 ran out of money to pay the hospital bill. That meant she would
have to go on state assistance and would have to be moved  to the ward. She was upset by the
prospect. I went to Dr. Revici and told him of the patient‘s concern. Revici said he would see what he
could do, and sure enough, she was able to stay in the front room until she died four months later.
―After her death, I quietly looked into it to see what had been done. That‘s when I found out that Dr.
Revici had quietly paid the difference in the woman‘s bill so that she could stay in the front room with
her telephone and her view of the trees.‖
— Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.
―During the eighties, the office was under a lot of financial pressure due to a number of law suits and
the resulting lawyers‘ fees. We were in danger of having the electricity and the water cut off. Dr.
Revici hadn‘t received any sala ry for years.
―It was during this time that he came out to the receptionist, who also collected payments from
patients. He told her, ‗I don‘t want to know who pays, and who doesn‘t. I don‘t want it to affect my
treatment.‖‘
— Ruth Spector
―I talked to a doctor who was performing his own research on Revici‘s method after hours at
Sloan -Kettering. He told me it showed very promising results. As Revici‘s lawyer, I told the doctor that
we would need him to testify in Revici‘s behalf. When he refused, I told  him we would have to subpoena
him.
―The doctor burst into tears and begged me not to make him do that. He said he had a family, and that
he could lose everything when the people at Sloan -Kettering found out about it. The doctor was beside
himself. I tol d him I really needed for him to come forward, not so much to testify regarding the results  51
 but to testify about the punitive climate that existed at the hospital regarding anything to do with Revi ci.
Although the doctor begged not to be dragged into the case, it was my duty as Dr. Revici‘s attorney to
let my client know about the other doctor. The doctor‘s testimony had the potential to show clearly that
Dr. Revici‘s method was not being given fair  consideration by the mainstream medical community.
―Dr. Revici decided not to have the doctor subpoenaed. He didn‘t want to risk the other man‘s
professional future —even if it was to his own benefit.‖
— Sam A. Abady, attorney at law
―When Dr. Revici w ould read my charts, he was like a wise old turtle. He would submerge himself in the
chart, sinking bit by bit. After a long while he‘d slowly come up from the depths.‖
— Meade Andrews
―I‘d written down a phone number on a slip of paper while talking to  someone on the phone. Dr. Revici
was in the room at the time of the conversation. A couple days later I wanted to call the person back,
but I couldn‘t find the paper I‘d written the number on. He became aware of my frustration. He asked
me to wait a minut e, and then he closed his eyes and went into what looked like deep thought. After
about two minutes, he recalled the number. He was in his late eighties or early nineties at the time.‖
— A. R. Salman, M.D.
―My mother had developed a severe, chronic angi na. She had gotten it when we had to make a
terrifying, two -mile run through a wooded no -man‘s -land to escape the Nazi soldiers who were
patrolling the area. Her condition became so bad after six months that just raising her arm would bring
on an attack. S he was completely bedridden and at risk of having a heart attack.
―My father was very concerned. He said he didn‘t know what to do, because he had developed a
medicine that might work for her, but due to the circumstances we found ourselves in, he hadn‘ t been
able to test it for safety. We told him he didn‘t have anything to lose, because she would surely die if
something weren‘t done soon.
―So, he gave her an injection, and then another. Two days later she was up and around. Within a week
or so, she wa s able to go out shopping.‖ [Author‘s note: She lived another 24 years]
— Nita Taskier
―He was like the finest European gentleman.‖  — Charlotte Louise
 52
 Part II — His Discoveries
3. Pain and Cancer: A Major Clue to Curing It
“Genius is seeing what everyone else sees and thinking what no one else thinks. Revici is a genius.”
Robert Fishbein, M.D.
Revici didn‘t find instant success in his quest to solve the puzzle of why the pregnant Romanian
woman‘s terminal cancer disappeared. Instead, Revici‘s early research with human placental extracts
administered to humans produced contradictory results. On some occasions patients injected with the
extracts showed a remarkable reduction in pain. In a few cases the pain would disappear ent irely for
hours. After a few treatments the pain would sometimes disappear for days.
With other patients, however, the pain would almost immediately intensify and would sometimes
become unbearable. To make matters worse, some of the patients who had previ ously benefited in the
short term would, after continued treatment, begin to experience a new pain which became more
severe as the treatment progressed. Yet, he surmised that he might be on to something, because he
was usually eliciting a dramatic response, even if it wasn‘t always in the right direction.
Moreover, with a few patients, remarkable and long -lasting results were achieved. One case concerned
a fifty -six-year-old man with a nasty tumor that involved more than half his tongue. ―The mouth lesion
was very painful and bled,‖ Revici reported in his 772 -page book, Research in Physiopathology As [A]
Basis Of Guided Chemotherapy With Special Application to Cancer  published in 1961. With injections
of the placental extract the patient‘s condition improv ed rapidly. Within two weeks the tumor started to
shrink. But by the fifth week, treatment had to be stopped due to increasing pain. Yet, despite the
cessation of treatment, the tumor continued to shrink. Patient follow -up continued as well, ―...for anothe r
year-and-a-half, during which time there was no recurrence. After that the patient left town, and we
were unable to reestablish contact with him.‖
In another case a woman, ― …came under our care with a massive tumor filling the entire vagina.‖ A
biopsy eight months earlier indicated a Grade III cancer, which meant that her chance for a cure was
nil. By the time she began treatment with Revici her tumor, ―was protruding from the vagina as a hard
mass.‖ With the placental treatment the patient improved and  her pain was, ―entirely controlled within a
week.‖ Treatment continued for a total of forty -five days, when it was interrupted. She returned after
three months. An exam revealed that her tumor had entirely disappeared. Her case was then  53
 followed for two years with no recurrence of the cancer.
But for the most part long -term success was elusive. Such contradictory results perplexed Revici and
beckoned him to go to Paris to study the matter furthe r unencumbered by his private practice and
professorial duties.
A major part of the solution came from an unexpected direction. In those early years patients with
cancer received only limited amounts of narcotics for pain relief. This meant that the natu ral ebb and
flow of any pain the patient experienced was not entirely masked by the effects of medication.
Like many of Revici‘s discoveries, his finding would come about from a simple observation that had
gone unnoticed by others. Revici observed someth ing about that ebb and flow of his patients‘ pain,
and he would call his discovery ―dualism,‖ which meant that cancer patients have either one of two
possible, opposite pain patterns.
Revici observed that some cancer patients woke up in the morning with v ery bad pain which would
diminish in the late afternoon and evening. Other cancer patients woke up without that intense,
early -morning pain, but as the day progressed into the afternoon and evening, their pain grew
progressively worse. Revici theorized tha t the cause of the different pain patterns might correspond to
an overly acidic (low pH) or an overly alkaline (high pH) level, as measured at the site of the tumor.
Revici‘s hypothesis was supported by additional observations. He found that patients wit h morning pain
were provided some measure of relief by eating. Patients who experienced most of their pain in the
second half of the day found that eating would intensify the level of their pain. The observed increase or
decrease in pain occurred regardles s of the tumor‘s distance from the digestive system.
Since eating usually causes a temporary shift towards alkalinity in the blood, the possibility that alkaline
pain would be made worse by eating made sense. It also made sense that eating


 10 percent by Cochran's calculations. My eye took in acatalogue of human ills -- some familiar, some exotic, some historically fearsome but close to extinct,some lethal in the tropics but of little concern to inhabitants of the temperate zones. This list alsoshowed prevailing medical opinion about cause. Each name of a disease was trailed by a lower-caseletter: i(for infectious), g(genetic), g+(genetic defense against an infectious disease), e(caused by an
environmental agent), or u(unknown). I read, "Atherosclerosis ( u),... chlamydia (venereal) ( i),
cholera ( i), diphtheria ( i), endometriosis ( u), filariasis ( i), G6PD deficiency ( g+),... hemoglobin E
disease ( g+), hepatitis B ( i), hepatitis C ( i), hookworm disease ( i), kuru ( i),... malaria (vivax) ( i),...
pertussis ( i), pneumococcal pneumonia ( i), polycystic ovary disease ( u), scarlet fever ( i),...
tuberculosis ( i), typhoid ( i), yellow fever ( i)."
Of the top forty fitness-antagonistic diseases on the list, thirty-three are known to be directly
infectious and three are indirectly caused by infection; Cochran believes that the others will turn outto be infectious too. The most fitness-antagonistic diseases must be infectious, not genetic, Ewaldand Cochran reason, because otherwise their frequency would have sunk to the level of randommutations. The exceptions would be either diseases that could be the effect of some newenvironmental factor (radiation or smoking, for example), or genetic diseases that balance theirfitness cost with a benefit. Sickle-cell anemia is one example of the latter.
Though sickle-cell anemia is strictly heritable according to Mendelian laws, it is widely believed to
have persisted in the population in response to infectious selective pressures. It heads the list ofgenetic diseases that Ewald dubs "self-destructive defenses," in which a disease fatal in itshomozygous form (two copies of the gene) carries an evolutionary advantage to heterozygouscarriers (with one copy), protecting against a terrible infection: in this case falciparum malaria,common in Africa. Similarly, cystic fibrosis, some argue, evolved in northern Europe as a defenseagainst Salmonella typhi, the cause of typhoid fever. Infection thus explains why these deadly genetic
diseases have remained in the human gene pool when they should have died out.
But what about something like atherosclerosis? I asked. Leaving aside the evidence concerning C.
pneumoniae, it is not apparent why a genetic cause for atherosclerosis should be dismissed out of
hand on evolutionary grounds. If it hits people in midlife or later, after they have launched theirgenes, how could it possibly affect fitness?
Cochran's response illustrates some of the intricacies of evolutionary thinking. "Well, obviously, it's
not as bad as a disease that kills you before puberty, but I think it does have a fitness cost. First ofall, it's really common. Second, people think that all you have to do to pass your genes along is have
children, but that's not true. You still need to raise the offspring to adulthood. In a hunter-gathereror subsistence-farming culture, the fitness impact of dying in midlife might be considerable,especially during bad times, like famines. You've got to feed your family. Also, cardiovasculardisease is a leading cause of impotence, and any disease that makes males impotent at age forty-fivehas got to affect reproduction somewhat."
