, you will not be able
to find any event or circumstance that happened at any other time than the present
moment. If you try to imagine a world without time, you won’ t be able  to do it because your
mind can’ t comprehend it. Y our mind is always either in the past or in the future; it’ s
not aware of this present moment. If you stop and are present right now, you will notice
that ther e is no thought. It’ s one of the reasons why the mind has been able to prevent
so many  of us from realizing who we really are, because A wareness can only be
recognized in this present moment! If yo u d on’ t thin k your mind creates time, then see if you can find time outside of your
mind. “T ry and find any evidence of the past without thought. T ry as hard as you can to find
any past apart from the current thought of it. It’ s impossible.”
Peter Dziuban, fr om  Consciousness Is All audiobook
Now try and find the future without thought. T ry really hard. It’ s not possible to find any evidence of the past or the future without thought. No one
has ever been able to step into the past or into the future. When anything happened in
the past,  it happened in the pre sent moment. When anything happens in the future, it
always h appens in the present m oment. Check it for yourself. G o back in your memory
to when  you first rode a bike as a kid. When you were actually riding your bike, were
you riding it in the past? Or were you riding your bike in the present moment? When
you woke up th is morning, did you wake up in the past, or d id you wake up in the
present moment?“The past and fu ture cannot be e xperienced. They can only be mentally processed. Past
and future exist only in the form of thought.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  The Great Sweetening: Life After Thought
“The only evidence we have of the Earth’ s past is rocks and fossils. But these are just
stable st ructures in the form of an arrangement of minerals we examine in the present. The point is, all we have are these records and you only have them in this Now.”
Julian Barbour, physicist, excerpt fr om Adam Frank’ s book  About T ime
When I was first told that time doesn’ t exist, my mind went crazy with all kinds of
thoughts trying to prove that tim e does exist! Like, what about old buildings? Aren’ t
they pro of there’ s a past? But when I really examined it, I realized that when the
buildings were built they were built in the present moment. And if I am standing
looking at the old building, I’m also looking at it in the present moment, and anyone
who has looked at the same building also looked at it in the present moment. Eventually
as I exam ined e ach thought that came up trying to prove time is real, I saw that every
one of them was false because there is only the present moment. “Whether you like it or not, you’re in the moment. There’ s only one moment, it’ s
infinite, and you can’ t be anywhere else but in it.”
My teacher
“Now is  not a m oment in time, sandwiched between the two vast spaces of past and
future. This present Now is the only Now there is—the eternal Now. It has not come
from anywhere and is not going anywhere.”
Rupert Spira, fr om  The Ashes of Love
If you can just open yourself to  the possibility that time is an illusion, it will help set
you free. “The future never comes. Think of that: the future never comes. There is only ever the
present. In the present, there is the feeling of not missing life. Of not having anywhere
to get to, anything to get done. The present is where it is happening. And it isn’ t
happening anyw here else. It su re as heck isn’ t happening in the mind, with all the
wondering abou t what’ s ahead, and the going over (and over) something that has
already come and gone.”Jan Frazier, fr om  Opening the Door
“The past is made of memory, the future of imagination. Neither has any existence
outside the realm of thought.”
Rupert Spira, fr om  The Ashes of Love
The min d constantly fixates on the past and the future, neither of which exists, but
which ju st the same causes us stress and worry. Y ou think to you rself, “I’m running late
for our meeting. My boss and work colleagues are going to be furious with me. I was
late last week too. I could get fired over this.” Instead of believing those thoughts as
facts an d certainties, be aware that they’re just  flimsy thoughts. They’re fabricated
stories. But if you believe your mind, it will  become true. The mind’ s storytelling is nothing more than one of its mechanical programs, and yet it
has managed to convince most of us that its stories are true—the story that time is real,
the s tory that we ’re a body and a mind, the story that we are a  separate person who is
born and dies. All of these things combined play their part in constructing the reality
that we experience, but they are all in the mind, and therefore nothing but mental ideas. “It’ s not you that people like or dislike; it’ s their stories of you.”
Byr on Katie, fr om  A Mind at Home with Itself
Don’ t believe a story your mind tells you if it’ s something you don’ t want; otherwise,
you will brand yourself with it. W atch the mechanics of your mind, and don’ t accept a
single st ory or thought about yourself that is anything but perfection and goodness,
because perfection and pure goodness are the fact of what you r eally  are! A war eness Is Y our W ay Out
“What is a thought? A movement of ener gy. What is a feeling? A movement of ener gy.”
Peter Lawry, fr om the talk “Consciousness Unlimited”
What you are, In finite A warenes s, can never be af fected by thoughts. So become aware
of your thought s and see them for what they are—just a thoug ht, just ener gy passing
through. “A t hought is like a bird flying by. Let the bird fly past without analyzing it. ‘Where are
you going? What kind of bird a re you? Where’ s your family? How old are you?’ Just
let the bird fly past.”
My teacherY ou don’ t have to eliminate you r mind or go to war with your mind. Y ou will add even
more power to your mind if you try to do that. A wareness is your way out of the turmoil
of the mind. Jus t become aware of your thoughts so that you no longer believe them. Y ou can’ t be aware of your thoughts and believe them at the same time, because
A wareness of your thoughts prevents you from identifying with them as though they
were tru e. Whe n you observe your thoughts instead of getting  lost in them, you see
them for what they are: something that you can either choose to believe, or not. “Who you are does not need a thought to hear. Doesn’ t need a thought to see. Doesn’ t
need a thought t o sense your bo dy and your surroundings. Who you are is thought free. A wareness is hearing, seeing, sensing everything first without any thought.”
My teacher
Remember, you r thoughts aren’ t aware of you; you are the A w areness that is aware of
your thoughts. “When y ou are willing to really look at how seriously you take yourself, your mind can
start to feel at peace, with a little warm breeze drifting around in there. Who you have
held on to as being you—your o pinions, your desires, fears, what you’re invested in—
has gott en a little hazy around the edges. Life is feeling strangely easy. Joyful even. What happens just... happens. Y ou’re okay with it, really and truly okay. No opinion
about it floats a cross the radar screen. It’ s gotten very quiet inside your head. Y ou
realize h ow ver y hard you’ve b een working, your entire well-meaning life. Life just
began for you.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  Opening the DoorC H A P T E R  5  S u m m a r y
The hab it of believing our own  thoughts r obs us of being
able to live in th e magnificence  and glory of who we r eally
ar e.
It’ s your thoughts about a person, cir cumstance, or event
that’ s the sour ce of negative sit uations in your life, not the
actual person, cir cumstance, or event. Thinking was made to or der what you want. Thinking isn’ t
needed for anything else because everything else is taken
car e of by A war eness. Y our mind is n ot your brain. Y our brain doesn’ t think. Thoughts come fr om your mind. Y our mind is m ade up entir ely of thought. If ther e’ s no
curr ent thought, ther e


