Your Lupus Cure

By Dr.Gary M Levin: US M.D & Surgeon

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 A Few Words …

I just want you to know that, in my clinic, I am requiring EVERY patient to SIGN
that he or she will adopt natural treatment methods. This has become a strict
policy of my clinic’s medical insurance.

You must have heard the saying that “no man cries stinking fish,” but I must tell
you this: I have put everything I know in my book - years of my own research,
combined with medically well-known clinical studies, and 100% of my heart and
soul. I have seen my treatment system work with people like you and I know it
will totally change your life towards a full recovery and towards having a long
healthy life, as God intended.

Take your time, read my book from the start, and do not be tempted to jump to
the last chapter to get to the "cure" part of the healing process. You will greatly
benefit from the process through learning and understanding WHY you suffer
and who the REAL culprit of your condition is.

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Contents
Disclaimer ........................................................................................................... 3
A Few Words … .................................................................................................. 4
Introduction ....................................................................................................... 11
The Case for the Worldwide Disease Epidemic ................................................ 16
The Germ Theory and Drug Industry ................................................................ 18
The germ theory and the real cause of diseases ............................................................18
The two schools of thought.................................................................................... 18
The present germ theory is unnatural! ................................................................... 18
The present dilemma ............................................................................................. 19
The terrain IS everything! ...................................................................................... 19
The recent and most accurate China Study .......................................................... 20
Genes do not dictate ailments ............................................................................... 21
DNA is not the culprit, but food is! ......................................................................... 21
Epigenetics –genes start afresh ............................................................................ 22
A new theory.......................................................................................................... 23
Constitutional nature of diseases - We are made of systems not chemical "dots" ..........23
Drugs “heal” by silencing the symptoms! ............................................................... 24
Whole foods and plant diet – a better way to heal ................................................. 25
Our bodies – not individual parts, but an ecosystem ............................................. 25
Pharmaceuticals advertise and profit ..............................................................................27
Full spectrum dominance ...................................................................................... 27
Where do the drug companies spend their money? .............................................. 28
Drug testing centers and review boards revealed! ................................................ 29
Clinical trials produce wanted results .................................................................... 30
Purchasing of medical journals by the drug companies ........................................ 31
How do unfavorable results get published in journals? ......................................... 32
Influence of drug companies on academics .......................................................... 32
Influence of drug companies on doctors ................................................................ 34
Newer products – the truth .................................................................................... 36
The regulatory authorities and their silence ........................................................... 37
A self-analyzing system ......................................................................................... 38
Changing guidelines to include a drug to your daily diet ....................................... 39
Problem drugs ....................................................................................................... 41
The bitter side of blockbusters............................................................................... 42
Obscuring the real face ......................................................................................... 42
Get yourself informed ............................................................................................ 43
The birth of blockbusters and their evolution ......................................................... 44
Non-drug medicines: effective, yet illegal .............................................................. 46
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 Come ‘round and get involved! .............................................................................. 50
Is the knowledge you have about health correct? ................................................. 51
Drug industry is winning over the doctors .............................................................. 53
However long the night, the dawn will break! ........................................................ 54
Leading cause of deaths ....................................................................................... 57
Summary: The Germ Theory and The Drug Industry ......................................................61
How your body works ....................................................................................... 63
The main systems of your body ......................................................................................63
Skeletal system ..................................................................................................... 63
Muscular system ................................................................................................... 63
Digestive system (food absorption and toxic feces) .............................................. 64
Circulatory system (our actual environment) ......................................................... 65
Respiratory system (oxygen absorption and toxic carbon dioxide release) ........... 66
Urinary system (toxin release) ............................................................................... 66
Immune system ..................................................................................................... 67
Endocrine system .................................................................................................. 69
Nervous system ..................................................................................................... 69
Everything is made out of little cells ................................................................................70
What is a cell? ....................................................................................................... 70
How does a cell work? – Why you should know? .................................................. 71
Cell composition .................................................................................................... 72
Cell parts ............................................................................................................... 72
Enzymes – the super workers ............................................................................... 73
Proteins ................................................................................................................. 74
Enzymes at work ................................................................................................... 75
Making enzymes ................................................................................................... 76
What is the DNA? .................................................................................................. 77
‘Electro-biochemical machine’ – the powerhouse of our cells ............................... 77
A full live cell .......................................................................................................... 79
The Cell’s natural waste cycle ............................................................................... 80
The bottom line...................................................................................................... 80
Diseases originate from… ..................................................................................... 80
Blood is Life ....................................................................................................................82
What is blood?....................................................................................................... 82
How is blood formed? ............................................................................................ 85
Things to remember about blood ........................................................................... 85
Summary: How Your Body Works ...................................................................................85
Let’s Rebuild Our Bodies .................................................................................. 87
OXYGEN ........................................................................................................................88
Why we need Oxygen ........................................................................................... 89
Maximize your Oxygen intake ............................................................................... 91

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 Aerobic Exercises .................................................................................................. 94
Air Pollution ........................................................................................................... 96
WATER .........................................................................................................................101
Water predominance in the body ......................................................................... 101
How much water should you have? ..................................................................... 102
BAD water substitutes ......................................................................................... 104
Quality of the water ............................................................................................. 105
Effects of water deficiency ................................................................................... 107
ALKALINITY AND ACIDITY – The Inner Environmental Balance .................................109
Introduction to pH ................................................................................................ 109
Alkalinity vs. Acidity – the electrical balance ......................................................... 112
What happens when your body can not alkalize you? .......................................... 112
How your body reacts to acids ............................................................................. 115
Small imbalance – big diseases ........................................................................... 117
Live blood analysis ............................................................................................... 118
How did I get out of balance in the first place? .................................................... 122
How you can control internal balances ................................................................ 123
NUTRITION OR FOOD: The scientifically proven method of eating to cure Lupus disease
and prevent new ones ..................................................................................................139
The Building Blocks of Your Body ........................................................................ 139
The China Study.................................................................................................. 141
Bad Foods to Avoid ............................................................................................. 147
Good Foods and Bad .......................................................................................... 190
IMPROVE YOUR BLOOD ............................................................................................237
Improve Your Blood with Wheatgrass Juice ........................................................ 237
Use of Glyconutrients to Improve Cell to Cell Communication ............................ 239
EXERCISE TO TREAT – the most powerful “drug” .......................................................246
Aerobic exercises vs. strength training ................................................................ 247
Intense training .................................................................................................... 247
Always listen to your body ................................................................................... 247
Indoor exercise - elliptical .................................................................................... 247
Which brand of elliptical machine is good for you? .............................................. 248
The best approach to exercise – interval training ................................................ 248
YOUR MIND AND YOUR BODY – The scientifically proven direct influence ...............249
The Relationship between Your ‘Mind’ and the Mind of your Cells, the DNA ....... 251
Stress .................................................................................................................. 251
Laughter therapy ................................................................................................. 252
We are energy – the law of attraction .................................................................. 256
Summary: Let’s Rebuild Our Bodies .............................................................................258
Cleansing Your Body ...................................................................................... 261
What is a toxin? ............................................................................................................261

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 Where do they come from? ..........................................................................................261
First source - Your very own skin ......................................................................... 262
Second source – what you apply on your skin .................................................... 265
Third source – your home and workplace ........................................................... 267
Fourth source – your environment ....................................................................... 269
Toxic food .....................................................................................................................270
Toxins in your body .......................................................................................................274
What is mucus? ................................................................................................... 275
The need for detoxification .................................................................................. 275
Can mucus be good? .......................................................................................... 276
We are DEPLETED energy ................................................................................. 276
How do you know if you have toxins in your body? ......................................................277
Your body knows how to heal itself ...............................................................................278
The three questions ............................................................................................. 279
Answers to the questions .................................................................................... 279
The ongoing natural cleansing process ........................................................................280
What is the cleansing process? ....................................................................................281
Releasing to the blood ......................................................................................... 282
Crippling the toxins .............................................................................................. 283
Daily deep cleansing ....................................................................................................285
One time safe deep cleansing ......................................................................................286
Preparing your home and schedule ..................................................................... 286
Foundation period for reducing “side effects” ...................................................... 288
Three types of one time deep cleansing .............................................................. 294
What will the feeling be like after you are done? ................................................. 303
FAQs ................................................................................................................... 303
Supporting, scientifically proven methods for speeding the cleansing process ............305
Support ‘Revocation’ ........................................................................................... 306
Tools supporting the elimination .......................................................................... 306
Bowel................................................................................................................... 306
Kidneys................................................................................................................ 309
Lungs................................................................................................................... 309
Skin ..................................................................................................................... 310
Recommended supplements ............................................................................... 315
Dealing with the hunger ................................................................................................317
Are you REALLY hungry for food?....................................................................... 318
Eating after your cleansing period ................................................................................319
When should you ‘Clear Up’ again?..............................................................................320
Summary: Cleaning Your Body .....................................................................................322
Hidden Allergies and Food Intolerance 2 simple blood tests you must do. ...... 324
Do you suffer from a hidden allergy? ............................................................................324

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 Allergy types .................................................................................................................324
Immediate-onset (IgE) ......................................................................................... 324
Delayed-onset (IgG) ............................................................................................ 325
Celiac disease ..................................................................................................... 326
Food Intolerance ................................................................................................. 328
Food Chemical Sensitivity ................................................................................... 329
The best allergy tests you should schedule NOW ........................................................330
IgE&IgG: .............................................................................................................. 330
IgA test: ............................................................................................................... 330
Why allergies develop?.................................................................................................330
How to reverse your allergies .......................................................................................331
You CAN keep eating the allergenic foods .......................................................... 331
Reintroducing Foods ........................................................................................... 332
List of the top 20 common delayed-onset IgG food allergies ........................................333
Why haven't you heard this before? ................................................................ 335
Who is doing what? ......................................................................................................337
The most ‘powerful’ industry group ...............................................................................338
Targeting schools and children’s education ......................................................... 339
Favorable research test results ........................................................................... 340
The fruit industry is not far behind ................................................................................343
Our Government and its Stance ...................................................................................343
Recommended daily allowances of nutrients by FNB ......................................... 344
The Industry Jumps In Again ............................................................................... 347
The Part Doctors Play...................................................................................................349
Dr. Esselstyn ....................................................................................................... 349
Dr. John McDougall ............................................................................................. 352
Summary: Why haven't you heard it before, if this is all true and scientifically proven?360
How You Can Cure Your Lupus Disease ......................................................... 362
Discoid vs. Systemic Lupus ..........................................................................................362
Lupus – symptoms .......................................................................................................362
The actual cause of Lupus and reversing it ..................................................................364
Lupus and Aspartame ...................................................................................................365
Lupus and Glyconutrients .............................................................................................366
Lupus and Omega-3 fats ..............................................................................................368
Lupus and Vitamin D ....................................................................................................369
Lupus and Mercury .......................................................................................................373
The bottom line for treating your Lupus: .......................................................................376
Before you go: How to Actually Do This .......................................................... 380
Appendix 1: Encouraging Your Doctor ............................................................ 381
Handling the Objections................................................................................................382
If you have to find a new doctor ....................................................................................384
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Appendix 2: The Food Table ........................................................................... 385
Appendix 3: Common Sources of Heavy-Metal............................................... 448
Appendix 4: Detoxification Food List ............................................................... 450
Appendix 5: Detoxification nutrients list .......................................................... 452
Appendix 6: Drugs and Nutritional Depletion .................................................. 453
Appendix 7: Know Your Food Families ........................................................... 457
FOOD BY FAMILY NAME .............................................................................................457
FOOD FAMILIES BY INDIVIDUAL FOODS ..................................................................459
Appendix 8: References ................................................................................. 462
Amazing videos ................................................................................................... 462
References for Exercises that Make Digestion Stronger ..................................... 463

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 Introduction

Have you ever thought about your body as a fine-tuned, high-performance

automobile?

You know any car needs fuel

and routine maintenance. You
understand no car is going to
have all of its original parts
because they will deteriorate
and require replacement.

Some will break down in a few

months, some in a few years.
More than likely, the average car
is pretty much junk within a
decade or so, unless
Bugatti Veyron $1,700,000 USD
exceptional steps are taken.

Have you ever thought about what wonderful, finely tuned machines bodies are?

How is it that after 30 years of life, we are still functioning at our best, for the
most part? Don't we deteriorate?

Never thought about it?

Well, the answer is quite simple: we do break down, and we do replace our body
parts. In fact, a lot more often than most of us will ever come to appreciate fully.

Did you know that you are actually NOT the same person (body- not soul- of
course) as you were a week, month, or year ago?

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Did you know that your body is a super-power renovating machine? Some parts
of your body will be replaced every month, some every year.

Actually, every 7-10 years we get an almost full, very NEW body!1

Do you find that an amazing fact? How does this happen? Why have you never
been consciously aware of your new hand?

The simple answer is that it happens on the cellular level. Actually, every CELL
in your body is replaced with a new one at different time periods.

It all adds up to the fact that you get a new body every 7-10 years.

Do you know what the construction materials are that your body uses in order to
rebuild your body all the time?

If you think it is the food we consume, you are right.

What happens with all the dead cells your body generates every day?

I will discuss this topic in detail throughout the following text. It is important for
you to understand the direct impact it has on our overall health, especially what
happens when it gets out of balance.

How do these construction materials reach the new cells? What is "putting
everything in place" to build our body?

There is profound truth in the statement that blood is life. The blood flow that
runs inside our arteries, veins and capillaries is vital to making sure that every
organ gets its unique construction materials and clears the tons of wastes that
are generated.

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A team of Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, led by Jonas Frisén, has announced
that cells can be dated by applying carbon-14 techniques to DNA, a method commonly used in archaeology and
paleontology to pinpoint the age of fossils. Using this method, Dr. Frisén has shown that most cells in the body
are less than 10 years old. Moreover, the team has also discovered why people behave their birth age, rather
than the physical age of their cells: This is because a few of the body's cell types endure from birth to death
without renewal, and this special minority includes some or all of the cells of the cerebral cortex.( RE )
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Therefore, to live in a state of optimum health, and get great new bodies every 7
years, all we need are:

 High quality construction materials or the best of foodstuffs.

 Powerful, healthy systems to move things around, put them into place,
clear the wastes, etc. This requires that we do everything we can to
ensure we maintain a clean blood circulation system that flows well and
unobstructed so that it reaches everywhere.

 We need clean, fresh air. This may sound obvious but the whole system
requires it to be oxygen-rich.

 Plenty of water. Our bodies are made of 70% water.

 A healthy mindset influences our entire system (and leads to spiritual

growth).

It really is that basic. When everything is operating properly, we get a new

HEALTHY body every 7 years.

Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

Yes or no?

God has created us in a way that it would, and should, be simple. However, we
did manage to make things a little more complicated.

Later in this publication, I will address the importance of each of these factors.

I will show you what you can start doing immediately to improve your overall
health and well-being. This is accomplished by keeping all of these fine-tuned
functions working together in balance and harmony, as our Creator intended.

You see, what I want you to be aware of, from this point on, is this:
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As a society, we are all experiencing an ongoing epidemic that is on the
increase. I am not talking about Lupus disease alone now. I am talking about the
whole picture.

Let us look at this big picture and see where we are failing. This includes our
professional health care providers and the 'sciences and facts' we have been
conditioned to pursue.

Above all, I want you to come to see, and believe, that we are perfectly
equipped to heal ourselves. It is our personal responsibility to maintain these
magnificent 'machines' we have been given.

I am going to attempt to drive home with this publication this one simple fact:

You are the absolute best person to take charge of your health!

Before we go any further into the need to rethink how we approach medicine as
professionals, and how we can better address our own responsibilities, I want to
use a couple of other examples to better explain what I wish to share with you.

I asked you to look at that gorgeous car and think about your body. We can
probably all agree that with such a magnificent machine, we would not cut
corners and use a low-grade fuel or other inferior components. Only the finest
products and parts would be called for.

You may have heard an adage used by computer programmers, “Garbage In,
Garbage Out!” or GIGO. In the simplest of terms, this means any program that is
designed is only as good as the information that is programmed into it.

When thinking of our bodies, that same principle holds true. We are only as
strong and healthy as the fuels we take in. If we consume fatty, greasy foods,
and a ton of sweets, we cannot expect our energy or our body's balance to be at
its best.

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One last example I would like to draw your attention to is a popular medical-
mystery TV program that is running at this time in the US. It is called “House,”
and it involves a team of doctors that spend each hour trying to track down the
cause of afflictions that strike down otherwise healthy characters.

Each member of the team will offer his or her experience and expertise to find
the root of the problem. They will go through the history of their patients, search
their homes for possible contaminants, and much more. Many times, they will
address one symptom to find that another will crop up. Of course, the life of the
patient is uncertain until they discover the root of the problem.

This is what I want to make clear with this endeavor. We know the root causes
of many of the world’s afflictions. We know the reasons behind the disease
epidemic that is sweeping the world.

We wish to do much more than simply continue to react to the symptoms

presented. This is the treatment model our modern medical community has
been trained to address. It will likely anger you when you learn how this
developed - and it now dominates healthcare!

When you have completed your reading, you are going to be fully equipped to
be proactive in providing all the proper fuels, and to practice other simple tasks,
so your body is able to heal itself from Lupus, the way it was intended to do.

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 The Case for the Worldwide Disease Epidemic
I told one of my friends, a shrink, that around 80% of us will die an unnatural
death! He asked me, “what do you mean unnatural?” I said, "heart disease,
cancer, diabetes, etc." He looked at me and inquired, "So how do you want them
to die? Huh?"

"A natural death dear! Just from getting old…!"

And we both started laughing a bitter laugh.

People are forgetting how they are supposed to die. Just remember a rule, “Die
young as late as possible,” and you will die a natural death.

You probably think that dying from cancer, renal failure, or diabetes are natural
deaths nowadays, and dying from an accident, say a car accident, a plane
crash, or by drowning in water, are unnatural deaths. Yes, you are right in a way.
As long as we are convinced that we HAVE to suffer from a disease and die, as
if it has been made compulsory; that we HAVE TO experience some ailment in
order to die, and that is a natural death. However, this is NOT how we were
meant to die! Think it over. We ourselves have made our lives this way.
Originally, we were supposed to die with age. Aging and getting older is
something natural and we cannot stop it by any means. We can delay it, but we
can never stop it. And dying by just getting older is dying naturally!

Do you know that 80% of world population is dying early, well before their
expected death time?

Have a look how many of us are dying before our time. If we confine our
boundaries to America only, these are the top 15 causes of death and their
percentage rate for the year 2008 according to the U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services.2

2
Source: National Vital Statistics Reports Volume 59, Number 2 December 9, 2010 Deaths: Preliminary Data for
2008
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Diseases of the heart: 25.4%
Malignant neoplasms: 23.2%
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 5.3%
Cerebrovascular diseases: 5.6%
Alzheimer’s disease: 3.1%
Diabetes mellitus: 2.9%
Influenza and pneumonia: 2.2%
Nephritis, Nephritic syndrome, Nephrosis: 1.9%
Septicemia (blood poisoning): 1.4%
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 1.2%
Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease 1%
Parkinson’s disease: 0.8%
Assault (homicide): 0.8%
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 1.4%
All other causes (including “small” diseases): 18.6%

I read somewhere that dying gracefully is not promoted, in spite of the fact that
its market prospective is great. Almost all of us are letting ourselves die before
our time and, believe me, you are no different. You are just another ordinary
person, living the same ordinary but “unnatural” lifestyle, and will die before you
should have died.

It’s interesting that the biggest and the most developed countries are spending
much of their budget on the health sector, in fighting diseases and
immunizations, and yet they are at much greater risk of being diseased than any
other society. According to the latest survey carried out by the World Health
Organization, WHO, in 2000, the U.S., which has the latest medical
technologies and research laboratories for the cure of diseases, was ranked at
37 among 190 countries. That’s alarming! Isn’t it?

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 The Germ Theory and Drug Industry
The germ theory and the real cause of diseases

Long ago, when the first microscope was invented in the 1600s and scientists
started invading the ‘germs land,’ a debate started between Louis Pasteur and
Antoine Bechampas about how a disease originates in a person. There were
two schools of thought.

The two schools of thought

The first school of thought was that of Louis Pasteur, and his doctrine about the
world’s drug industry holds true today. He claimed that a disease appears
entirely due to ‘outside body’ factors, i.e. germs. In addition, these germs can be
killed using different chemicals. Pasteur argued that the induction of a small
quantity of these germs into the human body would teach its immune system
how to combat millions of such microbes trying to attack it.

Bechamp and Bernard supported the second school of thought. They argued,
contrary to Pasteur’s outlook, that germs are born within our bodies because of
the within-the-body toxic environment. They maintained that our ‘toxic bodies’
create these microbes, and that they do not come from the outside.

The present germ theory is unnatural!

Both Bechamp and Pasteur had a long session discussing their postulates and
proving them. This ended with both agreeing with each other’s viewpoint.
However, it was Napoleon’s era and, as Pasteur was closer to him, he
convinced Napoleon of his ideology of germ theory. Napoleon appointed him
and his two friends, Robert Koch and Ferdinand Julius Cohn, to teach the world
about germs and the methods to save human bodies from their savage attacks.
They did, but completely ignored the part about the body’s inner terrain. Now it
is Pasteur’s theory that is still benefiting the medication business.

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The world accepted and acknowledged the ‘invading germ’ theory of Pasteur
and this is what we know today as ‘the germ theory.’ However, he caused
confusion when he agreed with Bernard and Bechamp and said on his
deathbed, “Claude Bernard was right – the microbe is nothing, the terrain
is everything.”3

The present dilemma

Where do we stand now? Is the present world-renowned germ theory wrong?
Have we been mistreating our bodies? The germ theory is not wrong entirely. It
is true that germs DO invade our bodies from outside but they cannot do any
harm to us if we have toxic-free, stronger bodies with stronger immune systems.
Scientists have proved this too a few years back by carrying out some studies I
am going to discuss later.

The tragedy is although we are now well aware of the ‘actual’ theory of germs,
we are still unable to implement it, since Pasteur confessed it quite late. By then,
not only had the belief in medicines and vaccines intensified, but also the
industry itself had grown gigantically, producing billions of dollars of drugs.

The terrain IS everything!

Is terrain everything? Yes, it is. Consider sealing the door of your freezer and
unplugging it for 2 weeks. Open it. You will see bacteria, fungi, mold and other
germs in there. How did they get in when the door was sealed? They entered
from nowhere. They were already there. It is just that favorable conditions
developed inside, which allowed them to multiply and grow. In the same way,
these microbes react to the toxic conditions of our bodies and harm us. They
reproduce because the contaminated settings of our bodies become favorable
for them. During the process of reproduction, they in turn create much more
toxin that is actually responsible for causing disease.

3
Hume, Ed. Pasteur exposed: the false foundations of modern medicine. Australia: Book real, 1989
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We have diverted all our attention towards grabbing a pill to cure a disease
without even looking for a better and healthier solution. Medication or
vaccination is not the ‘real’ cure. The true cure of these diseases lies in having a
normal and optimum immune system. If it is good enough to fight back a certain
calamity, it will be strong enough to combat it the next time. If it is poor, your
body’s defense system will collapse and a disease will infect you.
We are treating our bodies abnormally!

There are certain ailments that are not related to any germ theory. One is
autoimmune disease and the other is chronic disease. An unstable immune
system causes the former. The environment causes the latter, which I will prove
to you later. The dilemma is that we seek their cure, too, through drugs and
medicines. Have you ever wondered why? The drug industry has become a
completely new business, where easy money is made. This money and the
status it allows industrialists to enjoy are obstructing the ‘natural’ ways to cure
and heal.

All I want to say is that this mode of treatment is absolutely wrong for not only
autoimmune and chronic diseases, but for all other diseases too. I hope you
realize the answer by now. Yes, as I said before, the terrain or the environment
you live in is everything.

The recent and most accurate China Study

Let me tell you about one of the most precise and scientifically confirmed recent
studies, acknowledged by The New York Times.4 The study proved that
everything is in the environment. I am not going into the details of that study now
(I will come back to it later), but the purpose of mentioning this important study

4
The China Study is a 2005 book by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. The title of the book is taken from the China-Oxford-
Cornell Dietary and Health research project that was a partnership of 20 years between Cornell University,
Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The New York Times has standardized the
study as the “Grand Prix of Epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the
relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.” It was carried out and revised by the top leading
and award-winning scientists from China and the U.S.A. The director of the project was Dr. Campbell himself.
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of the scientific world is to let you know that germs are not everything. They
cannot spread the disease alone. It is the toxin or the terrain that initiates, and
then stimulates, the entire ‘diseased’ process. Scientists have proved with this
study that the food we eat and the factors we are exposed to are the causes of
our ill health and diseased body. Our genes have nothing to do with it.

Genes do not dictate ailments

(Photo needed)
In the early 1970s, when one of the Chinese leaders, Chou Enlai, was dying
from cancer, he initiated a survey about this not-so-known disease of those
times. The results of the survey, known as The Cancer Atlas5, gave a new
dimension to the world of science. The study showed that the ratio at which
people were suffering from cancer throughout China varied in different places.
As China is consistent genetically, it was evident from the analysis that it is the
environment causing the difference in ratios.

Migrant studies have also shown that the risk of cancer increases when a
person migrates from an area of low-cancer-risk to an area of high-cancer-risk6.
Do our genes change when we migrate? No, it is not about genes. The
environment we live in, the food we eat, and the lifestyle we adopt are the
principal causes of these diseases.

DNA is not the culprit, but food is!

Almost all of us believe that DNA and the genes control our lives. If you are
predisposed to some disease because of genetics, you WILL have it eventually
in your life. However, this is not true. Genes have modes. They can be turned on
and off. It means they are controllable. If some disease code is on them, you

5
Dr. T. Colin Campbell has also talked about The Cancer Atlas in his book “The China Study”.
6
Expert Panel.Food, nutrition and the prevention of cancer, a global perspective. Washington, DC: American
Institute for Cancer Research/World Cancer Research Fund, 1997.
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can control it too.

One study that revised this fact looked at the medical data of 44,788 pairs of
identical twins having identical genetic makeup. It was established that the risk
that both of the twins would suffer from one type of cancer was minor.
Therefore, genes were not the cause of cancer in those twins. It was the
environment they had been living in.7

Epigenetics –genes start afresh

Let us assume you have a gene that decrees a disease in you. The good part is
that your genes are reprogrammable and you can alter their effects successfully.
Rewriting your genes for treatment and therapies is a field of genetics known as
Epigenetics. Methylation is an important part of epigenetics. I am not going to
deliver a lecture on what epigenetics is or what methylation involves, but to give
you an idea, different food supplements such as multivitamins and protein
complements, and healthy childrearing practices at an early age, can have
positive effects on methylation.

A healthy eating habit and good environment can renew your genes!

Prof. Randy Jirtle of Duke University Medical Center experimented on pregnant

mice8. He gave them yellow furs and the opportunity to put on weight during
their gene mutation period. Jirtle also supplemented their food with vitamin
supplements. At birth, he noticed normally furred brown mice with lean bodies. It
clearly demonstrated that the vitamin supplement Jirtle given them had
successfully turned off the specific gene for coat color and weight tendency.

7
P. Lichtenstein et al., ‘Environmental and Heritable factors in the Causation of Cancer – Analyses of Cohorts of
Twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland’, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 343(2), 2000, pp. 78-85
8
R. A. Waterland and R. L. Jirtle, ‘Transposable Elements: Targets for Early Nutritional Effects on Epigenetic
Gene Regulation’, Molecular and Cellular Biology, vol. 23 (15), 2003, pp. 5293-5300
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Professor Moshe Szyf carried out a study at McGill University in Montreal,
Canada that supports my arguments. He came to the conclusion that the baby
rats deprived of proper licking and nurturing have a changed gene that controls
hormone secretion during stress. When they grow up, these neglected rats
create more anxiety hormones and counter off-color under stress9.

A new theory

I hope, by now, you have understood what I wanted to tell you. Get rid of the old
and inaccurate theories of germs, diseases, health and life. The truth is it is your
food and your terrain that affects your body. If your body adapts to the changes
well, it is a healthier body. Expect a total body crash otherwise. Genes are what
you have inherited, either good or bad. They interact with the environment that
includes food, air, exercise, thoughts, and contact with viruses and other germs.
If the interaction is successful, you will enjoy optimum health. If your
environment contains more than your adaptive (genetic) capacity, you may
suffer from any disease from asthma to arthritis.

Constitutional nature of diseases - We are made of systems

not chemical "dots"

You have been hearing that our bodies are made up of different cells and that
they are the building blocks of our bodies. This is true. Cells surely build our
bodies. Building something is different from just sustaining it for years. To put it
another way: these chemical dots are nothing without the different organic
systems.

You have to understand that we are not designed with a combination of

9
A. Motluk, ‘The Food You Eat may Change Your Genes for Life’, New Scientist, 17 November 2005. For more
detailed information, visit Epigenetics means what we eat, how we live and love, alters how our genes behave at
the Science Daily website, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051026090636.htm
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separate chemical "dots. We are made from a variety of organic living systems
that work in a marvelous synergy, and that is exactly what my methods are
aimed at. We heal systems, and do not just try to silence those symptoms by
taking drugs to make chemical changes in the specific "dots" that trigger them.
Changing something in a complex system can cause many side effects.

I hope you understand my point now. The living systems guarantee the survival
of our bodies. Chemical “dots” do not make us; it is the systems. To elaborate
further, we have several built-in systems that make up one complex system. A
failure of a single system leads to the failure of the whole system eventually.

Drugs “heal” by silencing the symptoms!

We must educate ourselves about healing the systems, and not silencing the
symptoms of Lupus disease by the “dot” method of treatment. The behavior of
these dots changes when we suffer from Lupus. When we take drugs, we DO
NOT remove the cause, but we make the symptoms shut up and sit back! That
is, we are putting a silencer on them. The cause remains, which is, of course,
not good.

Do not think that conventional medicine disagrees with that point; doctors totally
agree and they say it up front. They know the drugs heal a disease by getting rid
of its symptoms and not by addressing its cause. The reason I am emphasizing
this is to educate you. Personally, I think doctors should take the responsibility of
educating their patients about what is best for them. That is why I am here with
you and I believe many other well-informed doctors must be doing the same.

What makes it even worse is that silencing symptoms has several side effects. I
am sure you must have read the labels and leaflets of different drugs, and all of
them mention the “side effects.” Unfortunately, though all of us know these
drugs have side effects, we do not pay attention to them, as after all, these are
just the SIDE effects. I mean, how bad can a side effect be?

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Let me tell you here that these side effects KILL more than 106,000 people
alone in the United States every year. Out of 2 million people that are
“forced” to be hospitalized1011, 9% are seriously harmed while 54% need
intervention.12 These are the recorded facts. The number goes much higher
when it comes to those who just felt bad by taking drugs and whose new
symptoms are yet undiscovered.

The most comprehensive and established study of nutrition, which I mentioned

earlier, The China Study , concludes a proven fact that "the most promising
preventions and treatments have now been shown to be diet and lifestyle
changes, a Constitutional approach to health!13" The study is verified and
scientifically confirmed, leaving no doubts in our minds. The top scientists of
China and USA led it. The New York Times termed it as outstanding and the
“Grand Prix of Epidemiology.”

Whole foods and plant diet – a better way to heal

Our bodies – not individual parts, but an ecosystem

The present day medical science sees a human body as a set of individual parts
or individual systems. The drug industry has produced drugs that target a
particular system/part. If there would be some hi-fi scientific device that could
scan your body 24/7 while you work throughout the day, you would see a lot
happening on the scanner. At the end of the day, you would see that your body
is not static but in a dynamic flux. Your brain cells would be turning on and off all
day, making your blood stream and its flow changes every time. Some genes

10
Source: “Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a meta-analysis of prospective studies”,
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
11
Source: “Medical Errors - A Leading Cause of Death”, The Journal of the American Association (JAMA)
vol284, No 4, July 26th 2000

12 Source: “High rates of adverse drug events in a highly computerized hospital”, Archives of Internal Medicine,
Vol. 165 No. 10, May 23, 2005
13
Source: The China Study by T. Colin Campbell Ch:18
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would activate and others deactivate. The blood pressure, heart rate, hormone
secretions, sugar level, and oxygen level all change continuously while you
spend your day. This is a web. Your body works as a web just like our
ecosystem works in a web. Every system is interrelated and works in
coordination. If a system in the web becomes abnormal, it affects the rest of
them too. Therefore, it is entirely wrong to see each system as an individual
system.

To make it clearer, let me put it this way. Let us suppose you were exercising.
Your scanner will reveal immediate changes in your blood flow and pressure,
along with some new “on and offs” in the brain and other body cells. Soon after,
imagine you were stressed somehow. There will be an immediate and dramatic
change to your blood pressure, flow and brain activity. There will be two entirely
different pictures of your body on the scanner. Let me add the food here. You
eat after exercising, and you eat after being stressed. The ‘eating’ activity is the
same, but your body will respond to them in completely different ways. That
means what you eat, when you eat and how you eat contribute towards
your body’s workings.

Now that you know that your body is a web, an ecosystem, you should get
yourself educated about what is best suited for it to remain healthy. You are fine
until you fall prey to some disease. So, what is it that heals your ecosystem?

What works WITH our bodies?

To answer the question I ask above, take a simple example of a body in pain, as
we all undergo one or another type of pain in our lives. Using the same scanner,
watch your body when you are in pain. Take a painkiller. It would not show
significant changes on the scanner because it is intended for a ‘localized’ effect.
However, the pain affects your body’s entire ecosystem. Alternatively, if you take
an omega-3 fish oil supplement, it would register in your entire body. Your
ecosystem would show more signs of betterment and speedy recovery of your
health.

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It is common sense. Our bodies are not based on drugs. They depend and
evolve on nutrients that come from the food we eat. That is why I insist food is
better than drugs for your optimum health. If you have enough resources to
study different nutrient rich food as their drug-ability, you will be amazed at the
wonders they carry with them WITHOUT any side effects. Besides food, other
non-drug treatments such as exercising, psychotherapy, meditation, yoga,
relaxation etc. are great for our bodies, for overall health and for proper
breathing. Stress also affects our health, and the only healthy means to kick it
out is through exercising and consuming proper and healthier food. U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carried out a study concluding that
most of the deaths in the U.S. that occurred in 2000 were because of smoking,
poor diet, drinking alcohol and lack of exercise14. Put yourself again on the
scanner, and treat yourself in these non-drug ways. Watch the results. You will
be enthralled for sure!

Pharmaceuticals advertise and profit

Since Pasteur’s days and the birth of the drug industry that was supposed to
help patients to treat diseases, we have come a long way. The drug industry has
taken a strong control over the medical sciences. From minor pains to severe
ailments, drugs are everywhere. Have you ever wondered how drugs have
come to rule the medical industry?

Full spectrum dominance

The U.S. Military works with a motto of “to defeat and control.” It overthrows an
antagonist and takes control of every state of affairs within its military range. The
drug industry works with the same drive of “full spectrum dominance.” From
manufacturing to promoting to selling, the industry has achieved a lot; I mean
more than a lot. What’s more, it has also successfully conquered professional

14
A. H. Mokdadet al., ‘Actual causes of death in the united states 2000’, Journal of the American medical
association, vol. 291 (10), 2004, pp. 1238-45.
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circles like researchers, doctors, and medical/health journals.

Have you ever thought of this? Have you ever figured out how the drug industry
achieved full spectrum dominance? It’s very simple. The industry pays for it!
Though the scenario is same across the globe, let me tell you about America
alone. United States’ drug industry spends $15 billion on drugs marketing and
sales every year. However, it only spends half of this amount on research and
development15. To put this in perspective, where global business is worth above
$600 billion, the UK drug industry alone is worth £10 billion ($15.8 billion). It has
more than 8000 salespersons. Some of the companies even spend up to
£10,000 ($15,800) on one doctor for promotion16.

Doctors are made to believe that there is a drug for every patient that is safe
and effective. If doctors believe that, shouldn’t you believe it too? That is what
drug companies are up to. They make every effort to persuade doctors of the
effectiveness of drugs. However, as I said previously, the reality is a bit different
and not every doctor is well informed. They have been studying these drugs
throughout their careers. They have no other option but to believe what drug
manufacturers say is true. In addition, the story of full dominance spectrum aims
to lessen the gap between the reality and the created-reality.

Where do the drug companies spend their money?

To achieve full spectrum dominance, I told you the drug industry pays for it. To
whom is this money paid and where does it all go?
The pharmaceutical companies pay the testing companies that test the safety
and effectiveness of their drugs to produce the acceptable results17. They pay
the medical journals for advertisements and to reprint favorable articles. They
pay the academic writers and authors to advise doctors about specific
15
‘Spin Doctored: How Drug Companies Keep Tabs on Physicians’, online journal Slate, 31 May 2005
16
L. Reich, ‘Are GPs In Thrall to Drug Companies?’ Daily Telegraph, 2 March 2005
17
J. Lexchinet al., ‘Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsorship and Research Outcome and Quality’, British Medical
Journal, vol. 326, 2003, pp. 1167-70
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medicines in the clinical guidelines18. They pay for further studies by doctors as
they attend seminars and lectures to update their knowledge. Sixty percent or
more of the funding comes from the drug industry. To add to the situation, they
even pay the drug regulatory authorities like the FDA in America and MHRA in
the UK. As these authorities issue the licenses to the pharmaceutical
companies, the drug industry makes use of this fully.

Your health is put at risk for money!

Yes, that’s right. The drug business and associated people are getting a lot out
of it while putting my and your health at risk. I am a doctor myself and prescribe
different drugs to my patients. I too was taught to believe in drugs. By the time I
got to know the reality, it was already too late. The drug industry is ruling the
minds and beliefs of not only the public but also of the doctors and researchers.

Drug testing centers and review boards revealed!

Almost the entire global drug industry runs on the mercy of American drug
testing centers. Some countries have their own separate testing organizations
but the conditions are not much different. In America, more than 15,000 private
drug-testing centers test almost 75 percent of all pharmaceutical companies and
their products. These centers put out the requested results of the test and not
the actual results. This is because they are paid to do so. Not only this, but the
review boards that verify the testing procedure and the results are paid too19.

How does it actually work? It was found that in one case the wife of a doctor
running a clinic was the head of the review board. In another case, the same
person was running the review committee as well as the testing center.
18
K. Niteeshet al., ‘Relationships Between Authors of Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Pharmaceutical
Industry’, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 287, 2002, pp. 612-17
19
A leading financial information provider website Bloomberg.com has published a comprehensive report on the
situation. The report states that there are ‘poorly trained and unlicensed physicians’ running the centers with
‘significant objectionable conditions’.
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Moreover, most of the companies do not disclose the names and other
information of their review board members as a privacy policy. As there is no
auditing system, the members are mostly untrained and uncertified20.

Clinical trials produce wanted results

Almost 15 years ago, there were no private trial centers, and medical
universities used to test the trial run of drugs and other chemicals. Now there
are independent trial centers that are mostly headed by the owners of the drug
companies21.

Dr. Richard Smith is a long time editor of the British Medical Journal. He writes
that drug companies get the results of their choice. He adds that between
two-thirds and three-quarters of the trials published in the major journals
are funded by the industry.

What led Dr. Smith to say this? There is some evidence for his statement.
Research done back in the1990s discovered that the drug companies tested 56
painkilling drugs and none of them gave out any unfavorable results22. It was
also noted that the tests and trial runs carried out by the drug companies
themselves were four times more likely to come out according to their
expectations than the trials carried out by independent drug trial centers23.
Moreover, six in ten of the papers were supported by the drug industry and all of
those six supported the use of the product24.

20
‘Drug industry: Human Testing Masks Death, Injury; Complaint FDA’, 2 November 2005, available at
http://ablechild.org/articles/index.php/drug-industry-human-testing-masks-death-injury-compliant-fda/ M.
Peterson, ‘Madison Avenue Plays Growing Role in Drug Research’, New York Times, 22 November 2002
21
M. Petersen, ‘Madison Avenue Plays Growing Role in Drug Research’, New York Times, 22 November 2002
22
P. A. Rochonet al., ‘A Study of Manufacturer-supported Trials of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in the
Treatment of Arthritis’, Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 154, 1994, pp. 157-63
23
J. Lexchinet al., ‘Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsorship and Research Outcome and Quality’, British Medical
Journal, vol. 326, 2003, pp. 1167-70
24
T. Finucane C. Boult, ‘Commercial support and bias in pharmaceutical research’, American Journal of
Medicine, vol. 117, 2004, pp. 842-5. This article explores the association of funding and findings of
pharmaceutical research at a meeting of a medical professional society. ‘What commercially supported research
can be trusted?’ asked the authors. ‘To make it worse, physicians do not reliably detect bias in the information
presented to them’ and there is ‘no evidence that bias in individual studies is reliably detected and discounted’.
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Purchasing of medical journals by the drug companies

You might be thinking, how much influence can a medical journal have; after all,
it’s just a journal or a magazine like any other. No, it’s not merely a journal.
Doctors, including myself (who else can know better than a doctor himself), right
from the start of their studies and training are actually taught to rely on them.
Once a study is published in a distinguished medical journal, it is considered a
scientifically proven fact, rather than merely a non-scientific and traditional
medicine.

By telling you of the importance of reputed medical journals, I wanted to give

you an idea of how they can bring about a change in medical history, beliefs and
practices. Drug companies are aware of this fact. As you know now, they can
get influenced results from the drug trial centers; all they need is to get them
published in some trustworthy journal. How do they do that?

Symbiotic and parasitic relationship

Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, described to the Parliamentary health

committee how the drug companies force journals to publish and re-publish the
research papers containing the favorable results of some drug that has been
tested favorably. Horton said that once when he was probing and questioning
many points in a paper on a COX-2 inhibitor drug, the executive of the drug
company asked him to ‘stop being so critical’ or they would make The Lancet
lose lucrative reprint rights25. Horton named the relationship between the
journals and the drug companies as symbiotic and parasitic (I trust you know
what symbiosis and parasites are).

25
L. Eaton, News roundup: ‘Editor Claims Drugs Companies have a “Parasitic” Relationship with Journals’,
British Medical Journal, vol. 330, 2005, p. 9
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How do unfavorable results get published in journals?

First, drug companies take out the favorable results from the drugs trial runs. If it
happens to be an unfavorable result, drug companies still get it published!

A team of unbiased and independent scientists found conflicts between the

abstracts and bodies of papers on drugs, and it is the abstracts that are
published. For example, an antidepressant Seroxat was tested and compared.
The summary said Seroxat was ‘generally well tolerated’ and that ‘most adverse
effects were not serious’. This abstract was published. However, the actual story
had a different ending. When the team of scientists read the entire body of the
paper, they found ‘Out of 93 children given Seroxat, 11 had serious ADRs
compared with 2 in the Placebo group.’ You decide. Were not the adverse
effects serious? In addition, ‘Seven of these children were admitted to hospital
during treatment.’ As long as the drug is ‘well tolerated,’ are the affected ones
hospitalized? Not only this, it was evident from the paper that Seroxat was only
2.7 points more effective than a placebo on a 113-point scale26. I think there is
nothing more for me to say. You be the judge.

Influence of drug companies on academics

To complete their full spectrum dominance and add to their favorable published
results, drug companies now require academics to speak and give lectures on
the use of that particular drug.

Los Angeles Times scrutinized the liaison between the prominent National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US and the drug companies27. For instance, the
inquiry outlined that between 2000 and 2004; at least 530 NIH scientists took

26
J. N. Jureidiniet al., ‘Efficacy and Safety of Antidepressants for Children and Adolescents’, British Medical
Journal, vol. 328, 2004, pp. 879-83
27
D. William, ‘the National Institutes of Health: Public Servant of Private Marketer?’ Los Angeles Times, 22
December 2004
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money from the drug companies. As there is no law that prohibits this, the
information is never exposed. Dr. Bryan Brewer got more than $100,000 from
the manufacturers of Crestor, the statin drug. In return, Brewer wrote an article
on the relationship between Crestor and a serious muscle-wasting ADR, missing
some very serious concerns about it. The article was published in a prominent
heart journal. The Los Angeles Times has detailed information on this
investigation.

This is not confined to America only. In the UK, it was recently discovered that
many medicinal companies offer payment to the consultants not to publish
inopportune and problematic findings. Dr. Peter Wilmshurst, a consultant
cardiologist at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, was giving a proof at a Parliamentary
health committee hearing when he reported that a drug company offered him
bribes not to publish any unfavorable results for them. Not only this, but he also
gave evidence that eminent and renowned opinion holders are paid up to
£5,000 for talking about the qualities of a drug they don’t know anything about.

Marketing drugs for “Bestsellers”

Do you know how a drug runs out its patent and how its competitor becomes a
bestseller?

New York Times investigated a drug company’s fall out when its patent that was
once a bestseller ran out28. The company was Forest and the patented drug was
Celexa, an antidepressant. Lexapro became its competitor with a slight
modification of escitalopram, a drug molecule. The latter was newer and more
expensive, and the manufacturers needed to persuade the doctors about its
advantages.

As per the New York Times research, the convincing element for Lexapro was a
review of the previous three studies done by Dr. Jack M. Gorman. The studies
confirmed they acted too quickly. However, the author was a paid consultant and

28
M. Peterson, ‘Madison Avenue Plays Growing Role in Drug Research’, New York Times, 22 November 2002
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editor of the journal that published it in a special edition, paid by Forest.

Forest held a conference in New York and selected one student from every
medical school across the country to attend it. The conference’s motto was to
‘get medical students interested in psychiatric research.’ In those two days, Dr.
Gorman gave a lecture on the drug; students enjoyed the luxury of the Plaza
Hotel and went to a Broadway show.

The Medical Letter, a non-profit, unbiased, independent newsletter, scrutinized

the three studies on Lexapro and found no evidence to prove its efficacy. Forest
organized different programs to educate doctors about psychiatry and the use of
anti-depressants. It increased Lexapro’s sales to $1.1 billion in 2004. Lexapro’s
trials and test runs showed that it was active in ‘treating panic disorders and
generalized and social anxiety disorders.’ These results added to its sales that
reached to $2 billion before its patent ran out.

Influence of drug companies on doctors

The final target of the drug companies to acquire full spectrum dominance is the
doctors. Being a doctor, I have learnt over many years how a doctor is besieged.
There are two ways. One is continual learning and other is visits from the drug
sales team.

Facilitating a doctor for continuing learning

Whether you are a doctor or not, you know that advancements in modern
technology have resulted in tremendous advancements in medical research as
well. If I, for example, do not keep my knowledge up to date, I will soon fall
behind. In the UK, it is compulsory for a doctor to have about 50 hours of
‘medical education’ every year29. The same is true in America where over $1.5

29
S. Boseley, ‘Junket Time in Munich for the Medical Profession – and it’s All on the Drug Firms’, Guardian, 5
October 2004
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billion is spent for ‘continuing medical education.’30

Drug companies are aware of how much is spent on a doctor’s continuing

education.

As drug companies are aware of the situation, you can see why the benefits of
non-drug treatments and negative results of drug trials are ignored. Doctors rely
on medical journals, publications and academic happenings for their education.
You can imagine how much they are being misinformed.

Hiding the “negative facts”

In 2000, US doctors received a letter from a pharmaceutical company, Wyeth, to

inform them about the campaign to educate consumers about the adverse
effects of menopause and loss of estrogen that included heart attacks,
Alzheimer’s disease, night sweats, vaginal dryness and bone fractures. Of
course, the cure for these was to take Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

The campaign completely ignored the other side of HRT. HRT underwent a well-
randomized organized trial published some years back. According to the trial
results, taking HRT when you already had a heart attack increases the risk of
getting it again31. The campaign also ignored the fact that the directors of the
Women’s Health Initiative trial of HRT wrote to women involved in the trial to
caution them about the danger of heart attacks and strokes associated with
HRT. The letters contained the information presented by research published in
the Journal of the American Medical Association32.

Visiting doctors to sell the product

A large part of the budget goes to pursue the doctors directly. The US is

30
S. Frederick et al., ‘Medical Student’ Exposure to and Attitudes About Drug Company Interactions: A national
survey’, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 294, 2005, pp. 1034-42
31
S. Hulleyet al., ‘Randomized Trial of Estrogen Plus Progestin for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart
Disease in Postmenopausal Women’, journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 280, 1998, pp. 605-13
32
J. E, Rossouwet al., ‘Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women:
Principal Results from the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial’, Journal of the American
Association, vol. 288(3), 2002, pp. 321-33
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spending between $12 and $18 billion to educate doctors. In the UK, as I have
talked about earlier, drug companies spend £10,000 ($15,800) annually on an
individual doctor. In the past, doctors were especially trained to talk about a
certain drug and to separate the fluff from the substantiation.

An article in The Lancet pointed this out about Vioxx by stating “The COX-2
drugs were adopted as the preferred NSAID by 55 percent of physicians within 6
months of their being marketed.” It also said, “This was due not to what the
patient needed, but was based on ‘physician preference.’”33-34

The Parliamentary health committee remarked in The Influence of the

Pharmaceutical Industry that drugs were being promoted vigorously just after
their introduction. The marketing tactics overlooked the absence of effective
countervailing forces. It also observed that these factors contributed to the
unsuitable drug recommendation and prescription.

Newer products – the truth

On occasion, you might have noticed two drugs with the same chemical
composition that have the same effects, but greatly differ in cost. One is cheaper
while the other is much more expensive. Unfortunately, common people think it
is its great effectiveness, as compared to the cheaper one, that makes it cost so
much. This is not true!

It happens when a drug runs out its patent and an alternative shows up. Newer
drugs are expensive and the manufacturers put their utmost efforts into get them
prescribed by doctors, as the final method to achieve full spectrum dominance.
Are their sky-high prices worth their effectiveness?

33
P. Vallance, ‘Developing an open relationship with the drug industry’, The Lancet vol. 366, 2005, pp. 1062-4
34
S. Schneeweisset al., ‘A Medicare database review found that physician preferences increasingly outweighed
patient characteristics as determinants of first-time prescriptions for COX-2 inhibitors’, Journal of Clinical
Epidemiology, vol. 58, 2005, pp. 98-102
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No! A recent Canadian study found that between 1990 and 2003, 1147 new
drugs were brought to the market. The Canadian Patented Medicines Prices
Review Board reviewed them. The board concluded that only 5.9 percent were
actually ‘breakthrough drugs.’ The rest were almost the same as previous drugs
already on the market35. If they were that much better, the price would have
been worth it for the sake of your health. Am I right?

The same study also found that between 1996 and 2003, spending on
prescriptions increased twofold and 80 percent of that was for new drugs ‘that
did not offer substantial improvements on less expensive alternatives available
before 1990.’ In addition, the number of patent lawyers hired by the drug
companies rose from 46 to 75 for every billion spent on Research and
Development36.

The authors of the same Canadian research commented that we could save
almost half of our bills by just avoiding the so-called bestseller alternative drugs
that are nothing but imitators.

The regulatory authorities and their silence

Where are the authorities that regulate and monitor the drug industry? The
MHRA in the UK and the FDA in the US should have questioned and criticized
the effectiveness and safety of those drugs whose prices are sky-high. However,
these bodies remained quiet, as drug companies funded them too. That was
another step from the drug manufacturers to get hold of full spectrum
dominance.

Recently, papers obtained by the UK’s Freedom of Information Act clearly show

35
S. Morgan et al., ‘”Breakthrough” drugs and growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in Canada’, British
Medical Journal, vol. 331, 2005, pp. 815-16
36
J. Law, Big Pharma: How the World’s Biggest Drug Companies Market Illness, Constable and Robinson,
2006, p. 127
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that the drug industry controls the MHRA according to their own rules. The
papers stated that the companies proposed to MHRA that they ‘build on the
excellent working relationship between the industry and the regulator.’ Moreover,
the drug industry was “agitated about the ministers’ unrealistic plans to tighten
the rules on conflicts of interest.”37

Off-label drug prescription – bypassing clinical trials

Sometimes when drug companies know that their products will fall below the
standard line during their clinical trials, they go for off-label marketing. Doctors
are authorized to use their skills, knowledge and experience to judge the
behavior of a drug, and the drug industry makes full use of this. This is helpful at
times, but it can often be used to sidestep important safeguards.

There was a court case for a drug called Neurontin that was promoted by the
manufacturer for 11 conditions that were not licensed.38 Children medicines are
mostly promoted off-label, as they are rarely tested on children. Almost 60,000
with SSRIs are treated off-label, and in the European Union over 100 million
children are given off-label or unauthorized drugs39. See for yourself and decide
whether you are in safe hands with the drug industry. This scenario is not
confined to children only, though they are the most often affected. Of the 160
commonly prescribed drugs in the US, 21 percent are prescribed off-label.

A self-analyzing system

There is a solution to every problem, and the problem of full spectrum

37
R. Evans and S. Boseley, ‘The drugs industry and its watchdog: a relationship too close for comfort’,
Guardian, 4 October 2004
38
Drug companies actively push off-label prescribing, sometimes with little or no evidence or fabricated
evidence. One of the most shocking examples was revealed in a court case involving a drug called Neurontin,
licensed to treat epileptic seizures. The drug company had aggressively pushed for it to be prescribed off-label
for at least 11 other neurological conditions, such as ADHD in children, neurological pain and bipolar disorder. A
New York Times article (‘Whistle-Blower says marketers broke the rules to push a drug’, 14 March 2002)
reported that most of the evidence for the safety and effectiveness of the drug for these uses appear to have
th
been fabrications by the corporations. In 2004, Neurontin was the 16 bestselling drug in the world, with sales
worth $2.73 billion.
39
X. Bosch, ‘Europe follows US in testing drugs for children’, Science, vol. 309, 2005, p. 799
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dominance of the drug industry can be solved by having independent and
unbiased trial and regulatory centers. Many recommendations have been made
to both the UK and US governments. Unfortunately, both regions ignored these
endorsements and the drug industry flourished as before40-41.

This present system is an embarrassment to the doctors. Since you are aware
of the situation now, you can question a drug’s safety and effectiveness until you
are fully satisfied.

Changing guidelines to include a drug to your daily diet

It was an alarming fact for me that the people setting the health guidelines have
intimate financial links with the drug companies. Drug companies influence them
in stealthy ways to alter the guidelines to promote the sale of their products. Isn’t
it awful that we do not have guidelines for health, but do have guidelines to
increase the sale of drugs?

Just take an example of the two chart-topping groups of drugs. Cholesterol and
high blood pressure are two common conditions for which drug companies
greatly benefit. America alone spends $16 billion on drugs for hypertension and
the blockbuster statin Lipitor generates $11 billion every year.

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The parliamentary health committee was clearly unimpressed with the entire post-marketing system. After a
drug has been licensed for use by the MHRA the agency is also required to monitor it and watch for signs that it
may be causing unexpected side effects and problems. The main method used by the agency for this is the
criticized Yellow Card system. In its report, The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 2005, the committee
said it didn’t believe that the MHRA had ‘sufficient resources for effective post-marketing surveillance.’ It stated
that the ‘current process seems to be extremely passive,’ so it recommended that the ‘MHRA employ sufficient
numbers of staff to monitor effectively drugs which have been recently licensed’ and that it should ‘investigate
options for the development of more effective post-marketing surveillance systems.’
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S. Gottlieb, ‘Journal calls for the new system to monitor post-marketing drug safety’, British Medical Journal,
vol. 329, 2004, pp. 1258. This was a report of an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association only
a few months earlier, which recommended something similar in the US. The editors of JAMA have called for a
‘major restructuring’ of the way that US drug regulators respond to concerns over the safety of drugs after they
go on the market. The call comes after a group of doctors uncovered delays in issuing warnings about the
cholesterol-lowering drug Cerivastatin, despite the fact that the manufacturer, Bayer, had evidence of its adverse
effects for more than 18 months. The editors propose a new system that uncouples drug approval from post-
marketing safety surveillance and adds new oversight requirements.’
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Back to 2001, if your cholesterol level was below 5mmol/l or 200mg/dl, you were
in the ‘healthy’ group42. Around 13 million Americans were found to be above
this line and were considered to be at risk. Statins were prescribed to them.
Shortly after, the US National Cholesterol Education Program dropped the safe
level to 130mg/dl. As expected, the number of Americans at risk tripled (39
million)43 and so did the number of prescriptions prescribing the statins. In 2004,
the safe cholesterol level was dropped again to 100mg/dl44. You can very well
guess how it affected the drug industry.

John Abramson at Harvard Medical School found that tripling the number of
people needing statins did not reduce the number of heart attacks45.

The use and prescription of statins have increased over the years. You now

42
Petition to the US National Institutes of Health seeking an independent review panel to re-evaluate the National
Cholesterol Education Program guidelines, 23 September 2004. Available from
www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/finalnihltr.pdf This is from the website of the Integrity in Science Project, Center for
Science in the Public Interest, 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW #300, Washington DC 20009, US. Tel: (202)777-8374
www.cspinet.org See also: Third report of the expert panel on detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood
cholesterol in adults (adult treatment panel III). Details of the financial links between those members of the panel
and manufacturers of statins can be found at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/atp3updo4_disclose.htm
For a skeptical overview of the value of cholesterol-lowering advice see www.cholesterol-and-
health.com/index.html
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The old UK high level of 5mmol/l before the guideline change in 2001 was equal to 200mg/dl. It’s estimated
that 70% of people in UK have cholesterol above 5mmol/l, so the number achieving the new target of 3mmol/l is
tiny.
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Petition to the US National Institutes of Health seeking an independent review panel to re-evaluate the National
Cholesterol Education Program guidelines, 23 September 2004. Available from
www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/finalnihltr.pdf This is from the website of the Integrity in Science Project, Center for
Science in the Public Interest, 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW #300, Washington DC 20009, US. Tel: (202)777-8374
www.cspinet.org ‘ On July 12, 2004, the National Cholesterol Education Program of the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute, issued revised guidelines for cholesterol levels. They advised that people at moderately high
risk of developing, but no previous history of heart disease (“primary prevention”) and LDL-cholesterol levels
between 100 and 129mg/dl be offered the “therapeutic option” of cholesterol-lowering therapy with a statin.’
45
J. Abramson - Overdosed America: The Broken Promises of American Medicine, Harper Perennial, 2005. In
this book, Abramson analyzes a study known as ALLHAT (‘Major outcomes in moderately hypercholesterolemia,
hypertensive patients randomized to pravastatin vs. usual care: the Antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment
to prevent heart attack trial (ALLHAT-LLT)’, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 288, 2002, pp.
2998-3007). It started in 1994 and involved over 10,000 people with a huge risk of heart disease. There were an
equal number of men and women, some in their fifties, some older, some who’d had heart attacks and some
who hadn’t, some with cholesterol above 130 and some below it. At the beginning of the study, 26 percent of the
‘usual care’ patients had also been put on statins. So at the end of the study you had one group of whom just
over a quarter had statins and another group of whom over three-quarters had statins – some had stopped
taking them. Now if tripling the number of people taking statins, as the 2001 guidelines had done, was going to
bring big benefits, you’d expect much better survival rates in the group, most of whom had statins. In fact, there
was no difference between the two groups. The medical establishment largely ignored these results. As an
editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association declared: ‘Physicians might be tempted to conclude
that this large study demonstrates that statins do not work: however, it is well known that they do.’ Abramson
comments: ‘So much for science-based medicine.’
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know the reason. The guideline values are constantly being lowered, increasing
the number of people in need of statins. In America, 40 percent of people take
drugs to prevent diseases. Out of that, 75 percent are at risk, as they fall above
the constantly changing guidelines46. As we see in the UK, 70 percent of people
are taking drugs to either prevent diseases or improve health47.

Problem drugs

I have summarized a list of some problem drugs for you below. These drugs
have been found to cause some problems in the past. You can use this list to
decide whether comparable treatment will help you or not.

Weight loss: A drug ‘fen-phen’ (manufacturer: Wyeth); mixture: Pondimin and

Phentermine) was abandoned in 1997 as it caused heart disease and
hypertension. The manufacturers paid $22 billion to 600,000 people for the
damage fen-phen caused48.
Cholesterol lowering: Baycol was a statin (manufacturer: Bayer) and was
banned in 2001. Its use resulted in 31 deaths in America only. The company
paid $1.1 billion to 3,000 people for the damage49.
Diabetes: Rezulin (manufacturer: Pfizer) was found to cause 90 liver injuries, in
severe cases transplants, and 63 deaths. Pfizer compensated $1 billion for the
damage.
Heartburn: Propulsid was removed from the market in 2000 as it caused 300
deaths from heart problems, including some children. The manufacturers paid
$1 billion for damages.50

46
S. Kelleher and D. Wilson, ‘The Hidden big business behind your doctor’s diagnosis’, Seattle Times, 26-30
June 2005
47
I. Heath, ‘who needs health care – the well or the sick?’, British Medical Journal, vol. 330, 2005, pp. 954-6
48
R. Lenzer and M. Maiello, ‘The $22 billion gold rush’, Forbs, 10 April 2006. This article also raises questions
about the extent to which the claims are driven by the sufferings of the patients or by lawyers in search of fees.
49
K. Griffiths and D. Reece, ‘The pharmaceutical industry counts the cost of the drugs that do not work’,
Independent, 23 August 2005
50
K. Griffiths and D. Reece, ‘The pharmaceutical industry counts the cost of the drugs that do not work’,
Independent, 23 August 2005
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Not all blockbusters are effective. Most of them just put your life at risk.
Paying more does not guarantee better health.

The bitter side of blockbusters

Alastair Hay is a professor of environmental toxicology at Leeds University in the

UK. In June 2003, he told the court how his wife committed suicide. His wife was
a patient suffering from depression and she was prescribed an anti-depressant
drug, Prozac. The court was shown evidence that people suffering from
depression were twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts if they were taking this
type of antidepressant, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), than
those who were not. A year before, Geriant Williams called for an investigation
on an SSRI, Seroxat, after learning of a suicide case51. Another similar case
happened to Seroxat (manufacturer: GlaxoSmithKline) when the claimers said it
killed their father. The company paid $6.4 million in damages.52

Obscuring the real face

At first, only a few people knew the harsh reality of the SSRIs. Eventually,
enough evidence was found not only against them, but also against the drug
companies’ attitude towards it. The drug industry knew the facts and hid them
from doctors and patients. What keeps these outrageously dreadful drugs on the
market?

Of course, it is the money. The drug companies put a lot of ‘financial pressure’
on the medical industry to keep their products on the market. I was awestruck
when I found out that a year before Vioxx, an anti-inflammatory blockbuster, was

51
‘Coroner’s drug inquiry call’, BBC News, 11 March 2003. Available at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2841171.stm
52
S. Boseley, ‘Four people dead is four too many’, Guardian, 9 August 2001
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abandoned, the company set aside $150 million for its marketing and promotion.
Do you know that’s more than Pepsi-Cola’s budget?53 Similar evidence was
found against Propulsid, a heartburn drug, involving hundreds of deaths of both
adults and infants, and the company was masking them all too.

It is very saddening that the affected people started no investigations. If they

had, these blockbusters would have been pulled off the market. You must have
read about long inquiries by the public on the carelessness of other industries.
For example, if a private plane crashes, the public definitely takes action to
investigate the accident. Unfortunately, drug companies are so far lucky that
they have not been investigated. Vioxx harmed approximately 140,000
Americans54, but it was still on the market benefiting the manufacturers.

Have you ever thought why that is?

Are drug companies enjoying full spectrum dominance?
Have we been made to trust the profession blindly?

When there is no one to inquire into the business of drug companies, it is your
responsibility to ask these questions. Who else can be more observant about
your health than you can? Just dig into those facts that have not yet been
revealed.

Get yourself informed

You can educate yourself and gain insight into what is happening in the drug
industry and its market by reading this book. Although, while the internet has
been a massive blessing for those of us who can get hold of information with
just a click, remember that drug companies can decide what to publish and what

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J. Law, Big Pharma: how the world’s biggest drug companies market illness, Constable and Robinson, 2006,
p. 58
54
D. Graham et al., ‘Risk of acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death in patients treated with
cyclooxygenase 2 selective and non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: nested case-control study,
The Lancet, vol. 365 (9458), 2005, pp. 475-81
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to keep concealed. You can find a lot of information on the positives of drugs,
but you will hardly find their negatives.

I hope this book will be revolutionary and bring a positive change in your attitude
towards your health and well-being. The drug industry is powerful, yet there are
independent critics and researchers investigating drugs (especially the
blockbusters) and their hidden truths. For instance, a Welsh psychiatrist, David
Healy, has been warning about the seriousness of SSRIs and the increase in
the dangers of suicide because of them for years. It took a long time for people
to accept his findings and acknowledge his warning. The work that he and
others are doing to uncover the truth about these medicines is priceless.

