag securely inside. Pour in the mixture and
collect the liquid in the jug. 3Slowly close the wine press, extracting the remaining liquid from the herbs until no more
drips appear. Discard the leftover herbs.
1Pour the powder into a saucer and slide the  capsule halves toward one another, scooping
up the powder (or use a capsule-making tray). 2When the halves of the capsule are full of powder, slide them together without spilling the powder,
and store.4Pour the tincture into clean, dark glass bottles using a funnel. When full, stopper with a cork
or screw top and label the bottles.
Making Capsules
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A simple and effective way to make a tonic wine
is in a jar or a ceramic vat with a tap at the base to
enable the wine to be drawn off without disturbing
the herbs. Wine can be added periodically to
keep the herbs covered, although, in time, this
will reduce the wine’s tonic effectiveness. If
exposed to the air, the herbs may get moldy,
making the remedy not only ineffective but unsafe
to take.
Herbal Wines
Herbal wines are made by fermenting the herb
in the same way that wine is produced from
grapes. With the correct equipment this is
a simple process, but fermentation alters the
activity of the herbs and tends to reduce their
medicinal value.
A syrup is made with equal proportions of an
herbal infusion or decoction and honey or unre
fined sugar. When making an infusion or decoction
for a syrup, it needs to be infused or simmered for
the maximum time to optimize its medicinal
action. Infusions should be infused for 15 minutes
and decoctions should be simmered for 30 minutes.
Press the soaked herb through the strainer or sieve
to remove as much liquid as possible. Small amounts
of neat tincture can be added to the cooled syrup to
increase its effectiveness.
Syrups Made with Tinctures
Syrups may also be made with tinctures instead of
infusions or decoctions. Combine 500 g of honey
or unrefined sugar with 1 cup (250 ml) of water.
Gently heat until all the sugar or honey has
dissolved and the mixture has thickened. Remove
from the heat. Once cool, stir 1 part of the
tincture, or mixture of tinctures, into 3 parts of the
syrup and bottle as directed opposite.Tonic Wines
Tonic wines are an agreeable way to take strengthening and tonic herbs to
increase vitality and improve digestion. Neither strictly medicinal, nor simply
appealing to the palate, they are easy to prepare at home. Tonic wines are
made by steeping tonic herbs, such as dong quai ( Angelica sinensis, p. 63), or
bitter herbs, such as southernwood ( Artemisia abrotanum, p. 172), in red or
white wine for several weeks.
Syrups
Honey and unrefined sugar are effective preservatives and can be combined
with infusions or decoctions to make syrups and cordials. They have the
additional benefit of having a soothing action, and therefore make a perfect
vehicle for cough mixtures as well as relieving sore throats. With their sweet
taste, syrups can disguise the taste of unpalatable herbs and are therefore
greatly appreciated by children. Standard Quantity
100 g dried or 200 g fresh tonic herbs or
25 g dried bitter herbs and 1 quart (1 liter) of
red or white wine
Standard Dosage
Drink 1/3 cup (70 ml) each day before a meal.
Storage
Use a ceramic vat with a tap at its base, or a
sterilized glass jar. Store for 3–4 months, ensuring
wine covers the herbs. If the herbs become
moldy, discard the remedy.
Standard Quantity
2 cups (500 ml) infusion or decoction (see p.
291), infused or heated for the maximum time
(see left); 500 g honey or unrefined sugar
Standard Dosage
T ake 1–2 tsp (5–10 ml) 3 times a day.
Storage
Store in dark glass bottles with cork tops in a
cool place for up to 6 months.1Place the herb in a large, clean jar or vat.
Pour in enough wine to cover the herb
completely. Close the jar securely, shake
carefully, and leave to stand.
1Pour the infusion or decoction into a pan. Add the
honey or sugar. Gently heat, stirring constantly
until all the honey or sugar has dissolved and the
mixture has a syrupy consistency. Remove from the
heat and cool.2Pour the cooled syrup into sterilized glass
 jars using a funnel and store in a cool, dark
place. Seal the jars with cork stoppers, because
syrups are prone to ferment and may explode if
kept in screw-topped bottles.2Allow the wine to mature over 2–6
weeks, then take a dose from the
tap or jar. Regularly top off the mixture
with wine.