a little grated horseradish (optional)
Core the parsnips, and peel and c oarsely grate the potatoes and parsnips into a large bowl. Add
finely chopped onion, chives, herbs and yogurt. Mix until well combined. Put the vegetable
mixture into a shallow dish and cover. Bake for 1 hour at 375°  F (190° C). Remove the lid and
bake a little longer until it begins to brown  and the top is crispy. Serve with a crisp salad or a
vegetable (or both). Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 243Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comBaked Potatoes
Baked potatoes should be thoroughly washed, not scraped or peeled. Bake in a low oven at 300°
F (149 ° C) for 2 or 2-1/2 hours or, alternatively, bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 350 ° F (177°
C). Baked Potato with Beet
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1-1/2 hours
1 baking potato
1 onion, sliced
cooked beet, diced
yogurt
dill
Bake the potato in its skin. Slice the onion and cook gently until beginning to soften. Dice the
beet, add to the onion and warm through. When the potato is cooked, split it open and spoon in
the beet mixture. Top with dollops of yogurt and sprinkle with dill. Serve with a green salad. Baked Potato with Beet and Onion
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
1 baking potato
1 large onion, peeled
beet, diced and cooked
yogurt
dill
1 tsp. flaxseed  oil (optional)
Scrub the potato and place whole into a casserole dish with a lar ge, peeled onion. Add a little
water and bake until both are cooked. Chop the cooked onion and put into a saucepan with the
diced, cooked beet. Heat through. Split open the potato and fill with the onion and beet mixture. Mix together the yogurt, dill and flaxseed  oil (if using the flaxseed  oil, wait until the potato is no
longer steaming) and drizzle over the top. Serve with a green salad. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 244Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comBaked Tomatoes
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. tomatoes, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 medium onion, chopped
bread crumbs (or a handful of rolled oats)
dill
flaxseed oil
Slice the tomatoes and put into a baking dish. Crush the garlic, chop the onion and sprinkle over
the tomatoes. Cover with bread crumbs  (or rolled oats) and bake for about 20 minutes at 325° F
(170° C). Just before serving, sprinkle with dill and flaxseed oil. Beets
Bake at 300-350 ° F (149-177 ° C) or boil beets in their jackets. Beets, Cooked and Creamed
3 beets, cooked and chopped
6 tbsp. yogurt
1 tbsp. fresh chives, snipped
2 tbsp. onion, finely chopped
parsley, finely chopped
Put cooked, chopped beets into a saucepan with the yogurt, chives and onion and heat gently. Put into serving dish and sprinkle with chopped parsley. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 245Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comBeets with Horseradish
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 to 1-1/2 hours
Serves 2-4
6 beets
yogurt
2 tsp. horseradish
chives
Cook the beets until tender. Remove the skin and cut into quarters. Combine the yogurt and
horseradish and pour over the beets. Garnish with chopped chives and erve immediately. Bessarabian Nightmare
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Serves 2
tomatoes, skinned and sliced
onions, sliced
red (or green) bell pepper, seeded and sliced
garlic, crushed
herbs
flaxseed oil
Skin the tomatoes. Slice the tomatoes, onions and peppers. Arrange in layers in an oven-proof
dish. Sprinkle with crushed garlic and herbs. Cook slowly, then chill and serve cold, adding a
little flaxseed oil before serving. A strange name for a delicious dish! Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 246Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comBraised Cabbage
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Serves 2
1 lb. green cabbage
4 oz. carrots, diced
4 oz. onion, diced
2 sticks celery, diced
dill seeds
Cut the cabbage into quarters. Remove the stalk, the core and any discolored leaves. Cook the
cabbage in a little water in a saucepan for 10 minutes. Dice the carrots, onion and celery and put
into a large oven -proof dish with very little water. Place the cabbage on top. Scatter with dill
seeds. Bake covered  for about 1 hour at 350 ° F (180° C) or until the vegetables are tender. Braised Fennel with Orange and Tomato  Sauce
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2
1 medium head of fennel
1-1/2 lb. tomatoes
1 tbsp. tomato purée
juice of 1/2 orange
herbs
green fennel tops
Cut the fennel into quarters and remove the core. Cook gently for 8-10 minutes. Meanwhile,
cook the tomatoes to a pulp and add the tomato purée,  orange juice and herbs. Add the fennel
and cook covered for 12-15 minutes. Garnish with fennel tops and serve. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 247Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comBroccoli
Bake in a covered casserole in low oven at 300 ° F (149° C)  with onions or a small amount of
soup stock (see “‘ Special Soup’ or ‘Hippocrates Soup ’” in Chapter 12, “Preparing Food and
Juices—The Basic Rules, p. 106) for 1-2 hours. Serve with tomato sauce. Broccoli and Herbs
2 bunches of broccoli
4-6 cloves garlic
1/2 onion sliced
1/4 tsp. dill
1/4 cup soup stock
Peel the broccoli stems. Put garlic and onion in one pot and cook until onion becomes
translucent. Add cut broccoli crowns and stems, dill and soup stock (see “‘Special Soup’  or ‘Hippocrates
Soup’” in Chapter 12, “Preparing Food and Juices—The Basic Rules,” p. X). Cook on low heat
until broccoli is tender. Broccoli, Beans and Pears
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
broccoli
green  beans
2 pears, peeled and chopped
Dressing:
lemon juice (or apple cider vinegar)
flaxseed oil
Gently cook the broccoli and green  beans. Allow to cool. Peel and chop the pears and put in a
dish together with the broccoli and beans. Gently toss in dressing and serve with a baked potato
and a mixed green salad. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 248Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comButternut Squash (Puréed)
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves 2
butternut squash, peeled and cored
onion
Follow the “Mashed Potatoes” recipe (see p. X) but use peeled and cored chunks of butternut
squash instead of the potato. You will probably not need the cooking water as the butternut
squash is a “wetter” vegetable. Cabbage and Tomato Hot Pot
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves 2
1 small cabbage
1 onion, chopped
1 dessert


 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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ing and longevity in humans and other mam-
mals. Australian scientist David Sinclair and his re-
search team discovered that


	a	teapot;	now	allow	it	to	steep. Place	in
a	refrigerator	until	it	is	completely	chilled. 2. Put	the	pineapple	and	orange	juice	into	your	blender;	purée	until	the
mixture	is	uniform	and	smooth. Add	pineapple	purée	to	the	pitcher. 3. Lastly,	add	agave	syrup	and	lemon	soda. Stir	and	serve	well	chilled.Jasmine	Tea	with	Almond	Milk
(Ready	in	about	20	minutes	|	Servings	8)

Ingredients

1. 8	jasmine	tea	bags

1. 1/4	cup	honey

1. 1/4	cup	heavy	cream

1. 1/4	cup	unsweetened	almond	milk

1. Lime	slices,	for	garnish

Directions

1. Bring	6	cups	water	to	a	boil	and	add	the	tea	bags. Turn	off	burner	and	let
the	tea	steep	about	5	minutes. 2. Add	honey,	heavy	cream,	and	almond	milk. Garnish	with	lime	slices. Lastly,	refrigerate	until	cold. Serve	the	tea	over	crushed	ice.Tea	with	Coconut	Milk
(Ready	in	about	20	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1. 4	tea	bags

1. 4	cups	simmering	water

1. Maple	syrup,	to	taste

1. 3/4	cup	full-fat	coconut	milk

1. 1/4	teaspoon	grated	nutmeg

Directions

1. Place	1	tea	bag	in	each	mug. Pour	simmering	water	over	your	tea	bag;	let	it
steep	for	about	5	minutes. Allow	to	cool	completely. Stir	in	maple	syrup. 2. Meanwhile,	froth	coconut	milk	using	a	hand	blender. 3. Then,	gently	pour	frothed	milk	over	the	tea. Sprinkle	with	grated	nutmeg
and	serve.Sparkling	Cranberry	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	12)

Ingredients

1. 4	cups	water

1. 1/2	cup	maple	syrup

1. 2	tea	bags

1. 3	cups	fresh	cranberry	juice

1. 4	cups	sparkling	water

1. Orange	rind	strips,	for	garnish

Directions

1. First	of	all,	bring	4	cups	of	water	to	a	boil. Add	maple	syrup	and	cook	until
it	is	completely	dissolved,	stirring	periodically. 2. Pour	maple	water	over	tea	bags. Then,	let	stand	covered	for	about	5
minutes. Now	discard	tea	bags,	add	cranberry	juice,	and	cool	it	completely. 3. Pour	in	sparkling	water,	divide	among	serving	glasses,	and	garnish	with
orange	rind. Enjoy!Sparkling	Apple	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	12)

Ingredients

1. 4	cups	boiling	water

1. 4	tea	bags

1. 1/2	cup	honey

1. 3	cups	fresh	apple	juice

1. 4	cups	sparkling	water

1. Apple	slices,	for	garnish

Directions

1. Combine	boiling	water	with	tea	bags. Let	it	steep	for	a	few	minutes. 2. Now	discard	tea	bags,	add	honey	and	apple	juice;	stir	to	combine	and	cool
it	completely. 3. Lastly,	add	sparkling	water. Serve	garnished	with	apple	slices. Enjoy!Lemongrass	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1. 2	stalks	lemongrass,	chopped

1. Zest	of	1	lemon

1. 1	tablespoon	honey

1. 1	cup	brewed	black	tea,	cooled

Directions

1. Put	lemongrass	and	lemon	zest	into	a	heatproof	pitcher. Pour	2	cups	of
boiling	water	over	it;	let	steep	for	15	to	20	minutes. Strain	and	add	honey. 2. Divide	prepared	liquid	among	two	ice-filled	glasses. Top	with	black	tea	and
serve	chilled.Ginger	and	Mint	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1. 6	ounces	fresh	ginger	root,	peeled

1. 6	mint	tea

bags

1. 8	cups	boiling	water

1. 2	tablespoons	agave	nectar

1. Mint	sprigs

Directions

1. In	a	teapot,	combine	ginger,	tea	bags,	and	boiling	water. Let	steep	for	8	to
10	minutes. 2. Pour	it	through	a	sieve	to	discard	solids. Stir	in	agave	nectar. Allow	to	cool
in	a	refrigerator. 3. Serve	over	ice	garnished	with	mint	sprigs. Enjoy!Lemongrass	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1. 1	cup	iced	tea

1. 1	½	tablespoons	lemongrass	juice

1. 2	lemon	slices

1. Sugarcane	syrup,	to	taste

1. 1	stick	lemongrass

Directions

1. Place	iced	tea	and	lemongrass	juice	in	your	mixer;	shake	well,	and	pour	into
glasses	over	crushed	ice. 2. Add	lemon	slices	and	sweeten	with	sugarcane	syrup. 3. Garnish	with	1	stick	of	lemongrass. Serve	well	chilled.Rocket	Mint	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1. 1	tablespoon	freshly	squeezed	lime	juice

1. 4	baby	rocket	leaves

1. 6	mint	leaves

1. 1	tablespoon	agave	syrup

1. 1/2	cup

brewed	green	tea,	well-chilled

Directions

1. In	a	glass,	muddle	lime	juice	together	with	rocket	leaves,	mint	leaves,	and
agave	syrup. 2. Then,	pour	in	a	chilled	tea. 3. Stir	and	serve	well	chilled.Sparkling	Blueberry	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	6)

Ingredients

1. 6	cups	boiling	water

1. 6	green	tea	bags

1. 1/2	cup	agave	nectar

1. 3	cups	blueberry	juice

1. 4	cups	sparkling	water

Directions

1. Pour	boiling	water	over	tea	bags. Let	it	steep	for	5	to	10	minutes. 2. Then,	discard	tea	bags;	add	agave	nectar	and	blueberry	juice;	stir	to
combine	and	transfer	to	a	refrigerator	in	order	to	cool. 3. Afterwards,	add	sparkling	water. Serve	well	chilled.Strawberry	Tangerine	Tea
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	8)

