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How to Use Good Oils to Look,

Feel, Heal & Think Better

Your Body Needs

an Oil Change
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Award-Winning Author / The Udo Erasmus / Total Sexy
Health

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THE LAY OF THE LAND 19
Introduction - A Matter of Oil and Fat 19
“Your body needs an oil change, just like your car.” 19
What a Body Needs 20
Keeping it Simple 20
Essentials 21
Harm vs. Good 21
Fat Does Not Make You Fat 22
Say it with me, “Fat does not make you Fat.” 22
Genes: Choosing the Right Parents 23
Carbohydrates Make You Fat 24
Protection 25
In Summary 25
The Law in Your Body 25
Efficiency to Craving 26
The Curse of Glyphosate (Roundup) 27
Fats: Bad or Good? 28
Damage 28
To Be Healthy 28

Why Care? A Question of Intent 29

Sources of Knowledge 29

Where to Begin? A Question of Context 30

Inspired to Love Life 31
Not Feeling Loved 32

Why Educate? A Question of Knowledge 32

What Is Best? 33

Why Truth? A Question of Freedom 33

Truth Robbers: Lying 34
Reasons for Lying 34

Why Life? A Question of Priority 36

Living Creatures 36
600 Billion Strong 36
Supreme Diversity 37
Why Life? A Question of Priority 38

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Why Health? A Question of Normal 38
Total Sexy Health 40

Why Blends? A Question of 15 Categories 41

The 15 Categories 41

Why Food? A Question of Construction 44

And More 46

Why Oils? A Question of Neglect 46

Keys to Health and Disease 46
Your Body Needs An Oil Change 47

What Kind? A Question of Identity 48

Vitally Important (Essential) Fatty Acids 48

A Short Personal History 50
Sources of Essential Fatty Acids: 51
USEFUL (Derivatives) of Essential Fatty Acids 51
Avoid Using Damaged Oils 51
Omega-3 52
Omega-6 52
Conversion 53
Rate of Conversion 53
Market Hype 55
The Remedy is Simple 55
OPTIONAL (Non-Essential) Fatty Acids: 57
Fats Are Nature’s Most Reliable Fuel for Humans 57
Fats for Performance 58
Research 59
Omega-3 As Fat Burner 59
Fat Is Your Fur 59
One-Star Club Members 60
Toxic (Damaged) Fatty Acids 60
We damage fatty acids in two major ways: 61
Industrial Processing (RBD Oils) 61
Food Preparation in Homes and Restaurants 62
Triple X-Rated Summary 63

How Much? A Question of Quantity 63

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 Let’s begin with Food Fat & Oil Foundation 64
Food Oil Foundation 64
Supplement Oils 65

What is Happening to Our Fish Oils? 65

The Fish Oil Versus Flax Oil Lie 66
Sources of Fats/Oils in Foods: 66
Food Oil Foundation Sources (Plant-based): 67
Supplement Oil Sources 67
All Hail Krill Oil 68

How Made? A Question of Quality 69

Mega Oil Industrial Processing 70
Processing Oils with Health in Mind 71
Protection 72
Exclusion of Light 72
Shipping 73

How Packaged? A Question of Leaching 73

A Change to Glass for Packaging 73
Asking the Plastics Manufacturer 74
Something Not Disclosed? 74
Glass Has Class 75
Taste and Plastic 75
Plastics and Environment 75
Metal Packaging 76
Committed to Convenience or to Health? 76

My Insight/Philosophy 76

How Stored? A Question of Cooling 77

Cold Storage 77
Protecting Sensitive Oils 78
A Storage Standards Story 78

How Shipped? A Question of Protection 79

How Used? A Question of Application 80

Taking Oil Off a Spoon? 80
The Cod Liver Oil Curse 81
‘Oil Shooters’ and the Gag Reflex 81

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 Liver Care 82
Develop a Healthy Fear of Frying 82
Recipes 82
Celebrity Chef 83
Health, Pleasure or Health AND Pleasure 83

How Sensitive? A Question of Fragility 83

Heat Damage 85
Relative Sensitivity of Different Fatty Acids 86

How Bad? A Question of Damage 87

Shelf Life or Health Life 90
Industrial (Long Shelf Life) Processing 90
Pesticide-Containing 90
A Chemical Feast 91
Results of Industrial Processing 91

Cooking Oils 93
Unnatural Molecules 94
Cold Pressed 96
Fried Foods and Fried Oils 96
Partially Hydrogenated/Hardened Oils with trans- fatty acids/trans- fats 97
Saturated Fats 99
Truth: Saturated fats are NOT a problem when omega-3 intake is optimized. Why is
that? 99

How Good? A Question of Care 100

A Method for Making Oils with Health in Mind 100
My Choice 101
Omega-3 is ESSENTIAL 102
To Cut My Teeth 102

Who Knows? A Question of Inquiry 103

Boredom on Fats 103
Early History 103
Personal Responsibility for Health 104
An Education 104
Making a Living: Jobs 105
Marriage and Pesticides 105
Karma 106

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 Searching for Health 106
Food Makes Bodies 106
Body Facts 106
Database of Facts 107
Narrowing the Focus 107
Processing the Problem 108
Making Oils with Health in Mind 108
Omega-3 Established as Essential 109
Super-Excited 109
A Book on Oils 110
Educational Tours 110
Marriott Hotels 110
From Zero to Bestseller 111
International Expert 111
Flax Oil Unbalanced 112
Ripped Off, Broke, Depressed 112
Starting Over 113
Food Oil Foundation 113
Supplement 113
Travels and Improvements 114
Digestion 114
The Best Oil Supplement 114
And More 115

What’s True? A Question of Solid Foundations 115

What’s New? A Question of Recent Findings 118

Resolvins, Protectins, Maresins & Endocannabinoids 119

What Waits? A Question of Future Research 121

Rate of Conversion: ALA to EPA & DHA 121
What Fads? A Question of Trends 122
A Short List of Fads 123
It’s Complicated 123
And Deeper 123
The Problem with Fads 123
Promotion 124
The Scientific Community 125

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 Smoke & Mirrors: Marketing 126
Truth 127
Be skeptical about fads and fad diets. 127

Pains & History: A Question of Challenges & Obstacles 129

Theft of Ideas 130
Creative Contentment 130
Gifts Received 131
Ego Ergo Sum 131
What is Wealth? 131
Inner Conflict 132
Goldilocks Zone 132
My Oil Journey 132
Time Off 133
Oil Production 133
Academic & Industrial 134
Tempted by Profit? 135
Brotherly Logic 135
Self-Examination 135

What Company? A Question of Beginning 136

First Company: 1986-1989 136

What Laws? A Question of Confidence 139

FDA shuts border to the import of flax oil (1988) 139

What Education? A Question of Information 141

Second Company: 1990-1991 141

What Copycat? A Question of Management 142

Third Company: 1991 142

The ‘Flax Wars’ 143

What Rationale? A Question of Nutrients 144

Quest Vitamins 144

What Consultations? A Question of Assistance 145

Consultations 145

What’s Missing: A Question of Animals 146

Missing Link: 1992-1997 146

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 Morgue Food-Inspired Regulations 147
Lofty Laws 149

What Travels? A Question of Touring 149

Fourth Company: 1994 149
Public Education 149
Contract 150
Unfortunate Changes 150
Tours, Media and Talks 150
Arbitration 151
Fire Sale 151
Theft 152
Parting Company 152

What Lawsuits? A Question of Greed 152

Legal Shenanigans: 152
First Company: 1990-1991: 152
Missing Link-UE: 1998-2017: 153
Fourth Company: 153

What Competition? A Question of Perception 153

What Credentials? A Question of Competence 156

Unaccredited, But Leading Edge 157
Natural Health Goes Mainstream 158
What and Whose Credentials? 160
Feeling Understood 161

What Envy? A Question of ‘Success’ 162

Fair Was Never Part of the Equation 163
From Complaining to Offering Solutions 164
Creating Oils with Health in Mind 166

What Stories? A Question of Experiences 169

A Fraud and Danger to the Industry 169
Truth in Education 169
Want an undamaged supplement? Use Krill Oil 170
Damaged Right Out of the Box 172
The Big Guns of Trans-Fatty Acids 172
Fanatically Truthful 173

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What Flattery? A Question of Knock-Offs 174

What Lies? A Question of Marketing 175

What Words? A Question of Meaning 176

What Care? A Question of Life 176

Belief into Action 177

What Bias? A Question of Reporting 177

Open, Honest, Agenda-Free Observation 178

Why Me? A Question of Destiny 179

Personal Responsibility 180
Your Innermost Self 181
Practical, Effective Self-Help 182
Effort and Grace 184

How Come? A Question of History 184

Why Change? A Question of Growth 186

It is Time for a Change 187
Practical Guidelines 187

When to Start? A Question of Time 190

Where to Find? A Question of Sources 191

One Source? A Question of Trust 192

The Blend is also: 192
Best Enjoyed: 193
The Truth About Plastics: 193
Health damage from oils comes from two issues: 194

What Gains? A Question of Benefits 195

The Profound Health Benefits of Omega-3 196
Beauty: 197
Skin: 197
Hair: 197
Nails: 198
Health: 198
Athletic Performance: 198
Sleep: 198
Detoxification: 198

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 Pregnancy: 199
Mother: 199
Brain Function: 199
Digestion: 200
Bone Health: 200
Joints Health: 200
Muscles: 201
Weight Management: 201
Hormones: 201
Regulates Gene Expression: 202
Improve Mineral Transport: 202
Inflammation: 202
Antioxidants: 202
Cardiovascular System: 202
Immune System: 203
Reproduction: 203
Liver Function: 203
Kidney function: 204
Longevity: 204
Addiction/Crime: 204
Surgery: 204
Performance: 204
In the Bedroom: 204
In the Boardroom: 205
At Work: 205
Pets: 205
Dogs: 205
Cats: 205
Horses: 206
Zoo Animals: 206
Pocket pets: 206
Birds: 206

Why Not Just Fish Oil? A Question of Advertising 207

The Brahmin Caste 210
Framing the Argument with Health in Mind 211

Why Not Just Flax Oil? A Question of Balance 213

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 Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend 213
The Best Ratio 214

Why Coconut & MCTs? A Question of Tropical 215

Coconut Oil & MCT 216

Why Olive Oil? A Question of Mediterranean 216

Less Harshly Processed 217
More Stable Oil 217
Down Sides of Extra Virgin Olive Oil 217
A Simple Test 218
The Mediterranean (Med) Diet 218

What about Cooking Oils? A Question of Convenience 219

What About Butter and Margarine? A Question of ‘Ersatz’ (Butter Substitutes) 220
How It Once Was 221
Changes in Our Food 221
Which Is Better? 222
Breaking Down Butter & Margarine 222

What about High Fat Low Carb? A Question of KETO 223

What is KETO? 224
Keto Benefits 224
How to KETO-ize 224
KETO: Not All Roses 225
Lack of EFAs 225
A Wrong-Headed Direction 226
Unhealthy Fad Diets 226
A ‘Right Fat’ Keto Diet 227

What about Paleo? A Question of Definition 228

Paleo Diet Definition 228
Is the Paleo Diet Useful? 229
What’s Good to Eat? 229
THE ELEPHANT IN THE FAT ROOM 231
My Letter to Time Magazine 231
FRIED OILS FRY HEALTH 232

How Work? A Question of Mechanism 233

Life the Power 233

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 Your Brain: Your Central Computer 233
Body your Vehicle for Action 234
Life the Designer and Creator 234
Life the Ruler 235
Although Life Weighs Nothing, it Runs Everything. 235
Energy Trumps Matter 235
Human Nature in Four Main Parts 236

What Blocks? A Question of Interference 238

What Air, Water and Foods? A Question of Quality 240

Quality: 240
Become a Gardener 241

What Air, Water and Foods? A Question of Food Types 244

What Air, Water and Foods? A Question of Three 247

Essential & Non-Essential Nutrient Building Blocks: 247
Two Essential Fatty Acids: 248
Linoleic acid (omega-6): 248
Oil sources: 248
Plants: 248
Animals: 249
Fish: 249
Essential & Non-Essential Amino Acids 249
8 Essential Amino Acids: 249
Seven Major Non-Mineral Elements 251
Four Major Mineral Elements 252
Four Minor (Trace) Non-Mineral Elements 253
Nine Minor Trace Mineral Elements 253
6 Most Abundant Elements 255
A Little More Doesn’t Hurt 258

What Air, Water and Foods? A Question of Amounts 259

What Air, Water and Foods? A Question of Optimum Digestion 260

What Eat? A Question of Personal 262

What Diet? A Question of the Right Fat Diet® 265

A Better, More Effective Plan 266

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 Rabbit Food? 267
Deliberate Choices 268
When to Stop Eating 268
Eating Water 269
Eating the Blues 269
Social Eating 269
Probiotics, Inflammation, Water Retention 269
The Right Fat Diet® 270

What Impact? A Question of Environment 271

Industry and Nature 273

How Deep? A Question of Knowledge 273

Japanese Inspiration 274
Making Changes 275

What Health? A Question of Definitions 276

What Next? A Question of Vision 278

The Only Problem 280
Imagination: Blessing and a Curse 280

Why Global? A Question of Possibility 281

The Global Mission 281
The Noblest Cause 282
Possible in Practice 282
The Global Team 282
Life’s, Not Ego’s Purpose 283
The Role of Money in Life’s Purpose 283
Money is NOT the Source of Happiness 283
Whom Can You Trust with Money? 284
Life and Money 284
Ownership 284
Pretense Around Money 285
Life’s Purpose Greater than One Person’s 285
Life the Selfless Leader 285
Global Access to a Perfect Leader 286
The Materialistic Delusion 286
Internal Master and Ruler 286
Fulfilled and Taken Care Of 287

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 A Story of Contentment 287
Your State of Being Informs & Defines Your Perception 288
Other States of Being, Other Words 289
Importance of Finding and Feeling Loved by Life 289
The Essence of Your Being 290
Global Goal of Human Evolution 290

Why Peace? A Question of Foundation 290

Prosperity without Peace Leads to Chaos 290
War is not a Poor Man’s Game 291

Why Water Energy? A Question of Sustainable 292

Our Most Important Molecule 292
Energy 292
Oxygen Burners 292
Our Source of Energy 293
Chemical Energy 293
Direct Sunlight Energy 293
Water Cycle Energy 294
Problems Addressed by Water 294
Principle 295
The Payoff 295

Why Definitions? A Question of Goals 296

The Nature of Journeys 296
Business Journeys 297
Defining Health 297
The Eight Presences 297

Why UNAHUNA? A Question of Scope 298

Why Perfect Health? A Question of Indestructibility 300

Why Mental Health? A Question of Sanity 302

Why Physical Health? A Question of Food and Fitness 304

Why Social Health? A Question of Membership 305

Why Environmental Health? A Question of Nature 307

Why Beyond Health? A Question of All 308

Defining the Indefinable 309

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Why Emotional Health? A Question of Wiring 310

Why ‘Deliberate’? A Question of Effort 311

How Summarize? A Question of Overview 312

What Conclusions? A Question of Highlights 312

Your Body Needs An Oil Change 316

THE LAY OF THE LAND

01.Introduction: A Matter of Oil and Fat

How often do you change the oil in your car? If you care about your car you do it on a
regular basis, right?

Just like our bodies, our car engines have many moving parts. As these parts move and
rub against each other, the force of friction creates heat. Oil lubricates the engine,
absorbing that heat and helping the internal parts work together effectively. Over time,
engine oil breaks down and wears out. When that happens, we replace it with fresh oil

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to help our trusty engines keep running smoothly. Of all the routine maintenance we do
for our cars, changing out the old oil for new is probably the most crucial. As we do for
our engines, we need to do doubly so for ourselves.

When did your BODY last get an oil change? That same bit of love and attention we pay
our trusty vehicles we need to do for ourselves. Our bodies need oil. Not just some oils,
sometimes, but good quality oil all the time. Our internal engines run best and longest
on high-quality macronutrients from good quality fats. These precious oils are the most
sensitive of all our nutrients and they require regular, thoughtful, intentional
maintenance.

“Your body needs an oil change, just like your car.”

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself are good quality, essential fatty acids, our
beloved omega-3s & omega-6s, made with health in mind.

Your body needs you to change your oil intake. It needs you to change from unwittingly
eating dirty damaged oils to eating fresh, clean, healthy oils. No one actually intends to
ingest damaged oils, but it happens easily and often. Most of us do not know how
sensitive oils are or how to actively take care of them. We need this knowledge to help
us consume fats that heal instead of fats that harm.

Your body runs better on fresh clean oils. When your body runs better, you’re healthier,
happier and have more energy. When you’re healthier, you have less pain, less illness,
more vitality and longer life. That’s what better health can do for you. Who, in their right
mind, does not want that?

Is your body due for an oil change? If you’ve still ingesting damaged toxic oils and have
not yet switched over to clean essential oils, the answer is a resounding YES!

What a Body Needs

What kind of oil change does your body need? Your body is a special kind of instrument.
Just like your car, to make your inner motor hum it needs special kinds of oils. We refer
to such oils as being ‘in their natural state,’ or oils ‘made with health in mind.’ These are
oils rich in essential nutrients that are vital for your health and your life. Our bodies cannot
make them from anything else we eat and therefore need to get them from the foods we

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eat, though most of us are not eating nearly enough of them. Or, we can get them from
a good quality supplement.

For these oils to help build, sustain and promote health, they must be in their natural,
undamaged state, just the way nature made them.

Keeping it Simple
One thing you will learn about me is that I like simple. Often we over-complicate things
and distract ourselves from the deep truths we ignore but need to know. I want to simplify
the foundations of health for you. The fact that our entire body is made from light, air,
water and food, establishes that these four are the primary determinant of physical
health.

Light, air, water and food properly chosen for nutrient content, purity (absence of
interfering substances that we call toxins or poisons), biological compatibility (determined
by each individual’s genetic and biochemical uniqueness) and naturalness, must
constitute primary (not alternate or complementary) health care.

We have little control over the biochemical processes that take place after we swallow,
breathe in, or expose our skin to. We can choose what we swallow, breathe in, or expose
our skin to. Our health depends on our choices.

Self-responsibility is essential. At 38, I already had the beginnings of arthritis. When I put
even a bit pressure on my knees by slightly bending them, I felt pain. Now, several
decades later, I have no pain in my knees or other joints, except for brief time spans
after I bang into something.

How did I become pain-free? I did what you’ll read in the below blog post and lessons to
come. I created these lessons so that you can apply them in your life, and have the same
amazing, rich, love-filled life that I get to enjoy every day. What is in me is also in you,
because both you and I are human. What is the key?

Essentials
So, what oils are essential to life and to health? In scientific parlance, we call these health-
supporting oils, essential fatty acids, or EFAs. The two fatty acids essential for health are
alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid) and linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid). We
find each of these, both an omega-3 EFA and an omega-6 EFA in good oils made with
health in mind.

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Both are sensitive to damage caused by light, oxygen and heat. Omega-3 and omega-6
essential fatty acids are the most sensitive of all nutritional molecules. They need to be
treated with more care than any other nutrient. To protect them from harm, you need to
shield them from the damage that light, air and heat can do to them. If you want to be
healthy, you’ll need to take good care of them so that they take good care of you. We’ll
say more about these two lovelies throughout the book.

Harm vs. Good

How do we take care of our nourishing oils and how do they become compromised?
Before you beat yourself up too badly, know this: Oils are often damaged before they
ever reach you. That beautiful bottle you choose from the grocery or health food store
may have been damaged by the harsh processing practices of industry. Oils may be
damaged before you ever purchase them and then are further destroyed through heat.
Both in our homes and favorite restaurants, these nourishing oils are scorched beyond
repair during food preparation. Pan frying, deep-frying and other high heat applications
break down those good oils, producing toxic fumes and turning them into something
unnatural, toxic and hazardous.

We think we are adding a healthy element when we heat our food in olive oil. Not so.
Every oil is damaged by heat and we want to avoid damaged oils at all cost. Get and use
only oils that are made with your body’s physical health in mind. Use oils that help keep
your body healthy and that restore lost health from the harm caused by eating damaged
oils or not getting enough essential ones. Use these beneficial oils in cold, warm and hot
foods, but never, ever, ever, use them for frying, deep-frying, baking or sautéing, if health
is what you want.

I hope to support you on your path of aligning with nature to live in harmony. The result:
Perfect as well as total health so you can live LIT UP FROM WITHIN. This is the goal. If
you take action on all that I share with you, your deepest desires will be fulfilled. To get
there, I’m going to need to dispel a few myths for you.

Fat Does Not Make You Fat

I’m not much of a coffee drinker. Coffee is made from roasted (burned) coffee ‘beans’,
which are not actually beans. Burning changes molecules from natural to unnatural. From
healthy to harmful. Any food that’s burnt contains toxic molecules that have been
changed from their natural state to something that is not found in fresh, whole, raw,

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organic foods. These now ‘unnatural’ molecules can harm your health. Nature’s standard
for food that sustains health has always been the same: fresh, whole, organic and raw .

Once in a while, especially when travelling, I used to like to get a latte. I liked the smell
of coffee: Its fragrance, and yes, its buzz and bowel regulation benefits. I used to ask for
it to be made with liquid whipping cream (34% butterfat) instead of milk. Or at least with
half and half (10% butterfat), or with coffee cream (18% butterfat). I no longer do this,
but I want to make a point about fat.

The barista making it for me usually looked at me weird when I asked for it. This often
led to a short conversation on fats vs getting fat. We live in a world where most people
still think that fat (or cream) will make us fat. ‘Eat fat; get fat!’ Right? Wrong! While this
notion was popularized in the 1980’s and 90’s, it’s simply not true. While it may seem
logical, it is not how your body actually works. Your body has NEVER worked this way,
and trust me, it never will.

Say it with me, “Fat does not make you Fat.”

For 30 years, I’ve been trying to correct the misconception that fat makes you fat. Despite
my heroic efforts, many of you still believe that carbohydrates are good for you and fats
are bad. I’m going to ask you to trust me on this one. Read on, the evidence to the
contrary is unequivocal.

SUGAR in your coffee MAKES you FAT, but CREAM in your coffee DOES NOT. The buns
and pastries you eat make you fat, but butter does not. Excess body weight from fats is
mainly about carbs.

Genes: Choosing the Right Parents

In every one of your body’s 60 trillion cells, you have several genes for fat burning and
you also have a gene for fat production.

Fat-Burning Genes: When the genes for fat burning are turned on, your cells’ furnaces
(mitochondria) use fats as their fuel for energy production. Researchers and biochemists
call the process of making energy from fats ‘beta-oxidation.’ When these genes are turned
off, the genes for fat burning in your cells’ energy production factories STOP burning fat
as fuel.

FATS AND OILS DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR FAT BURNING GENES. Essential fatty acids
(EFAs) in your diet and in your body turn ON fat burning. If you’ve got fats to burn, your

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body adjusts your genes to burn them. It’s completely logical. Let me say that again. THE
FATS YOU EAT (and especially the essential fatty acids they contain) TURN ON YOUR
FAT BURNING GENES. It’s practical, logical and necessary that the fats you eat turn on
fat burning.

EXCESS CARBOHYDRATES TURN OFF YOUR FAT BURNING GENES. Since excess
carbohydrates (eating more of them than your body burns) can cause many health
problems, it is only logical, practical and important that your body makes sure that you
burn carbohydrates first.

The Fat Production Gene: When you eat more carbohydrates than you burn, life turns
on the gene for fat production in your cells, which makes fats out of any starch or sugar
that you ate but did not burn for energy. When it’s turned off, the gene for fat production
in your cells does not turn sugar into fats.

● FATS DO NOT TURN ON FAT PRODUCTION. It does not make sense for fats
to turn on fat production. Why make more of something that you already have
enough of?
● FATS TURN OFF THE FAT PRODUCTION GENE. That makes sense.
● Because excess carbohydrates can be toxic, life turns on the gene that changes
these superfluous carbohydrates into fats, which it then stores as a future energy
source.

This means: CARBOHYDRATES TURN ON THE FAT PRODUCTION GENE. Life

doesn’t want to waste carbohydrates. In times of feast or famine, feasts led to more fats
stored in the body, which had survival value. Extra fat lengthened survival time during
famines. Survival is the goal. This is just simple logic.

GOOD-FOR-HEALTH OILS TURN ON FAT BURNING in your body, and help you lose body
fat. Eat more of the right kind of oil, and your body will burn fats all day long, provided
that you exchange carbohydrates for good-for-health oils, rather than taking these oils in
addition to the carbohydrates. I call this ‘making a fuel switch’. Make a fuel switch rather
than a fuel addition.

Why can CARBOHYDRATES make you fat? Carbohydrates in excess of the amount you
burn in activity can hurt and even kill you. To prevent them from killing you, life TURNS
ON the FAT PRODUCTION gene in your body. When that happens, this gene (it’s called

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fatty acid synthase, which means that its job or function is to make [synthesize] fatty
acids in your body) goes on merrily turning sugar into fats in 7 easy steps.

Carbohydrates TURN OFF the FAT BURNING genes (about nine genes are involved) in
your body. When you eat more carbohydrates than you burn, your body MUST turn the
unburned carbohydrates into fats. In other words, you either burn the carbs you eat, or
you will end up wearing them as fat.

Carbohydrates Make You Fat

How does that happen? You make or order food and eat it. By habit, you may like one or
more of the following: grains, bread, flour, pasta, potatoes, fries, chips, noodles, corn,
muffins, barley, yams, squash, grain-based stuffing and rice in your meals. If you have a
‘sweet tooth’ you might like cake, cookies, ice cream, pastries and other sweets for
dessert. For drinks, you might prefer sweetened sodas, sugared coffee, tea, or fruit juice.
You might like to eat a lot of sweet and starchy (carbohydrate-based) foods. A lot of
people do.

What’s wrong with that? Most people eat more of them than they need for energy and
survival. At the same time, most people don’t exercise enough. Most of you who struggle
with weight consume more carbohydrates than you need as fuel (that’s mostly the only
thing that carbohydrates are good for) to burn for energy. I’ll talk about the other main
reason for excess weight a bit later. It has to do with gut bacteria (bacteria).

Carbohydrates contain no essential nutrients, the molecules that life cannot make in your
body, which makes carbohydrates the least important of all the foods you eat. This does
not make carbohydrates bad, just not essential.

If you eat whole foods rich in starches, you’ll get useful prebiotic fiber (food for probiotics
that protect digestive health and also help with weight management that is due to toxicity
and water retention) from those foods.

But nobody MUST have starchy foods or sugars for energy, because everyone can get
energy from fats, oils or even proteins. When you’re starving, carbohydrates can save
your life, but most people in the Western world are not starving. We’re more likely to be
overeating and overweight, rather than skinny because we’re under-nourished. Eating
high protein diets can also force fat production. In this case, life will turn an excess of
amino acids–the building blocks of proteins–into carbohydrates and then into fats.

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Eating more carbohydrates (or proteins) than you burn raises your blood sugar (glucose).
High blood sugar can lead to a high blood sugar coma, or even death.

Protection
Life created a protective measure against this potential danger. What is that protective
measure? In response to high blood sugar, life induces your pancreas to make and release
insulin that drives excess sugar (glucose) molecules, those you didn’t burn in physical or
mental activity, into your cells. This is a body-preserving survival response.

In your cells, something needs to be done with this excess, unneeded glucose. Life turns
on (activates) that ‘fatty acid synthase’ gene we talked about before, whose only function
is to make a protein enzyme that can do only one thing: convert sugar into fat. It catalyzes
7 steps that convert the excess sugar molecules in your blood into fatty acid molecules.

In Summary
Carbohydrates turn into sugars to fuel activities in our cells and muscles. If you don’t use
up all of the sugar molecules you eat to make energy, life turns the excess into fat and
stores those resources in your tissues and fat deposits for later use. Sadly, for most of
us, there is no later use, no caribou to chase or cave bear to outrun. We simply store and
store, without the burn.

The Law in Your Body

That is the law in your body. It’s important for survival. Excess carbohydrates MUST be
converted into fats, which get carried to and stored in your cells. Chronic
overconsumption of carbohydrates MUST lead to fat deposits, then to overweight, then
to obesity, then to chronic conditions like diabetes, which usually lead to cardiovascular
problems. Most overweight individuals with diabetes die prematurely of heart disease. If
you’re overweight, you can prevent that fate by making the right kind of oil change.

Carbohydrate overconsumption also causes fat deposits in your liver (fatty liver), muscles
and other internal organs. Excess carbohydrate consumption can also promote fat
deposits in arteries, leading to poor circulation, which in turn acidify your tissues and lead
to inflammation. Inflammation is part of the cause of most major degenerative conditions,
including diabetes, pancreatitis, atherosclerosis, cancer, arthritis, dementia and
osteoporosis. Inflammation also leads to water retention, which is the other cause of
overweight. We’ll get back to this later on.

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Define overconsumption of carbohydrates as eating (taking in) more carbohydrate
molecules than you burn in physical and mental activity. When you’re physically active,
you can eat more carbohydrates without creating health problems than you can safely
eat if you’re sedentary or inactive.

Efficiency to Craving
Life made the conversion of excess sugar into fat very efficient. Too efficient, some people
say. That efficiency can create a second problem. At the end of the process of converting
excess sugar into fat, you end up with LOW blood sugar. Low blood sugar is like running
out of fuel. If you run out of fuel, you collapse. That too, can kill you. Life now has to
prevent THAT from happening. How?

Low blood sugar triggers a strong craving (hunger) to eat. ‘Eat or die’, screams your
body. Then you stuff yourself with carbohydrates. It takes time to digest them into sugar
and to absorb the sugar (glucose). By the time your blood sugar is normal, you’ve again
eaten more than you needed. Then you again get high blood sugar.

You’ve now started the next round of insulin secretion and cellular fat production, leading
to weight gain, low blood sugar cravings (blues) and overeating. This repeating cycle is
the ‘carbohydrate addiction’ (not-so-)merry-go-round. Sugar, according to researchers,
is eight times more addictive than cocaine.

High carbohydrate foods include bread, cake, cookies, corn, chips, flours, potatoes, fries,
grains, rice, corn, cereals, pancakes, waffles, desserts, sweets, sugary soft drinks, corn
syrup, sugar, honey and even fruit. Any of these can make you put on fat. Why? We just
learned it, but it’s worth repeating. Your body turns all carbohydrates that you eat but
don’t burn in activity into fats for storage. It’s your body’s natural law.

Who created that law? Life created this law long ago. Stored fat was good for survival in
times when you put it on during feasts, got skinny again during famines, and outlived
those who were already too skinny when the famine hit.

In the modern times you live in, this survival mechanism works against you. You overeat
and get fat, but famines are now rare, a thing of the past in the developed world.

This important survival mechanism now shortens your life and its quality by means of a
long list of even more negative effects on health than ‘overweight’: cold hands and feet,

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tooth decay, infections, inflammation, water retention, poor circulation, bone mineral
loss, impaired immune function, speeded up growth of cancer cells, and more.

The Curse of Glyphosate (Roundup)

There’s another compelling reason why you should limit your intake of carbohydrates. It
has to do with pesticides. Many farmers have been trained to spray unripe grains, corn
and beans with Roundup, a systemic, broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicide, to
ripen them faster, desiccate the unripe kernels, and dry them out for more efficient
harvesting.

This saves the farmer time. He gets an earlier and synchronized harvest. You get
pesticides in these foods. But you won’t know that, unless someone like Google tells you.
Glyphosate has been associated with serious bowel, kidney and other health issues, and
has been classified as a ‘probable carcinogen’ by the World Health Organization.

You may have heard about the lawsuits that have been won against Monsanto. Both
during the Monsanto era and now with Bayer, who acquired them in 2018.

Glyphosate and preparations that contain it are some of the most widely used pesticides
in agriculture. Monsanto, the manufacturer of this poison lied to you in its marketing for
decades, claiming that glyphosate is inactivated when it hits the soil. I know this because
I sprayed Roundup on a job I had during a really dark time in my life a long time ago.
Their claim was never true.

No government agency charged with consumer protection ever took Monsanto to court
for this misrepresentation (lying). ‘Too big to take to court,’ one might say. You pay a
price in health to a giant company with huge profits and lying ways to make them.

Actually, Monsanto is now the defendant in more than 3,000 court cases. It may be one
reason why they recently sold themselves into Bayer, which is about 5 times bigger than
Monsanto was. It will be interesting to see what happens to these cases, but it is even
more interesting to know that media has not reported on what goes on with glyphosate
and the companies involved in it.

Fats: Bad or Good?

Are fats bad? I get that question all the time. The truth is: Fats are like people. Some are
bad and some are good, based on their behavior.

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Bad fats are bad. Good fats are good. Bad oils are bad. Good oils are good. Some are
really bad. Some are really good. To be really healthy, you need the really good ones.
And to choose the really good ones, you need to know fats a bit better.

Damage
Life makes really good fats and oils in nature. You get pesticide-poisoned oils from the
seeds and nuts that contain them if you choose not to insist on only eating organic seeds,
nuts, beans and oils. Industry damages oils by treating them with harsh chemicals during
processing for the sake of a longer shelf life.

Industry damages them further by heating oils to high (frying) temperatures BEFORE
bottling these damaged oils and making them available for you to purchase. On top of
that, restaurants damage oils even more in cooking, and you damage them at home in
your own kitchen, where you turn them into poisons by overheating oils during your high
heat applications, especially frying and deep-frying. If governments gave health the high
priority it deserves, all cooking with oils would be outlawed, and it would become illegal
to own a frying pan.

Light, oxygen and heat damage nature’s good oils. You expose them to the simultaneous
effect of all three of these in your frying pans. When you use them to ‘cook’ your foods,
you extensively disfigure them. Then THEY disfigure YOU. They damage your health.
Fried oils and fats fry health. Fried carbohydrates fry health. Fried proteins fry health. ALL
fried, burned and blackened foods hurt health.

To Be Healthy
To be healthy, consume oils in their natural, health-supporting state. To be healthy,
remove damaged, health-destroying, bad oils and fats from your food and your body,
and bring good oils (or the seeds, nuts, beans or grains that contain them) in. When you
do this, your health can improve in many significant ways. You’ll likely live substantially
longer, and more importantly, you’ll enjoy enhanced quality of life during the time you
have on earth. You’ll live longer and feel better. You want that, right?

An oil change for the body is a small price to pay for having both longer life and better
health. What person in their right mind would not want that for the people and pets that
they hold dear? And who would not want these for themselves? Do you want these for
yourself?

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02.Why Care? A Question of Intent
Health is both a precious and fragile gift. To unpack and to enjoy this gift, you need to
know and live by, or adhere to, its principles. To maintain this gift, you need to
consistently take specific actions in line with these principles. When you don’t, you give
up the gift of health. When you lose health, you get pain and suffering. You depreciate
the quality of your life. In addition to less enjoyment, you can also expect to speed up
your checkout date.

Suffering is not predestined. It comes from not following the rules that life set for you in
nature. The right kind of knowledge can prevent or end most of your suffering, and much
of your pain. For me, sharing knowledge to help alleviate people’s pain and suffering, and
even more important, to improve the quality of life, is the most rewarding way to spend
time. That’s why I do it. I love to do it, and I’m grateful that I get to do it.

Anything that can improve the quality of life interests me. This applies not just to oils,
not just to food and fitness, but also to air and water, mental and emotional functioning,
self-knowledge, social issues, concerns about our natural environment, and the source
that creates, sustains and welcomes home all creatures when their time is done. Each of
the above affects your health in a different way, and each deserves, needs and demands
a different kind of attention.

Anything I can do to help in any of these areas is my privilege. I want to help as many
of the 8 billion presently living people as possible. It’s my honor to pass on what I’ve
learned about all of these topics to those of you who want to know.

Sources of Knowledge
My knowledge of these topics comes from many different global sources. I spent much
of my childhood in nature, watching the way the planet and its creatures interact. In
university, I studied sciences, biological sciences and psychology. Various cultures and
traditions around the world have collected healing folk wisdom from nature. Some of my
knowledge comes from trial and error, driven by my own pain and experiences with both
health and illness.

Asking bold questions in unique ways led me to unique answers and new understanding.
Some of my knowledge about and insight into human nature comes from deep fascination
with life, living and self-observation. To sit still in voluntary solitude, and look, listen, feel
and learn the profound inner richness, wisdom, love, power and genius of life ranks high.

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My deepest understanding, insight and knowledge comes from the experience of self-
knowledge, which includes having made calmness and contentment a priority in my life.
Why is THAT important? When I feel life’s care for me while involved in the world of
dramas, traumas, stresses and changing circumstances, I’m not fearfully scheming and
trying to find ways to GET taken care of.

Then I can calmly take time to be, to see, to hear, to feel, to know and to understand
the nature of life on every level. Then, I can share with others what I’ve discovered and
come to know in my quiet moments, in my inner classroom, the nature of kindness,
caring, compassion and the healing power of life.

Someone said: ‘In silence, EVERYTHING reveals itself to you’. Einstein is said to have
once said: “I think ninety-nine times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence,
and the truth comes to me.”

There’s truth in what he says. In silence, there’s clarity. You’ll find your deepest insights
into your life by practicing deliberate, cultivated silence. I can confirm this from personal
experience.

03.Where to Begin? A Question of Context

Although this book is mainly about oil, I like to start with a broader context into which to
fit the story of oils. This will give you helpful perspective.

I know many people with an interest in health. If you’re reading this book, you’re probably
one of them. You likely know quite a bit about what you SHOULD do to be healthier. You
ask good questions and listen to experts. You’ve learned a lot. But you don’t put all that
you know into practice. Knowledge in your mind is a start, but it’s not enough. You have
to apply it. Why don’t people do it? Why don’t you do it?

Inspired to Love Life

This question puzzled me for some time, and I think that I found an answer. It applies to
most people, including you and me. It’s based on how we feel about being alive. It’s
based on how inspired we feel and how present we are, and it depends on the depth of
our self-presence. The more fully we experience (know) ourselves, the better we feel.

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In touch with the feeling of life, you feel magnificent because in your essence, you ARE
magnificent. You also feel inspired. Inspired, you are fully present in life. Inspired, your
energy is freed to do what needs to be done, and to do what is necessary to prolong the
time and quality of life you have on earth.

These follow automatically from feeling inspired, because when you feel taken care of by
life, you breathe, think, eat, drink, show up and act with more care from life, which you
then automatically pass on to other lives. Self-responsible health care does not precede
inspiration. Self-responsible health care follows inspiration.

Every one of you—no matter what your race, gender, age, background, culture, religion,
nationality, social status, history, beliefs or memories might be—is a masterpiece that a
great universal power through life created in nature. From the core of being, there’s never
ever been anything wrong with any human being on earth. The essence of your being
has always been whole, and can never be un-whole, no matter what your mental,
physical, social and environmental situations are, have been or will be.

Not every human being knows this. More importantly, even when you know the words,
or read the books, you don’t necessarily feel it. You don’t experience yourself that way.
And that is where the trouble begins. Let me look at both extremes, to make a clearer
distinction.

Here is my personal experience. When I tune in to life’s love for me and feel loved by
life, I feel inspired. Inspired, I have energy. Energized by inspiration, I will gladly make
the effort necessary to have the best possible life for as long as possible.

If I need to change a habit, it’s not difficult. If I need to change the way I eat, it’s doable.
If I need to change my activity level, I’ll do that. If I need to change the way I think, I’ll
change it. If I need to change the way I behave, I will act differently.

All this effort is worthwhile, because I feel loved, taken care of and lovable. When I feel
loved by life, I feel love for life. Even though I know that one day my body will end, I
want to stay on the incredibly enjoyable journey I’m on for as long as it is physically
possible.

You’re on the ride of your life, and you’re here to enjoy it to the fullest of your ability,
and to its fullest extent. Quiet or active, you can look forward to more of it.

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Not Feeling Loved
When I hate my dismal existence, and feel depressed and in misery, I don’t feel like I
have enough energy to do more than the bare minimum. Then taking care of myself is
asking too much. So I don’t take care of myself. Consciously or subconsciously, I might
not care to live any longer than absolutely necessary. If I feel really miserable, I might
even end it. Writing this brought the sad deaths of two of my favorite people, Robin
Williams and Anthony Bordain, to mind.

You can’t be inspired and depressed at the same time. Inspiration erases depression.
Inspiration follows from direct, personal, experiential self-knowledge of life. All human
beings live somewhere between the feeling of depression and the inspired feelings of
love for life. Between them, you might feel numb, not much or nothing. On either side of
that nothing, you can experience a wide range of feelings.

Inspiration drives life-affirming thoughts and actions. Inspiration is the foundation of

positive intent. To me, therefore, inspiration is Nutrient #1 in anyone’s program for
optimum health and quality of life.

You discover the inspiration that exist within you by any practice that gets you in touch
with the inner reality of your living presence. If your practice leads to inspiration, it’s a
keeper. If it does not, you need to find something that does. When you commit to that
one basic inspiring practice, everything else becomes much more easily manageable. It
might even turn into fun and joy. Start there!!

04.Why Educate? A Question of Knowledge

By nature, all human beings want the best for their life. You ask, hope or pray to be
relieved of pain, but you never pray to be relieved of happiness. You’re biased for joy. A
preference for ‘better’ and best is built into you by life. It is the innermost striving of
every living human being, according to Alfred Adler, one of the pioneers in the field of
psychology. All of us want that. However, our complex and confusing world is filled with
many conflicting ideas, and it’s not always easy to know what is best.

What Is Best?
How do you find out? For one thing, information has become so detailed, the bodies of
knowledge so vast, and truth so down to molecular levels that it is tough to keep up. We
can’t all be specialists in everything. We’ve become less and less educated about more

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and more, or more and more knowledgeable about less and less. As the number of topics
increases, our knowledge of each individual topic becomes less comprehensive and
shallower.

For another thing, there is no guarantee that what people tell you is true. You don’t know
the agenda of the person doing the telling. People sometimes genuinely believe that what
they tell you is true, even when they’re mistaken. Sometimes, people lie to you because
they have an agenda that gives them an advantage at your expense. If these people had
‘Liar!!’ stamped on their forehead, it would be easy for you. But they don’t. WE don’t.

How can you avoid overload and overwhelm? If you know the most basic truths in each
area of expertise that is important to the quality of your life, you can figure out a lot of
the details from there. You’re smarter than you give yourself credit for.

You, the people, are more intelligent than those who mislead you in order to profit at
your expense. Acknowledge, at least to yourself that you’re more capable than they think.
You’re more capable and smarter than you think, too. You just need a solid foundation.
In the arena of health, that’s what I want to help you get.

05.Why Truth? A Question of Freedom

‘You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.`
Most of you have heard this quote from the New Testament or from Martin Luther King.
But what does it mean that the truth will make you free? Truth makes you free from
what? Truth frees you from misinformation, doubt, confusion, wrong decisions you make
and actions you take on the basis of knowledge that turns out not to be true. “True to
what?” you might ask. True to life would be my answer.

Truth makes you free for what? When you think about it, the truth makes you free to
choose. Without knowing what is true, you cannot make good choices. You require
accurate information to make the best decisions for your life. It’s why democracy only
works when citizens are educated. James A. Garfield suggested, “The truth will set you
free, but first it will make you miserable.” Well, perhaps not miserable, but quite possibly
conflicted.

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Truth Robbers: Lying
Lying is a form of dictatorship. Lies enslave you. They rob you of the truth, and thereby
rob you of your freedom and the capacity to choose beneficially. This form of dictatorship
is far more widespread than you know, and also vastly more widespread than you can
even imagine.

It’s not just in law courts or politics that lying is common. It’s just most obvious to us in
those arenas. But misrepresentation is widespread in every area of life. People lie in their
personal, family, cultural, educational, scientific, business, medical, sales-related,
industrial, religious, professional, marketing and other relationships.

Group coherence, member protection in ‘old boys’ networks’ and the maintenance of
power and control often take precedence over truth. But the truth is that knowing the
truth makes you free and that lies enslave you. Deception and lack of integrity, while they
may work in the short term, destroy everything in the long term. The truth ALWAYS
eventually comes to light. Truth is built to last.

Reasons for Lying

Why do people lie? I know of only three reasons.

1. First, you may be genuine but misinformed and not know it. That’s the only
benign reason for not telling the truth. Although it misleads, it’s lying only in the
sense that you’re not clear (or honest) about the limits of your knowledge. We all
do it at times. It may be assumptive. It may be sloppy. It’s a bit stupid. It’s the
result of not having verified what it true and speaking without clarity. Sometimes,
it comes from unexamined thoughts that parents, teachers or culture imposed on
you when you were young, before you had the ability to question and think for
yourself. Sometimes, it comes from something you personally observed and
misinterpreted.
2. Second, people may lie out of fear of punishment. You want to avoid pain or other
negative consequences of telling the truth. For example, a lot of parents try to
convince their children to tell the truth. But then, when the children tell the truth,
their parents punish them, because they (parents) disapprove of the behavior that
the children told the truth about. Very quickly, children learn that it may be safer
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 get away with not telling the truth. You learn to lie to avoid pain, and with time
and practice, you become more and more skilled at lying to ‘get away with it’.
3. Third, people lie to gain advantage without effort. This happens in all kinds of
transactions and is rampant in the marketplace. People lie about the quality of
their own products. People lie about competitors’ products. People lie about the
character of the people with whom they compete. Lies in the marketplace begin
as soon as you’ve not made the effort required to bring the BEST product to
market. Marketing itself often involves ‘stretching the truth’, which often qualifies
as lying, or even blatant lying. In legalese, it is known as ‘huffing and puffing’,
which is not illegal. Go figure!

You WILL call yours the best product, because buyers want the best product. If you called
your product second-best, customers would ask you which is the best product, because
that is the one THEY want. Don’t make crappy products. If you don’t know how, find out
how. Don’t buy crappy products. Find out which ones are made with your health in mind.

06.Why Life? A Question of Priority

On this planet, life is THE big deal. It’s the only really BIG deal. Life makes our planet
special in the solar system. Life makes our planet special in the known universe. The rest
of the planets may all be lifeless. We don’t know for sure, but we know that lifeless is
boring, and that life is exciting, amazing and spectacular. With life, there is never a dull
moment.

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Living Creatures
Life is power. Life is sunlight. Life is energy. Life energy weighs nothing but runs
everything. Life makes you feel light. Life is so light that it can lift water and dust all the
way up from the ground to the top of your head. Life enlightens you. Life designed and
energized the production of DNA, which is its blueprint and instruction program for
creating the amazing array of molecules that make your body, all of the other unique
creatures, and countless uniquely original members of each kind of creature. We call
them ‘species’, and presently, an estimated 8.7 million different living species grace our
planet. Of these, 6.5 million, or about 75%, live on land, and 2.2 million, about 20%, live
in the ocean with another 5% choosing freshwater habitats.

Because of measuring uncertainties, it’s impossible to get exact numbers, so here are
some guesses. Disagreement between experts shows up in the literature.

600 Billion Strong

In total, between one and six hundred (600) billion species have lived on Earth at one
time or another over the past 4.3 billion years, most of them (99.9%) are now extinct
and replaced by others. A total of about 2.5 trillion individual living trees grow on this
planet (there were 10 trillion trees 10,000 years ago).

Plants from about 391,000 different species make up the majority of all living biomass on
this beautiful planet at about 55%. Plants also make up about 80 percent of the total
carbon content of all living things on Earth, with our Forest Ecosystems being the largest
despite their recent decline.

A total of about one quintillion (1018) individual living insects, of about one (1) million
different species, grow on this planet, but all together they make up only about 0.4%%
of all of the living biomass on the planet.

An unknown number of individual living animals, from about 1.3 million species, live and
breathe on this planet, and they make up about 10% of all of the living biomass here.

Just shy of eight (8) billion humans make up about 0.1% of our biomass. Krill count for
about 0.15%. 3.5 trillion fish swim in the ocean, accounting for about 0.2% of the
biomass. Ants are about 0.1%, and food animals about 0.2% of the total biomass of this
planet.

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About one nonillion (1030) individual living bacteria belonging to 1019 species, grow on
Earth, and these make up about 10% of all living biomass on your planet. They include
bacteria that make you sick and can kill you, rot bacteria that recycle the bodies of all
creatures after they die, and beneficial bacteria that protect you from sickening and rot
bacteria while you live.

An unknown total of about individual living fungi from 1.5 million species grow on this
planet, and these make up an estimated 25% of all living biomass (some estimates
suggest 2.5%, proof that these are guesstimates). Most of this fungal biomass is
underground. All but invisible to us, they are busy working away below the surface,
trapping metals, precipitating organic and inorganic compounds, communicating with
other organisms, transporting nutrients and releasing nutrients such as sulfate and
phosphate.

Supreme Diversity
All these creatures were and are made and sustained by life on a continuing basis for
about 4.3 billion years. We’re not talking about something trivial here. All the creatures
that lived over all of this time, and all creatures that will ever live here, including all the
microbes, plants, animals and humans did and will exist courtesy of life. And all presently
living creatures are here courtesy of life. You’re here, not by your own effort, but courtesy
of life energy, nature, and BIG PICTURE consciousness.

Living microbes, plants, animals and humans adorn the surface of this planet in the world
of nature. Life makes each of them beautiful, unique and interesting. Life creates and
animates the trillions of creatures by combining sunlight, air, water and dust. They dance
and break down. Life repairs them.

After a time, life lays each individual body of each creature permanently down. That
includes me, you, all of us, and all of them. The energy, air, water and dust from which
they’re made are constantly turned over (recycled) into new creatures, and the dance
continues.

Life Runs everything?

Life makes everything possible. Without life, your body is a handful of dust scattered on
the ground, three buckets of water in the salty sea, and a few burps dissipated in the
thin, windy, gassy envelope called the atmosphere around our planet.

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Without life, there are no thoughts that you can think, consider, accept, hold to be true,
disagree with, argue over, or kill and get killed to impose, defend or enforce. Life invented
the rules of wholeness and health, on which high quality living depends. Life invented
nature, food and health.

And life IS rich, loving, content, full, steady, light, formless and indestructible. Life is
endless and beyond death.

The ancestors are always present. What was alive will always be alive. The body is never
life. When life and body part company, the true nature of the body shows up. This is a
deep, light and hope-filled heart-to-heart conversation that you and I can continue when
we meet somewhere at some future time.

07.Why Health? A Question of Normal

Health is the natural state. It is what is normal in nature and in human nature. Life created
several different parts of the natural state of health, one for each of the parts of nature
and human nature.

Life itself is Perfect Health because, being formless, it can never break down, get sick,
deteriorate or die. What has no form can never lose its form. Something in you is
indestructible, because formless IS indestructible.

Life created mind, which fulfills two kinds of functions that define mental health. One is
the source of creativity, and the second is responsible for survival (protection and
procreation) and I call them Mental Health one (1) and two (2). These two have very
different functions, including:

1. Mind 1 invents new possibilities. It is a function of wisdom that comes from life,
light or intuition. Its archetypes are the wizard and sage.
2. Mind 2 protects against harm and ensures reproduction. It’s a function of calmness
under fire, protection of life, courtship, mating, and raising as well as educating
the brood. The archetypes are the warrior/lover and virgin/mother/teacher.

Some people suggest that there is a third kind of mind, which is involved in the exchange
of value. It is used to make deals and agreements. It ‘does the math’, calculates
equivalencies, sets down terms of exchange for goods and services, and makes business
deals. Its archetype is the merchant.

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Life creates Physical Health. Physical health is based on principles and components
which, when you live aligned with them, result in a body that works optimally in the
natural setting of planet Earth.

● Made for activity, physical health also involves rest, recovery, sleep and healing.
● Made from fresh whole raw organic food, fresh water, fresh air and sunlight, life
creates bodies that are fit for activity.
● Digestion is also key to physical health. And so is detoxification.

Life creates Social Health, a matter of connection, contribution and play.

● It’s about membership, belonging, cooperation and social celebration of individual

uniqueness.

Life creates Environmental Health, which revolves around our dependence on and
relationship with nature.

● It’s about being grateful for, respecting and taking care of the natural planetary
resources on which our existence depends in a long-term sustainable way.

There are also Internal and Infinite Awareness. These two are in truth the same, but
as a practical matter, internal awareness is your access to infinite awareness. Both are
beyond health, and so I call them Beyond Health one and two. They are the formless
foundation from which perfect health (or life) and everything else arises, within which it
exists, and into which it dissolves at the end of its cycle of existence.

Then there’s Emotional Health, which is a composite of all of the different kinds of
health.

● Each of the different parts of health has its own definition, its own nature, and its
own unique functions. Each of the different parts of health needs its own specific
kind of attention. Each part of health needs attention on a regular basis. Each part
of health goes off in a different way. Each part of health responds to a different
kind of intervention.
● Total health results when you give each part of health its due. Health deteriorates
when you fail to give one or more of the different parts of health its due. You
regain health when you realign awareness, life, body, mind, society and
environment with their nature and their natural functions.

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When all parts of nature and your nature are aligned with their nature and function, your
emotional state becomes one of calm presence, clear purpose and serene passion.

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08.Why Blends? A Question of 15 Categories
The main focus of this book is physical health. Physical health is the most complex part
of total health, and you can best understand how to put together a total program for
physical health if you know the 15 categories that you need to address in order to build
your total program.

For physical health, we deal only with what your body is made of, maintained by and
healed with. I call it the 15 categories of physical health based on the physical part of
human nature. Here they are:

The 15 Categories
1. Life Energy: The life, light or sunlight that powers you. I use these three terms
interchangeably when I speak of the 15 categories that play a role in your physical
health. Sunlight fuels our food and triggers our body’s production of Vitamin D
when it hits our skin. It is a crucial ingredient for the overall of our planet and
ourselves. Sunlight brings us all sorts of goodness. It triggers the hormone
serotonin, helping us to feel calm and focused. It aids our muscles, lowers our
blood pressure, protects against inflammation (a nasty brute) and improves the
way our brains function. You cannot live without life for even a split second.
2. Oxygen: Your most precious atom. Animals require it for life, but plants can make
it from carbon dioxide. We use oxygen to produce energy by burning fuel, sugars
and fatty acids in our cells. Without oxygen, you die within a few minutes. We
breathe in oxygen. It gets transported to our cells via the hemoglobin in our red

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 blood cells. There, it immediately gets to work powering our cellular engines.
Oxygen makes up over 60% of your body weight, but free oxygen makes up only
about 1% of our body weight. Over your lifetime, your body will absorb about 18
tons of free oxygen from the air that you breathe.
3. Water: Your most precious molecule. It makes up 70% of your body and 99% of
the molecules in your body. Without it, you die within 7-8 days. More than 88%
of the weight of water is oxygen. If you are normal adult weight (154 pounds; 70
kg) and drink 2.4 liters of water each day, you would absorb 88 tons of water into
your body over a lifetime of 100 years. Every year, you drink about 12 times your
bodyweight in water.
4. Whole Foods: Food is much more complex in its nature than light, oxygen and
water. Your body absorbs just 4 tons of nutrients in your lifetime. Greens are your
most important food. They form the bottom of the food chain and are the
foundation for the creation of all other creatures. They bring all of the atoms and
create all of the molecules in all items that make up the 12 categories that follow,
as well as the oxygen you breathe and the sunlight that is the energy of life, which
is stored in bonds between atoms that make up your food molecules. This
life/sunlight energy is released when molecules are broken down (metabolized) in
your body.
5. Fats & Oils: The source of two (2) essential fatty acids, which are originally made
by plants. These, the most sensitive of all your nutrients, are easily damaged by
light, oxygen and high temperatures. You need to treat them with care to protect
their integrity. You also need to use them with care. Because that care is not
usually given, damaged oils cause more physical health problems than any other
part of nutrition. Happily, oils made with health in mind improve more physical
health problems than any other part of nutrition. Fats and oils make up about 15%
of your body. They store energy, insulate and protect our organs and act as
messengers, helping proteins to build and repair our cells and tissues. They are
also the energy-richest of all the natural molecules in our body.
6. Protein: Complex structural and functional molecules that are source of 8-11
essential amino acids, which plants make, and which every creature needs for
structural, enzymatic and receptor functions. They are important building blocks
of our bones, muscles, cartilage, skin and blood. Proteins make up about 10% of
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7. Fuel: Any molecule that enzymes in your body break down to release the sunlight
energy stored in the bonds between the atoms of that molecule. Sunlight is the
energy that runs all of your body’s biochemical reactions. Fuels are usually
carbohydrates, fats and oils, but can also be proteins. All of this fuel is helpfully
manufactured by plants, our photosynthetic friends, their gift to you.
8. Essential Minerals and Elements: Twenty-two (22) elements and atoms that
plants dissolve out of rocks and soils, absorb and incorporate into their cell and
protein structures. In this form, these minerals become available to you when you
eat the plants. Plants can suck rocks and get these minerals. You cannot do that,
and so you depend on plants to do it for you. Minerals make up about 4% of your
body weight. There are 18 essential minerals: calcium, phosphorus, potassium,
sulfur, sodium, chloride, magnesium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, iodine,
selenium, molybdenum, cobalt, boron, chromium and fluoride. Phosphorus, sulfur,
chloride, iodine and fluorine are actually not minerals, but ARE essential elements
and are usually listed with the minerals. Picky, picky? Yes, but at least not sloppy.
Some people list several other mineral elements as essential, but the verdict is still
out on them.
9. Essential Vitamins: Thirteen (13) complex cofactor molecules that take part in
biochemical reactions in your body. Plants make all vitamins except for vitamin
B12. Vitamins make up less than 1% of the weight of your body. They are water-
soluble vitamins that are not stored in the body: C and the B vitamins: thiamine
(B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6), biotin
(B7), folate (B9) and cobalamin (B12). In addition, there are four fat-soluble
vitamins that we can store in our body’s fatty tissues: A, D, E, and K.
10. Digestive Enzymes: One group of thousands of proteins that act as catalysts to
enable biochemical reactions to take place in your cells. They work by helping your
digestive tract break down foods from complex molecules into smaller components
(nutrients) that you can readily absorb and use in your body. Digestive enzymes
present in raw foods are destroyed when foods are processed or cooked and
should be replaced for the sake of your health.
11. Probiotics: 80% of your immune system lives in your gut. These are the friendly
bacteria that live in and protect your gut, along with the rest of your body. They
help fight off the effects of ‘bad’ bacteria that can make you sick or even kill you.
They also protect against the rot bacteria whose job it is to recycle dead bodies.
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killed.
12. Prebiotic Fiber: Non-digestible plant material that serves as food or fertilizer for
probiotics and helps you with bowel regularity, colon health, blood sugar stability
and detoxification.
13. Antioxidants: Thousands of molecules made by plants to protect themselves
from the damaging effects of light-, oxygen- and heat-caused deterioration. When
you eat whole fresh plant foods, the antioxidants they contain keep your tissues
and cells from being damaged by the destructive effects of light and oxygen. They
thereby slow aging and protect your health. Their anti-aging benefits (keeping you
fresh and young longer) result from their ability to pick off and neutralize free
radicals.
14. Phytonutrients: Tens of thousands of molecules that plants, herbs and spices
make for their own purposes. When you eat these molecules, they protect you
from inflammation, infection and many other problems. Some of them have
benefits for specific parts of your body, including liver, kidneys, bones, heart and
arteries, immune system, brain and nervous system, and so on. Other
phytonutrients have general effects on the body, such as improving circulation,
picking off destructive free radicals, stopping infections by bacteria, viruses and
other microbes, resolving inflammation, and increasing energy levels.
15. Gene Modulators: Plant-based molecules that turn specific genes on, off, up or
down. Genes have specific functions in your cells, such as making glutathione (a
powerful antioxidant that your body makes), detoxification genes in your liver, and
many thousands more.

09.Why Food? A Question of Construction

Foods provide most of the essential building blocks necessary for the construction,
maintenance and repair of your body. Ninety-nine percent of you is made up of only six
chemical elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The
full list of essential building blocks for life includes:

● Essential Light: Sunlight is the main source of the energy of life. It is stored in
the bonds between atoms that make molecules. Plants absorb sunlight energy and
use it to make these energy-storing bonds.

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 ● Twenty-four (24), (+2?) Essential Elements: All of these come from air, water
and soil. Plants absorb them. Two (hydrogen and oxygen) also come from water.
One (oxygen) also comes from air.
● Four (4) Basic Non-Metal Elements: O, C, H, N
● Eleven (11), (+1?) Metal Elements: These are intricately entwined with our
bodies. They make vital functions like circulation, respiration and reproduction
possible:
○ Four (4) Major: 100 or more mg/day: Ca, K, Mg, Na
○ Seven (7) (+1?) Minor: Cr, Co, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, V, (Ni?)
● Three (3), (+1?) Metalloid Elements: As, B, Si, (Sn?)
● Six (6) Non-Metal Elements: Cl, F, I, P, S, Se
● Thirteen (13) Essential Vitamins: Microbes and plants make most of these.
Animal foods can also supply them.
○ Four (4) Oil-soluble: A, D, E, K
○ Nine (9) Water-soluble: B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, C

Eight to Eleven (8-11) Essential Amino Acids: These come from microbial, plant and
animal proteins, along with about ten (10) non-essential amino acids that your body can
make from other molecules.

● Adults: Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Phe, Thr, Trp, Val;

● Children: +*Arg, +*His;
● Premature infants: ++**Cys

Essential Fatty Acids: Microbes and Green Plants make them. They’re present
throughout all levels of the food chain.

● ALA (omega-3)
● LA (omega-6)

Life is light. Life cannot make the 47-50 essential atomic and molecular building blocks
from scratch in your body. Life CAN make them in the bodies of microbes and plants. All
of the building blocks must come from the foods you eat or supplements you take. If you
don't get enough of any one of these, your health degrades and you get deficiency
symptoms; these are degenerative in nature and get worse with time, and if you don’t
get enough long enough, you die. Scurvy, for example, results from too little vitamin C.

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If you bring enough of them back into a diet that is too low in them, and you do this
before you die (death, by definition, is NOT reversible), all symptoms of not getting
enough are reversed. Life knows how to make a body that works. Your role is to ensure
that you get enough of all the essential building blocks inside your body to enable life to
do its job — the very important work of constructing you.

Three more essential factors for health come from foods. They are NOT essential
nutrients, but they ARE essential for health. They work mostly outside your body, inside
your digestive system.

They include:

● Digestive Enzymes
● Friendly Bacteria (Probiotics)
● Fiber

Now you’re up to 51-54 essentials. You also require free oxygen and water. Free oxygen
is an essential element provided by air, already listed above. Water is essential to health,
but is made from two elements, oxygen and hydrogen, also listed above.

And More
Plants, herbs and spices provide thousands of other molecules that are not considered
essential nutrients but can benefit your health in major ways. We referred to these briefly
in the previous chapter under the 15 categories of what makes you a living, breathing
human being.

10.Why Oils? A Question of Neglect

Fats and oils come in two completely contradictory forms. There are fats/oils that heal,
and there are fats/oils that kill. The truth is that to make good choices for better health,
you have to know which is which, and then choose the fats/oils that heal.

Keys to Health and Disease

● More physical health problems come from damaged oils than from any other part
of nutrition.
● More physical health benefits come from good, undamaged oils than from any
other part of nutrition.

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 ● Of all your foods, oils are the most neglected, complicated, contradictory, sensitive,
misunderstood and misrepresented. Most people are confused about their value
to health. Two opposite stories must be told about oils and health. When you know
which fats/oils are beneficial and which are detrimental, you can choose the ones
for health. Until then, you won’t know which ones to buy, or how to use the
fats/oils you buy.
● Oils are the most sensitive and therefore most easily damaged of the essential
nutrients. Light, oxygen in the air, and high temperature damage them, and then
they damage your body. You don’t know how your oils are made, and you don’t
know how your oils SHOULD be made to improve and maintain your health. The
truth is that most people use bad oils in bad ways that cause health problems. But
you can change that. Read on to find out how.

Your Body Needs An Oil Change

The truth is that to improve health, your body needs an oil change, just like your car. You
know that it’s important to drain out the dirty oil that wrecks your engine, and to replace
it with clean oil that lets your motor run smooth at maximum efficiency. Dirty oil out,
clean oil in! It’s that simple.

● When it comes to your body, you don’t know which fats and oils to stop using, and
which ones to use instead. Most oil marketing ads hide the truth of their damaged
products and mislead you by implying falsely that you’re getting something good
by blatantly misrepresenting inconvenient facts that researchers have known for
decades.
● Where do you go to get the truth? Life and nature hold the truth you need. To get
to know the truth you need, observe life and nature. That takes time. Since I love
and have a passion for it, I can help you a little bit. Get truth regarding health and
nature here. Why do I say, ‘a little bit’? I say it because the big part is not the
information that I can give you, but the actions you take to translate that
information into better habits for health.
● What have I learned from life and nature? Life and nature are your masters, and
to be healthy, you have to live aligned with life and in line with nature. Francis
Bacon said it best: “We cannot command nature except by obeying her.”