But fifty-year-olds? Sixty-year-olds? Grandmothers do a large proportion of the food-gathering in some tribal cultures, according to
recent anthropological reports. "They aren't hampered by babies anymore, and they don't have to goaround chucking spears like the men," says George C. Williams, a professor emeritus of ecology andevolution at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, and one of the pillars of modernevolutionary biology. "They contribute substantially to the family diet." If long-lived eldershistorically have made a difference by fostering the survival of their descendants, and thereforetheir genes, Cochran figures, then a disease that kills sixty-year-olds could have a fitness impact ofaround one percent.
The Cause-and-Effect Conundrum
KNOW what that is?" Ewald asked. We were standing in the main corridor of the Life SciencesBuilding, gazing up at a decorative metalwork frieze that runs along the walls just abovedoor height. A pair of hummingbirds chase each other in a circle. A human eye and an
octopus eye face off. A human hand is juxtaposed with a chimpanzee hand. Ewald pointed tosomething that looked like a daddy longlegs with a video camera for a head. "Some kind of insect?"I ventured. "It's a virus," he said. "See, it's like a spaceship. That" -- he pointed at the head -- "is itsDNA. It injects it inside the cell."
There is something unsettling and fascinating about a virus, an organism that is neither strictly alive
nor strictly inanimate, and that replicates by sneaking inside a host cell and commandeering itsmachinery. "Viruses are essentially bits of nucleic acid -- either DNA or RNA -- wrapped in a proteincapsule," Ewald explained. "A retrovirus, like HIV, is an RNA virus with a protein called reversetranscriptase built into it, and once it gets into a cell, it uses the reverse transcriptase to make a DNAcopy of its RNA. This viral DNA copy can insert itself into our DNA, where it can be read by ourprotein-making machinery the same way our own instructions are read."
The modus operandi of the world's most feared virus, HIV, is clever, killing its hosts very, very
slowly. A sexually transmitted pathogen, without the luxury of being spread through sneezes orcoughs, must await its few opportunities patiently; if those infected have no symptoms and don'tknow they are sick, so much the better. A mild, chronic form of AIDS had in all likelihood beenaround for centuries in Africa, according to Ewald. Suddenly in the 1970s -- owing to changingpatterns of sexual activity and to population movements -- deadly strains spread in the populationof Central and East Africa.
HIV has an extremely high mutation rate, which means that it is continually evolving, even within a
single patient, producing competing strains that fight for survival against the weapons produced bythe immune system. If selective pressures -- in this case a high potential sexual transmission -- have
forced the virus to evolve toward virulence, the opposite selective pressures could do the reverse.
Conceivably, we could "tame" HIV, encouraging it to evolve toward comparative harmlessness. Itwas already known that preventive measures such as safe sex, fewer partners, clean needles, and soforth could curb the spread of the disease. But Ewald pointed out early on that social modificationwas a far more potent weapon than anyone realized. Once HIV was cut off from easy access to newhosts, milder strains would flourish -- ones that the host could tolerate for longer and longerperiods. Indeed, Ewald argues, given limited public-health budgets, it might make sense to putmore money into transmission-prevention programs and less into the search for vaccines. (He alsohas strong opinions about how drugs should be used to treat AIDS. He asserts that every time weuse an antiviral drug like AZT, we produce an array of AZT-resistant HIVs in the population; if viralevolution is taken into account, antiviral drugs can be used more judiciously.)
Ewald's theories tilt him decidedly toward the optimistic camp. Even in the absence of a vaccine the
AIDS epidemic will not inevitably worsen; it can be curbed without reducing transmission to zero.A natural experiment now occurring in Japan, he says, could be a test case for his theories. In theearly 1990s highly virulent strains of HIV from Thailand took root in Japan, but Ewald predicts thatlow rates of sexual transmission in that country -- due to widespread condom use and other factors-- will act as a selective pressure on these strains so that they evolve toward mildness. If this is true,the trend should become evident over the next ten years.
Like HIV, many other viruses have an indolent course, with a long latency between infection and
the development of symptoms. Herpes zoster, the agent of chicken pox, lingers in the body forever,capable of erupting as painful shingles decades later. There are also so-called hit-and-run infections,in which a pathogen or its products disrupt the body's immunological surveillance system; once themicrobes are gone (or when they are present in such low frequency as to be undetectable), theimmune response stays stuck in the "on" mode, causing a lingering inflammation. By the timesymptoms occur, the microorganism itself has disappeared, and its genome will not be detectable inany tissue.
"The health sciences are still grappling with the masking effects of long delays between the onset of
infection and the onset of disease," Ewald says. "Any time you have hit-and-run infections, slowviruses, lingering or relapsing infections, or a time lag between infection and symptoms, the causeand effect is going to be very cryptic. You won't find these newly recognized infections by themethods we used to find old infectious diseases. We have to be ready to think of


ant your oil and strain it. Place in a clear mason jar for 24 hours to allow
any extra water that remains to separate from the oil. If you do get water, simply
use a clean turkey baster to suck it up, or carefully pour the oil from the water. It
is vital to get as much out as possible to extend shelf life.
For the salve:
1. Pour 10-12 parts of the now infused oil back into a double boiler and add 1
part grated beeswax, heating until the wax is completely melted, and giving it a
quick stir at the end to make sure everything is blended together.
2. Remove the mixture from the heat and transfer to a small airtight jar.
Massage gently into sore, aching, joints as needed.
25Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com ArthritisY ou will need… DirectionsThis balm is a potent blend of two powerful essential oils, wintergreen, and birch. There are some people who
advise against the use of these essential oils at all, and some who consider them a staple. The reason they
are so powerful is because they contain a high percentage (85-95%) of methyl salicylate, which is similar to
acetylsalicylic acid found in aspirin. Before we had these painkillers, birch and wintergreen were nature’s form
of aspirin. These oils are very strong, but almost unmatched when it comes to joint pain, especially rheumatic,
thanks to their strong anti-inflammatory properties. If you cannot find birch oil, or wish not to use it, using
wintergreen on its own works as well. This is also a wonderful headache remedy.
*Birch and Wintergreen should NEVER be given to children or young teenagers, and should never be used
excessively-i.e. covering of the legs and arms.*Birch Balm
-3-5 drops of wintergreen
essential oil
-3-5 drops of birch essential oil
-1/4 cup of coconut oil
-1 teaspoon of grated
beeswax/beeswax pastille s1. Set up your double boiler and add the coconut oil and beeswax.
2. Stir now and then to make sure they are blending together
thoroughly. Melt completely.
3. Remove from the heat and add 3-5 drops of wintergreen and/or birch
essential oil, stir, and pour into tins. Cover immediately so the essential
oils don’t evaporate. After cooling, rub into sore joints as needed. It will
keep for up to a year in a cool dark place away from direct sunlight.
26Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com ArthritisY ou will need… DirectionsSimilar to wintergreen/birch essential oil, white willow is another one of nature’s forms of aspirin, as it too
contains the active ingredient salicin. Salicin is converted to salicylic acid, which is similar to acetylsalicylic acid,
the active ingredient in aspirin. The difference is that naturally occurring salicin is converted after it passes
through the stomach, and the irritation and side effects are lessened. There is a capsule form, but I prefer tea.White Willow Tea
-1 teaspoon of powdered or
chipped white willow bark
-1 cup water
-Honey, ginger root or lemon
(optional)1. Bring water to a boil, and then reduce to a simmer. Add powdered or
chipped white willow bark and let it infuse for 10-15 minutes.
2. Remove from heat and let the tea steep another 30 minutes, then
strain. The flavor is quite bitter, a fact that is not helped by its long
steeping time, so feel free to add honey and lemon to taste. A slice or
two of ginger root is a nice touch as well.
27Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com ArthritisY ou will need… DirectionsI think most people can relate to back pain or a stiff neck, at least at
some point or another in their life. If you work crunched over a computer
(I am guilty here), or you slept in a funny position, or have another
contributing condition, chances are you experience this discomfort on a
fairly regular basis.
Whether or not you suffer from one or both, it’s terrible to have to go
through the day with lasting pain. The cause of neck pain is usually
easier to figure out than back pain, which can be caused by anything
from spinal problems to meningitis. However in this chapter I am only
addressing acute pain caused by muscle strain, tension, or overuse. Back Pain
-How is your posture? Actually,
you don’t need to answer that. I
think it’s pretty obvious what the
majority of people would say.
Poor posture will compress and
affect your spine, neck, shoulders,
and back muscles, which leaves
you with chronic pain. I am
afraid there is only one solution
here-start practicing holding
yourself correctly. If you work at
a computer, utilize ergonomic
technology to help take some of
the constant strain off of yourself.
Peppermint-Eucalyptus Oil Rub
-I like to use little roller bottles
to make application easier. Y ou
may find them at your local health
store, or order them online.
Lavender-Epsom Salt Soak
-If you are using loose dried
lavender, tie it up in some
cheesecloth or muslin-it’s not very
relaxing having to chase down the
elusive little buds while you finish
up your bath. Y ou can also use a
screen cover for your drain.
-Y ou can use the lavender bathing
salts for this as well if you have
them, but this version takes less
work if you don’t.
-Try this first thing in the morning,
or just before bedtime.
28Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingPeppermint is such a wonderful pain reliever. When used to treat internal conditions, such as IBS, it helps relax
the smooth muscles of the cramping intestinal track. When used externally, such as on sore muscles, it achieves
the same thing, encouraging relaxation and taking the edge off discomfort with a cool, tingling sensation.
Eucalyptus blends beautifully with peppermint, not only because they share a similar mind-clearing aroma, but
because it too has muscle relaxing properties. It also helps fight inflammation in knotted, painful muscles.Peppermint Eucalyptus Oil Rub
-2 tablespoons of any liquid oil
-5-10 drops of eucalyptus oil
-5-10 drops of peppermint oil1. Blend equal amounts of eucalyptus and peppermint oil with your
carrier oil.
2. Apply over sore muscles as needed, massaging gently, and taking
care that you don’t just brush it over your skin. Y ou can also place a dab
on your temples to help clear a tension related headache.
29Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Back PainY ou will need… DirectionsEpsom salt has long been added to bathwater as a means to help relax, and is quite popular in sports therapy.
