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Divine Food for Divine Beauty

Divine Food for Divine Beauty


"When our actions are in opposition with nature, the results are different types of bodily ills, deformities and ugliness. Eating cooked food leaves residues that the body cannot utilize and they become deposited in places where our Creator never intended."



Divine Food for Divine Beauty

By Tonya Zavasta

Excerpted from the book Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You by Tonya Zavasta.

The natural world is filled with beauty. It delights us with its magnificent colors and extraordinary designs. God's artistic taste and superior craftsmanship are manifested in spectacular sunsets and diminutive snowflakes. We look on nature and exclaim in adoration: "How great Thou art!" But what about our own image -the one we view in the mirror? Most of us are not pleased with what we see. Why do plants and animals often display greater visual beauty than God's favorite creation - human being? Ordinarily all flowers are beautiful and only a wilted flower looks abnormal. And yet humankind calls less than one percent of the adult population officially beautiful. Double chins, protruding stomachs, and sallow complexions are seen everywhere, even in young people.

Our body was created in the image of God, the Supreme Beauty. In Genesis 1:29 we read: "And God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.'" God's original diet of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds is the most suitable one for the human body. It is salubrious to the body's health and salutary to its beauty. The raw food diet is awesome, it should be called the very name it inspired: the Rawsome diet.



When our actions are in opposition with nature, the results are different types of bodily ills, deformities and ugliness. Eating cooked food leaves residues that the body cannot utilize and they become deposited in places where our Creator never intended. Everything that is not fully digested and then is not properly eliminated the body treats as an abnormal substance. The body becomes ingeniously resourceful faced with substances it cannot metabolize or eliminate. It breaks them down into minute particles and distributes them to remote areas of the body, way from vital organs to minimize harm. The body takes the poisons out-of-the-way but necessarily out of sight. The toxic wastes are pushed towards the peripheral organs, which happen to be the skin and every other organ that we can see on the outside.



Most of us feel our appearance lacks something. In reality, ugliness is more about excess. Toxic accumulations in our bodies are responsible for stealing our health and attractiveness. Beauty lies latent under cushions of retained fluids, deposits of fat, and sick tissues. Your beauty is buried alive, but in most cases it can be revived in a version that will be satisfactory to you. You must take immediate action to revitalize it. When you do, your uncovered beauty will surprise and delight you.

Some physical characteristics of our face and body we cannot change--they were determined prior to our birth. But the consumption of the raw plant diet as an adult will make a difference in the texture of skin and hair, the health of nails, weight and complexion. All of these traits and more are determined by daily choices, with food being one of the most important and, luckily, the one over which we have fully control.

The ability to renew cells is built into your body, and the body itself is capable of making you look more attractive. After all, we were designed to bloom continuously as old cells get replaced by new ones. The Rawsome diet makes the most of this rejuvenating ability of our bodies. Rawsome beauty is not manufactured from the outside but cultivated from the inside by nutritionally charged food. Whole raw food restores the integrity of every cell and facilitates the optimal operation of every organ inside and out. The body, having been awakened by the improved diet, in its wisdom, will reach out to the places where health was lacking, and you will gradually see your beauty surfacing. The Rawsome diet will eliminate all the toxins on a deeper level and bring amazing changes to your appearance.

The Bible says in Esther 2:9, that Esther was provided with some beauty treatments and special food before facing King Xerxes. The Bible does not specify what kind of food was used, but I believe it had to be God's original diet that is mentioned in Genesis 1:29 where "God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.'" Special food together with oil treatment and cosmetics were part of Esther's beauty rituals for twelve months. Like Esther, it will take about a year for your face and body to reach its full beauty potential.

The landscape of the body will change. The surface of the skin will become soft and smooth but firm and supple. Visible pores will diminish. A sallow skin with a yellow pallor will turn into a porcelain-like complexion. The whites of eyes, once red, will become bright with a bluish tinge. As natural collagen production improves, it will fill in the places where it is needed as in hollow cheeks.

The artistic ability of your body will amaze you. It will look as if a sculptor is chiseling your face and body. It's amazing how the fat deposits will disappear at the right spots. All excesses will be eliminated. Everything that is bumpy or lumpy will be smoothed or straightened. Everything that is dull will be illuminated. The features will be carved until a lovely face surfaces, and the skin will be polished until it glows. Raw food eating will clarify and refine your features and bring delicacy to your face.
Regular features are not essential for the whole effect to be seen as beautiful. You will marvel at how the Master Artist will make the most of your individual features and bring balance to the entire face. Texture, hues, and shape will be harmoniously arranged into a genteel whole. Perfection and imperfection will be tied together into a unique original version of beauty.

Only the body sustained on raw food will host natural beauty, or should we say Rawsome beauty. People who have been on the raw food lifestyle for several years begin to have a glow, the kind not often seen in middle-aged people. Optimal health is recognized by an emerging radiance. Glow is hard to fake because it is internal. It comes from an abundance of clear, pink, almost transparent cells that light up the face. Only superior blood circulation can bring this transfiguring glow. Several years on the raw food diet will make you look as though you just stepped out of a painting by Renoir--the impressionist best known for his preoccupation with light.

From age 15 until recently, I wore my hair permed, only to discover at 45 that straight hair in my natural color was the best possible frame for my face. Did my preference change? Not at all. My face did. So let me give you a hint, if you need a camouflaging hairdo, you are not looking your best. The changes in your face brought about by raw foods will bring the freedom to arrange your hair in any way you want. When your peer group is thinking: "I am losing my looks", you will be finding yours. At 45, I enjoy looking in the mirror while before I detested my reflection.

When a person starts to attend the gym regularly he or she becomes aware of trained bodies. The same phenomenon occurs with the raw food diet. You begin to see how much people's appearance differs from their optimal one. Each time I see a woman, I study her appearance, and I see not only the way she looks but also the way she could look. What I see is how far her image digresses from her potential beauty. I perceive her beauty as it will stand out after the body has cleansed itself from toxins and excesses.



I have come to believe if you embrace the 100 percent raw food diet, you will meet The Most Beautiful You. The best proof that the Rawsome diet is optimal for the body is it makes you beautiful. Slim face, slender waist, and clear skin with smooth coloration-these subtle changes will convince you the raw plant diet is the best for good health and graceful beauty.

Vibrant Living

A Simple Program
For Vibrant Living
Nutrition
Respect Nature and use the foods that Nature provides - as close as possible to how Nature provides them. Avoid refined foods and pre-cooked foods. Avoid preservatives, colourants etc. Fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and grains must feature predominantly in the diet.


Air
Sleep with your windows open - this is vital. In air conditioned rooms, make sure the vents in the air-conditioner are open. Some windows must be open 24 hours a day - even in air-conditioned offices. Kindly refuse to work in an office with someone who smokes. Practice deep breathing regularly.


Trust
The Creator has equipped us with a marvelous body that is programmed for survival. When we respect the common-sense laws of life our eliminative organs will function as they should and our immune defenses will protect us and/or cure us from disease. As with all the laws of life, the laws of health are only there for our benefit.


Uplift Others
"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people." (Einstein) "The pleasure of doing good to others imparts a glow to the feelings, which flashes through the nerves, quickens the circulation of the blood, and induces mental and physical health." (E. G. White). If you want to be happy, make others happy. If you want peace, love your enemies.


Rest
Laborers who rest 20 minutes in every hour can accomplish much more in a day than those who rest only at lunch time. Respect your body's need for rest and your body will reward you. One hour of sleep before midnight is worth two hours after midnight. Avoid anything stimulating.


Exercise
Exercise is a must for natural bowel function, to aid elimination, to help drain the lymph system, and to condition and tone every cell and organ in the body. Take a short brisk walk outside after every meal. Do half an hour of walking or moderate exercise every day - if you do much mental work you will need to do this twice a day or more. As a rule, outdoor exercise is better than indoor exercise.


Sunlight
The sun is the battery charger of life. We all need at least 30 minutes in the direct sunlight every day. Sunlight converts cholesterol into vitamin D. Living and/or working in a room that does not get direct sunlight will stunt growth and weaken the entire system. Install Perspex sun boxes in the ceiling of rooms that do not get any sun (they must be made from Perspex.)

Water
Water is the internal and external cleanser of Nature. Drink at least 2 glasses of water at least one hour before every meal. Take the bulk of your liquids in between meals rather than with your meals. Drink the best water available - your tap water could be recycled urine. Warm baths soothe the nerves. Study hydrotherapy.



Abstemiousness
Eat, work, play and study in moderation. The use of whole foods will put a permanent end to over-eating as well as to the desire to eat in between meals. Over-exercising will undermine your immune system. Over-work is a killer - devote the evenings to your family - not to work. Be wise and be safe.


Your Attitude
Love and respect the miracle that you are. Think big but remember that big things are only accomplished when we pay attention to the small detail. Feed on your trials - for trials make us stronger. Pride is an exhausting tyrant, -humility is the only way to escape her clutches. Each day is a precious gift - that's why it is called "the present".


Unwrap each day excitedly, cherish it and enjoy each moment. Remember that life is now - this moment - it is not some future state of euphoria that will come upon us when all of our dreams finally come true.

Depression myths exposed

Depression myths by psychiatry professor,
but the real myths come from the pharmaceutical industry.


A noted professor in the field of psychiatry is publicly challenging some of the myths about depression. Prof. Malcolm Lader, emeritus professor of clinical psychopharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, says that fewer people are subject to depression than currently believed. For the real story on busting myths about depression, however, let's dig deeper.



When it comes to clinical depression, the biggest myth of all is that depression is a disease that you can't do anything about and, therefore, you need prescription drugs to "rebalance your brain chemistry." It's one of the greatest hoaxes of modern medicine, and it's generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for drug companies. In reality, practically all cases of so-called clinical depression can be completely reversed with three simple things:

1) radical shifts to a healthy diet rich in essential fatty acids like GLA and completely absent any processed foods.

2) Regular physical fitness activites that include both a cardiovascular and strength training component (at least 4 days a week).

3) Regular exposure to natural sunlight, for at least one hour a day, directly on the skin with no sunscreen.



Show me a depressed person, and I'll show you someone who has absolutely not done these three things. In fact, I've never met a person who does these three things and is depressed. Not one. I don't believe there are any. That's because depression is actually just the natural cause-and-effect outcome that results from poor nutritional habits combined with a lack of physical exercise and avoidance of natural sunlight. It's really that simple. You don't need prescription drugs to fight depression, you need to get back to nature.


Oh, I know your doctor has probably told you that depression is an "illness" and you have no control over it. That's the old propaganda line taught to them by the pharmaceutical companies and medical journals. That belief system generates lots of profits for the drug companies. If you fall for it, they've got you trapped in their little mind game. The only way you can take control over your own mental health is to let loose of those beliefs and realize that you were born to be healthy and happy, and all you have to do is return to nature to find it.


In nature, you eat wholesome foods, not processed foods like white flour and high fructose corn syrup. In nature, you move your body every day, you don't sit behind a desk for your entire life. In nature, you get sunshine on your skin, you don't hide behind sunscreens loaded with toxic perfumes and cancer-causing chemicals.


Just get back to nature and, in a short period of time, you'll feel a whole lot better about life, too. Suddenly, your so-called "clinical depression" will be nothing but a memory.

Diseased Economy

This is an article about the disease economy. That's a term I coined because I could find no other existing term to describe what I'm observing in our economy today. I call it the disease economy because such a huge percentage of the economic activity and economic growth I see in this country is based on the manufacturing, marketing and selling of products and services based on disease. That is, products and services that either cause diseases or "treat" those diseases.



How do I know we're in a disease economy today? You can see it for yourself. Just drive around any city or town in the United States and you can see what's happening. Take a look at the new construction. What's going to be there? If it's an office complex, chances are it's going to be a medical office building. If it's on a street corner, it's probably going to be a pharmacy -- maybe a new Walgreens or CVS Pharmacy or a new drive-through Wal-Mart pharmacy. You even see pharmacies in grocery stores now, because they are so profitable. When you go into grocery stores and look at what's being sold there, you're getting a good look at the economic activity in this country. You mostly see products that promote disease, thanks to their disease-causing ingredients.



Of course, the disease economy promotes Big Pharma companies. These are the pharmaceutical manufacturers in this country, and they are huge global corporations. The selling of pharmaceuticals is a $1 trillion industry.



It's an amazing statistic. Here in the United States, some of our largest corporations are drug companies. In fact, as I've stated before, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the United States earn more money than the remaining 490 Fortune 500 companies. Just recently, I heard the Bush administration was very excited about the news that we are experiencing economic growth in this country. The economy is up, more money is changing hands, and that's all that economists really look at when calculating gross domestic product or gross national product. They're just looking at the total number of dollars that changed hands.

An economy based on paying for disease treatment
However, if you look at the quality of the products and services that are being exchanged for these dollars, you'll realize something is amiss here, because what we're doing is basing our economic growth on the growth of chronic and degenerative disease. We're basing our economy on the idea that we can treat more and more people with drugs and medical services and keep selling them soft drinks and fast food while calling it economic growth.


This leads me to the most important point of this article, which is that we cannot create abundance in the United States or in any country by selling each other increasingly expensive products and services that promote disease. In other words, we cannot create abundance by poisoning ourselves. The very idea is absurd. The whole point of economic growth is to create economic abundance, and if you look at the classic definitions of economic growth, they are about providing more goods and services to people in a more efficient manner. Those goods and services are supposed to improve the quality of life for those people.



In the old days, the arguments for the invisible hand in the economy were that if you let entrepreneurs compete in a free market, they would devise clever and efficient ways to create, produce and deliver goods and services to consumers that would ultimately enhance their quality of life. That part is absolutely true, and the United States has done that very successfully. The free market does work in accomplishing that, but what we're seeing now is something beyond what those old-school economists could have ever conceived. We're seeing an economy that is increasingly based on goods and services that do not add to the quality of consumers' lives but rather take away from it. We're seeing entrepreneurs and creative, clever people finding new ways to market products that harm people and calling that profitability or economic growth.



We see this quite blatantly in the drug industry, where creative marketers keep coming up with new, absurd ways to sell drugs to people through direct-to-consumer advertising on television. Some of these ads are absolutely idiotic in what they are promising. Yet, they are effective in creating demand. They sell products, but these products do not help consumers.



We also see a lot of products being marketed and sold to consumers that may give them very short-term benefits -- such as the taste of a hamburger or the taste of french fries, which lasts about 10 seconds -- but has long-term detrimental consequences, like obesity, heart disease, brain disorders, cancer and diabetes. These diseases largely come about as a result of long-term consumption of nutritionally depleted foods.



Without question, the U.S. economy is heavily invested in disease. Retailers like Walgreens have mastered the art of selling products on both sides of the equation. At the front of the store, Walgreens sells junk food products, soft drinks, candy and a lot of food that really has no nutrition. At the back of the store, they sell prescription drugs -- drugs that treat the symptoms of diseases that are ultimately caused by people's poor dietary choices and their consumption of junk food.