Three considerations to start with

Whether you are have been taking a drug for long time, or are planning to take
some blockbuster medicine, ponder these three points.

 Even if clinical trials were good for a drug, they are not extensive and
inform you of nothing unless millions of people start taking it.
 If a drug is found to cause serious harm and the regulatory authority calls
for an investigation and trial test, it is doubtful that this will actually
happen. According to a US study, 66 percent of such FDA calls were
deliberately ignored55.
 You will likely not hear about severe problems stemming from the use of a
drug for a few years.

The birth of blockbusters and their evolution

I provide information below of how these hits and bestsellers break the charts of
profits and ill health. Have a look and decide for yourself how the drug industry
is working.

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G. Harris , ‘New drugs hit the market but promised trials go undone’, New York Times, 4 March 2006
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  It should have a patent. All you need is to discover a patent that has a
very dramatic benefit like lowering cholesterol. The chemical should be
new and not contain natural elements like vitamins, etc., to earn billions.

 Not better but more effective. Bringing out a better alternative is not the
goal. The new drug should be more effective than the older one.

 It should target a common disease. Targeting a common disease (i.e.

hypertension) means targeting more patients to take it, thereby increasing
the sales.

 Treat the symptoms, don’t remove the cause. Treating symptoms will
make the patient take it repeatedly, like sleeping pills and painkillers. Once
the root cause is gone, your drug will be useless.

 Keep increasing the target patients. You know this can be achieved by
lowering the guidelines continuously.

Target diseases of bestsellers

There are 24 bestselling and blockbuster drugs that target only six disorders. In
2004, these drugs made a profit of $67 billion in global sales.56 The list of
medical ailments these blockbusters address is below57.

1. High cholesterol – 4 drugs worth $20 billion

2. High blood pressure – 5 drugs worth $12.5 billion
3. Heartburn and ulcers – 6 drugs worth $12 billion
4. Depression – 4 drugs worth $10 billion
5. Psychosis – 3 drugs worth $9.4 billion

56
See website www.pharmalive.com – The pulse of the pharmaceutical industry. Summary of a report entitled
‘Top 500 prescription drugs’ contains a chart on this page:
http://www.pharmalive.com/special_reports/sample.cfm?reportID=191 Med Ad News May 2005: ‘top 500
prescription drugs’.
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Source: ‘Food is better medicine than drugs’, Patrick Holford, Ch:2 The dark side of the blockbusters
(Anatomy of blockbusters)
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 6. Joint pain – 2 drugs worth $4.7 billion

Non-drug medicines: effective, yet illegal

Have you ever used a non-drug medicine that has removed the cause of your
disease? If yes, have you ever wondered why doctors do not prescribe them? If
this hasn’t happened to you, let me tell you there ARE non-drugs that will heal
your condition. What thwarts their publicity and success?

Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest ‘stumbling block’ in legalizing

and promoting non-drug treatments and in highlighting their
effectiveness.

The Medicines Act

By acquiring a place in legislation, the drug industry has gained a high

reputation. To get their forty words published in the UK’s Medicines Act (EU
Health Products and Medicines Directive), pharmaceutical companies are
paying millions of pounds every year. Monetarily, it isn’t a bad deal. However,
when it comes to your health, this is terrible. It is not happening in the UK only;
the situation is similar worldwide, with more or less the same medicines act.

The definition of a medicine according to the act is either:

‘Any substance or combination of substances presented for treating or preventing

disease in human beings.’

Or

‘Any substance or combination of substances which may be used in a human being with
a view to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological function.’

Are food nutrients medicines according to these definitions? Definitely, yes! For
instance, water has the ability to ‘modify physiological functions’ and it ‘restores
and corrects’ the body’s water balance. Therefore, by definition, water is a
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medicine! Similarly, vitamin deficiencies are the reason for different medical
ailments. As a body lacking in vitamin D may experience problems with bones,
joints and teeth, a food rich in vitamin D can cure the condition. Isn’t vitamin D a
medicine?

Unfortunately, they are not regarded as ‘medicines’ because the other part of the
act enforces the issuance of a medical license to a drug before it can treat any
disease. Of course, water and vitamins cannot be issued a medical license for
their use. ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ is a medical claim but to
regard apples as medicines, grocers need to have a medical license for selling
them.

The regulatory authorities and legislatures of every country issue medical

licenses to drugs containing synthetic chemical patents. They spend millions of
their budgets to research and prove their effectiveness and safety. However, the
real and widespread results may be discovered, as was the case for SSRIs and
Vioxx.

Expensive medical license

Getting a license and paying its fee cannot be done with a few dollars. It is
expensive!

Pharmaceutical companies can get one easily. You know why? They turn up
with a fabricated chemical patent that no one in the industry has. This allows
them to make huge profits. On the other hand, non-drugs like vitamin C are non-
patented. They occur naturally. You cannot make any money on it, so you
cannot afford to get a license.

That is why greengrocers, fishmongers and vitamin manufacturers can only say
their products are good for health but they cannot claim their effectiveness in
curing some disease. To make a claim, you need a license.

The Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Catch-22 is a famous novel capturing the illogicalities on an American air base
during World War II. A man tries to prove he is insane, so he does not have to fly
bombing missions. However, that only proved that he was rational and logical,
wanting to be relieved from these operations..

A nutrient that is found to cure a disease is a medicine and it requires a license

(which is expensive) to sell it as a medicine. You cannot sell it unless your
nutrient is patented and can make a lot of money. Moreover, you cannot have a
patented nutrient, as all nutrients are naturally occurring. Catch-22!

A Dead end for naturally occurring medicines

SAMe or S-adenosyl methionine is an essential amino acid in your body. It helps

the brain to work properly and relieves you from depression. It occurs naturally
within your body, in the food you eat, and elsewhere. The magazine Newsweek
stated in July 1999, ”It’s effective against depression. It hasn’t been found to
cause the side effects associated with prescription anti-depressants ... and it
tends to work more quickly.”58

Its effectiveness was obvious when EU officials classified it as a medicine.

However, as it cannot be patented, no one was willing to grant its license.
Hence, the amino acid could not survive in the drugs industry. Selling SAMe in
Europe is illegal, although there are more than 100 trials that determined it is the
most effective anti-depressant. Catch-22 Again!

Stating a claim about a non-drug product or any vitamin you are selling can
initiate a ban on that product; even if those claims are true. I just mention this
one case. There are hundreds of non-drugs that are more effective than drugs
on the market, yet it is illegal to sell them as medicine. However, drugs with less
effectiveness and more side effects are medicine! Isn’t it a joke being played on
you and your health? The Medicines Act is more like a tragedy to health
sciences than good news.

I am not against the Medicines Act. It is there to benefit us all. Of course, it is

58
Newsweek, 5 July 1999, pp. 46-50
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very necessary to term products as ‘medicines,’ but only after they have been
tested for that. Untested products should not be prescribed as medicines.
Obviously, you cannot put your life at risk. It is not that food or other non-drug
products have not been proved or tested for efficacy and the benefits they offer;
it is just they lack a medical license. The problem lies in getting an expensive
license.

Sorting out Catch-22

In 1994, the US passed the 'Dietary Supplements Health Education Act'

(DSHEA, pronounced ‘Deshay’) stating that non-drug treatments are effective
and the public should be advised of them. Congress uncovered some facts,
including the following.

 Scientific studies have placed great emphasis on the importance of

nutrition and the advantages of dietary supplements to enhance health
and avoid diseases.
 There is a relationship between food nutrients and the inhibition of chronic
diseases.
 Healthy and nutritious dietary habits may save people from medical
procedures like angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery.
 Proper health measurements, a well-informed public, proper nutrition and
the use of safe nutrient supplements can increase one’s healthy lifespan,
reduce the chance of chronic disease, and cut down the cost of long-term
health care.
 Consumers should have the right to decide about health care programs by
looking at scientific studies and their data.
 Dietary supplements rarely create problems, and are generally safer.
 Legislation should be set to safeguard the rights of people to obtain
dietary supplements to increase their well-being.

DSHEA permitted vitamin manufacturers and supplement companies to claim

the health benefits of their products. The FDA was made to realize that keeping
these supplements and nutrients away from patients is not in the interest of the
public.
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Even with the passing of DSHEA, the drug industry did not show any positive
change, as they had and still have a strong hold on doctors. The FDA put
forward a declaration that consuming half to a full cup of tomatoes avoids the
danger of prostate cancer as tomatoes contain an antioxidant lycopene.
However, the FDA has set rules for lycopene supplement manufacturing
companies that forbid them from claiming this. In Europe, conditions are stricter.

In older people, 640 mcg of vitamin B12 will bring into balance mild deficiencies,
as concluded by a study. The amount is 500 times of the RDA.59 Another study
stated that folic acid supplements are more helpful in reducing dangerous levels
of amino acids than the folic acid in vegetables.60

Drug companies are very busy promoting the hazards of supplements. I am not
saying nutrients do not pose any adverse effects. Even water and salt can act
abnormally when taken in large amounts. I am not saying supplements and
other non-drug products should not be controlled. They should be controlled just
as drugs are, though the side effects of drugs are far greater than the side
effects of supplements.

It is quite worrisome to see how ‘unscientific’ methods lead to negative research

findings. There could be two reasons for this. One is that companies knowingly
distort the image of supplements and nutrients. The other is that they lack
information about vitamins and nutrition.

Come ‘round and get involved!

Paul Zane Pilzer is a well-known economist, a public tycoon, an assistant

professor, and the writer of nine record-breaking books and countless
intellectual publications. One of his books, “The Next Trillion Dollar Economy,”61

59
S. J. Eussenet al., ‘Oral cyanocobalamin supplementation in older people with vitamin B12 deficiency: a dose-
finding trial’, Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 165 (10), 2005, pp. 1167-72
60
Food standards agency newsletters, ‘Bioavailability of folic acid and natural foliates: studies using the
functional marker plasma homocysteine’, September 2004
61
Source: www,paulzanepilzer.com
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has uncovered the hazards associated with processed food and pharmaceutical
companies that have worsened America’s general health.

Do you want to continue your present lifestyle, eating

unhealthy food, falling prey to diseases and letting the drug
industry make money out of it?

Or do you really want to kill the beast and lead yourself up

to the glories nature intended for you?

Is the knowledge you have about health correct?

What causes a disease in us?

Germs!

What should we do?

Avoid them through early age vaccination – kill them through drugs

Isn’t that what we have been taught throughout our lives?

Aren’t we taught to believe in surgeries and medications to treat cancers, etc.?
Yes, but only if we are ‘lucky’ to have access to them.

Have you ever thought you can do absolutely nothing to improve your health?
Your health, your well-being and even your life lay miserably in the hands of
doctors, researchers, drug manufacturers, and related authorities.

As I mentioned above, people out there speak of magic drugs and their
miracles. Have you ever seen a person coming back to life FULLY after having
those wonder treatments? Take for example, cancer. Doctors, surgeons and
experts recommend chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. The patient
suffers all the pains of the treatment. He may get rid of the cancer somehow.
However, have you ever seen a cancer patient full of life afterwards?

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All I want to say is that only YOU know best about your body and health. Do not
rely on others. It’s fine if you seek help from them. However, whatever they tell
you, take it as advice, but never be dependent on them.

Be critical!

Analyze critically the health information coming to you. Do not follow others. For if
you follow them, remember one in every two people is dying of diabetes and one in
three dies of cancer!

Doctors ARE your friends!

I am a doctor myself and I know the disposition of doctors. They are not your
enemies. They care for you and your health. They are sincere with their
profession. It is only that they have been misled throughout their academic and
career lives. They, like you, are taught to believe in research and publications.

The effort it takes to become a doctor or your health mentor, and then to help
you towards a healthy life cannot be disregarded. He or she gives up their social
and family lives for your safety and well-being.

Throughout their academic period, they are pushed to face the hardships they
are going to face in their professional careers. Can you imagine what a doctor
undergoes when he deals with the life or death of a person? He was once like
you, a weaker person who can’t stand to see a person in pain; who cannot stand
to see one dying. However, he is trained accordingly not to lose his nerves while
dealing with real-life patients.

What is lacking then?

It is the environment they have been in, the environment of medical colleges,
the environment of studies and the environment of their training. It is too strict
for them to take a minute out and ask if what they are learning is right or wrong.
They are kept too busy to criticize or analyze.

To add to it, doctors rarely get enough time to update their knowledge.
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Apprising doctors!

I don’t get much time from my job to even get a few hours’ sleep. Out of those
leisure hours, I need to update my medical knowledge. Honestly speaking, it’s
hard to keep up. There are hundreds of new drugs every year. I cannot possibly
research and analyze all of them. The only resource I have to rely on is the
salesperson of each drug company! It’s obvious the type of education one
will get from someone trying to sell a product.

Dr. Jerry Avorn is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He states:

“Too often they [doctors] get industry-sponsored sources of

information that look like they are from unbiased,
scientifically driven public- interest groups, when in fact
they are thickly veiled marketing activities.”62

The Washington Post reported on a study that was published in the Journal of
the Medical Association by the University of Washington. The report stated that
the influence of marketing by the drug industry has imprisoned American
medicine. Most doctors rely on that marketing as their prime source of
information.

Drug industry is winning over the doctors

The drug industry would not have done much harm if the medical foundations
had not let it do so. The establishment puts itself “on sale” and pharmaceutical
companies “buy” them.

What is the biggest objective of the pharmaceutical industry? It is to make

money!

62
‘Advertising and Marketing of Prescription drugs’, a report by the West Virginia Pharmaceutical cost
management council marketing practices sub-committee, Professor Kevin Outterson, Chair, September 8, 2005,
p. 40
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They can do anything to market and sell their drugs. For this, if they need to lie,
swindle or bribe, they are not ashamed. The easiest prey is the doctors. They
are directly in contact with the public and the public trusts them blindly.

It is legal for a doctor to prescribe any medicine to any patient for any
reason.

What are doctors getting back? Great gifts and lavish rewards! They
unknowingly are being used by the drug industry.

Did you know, in America only, that the number of sales people visiting
doctors daily and “brainwashing” them in the name of “educating” them
about their newest products increased from 38,000 to 100,000 between
1995 and 2005?63

To attain their targets, the drug companies spend $10-$15 billion every year on
doctors.

However long the night, the dawn will break!

The billions of dollars spent on doctors annually are used to get lucrative
incentives for doctors to attend lectures and seminars, watch some video or
hear a drug company’s sales representative. According to a survey, doctors are
entertained by giving them free samples of drugs, travel tickets etc.64 The drug
industry masks its agenda by giving it the name of ‘educating doctors,’ as stated
by the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America.

I am emphasizing repeatedly that doctors DO care for you!

Doctors, for their part, rely on pharmaceutical companies because they think the

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Marshal PC (2005) Rep tide: Pulling back in magnitude, pushing forward efficiency: Recent talk of pharma
companies restructuring or even pairing back their sale forces is the first acknowledgement that efficiency, and
not noise, is the key to effective detailing. Med Market Media 40:96.
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A national survey of doctors published in New England Journal of Medicines in April 2007
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drug industry is under strict regulations by some regulatory authority like the US
FDA and the UK MHRA. Additionally, they do not find much time to ponder the
criticalities of the drugs. Therefore, as this is a matter of life and death for you,
you should participate.

There was once a drug with the name DES. DES was marketed as a ‘wonder
drug’ containing a manmade hormone that was believed to avoid miscarriages
in pregnant women. For this, it was prescribed to millions of pregnant women.

What the DES manufacturers concealed was the evidence that it caused cancer
in tested animals! What’s worse, the FDA approved it!

I was surprised to know that even though it was stated that it was ‘not effective
in preventing miscarriages’ in all the prominent medical course books during the
1960s and 1970s, DES was still on the market and was regularly prescribed for
pregnant women.

In 1971, DES was banned in America, but its manufacturers managed somehow
to sell it in developing countries around the globe. Today thousands of females
are in a dreadful state as their medics tell them that they are suffering from
cancer, danger of miscarriage and other reproductive problems because they
took DES!

Several women in the US have prosecuted more than 300 DES manufacturing
companies. Nevertheless, can prosecuting those companies bring their
reproductive health back?

Other cases similar to the DES case

I researched other cases similar to the one I mentioned above, and to my

surprise, I found not just a few, but many of them.

Here is the list of drugs that were promoted as safe but proved fatal.65-66-67

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Roy Kupsinel, MD Vivisection: Science or Sham?, PRISM, 1990
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Hans Ruesch,The Naked Empress or the Great Medical Fraud, June 1982, ISBN 0686402332
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  Eraldin (for heart disease) – Corneal damage including blindness
 Paracetamol (painkiller)-1,500 people were hospitalized in the UK in 1971
 Orabilex –fatal kidney damage
 MEL/29 (anti-hypertensive)-caused cataracts.
 Methaqualone (hypnotic)-caused severe psychic disturbances with 366 deaths,
through either murder or suicide.
 Thalidomide (tranquilizer)-caused 10,000 malformed children
 Isoproterenol (asthma)-caused 3,500 deaths in the sixties
 Stilboestrol (prostate cancer)-caused cancer in young women
 Trilergan (anti-allergic)-caused viral hepatitis
 Flamamil (rheumatism)-caused loss of consciousness
 Eraldin (heart medication)-caused severe eye and digestive tract damage, and
many deaths
 Phenformin (diabetes)-caused 1,000 deaths annually until withdrawn
 Atromids (cholesterol)-caused deaths from cancer, liver, gall bladder and
intestinal disease
 Valium (tranquilizer)- addictive in moderate doses
 Preludin & Maxiton (diet pills)-caused serious damage to the heart and the
nervous system
 Pronap & Plaxin (tranquilizer)-killed many babies
 Phenacetin (painkiller)-caused severe damages to kidneys and red blood
corpuscles
 Amydopyrine (painkiller)-caused blood disease
 Marzine (nausea)-damaged children
 Reserpine (anti-hypertensive)-increased risks of cancer of the brain, pancreas,
uterus, ovaries, skin and women's breasts
 Methotrexate (leukemia)-caused intestinal hemorrhage, severe anemia and
tumors
 Urethane (leukemia)-caused cancer of liver, lungs and bone marrow
 Mitotane (leukemia)-caused kidney damage
 Cyclophosphamide (cancer)-caused liver and lung damage
 Isoniazid (tuberculosis)-caused liver destruction
 Kanamycin (tuberculosis)-caused deafness and kidney destruction
 Chloromycetin (typhoid)-caused leukemia, cardiovascular collapse and death
 Phenolphthalein (laxative)-caused kidney damage, delirium and death
 Clioquinol (diarrhea)-caused blindness, paralysis and death
 DES (prevent miscarriage)-caused birth defects and cancer

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Ivan Fraser, Mark Beeston Vivisection: far more than an animal rights issue!, The Pharmaceutical Racket,
accessed April 2010
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  Debendox (nausea)-caused birth defects
 Accutane (acne)-caused deafness and kidney destruction

Dr. Glenn Warner was a highly skilled and expert oncologist in the United States
who died back in 2000. During his career as an oncologist, he successfully
treated several cancer patients not by drugs, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, but
by diet and exercise. According to him, the drug industry is killing people!

“We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people,

right and left, just for financial gain.”68 – Glenn Warner, MD.

In 1980, Dr. Leighton Cluff, in Controversies in Therapeutics, stated:

“National Health statistics do not reflect the magnitude of

the problem of drug-induced diseases. A death certificate
may indicate that a person died of renal failure, but it may
not state that the disease was caused by a drug.”

Leading cause of deaths

JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, is the most widely read
medical publication throughout the world. Its July 2000 issue highlighted the
heartbreak of traditional medical standards in an article by Dr. Barbara Starfield
of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. The article elaborated
about the mishaps and poor conditions at hospitals.

Have a look at the number of deaths that happen in a year:

 12,000 deaths occurred due to ‘unnecessary surgery.’69

 7,000 deaths occurred due to medication mistakes in hospitals.70

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John Robbins: Reclaiming Our Health – Exploding the medical myth and embracing the source of true healing
pg. 305
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Leape L. Unnecessary surgery.Annu Rev Public Health. 1992;12:363-383
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  20,000 deaths because of mistakes other than medication.71
 80,000 deaths happened because of infections at hospitals.71
 106,000 deaths caused by the negative effects of drugs.

I am a doctor myself but, being honest with you and with my profession, I
must accept that there are doctors who do not act with responsibility. Their
carelessness, or at other times, their lust for money cause either severe
medical problems or sometimes even death. As you know how the drug
industry works and profits, and how doctors are being trapped, you can ask
your doctor critical questions about the prescription drugs to analyze how
your doctor is working with your health.

225,000 deaths annually, in the US, occur due to medics’ activity,

custom, or treatment, making it the 3rd leading cause of death in the
United States (1st being heart diseases and 2nd cancer).

Additionally, this is just the number of deaths, and does not include the severe
side effects associated with maltreatments and carelessness. Moreover, this is
data compiled from the hospitals. The number of deaths outside hospitals is not
recorded.72
According to another study, 4%-18% patients undergo bad effects in outpatient
departments, including:

 116 million extra doctor visits

 77 million extra prescriptions
 17 million emergency department visits

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Phillips D, Christenfeld N, Glynn L. Increase in US medication-error deaths between 1983 and 1993. Lancet.
1998;351:643-644.
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Lazarou J, Pomeranz B, Corey P. Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients. JAMA.
1998;279:1200-1205.
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Schuster M, McGlynn E, Brook R. How good is the quality of health care in the United States?
Milbank Q. 1998;76:517-563.
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  8 million hospitalizations
 3 million long-term admissions
 199,000 additional deaths
 $77 billion in extra costs

Other facts related to U.S. medical care that can help you in making your
decisions are:

 20%-30% patients get inappropriate care

 44,000 – 98,000 patients die because of medical errors annually73
 World Health Organization, WHO, has analyzed the U.S. position in the
health sector and placed it at the 15th position among 25 industrialized
countries.
 The United States is 2nd to Japan in computed tomography scanners and
magnetic resonance imaging units for every million of its population.74
 Japan has the highest health performance; the US has the lowest.

To learn more about Pharmacy companies and their

moneymaking strategies, simply click this picture and follow
the link.

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Kohn L, ed., Corrigan J, ed., Donaldson M, Ed. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington,
DC: National Academy Press; 1999.
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Anderson G, Poullier J-P. Health Spending, Access, and Outcomes: Trends in Industrialized Countries. New
York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; 1999.
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http://www.matttraverso.com/video/healt-ebook/swimming-in-pills/swimming-in-
pills.html

To worsen the scenario, the top drug companies buy the highest officials of our
government. Isn’t it miserably appalling?

To learn more about it, see the video by clicking the following
picture.

http://www.matttraverso.com/video/healt-ebook/60-minutes/60-minutes.html

In this fiscally oriented medical world, you, and ONLY

YOU, can revolutionize the whole system and eventually
your health.

Dr. John Rengen Virapen, a former drug industry “insider” who is presently an
industry whistle-blower, has done four videos about the drug industry.

Click on the following picture to get links to all of them.

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ZFUq5hr7E

Summary: The Germ Theory and The Drug Industry

 The "invading germ" theory of Pasteur is nothing, as germs alone cannot

do anything. Terrain is everything for causing diseases. The Pasteur
theory has given birth to a billion dollar drug industry.

 Drugs do not cure diseases. A stronger and healthier immune system

does it. Our genetic makeup has nothing to do with our diseased body.
The environment, food, and lifestyle are the causes of ailments.

 Healthy food with supplements, exercising, fresh air, moods and thoughts,
and good early age parenting can have encouraging effects on gene
composition. This is the constitutional approach to health. Viruses and
bacteria can have adverse effects on them.

 The present drug treatment is dot treatment with localized effects. Non-
drug treatments have globalized positive effects.

 Drugs do not heal. They silence the symptoms while giving you adverse

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 side effects. The side effects have killed millions of people.

 The drug industry pays to attain full spectrum dominance –they buy drug
testing centers/review boards, purchase medical journals, influence
academics, and target doctors. To increase sales and get more profit, drug
companies influence regulatory authorities to change health guidelines
continuously.

 Newer drugs are expensive as they are patented, but they are not any
more effective. Bestsellers target only the most common conditions like
hypertension, depression, pain, etc.

 The Medicines Act made non-patented non-drug treatments illegal, as

they cannot afford costly medical licenses.

 Doctors rely on academics and drug literature that is already under the
influence of the drug industry, and the drug industry exists to make money
by affecting your health.

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 How your body works
The main systems of your body

You must have learnt at some stage of life that your body is a combination of
different systems maintaining your body’s overall health and performance. If one
system goes wrong, it affects the rest of the systems too, eventually disturbing
the whole of your body and its activities.

Let us have a refresher and look at all of them once again. This will help you get
a better understanding of how your body systems work together in a marvelous
synergy and where defects can be born.

Skeletal system

SKELETONS! WHO IS NOT AWARE OF THEM? EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT A SKELETON

IS AND OF WHAT A SKELETAL SYSTEM IS COMPRISED.

Bones, ligaments, and tendons constitute a skeletal system. If you had no

skeleton, you would be without any shape, just hanging and drooping around.
You have a well-shaped body with a perfect head and torso curves because you
have a skeletal system. Moreover, it protects your organs from any injury. When
you fall off something, your kidneys or your heart does not rip apart because
they are safe beneath your skeleton. The skeletal system with the help of the
muscular system helps you move around and perform tasks.

How are the red blood cells, white blood cells and other immune system cells
born? A soft tissue, Bone Marrow, found inside the bones, produces them.

Muscular system

As I mentioned earlier, YOUR SKELETAL SYSTEM WORKS IN CONJUNCTION WITH

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YOUR MUSCULAR SYSTEM TO HELP CONTROL YOUR MOVEMENTS.

What actually is a muscular system?

As the name suggests, the muscular system is all about muscles. If you are a
fitness freak, you must be working on strengthening your muscles. But do you
know how muscles are formed?

Muscles are composed of different tissues, and the nature of those tissues
decides the nature of a muscle. There are voluntary muscles that you can
control. Others are involuntary that cannot be controlled by you. Voluntary
muscles include the muscles of your arms and legs. If you want to pick up
something heavy, you move your arms and the arm muscles become active.
Similarly, when kicking a ball, you make use of your leg muscles.

On the other hand, you cannot control the muscles of your heart, stomach,
intestines and other organs. The nervous system, i.e. your brain, decides when
and how to activate them. They must work at certain times and you won’t even
know it.

No matter what the nature or type of muscle it is, they all share common actions
of contraction and expansion. The three types of muscles are:

 Skeletal muscles –for the body’s movement

 Smooth muscles – involuntary muscles present inside the lining of
organs such as intestines
 Cardiac muscles – involuntary muscles that are found only in the heart

Digestive system (food absorption and toxic feces)

THE FOOD YOU EAT NEEDS TO BE CONSUMED BY YOUR BODY. THE 'DIGESTIVE
SYSTEM ' HELPS IN THE BREAKDOWN AND CONSUMPTION OF FOOD. IT ALSO
ELIMINATES WASTE PRODUCTS.

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The organs comprising the digestive system break down the solid and bigger
portions of your food into nutrients like vitamins, carbohydrates, fat, proteins,
and minerals. These nutrients are further broken down into glucose, fatty acids
and amino acids to fulfill your body’s energy requirements along with its growth
and repair.

Your mouth is the first organ helping the digestive system to break down the
food into smaller chunks with the help of teeth. The chewed food is swallowed to
make it enter the esophagus. The esophagus drains the food into the stomach
for further separation. The stomach secretes different enzymes, hormones and
acids that accelerate the process. It then enters into the small intestine. The
small intestine converts the food to its last form that your body can utilize. There
are blood capillaries that take up those food nutrients and convey them to
different organs and muscles. The rest of the food that cannot be digested or
utilized is considered as waste and the large intestine eliminates it.

Circulatory system (our actual environment)

THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM CIRCULATES THE BLOOD THROUGHOUT YOUR BODY,

CARRYING NECESSARY NUTRIENTS AND OTHER CELLS TO DIFFERENT ORGANS.

The blood vessels that embrace the arteries and veins that carry blood to and
from the heart stretch throughout your body like a mesh. The heart purifies the
blood by making it oxygen-rich. The purified blood enters into a big aorta from
the left chambers of heart (there are right chambers as well). The big aorta
branches into smaller arteries that again divide into much smaller ones,
expanding throughout the body. The smallest division of blood vessels is known
as blood capillaries that are found within organs and their muscles. These
capillaries pass on the nutrients and blood cells to the muscles and take up the
waste, water and carbon dioxide from the muscles. The lack of nutrients and
necessary blood cells, and the inclusion of carbon dioxide make the blood ‘dirty.’

The ‘dirty’ or contaminated blood from all over the body enters into veins. This

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deoxygenated blood is taken to the lungs where carbon dioxide is expelled out
and oxygen is taken in. The blood becomes oxygenated and is taken back to the
heart for transmission to the body’s cells.

Respiratory system (oxygen absorption and toxic carbon dioxide

release)

WHEN YOU RESPIRE, YOU TAKE IN THE ‘HEALTHY’ OXYGEN AND PUSH OUT THE
‘UNHEALTHY’ CARBON DIOXIDE FROM YOUR BODY.

The organs making up your respiratory system include the nose, trachea and
lungs. It is always suggested that you inhale air through the nose and exhale
through the mouth because the nose has the ability to filter out the dust particles
and prevent them from entering your body. Your mouth lets everything go inside
your body. Similarly, while exhaling from nose, the particles that should be
eliminated along with the air might remain inside.

The inhaled air, whether from nose or mouth, enters into the trachea. The
trachea is a tubular structure that divides into two bronchi. Each bronchus opens
into each lung further dividing itself into bronchioles. The bronchioles end up in
the alveoli. Each alveolus is an air sac containing blood capillaries. The air
follows this passage, enters into the capillaries, and is taken to the heart with
blood.

Carbon dioxide is taken in from the blood, enters into the air sacs, then to the
bronchioles and bronchus, and up to the trachea and mouth to be exhaled.

Urinary system (toxin release)

THE URINARY SYSTEM IS ANOTHER SYSTEM TO GET RID OF BODY WASTE AND TOXINS
IN THE FORM OF URINE .

So far, I have mentioned eliminating toxins and waste through the large intestine
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as feces, toxic carbon dioxide through the lungs, and now it is time to get rid of
them through the kidneys.

The organs that make up the urinary system are kidneys, tubes called ureters
and the urinary bladder. The blood enters into the kidneys where it is filtered and
toxins are extracted from it. These toxins are eliminated from the body along
with water forming urine. The urine passes down to the bladder via the ureters.
When the bladder is full, you feel the need to urinate and eliminate the waste
through the urethra.

Immune system

TO COMBAT DIFFERENT DISEASES, YOUR BODY ALSO NEEDS A DEFENSE SYSTEM.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM HELPS PROTECT YOUR BODY AGAINST INFECTIONS AND
DISEASES.

Different organs, tissues, cells and the cell secretions work in harmony to save
you from malicious organisms like viruses and bacteria. They either can develop
within your body due to some unhealthy conditions that prove to be favorable for
their growth or enter your body from outside, from the environment you live in.

The immune system is, basically, a response system – how your body responds
to certain conditions. I have mentioned the different types of immune systems
below.

i. Anatomic immune response

The anatomic immune response is responsible for preventing menacing

substances from entering the body. The mucous membrane and your skin
are examples of this response system.

ii. Digestive system first defense line

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iii. Inflammatory immune response

If any threatening substance succeeds in entering into your body, the

inflammatory immune response becomes active. It tries to eliminate the
element from your body through sneezing, a runny nose, watery eyes,
fever etc. It is likely that you might not feel comfortable when your
inflammatory immune response is fighting back.

iv. White blood cells immune response

Lastly, the white blood cells immune response system comes into
action when all the rest fail. In every immune system, white blood cells
play a vital part. White blood cells fight infection by gulping up antigens.
White blood cells that move into the lymph nodes are called
lymphocytes. At the lymph nodes, they produce antibodies to fight the
disease.

v. Lymphatic system

The lymphatic system is another defense system, contributing towards

a stronger defense of your body.

The process of defending the body by the lymphatic system entails

filtering out entities causing the disease, making more white blood cells,
and spawning antibodies. An additional role involves maintaining the
fluid and nutrient levels within the body so that the body will not swell
up due to excessive fluid.

The entire system is composed of a web of blood vessels that

circulates fluid and nutrients around the body to tissues and cells and
takes excessive fluid and nutrients back to the bloodstream.

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Endocrine system

HOW DOES YOUR BRAIN TRIGGER AND STOP BODY ACTIONS? YOUR ENDOCRINE
SYSTEM CONTROLS DIFFERENT BODY FUNCTIONS.

The endocrine system is composed of different glands that secrete different

hormones. You can think of these hormones as ‘messengers’ of your body.
Actually, these hormones control different body mechanisms such as growth,
metabolism, sexual development, etc.

The glands that produce these hormones are pituitary glands, thyroid gland,
parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, thymus glands, pineal body, pancreas,
ovaries, and testes. These glands produce hormones directly into the
bloodstream, which conveys them to their destinations.

Nervous system

A SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS EVERY ACTION AND REACTION OF YOUR BODY IS YOUR
BRAIN AND ITS NERVOUS SYSTEM .

The main parts of the nervous system are the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves.
It controls every action that takes place inside the body by sending and
receiving nerve impulses. The same nerve impulses are processed by this
system.

The nerve impulses are actually the controls. They tell the muscles and organs
how and when to act under a particular condition.

The three parts of the nervous system that work in coordination are:

i. The central nervous system or the CNS

The CNS is comprised of the brain and the spinal cord. It generates,
sends, receives, and manipulates nerve impulses from the sensitive
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 organs to tell the brain about what you see, hear, smell, taste and
touch.

ii. The peripheral nervous system or the PNS

The brain and the spinal cord divides to make the craniospinal nerves
and these nerves constitute the peripheral nervous system. It carries
nerve impulses from the brain to the muscles and glands.

iii. The autonomic nervous system or the ANS

This nervous system maintains the activities related to involuntary

muscles such as your heartbeat and digestion.

Everything is made out of little cells

What is a cell?

Robert Hooke discovered cells as the functional building blocks of life75. They
are found in all known living organisms. Some organisms are unicellular, like
bacteria, having only one cell. Others have many of them. Humans are
multicellular beings with over 100 trillion (1014) cells, each cell with a size 10 µm
and a cell mass of 1 Nano gram. These cells vary in size; some are larger and
longer, others smaller.76

Have you ever seen unfertilized ostrich eggs? These are the largest known

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^ Cell Movements and the Shaping of the Vertebrate Body in Chapter 21 of Molecular Biology of the Cell
fourth edition, edited by Bruce Albert (2002), published by Garland Science.
The Albert text discusses how the "cellular building blocks" move to shape developing embryos. It is also
common to describe small molecules such as amino acids as "molecular building blocks”.
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Integrative Biology 131 - Lecture 03: Skeletal System on YouTube; first 12 minutes of the lecture covers cells
(by Marian Diamond).
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cells weighing 3.3 pounds.77- 78

Matthias Jacob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann concluded the following points
in their 1839 cell theory.79.

 All organisms are composed of one or more cells.

 All cells arise from existing cells.
 The major functions of an organism happen within the cells.
 All cells carry hereditary information that transmits messages over
generations and helps in regulating cell functions.

How does a cell work? – Why you should know?

If you put yourself under a microscope, you would see some 10 trillion cells with
over 200 different cell types. Our muscles have muscle cells; the stomach has
stomach cells; the liver has liver cells; and the kidneys have kidney cells. The
enamel protecting our teeth has specialized cells and so do the clear lenses of
our eyes.

I have been telling you in chapter 1 that, to live a healthy life, you must tune your
body to natural and non-drug ways of treatment. How your body responds to
various things can only be determined when you know how your 10 trillion cells
work.

From reproduction to digestion to healing to breaking down elements to

anything, everything happens inside your body cells.

The simplest of all cells are in bacteria. Understanding how a bacterial cell
works will help you to know about your own cells. Moreover, you will be able to
answer most of the yet-unanswered questions you must have, such as:

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Mitzi Perdue. "Facts about Birds and Eggs". http://www.eggscape.com/birds.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-15
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Maton, Anthea; Hopkins, Jean Johnson, Susan LaHart, David Quon Warner, Maryanna Wright, Jill D
(1997).Cells Building Blocks of Life.New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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  What are viruses and bacteria and how do they harm you?
 What is an antibiotic and how does it work?
 What are vitamins and why should you consume them regularly?
 How do poisonous things harm you?
 How do you regard a being - as dead or alive?

Cell composition
A typical cell is composed of 60% water, 20% protein, and 20% lipids and
minerals.

Cell parts

Human cells have different sizes, the largest being the size of your hair
diameter. See a single strand of your hair and check out its diameter. It is thin!
The smaller cells are almost one-tenth of its diameter.

Now look at your little toe. Can you guess how many cells it has? A rough guess
should be around 2 or 3 billion of them (depending upon your size). It is quite a
lot, similar to filling your whole house with baby peas.

To understand the complexity of human cells, let me start with a bacterial cell
that is the simplest one so far. It is one-hundredth of a human cell (invisible to
the naked eye) and millions of them float around your cells when you are hit by
an infection. A Bacterium is a single, self-contained, living cell. The most
common example of bacteria is E. coli bacteria, or Escherichia coli bacteria.

The shape of the cell resembles that of a capsule. A bacterial cell has an outer
protective wrapper known as the cell membrane. In E. coli bacteria, there are
two cell membranes, closely spaced, protecting the cell. This wrapper contains a
watery fluid called cytoplasm. The composition of cytoplasm includes 70%
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water and 30% protein that are the enzymes. Besides enzymes, there are
sugars, ATP, and other substances floating freely in the cytoplasm. In the center
of the cell are the DNA strands, which, when unfolded, are 1000 times longer
than the size of the bacterium. This is the inside picture of the bacterial cell.

On the outside, there are long strands called flagella that help in the movement
(locomotion – propulsion) of the bacterial cell. Flagella are missing in human
cells except in the case of sperm cells.

If we talk about human cells, they are much more complex than bacterial cells.
The DNA in human cells is well protected by a nuclear membrane. Moreover,
you will find additional structures like mitochondria, Golgi bodies, and many
more. No matter how many structures are there, the basic functionality of human
cells is very similar to that of bacterial cells.

Enzymes – the super workers

Cells carry out different functions like growth and reproduction through many
different chemical reactions. A cell is essentially a bag full of chemical reactions.
The enzymes are the entities that help in performing and speeding up these
reactions. Therefore, they are involved in every function of the cell. One
bacterial cell has almost 1,000 different enzymes floating around in the
cytoplasm.

What are enzymes? An enzyme is a combination of different amino acids, and

hence is a protein. Different amino acids (from 100 to 1000) combine in a very
distinct manner to form a chain. The chain is then folded in a very specific
manner to perform chemical reactions. One can think of an enzyme as a
catalyst. Like catalysts in a chemical reaction, enzymes speed up chemical
reactions occurring within the cells.

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 Let us take an example of maltose. Maltose is a type of sugar that is formed by two
glucose molecules. To break maltose back into two separate glucose molecules,
maltase is an enzyme that speeds up the process.

There are different enzymes for different chemical reactions for different
functions. The deficiency of one enzyme or another causes different abnormal
conditions in people. Some deficiencies are easily-fixed, while others are not.

A bacterial cell has 1000 different enzymes and an enzyme has a number of
copies too, depending upon the nature of chemical reaction it is involved in.
Enzymes do all sorts of work in the cells, from building cell walls to breaking
down glucose.

Proteins

Amino acids combine to form chains of proteins. There are different amino acids
that are chained uniquely to make different protein types. Setting aside fats,
proteins constitute 20 percent of body weight, water makes 60 percent; and the
rest consists of minerals like calcium in our bones and teeth.

The structure of amino acids has two parts. One is the same for all amino acids,
while the other keeps on changing from one type to another. The variable part
determines the amino acid type. Sometimes it’s very simple and other times it’s
far more complex.

There are 100 known amino acids so far, out of which 20 types are in our
bodies. There are two types of amino acids, namely essential (examples:
histidine, lysine, methionine, valine) and non-essential (examples: proline,
glycine, glutamine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, arginine). Essential amino acids
can only be obtained through food. Your body does not create them. Different
chemicals within the body can synthesize non-essential amino acids.

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What food groups can provide you with essential amino acids?

Animals are rich sources of protein. Meat (fish, chicken, beef, and mutton), milk,
and eggs are considered ‘complete protein’ sources as they contain all the
essential amino acids in sufficient quantity. You can get these amino acids from
vegetables too. However, different vegetables lack different essential amino
acids and those that have them do not contain enough of them. But you can
complete the daily requirements by adding nuts, beans and soybeans that are
rich in protein too.

Later in the book, I will explain why animal flesh (though rich in protein) is not
good for us. Rather, vegetable protein is healthier and steadier. Did you know
that the best of all the ‘living’ proteins is human flesh? However, our friends,
family members, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, etc. are not here for us to eat
their flesh! (More on this will come later.)

When you consume these food groups, the digestive system of your body
breaks them down into amino acids. The circulatory system takes up those
amino acids and passes them to different body parts to build enzymes and other
cellular and structural proteins.

Enzymes at work

Enzymes are an interesting part of your body. They are found in almost every
cell and are used in growth, reproduction and energy production. The cells also
push them outside the cell so that they can play certain roles. For instance, the
E. coli bacterial cell excretes enzymes outside the cell wall to help break down
the food molecules that enter through the cell wall and into the cell.

Some of the most common and well-known enzymes that go out and break
down food are Proteases and peptidases, Amylases, Maltase, lactase, sucrose,
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Lipases, and Cellulases. Proteases and peptidases break down proteins into
peptides and amino acids, and are used in laundry detergents. Protease
inhibitors are used in anti-AIDS drugs. Amylase converts starch chains to
smaller sugar molecules. Maltase, lactase, and sucrose convert smaller sugar
molecules to glucose. Lipases breaks down fats), and Cellulase breaks down
cellulose found in grass and wood into simpler sugar chains).

Many other enzymes do their jobs inside the cell wall. Some of them are Energy
enzymes (perform glycolysis and The Krebs Cycle; form the energy molecule
ATP), Restriction enzymes (identify virus DNAs and break them down), DNA-
manipulation enzymes (repair DNA, help in DNA reproduction and protein
binding), and Enzyme-production enzymes (synthesize cell’s enzymes, RNA
and tRNA).

Making enzymes

As long as a cell has its important enzymes functioning properly, the cell is alive.

How are these enzymes produced? What decides the time to produce
enzymes? How does a chemical reaction determine which enzymes it needs?

The mastermind behind all this is DNA, Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It sets the
guidelines for all the above questions.

DNA is composed of nucleotides and there are only four types of nucleotides.
These are the building blocks of DNA. The E. coli bacterial cell DNA is 4 million
blocks long. The human DNA is 3 billion blocks long and is packed inside the
chromosomes, which in turn are present within the cell. There are 23
chromosomes inside human cells.

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If I want to simplify the DNA’s role, I would say, DNA is the guideline to
synthesize proteins. The genes in the DNA determine the makeup of enzymes
and act as enzyme templates.

What is the DNA?

The DNA is a cell’s "brain" that tells the cell how to create proteins from amino
acids (that it gets from the food) to create enzymes that will do the cell's work.

We doctors often see DNA as a double-helix structure. Simply, DNA is two

strings twisted together in a long spiral. The four types of nucleotides I
mentioned earlier are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine. Adenine and
Thymine make pairs and Cytosine pairs with Guanine. This pairing gives a
ladder like structure to the DNA.

E. coli DNA has 4 million nucleotide pairs. The loose ends are linked together in
a ring called a genome. Human DNA has 3 billion nucleotide pairs.

‘Electro-biochemical machine’ – the powerhouse of our cells

What happens when there is a power failure? Your life becomes dark. While it is
dark, you cannot see anything. It is not because your eyes are not working; it is
because the part of your brain controlling your sense of sight stops working in
the dark.

Do you know your body can generate electricity? Yes, it can. All matter is
composed of atoms with electrons, protons and neutrons. Electrons have a
negative charge, protons positive, while neutrons have no charge. When an
atom misbalances its charge, it gets either a positive or a negative charge. Our
bodies are also composed of different atoms and the electrical charge is used to
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generate impulses to be sent throughout the body. Electricity is also a charge in
motion. Therefore, we CAN generate electricity and due to this electrical
energy, we are ALIVE! Without this, we DIE!

The messages sent to and from the nervous system are actually electric signals.
The message is sent as 1s and 0s to the destination. Why is an electrical charge
used inside our body, and why not chemical reactions, to deliver messages? It is
because an electrical charge is very quick and instantaneous. If chemical
messages were sent while our enemies chased us, we would die..

How do electrical impulses travel throughout the body carrying a specific

message?
Potassium and sodium ions contribute towards the generation and transfer of
electrical charges from cell to cell. Inside the cell membrane, potassium ions are
in much greater quantity than sodium ions, and outside the cell membrane,
sodium ions are in greater quantity. Therefore, the inside is more negatively
charged, as potassium ions are negative and outside is positively charged
because of sodium ions. This is the idle state of the cells.

When a cell becomes active and needs to generate an electrical impulse

(message), the cell membrane opens its gate so the flow of ions occurs inside
out and vice versa. The result is the negative charge outside and positive
charge inside. It causes changes to the neighboring cells and so on. That is how
a message is conveyed from cell to cell and passed on.

When your legs are hurt, the brain senses the pain because similar impulses are
generated from the leg cells to the brain cells. If cells in between are unable to
generate/convey the impulse, your brain would not receive the pain sense and you
would not feel the pain in your legs.

The problems with any breakdown in your body’s electrical system may get
severe. If you get a severe electrical shock, your body’s electrical process stops
working. Another problem is a heart palpitation when your heart beats an extra
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heartbeat.

Your heart’s natural pacemaker may function abnormally if there is a lack of

blood flow towards it. This can result in death from coronary heart disease. If the
impulse for a heart contraction is being disturbed, one might have a heart attack
or stroke.

However, our bodies do not generate much electricity (between 10 and 100
millivolts80) as a cathode ray tube does (25,000 volts for a picture81). However,
an eel can produce 600 volts of energy. 81

A full live cell

From the above depiction, you should know when cells become dead. As long
as enzymes within the cell are active and carrying out their functions properly,
the electrical impulses are well generated and well transferred, and the cell
remains healthy and alive.

Substantiating the above fact, take some yeast cells and place them in a
blender. This will be a mistreatment to them. Yeast cells will produce enzymes
that will function properly for some time. Eventually though, as the cells are no
longer intact and are dead, no new enzymes are produced. Therefore, the soup
containing the enzymes will no longer react.

Hence, our bodies are composed of cells that depend on the essential enzymes
for their lives. Indirectly, we depend on the proper functioning of enzymes to
remain healthy and alive.

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The Cell’s natural waste cycle

Because of metabolism and other cell functions, waste such as free radicals and
other toxins are released on a regular basis. The circulatory system of your body
takes up these waste materials as they enter into the bloodstream. These are
then transferred to the liver and kidneys. The kidneys, in turn, makes urine out
of these wastes and passes it out from the body.

You can find more on this in the toxic removal chapter.

The bottom line

From the description above, you can see that a cell’s life depends on the rich
soup of enzymes inside its body, floating around in the cytoplasm.

You know how these life-determining factors are made. You take proteins that
are broken down into amino acids. Amino acids enter the bloodstream and are
passed to all the cells of your body. Cells utilize these amino acids to build
enzymes.

Diseases originate from…

a. Bacterium and antibiotics

When there is insufficient production of enzymes or they don’t

function properly, you suffer from different diseases.

Many poisonous substances like bacteria disrupt the balance of the

enzymes soup. They hinder the birth of new enzymes and hence put
a halt to cell’s growth and reproduction.

Medical science has created antibiotics to kill those harmful bacteria.

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 An antibiotic is a poison that destroys poisonous bacterial cells.
Scientists made use of the fact that bacterial enzymes are different
from human enzymes and antibiotics only harm bacterial enzymes.

Streptomycin – an example of an antibiotic – affects E. coli

ribosomes but leaves human ribosomes unharmed.
Penicillin – an antibiotic – interrupts the bacterial ability to
make a cell wall but does not interrupt human cells.
Sulfa drugs – controls the production of nucleotides in
bacteria and not in humans, so bacteria cannot multiply.

The problem occurs when even a single bacterial cell gets immune
to the antibiotic in use because of its ability to multiply at a much
faster rate. If that happens, the antibiotic is no longer effective.

b. Viruses

Viruses are other substances other than bacteria that affect human
cells. The difference between the two is that viruses are not alive.

I refer to a term called ‘viral particle,’ which actually spreads the

virus. It is composed of a ‘jacket’ wrapping the DNA or RNA,
depending upon the type of viral particle. The jacket has special
‘feelers’ that help it to get attached to a cell.

The viral particle, when attached to a human cell, injects its

DNA/RNA into the cell. The jacket remains outside. Now, there are
two DNAs (assuming the viral particle has DNA and not RNA) – the
human cell’s DNA and the viral DNA. RNA polymerase of the human
cell makes copies of viral DNA and ribosomes create enzymes that
viral DNA guides (Remember how enzymes are formed?).

The viral enzymes, in turn, create jackets that again wrap the viral
DNAs, making new viral particles. This goes on and on until there
are more viral particles than a cell can hold. As a result, the cell
bursts, releasing many viral particles to attack more cells.

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 See how a virus spreads!

Here, antibiotics don’t work as viral particles are not ‘living’ entities.

Your body’s immune system works best for combating viruses. It

releases antibodies, which are proteins that attach themselves to the
viral particles, inhibiting them to affect more cells. Moreover, these
antibodies look for the ‘infected’ cells and kill them.

c. Over toxicity inside the cells

A condition occurs when your cells cannot get rid of the wastes by
releasing them to the bloodstream. One of the reasons is that your
blood already contains toxins that have not yet been removed.

For this or some other reason, the cell keeps on storing the waste
material inside it until a specific threshold is reached and different
diseases occur.

You can find more on this in the toxic removal chapter.

Blood is Life

What is blood?

Have you ever had your blood tested? Do you understand the results a blood
test shows?

The main component of your circulatory system is blood. You must have seen
the red blood coming out from a body after it is hurt or scratched. Yes, the same

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blood carries and transports essential ingredients like nutrients and oxygen to
different parts of the body and their cells. The same blood takes away the waste
products from the cells and transports them to the excretory system of your
body from where it is removed.

Blood is the stream of life.

If you are an adult, you have almost 5 liters of blood that constitutes
approximately 8% of your total body weight82.

The two blood components and their roles

There are two main components of blood. One is plasma and other is comprised
of formed elements.

i. Plasma
The blood is 55% plasma (2.75 – 3 liters) which is 92% water83. It
contains all the elements that blood transports from one place to
another within the body, such as nutrients, electrolytes, cells,
hormones, and wastes.

ii. Formed Elements

This part of the blood contains cells and their parts. These cells also
hover in plasma. The types of cells making up this blood component
are White Blood Cells (WBCs), Red Blood Cells (RBCs), and platelets.
These cells are formed in the bone marrow.

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a. White Blood Cells
White Blood Cells are part of the immune system too, as stated
previously. They fight infections and other illnesses. Besides this,
leukocytes (WBCs) also abolish and eliminate old/dead cells along
with the cellular wreckages. They constitute about 0.7% of the whole
blood.

b. Platelets
Platelets are types of cells that help in clotting blood after an open
wound occurs, the process called coagulation, thereby protecting
your body from bacterial invasion. They are also known as
Thrombocytes.

c. Red Blood Cells

RBCs are the cells that carry oxygen and carbon dioxide within the
body. They are found in an abundance that makes up 90% of the
blood’s formed elements. The shape of a Red Blood Cell is concave
on both sides, which facilitates absorbing and releasing maximum
oxygen.

When hemoglobin is richly oxygenated, your blood turns bright

red.

Hemoglobin, Hb, is a complex molecule within RBCs that carries

oxygen. Each RBC contains 280 million Hb molecules. The absence
of a nucleus in RBCs lets the Hemoglobin molecules absorb more
oxygen.

Do you know why doctors are so worried when a patient loses a lot of
blood? Do you wonder why they are so concerned about red blood cells?

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Blood transfusion is a process doctors often use to bring back a patient’s normal
levels of blood.

How is blood formed?

Blood is formed from bone marrow. The healthy bone marrow that actively
produces blood cells is red marrow. Yellow marrow does not produce blood and
its components.

While you were a child, almost all of your bones produced blood. As you grew,
only a few were involved in blood formation, such as the spine, breastbone, ribs,
pelvis, and smaller parts of the upper arms and legs.

The process by which blood is produced is known as Hematopoiesis. A group of

special stem cells creates all the blood cells.

Things to remember about blood

 Human blood should be kept cool.

 Under proper conditions, the shelf life of human blood is 42 days.
 There are different groups of blood that are A, B, AB, O, and their Rh
factor, positive or negative. If a person needs blood, the transfused blood
should match his blood group.

Summary: How Your Body Works

 A human body is a collection of various sub-systems running the main

system. A failure in one system affects the rest too. The skeletal system,
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 muscular system, digestive system, circulatory system, respiratory system,
urinary system, endocrine system, nervous system, and immune system
are various systems.

 Cells build our bodies. A cell is alive when its every enzyme is functional.
Enzymes help in carrying out different cell functions like growth,
metabolism etc. If an enzyme for metabolism is dysfunctional, the
digestive system faces problems.

 Our brain and nervous system sends and receives messages from/to the
rest of the body by means of electrical impulses. The mechanism through
which these impulses are generated makes us generate electricity too,
without which we would die.

 The waste and toxins formed inside the cell due to enzymatic chemical
reactions are passed through the circulatory system that takes them to the
excretory system.

 Bacteria and viruses cause diseases. Antibiotics and your body's immune
system help to fight them. Over toxicity inside the cell also causes several
illnesses.

 Blood is responsible for delivering oxygen and nutrients to the cells. If they
are not delivered, the cell cannot function properly. White blood cells fight
against diseases. Red blood cells carry oxygen. Platelets clot blood when
you are injured and bleeding, without which you would lose a great deal of
blood.

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 Let’s Rebuild Our Bodies

It is time for you to take an initiative towards your health. If not today, there will
be no tomorrow. It is your body and your health. You yourself are responsible,
no one else.

Some people are confused as they think they cannot grasp the complex rules of
health. Believe me, there is no rocket science involved and you need not look
for some health professional. It is all a game of getting the right information.
If you have it, you are your own health guru.

It is likely that the “right information” will sound quite different to you from your
previous knowledge about health. That is okay. As you read on, you will know
what is wrong and what is right, and I am very hopeful you will agree, as all the
information I provide is backed up with scientific studies and research.

By the way, you can test all the information yourself. Practice them for 10 days
and they will definitely show you results.

As a doctor, my profession makes me responsible to provide you with the

correct information about your health. It is your right and my duty. It is just a duty
I am fulfilling. However, more than that, I have my self-interest in it too. You
might wonder what interest I have in your well-being. The interest is to make this
world a better and healthier place to live where I, along with future generations,
live healthily and peacefully. This is possible only when I have healthy and
contented people around me.

From previous chapters, it is obvious that the secret to good health lies within
us. It is our stronger immune systems that are responsible for our better health.
If they are not strong, we get diseased. We have our own healing powers. It is
only that we need to know how to make use of our hidden power. Know about it
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and heal yourself!

Your cellular health determines the quality of your overall health.

In the last chapter, I have been discussing with you how your body works. All the
functions of your body occur at the cellular level involving enzymes. The germs
attack our cells to weaken them and take control of the body. If all your cells are
100% healthy, they keep you 100% healthy. If only 90% of them are healthy,
your overall health will drop down to the same level.

I will not repeat anything previously discussed. However, do you remember how
you generate electricity? If there were no electricity, there would be no energy. If
there were no energy, you would not be alive. Hence, your cells must remain
healthy to keep generating the “power” of your life.

What do your cells need to maintain their health, and hence their lives?

A cell needs the correct and appropriate levels of oxygen,

water, nutrients, a positive mindset, and alkalinity to keep it
healthy and alive.

I will discuss each of them a little to give you an idea of how these factors work
towards your health.

OXYGEN
Oxygen comes first on the list. It is the most important factor that contributes to
cellular health. Your elders have been telling you of the importance of fresh air
and the morning walk just after sunrise. This is when all the plants utilize the
sun’s rays and release oxygen while consuming carbon dioxide.
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As said earlier, energy is life; and oxygen is used to produce it within our bodies
at the cellular level. It converts glucose into ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate).
ATP is what we need as energy. In the absence of oxygen, this conversion
cannot take place and, hence, we are deprived of energy.

Over toxicity also causes many illnesses (refer to chapter 2). How does it
happen? It happens when your cells are unable to release the toxic waste due
to a lack of energy. Obviously, you need energy to do everything, including the
release of toxic waste. For energy production, you need oxygen.

Why we need Oxygen

So now, you know why we need oxygen. It is because oxygen is a vital factor in
producing ATP energy molecules that drive our bodies.

Can you hold your breath for a long time? I mean, what happens when someone
blocks your breathing ability. You feel suffocated, right?

The point is, we can live without food for weeks, without water for days, but if
our oxygen supply is blocked for even a minute, it is difficult for us to survive.
This is how important oxygen is for our lives!

No matter what the disease is, you will find in it a lack of oxygen.

The rule for oxygen is simple. Nothing that creates a deficiency of oxygen is
good for your health. In addition, anything that increases your oxygen levels is
good for your health.

How cancer initiates

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Cancer, no matter what type, is among the most frightening disease threats of
this century. We doctors claim that there is a cure, but there is no way back to
the optimum health you were enjoying prior to that.

“The growth of cancer cells is initiated by a relative lack of

oxygen. Cancer cannot live in an oxygen-rich
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environment.” – Dr. Otto Warburg

Dr. Otto Warburg has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his
research on cellular respiration and is twice a Nobel Laureate. He revealed that
cancer cells reside in the human body but are different from the rest of the cells.
Generally, cells breathe oxygen, but cancer cells do not. They are anaerobic as
they obtain energy without oxygen.

He further added that the anaerobic environment can create an array of

degenerative diseases like diabetes, heart diseases, autoimmune diseases
and arthritis.

Several studies were carried out to prove the above fact. In an experiment,
some mice cells were taken and kept in a laboratory under a reduced oxygen
supply. Some cells died, some mutated, while other became weak. When these
cells were injected back to the mice, the mice developed cancer.

The same cells, when kept under a good oxygen supply and then injected back
into the mice, showed no evidence of cancer onset.

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“The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer”, with two prefaces on prevention – revised lecture at the
meeting of the Nobel Laureates on June 30, 1966 at Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany – by Otto Warurg,
Director, Max Planck-Institute for Cell Physiology, Berlin-Dahlem. English Edition by Dean Burk, National Cancer
Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Therefore, what we need is to treat our bodies with optimum oxygen levels to
fight any disease we may have.

Maximize your Oxygen intake

We should well-oxygenate every cell of our body. When our cells get enough
oxygen, they get rid of the venom and other waste quite effectively,
safeguarding us from several diseases.

Breathe well; stay healthy!

The best way to deliver maximum oxygen to your body cells is good breathing
exercises. On and off breathing fresh air is a good habit too. Studies involving
thousands of people concluded that breathing well helps to increase the life
span of a person and improves their health.85

In chapter 2, I discussed how the respiratory system eliminates carbon dioxide

from your body. Carbon dioxide is a waste and, if it remains inside, it can be
fatal. When you breathe properly, you eliminate 75% of your body waste!
However, unfortunately, very few of us breathe more than 20% of what we
could.

Deep Diaphragmic Breathing

Our lymphatic system benefits from our proper breathing. The system is
cleansed by the suction behavior of deep breathing, and, hence, helps in
removing the waste from our body.

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The Framingham Heart Study; The Breathe Well Be Well Study; The von Ardenne studies; and many others
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 “Deep diaphragmic breathing is the equivalent of having a
vacuum cleaner in your immune system pulling the poisons
out at a rapid pace. "86 – Dr. Jack Shield, MD

Dr. Jack Shield, MD, is a lymphologist in Santa Barbara, CA. He did an amazing
study by putting cameras inside the human body. He found that deep breathing
has strikingly positive results on the lymphatic system. It eliminates toxic waste
15 times more rapidly than with normal shallow breathing.

Unlike blood circulation, lymph circulation depends on your breathing. The more
deeply you breathe, the more efficiently the waste is removed. Deep breathing
involves your whole lung, while shallow breathing removes waste from only the
upper part of the lung. A big portion of the blood remains contaminated and
returns to the body as is.
Remember: the upper part of the lungs have only 20% of the blood.

Learn how to breathe properly. It’s very simple and it won’t require much from
you.

Remember the ratio: 1:4:2

There are three steps of breathing: Inhaling, Holding, and Exhaling.

You know what these are.
Inhale air from your nose for multiple of1 count.
Hold your breath for multiple of 4 counts.
Exhale by releasing the air through your mouth for multiple of 2 counts.

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 For example: Inhale for 5 seconds. Hold the breath for 5x4=20 seconds. Exhale for
5x2=10 seconds.

You can easily verify what I have mentioned here. Do the breathing exercise
thrice a day for ten days and experience the results yourself.

More on breathing exercise

Dia-kath breathing
Here is another breathing exercise that involves your kath point and diaphragm.
It connects both to make breathing easier and more natural. The kath point is
your center of equilibrium. You might confuse the kath point with your navel but
it is somewhat located in your lower belly, almost three-finger widths below the
navel. The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle just below your ribcage.

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The good thing is that you can exercise dia-kath breathing at any time of the day
and while standing, sitting or even lying down. However, I would suggest that
you look for some quiet and peaceful time earlier in the morning and practice
dia-kath on an empty stomach to get the maximum benefit from it.

Sit keeping your back straight. While you inhale, inhale slowly and deeply,
expanding your kath point and diaphragm. It will let the lungs fill with more air,
from the bottom up. To exhale, relax the kath point and the diaphragm, letting
the air pass out from the top down. Use your nose to inhale and exhale. Repeat
at your own speed.

Aerobic Exercises

I hope you know what aerobic exercises are. To remind you, aerobic exercises
let the body make use of oxygen to the fullest. Oxygen circulates and flows
throughout your body in an optimal way, if you practice aerobic exercises.

No matter how healthy your diet is, you cannot get the most out of it if it does not
reach to every cell of your body. You know how these nutrients circulate in the
body (refer to chapter 2). Hindered circulation affects the overall cellular health.
Lack of oxygen or its inefficient usage results in problematic circulation.

Scientists at the University of Tromso researched that women, exercising

regularly, have a reduced risk of breast cancer. The research involved more
than 25,000 women of ages 20 to 54 years. After 14 years of follow up time, 351
got aggressive breast cancer. The researchers found that women less than 45
years of age, in the habit of exercising regularly, had a 62% reduction in risk
compared to non-exercising women. Leaner women with a body mass index
(BMI) of less than 22.8 who exercised more than four hours per week had a

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Aerobic exercise is exercising with oxygen for at least 20 minutes

every day. Longer is better. Intensity has the least effect.

What is the best approach to exercise aerobically?

Divide your time in three. First, it is your warm up period; second is exercising,
and third is for cooling down.

Your warm up time should last for 5 to 10 minutes to prepare your body for the
second part. This is when your heartbeat increases its capacity to 60%. In the
second period, you exercise for 15-20 minutes, increasing the capacity of your
heartbeat to 70%. This is the period when you shed your fats. The third is the
cooling down period when you lower down your heartbeat to 55% of its capacity.

Aerobic exercise, your heart and circulatory system

Aerobic exercise is great for your heart too. It strengthens the cardiac muscles
so they work more efficiently and cope better in conditions like stress, tension
and higher physical activity.

When your heart works great, your circulatory system becomes efficient to
deliver maximum oxygen to all cells and to get rid of the toxins. Improved blood
supply, because of wider blood vessels, boosts the immune system.

Aerobic exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, autoimmune disease,

high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke and cancer.

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Moreover, you can fight stress by exercising aerobically, as it causes the release
of Endorphins. It makes the immune system stronger and reduces stress and
depression. Your growth hormones also activate while you exercise aerobically.

