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Welcome In todays society the in term is "Sustainable Living", yet I wonder


to the if many really understand what we really mean when we use the
magazine of term.
INHS, a
non-profit
organisation Are we referring to the
for discussing houses we live in, the cars
& teaching we drive,the machines we
Natural use, the clothes we wear
Hygiene, a etc., and the materials from
scientific view which they are made,and
on health and their ability to be recycled?
disease with Or are we thinking of our
roots as far agricultural practices and
back as 1822. their impact upon the
environment?
Our motto: And even further, are we
"trust the looking at how we are
body" functioning in our everyday
life, and whether this is
Our impinging on our
philosophy: environment and causing it
By following to be effected?
the simple Or to take it even further, how do our every day habits effect
rules of the our health and well-being?
socalled LAWS And to return to our original statement, are we referring to
OF LIFE we the effects that the materials and chemicals use in the
can achieve production of our houses, cars, appliances, clothing,
lasting health machinery, etc. has an effect upon our health and well-being?
& optimal Or, to bring us right upo date with the technological world,
energy. are we referring to the unnatural, and/or excessive radiations
to which we are being eposed through our use of X-Rays,
Our goal is to computers, mobile phones, ultra sound etc.?
teach, discuss
& improve the
best healing The answer to the question is that usually when in conversation we
methods use the term "Sustainable Living", most of us are referring to one
available. If or the other of these aspects, often not being aware of, or at the
they are most forgetting, these others do exist and are of equal importance.
low-cost or
free, so much
better.
We in the INHS would wish to suggest that if we are to be truly
We teach that cognisant with regards to our health and the health of the planet,
drugs are both of which of course go hand in hand, when we use the term
unnecessary "Sustainable Living", we are referring to it in a way that includes all
and will those things I have mentioned, and more. It includes all life, and in
usually delay this context I am here referring to, and including, this planet earth.
healing and
cause new For as was well summed up in a declaration after a meeting of
diseases. scientists from the four great international global research
programmes in 2001, said:
We present
excellent The earth system behaves as a single, self regulating system,
no-drugs comprised of physical, chemical, biological, and human
methods for components. The interactions and feed-backs between the
health component parts are complex and exhibit multi-scale
recovery, temporal and spatial variability.
tested and
perfected by The scientist James Lovelock refers to this living, self regulating,
doctors for Earth as Gaia, and in his book,The Revenge of Gaia, he says,
over 175 "Science is supposed to be objective, so why has it failed to
years. warn us sooner of these dangers?"

We want to He goes on to answer this question by writing,


promote "Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow
health their numerous stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive,
independence but never certain, hampered by the persistence of incomplete
and critical world views". It can readily be seen that the future lies as much
thinking. in our own hands, if not more so, than that of the scientists.

This In conclusion I would like to direct our attention particularly to


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"Improved health follows all eruptive
diseases - if they are NOT suppressed"
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DR. HERBERT M. SHELTON:
Welcome
to the ACUTE DISEASE SAVES YOU FROM
magazine of TUMORS & CANCERS
INHS, a
non-profit A young boy was all his life, up to six and one-half years, in poor
organisation health. He was
for discussing underweight,
& teaching suffered with frequent nose bleeds,
Natural with the beginning of each spring had bronchitis, and
Hygiene, a had gone the usual round of treatment and operations. Tonsils
scientific view and adenoids had been removed.
on health and He had been carried from one hospital to another and had had
disease with his lungs X-rayed a number of times in search of evidence of
tuberculosis.
roots as far
back as 1822.

Our motto:
"trust the
body"

Our
philosophy:
By following At six and one-half years of age he developed a very severe
the simple case of SCARLET FEVER.
rules of the His life was dispaired of. The eruption was great and scaling
socalled LAWS afterwards was as great. But after this the whole condition of
OF LIFE we the boy changed.
can achieve
lasting health 1. His weight became normal,
& optimal 2. his nose bleeds ceased,
energy. 3. he had no more bronchitis, and,
4. upon being examined at school, was given a health
Our goal is to percentage of perfect.
teach, discuss
& improve the If this were an isolated case, it might be regarded as proving
best healing nothing. But it is not an isolated case. This, improved health
methods follows all eruptive diseases if they are not suppressed by the
available. If treatment.
they are A few years ago a brilliant young English Nature Cure physician
low-cost or
free, so much
better. showed from the official statistics of that country that wherever an
epidemic of smallpox had existed it was always followed, in that
We teach that locality, by a falling off in the cancer rate. ....
drugs are
unnecessary An acquaintance of the present author was always in very poor
and will health until he had a case of smallpox. For many years thereafter
usually delay he enjoyed excellent health. ...
healing and
cause new There is no means of estimating how many people are saved
diseases. from tumors and cancers and other degenerative diseases
by the cleansing and reconstructive work accomplished by
We present acute disease.
excellent Were it not for acute disease, man's present mode of living would
no-drugs produce far more physical degeneracy than exists at present, and
methods for would produce it much earlier in life.
health
recovery, Herbert M. Shelton, from "Human Life - Its Philosophies & Laws"
tested and
perfected by
doctors for
over 175 YOUR LIFETIME HEALTH INSURANCE
years.