Ingredients

1. 8	black	tea	bags

1. 2	cups	strawberries,	hulled	and	sliced

1. 3	tangerines,	peeled

1. 1	can	frozen	lemonade	concentrate

Directions

1. Pour	8	cups	of	boiling	water	over	tea	bags	in	a	pitcher. Let	it	steep	for	a	few
minutes,

2. Puree	strawberries	and	tangerine	in	your	blender	until	the	mixture	is
smooth. Add	this	pureed	mixture	to	the	steeped	tea. 3. Add	lemonade	concentrate	and	stir	to	combine. Serve	over	ice	cubes	and
enjoy!Raspberry	Basil	Iced	Tea
(Ready	in	about	20	minutes	|	Servings	8


 tested it. Last night, in my first run of self-inflicted nasal obstructed sleeping, my
snoring increased by 1,300 percent, to 75 minutes through the night. Olsson’ s numbers were even worse. He went from zero to four hours, ten
minutes. I’d also suf fered a fourfold increase in sleep apnea events. All this,
in just 24 hours. Now, lying here again, no matter how I try to relax and submit to this
experiment, it’ s a challenge. Every 3.3 seconds another blast of unfiltered,
unmoistened, and unheated air enters through my mouth—drying my
tongue, irritating my throat, and pissing of f my lungs. And I’ve got 175,000
more breaths to go.Two
MOUTHBREATHING
It’ s 8:15 a.m., and Olsson bursts in, Kramer -style, through the side door of
the downstairs flat I’m in. “Good morning,” he shouts. He has little balls of
silicone lodged up his nose and is wearing cut-of f sweatpants and an
Abercrombie & Fitch sweatshirt. Olsson rented a studio apartment across the street from me for the
month, close enough to sneak over wearing his pajamas, but not close
enough to avoid looking like a freak doing it. His face, once tan and bright,
is now gaunt and sallow, and he looks like Gary Busey in that police
mugshot. He has the same spaced-out expression that he had yesterday; the
same haunted grin that he wore the day before and the day before that. T oday marks the halfway point of the mouthbreathing phase of the
experiment. And today, like every other day, as he’ s been doing three times
a day—morning, noon, and night—Olsson takes a seat across from me at
the table. One-two-thr ee, we flip on a pile of beeping and burping machines
lumped on the table, strap cuf fs to our arms, place EKG sensors on our ears,
stick thermometers in our mouths, and begin recording our physiological
data on spreadsheets. The data reveal what the previous days have revealed:
mouthbreathing is destroying our health. My blood pressure has spiked by an average of 13 points from where it
was before the test, which puts me deep into stage 1 hypertension. If left
unchecked, this state of chronically raised blood pressure, also shared by a
third of the U.S. population, can cause heart attacks, stroke, and other
serious problems. Meanwhile, my heart rate variability, a measure of
nervous system balance, has plummeted, suggesting that my body is in a
state of stress. Then there’ s my pulse, which has increased, and my bodytemperature, which has decreased, and my mental clarity, which has hit rock
bottom. Olsson’ s data mirror mine. But the worst part about all this is how we feel : awful. Every day it all
just seems to be getting worse. And every day, at this exact time, Olsson
finishes of f his last test, removes the respirator mask from his cotton-white
hair, stands up, and jams the silicone plugs a little deeper into his nostrils. He puts his sweatshirt back on and says, “I’ll meet you at ten-thirty,” then
walks out the door. I nod and watch as he trots his slippered feet through the
hallways and back across the street. The final testing protocol, eating, happens alone. Through both phases
of the experiment, we’ll be eating the same food at the same time and
continuously recording our blood sugar levels while taking the same
amount of steps throughout the day to see how mouthbreathing and nasal
breathing might af fect weight and metabolism. T oday it’ s three eggs, half an
avocado, a piece of German brown bread, and a pot of Lapsang tea. Which
means that, ten days from now, I will again be sitting in this kitchen, eating
this same meal. After eating, I do the dishes, clean up used filters, pH strips, and Post-it
notes in the living room laboratory, and answer some emails. Sometimes
Olsson and I sit around and experiment with more comfortable and
ef fective ways to keep our noses blocked: waterproof earplugs (too hard),
foam earplugs (too soft), a swimmer ’ s nose clip (too painful), a CP AP nose
pillow (comfortable, but it looks like a bondage device), toilet paper (too
airy), chewing gum (too slimy), and, finally, sur gical tape over silicone or
foam earplugs, which is chafing and stifling but the least atrocious of the
options. But most of the time, all day, every day, for the past five days, Olsson
and I have just sat around alone in our apartments and hated life. I often feel
as though I’m trapped in some sad sitcom in which nobody laughs, a
Groundhog Day of perpetual and unending misery. —
Luckily, today is a little dif ferent. T oday, Olsson and I are going on a bike
ride. Not on a beach boardwalk or in the shadow of the Golden Gate, but
inside the concrete walls of a fluorescent-lit neighborhood gym. The cycling was Olsson’ s idea. He’d spent about ten years researching
the dif ferences in performance between nasal breathers and mouthbreathersduring intense exercise. He’d conducted his own studies on CrossFit
athletes, and he’d worked with coaches. He’d become convinced that
mouthbreathing can put the body into a state of stress that can make us
more quickly fatigued and sap athletic performance. He insisted that, for a
few days during each phase of the experiment, we saddle up on stationary
bikes and pedal to the edge of our aerobic capacity. The plan was to meet at
the gym at 10:15 a.m. I put on some shorts, grab the fitness tracker, an extra set of silicone
plugs, a water bottle, and exit through the backyard. W aiting by the fence is
Antonio, a contractor and longtime friend who has been doing renovation
work on an upper floor of my house. He looks over, and before I can make
a beeline for the garden exit, he notices the pink earplugs in my nose, drops
an armful of two-by-fours, and comes over to take a closer look. I’d known Antonio for 15 years and he’d heard about the oddball stories
in far -of f places I’d researched in the past. He’d always been interested and
supportive. That ended when I tell him about what I’ve been up to this
week. “This is a bad idea,” he says. “In school, when I was young, teachers
walked around the classroom, man, and pop-pop-pop.” He smacks the back
of his own head for emphasis. “Y ou’re breathing from your mouth, you get
pop,” he says. Mouthbreathing leads to sickness and is disrespectful, he told
me, which is why he and everyone else he grew up with in Puebla, Mexico,
learned to breathe through the nose. Antonio told me his partner, Janet, suf fers from chronic obstruction and
runny nose. Janet’ s son, Anthony, is also a chronic mouthbreather. He’ s
starting to suf fer the same problems. “I keep telling them this is bad, they
try to fix it,” Antonio said. “But it’ s hard, man.”
I’d heard a similar story from an Indian-British man named David a few
days ago, when Olsson and I attempted our first nasal-obstructed jog along
the Golden Gate Bridge. David noticed our nasal bandages, stopped us, and
asked what we were doing. Then he told us how he’d had obstruction
problems all his life. “Always plugged or running, it never seemed to be,
you know, open,” he said. He’d spent the last 20 years squirting various
drugs up his nostrils, but they became less ef fective over time. Now he’d
developed chronic respiratory problems. T o avoid hearing more of these stories and to evade any more unwanted
attention, I’d learned to go outside only when I had to. Don’ t get me wrong:San Franciscans love weirdos. There was once a guy who used to walk
Haight Street with a hole in the back of his jeans so that his tail—an actual
human tail about five inches long—could swing freely behind him. He
hardly got second glances. But the sight of Olsson and me with plugs and tape and whatever else in
and around our noses has proven too much for locals to bear. Everywhere
we go, we get either questioned or somebody’ s long life story of breathing
woes, how he is congested, how her aller gies keep getting worse, how his
head hurts and sleep suf fers the worse his breathing seems to get. I wave goodbye to Antonio, pull the visor of the baseball cap a little
farther down to hide my plugged face and jog a few blocks to the gym. I
make my way around women speedwalking on treadmills and old men on
weight machines. I can’ t help noticing that all of them are mouthbreathing. Then I boot up the pulse oximeter, set the stop watch