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294
herbal remedies for home useHot Infused Oils
Although hot infused oils can last up to a year,
they are most potent when used fresh. If only
using infused oils occasionally, make a smaller
quantity than the standard amount with the same proportion of herb to oil. The wine press may be replaced with a jug—when cool enough to touch, squeeze the oil through the jelly bag as illustrated in Cold Infused Oils below. Many herbs make effective hot infused oils,
especially spicy herbs such as ginger (Zingiber officinale, p. 155), cayenne (Capsicum frutescens,  p. 74), and pepper (Piper nigrum, p. 250). These oils can be rubbed into the skin to relieve rheumatic and arthritic pain, improve local blood flow, and relax muscles. Other hot infused oils from leafy herbs, such as comfrey (Symphytum officinale,  p. 138), speed wound healing. Oil infused with mullein (Verbascum thapsus, p. 281) is used for earache and ear infections, and chickweed (Stellaria media, p. 272) ointment may be produced from
a hot infused oil (see p. 295).
Cold Infused Oils
Making a cold infused oil is a slow process and involves leaving a jar packed with herbs and oil  to stand for several weeks. Sunlight encourages the plant to release its active constituents into the oil. It is the most suitable method of oil infusion for fresh plant material, especially


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to	the	side	like	a	curious	parrot.	Then	the	old	man	walked	away	for	good.	I
believe	him	when	he	said	that	he	threw	time	away,	because	even	though	I’ve
never	set	eyes	on	Baba	since	I	was	fifteen	years	old,	not	a	day	goes	by	but	he
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LIFE
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Edward Taub, M. D.?ct
PART I—THE PRINCIPLES
INTRODUCTION
1. Diets Don't Work
2. Natural Hygiene
3. The Natural Body Cycles
4. The Theory of Metabolic Imbalance
5. The Principle of High-Water-Content Food
6. The Principle of Proper Food Combining
7. The Principle of Correct Fruit Consumption
8. The Theory of Detoxification
9. Protein
10. Dairy Products
11. Exercise
12. You Are What You Think You Are
13. The Most Frequently Asked Questions 3
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95 PART II—THE PROGRAM 107
INTRODUCTION 109
1. Breakfast 114
2. Fresh Juices 118
3. The Energy Ladder 120
4. The FIT FOR LIFE Shopping List 122
5. The Main-Course Salad 139
6. Life-style Guidelines 143
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE 147
IN CONCLUSION 223
BIBLIOGRAPHY 225
IN HEX 233 ^
FIT FOR LIFE is a breakthrough. No guilt, no burdens, no demands. Get
healthy, thin, and vibrant very soon and determine your own pace. Rush
down the freeway to health, or take your time to enjoy the last of the
artificial flowers along the way—the chocolates, beer, pretzels, and por
terhouse steaks. It's all okay, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond tell us. Even
the slightest change, the least little consistent effort, and healthy fitness
ensues.
My own experience? I've lost eighteen pounds in two months. I occa
sionally eat fish or chicken, hardly ever succumb to beer and pretzels,
and can finally see a movie without the chocolate-covered raisins in
hand.
FIT FOR LIFE is an important work. It joins Ken Pelletier's Mind
as Healer, Mind as Slayer, Harold Bloomfield and Robert Kory's Inner
Joy, Joseph Murphy's Power of Your Subconscious Mind, and Norman
Cousins's Anatomy of an Illness on the bookshelf of integrative medicine.
integrative medicine is a new art
and science based on health promotion and "wellness"—a natural ap
proach to patients, regarding them not as diseases or problems, but as people needing assistance in balancing their physical, emotional, mental,
and spiritual dimensions. These dimensions, when balanced or in har
mony, reflect health, fitness, wholeness, and well-being—"wellness."