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In this book, I share with you what I’ve learned in a lifetime of observation. It’s my
passion to discover, and my privilege to pass it on to you. It’s my blessing to have a knack
for it. It’s my nature to share with you what I have found. It’s my gift from life to you.

11.What Kind? A Question of Identity

Researchers call the building blocks of fats and oils fatty acids. You can source them
from foods, and life can make some of them in your body. Fatty acids come in four
different kinds. Only one of these kinds is absolutely essential for health, and MUST be
brought in from outside the body, because life cannot make that kind from anything else
in your body. Two other kinds are less important, because life can make them in your
body. The fourth kind is toxic and damages health. If health is your goal, avoid them.

One kind is vitally important, in that you MUST bring it in from outside (in the form of
food or supplements) in order to live and be healthy. The second kind is useful, in that,
although life CAN make it from the first kind in your body, it has health-supporting
functions in your body. The third kind is optional, in that you can take it or leave it without
consequences. The fourth kind is toxic, because processing has damaged it, and food
preparation wrecks it even more. Here is a more detailed description.

Vitally Important (Essential) Fatty Acids

Of dozens of fatty acids that occur in nature and foods, only two are key. These 5-star
VITALLY IMPORTANT (Essential) Fatty Acids are vital because they’re ‘essential’, a term
defined by researchers in a clear and precise way. An ‘essential’ nutrient is one that ‘life,’
the energy or power that runs your body, cannot make from other molecules in your body
because you do not have the genetic or metabolic (enzyme) equipment for making it.

● In the web of nature, some creatures CAN make that nutrient for you. Life needs
that nutrient in order to keep your body alive, healthy and in working order. To be
optimally healthy, bring optimum amounts of this nutrient into your body from
outside, either in the form of food or as a supplement.

When not enough of any essential nutrient lands in your body, life can’t do its job, your
body cannot stay healthy, and it slowly breaks down. As a result, ‘deficiency symptoms’
begin to appear. These symptoms are ‘degenerative’ in nature. They worsen with time.

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When deficiency lasts too long, life and your body part company, and then your body is
finished and dies.

If, while your body is deteriorating because of deficiency of an essential nutrient, you
return enough of that nutrient into your body, life reverses all deficiency symptoms that
resulted from getting too little of that nutrient.

You get your health back, because life knows how to make an optimally healthy body,
provided that you make sure that optimum quantities of all essential nutrients required
for physical health land in your body, so that life can do its job of creating that physical
health with them for you.

This definition of ‘essential’ nutrients applies to:

● Eighteen (18), (+2?) essential mineral and non-mineral elements

● Thirteen (13) essential vitamins
● Eight to Eleven (8-11) essential amino acids, and
● Two (2) essential fatty acids that are our main focus

Nature is your boss. Nature made the rules that govern what and how to eat, and which
foods to emphasize if you want to be healthy. When you eat fresh, whole, raw, organic
and uncontaminated foods in line with nature and her seasons, your foods can usually
supply the essential nutrients in the amounts necessary for creating the state of physical
health.

If your food does not supply enough, you can supplement with essential nutrients in pill
or powder form. You may it useful to augment your intake of the essential nutrients from
whole foods with such supplements, to bring your intake of essential nutrients up to the
level required for optimum health.

Among dozens of fatty acids that exist in nature, only two are ‘essential’ by the above
definition. One is the essential omega-6, linoleic acid, abbreviated as LA, which the
researchers, Burr and Burr, established to be essential for life and health way back in
1929.

The other, the essential omega-3, called alpha-linolenic acid, abbreviated as ALA, Tolman
showed in 1981 (i.e. very recently) to also be essential to life and health.

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A Short Personal History
May I digress for a moment to give you a bit of the history of my involvement with the
topic of fats and health? 1981 was only one year after I had been poisoned by pesticides.
I learned that doctors had no solution for my poisoning.

The experience made me realize that my health is MY responsibility. I decided, given that
my body is made from food, that nutrition should be the first place to look for answers.
At the time, I skipped out on taking water and air seriously; that would come later.

I began to focus my attention on nutrition research in the scientific literature, reading

studies on nutrition and health as well as nutrition and disease.

● I learned the precise definition of ‘essential’, the cornerstone of nutrition’s

importance and powerful effectiveness to build health and reverse and prevent
disease. I began to explore the world of research that had been done on food fats
and oils (lipids). I ran into contradictions whose resolution forced me to delve into
the way edible oils are processed by industry and used in restaurants and our
homes in food preparation. To my shock and surprise, I had found research
information detailing the damage done to edible oils by industrial processing and
food preparation methods carried out at high temperatures.

The timing of the poisoning that got my attention and motivated my search for answers
in the research literature turned out to be quite perfect, although I am clear that this
synchronicity of timing was not MY doing, but that of forces much larger than I and out
of my control. I was there at the right time, with the right problem, motivated by a
sincerity borne of desperation (I had cancer to look forward to), looking for a real solution,

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asking the right questions. But even the ability to ask the questions and do the work to
find answers were gifts given to me by life.

Altogether, these events and findings led me to conclude that I could not get healthy on
damaged oils, and oils could be made with health rather than shelf life in mind. Poisoned,
I was just desperate and driven enough to decide to develop a method for pressing oils
with health in mind.

You’re the beneficiary of the motivation and learning generated by my personal, tailor-
made pesticide poisoning disaster.

Sources of Essential Fatty Acids:

1. Omega-3:

● High (50+% of oil): Flax, Chia, Perilla, green leaves (but very low oil content),
Clary sage
● Medium (30-50% of oil): Psyllium seed (not husk), Kukui nut (candlenut), Sacha
inchi
● Low (17-30% of oil): Hemp; High fat fish; Krill
● Even lower (1-10% of oil): Canola, Walnut, Soybean
● Negligible (less than 1% of oil): Safflower, Sunflower, Corn, Sesame, Almond,
Peanut, Olive, Low fat fish

2. Omega-6:

● Safflower (60+% of oil) > Sunflower > Corn > Soybean > Sesame, Canola >
Almond > Peanut > Olive (10% of oil) > Cashew

USEFUL (Derivatives) of Essential Fatty Acids

When you get enough of both essential fatty acids in the right ratio, undamaged and free
of toxins into your body, life can make from them many health-supporting ‘derivatives’
with key functions in your body.

Avoid Using Damaged Oils

If you use oils in which some of the essential fatty acid molecules have been damaged
during processing or food preparation, your body may still make derivatives of some of
these molecules. But these molecules will be unnatural and may interfere with or block

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the roles that these derivatives normally play in the body. This can have dire
consequences for health.

This is another reason why it is so important that you make sure that the oils you buy
are made with health in mind and do not contain damaged molecules. It’s also
underscores why you must protect the oils you buy from damage done by frying, deep-
frying and other high-heat food preparation applications.

Omega-3
Your life uses one of several omega-3 derivatives that it makes from ALA in the body,
called EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), for roles in immune function and as starting material
for making several powerful, short-lived hormones (Series 3 Eicosanoids: prostaglandins,
prostacyclins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes) that regulate activity in every cell in your body
on a moment-to-moment basis.

Your life uses a second omega-3 ALA derivative that it makes in the body, called DHA
(docosahexaenoic acid), to build cell membrane structure and functions in brain, eyes
(retina) and sperm. From EPA and/or DHA, life in your body also makes powerful
antioxidants called ‘protectins’ powerful ‘resolvins’ with anti-inflammatory benefits,
powerful ‘maresins’ that support immune function, and powerful ‘endocannabinoids’ that
relieve pain, have anti-cancer properties and make you feel good.

Omega-6
Life in your body converts one omega-6 derivatives that it makes in the body into GLA
(gamma-linolenic acid) into another one called DGLA (dihomo gamma-linolenic acid),
from which it makes another set of several eicosanoid hormones (Series 1), which
regulate activities in every cell in your body on a moment-to-moment basis in a way that
is similar to the functions of the hormones made from EPA.

Life makes another omega-6 derivative, ARA (arachidonic acid), which it uses in your
brain construction and function, and from it, makes a third set of several eicosanoid
hormones (Series 2) that also regulate cell activity in all of your cells on a moment-to-
moment basis, but in a way that opposes the hormones it makes from EPA and DGL:A.
From ARA, life makes another super-powerful antioxidant in your body, with the short
name DPA (n-6).

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Your state of physical health is a dance between the hormone molecules made from
omega-3 and omega-6 derivatives with similar and opposing functions in your cells. It’s
a reason why balancing the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 in your diet is important for
health.

Essential fatty acid derivatives are NOT essential because life can make them in your
body. When you get enough of both omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids (ALA
and LA in the right ratio), life can make, in your body, the amounts of all of the derivatives
with vital functions that you need for health.

Conversion
Researchers call the biochemical process in your body that turns essential fatty acids
(omega-6: LA and omega-3: ALA) into essential fatty acid derivatives (omega-6: GLA,
DGLA, ARA, DPA(n-6) and omega-3: SDA, EPA, DPA(n-3), DHA) ‘conversion’. Research
shows that optimum intake of both essential fatty acids makes optimum balance and
optimum conversion of omega-3 and omega-6 into several dozens of different derivatives
in your body possible. This is true both for men and women.

While conversion turns omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids into derivatives with
all of the functions listed above, none of these derivatives need to be in your food, as
long as you optimize your intake of both essential fatty acids in their natural, undamaged
state.

Life makes many derivatives from these very sensitive and chemically active molecules.
Research discovers and identifies new derivatives and new functions every year. The
research on conversion products and their functions is an ongoing work in progress.

Rate of Conversion
The rate at which your body converts five-star essential fatty acids into three-star
essential fatty acid derivatives depends on several factors. The single most important one
for optimum conversion is to ensure optimum intake of both essential fatty acids, in the
right ratio and undamaged. With insufficient five-star essential fatty acids intake to start
with, you’ll NOT get enough conversion.

This is the key issue that my teams and I continue to address in our work (more than
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mind, containing both essential fatty acids in the ratio that consistently produces the best
results for health.

Poor nutrition, including the following dietary factors, slow down conversion in your body:

● Excessive sugar, sweets, alcohol and other carbohydrates (sugars and starches
found in potatoes, potato chips, French fries, flour products including sauces,
stuffing, bread crumbs, crackers, croutons, corn, corn flakes, corn chips, wheat,
rye, breads, breakfast cereals, pancakes, waffles, barley, oats, couscous, millet,
rice, quinoa, amaranth, cake, cookies, candy, chocolate bars, energy bars,
convenience foods, honey, syrups, snack foods and even excessive consumption
of apples, pears, bananas, melons, peaches, mangoes and other sweet fruits).
Excessive means: eating more than we burn. Never eat more carbs than you burn.
● Excessive saturated and monounsaturated fats from pork, lard, beef, butter, lamb,
tallow, chicken skin, olive and coconut oils, palm and palm kernel oils, cocoa
butter, shea butter, canola, high oleic sunflower and safflower oils, cashews,
macadamia nuts and oils, peanuts and peanut oil and other sources. They can
interfere with the conversion. Optimize your intake of both essential fatty acids,
undamaged and in the right ratio. Do this first.
● Excessive trans- fats found in unlabeled convenience airline snacks, shortenings
and margarines in foreign countries. Any amount of trans- fatty acids is excessive.
Avoid shortenings and margarines containing partially hydrogenated vegetable
oils. They contain trans- fatty acids. After Harvard School of Health blew the
whistle on the damage they do to health, trans- fats became pariahs in the fats
and oils industry.
● Too much omega-6 from seeds, most nuts and most oils. Although essential,
omega-6 can crowd out and prevent the equally essential omega-3 from doing its
work in the body.
● Too little vitamin B3, B6, or C from eating refined, processed, junk, snack and
convenience foods made with white flour. The conversion enzymes in your body
require these essential vitamins to do their job.
● Too little magnesium or zinc from processed foods. The conversion enzymes in
your body require these essential minerals to do their job.

There’s no point in doing more conversion of omega-3 and -6 when you have enough of
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to convert more, and when there’s enough. This natural feedback goes on in your body,
and there’s nothing you have to do here.

Toxic, unnatural molecules can also interfere with the function of the conversion enzymes
that exist in every cell in your body. Avoid industry- and cooking-damaged foods, as well
as toxic pesticides, heavy metals and industrial chemicals.

Optimum Nutrition
Optimum nutrition, which includes the following dietary factors, improves conversion:

● Eat fresh, whole, raw, organic foods.

● Optimize your intake of both essential fatty acids made with health in mind, free
of toxins, in the right ratio to one another and packaged in glass.
● Optimize your intake of all essential minerals and essential vitamins.

When you make liberal use of the yellow spice turmeric root, which is used in Asia/India
to make curry, (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25550171), you can improve
conversion and help prevent inflammation as well as many degenerative diseases with
inflammation as a background factor: diabetes, atherosclerosis, arthritis, Alzheimer’s,
some cancers and others.

Market Hype
Some sellers of omega-3 derivatives claim that your body cannot convert the 5-star
essential fatty acids into the three-star derivatives they sell. This turf protection marketing
is also called lying. Research shows otherwise.

Studies show that effective conversion takes place when you ingest enough five-star fatty
acids from your food supply into your body. However, 99% of you do not get enough
five-star omega-3 in your food supply, so 99% of you may not do enough conversion in
your body, even though you could if you ate enough omega-3 ALA essential fatty acid-
containing foods.

The Remedy is Simple

Make the oil change that optimizes your intake of undamaged essential fatty acids in the
right ratio from your food supply, so that your life can do its job to convert them into the

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many omega-3 and omega-6 derivatives that have important health functions in your
body.

Optimizing intake of undamaged essential fatty acids in the right ratio from your food
supply is what I addressed with Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend. If you optimize five-star omega-
3 intake to optimize conversion into three-star omega-3 derivatives, you don’t have to
take either damaged or undamaged three-star supplements.

If you want to take a three-star supplement in addition to your five-star plant-based food
omega-3, you can take krill oil extracted with alcohol. It is undamaged, comes in a more
effective form than other three-star products, contains its own powerful red-colored
antioxidant astaxanthin, and is environmentally sustainable.

Most of you get enough five-star omega-6 essential fatty acid (LA) in the oils you use.
From them, life energizes its conversion into three-star omega-6 derivatives (GLA, DGLA,
ARA) in your body. Unfortunately, you get five-star omega-6 oils with processing- and
food prep-damaged molecules that are toxic and interfere with omega-6 functions and
health. However, there’s no problem with omega-6 conversion, simply because most of
you get enough omega-6 starting material to allow life to do its conversion in the cells of
your body.

Life makes 3-star USEFUL (Derivatives) of Essential Fatty Acids in your body by converting
each of the two (2) five-star essential fatty acids into dozens of three-star essential fatty
acid derivatives. That is why the derivatives are not five-star. They are NOT essential
because life CAN make them in your body. They DO have important functions.

Derivatives include:

● Omega-6 GLA (gamma-linolenic acid), as well as DGLA (dihomo gamma-linolenic

acid) and ARA (arachidonic acid), both of which life further converts into dozens
of Series I and Series II eicosanoid hormones
● Omega-3 EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), which life further converts into dozens of
Series III eicosanoid hormones
● Omega-3 DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), which is important in brain function, vision
(retina), and sperm formation, and which your body also converts into molecules
with the following functions:
○ Antioxidant (protectins)
○ Anti-inflammatory (resolvins)

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 ○ Immune-supporting (maresins)
○ Feel-good, mood-enhancing (endocannabinoids)

Life makes ALL of these in your body when you ingest enough of each of the two five-
star omega-6 and omega-3 essential fatty acids from whole foods or oils made with health
in mind.

OPTIONAL (Non-Essential) Fatty Acids

These fatty acids are not essential. You can take them or leave them without doing
yourself harm. Life can make them in your body from other foods you eat, including from
sugars and starches. That is why they only get one star.

Life can make one-star OPTIONAL NON-Essential Fatty Acids, also known as
monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids, out of excess carbohydrates that you ate but
did not burn, which get stored as fat in your tissues for future use. The fat produced in
your body from excess sugars, sweets, starches, grains, rice, corn, flour and potatoes
eaten but not burned creates most of the fats present in overweight. When you eat a lot
of protein, life can even make 1-star fats from amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

You don’t die if you have no 1-star fats in your diet. Life uses them in the structure of the
membranes that surround your cells and keep their inside, inside and their outside,
outside. But mostly, optional fatty acids serve as fuel. You burn them for energy.

You get OPTIONAL one-star NON-Essential saturated and monounsaturated Fatty Acids,
which are present in all oils and most fats from whole foods, especially from seeds, nuts
and beans.

Fats Are Nature’s Most Reliable Fuel for Humans

Carbohydrates, which have for several decades been claimed to be the best fuel, are
actually NOT the best fuel. Fats have always been, for millions of years, your body’s
preferred fuel. Good oils rich in undamaged omega-3 are the best fuel. Good oils provide
stable energy without blood sugar, insulin and mood swings, and without cravings.
Carbohydrates produce these yo-yos and cravings, and promote gorging, overeating and
carbohydrate addiction.

Why do I say that fats have always been the most important fuel for the human body?
Here’s something to consider. Your body can only store about one pound of ‘animal
starch’ (glycogen, made from carbohydrates via glucose) in your liver and muscles. That’s

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just over 1,800 calories, enough energy to run about 20 miles, burning just over 100
calories per mile.

When they’re used up at about mile 20, marathoners who carbohydrate-loaded before
the race ‘hit the wall’. Their pound of glycogen used up, they run out of energy, and drag
themselves the last six miles to the finish line. Why don’t they just burn fats after the
carbohydrates have all been burned? Carbohydrates inhibit fat burning in the body by
turning off the genes that make the enzymes that life uses in the body to burn fats. It
takes time for these fat-burning genes to be turned on. Until that happens, which can
take a few hours, the runner’s energy is depleted.

Fats for Performance

On the other hand, you can store 300 pounds (136 kg) of fat in your body and remain
alive. At just over 100 calories per mile, this amount of fat provides enough energy to
run about 12,000 miles. Just 4% of body weight as fat is enough to run 300 miles.

It has been proposed that the human body’s ability to store and run on fat is one reason
why early humans could outlast and therefore run down wild animals to exhaustion by
simply having greater endurance, based on the fact that the human body stores much
greater fuel fat reserves than do animals.

Humans in good shape have about 8% body fats (most of us wear more like 12-15%
fat). Animals in nature normally carry only 2-3% (domesticated, that percentage goes as
high as 40% for cattle, and 60% for pigs). That’s a big difference. At 8%, a 150-pound
man would carry 12 pounds of fat energy reserves. An animal of the same weight would
have only 3 to 4.5 pounds of fat energy reserves.

Two decades ago, knowing what we have learned about fats, health and human
performance, we began to recommend to marathoners to carbohydrate-deplete for a few
days before races in order to ensure that the fat-burning genes in their body were turned
up full bore, and to run their entire marathon on the fats stored in their body. At that
time, runners where allowed only water during the race, and sugary drinks were not
allowed.

Some runners looked at us in disbelief, and others argued with us at the beginning. It
wasn’t part of the athletes’ carbohydrates-are-the-best-fuel education at that time. ‘Fad’
or mis-education would be a better word. But a few of the athletes tried it.

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What did they report? ‘At the end of my marathon, I had so much energy that I felt that
I could have run another’, one of them said. Others echoed this sentiment of having
plenty of energy at the end of the race, and not hitting the wall at all.

Research
This isn’t a novel idea. For centuries, natives of the Tarahumara tribe in Arizona ran 100-
mile ultra-marathon races using only water and chia seeds (protein, omega-3 rich oil, and
fiber; no sugar or starch) as food. More recently, sports research has started to point in
the same direction.

A paper published in the European Journal of Sports Science by Volek, J.S., et al. (2015),
entitled, “Rethinking fat as a fuel for endurance athletes,” argues that fat as fuel could
extend human physical and mental performance beyond current expectations.

Although Volek does not focus on the super-energy that omega-3 generates (his research
is supported by the meat and dairy industries), he’s clear that fats are better fuel than
carbohydrates. He concedes this is especially true in endurance sports where athletes
require a large and stable energy supply. Who is Volek? He is one of the key researchers
on the effects of fats on the physical performance of athletes. I called him to get his
scoop; he did not return my call.

Omega-3 As Fat Burner

Undamaged omega-3 is special in the fuel arena. Not only is it essential and has vital
functions in every cell, but it’s also what I call your body's fat-burning ‘fire-starter’. It
turns off your fat-making gene (fatty acid synthase) and turns on your nine fat-burning
genes. Omega-3 does this most effectively when you eat fewer carbohydrates, which
interfere by turning off your fat burning and turning on your fat production gene.

Fat Is Your Fur

Optional fatty acids also play a role as your ‘fur’. You may be thinking: ‘What?’ Let me
explain this strange statement. Animals have fur (made of hair, which is protein and some
minerals, oiled by dead cells and sebum fat) to keep warm, but even the hairiest human
beings are relatively hairless and naked.

Instead of hair, fat deposits under your skin keep you insulated and protected from the
cold. This is one reason why human beings, even healthy ones, have substantially more

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body fat than wild animals (we are NOT talking about commercially grain-fed, ‘obesified’
pigs, beef and sheep here).

Wild animals usually carry no more than 2-3% body fat. Lean, fit human beings can go
down to 4% body fat, but athletes in good shape carry 8% (men) to12% (women) body
fat. At 4% body fat, female athletes’ periods (menses) often stop, because severe calorie
restriction stops the production of hormones needed for ovulation. In her wisdom, Nature
prevents a pregnancy that likely could not be brought to term due to the potential
mother’s insufficient fat reserves.

One-Star Club Members

These include omega-9 monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids. One-star fatty acids
are found in all seeds, nuts, oils and bodies. Some seeds contain small bits of omega-7
or omega-5 fatty acids. Oils rich in one-star fatty acids include:

● Omega-9: Olive, canola, sesame, peanut, almond, beef, butter, lard; all oils
contain some omega-9
● Omega-7: Tropical fats: macadamia, coconut, palm, palm kernel
● Omega-5: Certain rare fruit seeds, like pomegranate
● Saturated: Cocoa butter, shea butter, coconut, palm kernel, palm, butter, lard,
tallow (beef and sheep); all fats and oils contain some saturated fats

Nature makes the above three kinds of fatty acids. That’s why they’re in your foods. Life
can also make the three-star EFA derivatives and the one-star omega-9 and saturated
fatty acids in your body. One more time, that’s why they are NOT essential.

TOXIC (Damaged) Fatty Acids

Through human technical ingenuity (and arrogant stupidity), we have developed
industrial processes and frying pans that turn each of the above three kinds of fatty acids,
all of which are in their natural state when we harvest them, into damaged, unnatural
fat, oil or fatty acid molecules with detrimental effects on your body, which impair your
health.

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We damage fatty acids in two major ways:

1) Industrial Processing (RBD Oils)

Firstly, we process oils industrially by successive treatment with the corrosive base sodium
hydroxide (NaOH) used to break down whatever clogs our sinks and toilets, then with
corrosive phosphoric acid (H3PO4) used commercially to de-grease windows, then with
bleaching clays that produce rancidity, and then excessively high heat to ‘blow off’
(deodorize) the rancid molecules.

Used to extend shelf life, this processing creates several kinds of damaged fatty acids. A
few of these are familiar to you, because they’ve been in the news. The others have had
no airtime. Some of these damaged, now unnatural, molecules can have serious toxic
effects on health.

Here’s a short list of the kinds of damaged molecules found in such oils. Refined,
bleached, deodorized (RBD) oils contain:

● Oxidized oil molecules: Rancidity, commercially measured as peroxide value (PV;

short term oxidation) and anisidine value (AV; long term oxidation)
● Fragmented (broken) oil molecules: Not commercially measured; presence not
stated on label
● Double bond-shifted oil molecules: Not commercially measured; presence not
stated on label

● Trans- fatty acids: These are now regulated and recommended against, but they
were present in oils, margarines, shortenings, vegetable shortenings and partially
hydrogenated vegetable oils for nearly 100 years without having to be listed on
labels. Now the amounts in products have to be listed on labels. However, there
is a glitch in the current labeling regulations, which permit manufacturers to claim
on ads and labels that their product has ‘NO trans- fats’ or even ‘ZERO trans- fatty
acids’, as long as the product contains less than 0.5% of them. That’s nice for
producers, but is it fair to you?

● Oil molecules cross-linked within triglycerides: Not commercially measured;

presence not stated on label
● Oil molecules cross-linked across triglycerides: Not commercially measured;
presence not stated on label

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 ● Cyclized oil molecules: Not commercially measured; some of these have been
found in research to be powerfully liver-toxic; presence not stated on label
● Dimerized, trimerized and polymerized oil molecules: Not commercially measured;
presence not stated on label

Testing for the damaged molecules that are not tested commercially (all but oxidized and
trans-fatty acids) has to be done in university laboratories and is super-expensive. You
don’t even get to know that they are IN your oils, nor do you get to know the effects they
can have on your body. And, there is no requirement for them to be put on labels of the
oils you buy. Given this information, it’s not surprising that some health-conscious people
recommend against the use of any bottled oils.

The industry knows that these damaged, unnatural molecules are present in their oils.
Their rule of thumb is that less than 1% of any one kind of these is okay. This means
that they find it acceptable to sell you oils with almost 3% of their molecules damaged
during processing, and that it is okay for you not to know the truth.

Media has not been helpful here, either. No investigative reporter that I know of has
looked into the damage done by industrial processing and the fact that this has been kept
from you. Media DOES accept advertising money to promote these products from the oil
industry to you. Might that be a reason for the lack of reporting on them?

2) Food Preparation in Homes and Restaurants

We further damage already damaged fats, oils and fatty acids they contain in frying pans,
woks and deep fryers during food preparation in restaurants and homes. Whenever you
brown, blacken or ‘burn’ food by heat, fats in the burned part are changed and made
unnatural. Life did not make a way for your body to break down molecules that did not
exist in nature. Damaged molecules (of fats, oils, starches, sugars and proteins)
accumulate in your body and interfere with your body chemistry. To maintain/regain your
health, stop using oils made toxic by industrial processing and in-home cooking methods.
Why?

Oils, specifically omega-6, and even more, omega-3 essential fatty acids are the most
sensitive of all food molecules. Omega-3 is five times more sensitive to damage than
omega-6. Light, oxygen and heat damage them easily. Of all nutritional molecules, they
should get the most care. Of all nutritional molecules, they get the least care. In the
practice of processing and food preparation, we treat them most harshly. The result?

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They’re the most damaged, toxic food molecules. Damaged fats/oils cause more health
destruction and problems than any other aspect of nutrition.

WE create most of the triple X-rated TOXIC (Damaged) Fatty Acids during industrial
processing and high heat applications in home or restaurant food preparation. These
were absent in nature. Life developed no way to remove or metabolize them. They pile
up in your body and interfere more and more with body chemistry. They’re very slowly
removed from your body with the shedding of skin and inner gut lining. Want the best
advice? Don’t get them into your body in the first place. THAT completely solves the
problem.

Triple X-Rated Summary

For most of the triple X-rated toxic damaged fatty acids—oxidized, fragmented, double
bond-shifted, cyclized, trans-, cross-linked within and across triglycerides, dimerized,
trimerized and polymerized fatty acids—commercial tests to measure the levels of in oil
have not been developed, even after more than 100 years of commercial oil production.

As a result, you don’t know their levels in your oils, unless you pay some university’s high
testing cost. Should you know? It’s impossible to make good choices for health if you
don’t know what you need to know to make those choices.

Processing- and cooking-damaged oil molecules are unnatural, and their results can be
serious. It’s the price you pay for convenience!! Theirs AND yours.

12.How Much? A Question of Quantity

What’s the average human daily total fat/oil intake? You probably don’t know? Most
people don’t. Take a guess. Write it down before you continue.

People give answers anywhere from 5 grams to 700 grams. The truth is: On average,
you obtain about 100 grams of total fat/oil from foods plus supplements every day. Most
of it comes from foods. Foods are the foundation of body construction, and fats are one
of the pillars of physical health, along with proteins and carbohydrates (which are not
essential and are mainly used as fuel).

Most of fats/oils come from foods, including food oils. About 1% of the 100g total come
from supplements. We’ll separate our discussion about fat/oil intake into Food Fat/Oil
Foundation and Supplement. It will bring you clarity. You’ll see.

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Let’s begin with Food Fat & Oil Foundation
Of your daily total fat/oil intake, how much comes from foods? Most people don’t know.
Guess. Write it down before you go on.

The truth: On average, 99 grams come from food fats and oils. Only 1 gram comes from
supplements. Why that low? The majority of people take no oil supplement at all.

But let’s go back to our Food Fat & Oil Foundation. Let’s break it down into Fat (fuel) and
Oil (fuel and essential fatty acids). We are more interested in oils, because most of our
5-star vitally important essential omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids come from oils rather
than fats. They’re present in our Food Oil Foundation.

Food Oil Foundation

How much of your daily total fat/oil intake comes from oils? Most people don’t have a
clue on this. Take a wild guess. Write it down before you continue.

The truth: About 28-56 g, which is about 1/3rd to ½ of our total fat/oil intake, or 2-4
tablespoons (1 Canadian or US Tablespoon of oil weighs about 14 grams in 15 ml of oil)
per day, which is about one tablespoon/50 pounds (25 kg) of body weight/day for most
people.

It’s about 25% of daily calories. Some people take less than that, and some people take
more.

Actives and athletes sometimes take as much as double that, going as high as 50% of
calories. Those who know about our work prefer undamaged, omega-3-rich, omega-6-
balanced oil blend as fuel. They find that it increases stamina, performance, recovery and
healing by as much as 40-60% within a month of starting to take that blend of good oils.
Whopping!! No training program in the world gets athletes that kind of improvement in
performance within 30 days. There’s no nutritional product that does this, except perhaps
illegal steroid hormones.

Occasionally, when an athlete gets busted for using steroids, they claim they used
flaxseed oil. Maybe they put steroids in flaxseed oil for better absorption? I don’t think
so. Or maybe their coach or physician does it to take the heat and punishment for the
athlete. Athletes vary their intake of good oils depending on their level of activity, and
smart endurance athletes use ‘good’ oils rather than carbohydrates as their high-
performance fuel.

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Supplement Oils
What is your average daily total supplement oil intake? Most people don’t know, but a
few think it’s one to three (1-3) grams/day. Take a guess. Write it down before you
continue.

● The Truth: One (1) gram total = 1/99th or 1% of total fat/oil intake. When they
recommend supplement oil, doctors suggest 1-3 g/day, which is 1-3% of total
fat/oil intake.

Two research studies showed that more than 5.1g of a fish oil supplement actually
increased inflammation even though EPA and DHA have anti-inflammatory effects. Why
is there this contradiction? It’s likely due to a combination of damaged oil molecules and
toxic industrial chemicals present in common fish oil supplements.

The quantity of processing-damaged molecules can be as much as 300,000 times higher

in fish oils than the level of industrial toxins like PCBs and dioxins. Never take more than
5.1 grams of fish oil supplement per day. Better still, take an undamaged krill oil
supplement instead.

What is Happening to Our Fish Oils?

Recent research from the past 10 years suggests that fish oils now do not provide the
benefits they used to show in older studies. Why is that? Over the past 20 years, industry
has increased the processing of these oils. They do it for two reasons.

The first reason is to get the fishy rancid smell and taste out of the oil. That takes more
high temperature processing, which likely does more damage. Deodorization, molecular
distillation, and wiped film evaporation are the processes that industry uses to accomplish
this. All use high temperature to boil off the offending molecules.

The second reason is to bring PCBs and dioxins from as high as 1,300 parts per billion
down to 90 parts per billion, a limit that was set by government regulations, even though
researchers, based on studies, say that there is NO safe level of these highly toxic
molecules. More processing is needed to do so. Heat is used to evaporate the toxins out
of oils, and this does additional damage on top of that done by the damaging processing
used before these government regulations were set. Even more extensive damage is now
done to the super-sensitive fish oils than was done to them in the past. That has made
such oils less helpful and more harmful to health.

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Why do I recommend krill oil instead of fish oil for your supplement intake? Krill oil is not
damaged, comes in a more effective form, and works better. You need less of it to get
equal benefits.

The Fish Oil Versus Flax Oil Lie

Let me make an important point to put food oil and supplement oil in perspective. In the
marketplace, you may hear conflicting opinions framed as the ‘flax versus fish’
controversy. That argument is a vile misrepresentation of truth, told not to help you with
your health, but only to win market competition. Let me make clear to you what is true,
right here.

You have to contend with two kinds of oils: oil from food and oil from supplements. Food
oil is SUPPOSED to be your foundation. You should use oil supplement to SUPPLEMENT
that food oil foundation. The supplement should NOT REPLACE the food oil foundation.

Using a fish oil supplement instead of improving your food oil foundation is like taking a
mineral-vitamin pill instead of eating food. It only works in theory. It does not work in
practice and in life.

Life makes whole foods in nature. When you remove nutrients from those foods, or when
you want to increase your intake of essential nutrients to increase performance, you
supplement your foods with one or more capsules of ‘supplements’.

Taking a fish oil supplement while ignoring the quality and necessary quantity of your
food oil foundation is a recipe for serious health disasters.

Sources of Fats/Oils in Foods:

Relative amounts of fats and oil in foods:
● Plants: Nuts (20-60%) > Seeds (20-45%) > Soybeans (18%) > Beans, lentils,
chickpeas (~4%) > Whole grains (2-4%) > Greens (0.1%) = Fruits (0.1%)
● Animals Muscle Meat: Pig (35-60%) > Beef (25-40%) = Sheep, Lamb (20-40%)
> Chicken = Turkey (6% in muscle; more fat in skin, which is usually discarded)
● Specific Animal Cuts: Bacon > Organs > Meat with fat on > Marbled meats >
High fat (oily) fish > Wild meats > Low fat fish

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 ● Animal Body Parts: Adipose tissue > Brain > Bone marrow > Skin > Organs >
Muscle

In animals, the amount of fat in body parts except brain and bone marrow depends on
how much fat they eat from their foods, what kind of food they eat, and their level of
activity.

Food Oil Foundation Sources (Plant-based):

● Omega-3:
■ Richest sources: Flax, Chia; Perilla (schizo)
■ Medium amounts: Sacha Inchi > Hemp
■ Small amounts: Walnut > Canola > Soybean
● Omega-6:
■ Rich sources: Safflower = Grape seed > Sunflower = Corn
■ Medium amounts: Soybean > Walnut > Sesame
■ Small amounts: Almond = Canola > Peanut > Olive

Supplement Oil Sources

You do NOT need to take an omega-6 derivative supplement, because you get enough
of the omega-6 essential fatty acid (linoleic acid, LA) from your (remember: partially
damaged) food oil foundation—plant foods and oils—to make, within your own body, all
the derivatives you need.

A few omega-6 supplements exist, but their market is small and the need for them is
debatable. This includes the two GLA (gamma-linolenic acid) supplements evening
primrose and borage oil, as well as ARA (arachidonic acid), which is found in animal
products, but for which no serious supplement has been developed. No serious deficiency
has been shown in normally fed human populations for any of the omega-6 derivatives.

In truth, supplementation of derivatives of either omega-6 or omega-3 is not usually

necessary, IF you get enough of each essential fatty acid, in the right ratio, undamaged
and made with health in mind, from the foods and oils you eat.

Every cell in your body has the genetic blueprints (genes) that code for the production of
the enzymes that convert (turn) each of the two essential fatty acids into a myriad of
essential fatty acid derivatives in your body.

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Making these derivatives requires only that you:

● Get enough of both essential fatty acids, undamaged and in the right ratio
● Eat foods that are
○ Not too high in
■ Fatty acids that are trans-, saturated and monounsaturated;
■ Sugar, starch and digestible carbohydrates; and
■ Omega-6 (in relation to omega-3);
○ Not too low in Vitamins C, B3 and B6, and the minerals magnesium and zinc

In other words, eat whole foods and take a multi-mineral and vitamin supplement. Then
let your life make its natural decisions about the conversion of essential fatty acids (EFAs)
into their many derivatives. In addition to your life converting EFAs in your cells, omega-
3 derivatives also exist in your foods, as well as in capsules of supplements.

Here are some sources:

● Fish: Highly processed; Damaged; Contain industrial poisons (PCBs, dioxins,

pesticides); Ocean harvest NOT sustainable; Prediction: No fish in the oceans by
2048; Fish, according to research, is now the dirtiest meat on the planet;
● Krill: Alcohol extracted; Low on food chain; Not damaged; Low in poisons;
Sustainable
● Wild algae: Plant origin; Solvent extracted; Lowest on food chain; Original source
of krill and of ‘fish’ oils; Low in fat (4%); NOT available commercially; Sustainable
● Commercial algae: Grown in tanks; Turn sugar into EPA, DHA; Mostly refined;
Damaged by processing similar to fish oils; May contain processing aids
(dimethicone) not listed on labels; Sustainable

All Hail Krill Oil

Of these supplement sources, krill oil is hands down, in my opinion, the best one. It’s low
on the food chain, and so is low in industrial toxins. It’s in a form (~40% phosphatides
instead of triglycerides) that is:

● More easily absorbed,

● Better protected from being broken down for energy, which is the fate of 60-80%
of triglycerides in plant and fish oils, and

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 ● More effectively used in cell structures, so that the effective dose is lower than
that for fish.

Krill oil is alcohol extracted from fresh material and is not damaged by chemicals and by
heat. It comes with its own red antioxidant, astaxanthin. Finally, krill oil is a sustainable
source, for which catch limits were set before the first net went in the water. If you take
a supplement of omega-3 derivatives, make it krill oil. Unless you are vegan, in which
case using turmeric (or curry) in your food increases the conversion and makes a
supplement unnecessary.

13.How Made? A Question of Quality

Industry can make oils in two ways. Mainstream multi-billion-dollar industry’s oils are
made with shelf life in mind. The industry has done this for the past 100+ years. It makes
commercial, colorless, odorless, tasteless ‘salad, cooking and culinary’ oils. These refined
(or Refined, Bleached, Deodorized, abbreviated as RBD) oils were treated with harsh
chemicals and high (frying) temperature. This treatment with a chemical feast and high
heat damages up to 1% of the oil molecules.

Extra virgin olive oil is the only widely available undamaged oil, because producers press
it from the flesh of olives in a way that does not damage the oil molecules. Other oils,
when labeled ‘unrefined’ may have been pressed or extracted by solvents but have not
been exposed to the usual chemical feast that is industry practice.

Industry can also make oils with health in mind. In the early 1980’s, after learning how
industry makes oils and how much damage results from the harsh processing that
industry uses to make shelf-stable oils, I designed a method that is now used by those
who make health-supporting oils. My team and I worked with engineers to translate my
design concepts into super-protective oil pressing machinery in 1986.

We press nutritious, undamaged oils made with health in mind from organically grown
seeds, under protection from light, oxygen and heat throughout the entire process from
seed through pressing, settling, filtering and filling into nitrogen-flushed, capped, boxed,
refrigerated glass bottles, using a method that required us to invent and develop custom-
made parts for the oil presses that were not at the time (and still are not) available
anywhere else in the world.

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Why is the WAY we make oils so important? It’s important because, for optimum health,
you need food oils in their natural state, not damaged by the way they were processed.
But why is that? Good oils are super-important major nutrients. They’re one of the ‘three
pillars’ of nutrition, the other two being protein and carbohydrates.

Oils, specifically essential fatty acids, are the most sensitive of all of your essential
nutrients. Light, oxygen and heat damage them rapidly, destroying their health benefits
in the process. To retain their benefits, they require more care than any other nutrient,
but, of all of our essential nutrients, they actually get the least care. This is true in the
way we treat them during industrial processing, cooks use them in restaurants, and use
them at home during food preparation.

Mega Oil Industrial Processing

The mega oil industry treats oils in four steps:

1. With harsh chemicals: Sodium hydroxide, a very corrosive base that is used to
break down material that clogs pipes, sinks and toilets.
2. Followed by phosphoric acid, a very corrosive acid used commercially to wash
and degrease windows.
3. Followed by bleaching clays that oxidize (‘rancidify’) fatty acids and turn oils
rancid, conferring unpleasant odors to oils.
4. Finally, it heats them to frying temperature (deodorization, distillation,
steam-distillation, molecular distillation or wiped film evaporation all
refer to basically similar high heat processes) to clean up the mess they made by
their use of the harsh chemicals and bleaching clays.

This industry begins with non-organic seeds that have been sprayed with pesticides, and
one of the scientists at AOCS (American Oil Chemists Society, the manufacturers’ umbrella
organization of the industry that makes ‘salad, culinary and cooking’ oils) told me on a
phone call in 1984 that one reason for using high (frying) temperature is to boil off and
remove 50% of the pesticides in the oil.

I spoke with him soon after pesticides had poisoned me. At the time, I didn’t even know
that pesticides were present in oils. It really shocked me to hear it. Realizing that the
other 50% of the pesticides remain in the oil and knowing I couldn’t heal from pesticide
poisoning with more pesticides, I asked him, “Why don’t you start with organically grown

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seeds?” It’s a good question for you to ask the industry. The scientist had no answer.
Instead, he got angry and yelled at me.

The bolded, underlined terms above, for high heat treatment of oils involves
destructively high temperatures that change natural oil molecules into unnatural ones.
These can interfere with your body’s health chemistry. Don’t use or buy such oils. Vote
with your wallet for better oils.

Why is ‘interfering with the body’s health chemistry’ a problem? At their most basic level,
ALL diseases begin with unnatural interactions between molecules.

Let me explain. Life energy never gets sick. Electrons never get sick. Atoms can’t get sick.
Molecules don’t get sick. Where does sickness begin? Sickness begins in the realm of
interactions between molecules. Whatever interferes with nature-designed interactions
between natural molecules in our body (lack of molecules essential to health; and
presence of toxic molecules that should not be there) derails these interactions and begins
disease processes that can eventually be diagnosed as a ‘condition’ by a medical doctor.

But the detrimental interactions between damaged molecules and the body begin long
before there are any visible signs of their detrimental nature. By the time you get the
diagnosis, the damage has long been going on; the diagnosable disease was a long time
coming.

The unnatural molecules made by damaging natural molecules during industrial

processing or food preparation most frequently interfere with body chemistry. Man-made
unnatural synthetic molecules created by industry can also interfere. Such molecules
include plastics, pesticides and industrial chemicals. In addition, the toxic ‘side effects’ of
pharmaceutical drugs are signs of their interference with the natural molecular interaction
involved in our body’s physical health.

Processing Oils with Health in Mind

The methods my team and I developed for making oils with health in mind were designed
specifically to prevent natural oil molecules from being damaged. These therefore retain
their health benefits. They align with and support the natural interactions between natural
molecules in your body that create the picture of physical health.

To retain their benefits, I reasoned, we MUST protect sensitive essential fatty acid
molecules from the damaging effects of light, oxygen and heat from the time when

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they’re enclosed in seeds (in nature’s exquisitely designed tight protective package, which
took millions of years to perfect), while we press, filter, fill into glass bottles, nitrogen
flush, cap and box these protected natural molecules.

They’re protected from damaging light, oxygen and heat until fresh, undamaged, organic,
natural oil is in the walk-in refrigerator in the factory.

I visualized, and we designed, developed, created, installed and used new oil pressing
machinery and new processes. We had to invent all these, because no one had thought
of or was doing this. It was a challenge and a lot of fun.

Protection
My thought was that if we avoid making a mess with harsh chemicals at the front end of
oil making, we won’t have that mess to clean up at the back end.

Based on this consideration, the processes we developed together don’t use ANY harsh
chemicals. We start with organically grown seeds. In addition, I decided that their
sensitivity warrants cold storage and shipping to preserve the health benefits of these
most sensitive of all our nutrients.

When it came to finding distributors, we made it clear that we would work only with
people (distributors and stores) who have or are willing to build refrigerator space in their
warehouse, and who care enough to keep our precious, sensitive oils cool.

I recommend that people keep our fresh oils made with health in mind in THEIR home
fridge, and that they NEVER use these precious oils for frying.

Exclusion of Light
A dark container cuts out the light. At first, we designed and worked with black plastic
bottles that were thick enough to cut out all light. One day, I found research in the
Encyclopedia of Plastics showing that plastics leach into foods, and especially into oils.

Specifically, oils swell plastics, and make leaching of plastics as well as the unlisted
ingredients in plastics (which are ‘proprietary’ and therefore not disclosed to you by the
plastics manufacturers) into oil quicker than into water.

Water does not swell plastic. When I learned this, I decided that a dark glass bottle is
superior packaging material, and then put the bottle in a box to cut out all the light.

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Shipping
Experimenting, we learned that non-refrigerated shipping of closed bottles is okay for 2
weeks maximum. We ship oil cold if it is in transit for longer than that (such as when it
goes from North America to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America and
Antarctica).

This is a very different way of treating oils. At that time, virtually all oils were in
transparent glass (now transparent plastic) exposed to light, on shelves the temperature
of the season, made with chemical feasts, and recommended as acceptable for frying.

Ours were ‘made with health in mind’. Ours were protected from light, oxygen and heat,
and were further protected by keeping them cool. I am still proud of our accomplishment.

14.How Packaged? A Question of Leaching

Plastic leaches into oils quicker than into water. When we began, we used thick black
plastic bottles to package our oil. The Encyclopedia of Plastics dissuaded me, saying that
plastics leach into oils even faster than into water. Why? The chemistry of oils and plastic
is similar.

Chemistry lovers know that ‘van der Waals forces’ between nonpolar, carbon-based
plastic and oil molecules make plastics swell in contact with oils. When plastics swell,
plastic molecules and other ingredients present in plastics can more easily migrate from
the plastic into the liquid oils that are continually moving in the bottle, washing the
swollen plastic surface.

A Change to Glass for Packaging

Oils don’t swell glass. The moment I learned this, I immediately wanted to make the
change to glass for packaging. The team I worked with at that time did not want to do
it. Glass is easier to break. Glass is heavier and costs more to ship. Plastic is light, durable
and cheap.

Since that time, research has shown that plastic leaches into food in direct proportion to
how much fat/oil a food contains. The more fat/oil is in a food, the more plastic from the
container or plastic wrap ends up dissolving in that food.

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I’m glad that I made that change. It wasn’t easy, but it IS better for health. Research
also showed that plastics (like other man-made, unnatural, synthetic molecules) can
cause chronic low-grade systemic inflammation.

How do foods interact with their packages? Most of you don’t know much about it. You
don’t usually think about such questions. You hope for the best, guessing that ‘they’ care
about your health. You assume that ‘they’ wouldn’t do anything that was not good for
health. But you know better. You see the consequences of sloppy, uncaring, body-hostile,
corner-cutting-for-convenience human actions everywhere on your planet.

Many plastics contain several other unnatural ingredients. I didn’t know what kind of
other molecules. So I tried to find out.

Asking the Plastics Manufacturer

One day, I called the manufacturer of the plastic bottle we used to package our oil and
asked for the complete formula of ingredients in the plastic. “The formula is proprietary,”
said the man at the other end of the phone. “Here’s my dilemma,” I told him. “I give
public talks, and I recommend the plastic bottle. I never want to be in a position where
it surfaces that there’s something unsafe in this plastic that I recommend as safe for
packaging oils.”

After some thought, he replied, “Okay, we’ll send you the formula, provided that you
promise not to give anyone else that information.” I agreed, because as long as it was
truly safe, I did not mind keeping their trade secret. He agreed to send me the formula.

Something Not Disclosed?

When all components and the amount of each in a formula are listed, we have a complete
formula, and it ALWAYS adds up to 100%. A formula that adds up to only 98.7% is really
difficult to work with, so nobody does that. But, the formula the company sent me did
not add up to 100%. In other words, they did NOT send me the complete formula. They
left something out.

I suspect they didn’t want at least one ingredient in their plastic formula to be known to
be present. It made me suspicious. It’s another reason why I’m glad I switched to glass.

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Glass Has Class
Of the possible kinds of packaging for liquids, including plastic, paraffin, paper, glass and
inside-surface-shellac-coated metal cans, glass is chemically the safest. Glass is safe for
water. Glass is safe for oil-soluble foods. Glass does not leach anything into food. Glass
has a track record of 2,500 years of safe use. Glass is made of quartz, which is just silicon
dioxide plus minerals frozen into it. Glass has class. Whenever we eat at a classy
restaurant or event, water is served in glass bottles and glasses. The same is true for
alcoholic drinks. No classy place serves drinks in plastic. Glass has class.

Once, while traveling, a fancy Asian restaurant served us water in plastic bottles. My
hosts were embarrassed. We complained to the manager. The manager apologized and
brought us water in glass bottles.

Taste and Plastic

Liquids taste better served in glass. Champagne and Prosecco are served in glass flutes,
not in plastic flutes. Classy wine comes in wine glasses, not in wine plastics. Whiskey is
served in shot glasses, not shot plastics. Even beer is served in beer glasses, not beer
plastics.

Many years ago, the beer industry actually tried to switch beer from glass to plastic
bottles. They stopped because the plastic imparted a taste to the beer that no self-
respecting beer drinker would put up with. So beer went back in glass.

The taste of plastic is difficult to detect in oils. It’s because the chemistry, and hence the
taste, of oils and plastics is similar. But just because we can’t taste it does not mean it’s
not there. Plastics ingredients dissolve more easily in oil than in water. Being unnatural,
plastics don’t belong in our body. If they DO find entrance to our body, they can cause
allergic, immune and inflammatory reactions. So says research.

Plastics and Environment

Plastic has been used to package food for only a few decades. It’s cheap but not
necessarily safe. It also poses environmental problems. Do you know about the ‘plastic
island’? It’s made of plastic waste dumped in the ocean. Ocean currents drift it and it
collects in the Pacific. That ‘plastic island’ is the size of Texas, and 100 feet deep. Recently,
plastic islands were also found in the Atlantic, Indian and Southern oceans.

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Have you heard about small bits of colored plastic that kill birds? They eat but cannot
digest the plastic. It fills their stomach. Then they starve to death. Even whales have
been found dead with stomach filled by plastics.

We also know that marine animals get tangled and strangled in nets. Animals have caught
their heads in beer packaging, and then choked to death because they couldn’t get their
heads back out. Plastic is cheap and convenient, but it can also be seriously hostile to life
and health. If we add the environmental and health costs, plastic is much more expensive
than glass. What is the value of life and of nature?

Paraffin, a petrochemical, can dissolve in oil, which makes it another unsuitable oil
packaging material. We’re back to glass.

Metal Packaging
Metals speed (catalyze) oil breakdown, so they’re not suitable for packaging oils. Metals
containers are often coated on the inside with shellac, but this contains more chemicals,
at least some of which can dissolve in oil. This creates a situation where much damage
can be done to oils, so I decided against it. It’s better to stick with glass.

Committed to Convenience or to Health?

For a business, working with glass can be inconvenient. Glass packaging is heavier, can
break, costs more to ship, is more expensive to buy, and can cut into profits in a
competitive marketplace. But glass is natural, and better for both health and environment.

Plastic is lighter, unbreakable, cheaper to ship, less expensive to buy, and leads to higher
profits. But plastic is unnatural, often contains toxic molecules, is more detrimental to
health, and is creating an environmental disaster.

You can use the packaging material companies use as an indicator of the commitment to
health and environment of the decision makers and owners of these companies. Those
who use glass take the high road on packaging for both health and environment. This is
super-important for oils. Support that commitment. Vote with your wallet.

My Insight/Philosophy
Ultimately, each of us works either for life or the bank. Here’s how to tell. If you work for
life, you’ll sacrifice money for life when necessary. If you work for the bank, you’ll sacrifice

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life for money when necessary. When you work for life, money is your servant, and you’re
its master. When you work for the bank, money is your master, and you are its servant.

On this planet, life is the only true treasure. You live the highest quality life when what
you feel, think, say and do is in line with protecting and caring for life, body and nature.
When you live in touch with life within you, you feel richly taken care of and whole. Then
you become a giver, because that is your core true nature.

When you live out of touch with life within you, you do not feel taken care of, and then
you are a taker, because your most powerful central drive is to feel taken care of, and
you’ll only do whatever you think will take care of you. That’s how human beings are.
That’s how human nature works.

The Truth: Nothing outside of you can get you to feel 100% cared for. A person who is
fully present in all of her/his being, and who therefore knows how human nature works,
can point you in an inward direction, but they cannot do your inner reconnection work
for you. They will be clear about it.
Your inner journey is YOUR personal journey. It is your private homework. Others may
be able to help inspire or remind you to take time to get to the core feeling of life within
you. You walk alone to the center of the universe you live in. Take time to practice feeling
fully present every day.

With this practice as a foundation, you can live a life fulfilled, giving to life, body, others
and nature instead of destroying them by working for the bank, against life. Money can
never truly be the first priority on a planet where life is the true treasure. This topic is so
vast that I’ve committed several different titles to my personal insights on the subject.

15.How Stored? A Question of Cooling

We freeze ice cream to keep it from melting. We freeze meat to keep bacteria from rotting
it. For some reason, we’ve not given oils, our most health-precious and damage-sensitive
nutrients this kind of deserved and necessary care.

Cold Storage
Modern industry ships oils rich in the delicate, easily destroyed omega-3 and omega-6
essential fatty acids without protection. Remember, these (and omega-3 five times more
than omega-6) are the most delicate of all essential nutrient building blocks that life
requires to build and to rebuild your body. They’re easily damaged by light, air and heat.

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They need protection more than any other food. You’ll not die from drinking melted ice
cream, but you can die from eating oils damaged by lack of protection.

My point is this: well-developed methods for cold storage exist. We’ve not applied these
methods to the best edible oils. Why not? For better health, we could, should and must.

Protecting Sensitive Oils

Why don’t we apply these ‘keep-fresh’ methods to sensitive oils? There’s no easy answer
to this question, except lack of care for health, general sloppiness, or greater interest in
profit than in customers. People make the decisions. What is their foremost goal when
making them? Is it health? You can dig into this question and find out for yourself.

Good oils need protection. It is true when they’re being made. It’s true when they’re
being used in food preparation. It’s also true when they’re being stored in factories and
stores.

Oils made with health in mind need care in storage. The best care is cool, low temperature
storage. Working from practical experience, we set the following standards for oils made
with health in mind:

● Frozen, closed: 3 years. Oils shrink when they freeze. Glass bottles won’t break.
Frozen solid, oil molecules can’t move. Not moving, they can’t meet. Not meeting,
they can’t react. Not reacting, they can’t change their shape from natural to
unnatural, less health supporting or toxic.
● Refrigerated, closed: 12 months
● Refrigerated, open: Use contents within 8 weeks

A Storage Standards Story

Starting in 1988, when the buzz about our good oil spread through the industry, many
distributors approached us. They wanted to carry our oils made with health in mind.
Based on my ‘stake in the ground’, I designed and carried out a two-question interview
for each potential distributor.

● The first question was, “Do you have refrigeration?” If they said, “Yes”, my
business partner would begin to discuss what the nature and terms of a distribution
agreement with them would be.

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 ● If they said, “No”, I asked a second question. “Will you bring in refrigeration?” If
they said, “Yes”, I told them, “Call us when you have it.” If they said, “No”, my
response was, “This is a good time to end the interview.”

I held that standard, because I felt them to be vital when dealing with sensitive nutrients
for health. I wasn’t willing to do business with anyone who did not want to take good
care of our precious oils.

We never buckled to distributors’ desire for convenience. In the case of essential fatty
acids (and probiotics), ‘easy’ is the enemy of ‘healthy’. That’s the way it is. We made it
hard on ourselves in order to make health easier for you. Almost three decades later, we
still hold that standard. We’re proud of that stake in the ground.

16.How Shipped? A Question of Protection

Methods for cold transport were developed not only for meat and ice cream but also for
butter, vegetables, fish and other fresh foods. Without this care in transport, your
vegetables and fish would arrive rotten in the grocery store. The butter would be melted
out of its wrapping and end up all over the floor of the truck or railroad car that moved
it from source to consumer. That’s why these products get that kind of care.

Why don't oils get this kind of care? Is the food industry more interested in presentation
than in health benefits? Oils in bottles don’t rot or get messy.

Molecular damage and poisons in oils are invisible. Unless it becomes noticeable by
changing color, odor or taste, industry may not bother to give oils care after the damaging
high (frying) temperature deodorization treatment that makes oils colorless, odorless and
tasteless. But for me, it is not a cause to complain. Their lack of care allows us to shine
by making products with human health in mind. It and motivates us to give care to our
products to keep them more closely aligned with nature.

When my team and I began to work with good oils, we set standards for this important
part of the care for omega-3 and omega-6 rich oils. From experience with delicate oils
made with health in mind, here is what we came up with:

● We allow a 2-week maximum shipping time for closed bottles without refrigeration.

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From North America, we ship oils made with health in mind refrigerated to Europe, Asia,
Africa, Australia and Central and South America. At least one bottle of our oil blend made
it to Antarctica. I have a photo of it somewhere.

Air shipping is the fastest way to ship good oil long distances. Some importer/distributors
in other nations on other continents use this. It’s more expensive, but they get the
freshest product, with the longest time before expiry.

17.How Used? A Question of Application

It surprises people that good oils CAN be used in hot foods. Add AFTER Cooking

Good oils and both omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids can be safely added to
hot soups, hot vegetables, hot starchy foods like potatoes, yams and pasta, or mixed into
hot sauces added to all kinds of foods. The key is to add good oils made with health in
mind to foods AFTER they’ve come off the heat. When you add them about the same
time as you add salt, pepper and spices to your food, you do NOT damage good oils.

Use good oils in warm and cold foods. They’re compatible with all foods: vegetables,
proteins, fruits and starches. Remember, though, that when you mix good oils and
starches, you block their ability to turn on fat burning, and then you may gain a bit of
weight. When that happens, you’ll blame the oils, but it’s the carbohydrates that are
responsible for the weight gain. If that happens to you, lower your carbohydrate intake,
and the oil will help you normalize weight. Good oils will also increase your endurance,
making it more likely that you enjoy being active.

Taking Oil Off a Spoon?

Mix oil blends that are good for health in foods. They enhance food flavors and improve
nutrient absorption. Some people were taught to take good oils off a spoon, and they
actually like to do that. They were NOT taught by me to do that, though. My
recommendation has always been based on getting the best results for health.

A few people have taken Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend off a spoon on an empty stomach, and
then complained to me that the oil tastes bad. My first question to the complainer is
always, “How do you take the oil?” Their answer, “Off a spoon (on an empty stomach).”
Then I ask them, “When did you most recently take a cooking oil off a spoon?” “Never”
they answer. They do NOT take other oils off a spoon. They never have. No one does.

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Oh yeah. That’s right. So I ask them my final question, “Then why are you taking MY oil
blend off a spoon?”

If you take cooking, salad or culinary oil off a spoon on an empty stomach, you will not
like its taste. In fact, those oils taste worse than the blend, because of the way they’ve
been butchered and altered from their natural state.

Oils taste like oils. Some people like the taste. Some people don’t like the taste. A few
people don’t like the texture. In nature, oils are always in foods, not alone. You’re
supposed to use good oils in foods, just like you used to use the industry-damaged ones.
Oils will never taste like ice cream.

The Cod Liver Oil Curse

Many people, especially those who were forced to take cod liver oil off a spoon as children,
have a gag reflex when they see oil on a spoon or taste oil by itself. They don’t like the
texture, or taste, or the smell of oil. My advice is to lose/mix good oils into their favorite
foods. When they do this, the gag issue does not come up for them (pun intended). When
they notice the benefits of good oils, they develop a happy feeling about using these oils
in their foods to improve their health.

On many of my tours, we make different recipes using good oils. One favorite was simply
oil in applesauce. People loved the taste. Sometimes we simply dipped bread in the oil.
On occasion, we hired a chef to make a set of fancy dishes using the oil blend. We also
put it in shakes, smoothies, on rice, in hot soups, in mashed potatoes and steamed
veggies. People generally like these ways of using oils. Good oils enhance ALL foods.

‘Oil Shooters’ and the Gag Reflex

MY favorite recipe at talks is ‘oil shooters’. “Everything but the booze,” I tell them. We
take Pina Colada or Mango juice and put oil on top of that juice. We pass these oil shooters
out from big trays to hundreds of people. Every attendee gets one. There are always a
few people who hold it in their hand, look at it, and start heaving like they’re about to
throw up. It actually looks funny.

Then I ask them, “How many of you were forced, by well-meaning parents, to take cod
liver oil off a spoon on an empty stomach as a child?” There’s a strong concordance with
that childhood trauma and the present, heave-worthy dislike of oil taste, texture and
appearance.

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Then I ask them to pour the juice with oil in their mouth and swish it around to blend
juice and oil together. They notice that the oil taste and texture disappear at once, that
the flavor of the juice deepens, that the juice has more ‘body’, and that it is delicious.
Then they ask for seconds. Within minutes, their nausea at the thought of oil is gone
forever. Try it!

Liver Care
I suggest that you spread out your intake of good oils over the course of the day. Have
some with breakfast, some with lunch, some with dinner and some with snacks. Doing
so ensures that you’ll not feel tired, heavy or nauseous after taking the oil.

Here’s why. Your liver has to process fats and oils you eat. If you take more oil at any
one time than your liver can handle, you exceed its capacity, and it lets you know in no
uncertain terms. How? It prevents you from taking even more by killing your appetite
with these tired, heavy, nauseous feelings.

Never use good oils (or even bad ones) for frying. Oils are vindictive. They treat you like
you treat them. When you care for them, they take care of your health. If you damage
them, they will damage you. If you fry them, they will fry your health. You can count on
it.

Develop a Healthy Fear of Frying

Here’s my suggestion for how to best use a frying pan. Take it out of its hiding place.
Turn it upside down. Hit yourself in the head with it, to associate the frying pan with pain.
Then throw it out. Permanently store it in the garbage bin. Set yourself free from its
destructiveness. If you keep and use your frying pan, you’ll cause yourself a ton of life-
shortening pain.

Recipes
Oils go well in salads, smoothies, shakes, purees and soups, on hot vegetables, sweets,
starches, proteins and fruit. There are no foods that should not be taken with oils. Many
people ask how to use good oils in foods. I’m no cook. My idea of a good meal is to eat
a lot of raw foods. My stove is the most underused equipment in my home. Only when
someone visits me does my stove get turned on, because THEY turn it on. So, I don’t
have recipes, but I have something better.

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Celebrity Chef
At a conference in the BonaVista hotel in Los Angeles, I met celebrity chef Alan
Roettinger. The restaurant was crowded, and the maître d asked us if we were willing to
share tables. I said, “Yes,” and she seated me next to a stranger. We began to talk.

Alan asked, “What do you do?” I replied, “I work with oils.” Then I asked him, “What do
you do?” He shared, “I cook for private celebrities in Hollywood and other places.”
Excited, I said, “I need recipes that show people how to use good oils in food preparation
without destroying them and their health.” He was open to this, “That would be fun to
do.” I suggested we do it together and he answered with a simple, “Okay.” That short
conversation started a collaboration that was a lot of fun and began a great friendship
with a great guy.

Health, Pleasure or Health AND Pleasure

Alan did most of the work. I explained to him how to use healthy oils in food preparation
without doing damage to these good but delicate oils. He created the recipes. Alan is all
tongue, nose and culinary design. He says, “No matter how good something is for my
health, I will not eat it if it doesn’t taste good.” I’m the opposite. If I know that something
is good for my health, I’ll eat it no matter how bad it might taste. Bitter, great! Smelly,
fine! Yucky looking, who cares!

The obvious conclusion: Do NOT come to me for good recipes. Go to Alan. His recipes
are amazingly tasty. This guy knows flavors, presentation and deliciousness. The result
of two years of working together, him doing most of the work, is a book called OMEGA-
3 CUISINE: Recipes for Health and Pleasure.

It has 140 plant-based recipes for every part of the day, 139 of which feature the healthy
use of Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend. It has interesting stories about food and food cultures,
little known interesting facts, and mouth-watering desserts.

It is entertaining to read, and practical to apply. Yay for my friend, Alan Roettinger!

18.How Sensitive? A Question of Fragility

We talked about the sensitivity of fatty acids, especially essential fatty acids, to damage
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than omega-6. Like, 5 times more easily and rapidly. What kind of damage are we talking
about?
Light damages oils by knocking electrons out of orbit, which thereby become super-
active, unpaired-electron-containing and super-destructive free radical molecules. In my
book FATS THAT HEAL FATS THAT KILL, I called them ‘molecular terrorists’ in our
cells. This was long before our present preoccupation with political and religious
terrorism. Molecular terrorists start a process that damages thousands of molecules by
chain reactions.

