later, in 1990 by Dr. Peter Lechner, oncologist surgeon at the District Hospital of Graz, Austria,
after running a six-year controlled test on cancer patients following a slightly modified version of
the Gerson Therapy. In his report1 he quotes independent laboratory results, identifying the two
components of coffee that play the major role in detoxifying the liver. (see Chapter 8, pg. 75 )
Dr. Gerson became aware of the benefits of enemas early on in developing his treatment, and
they have remained a cornerstone of his therapy to this day. It is important to realize that while
the patient is holding the coffee enema in his or her colon for the suggested 12-15 minutes, the
body’s entire blood supply passes through the liver every three minutes, i.e., 4-5 times in all,
carrying poisons picked up from the tissues. These are then released through the bile ducts, due
to the stimulation of the caffeine. However, in order to leave the body, these toxins still have to
travel through the small intestine (25-27 feet), through the colon (4-5 feet), and out via the rectum
and the anus. Naturally on this long trip a small amount of the released toxins is re-absorbed into
the system and can cause the patient discomfort, especially in the early phase of the therapy, when
detoxification had only just started. This is the reason why, in the beginning, five or even more
enemas are taken daily, to keep up the elimination process, and why the more rapid Castor Oil
Treatment (see below) is also part of the program, for the average patient.
Important warning : although high colonics have become fashionable among some
celebrities, they must not be used by Gerson patients. Already Dr. Gerson had stated this very
clearly, and we can only reiterate his conclusion. These are the reasons behind the ban:
In high colonics up to 5 quarts of water is forced into the whole length of the large intestine,
under pressure that can easily distend it. When the water is released, it washes out the fluids,
enzymes, minerals and other nutrients from the colon, together with the friendly bacteria which
are vital for good digestion. This can increase the risk of a mineral imbalance.
On the other hand, high colonics don’t serve the all-important reason for the use of coffee
enemas, namely the opening of the bile ducts, which helps the liver to release toxins and
cleanse itself. On no account should anyone make the mistake of thinking that high colonics are
interchangeable with coffee enemas.
So much for the history and the theoretical background. Now let us see the practicalities.
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The basic components of the coffee enema are these:
1) Organic, medium or light roast drip ground coffee,
2) Filtered, or if from a fluoridated source, distilled water,
3) Enema equipment.
The equipment must be carefully chosen, as not all products on the market are suitable. The
earliest type, the combination syringe, is a rubber hot water bottle, complete with appropriate
tubing and rectal or vaginal tip. This works well for occasional use or travel, but it is difficult to
clean. Other rubber bags, not “combination syringes,” have a much wider opening, which makes
them easier to clean. However, they don’t stand up well to constant use.
 Most popular among Gerson patients is the plastic bucket, which has an easy to read register
of ounces, viz. of a quart. This shows how much of the coffee the patient has introduced into
the rectum. The bucket is easy to clean and has only one drawback: if dropped or cleaned too
vigorously, it can break and must be replaced.
 That risk is avoided by choosing a stainless steel bucket, now available at the relatively
cheap price of about $30, including the needed attachments. It is unbreakable, easy to clean, even
with very hot water, which shouldn’t be used with the plastic bucket. The rubber tubing needs to
be replaced occasionally. The only disadvantage of this type is that, not being transparent, one
cannot check how far the enema process has progressed.
The standard mixture for one enema consists of 3 rounded tablespoons of organic, medium or
light roast drip grind coffee, and 32 ounces of filtered or distilled water. The procedure is to bring
the water to a boil, add the coffee, let it boil for three minutes, then turn down the heat and let it
simmer, covered, for 15 minutes. Let it cool, then strain through a cloth-lined strainer. (A piece
of clean white linen or nylon can be used.) Check the amount left after straining and replace the
water that has boiled away to restore it to one quart.
For patients on the therapy it is best to prepare the whole day’s requirement at once, rather
than cooking each portion separately every four hours. In other words, a coffee concentrate is
produced, saving much time and effort. This is how it is done: take a pot which holds at least 3
quarts, put in about two quarts of filtered or distilled water, bring to a boil and add 15 rounded
tablespoons of coffee, which will be enough for 5 enemas; then proceed as above. After straining
the liquid, take 5 one-quart jars or juice bottles, and pour the same amount of the concentrate into
each, then add enough water to make up the volume to 8 ounces.
The standard mixture for one enema, i.e., 8 ounces of coffee concentrate and 24 ounces of
water, making a total of 32 ounces, has to be warmed to body temperature and poured into the
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www.thegersonway.comenema bucket, having first clamped the tube shut, to stop the liquid from running out. Before
starting the enema, a small amount of the solution should be released, to clear the tube of air. It is
a good idea to eat a small piece of fruit, to get the digestive system going, especially before the
first morning enema. This will provide a little glucose, to raise the low blood sugar after a night’s
sleep.
The more relaxed the patient is, the easier the enema experience will be. That requires
comfort. Unless a couch or folding camp bed is available, an enema “nest” is made on the
bathroom floor, with a large soft towel or blanket as its base, covered with an enema mat or a soft
polyester shower curtain against accidental leaks or spillage, and a pillow or cushion for the head.
The bucket is placed at approximately 18 inches above the body, hanging from a hook or standing
on a stool. The coffee should not flow in too fast or with too much pressure. About 2 inches of the
tube’s tip is lubricated with Vaseline and gently inserted some 8-10 inches into the anus, and the
clamp on the tube is released, to let the coffee flow in. The patient lies on his or her right side, legs
pulled up in the “fetal position,” relaxed and breathing deeply. When all the coffee is absorbed, it
should be held in for 12-15 minutes, before evacuating.)
Many patients enjoy the relaxed comfort of enema time—“Upside Down Coffee,” as some
call it—and use it to listen to soothing music, meditate or read. One young lady, recovering from
a brain tumor on the Gerson program over some two years, first read all the main classics, then
switched to philosophy, followed by mathematics, and subsequently became so well read that she
won a top scholarship! She also made a full recovery.
How Many, How Often?
Most ‘regular’ patients, i.e., those not pre-treated with chemotherapy, nor very debilitated,
are on a four-hourly enema schedule (6 am, 10 am, 2 pm, 6 pm and 10 pm), concurrently drinking
the prescribed 12-13 glasses of juice. This is absolutely essential. Although the enema reaches
only part of the colon, it inevitably removes some of the minerals from it, so that without the
mineral-rich juices an electrolyte imbalance could result. In general, three juices per enema is a
good guideline.
There are times when the four-hourly schedule needs breaking, adding extra enemas to the
daily routine. Temporarily doing so does not necessitate extra juices. Enemas are excellent pain
relievers: if a patient is in severe pain, there is nothing wrong with taking one before the four
hours are up. Also, Dr. Gerson suggested that in some cases, when very large tumors are broken
down and being absorbed, the patient should take an additional enema during the night, around
2 or 3 am, to avoid waking up in pain, with a headache, or even in a semi-comatose state in the
morning. Some patients even take enemas every two hours to control pain, gas, or other kinds of
discomfort


 but chronological age
brings vagueness and confusion of age with the
condition of the body or the ext ent of its growth
and development.
When we say that one person is old at 40, and
another is young at 70, we actually mean their
physical and mental state, and not their age. A
suggestion to use the expression “functional age”
when discussing an individual ’s state, rather
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sion as well.
It is true that the date of birth tells us nothing
about the state of a given organism or about the
extent of its mental development. These factors
are only indirectly connected to age and are not
its important components. A 70 -year-old can be
young according to their physical and mental
state, and a 40 -year-old can be old, languid and
depressed. And yet the first person is already 70,
while the second is only 40. Knowing this, we
can ignore the widespread assertion, that ‘we’re
trying to turn back time’. The age -related
changes happening in the organism that are
called ageing, aren’t so much linked to the pass-
ing of time, as to the factors, absolutely unrelated
to time per se.
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son at 70 should have all the indications of old
age, inherent in this period of life, and a person
at 40 – all the indications of youth, found at this
age. The fact that the case is often the opposit e
makes us doubt the assumption that the state of
the body is irreversibly linked with the number
of years lived. We shouldn’t find it difficult to
understand that although age is expressed in
time, time isn’t the cause of the ageing process.
For example, let’s take a stone being washed by
water. It changes over time, but it’s not time that
polishes it, it’s water. The ageing process re-
quires time, but time isn’t the cause of polishing.
Two stones, polished by water in the to the
same extent, abrade at different speeds, depend-
ing on their hardness and density. Due to the
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identical destructive factors age at a different
speed, depending on their individual resistance
to the destructive factors.
A stone abrades faster or slower depending on
the amount of water flowing around it: if it’s
small, the stone abrades slowly, if there’s a lot of
water, the abrasion happens faster. A person also
ages fast or slowly depending on the number of
destructive influences this person is affected by.
Let’s expand our example somewhat: let’s im-
agine a self -restoring rock. At first it was being
polished by water, then the water stopped wash-
ing it. The rock begins ‘repairing’ itself and re-
storing the larger part of the lost matter. In the
human body, a natural process will take place
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the causes of ageing are eliminated.
The body is capable of destroying some of the
damaged structures, replacing them with fresh
ones, and renewing the cells  by dumping the
‘loads’ accumulated in them and ‘repairing’ their
damaged parts. Figuratively speaking, the hu-
man body can actively handle its business on its
own in a constructive manner.
Humans can live longer and better than they do
now. They should liv e much longer than now,
and enjoy absolute health and energy. They
shouldn’t waste away at 60 or earlier. But in fact,
excluding deaths from accidents and homicides,
people die from diseases. If we lived in a way that
prevented the development of diseases,  not only
could we live longer than what’s considered
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physical and mental powers.
Aging is defined as an ‘accumulation of
changes in the organism, increasing the proba-
bility of death of a given individual over th e
course of time.’ This simply means that aging is
a slow accumulation of pathological (unhealthy)
changes in the organs and tissues, injuries in the
structures of the body and a slow deterioration
of its vital functions. Old age is just another
chronic disease. And this is the reason why we
can age sooner or later, and some people at sev-
enty look younger than some 40 -year-olds.
Aging happens over time, but time is not its
cause. Consequently, it doesn’t matter, what
method we should use to precisely determ ine
human physiological age, what matters is that we
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ing. Eliminate the cause of aging, and let the
physiological age take care of itself. Nobody
knows for sure what the changes of the organism
leading to agi ng are, or what sort of changes they
are exactly. Let’s examine the experiments of a
well- known French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel16,
author of the book Man, The Unknown. Keeping
separate fragments of a chicken heart alive over
the course of many years, he  found out that they
aged, unless they got rid of the waste accumu-
lated in their cells. In other words, they aged