Walgreens has really mastered this. They will sell you the problem and the treatment, all in the same store. One reason Walgreens is so incredibly successful as a business is because it has mastered the art of selling products to consumers as part of the disease economy. It is a flagship company of the disease economy, perhaps even more so than pharmaceutical companies.




Illusions of wealth in the disease economy
One of the funniest things about the disease economy is that the consumers who are diseased think they're doing well because they own stocks in the companies selling the products that harm them. This fascinates me. A guy dying of cancer or suffering from heart disease, because of the products he has been consuming for years, believes he's doing well because he owns stock in large food manufacturing companies or large pharmaceutical companies. Maybe he owns stock in a new medical technology, or maybe he's a partner in a local medical clinic. His investments are doing great, but he's dying, and he's dying from preventable degenerative disease.




This is what's happening across the country, not just to one person, but to millions of people -- perhaps hundreds of millions -- who think the economy is looking up and think that maybe they have a good job because they work for a pharmaceutical company. They think they have good investments now because they have stocks in the junk food manufacturers. They think they're doing well financially, but guess what? They're consuming the product themselves, and they are dying. They're dying from a degenerative disease at a rate that has never before been witnessed in human history. This demonstrates my entire point: We cannot create abundance by selling each other increasingly expensive products and services that harm each other.



By the way, I don't mean to leave out all those chemical companies manufacturing pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, toxic household cleaners and toxic personal care products. A lot of those skincare companies are really just chemical manufacturers with sexy marketing and lots of women in lab coats selling you products that actually harm your health; that literally contain ingredients that cause cancer and liver disease. People think our economy is booming, but we're all dying of chronic disease. Why is it that 50 percent of our senior citizens in the United States have high blood pressure? Why is it that 40 percent of our senior citizens are now clinically obese? I'm willing to bet that a similar percentage may have nervous system disorders or early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Most of them are probably metabolizing some form of cancer right now, even though it may not have been diagnosed yet.




We are a nation of diseased individuals, and that disease starts very early. There are 12-year-old children who have atherosclerosis. There are teenagers with osteoporosis, and teenage children with obesity are now common. In fact, diabetes has gotten so bad in young people that they had to change the name. That used to be the name. Now they just have to call it diabesity, and that applies to children, teenagers and adults alike.



Returning to health would bankrupt the economy
We have created so much disease in this country, and we have based our economy on it to such a degree that, frankly, we cannot untangle this situation without causing economic distress. If there were a cure for cancer, diabetes or heart disease tomorrow, where a person could wave a magic wand and instantly eliminate those diseases, and if every person in the country did that tomorrow, the sobering truth is that our national economy would collapse overnight. It would collapse because there's so much money, so much real estate, so much education and so much expertise and research invested in disease that we could not financially survive in an economy based on health and abundance, at least not the way things are configured right now.
We could not economically survive in an economy based on real health. We are so invested in disease in this nation that we truly have a disease economy, and in order for that economy to grow, you have to expand the number of people with disease, expand the definition of disease or expand the coverage of people who are treated with high-profit disease-masking products. All three of those things are happening right now.




Corruption in the Disease Economy
Drug companies have experts on their payroll who are part of the FDA's drug safety decision panels, and who don't disclose their conflicts of interest. They are making decisions that expand the definition of disease. A classic case of this was when cholesterol numbers were lowered from 130 to 100 to instantly make 10 million more Americans diagnosable with high cholesterol so they could be treated with statin drugs.




We have the ridiculous (and scientifically dishonest) expansion of psychiatric disorders or so-called brain chemistry diseases, which really have nothing to do with chemistry, but everything to do with expanding the marketplace of psychiatric drugs. The way you expand the marketplace is not to sit around and wait for people to become mentally disturbed. What you do is change the definition of mental disorders and make up new ones.




One of the biggest questions right now is the marketing of adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or adult ADHD. It is a made-up disease. What are the symptoms of this disease? You have too many things on your mind, you can't keep track of everything you need to get done and you are easily distracted. What adult doesn't meet those criteria? We all do, because modern society is a busy place. According to the drug company definition, and even the definition offered by the psychiatric community, we are all suffering from mental illness and must be treated with drugs.




This is one way to expand the disease economy. This is one way you keep those profits flowing and those shareholders happy that they've invested in your company. Most of us here in America are invested in a disease economy, one way or another. Take a look at your own retirement portfolio, if you're fortunate enough to have one, and you're likely to find that you own some percentage of some company that's invested in disease. Interesting, isn't it?



Transforming the Disease Economy into a Health Economy
Enough about the problem; what about the solution? How do you solve the disease economy, challenge it and turn it around into a health economy, a healing economy or an abundant economy? To do that, you first have to figure out a way to make health profitable. How do you make healthy people profitable when there's so much money in treating disease and chronic illness and so much money in addicting people to lifetime requirements for prescription drugs? How do you generate profits off of healthy people, as a nation?



Let's face it: If people are healthy, especially well into their old age, they are no longer customers of those clinics being constructed all over this country. They are no longer customers of Walgreens, CVS or the Wal-Mart pharmacy. They are no longer customers of surgeons, physicians, foot specialists or Alzheimer's doctors. This is why I believe there is absolutely no genuine investment in disease prevention in this country. There's really no investment at all, because preventing disease is the last thing that this disease economy wants.




How do you make it worthwhile to keep people healthy? The answer to that comes down to education, and here's why: When a person is educated, whether it be an education in the arts, the sciences or in any other realm, they live longer and healthier. They maintain their brain function, and they remain productive members of society, no matter how long they live. They can be producing something that benefits other members of society well into their 70s, 80s or even 90s. Healthy individuals can age gracefully and maintain healthy cognitive function. They can directly produce things, such as writing a book, or they can help teach others. They can even be mentors to young entrepreneurs, who can benefit from experience in learning how to manufacture, market or sell something useful.




An uneducated individual, on the other hand, tends to be more of a consumer than a producer of things of value, because they don't have the background, education or experience to be productive members of society. If you don't educate the population, they all become consumers and not producers. It is when people are stuck in the consumer state that they can be profitable to the disease economy. But when the public is educated, it becomes far more profitable to keep people healthy. You could add 20 or 30 years of creative productivity to an individual's life, which means you could boost the productivity of the entire nation by perhaps 15 to 20 percent, which is a huge number. You wouldn't have to base it on disease anymore. You could base it on health. We need a health economy that's based on disease prevention, tied with genuine education.



Think about what we produce in the United States versus other countries. While we are toiling away in our disease economy and inventing new super extreme nacho Doritos and coming up with new prescription drugs that alter brain chemistry in children, genius-level students in other countries are actually doing something useful. In Japan, for example, they are inventing a whole new industry, which I believe will dominate the world's economy. It will be bigger than the computer industry and automobile industry ever was. It's the robotics industry.



In the next 20 or 30 years, the robotics industry will be absolutely huge. Japan is at least 10 years ahead of the United States in this key industry. Why? It's because Japanese students are well educated. They also tend to have a lot better health than students in the United States. In India, they're inventing new computer technologies and new customer service systems that are siphoning labor away from the United States because they do it faster, cheaper and with similar quality but for less money and far lower health-care costs.



Globally, our disease economy simply cannot compete with global economies that actually produce something useful. You want proof of it? Just look at what's happening to General Motors. General Motors is shutting down. General Motors is probably headed for bankruptcy. One of the largest corporations ever produced by the United States is about to go bankrupt. Why? In my opinion, the answer is that General Motors is spending more on health insurance than it is on steel. They're operating in a disease economy, and in a disease economy, it costs way too much for workers because workers are diseased, and you have to cover the costs of treating all that disease so you can have health insurance for all those workers. The United State's health insurance costs are the highest of any nation in the world.




Not only do we have workers who are under-educated in the United States, they are also over-diseased. We have a disease economy, so we think we're creating abundance by selling each other expensive treatments, products and services for disease. The real industries, like automobile manufacturing, are disappearing. Toyota is smart. Toyota is going to dominate the auto industry. Personally, I won't drive anything other than the Toyota. Toyota is the best mainstream vehicle in the world.



Interestingly enough, Toyota is going to be making robots soon, too. Japan does not have a disease economy. Japan has an economy with a good dose of innovation. In fact, innovation is thriving throughout Asia. They don't have a disease economy. They have an innovation-based economy where they actually have to produce something useful to get paid.




Smart nations will invest in prevention
Now, at some point these nations, as they adopt the Western lifestyle and become richer and start to consume more beef animal products, as well as junk food, may very well become disease economies. But some of these nations will be smart about it and start investing in prevention. For example, any nation right now in this world that allows cigarettes to be sold to its population is committing a form of self-destruction. It's like national suicide. What nation would want its citizens to smoke cigarettes so that they would halve their own lives, create huge health-care costs and at the same time reduce their long-term productivity?




Then there are nations like Singapore. Singapore is doing some very intelligent things, and education is one of them. Singapore has a very smart population and a booming economy based on actual abundance and not disease. Of course, people say, "Singapore is almost like a police state. What about personal rights?" That's a huge argument. Should people have the right to smoke themselves to death? Should they have the right to drink soft drinks until they're so obese that they need a knee replacement and demand to be covered by Medicare? Should people be allowed to eat junk food all day, avoid exercise and then get heart disease and need a heart transplant that's paid for by other taxpayers or other participants in their insurance company? These are questions I can't answer in this article. All I can say is that any nation that bases its economy on "diseasification" of its citizens is ultimately doomed to economic collapse. That's exactly where the United States economy is currently headed, to certain economic collapse.




We are losing our health. We are losing our minds. We're losing our genuine economic base. We're losing our manufacturing. We're losing our scientific edge. We're losing our education, and we're losing the inherent value of our money supply as the U.S. dollar continues to slip. What do we have left? Well there's always the Wal-mart and the Walgreens. Give me a Snickers bar. If you can't sleep, you can always buy sleeping pills. If you can't wake up in the morning, you can always drink some coffee. It's the disease economy.




The disease economy is all around you
You're probably participating in it, and if you think you're not, check again, because almost everyone is. It takes an act of great self-determination and courage to extricate oneself from the disease economy and be a productive member of society. It is a rare thing to witness. Very few people I've ever known, or know today, are actually productive members of society doing something useful for the benefit of other human beings.



Do you know who some of those people are? Organic farmers. These are people I greatly respect who are actually doing something useful for others. It is something difficult, something laborious, something a lot of people wouldn't want to do. There are people in society that are productive, and if we're going to succeed as an economy -- or even as a nation -- into the future, we're going to have to expand the number of people who are making a living doing something useful, not something that is just based on disease.



You see, thinking that money spent on disease treatment is economic productivity is actually an economic fallacy. Here's an example: If you just want to create jobs in the country, I have a brilliant plan for job creation. First, hire half the nation to be window breakers. Give them all hammers. Their job is to go around the entire country and break windows. Then you hire the other half of the nation to be window replacers. Their job is to go around and replace all the windows that were broken by the window breakers. You do that and you will have full employment! Sounds insane, doesn't it? But that's what's actually happening today with health.




We have people who are health breakers. They work for pharmaceutical companies, and they work for junk food companies and medical facilities. We have relatively few people who are healers. We've got to change that ratio so that we have fewer health breakers and more health healers in this nation. That's why I'm very happy to see the rising popularity of massage therapists, herbalists, nutritionists, acupuncturists and naturopathic physicians -- people who are true healers. That's what we've got to do in this country to turn things around. We've got to base the economy on healing, disease prevention and the education of our population so that as people live longer they can contribute to society in a meaningful way.

Vote with your dollars
You can remove yourself from the disease economy. You know how you do that? You vote with your dollars. You stop funding these drug companies, junk food companies, toxic personal-care product manufacturing companies, pesticide companies and petroleum companies. You stop giving them your money. You starve them of economic growth by voting with your dollars. You go somewhere else.




You buy food from organic farms at your local food co-op or farmer's market. You buy honest personal care products made with natural ingredients, like Dr. Bronner's soap. You reduce your dependence on fuels. You start riding a bicycle rather than firing up your car all the time. You can change your behavior, and you can change the effect of your dollars. You can help reverse this disease economy and turn it into a healing economy.



You, me and the hundreds of thousands of people who read this article have got to change this world one buying decision at a time, because money is the only way we're ever going to change it. By changing the way we choose to spend our money, we reshape the corporate landscape. We reshape this economy and move it away from a disease economy. Pay attention to your actions when you're at a cash register. Look in your grocery cart. Ask yourself, "What am I invested in here? What am I supporting?" Commit yourself to making positive changes so that you support the companies, organizations and individuals that are actually doing something positive.
If you're currently working for a drug company, quit your job and find something productive to do. Find something that actually benefits humankind and isn't just based on scientific fraud and over-exaggerated, hyped-up marketing.

Being human is now a disease, too

Let's get to the raw truth about the pharmaceutical industry. Drug companies want to turn every normal human experience into a diagnosable disease that's treatable with their high-priced, patent-protected, brand-name drugs. It used to be that drugs were intended just to treat bonafide diseases -- things like malaria or infections -- but now the drug companies have realized that it's a much more profitable venture to invent diseases, and then sell drugs to treat them.






So today, we have drugs to help you do everything a normal, healthy human being can manage on their own in the first place. We have drugs to make you sleep and other drugs to make you wake up. We have drugs to calm you down if you're hyperactive and drugs to make you feel peppy if you're depressed. We have drugs to make you pee, drugs to force a bowel movement and yet more drugs to "enhance sexual performance." Just in case you're feeling a little bit nervous about some of this language, don't worry, there's a drug for that, too. It makes you feel calm when you might normally feel uncomfortable. In fact, no human experience is safe from being targeted and exploited by the pharmaceutical industry.


What's the ultimate aim of drug companies? It's quite simple. Just as Morpheus described in the movie "The Matrix," the purpose of the machines is to turn the human body into a battery. In modern medicine, the aim of drug companies is to turn the human body into a profit-generating machine. It's designed to exploit your body for financial gain. It's pure greed. There is no normal human condition that is safe from disease designation.

Since drugs are now widely used to treat mental states or emotions, it's not too far off that we'll have drugs to treat so-called diseases like "lack of patriotism." If you don't support the war efforts of the United States empire, then obviously you're not a patriot. You must be a traitor, and therefore there must be something mentally wrong with you. You need to be put on prescription drugs to treat that lack of patriotism. Call it the patriot drug.

The real lie from the drug industry is that it's not okay to be human anymore. It's wrong to feel sad. Humans shouldn't ever cry, be depressed or feel down. If you have a sleepless night, there's something wrong with you. It's now a disease, not just a sleepless night.

Consumers buy into this, too. They think that every waking moment should feel wonderful. They think that they have to feel happy, uplifted and energetic at every moment, with no pain whatsoever, all with no effort on their part. God forbid they actually have to get off a couch, break a sweat or move their body to experience some health benefits. They are now convinced that that's the job of drug companies -- that if there's anything that doesn't feel completely comfortable, it's because they don't have the right chemicals in their bloodstream. This view is supported by the psychiatric community and the traditional medical community -- what I call organized medicine -- which continues to search for yet more synthetic chemicals to put into your bloodstream to treat or "manage" every disease, malady, disorder or discomfort that can be dreamed or imagined.