The highest calling of a physician has always been to identify the dis
ease process at its earliest moment of inception through skill, judgment,
and wisdom, and to abate the problem with surgery, medicine, or irradia
tion. The modern physician uses wisdom to prevent the disease process
from occurring in the first place; the wellness-oriented physician works
through fostering factors that contribute to homeostasis, the natural dy
namic equilibrium of the body. Rather than concentrating on medicating
symptoms of bodily deterioration or removing malfunctioning organs and
leaving it at that, the "wellness" physician works to assist the patient in
achieving emotional calm, mental tranquillity, physical fitness, and spir
itual peace.
The human body should last for a hundred and fort)' years, or twice as
long as our present life span; so, although medical science has made great
strides, it is important to remember that the job is only half done, FIT
FOR LIFE and the Diamonds take us a giant step forward in extending
both life's span and life's quality—a perfect example of integrative medi
cine, FIT FOR LIFE regards nutritional appropriateness as a matter of en
ergy balance: Efficient absorption of food energy and efficient elimination
of food bulk balance the body, and it becomes neither too thin nor too fat
and retains maximum power to regain health or resist disease.
FIT FOR LIFE crushes orthodox medical dogma about the basic four
food groups, milk as healthful, protein in the diet, and calorie-counting
to lose weight.
Nutritional sense is a matter of monumental importance in this age of
stress. "Rechemicalization" of food with additives, preservatives, artificial
flavorings, dehydration, concentration, freezing, and microwaving makes
nutritional reeducation no less important than Ignaz Semmelweis's intro
duction of physician hand-washing before surgery or childbirth. Only a
hundred years have passed since that awareness descended on science.
Only a hundred years have passed since science stopped the bleeding,
purging, and leeching that was part of our grandparents' lives. Now all
our attempts at dieting and counting calories may be looked at by our
grandchildren as part of our generation's folly.
FIT FOR LIFE is a perfect example of integrative medicine as an energy-
based science. Both integrative medicine and this book are consumer
oriented to bridge gaps between previous biological understandings and
newer psychological breakthroughs that have brought out of the closet
healing chemicals that our bodies produce. We are finally starting to
understand how enormous are our bodies' healing powers to become well
xii • FIT FOR LIFE and stay healthy. Integrative medicine merges centuries of preventive
medical concepts from hundreds of different cultures with the modern
need to reduce stress, resolve conflict, avoid detrimental life-styles, and
change behavioral patterns that lead to overweight, obesity, and then to
coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, ulcers, backache, migraine,
arthritis, stroke, and cancer.
Integrative medicine pursues spiritual calm, emotional peace, and
physical fitness; it merges the holistic concepts of the life-styles of the
Western "lotus land" of California with the preventive medical concepts
emerging from the "Mecca" of medicine in Boston.* The Eastern doc
tors, traditional, with Harvard backgrounds, point out that physicians can
no longer help 80 percent of disease, that medicine and surgery still cure
only 10 percent of disease, and that the other 10 percent of disease is now
caused by accidents of surgery and side effects of medication. They pro
claim the health of the American people in the 1980s to depend not on
what others do for them, but on what they are willing to do for them
selves. The Westerners, upstarts from UCLA, Stanford, and Berkeley,
heartily agree and point consistently to laughter, hope, faith, and love as
primary health ingredients. It is integrative medicine that enables the
twain to meet. Integrative medicine offers patients combinations of the
traditional and the holistic: diet, exercise, sunshine, rest, massage, and
prayer stand alongside medication, surgical feats of derring-do, and high
technology's incredible machines.
I have been honored to present integrative medicine to the California
Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics in Detroit,
and the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C. It is a bio-
social, psycho-spiritual approach to understanding health and dealing
with disease. Personal responsibility, self-value, and high regard and rev
erence for life are seen as primary determinants of health. Integrative
medicine regards any disease as potentially reversible through the mirac
ulous power of the body to heal itself, understands the body as an energy
system, and believes health is too important to leave up to science but
also too important to be unscientific about.