Industry does not measure free radical damage in commercial products. This means that
for more than 100 years, you’ve remained ignorant of its presence, and uninformed about
the extent to which molecules in the oils you consume have been damaged. You’ll be
blown away by the number of damaged molecules in a single tablespoon of oil when you
see it later on. For now, you should know that on average, university research on free
radicals shows that a free radical will go through 30,000 reactions (busting 30,000
molecules), before an antioxidant molecule ends the chain reaction, or all of the electrons
find and settle down in stable pairs again.

Oxygen reacts with oil molecules to produce rancidity, which makes oils unpalatable.
This is measured as peroxide value (PV) or anisidine value. To clean up rancidity, industry
heats oils to highly damaging high temperatures, to literally ‘boil off’ the rancid molecules.

Heat twists molecules around their double bonds, producing trans- fatty acids. In oils,
these must be below 1% of the molecules. But here’s an interesting twist to these twisted
molecules.

According to FDA regulations, we can round the trans- fatty acid content of an oil
containing less than ½ of one percent trans- fatty acids that number to the nearest
integer (whole number), which is zero. That oil can be labeled ‘trans- fat free’, even
though it may still contain more than half a million trans- fatty acid molecules for every
one of the body’s 60 trillion cells in a single tablespoon.

Recently, trans- fatty acids became famous for the damage they can do to health, when
their effects were ‘outed’ by Harvard School of Public Health’s Dr. Walter Willett. His
group showed that they double the risk of heart attack, kill at least 30,000 Americans
every year, increase diabetes, interfere with immune function, and interfere with
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done. Government allowed them in foods without having to be labeled for almost 100
years before that.

The processing of oils also produces unnatural, man-made fragmented, double bond-
shifted and cyclized molecules, and molecules that are cross-linked within as well as
across triglycerides. In addition to these, the usually used industrial processing leads to
dimerized, trimerized and polymerized giant molecules. The levels of these in edible oils
are not tested by industry, and you will not find them listed on the label.

In fact, just about no one talks about them. It’s an information blackout. Most of you
have never even heard about these products of processing damage in your oils.

Heat Damage
What temperature damages oils? Research provides two answers:

● First, in the presence of light and oxygen, every 10°C (18°F) rise in temperature,
no matter what temperature we start with, speeds reactions with light and oxygen
by 2-4 times.
● What does this mean in practice? Here’s the math. Let’s assume that the rate of
reaction just doubles every 10° C. In comparison to the rate of damaging chemical
reactions in an oil at freezing temperature (0°C), an oil at 180°C will react at a
rate of 2 times itself 18 times. That produces an exponential increase in the
number of damaged molecules. Let’s write out the numbers.
● At 10°C, the rate of reaction is double the rate at 0°C. At 20°C, the rate is 4 times
that at 0°C. At 30°C, the rate is 8 times that at 0°C. At 40°C, the rate is 16 times
that at 0°C. At 180°C, the rate of reaction will be 262,142 times faster than it is at
0°C.
● At the high end of frying temperature, 250°C, the rate of reaction is more than 33
million times higher than at 0°C. The damage at such high temperatures is huge.
The oil becomes a toxic mess. The longer you maintain that temperature, the
greater the number of molecules that change from natural to unnatural and/or
toxic. No wonder then, that frying temperature processing of omega-3 and -6 oils
and frying during food preparation with these oils is associated with both increased
inflammation and increased cancer.
● That’s why cold storage or freezing oil solid for long time storage is important. But
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 is your goal. And remember that omega-3 is damaged 5 times more rapidly than
omega-6.
● If the rate of reaction goes up 4 times for each 10°C, the numbers become
astronomically large. Multiply 4 by itself 18 times and see how large the number
gets. You’ll be surprised. Then multiply four (4) by itself 25 times, and that is how
much faster reactions are at 250°C than at 0°C. It will blow your mind. If you do
this exercise with your children, it will blow their minds, too.
● Secondly, in the absence of light and oxygen, a temperature above 160°C (320°F)
is necessary to twist molecules. As the temperature rises above that, this damage
to oils goes up exponentially. Talk about the devil in the details.

Relative Sensitivity of Different Fatty Acids

How sensitive are fatty acids? Let’s compare them. Generally speaking, the fewer double
bonds a fatty acid has, the more stable it will be. The more double bonds are in a fatty
acid, the more sensitive it will be to damage by light, oxygen and heat, because double
bonds make fatty acids sensitive, which means: chemically highly active or reactive.

● With no double bonds, saturated fatty acids are the most stable of the bunch.
● With only one double bond, monounsaturated omega-5, omega-7 and omega-9
fatty acids are about 2.5 times more sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen
and heat than saturated fatty acids.
● With two double bonds, the polyunsaturated plant-based omega-6 essential fatty
acid (LA) is about 2.5 times more sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen &
heat than monounsaturated omega-5, omega-7 and omega-9 fatty acids fatty
acids.
● With three double bonds, polyunsaturated (sometimes called super-unsaturated)
plant-based omega-3 essential fatty acid (ALA) is about five (5) times more
sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen and heat than the omega-6 essential
fatty acid, LA. One extra double bond increases the sensitivity to damage done by
light, oxygen and heat of omega-3 ALA to five (5) times that of omega-6 LA.
● With five and six double bonds each, respectively, the polyunsaturated omega-3
essential fatty acid derivatives from fish, algae and krill oil, EPA and DHA, are about
five (5) times more sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen and heat than plant-
based omega-3 fatty acid, ALA.

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In terms of sensitivity, fish, algae, and krill oil omega-3 is damaged five (5) times more
rapidly than plant-based omega-3, which is damaged five (5) times more rapidly than
cooking oil omega-6, which is damaged two and a half ( 2.5) times more rapidly than
olive oil omega-9, which is damaged two and a half (2.5) times more rapidly than
saturated shea, cocoa, or beef fat.

This means that fish oil omega-3 is:

● 156 times more rapidly damaged than saturated fats

● 62 times more rapidly damaged than omega-9
● 25 times more rapidly damaged than omega-6
● 5 times more rapidly damaged than plant-based omega-3

Krill, algal, and fish oils needs 5 times more care than flax oil. Flax oil needs 5 times more
care than cooking oil. Cooking oil needs 2.5 times more care than olive oil. Olive oil needs
2.5 times more care than hard, saturated fat. When health is your focus, take this
sensitivity and the need for protection into account when you make, fill, package, store,
ship and use oils.

Oils treat you like you treat them. When you give them the care they need, they give you
the care you need. When you do damage to them, they do damage to health. Fried oils
fry health, and fried foods fry health. Inflammation and cancer are two of the problems
that damaged oils can cause. This is the inconvenient truth about the damage that
processing and food preparation can do to your most sensitive, yet most harshly treated
essential nutrients, and the damage this can do to your precious and fragile health.

Buyer, beware!

19.How Bad? A Question of Damage

When health is your goal, you process and use oils with care. When shelf life is all you
care about, oil processing and use will be less careful, sloppier and likely to be more
detrimental to your health. Different goals lead to different methods. It’s obvious. Your
goal defines your journey. Your intent shapes the steps you take, and therefore
determines the results and outcomes you end up with.

The bitter truth about oils is this: Bad (damaged) oils cause more pain, inflammation and
health problems than any other aspect of nutrition. Why? Oils are the most delicate

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essential nutrients. Without special protection, light, oxygen and high temperature can
rapidly damage and break them down. Then, instead of optimizing your health, they
compromise and damage it. Because of their sensitivity, I consider damaged oils to be
more dangerous to health than excess sugars, starches and other carbohydrates, which
DO come a close second in terms of harm to health.

● Delicate oils REQUIRE more care than any other nutrient. In practice, industry
treats oils more harshly than any other food. It damages them by careless
treatment with highly abrasive toxic industrial chemicals, including lye (sodium
hydroxide) and window washing (phosphoric) acid. It then treats them with
bleaching clays that remove color (chromophores) but enhance rancidity. Then, it
heats them to damaging (frying) temperatures to blow off the rancidity.
● In restaurants and at home, cooks deliberately put oils in frying pans by
themselves, and watch them break down and turn into smoke, which increases
lung cancer. In case you didn’t know, the ‘seasoning’ of frying pans consists in
large part of oil molecules that have been polymerized into super-large molecules
that your body has no way to break down.
● Some of these unnatural giant molecules end up in your food, and then in your
body, where they drive your immune system crazy, and increase the risk of
inflammation and many degenerative conditions.
● Cooking foods in water takes a few minutes longer than cooking them in oils. But
you are in a hurry. You deliberately use oils at high temperatures to ‘cook’ (fry)
your foods. You do it for speed. You eat sooner, but end up with ‘aging pains’
sooner, and your body also ends up in the graveyard sooner. It’s a trade-off, I
suppose, but I’d rather die healthy. Decades ago, when I learned about the
damage done to oils, I stopped eating fried foods. That is the single most positive
nutrition-related step I’ve taken for health in my life.
● When you fry, deep-fry or char foods, you change health-supporting, naturally
occurring food molecules (proteins, starches, fats/oils) into damaged, unnatural,
charred, inflammation- and cancer-causing molecules. Damaged, oils hurt your
health. Any foods damaged by overheating them with oils also hurt your health.

All in all, you pay for the time we save in faster cooking with sicker bodies and shorter
lives. Who taught you to do that? Mostly, the oil industry promoted the use of oils for
cooking foods. They hid from you the information on the damage done by processing and
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doing our own due diligence. Take responsibility for learning the facts. Then, take
responsibility for changing your choices.

What was industry’s incentive for promoting the health-hostile use of oils for cooking?
Maybe they wanted to sell more oil? Imagine the conversation in board meetings:

‘Consumers use water to cook their food. They get the water for free. They use a
lot of it. How could we get them to use oil for cooking instead? How much oil
would we sell if we could convince them to use oil instead of water for cooking?
Let’s run the numbers in terms of increased sales. These numbers look good in
terms of greater profit. Okay. Let’s do it.’
Next issue on the boardroom agenda: ‘How do we market this new way of
preparing foods? Let’s not call it frying. Let’s call it cooking.’ FYI: During my
childhood, cooking meant using hot water to prepare foods. Foods cooked in oils
were called fried or deep-fried.
Let’s tell them it’s the faster, easier, more convenient way to cook. Let’s target
women and mothers who are super-busy, do most of the cooking and purchasing,
and tell them it will save them time. Let’s tell ‘em burned foods taste better. And
that’s pretty much what happened. The rest was huffing and puffing, a legal term
used for allowable misrepresentation in marketing to promote sales and profits.
Cooking in oils is not an old, traditional habit. The mega salad and cooking oil industry
began only at the beginning of the 20th century, just over 100 years ago. Mass production
and processing oils to make them colorless, odorless and tasteless began at that time.

The industry’s marketing has been highly successful. By appealing to mothers and
housewives, they changed the way we cook the food, and that, in turn, created their
children’s association of burned food with mother love.

Break that association. Keep the mother love. Mother love is 100% good. Change the
sickening, destructive habit. Cooking foods in oil is 100% a bad idea. Cook foods in water.
Add oils made with health in mind after foods come off the heat. Healthy. Good for you.

No matter where you go in the world, most people of all cultures now cook their foods in
oil. Moot people think that they couldn’t live without eating fried, burned, charred foods.
Many of you say that you LOVE the taste of burned food. But if you scrape the burned
stuff off your food and eat it black, you find that it tastes acrid, scratchy, bitter and

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disgusting. This burned taste is always the same. It overpowers the thousands of nuances
of flavors and fragrances that fresh plant-based foods by nature have. It’s a marketing-
hustled, acquired taste.

Life’s standard for healthy eating in nature has always been and still is: ‘Fresh, whole,
raw, organic’. Every creature eats like that except for scavengers (eat dead, raw meat or
plants) and human beings (deliberately burn their food).

The sweet truth is that you do not have to keep living as though you had no choice. The
sweet truth about oils is that more health benefits come from good oils made with health
in mind than from any other aspect of nutrition.

Why? Oils, the most sensitive essential nutrients, support the healthy functioning of
every one of your cells. Fresh, they play important roles in hundreds of different ways in
your body, including oxygen metabolism and energy production. Protected from damage,
they retain their essential health benefits.

When you protect good oils with the care they need, they protect you with the care you
need. When they GET care, they GIVE care. When you protect them, they in turn protect
you. Protected and undamaged, they protect and undamage (improve) your health.

Shelf Life or Health Life

We can process oils with shelf life in mind, or we can process oils with health in mind.
Let us look at these two ways of processing oils.

Industrial (Long Shelf Life) Processing

When oils are processed to obtain a long shelf life, this is done at the expense of health.
It may have been inadvertent at the beginning, but that IS the outcome. And we know
better now. We’ve known for at least 60 years. Research is clear about the damage done
to health by burning foods in oils. But the industry has not changed its methods. This is
a clear indicator of their lack of care or even disdain for the consumers who buy their
products. They get rich. You pay twice, first with money, and later with damage to your
health.

Pesticide-Containing
Industry uses non-organic, pesticide-containing seeds and nuts as the starting material
for making oils with shelf life in mind. Right away, you have a problem. What’s the

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problem? The only point of making toxic pesticides is to kill living things. We use them to
poison weeds and pests. But therein lies the threat. All living creatures have much
chemistry in common. When a poison kills one creature—plant OR animal—it is likely to
also be toxic for many other creatures.

A Chemical Feast
To remove oils from seeds, nuts and beans, industry uses a chemical feast (NaOH, H3PO4
and bleaching clays). This careless treatment produces a mess of bad-smelling, rancid
oil. No one wants to buy bad-smelling, rancid oil. Industry must now clean up that bad
smell.

● To get that done, industry overheats (deodorizes, steam distills, distills,

molecularly distilled, wiped film evaporates) oils at frying temperature (180-245°C
or 356-473°F) to remove half of the pesticides, blow off the bad odor of rancidity,
and clean up the mess made by using non-organic seeds, carelessly treating them
with harsh chemicals, and exposing them to damaging light, oxygen and heat.
● All this begets oil with a long shelf life. Long shelf life is good for the industry,
because it creates a potentially very large, global market. They can make oil in the
town in which you live, and sell that oil everywhere, around the globe, in
Johannesburg, London, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Athens, Madrid, Paris, Moscow,
Riga, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Geneva, New York,
Calcutta, Jerusalem and Sydney.

Dead oils don’t rot. Long shelf life is good for mass production and profits. What effects
on health does this have? Let’s look at these.

Results of Industrial Processing

When oils are processed as explained above, oil molecules change from natural to
unnatural. They are ‘damaged’. Many of these damaged molecules are toxic.

Processing damages up to 1% of the oil molecules in omega-6-containing oils. That

doesn’t sound like much. Why squawk? After all, 99% of the molecules are still in their
natural state. That’s what an American Oil Chemists’ Society ‘expert’ told me when I asked
innocently why they use processes that they know damage oils.

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Am I over-reacting? Is the damage done not a big deal? At the time I asked that question,
I didn’t know. Then I remembered a saying I heard in high school: “When in doubt, do
the math.” It’s good advice, because numbers don’t lie. So, I did the math. Do it with me.

I asked the following question:

● If you have a tablespoon of 1% damaged oil made by industry, how many

damaged molecules will that single tablespoon contain? Guess! Write down the
number before you continue. It’s important.
● In talks, I ask people, and their answer usually ranges from 10 molecules to 100
billion molecules. The truth is that one tablespoon of 1% damaged oil contains 60
quintillion damaged molecules. What kind of number is that? It’s a really big
number, because molecules are really small. People’s highest estimate of the
damage done to oils is about 1 billion times too low. People’s lowest estimate—
the assumption that no damage is done—is about 60 quintillion times too low.

Here is a follow-up question that I also ask my audiences after we’ve done the math.

● If you found out, on good authority, that your chance of crashing and dying on
your next flight or drive home for the holidays was a billion times higher than you
had thought, would you get on the plane or in the car? I wouldn’t. I’d walk from
Los Angeles to New York. The pain of the long walk would be preferable to the
risk.
● In Ireland, I told one audience that I’d canoe back to Canada if I found out about
such a risk. My chance of surviving would not be great, but better than a billion
times worse than I had supposed. We all laughed, but I was serious.

You underestimate the damage done to oils and the health risk that this damage poses
by a billion times. Does knowing this give you pause for thought? Is it enough to warrant
changing the kind of oil you use? Is it enough to move you to change HOW you use oils?
It was enough for me.

It’s why I decided that oils should be made with health rather than shelf life in mind. It’s
why I developed a method for making them that way. It’s why I no longer have a frying
pan in my home. It’s why I now choose and eat steamed, boiled, cooked in water, or raw
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What makes oil bad? It’s not nature that makes oils bad. Humans make oils bad by the
way they treat them. Since light, oxygen and heat damage oils, you need to protect them
from these three destructive influences. Do you do that? No. Au contraire, you treat your
most delicate essential nutrients, which require the MOST care to retain their health
benefits, with the LEAST care. As a result, they become your most damaged food.

‘Bad’ fats and oils include three types. A fourth fat and oil is considered bad, but got an
undeserved bad rap. We’ll put that one in perspective also.

One: Cooking Oils

These line store shelves on every continent, usually packaged in plastic bottles, and
sometimes in tin cans or large tins. Industry damaged these oils by processing to extend
their shelf life. It treats oils with a feast of harsh chemicals, and then bleaches them. This
‘chemical feast’ produces a dirty, smelly mess.

Then industry uses a second chemical feast to clean up the mess it made with the first
chemical feast. It deodorizes, molecularly distilled or wiped film evaporates them at frying
temperature to blow off the bad odors produced by the harsh chemicals and bleaching
clays.

● This is where the 0.5-1% damaged molecules come from. Your day’s normal
supply of oil, about 28-56 grams (1-2 ounces; 2-4 tablespoons), comes mostly in
the form of so-called ‘salad and cooking’ (or sometimes, culinary) oils, which you
buy in food stores everywhere in the world. When health becomes seriously
important to you, you stop using such oils, because they are not in THEIR natural
state, and are therefore incompatible with health, YOUR natural state.

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 ● 60 quintillion damaged and potentially toxic molecules come into your body with
every tablespoon of ‘cooking’ oil. Multiply that by 2 to 4, the number of tablespoons
of oil you eat each day. When you fry your foods in such oils, multiply the number
of damaged molecules by another factor of 3-6 times.
● When you repeat this daily for 20 or 30 years, what do you get? You get a body
in chronic pain, inflamed, immune-suppressed, degenerate, sick, tired, oxygen-
deprived and -depleted, and prematurely racked with degenerative diseases and
other serious conditions.

This reminds me. May I tell you a story? 40 years ago, North American stores sold a very
popular corn ‘cooking’ oil in metal cans called Mazola. Research showed two results from
using such oils.

● First, it lowers cholesterol. This was widely publicized.

● Second, the same studies also showed a correlation with increased cancer
associated with the use of this and other processing-damaged omega-6-rich oils.
That was NOT publicized. Eventually, the word got out to the public in North
America. Mazola oil rapidly disappeared from store shelves.

‘The company’s gone out of business’, I assumed. ‘Good,’ I thought. A few years later, I
began to travel in Asia. Mazola oil was alive and well in Malaysia, China, Taiwan and Hong
Kong. It was everywhere. Needless to say, that shocked me.

The manufacturer, I realized, did not care about the danger that their product could pose
to health. When concerns about this oil became known in North America, they just moved
to markets in which people were and remain less informed than people in North America.

Unnatural Molecules

For those of you who like details, here’s a list of the kinds of unnatural molecules created
by the oil industry’s careless and destructive processing that produces several kinds of
damaged, unnatural and property-changed fatty acid molecules:

● Rancid (oxidized)
● Fragmented (broken pieces)
● Double bond-shifted (shape-changed)
● Cross-linked within triglycerides (your body’s enzymes can’t break down the cross-
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 ● Cross-linked across triglycerides (your body’s enzymes can’t break down the cross-
links)
● Cyclized (looped on themselves)
● Trans- (twisted)
● Dimerized (two fatty acids linked end to end)
● Trimerized (three fatty acids linked end to end to end)
● Polymerized (more than two fatty acids linked end to end in longer chains)

Because none of these kinds of molecules exist in nature, life never made a genetic (DNA)
program for breaking them down and making them either harmless, or useful to the body.
Your immune system cannot disarm them. In the body, they interfere with natural
processes. They act as monkey wrenches into the biochemical work. They interfere with
your health. They can cause disease and premature death.

Nature’s main sources of vitally important 5-star omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty
acids include fresh, whole, raw, organic seeds, nuts and legumes. Among readily available
oils, only two kinds are undamaged.

● The first is extra virgin olive oil, which is made from the flesh of olives by a different
process than the processes used to make seed, bean and nut oils. However, some
olive oils ARE treated and damaged the same way as your ‘cooking’ oils. AND,
there is now so much demand for olive oil that it has outstripped the supply. Olive
trees grow slowly, and its popularity has grown faster than the trees in olive
orchards. Some manufacturers dilute expensive olive oil with cheap canola,
soybean and other processing-damaged oils. The label may not state this.
● There may also be pesticides in olive oil. They used to not be sprayed, because
olive leaves are so bitter that no self-respecting insect would eat them. But more
recently, the pesticide industry has convinced olive farmers to spray olive trees.
So now you can no longer count on olive oil to be free of pesticides.
● How do you know you’re getting REAL extra virgin olive oil? Buy only olive oil that
develops flecks (crystals) floating in the bottle or goes hard in the fridge. Olive oils
diluted with other seed and bean oils are more likely to stay liquid in the fridge. If
it goes hard in the fridge, it’s your simplest single indicator that it is actually 100%
olive. There’s no other easy way to tell.
● Second, a few suppliers sell oils that have not been treated with the chemical feast
common to industry. These oils will have the word ‘unrefined’ on the label. When
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 chemically feasted and damaged. The oil may be rancid and have a high peroxide
value (a measure of rancidity), but it will not contain many of the other kinds of
damaged molecules, which makes it less damaging to health.

But ‘unrefined’ is not enough. Unrefined oil like can still contain pesticides If it‘s not
organic, it can contain quite a lot of damage done by light, air and the heat generated by
huge screw presses. It may be in plastic and on the shelf, where it is subject to more
light damage.

You can find oils made with health in mind in brown glass bottles, in a box, in the fridge,
in the supplement section, in health food stores, some health-conscious grocery stores,
some natural pharmacies and some ‘chemists’ stores.

Cold Pressed
‘Cold pressed’ is a marketing term without a legal definition. Manufacturers can just make
up their own definitions for this term, and they do. It implies, and most people still believe
mistakenly that ‘cold pressed’ means fresh, or natural, or healthy, or good for us. It is a
complete whitewash. You’ve been cold BSed by the term ‘cold pressed’.

Two: Fried Foods and Fried Oils

In your frying pan, oils that have already been damaged by industrial processing (as
described above) sustain even more damage by light, air and heat acting on them
simultaneously in the fry pan. This kind of damage creates even more unnatural
molecules and far more health problems.

● You’ve already heard that foods become toxic when you overheat them. Most
people don’t think clearly enough about this. You love your burned, fried, deep-
fried foods, you say.
● Everywhere I’ve been in the world, people tell me that they LOVE burned foods.
But you really don’t! You’ve just become used to eating them. You just wolf them
down without actually tasting the disgusting-tasting burned parts. You learned to
like burned foods because you got them with motherlove. Your mother was
deceived by industry, for the sake of greater profits.
● Overheating creates unnatural molecules in oils, which cause inflammation.
Inflammation is your immune system’s response to unnatural molecules in your
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 trained it to deal with attacks. Many different kinds of unnatural molecules trigger
your immune responses. Plastics, pesticides, industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical
drugs, synthetic preservatives and cosmetics are on this list, as are all unnatural
molecules created from natural molecules during food processing.
● Life did not create a way for your immune system to break down the unnatural
molecules. Frying creates many such molecules. Why can’t your immune system
break them down? It’s not punishment. It’s just that unnatural molecules did not
exist in nature. Life did not need to make a way to break them down. Because of
that, they persist in your body. They interfere with your body’s natural, biochemical
work.
● Inflammation often leads to degeneration, in many different tissues in your body.
It’s the first step in the development of most major degenerative diseases (‘of
civilization’). This applies to both localized and systemic health issues. Damaged
oils also disorganize oxygen metabolism and impair energy production.
● Some people notice that every time they eat foods fried in oil, they feel tired and
heavy. It’s a sign. Foods are supposed to GIVE you energy, not rob you of it.

Inflammation also increases risk of cancer. Fried starch and sugar, fried protein and fried
oil/fat each raise the risk of cancer, independent of one another. Anything you fry will
tend to fry your health. All this is due to changed molecules.

Cooks, who spend 8 hours each working day in front of frying pans and smoking oils,
have 4 times more lung cancer than the general population, which spends only 2 hours
each day cooking. The probable cause: Inhaling the fumes of overheated oils from their
frying pans.

Three: Partially Hydrogenated/Hardened Oils w Trans-

fatty acids/Trans-fats
A few years ago, the average intake of trans- fats was 12 g/day. Since they were ‘outed’,
our intake of them has decreased, but foods, especially snack foods, are not free of them.
For instance, you can find them in snacks that don’t require labels. Some manufacturers
use them in softgels of herbal products.

According to labeling regulations, less than 0.5% trans- fatty acids in a product allows a
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trans- fats. High concentrations of trans- fats are still found in foods in countries where
citizens are not (yet) educated to their dangers.

Trans- fats have become unpopular in North America and Europe. This happened after
Dr. Walter Willett’s research group at the Harvard School of Public Health showed in
several studies that they impair health. The problems that trans- fats can cause include:

● Double risk of heart attack

● Correlate with increased cancer
● Kill 30,000 Americans every year
● Increase diabetes risk
● Interfere with immune function
● Interfere with reproduction in both male and female animals

Recently, many state governments created regulations that require manufacturers to list
them on labels. Warnings against the effects on health of trans- fats have also become
mandatory in some states. Many margarines and shortenings that contained 8-40+%
trans- fats have been reformulated with more saturated fats. In my view, they’re still
junk, because of the processing-damaged oils that they contain.

Trans- fatty acids have NOT disappeared from your food supply. For one thing, dairy fats
contain some trans- fatty acids. The ones in dairy appear to be less harmful than the
ones made commercially from sunflower or safflower oils, or the ones produced by high
heat processing. Dairy fats bring other problems that include their effects on climate
change, on soil and water pollution, and habitat destruction.

In addition, the mass production of meat, dairy and eggs is a heartless industry that
involves the super-abusive mistreatment of animals. If you see and know the brutality
with which they’re made, and you know that these products lead to more sickness, shorter
life and negative effects on gut function in addition to their large carbon footprint (more
than all the fuel burned by all the cars in the world), you might not want to put them in
your mouth or your body.

When you stop eating animal-based foods, you will need to take a vitamin B12
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Much worse than dairy fat is a product called CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) that is often
taken by athletes and actually consists of 70% trans- fats. It is used in small quantities
(3-12 capsules per day). Exclude it from your diet program for health.

Four: Saturated Fats

For years, saturated fats were blamed for heart attacks and other forms of cardiovascular
disease. They make platelets stickier. They have also been shown to increase insulin
resistance, which makes them bad news for diabetics. You’ve been told to eat less of
them. But they are NOT the problem. The problems that saturated fats cause happen
only when you have not paid attention to your intake of essential fatty acids. Let me
explain how it REALLY works.

For years, before the oil-processing industry began (which was at the turn of the century,
only about 120 years ago), people ate fresh-off-real-farms beef, lamb and pork fats
without much problem. The fats were not essential, but they were not lethal, either. Of
course, these kinds of food were free of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics. Heart
disease began to skyrocket in the late 1920’s.

People were more physically active then, and saturated fats were part of the fuel they
burned for energy doing their physically active lives. People ate more whole and
unprocessed foods. People ate a lot more vegetables. They got more omega-3 essential
fatty acids in their food. Processing decreased omega-3 in the food supply. Shelf life
considerations encouraged manufacturers to remove omega-3 from foods, because they
spoil rapidly and then the food taste bad.

Truth: Saturated fats are NOT a problem when omega-3 intake is

optimized. Why is that?

● Saturated fats increase platelet stickiness and interfere with insulin function
(increased insulin resistance). That’s half the story. What is the other half?
● Omega-3s make platelets LESS sticky and IMPROVE insulin function. They
decrease insulin resistance & increase insulin sensitivity. Omega-3 acts to oppose
the actions of saturated fats. 99% of the population does not get enough omega-
3, even though omega-3 is an essential nutrient. You can figure it out from here.
Saturated fats increase platelet stickiness and insulin resistance ONLY when there’s
not enough omega-3 in your diet to counterbalance their effect.

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 ● The key issue is not that you eat too much saturated fat, but that you get too little
of the gorgeous essential omega-3. When you optimize your intake of it, saturated
fats cease to cause problems. Let me say it another way. Your problem is that you
get too little of the omega-3 essential fatty acid, without which saturated fats can
cause problems.

Let me say it one more way. When your intake of omega-3s is optimized, you can enjoy
coffee made with liquid whipping cream instead of skim milk. Omega-3s protect you from
the harm that saturated fats can cause in your body during omega-3 deficiency.

When you optimize your intake of omega-3 and omega-6—the only two molecules from
fats/oils that are ESSENTIAL to health—you can eat as much saturated fat as you want.
That’s what I do. The truth is that fats are better fuel than carbohydrates. BUT, it is
important for health to first optimize your intake of the two essential fatty acids.

20.How Good? A Question of Care

More health benefits come from good oils than from any other part of nutrition. When I
learned about the damage done to oils, and the damage that this damage can do to our
health, I concluded that oils should be made with health rather than shelf life in mind.

A Method for Making Oils with Health in Mind

In my mind, I developed a method that protects the delicate oil molecules. My reasoning
went like this:

● If we give good oils the care they need to retain their health benefits, good things
will unfold for our health when we eat enough of them.
● If we protect them, they’ll protect our body. When we don’t make a processing
mess at the front end, we won’t need a chemical feast to clean up that mess at
the back end.
● If we supply the body with optimum quantities of good oils (the amount our life
requires of these essential building blocks for optimum body construction and
function), then they will play their role toward optimum health. When we set higher
standards for oil production, we end up with better oils. Better oils will have more
positive effects on health than damaged oils.

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 ● Can we design or devise a better way to make oils? Sometimes, I’d think, ‘Who do
I think I am to believe that I could do a better job than a mega industry with an
annual turnover of more than 100 billion (60 billion at that time) dollars?’

Can a little upstart guy like me accomplish something like this? If it were important, would
they not have done it? But there it was. It wasn’t about little or big. It was a matter of
giving oils more care. It seemed to me that I COULD invent a way to make oils better
than they were being made.

My Choice
The choice I saw was for making oils with health in mind. It would be better for health
than making oils with only shelf life in mind.

● Why not start with organically grown seeds/nuts? Then we would not have to
overheat oils in order to try to boil off the pesticides. The oils would not contain
pesticides, PCBs, dioxins or other industrial chemicals.
● Why not protect oils from damage done by light, oxygen and heat? That way,
processing would not damage them. They would not contain damaged oil
molecules.
● Why not omit using harsh chemicals? That way, there would be no toxic chemical
residues in the oils, and no damage would be done to the oil molecules by the
harsh chemicals.
● Why not keep the oils unrefined? That way, they would still contain all of the
healthy, natural, oil-soluble ‘minor’ ingredients present in the seed, which have
major health benefits. That should be an improvement of health-related oil quality.
● Why not keep the oils in their natural state? There would be nothing in them that
could interference with body functions. It would take more effort, but it would pay
off in better health.

In my mind, I developed a method for doing all this. It was not difficult for me, because
I understood the issues involved. I could finally use my background in science, biological
sciences, biochemistry and genetics to do something of practical value. Oils ‘made with
health in mind’ would end up getting a lot of special care during the pressing, filtering,
settling and filling processes used to make them.

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Omega-3 is ESSENTIAL
In 1981, the year after my pesticide poisoning that got me focused on improved health
through improved nutrition, researchers established that omega-3 (ALA) is an essential
nutrient. Every cell in the body needs it. 99% of the population does not get enough of
it for optimum health. It turns out to be the most sensitive of ALL essential nutrients,
needing the most protection.

When I found out, I got really excited!! If we could bring optimum quantities of it back
into the food supply in an undamaged form, we could help so many people. The possibility
gave more meaning and purpose to my life than anything I had ever previously done.

To Cut My Teeth
Omega-3 was also the perfect candidate for putting my method for making oils with
health in mind into practice and to the test. The most sensitive oil would most need such
a method. If we could make the oil containing the most omega-3 by the method I had
devised in my mind (‘with health in mind’), any other oil thereafter would be a ‘piece of
cake’ to make. The richest widely available source of omega-3, flax, should be my first
oil. This would be the one to cut my teeth on.

At that time, flax seed was also called linseed, and the oil made from it was called linseed
oil. This industrially damaged version of the oil was used to paint furniture. Its reaction
with light and oxygen cross-linked its molecules into a protective coat on furniture.
Sometimes, linseed oil was boiled with lead, because it made the oil cross-link even
quicker and more effectively. It made furniture smell characteristically rancid for months
or even years, but it did provide protection for wood surfaces.

Some of this linseed oil (not the one boiled with lead, though) had found its way into the
health food trade, and people were using this refined, bleached, deodorized (RBD) linseed
oil as food oil. The US Food and Drug Administration had classified linseed oil as an
‘unsafe food additive’. They did this because they were aware of its sensitivity to damage.
In spite of this FDA classification, a version of linseed oil treated with harsh chemicals,
bleached and overheated to frying temperature had quietly found its way into commerce
for human consumption.

The FRESH, health-enhancing version of this omega-3 rich oil should have a new name,
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want there to be any confusion that could mislead someone to drink linseed oil boiled
with lead because they had heard that linseed oil was good for health. The name I gave
the FRESH oil made with health in mind was FLAX oil or FLAXSEED oil. Linseed oil was
old, damaged and good for painting furniture. Flaxseed oil was fresh, undamaged, and
good for human consumption. The name stuck.

Later, I developed a formula for a better-balanced oil blend, because after using flaxseed
oil as my only source of fat for several months, I developed omega-6 deficiency
symptoms.

21.Who Knows? A Question of Inquiry

When you know my personal story and history, you might agree that I am a pioneer of
oils made with health in mind. It would be accurate, but it wasn’t my childhood dream to
pioneer something. When I slid out of my mother’s body into the world, I had no clue
that I was destined to do work with oils.

Boredom on Fats
In my university biochemistry studies, I frankly found oil to be the most boring of topics.
My professors at university all did exciting research with DNA, RNA and proteins. Research
had recently cracked the genetic code. DNA, RNA and proteins were called the ‘holy
trinity’ of biological sciences, and all the excitement was in these topics. They found fats
and oils (‘lipids’) boring. Their boredom infected me.

But . . .

It turns out that ‘lipids’ (fats and oils) hold the major keys (we call them ‘epigenetic’ keys
now, but that was not yet known when I studied genetics in the 1960s) to health and
disease in our time. A winding path led me to this work that I’ve had and still have the
privilege to do.

Early History
When we were refugees at the end of the second world war, fleeing from Poland to
Germany with the communists chasing us from behind, and the allies shooting at us from
planes in front of us, we were terrified and hungry. I was two years old. I’m still slightly
bow-legged from rickets (vitamin D deficiency) from that time.

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Even after we got to West Germany, food was scarce. On several occasions, I remember
eating more than my share of sandwiches. Those who got less than their share did not
appreciate my penchant for eating. When I’d tell my mother that I was still hungry, she’d
say: ‘Tomorrow, you get more.’ Great answer. And I’d dance around the room, singing:
‘Tomorrow, I get more foo-ood! Tomorrow I get more foo-ood!’ So my intense, positive
and joyous relationship with food goes way back.

Personal Responsibility for Health

But poisoning by pesticides in 1980 when I was 38 years old REALLY got my attention
and focused me on health. In the clinic that I visited, the doctor and asked a very short
question. “What do you have for pesticide poisoning?”. “Nothing!” she answered. What?
There is no medicine for pesticide poisoning? Nope. We make ‘em and we spray ‘em, but
we can’t fix the problems they cause. Wow! On that day and at that hour, I realized
super-clearly for the first time in my life that my health is my personal responsibility.

May I give you a bit of background to this poisoning?

An Education
I love learning how things work. In university, sciences and biological sciences taught me
about the principles and rules that run the biological world in which I live. But literature,
poetry and the written expression of ideas were just as and sometimes more interesting
to me. But sciences were more practical, so that is where my course choices went.

I began with physics, mathematics and chemistry, which led me to become interested in
organic chemistry, the chemistry of life. This in turn got me into studying the life sciences,
which I found totally fascinating. Learning about how we think and act—psychology—
was also super-interesting to me and became my second major.

Brain, natural history (evolution), genetics and environmental studies (ecology) were the
specific topics in life sciences for which I had the greatest passion. Biochemistry was the
necessary basic tool for understanding all of these.

But I was also looking for self-knowledge a la Socrates’ ‘Know thyself!’ This turned out to
be rather elusive, because no university offered courses in self-knowledge.

Wanting to study health so that I could help people to better quality of life led me to
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learned only about disease (which I’m not interested in), but nothing about health (which
is what I wanted to know).

● I even had a conversation with the Dean of Medicine. “What is health?” I asked
him. His answer: “We don’t know. We’re working on it.” It is hard to describe how
disappointing his answer was to me. That, and the fact that we were told that a
doctor should always sound as though he knows what’s going on even when he
doesn’t, ended my career in medicine. I couldn’t see myself making a living as a
medical doctor who lies to his patients or makes up fictitious answers to their
genuine concerns.
● So my interest in medicine evaporated before the end of my first semester, but I
stayed to the end of the year to complete the human anatomy course. We got to
dissect a cadaver, to see and learn first-hand the inner physical architecture of the
human body. This was more than fascinating to me. It was awe-inspiring to get to
know how life puts together the shell of molecules in which we live for a lifetime
of 70+ years.

The following year, I returned to the study of biological sciences.

After 8 years of university studies, and never having obtained knowledge of the essence
of life, which is what I was REALLY after, I left university.

But, in the journey, I had acquired a lot of useful information about how bodies and
nature are constructed. As Buckminster Fuller once said: “You can never learn less.” I’d
learned a lot about how body, mind and nature work.

Making a Living: Jobs

For about 12 years, I worked in trades: carpentry, painting, farming, logging, gardening
and many other jobs. My reason for these jobs was that I thought that a citizen should
attend all of its institutions and should know what it is like to be in the shoes of the
different people doing different jobs. Socrates may have set me up for this way of living
into the world I inhabit. “The unexamined life is not worth living,” he is said to have said.

Marriage and Pesticides

Along the way, I came across a practice of self-knowledge, got married, fathered three
beautiful children and officiated their home births. A new lover replaced me when my
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was seriously upset. To tell the truth, I was raging and wanted to kill something. Offered
a full-time job as a pesticide applicator (sprayer), I jumped on the chance and took that
job.

Karma
Predictably, after three years of careless work with these poisons, they poisoned me.
Medicine has no cure for poisoning by most pesticides.

The government agency that licensed me to spray pesticides would not allow me to
peruse any literature they have on the effects of pesticide poisoning and what to do about
it. They tried to convince me that I just had the flu, because the flu and pesticide
poisoning have some symptoms in common. “It’s going around,” their spokesperson told
me. Angry because I knew better, I went to Greenpeace, and found two people with
knowledge of pesticide poisoning and some advice about how to reverse it.

Searching for Health

In addition, I went to the research journals in the university library and searched out
studies on two specific topics: nutrition and health, and nutrition and disease.

Food Makes Bodies

Since the body is made from foods, I reasoned, if we get sick or something goes wrong,
the first place we should look to make changes in order to get better is in what we eat
and the way we prepare what we eat. That’s logical. Today, it is also obvious to me that
we should look at the quality of our water, how we breathe, how we feel, what we think
about who we spend time with, and how we interact with our environment. But at that
time, I only looked at food.

Body Facts
Did you know that 98% of all the atoms in your body today will have been removed and
replaced by this time next year? This is great news. It is why healing is possible. If you
raise the standard of the foods you eat, you can rebuild 98% of your body to a higher
standard (better health) within a single year.

All you have to do is make better food choices: more whole foods; more plant-based
foods; more fresh, organic, raw, local, sun-ripe, seasonal, uncontaminated foods; fresher
air; more and fresher water; and more detoxification (sweating being the safest, most

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effective, least valued and most under-used detox method). All of that sounded
promising.

Database of Facts
Voraciously, I devoured the studies published in the research journals listed on Medline,
the largest science database in the world. Sixteen million studies were listed in this
database. Of these, about 600 thousand studies reported on nutrition and health/disease.

And of these, about 30,000 were on ‘lipids’ (edible fats and oils). And of these, about
6,000 were on essential fatty acids, mostly on omega-6, which was known to be essential
as early as 1929. Very little information on omega-3 was in the database at that time
(1980), because they were established to be essential only in 1981, the year after my
pesticide poisoning.

Narrowing the Focus

In this search of research journals, I discovered a wealth of new, riveting information on
the topic that I had previously found so boring in university: fats and oils. That topic now
captivated my attention. I learned:

● How sensitive oils are and how much damage light, oxygen and heat can do to
them
● How industry processes and damages oils
● How the industry, in processing, strives for a long shelf life (large markets), with
little focus on the results of processing on human health
● How little interest the industry had in examining the negative (or side) effects of
the processing methods they developed
● How they explained away the problems when these were asked about or pointed
out to them
● How often the literature was contradictory, saying that omega-6 is necessary for
health, but that omega-6 causes cancer and kills us

The contradiction about omega-6 drove me nuts. ‘How can something that is essential to
health at the same time cause cancer and kill you?’ I asked. Eventually, I found resolution
to this question, after learning how industry processes oils, and the damage done to
omega-6 by that processing.

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Processing the Problem
Having been poisoned and seeking better health, what I learned amazed me. No one
talked about the damage that processing does to the plant-based cooking oils we all
consume in large quantities.

It’s written in the journals, but it’s not in the news. It’s not in the public awareness of
citizens. It’s like a conspiracy of silence. Researchers know, but don’t express this
information, likely because they fear that their grants from industry would dry up. But
their silence is also complicity.

● “1% damage,” the researcher on the phone from the American Oil Chemists’
Society, the umbrella organization of the oil producers, told me when I asked,
“isn’t worth worrying about.”
● When I subsequently did the math, I was deeply disturbed, and had to totally
disagree with him. The research that’s been done on these damaged oils and their
effects on health supports my view.

In another conspiracy of silence, nobody talks about the damage done to fish oils by
processing. Fish oils contain molecules that are 25 times more sensitive and easily
damaged than the molecules in omega-6-rich cooking oils.

They should get 25 times more care, but they don’t get it. Sick as I was, it occurred to
me that I could not get healthy using oils so damaged by processing.

Making Oils with Health in Mind

An obvious next thought came to me: We should make oils with health in mind. After all
my reading and thinking, my practical conclusion was that oils will support health only if
they are made with much greater care than they were currently getting. I began to
conceptualize how that could be done.

In 1983, I put my concepts on paper as designs, and with the help of engineers, my team
and I later converted the designs of my method for making oils with health in mind into
machinery that actually makes such oils.

What is the secret sauce? The secret sauce is CARE. We only have to give the oils the
care they need to retain their health benefits, by protecting the highly sensitive oil
molecules from being damaged by light, oxygen, heat, minerals (metals), water and harsh

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chemical treatments. It was a simple solution. It DID require intent toward health, as well
as care in its execution.

Omega-3 Established as Essential

Something else happened that had nothing to do with my intent or my conscious decision-
making control. In 1981, researchers established Omega-3 as an essential nutrient. That
was only a year after I got poisoned. The ‘cosmic’ timing could not have been more
perfect. That year, I also learned that:

● Omega-3 is five times more sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen and heat
than omega-6
● Omega-3 is therefore a nightmare to work with
● Every cell in the body needs the newly discovered essential omega-3 as well as
omega-6 (whose essentiality was established 50+ years earlier)
● 99% of the population does not get enough omega-3 for optimum health
● Flax seeds are the most widely available and easily affordable source of omega-3

Not much research on omega-3 was available at that time. Knowing the precisely stated
definition of ‘essential’ as applied to nutrients, it occurred to me that:

● Since every cell uses omega-3, there had to be a wide range of problems that
came from NOT optimizing intake of omega-3
● A wide range of benefits would result from optimizing intake of omega-3
● We could make them with health in mind, which would maximize their benefits
● I already had conceptual plans for doing this
● Omega-3 rich oil should be the first product we make with health in mind

Super-Excited
Wow. Super excited by the prospect of being able to benefit almost the entire population,
we set to work. At the time, an oil known as ‘linseed oil’ was available. It was made the
same way cooking oils are made. Linseed oil was not intended for human consumption,
although some of this oil had found its way into the food trade.

The FDA had classified linseed oil as an ‘unsafe food additive’, but, at the time, they had
turned a blind eye to the sale of small amounts of linseed oil to humans for food use.
This industrial oil came from linseeds, which are also known as flax seeds.

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Knowing this, and concerned that people might eat paint-grade, rancid, lead-boiled
linseed oil, I decided that we would call fresh oil made with health in mind from flax
seeds: ‘flax oil’ or ‘flaxseed oil.’

A Book on Oils
Having learned a lot from my reading, I decided to write a book on oils. It seemed to me
that many other people could benefit from learning what I had learned about fats/oils
and health. In 1986, Fats and Oils came out. That same year, I developed flax oil with
my team.

Educational Tours
My first tour, in 1987, took me half-way across Canada as far as Winnipeg. The next year,
in the hottest months of 1988, a co-worker and I did an extensive US tour in a van without
air conditioning, from mid-June to mid-September. He was the driver and deals maker. I
was a scientist and educator. The weather was scorching. We fried an egg on the asphalt
in a parking lot in Phoenix. No, we did not eat the egg with all the dirt on it. Man, it was
hot!!!

My driver/deals maker had built a bunk across the back of the van. I slept on the floor
between the driver’s seat and the back. Our clothes hung on a broomstick inside the
double doors of the van. Within two weeks of starting the tour, we had learned that if we
ate meat, it made us feel heavy and sluggish. If we eat carbohydrates, they made us
sleepy. Knowing this, we did the entire rest of the tour (87 days) eating nothing but fresh
raw vegetables. They totally energized us.

On that tour, we visited 35 states and 85 cities. The tour took 101 days. We traveled
17,000 miles by road. We worked all day then drove all night. It was heaven because we
were on fire with our mission of bringing health to the world.

Marriott Hotels
Every few days, we would get really sticky and stinky from the heat. What to do? My
buddy suggested we walk into a hotel like we own it, go to the fitness area, take showers,
wash our clothes, go for a swim in the pool, then pile back into our van to continue our
journey. He modeled this brilliantly. He’d walk fast, arms swinging in military fashion,
face fiercely purposeful. It was new to me. I had to practice. But no one ever stopped us

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or asked what we were doing. Turns out his advice was completely effective. We chose
Marriott hotels along the route, though we called our van the ‘Omega Hilton.’

Twenty-four years later, I wrote a note to Bill Marriott, thanking him for the part he
played, unbeknownst to him, in making flax oil a household word. His hotels’ gracious
hospitality helped us improve people’s health and lives. He wrote me a sweet note back.

From Zero to Bestseller

We started on a shoestring budget. And we started from nothing. Not nothing, actually.
We had a lot of enthusiasm. We were seriously on fire for making oils with health in mind.
Even today, after almost 30 years, I still have that fire in my belly, although my range of
topics has expanded considerably. We can make life better for so many people on this
continent and around the world. Within 2 years, flax oil had grown from nothing to the
second highest selling oil in the Natural Foods Trade.

International Expert
In the process, I became an international educator and expert. Since that time, I have:

● Given more than 5,000 talks on fats, oils and health

● Travelled to about 40 countries
● Completed more than 3,000 interviews in print, radio and TV
● Written hundreds of articles on essential fatty acids and health
● Developed even better oils
● Created whole foods-based essential fatty acid products
● Worked with animals’ need for essential fatty acids made with health in mind
● Designed and/or educated several products that support healthy digestion
● Enlarged and expanded the original book, and renamed it FATS THAT HEAL FATS
THAT KILL (1993)
● Worked with Alan Roettinger on the cookbook, ‘Omega 3 Cuisine: Recipes for
Health and Pleasure’ (2008)
● Published, ‘The Book on Total Sexy Health: The 8 Key Steps Designed by Nature’
(2017)
● Launched a Masterclass inspired by Total Sexy Health
● Expanded my work to include all of health, based in nature and human nature
● Contributed to documentaries and television shows on health

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 ● And developed several other ideas that are still under wraps

The 30+ years that I’ve spent educating and making products with health in mind have
been nothing short of inspired, light-filled, magical and purposeful, with a lot of fun
thrown in.

Flax Oil Unbalanced

In 1989, I became omega-6 deficient from the exclusive use of flax oil as my only source
of oil in my diet. How did that happen? The team I worked with at the time started telling
everyone that flaxseed oil was the best source of both essential fatty acids. It wasn’t, but
that’s what they used as a marketing story. It bothered me, because I knew that flax
contains a lot of omega-3 but is quite low in omega-6. It seemed to me that we need
more omega-6 than we can get from flaxseed oil alone, but I did not have proof. So I
decided to do an experiment on myself. For about three (3) months, flaxseed oil became
the only source of fat in my food supply. And I became omega-6 deficient from doing so.

What were my symptoms? I got dry eyes, skipped heartbeats, arthritis-like pain in finger
joints, and thin papery skin. These are classic omega-6 deficiency symptoms. Eating
sunflower seeds, which contain a lot of omega-6 but NO omega-3, reversed them all.

Flax oil turns out to be, as I had surmised, rich in omega-3 but too low in omega-6. It is,
in a word, an unbalanced oil that shouldn’t be taken alone. Its imbalance needs to be
balanced with more omega-6. This experience convinced me that there was a need for a
better-balanced oil formula. That became my next obsession: Develop a better-balanced
blend of good oils. The blend would:

● Have omega-3 and omega-6 in the most effective ratio, both undamaged and
made with health in mind
● Contain everything that is good, and exclude anything that is bad from oils
● Be packaged in glass rather than plastic, because I had found references that
showed that plastics leach into foods, and especially into oils

Ripped Off, Broke, Depressed

That year, greedy partners in the original oil-making company that was my brainchild
pushed me out of the company. Big depression hit me. Having worked for ‘sweat equity’
in the company, I was broke for the next 4 years, and went on welfare for 3 months,
because I couldn’t pay my rent.

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I was embarrassed. “I’m an author,” I told the welfare intake worker. “I get book royalties
three times a year, and started a company that sold $1.9 million last year, but I don’t
have money to pay my rent.” They were kind. “Welfare was intended for temporary
situations like yours. It was not meant for people who chronically don’t want to work.”
They wrote me cheques for the next three months. I was grateful.

Starting Over
During this financially challenging time, I rewrote, expanded and updated my book, which
was published in 1993, as ‘FATS THAT HEAL FATS THAT KILL.’ For a year, I developed
marketing materials for a US company. Then I wrote a product manual for a Canadian
mineral and vitamin supplement company. I also developed a formula for the oil blend
that contains all the good and none of the bad oils.

In 1994, I began to work with a new company. First, I helped them bring their oil
manufacturing facility up to the standards I set for making oils with health in mind.
Together, we began to market my better-balanced oil blend formula. After a few name
changes, the oil blend is now called Udo’s Oil 3, 6, 9 Blend.

Food Oil Foundation

This oil blend is NOT a supplement. It is a plant-based FOOD oil FOUNDATION. It is a
food or culinary oil. It’s a healthy alternative to the plant-based, damaged, bottled oils
you find in every food store in the world. Adults use 2-4 tablespoons (28-56 grams; 1-2
ounces) of this oil every day. For best results, mix it in foods. Spread your intake of the
oil blend out over the course of the day. Use it in hot, warm and cold foods, but NEVER
fry it if health is important to you. The oil blend is compatible with all foods, enhances
flavors and improves the absorption of fat-soluble nutrients into your body.

Supplement
You can add a supplement to that foundation, but a supplement cannot replace that
foundation. What is wrong with your food oil foundation cannot be fixed by taking a few
capsules of an oil supplement. You can fix a bad food oil foundation only by replacing it
with a better food oil foundation.

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Travels and Improvements
For more than 10 years, I traveled 6-9 months of the year educating people in more than
30 countries about the benefits of oils made with health in mind. I did this via live
presentations, interviews and media appearances.

We improved the oil blend on an ongoing basis. What started as an oil made from 3
organic ingredients grew to have eight (8) out of nine (9) today. We removed wheat
germ oil because of its low standards. We tightened our manufacturing method on a
continuous basis, making several proprietary improvements.

We developed a survey and used it to collect feedback from users regarding the effect of
the blend on skin, hair, nails, energy, performance, weight management, learning, mood
and many health conditions. We developed protocols and carried out 2 performance trials.

In 2002, a summary version of my book on fats and oils called, “Choosing the Right Fats,”
came out. A recipe book, Omega-3 Cuisine, co-authored but mostly put together by
Celebrity Chef Alan Roettinger followed in 2008. The recipes are super-yummy. This guy
really KNOWS foods and flavors.

Digestion
After oil, the most neglected food-related topic in physical health, digestion is the area
that needs the most attention. So I turned my energy to that. In 1996, we developed a
lozenge of probiotics to take and dissolve in the mouth after each meal. Later, we added
a family of age-specific and condition-specific probiotics that are highly targeted and
really effective to the line.

In 1997, we made a digestive enzyme blend, and later added additional blends. In 1998,
we put together a green product for people who want control over their greens intake
when traveling or to flip into shakes. We also developed a fabulous prebiotic fiber product.
We created a spectacularly good blend of active herbal extracts and concentrates. We
also added the reduced form of coenzyme Q10, which we called QH (long name is
ubiquinol), into our product line.

The Best Oil Supplement

We began to market a krill oil supplement in Europe under our co-owned ‘Udo’s Choice’
brand around 2012. Krill oil is a healthy replacement for the highly damaged, often toxic

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and now completely unsustainable commercial fish oils that have been around for the
past 100+ years.

Krill oil is low on the food chain, free of industrial poisons, tastes better, remains
undamaged, is in a form that is better absorbed and more effective, contains its own very
powerful antioxidant, and is sustainable because all of these issues were addressed
before the harvest of krill began.

Krill is not a plant-based product, but it is the best of the available supplements that
provide the omega-3 derivatives EPA and DHA.

And More
There’s a lot more coming. My teams and I turned health into a teachable field based on
nature and human nature, to replace disease management that is misrepresented as
health care.

An overview of this broad subject, under the title, ‘THE BOOK ON TOTAL SEXY HEALTH:
The 8 Key Steps Designed by Nature,’ self-published in 2017 and available at:
www.udoerasmus.com/products. It’s more comprehensive than anything I’ve done
before.

22.What’s True? A Question of Solid Foundations

The educational foundation of your knowledge, information and understanding is
unshakeable only to the extent that it really is what is true. What is true will remain true
for millions of years. Details can change, but foundational truths remain in place. Let me
give you an example.

● According to research, life began on planet Earth more than 4 billion years ago. In
all that time, the amino acids (about 20) involved in protein construction have
been conserved; that is, they have not changed. This is important, because
creatures on every level from microbe to human, use these same 20 amino acids
to produce widely differing proteins that are characteristic of each species. Why is
this important?

Creatures eat another to obtain the basic building blocks for body construction:
minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids and essential amino acids. Each creature
in the world of nature makes unique and different proteins, but the 20 building

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 blocks from which it makes these proteins are exactly the same. How convenient
and energy-effective that we don’t have to make the building blocks from scratch
(in fact, we are unable to make some of them). We just have to eat one another.
Okay, not funny!!

In other words, the proteins are different, but the building blocks from which the
thousands of different proteins of all species are made are the same 20.

● Here is another solid foundation. The energy that is life for most creatures is
sunlight energy. This energy radiates from the sun in all directions, and a tiny
fraction of it hits the earth. Some of that sunlight energy is absorbed by the
chlorophyll in green plants. It takes part in a process called ‘photosynthesis’, which
is the synthesis of molecules using sunlight as the source of energy for getting it
done.
That process began more than 4 billion years ago, and it will continue for another
4 billion years until the sun turns into a ‘red giant’ and the earth gets fried when
the energy from it engulfs the earth before the ‘red giant’ collapses into itself and
turns into a ‘white dwarf’.
● Here is yet another solid foundation. Human beings must get two essential fatty
acids—omega-3 (ALA) and omega-6 (LA)—from food, because they do not have
the genetic equipment to make these two from scratch. Plants, on the other hand,
CAN make them from scratch, and so these two essential fatty acids are NOT
essential to plants.
Plants make them, and human beings (you) depend on plants to get these two
essential fatty acids. How long will this remain true? This likely will remain true for
millions of years. We will always depend on an outside source of omega-3 and
omega-6. Plants will always be able to make them. Lucky for us.
● Here’s another solid foundation. The many specific genes that code for the
enzymes whose job it is to convert ALA to EPA, eicosanoid hormones, DPA, DHA,
protectins (antioxidants), resolvins (anti-inflammatories), maresins (immune
enhancers), endocannabinoids (feel-good molecules) and many other omega-3
essential fatty acid derivatives still waiting to be discovered are present in every
human being’s genetic program. A copy of that genetic program is present in every
cell in our body. Living in line with nature and our nature enables these genes and
enzymes to do inside of your cells what they are designed to do.

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 ● And another solid foundation. All human beings need the same essential nutrients
(18 minerals, 13 vitamins, 8-11 amino acids, two (2) fatty acids) for body
construction and health. While the amount of each of these necessary for optimum
health differs in different people, nobody is exempt from requiring all of them to
be brought into the body from food, from outside.
● And another solid foundation. For every essential nutrient, there is a threshold for
too little, minimum, optimum, maximum and too much. Optimum health requires
optimum intake of all of them. Nobody wants to settle for minimum health.
● Another solid foundation. The biochemistry of creatures—the biochemistry of life—
is remarkably conserved from microbes to humans and every kind of creature in
between. It is why researchers think that life only originated once on this planet,
and all creatures are part of the same family of that one original life. More of the
small details are being added to the solid foundations by ongoing research. But
the core foundations, once discovered and confirmed, remain stable over eons of
time (millions of years).

Occasionally, though, researchers make errors that they need to correct. When I was in
high school, we learned that the atom is indivisible; that it is the smallest unit of matter.
Before I graduated, we learned that the atom had been split. Boom. Nuclear reactions.
The atom can be divided into sub-atomic particles and waves (energy). Discovery of that
world of subatomic particles began to bloom.

The conversion of omega-3: ALA to DHA was shown by research to go through specific
steps. It was established for microbes, and the results were then generalized to higher
organisms. It turns out that higher organisms organize the conversion steps in a different
way than microbes. My book ‘Fats That Heal Fats That Kill’ contains the earlier diagram
because the book was written before that difference was discovered.

Of course, there are still foundations in science and in biology that remain to be
discovered. Life has been developing for over 4 billion years. We have been here for a
miniscule fraction of that time and have only been systematically studying the nature of
things (using the ‘scientific method’ as a tool) for less than 1,000 years, which means we
have a lot of catching up to do. To think that we are in control now is as arrogant as it is
stupid and wrong.

Surprisingly, we are least knowledgeable and most ignorant about the nature of our own
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without destroying everything.

23.What’s New? A Question of Recent Findings

Many more molecules made from essential fatty acids have been identified. Most of these
molecules are oxidation products, that is, molecules that result from reactions of fatty
acids with oxygen. It is a wide-open field, and the roles that fat-derived molecules play
in our cells and in all tissues, glands, organs and systems are being teased out year by
year in laboratories around the world.

Research regarding EFA conversion & metabolism has been ongoing, and different
researchers have measured widely differing results. Basically, here is what the research
has found.

● The conversion of ALA to EPA is between 5-10% in both males and females.
Insufficient EPA results mainly from not enough ALA as starting material for the
conversion being present in the food supply.

● Conversion from ALA to DHA is about 5-10% in women and less than 1% in men.
When pregnant, women have to make a new brain while also maintaining their
own brain, and therefore require more DHA or more conversion of ALA. Again,
getting enough ALA to start with is the key issue.
Since men hardly ever get pregnant, they need less ability to convert ALA to DHA
than women do. The ability of women to more efficiently convert ALA to DHA

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 makes them smarter than men. Smart men know that. Really smart men
acknowledge it.
● Damage done by light, oxygen, heat, metals and water is being more deeply
studied and better understood in more detail. Perhaps ‘damage’ is the wrong word
here. Clearly, omega-3 react with all of these factors and are changed by them
when they react randomly with light, oxygen, heat, metals and water. In the body,
these reactions are controlled by biochemical and molecular structures
(architecture). These direct and limit the kinds of reactions that take place.

The molecules that result from these directed reactions play important roles in the natural
biochemistry within our cells. These reactions are as intermediates, as hormones, as
active metabolites, as carriers of minerals, as electric charges, as a fuel and as signaling
molecules within and between cells. A lot of work has yet to be done in this rapidly
expanding field of study.

Resolvins, Protectins, Maresins & Endocannabinoids

Resolvins, protectins, maresins, endocannabinoids and the functions of all of these were
discovered only recently, and work is ongoing. What is delightful about these molecules
is that they have properties that are opposite to those of EFAs and their directly made
derivatives, EPA and DHA, in the body. Let me explain.

● Resolvins: EPA and DHA are highly sensitive to reactions with oxygen. Randomly
oxidized, these molecules lead to tissue inflammation. To head this off at the pass,
enzymes turn some of the DHA into very powerful anti-inflammatory molecules
that prevent that inflammation from taking place. And they even resolve
inflammation from other causes.
● Protectins: Detractors of the use of omega-3s in the diet because ‘they can
oxidize and turn your tissues rancid’ must be kicking themselves over this one.
First, it was never was true and there was no evidence of omega-3s turning tissues
rancid. In fact, we observed that they seemed to act as oil-soluble ANTI-oxidants.
Now we know why. The body uses enzymes to turn DHA into powerful antioxidants
that block and pro-oxidant effects that omega-3s and its derivative might
otherwise have.
● Maresins: These help immune function. Many other kinds of fats interfere with
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 omega-3 act in completely opposite ways than you would expect from molecules
that are chemically super-active because they have so many double bonds.
● Endocannabinoids: These are molecules that occupy the same receptor sites in
the brain that THC occupies when you smoke a ‘joint’ of marijuana. The kicker is
that omega-3 derivatives can react with proteins to make molecules that naturally
elevate mood. It’s one of the reasons why omega-3 have been shown to elevate
mood and lift depression.
● Daily requirement for (turnover of) DHA by human brain has recently been
measured to be substantially lower than previously thought. Research showed that
the human brain turns of only 2.4-3.8mg (one mg is one thousandth of a gram;
454 grams are in one pound) every day. One gram of ALA would be more than
enough for brain requirement, even if the conversion was less than 1% (only 0.24-
0.38%).
● The same research pointed out that the flawed way that most conversion studies
were designed and done underestimated actual conversion by a factor of at least
3 times (and perhaps as much as 12 times or even more).
● Recently, a study showed that turmeric, a powerful health-promoting herb from
the ginger family increases conversion of ALA to DHA. This is helpful for people
who eat a whole food, plant-based diet that has no animal products that might
provide pre-converted DHA in it. This finding helps to explain why vegetarians do
not seem to suffer any ill effects from lack of DHA (which would most likely show
up as defective brain function, vision problems and sterility).

What is not yet known is whether other herbs and spices (and if so, which ones) also
enhance ALA conversion to DHA. This awaits further studies. Some sellers of fish oils
have turf-protectingly suggested (without evidence) that the genes of India’s Brahmin
caste, who have been obligate vegetarians for at least 5,000 years, were selected by
nature for different genetics than the rest of the populations of the world. Everyone else,
they say, should ‘buy’ their fishy story and translate that fishy story into buying their fishy
fish oils.

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24.What Waits? A Question of Future Research
Rate of Conversion: ALA to EPA & DHA

Research has been clear for many years that life can convert ALA, the omega-3 essential
fatty acid, into SDA, EPA, DHA and many other derivatives. In the marketplace, even this
basic truth has not always been acknowledged. We know that the brains, eyes and sperm
of animals that only eat plant-based foods: rabbits, horses, elephants and gorillas contain
DHA, which is not present in plants.