Consumers have been taught to think their foods should be a carnival ride, and that bland food equals bad food From the point of view of consumers, much of the same beliefs are carried into the foods they consume. Consumers have been taught to think that every meal has to be a feast; that everything they put into their mouth has to be amusing, delightful or absolutely delicious. They won't even eat things that are good for them if they taste too bland.


Everything has to be like a carnival ride when it comes to food, and thus every single meal they eat is basically just dessert. The pizza sauce in pizza is loaded with sugar. Cornbread at a restaurant, which 20 years ago used to be cornbread, is now cake. Bagels are cake, and breads are sweetened up to taste like cake as well. Foods are enhanced with excitotoxins and chemical taste enhancers like monosodium glutamate so that nothing tastes like it really should.

Everything has been exaggerated to create this sensory explosion in the mouth of consumers, so consumers live a life in which they can't taste anything unless it's been chemically altered. And they can't function from one day to the next unless they've been chemically doped up with psychotropic drugs and blood-chemistry-altering chemicals sold to them at prices so high that our entire national economy is now headed toward bankruptcy due to healthcare costs.


I have news for these consumers, and I have news for everyone out there considering taking drugs to treat some symptom, disorder or discomfort. The news is that even healthy people have bad days sometimes. Life is not a giant party. Sometimes you don't feel like waking up. Sometimes your muscles ache because you've overworked them or you've eaten some bad food. Sometimes you get sick, but your immune system eventually overcomes it. Sometimes you feel a little down. This is normal. Sometimes you're afraid to speak in front of crowds or you feel anxiety in social situations. This is normal human behavior, folks. Sometimes you feel like you have 12 projects going and you can't concentrate on any one of them. That's not attention deficit disorder; that's normal human behavior. In fact, it's how children learn. They don't focus on one thing; they do multiple things at once.


My message to those of you out who might be taking prescription drugs in the desperate effort to create this perfect, comfortable daily existence is this: Your expectations are way off base. There is no perfect human experience, not even in those who you might think are in perfect health.


The difference between people who are healthy and those who are not is not that we don't feel pain or don't feel inconvenienced in doing the things we do to stay healthy. The difference is that we are willing to do them anyway. In other words, we will feel the pain and still exercise. We feel tired but still get out of bed. We might not like the taste of some supplement, fiber shake or bland-tasting food, but we'll eat it anyway because we're willing to do what it takes to get the results. The results are lifelong health without prescription drugs, with zero medical bills, free of pain and free of chronic disease.



But that's not what Big Pharma wants you to believe.


Big Pharma's big lie: If you pump enough chemicals into your body, your life will be perfect The whole promise of the drug industry is fraudulent. The promise is that if you take all these chemicals, you'll have healthy cholesterol, normal blood pressure levels, you'll never be nervous in social situations, you won't be depressed, you'll be happy all the time, you'll be able to have a bowel movement when you need one, you'll be able to pee when you have to and you'll be able to get an erection when you want one. You'll be able to be this superhuman being just by taking all these chemicals -- that's the promise of the drug industry.


These are empty promises, because any person who is on such drugs is a health wreck. They are very likely numb to the world because their senses have been shut down by these drugs. They probably have hundreds of different side effects metabolizing in their bodies as a result of these drugs. They don't have good energy, and they don't have good, healthy blood chemistry. They are basically just patching one symptom after another with these synthetic chemicals. That is not the pathway to health, and yet that's the empty promise of the pharmaceutical industry.
Disease mongering for business success!


Do you realize the pharmaceutical industry can only continue to grow by inventing new diseases and by redefining existing ones so that more and more people are now labeled diseased? That's the only way the industry can get bigger: By selling more drugs to the same population. The population is not getting any larger around here, so how does the pharmaceutical company make more money? It's easy -- it just invents more conditions.


There's no fundamental need for pharmaceuticals. The human body has no innate need for these chemicals. There is no normal, healthy human being who needs any pharmaceuticals whatsoever. Drug marketing is nothing but an effort to turn your body into a profit machine; to exploit your health, your pain, your suffering and your checkbook for companies who are paying their CEOs $134 million a year plus $120 million in stock option bonuses. They claim they're putting their money into research to help find tomorrow's cures, but that's hogwash. What they're trying to find is tomorrow's new diseases, which they can invent and then treat with more prescription drugs.


Can you name one disease that any pharmaceutical company has ever cured? Just one? There are none. There are no diseases that have been cured by pharmaceutical companies. Yet people continue to be gullible and buy into this fraudulent industry that claims if it just had a few more billion dollars and a few more years, it could cure all diseases.


So what might their cure be? Do you think it is going to be free? If drug companies do find the cure, will they distribute it for free, just to help free people from disease? Of course not. If they find a cure, they're going to charge you for it. Their research into finding a cure is their financial overhead. That's their investment in finding some drug, and it's not your responsibility to pay for their research. The fact is you're paying for their research anyway. Most people don't know this, but the vast majority of new drugs approved by the FDA are based on research that's been funded by taxpayers, not by drug companies. So you're paying for the research anyway, and you're paying for it again when you buy prescription drugs, and you're paying for it yet again when you have to pay for the side effects caused by these prescription drugs.


You're actually paying for these drugs three times, yet they do nothing to improve your health for the long term. Yes, they may mask one symptom for as long as you keep taking the pill. They can effectively lower one measurable chemical milestone such as LDL cholesterol or blood pressure, or they can mask the symptoms of arthritis pain temporarily. But none of them actually reverses any disease; they never address the underlying cause. They never help patients heal. In fact, they do patients a disservice by denying them the opportunity to heal themselves.



Drug companies invent diseases and expand on pre-existing ones to turn people into profit machines
Remember, the purpose of the drug industry today is actually to turn the human body into a profit machine. The way to do that is to expand the number of diseases that exist by attaching a pathological definition to every normal human behavior imaginable. Someday, daydreaming will probably be called a disease. Every undesirable moment of daily life will be called a disease. Have a fear of heights? Well, that could be a disease. Have trouble swimming? They could call that a disease, too. Does your skin attract mosquitoes? Well, certainly you should be taking a pharmaceutical that distributes a poison throughout your entire body and wards off mosquitoes. That's what they do for dogs with pills that prevent ticks and fleas. You feed your dog poison, and the poison circulates throughout that dog's entire body and ends up in the skin where it poisons parasites.



You see, they can come up with drugs for practically anything, but the truth is that these are not diseases. You don't need these drugs, and day-to-day life, even for healthy people, is not a 100 percent perfect experience. It's life, folks. Things happen. Get used to it, and get healthy anyway. There are speed bumps, there are potholes, but so what? No one ever got healthy by sitting around on the couch, waiting for drug companies to cure all their ailments. It won't happen, not in our lifetime, or anyone else's. Learn how to put yourself in control and transform your health outcome from this day forward. If you want to be healthy, take responsibility for your health today. Just say no to pharmaceuticals, and say yes to a healthy diet, healthy lifestyle and nutrition, while avoiding the foods and products that actually promote chronic disease. Say yes to your naturopath and say no to your MD. Fire your doctor, and hire a true healer instead. Above all, don't let any drug company, doctor or government regulatory body tell you that you are diseased because you happen to have a human emotion or a human thought or an off day that isn't 100 percent comfortable. That's not a disease -- that's life. Don't let drug companies convince you that life is a disease.

THE GREAT CAFFEINE HOAX

Most of my readers are aware of the evils of coffee, and probably all of them have given up this habit. However, I often meet raw foodists or vegetarians who, otherwise following a healthy lifestyle, still drink coffee. It’s their guilty pleasure they say. Others still have an occasional cup of green tea, maté, guarana, or other caffeinated beverages. Some may even think that these beverages are healthy. For many, it's chocolate, which gives the same strange “pleasure” as the beverages.

The effects of caffeine on the body are well researched, but you never hear about it in your newspaper. You never hear about it anywhere because the whole nation, if not the whole world, is addicted to caffeine. Doctors, journalists, scientists, writers, everyone drinks coffee. Those whose job is to inform us are usually heavy coffee drinkers. And few of them ever rise up to speak against this popular drug.

But one did, his name is Stephen Cherniske, and he's a scientist who spent 10 years of his life researching the effects of caffeine on the body and compiling them in a shocking document, “Caffeine Blues.” On the first page of this book we can read:

Caffeine can't provide energy, only chemical stimulation and induced emergency state that can lead to irritability, mood swings, and panic attacks.
Caffeine's ultimate mood effect can be letdown, which can lead to depression and chronic fatigue.
Caffeine gives the illusion of heightened alertness by dilating pupils, quickening heart rate, and raising blood pressure. In fact, caffeine does not increase overall mental activity.
I have read “Caffeine Blues” and selected the most relevant information and quotes out of it for this article.

The Great Caffeine Hoax
You may have read somewhere, or have been told in school, that as long as caffeine was consumed in “moderate” quantities, it did not pose any threat to health. You were reassured. Once in a while, you may even read somewhere in the newspaper about the “benefits” of drinking coffee. So far, so good. Who could ever say anything against coffee? Mr. Cherniske responds:

“I had been told only that caffeine was a mild stimulant and its association with health disorders was unproven. I was also told that caffeine is not addictive. Since I knew from my own painful experience that the opposite was true, I reasoned that perhaps I had been snowed on the whole topic.

“What I quickly learned was that everyone has been snowed — researchers, doctors, journalists, and especially the public. The deception has been well coordinated by an industry whose goal is quite simple: to get as much caffeine into our bodies as possible. The caffeine industry knows caffeine saps your natural sense of vitality, leaving you dependent on their products to get through the day. They know that you actually crave their products and, more importantly, that you suffer when you don't consume them.

“It's a marketing dream, and it's legal. No wonder more and more companies are jumping on the caffeine bandwagon, churning out products from specialized coffees and teas to 'herbal' caffeinated energy pills, caffeine laced fruit beverages, 'supercharged' soft drinks, caffeinated beer, and even caffeinated bottled water.” (Caffeine Blues, page 4)

The Caffeine Stimulation: Not Energy
Caffeine is a poison. The body has absolutely no use for it as it is a danger to its living function. It must detoxify it through the liver and reject it with great effort. The “stimulation” we feel after drinking coffee is nothing more than the expended effort in eliminating this poison.

The Law of Excitation
Herbert Shelton clearly explained the delusion of stimulation in his classic book, “Orthobionomics.”

“Whenever any irritating substance or influence is brought to bear upon the living organism this occasions vital resistance and excitation manifested by increased and impaired action, which, always necessarily diminishes the power of action and does so in precisely the degree to which it accelerates action; the increased action is caused by the extra expenditure of vital power called out, not supplied, by the compulsory process, and therefore the available supply of power is diminished by this amount…

“Under all circumstances, vitality or energy of any character whatever is invariably manifested or noticed by us, as energy, in its expenditure, never in its accumulation.”
In other words, what appears to give us energy is draining our energies. The stimulation people get from drinking coffee is an expenditure of vital forces, not real energy which can only come from rest.
Cherniske who well understands this, wrote:
“Caffeine does not provide energy — only chemical stimulation. The perceived energy comes from the body's struggle to adapt to increased blood levels of stress hormones... Using coffee for mood enhancement is a short-term blessing and a long-term curse. While the initial adrenal stimulation may provide a transient anti-fatigue ‘lift,’ caffeine's ultimate mood effect is a letdown, either subtle or profound. Advertisers and coffee 'institutes' have kept this side of caffeine from public view...
“While caffeine users may feel more alert, the experience is simply one of increased sensory and motor activity (dilated pupils, increased heart rate, and higher blood pressure). The quality of thought and recall is improved no more than the quality of music is improved when played at a higher volume or speed.”
The energy we get from caffeine is similar to the “energy” a horse gets when whipped. It is not energy gained but power spent responding to an injury.

Tolerance
About tolerance to caffeine, he says: “What is tolerable for one person may be excessive for another. Moreover, what is tolerable caffeine intake at some point in your life may actually cause health problems just a few years later.” We often hear that caffeine is only bad when consumed in excess, but when taken in small quantities it is not dangerous, and could even be beneficial, raising “mental alertness.” But since when can a poison be good for you?
“... of all the thousands of research papers that have been published on caffeine, none have concluded that caffeine is good for you.”
The truth is that the moderate coffee drinker is a rare gem, because coffee is so addictive that most consumers eventually end up drinking quite a bit. And the “average person” is a myth anyway. This person described by scientists in their research papers when they statistically analyze caffeine consumption simply does not exist. Not everyone reacts to a poison the same way, not everyone can detoxify it at the same rate, and not everyone consumes the same dose.
Those who are purified by, for example, a raw vegan diet, will react more strongly to caffeine than the average person. Children are more affected too, because their organism is purer. So the same dose of caffeine will have different effect on different people. So we can see the fallacy of recommending “moderation” - because it doesn't mean anything. Moderation can only concern the healthy factors of life, not those that are damaging to it. Moderation in them is impossible. Any quantity will be an excess.

But how did we come to drink coffee?
It seems that coffee beans were used as a drug long before they were used as a food. The practice of giving toxic substances to the sick has been in vogue for a long time and has not changed much today. A large percentage of today's pharmaceutical drugs contain caffeine as one of their “active ingredients.”
“It was not until the thirteenth century that Arab monks made a revolutionary discovery. Roasted coffee beans could be made into a drink. No more falling asleep at prayers! The news spread from monastery to monastery, then hit the streets in the world's finest coffeehouses.” (Caffeine Blues, page 14)
“When coffee was first brought to European cities in the seventeenth century, people were repelled by its color and taste. They complained that it smelled and looked like roofing tar. But after they experienced its stimulating effect, the beverage was quickly proclaimed to be one of nature's miracles. Historians record this phenomenon without noticing the irony of what they are writing. Caffeine is, after all, a psychoactive drug, and human beings tend to crave substances that alter their states among them caffeine, morphine, nicotine, and cocaine. Indeed, all of these alkaloids are chemically related and, while they produce widely different effects, all are poisonous.” (Caffeine Blues, page 17)
Now coffee has conquered the world to the point where almost everyone drinks coffee, if not tea, if not another type of caffeinated beverage, such as coca-cola. Americans are the largest coffee drinkers in the world - with a dazzling record of 420 million cups drunk every single day.