These are some very good aerobic exercises when done at lower heart rates:
swimming, dancing, running, bicycling, rowing, hiking, spinning, etc. What does
a lower heart rate mean? A lower heart rate is one at which you can easily talk
to someone while keeping a control over your breath.

As with breathing exercises, take a test and judge yourself by scheduling your
next six out of ten days for aerobic exercise.

Air Pollution

Air is composed of 20.95% oxygen, 0.03% Carbon dioxide, 0.93% Argon and
78.09% Nitrogen. Other components include Neon, Helium, Krypton, Sulfur
Dioxide, Methane, Hydrogen, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide etc.88

Different chemicals, particulate matter, and biological materials enter into the air
and contaminate it. This contamination of the air is harmful to us and to other
living creatures as well, along with the damage to the natural environment.
Indoor air pollution and urban air quality are two major problems, according to
2008’s Blacksmith Institute World’s Worst Polluted Places report.89

Your body needs oxygen and air is the primary source of it. When you inhale it,
what else are you inhaling along with the oxygen? You must have heard of
“ozone depletion.” Air pollution is the cause for it and it is considered a THREAT

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to human health.

What are the different pollutants contaminating our air?

The pollutants that are openly released from a process are ash from volcanic
eruption, carbon monoxide from automobiles, sulfur dioxide from factories,
chlorofluorocarbons, ammonia, toxic metals etc. These pollutants react with
other chemicals present in the air and form secondary pollutants.

Ground level ozone is a secondary pollutant responsible for photochemical

smog. Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) is another example.

Here is a brief list of things that cause air pollution.

 Smoke stacks of power plants
 Automobiles: smoke and noise
 Fumes from paint, hair sprays, varnish, aerosol sprays etc.
 Nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ warfare and rocketry
 Dust from lands with little or no plantation
 Radioactive decays within Earth’s crust
 Wildfires: smoke and carbon monoxide
 Volcanic eruptions
 Indoor pollution: lack of ventilation, pesticides, carpeting, air fresheners,
fireplaces, pilot lights, dry cleaning fluids, air conditioning, etc.

Effects of air pollution

According to a study by Karolinska Institute of Environmental Medicine, people

increase their risk of a heart attack the longer they are exposed to air

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pollutants90. The same was concluded by another study published in the March
2005 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. It cited that air
pollution raises the risk of heart attacks, strokes, respiratory problems, etc91.

According to WHO, 2.4 million people die every year from air pollution,
with 1.5 million deaths from indoor air pollution.92

Researchers have estimated that 60,000 premature deaths are due to exposure
to fine polluting particles93. Some believe this figure is underestimated in the
U.S.94

When you inhale polluted air, it combines with your blood and contaminates it.
The contaminated blood goes to all the cells. The cells already have toxic waste
to get rid of, due to chemical reactions taking place inside them. As you know,
cells eliminate their waste into the blood, but when the blood is already polluted,
the process of eliminating toxins becomes harder. Instead of cleansing the cell’s
environment, the dirty blood adds to its toxicity.

The health effects of air pollution include breathing problems, wheezing,

coughing, and serious respiratory and cardiac problems. As these problems
occur, the cost of drugs, doctor visits, hospital admissions, and number of
premature deaths increase.

Controlling air pollution

Different regions of the world have different regulatory authorities to control air

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Occupational and Environmental Medicine, March 2005, “The pro-coagulant potential of environmental
particles (PM10). Edinburg Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI)/Colt Laboratory, The University
of Edinburgh, Department of Medicine and Radiological Sciences, Medical School, Wilkie Building, Teviot Place,
Edinburgh, UK
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"Estimated deaths & DALYs attributable to selected environmental risk factors, by WHO Member State,
2002".Retrieved 2010-08-29.
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Wilson, Richard, and Spengler, John eds. Particles in Our Air: Concentrations and Health Effects (1999) p.
212.
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Schwartz, J., “Air Pollution Deadlier than Previously Thought,” Harvard School of Public Health, press release,
March 2, 2000.
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pollution that operate in somewhat the same manner. There are various air
pollution control technologies and land use planning strategies available.

There are different control devices too. Some of them are particulate scrubbers,
bag houses, low NOx burners, VOC abatement, Flue gas desulfurization, etc.

In Europe, Council Directive 96/62/EC on ambient air quality testing and

management states a strategy that each member state can “set objectives for
ambient air quality in order to avoid, prevent or reduce harmful effects on human
health and the environment . . . and improve air quality where it is
unsatisfactory.”95

How can you control the air you breathe?

For every problem, there is a solution. It is very important to improve the quality
of the air we breathe. Rules and policies have been devised at government
levels of almost all the countries of the world. On an individual level, you can
make an effort to minimize air pollution. Obviously, it will benefit you in the end.

Things you can do to improve the quality of air you are taking in are:

 If you live near a highly polluted area, do not open the windows. Instead,
have many indoor plants. If you live near a non-polluted area, open the
windows to let fresh air come in.

 Promote plantings around you. You know that plants take in carbon
dioxide and release oxygen in the daytime, thus cleansing the air.
However, if you cannot afford it, indoor plants are beneficial too.
o NASA and ALCA (Associated Landscape Contractors of America)
conducted The NASA Clean Air Study.96 According to the study,

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/1837156/NASA-Indoor-Plants
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 indoor plants are a sure means for removing toxic elements from the
air.
o Toxic agents present in the air are Benzene, Formaldehyde and
Trichloroethylene, etc.
o The study provided a list of plants that filter air and remove toxic
agents from it.97-98 A few examples of air-filtering plants are English
Ivy, Peace lily, Chinese evergreen, Red-edged dracaena, Janet
Craig dracaena, Warneck dracaena, Gerbera daisy, Pot mum or
chrysanthemum.
o NASA recommends 15-18 good-sized indoor plants in a container of
6-8 inches for a house of 1,800 square-feet.

 Supplement oxygen therapies are found in health food stores. If you are
unable to plant, these supplements can be a good alternative.

 Use electrical devices instead of gas ones.

 Air filtration systems are readily available for a single room and for the
entire property too. They remove fine particles from the air. If you can
afford one, it can improve air quality to some extent.

However, if there is nothing you can do to improve the quality of air

around you, you have your body’s magical system of purifying it. You only
need to BREATHE DEEPLY, and the rest your body knows well… as it is
exceptionally smart!

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Plants "Clean" Air Inside Our Homes (kilde NASA)
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B. C. Wolverton, Rebecca C. McDonald, and E. A. Watkins, Jr. "Foliage Plants for Removing Indoor Air
Pollutants from Energy-efficient Homes". Retrieved 2009-12-10., http://www.sjodinweb.com/house/foliage_air.pdf
(alternate link for 'Foliage Plants for Removing Indoor Air Pollutants from Energy-efficient Homes')
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 WATER

After oxygen, water is an element that is essential for your cellular health. Your
life is only a few days’ story without it. A major portion of your body is fluid. Your
blood is fluid. The cell’s cytoplasm is fluid. In fact, every function of your body is
done in water.

Believe me, doctors are never taught that water is a cure of diseases. We, the
doctors, know that water is essential for life and that we should drink plenty of it.
Recall what I mentioned in chapter 1 about the drug industry’s influence on
academics and doctors. In the same way, the drug industry and others who
benefit the most from the “money-making” aspect of drugs and medicines don’t
want you to know that.

The patent story is the whole game. As water cannot be patented, it never
acquired the status of a curing agent. Instead, painkillers, histamines and
antidepressants are the recognized medicines.

Water predominance in the body

Water dominates your body. More than 70% of your body composition is water.

Water is needed to carry out cellular functions, since enzymes and other cell
components float in cytoplasm, which is fluid. Your blood and lymph are fluids
also, and blood is composed of 85% water. Therefore, water is needed for the
transportation of nutrients and oxygen to all parts of the body. Without it, your
foremost living factor, oxygen, would never reach the cells. Urine is a fluid with a
major water portion. Therefore, water is needed for the elimination of toxins and
other waste from your body.

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Can you think of another important process of our bodies largely dependent on
water? What happens when you sweat? Isn’t your sweat water?

Your brain, the mastermind of your body, is almost 80% water. Lack of
water leads to depression and chronic syndrome.

What happens when a cell’s cytoplasm is not healthy? Can enzymes work?
What happens when enzymes stop functioning?

See how important water is for your health.

How much water should you have?

75% Americans are chronically dehydrated.99

It is a common perception that our bodies require more water on hot summer
days than it requires on cold winter days. However, this is not true every time.
Your body needs as much water in the cold season as it needs in the hot
season.

Electro-biochemical reactions occurring continuously within our bodies require

water continuously. Therefore, we have to supply water to our bodies throughout
the day.

Not getting enough water will lead your body to recycle dirty water and
use it to carry out different body functions, eventually leading to inefficient
body functioning.

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A lack of water in your body leads to several ailments. You name a disease, and
water deficiency has everything to do with it. (See the sub-topic “Effects of water
deficiency”)

You lose water while breathing, sweating, urinating and eliminating toxic waste.
Losing water during rest is more understandable than losing it during breathing.
Our bodies lose about a quart of water every day during breathing. The surface
tension in the alveoli of the lungs produces a contraction to exhale air. During
this, water is eliminated along with the air. If that water is not replenished, one
suffers from asthma.

To compensate the loss so your body functions in a healthy way, you should
drink as much water as half of your body weight (in ounces). For example,
if you weigh 160 lbs. you should consume 80 ounces of water every day.

It is common sense that you cannot drink 80 ounces of water at one time.
Spread this number evenly throughout your day. Do not wait to get thirsty. In
37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for
hunger.

Relating the need for water with thirst is not right!100

An indicator of the need for water is the color of your urine. When you urinate,
check its color. If it is yellow, it indicates your body is about to dehydrate. When
it is orange, the body screams for “water!” and you should instantly help it by
drinking plenty of it. It is better to hydrate your body when your urine is yellow. A
hydrated body gives you almost colorless urine.

Initially, if you were not consuming enough water, you might rush to the toilet.
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However, after a few weeks, your bladder will get used to it and you will urinate
less often but in large quantities.

You should drink enough water to turn your urine very lightly colored
yellow or nearly colorless.

Give your body a new, healthier start by drinking the right amount of water every
day.

BAD water substitutes

You must have heard people substituting their water need with coffee, tea, diet
sodas, colas and beer, saying they contain plenty of water too. Have you ever
experienced the need to urinate after having a cup of coffee?

They are right! All these drinks contain water. BUT they are bad substitutes.
Why? Because they are diuretics, squeezing your body and sucking water from
it, causing you to urinate more often, thus making you lose more water.

Fruit juices are good for your health, but they too cannot substitute the need for
water. Every beverage has its own utility inside the body. For example, if you
feel thirsty and drink some sugary beverage or coffee, for instance, sugar and
caffeine will play different roles than water in the body. They contain “already
occupied” water, which is no good. Your body needs fresh, new, free,
unoccupied water to perform functions.

Caffeine is found in all soft drinks that are common nowadays. You will find
children, young and elderly people consuming them, and hence consuming
caffeine. It has its “positive” effects too, but it is regarded as a bad substitute for
water because of its diuretic nature. Moreover, it causes loss of short-term

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memory.101

To improve the grades of your children, take away their soft drinks and get them
addicted to fresh and pure water.

Quality of the water

What type of water you should drink?

You might be wondering what is meant by “type” – isn’t water just water?. Well,
water is water, but there are different types. For example, there is distilled water,
tap water and fluoridated water.

I would recommend that you only drink clean spring water and water with
reverse osmosis filtration.

As for the distilled water, it lacks minerals. You can say it is a vacuum of
minerals. Consuming it for a limited time may prove beneficial, but its long-term
effects are not good. It leaches out necessary minerals from our bodies.
Moreover, it has an acidic pH, the wrong ionization and polarization. Drinking
distilled water will add to the acidity of the body. (More on acidity in ALKALINITY
AND ACIDITY – The Inner Environmental Balance)

People, including you, have probably been avoiding tap water, as you believe
it’s unhygienic and you prefer bottled water. However, bottled water often has
more hazards than tap water.

Can you trust water companies to bottle pure water? Not at all! How can you

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guarantee that they are safe for your health when 63 brands of bottled water in
Europe and Canada have been found unsafe?

Bottled water contains antimony and the amount increases as the longer it
remains on the shelf. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), when exposed to
sunlight, high temperatures, and differing pH levels, produces antimony too.

Besides antimony, arsenic and carcinogenic compounds are also found in

bottled water, exceeding the standards set by the state. Fluoride, also found in
bottled water, is a toxic bone poison.

Glass bottles are the best water containers. High density Polyethelene
(HDPE) Naglene bottles are the next best.

Like distilled, tap or bottled water, Alkaline and “vitamin” water are not good for
your health either. Alkaline water should only be consumed for a short time, and
only for detoxification purposes. Vitamin water is nothing more than soda water,
containing dangerous high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, additives and
caffeine.

The ONLY good water for you and your family is FILTERED Water
– water you can consume for a lifetime.

Filtered water is not only economical and environmentally friendly, but it is the
best for your health too. In addition, it can be consumed for your entire life. I
recommend that you buy a water filtration system and install it in your home and
workplace.

The three types of water filtration systems are:

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Reverse osmosis filter

RO filter removes chlorine, inorganic and organic pollutants, 80% of the fluoride
and most DBPs i.e. Disinfection Byproducts. ‘Cleaning water with chlorine’
results in DBPs that are ten thousand times more dangerous!

The drawback lies with its expensive installation. You might need to get a
plumber to get your RO filter up and running.

Ion exchange filter

IE filter removes dissolved salts such as calcium, softens the water, and
neutralizes the harmful effect of tap water by exchanging water ions with its own
ions.

Granular Carbon and Carbon block filters

These filters remove contaminants and are acknowledged by the EPA as the
best available technology for the removal of organic chemicals like herbicides,
pesticides, and industrial chemicals.

The drawback of a Granular Carbon filter lies with its loose material inside that
can create pathways where water can escape filtration.

Carbon block filters overcome the drawbacks of a granular filter by changing the
granules to a solid block. In this way, channeling is avoided.

Effects of water deficiency

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Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj is a world famous water expert . His book “Your
Body’s Many Cries for Water”102 is very famous. I recommend that you buy the
book and read it thoroughly, as it will astonish you with some amazing facts, and
you will have an immense world of knowledge as well. Dr. Batmanghelidj claims
that during imprisonment he treated several patients with water therapy. You can
find a report on his research in an editorial of the Journal of Clinical
Gastroenterology, June 1983.103

In his famous book, he stated that chronic dehydration results in all the physical
diseases.104 The list of physical diseases he mentioned includes the following.

Asthma and allergies

Obesity
High blood cholesterol
Heart disease and stroke
Diabetes
Hypertension
Infection
Depression and chronic fatigue syndrome
Sleep disorders
Lack of energy
Addiction
Osteoporosis
Leukemia and lymphoma
Attention deficit
Hot flashes
Gout
Kidney stones
Cancer

Dr. Batmanghelidj also researched histamines and found that histamine is a

neurotransmitter responsible for water regulation and the deficiency
management programs of the body. Water is required for this to function
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Batmanghelidj, Fereydoon, Your Body's Many Cries for Water (1992), Global Health Solutions, ISBN 0-
9629942-3-5
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properly.105

Therefore, the bottom line is to drink water as much as half of your body’s
weight in ounces, making sure your urine is always light yellow or almost
colorless.

ALKALINITY AND ACIDITY – The Inner Environmental

Balance

Your body is a huge bag of bioelectrical reactions producing electromagnetic

current. Without electricity, you cannot live. Cells are the building blocks of your
body and to remain alive and healthy, you should have healthy cells. These cells
are alive when they are actively energetic. To get the energy, they make use of
the electricity your body generates.

You know how a body generates electricity for life (see previous chapter).

The food you eat breaks down to smaller constituents called colloids. Colloids
are conveyed to all cells of your body through an electrical charge. The nerves
pass messages to different parts of your body for different functions to be
performed, making use of the electrical impulses. This is how cells interact with
each other.

Introduction to pH

Your blood has a very delicate chemical balance, called pH balance, which is
responsible for generating the electrical force in your body. The balance is

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between acid and alkaline.

pH, Potential Hydrogen, is basically a scale on which we can measure the

acidity or alkalinity of a body. The scale ranges from 0 to 14.

0 pH indicates purely acidic.

14 pH is purely alkaline.
7 pH is neutral, neither acidic nor alkaline.

What pH of your blood is ideal for producing electric life-giving current?

Medical scientists and researchers have demonstrated that a pH of 7.365 to
7.45, i.e. slightly alkaline and oxygen-rich blood, is vital for a “in fine fettle” body.
This pH value is responsible for conducting the life-current within your body. If
the pH is greatly disturbed, different diseases can attack the body and the
person may die sooner.

Recall that positive and negative charges of cells are due to potassium
and sodium ions inside and outside the cell membrane. (Chapter 2)

Medical scientists found the relationship between pH balance and the onset of
diseases in the early twentieth century, and since then, this important
information is being taught in medical schools.

“The regulation of hydrogen ion concentration is one of the

most important aspects of homeostasis.” – Textbook of
Medical Physiologyby Arthur C. Guyton106

For a stable body with a stable internal terrain where cells, tissues, organs and
organ systems function properly, the body should constantly maintain its ideal

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pH.

The problem lies with the behavior of the mainstream medical establishment,
who overlook the importance of pH imbalance. Fortunately, there are physicians
in the United States and Europe who acknowledge the factual link between
chronic pH imbalance and disease.

In 2000, a German pH researcher Dr. Jurgen Vormann held a conference on

Acid-Base Metabolism. The world-renowned researchers and scientists
presented the consequences of low-grade metabolic acidosis (over-acidity) on
health. It involved all areas that can be afflicted with disease, from bone health
to growth in childhood.

What is low-grade metabolic acidosis?

Prolonged mild acidity in the body is referred to as chronic low-grade acidosis.

The diet, especially the American diet, is the main cause. If you consume a
typical American diet, think you may wish to reconsider, since the
American or western diet is acidogenic. Acidogenic food creates a
continuously acidifying condition in our bodies leading to prolonged,
deteriorating diseases, as well as obesity.

Therefore, the bottom line is to know your pH value. Go to a nearby

pharmacy and purchase some pH strips. Put one in your urine for a few
seconds and see what results it shows. It is best to test it first thing in the
morning.

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Alkalinity vs. Acidity – the electrical balance

What happens when your body can not alkalize you?

The negative charge around the cells keeps the cells at a distance from each
other, making blood flow smoothly in blood vessels and capillaries. When cells
are unable to eliminate the acidic elements, the blood becomes acidic too, and
its pH shifts.

The acidic nature of blood takes away the charge of the blood cells. As there is
no negative charge around the cells, they bump and collide into each other,
disturbing the blood flow.

What happens afterwards? It results in poor blood circulation, and in more

severe cases, can create blood clots too. You know these blood clots can be
extremely dreadful and fatal. And you know the consequences of poor blood
circulation too. Yes, it results in an insufficient supply of oxygen and nutrients to
the cells, affecting overall cellular health.

If there is too much acid within the cells, it can make them die, releasing even
more acid, and making conditions extremely severe.

Your body’s acidic environment is favorable for germs to grow and

multiply, making your body a junkyard that you carry around!

Is there any self-mechanism in our bodies to reduce the acidity?

Yes, there is. Our bodies contain alkaline reserves. When the blood pH balance
is disturbed, our bodies try to recover it using the stocks. Unfortunately, we do
not have big reserves of alkaline; therefore, they dry up quickly. When our
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bodies do not have alkaline reserves (a state known as alkaline deficit), and the
environment is acidic, this is when we become prone to disease.

One of the major problems one can have, when an alkaline deficit occurs,
is a weakening of the bones. For neutralizing acids, the body starts
consuming calcium in your bones.

By the way, do you know acidity is one of the causes of being overweight and
obese?

If you do not like being fat and carrying that ugly fat with you, start alkalizing
yourself.

Your body knows acid is harmful for your vital organs like the heart, kidneys,
liver etc. Once in contact with these organs, the acid can cause several
diseases from heart attacks and strokes to diabetes, cholesterol, and
autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, to allergies and cancer. In order to
save your life, your body, not always but most of the time, starts producing fats!

Fats store acids in them, thus keeping them away from the vital organs and
blood.

If you do not eliminate acids from your body, you cannot remove fat, no
matter how hard you try.

There is one common cause of every disease. “Too much acid” or “acid alkaline
imbalance,” whatever you may call it, is the only cause of every single ailment
you can think of.

“Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which

we have allowed our alkaline to be dissipated by
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 introduction of acid-forming food in too great amount... It
may seem strange to say that all disease is the same thing,
no matter what its myriad modes of expression, but it is
verily so.”107— William Howard Hay, M.D.

Dr. Theodore Baroody has also emphasized the same fact in his book called
Alkalize or Die.108 According to him, the heart disease, cancer, MS, diabetes, or
obesity is not the health crisis - it is the over-acidity of our bodies.

The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What

does matter is that they all come from the same root
cause...too much tissue acid waste in the body! — Theodore
A. Baroody, N.D., D.C., Ph.D.

Over-acidity or Acidosis causes many diseases. To give you an idea, here is a

list of some of them.

Cancer - heart disease – arteriosclerosis – high cholesterol – hypertension – diabetes –

arthritis – gout – kidney and gall stones – asthma – allergies – autoimmune diseases
like lupus – MS – Psoriasis – indigestion – diarrhea – nausea – obesity – tooth and gum
diseases – osteoporosis – morning sickness – eye diseases

Diseases hate alkalinity as much as they love acidity. Acidity blooms

them; alkalinity kills them!

Remember the germ theory discussed in chapter 1. It is the terrain inside you
that is responsible for germs to be born, grow and multiply. The pH of your body

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1933. In his book, he maintained that all diseases are caused by auto-toxication due to acid accumulation in the
body.
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determines the quality of the terrain.

Therefore, it is imperative to regain your quality inner terrain. If you succeed,

you will be able to fight away EVERY disease, whether germ-based,
autoimmune, or any chronic disease from your body.

Who does not want to stay fit, healthy and full of life? For a life full of
“life,” start changing your lifestyle. Become alkaline!

How your body reacts to acids

Acidic elements are toxic, and therefore must be removed from the body. The
kidneys and lungs are major organs that help in their removal. After them, the
skin plays its role, though it is a minor role. However, no matter how big a role
an organ plays, each of them is busy maintaining the normal pH balance of your
body.

Kidneys and removal of acids

As you know already, kidneys make urine to get rid of the toxic waste. The
acidic elements they are responsible to get rid of are solid acids such as sulfuric
and uric acid, also known as fixed acids.

For the removal of acidic elements, the kidneys make use of the alkaline
elements. They first get them from your diet. If your diet lacks them, the kidneys
go for the alkaline reserves inside your body.

These alkaline reserves are present in the watery layer around the bones and in the
bone itself.

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The muscle tissues also contain an alkaline element called glutamine, which is
an amino acid. The body breaks down the muscle tissue, making your muscles
weaker, to release glutamine to use it in the pH recover-rescue process.

The extent to which each organ eliminates acids from the body to retain
alkalinity is limited for each day.

Acidosis or over-acidity occurs when the alkaline reserves finish and acidity
keeps on increasing. The kidneys cannot handle the situation then. That is when
diseases pop up.

Lungs and acid removal

Lungs regulate body’s pH balance by eliminating volatile acids.

Carbon dioxide is a by-product of metabolism, which, when combined with water

in the blood, makes carbonic acid. Carbonic acid is a volatile acid that lungs get
rid of by the respiratory process.
An increased respiratory rate indicates that the body is highly acidic.
Alkalosis (a highly alkaline body) decreases the rate.

Skin and acid removal

Your skin has sweat glands that facilitate sweating. During perspiration, the skin
tries to get rid of the acids present in the body.

How much can you sweat?

Obviously, less than the rate at which you urinate or breathe. Therefore, the rate
at which skin eliminates acid is insignificant as compared to the rate at which the
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kidneys and lungs do that.

If your body is capable of eliminating one quart of sweat daily, it eliminates one
and a half quarts of urine. Moreover, the acid concentration of urine is much
higher than that of the sweat.

The stronger the smell of your sweat, the more acidic your body. Why
smell bad? Become alkaline!

Small imbalance – big diseases

A small imbalance in pH value can create a big impact on your health.

This might be difficult for you to digest. However, it is a fact. Take the way in
which your body temperature works. The normal body temperature is 98.6
degrees Fahrenheit. A temperature slightly above or below the normal value will
make you uneasy and give you discomfort. It is very likely that you might not
sense this little variation right away, but prolonged variation can have some real
consequences. If the change is significant, it may lead to hazardous diseases
and even death in some cases.

Effects of persistent acidosis

I know it is impossible to keep your body ideally alkaline. Our bodies do fluctuate
and it’s normal. The abnormal conditions arise when over-acidity persists within
the body.

Have you heard about acid rains?

One of the causes of acid rain is carbon dioxide. It is released into the air by the
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burning of fossil fuels and due to different industrial processes. This carbon
dioxide, which is an acid, combines with the rain and comes down as an acid
rain, contaminating the water on earth, and affecting marine life. Not only does it
affect the oceanic life, it also causes adverse soil conditions, making plant life
unhealthy too.

Natural purification methods are available, just as our bodies have them too. As
mentioned earlier, we have alkaline reserves to neutralize the acidity. Similarly,
oceans are alkaline reserves. They neutralize acidity in the atmosphere with
their calcium carbonate. However, one bad side effect is the demineralization
and acidification of the ocean.

Eventually, it leads to global warming, shifted weather patterns and other

environmental threats.

Relating this to our bodies, our dietary habits are demineralizing our bodies. Our
alkaline reserves diminish as acidosis is prolonged, and our bodies continue
being decontaminated.

Do not let your precious alkaline reserves diminish. Do not pollute your body
with contaminants. The body is yours and the choice is yours too. Do you want a
pure and clean body or an ill, diseased and littered body?

Live blood analysis

When you eat a regular diet, or I might say, the “present day” common diet, you
are surely acidic. However, when you plan to shift towards slight alkalinity, you
might be wondering how you can verify if your body is still acidic or not, or if you
just have to keep guessing and keep trying.

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There is no need to guess things when you can actually find out the
reality. Live Blood Analysis109, or Darkfield Microscopy, is a method of
analyzing blood under a microscope that shows your internal
environment.

Usually a drop of blood from your fingertip is enough for the analysis. Using a
Darkfield microscope, you can view a picture of your blood on a screen.

This method is different from traditional and usual microscopic methods, where
the blood cells die while staining or half an hour after they are taken out of the
body. Dead cells cannot deliver the information you may want to know.

You can see a video of regular Red Blood Cells below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJBKEyEtAo

And here:

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7CPDaE2l-I
You can see that the red blood cells are at a distance from each other. Can you
recall how the electric charge keeps them away from each other so they can
move conveniently and smoothly through blood vessels?

Over acidity inside the body snatches away the charge of your blood cells and
they are no longer apart.
I would HIGHLY recommend that you see that "live". Here is a fascinating live
blood video from Dr Vega and his research on Goji juice:
Acidic Blood vs Alkaline Blood

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Red blood cells are clamped together, hindering each other’s ability to move
smoothly. They collide here and there while moving through blood vessels, and
the hindrance increases in the capillaries.

A smooth flow of blood cells guarantees delivery of life-giving oxygen, energy

and nutrients to all cells of the body. An obstructed flow of red blood cells
causes poor blood circulation, and hence, poor delivery of oxygen and nutrients.

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analysis, follow the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo9cWq78gq8

How did I get out of balance in the first place?

Which things disturb the acid-alkaline balance?

The following factors make your body acidic and reduce alkaline reserves within
it. They cause a somatic disorder at the cellular level. These disorders cause the
cells to start to break down, and then your body faces imbalances.

 Emotions including negative emotions, thoughts, words, actions

 Alcohol, vinegar, coffee, smoking
 Animal protein, cooked oils
 Sugar, processed foods, refined carbohydrates
 Stress, lack of sleep
 Lack of regular exercise, shallow breathing
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  Chemicals, pollution, radiations

If you are having any one of these, reduce it, eliminate it or neutralize it with
more alkaline intake. Exercise regularly, be optimistic, sleep properly, drink and
eat healthy foods!

How you can control internal balances

Controlling internal balance means getting it back to normal. Your internal terrain
has an ideal balance of pH value ranging from 7.365 to 7.45.

Feed your cells with the good; eliminate the bad from them

What feeds your cells and cleanse them too?

It is your blood!

Dr. Alexis Carrel is a Nobel award winner. He experimented with a chicken heart
and kept it alive for 34 years in a regularly cleaned, nutrient-rich environment.
Dr. Carrel put an end to the experiment himself when the heart was still alive.110-
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The experiment proved that cells can live healthy forever provided they are
fed with proper nutrients and a good supply of oxygen, and provided their
wastes are constantly and efficiently removed.

“The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats

which degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals; give the

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 cell something upon which to feed and, so far as we know,
the pulsation of life may go on forever.”112- Dr. Carrel

In simpler words, compare your body with a fish tank containing many fish. The
whole tank is your body, the fish are your cells, and the water in which the fish
swim is your blood. In order to keep the fish healthy and alive, the water should
be clean; and the fish should be fed regularly with food and oxygen. Otherwise,
they would die just like your cells.

Therefore, recalling the accurate germ theory, your internal terrain is

everything.

Give your body an opportunity to inhale fresh air and correct levels of oxygen,
eliminate waste efficiently and take in proper nutrients.

What keeps your terrain healthy?

ALKALINITY is the answer.

We live because our cells are healthy; we die because they die; we suffer
because they are suffering.

Our bodies are designed with slightly alkaline pH. Therefore, for its health, it
should be kept the way it has been designed. This is the only way to healthiness
and prolonged existence.

Dr. Robert O. Young is an eminent researcher and scientist who is a pH expert

and whose works are the key for life and energy. He is a microbiologist and has

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been studying and experimenting on pH for more than 30 years. His famous
book series “pH Miracle” is worth reading, and I recommend that you read it to
have a better understanding of your health.

What is alkalinity?
Instead of giving you some scientifically established high tech definition of
alkalinity, I would rather put it in simpler, more understandable words. Alkalinity
is a science of harmonizing and balancing the over-acidity of the body, which is
the only cause of all diseases.

The present germ theory, Louis Pasteur has put forward, claims that germs that
attack us from outside make us diseased. However, Dr. Young has found from
his research of 20 years that in a healthy alkaline internal environment of the
body, the germs cannot take hold and stay.113

A Simple pH Test

You can very easily check the pH of your body. The only things you will need are
pH paper and your first morning urine.

pH test paper is also known as Hydrion paper. When this paper is exposed to an
acid or base, it changes color. The paper comes along with a color chart with
which you can find the pH value by comparing the colors.

To test your urine, you will need a pH paper that can detect the values from 6.5
to 7.5 pH.

Why I recommend using first morning urine to test

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There are several pH tests. Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, founder of ELISA/ACT
Biotechnologies and the author of The Joy of Food: The Alkaline Way Guide
developed the one that utilizes first morning urine.

Russell and his colleagues have used the test for over 20 years. Moreover,
University of Saskatchewan has verified its validity. The reason why Russell
chose first morning urine was its accuracy. During the rest of the day, urine
shows variations hour to hour.

pH readings – a quick look

As said earlier, the best time for a urine pH test is the first time in the morning
when you get up after a sound six hours’ sleep. Make sure you do the same test
in same way for several days in continuity to get an accurate result.

Once you are satisfied that your pH reading is accurate, the following table can
help you to infer your result.

TABLE INFERRING YOUR pH READING

Your pH What It Means
Reading
Under 6.5 You probably have an acid solution.
6.5 – 7.5 You probably have an ideal acid-base balance.
Consistently 7.6 Although this can be an indication of alkalosis, it is more
or higher likely that this reading represents a “false alkalinity”. And that
you have an acid condition.

Important to note: If you cannot sleep for at least 6 hours without urinating, this test will
not show you accurate results. You can, alternatively, test your saliva.

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Saliva pH test

For a saliva test, the same pH paper is used. Again, you should do the test first
time in the morning when you get up. Do not eat/drink prior to test. Don’t even
brush your teeth. You can, however, rinse your mouth with fresh water.

When you feel you have gathered enough saliva for the test, insert the pH paper
in it. Place the paper on a tissue, and note the result within ten seconds.
Compare it with the color chart.

Note: Normally saliva pH is slightly higher than urine pH. However the ideal pH range for
both is the same, i.e. from 6.5 to 7.5.

Having a look at the pH test, you can see there is no harm in having this test
done. Therefore, I would strongly recommend giving the pH test a try to see how
your body is doing. Buy pH strips and do the tests. Know your body and heal it.

Clean first

If, according to the pH test, you are found to have an acid terrain building inside
you, the first step is to cleanse your body from the burden of wastes and toxins.
It is not cleaning your body from germs; they will “spare” you once you have an
ideal internal terrain – a perfect acid-base balance with no toxins.

Give yourself and your body a healthy start by going for a 7-10 days’
cleansing process.

I will provide you the complete details of cleansing in the “cleansing” chapter;
however, here is a brief understanding of what it involves.

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During the whole process of cleansing, make sure your body gets the right
nutrients. You can get those “cleansing nutrients” from vegetable juices, green
soups, water with lemon, essential oils, and many green drinks throughout
the day.

These juices and drinks will cleanse your body by alkalizing it and neutralizing
the acidity. Moreover, they will minimize your desire for sugar, coffee, meat and
dairy products.

You can go out and buy any of the green drinks you think would be suitable for
your body. However, what I recommend is to consume green drinks called
SuperGreens, formulated by Robert O. Young. His book Sick and Tired
documents the positive changes in people who tried his formulated
SuperGreens.

For your information: I am not a salesperson of any products mentioned in this book. I
recommend them based on my own or on others’ experiences.

The benefits it yields include the nutrients of 49 different vegetables, grasses

and herbs, an increase in energy, detoxification, a decrease in appetite, and
strengthening of the immune system. During the cleansing process, it should be
taken as one teaspoon for each liter of water every day114, and you should
drink at least 3 liters of water each day.

Recommendation: For the best results, use SuperGreens with 10-16 drops of Prime pH
for every liter of water. It will help the blood to get more oxygen from the water easily and
increase the alkalizing effects of SuperGreens.115

The food you eat

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Your digestive system metabolizes the food you eat. The metabolism is a
complex process - it is beyond the scope of this book, but it’s really not
necessary to know the entire process. All you need to know is that every food
you eat has either an alkalizing or an acidic effect.

Potassium citrate is a substance present in different fruits and vegetables that,

when digested, is transformed to potassium bicarbonate which is alkaline in
nature. On the other hand, high protein foods like red meat, white meat, and
certain grains and beans have sulfur-containing amino acids. These turn to
sulfuric acid upon metabolism.

Your ideal diet should contain both alkalizing and acidic foods, with the
acidic portions in lower levels.

Why should a combination of both be included? It is to prevent alkalosis within

the body that can be bad too.

Unfortunately, in America, the dietary habits are not ideal. Americans eat an
acidic diet more often than an alkaline diet. The result is an acidic body. Most
Americans are therefore suffering from chronic low-grade acidosis, which
causes major health setbacks throughout the U.S.

It is important to note the end product of the food you are consuming – that is,
what is being metabolized. For example, limes and lemons appear acidic to us
but their effect is highly alkalizing. Similarly, chicken seems not to have any
acidic effects on the body, but it certainly has some, though not much.

Get to know how you’re ending up: is what you’re eating increasing the
alkaline reserves of your body to neutralize the acids, or is it decreasing
them?

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1. The food table

Since long ago, scientists and researchers have been trying to figure out
the acid and alkaline effects of food on our bodies. Different foods and
their effects are noted in a table you can see in the appendix.

The table contains a list of common foods, beverages, seasonings and

additives, and a list of combinations of foods you eat like pizza, macaroni
and cheese. It is a comprehensive table that will definitely help you to
determine which food is right for you.

The fast food table includes food items that are most likely to be ordered
at a fast food restaurant such as hot dogs, hamburgers, tacos, French
fries and more.

As I said earlier, the table is comprehensive; it will also give you a picture
of how acidic or alkaline a food item is. For instance, tuna is “medium
acid-forming”; on the other hand, lobster is “high acid-forming”.

This information will help you to decide the best food from categories. For
example, you can have the best seafood from the category “fish and
seafood” by looking over all of its sub-items and their values.

Though the effects of food can differ among individuals depending on

several factors, the table depicts the effects for the vast majority of people.

The exact influence of food hinges-on inborn genomic characters

and unique biochemistry of individuals, diet quality, farming
methods and production, food preparation, and existing food
allergies.

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This food table will help you a lot; still I would recommend judging the
effects of food by the results in your body.

Going by the results

The judgment is quite simple. Pay attention to every food you eat. See if
the food affects you as it affects most people. For example, an alkaline
food item, showing very good and healthy results in others, may cause an
allergic reaction for you. In such a case, you should avoid that food item,
no matter what others say about it.

Another way to judge the effects of food is to test your urine pH first
thing in the morning (refer to the pH test already mentioned). Your urine
will show the pH value of how foods you had the previous day have
affected you. If your pH is more acidic, start consuming more foods that
are alkaline. If it is more alkaline, start eating acid-producing foods. If it
falls within the ideal range, you are on track!

Recommendation: If your urine is slightly acidic, take 35% of your daily food from
acidifying groups. If it is very acidic, take 20% of your daily food from acidifying groups.

Choose the right quantities of food. You should pay attention to the
right amounts of acid-producing and alkaline-producing foods. If you are
having a steak (acidifying) and you think sprinkling paprika (alkalinizing)
over it would balance it out, you are wrong. Consume the right amount of
alkaline food, such as four times green salad, to balance out the acidic
effects of steak!

The food table is the endeavor of researchers, analysts, and scientists for
over a decade. Using this table, you can make informed decisions about
your diet. It will help you to detoxify first, and then maintain a healthy
internal terrain with a good acid-alkaline balance. Carefully following the
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 guidelines presented in this book, along with this food table, will give you
better health and increased energy, while preventing an array of common
health problems.

2. Water’s pH

The pH value of pure water is exactly 7.0, i.e. neither acidic nor alkaline.
Water is a neutral compound. However, the water we drink is not pure. It
DOES contain impurities that alter its pH value, usually making it a little
more acidic. That is why you cannot see water as a neutral item in the
food table.

A small acidic addition in pure water changes its pH value. However, the
impact it has on your body is not significant.

Besides its pH, other factors add to water’s acid-alkaline balance. Some of
the important and prominent factors are mentioned below.

 The mineral concentration

The mineral concentration of water is an important factor in determining its
pH. You can calculate it by measuring the amount of “dissolved solids” in
the water.

European mineral water contains more than 1500 mg of dissolved solids

per liter. However, tap water contains approximately 50 mg of those solids.
These dissolved solids are mostly alkalizing minerals (calcium,
magnesium etc.) or their bicarbonates (though sometimes, acidifying
agents like chloride are also present).

These minerals and their bicarbonates are healthily additions to the body.

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 Chloride content
Another important factor in determining water’s pH is its chloride content.
Chloride has acidifying effects inside the body; hence, it should be avoided
as much as possible.

The amount of calcium and magnesium (together with other alkalizing

minerals) does not matter as much as the chloride content. For instance,
calcium chloride or magnesium chloride is as harmful as calcium and
magnesium are healthy for your body.

Drinking water with non-chloride forms of minerals is healthy, while

chloride content should be largely avoided.

 Bicarbonate content
Bicarbonate is an ion in which a metal such as sodium replaces one
hydrogen atom. The important thing is that bicarbonates are alkalizing
elements. Their presence in the blood indicates the presence of alkaline
reserves within your body.

Chronic acidosis results in bone loss. Bicarbonate rich water, especially

when it contains magnesium and calcium, reduces the risk of bone loss.
Moreover, your body more easily absorbs the alkalizing minerals and
bicarbonates present in mineral water than the ones present in food.

However, the minerals and bicarbonate may vary in different forms of

mineral waters depending upon their origin.

It is important to know the quality of the water you are drinking every day.
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If you are consuming tap water, ask your municipal authority for the
mineral and bicarbonate content, as its pH will not show what is
in it. If it contains chlorine, it is surely acid-forming water. If you are
consuming bottled mineral water, keep in mind what was mentioned in the
previous “Quality of water” topic, and know what it contains. However, I
would recommend installing a water filtration system that is suitable for
you and your family. Your health is in your hands!

3. Coffee’s pH
Every one of us is quite familiar with the word “coffee.” In the United
States and in other parts of the world too, coffee is the most commonly
consumed “first thing in the morning” beverage, and later in the day as
well. Many of us are well informed about its acidifying effects. However,
we are so addicted to it; we cannot resist it.

Dr. Robert Anderson, MD, is a founding president of the American

Board of Holistic Medicine. He discovered that 50% of American
adults are addicted to caffeine, which is found in coffee,
chocolates, cocoa, and in many commercial teas.

Coffee’s acidifying effects are due to the presence of certain acidifying

organic acids and caffeine. That means caffeine alone is not responsible
for the acidifying effects. Even decaffeinated coffees will be acid forming.

While discussing the “bad substitutes of water,” we also saw the diuretic
nature of coffee as well. Besides being acidic, it eliminates a great deal of
water and alkalizing minerals from your body, resulting in dehydration.

If you are a regular coffee drinker, you are HEALTHY, and you do not need
a cure for Lupus disease, I am not stopping you from having it. However,
make necessary additions to your diet. Include alkalizing food more in
your diet and drink plenty of mineralized or filtered water. The best option
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 is to combine them both by adding a few drops of lemon or lime in pure
filtered/mineral water, as lemon/lime has highly alkalizing effects. This will
also reduce your temptation towards coffee and you will feel more
energetic.

4. pH of coke and other carbonated soft drinks

Carbonated soft drinks like coke are highly acidifying beverages. The
consumption of such drinks is even greater than coffee and teas.

According to researcher Sang Whang, author of the book Reverse Aging,

a person consuming a glass of soda needs 32 glasses of highly alkaline
water (not just alkaline, but highly alkaline) to neutralize the acidic
effects of that one glass of soda.
Ignoring this fact, feasting on carbonated soft drinks has increased
tremendously over the last few years. According to a survey, an average
American consumes 2 cans of soda every day.

What are the factors making these colas and cokes so hazardous for our
health?

We’ve already discussed the drawbacks of caffeine related to health.

Carbonated drinks also contain caffeine. Besides that, they contain
phosphoric acid, which also has acidifying properties.

Regular, i.e. non-diet, sodas contain corn syrup and sugar in large
amounts. You can see in the food tables that both of these items are
highly acidifying.

To make them even worse, artificial sweeteners present in the carbonated

drinks, such as aspartame and saccharin, also shifts the body’s pH
towards the acid side.

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 I did not cross any lines while discussing the acidic effects of coffee, as
those can be neutralized with a little effort. However, I would strongly
suggest that you stop drinking carbonated drinks at once. They are the
hardest to neutralize. So, why get yourself in trouble when there is no
good in it, but just a tang on your tongue?

If it is difficult for your tongue to get rid of its tastes, and you don’t have
any Lupus disease that you need a cure for, you can use soda substitutes
like club soda, unflavored seltzer water or “health food” sodas without
phosphoric acid and sweeteners. However, these alternate sodas should
also be consumed rarely.

5. drugs and pH
While drugs are being manufactured to help fight several diseases and
conditions, at the same time they are destroying your health too. One of
the side effects drugs carry with them is their acidity.

Whether the drug is a prescription drug or over-the-counter, it DOES have

an acidifying effect on the body, especially when taken in higher doses or
over a longer time span.

 Antibiotics that are used to treat bacterial infections are acidic.

 Antihistamines, for fighting inflammation and allergies, have acidifying
effects.
 Psychotropic drugs, treating mental health problems, shift the body’s pH
towards acidic.
 Antiseptic drugs, used to combat urinary tract infections and other
infections, also have acidifying effects.
 Aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), when
consumed in higher doses or for longer periods, are also acidic.

Most of the medications are acidic; however, some diuretics (for reducing
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excessive fluid retention in the body) and heartburn drugs are so alkaline
in nature that they sometimes can create “over-alkalinity” in the body.

Some drugs can give you deceitful indications of body’s pH when tested
through urine. For example, some cold and cough medicines have
ammonium chloride that marks urine acidic. On the contrary, the glaucoma
medicine acetazolamide may possibly make urine alkaline. Some
medicines are not active in such imbalanced acid-alkaline state of urine.
For instance, streptomycin, neomycin, kanamycin and some other
antiseptic drugs are effective when urine is a touch alkaline. If it is acidic,
these drugs are not as effective.

ALKALOSIS – OVER ALKALINITY

Drugs are the major cause of alkalosis (over alkalinity) of the body. Diet
plays an insignificant role in alkalosis, so I will not be discussing it.
Besides drugs, certain health conditions and environmental factors are
also responsible for over-alkalifying our bodies.

Though not as common as acidosis, alkalosis can also create some

serious and grave health problems.

Alkalosis from drugs

Antacids are most often responsible for alkalosis. They are used to treat
heartburns, which is another side effect of the modern American regular
diet. Long-term usage greatly disturbs the acid-alkaline balance of the
body. As a result, the amount of HCl (Hydrochloric acid), used to
metabolize food, is reduced.

Heartburn occurs when gastric juices make their way up to the esophagus.
Antacids like Rolaids and Tums are being used extensively, though they

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contain strong alkaline elements to neutralize HCl, thereby reducing its
amount, weakening the digestion, and making it difficult to absorb
nutrients like vitamin B12, folic acid and some minerals.

If you are a regular antacid consumer, do you know that its regular use
actually worsens the scenario?

It was believed that heartburn happens because of the over production of

HCl and other gastric juices. However, some well-established and
acknowledged medical journals like Lancet reveals that heartburn is
actually caused by the reduced production of HCl that results in poor
digestion of protein. Fermenting protein lumps inside the stomach causes
heartburn and other digestive problems.

Similarly, medicines treating gastrointestinal ulcers and diuretics increase

the elimination of fluids from the body, thereby disturbing the pH levels and
moving them to higher-than-normal values.

Alkalosis from certain health conditions

Health conditions like chronic diarrhea and vomiting reduce the levels of
HCl and other acids in the body. Hence the alkalinity rises, resulting in
alkalosis.

A rare genetic inclination can also disturb pH levels by changing them to

above-the-line alkalinity. Overactivity of adrenal glands and anorexia
nervosa (a psychophysiological eating disorder occurring due to self-
starvation and self-induced vomiting) also create alkalosis in our bodies.

Alkalosis from certain environmental factors

People living at high altitudes may also suffer from alkalosis, as the
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NUTRITION OR FOOD: The scientifically proven method of

eating to cure Lupus disease and prevent new ones

The Building Blocks of Your Body

What feeds us and what provides us with energy?

It is the food we consume in the form of protein, fat and carbohydrates. These
macronutrients provide us with calories, and make up almost all of our body
weight (except the weight of water). Vitamins and minerals are what we call
micronutrients. Our bodies, in very small amounts that you can measure in
milligrams and micrograms, need these micronutrients.

I have been discussing one of the macronutrients extensively. Yes, it is protein.

It is the most imperative of all nutrients as it is the dominant and crucial part of
our bodies, and it comes in all varieties.

Do you remember the enzymes we were talking about earlier? What are they
and how are they formed? Why are enzymes “super-workers” and what nutrient
is essentially behind them?

Enzymes are actually proteins. Protein builds enzymes that rebuild us.

Proteins work as enzymes. Your hormones, structural tissues and transport

molecules that all greatly contribute towards your life are actually based on
proteins.

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How proteins are made

Amino acids and their long chains make up different protein types. There are
different kinds of amino acids that combine in hundreds and thousands to make
protein chains.

Proteins exhaust themselves on a regular basis. If not replaced, the major life-
assuring functions of your body would stop. The food you eat can replace them
if it contains protein. The digestive system digests protein and metabolizes it to
different and new amino acids that are the building blocks of new proteins inside
your body. Different food groups contain different qualities of protein. The quality
is judged by how well the food group provides the necessary amino acids to
build new body proteins.

Constructing new proteins similar to those we lost depends on what types of

amino acids we are obtaining from our protein-rich food. If the food contains all
the amino acids in the right amounts for building new proteins to take the place
of older ones, the process of reconstruction is faster. If not, our bodies
experience delays in making the required proteins.

It is a bit complicated in terms of amino acids and proteins, so let me just state it
in a more practical way for you.

Suppose you had some strings (consider them proteins) of multicolored beads
that you have lost (think of them as different kinds of amino acids). Someone
gives you another set of multicolored beads to replace the ones you have lost.
Now, the order of colored beads in the new strings is not the same as the order
of beads in older strings. You need to detach all the beads and put them in the
right order of colors.

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What happens if you are short of red beads?

You will have to wait for more red beads to get the same strings you lost.
‘Waiting’ slows down the construction process. You cannot get your strings back
until you get the right colored beads in the right numbers.

The amino acids that are needed by the food we eat are the essential amino
acids, as our bodies cannot produce them. There are eight essential amino
acids. If our food lacks any one of them, it affects protein synthesis in our
bodies. That is why different food groups have been assigned different values
and “quality” levels depending upon how well they provide us with amino acids.

The better the food quality in terms of protein, the more likely we are to get
essential amino acids in right amounts.

The China Study

“The China Study is the account of a ground-breaking

research study that provides the answers long sought by
physicians, scientists and health-conscious readers.”116–
Neal Barnard, MD, President Physician’s Committee for
Responsible Medicine

The China Study is a 2005 book by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. The study that was
called the China-Cornell-Oxford Project was conducted under the supervision of
T. Colin Campbell in China (as it has a genetically similar population) and is
described in the book called The China Study. The China-Oxford-Cornell Dietary
and Health research project was a 20-year partnership between Cornell

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Campbell
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University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

The New York Times has regarded it as the “Grand Prix of Epidemiology” and
the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship
between diet and the risk of developing disease.”

The China Study is based on diverse research expanded over years that unveils
the most surprising facts about nutritional values. It provides answers to all the
questions being asked about nutrition and diseases by doctors, physicians and
the public.

1. What is the China Study?

To understand the research fully, you need to know what it was all about.

According to Dr. Campbell, the U.S. Agency for International Development

funded a ten-year project in the Philippines to improve its childhood
malnutrition problem.

“Eventually, we established about 110 nutrition ‘self-help’ education

centers around the country,” added Dr. Campbell in his book “The China
Study.”

It was thought that childhood malnutrition was caused by the lack of

protein in their diet, especially from animal-based food.

“In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the
highest-protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer! They
were the children of the wealthiest families,” Dr. Campbell wrote.

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He mentioned one of the research studies from India on two groups of
rats. One group was given a diet containing cancer-causing aflatoxin
along with 20% protein. The second group of rats was also given the same
amount of aflatoxin but with 5% proteins. Every rat of first group showed
an indication of liver cancer; on the contrary, not a single rat in the second
group had it.

“It was a 100 to 0 score, leaving no doubt that nutrition trumped chemical
carcinogens, even very potent carcinogens, in controlling cancer.

This information countered everything I had been taught. It was heretical

to say that protein wasn’t healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer. It was
a defining moment in my career. Investigating such a provocative question
so early in my career was not a very wise choice. Questioning protein and
animal-based foods in general ran the risk of my being labeled a heretic,
even if it passed the test of ‘good science’.”

Dr. Campbell along with his colleagues started in-depth research studies
and laboratory programs. They started with the basic understanding of
cancer and the role of protein in promoting it. “Eventually, this research
became handsomely funded for twenty-seven years by the best-reviewed
and most competitive funding sources (mostly the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), the American Cancer Society and the American Institute for
Cancer Research). Then our results were reviewed (a second time) for
publication in many of the best scientific journals.”

Campbell’s team got funds for the study as they were researching for the
treatment of cancer. Otherwise, if it was a study “against animal-based
food,” they would not have gotten the funds. The reason? You know it!

They were actually looking for a cancer treatment, and they ended up with
facts about nutrition and diseases, and their relationship.

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 The results were the same as those of the research report from India.
Additionally, Dr. Campbell found that once the cancer is initiated, low-
protein diets also block its subsequent growth.

“In fact, dietary protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that we could
turn on and off cancer growth …“ (like a light switch) “… simply by
changing the level consumed.”

In their research and studies, they used ordinary levels of protein in the
diet that a normal person consumes every day. They also found that
feeding the animals the same levels of plant-based protein (gluten and
soy) did not at all promote cancer initiation or growth.117

The proteins that Dr. Campbell concluded are safe in preventing cancer
come from plants, including wheat and soy. Casein, which makes up 87%
of cow’s milk protein, promotes all stages of cancer growth and is harmful.

He did not stop there but moved on with his studies and findings, and
established the most comprehensive study linking diet, lifestyle and
disease, which we now know as “The China Study.”

“… this project eventually produced more than 8,000 statistically

significant associations between various dietary factors and disease!”

The study concluded that people eating mostly animal-based foods are
prone to chronic disease; even a small quantity of them has adverse
effects. Conversely, people eating mostly plant-based foods are the
healthiest and are less likely to develop chronic diseases.

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The research team considered findings and research of other individuals
outside China and saw that results were excitingly similar.

These other studies found that a healthy diet reverses heart disease,
diabetes, and obesity. Moreover, the diet also has an impact on various
cancers, autoimmune diseases, bone health, kidney health, vision, and
brain disorders in old age (like cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer’s).

These findings were consistent with Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s laboratory

research findings and the results of the China Study.

I recommend that you buy Dr. Campbell’s book “The China Study” and
read it thoroughly to get detailed and astonishing information on the actual
detailed, fascinating diet and disease studies.

Here is a 40 minute video of Dr. Campbell speaking about

meat and dairy products and their relationship with cancer
and other diseases.

http://www.vegsource.com/video/colin.wmv.htm
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2. What does the China Study scientifically prove?

The China Study proves some main things:

a. DNA, to function properly, depends on the terrain they live in:

The genes in the DNA of every cell start all the body processes, but
they do not do whatever they want. They are almost entirely
dependent on the environment they live in – the terrain.

b. Prevent cancer and other diseases with vegetable-based

proteins: Even if you already have developed cancer, eating
vegetarian based proteins (and no more than 5% animal-based
proteins) will shut it down! So preventing it and other diseases is
simply a scientifically proven fact.

c. Cancer and many other diseases connect to animal proteins:

Further research results, particularly those of the China Study, have
shown the presence of a significant link between animal protein, in
general, and many different diseases - not just cancer alone.

d. The study involved the genetically homogeneous population of

China: The actual study in rats was done using milk protein (casein,
which is 87% of the milk proteins). The link to all the rest of the
animal-based proteins was made in the big study that was
conducted on actual people in China.

e. The Conclusion: The conclusion of the study was that you should
avoid consuming animals and their proteins as much as you can.
Where proteins are an essential nutrient for your body (to build
enzymes that rebuild your body), animal proteins can give you a lot

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 of trouble with different and serious diseases. This is a scientifically
proven fact, and it gives you a high level of protection from the
perils of getting different ailments. Therefore, in order to stay
healthy, follow scientifically proven dietary guidelines. Avoid
animal proteins; concentrate on plant proteins.

Here is another very interesting video of T. Colin Campbell, PhD, answering audience
questions.
After his eloquent presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo in 2006, Dr. Campbell took questions
from the audience.

http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/campbell_qa_expo.htm

Bad Foods to Avoid

1. Live vs. Processed foods
a) The food you should eat

One out of every two people is dying unnaturally, i.e. before their
time, and one can avoid it by simply eating differently.

The National Academy of Sciences predicts that one in two people will

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 die of heart disease and one in three of cancer. Moreover, NAS
stresses that these diseases are preventable through diet and lifestyle
changes.

A recent research, presented by Demian Dressier, DVM, at the 2010

Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo in
Chicago, Illinois, reveals that one out of three cancer deaths in humans
and in dogs as well can be prevented by simple, natural diet changes.

“Suboptimal folic acid levels, along with suboptimal levels

of vitamins B6 and B12, are a risk factor for cardiovascular
disease, neural tube defects, and colon and breast cancer;
low levels of vitamin D contribute to osteopenia and
fractures; and low levels of the antioxidant vitamins
(vitamins A, E, and C) may increase risk for several chronic
diseases.”118 - Robert H. Fletcher, MD, MSc and Kathleen M.
Fairfield, MD, DrPH, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School

The American Medical Association (AMA) has circulated that 85% of all
major diseases that include diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer,
high blood pressure, autoimmune diseases, obesity, etc. relate to
dietary habits.

Recall our discussion over the influence of moneymaking industries

such as meat, fast food, sugar, etc. on academics and trial tests.
Moreover, the research being carried out at Harvard Medical School
has been heavily funded by them and by the drug industry.

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A milestone article published June 19, 2008, The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA),
directly related to the American Medical Association (AMA).
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 Big names in moneymaking influence research

The American Meat Institute, Coca Cola, Hershey Foods, McDonald’s,

General Foods, Nutrasweet, Nabisco, Borden, Sugar Research
Foundation, and many pharmaceutical companies are just a few of the
names.

Not only this, this huge moneymaking industry that includes both food
companies and drug manufacturers is also controlling the health
guidelines. They influence the regulatory authorities to alter the
guidelines to what favors their products.

“Your choice of diet can influence your long-term health

prospects more than any other action you might take.”119120–
C. Everett Koop, Former Surgeon General

A common prevailing myth is that no matter what we eat or drink -

processed, denatured, devitalized, or any chemical-filled food - we are
safe as long as we take vitamins, minerals, antacids and allergy
medicines along with other drugs.

What is this?

This makes absolutely no sense.

We can only remain healthy and safe from diseases when we provide
our bodies with the natural food and natural lifestyle for which our

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Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,968077-1,00.html
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Racquel Martin, Karen J. Romano, R.N., D.C. - “Preventing and reversing arthritis naturally: the untold story”
– p. 58
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bodies are tuned.

I have already said it several times and, by saying it once again, I

emphasize that this is the soul of our lives. That is why I keep on
stressing it. The only way for us to keep our bodies alive, and by that I
mean “healthily alive,” is to provide them with pure water, fresh air,
natural plant-based food, proper rest, proper sleep, regular exercise,
adequate sunlight, some recreational activity, affection and self-
mastery.

Let’s take an example of one of the most frequent afflictions, the

common cold. There is no exact cure for the common cold. Our
immune system has to be strong enough to combat it. It is our only
force, whose ammunition is proper nutrition. How can a force fight
without ammunition?

Your immune system is excessively stronger than any medicine.

The food you eat causes your immune system to be at either its best or
its worst. Diseases and ailments thrive in an environment that has been
malnourished for many years.

According to an estimate, almost 90% of Americans are malnourished

due to the consumption of a diet with poor nutrition. Our stomachs are
full and satisfied, but not our bodies. Our bodies are starving
nutritionally.

Why is the number of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Lupus

patients increasing?

You have the answer now. It is because the quality of our diet is
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 decreasing.

What is the best quality diet for us?

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of

survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a
vegetarian diet."

— Albert Einstein

In order to stay alive, we should eat LIVE foods. Now what is a live
diet? It means the food should be rich in vitality and naturally occurring
enzymes. These enzymes die when food is cooked over 104oF or 40oC.

Live foods include uncooked, organic vegetables and fruits, raw nuts,
seeds, grasses, sprouted grains and seeds (alfalfa, flax, sesame,
sunflower etc.).

An ideal diet is comprised of 70-80 percent live food that is

bursting with nutrients and a large percentage of water rich food.

You know our bodies are 70% water, so water should be a compulsory
major part of our diet.

Seeds are alive but inactive. When you soak and germinate them, they
become active again, giving you the highest amount of energy. Seeds
after germination are the best source of chlorophyll and proteins, and
you very well know the role of proteins in our bodies.

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 "If we as a society switched to a vegetarian diet,
atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, which accounts for
most heart disease, would vanish."—William Roberts, M.D.,
Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Cardiology

What does “live” food offer to us?

Live foods have bundles and bundles of minerals, vitamins, live

enzymes and phytonutrients that speed up our immune systems, give
us more energy, and cleanse the body, thus preventing and curing
almost every disease. Live enzymes guarantee ideal digestion and
growth, and help the body to run more efficiently.

Phytonutrients are natural plant medicines. They are chemical

composites, such as beta-carotene, that occur naturally in vegetation.
The word is commonly used to denote chemicals that can possibly
have positive impacts on health.

Why should you avoid cooked and processed foods?

“The source of most health problems is what we eat.

Whoever started cooking food 40,000 years ago did not
realize that we are not designed to eat cooked food. We're
designed like other species to eat food in the raw form."121

— Ed Douglas, director of the American Living Foods Institute

We have been nurturing our bodies with cooked and processed foods

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since our infancies. When we cook food, all its living tissues containing
nutrients and enzymes are killed, producing toxicity. This happens due
to the chemical changes the food undergoes while being cooked.

Eat 75% of your diet as raw, whole, live, uncooked food.

Vegetable juices contain easily absorbed vitamins, minerals,

antioxidants, water and chlorophyll.

Uncooked and unprocessed food helps your body eliminate toxins as

fast as you eat it because enzymes in it improve metabolism. Cooked
food is toxic and builds up toxins in your body creating the dis-ease of
diseases. It is because it forces your body to leach its own enzymes,
hormones, vitamins and minerals for digestion and after that, makes
your body weak, full of toxins, and diseased.

Vegetable juices have the power to heal a toxic body. Their live
enzymes reach your cells in just 15 minutes. Therefore, to start
cleansing your body right away, start drinking fresh vegetable
juices (that include almost all vegetables, also bean sprouts) and
eat fresh vegetables two or three times a day.

Some of the most nutritious and antioxidant containing foods are dark
green vegetables, black raspberries, blueberries, strawberries,
almonds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, avocados, sea
vegetables, broccoli sprouts, chlorella, and cereal grasses such as
wheatgrass and barley grass.

Make a habit and routine to consume a few of them daily and you will
feel fit and healthy, full of life, and free of toxin, saving your body from
cancer, heart disease, and many other serious diseases.

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 If you are worried about the “taste” of the uncooked foods, you should
stop worrying now, as you can find several “uncooked food” recipe
books in the market and on the web as well.

b) Meet the people behind the processed foods

We have been discussing how the drug industry operates and makes
money. There is another industry, you would have guessed by now,
which we know by the name of the “food industry”. It is a trillion dollar
influential industry that makes us eat more and more, giving them huge
profits.

It is important to understand how big minds are controlling our diets.

You must have heard of two big packaged food companies, General
Foods and Procter & Gamble. These are just two examples of many
more just like them. Such big food companies hire the best people who
can survey and study the attitude, behavior, mindset and demographics
of their customers.

Once they learn this, they target their existing customers by following a
formula to increase their sales. The formula they work on is “it is easier
to sell more products to an existing customer than to sell that same
product to a new customer.”

Another interesting law is the “potato chip marketing equation”.

According to this law, for most of the processed foods (like Hostess
Twinkies, Oreo cookies, and McDonald’s Happy Meals122) 90% of sales
are made to less than 10% of their customers and that 10% includes
people who weigh more than 200 pounds and earn less than $35,000
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Hostess Twinkies, Oreo, and McDonald’s Happy Meals are registered trademarks of Interstate Bakeries
Corporation, Nabisco, Inc., and McDonald’s Corporation, respectively.
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annually.

Why are overweight customers their target?

The rule is simple. An overweight person eats twice the amount per
serving as a normal weight person does.

You know 10% is not a large number. Studying the likes, dislikes,
behaviors, attitudes, hopes, dreams, and desires (by asking for
opinions on new products and advertising) is the job of the surveying
and psychoanalysis team. Each company observes its 10 percent and
plans its strategy accordingly.

The extent to which the advertising goes

Once the companies know the weaknesses, sensitivities and

psychologies of their customers, they do not pass up even a single way
to attack them.

You must have seen different celebrities appearing in the media,

advertising different products. Companies hire them as their brand
ambassadors. If the 10% target customer likes a particular actor or a
singer, that particular actor/singer is soon included to praise the product
in the media.

Do all those big chairs behind the process not have any conscience?

Everybody has a conscience and so do the $200,000-per-year

marketing executives. That is why they do not attend their focus groups
to face their customers. Instead, they prefer reviewing the opinions

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 alone in their offices.

Guess what conversations they could be having at home with their

families while having a “healthy” dinner. It might sound something like
this.

“I saw some 200-pounds or heavier women coming to

take part in the activity today. If we can make them gain
10 pounds or more by consuming our french fries by the
end of June, we will have tremendous sales. And for this,
my boss has promised me a bonus that I am looking
forward to.”