16Alexis Carrel  (1873 – 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist
who was awarded the  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in
1912 for pioneering vascular   suturing  techniques.  He wrote the
book Man, The Unknown.  New York and London: Harper and
Brothers, 1939.
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by their own metabolism in the culture medium
where they were placed. If this waste was regu-
larly removed, preventing the cells from getting
poisoned by it, the chicken heart didn’t age. This
is very important proof that aging is the result of
chronic saturation with toxic substances. Unfor-
tunately, the important discovery attracted too
little attent ion, perhaps, because a way to use it
was not discovered.
Carrel’s experiments and many other similar
ones helped scientists conclude that cells are po-
tentially immortal. In their normal state, they
keep dividing over and over again, but they
don't’ die. Death turns out to be an abnormal
phenomenon. Nevertheless, under the regular
life conditions we observe that cells actually age
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indefinitely, all the conditions have to be favora-
ble.
If cells are potential ly immortal, as scientists
currently think, and the body as a system gets
older, then it’s obvious that one of two things is
true. Either the functional specialization of cell
groups / body organs is mismatched, or there’s
no coordination of cell groups in  the organism.
Perhaps, both of these factors are true. If one or
both of these assumptions are true, this poses a
question:  is the discrepancy of specialization or
the discrepancy of coordination a primary (ini-
tial) condition of life or is it (the mismat ch) a re-
sult of established and resolvable causes? If it’s a
primary condition, then we cannot hope to pre-
vent the aging process for more than a short
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But if it’s induced by causes that can be avoided
or el iminated, which seems likely enough, then
we’re capable of doing a lot to prevent aging.
At least countless experiments on many lower
forms of life have demonstrated that it’s not only
possible to delay the aging process for an infi-
nitely long time, but also to reverse it, restoring
youth.
For more than 15 years, professor C. M. Child17
from the University of Chicago researched ani-


Cover	with	club	soda	and	transfer	to	a	refrigerator.	Allow	to	sit	for	a	few
hours	before	serving.Ginger	and	Mango	Refresher
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1-inch	ginger	root,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
1	cup	mango,	sliced

1.
3	cups	cold	filtered	water

Directions

1.
Throw	your	ingredients	into	a	pitcher.	Stir	and	transfer	to	a	refrigerator.

2.
Serve	well	chilled	in	a	pretty	glass.	Enjoy!Day	Spa	Mint	Pineapple
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cup	pineapple	chunks

1.
1/2	peach,	sliced

1.
1-2	sprigs	mint

Directions

1.
Place	all	the	above	ingredients	in	your	pitcher.	Pour	in	cold	water	and	stir.

2.
You	will	be	able	to	refill	it	for	about	5	times	until	the	flavor	dissipates.

3.
To	serve:	You	can	add	a	couple	of	frozen	pineapple	chunks	for	ice	cubes.Raspberry	Coconut	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	handful	raspberries

1.
2	cups	coconut	water

1.
1	small	bunch	mint

Directions

1.
Add	fresh	raspberries	to	a	bottle	or	a	pitcher.

2.
Muddle	the	raspberries	to	release	flavor;	add	coconut	water	and	mint.

3.
Shake	to	mix	the	flavors	and	serve.Cherry	Cucumber	Cooler
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	handful	cherries

1.
1	cucumber,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
1	tablespoon	fresh	cilantro

1.
3	cups	water

Directions

1.
Place	your	ingredients	in	a	pitcher.	Let	sit	for	a	few	hours	to	release	flavors

2.
Serve	well-chilled	and	enjoy	all	day	long!Cucumber	Lavender	Cooler
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	cucumber,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
2	fresh	lavender	sprigs

1.
2	quarts	spring	water

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	your	mason	jar.

2.
Now	refrigerate	until	cold	and	serve.

3.
Lavender	treats	premenstrual	emotional	symptoms.Cherry	Limeade
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	limes,	thinly	sliced

1.
1	cup	fresh	cherries,	pitted

1.
Agave	syrup,	to	taste

Directions

1.
Place	the	ingredients	in	your	mason	jar.

2.
Lastly,	serve	well	chilled.

3.
This	refreshing	drink	hits	the	spot	on	a	hot	day!Spring	Cantaloupe	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	raspberries,	hulled	and	quartered

1.
1	cup	cantaloupe,	cubed

1.
2	quarts	spring	water

Directions

1.
Add	the	raspberries	and	cantaloupe	to	a	mason	jar	or	your	pitcher.

2.
Pour	spring	water	over	it	and	refrigerate	for	several	hours.	Serve	over	ice
cubes.

3.
If	you	like	your	beverage	sweet,	add	a	bit	of	agave	nectar.Cinnamon	Melon	Refresher
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	watermelon,	cubed

1.
1	cup	cantaloupe,	cubed

1.
1	cup	honeydew,	cubed

1.
2	quarts	filtered	water

1.
2	sticks	cinnamon

Directions

1.
Add	your	ingredients	to	a	mason	jar	or	a	bottle.	Let	sit	for	a	few	hours	in
your	fridge.

2.
Serve	over	ice	or	well	chilled.Tangerine	and	Melon	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	tangerine,	thinly	sliced

1.
1	mango,	pitted	and	sliced

1.
2	quarts	filtered	water

1.
3	basil	leaves,	roughly	chopped

Directions

1.
Add	your	tangerine,	mango,	filtered	water,	and	basil	leaves	to	a	pitcher.

2.
Pour	the	water	over	top	and	chill	before	serving.

3.
Serve	over	ice	cubes.Raspberry	and	Date	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	raspberries

1.
8	cups	filtered	water

1.
1	lemon,	sliced

1.
2	dried	Medjool	dates

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	a	1-gallon	clean	glass	jar	with	lid.

2.
Transfer	this	amazing	beverage	to	your	refrigerator	and	let	infuse	for	a	few
hours.	Enjoy!Tangerine	and	Ginger	Cocktail
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cup	tangerine,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
1/2	cup	pineapple,	crushed

1.
1-inch	piece	ginger,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
2	quarts	filtered	or	spring	water

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	your	pitcher.

2.
Serve	over	ice	if	desired.

3.
This	beverage	is	a	rich	sources	of	vitamin	C	and	antioxidants.Piquant	Tomato	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
2	tomatoes,	quartered

1.
2	tablespoons	fresh	parsley	leaves

1.
1/2	cup	fresh	basil	leaves

1.
2	tablespoons	fresh	cilantro	leaves

1.
2	shallots,	chopped

1.
2	tablespoons	white	wine	vinegar

1.
1	teaspoon	kosher	salt

Directions

1.
Puree	the	ingredients	in	a	food	processor	until	they’re	coarsely	chopped.

2.
Line	a	sieve	with	cheesecloth	and	set	it	over	a	bowl.

3.
Transfer	tomato	mixture	to	the	prepared	sieve.	Cover	and	chill	overnight.
4.
Afterwards,	discard	solids	and	serve	well	chilled.Day	Spa	Grapefruit	and	Pineapple	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	6)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	grapefruit

1.
1/2	apple

1.
1/2	pineapple

1.
Fizzy	water

Directions

1.
Add	the	ingredients	to	your	pitcher.

2.
Then,	refrigerate	overnight	for	best	flavor.

3.
This	beverage	helps	your	body	release	fat	cells

naturally.Autumn	Flavored	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	pear	thinly	sliced

1.
1	tangerine,	peeled	and	cut	into	slices

1.
2	tablespoons	dried	cherries

1.
1	teaspoon	All	Spice	Berries

Directions

1.
Place	your	ingredients	in	a	pitcher.

2.
Then,	fill	up	with	water;	let	sit	for	about	3	hours	before	drinking.

3.
This	fruit	infused	water	improves	your	mood	and	flushes	harmful	toxins	out
of	your	system.	Serve	and	enjoy!Winter	Day	Spa


