 ees,
are soft and pliable in life;
dry and brittle in death.

Stiffness is thus a companion of death;
flexibility a companion of life.
An army that cannot yield
will be defeated.
A tree that cannot bend
will crack in the wind.

The har d and stiff will be br oken;
the soft and supple will pr evail.
OceanofPDF.comLiving by
Bending
The thing I love most about studying the Tao Te Ching is its impeccable
adherence to finding the Great Way by closely studying nature. In this
passage, Lao-tzu asks us to chan ge the we look at the concept of strength by
noticing how the most solid and durable things in the natural world tend to
be soft, gentle, and even weak. If we see strength as being hard, inflexible,
and unyielding, he invites us to change that perception. Life, according to
Lao-tzu, is defined as soft and pliable.
Some of my fondest memories of my eight children came from watching
their flexible newly born bodies in awe. I could lay them on my lap and
easily place their feet in their mouths or even behind their necks! They were
perfect yoga masters at the tender age of only a few months or even days.
When they were toddlers, I watc hed in amazement, often holding my breath
as they bumped their heads, ran into walls witho ut looking, and took what
appeared to be nasty falls. Yet lo and behold, they’d shake it right of f. What
would have surely resulted in a broken hip or arm for an older person was
hardly noticed by these limber youngsters.
By the same token, an older tree that’s getting close to death will become
hard, brittle, and susceptible to fire and harsh winds. Since the tree can’t
bend, a strong gust can blow it right over. As it ages, the wood becomes
weaker simply because it’s inflexible. Its rigidity, which some think of as
strength, has actually turned it into a weak organism. Similarly, at the
moment of death all creatures go into rigor mortis, which is complete
stiffness and, of course, a total absence of strength.
Being pliable and able to bend  goes beyond the aging proce ss that all
bodies are destined to experience. Thus, Lao-tzu encourages you to apply
this principle to your thought processes and behaviors. You’re reminded
that rigidity and hardness accompany death, while pliability and even
weakness are the companions of life. You may have been taught that
strength is measured by how “hard” you are in your thinking or how
inflexible you are in your opinions, and that weakness is associated withthose who bend. But when confronted with any stressful situation, keep in
mind that being stiff won’ t get you very far, whereas being flexible will
carry you through.
Change the way you think abou t strength, not just as it relates to those in
positions of power, but for yourself as well. There’ s a lot to be said for what
we’re condition ed to think of as weak: Begin to see that strength is
weakness, and weakness is streng th... just another of the Tao Te Ching’ s
fascinating paradoxes.
Here’ s what Lao-tzu urges you to consider as you apply the lessons of this
oft-quoted 76th verse:
Be str ong by bending.
Be willing to be like palm trees  in the midst of hurricane-forc e winds—
their so-called weakness somehow gives them the strength to survive
devastating storms. The same is true for the way you relate to others, so
listen more, allow your viewpoints to be challenged, and bend when
necessary, know ing that you’re actually choosing strength. The more you
think in rigid ways, refraining from considering other points of view, the
more you’re liable to break. As Lao-tzu reminds you, “The hard and stiff
will be broken,” while “the soft and supple will prevail.”
Examine your unbendable attitudes.
Scrutinize your attitudes on matters such as the death penalty, legalization
of certain drugs, abortion, gun or birth control, taxation, energy
conservation, and any other issues on which you hold an unshakable
position. Then make an effort to walk in the shoes of 76th Verse those who
have opposite opinions. When you consider the rebuttals they’d of fer, you’ll
see that this old proverb has some truth in it:
This is my way!
What is your way?
The way doesn’ t exist.
Today, for example, I had a conversation with my daughter Serena
concerning a presentation she was to make before one of her college
classes. She was convinced that her conclusion was unbendable regarding alarge retail chain’ s employment policies. There was no room for discussion
—they were wrong and she was right. Yet for the sake of an intelligent
discussion, I took the position of the retail giant  and tried to offer that
perspective to her. As our discu ssion continued, my daughter found herself
bending just a bit. As she realize d that every story has two sides, she found
herself willing to listen to the opposition. Serena was able to bend in a way
that made her strong.
If leaders on both sides of any matter were willing to at least listen to each
other, conflicts wouldn’ t need to escalate to life-and-death  proportions. By
listening, yielding, and being gentle, we all become disciples of life.
Do the T ao Now
Every day in yoga class there’ s an exercise that reminds me of this verse
of the Tao Te Ching, and I encourage you to practice it right now. Stand
with your feet together, raise your hands above your head, and stretch as
high as you possibly can. Now bend to the right as far as you can go,
stretching for 60 seconds. Then  return to an upright position and do the
same on your left side. All the while, see yourself as flexible, supple, and
able to bend in harmony with the T ao.
OceanofPDF.com77th Verse
The way of heaven
is like drawing a bow:
The high is lower ed,
the low is raised.

When it is surplus, it r educes;
when it is deficient, it incr eases.
The T ao of mankind is the opposite:
It reduces the deficiency
in or der to add to the surplus.
It strips the needy to serve those who have too much.

Only the one who has the T ao
offers his surplus to others.
What man has mor e than enough
and gives it to the world?
Only the man of the T ao.

The master can keep giving
because ther e is no end to his wealth.
He acts without expectation,
succeeds without taking credit,
and does not think that he is better
than anyone else.OceanofPDF.comLiving by
Offering the Surplus
If you view the ways of heaven from a distance, you’ll find that nature is
perfect. The Tao is at work, invisibly keeping a Divine  balance. When I was
in Sedona, Arizona, for instance, I took a tour of the forested areas in the
steppes of the majestic red-rock mounta ins. After I lamented the recent fires
that had decimat ed so many trees, the guide explained how this had actually
been nature at work. “For millions of years,” he explained, “when the forest
gets too thick, nature’ s lightning strikes and thins out the forest.” Without
such an occurren ce, the timber would choke on its own surplus. This is how
our planet works.
While at times natural events  such as droughts, floods, hurricanes,
windstorms, and excessive rainfall can seem disastrous, they’re actually
maintaining balance. This is also clear in the lives of butterflies, flocks of
geese, or herds of caribou and buffalo—the sport of killing upsets nature’ s
system of dealing with surpluses. And the Tao agrees: “When it is surplus,
it reduces; when it is deficient, it increases.” Observe nature, says Lao-tzu:
If deficiencies exist, don’ t continue to reduce what’ s already in short supply.
The lessons in these final verses relate to governing the masses by staying
harmonized with the Tao. Lao-tzu seems to rail against people in positions
of politi cal power who took from the needy to give themselv es more of
what they didn’ t need. In today’ s world, we can see evidence of this
practice in myriad ways, but especially in lawmakers voting themselves
benefits to be paid for by everyone else: They give themselves 95 percent
retirement packa ges, medical insurance for life, limousines, private parking
places on public land, and free first-class travel, even as they strip the needy
and serve those who have too much. And in countries where starvation is
rampant, it’s not unusual to see large amounts of food and supp lies stacked
on docks while people die from malnourishment because government
representatives think they’re “above” all that.
The 77th verse of the Tao Te Ching suggests thinking about the surpluses
we can put back into circulation to decrease deficiencies that existelsewhere in our world. Lao-tzu  asks you and me to put the wisdom of this
verse to work in our personal lives by seeing what we have but don’t need