Toxicity of Coffee
Coffee is not a food, it is not a drink - it's a poison. It's a “mild” drug containing a whole array of toxic substances. In addition to caffeine, coffee contains hundreds of volatile substances including more than 200 acids. These the body must reject by a great expense of energy, which is the strange stimulation perceived as “energy.”
“Caffeine is a biological poison used by plants as a pesticide. The caffeine gives seeds and leaves a bitter taste, which discourages their consumption by insects and animals. If predators persist in eating a caffeine-containing plant, the caffeine can cause central nervous system disruptions and even lethal side effects. Most pests soon learn to leave the plant alone.” (Caffeine Blues, page 17)
But humans have fooled their instincts and tastes bud and transformed coffee into a drinkable beverage, often mixed with milk and sugar. The same holds true for chocolate. No one would ever think of eating cocoa beans, because of their horrible taste. So we mix it with sugar and fat and call it chocolate. But our sense of taste was right in detecting that poison - used by the plant as a pesticide to repel insects.
Caffeine, like Theo bromine (found in chocolate), has to be detoxified by the liver, and injures it overtime. Caffeine is a poison for the liver. But caffeine is not the only toxic substance in coffee.
“Remember that coffee contains a host of chemicals, not just caffeine, among them a group of extremely toxic compounds known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). You might remember them as the cancer-causing agents isolated from barbecued meat.” (Caffeine Blues, page 53)



Chocolate
Chocolate contains a small amount of caffeine, but also contains a good amount of another substance called Theo bromine. This is a substance analogous to caffeine, producing similar physiological effects. When you combine the caffeine and the Theo bromine contained in a one-ounce piece of chocolate, you end up with the stimulating power of 40 milligrams of caffeine!

But everyone drinks coffee!
“When it comes to coffee, the most common reaction I hear is, ‘How can it be bad for you? People have been drinking coffee for centuries.’
“To a scientist, this observation is meaningless. History is filled with cases where millions of people made serious mistakes. There are herbs in China, for example, that has been used medicinally for thousands of years, and are still being used to treat sinus congestion. But repeated use of these herbs over time can cause cancer of the nose and throat. Epidemiologists (scientists studying the distribution of disease in populations) have estimated that this habit has caused premature and painful death for millions of Chinese people. Clearly, great numbers of people can be wrong, especially when they don't know the facts.” I have a saying: A lot of what popular wisdom holds true is wrong. With so much misinformation spread today, I rarely say this line inappropriately.
“You should also question the sanity of common statements that we hear from friends, celebrities, and co-workers. In the movie Shadow of a Doubt, Joseph Cotten's famous line was, ‘I can't face the world in the morning. I must have coffee before I can speak.’ Now, substitute for the word coffee any other drug, say amphetamines. If a person said he or she can't face the world without amphetamines, we'd call him or her an addict. We'd whisk the person off to rehab and maybe even throw him in jail. But because coffee is a drug we consume ourselves, we wink and nod and say, 'Yeah, isn’t it the truth!'“
Caffeine and Impaired Digestion
“Impaired digestion is more of a problem than most people realize - and it gets worse with caffeine. That jumbo 32-ounce soft drink or the double espresso we have with meals is a major contributor to the bloating, pain, and gas that roughly 50 percent of American adults experience after they eat. And these symptoms are only the physical signs of indigestion. Unseen are the harmful by-products of fermentation and putrefaction. Some of these by-products are absorbed back into the bloodstream, and the toxins that stay in the gut increase your risk of gastrointestinal disease.”

Caffeine and Sleep Disturbance
“There is a popular notion that coffee before 3 P.M. can't disturb your sleep. In fact, caffeine at any time of the day can cause sleep problems, especially if you are under stress.”
It seems that caffeine disturbs the most important phase of sleep, the deep-sleep phase. It's a vicious circle: caffeine intake leads to decreased sleep quantity, which leads to increased caffeine intake, which leads to decreased sleep quality, which leads to disease and fatigue, which leads to increased caffeine intake, and so on.
“We also tend to think that caffeine-related problems are mostly experienced by people in the workforce. In reality, those hardest hit appear to be the elderly. Oven though seniors tend to cut back on coffee, the caffeine they do ingest is detoxified much more slowly and their nervous systems are much more sensitive than those of younger people. Research is now showing that sleep disturbance among the elderly is a major factor not only in age-related physical degeneration but in mental degeneration as well.” (Caffeine Blues, page 85)

Caffeine & Malnutrition
Coffee also causes many nutritional deficiencies. Poisons in tea and coffee, including caffeine, cause an increased loss of B vitamins in the urine. There is also a loss of calcium.
“Research just published in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism found that caffeine increased potassium loss by nearly one-third. To make matters worse, such mineral loss appears to be accelerated when caffeine is mixed with sugar. Studies show that the mechanism behind this mineral-wasting phenomenon may have to do with the fact that caffeine impairs the kidney's ability to hold on to calcium, magnesium, and other minerals. Most recently, zinc was added to the list of nutrients depleted by caffeine.” (Caffeine Blues, page 90)
To add to this list, iron absorption is also impaired when caffeine is taken.

Caffeine and Mental Illness
I have known for a long time that even a moderate caffeine intake may cause a small depression, the “blues.” I have noticed this on myself a couple years ago when I started drinking green tea, thinking that this beverage only had a tiny amount of caffeine in it. I couldn't fall asleep before 2 a.m. and started to experience a mild depression.
As soon as I discarded the green tea, it went away. How many people feel depressed and tired for no apparent reason? And how many of them drink coffee or tea and can't give it up?
“If a person were injected with 500 milligrams of caffeine, within an hour he or she would exhibit symptoms of severe mental illness, among them, hallucinations, paranoia, panic, mania, and depression. But the same amount of caffeine administered over the course of a day only produces the milder forms of insanity for which we take tranquilizers and antidepressants.” (Caffeine Blues, page 124)

Coffee and Constipation
Many people claim that caffeine helps them maintain normal bowel regularity, but that is the same as relying on laxatives. Either way, you're using a drug to induce bowel movements, and ultimately many coffee drinkers become dependent on this laxative action. Without the caffeine stimulation, they experience what is known as ‘rebound constipation.’ (page 173)

Caffeine and Headaches
“Forty-five million Americans suffer from chronic headaches. Seventeen million are migraine sufferers.”
“The person with a headache doesn’t know that it was caused or triggered by caffeine, so he or she looks for a painkiller (analgesic). Studies show that in 95 percent of cases, the analgesic drug contains caffeine. Such painkillers work, especially if the headaches were caused by caffeine withdrawal, but the caffeine ultimately triggers another headache. Ultimately, the hapless sufferer becomes dependent on the painkiller for even a modicum of relief, but the headaches increase in frequency and intensity. This may go on for many years, creating a cycle of pain and depression that destroys the quality of life.” (Caffeine Blues, page 185)



“A caffeine deprivation (withdrawal) headache results from the normal opening (dilation) of blood vessels that are constricted by caffeine. In other words, habitual caffeine intake keeps blood vessels in the brain constricted. When caffeine is not consumed, these blood vessels return to their normal blood-flow potential, and it is this increased circulation in the brain that causes the throbbing agony of a caffeine withdrawal headache


Adrenal Exhaustion
“Caffeine contributes to adrenal exhaustion, wherein a raft of important hormones is depleted. The destruction is not silent. You’ll feel it every day in many ways as you simply can no longer command the vitality necessary for what were once everyday tasks.” (Caffeine Blues, page 197)
Caffeine and Women
“Compared to men, research shows that caffeine is much more damaging to women, producing adverse effects at lower intake. The effects are even more far-reaching when you consider the harm caffeine does to fetuses and nursing babies.” (Caffeine Blues, page 225)
Here are other facts about caffeine concerning women: caffeine causes iron deficiency; increases calcium loss and risk of osteoporosis; caffeine produces short-term mood elevation, but contributes to rebound depression.


Ecology: pesticides, rain forest destruction and land use issues.
Coffee is the most important crop in the world. More than wheat, rice, corn, or livestock. More than fruit, more than vegetables, or any other staple crop - coffee is number one. More than cars, more than steel, more than everything, only third next to petroleum and some metals used to make weapons. The reason: coffee is a drug, nearly everyone is addicted to it, and it’s part of the culture.


Coffee also happens to be one of the most heavily sprayed agricultural crops. In the countries where it is grown, there are few restrictions concerning pesticide use, where there are fewer laws to protect workers and the environment.
“Coffee plantations use huge amounts of pesticides that pollute the land, rivers, and destroy plant and animal life around them. The beans go off to market, but what happens to coffee pulp and the processing water? This water, now laden with pesticides, fungicides, and nitrogenous waste, goes directly into local streams, rivers, and lakes. With no filtration or reconditioning, the water pollution harms aquatic life as well as the health of people who live alongside those same bodies of water. And the coffee pulp? It sits in huge, rotting piles, leaching out its high nitrogen discharge into the groundwater and eventually into the same polluted waterways.” Cherniske also mentions in his book how coffee plantations have probably contributed to the destruction of Rain Forests more than any other crop in the world, since large portions of the forest are destroyed every year to make room for the coffee plantations.
Coffee culture is labor-intensive and requires large portions of land and resources. These are astronomical numbers once you get your calculator out and consider that the world demand for coffee is 13 billion pounds a year. Since the average plant produces one to two pounds of roasted coffee a year, this will require 7 billion trees. Judging from what the average farmer can get from one acre, it ends up that 70 million acres are devoted to grow this non-food, this drug, this poison that contributes to human suffering and ruins the health of the millions without their being aware of it.
70 million acres devoted to the culture of coffee. Let’s ponder that for a moment. 70 million acres... If we add to that the land devoted to cacao culture (for the making of chocolate), tea leaves culture, sugar cane (for the making of sugar), and grape culture (for the making of wine), we would arrive at frighteningly high numbers. Hundreds of millions of acres of the most fertile land in the world exclusively devoted to the culture of non-foods and beverages that contribute to the suffering of humanity. Why talk about a lack of food? We’re simply cultivating the wrong plants for the wrong purposes!

The corruption of the health food industry.
“Until the 1990’s, caffeine was one of the no-nos of the health-food industry, like sugar and white flour. Caffeine-free herbal teas got their start in the health food industry, where caffeine-free products have traditionally been the hallmark of natural food choices. Now those same stores have huge display bins full of coffee beans and many have coffee bars serving pumped-up caffeine concoction. How did this happen? (Caffeine Blues, page 266)
“The face of the industry changed as the original visionaries sold out to conglomerates for which profit superseded health principles. The proliferation of organic coffee bins in natural food stores took off, and before you knew it, manufacturers of health food products discovered what the food and beverage industry has known for decades: Caffeine sells.” (Caffeine Blues, page 267)

Coffee replacement and giving up coffee
We know it: giving up coffee is rarely easy, especially for those who have been drinking a few cups a day for many years. The detoxification symptoms can include headaches, depression, tiredness, and many more discomforts.


Cherniske mentions a plan where one can give up coffee with little discomforts, by gradually replacing coffee with herbal replacements until no more coffee is drunk. However, this process seems a bit long, and I personally would recommend a more radical method, but people will go with what they think they can do best.


It takes 60 days for your body to eliminate all the caffeine and really see the results. But this could be accelerated by a short fast, or a raw food, eliminating diet, such as a strict raw fruits and vegetables diet.


There are coffee replacements that can be used to give up coffee. Health food stores now offers a wide range of products, usually made from roasted cereals, that have a similar taste to coffee. However, you have to make sure that you buy genuine, caffeine free replacements. Items such as guarana, kola nut, green tea, maté tea, and ephedra are just other plant sources of caffeine and other stimulant drugs. They impair the body’s functions just like coffee does. There is also a new product called “Teeccino” that brews like regular coffee but does not contain any caffeine or any coffee beans. It is made from dates, figs, carob, barley, etc. It can be found in many health food stores or ordered from: Teeccino Caffé, Inc P.O. Box 42259, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, 800-498-3434, www.teeccino.com, email: teeccino@aol.com

mucoid plaque is in everyone

Education From An Eye Witness
PART 1

A Healthy Body

Before we can explain how is created in the intestines and the ramifications of its various forms, it is important to understand the fundamental physiological digestive processes. This chapter is designed to do this.

 

"Discover These
Shocking But Simple, 100%, Safe,

All-Natural Colon
Cleansing Methods That Will Boost

Your Energy And
Automatically Improve Your Health...

 

The following experience may not compare to trekking in Nepal or the North Cascades, but it can prove infinitely more rewarding for your health. What I hope you will gain from this is the scientific understanding of how your body works and what happens to cause it to malfunction.



Through the vehicle of imagination, enter now with me the world of the digestive tract's environment. Step out of your body and into another one all prepared for you. This new body has a protective coating which will guard it from all the enzymes, antibodies, acids and other chemicals that could dissolve or digest a normal particle.



We will carry with us various measuring instruments so that we can measure the voltage, acids, alkalinity, and other activities of chemistry and physiology. We will trek through two different bodies, the first one a healthy body and the second an average body. We will interview those in charge of each section.




Exploring the Mouth
Are you ready? Here we go. First stop is in the mouth, and look, there's the mouth manager. Let's see what he has to say. "Hello, Mr. Mouth Manager, could we talk with you for a while?"
"Sure, I've been expecting you."
"Gee, how did you know we were coming?"
"From our Central Control Command Center, natch. The CCCC sees everything that's happening and what's going to happen before it happens. It knows what to do every second. It never fails and has never made a mistake. It tells us what we need to do and even when something is going to happen before it happens."

 

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"Ah, yes, you mean the brain relays messages to you."
"Oh, you scientists think you have all the answers, but I'm telling you that you don't. The brain is just a small part of the CCCC. It's only one of the members of the CCCC in which the intelligence runs a small portion of its many functions. Did you know that the CCCC has never made a single mistake since the first human being was created?"
"Now wait just a minute, if you had seen all the sick people I have, I doubt if you would make such a statement."


"I would too. If you bought a brand new automobile that would last for 10 years, but you used bad gas, never changed the oil or then ran the thing over a cliff, you wouldn't expect it to last for 10 years would you? The same thing with your bodies. Your wills, emotions, eating habits, polluted environment and other misuse of your activities force situations that would never have happened if you'd followed Nature's laws. You gave us bad gas, never changed the oil. In short, you wreck your bodies. You go too far - you go past the point where we can keep up with the repair work.You don't supply us with the tools we need to work with. You force conditions beyond our control otherwise your bodies would never get sick or wear out."







"What do you mean they would live forever? If that's true I want to know all about it."
"Look, Mac, what you're asking will take up too much time. I have to get back to work. They just passed the word down that a meal is gonna start and I gotta get ready. Ask the stomach superintendent to give you the scoop."
"Great, perfect timing! Now we can see what really happens. Let's do some tests. See here, the pH is 7. That is definitely above average. Sir, Mr. Mouth Manager, isn't 7 pH a little high?"



"No, Mac. You gotta understand that you're in a healthy body, not an average one. Lemme give you some advice. If you folks would eat what your bodies are made to eat, everyone would have at least a 7 pH in the mouth. Then you would have a better chance against tooth decay and we could digest the food better.



Tooth decay's caused by acids bacteria such as streptococcus mutants and s. sanguis bacteria, and parasites such as E. gingivalis which can't live in a pH of 7 and so - no tooth problems and no gum problems in this mouth!" Here we have Bifidobacterium dentium.77



"Sir, can you just tell us a few important facts about what happens here?"
"OK, just a few. Look over there and you see saliva being secreted. It's preparing for the food. Saliva contains the enzyme called amylase ptyalin. This enzyme helps in the digestion of starch and other things scientists don't know nothing' about. The saliva pH ranges between 7.0 and 7.4.