 more than a
third of her bone mass. If she lives to 80, she’ll have as much bone as she
had when she was 15. Eating well and getting exercise can help to stave of f
the deterioration, but nothing can stop it.
It’ s most apparent in our faces. Sagging skin, baggy and hollow eyes,
and sallow cheeks all result from bone disappearing and flesh having
nowhere to go but down. As bone degrades deeper in the skull, soft tissues
at the back of the throat have less to hang on to, so they can droop too,
which can lead to airway obstruction. This bone loss partly explains why
snoring and sleep apnea often grow worse the older we get.
After decades of experimentation and collecting case studies, of seeing
his patients’ mouths and faces grow younger the older they got, Belfor
decided that the conventional science of bone loss was, in his words, “total
bullshit.”
—
“Clamp your teeth,” he told me. I did and felt stress in my jaw that extended
all the way back to my skull. What I was feeling was the power of the
masseter, the chewing muscle located below the ears. It’ s the strongest
muscle in the body relative to its weight, exerting up to 200 pounds of
pressure on the back teeth.
Belfor then had me run my hands along my skull until I felt the web of
cracks and ridges, called sutures. Sutures spread apart throughout our lives.
This spreading allows the skull bone to flex and expand to double its size
from infancy to adulthood. Inside these sutures, the body creates stem cells,
amorphous blanks that shift form and become tissues and bones depending
on what our bodies need. Stem cells, which are used throughout the body,
are also the mortar that binds the sutures together and that grows new bone
in the mouth and face.
Unlike other bones in the body, the bone that makes up the center of the
face, called the maxilla, is made of a membrane bone that’ s highly plastic.The maxilla can remodel and grow more dense into our 70s, and likely
longer. “Y ou, me, whoever—we can grow bone at any age,” Belfor told me.
All we need are stem cells. And the way we produce and signal stem cells
to build more maxilla bone in the face is by engaging the masseter—by
clamping down on the back molars over and over.
Chewing.  The more we gnaw, the more stem cells release, the more
bone density and growth we’ll trigger, the younger we’ll look and the better
we’ll breathe.
It starts at infancy. The chewing and sucking stress required for
breastfeeding exercises the masseter and other facial muscles and stimulates
more stem cell growth, stronger bones, and more pronounced airways. Until
a few hundred years ago, mothers would breastfeed infants up to two to
four years of age, and sometimes to adolescence. The more time infants
spent chewing and sucking, the more developed their faces and airways
would become, and the better they’d breathe later in life. Dozens of studies
in the past two decades have supported this claim. They’ve shown lower
incidence of crooked teeth and snoring and sleep apnea in infants who were
breastfed longer over those who were bottle-fed.
“Now scoot down and put your head back,” Belfor said, pointing the
dental impression tray toward my open mouth. The mold he was about to
take would be used to fit me with a Homeoblock, an expanding device
Belfor invented in the 1990s. It’ s a pink acrylic thing wrapped in gleaming
metal wires that looks no dif ferent from any other retainer. Except the
Homeoblock wasn’ t designed to straighten teeth. Like the first functional
orthodontic devices created by Norman Kingsley and Pierre Robin, its
purpose is to expand the mouth and make breathing easier. Along the way,
it stimulates the stress of chewing whenever the wearer chomps down, so
they won’ t have to spend three to four hours gnawing on bones and bark
like our ancient relatives.
Belfor ’ s patients—who included Richard Gere’ s body double, a middle-
aged housewife from Phoenix, a 79-year -old New Y ork socialite, and
hundreds of others—shared profound results. Belfor showed me their
before-and-after CA T scans when I first got to his of fice. They had
obstructed throats in the shots before; more-open airways and loads of new
bone six months later. It was as if these patients were the dental equivalent
to Dorian Gray.
“Now open your mouth wider and say aaahhhhhhh,” Belfor said.•       •       •
The chew-airway connection, like so much else breath-related, was old
news. As I dug through a century of scientific papers on the subject over
several months, I felt like I was trapped in a respiratory research Groundhog
Day. Dif ferent scientists, dif ferent decades; the same conclusions, the same
collective amnesia.
James Sim W allace, a renowned Scottish doctor and dentist, published
several books about the deleterious ef fects of soft foods on our mouths and
breathing. “ An early soft diet prevents the development of the muscle fibers
of the tongue,” he wrote more than a century ago, “resulting in a weaker
tongue which [cannot] drive the primary dentition out into a spaced
relationship with fully developed arches which will lead to more crowding
of the permanent teeth.”
W allace’ s contemporaries began taking measurements of patients’
mouths and comparing them to skulls that dated to before the Industrial
Revolution. The palates of the ancient skulls measured an average of 2.37
inches. By the late nineteenth century, mouths had shrunk to 2.16 inches.
No one was disputing these observations. “That the human jaw is gradually
becoming smaller is a fact which is universally recognized,” W allace noted.
That didn’ t stop this research from being ignored for the next hundred
years.
By 1974, though, a shaggy-haired 26-year -old anthropologist at the
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History picked up the baton. His
name was Robert Corruccini, and he’d write or contribute to 250 research
papers and a dozen books on the topic. Corruccini traveled the world and
examined thousands of mouths and diets, from Pima Native Americans to
urban populations of Chinese immigrants, rural Kentuckians to Australian
Aboriginals. He even conducted animal studies, feeding a group of pigs a
diet of hard-pelleted chow and others the identical chow softened with
water. The same food, the same vitamins; only the texture had changed.
People, pigs, whatever. Whenever they switched from harder foods to
soft foods, faces would narrow, teeth would crowd, jaws would fall out of
alignment. Breathing problems would often follow.
Fifty percent of the modern human population would show this
“malocclusion” within the first generation of switching to soft andprocessed foods; by the second generation, 70 percent; by the third, 85
percent.
By the fourth, well, look around. That’ s us, now. Some 90 percent of us
have some form of malocclusion.
Corruccini presented his groundbreaking data to dental conferences
around the United States, calling crooked teeth a “disease of civilization.”
There was a lot of interest at first. “A really polite reception,” he said. “But
nothing really changed.”
T oday, the of ficial website of the U.S. National Institutes of Health
attributes the causes of crooked teeth and other deformations of the airway
“most often to heredity.” Other causes include thumb-sucking, injury, or
“tumors of the mouth and jaw.”
There is no mention of chewing; no mention of food at all.
•       •       •
Belfor collected his own library of data over two decades. He had case
studies and charts and graphs showing how his patients were regrowing
bones and opening their airways. But he too was universally ignored, and
often ridiculed. After one lecture at his alma mater, several colleagues
claimed he had faked his data and Photoshopped his X-rays. “Y ou cannot
grow bone past 30,” they reprimanded him, time and again.
Belfor and Corruccini are still waiting for their Mew moment, when the
establishment starts to come around. In the meantime, I’ve come around.
Exactly a year to the week after I began wearing Belfor ’ s retainer, I
visited a private radiology clinic in downtown San Francisco and had my
airways, sinuses, and mouth rescanned. Belfor sent the results to
AnalyzeDirect at the Mayo Clinic to study what had happened to my face
and airways.
The results were stunning. I had gained 1,658 cubic millimeters of new
bone in my cheeks and right eye socket, the equivalent volume of five
pennies. I’d also added 118 cubic millimeters of bone along my nose, and
178 along my upper jaw. My jaw position became better aligned and
balanced. My airways widened and became firmer. The deposit of pus and
granulation that had accumulated in my maxillary