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tion of lipid head groups that produce a more permeable packing arrangement.8,9
DMSO may play a role in partitioning as well by forming solvent microenvironments within the tissue that can effectively extract solute from vehicle. Finally, DMSO can have a profound solubilizing effect on less soluble agents in a variety of vehicles, increasing penetration simply by delivering a higher concentration to the membrane barrier.
10
CHEMICAL CHAPERONES
The actions of DMSO as a chemical chaperone are discussed in Chapter 1. Chemical
chaperones such as DMSO, glycerol, trimethylamine n-oxide, and other small mol -
ecules have been found to stabilize and help in the folding of proteins.11
Chemical chaperones differ from molecular chaperones, which are small molecules
found in the endoplasmic reticulum. These chemical chaperones also differ from 17 DMSO in Basic Pharmacology
pharmacological chaperones, which are small synthetic molecules that can induce
 correct  folding by binding to the hydrophobic domains of a given protein in an adenos -
ine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent fashion.12 The older the cell, the more difficult it is
to cope with protein misfolding.13 Whether DMSO can also act as a pharmacological
chaperone has not been determined. Although DMSO has not been used extensively
in misfolded protein diseases, it may offer some hope as a treatment due to its osmo -
lytic activity in preventing aggregate formation in neurotoxic gain  disorders such as
Alzheimer’s disease (deposition of amyloid-β  peptide in brain tissue and neurofibril -
lary tangles within neurons), Parkinson’s disease (deposition of aggregated α -synuclein
in Lewy bodies), scrapie or mad cow disease (pathological prion protein production), and Huntington’s disease (excessive number of CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene).
It follows that if DMSO is successful in treating neurotoxic gain disorders, it could
also be useful in loss-of-function  diseases such as nephrogenic diabetes mellitus,
Gaucher’s disease, Fabry’s disease, and cystic fibrosis.
14 Loss-of-function disorders
are generally caused by missense point mutations. Examples of point mutation disor -
ders are sickle-cell disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Loss-of-function muta -
tions can alter the normal folding proteins and lead to their degradation, a process that could be blocked by DMSO and by the cell’s ability to try and stay healthy.
14
Toxic gain disorders involve proteins that fail to fold into their normal configuration, and in their misfolded state, they can become toxic in some way and quickly aggre -
gate, leading to the formation of inclusion bodies that eventually result in cell death.
15
DMSO AS A PAIN MEDICATION
Many ancient cultures believed that pain was a test of faith or a punishment by the gods for human folly. The remedy for pain was to appease the wrath of gods with magic, rituals, or sacrifice of animals and humans.
Ancient philosophers considered pain to be an emotion. Aristotle in his
Nicomachean Ethics  saw pain not as an internal noxious sensation but as spirits
entering the injured body to affect the soul. This explanation that pain was an exter -
nal force that entered the body and could be treated by prayer endured for centuries. This thinking was partly replaced by the seventeenth-century discoveries of a mech -
anistic theory to explain pain. One of the earliest expositions of pain mechanics were the descriptive 1644 writings of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who proposed a more pragmatic approach to pain. Descartes correctly believed that pain did not come from the outside but rather within the body where it traveled through nerves to the brain.
Pain is the most common reason for people to seek medical help and is a major
presenting complaint in a multitude of medical conditions and disorders. It has been common knowledge for thousands of years that acute or chronic pain can signifi -
cantly interfere with a person’s quality of life and normal daily function.
Woolf
16 has described three types of pain. First, there is nociceptive  pain, which
acts as an early warning, protective system that can feel a harmful stimulus, such as an object that is too hot or cold, or too sharp, and react to minimize the pain.
The second type of pain is inflammatory  and occurs when there is tissue injury, for
example, with an inflamed joint, a local or systemic infection, or following surgery. 18 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
This type of pain is adaptive in the sense that the individual limits the movement of
the body part in pain in order to shorten the duration or the degree of the pain and accelerate its eventual recovery.
The third type of pain is pathological. Pathological pain is not adaptive or pro -
tective  as in types 1 and 2 but results from tissue damage affecting the nervous
system.
16 This type of pain can occur in the absence of inflammation or noxious
stimuli and may persist for a long duration when stimuli are excessively intense or prolonged. The quality of pathological pain can be severe or moderate and may inter -
fere with sleep or daily function. At the same time, pain can downgrade the health and psychological well-being of the individual.
17
Pain killers, particularly opioid drugs, are the leading cause of unintentional over -
dose deaths in teens and adults, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), such deaths have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The number of unintentional drug poisoning deaths exceeds either motor vehicle accidents or suicides, two of the leading causes of death in the United States.
18
One of the reasons for easily overdosing and dying from narcotics is their powerful action as central nervous system (CNS) depressants, especially when the narcotic is combined with alcohol or another pain medication.
19
For these reasons, an analgesic medication with a high margin of safety, which
lacks CNS depressant activity and is void of the danger of unintentional overdose and death, has been an elusive Golden Fleece quest by the pharmaceutical industry and by academic and government-sponsored research.
These pharmacological properties in an analgesic agent and avoidance of death
by overdose appeared to have been solved in 1964 when Jacob et al.
20 first reported
on the local analgesic potential of DMSO in humans. The use of DMSO as a pain medication in humans is discussed in detail in Chapter 3.
The basic biological actions of DMSO as a pain medication using animals will be
reviewed here. Although there is extensive literature on the pain mechanisms exerted by DMSO in animal models, its physiological and pharmacological properties are incompletely understood.
It should be pointed out that there is considerable difficulty in using methods
that can accurately characterize pain sensibility more so in animals than humans with respect to its quality, intensity, and duration, and this fact makes it challenging to discover treatments that truly improve the outlook of patients with pain. A case in point is the thousands of papers written on brain endorphins in the past three decades where great hope for controlling pain was overshadowed by the fact that not one effective treatment emerged from this vast field of research.
In experimental pain research, there are two common techniques used in
rodent models to evaluate potential analgesic agents, the tail flick test and the hot plate test. The tail flick test measures a rodent’s pain response to a light beam focused on the animal’s tail and the time for the tail to flick that is recorded as the pain threshold.
21 In the hot plate test, the rodent is placed on a warm plate,
and temperature is increased until a thermal nociceptive response is observed, indicated by the animal rapidly licking or flicking its hind paws.
22 In these tests,
a baseline latency response without the analgesic agent is first obtained and com -
pared to the latency following administration of the agent to be tested.19 DMSO in Basic Pharmacology
Following clinical reports on the action of DMSO to relieve pain in humans,20,23–28
animal research was begun to answer multiple questions regarding whether DMSO
was an analgesic agent and, if so, how it worked.
One early study to address some of these questions was reported by Haigler and
Spring.29
Using the tail flick and hot plate tests, these investigators applied two criteria to
determine (1) if DMSO had analgesic properties and, if so, (2) whether the analgesic effect observed with DMSO was related to opiate receptors.
It was found that animals given DMSO IV and IP at high doses (5.5 g/kg), and
administered topically on the tail, produced a profound analgesia on both the hot plate and tail flick tests.
29
The analgesic effect obtained with DMSO was apparently not due to a general
anesthetic effect because the rats were not ataxic and did not lose their righting reflex. By contrast, morphine given 10 mg/kg intraperitoneally produced an anal -
gesic effect as frequently as DMSO on the hot plate, but the duration of morphine analgesia was typically less than 2 h both on the hot plate and on tail flick. The anal -
gesic time course for DMSO was longer than that for morphine and, in several rats, lasted over 24 h. Additionally, the analgesic effect by morphine, but not by DMSO, was blocked with the opioid antagonist naloxone indicating that the anal


ived	daily.
Gratitude	is	not	the	same	as	relief.	I	am
grateful
	for	my	life,	the	people	I
know,	and	my	work.	On	the	other	hand,	I	am
relieved
	that	I	am	not	sick.	The
first	statement	is	based	on	what	is	true	within	me.	The	other	is	based	on	my
fears	and	dread.	We	do	not	usually	make	this	simple	distinction.	Relief
implies	that	something	could	go	wrong,	but	for	the	moment,	all	is	okay.	In
practicing	gratitude,	however,	you	affirm	that	everything	is	already	right	and
that	nothing	can	go	wrong.	There	is	nothing	to	do,	nothing	to	fix—for
example,	“I	am	grateful	for	my	health.”
Without	a	continual	affirmation	and	prayer	of	thanks	and	appreciation,	I	find
that	my	mind	becomes	bored,	and	my	heart	dulls.	I	withdraw	from	the	world,
resigned	to	my	struggle	alone.	Gratitude	is	a	way	out	of	difficulty,	pain,	and
isolation.	In	the	face	of	adversity	and	distress,	practicing	gratitude	requires	us
to	give	up	our	own	ideas	about	what	we	think	is	happening	to	us.
There	is	always	more	going	on	than	we	are	aware	of	in	any	situation,	and	this
is	what	gratitude	puts	us	in	touch	with.	In	the	big	picture,	these	difficult
circumstances	in	front	of	me	might	be	the	missing	piece	of	a	greater	puzzle
that	I’m	not	yet	aware	of.	I	must	give	up	my	fears	and	judgments	that
something	has	gone	wrong.	In	principle,	this	always	leads	to	awareness.
Gratitude	is	an	access	to	awareness,	and	awareness	is	a	doorway	to	love,
unceasing.	It	is	a	turn	of	mind,	a	re-orientation,	a	commitment	in
consciousness	towards	love	and	acceptance	of	what	is.	We	all	can	do	this.	We
must	only	be	willing.	The	practice	of	gratitude	saves	us	from	our	painful
human	storyline,	for	it	requires	us	to	look	deeper	into	our	lives	and	the	people
around	us.	The	surface	rarely	holds	depth;	rather,	it	obscures	it.	Gratitude
enriches	and	deepens	the	colorful	fabric	of	our	lives	by	allowing	us	to	see
more.
It	is	impossible	to	feel	worry,	anger,	depression,	or	any	negative	emotion	of
any	kind	in	the	presence	of	genuine	gratitude.	A	beautiful	sunny	day	and	a
dark,	stormy	day	cannot	occur	in	the	same	place	at	the	same	time.	So	does	the
practice	of	gratitude	redirect	our	minds	away	from	fear	and	toward	the	truth,
clearing	out	all	negativity,	pain,	and	suffering.	I	have	a	preventive
maintenance	program	for	resignation,	cynicism,	and	doubt.	Every	day,	more
than	once,	I	search	my	mind	for	all	that	I	have	to	be	grateful	for.	Noticing	the
constant	flow	of	prosperity,	riches,	and	wealth	coming	toward	me	leads	to	a
welcome	and	reliable	constant:	peace	of	mind.So,	if	you	are	not	yet	someone	who	on	a	daily	basis	practices	gratitude,	like
an	unending	prayer	or	background	music	for	your	life,	I	invite	you	to	consider
the	possibility	of	doing	so,	beginning	now.	Come	up	to	the	higher	room.
Gratitude	requires	responsibility.	See	and	begin	to	own	your	valuable
contributions	and	talents.	Acknowledge	the	people	in	your	life:	those	you	love
and	those	you	may	not	love.	In	a	true	sense,	they	are	all	the	same.	They	are
your	teachers.	Be	grateful	for	them.	While	doing	so,	realize	how	powerful	you
are,	how	moving	your	life	is,	and	to	what	extent	you	are	blessed	in	just	being
here.
And	then	watch	what	happens.
Gratitude	Feels	Good!
Sylvia	Friedman
Sylvia	Friedman

has	been	an	astrologer,	human	behavior	consultant,	and
handwriting	analyst	for	over	20	years,	and	has	appeared	as	a	guest	expert	on
numerous	TV	programs,	including

Oprah

and

AM	Chicago.