Moreover, these companies have some “hidden” products too. These

hidden products are emotional and medical challenges like temper,
depression, cancer, etc. They are selling them free with their pizzas and
cookies to their customers.

c) Foods that create addictions

Once the companies get hold of their target customers, the companies’
chemists make them believe they will never be satisfied by eating only
a healthy amount.

Have you ever felt “just one more” for fries, colas, chocolates, etc. and
“that’s enough” for an apple or banana?

Whenever you eat something natural, healthy and uncooked, you feel
fuller earlier. You do not crave for more. Your taste buds are “satisfied”
with a smaller amount. However, when you eat McDonald’s french fries,
you ask for more and more. Your taste buds are never “satisfied.”
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Why does it happen?

It happens because the chemical flavorings of these cooked and

processed foods are altered, resulting in overconsumption that causes
obesity and spoilage of the taste buds.

Our bodies ask for 13 essential vitamins every day.

Out of these 13 vitamins, most of them can be obtained by eating fresh

fruits and vegetables. Our bodies do not manufacture them. These
vitamins, along with some minerals, support millions of chemical
reactions in our body.

Unfortunately, specifically in America, people are consuming fast foods.

Most people are not getting the least of these essential vitamins and
minerals necessary to sustain life.

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies cause mood swings, laziness,

joint pain, failing eyesight, hearing loss, and many other
conditions over the short term, which our medical science says
are related to aging. In the long term, this deficiency results in
major life-threatening ailments like cancer and heart disease.

Another fact worth noting is how companies increase their

consumption.

I will give you an example of tobacco companies. They acquire lifelong

customers by making the children of their existing customers addicted
to processed tobacco.

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 Recently, legislation has asked Big Tobacco to restrain from such
activities of promotion and marketing; but how can they see their
endeavors go to waste? Therefore, they are acquiring children’s
processed food products.

Philip Morris is among the world’s largest tobacco companies. It owns

some of the most popular names in processed food products that are
heavily marketed to children. They are Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, and
Life Savers candies123.

Now it is world’s second largest food company as well, after Nestle, Inc.

Lately, the company changed its name to Altria so their customers

would not find that the food company providing their children’s food is
also providing them with Virginia Slims and Marlboros.

d) Long living “foods”

Cooked and processed foods lose their vitamins and minerals as they
shift from their natural states. Food companies that process their
products to hold back their spoilage and also to make their products
unique and distinct, make an effort towards reducing (sometimes
completely eliminating) the efficacy of their vitamins and minerals.
Moreover, you need certain additional vitamins to properly digest
processed food.

e) Meet the celebrities who tell you they loved processed foods

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Oreo, Ritz, and Life Savers are trademarks of Nabisco holdings, Inc.
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Now let us ponder media and its representatives. Of course, one of the
major interests of the media is advertising and publicity. In exposing
and advertising such heinous activities, we cannot actually blame it, as
media is also a target consumer just as you are. Media is also provided
with misinformation and made to believe it.

Most of the media’s funding comes from food and drug

companies.

For instance, cow’s milk has widely accepted detrimental effects on

human health, as acknowledged by medical science. However, you can
see different advertisements of dairy products including cow’s milk
running on television, hiding all its negatives from you. Check out the
hypocrisy of the celebrities who appear in those “highly paid”
advertisements who talk about how healthy cow’s milk is. However,
they themselves drink soy milk.

There is another hidden truth about actors/actresses, singers, models

and fashion icons. You would agree with me how lean and healthy their
bodies are. That is the result of vegetarian food only! Their health
counselors advise them not to reveal the “secret” behind their health
and fitness as it could lead to boycotts, as most of the funding for
media comes from fast food and processed food companies.

Many young admirers of these celebrities regard them for more than
their professional flair. However, nobody wants to be another “Jane
Fonda of healthy eating” by indulging in provocative and scandalous
topics that could affect their professional calling, as related by one
Hollywood manager. Some theatergoers boycotted her in the 1970s
because of her controversial left-wing political views.

Alicia Silverstone is an exception unlike other vegetarian stars like Brad

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 Pitt, Kim Basinger, Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Paul
Newman, Liv Tyler, William Shatner, David Duchovny, Daryl Hannah,
and Dustin Hoffman. She is a star of Clueless (1995), Batman & Robin
(1997), and several other hits. She is a strong and consistent opponent
of dairy and processed foods. Moreover, she is trying to educate her
young fans on eating healthy food.

2. Live vs. Processed Fats

Fats are a controversial topic indeed. You must be hearing from people
around you to cut down on your fats. There are always some people who
completely cut out the fat content of their diet, or at least try to.

However, there are fats and fatty acids that are essential to your body!

Many diseases are caused by the deficiency of certain fats called

“essential fats,” and providing the missing essential fats to the body
through one’s diet can heal the body of many diseases.

No doubt, some fat groups are harmful to your body. Unfortunately, the
mass media, advertising agencies, medical establishment and under-
critical medical reporters have masked the differentiation between good
and bad fats.

Examples of dangerous fats: trans-fats in margarine and over fried foods

Examples of wonderful and healing fats: fat found in flaxseed oil, salmon and
sardines

The fat-phobic people around us keep us away from good fats too and we
fail to achieve optimal health.

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What we are doing is actually not eating that much fat. Researchers and
the scientific community have comprehensive proof of it. It is not the
“amount” of fat that we are consuming, but the “quality” of it, that is
making us unhealthy.

Yes, we are overdosing our bodies with bad fats, and creating significant
deficiencies of good fats.

To add to it, we need sufficient vitamins and minerals to improve the

beneficial effects of essential fats, which our diets lack too.

Start learning the proper ABCs of fats as a vital nutrient

Until now, the definition and classification of fats entailed three types –
saturated, unsaturated, and mono-saturated. Saturated fat is bad fat we
obtain from red meat and dairy products. Unsaturated fat is good fat we
get from vegetables and vegetable oil. Mono-saturated fat is the best and
comes from fish and olives.

However, the best way to define and classify fats is what I am going to tell
you now.

There are two types of fats. One is non-essential and should be thrown
out from our diets. The other fat contains two essential fatty acids that
contain those vitamins our body cannot make. The deficiency of either of
those vitamins makes us ill and diseased.

Unfortunately, the mass media and other fat-phobic communities have

thrown “useful things” along with the waste in the trash bin. These vital
nutrients are collectively the number one missing nutrients in the American
diet.
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The deficiency of essential fatty acids causes epidemic levels of cancer,
heart disease, inflammatory conditions, and other many degenerative
diseases.

Light Up the Omegas

Fat is not useless at all. Your body needs it in various ways. For example,
the cell membrane has fats; it is a source of reverse energy fuel; it pads
organs.

Essential fats should never be neglected under any circumstance.

Essential fatty acids make up eicosanoids. These hormone-like chemicals

have many beneficial effects on your body. They are the power agents.
Some of the most important benefits these chemicals hold include
lowering blood pressure, raising body temperature, opening or obstructing
bronchial ways, initiating hormone production, and sensitizing nerve fibers.

Do you see how essential and important they are? In spite of their
importance, your body does not produce them. You have to get them
through what you eat.

In order to classify fats for their use in creating eicosanoids , they are
divided into three types. The types are: the Omega-3s, the Omega-6s,
and the Omega-9s.

Omega-3s and Omega-6s have the strongest ability to create eicosanoids,

while Omega-9s are not categorized as essential fats; however, it is useful
in other ways.

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Consider the importance of the brake and the accelerator in a car. You
cannot drive it if either of them is missing or not functioning. Similarly, you
should keep a balance of both Omega-3s and Omega-6s to maintain the
balance of your body and keep it running.

Therefore, the bottom line is to give attention to the kind of fat you eat,
rather than its amount.

In the twentieth century, we shifted our diet to contain Omega-6s obtained

from safflower, sunflower and corn oil and completely neglected Omega-
3s. Now, it is time to include Omega-3s such as from flaxseed oil and cold-
water fish as a part of our diet.

The wonderful Omega-3s

The deficiency of Omega-3s is the principal deficiency in the American diet

that causes cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory conditions, arterial
plaque, blood clots, and a weakening of the immune system.

Why Omega-3s are lacking in the American diet?

It is because the food sources of Omega-3s like fish and fish oils, flaxseed
oil, canola oil, chia seeds, soybean oil, walnut oil, eggs from flaxmeal-fed
hens, and wild game are either not consumed, or poorly prepared, if
consumed.

Moreover, sometimes Omega-3s are absurdly termed as unhealthy.

The three essential fatty acids found in Omega-3s fats and oils are:
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1. Alpha-linoleic acid (Best source: flaxseed oil – Good sources: Canola
oil and walnut oil)
2. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (Best source: cold-water fish and fish oil
supplements)
3. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (Best source: cold water fish and fish oil
supplements)

Eskimos eat foods rich in Omega-3s and they have remarkably good
cardiovascular health.

Good Omega-6s but do not overdose yourself with it

The two essential fatty acids Omega-6s contain are:

1. Linoleic acid(sources: safflower, sunflower and corn oil)

2. Gamma-linoleic acid, GLA (sources: evening primrose oil and borage
oil)

GLA has super healing benefits against arthritis, diabetes, skin disorders,
and multiple sclerosis.

As corn oil and its buddies are widely in use, be careful when taking
supplements of Omega-6s, as the excess of it also causes some
unhealthy conditions including a weakened immune system, cancer, and
inflammatory diseases like asthma and arthritis. The levels of certain
inflammatory eicosanoid increase and result in blood vessel constriction,
narrowing of the bronchial passage, and hypertension.

This does not mean Omga-6s is bad. Not at all! It is just that we need to
be aware of the amount of it we are ingesting. Simply put, cutting it out
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from your diet would create imbalances in your body.

What about Omega-9 Fatty acids?

The most recognizable mono-saturated fat, omega-9s, is found in olives,

almonds, macadamias, hazelnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, and avocados.
The pressed oil from this food group is ideal for cooking purposes. Olive
oil, as cooking oil, is vital for preventing cholesterol from building up
plaque on artery walls.

Though Omega-9s have some tremendous health benefits (but less than
Omega-3s and Omega-6s), it is not regarded as an essential fatty acid.
Your body is able to produce it even if you do not include it in your diet.

What is being added to the already bad scenario?

I have been telling you that an imbalance of Omegas contribute towards

some health problems. However, this is not the only cause related to fats
and oils.

More than that, the packaging and processing, production and usage also
tell us whether we are getting the essential fatty acids or not. I will give
you an example of margarine that is an important and very familiar part of
the American diet. If Americans cut out margarine and hydrogenated oils
in vegetable shortenings, they can easily reduce the risk of heart attacks
to half.

Processing and packaging: Another problem lies with the processing

and packaging of these essential fatty acids. For example, refined
vegetable oils that you find in the supermarket (any brand) lack in
essential fatty acids because of the chemical processing. Vitamin E and
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carotenoid are almost removed from these oils. Then, the bottles used in
their storage as containers are clear, exposing the oil to light and further
degrading it.

Moreover, these refined vegetable oils are not organic.

For best quality and healthy oils, buy products from health food stores.

Heat and Oils

Heating the oil starts many molecular changes in them and in the food
cooking in them too. Free radicals and lipid peroxides are produced, which
cause and promote diseases.

Never ever deep-fry! It turns a fat into a health threat. Go for stir-
frying.

No matter how healthy the oil you are using, deep-frying will change it to
the worst quality oil. On the contrary, stir-frying food is better. If you are
using a “heat sensitive” oil, like soy, avoid stir-frying too as it is so delicate
it burns easily.

Peanut oil and coconut oil are suitable for stir-frying.

Margarine – yes or no?

Margarine is an important part of the American diet. However, margarine,

and not butter, is a preliminary cause of atherosclerosis and heart disease

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 because of its trans-fatty acids that are a much stronger promoter of
disease than the trans fatty acids of butter, pork, and lamb.

Dr. Carlton Fredericks first voiced the unhealthy effects of margarine in the
1940s, but his words were ignored. Eventually, in the 1970s, the
experiments on animals proved that margarine is responsible for
hardening the arteries. With these findings, the scientific community
heeded what Dr. Fredericks was saying.

The foods that contain hydrogenated vegetable oil as vegetable

shortening, like cookies, cakes, and chips, are also related to a higher risk
of heart disease.

The ignorance of nutritional authorities

There is much evidence that trans-fatty acids are related to many medical
ailments. Trans-fatty acids in margarine and vegetable shortening are
responsible for

o Increasing LDL cholesterol124

o Lowering HDL cholesterol that is beneficial125
o Increasing the risk of coronary artery disease126

Medical journals are spreading this word of advice to doctors but American
nutritional policy makers are still not willing to warn the doctors and public
of its hazards. However, in Europe, unlike America, countries have
enacted strict rules to cut down the amount of trans-fatty acids in foods.

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Katan, M., et al., Annual Review of Nutrition, 1995;15:473-93
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Hodgosso, J., et al., Atherosclerosis, 1996;120(1-2):147-54
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Jenkins, D., Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 1995;11:118G-122G
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 Hydrogenation makes fat unhealthy for you. Even the partially
hydrogenated fat you find in cereals, breads, prepackaged mixes, heat-
and-serve meals, crackers, cookies, shortening, and in almost all
vegetable oils is not good.

If you find it hard to avoid them, make sure they are not in the top nutrients
of your diet as they worsen the lipid profile (LDL, HDL) and hinders
Omega’s metabolism.127

The truth about Sugar

Sugar, like any other carbohydrate and starch, transforms to ‘bad’ fat when
taken in excess. The excessive sugar is broken down and then re-created
as triglycerides of fats.

Do you know our bodies have fat cells?

Triglycerides fill these cells, impairs blood flow, and increases the chances
of coronary artery thinning. Excess sugar also raises insulin levels, which
in turn disturbs cholesterol levels by increasing LDL and decreasing HDL
ratios.

To avoid bad fats, besides eliminating trans-fatty acids found in

margarine, hydrogenated vegetable oil, shortening and cookies etc.,
cut down sugar and carbohydrate intake too.

Omega-3s Again – as found in fish oils

As already mentioned, Omega-3s are the best type of fatty acids for you. I
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 also told you that you can find it in fish oils, one of the Omega-3s sources.

Fish oils have amazing lipid lowering properties128 that work wonders like
any prescription heart drug but without any side effects. Fish oils having
omega-3s along with its two marvelous fatty acids prevent heart disease.

o EPA and DHA prevent blood platelets from sticking together,

preventing blood clots and thereby preventing heart attacks.129
o EPA and DHA are a perfect therapy to reduce Warfarin’s
anticoagulation.
o Their high concentration does not cause any abnormal bleeding.130
o EPA and GLA lower blood pressure.
o They prevent plaque in the arteries.131

Triglycerides vs. cholesterol

Raised triglycerides are more strongly related to heart disease than

higher cholesterol.

Today a triglyceride reading of 100mg/ml is not considered normal, which

was once was thought to be okay.

Fish oils reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering the triglyceride levels
in the body.

I recommend you to take 1 gram of EPA and DHA each every day and see

128
Kinsella, J., et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1990;52:1-28
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Seidelin, K. N., et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992;55:117-19
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Gerster, H., Journal of Nutrition and Environmental Medicine, 1995;5:281-96
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Booyens, J., and C. V. Van Der Merwe, South African Medical Journal, 1991;79(4):568
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 the amazing effects on your health, as this amount has been proven to
work successfully with your body.132

More than 70 studies have shown that Omega-3 oils can lower
triglyceride levels by 25-35 percent.133 If combined with a
considerable reduction of carbohydrate intake, triglyceride levels can
be reduced by 75%.

Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases - triglycerides and fish oils

Significant high levels of triglycerides in body can pose an increased risk

of cardiovascular diseases in diabetic patients.

However, there is controversy among different studies on the use of fish

oils by diabetic patients with higher levels of triglycerides.

o Some people say using fish oil is a valuable treatment for lowering
triglycerides in diabetes patients.
o Other studies show that EPA may increase blood glucose levels in
those patients.134
o Some studies show it has no impact.135
o Yet some other studies indicate that the disease can hinder the EPA
metabolism.136

In my opinion, consuming fish oil has far more benefit than an insignificant
rise of blood glucose, the side effect shown in such a condition. In fact,

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Harris, W.S., et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1997;65:1645S-1654S
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Ves&by, B., and M. Bobergjmm Annals of internal medicine, 1990;228:165-71
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Landgraf-Leurs, M. M, C., et al., Diabetes, March 1990;39:369-75
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Zambon, S., et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1992;56:447-54
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 recent studies are agreeing with the beneficial impact of fish oils in
eliminating triglycerides’ threatening levels in diabetic patients.137

If you are still afraid of those high glucose levels, you can take vitamin E
supplements that prevent EPA-induced glucose levels.138 Always use
vitamin E and fish oils in conjunction. It promotes the effectiveness of
insulin and increases the fluidity of cell membranes, both good for
diabetes.

Moreover, fish oils maintain arterial springiness by preventing plaque that

causes arterial hardness.

More on fish oils

Besides cardiovascular diseases, people with diabetic kidney disease

have shown a reduction in pathological findings due to protein by
consuming fish oils.139

Arthritis and Fish Oils

Arthritis is a joint disease accompanied by inflammation and pain. Non-

steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), the painkillers used in healing
the joint condition, are a cause of thousands of deaths in America alone
every year. Moreover, they cause gastrointestinal bleeding in millions.140

Fish oils are a better replacement of NSAIDs and painkillers. EPA

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Connor, W. F. Annals of Internal medicine, Dec. 1995;123(12):950-51
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Brown, J.E., and K. W. J. Wahle, ClinicaChimicaActa, 1990;193:147-56
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Hamazaki, T., et al., Lipids, 1990;25(9):541-45
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Kremer, J., et ai, Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1995;38:1107-14
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 supplements make movements smooth while reducing the pain too.141

I mentioned earlier that your body needs a balance between omega-6 and
omega-3. Often our diets contain omega-6 but lack the other. What
happens when you overdose with omega-6?

Overdosing yourself with omega-6 creates eicosanoids that promote

inflammation and cause rheumatoid arthritis. Omega-3, which can be
obtained from fish oils, is needed to counter its effects.142

The success of non-toxic omega-3 fish oils in freeing arthritis sufferers

from gastric blood loss and NSAIDs side effects is proven, but the
mainstream has not acknowledged its splendor yet.

Fish oils and NSAIDs

Though NSAIDs have an immediate and faster effect than fish oils, they
are temporary and have side effects too. If you take a dose of fish oil, the
pain will not instantly vanish. It will not happen until you take it daily for
months. A stronger immune system and less inflammation might take nine
months or more for the effects to become visible. However, this long time
span will not give you the unhealthy side effects of NSAIDs.143

Fish oils and autoimmune diseases

Besides rheumatoid arthritis, there are many other autoimmune diseases

like lupus, scleroderma, multiple sclerosis, thrombocytopenia, etc. that can
benefit from fish oils and their omega-3s.

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Kim, D.N., et al., Atherosclerosis, 1990;81:209-16
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Van Der Tempel, H., et ai, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, 1990;49:76-80
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Geusens, P., et ai., Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1994;37:824-29
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 Autoimmune diseases make our immune system attack parts of our own
body as if they were the invaders. However, a dose of 3 grams of EPA
and DHA daily for three weeks can reverse the condition and guide
your immune system toward the right path. Clinical studies have
shown that EPA and DHA have the capacity to yield a reduction of
lupus.144

The league of vegetable oils – the wonderful Flaxseed oil

So after having looked at the amazing wonders of fish oils, let us come to
flaxseed oil. It is also a good source of omega-3.

Flaxseed is found in northern areas of the United States and throughout

Canada. The fatty acid flaxseed oil contains is alpha-linoleic acid or ALA. It
has the same fish oil ability to reduce inflammation and enhance the
immune system.

Moreover, flaxseed oil is good for your cardiovascular system, clotting

ability of platelets, lowering cholesterol and reducing blood pressure.

If we talk about potency, then fish oil is more potent but flaxseed oil is
more affordable. Besides, you cannot outweigh the importance of flaxseed
itself as it is a good source of fiber and an anti-cancer element called
lignans.

Last, but not least, it helps in releasing premenstrual tension, preventing

breast tumors, colon cancer and hormone-based cancers.

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Fish oil vs. flaxseed oil

When you should use fish oil and when to opt for flaxseed oil

If you want a quicker result, go for fish oils. The body takes weeks to
convert fatty acids of flaxseed oil to EPA and DHA. Therefore, for an
immediate response, ease of inflammation, and lowering of triglycerides,
fish oil should be your preference.

The fatty acids of fish oil degrade very quickly whether in your body or not.
This results in peroxidation and is, therefore, unsafe. To minimize this
menace, fish oil should ALWAYS be supplemented with Vitamin E.

Recommendation: take at least 400 IU of Vitamin E with fish oil every day.

If you want a plant-based omega-3, flaxseed oil is for you. Take its dose
between 1 teaspoon and 1 tablespoon daily. For therapeutic effect,
increase the dose to 3 tablespoons daily.

You know that heat and light make oil unhealthy and unsafe, hence,
always buy organic oil in a black opaque container. Never use it for
cooking. However, it can be used in salads.

It is, however, safe and healthy to take any of the omega-3 sources in
the same dosage. If exceedingly larger doses are ingested, it can
oxidize the fats of the red blood cells.

In diet and nutrition, the rule that says, “If smaller is good, then more is
better” rarely works.

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KRILL OIL – a much better alternative of Fish oils

Fish oil contains fatty acids that are not free floating. Moreover, the body
does not digest all of them. So, only a small amount is made available to
your blood and to the liver, where the liver attaches phosphates to them,
allowing them to be used by the body.

Krill oil, on the other hand, contains DHA and EPA that are already free-
floating and are readily taken up by the body. The phosphate is already
attached to them. Therefore, krill oil works much more efficiently than
fish oil, even in smaller doses.

The recommended daily amount was thought to be thousands of

milligrams, but studies are being carried out that can possibly reduce the
dose to 500 mg.

To improve the inflammatory effects of krill oil, it can be combined with

GLA.

Another positive aspect of krill oil is the presence of an antioxidant called

astaxanthin. DHA and EPA are highly prone to oxidation. That is why fish
oils are more likely to be oxidized, even before you open the bottle.
However, Astaxanthin prevents krill oil’s oxidation. (You will get to know
more about antioxidants later in this chapter.)

Therefore, krill oil is necessary for the treatment of Lupus disease. It

also helps in the prevention of many other diseases, aging, and poor
health.

Let us have the maximum benefit from the good fatty acids along
with the ultimate powers of antioxidants. Its daily consumption is
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 recommended.

I must say that if you are Jewish your best option is still fish oil, as krill oil
is not kosher by nature.

3. Meat

The media and other factors I have been mentioning on and off are
distracting us from the correct diet. In spite of the different studies that
show that animal-based food is not healthy, we consume it in large
quantities.

The results of different studies give evidence of the risk reduction of

various diseases including obesity, diabetes, coronary disease,
autoimmune diseases, and cancer with a vegetarian diet.

The American Dietetic Association claims that meals based on whole

grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables are the best meals for a healthy
body.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell of The China Study has spent 40 years of his life in
determining the impact of food on our health. He concluded:

“People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most
chronic disease. People who ate the most plant-based foods
were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.”145

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… and …

"Even relatively small intakes of animal foods—meat, eggs,

and milk—are associated with significant increases of
chronic degenerative diseases."

Not only Dr. Campbell, but also the Chair of the Department of Nutrition at
the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Willett, speaks for the diet rich
in fresh fruits and vegetables. He also maintains the health benefits
associated with them, as, according to him, this diet reduces the risk of all
the major illnesses and deaths.

Recall the percentage of deaths every year associated with heart disease.
It is been increasing every year or so. Not one or two, but many studies
have proved that a plant-based diet can stop and even reverse heart
disease!

Dr. Dean Ornish has devised a first ever program to actually reverse heart
disease without involving surgery or medication. His program includes a
very low fat plant-based diet with moderate aerobic exercise and stress
management.

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s establishes same plant-based diet programs to

prevent and reverse heart disease. His program is based on 21 years’
study.

Consuming meat causes heart disease and the risk of developing

cancer too. According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association (2005), people who ate meat frequently doubled their risk
of getting colon cancer as opposed to those who ate it infrequently.

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The American Cancer Society recommends two fundamentals for avoiding
cancer. These are:

1. Eat more plant-based foods

2. Eat less animal-based foods

Most of us get our protein from meat. However, meat is hard to digest and
requires many digestive enzymes. As a result, some undigested meat
remains in the intestines and spoils, creating toxicity. In addition, cancer
cells grow in a toxic environment.

“In the next 10 to 15 years, one of the things you’re bound to

hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients
of all that can be considered.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell

Last but not least, different livestock antibiotics, growth hormones, anti-
parasite drugs and many other medicines are present in meat and dairy
products. They enter your body and affect your well-being.

If not meat, from where should we fulfill our protein requirements?

You might be surprised to know that our bodies need only a small amount
of protein, despite what the mainstream media tells us.

Not getting the full-required amount of protein poses less health problems
than its excess. Unfortunately, most people are protein-poisoned.

Excessive protein creates nitrogen in the body that causes fatigue

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and makes you feel tired.

So, how much protein should an average person consume every day?
Can you guess?

The time when a human body experiences the most major changes and
tremendous growth is its first six months after birth. During those six
months, babies entirely depend on mother’s milk.

Check out the protein content of mother’s milk. It is less than 2%! And we
can get almost the same amount by consuming fruits.

Moreover, the body itself meets 70% of your protein requirement. It uses
and reuses the same protein through recycling it.

Now, what about the remaining 30%? Consuming fruits, vegetables,

legumes and whole grains can easily fulfill the 30% of your protein
requirement.

Note: lettuce is 34% protein – broccoli is 48% protein

Is protein used for producing energy in your body?

No! Protein is the last resort for energy production. Our bodies utilize
sugars first for energy, then carbohydrates, then fats, and then protein.

Does protein make bones stronger?

No! Calcium makes your bones stronger, and protein contains uric acid

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that extracts calcium from the bones. You might have heard of a condition
of weak bones called osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition that arises
from a lack of calcium. However, the truth is it is caused by the
overconsumption of protein.

What gives taste to the meat?

Uric acid is responsible for the taste of meat. What is uric acid? Uric acid
is the acid found in the urine of animals that floods in an animal’s body
when it dies.

Kosher meat has no urine, thus, no taste.

Moreover, the germs present in the colon of the animal also spread and
enter into the meat. As meat gets older, these putrefactive germs also
tenderize it. That is what we eat when we eat meat.

How much of the uric acid is acceptable?

Your body can handle 6 grains of uric acid daily. However, an average
piece of meat contains 16 grains of it. An excess of uric acid in our blood
causes over-toxicity and diseases like gout and arthritis.

Athletes and meat

o Sixto Lenares is a world record holder in cycling 185 miles,

swimming 4.8 miles and running 52.4 miles in one day without
consuming dairy products, meat or eggs.
o Peter Burwash is a Canadian tennis player who quit an animal-
based diet and adopted a vegetarian lifestyle. After a year, he
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 attained the highest physical index of any athlete in Canada.
o Dave Scott won the Ironman triathlon 6 times and is a vegetarian.

Meat and our environment

“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is

just stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing
you could do.”146

—Paul McCartney

o The world’s livestock uses a high quantity of land, energy and water.
o A pound of meat needs 2,500 gallons of water for its production,
unlike a pound of wheat that requires 25 gallons of water.
o If Americans cut down on meat by only 10 percent, 12 million tons of
grain can be made available for us to consume. This could save 60
million people from dying of starvation.
o In every 3 seconds, one child dies due to hunger.

From all our discussion about meat, it is very clear that meat is not a
healthy food for us and should be eliminated from our diets.

Take a step forward for your health and get rid of meat from your diet
completely.

4. Dairy

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Since our childbirth, we have been fed with milk. Dairy companies and
other industries whose businesses solely depend on the promotion of milk
and associated products have brainwashed our minds by calling milk a
“perfect” or “complete” diet and a source for strengthening teeth and
bones.

The truth is that milk surely is a complete diet BUT a mother’s milk is
for her babies and cow’s milk is for its calves only!

That is how nature has designed milk.

Russell Bunai,a pediatrician in Washington DC, says that eliminating dairy

products from the diet is a single change in the American diet that can
induce the greatest health benefits.

What results do studies and research on dairy show?

Dr. William Ellis did experiments on the effects of dairy products for over
four decades. He concluded:

"Thousands upon thousands of blood tests I've conducted

show that people who drink three or four glasses of milk a
day invariably had the lowest levels of blood calcium.”

Moreover, the conclusions of his tests revealed that the adults who
consume dairy products are not able to absorb the nutrients fully.

One of the acids of the stomach that helps in digestion is Hydrochloric

acid or the HCl. Milk has the ability to neutralize it. Once it has been
neutralized, the stomach works much harder to absorb the nutrients.

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 Another reason for malabsorption relates to the creation of mucus in the
intestines, sinus and lungs due to drinking milk. This mucus hardens the
intestinal lining and coats it internally, preventing the absorption of
nutrients by the bloodstream, and leading to chronic fatigue.

“Tests on more than 25,000 blood samples show adults

using milk do not absorb nutrients as well as those who
don’t. Milk forms a mucous coating inside the intestines,
resulting in poor absorption and assimilation.” – Dr. Kurt
Esselbacher, Chairman of Medicine of the Harvard Medical
School

Milk and Osteoporosis

As I told you, meat is a cause of osteoporosis, and scientists have

determined that milk as well as meat causes osteoporosis. America,
where milk is largely consumed, has the highest rate of osteoporosis
patients.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health studied all the

research that has been carried out on the consumption of dairy products
and declared it “the wrong direction.”

“The recommendation to drink three glasses of low-fat milk

or eat three servings of other dairy products per day to
prevent osteoporosis is another step in the wrong
direction.”147148

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 Just like meat, cow’s milk is also rich in protein and invites the same
health problems that are associated with the over-consumption of proteins
(as discussed earlier).

The author of The Book of Health, Susan Stockton says:

“A major reason that we become calcium deficient is that we

take in too much protein (including diary products) which
causes an over-acid condition, necessitating the robbing of
the body’s storehouse (bones and other tissue) to buffer the
acidity with an alkaline mineral, calcium.”

For proper absorption of calcium, our bodies require magnesium,

manganese, and vitamin B12. As milk does not contain them, the calcium
in cow’s milk is poorly absorbed.

“There’s no reason to drink cow’s milk at any time in your

life. It was designed for calves, it was not designed for
humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.”149– Dr.
Frank Oski, leading pediatrician in the U.S. and former Chairman
of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins

There was a study carried out at Harvard University under the name of
Nurses’ Health Study. It spanned 12 years, traversed 78,000 women, and
studied them. The study concluded that women who drink more milk to
strengthen their bones actually broke them more than the ones who hardly

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Sharon Elayne Fair, Wellness and Physical Therapy 2009, page 81
149
Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time, vol. 140, 1992, Susan Markel, Linda F. Palmer, What your
pediatrician does not know can hurt your child, 2010, page 163.
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had milk.

“The association between the intake of animal protein and

fracture rates appears to be as strong as the association
between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.” – Dr. T. Colin
Campbell

Dr. Ellis, agreeing with others, says that dairy products are harmful for
both adults and infants.

Casein and health

Eighty-seven percent of cow’s milk is a protein called Casein. This same

protein was given to the rats that died from cancer in the big China Study.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell, in The China Study, has mentioned that:

“Let there be no doubt: cow’s milk protein is an

exceptionally potent cancer promoter in rats dosed with
aflatoxin. The fact that this promotion effect occurs at
dietary protein levels (10-20%) commonly used both in
rodents and humans makes it especially tantalizing – and
provocative.”

So how can one prevent osteoporosis and have healthy and stronger
bones?

Exercise regularly.

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 Different studies have shown that exercising, regularly and plentifully,
builds stronger bones.

Eliminate animal-based food

Animal-based food, whether it is meat or milk, actually leaches out calcium
from your bones as mentioned earlier. Eliminate it to get healthier bones.

Include plant-based food

Plant-based food including fruits and vegetables is the best food type for
bones. Eat plenty of it. Dark green vegetables such as broccoli, bok choy,
kale and parsley, fruits, legumes, sesame seeds, almonds, figs, and
seaweeds can give you enough more easily absorbable calcium to fulfill
your body needs.

Emphasizing once again, eat whole, fresh, live, organic foods that
are free of additives/preservatives as much as you can. Chew
properly, enjoy eating, have balanced meals, and eat a “comfortable”
amount without over-filling your stomachs

Milk and other dairy products are no good for you. You have an ace
up your sleeves. Use it.

5. Aspartame & artificial sweeteners

Whatever is said specifically about Aspartame holds true for all other
artificial sweeteners.

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that is a highly acid-forming chemical.

It is extremely bad for your brain and intensifies Lupus, MS and many
other autoimmune diseases. In America, you will find it in more than 5,000

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 products marketed as Nutra Sweet, Equal and Spoonful.

Usually people consuming aspartame and suffering from autoimmune

diseases do not know that aspartame is its cause. They continue using it
until the disease becomes life threatening.

I would recommend that you go through the whole list of products that
contain Aspartame at http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame.

6. Destructive addictions

Forgetting destructive additions when it comes to your health is ridiculous

and careless.

What are destructive addictions?

Sugar, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and drugs are destructive addictions that
contribute to ill health and diseases.

Sugar

When I say sugar IS an addiction, you might not accept it. However, this is
a fact and sugar is an addiction most of us are not aware of.

Prolonged and excessive usage of sugar causes diabetes, obesity, heart

disease, cholesterol, autoimmune disease, and varicose veins. Moreover,
though not directly, it also causes mental disturbance.

What is the alternative of sugar?

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I recommend that you use Stevia, which is a perfect alternative of sugar
and a perfect natural sweetener.

In order to cure your Lupus disease, you will have to remove sugar
completely from your diet!

Alcohol

It may not be necessary to speak much about alcohol, as almost everyone

knows its health hazards. To summarize for those who do not know,
alcohol is a fatal addiction.

It dampens human cells that eventually harms and destroys brain cells.
The pancreas inflames, and this is really a lethal condition. Moreover,
alcohol breaks down our bodies.

Caffeine

Caffeine boosts our energies. Right?

Wrong! This is how caffeine companies market their products.

Caffeine contains more than 200 acids and our bodies try to neutralize all
of them at once, requiring a lot of energy. This is the energy that makes us
feel energetic, but it is actually weakening our bodies. You do not know
how and why we feel energetic after consuming caffeine, but you keep on
relying on it to get going throughout the day.

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Caffeine creates high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, digestive
problems, insomnia, restlessness, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue,
and headaches.

Nicotine

When you smoke, you ingest nicotine. It is not a hidden truth that smoking
is injurious to your health. We all know it. Still, we cannot quit it until we
die.

As already known, the first and preliminary cause of lungs cancer is

smoking. Besides lung cancer, smokers experience heart attacks too.
Almost 75 percent of deaths that occur due to chronic bronchitis and
emphysema happen because of smoking.

If you smoke, or someone you know smokes, quit it or try to help him quit
as soon as possible. JUST QUIT STRAIGHT AWAY.

For a motivator, I advise you to look at the work of Allen Carr and Dr. John
Grosboll.

Drugs

I will not speak any more about drugs as a lot has been covered
previously. You know drugs are toxic, destructive, and hence unhealthy.

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Good Foods and Bad
1. What should we eat?

The answer is very simple. However, I just wonder sometimes at the

complexity of different weight-loss diet programs. Each weight loss expert
will advertise his program as the easiest one to follow. In reality, it is never
so easy.

If you have come across any of the weight loss programs, you might have
seen different work sheets to be filled in, tools to use, and supplements to
take. Moreover, one has to keep track of the number of calories, points,
servings or nutrients, and there are some mathematical ratios to calculate.

I am sure you would agree with me at the complexity of weight loss

programs.

I prefer eating enjoyably and worry free, and would recommend the same
to you. Just remember one rule. Keep it simple, and enjoyable.

Out of several nutritional research studies, one that was very well
respected delivers the same message of simplicity. Good food and good
health is simple!

You can find different nutritional and health literature that says the same. It
is just so simple and easy that Dr. T. Colin Campbell has stated it in one
sentence in his book The China Study. He says:

“Eat a “whole foods, plant-based” diet.”

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 Eliminate the rest of the foods including refined, processed foods, and
foods with added salts and added fats.

2. Fiber

Denis Burkitt, a late professor of Trinity College, Dublin, worked a lot on

dietary fiber; and, for this, he traveled to study the dietary habits of
Africans. He said that fiber is an undigested part of our diet, yet it plays an
important role towards our better health. It pulls water into the intestines
from the body to keep the digestive process going. Moreover, it has sticky
properties that that attracts carcinogenic factors present in the digestive
organs, if any. Constipation is one of the conditions caused due to
insufficient dietary fiber intake. It can also cause large bowel cancer,
diverticulosis, hemorrhoids, and varicose veins, according to Burkitt.150

“In 1993, Dr. Burkitt was awarded the prestigious Bower

award, the richest award in the world next to the Nobel Prize.
… He offered his opinion that our China Study was the most
significant work on diet and health in the world at that time.”
– Dr. T. Colin Campbell

Dietary fiber is found in plant-based foods. It is mostly made up of

complex carbohydrate molecules. However, there is nothing to fear of this
carbohydrate, as we digest almost zero fiber. Moreover, it does not have
any calories in itself. Not only this, it gives us a sense of fullness while
having meals, letting us finish before we are actually full, making us
consume fewer calories.

There are other contradictory views for dietary fiber as well. Some people
say that excess of dietary fiber does not let iron and minerals get

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 absorbed by the body, which are vital for good health. The sticky nature of
fiber attracts them and takes them out from the body with it. According to
them, fiber’s daily consumption should be around 30-35 grams.

The average consumption of fiber is three times as much in China than in

United States.151

Chart: Average consumption of dietary fiber,

gm/day

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U.S.
China

Contrary to what those “experts” think of the bad side of dietary fiber, The
China Study proved something else. According to Dr. Campbell:

“There was no evidence showing that increasing fiber intake

impaired iron absorption in the body. In fact, we found the
opposite effect. A good indicator of how much iron is in

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For the Total Dietary Fiber (TDF), the averages for China and the U.S. were 33.3 and 11.1 grams per day,
respectively. The range of the county averages are 7.7-77.6 grams per day in China, compared with a range of
2.4-26.6 grams per day for the middle 90% of the American males.
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 blood, hemoglobin, actually increased with greater intakes
of dietary fiber.”152

However, the China Study DID find some results of lower iron levels.
Further studying of those results showed that people with less iron were in
the areas where parasitic diseases were more common. Thus, lower iron
was not because of too much fiber, but was due to parasites.

Burkitt, in Africa, found that people with good fiber intake have a lower risk
of bowel cancer. In England, during the late 18th and early 19th century, a
leading physician claimed that constipation is related to less bulky diets
(which we know are low-fiber diets). Moreover, constipation is related to
higher risks of cancer, especially breast and intestinal cancers.

High fiber diets lower risks of cancers and raised levels of blood
cholesterol. Obviously, fiber comes from plant-based foods that include
beans, leafy vegetables and whole grains.

3. Antioxidants
a) What are they?

You can find antioxidants in food. Your body also creates some of them.
They are important for your good health and potency of your energy
when you reach the later stages of your life.

You know that different energy producing chemical processes occurring

within our bodies produce free radicals, which when not eliminated
cause different poor health conditions. Antioxidants protect us from their

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 damage. Free radicals also appear because of certain chemicals,
smoke, pollutants, and solar radiation around us in our environment.

Some people do not take the danger of free radicals seriously.

However, believe me, there is NOTHING at all about them to be
careless about. Scientists believe that, in every disease, from heart
disease to arthritis to cancer to cataracts, free radicals are always one
of the factors causing it. Not only this, free radicals make you age
earlier.

With so many issues related to free radicals, you can very well guess
the role and importance of antioxidants. They can really make the
difference between life and death. It is recommended to grasp
completely what antioxidants are and how they work. This is the only
way you can fully benefit from them. Antioxidants play an important
part in your health.

There is much scientific evidence proving that people who have an

antioxidant-rich diet and consume supplements live a longer and
healthier life.

b) Free radicals

As said earlier, antioxidants are the fighting force against free radicals.
So, let us have a look at free radicals first. Free radicals directly affect
human cells and tissues throughout the day, and every second of it.

You know that all matter in the universe is composed of atoms. Your
body cells are made up of tinier and undividable atoms, containing a
nucleus and electrons. When atoms share electrons, they bind
together. Your body generates energy through a process called
biological oxidation. In this process, electrons move from one oxygen
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 molecule to the other. Sometimes an electron, instead of moving to the
next oxygen molecule, escapes and becomes “free”. This free electron
is known as a free radical.

You may not believe this, but it is true: free radicals are born “far and
wide” throughout our bodies unceasingly and at an astoundingly
high frequency. If not caught, they damage our bodies.

The human body requires a great amount of oxygen for metabolism,

which you know is a means to create energy. Energy is required to
carry out every function of the body from breathing to thinking, from sex
to heart beating. Therefore, the fuel for energy is oxygen.

As I told you already, oxygen molecules produce free radicals during

energy production; you can imagine what havoc they can create inside
our bodies when they are formed at such a speed.

Free radicals attack and crumble DNA. This can increase the risk of
cancer. Free radicals attack fat molecules in the blood. This can cause
heart disease and stroke. Moreover, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s
disease, diabetes, cataracts, arthritis, and many other ailments linked
with aging are caused by free radicals.

Hence, to combat the threats of free radicals and maintain good

health, one should balance free radicals by consuming the right
amount of antioxidants, adding to the strength of the body’s
antioxidant defense system.

c) Antioxidants and free radicals

Several antioxidants occur naturally. Our bodies produce some, while

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What does an antioxidant do?

Upon encounter, an antioxidant molecule engulfs a free radical, making

it a part of it, becoming a free radical itself. However, this new free
radical is too weak to harm our cells and tissues.

Within our bodies, five antioxidants interwork. These are Vitamins C

and E, Co Q10, Lipoic acid, and glutathione. They are called network
antioxidants. When combined and working together, they enhance each
other’s capabilities and strengths, strengthening the overall antioxidants
defense system, protecting us from free radicals.

A good point about antioxidants is that they can revive after they have
extinguished a free radical, lengthening their powers.

How network antioxidants work together

Just to illustrate, here is an example. Let us suppose that Vitamin E

engulfs a free radical becoming a weak free radical itself that does not
do any harm. To get it back to the antioxidant molecule, Vitamin C or
Coenzyme Q10 gives one of its electrons to Vitamin E. The same
process happens when Vitamin C becomes a free radical, and so on.

Therefore, the network antioxidants work together, ensuring that none

of the antioxidants is lost during the oxidation process, keeping a
correct balance between free radicals and antioxidants.

This entire process occurs very quickly, i.e. encountering free radicals,

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 engulfing them, becoming a weak but friendly free radical, and
regeneration.

Bruce Ames, a worthy scientist in the antioxidant field, calculates that

the number of antioxidants hitting the DNA of one cell daily is almost
10,000. You have trillions of cells. Multiply 10,000 with that trillion. See
the number of antioxidants we require every day. If we do not fulfill it,
we put our bodies at risk.

Network antioxidants work interactively by helping each other to revive.

However, their areas of action are different. For example, Vitamin E and
Co Q10 protect the fatty portion of cell membranes, as they are fat-
soluble. These antioxidants cannot protect your blood or the watery
portion of your cells. Watery portions are under the protection of
Vitamin C and glutathione, as they are water-soluble.

Lipoic acid, on the contrary, can safeguard both watery and fatty
portions. It can recycle both types of antioxidants too.

d) Keeping your genes

Now that you know antioxidants prevent us from the hazards of free
radicals, there is much more than that when it comes to the roles of
antioxidants. Antioxidants control our genes too!

What genes do

Genes carry information over generations, like eye color, hair color,
complexion, etc. Furthering it more, genes also carry the information as
to how your body should maintain good health.

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Your cells cannot think. They do not know what to do when and why.
The DNA contained within your cells and the genes carrying them
instruct the cells about their every action and reaction.

For example, when your cells are attacked by some viral cells, your
genes tell the immune system to be activated against those viral cells
and kill them. Similarly, when a healthy cell is affected by a virus, the
genes tell it to self-destruct, preventing other cells from the harm.

Therefore, genes keep you healthy.

Genes control every action of the cells. There are other elements that
control genes too, and these are antioxidants. Antioxidants turn
genes on and off as required.

The antioxidant network constantly monitors the health of our cells just
like a personal physician. If the network detects some problem, it
instantly sends signals to the genes to turn on. In turn, the genes send
signals to that particular cell to perform a certain action (to eliminate the
problem).

As there are trillions of cells inside our bodies, and every cell has a vast
number of genes, guess how greatly antioxidants affect our health.

As we age and get older, our antioxidants become weaker due to

continuous engulfing of free radicals. Moreover, the pollutant
environment we live in, smoke, poor diet and several other unhealthy
factors increase the number of free radicals. When our network of
antioxidants becomes weak, it does not function as it should. Hence,
we develop different diseases.

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 What should we do?

The only way to make the antioxidant network strong again is to revive
it through daily supplements and an antioxidant-rich diet. This is a way
to defeat cancer, heart disease, Lupus disease, and many others.

You have the knowledge now and you have the power, so get up
and start to revive antioxidants that will revive your health and
move your body towards increased longevity.

e) The network

The existence of antioxidants has been well known, but their roles,
functions, and powers were not known until recently when research
was carried out in the Packer Lab at the University of California at
Berkeley and many other labs.153

For a long time, scientists thought that antioxidants work independently

in our bodies. However, from the discussion above, you know they work
in conjunction, forming an antioxidant network and being network
antioxidants themselves. Together they boost the body’s energy and
strength, protecting it from diseases.

Out of hundreds of antioxidants, only five are network antioxidants,

which I explained earlier. Among them, Vitamin C and E are obtained
from the food we eat, as the body does not produce them. Your body
produces Glutathione, Lipoic acid and Co Q10.

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So do we need to take supplements of only Vitamin C and E?

No. The rest of the antioxidants are produced within our bodies, but
their strength, number and efficacy decline over time as we age. That is
why our bodies need antioxidant supplements containing all the key
ones.

The Packer Lab tests demonstrate that network antioxidants are

special antioxidants and differ from the others. The difference lies in
their interplay. They work together, enhance each other’s powers and
slow down the aging process, thus protecting us from the diseases.

Therefore, to stay young and vigorous, successfully blocking

diseases, consume antioxidant supplements.

i) Lipoic acid

Lipoic acid is also known as the universal antioxidant as it

protects both watery and fatty parts of the cells.

The three common conditions of aging that Lipoic acid prevents

from occurring are heart disease, stroke and cataracts. It
improves our memory by slowing down brain aging as well. This
antioxidant speeds up the entire antioxidant network. If you take
only this, that means you are improving the rest of the four
antioxidants too.

In Europe, Lipoic acid has been in use for quite a long time to
treat and prevent diabetes. The United States has adopted it
recently.

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As antioxidants can control genes too, Lipoic acid is especially
helpful in turning off the aging gene and the gene that causes
cancer, thereby preventing us from aging and cancer. Moreover, it
is considered to reverse liver poisoning that, in fact, is fatal. Liver
diseases such as hepatitis C can be cured using this antioxidant.

As there is no Recommended Daily Amount, the RDA, I

recommend you to take 100 mg of Lipoic acid daily. I would
suggest you to take 50 mg in the morning and 50 mg in the
evening.

Lipoic acid is produced in large amounts by the body but is also

found in small amounts in potatoes, spinach, and red meat. I
recommend that you do not eat meat, but that you get your Lipoic
acid from other sources.

Super antioxidant – Lipoic acid

Lipoic acid is an ideal antioxidant that is why it is special.

Following are some of the ways that make Lipoic acid
extraordinary.

 Cells have a fatty cell membrane that prevents the two

watery fluids from mixing. One watery fluid is outside the
cell body, and other is its cytoplasm. Every antioxidant is
either fat-soluble or water-soluble, but Lipoic acid has the
versatility and qualities of both. It keeps an eye on the
fatty and watery both parts of the cell.
 Not every antioxidant can revive every other antioxidant
except Lipoic acid.
 Lipoic acid also synthesizes sugar molecules for energy

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get/utilize energy and can die.
 Another interesting fact about Lipoic acid that makes it
stand out in the hoard of antioxidants is its ability to
regenerate itself after being worn out or when it becomes
a friendly free radical.

What more should you know about Lipoic acid?

When you go out to get a supplement, you might find very

different names for Lipoic acid. The names other than Lipoic
acid are thiotic acid, alpha lipoic acid, and 1,2 dithiolane-3-
pentanoic acid. Therefore, whenever you see these names, it
is Lipoic acid.

Another important thing is its molecular resemblance with the B

vitamin, Biotin. Both are responsible for improving the insulin
resistance in humans and animals. However, these two
molecules do not get along. If you take more than 100 mg of
Lipoic acid, I would recommend you to take Biotin supplements
everyday too. More than 100 mg dosage is for smokers,
diabetics, and people with a strong cancer family history.

ii) Vitamin E

Vitamin E is another anti-aging antioxidant. It frees your immune

system from the signs of aging and prevents brain cells from
getting old too. If I compare it to any prescription drug treating
Alzheimer’s disease, Vitamin E is much better.

Take vitamin E supplements daily to safeguard you from heart

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attack and stroke as well. It is also good for those who already
had a heart attack by preventing a reoccurrence.

Aging affects the skin through wrinkling, brown spots, and cancer.
It mostly happens due to the UV light and ozone depletion.
Vitamin E revitalizes your skin and makes you look younger.
Other medical ailments that vitamin E can treat or prevent are
arthritis, inflammatory diseases, prostate cancer in men, and
breast cancer in women.

The RDA for Vitamin E is 30 I.U. I recommend you to take 500

mg of it every day of combined tocopherols and tocotrienols. You
can find it in raw vegetable oils, nuts, nut butter, rice bran oil,
barley, and in green leafy vegetables.

Vitamin E’s astonishing capabilities came forward after many

decades and studies, in the results of its ardent supporters.

What is Vitamin E?

Vitamin E is a group of four tocopherols and four tocotrienols.

Alpha tocopherol surpasses the others, but other members are
also very significant. The food we eat lacks Vitamin E. Fifty
percent of Americans take Vitamin E supplements but that
contains only alpha tocopherol. Because of that, I highly endorse
taking Vitamin E supplements that have a full spectrum of vitamin
E.

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble antioxidant.

Vitamin C, Lipoic acid, and Co Q10 recycle Vitamin E. Vitamin E

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 can move in the fatty areas of cells. As blood conveys different
things from one place to another in our body, vitamin E is carried
through the blood by lipoprotein, as it is fat-soluble and cannot
move in blood.

Selecting the best Vitamin E

The best vitamin E types are natural alpha tocopherol, mixed

tocopherols, and tocotrienols. Therefore, I would recommend you
to buy all of them, as they are extremely beneficial and important
to your health.

When you buy alpha tocopherol, make sure it is natural. Read the
labels carefully. If you find “d-alpha tocopherol”, it is a natural one.
Synthetic vitamin E would be “dl-alpha tocopherol”. Obviously,
synthetic vitamin E can never match the quality of natural vitamin
E.

Why I am insisting on naturals? Nature designed our body and

knows best what suits us. Nature created natural elements that
we should benefit from. Natural vitamin E is plant-derived, while
synthetic is petroleum-based. I am not saying that synthetic is not
at all beneficial. It is beneficial too, but not as much as natural
vitamin E.

The other two types, mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols, are

always present in natural form, so you do not have to worry about
them when buying vitamin E supplements.

iii) Vitamin C

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Next is vitamin C, which is the pivot of the network that connects
fat-soluble antioxidants to the water-soluble ones.

Vitamin C is of assistance against the risk of cancer and heart

disease, if taken daily. It guards DNA from free radicals. It also
protects sperm from the free radicals also. Therefore, men who
are planning to have children should take vitamin C daily. It
improves your immune system, hence being beneficial against
the common cold, flu and other viral infections.
Antioxidants are good to delay aging. Vitamin C is vital for the
creation of collagen (cellular glue) that holds the body together,
making your skin look healthier and younger. Moreover, it works
with vitamin E and prevents the oxidation of lipoprotein, which,
otherwise, can result in heart disease.

Vitamin C inhibits cataracts too.

As mentioned earlier, vitamin C rejuvenates vitamin E better than

Lipoic acid. It also interplays with flavonoid antioxidants.

The recommended daily amount (RDA) of vitamin C is 60 mg, but

if you are a smoker (quit smoking!), you should consume 100 mg
every day. I would recommend you to take 500 mg daily of ester
C, preferable 250 in the morning and 250 in the evening.

You can find vitamin C in plants where it is present in profusion. It

is also present in fruits and vegetables like red peppers, broccoli,
cranberries, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, and citrus fruits.

Vitamin C resembles the glucose molecule – an advantage

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Vitamin C, in its shape and weight, closely resembles glucose -.
As glucose is the first preference of the cells to get energy from, it
is readily taken up by the cells. When vitamin C becomes a
friendly, weak free radical, cells think of it as a glucose molecule
and take it in too. Inside the cell, the oxidized vitamin C is revived
back to an antioxidant and is released outside the cell body into
the plasma, where it protects proteins and lipoproteins.

Do our bodies produce vitamin C?

Most of the animals, excluding the guinea pig and Red-Vented

Bulbul, produce vitamin C by converting it from glucose. A goat
produces almost 13,000 mg of vitamin C daily. Larger animals
produce more.

Unfortunately, our bodies do not have the ability to convert

glucose to vitamin C, as we lack that particular enzyme;
therefore, it can only be obtained through the diet (food or
supplements).

Almost 25 percent of Americans do not take 60 mg RDA of

Vitamin C.

This is very unfortunate. We, by all means, should fulfill the

recommended dosage of this antioxidant to keep us free of
several diseases. Smoking decreases the amount of vitamin C in
the lungs and plasma. That is why I insist on quitting smoking.

The best vitamin C

There are two forms of vitamin C available. One is ascorbic acid

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 and another is its mineral salt known as ester C. Both of them are
beneficial, but I prefer ester C as ascorbic acid can cause
discomfort by increasing stomach acids. Moreover, it can absorb
more iron from the food and a surplus of iron is a risk for heart
disease.

iv) Coenzyme Q10

Coenzyme Q10 is fat-soluble and it recycles vitamin E. It is used

for treating and preventing heart disease. It also revives brain
cells and prevents Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and can
treat gum disease. Co Q10 is under research for the cure of breast
cancer as well.

There is no RDA for this antioxidant. However, I recommend you

to take 30 mg of it daily. If you are at high risk of heart disease or
stroke, take an additional 50 mg every day.

You can find it in seafood and organ meats (which I recommend

you do not eat); however, your body synthesizes it too.

I have been telling you a lot about enzymes. Then, what is a

coenzyme? A coenzyme works WITH an enzyme or assists it to
carry out a particular reaction.

You know the Krebs cycle is a process to produce energy

molecules, ATP. Co Q10 is involved in the mechanism as a spark
plug. Without it, there would be no production of energy.

Presence in cells

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 Co Q10 is found in abundance in cell membranes. It is also known
as ubiquinone (root: ubiquitous). It is also present in mitochondria
of the heart, brain, kidneys, and liver cells.

Within mitochondria, the coenzyme antioxidant plays two vital

functions. One is the production of ATP. The other is that it’s a fat-
soluble antioxidant. Because of energy production, free radicals
are formed. Co Q10 engulfs those free radicals.

Valeria Kagen, Elena Serbinova, and John Maguire have done a

lot of work in the Packer Lab on this antioxidant and showed how
it carries out such important functions within the body. It is carried
through the blood by lipoproteins, shielding lipids from the perils
of free radicals.

v) Glutathione

Glutathione is a natural master antioxidant.

Deficiency of glutathione in the body can lead to ill health and an

early death. This water-soluble antioxidant is produced inside the
body. It recycles vitamin C in the antioxidants network. Lipoic acid
increases the amount of glutathione.

This antioxidant detoxifies the effects of drugs and pollutants. It

strengthens your immune system, hence increasing your
longevity and improving your health. The amino acids are stored
and transported by glutathione.

There is no RDA for glutathione. I would suggest, however, that

you take 100 mg of Lipoic acid daily to boost the levels of
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glutathione in the body.

If you want to add it through your diet, consume fruits and

vegetables. It is also available in freshly cooked meat, but fruits
and vegetables are much healthier for you.

The two forms in which glutathione is present inside the body are
reduced form and oxidized form. Reduced form is the antioxidant
form of glutathione, and its oxidized form is the friendly free
radical of it.

When you are healthy, the 90% of glutathione is in reduced

form. When sick, the percentage reduces. Much lower levels
of glutathione can put you on the verge of death!

AIDS patients have the lowest levels of glutathione and

highest mortality rates.

Glutathione is far more in abundance inside cells than vitamin E.

It is in remarkably high numbers in liver cells because drugs,
pollutants, alcohol, and other foreign substances need
detoxification.

Glutathione is hidden in proteins that make a reservoir for them,

beneficial under oxidative stress of the body. Your body produces
enzymes that trigger the production of glutathione in times of
need. However, it is difficult for your body alone to fulfill the never-
ending requirements of glutathione.

As mentioned earlier, Lipoic acid boosts the levels of glutathione;

therefore, you can consume Lipoic acid, which in turn can
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increase amount of glutathione. See how these antioxidants work
together.

Glutathione and inflammation

As with all antioxidants, glutathione also controls genes,

particularly those related to chronic inflammation that can cause
arthritis, autoimmune diseases, and even cancer.

Glutathione and detoxification

You already know that the liver has the greatest amount of
glutathione.

The liver secretes bile that is responsible for fat metabolism,

storage of glycogen to fuel muscles, and the storage of fat-
soluble vitamins A, D, and K. The liver also produces clotting
factors, blood proteins, and several enzymes.

The most important function of the liver is the detoxification of

drugs and pollutants. Every time we breathe and eat, we take in
different pollutants and toxins. If our body is not able to detoxify
them, we will die.

Glutathione, in the liver, sees any toxin and attaches to it, making
it water-soluble through a process called S-conjugation. It travels
through the blood, and the kidneys eliminate that toxin from the
body.

To keep your liver functioning properly and healthily, maintain

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liver diseases such as cirrhosis.

f) The network boosters

i) Flavonoids

Flavonoids, from a larger group called polyphenol compounds,

are discrete composites found in plants, especially in pigments of
leaves, barks, rinds, seeds, and flowers. They are more than
4,000 in number. Flavonoids are antioxidants, but some of them
are much stronger.

Out of 4,000, 50 flavonoids are present in plant-based foods like

berries, tea, and wine. They are not network antioxidants but help
them greatly as they rejuvenate vitamin C directly, and
rejuvenating vitamin C also means increasing levels of vitamin E.
Hence, flavonoids have an impact on the antioxidant network
by improving the protection of both fatty and watery parts of
the cells.

You can find flavonoids in abundance in plants, fruits and

vegetables, and plant-based beverages. The best of them are tea
leaves, oranges, citrus fruit, apples, onions, red grapes, berries
and pine bark. Our bodies do not produce them.

Antioxidants work better in conjunction. Individually they are

good; combined they are the best.

For example, complex mixtures of flavonoids present in Pycnogenol (pine

bark extract) and ginkgo biloba extract work more powerfully when

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Besides being network enhancers, flavonoids have other roles

too within the body that make them imperative for your ideal
health and body.

ii) Carotenoids

Carotenoids are naturally occurring pigments, more than 7,000 in

number, but humans and animals have to get them through their
diet. On the other hand, bacteria, algae, fungi, and plants produce
them on their own.

Only 60 of the carotenoids are found in foods. The American diet

has less than a dozen of them. Researchers put six carotenoids
on key list. They are alpha-carotene, beta-carotene,
cryptoxanthin, lutein, lycopene, and zeaxanthin.

You know there are fruits and vegetables with very bright colors.
They are rich in carotenoids and include colors from brilliant
yellow, red, and orange to purple and dark green.

I recommend you to take sufficient amounts of carotenoids

through your diet by consuming three oranges, yellow fruits
and vegetables, and two dark green leafy vegetables every
day. Alternatively, there are carotenoid supplements that you
can take. (See ‘Caution’ too.)

People with heart disease and cancer risks must add two
extra fruits or vegetables to their daily carotenoid diet.

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 Caution: Smokers SHOULD NOT take carotenoid supplements. The
only way for them to have carotenoids is through a diet rich in fruits and
vegetables. However, the best for your health is to stop smoking!

g) The antioxidants test

Until now, I have been telling you that balancing the right levels of all
antioxidants within your body is a key to your best health and reversing
your Lupus condition.

How can you figure out the levels of antioxidants within you?

A simple blood test, called a Pantox Profile, can let you know about
your antioxidant levels and of other key markers as well. You have to
give a sample of your blood to your doctor who will send it to Pantox
Laboratories in San Diego. The staff at the laboratory analyzes the
blood sample and sends a detailed report to your doctor, who will
inform you about the results.

What is a Pantox Profile?

Some research scientists have designed this test. It is mostly for

checking the network antioxidant levels; however, it checks levels of 20
other serum factors too that include cholesterol, iron, glucose, and
homocysteine.

Homocysteine is an amino acid. If found in excess, it can result in heart

disease and cancer.

Pantox profile results will show you whether your antioxidant

levels are optimum, average or poor. I recommend the test for you,
so make an appointment with your doctor and ask him for the test.
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4. Foods vs. Herbal supplements
a. Can we live on pills?

Success does not lie within a single nutrient, but in whole, plant-
based foods. For example, when you eat a bowl of spinach salad,
you are taking in fiber, antioxidants, and numerous other nutrients
that work together in our body and strive towards the best of the
health.

All you need to do is to eat whole fruits, vegetables, and whole-

grains as much as you can, and you will get all of the benefits
associated with them as discussed above.

Why should you take supplements?

The soil of today is deprived of nutrients and we are getting fewer

nutrients from it through foods. To fulfill the nutritional requirements
that food cannot meet alone, you can find different supplements that
contain all the nutrients, antioxidants, enzymes, multivitamins, and
super greens.

Supplements aid us in achieving a lifestyle full of health, vigor and

energy. Keep in mind that supplements should complement
your diet (fruits, vegetables, whole grains) and not replace it.

Plant foods and your health

The state-of-the-art tools and techniques that were used to carry out
cutting-edge research in the past are being utilized to study fruits,

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vegetables and some spices like garlic and turmeric and their
individual chemicals.

In plants, several phytochemicals (protective compounds) are

antioxidants.
 Cruciferous vegetables, e.g. broccoli, contain special
chemicals that create anticancer agents inside the body.
 Isoflavones in soybeans are hormone like composites that also
combat cancerous cells.
 Citrus fruits have anti-cancer oil in their peels.

Some important notes about food

1. There is no alternative to healthy and well-balanced meals.

Supplements aid them but cannot take their place.

2. Phytochemicals are present in abundance in brightly colored

vegetables and fruits. Green leafy vegetables have far more
phytochemicals than orange and yellow plants.

3. Fresh whole fruits and vegetables are an excellent source of

several nutrients. Some people avoid eating the peel of plant
foods, as pesticides, waxes and other chemicals that are
hazardous for health affect it. So they prefer having vegetables
and fruits juices. However, eating the peel is essential as it
contains phytochemicals along with fiber. To get the benefits of
the peel too, buy organic fresh fruits and vegetables from health
food stores. Wash and scrub thoroughly before eating.

4. One cannot determine which phytochemical is more beneficial or

possesses an extraordinary power, as there are many of them in

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 a single vegetable or fruit. Phytochemicals work together.

5. I have been saying a lot about fresh fruits and vegetables.

However, there is one scenario where frozen fruits and
vegetables excel. This is in obtaining vitamin C. Vitamin C is
brittle and deteriorates rapidly in shipment and food control.
Therefore, frozen foods have it in greater quantity than fresh
foods.

b. FAQ
i. Is it safe to take supplements?

Supplements are nothing but concentrated foods that are

extremely safe for you and your health. More than being safe,
they are actually beneficial.

ii. Can we use them with drugs?