 freezer containers with whole or halved
strawberries to within 3 to 4 inches (7 to 10 cm) of the top. Pour syrup over
top; use 1 cup (2 50 mL) syrup p er quart (1 L) of prepared fruit. Squeeze out
air; leave 1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. Seal, label and freeze.OR
Dry Pack:
a) If  you want whole strawberries to decorate cakes or for use in fruit
salads, the best way to ensure that they hold their shape during freezing is to
fast-freeze them  individually. Arrange completely dry berries  in a single
layer, wi thout to uching each other, on a cookie sheet. Fast-freeze  for 1 hour.
Pack into freezer containers (no need to leave headspace); sque eze out air.
Seal, label and return to freezer.
b) Fill pint (2-cu p/500 mL) or quart (1 L) freezer containers with whole or
halved strawberries to within 3 to 4 inches (7 to 10 cm) of the top. Pour dry
granulated suga r over top; use 1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar per quart (1 L) of
prepared fruit. Squeeze out air; l eave 1-inch (2.5 cm) headspace. Seal, label
and freeze.
OR
Crush:  Usi ng a potato  masher, crush strawberries in a non-reactive b owl
(or f or s eedless purée, press through a fine sieve into a non-rea ctive bowl).
For every quart (1 L) of crushed strawberries, add 1 cup (250 mL)
granulated sugar and 1 tbsp (15 mL) lemon juice. Stir until the sugar is
dissolved. Pack into freezer containers, leaving a 1-inch (2.5 cm)
headspace. Seal, label and freeze.A r t i c h o k e s
YOU MIGHT  THINK THA T AR TICHOKES R ESEMBLE
THISTLES,  and  you would be right. These perennial plants belong to the
sunflower family, of which thistles are members. Globe artichokes (Cynara
scolymus)  are the unopened flower buds o f the plant. Although traditionally
harvested in the spring, artichokes are now available year -round in some
places, with peak seasons being spring and fall. The Jerusalem artichoke,
also known as sunchoke, is a tuber and not suitable for canning.
Good Pr eserving V arieties
Big Heart:  Con ical with a wide base, this a rtichoke is thornless and easy to
prepare for preserving; available early spring, summer and fall.
Desert Globe:  W inter and early spring availability; plump heavy hearts.
Gr een Globe:  From California and available year -round, the roundish
globe-shaped varieties are prevalent in winter and spring; the conical,
thornier varieties are available in summer and fall.
Pur chasing/Storing
• 1 globe artichoke weighs about 1 lb (500 g), about half that when
trimmed.
• Y ou will need 3 to 4 lb (1.5 to 2 kg) for each quart (1 L) jar.
Artichokes are actually flower buds, and the bracts (green petal-like leaves)
should be tightly closed when you buy them. Select artichokes that are firm
and heavy for their size because that indicates a lar ge edible heart. W inter
harvests may show frost damage (bronze or brown tinges) o n the outer
bracts, a cosmetic defect only (many people prefer the nuttie r flavour offrost-damaged artichokes). Keep moist: store in the refrigerator wrapped in
a damp towel for up to 1 week, but try to preserve them as soon as possible.
Good W ith
• Lemon herbs such as lemon balm, lemongrass, lemon verbena.
• Savoury seasonings such as coriander, cumin, parsley, raspberry vinegar.
• All cheeses, especially Parmesan, Gruyère, pecorino and goat cheese.
• Sauces such as aïoli, tartar sauce, Asparagus Sauce.
• Other vegetables, such as eggplant, asparagus, tomatoes, onions, zucchini.
• V eal, beef, tuna, swordfish, shrimp, chicken.
• T oasted pine nuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, almonds.
• Often served as appetizers or starters.
Pr eparation
1. T o pr event discolouration,  in  a lar ge canner or soup pot, mix 1/2 cup
(125 mL ) fresh lemon juice or 1  tsp (5 mL) crystalline ascorbic  acid or six
500 mg vitamin C tablets in 1 gallon (4 L) cool water.
2. T rim:  Sna p of f the dark green outer le aves, leaving the pale, tender in ner
leaves on the stem. T rim of f all but 1/2 inch (1 cm) of the stem. T rim away
the top third of the artichoke leaves. As you trim each artichoke, place in
the pan of acidulated water.
3. Blanch:  Place a pie plate on the artichokes to submer ge them in the
water in order t o blanch them e venly. Bring the water to a boil over high
heat. Co ver and simmer for 5 m inutes. Remove pie plate and lif t artichokes
out of the water. Immerse in cold water for 5 minutes. Drain and pat dry.
4. Quar ter and Cut A way Ch oke:  Use a paring knife to peel away the
tough outer layer of the stem and to remove the base of the leaves. Cut the
artichoke in half, then in half again. Use a spoon to scoop away  and discard
the hairy choke at the centre of each quarter. Using scissors, clip and
discard t horny to ps of inner leaves of each quarter. As the artichokes are cut
and trimmed, pack them into hot quart jars (see step 4).Canning Artichokes
Commercially c anned artichokes are preserved in a marinade  of oil and
vinegar with some herbs added. Home pressure canners cannot reach the
temperatures required to kill spore-forming bacteria, and home canning in
oil is not safe. This sweet vineg ar brine adds enough acid to the non-acid
artichokes to enable you to safe ly process them using a water bath. Do not
substitute water or broth for the brine; or, if you do, be sure to process using
a pressure canner following the manufacturer ’ s instructions for time at your
elevation.
See detailed canning information, Preparing and Canning V egetables.
1. T rim, blanch and quarter  artichokes as described above.
2. Pr epar e Equipment:  W ash and heat pint (2-cup/500 mL) or quart (1 L)
jars, and  scald the lids, funnel, la dle and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step
by Step ).
3. Make  V ineg ar Brine to cov er artichokes.  Y ou will need about 1-1/2
cups (37 5 mL) per quart (1 L) jar quartered artichokes. In a lar ge saucepan,
combine 1 cup (250 mL) white wine vinegar and 1/2 cup (125 mL) packed
brown s ugar. Br ing to a boil over high heat. Add 1 cup (250 m L) chopped
onion and 2 cloves garlic, cho pped, stirring frequently, for 8 minutes or
until oni on is translucent. Add 2  tbsp (25 mL) chopped fresh parsley and 1
tbsp (15  mL) fresh thyme leaves and boil for 1 minute. Keep  simmering
until ready to use. Makes 1-1/2 cups (325 mL).
4. Pack artichokes into jars:  Fill  hot  jars with prepared artichokes, packed
fairly tightly. Cover with hot V inegar Brine, leaving a 1-inch (2.5 cm)
headspace. Run a non-metallic u tensil around the inside of the jar to allow
air t o escape. Add hot brine, if necessary, to leave a 1-inc h (2.5 cm)
headspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on metal rings. Return
jars to the hot water bath, topping up with hot water if necessary. Bring to a
full rolling boil and process ja rs for 15 minutes ( Boiling W ater Method,
Step by Step ).OR
Process artichok es in a Pressure Canner according to the chart below for
Dial-Gauge or follow manufacturer ’ s instructions.
5. Cool, Label and Stor e:  L ift jars from c anner and place on a clean towel
or rack. Do not re-tighten screw bands. Let the jars cool to room
temperature. This may take from 12 to 24 hours. Remove and store screw
bands. Check lid seals ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by  Step ). W ipe and
label sealed jars. Store in a cool, dark place.
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 in that they produce results in
children, people still tote around these sentences as adults. Some of
these leftovers involve admonitions like:
“Daddy won’t like you if you do that again.”
“You should feel ashamed  of yourself.” (As if that will be helpful
to you.)
“Oh, all right, I’m only your mother.”
As an adult, the implications behind these sentences can still
produce hurt if a person disappoints his boss, or others whom he
has made into parents. The persistent attempt to win their support
is there, and so is the guilt when the efforts are unsuccessful.
Leftover guilt also surfaces in sex and marriage. It can be seen in
the numerous self-reproaches and apologies for past behavior. These
guilt reactions are present as a result of learning to be manipulated
by adults in childhood, but they can still operate when the child has
grown up.
2. Self-imposed Guilt.  This second category of guilt reactions92 / Your Erroneous Zonesis a much more troublesome area. Here the individual is being im-
mobilized by things he has done recently, but which are not neces-
sarily tied to being a child. This is the guilt imposed on the self when
an adult rule or moral code is broken. The individual may feel bad
for a long time even though the hurting can do nothing to change
what has happened. Typical self-imposed guilt includes having told
someone off, and hating one’s self for it, or being emotionally drained
in the present moment because of some act such as shoplifting, not
going to church, or having said the wrong thing in the past.
Thus you can look at all of your guilt either as reactions to leftover
imposed standards in which you are still trying to please an absent
authority figure, or as the result of trying to live up to self-imposed
standards which you really don’t buy, but for some reason pay lip
service to. In either case, it is stupid, and, more important, useless
behavior. You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you’ve
been, feeling guilty until your death, and not one tiny slice of that
guilt will do anything to rectify past behavior. It’s over! Your guilt
is an attempt to change history, to wish that it weren’t so. But history
is so and you can’t do anything about it.
You can begin to change your attitude about the things over which
you experience guilt. Our culture has many strains of puritanical
thinking which send out messages like, “If it’s fun, you’re supposed
to feel guilty about it.” Many of your own self-inflicted guilt reactions
can be traced to this kind of thinking. Perhaps you’ve learned that
you shouldn’t indulge yourself, or you mustn’t enjoy a dirty joke,
or you ought not to participate in a certain kind of sexual behavior.
While the restraining messages are omnipresent in our culture, guilt
about enjoying yourself is purely self-inflicted.
You can learn to savor pleasure without a sense of guilt. You can
learn to see yourself as someone who is capable of doing anything
that fits into your own value system and does not harm others—and
doing it without guilt. If you do something, what-THE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 93ever it may be, and you don’t like it or yourself after having done
it, you can vow to eliminate such behavior for yourself in the future.
But to go through a self-inflicted guilt sentence is a neurotic trip that
you can bypass. The guilt does not help. It not only keeps you im-
mobilized, but it actually intensifies the chances that you’ll repeat
the unwanted behavior. Guilt can be its own reward as well as per-
mission to repeat the behavior. As long as you retain the potential
payoff of absolving yourself with guilt, you’ll be able to keep yourself
in that vicious treadmill that leads to nothing but present-moment
unhappiness.
Typical Guilt-Producing Categories and Reactions
PARENTAL GUILT ON CHILDREN OF ALL AGES
Manipulating the child to complete a task through guilt:
Parent—“Donny, bring up the chairs from the basement.
We’ll be eating soon.”
Child—“O.K., Mom, in a minute, I’m watching the ball
game and I’ll do it when this inning is over.”
Parental guilt signal—“Never mind then, I’ll do it—with
my bad back. You just sit there and enjoy yourself.”
Donny has visions of his mother falling down with six chairs
landing on top of her. And he’s responsible.
The “I sacrificed for you” mentality is an exceedingly effective
guilt producer. Here a parent can recall all of the hard times in which
he gave up his happiness so that you might have something. You
naturally ask yourself how you could be so selfish after you’ve been
reminded of your debts. References to the suffering of childbirth are
one example of this guilt-producing attitude. “I went through
eighteen hours of labor just to bring you94 / Your Erroneous Zonesinto the world.” Another effective statement is, “I stayed married
to your father because of you.” This one is designed to make you
feel guilty for Mama’s bad marriage.
Guilt is an effective method for parental manipulation of a child’s
actions. “That’s okay. We’ll stay here by ourselves. You just enjoy
yourself the way you’ve always done. Don’t worry about us.”
Statements like this are effective in getting you to telephone or visit
on a regular basis. With a slight twist you hear: “Whatsamatter; you
got a broken finger and you can’t dial a telephone?” The parent
switches the guilt machine on and you behave accordingly, albeit
resentfully.
The “You disgraced us” tactic is also useful. Or “What will the
neighbors think?” External forces are martialed to make you feel
bad about what you’ve done, and to keep you from thinking for
yourself. The “If you ever fail at anything you’ll disgrace us” guilt
excursion can make living with yourself after a shabby performance
almost impossible.
Parental illness is a super guilt manufacturer. “You’ve made my
blood pressure go up.” References to “killing me” or “giving me a
heart attack” are effective guilt prodders, as well as blaming you for
virtually all of the normal ailments associated with growing older.
You need big shoulders to carry this guilt around, since it can literally
last a lifetime, and if you are particularly vulnerable, you can even
carry the guilt of a parent’s death.
Sexual guilt imposed by parents is quite common. All sexual
thought or behavior is fertile soil for the cultivation of guilt. “God
forbid you should masturbate. It’s bad.” Through guilt you can be
manipulated into the right sexual stance. “You should be ashamed
for reading such magazines. You shouldn’t even have such
thoughts.”
Socially appropriate behavior can be fostered with guilt. “How
could you embarrass me by picking your nose in front of Grandma.”
“You forgot to say thank you. Shame on you, do you want our
friends to think I didn’t teach you anything?” ATHE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 95child can be helped to learn socially acceptable behavior without
the accompanying guilt. A simple reminder which follows an explan-
ation of why the behavior is undesirable is much more effective. For
example, if Donny is told that his constant interruptions are discon-
certing and make conversation impossible, he will have the first seed
planted without having the guilt that goes with a statement such as,
“You’re always interrupting, you should be ashamed of yourself,
it’s impossible to talk with you around.”
Merely reaching adulthood does not put an end to parental ma-
nipulation by guilt. I have a friend who is fifty-two years old. He is
a pediatrician of Jewish extraction married to a non-Jewish woman.
He keeps his marriage a secret from his mother, because he is afraid
it might “kill her” or more aptly, he might kill her. He maintains a
separate apartment with all of the household trimmings for the sole
purpose of meeting with his eighty-five-year-old mother every
Sunday. She does not know that he is married and owns his own
home where he lives six days a week. He plays this little game out
of fear and guilt about being married to a “Shiksa.” Although he is
a fully grown man who is highly successful in his own professional
world, he is still controlled by his mother. Each day he talks to her
from his office and lives out his bachelor fantasy.
Parental-and family-associated guilt is the most common strategy
for keeping a rebellious person in tow. The examples above are only
a small sample of the multitude of statements and techniques for
helping a son/daughter to choose guilt (present-moment immobility
over a past event) as the price of genealogy.
Lover- and Spouse-Related Guilt
The “If you loved me” guilt is one way to manipulate a lover. This
tactic is particularly useful when one wants to pun-96 / Your Erroneous Zonesish a partner for some particular behavior. As if love were contingent
upon the right kind of behavior. Whenever one person doesn’t
measure up, guilt can be used to get him back into the fold. He must
feel guilty for not having loved the other.
Grudges, long silences and hurtful looks are useful methods of