We want to
promote You have a lifetime health insurance, did you know? It
health was issued at your birth, and is completely free. It is
independence called:
and critical
thinking. ACUTE DISEASE
1. TOXIN-ELIMINATION
This How does this health insurance work?
webpage is When acute disease (e.g. the common cold) starts -
part of our automatic cleaning of toxins has started.
free online
magazine, 2. YOU MUST SAVE ENERGY
produced by You have one task - which is to save energy - wherever
volunteers. you can. That's all.
The more energy you have for healing - the faster and the
INHS has free more complete the automatic cleaning (toxin-elimination)
membership, will be.
chat group and This process, if you allow it, will also remove any old
articles. disease, and prevent new diseases.

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EXAMPLE
THE COMMON COLD

Let's say you feel tired & lousy, you are


coughing and have a runny nose, fever,
perhaps a headache.
What is this?
You may conclude that you have a cold
coming on.
A cold (the common cold) is an acute
disease.

WHAT TO DO
This is what you do in Natural Hygiene --
you begin to try to SAVE ENERGY.

First, you decide to save muscle


energy - how? Just stop using
most of your muscles - by staying
in bed.
You decide to save some of the
energy your brain uses - how? Just
try to sleep, or try to meditate.
Stop thinking as much as possible.
You decide to save some
eye-energy - how? Just close your
eyes, do not read - instead listen
to the radio, or audio tapes
perhaps.
You decide to save digestive
energy - so you eat next to
nothing. You do not start taking
drugs. You may have a glass of
water, a cup of tea, perhaps a
glass of vegetable juice. If you
have no appetite, better not eat at
all.

All saved energy will automatically


go to healing.

OBSERVE THE HEALING


Next - become an OBSERVER. Observe
your body - what is happening?

1. Do you feel a headache start,


above the right eye perhaps. How
long does it last?
2. When it stops, is there another
little ache starting somewhere -
above the left eye perhaps?
3. When it stops, is there another
ache starting any place - behind
the right ear perhaps? Or ...
6. When it stops, is another ache
starting --- or do you hear
something (rumblings in the
stomach)? Or does your nose get
more runny for an hour or so? Do
you have a funny taste in your
mouth for a little while perhaps?
Does your skin start breaking out?
Or is your fever increasing, for a
while?
7. You are observing your body
cleaning out and healing itself. You
are observing the HEALING
SYMPTOMS. Just be patient. The
more passive you are, the calmer
you are - the more efficient the
healing will be.

Have fun! Be amazed at how smart your


body is!

Trust your body! Your body is more


skilled than the best surgeon,
smarter than the best doctor.
Soon most of the toxins will be
eliminated - and then the cold STOPS
AUTOMATICALLY.

Thank your lucky star that you have


such a great insurance policy --- THE
COMMON COLD!

SYMPTOMS OF ELIMINATION
Dr. Alan Immerman

The concept of toxemia was developed in the


early 20th century by
John H. Tilden, M.D.
1. STRESS: He stated
that stress from daily habits or from the
environment will excessively strain the body.
2. STRAIN: This strain will affect both the
mind and body and lead to overall exhaustion
which Tilden called enervation.
3. ENERVATION: When enervation
develops, the body becomes too weak to
efficiently eliminate toxins of any type through
the liver, lungs, intestines, kidneys, or skin.

Inefficient elimination leads to retention of


toxins.
4. TOXEMIA: When there is an excessive
accumulation of normal or abnormal chemicals,
the condition is called toxemia.

5. ELIMINATION: A continual rise in toxin


levels will inevitably exceed the body's level of
tolerance. When the point of intolerance is
reached, the body will attempt to eliminate the
toxins.

Symptoms of such elimination include

sneezing,
coughing,
vomiting,
diarrhea,
skin secretions, and
dark urine

These symptoms are evidence of a health-


building process.
They should be welcomed as signs of
vigorous healing.

If the body has been overwhelmed for too


many years with toxins, it may not have the
strength to do an effective job of cleansing and
elimination. When toxins are present for a long
time, chronic illnesses will develop.
(from Health Unlimited - Unleash Your Healing Power, 1989)

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"Symptoms of elimination include sneezing,


coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, skin secretions,
and dark urine"
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#1-2008 "The cultivation of health as a defense against


disease is far more sensible
than the mad-house effort to immunize everyone
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GERMS
INHS, a by Herbert Shelton, 1928
non-profit
organisation Germs are ubiquitous.
for discussing They are in the air we
& teaching breathe, the food we
Natural eat, the water we drink.
Hygiene, a We cannot escape
scientific view them. We can destroy
on health and them only to a limited
disease with extent.
roots as far
back as 1822. It is folly to attempt to
escape disease by
Our motto: attempting to destroy or escape germs. Once they are in the
"trust the body the physician has no means of destroying them that will not,
body" at the same time, destroy the patient. We cannot avoid germs.
We must be proof against them. We have to accept them as one
Our of the joys of life, and if they are really causes of disease, we
philosophy: can avoid disease only by keeping ourselves in such a high
By following state of health that they are powerless against us.
the simple
rules of the It is not yet definitely proven that germs are essential elements in
socalled LAWS the production of any disease. It seems probable that they are
OF LIFE we only incidental and perhaps beneficial factors. However, this
can achieve much is certain; whatever part they perform in the production of
lasting health disease, germs alone can no more produce disease than a seed
& optimal alone can produce a tree. Just as a seed must have fertile soil,
moisture, warmth, air and sunlight, if it is to grow into a tree, so
energy.
the germ, if it is to produce disease, must find certain essential
conditions existing in the bodies of those it enters before it can do
Our goal is to
the slightest harm. If the body is normal, if it has an abundance of
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nerve force, if its blood stream is pure, if there is prompt and
& improve the vigorous action of all its essential organs, no germs coming in
best healing contact with it can grow and multiply. Good health is proof
methods against germs of all kinds.
available. If
they are
low-cost or
free, so much
better.