Most of the times, supplements are safe with prescription

drugs. However, in some cases, the antioxidants or enzymes
may interact with the effects of medicine. For example, if you
are taking some blood-thinning drugs like Coumadin, you
should consult your doctor before taking Vitamin E and ginkgo
biloba as they are natural blood thinners as well.

If you are a diabetic, you should also consult your doctor. I am

not saying supplements would worsen your diabetes; in fact,
they are beneficial. However, Vitamin C might give distorted
sugar test results.

Moreover, some tests require you not to take any supplement

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 24 hours prior to the test. Therefore, it is always better to ask
your doctor before using supplements.

iii. What are the best forms of supplements?

There are many forms of supplements including pills, tablets,

capsules, creams, and powders. The skin absorbs creams,
while powder supplements can be added to juices or water.
Choose the form best for you. If you cannot swallow pills and
capsules, you can opt for powders and creams. If your skin is
too sensitive for creams, powdered forms or pills are for you.

iv. Should supplements be taken with or not with meals?

Supplements can be taken in any way but there are, obviously,

some “preferred” ways that I would strongly recommend you to
follow.

Most of the supplements should be taken with meals, as they

are better absorbed when food is in the stomach. If you are
taking herbs, have those 20 minutes prior to your meal.
However, you can take them with meals too.

Powders containing buffered vitamin C and amino acids

should be taken before meals. Minerals like calcium and
magnesium are natural relaxants, so they should be taken on
an empty stomach before going to bed.

Vitamins A, E, D, to-cotrienols, carotenoids, lycopene and

lutein are best when taken with meals containing fats, because
they are fat-soluble elements and the fat in the food will help in
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v. What is next if my urine turns bright yellow?

There is nothing to worry about, as it is very normal for urine to

turn yellow. It happens because of the metabolism of the B-
complex vitamin, riboflavin.

Bright yellow urine is an indicator of enough B-complex

vitamins within your body and that your body is consuming the
supplement in a better way.

vi. Is it better to take all of my supplements at once?

I have been mentioning quite a comprehensive and complete

list of nutrients that you should take every day for your ideal
health. No single supplement can provide you with all of them.
Therefore, you will have to take quite a few.

It is very difficult to take all of your supplements at once.

Moreover, some nutrients will compete for absorption as well.
It is better to spread the supplements throughout the day
wisely, keeping in mind what was mentioned in ‘FAQ iv’.

vii. What type (brand) of natural supplements should you

buy?

Rather than looking for a particular brand, go for the ones that
have the best quality supplements for you. It is the quality that
matters and not the brand of natural supplements.

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 viii. How can I know that I am not being cheated by the
manufacturer? (this CAN happen, as there are some nasty
companies out there)

Your friend in this regard can be ConsumerLab.com. CL is an

independent organization providing test results and information
to help people like you and many others. To learn more, you
can visit http://www.consumerlab.com/aboutcl.asp.

Moreover, if you want to know whether your body is properly

consuming the supplements, get this “home test” done. For
more information, have a look at
https://www.consumerlab.com/results/hometest.asp.

5. Insecticides in the fruits and vegetables we eat

Insecticides are pesticides that are used to kill insects. Their main purpose
or usage is in agriculture where farmers spray insecticides over their crops
to protect them from falling prey to insects. Insecticides save them from
the insects but give them many hazardous chemicals that are far more
dangerous to human health.

Fruits, vegetables, grains, and whatever else that you eat has the effects
of insecticides. Even the meat you eat is not safe from them. Insecticides
are used in medicines that are given to animals, so the insecticides will be
in their flesh.

While insecticides are increasing agricultural productivity,154 some

insecticides were proscribed as they continuously produced toxins for
human health. One such example is that of DDT.

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van Emden HF, Pealall DB (1996) Beyond Silent Spring, Chapman & Hall, London, 322pp
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 I am referring to EPA statistics here. The CPI, Center for Public Integrity,
revealed that two insecticides that were considered safe increased the
number of deaths by 300% by the end of 2007.155

a. Do your best to eat organic food

Therefore, it is best to eat as much organic food as you can. It is important
that you know what organic food means.

Organic foods are grown without the use of pesticides and chemical
fertilizers. These food products are not processed via irradiation, industrial
solvents, or chemical food additives.156

Foods that are organic must be free from artificial additives and must not
involve artificial processing methods like chemical ripening and genetically
modified ingredients.

Some organic foods are sprayed with pesticides too, but keep in mind that
those pesticides are not synthetic. In short, organic foods are safe for you
and safe for the environment.

b. Toxic elimination methods for inorganic food

I would highly recommend you to eat organic fruits and vegetables.
However, if you cannot do so, you must know how to remove toxins
(insecticides, mostly) from the conventionally grown foods.

Buy fresh foods. Avoid food tins. It is better to consume the food as soon
as possible. However, if you want to keep it a little longer, freeze it.

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/31/environment.usa
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Allen, Gary J. &Albala, Ken, ed (2007). The business of food: encyclopedia of the food and drink
industries.ABC-CLIO.p. 288.ISBN 9780313337253.
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Remember; do not refreeze the thawed food. As foods have insecticides
and chemicals on them, wash thoroughly under fresh running water.

When you buy fresh fruits and vegetables along with meat (if you must eat
meat), keep them in separate bags to prevent transfer of toxicity of
insecticides sprayed on them. Likewise, refrigerate them in separate
containers; wash them separately; cut separately, preferably with separate
knives.

Remember, when you try to get rid of bacteria and insecticidal toxins from
food at home, you will not get the best result if your kitchen is not clean
and utensils are not sterilized. Your hands must also be washed before
handling the food.

Running water washes away most of the insecticidal toxins from the food.
Never soak vegetables or fruits in water, as it may lead to cross-
contamination.

If food can be scrubbed with your hands or some brush, scrub it under
running water. For melons, you can scrub the skin with a brush. It will
prevent the toxicity from insecticides on its peel from spreading when you
cut it.

Note: the scrub brush should be sanitized too.

I have seen many people washing fruits like apples, oranges, mangoes,
etc. with household detergents like dishwashing liquids. I would not
recommend doing so, as some of the detergent might stay on the food
and get inside you, which can be hazardous for your health. You can find
food washing detergents from your nearby supermarkets; however, their
safety and effectiveness are not regulated yet.

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 If you have green leafy vegetables, it is good if you peel off some of their
outer leaves and then wash.

These are some of the methods by which you can somewhat reduce the
toxicity of the food you will be eating. Make sure you follow them properly
before actually consuming inorganic foods.

6. Do you get the benefits of the food you eat?

a. Digestion – the most important immune system nobody talks about

Ask dieters; and they will tell you how much they love chewing gum.

It is because it is a “chewing” gum.

Chewing is an important factor in food digestion and controlling hunger.

How?
When you chew your food (solid or “liquid”), production of saliva takes
place. Saliva mixes with food and prepares the stomach for its digestion,
while taking the food smoothly to the stomach through the esophagus. It
also kills germs in the food. Moreover, chewing sends special signals to
the brain to stop generating hunger impulses, and you eat less.

What happens when you do not chew the food properly?

First of all, when you do not chew the food properly, the saliva is not able
to kill bacteria present in it because of its insufficient production, which
also leads to more eating.

Bigger pieces of food enter an unprepared stomach and the stomach

needs to work 5-6 times harder to digest the food. The stomach’s inability
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to digest all of the big pieces of food does not let them enter the small
intestine and the pieces remain in the stomach. Over time, these pieces
ferment and produce toxins. That toxicity affects your body’s entire system
and makes it as toxic as the stomach itself is, as a chain is no stronger
than its weakest link.

Your gut is your root

‘Each organ and every function’ is linked directly to your intestines.

Compare your gut with a plant’s root. Both are hidden and both receive
nutrients. Both are the first things to be toxic. If the root is unhealthy, it
affects the leaves, stems and the flowers too. Even the seeds will be
affected.

Your gut is a very specialized and delicate machine that it needs a specific
set of inputs to operate and provide us with the building blocks of our
bodies. As the creator, nature knows the needs of our gut. It tells us that
only natural foods are for the nature of our guts. When we kicked out
nature from our diet, we invited several unhealthy conditions to come and
attack our weaker bodies.

What happens when your intestine is crying?

When your intestine is in pain, you may suffer from nutritional deficiencies,
disorganized “gut sensations,” seasonal allergies, weight gain, unusual
effects of eating, depression, or constipation.

How your gut can be the root of every problem arising within you

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Can you believe your intestine is a home for several kinds of bacteria?
What would you say if I told you we need those bacteria?

Well, this is true. Those intestinal bacteria help a lot in digestion. If there
were no intestinal bacteria, some of the nutrients might not be able to pass
the intestinal walls and enter into the bloodstream.

These bacteria live inside the folds of the intestine. When food is being
digested, these bacteria suck in nutrients that otherwise would have been
passed out as is, creating a deficiency of nutrients, and causing systems
to break down.

Another reason why they are beneficial is their ability to protect us from
infections. As said earlier, the food we eat contains many germs, bacteria,
and other parasites. If the beneficial bacteria do not take up the entire
lining of the intestine, the toxins can enter the bloodstream. However, the
presence of beneficial bacteria either neutralizes toxins or does not let
parasitic entities enter the main stream. Therefore, intestinal bacteria are
among the first sifters of the body.

Besides, the friendly bacteria speed up the elimination of waste from the
colon; otherwise, this colon will absorb this waste if it stays for too long.

What is dysbiosis?

When pathogenic or bad bacteria defeat friendly bacteria, dysbiosis

occurs.

Unfortunately, our unnatural lifestyle and the toxicity of the environment we

live in have disturbed the intestinal bacterial balance (dysbiosis). Bad
bacteria were always there among the good ones but were suppressed.
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We give them life and kingship through drugs (especially antibiotics),
alcohol, and stress. If we manage to eliminate these factors, our toxic
environment creates dysbiosis in us. It is just inevitable!

Yeasts thrive rapidly on sweets and dairy products, releasing their waste,
producing toxicity. This condition makes us feel puffy, gaseous, and
peeved.

The presence of friendly bacteria prevents many unhealthy and ill

conditions. For example, studies have found that pregnant women who
take probiotics give birth to babies who do not fall prey to diseases and do
quite well academically too. Athletes who have the good fortune of
intestinal bacteria recover faster from injuries.

Revive and regain your bacterial friends through some ‘cleaning

processes’ and get a healthy, disease-free body.

For the most part, the medical establishment is not interested in the
blessings of your internal flora. However, some doctors are taking
initiatives in promoting the benefits of probiotics in public and are passing
this information to other doctors as well.

“Ironically, when I prescribe probiotics, other cardiologists

look at me, puzzled. None of the hospitals I have worked in
during my career had a useful stock of them, nor did I ever
see them prescribed in other departments, although
hospitals are arguably where they’re needed the most.
Even gastroenterologists, those who specialize in
digestive organs, are only now looking at probiotics as a
way to help their patients. Barely a thought is given to the

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 condition of the animal population of the “inner forest”.”157

– Dr. Alejandro Junger, M.D.

Many probiotic products are being manufactured now that claim to treat
bloating, gaseousness, constipation, and other conditions associated with
dysbiosis. However, companies manufacturing them are the same, typical
drug manufacturing companies, with the same approach for making
money.

They tell you that their product has some magical powers to revive your
internal flora alone. They do not speak of the right diet, right
supplementations, right lifestyle and right cleansing processes.

The truth is, if you do not stop eating unhealthy and unnatural foods, you
will never fully regain your friendly bacteria. They will keep on declining
and you will keep on taking those probiotics products, benefiting only the
manufacturers but not yourself.

The best way to resuscitate kindly microbes is to eat a natural,

pathogenic-free diet along with probiotics, eradicate pathogenic bad
food from your lives, and use supplements and the right type and
amount of live bacteria.

Intestinal bacteria improve immune system

As I have mentioned before, most of our immune system’s focus is around

the intestinal region as this is the entry point of toxins into the
bloodstream. Eighty percent of our immune system works here and is

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Dr. Alejandro Junger, M.D., AmelyGreeven, Clean: Remove, Restore, Rejuvenate – the revolutionary program
to restore the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
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known as Gut Associated Lymphatic Tissue (GALT). Therefore, as our
body knows that ‘a stitch in time saves nine,’ it tries to filter out almost all
the toxins there.

The intestinal bacteria keep the immune system alive and alert in the gut
region by teasing it from time to time. If those bacteria tease the immune
system too much, it will start fighting good bacteria.

Antibiotics – Good? Not so good?

Scientists worked remarkably to study disease-causing bacteria.

Eventually, medical science saw the invention of antibiotics that work on
healing diseases by killing bacteria.

Many of us do not know the hazards of antibiotics. They are good, but the
bad surpasses the good. Antibiotics kill good bacteria too along with the
bad ones, destroying our front line army of bacteria, leading to several ill
conditions mentioned already.

Ignoring that fact, antibiotics are being prescribed in huge numbers. This
results in mutant bacteria killing patients.

Understanding the intestinal wall – your first health guard

The intestinal wall is made up of tightly packed intestinal cells in a discrete

pattern with no loose portions. This arrangement of cells makes the
intestinal wall smooth and well built.

Compare it with an ordinary wall of bricks. If bricks are aligned properly

and firmly, your wall appears smoother. However, if bricks have gaps or

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are not aligned, leaks will form for intruders to intrude and invade.

Hence, the first role is of the intestinal cells. You know what keeps cells
healthy and fully functional, don’t you?

Once a nutrient enters the bloodstream, your immune system cannot

recognize whether it is from a chicken piece, a chocolate bar, or a pint of
milk. The body will use it up to carry out some function. The immune
system only knows when the chunks of food are not digested fully and try
to enter the bloodstream through a leaky intestinal wall. That is when your
immune system becomes active and lymphocytes (immune cells) produce
antibodies (fighting agents). They kill the unwanted entities by releasing a
highly toxic and corrosive substance, leading to toxic waste by the end.

Toxicity is the ultimate product of any condition that happens because of a

leaky wall, a condition called leaky gut syndrome.

Under healthy conditions, your cells do not renew too quickly. Under
unhealthy conditions like leaky gut syndrome, when it is urgent to regain
healthy cells quickly, the formation of healthy cells is more likely not to
take place.

That is why I highly recommend the cleaning of your body. I will get back
to cleaning in later chapters.

Autoimmune diseases and GALT

Do you know what autoimmune diseases are?

They are the most puzzling of all the diseases. You suffer from them when

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“foreign” agents and starts destroying your own cells.

Why does the immune system fail?

We are continuously destroying intestinal flora with antibiotics, coffee,

alcohol, smoking, and preservatives. More corrosive, dangerous and
resilient bad bacteria takes over. As it happens, GALT focuses all of its
attention to the matter. The bad bacteria cause leaks that let bigger
chunks enter the bloodstream. GALT identifies them and fights. When the
number of bad bacteria increases, the leaks also increase. This results in
indefinite numbers of big chunks entering into the bloodstream, making
your immune system come back with full force. At this stage, it is very
confusing for your defense army to differentiate between the self and
foreign.

To simplify for your understanding, consider an army that can fight at one
place at a time. When it receives a large number of fight calls from here
and there, it would definitely be in chaos and would end up shooting its
own civilians.

The same happens with your defensive system. It calls to action all of its
response types (mentioned earlier) and attacks with full force what ‘seems’
to be a foreign entity. Read it again. I said what seems to be a foreign
entity. That means the immune system does not get enough time to decide
whether it is its own cell or a foreign cell.

For example, the strep cells inside the throat are very similar to the cells of heart
valves and bone joints. They cause rheumatic fever, the very first known
autoimmune disease. The immune system confuses between strep cells and
heart valve/bone joint cells and starts destroying them. Your joint cells recover,
but heart valve cells remain injured, and you may end up with an open-heart
surgery years later.

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 Consuming an American diet only makes GALT more active and alert
all the time.

This is one scenario. As mentioned earlier, drugs and a polluted

environment also adds to it. Guess how alert your GALT has to be.

Most of the body’s energy is consumed in GALT and digestion processes,

leaving very little for building up, restoring, detoxification, and healing. This
results in fatigue, pains, and laziness along with many diseases.

When your intestinal wall loses its strength, the food that never caused a
problem before starts creating snags too.

So, let your body repair the intestinal wall, reinvest beneficial
bacteria, nourish your immune system, and return to a life full of life.

When you have a healthy GALT working well with good bacteria, you will
never get sick from a cold, flu, sore throat and other common conditions
usually associated with cold weather.

b. Exercises that Make Digestion Stronger

For people who have digestive problems, it is a huge relief to know that
there are exercises that can help. Not only can exercise improve
digestion directly, but it has many indirect effects because it influences our
eating habits and lifestyles as well. Studies have shown that regular
exercise and a healthy diet eases stomach discomfort, diarrhea, and
irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Many exercises help digestive problems. It is important that you choose
one that is enjoyable and fits your personality. Most people find that
walking is a safe and easy way to improve digestion. Keep in mind that
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this is a lifestyle adjustment. Start small, perhaps in 10-minute increments,
and build your way up by exercising daily. Also, remember that intense
exercises can actually upset the digestive system.

Aerobic Exercises
Aerobic exercise boosts your digestive health the same way it boosts the
health of your cardiovascular system. Aerobic stress also reduces weight,
which removes pressure from your abdominal area. This pressure often
causes problems such as indigestion, heartburn, and gastric acid. One of
the most important aspects is that aerobic exercise is known to relieve
stress, which is one of the primary reasons why people retain weight in the
first place. In addition, it is an underlying cause of many digestive
problems such as irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel
disease.
Simply getting up and moving will help your digestive system dramatically.
Try a regular walking regimen of even just 10 to 15 minutes a day and you
will see your digestive system functioning better. A person in good health
may try a heavier work out such as jogging, running, swimming, or
dancing. Stretching is also helpful in alleviating such digestive problems,
such as constipation. Just be sure to schedule your workouts 60 to 90
minutes before and after eating.

Yoga
Yoga was developed in India more than 5,000 years ago as a way of
integrating human consciousness with universal consciousness. Yoga
positions are designed to improve health, and each position has a different
impact on the body. For example, some of the postures restrict blood flow
to a certain part of the body. When the position is released, a rush of
blood and oxygen enter that part of the body, promoting healing.
There are many Yoga Asanas, or poses, which can help to stimulate the
stomach, intestines and pancreas. These poses can help with:
 • Gastrointestinal circulation

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  • Food absorption
 • Reducing acid
 • Increasing mucous production
 • Decreasing gas
 • Removing constipation problems
You should consult with your physician before doing any exercise,
especially if you have recently recovered from surgery or are suffering
from appendicitis, peritonitis, hernia, or abdominal wounds. When
performing Yoga it is important to practice early in the morning on an
empty stomach. It is okay to drink a glass of warm water before beginning.
Do not rush and spend at least half an hour in the morning practicing
yoga. It is important to keep a positive attitude and think of your digestive
system improving as you exercise. When done, relax for 15 minutes in a
Savasana pose, or just lie down consciously with your eyes closed.
Nasal breathing is especially important when it comes to digestion,
explains Nutralegacy.com. This is because the endocrine system has a
direct impact on the digestive process. Pranayama are a set of simple
breathing exercises that are immensely beneficial. The following should be
performed every morning:
i. • Bhastrika
ii. • Kapalabhati Pranayama
iii. • Agnisar Kriya
iv. • Nadi-Sodhana3
The following Yoga Asanas can help you to tone up your digestive and excretory
system:
 • Mandukasana (Frog Pose)
 • Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose)
 • Salabhasana (Locust Pose)
 • Uddiyana Bhanda (Abdominal Lock)

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  • Sarvangasana (Bow Pose)
 • Paschimottanasana (Seated Forward Bend)
 • Savasana (Complete Relaxation Posture)
Using these Asanas on a regular basis will help your digestive system get
stronger; however, keep in mind that it cannot cure your problems if you
continue eating unhealthily. Lower your intake of meat and begin eating
more fruits and vegetables. Drink water and stay away from caffeinated
tea, coffee, and fruit juices.
Qigong
The practice of Qigong (pronounced Chi Gung) is an ancient science that
is a blend between medicine and martial arts. It is designed to promote
emotional balance and the development of mental clarity. It can balance
and heal every aspect of the body, it is said, and through practice
strengthen the body as a whole.
These exercises, developed by Chris Fernie, should be practiced daily
after meals. They promote not only digestion, but weight loss as well. Best
of all, you can practice these exercises after eating. If you are interested in
using Qigong to heal and restore your body’s functioning, try the following
exercises:
Exercise 1 – Bring your hands, palms facing down, at level with your solar
plexus. Fingers should point toward each other, almost touching. Gently
move your hands away from your body, keeping them parallel with the
solar plexus.
Try to sense that you are pulling something away from the solar plexus
when doing this, as if your finger tips are connected to this area by an
invisible elastic string. Move your hands as far away as you can without
losing this connection. Just before the connection is lost, move your hands
back to the original position. Don’t worry if you don’t feel anything at first.
The best effects come from the least effort.
Exercise 2 – This time you will repeat Exercise 1, but bring your hands
level to different points. Aside from the solar plexus, the areas in which to
concentrate on are:

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 The point halfway between the solar plexus and the navel
 • The navel
 • The area (a 3 finger width) below the navel
 • The belly, just below the pubic bone
You may need to change the starting position of the hands to palms up.
Just do whatever is most comfortable.
Exercise 3 – Bring the hands to their original position, described in
Exercise 1. Move them downward and you may sense something moving
down the midline of your body the same speed as your hands. When your
hands reach the bottom of your pelvis, imagine the sensation continuing
through the legs and into the ground.
If you feel stuck, simply repeat Exercise 1 at the level where you feel the
obstruction. Once the area feels lighter, continue with Exercise 3. Some
people experience a sensation of stroking the spine.
More references for improving digestion can be found in the last appendix.

c. Key eating principles

Keep in mind the actual purpose of eating. It is not to provide your tongue with
savors and flavors, but to give your body the maximum nourishment.
Indigestion or poor digestion is very common these days. Check out the figures
of antacids. It will prove to you the problems of indigestion related to improper
combinations and not chewing well.

The most important thing is to eat comfortable amounts of food.

People usually fill their plates to the top with their favorite foods. Then, they fill
their stomachs with those foods.

Even if the food is good food, too much of it stresses the stomach, resulting in
poor digestion and diseases. It is worse than small chunks of bad foods.
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 Take this rule: Stop eating a quarter prior to being full.
When you feel you are 75% satiated stop eating. If you will wait around 15
minutes, you will suddenly feel FULLY satiated without actually eating more.

Ways that increase the efficiency of the digestive system

 Eat slowly
Some little bird said to me eating quickly is like stabbing your stomach
with a knife.

 Chew properly
When you chew well, sufficient saliva enters your food. Saliva contains
several enzymes that help in proper digestion.

 Warm up before eating

A little exercise before eating speeds up the metabolism.

 Do not go to the toilet before eating

If you go to the toilet before eating, your body will be in a state of
cleaning and releasing. Just after the toilet, when your body is still in
that state, you start filling your stomach. This will pull your body into
another state. These two states are not harmonious.
However, NEVER hold your urine or feces. Get rid of them as soon as
possible without any delay. If you don’t do this, the toxins within may
start poisoning your body. Therefore, it is better to delay your meal, but
not the toilet. Free yourself from the waste, wait 10-15 minutes, and
then eat.

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 Always eat while sitting. Never eat or drink anything while standing,
walking, running or playing. Give your full attention to your food.

A walk (even if it’s a light one) just after your meal is in all cases not
good for your body. In addition, do not sleep for at least 4 to 5 hours
after you finish your meal.

 Do not eat carbohydrates and proteins together.

Proteins require acidic juices for their digestion, whereas carbohydrates
need alkaline juices. When they combine, they neutralize, hindering
digestion. This causes several conditions including bloating, a gassy
stomach, nutritional deficiency, constipation, and of course poor
digestion. Improper combinations of food can make your stomach work
overtime, requiring much more energy. Sometimes, it works 12-14
hours a day. That is the reason why you get a whole night’s sleep, but
still feel tired.

 If you are under stress, do not eat

Eating should be enjoyed, no matter what. Stressful eating can lead to
overeating, poor digestion, fermentation, and much more.

 Eat first the foods that digest quickly

It is a tradition that people eat fruits after their meals. This is wrong.
Fruits digest quickly but not in the stomach, in the small intestine. If you
eat them after your meal, they will ferment inside the stomach.

 If you are not hungry, do not eat

I think that makes enough sense!

 Drink very small amounts of liquid with meals

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 Do not drink (including soups) with meals as it hinders digestion. You
can drink 30 minutes after you finish your meal. It is the time when
digestion of food starts.

 Eat a few hours before you sleep

Makes sense!

 If you are drinking fresh juice, keep it in your mouth for some time
and then swallow it.
Juices when kept in the mouth for few seconds lets the salivary
enzymes enter and ease digestion.

 Do not consume vinegar.

Vinegar, like alcohol, contains acetic acid that is lethal for the liver and
obstructs digestion. The best alternative of vinegar is lemon juice. You
can use olive oil as well.

Another interesting alternative is to choose a salad dressing recipe from

a health food store and make it yourself.

 Make sure you always have soft bowels.

Constipation is the worst condition a body can ever experience. Never
let it happen. Choose an herbal remedy to treat this bad condition.

IMPROVE YOUR BLOOD

Improve Your Blood with Wheatgrass Juice

Young wheat plants are a rich source of chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals,

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enzymes, and life energy. The green juice extracted from these wheat plants by
pressing them is what is known as “Wheatgrass Juice.”

Wheatgrass and associated benefits

Primarily, the most vital benefit of wheatgrass is its 70% chlorophyll composition.
Chlorophyll purifies and cleanses your blood, inhibits bacterial growth, and
enhances the work ability of body organs and systems. Chlorophyll contains
more light energy and helps in body building and bulking.

You can get an array of vitamins and minerals from the juice. It is a whole meal,
containing proteins, and rich in enzymes. It also provides a good deal of
calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, sulfur, cobalt, and
zinc.

Chlorophyll and red blood cells

Chlorophyll has an identical molecular structure to that of hemoglobin. The only
difference lies in the central molecule, which in the case of chlorophyll is
magnesium, and iron in hemoglobin. Due to a similar structure, chlorophyll
creates blood instantly.

Wheatgrass and body cleansing

Wheatgrass dissolves the scars of lungs, wipes away drug wastes from the
body, cleanses blood and organs, and drains the lymph system that is
responsible for carrying away acids and toxins from the organs. It halts the birth
and growth of bad bacteria, and helps in free radical destruction.

Wheatgrass is a complete nutritional food package. A pound of

wheatgrass contains as much nutrients and valuables as 23 pounds of
garden vegetables.

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Recommended dose of wheatgrass juice

Take an initial dose of a 1-ounce serving on an empty stomach. As it is a

powerful detoxifier of the liver and large intestine, the daily consumption can be
(I recommend it should be) increased to 5-6 ounces over the day. It is better to
spread the doses evenly throughout the day.

From where can you get it?

I would recommend drinking freshly squeezed wheatgrass juice that can easily
be found at different health food stores. Powdered and tablet forms are available
too.

Use of Glyconutrients to Improve Cell to Cell Communication

Glyconutrients – a recent yet a huge discovery in medical sciences

It is such a breakthrough that it has its own branch of medicine, under the name
The Science of Glycobiology. The 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to
this discovery. Before I continue with the discussion, I would like to add Dr.
Schlachter’s comments on glyconutrients.

Michael D. Schlachter, MD, is on the Board of Certified Internal Medicine and

Pulmonary Disease and is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Nevada
Medical School. He encourages incorporating glyconutrient technology into
medicinal training.

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 "The Biggest revolutionary change in the war against
disease is represented by Glyconutrients."158159

– Dr. M. Schlachter, MD.

Glyconutrients are the carbohydrates that have been researched and studied
recently, and profound benefits have been found linked with them. Different
studies determined that eight glyconutrients, out of over two hundreds, are
essential to your body’s cell communication.

Can you guess what might go wrong when there is poor communication among
cells?

Your body will start functioning improperly or abnormally; and it will not be able
to heal itself. Glyconutrients are one of the nutrients required by the cells to
restore their communication system.

What are glyconutrients?

Glyconutrients are the nutrients that we derive from good active plant sugar. The
eight glyconutrients differ from ordinary sugars in the way they play a role in our
bodies. I am not going into the detail of sugar now as we have already
discussed its role inside our bodies.

Unlike sugars, glyconutrients are not burnt inside the body. Instead, they
become the building blocks called glycoproteins. These glycoproteins form
complex structures on the cell surfaces to improve cell communication.

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Alasdair Barcroft, AudunMyskja “Aloe Vera: Nature’s Silent Healer” – 2003, pg. 228.
Edgar K. fleming“Healing without Drugs”, 2004, pg. 123
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Moreover, glyconutrients are monosaccharaides. Our diets lack them!

These eight sugars form the basis of cellular life, functioning, and intelligence.
Without them, cells would not function properly due to miscommunication.
Malfunctioning can lead to the death of cells.

I refer to a quote from Naoyuki Taniguchi who is a world-renown researcher in

sugar chains, team leader of the Glycomics disease group, and team group
director of Systems Glycobiology Research group at RIKEN Advanced Science
Institute. Taniguchi says:

“Protruding from the surface of cells in the body like

whiskers are sugar chains, a biological structure often
bound to lipids and proteins embedded in the cell
membrane. Recent studies have shown that sugar chains
exhibit a broad range of functions, including signal
transduction between cells and across the cell membrane,
as well as functional regulation of immunity and hormones.

“From among the diverse functions of sugar chains, we

focus on their association with disease. The ultimate goal of
our research is to clarify the mechanisms of the onset of
disease in terms of sugar chains, and to diagnose and treat
disease using those mechanisms. The human body consists
of about 60 trillion cells, and nearly all of them have sugar
chains protruding from their surfaces, rather like whiskers.
Traditionally, it has been thought that the primary functions
of sugar chains are to store energy and build biological
structures. However, it has recently been shown that most
sugar chains occur in the form of glycoproteins or
glycolipids, in which they are bound to lipids or proteins
embedded in the cell membrane.
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 The sugar chain is like the face of the cell. When we
communicate with other people, we look at their face to
identify them. Likewise, cells, as well as proteins and many
other biological molecules, recognize sugar chains exposed
to cell surfaces and bind to them to achieve mutual
communication. Viruses, bacteria and pathogenic toxins
also recognize sugar chains, bind to them, and invade cells.
When cells become cancerous, the sugar chains change and
adopt a structure specific to cancer cells. Hence, the sugar
chain comes to be the ‘face’ of the cancer cell.”160

Glyconutrients and the immune system

Glyconutrients are essential for a healthy and strong immune system. Obviously,
a weak immune system results from a lack of glyconutrients. The body’s
identification and restoration powers require them to be able to identify between
good and bad, and restore the health of its cells.

Why cell-to-cell communication is necessary

Just as we humans need to communicate with each other, cells need that too.
For example, if they find themselves under the threat of some virus or bacteria,
they will inform other cells to help them. Cells protect each other, repair and
restore, feed, regulate, and cleanse each other.

Glyconutrients attach themselves to the outer part of the cells as an antenna is

attached to a phone (cellular/cordless phones). Therefore, glyconutrients are
those antennas that facilitate communication.

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Do we need all of these eight monosaccharide glyconutrients?

Yes. If any of them is missing, proper cell communication cannot take place and
diseases will thrive. You might be wondering how I can link diseases to improper
cell communication. It is very simple. Cells communicate with each other to
determine their health.

Do you remember how immune cells interact with each other to combat a
disease? Glyconutrients strengthen your immune system.
The cells of network antioxidants also communicate with each other for proper
functioning.

Ideal cell communication ensures the body’s effective natural healing.

They maintain the body’s capacity to rectify, patch-up, reinforce, normalize
and guard, preventing it from Lupus disease along with several others.

In the case of Lupus (caused by the deficiency of two glyconutrients namely mannose
and galactose), glyconutrients enhance the roles and capabilities of White Blood Cells
(WBCs). WBCs, as a result, identify and destroy tumor cells, bacteria, fungi, parasites,
and viruses.

Recall how autoimmune diseases occur. The immune system loses its ability to
differentiate between ‘self’ and ‘foreign,’ and autoimmune diseases attack us,
killing our own selves. Glyconutrients can improve this capability.

Can other sugars replace glyconutrients?

When there are not enough glyconutrients for the production of glycoproteins,
the body takes up sucrose or white table sugar for the purpose. However, the
cell communication with these sugars is faulty, again leading to autoimmune
diseases.

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A retroactive study concluded that 100 percent of patients who added
glyconutrients to their diet showed big improvements to Lupus symptoms.161

“These sugars are so important to our health that Mother

Nature has made provisions to insure we get them early on
in life. Breast milk contains all of the essential sugars.”

—Rita Elkins, author of “Miracle Sugars”

Pharmaceutical companies are striving hard to produce glyconutrient drugs from

sugars, but without much luck. MIT, the mecca of science and technology, has
examined these studies, and pharmaceutical companies continue to fund them
at a large scale.162

Food sources of glyconutrients

The richest source of glyconutrients is mothers’ milk. After it, organically

produced and ripened fruits and vegetables are another good source of them.

We consume enough of Galactose and Glucose. Fructose is present in

medicinal mushrooms and seaweeds. Mannose is easily found in Aloe Vera gel,
however its food sources are rare like fenugreek, black/red currants,
gooseberries, green beans, cabbage, eggplant, tomatoes, turnips, shiitake
mushrooms, and kelp.

N-acetylgalactosamine, present in Bovine and shark cartilages, and red algae, is

lacking in our diets. You can take N-acetylglucosamine supplements to treat

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arthritis. N-acetylneuraminic acid is present in whey protein.

Guava, pears, blackberries, loganberries, raspberries, Aloe Vera gel, Kelp,

Echinacea, boswellia, psyllium, spinach, eggplant, peas, green beans, okra,
cabbage and corn are good sources of Xylose.

Scientists believe that goji berries contains all the vital glyconutrients.

For their suppliers, see the information here:

http://www.glyconutrientsreference.com/whosuppliesglyconutrients.html
Choose a brand that sells real quality.

Studies and research on glyconutrients

Glyconutrients have been under the microscope recently and thousands of
studies have been done. More than 70,000 research papers on them have
published globally.

"I really believe that Glyconutrients are something that will

become mandatory for overall health, and the reason I have
come to these conclusions is because I have spent the past
several months doing what I call research on the research.
And when I would do searches on glyconutrients, and
especially a lot of different disease processes, I was floored
by the number of quality studies that are out there that have
shown such benefit and promise in a myriad of diseases
ranging from diabetes to arthritis."163

—Rob Ortmann, MD Immunologist and Research Scientist

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Promoters and advocators of glyconutrients
1. The Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) grades glyconutrients a
recommended way out for compromised immune systems.
2. A medical course book called Harper’s Biochemistry has been teaching
professionals about glyconutrients since 1996.
3. See what Scientific American says in the July 2002 story Sweet Medicine.
“Sugars modify many proteins and fats on cell surfaces and participate in such
biological processes as immunity and cell-to-cell communication.”
4. NIH funded Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA with $34 million to
study the role of glyconutrients.
5. For more information, you can visit here:
http://www.glyconutrientsreference.com/whatareglyconutrients/scientificval
idation.html

EXERCISE TO TREAT – the most powerful “drug”

You and I have heard of the benefits of exercising regularly. There is no doubt
that you cannot actually be healthy unless you exercise habitually. I refer to it as
a drug, a prescription drug that should be present in every treatment. Whether
you suffer from Lupus disease or any other disease, you can think of exercise
as a required treatment for it. Therefore, I call it a powerful drug!

I discussed aerobic exercises earlier. You know what benefits they hold. Besides
them, your exercise routines should include strength training as well. This
training helps the rest of your routine and gets you into a good frame of mind,
improving your health.

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Aerobic exercises vs. strength training

I would prefer doing both and would recommend you do the same. However, if
you are too busy to incorporate both into your daily schedule, and you have the
time for only one, I would suggest going for aerobic or cardiovascular exercises.
Nevertheless, at the same time, it is much healthier and far better if you do both
at least twice a week.

Intense training

Aerobic exercises are intense and should be carried out at an intense level.
Some people confuse it with a 90-minute walk. That is NOT intense. If, during
exercise, you find it difficult to talk and carry on with your conversation, you are
working out intensely. Do intense aerobic exercise for a while and then drop
back by half.

For at least 90 minutes a day, push your body for the intensity.

Always listen to your body

If your body starts aching during exercise, or some other problem is not letting
you work out, stop. Your body desperately needs exercising, but in that case,
you should cut it down. Begin with as much exercise as your body can bear.
Once your body is toned for more, go for a little more.

Indoor exercise - elliptical

If you cannot go outside due to some injury, weather, or any other reason,
exercise at home or at a health club. For indoor exercising, elliptical is the best
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equipment to use for exercise.

Personally, I like the equipment. It gives you a complete workout routine and is
easy on your joints.
There are two types of elliptical.
1. Fixed base with moving arms
2. Rotary base with wide range of motion that use your arms

I would recommend you to go for the second type as legs have more mass than
your arms have. Go for an elliptical machine that offers you wide range of
motion and inclinations. Set the resistance and frequency of steps per minute to
an intense level so that you cannot talk with anyone.

Further, I would suggest you to change the incline settings by one level every
minute. Reverse your movements of legs also.

Which brand of elliptical machine is good for you?

Well, if you ask me as my personal opinion, I would go for Precor elliptical. I

found them to be the best manufacturer of elliptical equipment so far. However,
if you find some good machine of a different brand, you can obviously go for that
too.

The best approach to exercise – interval training

There is no single study, but mountains of evidence that shorter rushes of

movement with rest periods in between is the best and the most effective way to
work out. This is known as interval training or intensity interval training.

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Recent studies have shown that interval training, even if not that intense, burns
more fat. It can improve cardiovascular health as well.164

Therefore, the bottom line is to exercise regularly incorporating intensity

interval and strength training. Start with your own pace at which your
body is comfortable and gradually increase it. Bring in variety. Make it
your habit.

YOUR MIND AND YOUR BODY – The scientifically proven

direct influence

Your mind is the decision maker and controls everything. I mean literally
everything, as I will prove it in the next chapters. However, I am briefly
describing to you how important your mind is to your body. The mind has some
ingredients that upon release can destroy or build your body.

Whatever you think, your attitude, your outlook, in fact your complete mindset
affects your health directly. No pill, no disease, and no doctor can create
such massive changes as your mind can.

Therefore, my agenda now is to guide you towards a positive mindset that will
create a healthy body, fighting every disease including Lupus disease,
ultimately.

Many people believe that all the mind has to do is to think, make decisions, set
emotions and beliefs. In reality, your mind does much more.

A new research area “psychoneuroimmunology” is working to reveal the link

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between our thoughts and our immune system.

Why do most doctors not speak about this?

It is common sense. If doctors start telling you that your mind alone can trigger
positive or negative reactions inside you, then what are they doing? They will
lose the reason for them to be here and treat you. However, hold on! I am not
saying doctors should not exist. After all, doctors are the ones who know the
physics, biology, and attitude of the body. That is what they were taught in
medical schools. There is no one better than a doctor (after you) who can guide
you towards the right direction.

It has been scientifically proven that fear affects your immune system.

Fearful people have dropped down their immune system’s T-cells. Similarly,
anger, guilt, worry, anxiety, grief, depression, hate, jealousy, self-pity, and
resentment are relatives of fear and are poisons to your body. They dampen
your nerve cells and deprive them of energy. When nerve cells lose energy,
diseases attack!

What are witchery customs that affect your body?

Witchery customs are nothing but our own power of perception. A cursed person
loses hope and experiences deep anxiety. He thinks and believes completely
that death will soon take him. This mindset, a strong mindset, is what leads to
his death and not the curse. Voodoo deaths are one example.

Another example prevails in Haitian culture where people strongly believe in the witch
doctors. They think the customs of those witch doctors kill them. However, it is their
BELIEF in the power of occultist doctor that kills them.

It is a crime for a doctor to scare his patients by telling them about their
diseases.
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What is a DIRECTED mind?
A directed mind is one that is focused on positive thoughts only. Positive
thoughts enable the mind to deal positively with every situation and express all
good feelings and emotions. Therefore, a directed mind is capable of giving you
positive energies along with happiness and health.

The Relationship between Your ‘Mind’ and the Mind of your Cells,
the DNA

We discussed the role of the cell’s brain that tells the cell what to do, when to do
it, and how to do it. Our mind is a mega mind. It controls the minds of cells.
Hence, it controls every activity of the body that occurs at the cellular level.

“Every cell in the body has a mind. Every cell creates

messenger chemicals. These chemicals are secreted in
response to feelings, emotions, beliefs, and intentions.
Whenever we have a feeling, it’s happening throughout the
body — at the same instant in time.”

—Dr. Deepak Chopra

Stress

You know what stress is, as everyone undergoes it at a certain point in life.
Stress affects your brain directly. When you are under stress, stressors in your
body send messages to neurons. Neurons, in turn, secrete certain hormones

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that activate the alarm system of your body.165

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) immediately responds to stress via fight-
or-flight response. These responses bring changes in the cardiovascular,
respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal and endocrine systems.166

The overall process finally secretes Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) that

enters the main bloodstream of your body. It, in turn, produces cortisol and
glucocorticoids. They both create a compound called cortisone.

Cortisone is used in anti-inflammatory medicines for treating skin rashes,

asthma and sinusitis. Your brain uses the same substance to subdue your
immune system and body inflammation.167

Chronic stress leads to a disastrous immune system, which results in many

diseases including Lupus disease. It hinders development and growth in
children by lowering the growth hormones. Moreover, it affects the memory
portion of the brain where you store and process your memories. High stress
levels create high levels of visceral fat in the body. That means it indirectly
causes heart disease and other health problems too.168

Laughter therapy

I have been telling you how a bad attitude affects your health and your body.
Laughter is one medicine that puts aside all the bad emotions, healing Lupus

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and other diseases, even cancer. When you laugh, serotonin and endorphins
(the happy chemicals) are released. These chemicals make you feel good,
healthy and energetic.

In 1928, Dr. James Walsh, an American doctor, wrote a book named

Laughter and Health. In the book, he stated one of his discoveries that
laughter reduces pain after surgery.

You must have heard a quote “fake it until you make it.” If you are not happy, just
pretend to be happy. Create an atmosphere that can lead you towards it. Find
ways that please you. Push yourself into them. Your body will be tuned and you
will come to a happy conclusion.

Therefore, laughing even when you do not want to laugh can eventually make
your body smile and then laugh!

How laughter helps

When you laugh, natural killer cells, Gamma-interferon, T-cells, and B-cells are
released. Natural killer cells abolish tumor and viral cells. Gamma-interferon is a
protein that combats diseases. T-cells are important immune cells. B-cells
produce antibodies for destroying diseases.

Moreover, it reduces blood pressure, thus treating hypertension. Laughter also

subdues stress hormones, increases oxygen levels in the blood, and stimulates
healing.

A wonderful example in the history of laughter therapy comes from Norman Cousins. In
his book Anatomy of an Illness, he described how he fought against a serious
degenerative disease about which his doctors were not hopeful. He sunk into
medications and other treatments, but when he saw no signs of improvement, he
abandoned everything. He took a room in a hotel and spent 8 hours daily watching

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 comedy movies. Cousins recovered his health and died 30 years later. The story
appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine of that time.

Laughter is a miraculous prescription drug that is not being prescribed. It

is free and it is safe. It saves your life!

One of my friends, Dr. Lee Berk of Loma Linda University in the United States
found out that laughter decreases the levels of blood cortisol. Abnormal levels of
cortisol cause abnormalities in adrenal or pituitary glands. It is caused by stress,
strenuous activities, infection or an injury. Professor Barak found an increase of
27% in Endorphin.

In 2009, he presented, along with Dr. Stanley Tan, at a conference of the

American Society for physiological research, a study where half of the 20
diabetic patients were following laughter therapy.169 These patients balanced
their sugar and cholesterol levels by watching comedy movies. The markers of
inflammation were also low in those patients.

They concluded that laughter reduces the risk of atherosclerosis, and thereby
reduces the risk of heart attack and brain damage.

I strongly suggest that you laugh out all your diseases including Lupus disease.
Swim in joy and keep yourself happy. This is the key for a happy body.

Watch this short video about laughter therapy as described

by an Indian doctor. This may sound funny to you, but
American studies are proving it true.

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nwcMxARBSQ

Laughter Yoga Club

There are laughter yoga clubs. Ask people who join these clubs how they feel
after it. Regular followers of laughter yoga clubs will tell you that colds and flu
are now a thing of past for them. Some people also report that their
Fibromyalgia (an illness with muscle aches) hurts less after joining a laughter
yoga club. They do not experience fatigue.

This system developed some 15 years back, but India has excelled in it. It is a
way to improve mood and health, especially when there is no reason to laugh!

In 1995, Dr. Madan Kataria developed laughter yoga.170 A total of 516 people
participated regularly in the program. Of that number, 60% had at least one
disease. Of those, 84% noticed improvements in their conditions after laughter
yoga, and 56% reported moderate to significant improvements. As a result of
this,44% of them cut down their medication levels. Moreover, no one reported
signs of adverse side effects.

Not only this, but 83% said they had improved family lives after laughter yoga,

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86% gained confidence, and 67% reported more focused concentration. Above
all, 99.6% were happily continuing the laughter yoga.

“How is laughter healthy?” – watch the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWOIMqxKswg

Recently, scholars and researchers have started studying the effects of laughter.
However, they are facing difficulties in getting funds, as laughter cannot be
patented!

Another reason that laughter stands out among all the drugs is its ability to
positively affect the whole of your body, unlike prescription drugs whose effects
are localized. It activates the inherent healing power within us.

We are energy – the law of attraction

If I said you are energy, would you believe me?

Everything in the universe, including you, is energy. Take for example the

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human body. What you are you made of? Cells! Cells are made up of
molecules. A molecule is comprised of two or more atoms. An atom consists of
sub-atomic particles – protons, neutrons, and electrons. These particles are
NOT made up of energy, but they themselves ARE energy, continuously
vibrating.

Hence, if I say, I am energy, you are energy, every one of us, and everything
around us is energy, it is true.

So, if we are all the same energy, why are we different from each other?

We are different because the information within those energy particles is

different for everyone.

We are energies vibrating at different frequencies. Two energies of varying

frequencies attract each other – the law of attraction. The law states that
whatever you focus on, whether knowingly or not, you get attracted to it in your
life. That is, your inner world defines your outer physical experience. This law is
universal and mathematical accuracy proves it too, like the law of gravity and
electricity.

You cannot control it from happening. You are always subject to this law,
whether you know it or not. Whatever you think, you bring it out in real life. The
same way, through your thoughts and emotions, you can control the
health of your body.

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It

cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”171–
Albert Einstein

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You can control your thoughts, focus, and feelings, thereby controlling your
energy flow. As I said, energy is vibrating, so we attract those things whose
resonances match ours. Your vibration is your feeling. Positive vibrations lead
you towards eliminating different diseases.

Therefore, I would encourage you to keep an eye on your thoughts and

feelings, in short your mindset. Never let negative moods stay around for
long. Change your focus to something positive at once.

I have met several people in my life, I am sure you have met some too, who
suffer from some disease and continuously keep on discussing it. Their talk is
full of self-pity and they expect others to feel sorry for them. Behaving in this
way, they are doing nothing but inviting the disease to worsen by radiating
negative vibrations.

“In order to change the print out of the body, we must learn
to rewrite the software of the mind.”172

—Deepak Chopra, M.D.

I would suggest you to visit this webpage at http://www.themiracleman.org/ and

see what it says about your mindset.

Summary: Let’s Rebuild Our Bodies

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 The quality of health of your cells establishes the quality of your overall
health. Cells need proper oxygen, water, nutrients, a positive mindset, and
alkalinity for their health.

 Deficiency of oxygen leads to many diseases, as bacteria flourishes in an

anaerobic environment.

 Regular breathing exercises can increase oxygen levels and eliminate

body waste. Deep diaphragmic breathing, Dia-kath breathing, and aerobic
exercises are a few ways to maximize oxygen intake.

 Air pollution causes a lack of oxygen in the environment with the inclusion
of several hazardous chemicals that contaminate the human body and
invite diseases. Efforts should be made to control air pollution, both
individually and by the population as a whole.

 Our bodies are more than 70% water within which cellular functions take
place. Without it, the whole body system can collapse.

 A person should fulfill the body’s water requirements by drinking as much

water as half of their body weight (in ounces). There is no replacement for
pure and fresh water.

 Water contamination decreases the quality of water we drink. The best

water for consumption is filtered water.

 The optimum acid-alkaline balance of your body is 7.365, i.e. a little

alkaline. An acidic environment of the body is good for the growth of
germs.

 Human kidneys, lungs and skin are working hard to eliminate acidic toxins
from the body, as a small pH imbalance can result in big diseases. Food
and lifestyle affect internal pH balance.

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 A person should consume whole, live, organic plant-based foods, whole
grains, fresh fruits and vegetables. Include fiber-rich foods, supplements,
omegas, and antioxidants in your diet. Eliminate animal-based, cooked
and processed foods.

 Follow the key principles of eating. Chew well. Enjoy eating. Properly
combine foods. Eat comfortable amounts. Follow the ways that boost the
efficiency of the digestive system.

 Wheatgrass improves the quality of blood. Glyconutrients enhance cell-to-

cell messages.

 A positive mindset improves the healing power of the body. Fear and its
counterparts like anger, anxiety, jealousy, depression etc. have a negative
effect on your immune system, and hence on your health.

 Exercise regularly with intensity and strength training.

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 Cleansing Your Body

What is a toxin?

We have been discussing toxins every now and then. We know it is something
we do not want. However, what are they actually?

A toxin is something that interrupts normal body functions and physiology in a

negative way. They are numerous in number depending upon their types,
behaviors, and sources.

One type of toxin is endotoxins. Endo means inside. Our cells produce these as
waste inside our bodies. Uric acid, ammonia, lactic acid, and homocysteine are
its examples. Our body eliminates them. However, if they are not properly
thrown out of the body, their build up causes several diseases like, in the case of
surplus uric acid, gout.

Another type is exotoxins or xenobiotics that are present outside our bodies in
the environment. They are manmade. We invent numerous chemicals every
year that, either alone or in a group, are harmful for normal cell functioning.

In the following paragraphs, I will mention and discuss some toxins that should
be cleaned out of the body. I will also tell you how to measure their levels, how
they affect our bodies, and what the treatment should be to remove their
negative effects. Then, we will learn the ways to protect ourselves from toxins.

Where do they come from?

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I have a noticeable number of several hundred toxins in my body. This is true for
you. This is true for everyone. It is because we are exposed to a toxic load
comprised of pesticides, phthalates, mercury, trans-fatty acids, benzene,
trihalomethanes, etc. By an estimate, an average American faces thousands of
destructive chemicals (exotoxins) every day.

What to look for, when you want to know the toxin sources, follows.

First source - Your very own skin

Your skin is comprised of a single layer of cells that is very thin. It is in constant
motion, looking for the things coming in contact with it from the environment.
This skin decides what should be taken inside the body and what should be
discarded. It also allows the inside waste to be eliminated from the body.

We’ll discuss each type of skin cell.

Epithelial cells

Epithelial cells make what we call skin. These cells are dry and tough and, when
sick, we go to a dermatologist. These cells are particularly exposed to toiletries
and cosmetics that produce toxins. We doctors prescribe creams, gels and
ointments for treating a condition. This is because the skin (epithelial cells)
absorbs them and they enter into the bloodstream.

In the same way, cosmetics, sprays and toiletries come in contact with the skin
and enter into the main bloodstream of our body where they produce toxins. I
would advise you to think of them as food. As you would eat only what is best
and healthy for you, similarly use products that have ingredients that are safe for
you. If a particular product shouts out to you, be wise and check the ingredient
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list.

What do cosmetic products and toiletries have in them?

They have dyes, foaming agents, heavy metals as stabilizers and texturizers,
tanners, inks, alcohol, and many other potentially dangerous chemicals. Name a
product, and it will contain them. Whether it is a nail product, hair product,
deodorant, bathroom product, products in your nearby salon or nail spa, they all
contain chemicals that do not occur naturally and may cause allergies and
sensitivities.

Problems these products create

Skin and hair products contain a particular chemical group called parabens.
Parabens cause endocrine system problems.
Many deodorants contain aluminum. It stops you from sweating by closing the
pores after entering into the bloodstream. Pores are meant to eliminate toxic in
the form of sweat and deodorants retain it inside the body.

Tap water and skin

We use tap water for washing and bathing. When we take a shower, the tap
water runs through our bodies. Our bodies absorb the same water, it enters into
the blood and affects our body in the same manner that drinking water does.
City water contains chlorine that is intentionally added to water to make it germ-
free. However, when chlorine enters the body, it causes bacterial slaughter in
the intestine (recall the friendly bacteria of intestines). Some reports also show
the presence of prescription drugs like antidepressants, antibiotics, hormones,
and immunosuppressant in the tap water.

Air and the skin

The epithelial cells of the skin are also in constant contact with the air around
us. We have discussed air pollution as well. Recall all the toxins air has in for us.
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The same chemicals enter into our bodies first through the skin.

Mucosal cells

Mucosal cells are the second type of skin cells that are wet and soft but not
visible to the naked eye. They form the cell walls of the alveoli, urethra, vagina,
and uterus. They form the walls of the first skin in areas we cannot see. Some
people think of them as being inside our bodies. In fact, they separate inner and
outer environments just the way the epidermis does.

When you inhale air, the air travels through the trachea and bronchi and hits the
alveoli. The walls of the alveoli have mucosal cells that take in oxygen. Now, you
know what pollutants mucosal cells might be facing with the air from cars,
factories, and cigarette smoke. But, more than that, have you ever thought of
the hair spray you breathe in? It is much more lethal than aerial toxins.

Mucosal cells and the digestive tract

Mucosal cells also form the skin lining of the inside of the digestive tract,
frequently busy dealing with the toxins we take in through our mouth.
Toothpaste, mouth fresheners, mouthwashes, and dental products all contain
toxic chemicals.

The food we eat, good or bad, when it enters the intestinal region, is absorbed
into the bloodstream. The present day American diet is toxic. We have seen the
acidic and toxic effects that the food we consume daily has inside our bodies.
Besides food, everything else that enters the intestine also gets into the blood,
for example drugs and medications. They contain chemicals that are meant to
cure us. However, their side effects create much havoc inside us too.

Looking again at the hazards of certain drugs

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Just to support what I am telling you here, let us have a look at some commonly
and frequently used drugs and their effects.

 Beta blockers (for cardiac arrhythmia and high blood pressure) create Co
Q10 deficiency.
o Co Q10 upholds normal heart functioning, normal blood pressure and
normal energy levels.
 Statins (for lowering cholesterol) reduce Co Q10, calcium and beta-
carotene.
o Calcium makes bones stronger and clots blood.
o Beta-carotene enhances the immune system and is good for vision.
 Oral contraceptives (for preventing pregnancy) diminish vitamin B2,
vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and zinc.
o Vitamin B2 is essential for eyes, nerves, and skin.
o Vitamin B6 saves you from depression, cardiovascular disease, and
sleep disorders.
o Vitamin B12 prevents anemia and weakness.
o Zinc boosts immunity and enhances taste and smell sensors.

Now look at your life. How much do you rely on medicines? Drugs are created
for special purposes. They should be taken at proper times and with proper
usage, while working on boosting the immune system at the same time.

Second source – what you apply on your skin

This entails clothing, cleansers, processors, colors, and perfumes that we apply
on top of the skin.

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The clothes we wear
If we talk only about the clothes we wear, they come in direct contact with our
skin and are sprayed with different heavy pesticides. These pesticides are much
stronger than the ones sprayed on foods.

Cotton clothing
Like other crops, pesticides are sprayed heavily on cotton. According to an
estimate, 25% of the world’s total pesticide and 10% of insecticide goes on
cotton crops. The same spray and its chemicals are not only absorbed by
cotton, but also enter into air, water, and soil. Cotton is used in making clothes.
However, these chemicals from cotton enter into our food via cottonseed given
to cows.

Synthetic clothing
Besides cotton, synthetic petroleum based clothes like acrylic, nylon, polyesters,
etc. also deliver adverse effects to the environment and can transfer toxins to us
too. Moreover, these clothes do not let your sweat evaporate. Instead, the body
reabsorbs the toxins released with sweat.

Formaldehyde resin clothing

Different textile manufacturers include formaldehyde resin in their products. It is
added for giving the clothes non-iron, waterproof, and shrink-proof qualities.
This chemical is usually present in sheets and beddings of polyester-cotton mix.

In beddings like these, when you sleep, you summon different adverse reactions
like insomnia, headaches, asthma, and skin rashes.

Plastic shoes
You must have seen a new trend of wearing plastic shoes, especially in the
summer. Certain plastic water bottles that contain Bisphenol-a (BPA) have been

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plastic bottles are harmful for the water, what are the dangers of plastic shoes
for your sweaty feet in the summer?

Not only this, there are detergents, highly toxic dryer sheets, dry cleaning fluids,
and skin products that contain unnatural and toxic chemicals that are harmful for
the environment and harmful for you and your body. The chemicals used for dry
cleaning are known to cause liver, kidney, and neurological damage.

Third source – your home and workplace

This source has a somewhat bigger horizon. It is the space, the environmental
space, we live in that includes our homes, our work areas, etc. Environmental
pollution you have understood so far. I also discussed indoor pollution that is
much more concentrated with pollutants than outdoor pollution. It is due to the
emissions from furnishings, dyes, paddings, sprays, veneers, fire retardants,
floorboards, dirt, dander, cigarette smoke, and wall-to-wall synthetic carpeting.

Vinyl shower curtains

You have probably heard of asbestos and lead that should be eliminated from
your house and you must be trying to do this. However, have you ever given a
thought to your shower curtains hanging in your bathroom? Well, they emit
certain chemicals that are far more hazardous than asbestos and lead, and you
are neglecting them. When you bought your new shower curtains, you must
have experienced a different smell coming from them, which over time would
have been gone. Yes, that is what they emit (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) and you
inhale it through your nose and mouth.

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Household cleaners and stuff

The cleaners we use every day cleaning our homes are synthetic and contain
chemicals. These products cause a variety of severe diseases from cancer to
heart disease. To give you an idea, let me put a few examples here.
 Bleach causes reproductive disorders in men and learning and behavioral
problems in children.
 Carpet fumes can cause cancer and liver problems.
 Air fresheners are filled with poisonous gases that spread out in rooms
and that we inhale.

These are just a few of the products we use regularly, and I have mentioned
their “individual” effects only. You can easily figure out how massively
destructive they can be when combined and their chemicals react with each
other.

Paints, glues, dyes, etc. contain toxins that are extremely bad for you.

Cleaners and bacteria

We use anti-bacterial products for cleansing purposes. Their claim to kill 99.9%
of bacteria kills the friendly bacteria within us too. This makes us prone to
bacterial invasion and our immunity against them decreases. There are eco-
friendly products coming into the market that are replacing toxin-loaded cleaning
products. All you need to do is to make “wise consumer choices”.

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Fourth source – your environment

Everything outside the third source expanding up to our planetary horizon

makes up the fourth source of toxins. This contains innumerable toxins that
arise from agriculture, industries, and transportation.

Everyone knows the smoke and chemicals that vehicles and factories emit.
Sprays and chemical fertilizers also pollute the environment, both air and land.
Factories discharge their waste by-products into the sea, polluting water and
killing marine life.

If you live near a man road or some factory, or in a busy city, heart diseases can
threaten you more.

Heavy metals and your body

Cadmium, mercury, arsenic, chromium, and lead are entering into the
atmosphere and food in greater numbers now. As they are attracted to fats, they
affect the brain the most (90 percent of the brain is fats). Mercury deposition in
soil and surface water is taking place too. This gets into the plants and
eventually into animals that feed upon them.

The higher you go on the food chain, the more mercury toxin you will find.

Electrical objects and your body

Electromagnetic waves also harm your body. Power lines, cell phones,
headsets, computers, hence any electrical equipment that you use or see
around you emits radiation, causing the same adverse effects as chemical
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Even lower frequencies can result in brain damage and miscarriages.

Toxic food

We eat food all the time. We eat when we are happy. We eat food in distress.
We eat in celebration. We eat in meetings. We eat watching TV. We eat in bed.
We eat at the dining room table. We eat all the time and everywhere.

Therefore, if I say we are what we eat, I would not be wrong. We actually are the
foods we consume.

This way of eating has changed over time and it has changed our lifestyles too.
If you look back to a time when people used to live by the shore, there were no
houses and no refrigerators. People used to hunt for their food and ate it fresh.
Moreover, they ate food when they felt hunger.

With the passage of time, villages appeared. Then the towns and cities evolved.
Man invented the freezer and refrigerator, and kept food for a long time, making
it available to germs. In addition to that was the production of chemical
preservatives and additives.

Foods in the supermarket are full of additives and preservatives that are not
good for your health at all, as we have already seen. Preservatives are added to
increase the food’s shelf life, and additives are added to enhance their taste,
smell and color. The remaining small percentage of food undergoes processing
methods such as irradiation that is also harmful.

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 I must share with you astonishing news about a fish farm that was penalized for raising
fish that were being fed with tainted dog food. People consumed that fish. Can you
imagine people consuming a food that was not even good for their dogs!

How can you save yourself from toxic foods?

The answer is simple and you already know it. Buy fresh foods with little or
no chemical additives and without unnatural or synthetic processing. It is
a safer way to get more nutrients and less or no toxicity.

What do I mean by unnatural food processing and chemical additives?

I already have been discussing it. It includes:

 Chemical fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides
 Hormones to beef up animals to give more flesh and milk
 Antibiotics to prevent animals from being diseased
 Radioactivity like x-rays for slaying bacteria that kills nutrients too
 Heat treatment for slaughtering pathogens that kills enzymes too
 Hydrogenation for increasing shelf-life by shifting fats and oils that kills
your cells too
 Superficial measures like waxing to make fruits more appealing

The way we package foods today

When there were no plastic bags, we used to buy fruits, vegetables, or meat
from the shop wrapped in paper or carried in our baskets. As plastic bags
appeared, we started using them, not knowing that their toxic chemicals can
enter the food we eat.

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Phthalate is what we encounter most of the time. It is present in plastic bags and
plastic bottles of water and beverages. Even when it enters into our bodies in a
very small amount, its effect can be adverse over time as it builds up.

One of the effects it has is on our hormones. Phthalates disturbs the message-
carrying functionality of hormones, resulting in improper overall body function.
Breast and prostate cancers are the results of hormonal imbalance.

Toxins sing in a chorus

You should know two things about toxins. One, they grow faster in your
cells and tissues than outside of the body. Two, they can affect you in
isolation and in groups.

I do not want to waste your time by getting into the details of point one,
repeating what you already know. You know how harmful toxins are, and you
should avoid them as much as you can. If you are ever exposed to them,
cleanse yourself.

Let us discuss their collaboration. You know anything that can affect us
separately has double or triple the effect in groups. Toxins have the same effect
on our bodies. People who claim that the nutrients in their products are 100%
toxin free are actually mistaken. We know that our soil, air, water, and food are
toxic loads. They enter our bodies together. Their toxins affect us in teamwork.
What I want to tell you is, never underestimate the role of toxins as being
confined to only one toxin. There are several toxins harming you at one time.
Think of what disaster they must be creating inside you!

One example is that of a party of pesticides entering into seas and lakes and affecting
fish more than a single pesticide does. Similarly, the fluoride present in the toothpaste
we use and the water we drink enters our bodies and make us iodine deficient.
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If a single toxin harms us a little, the combined effect of multiple toxins would
be very great. That is, harmful chemical reactions within our bodies may be
taking place in thousands of small ways occurring at the same time in different
places.

Polystyrene packaging materials also emit styrene (a toxic chemical) that enters
the food it contains. A survey, conducted with people consuming foods from
styrene packets, showed that 100% of them had styrene in their fats. Now, take
a look at the combined effect of the chemicals.

You go to a supermarket and purchase steak wrapped in plastic wrap and

placed on a polystyrene tray. That same steak you take home and grill. Grilling
leaves some black areas. Blackened foods have cancer-causing properties.
Then you put on some sauce containing preservatives and additives. It is
mouthwatering, isn’t it?

Hard plastic bottles contain another chemical, Bisphenol-A (BPA). When BPA
accumulates within your body, it causes cancer.

“We are what we eat” vs. “we eat what we are”

Which one makes sense to you?