"We have several glands that make everything wet: the parotid, submandibular, sublingual glands and buccal glands. Bet you didn't know we had so many glands in here, did you?"


"Of course I did. I've studied this subject well, but I realize they don't know it all and I like getting it straight from the horse's mouth. Oops, no pun intended."
Right then Mr. Mouth Manager gave me a weird look, but he continued, "Depending on how much food is eaten, saliva secretion is as much as 1500 milliliters a day. This depends also on how well a person chews his food to mix the amylase and ptyalin enzymes in the food. That'll make you healthier and you'll live longer. Got to go now."



Suddenly he bounded to one side, "Look out, here comes the first bite!" and he went flying into his work. We quickly headed for a safer place. "Wow, look at the pH readings jump up to 8.5 and look at all those amylase enzymes, millions of them! Look how alive and happy they are. See all the good bacteria destroying the bad bacteria from the food that's being eaten. Let's get out of here before we get chomped. We'll slide down the esophagus. Boy, look how all the moisture makes this slippery. Yahoo! Down we go!"

 

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Exploring the Stomach
Kerplunk! We landed in the upper part of the stomach. Look, there's the Stomach Superintendent. He sure looks important. "Hi there, Mr. Stomach Superintendent, can you tell us what is happening here?"
"Certainly. Notice how the stomach is churning and secreting gastric juices. We've prepared ahead of time and all functions are operating and normal. Stand aside please, or you may find yourselves wrapped in a morsel of well-chewed food."
We moved over quickly, and he continued, "What is taking place here is the most important activity of metabolic function.


I know the brain likes to think it's the most important because it send signals and keeps track of things, but its ability to function is totally dependent upon the stomach. The brain can never stop doing its job unless something went wrong here first.


The heart - same thing. It's completely reliant on us. The same thing is true of the liver, lungs, and every other organ and body tissue. Sometimes we get an argument from the colon. It threatens to clog up to show who is boss, but it can't unless something goes wrong here first. Yes, the stomach is the life of the body. Make certain you take care of it and you will have no problems. It will take care of you."


The Stomach Superintendent broke off to issue an order to some of his workers, then he turned back to us. "Now for your instruction: the process of gastric digestion begins with the willis centrum nervosum - the largest and highest group of sympathetic prevertebral ganglia, located on the superior part of the abdominal aorta on either side of the celiac artery. It contains sympathetic neurons whose unmyelinated postganglionic axons innervate the stomach."




"Sir, ahem. Excuse me, but will you speak English please?"
"I beg your pardon. Will you kindly follow me."
We were carried down through deep grooves by wave-like motions to the lower part of the stomach.

 

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"Now look carefully and you will see a yellowish-white liquid oozing out through the canaliculi."
"Ah, that must be hydrochloric acid. What's the pH, sir?"
"We keep the solution between .25 to .8. After it mixes with food, it will cause the food to become about a 2.1. That will vary according to how much food and what kind. Now if you will wait a few moments, you can watch what happens when the food comes down here."
While we were waiting, the Stomach Superintendent said that he would give us the secret to good health. "You know enough about chemistry to understand that an acid compound of .25 is so acid that it could burn a hole right through the walls of the stomach or anywhere else. Why do you suppose that isn't happening here right now?"
"I believe you're going to tell us about the sodium bicarbonate buffer system."
He nodded. "Precisely. This buffer system is perhaps the most important chemical activity of the body. Without it you could live for only a few minutes. To maintain good health, the pH of arterial blood needs to be 7.4. The pH of venous blood can be 7.35, because of extra quantities of carbon dioxide that form from carbonic acid. The composition of the sodium bicarbonate buffer system consists of carbonic acid and organic sodium bicarbonate (H2CO3) + (NaHCO3).
"Now in terms that you can comprehend: any acids, through food or that otherwise come into the body, must be buffered before they can be taken by the blood and utilized or removed through the lungs or kidneys.
"In other words, if a person ate a large section of a decomposing (rotting), dead animal's carcass, mucus would be secreted as a gel whose viscosity is 30-260 times that of water. To put it simply, the acids from the decaying tissue in the muscle from the posterior section of a cow, commonly called a steak, would destroy the body if the bicarbonate buffer system did not function.
"Protein, such as found in meat and dairy products, produces sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid as well as other acids. These are deadly poisons to the body and could cause serious damage to anything they contact however it is the bicarbonate buffer system that neutralizes these acids.
"Now look there!" He pointed to the stomach's lining, the mucosa. "There are two different tubular glands: the gastric (or oxyntic) glands and the pyloric glands. The oxyntic glands secrete the sine qua non - hydrochloric acid, pepsinogen and mucus. The pyloric glands secrete mainly mucus, which is filled with organic sodium, bicarbonates, and other alkalizing minerals which are positively necessary to protect the stomach walls from both the hydrochloric acid and the acids from food and drinks. Small quantities of various enzymes are also secreted in the stomach juices including gastric lipase, gastric amylase, and gelatinase.
"Another very important substance is secreted by the oxyntic cells along with hydrochloric acid. It is called the intrinsic factor. This substance is essential for absorption of vitamin B-12 in the ileum. When the acid-producing cells of the stomach are depressed, which frequently occurs in chronic gastritis, the person may develop achlorhydria and also pernicious anemia.This can lead to death.
"Hydrochloric acid , pepsin, and the intrinsic factor, are absolutely vital to digestion. Pepsin and hydrochloric acid are capable of digesting all the different types of protein and collagen in the diet. Collagen is the major component in the intercellular connective tissues. You need collagen and organic sodium to keep your skin youthful. So pepsin is your friend, but it can only work in a pH of 2-3 and is completely inactive at a pH above a 5." This is quite contrary to many of the other digestive enzymes that must have an alkaline environment to become active.
He then pointed to the surface of the stomach mucosa and said that between the glands it had a continuous layer of mucous cells that secrete large quantities of a far more viscid and alkaline mucus than that which coats the mucosa. This mucus was a gel-like layer, usually more than 1mm thick. "This provides an effective shell of protection and also serves as a lubrication for transporting food. The slightest irritation of the mucosa directly stimulates the mucous cells to secrete 'copious quantities of thick, viscid mucus', which forms a barrier that prevents digestion of the gastric wall," he explained.


"Should the stomach lining ever run low on organic sodium, the cells would become acid and we would be forced to shut down hydrochloric acid production, which would ruin all digestive processes in the body. From this point on health deteriorates rapidly."


"Sir, I believe that I already have the answer to a certain question, but I have not always been successful in my explanations to others. Most people know that the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and it's very acid, but they become confused when I tell them the stomach wall needs to be alkaline. I would appreciate it if you would discuss this."


"I would be happy to explain this seeming paradox, but why don't you place your pH meter right inside the epithelial wall?" I removed my meter which was held by a cord hanging on my shoulders, and I placed the probe to the stomach wall, shoving it in rather deep. It gave me the creeps, but there were no stomach quakes so I flipped the switch to on, and up went the needle to a 7.0. I twisted the probe around to be sure I got an accurate reading. Bingo! It hit 7.4.



Then I pulled it out and measured the surface of the epithelial wall. It dropped to 5 pH. He then said, "The stomach lumen is the only area in the body that can be acid. However, all cells in the stomach wall must be alkaline or they cannot create hydrochloric acid. Acid cells are weak or dying cells. Alkaline cells are happy cells, and happy cells help to maintain alkalinity, so they can handle the acids. Man's thoughts and feelings can produce acid or alkaline cells just by the nature of those thoughts and feelings. Fear, anger and strong emotions create acids which suppress stomach secretions and deplete the alkaline reserve, especially organic sodium."




For the benefit of my readers, I asked the following questions: "You keep talking about the importance of sodium and almost everyone takes pounds of sodium into their body each year, when they use table salt. How is..."



"Table salt! Ahh!!" he interrupted forcefully. This very distinguished person was in a rage. He stamped his foot and shook his finger at us. "Inorganic salt, sea salt, rock salt, inorganic sodium chloride! Bad! Highly destructive. It is body enemy #4, along with distilled vinegar and fried foods. It is almost as dangerous as alcohol. It cannot be used, and it requires a great deal of effort to get rid of it."
"I thought just about everyone takes some sodium chloride," I said meekly.
"Most people do and most people are sick, but you are in a healthy body and we seldom deal with it here, thank heaven!"


Just then he received an emergency call on his beeper, and when he came back he was even more upset. "I have received word that this body is eating potato chips, a rare thing for this healthy person, and if he makes a habit of it he is sure to have problems. Now you can see first-hand the emergency activity occurring during salt intake."
We looked around and saw all the workers running about. Juices secreted through the oxyntic and pyloric glands. Everything was operating quickly, and the stomach muscles began to churn with strong, powerful pulsations. I noticed that the mucous lining was growing right before our eyes. Copious quantities of thick, viscid mucus bubbled up everywhere. We had to get to higher ground fast!



We saw the chewed potato chips move into the stomach and when the mucus touched the sharp crystals of the salt, it shriveled and became hard. Then more mucous wrapped itself over the salt crystals and more mucous shriveled and hardened so much and in such quantities that it finally succeeded in wrapping a coat of protection around the salt crystals, which were carried off in clumps of mucus.



The Stomach Superintendent said sadly, "If you only knew how that depletes our alkaline reserves, you people would outlaw the use of inorganic salt, unless someone just wants to use it to create disease, and make money from trying to treat the disease. Hint, hint!"
"The same thing happens with alcohol and cooked meat. If people are going to eat meat, they should eat it raw like meat-eating animals do. That way we would have a much easier time of it. Parasites would be the big problem then, but that would be less difficult to deal with than lack of alkalizing minerals."




We watched the food churn in the stomach, which was trying to mix up the food with hydrochloric acid and pepsin and take care of the salt, all at the same time. I could see that the Superintendent was getting tired of the obvious pig-out the body was having, and he said, "This healthy body is a vegetarian and we don't usually have many problems, but sometimes he mixes various types of foods, such as fruits and sprouted grains, etc.


As you can see, it makes our job easier if we have only one kind of food to deal with at a time. You can tell how difficult it is to get the hydrochloric acid and the right enzymes to mix with the right food when we have all the mucus to deal with. We consider ourselves lucky that we have plenty of alkaline minerals to handle emergencies like this."



I wanted to know more about the mucosal barrier and I asked him what the most dangerous substance to this needed barrier was. He replied, "Strong negative emotions are enemy #1. They throw everything out of kilter.




Nothing works properly, all glands malfunction, and the whole body rapidly uses up the sodium and other minerals of the alkaline reserve. Any kind of stress, even exercise, stops all digestion. No one should do any strenuous exercise right after eating. Negative emotions create acids all through the body and nothing depletes the system faster. Body enemy #2 is drugs, #3 is alcohol, #4 is inorganic salt, distilled vinegar and fried foods and #5 is cooked meat dairy products are #6, wheat is #7 and #8 is white sugar.




"Down here we are mortally afraid of acetic, propionic, and butyric acids, which are found in butter, meat and some oils. The worst of all is acetylsalicylic acid and salicylic acid, both of which are contained in aspirin and alcohol. If these acids get into the mucosa, they destroy the epithelial cells, then the muscle wall itself is in danger. At that point no function can take place and the stomach is dead on the spot.



"What is most common and should never happen is for the stomach to run out of organic sodium. Then acids from food could destroy the stomach wall. But before this happens the body will use other minerals to take the place of organic sodium.


"I am sure you noticed that wherever the sodium chloride (table salt) touched the mucosa, the secretion of mucus increased six times the normal, and the color changed from opaque to white flakes and even reddish ones. If the mucus were thin and the sodium reserve had been depleted, the epithelial wall could have hemorrhaged.




"Continued generation of negative emotions, or the use of alcohol or salt, would result in breaking the barrier, which would cause an ulcer or the mucosal lining would become hard and perhaps crystallize. At either point, proper digestion would come to a halt and the body would begin to deteriorate at an accelerated rate.
"Should this continue, and it would unless the dietary habits radically changed for the better, the lymph drainage area would become blocked. Now, under the epithelial wall, lymph would back up and become hardened. On the outside of the epithelial wall, the mucous membranes would calcify and crystallize. All normal gastric fluids would stop and the degree of 1. poor circulation, 2. limited oxygen, 3. excess protein, 4. excess inorganic sodium chloride, 5. limited organic sodium and 6.



the presence of acid and other chemical compounds would determine the type and seriousness of the disease that a body would develop. Extreme cases result in cancer.
"As with cancer, a diffuse thickening of all layers may take place and may involve a large part of, or sometimes the entire, gastric (stomach) wall, which becomes contracted and rigid. The mucosal folds become immobile and inflexible. The same phenomenon may take place anywhere throughout the alimentary canal."




At this point Mr. Stomach Superintendent cocked his head and seemed to be listening intently. Then he looked at me and said, "The CCCC has informed us that you have found a way to remove the mucoid plaque from the stomach, small intestines and the colon, and you are now teaching people to rebuild their alkaline mineral reserve. How perfectly wonderful! How life-saving! You certainly have our support!"
He then conducted us to the pyloric valve and when it opened, we thanked him and proceeded into the duodenum.



Exploring the Duodenum
Daily secretions of Intestinal Juices
Volume (ml) pH
Saliva 1000 6.0-7.4
Gastric secretion 1500 .05-3.5
Pancreatic secretion 1000-1500 7.1-8.3
Bile 800-1000 7.8-8.6
Small intestinal secretion 1800 7.5-8.0
Crypts of Lieberkuhn 200 7.5-80
Brunner's gland secretion 200 8.0-8.9
Large intestinal secretion 7.5-8.0
Sodium Bicarbonate secretion 8.0
"Oh, look at the massive amounts of mucus," I exclaimed. I took out my pH meter and found the pH of the Brunner gland secretion to be a perfect 8.9. "Wow, that's the highest reading so far. Ah, here comes the Duodenal Director."



"Did you notice the large quantity of mucus as you came in?" he asked.
I nodded in acknowledgment and he continued, "This mucus comes from the Brunner glands and it coats the walls of this section because when the food comes in from the stomach, it's very acid and would burn holes right through the wall if it weren't for the mucus. This mucus is a thick secretion composed mainly of water, electrolytes, and a mixture of several glycoproteins. If it weren't for the mucus from the Brunner glands everyone would get ulcers. Right here is the area where over 50% of all the ulcers occur.




"So you see, there are two major functions of the duodenum. The first is bringing the food up to alkalinity. We do this by secreting alkaline juices from the Brunner cells, bile, pancreas, and by the crypts of Lieberkuhn. We can also disassociate the carbonic acid into carbon dioxide and water the blood will absorb the carbon dioxide and expel those acids through the lungs. Makes our job much easier, I'm tellin' you. Now all this is necessary before the enzymes from the pancreas will work, which is the #2 function of the duodenum - mixing the food with alkaline enzymes.




"As you see, the mucus ends just a few inches from the opening and the reason is right here." He pointed to two little cave-like openings.