● This means that ALA is converted into DHA in their body. They would die if they
could not convert ALA into DHA. Before they died, their brain would fail in its
function, their vision would deteriorate, and their males would be sterile. But they
have no problem in any of these areas.
● In the same way, the Brahmin caste in India, which has 300 million members and
been plant-based for at least 5,000 years (except for a bit of milk, mostly
clabbered, for probiotics), has no source of DHA in its foods. Neither fish nor fish
oil has ever been part of their food intake. They do have ALA in their food supply.
It comes from legumes, from vegetables and from the whole psyllium seeds that
are part of their food.
● Every cell in every human being has a copy of the genetic program, and every cell
in its genetic program has the genes for making the enzymes that life uses in the
body to convert ALA to DHA. Brahmins, too, have no problem with brain function,
vision and fertility. This ‘experiment’ in real time is 5,000 years (200+ generations)
in the making, now numbers 300 million people. Even plant-eating fish in the ocean
convert ALA into EPA and DHA.
● To top it all off, the original producers of DHA for the entire food chain are one-
celled algae (plants) in the ocean. That is where everybody in the food chain gets
it from. Krill eat algae. Little fish eat krill. Bigger (carnivorous) fish eat little fish.
Whales and seals eat big fish. In addition, plant-eating fish convert ALA into EPA
and DHA as well. Carnivorous fish get it from the creatures they eat that make it.

It would be instructive to do research to determine to what extent the diet determines

rates of conversion. In addition, it would be helpful to find out what herbs and spices
other than turmeric increase the rate of conversion (and the rate increase of conversion
that each of these herbs and spices produces).

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A lot of misrepresentation exists in the marketing literature. It has become ‘grapevine’
knowledge. People think they know, when the truth is that they have been misinformed.
This misinformed grapevine includes

● The amount of ALA needed each day

● The brain DHA turnover/day:
● The errors made in study design:
● The fact that five (5) grams of labeled ALA injected into the body and the
conversion measured left out the fact that as much as 50 grams of ALA was already
present in body tissues, and that all of this ALA was unlabeled (therefore
unmeasured, even though available for conversion in the body).

Killing the grapevine is difficult & sometime takes generations. Eventually, the truth
always comes to light.

25.What Fads? A Question of Trends

Fads are sometimes a function of health, but they are often a function of effective
marketing. Every year or two, there’s a new one. It goes ballistic for a short time. Then
it fades.

● If you look at the global or national improvements in health created by these fads,
you are disappointed with the results. We are not better off than we were 20 years
ago, and we are in many ways worse off than we were 100 years ago when we
ate more whole, natural, plant-based foods and less convenient, animal-based,
processed foods. For instance, we live longer now (though even longevity has
decreased now for 2 years in a row), but far more people suffer from starting-
earlier-in-life degenerative conditions including cancers, asthma, allergies and
autoimmune conditions.

The problem is that your mind cannot tell the difference between truth and marketing.
Everybody tells a good story. You believe people when you should be suspicious. You
don’t know enough about nature and your nature to know what your needs are. You are
not in touch with the energy of life that loves you unconditionally and takes perfect care
of you, and you do not live aligned enough with nature. You trust your mind more than
your heart or your life or the power that created you.

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A Short List of Fads
One year, it was coral calcium. Another year, it was the blood type diet. Another year,
melatonin got huge attention. Another year, it was glucosamine sulfate. One time it was
Pritikin. Then came Atkins. Then came South Beach diet. More recently, it’s been Keto
diets. Before that, it was Bulletproof Coffee. Some time ago, it was the Mediterranean
diet. After that came the Paleo diet.

Every one of these fads has some truth to it, but none of them are THE solution. Why?
What ails you is not the lack of one magic bullet. Many things ail you, and every ‘ail’ment
is specific, so the cure needs to be equally specific. On the other hand, you all have
different sets and combinations of ‘ail’ments, so a one-shot deal never works for
everyone.

It’s Complicated
To make it more complicated and the solutions more complex is the fact that some of
your physical problems have mental causes and some of your mental problems can have
physical causes. Not only is there a crossover between mind and body, but how you feel,
who you hang with and what surrounds you also play roles in your wellbeing.

And Deeper
Going still deeper, your direct, personal, experiential awareness connection to the core
of your being and life energy can make a huge difference to whether you feel well and
whole or ill and discombobulated. Each of these areas (8 in all) has a different nature and
function, needs a different kind of attention on a regular basis, goes off in a different way
and responds to a different kind of intervention.

The Problem with Fads

Most fads are built on a weak foundation of little fact and lots of marketing. The stories
always sound good, but the basic agenda behind them usually has more to do with money
than with health. The originators are casting baited fishing lines into the pockets of fools.

First they get your mind with a story. Then they appeal to your emotions with
endorsements. Then you bite the bait and get hooked. Then they extract your money.

Not every fad or trend is necessarily like that. But the truth mostly convinces you more
slowly, with less fanfare. It is not based on promises of quick fixes, but provides steps
you can take, one by one, to return to living more closely aligned with nature and your

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nature. What is true has staying power. What is true is not trendy. What is true does not
change. What is true is rarely the ‘revolutionary discovery’ of the day.

Promotion
To confuse the facts, we have marketing agencies. You’re told it’s easy. You’re told the
figurehead is a genius, when in fact he may just be someone hired (doctor, celebrity,
authority) to read a script for money.

To get your attention, they do or claim something extreme. Or they milk your insecurity
by promising you great things if you comply and threaten you with disastrous
consequences if you ignore them.

When is the last time that nature hammered you to live aligned with her? She never does.
Quietly waits for you to come around. Doesn’t judge or threaten you. Infinitely patient.
She is your last resort when she is actually running your show and thereby is your first
resort, even though and when you ignore that.

‘Essential’ Defined by Research and Marketing:

One of the most pervasive marketing lies in the arena of health is the use of the word
‘essential’. Researchers created a specific definition for ‘essential’ nutrients.

● These are nutrients that life

○ Cannot make in the body from anything else

○ Must have to build a body that is healthy and alive and
○ Must therefore bring in from outside
● In research, ‘essential’ also means that
○ Your health deteriorates if you don’t get enough of any one or more
essential nutrients
○ You get symptoms of deficiency from not getting enough
○ These symptoms are degenerative in nature
○ Deficiency symptoms get worse with time
○ You die if you don’t get enough of any essential nutrient long enough
● Finally, research defines ‘essential’ to mean that if you bring enough of the
essential nutrient back into the too-low diet before you die (death by definition is
not reversible), all symptoms of deficiency are reversed

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 ● That’s because nature knows how to make an optimally healthy body if you take
responsibility for making sure that you take in optimum amounts of all ‘essential’
nutrients.
● This definition of ‘essential’, which scientists have agreed upon, is very tight and
therefore very useful.
● ‘Essential’ nutrients include 18 minerals, 13 vitamins, 8-11 essential amino acids
and 2 essential fatty acids.

However, the use of the word ‘essential’ is used quite differently in the marketplace. In
marketing, the use of the word ‘essential’ implies to the person who sees it that s/he
MUST have it for health, even though the nutrient to which that word is applied is actually
NOT essential by the researchers’ definition. Marketers use the term deceptively but
effectively to drive sales.

You get fooled. They get rich on your lack of knowledge. You are one course in basic
nutrition short of knowing the truth and being able to make choices. It bears repeating
that lying is a form of dictatorship because it robs you of choice.

The Scientific Community

We put much faith into science, but science and the scientific method have become so
well understood that it is possible to design a study that will give you any results you
want to create for your marketing story. Yes, it’s dishonest. Yes, it’s not fair. And yes,
science has become scientism, a religion which imposes ways of thinking and believing
to promote hidden agendas. This is not much different from what religious institutions
did in the middle ages and still do in the present age. Like priests, researchers are not

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infallible. They are subject to corruption by social pressure from those who grant them
money and thereby influence them. Let me give you a glaring example.

● A few decades ago, I had a couple of medical doctor friends who ran a weight loss
clinic. They knew clearly that excessive consumption of carbohydrates plays a
major role in overweight and obesity. They were part of a group of several hundred
doctors also involved in weight management and attended an annual
conference/symposium on the topic.
They told me that there was consensus amongst these doctors on the role of carbs
in Syndrome X (look it up) and obesity. But, not a single presentation from the
podium made mention of this fact. Why not? That was my question. Their answer
floored me. The main sponsor for the conference/symposium was—you guessed
it—Kellogg’s.

None of the fine doctors in this organization was willing to tell the truth about their main
sponsor’s fixed commitment to selling carbohydrate products.

Smoke & Mirrors: Marketing

We live in a world of smoke and mirrors. Everybody wants to get your attention. Why?
They’ve got something to sell you that you don’t really need, and they do it just so you
give them the money that resides in your pocket, under-bed sock drawer or bank account.
How do they get it?

They play on your feelings of dissatisfaction (whose true origin is the disconnection of
your awareness from the wholeness of your being) by promising you ‘satisfaction
guaranteed’, followed by taking advantage of your inertia, which keeps you from taking
them on when they don’t deliver satisfaction. You are so used to getting stuff without it
delivering the promised satisfaction that you don’t even notice. In fact, you’ve been
dissatisfied for so long that it seems normal to you, and you don’t know what satisfaction
feels like anymore.

In marketing, the following are tricks of the trade:

● Whitewash: Making something look better than it is

● Lying: Making claims without foundation; Creative and blatant misrepresentation
● Innuendo: Implying danger when no such danger exists in reality
● Ostracism: Social pressure

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 ● Bullying: Push people into accepting something that may not have merit, but is so
loud that it drowns out a more thoughtful position
● Aggression: More bullying that takes advantage of your fears and insecurities
● Fame: Appeal to your hope of self-importance or social recognition
● Stealing: Taking money before service is rendered, and keeping it when the service
is not used
● Inflated value: They, not you, decide what the value of their goods or services are
● Cost inflation: Creative use of numbers
● Money interests: Takers disguised as givers
● Automatic reorders: Milking credit cards by taking full and unfair advantage of
people’s forgetfulness and their short memories

Whatever happened to pride in workmanship and profession, and honesty in financial

transactions? Money was invented as a convenient means of exchange. Now, it has
become the goal. Whatever happened to protection and care for life being the global
human job?

Truth

Nature’s standards do not change. In fact, the only way to be fully healthy requires you
to live in line with nature and your nature. This is not true only for you, but also for every
creature on the planet. Not only for this time, but all times previously going back 4 billion
years and all times forward for the next 4 billion years.

Life is 100% for you, and nature is about 99% for you and only 1% against you. When
you put your trust in life (and become one with it), it will never fake you out or do you
wrong.

Be skeptical about fads and fad diets.

High fat diet: This does not work long-term for best of health. It is effective for weight
loss because fats suppress appetite and the high fat diet is low in carbohydrates. Much
of the weight loss consists of water loss that leads to dehydration. Long-term, it cannot
sustain good health unless it contains optimum amounts of fresh, essential fatty acid-rich
oils made with health in mind, with the right balance of omega-3 and omega-6.

Low fat diet: Low fat diets, based on the notion that fats are bad took people into EFA
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on good oils, their health and energy improved dramatically, and by their reports their
skin became really nice. Dry skin is a sign of suboptimal intake of good oils.

No fat diet: A no-fat diet will eventually kill you, because you get NO essential omega-
3 and omega-6 fatty acids which are required for life and health.

Fake fat diet: Olestra, the name of the fake fat, gave people diarrhea and was
discontinued by Procter & Gamble. It seemed like such a good idea at the time but was
banned by the UK and Canada for gastrointestinal problems it caused and for removing
oil-soluble vitamins from the digestive tract. And it did not supply any fats to the body.

Mediterranean diet: This is a die with a high fog index both in terms of its content
(what exactly is tht diet) and in the vagueness of its description. The science behind it is
weak. What is clear is that vegetables and fruit in any diet support health. To the extent
that any diet is rich in plant-based whole foods, it supports health. The addition of dairy,
eggs, fish, fowl and red meat makes diets less healthy and the user less long-lived. It’s
now difficult to argue for the use of animal products, except that a completely plant-
based diet needs to have a vitamin B12 supplement added to it.

Paleo diet: In most places, paleolithic people ate mostly vegetables. They ate animal
products only rarely in times when rocks were paleolithic hunters’ only hunting tools. In
a few places, there was a lot of meat, but how healthy that was is not now known. The
definition of what exactly is a Paleo diet is so vague that just about anyone can put just
about anything together and call it a Paleo diet. Paleo is more useful as a convenient
marketing term than as a specific recipe for health.

Right Fat (Keto) Diet: This is not a fad, because it really does work. It works because
it’s based on optimizing intake of both essential fatty acids (omega-6, which is damaged
by processing, and omega-3, which is the essential nutrient too low for optimum health
in 99% of the population), undamaged (made with health in mind by being protected
from damage that light, air and heat can do), in the right ratio, and in the right amounts.

The downside of this diet, which predisposes it against becoming a fad, is that both of
these right fats are sensitive to destruction and need care. Have you noticed that fad
diets don’t contain ingredients that need such care? If you can dry, powder and stick it
on a shelf for a few years with minimal deterioration, it has the potential to go big. May
I tell you another story?

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Every week for several years, a different multi-level company approached me, wanting
to work with me and the ‘hot’ (in terms of marketing buzz) oils I developed. They always
began by making the point that they (unlike other multi-levels) REALLY care about health.
They always sounded convincing.

When we discussed the oils, I would tell them that I’d be happy to work with them, and
it would entail the oil needing to be refrigerated in their warehouse, in the home of their
distributors and perhaps even in transport, depending how long it took to arrive at its
destination.

None of them ever called me back after that conversation. So much for REALLY caring
about health. So much for giving perishable foods and food molecules the care they need
in order to retain their health benefits.

26.Pains & History: A Question of Challenges &

Obstacles
Success does not come without challenge. Success always involves challenge and effort,
because no structure or project builds itself without external input.

● Since early in my life, I’ve had my share of challenges. Really, you have, too. All
were survivable, because you survived them all. Of course, going through them
was scary, because you did not know that you would survive. Not only did you
survive, but they also made you stronger, brought you greater clarity, and led you
to greater measures of personal wisdom.
● Challenges contain precious learning. My past challenges are now memories and
stories, and I’ll share a few of them with you. I hope you find them entertaining,
uplifting or helpful. If you don’t want to read about them, read them anyway. Or,
skip this chapter.

Winston Churchill is said to have said that ‘success is moving from failure to failure without
loss of enthusiasm’. There is just enough truth in that statement to make it humorous.
He, too, knew it in retrospect.

One of my business mentors reminds his students that even in the face of total business
and financial failure, ‘they can’t eat you’. You will always be okay, no matter what
happens. Bruised ego you will have. Re-group your thinking you will need to do. Course

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correction you will have to undertake. Bankruptcy you may have to file for. Creditors you
may have to apologize and make long-term plans to re-pay. But they cannot, and will
not, eat you.

Your life’s journeys become easier after a few failures, because you learn from them that
who you are does not change. Outside circumstances and situations, and what you feel,
think, say and do will change. YOU are not outside, and YOU are not your emotions,
thoughts, words and deeds. You are inside, beyond circumstances, emotions and
thoughts. All is well inside. All will always be well inside. In your essence, you are
indestructible. Tune in to the experience of that essence.

Theft of Ideas
Someone once told me that only six original people live on the planet, and that all the
rest of the people on the planet steal from them. There’s a grain of truth in this statement.
I’m pretty sure that more than 6 original people live on this planet. Exactly how many
there are is not the point. What IS true is that people steal from people who originate
new ideas.

Good ideas that are not protected by patents, trademarks or kept as trade secrets look
super-attractive to people who see ways to turn ideas into a buck or a few
millions/billions. Do you mind when someone runs with your ideas and makes more
money with them than you did? At the beginning, you mind. Your ego hates it when
others run with what you define as being your ideas. With maturity, you learn to see it
as helpful to the realization of your noble mission. In a thousand years, you won’t care
at all about how it happened, or even what happened.

When I was younger, was less mature and felt less secure, my need to be acknowledged
for my ideas, effort and inventions was greater, and I was outraged when someone stole
from me. In other words, my ego was much bigger. Now, I take it as an underhanded
compliment. Imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery. No words needed.

Creative Contentment
Contentment is very creative. Content, original ideas come to you. These ideas are not
actually YOURS but come from ‘The Force’ or the ‘Field’ from which originate all things.
Content, the realm of infinite possibilities or universe of all conceivable ideas feeds you
one or more ideas for which you become the antenna and then the conduit of
manifestation into physical form on this physical planet.

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Gifts Received
Original ideas feel to me like gifts you receive from the universe in moments of receptive
quiet. If your ideas are not YOUR ideas, then you don’t own them, and when someone
takes and builds them out, you could be happy and grateful that others are also helping
to manifest them. Then you don’t have to do everything all by yourself without help. If
you practice becoming receptively quiet, there are countless ideas waiting to be
‘antenna’d’ and manifested. You get free access to them all, so why should not someone
who is better at manifesting them than you do that? This is a broader, more inclusive
philosophical view.

Ego Ergo Sum

The narrower view is that these are ‘your’ ideas, that you created them, that you own
them, that you have rights to them, that no one should use them without your permission,
and that if they do, you should punish (hurt) them by legal means (lawsuits),
badmouthing (gossip), or either figuratively or literally finding a way to burn their house
down. This is a common way to think and to practice in the ego-driven ‘me and mine’
world.

Discontent makes your access to the universe of infinite numbers of possible ideas more
difficult. In this sense, discontent tends to be a lot less creative than contentment, and
you come up with fewer positive ideas. Maybe that is WHY you can only steal the ideas
of others.

Discontent, you may be more inclined to take the ideas others have received, run with
them, claim them as your own, and turn them into products for profit in the material
world. Discontent, you think that more money will make YOU bigger, better and more
content, even when your ‘more’ is at someone else’s expense. Long-term, you find out
that this turns out not to be true.

What is Wealth?
True wealth is a feeling embedded in life within you instead of money and all the other
stuff external to you. Discontent is disappointing. As long as you don’t know this, you
might chase external wealth until you die, or until you stumble into assistance toward the
contentment within your being. In the process of building your separate ego, you steal
images and good ideas and call them your own. You steal formulas and modify them
slightly to fall within legally defensible guidelines. You steal words or plagiarize the work

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of other people and put your name on it. You break contracts you agreed upon to enrich
yourself. You even steal companies, if you can. You fudge your words and books for gain.

Where is the heart in all this? Oh yeah, that’s right, when you feel discontent, it’s because
the heart is missing, because you disconnected from it. More accurately, your awareness
is out of touch with the heart within you, but this remains undiscovered until you re-
discover it.

Inner Conflict
Original thinkers and inventors usually have two opposing impulses to deal with. If you
decide to protect your invention, a lot of your time goes into it, less energy goes into
taking it forward and the invention therefore does not as rapidly reach its potential
market. Protected, you may make more money from the invention, which serves to lessen
your mind-created fears of financial insecurity and desires to have others acknowledge
your brilliant self-importance.

When you DON’T protect your invention, it may spread faster and help more people, but
you may lose control of it and make less money. That serves the heart’s basic impulse to
make life as much better as possible for as many people as possible. Do you want more
for you, or more for all? That is the question. Do you do your work at the expense of
others, or at your expense?

Goldilocks Zone
Is there a position from which all are served without it being at either side’s expense?
That’s the Goldilocks zone in situations based on inspiration, creativity, invention and
manifestation. Over the years, I’ve worked with several companies that make oils with
health in mind. They all learned from me, or from someone who learned from me, how
to do it. Here is a short history from my perspective. Of course, other people from these
companies will tell different stories than the one you are about to read.

My Oil Journey
My journey into making oils with health in mind began in 1980. Poisoned by pesticides
that I carelessly sprayed because I was very upset at the ending of my marriage, I was
looking for self-help, since medicine had nothing for me. By 1981, I was searching the
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disease. I had a gardening job and read research, both part-time. Soon, I became
impatient with the pace of my research, and the writing that was coming from what I
have learned.

My hope was to write a book on what I was learning about fats/oils, because I thought
that such a book could be helpful to other people in THEIR quest for better health. After
a conversation with my mother, in which I expressed my interest in reading and writing
full-time, she invited me to move in with her. She would supply room and board. I would
give health my full-time attention.

Forty-one years old, I moved back in with mom in 1983. The trade-off was that my mom
had a stroke about three years later, and it was helpful to her for me to be there to assist
her in small ways and provide some confidence in her situation. When I began writing, I
estimated that it would take me about six months to get the reading and research on fats
and oils complete and the book written. That guess turned out to be overly optimistic. It
actually took almost six years.

Time Off
In 1985, I took 3 months off to coordinate the Vancouver part of a live Global Spacebridge
on Peace. Peace is one of my great interests, hatched from my childhood experience of
the terror of war and being a refugee. In this Global Spacebridge, on December 16th, the
first and only one of this kind that was ever done, the heads of state of 6 countries
(Sweden, Greece, Tanzania, India, Mexico and Argentina) on 5 continents (North
America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa) spoke in a live presentation about their
opposition to nuclear weapons, followed by a live cultural presentation from their country.

San Francisco was the hub for the event. The group that put it together was called
‘Beyond War’. The event was broadcast live to more than 100 cities in North America and
was presented on live television in Sweden. It was a huge event. Then, to my mother’s
relief, I went back to work on the book, which was published in 1986.

Oil Production
At the time I wrote the book, I did not intend to make oils. My interest was more to
educate people on this new, important topic for which I had developed a passion: fats/oils
and health.

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Academic & Industrial
It is not common for those who are academically trained to get involved in the business
of business. The writers and talkers are not usually the doers. Industry hires academics
to put in a good word for industrial products and pays them an honorarium or a salary
for doing so.

The industry makes most of the money. Often, this industry uses production procedures
that don’t align with the truth about the issue as much as they do with ‘practical’
convenience and the desired maximum spread between cost and profit.

Academic and industry circles tend to frown on anyone doing both. Why? As I already
hinted, one reason is about who makes the money. Academics don’t belong in the kitchen,
says industry. Give us the theory, but don’t judge what we do, says industry. By degrees,
over time, industry tends to cut corners to decrease costs and increase profits.

Most modern food business (including much of farming) is more about making money
than it is about making people healthy. Money, taste, convenience, cost cutting,
maximizing profits and painting a pretty picture in advertising for marketing take
precedence over considerations regarding health.

Health benefits simmer on the back burner or go in the freezer. That’s why we still did
not, after almost a century of oil manufacturing, have oils made with health in mind in
1986.

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Tempted by Profit?
But there is another concern. In mixing truth and practical applications, there’s always
the temptation to give up your integrity. That happens not only in the food industry, but
also in many other industries, in professions, in politics and in religion. You are tempted
to:

● Twist truth or lie for greater profit, control or effect.

● Erode processing standards, accuracy and veracity.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions derailed by sweet temptations. In the
modern world, most of you are now savvy to lies and cover-ups in business. If you are
not, listen to the daily evening news for a month.

Brotherly Logic
My younger brother, a high school biology teacher who had helped and encouraged me
to write the book on oils, talked me into considering the production of oils. His argument
was: “BECAUSE you know how oils should be made, YOU should do it.”

● You know the issues.

● You know what happens when care is not taken.
● You know how to protect sensitive oils from damage.
● You know that if you leave it to others, they’ll use your knowledge in their
advertising, without necessarily putting the protection of oils in place.
● YOU have a responsibility to ACT on what you know.
● I grumbled, but I did not have a better argument to make.

TALKING about making oils with health in mind was my original intent. MAKING oils with
health in mind became my more mature purpose.

Self-Examination
At the conclusion of this conversation, I had to agree with my brother’s logic about being
in the best position to put the newfound truths into practice. Thinking it over, I asked
three questions.

1. Is it possible to stand in truth and be in business at the same time?

2. Is it possible to run a business that promotes health without compromising the
health mission?

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 3. Is it possible to put truth and health ahead of profit?

All three, I concluded, are possible. And I had one more question for myself. Do I have
the necessary integrity pull that off? Yes, I thought, I do. Why? Life blessed me with good
intelligence, clarity and conscience. Life also blessed me with a stubborn streak.

My book FATS and OILS came out in 1986. With help from my small publisher, alive
books, I began to give local author talks. A friend (names withheld to protect the innocent
and the guilty) who saw my book told me he wanted to make oils by my standards, with
health in mind, and he had a friend who could help us get it done. So we began a
collaboration that resulted in a small oil production facility and company in Vancouver,
Canada.

27.What Company? A Question of Beginning

First Company: 1986-1989
Over the course of 1986, we discussed the project. I knew a small oil press manufacturer
in Europe. We looked at locations, looked over my designs for the parts we needed to
make fresh oil with health in mind. We acquired the press, hired engineers to custom-
make the new, protective parts we needed, and modified the press with these parts for
our purpose of making fresh, healthy, undamaged oils.

We were full of fire to make the business successful. Our crew included a total of five
people, including me. A friend of mine was a business whiz kid, who had previously
masterminded and managed several large, successful, international business ventures.
My friend worked part-time as a window washer, collected welfare the rest of the time,
loved new ideas, and got very excited about the possibility.

With my book, educational background in sciences, biological sciences, biochemistry,

genetics, psychology and self-knowledge, my hope-for-health-driven inspiration, the
drawings for machinery designed to make oils with health in mind, and a passion to help
millions of people live better lives, I was good to go.

Bill brought in another friend who had worked in a health food store but was unemployed
at the time. Later, he brought in a carpenter with back problems who was collecting
workers’ compensation. We incorporated the company on April 17, 1987, in Vancouver,
Canada. Our press was set up on the 4th floor of a building in Gastown in Vancouver,

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above a butcher shop. We started on a shoestring, without money, but full of infectious
enthusiasm for the possibility of helping millions of people.

Some members of the team were on fire with the dream of making serious money with
a successful company. Later, we got a small investment from medical doctor (whom later,
with expert help, they screwed). My title was ‘Research & Development’, but actually, I
was the brains, the vision, the conceptualization of the machinery, the author, the
educator, the public face and the inspired driving force behind this venture, but I had NO
business training or experience.

Since we started without money, we agreed on a sweat equity deal, where each of us
would be rewarded with a percentage of ownership. Each of the first four was promised
12.75% of company in a half-page written ‘interim agreement’. The other 49% of the
company was intended for investors.

Once the company was making flax oil, marketing became our most important focus. Our
sales manager’s trust in his ability to sell was small, so the business whiz kid and I went
out on a necessary 1988 educational tour. We had lined up a US distributor for our fresh
flax oil. They sponsored most of the US tour that we did in our van without air-
conditioning in the heat of summer. We did all but the first two weeks of that tour on raw
vegetables, because we noticed that carbohydrates make us sleepy, and meat made us
feel heavy and tired.

We had a credit card for gas and food, and the van was our hotel. Mid-tour, the First
Company guys cut off our funds. Our US distributor picked up the slack and funded us
for the rest of the tour. By the end of the summer of 1988, the First Company had pushed
my friend out of the company, and he went to the Second Company, where he built an
oil pressing facility for making oils with health in mind based on the principles (with his
own modifications) learned from me.

The First Company sold about $273,000 worth of flax oil the first year, about $700,000
the second, and were on target for $2.5 million the third year (1989). They pushed me
out in mid-1989 and ended up with sales of $1.9 million. Even after 20 years, their sales
never got higher than about $5.5 million/year.

They were so sure that the oil was so good that it would sell itself, that they thought they
didn’t need me to do education and marketing anymore. With time, they learned that by

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pushing me out they had pushed out their marketing engine. So many different ventures
compete for consumers’ attention that nothing sells itself anymore (if it ever did).

With good management, this enterprise could have become a multi-billion-dollar

company. We had a monopoly on something no one else really knew how to do well. All
of our competitors learned the method they use to make oils with health in mind from
working for or with us. Total sales of flaxseed oil are now more than $1 billion/year.

The First Company lost control of the monopoly they enjoyed to a Second Company and
a Third Company. In what we called the ‘flax wars’ that followed, the price of flax oil went
down from $10/bottle to $6/bottle. In spite of the ‘flax wars,’ flax oil became a success.
The total market size for balanced EFA oils made with health in mind is very large, at
least an estimated $176 billion/year, wholesale, just in North America.

When my deal with my partners went south, I was devastated. My belief was that if I
make it work for them, they will make it work for me. Not everyone thinks that way. The
12.75% ownership was never paid out. Later, in a court case they started, they accused
me of stealing from them what in fact they stole from me.

Under oath, they claimed that the interim agreement that we had signed was not an
agreement, but an agreement to agree about ownership at a later date, and we never
got to that agreement. One manager and the members of the herd of lawyers they hired
to protect themselves from all the people they deceived designed this strategy for them.

It’s always super-disappointing when people make agreements or promises and then
break them. Being true to our word with one another is a sacred trust. It’s all we have
that’s real in social interactions. Without it, we cannot accomplish anything big, and not
much of anything little either.

Breach of our word (lying) is humanity’s greatest crime. It wrecks everything. First, lying
wrecks personal integrity, then relationships, then families, then projects, then
companies, then institutions, then communities, then countries, then continents and then
planets.

Think about the problems in the world. ALL of them begin with a lie born of heartlessness.
ALL of them involve people not being true to their word. I mean: ALL OF THEM. Maybe
this is too deep and profound, or too confronting. Hopefully, you get my point, and apply
it in your life. Hopefully, I will get my point, and apply it in my life.

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In addition to being devastated, I was broke. When I applied for welfare, I was
embarrassed. “I’m an author; I get book royalty 3x/year; I developed a company that
sold $1.9 million in product this year; and I don’t have enough money to pay my rent,” I
told the lady.

The welfare intake worker was gracious and supportive. “Welfare was intended for short-
term situations like yours,” she said, “not for people who chronically don’t want to work.”

For 3 months, welfare paid my rent.

Seriously depressed, I lamented to a friend. His reply was: “It’s just an idea that you are
depressed about.” I was incensed. “What do you mean?” I retorted. “I dedicated my
whole life to this!” A week later, I realized that what he said was true. An idea is what I
was upset about. That did not, however, lift my near-suicidal depression.

At that time, I wrote a letter about how I felt to a fabulous mentor I have, who responded
by telling me to continue working with flax. What? Flax was the cause of all my pain. Only
years later, I realized the wisdom of his advice.

I already had 10 years of experience with flax. Starting something new from scratch
would have had another long learning curve. But the fact that he responded to me with
kindness made me feel loved again. My heart opened and began to heal, and that enabled
me to move forward again.

28.What Laws? A Question of Confidence

FDA shuts border to the import of flax oil (1988)
Every project has challenges and obstacles to overcome. The FDA was one of ours. Our
first manufacturing facility was located in Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada. We
had fresh flax seed oil that contained 57% omega-3 by weight, and could provide this
essential nutrient, undamaged, to anyone who wanted to improve health. Our flax oil had
a 3-month shelf life printed on the bottle.

We wanted the health health-supporting benefits of our super-sensitive omega-3

molecules to remain intact. We wanted to help people better their health. We wanted the
results people got from eating omega-3-rich oils made with health in mind to be our
grapevine, ‘go-crazy’, word-of-mouth advertising.

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We had begun shipping flax seed oil made with health in mind across the border into the
USA. One day, our flaxseed oil got stopped at the border. The FDA refused to let our
magnificent flaxseed oil into the country.

Why? Unbeknownst to me, the FDA had, many years ago, classified linseed oil (a highly
processed version of the oil that comes from flax seeds) as an ‘unsafe food additive’.
Their reason for classifying linseed oil as unsafe was its sensitivity to damage by oxygen
(air). Linseed oil made without protection or care rapidly goes rancid. Rancid linseed oil
is neither palatable nor good for health. They were doing their job of protecting the public.

But linseed oil, treated like other oils, with harsh chemicals and then heated to deodorize
it, was quietly being sold in the health food trade without any fanfare, with the FDA
averting its eyes to its sale, in spite of their classification of it as an unsafe food additive.

We, on the other hand, were making noise about the goodness of flaxseed oil, the fresh,
good-for-health version of the oil that comes from flax seeds. They had to act. They
published their opinion in their newsletter and closed the border to its import from
Canada. We had no immediate recourse, because like most countries in the world, the
FDA has 100% jurisdictional (dictatorial) power at the borders into the USA. We could
not take them to court.

One company tried to sneak the oil across the border from Canada to the US on the back
of a pickup truck, hidden under burlap bags, but got caught. That did not go well for
them, because now anything that came to the border from that company was
automatically tagged for inspection.

What to do? We were sure that fresh flaxseed oil, the way we made it, was not only safe,
but important, because we had done our due diligence, and had put a very short shelf
date on the oil bottles. Using flaxseed oil, we were consistently getting and seeing
substantial skin, energy and mood benefits. From my own experience and that of others,
my confidence in the oil and its benefits was 100%.

It was the perfect situation for a perfect standoff. While people in the US were eating
turkey for Thanksgiving, we moved our entire operation to Ferndale, a small town in
Washington State just 15 miles south of the Canadian border and began to make the oil
there. Now that we were in the USA, the FDA could not shut us down without cause.
They’d have to bring legal proceedings against us in a court of law in the US in order to
stop us.

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For several years, we worked under their dangling sword. We never knew whether or
when they might drop a suit on us. We continued to work under these circumstances
because we were on fire to help people enjoy better health. We never told anyone about
their classification of linseed oil as an ‘unsafe food additive’. We had two reasons.

First, we were not making linseed oil. We were making fresh flaxseed oil with health in
mind. We had done our due diligence. We knew the oil was safe.

Second, we had our job to do, and the FDA had its job to do. We were going to continue
to do our job, and we would let them do their job without our interference, but also
without our help. We respectfully disagreed with their position.

In good conscience, I could not tell anyone about the FDA’s position, because I disagreed
with that position and knew that our oil was NOT an unsafe food additive. If they wanted
to promote that position, they’d have to do it under their own steam, and without our
steam. Usually, when the FDA makes an announcement, it spreads like wildfire through
the community, and their job is done. Not this time.

We didn’t argue with the FDA much, either. But we did have one argument. We disagreed
that flax oil was a food additive, because oils are foods, not food additives. Their position
that linseed oil is a food additive because we add it to food was not defensible. They
called all other food oils food, not food additives, and when we called them on it, they
backed off from that position.

Long story short, we never got sued. About 10 years later, I had the opportunity to ask
a commissioner of the FDA, “Why did you never shut us down?” “We wanted to,” he said.
“But when we tested your flax oil, which we did many times, it was never rancid within
the shelf life you had printed on the bottle. We could not have won a court case against
you, so there was no point in starting one.” My kitchen enjoyed me in a ‘happy dance’
that day.

29.What Education? A Question of Information

Second Company: 1990-1991
In 1990, I moved to Petaluma, California, on a TN (Trade NAFTA) work visa. The Second
Company, with a colleague’s help, had built a pressing facility there, and their business
office was also located there. My friend brought me in to help write educational materials
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we had stolen their trade secrets and proprietary information, when, in fact, they had
actually stolen all that from me. The best defense is a good offense?

One of the first First Company’s employees later told me that they’d had meetings in
which the agenda was to devise strategies by which they could ‘finish Udo both personally
and financially in such a way that he would never be able to work with anyone, ever
again’. Wow. Ouch!! Such kindness!!

In the lawsuit, they also tried to claim ownership of one of the Second Company’s
registered trademarks, saying that they were the first to use that trademark, since they
made the oil for the Second Company and first filled oils into bottles with that trademark
on the label. As a result, the Second Company’s insurance paid for our entire legal
proceedings. That was helpful, because I had no money to defend myself. After the
depositions were completed, the First Company sued for peace. Their lawyers had told
them that they did not have a leg to stand on and could not win the court case they had
started against us. So they discontinued the court case they had started against me and
the Second Company.

After working for 10 months at the Second Company in Petaluma, I quit because I saw
no future in my salaried job, and I felt driven to do something more helpful to people,
and more creative. So, I packed my bags and moved back to Vancouver.

30.What Copycat? A Question of Management

Third Company: 1991
A friend worked as the First Company’s press operator in their US pressing facility in
Ferndale, Washington. His girlfriend managed the plant. The First Company’s owners,
predictable from their past behavior with us, had problems getting along with those who
worked for them in the US pressing facility. They had a falling out with the plant
manager’s girlfriend, and when she left, he left.

He built his own pressing facility on his father’s farm (the Third Company), based on what
he learned as press operator at the First Company. After I returned to Vancouver from
California, I got in touch with him, to see if I could assist him with education. He made
some vague promises about compensation, and gladly accepted my help for free for
about 6 months. He never paid me anything. I moved on.

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The ‘Flax Wars’
For a few years, there was considerable friction between the various companies that
made flaxseed oil with health in mind by the method I designed. The First, Second, Third
and Fourth Company had some high intensity moments at trade shows. I refer to this as
the time of the ‘Flax Wars’. Each company was trying to discredit the other companies.
All of it was about market share.

Greed, or love of money, often brings out the worst in people. One owner’s wife, who
knew nothing about the business or its history, screamed at me like a banshee at a
Canadian trade show. Another owner’s manager yelled at me, “You’re a fraud and a
danger to the industry!!” It was so intense that I retreated into one of the Trade Show
booths and hid behind two beautiful women I knew, until he stopped shouting and walked
away.

A year later, I sought him out at the same show, and said, “You know that every bottle
of oil that you sell for money is made by a method that I developed and taught to the
First Company, and that your boss learned while working for that company. It makes
more sense for you to be grateful than it does to harass me.” Surprisingly, he agreed. He
stopped bad-mouthing me to my face but continued to misrepresent me to retailers and
store staff behind my back. Some of them would report back to me what he would say
to them about me.

The Third Company, like the First and Second, packaged their oils in dark plastic bottles.
Since oils swell plastics, and plastics ingredients leach into oils quicker than into water
(and we know they drift into water, because we can taste the plastic), I changed my
mind about the wisdom of packaging oils in plastic. I told them of my findings and
suggested that they change to glass as their packaging material. They didn’t make that
change, because plastic is cheaper, lighter to ship and almost impossible to break. So
they all kept plastic as their oil packaging material.

At one point, the manager of the Third Company screamed at me: ‘You have no proof
that plastics are toxic.’ My simple answer, which is still my position today, was, “Absence
of proof of toxicity is NOT proof of safety.” But we now know more about plastics leaching
into oils, and about their tendency, just like many other unnatural (not normally present
in nature) molecules, to create chronic low-grade inflammation once they get absorbed
into our body.

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We also know that there are highly toxic ingredients in some plastics used to package
foods. And research done since that time has shown that ingredients present in plastics
drift into foods. They do so in direct proportion to the amount of fat or oil in the food. My
opting for glass, which does not swell, or leach, or contain toxic materials turned out to
be a good decision from the perspective of health.

31.What Rationale? A Question of Nutrients

Quest Vitamins

After I returned to Vancouver, the owner of a mineral vitamin supplement company called
Quest Vitamins hired me to write, in his words, ‘the best nutritional supplement manual
in the world’. I accepted the challenge. In writing the manual, I laid out the rationale and
made the case for why using nutritional supplements can help us to enjoy better health.
The rationale part of the manual was 186 pages.

It was a book in itself but was used only in-house. As I wrote it on salary, the book did
not belong to me, and so I never published it. It was a thorough piece of work though,
and it took me 4 months of intense research and writing to finish. I was proud of the
result. So was the owner of the company.

For me, this was a good project, because through it I further expanded my detailed
knowledge of nutrition beyond what I had already published in my book on oils. Writing
it, I had the chance to examine the properties and uses all of the nutrients that are
essential to health. Essential fatty acids are only 2 of about 50 essential nutrients, which
also include minerals, vitamins, and essential amino acids from proteins. In addition to
the essential nutrients, I got the beginnings of a bit into thousands of health-supporting
molecules that life cannot make in the body from anything else, but that plant-based
foods, herbs and spices create.

In addition to the essential nutrients, I learned about digestion, which depends on

digestive enzymes, probiotics and prebiotic fiber. These are essential to health but do
most of their work inside our digestive tract, our gut, which is actually outside our body
(as a canal from mouth to anus).

They play huge roles in our digestive system, where all of the building blocks for body
construction are freed from food for absorption into the body. Certain kinds of herbs and

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spices also help to digest and absorb nutrients more effectively, and I began to develop
an interest in this vast area of wisdom created by and found within nature.

32.What Consultations? A Question of Assistance

Consultations

In the back of my book Fats and Oils, I decided to print my phone number. Oils made
with health in mind was a new field that I was an expert in, and I felt that I should make
myself available to people who needed help to wade through the complexities of fats, oils
and health. When someone needed to cut through the flagrant, rampant misinformation
floating around in the market ethers, I would help them.

I offered consultations on a fee-for-time basis. At first, I did not charge much. People
often stiffed me for my ridiculously small fees. One person from New York paid me twice,
and then declared, “Now that we’re friends, I expect free consultations.” She stopped
paying me for my time. My remedy was to stop taking her calls, because she only wanted
to chat with an author. How boring!

After some time, I got tired of this kind of abuse, and raised my fees substantially. The
intent was to discourage people who just wanted to ‘chat’ with an author (some people
think it’s something special) from calling me. The higher my fees got, the more promptly
people paid. Who would have thought?

Later on, when my modest financial needs had been met, I changed my practice. We
would agree on the fee, I would do the consultation, and at the end they would ask me
how much they owed me. “Nothing,” I would say. “It’s my gift to you. I hate making
money on sick people and pain.” Eventually, I removed my number from the book, but I
still get calls sometimes, from people who bought the book in those early days, as long
as 20 years ago.

Consultations have always been a favorite way to spend my time. I get to be in touch
with the challenges people face, the kinds of information and encouragement they need,
the results they get, and the kinds of additional questions they have regarding the most
effective use of oils for health support. I learned from them as much as they learned from
me. I got to practice better ways to explain a complex subject in street level, non-
academic, practical terms.

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In conversations, I got feedback on how well I was getting my message of good oils
across. Over the years, I became more and more effective because of being more and
more down-to-earth. A brilliant expert once told me that if an expert cannot explain their
information in a way that his/her listener can understand, s/he doesn’t understand his/her
topic well enough yet and has more homework to do. My view was that if people did not
get my message, I needed to become a more effective (better) teacher.

How can I make my point more simply and more clearly? It’s a good question for
educators to ask themselves. A listener’s inability to understand me may be the result of
my inability to make it understandable. How can I say it better? How can I explain it in a
way that cannot be misunderstood? It is an educator’s ongoing work in progress.

33.What’s Missing: A Question of Animals

Missing Link: 1992-1997

One day in 1992, my phone rang. A veterinarian from Sylmar, California, was on the line.
“I read your book,” he told me. “I learned a lot from reading Fats and Oils. We never
learned about essential fatty acids in vet school, and I was thinking that animals have
the same essential fatty acid deficiencies as humans. Do you think that we could do
something for them?” I told him that I was sure we could.

Within a few weeks, I was in California with his brother, and we were talking about the
possibility of starting a company that makes whole food supplements rich in essential
fatty acids for animals.

In 1992, omega-3 was not (yet) on the list of essential nutrients for dogs, cats or even
horses, even though they are present in the foods these animals obtain in the wild.
Omega-3 WAS on the list of essential nutrients for gorillas and orangutans. There was no
doubt in min mind that the health of dogs, cats and horses would improve if omega-3
were added to their foods.

On a TN work visa, I worked with the ‘brothers’ in California. We developed whole foods
essential fatty acid products made with health in mind for dogs, cats, horses and later,
humans. Why did we make one for humans?

Animal owners are remarkable human beings. They’ll do anything to improve their pets’
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animals inspire their owners to also take better care of themselves. Sweet!!

One pet owner told me: “I thought to myself: Why should my dog be healthier than me?”
He started to take the animal product. The ingredients in our products for animals were
all organic and human grade quality, but animal food regulations forbid companies to sell
animal foods for human consumption. Why? Because the quality of the ingredients used
in pet foods can often be quite low.

Morgue Food-Inspired Regulations

You may not know this, but some pet food manufacturers put disgusting stuff into animal
foods, like ‘recycled’ drug-laced, disease-riddled corpses of pets put down by vets. Vets
throw the cadavers into barrels. Every week or whenever the barrel was full, a big
‘morgue truck’ would show up to get those corpses and transport them off, sometimes
to a pet food factory.

Not all pet food manufacturers do this, but some brands do, which is one reason for the
government’s regulations against humans eating animal foods. Other reasons include the
use of slaughterhouse waste: brains, skins, hooves, joints, teeth, guts and other offal. In
addition, other ingredients used in some pet foods are also low quality.

It’s easy to understand that humans should not be eating drug-laced dead pets. What’s
not so easy to understand is why anyone would think that it’s okay to feed drug-laced
dead pets, ground up and mixed with other low-grade ingredients, to living pets. If only
pet owners knew!!

Due to these regulations, we had to make a product for humans separate from the ones
for animals. Still, people’s pets were our best sales force for both the products intended
for animals to eat and those intended for human consumption.

Together, the ‘brothers’ and I developed materials to educate and market the products
we created. We took amazing ‘before and after’ photos of animals. We showed these
photos to pet owners at trade shows and to retailers in retail stores around the country.
The photos impressed people, because the results were really impressive. We were
invited to do media interviews.

Skin and hair conditions including hairless backs, stiffness in older animals, low energy
levels and ‘doggy’ odors improved dramatically on the products we made. We got rid of

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calluses on Siegfried and Roy’s white tigers in Las Vegas and got front row tickets to their
fabulous show. The brothers gave me 33% of the company. That’s where I learned about
the weakness of having a minority ownership position.

We applied for and obtained 6 patents on the invention and its method of production.

We grew like wildfire. Our sales increased from $375,000 in 1995, to $800,000 in 1996,
and we were on track for $3.5 million in 1997. Like with the first company, the ‘brothers’
got greedy when the money started to come in. They locked me out mid-1997 and ended
up with sales of $2.9 million at the end of the year. Sales never got above about $6
million/year. In 1998, they sued me. They won something, lost on most of their claims,
and all of their claims were overturned in our favor on appeal.

When I returned my shares to them, they were obligated by law to pay me out at market
value for them, but they elected to not follow the law. They never wrote me a check for
the value of my shares. They started another lawsuit, and lost that one, too. The court
awarded me a judgment, and the ‘brothers’ exhausted all appeals. Both brothers have
since died, one from lupus, and the other from kidney failure.

Recently, their estate sold the company. Eventually, my lawyer found a way to collect the
money the court awarded from a company who bought that company from the estate of
one of the brothers. It took almost 19 years of legal wrangling.

The Missing Link was one of my favorite business projects. Full of enthusiasm, we
accomplished a lot. Many animals and their owners enjoy better health because of it.
With good business management, it could have been a company doing $400 million/year.

Total market for food-based supplements for dogs, cats and horses was about
$16billion/year in 1997, just in North America, and is now estimated at over $20 billion.

● Dogs: ~90 million in 2017; ~60 million in 1997

● Cats: ~96 million in 2017; ~65 million in 1997
● Horses: ~11 million in 2017; ~8 million in 199

After several lawsuits mounted against me over the years, all of which I won, I’ve learned
to enjoy them. When someone sues me, I really get into it. It is not my goal to start
them, but I’m more than happy to finish them. I love the attention to detail that is
required, and I’ve learned that the law tends to favor honest actors and to work against
crooked ones who lie, cheat and steal.

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Lofty Laws
Our laws were created with lofty purpose. All things considered, a great deal of thoughtful
effort went into designing laws that set fair standards for social and business interactions
based on agreements. It’s expensive, and lawyers may be able to find ways around the
laws, but the intent of the system for settling differences is rigorous.

Of course, the time we spend haggling could have been better spent serving the common
good. That is why making clear agreements and keeping our promises and agreement is
the most time-effective way to interact. It is better to not promise than to not deliver on
promises. Don’t make promises you won’t keep. And get to know the people you do
business with.

34.What Travels? A Question of Touring

Fourth Company: 1994

In 1994, I began to work with a Fourth Company. First, I helped the owner to tighten his
sloppy oil production line, in order to improve oil quality, so that their oils would not taste
so awful. I also suggested other improvements. Some of these were put in practice;
others are still on the list of improvements that could be made to the production line to
make even better good oils.

Public Education
According to the owner, my primary role at the Fourth Company was public education
and media. For the owner, this was a marketing function. “Anyone can throw a formula
together,” he told me once, “but not everyone can get people to understand their need
for it and can inspire them to choose to buy and use it.” The product categories we
developed together were labeled and sold under the ‘Udo’s Choice’ brand. For each
product category, of which there are about 15, we developed one or more comprehensive
blend, including:

● Essential fatty acids blends

● Probiotics blends
● Digestive enzymes blends
● Greens blend
● Fiber blend
● Phytonutrient blend

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These are six of about 15 basic categories of products for physical health. In the majority
of categories, a thoughtfully designed blend of ingredients covers the basic nutritional
needs for the health of all humans. Together with input from raw materials suppliers, we
worked to make super-good formulas.

Contract
Contractually we agreed to not directly compete, world-wide, for the life of the product,
in these six categories. The Fourth Company would not make similar products, and I
would not work with other companies. We agreed that I own the product formulas. We
agreed that these formulas were exclusively leased to the Fourth Company.

Unfortunate Changes
After about 5 years, something strange began to happen. We’d meet to discuss, and they
would agree to make a product I had suggested, but when I went on tour, the
development of the product would be put on hold. When I returned at the end of the
tour, I’d ask their QC person how the new product was coming along. She’d tell me: “It
was put on hold.” I’d ask her why. She’d tell me that she was told to stop working on it.
I’d ask who told her. She’d tell me that she couldn’t tell me.

Then I’d ask the owner, and he would always tell me that he was happy to make more
of the products I suggested. It was confusing for me, because the head of the company
and the workers were telling me different stories.

We created several blends together. Why blends? Blends have wider ranges of benefits
than single product used alone. Molecules, enzymes, friendly bacteria, fiber and greens
work better in teams that alone. We also developed a QH product in capsules, along with
good oils, and most recently created a krill oil supplement under my brand.

Tours, Media and Talks

With support from the company, I toured extensively to do media and public as well as
professional education in about 40 countries. For about 15 years, I spent 6-9 months
touring, bringing the message of good oils made with health in mind and other health-
promoting principles to millions of people. Some days, I gave four talks and did one or
two media interviews. By the time I did the last talk for the day, I sometimes could not
remember what I had said or not said, because I said so much that day. Talking
extemporaneously (without notes) was my specialty. That made it a truly ‘live’
performance, but I had to be super-concentrated to do it well.

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Over the past 20 years, the Fourth Company honored its agreements with me, but with
growing reluctance. All checks cashed, and most were written on time.

For the past few years, although there is much still left to do to get a bottle of EFA-
balanced oils made with health in mind and each of the other basic components of
physical health into every household, the owner of the Fourth Company has tried, in
several different ways, to change the contract (read: steal our agreed upon and signed
partnership).

These methods included changing labels, changing formulas, taking the ‘Udo’s Choice’
brand off most of the products, making knockoffs and promising to pay commissions
which the Fourth Company subsequently did not pay.

Arbitration
We entered a process of binding arbitration to work out our differences, which was
concluded in late 2018. This arbitration has one of three possible outcomes:

● We re-commit to the contract and take on bigger projects by developing a more

effective working relationship
● We end the relationship and part company
● We continue to hobble along in a messy way

The arbitrator can only make decisions on the meaning of the contract. If she does a
good job, both sides will be dissatisfied. That happened. We are both unhappy with her
decisions.

Her process is now complete. She affirmed that the formulas belong to me. She defined
‘direct competition’ in his favor, but it has defined that I can also make similar products,
as long as they don’t directly compete according to her arbitration decision using their
examples of what we said were directly competing knockoffs. I do not owe them any
other written materials. They cannot tell me how to do my educational work.

Fire Sale
Some years ago, I transferred ownership of my formulas to a company and then sold
part of the company to pay for legal fees incurred by a suit against the Fourth Company
and me by The Missing Link company for allegedly stealing their formulas. The Fourth
Company settled with them (paid them $2 million), but we persisted. The two companies
who own the contract with the Fourth Company won and got paid out.

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Theft
Companies often try to change the contract when the work has been successfully
completed. Lucky for me, the contract does not require me to work and survives my
death. Both sides in this relationship will continue to enjoy the benefits of what we have
built together for decades to come.

The bane of our age is that for many, money has become more important than life. They
work for the bank, even though life is the treasure on this planet, and even though care,
support and protection of life are the only kinds of work that are inherently satisfying and
sustainable. Making money the first priority is, in short, really stupid.

Parting Company
We are still in the process of ‘working things out’. I’m looking for a buy-out for what we
built together, which, by the contract we both signed and agreed to work to, will continue
to benefit both his and my estates for decades to come.

Sometimes there is no going back to what worked in the past. When trust is broken, it is
difficult or impossible to repair. If I signed a new contract with the owner, I would have
no trust in him keeping the agreement, knowing that he already broke the one we had.
It’s still a mess. A clear parting of ways needs to take place. When it is concluded, he is
free to go his own way and I am free to go my own way.

35.What Lawsuits? A Question of Greed

Legal Shenanigans:

First Company: 1990-1991:

● First Company sued Second Company, a colleague and Udo. We took depositions,
which showed that they had no case. They were just trying to bully us. Their
accusations turned out to be completely unfounded. They had no evidence or proof
of any wrongdoing on our part. In the end, they sued for peace. Sometimes people
use lawsuits as a bullying tactic against others to try to get them to give up
something for nothing.

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Third Company: 1998-2017:

● They sued me for everything under the sun. We (my lawyer and me) won every
part of the suit on appeal. We were awarded damages.
● They filed a second suit. We won the second suit. The judge ruled in our favor and
assigned a valuation for them to pay.
● The appeals judge upheld the judgment against them. Higher courts denied further
appeals. The judgment has just been paid. Legal costs over almost 19 years were
$1.5M in court. We broke about even on the deal.
● A huge amount of time and funds went into it, which could have been more wisely
spent on making more products and doing work to improve the quality of life for
as many people and animals as possible. Greed is very expensive.

Fourth Company:
After years of two-faced dealings by the Fourth Company and many different kinds of
underhanded actions behind my back in order to find a way to not have to honor our
agreement, they began proceedings toward binding arbitration.

Arbitration can only interpret a contract, but cannot change, amend or end it. Binding
arbitration means there is no way to appeal the decision.

It also means that the proceedings and decisions does not become public knowledge. It’s
a way that people who don’t honor their contracts are not publicly exposed for doing so.
I did not know that when the owner asked for it, but I know it now. It’s always better
when the truth can come to light.

Truth always comes to light eventually, but the sooner it does, the better. In business,
people have a right to know who keeps their word and who does not. If we don’t know,
how can we know which business partners we can trust?

36.What Competition? A Question of Perception

When companies compete, they use the following strategies in a predictable sequence:

1. The most honest and therefore best strategy for a company to use is to focus on
the quality of their product. This is easy to do only when they have the BEST

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 product, because every buyer wants the best product. That’s my strategy. It takes
less time and effort to put in extra care at the beginning, because when users get
results, they remain loyal and tell others. With my background in science and
nature, and with 50+ years of personal experience, I know how to make and
recognize optimally effective products.
2. My team and I have a big advantage. I know the topics and issues thoroughly,
invent methods, obsessively improve on them over time, know the research,
actively invite user feedback, have regular contact with users to hear what their
concerns are, and address their concerns in elegant ways. My personal experience
with loss of health and my knowledge of the importance of living in line with nature
and human nature forces me to make products with the care necessary to keep
them in their natural state, in order to retain the benefits that keep us in our
natural state of health.
3. When their product is not the best, companies lie about the quality of their own
product. It’s not as good as it could be, but they will still claim that it IS the best,
because people want the best. If you tell them that your product is second-best,
they’ll ask you which one is the best one, because that is the product they want.
Lying takes hundreds of creative forms—too many to list. One name for it is
‘advertising’. In legal language, it is called ‘huffing and puffing’. That’s really funny.

We don’t have to do that, because we have the best product. Since I’m free to set
standards, I set them really high, and since I get to choose the ingredients from the list
of all possible ingredients, I choose the best ones. We don’t cut corners. We take
extraordinary care of our products. We talk straight and walk straight in our education
and its translation into products. Why?

We do that because we can and because we want to do it. Every ingredient in the oil
blend is there for reasons of benefit to health. Every ingredient excluded from the oil,
including borage, CLA and fish oil, is not used due to concerns regarding negative effects
on health.

When lying about their product doesn’t work, companies lie about the competing product.
People said that we did not use organically grown seeds when we used only organically
grown seeds. People said that our method was not as good as theirs, even though they
never saw our method, nor had they, unlike us, made their production line tighter over
the years.

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We continue to improve our production method, secure better-quality ingredients, switch
from non-organic to organic ingredients the moment they become available, test the
integrity of our formulas, and research their results in practice. We keep up with research
findings as well as advertising misrepresentations being made in this emerging field of
vital importance to health. We confront and correct the misconceptions.

When lying about a competing product does not work, companies lie about the character
of the people who compete with them. They said they were the first to give me a chance
to work in the health field. They said I did not come to the office from 9-5, like they did,
so I should not get paid. In truth, I work longer hours, from home, where it is quieter for
creating, writing, phone calls, etc. When I’m not at home, I am on the road, educating
and doing media presentations, living out of a suitcase, away from family and friends.

They said we stole their secrets, methods, customers, etc., when the truth is that they
stole the methods and everything we had built together from me. They said I gave their
secrets to other people, which I didn’t. The truth was that they had treated several people
in the company badly, and those people went elsewhere with the knowledge they had
learned while working with us.

They said I have no credentials or that my credentials are fake. Actually, I have about 6
years of thorough background in science, biological science, biochemistry and genetics
from the University of British Columbia, a conservative, mainstream institution of higher
learning.

With that foundation in the sciences, I earned an MS and a PhD in Nutrition from a school
that, while non-accredited, WAS licensed by the California Department of Post-Secondary
Education to give these degrees. There, I took courses in which I learned about the
successes of the work that leading edge pioneers were doing to heal illnesses by
improving nutrition, decades before Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and
Sorbonne got in on that act.

The school was perfect for what I had set out to do, and my revised, updated PhD thesis
is now called FATS THAT HEAL FATS THAT KILL. The book has sold 250,000 copies and
is used in nutrition schools because of its understandability. I’ve met several researchers
at scientific lipids (fatty acids, fats and oils) conferences who told me that reading this
book inspired them to dedicate their research lives to the study of fats and oils (lipids).

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That pretty much exhausts the list of ways in which people try to win in a competitive
marketplace. Because it may help you in your journey of bringing value to the world, I
share it with you. Forewarned is forearmed.

Hopefully, you make the best possible product, and therefore find it unnecessary to lie to
compete. When true quality goes into a product, it becomes a brand both on its merits,
and your truth-based confidence in promoting it. Then, you don’t even have to create the
brand. The people who use your products and love them because they get results will
create your brand. When the quality does NOT go in the product, you will have to lie to
compete, and this will be hard on every aspect of your quality of life, including your
health.

Although I personally found these lying tactics both annoying and disturbing—sensitive
soul that I am—I can say that none of them ever really hurt me. Most people judge us
by how we show up in life. Being honest works. It works equally well (in the long term)
in education, politics and any other topic under the sun. Staying focused on education
and the benefits that the products I bring to people always works best for them and for
me. Eventually, the truth comes out.

Staying true to our ‘high road’ is powerful. Most people respect, admire and trust those
who commit time and effort over the long haul to realize a vision that improves their
quality of life. Just saying.

Don’t let the BS sidetrack you. Don’t let short-term profit tempt you to cut corners. The
truth will make you free, and it will keep you free.

37.What Credentials? A Question of Competence

Let me say a bit more about credentials and my credentials. I’ve already told you about
my university background. It’s solid and extensive in basic sciences, biological sciences,
biochemistry, genetics and psychology, all from conservative, accredited institutions. My
BSc in Honors Zoology, with a Major in Psychology, came from the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. After that, I spent two years in Graduate Studies in
Biochemistry and Genetics at the same institution.

At that time, I became interested in the physical, social and environmental challenges in
the world. Compared to these, my research toward a Master’s degree in genetics seemed
profoundly unimportant (I was studying chemically induced ‘crossing over’ in male fruit

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flies). I finished the research I had undertaken, but I did not write my thesis or do the
Master’s thesis defense, so I did NOT get my MSc degree in Genetics. It seemed to me
that there were other, more pressing problems in the world and on the planet to which I
ought to give my energy.

However, I had completed and passed all my courses. My marks in Graduate Studies
were ‘first class’, which is 80% or higher. Three papers on my research in fruit fly genetics,
repeated by another graduate student, were subsequently published in peer-reviewed
scientific research journals with my name on them as the last of three authors.

Also, I had been offered and accepted a full scholarship to study for my PhD in Genetics
at the University of Chicago. With my change of heart, I wrote to the professor and turned
it down, because I wanted to get involved in more relevant (to me) social issues. In his
letter back to me he wrote, “I understand. Many people here are thinking the same way.
If you ever change your mind, and want to get back into genetics, let me know. The door
is open.” I thanked him for understanding my position. My life took a new and very
different turn, and I never got back in touch with him.

Why do I tell you this? In biological sciences, genetics was my first love, and so I was
really good at it. In the nucleus of the cell, its control room, are all of the chromosomes
and genes that govern and regulate what goes on inside cells and between them. This
was decades before it became clear that environmental factors regulate gene function;
before ‘epigenetics’ began as a field of study.

Genetics fascinated me to no end, and I had experiences of religious wonder and awe
studying it. On one exam, I got 100%, and the next highest mark was 62%. Was I proud
of myself? You bet. But are there any other issues more important than a glowing
personal academic career? You bet.

Unaccredited, But Leading Edge

After my pesticide poisoning in 1980, medicine had no solution for my self-created
dilemma. Looking for nature-based answers to heal myself, I came across the small,
unaccredited, School of Nutrition in California, which was licensed by the California
Department of Post-Secondary Education to give degrees in Nutrition at the Master’s and
PhD levels.

When I looked at their course work, I was excited. Just as courses in personal growth
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and what is current in our rapidly changing world, this small school filled the gap between
my academic university courses and the most recent practical research and clinical
information that can be applied to improve human and animal health. It was perfect for
putting me in a position to help educate a lot of people.

This was practical knowledge for natural health care and natural healing. PhDs,
physicians, clinicians, researchers and dentists wrote the books we studied. They wrote
about discoveries in health care in line with nature. They taught the work being done by
pioneers in the new field of nutrition for health.

This little school filled provided updates to what conservative university institutions teach.
It sometimes takes 30-40 years for new knowledge to go through the bureaucratic
processes that make it an accepted course in such conservative (and therefore in some
ways out of date) institutions. That’s why alternative schools and educators exist. That’s
why governments license thousands of smaller institutions to give these more up-to-date
courses.

Natural Health Goes Mainstream

Now, of course, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and other mainstream,
conservative, accredited universities offer courses in natural health. Then, no
conservative university taught such courses. In fact, their professors disparaged this kind
of work, and it was left up to stoned hippies in the 1960s to begin the movement toward
natural health care. Granola, which is starchy grains, burned with oil and sugared, was
one of the early products, but over time, products with more health benefits were
developed and made available.

With my strong background in conservative biosciences, the work of the professionals

that were pioneers in natural health care was a perfect next step for me. I’ve always
trusted nature more than industry, because health is the natural, not an industrial, state.
The school was a remote learning institution (adult learning, they called it, the idea being
that adult students are self-motivated and don’t need babysitters), which was also perfect
for me, because I was writing, working and tracking my mom’s situation. All of this
learning took place in the early 1980s, before the Internet became the great source of
accessible information.

Fats and Oils, the book I authored and alive books published in 1986, was my PhD thesis
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lived school. A few other good titles, notably one on the dangers of sugar, also came
from that school. Now, we all know the problems sugar can cause, because it’s been in
the news. Like mine, the sugar book I refer to was published over 30 years ago.

Later, the founder of the school was accused of unethical behavior. I don’t remember
what it was, and none of it was known to me at the time. Some branded him a quack,
but that’s not unusual in a competitive world filled with discontent actors. None of it
changes the value I got from my courses.

The fact that I got to learn from the pioneers who put nutritional knowledge into clinical
practice to reverse health problems gave me information I needed both for my own
situation, and for helping others. The school, the curriculum, the learning and the results
of putting that learning into practice were exactly right for what my needs were at that
time.

This school was also the place where I learned what I needed to know to create a whole
new field in health care—the use of good oils made with health in mind. It rounded out
beautifully what I had learned from sciences, life sciences, biochemistry, genetics,
psychology, self-knowledge and the arts. This ‘avant garde’ learning of natural treatments
came from all of the books that are now considered to be the classics in natural health
care. My book FATS THAT HEAL FATS THAT KILL eventually joined that list of classics.