We teach that
drugs are
unnecessary MEDICAL GERM FOLLY
and will There is a class of individuals to which the medical profession
usually delay and the bacteriologists have fastened the term "carrier." This is
healing and an individual who carries around on or in his person the germs of
some disease. Every epidemic, we are told, develops a number
cause new
of such cases. But these people, while they are accused of
diseases.
harboring so many of the deadly germs and of spreading the
disease wherever they go, themselves do not have the disease.
We present
"Typhoid Mary" is still fresh in the memory of many of us. These
excellent "carriers" when found, are isolated, quarantined, kept away from
no-drugs family, friends and work and forced to undergo many hardships.
methods for Why do not these people develop the disease they are said to be
health spreading among others, if the mucous membranes are
recovery, especially susceptible to such germs? Why if not for the reason
tested and that these membranes are susceptible to bacterial invasion only
perfected by under certain conditions? Medical men say they are immune but
doctors for upon what does this immunity depend?
over 175
years. All the standard works on bacteriology state that a person may
have germs of diphtheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, pneumonia
We want to or any other disease within his body, that is, in his mouth, throat,
promote air passages, stomach and intestines, without having the disease
health these germs are supposed to cause. Why do not these germs
independence produce disease? Isn't it obvious, that, whatever their part in the
and critical production of disease, they alone cannot produce disease?
thinking.
Medical men and bacteriologists are practically a unit in declaring
This that germs cannot secure a foothold in a healthy body, but that a
webpage is "nidus" or "suitable soil" is essential to their genesis. They do no
harm in a body that is in a normally healthy condition. If germs
part of our
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INHS has free healthy body, then, is not the logical preventive procedure that
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chat group and and cultivate these? The cultivation of health as a defense
articles. against disease is far more sensible than the mad-house effort to
immunize everyone with serums and vaccines.

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sun,
air,
water,
proper food,
muscular exercise, etc.
Investigations in the
bacteriological laboratory
throw no light on the
conditions in the body which
permit the germs to grow
or which prevent them from
growing. They tell us of a
few germs which, it is
claimed, are the active
agents in disease but they tell us nothing of the conditions which
permit these agents to become active. They grow in those
conditions and only in those conditions of life which give rise to
such complaints as indigestion, catarrh, etc.

The view I would put before the reader is that disease is


caused, not by the germ, but by the state of the body that
allows the germ to flourish. And this condition of the organism
or any part of it which renders possible the growth of the germ
thercin is the much sought for "filterable virus." It is the outgrowth
of violations of the laws of life and is no chance or haphazard
condition.

We also favor the view so long stressed by Dr. Tilden, and now
made feasible by the knowledge of the transmutability of the
various forms of germs, that the disease condition present
determines the morphology of the germ and not vice versa. The
germ takes on a form and character in keeping with its
environment; - environment does not change to conform to the
germ.

It is admitted that the body is built to offer very powerful


resistance to the entrance of germs.
The skin is, if unbroken, impermeable by them.
The internal skin, or mucous membrane lining all the cavities of
the body which communicate either directly or indirectly with the
outside world, if unbroken, is invulnerable to them.
The normal secretions of these membranes are germicidal.
There is no susceptibility on the part of any healthy organ, to
bacterial injury.
It is obvious that, living in a world swarming with microbes, if
these cause disease, man must have powerful resistance to
them, else he would have perished long ago.

EXPERIMENTS
In Physical Culture for May 1919 is an article by John B.
Fraser, M.D., G.M., entitled "Do Germs Cause Disease?"
giving an account of some experiments in this connection carried
out in Toronto during the period between 1911 and 1918. He
says:

"In an earnest endeavor to


determine whether germs
are dangerous, Toronto
has taken an honorable
part. In solving this
question the first three
years, 1911-12-13, was
spent in studying a single point, viz. When does the germ
appear?' The verdict was after the onset of disease; and this
fact led to the supposition that germs were simply a by-product
of disease, and possibly harmless.
"In 1914 a small group of citizens undertook to prove the latter
point by adopting Hunter's method of direct action, viz.,
incorporating fresh vigorous germs in food and drink and then
using that food in the ordinary way. ...

"The first experiment made was taking fifty thousand diphtheria


germs in water, and after a few days suspense and no sign of
the disease it was considered that the danger had passed. The
reason for choosing diphtheria germs for the first experiment
was that in aconite, we had an especially reliable remedy for
aborting the disease, providing it showed signs of developing.
In the second experiment, one hundred and fifty thousand
diphtheria germs were used in milk, and again no signs of
diphtheria appeared.
In the third experiment, over one million diphtheria germs were
used in food without producing any sign of the disease. ...

"Another series of experiments were carried out with typhoid


germs, especial care being taken to infect distilled water, natural
milk (not pasturized); bread, meat, fish, potatoes, etc., etc., with
millions of the most vigorous germs that could be incubated,
and but for the knowledge that they had been taken, one would
have known nothing about it.