Magnesium sulfate, a main component in Epsom salt, is readily absorbed through the skin, and is thought to
help with the pain of muscle aches and strains. Lavender may or may not have pain-relieving properties when
dealt with topically, but its scent alone does wonders to help you relax both body and mind. Blend all of this
together in a relaxing bath of warm water, and you have a nice way to ease the tension out of your body at the
end of the day.Lavender Epsom Salt Soak
-2 cups of Epsom salt
-A handful of dried lavender
OR several drops of lavender
essential oil
-1 teaspoon of oil 1. Run a bath of warm water. When it’s halfway full, add 2 cups of Epsom
salt and your dried lavender flowers, or lavender essential oil that has
been mixed with a carrier.
2. Soak for 15-20 minutes and go about your day and night relaxed and
refreshed.
30Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Back PainY ou will need… DirectionsY ou read it right-catnip is great for people as well as cats. A member of the mint family, catnip is not generally
thought of as a remedy humans would turn towards, however it acts as a mild muscle relaxant, as well as
helping to relieve tension related headaches. It will also help you drift off and sleep through the night.Catnip Tea
-1 teaspoon of dried catnip OR
1 tablespoon of fresh catnip
-6 oz. of boiling water
-Some honey or lemon
(optional)1. Pour the freshly boiled water over the dried or fresh catnip.
2. Cover and steep for 10-15 minutes and then strain, adding honey and/
or lemon to taste if you like. Drink before bedtime to help you unwind
and wake up pain-free and relaxed.
31Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Back PainY ou will need… DirectionsBad breath can drag down just about any kind of social interaction. It
is, after all, hard to enjoy a conversation with somebody when you’re
worried about accidentally breathing in the direction of their face.
Bad breath can be chronic (called halitosis), or caused by something
temporary, such as a certain food. There are many contributing factors
to bad breath, but a common cause for lasting odor is bacteria living
on the back


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basement laminae on one
· hand and pericyte and endo·
thelium on the other. It is sug·
gested that the basement
membrane represents an ap·
position of material and not
primariJy a structural element
of the capillary waU.
gesr that similar forces may be involved in the creation of
zones of low elec-tron density such as shown fo.r the creation
ofHA" zones in a contracting movable precipitate adjacent ro
a fixed "matrix" (see Figs. XU: 1, 4 and 1 and Chapter X). A
pericyte process (P) is enframed (see also Fig. XII: 29).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~-
142 Biologically closed electric circuits Fig. XII: 29. (a) Pericyte pro·
cess (P), cnframed in Fig.
XII: 28, shows a web of cyto·
plasmic filaments (f) and pino
cytotic vesicles (pv). Capillary
(C). Material of basement mem·
brane (B) surrounds the peri
cyte process but is separated
from its surface by a zone of low
electron density (A). Magnifica·
tion 52 670x. (b) Smooth mus·
cle cell (M) on venule (V) shows
filaments (f) and vesicles (pv)
located predominantly under its
right-hand surface. Vesicles in
the endothelial cell (E) arc more
randomly dispersed. Both sides
of the basement membrane (B)
located between the venule and
the muscle cell show zones of
low c.lecuon density (A). Mag·
nificarion 38 300 x.
48). It has been suggested that the basement mem
brane constitutes the major permeability barrier of
blood vessels ( 48).
Why is then the partially amorphous, partially
structured basement membrane separated from the
wall of the endothelial cells? Is it possible that the
material of rhe basement membrane represents a pro
duct of nearby "electrode reactions" at the endothelial
membrane facing the interstitium? An electron micro·
scopic observation of Low and Weibel (39, 78) now
becomes of interest: a zone of low electron density
corresponds to the exoendot helial space. Moreover
trus zone also can be recognized along the surface of
pericytes, includiog their processes. Fig XII: 27 shows r
a pericyte (P) and one of its processes in contact with
the endothelium of a capillary (C) of rat cardiac mus·
cle. The basement membrane (B) is seen not only
against the endothelium but also around the body of
the pericyte. Beneath the basement membrane is a.lso
seen the 7-0ne of low electron density (A). Fig. XII: 28
shows this zone between the basemenr membrane and
the periphery of the endothelium (Ap). However, it
should also be noted that a similar bUI broader zone of
low electron density is presem be~en the material inside
the capillary and the inner endothelial wall (A;). Finally,
Fig. XII: 29a shows higher magnification of the peri·
cyte process (P) from the enframed section of Fig.
XII: 28. The pericyte process is located within the
Biologically closed electric circuits 143 basement membrane. A zone of low electron density
(A) is apparent. Fig. XII: 29 b shows endothelium (E)
and a smooth muscle cell (M) on venule (V). Between
them is the basement membrane material (B), concen·
trated in the middle between two zones of low electron
density to each side (A). The basement membrane can
further be seen as a collection of "fibrous" material of
varying thickness.
The origin of basement membranes now become of
inter~l ~s pOssible prQducrs of rhe endothelial cell~.
If the redox sites for electron transfer are located, e.g.,
to the endothelial cell membranes, then the basement
membranes may have developed from products of de·
position at an electrode equivalent surface, as such
depositions develop at any electrode surface of a
closed circuit. Fibrous membranes of different compo
sition can also be produced experimentally adjacent to
electrodes as an effect of electrophoresis in vivo and in
tissue samples (see Chapter XVI).
A logical consequence of such a view is apparent.
The endothelial cell should not very likely appear as an
interpositioned barrier, carrying anticipated redox me
diators e.g. enzyme particles only at the "outer" (in·
terstitial) membrane of the endothelial cell. An expla
nation is also required for the development of the
endothelial fibrin film, described by Copley (13). This
fllm may also devdup from proc.luc.:ts of d.c:po:sitiou at
an electrode equivalent "inner" surface of the endo
thelial membrane facing the blood stream. If, indeed
the basement membrane develops from material of
deposition at the outer (interstitial ) electrode equiv·
alent surface of the endothelial cell, the exoendothelial
space (13), which seems to be identical with the zone
of low electron density, according to Low and Weibel
(39, 78), can also get an explanation. Collected "elec·
trode material" adjacent to a surface should physically
behave like the basement membrane under the infiu·
ence of its internal concentration forces. We have
encountered this situation earlier (see Figs. XII: I and
4) in the creation of "A" and "B" zone effects by
products of deposition in tissue adjacent to a metal in
in vivo corrosion. A corresponding zone of low density
of electrons is also seen in Fig. XII: 28 between the
contents of the capillary and the inner surface of the
capillary wall. This zone is probably a result of post·
mortem contraction of material in the lumen of the
capillary (see also effects of concentration forces, Fig.
XII: 7). The endothelial fibrin film is a structure,
continuously exposed to forced convection and should
therefore appear differently as compared to the base
ment membrane and the material inside the capillary,
as seen in Fig. XII: 28.
Up to this point we have tried to localize the neces
sary redox sites in the VICC by looking for electrode
equivalent products of deposition as membrane-like
structures. In this view, the basement membrane on
144 Biolocically closed electric circuits a
loni<: trlntports
b Ionic trantporh
EC ~~~ EC
\.. --:::-____,
Fig. Xll: 30. Suggested mechanism of electric t.ransfer be
tween,-.scular and intentitial branches of VICC. The sur·
faces of endothelial cells (EC) possess electrode equivalent
sites (X) for reversible redox reactions. Ionic transports
through the endothelial cell connect relatively anodic and ea·
thod.ic.. inti:mal" electrode surfaces. ''External'' electrode
surfaces against blood stream and interstitial tissue:: arc con
nected <lectrically over blood plasma, leaking pores (sto
mata) and interstitial tissue fluid. (a) When arterial stomata
are selectively closed by contraction, conditions for long dis
tance Stlective transports are created, e.g., over leaking di
lated venules and venous capillaries. (b) When arterial StO·
mata are open, short~istance transports take place through
adjacent arterial stomata.
the outer surface of the endothelial tube and the endo
thelial fibrous fUm on its inner surface may indicate
the positions of such sites. Fig. XII: 30a, b illustrates
how electrode equivalent sites may be located at the
surfaces of the capillary endothelium. A long distance
electron transfer between the "electrodes " is evident·
ly not very likely because this should require an
electron conducting pathway through the endothelial
cell. More likely this connection is covered by ionic
transports as indicated in Fig. XII: 30. One particular
component of transport in the presented view of capil
lary VICC-functions, the vesicle of Palade, will next be
considered.
7. Search for redox sites: the vesicles
The knowledge of the morphologic appearance of vesi
cles is based on electron micrographs (47, 78, 80). For
example, multiple vesicles are seen in the capillary
membranes, in a pericyte process and in a smooth
muscle cell in Fig. XII: 29. The possibility of transport
of proteins through the endothelial cells by means of
vesicles has been discussed intensively during the last
two decades (53). Vesicles are further thought to trans·
port water through the endothelial cell, a process
named pinocytosis. Very little is still known about


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destruction.
The Great  Divine  Director,  whose  Mighty  Ascended
Master  Instruction  of the "I AM"  is contained  in the
Discourses  in this  Book,  was  Beloved  Saint  Germain's
Master,  and  together  with  Beloved  Jesus,  assisted  Him
into the  Ascension.
He is the Great  Cosmic  Being  who  is the Authority X TRIBUTE
of the Cosmic  Law  to this  Earth,  which  means  the Law
and Activity  of Life  and  Light  in this  World,  in regard
to holding  the  balance  of Constructive  Activities  for
the whole  System  of Planets  to which  this  Earth  be-
longs.
That  is why  His  Light  to America  is so important
at this  time.  He is called  the  Great  Divine  Director,
because  for more  than  two  hundred  thousand  years
He has been  directing  Cosmic  Light  Rays  to keep  man-
kind  from  destroying  itself  and  nature's  blessings  to
this Earth  completely!
He is a most  Majestic  Being  of such  Power,  Glory,
and Love  as no words  can  describe;  and  through  His
Marvelous  Discourses  in this  Book  may  there  go forth
all the Light  America  and  her people  require  to stop
all destructive  forces  on this  Earth  forever.
Our all we give  unto  this  Great  Being  of Light  who
has loved  us so greatly  that  He left His  Cosmic;  Activ-
ities to keep  the people  of Earth  from  total  destruc-
tion.