A	resident	of
Chicago,	Sylvia	is	the	author	of	THE	STARS	IN	YOUR	FAMILY:	HOW
ASTROLOGY	AFFECTS	RELATIONSHIPS	BETWEEN	PARENTS	AND
CHILDREN.
It’s	important	to	set	aside	time	for	gratitude.	When	you	look	into	yourself	and
into	your	life,	it	may	be	easier	to	see	the	bad	before	the	good!	But	remember:
thinking	negatively	will	bring	down	your	self-confidence	and	will	make
difficult	situations	worse.	Those	of	you	who	believe	in	the	idea	of	self-
fulfilling	prophecies	can	understand	that	it’s	better	to	open	your	minds	and
hearts	to	the	good	things	that	can	happen,	rather	than	to	the	bad.	I’m	sure	that
most	of	us	can	remember	the	beautiful,	simple	moments	in	life,	such	as
smiling	at	a	stranger	in	the	supermarket	and	receiving	a	smile	in	return.
Wouldn’t	it	be	wonderful	if	we	could	freeze	those	moments	in	time	so	that	we
could	fully	appreciate	when	someone	squeezed	our	hand,	shared	a	laugh	with
us	in	the	movies,	or	sat	quietly	by	our	side	to	comfort	us!	Each	day	offers	a
reason	for	gratitude,	and	we	need	to	look	for	those	special	moments	and
remember	them.	Good	health,	the	ability	to	help	others,	and	the	support	of
good	friends	are	all	reasons	to	be	grateful.	Nothing	in	life	should	be	taken	for
granted.	Each	day	I	personally	thank	my	parents	for	giving	me	the	freedom	to
make	my	own	choices	in	life.	Inner	strength	comes	from	holding	on	to	the	one
person	who	can	help	you—yourself!
I	have	always	been	impressed	with	the	song	“The	Best	Things	in	Life	Are
Free.”	Gratitude	is	free—there	is	no	cost.	Nature’s	miracles,	such	as	the
flowers	in	bloom,	the	leaves	when	they	turn	bright	colors	in	the	fall,	or	the
sky	when	it’s	blue,	remind	us	of	the	simple	pleasures	in	life.	I	remember	a
friend	of	mine	who	was	going	through	a	very	sad	time	telling	me:	“I’mthankful	when	the	sun	is	shining,	as	it	gives	me	a	positive	feeling.”	I	smiled
and	told	her,	“The	sun	shines	not	on	us,	but
in
	us.”
I	wake	up	each	day,	and	I’m	grateful	to	hear	my	phone	ringing	because	I
know	that	it’s	one	of	my	friends	checking	in	to	see	that	I’m	okay.	I	thank	God
that	I	can	look	out	my	window	at	the	lake	and	begin	each	day	with	peace.
Many	of	us	have	similar	opportunities,	and	it’s	so	important	to	appreciate
them.	Those	of	us	who	have	struggled	to	receive	the	good	can	be	thankful	that
we	have	had	the	energy	and	strength	to	fight	for	what	we	believed	in.	If	we
have	faith	in	ourselves,	our	own	self-esteem	will	bring	us	to	the	place	where
we	need	to	be.	When	our	path	draws	us	to	the	harder	lessons	in	life,	it’s	best
to	learn	from	them	and	move	on.	Hope,	faith,	and	optimism	give	us	the
strength	to	hold	on	to	tomorrow.	Life	can	be	a	real	challenge,	but	our	dreams
can	come	true	if	we	are	thankful	for	what	we	have


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– it should be labeled “hazardous to your health!”
When these poisons, especially the deadly fluoride
gases, are absorbed by the soil it also becomes toxic. Add
to this the toxic contaminants contained in poisonous
pesticides and chemical fertilizers that large industrial
farms and growers use to increase crop production.
Grains, vegetables and fruits will absorb these poisons
and so will meat from animals that feed on contaminated
grass and feed. It’ s no wonder millions of people ar e
only half-alive, suffering with physical problems!
132
Amino Acids are V ital to Life and Longevity
From the smallest germ cell of life to the most
complicated living organism, amino acids are now
recognized as the activating ingredients of life itself.
Amino acids are responsible for the production of
proteins; the building blocks of the body; as well as the
hormones and enzymes responsible for thinking and
memor y, breathing and muscle action. The Biological Sciences have isolated some 30 distinct
varieties of amino acids. Most of these are manufactured
within our bodies, but some must be supplied daily by
the food we eat. These amino acids are essential to life –
life cannot exist without them!
Heavy Metals Mur der V ital Amino Acids
The discover y of amino acids was a tremendous
scientific breakthrough and Bragg helped promote
amino acids. Now we are on the threshold of another –
the unmasking of the murderer of these amino acids
which are so essential to life. The substances which lead
to the destr uction of the body chemicals necessar y for
the metabolizing and manufacturing of these vital amino
acids are proving to be the inorganic heavy metals from
industrial and agricultural toxins.
however, we ar e being robbed of these essential elements.
No trace organic minerals can be found in the “plastic, ”
demineralized, devitalized foods produced from depleted
soils that are deadened and contaminated further by the
use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. The end result
is lifeless supermarket produce with good “eye appeal”
but little or no nutritional value.
133 Refined Foods Remove V ital Amino Acids
Trace organic minerals are also vital to the production
of amino acids by the body. By natural law, these are
supplied directly by fruit, vegetables and grains. T oday,
Protective Action in Personal Ecology
With inorganic heavy metal toxicity caused by air
and water pollutants, and a loss of the essential daily
supply of trace minerals due to contaminated and
depleted soil, it is not surprising that many tests are
revealing a dangerously low count of amino acids.
What are Amino Acids? They’re the building blocks of all our organs and
tissues. They are the building blocks of protein. They are essential for
production of energy within ourselves, for detoxification and for vital
transmission of nerve impulses. In short, they are the very soup of life, and
are almost always overlooked and neglected.” – H. J. Hoegerman, M.D.
Dr. Hoegerman uses Bragg Liquid Amino Acids ( from soybeans ) for Seasoning. What Can W e Do to Protect Ourselves?
These actions can be taken now, while we wait for
more information on these important discoveries:
1.	Learn more about amino acids and the enzymes that
make them work, and the poisons that can kill them.
2.	Have your health practitioner do these tests:
a) tests for toxic mer cury, arsenic, lead, fluorides,
strontium and all the heavy metals.
b) the new test known as  	 “30 amino acids
fractionation test” is important to have.
3.	Encourage your friends and loved ones to seek the
assistance of their doctors in measuring their bodies
for these substances before they become problematic.
4.	Make sure that the sour ce of your or ganic food is in
an area free from airborne pollution and grown in
134 soil enriched by only natural fertilizers.
5. Follow the precepts of this book in regard to your
drinking water! Drink only steam-distilled water.
Political Action for Permanent Ecology
During recent years, in response to heightened public
opinion, politicians have promised in their political
action platforms to solve our ecological problems.
Millions of taxpayers dollars have been spent on
studies, and volumes of words printed and spoken.
But the ever-increasing problems of air pollution and
a dangerously disrupted ecology are still plaguing us.
The air in our cities is fast approaching or exceeding
crisis conditions! Also our drinking water sour ces – our
rivers, lakes and ocean shorelines – are becoming
contaminated far beyond the established safe toxic
levels! Scientific bodies and institutions throughout the
world agree that we are in danger of self-extinction unless
we stop abusing our vital life-support systems. They have
offered sober warnings and countdown time tables!
So far these warnings have received but token hearings
from governmental and political ears. Please Contact!
Protest to your congressman (representative) – www.house.gov/writerep But there is one voice that ever y politician heeds –
the combined voice of aroused voters who demand
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Happy Foods
“Even the highest medicine can cure
only eight or nine out of ten sicknesses.
The sicknesses that medicine cannot cure can be cured only by foods.”
   The Yellow Emperor’ s Classic of Internal Medicine (Chinese, circa 400 B.C.)
“Food is better medicine than drugs.”
    Title of book by leading British nutritionist Patrick Holfor
So what IS there to eat?—asks the startled newcomer to the Gerson way of life, after reading
the list of forbidden foods in the preceding chapter. That is an important question to ponder,
because it shows how alienated one can become from a natural way of eating, and above all from
the huge range of available plant foods, rightly called the Vegetable Kingdom (which in this
instance includes fruits, too.) It is a fair guess that the majority of people in the so-called developed
world regard vegetables as no more than incidentals that accompany a main course of fish or
meat, while fruits are only considered if there is no dessert on of fer.
Well, this is the moment to think again—and to make some delightful discoveries.
The fact is that the plant foods that are the basis of the Gerson regime are much superior to
animal-based ones. Besides being lighter, more pure, and easier to digest and absorb, each one
contains a subtle mixture of vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and trace elements, which work in
synergy, i.e., in cooperation, and supply the depleted organism with valuable nutrients. It is only
when the non-healing—in fact harmful—food items are excluded that the wide range and variety
of plant foods becomes clear. And it is not just their usefulness but also their beauty that needs to
be acknowledged. Try to look at a display of fresh organic fruits and vegetables with the eyes of
an artist, note the glowing colors and varied shapes of golden carrots, deep red cabbages, creamy
cauliflowers with their light green collars, beige pears, multicolored apples, translucent green
grapes—the range is vast, and eye appeal adds a great deal to the enjoyment of the produce.
There is another happy surprise that awaits the novice explorer of the Vegetable Kingdom:
the discovery of the true flavor of vegetables and fruits. At first, without salt and pepper, plant
foods taste bland and, frankly, boring. Yet they are neither. But a lifetime of excessive use of salt
deadens the taste buds of the tongue, until they are unable to convey the true taste of any food,
and even the salt intake has to be increased all the time to have any effect. On the salt-free Gerson
regime it takes a week or so for the paralyzed taste buds to recover, but once that happens, fruits
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www.thegersonway.comand vegetables suddenly begin to taste more interesting. At the same time one’s sense of smell
also becomes more acute and contributes to the enjoyment of every meal.
“Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food,” said Hippocrates, the
father of modern medicine some 2500 years ago. We might add: and let your medicine consist of
happy foods only.