"Another series of tests were made with the dreaded meningitis


germs, and as the germs are believed to develop mainly in the
mucous membranes of the nostrils, especial pains were taken to
swab millions of the germs over the floor and sides of the
nostrils, into the turbinated sinuses, over the tonsils, under the
tongue, and back of the throat. In addition to these tests other
tests were made in food and drink—millions of germs in each
case, and yet no trace of the disease appeared.

"The experiments with the


tuberculosis germs were
carried out in a different
way - more time was given
between the experiments
so as to allow the germs to
develop; for clinical
evidence has shown that
this disease may remain latent, or imperfectly developed for
months. Consequently it meant months of watching and waiting
before one could be positive that the germs would not develop.

"Here again millions of germs were used in water, milk, and


food of various kinds; every facility was given for the germs to
develop as far as time and virility, numbers, and variety of food
and drink was concerned; and as almost five years have
elapsed since the experiment with T. B. began and no evidence
of the disease has appeared I think we are justified in the belief
that the germs are harmless. In addition to those experiments
combinations of germs were used, such as typhoid and
pneumonia, meningitis and typhoid, pneumonia and diphtheria,
etc., etc., but no evidence of disease followed.

"During the years 1914-15-16-17-18 over one hundred and fifty


experiments were carried out carefuly and scientifically and yet
absolutely no signs of disease followed."

from H.M. Shelton - Human Life Its Philosophies and Laws, 1928

"Germs are ubiquitous. They are in the air


we breathe, the food we eat, the water
we drink. We cannot escape them."

THE CAUSES OF DISEASE


by Herbert Shelton, 1928

If cells that are kept clean and properly nourished never grow old in the sense
that they lose their vitality; and in the human body there are organs and
functions that, when normal, completely rid the body of waste and toxins; and
another process that, when normal, keeps the cells supplied with a fresh
supply of nutrient material - what impairs these organs and functions so that
the cells do grow old, do lose their vitality and die? It is assumed by some
biologists, that this impairment is a necessary result of the community action of
the cells of the body.

Cells in the laboratory are killed by starvation and by poisoning. Why assume
that their death in the body is due to other causes?
The uneliminated products of metabolism,
plus the breaking down of cells in disease,
plus toxins absorbed from without,
are as capable of destroying cells in the body as in the scientist's test tube.

Drugs, serums, vaccines, anti-toxins, etc., that are taken into the body, in
any manner, for any purpose, kill cells and cripple organs.
Starvation of the cells resulting from eating denatured food or from impaired
digestion and assimilation is capable of killing cells in the body.

MANY CAUSES OF EACH DISEASE


In considering the causation of disease
it is important that we keep in mind
that the antecedents of every so-called
disease are many and not just one. As
an instance, it is asserted that irritation
is the cause of tumors, but irritation
alone will not produce a tumor while
the number of sites or localities of
man's or woman's bodies that are
subject to constant irritation which do not develop tumors are as infinity to one,
when compared with the seats of irritation which do become tumors. Irritation
is a cause and not the cause. It contributes to the production of a tumor. It is
but one of a number of correlated factors which collectively constitute cause. It
is an erroneous practice which men indulge in when they single out one of
these correlates and say that it is the cause of cancer,

Headache is a symptom that may be produced by many different causes.


A cold may be due to a simple indigestion, or to exposure, or to overwork, or
to loss of sleep. But a simple indigestion is alone insufficient to produce a cold.
Exposure, overwork, loss of sleep; neither of these alone can produce a cold.
A cold is an evolution out of a number of correlated causes.

GERMS
It is said that a certain germ causes a certain disease. This theory will be
discussed later. At this point I only desire to call your attention to the fact that if
germs are a cause of disease, they do not constitute the cause of disease.
There are a number of antecedent causes and their effects which must be
present before the germs can enter into the cause. At most they are but
secondary and never primary causes. If we grant them a place in the causation
of disease we must recognize that they are but one of a number of correlated
causes which collectively constitute the cause. It is a mistake to single out one
particular correlate and hold it responsible for the disease.

DISEASE IS A COMPLEX EFFECT


Disease is not a simple, but a complex effect, not of one antecedent but of
many. It is, as Dr. Tilden declares, "the sum of a multitude of elements."
Individuals differ, the combination of causes differ in each individual case of
disease, and hence, each supposed specific disease differs—no two cases
are alike.

Two men are out hunting and are caught in a cold rain-storm. They are
drenched and are exposed to the rain and cold for hours. The following
day one has pneumonia, the other arthritis.
A mother dies. Her children grieve deeply and long for thoir mother. One
of them suffers a "nervous collapse;" the other develops Bright's
disease.
A group of people have a feast. They eat and drink. One develops a
diarrhea, one develops typhoid, another has pleurisy, still another has
rheumatism and another is apparently unharmed.
One man indulges his sex appetite excessively and becomes extremely
nervous. Another man worries over his business and becomes equally
nervous.

Consider these facts and hundreds more like them and you see that different
causes acting on the body may produce the same result while the same
causes acting on different bodies, or on the same body at different times may
produce different results. Yet these things are true only because the correlates
are different. If the correlated causes were identical in a thousand cases, then
a heavy meal would, in conjunction with these correlates, cause the same
difficulty in each of the thousand cases. These elemental factors in the
causation of disease are legion. The idea that there are specific causes for
specific diseases is purely fallacious. Every so-called disease is a river the
waters of which are derived from many tributaries.