To our  Beloved  Ascended  Messenger  we also  offer
our Eternal  Love,  our  Gratitude,  our  all; for He was
the only  One  on Earth  who  was  strong  enough  to open
the Door  to the Ascended  Masters'  Octave  of Light,
and hold  guard  over  Beloved  Saint  Germain's  As-
cended  Master  Instruction  of the "I AM,"  until  enough
people  could  take  hold  of It and  do their  part,  to hold
the Protection  of Light  in America,  until  the Ascended TRIBUTE xi
Masters  come  through  in Their  Visible,  Tangible  As-
cended  Master  Bodies  to all!
This  Glorious  Ascended  Master  Instruction  of the
"I AM"  is brought  forth  for the Protection  of Ameri-
ca's Freedom,  for  the  True  Worship  of God,  in the
interest  of the Public  Good,  and  to bless  all construc-
tive activities  of Life  forever!
It is the True  Education  of Life  and  the  Spiritual
Culture  of the people  for the whole  World,  for every
one in the World  can  make  the Ascension  by apply-
ing the Ascended  Masters'  Instruction  of the "I AM"
which  these  Great  Beings  of Light  and  Perfection  have
given. FOREWORD
HIS Book  is given  to the "I AM"  Students  and
mankind  at the Command  of the Great  Host
of Ascended  Masters  and  Cosmic  Beings.
They  are offering  Their  Help  to the people  of America
and the  World  who  want  Freedom,  Divine  Justice,
Protection,  Supply  and  the constructive  way  of Life  —
enough  to give  their  assistance  in calling  for the release
of their  fellowmen  from  the destruction  which  is try-
ing to engulf  the  Earth.
The Great  Cosmic  Being  known  as the Great  Di-
vine  Director  dictated  these  Discourses  before  Classes
of hundreds,  and  sometimes  thousands  of the "I AM"
Students,  at various  places  in the  United  States  of
America.  He  flashed  His  Words  in letters  of Living
Light  before  the eyes  of our  Beloved  Ascended  Mes-
senger,  Guy  W. Ballard,  who  then  read  and  spoke
aloud  to the  Students  in the  room.
This  Great  Blessed  Divine  Director  is offering  ev-
ery possible  Help  to the  people  of America  and  the
World  who  want  Freedom  and  Divine  Justice  to be
the governing  Authority  to the  people  of the Earth.
The Power  these  Great  Cosmic  Beings  wield  is with-
out limit  and  beyond  all words  to describe.  They  are
standing  Guard  over  the United  States  of America  and
all constructive  activities  in the World,  to the degree
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that the  people  accept  Them.  The  people  must  co-
operate  by giving  some  of their  own  energy,  which
these  Great  Ones  amplify  by the Great  Cosmic  Light
Rays  to stop  the further  destruction  of mankind  through
continued  war.
The people  must  make  the  Call  to the  "Mighty
I AM  Presence,"  the Great  Host  of Ascended  Masters
and Cosmic  Beings  in order  for the Great  Cosmic  Law
to act in this  physical  world  to save  them.
The people  who  do not want  to be destroyed  must
reach  up to Those  greater  than  themselves  for Pro-
tection,  because  they  cannot  protect  themselves  just
by human  physical  means.  The  mass  of mankind  can-
not help  themselves  under  the present  World  chaos,
unless  they  will  give  these  Ascended  Master  "I AM"
Decrees.  If they  will  do that,  they  will  provide  the
opening  through  which  the  Ascended  Masters  can
pour  Their  Cosmic  Light  Rays  to overwhelm  the  vi-
ciousness  and  destruction  raging  through  war.
As one  absorbs  the electronic  force  —the  heat  and
healing  qualities  from  the suns  rays  —by  lying  or sit-
ting in the  Sun,  just  so, can  every  human  being  re-
ceive  the Ascended  Masters'  Power,  Light,  Qualities,
Protection  and  Blessing,  when  the individual  turns  his
or her  attention  to these  Great  Masters  of Almighty
Power,  and  through  that,  connect  with  Their  Out-
pouring  and  Help.
Every  Word  which  the Ascended  Masters  speak  is a xiv FOREWORD
"Cup"  of Their  Pure  Energy,  Light,  Substance,  Power
and Qualities;  all are powerfully  charged  to help  the
Student  accomplish  the  Victory  for which  he or she
calls.
If the reader  will  still  all feeling  of discord  within
himself  or herself,  and  notice  the condition  of his or
her emotional  body  after  reading  one  of these  Dis-
courses,  trying  just  to accept  and  cooperate  with  the
Help  offered,  the  feeling  within  the individual  will  be
proof  enough  of the Power  in the Words  and  the Help
this Great  Divine  Director  wants  to give.
If the reader  will  place  himself  or herself  in the po-
sition  of the Student,  every  possible  Help  will  be re-
leased,  according  to the requirements  of the individ-
ual at the  time.
The Great  Ascended  Masters  and  Cosmic  Beings
never  cease  to try to awaken  mankind  to the  use  of
this Law,  so the people  can  help  themselves;  but  the
Great  Law  of the Universe  does  not permit  Them  to
just pick  humanity  up—after  centuries  of disobedience
and misuse  of Life's  Energy  and  Gifts—and  take  them
into Perfection  without  any  self-effort  of obedience
to the constructive  way  of Life  and  the Great  Divine
Law  of Balance  in the  Universe!
Each  Discourse  carries  a powerful  Radiation,  and
if the reader,  or Student  will  accept,  give  obedience,
and expand  the  Blessing  offered  by this  Mighty  Be-


, dry cleaning, exhaust fumes, furnaces, hair
dye, hot water heaters, magazines, mattresses, newspapers, perfume, processed foods, antibacterial soap,
deodorizers, deodorants, disposable cups, fire retardants, mothballs, particleboard, plywood, permanent-
press clothing, shampoo, soap, cosmetics, toothpaste, sunscreens, synthetic carpets, a newly painted room,
your car and many other insidious sources.
Make healthier choices:
As an example, synthetic-fiber carpets are a major source of indoor pollution. As many as 200 chemicals come from the fibers, adhesives, backing, and padding. These carpets can outgas toxic chemicals for
decades. Experiments show that mice exposed to fumes from new carpets can die in a matter of hours, and
even 12-year-old carpets can cause severe neurological problems. If carpet fumes can kill mice, what are
they doing to you, your children, and your pets? As a safe alternative, use carpets made of natural fiber or
hardwood floors with natural-fiber area rugs.
Support your body’s detoxification system:
Eat a diet of fresh, whole, organic foods – especially vegetables, such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, garlic, kale, leeks, onions, and radishes. Supplement with critical essentials including: vitamins
A, B complex, B-12, C, E and K, plus boron, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium, zinc
and N-acetyl-cysteine, alpha lipoic acid, curcumin, milk thistle extract and MSM.
Exercise regularly:
Rebounding is especially helpful (see the Physical Pathway). Drink generous amounts of purified water. A good rule to follow is half your body weight in ounces; if you weigh 120 pounds, drink 60 ounces of water
daily; if you weigh 200 pounds, it is 100 ounces.
Take regular saunas:
Our bodies were designed before the petroleum age. Since then, the environment has become a sea of oil-
soluble toxins. Never before exposed to such toxins, our bodies are not designed to get rid of them. Saunas
are the only reliable way to rid yourself of accumulated oil-soluble toxins. Today, regular saunas have
become a necessity. © 2011 Beyond Health • www.beyondhealth.com  Free Report: The Roadmap To Ultimate Health    8The Mental Pathway: Mind Over
Matter and More
The Mental Pathway might be the least easily understood of the pathways. Most of the complexities of the
human mind remain a mystery to us. But the bottom line is this: what we put into our minds is perhaps even
more important than what we put into our bodies.
The activity of our mind affects every cell in our body. For instance, the reason that a placebo [a drug with no
effect] works is that what we believe largely determines what we achieve. Your body is an obedient servant.
It does what you tell it to do. Your body is listening every moment of the day, and you are constantly giving
it instructions, whether you’re aware of this or not.
Unfortunately, all too often, those instructions are negative ones that only add to your problems. If you keep
telling your body it is fat or sick, it will obediently comply and keep you that way. This makes it difficult to
get well or lose weight. How much better it would be if you were to tell your body several times every day that it is healthy – right now. Eventually, your body will receive the message and follow your instructions.
You can use the incredible power of your mind to great benefit or waste, keeping yourself accomplished
or defeated, youthful or debilitated, healthy or struggling with disease. In too many ways and on too many
days, thinking small limits you to a mundane life, making you vulnerable to disease. Break out of this self-
imposed mindset and you can harness the power of your thoughts and your beliefs to make radical changes
in every realm of your life, including health and weight loss.
What image do you have of yourself? Perhaps it is time to do a mental inventory and reshape that image.
You will never rise above the way you visualize yourself. Don’t focus on your disease, your fat or your
weaknesses, but on your strengths. Envision your potential. Positive change rarely just happens. You must envision it, plan for it, and seek it.
Here are three steps to help you harness the power of your mind to optimize your health and well-being:
1. Visualize,
2. Set goals, and
3. Put your mind to work © 2011 Beyond Health • www.beyondhealth.com  Free Report: The Roadmap To Ultimate Health    9Visualize – Picture What You Want
Sadly, most of us take more time to plan our grocery shopping list than we do to plan ways to ensure a
future that is free of disease. Here is a suggestion: in the coming week, set aside five to 10 minutes each
day to sit quietly and think about what you want to achieve. Visualize yourself free of disease and excess
pounds, with toned muscles, smooth and glowing skin, full of energy, and a radiant smile. Picture your cells
healthy and functioning together optimally. Envision your physical problems or discouragements replaced
by vigor and accomplishment. Let your imagination go. Become empowered by a vision of this ideal you.
Believe that it can become a reality. Periodically throughout the day, conjure up this focused image. Cast off
doubt and remind yourself that countless others have used the power of their visualizations to conquer their
weaknesses and to transform their lives.
Set Goals – Very Few Do
Most people don’t set goals, usually because they never learned how. A goal is a statement that guides you
in pursuit of what you want to achieve. A goal has meaning for you; is specific, measurable, flexible, and
attainable; has a time frame; and is written down, then displayed in a visible place.
Here’s a list of questions to ask yourself when starting the goal-setting process:
•	What do I want to do, have, learn, become?
•	How do I want to spend my time?
•	How much money do I want to have?
•	What is the purpose of doing this?
•	What are the rewards and benefits?