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Preparing Food and Juices –the Basic Rules
“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
Abraham Maslow
 Assuming that your kitchen is now fully equipped for your healing Gerson routine and that
you have banished from your home all forbidden foods and substances, the moment has come to
find out about the all-important task of food preparation. The rules are simple, but they must be
observed faithfully to secure the best results.
 All food must be organic and as fresh as possible. Ideally we should be able to gather fresh
living food from our own organic gardens; unfortunately this is not an ideal world and we must
compromise. The next best thing is to shop frequently for salad and leaf vegetables in smallish
amounts, so there is no need to keep them for any length of time. Apples, pears, oranges and root
vegetables can be stored for a while without significant loss of quality.
The two most important basic rules of food preparation are the following :
1) All foods must be prepared with great care in order to preserve nutrients as much as
possible. Cooking must be slow, using low heat; high temperatures alter nutrients
in vegetables and cause them to be less easily absorbed. Vegetables should not be
peeled—valuable nutrients are contained in or immediately underneath their skins—
only washed or scrubbed well. Except for potatoes, corn and whole beets, which have
to be boiled in sufficient water, vegetables are cooked with the minimum of water
or soup stock (see below), or on a bed of sliced onions and tomatoes, which release
enough moisture to keep the vegetables from burning. Remember that oxidation,
with loss of nutrients, sets in as soon as you cut into a vegetable or fruit: only start
chopping when you are ready to cook.
2) Food must be tasty, varied and enjoyable, to make up for being very different from the
so-called “normal” Western diet. Variety helps to stimulate appetite. It also supplies a
wide range of minerals and trace elements, needed by the body to heal. Remember the
importance of eye appeal! Salads in particular can be made truly tempting by mixing
green leaves with chopped tomatoes and multicoloured peppers, adding radishes and a
scattering of chives. (For further ideas, see Chapter 28 )
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www.thegersonway.comA small vase of flowers on the dining table can work wonders in making the meal taste even
better.
 The Gerson diet strikes a fine balance between raw and cooked foods. The ample main meals
may suggest to some patients that much of their food is cooked. But this is not the case. Meals
begin with huge helpings of raw salad and end with raw fruit, and the daily ration of 13 glasses
of freshly made juice is as raw as can be. Cooked foods are necessary: Dr. Gerson’s experience
showed that patients do not digest well if given only raw foods along with the juices. In fact,
cooked foods provide additional variety and enable patients to eat more than they would on an
exclusively raw diet. They also supply soft bulk, which promotes the digestion of the raw foods
and juices.
The most popular item on the list of cooked foods is the “Special Soup” or Hippocrates
Soup that helps to detoxify the kidneys and is highly comforting, especially in cold weather. All
cooked foods serve as a kind of “blotting paper” in the stomach, helping to deal with the constant
intake of large amounts of juice. Even so, cooked foods only account for some 3 to 4 pounds of
the patient’s daily consumption, while raw foods, mostly made into juices, represent some 17
pounds!
The All-Important Juices
Only four kinds of juice are used in the treatment of all categories of patients, except for   a
few minor exceptions.
The basic juices are:
• Apple/Carrot juice
• Carrot only juice
• Green juice
• Orange juice
Occasionally, for special cases, a different juice may have to be substituted.  For example,
diabetics receive grapefruit juice instead of orange juice, since grapefruit contains less sugar.
Also, sometimes a fruit juice, such as apple juice is given to patients with collagen diseases who
should not drink citrus juice.
Apple/Carrot Juice
Use approximately 8 ounces each of carrots and apples. Wash and brush (do not peal), grind
to a pulp and place in cloth supplied with the press type juicer to press.
Serve and drink immediately.
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Proceed as above, but use only carrots.
Green Juice
Use Romaine, red leaf lettuce, endive, escarole, 2-3 leaves of red cabbage, young inner beet
tops, Swiss chard, a quarter of a small green pepper, watercress.  Add one medium apple when
grinding.
Procure as many of these materials as possible.  Do not use substitutes, such as spinach or
celery, if some of the above items are not available.
Grind the material to a pulp and place in cloth for pressing.
This juice must be drunk immediately, since its enzymes die quickly.
Orange (or Grape


the depletion of reserves.
The organism has the ability to shift its chemi-
cal component; fasting provides many wonder-
ful examples of this. The assimilation and reor-
ganization of the parts of the organism of living
beings during a period of food absence, the di-
gestion and the redistribution of the reserves, of
the superfluous elements and of the secondary
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frtissues observed in all the animals in periods of
fasting represent one of the most wonderful phe-
nomena in biology.
The organism is  not only able to build tissues,
it is also able to destroy them. It does not only
distribute its nutritive reserves, but can also re-
distribute them. Autolysis itself makes redistri-
bution possible. The process of autolysis can be
utilized to obtain great practical advantages and
can serve, for example, to remove tumors and
other growths present in the body. Those sub-
stances that are less important in the general
economy are always captured and removed,
first. For this reason, when the autolysis process
is activated, all pathological formations (lipo-
mas, tumors, abscesses, etc.) are reduced and in
some cases completely removed. All as a result
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from food. After a more or less prolonged prac-
tice of fasting many people have freed them-
selves from tumors, which disappeared through
autolysis (Herbert Shelton talks about it in de-
tail).

8.5. The mechanism of rejuvenation and tis-
sue renewal: apoptosis
Why is the rejuvenation process of the organ-
ism during a dry fast more powerful than that
triggered by a water  fast?
The fact is that the diseased, degenerate and
weak cells are unable to cope with the extreme
conditions imposed by dry fasting. When cells
live in a comfortable environment they get used
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lose the possibility of renewing themselves and
reinvigorating themselves effectively. It is as if
they get lazy to trigger the mechanisms of self -
renewal of the tissues. But as soon as food and
water cease entering the gastrointestinal tract,
new conditions of existence are established in
the organism. Under these conditions, the old
biomolecules are “dismantled”, the unstable
cells die and decay (and the deficit of energetic
and plastic substances is offset at their expense).
But at the same time new cells are synthesized,
which are more resistant, and able to survive the
conditions imposed by the new circumstances.
There is another important source that guaran-
tees rejuvenation and "fasting survival": apopto-
sis, a mechanism of programmed cell death.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frMost of the cells in the human body live actively
for a few years, after that they age and become
functionally passive; which is the state of fat
cells. Even colonies of microorganisms have a
mechanism of "food recycling" of old cells. All
multicellular organisms use their old cells as a
source of raw materials and energy, as a source
of reserves in cases of emergency.
When the "food recycling" mechanism under-
goes prolonged inactivity, these old cells can and
do become a factory of pathological proteins that
attack their own immune system. These are the
factors that cause the alteration of central and
tissue regulation, i.e. they become progenitor
cells of malignant tumors. So, they must be re-
moved from the body. For millions of years, pe-
riods of forced fasting have been a norm in
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ganisms the process of elimination of usel ess
cells, which are structurally or functionally atyp-
ical, has never been a problem.
Apoptosis, i.e. programmed cell death, incor-
porated into the genetic apparatus of all multi-
cellular organisms - animals, plants and fungi -
is a process that is energetically dependent and
genetically controlled. It is activated by specific
signals and aims to free the body from weak, use-
less or altered cells. Every day about 5% of the
cells of the body undergo apoptosis, and new
cells take their place. During the process of
apoptosis, the cell disappears without a trace
within 15 to 120 minutes.
Apoptosis is one of the basic mechanisms of
oncological self -prevention. Excessive apoptotic
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and degenerative processes as well a s malfor-
mations and tissue defects; while deficient apop-
tosis may imply uncontrolled cell growth, the
mechanism underlying cancer, autoimmune
processes and premature aging. For example,
there are good reasons to believe that excessive
apoptosis is associat ed with dangerous diseases
such as aplastic anemia, amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, etc.
During fasting, global changes occur. On the
one hand, the physiological process of apoptosis
is reinvigorated: the organism is renewed and r e-
juvenated at the expense of the death of old, sick
or altered cells. On the other hand, the patholog-
ical mechanisms of apoptosis are eliminated:
premature aging, neoplasms, etc.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frLet's analyze these mechanisms in detail.
Understood as a community of cells,  the organ-
ism during the fast "eats" not only the fat cells,
but also all the elements that are superfluous,
morbid or malfunctioning. The continuation of
the organism’s life is impossible without the self -
cleaning function of its cell populations. Cells i n-
fected with viruses, toxins or damaged by radia-
tion, as well as those that have reached their bio-
logical limit, have one thing in common: they
have to either leave the organism or be eaten.
This happens in nature.
In the absence of external feeding, a par ticular
type of signaling molecule appears within a mul-
ticellular organism. These molecules cause the
activation of intracellular proteins in the cyto-
plasm of atypical cells. The cells that are not
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ism are sensitive and respond to these molecules
by triggering a self -destructive mechanism: the
cell "closes" all its programs, its nucleus "con-
tracts" and begins to subdivide. Without de-
stroying its outer envelope the cell subdivides
into 5 -10 "apoptotic bodies" and is absorbed by
other cells. This is what happens in a colony of
microorganisms. Otherwise it is digested in the
intestine, sharing the fate of fat cells.
The phenomenon of apoptosis was discovered
relatively recently, in 1972, and is considered the
most  interesting matter of the last 50 years in the
field of biology and medicine. According to
modern conceptions, apoptosis is a general bio-
logical mechanism responsible for maintaining a
constant number of cell populations, as well as
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cells. Habitual feeding and ecological pollution
hinder this physiological mechanism.
According to the observations of Russian sci-
entists, the activation of the process of food
apoptosis occurs after 20 hours of dry fasting
(strict ly observing the rules for a correct fasting
practice). When one eats continuously, accord-
ing to the usual food pattern, "caloric garbage"
becomes the number one problem. It becomes a
cause of disease and premature aging. "Rescue
technologies" save life if  you fast, but kill it if we
are constantly satiated.
Australian and American researchers have in-
directly confirmed the benefit of Muslim fasting.
They were able to discover the cellular
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	bottle	or	a	mason	jar.

2.
Fill	it	with	water	and	stir	to	combine	well.

3.
Keep	in	a	refrigerator	before	serving.	Enjoy!Fresh	Start
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	strawberries,	hulled	and	quartered

1.
1/2	thinly	English	cucumber,

sliced

1.
1-2	wedges	orange

1.
2	quarts	of	water

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	your	pitcher.