This being true, what is to be thought of a mode of treatment which attempts to


dry up the river ("cure" the disease) by destroying one of its tributaries (causal
elements)? What are we to think of the effort to find a "unitary entity" which will
immunize one against a multiplicity of causes? Is it not true, as Dr. Tilden says,
that "a multiple causation must be met by an opposing treatment
co-equal in elemental constituents?"

With these few preliminary remarks we will address ourselves to a brief


consideration of the causes of disease, making no apologies for the order in
which they are treated.

"Every so-called disease is a river, the waters of


which are derived from many tributaries."

DISEASE-CAUSE #1: ENERVATION


Vigorous health and a sound constitution is the natural and normal condition of
man. Anything below this represents a stage of degeneracy or impaired health.

From the topmost peak of bodily soundness to the lowest depths of physical
depravity is a long and progressive decline brought about by adequate
degenerating causes. The lowest depths of physical rottenness are not
reached quickly or suddenly. Over the whole decline there are a number of
successive stages that have to be passed through in their natural order.

The impairment of health is due to violation of the laws of life in our voluntary
habits. To make this statement clear, let me first explain that the functions of
the human organism are operated by and under control of a force which we
call nerve force, because it resides in and is distributed by the nervous system.

Without this force, organic function is impossible. When nerve force is


abundant, bodily functions are vigorous; and when it is low they are impaired.

COMPARE THE BODY TO AN AUTOMOBILE


We might compare the body to an
automobile and the nervous system to
its storage battery. If the storage
battery is well charged and the wiring is
in good order, the car has plenty of
spark, bright lights and an efficient
starter. But, if the battery is low and the
spark is poor, the lights are dim and the
starter weak. Indeed, the starter may not be able to turn the engine over, and
the battery may be so low that the car cannot be run and the lights burned at
the same time. The human body is not capable of generating an unlimited
supply of nervous energy.

Often in modern life we consume our energies faster than we recuperate them,
so that our vital or nervous batteries run low Then, just as a low battery means
poor spark, dim lights and a useless starter on our cars, so lack of nervous
energies in the human body lower the functional efficiency of all its organs.
Digestion is impaired, secretion and excretion are checked, elimination lags.
This condition we call Enervation.

from H.M. Shelton - Human Life Its Philosophies and Laws, 1928

What are the causes of disease?

"It is folly to attempt to escape disease by attempting to


destroy or escape germs."

Also read Dr. Fielder: BACTERIA & VIRUS - THE CONTAGION QUESTION

CONTAGION
"With the type of lifestyle we live along with the
continual ingestion of medications even though they
may be considered as relatively harmless i.e. the
proprietary drugs such as aspirin, along with which we
have the social drugs of tobacco, tea, alcohol, coffee
etc., we are continually depriving our bodies of
sufficient energy to carry out normal and natural
maintenance. Add to that the stress of daily life in
today's society, life in the "fast" lane, and we have a
scenario well placed requiring the help of our friends
the bacteria, to which we could also add "virus".
Given the above scenario it can readily be observed
that the average person is bordering upon requiring to
be healed (via acute disease) almost every day. That
it requires only a very gentle push to bring this about.
And this push is referred to as "contagion"

John L Fielder,DO,DC,ND(Adel)
Osteopath & Lifestyle Consultant
Academy of Natural Living
www.johnfielder.com.au

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years. great, its dangers are few and rarely seen. Yet for the most satisfactory
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these schools have any knowledge of and experience with fasting. We
cannot select any doctor at random, without knowing his special
training, to supervise a fast.

It is a fundamental rule of hygienic practice that all the needs of normal


physiology are present in states of illness. And in periods of abstinence
they must be met according to a degree of need and functional ability,
to the end that organic and functional integrity may be preserved or
restored. Let us understand this clearly: when we fast we do not also
cease to breathe or to take water. There is never an absence of need
for oxygen; we continue to become thirsty at intervals and we drink.
Fasting is abstinence from food, not abstinence from all of the essentials
of life. And it is abstinence from food only in the sense that we abstain
from taking in the raw materials of nutrition for a period of time, while
the body draws on its stored-up supplies. We still need and use food.

Fasting is not suspended animation. Indeed, although it is a period of


greatly reduced activity, some of the processes of life are actually
accelerated during periods of abstinence. The ordinary needs of life:
food, air, water, warmth, sunshine, activity, rest, sleep, cleanliness,
poise of mind. remain basic needs of the fasting organism.

"The techniques of fasting are significant and


should be recognized and understood by
anyone interested in this field."

Food (nutriment) with which to sustain the functioning tissues of the


body is obtained from the reserve stores within the body. Water is
taken according to the demands of thirst: warmth is required so that
the body does not become chilled; sunshine is needed in keeping with
the somewhat reduced metabolic activities of life; cleanliness is still a
requirement; sleep is a necessity; mental and emotional stabilization is
especially important.

This means that the techniques of fasting are significant and should at
least, in a broad general sense, be recognized and understood by
anyone interested in this field or contemplating a fast.
Where do these techniques begin? Some say they should begin long
before the fast starts—with the earliest stages of fast preparation!