 wines or cordials). The phonetic
character “yi"
    m eans to take out arrows “shu"
  _ from the quive r “yi"
  r efe rring to the practice of acupuncture and possibly ancient sorcery (killing the
demons that cause disease). The written expression for “medicine” thus reflects
the nature of the therapeutic approaches that medicine embraces. Therapeutic massage is widely practiced for all manner of illne sses, and is
especially preferred over acupuncture for treating children. T echniques of
massage include  manually activating the points and Meridians, kneading and
rubbing the soft tissues, manipulating the joints, bonesetting and massaging the
viscera. In the field of reme dial exercise both ritualized calisthenics andbreathing techni ques such as Qi Gong and T ai Qi Quan are used  to promote self-
healing and to prevent disease. In the modern e ra many impressive new procedures have been developed,
some in  conjunction with modern medicine, such as acupuncture anesthesia,
which is  useful in some types of  sur gery. New medicines using a combination of
western and oriental pharmaceutical substances and techniques have also been
introduced. Another important d evelopment has been the theory and practice of
various acupuncture microsystems. One such is auricular acupuncture, through
which the whole body can be t reated via the ear alone. Qi Gong, a method of
directing the Qi in the body via the breath, has also grown popular for self-
healing in conditions such as cancer, arthritis and chronic painful disorders. Often a practitioner specializ es in one field of therapeutics, like
acupuncture or massage, or in a branch of medicine, such as pediatrics or
gynecology. Nev ertheless, the higher vision of educating and in spiring everyone
to live in harmony with nature has always been an important goal of Chinese
medical practitioners.P A R T  T W O
A Y U R V E D A1
O r i g i n s  a n d  D e v e l o p m e n t
T he  w ord “A yurved a,” which comes from the V edas, the ancient sacred I  books
of the Aryans, m eans “the Lore of Life.” A yurveda, whose or igins go back at
least fiv e thousa nd years, began as an appendix to the youngest of the V edas, the
Atharva V eda. Most of the V edic healing lore occurs in the Atharva V eda,  which
is basic ally a manual of magic (see illustration 8). After its incantational
medicine evolve d into empirical medicine, the most important  of all A yurvedic
texts, the Charaka Samhita,  appear ed, possibly between the 8th and 10th
centuries B.C. A yurveda’ s most famous sur gical text, the Sushruta Samhita,  was
also com piled a round this time. While these texts may have had single authors
they are more likely to be compilations of material from many sources. A yurvedic medi cine was already extensively developed by the time of
Gautama Buddh a, and the Budd ha supported both the study an d the practice of
medicine. Since  the days of Charaka and Sushruta, A yurvedic students started
dissecting human corpses, pra cticing the arts of sur gery on dummies, and
learning other practical arts such  as cookery (since diet was an essential aspect of
treatment), the collection and preparation of herbs, horticulture, and the
purification and preparation of mineral medicines. Each student usually
specialized in one of A yurveda’ s eight “limbs": Internal Medicine, sur gery, eye-
ear -nose, gynecology-obstetrics-pediatrics, psychology, toxicology, rejuvenation,
and virilization. At the end of the period of study, the disciple was thoroughly
tested, and after graduation was given a license to practice by the king. After A shoka, the emperor of most of North India about three centuries
before th e birth of Christ, embraced Buddhism, he furnished extensive support to
medicine and built charitable hospitals including specialized sur gical, obstetric
and mental facilities throughout his realm for both humans and animals, and his
emissaries spread Buddhism a nd Indian sciences in far -of f lands including
Central Asia and Sri Lanka. Du ring the later Indian empires o f the Guptas and
the Mauryas, the government expanded this active support for medicine by
planting gardens  of medicinal herbs, establishing hospitals and maternity homes,
posting physici ans in villages, and punishing quacks who tried to practice
medicine without proper learning and imperial license.During this era A yurveda was ta ught in lar ge Buddhist universities like the
one at Nalanda, established during the fourth century A.D. and which flourished
for a bout eight hundred years. S tudents came from all over the world to study at
these universities. More texts appeared, including V agbhata’ s Ashtanga Sangraha
(Collected T eachings of the Eight Limbs)  and Ashtanga Hr daya {Heart of the
Eight Limbs). These are condensations of Charaka and Sushruta’ s teachings, and
Madhava’ s Madhava Nidana {T ext on Diagnosis). A yu rveda was not limited to
humans; texts on the treatment o f trees, horses and elephants st ill exist, and may
have exi sted for  such varied ani mals as cows, goats, sheep, don keys, camels and
hawks. The Gol den Age of Indian cultu re ended when Muslim invaders inundated
Northern India after the tenth c entury. They slaughtered the Buddhist monks as
infidels, destroyed the universi ties and burned the libraries. Those who could
escape f led to Nepal and T ibet, and hence some A yurvedic texts whose originals
were lost at th at time survive solely in the T ibetan translation. Though the
Muslim conquerors imported their own system of medi cine into India,
fortunately A yu rveda did survive as did the Hindu culture. In the thirteenth or
fourteenth century a treatise on A yurvedic pharmacology, the Sharngadhara
Samhita,  a ppeared, and during the sixteenth century all Indian medical
knowledge was collected and compiled by the order of the Mughal Emperor
Akbar. The con quests of the Europeans, however, were nearly fatal to A yurveda,
especially after 1835 when the British decided neither to recognize nor support
Indian s ciences in their Indian dominions. While the Germans, and later other
W esterners developed plastic s ur gery from Sushruta’ s operation for repair of
damaged noses and ears, it took the upsur ge of Indian Nationalism at the
beginning of this century to reawaken interest in the native  Indian arts and
sciences in India itself. A yurveda began its renaissance then, an d today it is one
of the six medical systems in India which is of ficially recognized by India’ s
government, the others being Allopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy and
Naturopathy.2
T h e  S a n k h y a  P h i l o s o p h y
T he e volution of t he universe as detailed in the Sankhya system, one / of the six
systems of philosophy in India, forms the foundation for most A yurvedic
theories. Y oga uses the same approach with only minor al terations. In the
Sankhya philosophy, everything evolves from an Absolute Reality (purusha)
which is consciousness without any characteristic whatsoever, beyond time,
space, and causation, a single point which encompasses everything and which
cannot be perceived by mind o r accurately described in human language. All
potentialities exist within Absolute Reality in an unmanifested state. From this
Absolute Reality evolves Relative Reality, a sublime creative force called Nature
(prakriti). The sole dif ference between Nature and Absolute Reality is that the
Absolute knows  itself to be identical to Nature, whereas Nature  believes itself to
be dif fer ent from the Absolute. This passive awareness of dif fere nce then evolves
into a undif fer entiated Intellig ence (mahat), a faculty through which this
dif ference is actively perceived. Intelligence is thus Nature’ s unlimited self-
awareness. This undif ferentiated Intelligence then individua tes into discrete
bundles of limited self-awareness called Ego (ahamkara). Each of these is self-
aware, but aware only of that limited parcel of being with which it identifies. Nature, as manifested through individual bundles of Ego, has Three
Attributes (gunas): Sattva (equilibrium), Rajas (activity) and T amas (inertia). Rajas is  movement, T amas matter, and Sattva that subjectivity which perceives
matter. S attva ev olves into the t hinking mind, the five senses o f perception and
the five senses of action (communication, manipulation, locomotion, procreation
and excretion, represented in the human body by voice, hands, feet, genitals and
anus respectivel y). T amas evolves into the objects of the


 allow air to escape. Add
corn and liquid t o keep the 1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. W ipe sealing edge of
jars with  a clean, damp, lint-free  cloth. Position flat lids over the tops of jars
and hand-tighten screw bands. 3c. Pack whole baby corn fingers into jars hot. Make a  Hot Pack:  Add whole unblanched baby corn fingers to boiling
water or broth and boil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Re move from
heat. Us ing tongs, fill hot jars one at a time with hot baby c orn fingers,
shaking the jar to pack tightly. Ladle cooking liquid over top, leaving a 1-
inch (2.5  cm) headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside
of the jar to allow air to escape. Add hot liquid, if necessary, to leave a 1-
inch (2.5 cm) headspace. W ipe se aling ed ge of jars with a clean, damp, lint-
free clot h. Posit ion flat lids ov er the tops of jars and hand-tighten screw
bands. 4. P lace jars in pr essur e canner. Adj ust water le vel (check manufacturer ’ s
instructions), lock lid and bring to a boil over medium-high  heat. V ent
steam for 10 minutes (check manufacturer ’ s instructions) then close vent. For kernels and baby corn fin gers:  Con tinue heating to achieve 10  lb (69
kPa) pressure and maintain pressure to process pint (2-cup/500 mL) jars for
55 minutes and quart (1 L) jars for 85 minutes. For cr eam-style corn:  Continue heating to achieve 10  lb (69 kPa) pressure
and mai ntain pr essure to process 1-cup (250 mL) and pint (2-cup/500 mL)
jars for 85 minutes. These times and pressure are b ased on using a weighted gau ge pressure
canner at 1,000 feet (305 m) or less. Check your altitude and manufacturer ’ s
instructions for variations. 5. Cool, Label and Stor e:  T urn of f heat; let pressure return to zero
naturally.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Using mixer on low speed or hand mixer, pour molasses mixture
into the dry ingredients all at once and beat. Add egg and but ter and beat
until combined. Increase speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes. 3. S crape gingerbread batter in to prepared baking pan. Bake i n preheated
oven for 45 to 55 minutes if using a square baking pan, for 55 minutes to 1hour if using a lo af pan, or until cake tester inserted in centre of gingerbread
comes out clean. Let cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack. 4. T o serve: Cut gingerbread into squares or slices. Place 6 pieces onto
dessert plates. W rap remaining gingerbread tightly and reserve  for another
use. Cut pears in half, if whole, and remove core. Slice thinly leaving the
stem en d intact. Arrange a pe ar half in a fan on top of each piece of
gingerbread and  drizzle with 3  tbsp (45 mL) syrup. If using, top with a
dollop of whipped cream and garnish with orange rind knots. g i n g e r e d  a u t u m n  c o n s e r v eW ith so much pr oduce in abundance in early fall, I find that my pantry has
odd small amounts of fruit and vegetables—it seemed that I needed a
pr eserve that would use up the most popular ones. This r ichly fruity
conserve was my answer. Make it and use it for a cheese platter or meat
dish, or to add a sweet-savoury note to puddings and other baked desserts. MAKES 8 CUPS (2 L)
3 cups (750 mL) chopped cor ed pears (about 4)
2 cups (500 mL) chopped cor ed gr een or very tart apples (2 or 3)
1 cup (250 mL) chopped celery
1 cup (250 mL) chopped r ed bell pepper
1/3 cup (75 mL) chopped candied ginger
grated rind and juice of 2 large lemons
4 cups (1 L) granulated sugar
2–1/2 cups (625 mL) lightly packed br own sugar
1 tsp (5 mL) gr ound cinnamon 1/2 tsp (2 mL) gr ound coriander
2 pouches (each 3 oz/85 mL) liquid pectin
8 cinnamon sticks, each 2 inches (5 cm), 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 pan or canning  kettle, combine pears, apples, celery, red
pepper, ginger, lemon rind and l emon juice. Stir in granulated sugar, brown
sugar, cinnamon and coriander. Bring to a full rolling boil over high heat,
stirring constant ly. Stir in pect in and boil hard, stirring const antly, for 1
minute. Remove from heat and skim of f any foam.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the recommended method for preserving persimmons?,
A: Freezing or pickling are the recommended methods for preserving persimmons.
Q: Can you can Brussels sprouts?,
A: No, it's not recommended to can Brussels sprouts, as it causes them to become strong-tasting and lose their texture.
Q: What is the best way to preserve cabbage?,
A: Pickling and freezing are the best methods to preserve cabbage.
Q: Can you can corn?,
A: No, it's not recommended to can corn, as it's best to cook and eat it immediately or freeze it.
Q: Which spices and herbs complement the flavor of the Brussels sprouts?,
A: The text suggests that you can use a combination of herbs like oregano, sage, thyme, rosemary, chervil, and bay leaves, as well as spices like cumin, coriander, nutmeg, and cinnamon.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Once gauge shows 0 pressure, wait 2 minutes then open the vent. Unlock and remove canner lid. W ait 10 minutes then lift jars from canner
and place on a clean towel or ra ck. Do not re-tighten screw ba nds. Let thejars cool  to room temperature. T his may take from 12 to 24 hours. Remove
and store screw bands. Check lid seals ( Pressure Canner Method ). W ipe and
label sealed jars. Store in a cool, dark place. p e a c h e s  a n d  c r e a m  r e l i s h
Each tim e I open a jar of this sweetly fragrant and delicious r elish, I am
taken ba ck to the farmer ’ s ma rket, wher e heaps of just-picked ears ar e
stacked. The first fr esh local corn of the season is always an event at our
house. It’ s not surprising, then, that of all the pr eserves in my pantry, this is
the one that disappears first. This is per haps my favourite of them all. MAKES ABOUT 16 CUPS (4 L)
12 ears peaches and cr eam corn, husked
3 cups (750 mL) rice vinegar
1–1/2 cups (375 mL) granulated sugar
1 cup (250 mL) packed br own sugar
2 bay leaves
2 tbsp (25 mL) mustard seeds
2 tsp (10 mL) salt
1 tsp (5 mL) gr ound turmeric
5 cups (1.25 L) chopped gr een cabbage
3 r ed bell peppers, diced
2 r ed onions, finely diced
1 or 2 hot gr een chile peppers, finely diced, optional
1 pkg (1–3/4 oz/49 to 52 g) low-sugar pectin