2.
Refrigerate	at	least	3	hours	in	order	to	allow	the	ingredients	to	infuse.	After
that,	strain	and	discard	the	solids.

3.
Serve	with	plenty	of	ice.	Keep	refrigerated	for	up	to	2	days.Herbed	Tomato	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	tomato,	diced

1.
2	sprigs	basil

1.
1	sprig	rosemary

1.
2	quarts	water

Directions

1.
In	a	pitcher,	place	tomato,	herbs,	and	1	quart	of	seltzer.	Stir	to	combine	and
refrigerate	for	2	to	4	hours.

2.
Next,	strain	well,	discarding	the	solids.	Add	the	second	quart	of	water	just
before	serving.

3.
This	is	a	source	of	amazing	anti-inflammatory	compounds.	Food	scientists
have	discovered	that	rosemary	may	help	prevent	brain	aging.Orange,	Blueberry	and	Cilantro
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	orange

1.
5-6	blueberries

1.
1	tablespoon	fresh	cilantro

1.
Water

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	a	mason	jar.	Pour	in	filtered	water	and	stir	gently.

2.
Refrigerate	overnight	to	allow	the	ingredients	to	infuse.	Enjoy!Berry,	Rose	Petal	and	Vanilla
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
5-6	fresh	or	frozen	blackberries

1.
1	large	vanilla	bean,	sliced	lengthwise

1.
7-8	dried	pink	rose	petals

Directions

1.
Put	your	ingredients	into	a	pitcher	and	fill	with	cold	filtered	water.

2.
Allow	your	water	to	refrigerate	overnight.

3.
Strain	the	water	and	keep	the	pitcher	in	the	fridge.	Use	within	a	few	days.Vanilla	and	Cardamom	Orange
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	large-sized	orange,	sliced

1.
1	tablespoon	cardamom

1.
2-3	cloves

1.
1	vanilla	bean,	sliced	lengthwise

Directions

1.
Put	the	ingredients	along	with	filtered	water	into	your	pitcher.	Place	in	a
refrigerator	and	use	within	a	few	days.

2.
It	is	good	to	know	that	cardamom	is	great	for	our	cardiovascular	health,	and
it	is	a	powerful	anti-depressant.	Enjoy!Blueberry	Lavender	Infused	Water
(Ready	in	about	40	minutes	|	Servings	8)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cup	blueberries

1.
Lavender	edible	flowers

1.
4	cups	water

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	a	pitcher.

2.
Then,	chill	the	water	for	at	least	30	minutes.

3.
Strain,	pour	over	ice	cubes,	and	serve.Peppermint	Lemongrass	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/4	cup	fresh	peppermint,	chopped

1.
1	stalk	lemongrass,	crushed	slightly

1.
1	vanilla	bean,	sliced	lengthwise

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	a	glass	bowl	or	a	pitcher.	Pour	in	water	and	stir	with
a	wooden	spoon.

2.
Lemongrass	is	used	for	treating	high	blood	pressure,	convulsions,	pain,
rheumatism,	cough,
etc.Honeydew	Agua	Fresca
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	honeydew	melon,	cut	into	half

1.
4	cups	water

1.
3	limes

1.
1	cup	blackberries

Directions

1.
Remove	seeds	from	honeydew	melon;	cut	flesh	into	chunks.	Mash	it	and
replace	to	a	sieve.

2.
Then,	squeeze	the	juice	and	pour	into	a	large	pitcher;	add	water	and	stir.
Cut	the	lime	into	thin	slices.	Add	the	lime	slices	to	the	pitcher.

3.
Pour	into	serving	glasses	and	garnish	with	blackberries.Watermelon	Coconut	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	small-sized	seedless	watermelon,	cubed

1.
1	quart	coconut	water

1.
1	medium	lime,

squeezed

Directions

1.
Mix	the	watermelon	in	a	blender.	Then,	pour	the	pureed	watermelon
through	the	sieve.

2.
Pour	in	coconut	water	and	lime	juice.

3.
Serve	well	chilled	over	crushed	ice.Green	Tea	and	Tangerine
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	6)

Ingredients

1.
8	cups	green	tea,	brewed

1.
1	tangerine,	sliced

1.
10	mint	leaves

Directions

1.
Combine	your	ingredients	in	a	large	pitcher	or	a	bottle.

2.
Stir	well,	and	let	the	drink	stay	in	a	refrigerator	overnight	for	the	flavors	to
fuse	together.

3.
This	delicious	infused	water	boosts	metabolism.	Enjoy!Peppery	Cucumber	Refresher
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
2	cucumbers,	thinly	sliced

1.
1	jalapeno	pepper,	seeded	and	sliced

1.
Water

Directions

1.
Place	the	ingredients	in	a	large	pitcher.

2.
Pour	over	the	ice.

3.
Jalapeno	peppers	contain	capsaicin,	which	has	significant	anti-
inflammatory	effects.Cherry	and	Mint	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	lemon,	thinly	sliced

1.
10	pitted	cherries,	cut	in	halves

1.
6	mint	leaves

1.
1	quart	water

Directions

1.
Put	all	the	ingredients	into	a	mason	jar.

2.
The	longer	your	water	stands	in	a	refrigerator,	the	more	flavorful	your	drink
will	be.Mango	and	Mint	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	mango,	peeled	and	cut	into	large	chunks

1.
2	sprigs	of	mint

1.
Soda	water

Directions

1.
Put	your	ingredients	into	a	mason	jar	or	a	bottle.

2.
Serve	over	ice	cubes	if	desired.Cherry	and	Mint	Drink
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
8	fresh	cherries,	pitted	and	halved

1.
1/4	cup	mint	leaves

1.
Water

Directions

1.
Mash	the	cherries	and	transfer	to	a	mason	jar.	Fill	the	jar	with	water;	give


 drugs don’ t work. So they try a continuous positive airway pressure
mask, or CP AP, which forces bursts of air past the obstructed airways into
the lungs.CP APs are a lifesaver for those suf fering from moderate to severe sleep
apnea, and the devices have helped millions of people finally get a good
night’ s rest. But Gelb told me his patients have a hard time wearing them.
Further, many don’ t have medically diagnosed sleep apnea; the data from
sleep studies shows they’re breathing during sleep just fine. Y et these
people keep getting more tired, for getful, and sick. These people may not
register a sleep apnea problem, Gelb told me, but they all had a serious
breathing problem. “By the time I get them, I’m dealing with the walking
dead,” he said.
Gelb and his colleagues sometimes remove tonsils and adenoids. This
can be especially ef fective for children: 50 percent of kids with ADHD
were shown to no longer have symptoms after having their adenoids and
tonsils removed. But these ef fects can also be fleeting. Y ears after having
tonsils removed, children can develop obstructions in the airways and all
the problems that come with it. This is because neither adenoid/tonsil
removal nor CP AP nor other procedures provide a satisfying long-term
solution, because none deals with the core issue: a mouth that is too small
for the face.
Gelb also of fers treatments to correct head and neck posture, using
various gizmos to force the jaw away from the airways. Most work. He
showed me a gallery of patients who looked practically reborn after
treatment. But I wasn’ t the walking dead—not yet, at least. The obstruction
in my airways was much milder.
For me and the majority of the population, the best medicine, Gelb said,
is preventative. It involves reversing the entropy in our airways so that we
can avoid sleep apnea, anxiety, and all the chronic respiratory problems as
we grow older. It involves expanding the too-small mouth.
•       •       •
The earliest orthodontics devices weren’ t intended to straighten teeth, but to
widen the mouth and open airways. In the mid-1800s, a host of children
were born with cleft palates and narrow V -shaped arches. Their mouths
were so small that they had trouble eating, speaking, and breathing. Norman
Kingsley, a dentist and sculptor, wanted to help them, so in 1859 he built a
device that forced the jaw forward, creating room at the back of the mouthto open the throat. It worked well enough. By the 1900s, a French sur geon
named Pierre Robin was designing his own contraption.
Robin called it the “monobloc,” and it consisted of a plastic retainer
with a dowel screw that forced the upper palate to grow outward. W ithin
just a few weeks, his patients’ mouths grew lar ger and their breathing was
significantly improved.
The monobloc kicked of f a wave of other mouth-expanding devices that
would be used for another benefit: straightening crooked teeth. T eeth will
grow in naturally straight if they have enough room. Expanding devices
returned the mouth to the width it was intended to be, of fering a lar ger
“playing field” for teeth. Expansion would remain a standard practice for
the next 20 years, and would continue to be used throughout Europe for
decades after that.
But the process of expanding a mouth took expertise and maintenance;
results varied depending on the skill of the dentist. It didn’ t help that these
devices were miserable and awkward to wear. For those patients with
overbites, the most common problem in the mouth, few dentists could
figure out how to move the bottom jaw forward, so they instead began
working on ways to move the top of the mouth back.
By the 1940s, it became standard practice for dentists to extract teeth
then crane back the remaining top teeth with headgear, braces, and other
orthodontic devices. Fewer teeth were easier to handle and of fered more
consistent results. By the 1950s, tooth extractions—two, four, even six at a
time—and retractive orthodontics were routine in the United States.
There was a glaring problem with this approach: removing teeth and
pushing remaining teeth backward only made a too-small mouth smaller. A
smaller mouth might be easy for dentists to manage, but it also of fered less
room to breathe.
A few months, or years, after their mouths were compressed with braces
and headgear, some patients would complain about breathing dif ficulties
like snoring, sleep apnea, hay fever, and asthma that they’d never had
before. When they bit down, they noticed a clicking sound at the back of
their jaws, along the temporomandibular joint. Some began to look
dif ferent, their faces growing longer, flatter, and less defined.
These patients might have represented only a small percentage. But
enough showed the same breathing problems, chewing problems, and
downward facial growth that, in the late 1950s, a former biplane pilot,semiprofessional Formula 1 driver, and British facial sur geon and dentist
named Dr. John Mew took notice.
Mew began measuring the faces and mouths of young patients who’d
gotten extractions, and compared them with patients who’d gotten
expansion treatment. Brothers and sisters measured against their siblings,
even sets of identical twins. Over and over again, the children who’d had
teeth removed and had under gone retractive orthodontics suf fered from the
same stunted mouth and facial growth. As they grew up, and the rest of
their bodies and heads grew lar ger, their mouths were forced to stay the
same size. This mismatch created a problem at the center of the face: eyes
would droop, cheeks would puf f up, and chins would recess. The more teeth
these patients had extracted, the longer they wore braces and other devices,
the more obstruction seemed to develop in their airways. Mew called the
pattern “sadly a common sequel to fixed orthodontic treatment.”
In a strange twist, he found that the devices invented to fix crooked teeth
caused by too-small mouths were making mouths smaller and breathing
worse.
Mew wasn’ t alone. Several other dentists had come to the same
conclusion, publishing scientific papers on the subject. Mew would conduct
his own studies, taking hundreds of measurements and before-and-after
photos of his patients. He even conducted biochemical analysis of the cell
structure of the lips. All of which, he claimed, clearly proved how the
combination of extractions and retractive orthodontics hindered forward
facial growth and breathing. He’d serve as president of the Southern
Counties Branch of the British Dental Association and would use his
influence to petition administrators to run a full investigation.
Nobody did anything; nobody really cared. Instead, Mew would become
one of the most divisive men in British dentistry, ridiculed as a “ quack,”
“scammer,” and “snake oil salesman.” He was sued repeatedly to stop from
practicing expansion and would eventually lose his license. As Mew
approached the tenth decade of his life, it appeared he was going to follow
the same trajectory as Stough, Price, and so many other pulmonauts: to die
in obscurity, buried along with his research.
But something curious has happened in the last few years. Hundreds of
leading orthodontists and dentists have come out in support of Mew’ s
position, saying that, yes, traditional orthodontics were making breathing
worse in half their patients. The strongest endorsement came in April 2018,when Stanford University Press published a 216-page monograph by famed
evolutionary biologist Paul R. Ehrlich and Dr. Sandra Kahn, an
orthodontist, detailing hundreds of scientific references that supported
Mew’ s research. In a short time, Mew’ s outlier theories started entering the
mainstream.
“In ten years, nobody will be using traditional orthodontics,” Gelb told
me. “W e’ll look back at what we’ve done and be horrified.” This is what
Mew had been saying for the past half century. The rebellion within
orthodontics eventually led to the formation of a professional or ganization
called the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy.
This group, I’d learned, is much more interested in fixing the problem of
undersize mouths than blaming those who contributed to it. There are too
many variables, and too many guilty parties, they ar gued. As with so many
fixes I’d come across, Mew and the others discovered that the tools they
needed to remove airway obstruction, to restore the function in that too-
small mouth, were created long ago by observant scientists whose research
was accepted as the standard—and then, for one reason or another,
for gotten.
•       •       •
I visited John Mew two weeks after my expedition into the Paris quarries. I
arrived at an empty train station in East Sussex and an hour later was in the
passenger seat of a Renault minivan. Mew was at the wheel, driving twice
the speed limit down a country road canopied in trees in the pos