 plants dumping things in there. You have sewage and
all kinds of other things going in that coastal water that I don’t think you’d want in your food—heavy
metals in odd proportions and that kind of thing. What we typically do is go out to sea at varying
distances, anywhere from 30 to—our longest trip was 600 miles—and we are in very clean areas. We
process the water at sea, so what we have when we come back is a concentrate that’s ready to package
and ship, but we don’t do that just yet. What we do is quarantine that product in our distribution
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
center and send samples out to an environmental lab to get tested for volatile organic compounds, like
chemicals and pollutants. We don’t ship that product unless there is no detectable pollution, and there
are 70 different things that they look for, and their detection limit is half a part per billion. When that
test result comes back, it has to say ND next to every pollutant: “non-detectable.” When we get that
test result back, we liberate whatever that voyage produced to be packaged.
Mike : So you’re saying there is still ocean water that’s fairly clean on this planet?
Hartman : There is, but not coastally. You can’t just run a pipe down to your local coast. Even if you’re
on some island in the Caribbean and you think, “Well, maybe I’ll just put a pipe in the water,” you
might be lucky. But if you look at the boating regulations at what can be dumped at sea, it’s pretty
staggering what boats are allowed to dump if they’re far enough away from a coast.
You know, God invented this; we’re not taking credit for inventing seawater. What we’re trying to do
is collect it in a way that doesn’t damage it or change the proportion of it or hurt the aerobic bacteria
that are in it. We are very careful about how we do it and where we do it, and we work to make sure
that it’s pollutant free, and we try to make it as economic as possible to ship. We are within a year of
having a higher concentration, which will further reduce the shipping costs. But before I forget, I just
want to mention this aerobic bacteria. Seawater has about five times more aerobic bacteria—and that is
the friendly kind, the kind that stimulate roots to pick up elements and nutrition—than the healthiest
soils. To give you an idea of what aerobic bacteria can do, they can help the soil fix nitrogen, which is
very important to soil. The role of the bacteria is terribly important. It comes with seawater, and we do
everything we can to make its life happy and healthy and to preserve it in our product.
I think Dr. Murray mentions in his book that seawater bacteria can fix 40 pounds of nitrogen per acre.
Currently, chemical farmers are putting about 200 pounds of nitrogen on an acre, let’s say, to grow corn,
so that alone will help them reduce the need for that much nitrogen. You say, “Why do they have to
add anything at all?” Well, the reason they have to add nitrogen in the first place is because they use
highly hybridized species of corn that require it, and it’s kind of a self-fulfilling process. You have these
companies that are hybridizing corn, and they need more of the product they sell.
What about the salt in seawater?
Mike : Here’s a common question that I’m sure you must get: If there is salt in seawater and you put
seawater on your crops, won’t it increase the salt content of your tomatoes? What about people who are
worried about too much salt in their diet? It sounds like a silly question, but I’m sure you get it.
Hartman : It’s a great question. Think about when you go to a hospital. What’s the first thing they
give you?
0seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Mike : Sodium chloride.
Hartman : They give you a saline solution. So what is so important about sodium that it happens to be
number one in seawater and number one in health care? Well, it controls the osmotic gradient across
the cell wall, for one thing, so it can help transport nutrients – and, for that matter, medicine—across
cell walls. That’s terribly important in a human, but also in a plant.
When you put sodium in a certain concentration on plants, it changes the osmotic gradient stem of
the plant, so it allows copper to get up into a tomato, which needs copper awfully bad to be a good
tomato. Sometimes you go into a garden store and you’ll see copper you can put around your tomato
plants. I guarantee none of that copper is making it into the tomato, because it doesn’t have the osmotic
gradient to get it there. Sodium is very important for humans, animals and plants.
Now, to get back to your original question, about someone like a heart patient that’s on a low-sodium
diet. We’re going to come back to this organic and inorganic thing again. If you give a heart patient
inorganic salt, or sodium, it’s terribly bad for them. If it comes in its organic form in a fruit or vegetable,
it will do no harm. Celery has one of the highest sodium contents naturally of any vegetable, and it’s
totally safe to give a heart patient. Of course, I’m not a doctor—so I have to put in a disclaimer or the
lawyers will be all over my case—but a doctor won’t have a problem with a heart patient taking ocean-
grown celery, which has a high concentration of organic sodium.
Mike : People are familiar with using sea kelp or ocean kelp on their gardens, and they understand that
that contains a lot of trace minerals and macro minerals as well. How is Ocean Grown better than
using sea kelp or other ocean vegetables?
Hartman : Well, the first thing you have to look at is that, just like terrestrial vegetation, seaweed has
different uptakes of sea minerals. So you might have a kelp that only takes up 56, like a tomato, and
you might have a kelp that only picks up 40. So you have to ask yourself, “Has the science been done
that says, ‘Okay, this species of seaweed pickup all 90 like wheatgrass does?’” The first problem is, I don’t
think anybody’s done that research, and the second problem is that seaweed comes to the farm or home
grower as an organic compound, so it’s not readily available to the plant as food. When you put that
kelp product onto your plant, it’s still going to have to compost and break down before it’s available to
the plant.
Mike : It’s like putting manure on the soil, except it’s sea vegetable.
Hartman : That’s right. The good part is that it came out of the sea, and chances are it has more
nutrients and trace elements than manure. But if you have a perfect solution, why not use it? It’s in the
right form, and it has all 90 elements.
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Mike : What about changing the pH of the soil? Does ocean water have any kind of strong effect on
the pH?
Hartman : Well, it’s neutral or fairly neutral. It has a pH of eight, so it’s slightly alkaline. The fact
that it’s slightly alkaline will affect the pH, but I think people fuss and worry about pH a lot only
because what they’re doing is so unnatural, so they have to go to these other extraordinary means to
try to compensate for what they’re doing. I think that what people will find is that pH is much less
important—in fact, maybe not important at all if soil and the plants are getting nutrition.
Mike : I’ve done a lot of experiments with hydroponics and even aeroponics, but I’ve never done it with
ocean water. I’ve already ordered some of your product, and I’m going to try that. Do you know anyone
who’s been doing hydroponics with your product?
Hartman : We do, and many of our customers do. What we do in our office is grow wheatgrass
hydroponically, completely soil-less. It’s very reliable, very easy, and anyone can do it. In fact, if you
contact us through the website, we can send you a 14-page “how to” printout, which hopefully we’ll
post on the website soon so people can download it. It tells you what you need to buy (which is totally
inexpensive), so you can have your own wheatgrass on a shelf in your kitchen, if you’d like. It also
gives you indications of how you would grow other things hydroponically and aeroponically. The big
difference with aeroponics is that a plant dies as soon as the roots get dry, so that’s the key. You’ve got
to keep the roots damp, and if you can do that, it will do very well.
Mike : They also come back quickly once you turn the water back on. I’ve had that experience a few
times. I’ve seen a plant recover in 20 minutes, and it’s just amazing. What about sprouting at home and
using a bit of your product for sprouting?


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choice	is	yours	to	make.	Are	you	going	to	maintain	your	body	or	let	it	fall	apart?
Toxins	Shut	Systems	Down
A	variety	of	toxic	chemicals	and	metals	can	damage	cells.	Like	grains	of	sand,
toxins	can	jam	cellular	machinery	and	even	cause	entire	cell	factories	or
powerhouses	to	shut	down.
Many	toxins	disable	enzymes,	which	are	necessary	for	the	chemical	reactions
that	make	our	lives	possible.	The	number	of	chemical	reactions	required	to	make
life	possible	is	astonishing;	in	a	cell,	an	estimated	6	trillion	such	reactions	take
place	every	second.	Enzymes	make	these	reactions	possible.	About	two	thousand
kinds	of	enzymes	have	been	identified,	and	they	are	manufactured	by	our	cells	to
accomplish	a	variety	of	tasks.	Enzymes	act	as	little	machines,	putting	things
together	or	taking	them	apart	at	amazingly	high	speed.	Without	functioningenzymes,	cell	factories	and	assembly	lines	shut	down.
The	kind	of	enzymes	a	particular	cell	manufactures	distinguishes	and
determines	what	kind	of	cell	it	is	(for	example,	a	nerve	cell	or	a	muscle	cell).
Enzymes	serve	a	variety	of	purposes	and	must	be	constructed	with	many
different	nutrients.	Enzymes	contain	essential	mineral	atoms,	such	as	zinc,
magnesium,	iron	and	chromium.	If	these	building	materials	are	not	present	in
sufficient	quantity,	enzyme	function	(and	therefore	cell	function)	is	impaired.
Take	zinc,	for	example.	The	retina	contains	enzymes	constructed	with	zinc	and
is	a	zinc-rich	tissue.	If	you	do	not	have	enough	zinc	in	your	diet,	your	retina	and
other	zinc-rich	tissues,	such	as	the	prostate,	will	be	impaired	before	obvious
effects	are	noticed	elsewhere	in	the	body.	Night	blindness	and	malfunctioning
prostates	are	common	symptoms	of	zinc	deficiency.
However,	even	if	dietary	zinc	is	adequate,	but	this	nutrient	is	replaced	in	the
enzyme	by	a	toxic	metal—such	as	mercury,	arsenic,	cadmium	or	lead—the
presence	of	this	toxin	disables	the	enzyme	and	causes	disease.	Toxic	heavy
metals	are	a	prime	example	of	how	toxins	can	cause	cellular	malfunction,	and
our	bodies	contain	hundreds	of	times	more	toxic	metals	than	they	did	in	our
ancestors	a	century	ago.	Mercury	is	a	toxic	heavy	metal	that	we	are	commonly
exposed	to	from	dental	work—amalgam	fillings	contain	mercury.	Municipal
water	supplies	contain	toxins	such	as	aluminum,	fluoride	and	arsenic.	Even	in
trace	amounts,	these	toxins	can	deactivate	enzymes	and	impair	vital	bodily
systems.	They	can	cause	our	systems	to	shut	down.	They	must	be	avoided.
Building	and	using	enzymes	properly	is	an	essential	part	of	good	health,	as
enzyme	dysfunction	is	a	common	denominator	of	disease.	Maintaining	proper
enzyme	balance	is	one	reason	to	eat	fresh	organic	foods.	Organic	produce	is
richer	in	the	vitamins	and	minerals	that	enable	us	to	build	enzymes	and
coenzymes,	and	it	is	less	toxic,	too.	Enzyme	function	can	also	be	enhanced	with
high-quality	dietary	supplements.
The	First	Line	of	Defense
A	cell’s	first	line	of	defense	against	disease	is	the	cell	membrane,	the	security
wall	that	surrounds	the	cell	and	carries	out	many	important	functions.	Healthy
membranes,	built	from	appropriate	materials,	protect	cells	from	harmful	invaders
—	including	viruses.	Malfunctioning	membranes	allow	bacteria,	viruses,	toxins
and	other	harmful	substances	to	damage	cells.	The	presence	of	poorly
constructed	cell	membranes	formed	from	poor	diets	is	one	of	the	biggest	reasons
that	almost	all	Americans	get	sick.The	cell	membrane	controls	everything	that	goes	into	and	out	of	a	cell.
Making	certain	that	only	the	right	things	go	in	and	out	of	the	cell	is	a	critical	and
complex	task	that	only	can	be	accomplished	when	the	cell	membrane	is
constructed	correctly.	The	membranes	that	surround	each	of	the	trillions	of	cells
in	your	body	are	made	mostly	of	fats	and	oils.	Membranes	constructed	out	of	the
wrong	fats	and	oils	do	not	function	properly,	which	is	a	problem	for	most
Americans.	For	example,	diets	with	excessive	amounts	of	saturated	fats,	which
are	rigid	molecules,	create	rigid	cell	membranes	that	lack	necessary	elasticity.
Catastrophic	failures,	such	as	ruptured	blood	vessels	and	torn	muscles	and
tendons,	can	occur	in	tissues	made	from	these	rigid	cells.
Cell	membranes	are	made	primarily	of	fatty	molecules	called	phospholipids.
Special	kinds	of	oils	called	essential	fatty	acids	(EFAs)—omega-3s	and	omega-
6s—are	used	to	create	the	phospholipids	in	cell	membranes.	These	oils	are
essential	because	your	body	is	unable	to	produce	them;	these	oils	must	be
obtained	through	diet.	An	overwhelming	majority	—some	estimate	as	much	as
90	percent—of	the	U.S.	population	may	be	deficient	in	the	correct	assortment	of
essential	fatty	acids.	When	the	correct	raw	materials	are	lacking,	the	body	makes
cell	membranes	out	of	whatever	raw	materials	are	available.	These	materials
include	the	hydrogenated	oils	found	in	margarine,	vegetable	shortening,	baked
goods	and	breakfast	cereals;	the	saturated	fats	from	meat	and	dairy	products;	and
the	trans-fatty	acids	found	in	processed	salad	and	cooking	oils.	Cell	membranes
built	from	these	inappropriate	fats	and	oils	cause	the	membrane	and	the	entire
cell	to	malfunction.
For	example,	building	a	cell	membrane	from	hydrogenated	oils	impairs	the
passage	of	oxygen	into	the	cell,	and	oxygen-deficient	cells	become	cancerous.
None	of	us	would	build	a	house	with	cardboard	walls.	Why,	then,	do	we	build
our	cell	membranes—our	first	line	of	defense	against	disease—out	of	junk
materials	like	margarine,	vegetable	shortening	and	supermarket	oils?	Modern
diets	fail	to	supply	adequate	amounts	of	the	correct	essential	fatty	acids.	I
recommend	supplementation	with	high-quality	essential	fatty	acids	and	fish	oils
(see	appendix	C).
Weak	and	Rusty
To	be	healthy,	cells	must	be	supplied	with	adequate	amounts	of	antioxidants.
Cell	membranes	and	the	factories	and	powerhouses	inside	of	cells	can	be
damaged	from	oxidation	via	free	radicals.	Picture	how	oxidative	damage	(rust)
would	cause	the	Golden	Gate	Bridge	to	disintegrate	were	it	not	painted	with	a
protective	coating	each	year.	Currently,	our	bodies	are	immersed	in	a	sea	ofhighly	reactive	chemicals—	such	as	ozone	in	urban	air	and	chlorine	in	tap	water
—that	create	oxidative	damage	to	our	bodies.	You	likely	have	heard	reports
about	antioxidants	(such	as	vitamins	A,	C	and	E)	and	how	they	protect	us	against
free	radical	damage.
Free	radicals	damage	our	cells	just	like	rust	corrodes	metal.	Free	radicals	have
unpaired	electrons.	Electrons,	which	travel	in	pairs,	are	charged	particles