1. Prepare corn  kernels; do not blanch. Y ou should have about 8 cups (2 L).2. Heat eight 1-pint (2-cup/500 m L) jars in boiling water, and scald the lids,
lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 3. In a Maslin pan or Dutch oven, combine vinegar, granulated sugar, brown
sugar, bay leaves, mustard seeds, salt and turmeric. Bring to a boil over high
heat. Ad d cabbage, red peppers, onions and green chile peppers, if using. Stir well and bring to a boil. Add pectin and boil for 1 minute. T urn the heat
of f and let the pan sit on the burner for 5 minutes. 4. Remove pan from heat and skim of f any foam. Fill hot jars, leaving a 1/2-
inch (1 cm) headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of
the j ar to allow air to escape. Add more hot relish, if necessary, to leave


 ef-
fective present relationship with your own parents. Certainly the
family is an important unit in the developmental process, but it
should not be a permanent unit. It should not be a vehicle of guilt
and neurosis when its various members make moves for emotional
independence. You may have heard parents say, “I have a right to
make my child into anything I choose. ” But what is the payoff for
such a domineering attitude. Hate, resentment, anger and frustrating
guilt when the child grows up. As you examine effective parent-
child relationships which have no requirements or obligations at-
tached, you’ll discover parents who treat their children as friends. If a child spills the catsup on the table, it’s not a “Why don’t you
watch what you’re doing; you’re so clumsy” routine. Instead, you’ll
see the same kind of a response that would be given to a friend were
they to spill something. “Can I help you. ” No abuse because they
are owned, but a respect for the child’s dignity. You’ll also discover
that effective parents foster independence rather than dependence,
and create no scenes about normal desires to be autonomous. DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 193Differences Between Dependent and Independent
Focused Families
In families that focus on independence, movement toward being
one’s own person is seen as normal, rather than as a challenge to
anyone’s authority. Clinging and needing are not emphasized. Similarly, there are no demands that a child have allegiance forever,
simply because of membership in a family. The result is family
members who want to be together, rather than feel obligated to be
together. There is also a respect for privacy rather than a demand
to share everything. In families like this, the woman has a life of her
own beyond being a mother and wife. She will model effective living
for her children, rather than live her life for and through them. The
parents feel that their own happiness is paramount, because without
it there can be no family harmony. Hence the parents can go off
alone occasionally, and not feel obliged to always be there for their
children. The mother isn’t a slave, because she doesn’t want her own
children (especially the girls) to become one. And she doesn’t want
to be one herself. She doesn’t feel that she must be there all the time
for her infant’s every need. She feels that she can appreciate her
children and vice versa all the more if she is fulfilling herself and
contributing to her family, her community and her culture on an
equal footing with the men in this world. In this sort of family there is no subtle manipulation via guilt or
threats to keep the children dependent and responsible to the parents. As the children mature, the parents don’t want their kids to visit
them out of obligation. Besides, the parents are too busy being effect-
ive in their own way to be sitting around waiting for children and
grandchildren to show up and give them a reason for living. Parents
like these don’t believe that they should spare their own children
all of the hardships that they suffered because they recognize that
the very act of working at a hardship is what gave them their own
self-confidence and self-194 / Your Erroneous Zonesesteem. They wouldn’t want to rob their children of such precious
experiences. These parents perceive the desire of their children to struggle for
themselves, with the assistance but not overbearance of a caring
parent, as healthy and not to be denied. Hesse’s Demian talks about
the variety of paths to independence. Sooner or later each of us must take the step that separates him
from his father, from his mentors; each of us must have some
cruelly lonely experience…I myself had not parted from my
parents and their world, the “luminous” world in a violent
struggle, but had gradually and almost imperceptibly become
estranged. I was sad that it had to be this way, and it made for
many unpleasant hours*
You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get
a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your
parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your chil-
dren, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and
turmoil for all concerned. Dorothy Canfield Fisher summed it up perfectly in Her Son’s Wife:
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make
leaning unnecessary. So be it. You can make nest-leaving a natural event, or one which
is loaded with trauma and which will haunt the child and the rela-
tionship forever. But you were also a child at one time, and if you
learned the psychological dependency routine well, then perhaps
when you married you substituted one dependent relationship for
another. *Hermann Hesse, Demian  (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 104. DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 195Psychological Dependence and Marriage Crisis
You may have resolved your dependency on your parents, and
perhaps your relationship with your own children is under control
as well. Perhaps you recognize your children’s need for independ-
ence and are encouraging it. But you may still have a dependency
problem in your life. If you’re one of those people who left one de-
pendent relationship with your parents and entered into another
when you married, then you have an erroneous zone that needs
work. Louis Anspacher wrote about marriage in America—
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which
the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the
obligation reciprocal. There they are, the two ugly words, dependence and obligation,
which account for the state of marriage and rate of divorce in our
country. The simple fact is that most folks just don’t like marriage,
and while they may endure it, or get out of it, the psychological
casualties persist. A relationship based on love, as was said earlier, is one in which
each partner allows the other to be what he chooses, with no expect-
ations and no demands. It is a simple association of two people who
love each other so much that each would never expect the other to
be something that he wouldn’t choose for himself. It is a union based
on independence, rather than dependence. But this sort of relation-
ship is so rare in our culture that it is almost mythological. Imagine
a union with the one you love, in which each of you can be whatever
you desire. Now consider the reality of most relationships. How
does that grisly dependency sneak in and muck up the works. 196 / Your Erroneous ZonesA Typical Marriage
The thread that winds through most marriages is one of dominance
and submission. While the roles may shift regularly, different for
various marital situations, the thread is nevertheless present. One
partner dominates the other as a condition of the alliance. A case
history of a typical marriage and its psychological crisis points goes
something like that of our fictional couple below. At the time of marriage, the husband is twenty-three and his wife
is twenty. He has slightly more education, and has secured the
money-earning prestige position, while the woman works as a sec-
retary, clerk, or perhaps in a profession dominated by women such
as teacher or nurse. The woman’s job is a filler, until she can become
a mother. After four years of marriage, there are two or three chil-
dren, and the woman is serving as a wife and mother in the home. Her role is that of taking care of the house, her children and her
husband. From a job standpoint, her position is that of a domestic,
and psychologically she is in a submissive position. The man’s work
is given more significance, largely because he brings in money to
support the family. His successes become his wife’s successes, and
his social contacts become their friends. He is given more status in
the home, and the woman’s role is often one of making his life as
comfortable as she can. The woman spends the greater part of her
day interacting with children or she talks with neighborhood women
who are in the same psychological snare. When her husband has a
crisis on the job, it becomes her crisis, and generally speaking, any
objective observer would see that there is a dominant and a sub-
missive member in this arrangement. The woman has accepted and
perhaps sought out this kind of relationship, because it is all she has
ever known. Her marriage is modeled on that of her parents and
others she saw as she grew up. And more often than not, her depend-
ence on her husband merely replaced her dependence on her parents. The man similarly soughtDECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 197out a woman who was soft spoken, gentle, and who would reinforce
the fact that he was the breadwinner and headwinner in all interac-
tions. Thus, both people got what they were looking for, and what
they had seen all of their own lives in terms of how a marriage oper-
ates. After several years of marriage, perhaps four to seven years, a
crisis begins to erupt. The submissive partner begins to feel trapped,
unimportant and dissatisfied because she is not making a significant
contribution. The man encourages his wife to be more her own
person, to be more assertive, and to take charge of her life and stop
feeling sorry for herself. These are the first messages that conflict
with what he wanted when he got married. “If you want to work,
why don