 (45
or 5 0 mL) cho pped fr esh per cup (250 mL) of fr esh strawb erries. For
pr eserving, use considerably less, as I have done her e.On the other hand, fr esh Fr ench tarragon  (Artemesia dracunculus sativa,
adds a sophisticated, peppery zing to fr esh and cooked strawberry dishes,
but u se i t sparin gly—about 1 tbsp (15 mL) chopped fr esh tarragon for every
1 cu p (2 50 mL) of fr esh strawberries. In this r ecipe, I am judicio us with the
tarragon because it will have lots of time to infuse the jam as it sits in the
jam cupboar d.
In my view, ther e  ar e thr ee ways  to make classic strawberry jam, a favourite
of almo st everyone. The traditional way was to add some tart cooking
apples for their natural pectin and boil the fruit mixtur e long in or der to
make the jam set. That was the only way to get a thick, jammy textur e, but it
did a lter the pur e taste of the strawberries. Once powder ed and  liquid fruit
pectin b ecame a vailable to home cooks, sometime in the first  half of the
20th century, it was possible t o use low-acid fruit such as strawberries
without adding high-acid apples or citrus peel, and the r esult was a pur e,
mor e strawberry-tasting jam. Nowadays, again thanks to food science, we
ar e able  to r educe (or actually  eliminate) the amount of sugar in jam by
using no-sugar -needed pectin. Pr edictably, my pr efer ence falls in the middle
of th e r o ad: pur e fruit and sugar, using commer cial pectin to help it set. But
because ther e ar e people who, for health r easons (T ype 2 diabetes for one),
have not  enjoyed  the taste of homemade jam for a long time, I a m including
the method for making no-sugar strawberry jam ( low- or no-sugar
strawberry jam ).
MAKES 8 CUPS (2 L)
5 cups (1.25 L) crushed strawberries
2 tbsp (25 mL) fr eshly squeezed lemon juice
1 pkg (1–3/4 oz/49 to 57 g) fruit pectin crystals
7 cups (1.75 L) granulated sugar
3 tbsp (45 mL) finely chopped fr esh sweet cicely or tarragon, optional

1. Heat eight 1-c up (250 mL) ja rs in boiling water, and scald the lids, lifter,
funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).2. In  a Maslin p an or canning ke ttle, combine strawberries and lemon juice.
Sprinkle pectin over fruit and stir until dissolved. Bring to a full  rolling boil
over hig h heat, stirring constantly Add sugar in a steady stream, all at once
and stirring constantly. Return to a full rolling boil that cannot be stirred
down. B oil, stirr ing constantly, for 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat
and stir in sweet cicely, if using. Stir for 5 minutes.
3. S kim of f and discard any foam. Fill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-i nch (5 mm)
headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of the jar to
allow air to esca pe. Add more h ot jam, if necessary to leave a 1/4-inch (5
mm) he adspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on metal rings.
Return j ars to the hot water ba th, topping up with hot water if necessary
Bring to  a full r olling boil and process jars for 10 minutes ( Boiling W ater
Method, Step by Step ).
4. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool completely Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up to
1 year.
l o w -  o r  n o - s u g a r  s t r a w b e r r y  j a m
If you use No Sugar Needed Fruit Pectin, you can choose to e ither lower
the amo unt of sugar or elimi nate the sugar altogether by substituting
artificial granular sugar r eplac ement. What follows is the r ecipe for using
no sugar.
MAKES 4 CUPS (1 L)
4 cups (1 L) crushed strawberries
1 cup (250 mL) unsweetened apple or white grape juice
1 pkg (1.75 oz/49 to 57 g) No Sugar Needed Fruit Pectin
1 cup (250 mL) low-calorie granular sweetener
 1. Heat five 1-cup (250 mL) jar s in boiling water, and scald the lids, lifter,
funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
2. In  a Maslin p an or canning k ettle, combine strawberries and apple juice.
Sprinkle pectin over fruit and stir until dissolved. Bring to a full  rolling boil
over hig h heat, stirring constantly. Boil, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in sweetener.
3. S kim of f and discard any foam. Fill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-i nch (5 mm)
headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of the jar to
allow air to escape. Add more hot jam, if necessary, to leave a 1/4-inch (5
mm) he adspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on metal rings.
Return jars to th e hot water ba th, topping up with hot water if necessary.
Bring to  a full r olling boil and process jars for 10 minutes ( Boiling W ater
Method, Step by Step ).
4. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up
to 1 year.
s t r a w b e r r y  c a p p u c c i n o
If you have fr ozen strawberries, they actually work better than fr esh in this
smooth drink because blending in fr ozen fruit will make it thicker. This
drink is quick, e asy and so good  for you. The strawberry jam intensifies the
strawberry flavour but is not absolutely essential.
MAKES 2 SER VINGS
2 cups (500 mL) chopped fr esh or fr ozen strawberries
1 cup (250 mL) vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup (50 mL) Classic Strawberry Jam ( classic strawberry jam with
pectin ) or Strawberry SauceIn a blender, com bine strawberr ies, yogurt and strawberry jam. Blend until
smooth.
s c o n e  w e d g e s  w i t h  s t r a w b e r r y  j a m
Still a spring ritual in chur ch ba sements and community halls all over rural
Canada, invitingly homey strawberry festivals launch buckets of local
strawberries to war d a delectable end. Once sliced and sugar ed, they
virtually float atop homemade flaky biscuits or scones cr owned with gr eat
dollops of r eal whipped cr eam.
2 baking sheets, lightly oiled
Pr eheat oven to 425°F (220°C)
MAKES 16 SCONE WEDGES
2 cups (500 mL) unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 cup (75 mL) granulated sugar
2 tsp (10 mL) baking powder
1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt
6 tbsp (90 mL) cold butter
3/4 cup (175 mL) dried currants
1/2 cup (125 mL) heavy (whipping) cr eam or milk
2 large eggs, beaten
1 cup (250 mL) Classic Strawberry Jam ( classic strawberry jam with
pectin  or stor e-bought)
3 cups (750 mL) whipped cr eam

1. In  a mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in the butter until the mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Add currants and toss to combine.2. Whisk cream and eggs. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and
pour in the egg mixture all at o nce. Using a fork, mix the wet ingredients
into the dry ingredients until th e dough begins to clump toget her. Lightly
knead th e dough in the bowl with your fingertips for about 10 s econds. Do
not overmix the dough or the scones will be tough.
3. T urn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 2 pieces.
Using y our hand s, form one pie ce into a ball and flatten it to form a circle
measuring 5 inches (12 cm) in diameter and 3/4 inch (2 cm) thi ck.