Understanding we are what we eat is easier. Obviously, whatever we eat will

turn into the building blocks of our muscles, tissues, cells, hormones, and
enzymes. If we consume healthy food, our build up will be healthier. If we take in
toxins, we will be a body of toxins.

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“We eat what we are” is a bit confusing, but not wrong. The diet we currently
consume (toxic-full) makes our energy levels go up and down. When we are
down, we want that conventional diet again. The mucous inside us builds up
when we eat toxins, as it traps toxicity. Toxins, in turn, increase the mucous level
of our body that craves for more toxins. Therefore, we eat more of it, proving the
fact that we eat what we are.

After having cleansed the mucous, there is no more craving for toxic food. Your
body is healthy and will only desire healthy food.

Toxins in your body

A state of the body exists that western medicinal practices do not see. However,
the medical traditions of India name it as amma. They do not care about the
source of it. They just concentrate on getting rid of it through diet, herbal
treatments and yogic breathing. Western medicine overlooks the condition, as
there is no name for it.

This state entails the following conditions, that almost everyone experiences.
 Loose skin instead of being firm and tight
 Dark circles under the eyes, especially early in the morning
 Swelling
 Thin bodies with bulging tummies – not able to shed extra pounds even
with exercising – turgid intestines and constipation
 White tongue in the morning (scrape it off with a tongue scraper – it occurs
when you eat late night when your digestive system should rest)
 Lack of liveliness – dull, boring, and heavy feelings

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What is mucus?

Mucus is phlegm. It is body’s self-defense system.

When you inhale cayenne pepper accidentally, your nose starts running. This is
because the pepper irritates your nose that secretes mucus to trap it. After the
mucus has trapped the pepper, your body tries to get rid of it by pushing out
mucus from the nose.

In the same way, mucus production inside the stomach and intestines prevent
their linings from being irritated by such irritants. This also results in
constipation.

If these irritants get into the bloodstream, they irritate the blood cells and
vessels, creating mucus inside the vessels’ linings, and reach everywhere in the
body, affecting the body’s cells and tissues. As a result, mucus is produced to
trap them. As mucus is acidic, it adds to the toxic and acidic state of the body.
Moreover, mucus has a spongy nature that absorbs water from the cells. This
results in swelling, bloating, and dull feelings.

The need for detoxification

You can get rid of the toxic mucus from your nose easily by forcing it out through
sneezing and blowing. However, what happens when it is deep inside your body
where sneezing and blowing does not help?

When there is mucus all around, your body tries to get rid of it by detoxification.
If the toxins are too great, your body will fail to do so, as much of its energy has
to be used to digest the food you eat. This doesn’t leave enough energy to
detoxify your body at the same time.

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The toxins will keep on building. You will feel lazy and will be unable to shed
those extra pounds, which are making a part of you ugly.

Help your body to detoxify itself by cutting out bad foods and giving it
healthier, nutrition-filled foods. This might take some time to show its
good effects, but you will feel the magic eventually. Your body will start
cleansing itself, eliminating mucus, shedding extra weight, tightening up
your skin, and making you feel energetic.

Can mucus be good?

Yes, your intestinal linings have a thin coating of antimicrobial mucus that kills
bad bacteria, while promoting good ones.

However, when you eat too much of the food that is harder to digest like meat,
dairy, carbohydrates, etc., bad mucus builds, making another coating of it.
Mucus coatings become dense and nutrients do not get absorbed. Digestion
remains incomplete and constipation occurs, resulting in the reabsorption of
toxins. Indigested food ferments, causing bad bacteria and mucus to flourish,
and increasing the body’s overall toxicity.

When this happens, you feel headaches and body pains. Chronic constipation
has some very severe adverse effects on your body.

We are DEPLETED energy

What does this mean?

Your life and its daily activities require energy. However, the toxic load within us
has started a decline in energy. When your body is short of energy, it derives it
from the muscles and other less vital resources. Unfortunately, the requirements
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are too great to be fulfilled by just that.

We get energy from food. This is what we have been learning since our
childhood. However, these days, eating and digesting food requires most of our
energy.

Why?

You know this already. The food we eat today is deprived of nutrients. We get
less return from a large expenditure of energy used to digest the food.
Therefore, we generate less energy than we spend.

How do you know if you have toxins in your body?

In order to understand your body, you need to observe it carefully. Whether you
are toxic or not depends on how your body is reacting. Symptoms of toxicity
vary among individuals. That is why doctors and patients both fail to diagnose
the root cause of disease as being toxicity, irritation, and the production of
mucus.

One thing is common in every person, and that is mucus production and
irritability. However, these two things come out differently in different people.
Even a single reaction going on inside my body would yield a different result
than from the same reaction occurring in your body.

Some very common symptoms of body toxicity are skin and sinus
problems, lethargy, ballooning, constipation, headache, muscle or joint
soreness, and emotional problems.

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To clarify things, let me put toxicity and its symptoms into levels.

Level 1 is the initial level where toxicity produces mucus. You start feeling
bloated, heavy, puffed-up, lazy, dull, etc.

Level 2 is the next higher level. It appears when your body experiences irritation,
making you suffer from different allergies.

Level 3 is the highest level where toxicity aggravates your immune system,
which then starts killing your own self. It generates autoimmune diseases like
gluten intolerance, arthritis, etc.

Eliminating mucus and irritants from your body can reverse toxicity and
its bad effects. Therefore, do not waste your time. Develop a positive
mindset and get yourself ready to fight toxicity.

Your body knows how to heal itself

Your body is one remarkable, magical, and amazing organism. When injured or
harmed, it has the ability to heal itself. Not only does it heal, but it also stops any
abnormal function from occurring and continuing. It then repairs itself, heals and
revives its cells.

I will give you a very common example that all of us have experienced. If you
ever had a cut on your finger that starts bleeding, have you noticed that the
body first stops the bleeding and then heals the cut? Platelets are the blood
cells responsible for stopping and clotting the blood. If you could see the
process under a high-speed microscope, you would find great numbers of
platelets around this injured region, and nowhere else.

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Once blood clotting is complete, the skin cells start moving to bridge the cut.
Eventually, there is no cut skin but only a scar.

The body heals itself deep inside too. The process is the same.

However, you have to provide your body with the necessary ingredients to
establish this process of healing. You need to have the following two things to
benefit from your own healing process.

1. Cells functioning properly and chemical reactions occurring properly

2. Availability of ingredients to carry out this process

If either of these does not exist, your body can not heal itself. Instead, the
condition may become worse.

The three questions

Whenever I see my patients, I ask three questions. These questions are always
in my mind. I would suggest asking yourself the same three questions whenever
you feel sick.

The questions are:

1. What is the cause of the irritation or harm?
2. Why is the body not healing?
3. What should be provided to the body for repair?

Answers to the questions

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Toxicity causes irritation and harm. We are living in an environment overloaded
with toxins. Air, water, buildings, cosmetics, cleaners, foods - everything is full of
toxins. Even the drugs we take to heal a certain condition are full of chemicals
that worsen the toxic condition.

Toxicity irritates cells and tissues continuously, and kills useful cells too.

Toxins hinder the body’s ability to heal itself. They attach themselves to healthier
cells and prevent them from doing their job, which is healing the body.

The answer to the third question is minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients. We
obtain them from the foods we eat. Unfortunately, as we have seen before, our
diet is full of toxins and deprived of nutrients. Using unnatural farming
techniques, devising synthetic and inorganic ways of growing foods and rearing
animals, introducing new chemicals every year, and the processing of foods has
resulted in an immense increase of toxicity.

Besides food, there are other hidden toxic factors affecting our overall health
that include negative thoughts, emotions and radiation.

All these factors, when combined, pave the way for chronic disease to appear.

Whether toxicity is the direct or indirect cause of any disease (for example
HIVES, OR ANGIOEDEMA), its effects are massively destructive.

The ongoing natural cleansing process

Every second, microsecond, or even nanosecond, your cells are working. You
have trillions of cells, each of which is functioning constantly without stopping.

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They build up tissues and cells, create hormones and enzymes, grow hair,
regenerate skin, metabolize food, and much MUCH more.

To carry out their functions, they get energy from oxygen and sugar.

The production of energy and every chemical or electrical function they perform
ends with the release of toxic waste.

Your body continuously strives to get rid of this toxic waste from every cell of
your body, all the time.

Cells release their toxic wastes into the blood. The circulatory system takes
them to other cells that neutralize the waste by changing them to non-toxic
wastes, all ready to be thrown out of the body. The non-toxic waste is eliminated
through your skin as sweat, through the lungs as carbon dioxide, through the
kidneys as urine, and through the intestines as feces.

If not eliminated, toxic waste accumulates and terminates life. Therefore, it

IS and SHOULD be an ongoing process.

What is the cleansing process?

The body removes the internal waste that cells release every now and then as a
result of their normal functioning and the external waste that we take in through
breathing, eating, drinking, etc.

The body cleansing or detoxification process is complex and involves several

different organs and functions, working in harmony to get rid of the toxic waste.

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The different organs and body systems that work jointly to process the cleansing
mechanism include the liver, intestines, kidneys, skin, blood, lymphatic system,
and circulatory system.

Releasing to the blood

Your body is an organized and well-programmed machine, if we see it this way.

Energy is required to carry out every function of the body, and not all energy can
be divided equally to different processes. Some processes require energy more
urgently than others do. For example, digestion requires much more time and
energy than detoxification does. Therefore, the detoxification process is delayed
until all your energies are free from digesting the food.

What happens when detoxification is delayed?

Detoxification is a process of cleansing the body from the toxins. Toxins are the
irritants and cells trap them in mucus (as already mentioned). Cells wait for the
instruction to release the toxin back into the blood for elimination, and all your
energies work to get rid of that toxin, a process called detoxification.

How does detoxification start?

During intense anaerobic exercise, muscles hold lactic acid inside them. As
soon as the muscles stop working, they release lactic acid to the blood for
removal. Similarly, when digestion stops for a long enough time and frequently,
your tissue cells discharge toxins along with mucus to the blood for removal.

As soon as toxins and mucus enter the blood, they must be separated and
cleared out; for toxins and mucus, held in tissues, cause less harm than in
blood. In blood, toxins move freely throughout the body and are able to do

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Balancing the release and neutralization of toxins

The cleansing and detoxification process involves two main things. One is the
release of toxins to the blood, and the other is neutralizing them. As you know,
toxins should be neutralized as soon as possible to prevent them from doing any
harm to the body.

Give a thought to this scenario. Can you tell what happens when your body is
slow in neutralizing but fast in releasing toxins to blood?

Releasing and neutralizing toxins are two different processes occurring through
different mechanisms. If their speeds do not match, your body may suffer. If your
body is fast in releasing toxins but slow in neutralizing them, toxins that are in
the blood waiting for their turn to be neutralized may harm your body in the
meantime.

Therefore, a proper balance between the two processes is very essential

for an effective detox program. You will find different detox programs.
Before opting for one, see how the program promises the balance of
release and neutralization as well as the speed of intestinal damage repair.

Crippling the toxins

Your liver is a vital organ that neutralizes and disbands all the toxins of the body
before their elimination.

If toxins will leave the body, why is neutralization needed?

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Toxins are electrically charged free radicals.

Cellular and electromagnetic radiation creates free radicals.

They negatively affect whatever comes their way, from cells to tissues. They
hinder cell division and growth, cause abnormal formation and issuing of
hormones, and more. They can even switch genetic information on and off. That
is why neutralizing toxins is as essential as getting rid of them.

To see the worst of all cases, let me tell you about synthetic toxins. They all love
fats and look for the body’s fatty tissues to reside in. Unfortunately, their main
target is your brain, which has a high proportion of fat. All mental instabilities
involve toxins in one way or another.

The role of the liver

Toxins are fat lovers and are, thus, fat-soluble. Fat is not easy to shed off;
therefore, toxins have to be neutralized into water-soluble ones. Your liver cells
have enzymes called cytochrome P450 responsible for this. I am not detailing
the steps of neutralization. All you must know is that liver transforms fat-soluble
toxins to water-soluble toxins. After this, neutralized toxins enter the blood and
the kidneys. Kidneys identify them and excrete them out by urinating.

For proper liver functioning and steady neutralization, your body needs energy,
antioxidants, and other nutrients including minerals and vitamins. If any of them
is missing, the process may show adverse effects. For example, neutralization
involves two steps, with step 1 ending with an intermediate product that is
sometimes more toxic than the original toxin. If step 2 is compromised, the
intermediate product may get back to the blood and cause more harm to the
body.

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The other parts of the body may try to help, but none can work as your liver
does. Your body can get very exhausted. Therefore, stopping the digestion for a
long period of time, i.e. fasting, cannot help if you do not provide the right
ingredients for the processes.

Daily deep cleansing

It is important for you to know when your body starts detoxification. It starts
approximately 8 hours after your day’s last meal. The time (8 hours here) can
vary from 6 to 10 hours depending upon the quantity and quality of the food. The
more you eat, the longer digestion persists.

Liquid foods do not require much energy for their digestion or absorption, as
they are readily available for it. However, solid foods require a lot of energy for
first transforming them to a liquid state and then digestion and absorption.

Some foods speed up the whole process of digestion and absorption, while
others delay it. Foods that are rich in magnesium and enzymes expedite
digestion by speeding up the movement in the intestines and providing the
digestive system with the necessary enzymes for digestion. Similarly, olive oil
helps to release bile from the gall bladder, which is very important for digestion.

Once the digestion is complete, the brain generates signals for the detoxification
process to take place. It is then that cells and tissues release toxins into the
bloodstream and the lymphatic stream. The process takes approximately four
hours to complete.

Do not eat/drink (except for pure water, which you should consume
throughout the day) late at night. Give your body ample time to detoxify

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itself. The process starts 8 hours after your last meal and continues for 4
hours. Therefore, the gap between your last night’s dinner and today’s
breakfast should be at least of 12 hours. Less than this will not provide
your body with ample detoxification time and you will start eating and
polluting it again. The 12 hour gap is your fasting time; that is why you call
your next day’s morning meal as breakfast, breaking the 12-hours’ fast.

One time safe deep cleansing

Preparing your home and schedule

As we have seen earlier, one needs to have a strong mindset to achieve a

sound healthy state. If you want to start your ‘Clear Up’ program from your
home, you can definitely do so. Some might find this easier than going to a spa
or fasting center. Others may find it hard to be consistent.

Whatever the case may be, you need to stand firm. I know that making a
change in lifestyle or dietary habits is not easy. Rejecting the tastes of our
tongues is one of the hardest things. Mood swings, irritability, and food cravings
make it much more difficult. That is why I strongly advise you to be consistent,
make an agenda and stick to it. This is the only way you can attain your goals.

Make a schedule and include “‘Clear Up’”

Do not wait for the right time to start your program. By “right time,” I mean a time
when you think you will be free of distractions. I bet this is never going to
happen. Go and ask some of the busiest people who have successfully finished
their ‘Clear Up’ programs about it. They will agree with me.

However, what you can look for is the time when you’re not going through major

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life changes like traveling, moving, a job change, marriage, divorce, etc. This is
what I suggest for most people, but if you are among those who are the best in
making all the changes at once, you can start your ‘Clear Up’ program at once.

The best day to start your program is the start of your weekend, free of social
events and business matters. This will help you to adjust yourself to the
changing menu.

Once you have decided about the starting day, get on with the following steps.
 Mark the starting date on the calendar.
 You can add some optional activities like exercising and massage and
other supporting methods (I will list all of them later on).
 Take some time out for weekly shopping too, as you will need to shop for
the week’s diet as well.
 Abstain for few days from going with friends and family for long meals.

Plan your kitchen and be your chef

Modern day living, busy schedules, tiring routines, and lust of unhealthy foods
are what keep you away from your kitchen and, of course, cooking. No matter
how busy you are, be your own chef for the sake of your improved health and
longevity.

If you live with your family, it would be nicer if you ask them to cooperate with
you.

Now, look for what you have stored in your kitchen cabinets, drawers, freezer,
refrigerator, etc. The most important things to look for are processed and
packaged foods in boxes, jars, bags, tubes, and cans. Read their labels for
listed ingredients. Throw away any that would interrupt your ‘Clear Up’ process.

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For starting up your ‘Clear Up’ program, you will need three things you can find
easily. Buy items of the best quality. It might cost you more, but it is worth it for
your long-term health. However, you can look for some affordable alternatives
too.

1. You will need a blender for preparing smoothies and soups important for a
‘Clear Up’ program. Look for a blender with a heavy-duty, high-speed, and
powerful motor.
2. A good juicer for juices, of course, is the next item.
3. An effective ‘Clear Up’ program requires a source of pure water. Reverse
osmosis filtered water is the best for your health. I would recommend that
you install the system in your kitchen. It would help you to wash and
eliminate toxins from inorganic foods as well.

When you are all done with these things, make a list of food items you need to
buy. Include the foods that will help you reduce your cravings, like nuts and
herbal teas. Then look for where you can get these items in the healthiest
condition.

I have mentioned a list of foods that are allowed. They are all good for
eliminating toxicity/acidity from the body, moving it towards alkalinity, and
maintaining a healthy acid-alkaline pH balance in the body.

Foundation period for reducing “side effects”

‘Clear Up’ is not an overnight program producing results instantly. You will have
to be patient and do the necessary groundwork prior to the actual program. The
groundwork I am referring to here is working on your Revocation Diet. This way
your body will get used to it, and you will adapt to the changes more easily.

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The groundwork will let you discard any food that causes you allergy or other
sensitivities. As you are cutting down on food now, your body will have more
energy for the detoxification process.

Avoid toxins both in food and in the environment

1. Food toxins
Let us have a look at avoiding toxins from your food. Your current lifestyle
and dietary habits will determine how long this phase will last. Here are
quick guidelines for you.
o If your current diet is based on whole foods and almost no meat,
dairy products, wheat, packaged, processed, or fast foods, your
Foundation phase should last for 3 to 4 days.
o If your diet contains packaged foods, red meat, baked foods, milk,
sugar, caffeine, and alcohol, your Foundation phase should take a
week at least.
o If you eat lots of fast foods, packaged and processed foods,
carbonated drinks like cola, junk food, and alcohol, get along with
your Revocation Diet phase or Foundation phase for at least 2
weeks before you start your ‘Clear Up’ program.

When you try to eliminate toxic foods from your diet, you may experience
headaches, nausea, and other annoying conditions. Moreover, when your
body starts getting full nutrients and energy (not from processed food,
which your body is used to now) all of a sudden, it may respond in
surprising ways. It can cause skin breakouts, fevers, and other symptoms
that might make you appear ill, but actually, you’re not. This condition is
just an indication of “your body waking up.”

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 The purpose of the Foundation phase is to minimize these effects as much
as possible. Although this healing crisis means that good things are
happening to you, it can annoy you and turn you off to the detox program.
If you follow a basic Revocation Diet phase for a few days, you will avoid
such things that I call de-motivators.

The foods of the Foundation or Revocation Diet period will give you
an advantage in moving into your ‘Clear Up’ program confidently.
You will sense a lighter body and a sharper mind. The body will attain
a slightly alkaline pH body balance that is ideal for you.

2. Environment toxins
If you have been attentive reading this-book, you should know the toxin
sources present in the environment. However, a very brief list is below.

o Emissions from vehicles

o Garden products, chlorine in swimming pool water
o Dry cleaning, washing, and other cleaning products
o Heating and air-conditioning systems
o Fire retardants in mattresses, lead paint, waxes
o Deodorants (aluminum), tooth pastes (fluoride), cosmetic products
o Cooking pots with aluminum or Teflon coats
o Electromagnetic rays from electronic equipment such as mobile
phones

Look for these and similar products around in your home and workplace.
Try avoiding or replacing them with non-toxic products, if there are any.
Buy toxic free cleaning products. Always read labels carefully when
shopping. The items mentioned above are all toxins and will shift your
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Online information on how to have a clean and toxin free home and
workplace can be of much help to you.

Foundation phase or Revocation Diet phase

I will provide you with a list of foods allowed or not allowed during this phase
and later. Choose foods from the “Allowed” side and make your breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. Keep in mind you will have to maintain your internal ideal pH
balance. Remember, you should not skip any meal and you should eat at
regular times.

Caffeine is a major part of our lives. Cut it down in the Foundation phase. Green
tea and yerba mate are healthier alternatives. Of course, a good amount of
water is always good. A tint of lemon, cucumber, and mint can add to taste and
health benefits. Using organic foods is the best. If you can afford healthy foods,
there is no better alternative. However, you can reduce the toxicity of inorganic
foods at home as already discussed. To give you another option, you can buy
inorganic fruits and vegetables, but try to buy only organic animal foods. As we
have seen, as we go up in the food chain, toxicity accumulates and its level
increases quite a bit. But again, buying organic fruits and vegetables will be far
more beneficial. Buy peaches, apples, berries, celery, spinach, carrots,
cucumbers, and beans.

I am not asking you to strain your pocket, but do your best as much as possible.
Remember to always wash foods well. The table below will guide you in buying
foods.

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 Food Category Allowed List Not Allowed list
Fruits Whole fruits, Oranges, orange juice,
unsweetened, frozen, grapefruit, strawberries,
water-packed, dilute grapes, banana
natural juices
Dairy Substitutes Rice, oat and nut milks Dairy and eggs, milk,
such as almond milk and cheese, cottage cheese,
coconut milk cream, yogurt, butter, ice
cream, non-dairy
creamers
Non-gluten grains and Brown rice, millet, quinoa, Wheat, corn, barley, spelt,
starch amaranth, buck wheat kamut, rye, couscous, oats
Vegetable protein Split peas, lentils, legumes Soybean products like soy
sauce, soybean oil in
processed foods, tempeh,
tofu, soy milk, soy yogurt
Nuts and seeds Sesame, pumpkin, and Peanuts, peanut butter,
sunflower seeds, pistachios, macadamia
hazelnuts, pecans, nuts
almonds, cashews,
walnuts
Vegetables Preferably fresh, raw, Corn, creamed vegetables,
steamed, sautéed, juiced, tomatoes, potatoes,
roasted eggplants, pepper
Oils Cold pressed olive, flax, Butter, margarine,
safflower, sesame, almond, shortening, processed oils,
sunflower, canola, salad dressings,
pumpkin, walnut mayonnaise, spreads
Drinks Filtered or distilled water, Alcohol, coffee, caffeinated
green tea, herbal teas, beverages, soda pop, soft
seltzer or mineral water, drinks

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Sweeteners Brown rice syrup, agave Refined sugar, white or
syrup, stevia brown sugars, honey,
maple syrup, high-
fructose corn syrup,
evaporated cane juice
Condiments Vinegar, all spices, sea salt, Chocolate, ketchup, relish,
pepper, basil, carob, chutney, soy sauce,
cinnamon, cumin, dill, barbecue sauce, teriyaki
garlic, ginger, mustard, sauce, other similar
oregano, parsley, condiments
rosemary, turmeric, thyme

Your skin and the Foundation phase

As you already know, your body sweats to release toxins; not on a much larger
scale like your intestines or kidneys do, but they excrete out excessive water,
minerals, and salt, getting back the right pH balance. However, if the intestines
and kidneys do not work properly, your skin shows its symptoms by developing
breakouts and other skin problems. Expensive cosmetic creams might not be
able to hide them!
During this phase, you can possibly see similar skin conditions, but do not
worry; they are common during a detox program. However, if you think the
conditions are worsening, consult your doctor or a health-care professional who
understands clearing up phases.

Please keep in mind that this phase helps make the one time clean deeper and
more effective. You are not “required” to go through it. However, if you do, you
will reduce bad symptoms considerably and the entire ‘Clear Up’ process will be
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Three types of one time deep cleansing

i. 7 days crazy water cleansing

The 7-days crazy water cleansing involves water fasting for 7 days. Only
water is consumed and the body enters its detox mode. This method of
eliminating toxins has been in use for a long time and has been common
amongst spiritual leaders in the past.

If you go back to earlier times, there was almost no environment and food
toxicity. Therefore, fewer toxins were excreted out of the body, requiring less
energy.

Today, as our environment and diet is nothing but toxins, water fasting
becomes more intense and dangerous, as our bodies have loads of toxins
and insufficient nutrients. Therefore, though I have not seen this personally,
you may be subject to severe adverse effects such as headaches, vomiting,
diarrhea, weakness, sleepiness, nausea, and fatigue. Your skin may show
uncommon signs like breakouts and rashes. These factors will often
discourage a person from trying the 7-days water cleansing.

ii. 14 days deep cleansing

What “water fasting” cannot provide, a 14-days deep cleansing can.

Depriving yourself of nutrients in the 7-days program is what made it
dangerous.

You can call this 14 day cleansing time as your “juice banquet” time. All
you have to eat or drink are fresh fruit and vegetable juices. Drink green
soups, lemon water, essential oils, and green drinks every day.

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These juices and drinks will dissipate your cravings for caffeine, sugar, meat,
and dairy products.

As far as green drinks are concerned, I have told you about SuperGreens
from Robert O. Young. It is a combination of several vegetables that together
increases energy and improves the immune system. The powder helps to
decrease the appetite and enhance body detoxification. I personally drink 4
liters of SuperGreens daily; however, I would recommend that you have at
least 3 liters every day.

Drinks such as Prime pH, Supergreens and wheatgrass juice have the
strength to reverse conditions like poor health, a diseased body, fatigue, and
weight issues.

I am suggesting that you follow this program for 14 days. However, the best
results can be seen after 30 days.

iii. 21 days deep cleansing

This is the 21-days deep cleaning method. You should have one solid food
meal and the rest liquid meals throughout the day including water,
juices, green drinks, smoothies, soups, etc. I would recommend eating
your solid-meal at lunchtime. Breakfasts and dinners should be liquid
meals.

I hope you know why we should not have solids at dinner. Yes, it is because
at night, when you sleep, your body enters into detox mode and it works
much more effectively if you have a liquid meal at dinner.

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However, there are times when your solid-meal dinners cannot be avoided
like at a business dinner. In that case, only have it once, with liquid meals at
breakfast and lunch, and get back to your lunchtime solid-meal the next day.

As for snacks or in-betweens, blueberries, raspberries, raw almonds, Brazil

nuts, an extra smoothie, juice, etc. are good. However, DO MAKE SURE that
you do not eat or drink anything after your last dinner meal.

Choose a variety of nutritious recipes every day for 21 days. Your body will
make use of the wide spectrum of nutrients it is getting.

Adapting the program to your own lifestyle

Here are some options for you, to adapt to your current lifestyle.

 If you are busy and do not want to fuss with a new recipe every time,
select 2 or 3 and rotate them.
 It is not a hard and fast rule to use only ‘Clear Up’ recipes. You can use
any food from the list I provided you for your Revocation Diet. The
important part is to use the basic foods without sauces, etc. However, you
can use the condiment section of the food list above. Whatever food or
recipe you choose should be free of chemicals.
 Fresh meals are always the best. However, if you have a busy schedule,
you can prepare meals at night and use them the next day. Keep them
refrigerated. Solid meals can be kept in refrigerator for two days and juices
for one day. You can take your meals anywhere you go.
 Again, organic foods are better. For inorganic foods, you must clean and
combine raw ingredients with them, as the clear up program guides you to
get the most out of it.
 Avoid canned foods as they are high in preservatives and their syrup
contains high fructose corn or salt. You can use organic frozen fruits for
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 Change your preferences according to your likes, dislikes, moods,
environment, and of course the weather. For example, if it is winter, you
may prefer having a thick blended soup rather than iced fruit juices.
Remember, the thinner the liquid, the more intense will be the detox.
 Whether you are hungry or not, eat your meals on time. Detoxification
requires a constant supply of nutrients all the time. You may eat half of
your regular meal portion.
 Keep your Revocation Diet list where you can refer to it on and off, so you
are not distracted.

Water and detoxification

Without it, detoxification would not occur. You will have to drink plenty of pure
and fresh water. I am not going to lecture you again on water, healthy water, bad
water, etc. but, for a summary and reminder, avoid caffeine, decaffeinated
coffee, carbonated water, sodas whether natural or not, commercial fruits juices,
and energy drinks.

Making it simple, avoid any “water” in a bottle with a label. Drink water, hot or
cold, adding lemon, cucumber, or mint. Herbal teas are good but should not
replace pure water. Consume it as an addition to your daily intake of water. I
hope you remember what we discussed about the daily consumption of water.

Nutrients and foods you can consume for detoxification

Nutrients Required Corresponding Foods

Vitamin B2 Mushrooms, raw almonds,
broccoli, spinach, asparagus
Vitamin B3 lentils, lima beans, asparagus,
crimini, mushrooms
Vitamin B6 spinach, avocado, collard

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Vitamin B12 Vitamin B12 supplements
Folic Acid Lentils, chickpeas, asparagus,
spinach, spinach, broccoli, lima
beans, beets, romaine lettuce
Glutathione Broccoli, Brussels sprouts,
cabbage, cauliflower, peaches,
watermelon, cinnamon,
cardamom, cur cumin, avocado
Ranched-chain amino Whey protein
acids
Flavonoids Onion, lettuce, basil, cranberry,
garlic, cabbage, kale, Brussels
sprouts, kohlrabi, spinach,
asparagus, fennel, soy, scarlet
runner bean, kidney bean,
garden pea, adzuki bean, dill,
tea, thyme, cayenne,
peppermint, chamomile, anise
Phospholipids Cabbage, cauliflower, flaxseed
Glycine Seaweed, spirulina, sesame
seeds, pumpkin seeds,
almonds, sunflower seeds,
fenugreek, mustard seed
Taurine Cold water fish (salmon, cod)
Glutamine Cabbage and beets, beans,
nuts
Cysteine and N- red pepper, garlic, onion,
acetylcysteine broccoli, Brussels sprouts, oats,
wheat germ
Methionine beans, garlic, lentils, onions,

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Co enzyme Q10 spinach, broccoli, peanuts,
wheat germ and whole grains
Thiols Garlic, onions, cruciferous
vegetables
Silymarin (milk thistle) Silymarin plant
Bioflavonoids Grapes, berries
Vitamin A Spinach, sweet potatoes,
yams, carrots, cod liver oil,
butter nut squash, cantaloupe,
water cress, goji berries
Vitamin C Sweet red pepper, Brussels
sprouts, cooked broccoli,
cooked collard greens,
cantaloupe, cooked cabbage,
tomato
Vitamin E Cold pressed extra virgin olive
oil, raw almonds, spinach,
carrots, avocado, butter, all
dark green leafy vegetables
Selenium Raw brazil nuts, wild salmon,
brown rice
Copper Raw cashews, raw sunflower
seeds, raw hazelnuts, raw
almonds, organic peanut butter,
mushrooms, lentils, whole oats
Zinc Lima beans, split peas, chick
peas, raw cashews, raw
pecans, raw almonds, green
peas, ginger root
Molybdenum Beans, lentils, peas, whole

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Manganese Pineapple, raw pecans, raw
almonds, brown rice, pinto
beans, lima beans, navy beans,
spinach, sweet potatoes,
organic butter fat
Pycnogenol Peels, skins, or seeds of
grapes, blueberries, cherries,
plums
Carnosol Rosemary
Allicin Garlic
Phenolic constituents Oregano oil
(caravcrol, thymol)
Lauric acid coconut

iv. What type should you choose?

As you have seen, water fasting or 7-days crazy water cleansing has some
adverse effects associated with it. Therefore, I would not recommend you to
opt for it. However, 14-days or 21-days cleansing programs are good and you
can choose whatever you think is more appropriate for you.

If you want to have some solid meal along with liquids and fluids, 21-days
deep cleaning is for you. Nevertheless, if you want it fast, go for the 14 days
program. Both programs will help you regain your ideal acid-alkaline body
balance. What’s important is, make a wise decision and stick to it. Do not
give up no matter which type you choose.

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 v. Who must ‘Clear Up’ under a doctor’s supervision?

Not everyone should do the cleansing program. There are certain conditions
that do not lend themselves to cleansing and detoxification as it disturbs the
blood and other vital levels within the body. Look at the list below to make
sure you are not among them.

 Pregnant or breastfeeding mother

 Type 1 diabetic (insulin dependent)
 Advanced cancer patient losing weight quickly
 Taking a drug that needs constant blood concentrations like
o Medicines for preventing blood clots, e.g. Coumadin
o Antiarrhthymics, e.g. Tikosyn
o Anticonvulsants, e.g. Tegretol
 Has a disease requiring strict supervision as any change in the body may
cause a serious problem

If you are one of the above, please consult your doctor or health professional
before starting a ‘Clear Up’ program. Detoxification changes absorption rates
and your body may experience too high or too low levels of certain drugs.
Therefore, always consult with your doctor.

The “Spent” Syndrome

There is another category of people who should not follow a ‘Clear Up’ or
detoxification program. They are the ones who have issues with their adrenal
glands, the part of the body that regulates the body’s stress. This condition is
hard to identify; most doctors are not able to figure it out, since all the blood and
associated tests come out okay.

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However, Dr. Frank Lipman has treated quite a number of patients with this
condition and has called it “Spent” syndrome, as patients feel exhausted most of
the time. He has written a book called Spent, discussing its symptoms and
treatment modes. I will discuss some of the symptoms associated with this
syndrome. If you answer “yes” for two or more questions, consult your doctor
and I would highly recommend that you read Dr. Lipman’s book, Spent.

Most of the times, it is women who fall prey to Spent because of their complex
hormonal system and caregiving nature. However, the condition does not let
men pass by unaffected.

Some of the symptoms of Spent

 Do you take more than the normal time to recover from an illness?
 Is it difficult for you to get out of your bed almost every morning?
 Are you often tired, even after 8 hours of sound sleep at night? When you
get up from a lying down position, do you feel dizziness?
 Is your blood pressure too low?
 Are you extremely sensitive to cold?
 Do you suffer from chronic anxiety or panic attacks?
 Do you often feel depressed? Do you suffer from nonstop crying periods?
 Do you injure yourself easily?

These symptoms can relate to being toxic as well, but when combined in two or
more, indicate a case of adrenal weakness. So, if you are “spent,” do not start
the ‘Clear Up’ program as it may cause some adverse effects. Some of them
may get very severe as well.

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detoxification. Always seek medical professional help before continuing with
your plans of cleansing your body. If your doctor says you are okay for it, you
can start it right away. If he/she forbids you because of some valid reason (do
ask for that), wait until your condition gets better. Otherwise, you may wish to
get a second opinion.

What will the feeling be like after you are done?

After you are all cleared up from the toxins inside you, you will experience
profound benefits from ideal body weight to mental clearness. Those who suffer
from chronic depression will find themselves in a state of happiness and elation.
You will be energetic, lively, and optimistic. You will find your relationships
changing in a better way.

As cleansing is not merely a process for your physical body and health, but also
caters to your mental health, the effects are complete and wholesome. Unlike
prescription drugs that will relieve you from a symptom and give you many other
side effects, cleansing will eradicate every problem from within you.

In short, you will feel that your life has been changed completely in a beautiful
and healthy way. The program is the best way to enjoy your life in the fullest and
healthiest way.

FAQs

1. Should I stop smoking?

I would recommend that you stop smoking as it speeds up phase 1 in the
liver and detoxification will give you better results. However, if you do not
cut down on it, go ahead with the cleansing process. You will feel less
attracted to cigarettes eventually. This is natural, as the cleansing process
will make your body sensitive to toxins and you will be careful about it. The
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smoker has.

2. Should I continue my medication?

Some drugs can be safely stopped. If you are using one of those, you can
discontinue them. However, if your prescription medicines include those
that need to be in the blood in constant levels, like blood thinners,
antiarrhythmic, antiepileptic, and chemotherapy drugs, stopping them can
be dangerous. If you do not stop them and begin the cleansing program,
the changes in diets can change their levels in the blood, again causing
serious threats.

3. I strayed from the ‘Clear Up’ diet last night. Have I screwed it all up?
No, you have not. It is just that you came down a step of a ladder. You
have not fallen off. Continue with the ‘Clear Up’ program as required. Take
it positively and do not let negatives like hopelessness and guilt grow
within you. Negative feelings can ruin it. You did it because you wanted a
change, and it IS positive. However, stick to the program afterwards. Do
not let it happen again.

If you are on the 21-days plan, you can compensate for that backward
step by consuming only liquid meals for a day or two.

4. I am slightly underweight and lose weight easily. Would it be safe for

me?
Yes, ‘Clear Up’ is safe for you. Healthy protein and good fats along with
grains will put on a reasonable amount of healthy weight. Consume more
nuts during snack times, and be careful about your meal sizes. Increase
the intake of liquid meals.

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 5. I exercise and train intensely. Can I do the cleansing?
Yes, you can. I know some professional and amateur trainers finishing
their ‘Clear Up’ programs successfully. However, if you are in an intense
pre-competition training, I would not recommend starting the ‘Clear Up’. If
you are in normal training, double or triple the amount of liquid meals.
Concentrate more on soups and energy smoothies than on juices. Add
lean protein, healthy fat (avocado, coconut), and allowed grains to your
lunchtime solid meal.

6. I am very busy and do not have time to prepare the ‘Clear Up’ drinks.
Is there any alternative?
You can visit www.cleanprogram.com where you will find a Clean Program
kit containing powdered shake mixes and supplements. These products are
tested over the years and are completely reliable and recommended. They
contain enzymes, herbs, and nutrients for cleansing and repairing; along
with the ‘Clear Up’ diet in the Recipe Guide. These products are safe, as
they are manufactured from natural ingredients and are free of added
chemicals.
Please note; I have no connection with these products in any way. I highly
recommend them based on my experience. I know many of my patients
bought them as per my recommendation and are very happy with the
results.

Supporting, scientifically proven methods for speeding the

cleansing process

This part of the e-book will assist you in enhancing your one time deep
cleansing. This is not a time-based program but can be done whenever you feel
like doing it. You can achieve greater results by supporting your detoxification
process. There are several ways to do this.

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Support ‘Revocation’

One way is to increase the efficacy of parts of the body involved in elimination
that include your lungs, skin, kidneys, bowels, and the circulatory system that
connects blood vessels with the lymphatic system. When you supply readily
available nutrients, less energy is consumed in their digestion, absorption,
transportation, and assimilation. Therefore, sufficient energy is present for
eliminating toxins from cells and tissues. Your job is to support the
elimination by clearing up the elimination passages.

If you do not do this, you would still be able to finish the ‘Clear Up’ program, but
with discomfort and not much efficacy. You might experience some health
problems as well.

Tools supporting the elimination

Below I will mention some of the tools that you can use to enhance and support
elimination. They can be used individually or in a group, whatever suits you
best.

Bowel

1. Constipation
Though the kidneys, lungs, and skin are busy eliminating toxins, the
intestines play a major role in excreting out a major portion of toxins from
the body. Toxins and mucus are sticky substances that combine with feces
and stick to intestinal walls causing constipation. There in the intestinal
walls, bacteria reside, and they consume these toxic wastes by
reabsorbing them. In return, bacteria eliminate much stronger toxins.
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 If mucus and toxins continue sticking to the intestinal walls, a thick layer of
plaque is formed that disturbs bowel movements and the excretion of
waste from the body, leading to constipation, which you know can have
severe adverse effects related to your health. These conditions are not
tolerable during normal days, and when you are in your ‘Clear Up’ days,
this is extremely intolerable, inexcusable, and excruciating.

Therefore, it is my strongest recommendation to get rid of constipation at

any cost. Increase your daily fiber intake, drink plenty of water, and
exercise regularly. If these do not work, which happens in many cases, try
using herbal laxatives every night for treating constipation.

Some of the guaranteed herbal laxatives include Dr. Schulze’s Intestinal

Formula #1, which is a mixture of wild harvested herbs including senna
and cascara sagrada173, and Swiss Kriss, an effective and trustworthy
brand, available at health food stores. Before using them, read labels
carefully and follow the instructions. Use them until you get generous
bowel movements consistently. If you experience diarrhea, do not worry.
However, if it persists, cut down on your intake of that product or take it on
alternate days to balance the levels.

Ideal bowel movements should be after every meal and should have a
texture similar to that of peanut butter (consuming dark green leafy
vegetables can change the color). Also, it should not have a smell that
requires cleaning the toilet. Presently, a stool a day is considered normal.
Many people have less than a stool every day.

Another good and traditional remedy to relieve you from difficult bowel
movements is to use castor oil followed by a glass of water with lemon
juice. Wait for half an hour. If you do not feel a bowel movement coming

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Dr. Schulze’s Intestinal Formula #1 is available at www.herbdoc.com
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treatment can result in intense eliminations.

2. Colon cleansing

Your ‘Clear Up’ program helps you achieve a healthy colon and
regular, smooth bowel movements. To speed up the efficacy of the
detoxification process, make use of ‘colon hydrotherapy’.

As hydro stands for water, the colon is irrigated at a very low pressure by
pure water. When drained out, water removes toxic waste from your colon.
You may find several doctors against it, but believe me; it is safe and
effective if you have it done by an expert therapist.

There are two types of colon hydrotherapy. One is open and the other is
closed. Both are good, effective, and safe; you can choose either of them.
Get detailed information on both of them and go for the one you feel is
right for you. No matter which method you choose, I assure you both of
them are sanitized, sensibly cautious, and easy.

If you suffer from chronic constipation, colon therapy can be extremely

beneficial for you. People in their ‘Clear Up’ program use it frequently.
There is no harm in frequently doing it. I have seen people detoxifying
their bodies and having colon hydrotherapy almost daily. The benefits it
gives you are retained even after the ‘Clear Up,’ on the condition that you
continue with a toxin-free diet.

Another way of cleaning your lower colon is an Enema. You can self-
administer it easily. It is safe and beneficial too. However, colonics
are much more effective.

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 Colonics help to speed up detoxification. Its good effects do not only
affect you physically but mentally too, and you can continue having
them even after your ‘Clear Up’. The key is to avoid toxin and mucus-
creating foods, keep intestinal life healthy, and keep that 12-hour
detoxification time frame at night.

Kidneys

The kidneys are the next vital organs that eliminate toxins from your body. All
you need to do is to facilitate the proper operation of the kidneys and the liver.

Your liver works day and night to transform fat-soluble toxic molecules into
water-soluble toxic molecules. These water-soluble molecules are excreted out
through urine by your kidneys. When you drink plenty of water, things become
much easier for the kidneys and liver. You already know how much you should
drink. Keeping it simple, drink as much water as it takes to make you to urinate
hourly. Less than this is not adequate.

‘Clear Up’ recipes include diuretic ingredients such as lemons, cucumbers, and
coconuts that facilitate urination.

Lungs

The lungs and associated breathing practices let you exhale carbon dioxide
from the body and inhale oxygen. There is no point of repeating their hazards
and benefits respectively. You know them, don’t you?

Some breathing exercises eliminate toxic carbon dioxide gas from the brain and
the rest of your nervous system. Exercises are simpler and easy if you keep

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your attention on your breathing. Inhale and exhale through your nose. When
you inhale, let your belly fill with inhaled air. Expand your chest and back too. On
the exhale, slowly come back to rest your chest and back (keep your chest lifted
but contracted). Then, smooth your belly. Keep the process slow and steady.

It is important to keep track of what you are doing. Once your attention wavers,
your breathing will become short and shallow. If it happens, bring back your
concentration on your breathing.

The good thing about this and other breathing exercises is that you can carry
them out anywhere, at any time. Whether traveling, relaxing, in a meeting, or
wherever you are doing whatever, you can continue with this and soothe your
mind and body by clearing up the mess from your body through your lungs.

Skin

1. Cleaning toxins from your body using a sauna and thermal therapy

 Saunas promote sweating and hence, toxic elimination. Infrared saunas

are extremely helpful in this. An alternative can be steam rooms, but they
are less useful than infrared saunas. Infrared rays are used to heat up
your body. These rays will activate fat molecules to release toxins. Then
they increase blood circulation to take toxins efficiently to the liver where
they are changed to water-soluble toxins. Regular saunas are good too
but, as they do not use infrared, their heat energy is comparatively less
and hence, less effective. However, if you do not find an infrared sauna, a
regular or conventional sauna would do. Remember to hydrate your body
continuously during and after the sauna.

Different studies have shown that a sauna can be a key element in

changing your lifestyle in a positive way. A study conducted by the
Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Metabolic Medicine,
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some very beneficial results related to saunas. Some of them include
improvements in hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, obesity,
and smoking. Moreover, results showed that saunas helped improve the
appetite too. For the obese, it helped to reduce fats174.

Another study showed that using an infrared sauna for 15 minutes once a
day for two weeks protected people from oxidative stress, and thus,
prevented atherosclerosis.175

Yes, you can turn your bathroom into a sauna!

Well, you can make your own sauna at home, saving both time and
money. An infrared sauna can be made too; however, I am going to
give you an idea of a conventional bathroom sauna. For an infrared
sauna, you can browse the web and gather sufficient information.

For a common sauna, pick a bathroom that is the smallest in your

home. A small bathroom will steam up quickly. As saunas promote
sweating, you are more likely to be arid. Therefore, drink plenty of
water to maintain the water balance within the body. In addition, take a
pail of cold water along with a towel. You will know its purpose later.

Close the doors, windows, and vents, if any. Block any outflows and
drips with cloths. This will prevent the steam from escaping. Turn on
the hot water in the sink and shower. Keep the shower curtain or door
open, if you can. This will let the bathroom be filled with steam faster. If
you can keep them open, make sure your shower faucet is towards

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Biro S., Masuda A., Kihara T., Tei C., Clinical implications of thermal therapy in lifestyle-related diseases 2003
November; 228(10):1245-9 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14610268
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Biro S., Masuda A., Kihara T., Tei C., Repeated sauna therapy reduces urinary 8-epi-prostaglandin F(2alpa),
Department of Cardiology, Respiratory and Metabolic Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, 2004
March; 45(2):297-303
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 wall, so the water will not come out of the bathtub or chamber. Take off
your clothes and sit on the toilet or wherever you can sit comfortably.
You can even take a small chair in with you. The steam will raise your
body temperature. Stay there until you think you cannot take it
anymore. When you think it is too hot to bear, make use of the pail of
cold water and towel you brought in with you. Pour some cold water
with the help of the towel on your body. It will lower your temperature. If
you think it is not working, turn off either one of the water taps or both.
It will help you to cool down.

Be careful about your body temperature, as too high a body

temperature can be dangerous. If you feel giddiness, faintness, an
irregular heart rate, or rapid breathing, cool yourself immediately.

Take a cold shower afterwards to soothe your body and relax your
mind. Drink plenty of pure water again.

 Another option is to brush your skin daily. Dead cells regularly

accumulate over the skin that need to be removed. If not, they hinder
sweating by clogging the skin pores. Therefore, daily skin brushing can be
effective to an extent. You can use a special brush from a health store or
drug store. However, a regular sponge or scraper/scrubber will do it too.
Scrub your skin from head to toe, front and back, arms, legs, thin or thick
skin. Make inward movements towards the heart, in circular and
longitudinal motions. Do it for several minutes, scrubbing harder skin (feet,
back) more vigorously and softer/thinner skin gently.

This practice will not only clear away dead cells but also stimulate
lymphatic circulation, along with stimulating hormonal and glandular
systems. It is recommended that you take a hot-cold plunge or shower
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 Hot-cold plunges also serve to enhance elimination from the skin during
detoxification. It speeds up circulation and detoxification. You do not need
to go to a spa for this. Stand under your bath shower. Turn on the hot
water (as hot as you can bear for a minute). Stand underneath for a
minute and turn on cold water (as cold as you can bear for a minute).
Stand underneath for a minute. Repeat this four to five times daily.

The idea behind jumping between hot and cold is your skin’s response to
these two factors. Skin has numerous blood vessels. In the cold, these
vessels contract and, in heat, they expand. When you plunge into hot and
cold, they contract and expand, rapidly pumping as much blood as your
heart does, speeding up the circulation.

I would suggest that you start pouring cold water on your lower back first.
Then go upwards towards upper back, arms, and hands (right and left).
Then go to your legs, to chest and stomach, and last to your head and
face. This will make it easier for you to bear the cold water as you will
move from less sensitive to more sensitive body parts.

2. Sweating with exercises

Exercise is a complete package for your body that enhances blood and
lymph circulation, increases sweating, promotes regular and comfortable
bowels, improves breathing, reduces stress, and makes you lose weight.

During your ‘Clear Up’ program, exercise regularly. Keep in mind to

start with gentle exercising (brisk walking), gradually increasing in both
time and intensity (walk more; include treadmills). This will help to increase
your metabolic rate. Benefits of exercise have been proven by scientific
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You can exercise aerobically, anaerobically, or combining both. Some

exercise forms have tremendous effects on detoxification. One of them is
yoga. Hatha yoga uses rotations, bends that benefit the organs and
improves their functionality. Jump rope training or skipping rope is good for
stimulating blood and lymph circulation.

3. Massage

Massage not only appeases your mind and body, but also enhances
lymph circulation and toxic release. Lymph conveys leftovers, wreckages,
pollutants, and dead cells through the lymph nodes. They, in turn, heal
your body by discarding the dead cells and combating microbes and
diseases. Deep massage that works well for the tissues is very effective
during a detox program.

Remember I am guiding you to achieve the maximum benefit from your

cleansing. It is up to you, depending upon the behavior and needs of your body,
how you combine and make use of them. What and how you use them dictates
the level of detoxification you will achieve.

4. Rest and sleep

Rest and sleep is an important part of our lives that we often neglect. We
sacrifice our sleep and rest for important work. That is why most of the
American population is sleep deprived.

If you are one of those people, take your clear up program as an

opportunity to provide your body with the rest and sleep it needs. If you
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 are good to your body now, be good to it during detox too.

Detoxification creates fluctuating levels of energy and hence, cravings for

sleep. Sleep and rest as much as you need. Make a habit of going to bed
early. This is the only way, the natural way, of fighting fatigue and repairing
your worn out body. Give a high priority to your rest, even if it means
cutting down your time for watching TV, reading the newspaper, or
partying.

Recommended supplements

Nature is so considerate that it provides all the necessary nutrients for our
bodies. It is up to us how we use them. It is very important to use the
appropriate nutrients in their correct amounts. The ‘Clear Up’ recipes have a
design that is based on these principles. However, there is no hard and fast rule
to only follow those recipes. You can come up with your own recipes. However,
bear in mind that your recipes should have well-balanced nutrients from the
allowed sources. The different charts provided in this e-book will be of great
help.

When you start detoxifying your body, it is always highly recommended that you
supplement it with natural supplements. Detoxification will be far more
successful. I do not say that without them detoxification would not continue.
However, with them you will have the best results. You can find several different
brands of natural supplements. The health store clerk can guide you in buying
the best brand. Even if it adds a little to your expenses, it will return much more.
You will be saved from prescription drugs, doctor visits, and missed days at
work. Above all, they add up to your life.

Fiber supplements
We have seen the benefits of a fiber-rich diet. In a nutshell, fiber is good for
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intestinal flora, preventing toxins from reabsorption, lowering cholesterol, and
filling you up. Diets in high fiber prevent colon cancer and heart disease. You
can find natural fiber supplements that include psyllium husks and seeds, prune
fiber, guar gum, and flax seeds. Bentonite clay attracts toxic chemicals along
with heavy metals. It also lowers gaseous matter in the intestines. Look for the
daily amount on its packaging that should be used for consistent bowel
movements.

Probiotics
Probiotics improve the bacterial life of your intestines. You can easily find natural
supplements of probiotics. These should be kept refrigerated once opened. The
normal intake is usually one dose per day. Read the label carefully, as it should
provide 15 billion organisms in every dose.

Antimicrobials
Where probiotics help your good bacteria, antimicrobials kill bad bacteria. The
revocation diet includes foods that have an antimicrobial nature, yet some cases
require extra help from antimicrobials. Therefore, natural supplements are
recommended.

Concentrated oregano oil protects from yeast.

A garlic clove has many health benefits including the killing of bacteria, mildew,
and parasites, regulating sugar, scorching fat, decreasing appetite, dropping
cholesterol, relieving joint pain, and decreasing bowel air. Eat it raw. If you
cannot, garlic pills are available inexpensively.

Herbal antimicrobials include berberine, licorice root, rhubarb root, skullcap root,
coptis root ginger root, sage leaf, and thyme oil.

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Olive oil
Every one of us knows the advantages of olive oil. It greases intestinal walls,
augments bowel movements and eliminations, provides anti-inflammatory fats,
destroys microbes and encourages the sweltering of fat, stimulates the
gallbladder and liver for clearing the liver system, fuels bone creation, prevents
blood clotting, and creates hormonal balance. Consume 2 tablespoons of olive
oil before sleep and drink water with lemon afterwards.

Liver aiding supplements

Milk thistle, N acetyl cysteine, dandelion root, and wormwood leaf are some of
the herbs that help the liver during the clearing up. Your health food store clerk
will guide you in selecting one.

Dealing with the hunger

Hunger is what stops people from starting the detoxification process, as it

requires cutting down your food intake. It upsets your mind, mood, and
emotions. Some of you would either not start it or abandon it. However, it is in
the way you think that can change your attitude and mood.

Take your hunger positively. Give it a new dimension. Whenever you feel
hungry, just think that hunger is a means for you to get rid of, say, obesity, if you
are obese. It might be a way for you to stop eating foods that are not right for
you. Realize the fact that we do not eat for nourishment only. We eat for
celebrations and mourning. We eat for sensory satisfaction, not for “growing”
and helping our bodies. So, being hungry is a chance for you to turn your
lifestyle towards a better approach of eating.

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Are you REALLY hungry for food?

Whenever you feel like eating, or you feel hungry, ask yourself a few questions
to determine whether or not you really need to eat something. We often
misinterpret the feeling of hunger.

Have you ever experienced the sense of hunger fading away after some time?

It happens to me. I am driving, and suddenly I feel very hungry. I want so much
to eat something but cannot find a place to eat. After a while, when I reach that
place to have something to eat, my hunger is gone. This is because I was not
actually hungry. My body was hungry for something else.

Whenever you feel hungry, first try to satisfy it by drinking a glass of water
slowly. If it does not work, carefully observe what that hunger sensation is like
and come up with something that is making you hungry. For example, whenever
we are neglected, refused, or unacknowledged, we feel hungry. Similarly, when
we’re lonely and desire company, we feel hungry. These are some of the things
that when fulfilled, can eradicate that sense of hunger from within you. Keep
practicing this during your clearing up, until your scheduled time for eating is
reached. A slow walk or speaking with a friend can also help.

In our everyday lives, we try to kill this sensation with food because we are so
busy with our lives, we do not have time to stop and think about such things
other than food. The sensation strikes us as pain, irritation, pressure,
uneasiness, etc., and we try to get rid of them in the easiest way, with food,
because they hinder the smooth flows of our work or rest.

Try to take control of your hunger. Be wise in knowing what you should
eat, when to eat, and how much to eat.

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 Eating after your cleansing period

What will you do after cleansing yourself?

Be messy and polluted again?

Continue with your eating habits that you developed during the revocation and
clear up program, if you want continued virtuous vigor and well-being.

 Make sure you consume more alkaline foods than acidic ones. Eat many
vegetables and eliminate mucus-forming foods including dairy, sugar,
wheat, and white rice.

 If it is possible, use mostly organic foods. Whenever you use inorganic

food, make sure you wash it well to remove toxicities. Avoid chemical-filled
foods.

 Eat more and more fresh whole foods weekly. They make the foundation
of all detoxifying nutrients. Cabbage, broccoli, mustard leaves, cauliflower,
radish, turnip, coriander, artichoke, garlic, pomegranate, cocoa, and green
tea are natural toxin neutralizers. Add them to your diet.

 At least 50 percent or more of your diet should contain raw fruits,

vegetables, seeds, nuts, and unprocessed oils.

 Your intestinal flora is one of your best friends. Take care of them by
including enough fiber in your diet. Consume good fats and probiotics.
Processed and preservative-filled foods are favorable for bad bacteria;
avoid them. Avoid sugar, wheat, refined grains, dairy, alcohol, and
caffeine. Reduce stress as much as possible with stress management.
Avoid any sort of medication.

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  Fish oil, krill oil, flaxseed oil and hemp oil are good anti-inflammatory oils.
Consume them.

 If it is possible, buy foods from your local farmer directly, as this will save
you from packaging and processing hazards.

 Do not make your body hanker for foods. A serene mind, “full of zip” body,
and an uncontaminated intestine should be your goals.

 Eat a plant-based diet. Be considerate to animals. Keep in mind how your

‘eating habits’ can affect the planet.

When should you ‘Clear Up’ again?

The next question that should pop up in your mind is how often you should be
‘clearing up.’ After your deep cleanse, it depends on your lifestyle, and how
much you live a toxic life. It is now almost impossible to keep yourself clean from
the toxic effects of big and busier city lives.

Therefore, if you are not suffering from any disease and you are energetic most
of the time, but you want to maintain the same vigor and health, perform ‘Clear
Up’ annually. However, if you have some haunting warning signs and you want
to improve your current condition, ‘Clear Up’ bi-annually. ‘Once or twice a year’
programs often suit most people.

I regularly have clear up programs for myself and I recommend the same to my
patients.

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diet. There might come the times like weekends or parties where you derail for a
night. If it happens, make your next day a “juice feast” day or “one-solid-meal”
day, whatever you think would be enough for your body’s detoxification. Take
herbal laxatives to bring back normal and smooth bowel movements. Repeat
this until you feel you are back on track.

However, if the story is not about a night or so, but of weeks and months that
your lavish meals seep back in, and you feel slothful and drained, follow ‘Clear
Up’ again or at least do the revocation phase only. Again, it is up to you to
decide the best option for your body. If your derailment wasn’t so bad, do an
abbreviated version of the program; otherwise do the complete program once
more.

I would suggest that you follow the following pattern.

 Make one day your juice day every week. Of course, your digestive
system needs a rest from the hectic job of 6 days with the same diet, as
you need a day or two off from your work to retain your synergies and get
back into form.
 That will make 4 days of fasting every month, resulting in 52 days of fast
per year.
 If you expand this over time, you will have one year’s fast every seven
years.

Is it not true for farmers and agriculturists? They grow vegetation for six years
and take the seventh year as rest for their soil. In the resting year, the soil
retains most of its nutrients, preparing itself again for the next six years of
vegetation. Your body works in the same manner.

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 Summary: Cleaning Your Body

 Several types of toxins disturb normal body functioning, and are very
damaging. They strike us as toiletries and cosmetics, medications, tap
water, and air. The food we eat is high in toxicity.

 The clothes we wear have insecticide sprays on them, which are toxic.
Synthetic, formaldehyde resin clothing, plastic shoes, and plastic bottles
are sources of toxins.

 Emissions from fittings, peroxides, insulations, sprays, veneers, fire

retardants, floorings, filth, dander, cigarette smolder, and wall-to-wall
synthetic carpeting create severe indoor pollution. Vinyl shower curtains
and household cleaners are other sources we come across daily.

 The smoke from automobiles and industries, chemical fertilizers, factories’

discharge, electrical devices and heavy metals contaminate the whole
environment and the air you breathe.

 Preservatives, chemicals, additives, packaging, and processing of foods

make them toxic, and this we eat every day, exhausting our energies.
They not only harm adults but affect a child’s physical and mental growth
as well.

 Unnatural eating habits add to the toxic scenario. Natural eating should be
for good nourishment of the body; however, we eat for the sake of our
happiness, to grieve, to celebrate, etc.

 Mucus and toxins inside your body damage it in every way they can.
Therefore, your body needs detoxification when you notice one or more
indications of toxicity such as laziness, gaseousness, constipation,
headache and pains, joint aches, and emotional distress.

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 Follow a clear up program to release toxins, neutralize them, and clean
the body of them. Provide your body with detoxification nutrients including
energy, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins.

 For deep cleansing, give your body a 12-hour window at night for clearing
up. Make a schedule, prepare your kitchen for the revocation diet, and
start your foundation phase that will be the groundwork for the detailed
cleansing process.

 You can follow a 14 days juice feast or 21 days one-solid-meal cleansing

program. Make sure you are getting the right nutrients for detoxification
from the right sources.

 Support your clear up program by avoiding constipation, performing colon

cleansing, drinking plenty of water for efficient kidney function, doing
breathing exercises for the lungs, and using a sauna and other skin
remedies. Proper rest, sleep, massage and exercise can enhance
detoxification. Include recommended supplements too.

 Deal with your hunger. Continue with a good diet after cleansing for
continued health and well-being. Depending upon your condition, a once a
year or twice a year partial or full cleanse is recommended.

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 Hidden Allergies and Food Intolerance
2 simple blood tests you must do.

Do you suffer from a hidden allergy?

According to most estimates, as many as one in three people are allergic to
something, be it a food allergy or something else. However, this may be a gross
underestimation. Across Europe, allergies are considered a major chronic
illness.

In the United States, according to the American College of Asthma, Allergy, and
Immunology, at least 38% of the population suffers from allergies.

Many surveys have been done on the subject, one finding that almost half of
those studied has had some adverse reaction to a food, while in another the
majority found that a food allergy was the cause of their chronic illness.

Sadly, few people, even other doctors, have any idea how much of an impact
food has on them and that their health problems can easily be related to what
they are eating!

Allergy types
Immediate-onset (IgE)

Immediate-onset allergies are ones you likely have heard of before, such as an
allergy to peanuts. These types of allergic reactions are very rare, occur within 2
hours of eating the substance, and tend to be highly dangerous. If you had one
of these allergies, chances are you already know about it.

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Delayed-onset (IgG)

If you seem to be ill constantly, going back and forth to the doctor with no sign of
relief, the first thing to suspect is a delayed-onset food allergy. It is important to
identify and remove these allergens immediately. However, many obstacles
block the diagnosis of these types of food allergies.

For one thing, the symptoms of these allergies show up in many different areas
of the body, present in different ways, and show up slowly. In some cases,
eating the food you are allergic to can even make you feel better for a short
period of time. You might not react every time the food is introduced into your
system.

Some of the common complaints that my colleagues and I have heard have to
do with the unreliability and confusion of some of the allergy testing. Often we
hear that someone was skin tested and had nothing show up, only to be told at
a later date that this type of testing is very unreliable. Another common
complaint is that the patient is told that they are allergic to one thing, but not
another… then they are told it is the reversed on the next test – at which point
most people just give up.

Largely this is because for so long the focus has been entirely on immediate-
onset allergies and the preferred diagnostic testing was the skin test. The
problem is that this sort of testing does not work on delayed-onset allergies. It
was not until the ‘80s that research began to confirm that the basic action of IgG
food allergies was the “leaky gut,” where large bits of food were entering the
blood stream. The research showed that as this happened it was IgG antibodies
that were attacking and not IgE.

As discussed earlier, the IgG antibodies join themselves to the allergen, forming
a complex immune system response. These bits circulate throughout the body,
looking for vulnerable sites to move into. Once entrenched, they cause constant
irritation and inflammation. This is when diseases like allergy-induced arthritis
begin to form.

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Because our intestinal linings are not a perfect shield, this crossover happens
on a regular basis. The big difference between someone with allergies and
someone without is the amount of crossover that occurs, and how well the
immune system can handle it. If a great deal of crossover begins, or happens
over time, allergic reactions begin to crop up.

For an IgG test, a small amount of blood is drawn and it is then examined for the
presence of antibodies against certain foods. Any doctor’s office can do this test,
or you can order a home test kit. Home test kits are an easy way to get the
testing done. You simply use a lancet to get a small prick of blood, place some
absorbent material against the blood to soak it up and then send that material to
the lab. As long as it gets there within 72 hours, it will be accurate.

However, be careful which laboratory that you use. If you get your blood drawn
through a doctor’s office, ask the doctor if they do split testing. This is where the
doctor draws two vials of blood from the same patient and then sends the blood
under two different names to the lab. The samples should come back the same
if the lab is good; if not then all test results are suspect.

The lab should be able to test your blood against easily more than 100 foods.
The blood is exposed to tiny amounts of food proteins. The mixture will change
colors depending on how strong an allergic reaction there is to that food. The
ELISA test is a way to measure the degrees of your reaction. This will be
included in the report from the lab so that when you get the results, you will
know what you are allergic to and exactly how allergic that you are. For
example, if you have a +3 or +4 reaction, you should avoid that food entirely. If
you have a lesser reaction, you may just want to rotate how often you eat that
food. Later on, we will discuss how to decrease and even reverse your allergic
reactions to certain foods.