I said, "That must be where the bile duct and pancreatic ducts enter the duodenum."
"You're right on, and the reason there's so little mucus after this point is that the bile pH is 7.8 and the pancreatic juice is 8.3, so these alkaline juices mix with the acid food and bring the food and chyme into alkalinity. This is vitally important because all the enzymes from the pancreas function best when the pH is above a 7."



"You mean protease, lipase, maltase, lactase, chymotrypsin, carboxypolypeptidase, ribonuclease, deoxyribonuclease, and trypsinogen?
"Yes, I see you've done your homework, but there are many more enzymes than that, for instance, peptidase, nuclease, nucleosidase, phosphatase, sucrose, procarboxypolypeptidase, ..."
"Wait, wait!" I interrupted. "That's enough already." He changed his course but continued.



"And, there is much more to these enzymes than your scientists know anything about. They also have a lot of information that they're not telling you, and I know this because the CCCC has informed us. But allow me to tell you a little more about enzymes, because without them the body would die.




"The pancreatic juices contain three major enzyme groups: amylytic, lipolytic, and proeolytic. There are more but we'll stick to these groups. The pancreatic juice also contains large quantities of bicarbonate ions which help in neutralizing the acid food and chyme entering the duodenum from the stomach.




"The amylase splits starch molecules. Its optimum operation pH is 6.9. Lipolytic group has at least 3 enzymes: lipase, which operates best around 8 pH and breaks down fats and alcohol and tripsinogen, chymotrypsins, and zymogens, which all work best at a pH of 8. These enzymes are so powerful that they complete the digestion of most of the proteins all the way to the amino acid state.





I was thinking long and hard about what he had to say, for I began to see serious contradictions here. Not from him, but from what was being said in the medical and health industry. The facts were clear and medical text books proved it. The bowel really needs to be alkaline, but most doctors say otherwise, at least in practice. I wondered why this information was not being told. Even the "good guys," the doctors we all trusted, were either unaware of these important facts or...or what? I thought how all the health food stores and all the doctors were telling people to use Lacto acidolphilus which acidifies the bowel. What was going on here? Yes, I was thinking long and hard trying to catch every point and not miss the hints given. He continued.
"Bile is necessary not only for alkalizing acids but it also helps digest the food, especially fats, even though bile has no enzymes. Bile helps in the absorption of fatty acids, monoglycerides, cholesterol, and other lipids from the intestinal tract. Bile is produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. The average secretion of the bile per day is 700-1200 ml (3 to 5 cups). The bile is composed of water, organic sodium, chloride, electrolytes, cholesterol, lecithin, bilirubin, and small amounts of calcium, potassium, and fatty acids.



"In the forming of gall stones, crystals of calcium salts are responsible for nucleation and growth of stones, but this occurs because organic sodium has been depleted. Organic sodium keeps calcium soft and keeps it from forming stones.
"Every person with cholesterol problems, hardening of the arteries, calcium spurs, and bone problems are deficient in organic sodium.



"Persons with gallstones, before as well as after cholecystectomy, (gall bladder removal) have a bile acid pool about half that of a healthy person, and they secrete bile saturated with cholesterol night and day. This means digestion is totally out of whack. It also means they are having serious trouble throughout their alimentary canal, and all caused by a lack of organic sodium in their diet. Of course they lack sodium mainly because they are eating too much acid food, or are out of control emotionally.
"Now, the sodium keeps the bile alkaline. If the body runs low on sodium, which is standard these days, the body will extract it from the bile because it needs it elsewhere and two important things can happen: 1. gallstones are formed and 2. the bile becomes acid. When this happens, we are in big trouble."
He pointed below us and continued, "As you look down the duodenum you notice how the good bacteria thrives and there are no parasites. Should the bile turn acid, the good bacteria can change, mutate or die, and harmful bacteria and fungi might develop. As these conditions develop, mucoid plaque increases. Then parasites come in to help try to clean up the mess.
"When bile becomes acid, the chances of ulcers forming become greatly increased, food cannot be digested or assimilated properly and the entire alimentary canal becomes acid, which creates one problem after another until finally the body dies.
"Over 50 percent of all peptic ulcers are formed in the duodenum and are caused by eating food not designed for humans - I mean acid food. These acid foods drain the body of valuable minerals, especially sodium and calcium which are needed for buffering those acids, for smooth peristaltic action, as well as for just about every metabolic function in the body." Since it takes several hours before the food passes into the duodenum, and we didn't have time to wait, the Duodenal Director escorted us to the jejunum intestine. The length of the duodenum is only about 10 inches long, so we were there quickly.

 

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Exploring the Jejunum
Waiting for us was the Jejunum Tour Guide. He was similar to the Stomach Supervisor, rather sophisticated in his appearance. It was as clear as the nose on your face that he took his work seriously and considered it very important, which it is.
"Greetings from all the staff of the jejunum and ileum," he said. "It is my distinct pleasure to conduct you through the most important part of the physical body. Initially I shall summarize the operational specifications and show you exactly what transpires here.
"The jejunum and ileum comprise the longest section of the digestive tube, which is about 22 feet long and is far more important to body metabolism than the colon. It is here that most of the work done by the mouth, stomach, and duodenum pays off. When, and only when, they have been able to do their work properly, can we do ours."
We began to move down the long tube, and our guide continued, "As you can see, the growth of bacteria here is very plentiful, and within all this boundless friendly bacteria are millions of enzymes working like Santa's elves. They are busy making presents for all the body's functions."



"Look in here," he said, and we stuck our heads into a whitish mass which resembled a cross between cotton and whipped cream.



"See, these enzymes are producing B vitamins and that group over there is manufacturing Vitamin B-12. Now come with me."
We moved several feet further on and again he showed us another mass. This was a little different in color, mostly tan. We peeked inside and he said, "These enzymes are making amino acids, while up there you can see a group making our special antibiotics."
We were really impressed and also wondered how everything stayed so moist. I thought about growing pineapple there because the climate definitely felt tropical. We commented on this and he replied, "Notice down there, the pits of the crypt of Lieberkuhn. See how they secrete pure extracellular fluid."
I took out my meter and found a pH reading of 8. I was curious and so I said, "Many doctors have implied that it is normal to have a pH of 6.5 in the intestines. What is going on here?"
He smiled and answered, "Of course we know perfectly well what reading a healthy body should have, but according to the CCCC, which knows everything, your scientists have never measured a healthy body. When does a perfectly healthy body go to a doctor? Almost every test made has been done on sick people and there is a vast difference in body chemistry between a sick person and a healthy one.
"If you want to really know what is right or wrong in the body, study anatomy. Take your pH measurements and see how we are constantly trying to keep the intestines alkaline by secreting alkaline fluids through the Crypts of Lieberkuhn."
I couldn't help thinking how may health practitioners use acids to try to kill off Candida. It helps some, but they do weaken the body. Candida does die in acid, but we can't get our bowels acid enough to kill all the Candida. Why not assist the body to become alkaline and strengthen all body functions so it can wipe out Candida through its own immune system? To my surprise, our Tour Guide read my mind.
"Bacteria, Rich, that's the secret. Help get the body alkaline, clean out the intestines, and then give it the right bacteria, which will help keep it alkaline in here. Too many people use only acidolphilus. It's OK for the upper stomach, but not down here. That creates acids of 4.5 pH and can acidify the bowel at a pH of 6.5 or less. We suffer at that pH and always try to remove it with our alkaline secretions. The Stomach Superintendent can use acidophilus in his upper chambers, but here it produces way too much lactic acid. Digestion suffers as you have recently learned, for the enzymes here in the small intestine cannot function well in a pH below 6.5. Still, it's better than having candidiasis and E-coli and other harmful bacteria, but it is not the natural bacteria we need for perfect health."
Then I thought, "He read my mind again. How did he do that?" And he did it again. "Rich, the CCCC, the Central Control Command Center, is what science calls Innate Intelligence - you call it God. It is located in each cell and, in fact, is within each atom. It governs all life everywhere. That is why a person's body is incapable of making a single error. Everything that makes a body deteriorate is caused by what the owner has done to it, for it must have the correct chemical environment to function. Given that environment, it will repair itself and with proper care and positive feelings, it will live forever."
We need to remove these toxins as quickly as we can, but at the same time we must also reestablish the innate patterns. We absolutely must do both at the same time.
"Powerful statements," I thought, and then remembered Alexis Carrel and his chicken heart that wouldn't die. I also thought about Li Chung yun, the Chinese Professor who finally died at the age of 256 in 1933. Then I thought about the Biblical characters who lived almost a thousand years. I also reflected upon the many individuals who have lived several hundred years in perfect health and how they prefer to keep their identity silent. That made me think, "Truth is indeed stranger than fiction." I chuckled to myself, thinking how so few people know so little about these things, and how it is better not even to talk about it. People's belief systems are so rigid that it is hard for them to investigate other things.
"That Innate Intelligence," he proceeded, "knows exactly what to do every time, every place and under all conditions. It can repair anything just as it is able to create our bodies. It is in touch with everyone everywhere and that is how I knew what you were thinking."
I just smiled and felt at peace, and he said, "Rich, you always wanted to know about enzymes. There are several kinds of peptidase which split into amino acids. Four are for splitting disaccharides into monosaccharides - sucrase, maltase, isomaltase and lactase. We also use some lipase."
"Well, what about emotions - how do they affect this environment?" I inquired enthusiastically.
"When the emotions of the body's owner become intensely ruffled, they may cause extreme stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. This, of course, creates excessive acid throughout the system. Some of the acids can find their way into the canal here and when that happens, massive amounts of mucus are created. So much so that some people have to have a bowel movement of ropy mucus as often as every 30 minutes, and this without fecal material. This usually happens in the colon, but it can happen up here too.
"Here is something you haven't thought about yet, Rich. There is another reason why the intestines secrete so much mucus. There is a great deal of bacterial activity that takes place inside the feces, which you like to call the stool."
"Yes", I said, "because we are always sitting on it." I laughed at my pun, and he smiled as he continued.
"This bacterial activity inside the feces can be harmful to the intestinal wall and so can the acids that are inside the feces. Is not Infinite Intelligence wonderful to have designed the body to take care of all the activities?" I nodded my head in wonder and appreciation for that omniscience and omnipotence.
Our guide moved to an area a little more free of bacteria, and he asked us to look very carefully. I got down on my hands and knees and with a powerful magnifying glass, I examined a clear, gel-like fluid which is the natural protective mucosal lining - part of the bowel barrier. Here I looked past the folds and striations of the intestinal wall and saw what covered the entire intestinal wall of the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. They were microscopic structures that resembled fingers. They were the villi, millions of them and their base was lined with the crypts of Lieberkuhn. There were three crypts to every villus.

 

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"The entire epithelium," our guide said, "is replaced every 3 to 6 days. Cells are shed at a rate of more than 100 million a minute. However, cell production is decreased by x-rays, salt, bad bacteria, wheat products, acid foods, and acid bile.
"As long as there is plenty of alkaline reserve, we can handle most attacks but when that runs low, damage can be severe. Science knows that the upper duodenum is more resistant to attack by acid than down here in the jejunum.



We are aware of the tests that scientists make on animals. In one study, dog's duodenum was surgically bypassed so that the gastric contents of the stomach emptied directly into the jejunum. This bypassed the alkaline secretions of the Brunner glands, bile and pancreatic ducts, preventing the food from becoming alkaline. Ulceration of the jejunal mucosa almost always occurred. This is exactly what can happen to humans when they run out of organic sodium and when the bile turns acid. The acids, due to a lack of organic sodium and too much acid food, cause ulcers, colitis, bowel cancer , and other bowel problems.



"They do all this research - murder and torture millions of animals each year - and it is totally unnecessary. Scientists, above all, should be aware of the Law of Cause and Effect, for to harm these life forms for whatever reason will come back to the one doing the injury. The universal penalty includes those who order it to be done. The same is true with those who buy meat in a restaurant or at the local supermarket. They are also guilty of murder, for they have broken the commandment, 'Thou shalt not kill.' If scientists, or anyone who is searching for knowledge, would harmonize themselves and meditate, they could find all the answers they seek and much more from the CCCC.


"One of the problems we must deal with is fermentation of the food coming through here. Fermentation creates acids, and this is a problem mostly with meat and poor food combinations.




All of this acid creation uses up valuable sodium and alkaline reserves. Sodium is the main ingredient used to buffer acids and poisons. The mucosa is stimulated by the acid and secretes copious amounts of mucus to protect the bowel wall. As sodium levels drop, the mucus is forced to harden. This is an additional but a necessary method of protecting the intestinal lining from poisons and acids. It is a natural response - when sodium is low the calcium hardens. If sodium and calcium are low, then mucoid plaque automatically forms. When strong acids are consistently created over a period of years, then mucoid plaque can break down and colitis, ulcers, cancer, diverticula, etc. develop, usually as a result of the bile being too acid.



"The way the mucoid plaque is formed is similar to what occurs in the arteries. Though this is seldom discussed, a plaque-like substance can form anywhere throughout the body, even at the cell levels and in the brain. In the brain, it forms like a veil, preventing higher awareness and clear thinking.



This veil in the brain must be eliminated before anyone can achieve that which you call higher consciousness, or super-consciousness. This veil prevents the perception and awareness of other dimensions and worlds. Man, who glorifies his own intelligence, is one of the most ignorant life forms in the universe. Rend this veil and man will begin to see the truth of life, rather than the illusion of death.



"As you can see, the pH is based upon the organic minerals, and that determines the state of health of the bowel which determines the health of the entire body.
"It is the acid that weakens the bowel mucosa and then the epithelium wall, which sets the stage for colitis, diverticula, ileocecal damage, leaky intestine syndrome, cancer, etc. And it all begins in the emotions and with what foods are eaten."
He finished his talk then and conducted us down to the ileo cecal valve at the end of the ileum. We thanked him for all the information, said our good-bye, and passed through into the cecum.

 

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Exploring the Colon
Waiting for us just on the other side of the passageway was none other than Colon Coordinator. He was a sturdy-looking fellow - strong jaw, well-built. Here was someone who had purpose, and one look told us that he was no one to argue with.
We said, "Hello," and his reply was, "Since you're here to learn about the colon, let's get started.
"First, the colon is also called the 'large intestine'. Compared to the small intestine, it is wider in diameter and that's the only reason it's called 'large'. It consists of the cecum, where we are right now, the ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid, rectum, and the anal canal.
"The main anatomical differences are that it has no villi, it's short, fat, and has bulging sac-like folds called 'haustras'. The physiological differences are that the small intestine absorbs approximately 90% of the food that will be used and the colon less than 10%."
The Colon Coordinator was just plain too serious. I wondered if he had ulcers. I thought about the time in Kauwai when I challenged John Rohrbach to make Bruce, the coconut man, smile. Bruce was great at cracking coconuts but he couldn't crack a smile. John took my challenge and soon had Bruce laughing and telling us stories. I wondered if I could do the same with the Colon Coordinator. I plotted a plan as I listened to Mr. Serious. He continued.




"About 1500 ml of chyme pass into the colon each day. Most of the water and electrolytes in this are absorbed by the colon. The body tries to keep all the organic sodium it can and so the colon mucosa absorbs this valuable ingredient. In this process an electrical potential is created which causes chloride absorption also.