Natural medicine is often called ‘alternative’ health care, but the truth is that natural
medicine—the appropriate use of light, air, water and food to prevent and reverse
physical illnesses—was all creatures’ original, conservative, primary, traditional health
care for all but the last few centuries of the past 4.3 billion years.

Drug- and radiation-based medicine has been practiced for only the past few decades.
When we put them into context, ‘modern’ medicine is a fad that casts many shadows in
the form of side effects, toxicity and commercial greed that bankrupts many patients and
their families. Nature (life) has always been the most effective physician on this planet.

The little school that taught me nutritional healing existed for only 11 years, and then
closed. Some competitors have said that I don’t have REAL credentials. Okay, that may
be their opinion, and they have a right to their opinion. It’s also strategy number 4 in
marketing competition, which, if you recall, is to lie about the character, ability,
credentials and accomplishments of the competition. It’s the last, bottom-of-the-barrel

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strategy practiced by people who make poor quality products and cannot come up with
any better marketing options with which to successfully compete.

Most of my competitors have fewer credentials than I do. Without bragging, I can
honestly say that none of them did what I managed to accomplish regarding oils and
essential fatty acids made with health in mind. Some of them were my partners for a
time.

More than that, the universe was on my side, for which I cannot take credit. A great deal
of magic happened on my journey into health and making healthy oils. I was listening,
and I did make an effort, but many issues that were completely out of my control lined
up to make the project a success. Even the abilities to listen and to make an effort are
gifts that life gives us for free. Out of myself alone, I am nothing, have nothing and can
do nothing.

What and Whose Credentials?

What do you think about credentials? Are the schools you went to more important than
your accomplishments? What if you did not go to school at all? What about inventors?
They could not possibly have gone to a school to learn what they invented, because it
was not known, and therefore no one knew it or could teach it. What about pioneers?
What school can they go to learn what has never been done?

Inventors, originators and pioneers never have credentials in the area in which they bring
new things into being. Mozart could not have studied Mozart’s music. Einstein did not
write or pass exams on the theory of relativity. He invented that theory. Only people after
him could learn that theory. Socrates had no degree in Socratic dialog. He invented it.
Buddha had no degree in Buddhist philosophy. Jesus had no degree in theology. Does
that mean they had no credentials? Does it mean they were not qualified to do what they
did? Pioneers, inventors and innovators are never credentialed to do the work they do,
but they ARE qualified. Does what they DO qualify as their credentials?

If what I do with oils is my credentials, be impressed. Many people have benefited from
oils made with health in mind and the method I developed to make these oils. Help me
get the word out, so even more people can benefit from them. If I don't have credentials,
be even more impressed. What my teams and I do improves lives, which give us a good
reputation. Ask people how what we do without credentials improves the quality of their
lives. You can even get Internet feedback on the book and products. My reputation is
that I care, and that I walk the extra mile to help people live better.

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Would you like to hear my view on credentials? In which institution I studied is NOT MY
credentials. It is the credentials of the institution(s) I attended, because they set the
curriculum, provide the teachers, set the exams and structure the courses of study.

They impose these standards on me, and like a trained monkey, I follow their rules and
do things their way. When I do that, they call me a good boy, and give me good marks
and a piece of paper at the end that states that I was an obedient underling. I’m not
being mean here. Just honest. There is a place for trained monkeys. And monkey training
is a good starting point from which to innovate.

The credentials that we obtain from institutions are not feathers in our cap. Rather, we
are feathers in their cap. If we do good things in our life, or become famous, they’ll
happily let people know that we attended their institution and that they educated us.

It reminds me of a story from my university days. May I tell it? In my university studies,
I followed two tracks. My first and most important, intensely personal track at the
University of British Columbia was learning and exploring my personal interests, which
were wide-ranging. Because I found everything interesting, and wanted to know
everything about everything, I explored both the conventional wisdom and
unconventional territory to satisfy these wide-ranging interests.

My second track was about getting good marks. This was a much narrower track, because
it was about courses and information that my professor held to be important. Very early
on in my days at university, I learned an effective, practical, simple skill that helped me
immensely. To write down my professors’ oral lectures word for word as fast as he or she
could talk, I created my own shorthand. These written notes, in their exact words, were
my study material before exams.

To prepare for exams, I memorized these notes. On exams, I gave them back their
wisdom in their own words. What do you think happened? They recognized the truth and
wisdom of their own words that I gave back to them. That made them feel like I paid
attention or was smart, and they gave me good marks.

Feeling Understood
We like it when people say what we said to them back to us. We feel like we’ve been
heard and understood. The upside of this is that then we trust them to have our interests
at heart. But that is also the downside.

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The downside of this is that people can con us by finishing our sentences using our words,
getting us to feel like they understand us, and then sucker us for whatever value they
see we have that they can extract from us. Ah yes, this is part of life in the trenches of
the ‘real’ world of smoke and mirrors. I’ve shared my experiences with you. These are
MY credentials.

What I manifested with what I learned, wherever I learned it:

● What came through me into the world, through my moments of openness, flow,
motivation, understanding and outlooks
● The effort I made to turn my vision into a plan, and the plan into physical reality
● The education I got from dramas, traumas, crises, disasters and self-created
learning situations in the practical school of ‘hard knocks’ in the real world
● The results people got from what I spearheaded and then manifested with the
help of others

Sometimes we’re blinded by our social conventions regarding the reputation of schools
and other educational institutions. We forget that
● All mental training can be used for constructive care for life, or for destructive
abuse of life
● Information serves light as well as darkness; ethical as well as unethical behavior;
and morality as well as immorality
● Some graduates of esteemed institutions help rationalize practices that are
poisonous or detrimental to living creatures and destructive to nature

It’s something worth thinking about! What exactly are YOUR credentials?

38.What Envy? A Question of ‘Success’

Some people envy what they see as other people’s success. It strikes me as silly, because
the feet of successful people touch the same earth as everyone else’s, they use only one
toilet at a time, eat with only one spoon, and sleep only one night at a time, just like
everyone else.

Personally, I find fame, and the weird relationship that people have with it in their minds
the least rewarding, most artificial and most boring part of the work I do. Many people
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gave up, to focus like they had to focus, or to do what they did to help people live better
lives.

A trained lipid chemist (I was not a trained lipid chemist) who recently passed away was
‘educated’ about me by the people in the First Company that, by screwing and suing me,
created me as their competition. Her friend wrote a book on ‘traditional nutrition’, in
which she promotes a return to the meat-, egg- and dairy-heavy American way of life
that research now conclusively shows to be inferior, in both health and longevity as well
as environmental impact, to a diet based on mostly plant-based whole foods diet.

Fair Was Never Part of the Equation

Neither of these two women had ever talked to me, so they did not know my side of the
‘facts’ (perceptions, really) of the story they were fed about me. That’s not really fair, is
it? But then ‘fair’ was never part of the equation here. On the basis of the one-sided story,
they became vocal critics and detractors of my work, my effort and my reputation.

They also storied a doctor with a large Internet presence; he has therefore never been
willing to talk with me, and thereby has kept the news about the health benefits of oils
made with health in mind from reaching hundreds of thousands of people who could use
such oils to improve their health.

The ‘traditional nutrition’ author wrote the only negative book review on Fats that Heal
Fats that Kill that I’ve seen. Her review was so full of mistakes that it’s obvious that she
did not read the book. She got the title of the book wrong, perhaps on purpose. Both her
assumptions about what I do and why I do it are completely off the mark and are based
on unexamined and unfounded assumptions that she made, perhaps with a little help
from those ‘friends’. She could have talked to me. My phone number was in the back of
my book.

The trained lipid chemist had published a vitriolic expose of the oil industry and trans-
fats. It was a good piece of work. But pointing out what is wrong without also creating
what is right as an alternative choice for people is doing only half the work. My focus was
not on pointing fingers at those who damage oils for longer shelf life, because I thought
it more constructive to put my energy into making oils with health in mind and offering
people a better choice. It seemed to me that the industry would eventually have to explain
why they don’t make oils with health in mind.

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From Complaining to Offering Solutions
It reminds me of a story. May I tell it? Like many of us, I spent the first 30 years of my
life pointing out everything that is wrong with the world, without doing anything about
it. With a lot of practice, because a lot is wrong in the world, I had become exceptionally
good at it. It was my favorite topic of discussion in social gatherings of family as well as
friends. And I was very vocal about it.

One day, my older sister took me aside. She said to me, “You know, Udo, we agree with
most of your complaints. But the problem with you is that you only complain, and you
don’t do anything to make things better.” Ouch! She totally nailed me. That simple
comment rocked my entire dark world. She was bang on with her comment. In that
moment, I realized that I should work for solutions to the problems that I know to exist.
If it weren’t for her stopping me with that comment, I would probably still be complaining
without doing anything about it. Thank you, sister. Your simple comment changed my
life. My work on oils would not have happened were it not for your courage to stand up
to my negative diatribes.

Perhaps if the lipid chemist had had a sister (or brother) like that, she might have invented
a method for making oils with health in mind before I did. Such is the power of influences
in our lives.

On one of my travels, the ‘traditional nutrition’ author attended one of my talks. When I
met her afterward, I acknowledged her criticism of my work. She suggested to me to call
the lipid chemist, because the latter, she said, had told her that she found 4 mistakes in
my book and wanted to set me straight. “Only 4 mistakes in a 400+ page book?” I thought
to myself, quietly. “Good idea,” I said. She gave me the lipid chemist’s phone number.

So I called the lipid chemist. After introducing myself, I said to her, “I heard that you
found four mistakes in my book.” “Yes,” she said. I asked her, “Would you point them
out so I can correct them?” “No,” she said. So I asked her, “Are you writing a book?”
“Yes,” she answered. I said, “Let me know when it comes out. I will gladly buy the first
copy.”

Honestly, what is envy? Envy is just one way in which you can express your personal
discontent. Discontent results from being disconnected from the core of your being, and
therefore off the personal feeling of fulfillment that is embedded in life, and, as a result,
being separated from your unique talent and your purpose.

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Each human being has unique talents, and each of you has a personal purpose to fulfill.
Your true purpose is a way to bring your wholeness to expression. Whole, you easily
embrace your purpose. In bringing your wholeness to expression, there is no need and
no room left for envy.

Anyone can have success. What is the essence of success? At its most basic level, success
is a feeling within your being. The direct experience of life is the direct experience of
success. It is a feeling that precedes constructive vision, mission, plan and action. You
are successful in life, as life. Out of the feeling of success (that in other contexts is also
called wholeness, integrity, contentment, fulfillment, presence, etc.) comes your vision.
Out of your vision comes your mission. You translate your mission into plans and
strategies.

Plans and strategies set direction and limitations for your actions. The actions that you
perform in line with the plans and strategies you developed result in reaching goals,
outcomes, destinations and destinies. The last ingredient is persistence or commitment.
Persistent until the goal is reached. Doing what it takes to reach the goals you have set.
These are the steps by which success as an inner feeling translates into success as an
outside accomplishment.

Most people miss the most important key to success, which is this: The journey to visible
success in the world begins with an inner, invisible feeling of success that is built into
every human being, existing simply and inexorably and always as part of your human
nature. Success is difficult or even impossible when you have not found yourself, because
then you feel disconnected and discontent, and your vision, mission and purpose remain
unclear.

Unclear, you are more likely to want to sleep till noon, take days, evenings and weekends
off, hang out with friends over beer and movies, work only 9-5, and live socially
distracted, instead of being focused on the feeling of success within, and with consistent
passion and effort borne of that passion, taking steps to move your vision of possibility
and innovation forward.

Without finding, feeling, practicing and deliberately making time to explore inner stillness,
within which the vision that you catch the bug of passion for and focus on arises, success
is not likely, since true personal purpose takes a uniquely person-specific, tailored form
in every individual human being. Its successful manifestation requires on-going effort,
which has to be within the individual’s set of abilities, personality, training, skills,

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experiences and interests. A person’s life purpose fits the total package of unique personal
characteristics.

Creating Oils with Health in Mind

Here’s what it took for me to create oils with health in mind:

1. First, a life-long interest in nature and human nature born of the chaos of war.
2. Second, six years of university studies in science and biological sciences: anatomy,
physiology, natural history, biochemistry and genetics.
3. Third, three years of study of the then leading edge of natural healing.
4. Fourth, 8 years before I was poisoned by pesticides, I had begun to make time for
self-knowledge. This involved taking time alone to get to know myself, practice
being more and more deeply present with my being, maintain an ongoing
commitment to touch into the stillness inside, and put aside time every day, as a
priority, to tune in.
5. Fifth, pesticides I sprayed poisoned me, and dragged my focus toward learning
how to self-responsibly fix my self-created problem. This consisted of using my
background in sciences, biological sciences and biochemistry to learn everything I
could from the research publications about nutrition and health.
6. Sixth, I took an MA degree in Counseling Psychology on top of my university
courses in psychology.
7. Seventh, I found what I learned to interesting and so important that I wanted to
pass it on to other people who could benefit from this knowledge.
8. Eighth, when I realized how many people we could help to live healthier, more
energetic, calmer, more intelligent and lighter lives with oils rich and balanced in
both essential fatty acids made with health in mind, I felt a great enthusiasm for
doing the work that it would take to make this happen. The possibility consumed
me, and I was grateful that the universe gave me this gift. My normal life of family,
home, garden, pets, friends and social life went on the back burner.
9. Ninth, armed with enthusiasm, I was banging away on a non-electric portable
typewriter to write a book on fats. All my friends were partying. Now, more than
30 years later, I still have that same enthusiasm for helping people live better lives.

In this enthusiasm, my days are long and my nights short, but it does not seem like work
to me. Much of the time, I work on weekends and holidays, but it seems like the right

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thing to do, because my moments are filled with the inspired joy of catalyzing better
quality in people’s lives. On the road doing educational tours, I lived out of a suitcase 6
to 9 months a year for about 15 years, but it was a blast without a burden. For more
than a decade, while building the foundation for this success, I was broke, but felt rich.
At 41, I moved in with my mother, but it felt right and turned out to be good for her and
for me. My friends were drinking and carrying on, and I felt tempted to join them. Then
something would happen to convince me that I was on the right track and to keep going.

Alone at mom’s place, with a calm and focused passion, I continued to reconcile
contradictions in research, make notes, search to bring structure to the topic of fats and
oils, wait for the flow of writing to come, edit messy sentences, and throw out manuscripts
because 30 pages in, I realized that I would not buy the book I was writing, and knew
that I had to start again from scratch to write. On my third try at it, the writing began to
flow, and 54 of 59 chapters almost wrote themselves, one after another, without
interruption other than food, hygiene and sleep.

Over the 5 years I spent reading the research and writing the book, I occasionally had
doubts about who I thought I was to think that I could do what no one else had, in a
field in which I had not been formally trained. The doubt hindered my passion for making
oils with health in mind several times. Each time, something would re-inspire me to re-
focus and continue.

Living and operating in this state of being, it was more important to do the work than to
get credit or make money. In fact, it’s never been, and still is not, about money. Similar
reports have come from some of the most successful people during their pioneering of
innovative projects. In that state of being, confidence in being able to get it done carried
me most of the time. Inspired in my core, I was on fire for what was possible.

Flax oil made with health in mind, developed in 1986, is now a $1B annual industry. On
that project, I was paid $8,635, and got a lawsuit. Without business training, my power
to build this business was simply in my raw enthusiasm for it. Not thinking about money,
I was obviously not clear about what I wanted financially out of the flax project. This left
the door open for others to take full advantage of the possibility.

It was my responsibility that this happened, but, to tell the truth, getting it done was so
much more interesting to me than how much money I could, would or should make, that
it made the disappointment of being pushed out of my own vision appear relatively small
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achieved will be with me for the rest of my life, long after the money others made on the
project will have been spent or devalued.

In spite of myself, my income slowly increased over time. And, I still immensely enjoy my
life’s purpose of creating a better quality of life for more and more people globally, doing
bigger and bigger projects.

It reminds me of my key money conversation story during that time. May I tell it? My
friend was the company start-up genius, the guy with whom I toured the US in a van in
1988. He was also a financial whiz kid who handled the business aspects of the original
flax company. We met for the following conversation.

“What do you want out of this deal financially?” he asked me. “I don’t know,” I answered.
“If you don’t know what you want, I can’t help you get it,” he told me.

That made sense to me, and I agreed with him, but I still did not know what I wanted
out of the deal. My head just was not in that space at all. I should have said, “Nothing.”
The $8,635 was an unexpected bonus. My family grew up poor after the second world
war, but I don’t remember ever feeling poor. Never having felt poor, I never thought
much about financial goals. We were making flax oil because it needed to be done. That
was my reason for doing it. My payoff was that it got done.

May I tell another story? After I got what I call ‘screwed and sued’ by the first company,
I had a few weeks of near suicidal depression. For me, it was less about money than
about lack of integrity and greed, which grew exponentially when the money began to
come in, resulting in a breach of promise.

I complained to my friend Jack. “It’s just an idea,” my friend Jack told me.

More than indignantly, I replied, “What do you mean that it’s just an idea? I’ve poured
my whole life into this!” Now I was upset and angry.

Over the course of a week, I realized that Jack was right. It was just an idea to which I
have dedicated my life. Then I realized that I was making the idea more important than
my life, but I still could not shake my attachment to the feeling of betrayal that I felt. My
heart was hurt and closed. And I remained depressed. I wrote a letter about how I felt
(depressed) to a wise person who’s been a mentor to me for many years. When he got
my letter he had someone call me. “Keep working with flax,” was my mentor’s advice to
me. That was the last thing I wanted to hear or to do. Flax was the source of all my pain.

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Years later, I understood the wisdom in his advice. I already had a decade of knowledge
and experience in this topic. It was better to continue than to start something else from
scratch.

Here’s my advice from that lesson. Turn to someone who is not upset when you’re upset.
Be open to their clarity and make best use of it. The fact that he responded at all to my
letter of lament and despair amazed me, and I felt grateful. My heart, opened by the
kindness he extended to me, opened and my wounded emotions began to heal.

39.What Stories? A Question of Experiences

A Fraud and Danger to the Industry

At a major trade show, a manager who worked for one of our competitors, thundered,
“You’re a fraud, and a danger to the industry.” He was really intense, and it startled me.
For protection, I ducked into a booth ‘manned’ by two beautiful women. At the next show
a year later, I met him again, and said to him, “Listen. Every bottle of flax oil you sell,
and every dollar you make, is based on something I developed that your boss learned
from my team and me. You should be thanking me not criticizing me for it.” He agreed,
and there were no more direct confrontations with him after that.

Truth in Education
Fish oil is the most damaged product in the marketplace. Why is that? The omega-6
essential fatty acid, LA, found abundantly in corn, safflower, sunflower and grape seed
‘cooking oils’, is quite sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen and heat. The plant-
based omega-3 essential fatty acid, ALA, the one that is present in flax oil, is 5 times
more sensitive than LA.

EPA and DHA, the omega-3 derivatives that fish oils contain, are 5 times more sensitive
to damage by light, oxygen and heat than ALA.

With modest variations, the industry uses the same destructive methods and processes
to make fish oil that it uses to make plant-based cooking oils. Fish oils are 25 times more
sensitive and easily damaged than cooking oils.

Over the past two or three decades, additional processing, which has led to additional oil
damage, has been applied to fish oils to with two main goals:

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 ● Improve Taste: In order to deal with the rancid burps and unpleasant taste of
fish oils, industry distills (deodorization, steam distillation, wiped film evaporation,
and molecular distillation are different names for variations on fundamentally
similar methods) the fish oils, damaging them even more than they were already
damaged by the basic processing. In doing so, additional damage is done to the
super-sensitive oil molecules. The fish oil now tastes better (less awful) but is now
more damaged than it was before. You get better taste from less healthful oil.
● Reduce Toxicity: Lower the increasing levels of toxic PCBs dioxins, pesticides
and other industrial poisons that run downhill off the land and end up in our
waterways and oceans. They concentrate up the food chain, are far too prevalent
in fish oils, and must be removed. Governments mandated that there should be
no more than 90 parts per billion (ppb) of these poisons in fish oil (some fish oils
had as much as 1,300 ppb), even though research showed that there are NO safe
level of these cancer-, mutation- and birth defect-causing industrial poisons.

As a result of these additional processes, additional fish oil molecules are damaged. It is
now normal that there will be 300-400 thousand times more processing-damaged toxic
molecules in fish oils than there are industrial poisons. Which is worse? That’s like asking
whether you should kill yourself by shooting yourself in the head or the heart. Knowing
what I know, I don’t use and don’t recommend using fish oils.

Want an undamaged supplement? Use Krill Oil

Researchers recently determined that fish is now the most polluted food we eat. It is the
dirtiest meat because our oceans have become our sewers and chemical dumps. Fish
meat now also contains plastics, which find their way into our tissues when we eat fish,
and these plastics, as expected, interfere with tissue functions.

Knowing, since the early 1980s, the damage done to fish oils by processing, I have never
used or recommended fish oils. You don’t need a supplement of either fish or krill oil if
you optimize your intake of ALA by taking 1 Tablespoon/50 pounds of body weight/day
of Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend, mixed in foods, with intake spread out over the course of the
day. When you do that, your life converts ALA into EPA and DHA in your body to cover
your need for these two derivatives of ALA. That’s what the research shows and
repeatedly confirms. Fish oil marketers deny this research. Why? It’s turf protection.

If people knew that, with optimum intake of ALA, they can make all the EPA and DHA
they need in their own body, why would anyone buy unpalatable, malodorous, damaged,

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toxic fish oils? People deserve to know the truth. Here is the most recent research review,
which was published in July 2015:

● Domenichiello, AF, et al: Is docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) synthesis from alpha-

linolenic acid (ALA) sufficient to supply the adult brain? Prog. Lipid Res. 2015 Jul;
59:54:66.

This study makes several important points.

1. First, the human brain turns over only 2.4-3.8mg of DHA per day.
2. Second, total DHA in the brain is about 10-15% of brain fatty acids.
3. Third, total brain DHA is about 5 grams, which is 50 times higher than its content
of EPA and 200 times higher than its content of ALA.
4. Fourth, the average adult male intake of ALA is about 1,700mg (1.7 grams, which
is a very small amount) per day, and yet only 0.14-0.22% conversion would be
needed to maintain a brain DHA turnover of 2.4-3.8mg per day. Which means
what? Even a low rate of conversion of ALA to DHA can maintain brain DHA
requirements.
5. Fifth, Steady state infusion methods of ALA show that the conversion of ALA to
DHA is at least 3 times higher than the estimate based on single dose tracer
studies, which neglect to take ALA already present in the body into account. Most
of the conversion studies used single dose tracer studies.
6. Sixth, adipose tissue in infants contains a store of 1-4 grams of DHA, and that of
adults contains 20-50 grams. This would be enough to supply the brain with its
maximum requirement of 3.8mg per day for 14-36 years.
7. Seventh, about 72% of ingested ALA in humans is used for energy (beta-oxidized)
within 6 days.
8. Eighth, more than half (57%) of orally administered, labeled ALA is transported to
adipose tissue within one week, and the half-life of adipose tissue fatty acids is
one year or even longer.

What does all this mean in practice? When you optimize your intake of ALA (we
recommend about 10-20 grams, depending on body weight), you will have no problem
converting enough ALA to DHA for your brain’s requirement. The suggestion that people
MUST take DHA-containing fish or fish oil supplements to be healthy is simply not
supported by research.

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If you ensure enough dietary intake of ALA, life knows what to do with it in your body to
make sure that all of the derivatives that must be made from it are made in the quantities
necessary for good health. If you optimize your intake of both essential fatty acids, in the
right ratio, undamaged by processing, life makes all of the essential fatty acid derivatives
that have health benefits in your body. It’s nice to know that ongoing research continues
to confirm what we’ve been saying for more than 30 years.

Damaged Right Out of the Box

About 10 years ago, I gave a talk in a health food store that carried and promoted a lot
of fish oils. When asked about it by customers, I told them my then-known version of the
tale I shared with you earlier. After my talk, his customers asked him why he was selling
damaged fish oils. After all, he runs a ‘Health’ food store. ‘Health’ food stores are
supposed to promote health, right?

He was embarrassed, for one of two reasons. Either he did not know the nature of oils
and the damage done by processing, or he knew but was making a lot of money on fish
oils. He told the sales rep I traveled with: “We don’t want to see Udo in our store, ever
again.”

At that time, fish oils were good money makers. Krill oil was not yet available. It is easy
to give in to the temptation that leads to money trumping health. My self-appointed role
was to tell the truth about oils and health. For health, businesspeople need to make
themselves accountable for truth in sales and advertising, because it’s about your health.
Because I love the possibilities that health provides, I owned the truth-telling role.
Consumers love it. Industry sometimes does not love it so much.

The Big Guns of Trans-Fatty Acids

A similar response occurred when I let staff in my training at one of the locations of one
of a large health food store chain in North America know that CLA consists of 70% trans-
fatty acids. Because we learned the damage that trans- fats can do to health, health food
stores removed margarines that contained 8-43% trans- fatty acids from the product
lines they carry. Then they brought them back, as a very expensive supplement in
encapsulated oil that contains 70% trans- fatty acids. People did not know. Someone
should let them know. So I did.

Who takes responsibility for giving us the truth we need to know to take steps toward
better health? It may not be those who make good profits on bad products. Truth sets

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us free, but only when we know and use it. Shocked by what I told them, the store staff
emailed their head office.

“I thought we have a policy of zero trans- fatty acids in our stores. Udo says that CLA is
70% trans- fatty acids,” they wrote. Head office replied, “CLA is not a topic for
discussion.”

The public appreciates truth in education. Those who care about health are also grateful.
Truth gives you freedom to make better choices. Better choices lead to better lives. You
cannot make better choices with inaccurate information. That’s why truth is important.

Those who care more about money than about health are unhappy with my obsession
with truth. For them, it’s simply about money. My commitment is to work for life because
life is the true and only real treasure on our beautiful planet.

To me, lying is a form of dictatorship. It takes away from you your freedom to choose.
In that way, it robs you of your health. Not knowing what is true, and being lied to and
misinformed, you become a victim of the lies you’re told. Then you fail to succeed in your
pursuit of health. Long term, this hurts everyone, including the entire industry. When you
lose your integrity, you lose the trust of others, and then you lose your business. When
health suffers because of lies, profits suffer because people lose trust in liars and perhaps
the entire industry.

Fanatically Truthful
‘Udo is a fanatic.’ It’s true that I’m anal about the quality of the products we make to
support health. Truth in representation, education, advertising and marketing is my stake
in the ground. You don’t have to lie when you make really good products. You can proudly
tell the truth. Can you just agree to not cut corners and commit to make products that
are really good for health?

● When the products are made right, they work.

● When your products work, you build consumer trust and confidence.
● When they trust you, they buy even more from you.
● When they buy more, their health gets even better, AND you make more money.

Consumer confidence built the industry. Everybody benefitted. It is shortsighted and

stupid to cut corners and then lie about it. We can do better. I can help. It’s what I am
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40.What Flattery? A Question of Knockoffs
Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery. Many people have made knockoffs of
Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend. Sometimes, they do something else, but steal marketing copy. A
Holland copycat product used my 2:1 ratio but claimed that theirs is a 1:1 ratio and is
better than mine. Ayjjj! Companies in the UK, US, Canada and Europe have all made bad
copies of my product. Some multi-level companies have copied product or ad copy.

Many companies quoted me. Some say that I endorse their product. Like a commodity
bought & sold, people use my name, work, education and reputation without my
permission. Of course, they also don’t give credit or compensation.

Every problem in the world begins with a departure from truth. On the farm, a departure
from truth is called a lie.

People, in my observation, lie for two reasons:

1. First, people lie to avoid pain. You probably learned early in life that being honest
might not be the best policy, because your parents punished you for telling the
truth, after they encouraged you to always tell the truth and you gave that parental
advice a try. If you were punished when you told the truth, it didn’t take long
before you stopped telling it. Punishment for honesty teaches you to lie and
motivates you to learn to do so and not get caught. You learn that skill for safety
or comfort; to avoid pain.
2. Second, people lie to gain advantage without effort. Many manufacturers cut
corners for better profits, and then lie about it or omit to make the corner cuts
known. What results is profit at the expense of health. Setting standards and
holding to them takes integrity. But integrity is not enough. It also takes
persistence. Those who don’t like your persistence call you ‘stubborn’.

At the most basic level, you work either for life, or for the bank. If you work for life, you’ll
sacrifice money for the sake of life, when necessary. If you work for the bank, you’ll
sacrifice life for the sake of money, when necessary. When push comes to shove, many
people put money first. This is not a good sign for our future. Life, not money, makes
this amazing planet special in the known universe. Protection and care for life is your
true, life-given mission. It is the only sane way to live your life.

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41.What Lies? A Question of Marketing
In our legal system, there’s a term called ‘huffing and puffing’. It is legally defensible to
misrepresent facts in order to market products. You’re not allowed to tell blatant, bald-
faced lies. But you ARE allowed to embellish the truth in order to gain market share.

● My view has always been that if you make the best possible product, you don’t
have to lie about it at all. When you don’t make the best possible product, the
lying has to begin. No one wants to buy the second-best or a sloppy, poorly made
inferior product.
● Over time, many people let product standards slide. Lying begins when someone
does not have the best product. Instead of putting in an effort to make the best,
they simply work to fabricate the best story. Because we are all good storytellers,
it can be difficult to know what is true and what is fiction. Imagine what would
happen if you told customers, “Hi, I have the second-best product!” You know
what would happen, don’t you? The response would be, “Okay, tell me which one
is the best one, because that’s the product I want.” In product creation, the
question should be: “What is true to life?” That kind of integrity in manufacturing
is rare. Nothing in health works for long without it. Nothing in life works for long
without integrity.
● Truth is your greatest asset and power. It is not power over anyone. It’s power to
manifest from the truth within you, something of value to life. When you lose
integrity, you lose the truth. When you lose truth, you lose power, because truth
is your power. When you lose your personal power that is based on standing in
truth, the quality of your life declines. When your quality of life declines, you either
catch yourself and change direction, or you sink lower and lower. Then you
become a victim, complainer, liar and thief, and you affect your entire sphere of
influence in a negative way. There’s a good chance that you’ll lose any good friends
you have, and you drift into a life of relationships with other victims, complainers,
liars and thieves.

When you know the truth, it frees you. When you live the truth, you can do great things
and you become a light that shines into and lights up your entire sphere of influence.

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42.What Words? A Question of Meaning
Words have precisely defined meanings. Every word stands for something specific. This
is important. In order to create clarity in communication, it helps to use words in their
precise meaning. Otherwise, we create misunderstanding and confusion.

● In advertising practice and in common conversational use, we use words in very

sloppy ways. Let me give an example from advertising. ‘Coke adds life.’ Some of
you will remember this one. It was a Coca Cola ad (not for cocaine, although the
original Coca Cola was a cocaine drink).
● Life is energy. Coke does not add life. It adds carbon dioxide, water, caffeine and
color to the body. Together, these and other ingredients that are part of soft
drinks, increase the occurrence of pancreatic cancer. This is according to a 14
year-long study that involved 60,000 people carried out by the University of
Minnesota in Singapore. Those who drank 2 or more soft drinks per week (I know
people who drink 5 soft drinks a day) had an 87% higher incidence of pancreatic
cancer than those who drank less than 2 soft drinks per week.
Coke adds nothing to life. Life is energy. Soft drink ingredients add nothing to life.
They may speed the separation of life and body but affect the energy that is life
in not even the slightest way.
● Here’s an example of sloppy word use from daily conversation. “What do you do
for a living?” We ask that question every time we want to know what kind of work
people do for money. You do nothing for a living. Life enables you to live, to think
and to work. Work doesn’t enable you to live. Every creature except humans does
not work and lives anyway. Grass, shrubs, flowers, trees and wild animals don’t
work. Yet they live just fine.
Work enables you to do something for money so you can take care of the needs
of your body: pay rent, buy food and acquire clothing to wear. And get ice cream
and beer. We could just as easily ask people: ‘What do you do for work?’ or ‘What
work do you do?’ That would be a more accurate use of words.

43.What Care? A Question of Life

Life is what is really interesting and precious on this planet. Our first priority, as the wise
ones have always told us, is to cultivate awareness of the feeling of life; to cultivate full
presence in all of your being.

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 ● From that awareness comes life-affirming thinking.
● From life-affirming thoughts come life-affirming words.
● From life-affirming words come life-affirming actions.
● From life-affirming actions come life-affirming results and consequences.
● Then, things work out for everyone concerned.

You create your thoughts, ideas and beliefs out of your basic feeling of being content or
discontent. When you feel content, you create thoughts, ideas and beliefs that are
positive, supportive and helpful to life, body, others and nature. When you feel discontent,
you create thoughts, ideas and beliefs that are negative, unsupportive and hurtful to life,
body, others and nature.

Belief into Action

Your beliefs set the direction for your actions. They also set the limitations—what you will
not do—of your actions. And because they set your direction and limitations, your beliefs
also determine what goals, outcomes, destinations and destinies will result from your
actions. When you focus your thinking on serving life, it will be deliberate and disciplined
toward

● ‘Us all inclusive, globally’

● ‘Protection and care for life, body and nature’
● ‘Benefit for all at the expense of none’

That kind of thinking is sane. Every other kind of thinking is insane. By this standard,
most of the time, most of us are insane in our thinking. In practice, that’s where all of
your personal, relational, social and environmental problems come from.

44.What Bias? A Question of Reporting

Where does knowledge come from? It comes from observation. The word ‘science’ means
knowledge. Scientific knowledge comes from observation. Observation is more important
than study design. Double blind, placebo-controlled study design is not what it’s made
out to be.

● Double-blind, placebo-controlled study design is necessary because most people

do not live in calm, agenda-free, filter-free observation of what is. How could you
do that? You would need to be able to be calm within your own being. Goal-free.
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 ● Is that possible? Yes. Ayurvedic physicians have many powerful and effective
treatments for the entire gamut of physical and mental illnesses and conditions. It
has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. Old. Yet it did not have a single
double blind, placebo-controlled study until less than 50 years ago. How did they
do it?
● Part of their training was learning to sit still in meditation; to ‘feel whole’ with
nothing on their minds. Whole, they could diagnose and treat without getting their
‘stuff’ mixed up with the ‘stuff’ of the patient, because they had no ‘stuff’ in their
calm state of being. In that state, they could observe what was going on for the
patient, and then design a protocol for dealing with it.

In Western medicine, there is no stillness practice. Medical students learn a lot of

information, mostly based on the physical aspects of disease, but mostly ignoring the
patients’ mental, emotional, social and environmental contexts. Diagnosis is based on the
visible, testable aspects of the patient’s life, but leaves out the invisible experiential
aspects of the patients’ life, specifically life energy, internal focus of awareness and the
big picture of relationship with an infinite universe.

Open, Honest, Agenda-Free Observation

To learn requires open, honest, agenda-free observation based on genuine interest in
what’s true to life. But over the years, science has become a lot like a religion, biased
toward certain ways of speaking and explaining, and ignoring what doesn’t fit. We’ve
created fads in science that limit our ability to effectively address what is going on for
patients.

● For instance, in disease management, you follow doctors’ orders, and you ignore
the advice of people without medical training, even of those who know biology,
biochemistry, genetics, botany, physiology, psychology, nature, and the rest of the
disciplines of normal cell and body functions.
● Legally, medicine owns the sickness territory, and even if they get no results with
the methods they use, no one else is allowed to work with a patient without
running the risk of prosecution or persecution. And, because they virtually have a
monopoly on a huge territory (most people have nowhere else to go), the medical
profession is less open to other possibilities that might better serve patients than
it ought to be.
● Slowly, but not nearly fast enough, this is changing. Even though most people still
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 ● How will it change? When their business walks out the door, their hearing will
improve.
● For now, the medical profession still calls an observation made by a doctor ‘a case
history’ but disparages as ‘mere anecdotes’ the equally valid observations made
by other people whom they don’t want to acknowledge.

Unfair & uneven-handed treatment come from the watchdogs of this and other self-
perpetuating institutions whose members worship profit and have largely stopped caring
about growth, improvement and contribution toward better lives.

45.Why Me? A Question of Destiny

Why not me? I was in the right place at the right time, with the right questions about the
right problem that needed solving, the right character, the right background, and the
right kind of passion for knowing what is true.

Even though I was not in charge of the timing, I could not have timed my poisoning by
pesticides more perfectly. It took place in May of 1980. The medical profession had
nothing to offer. They still don’t. Nor do the pesticide manufacturers. They make poison
but no antidote. It’s a perfect example of freedom without responsibility.

This is also true for governments. They make laws and impose ‘should’s’. But they don’t
know how to change the heart of the lawbreaker. They know how to judge and punish,
but they don’t know how to love or transform. As a result, nothing gets better in the long
term. Over time, it gets worse. That’s why, throughout history, there has been a
revolution every few generations.

The revolutions have also failed. The revolutionaries knew how to overthrow a
government they hated, but they had very little idea of what a good government would
look like. After they won, slowly they began to create the same government that they
railed against when they were not in charge.

The question to get clearly answered is about what kind of a world we want to build
rather than how to destroy the world we have right now.

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Personal Responsibility
Who’s responsible for the consequences of spreading poisons around our fragile planet
and into the bodies of the living organisms on it? Who’s responsible for government
complicity in this ‘business’ of poisoning the planet? Who is responsible for creating a
world that works for all at the expense of none? Who is responsible to right the wrongs
and solve the problems and answer the unanswered questions of humanity? Okay, maybe
it is my responsibility. Why me? I did not start this poisoning and the other messes of our
planet. But, I have not stopped them, either.

Here’s my view. Life makes this planet special. Life is the only thing that makes this planet
special. Without life, nothing else can matter. Imagine a planet without life. You can’t,
because you would not be here to do any imagining. Sex, money, nations, cultures,
religions, entertainment, travel, discovery, science, knowledge, soccer, dance,
architecture, the arts, industry, nature, fossil fuels, hydroelectric dams, cities, the
weather, laws, climate, human triumphs/tragedies, loves, hates and losses would have
no meaning. Even death would have no meaning without life. Nothing would matter at
all. Nothing.

That being true, your primary purpose is to look, listen and feel into life, and to be present
in, feel, know, enjoy, protect and care for the gift of life that you’ve been given. Is it
selfish to do that? Some people say that it’s selfish to enjoy life. Those are the people
who want you to serve THEIR agendas. And that’s not selfish of them?

It’s not selfish to enjoy your life, for at least two reasons:

1. First, no one else can enjoy your life for you, so it is a wasted gift if you don’t
unpack and enjoy it.
2. Second, the deeper is your feeling of life, the more you have to share with and
give to others.

Do you take time to get present in your life? Most of the time, most of you take life for
granted. You treat it like it had no value. Most of the time, you’re distracted, with your
awareness focused on the world outside, in your thoughts and emotions, or in your
physical body. You miss the gift you are; the gift life is.

In times of crises threatening your physical existence, you briefly remember life’s value.
When the crisis is over, you forget again. Lucky for you, your heart aches for your
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you attend to it? You sit with it in stillness. You accept, feel, acknowledge, embrace,
appreciate and learn to love it. The ache will not hurt you, but if you sit with it, it will take
you home to your heart.

You discover the value of life in solitary stillness in which you practice an alert
wakefulness. When you move the focus of your awareness inward in touch with the
feeling of life, you experience wholeness. That feeling of wholeness is the source of your
wisdom about life. Self-knowledge is the most important education, costs nothing and is
available to all who want it.

“The unexamined life is not worth living,” said Socrates. He also recommended, “Know
thyself.” You’ve heard his words, and you probably ignore them. Do you ask, “I wonder
what he meant by that?” Ask!

Your Innermost Self

All masters, past and living, recommend that you take time alone to be with your
innermost ‘self’, with who, in your essence, you are. There, you discover the magnificence
of your being, your core and your heart—your life. Compare that to how you live in the
world.

● You do everything except enjoy being present in life.

● You don’t know what it feels like to be alive.
● You don’t know how rich life is in its nature.

You spend your time imagining, thinking and then creating stuff, and more stuff. You
have forgotten to be human beings and have become human doings. You miss the best
life has to offer. What is that best?

● Life offers you the ability to be conscious of it.

● Life is your original, primal, basic, foundational gift.

Nothing else is needed. With life, you have everything. Without life, you have nothing.
From that perspective, let us look at what we do with pesticides.

The only purpose of pesticides is to kill living organisms. Most of these poisons kill by
interfering with energy production or with nerve transmission, conduction and function.
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mechanisms and nerve function. Pesticides that kill one creature are usually toxic to many
other creatures that you did not intend to target, including yourself.

There’s huge collateral damage in pesticide wars. The possible side effects of spraying
pesticides include birth defects, cancer, fatigue, impaired brain function, problems with
learning, mood and behavior, deteriorated immune, skin, lung and cardiovascular
function, and chronic inflammation that is both local and systemic. The side effects also
include destroying soil organisms that plants need for their growth, which you need for
your food.

Industries make them, governments allow them, churches accept them without question,
teachers ignore them, and you bear the consequences of these poisons with no recourse
to a way to fix the problems they create. Like atomic energy installations, which can
pollute nature with radioactive plutonium that persists for tens of thousands of years,
promoting mutations, cancer and deformity, many of the pesticides you commonly use
have no antidotes.

Practical, Effective Self-Help

In my situation, I was looking for practical, effective self-help. Experts pooh-pooh self-
help. They make their money being helpers that cash in on your ignorance and your
insecurity. But when, through self-help, you find solutions that work for you beyond the
limitations of your world of ‘experts,’ it is your life-saving Godsend.

Why was my pesticide poisoning timed perfectly? One year afterward, research
established that ALA, the omega-3 fatty acid, is an essential nutrient, required for life and
health, that you must obtain from outside the body because you cannot make from
anything else inside of you. Omega-3 captured my interest and my attention. This turned
out to be most helpful.

Learning about them enabled me to use them to sweat out the oil-soluble toxins in my
body in the best possible way, which is to drive them out through the skin with
undamaged oils rich in omega-3. Why are these oils specifically so useful for this? Omega-
3 oils flow more easily from the inside out through your skin than any other kind of oil.
They carry oil-soluble toxins with them out of your body. You can then use soap to remove
toxins and oils from your skin.

There’s another, more personal answer to, “Why Me?” This one is self-inflicted. In my
20’s, I became aware of and interested in the problems on this planet.

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 ● I’d ask, “Why do these problems exist?” The answer was always the same.
● “It’s because of me.” Strange.
● Why me? I did not create all of the problems on the planet.
● “That’s true,” something in me would say, “but what have you done to fix them?”
It’s true. We complain. We post. We click ‘like.” But we take NO action. “What
have I done about it?”
● “Nothing.” That is why every problem in the world is my fault. It was highly
motivating for me to think that way. It made me deeply examine issues and find
root sources. It also made me ask what a solution would look like. It drove my
study, search, research and learning.

And yes, I’ve found profound practical answers to the foundational problems in the world.
I’ll share them with you before my body is done.

I’ll begin with just one little story here. When I became interested in world problems and
their solutions, and took personal responsibility for them all, I got overwhelmed. So many
problems!! Responsible for them all, how could I address them all? Since there were too
many, I felt that I needed to look for common denominators. To begin with, I realized
that we humans are the only problem on this planet. That helped, because it got me
focused on human beings. But there were still too many problems.

Is there a common denominator behind all human problems? Is there a single source
which, properly addressed, will solve all human problems? Good question. The answer?
Yes! What is that answer? Give it some thought. See what you can come up with. If you
make yourself responsible for every problem on the planet, then you, too, will find the
one key central problem that, fixed, will make fixing every other problem possible and
remarkably easy.

With that, you will be very close to humanity’s highest common denominator that is the
answer to all of your problems. Oh, you are sooooooo very close to it. You are all closer
to it than you think. It’s closer than your breath. It’s right under your nose. It is more
powerful than you imagine.

And finally, a note on complaining. When you complain, you’re letting others know that
you know better standards. You also let them know that you want someone else to do
the work to get to the better standards. Hmm. Remember that next time you hear
someone complain. Oh, yeah, and next time you complain. Oh yeah, and next time I
complain. “They should do something about that!” is one possibility. “I am doing

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something about that!” is the other possibility. Which one do you think will be more
effective?

Effort and Grace

In India, there’s a saying that grace follows effort. Nothing happens only by effort, but
nothing happens without effort, either. Grace will not act without your participation.
Here’s a Western version of the same idea. Eric Butterworth put it this way, “God can do
for you only what God can do through you.”

Looking at the events of the past 30 years, there’s no question in my mind that I made
an effort. But there is also no question that a lot of factors completely beyond my control
conspired to make my efforts successful. Truly, the universe is a conspiracy to make me
happy.

I happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right problem, with the
right interest and background in the sciences and biological, biochemical, genetic training,
and in the right mindset—desperate for answers and not having given up hope—to be
able to understand the significance of the establishment by research of the essentiality
of omega-3 for human health.

It took 4.3 billion years to create the moment of this opportunity. That’s the length of
time life as we recognize it has graced this planet. Perhaps it was even longer, like 14
billion years, the length of time since the Big Bang. Perhaps it was measureless. Here you
are, and here it is.

46.How Come? A Question of History

In 1929, the researchers Burr and Burr established omega-6 as essential. Fifty-three years
later, In 1982, R. T. Holman established omega-3 to be essential. Researchers did not
create the properties of oils. Researchers discovered these properties, which were always
true.

● Life created essential fatty acids (EFAs) in nature. Plants make them, so EFAs are
not essential to plants. Plants make EFAs from water and carbon dioxide. They
make them by means of enzymes, with sunlight as their energy source. Animals
cannot make EFAs, so they depend on plants to make these EFAs for them. Why?

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 That’s how it is. No one knows why it’s that way. If you want to enjoy good health,
you just have to accept these rules of nature and live aligned with them.
● What rules do you need to accept? Plant omega-3 is 5 times more sensitive to
damage done by light, oxygen and heat than omega-6. Fish oil omega-3 is 5 times
more sensitive to damage than the plant omega-3. The most damaging factors on
oils are light, oxygen and heat. Minerals and water also damage oils, albeit more
slowly than light, oxygen and heat.
● Light knocks electrons out of orbit, creating free radicals. Photons of light break
up marriages between electrons by stealing one electron from a pair. Each photon
causes a chain reaction that damages on average 30,000 molecules. Billions of
photons hit the oil molecules in a transparent bottle every second. A huge number
of damaged, toxic molecules can result from exposure of oil to light. The omega-
3 essential fatty acid is far more vulnerable to damage done by light than most
other molecules in our food supply.
● Oxygen reacts with oils and makes them rancid. Rancid oils are oxidized oils.
Oxygen from the air passes through oils faster than it passes through water.
Reactions with oxygen is what imparts to oils the unpleasant rancid smell that you
get from old oils or even the smell of furniture painted with linseed oil.
● To prevent rancidity, oils made with health in mind have to be protected from
contact with air while being pressed, filtered, settled and filled, and the bottled oil
must be nitrogen-flushed so that no oxygen is present in the head space in the
bottle.
● Heat twists molecules into trans- fats. These molecules, twisted around their own
axis, have been shown to increase risk of heart disease and diabetes, to interfere
with immune function, and in animals to interfere with both male and female
reproduction. CLA, conjugated linoleic acid, consists mostly of trans- fatty acids
made from the omega-6 essential fatty acid by heating them to frying
temperatures in the absence of light and oxygen.
In the past, margarines and shortenings contained up to 40% trans- fatty acids.
Average daily intake of them was 12 grams per day, but trans- fats have now been
replaced with saturated fats. If a product contains less than 0.5% trans- fatty
acids, regulations permit them to be advertised as having zero trans- fats.
● Minerals catalyze and thereby speed oil breakdown reactions.
● Water can fragment oil molecules, especially in the presence of minerals, light,
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This truth about the properties of oils, how to care for them and how to destroy them, is
now widely known. Over the past few decades, researchers discovered these sensitivities
of oils, which have always been true.

47.Why Change? A Question of Growth

The words of one of Bob Dylan’s songs express a view about change, “ . . . he who is not
busy being born is busy dying.” It’s been said in many other ways:

● You are growing, or you are in decline.

● When you stop learning, you start to deteriorate.
● You are either going forward or losing ground.
● With hope and promise, you thrive.
● Without a vision, the people perish.
● Without hope, you lose your will to live.
● To have hope, you need to envision a compelling future.
● “Our innermost striving is to move from a felt minus to a felt plus, a striving for
perfection, a striving for God-likeness,” was the way that psychologist Alfred Adler
put it.
● The striving for ‘better’ is built into you.
● You want to look better, feel better, do better and be better. That want is your
driving force.

Should you change? Change is not a ‘should’, but a given. Even if you don’t want to
change, you will change. As time marches on, everything that can change will change.
Only what is beyond change will not change. Life goes better when you know and accept
both.

Something in you strives to become better; to improve. The striving for growth notices
and is open to what’s possible. It’s alert and tuned to growth. It reaches for brighter light.
It’s inspired. That’s the feeling behind all positive change.

Those who live in inspiration find changing natural and relatively easy.

● It’s not a dreadful grind.

● It’s more a ‘try and see’.
● It’s actually an adventure.
● It’s fun to try new things and learn from them.

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My promise is that when you give your body the oil change it needs, your skin will look
better, you will feel better and you’ll have more energy. You’ll have fewer cravings and
more stamina, and it’ll take you longer to tire. You’ll also recover and heal quicker. In
time, you will also think better, perform better physically and mentally, think more
intelligently and solve problems more effectively. And you will have less pain.

Can just an oil change do all that? Yes, and much more. In a later chapter, there’s a long
list of the benefits that research has shown and clinicians have seen. I’ve seen them too
and have experienced many of them in my own body.

What if you don’t want to change? Then you’re fighting your own deepest impulse. That
must be tiring, and it is unproductive. Let it go. It is insane to fight your life’s effort to
get you to better quality. On the other hand, sometimes, you want change without effort.
That’s not going to happen. It’s not how life works. Desire, clear goals and commitment
are required. Inspiration make effort easier.

One form of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting the results to
change. The same activity guarantees the same results. Do you know anyone who wants
more pain? I don’t, either. Everybody wants less pain. Do you know anyone who wants
less joy or less energy? No. I don’t, either. You all want more joy and more energy. You
want less inflammation, and you fear cancer. You all prefer better health. You all prefer
more vitality. Everybody wants all these.

It is Time for a Change

To have these, change is necessary. Only small changes are required. One oil change has
160 benefits. It’s a small change for big gains.

Making the oil change that your body needs is no more difficult than an oil change for
the car. In fact, it’s easier, because you have to choose to make the change only once.
You can expect greater vitality in your body. You can expect less negative (pain) in your
body. You’ll drive more safely (improvement) because you’ll focus more effectively and
concentrate better. You’ll notice these changes. They’ll make you more open to even
more improvements in your life. You’ll begin to want to know what is true to life about
health.

Practical Guidelines
Inspiration: Uninspired, you likely don’t ‘feel like’ making the changes that improve the
quality of your lives. Why bother, when life is crappy? To me, inspiration is Nutrient ONE.

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It is already within each of you. It is your life’s energy and power, experienced. When
you feel inspired, you are out of your head with all its mental fences, ruts, structures,
boundaries and blocks. Life’s central message to you, from within you, is, “I AM and I
CAN.” Make time to focus on feeling inspired a daily priority.

Inspiration frees energy, takes you out of your habitual thinking patterns, and makes the
development of new habits much easier. You cannot feel inspired and be depressed at
the same time. How amazing is that?

Empowerment: In your power, in the feeling of life, you know that anything is possible.
What you set out to do will be successful. You know it is in your power to do it. You know
you can, and so you do.

Education: The word means: To lead out. What does that mean? It means to lead
someone out to something. It means to lead out into an area of expertise in some subject.
Education involves focusing your attention on something, observing, learning from
observation, and gaining new personal knowledge about that subject. A good education
puts knowledge in context. The best possible education adds the human dimension of
wisdom about life and living to the contexts of your learning. It puts everything about
life, living, health, people and nature into a synchronous context. Everything is connected
to everything else.

Entertainment helps to add playful lightness to serious topics. Ultimately, lightness comes
from the feeling of life, which is light. Life is light, and light brings enlightenment and
lightness. Lightness is lit up. Lit up is playful. Learning is fun. Kids learn more by playing
than adults learn by working. That’s a hint!! Play and drudgery are different only in the
attitude you bring to an activity.

Information is structure created by thoughts. It is made of your language, words, ideas,

concepts and beliefs. Information also occurs in the form of images. All of these are
arbitrary. All are created out of nothing. None of them are real. Until you commit your
life and body to manifest them. You imagine things into being, and then you build them.

Thoughts have no power in and of themselves. They have only the power that you give
to them. Symbols carry the information that you give to them. When you dedicate your
life energy and your body to any thought, image or symbol, you can use life and body to
create a new reality that did not exist before, for better or for worse.

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A few years ago, I heard this insightful comment, “There’s nothing wrong with beliefs, as
long as you don’t believe them.”

Thoughts are never real or true. They’re imagined, created, invented and made up. By
themselves, thoughts have no power at all. However, when you commit your personal
power (life) and your body (vehicle for action) to them, thoughts set the direction for
actions (what you will do), set limits (what you won’t do), and determine results,
outcomes, goals, destinations and destinies (where you will end up).

If you don’t look closely, thoughts appear to you to have power, when in fact, YOU have
the power, and you use it to turn thoughts into physical reality. You imagine new
possibilities within your being, and then give life and your body to them to manifest them
into physical existence.

Thoughts are useful as guidelines for specific purposes, but never pretend that they are
ever real, true or unchangeable. Ideas are never ‘cast in stone’. Thinking is supposed to
be able to change, adapting you to respond in ways that are appropriate to changing
situations or circumstances. You need to change your mind in order to bring events to
conclusions that improve the quality of life for all at the expense of none.

What can I do to help you change the thoughts, habits and results that do not (or no
longer) serve your inborn desire for better quality in your life?

1. First, I’m here to inspire and empower you.

2. Second, I’m here to make education enjoyable.
3. Third, I’m here to provide information that reflects as closely as possible what is
true to life, body, others and nature.
4. Fourth, I’m here to help you put information that reflects what is true to life, body,
others and nature into practice, by designing a method for making oils that support
health (‘with health in mind’).
5. Fifth, I’m here to explain the difference between processing-damaged oils and oils
made with health in mind to provide undamaged omega-3 for human consumption.
6. Sixth, responding to people’s request, I’m here to make an oil blend that has
everything good that you need from oils for health and nothing bad that interferes
with physical health.

The oil blend has the most effective balance of the omega-3 that is too low in almost
everybody’s diet and omega-6 that is not damaged by processing. It is packaged in glass

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(plastic leaches into oil and does not belong in your body), put in a box that cuts out all
damaging light, is refrigerated in factory, store and home, and is used in hot, warm and
cold foods, but never for frying.

My team and I do our best to make it as easy for you as we possibly can. You don’t have
to be an oil chemist to get the benefits. Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend gives you all the good that
you need, with none of the bad you should avoid. It is made to help you get personal
enjoyment of optimum health.

48.When to Start? A Question of Time

In NLP, practitioners sometimes use words in a unique way, in what they call an
‘embedded command’. It’s like a rhetorical question. Here is an example. “When is now
a good time to start?” They ask you a question with the answer they want you to come
up with already included in that question. When is NOW a good time to start?

Here’s a silly one I came up with just for fun. When is now a good time to start taking
edible oils made with health in mind yesterday? Each of you make your own decisions.
Of course, I don’t decide for anyone but myself when is a good time to start. But I suggest
it as an embedded command for reasons that are supported by research.

Research has shown that when a woman becomes essential fatty acid (EFA)-deficient,
and then corrects the deficiency by getting enough EFAs in her diet, her child born 3
years later may still show signs of her deficiency. When should you start to optimize your
intake of undamaged omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs?

1. One answer is: 3 years before the conception of a child.

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 2. Another answer is: As soon as you learn (find out) how important they are for
health, energy, healing, brain function, mood, joints, skin, hair, nails, pregnancy
and heart health. That time would be now.
3. A third answer is: As soon as possible; As soon as you can; the sooner, the better;
or even: The sooner than possible (another silly embedded command).
4. A fourth answer is: Whenever you want, or: When you get around to it.
5. A fifth answer is: When you want and are ready for a better life.
6. A sixth answer is: When you run out of excuses.
7. A seventh answer, for lazy people: When you feel so much pain or have so much
health trouble that you become desperate to find improvement and are thereby
made sincere.
8. A final answer is: Never, or: After you die.

When you pay attention, you’ll notice that the answer you choose is directly proportional
to how inspired you feel to live a full and long life.

49.Where to Find? A Question of Sources

In a world full of a myriad of things, finding EFAs made with health in mind is like looking
for a needle in a haystack.

Not only is the world full of all kinds of stuff, but the world is even fuller of unfounded
views on every topic under the sun. Then there is advertising. People use sexy images
and fine words to sell everything. They go to great lengths to convince you that their junk
is what you must have. That’s the world you live in, and that’s the kind of day it’s been
for a very long time. How long? It’s been that kind of day for about 200,000 years. It’s
been like that ever since your ancestors developed large brains with the ability to both
imagine problems and new realities into being.

Where is the right stuff for health? The right stuff for health comes from nature or is
made ‘in line with nature’, with health in mind. Processing should protect, not remove or
damage the natural qualities of foods. This is true for all foods. It is most important for
the foods that are most sensitive to damage. Which foods are these? You already know
they are essential fatty acids (especially omega-3) and the foods and food oils in which
you find them. The best blends of the best food oils made with health in mind are found
in a brown glass bottle, in a box, in the fridge, in the supplement section in natural food
stores and other outlets that sell products in line with nature.

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 ● Look up: www.udoerasmus.com/products.

We keep the website current with the latest news and findings.

50.One Source? A Question of Trust

Is it possible to get all that’s good from oils with nothing bad? Is it possible to get all that
in one product?

Over the past 30 years, many people have told me, “Oils are complicated. Is there one
product I can take that gets me everything good from fats, and nothing bad?” Yes, there
is. That was the main question that moved me to design, develop, license and market
Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend.

The blend is made with the care that my team and I developed early on and was described
previously. It is:

● Made with care

● Protected from damage done by light, oxygen and heat
● Undamaged because of the care we take
● Not damaged during processing, storage, transport or use (we can’t control how
people use good oils, but we do have recommendations to ensure that the oil
remains intact, in its natural state and undamaged)
● From plants, which are low on the food chain
● Organic and free of pesticides
● Not treated with harsh chemicals
● Unrefined

The Blend is also:

● Rich in both essential fatty acids: omega-3 and omega-6

● With the most effective ratio of omega-3: omega-6
● Intact, containing all oil-soluble ingredients present in the seeds and nuts from
which this oil blend comes
● Rich in naturally occurring flavor and odor molecules, antioxidants, chromophores,
phytosterols, polyphenols, lecithin and other oil-related minor ingredients
● Made with health in mind
● Packaged in glass (plastic leaches into oils)

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 ● Further protected by a box around the bottle
● Refrigerated in factory, store and home
● Shipped cold when transit time is more than 2 weeks

Best Enjoyed:

● Never recommended for frying, but great in hot, warm and cold foods
● Compatible with any and all foods: vegetables, fruits, proteins, starches, herbs and
spices
● Use 1 Tablespoon/50 pounds (25kg) of body weight per day
● Mix the blend in foods, with your intake of the oil blend spread out over the course
of the day

We started the blend in 1994 with only three (3) out of nine (9) ingredients being organic,
with a commitment to exchange non-organic for organic whenever organic became
available. Now, eight (8) out of nine (9) ingredients in the oil blend are organic. Vitamin
E cannot be called organic. Originally, we packaged in plastic, but then changed to glass.
Why did we do that? From the Encyclopedia of Plastics, I learned that plastics leach into
oils faster than they leach into water.

The Truth About Plastics:

● Plastics impart unpleasant taste to water

● Plastics did not exist in nature, so life did not make genes to break them down
● Plastics don’t belong in the human body
● Plastics in the body can lead to inflammation and cancer
● Plastics in your body cause immune inflammatory reactions. Plastics dissolve more
readily into oil that into water. Why? Plastics and oils have a similar chemistry.
Plastics are oil-soluble more than water-soluble. You won’t taste them, because
oils and plastics have similar taste based on similar chemistry. The oil blend comes
with my continuing commitment to improve formula, sources and method of
manufacture.

In my travels, people consistently ask me two questions. Udo’s Oil Blend is my answer to
the first question. Remember that question? Many, many people have asked it.

1. Is there one product that gets me all that’s good from oils and nothing that’s bad?

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 a. Yes, these are the ingredients: Flax, Sunflower, Sesame, Evening Primrose,
Rice germ, Oat germ, Coconut, GMO-free lecithin and Vitamin E.
2. If I can’t fry the oil blend, how should I use it?
a. The book Omega-3 Cuisine: Recipes for Health and Pleasure is my answer.
It has 140 recipes, almost all of which use Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend. It was put
together by Celebrity Chef Alan Roettinger, a fun, well-spoken, articulate
taste specialist, this book will rock your socks. Get a copy and blow your
friends’ and families’ minds.

Let me repeat a few points on how to use the oil. When you do not eat foods raw, you
can cook them in water. You mix the oil blend in hot foods after they come off the heat.
You can mix the oil blend in warm and cold foods, too.

All oils are compatible with all foods, but only healthy oils will keep you healthy. We
recommend using one Tbsp (15ml; 14 grams; ~0.5 ounce) of an oil blend made with
health in mind per 50 pounds (25kg) of body weight per day, mixed in foods and intake
spread out over the course of the day. That’s about 25% of daily calories from the blend
of good oils.

Many athletes take up to twice that much, and rave about how good they feel, how fast
they recover and heal, how nice their skin feels, how much better their joints work and
how well they sleep. These athletes’ positive effects occur in spite of the fact that taking
double the dose of this good oil makes up about 50% of their daily calories.

That sounds like a lot. But there is a ‘natural’ diet that contains even more fat. The
traditional Inuit (Eskimo) food intake contained nearly 60% of calories from oils and fats.
They did not get tissue inflammation and arthritis. They did not get diabetes, cancer and
cardiovascular disease. Why can they take so much oil and fat without dire consequences
we’ve been led to expect from fat consumption?

Good oils are good for health. The oils in the Inuit diet, which came from whole foods
like fish, seals, walrus, whales and other marine animals, provided substantial amounts
of unprocessed omega-3.

Health damage from oils comes from two issues:

1. First, lack of the two EFAs in the right amounts and ratios to one another will lead
to deficiency, which leads to deterioration of health and can lead to death.

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 2. Second, damage done to these most sensitive essential nutrients can make them
toxic.

When you optimize your intake of both EFAs, and you make sure they’re not damaged,
they will not hurt your health. They will, in fact, improve it.

51.What Gains? A Question of Benefits

What are the possible health benefits of an oil change FROM damaged oils TO oils made
with health in mind? Over 160 benefits have been published in research journals,
observed in clinical practice, seen in case histories, and reported by way of user feedback.

● Some people might think: “That’s a lot of benefits for just one little oil change. Are
you over-stating the case for good oil?” “No, I am not overstating the case. And
yes, indeed, that is a lot of benefits.”

You’ve been told that anything that sounds too good to be true is probably not true. You
are also told to mistrust anything that appears as a panacea or cure-all. I agree, but
‘probably’ does not mean ‘in every case, without exception’. Why am I so comfortable
saying that a change to good oils can bring so many benefits?

I have three reasons. They are:

● Good oils are essential. They cannot be made in your body and you must therefore
bring them in from outside of it.
● Good oils are necessary for the normal healthy optimal function of every cell,
tissue, gland, organ and system in your body.
● Most people get enough omega-6 from industrial cooking oils, but these oils
include damaged molecules with detrimental effects. Omega-3 intake, on the other
hand, is lower than required for optimum health in almost all of—99%—of the
population. Some think that as much as 99.9% of you do not get optimum amounts
of omega-3 for optimum health. When you get your omega-6 molecules made with
health in mind and optimize your intake of the inadequately supplied undamaged
omega-3, you can expect a wide range of benefits and improvements in every part
of your body.

Given these three facts, you can understand why optimizing your intake of good oils can
improve so many conditions.

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The Profound Health Benefits of Omega-3

We can summarize the existing research on omega-3 in one sentence:

● Increased intake of omega-3 (undamaged; free of industrial toxins) can

improve (decrease the symptoms of) virtually every major degenerative
condition of our time.