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CHAPTER 4: IODINE AND THE THYROID GLAND
Iodine is an essential ingredient in all of the thyroid hormones. T4 (thyroxine) contains four iodine atoms. T3 (triiodothyronine)
contains three iodine atoms. Without sufficient iodine supply, the thyroid gland is unable to make thyroid hormones in adequate
amounts. The thyroid gland cannot optimally function in an iodine-deficient state. One of the consequences of an iodine-deficient state
is goiter (swelling of the thyroid gland). Over a hundred years ago, it was shown that goiter could be avoided and often reversed
with iodine. In addition to goiter formation, iodine deficiency may also lead to other thyroid conditions including hypothyroidism,
autoimmune thyroid diseases such as Graves’ and Hashimoto’s disease, as well as thyroid cancer. Studies have shown that
iodine-deficient individuals have an increased incidence of anti-thyroid antibodies. 1

2
 This chapter will focus on the relationship
between low iodine levels and hypothyroidism. More information about iodine and autoimmune thyroid illnesses and thyroid
cancer can be found in the
Chapter 6
. Iodine is found throughout the body, with approximately 15-20mg stored in the thyroid of the average adult. 3

4
 When body
iodine levels are sufficient, the thyroid gland can hold up to 50mg of iodine. The thyroid gland requires adequate iodine levels to
make thyroid hormone. The thyroid gland has developed a specialized system to concentrate a large amount of iodine as
compared to its size. This system is known as the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS). There are other tissues of the body that utilize
NIS to concentrate iodine including the breasts, kidneys, placenta, stomach, rectum, and salivary glands. 5
The thyroid gland is located in the lower part of the neck and produces thyroid hormone. It is regulated by the pituitary gland
which produces thyroid stimulating hormone—TSH. TSH stimulates the thyroid gland to release thyroxine (T4). Triiodothyronine
(T3) is converted from T4 in the periphery of the body. T3 is believed to be the active form of thyroid hormone that drives the
metabolic functions of the body. The Figure below illustrates how the thyroid gland produces thyroid hormone. T4 and T3 are the most common thyroid hormones produced. The ‘4’ in T4 and the ‘3’ in T3 refer to the number of iodine
atoms present. As previously stated, T4 has four iodine atoms present, while T3 has three iodine atoms present. The end result of
iodine deficiency is severe. It can include a poorly functioning thyroid gland, goiter, increased autoimmune thyroid problems, and
an increased risk of thyroid cancer. Thyroid hormone is essential for normal brain development of the newborn. Since iodine is necessary for the production of
thyroid hormone, an iodine-deficient state may predispose the newborn to abnormal brain development. In children, iodine
deficiency can result in mental retardation, goiter, lowered IQ, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism. Furthermore, fetal iodine deficiency is associated with
increased rates of stillbirth, abortion, and congenital anomaly. 6
 The World
Health Organization stated that iodine deficiency is the single greatest cause of preventable mental retardation. 7
 Research has
found almost a 50% increase in perinatal mortality due to iodine deficiency. 8
 When iodine deficiency is rectified, neonatal
mortality has been shown to decline by over 50%. 9

10
Many studies have shown that children who live in iodine-deficient areas have lower IQ’s as compared to children living in
iodine-sufficient areas. A large analysis comparing children in iodine-deficient and iodine-sufficient areas showed a 13.5 point
difference in IQ score. 11
Janet, age 57, had been treated for hypothyroidism for two years. She was found to be deficient in iodine and given a
therapeutic trial of a combination of iodine and iodide (Iodoral
®
). I asked her to write a letter to me about her
experience with iodine. She wrote the following letter:
“After taking Armour
®
 thyroid for over two years, I began to feel somewhat sluggish and felt that perhaps I needed
more thyroid hormone. Dr. Brownstein told me to take two tablets of iodine (Iodoral
®
–25mg) with my thyroid medicine. It
has been over five months since I began the iodine treatment and I still feel the perkiness everyday that I have been
looking for. In fact, I started to feel better the first day that I took the iodine. The
iodine certainly was needed. I am just
thrilled about how much better I feel.”
WHAT ABOUT IODIZED SALT? As mentioned in
Chapter 2
, iodine was added to iodized salt over 70 years ago to combat goiter and cretinism. The RDA to
combat these illnesses was established (150ug/day) with one goal in mind: prevent goiter and cretinism. The RDA for iodine has
been successful at combating goiter and cretinism; however, the RDA is woefully inadequate in preventing many other thyroid
disorders including hypothyroidism, Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s disease, and thyroid cancer. Furthermore, the RDA for iodine
fails to provide optimal amounts of iodine for the rest of the body’s iodine needs. Finally, our increasing exposure to toxic
halogens—bromide, fluoride, and chlorine derivatives—have markedly increased our iodine requirements. Other illnesses
associated with iodine deficiency (e.g., breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease) are covered in other chapters. HOW COMMON ARE THYROID PROBLEMS?Thyroid illnesses are found at ever increasing numbers. Recent studies have estimated that 10% of the adult population of the
United States (13 million) may have laboratory evidence of thyroid disease. 12
 I have written in my book,
Overcoming Thyroid
Disorders, 3
rd
 Edition
, that I believe these numbers are too low and a more accurate estimate would probably approach 30-
40%
of the population (up to 52 million adult Americans). 13
 Why the discrepancy? Conventional medicine diagnoses a thyroid
problem based solely on the blood tests. I feel that the blood tests are not sensitive enough to pick up thyroid abnormalities in the
vast majority of patients suffering from thyroid problems. Therefore, a holistic approach to diagnosing a thyroid issue, as I outline
in my book, is a much more comprehensive way to diagnose a problem that affects every single cell in the body. Why is adequate thyroid hormone so important? Every single cell, muscle, and organ in the body depends on adequate
thyroid hormone levels for optimal functioning. Thyroid hormone acts as the body’s major metabolic regulator. In a low thyroid
state, known as hypothyroidism, the thyroid gland is releasing inadequate amounts of thyroid hormone to meet the body’s
metabolic demands, and the metabolic rate is therefore reduced. In a hyperthyroid state, the thyroid gland is releasing excess
amounts of thyroid hormone that results in an elevated metabolic rate. Why do so many people across this country and the world have a serious problem like a thyroid disorder? Although the
etiology of thyroid illness can be varied, one common denominator that could explain this epidemic is iodine deficiency. As previously discussed in
Chapter 2
, one-third of the world’s population lives in an iodine-deficient area by World
Health
Organization (WHO) standards. This large number of people living in an iodine-deficient area closely correlates with the estimates
for the number of people who have thyroid disorders. All individuals with a thyroid disorder should be screened for iodine
deficiency. WHAT DOES