•	What will I have to do to make this happen in 1-3-5 years?
•	What am I prepared to give up in pursuit of this goal?
Put Your Mind To Work – Take Action
Your first step is to believe that you can attain your goals. Begin each day with positive mental images of how
you are changing. Affirm your dreams out loud. As you begin your day, repeat aloud positive affirmations.
We all use affirmations, but many times we say or think negative things. We may get up and say, “I feel
lousy,” “I am sick,” “I am fat” or “I am so stupid.” Stop yourself when you are voicing negative affirmations
and train yourself to think and speak positively. Mind over matter puts you on the path to a long, happy and
disease-free life. © 2011 Beyond Health • www.beyondhealth.com  Free Report: The Roadmap To Ultimate Health    10The Physical Pathway: Helping
Yourself to Longer Life
The Physical Pathway might be the most easily understood of the pathways. This is because we live in a
physical world, one that we have been aware of since birth.
Physical activity will keep you looking and feeling young. Those who stay active – bicycling, gardening, hiking,
rebounding, swimming, walking, and enjoying adventures of all kinds –appear younger than their years.
A recent study found regular exercisers added up to four years to their lifespan, when compared to sedentary people.
Exercise resets your body’s metabolism, encouraging it to burn more fat. In fact, the amount of fat you are burning
right now and the amount of beneficial chemicals your body produces depend on when and how you last exercised.
Fortunately, moderate to gentle exercise is sufficient; however, it must be regular. Many forms of regular
exercise are available. Here are a couple of exercises that almost anyone can do.
Rebounding is a unique exercise that involves bouncing on a mini-trampoline – and its effects are almost magical. Rebounding is enjoyable and easy to do. It can be done by almost anyone, regardless of age or
physical condition. It sounds too good to be true, but rebounding conditions, heals, strengthens, and tones
the entire body in as little as 15 minutes a day. It’s estimated that six minutes of rebounding is equivalent to
one mile of jogging.
Walking is an effective low-impact aerobic exercise that almost anyone can do. It doesn’t require training,
is easy on the joints, and has significant value. If you are in not in shape, start with slow-paced walking.
Regardless of where and how you begin, the faster you walk and the longer the distance you cover, the
greater your benefits. A two-year study of 200 overweight people determined those who walked briskly an
average of at least 40 minutes a day lost the most weight. The study also showed those who listened to music
while walking followed their exercise plan more closely and lost about twice as much weight as those who walked without music.
Another important aspect of your physical environment is sunlight.
The media and most physicians tell us the sun’s rays are harmful. They instruct us to lather up with sunscreen and put it on our babies and children. People have been so frightened by the press about skin cancer that
many avoid the sun as their


 That’ s why you can end up having
arguments over trivial matters so your life can become quite conflict-ridden.
It’s one thing to use your power to stand up for the rights of the homeless
but to use the same amount of ener gy in preventing someone from eating
the piece of cake you have put aside for yourself in the cupboard is a mis-
use of ener gy.
Major  Imbalance
If you have a major imbalance then you could develop Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder as a way of keeping control of your own little world.
You might even need to take medication to control your wildly fluctuating
emotions.
The physical ef fects of a major imbalance are more serious than those of a
mild imbalance. Illnesses such as diabetes, clinical depression and
gallstones indicate a major imbalance.Hannah’ s Story
Hannah’ s mum suf fered from depression. When Hannah was 3 years old her
mum walked out, leaving Hannah with her father. There was nothing that
Hannah could do to prevent the loss of her mother. As a young and
vulnerable child she was powerless to change things.
Hannah’ s Healing
Hannah was three when her mother left but her diabetes was not diagnosed
until the age of eight. Diabetes is related to deeply buried feelings about
‘what might have been’. Her childhood had lacked sweetness (see the link
with diabetes?) and she had felt unable to cope with what was happening.
There is no doubt that Hannah had a very dif ficult childhood but her soul
had chosen this path. There was nobody to blame, just lessons to learn.
As she grew older she came to the realisation that her mother had been
experiencing her own struggles in life when she had walked out and that she
had done the best that she could in the circumstances. It was not that she did
not love her daughter; she simply did not possess the skills necessary to
nurture her. Hannah continued to see her mother and lived with her on and
off over the years.
Hannah’ s diabetes continues to cause concern as she struggles to control
this illness that af fects so much of her life. She is still young but it could
take Hannah more than one lifetime to heal the many issues that she has to
deal with regarding her third chakra.
Harry’ s Story
Harry is a friend of mine. He was brought up in a lar ge family. He had four
brothers and two sisters, all very close in age. His father ’ s work meant he
was away from home for months at a time and his mother struggled with
her lar ge brood. Her coping strategy was to rule her children with a rod of
iron to keep them under control. They were never given choices. They were
told what to do and when to do it and even how to do it. If they protested,they were physically punished and locked in their room. Harry soon learned
to yield to his mother.
As he grew into adulthood it was apparent that his third chakra was under
functioning. He regularly suf fered from stomach ache with no apparent
cause. People walked all over him and he barely protested. He flitted from
one job to another, never sure where his direction lay. He met and married a
dominant woman who treated him in the same way that his mother had
treated him. Harry realised he had a problem with low self- worth. He found
it very dif ficult to look anyone in the eye. When he rowed with his wife he
would retreat to the bedroom and close himself away, in the same way that
his mother had shut him away in his room during childhood.
Harry’ s Healing
Harry’ s healing journey started when a friend asked him if he would
commit to being a case study for her Reiki course. As he was unable to say
no to anyone or anything, he agreed to be her guinea pig. His commitment
turned out to be a blessing in disguise!
The Reiki worked powerfully on his chakras and within a year he was a
different man. He was so impressed by the changes he had experienced that
he decided to train as a Reiki healer. He is now studying for a counselling
diploma to add to his Reiki masters. He has found his path in life.
His wife refused to accept any Reiki treatments or to pursue any other form
of healing. As is often the case when one partner begins to heal and the
other does not, the marriage did not survive.
Is My Third Chakra Out of Balance?
Read the following statements.
Scor e 1 if you agr ee slightly. Scor e 2 if you agr ee.
Scor e 3 if you agr ee str ongly.However much I eat I always seem to feel hungry. I regularly give in to
other people’ s demands.
I don’ t like my job but I don’ t know what else to do.
I often say yes to things just because it’ s easier than saying no and having to
put up a fight.
Even though I can drive I always let my partner/friend drive when we go
out.
I have never learned to drive.
I earn the minimum wage or I under char ge for my work. I was regularly
physically hit as a child.
I find it dif ficult to look people in the eye. My partner has hit me/I have hit
my partner.
I often suf fer from tummy ache or I get a hollow feeling in my belly
without an apparent cause.
I feel powerless to change my circumstances. I frequently feel angry.
I think that deep down I’m afraid of being in control.
I think that deep down I’m afraid of being controlled. I don’ t feel good
about myself. (Low self-esteem.)
I bite my nails/pull my hair or have other nervous habits. People tell me I’m
a control freak.
I drink or smoke heavily.
I have one or more of the physical problems linked with this chakra, listed
at the beginning of this chapter (a point for each one).
Add up your  scor e.Under  5 points: It is in balance.
5–15 points: It’ s slightly out of balance.
15–20 points: You definitely need to r ebalance this chakra. Mor e than
20 points: Make it a priority to r ebalance this chakra.
How Can I Balance My Third Chakra?
1 Lie down and place one hand just above your belly button and the other
one just below, palms facing down and fingers spread. Just concentrate on
your breathing. Observe the movement in your hands. They should both be
moving as you breathe in and out. If both hands are not moving you need to
breathe a bit deeper. Bring the breath into your belly!
2 Eat yellow fruit and vegetables. Also beetroot.
3 Occasionally have a day when you just eat fruit, allowing your digestive
system to have a day of f.
4 Put a few drops of one of the above essential oils into some carrier oil and
use this to massage your tummy with lar ge circular movements. Massage 36
times clockwise and 36 times anti-clockwise with your belly button in the
centre of these circles.
5 Find a qualified kundalini yoga teacher and learn how to do the breath of
fire.
6 Tone up your abs.
7 Write ‘I am worthy to receive’  on a piece of paper and stick it on your
bathroom mirror.
8 Learn to drive.
9 Take up yoga with a yoga teacher who teaches eye exercises.
10 Have some Reiki treatments or ener gy healing.11 Have a bonfire or fit a wood burner or a real fire into your home.
12 Buy some yellow flowers for your home.
13 Wear loose clothing.
14 Treat your liver to a detox.
15 Teach yourself the pelvic tilt exercise.
16 Buy some tinted glasses and spend time looking at the world through
different coloured lenses.
17 Buy a relaxing guided meditation CD.
18 Find a good psychotherapist and book in for at least six sessions.
19 Join a gym and get fit.
20 Carry or wear one of the crystals listed at the beginning of this chapter.
21 Bring the colour of this chakra into your life.
22 Chant the mantra for this chakra out loud.
23 Listen to the solfeggio frequency for this chakra.
24 Use the recommended oils for balancing this chakra.
Affirmations
I can do whatever I will to do.
I honour the power within me. I accomplish tasks easily and ef fortlessly.
In a smooth and healthy way, I release all unresolved emotions.
I claim my personal power now.Healing Guided Meditation for Third Chakra
Lie or sit somewhere comfortable. You can have gentle music playing in the
background if you wish. Your eyes are closed. Keep your eyes closed
throughout this meditation.
Take a really deep breath in through your nose and then blow the air out
through your mouth, through pursed lips. Do three of these breaths and then
sit/lie quietly for a few minutes.
Now imagine that there is a door in front of you. It is bright yellow. Open
the door. You find yourself in a bright yellow room with a high yellow
ceiling. In the centre of the room is a fire pit with a beautiful log fire
burning brightly. You can see a comfortable seat by the fire. Sit on this seat
and watch the flames of the fire. Stay in this place for as long as you like.
When you feel ready to leave this room you notice a plate beside your chair.
On this plate are of ferings: fruit, nuts, rice and chocolate. Take some of the
offerings and throw them into the fire. Watch the flames stream upwards as
the fire


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from $15.50 to $8.75 per share, (according to  Time, June 20, 1955). The other 5
laboratories with their $8,000,000 supply of "Salk liability" were involved also because
deaths and disease were being reported from their vaccines every day. Then suddenly
the deaths from Salk vaccine ceased to be reported. In a letter published in  Defender
Magazine, the writer stated: "I am informed by someone who works in a newspaper
office that much of the bad news concerning the results of the  Salk Program is being
censored and deleted out of the news to keep people complacent and acquiescent."