Science is only the human mind's attempt to explain natural laws; FIT
FOR LIFE explains nutrition in terms of natural laws, not what human
minds have concocted up to now. When Harvey Diamond asked me to
review the Fit for Life manuscript, he told me that if there was anything,
'California's best spokespeople for the holistic approach to health include Norman Cousins, George
Leonard, David Harris, Charles Kleeman, M.D., Karl Pribram, M.D., Harold Bloomfield, M.D.,
Paul Brenner, M.D., Brugh Joy, M.D., and Ron Pion, M.D. The Boston proponents of preven
tative medicine include Julius Richmond, M.D., Franz Inglefingcr, M.D., Rick Ingrasci, M.D.,
and


 and climatic changes expanded and evolved, I had
no choice but to “read on”—as well as initiate a correspondence which has led to the exchange of hundreds of letters and telephone calls, and three visits to the Hamaker farm and (former) residence in Potterville, Michigan.  It was on my third visit, after hav -
ing given a presentation at the First Global Conference on the Future in Toronto, entitled “Worldwide Starvation by 1990” (after a Hamaker paper), and being convinced by that time that Hamaker’s fundamental insights were correct, that I agreed to help write and publish The Survival of Civilization.  It was finally published in April 1982.  We sold and
gave away 14,000 copies of the print editions, and thousands of Solar or Ice Age? Bulletins
have gone out to people worldwide.  John Hamaker passed away in 1994.
For those concerned with total planetary health, and who’ve not read The Survival of
Civilization by John Hamaker and myself, here is a concise summary listing TSOC’s pri-mary messages; all of which are supported by strong evidence from studies in many disciplines, from soil science to climatology through the whole study of ecology of the last three million years known as Quaternary research.  The remarkable ability of John Hamaker’s mind to produce a synthesis of many diverse facts and principles has pro -
duced major breakthroughs in understanding.
1.  The fertility of the Earth’s soils can be restored to high levels by remineralizing them,
which means feeding the soil organisms the complete spectrum of mineral elements found in natural gravels and other rock mixtures found all over the world.  The finer this material the better for rapid proliferation of all soil organisms and plant life nourished by them.  Fine dusts containing all the biologically essential minerals produce bountiful crops and macroorganisms full of health and vitality.
2.  Human health on all levels is greatly dependent on the quantity and balance of avail -
able soil minerals and resultant food quality.3.  Planet Earth is a living planet characterized by the procession of cycles within cycles...
within cycles.  Think of the cycles of the leaf and the elements composing it, as the cycles of days and seasons forms, transforms, and re-forms them in the annual/peren-nial work of re-creating a green biosphere.  For at least the prior 2.5 million years of this Quaternary Period, the major climatic biosphere-controlling (and biosphere-controlled!) cycle has been the approximately 100,000-year cycle of alternating glacial and inter -123
Fruiticultureglacial periods.  Twenty-five of these cycles have passed over the last 2.5 million years,
each one about 90,000 years of glaciation followed by about 10,000 years of interglacial conditions.
4.  Glaciation functions to mix and grind up and spread out over the Earth many trillions
of tons of mixed rocks or glacial till—from boulders to fine dust which powerful glacial meltwater and wind systems carry up to thousands of miles, remineralizing the soil-life systems which became demineralized through the course of the 10,000 year intergla-cial.  Intensified volcanism during glaciation, associated with the transfer of tremendous weight from oceans to glaciers, assists the remineralization job.  Broadly speaking, the first 5,000 years of the interglacials are the times of vast recolonization and flourishment under renewed soil and climatic conditions—a time of practically universal fertility and health and abundance—and the last 5000 years are times of increasing soil demineral -
ization/acidification.  This results in progressive decline of fertility and health, naturally accompanied by the spread of deserts; the die-out of forest due to soil impoverishment, insect/disease predation, burning, increasing climatic stresses; and thus the collapse of the carbon cycle, allowing the carbon dioxide (CO
2) content of the atmosphere to build
higher and higher.  Glaciation always follows this planetary imbalancing process.  What does this tell us about the true “greenhouse effect” of CO
2 (and related gases) build-up at
the end of an interglacial period—as is occurring now?