Celiac disease

Celiac disease is a serious condition that is permanent and believed to be

inherited. Essentially, it is an allergic reaction to something called gliadin, a

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carbohydrate found in gluten cereals such as wheat, rye, and barley. Any
consumption of this substance causes problems. It attacks the intestines,
causing the lining to become leaky and unable to absorb nutrients properly.
Malnutrition often sets in as well as various vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Celiac disease is thought to have a strong genetic component. A study of

identical twins showed a 70% occurrence rate in both twins. If a parent or sibling
has the disease, you are ten times more likely than the average person to have
it. Even though medical textbooks still estimate the occurrence of celiac disease
as about 1 in 5000, advances in laboratory testing has proven that it has a much
higher prevalence then ever thought before.

Random sampling done by the Red Cross discovered that about 1 in 250 people
in the USA alone suffer from this disease, with the majority of those going
undiagnosed and untreated. More recent studies have shown similar findings in
other countries. In fact, celiac disease is considered such a threat in some
countries that Italy was considering mandating testing for all children by the age
of six. Sadly, the USA and Britain still lag behind.

Conservatively estimating that over 36 million people in the USA and Britain
have celiac disease, we also find that the occurrence of this disease is higher in
those who are diabetic, have Down’s syndrome, thyroid disease, or have family
members with the illness. If you prove sensitive with an IgG test to grains and
gluten, it is highly suggested that you undergo testing for celiac disease as well.
The “gold standard” for celiac testing is the small-bowel biopsy.

The small-bowel biopsy is an outpatient procedure where a specialist inserts a

tube through your mouth and down into your intestines. They then take biopsies
of the intestinal lining. A pathologist then examines these samples for evidence
of lesions and other characteristics of celiac disease. Obviously, this is an
expensive and uncomfortable procedure, which is part of why celiac disease so
often goes undiagnosed.

Thankfully modern laboratory science can save the day. Several antibody tests
are out now that can sort out a candidate for celiac disease from those who are

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not. This results in fewer unneeded biopsies. Because gliadin seems to be the
main offender that causes a person with celiac disease to react, testing for those
specific antibodies is used as a screening test. The body produces both IgG and
IgA antibodies to the gliadin, so no matter which test you have you should react.

In order to properly screen for celiac disease, both the IgA and the IgG tests
should be used for maximum sensitivity. The problem is twofold. First, while
these tests will pick it up 90% of the time, they are not foolproof. Secondly, just
because you react with an allergy to gliadin, it does not mean you definitely
have celiac disease. However, there is a third test that can help.

This test is called the IgA anti-endomysium test. It is a more advanced way to
test for celiac disease but it is also very expensive. Because of this, it is
generally only done when one of the other two, or both of them, comes back
positive. This test is worth the price, however, as if you do have celiac disease it
will come back positive nearly 100% of the time. If you do not, it will come back
negative 95% of the time, so it has very little chance of false positives or
negatives.

Yet another test might soon be replacing the other tests. This test is called an
IgA anti-tissue transglutaminase test, also called a tTG test or a TGA ELISA.
This test checks for the antibodies in human serum. As with the other test, it is
used when a standard IgG or IgA test comes back positive. Studies have shown
that this test is similar in accuracy to the one we just discussed. If this test, or
the previous one, comes back positive, it is imperative to undergo the small-
bowel biopsy for a final confirmation. Be sure to talk to your doctor about
running these tests if you have any suspicion that you might suffer from this
disease.

Food Intolerance

Many kinds of food intolerance are non-immunological responses. What that

means is that you get the symptoms of an allergic reaction without the actual
immune response. The most common variety is that of lactose intolerance.

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Lactose is a sugar found in cow’s milk, which is broken down by an enzyme
called lactase. Some people lack these enzymes and thus cannot digest the
milk well. This type of reaction is different from an immune response such as
inflammation. However, milk allergies and lactose intolerance tend to be found
together.

Food Chemical Sensitivity

In some people, especially those with food allergies, the sensitivity may not be
to the food itself, but to a chemical that has been added to it. The reaction to
these chemicals is often similar to the reaction of a true food allergy, often
involving hives or other urticaria. Especially in children, food additives are likely
behind the allergy. Recent studies conducted by colleagues indicate that 3 out of
4 children improved drastically on a food additive free diet. There are five
additives most likely to cause symptoms.

MSG: Monosodium glutamate is used to enhance flavor, and it is found in most

fast food and prepackaged meals and snacks. It is a chemical naturally found in
our bodies; however, excess amounts of it can cause a toxic reaction.
Symptoms include vomiting, headache, dizziness and nausea.

Sulfites/Metabisulfites/Metasulfites: These are used as preservatives, in order to

retain a sense of freshness. These are usually added to prepared foods, white
wines, and prepackaged greens. These are also often found added to otherwise
healthy foods in restaurant salad bars, to help keep the food fresher for longer.

FD&C Yellow No.5/Tartrazine: Usually used as a food coloring, this additive is

known to cause migraines, hyperactivity, and can even bring on an asthma
attack. It has also been shown to deplete the body of vitamins and minerals
such as B6.

BHA: Used as a preservative in foods high in fat content such as deli meat. It is
known to cause skin reactions such as hives.

Inulin/Oligofrictose: An extract of artichokes, this additive is used in most

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sweets, canned drinks, and even cereals. It has been seen to cause many
allergy-type symptoms, including inducing breathing problems in those already
susceptible to them such as asthmatics.

Food additives can be very dangerous and it is highly recommended that

everyone avoid them as much as possible. While there will be no more
coverage within this book of this type of chemical sensitivity, it does not mean
that such causes are unimportant, merely that they are out of the scope of this
work.

The best allergy tests you should schedule NOW

IgE&IgG:
There are several types of allergy tests, but the one I recommend is the IgE
ELISA test. ELISA stands for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Essentially,
it is a special technique used in IgG and IgE testing. Any allergy specialist can
order this test for you.

IgA test:
The IgA test is done by an anti-tissue transglutaminase test, also referred to as
a tTG test. Any allergy specialist can order this very simple blood test for you.
This is the test done to determine celiac disease, or gluten allergy.

Why allergies develop?

Food allergies begin when your body starts to treat the food you have eaten as if
it were a virus or some other invader. This might occur for a variety of reasons.

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For one, the food may contain a protein that your body does not recognize. An
example of this is the protein gliadin, which is present in grains like wheat and
barley.

In most cases however, a food allergy develops because of a “leaky” digestive

tract. This could occur for a number of reasons including excess alcohol
consumption, overuse of antibiotics, infections, or stress among other reasons.
This “leak” allows food that has not been entirely digested to enter your
bloodstream, causing your system to attack these “invaders.”

This reaction, this attack, happens in many ways. First, your immune system
attaches antibodies to the food. Then it attacks the food with cells called
phagocytes in order to digest them. This causes the release of histamine and
other reactive chemicals, which in turn cause the symptoms of a food allergy.
There are two common types of allergies, immediate onset and delayed onset.
Which one occurs is dependent on which antibody your body uses, IgE or IgG.

How to reverse your allergies

The best thing that you can do to reverse your allergy is to avoid what you are
allergic to. Use an IgG test to determine exactly what you are allergic to. Avoid
those foods for three to six months. You may have to exercise caution when
going out to eat, and read the labeling on foods very carefully, but it will be well
worth the hassle.

You CAN keep eating the allergenic foods

The three to six month wait has a reason behind it. IgG antibodies only have a
half-life of about six weeks. What that means is that in six weeks time, half of the
antibodies will be dead and will have been replaced. After three to six months of
that cycle, the antibodies are completely new, and reintroducing that food into
your system should no longer be a problem. This however does not apply to IgE
foods. These immediate onset allergies, as well as celiac disease, can only be
treated by lifelong avoidance of the food in question. Following an anti-allergy
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diet and taking appropriate supplements are the best steps you can take.

Reintroducing Foods

You might be asking yourself if you will ever be able to eat the foods you like
again, and the answer can easily be yes. After eliminating these allergy-causing
foods from your diet for at least three months, you can clear our most of your
delayed-onset food allergies. Once this is completed you can, carefully,
reintroduce those foods back into your system without allergic reactions.
Continue to make healthy dietary choices and you can stay allergy free.

However, please remember that this applies only to delayed onset allergies.
People with celiac disease or with severe IgE allergies such as to peanuts may
have to avoid these foods forever. If you have symptoms such as asthma or
anaphylaxis in conjunction with these immediate-onset allergies, it is best to
avoid the food forever.

Assuming, however, that this is not the case, reintroducing a food is easy as
long as you follow some simple steps. After your three-six months of severe
restriction, add a small portion of the food back into your diet - only a small
portion - once every three days, and only one food at a time. This gives your
body a chance to adjust and gives you a three-day window to ensure that an
allergic reaction does not occur before further reintroduction. Depending on your
allergy type and foods avoided, there are some guidelines to make the process
more effective.

If you were avoiding dairy products, then it is best to reintroduce a plain yogurt,
preferably with “live” probiotics. Assuming no adverse reactions within five days,
you can try to reintroduce whole or half-and-half milk. Nonfat and low-fat milks
have a higher allergenicity and should still be avoided at first.

If you were avoiding wheat, try starting out with a product like shredded wheat.
This is the same for any grain; plain oatmeal is a great way to reintroduce oats.
The key is to keep it plain so your body does not have to deal with extra

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additives as it reintroduces the food.

If you were avoiding eggs, try eating some cooked yolk – and only the yolk. Give
it at least five days to be sure of no reaction. Assuming everything is fine, try
some egg whites next.

Again, it is worth repeating, when reintroducing a food use a product that is

made only from the ingredient. This helps your body by letting it deal with just
the one substance at a time, and helps to avoid reactions to the additives that
are so often found in foods. Another trick is to allow at least one week in
between introducing foods. Monitor carefully any symptoms from the previous
food over this time before moving on to a new one.

Always reintroduce these foods in the order of weakest reaction to strongest.

Your body forgets the weakest reactions the soonest. Again, watch your
symptoms carefully. There is a symptom score chart included at the end of the
book to make it easier for you to record any reactions that occur. If you continue
to not react with the reintroduced foods, it is safe to fully integrate them into your
diet. However, it is still wise to rotate the food a bit or eat it sparingly to avoid
relapses.

List of the top 20 common delayed-onset IgG food allergies

1. Milk (cow) - nonfat and low-fat especially.

2. Gluten (grains) – such as found in wheat, rye, oats, barley, spelt, kamut,
and triticale.
3. Gluten (gliadin) – such as found in wheat, rye, and barley.
4. Yeast – both brewer’s and baker’s.
5. Egg Whites – Children are the most at risk here.
6. Cashews
7. Egg Yolks – Adults are most commonly at risk here.
8. Garlic
9. Soybeans – The occurrences of soy allergies are increasing exponentially.
10. Brazil Nuts
11. Almonds

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12. Corn
13. Hazelnuts
14. Oats
15. Lentils
16. Kiwifruit
17. Chili peppers
18. Sesame seeds
19. Sunflower seeds
20. Peanuts – please be very careful when dealing with this allergy.
Peanut allergies are generally permanent and highly dangerous when
exposed to even small amounts.

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 Why haven't you heard this before?

I believe no one can achieve his targets if he doesn’t have a clear mind about
his goals and directions. Similarly, someone may want a healthy and cheerful
long life, but confusion arises as to the correct and honest information. All that I
have been telling you in earlier chapters is probably seeping in, as I repeatedly
kept assuring you of their guaranteed results. However, I fully understand the
questions and confusions popping up at the back of your mind.

It starts with …

“If all this has been true and is so healthy, why have you not been told about this
before?”

“If milk is not good for you, why were you made to believe it is healthy and
should be consumed daily?”

“Why is meat still being promoted as a source of protein and something which
should be eaten?”

… and much more.

These are all valid questions that you SHOULD ask in order to carry out your
clear up program with full enthusiasm and dedication. These are among the key
factors of your success. Otherwise, confusions and problems will continue piling
up and you will not be able to continue your ‘healthy lifestyle.’

The answer to every question lies in knowing how the information is

generated and then conveyed to you.

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I have unveiled the faces of huge industries whose income solely depends on
your diet and lifestyle. If, today, Americans start consuming plant-based foods
only and abandon animal-based foods, not one industry but a group of
industries will see their failure. Therefore, it is common sense - why would an
industry want their future to be threatened? Promoting an animal-based diet and
seeking prescription medicines that are not good for your health, etc., are just a
few steps towards increasing their wealth.

These big industries, whether they are in the government, the health sector,
science, the drug industry, or media, are all chained together. They work closely
with each other to increase their profits. For this, they put aside your health, and
prefer technology and money!

Remember how the industries influence each other and grant each other
benefits for delivering misinformation?

The worst part is it is steady and quiet. You do not realize that this
misinformation hurts you. You do not even consider these people as your
enemies. This is worse than an open and loud enemy is. This “quiet enemy” you
take as your friend while he attacks you by slow poisoning.

Dr. Colin Campbell in his book has said:

“The most damaging aspect of the system is not

sensational, nor is it likely to create much of a stir upon its
discovery. It is a silent enemy that few people see and
understand.”

The whole system works in such a way that you do not identify what harm it is
causing to you. It creates and rejuvenates your thinking and beliefs so that even
when you discover the truth, you simply say no to it. You do not accept it
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because the whole system has molded your beliefs very strategically. You will
not find “an enemy to sue.” It creeps in so silently that only a very few of us can
identify it.

Who is doing what?

If I say we are all spending the most on eating and dying, this would not be
wrong. First, we spend a lot on eating throughout our lives. Then, when the food
makes us diseased, we spend much more in healing our bodies and extending
our ‘death date.’

Food companies like Kraft, The Danone Group, McDonald’s, Wendy’s

International and many more make billions every year. Overall food expenses
are more than $700 billion a year, and that takes into account foodstuffs
purchased by individuals, government, and business.176

When we eventually disease ourselves, we rush for healing, letting the drug
industry profit. Pfizer, Eli Lilly & Co., Johnson and Johnson, and others make
several billion dollars every year.

The industries, food and medicine, both earn over a trillion dollars every
year from our standard of eating and healing.

Individual companies do make efforts to increase their revenues. However, more

than that, there are groups of industries that make markets, play their roles to
grow those markets and expand their profits over a bigger scale by:

176
Putman JJ, and Allshouse JE. “Food consumption, prices, and expenditures, 1970-95.”Washington, DC:
United States Department of Agriculture, 1997. Cited in: information plus. Nutrition: a key to good health. Wylie,
TX: information plus, 1999.
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  Increasing the charm of their products
 Deceitfully claiming the nutritional benefits of their products
 Protecting their products by every means from being labeled unhealthy
o Failing to achieve that, making you believe it is not bad for you, if not
good and healthy

In this way, these groups acquire and keep hold of their businesses by selling
your health. Some of them include The National Dairy Council, American Meat
Institute, United Egg Producers, and National Dairy Promotion and Research
Board.

The practices they adopt that I mentioned above are not the only ones. These
groups, under legal conditions, spy on researchers and their research results.
Dr. Colin Campbell has mentioned an example of the University of Wisconsin,
funded by the meat and dairy industry. Dr. Campbell had with him the minutes of
a meeting of a committee from this university. According to him:

“The committee’s main objective was to have members

observe projects that might do ‘harm’ to their industry. With
such surveillance, the industry could more effectively
respond to unexpected discoveries from researchers that
might make otherwise unanticipated news. I had learned
well that, when the stakes are high, industry was not averse
to putting its own spin on a story.”177

The most ‘powerful’ industry group

Among all, the dairy industries group is the most powerful, which is influencing

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Dr. Colin Campbell, The China Study, Chapter 15: The “science” of industries (The Airport Club)
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health guidelines and lifestyles. The group, the National Dairy Council, is a well-
formed, well-organized, and well-funded group that has been brainwashing our
brains for more than a decade now.178

In 2003, the National Dairy Council and Dairy Management Inc. had over $165
million in their budget for promotion and marketing.179 On the other hand, the
National Watermelon Promotion Board had $1.6 million in their budget for the
same.180

The dairy industry accomplishes its aims by targeting young kids and their
mothers, schools, and by taking steps for conducting, publishing, and spreading
the tests that give ‘favorable’ results. The budget for the dairy industry includes
programs for fluid milk, school marketing, and “Dairy Image and Confidence.”181

Targeting schools and children’s education

Schools have a great impact on children’s beliefs and lives. The dairy industry,
therefore, chooses schools as a medium to get to the minds of children. They
are taught and made to believe that milk and other dairy products (but milk
especially) are good for their bones, teeth, growth, intelligence, and for their
whole body. As children are the easiest and fastest means of their promotion,
the dairy industry termed the education system as the chief resource for
aggressively marketing their products.

178
National Dairy Council, July 15, 2003. Accessed at
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/AboutNDC/Pages/AboutNDCLanding.aspx
179
Dairy Management Inc. Press Release “Dairy checkoff 2003 unified marketing plan budget geared to help
increase demand in domestic and international markets.” Rosemont, IL: January 24, 2003. Accessed at
http://www.dairycheckoff.com/news/release-012403.asp [pdf file:
http://www.tcolincampbell.org/fileadmin/researchpapers/pdf/dairy%20checkoff%2003_UMP%20budget.pdf]
180
National Watermelon Promotion Board – January 12, 2004. Accessed at http://www.watermelon.org
181
Dairy Management Inc. Press Release “Dairy checkoff 2003 unified marketing plan budget geared to help
increase demand in domestic and international markets.” Rosemont, IL: January 24, 2003. Accessed at
http://www.dairycheckoff.com/news/release-012403.asp [pdf file:
http://www.tcolincampbell.org/fileadmin/researchpapers/pdf/dairy%20checkoff%2003_UMP%20budget.pdf]
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According to a report of the dairy industry that was put forth to Congress:

“Pyramid Café® and Pyramid ExplorationsTM, targeted to

second and fourth grades, reach over 12 million students
with messages that milk and dairy products are a key part of
a healthy diet. Survey results continue to show a very high
utilization rate for these two programs, currently at over 70%
of the instructors that have the programs.”182

To know how the dairy industry is operating at the school level and others, do
check their website.183 We should be worried at the pace the dairy industry is
spreading the disinformation, and the strategy they are using. To give you a
piece of evidence, their website in July 2003 contained “healthy” ice cream
month. Are they promoting health or child obesity and diabetes?

Favorable research test results

The industry ‘attacks’ the beliefs of older people and youth by conveying
favorable test results to the masses. It spends $4 - $5 million every year to
facilitate research that makes their products appear healthy.184 - 185

One such example is the test results of Conjugated Linoleic Acid, CLA. It is a
group of fatty acids in the guts of cows, which they get from corn. From the guts,
CLA is absorbed by the body and is accumulated in the meat and milk of cows.
182
United States Department of Agriculture. “Report to Congress on the National Dairy Promotion and Research
Program and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program.” 2003. Accessed at
http://www.ams.usda.gov/dairy/prb/prb_rept_2003.htm
183
Nutrition Explorations. July 2003. Accessed at http://www.nutritionexplorations.com
184
United States Department of Agriculture. “Report to Congress on the National Dairy Promotion and Research
Program and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program.” 2003. Accessed at
http://www.ams.usda.gov/dairy/prb/prb_rept_2003.htm
185
Powell A. “School of public health hosts food fight: McDonald’s, dairy industry, dietary reformers face off at
symposium.” Harvard Gazette: 24 October 2002. Accessed at
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/10.24/09-food.html
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Humans get it from eating cows’ meat and drinking cows’ milk.

In one research study, CLA was given to mice that inhibited stomach tumors
from carcinogen called benzo(a)pyrene.186187 However, there was a trick
involved. The researchers injected CLA into the mice prior to giving them the
carcinogen that activated the specific enzymes to combat that carcinogen.
When the carcinogen was injected, the enzymes were already ready to fight it,
and hence effectively saved mice from tumors. This way, researchers (who were
funded by the dairy industry) were able to term CLA as an anticarcinogen and
the result was publicized on a larger scale, making milk and meat appear to be
useful in treating cancers and tumors.

However, as already mentioned, the CLA given prior to the existence of a

carcinogen is effective against tumors, but not the reverse. Another missing or
intentionally hidden fact was that the CLA in a cow’s guts is from whole food,
corn, and is not the individual chemical CLA.

No study has shown any result either in humans or in mice that feeding them
with milk reduced their cancer risk. Cornell Professor Dale Bauman, Pariza and
their colleagues initiated a study over it – whether or not milk of cows fed highly
on corn oil is an anticarcinogen or not. They showed positive results,188 but,
again, with the same trick of feeding milk fat before feeding the carcinogen and
not after it. Therefore, the results are dramatic.

Moreover, CLA was effective in mice. The experiments in humans were yet to be
conducted.

186
HA YL, Grimm NK, and Pariza MW “anticarcinogens from fried ground beef: heat altered derivatives of
linoleic acid.” Carcinogenesis 8 (1987):1881-1887
187
HA YL, storkson J, and pariza MW. “Inhibition of benzo(a)pyrene-induced mouse forestomachneoplasia by
conjugated denoic derivatives of linoleic acid.” Cancer Res. 50(1990):1097-1101
188
Ip C, Banni S, Angioni E, et al. “Conjugated linoleic acid-enriched butter fat alters mammary gland
morphogenesis and reduces cancer risk in rats.” J. Nutr. 129(1999):2135-2142
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The number of humans with cancer-promoting agents is increasing with the
increased consumption of milk. The ability to treat cancer in humans has not yet
been proven.

The CLA study was primarily funded by The National Dairy Council, Kraft Foods,
Inc., the Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board,
and the Cattlemen’s Beef Association.189190191192

A similar story is about lycopene and tomatoes. In 1995, it was discovered that
people who consume more tomatoes have a lower risk of prostate cancer.193

Soon after, the drug industry took over lycopene and used the name as a trade
name for their lycopene products. It was used in food supplements as well.
However, the effectiveness of lycopene outside tomatoes or as an individual
chemical was questionable. Several studies did not show any association of
isolated lycopene and lower cancer risks.194

Lycopene is effective when taken during tomato consumption, and not alone.
There are many different chemicals in tomatoes that work together with
lycopene and defeat prostate cancer. Therefore, if you say that you can treat
your prostate cancer by taking isolated lycopene (because you do not like
tomatoes) you are mistaken.195

189
Ip C, Banni S, Angioni E, et al. “Conjugated linoleic acid-enriched butter fat alters mammary gland
morphogenesis and reduces cancer risk in rats.” J. Nutr. 129(1999):2135-2142
190
Griinari JM, Corl BA, Lacy SH, et al. “Conjugated linoleic acid is synthesized endogenously in lactating dairy
cows by D9-desaturase.” J. Nutr. 130(2000):2285-2291
191
Ip C, Dong Y, Thompson HJ, et al. “control of rat mammary epithelium proliferation by conjugated linoleic
acid.” Nutr. Cancer 39 (2001):233-238
192
Ip C, Dong Y, Ip MM, t al. “conjugated linoleic acid isomers and mammary cancer prevention.” Nutr. Cancer
43(2002):52-58
193
Giovannucci E. “Insulin and colon cancer.” Cancer causes and control 6 (1995):164-179
194
Giovannucci E, Rimm E, Liu Y, et al. “A prospective study of tomato products, lycopene, and prostate cancer
risk.” J. Nat. Cancer Inst. 94(2002):391-398
195
Gann pH, and Khachik F. “Tomatoes or lycopene versus prostate cancer: is evolution anti-reductionist?” J.
Nat. Cancer Inst. 95(2003): 1563-1565
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In spite of this evidence, the big money making industry is running their
lycopene business successfully.

Even if you take isolated lycopene, it would not provide you with the rest of the
supporting nutrients that you can obtain by eating whole foods.

The fruit industry is not far behind

Let me start with vitamin C. You are made to believe that oranges are a good
source of vitamin C. However, some plant foods including peppers, strawberries,
broccoli and peas have more vitamin C than an orange.196

The antioxidant property exhibited by the vitamin C in an orange is about 1-2%

and not more.197 You should consume oranges as a healthy plant food but not
as a source of vitamin C. Unfortunately, this misinformation is controlled by the
fruit industry. Such out-of-context details and related claims about diet and
health are the most damaging aspects of our lives.

Go out to a grocery store. You will find their “health” section piled up with
supplements but the “produce” section will have fewer whole fruits and
vegetables.

Our Government and its Stance

Enough talk about different individual and group industries trying to manipulate
and hide the ‘right’ dietary information from us. The U.S. Government is doing

196
U.S. Department of Agriculture.“USDA Nutrient database for standard reference.”Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, 2002. Accessed at
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR21/sr21_doc.pdf
197
Eberhardt MV, Lee CY, and Liu RH. “antioxidant activity of fresh apples.” Nature 405 (2000): 903-904
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the same.

It has been known with evidence and proof that, in America, the death rate is
skyrocketing because of the way Americans eat, which is far more than the
number of deaths due to accidental and environmental factors. Doctors,
scientists, academics, experts, researchers - all are saying the same.

Then, why is the government not taking steps to save its nation from the perils
of a poor dietary lifestyle and the hands of death. What else can the U.S.
Government do better than to provide Americans with great health and
longevity?

Just like the steps taken against cigarettes, the government should guide the
public and spread awareness about healthy eating. However, instead of that, our
government promotes animal-based foods, highly refined plant foods, dairy and
meat. It is ignoring the healthy facts related to eating less refined plant and
whole foods.

Recommended daily allowances of nutrients by FNB

The Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) is responsible for setting and revising daily
allowances of nutrients every five years or so. Until 2002, it gave out a set
number of RDA, but in the 2002 report, it announced RDA in percentage
ranges.198

According to the FNB 2002 report’s news release:199

198
Food and Nutrition Board, and Institute of Medicine.“Dietary reference intakes for energy, carbhydrates, fiber,
fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, protein, and amino acids (macronutrients).” Washington DC: The National Academy
Press, 2002. Accessed at http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309085373
199
National Academy of Sciences.Press Release. “Report offers new eating and physical activity targets to
reduce chronic disease risk.” Sept. 5, 2002. Washington DC: National Research Council, Institute of Medicine.
Accessed at http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309085373?OpenDocument
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 “To meet the body’s daily energy and nutritional needs while
minimizing risk for chronic disease, adults should get 45%
to 65% of their calories from carbohydrates, 20% to 35%
from fat and 10% to 35% from protein…

… added sugars should comprise no more than 25% of total

calories consumed…

… added sugars are those incorporated into foods and

beverages during production [and] major sources include
candy, soft drinks, fruit drinks, pastries and other sweets.”

Let us have a closer look at the news release of the report now.

 The release says that you can still MINIMIZE RISK FOR CHRONIC
DISEASE even when you consume 35% of fat. This figure has increased
from its last report of 30% fat intake. Moreover, 35% of protein is too much
for any responsible authority to recommend to you to guarantee a
reduction of chronic disease rate.
 Added sugar means highly refined carbohydrates, and 25% of it is allowed
by FNB. This is again an irresponsible statement.

What the report from FNB is trying to tell us that what we are consuming, as
an American diet today, is fine, and consuming an even richer diet would be
fine too! It would not only be fine but will still help you in minimizing your risk
of chronic disease.

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 On the contrary, 10-20% of protein consumption (especially if the source is
animal-based food) is linked with several health problems as proved by
scientific studies and research.

The FNB report is a charade.

“The first panel member … said this was the first time he
had even heard about the 35% protein limit! … In any event,
this important recommendation slipped through the panel
without much notice and made the first sentence of the FNB
news release!

The second panel member … was a subcommittee chair

during the latter part of the panel’s existence. He is not a
nutritional scientist… [and] initially was a little defensive.
But with a little more persistence on my part about the
evidence, he finally said, “Colin, you know that I really don’t
know anything about nutrition.” How, then, was he a member –
let alone the chair – of this important subcommittee?”200

– Dr. Colin Campbell

Added Sugars – safe limits or not?

The FNB allows 25% of added sugars and says that this can still help you in
controlling the occurrence of chronic diseases. At the time this report was about
to publish, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) were putting together another report on nutrition. According
to WHO and FAO, in the ‘intended’ and not yet published report, the
recommended daily allowance for added sugars was 10%, which is much less

200
Dr. Colin Campbell. “The China Study” - Ch. 16 pg. 309
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than 25% as stated by the FNB.

As soon as the information in the ‘intended’ report was spread, politics jumped
in to play its part.201 A London newspaper, The Guardian, stated that the U.S.
sugar industry was bullying these organizations, “to bring the World Health
Organization to its knees,” lest their reckless recommendations on added sugar
be discovered to be in error.

“[the U.S. based sugar association and the world sugar

research organization, who] represent the interests of the
sugar growers and refiners, had mounted a strong lobbying
campaign in an attempt to discredit the [WHO] report and
suppress its release.” 202

- Director General Office at the WHO

These scenarios and evidence clearly shows that the FNB created a ‘friendly’
report while the WHO worked on ‘healthy’ rather than ‘friendly’ terms.

The Industry Jumps In Again

So how does industry play its part?

The industry creates ‘friendly’ relationships with a few public academia figures.
These people take up key positions in policy making outside academia,
meanwhile holding academic positions as well. Within academies, they write
‘favored’ reviews, arrange symposiums, seminars, workshops, lead expert

201
Oseley S. “Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO.” The Guardian April 21, 2003
202
Brundtland GH. “Sweet and sour; The WHO is accused by the sugar industry of giving unscientific nutrition
advice. But its recommendations are based on solid evidence, says Gro Harlem Brundtland.” New Scientist, May
03, 2003:23
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groups and get hold of the leaders of professional societies.

Of course, these ranks and standards offer them a chance to write, publish,
spread information, and make people believe what they want. They team up
with likeminded people with the same interests. Together as a team, they work
more effectively and spread their influence more widely.

The FNB panel was developed the same way. The whole panel had strong
associations with the dairy industry and food and drug industries.203 Besides
M&M Mars Co., other sponsors of FNB report were The Dannon Institute, the
International Life Sciences Institute, Coca-Cola, Taco Bell, Burger King, Nestle,
Pfizer, and Roche Vitamins.204

The chair of the FNB was a consultant to dairy companies including National
Dairy Council, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Nestle Company, and Dannon
Group.205 He was also a chair of the Dietary Guidelines Committee that is
responsible for the Food Guide Pyramid, National School Lunch and Breakfast
programs, the Food Stamp Program and the Women, Infants, and Children
Supplemental Feeding Program. The federal law requires the financial
statements as chair of such organizations, but the financials were not made
available.206

These academic scientists get personal rewards from the industry and benefit
from government-funded activities of public importance. Therefore, this creates
a “conflict-of-interest” situation, letting the industries have an influence through
the activities of academia.

203
National Academy of sciences.Press release. “report offers new eating and physical activity targets to reduce
chronic disease risk.” September 5, 2002. Washington DC: National Research Council, Institute of Medicine.
Accessed at http://www4/nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309085373?OpenDocument
International Life Sciences Institute. ILSI North America. Accessed at http://www.ilsi.org
204
205
Kursban M. Commentary: conflicted panel makes for unfit guidelines. Physicians committee for responsible
medicine. Accessed at http://www.pcrm.org/health/commentary/commentary0004.html
206
Chaitowitz S. Court Rules against USDA’s secrecy and failure to disclose conflict of interest in setting nutrition
policies. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Accessed at http://www.pcrm.org/media/news/court-
rules-against-usdas-secrecy-and-failure-to
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 The Part Doctors Play

I belong to a community called ‘doctors and physicians.’ You might never have
heard of a doctor treating his patients with the right diet. I would not blame
doctors, as we grow in an environment that is controlled by the big industries
and government. We are in a system that is surrounded by money and power.

However, a few, very few, doctors base their practices on nutrition. They have
seen tremendous results in their profession while treating their patients
nutritionally and with correct dietary information. Among them are two doctors
namely Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. and John McDougall.

Dr. Esselstyn

Dr. Esselstyn graduated from Yale and worked as a surgeon at the Cleveland
Clinic and St. George’s Hospital in London. His teachers and mentors were
renowned physicians and surgeons, along with his father, who gained
countrywide standing as a physician, and father-in-law, who achieved
remarkable accomplishments.

He idealized these men but, unfortunately, all of them had cardiovascular

disease and died. Before his father’s death from cardiovascular disease, he
suggested to Dr. Esselstyn that they should tell people the way to lead a
healthier life. However, they did not have any knowledge of it. After his father’s
death, the same ambition and wish to bring this awareness to others became Dr.
Esselstyn’s guiding force.

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Throughout his career, Esselstyn achieved a great deal.207 The then- President
of the American Medical Association chose him for his thyroid surgery.

“For about a ten to fifteen year period I was the top earner in
the department of general surgery. As Dr. Crile’s son-in-law,
I was panicked about not pulling my weight. I didn’t get
home until late at night, but I had a position that was
secure.”

– Dr. Esselstyn

Regardless of all the successes and achievements, Esselstyn was not

contented. He was keen to know about the health of his patients after the
treatment, which he did not feel comfortable with.

Toward these ends, he started studying different literature. Esselstyn studied Dr.
John McDougall’s famous, chart-topping book on diet and health called The
McDougall Plan.208

From what he studied, he concluded that it was the diet (rich in animal-based
foods, fats, and highly refined foods) and the lifestyle of his patients that
diseased their bodies.

He started treating heart patients with a diet low in fat and rich in plant-based
foods. He published his study that entailed 18 patients treated the same way
and showed the reversal of the disease.

In spite of the great achievement he made, he was not acknowledged. Once he

achieved medals, honors, and awards for just being a traditional doctor and
207
Naifeh SW. The best doctors in America 1994-1995.Aiken, S.C.: Woodward & White, 1994.
208
McDougall JA, and McDougall MA. The McDougall Plan. Clinton, NJ: New win publishing, Inc., 1983.
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surgeon. When he shifted his strategies towards dietary treatments, his
conscience was clear, but he failed to receive the gratitude. On the contrary, he
was called “Dr. Sprouts” behind his back.

It was not an easy task. He got comments from his fellow colleagues,
sometimes dismissing, disparaging, and sometimes absurd. It was not easy to
convince his patients either. It took him hours to persuade them to try a dietary
treatment. As for the doctors, Esselstyn was aware of their stance.

“You can’t get frustrated. These aren’t evil people. There are
sixty cardiologists [at the Cleveland Clinic], any number of
whom are closet believers in what I do, but they’re a little
afraid because of the power structure.”

Esselstyn also put forward the “egoism” factor in a doctor’s training. For
example, a cardiologist thinks himself as the only expert of cardiac disease.
However, when, all of a sudden, someone tells him that he can treat the same
disease with the ‘right’ kind of diet, the cardiologist becomes cautious and
protective about his status. Of course, it looks peculiar, a dietitian teaching a
cardiologist!

It is not the doctor’s fault, as they have not been trained in nutrition and health.
They have been trained in pills and treatments. The United States National
Research Council surveyed the quantity and quality of nutrition education in
medical schools and concluded:

“The committee concluded that nutrition education

programs in U.S. medical schools are largely inadequate to

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profession.”209

This was back in 1985. Conditions are the same even today.210 What little is
available in the educational books is not related to diseases like obesity, cancer,
arthritis, etc. If this information were to be included, it would create a big
problem, so long as the ‘big animal and drug’ industries and other food
industries are controlling academia. These groups and industries have already
started to initiate their own nutritional programs in medical schools.211

Dr. John McDougall

Dr. John McDougall has worked more in nutrition and health than anyone else
has. No practitioner has researched so extensively on a plant-based whole food
diet and its health benefits. He has written ten books, and most have sold over
half a million copies.

“If anybody would be a perfect “nutrition-oriented physician

role model” in an educational setting, it would be Dr. John
McDougall.” – Dr. Colin Campbell

Dr. McDougall used to eat a highly rich western diet every day. At the age of
eighteen, he had a stroke. After recovery, he excelled in studies, studied

209
Committee on Nutrition in Medical Education. “Nutrition education in U.S. Medical Schools.” Washington, DC:
National Academy of Sciences, 1985.
210
Lo C. “Integrating nutrition as a theme throughout the medical school curriculum.”Am. J. Clin. Nutr.
72(suppl)(2000):882s-889s.
Pearson TA, Stone EJ, Grundy SM, et al. “translation of nutrition science into medical education: the nutrition
academic award program”. Am. J. Clin. Nutr.74(2001):164-170
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http://www.med.unc.edu/nutr/nim/FAQ.htm#anchorl97343
Young EA, “National Dairy Council Award for Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition Education Lecture, 1992:
perspectives on nutrition in medical education.” Am. J. Clin. Nutr.56(1992):745-751
Kushner RE “Will there be a tipping point in medical nutrition education?” Am. J. Clin. Nutr.77(2003):288-291
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medicine in Michigan, and did an internship in Hawaii.

During his time in Hawaii, he treated patients with chronic diseases mostly
including obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and arthritis. He was sad at
the recovery conditions of his patients, as his usual “pills and procedure” method
was not working with most of the patients.

Another thing he noticed was the differences between the first and second, and
third and fourth generations of Americans. First and second generations who
came from Asia were still in the habit of eating vegetables and staple diets of
rice. Third and fourth generations were used to eating a pure western/American
diet. Moreover, first and second generations were fitter than third and fourth who
suffered from cancer, diabetes, arthritis, obesity, and other chronic diseases.

He learned the importance of diet!

He continued his studies at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu in quest of more

knowledge, as he felt there was something missing in the method of treatment
he had learned and used.

He observed his senior and more expert doctors failing with pills and
procedures. It was then he realized that he did not lack in ‘expertise,’ but that
the current treatment system lacks in ‘correctness.’ Like Dr. Esselstyn, he
spent his hours reading different literature and found that whole foods and
a plant-based diet is the only treatment method for suffering patients.

However, again, like Esselstyn, this ‘‘finding’ was not welcomed by his teachers
and colleagues.

Dr. McDougall shares a story how he helped a 38-year-old man from having a
third (and possibly fatal) heart attack. When John asked the man what he would
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do to save himself from the third possibly lethal attack, all the man could say
was “nothing,” as he already had been doing everything his doctor has asked
him to do.

He told the man what he learnt about diet and reversing the heart attack.

When the man enthusiastically told his experience to his primary doctor, John
was called into the office of the Chief of Medicine, who warned John to keep his
‘right’ treatments to himself and not to ‘misguide’ patients. Otherwise, John
would lose his job and career, so he kept quiet during his education.

On his graduation day, the Chief of Medicine said to John, “John, I think you’re a
good doctor. I want you to know that. I want you to know that I like your family.
That’s why I’m going to tell you this. I’m concerned that you’re going to starve to
death with all your crazy ideas about food. All you’re going to do is collect a
bunch of bums and hippies.”

In short, the chief was agreeing with him about his treatment method of diet and
nutrition but warned him of the consequences, which John did not pay attention
to.

The Relationship between the Drug Industry and Education

John did not stop here. He extended his research to the relationship between
the drug industry and medical education. He found that:

“The problem with doctors starts with our education. The

whole system is paid for by the drug industry, from
education to research. The drug industry has bought the
minds of the medical profession. It starts the day you enter
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everything is supported by the drug industry.”212

Not just John, but other prominent scientists have also criticized the link
between the drug industry and medical education. Some of the findings are
below, including the ones I pointed to in earlier chapters.

 The drug business offers medical pupils different favors that incorporate
meals, amusements, traveling, and educational programs that include
orations, colloquiums, conventions, workshops, and symposiums with
drug billboards. The presenters of these events are generally drug reps.213
 Drug reps provide “exaggeratedly positive” information about drugs to the
physicians, who change their prescribing norms accordingly. 214
 It is the drug industry and not the researchers who design the study and
“adjust” it. 215
o It happens because the drug companies collect the raw data for the
research. Researchers are allowed to view and analyze that data
only. 216
o Moreover, drug companies decide which studies are published and

212
Source: Dr. T. Colin Campbell “The China Study: the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted”
– pg 332
213
Angell M. “is academic medicine for sale?” New England Journal of medicine 342 (2000): 1516-1518;
Moynihan R. “Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies 1:
Entanglement.”“ 2. Disentanglement”.British medical journal.326(2003): 1189-1192, 1193-1196
214
Avorn J, Chen M, and Hartley R. “Scientific versus commercial sources of influence on the prescribing
behavior of physicians.” American journal of medicine 73(1982): 4-8
Lurie N, Rich EC, Simpson DE, et al. “Pharmaceutical representatives in academic medical centers: interaction
with faculty and housestaff.” J. Gen. Intern. Med. 5(1990):240-243
Steinman MA, Shlipak MG, and McPhee SJ. “Of principles and pens: attitudes and practices of medicine
housestaff toward pharmaceutical industry promotions.” American journal of medicine 110(2001): 551-557
215
Baird P. “Getting it right: industry sponsorship and medical research.” Can. Med. Assoc. Journ.168(2003):
1267-1269 Smith R. “Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows.” Brit. Med. Journ.
326(2003): 1202-1205
216
Baird P. “Getting it right: industry sponsorship and medical research.” Can. Med. Assoc. Journ.168(2003):
1267-1269 Healy D. “In the grip of the python: conflicts at the university-industry interface.” Sci. Engineering
Ethics 9(2003): 59-71
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 which are not. 217
o Making things worse, the industry pays different companies to write
scientific articles, and then find researchers that are willing to
ascribe their names to them.218
 The prominent and important medical journals get their revenue primarily
from drug industries by promoting their products, thus making them a
good marketing vehicle. The journals do not critically analyze the
truthfulness of the ad, allowing drug companies to mislead the public, both
patients and doctors. 219

There are various cases where both the drug company and the University
badmouthed scientists for their honesty about a drug’s side effects and
ineffectiveness.220 In other cases, scientists lost their jobs.221

Moreover, the drug industry funds research and studies related to drugs. The
medical establishment does not undertake studies about non-drug treatments
and/or reasons for diseases.

“In terms of education, medical students and house officers,

under the constant tutelage of industry representatives,
learn to rely on drugs and devices more than they probably
should. As the critics of medicine so often charge, young
physicians learn that for every problem, there is a pill (and a

217
Baird P. “Getting it right: industry sponsorship and medical research.” Can. Med. Assoc. Journ.168(2003):
1267-1269 Chopra SS. “Industry funding of clinical trials: benefit or bias?” JAMA 290(2003): 113-114 Olivieri NF.
“patients’ health or company profits? The commercialization of academic research.” Sci. engineering ethics
9(2003): 29-41
218
Healy D. “In the grip of the python: conflicts at the university-industry interface.” Sci. Engineering Ethics
9(2003): 59-71
219
Smith R. “Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows.” Brit. Med. Journ. 326(2003):
1202-1205
220
Olivieri NF. “Patients’ health or company profits? The commercialization of academic research.” Sci.
engineering ethics 9(2003): 29-41
221
Healy D. “In the grip of the python: conflicts at the university-industry interface.” Sci. Engineering Ethics
9(2003): 59-71

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 drug company representative to explain it). They also
become accustomed to receiving gifts and favors from an
industry that uses these courtesies to influence their
continuing education. The academic medical centers, in
allowing themselves to become research outposts for
industry, contribute to the overemphasis on drugs and
devices.” 222

– Dr. Marcia Angell

Twenty percent of the drugs have severe identified bad effects and over 100,000
Americans die because of recommended medications,223 making prescriptions
one of the foremost causes of death in America.

An overhaul of the entire system is required in order to sustain non-drug

treatments to reverse the effects of life’s killers.

Dr. John McDougall’s Journey

After finishing his studies, John established his practice in Hawaii. He wrote
books on nutrition and health and was acknowledged nationwide.

St. Helena Hospital in Napa Valley, California, called Dr. McDougall to take over
one of its open positions. As the hospital preferred “dietary” treatments (even
though they consume many dairy products too), John agreed and went to
California.

He successfully treated several of his patients through diet and nutrition, without

222
Angell M, “Is academic medicine for sale?” New England journal of medicine 342(2000):1516-1518
223
Lazarou J, Pomeranz B, and Corey PN. “Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients.” JAMA
279 (1998): 1200-1205
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pills and procedures. He saw his patients getting better and healthier. He and
his patients were happy and he never heard a complaint.

After some years, he and his fellow cardiologists had clashes over his treatment
of cardiovascular disease. He offered them the cross examination of his
patients, and to meet with theirs. No other doctor ever sent his or her patients to
John, but John did multiple times. His fellow cardiologists misguided his
patients. At one time, when John had had enough of it, he invited both his
patient and the fellow doctor and confronted the doctor in front of the patient,
telling him what was wrong and what was right. After that meeting, no doctor
misguided his patients.

Then John underwent some hard times within the hospital while trying to
implement a new program for Multiple Sclerosis patients. Of course, the
treatment program was based completely on diet. According to him, he was very
sure the hospital would grant him the permission, as the dietary program fulfilled
the hospital’s motto and would cost almost nothing. After several meetings
presenting evidence and proof, the hospital management refused to start the
program, and gave no valid or logical reason. Because of this, Dr. John
McDougall left the hospital amiably.

Presently, McDougall is successfully treating his patients through non-drug

dietary methods and writes newsletters, which you can read for free at
http://www.drmcdougall.com

None of his patients ever complained. None of his fellow physicians ever
complained. Yet, the medical community does not want him.

Dr. Esselstyn’s Journey

Dr. Esselstyn did remarkable work for many years at the Cleveland Clinic, in the
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department of general surgery, as a preventive cardiology consultant. He
achieved much success and many accolades.

In 2002, he proposed to the Clinic an ‘arrest and reversal’ dietary program in his
department at the Clinic. He also mentioned that the program would cost
nothing, but would heal patients remarkably. There were no risks associated
with the program. However, instead of grabbing such an opportunity, the
authorities completely flouted the proposal and never contacted Dr. Esselstyn.
The heads of the department and clinic, who once were proud of him and
praised him for his work and achievements, became offensive and rude.

Just like what happened with Dr. McDougall, the fellow cardiologists had
themselves and their families treated by Esselstyn, but never referred their
patients to see him.

I have now treated a number of senior staff with coronary

disease at the Clinic – senior staff physicians. I have also
treated a number of senior staff trustees. One of the trustees
knows about the frustrations that we’ve had trying to get
this into the clinic, and he says, “I think, if the word gets out
that Esselstyn has this treatment that arrests and reverses
this disease at the Cleveland Clinic, and it’s been used by
senior staff and he’s treated senior trustees, but he’s not
permitted to treat the common herd, we could be open for a
lawsuit.”224

– Dr. Esselstyn

For now, Dr. Esselstyn continues to give counseling out of his own home,
because the Clinic and the industry to which he devoted most of his life did not
allow him to continue his practice, since it is a dietary approach.

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Dr. Colin Campbell, The China Study pp. 340
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Esselstyn and McDougall are not allowed to work in the medical establishment
after an extremely successful professional career of healing their patients with a
nutritional approach. Eighty percent of St. Helena’s and sixty percent of the
Cleveland Clinic’s revenues come from the treatment of heart disease and
surgeries. However, healing people IS and SHOULD be more important than
money.

Summary: Why haven't you heard it before, if this is all true

and scientifically proven?

 An animal-based diet including dairy and meat, added sugars, additives,

processed foods, etc. make up a sound base for the profit of several
powerful companies.

 Big industries support each other by granting them the benefits and
luxuries for their monetary matters. They work skillfully and quietly so you
do not know who is causing you harm. You cannot prosecute them.

 Food companies spend billions of dollars to promote and sell their

products. Such a diet makes us diseased. The drug companies are
‘happy’ to see us diseased, as our diseased bodies are their source of
income. Together they laugh at our miseries and ignorance.

 Industry groups like the National Dairy Council and American Meat
Institute, etc. also ‘protect’ and ‘promote’ their products by every means.
Dairy groups are the most influential of all.

 The dairy industry targets schools, children and their nutritional education.
It also controls scientific research to produce and publish results that are
in favor of the industry.

 The actions at the government level are also deceiving and dishonest to
the public. The RDA of nutrients is changed regularly according to the
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 instructions of “influential” industries, and not according to what is best for
the public’s health.

 Academic personnel receive gifts and benefits from industries on writing

favored reviews and conducting favored research. Nutritional committees
are formed with people who know nothing about the subject, but earn a lot
from their ‘commendable work.’

 In general, the industry and government also affect the doctors’

community. The medical education teaches nothing much about the value
of nutrition in healing and treatment. Doctors, too, suffer from misguided
information and ‘threats’ from the industry and government.

 The entire medical education system is paid for by the drug industry.

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 How You Can Cure Your Lupus Disease

Lupus is a chronic disease involving inflammation, pain, damage to tissues, and

hence organs of the body. The two types of lupus are Discoid and Systemic.
Between the two, systemic lupus is more frequent (70% of the cases) and more
severe.

In America, 1.5 to 2 million people fall prey to one or the other type of lupus.
Adult females are more affected. Africans, Hispanics, and Asians are 2 to 3
times more prone to this disease. It affects 40 to 50 people for every 100,000
and women around the age of 30 are the major sufferers.

Discoid vs. Systemic Lupus

Discoid lupus or cutaneous lupus appears as rashes on the skin of the face,
neck, and scalp. Ten percent of untreated discoid lupus patients eventually
develop systemic lupus.

Systemic lupus is severe and can involve any organ or system of the body.
Some people with systemic lupus have damage to skin and joints, while others
may have their joints, lungs, kidneys, blood, and/or other organs and tissues
affected.

Lupus – symptoms

The common symptoms for Lupus are:

 High temperature
 Headaches
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  Severe weariness
 Despair
 Loss of appetite
 Weight loss
 Easy bruising
 Aches and pains
 Edema or swelling
 Hair loss
 Inflamed glands

As lupus indications vary widely, the following symptoms are more indicative of
the disease.

 Rash on cheeks and nose bridge

 Rash after sun exposure
 Mouth or nose sores
 Joint pain and swelling
 Pleurisy – chest pain on deep breathing
 Seizure
 Anemia
 Raynaud’s – fingers change to blue or white in cold

What the present “pills and procedure” treatment does is to only treat it with pain
killers and control some of its symptoms through drugs that are more harmful for
the patient than beneficial (immunosuppressants).

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 The actual cause of Lupus and reversing it

Yeast, fungus, and mold invaded earth millions and millions of years ago and
eventually gave birth to more than five hundred thousand known species. All of
them are excrete toxins (highly toxic toxins) that result in Lupus in one way or
another. Over the years, different studies demonstrate and prove that these
microorganisms grow in an acidic environment. They thrive with low oxygen
levels and acidity.

This is the ONLY true reason why we fall prey to Lupus and other diseases. Yes,
it is the acidic environment within us that we offer them.

However, we have the ability to control this environment.

Of course, providing an anti-acidic environment is the key. Clean alkaline blood,

cells and tissues make up a healthier body, as germs do not thrive in an alkaline
environment.

If you are acidic (you can check it through your urine or saliva), begin alkalizing
your body. The microbes already present inside your body will stop reproduction
and growth, and will eventually die. The toxicity of your body will be absorbed by
fat and mineral molecules and then eliminated.

How do you alkalize yourself?

You already know!

Consume a diet that contains seventy to eighty percent of fresh green

leafy vegetables and whole fruits. Balance your pH (acid-alkaline) balance.
Use alkalizing supplements, i.e. SuperGreens and Prime pH.
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 Do not consume fruit juices, as they are acidic.

This is the only right way to revert back to your healthier state. The correct
diet will give you an alkalized internal terrain that will not let microbes flourish.
Remember, a healthy diet is the key to healthy bowels that are the key to
healthy blood, a healthy body and healthy skin.

HEALTHY SKIN – eliminating all the rashes from your face, neck, scalp, etc.

The skin has many blood capillaries. Therefore, when your blood is healthy, it
gives a new life to the cellular layer of your skin which displays at the surface.
Remember, our blood and our cells are what we eat, drink, and think!

Recall everything we have been discussing about alkalizing our bodies. You
need to have an alkaline diet, drink LOTS of water (approx. a gallon every day),
take deep breaths to raise your oxygen levels, work out, and guzzle alkalizing
supplements.

Lupus and Aspartame

In a subchapter, Bad Foods to Avoid, I have mentioned the hazards associated

with Aspartame. There is a link to the list of aspartame products for your
guidance. Make sure you look at that too.

As far as Lupus is concerned, Aspartame is not only responsible for its growth,
but it can also mimic it sometimes. People who use Aspartame do not know that
its dangers put them in the hands of death.

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed at a recent World
Environmental Conference that the increasing number of Systemic Lupus
patients in the United States is due to an unknown toxin. Soon after this,
Aspartame was found guilty.

Aspartame is also responsible for birth defects; therefore, I would strongly urge
you to check out the list of all the products containing Aspartame. The list can be
accessed at http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame. The same web link is
provided previously in this book too.

Lupus and Glyconutrients

Glyconutrients and their magic extend to patients with Lupus. In those patients,
glyconutrients speed up and enhance the functions of large white blood cells,
also macrophages, hence improving your immune system. These cells are
better able to locate polyp cells and kill them. There are eight glyconutrients, all
supporting and improving the health of Lupus patients in one way or another.

Without glyconutrients, your immune system functions poorly and

ineffectively.

Obviously, lupus is an autoimmune disease, as it does not let your immune

system identify and kill “foreign” cells. The system loses this ability and
considers “self” cells as foreign, therefore attacking them. As you know,
glyconutrients help in cellular communication, allowing the cells to convey their
health messages more effectively, and protecting them from the dangers of
autoimmune diseases such as Lupus. Without them, the cells will pass faulty
messages onto neighboring cells.

Supply your body with necessary glyconutrients!

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How glyconutrients are particularly helpful in Lupus

Mannose and galactose are the two glyconutrients lupus patients must give
attention to. However, the rest of the 6 glyconutrients are also important
because, as we discussed previously, glyconutrients work better in conjunction
with each other. These elements reduce inflammation and eventually make it
invisible. The immune system returns to normal and will not harm self-cells. The
condition gets better, relieving you from both the symptoms and causes of
Lupus.

The present day modern or American diet lacks mannose.

A study was carried out at the Fisher Institute for Medical Research under the
heading “The effects of dietary supplements on Lupus,” which stated that all
Lupus patients who took glyconutrients supplements showed notable
improvements to their conditions.225

From all the above information, I would say that the solution to Lupus is SIMPLE
with DRAMATIC results. All you need is to be a bit disciplined in your life.
Obviously, I know that changing your old habits and lifestyle is never easy.
However, once you achieve this, you will find yourself in a magical and dramatic
phase of your “new” life, feeling vigorous and healthy, and you will never want to
go back to your previous lifestyle!

Remember, health and wellness and all diseases begin at the cellular
level. Billions of new cells are created in your body EVERY DAY. Healthy
cells make healthy tissues, healthy tissues make healthy organs, healthy
organs make healthy systems, and healthy systems make a healthy

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body!

Lupus and Omega-3 fats

Among the good fats are omega-3 fatty acids found in tuna, mackerel, lake trout,
herring, sardines, and salmon. Different studies have shown omega-3 fatty acids
being beneficial for Lupus patients, as they reduce inflammation and enhance
immune function.

There is no doubt that omega-3 fatty acids are healthy for every person of every
age. However, we consume EVERY type of fish and consider it as healthy. You
should know that most of the fish we consume today show high levels of
mercury in their systems, which is a poisonous and highly toxic heavy metal
leading to other autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis.

One of the studies took 52 Lupus patients. The study spanned six months. 52
patients were divided into three groups. One group took fish-oil supplements,
the second group took copper supplements, and third took copper plus fish oil or
placebo.

The group that took fish oil supplements showed improved in some of the very
painful symptoms of lupus such as inflammation and fatigue. These
improvements ranged from mild to far-reaching.

As with every autoimmune disease, the cause of lupus is unknown. Therefore,

the traditional pills and procedure treatment involve prescribing certain steroids
and other drugs that have serious side effects.

The study put forth the fact that fish oil also helped patients to cut down their
steroid intake levels. Therefore, these studies concluded that lupus patients can
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benefit by increasing their dietary intake of fish oil supplementation or fatty
acids.226

As mentioned above, not every fish is the right source of omega-3 fats. Make
sure you consume the right kind of fish, free of mercury. Fish from fresh water,
farm-raised, or oceans can be polluted with mercury. Don’t be afraid to ask at
the store. Make sure the fish that you purchase is free from obvious levels of
mercury and other venoms.

Another good source is krill oil. We have already discussed the benefits and
functions of krill oil in detail. DHA and EPA fatty acids are in abundance in this oil
that safeguards you from heart disease, cancer, and many other diseases.
Certain brain related conditions like depression, schizophrenia, memory loss,
and Alzheimer’s are also helped by the consumption of DHA.

I prefer krill oil to fish oil as it does not contain mercury and other poisons.
Moreover, it has antioxidants and phospholipids that work dramatically to
improve health.

Lupus and Vitamin D

In Lupus patients, the levels of vitamin D are reduced and inflammation occurs.
Therefore, it is important to have your vitamin D levels checked and balanced. In
my opinion, it is criminal malpractice if Lupus patients are treated without
monitoring their vitamin D levels.

The ideal range for Lupus patients is between 55 and 65 ng/ml.

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The best source of vitamin D is sunlight. As mentioned above, the ideal duration
for your body’s exposure to sunlight is 30 minutes a day. Safe tanning beds are
another option.

Alternatively, vitamin D supplements are available from the market if none of the
above options is available to you. Consult your doctor for daily doses of Vitamin
D.

It is wise to have your levels checked first and then go for vitamin D
supplementation, as abnormally high levels of Vitamin D can have adverse
effects too. Whenever you plan on taking vitamin D, do consult your physician,
preferably a nutritionally oriented physician. I would advise you to take a vitamin
D level test. Make sure you order the right test!

There are two types of Vitamin D tests. One is 1.25(OH)D and the other is
25(OH)D. The latter, 25(OH)D or 25-hydroxy vitamin D, is recommended as it is
a good marker for your vitamin D scenario and overall health.

Vitamin D levels – 25-Hydoxy D

Following are vitamin D figures from a 25(OH)D test of healthy people in tropical
and subtropical regions of the world, who receive adequate sunlight exposure.
These values reflect an optimal level of vitamin D.227

 Less than 50ng/ml – Poor/Inadequate

 50-70 ng/ml – Ideal
 70-100 ng/ml – Cures cancer and heart disease
 More than 100ng/ml – Too much/Harmful

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You will find different FDA approved vitamin D testing companies; however, what
you need to look for is the gold standard. DiaSorin is the gold standard analysis
method. It is accurate and most of the vitamin D studies utilize the same
DiaSorin RIA (radioimmunoassay). Therefore, go for the DiaSorin standard, as
that will closely relate to the established vitamin D levels.

Liaison, also developed by DiaSorin, is an automated immunoassay that has

recently replaced RIA. However, as researchers use RIA for clinical studies, I
would recommend you to use the DiaSorin RIA.

If you cannot find a lab that uses RIA, make sure your test results are accurate
and relate to clinical findings. If not, your test results might show you with the
right levels of vitamin D, when, in fact, you are dangerously deficient in Vitamin
D.

Dosing yourself with Vitamin D

I am emphasizing it again and again: be careful about your vitamin D levels.

Whereas low levels can pose dangers and threats, high or over-the-line
levels can put you at much greater risk. Therefore, have your vitamin D
levels checked before taking it orally, and do so under the supervision of
your doctor.

Ideally, sunlight’s UV-B is a good source which, when it strikes your skin,
converts to vitamin D3 or 25 hydroxyvitamin D. Your body has a natural
feedback loop; therefore, when you have enough vitamin D, it stops its
production. Therefore, you are not endangering yourself from vitamin D
overdose under the sun.

However, to protect yourself from skin burns, be under the sunlight only until
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In the U.S. and other parts of the world where people do not get sufficient
sunlight throughout the year, vitamin D supplements are indispensable.
Moreover, only to have your hands and face exposed to sunlight is not sufficient
as it generates only 200-400 IU vitamin D, far less than the healthy range of 45-
50 ng/ml.

In addition, your region also determines if you are getting enough vitamin D or
not. The fact that the sun is out is not an indication of vitamin D availability. If
your city has a latitude above 30 degrees, you definitely will need vitamin D
supplements.228

However, you can use home tanning beds like Sun Splash for the same
purpose, as they might be more convenient.

Vitamin D doses for infants, toddlers, children, and adults, healthy and diseased
people, and pregnant women are different. Your 25(OH)D test results
determine how much you should take. Seek your physician’s advice.
Nevertheless, if your test results show that you have low levels of vitamin D, you
can take 50000 units of vitamin D3 for 2 weeks and test the levels again. As
long as you keep watching the levels, it is safe to take high doses of it too.
Below is a table.

Vitamin D Dose Recommendations

AGE DOSE
Under 5 35 units per pound per day
5-10 2500 units

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 Adults 5000 units
Pregnant women 5000 units

The best type of Vitamin D

There are two types of vitamin D; one is D3 and the other is D2. Vitamin D2
(ergocalciferol) is synthetic and is in fortified foods and certain supplements. It is
present in plants but becomes active under irradiation. Biologically, it is less
active. Higher doses of Vitamin D2 are toxic!

The good vitamin D is Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) that we obtain from UV-B

of sunlight. Fish oil and cod liver oils are good and healthy sources of vitamin
D3. I would suggest you to take vitamin D3 and stay away from D2.

Lupus and Mercury

Mercury in almost all of its forms is dangerous to human health in high amounts.
It harms your brain, nervous system, kidneys, liver, and other major organs,
especially in infants and children. The dangers of mercury depend on the dose
and the substance.

Research has shown that mercury is the only metal that is far more toxic
than lead, cadmium, and arsenic. As stated above, it damages your brain and
nervous system; hence, is a neurotoxin that extends its mischief from the
senses and reasoning ability to several organs.

In 1985, Fritz Lorscheider, a fetal physiologist, and Murray Vimy, a Canadian

dentist, showed how mercury vapors are produced inside the mouths of people
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mercury amalgams.

They conducted another study on sheep in 1990 using radioactive tagged

mercury that was highly impulsive and unstable, and which unpredictably
traveled to the gastrointestinal tract, kidney, liver, and brain.

Dr. Norman Braveman, who is a research administrator at the National Institute

of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), commented on the sheep study:

"Whether those studies are applicable to humans is a matter

of serious importance to public health."

Attorneys for activist organizations and individuals sued the American Dental
Association and CDA for misleading patients about mercury amalgam dental
fillings.229 They lied to patients, stating that their fillings were of silver, when
actually they were made of an alloy that is 50% mercury. They also sued the
ADA for not advising people correctly on the use of amalgam fillings, due to
monetary matters.

Charlie Brown, who was one of the lawyers representing Consumers for Dental
Choice (CDC) in the suit, said,

“If mercury is so safe, why do they try to hide it?”

Brown noted that the CDC won the state ruling that requires the California state
dental board to suggest that its participants inform their patients of the mercury
amalgams in their mouth and of their hazards, which include birth defects as
well.230 You can read his opening statement to the first session of the World

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Source:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Attorneys+for+Activist+Organizations+and+Individuals+Sue+American...-
a075483660
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Mercury Treaty negotiations by clicking here.

Alternatively, if you want to view the video, please follow the

link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HIrjoaWpTE
In a nutshell, mercury is poisonous and is neurotoxic. It is highly acidifying and
causes almost every known disorder in humans. Mercury when used in dental
fillings percolates into tissues and subdues the immune system. Therefore,
avoid contaminated fish and mercury dental fillings that may result in different
ailments that include Lupus. Whenever you have a “silver” filling, make sure it is
actually silver and not mercury.231

Necessary steps are being taken to get rid of mercury from dental practices in
the United States and hopefully it will completely succeed in the next few years.
Until then, it is entirely the choice of the dentist. Choose your dentist wisely. Find
a qualified biological dentist who is an expert in removing mercury amalgams
you already have.

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Useful Information can be found here as well:
Kenny Ausubel, When Healing Becomes A Crime, Healing Arts Press, 2000, ISBN 0-89281-925-1
Ramiel Nagel, Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition, Golden Child Publishing,
2010, ISBN-10: 0982021305
Robert Kulacz, Thomas E.
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 The bottom line for treating your Lupus:

1. Do a DEEP cleanse (in whichever way you choose).

2. Daily DEEP breathing exercises to cleanse yourself: Remember that
when you breathe properly, you eliminate 75% of your body waste!
3. Eat an ALKALIZED plant-based diet. Eat mainly raw foods. Don't cook your
food as we have seen sufferers who eat the same food and when they
stopped cooking it, they started to see tremendous results! Also use the pH
table and choose your food wisely.
Here is a list of Free Alkalarian Recipes:
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/t-recipes.aspx
4. The way you eat is VERY important. When you feel you are 75%
satiated, stop eating! Eat slowly and adopt all my other recommendations –
they are for your benefit. If you eat fast and don’t chew enough you are
hurting yourself.