 amino acids, not pro -
teins. If we eat proteins, they must be laboriously digested, that is, broken down by body
enzymatic action in t
o amino acids.
Per Dr. Mark Hegstead of Harvard University, the true need for amino acids by an 154-pound (70 kg) man is about 21 grams per day, or 84 calories.  Very active people will need close to 30 grams.  The FNB’s protein numbers for a 154-pound man are high: 46.2 grams.  The FNB’s are so high because they agree with Dr. Hegstead’s numbers; however, they almost double them to give a safety margin.  Beware: when you’ve got your build -
ing built, throwing extra bricks into it may mess things up!   Any amount of cooked pro -
tein will cause your body-temple structural weakness and reduced vitality!
Twent y
-one grams of amino proteins in a diet consisting of about 500 grams of usable
nutrient solids required daily is about 4%.  In our natural diet the amino acids are about
100% usable whereas in the conventional American diet they are only about 20% us -
able!  The average American consumes about 105 grams of protein daily, but mostly in a cooked form.  C ook
ing coagulates, deranges and deaminates proteins and amino ac -
ids, thus rendering them unusable except as carbohydrates.  In the cooked and oxidized form they are v er
y readily putrefiable.
Ninety percent of amino acid and protein wastes of the body are recycled.  This means that proteins involved in body processes are providentially used and reused.  It also means that losses through cellular death are largely reclaimed and reused.  The overall loss is thus about 10% of the daily usage.  It is estimated that the body of the average 49
Fruiticultureman requires about 230 grams of new protein formation daily.  If 90% of this is supplied
by recycling spent proteins, then only about 23 grams of new protein need to be con -
sumed.  Make it raw amino acids!
Our Natural F o
ods Must Supply Our Needs For Mineral Matter
Mineral matter that the human body uses consists of minerals in an organic context,
that is, in a colloidal form within living substance.  Heat quickly destroys the organic context, thus returning mineral matter to an inorganic state.  Though super fine in con -
sistency, minerals that were in the organic state become, through the agency of heat or dec omposition of their medium, inorganic the same as they occur in soil, r
ocks, ores, etc.
In this form they are not utile by the human body except in certain applications.  For example, base minerals will alkalinize the intestinal tract even though they cannot be assimilated.
Minerals which the body requires become toxic if appropriated in an inorganic context.
This is easily demonstrable. Leukocytosis is recognized as a pathological state.  This is a proliferation of white blood cells, the whole of which is often referred to as our im -
mune system.  If the components of a cooked or heat-deranged meal are taken, leu -
kocytosis results.  If only inorganic minerals are ingested, leukocytosis likewise results.  Leukocytosis is a body def ensiv
e act wherein the body unleashes huge armies of white
blood cells to apprehend and carry toxic substances to the nearest exit or put them harmlessly under the rug somewhere.
Thus the body must have, according to the RDIs, about 1% of its solid food intake as
minerals.  To be usable these minerals must be in an un-deranged organic state.
Our Natural Foods Must Supply Our Needs For Fatty AcidsThere was, at one time, proclaimed to be three essential fatty acids, namely arachidonic,
linoleic and linolenic.  Today only linoleic is said by nutritional researchers to be essen -
tial. Popularly, linolenic fatty acids are referred to as omega-3 while linoleic fatty acids are referr
ed to as omega-6. Essential means that the body has a need of a component or
components, in this case fatty acids, because it cannot itself synthesize them.  Our natu -
ral foods must, of course, contain our needs for essential fatty acids, because the body never found it necessar y t
o develop faculties to produce them or they were so plentiful
in the food the body ceased to produce them and lost its ability to do so as it did with 50
Fruiticulturevitamin C and certain amino acids recognized as essential.
Our Natural Vibrant Foods Must Supply Our Needs For VitaminsWhile vitamins comprise such a small portion of our total dietary need that all the RDIs
taken together on an annual basis could be put into a sewing thimble, they are, never -
theless, essential to our well-being.  The RDIs for vitamins vary with each vitamin. Here I will not deal with individual vitamins as separate c omponen
ts.  At this time only the ob -
servation need be made that our natural foods must adequately contain these vitamins or g ive rise t o them in absor
bable form while in the intestinal tract.
Our Natural Foods Must Supply Our Needs For Miscellaneous Nutrients
The above nutrients are said to be macronutrients though, as can be seen, vitamins are
really micronutrients.  Other micronutrients which the body may require are auxones (certain plant hormones).  The science of nutrition is yet young. Whether or not there are needed nutrients in foods other than the five categories of solids treated above remains open to question.
In any event you can be sure our natural foods are replete with all the nutrients we need
in the quantities we require.  After all, our virtual abandonment of our natural dietary fare is only a few seconds on the clock if we regard our earthly existence as being 24 hours thus far. And our natural fare is scientifically established as responsible for our high state of development.
Our Natural Foods Should Supply Our Water NeedsInasmuch as humans, like many desert creatures, are not designed with the oral equip -
ment to naturally drink water, our natural diet should be water-sufficient just as it is in
the case of desert animals as well as numerous other crea
tures in nature.
Healthy people eating their natural diet usually have a surplus of water without drinking.  The addition of some foods without sufficient water, less than 25% water content, does not occasion thirst.  However, substances with water content equal to or greater than our natural foods occasion thirst if ingested cooked, if they are biologically incorrect, if they are condimented, especially with salt, and toxic substances in general.
While thirst generally arises from pathogenic conditions within, there are exceptions:
extraordinarily warm climatic conditions, extraordinarily low humidity, periods without 51
Fruiticulturenormal food intake, partaking of good foods that have been dried, heavy labor or exer -
cise under warm conditions, and yet other conditions.  When thirst arises, always drink
water —pur
e water.  With ready supplies of pure water and tools that facilitate drinking
such as cups, glasses, etc., we can easily drink the water necessary to make up deficits.
Our Diet Must be Alkaline, Overall, in Metabolic End-ProductsHumans require a diet that is alkaline in its metabolic end-products.  For practical pur -
poses this means at least 80% of alkaline-forming foods against not more than 20% of
acid end-pr oduct foods.
The human homeostatic condition is alkaline with essential flu -
ids normally having a pH of 7.40.  Any significant variation in the pH can result in coma and dea th. Acidosis is deadlier than alkalosis.
The body can rather easily discharge ex -
cess organic alkalis, but must first neutralize excess acids. In the absence of sufficient alkalis, the body must take alkaline miner als
, including calcium, from bones and fluids to
effect neutralization.  Americans eat a predominantly acid-forming diet, a diet that is not only pathogenic in itself, but causes such complications as base mineral depletion char -
acterized by osteoporosis and metabolic disorders.
What W ould
Y ou Eat in Nature? Considering Various Foods and Our Natural
DispositionDespite the gross perversion of our instincts, they are still alive and well and will reas -
sert should we be relegated back to nature.  Therefore, this quest is to ascertain what we
would eat in natur e
.  Our instinctive foods, the foods which helped to develop us to our
magnificence, necessarily contain all that we need to thrive on.  This assurance being soundly based, as you will soon determine for yourself, it then behooves us, as respon -
sible members of society, to undertake the course which makes us the most we can be so tha t we can maximally serv e ourselv
es and those who depend on us.  This is a mutual
arrangement, as those whom we serve in turn serve us better.  This exalts everyone and has a ripple effect that makes all in our society healthier and happier, more loving and more caring.  In serving yourself best, you at the same time serve others best.  This inqui -
ry will survey almost all the foods that humans, in their varied habits, eat.  We’ll consider each as a possible food for ourselves as it oc curs in na
ture without benefit of cooking
apparati, tools and containers.
Remember, your instincts will reject or cherish each food on