rugs	are	a	major	cause	of	health	problems,including	fatigue	and	allergies. Intestinal	toxemia	can	be	provoked	in	other
ways,	by	medical	drugs	such	as	non-steroidal	anti-inflammatory	drugs	(NSAIDs,
including	aspirin,	ibuprofen,	naproxen,	ketoprofin,	etc. ) and	oral	steroids
(cortisone	pills,	birth	control	pills,	etc. ). Maldigestion	of	food	(exacerbated	by	medical	drugs	or	not)	produces	toxins
inside	your	body. A	mostly	cooked	and	processed	food	diet	lacking	critical
enzymes	is	a	common	contributor,	as	is	poor	chewing	of	food. Low-fiber	diets
are	also	problematic. Whatever	the	cause,	undigested	food	can	rot	and	poison
you	while	still	inside	you. Carbohydrates	ferment,	fats	turn	rancid	and	proteins
putrefy. The	most	common	symptoms	are	bloating,	constipation,	gas,	halitosis,
heartburn,	eye	problems,	neurological	problems	and	headaches. Keep	protein	consumption	moderate;	diets	high	in	protein,	especially	cooked
meat	and	pasteurized	dairy,	overload	our	digestive	systems. We	need	only	35	to
40	grams	of	protein	per	day	(more	for	athletes	or	those	with	large	body	frames),
but	Americans	eat	an	average	of	90	grams	of	gut-putrefying	protein	per	day. A
one-pound	slab	of	roast	beef	contains	more	than	100	grams	of	protein. Large
quantities	of	cooked	and	denatured	proteins,	which	are	harder	to	digest,	can
cause	an	overgrowth	of	a	type	of	putrefactive	bacteria	that	thrive	when	food	is
rotting	in	the	gut. These	bacteria	produce	toxic	chemicals	such	as	indole,	skatole,
phenol	and	hydrogen	sulfide. In	addition,	these	putrefactive	bacteria	displace
friendly	bacteria,	which	are	essential	to	good	digestion	and	health,	and	the	result
is	intestinal	toxemia. To	prevent	or	eliminate	the	problems	associated	with	intestinal	toxemia:
•	Avoid	the	use	of	antibiotics,	anti-inflammatories	and	steroids	(including
birth	control	pills). •	Avoid	excessive	amounts	of	protein. •	Minimize	or	eliminate	processed	foods. Eat	the	right	kinds	of	fats. •	Avoid	sugar,	white	flour,	coffee,	excessive	alcohol	and	fried	foods. These
substances	are	hard	on	the	digestive	system. •	Adhere	to	proper	food	combining	and	chewing;	the	digestion	process	must
begin	in	the	mouth	and	in	the	stomach	for	the	intestines	to	function
properly. Do	you	suffer	from	indigestion,	bloating,	gas,	cramping,	loose	stools,
constipation	or	gastrointestinal	reflux. Any	of	these	can	indicate	intestinal
toxemia	and	should	be	addressed	before	they	lead	to	serious	disease. You	can	also	consider	other	strategies	if	you	are	suffering	from	symptoms	of
poor	digestion:	fasting,	exercising,	drinking	large	amounts	of	water,	and	takinghigh-quality	supplements,	including	probiotics,	digestive	enzymes,	and	vitamins
and	minerals. All	of	these	help	to	detoxify,	repair	and	rebuild	healthy	tissue—in
particular	by	helping	to	create	an	environment	in	the	digestive	system	conducive
to	the	growth	and	maintenance	of	friendly	bacteria. Allergies	Should	Signal	Alarm
Allergies	are	a	common	source	of	internally	generated	toxins. Every	allergic
reaction	produces	metabolic	debris	that	has	a	toxic	effect. We	tend	to	think	of
allergies	as	“normal,”	a	benign	inconvenience,	because	so	many	people	have
them. Not	so. Healthy	people	do	not	have	allergies. Allergies	are	an	abnormal
immune	response	to	foods	and	substances	in	your	environment. Most	food
allergies	are	the	result	of	an	abnormally	functioning	digestive	system,	as	already
mentioned,	whereby	undigested	food	molecules	are	allowed	to	enter	the
bloodstream	though	damaged	gut	tissue. The	immune	system	recognizes	these
food	particles	as	foreign,	and	you	have	an	immune	response	called	an	allergy. The	body	remembers	this	response;	every	time	you	eat	the	offending	food,	an
allergic	reaction—and	the	toxins	created	by	that	reaction—	is	produced. When	an	offending	substance,	called	an	allergen,	reacts	with	an	antibody
produced	by	the	immune	system,	large	amounts	of	allergen/antibody	(immune)
complexes	can	be	formed. If	immune	complexes	are	formed	in	greater	quantities
than	the	body	can	handle,	they	can	be	deposited	in	tissues	(such	as	brain	arteries,
brain	membranes,	small	blood	vessels,	the	liver,	the	uterus,	the	lungs	and	the
kidneys),	where	they	are	capable	of	clogging	blood	vessels	and	joints	and	are
known	to	release	chemicals	that	cause	a	cascade	of	health-damaging	reactions. Through	this	mechanism,	immune	complexes	may	be	responsible	for	up	to	90
percent	of	all	kidney	disease. Allergies	are	an	indication	of	systemic	illness	and	should	be	considered	a
serious	immune	dysfunction	disease. If	you	are	allergic	(and	most	Americans
have	allergies	and	intolerances,	although	they	may	be	unaware	of	it),	determine
the	substances	you	react	to	and	avoid	them. More	importantly,	strengthen	your
immune	system,	through	diet	and	supplements,	so	these	reactions	will	not	occur
in	the	first	place;	optimize	your	body’s	ability	to	detoxify	so	that	you	can
minimize	damage	caused	by	the	allergic	reactions	you	do	suffer. Stress	Poisons	in	Many	Ways
Stress	can	be	loosely	defined	as	any	demand	we	place	upon	the	body;	thebody’s	reaction	to	these	demands	causes	us	to	“feel	stressed. ”	Everybody	knows
that	stress	is	hard	on	us,	but	few	people	understand	why,	on	a	physical	level. Chronic	stress	literally	poisons	you. The	body’s	response	to	stress—often	called	the	“fight-or-flight	response”—
refers	to	feelings	of	anger	or	fear	that	generate	the	release	of	chemicals	in	your
body,	designed	to	give	you	more	strength	in	an	emergency. In	an	emergency	situation	that	passes	quickly—for	example,	you	rush	to	catch
someone	who	is	falling—the	body	is	able	to	detoxify	the	stress	chemicals	that
are	produced. However,	when	stress	is	chronic,	and	we	constantly	live	our	lives
in	stressful	ways,	these	chemicals	build	up	and	inflict	damage	to	our	cells. Common	stress	symptoms	include	muscle	wasting,	fatigue,	osteoporosis,	high
blood	pressure,	fragile	blood	vessels,	suppressed	immunity,	impaired	mental
function	and	a	host	of	other	problems. What	stress	is,	how	it	affects	you
(physically	and	psychologically)	and	what	you	can	do	about	it	will	be	explored
more	in	chapter	7,	which	explores	the	psychological	pathway. As	we	have	discussed,	the	cells	in	your	body	naturally	produce	toxic
byproducts	that	a	healthy	body	is	designed	to	handle. If	the	body	becomes
overloaded	with	toxins,	for	whatever	reason,	even	normal	metabolic	toxins	can
add	to	the	total	toxic	load	and	damage	cells. Chronic,	internally	generated	stress
chemicals	can	often	move	us	into	toxic


 put even more back
on. It’s too hard to keep going on these routines. But omad is not hard to keep
going and going for the rest of your life, because you can eat whatever you like
on omad, no need to refrain from any particular food. No need to worry about if
you go back to normal then you will put back on even more weight. This can be
your new normal for the long term. You can have as many cheat days as you like
as long as you follow the programme. It’s a tool you have forever. You can
indulge on holiday, enjoy any special occasion or party with good food and drink. This is the ultimate eating plan for the long term. It’s easy, enjoyable and it
works better than anything else. I’m not completely against blending or juicing, far from it, they both have their
place. After many years of experimenting and experiencing both juicing and
blending I have come to the conclusion that any foods that are good for humans
to eat are great in a smoothie. I now think it's a bit of a waste to juice them and
throw away all the pulp. As for food that can’t be eaten and digested by humans,
then juicing the water out of it is a great idea. Especially in a survival situation, I
have a hand crank juicer in my emergency go bag. You can wring out pure water
from almost any green vegetation. Yes all grasses and leaves, as long as they
are not too dry. If you look out the window and can see greenery, trees bushes
anything, then yes it can be a supply of water for you in an emergency. Even things that may be poisonous may (and I do mean may) be able to juice the
water out it and consume. There are always exceptions to every rule. But
something’s mildly poisonous that you certainly could not eat, are perfectly fine
to juice. The reason is because of what Dr Norman Walker discovered that most
of the toxins stay in the pulp and 95% of the goodness goes to the juice. So I am not completely opposed to juicing, far from it. I have been juicing for
many years. I am however opposed to juice fast diets, which are not really
fasting, you don’t get the advantages of fasting and you can’t stay on only liquid
for the rest of your life. It can’t be done long term like Omad Orin Looping. As
soon as you go back to solid food you put back on even more weight than you
lost. I will go into the reasons for this later. So juicing can be good but I only
consume in my eating window and only really juice plants that can’t be eaten,
it’s a waste to juice really good fruit that you could eat or blend. I would rather
stick them in my smoothie and consume all the pulp as well. I have seen friends
in my local Waitrose buying a trolley full of organic fruit and veg, only to throw
90% plus of it away when they juice it all. But I can see the logic, juicing fresh plants is very beneficial in many ways. Most
of the toxins stay in the pulp, and most of the goodness goes into the liquid. So I
have come to the conclusion that juicing plants that are not really edible for
humans is a great idea. Wheatgrass and other grasses and leaves are prime
examples; other animals have multiple stomachs and different digestive systems
to humans. We can't digest certain grasses and leaves by eating or even
blending them, but we can juice them and drink the juice. This is the second best
water in the universe after your own orin. This is not a waste to then throw away
the pulp because your body could not digest it properly anyway. There are many advantages to juicing no doubt, but on omad you don't want to
start your digestive system off until you’re eating window. The four 1's rule
allows for one drink with you one meal. This could either be a large juice, or a
smoothie. Remember juice fasts where your drinking juice multiple times per day
will not get your human growth hormone and other amazing substances to
increase by thousands of percent, as you have when you don't start your
digestive system for over 20 hours a day. But to have your juice or smoothie once every 23hours will still increase your human growth hormone and
testosterone by hundreds to thousands of percent. At the same time reducing
cortisol and other undesirable hormones. Plus all the other advantages when
intermittent  fasting for 23hrs a day; your body can cleanse and heal to a full
extent without having to stop to process something every few hours. If you compare a water only fast with juice fasting then the advantages of water
only is the digestive system has a rest and you don't need to come out of fasted
state every time you drink as you do with juicing. So water only fasting is
excellent, you still get the thousands of percent increase in beneficial hormones. You still get the full extent of the body being in a fasted state which mean the
body can clean and repair, another way of saying cleanse and heal which is what
happens when in a fasted state. But then you are not getting any nutrients at all with water fasting. With so
called juice fasts you are getting the second best water in the universe and lots
of easy to absorb nutrients but you keep coming out of a fasted state. So which is better. Water fasting giving your digestive system a break and
increasing the body’s production of amazing things by thousands of percent, but
no nutrients, or juicing where you have nutrients but have to come out of fasted
state which suppresses the body increasing natural hormones by thousands of
percent. 1. Water fasting. Advantage-Fasted state means increase in beneficial
substances in the body. Also fully cleansing and healing due to fasted state. Disadvantage no nutrients coming in. 2. Juice fasting. Advantage-Nutrients coming in regularly and you are
consuming the second best water in the universe. Disadvantage- You come out of fasted state every time you drink so you don’t
get the increase of beneficial substances in your blood and your body has to stop
cleansing and healing every time you come out of a fasted state. The good news is that there is a third option that offers the advantages to both
options with none of the disadvantages. This third option gives you even more
bioavailable nutrients than juicing, but doesn't take you out of the fasted state. How could that be possible. This third option is far better than the benefits of either juice fasting or just water
fasting, because the drink you will be consuming instead is completely bio
available giving you even more nutrients than juicing and will not restart your
digestive system as juicing will do. This drink is exactly the same as what is
already in your blood at the time you drink it, so it's recognised by your body as
already you. Yes this drink is liquid you. And it's given to you every day for free. It is your own urine, or a better name for it is orin. Option number 3. Omad orin looping. Advantage- You get even more and better
nutrients than juice fasting. The number one best water in the universe even
better than fresh fruit and vegetable juice. You do not come out of fasted state
so have all the advantages of the water only fast. Your body doesn’t have to stop
cleansing and healing. Your body increases human growth hormone by around
2000% along with many other beneficial substances with similar increases. Every human being has already been drinking it for about nine months before
they were born. As a baby you pee into the space you are floating in and drink it
down again, around and round it goes. This is called looping your orin. Every
human has done this for about nine months. If it was a waste product as we have been led to believe then every baby would
surely die. The truth is it is not a waste product but an excess product. The waste
goes out the umbilical cord, and then once you are born it goes out the back
passage. The urine does not. The baby pees into the space they are floating in
and drinks out down again and again. This is looping. This is an important part of
the programme. Omad works so much more powerfully combined with orin
looping. Chapter 2
Urine is antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitical, anti-virus, anti-microbial and anti
just about everything that is bad for humans. It’s in lots of beauty products and face
creams already and you don’t even know it. Urine helps to further educate your body
as to what’s foreign and what’s domestic. Then get rid of the foreign things that
should not be inside you. This is why urine is one of the best choices for autoimmune
problems that are running rampant these days. Urine also contains vitamins,
minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, enzymes, proteins, carbohydrates and most
importantly it’s 100% structured water. Far better than any other structured water in
the universe. Your body will know exactly what to do with it because IT IS YOU. It
also contains several thousand different known chemical compounds and
constituents that are incredibly powerful for the human body. As well it includes an
unknown number of as yet undiscovered and unnamed substances. Orin looping teaches your body what is foreign and what is domestic. Another