SOME COUNTRIES REJECT V ACCINES
In Australia when a few children died as a result of smallpox vaccinations the
government abolished compulsory vaccination in that country and smallpox suddenly
declined to the vanishing point. Australia had only three cases of smallpox in 15 years as
compared with Japan’s record of 165,774 cases and 28,979 deaths from this cause in
only 7 years (1886-1892) under compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination.In Austria, where Bela Schick invented the Schick test for diptheria, it killed several
children and the rulers there declared it to be too dangerous and prohibited its use in that
country. Apparently Mr. Schick was not concerned with such trivialities as death and
disease; he was out to make money. Most of the European countries didn’t trust him and
rejected his poisons, so he brought it to America where he knew the unscrupulous
medical and drug trusts dominate the healing field. Here he found a ready market. A lush
harvest was promised and the customary pressure technique was turned on and the
exploitable public was again used and abused. So we have seen with the passing of
years, that the Schick test and diphtheria anti-toxin continue to take their toll of lives
while our elected officers and public protectors (?) look the other way.
To show how death, disease and failure of vaccination is ignored in this country, in favor
of fabulous profits for a few, let us recall one of the many disasters that bear this out:
In Dallas, Texas, 10 children died as a direct result of the "safe" diphtheria anti-toxin
shots. For every one who died, hundreds suffered from the various vaccine diseases,
many of which left permanent disabilities. This is not a special case; it is typical of all
vaccinations. But most parents do not  sue and the other cases never reach public notice.
But these Texas parents were not to be "put off" by medical excuses. Numerous damage
suits were brought against the doctors and the  serum manufacturer, H. K. Mulford Co.
The doctors succeeded in evading the issue by claiming that it was a bad batch of serum.
(All serum is bad that doesn’t stop them). The Mulford Co. insisted that it was  not a bad
batch of serum but was just the same as all their serum and this lot (series A 377061) had
been re-tested and passed satisfactorily all the tests and requirements conforming to the
laboratory of the Public Health Service at Washington D.C.
The complaints of the parents were that " the diphtheria anti-toxin sold by the Mulford
Co., was unfit, poisonous, dangerous and deadly." The doctors and serum company
displayed great dexterity in juggling terms, inventing excuses and denying guilt but the
children were still just as dead as a result of shots from the "whitewashed" serum as if
they had been shot with bullets, and it was irrefutably  proved in court that the vaccine
serum killed them. Damages aggregating $78,000 were paid to the parents of the dead
children, by the Mulford Co. The Mulford Co. wishing to continue in the same blood
poisoning business and also wishing to dodge public disapproval, had its attorneys
specify that "the judgement shall fall, not on the Mulford Co. but on Mr. Pierce Russell,
the Mulford distributor." He was, probably, the least guilty of any of them because he
could not have contaminated the sealed ampules of vaccines. However, his employer,
undoubtedly made it worth his while—financially.......to take the blame. In this type of
"white collar" murder, (the legally proved), guilty parties are not reprimanded or even
asked to cease and desist" from a continuance of the crimes.
ALL V ACCINES CAN CAUSE POLIO"Mrs. Helen B. Covington, of Kensington, Pa. filed a $150,000 suit in the United States
District Court, against  Wyeth Inc. Philadelphia drug manufacturer, charging that an  anti-
rabies vaccine had produced paralysis" (The Truth Teller  p 26, Aug 1947).
Dr William F Koch  (MD, PhD) stated that  "THE INJECTION OF ANY SERUM,
V ACCINE, OR EVEN PENICILLIN, HAS SHOWN A VERY MARKED INCREASE
IN THE INCIDENCE OF POLIO, AT LEAST 400%. STA TISTICS ON THIS ARE SO
CONCLUSIVE, NO ONE CAN DENY IT."
The United States Public Health Bureau  is extremely reticent about reporting diseases
caused by vaccination but the report from 1922 to 1931 admitted that there had been 85
cases of post-vaccinal encephalitis,  which DeKruif states "is the twin of infantile
paralysis."
In St. Louis (1933) after a typhoid vaccination campaign there was an outbreak
of encephalitis (a form of polio) in which over 100 died. It was reported that the disease
developed about 10 days after vaccination and in each case vaccinia was indicated in the
brain upon postmortem.
In 1926 two prominent English Professors of Pathology, Doctors  Turnbull and
McIntosh reported a number of cases of encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness—a
form of polio) following vaccination. This led to the appointment of two —
commissions of the British Ministry of Health, to investigate the situation. Their reports
published in 1928 revealed that there had been 231 cases and 91 deaths from this cause
(post vaccinal encephalitis) in England and Wales.
According to a report in the Hobart (Tasmania)  "Mercury," (April 111950),
"Combined injections for diphtheria and whooping cough may cause severe cases of
infantile paralysis." It stated that a St. Pancras, London medical officer found 40 cases
and that a British Health Ministry doctor reported 65 cases where paralysis occurred two
weeks after vaccine injections, and in 49 of these, the paralysis was confined to the limb
in which the injection had been given. Two of the cases followed the injection of
penicillin. Dr. J. K. Marlin, from the Guy Hospital reported 80 cases where children
developed infantile paralysis soon after having been vaccinated.  "Mercury" stated that
"the doctors realizing the danger of their findings to the government’s diphtheria
immunization campaign, withheld publications until some of the cases could be
followed up over a period of many months. Some of the children recovered after a year
or more. Others are still paralyzed.."
After the many months of observation of these disasters of vaccination the London
County Council finally banned the use of the  combined diphtheria and whooping cough
injections in the clinics during the months when infantile paralysis was most prevalent.
Isn’t it appalling that the governments and the serum promoters  see and know that
vaccination causes paralysis yet they curtail it only during the months when polio is
most prevalent. They still insist on having the revenue from the deadly practice the rest of the time regardless of the consequences. If they would care to observe the "polio
season" they would see that it is only at the times when it is  created by the doctors with
their poisoned needles  and the people with their excessive eating of sugar products and
other devitalizing and semi-poisoned foods.
Dr. L. C. Appel writes: "The fact that vaccination is either the (a) adding of a disease to a
body already weighted with disease, or else, (b) the giving of a disease to a perfectly
healthy body, is the medical reason why some of us (medical doctors) oppose
vaccination and urge its abolition. A perfectly healthy body is proof against natural
disease; a diseased or unhealthy body is handicapped by being given another
(inoculated) disease.  A diseased or unhealthy body can never be rendered healthy by
inoculation or vaccination."
Dr. Harry R. Baybee  said:
"My honest opinion is that  vaccination is the cause of more disease and suffering than
anything I could name."
Dr. F. H. Haines  voiced his views on vaccination as follows:
"It is impossible to say what remote after-effects may be caused by the introduction of
alien substances into the blood stream. Many nervous and other disorders of unknown
origin are too often met with. Products which alter metabolism, change the nature of
fundamental secretions, cause profound change in the fluids of the body, allergy and
anaphylaxis, are the negation of nature’s own methods, and must be viewed with grave
misgivings and


omach orintestine, theabscess willperforate intothese andthepuswillpass outinthe
stools. Ifitbecomes adherent tothewall oftheabdomen, theabscess will “come toa
head” under theskin andthepuswillbedischar gedonthesurface ofthebody.Ineither
case cicatrization follows andthepatient iswell. Insome cases theabscess dischar ges
intothegallbladder andpasses from there intotheintestine. Ithasalso been known to
“point” on the back.
Itsometimes happens inweak individuals thatnature isnotable tomake proper con-
nections along thelineofmarch andthepusends upinthepleural cavity,resulting in
empyema, or in the abdominal cavity, where it results in peritonitis and, usually, death.
Another daring engineering featisoften accomplished bynature inthecase ofgall-
stones thataretoolargetopass through thebileduct directly into thesmall intestine.
Shefrequently causes thegallbladder toadhere, bymeans ofinflammation, tothewall
oftheintestine. Anulcer forms, making ahole through both thewall ofthegallbladder
andthewall oftheintestine. The stone slips through into theintestine andpasses outwith thestools. Thehole heals upandalliswell again. Inother cases thestone may be
sent out through the abdominal wall and skin, on the outside of the body.
Anunusual piece ofengineering which shows, inaremarkable manner,theingenuity
ofnature inherefforts atprolonging lifeinspite ofevery obstacle, isrecorded byJ.F.
Baldwin, A.M., M.D., F.A.C.S., inasurgical paper dealing with blood transfusions. He
performed anoperation onamiddle-aged woman who hadbeen having frequent hemor-
rhages from her bowels for several years. He says:
Attheoperation Iremoved asnarl ofsmall bowel, making theusual anasta-
mosis. Examination ofthissnarl showed thattherehadbeen anintestinal obstruc-
tion, butnatur ehadovercome itbyulceration between adher entloops ofthebowel
above andbelow theobstruction. Theulcer persisted, however,anditwasitsper-
sistent bleeding that caused heranemia. Shemade anexcellent recovery andgot
fat and hearty.
Itlooks likearealintelligence atwork when nature causes twofolds ofthebowels
toadhere together andthen ulcerates through them inorder tomake apassage around an
obstruction. There cannot betheslightest doubt thattheulcer would have healed, leav-
ingapassage, andthebleeding stopped, hadtheopportunity been afforded it.Nature
probably cried outdayafter dayinunmistakable language forthecessation offeeding
long enough forhertocomplete herengineering feat. Butthiswasnever given her.The
ulcerated surface was kept constantly irritated with food, and drugs as well.
Abscesses everywhere inthebody arelimited andwalled offbytheformation ofa
thick wall ofgranulation tissue. Gangrene isalso walled offinthesame manner.The
necrosed portion then sloughs off;nature grows new tissue totake theplace ofthede-
stroyed tissue and the place is healed.
Encapsulation istheprocess ofsurrounding abody orsubstance with acapsule. A
cyst orcapsule consists ofacavity lined according toitsorigin byendothelium (inpre-
existing cavities ofconnective tissue—exudation cysts) orepithelium (inpre-existing
epithelial cavities—retention cysts) with a fluid or semifluid content.