5. Consume daily:
a. Liquids:
i. Drink enough CLEAN water to turn your urine nearly colorless.
(at least 3 liters)
ii. Start drinking large quantities of delicious raw vegetable
juices daily, thus delivering thousands of healing phytonutrients
(plant medicines) to your body's cells on a daily basis. You’re
literally bathing your cells in the most potent disease-reversing
and blood cleansing medicines that Mother Nature has ever
invented.
iii. Drink SuperGreens and prime pH for alkalizing and setting
your electrical life balance. Remember, don't create breaks in
your body's electricity, as this can be deadly. Acid in your body
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 means a slow and painful death!
b. Glyconutirents - for improving cell to cell communication, and to
strengthen your immune system in general and the recognition ability in
particular so that your immune system will not attack you. This is VERY
important for lupus sufferers.
c. Anti-oxidants for free radical balance
d. Essential Fatty Acids - EFA's are the best anti-inflammatory waste
absorbing substances, and it is precisely this ability to reduce
inflammation that is their greatest gift to sufferers of Lupus. They also
aid in the transmission of nerve impulses, strengthen the immune
system, and are vital to many functions.
e. Multi Vitamins are very important to cover the missing dots you may
have.
f. Vitamin D3 is VERY important if needed (it can be inside the multi
vitamin)
g. Chelation therapy & heavy metal toxin elimination - Have a blood
test and/or hair analysis to determine your levels of heavy metal
toxins before starting any chelation therapy.

See a dentist to eliminate the ongoing mercury poisoning of your

body.

h. Costs: I know this may cost you a lot of money but bear in mind that
after a few weeks/months, when you are FULLY recovered, you may be
able to get most of these things just from your new HEALTHY diet.
Now you are having a severe imbalance condition and you must take
supplements to support your healing. Don't let this stop you, as this
will pay out big time.
6. Avoid:
a. Foods: Consumption of meat, dairy and toxic types of fish, sugars, all
processed foods and bad fats.
b. Never, ever eat any Artificial Sweeteners, Nutrasweet or Spoonful etc.,
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 and especially Aspartame.
c. Stress and depression!
7. Exercises daily!
8. Clean air and clean water: Do your best to have a clean air environment
and reverse osmosis clean water (buy the best one there is – remember
you are made out of water)

9. Your mind:
a. Pray: Free your mind, relax and PRAY DIRECTLY to god daily - it
works!
b. Laugh: Apply the laughter therapy principles daily. Remember,
Laughter is proven to be a miraculous prescription drug.

10. Tests to schedule:

a. Daily pH tests to control your pH levels: Verify your condition and
measure your improvement.
b. Vitamin D tests.
c. Allergy tests.
d. Optional: Antioxidants test to verify your condition and measure your
improvement.

Remember: When the fish is sick, change the water, don’t give the fish
medicine. Clean up your internal terrain; feed your blood cells with fresh
vegetables and plant foods.

Remember, healthy cells make healthy tissues, healthy tissues make

healthy organs, healthy organs make healthy systems, and healthy
systems make a healthy body!

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Now it is your turn to TAKE CONTROL of your health.

Go for it!
And don't forget to put a smile on my face and update me on your
recovery!

Yours truly,
Dr. Gary M. Levin.

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 Before you go: How to Actually Do This

Before I continue, I must tell you that our mind has been designed in such a way
that it seeks joy and happiness and moves away from pain and distress. That is
why we find pleasure in doing certain things. We abandon those things that do
not make us feel good and happy. You would agree with me, would not you?

You need to change the habits you developed over time. It will become quite a
daunting task if you do not find pleasure in it. You will ultimately abandon it.

Make sure you ‘enjoy’ the process. I would suggest you to incorporate some
enjoyable activities while doing it. It is not difficult to do. Many like you have
done it quite easily and successfully. If, after a while, you think that it is
something unusual and difficult, you will not benefit from it.

As we speak, I am working on an ebook that will help you do just that. I will send
you an email once it is ready.

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 Appendix 1: Encouraging Your Doctor

You may be lucky enough to have a doctor who is truly interested in, and
sympathetic to, nutrition and the healing power of nutrition. Your doctor may
refer you to a nutritionist or offer support for changing eating habits and
increasing exercise. However, most people are likely to find their doctors
skeptical or downright dismissive of supplements and they will tell you to simply
follow a balanced diet and all will be well.

Faced with obesity, for example, they may simply tell you to follow a low fat diet
to deal with the weight and the accompanying increased risk of heart disease
and type 2 diabetes.

This is a sad thing on many levels. Not just physically but fiscally as well, which
is important in these troubling economic times. A report entitled “Securing Good
Health for the Whole Population” written by Derek Wanless states that if doctors
just involved their patients more in their own health, Britain alone could save
about 30 billion a year just by 2022. This just goes to show the importance of a
doctor’s practical advice and personal involvement in your health.

Do not fret, however; there are steps that you can take to encourage your
doctor. It may take some careful planning and convincing on your part, but it is
well worth the effort. If your doctor is up to date on recent research, he or she
may be more open to it.

Even if not, there are steps you can take. It takes time to change and right now,
it seems that doctors are not very good at offering practical advice for staying
healthy. In fact, they tend to be bad at it. There was a study done of 400 patients
who received obesity management training from their doctors, which showed
that they gained more weight than the control group. Often the patients get no
treatment at all.

Studies done internationally showed that only about 30% of people felt that
doctors engaged them in their health care choices or gave advice on subjects

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like nutrition and exercise.

At the same time, the general health background all around the world is low.
Only a few percent of people, according to studies, follow even basic health
rules – and less than 20 percent of children receive a proper helping of fruits
and vegetables each day. In addition, it is not just basic preventative health that
is the problem. Even the critically ill are unlikely to receive much help from their
doctors.

A study of heart attack patients shows that few received any kind of follow up
program, advice on healthy living, or even follow up appointments to check on
the heart by either their doctor or the hospital.

Handling the Objections

Despite all the talk and public displays of concern over obesity, in encouraging
people to diet and exercise, you are still dealing with a profession that is largely
uncaring.

By this point, you have plenty of awareness about the alternative viewpoint and
the dangers of drugs. Because of this, it is certainly worth the time and effort to
change some minds in the medical community.

A good place to begin is in addressing your doctors’ concerns about

supplements and natural cures. Diplomatically of course, you can correct their
misinformation. Even better is to simply show them the truth by living it. When
you advise your doctor about the lifestyle changes you have undertaken, there
are five objections that you are most likely to hear. I will give you appropriate
responses to each of them.

Objection One: The diet seems ok, but I am worried about the supplements
and you should still be on drugs. This improvement is likely just a one-time
thing; it has little to do with any long-term health benefits.
Response: Find out what the doctor thinks that your levels should be at to stop

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taking medication. Find a way to measure these objectively so that you and your
doctor can track them as you take on your new lifestyle change. This objective
and scientific way will most likely change their minds, as they will see actual
improvements. If you have already done this, and the doctor still refuses to
believe that the lifestyle change was behind it, gently insist that they look at the
actual data. If you saw a particular practitioner who helped you with the lifestyle
change, or read a particular book, let them know and give them the name and
other information.

Objection Two: There is simply no evidence to support your claims.

Response: While this is a very common complaint, it is also very untrue. Show
them some of the research that has been done. Much of this you can get from
any properly trained nutritionist. Remind them, politely, that about 20% of all
medications are prescribed “off label” so they are being used outside the scope
of their trials, based on little or no actual proof that they work for the off-label
uses.

Objection Three: Supplements can have severe side effects, though non-drug
therapies might be safe. Stop taking supplements, except perhaps a multi-
vitamin.
Response: Recent studies have shown that almost forty percent of the
population takes supplements of one type or another, and that this number is
increasing exponentially. For all of these people taking supplements, there are
only a few occasional minor gastrointestinal complaints such as diarrhea. This
does not even begin to compare with the amount of people who actually die
every year from complications with prescription drugs.

Objection Four: Prescription drugs go through standardized and intense testing

and so should alternative treatments.
Response: To be honest, most practitioners of no-drug treatments would enjoy
having their treatments tested so intently. Unfortunately, it is the drug companies
that pay for the trials and research, and they also control the kind of research
that is done. In other words, the drug companies essentially run the entire show
and conveniently downplay anything they do not want showing, such as adverse
side effects. Ask your doctor if they can really promise that the side effects of a

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supplement are going to be worse than a prescription drug – the fact is, this is
almost never the case. Ask them if it would not be better for you to try this
supplement under their supervision and with an open mind then alone.

Objection Five: I have to stick as close to the scientific truth as possible, and I
don’t want to give out false hope.
Response: That would be great, but doctors rarely have the proper information
about the drugs they prescribe. The information is handed out by the drug
companies and skewed with their own views and what they want the public to
know. For example, even though studies have shown that sleeping pills are less
effective than therapy for sleep disorders, they are still prescribed in the millions.

If you have to find a new doctor

There may be times where despite your best efforts to convince your doctor to
keep an open mind, you find that you are simply unable to work together. When
that happens, it is time to find a new doctor, one more open to your lifestyle
choices. Here are just a few questions that you should be asking your new
doctor to see if he or she will be a better fit.

1) What is your policy on prescribing drugs for chronic conditions? Do you

only prescribe drugs, or do you recommend specific diets as well?
2) Will you support and encourage a non-drug treatment; will you give
referrals to nutritional therapists and osteopaths?
3) How does your practice support primary prevention?
4) Do you approve of the use of nutritional supplements?

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 Appendix 2: The Food Table

FOOD ALKALINE-FORMING ACID-FORMING

Food High Medium Low Low Medium High

Adzuki beans X
Agar seaweed X
See also seaweed
Alcoholic Beverages
Ale
Dark X
Pale X
Beer
Dark X
Pale X
Malt liquor
Dark X
Pale X
Scotch X
Vodka X
Wine
red X
white X
Ale
Dark X
Pale X
Almond butter X
Almond milk X X

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(sweetened)
Almond milk X
(unsweetened)
Almonds X
Amaranth flour X
Amaranth seeds X
American cheese X
Angel food cake X
Appolinaris water X
See also mineral water
Apple butter X
Apple cider X
Apple cider vinegar X
Apple crisp (with X
oatmeal and sucanat)
Apple juice X X
(sweetened)
Apple juice X
(unsweetened)
Apple pie (lightly X
sweetened) See also
Pies, fruit
Apples
Baked (sweetened) X X
Baked (unsweetened X
raw X
Applesauce X X
(sweetened)
Applesauce X
(unsweetened)
Apricots X
Artichokes X

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Artichokes, Jerusalem X
Artificial sweeteners
Aspartame X
Saccharin X
Asparagus X
Aspartame X
Avocado oil X
Avocados X
Bacon X
Bagels, white flour See
also Bread
Cinnamon-raisin X
Egg X
Plain X
Water X
Baked apples X X
(sweetened)
Baked apples X
(unsweetened)
Baked beans (canned)
With pork X
Vegetarian X
Baked goods See
Bread; Cakes; Cookies;
Crackers
Baked potato skin on X
plain
Baking chocolate See X
also chocolate
Baking powder X
Baking soda X

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 X
Balsamic vinegar
Bananas X
Barley, whole grain X
Barley flour X
Basil X
Bass X
Bay leaf X
Bean sprouts. See also X
Sprouts
Beans, baked (canned)
With pork X
Vegetarian X
Beans and Legumes
Adzuki beans X
Baked. See baked
beans (canned)
Black beans X
Chickpeas (garbanzo X
beans)
Fava beans X

Great Northern beans X

Kidney beans X
Lentils X
Lima beans (butter X
beans)
Mung beans X
Navy beans X
Peanuts X

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Peas
Fresh green X
Split peas, green and X
yellow
Pinto beans X
Snow peas X
Soybeans X
String, green, snap, X
wax, and yellow beans,
with formed beans
String, green, snap, X
wax , and yellow
beans, without formed
beans
X
White beans
Beef
Bologna X
Frankfurters X
Hamburgers X
Liver X
Meat (steaks, roasts, X
etc.)
Sausage X
Beer
Dark X
Pale X
Beets X
Bell peppers
Green X
Red X
Yellow X

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 X
Benzoate
(preservative)
Berries
Blackberries X
Blueberries X
Boysenberries X
Raspberries X
Strawberries X
Berry juice blend X
Beverages
Ale
Dark X
Pale X
Almond milk X X
(sweetened)
Almond milk X
(unsweetened)
Apple cider X
Apple juice X X
(sweetened)
X
Apple juice
(unsweetened)
Beer
Dark X
Pale X
Berry juice blend X
Carrot juice X
Coffee (see inset on
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Decaffeinated (water X
decaffeinated)
Espresso X
Cold drink X
Gin X
Ginger tea X
Grape juice X
Grapefruit juice X
Malt liquor
Dark X

Pale X
Milk
Cow's milk, skim X
(nonfat)
Cow's milk, 1% fat X
Cow's milk, 2% fat X
Cow's milk, whole X
Cow's milk, X
chocolate-flavored,
whole
Goat's milk X
Kefir (fermented X
cow's milk)
Rice milk X
Soy milk X
Milk shakes,
commercial
Chocolate X
Vanilla X
Orange juice X

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Pear juice X

Pineapple juice X
Rice milk X
Root beer X
Scotch X
Soft drinks X
(carbonated) most
types (see inset on
page 142)
Soy milk, most brands X
Tea
Black tea, most types X
Green tea, most X
types
Herbal tea, most X
types
Tomato juice or juice X
blend
Vegetable juice cocktail X
(commercial), tomato-
based
Vegetable juice cocktail X
(homemade), green
vegetables with apple,
no tomato
Vodka X
Water, bottled mineral
Apollinaris X

Evian X
Fiji X

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 Pellegrino X
Sanfaustino X
Volvic X
Water, tap
Chlorinated, in X
general
Non-chlorinated, in X
general*
Be aware that the value
provided for non-
chlorinated tap water is
only an average, and
that tap water can vary
in its impact from
region to region. See
the inset on page 156
for more information.
Wine
Red X
White X
Biscuits X
Bison (buffalo) X
Black bean soup X
Black beans X

Black pepper X
Black tea, most types X
Blackberries X
Bologna
Beef X
Bratwurst, link X
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 Turkey X
Borscht X
Bottled water See
mineral water, bottled.
Boysenberries X
Bran, oat X
Bran cereal X
Bran flakes and raisins X X
(sweetened)
Bran flakes and raisins X
(unsweetened)
Bratwurst link bologna X
Bread. See also
Crackers.

Bagels, white flour

Cinnamon-raisin X
Egg X
Plain X
Water X
Biscuits X
Bread sticks X
Croissants X
Matzoh
White flour X
Whole wheat flour X
Pita
White flour X
Whole wheat flour X
Pumpernickel X
X
Rye bread (100%)
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Tortillas
Corn X
White flour X
White bread X
Whole wheat bread X
Breadsticks, white flour X
Breakfast sandwich X
with eggs, cheese, and
sausage or ham
Broccoli X
Brown rice See also X
Rice.
Brown rice cakes
Multigrain X
Plain X
Brown rice flour X
Brown sugar See also X
Sugar.
Brownies See also X
Cake; Cookies.
Brussels sprouts X

Buckwheat flour X
Buckwheat groats X
(kasha)
Buffalo (bison) X
Bulgur wheat (hard red X
winter)
Burdock root X
Burgers See
Hamburgers.
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Burritos
With beef X
With chicken X
Butter X
Butter, clarified (ghee) X
Butter beans (lima X
beans)
Cabbage
Chinese X
Red X
X
White
Caesar salad dressing X
See also Salad
dressings.
Cakes. See also
Desserts.
Angel food cake X
Carrot cake, cream X
cheese frosting
Cheesecake X
Coffee cake X
Cupcakes, all flavors X
Devil's food cake, X
chocolate frosting
Donuts, all flavors X
Yellow cake, chocolate X
frosting
Camembert cheese X
Canola oil X
Cantaloupe X
(muskmelon)
Carbonated soft drinks, X

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most types (See inset
on page 42).
Cardamom seeds X
Carrot cake, cream X
cheese frosting

Carrot juice X
Carrots (commercial)* X
Carrots (organic)* X
*Note that while
mineral-rich organic
carrots are alkaline-
forming, most
commercially farmed
carrots are lower in
minerals and higher in
sugar, and therefore
tend to be slightly acid-
forming.
Cashew butter X
Cashews X
Catfish X
Catsup (ketchup) X
Cauliflower X
Cayenne pepper X
Celery X
Celery seeds X
Cereals. See also
Grains.
Bran cereal X
Bran flakes and raisins X X
(sweetened)

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 X
Bran flakes and raisins
(unsweetened)
Buckwheat, whole X
grain
Corn flakes X
Corn flakes, sugared X X
(frosted)
Farina X
Granola (sweetened) X
Granola (unsweetened) X
Grits, corn X
Grits, soy X
Kasha X
Oat bran X
Oatmeal (sweetened) X
Oatmeal X
(unsweetened)
Rice, puffed brown X
Rice, puffed white X
Chamomile tea X
Chard, Swiss X

Cheddar cheese (aged) X

Cheesecake X
Cheeses
American cheese X
Camembert X
Cheddar cheese (aged) X
Cottage cheese X
Cream cheese X
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Curd cheese X
Gouda X
Hard cheese, most X
types
Mozzarella X
Soft cheese, full-fat, X
most types
Swiss cheese (aged) X
Cherimoya X
Cherries X

Chestnuts X
Chicken
Liver X
Meat X
Chicken noodle soup X
Chicken nuggets, fried X
Chicken sandwich, X
broiled
Chicken sandwich, X
fried
Chickpeas (garbanzo X
beans)
Chili with beef X
Chinese parsley X
(cilantro, coriander leaf)
Chips
Corn, fried X
Potato, baked X
Potato, fried X
Tortilla, fried X

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Chocolate See also
Cocoa powder.
Baking X
Dark X
Milk X
Chocolate milk, whole X
cow's milk
Cider, apple X
Cilantro (Chinese X
parsley, coriander leaf)
Cinnamon X
Citrus fruits
Grapefruit X
Lemons X
Limes X
Mandarin oranges X
Oranges X
Tangelos X
Tangerines X

Clams X
Clarified butter (ghee) X
Cocoa powder X
Coconut oil X
Coconuts X
Cod liver oil X
Coffee (See inset on
page 100.)
Decaffeinated (water X
decaffeinated)
Espresso X
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 Regular X
Coffee cake X
Cola drink X
Cold cuts See
Luncheon Meat; Meat.
Coleslaw X
Collard greens X
Condiments. See also
Salad Dressings.

Horseradish X
Ketchup (catsup) X
Mayonnaise X
Miso (soybean paste) X
Mustard, prepared X
Pickle relish X
Soy sauce (tamari) X
Cookies. See also
Cakes; Desserts.
Brownies X
Chocolate chip, X
homemade
Sugar, homemade X
Vanilla, homemade X
Coriander leaf X
(Chinese parsley,
cilantro)
Coriander seeds X
Corn X
Corn chips, fried X

Corn flakes X

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Corn flakes, sugared X X
(frosted)
Corn grits X
Corn syrup X
Corn tortillas X
Cornmeal X
Cottage cheese X
Cottonseed meal X
Cottonseed oil X
Couscous, white flour X
See also Pasta.
Cow's milk See Milk.
Crabs X
Crackers
Matzoh
White flour X
Whole wheat flour X

Rye crackers (100%) X

Saltine crackers X
Whole wheat crackers X
Cranberries X
Cranberry sauce X
(sweetened)
Cream X
Cream sour X
Cream cheese X
Croissants X
Croutons (white flour) X
Cucumbers See also X
Pickles.

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Cumin seeds X
Cupcakes, all flavors X
See also Cakes.
Curd cheese X
Currants X
Curry powder X

Daikon radish X
Dandelion greens X
Dates X
Desserts
Angel food cake X
Baked apples X
(unsweetened)
Brownies X
Carrot cake, cream X
cheese frosting
Cheesecake X
Coffee cake X
Cookies
Chocolate chip, X
homemade
Sugar, homemade X
Vanilla, homemade X
Cupcakes, all flavors X

Devil's food cake, X

chocolate frosting
Donuts, all flavors X
Frozen tofu dessert X
Ice cream, all flavors X

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Pies, fruit
Commercial, most X
flavors (highly
sweetened)
Homemade, most X
flavors (lightly
sweetened)
Puddings, most brands X
and flavors
Yellow cake chocolate X
frosting
Yogurt, frozen, most X
brands
Yogurt, unfrozen. See
Yogurt.
Dill pickles, with apple X
cider vinegar
Dill seeds X
Dill weed X
Donuts, all flavors X
Dressings, salad See
Salad Dressings

Dried Fruits
Apricots X
Cranberries X
Dates X
Figs X
Prunes X
Raisins X
Duck X
Dulse seaweed X
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Egg noodles, white X
flour See also Pasta.
Eggplant X
Eggs
Whites only X
Whole X
Endives X
Evian water See also X
Mineral water, bottled.

Farina cereal X
Fats and Oils
Avocado oil X
Butter X
Canola oil X
Clarified butter (ghee) X
Coconut oil X
Cod liver oil X
Cottonseed oil X
Flaxseed oil X
Lard X
Macadamia oil X
Margarine X
Olive oil X
Peanut oil X
Primrose oil X

Safflower oil X
Sesame oil X
Soybean oil X

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Sunflower oil X
Vegetable oil, most X
types
Fava beans X
Fennel seeds X
Figs X
Figi water See also X
Mineral water, bottled.
Filberts (hazelnuts) X
See also Hazelnut
butter.
Fish and Seafood
Bass X
Catfish X
Clams X
Crabs X
Flounder X

Grouper X
Haddock X
Halibut X
Herring, pickled X
Lobster X
Mackerel X
Mussels X
Orange roughy X
Oysters X
Perch X
Perch, white X
Pike X
Pollack (pollock) X

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Salmon X
Scallops X
Scrod X

Sea bass X
Shrimp X
Snapper X
Swordfish X
Tuna X
Turbot X
Whitefish X
Whiting X
Yellowtail X
Fish fillet sandwich, X
fried
Flaxseed X
Flaxseed oil X
Flounder X
Flour
Amaranth flour X
Barley flour X

Buckwheat flour X
Millet flour X
Oat flour X
Rice flour, brown X
Rice flour, white X
Rye flour X
Soy flour X
Triticale flour X
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Wheat flour, white X
Whole wheat flour X
Frankfurters
Beef X
Beef, on a bun X
Pork X
Pork, on a bun X
Turkey X

Vegetarian (soy and X

bean)
French dressing See X
also Salad Dressings.
French fried onion rings X
French fried potatoes X
Fried foods in general X
Fruit Juices
Apple cider X
Apple juice X X
(sweetened)
Apple juice X
(unsweetened)
Berry juice blend X
Grape juice X
Grapefruit juice X
Lemon juice X
Lime juice X

Orange juice X
Pear juice X
Pineapple juice X

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Tomato juice or juice X
blend
Fruit preserver, jams, X
and jellies, all flavors
(sweetened with sugar
or corn syrup)
Apples
Baked (sweetened) X X
Baked X
(unsweetened)
Raw X
Apricots X
Avocados X
Bananas X
Blackberries X
Blueberries X
Boysenberries X
Cantaloupe X
(muskmelon)

Cherimoya X
Cherries X
Coconuts X
Currants X
Dates X
Figs X
Grapefruits X
Grapes X
Guava X
Honeydew melon X
Kiwi fruit X
Lemons X
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Limes X
Mandarin oranges X
Mangoes X
Olives

Green X
Ripe X
Oranges X
Papayas X
Peaches X
Pears X
Persimmon X
Pineapples X
Plums X
Pomegranates X
Prunes X
Raisins x
Raspberries X
Strawberries X
Tangelos X
Tangerines X

Tomatoes X
Watermelons X
Garbanzo beans X
(chickpeas)
Garlic X
Gelatin X
Ghee (clarified butter) X
Gin x

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Ginger root X
Ginger tea X
Goat X
Goat's milk X
Gouda cheese x
Grains. See also
Cereals; Flour.
Barley, whole grain X
Bulgur wheat (hard red X
winter)
Corn X

Cornmeal X
Cottonseed meal X
Grits, corn X
Kasha (buckwheat X
groats)
Malt X
Millet X
Oat bran X
Quinoa X
Rice
Brown rice X
Japonica rice X
White rice X
Wild rice X
Rye X
Teff X
Triticale, whole grain X

Wheat, unrefined x

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Granola (sweetened) X
Granola (unsweetened) X
Granulated sugar X
(white) See also Sugar.
Grapes X
Grape juice X
Grapefruit X
Grapefruit juice X
Great Northern beans X
Green beans See
String
Green bell peppers X
Green onions X
(scallions)
Green tea, most types X
Greens, leafy See
Leafy Greens.
Grits
Corn x

Soy X
Grouper X
Guava x
Haddock X
Halibut X
Ham
Pork X
Turkey X
Hamburgers
Beef X
Beef, on a bun X
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 Beef with cheese, on X
a bun
Turkey X
Vegetarian X
Vegetarian, mostly X
beans
Vegetarian, mostly x
whole grains

Vegetarian, mostly X
soy (tofu)
Hard cheeses, most X
types See also
Cheeses.
Hash brown potatoes X
Hazelnut butter X
Hazelnuts (filberts) X
Herbal teas, most types X
Herbs and Spices
(Fresh and Dried)
Basil X
Bay leaf X
Cardamom seeds X
Celery seeds X
Cilantro X
Cinnamon X
Coriander seeds X
Cumin seeds X
Curry powder X

Dill seeds X
Dill weed X

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Fennel seeds X
Ginger root X
Mace X
Marjoram x
Oregano X
Paprika X
Parsley X
Pepper
Black X
Cayenne X
Salt
Iodized table X
Sea X
Tarragon x

Thyme X
Watercress X
Herring, pickled X
Hijiki seaweed See X
also Seaweed.
Home fries (potatoes). X
homemade
Honey X
Honeydew melon x
Hops X
Horseradish X
Hot dogs
Beef X
Beef, on a bun X
Pork x
Pork, on a bun X

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 Turkey X
Vegetarian (soy and X
bean)

Hubbard squash X
Hummus X
Ice cream, all flavors X
Iodized table salt See X
also Salt.
Irish moss seaweed X
See also Seaweed.
Italian dressing, with X
olive oil and apple cider
vinegar See also Salad
Dressings
Jams, jellies, and X
preserves all flavors
(sweetened with sugar
or corn syrup)
Japonica rice X
Jerusalem artichoke X
Jicama X
Juices See Fruit
Juices; Vegetable
Juices.
Kale X
Kasha (buckwheat X
groats)
Kefir (fermented cow's X
milk)
Kelp See also x
Seaweed.
Ketchup (catsup) x

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Kidney beans X
Kielbasa sausage X
Kiwi fruit X
Knockwurst sausage, X
link
Kohlrabi X
Kombu seaweed See X
also Seaweed.
Kraut (sauerkraut) X
Lamb X
Lasagna x
Leafy Greens
Chard Swiss X
Collard greens X
Dandelion greens X
Kale X
Lettuce

Iceberg X
Red leaf X
Romaine X
Mustard greens X
Salad greens, mixed X
Spinach X
Turnip greens X
Legumes See Beans
and Legumes.
Lemon juice X
Lemons X
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Lentils X
Lettuce
Iceberg X
Red leaf X
Romaine X
Lima beans (butter X
beans)

Lime juice X
Limes X
Linguine, white flour X
See also Pasta.
Liver
Beef X
Chicken X
Liverwurst X
Lotus root X
Lobster X
Luncheon meat
Beef sausage X
Bologna, beef X
Bologna, bratwurst, link X
Bologna, turkey X
Corned beef X
Frankfurter

Beef x
Pork X
Turkey X
Vegetarian (soy and X
bean)
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Ham, pork X
Ham, turkey X
Kielbasa sausage X
Knockwurst sausage, X
link
Liverwurst X
Pastrami X
Pepperoni X
Pork sausage X
Salami, pork or beef X
Turkey breast X
Macadamia nuts X
Macadamia oil X

Macaroni, white flour X

See also Pasta.
Macaroni and Cheese X
Mackerel X
Malt X
Malt liquor
Dark X
Pale X
Mandarin oranges X
Mangos X
Maple syrup X
Marjoram X
Matzoh
White flour x
Whole wheat flour X
Mayonnaise X

Meat. See also Fish;

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Luncheon Meat;
Poultry.
Beef
Bologna X
Frankfurters X
Hamburgers X
Liver X
Meat (steak, roasts, X
etc.)
Sausage X
Buffalo (bison) X
Goat X
Lamb X
Pork
Bacon, fried X
Frankfurters x
Ham X
lard X

Meat (chops, roasts, X

etc.)
Sausage X
Rabbit X
Veal x
Venison X
Melons
Cantaloupe X
Honeydew X
Watermelon X
Milk See also Almond
milk; Rice milk; Soy
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milk.
Cow's milk, skim X
(nonfat)
Cow's milk, 1% fat X
Cow's milk, 2% fat X
Cow's milk, whole X
Cow's milk, chocolate X
flavored, whole
Goat's milk X

Kefir (fermented X
cow's milk)
Milk shakes,
commercial
chocolate X
Vanilla X
Milk substitute See
Almond milk; Rice milk;
Soy milk.
Millet X
Millet flour X
Mineral water, bottled
See also Tap water.
Apollinaris X
Evian X
Fiji X
Pellegrino X
Sanfaustino X
Volvic X
Miso X
Molasses x

Monosodium X

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glutamate (MSG)
Mozzarella cheese X
MSG (monosodium X
glutamate)
Mung beans X
Mushrooms X
Muskmelon X
(cantaloupe)
Mussels X
Mustard, prepared x
Mustard greens X
Navy beans X
Noodles, egg See also X
Pasta.
Nori seaweed See also X
Seaweed
Nut Butters
Almond butter X
Cashew butter X
Hazelnut butter X

Peanut butter X
Pistachio butter X
Nut milk, almond X X
(sweetened)
Nut milk, almond x
(unsweetened)
Nuts and Seeds
Almonds X
Amaranth seeds. See X
also Flour.

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Cashews X
Celery seeds X
Chestnuts X
Coriander seeds x
Cumin seeds X
Flaxseed X
Hazelnuts (filberts) X
Macadamia nuts X
Peanuts X

Pecans X
Pine nuts X
Pistachio nuts X
Pumpkin seeds X
Quinoa seeds X
Sesame seeds X
Soy nuts X
Sunflower seeds X
Walnuts x
Oat bran X
Oat flour X
Oats and oatmeal X
(sweetened)
Oats and oatmeal x
(unsweetened)
Oils See Fats and Oils.
Okra X
Olive oil X

Olives
Green X

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 Ripe X
Onions X
Onions, green X
(scallions)
Orange juice X
Orange roughy X
Oranges X
Oranges, mandarin X
Oregano X
Oysters X
Pancakes, white flour X
X
Papayas
Paprika X
Parsley X
Parsnips X

Pasta
Couscous, white flour X
Egg noodles, white X
flour
Linguine, white flour X
Macaroni, white flour X
Spaghetti
Rye flour X
White flour X
Whole wheat flour X
Pasta sauce (tomato
based)
With meat X
Without meat X

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Pastrami x
Pastry. See also
Desserts.
Danish, cheese X
Puff Pastry X

Peas
Fresh green X
Split peas, green and X
yellow
Peas, snow X
Peaches X
Peanut butter X
Peanut oil X
Peanuts X
Pear juice x
Pears X
Pecans X
Pellegrino water See X
also Mineral water)
Pepper (spice)
Black X
Cayenne pepper X
Pepperoni x

Peppers, bell (sweet)

Green X
Red X
Yellow X
Peppers, hot X

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Perch X
Perch, white x
Persimmon X
Phosphoric acid X
(commercial flavoring)
Pickles
Dill, with apple cider X
vinegar
Sweet, with white X
vinegar and sugar
Pies, Fruit
Commercial, most x
flavors (highly
sweetened)
Homemade, most X
flavors (lightly
sweetened)
Pike X

Pine nuts X
Pineapple juice x
Pineapples X
Pinto beans X
Pistachio butter x
Pistachio nuts X
Pita bread, white X
Pita bread, whole x
wheat
Pizza
Cheese X
Marinara (no cheese) X
Pepperoni X

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Plums X
Pollack (pollock) X
Pomegranates X
Popcorn X

Popcorn cakes See X

also Rice cakes.
Bacon X
Frankfurters X
Ham X
Lard X
Meat (chops, roasts, X
etc.)
Sausage X
Pork and beans, baked X
See also Baked beans.
Potato chips

Baked X
Fried X
Potatoes X
Baked, skin on X
French fried, X
commercial

Home fries, X
homemade
Mashed, with milk X
and butter
Potatoes ,sweet x
Poultry
Chicken

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 Liver X
meat X
Duck X
Turkey X
Bologna X
Frankfurters X
Ham X
Meat X
Preservatives
Benzoate x
Preserves, jams, and X
jellies, all flavors
(sweetened with sugar
or corn sweetener)

Pretzels, white flour X

Primrose oil X
Prunes X
Puddings, most brands X
and flavors
Pumpernickel bread X
Pumpkin seeds X
Quiche, all types X
Quinoa X
Rabbit X
Radishes X
Radishes, daikon X
Raisins X
Raspberries x
Red bell peppers X
Red wine X
Red wine vinegar X

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Rhubarb x
Rice
Brown rice X
Japonica rice X
White rice X
Wild rice x
Rice cakes See also
Popcorn cakes.
Brown rice, multigrain X
Brown rice, plain X
White rice X
Rice cereal, puffed X
brown
Rice cereal, puffed X
white
Rice flour
Brown X
White X
Rice milk x

Rice syrup X
Rice vinegar X
Roast beef sandwich X
Root beer X
Russian dressing See x
also Salad Dressings.
Rutabagas X
Rye X
Rye bread (100%) X
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Rye crackers (100%) X
Rye flour X
Saccharin X
Safflower oil X
Salad Dressings. See
also Condiments; Fats
and Oils; Vinegars.
Caesar X
French X
Italian, with olive oil X
and apple cider vinegar

Russian X
Thousand Island X
Salad greens, mixed x
Salami, pork or beef X
Salmon X
Salt
Iodized table salt X
Sea salt x
Saltine crackers X
Sanfaustino water See X
also Mineral water,
bottled.
Sauces
Catsup (ketchup) X
Cranberry sauce X
(sweetened)
Soy sauce (tamari) X
Spaghetti sauce
(tomato based)
With meat X

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 Without meat X
Tomato sauce
With meat X
Without meat X
Sauerkraut x
Sausages See also
Luncheon Meat.
Beef X
Kielbasa X
Knockwurst, link X
Pork X
Scallions (green onion) x
Scallops X
Scotch X
Scrod X
Sea bass X
Sea salt X

Seaweed
Agar X
Dulse X
Hijiki X
X

Kombu X
Nori X
Spirulina X
Wakame x

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Seeds
Amaranth seeds X
Celery seeds X
Coriander seeds X
Cumin seeds x
Flaxseed X

Pumpkin seeds X
Quinoa seeds X
Sunflower seeds X
Sesame butter (tahini X
sauce)
Sesame oil X
Sesame seeds X
Shellfish
Clams X
Crabs X
Lobster X
Mussels X
Oysters x
Scallops X
Shrimp X
Skim milk See also X
Milk.
Snack Foods See also
Crackers; Desserts;
Nuts and Seeds.

Corn chips, fried X

Popcorn X
Popcorn cakes X

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Potato chips, baked X
Potato chips, fried X
Pretzels, white flour X
Rice cakes
Brown rice, multigrain X
Brown rice, plain X
White rice X
Soy nuts X
Tortilla chips, fried X
Snap beans See string,
green, snap, wax, and
yellow beans.
Snapper x
Snow peas X
Soft drinks X
(carbonated), most
types (See inset on
page 142)

Soups
Black bean soup X
Borscht X
Chicken noodle soup X
Split pea soup X
Tomato soup X
Vegetable soup X
Sour cream X
Soy flour X
X
Soy milk, most brands X
Soy nuts X

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Soy protein
Concentrate X
Isolate X
Soy sauce (tamari) x

Soybean curd (tofu), X

all types
Soybean oil x
Soybean paste (miso) X
Soybeans X
Spaghetti
Rye flour X
White flour x
Whole wheat flour X
Spaghetti sauce
(tomato based)
With meat X
Without meat X
Spices See Herbs and
Spices
Spinach X
Spirulina seaweed See X
also Seaweed.
Split pea soup X
Split peas, green and X
yellow

Spreads see also

Cheeses; Condiments.
Almond butter X
Apple butter X

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Butter X
Cashew butter X
Cream cheese X
Hazelnut butter X
Hummus X
Jams, jellies, and x
preserves, all flavors
(sweetened with sugar
or corn syrup)
Peanut butter X
Pistachio butter X
Spring onions X
(scallions)
Spring water See
Mineral water, bottled.
Sprouts, most types X
Squash

Hubbard squash X
Summer squash X
Winter squash X
Zucchini X
Steak, beef X
Stevia X
Strawberries X
String, green, snap, x
wax, and yellow beans,
with formed beans
String, green, snap, x
wax, and yellow beans,
without formed beans

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Sucanat sweetener, X
organic
Sugar
Brown sugar X
Sucanat, organic X
White sugar X
(granulated)
Sugared (frosted) corn X
flakes
Summer squash X

Sunflower oil X
Sunflower seeds X
Sweet pickles, with X
white vinegar and
sugar
Sweet potatoes x
Sweeteners
Artificial
Aspartame X
Saccharin X
Corn syrup X
Honey X
Maple syrup X
Molasses X
Rice syrup X
Stevia X
Sugar
Brown sugar X

Sucanat, organic X
White sugar X
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(granulated)
Swiss chard X
Swiss cheese (aged) X
Swordfish X
Syrups See also
Sweeteners
Corn syrup X
Maple syrup X
Rice syrup x
Tacos
With beef X
With chicken X
Tahini sauce (sesame x
butter)
Tamari soy sauce X
Tangelos X
Tangerines X

Tap water See also

Mineral water, bottled.
Chlorinated, in X
general
Nonchlorinated, in X
general*
*Be aware that the
value provided for
nonchlorinated tap
water is only an
average, and that tap
water can vary in its
impact from region to
region. See the inset
on page 156 for more
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information.
Taro root X
Tarragon X
Tea
Black tea, most types X
Green tea, most X
types
Herbal tea, most X
types
Teff X
Tempeh X
Thousand Island X
dressing See also
Salad Dressings.
Thyme X

Tofu, all types X

Tofu frozen desserts, X

all types
Tomato juice or juice X
blend
Tomato paste (canned) X
Tomato sauce
With meat X
Without meat X
Tomato soup X
Tomatoes X
Tortilla chips, fried x
Tortillas
Corn X
White flour X
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Triticale, whole grain X
Triticale flour X
Tuna, fresh or canned X
Turbot X
Turkey

Bologna X
Ham X
Meat X
Turnip greens X
Turnips X
Umeboshi vinegar X
Vanilla extract X
Veal X
Vegetable Juices
Carrot juice X
Tomato juice or juice X
blend
Vegetable juice cocktail X
(commercial), tomato
based
Vegetable juice cocktail X
(homemade), green
vegetables with apple,
no tomato
Vegetable oil, most X
types See also Fats
and Oils.
Vegetable soup X
Vegetables

Artichokes X

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Artichokes, Jerusalem X
Asparagus X
Beets X
Bell peppers
Green X
Red X
Yellow X
Broccoli X
Brussels sprouts X
Burdock root X
Cabbage
Chinese X
Red X
White X
Carrots (commercial)* X

Carrots (organic)* x
Note that while mineral-
rich organic carrots are
alkaline-forming, most
commercially farmed
carrots are lower in
minerals and higher in
sugar, and therefore
tend to be slightly acid-
forming.
Cauliflower X
Celery X
Chard, Swiss X
Collards X
Corn X
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Cucumbers. See also X
Pickles.
Dandelion greens X
Eggplant X
Endives X
Garlic x
Green onions X
(scallions)
Jicama X
Kale X
Kohlrabi X

Lettuce
Iceberg X
Red leaf X
Romaine X
Lotus root X
Mushroom x
Mustard greens X
Okra X
Onions X
Parsnips X
Peas
Fresh green X
Split peas, green and X
yellow
Potatoes X
Radishes x
Radishes, daikon x

Rhubarb X

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Rutabagas X
Salad greens, mixed X
Snow peas X
Spinach X
Squash
Hubbard squash X
Summer squash X
Winter squash X
Zucchini x
String, green, snap, X
wax, and yellow beans,
with formed beans
String, green, snap, X
wax, and yellow beans,
without formed beans
Sweet potatoes X
Taro root X
Tomatoes X
Turnip greens X

Turnips X
Watercress X
Yams X
Zucchini X
Vegetarian burgers See
Hamburgers.
Venison X
Vinegars
Apple cider vinegar X
Balsamic vinegar X
Red wine vinegar x
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 Rice vinegar x
Umeboshi vinegar x
White vinegar X
Vodka X
Volvic water See also X
Mineral water, bottled.
Waffles, white flour X

Wakame seaweed See X

also Seaweed.
Walnuts x
Water (See inset on
page 156.)
Bottled mineral
Apollinaris x
Evian x
Fiji X
Pellegrino X
Sanfaustino X
Volvic X
Tap
Chlorinated, in X
general
Nonchlorinated, in X
general*
Be aware that the value
provided for
nonchlorinated tap
water is only an
average, and that tap
water can vary in its
impact from region to
region. See the inset

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on page 156 for more
information.
Watercress X
Watermelon X

Wax beans See String,

green, snap, wax, and
yellow beans.
Wheat, unrefined X
Wheat (bran) flakes X x
and raisins
(sweetened)
Wheat (bran) flakes X
and raisins
(unsweetened)
Wheat flour
White X
Whole wheat x
Whey
Cow x
Goat x
White beans X
White bread X
White Perch X
White rice X
White rice cakes X
White rice flour X

White sugar X
(granulated) See also
Sugar
White vinegar X
White wine X

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Whitefish X
Whiting X
Whole wheat bread X
Whole wheat crackers X
Wieners See X
Frankfurters.
Wild rice X
Wine
Red X
White X
Winter Squash X
Yams X
Yeast X
Yellow beans See
String, green, snap,
wax, and yellow beans.

Yellow bell peppers X

Yellow cake, chocolate X
frosting
Yellowtail X
Yogurt X
Cow's milk X X
(sweetened)
Cow's milk X
(unsweetened)
Goat's milk X x
(sweetened)
Goat's milk X
(unsweetened)
Sheep's milk x X
(sweetened)

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 Sheep's milk X
(unsweetened)
Soy (sweetened) X
Soy (unsweetened) X
Yogurt, frozen, most X
brands
Zucchini x
Entrees
Burrito

With beef X
With chicken x
Chicken nuggets, fried X
Chicken sandwich, X
broiled
Chicken sandwich, X
fried
Chili with beef X
Fish fillet sandwich, X
fried
Frankfurter (beef) on a x
bun
Frankfurter (pork) on a X
bun
Hamburger
Hamburger (beef) on a X
bun
Hamburger (beef) with X
cheese on a bun
Pizza with sauce and X
cheese
Roast beef sandwich X
Taco

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 With beef X

With chicken X
Side Dishes
Baked potato, skin on, X
plain
French fried onion rings X
French fried potatoes X
Green salad (mixed X
greens), plain
Condiments and
Dressings
Catsup (ketchup) X
Mayonnaise X
Mustard x
Salad Dressings
Caesar X
French X
Italian, with olive oil X
and apple cider vinegar
Russian X
Thousand Island X

Beverages
Coffee, black (regular X
or decaffeinated)
Milk shake, any flavor X
Soft drink (carbonated) X
Tea
Black, most types X
Herbal, most types X
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Water, bottled mineral.
See Water on page
154.
Desserts
Apple pie X
Ice cream sundae X
Breakfast Dishes
Bacon and eggs X
Biscuits X
Breakfast sandwich X
with eggs, cheese, and
sausage or ham
Hash brown potatoes X

Sausage (pork) and x

eggs

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 Appendix 3: Common Sources of Heavy-Metal

ALUMINUM CADMIUM LEAD

Aluminum cooking utensils Drinking water Automobile exhausts (not as
much since Pb-free fuels)
Baking powder Soft water (from galvanized Leaded house paints
pipes)
Antacids (certain brands, see Soft drinks Drinking water from lead
labels) plumbing
Antiperspirants Refined wheat flour Vegetables from Pb-
contaminated soil
Aluminum cans Canned evaporated milk Canned fruits and juices
Drinking water (alum., used as Processed foods Canned evaporated milk
bactericide)
Milk and milk products Oysters Milk from animals fed in Pb-
(equipment) contaminated land
Pickled foods (see labels) Cigarette smoke, tobacco Bone meal
products
Nasal spray Superphosphate fertilizers Organ meats (live)
Toothpaste Dental appliances Lead-arsenic pesticides
Ceramics (AL 203 clay) Ceramic glazes Leaded caps on wine bottles
Dental amalgams Paint pigments Rainwater and snow
Cigarette filters, tobacco smoke Electroplating Pottery
Automotive exhausts Silver polish Painted glassware
Pesticides Polyvinyl plastics Pencils
Color additives Rubber carpet backing Toothpaste
Vanilla powder Nickel-cadmium batteries Newsprint
Table salt, seasonings Rust-proofing materials Colored printed materials
Bleached flour Eating utensils
American cheese Certain weights
Certain medications Putty
Sutures with wound healing Car batteries
coatings
Rat poison Firing ranges

MERCURY ARSENIC

Dental amalgams Rat poisons

Broken thermometers and Insecticide residues on fruits and
barometers vegetables
Grain seeds treated with methyl Drinking water, well water,
mercury fungicide seawater
Predator fish, certain lake fish Automobile exhaust
Mercuric chloride Wine

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Body powders, talc, laxatives Household detergents
Cosmetics Colored chalk
Latex and solvent-thinned paints Sewage disposal
Hemorrhoid suppositories Wood preservatives
Mercurochrome, merthiolate Wallpaper dye and plaster
Fabric softeners
Floor waxes and polishers
Air conditioner filters
Wood preservatives
Certain batteries
Fungicides for lawn and shrubs
Leather tanning products
Felt
Adhesives
Skin lightening creams
Psoriasis ointments
Tattooing
Sewage sludge used as fertilizer

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 Appendix 4: Detoxification Food List
Mushrooms, raw almonds, broccoli, spinach, organic chicken, asparagus,
wild salmon
Organic chicken, organic turkey, wild salmon, halibut, tuna, lentils, lima
beans, asparagus, crimini mushrooms
Wild salmon, organic chicken, spinach, avocado, organic turkey, collard
greens, brown rice, green peas
Wild salmon, organic chicken, organic turkey
Lentils, chickpeas, asparagus, spinach, broccoli, lima beans, beets,
romaine lettuce
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, peaches, watermelon,
cinnamon, cardamon, cur cumin, avocado
Whey protein
Onion, lettuce, basil, cranberry, garlic, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts,
kohlrabi, spinach, asparagus, fennel, soy, scarlet runner bean, lima bean,
kidney bean, garden pea, adzuki bean, dill, tea, basil, thyme, cayenne,
coriander, peppermint, chamomile, anise
Cabbage, cauliflower, flaxseed
Seaweed, spirulina, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, sunflower
seeds, cod, salmon, tuna, turkey, chicken, fenugreek, mustard seed
Cold water fish such as salmon and cod
Cabbage and beets, beans, nuts, fish
Poultry, red peppers, garlic, onions, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, oats, wheat
germ
Bass trout, cod, beans, garlic, lentils, onions, seeds
Wild fish, lamb, spinach, broccoli, peanuts, wheat germ and whole grains
Garlic, onions, cruciferous vegetables
Silymarin plant
Grapes, berries
Spinach, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, cod liver oil, butter nut squash,
cantaloupe, watercress, goji berries
Sweet red pepper, Brussels sprouts, cooked broccoli, cooked collard
greens, cantaloupe, cooked cabbage, tomato, acerola cherries

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Cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil; raw almonds; spinach; carrots;
avocado; butter
Raw Brazil nuts, wild salmon, brown rice, organic chicken, organic beef,
organic butter
Raw cashews, raw sunflower seeds, raw hazelnuts, raw almonds, organic
peanut butter
Lima beans, organic/wild turkey, split peas, chick peas, raw cashews, raw
pecans, raw almonds, green peas, ginger root
Beans, lentils, peas, whole grains, raw nuts
Pineapple, raw pecans, raw almonds, brown rice, pinto beans, lima beans,
navy beans, spinach, sweet potatoes, organic butter fat
Peels, skins, or seeds of grapes, blueberries, cherries, plums
Rosemary
Garlic
Oregano oil

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 Appendix 5: Detoxification nutrients list
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
Vitamin B3 (Niacin)
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
Vitamin B12
Folic acid
Glutathione
Branched-chain Amino Acids
Flavonoids
Phospholipids
Glycine
Taurine
Glutamine
Cysteine and N-Acetylcysteine
Methionine
Coenzyme Q10
Thiols
Silymarin (Milk Thistle)
Bioflavonoids
Vitamin A (Carotenes)
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
Selenium
Copper
Zinc
Molybdenum
Manganese
Pycnogenol
Carnosol
Allicin
Phenolic Constituents (carvacrol, thymol)
Lauric Acid

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 Appendix 6: Drugs and Nutritional Depletion
DRUG
ACE inhibitors
Captopril (Capoten, Duracion)
Beta blockers
Propranolol, Metoprolol,
Atenolol, Pindolol, Acetutulol
Betaxolol, Bisoprolol, Carteolol,
Carvedilol, Esmolol, Labetalol,
Nadolol, Sotalol, Timolol
Cardiac glycosides
Digoxin (Lanoxin)
Loop diuretics
Furosemide (Lasix), Bumetanide
(Bumex) Ethacrynic Acid
(Edecrin)
"Statin" drugs
Altorvastatin, Cerivastatin,
Lovastatin, Fluvastatin,
Pravastatin, Simvastatin
POTENTIAL HEALTH
NUTRIENT DEPLETIONS
PROBLEMS
Zinc Loss of sense of smell and taste,
lower immunity, slow wound
healing
Coenzyme Q10 Congestive heart failure, high
blood pressure, low energy
Vitamin B Asthma, cardiovascular
problems, cramps, osteoporosis,
PMS
Magnesium Depression, edema, irritability,
memory loss, muscle weakness
Calcium Heart/blood pressure
irregularities, osteoporosis
Magnesium Asthma, cardiovascular
problems, cramps
Potassium Edema, fatigue, irregular
heartbeat, muscle weakness
Vitamin B1 Depression, edema, irritability,
memory loss, muscle weakness
Vitamin B6 Depression, increased
cardiovascular disease risk, sleep
disturbance
Zinc Loss of sense of smell and taste,
lower immunity, slow wound
healing
Coenzyme Q10 Congestive heart failure, high
blood pressure, low energy
Beta-carotene Vision problems, weakened
immunity
Calcium Blood clotting, cell wall
permeability, enzyme
dysfunction, high blood
pressure, osteoporosis, rickets
Folic acid Anemia, birth defects, cervical
dysplasia, elevated
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 homocysteine
Iron Hair loss

Cholestyramine Magnesium Increased incidence of

artheroderosis, heart attacks,
hypertension, stroke
Vitamin A Vision problems
Vitamin B12 Anemia, appetite loss,
depression, dermatitis, fatigue,
nausea, poor blood clotting
Vitamin D Hearing loss, muscle weakness,
phosphorous retention in
kidneys, rheumatic pains
Vitamin E Cataracts, dry skin, dry hair, easy
bruising, eczema, poor wound
healing, PMS
Vitamin K Easy bleeding, rickets and other
skeletal disorders

Zinc Acne, anorexia, decreased

immunity, depression, delayed
wound healing, frequent
infections, impaired sense of
smell and taste
Colestipol Beta-carotene, Folic acid, Iron, See above
Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin
D, Vitamin E
Cortiocosteroids
Sulfasalazine Folic acid Anemia, birth defects,
cardiovascular
Betamethasone, Budesonide Calcium Heart/blood pressure
irregularities, tooth decay,
osteoporosis
Cortisone, Dexamethasone Folic acid Anemia, birth defects,
cardiovascular disease, cervical
dysplasia
Flunisolide, Fluticasone, Magnesium Asthma, cardiovascular
Hydrocortisone problems, cramps, PMS
Mometasone, Potassium Edema, fatigue, irregular
Methylprednisolone heartbeat, muscle weakness
Prednison, Prednisolone Selenium Lower immunity, reduced
antioxidant protection
Triamcinolone Vitamin C Easy bruising, lower immunity,
poor wound healing
Vitamin D Hearing loss, muscle weakness,
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Oral contraceptives
Axid, Pepcid, Tagamet,
and Zantac
General antibiotics
Penicillins, cephalosporins,
fluoroquinolones, macrolides,
aminoglycosides, sulfonamides
osteoporosis
Zinc Loss of sense of taste and smell,
slow wound healing
Folic acid Anemia, birth defects,
cardiovascular disease, cervical
dysplasia
Magnesium Asthma, cardiovascular
problems, cramps, osteoporosis,
PMS
Vitamin B2 Eyes, mucous membranes,
nerves, skin problems
Vitamin B6 Depression, increased
cardiovascular disease risk, sleep
disturbances
Vitamin B12 Anemia, increased
cardiovascular disease risk,
tiredness, weakness
Vitamin C Easy bruising, lowered immunity,
poor wound healing
Zinc Loss of sense of smell and taste,
lower immunity, slow wound
healing
Calcium Heart, blood pressure
irregularities, osteoporosis,
tooth decay
Folic acid Anemia, birth defects,
cardiovascular, dysplasia
Iron Anemia, brittle nails, fatigue,
hair loss, weakness
Vitamin B12 Anemia, increased
cardiovascular disease risk,
tiredness, weakness
Vitamin D Hearing loss, muscle weakness,
osteoporosis
Zinc Loss of sense of smell and taste,
lowered immunity, slow wound
healing
Lactobacillus acidophilus; Short-term depletion effects are
Bifidobacteria bifidum (bifidus); minimal
vitamins B1, B2, B2, B6, B12, K;
biotin, inositol Calcium
Calcium Heart/blood pressure
irregularities, osteoporosis,
tooth decay,
Magnesium Asthma, cardiovascular
problems, cramps, osteoporosis,
PMS
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Co-trimoxazole
Tetracyclines, sulfonamides
Estrogen and hormone
replacement therapies
Estrogen derivatives and
selective estrogen receptor
modulators
Iron
Lactobacillus acidophilus;
Bifidobacteria bifidum (bifidus);
folic acid
Lactobacillus, acidophilus;,
Bifidobacteria bifidum (bifidus);
vitamins B1, B2, B6, K; biotin
Magnesium
Vitamin B6
Zinc
Anemia, brittle nails, fatigue,
hair loss, weakness
Short-term depletion effects are
minimal
Short-term depletion effects are
minimal
Asthma, cardiovascular
problems, cramps, osteoporosis,
PMS
Depression, increased
cardiovascular disease risk, sleep
disturbances
Loss of sense of smell and taste,
lower immunity, slow wound
healing
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 Appendix 7: Know Your Food Families
Foods are all based on plants or animals, thus they can be grouped into families depending on which ones
they're derived from.

Many foods share similar proteins and potential allergens with their close relatives. We have added these food
family tables for your convenience. It’s well worth knowing them.

Just one example to show you what we mean: Cashew nuts and pistachios are from the cashew family. So, if
you react to one, you are more likely to react to the other.

Anyway, implementing our recommended diet and herbs will heal your body, so using this food table is just to
help you get started. It will speed up the healing process by not triggering any allergens as a first step.

FOOD BY FAMILY NAME

Plants Family Foods in The Plants Family

Banana Arrowroot, banana, ginger, plantain, turmeric, vanilla
Beech Beechnut, chestnut
Beet Beet, chard, spinach, sugar beet
Berry Blackberry, boysenberry, loganberry, raspberry, strawberry
Birch Hazelnut, wintergreen
Buckwheat Buckwheat, rhubarb, sorrel
Carrot Angelica, caraway, carrot, celery, chervil, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel,
parsley, parsnip
Cashew Cashew nuts, mango, pistachio
Citrus Citron, grapefruit, lemon, lime, mandarin, orange, tangerine
Composites Artichoke, chamomile, chicory, dandelion, endive, lettuce, safflower,
salsify, sunflower, tarragon
Fungi Mushrooms, truffle, yeast
Gourd Cucumber, gherkin, melon (honeydew), pumpkin, squash, watermelon,
zucchini
Grape Grape, raisin, sultana, cream of tartar (a byproduct of winemaking)
Grass Bamboo shoots, barley, corn, millet, oat, rice, rye, sorghum, sugar cane,
wheat
Heather Blueberry
Laurel Avocado, bay leaf, cinnamon, sassafras
Legume Bean, carob, lentil, licorice, pea, peanut, senna, soy, tapioca
Lily Asparagus, chive, garlic, leek, onion, shallot
Madder Coffee
Mint Basil, bergamot, lavender, lemon balm, marjoram, mint, oregano,
rosemary, sage, thyme
Mulberry Breadfruit, fig, hop, mulberry
Mustard Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, Chinese leaves, cress,
horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, radish, rapeseed, turnip, watercress

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Olive Olive
Palm Coconut, date, palm, sago
Pineapple Pineapple
Potato (night-shade family) Cayenne pepper, chili pepper, eggplant, paprika, pepper, potato, sesame,
tahini, tobacco, tomato
Rose Apple (including cider), crab apple, pear, rosehip
Rosestone Almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, prune, quince, sloe
Saxifrage Blackcurrant, currant, gooseberry
Stericula Chocolate, cocoa, cola
Tea Tea
Verbena Lemon verbena
Walnut Butternut, pecan nut, walnut
Poultry and Foods in The Poultry and Wildfowl Family
Wildfowl Family
Dove Pigeon
Duck Duck, goose
Grouse Grouse, partridge
Guinea fowl Guinea fowl
Pheasant Chicken (and their eggs), peafowl, pheasant, quail
Turkey Turkey
Meat Family Foods in The Meat Family
Bovid Beef, beef dairy products (cow's milk, cream, casein/caseinate, whey,
yogurt, cheese), buffalo, feta, gelatin, goat, goat's milk and cheese, lamb,
sheep's milk and cheese, Roquefort, veal
Deer Caribou, elk, moose, reindeer, venison
Hare Hare, rabbit
Swine Pork
Seafood Family Foods in The Seafood Family
Crustacean Crab, crayfish, lobster, prawn, shrimp
Mollusk Abalone, clam, cockle, mussel, oyster, scallop, snail, squid
Octopus Octopus
Freshwater Fish Foods in The Freshwater Fish Family
Family
Bass Bass, perch (white), yellow bass
Herring Shad
Minnow Carp, chub
Perch Perch (yellow), red snapper
Pike Pickerel, pike
Salmon Salmon, trout
Smelt Smelt
Sturgeon Caviar, sturgeon, sunfish, black bass
Saltwater Fish Foods in The Saltwater Fish Family

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 Family
Anchovy Anchovy
Codfish Cod, cod liver oil, haddock, hake, pollack
Eel Eel
Flounder Flounder, halibut, plaice, sole, turbot
Mackerel Bonito, mackerel, tuna
Mullet Mullet
Porgy Bream, porgy
Salmon Salmon, sea trout
Scorpion fish Ocean perch, rockfish
Sea bass Grouper, sea bass
Sea catfish Catfish
Sea herring Herring, pilchard, sardine
Skate Skate
Honey Honey contains multiple plant pollens, while commercial honey frequently
contains sugar

FOOD FAMILIES BY INDIVIDUAL FOODS

Grains Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Barley Grass Rice Grass
Buckwheat Buckwheat Rye Grass
Corn (maize) Grass Sago Palm
Malt Grass Tapioca Grass
Millet Grass Wheat Grass
Oat Grass
Dairy Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Brie Bovid Goat's milk Bovid
Cheddar Bovid Gouda Bovid
Cottage cheese Bovid Processed cheese Bovid
Cow's milk Bovid Sheep's milk Bovid
Edam Bovid Stilton Bovid
Egg (whole) Pheasant Swiss cheese Bovid
Evaporated milk Bovid Whey (cow's) Bovid
Goat's cheese Bovid Yogurt Bovid
Meat/Poultry Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Beef Bovid Pork Swine
Chicken Pheasant Rabbit Hare
Duck Duck Turkey Turkey
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Lamb Bovid Venison Deer
Liver (beef) Bovid
Fish Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Anchovy Anchovy Plaice Flounder
Clam Mollusk Prawn Crustacean
Cod Codfish Salmon Salmon
Crab Crustacean Sardine Sea herring
Haddock Codfish Scallop Mollusk
Halibut Flounder Skate Skate
Mackerel Mackerel Sole Flounder
Mussels Mollusk Trout Salmon
Oyster Mollusk Tuna Mackerel
Pilchard Sea herring
Vegetables Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Artichoke Composite Lentils Legume
Asparagus Lily Lettuce Composite
Avocado Laurel Mustard Mustard
Bean sprouts Legume Onion Lily
Beetroot Beet Parsnip Carrot
Broccoli Mustard Pea Legume
Brussels sprouts Mustard Pinto beans Legume
Butterbeans Legume Potato Potato
Cabbage Mustard Radish Mustard
Carob Legume Rhubarb Buckwheat
Carrot Carrot Safflower Composite
Cauliflower Mustard Soybean Legume
Celery Carrot Spinach Beet
Chickpea Legume Squash Gourd
Cucumber Gourd Sunflower Composite
Eggplant Potato Sweet potato Morning glory
Endive Composite Tomato Potato
Green beans Legume Turnip Mustard
Haricot beans Legume Yam Yam
Kidney beans Legume Zucchini Gourd
Leek Lily
Fruits Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Apple Rose Lemon Citrus
Apricot Rosestone Lime Citrus
Banana Banana Mango Cashew
Blackberry Berry Melon Gourd
Blackcurrant Saxifrage Olive Olive

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Blueberry Heather Orange Citrus
Cherry Rosestone Peach Rosestone
Date Palm Pear Rose
Fig Mulberry Pineapple Pineapple
Gooseberry Saxifrage Plum Rosestone
Grape Grape Raspberry Berry
Grapefruit Citrus Strawberry Berry
Hops Mulberry Sultana Grape
Kiwi Kiwi
Nuts Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Almond Rosestone Hazelnut Birch
Brazil nut Brazil Peanut Legume
Cashew nut Cashew Pecan nut Walnut
Chestnut Beech Pistachio Cashew
Coconut Palm Walnut Walnut
Spices/Herbs Family
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Arrowroot Banana Nutmeg Nutmeg
Basil Mint Oregano Mint
Bay leaf Laurel Parsley Carrot
Cayenne pepper Potato Pepper (black) Peppercorn
Chicory Composite Pepper (white) Peppercorn
Chili Potato Rosemary Mint
Cinnamon Laurel Sage Mint
Coriander Carrot Sesame seed Potato
Fennel Carrot Tarragon Composite
Garlic Lily Thyme Mint
Ginger Banana Tobacco Potato
Licorice Legume Turmeric Banana
Mustard Mustard Vanilla Banana
Others
FOOD ITEM FAMILY FOOD ITEM FAMILY
Beet sugar Beet Maple syrup Maple
Cane sugar Grass Mushrooms Fungi
Chamomile Composite Rapeseed Mustard
Chocolate/cocoa Stericula Tea Tea
Coffee Madder Yeast Fungi
Cola Stericula

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 Appendix 8: References
Amazing videos

1. McDonalds Food - The Truth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYjJQsAiNA
2. Live Blood Analysis of a Smoker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN81ZPu1tBk
3. White Blood Cell Action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCpcHuC6cOE
4. White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria LIVE!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlULOjUhSQ
5. Normal vs Cancer Cells:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqY99gNipE
6. T cell Attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL_VyrTR2r4
7. Immune response to cancer cells! AWESOME:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6YuBh-wAPQ

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References for Exercises that Make Digestion Stronger

1. Murnaghan, I. Exercise: One Way to Better Digestion. Tummy Trouble

Website. 2010. Available at: http://www.tummytrouble.co.uk/exercise-one-
way-better-digestion.html . Accessed January 9, 2012.
2. Exercise to Ease Constipation. WebMd.com. Available at:
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