 accustomed our minds. To reprogram the
mind, to remove its negative conditioning and replace it
with one that is beneficial — which is the essence of psy-
chological healing — the therapeutic use of sound is the
central tool. Mantra is not only a sensory tool for healing
the mind by using the power of sound and linking it with
meaning and feeling, but it also affects the very nature of
the mind and is part of the mind itself. As human beings, we are primarily creatures of speech. Our words are our main means of communication and
expression. The words we take in link us to the psycho-
logical patterns in others and the collective urges of soci-
ety. Our words also draw up the energies and ideas latent
in our psyche. Through words, our minds come together
and information of all types is transmitted from which our
action in life proceeds. s Ayurveda and the Mind
Sound is the sense quality that belongs to the element
of ether, the seed element from which the other elements
spring. Through sound, all the elements and senses can be
harmonized and controlled. Sound is the basis of our
bondage to the external world and also the means of free-
ing ourselves from it. Sound controls consciousness, which
shapes itself in the form of articulate sounds or words. As
ether is based upon the gross form of sound, consciousness,
which is like space, consists of the subtle form of sound,
which is thought or meaning. Speech pervades all the elements, sense organs and
functions of the mind. There is nothing that we contact
with the mind or senses that we cannot express through
speech. Speech is the very power of the mind to express
itself; it is the power of knowledge to reveal what it knows. Speech pervades the universe, which itself is the manifes-
tation of the Divine word. Different sound formations make up the different func-
tions of the mind. The sound vibration of impressions and
information make up the outer mind (Manas). The sound
vibration of abstract knowledge, principles and ideals sus-
tains intelligence (Buddhi). The sound vibration of our
deepest feelings and intuition makes up the inner mind or
consciousness (Chitta). The ultimate source of sound is the
spiritual heart or center of consciousness, our true Self
(Atman) from which the eternal sound or Divine Word
ever arises. To change our sound patterns changes the
vibratory structure of our consciousness. Mantra
There are many ways to use sound in healing, from
counseling itself, which is largely verbal, to music. How-
ever, in Ayurvedic healing, the most important sound The Healing Power of Mantra
therapy is mantra. Mantra means that which saves, trayati,
the mind, Manas. Mantra is the main and most direct
Ayurvedic tool for healing the mind, from its deepest lay-
ers to its surface actions. 66
Mantras are specially energized sounds or words. They
may be simple single sounds like OM or special phrases or
prayers intoned or sung in various ways. Mantras are
repeated in a regular manner in order to empower them
and turn them into tools of psychological transformation. All conditioning through words is a kind of mantra. Any key word or phrase that we repeat, memorize and hold
deep inside ourselves is a kind of mantra. When we repeat
a thought of anger or hatred for another person, it is a dark
or Tamasic mantra. When we repeat our desires for success
and achievement, it is a Rajasic or disturbed mantra. Such
mantras do not heal the mind but perpetuate its patterns
of ignorance and agitation. For truly healing the mind, Sattvic mantras, which aim
at dissolving the ego and promoting self-awareness, are
required. These are mantras bom of love and the seeking
of wisdom. Real mantra is quite different than the use of
words to subconsciously influence our behavior, like adver-
tising or propaganda, which promote ignorance and
attachment (Rajas and Tamas). Mantra is not a form of self-
hypnosis but a way of deconditioning the mind by break-
ing up unconscious sound and thought patterns through
those that reflect a higher tmth and energy. Some may ask, isn't all conditioning of the mind
wrong. Shouldn't we seek to decondition the mind entire-
ly. This is a mistake and can never be accomplished. The
mind, as an organic entity, requires the right conditioning,
just as the body does. The body requires a specific regi-
men, with proper timing and manner of eating, exercise, Ayurveda and the Mind
and sleep. The mind also requires a regimen of taking in
impressions, mental exercise and rest. If we fail to give the
proper conditioning to the mind, we will only give it the
wrong conditioning. The unconditioned is the goal, but
this exists in the true Self beyond the mind-body complex. To achieve it, the mind-body complex must be put in the
proper Sattvic condition first. A deconditioned mind, like
an unconditioned body, will simply be out of control. Mantra and Consciousness
Mantra means "the instrument of the mind" or "what
protects the mind. " Control of the mind and the unfold-
ment of the hidden powers of the mind (siddhis) arise
through the power of the mantra. Mantra is the main
method of treating consciousness (Chitta) and is helpful
for healing all levels of the mind, inner and outer. It can
alter or eradicate deep-seated latencies and impressions. For this reason, it is the main Ayurvedic therapy for treat-
ing psychological disorders and can be very helpful for
physical problems as well. Mantra allows us to change the vibratory pattern of
consciousness. It is a direct method for dealing with the
mind. Methods relying on diet, herbs, impressions, or even
counseling, however useful, are indirect or external. It can
be far more helpful to regularly chant a mantra than to
analyze our psychological problems. The mantra changes
the energetic structure of the mind which dissolves the
problem, while thinking about the problem can reinforce
it. Mantra changes the energy of the mental field in a pos-
itive way. It is very different than analysis which, by exam-
ining the patterns of negativity and how they got that way,
may not alter them at all. There is a background sound-pattern to our conscious- The Healing Power of Mantra 227 A
ness. It may be a song we have just heard or the memory
of a painful or pleasurable event. Some movement of sound
is always going on inside us. Like the rhythm in music, it
determines the rhythm of our consciousness. The con-
scious use of sound can change that rhythm so that the
sound of our consciousness supports rather than detracts
from our awareness. Our consciousness consists of deep-seated habits and
tendencies. These are the ruts in the field of our con-
sciousness created by repeated mental activity (Samskaras). Mantra allows us to iron them out. When we repeat a
mantra for a long period of time, this creates an energy
that can neutralize the scars left from our distracted men-
tal activity and create a more powerful memory to override
them. Our memories are the subtle sound vibrations that we
retain in our consciousness. Memory in the psychological
sense — the internal record of hurts and fears — is undi-
gested sound. Such memory is misunderstood sound that
leaves a scar upon the mind. It is a vibration that cannot
be assimilated into the fabric of the mental field but
remains apart and produces changes that distort percep-
tion or lead to wrong action. Being constricted sound pat-
terns, memories and their pain can be neutralized by the
right mantras, which project a contrary sound energy that
breaks up their stagnation. Sound and Emotion
Any sensation we take personally, that we like or dis-
like, produces an emotion from fear and desire to love and
hate. Sound, as the most primary sensory potential, gener-
ates the strongest emotions. Each emotion creates a partic-
ular kind of sound. More intense emotions usually demand Ayurveda and the Mind
stronger sounds. We sing with joy, shout in anger, cry in
sorrow, groan in pain, and scream in extreme fear or pain. Those who die violently scream loudly first, reflecting the
agitation of the life-force as it is prematurely cut off. Sound is a vehicle for emotion, which it can either rein-
force or release. The sound of our words carries an emotional force and
transmits an emotional message. It tells how we feel and
reveals our underlying psychological condition. This may
be different than the actual meaning of what we say. Apparent statements of love may hide resentment, for
example, or statements of happiness may hide sorrow or
self-pity. Negative emotion is nothing but a certain energy of the
life-force, which is trapped by our process of self-centered
consciousness. We must learn to release the energy bound
up inside emotions. Negative emotions owe their existence
to wrong usage of the energy of consciousness, which con-
sists of fixing our attention on the names and forms of the
external world and losing track of the greater field of exis-
tence. The release of negative emotion depends upon stop-
ping the process that produces them. This is to reclaim