CORRECT FASTING TECHNIQUES

1. PREPARATION
Many complicated plans have been designed to prepare the individual or
patient for a fast. Some of these involve a period on special foods
intended to empty the intestinal tract of material before the fast is
started. Others are rituals involving fasting a day, eating two days,
fasting two days, eating four days, and so on in this manner, with the
goal of gradually preparing one for a fast of considerable length. All
such plans are wasteful of the patient's time and money. since they
revolve around the idea of feeding at a time when a fast is needed. As
there is no reason why one may not go into a fast abruptly and without
these rituals, they are not recommended here. The truly essential
preparation is in the mental and emotional attitudes.

If you can understand the wisdom and rationality of fasting, and rid
your mind of all fear of this perfectly normal process, you can fast with
ease. Satisfy yourself that the fast will prove to be highly beneficial and
enter upon it without fear and anxiety. Mental unrest and fear can
make fasting difficult or impossible in cases in which it would otherwise
prove of the greatest possible benefit.

When I first started my work. I served for a few months under the
direction of Milo A. Crane. M.D., who conducted the Crane Sanitariums
in Elmhurst. Illinois. Dr. Crane never placed a patient on a fast if the
patient feared it. lnstead, he would put him on a diet and permit him to
mingle with the other patients. Usually within a few days the patient
would ask if he could not fast.

This is one of the advantages of being with others. One sees and
realizes that they are not starving but actually benefiting. Fears vanish
before reality.

"If you rid your mind of all fear of this


perfectly normal process, you can fast with
ease."

2. REST
The techniques of fasting are based on simple physiological principles.
They do not involve the need for nor the use of any measures that are
foreign to the regular needs of the living organism. Treatments, special
modalities, and forcing measures have no place in fasting. The most
important technique of the fast is that of reducing activity, mental,
sensory, and physical. to a bare minimum, so that the energy of the
faster may be conserved and his healing and excretory processes may
be accelerated.

The faster should bear in mind the simple rule of compensation. In


order to expend on one side, nature must conserve on the other. What
he does not expend in unneeded activity is available for use in
elimination and repair.

Physical rest is secured by ceasing physical activities, by resting in


bed, by relaxing. Physical activities expend considerable energy
and prevent the recuperation of energy that is essential to
restoration of normal nerve energy.
Mental rest is secured by curtailing mental activities and
emotional unrest. Debating highly controversial issues is harmful.
Allowing oneself to become upset or involved in trivial disputes of
any nature is harmful. Emotional poise is the secret of mental
rest. It is not always easy for the faster to cease worrying or to
overcome anxiety, but everything constructive should be done to
provide for tranquility.
Sensory rest is secured by retiring to a quiet place and avoiding
use of the eyes in reading, viewing television, going to the movies
or similar eye-straining activities. Noise is especially destructive
of poise and wasteful of energy. Quiet, peace, and sensory
inactivity provide for conservation of energy.

In using rest, however, we do not urge a state of suspended animation


nor dormancy, nor a state of embryonic passivity. What is sought here
is the absence of strain, the physical sense of peace by which rest
becomes possible.
Rest does not heal, but is one of the essentials of efficient healing, as
well as in maintaining health. It is of great value to the enervated and
toxemic. Not tonics and stimulants, not sedation and tranquilization, nor
hypnotization, but rest is the great need of the organism that has been
lashed into impotency by stimulation and excesses in food, sex,
emotional unrest, work and the various deficiencies from which man
suffers.

Organs that have been lashed into impotency by overwork and


stimulation may be rested into full functioning vigor. Added stimulation,
whatever its nature, only further depletes them.
Read more about resting during fasting here, by Dr. Shelton.

3. ACTIVITY
The faster rests during the time he abstains from food for the reason
that in the normal exercise of the functions of life, feeding and activity
should balance each other. There are authorities who permit their
fasters to take long walks and require them to take daily exercise of
various kinds. In reducing fasts, some moderate exercise, under
supervision is permissible. For other fasts I believe even moderate
exercising is a needless expenditure of energy and a waste of reserves.
Activity should be geared to the food eaten. When no food is taken,
activities should be reduced to a minimum. Rest is the need, not
expenditure.

"The feet, in particular, should be kept


warm."

4. WARMTH
A faster's resistance to cold is likely to be lower than that of the person
who is eating regularly. He chills easily. Chilling inhibits elimination,
increases the discomforts of the faster and causes a more rapid
utilization of reserves. It is important, therefore, that the faster keep
warm. This is necessary even in July and August. The feet, in particular,
should be kept warm. Cold feet will prevent the faster from sleeping.

5. WATER
The faster will be thirsty at intervals, though rarely as often as when he
was eating. The normal demand for water should be met with the purest
water available. Mineral waters and waters with a bad taste are not
advisable:

A soft spring water,


rain water,
distilled water,
filtered water or
any water that is free of impurities is acceptable.
It should be taken only as thirst demands. There is nothing to be gained
by drinking large quantities of water, despite a lack of demand for this,
on the theory that this flushes the system. It is true that the more
water one drinks the more fluid will the kidneys excrete, but this does
not represent an increase of elimination of waste. Indeed it may result
in a lessening of the amount of waste excreted.