. 54 where
gems are listed among the spiritual therapies of Ayurveda.
64 More information on Vedic astrology, including its healing
aspects, is presented in ASTROLOGY OF THE SEERS, partic-
ularly pages 235-261.
65 For more information on the Ayurvedic use of gems, examine
AYURVEDIC HEALING, pages 308-312.
66 Note CARAKA SAMHITA SUTRASTHANA XI.54 where
mantra is mentioned among the spiritual therapies of Ayurveda.
67 This process is called purascharana or anusthana in Sanskrit.
68 This subject is examined in TANTRIC YOGA AND THE
WISDOM GODDESSES. Also look into Haresh Johari's
TOOLS FOR TANTRA.
69 Note TANTRIC YOGA AND THE WISDOM GODDESSES,
pages 197-219, for ways of increasing Prana, Tejas and Ojas,
including mantra.
70 This chosen form of God is called Ishta Devata in Sanskrit.
There are many works on Bhakti Yoga or the Yoga of Devotion,
like the BHAKTI SUTRAS of Narada, SRIMAD BHAGA-
VATAM, the RAMAYANA, and the songs of great saints like
Mira Bai.
71 These are called homa, havana and Agnihotra in Sanskrit.
72 In TANTRIC YOGA AND THE WISDOM GODDESSES, I
examined the role of ten important Goddesses in this regard.
73 Vagbhatta, the great Buddhist Ayurvedic teacher, recommended
using the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara or the Gods Shiva and
Vishnu (ASTANGAHRDAYA UTTARASTHANA V.50-52).
Avalokiteshvara's consort is the Goddess Tara, also called Kwan
Yin in the Chinese tradition.
74 Self-knowledge is the subject matter of Advaita or non-dualistic
Vedanta. Its main classical proponent is Shankaracharya. Its
most noted modem proponent is Ramana Maharshi, the great
sage of Timvannamalai, South India.
75 For the importance of Yoga in traditional Ayurveda, note
CARAKA SAMHITA, SARIRASTHANA 1.137- 155. Appendix 2 325 ^
76 YOGA SUTRAS of Patanjali, Book I, Sutra 2.
77 What are called vama and ashrama in Vedic thought. The var-
nas are our social ethic, which is divided into four as it is based
on knowledge, honor, wealth or work. The ashramas are the
stages of life as youth, householder, retiree and renunciate.
78 The true purpose of Yoga is inner integration. It is done for a
spiritual purpose and requires renunciation and self-abnegation.
Enjoyment, called bhoga in Sanskrit, is not the aim of Yoga,
which moves in another direction. However, many people do
Yoga in order to feel better, which is a pursuit of bhoga. This
often distorts what Yoga means and prevents us from benefiting
from its deeper practices.
79 Note YOGA SUTRAS 1.12. Vyasa's commentary, for an expla-
nation of Chitta-Nadi. The outer flow of the mind through the
senses leads to bondage and sorrow. The inner flow through dis-
crimination leads to peace and liberation, this inner flow sets in
motion the Kundalini, which is the awakened Chitta-Nadi.
80 This is called Shambahvi mudra in yogic thought. It is used in
several systems of Buddhist meditation as well.
81 We have already discussed Samadhi in the sections of the book
on Chitta and Buddhi and will not repeat that information here.
Please keep it in mind.
82 Vyasa, the main commentator on YOGA SUTRAS, defines
Yoga as Samadhi. The first section of the book is the Samadhi
Pada or section relating to Samadhi. The majority of verses in
the book relate to Samadhi or Samyama.
83 Sanskrit — note Vyasa's commentary on first verse of YOGA
SUTRAS.
84 These Samadhis (samyamas) are explained in great detail in the
YOGA SUTRAS, particularly the third section.
85 These types of possession are explained in Ayurvedic psychology.
I have examined some of these in AYURVEDIC HEALING,
pages 254-257. Ayurveda and the Mind
Sanskrit Glossary
Agni - digestive fire,
Ahamkara - ego or sense of separate self
Antahkarana - internal instrument, mind on all levels
Apana - downward moving Prana
Asanas - yogic postures
Astral Plane - subtle world of pure impressions, dream
plane
Atman - true Self, sense of pure I am
Ayurveda - yogic science of healing
Bhakti Yoga - Yoga of Devotion
Bija Mantra - single syllable mantras like OM
Brahman - Absolute reality
Buddhi - intelligence
Causal Plane - source world of creation, realm of the ideal
or archetypes, deep sleep plane
Chakras - energy centers of subtle body, which govern the
physical body through the nerve plexus
Chitta - consciousness, inner mind, particularly the
subconscious
Devi - the Goddess
Dharana - concentration
Dhanna - the law of our nature
Dhyana - meditation
Gunas - three prime qualities of Nature of sattva, rajas
and tamas
Guru - spiritual guide
Homa - Vedic fire offerings
Ishvara - God or the Creator
Ishvari - Divine Mother, feminine aspect of God Appendix 2
Jiva - individual soul
Jnana Yoga - Yoga of Self-knowledge
Kama - effect of our past actions, including from
previous births
Kama Yoga - yoga of ritual, work and service
Kundalini - latent energy of spiritual development
Mahat - Divine Mind or Cosmic Intelligence
Manas - outer or sensory aspect of mind
Mantra - seed sounds used for healing or yogic purposes
Mamas - sensitive points on the body
Niyamas - yogic disciplines
Ojas - water on a vital level
Pitta - biological fire humor
Prakriti - nature
Prana - vital force, breath
Pranayama - control or expansion of vital force
Pratyahara - control or introversion of the mind
and senses
Puja - Hindu rituals
Purusha - inner spirit, Self
Raja Yoga - Integral Yoga system of Patanjali in Yoga
Sutras
Rajas - quality of action and agitation
Rajasic - of the nature of rajas
Samadhi - absorption
Samana - balancing vital force
Sattva - quality of hamony
Sattvic - of the nature of Sattva
Shakti - power, energy, particular of the deepest level
Shiva - Divine power of peace and transcendence Ayurveda and the Mind
Tamas - quality of darkness and inertia
Tamasic - of the nature of Tamas
Tanmatras - sensory potentials which are the subtle
elements (sound, touch, sight, taste, smell)
Tantra - energetic system of working with our higher
potentials
Tejas - fire on a vital level
Udana - upward moving Prana
Vata - biological air humor
Vayu-another name for Prana or vital force
Vedas - ancient Hindu spiritual system of Self and
Cosmic knowledge
Vishnu - Divine power of love and protection
Vyana - expansive vital force
Yam a - yogic values
Yantras - geometric meditation forms
Yoga - science of reintegration with the universal reality Appendix 2 329 A
Herbal Glossary
aloe gel Aloe vera
amalaki Emblica officinalis
asafetidaFemla asafetida
ashwagandha Withania somnifera
bala Sida
basilOcinum
bayberryMyrica
betony Stachys
calamus-Acoms
cam om ileAnth emum
camphorCinnamomum
cardamom Elettaria
cedar Cedms
champak Michelia cordifolia
spp.
spp.
betonica
calamus
nobilis
camphor
cardamomum
spp.
champaka
chrysanthemum....Chrysanthemum indicum
cinnamonCinnamomum
clovesSyzgium
damianaTumera
elecampanelnula spp.
ephedra Ephedra
eucalyptus Eucalyptus
frankincenseBoswellia
gardeniaGardenia
garlic- Allium
ginger Zingiberis
gokshura Tribulis
gotu kolaHydrocotyle
guggulC ommiphora
haritaki Tenninalia
heenaLawsonia
honeysuckleLonicera
hopsHumulus lupulus zeylonica
aromaticum


ing your favourite programme. When the programme is finished, you
can put the bags into your freezer. Not that much of an effort for having a
winter supply of a wonderful immune-stimulating remedy. And it will cost
you absolutely nothing!
The general toxic load
An important part of the treatment is reduction in the general toxic load
on the patient's detoxification system as much as possible. What is a gen
eral toxic load? Anything toxic we eat, breathe, touch or put on our skin
absorbs very quickly and puts another workload on our detoxification
system. In a GAPS person his or her gut is the major source of toxicity over
loading the detox system with too much work. It is not sensible to add
more to that work by exposing the patient to toxic and carcinogenic sub™
stances from the environment What substances are we talking about?
The patient's house should be kept as chemical free as possible by using
minimal amounts of domestic cleaning chemicals, paints, carpet pesti
cides and other toxic substances. All widely available domestic chemicals
are toxic. Bathroom detergents, floor cleaners, polishes, etc. all stay in the
air and on the surfaces contributing to the general toxic load on the
patient's detox system. Toxic domestic chemicals can be replaced with
safer bio-degradable alternatives from various conscientious companies. However, generally try to use as little as possible. A lot of cleaning around
the house can be done with just water and a bit of vinegar or lemon juice,
bicarbonate of soda and olive oil. You can clean your wood floors with
strong tea. You can polish your furniture with a mixture of 1 cup of olive oil
with 7a cup of white vinegar. You can pour white wine on red wine spills on
your carpet to remove the stain.
It is wise not to re-decorate the house or install new carpets or furniture
while the patient is trying to detoxify. Paints, many building materials, new
carpets, new furniture outgas a plethora of extremely toxic chemicals
which we absorb through our lungs, skin and mucous membranes. New
carpet can outgas considerable amounts of highly carcinogenic formalde
hyde for a few years. New furniture is full of fire retardants, which are great
contributors of antimony (a toxic heavy metal) in our systems. Fresh
household paints outgas dozens of extremely toxic chemicals into the air of
the house for at least six months. Just recently I had a phone call from a
parent of an autistic child who, apart from severe autism, had epilepsy.
After implementing the GAPS nutritional protocol the seizures disap
peared completely and the child was doing very well. Then, unfortunately,
the parents decided to paint the walls in the house. The day the painter
started work the child had a major epileptic fit. Epilepsy in a majority of
cases, particularly in children, is caused by toxicity. Obviously, this child's
detoxification system was not ready to take an onslaught of the extremely
toxic chemicals which we can breathe in from paints.
Very important contributors to the general toxic overload in the body are
cosmetics, toiletries, perfumes and other personal care products. The per
sonal care products industry is generally not regulated. More than a thou
sand of various carcinogenic and toxic chemicals are widely used in formu
lation of shampoos, soaps, toothpaste, cosmetics, perfumes, creams, etc.
The old opinion that our skin is a barrier and does not let toxins in has
proven to be completely wrong. Human skin absorbs most things from the
environment very efficiently, in some cases even better than our digestive
system. Toxins, which go into the body through the digestive system, have
to pass through the liver, where most of them get broken down and ren
dered benign. That is why the pharmaceutical industry recently started
producing more and more drugs which are applied to the skin as patches,
because the skin absorbs them better than the digestive system and they
get straight into the bloodstream without passing the test of the liver. The
wide use of personal care products is a major contributor to our cancer
epidemic. Children, women and men are unknowingly exposing themselves to huge amounts of carcinogenic substances, which they apply
to their skin. A good example is breast cancer. Cells removed from a can
cerous breast in many cases are full of aluminium - a toxic heavy metal.
Where does all this aluminium come from? Probably from not far away -
from the deodorants, absorbed through the skin in the woman's armpits.
Recent research into heavy metals showed that when a pregnant animal is
exposed to them they accumulate in large amounts in the foetus. That is
why it is particularly important for a pregnant or breast-feeding mother to
be careful what personal products and cosmetics she puts on her skin, face
and hair. In this book we cannot go into the details of all toxins present in
our toiletries and cosmetics. But let us list some of the most common ones.
• Talc or talcum powder can cause ovarian cancer. Do not use it, partic
ularly on babies!
• Sodium Lauryl (Laureth) Sulfate (SLS) - highly toxic detergent and is
present in most shampoos, soaps and toothpaste.
• Fluoride - a terrible poison for every system in the body. Widespread
in toothpaste and other dental care products. It is added to some
water supplies and given to babies as drops. If you are not familiar
with its toxicity I would strongly advise you to learn more about it and
avoid it like the plague.
• Titanium Dioxide - carcinogenic.
• Triethanolamine (TEA) and Diethanolamine (DEA) form carcinogenic
nitrosamines.
• Lanolin, itself a non-toxic natural substance is often contaminated
with DDT and other carcinogenic pesticides.
• Dioxanes are inhaled and absorbed through skin - highly carcino
genic.
• Saccharin - carcinogenic.
• Formaldehyde - a toxic and carcinogenic substance.
• Propylene Glycol - carcinogenic.
• Lead, aluminium and other heavy metals are present in many per
sonal care products, particularly in deodorants and make-up.
In patients with GAP syndrome use of personal care products should be
reduced to an absolute minimum. The body does not need washing with
soaps, shower gels or bubble baths. They not only contribute to the general
toxic overload, but they also wash off important oils, which protect the skin
from infections and drying out. Washing with water and a sponge should
be quite enough. A child does not need any personal care products apart from natural
toothpaste. There are number of companies who produce safe personal
care products without harmful substances, listed above.
To assist elimination of toxins through the skin, give your child a bath
every night before bed. Instead of bath soaps, add a cup of cider vinegar to
the bath, it will help to normalise the pH of the skin and encourage appro
priate skin flora, as well as assisting the detoxification process. On alter
nate days add a cup of Epsom Salt to the bath, which will also assist in the
detoxification process. Air your house regularly and let your child spend as
much time as possible in the fresh air.
Swimming pools are very toxic places. People generally believe that
going to the swimming pool is a healthy exercise. This cannot be further
from the truth. Apart from a few rare pools in the world, sterilised with
ozone, the rest of them use chlorine-based chemicals for sterilising the
water. Chlorine is a poison, which affects every system in the body, partic
ularly the immune system and liver. It absorbs quite well through the skin.
But apart from that a thick layer of chlorine gas is floating above the swim
ming pool water, which children and adults inhale while swimming.
Inhaled chlorine absorbs extremely well through the lungs into the blood
stream. GAPS patients are already very toxic. Swimming in a chlorinated
pool would add to that toxicity.
GAPS people should swim in the natural waters of lakes, rivers and sea
instead of the toxic chemical soup of swimming pools. Natural waters are
full of life, biological energy from plants and different creatures, minerals,
enzymes and many other beneficial substances. Swimming in natural
living waters has been prized as a therapy for many health problems for
centuries. Obviously, you have to make sure that the water you swim in is
as far as possible from any source of industrial pollution.
Washing powders and liquids all stay in the fabric of our clothes,
bedding and towels and also contribute to the toxic overload. Try to look
for safer ecologically friendly alternatives.
Houseplants are our great friends when it comes to keeping our houses
toxin free. They consume the toxic gases and replace them with oxygen and
other beneficial substances. Fill your house with geraniums, ivies, spider
plants, Aloe Vera, ficuses and many other varieties of houseplants. The
more the merrier, particularly in your bedrooms! Keep your houseplants
healthy, don't let them become mouldy, as some GAPS people may react to
moulds. Detoxification and reducing exposure to environmental toxins has to be
an important part of the treatment of GAP Syndrome. Normalising gut
ilora, appropriate nourishing diet, clean water, juicing and