 you learned as a child enable you to avoid
potential ridicule that might come your way because you
aren’t as physically skilled as others. Of course, your lack of
skill comes from a history of believing those I’ms and hence
avoiding physical activity, rather than from some inherent
defect. You get good at what you practice, not what you shun.
Keep your I’m and stay on the sidelines watching and wish-
ing, but pretending that you really don’t like that sort of
thing.
5. I’m unattractive, ugly, big-boned, plain, too tall, etc.
These physiological I’ms are helpful in keeping you from
taking risks with the opposite sex, and in justifying the poor
self-image and lack of love you’ve chosen for yourself. As
long as you describe yourself in this fashion, you have a
ready-made excuse for not putting yourself on the line in a
love relationship. And you don’t have to work at looking
attractive to yourself, as well. You use your mirror as justific-
ation for not taking a chance. There’s only one problem: we
see exactly what we choose to—even in mirrors.
6. I’m unorganized, meticulous, sloppy, etc.
These behavioral I’ms are convenient for manipulating others
and in justifying why things have to be done a certain way.
I’ve always done it that way. As if tradition were a reason to
do anything. And I’ll always do it that way is the unstated
message. By relying upon the way you’ve always done it,
you don’t ever have to entertain the risky notion of doing it
differently, and you can simultaneously ensure that everyone
around you will do it your way as well. This is the I’m that
calls upon “policy” as a substitute for thinking.BREAKING FREE FROM THE PAST  / 817. I’m forgetful, careless, irresponsible, apathetic, etc.
These kinds of I’ms are especially useful to you when you
want to vindicate yourself for some ineffective behavior. The
I’m keeps you from ever going to work on your memory, or
your carelessness, and you simply excuse yourself with your
neat little, “That’s me.” As long as you can haul out this I’m
when you behave in any of the ways described above, you
will never have to work at changing. Just go on forgetting
and reminding yourself that you can’t really help it, and
you’ll always be forgetful.
8. I’m Italian, German, Jewish, Irish, Black, Chinese, etc.
These are your ethnic I’ms, and they work very well when
you run out of other reasons to explain some behaviors that
you have, which don’t work for you, but are just too damned
difficult to tackle. Whenever you find yourself behaving in
stereotypical ways associated with your subculture, you
simply trot out your ethnic I’m as a justification. I once asked
a maître d’ why he seemed so excitable and reacted to the
slightest problem with outrageous outbursts. He responded,
“What do you expect from me? I’m Italian. I can’t help it.”
9. I’m bossy, pushy, authoritarian, etc.
Here your I’m can allow you to continue hostile acts, rather
than work at developing self-discipline. You varnish the be-
havior with “I can’t help it, I’ve always been that way.”
10. I’m old, middle-aged, tired, etc.
With this I’m you can use your age as a reason for not parti-
cipating in what might be risky or threatening activities.
Whenever you find yourself faced with an activity such as a
sports event, dating after a divorce or the death of a spouse,
traveling, or the like you can just say “I’m too old” and you
will have eliminated any attendant risks that go with trying
something new and growth-producing. The implication of
an “age-I’m” is that you are absolutely finished in82 / Your Erroneous Zonesthis area, and since you will always get older, you are finished
growing and experiencing anything new.
The “I’m” Circle
The rewards for hanging onto your past by trotting out your I’ms
can be neatly summed up in the one word: avoidance. Whenever
you want to dodge a certain kind of activity or to gloss over a per-
sonality defect, you can always justify yourself with an I’m. In fact,
after you use these labels enough, you begin to believe them yourself,
and at that present moment you are a finished product destined to
remain as you are for the rest of your days. Labels enable you to
avoid the hard work and the risk of trying to change. They perpetu-
ate the behavior which has given rise to them. Thus, if a young man
goes to a party with the belief that he is shy, he will behave as if he
is shy and his behavior will further support his self-image. It’s a vi-
cious circle.
There you have it. Rather than intervening between point 3 and
4 on the circle, he simply exonerates his behavior with an I’m, and
the attendant risk-taking that is necessary to get out of his trap is
adroitly avoided. There may be many reasons for theBREAKING FREE FROM THE PAST  / 83young man’s shyness, some of which probably go back to his
childhood. Whatever the reasons for his fear he has decided not to
go to work on his social-wariness, but to explain it away with a
simple I’m. His fear of failing is strong enough to prevent him from
trying. Were he to believe in the present moment and his ability to
make a choice, his sentence would change from, “I’m shy,” to “Up
until now, I’ve behaved in a shy manner.”
The vicious circle of shyness can be applied to virtually all I’ms
that are self-diminishing. Consider the circle of a student who be-
lieves he’s poor in math as he tackles his algebra homework.
Rather than stop between 3 and 4, and put in the extra time, con-
sult a tutor, or struggle with it he simply stops. When asked why he
flunked algebra class, he’ll say “I’ve always been lousy in mathem-
atics.” Those infernal I’ms are the things that you call upon to exon-
erate yourself and to explain to others why you persist in a self-de-
feating pattern.
You can look at your own circle of neurotic logic and begin to
challenge any aspect of your life in which you’ve chosen to be a
finished product. The number one payoff for hanging onto your
past and resting on your I’ms is avoidance of change. Every time
you use an I’m to explain a behavior that you don’t84 / Your Erroneous Zoneslike, think of yourself in that gaily decorated box, all wrapped up
as a finished package.
Certainly it is easier to describe yourself than to change. Perhaps
you ascribe the reasons for your labels to your parents, or to other
significant adults in your childhood such as your teachers, neighbors,
grandparents and the like. By giving them responsibility for your
present-day I’m you’ve given them a measure of control over your
life today, elevated them to a higher position than you and ingeni-
ously created an alibi for staying in your ineffective condition. A
neat little payoff indeed, and one that provides you with a warranty
against any risk-taking. If it’s the “culture’s” fault that you have this
I’m, you can’t do anything about it.
Some Strategies for Freeing Yourself from the Past and Eliminating
Your Vexing I’ms
Leaving the past behind involves taking risks. You have become
accustomed to your self-definitions. In many cases they function as
a support system in your daily life. Some specific strategies for
eliminating those I’ms include:
• Eliminating I’m wherever you can. Substitute with such sen-
tences as, “Until today I’ve chose to be that way,” or “I used to label
myself…”
• Announce to those close to you that you are going to work at
eliminating some of your I’ms. Decide which are most important to
eliminate and ask them to remind you whenever you haul them out.
• Set behavioral goals to act differently than you’ve ever done
before. For example, if you consider yourself shy, introduce yourself
to one person who you might otherwise have avoided.BREAKING FREE FROM THE PAST  / 85• Talk with a trusted confidant who will help you combat the
powers of the past. Ask him to signal you silently with a tug to his
ear each time he notices you falling back into your I’m.
• Keep a journal on your self-destructive I’m behavior, and record
your action as well as how you were feeling about yourself while
you were behaving that way. For one week record in a notebook the
exact time, date and occasion when you used any of the self-destruct-
ive I’ms, and work at diminishing the entries. Use the list provided
earlier in this chapter as a guide to your journal-keeping.
• Watch out for the four neurotic sentences and whenever you
fall into using them, correct yourself out loud  in the following way.
Change
“That’s me.”…to…“That was me.”
“I can’t help it.”…to…“I can change that if I work on it.”
“I’ve always been that way.”…to…“I’m


 You may also add some olive oil and lecithin to slow the absorption or drink
part of the juice before and the rest after a meal.
Dr Gerson and other therapists found that patients in serious conditions did not respond so well when juices were extracted with
centrifugal juicers, as these generated electric charges that inactivated the enzymes. Low-speed juicers produce higher quality juice
than high-speed juicers. Look for a RPM (revolutions per minute) of about 100 or less. The bigger twin-gear juicers or dearer but may
produce juice twice as fast as the smaller single auger juicers.
If you cannot afford a low RPM juicer or until you get one, you may use a blender (preferably with glass top). Use thin slices of root
vegetables and short cuts of grass; possibly add vitamin C powder to reduce oxidation, press through a strainer. Alternatively, you
may put grass or vegetables twice through a mincer and press the juice out by hand as with cheesecloth. This should be well rinsed
afterwards and washed at the end of the day.
If you juice several times during the day it is sufﬁcient to clean the juicer once a day after the last use. At other times detach the juicer
attachment from the motor unit and keep it in the refrigerator. More juice can usually be extracted if you press the pulp a second time
and add some water to the beetroot pulp. If you have a problem absorbing fats, add some lecithin to the juice to improve absorption
of beta-carotene. If it is not convenient to juice every day, you may freeze juice for later use in small plastic containers (glass may
break during freezing).
Growing Grass
Experiment with growing wheat as well as barley grass as they taste very different. I prefer to grow a mixture of both in the same plot.
Wheat grass or barley grass may be grown in garden beds or in seed boxes that you may keep on a veranda or even in a room close
to the window. Use well-mineralized and compost-enriched soil, soak the seeds overnight and sow quite closely, seeds almost
touching each other. (Beware of buying seeds of any sort prepared for sowing with a pesticide coating). Cover thinly with soil or just
wet newspaper. However, if mold is a problem, sow more sparsely and possibly add hydrogen peroxide or Condy's crystals
(potassium permanganate) to the irrigation water.
Cut the grass for extraction when it is 10-20 cm or 4-8 inches high. Also the ﬁrst re-growth is usually still good. You may also cut
some grass ﬁnely into salads or chew it and discard the residue. I also grow ryegrass, a perennial grass used by farmers for pasture
and sown from ryegrass seeds, not from rye kernels. Ryegrass grows better in cooler and dryer conditions. It does not need frequent
replanting like cereal grasses but grows much more slowly than wheat and is sown more sparsely.
You may even use chemical-free lawn or pasture grasses; just make a taste test and select palatable varieties. Lawn grasses are
more ﬁbrous and yield about 60% juice compared to up to 80% for cereal and ryegrass. They cause a greater strain on the juicer.
Preferably mix them with less ﬁbrou s vegetables. Of greatest importance is the vitality or life-force of the juice. This is generally
highest in fresh young leaves and shoots growing organically in mineral-rich soil. Good products to mineralize the soil are rock dust,
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good to improve liver functions.
Disclaimer: The aim of this web site is to provide information on using natural healing methods to aid in the treatment of illness and health improvement.
The author cannot accept any legal responsibility for any problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease,
or if you are unsure about a particular course of action, seek the help of a competent health professional.
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Ocean Grown is a company that provides concentrated ocean minerals for farmers and organic gardeners,
allowing them to produce mineral-rich crops and vegetables that support peak human health. In this
interview, Mike Adams talks with Ocean Grown president John Hartman, who discusses mineral
deficiencies in soils used for crops as well as the serious implications for human health.
Mike : Hello, everyone. This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and today I’m joined by John Hartman,
the president and cofounder of Ocean Grown, a harvester and marketer of ocean minerals for enhanced
health that can be accessed online at OceanGrown.com. Thanks for joining me today, John.
Hartman : It’s a pleasure to be here.
Mike : You’re joining us from Florida today. Can you please tell us what your product does, what it’s
for, and how it might benefit people?
Hartman : What we do is go out to sea on the east coast of Florida, because that’s where the clean water
is. We have a proprietary process, and what we do is extract the minerals out of seawater. Seawater
has all 90 natural minerals in a very particular proportion, and I’m sure that proportion will come up
several times in this chat—and it’s terribly important. That proportion is used by anything that grows,
whether it’s vegetables, flowering plants, trees or grass.
Mike : So these are minerals that people can put on their home gardens?
Hartman : That’s right.
Mike : Are any commercial growers using the product as well?
Hartman : Yes, we have quite a few commercial growers, because our intent and our mission at the
company is to reinvigorate the food supply, because it’s terribly lacking in minerals that are so important
for health. We’ve predominantly gone after commercial growers, because we really want to do that in a
quick fashion. However, we do have a loyal following of wheatgrass growers and home gardeners that
also use it. It can be used anywhere.
Mike : What happens to people’s produce yield when they put this product on their garden? What kind
of results do they typically see?
Hartman : Well, that brings up an interesting point. What we do, as a company, is promise equivalent
yields, although, generally, our yields are higher. The point is, when you sit down with an agronomist
and growers, the last thing they want to talk about—the last thing that crosses their mind—is the
quality of the food. All they talk about is yield and disease resistance. Are we going to be able to
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harvest in 90 or 91 days? These are the kinds of things that interest farmers. It’s what the commercial
marketplace has brought everything to, and people have forgotten why they grow food.
Mike : So what’s in the food when it’s raised on Ocean Grown minerals is very different from