The implication is profound. Every symptom that improves when you increase your intake
of omega-3 must have been caused by too little omega-3 in the diet.

Omega-3 cannot improve symptoms of too little magnesium, vitamin C or zinc in the diet.
An essential nutrient can only reverse the symptoms caused by too little of that essential
nutrient. Omega-3 can and does improve and reverse every symptom of omega-3
deficiency (except death, which by definition is not reversible). That’s the power of every
essential nutrient. That is also the power of omega-3.

Let me repeat something here that I’ve written before. To best unfold its powerful healing
effects in a person with too little dietary omega-3, this EFA must not be damaged by
processing, by exposure to light, air or heat, or by food preparation, and it must be free
of industrial poisons. Plants are low on the food chain, so they contain the least industrial
poisons. That’s why plant-based omega-3 is preferable to animal-based omega-3.

Here is another important health consideration. When you add poison to something good,
you decrease its goodness. When you keep adding more poison, you will at some point
neutralize the good in it. When you then add even more poison, you can end up creating
problems with something that is supposed to be good. That is why the sensitive omega-
6 and the five times more sensitive omega-3 must both be made with care, with health
in mind. If you want health, this care is vitally important.

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Every part of the body benefits. Why? All cells need undamaged essential omega-3 and
omega-6 fatty acids. 99% of you get too little omega-3 for optimum health. 99% of you
get omega-6 oils that contain damaged, poisonous molecules. Both omega-3 and omega-
6 are essential for every cell in your body. When you get enough of each, get them both
in the right ratio, get them both undamaged and preserved intact during food preparation,
good things happen in every part of your body. What does this mean in practice? Almost
everyone will benefit from the oil change that the body needs, which consists of getting
the bad oils out of, and the good oils into their body.

Here is a growing list of benefits that have been established by research, seen in clinical
practice and noticed by users:

Beauty:
Skin:

● Form a barrier in skin against the loss of moisture

● Soft smooth velvety skin, when intake is optimal
● Less eczema
● Less psoriasis
● Less acne
● Less dry skin
● Less dandruff
● Less cracked skin on fingers or heels
● Less scarring
● Less wrinkles (sugar increases wrinkling and aging of skin)
● Improve Sjogren’s syndrome
● Reduce scaly skin
● Reduce ‘fish skin’
● Reduce need for lotions, creams and makeup

Hair:

● Healthier, stronger hair

● Grows about 25% faster
● In some older people, natural color returns (not me, obviously)

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Nails:

● Stronger
● Grow faster
● Less cracking

Health:
Athletic Performance:

● Muscular development
● Better motor coordination
● Greater explosive strength
● Greater endurance
● Faster recovery
● Healing of injuries in 1/3rd to 1/2 of the usual time
● Better joint flexibility and mobility
● Less joint pain and tenderness
● Better concentration and focus
● 40-60% increase in stamina within 30-days on correct dosage (15ml/25kg {50lbs}
of body weight per day; mixed in foods; intake spread out over the course of the
day)
● Less tempted to use steroids & other illegal performance-enhancing drugs

Sleep:

● Improve ability to fall asleep

● Sleep deeper and sounder
● Wake up more refreshed
● Decrease the amount of sleep time needed
● Less need for sleeping pills

Detoxification:

● Sweat out oil-soluble toxins; they’re carried out through your skin in the oil part of
your sweat
● Oil enemas effective for lymphatic detoxification
● Swish oil in mouth for detoxification (‘oil pulling’)

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 ● Increase energy by lowering the body’s load of toxins

Pregnancy:

● Fetus/child:
● Necessary for fetal brain development
● Brighter, more active infants
● More intelligent children
● Generally healthier children

Mother:

● Less eventful pregnancy

● Easier birth
● Fewer stretch marks (zinc also helps)
● Less postpartum depression in mother
● Fewer memory problems
● More energy
● Less depression
● Less chronic fatigue
● Less fibromyalgia
● Less collagen disease
● Less inflammatory conditions ending in ‘itis’, 400+ of these are known
● Less autoimmune symptoms: 400+ autoimmune disorders have been identified
● Fewer allergies

Brain Function:

● Improve vision
● In some older people, eyesight improves to good vision without glasses
● Eyes not dry
● Speed learning
● Increase IQ (3-9 points)
● Reduce dyslexia
● Improve ability to concentrate
● Reduced attention deficit
● Less hyperactive
● Reduce need for drugs & their side effects (SSRIs, Ritalin)

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 ● Calmer
● Better mood (make endocannabinoids)
● Decrease symptoms in major mental disorders
● Schizophrenia
● Bipolar
● Obsessive compulsive
● Alzheimer’s
● Depression

Digestion:

● Less gas and bloating

● Less pain after eating
● Less leaky gut
● Fewer food allergies
● Slightly slower movement of food out of stomach; therefore more thorough and
complete digestion
● Less immune reaction due to poor digestion
● Less cancer
● Less infection
● Less Candida overgrowth
● Less constipation
● Softer stool

Bone Health:

● Stronger bones
● Faster healing
● More energy for exercise necessary to build bones
● Slow down age-related bone loss

Joint Health:

● Less pain
● Less tenderness
● Less inflammation
● Less acidity
● Less damage from oxygen and other free radicals

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 ● More flexibility
● More mobility

Muscles:

● Faster muscular development

● Slower muscle breakdown
● Quicker recovery
● 50-year old body builders return to workouts they did in their 30s

Weight Management:

● Less insulin spiking

● Less craving
● Less carbohydrate addiction
● More stable blood sugar levels
● More stable energy over the day
● Better fuel than carbohydrates for activity
● Better mood
● Fewer mood swings
● Calmer, less easily frustrated, less angry
● Nicer skin
● Less overeating
● Turn off fat production
● Turn on fat burning
● Longer endurance
● More effective body fat reduction
● Easier weight normalization
● Less tired after eating
● Less chance of falling asleep in class (children, students)
● Less chance of falling asleep at the wheel and driving off the road (long drives,
vacationers, truckers)

Hormones:

● Improve hormone function at cell receptor level

● Pineal (melatonin)
● Thyroid (thyroxin)

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 ● Parathyroid (improve mineral metabolism)
● Pancreatic (insulin)
● Adrenal (stress hormones)
● Blunt stress response
● Deal better with stressful situations
● Testosterone
● Estrogen and progesterone
● Longer normal hormone function while aging

Regulates Gene Expression:

● EFAs turn on, off, up or down hundreds of genes in your cells; recent count puts
the number between 700 and 900 genes

Improve Mineral Transport:

● Fatty acids are used to transport minerals in your body

● Improve mineral metabolism

Inflammation:

● Make powerful anti-inflammatory molecules (resolvins)

● Decrease inflammation in more than 400 conditions that end in ‘itis’; there is one
such condition for every tissue in the body
● Decrease symptoms in other inflammatory conditions, including lupus, diabetes,
osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, cancers and atherosclerosis

Antioxidants:

● Make powerful antioxidants (protectins) that protect all tissues from damage done
by free radical chain reactions

Cardiovascular System:

● Lower total cholesterol

● Raise HDL / Lower LDL
● Lower triglycerides
● Lower blood pressure
● Lower c-RP (c-reactive protein is an inflammatory risk marker for cardiovascular
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 ● Decrease risk of heart attack
● Decrease risk of stroke
● Decrease risk of embolism
● Decrease risk of blood clots
● Decrease atherosclerosis
● Make blood thinner
● Improve circulation
● Improve temperature of the extremities (cold hands and feet)

Immune System:

● Blunt the over-response of the immune system in about 400 known autoimmune
conditions that can affect any tissue in the body
● Keep immune system balanced
● Used to make oxygen bullets to kill bacteria
● Keep Candida from taking over (along with probiotics)
● Keeps the immune system from having to get involved with digestion (along with
enzymes)
● Keeps the immune system competent (1 teaspoon of sugar inhibits immune
function for 5-8 hours, and also feeds cancer cells and infectious organisms)
● Make powerful immune function molecules (maresins)

Reproduction:

● Improves lubrication
● Improves prostate function
● Improves shedding of uterine lining
● Maintains sexual function into old age
● Improves stamina
● Better mood
● Nicer skin

Liver Function:

● Essential for liver function

● Reduces fatty liver
● Improves liver performance

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Kidney function:

● Essential for kidney function

● Reduces fatty kidneys
● Improves kidney performance

Longevity:

● Reduces many factors that shorten life

Addiction/Crime:

● Helps overcome alcohol addiction

● Helps overcome drug addiction
● Improves socialization
● Helps disruptive teenagers (in school system) become more cooperative
● Increases calmness
● Decreases tendency to violence

Surgery:

● Less swelling
● Less pain
● Quicker healing
● Less scarring
● Less tissue rejection in transplants

Performance:
In the Bedroom:

● Calmer mood
● Better mood
● Less stressed
● Better concentration and focus
● Quicker creative thinking and expression
● Increased stamina
● More responsive
● Nicer skin

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In the Boardroom:

● Less stressed
● Calmer
● Faster processing of information (mental stamina)
● Better concentration
● More focused and able to be attentive
● Longer staying power before getting tired

At Work:

● Better mood
● Kinder to others
● Calmer
● More energy for work
● Better processing ability
● Better focus and concentration when necessary
● Less stressed
● Less missed days because of illness

Pets:
Dogs:

● Less stiffness in older animals

● More energy
● Less pain and swelling after injury or surgery
● Faster healing after accident or surgery
● Better skin condition
● Better hair coat
● Less ‘doggy’ odor
● Better maternal care after giving birth to large litters

Cats:

● Less pain and swelling after injury or surgery

● Faster healing after accident or surgery

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Horses:

● Amazing coat condition

● Outstanding racehorse performance
● More energy
● Less pain and swelling after injury or surgery
● Faster healing after accident or surgery
● Calmer, but can run faster and longer at the same time

Zoo Animals:

● Tigers; zebras; monkeys; otters; wolves; and many others

Pocket pets:

● Gerbils; hamsters; rats; mice; mink; and others

Birds:

● Better feather growth; better general health; longer life

A good rule of thumb is

• Humans: One (1) tablespoon per 50 lbs (~25 Kg) of body weight per day mixed
in foods.
• Dogs, cats, carnivores: One (1) tablespoon per 100 lbs (~50 Kg).
• Horses, herbivores: One (1) tablespoon per 500 lbs (~250 Kg).

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52.Why Not Just Fish Oil? A Question of Advertising
For years, fish oil manufacturers said that 30% of the population is unable to convert
plant omega-3 into fish omega-3, which is why those people needed to take fish oil. That
would mean that 70% of the population does not need fish oil. This statement pointed
to the fact that more than half of the human population does not take fish oils but are
not sicker than the people who do take fish oils, and do not die earlier than fish oil eaters.

● The week we began to tell the story of flax oil made with health in mind, one
specific fish oil manufacturer declared that the human body couldn’t convert flax
oil into fish oil.
● The makers of flax oil said, “Yes, it can!” The fish oil sellers said, “No, it can’t!”
● This marketing conflict went on for years. It was like an argument between two-
year-old kids. Both sides got caught up in it. Everybody got sidetracked, until
someone kindly pointed out how ridiculous that argument was. Why ridiculous?
● Food oils and supplement oils play very different roles in health. They are not
interchangeable, one for the other. Replacing food oil with supplement oil does
not work for health. Let me explain.
● Food oils made with health in mind are a necessary foundation for anyone who
wants to be healthy, and most people need about 2-4 tablespoons (28-56 grams)
of oil every day. Food oils made with health in mind are meant to replace the
cooking, salad and culinary oils that are damaged by processing and food
preparation, and that contain too little omega-3 for optimum health. These
damaged cooking, salad and culinary oils are the reason why the body needs an
oil change. Get these damaged oils out of your food supply and body, and get
good oils in. Remember though, to add food oils made with health in mind to foods
AFTER they come off the heat, and NEVER use them for frying.

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 ● Supplement oils are an add-on. The doctor-recommended dosage of supplement
oils (fish oil and healthier options) is only 1-3 grams per day, and according to
research, 5.1 grams or more per day of fish oils can increase inflammation. Fish
supplement oil should not replace food oils. You cannot exchange 1-3 grams of
fish oil against 28-56 grams of food oil and call it even. That’s just plain silly.

Humans need a lot of oil. To be healthy, you need more oil than other creatures. Oil is
one of the three ‘pillars of nutrition’, along with protein and carbohydrates. Oil is about
half of your total fat intake.

● In the brouhaha between flaxseed oil and fish oils, the notion that 30% of you
cannot convert flax omega-3 into fish omega-3 conveniently evaporated. It
probably occurred to someone that if 30% of the population cannot convert, 70%
of the population can convert, in which case 70% of you don’t need fish oil. That
would not be good for business. The advertising started to suggest that everyone
needs fish oil. The research did not support that claim, because the body does
convert the plant-based omega-3 essential fatty acid, ALA, into the omega-3 fatty
acid derivatives, EPA and DHA. And, most fish oils are actually made by plants
(algae) in the ocean.
● Human research has made clear that the necessary conversion of ALA to EPA and
DHA takes place if we eat enough ALA from our food supply. Recent research has
made this totally clear. You can check it out for yourself at the following link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25550171.
● In my personal experience of almost 30 years, only about 5-10% of the population
seems to get better results when they add oil supplements to their optimum intake
of a food oil foundation made with health in mind. It is not entirely clear if their
improvement is real or imagined. During pregnancy and early childhood, as well
as for over 50 years old, adding undamaged DHA to a healthy food oil foundation
may be helpful. Often, people take both because they don’t know for sure what
they need and are confused by the contradictions in the marketplace. They get
some peace of mind from simply taking both.
● Over time, the fishy fish oil story morphed a few times, and then rested by
essentially stating that the body cannot turn flax oil into fish oil, plant omega-3
into fish omega-3, or ALA into EPA and DHA. That is contrary to what the research
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 ● In the body, both men and women convert, about equally, ALA into EPA. Most of
the measurements were done in plasma and liver, not in other specific tissues or
in the brain. What is the reason for that? Plasma and liver are the easiest tissues
to work with.
● In the body, women convert ALA into DHA at a substantially higher rate than men.
Women’s conversion of ALA to DHA is about 5-10%. Men’s conversion is about
1%, although some studies showed 2-5% conversion. In truth, much lower
conversion seems to be required by males. Why the difference in conversion of
ALA to DHA? Pregnant women need to be able to make the brain omega-3, DHA,
from ALA, to supply it to the developing brain of the fetus, which will pilfer DHA
from mom’s brain if she has too little ALA in her diet to make DHA from it for her
developing child . Nature favors the fetus that is the future, over the mother who
is the past. When needed, nature will sacrifice the past for the future.
● Men, on the other hand, hardly ever get pregnant, so they have no need to make
brain omega-3 in their body. As a result, men need to make much less DHA in
their diet. They make small amounts needed in heart, eyes, sperm and other
tissues.
● More recently, research has shown that the amount of DHA needed in the body is
quite low, and that the body can conserve it when the supply is low. According to
research, the brain turns over at most 3.8mg of DHA per day, and at intake of only
2 grams of ALA (more precisely, 1.7 grams) per day, one fifth of 1% conversion is
more than enough to make enough DHA for the brain’s requirement.

Most people do not get enough essential omega-3 ALA for optimum health or optimum
conversion.

● Not too many people have read the research, and even fewer have read it critically.
The studies made it clear that not getting enough ALA, the starting material for
converting ALA to EPA and DHA in our diet, is the ONLY critical BIG issue. That is
what prompted us to develop ways to optimize intake of this sensitive essential
nutrient. What did we base that decision on? There were several considerations.
● If your body can convert, but you don’t get enough starting material for the
conversion, of course you will not get enough ALA converted into EPA and DHA.
The best thing to do, then, is to optimize intake of ALA. Flax seed is the richest of
the commonly available sources. 40-65% of its oil (which depends on the year and

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 the northern-ness of the latitude where the flax is grown; the further north it
grows, the more omega-3 it contains) is ALA, the omega-3 essential fatty acid.
● Rabbits, horses, elephants, gorillas, orangutans and zebras get only ALA from their
plant-based diets, but have DHA in their brains, retina and sperm. How do they
get it if the body cannot convert? If their body can convert, why would yours be
unable to? You all have the same conversion genes in your DNA that plant-eating
animals have in their DNA.

● The Brahmin Caste: 300 million Hindus belong to the Brahmin caste. They’re
obligate vegetarians from birth to death. The caste has a 5,000+-year history of
eating plant foods and not eating fish, fish oils or other products that contain EPA
and/or DHA. Brahmins have no signs of DHA deficiency (in fact, lower levels of
DHA have been measured in vegetarians, but DHA deficiency symptoms have
never been identified, BECAUSE the body can convert and because not that much
conversion is required, especially by men.
More to the point, if Brahmins were unable to convert ALA into DHA, they would
lack DHA in their brain, retina and sperm, and should be brain-deficient, blind and
sterile. In fact, their mental competence, their vision and their ability to reproduce
are equal to those who do consume fish and fish oils.
● And there is more. It’s been known for some time that the fish oil industry has
become unsustainable from unregulated overfishing around the world over the
past 300 years. According to recent figures, there will be no fish industry by the
year 2048.

In addition, fish oil omega-3s are:

● Super-sensitive to damage (25 times more than omega-6)

● Processed and damaged by methods similar to those used omega-6 cooking oils
● Contaminated by PCBs, dioxins, pesticides and other oil-soluble liquid industrial
poisons that flow downhill from land and end up in the oceans
● More contaminated the higher they are on the food chain

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 ● Even more processed (more damaged) now than 20 years ago
● Less effective in studies now than 20 years ago

There is one more issue that surfaced more recently. Most of the fish whose oil we
consume do not make their own fish oil. Carnivorous fish (70% of the fish we eat) don’t
make fish oil. They get it from foods that contain it. Ultimately, most EPA and DHA comes
from marine algae that krill eat, whom little fish eat, whom then bigger fish eat, whom
the fish oil fish eat. In other words, fish oil is a plant-made product. You should know
this, lest you unfairly rate fish as too important, and demean the lowly plants that actually
do the work.

Should you eat the marine algae then? They are one-celled, and only 4% of their body is
oil. Commercially, they’re now grown in tanks, fed sugar to increase their oil content to
about 50% (Obese Algae: good name for a rock band?). Growers use processing aids
and methods similar to fish oil processing to harvest the oil. They are usually not made
with health in mind.

But we got them undamaged by special dispensation. We have the only unrefined algal
DNA in the marketplace.

Finally, it is now clear that fish has become the most polluted food on our planet. It is
worse than red meat, chicken and turkey. Why? We have hugely polluted the oceans with
toxic industrial chemicals, and marine foods have become laced with these toxic
chemicals.

Framing the Argument with Health in Mind

The marketing argument between flax and fish oil has raged for several decades. It’s
time to put an end to it. Here it is, in perspective. Oils made with health in mind are
foods. They are your food oil foundation. Fish oils are supplements. One cannot replace
the other. Supplement augments food. It does not replace food. Supplement is used in
addition to food. Food comes first. Food is more important. Food may be enough.
Supplement without food can never be enough.

More damage is done to health by damaged food oils than any other part of nutrition.
That’s because food oils are much more sensitive to damage done by light, oxygen and
heat than any other nutrients, and industry processes oils with less care than is taken
with any other nutrient. You cannot use a supplement to fix the damage done to the
health by a damaged food oil foundation. You have to fix the foundation. That’s why your

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body needs an oil change. You make that oil change by replacing the damaged food oil
foundation with food oils made with health in mind.

More damage is done to health by damaged food oils than by the lack of an oil supplement
or a damaged oil supplement. Why? You use far larger amounts of food oil foundation
than supplement oil. Average daily food oil foundation is about 28-56 grams/day. Average
daily supplement oil intake is about 1-3 gram/day. You eat 18+ times more food oil than
supplement oil. Damaged supplements will do the same amount of damage as damaged
food oil only if the supplement is 18 times more damaged than your food oil foundation.

The supplement oil itself is partially damaged, and two studies show that 5.1 grams of
fish oil can increase inflammation (probably due to processing damage and industrial
toxins).

Instead of damaged fish oils, you can take a krill oil supplement. Krill oil is low on the
food chain. Its processing is done different, and the oil is not damaged. It is in a more
effective form (both triglycerides and phospholipids), and more effectively absorbed than
fish oil; therefore less oil is needed for results. Krill is environmentally sustainable. All
sustainability regulations were set before krill began to be harvested (the fish oil industry
also misinforms us about krill oil, in order to protect their commercial turf).

You’d never think of replacing food with a multi-mineral and vitamin pill. It would be
crazy. Your multi is a supplement that you take in addition to your food.

Why would you take an oil supplement instead of your food oil foundation? You will not
get better health that way, so you shouldn’t do that.

Let me summarize for clarity, so you can make the best health decisions. I call this
summary my ‘All Some None’ Statement:

● All of you need a healthy food oil foundation.

● Some of you may do better if you add a supplement oil to your healthy food oil
foundation.
● None of you can be healthy on supplement oil alone.

In other words, healthy food oils are first and most important to bring in. A supplement
might be helpful on top of that. Never replace food with supplements, and don’t ever
think that a supplement alone is enough to take care of your health.

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53.Why Not Just Flax Oil? A Question of Balance
When my team and I developed flax oil in 1986, we picked that oil because it is the
richest, most affordable and most easily accessible source of omega-3, the essential
nutrient too low for optimum health in 99% of the population. It is also the most difficult
(because most sensitive) oil to work with. The simplest help for the greatest number of
people would be to make available a fresh, undamaged source of plant omega-3 oil.

To manifest that, I worked with several other people. We gave less thought to omega-6,
because it was abundant in the normal foods most people ate, in the form of bottled
plant-based ‘cooking’ oils. But something happened that got my attention.

The people I worked with advertised, ‘Flax oil is the richest source of both essential fatty
acids.’

This disturbed me for several reasons:

1. First, I knew it had 57% omega-3, and only 14% omega-6. It was actually quite
low in omega-6, and the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 was about 4:1.
2. Second, we had a fabulous product that we could proudly tell the truth about it. I
didn’t think we needed extra hype or embellishment.
3. Third, I knew the Inuit diet had a ratio of 2.5:1 and knew of no traditional diet
with a ratio higher than that. The ratio issue concerned me.

It did not seem to me that flax oil was the best source of both essential fatty acids. But
I was not 100% sure, so I could not argue with them. What to do? I tested it on myself.
For about 4 months, I used flax oil as the only source of fats in my diet. By the end of
that time, I had dry eyes, skipped heartbeats, arthritis-like pain in finger joints and thin,
papery skin. These are classic omega-6 deficiency symptoms. How to fix them?

Take more omega-6. For the next few weeks, I ate a lot of sunflower seeds, whose oil
contains about 60% omega-6 and no omega-3. All my symptoms cleared up. That’s when
I got serious about putting together the blend that we now work with, in which the ratio
between omega-3 and 6 is better balanced for long term sustainable health.

Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend

Flax oil started in 1986. Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend came out in 1994.

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When the oil blend came out, all the flax oil companies told customers (predictably), “Just
take flax oil. You already have lots of omega-6 in your diet.”

From the perspective of better health, this is bad advice, given by people who do not
know how to make a good blend, or by people who are not interested in better health
for their clients and customers. Omega-6 oils contain a lot of damaged molecules.
Remember the numbers? More than one million damaged molecules for every one of the
body’s 60 trillion cells in just one tablespoon of oil that’s only 1% damaged by processing.

From the perspective of health, you need to get off those damaged omega-6 oils and get
onto omega-6 oils made with health in mind. That’s what good health advice looks and
sounds like. It’s the reason we add omega-6 oils made with health in mind to the blend.

● The ratio should be better balanced. Both EFAs should be eaten undamaged from
oils made with health in mind. In addition, we wanted GLA in the blend.
● We wanted lots of different ‘minor ingredients’ from different kinds of oils.
● We wanted extra lecithin (non-GMO) that we had to bring in from Europe to
improve oil digestion. We wanted other antioxidants from oils, especially fresh
coconut. We wanted extra antioxidant, in the form of vitamin E.

And, it was intended to be one source containing all the good and none of the bad from
oils in it.

The feedback of people using the blend has been astounding. I’m really glad we made it.
Its performance in practice far exceeded our expectations. We knew it would be good
but did not know it would be this good. Every time I hear someone’s story about how the
oil blend helped him or her, it makes my day. It is an honor to play a part in improving
people’s quality of life. Can’t think of a better way to spend my time on earth. I’m lovin’
it!

The Best Ratio

What’s the best ratio of omega-3: omega-6? Some researchers have suggested that 1:4
(omega-3: 6) is the ‘perfect’ ratio. Respectfully, I disagree. We don’t, and you won’t get
the best results with it. Others claim that 1:1 is the ‘historical’ ratio. That’s patently untrue,
because the ratio changes going south from the North Pole and going north from the
South Pole. We call the 2: 1 ratio that we use the ‘practical’ ratio because in practical
application, it consistently produces the best results.

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We know the theory of the ‘experts’ on the subject. But our experience over almost 3
decades tells us different. And, after almost 30 years of full-time effort, we know more
about the practical, real life application of oils made with health in mind than just about
anyone on the planet. We’re sticking by what we know and keep getting glowing reports
of benefits from users as well as winning gold medals from the industry for the ‘practical’
ratio oil blend that we work with.

Thank you all for your feedback. It helps many other people, and you are part of a noble
mission.

54.Why Coconut & MCTs? A Question of Tropical

For years, the Western world demonized coconut oil for supposedly increasing cholesterol
and causing heart attacks. It turned out that the soybean industry used this advertising
ploy of dissing the competition, even taking out full page newspaper ads, to expand and
keep its market share. Greed can make people dishonest and untrustworthy. It’s
disappointing to see an industry lie for market share, putting money above health benefits
and customer service.

The truth is that there were two problems with coconut oil.

● One is that, although it is better fuel for weight management than carbohydrates,
it contains virtually no essential omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids. This is the lesser
of the two problems. In fact, it is a problem only if we have no other source of
these essential nutrients.
● The more serious second problem is that coconut oil that was imported until about
15 years ago was highly processed, refined and damaged, and did indeed increase
cholesterol levels. Undamaged (raw, unrefined) coconut oil, on the other hand,
lowers cholesterol levels. What a difference a bunch of processing makes!!

But wait! Wrong again! Recently, research showed that even raw coconut oil can
increase LDL (the bad) cholesterol. However, when you eat the whole coconut, LDL does
not go up. Researchers think that the fiber that is present in the coconut, but removed
when the oil is made, protects the body from jacking up the ‘bad’ LDL levels.

Virgin, unrefined, fresh, raw coconut oil became available in North America less than two
decades ago. It still does not provide the essential fatty acids that are too low in most
people’s food supply, but it is fresh, tastes good, provides good fuel, is a rich source of

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powerful antioxidants, gives stable energy, is easy for the liver to burn (metabolize), and
helps reduce cravings for carbohydrates.

Coconut Oil & MCT

From coconut oil, by the processes of fractionation and/or inter-esterification, industry
makes medium chain triglycerides (MCTs). These, too, while no longer ‘natural’ in the
sense of ‘in their natural form’, are still easy for the liver to use, and have application in
hospitals. MCTs are popular as ‘thin’ oils. Athletes can use them as fuel, and people with
weight problems can use them for energy instead of carbohydrates.

MCTs ARE better than sugars and starches (carbohydrates). But, used instead of carbs,
oils rich in omega-3 properly balanced with omega-6 provide better results in weight
management and sports performance than do MCTs or coconut oil.

But again, with MCTs, there is an issue you need to be aware of. MCTs usually consist of
a mixture of fatty acids that are 6, 8, 10 and 12 carbons long. Unfortunately, the 12-
carbon fatty acid (lauric acid), which makes up close to half of the oil, increases
cholesterol. So if you use MCTs, make sure you get the fraction of it that contains only 6,
8, and 10-carbon fatty acids.

While many claims are made for coconut oil in the trade, there is little research to support
these claims. They don’t improve thyroid function. They cannot replace oils rich and
balanced in undamaged omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids. They ARE better fuel
for weight normalization than refined sugars and starches, which are the main source of
weight gain, overweight, obesity, type II diabetes and the cardiovascular diseases that
commonly follow the development of diabetes.

The bottom line is that omega-3 and omega-6 are the ONLY fats you MUST have to live
and be healthy. That being the case, give priority to making sure you optimize your intake
of these two. Only after you have done that, should you consider adding the saturated
fats that come from coconuts or other sources to your food program.

55.Why Olive Oil? A Question of Mediterranean

Olive oil has become very popular over the past few decades. It is used as part of a poorly
defined ‘Mediterranean Diet’ but is popular in its own right and recommended by health
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talk about olive oil first. Why has interest in olive oil skyrocketed? It is part of the fact
that interest in health is increasing rapidly. Extra virgin olive oil is popular for two main
reasons.

Less Harshly Processed

First, ‘extra virgin’ olive oil is unrefined, meaning that it is not damaged by the usual
industrial processing applied to what are known in the industry as RBD oils: refined with
harsh chemicals, bleached and ‘deodorized’ at destructively high temperatures (160-
245°C or 320-450°F; the temperatures used when frying). These processes are
unnecessary for olive oil because the oil is pressed from the flesh, not the seeds of the
olives and is then floated off on water.

As a result, extra virgin olive oil is less damaged than the colorless, odorless, tasteless
oils sold in grocery and corner stores. That’s a really big deal. You don’t get one million+
damaged molecules for every one of your body’s 60 trillion cells in one tablespoon. Extra
virgin olive oil is far less processing-damaged than cooking oils.

More Stable Oil

Second, extra virgin olive oil is popular because it is relatively stable. That’s because it
contains virtually NONE of the highly delicate essential omega-3, and only 10% of the oil
is the less delicate essential omega-6. 80% of the oil is omega-9 (mono-unsaturated oleic
acid), which is not essential for health, and relatively stable. You don’t have to spend a
lot of time making sure that the oil is treated with the care required by oils that are rich
in essential fatty acids.

But . . .

Having said that, there are olive oils, usually sold as ‘virgin’ or ‘pure’ olive oils, which
HAVE been treated like the colorless, odorless, tasteless cooking oils. These olive oils may
also be partly damaged by refining, bleaching and deodorization.

Down Sides of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Even extra virgin olive oil has some downside, too. To begin with, extra virgin olive oil or
olive oil of any kind gets you almost no (less than 1%) essential omega-3s. It contains
only about 10% of the essential omega-6. 90% of what the oil contains—80% mono-
unsaturated non-essential and 10% saturated non-essential—you don’t require for health

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because life can make them in your body from sugar, starch, glycerol and proteins (amino
acids).

In addition, the ‘extra virgin olive oil’ craze creates another problem for you. Olive trees
grow very slowly. This means that expanding the supply takes a long time. As a result,
the rate at which the demand for extra virgin oil has grown in recent times has far
outstripped its supply. What’s a crooked merchant to do in such a case?

Some suppliers of olive oil mix extra virgin or even processed olive oil with cheaper oils
but label the mixture as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil. Then you get cheated. You think you’re
getting one thing when you’re actually getting another. How do you know? You don’t.
You can get screwed both on quality and on price.

It becomes important to know your source of olive oil. As much as possible, get to know
growers, suppliers and shippers that you can trust. That is easier said than done, and
you can be fooled and misled.

A Simple Test

I know two simple ways to deal with this dilemma.

1. First, I use olive oil only rarely. My main reason is that there are other unrefined
oils made with health in mind that have much higher amounts and far better ratios
of the only 2 essential nutrients that come from fats and oils. More specifically,
you get better results for health with an oil containing both omega-3 (40-50%)
and omega-6 (20-25%) made without damage by complete protection from light,
oxygen and heat while being pressed, settled, filtered and filled.
2. Second, I put the oil in the fridge. Really high-quality olive oil will solidify in the
fridge, or it will at least develop small oil crystals that float in the oil. If this does
NOT happen, I assume that the oils is doctored and I will not use (or buy again)
that oil.

The Mediterranean (Med) Diet

The Mediterranean Diet is said to be associated with longer life and better health. It
sounds good. We should all be eating that diet and its foods. There’s only one problem.
What exactly does the Mediterranean Diet consist of? It is so poorly defined that it is not
helpful unless we examine it a bit closer.

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The Med Diet emphasizes pasta and noodles of many different kinds. However, research
makes it clear that whole grains are substantially better for health and a longer life than
white flour and the products made with it.

Wine is also associated with the Med Diet. But research blows the cover on this one too.
Alcohol shows a strong correlation with breast cancer, but wine with the alcohol removed
does not. In fact, research has recently shown that even one alcoholic drink per day is
already one too many for good health. Alcohol, concludes research, is poison and any
alcohol at all hurts your health. That is not news. We know from our own experience that
it temporarily poisons our brain. It also poisons liver function.

Olive oil has a good reputation because it is less damaged by processing than most other
oils. But research tells us that eating olives is better for health than using olive oil. And
frying foods with olive oil will fry your health, so don’t do it.

Salt is another issue. Less salt is better than more salt. Excess salt increases blood
pressure. Most of you use too much salt in your food.

Your consumption of fruits and vegetables is one of the most reliable and important
predictors of your health and longevity, no matter what you call the diet you adhere to.
Eating more plant-based whole foods, and less animal products (dairy, eggs, fish, chicken,
turkey, lamb, beef, pork) is the direction to go.

If you choose to eat ONLY plant-based, make sure they are unprocessed whole foods,
and take a vitamin B12 supplement.

56.What about Cooking Oils? Question of Convenience

Safflower, sunflower, corn, grapeseed, sesame, almond, peanut and canola oils are
widely produced and used in food preparation as well as for ‘cooking’, by which we mean:
frying or deep-frying. When I was a child, ‘cooking’ meant the use of hot water for food
preparation. Using oils for this purpose was called frying. Now cooking almost always
means frying.

The amount of each of the different essential and non-essential fatty acids that an oil
contains (it’s called its ‘fatty acid profile’) is different in different oils.

● Most cooking oils contain the omega-6 essential fatty acid, but not omega-3.
● Safflower oil can have up to 70% omega-6.

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 ● Sunflower, corn and grapeseed oils can have about 60%.
● Sesame oil has about 40%.
● Almond oil contains about 26%.
● Peanut oil has about 20%.
● Olive oil has about 10%.
● All of these oils contain less than 1% omega-3.
● Only 3 cooking oils contain omega-3.
● Soybean oil has about 57% omega-6 and 5-9% omega-3.
● Canola oil has about 24% omega-6 and 10% omega-3.
● Walnut oil contains about 50% omega-6 and 5-11% omega-3.

The more omega-3 a cooking oil contains, the more it is damaged by processing and by
‘cooking’, and the worse it will be for health when made and used this way. That’s because
the omega-3 essential fatty acid is 5 times more rapidly damaged than the omega-6
essential fatty acid by light, oxygen and heat during industrial production and in food
preparation.

If health is what you want, throw out your frying pan and your cooking oils. Add oils
made with health in mind to foods after the food come off the heat. Add good oils just
before you eat your food. That way, you get the health benefits. Oils also enhance food
flavors, and they improve the absorption of oil-soluble food ingredients into your body.
Many of the oil-soluble molecules in foods have health benefits, which means that good
oils actually make your good foods healthier.

57.What About Butter and Margarine? A Question of

‘Ersatz’ (Butter Substitutes)
As a teenager, I lived on a farm without electricity, central heating, water heater (we
heated water in pots on a wood-burning stove), shower, bath (we washed with a cloth in
a wide, tapered enamel washbowl), TV, refrigeration or running water. One of my chores
was to fetch water, 2 buckets at a time, carried on a shoulder bracket with a hook on
each end up the steep slope from the creek that ran down a deep ravine next to our self-
built house. We lived without an indoor toilet, instead using an outhouse even when it
was 40° below zero. At that temperature, no one dawdled on the toilet. Our toilet paper
was the glossy pages of the annual Eaton’s Catalogue from which we bought clothes and
household goods.

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How It Once Was
In that place (late 1950’s), we drank lots of grass-fed cows’ milk, fresh and whole, that
we got from a farm near our place.

The milk was unpasteurized. Within a day or so, its thick, rich cream would rise to the
top. If we let the milk sit on the countertop for a few days, the milk would naturally
(probiotics supplied by the milk ducts in the cow’s udder) turn into a wet whole milk
yogurt topped with sour cream. We would eat it with cinnamon and a bit of sugar.

We also skimmed the sour cream off the top of the yogurt. This we would churn in a
hand churn on top of a gallon glass bottle or a bucket. After much churning, the fat would
stick together in lumps of raw butter, which separated from the watery sour whey.

We drank the whey or used it in cooking and baking. We put butter on our heavy whole
grain (risen with yeast) or sourdough (rye started with whey) breads that we made from
scratch by grinding grains into flour just before using them.

Changes in Our Food

Why do I tell this story? Food then was different from food now. Milk then was different
from milk now. Butter was different from butter now. It was ‘better’ butter. Then, the
milk was fresh, and the butter provided probiotics with the fat. The butter from grass-fed
cows was different (more omega-3, carotene) compared the pasteurized butter you buy
in stores that comes from cows eating pesticide-sprayed grains and treated with
hormones and antibiotics. And you don’t know what chemicals and processes, in the
name of ‘better living through chemistry’, have affected the soil, the farm, the cow, its
milk and butter made from it. We’ve also seen changes in how it is stored and transported.

The butter we ate was made in line with nature. There was no factory, no fancy hi-tech
processing and no chemistry between the farm and our stomachs.

We ate a lot of that butter. To clear 40 acres of wild land by hand and by horse (no
tractor or chain saw), we worked our butts off, using saws, axes, shovels, pry bars, stone
boats pulled by horses and lifted big rocks by hand onto said stone boats or schlepped
them to the outside border of the cleared acreage. We sweated every day and burned a
lot of ‘better’ butter. My father thought of it as ‘character building.’ We were not allowed
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complain when we were his age. Of course, he continued to be older than we were, so
we never did get to complain.

Which Is Better?
Between ‘better’ butter and margarine, there is not even a contest. ‘Better’ butter is food
from nature. Margarine is garbage concocted together in a factory by greedy minds with
‘cheap’ materials and ‘more profit’ in mind. When in doubt, trust nature, not just in the
advertising but in the sourcing of raw materials. Even farmers can no longer be trusted
blindly, because most of them, too, have been subverted by the convenience of poisons
that they can now substitute for break-back labor, conveniences that take a toll on your
health.

Breaking Down Butter & Margarine

Between chemicalized, pasteurized, antibiotic-ized, hormone-ized and pesticide-ized
butter and margarine, the choice becomes more difficult.

Margarine (also called ‘ersatz, imitation or artificial butter) was created as a cheaper
substitute for butter about a century and a half ago.

● At first, margarine was made, in France, for the dispensable people: soldiers in the
armed forces and the poor. Originally, margarine was made from beef suet and
skim milk. It tasted disgusting. Over time, formulas were changed, and were also
doctored with other chemicals to imitate the flavor of butter.
● Margarines after the 1920’s used hydrogenation, patented in 1911, a process
which turns oils into plastic (spreadable) fats. In the process, trans- fatty acids are
created. These were not required to be listed on labels for 8 decades. Gradually,
research on trans fats showed that they increase the risk of heart attack, diabetes,
cancer and dementia in humans, and interfere with pregnancy in both male and
female animals. Walter Willett and his group at Harvard School of Public Health
estimated that at least 30,000 Americans died prematurely every year from eating
industrially made trans- fatty acids.
● Finally, in June of 2018, they were taken off the FDA’s list of nutrients ‘generally
recognized as safe’ (GRAS). A ban on the production of trans- fatty acids by
industry is now under way.
● Why do I talk about industrial trans- fatty acids? To keep the picture balanced,
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 trans- fatty acids in these products are more easily metabolized and therefore safer
(though still best left uneaten) for health than the trans- fatty acids made by
industry from the oils of sunflower or safflower.
● Is the ban on trans- fats the end of margarines? Not hardly!! Instead of using
partially hydrogenated oils, the industry now uses mixtures of oils and saturated
fats. Does this result in better margarines? Compared to trans- fatty acids, yes.
But if you remember that the oils they use are the ones that have been treated
with corrosive chemicals, bleached and then heated to frying temperature
(resulting in up to 60 quintillion damaged molecules that don’t exist in nature in
just a single tablespoon of 1% damaged oil), you might want to also avoid using
the NEW margarines.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that neither butter nor margarine is a good source of the
two essential fatty acids that are the ONLY kind of fat that your body needs for health
but cannot make.

From a health perspective, then, to hell with both of them, even though butter may still
be the better of the bad deals in the contest between these two.

58.What about High Fat Low Carb? A Question of KETO

There is certainly something to be said for lowering your intake of carbohydrates (more
about that in a later chapter), and to make fats your primary fuel for body functions. Why
is that? Carbs give you limited energy, easily punctuated by blood sugar swings, energy
yo-yo’s, insulin peaks and valleys, mood ups and downs, and cravings that result in
overeating.

In contrast, fats give you long-term, stable energy.

Proteins used as fuel act like carbs, only not as intensely. But with amino acid burning
comes increased ammonia production, which, long-term, can cause problems with liver
and possibly even brain function.

KETO has recently become a trigger word for millions of people who try to make sense
of the confusion and misinformation that now surrounds every topic under the sun,
especially any topic that has marketing and profit potential and therefore inspires creative
lying that skirts the laws of truth whose intent it is to protect you from advertising

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‘education’ that misleads you into making unhealthy health choices. Whew! Read that
sentence again. It’s packed!

What is KETO?
In short, if you decrease carb intake enough and increase fat intake enough, you create
a condition in your body called ketosis. In ketosis, your body burns fats for energy,
because you are not eating enough carbs to cover your energy needs. In this process,
life breaks fats down into ‘ketones,’ and these become your main fuel.

Keto Benefits
There is no doubt that a KETO diet, properly used, can help you lose weight.
Unfortunately, a lot of that weight loss may just be water loss, then muscle loss if the
fats you use are low in omega-6 and omega-3. It may also force your body to burn fats
for energy, because on that diet, you don’t give your body enough of any other kind of
fuel—carb or protein—to fulfill your energy needs. When you eat fats, lower protein intake
and seriously reduce carb intake, you accomplish several other changes that help with
fat loss.

● First, fats suppress your appetite. Even though they have more than double the
calories of carbs, you don’t feel like overeating. Carbs and, to a lesser extent,
proteins do not reliably suppress your appetite.
● Second, your blood sugar does not fluctuate, so you don’t get cravings that lead
you to overeat carbs and becoming addicted to them. Carb addiction has been
measured as 8 times stronger than addiction to cocaine. Proteins affect your blood
sugar to a smaller extent.
● Third, fats don’t turn off the fat-burning genes in the body. Carbs turn off the fat-
burning genes. Proteins can also turn off your fat-burning genes, but to a smaller
extent.
● Fourth, fats don’t turn on the fat production gene (fatty acid synthase). Carbs turn
on that gene. Excess proteins also turn on your fatty acid synthase gene to a
smaller extent.

How to KETO-ize
The easiest way to keto-ize yourself is eat fat and get the rest of your nutrition from lots
of non-starchy vegetables of any color. Kale, pepper (all colors), radishes, cucumbers,
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lettuce and turnips are in. So are tree nuts like walnut, hazelnut, pecans, macadamia and
almond and oil seeds like sunflower, sesame and flax.

Potatoes, grains, bread, cake, cookies and sweets are out. So are sweet fruits. Bean, pea,
lentil and chickpea consumption remain low, because these legumes contain only small
amounts of oil and large amounts of starch and protein.

On such a diet, you live in ketosis.

KETO: Not All Roses

The KETO diet is also controversial. For one thing, the ketones you breathe out can smell
intensely unpleasant.

For another, long-term use tends to decrease your lean muscle mass, because on these
diets, carbs are low and protein is moderately low. Then you become even more sensitive
to the many detrimental effects of excess sugars. It is possible to impair liver and kidney
function when pushing a KETO diet too hard or too long.

In summary, while KETO diets are generally effective for weight management as long as
you stay on them, they may not be good for long-term lasting health and therefore cannot
be your life-long diet.

Lack of EFAs
Probably the biggest problems from a KETO diet is that most people don’t who use or
recommend such a diet don’t consider the need your body has for the two essential fatty
acids (EFAs), omega-6 linoleic acid and omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid. Both of these MUST
be present in a diet for health for life. Their balance needs to be right. They are super-
sensitive nutrients. They need to be made and used with care.

One main reason for not paying attention to EFA intake on a KETO diet is the simple fact
that EFAs require care and are therefore a pain to work with. If you want to make and
sell a product that has a long shelf life and requires little care, EFAs are not your ticket.
If you want to consume a product that requires no refrigeration, then EFAs are not your
ticket. But a diet too low in EFAs guarantees that your KETO diet will NOT work for heath,
long-term.

Any fat at all can be used to put you into fat-burning ketosis and to suppress your
appetite, but most fats are not essential.

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A Wrong-Headed Direction
For decades, beginning in 1979 with the McGovern Report on Nutrition and Health, we’ve
been told to eat less fat and more carbs.

● The first 20 years of that upside-down recommendation resulted in overweight in

the US population increasing from 25% to 60% of the population. That should
have been a huge hint, but very few people paid attention to the ‘facts on the
ground’.
● 1980 was the year I began to work with oils. Very quickly, I learned that the two
essential fatty acids that can come only from fats and oils are, well, essential. You
absolutely have to have them both to be healthy, and even to remain alive. That
fact makes it impossible, unless you are criminally or irrationally insane, to treat
all fats as trivial nutrients.
● On the other hand, there are NO essential nutrients in carbs that you cannot get
elsewhere. And there are NO essential carbohydrates. That makes carbohydrates
the least important nutrients. The ill-advised, stupid McGovern Report wrongly put
carbs into the base of the food pyramid as the MOST important nutrients.

As the most powerful nation in the world, the US led everybody astray by the nose,
because many nations unquestioningly take their cues from American positions.

Unhealthy Fad Diets

Over the past 40 years, fats have figured in many fad diets. None of them were effective
long-term, because they were all wrong in the way they looked at fats. There have been
high-fat diets (e.g. Atkins), low-fat diets (a la Pritikin), no-fat diets (based on all-fat-is-
bad phobia) and even a fake-fat diet (Olestra). All of them missed the point.

What is the point? None of these diets paid attention to the fact that 2 essential fatty
acids are essential to health and must be present in optimum amounts in any diet that
can sustain health in the long term.

● A no-fat diet will kill you if you stay on it long enough.

● A low-fat diet will also kill you, but slower.
● A fake-fat diet is the height of industrial stupidity (Olestra, the fake fat made by
Procter & Gamble, feels like and tastes like fat but is not absorbed into the body).
It was a gamble with your health and died in the toilet as a result of the serious
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 it also prevents the absorption into the body of fat-soluble nutrients, some of them
essential, and removes these nutrients into the toiled with the diarrhea they cause.
● A high-fat diet is not sustainable if it does not supply both essential fatty acids in
undamaged form and in the right amount and ratio. The more non-essential fats
you consume, the more essential fatty acids you need to also include in your diet.

High-fat diets over time, like the old Atkins and the modern KETO diets, usually ignore
the importance of essential fatty acids, without which you can neither be healthy nor live
long. Deficiency of either one will lead to deterioration of health unto death.

A ‘Right Fat’ Keto Diet

Is it obvious to you yet that we ignored and did not try the one possible diet that could
make people healthy AND have them lose weight as a side effect of good health?
Welcome to the world of the Right Fat KETO Diet®!

● Your already know that fats don’t turn on the fat production gene. You know that
fats don’t turn off the fat-burning genes. You know that fats suppress appetite.
● And you know that unlike carbs, fats produce ketosis, give you stable energy and
don’t produce blood sugar, energy, insulin and mood swings topped off by
cravings.
● But EFAs (‘Right Fats’) produce some very helpful additional effects when used as
the source of fats in a KETO diet.
● Omega-3 actively (omega-6 to a small extent) turns on and powers up all the fat-
burning genes in your cells. For this reason, I call omega-3 the ‘fat-burning fire-
starter’.
● Omega-3 decreases inflammation, making it effective at reducing any body weight
resulting from excess water held in inflamed tissues. If inflammation is your case,
you can literally pee out your overweight, as retained water leaves your no longer
inflamed tissue and is removed through your kidneys.
● Omega-3 increases your energy level and makes you more likely to be physically
active (and burn more calories) because it increases your oxygen metabolism and
your metabolic rate.
● Omega-3 and -6 together enhance skin beauty, which may enhance other kinds
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In the right amount and ratio, undamaged omega-3 and -6 oils made with health in mind
can increase stamina and performance by 40-60% within a month of starting to take
them. They also speed recovery and healing and improve muscular development that
results in higher metabolic rate and raised oxygen metabolism.

You can stay healthy on a Right Fat KETO Diet® for the rest of your life and extend
your longevity with it as well.

59.What about Paleo? A Question of Definition

Paleo diets have been quite the rage for the past decade or more. They are supposed to
mimic how our ancestors ate. This assumes that before civilization, we were hunter-
gatherers. That may have been true in some places, but in other places, plant-based
foods were most prevalent, simply because plants don't run away and don’t fight, so they
are much easier to hunt down and kill.

Hunters came home without meat a lot in most places. In those places where and at
those times when this was true, humans were more gatherers than hunters. Gatherer-
hunters rather than hunter-gatherers. In truth, men everywhere have been doing the
bragging about their hunting skills, while in many places, women quietly picked berries,
leaves, flowers, roots, herbs and weeds to feed the family. Perhaps the saying: ‘Among
lions and humans, women do all the work,’ applies here as well as in other situations.

Paleo Diet Definition

‘Paleo Diet’ Definition: A diet based on the types of foods presumed to have been eaten
by early humans, consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, and excluding
dairy or grain products and processed food.’ It is also known as the ‘caveman diet’.

This definition leaves a large amount of wiggle room that comes from the ‘presumed to
have been eaten by early humans’ part of the definition.

Given that nobody alive today lived in the Paleolithic time (~2.5 million years ago until
~12,000 years ago), you can make up a ‘Paleo Diet’ in a lot of different ways, depending
on your food preferences, including some of your favorite, strongly held, unfounded
opinions.

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Is the Paleo Diet Useful?
Is a Paleo Diet useful? Sure it is. Any diet that excludes processed foods is better for
health than any diet that includes processed foods. Excluding dairy eliminates the source
of one of the most common food allergies. Avoiding grains eliminates the second most
important source of food allergies.

● Today, grains often contain traces of glyphosate (Roundup), Monsanto’s popular

pesticide introduced in 1974, and which was previously used as an antibiotic.
Monsanto dishonestly advertised it as being inactivated on contact with soil. I
know, because in a dark period of my life (1977-1980) had a job in which I sprayed
the stuff on a daily basis.
● Glyphosate is also now used to desiccate grains to ripen and harvest them earlier
in the year, which is more convenient for farmers. There are now thousands of
lawsuits worth billions if not trillions of dollars in damages against Monsanto by
this pesticide, which even the rather slow United Nations has classified as a
probable carcinogen.
● Avoiding grains (also soybeans and corn) is a wise thing to do, as long as
glyphosate is used on them.
● Fish is now the dirtiest meat on the planet, due to pollution that washes into
waterways and oceans.
● Meat has unhealthy additives in it, and is grown with the use of hormones,
antibiotics and pesticide-containing foods.
● Antibiotics and glyphosate can upset the balance of good and bad bacteria in our
gut and compromise our physical, mental, immune, hormonal and neural health.

What’s Good to Eat?

Fruits and vegetables are always good, especially vegetables. For those who like the
image of being a caveman, the Paleo Diet promises a character trait long lost and buried
under the weight of civilization.

If you follow the existing research, you know that it is now clear that the longest life and
best health results from a diet consisting of plant-based whole foods. If you decide to eat
only these, you must add vitamin B12 as a supplement.

The addition of any animal product: dairy, eggs, fowl, red meat or fish decreases both
health and longevity. This information kind of takes most of the romance and glory out
of the virile caveman mentality, replacing it with a sicko caveman reality.

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 ● Eat low on the food chain. That’s where the veggies are. A dear friend of mine
who is 15 years younger than I am fights the research. He says: ‘I did not claw
my way up to the top of the food chain to end up eating vegetables.’ Do I argue
with him? No. But I am aware of the responsibility I have. Someone has to live
long enough to carry his coffin.

60.Why Undeclared Fats? A Question of Carbohydrates

• Your body must convert all of the carbohydrate molecules that you do not burn,
into fats for storage in the body.
● If you don’t burn ‘em, you wear ‘em!
● A fat-phobic society overlooks the fact that your body MUST turn excess
(unburned) carbohydrates into fats.

You like it when the label of products reads ‘low-fat’ and no fat’. You think that you will
not get fat or sick on such products. But the truth is quite different. Most such products
are loaded with carbohydrates. These turn into fats in your body. That is why I call them
‘undeclared fats’. To remind yourself, you might as well call them that, too.

Life never turns carbohydrates into five-star vitally important essential omega-3 or
omega-6 in the body. It also doesn’t make three-star omega-3 derivatives from them. It
only makes one-star, optional saturated or monounsaturated fats out of carbohydrates.
These are the ones that you can take or leave. These are the ones that are fuel, but don’t
do much else in the body. These are the ones that your body can make out of sugar and
starch. That’s what I just said.

When people become overweight from eating carbohydrates, the fat deposits created
from them are always the kind of fats that we can live without. They are, however, less
toxic than carbohydrates.

A person can carry 300 pounds of fat around on their body and still be alive, but s/he can
only store 1 pound of carbohydrates in their body (in the form of glycogen, or animal
starch, stored in the liver and muscles). That gives us an idea of the relative biological
importance of fats and carbohydrates in the body.

When we burn carbohydrates, they are passable fuel. When we don’t burn them, they
act as poisons that life turns into fats in order to protect us from developing a high blood
sugar coma that can end in death.

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THE ELEPHANT IN THE FAT ROOM
This is a letter that I wrote to Time Magazine, in the hope that they might be interested
in the missing part of the story. They did not print it. They didn’t even acknowledge
receiving it. I was only slightly disappointed. It’s been clear to me for some time that the
changes we need in the world will not come from established banks, governments,
religions, media or even educational institutions. Freedom, through knowing the truth,
will change the world by disrupting the institutions. Here is my slightly updated letter to
Time. It did not help Time Magazine, but I hope it helps you.

My Letter to Time Magazine

Thank you, Bryan Walsh. Finally, we are exposing carbohydrates and exonerating fats.
Been a long time coming. But some elephants remain in the room. May I humbly address
them in point form?

● There are NO essential carbohydrates. That makes carbohydrates the LEAST

important of our foods. The body can make carbohydrates from amino acids
(proteins) and from the backbone of fats (glycerol). There is no tissue in the body,
not even our brain, that can’t get its energy from fats (as ketones, glycerol and
glucose made from fats).
● There ARE essential fats (fatty acids): omega-3 and omega-6. We cannot live
without them. They have to come from food (or supplement). Too little leads to
degeneration that gets worse with time. Too little too long, and we die. Return of
enough to a diet too low in them reverses the degeneration that results from
getting too little.
● Stable, carbohydrates keep for years, easy for industry to work with. Omega-3 and
omega-6 are very sensitive to damage by light, oxygen and heat. Of all our
nutrients, they need the most care. They get the least, so they become the most
damaged of our food molecules. Fresh oils are best refrigerated or frozen, and
who wants to do all that? We are used to keeping ice cream and meat frozen. But
we are not used to giving that kind of care to oils, even though lack of this kind of
needed and deserved care damages them and then damages us.
● The body MUST turn unburned carbohydrates into fat for storage in the body.
Because of that, I call carbohydrates ‘undeclared fats’. They lead to blood sugar,
insulin and mood swings. Ravenous cravings can result from low blood sugar. The
body says: ‘Eat or die!’ So, we eat. Addiction to carbohydrates can be 8 times more
powerful than addiction to cocaine.

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 ● Fats suppress appetite and produce lasting, stable energy. They do not produce
blood sugar, insulin and mood swings, and don’t result in cravings that lead to
overeating.
● Carbohydrates do not produce thermogenesis. Omega-6, and especially omega-3,
turn on fat burning, turn off fat production (provided we eat them INSTEAD of
carbohydrates), and increase thermogenesis substantially. That means: We burn
fats and blow them off as heat. They keep us warm in winter, and increase energy,
stamina, performance and recovery. Life also turns them into many other
molecules important to health in our body: DHA in brain, eyes and sperm, EPA in
immune function, hormones known as eicosanoids (prostaglandins, prostacyclins,
thromboxanes, leukotrienes), antioxidant (protectins), powerful anti-inflammatory
(resolvins), and feel-good molecules called endocannabinoids.
● We need energy, which comes mostly from carbohydrates or from fats (which is
why the short-lived fad of low-fat, low-carbohydrate diet failed). We should choose
one OR the other as our main source of fuel. I call this a ‘fuel shift’ rather than a
‘fuel addition’.
● Weight normalization comes most easily from eating LESS carbohydrates, and
MORE good fats. Mixing them confuses our system and works against us. We can
also lose extra pounds by eating more greens/veggies, more probiotics, and less
bread, pasta, pancakes, sweets, sugar, cake, cookies, corn, corn ‘syruped’ soft
drinks, potatoes, rice, desserts, waffles and pancakes.
● Processing and food preparation ARE the fattest FAT elephants in the room.
Processing damages about 1% of the molecules in oils treated by industry with
harsh chemicals, bleaching clays and high temperature. Not much, right?

But did you know that from just one tablespoon of an oil damaged 1% by this processing,
we get more than 1 million damaged, unnatural molecules for every one of our body’s 60
trillion cells?

And when we use damaged oils for frying, we further damage the oil and burn the food.
Frying (burning, overheating) starch, protein and oils, each independent of the others,
increases the risk of inflammation and cancer.

FRIED OILS FRY HEALTH

The body needs an oil change, just like the car. Dirty (damaged) oils out, clean
(undamaged, made with health in mind) oils in.

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Good oils made with health in mind are better fuel than carbohydrates, which in turn are
more effective fuel than saturated fats.

Research needs to examine the damage that processing, oils in particular, but all foods
in general, does to health. Most food-related health problems will be tracked back to how
far out of line our processing takes us from life’s (or nature’s) mandate for how to eat:
fresh, whole, raw, organic foods. ALL creatures, except humans, have ALWAYS eaten
that way. Might that be a hint?

Once again, thank you for the article. And thank you for reading my response. I’m happy
to continue this conversation with you.

I never got a reply from Bryan Walsh or the magazine. Nothing. Silence. Now YOU know!

61.How Does it All Work? A Question of Mechanism

In this chapter, we examine the big picture on comprehensive health. How do life and
health work on planet earth? Here’s a summary of what I published in ‘The Book on
TOTAL SEXY HEALTH’. It’s a topic that I began to inquire into in 1948 at age six, aspects
of which various teams and teachers I’ve worked with helped to develop over the past
seven decades.

Life the Power

Contrary to modern materialistic science, which focuses only on what the brain and the
body ‘do’, the truth is that life is the power behind all doing, and awareness is the being
behind all power. Your brain is life’s computer, and your body is life’s physical vehicle for
physical activities. Life created the body out of light, oxygen, water and food, using a
genetic program (blueprint) that it also developed over eons. Life’s purpose for your body
is to use it to serve life, body, others and nature in different ways.

The Brain: Your Central Computer

Your brain is life’s administrative central computer. Life uses this central computer to
gather information, sort, systematize and interpret that information into a coherent
narrative of meaning, and translate situational input into responsive, thoughtful, calm
actions or emotional, ‘knee-jerk’, automatic reactions, based on your presence, memories
of previous inputs, present emerging needs, and imagined future outcomes.

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 ● The brain receives (perceives), computes, (interprets), decides (chooses) and
executes (acts, carries out) the body’s response to input, according to your state
of being and the need of the situation, always with survival and/or thriving as its
goal. Life’s administrative central computer plays a complex and powerful role, but
life is its boss and ruler.
● How can you know that for sure? It’s simple. It comes from observing life and
death.

Your amazingly competent and complex computer, the brain, is completely useless
without life. Life does not just rule and run the computer. Life also designs, builds, repairs
and rebuilds that computer, ongoing, for an entire lifetime, using your (really, its) genetic
program to do so.

Body your Vehicle for Action

The body is life’s vehicle for action. It is life’s instrument for physical activity on the
physical plane of planet earth, based on situational input into the brain computer and
adaptive output instructions to your body after quick or slow processing by that computer.

Life the Designer and Creator

Life designed and built the genetic DNA program that holds the instructions for both body
and brain construction. Life built, maintains, repairs and rebuilds (heals) both brain and
body ongoingly, for as long as these two instruments last, before their form predictably
breaks down beyond repair.

Life designed the administrative central computer brain with senses that perceive the
environment. Life designed this computer to perceive events (experiences), and to
interpret and give meaning to them in line with survival needs and thriving. Life also
designed legs to respond to events by running toward or away from them, arms that can
hold, hit, carry or push away what comes at you, a digestive system that ingests nature
to obtain building blocks for body construction and repair, a reproductive system for body
replacement, and a very long list of other complex parts with diverse functions.

We could go on and on about the physical complexities that life has created, and the
genetic program that it also created and refined over eons of time to respond with finesse
to inputs from the cellular, body and external environments. But this briefest of
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you to be in awe of the creative genius of life, which makes it possible for you to exist at
all and to experience being human for a time.

Life the Ruler

Even though it is really simple in its nature, Life, not the brain and not the body or any
gland, organ or body part, controls everything human. Life is the ruler, the boss, the
dictator, the CEO, the presence, the instructor, the mover, the knower, the self, the force,
the source, the energy, the light, the master and the power behind everything that is
body/mind in any and all creatures. This applies to feeling, thinking, speaking and doing.
It applies to—everything. Brain and body without Life are nothing. Brain and body with
Life enable you to think and do an almost endless number of things.

Although Life Weighs Nothing, it Runs Everything.

Being energy, Life does not require a body to be real and conscious. Life does not require
mind or thought in order to know. Many people over the ages have experienced this first-
hand. Accounts of their existence as Life separate from their body are not hard to find.

On the other hand, your body requires Life to be able to function, and your mind requires
Life in order to think.

Energy Trumps Matter

In all of creation, energy precedes matter. Before the Big Bang, something indescribable
beyond time, space, matter and energy existed (no one knows exactly what that was; it
might have been a super-concentrated point of awareness). The Big Bang exploded this
into the following four: Space, Time, Energy and Matter. Here we’re focusing on energy
and matter.

● After the Big Bang, energy preceded matter. Matter appeared later, as a
condensation or crystallization or concentration of energy.
● The energy of sunlight touching earth preceded the excitation of electrons on
atoms (or energy of activation) that made possible the chemical reactions that led
to the development of molecules, complex molecules, microbes, plants and
animals.
● Energy excites atoms. Atoms don’t excite themselves. Without energy, there is no
chemistry. Even in reproduction, long before the physical embrace, there is
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 ‘chemistry’, that chemistry consists of a quickening exchange of energy, which is
actually the realm of physics.
● The energy of life precedes the construction of physical form.
● Finally, in healing, anything that improves energy drives the processes of healing.
Moving atoms and molecules around the body in healing activities requires energy.
● Atoms and molecules do not move themselves.

Human Nature in Four Main Parts

Human nature has four distinct and separable main parts. Each part has a different nature
and a different function. Each part needs a different kind of attention on a regular basis.
Each part goes off in a different way and responds to a different kind of intervention.

Awareness is an undifferentiated, dimensionless, formless ‘container’ out of which all

things arises, within which all things unfold, and into which all things eventually dissolve
again. Awareness is also your capacity to pay attention; to perceive; to notice; to focus;
to will.

Life is the necessary energy or power that runs the mental and physical shows.

Mind is the arbitrarily created program of instructions that has two very different aspects
with very different functions: a) Creative; and b) Survival.

Body is the physical vehicle for physical action. It includes the physical genetic DNA
instructions for body construction and repair.

To live a whole life, you have to give each part its due. This separation of the human
being into distinct and separable parts is not unique. It’s analogous to cars and
computers, which other than not having the capacity of self-awareness, are constructed
similarly.

The ‘life’ or power of a computer is its power source (battery or wall plug). The body of
the computer is its ‘hardware’. The mind of a computer is its software program.

The ‘life’ or power of a car is its fuel. The body of a car is its chassis, wheels, motor, etc.
The ‘mind’ of a car is the driver’s intent, which gives direction toward the goal by means
of steering, gas pedal and brake pedal.