goodair,&c.,&c.,&c.;theverdictisrepeatedbyignorant
peoplewithoutthelatterclause;orthereisnopossibilityofthe
conditionsofthelatterclausebeingobtained;andthis,theonly
essentialpartofthewhole,ismadeofnoeffect.
Ihaveknowntwocases,theoneofamanwhointentionally
andrepeatedlydisplacedadislocation,andwaskeptandpetted
byallthesurgeons;theotherofonewhowaspronouncedtohave
nothingthematterwithhim,therebeingnoorganicchangeper-
ceptible,butwhodiedwithintheweek.Inboththesecases,it
wasthenursewho,byaccuratelypointingoutwhatshehad.accu-
ratelyobservedtothedoctors,savedtheoneCiisefrompersevering
inafr.aud,theotherfrombeingdischargedwhenactuallyina
dyingstate.
Butonem.ayevengofurtherands.ay,th.atindiseaseswhich
h.avetheirorigininthefeebleorirregularactionofsomefunction,
andnotinorg.anicchange,itisquite<auaccidentifthedoctor
whoseesthec.aseonlyoncead.ay,andgenerallyatthes.ametime,
canformanybutaneg.ativeideaofitsrealcondition.Inthe
middleoftheday,whensuchapatienthasbeenrefreshedby
lightandair,byhiste.a,hisbeefte.a,andhisbrandy,byhot
bottlestohisfeet,bybeingw.ashedandbycle.anlinen,youcau
sc.arcelybelievethatheisthes.amepersonashelaywithar.apid
flutteringpulse,withpuffedeyelids,withshortbre.ath,cold
limbs,andunsteadyhands,thismorning.Nowwhatisanurse
todoinsuchae.ase?Notcry,“Lordblessyou,sir,why,you’d
h.avethoughtheweread3ungallnight.”Thism.aybetime,butit
isnotthewaytoimpresswiththetruthadoctor,morecapable
offormingajudgmentfromthefacts,ifhedidbutknowthem,
thanyouare.Whathewantsisnotjmuropinion,however
respectfullygiven,butjmurf.acts.Inalldiseasesitisimportant,
butindise.aseswhichdonotrunadistinctandfixedcourse,itis
notonlyimportant, itisessential,thatthefactsthenursealone
canobserve,shouldbeaccuratelyobseiwedandaccuratelyre-
portedtothedoctor.
Thenursesattentionshouldbedirectcijtotheextremevaiia-
NOTESONNfRSINO.
liontherejsnotnnfreqnentlyintliejmlseofsuchpatientsduring
tlie(lay.Averycommoncaseisthis•Between3and4a.m.the
inilsebecomesquick,perhaps130,andsothreadyitisnotlikea
pidseatall,butlikeastringvibratingjustundenieaththeskin.
Afterthisthepatientgetsnomoresk-ep.Aboutmiddaythe
pulsehascomedownto80;andthoughfeebleandcompressible,
isaveryrespectablepulse.Atnight,ifthepatienthashada
dayofexcitement, itisalmostimperceptible.Butifthepatient
hashadagoodday,itisstrongerandsteadierandnotquicker
thanatmidday.Thisisacommonhistoryofacommonpulse;
andothers,equallyvaryingduringtheday,mightbegiven.Now,
ininflammation,whichmayalmostalwaysbedetectedbythe
pulse,intyphoidfever,whichisaccompaniedbythelowpulse
thatnothingwillraise,thereisnosuchgreatvariation.And
doctorsandnursesbecomeaccustomednottolookforit.The
doctorindeedcannot.Butthevariationisinitse.Tanimportant
feature.
Casesliketheaboveoften“gooflTrathersuddenly,”asitis
called,fromsometriflingailmentofafewdays,whichjustmakes
upthesumofexhaustionnecessarytoproducedeath.Andevery-
bodycries.Whowouldhavethoughtit?—excepttheobserving
nurse,ifthereisone,whohadalwaysexpectedtheexhaustion
tocome,fromwhichtherewouldbenorally,becausesheknew
thepatienthadnocapitalinstrengthonwhichtodraw,ifhe
failedforafewdaystomakehisbarelydailyincomeinsleej)and
nutrition.
Ilcallygoodnursesareoftendistressed,becausetheycannot
impressthedoctorwiththerealdangeroftheirpatient;and
quiteprovokedbecausethep.atient“willlook,”either“somuch
better,”or“somuchworse,”thanhereallyis“whenthedoctor
isthere.”Thedistressisverylegitimate,butitgenerallyarises
fromthenursenothavingthepoweroflayingclearlyandshortly
beforethedoctorthefactsfromwhichshederivesheropinion,or
fromthedoctorbeinghastyandinexperienced,andnotcapable
ofelicitingthem.Amanwhoreallycaresforhispatients,wh
soonleanitoaskforandappreciatetheinformationofanurse,
whoisatonceacarefulobserverandaclearreporter.
InLifeInsuranceandsuchlikesocieties,weretheyinsteadof
havingthe])ersonsexaminedbyamedicalman,tohavethe
houses,conditions,waysoflife,ofthesepersonsexamined,at
howmuchtruerresultswouldtheyanivo 1W.Smithappears
CONVALESCENCE. 95
afinehaleitian,ImtitmightbeknoAvnthatthetextcholera
epidemichenu>.;abadchance.Mr.andMrs.J..areastrong
he.althycouple,butitmightbeknownthattheyliveinsucha
house,insuchap.artofLondon,sone.artheriver,th.attheywill
killfoiir-fifthsoftheirchildren;whichofthechildrenwillbe
theonestosurvivemightalsobeknown.
2.Averages.ag,aindonotleadtominuteobsen'ation.“Average
mortalities”merelytellthatsomanypercent,dieinthistown,
andsom.anyinth.at,perannum.ButwhetherA.orB.willbe
amongthese,the“aver.agerate”ofcoumedoesnottell.We
know,say,thatfrom22to24per1,000willdieinLondonne.xt
ye.ar.Butminuteinquiriesintoconditionsenableustoknow
thatinsuchadistrict,n.ay,insuchastreet—orevenononesi<le
ofth.atstreet,insuchaparticularhouse,orevenononefloorof
thatparticul.arhouse,willbetheexcessofmoi'tality;thatis,the
pemonwilldiewhooughtnottoh.avediedbeforeold.age.
Now,woulditnotverymateri.ally.altertheopinionofwhoever
wereendeavouring tofoi-mone,ifheknewthatfromth.atfloor
ofthathouseofth.atstreetthemancame?Andwouldyounot
avoidthatfloorandthathouse?
Itiswellknownth.atthesamen.amesmaybeseenconst,ajitly
recuiTingonworkhousebooksforgener.ations.Thatis,the]-)er-
sonswereborn.andbroughtuji,andwillbebornandbrought
up,gener.ation.aftergener.ation,intheconditionswhichmake
paupers.Deathanddiseaseareliketheworkhouse;theyt.ake
fromthesamefamily,thesamehouse,or,inotherwords,the
B.ameconditions.Whywillwenotobservewhattheseare,and
howtopreventthem?
Thecloseobserverm.ays.afelypredictthatsuchafamily,
whetheritsmembersm.arryornot,willbecomeextinct;th.at
suchanotherwilldegeneratemorally.andphysically.Butwho
le.arnsthelesson?Onthecontrary,itm.aybewellkno^vnth.at
thechildrendieinsuchahouse.atther.ateof8outof10;one
wouldthinkthatnothingmoreneedbesaid;forhoAVcould
Providencespe.akmoredistinctly?—yetnobodylistens,thefamily
goesonlivingtheretillitdiesout,.andthensomeotherf.amily
bakesit.Neitherwouldtheylisten“ifonerosefromthedead.”
XIV.—CONVALESCENCE.
Many,indeedmost,ofthehintsgivenforsiclcnesswillnotdo
forconvalescence;forinstance,thepatient’sfanciesaboutdiet
0° NotEaoWNunslKrt.
areoftenvaluableindicationstofollow—theconvalescent'soften
tliereverse.
^Vlienconvalescence liasfairlysetin,thepatientveryoften
haslongings,esi)eciallyforarticlesoffood,wliich,ifincautiously
indulged,mayleadtoviolentreaction,oreventorelapse.The
medicalattendant