	fundamental
changes	to	human	existence;	we	are	developing	and	changing	the	world	much
faster	than	our	biology	can	adapt.	Today,	nutritional	intake,	toxic	exposures	and
stress	levels	bear	little	resemblance	to	those	of	even	our	most	recent	biological
ancestors.	Every	cell	in	our	bodies	is	adversely	affected	by	these	profound
changes,	which	is	why	our	society	has	suffered	more	and	more	chronic	disease.
Disease	is	the	catastrophic	result	of	decades	of	inadequate	nutrition,	toxic
exposures,	sedentary	lifestyles,	familial	and	social	disruptions	and	a	dependence
on	drugs	(prescription,	over-the-counter	and	recreational).
In	this	chapter,	I	have	attempted	to	outline	the	complexity	and	confusion	that
surround	disease	in	our	society.	I	offer	a	new	theory	of	health	and	disease,	a	new
way	to	look	at	these	concepts:	There	is	only	one	disease,	cellular	malfunction,
and	only	two	causes	of	disease,	deficiency	and	toxicity.	Six	pathways	can	lead	to
health	or	disease.	Our	confusion	arises	because	cells	malfunction	in	many
different	ways.	Modern	medicine	categorizes	the	symptoms	created	by	these
various	malfunctions	as	different	diseases,	even	though	they	have	common
causes.	Achieving	victory	over	disease	requires	removing	the	causes.	Eliminate
deficiency	and	toxicity,	allow	the	body	to	self-repair	and	self-regulate,	and
disease	will	go	away.4
C
HOOSING
H
EWALTHY
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HELLS
“Cells—in	the	skin,	the	muscles,	the	lungs,	the	liver,	the
intestines,	the	kidneys,	the	blood	vessels,	the	glands,	the
heart	and,	crucially,	the	nerves	and	brain—must	be	well
nourished	if	we	are	to	lead	long	and	healthy	lives.
Contrarily,	if	these	cells	are	undernourished,	disabilities	and
diseases	of	every	description	will	ensue.”
Roger	J.	Williams,	Ph.D.
Nutrition	Against	Disease
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et	us	take	a	trip	together	to	the	front	lines	of	the	daily	battle	between	health
and	disease:	your	cells.	Cells	are	the	building	blocks	of	your	body.	They	build
your	tissues,	and	these	tissues	make	up	your	systems.	Because	malfunctioning
cells	are	the	one	disease,	learning	to	care	for	cells	is	fundamental	to	healthy
living.	Come	with	me	on	a	tour	of	the	systems	that	keep	your	body	healthy	or
that	make	you	sick.	The	struggle	for	life	itself	occurs	within	every	cell.	The
vitality	of	a	person	can	only	be	as	strong	as	the	cells	of	which	they	are	made.
The	basics	of	caring	for	your	cells	are	as	follows:
•	Supply	cells	with	all	the	raw	materials	they	need.
•	Avoid	the	damaging	effects	of	toxic	chemicals.
•	Build	healthy	cell	membranes,	the	cell’s	first	line	of	defense	against
disease.
•	Learn	how	to	prevent	and	reverse	disease	by	understanding	how	cells
work	and	how	they	malfunction.
•	Choices,	rather	than	genetic	inheritance,	are	key.
Lost	Along	the	Way
Before	we	leave	our	homes	to	travel—particularly	if	our	destination	is
unfamiliar—we	usually	spend	time	reading	brochures,	studying	maps,	or
researching	local	customs,	currency,	and,	perhaps,	health	precautions.	We	rarely
give	that	kind	of	attention	to	our	own	bodies	and	to	our	health,	yet	what	could	be
more	important?
Most	people	expect	that	their	bodies	generally	take	care	of	themselves,provided	they	don’t	smoke,	drink	to	excess,	or	fall	prey	to	some	unstoppable
virus	or	some	predetermined	genetic	disease.	Most	people	believe	that	as	long	as
they	avoid	“fattening”	foods,	they	are	eating	a	healthful	diet.	On	all	counts,	these
people	are	wrong.
One	of	the	most	important	things	you	need	in	order	to	fight	disease	and	to
encourage	your	own	health	is	knowledge.	This	chapter	teaches	you	how	to
prepare	and	what	to	pack	for	a	healthy	journey	through	the	rest	of	your	life.	The
small	amount	of	time	you	will	spend	reading	this	chapter	will	be	an	investment
worth	making:	It	may	save	your	life.	Knowledge	is	power,	and	you	are	about	to
plug	into	a	tremendous	energy	source.
A	cabinet	stocked	with	medicines,	a	list	of	doctors	to	call,	and	a	head	filled
with	commercial	endorsements,	medical	studies	and	drug	warning	labels	does
nothing	to	give	you	what	you	really	need:	a	true	understanding	of	what	makes
you	sick	or	how	to	get	well.	Without	that	understanding,	you	can	be	caught	up	in
a	whirlwind	of	medical	procedures	and	pharmaceuticals	that	suppress	or
surgically	remove	the	symptoms	of	what	are	labeled	as	thousands	of	different
diseases.	In	reality,	these	drugs	and	surgeries	do	not	cure	disease,	and	they	may
actually	kill	you.	Despite	the	confusion	out	there	about	how	disease	occurs	and
the	different	health	plans	that	seek	to	promote	health,	real	success	can	only	come
if	you	keep	your	cells	working	right.	This	chapter	teaches	you,	simply	and
clearly,	how	your	body	works	at	its	most	basic	level:	your	cells.
The	Cell
A	cell	is	much	more	than	a	combination	of	molecules	and	atoms.	A	cell	is	a
miraculous	reality—life	itself.	A	single	cell	may	be	a	life	form,	such	as	a
bacterium.	A	human	being,	on	the	other	hand,	is	made	of	about	75	trillion	cells,
including	about	two	hundred	different	kinds	of	specialized	cells	with	specific
functions	throughout	the	body,	such	as	in	the	brain,	the	blood,	the	muscles,	the
liver	and	the	eyes.
Cells	are	created	and	maintained	by	extremely	complex	actions	and
interactions,	but	nature	takes	care	of	that	complexity.	Your	job	is	rather	simple:
Make	certain	that	your	cells	obtain	what	they	need.	Choosing	health	means
learning	how	to	supply	your	cells	with	what	they	need	while	keeping	them	free
of	what	they	don’t	need.	Cells	have	great	powers	to	take	care	of	themselves	and
to	repair	themselves—to	stay	healthy—unless	they	are	overwhelmed	by	poor
diets,	unhealthy	habits	or	environmental	hazards.
Your	daily	choices	determine
whether	your	cells	stay	healthy	or	get	sick.We	are	ready	to	begin	our	journey	through	the	cells	of	your	body.	Picture	that
we	have	traveled	to	the	largest	industrial	park	you	can	imagine.	Around	the	park
is	a	security	wall	designed	to	keep	out	intruders,	to	prevent	the	loss	of	essential
materials,	and	to	regulate	the	passage	of	materials	in	and	out	of	the	park.	Inside
the	park	are	powerhouses	designed	to	make	the	energy	necessary	to	keep	the
park	working.	These	powerhouses,	in	turn,	require	fuel,	oxygen	and	other
essentials	on	a	round-the-clock	basis	in	order	to	do	their	jobs.
Also	inside	the	park	are	different	factories	and	manufacturing	plants	that
require	a	continuous	supply	of	energy	and	raw	materials	in	order	to	meet	their