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Life makes and uses DNA as its blueprint for making RNA, which acts as a template for
the construction of all of the proteins that determine the shape and functions of bodies
made from nature, food, essential nutrients (no poisons), water and air. Every year, life
removes and replaces 98% of the atoms in the body. This is why healing is possible.

When you are physically sick, you can get life to rebuild 98% of your body to a higher
standard simply by:

● Raising the standard (quality) of the food, water, air and light that you take in;
● Making sure that you optimize digestion with digestive enzymes, probiotics and
fiber;
● Balancing action, activity and exercise with rest, recovery, healing and sleep;
● Avoiding poisons and doing detoxification.

What role do good oils play in healing? As part of food, 15% of your body weight is
oils/fats. In a normal weight adult, that’s 22.5 pounds or about 10kg. Omega-3 and
omega-6 EFAs make up about 10% of the weight of the wet brain. They make up a
smaller amount of the oils/fats in the rest of your body’s tissues. One of their functions
in body construction, activity and repair is that they are structural building blocks within
cells and tissues. But they also store a lot of energy that drives the chemistry of healing.

Water makes up about 70% of the weight of the body. Oils/fats, at 15% of your weight,
are the most abundant and energy-richest nutrient molecules in the body. Proteins are
about 10%. Minerals are about 4%. Free oxygen is about 1%. And vitamins are less than
1% of your total body weight. Light, of course, is weightless. All are necessary for body
construction, function and repair.

EFAs are the most sensitive, easily damaged building blocks. Light, oxygen and heat, as
well as minerals and water, can easily damage these highly sensitive oil molecules. The
oils you use in your foods have been most harshly treated, are most destructively used,
and thereby become the most toxic of your nutrients from foods. The oil change that
your body needs, from damaged oils to good oils made with health in mind, enables
profound improvements in physical health to take place. Within a single year, healthy oils
will have replaced 98% of the damaged oils in your body. That change improves your
health. Additionally, good oils remove oil-soluble toxins from your body through your
lymphatic system, through your skin when you sweat, and through your bowel and
kidneys. Did you know that there is fat in your urine? It’s what leaves the ring on the

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inside of your toilet bowl. How do you know it’s fat? Because you can wash it off with
soap, whose action is to emulsify fats and make them water-soluble.

62.What Blocks? A Question of Interference

Life and its DNA can only make physical health happen if you live in line with nature &
the natural system within which life developed this genetic program, and for which it
developed it. Living in line with nature consists of exposing your skin to natural light,
breathing fresh air, drinking fresh water and eating fresh, whole, raw, organic, mostly
plant-based, contamination-free foods. You’re healthiest on raw, whole, mostly plant-
based foods unless they’re contaminated by unnatural, toxic, industrial chemicals or
disease-carrying microbes. Cook microbe-infested foods to kill the pathogens that grow
on them.

Life’s DNA was not made to remove, break down or otherwise neutralize molecules that
never existed in nature. Such foreign molecules interfere with health when they get into
your body. That is why molecules foreign to nature so often have toxic, poisonous,
negative effects on your body. That’s also why man-made, synthetic, ‘patentable’ drugs
have so many unintended side effects.

In addition, the detox mechanisms that life/nature developed in your body can sometimes
work against you. Some unnatural toxic molecules become even MORE toxic in life’s
attempt to detoxify them in the body.

Industry developed unnatural, synthetic molecules only recently. They include:

● Pesticides, made with the sole purpose of interfering with biological processes and
thereby killing creatures
● Plastics, for which life made no breakdown methods, and which, when they get in
your body, can lead to low-grade chronic systemic inflammation as your immune
system tries in vain to neutralize them
● Pharmaceutical patented drugs, which have many toxic side effects because they
are not natural, and suppress symptoms without curing illnesses
● Industrial chemicals, thousands of which we’ve made, that are dangerous to
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 ● Household chemicals, that you are told to ‘keep out of reach of children’ because
of their powerful toxicity
● Beauty products and Cosmetics, for which there are few regulations, and many of
which contain unnatural toxic molecules that persist for many years in your
environment and don’t belong on your skin because they’re absorbed into your
body
● Food additives/preservatives that ‘preserve’ foods with poisons and prevent
bacteria from living on and rotting these foods, therefore keeping foods artificially
‘fresh’ longer than normal
● Damaged food molecules produced by industry’s food processing and by
restaurant or in-home food preparation, which your body recognizes as foreign,
but does not know how to get rid of
● Heavy metals, concentrated by industry, that include lead, cadmium, arsenic,
aluminum and mercury that have many health-damaging properties
● Radiation from atomic bombs and reactors, whose power wreaks havoc on delicate
molecules and bonds between their atoms in your body (Opinion: Atomic reactors
should be no closer than 93 million miles from the surface of planet earth)
● Radioactive elements like cesium, strontium, iodine and plutonium, whose
powerful gamma rays damage DNA, break molecules into fragments, create chaos
in your cells, and can cause mutations, cancer and birth defects

An excess or deficiency of some molecules interferes with the conversion of vital omega-
3 into useful omega-3 derivatives. This includes too many molecules of the omega-6
essential fatty acid called linoleic acid; omega-9 monounsaturated fatty acids; saturated
fatty acids; trans- fatty acids; starch; and sugar. Too few atoms or molecules that
promote conversion of vital omega-3 into useful omega-3 derivatives, including the
minerals magnesium and zinc; and vitamins B3, B6 and C.

Make sure that you optimize your intake of the essential nutrients that promote
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63.What Air, Water & Foods? A Question of 1. Quality
How should you eat? The answer depends on what you want to accomplish. When health
is your goal, you must align with the long-standing standards that life set for all creatures
in nature. What are these standards? We’ll devote a short chapter to each of these.

You can divide life’s standards for body construction into five topics:

1. Quality
2. Food Types
3. Essential Nutrient Building Blocks
4. Amounts
5. Digestion

Quality:
‘Fresh’ is the operative word on how to eat for health. The air you breathe should be
fresh, which is easier said than done, and points toward spending as much time as
possible in nature away from city and industry or finding a way to filter the air you
breathe. In nature, trees are the filter. In your home, you can get an air filter. But clearing
your lungs in nature is the better option for breathing fresh air.

Part of ensuring fresh air is to plant trees. There were 10 trillion trees on the planet
10,000 years ago (before agriculture). There are now 2.5 trillion. Trees act as filters for
dust, lower CO2 and acidity in the air, and increase oxygen and alkalinity in the air. Trees
also moderate weather and climate.

In some traditions, the family plants a tree every time a child was born. Naturally, that is
a great idea in line with keeping nature sustainable. Plant trees! Become a grateful
planetary gardener. Plant as many trees as possible in as many places as possible.

The water you drink should be fresh, which requires you to find a way to make at least
the stale, old, dirty, poisoned (with chlorine) municipal (city) water that you drink the
way it comes out of the taps in your house fresh again. Special technology has been
invented for doing this. Akin to making oils with health in mind (one of my earlier
missions), technology for making water with health in mind has been developed.

Much more water goes through your body than oils and all other nutrients put together.
How much more? About 22 times more water is absorbed into your body than nutrients,
every day, every year and over your entire lifetime. Making water ‘fresh’ again may be

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the most important single change you can make for health. With fresh water, you can
even make your not-so-fresh foods fresh again. Cleaning up our drinking water will
become a global issue in the near future.

In the short term, you can use equipment to make the water you consume fresh again.
In the long term, you have to clean up the messes you have been dumping into your
environment. This will become obvious the moment you feel taken care of, which happens
the moment you bring your awareness in touch with life within you. When you experience
your life as magnificent, you want to make it the best quality and longest duration
possible. This is a longer conversation we will revisit in a later chapter.

The foods you eat should be fresh, which means: Eaten as soon as they are harvested.
The foods you call fresh are usually 3-14 days old. Nutrients are lost during this time. As
soon as a vegetable is cut from its roots, it begins to deteriorate. Cool storage slows this
down but does not stop it. The freshest food grows in your back-yard garden. I strongly
suggest that if you live in a house, convert your front and back yard lawns into vegetable
gardens. Doing so, you can grow fresh, organic food. You know what has been done to
these foods, because you’re the one doing it. It puts you back in control of the quality of
at least the foods you yourself grow. It is also a way to teach the children in your
neighborhood about nature, seasons, growth, care and patience.

You can also promote planting fruit trees, shrubs, vegetables and herbs in your parks and
along your streets, free for the taking. If you live in an apartment, grow herbs on your
windowsill and balcony gardens.

Become a Gardener
Growing your own food is not only good for health. It is good practical education for city
kids who grow up largely out of touch with nature. It decreases your carbon footprint.
Your collective lifestyles cut down or burn the plants that make oxygen. At the same time,
your means of transportation increasingly burn more oxygen, gradually decreasing it in
your atmosphere. At present rates of carelessness, it should not take long for this planet
to become a waste dump no longer conducive to life. Clean up after yourself.

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A car driving normal speed for a day burns 500-700 times more
oxygen than you, the driver, burns by breathing in that same time?

Waiting for food to grow in your yard-garden helps to teach patience and reminds you all
how much time and persistence it takes to go from a seed to a food. It’s really fun to be
part of this kind of education. It helps young people living in the ‘instant’ world to connect
to the importance of sustained effort, alignment with seasons, realistic expectations and
learning to appreciate weather and climate.

A garden is a study of nature. It’s practical. It’s grounded. Experiencing a home garden,
children become more realistic adults later in life. Instant messaging does not make
radishes grow faster.

Equally important, the fresh food home-grown also improves both health and energy.

Fresh: Air gets old. Water gets old. Food gets old. Consume all of them fresh. Fresh,
they best support health. Fresh, they are most nutrient-rich. Fresh, they have and give
you the most energy.

Whole: This is how nature made them. Nothing has been added or removed. The foods
look the way nature made ‘em. But be warned. Whole wheat bread, for instance, is not
made from whole wheat, but from white flour to which a bit of bran has been re-added,
but from which much of the nutritional value (minerals, vitamins, [some] amino acids,
essential fatty acids, probiotics, enzymes and fiber) has been removed and remains lost.

The word ‘whole’ is misused in advertising. It may be important for you to know what
whole looks like according to nature and to life.

On top of that, farmers may use pesticides like RoundUp (glyphosate of Monsanto fame
before that company hid inside of Bayer) to more quickly ripen grains, which leave poison
in grain-based products. Eat whole foods that still look whole. Trust your senses. Don’t
let them trick your mind with well-chosen misleading words in advertising copy. ‘Enriched
flour’, for instance, is flour that has had much of the seed’s 30+ minerals and vitamins
removed, has had 3-6 of them added back, and should really be called ‘impoverished’.
‘Value-added’ products are usually ‘value-subtracted’ if you look at their nutrient content.

Raw: All creatures in nature eat their food raw. Not cooked. Not fried. Not baked. Not
boiled, broiled, barbecued or steamed. Your pets and you no longer eat your foods raw.
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been turning, whether that’s 6,000 or several billion years. Return to eating more of your
foods that way. Better health follows. Cook microbe-contaminated foods to kill one-celled
creatures that can cause diseases.

You can eat everything else raw. It may take some time to get used to this change toward
more natural eating. Take a year. Make changes gradually. Be inspired by the fact that
you’re returning to a way of eating that’s closer to God’s plan and nature’s design.

Organic: When my generation was young (before the Flood; just kidding), all foods were
organic because pesticides had not yet come into widespread use. Now, only a few
decades later, organic is a big deal. This planet was organic for all of its existence, until
less than a century ago. Pesticides are not an improvement. They kill birds, your natural
insect-eaters. They poison earthworms and soil bacteria. They poison foods. They poison
you. The main intended use of pesticides is to destroy energy production or nerve
function. What a concept!! Choose organic and kill the pesticide industry instead. Vote
with your wallet to save your planet.

In season: In nature, you ate spring food in spring, summer food in summer, fall food
in fall and winter food in winter. That way, the foods were fresh, and they developed and
gave you their full nutrient values.

Without refrigeration and air conditioning, there was no cold storage in the warm seasons.
There was no warm storage in cold seasons except root cellars or similar storage methods
for root vegetables: tubers and bulbs like potatoes, onions, carrots, kohlrabi, rutabagas
and a few others.

Locally grown: It’s the way to get the freshest food, minimizes food shipping, and
minimizes the carbon footprint caused by the transportation of food over long distances.

Until relatively recently, long distance transportation of food was not possible.

Sun-ripe: Many people think that the best time to eat a food is when nature has fully
developed its nutrient value. But there may also be value in eating local foods while
they’re still green, young and unripe. Or to eat buds, flowers and seeds. Fresh is still the
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64.What Air, Water & Foods? A Question of 2. Food
Types
For most of human history, there were no fields of wheat, oats, rye, barley, spelt, kamut,
millet, rice, corn, yams, potatoes, sweet potatoes, quinoa, amaranth or sorghum. These
new inventions began with agriculture, only about 10 thousand years ago.

For most of human history on earth, most human groups ate mostly plants and little
meat. When hunters only had rocks to hunt with, they came home empty-handed a lot.
Then the family ate vegetables, mostly gathered by women and children. Plants don’t run
away and don’t fight back and are therefore easy to hunt down and kill. Stems, leaves,
flowers, bark and roots were part of our food supply. Fruit was available in season, but
fruits were much smaller, tarter and less sweet. Seeds, nuts, tubers and roots provided
winter foods rich in protein, fat, oil and fuel.

To improve health, eat more closely to our habits at that time. Your genes developed in
nature before agriculture and work best for your health when you eat in line with nature
before agriculture.

Recent research makes it clear that the longest and healthiest life comes from whole-
food, mainly plant-based diets. When you do that, be sure to also take a vitamin B12
supplement. There is no reliable commercial plant source of this essential vitamin.

When you add eggs, dairy, fish or meat to that diet, you shorten your life and compromise
your health. Recent studies also show that the most contaminated food you can eat today
is fish. Sad, but true. This is the result of a century of chemical industrial pollution that
has found its way into our waterways, oceans and into the fish and other marine
organisms that live there.

So, what are the best-for-health foods we can eat? The list will not surprise you.

Eat Greens: Where green plants cannot grow, people cannot live. Greens were here
long before animals—like, 2.5 billion years before themn. About 4 billion years before
mammals. Humans arrived on the scene less than 300,000 years ago. Greens are the
best food, because they produce everything you need and make it available to you in
pleasant and flavorful forms. They make the oxygen you need to breathe to live. They
suck up and place single atoms of minerals into molecules that makes these minerals
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you. They manufacture vitamins, essential amino acids and essential fatty acids that you
must have. They also manufacture the fuel you need. They hold water in the soil. They
provide food, and materials for clothing and shelter. They trap sunlight. They give you
shade. They create beauty. They make salads, fruits, seeds and nuts. They grow radishes,
carrots and other root crops. They cool summers and warm winters. They create weather
and climate.

They even make the animals you eat. A cow is made from grass. The milk she gives is
also made from grass. The steak is made from grass. Some people say that since a cow
is made from grass, steak is really just a more concentrated form of vegetables. Although
it’s true, that’s really stretching it, because long-term, steak is not as good for health as
are plant-based whole foods. Eat the grass? Not exactly, because your digestive system
is different from that of a cow. But eat mainly fresh, whole vegetables.

Eat Good Oils: These contain the omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids, without
which you can’t live. You can’t stay healthy on a low-fat diet. A no-fat diet will eventually
kill you. A high-fat diet is usually not healthy, because it usually contains too much of the
wrong fats and not enough of the right ones. A fake fat diet completely misses the point
and is based on the mistaken assumptions that eating fats will make you fat and that all
fats are bad for health.

Get your good fats from seeds and nuts that contain them, or from oils made with health
in mind.

A Right-Fat® diet, which optimizes intake of both essential fatty acids is the way to eat
healthy. It emphasizes seeds, nuts and good oils made with health in mind. Omega-3 and
omega-6 both need to be present in the right ratio and undamaged. An oil change to
good oils and the discontinuation of damaged oils will pay you great dividends in health.

The Right-Fat® diet topic developed in depth in an upcoming piece of work. Stay in
touch, and we’ll let you know when it is available.

Eat Proteins: All whole foods contain proteins. Nuts and seeds contain about 25%
protein (more protein than meat, which is less than 15-20% protein and 70-80% water).
Beans contain about 20% protein. Quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat contains about 13-
16% protein. Other grains contain about 8-12% protein. Green vegetables and grass
contain about 2-7% protein. When you eat only whole foods, you will not suffer from
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whole foods supply, but even that is not certain. I have seen some very stacked plant-
based body builders.

Eating processed foods from which nutrients including protein have been removed can
make you protein deficient. White sugar contains zero proteins and almost zero minerals
and vitamins. White flour and breads contain no essential fatty acids, 30% less protein,
and less minerals and vitamins than whole grains. Refined oils contain no protein either.

You need protein to build muscles, enzymes, cell structures and receptors. Proteins supply
8-11 essential amino acids that life cannot make in your body and they must therefore
be brought in from outside, from foods. They also supply about 10 non-essential amino
acids that life can make in your body.

Limit carbohydrates: Carbohydrates are fuel. Good oils are much better fuel than
carbohydrates, but high fat diets require you to drink more water. Carbohydrates are
your least important food because there are no essential carbohydrates. If you eat too
much sugar and/or starch, you put on weight because your body must turn any
carbohydrates you do not burn during activity into fats for storage, to be used during a
famine, should there be one. If there is no famine, you stay overweight. You may even
become obese, diabetic and insulin-resistant, and die prematurely from a heart attack or
stroke.

The carbohydrates that you eat and burn are not the problem. It’s the ones you eat and
DON’T burn that are the problem, especially if they are refined. These can cause high
and low blood sugar, cravings and swelling from water retention. They can also take
minerals out of your bones, rot your teeth, feed bacterial infections, promote the growth
of cancer cells and knock out your immune system.

Good oils rich in essential fatty acids get you more energy than you get from
carbohydrates. Oil energy is stable, and benefits every cell, tissue, gland, organ and
system in your body. Limit carbohydrates. Burn good oils for fuel instead. Make a ‘fuel
switch’ to better fuel, better performance and better health.

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65.What Air, Water & Foods? A Question of 3. Essential
& Non-Essential Nutrient Building Blocks:
Life forgot to create a genetic program in your cells to enable you to make essential
nutrients. That is why you must get them from outside, from foods or supplements. What
you eat must supply all of these building blocks. Optimum health requires optimum intake
of each of them. If you don’t get enough of one or more of them, your health declines.
Then you develop symptoms of deficiency that get worse with time.

If you don’t get enough long enough, you die. If you return enough of them to a deficient
diet, your deterioration ceases, deficiency symptoms reverse, and in time, you get your
health back.

Why is that? Life knows exactly what to do to make a body in which everything works
normally (a definition of health) and has a genetic program with which to do it. All YOU
need to do is ensure that optimum amounts of all essential nutrients land in your body
to enable life to do its job with them.

Most of the nutrients that are essential for humans are not essential to plants. Plants
don’t need vitamins, amino acids or fatty acids. They only need water, sun, carbon
dioxide, a source of nitrogen and minerals. Plants make all other nutrients and oxygen
from scratch.

Human Body Composition: Your body is made up of:

● 70% water
● 15% oil
● 10% protein
● 4% minerals
● 1% oxygen
● Less than 1% vitamins

Oils include 2 essential fatty acids, and dozens of non-essential fatty acids. Proteins
consist of 8-11 essential amino acids, and about 9-12 of non-essential amino acids.
Mineral and non-mineral elements include:

● 7 major non-mineral elements used in your body

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 ● 4 minor non-mineral elements used in trace quantities in your body
● 9 minor mineral elements that are catalytic sites in proteins
● 2 essential mineral elements for which no deficiencies exist, making it unnecessary
for you to supplement.
● Vitamins include 4 oil-soluble and 8 water-soluble ones.

Let’s look at all of these in turn.

Two Essential Fatty Acids:

The life of plants makes both of these. Life did not create a program for you to make
them. That is why they must come into your body from foods or from supplements. Whole
foods are the basic source of all essential nutrients. Foods can be augmented with
supplements of essential fatty acids (EFAs).

From essential fatty acids (EFAs) and their derivatives, your body makes many hormones,
antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and other molecules, including endocannabinoids. EFAs
are:

Linoleic acid (omega-6): LA

● Omega-6 Derivatives: GLA, DGLA, AA, DPA(n6)

Alpha-Linolenic acid (omega-3): ALA

● Omega-3 Derivatives: SDA, EPA, DPA(n3), DHA

Oil sources:

Plants:

● Seeds and nuts: 10-70% oil;

● Soybeans: 18% oil;
● Beans, peas, lentils, and garbanzos: 4% oil;
● Whole grains: 2-4% oil;
● Green vegetables: 0.1% oil;
● Fruits: 0.1% oil.

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Animals:

● Wild: 2-5% body fat;

● Domestic: 20-60% body fat.

Fish:

● Cod, snapper, red-meat tuna, and halibut: 1% oil;

● Salmon, mackerel, white meat (albacore) tuna, trout, herring, sardines, and eel:
8-15% oil

Essential & Non-Essential Amino Acids

8 Essential Amino Acids:

Life created a genetic program to make about 12 amino acids but did not create a
program to make the other 8-11, which therefore must come from proteins you eat.
Essential amino acids come either from plant-based or animal-based foods. All creatures
have the same 20 amino acids in common. What differs between creatures is the order
in which these amino acids are strung together to make distinctly different proteins, which
fold in different ways, producing widely differing shapes and functions. Here’s a list of
essential and non-essential amino acids, followed by some of their properties:

Essential amino acids (with long & short abbreviations):

● (e ) Isoleucine (Ile, I)
● (e) Leucine (Leu, L)
● (e) Lysine (Lys, K)
● (e) Methionine (Met, M)
● (e) Phenylalanine (Phe, F)
● (e) Threonine (Thr, T)
● (e) Tryptophan (Trp, W)
● (e) Valine (Val, V)

Essential for infants and growing Children (with long & short abbreviations):

● (ec) Arginine (Arg, R)

● (ec) Histidine (His, H)

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Essential for Premature Infants (w long & short abbreviation):

● (epi)Cysteine (Cys, C)

Non-essential amino acids (with long and short abbreviations):

● Alanine (Ala, A)
● Asparagine (Asn, N)
● Aspartic acid (Asp, D)
● Glutamic acid (Glu, E)
● Glutamine (Gln, Q)
● Glycine (Gly, G)
● Proline (Pro, P)
● Serine (Ser, S)
● Tyrosine (Tyr, Y)

Amino acids can be grouped into families with similar chemical properties, structures and
functions. These are:

● Aromatic (hydrophobic side chain): (e) Phenylalanine, Tyrosine and (e)

Tryptophan
● Branched Chain (fuel for athletes): (e) Isoleucine, (e) Leucine and (e) Valine
● Glutamate: Glutamic acid, Glutamine,
● GABA, gamma-amino butyric acid is a neurotransmitter; not used in protein
structure
● Important Metabolite: (e) Lysine, (ec) Histidine
● Carnitine: carries fatty acids into mitochondria for energy production; not part of
protein structure
● Sulfur: (epi) Cysteine, (e) Methionine
● Taurine: not part of protein structure
● Glutathione: body-made, 3-amino acid antioxidant; not part of protein structure
● Urea Cycle: (ec) Arginine
● Citrulline: not part of protein structure
● Ornithine: not part of protein structure
● Hydrophilic: (lipophobic; water-soluble)
● Basic (electrically charged side chain): (e) Lysine, (ec) Arginine and (ec) Histidine
● Acidic: Aspartic acid and Glutamic acid
● Polar w uncharged R groups: Serine, (e)Threonine, Asparagine and Glutamine

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 ● Hydrophobic (aliphatic, lipophilic: inside protein core): Alanine, (e) Isoleucine, (e)
Leucine, (e) Phenylalanine, (e) Valine, Proline, and Glycine
● Polar (may participate in hydrogen bonds): Glutamine, Asparagine, (ec)Histidine,
Serine, (e) Threonine, Tyrosine, (epi) Cysteine, (e) Methionine & (e) Tryptophan
● Charged: (ec) Arginine, (e) Lysine, Aspartic acid, and Glutamic acid

A cow, horse, rabbit and elephant make all their muscles out of grass. There’s enough
protein in grass to make those muscles. Most whole foods contain as much or more
protein than grass. Amino acid deficiency is almost impossible for anyone who eats only
whole foods. You do not need to give amino acids more attention than this, except for
some specialty uses of individual amino acids.

Seven Major Non-Mineral Elements

These make up most of your body. Here is the weight and percentage of each, using the
average body weight, which is 70kg (154 pounds). If you happen to weigh less or more
than the average, you can use the percentage to find out the weight of each element is
in your body.

● Oxygen (O) is the main part of water, and also present in carbohydrates, fats and
proteins; you also breathe in oxygen, in its free form, from air. In total, oxygen
makes up about 43kg (94.6lbs) or 61.4% of total body weight.
● Carbon (C) forms the backbone of fats, oils, sugars, proteins and nucleic acids;
makes up about 16kg (35.2lbs) in a 70kg (154lb) person, or about 23% of total
body weight.
● Hydrogen (H) is found in all of the above, as well as in water; makes up about
7kg (15.4lbs), or 10% of total body weight.
● Nitrogen (N) is found mostly in proteins and nucleic acids; makes up about 1.8kg
(4lbs) or 2.6% of total body weight.
● Phosphorus (P) is found in bone and in most energy reactions in the body; makes
up about 0.78kg (1.7lbs) or 1.1% of total body weight.
● Sulfur (S) is found in two amino acids, many antioxidants, and plants such as
garlic, onions, asparagus and cilantro; makes up about 0.14kg (0.31lbs) or 0.2%
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Together, these six major non-mineral elements make up 98.3% of the weight of your
body. One other major non-mineral element not used in the construction of body tissues
is:

● Chlorine (Cl) is required to make stomach acid, acts as an electrolyte in your

blood’s acid-base balance, kills bacteria, helps blood carry carbon dioxide, is
important for the growth of bone and connective tissue; makes up about 0.095kg
(0.21lbs) or 0.14% of total body weight.

Four Major Mineral Elements

They and some of their main functions include:

● Calcium (Ca) is found in bones and teeth, and is used in energy reactions, is
required for nerve conduction and muscle contraction, blood clotting, membrane
permeability, heartbeat, energy production and immune function; makes up about
1kg (2.2lbs) or 1.4% of total body weight.
● Potassium (K) plays an important role as an electrolyte inside our cells and is
vital for nerve and heart functions; makes up about 140 grams or 0.2% of total
body weight.
● Sodium (Na) plays an important role as an electrolyte outside our cells and in our
blood; helps regulate blood pressure; keeps calcium in solution; keeps membranes
charged, along with K; prevent and treat heat stroke and cramps; makes up about
100 grams or 0.14% of total body weight.
● Magnesium (Mg) is important in bone physiology and tooth enamel formation;
plays a key role in more than 300 enzyme and energy reactions in your body; is
vital for heart and brain health; is important in combating stress; is required for
ATP (energy storage molecule); reactions that release energy; reactions involved
in carb, fat & protein metabolism; makes, breaks down and stabilizes DNA (the
genetic material); used in muscle relaxation and nerve transmission; heartbeat,
membrane stability and integrity; and conversion of essential fatty acids into
dozens of derivatives. Magnesium makes up about 19 grams or 0.027% of total
body weight.

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Four Minor (Trace) Non-Mineral Elements

They include:

● Boron (B) is also important in bone construction and the prevention of bone loss;
helps heal bones and retain Mg; body content of boron is not known.
● Fluorine (F) is vital for the strength of bones and teeth; body content is 2.6
grams.
● Iodine (I) is vital in the functions of thyroid gland and ovaries; regulates metabolic
rate for all reactions in the body; assists performance of glands and organs;
important for physical and mental development; increases oxygen uptake; helps
to metabolize excess fats; helps assimilate other mineral and non-mineral
elements; regulates growth and development; body content is 12-20 milligrams.
● Silicon (Si) is important in the construction and properties of connective tissue;
body content of silicon is not known.

Nine Minor Trace Mineral Elements

These include:

● Chromium (Cr) improves metabolism of glucose; improves glucose intolerance;

improves insulin function; stabilizes blood sugar; increases lean muscle; lowers
high cholesterol; stimulates liver enzymes; body content of chromium is not
known.
● Cobalt (Co) is part of the vitamin B12 molecule; necessary for healthy red blood
cells; important for brain and nerve function; necessary for folic acid (vitamin)
function; body content is 1.5 milligrams.
● Copper (Cu) plays roles in arterial strength, is an antagonist to zinc, and is the
active mineral in some enzymes; protects lung tissue from damage by smoke and
pollution; helps iron absorption and has antioxidant function; important in red and
white blood cell synthesis; important in stress and nerve function; body content is
72 milligrams.
● Iron (Fe) is the carrier of oxygen in our red blood cells; part of muscle myoglobin
for sustained activity; part of the body's detoxification system; improves learning
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 connective tissue; builds resistance to yeast and bacterial infections; body content
is 4.2 grams.
● Manganese (Mn) helps make cartilage, discs, ligaments, joints, and bones;
involved in inner ear development and balance; necessary for RNA initiation, and
metabolism of proteins, nucleic acids and amines; necessary in synthesis of sex
hormones and reproductive function; antioxidant functions; immune functions;
part of energy production; part of mitochondrial energy production functions; body
content is 12 milligrams.
● Molybdenum (Mo) helps mobilize storage iron; part of an enzyme; helps in uric
acid production; detoxifies sulfite preservatives; reduces high copper levels;
detoxifies chemical carcinogens; increases muscle tone; body content of
molybdenum is not known.
● Selenium (Se) has important antioxidant function and many of the body’s
different detoxification systems; protects against free radical damage; anti-
inflammatory functions; protects immune system; slows aging; extends life span
in animals; body content is 7 milligrams.
● Vanadium (V) may regulate activity in enzymes of cell membranes; has functions
in fat metabolism; my play role in sugar metabolism; mimics insulin function; can
take the place of other minerals in some enzymes; may inhibit cholesterol
synthesis; may take the place of phosphorus in tooth enamel, and decrease tooth
decay; body content is 2.6 grams.
● Zinc (Zn) is the active mineral in more than 300 enzymes in the human body; is
essential for growth, healing, DNA and membrane stability; brain and sense
development; important for male reproduction; part of protein digesting enzymes,
acid production in the stomach, elimination of carbon dioxide from the body, brain
development, and the growth of hair and nails; necessary for insulin function,
immune cell power, essential fatty acid functions, and genetic material synthesis
and breakdown; body content is 2.3 grams.

Two other trace minerals are worth mentioning. They are arsenic (18 milligrams) and
nickel (1 milligram). Neither of these gets much attention, because they occur widely
and do not need to be supplemented. For arsenic, toxicity from too much intake
(poisoning) is more likely than too little. These are the essential nutrients that foods need
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Minerals and Elements come from earth, stone and soil. Plants take up minerals and make
them absorbable to us. Minerals play many basic roles in the body, and here is a list of
some of their more obvious functions:

● Electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride)

● Buffers, and active sites in proteins and enzymes (many different mineral
elements)
● Bones and teeth structure (calcium, magnesium, boron and others)
● Healing (zinc)
● Energy production (magnesium)
● Antioxidants (selenium, zinc)
● Connective tissue (silicon)
● Thyroid, ovaries and energy levels (iodine)
● Arteries (copper)
● Sugar metabolism (chromium)
● Brain, reproduction, heart and muscle function (zinc, magnesium, manganese and
others)
● Vitamin B12 structure (cobalt)
● Insulin function (chromium, vanadium)
● Oxygen carrier in blood (iron)

6 Most Abundant Elements

Just six elements make up 99.5% of your total body weight. These are:

● Oxygen (61.4%)
● Carbon (23%)
● Hydrogen (10%)
● Nitrogen (2.6%)
● Calcium (1.4%)
● Phosphorus (1.1%)

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12 Vitamins (+ a few ‘iffy’ candidates)

The life of plants uses genes to manufacture vitamins as cofactors to help in chemical
reactions. Life did not create a human-genetic DNA program to make these. They must
come from food. Vitamins come in oil-soluble and water-soluble forms.
Oil-soluble vitamins include Vitamins A, D, E, and K.
● Vitamin A is involved in growth, bone development, cell differentiation,
reproduction and sensory function; RNA and protein synthesis; thyroid and adrenal
function; skin and gut lining integrity; protection against infection; immune
function Plant-based Vitamin A is carotene. It has antioxidant functions, and is
important for growth
● Vitamin D intake used to be highly regulated, but recently, research found that
80% of people don’t get enough, and that it is safe at much higher doses than
previously thought; important in bone, liver, kidney, intestine and all other body
tissues and systems; bone and teeth; important in stable nervous system and heart
action
● Vitamin E is part of the body’s oil-soluble antioxidant system; cell protection
against pollutants and free radicals; slows the aging process; protects membrane
integrity in all tissues;
● Vitamin K is important in blood clotting mechanisms; required for functions in
bone and kidneys; part of calcium metabolism, transport and deposition in bone;
active in glucose metabolism

Water-soluble vitamins include seven B vitamins, and vitamin C.

● Thiamine (B1) is involved in carbohydrate metabolism; necessary to stabilize

nerve cell membranes and make the neurotransmitter acetylcholine; synthesis of
RNA, fat and niacin; important in liver function; promotes growth and repair of all
tissues; necessary for health of nerve, heart, muscle and digestive tissue;
necessary for production of hydrochloric acid and protein digestion
● Riboflavin (B2) is part of conversion of proteins into energy; vision; proton
transfer; part of respiratory chain in all cells; helps cells use oxygen; helps prevent
free radical damage; helps maintain integrity of skin, hair and nails; involved in
the synthesis of glycogen (animal starch); required for synthesis of several
hormones; helps uptake of iron and vitamin B6; helps make red blood cells in bone
marrow; controls fetal growth and development; needed to metabolize fats for
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● Niacin (B3) is necessary for energy production from carbohydrates, fats and
proteins in the respiratory chain in mitochondria in all cells; used in DNA, fat,
protein, hormone, bile salt and cholesterol, synthesis; important for the health of
the mouth, digestive tract, skin, brain and nervous system; part of dehydrogenase
enzyme systems in every cell
● Pantothenic acid (B5) is necessary for more than 70 enzyme reactions of lipid,
protein, carbohydrate, amino acid and energy metabolism; necessary for the
porphyrin part of hemoglobin; needed for normal intestinal function; carries
acetate groups for neurotransmitter functions and detoxification; involved in most
physiological and biochemical functions; synthesis of growth hormone, cholesterol
and adrenal steroid hormones (cortisone); tissue water balance; absorption of
nutrients; immune antibody response; energy-requiring processes in cells
● Pyridoxine (B6) is necessary for growth; used in more than 60 enzymes; helps
B12 absorption; improves immune function; helps keep heart and arteries healthy;
turns homocysteine (cardio risk factor) into methionine; moves amine groups
between molecules; used in metabolism of proteins, fats, and carbs; necessary in
lymph, muscle and nerve tissue; helps convert essential fatty acids into eicosanoid
hormones; regulates water metabolism through ratio of sodium to potassium;
cofactor in the synthesis of fats and proteins; improves oral health and integrity of
teeth and facial bones; vital in forming heme (blood pigment), nucleic acids, bile,
hormones, brain chemicals & immune antibodies; important in brain development
and neurotransmitter (serotonin, histamine and epinephrine); part of thyroid
hormone metabolism, and insulin and growth hormone synthesis; part of DNA,
RNA and elastin protein synthesis
● Biotin (B7) is involved in liver carbon dioxide transfer reactions; synthesis of
nucleic acids and ATP; part of several enzyme systems in growth and maintenance
of nerve tissue, bone marrow, sweat glands, male sex gland, skin tone, hair quality
and blood cells; involved in fatty acid oxidation and synthesis; carbohydrate, amino
acid, protein, energy and insulin activities; immune antibodies, pancreatic amylase
and vitamin B3; metabolism of branched chain amino acids, glycogen formation
and healthy skin and hair
● Folic acid (B9) is involved in all cells’ protein and enzyme metabolism; porphyrin
formation; conversion of phenylalanine into tyrosine; tyrosine oxidation; brain long
chain fatty acid metabolism; all methyl group transfer reactions; synthesis of DNA
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 ethanolamine); synthesis of histidine; especially important in rapidly dividing cells:
gut lining, tongue, fetus, red and white blood cells; enzymes that control cell
division, embryonic development of nerve cells, sex cells, nervous system,
intestine, blood and bone marrow; production of HCl; mental and emotional
health; liver function; turning homocysteine back into methionine; important for
neural development of fetus; higher demand during pregnancy; formation of red
blood cells
● Cobalamin (B12) is part of growth and cell division of all healthy cells; part of
DNA synthesis, and fatty and amino acid metabolism; part of fat and carbohydrate
metabolism; part of liver, kidney, nervous system, heart, skin, muscle and bone;
re-activates glutathione, one of the powerful antioxidants made in the body from
amino acids; with folic acid, develops healthy red blood cells; provides CH3 for DNA
regulation and division; helps folic acid make choline; used in metabolism of iron,
folic acid and glucose; improves nitrogen retention in food animals; maintains
fertility, normal growth and development; helps growth in underweight children
● Ascorbic acid (C) is involved in the synthesis of connective tissue substances,
and structure of muscle, blood vessels, bone, cartilage and scar tissue; necessary
in wound healing and red blood cell formation; hydroxylates lysine and proline;
prevent capillary rupture and bleeding into tissue spaces; one of the most powerful
antioxidants in the body; keeps bone capable of holding calcium and phosphorus;
keeps cartilage capable of holding bones in place at joints; dentin layer formation
in development of teeth; helps synthesize mucopolysaccharides with anti-cancer
activity; protects against stress of chemical interventions; detoxifies histamine;
relieves symptoms of niacin flush, hay fever, frostbite and poisoning; necessary
for producing carnitine to carry fats into mitochondria for energy production; help
make neurotransmitters serotonin and noradrenaline; involved in tyrosine
metabolism in thyroid function; involved in pigment and adrenal steroid hormone
production; helps regulate blood fats and conversion of cholesterol to bile acids;
helps calcium absorption; helps absorb, store and use dietary iron; reduces
oxidized molecules to reduced (re-charged) form; activates some iron-containing
enzymes; enhances bioflavonoid activity

A Little More Doesn’t Hurt

Life can make ‘iffy’ vitamin status candidates in your body, but they can be useful
supplements. They include:

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 ● Inositol acts as a water-soluble muscle sugar, mostly at the cell membrane level,
with beneficial energy functions in all cells, and calming effect on brain tissue
● Choline has the main function of providing methyl (CH3) groups to biological
reactions; part of lecithin (phosphatidylcholine); involved in fat metabolism
(lipotropic); essential for liver and kidney function; part of digestion, synthesis and
transport of fats to cell membranes in all tissues; keeps gallbladder cholesterol in
solution;
● Pangamic acid, also known as dimethyl glycine (DMG) is another CH3 group
donor; may increase blood tissue oxygenation, and improve performance by
slowing down fatigue due to lactic acid build-up; may have nervous system
functions; may help regulate fat and carbohydrate metabolism
● Para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) is necessary for gut bacteria to produce
vitamin B12; helps with vitamin B5, in hair pigmentation; coenzyme in amino acid
chemistry, red blood cell formation; external use to prevent skin cancer from UV
damage

66.What Air, Water & Foods? A Question of 4. Amounts

Essential nutrient intake can be too little, too much and just right. Your ‘Goldilocks zone’,
the amount of each essential nutrient that’s optimum for health, varies from person to
person and from nutrient to nutrient, so you may need to experiment to find out what
your personal optimum is.

Insufficient: When you get too little, you become deficient, which leads to
degeneration, which leads to health deterioration, which can eventually lead to death.

Minimum: When you get just enough to get by, you will be okay in good times, but you
may not get enough during stress, extra activity, pregnancy and healing after surgery or
injury.

Optimum: When you get enough to obtain optimum health under all circumstances, you
are in your Goldilocks zone. Everyone has one, and everyone can and deserves to live in
it.

Maximum: When you get more than this, you get no further benefits, but you might
deplete your retirement fund.

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Excessive: This is a waste of your money and produces ‘expensive urine’ syndrome.
Most essential nutrients do not cause problems when intake is excessive and are safe in
that way. When you don’t need more, you may not even absorb them. Then they end up
in your toilet.

Toxic: A few essential nutrients, however, including vitamin A, iodine, sodium and
chloride can cause negative effects when you exceed the maximum dose, so be cautious
with these. However, unlike with drugs, the margins of safety for essential nutrients are
very wide.

Let’s put essential nutrient intake into perspective. There have been few if any deaths
from excessive supplementation with nutrients. Drugs, in comparison, have been shown
and are known to kill more than 100,000 people in the USA every year from their toxic
side effects.

67.What Air, Water & Foods? A Question of 5. Optimum

Digestion
Why is digestion such a big issue? In addition to protecting you from pain and discomfort,
good digestion is vital to ensure that you absorb essential building blocks optimally, and
that you prevent toxicity caused by poor digestion. All atoms in your body, except for
oxygen, entered your body from water and food. Digestion is Ground Zero for physical
health and energy.

To absorb the nutrients, life must break foods down into basic absorbable building blocks:
water, fatty acids, amino acids, sugars, minerals, vitamins, nucleic acids and a few other
small molecules.

Effective digestion also eliminates the need for your immune system to mount an immune
reaction or to assist in completing the digestion of poorly digested food proteins. By
freeing your immune system from having to get involved in digesting your foods, good
digestion supports better immune function everywhere in your body. It’s a really big deal.

Optimum digestion requires the following:

● Good oils: They improve the barrier in your gut wall against the absorption of
undigested food, which is what happens in ‘leaky gut’. They also slow down

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efficient and complete protein digestion by acid and pepsin in your stomach.
● Digestive Enzymes: Raw foods contain an enzyme that can do up to 60% of the
digestion of food once you eat and chew them up. They’re destroyed by heat
generated when industry processes and/or you cook foods. If they are destroyed
by processing or food preparation, you should replace them. Digestive enzymes
ensure that all proteins are completely digested so that there is nothing from
proteins that can trigger immune reactions, food sensitivities, food allergies or
even autoimmune conditions. They also break down fats and carbohydrates.
● Probiotics: They, too, are killed when foods are processed or cooked, and you
need to replace them. They are present on fresh, whole, raw, organic foods, begin
their journey in your mouth, and protect the delicate lining of the inside of your
digestive tract from injury by acid, enzymes, abrasion and illness-causing
microbes.

You can take enzymes and probiotics with food or mix them in foods cool enough to eat.
You can brush your teeth with probiotics after meals or after oral hygiene in the evening
before you go to bed.

● Fiber (Prebiotics): They keep things moving along in your digestive tract, scrub
debris off the digestive surfaces, tie up toxins and wastes, serve as food for
probiotics, inhibit the growth of unfriendly bacteria and viruses, act as antioxidants
and anti-microbials, and can stabilize blood sugar by slowing down its absorption
into your body. A mixture of water-soluble (mucilaginous) fiber, found in flax
seeds, chia seeds, okra and slippery elm, and water-insoluble fiber found in all
plant foods serves this function best. By the way, there is no fiber in animal foods.
There’s none in beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, eggs, fish or dairy products.
That is why when you eat animal foods, your trend toward constipation.
● Bitters: These are herb- and plant-based extracts that support your liver and bile
functions and thereby support digestion.

Enzymes, probiotics and fiber/prebiotics do their work outside your body. What am I
trying to say? You may not ever have thought about it, but the inside of your digestive
tract is actually outside your body. You could call it your inside outside. It’s just a tube
through your middle, from mouth to anus. You throw or swallow foods into that tube.
Acid, enzymes, bile and more enzymes break down the foods you eat into their basic

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absorb passes on through, back into the natural environment.

Digestive enzymes, probiotics and fiber are minimally absorbed into your body. They do
their work outside of it. But they’re very important to health. When digestion doesn’t
work, nothing in your body works for long. Why is that? Your entire body is constructed
out of what you absorb from your digestive tract. Make sure that digestion fulfills its
function in your body. This is critical to good health and long life.

68.What to Eat? A Question of Personal

People often ask me: “You know about health. What do you eat? You look healthy, so
maybe you could tell us what you do.” My habits have changed over the years as I’ve
learned and as I’ve grown older and slightly wiser. My habits still change, since needs for
health change with age. A one-sided diet may cause health issues after a while. Then it
needs to be changed. It helps to feel present in and pay attention to what your body lets
you know in energy levels and in pain or its absence. You’re not supposed to make up
your mind in your head and/or commit to extreme nutritional theories. You’re supposed
to respond to your body’s signals. To do that, you need to be present in the reality of the
space you occupy. You cannot do a really good job when you live your life in theory.

My family and I lived on farms in Europe and North America. My mother cooked simply,
and we ate simply. We ate lots of vegetables, bread and potatoes. We worked hard
physically, so we burned the carbohydrates we ate, and therefore did not wear them. We
used dairy products, including raw milk, yogurt and cheese. We were always clearing our
throats of mucus. It’s one of the predictable results of dairy consumption.

Laughing derisively at the person who first told me that eating dairy results in mucus, I
then began to notice that the amount of phlegm (mucus) I had to clear from my throat
on a daily basis was directly proportional to the quantity of dairy products I was
consuming. Thinking back, my parents and siblings could ‘echo-locate’ each other’s
whereabouts in our house by listening for each family member’s unique throat-clearing
symphony. Okay, dairy products increase mucus.

We raised chickens, goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and heifers at various times on different
farms, so we had eggs and meat. We did not have much money, so meat was not a big
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My father kept a quarter of beef in a butcher’s freezer in town, 15 miles away. No big
steaks! There was no sense of deprivation or hunger. We did not suffer deprivation or
nutritional deficiency. We worked hard and had lots of energy.

When I went to university, I ate dormitory food. Nothing special. Everyone else in the
dorm drank coffee, so I drank coffee, too. It irritated my stomach, and I could follow the
path of the coffee I drank as it went down through my small intestine. This irritation
ended as soon as I began to supplement with probiotics.

In my last year at university, I got gastritis, which I was told was a preview for ulcers. It
was a time of great stress for me. This was just before I left the genetics lab at the
institution, to find something to do that has more heart.

When I worked in gardening and then while spraying pesticides as a job, I ate a lot of
raw vegetables, some fruit and not much else. It was not a philosophical position, nor
was I vegetarian. For me, it was simply a matter of convenience. Cooking took time, and
I was always busy doing something. My feeling was that I had more important things to
do than to cook (my hat’s off to chefs who do amazing things with food). Eating raw was
easy and quick. And, I had almost no dishes to wash.

It is highly likely that my raw, whole, mostly plant-based foods helped me overcome my
pesticide poisoning, because I fared much better than most of the other people I heard
and read about who had been poisoned by pesticides. Some of them got cancer. One
pesticide applicator died instantly when he reached his hand and arm into the tank filled
with pesticides to retrieve a wrench he’d accidentally dropped into that tank. That’s how
fast the pesticides absorbed through his skin into his body, heart, brain and cells. Phew!!

As I get older, I migrate toward eating more colorful, water-rich vegetables and fewer
starchy carbohydrate foods. Today, I have very little of any carbohydrates in my house.
Bread, noodles, corn and potatoes have no place in my home. It’s too easy for me to get
fat on them. Occasionally, I cook some organic beans, chickpeas or lentils. Because raw
red beets scratch my throat, I cook them. Sometimes I cook asparagus and onions, as
well as yams, carrots and sweet potatoes in water. I drink the water that I cooked them
in.

Rarely, when I go out with friends, I might have a vegetable soft egg scramble for
breakfast. But I don’t have eggs, fish or meat in my fridge. Mostly, I eat organic
vegetables, some fruit, nuts and seeds. I get raw organic tahini by the case, pour the

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sesame oil into the flushing toilet, and replace it with Udo’s Oil 3,6,9 Blend. One of my
staples is to eat vegetables with ‘Udo’s tahini’.

The older I get, the more I like my foods raw. I’m not a raw foodist, but I really like raw
foods, because they work for me. I’m not a vegan either (human being is just fine with
me, thank you). As I’ve gotten older, I’ve reduced my dairy intake to almost zero. Eating
organic vegetables is good for health, but it is also a political statement, because I’m
voting with my wallet against pesticides and for more sustainable agriculture.

There are no cooking oils at my place. I threw out my last frying pan some years ago. In
my kitchen, there’s a really good stove that hardly ever gets used, except by cooking-
loving guests I’ve invited to my home.

The water I drink is fresh, charged, alkaline, micro-clustered and contains hydrogen and
oxygen. It’s made from tap water by a ‘genius fresh water machine’ attached to my
kitchen tap. The machine also filters the water and removes chlorine. I also filter my
shower water.

My routine is simple. I do nothing fancy in food preparation. Occasionally, I go out for

dinner at a fancy restaurant. Some of the recipes good chefs come up with are remarkable
in their artistry and their taste bud popping flavors.

Mostly, I eat my food fresh, whole, raw and organic. I emphasize greens, good oils and
proteins. I limit carbohydrate intake. Do I take supplements? Of course: a multi, herbs,
spices, antioxidants, fiber, digestive enzymes and probiotics. I try out all kinds of things.
And, of course, I use my oil blend. It’s my energy source.

Mostly, I stay away from sweets. Being quite sugar sensitive, I don’t avoid sweets because
of good discipline. It’s because I remember that sweets consistently make me feel lousy.

Most days, I walk my talk. But I’m a work in progress.

I’ve been known to tell people: “If I did not try the junk once in a while, how would I
know just how bad it is?”

We all laugh.

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69.What Diet? A Question of the Right Fat Diet®
In North America, a lot of different diets have come and gone. Recently, I found a list of
more than 600 of them on the Internet. Every year or two, there’s a new fad, and
everybody gets excited again. Soon, the new fad now old, someone develops another
new-fangled rationale, around which to construct yet another fad diet. The most
remarkable point about these diets is that even though most of them rarely deliver results,
millions of people remain eager to try every new diet that comes along.

How many diets have you tried? How many of them worked? Overweight is increasing
and now hovers at about 65% of the population, in spite of all of the diets and the weight
benefits they promise. It has been predicted that by 2030, 75% of North Americans will
be overweight, and by 2050, 85%. This boy will not be one of them.

New diets get customers, because people who haven’t got results are prone to be
suckered by any new diet-marketing angle.

“Oh, that’s (the new angle) what I must have been missing!” they think. Then they buy.

Filled with new optimism, they try the umpteenth new ‘new’ diet, full of hope for the
magic it promises to deliver of easy weight normalization, pound-shedding and improved
health. Most commonly, diets focus on weight management, because weight is such a
big (pun intended) issue. Some diets focus on other problems. Hardly ever does a diet
actually focus on what we need to do to get to optimum health.

In my opinion, the approach that all of these diets use is wrong. Before we talk about
what is right, let’s look at just a few of the diets that have made the rounds over the past

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50 years. Because I am not a dieter, you might actually be more familiar with them than
I am.

Here are some examples:

● Low fat diet

● No fat diet
● High fat diet
● Fake fat diet
● High protein diet
● High protein, low fat diet
● High carb, low fat diet
● High fat, low carbohydrate diet
● Atkins diet
● Pritikin diet
● Prudent diet
● Vegan diet
● Blood-type diet
● Ovo-vegetarian diet
● Lacto-vegetarian diet
● Pesco-vegetarian diet
● Omnivore diet
● Carnivore diet
● Wheat-free diet
● Wheat belly diet
● Weight-watchers’ diet
● Traditional ‘meat and potatoes’ diet
● Mediterranean diet
● Raw food diet
● Macrobiotic diet
● Paleo diet
● Whole food diet
● Keto diet

A Better, More Effective Plan

What’s the right approach to weight management? How should you eat in order to
maintain or regain your health and normalize your weight? The answer is simple.

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The idea is this: Health can replace or displace disease. Normal body weight can replace
excess body weight. Shape can replace out-of-shape. Sexy can replace unattractive.

Is there a diet that can do that? Yes, and it’s easy to design such a diet. The issue is not
only to create such a diet, but to also address your eating habits and beliefs.

The health-building, weight-normalizing diet is simple. All you need to do is deliberately

live, eat, drink and breathe in line with nature. Why does it work? Health is the natural
state. Just as in light there is no room for darkness, in health there is no room for illness
or overweight.

Rabbit Food?
A healthy weight diet emphasizes mostly plant-based, whole, organically grown, non-
starchy foods. People often say that plant (or rabbit) foods have no taste. That statement
is completely wrong and patently ridiculous. The truth is that burned flesh almost always
has the same bitter, acrid, scratchy, disgusting taste. To make meat dishes taste good,
what do we do? We add plant foods, herbs or spices to them. Pepper, rosemary, onions,
garlic, cayenne, ginger, turmeric, clove, lemon. Oh yeah, that’s right. Those are plants
with flavors. Tasteless rabbit food? Give me a break.

Plant foods have unique and widely varying sweet, sour, salty, bitter and pungent flavors,
endless combinations of them, and wonderful fragrances. Plants also provide widely
varying textures (or mouth feel). On top of endless variety, plant-based foods are better
for both health and longevity than animal-based foods.

In order of importance, your health and weight normalization diet will provide greens for
minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, phytonutrients and gene regulators; good oils for
energy, hormones and cell membrane construction; proteins from whole foods for
muscles, receptors and enzymes (from the right kinds of seeds and nuts as well as ALL
whole foods). Your healthy diet will limit your intake of carbohydrates (the least important
food and not even the best source of energy) to the amount you actually burn by physical
activity. Eat carbs only if you’re not addicted to them and are able to eat less than it takes
to force fat production in your body. And make it whole food carbs, not processed ones.

The diet makes liberal use of herbs and spices that bring thousands of mouth-watering
flavors into the food you eat, and also provide tremendous health benefits.

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Deliberate Choices
To lose excess fat and water, deliberately choose a health promoting, weight-normalizing
diet. Some of it you can grow in your garden next to your house. Alternatively, you can
get what you need to be healthy and fit from organic farms and from organic, fresh whole
food stores.

The weakness is that such stores also carry a wide variety of processed, partitioned,
processed and preparation-damaged ‘foods’, and you may be tempted to choose
convenience or marketing-driven misinformation, instead of avoiding all of the foods that
are no longer in their natural state.

When you deliberately choose fresh, whole, organic foods with your health and fitness
foremost in your mind, you get results.

When to Stop Eating

Second, many of you have not learned to identify your body’s signals to stop eating.

People tend to use one of the following signs to stop eating:

● All the food is gone: This would be a good sign to stop eating only in a situation
where there is not enough food, a situation that has been largely eliminated in rich
Western countries.
● Your craving is gone: This would work if you ate slowly and limit your intake of
carbohydrates, but this sign works against you on carb-rich diets, which create
these cravings because of excess.
● Your stomach hurts: This happens because you stretch its size with excessive
intake of foods that trigger high blood sugar, fat production and low blood sugar,
which creates the cravings. When you eat too fast, you’ll eat more than you need.
By the time your blood sugar is normal again and the craving gone, you’ll have set
yourself up for another round on the cycle of ‘carbohydrate addiction’, which has
been shown to be up to 8 times more powerfully addictive than cocaine.
● Your hunger is gone: This is the right way to eat. Take small portions. Eat
slowly. Chew well. Stop eating when the hunger is gone. With this kind of
discipline, weight can be effectively managed, even if the foods are not as healthy
as they could be.

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Eating Water
In addition to needing to know when to stop eating, you also need to know when you
need to drink water instead of eating food. Many people have not differentiated between
the signals of thirst and hunger. Here, the remedy is to drink water first, continuously, all
day long. Some experts suggest that whenever you feel hungry, you should first drink
water, and turn to food only if water does not make the ‘hunger’ (which was really thirst)
go away.

Eating the Blues

Many people eat when, or because, their heart aches. Eating food does not relieve an
aching heart, because heartache is not a physical hunger, but the hunger (desire,
yearning, blues, emptiness, want, restlessness, longing, loss, grief) you feel in your heart
(or chest) to feel whole or fulfilled. This is especially intense whenever you have lost
something near and dear to you.

When this happens, you’re actually being reminded of your loss of your connection to
your essential self. It is your heart calling your attention to come back home to life. No
amount of food can bring you home to yourself. What you need in this case is an
awareness practice that takes you inward into the fullness of your being.

Social Eating
We never call our friends to go out and just breathe together. We also don’t take people
out for a drink of water. We usually go out to eat. This is true even though we need air
and water more than food. Without air, we die in 5-10 minutes. Without water, we die in
7 or 8 days. Without food, we can live for 30-120 days. The longest food fast I’ve heard
of was 382 days without food. Don’t try that at home. If you do a food fast for more than
a day, do it under professional supervision.

A lot of overweight is the consequence of going out to eat with friends when we are not
even hungry. This is a factor in addition to eating too much of the wrong kinds of
carbohydrate-loaded foods: sweets and starches.

Probiotics, Inflammation, Water Retention

Each of the following can lead to weight gain due to water retention in our tissues:

● Not getting the probiotics we need

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 ● Insufficient essential omega-3
● Too little magnesium
● Not using anti-inflammatory herbs and spices
● Using too much sodium table salt
● Too many refined carbohydrates
● Too many toxic molecules

When these are remedied, the water held in tissues is released and filtered out through
the kidneys. You can literally pee out your overweight in these cases.

There are other reasons for water retention. These include:

● Infections
● Poor circulation
● Kidney damage
● Heart failure
● Impaired lymphatic drainage

To deal with these, go to a health care provider.

The Right Fat Diet®

● In the history of diet creation, no one has ever designed a Right Fat Diet®. Why
not?
● How about a Right Fat, Right Carb, Right Protein Diet?
● How about a Diet that’s Right for Health?
● How about a Diet for Optimum Health?
● How about a diet in line with life and with nature?
● How about a diet in which the focus is on what is right and what to include in a
diet, rather than on what is wrong that you should exclude?
● How about a diet in which you chase nutritional light instead of fleeing from
nutritional darkness?
● How about a life-affirming diet instead of a death-avoiding one?

The Right Fat Diet® is the title of another book my team and I have written, which
covers all of health and psychology, and contains steps to take and recipes in line with
health and fitness. We describe the components of a diet and lifestyle program that is in
line with life, body and nature. It’s the way we could, should and can live.

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It’s a diet of deliberate choices and decisions based on knowing what health is, how your
body works, and what it looks like to live in line with life and with nature.

With all the fad diets around, a diet for health is almost a new concept, but it is not. It is
the way every creature that lives in nature eats. In nature, being overweight is rare,
replaced by health from living in line with nature.

70.What Impact? A Question of Environment

Let me make it short and precise. After that, we can discuss details. Almost 6 decades
ago, on a sandy west coast beach, I came across a long, bark-free log. Someone had
carved a near-perfect summary of ALL issues of environment and nature in letters twelve
inches high and an inch deep into the wood of that log lying on the beach. As the one
doing all the work with chisel and mallet, the carver no doubt focused on economy of
words. None of the words was more than four letters. It’s in your face crude, but clear.
Here’s his/her observation/comment:

Shit in your nest. Nest in your shit.

It could not be said shorter or better. For ages, we’ve shit in our nest, and now we’re
nesting in our shit. The original carved statement is a prophecy that has come true. It is
now a ‘fait accompli’.

We are all part of that fait accompli. It is no longer merely a possibility. It is a fact that
makes ‘us’ responsible for what ‘we’ do, rather than blaming ‘you’, which is a form of
‘them’ that excludes ‘us’ from culpability. We are ALL responsible for everything on this
planet.

The list of environmental considerations is long. The list of environmental consequences

from careless human industrial activities is equally long. Let me just point out a few of
them related to our story of oils and human health.

For a century, humans have pilfered the fish in the oceans. There were no rules, no
regulations and no limits or limitations. Fishing fleets overfished an area, and then moved
on. Then they overfished another area, and another, and another. They’ve now been
around the entire globe.

The average size of fish now harvested is one third of what it was one hundred years
ago. There are fewer remaining fish species. We have bigger boats and more efficient

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fishing methods. We have polluted the oceans with industrial toxins, and fish are now the
most polluted food we eat. Farmed fish are even worse (it must be in their feed). Research
shows that at present rates of depletion, there will be no fish in the oceans by the year
2048.

What will happen to marine ecosystems from this? In addition, what happens to
ecosystems from rising ocean temperatures as a result of hacking down our forests and
burning fossil fuels? What will happen from rising water levels? We seem not to care. We
live in major industrial denial.

Here is how damage to environment can damage your health. One product of the fishing
industry is fish oil supplements. Fish oils contain high levels of very potent, oil-soluble
poisons called dioxins, PCBs, pesticides and other industrial toxins. The higher a fish is
on the food chain, the more poisons will be in it, because poisons accumulate up the food
chain. The oilier the fish, the more of these oil-soluble poisons it will contain. PCBs and
dioxins can cause birth defects, cancer and inflammation.

These very toxic poisons come from industries that humans created. Researchers say that
there are no safe levels of these toxins. If you follow their advice, avoid taking fish oils.
To be ‘practical’ (read: ‘overlook industry irresponsibility’) under the circumstances,
governments set an allowable limit of PCBs and dioxin in fish oil of 90 parts per billion.
That’s down from as much as 1,300 parts per billion found in some types of fish oil ‘raw
material’. To get this done, more processing is needed. More processing produces more
damage. More damage makes the product more toxic and less helpful to health.

Here’s why I recommend against taking fish oil supplements: The industry is not
sustainable. The oils contain powerful industrial poisons. Processing does extensive
damage to the omega-3s in fish oil, which are in the most sensitive and easily damaged
forms of omega-3. Processing damage can be 300,000 times higher in the oil than the
toxins we measure and worry about. Processing-damaged molecules are in themselves
toxins.

Plants provide oils that are sustainable, organically grown w/o pesticides and chemical
fertilizers, non-toxic, low on the food chain, made with health in mind, unprocessed,
undamaged, and containing the most stable form of omega-3. If you eat enough plant
omega-3, life makes ‘fish oil omega-3’ from them in your body whenever and wherever
necessary and in the amounts necessary.

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Industry and Nature
Nature does not need industry, but industry depends on nature. Without industry, nature
would still exist. But, without nature, there would be no industry. This makes the priority
clear. Nature is more important. Nature is your life (more precisely: body) support system.
You need nature more than you need industry.

Resolve conflict between nature and industry in nature’s favor. Restrict industry activities
in a way in which nature continues to be sustainable for an eternal future. Okay, maybe
not quite that long.

In about 4 billion years, the sun will turn into a red giant, incinerate everything on this
and planets further out from here, and then collapse into a ‘white dwarf’. At that point,
Mars will also get incinerated. Until that time, can you please take care of the planet that
is your home?

Because, when all is said and done, nature does not need you. You need nature. To live,
you depend on nature. To live, you’re 100% dependent on nature.

71.How Deep? A Question of Knowledge

Let me share a few deep thoughts with you on who you (and we all) are and what you’re
here for. They’re philosophical considerations.

● Out of an undifferentiated field, in which anything is possible, everything comes.

First comes awareness, then energy (life), then inspiration/creativity, then physical
form.
● Focused on the physical form, you’re in survival mode. But the body will not
survive. That is its nature. What has form will someday lose its form. It’s nature’s
law. All your efforts to survive are doomed to fail, which is depressing.

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 ● Focused on mind, you are in memory and imagination mode. But memory and
imagination are not real. They will never be real. The more your efforts are mental,
the crazier you become. Mind is your specific human gift and curse. That is the
topic of a whole other book (The Gift-Curse of Human Imagination).
● Focused on awareness and life, you are in thrive form. Energy and awareness are
formless and indestructible. But they are real even though they’re invisible to your
physical eyes. The more you know them experientially, the more you feel their
lightness, peace, harmony and love. In the end, that’s who you are and where you
will end up. Why not cultivate that lightness now? It’s not some far-fetched dream.

Something in you already aches to know, to feel, to be and to enjoy that indestructible
lightness. ‘The unbearable lightness of being’ someone called it, except that it is very
bearable, and in fact richly ecstatic, whole and fulfilled. In essence, that’s what you are.
When, in your time on earth, you give priority to the feeling of life, let that feeling inform
your mind, and let your mind set direction, limitations and goals for your body’s actions,
you end up living the most remarkably full, whole, wonder-filled life.

Japanese Inspiration

Many people doubt the point of trying. “What’s the use,” you say, depressed, “when I
know that I will never be good enough?”

Why don’t you at least do what you can? Maybe you can start by just leaning in the
direction of the possibility. If you cannot do it perfectly, do what you can, as well as you
can. If you make a commitment to it, you will fall short, learn, move forward, fall short,
learn, move a little further forward, ever forward. Without commitment, there is no
forward movement, only aging to demise. This reminds me of a story. May I tell it? In
Japan, a lady talked to me about organic foods and health. During the conversation, she
told me that she would like to eat organic eggs, but that they are too expensive. Non-
organic eggs cost 15 yen; organic eggs cost six times more, 90 yen.