In summer, there may be a desire to drink cold water. Cool water is


excellent, but very cold or ice water may slow down and retard
recovery. Hot water may be relished under certain conditions more than
cold water or water at room temperature. In some cases hot water may
be sipped in moderation with the advice or permission of the
supervisor; in others its use is inadvisable.

6. BATHING
There is the same need for cleanliness while fasting as while eating.
Bathing should be performed daily or as often as needed. The bath
should be of a character to cause the least amount of energy
expenditure. To insure this the following requirements should be
observed.

a. The bath should be of short duration. The faster should not


remain long under the shower or in the tub. The common practice
of soaking for long periods in water is enervating and should be
avoided.
b. Bath water should be lukewarm, neither hot nor cold. It requires
considerable energy expenditure to resist both heat and cold. The
closer the temperature of the bath water is to the temperature of
the body, the less energy expenditure will be occasioned. Bear in
mind, always, that bathing is for cleanliness and not for any
alleged therapeutic effects. Bathe quickly and get out of the
water.
c. If the faster is very weak and is unable to take his or her own
bath, a sponge bath in bed may be given by an assistant.

"Enemas, purges, & over-drinking enervate


the faster and tend to inhibit elimination.
These techniques are harmful and should be
avoided. "

7. SUNBATHING
Sunshine is an essential nutrient factor in both plant and animal
nutrition and is helpful while fasting. It should not be thought of as a
cure, for it is not, but as a normal element in the regular nutritional
processes of life. Its role in calcium metabolism is especially important,
but it is also important in phosphorus utilization and in assuring
strength of the muscles. Indeed, it serves several important purposes in
the normal processes of life and is of far greater importance to us than
we generally realize.

Unless overdone, sunbathing results in relaxation and no measurable


expenditure of energy. If the sun is too hot, if the bath is too prolonged,
if getting to and from the solarium is too taxing on the patient, any of
these factors may result in an excessive expenditure of energy. It is
necessary to "temper the wind to the shorn lamb" in supervising the
sunbathing. To accomplish this, the following rules should be observed:

Take the sunbath in the early morning while it is still cool, or in


the late afternoon during the summer. In mild weather, when it is
not hot at midday, a sunbath may be taken at any time of the day
that the temperature is comfortable.
Start the sunbath with five minutes of exposure for the front of
the body and five minutes for the back. On the second day this
may be increased to six minutes on each side. Increase the
exposure one minute a day for each side, to a maximum of thirty
minutes for each surface. It will be well to level off at this
exposure time.
If the fast is continued beyond twenty days, reduce the exposure
to about eight minutes on front and eight minutes on the rear
surfaces, and continue this exposure until after the fast is broken.
At any time if the sunbath leaves the faster weak or irritated, the
duration of the exposure should be reduced. Avoid overdoing.

PURGES &
FORCING
MEASURES
e.g.
enemas
colonics
saline
purges
too much
water
drinking
diuretics
sweat
baths
are
harmful &
hurtful
delusions!!

8. PURGES
It is sometimes claimed, completely erroneously in my opinion, that
during the fast, it is necessary to keep the bowels, kidneys and skin
active to carry away the toxins released into the circulation by the
liquidation of tissue. Daily enemas or saline purges are advised to clean
the bowels, much water drinking and even diuretics are advised to keep
the kidneys active; sweat baths are employed to keep the skin active.

All of these forcing measures are not only unnecessary, they are
actually hurtful. There is nothing that so safely and so certainly
increases kidney action as the fast itself. The bowels empty themselves
during a fast as often as there is a need for them to do so. If no need
arises, they take a long-needed rest. The skin is not an eliminating
organ and sweat baths are delusions. These measures further
enervate the faster and [ WASTING NERVE ENERGY ]
tend to inhibit rather than accelerate elimination. [ STOPPING
THE DETOX ]
These suggested techniques are harmful and should be avoided.

AVOID ENEMAS!
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9. SUFFERING
It has been said that the fast should not be continued when the faster is
suffering greatly, as in some general health impairment. The fact is that
it is precisely under these circumstances that digestive and assimilative
powers are lowest. The greater the suffering the less able is the sufferer
to take and digest food. When the discomfort passes, the practitioner
will know when to feed the patient.

Fasting tends to end suffering and the faster suffering may expect relief
in a much shorter time if he continues to fast than if he breaks the fast.

Fasting Can Save Your Life, 1964,


Dr. Herbert M. Shelton

NEW IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING


Since 1964, when Shelton's text was written, some new important understandings
have been discussed on INHS email list.

1. ENOUGH ENERGY: Dr. Fielder has described the improved results, and
more complete healing, he is getting if he waits for the first cold to start,
before allowing the patient to start fasting. An excellent time to start fasting
may be when we have a cold (or acute disease). In acute disease we
usually lose our appetite, and feel tired --- so actually the body itself tells us
to "stop eating" and "go to bed".

2. NEW DRUG DANGERS: Dr. Bass has described the strange effects that
new types of prescription drugs have caused in some of his patients while
fasting, effects he has not seen before. E.g. extreme temperatures (from
certain antibiotics). Medical research is continually creating drugs that are
stronger, more toxic and more dangerous. Dr. Fielder has published a list
of drugs that can cause deaths while fasting, without warning. (Examples:
the birth-control pill, cortisone, marijuana.)

3. TOXIC AIR DANGERS: Dr. Bass has described his and Dr. Cursio's
observations that toxins in the air can kill migrating birds. Birds fast when
migrating. Cursio observed migrating birds falling dead from the sky, when
passing over New York. So, perhaps we better go to a place with pristine
air while fasting.