Those of chief interest to us here are known as distention cysts and are divided into:
(a)Retention cysts, which areduetotheobstruction oftheexcretory ducts ofglands.
The cavity becomes filled with thesecretion ofthegland which later becomes altered
andcircumscribed byafibrous wall. These may develop inanyglandular structure, as
pancreas, kidneys, salivary glands, mammary glands, sebaceous glands (wens).
Around aforeign body likeabullet, such acapsule forms. There isfirstinflammation
andperhaps suppuration. Butifthisfails toremove thebullet, acapsule oftissue also
containing fluid isformed, andthebullet isrendered innocuous. Asimilar thing fre-
quently happens inthelungs inthecase ofgerms. Rausse thought thisfluid wasava-
riety ofmucus andthought thatchemical ordrug poisons were enveloped inthissame
“musus” torender them harmless andthatthey were then deposited inthetissues. He
says with regard to the face that this theory cannot at present be demonstrated:
This theory isfounded upon theincontr overtible principle ofnatur eintheal-
imentary andorganic world, thatnatur eoperates similarly under similar circum-
stances. Hence, thetheory hereofferedloses none ofitscertainty because weare
unable torecognize with theunaided eye,onaccount oftheir minuteness, theinim-
ical atoms and the minute network ar ound them, and to exhibit them by section.
—Water Cure Manual, p. 92, 1845.
The encapsulation ofexudates, excretions, extravasions, disintegrating tissues,
germs, parasites, bullets andother foreign bodies renders them harmless. The process
andstructure itevolves areplainly defensive measures. They once more remind usof
the many and varied emer gency measures the body has at its command.The formation ofgallstones andother stones isinitself anengineering feat that
serves auseful purpose andeven extends andsaves life. Inthelungs, forinstance, in
those who have tuberculosis, theaffected spots areoften theseat oftheformation of
stones. When thistakes place, thedisease inthatpartends. Medical authorities consider
that nature employs this means to wall up the tubercle bacilli.
The formation ofstones inthegallbladder andkidneys, justasinthelungs, isthe
endresult ofinflammation andundoubtedly serves adefinite anduseful purpose. Some-
times, itistrue, they aremade solargethatthey arethesource ofmuch trouble, butitis
safetoassume thatthey arenever made largerthan thegravity ofthesituation demands.
Most gallstones aresmall enough thatthey pass outwithout causing pain, andtheindi-
vidual isnever aware thatheorshehashadthem. Alargenumber ofpeople examined at
autopsies arefound tohave gallstones inthegallbladder andwere never aware thatthey
hadthem. They never cause trouble until they gotopass outandonly then ifthey are
small enough togetintothegallduct buttoolargetomake theentire passage. Astone
thatmay easily travel through thecommon duct may beforced, with extreme difficulty,
through thesmall opening oftheduct intotheintestine. This causes severe pain. Assoon
asthestone isforced through, thepain ceases. (The sufferer then thinks thatitwasthe
last treatment he employed that relieved the pain and “cured” his troubles.)
Athrombus isasmall blood clot formed inside ablood vessel. The condition is
called thrombosis andthevessel issaid tobethrombosed.They aretheresult ofinjury
and inflammation and may completely plug the vessel.
Intheintestines aremany small glands composed oflymphoid structure justasare
thetonsils ofthethroat. They areknown asPyer’spatches. Intyphoid fever these patch-
esareswollen orenlar ged(hypertrophied), andfrequently they suppurate. They may
slough off.This peeling offmay result inahemorrhage oritmay not, depending on
whether ornotallthevessels inthatlocality aretightly thrombosed.Ifthey arealltightly
thrombosed,nohemorrhage occurs. Ifthework ofsealing thevessel isnotcomplete or
perfect, then ahemorrhage occurs with more orlesslossofblood before itfinally ceases.
This isbutanother evidence ofnature’ sengineering work. These thrombi may later be
swept intothegeneral circulation andcarried tosome vital spot where they aretoolarge
topass through theartery andmay there cutofftheblood toparts oftheorgan, causing it
todieofstarvation. Starvation would only occur incases ofstopping ofan“end artery.”
“Anastamosing” arteries would soon establish sufficient collateral orcompensatory
circulation to supply the part with blood.
Ifheat orfriction ofsufficient intensity andduration isapplied totheskin, ablister
forms; thatis,awatery exudate orserum ispoured outofthesurrounding tissues and
circulation intothe“space” between thedermis andepidermis anddetaches thedermis
from this, raising itupandthus protecting thetissues beneath. The accumulated fluid
holds back theheat or,inthecase ofsunburn, theactinic rays, andprotects from thefr


, grains,
herbs andfruits donotfurnish animals with vitamin B-12, how dotheir organs come
tobesorichinit?Why aretheorgans offruit-eating primates richinit?How isitthat
fruitarian societies arenotanemic from lack ofVitamin B-12? Thetruth isthathumans,
likeallother animals, obtain ample supplies ofVitamin B-12 from bacterial production
intheir intestines. Even garlic eaters usually donotdestroy enough oftheir symbiotic
bacterial flora to deny themselves of an adequate supply of V itamin B-12.
SoIadjudge thechargethatfruit eaters areanemic tobewithout anysubstantive ev-
idence whatsoever.
19.3.5 Those Who Eat Only Fruits Suffer Nutritional Imbalance and Deficiencies
Thechargethatfruit eaters willsuffernutritional imbalances anddeficiencies like-
wise finds nobasis infact. Fruits, eaten judiciously according totheir seasons, furnish us
with every nutrient factor,known andunknown, inplenteousness. Those ancient Greeks
whom weadmire somuch fortheir statuesque bodies, were fruit eaters. Most ateheavily
ofapples, dates, oranges, olives, figsandgrapes. TheGreek andRoman gods areascrip-
tions born of reverence for fruit trees and food-bearing plants.
19.3.6 Fruit Eaters Cannot Maintain Weight and Are Too Thin
The chargethatfruit eaters aretoothin isnotborne outbyeven thesimplest in-
vestigation. Personally,I’ve gone down into the120-pound range andcame back to
the150-pound range with excellent muscular development, onadietalmost entirely of
fruits. Mywife hastowatch herintake ofheavy-calorie fruit foods, especially nuts, lest
shebecome tooheavy.Aspreviously pointed out,theGreeks thrived onfruitarian diets.
Pythagoras, oneofthegiants ofGrecian literature, philosophy andmathematics, wasa
fruitarian andhadawhole school offollowers who, likewise, were fruitarians. Actual-
ly,theteachings ofPythagoras very much parallel theteachings ofGautama Buddha,
whose teachings Pythagoras wasconversant with. Buddha was, inessence, atreewor-
shipper aswere fruitarian societies. Bacchus isportrayed asheavily overweight andthis
is attributed to fig gluttony.19.3.7 Fruit Eaters Become Over-Alkaline and Suffer Alkalosis
Thechargethatfruit eaters areover alkaline andoften sufferalkalosis is,likewise,
baseless. Wehumans canharmlessly excrete excess alkaline substances but,ifweget
excess acid-forming substances asfrom meats, animal products, cereal foods, etc., we
really have problems. The body must robitsbones, teeth andother alkaline structures
forthealkalis, mostly calcium, necessary toneutralize theacids generated from acid-
forming foods. The maker ofthis“alkalosis” chargesimply ignored physiology.Itill
becomes vegetarians or fruitarians to make such a char ge.
19.3.8 Fruits Are Deficient in Calcium as Well as Protein and Results in Stunted
Growth in Youngsters
Fruits aresaidtobedeficient incalcium. Toinvestigate thisImade charts ofanum-
beroffruits andtheir composition. Ourfuelneeds canbemetamply byfruits. Calcium
andaplethora ofother nutrients areacomponent ofevery gram offruit food. When
wehave eaten sufficient fruit tosupply ourcaloric needs, sayabout 2,250 calories, how
much ofourRDA forcalcium have wemet? TheRDA issetat800milligrams perday
fora150-pound man. This, likeother RDA ’s,issome twotofour times toohigh. Nev-
ertheless, let’slook atsome fruit foods andtheir calcium content when 2,250 calories
worth have been consumed.
Oranges, awidely-consumed fruit, have about 2,050 milligrams ofcalcium, 21/2
times theRDA. Apples have 315mg.Apricots have 782mg.Cantaloupes have 1,078
mg.Figs have 1,130 mg.Bananas have 224mg.andbanana-eating societies have excel-
lentbone formation byallstandards. Grapes have 440mg., dates have 530mg., mangos
370mg., pineapples 785mg., watermelon 640mg.andsoondown theline. Obviously
fruits supply usamply with ourcalcium needs. Thesaying thatfruit eaters suffer stunted
growth does notwithstand serious inquiry.Aspreviously noted, statuesque Greeks were
fruit eaters.
19.3.9 Build Your Confidence in the Fruitarian Dietary
Fruit eaters arenotusually fat,brawny hulks asaregrain, milk andmeat eaters. The
question arises: are these standards forming a criterion of health or pathology?
Letmeciteanexample. Murray Rose, anAustralian who setswimming record after
swimming record, wasprimarily afruit eater though hepartook ofsome seaweeds and
vegetable fare.
Now ifweconfirmed fruitarians were tostart making chargesagainst those who
want toeat“exciting” foods such as,cooked dishes, often laden with condiments, veg-
etables, cereals andeven dairy products such asyogurts, andcheeses, many could be
well-substantiated. W rong foods create toxemia.
The illnesses thatbeset almost allAmericans amply attest tothisfact. Even those
who pride themselves onavegetarian dietora“health” dietoreven aHygienic diet
often find themselves suffering toxic conditions. Toxemia arises outofpractices that
cause toxins tobeingested, generated and/orretained. Fruit eating isuniversally saidto
becleansing andpromoting thefunction ofelimination, anditisrecognized foritsnon-
toxic nature.
19.4. Questions & Answers
AsfarasI’mconcerned, you’ve nailed down thecause forfruitarianism. Butisn’t
itimpossible tonourish yourself well with thegeneral lowquality offruit today?
With alltheartificial fertilizers, insecticides, and depleted soils, how canwehope
to be well-nourished on fruits?Even with these definite detractions, eating low-quality fruits isstillthebestwe
candoifwecannot procure organically grown fruits. Whatever canbesaidagainst
fruits onthisscore goes double foreverything elseother than fruits. This problem
does not only exist with fruits!