“Do you know how expensive it would be if I ate organic eggs every day?” she asked, to
make her point. “I can’t afford that.”

“Can you afford one organic egg per month?” I asked her. “Oh yes, no problem,” was her
reply.

“How about three?” She said that she could afford about 5 organic eggs a month.

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“Why don’t you just do what you can?” She thanked me. It had not occurred to her to
think that way.

Sometimes, when you cannot do something perfectly, you give up and don’t do anything.
Don’t use the inability to do something perfectly as an excuse to do nothing. Every organic
egg is a boost to a health-conscious industry and takes down slightly an industry that
cares less about health. This is what it means to vote with your wallet. That’s your power
for positive change.

Imagine what 8 billion people can do, if each eats just one organic egg every year? That’s
a lot of organic eggs. It’s a very big industry, in fact. What if everyone does just one new
act that’s more in line with life every year? What about one act every month? How about
one every week? What’s the collective effect of that? You (we) would rapidly transform
the world.

Just know what to do in line with life. You could start by being still at times, doing nothing
and enjoying the light of life within you.

Making Changes
Here’s a suggestion for something practical to do to get started. Make a list of all the
positive changes you can and want to make in your life. Make a list of the changes you
want to see in the world. Then prioritize the list. Then knock them off, one at a time until
you have completed each change on the list. If you get worried about running out of
things to do, you can always add new items to your list.

Transformation of the world begins with you. What you master, you can teach. And
sometimes deciding to teach motivates you to become a better learner of the subject that
you’ve committed to teach.

The more you master, the more you can teach. The more completely you master your
life, the more powerful will be your influence in that direction. The more deeply you know
all of your being: life (feeling), mind (imagination and thought) and body (speech and
action), the more resources you can share with others. You have a sphere of influence.
You are the center of influence in that sphere.

Every problem on the planet begins with a lie. What is a lie? A lie is a departure from
what is true. A lie obscures truth. For each problem, there is usually one true solution,
and infinite minus one false solutions.

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That is why truth is powerful. That is why truth is important to tell. One truth exposes
infinite minus one lies. Only from the solution does the nature of a problem become clear.
Only from the truth does the nature of lies become really clear. Knowing truth makes you
free.

72.What Health? A Question of Definitions

Molecules are complex, but health is simple. Let me make a point using arithmetic. What
is 2 + 2? There is only one right answer to that question. That correct answer is 4. All
other answers (infinite minus one) are wrong.

Everything, including health, is also like that. You cannot just do anything you want and
expect healthy outcomes. It would be insane to believe that. It doesn’t work that way.
It’s like wanting to have freedom without any accountability or responsibility. The fact is
that every action has a consequence. All your life, your feelings lead to perceptions lead
to thoughts plus emotions lead to words lead to actions lead to goal and destiny.

The better question to ask is: What IS health? Here are a few of my favorite answers
with one despicable definition in the mix. Can you tell which one is wrong, wrong, wrong?

● Life is Health.
● Health is the natural state.
● Health is the absence of disease (arghhh!). Ooops! I just gave it away.
● Health is presence of principles and components.

Health is the result of:

● Life lived in touch with (aware of) the feeling of life (whole, cared for, free, full,
content); no distractions
● Body in line with nature (fresh air, water, food); no poisons; Body balanced
between activity and rest
● Mind thinking ‘us all inclusive,’ globally; no ‘them’; Mind calm and skilled for dealing
with crises
● Social group accepts and encourages uniqueness; no threat to belonging in order
to enforce ‘rules’

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 ● Natural environment of fresh air, fresh water and fresh earth, soil, food; free of
industrial toxins and pollutants; managed sustainably
● Big picture acceptance of your temporary physical existence within infinity

To know and to teach health, replace the presently practiced field of disease management
that is misrepresented to you as ‘health care’ with a teachable field of health based on
nature and human nature. It is based on first laying out sensible definitions of health that
are simple to understand and easy to put in practice, and that can therefore become
widely accepted.

Such a teachable, practical field is systematically organized, coherent, common sense,

consumer-friendly and teachable. Its purpose is to give you a platform for making wise
choices regarding the ‘field’, life, creative mind, body, protective mind, group, nature,
FIELD, and emotions.

If you have never thought much about health, but have decided that health warrants
your attention, take on this teachable field of health and, at the end of going through it,
understand what health is, what the parts are, what they do, what kind of and how much
attention they need, how each part go off, how to bring each part back in line, and where
to access what you need in order to give each part of health its due.

The goal here is to empower you to take personal responsibility for health, as experts
have recently begun to encourage you to do; to inform and educate people with basic
knowledge of their nature and its needs; to put power over health care back into the
hands of the people who need it: civilians and citizens who have health problems; to take
health care out of the hands of those who mislead and/or fail you in order to enrich
themselves.

By the time my body wears out, I want understanding of health to be embedded in folk
wisdom. It should be learned not in theory out of books, but modeled in practical activities
in homes, kitchens, gardens and nature. Children learn, not by what parents say, but by
what they do. Let it be so with health.

It’s worth repeating: Molecules are complex and complicated, but the principles of health
are easy to understand. The project of turning health into a teachable field based on
nature and human nature is now well under way.

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73.What Next? A Question of Vision
For the past 30 years, some of us have worked our butts off to make sense of the
confusion that surrounds the topic of fats. This information is now clear. We know the
benefits of good oils. We know how much we need. We know how they need to be made,
treated and used. We know how many people could benefit. We know the story that we
need to tell about good oils. What remains to be done is to design the needed educational
approaches that will convince those who can benefit from good oils to give them a try.

The practical goal of this project is to have a bottle of good oils in every fridge. That
bottle should replace the damaged oils now being used. Remember that your body needs
an oil change, just like your car. Take out the dirty oils that wrecks your body engine.
Bring in clean oils that make your motor run smooth. Instead of using oils that increase
cancer and inflammation when used in the preparation of foods, good oils made with
health in mind can bring hundreds of health benefits.

To achieve the goal of a bottle of good oils in every household’s fridge requires us to
transform ourselves from closet-type inventors into public teaching machines. It is a great
challenge, and we’re in the process of that transformation.

Previously in this book, you learned about developing a teachable field of health
(systematically organized, coherent, practical, teachable, common-sense and consumer-
friendly). It is part of a larger project about the nature of human nature and living on this
small fragile planet. That project examines field, life, mind, body and mood in the contexts
of society, nature and the undifferentiated field.

You live in a time of personal, individual transformation. Your survival past this century
and your ‘thrival’ now and going forward depend on you changing. Actually, you don’t
need to change. You need only to discover more of what you already are. As you discover
more of your being, your behavior will naturally change in line with your insights into life
and living. Deeper knowledge, deeper wisdom and deeper appreciation of life are the
most important and so far most neglected topics of all time.

Ignorant of our depth, we’ve invented a world from the mind. That world is flawed in its
inception and cannot be fixed. Start from scratch. What is ‘scratch’ in this context?
‘Scratch’ is knowledge of the heart. ‘Scratch’ is feeling content, whole, calm, real, wise,
loved and cared for in the core of your being.

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Feeling cared for, you are free to do what needs to be done from a place of care. Feeling
fulfilled in yourself, you can be selflessly helpful. Feeling free in life, you are free to know
what needs to be done, and to do it because it needs to be done, not because it will (you
hope) take care of you, make you feel fulfilled, give you freedom, or make you money.

From that place of feeling whole, you can invent a world from the heart. What is a world
from the heart? It is a world that, from its inception, is created with the intention of
working to take care of every human being and all of nature. That would be a new way
for humanity to work. It has never been tried.

A world from the heart allows us to build new systems that serve all of life and all humans
on the planet. Among the systems that we need to re-invent from the heart are the
following: Health; Peace; Education; Environment; Energy; Justice; Politics; Finances;
And more. It’s a project that calls all hands on deck; a co-operative project for 8 billion
people.

You are on the team. You can do what you can with what you know and what you have.
You can learn more. You can lean into your own inner self-discovery, from which you can
help invent that world from the heart that works for all.

What is the prerequisite for inventing a world from the heart? Let me repeat it. Be
committed and able to get in touch with the heart, live aware of the heart, and stay aware
of the heart in your feeling, thinking, deciding, speaking and doing.

This is possible for the heart. It is profoundly simple, hopeful, important to know . Once
you know—and to be perfectly clear, knowing is in feeling, not in words— you feel loved,
fulfilled and taken care of by life. That’s the starting point of wholeness from which you
can examine two other profoundly important questions.

What is possible from each human heart?

What is impossible from the human heart?

The answers to these two questions define what takes place on this planet for the next
200,000 years. They will determine whether humanity survives. They can take us from
barely surviving to fully thriving. They will decide whether or not other creatures more in
line with life and nature than we are will replace us.

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A world from the heart must be based on what is true to life about all major topics,
including: The ‘Field’; Life; Nature; Human Nature; Body; Mind; Emotions; Health; Peace;
Race; Gender; Age; Education; Energy; Justice; Equality; Politics; Finances. It also
includes all other issues on this planet. Start with this list and keep expanding it.

The Only Problem

An enquiry into the problems on this planet reveals that we are the only problem here.
‘We have seen the enemy, and them is us,’ as the cartoon character Pogo said. We
created all of the problems that we have.

An enquiry into what about us makes us the problem reveals that our central problem is
that we have lost our connection with life and, unlike animals and plants, can live in the
unreality of imaginary substitutes for full personal presence in our space. By committing
life and body to what we imagine out of thin air, we can invent realities in our mind that
never existed in the known universe. When we turn these imaginings into reality, we also
do damage to ourselves, others and nature.

Although marketers of inventions always promise a better life, none of these inventions
have delivered that better life. All have negative side effects. Many create more problems
than they solve. We keep chasing new sources of fool’s gold.

In truth, we have more than everything. It’s ironic that we miss that part. We actually
imagine ourselves out of knowing that we have everything.

Imagination: A Blessing and a Curse

From the curse come all our destructive thoughts, beliefs, plans, inventions and actions,
and their dire consequences, which threaten us all. We live out of line from our life and
from nature. The ‘disconnect’ took place early in your life, and deep within. You (we all)
live deeply disconnected from the core of your (our) being.

The re-connect must also take place deep in the core of your being, in that part of you
that is free of culture, free of belief, free of judgment and free of conflict. It takes place
deep in your biology, because it has biological roots. It is in that part of you that is in
complete alignment with life and with nature.

You have one life. Not much time. There is a lot to be and to know. From there, you’ll do
what you can with what you have. You can’t give what you ain’t got. You can’t teach
what you haven’t learned. Learn and teach!

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74.Why Global? A Question of Possibility
8 billion people live on planet earth at the time of this writing. We’ve been told it’s only
7.7 billion, but the census measures are not perfect. Official census takers miss many
people, especially in China (the second child) and India (lack of precision), but also in
Africa (porous borders between nations), many parts of Asia (tropical tribes, many
islands), some parts of Europe (unfortified borders), big stretches of Central and South
America (rain forest dwellers, slums), and even in super-organized North America (illegal
immigrants). When you include all those not counted, you just might end up with 8 billion.
That’s why I use that number.

The Global Mission

Here is my statement of purpose from life for the rest of my life.

● 8 billion people could each live your life lit up from within, because the light of life
is already within each of you, and it is merely a matter of looking into it instead of
looking away from your inner light of life. When you do that, you’ll feel perfectly
taken care of, because life always takes care of your body perfectly through all
your dramas, traumas, crises and circumstances.
● Feeling taken care of, 8 billion people could each live your life in harmony with all
others, because you can let others also live their lives without feeling the need to
interfere with them or steal their stuff. When you know how good it feels to be
alive, you have time and space for every human being’s same possibility.
● 8 billion people could have your basic needs for air, water, food, clothing and
shelter met, because these needs are easily taken care of by nature’s existing
resources, and the generosity that radiates from living your lives lit up from within
by life.

The reason you hang on to things you don’t need is that, deep down, you feel discontent
because of your disconnection from your heart and wholeness, and you fear that if you
gave away even what you don’t need, you will feel even more discontent. Once you feel
taken care of, it is your nature to give what you don’t need to those who need it. NO
sacrifice is needed. You take what you need for your basic needs, and let others have
what you don’t need.

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 ● She was blown away by what I said, and asked, “What motivates you to do what
you’re doing?”
● “What motivates the sun to shine?” I asked her back, and then answered it for
her.
● “No motivation is needed for the sun to shine, because shining is its nature.”

Human beings are like the sun. When you feel taken care of because you live connected
to your life/core/heart, it is your nature to help, to serve and to give.

The Noblest Cause

Is any greater mission possible for human beings than the three-pronged statement of
purpose above? Deep in your heart, all clear-thinking, heart-centered, you want that.
Really deep down, you know that all human beings deserve the best. This is your, and
humanity’s HIGHEST common denominator. This, in my humble opinion, is what you exist
and live for. Even if it were impossible, it would still be your noblest cause and most
practical aim.

Possible in Practice
All of this really IS possible in practice. As a child in Europe after the war, I did not
conceive of it, but over the past 60+ years, I discovered (with the help of some
remarkable people) the possibility of this possibility, because I had already experienced
the alternative. This is my better alternative to living in fear, anxiety and terror. Fear,
anxiety and terror motivated me to look and listen. Everything for your Heaven on Earth
already exists right here. At a recent talk, I spent five minutes outlining my three-point
mission. I also gave some of my practical definitions for health in the context of life, body
and mind. After the talk, participants surrounded me with questions. They felt inspired.

One question came up more than any other.

“How can I be on your team?” Their interest should not have surprised me, but it
pleasantly did. Maybe some of you reading this might feel that way, too.

The Global Team

Here’s how I see it. We’re all, each of us, already members of the global team for the
three-fold purpose. We are all just at different levels of competency. How is the team
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Still others are confused, getting in the way, and blocking others’ paths. What is your
level of team competency?

All team members have homework to do on themselves. All can deepen their connection
to life, nature and their human nature. All can work on living more in line with life, nature
and human nature. All can be an inspiration for others.

The ache in your heart to feel whole, content and taken care of is your inner, most
powerful driving force. None of you needs to be browbeat, forced or coerced by anyone
else in that direction from the outside, with whips, rules and threats of punishment. The
most effective action that you can take is to deepen your knowledge and appreciation of
the magnificence of your life, be an example of the possibility of living lit up from within
and let that light shine on everyone and everything you meet. Every effort in that
direction, small or large, helps the team.

Life’s, Not Ego’s Purpose

Is this three-pronged purpose MY purpose? No, this is not my personally invented, ego-
driven, privately owned purpose. It is much, much bigger than I am. It is life’s purpose.
It is the universal purpose, carried out through human beings in line with nature and
human nature.

The Role of Money in Life’s Purpose

It is not my get-rich scheme. Will it involve money? Yes. Life’s purpose may involve a lot
of money. Will any of that money come to me? That’s not my goal, because I have enough
to live on for the rest of my life. All my dreams have been more than fulfilled, and life
takes perfect care of me, every moment of every day, so I’m not looking for more of
anything. All I continue to strive for is to feel the richness of life more and more deeply,
and more and more broadly beyond the limits of my physical body.

When you depart from this world, you will take no money with you, but a heart fulfilled
goes with you beyond the time of your physical body and mental ideas. When money
comes to you, me or our teams, we can and will enroll it in this purpose. We’ll direct it to
causes, which, in line with life’s grand mission, can use financial support to grow. Or it
will go to charities in line with this grand mission.

Money is NOT the Source of Happiness

Anyone who believes that money (or more money) would make them happy (or happier)
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or happier, would make anyone else happy or happier also lives in delusion. Money, some
people say, does not make you happy, but WILL buy you a better brand of misery.

The truth is different. Money with heart can bring improvement. Heart without money
can bring improvement. Money without heart does no good.

Why is that? Lack of heart is the source of all your problems. More heart, with or without
money, is the solution of all your problems. There’s no problem that more heart will not
make better.

Whom Can You Trust with Money?

Whom can you trust with money? This is an important question.

Only people whose purpose is to serve life and not money will use money wisely to
protect, support and care for life, body, others and nature, which is the only sane use of
the power that comes with money.

More specifically, can you trust ME with money? You can come to your own conclusions
and make up your own mind on that question. Let me give you a hint, though. Only
people who don’t need money, and don’t revolve their life around money can be trusted
with money.

Life and Money

Money adds nothing whatsoever to life. Life is whole, perfect, content, wise and
unconditionally caring, loving and kind, and needs nothing added to it by money. Gandhi
used to say that money created poverty. Among animals, there is no poverty. They own
nothing but have the use of everything.

Ownership
What would that look like for human beings? Each of you owns everything within your
sphere of perception. It’s like you all own everything. But this ownership is a unique kind
of ownership. It is non-exclusive, non-competitive and temporary. In this kind of
ownership, all people get to enjoy everything, but without ownership papers and without
preventing others from also enjoying it.

When you live your life feeling taken care of by life, this kind of ownership is completely
natural. When you don’t feel taken care of by life, this kind of ownership is completely
impossible, and you will steal, confiscate and kill for bits of earth and nature that the
universe gave us all as a gift to use and to enjoy for free.

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Pretense Around Money
Money just adds something to the pretense of ownership of things outside of us. When
we use money to protect, support and care for life, our bodies, others and nature, money
is a blessing. When we use money in any other way, money is a destructive curse. Note,
however, that it is not the money, but what you decide to do with it, that is the blessing
or the curse.

Life’s Purpose Greater than One Person’s

Is this MY mission and purpose? No, not exactly. It is life’s purpose for each and every
one of you. Am I the leader? No, I am not its leader. LIFE is the mission leader. LIFE in
every single living human being is the mission leader. You can ask yourself: How close
am I in my experience, thoughts, words and actions to this, LIFE’s purpose?

You can commit to live more closely and more deeply in touch with LIFE, the leader
within. That’s the only way that this team becomes more effective. You are in the best
position to invest in your own skills level and competence. Any person can commit to
being LIFE-present, LIFE-filled, LIFE-motivated, LIFE-directed and LIFE-supporting. You
can become expert in self-awareness and self-knowledge that self-awareness makes
accessible, discoverable and apparent.

Life the Selfless Leader

What I like about this is that no one person is ‘the one’ whom everyone has to follow.
LIFE does not play favorites. LIFE does not get paid. LIFE will never mislead you. LIFE
gives everything freely as a gift. LIFE gets no special privileges (and wants, needs or asks
for none). LIFE is not limited to any set of beliefs but is real beyond all beliefs.

LIFE is the king, prince, ruler, master, lover, servant, dictator, president, prime minister,
sovereign, Royal Highness and head of state of each individual human being. Every ‘you’
on the planet has his or her perfect loving ruler built in. Just look, listen, feel & taste
inward to get that ruler’s message. LIFE has no fake ego constructed from illusion,
delusion and confusion. LIFE cannot be corrupted from its unconditional care for your
body and mind.

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Global Access to a Perfect Leader
Every living person has equal access to this powerful ruler, no matter where they live,
and what their circumstances are. No one living is left out for any reason. No one is better
than another. LIFE enlivens 8 billion living people equally. In LIFE, there is race, gender
and age equality. Living in touch with LIFE, there is no crime, violence, murder or war.
You all already live in heaven on earth. You know it the moment you get in touch with
what already is.

The more you feel it, the more you like it. The more you think about it, the more clearly
you see that there is no other way to get there. This is your highest purpose. It will be
humanity’s greatest accomplishment. It can be done within just a few years. Or it can
take another million years. Up to you. It is completely up to you. It’s completely up to
each one of us as an individual.

You know how to make it happen. If you don’t know, ask. To ask, first find that in you
that wants to know. The desire to know exist within you. The knowledge also exists. It is
ready for you when you are ready for it. The world is wired for it. You are also under
pressure to embrace this possibility.

LIFE’s leadership is not a purpose that involves banks, loans, investments and profits. It
has nothing to do with money. It has only to do with every person’s heart. LIFE rules all
rulers. LIFE is the king of kings. When you embrace it, it will not be about making money.
You will be richer than ever funds could make you, and whatever funds you need for your
part of the mission will become available to you.

The Materialistic Delusion

One more thought about this incredible team led by LIFE. In the materialistic viewpoint,
which is the dominant theme in most of politics, religion, science and culture, LIFE is
merely a by-product of body and brain. It is nothing special, just an electric blip in the
brain. We treat life as a superstitious after-thought. We touched on this another chapter.

The materialistic viewpoint supports the human-made external hierarchies that have
controlled, exploited and terrorized the world and its people for the past 200 thousand
years.

Internal Master and Ruler

When the ruler is internal, equal and identical in every human being, and when we each
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together without external rulers. Then, we don’t need laws, institutions, destructive
philosophies, soldiers, police, courts and enforcers to threaten, manipulate, control
and/or kill us. And we don’t need heartless punishments that miss the point of helping
each other make the most of our inner journey into the rich, full experience that has
always been life’s possibility and promise to each child that’s born; life’s gift to us.

Fulfilled and Taken Care Of

Someone who is content and feels fulfilled and taken care of has no need to take things
from or to take things out on others. S/he feels no need to control or force others’
behavior. S/he respects people’s wish to be free to be. S/he trusts the thirst of the heart
for fulfillment and makes knowledge of that thirst a part of global education. No one ever
abuses others from a feeling of feeling taken care of by LIFE. Strong statement? Let me
tell you another story.

A Story of Contentment
One summer evening recently, I gave a short talk. It was on personal peace and
contentment, and my audience was diverse and mostly young. It included spiritually
focused, business-oriented and political outlook-sporting listeners. In the talk, I expressed
my opinion that contentment is priority #1 for anyone who wants to live a full life.

A woman raised her hand to ask me a question. “I hope,” she said, “that with all this talk
about peace, you are also against violence against women. Are you?”

Perfect question.

My answer, “I have never witnessed, heard or read about an act of violence EVER
perpetrated, in the entire history of human beings, against any woman by any person
during a moment in which that person felt completely content.”

That’s the power of contentment. You can make that same point when you address every
other problem existing on the planet.

Do you know anyone who abuses others while feeling content? Frustrated, thwarted
people sometimes abuse other people. Dissatisfied, disappointed people sometimes
abuse others. Angry, raging, hateful people sometimes abuse others. Fearful, frightened
people sometimes abuse others. Terrified people sometimes abuse others. People in pain
or grief over loss sometimes abuse others.

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Happy, fulfilled people do not abuse others. People who feel loved by life do not abuse
others. The pursuit of inner contentment through inner connection to the feeling of life
is the single most important perpetual growth industry of all time for all human beings.

Your State of Being Informs & Defines Your Perception

Let me make one other point. It’s about how your state of being informs your perception.
It’s about how your state of being, in fact, creates and defines your perception.

Consider the following expression: “Peace is Everywhere, But Only Peace Perceives it.”

If a person does not perceive peace to be everywhere, it’s because the peace in that
person is not doing the perceiving or observing.

Your personal, moment-to-moment state of being informs and defines your perception of
yourself, other people, nature and the world/planet. In practice, your perception of
yourself, other people, nature and the world/planet is an automatic extension of your
personal, moment-to-moment state of being.

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin

Think about yourself and those you know. Think about your personal perception of this
shared planet. You do see the world this way. You see the world, not as the world is, but
as you are.

● Happy people feel, find, attract and create happiness.

● Paranoid people feel, find, attract and create paranoia.
● Discontent people feel, find, attract and create discontent.
● Relaxed people feel, find, attract and create relaxation.
● Suppressed people feel, find, attract and create suppression.
● Content people feel, find, attract and create contentment.
● Angry people feel, find, attract and create anger.
● Lit up people feel, find, attract and create lit-up-ness.
● Fulfilled people feel, find, attract and create fulfillment.
● Dishonest people feel, find, attract and create dishonesty.
● Confident people feel, find, attract and create confidence.
● Miserable people feel, find, attract and create misery.

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Life made every state of being available to you, because all states of being are part of
your nature. Moment to moment, you choose one or another state of being, usually
triggered as your reaction to outside events that you filter through concepts that were
forced upon you as a child, and that you accepted and memorized in order to survive.

When you choose to enter the light of your being, you find that your state of being is
independent of the external world’s influences, and that you can live in the light of your
being, no matter what is going on the outside. In that in-dependence, you find your
power. In your power, you find your freedom. Then you can help others to also find their
power and their freedom.

Other States of Being, Other Words

Here are the words for a few other states of being. We could use any of the following
words: greedy, reality-based, realistic, whole, light, envious, hateful, present, wise,
raging, lustful, manipulative, magnificent, blessed, ecstatic, fearful, sad, grieving,
heartless, compassionate, forgiving, vindictive, violent, calm, oppressive, pure, accepting,
threatened, kind, deprived, victimized, bullying, fair, abused, just, pretentious, humble,
loud, addicted, proud, simple, quiet, hurt and many others.

Instead of the word ‘peace’ that we used above, you could use any of the words in the
previous paragraph, and the general statement that ‘xxxx people feel, see, attract and
create xxxx’ would still make sense.

The key point is: You always find, ‘out there’, the state of being that you occupy, ‘in here’.
The ramifications of knowing and identifying how your personal, private, inner state of
being determines, defines and constructs your world and the way you live into that world
are profound.

Importance of Finding and Feeling Loved by Life

You’re loved by life. Feel loved by life. Every single one of you is unconditionally loved by
life. You’re completely loved by life, every moment of every day, through all your
situations, dramas, circumstances and traumas. Love is everywhere within you, around
you and between you. It is truly magnificent!! Your essential being is love, and you are
all magnificent.

There has never, ever, been anything wrong with you. You may have felt disconnected.
You may have thought stupid thoughts. You may have spoken inappropriate words. You

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may have behaved in an unkind or unloving way. Even so, there has never, ever, been
anything wrong with you.

The Essence of Your Being

How can that be? You are not your feelings. You are not your thoughts. You are not your
words. You are not even your behavior. You are life in your essence. There has never,
ever, been anything wrong with life. Life has always been whole, content, love, kind and
loving. If that’s true, where do negative feelings, thoughts, words and actions come from?

They originate from the pain and discontent that originate in the disconnection of your
awareness from the life that you, in your essential being, are. Re-connection of your
awareness to the essence of your being, where your contentment is embedded, is the
only way forward to a life of wholeness, fulfillment and feeling cared for.

Out of that re-connection, you feel better, and think, speak and act less destructive and
more constructive for the good of all, globally.

Global Goal of Human Evolution

If there is a global goal to human evolution, it must be to get to the place in your being
from which all people can live together in harmony, with the basic needs (light, air, water,
food, clothing, shelter, safety, acceptance and sustainability) of all people met, with no
one left out. The kingdom of heaven on earth begins with your re-connection to the core
of your divine being.

75.Why Peace? A Question of Foundation

Peace is a personal issue before it is a social issue. The feeling of real peace is embedded
in life. It is the core feeling of every human being. Peace is your foundation for life.

Prosperity without Peace Leads to Chaos

A profoundly wise speaker once told me that ‘prosperity without peace leads to chaos’.

Is it true? Sure, it is. The head terrorists in most countries are rich people. Think Osama
bin Laden. Think ISIS. Also, think Russia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Libya.

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But also think, at different times, of Germany, the UK, the USA and Israel. Very rich
countries create wars and chaos, BECAUSE they are prosperous countries without
personal peace as their innermost foundation or highest agenda.

War is not a Poor Man’s Game

Most wars in history were not driven by poverty. Affluent people with time on their hands
start most wars. Think about arms races and defense budgets. These are NOT paid for
by poverty and starvation. They’re based on spending priorities of affluent, power- and
influence-hungry people with business ambitions, government ‘interests’ and religious
imperialist agendas. These do, however, often CREATE poverty and starvation.

The richer you are, the more means you have. The more means you have, the more
damage you can do when you set peace-free, heart-less agendas for your activities and
actions. The richer you are and the more means you have, the more it becomes important
to make a peace that has biological roots within each human being your foundation and
guiding principle. Otherwise, you WILL, sooner or later, use your riches and means for
destructive purposes that lead to chaos.

With personal peace comes calmness. With calmness comes the ability perceive without
bias. With unbiased perception comes clarity. Clarity leads to actions appropriate to
situations. Appropriate actions bring beneficial results. Beneficial results bring prosperity.
Prosperity follows peace. Prosperity does NOT precede peace.

‘More money, houses, status, power, influence, or any one or more items on a long list
of ‘stuff’ will bring me peace,’ many people say.

That’s what people say but it doesn’t work that way. Peace has nothing to do with ‘stuff’.
Personal peace is a feeling, found in your core state of being.

That feeling is foundational and biological in its nature and is completely independent of
any outer circumstances. Personal peace depends only on whether or not your awareness
is in touch with itself, with consciousness. Peace is the nature of consciousness, which is
the formless, indestructible, eternal ground of human existence.

From personal peace you can make good practical decisions in all areas of your life and,
with consistent effort over time, build great fortunes. Peace is the foundation of full, rich,
empowered lives.

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76.Why Water Energy? A Question of Sustainable
Our Most Important Molecule
Water is the most important molecule on earth. Why? It is more important than oxygen,
because water is indispensable for every creature that lives here, and the fact that
creatures live here is what makes this planet special in the known universe. All bacteria
need water to live. All plants need water to live. All animals need water to live. All humans
need water to live. Without water, there’d be no life on this planet.

Some people think that oxygen is more important than water. This is not true, because
many bacteria and most plants can live without breathing free oxygen. But none can live
without water. For animals and humans, of course, oxygen is vitally important, and we
cannot live without it. But because NO creature can live without water, water is the more
important of these two molecules for living things.

Look at it another way. Your body is 70% water, but free oxygen from breathing is only
about 1% of your body weight.

Energy
As a species, human beings are super-addicted to energy. It heats or cools your houses.
It does your physical labor. It fuels your transportation. It lights your streets and
buildings. It powers all your gadgets. For the past 100 years, most of your energy needs
have been fulfilled by fossil fuels: coal, oil and ‘natural’ gas.

The huge lethal downside of fossil fuels has become really apparent only in the past 20
years, although the fossil fuel industry has known this downside since at least 1967, more
than 50 years ago. It’s not the CO2 they produce, or acidification of the environment, or
the extremes of temperatures, and not even the warming trend of climates and the
spreading desertification, that is the greatest danger from burning fossil fuels. The
greatest downside from burning fossil fuels is that they burn up the oxygen that you need
to breathe to live.

Oxygen Burners
Cars alone, world-wide, now burn up 4 times more oxygen each day than all of the people
burn by breathing. This number does not include trains, planes, ships, trucks, heating
and air-conditioning. It also does not include construction and farm equipment. How
much oxygen these burn up is not precisely known.

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It excludes the air burned up by food animals, which is about 5 times more than people
breathe. It also excludes forest fires, accidents, deliberate explosions, suicide bombings
and wars, all of which that are increasing. It does not account for how much less oxygen
is being made by trees. In the past 10,000 years, we have decreased the number of trees
on the planet from 10 trillion to 2.5 trillion; down 75%. Does it make a difference? How
could it not make a difference? Our great invention of fossil fuels for energy is now turning
on us with a vengeance.

Recently, wind and solar energy have become small meals to help fill our gluttony for
energy. Atomic energy is rapidly falling into disrepute, mainly because of the poisonous
nature of radioactive elements. Hydrothermal power is a main source of energy for
Iceland.

Our Source of Energy

A small amount of energy comes from the hot, molten interior of the planet itself. But the
sun is the main source of surface energy, and the main energy of living creatures.

Chemical Energy
The chlorophyll of all green plants on the surface of the planet traps sunlight, which ends
up stored in the bonds between atoms that make the molecules of microbial, plant and
animal biology. Sunlight energy is also stored in carbon-based and carbon dioxide-
producing fossil fuels that burn up the oxygen you need to breathe in order to live.
Oxygen is a waste product of the photosynthesis process in plants, and you breathe and
live on that waste product.

When plants die and are buried, the oxygen they made remains in the atmosphere as
oxygen molecules. If plants die and are not buried, they rot. In the rotting process, plants
use up again all of the oxygen they made while living.

Animals and humans eat plant molecules and breathe oxygen, and these two react
together (oxidize) in the body. The result is that the molecules break down into water
and carbon dioxide, and the sunlight energy is released for chemical reactions in your
body.

Direct Sunlight Energy

The sun also directly warms air, water and earth during the day, and that energy is lost
into the atmosphere at night.

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Water Cycle Energy
The sun also evaporates water from oceans. The water vapor rises in the atmosphere. It
condenses into clouds. The wind blows the clouds over land. When mountains force
clouds upward into colder temperatures, the water eventually condenses into drops and
falls as rain, snow, sleet or hail. Once the water hits the ground, it begins a liquid journey
downhill, pulled by gravity, until it merges back into the ocean from which it came.

This is the water cycle. It is natural and perpetual. It has been here, uninterrupted, for
billions of years. It is the single most reliable source of energy. It has the least negative
side effects. Water, properly managed, with the benefit to all in mind, can solve more
global issues than any other substance on this planet.

Problems Addressed by Water

What global problems can water address? I’m glad you asked. It can address most of the
greatest global ones. These include:

● Drought, desertification, crop failure, hunger and starvation

● Thirst and dehydration
● Irrigation of food crops and other plants during dry spells
● Growth of green plants, which make fuel, nutrients and oxygen, mellow
temperatures and even create weather and climate
● Removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
● Replenishment of oxygen to our breathing air, to replace the oxygen that is lost
when we burn carbon-based fossil fuels (biofuels like alcohol, methane and others
are also carbon-based) for energy.
● Carbon dioxide incorporation into green plants
● Cooling the planet by absorption of heat
● Water storage to replenish diminishing water tables
● Heat and fire management
● Recreation: Swimming, diving, skating, hockey, skiing, wind surfing, surfing,
boating, sailing, other water sports, fishing, transport, splashing around and
floating on inner tubes
● Many different, sustainable kinds of hydro power energy production: hydropower
dams, run-of-river, wave and tide energy, surface flow harnessing, underwater
turbines, drilled rock tunnels to divert a part of water flow for power production,
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 ● Conflicts & wars over scarce water, food and land resources in many regions

Principle
The principle of intelligent global water management is simple.

Slow down the rate at which fresh water that falls on land returns to the ocean.

Ancillary to this principle are many ways of doing it. Here are just three of them. For
energy, harness the energy of water’s downhill flow. For drought, crop growth, land and
re-greening, move water from where there’s excess to where it’s scarce.

The principle is simple, but the project is huge. Globally, energy is an industry worth $20
trillion annually, and it’s going up rapidly. Globally, water (hydro-electric) power could
replace all other power sources, with the least pollution and impact on nature, everywhere
with mountains, creeks and rivers. There are many ways to harness waterpower that do
not require us to build huge dams across valleys. Water’s power can be harnessed with
virtually no negative environmental impact.

The Payoff
The payoff for converting from fossil fuels back to water is huge. Unlike ‘natural’ gas,
which is not clean because it eats up your oxygen, produces carbon dioxide and the other
fumes of burning carbon-based fuels (contrary to what you’re told in ads), and ‘fracking’,
which has been shown in many places to be highly toxic to livestock and children, water
is clean.

Most continents have mountain complexes that can generate the power needed by the
people living on the continent on which they sit. In the few places that have no rivers to
harness, wind and solar panels can make up the shortfall.

Water is the most important power source, not because there are no others, but because
it is the cleanest. And, it has so many other important functions in nature and for health.
It deserves more attention than any other environmental issue.

In the Age of Aquarius, become a water bearer.

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77.Why Definitions? A Question of Goals
When you clearly define a goal, it becomes reachable. Without clear goal definition, you
don’t really know where you’re going. If you arrived by accident, you would not know
that you had arrived, because you cannot recognize a goal that remains unknown to you
because you left it undefined.

The Nature of Journeys

To take a purposeful journey, you need a clearly defined goal, but you need one more
thing. You also need a starting point.

A clearly defined goal and starting point make the direction for your journey clear, define
the steps you need to take, make the end point recognizable, and make evaluation and
measurement of the effectiveness of each step and your overall strategies for getting
there possible. Is what you are doing getting you closer or farther from your goal? Are
you getting colder, warmer or really hot? You cannot answer that question until you know
your goal, your starting point and your direction.

Knowing both the starting point and destination, you know that the direction for your
journey is the line you draw between the start point and the finish line. Then you can
deliberately design the individual steps you need to take to get to your goal. You also
know the steps that you should not take. Steps away from or sideways to your goal do
not help you get to your goal.

The nature of journeys also applies to matters of health. You must have a clearly defined
goal of health to aim for. And you must know your starting point. Today, using highly
sophisticated diagnostics, you determine your starting point (symptomatically, but not
causally) with good accuracy. You can identify the symptoms of disease, which is a
departure from health.

But you lack a clear, step-by-step, practical, actionable definition of health. Health
remains a vague concept. You don’t know exactly where you want to go. You don’t have
a clear track to follow. You don’t know how to go there. You don’t know that you’re there
when you’ve arrived.

You don’t know what exactly health looks like. You don’t know the principles of health.
You don’t know the parts of health. You don’t know how to get started. Confused by your

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ignorance, you put yourselves in the hands of ‘experts’ in disease symptom management,
who also don’t know what health is.

Business Journeys
You know about goals and starting points in business. No one could have invented a cell
phone without knowing the principles by which it allows us to communicate with specific
people far away, or the collection of component parts that are necessary to make this
gadget. No one would even try to invent one without clear knowledge of the principles
and components.

Why not apply this simple, practical logic to the nature-made gadget of a ‘human being’?
In 300,000 years of big-brained smartness, we’ve been less than intelligent about the
principles and components of health and the nature of human nature.

Defining Health
Businesses succeed when they have a clear starting point and a clear goal, outcome or
end point. To start without them would be nuts, crazy. The same is true for health. You
have no clear definitions for health (until you do). How is that supposed to work? It does
not work. Without a clear definition of health, you can’t cure or prevent cancer, heart
disease, diabetes, arthritis, anxiety, depression, hate, genocide, war, injustice,
exploitation, pollution, destruction of nature and the rest of your ailments.

Definitions of your desired outcome are critical to attaining them. Definitions of health
are critical. Health is not the absence of disease. Health is the presence of something.
What is that presence?

The Eight Presences

The truth is that total health consists of 8 presences. Each presence has its own definition.
Where do you start? It’s not immediately obvious. But after more than 6 decades of
inquiry, I have a good grasp on the nature of health, both theoretically and experientially.
An overview of the entire body of work has been organized for publication. Here is an
introduction of it for you.

By the way, if you were to deliberately design, in terms of goals and starting points, your
love relationships, partnerships, child-rearing practices and educational curricula, do you
think that these might be more effective and less haphazard than they are?

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78.Why UNAHUNA? A Question of Scope
Without understanding the nature of nature and the nature of human nature, you cannot
understand health. Why is that? Health was invented by life in nature. Health is a state
of being of human beings, based in human nature. In human nature is where you will
find the practical information that you seek about how to live healthy.

The title ‘Nature of Human Nature’ has been used for other published conversations that
don’t actually talk about the nature of human nature. How irritating!! To differentiate
what my teams and I doing from what others have done under the same title, we call
what we do UNAHUNA. Under that title, we address what is truly the nature of human
nature.

Our intent is that by calling this work UNAHUNA (short for ‘Understanding Nature and
Human Nature’ or ‘Understanding the Nature of Human Nature), people will come to know
that we’re unpacking the entire inner biological nature of human beings, as opposed to
just mental, historical or anthropological stabs at it.

An overview of this work was published in book form under the title: ‘The Book on Total
Sexy Health: The 8 Key Parts Designed by Nature’. You can find it at the link:
www.udoerasmus.com/products. It’s quite a read. It covers the territory from here to
infinity.

Would you like to know the mission statement out of which we created our TOTAL SEXY
HEALTH project? Here it is:

The Goal: To design a systematically organized, coherent, all-inclusive, comprehensive,

consumer-friendly, globally teachable field of TOTAL GLOBAL SACRED (SEXY) HEALTH
based in nature and human nature

Its Purpose: Replace ‘disease management misrepresented as health care’ with health
care based in nature and human nature

TOTAL (global and sacred) SEXY HEALTH is based on UNAHUNA, which has 8 parts. Total
health is 5 parts internal, 3 parts external, plus a composite of all of these.

The 5 parts internal are:

● Internal Awareness
● Life Energy

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 ● Inspired creative (inspired, present, thrival) Mind 1
● Physical Body
● Survival Smarts (responsive, reactive, protective, habitual) Mind 2

The 3 parts external are:

● Social Group
● Nature, Planet, Solar System
● Infinite Awareness.

The one composite of all internal and external parts is Emotional State, which is your
personal, unique combination of the other eight.

Why separate them into parts? Each part is distinct and separable from each other part.
Each part has a different nature, a different function, needs a different kind of attention,
needs attention on a regular basis, goes off in a different way, and responds to a different
kind of intervention.

By examining each of these parts individually, we can describe:

● What each one is (its nature), which determines what health for each part looks
like
● What that part does (its function)
● What kind of regular attention it warrants—its due
● How it goes off (dysfunction, illness)
● How to get it back on track (what intervention re-aligns it with life and with nature)

Think about this for a moment. You can only define what is wrong in relation to what is
right. If you don’t know what is right, you cannot truly know what is wrong. You wouldn’t
know in what direction you’d need to go to right a situation.

When you think about it, you realize that it’s obvious. And yet, it is almost profound. How
did you miss that when it comes to one of the most important human issues on the
planet?

When you know what each of the 8 parts of nature and human nature is like when it’s
working right, you can from there determine how far and in what direction it has gone
off when a problem has arisen, and then you can chart a clear path to getting it back to
working right, because you know what it is like when it’s working right and whole again.

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You will know when the problem is solved. This makes effective intervention possible,
and relatively easy. It also clarifies what interventions work in practice, and when the
intervention is complete. The intervention is complete when the part that is ‘off’ is re-
integrated within to its natural state.

Lao Tse is said to have said: ‘Action should lead to inaction.’

In other words, you should actually solve problems, not hide them by symptom
suppression, under-the-carpet-sweeping secrecy or lies.

The purpose of TOTAL SEXY HEALTH interventions is to re-align each part of nature
and human nature that is mis-aligned and end up with wholeness of that part again. This
applies to each part of human nature and nature. It also applies to 8 billion human beings
(hence global).

In the following chapters, we outline the nature of each of the parts of nature and human
nature, with definitions, and with a brief overview of what each is, what it does, what it
needs, how it goes off and how to bring it back in line.

79.Why Perfect Health? A Question of Indestructibility

Let’s begin with a definition. It encapsulates your ultimate goal of health. It’s for you to
think about and contemplate. Here is my best definition of life’s influence within total
global health:

Perfect Health is the result of DELIBERATELY bringing your awareness back in touch with
the feeling of life within, in spite of the fact that your senses tend to take you outward,
away from that feeling.

Note that we have a goal, a starting point and an obstacle requiring deliberate effort to
overcome.

Goal: Awareness in touch with the feeling of life within. Perfect Health is a feeling.

Starting point: Awareness disconnected from the feeling of life within.

Obstacle: Your senses always tend to take your awareness outward, away from that
feeling. This is what you work against.

Effort: Deliberate shift of focus is required. You’re not likely to just drift into that feeling.

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Life is energy is power is light is feeling is formless is timeless is real is indestructible. Life
weighs nothing but runs everything. Perfect health exists within the feeling of life.
That feeling is independent of what goes on in your body, your mind and your
environment.

The importance and the payoff for putting quiet time aside during which you get in touch
with and feel what takes care of you every moment of every day, all your life, through all
of your dramas and traumas, cannot possibly be overestimated.

Even if your body was completely wrecked, your thoughts and thinking were completely
disorganized, your social group was completely dysfunctional and your environment was
a complete disaster area, the feeling of life would remain unaffected and would still be
the feeling of wholeness. Even on body checkout time, that feeling persists. The key here
is to stay in touch with that feeling. This takes intent and committed practice, but it IS
possible, because that IS the nature of the energy of life.

Why can’t you just tune into life and live in that fulfilled and taken care of state forever?
The answer resides in the nature and needs of your physical body. Your body is formed,
and is subject to threats, dangers, injury, deterioration, degeneration and destruction. It
therefore requires safety, protection and care on an ongoing basis. How is that
accomplished?

Life arranged that any change in your environment automatically pulls your attention
outward through your senses, to rapidly assess whether the change is friendly or
unfriendly. You assess the change quickly, because your body’s survival and reproduction
may depend on that speedy ability. Your assessment leads to a decision. You approach
and embrace, or you fight, flee, freeze or fold.

In other words, awareness moves outward automatically through your senses, but
bringing awareness back home to your core requires deliberate practice on your part. To
get in touch with the feeling of life, find a safe place where you will be uninterrupted for
the duration of the time you want to give to your inner re-discovery of and re-connection
with the feeling of life.

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80.Why Mental Health? A Question of Sanity
What is a good definition of mental health? As a society, we have not developed one,
other than one that is based on living successfully in our social environment. Work, get
along with others and pay taxes. But is that really mental health?

What if you defined mental health from the perspective of life? Why from the perspective
of life? Life is the only true treasure on this planet. Whatever your mind is for must have
something to do with thinking in line with life. Here’s my basic definition of mind and it
influences within total global health:

Mental health is the result of DELIBERATELY disciplining your thinking toward:

● ‘Us, all, inclusive’, globally

● Benefit to all at the expense of none (Buckminster Fuller came up with that one)
● Protection, care for and enjoyment of life, body, others and nature

in spite of the fact that you have learned many ideas out of line with care for life, body,
others and nature.

● Any thinking that does not serve life, body, others and nature is off the mark.
Appropriately labeled, such thinking has to be described as insane.

Note that we have a goal, a starting point and an obstacle requiring deliberate effort to
overcome.

Goal: Thinking toward benefit for all at the expense of none. Mental Health is thinking
that serves life, body, others and nature.

Starting point: Thinking is random musing or worry without direction, responsive to

external input mixed with input from your past (memories), but out of touch with life.

Obstacle: All ideas you learned that are out of line with care for life, body, others and
nature This is what you have to re-think and choose against.

Effort: Deliberate consideration. You will not just drift into thinking in line with life, body,
others and nature. You can choose to think that way, though.

The truth is that everything you think is arbitrary, made up, invented or created through
perception, interpretation, memory and imagination, and none of it is true. Either you
made it up, or your parents made it up, or your culture made it up, or you imported it

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from somewhere else. You are free to make up anything you want. If what you made up
in the past does not serve you, others and nature, you can make up something in the
present that does serve you and others better now and into the future.

Thoughts have no power of their own. If this is true, why do people agree with Victor
Hugo’s saying: “There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come?”

The ‘power of thoughts’ comes, not form the thoughts themselves, but from people who
dedicate the power of their life to them, and then dedicating their body to manifest them
into physical reality. Used that way, thoughts set the direction and limitations of your
actions. These, in turn, determine goals, outcomes and destinations. Then, over the long
term, thoughts determine your destiny.

● To achieve the best results regarding quality of life, choose challenge over
convenience, and heart-logic over word-, world- and mind-logic.

Mind has three different aspects. The first, creative, inspired, expressive mind exists
between life and body. It brings to expression, in the form of images, words and
possibilities, the feeling of inspiration embedded in life. Creative mind is the junction
between life’s infinite possibilities and your contribution to the outside world: body, group
and nature. Creative mind is an extension of thriving. Creative mind is a constant source
of growth.

The second (arguably just a specific aspect of the third, survival, mind) is negotiation,
merchant, valuation, exchange, deals-making mind. This is the business mind, which
evaluates and haggles about what things are worth in the discussion of value in
exchanges. This is about negotiations to establish the terms of trade. It’s about cutting
deals, giving and taking, posturing, huffing and puffing, and finally finding agreement on
matters involving goods and services.

The third is survival, responsive, reactive, habitual mind, between the body and the world
of people, things and nature, which brings to bear whatever words and actions are
required to preserve the integrity of your beliefs and your body for as long as possible.
Its job is to respond to what comes at you from the outside world. Survival mind function
is for protection and reproduction.

Survival mind is focused on stress and managing stress. With help from inspired mind, it
is also focused on preventing by pre-empting stress.

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81.Why Physical Health? A Question of Food & Fitness
Here is a definition of physical health. It defines physical influences within total sexy
health:

Physical health is the result of DELIBERATELY living with your body in line with nature,
in spite of the fact that you have thousands of body-hostile but convenient choices of
stale air, polluted water, and toxic, contaminated, nutrient-deficient food and inactivity
easily available to you.

Note that we have a goal, a starting point and an obstacle requiring deliberate effort to
overcome.

Goal: Living with your body in touch with nature. Physical Health is the natural state.

Starting point: Living with your body out of touch with nature. Physical illness is the
unnatural state. There are a thousand ways to live out of line.

Obstacle: Body-hostile choices of air, water, food and inactivity easily available to you.
This is what you have to work against.

Effort: You have to re-align with nature deliberately. You will not just drift into breathing,
drinking, eating and exercising in line with nature. To enjoy optimum physical health, you
must deliberately work for it.

The question now is: What does it mean to live in line with nature? This brings you to
the fact that creatures in nature breathe fresh air, drink fresh water and eat fresh food,
whole, raw, organic, in season, sun-ripe, local and uncontaminated, just as nature makes
them. Emphasize greens, good oils and proteins, and limit carbohydrate intake to the
amount you burn in activity.

Get plenty of fresh air and fresh water. From foods and supplements, optimize intake
of all essential nutrients, which total 46-55 essential elements and molecules:

● 24 (+2?) mineral and non-mineral elements

● 12 (+4?) vitamins
● 8-11 amino acids
● 2 fatty acids

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Optimize digestion with digestive enzyme blends, probiotic blends and blends of both
kinds of fiber, which do their work outside the body; they are not essential nutrients, but
they are essential for health.

● Balance activity with rest, recovery, healing and sleep.

● Avoid poisons and support detoxification.

Your body is made from oxygen, water and food, and is made for physical activity on the
physical plane of a physical planet on which your body physically operates. If there is
nothing to do, there is no need for a body. Then you could just be a formless energy,
invisibly floating about in the ‘ethers’.

Anything that turns whole into processed, fresh into stale, raw into water- or oil-cooked,
fried, and organic into pesticide-sprayed works against physical health. Foods transported
in from far away, picked unripe, out of season, or contaminated by unnatural industrial
chemicals, and unfriendly viruses or microbes work against physical health. The
attainment of physical health is a matter of physical details, and the definition of physical
health makes it possible to take practical steps in the direction of physical health by
attending to these details.

The fact that life removes and replaces 98% of the atoms in your body every year explains
why you need to breathe, drink and eat, why you spend so much time on these activities,
and why healing is possible. The fact that life removes and replaces 98% of the atoms in
our body every year makes healing possible.

Bad habits make you sick. Improved habits make you healthier. When you’re sick, and
you raise the standard of the air that you breathe, the water you drink, the foods you
eat, the support you give to digestion, the physical activities you engage in, the time you
take to rest, recover and sleep, and the avoidance of toxins and detoxification routines
you engage in, you rebuild 98% of your body to a higher standard within one year. This
is the good news about self-responsible health care.

82.Why Social Health? A Question of Membership

Social health is the group extension of mental health. It is also the group extension of
physical health. Here is what defines social influences within total global health:

Social health is the result of:

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DELIBERATELY holding to your individual uniqueness and personal knowledge of life,
body and mind within groups, and DELIBERATELY accepting the individual uniqueness of
the members of your group without threatening their membership in the group, in spite
of having learned to compromise personal integrity in order to belong and pressure other
members to conform to arbitrary and irrational group norms.

Note that we have a goal, a starting point and an obstacle requiring deliberate effort to
overcome.
Goal: Individual uniqueness, and group acceptance. Social Health is a group of powerful
individuals living in harmony together.
Starting point: Not belonging, feeling the need to belong, loneliness and isolation, all
based on either survival needs or on personal disconnection from belonging to life.
Obstacles: Individual compromise, social pressure and feeling desperate for company is
what you have to choose against.
Effort: Be, think, speak and act deliberately. You will not just drift into living free
together.

You have to choose to live that way with others and to encourage others to live that way
with you.

Social health involves both the individual and the group. ‘Free together’ describes the
most harmonious social state. Each member’s uniqueness is cherished. You share your
individual gifts and talents to serve the group. There’s group acceptance of individual
uniqueness. There’s no social pressure to conform. Heart-felt inspiration trumps rule-
based behavior.

Interest in the interests of others, what Alfred Adler called ‘social interest,’ from the
German word: Gemeinschaftsgefühl, makes it work for everyone in the group, globally.
Social health includes being ‘free together’ without coercion regarding the care of your
physical needs, being ‘free together’ without coercion regarding your unique experiences,
what you learned from them, and how this learning creates your unique understanding
and knowledge that you can contribute to the benefit of all members of the group.

Social health at its best includes in its educational culture a practice that allows and
encourages you and each member of the group to regularly take time to be alone, to
discover more and more of the nature of your/her/his full being, nature, talents and gifts.

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83. Why Environmental Health? A Question of Nature
Environmental health is an extension of body/physical health. Here’s how my definition
of nature’s influence within total global health:

Environmental health is the result of DELIBERATELY living with gratitude and reverence
for nature, which supplies all of your resources, and with respect for nature’s power, in
spite of the fact that you take nature for granted, disrespect her, and try to predict,
control and exploit her resources with no consideration of consequences or sustainability.

Note that we have a goal, a starting point and an obstacle requiring deliberate effort to
overcome.

Goal: Gratitude and reverence for nature, and respect for nature’s power. Environmental
Health is industry subservient to nature, in line with sustainable nature.

Starting point: Ignorance and disrespect for nature’s gifts and nature’s power.
Exploitive, greedy killer mind-set. Freedom without responsibility for outcomes.

Obstacle: You take nature for granted and disrespect, predict, control and exploit her
with no consideration of consequences or sustainability. This is what we have to choose
against.

Effort: Deliberate thought, speech and action is required. You will not just drift into a
pristine natural environment. You must think deliberately in terms of alignment with
nature’s ways and cycles, and sustainability.

You predict, control and exploit nature at your peril. You think of nature as your enemy,
even though she provides you with everything you need to live: light, oxygen, water,
rock-earth-soil-food-microbes-plants-animals, energy, clothing and shelter, weather and
climate, and endless adventures.

Nature provides all of her resources to you, free of charge. You have never paid her a
penny. For self-enrichment, you claim ownership of these resources, and then you sell
them to others to enrich yourselves.

Nature needs you for nothing, but you need her for everything. That makes nature like
your god. It makes you one of her children. That’s why gratitude, reverence and respect
are appropriate.

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Like nature, plants need you for nothing. You need plants for everything. Plants capture
light, make the oxygen you need, hold water, cool earth, absorb minerals, make vitamins,
make proteins, make essential fatty acids, make enzymes and fiber, make sugars and
starches, make antioxidant, phytonutrient and gene modulator molecules, provide you
with probiotics, create the raw materials for making clothing and building shelter, and
even make your food animals (a cow is made of grass).

With respect and reverence for nature, you can live sustainably on planet earth. In part,
this involves making industry align with and be subject to nature’s vital importance that
allows you to exist. Deliberately design your lifestyle and industries in ways that leave
nature intact and sustainable for an endless, time-unlimited future.

84.Why Beyond Health? A Question of All

Beyond health includes both internal and the infinite awareness. These two are identically
the same. We use the term internal to point to awareness within your being, and the
term infinite to denote the awareness that is everywhere. These two are one without the
slightest separation, but your access to infinite awareness is from within the core of your
being’s internal awareness. From there, awareness stretches out in all directions with no
end. In its nature, awareness has no inside or outside. Even though it has no dimensions,
you can know it by letting go or merging your awareness in it.

Here’s my definition of the infinite within which total global health unfolds:

Beyond health is the result of DELIBERATELY taking time to let your focus of awareness
merge into the formless, timeless, undifferentiated foundation of being, out of which all
that is emerges, within which your total being unfolds, and into which all that is dissolved
again when its cycle is completed, in spite of the fact that you have learned to limit your
awareness to dwell on what is formed, limited and temporary (mind, body, group and
nature).

Note that we have a goal, a starting point and an obstacle requiring deliberate effort to
overcome.

Goal: Let your focus of awareness merge into the formless, timeless, undifferentiated
foundation of being. Beyond Health is a matter of letting go.

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Starting point: You are unaware of the timeless, formless, undifferentiated foundation
of being, but a restlessness within you calls you inward.

Obstacle: You have learned to limit your awareness to dwell on what is formed, limited
and temporary. This is what we have to choose against.

Effort: Deliberately let go to inner presence. You will not just drift into internal or infinite
awareness. You must intentionally, deliberately let go.

Defining the Indefinable

What on earth is awareness? It is not of earth. Awareness is everywhere. It is invisible,
undifferentiated, dimensionless and omni-conscious. Awareness has no inside and no
outside. It is a point and the whole. It is beyond time and space. It is beyond matter and
energy. And awareness is also beyond the energy of life.

Awareness is real. It is the unmanifest foundation of all reality. You manifest out of
unmanifest awareness, just as a raindrop manifests out of the mist and salt crystallizes
out of a solution. You play the game of forms for a while. Awareness is within you, and
you live within awareness.

Awareness is here, as presence, now, within. Awareness is there behind

appearances, all the timeless time. Beyond form, thought and energy of life, in essence
you are that formless awareness. Someone really clever said: Awareness is a circle that
has its center everywhere (including in you) and no surface or circumference anywhere.

The field of awareness gives rise to life. Life gives rise to mind. Mind gives rise to the
body. The body gives rise to activity. You are all of that.

The field of awareness is conscious. It is everywhere. It is within you. You are a center
of that field. So is everyone. You are the whole field of awareness. So is everyone.

The field of awareness is an experience. It is the most foundational experience of being.

It is in you, and you are in it. In the field of awareness, everything begins. In the field of
awareness, everything ends.

The field of awareness is the BIG picture. It is within and without. It is everywhere,
without dimension. It is nothing and everything. It is zero, the complete circle.

The field of awareness is the source of the trust you can feel in the way the universe
unfolds. It is what remains when you strip yourself of the outside world, mind, body, ego,

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ideas, beliefs, opinions, rules, inspiration and life. The field of awareness is what you
cannot strip from yourself. It is your universal innermost infinite nature.

The field of awareness is home. You perfectly belong, are conscious, feel completely
accepted and are never judged. It is the root of love that brings you here and takes you
back. It is the love you feel when you feel love. The field of awareness is only real as an
experience. You find the field of awareness in stillness within solitude.

The field of awareness is beyond health. Health is a downstream manifestation of the

field of awareness.

85.Why Emotional Health? A Question of Wiring

What are emotions? They are complex and hard to understand. They’re even harder to
deal with. They’re so irrational. They follow no logical rules. They make us uneasy. They
drive us crazy. But emotions have a specific structure. Let us unpack that structure.

Emotions are a composite of life, mind, body, group, nature and internal and infinite
awareness. They’re the specific wiring that the sequences that your experiences and
perceptions of early childhood, and your interpretations, meanings, memories of them
and imagination brought about. Here’s what defines emotions’ influence within total
global health:

Emotional health results when you DELIBERATELY develop a serene passion for the
care of life, body, others and nature, and assess your progress in the expression of that
passion as successful, in spite of the fact that you’ve learned to indulge in passions for
many much more trivial goals.

You feel positive emotions when you assess your progress (how you are doing) toward
the goals of your passion as being on track and going forward satisfactorily, in spite of
(interfering) people and circumstances. When you feel like you are thriving, you
celebrate.

You feel negative emotions when you feel that your progress toward the goals you have
set for yourself is being thwarted, held back, slowed down or blocked by people or
circumstances. When you feel like you are thwarted, you crank up the intensity of your
energy and direct that energy to overcome your perceived obstacles. You fight or flee to
win or to survive.

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You are basically wired for life by the time you are between 4 and 6 years old. After that,
intense experiences are usually necessary to change (re-organize) your personality. Such
experiences include near-death, super-traumatic, mystical, psychedelic, severe life-
threatening illness or infection, deep psychotherapy, brain injury damage, out-of-body
states, deep hypnotic trance or deep meditation.

Passion for serving life, thoughts in line with benefit to all at the expense of none, and
use of your body for protection, support, growth, enjoyment of and care for life, body,
others and nature together result in living in the serene passion of emotional balance and
health.

86.Why ‘Deliberate’? A Question of Effort

What is deliberate? Deliberate is also called intentional, committed, conscious,
premeditated, intended, calculated, purposeful, systematic, willful, planned, painstaking,
measured, meticulous and thoughtful.

Deliberate is when you act with a specific goal in mind. When you keep goals in mind in
spite of distractions, that’s deliberate. To set and pursue high standards rather than
accommodating lower, more convenient ones is deliberate. Reaching for something better
or higher has to be deliberate. It requires more effort to raise standards. You cannot drift
uphill.

When you drift, you go downhill. If you drift long enough, you end up in the gutter. Drift
comes from lack of effort, or from not going the extra mile.

Raising standards requires deliberate effort. Building to higher standards requires extra
effort. Uphill always requires extra effort. Challenge requires extra effort. Excellence
requires extra effort. Why do that? Extra effort leads to the enjoyment of greater quality
of life. Fall in love with making extra effort. You can decide to do that. So, do it.

Lower standards require less effort. Higher standards demand more of you. What
standards have you set for you to live by? What standards do you want to set? Are you
ignoring standards in any area of your life? Would it be helpful to raise standards in any
area of your life?

In the high standards areas of your life, things generally go well. In low standards areas
of your life, things tend to go less well. You tend to have more problems in your low

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standards areas. In areas of life in which you have set no standards, things tend to go
downhill. Then, other people or institutions set standards for you.

Institutions don’t usually set really high standards. They set minimum or adequate
standards. Higher standards come from inspired, empassioned, single individuals.
Inspiration and passion free your energy for increased efforts.

87.How Summarize? A Question of Overview

Oil is important, but it is not all. Also consider the rest of your food. Food is important,
but it is not all. Also consider sunlight energy, air and water in body construction.

The body is important, but it is not all. Also consider the other parts of human nature,
especially mind, where all the rules and obstacles are created and must be overcome.
Mind is important, but it is not all. Also consider life, without which the mind and body
are useless, because they derive all their talents from life. Life is important, but it is not
all. Also consider the social context, because it, too, influences health. Social context is
important, but it is not all. The social context develops within a natural system.

The natural system is important, but it is not all. It exists in a planetary context, within
seasons created by the sun, moon and stars, in a galaxy of which our solar system is a
mere speck. Galaxies are important, but they are not all, because they exist in a field of
infinite awareness that surrounds and suffuses them.

To enjoy total health and wholeness, give each part of nature and human nature its due.
I detail the eight parts of nature and human nature in my overview book: The Book on
Total Sexy Health: The 8 Key Parts Designed by Nature.

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88.What Conclusions? A Question of Highlights

We come full circle in a summary of 30+ years of work on oils: their nature and functions,
our intake status, what is essential, their sensitivity to damage, how to make, how much
to take, how to package, store, ship, and use them with care, how to get all the good

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with none of the bad, why even good fish oils are not enough, why flax is unbalanced,
why we call carbohydrates ‘undeclared fats’, and what benefits good oils can have for
health.

We also discussed sources, applications, and how to get all they have to give. We talked
about where to find them, and about the one-stop product in the fridge. We’ve put oils,
health, human nature, nature and cosmos into relative perspectives to one another.
We’ve put the little picture into its place within the BIG PICTURE. It’s been a wild ride
that I have enjoyed immensely, and I hope it is helpful to you in very practical ways to
guide you in making changes that lead to a fuller, healthier and more enjoyable time on
earth.

This is a review of three decades of effort to raise oil production standards, bring back
the missing omega-3, obtain omega-6 undamaged by processing or food preparation,
and to put this work, large as it is, into the even larger perspective of all things considered.
I hope you enjoyed this journey as much as I did. It is my great pleasure to have shared
it with you.

You can use this information to make a better life for yourself, your spouse, your family,
your place of work, your community, your city, your country, your continent, your world
and your planet; in other words, your entire sphere of influence.

May you and I live long and healthy lives lit up and filled with ecstatic appreciation and
global contribution.

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The truth is that to improve health, your body needs an oil change, just like your car. Udo Erasmus
shares the good, the bad and the ugly on oil. When it comes to your body, you don’t know which
fats and oils to use, and which ones to stop using. Life and nature hold the truth you need. If
you’re ready for Total Sexy Health, these are THE books you need right now.

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