"Look at the appendix," he said. I quickly took out my book and flipped to the back pages. He stopped me and said, "No, no, not that appendix. Over here." And he pointed to the hole leading into the appendix. I laughed and he didn't even crack a smile. "This is a very important part of the lymphatic system. The appendix, as well as the tonsils, help remove excess toxins. These little organs act as a buffer for the body. They absorb dangerous toxins, hence preventing those toxins from harming other parts of the body. Removal of these lymphatic organs greatly reduces the body's capacity to protect itself from toxic overloads. Those who have had their tonsils removed have far more trouble in their lives than those who have not."
I thought of myself and how as a child, they yanked my tonsils out of me. I was the only one in our family and the only one of my friends who had them out and sure enough, I was the sick duck among them all.

 

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I also recalled a lady who came into my office one day and told me about her sister who had a serious condition in one of her adrenal glands. The doctors wanted to remove it. She begged her sister not to have the operation, and to follow the wholistic way - cleanse and rebuild her body, change her diet. (God didn't create body parts to be cut out by doctors.) Her sister went ahead with the operation. They removed the good gland by mistake and left the diseased one! (Loss of the adrenals usually causes death within three days to two weeks. Guyton)






Mr. Colon Coordinator was reading my mind as I was wondering why a person dies without the adrenals and what he said added wonderful information about the pH of the body.



"The reason a person can die when the loss of the adrenal function occurs is because of the loss of the mineralocorticoid. This hormone is secreted from the adrenal cortex and controls the sodium and potassium ion concentration. Without the mineralocorticoids, the potassium ion concentration of the extra-cellular fluid rises, the sodium and chloride concentrations decrease, and the total extracellular fluid volume and blood volume drop. Soon the heart function proceeds to a shock-like state and death follows.



"Notice the name of this hormone, 'mineralocorticoids'. The name was derived because this hormone affects the electrolytes of the extracellular fluids - sodium and potassium in particular."



I was wondering if he were reading my mind about my plan to make him laugh. If he were, he didn't reveal it.




"There is another adrenal hormone that affects the mineralocorticoid and that is aldosterone. Its most important function is to activate the sodium and potassium transport through the renal tubular walls and transport hydrogen ions. This hormone also causes sodium to be conserved in the extracellular fluid while potassium is excreted into the urine. Proper function of these adrenal hormones can mean the difference between disease and health, especially in balancing the pH and heart function."
Right then I stopped him and said, "Do you have any coffee down here? I sure am thirsty." A twinkle in his eye shown and a smile cracked forth. He replied, "I know you don't drink coffee but you had two purposes for your remark - to make me smile and to let people know that coffee is a terrible drain upon the adrenals.



"People are very concerned about electrolytes these days. They fear they will lose them through enemas and cleansing procedures but I 'm here to tell you that more electrolytes are lost through acid bile conditions and the indulgence in high protein foods, which are acid, than by any other method. Diarrhea is often caused because of acid bile or too much acid in the alimentary canal. These conditions force the loss of electrolytes, especially sodium.

"Let's get back to the basics," the Colon Coordinator said. "We are running out of time." We began to travel up the ascending colon. He pointed to various places along the wall, explaining the marvelous secretions of physiology. We saw many, many places where the crypts of Lieberkuhn secreted their alkalinity.


I was impressed with his mind-reading ability, and I did make him smile, but I hadn't made him laugh yet. I continued with my plot while he continued explaining.
"Just like in the small intestine, we try to keep it alkaline in here. Notice all the bacteria growing? Up until a few years ago doctors thought that the colon did not absorb anything, but I'm telling you, a clean colon like this one absorbs many things however, the helpful bacteria keeps the blood from absorbing harmful elements."


Then he pointed out certain pieces of the colon which he called reflex points. "Nerves, " he said, " are attached to each point and on the other end of those nerves, things vibrate according to what goes on here. If the area is clean at this location, the other end of the nerve will be clean and function with vitality. Now for an example, this area affects the brain."
We had just walked past the hepatic flexure and into the transverse colon. It was so interesting, for I had always thought that the colon was just like the bottom of an outhouse. Not here. Everything was clean, and a glow from an unknown source lighted the whole bowel. I wondered where the light was coming from, and he said, "Ultra-violet light, the way it should be. There is a process which occurs at the epithelium, where an ultra-violet light is generated under certain conditions.
• The epithelium must be perfectly clean.
• Homeostasis must be in perfect balance.
• The body must have full reserves of alkalinity.
• There must be the correct bacteria.
• The food eaten must be raw.



Under these conditions the ultra-violet light acts like ozone and generates oxygen which kills off any potential pathogen. This process keeps the body vitalized and strong. All forces act perfectly according to the perfect Laws of Nature. This body cannot get sick. The average aging process is minimal. We, the workers in this body, appreciate functioning in such a perfect system." My voltmeter registered surprising amounts of energy.


"Approximately 1500 ml (or over 5 cups) of chyme," he explained, "pass through the ileocecal valve into the colon daily. Most of the water and electrolytes in the chyme are absorbed in the colon. It is important for the body to drink plenty of water or we will be forced to extract too much water from the fecal matter here, which will slow down peristalsis and make the stool dry, causing all sorts of trouble."




"What are some of the causes of poor peristalsis?" I asked.
"There are many causes. Lack of fiber in the diet (but this rarely happens with vegetarians), eating too much mucus-forming foods such as dairy products or cooked grains, a lack of organic sodium and calcium due to bad diet, and even short circuits in nerves or brain caused by poor diet or unhealthy emotions. This list is actually much longer, but these are the more common ones."



We watched the bacteria flowing in rhythmic motions. He commented on this," The bacteria is busy producing B vitamins, (including B-12, thiamin, riboflavin) and some of the amino acids and vitamin K. The body uses only what it needs, which is very little since most of this action takes place in the small intestine."
As we were passing through the descending colon, he pointed out a special spot, "Here is the heart area. People who have heart trouble usually have a serious bowel pocket right here." He touched the colon wall right in the center of the descending colon. "Many people with heart trouble can feel a tenderness here." I thought, "The body never ceases to amaze me."



Next we passed into the sigmoid colon and came to an area filled with fecal matter. "This group of matter," he said, "has served its full purpose. It has supplied the body with abundant amounts of needed materials. Now the wastes of the system, which will be nutritious to the soil, are contained in this matter. Notice the bacteria in this substance. One fourth of this is dead bacteria and about 15% is fat, most of which has been formed by the bacteria."


Right then the Colon Coordinator interrupted himself and politely said that he had to get back to work. He escorted us through the rectum and out past the last valve of the body, the anal sphincter. "Have fun in an average person's body," he said with a knowing look, and then made a great big smile. I laughed and thought, "I couldn't make him laugh, but he did make me laugh." I laughed again.




A Dangerous Journey
Soon we were with the CCCC advisor who conducted us to the mouth of the other body which we were to inspect. He tried to prepare us by saying, "The body you have just explored was truly exceptional. Not one in 10 million is like that. However, such a vehicle is the potential for all, but each person must realize that he, and no one else, is responsible for his own body.

Through cleansing and purification anyone can make great strides toward perfection, but he must cleanse and purify the thoughts and emotions as well as the body, cultivate higher, more constructive thoughts of helping others, developing gratitude, and planting the seeds of love. People must do the same with the food for the body - feed it the food of life, not death - for dead food brings death to the body. Live food brings life and strength. Always eat foods containing the greatest vitality."



"Now, the next body tour," he continued, "will not be so pleasant a journey, and you will want to move through rather quickly." He led us to the mouth of a body that looked like the average person on the street."The possessor of this body eats meat and you will find many things wrong, so take your reading and move out fast," he cautioned.



In we went. The Mouth Manager looked a bit cranky and tired. He didn't say much, other than, "You were lucky to tour a healthy body. Look around and see what I mean."
The first things we noticed were all the silver fillings. "Ah," I thought," problem number one. Mercury amalgam fillings - a deadly poison, mercury, and it makes up over 50% of the so-called "silver" fillings. It should be outlawed."
"Yes," said the Mouth Manager, with a gleam in his eye, "and so should that." He pointed to a tooth which had had a root canal. "That," he explained, "is worse than the mercury. If you knew the headaches this person gets, the depression, the kidney problems, etc. you would have yours removed as soon as possible." He showed us the tooth decay and dental plaque, and he punched the gums. "See this? Looks bad here too." Then we looked at the tongue. "Oh, oh," I said, "more trouble here. Look at the gray plaque going all the way down."
I took a pH reading - 5.8. "A flat 5.8. This person has a problem!" I exclaimed. Just then the mouth opened to eat some spaghetti and I moved quickly to the parotid gland ducts and took a reading. "It should be over 8 pH," I yelled back, "but I bet it won't be." The reading changed slightly up to a 6, returned to 5.8. "Oh, boy," I thought, "this one is in big trouble!"
Then with my powerful magnifying glass, I saw tiny little worms crawling all over the mouth. I jumped back. "Yikes!" I yelled.
"Yes," the Mouth Manager said. "E. gingivalis. We can't get rid of them while he continues to eat the flesh foods and other junk. These little bugs contribute to many of the other dental problems.



We said "good-bye" to the Mouth Manager, he waved, and we hooked a ride on another bite. Down we went and it was really dark in there, unlike the other stomach we had visited. I turned on my flashlight and surveyed the scene. Oh, it looked gloomy. There were large piles of mucus and bacteria, and some areas with no mucus at all. Everything looked disorderly.



We went down to the pyloric end of the stomach and here sat the Stomach Superintendent. He looked depressed. I tried to cheer him up, "Hi, Mr. Stomach Supe, what's for lunch, ha, ha," I laughed. He smiled grimly, "Doesn't matter what's for lunch, not much we can do." "What do you mean?" I asked.



"The owner of this body eats so much acid food," he replied, "that we ran out of organic sodium a long time ago. Now we have nothing to work with - all functions are on emergency - no sodium, no hydrochloric acid, no pepsin. Just look at the stomach lining. It's hard, with no sodium to keep the calcium soft - no secretions possible. It's full of harmful bacteria, and now parasites have invaded our territory. We just hope that no more salt or alcohol get put down here. We can't handle it!"




"Oh, no," he yelled, "french fries with salt! Emergency, Emergency!" Workers rushed to the salty french fries, and we watched carefully as we saw what was left of the normal mucosa shrink and crystallize before our very eyes.
The Stomach Superintendent grimaced. "If this keeps up for long, a tumor will develop," he said and pointed to a cluster of growths. "Polyps," I observed. "Yes," he agreed, "the beginning of tumors, and he wonders why he doesn't feel good. I hope you can straighten things out, Rich."
We took pH readings of 5.4 - just acid enough to do damage, but not acid enough to digest food. The poor Stomach Superintendent went off to do some supervising and we went through the pyloric valve. As we went in, we saw a big old ulcer. It was oozing yellow-red pus.
We found the Duodenum Director working on another ulcer just inside. "Gee, what happened to the Brunner cells?" I asked. "Oh, they're OK. They just haven't any sodium to work with, " he said. "Can't you get it from somewhere else?" He shook his head. "Already took what we could from the bile, but then the bile turned acid and now there's trouble everywhere. The brain issues some sodium down here which it gets from the joints and muscles, but not enough for us to do a good job.



We get some calcium from the bones but without the sodium we really can't use it." He put down his tools and showed us around. "Take a pH reading here at the bile duct," he suggested, "and see what I mean." "Wow!" I exclaimed, "that stings! - 4.8. No wonder he has an ulcer."


"This body," the Director resumed, "keeps taking sodium and calcium from wherever it can get them - from the joints, for instance - and now he has arthritis. We had to have potassium to save his life, and now he has heart trouble. The body is falling apart. At the present rate of deterioration, this man will develop cancer in 2 more years. That is, unless he changes his eating habits but he could die of a heart attack before then.



However, he feels so tired that he is unlikely to do any strenuous exercise, so it's anybody's guess whether he will die of heart failure or cancer." He shook his head sadly, "Doesn't anyone know how to eat up there?"


Then he showed us the layers of mucoid plaque building up, getting thicker and thicker. "So far, we have kept the pancreas duct open, but the digestive enzymes can't do much good here because it's too acid."
"What about the Crypts of Lieberkuhn? Can't they secrete any alkalinity?" I asked. "They keep trying, but there's no sodium, remember?" he reminded me. "Man, oh man," I said. "This body is in a pickle, that's for sure."




I suddenly looked up with fright. "Talk about a pickle!" I yelled. "What's that heading our way?" A large, dark-gray pickle-looking object was floating above us and moving quickly our way. I wanted to run. I thought about the movie "Rambo" with death-dealing helicopters ravaging the area below. The Director put his hand on my shoulder, "Don't worry.


That is just a 'Gas Blimp', perfectly harmless to you, but causing a great deal of pain to the owner of this body. It puts a great deal of pressure on the intestinal wall. We'll just pass right through it, but you will want to wear these gas masks." I felt relief and could look down the tunnel and watch all the fermentation going on which created all the gas.


"Rich, I have a favor to ask of you. Please write in your next book that it can be damaging to repress gas. People should know this. Keeping gas in because it is embarrassing to release it is understandable, but is not good for the body. In many cases, however, it would be nice to go outside to release it. Best of all, is to Cleanse & Purify and eat good food. Then there will be no problems." I agreed and promised to mention it in the new book.




I noticed the large quantities of bacteria, and that the bacteria here was different. I was about to comment on it when the Duodenum Director quickly pushed us aside as a large worm went slithering by. "Oh, yuk," I said, "I wouldn't want to tangle with that critter, and this place is crawling with them." "The colon is even more infested," he warned. "You'll never get by. Not only that, but there are many different kinds of parasites. I suggest you get out of here before it's too late."
"First tell me what I'm missing," I pleaded. "Well," he said, "it's acid from here on out, and mucoid plaque is developing with each new bite. This man enjoys eating animals. The animals that have been killed for his consumption, are killing him. He has turned his body into an animal cemetery, and his body is becoming his own graveyard."



"Where does he go hunting?" I asked. He replied, "Where everyone else does - the meat department. He goes there and orders death." The Director sighed heavily and resumed, "Anyway, the mucoid plaque thickens from here on down, except where colitis is developing. The bile acids are so strong there that it has burned away the mucoid plaque. There is very little friendly bacteria any more and there is little peristaltic activity, so he must rely upon pushing his food out with pressure and that causes diverticulitis.



I doubt if you can get past certain areas because they're so compacted with old fecal matter. You might crawl through worm holes, but then you may come face-to-face with the Ascaris."


I had just one more question and he replied, "With all the acid in this body, it can no longer create hydrochloric acid, and bacteria of the wrong type is overgrown. This bacterial growth contributes to the cancer he is now developing, plus the pains in his abdomen, colitis, iron deficiency, anemia, and many other problems.A
By this time I had heard enough, so we offered our thanks and condolences and out we went. The whole experience left a strong impression on me, as I thought of the suffering that the poor bodies of the "average" person has to endure.