Should youhave fears inthismatter,youcaninvoke insurance intheform of
super nutrient-concentrated foods such as green leafy vegetables and nuts.
Keep inmind thatthere hasbeen little deterioration infruit quality since theta-
bles of composition were made that are reproduced herein.
You mentioned that some doctors found weneeded about anounce ofprotein a
day, less than 30 grams. Who are these doctors and how did they prove it?
One such doctor wasDr.M.Hinhede ofDenmark, who wasentrusted tothenu-
tritional welfare ofthatcountry fortheduration ofWorldWarI.Having conducted
many experiments onamono-potato diet, among others, hemaintained subjects in
finehealth forprotracted periods while doing hard physical labor.(Some oilonthe
potatoes andgreen leaves were also eaten.) Theprotein intake ofhissubjects was
30to40grams daily.When hetook over asthe“food czar” ofDenmark, hedecreed
thatanimals cease tobereared asfood andthattheland bedevoted tovegetari-
anfare. Heeffectively putDenmark onalow-protein diet. Asaresult, thehealth
ofDanes greatly improved, thedeath rateplummeted andthere wasnever afood
shortage. He wrote a book, Protein and Nutrition, which presents his studies.
Professor Russell H.Chittenden ofYaleUniversity wasoneofthepioneers of
nutritional research. Heconducted many varied experiments. These experiments
involved diets, restricted diets andlimited protein intake. InhisNutrition ofMan
welearn ofhisexperiments with hisfellow professors andstudents onfood intake.
Welearn how hereduced food intake severely yethissubjects stillcontinued to
grow and thrive.
Chittenden reduced theprotein intake ofYaleathletes toamere 25grams of
protein daily,yetthey continued togain weight, became more muscular andper-
formed better than before. Among themany experiments heconducted were com-
petition between hisvegetarian athletes andmeat-eating athletes. Thevegetarians,
on the average, outperformed the meat eaters by a lar ge mar gin.
Isthere anyharm inadding ameal ofsunflower seeds andasalad ofvegetables
to a general fruitarian program?
Having been onfruitarian fareforalong time andthen having ameal ofsun-
flower seeds andtomatoes, with some vegetables such asbroccoli andcelery,Ican
attest toitstastiness. Alltables ofcomposition sayI’mgetting more than enough of
everything Ineed. They don’ttellabout theextra sleep required after even amod-


 for several reasons:
1.They’re excessively starchy—in fact, they’re themost starchy foods eaten byhumans.
Allstarches, even unprocessed andunrefined ones, arehandled with difficulty byour
digestive system. When refined, their starchy nature is emphasized.
2.They’re almost always eaten inapoor food combination—such assandwiches, orsweet-
ened pastries, orbowls ofcereals. Invariably,they’re mixed orcooked with other starchy
foods or heavy proteins, or fried in fats.
3.They areacidic innature, duetotheir mineral content, andconsequently,they acidify
the body and predispose it to excessive mucus formation.
4.They are practically devoid of natural fiber and low in moisture, hence constipating.
5.They must be cooked, altered, and otherwise processed before being eaten.
And perhaps most important ofall,refined grain products arenutritionally imbalan-
ced.Itisbecause ofthisimbalance thatthese foods areresponsible forseveral degener-
ative diseases. Calcium-leaching from thebones andteeth occur because ofthealtered
phosphorous-calcium balance inthese products. Sugar andrefined grain products are
primarily responsible foralltooth decay inthiscountry,aswell asthemajor cause of
brittle bones in the elderly.
Innatural organic foods thatareeaten intheir whole andunprocessed state, allthe
elements forproper nutrition areintheir proper balance. This balance iscompletely de-
stroyed in the refining process of grains.
Forexample, themineral cadmium always exists along with themineral zinc in
foods. Thezinc actsasabalancing mineral forthecadmium andprevents itfrom being
absorbed intoolargeamounts bythebody.Cadmium, inexcessive amounts, ishazar-
dous tohuman health (itisoneofthepoisonous elements incigarette smoke, forin-
stance). When grains arerefined, thezinc mineral isdestroyed butthecadmium isnot;
so,yougetamassive absorption ofcadmium without thebalancing effectofthezinc
when you eat refined grains.
Asanother example, both iron andcopper minerals aredestroyed when grains are
refined. Copper isnecessary fortheutilization ofiron bythebody tobuild ahealthy
bloodstream. Inorganic iron (useless tothebody anyway) isadded back tothestripped
flour,butofcourse thecopper isnot.Youcan’tfool around with thenatural balance of
nutrients infoods, andthen hope torestore them ornegate theharmful effects created by
this processing.
TheB-vitamins, vital forthehealth ofthenerves andbody,arequickly destroyed by
anyrefining ofthegrain. Interestingly enough, thebody requires B-vitamins tometab-
olize orusethese grain products (which iswhy they arepresent inthefood inthefirst
place). Ifthese vitamins areremoved from thegrain products, then thebody must robfrom thecurrent supply ofBvitamins inthebody sothatthese refined grains canbedi-
gested.
Notonly arerefined grains andtheir products nutritionally deficient andimbalanced,
they can also contribute to a loss of vitamins and minerals already present in the body.
Twoofthemost popular ways ofeating refined grains areintheform ofbread and
cereals. We’lllook atthese twoproducts ingreat detail sothatwecanunderstand why
refined grains have no place in a healthy diet.
31.1.3 Food Processing and Grain Products
Food processing isused todescribe everything from home cooking tosophisticated
food-manufacturing processes. Actually,anything wedotoalter theoriginal state of
food, beitcooking, blending, refining, oradding ahundred chemical ingredients, isa
form of food processing.
When wetalkabout food processing andgrains, however,wearemostly concerned
with food refining. Refining isthebreaking down ofawhole food into various parts.
Grains, forexample, areoften eaten intheform offlour products such asbreads, pas-
tries, etc.Few people inAmerica eatgrains intheir whole forms asthey areharvested.
Whenever foods areeaten infragmented, refined, orprocessed form, alower level of
health invariably results.
Food isman’ smost immediate point ofcontact with nature. Assuch, itmust besuit-
edtothelaws thatgovern ourbody.While thehuman body isaremarkably flexible
instrument, itcannot adapt tofoods thathave been radically altered from their natural
form. Grains, asweshall see,areprobably notanoptimum food forman anyway; when
they are processed, refined, and altered, they can become injurious.
When beginning thestudy ofasubject such asthis, itisuseful togetahistorical per-
spective. Fortunately,onearea offood processing hasbeen well documented forseveral
thousand years: bread making. Bread isprobably thefirst refined andprocessed food
product eaten byman. Wecanunderstand theeffects ofrefined grains onthebody ifwe
study the history of bread-eating from ancient times to the present.
31.1.4 The Early History of Grains
Aslong asprimitive man could liveinareas where fresh food wasavailable for12
months oftheyear,hehadlittle need foragriculture. Fruits andvegetables, themainstay
ofearly man’ sdiet, were well supplied inasemi-tropical environment. Foraging and
food gathering were the main methods used to acquire food.
Withthechanging oftheclimate andthemigration ofprimitive tribes, new food
gathering methods hadtobedevised. Man needed tofindsome way tostore nutrients for
periods oftime when nofresh foods were available. Seeds, such ascereal grains, seemed
tobeoneway ofsolving thefood storage problem, andsoman became agricultural in
lifestyle.
Grains were probably among thefirst cultivated crops. They were notastasty or
beneficial asthefresh fruits andvegetables, butthey could begrown inlargeamounts
for storage in climates where the winters were harsh.
This development occurred only about tenthousand years ago—a very short length
inthehalf-million year orsospan of,man: Withthisgrowing ofgrains, cooking de-
veloped. Ifcooking hadnotstarted, itisdoubtful thecereal crops would have been of
much usetoman. Cooking, thefirst food processing, developed simultaneously with
grain agriculture.
Early grain processing seems tohave consisted ofeither toasting thewhole grain, or
heating it up in watery mixtures, such as porridges or gruels.
Bythetime ofrecorded history,however,man hadlearned toprocess thegrains far-
ther and farther until he was finally able to make bread from his crops.31.1.5 The Loaf of Bread
Until about 3000 B.C., grains were pounded inmortars tomake arough meal from
which thebread could bepartially sifted. This meal wasthen mixed with water andheat-
ed to form a porridge.
TheEgyptians developed agrinding process inwhich thegrain wascrushed between
tworolling stones. This allowed theendosperm ofthegrain tobereduced toafineflour
sothatitcould besifted finer andfiner from thecoarser bran. This produced aflour that
was refined enough forbaking orbread-making purposes. Asyoucansee, bread isa
relatively new food inthedietofman. Theloafofbread, “staffoflife,” hasonly been
around for the last five thousand years or so, or less than 1% of man’ s existence.
TheGreeks improved upon thegrain-grinding process with rotary grindstones, and
by500B.C., combined flour mills andbakeries were operating inAthens. Bread was
being sold commercially,andalready there were different types ofbread onecould buy
(such as coarse barley bread for slaves, wheat for the upper classes, etc.)
It was the Romans, however, who gave us our first “white bread.”
31.1.6 The Fall of the Roman Empire
During Roman civilization, flour milling technology rapidly developed, andsoon the
Romans were making four orfivecommercial grades offlour.Thefinest flour,almost
acreamy color andnotquite aswhite asthatofourwhite bread, was sold only tothe
upper classes. Interestingly enough, thewrestlers andathletes ofthattime were fedthe
coarser grade of flour “to keep their limbs strong.”
Ofcourse the“finer” ormore refined flour eaten bytheRomans hadfarlessnutri-
tional value andwasamore fractured andfragmented food than hadbeen eaten byman
until thattime. TheRomans associated their new white bread with goodness, purity,no-
bility,andbirth. These emotional feelings ofrefinement, higher living, snob appeal, etc.
soon became inseparable from thetexture, taste, andappearance ofthewhite bread. As
inmodern times, therichorupper class were thefirsttoadopt thehighly refined foods as
amark of“class distinction.” Thehealth oftheRoman upper class degenerated through
theyears—some blame itonthelead content intheir cooking vessels, andothers point
outtheir fondness forthenew white