5.  Our present world is about 10,800 years into the current interglacial period.  We are
due for glaciation, and our biosphere-destroying and CO2-releasing “ways of life” are rap -
idly intensifying the process by which ecological systems break down and the climatic system gears up for 90,000 years of glaciation: mineral-and-carbon cycle collapse caus -
ing CO
2 build-up, hence an accentuated heat-trapping system (“greenhouse effect”) re -
quired to begin producing the vast quantities of evaporated water needed to increase cloud coverage/albedo/snow-and-ice build-up of the upper latitudes.  Increasing tem -
perature and pressure differentials between overheating lower latitudes and cooler high -
er latitudes steps up overall atmospheric circulation and carries more of the evaporated water to the regions of glaciation, bringing drought to lower latitudes, and worsening all climatic extremes in between.  Eventually the glacial process creates ice sheets over vast areas—up to one mile thick and more—and drops sea level about 400 feet!
6.  In 1979, Belgian palynologist (palynology is pollen study) Genevieve Woillard gave a 124
Fruiticulturepriceless gift to the world —or at least to the “scientific community” as it is called—by
publishing in Nature (October 18, 1979) the results of her years of work studying lake deposits in France.  The work showed that the vegetation and climate changes at the termination of the last interglacial period were very rapid: trees requiring good soil and temperate conditions steadily died out over the last 150 years, with a complete, dramatic change to sub-arctic type vegetation adapted to poorer acidified soils com-ing on in a final 20-year period.  The interglacial period of about 10,000 years was over.  Unfortunately, “the scientific community” has done little since then to make public Woillard’s crucial findings; instead, it has focused on limited mathematical computer modeling.
7.  Human exploitation and lack of generosity toward the soil-life system and whole bio -
sphere has accelerated the natural reglaciation timetable by probably about 500 years.
Based on increasing acidity of precipitation caused by increasing volcanism and burn -
ing of vegetation as well as industrial pollution, on accelerating demineralization of soils and the rise of the CO
2 curve, and on the rate of climatic deterioration worldwide, John
Hamaker estimated that we were deep into another interglacial transition period.
8.  Glaciation is—or, at least, has been up to now during this Quaternary Period—
Nature’s way of regenerating the health and fertility of the biosphere.  In other words, the grinding and spreading of vast quantities of the mixed mineral-bearing rocks of the Earth’s crust is Nature’s way of regenerating the health and fertility of the biosphere.  Now Nature-on-Earth, or “Gaia, ” has a nervous system/brain of great potential intelli-gence composed of about seven billion cells, collectively known as “wise man” (female or male) or Homo sapiens.  You are one of those cells!  Do you see-hear-feel-sense-un-derstand-know a need for Earth regeneration?  If so, how will you, with your more or less intimate connections with all seven billion fellow wisdom-harboring cells, respond?
9.  We can remineralize and reforest and re-green and regenerate the soils and biosphere
to the extent where health and abundance become the norm and the people-inclusive “Gaiasphere” is enabled to bring the CO
2 level back down to normal interglacial levels of
around 270 ppm (from about 407 ppm in 2018), a most critical part of an overall restora -
tion of “the Balance of Nature. ”  We can if we can recognize and accept the responsibility to do so, and if we still have time before the glacial process proceeds beyond a point of 125
Fruiticultureno return and our last opportunity to re-create an ecologically and socially harmonious
world is lost, perhaps forever.
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FruiticultureSoil Remineralization
by Don Weaver
Our planetary soils have become severely eroded and thus demineralized over thou-
sands of years. Plants require a continuous intake of minerals, just as we do; they need calcium to build structural support, iron to carry oxygen, zinc for reproductive health etc.  Plants growing on mineral-depleted soil do not get enough nourishment and, thus, are to some degree devitalized and more vulnerable to their insect, worm and fungi predators.
Remineralization encourages greatly increased growth of soil microorganisms and the
assimilation of nutrients, leading to high quality, flavorful crops.  It also counteracts acidity and erosion, increasing the storage capacity of the soil, contributing to the build -
ing of humus complexes and, when sprayed on plants, repels both fungi and insects.  As well, plants and trees become highly resistant to frost, drought and all devitalizing influences.
Adding rock dust to your compost pile also enhances composting benefits and is anoth -
er excellent way to remineralize soils.  Rock dust is finely ground rock,
often as fine as talcum pow -
der, typically passing a 200 mesh screen.  A broad variety of rocks, as found in most river and glacial gravels, generally