"The colon is a sewage system, but by neglect and abuse it becomes a cesspool. When it is clean and normal, we are well and happy; let it stagnate, and it will distill the poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction into the blood, poisoning the brain and nervous system so that we become mentally depressed and irritable; it will poison the heart so that we are weak and listless; poisons the lungs so that the breath is foul; poisons the digestive organs so that we are distressed and bloated; and poisons the blood so that the skin is sallow and unhealthy.


In short, every organ of the body is poisoned, and we age prematurely, look and feel old, the joints are stiff and painful, neuritis, dull eyes and a sluggish brain overtake us; the pleasure of living is gone.”



Harmful diet and lifestyle cultural norms in the Western World have resulted in a health disorder, which affects countless individuals today in varying degrees. Oftentimes, this disorder is an over-acid condition in the digestive system which leads to a host of other ailments related to incomplete and ineffective digestion. Dr. Richard Anderson estimates that 94% of all meat eaters and 70% of all vegetarians in the United States are over-acid.


Problems generally associated with over-acidity include the following: immune disorders, arthritis, bowel disease, indigestion, gallstones, obesity, nervousness, yeast infections, bacterial infections, mood swings, poor eyesight, dermatitis, parasites, heart disease, liver disease, lung disease, fatigue, and bronchitis.


Over-acidity may be determined by a simple pH test of the saliva.“If you are vegetarian and your normal diet is mostly vegetables, fruits and only small amounts of grains, then you would be in good shape. Everybody else had better take the tests!” One of the main causes of over-acidity is chronic over-consumption of protein and other acid-forming foods and substances. Americans have been deeply brainwashed to believe that we must have large amounts of protein to be healthy. Proteins are acid forming, and too much protein depletes the body’s organic mineral supply. This results in an inability of the body to fully process the overload due to a lack of nutrients (electrolyte minerals) required to do so. The problem worsens over time with continued over-consumption, because without adequate nutrients, the bowel loses its ability to defend itself from acids, toxicants1, microorganisms and chemicals that damage the bowel wall. Other factors that may also contribute to over-acidity are exercise, stressful emotions, drugs and radiation, Herbicides, pesticides, preservatives and other unnatural chemicals found in our food.
In addition to the self-created toxins resulting from over-indulgence of acid-forming foods and substances, there are also a host of environmental factors that contribute to the weakening of our digestive systems and practically every other organ, gland and cell of our bodies.






Never before in the history of man has our environment been so full of unnatural chemical poisons. There is not one place on earth that toxic chemicals haven’t reached. 100% of the air on earth is polluted to some degree or another. Even in the purest mountains, the water may be contaminated enough to need purification for human use. 100% of the wells in some states have been contaminated. Most of the food we eat has been sprayed or fertilized with toxic chemicals, and the animals people eat are full of antibiotics and hormones, which have caused unbelievable and unexpected reactions. Then there are the cigarettes, soda pop, chocolates, coffee, drugs, etc.



A breakdown of immune function through exposure to these toxins, both dietary and environmental, is seen in a weakened bowel. When the bowel is healthy, IgAs are capable of destroying virtually every known pathogenic microorganism (bacteria, yeast, fungus, parasites, etc.) When we have lost the necessary nutrients or have acquired an over-acid bowel, the IgA activity can no longer function effectively, and the bowel, as well as the entire physical body, becomes vulnerable to attack. Consistent attacks from the pathogenic microorganisms, unnatural chemicals and acids eventually weaken the structure of the bowel. Microorganisms can then enter the bloodstream, as can larger particles of undigested food, chemicals and other toxic particles.
The liver then takes on the overload of toxins. Relentless flow of toxicity from the bowel eventually weakens the liver. When the liver can no longer function effectively, then other organs, glands and tissues become vulnerable to mucus, congestions and relentless attacks from microorganisms. As this condition continues, the person experiences increasing sluggishness and inefficiency. This is how insufficient bowel function results in a variety of chronic and degenerative diseases. This all contributes to an increasingly widespread inability to handle stress of any kind without getting sick. This is why we cleanse our bodies now, in the hope that we can correct some of these difficulties.
When the bowel functions optimally, then - and only then - can the liver and every other organ have the ability to function optimally. It should be noted that a perfectly functioning body is virtually invulnerable to any microorganism
Causes of dis-ease
• Congestion
• Toxicity
• Deficiency

1. Disease is a natural result of an unnatural lifestyle.
2. A smile is a bloom of the soul.
3. Disease occurs only when our internal environment is favorable for disease growth. And we create our internal environment through our diet, life-styles, and thoughts.
4. As you never see flies in a clean garbage can, you also never see disease in a completely pure being.
5. We tailor-make hormones perfectly designed by the intensity and type of thought and feeling. In this way we virtually control every physiological activity in our bodies.
6. The goal therefore, is to achieve unconditional love for everybody and everything and then, to amplify it continuously.
7. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN INCURABLE DISEASE .
8. How can a truly clean person possibly become infested with parasites or pathogenic bacteria? They can’t.
9. In America, far, far more people die from too much protein than not enough.
10. Attacks by germs (parasites, fungus, virus, bad bacteria) can only be successful when our bodies have devolved into a severely polluted environment.
11. All dis-eases are the result of mental and physiological filth.
12. Germs can only cause infection in a susceptible host.
13. It is what we do to ourselves that governs our state of health, not what is done to us.
14. We do not need to know the name of disease, but we do need to know how to get rid of the internal filth which comprises the environment that causes the disease.
15. We never need to be attacked by outside entities, commonly called germs. We can create them within our own bodies by polluting our bodies.
16. Whatever we have put into our bodies that interferes with its ability to function properly, must be removed.
17. Did you know that there has never been a disease that someone hasn't conquered?"
18. We also need to treat the liver by cleansing and strengthening it, and we can never successfully accomplish this without first cleansing the bowels.
19. The survival of every animal, bird, fish, plant, and germ (whether it be bacteria, viruses, fungus, or protozoa), depends entirely upon its environment. Pathogenic germs cannot overcome a clean, healthy, and vibrant human body.
20. Disease occurs only when our internal environment is favorable for disease growth.
Vegetarianism
21. The ability to love at higher levels is inhibited by the brutality and cruelty of flesh-eating.
22. Studies show that vegetarians are stronger, more agile, have twice the stamina, less disease, and recover from fatigue faster than meat-eaters.
23. A Yale University study revealed that vegetarians have nearly twice the stamina of meat-eaters.
Our Bodies, Minds, and Affairs Are Modified by Our Thoughts and Feelings
24. Let us see ourselves the way we want to be. Let us, to the very best of our ability, act as though we are now that which we want to be.
25. When we begin to practice these exercises, all the negative thoughts and feelings that interfere with our desired goals will begin to surface.
26. Watch that our attention does not become fixed on the things we do not want.
27. For what we give or do to other parts of life we force into ourselves.
28. If we want perfection, we absolutely must see perfection in others as well as ourselves.
29. If you do not see perfection, if you see other than God's perfection, then you contribute to the darkness of the world.
30. Judging the mistakes of others binds us to them.
31. The original sin is egotism, which is the failure to see the Oneness of life.
32. I challenge everyone reading these words to practice gratitude, appreciation, and non-judgment, for these bring forth love and healing like nothing else does.
33. If we are not laughing or at least chuckling to ourselves every few minutes, then we can be certain that we are suffering from illusion.
34. The fulfillment of all hopes is love.
35. Joy is love in action.
36. The most important effort anyone can ever make to obtain success, happiness, and health, is to establish the habit of unconditional love for everyone and everything. No greater aspirations exist.
37. For it is consciousness - the beliefs we hold about ourselves, our basic mental points of view, our emotional habits, which govern our physiology.
38. Our subconscious mind doesn't function in limitation, only our conscious mind does that.
39. Emotions such as grief, guilt, feelings of failure, resentment, and suppressed anger produce over-secretion of the same hormones that suppress the immune system. Can we reverse this condition by creating emotions of love and joy?
40. Both small and large masses of tumors have disappeared virtually overnight. Just before the cure appears, almost every patient experiences a dramatic shift in awareness.
41. Unconscious mind doesn't care what seeds we give it, nor what it will manifest for us. Its fruits are always the results of the seeds we planted within it.
42. Whenever people consider themselves victims, (thinking: this is not my fault; it was imposed upon me!), then at the very moment they proclaim their belief, usually unconsciously, that they do not have the power to protect or heal themselves. This is a grave mistake, for it blocks the healing process.
Modern Medicine
43. Modern medical science is the only organization that suggests using treatments worse than the disease.
44. Drugs and radiation suppress the body’s toxin and emotion releasing activity. If we want true healing, we must allow all toxins to surface and be released.
Electrolytes
45. Following breathing, and the heart beating, the next most important physiological function our bodies perform is to maintain balanced pH.
46. When the body becomes low in its supply of an electrolyte, it will go to other parts of the body, break down tissue, and retrieve the needed electrolytes.
47. Eating only organically grown produce is the only way we can be confident that we are receiving adequate supply of minerals, since commercially grown produce is usually deficient in minerals.
48. Adequate healing cannot occur until we have replenished our mineral supply and brought our bodies into the proper pH.
49. A lack of organic minerals anywhere in our bodies means a decrease in cell and enzyme function.
50. Only slight changes in pH from normal levels can cause extreme alterations in the rates of chemical reactions - inside and outside the cells.
51. Every function of our bodies is dependent upon an adequate supply of minerals.
Mucoid Plaque
52. Mucoid plaque seems to be the forerunner of many disease conditions. Not just in the bowel, but diseases throughout the entire body.
53. One of the main problems with mucoid plaque is that it can inhibit the in and outflow of the gastric and intestinal fluids, and interfere with proper digestion.
54. Mucoid plaque actually protects pathogens from what ever luminal attack we may wish to administer. Clinical studies have shown that pathogenic bacteria, such as E. coli, actually hide underneath the mucoid plaque and are completely separated from luminal contents.
55. Food must make contact with the 22 or more digestive enzymes that extrude from the epithelium and out through the glycocalyx. However, this is not happening with the vast majority of people in the Western World, because of the layer or layers of mucoid plaque.
56. Mucoid plaque is a normal by-product of unnatural acids or toxic stimulation.
Digestive System
57. The bowel feeds every organ, every tissue, every cell in our bodies and when the quality of feeding from the digestive system is contaminated or of poor quality, the cells and organs in the rest of the body will also be of poor quality. A toxic bowel means toxic blood and lymph, toxic organs and cells, and toxic function.
58. All physiological, chemical, and anatomical processes in every cell and organs in our bodies are completely dependent upon the digestive system.
Steps in Overcoming Disease
59. The first step in overcoming disease is to put a stop to its cause. This should always begin by eliminating the source of the habits and acts of creating negative thoughts and feelings which are the original cause of disease.
60. The second step is the most important of all, and that is to seriously and enthusiastically practice appreciation, joy and Love - for all life unconditionally. Love, peace, harmony, gratitude, and praise trigger positive hormonal and nerve influences - expanding the life, energy, and light in the body, bringing vitality and happiness. For these states of consciousness purify and strengthen the life force within us.
61. The third step toward overcoming disease is to remove congestion and toxins from the body, mind, and emotions. These toxic substances have lodged deep within our bodies.
62. The fourth step toward perfect health of the body is to stop eating "foods" that are dead, deficient, processed or toxic, for they cause mucus, excess acid, more toxins, and congestion.
63. The fifth step toward lasting health is to supply the body with the needed elements of organically grown foods, clean air, pure water, alkaline minerals, and massive doses of Love and joy.
64. The sixth step is to rebuild the body's organs and glands. This means to rebuild the digestive function after we have cleansed it, and to cleanse and rebuild the liver, kidneys, spleen, and the glandular system. It means also to strengthen the heart, lungs, and muscles.
65. The seventh step is to exercise on a regular basis.
66. And, third, now We know just how far you are willing to go to purify yourself. That! will be your greatest benefit." Saint Germain
67. The liver is one of the keys in getting well. We must remove as many of the toxins as we can, the more the better, as quickly as possible, and without over-burdening the already over-burdened liver and - I must add - the kidneys too.
68. We attack our own bodies principally by eating the wrong foods and generating stressful emotions which alter our internal environment.
69. The entry of an outside entity (bacteria, virus, parasite) usually has little effect upon our bodies unless our internal environment has become acidic and polluted.
70. Disease is never acquired. It is always earned. Disease is a natural result obtained from an unnatural lifestyle. Disease is not a question of exposure. It is an internal development which can lead to exposure susceptibility.
71. Each cell in the body has the intelligence to grow an entirely new body, and it doesn't matter whether the body is 2 years old or 120, the cells always know what to do. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to make certain our bodies have the material it and cleanliness it needs to do its job.
72. All life on our planet depends upon a specific environment for survival. Including germs.
73. We must alter our normal healthy internal environment before germs can survive.
74. Our negative feelings are the kinks that produce every undesirable experience that we have ever had or ever will have in our lives. Indeed, we reap what we sow.
75. How is it that the slow deterioration of old age occurs with almost everyone? For, over 90% of our bodies are completely renewed in less than a year.
76. We do this by maintaining the positive consciousness during the cleansing process and allowing the old negative consciousness to be released without judgment. For it is the judgment that binds them to the new cells.
77. Any time we cleanse, it is essential to keep our attention upon the things we want rather than the thing we do not want - the thoughts, feelings, and habits that move us toward perfect health, vitality, success, and love.
78. It is through cleansing and later fasting, that we can quickly remove the physical accumulation which has anchored various mental and emotional blockages.
79. The most vital, most important part of all is to see, feel, and act as though our goals are complete - now!
80. You see the subconscious mind has already created our life to be the way it is now, because we programmed it to be that way.
Sayings From Misc. People
1. "We become that upon which we put our attention...God if thou seest God, dust if thou seest dust."
-Anonymous
2. “As everything is impermanent, fluid and interdependent, how we act and think inevitably changes the future. There is no situation, however seemingly hopeless or terrible, such as a terminal disease, which we cannot use to evolve.”
- Sogyal Rinpoche
3. "For this is the great error of our day, that physicians separate the soul from the body.”
- Plato
4. “Called or not called, God shall be there.”
- Erasmus
5. "Every tissue is fed by the blood, which is supplied by the bowel. When the bowel is dirty, the blood is dirty, and so on to the organs and tissues....it is the bowel that invariably has to be cared for first before any effective healing can take place."
- Doctor Bernard Jensen, DC, ND, Ph.D.
6. “There is but one disease and that is deficient drainage.”
- Sir Arbuthnot Lane MS, FRCS, surgeon for the King of England
7. "I am exceedingly impressed by the sequence of cancer and intestinal stasis."
- Sir Arbuthnot Lane MS, FRCS, surgeon for the King of England
8. "Of the 22,000 operations that I have personally performed, I have never found a single normal colon, and of the 100,000 that were performed under my jurisdiction, not over 6% were normal.
- Dr. Harvey Kellogg, M.D. of the Kellogg Sanitarium

 

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