7. DEFICIENCY DANGERS: We have heard stories of people, who have


have been so deficient that they suffered serious damage while fasting.
E.g. brain damage (Alzheimers) in vegans, or damage to the eyes
(blindness) in a vegetarian who didn't rest. (Bodies of vegans, & sometimes
vegetarians, can be very deficient in fats & proteins.) Conclusion: Those
who are deficient should never fast.

8. NOT A GOOD WEIGHT-LOSS TOOL: Drs. Fielder & Goldberg have been
warning us repeatedly: Watch out for the "fasting and feasting syndrome"!
(What is this? Sometimes people water-only-fast annually for weight-loss,
but inbetween they feast, =over-eat on unhealthy foods, and gain lots of
weight. A negative jo-jo effect.) Fasting must be followed by strict improved
diet, otherwise you will gain weight quickly. After fasting the body has a
more difficult time losing weight, has more efficient nutrient-uptake. If you
cannot control your overeating, better not fast.

9. TODAY FASTING IS MORE DIFFICULT: People are so toxic nowadays


that ignorant fasting can be dangerous. Nowadays the blood of babies may
contain hundreds of toxins. Even supervised fasting is more difficult than 50
years ago. It is usually safer for amateurs to go on a veggie juice diet or a
raw diet, than to fast without professional supervision.

INSTEAD OF FASTING --- JUICE DIETS, OR RAW DIETS


Note that there are other slower methods that are safer for amateurs, and
that usually give the same result - e.g. green juice-diets while resting (avoid
fruit-juices!), or raw diets while resting.

"Fasting is not a process to be left to the guidance of


anyone of meager knowledge."

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Hygiene, a = drink only water!
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roots as far
back as 1822.
The Hygienic System is not a system of treating and curing
Our motto: "disease" and "disorder." It does not recognize the existence of
"trust the hundreds, or thousands, of "diseases," but regards all of these many
body" so-called "diseases" as varying expressions of the same thing. ...

Our Fasting is primarily a rest of the organism. There is no condition of


philosophy: "disease" in which rest of the vital organs is not of benefit to the
By following whole organism. Rest gives all of the organs an opportunity to
the simple repair their damaged structures. Rest affords to organs that have
rules of the been lashed into impotency by overstimulation, an opportunity to
socalled LAWS recuperate their substances and forces. ...
OF LIFE we
can achieve Fasting does not remove the toxins. This is done by the excretory
lasting health functions of the body. Fasting only affords them the opportunity to
& optimal perfect their work. ...
energy.
Fasting does not do anything. It really stops the doing. ...
Our goal is to
teach, discuss
& improve the NO, FASTING JUST GIVES THE BODY A REST!
best healing
methods To sum up, fasting, by affording the organs of the body a rest,
available. If by withholding raw materials and by stopping the inflow of
they are decomposition-poisons from the alvine canal,
low-cost or
free, so much
better. permits the repair and recuperation of the organs of the
body.
We teach that
drugs are Fasting is not a cure; it will not cure any "disease." ...
unnecessary
and will A period of abstinence, or of very light eating, with rest in bed, and
usually delay the giving up of enervating habits, mental and physical, will allow
healing and nature to eliminate the accumulated toxins; after which, if
cause new enervating habits are given up, and rational living habits adopted,
diseases. good health will evolve and will be maintained so long as the
individual continues to live correctly. ...
We present
excellent
no-drugs We do not claim that fasting cures disease, but simply that it
methods for enables the organism to heal itself.
health What, then, does fasting do?
recovery,
tested and
perfected by 1. It gives the vital organs a complete rest.
doctors for 2. It stops the intake of foods that decompose in the intestines
over 175 and further poison the body.
years. 3. It empties the digestive tract and disposes of putrefactive
bacteria.
We want to 4. It gives the organs of elimination an opportunity to catch up
promote with their work and promotes elimination.
health 5. It re-establishes normal physiological chemistry and normal
independence secretions.
and critical 6. It promotes the breaking down and absorption of exudates,
thinking. effusions, deposits, "diseased" tissues, and abnormal growths.
7. It restores a youthful condition of the cells and tissues and
This rejuvenates the body.
webpage is 8. It permits the conservation and re-canalization of energy. ...
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to the hygienic" PROBLEM-DIETS?
magazine of
INHS, a IMPORTANT - Make certain you are knowledgeable before going on
non-profit an all-plant diet with children! Raw or not.
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for discussing "long-term" vegan/fruitarian diets.
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WHAT WAS THE REAL PROBLEM?
disease with
Below is an email from a natural hygienist with children, who all got
roots as far
in trouble on a raw vegan/fruitarian diet = 100% all-raw & all-plant
back as 1822.
diet. And they still were in trouble in 5-08, despite combined efforts
from conventional & alternative specialists.
Our motto:
This family obviously thought that "raw" was their main problem.
"trust the The mother calls their story "OUR JOURNEY TO RAW AND
body" BACK".
This is an error according to INHS, since "raw" is not the problem.
Our A "cooked" vegan/fruitarian diet is often worse.
philosophy: Again, the problem is NOT "all-raw" --- the problem is "long-term
By following vegan/fruitarian".
the simple "All-plant" is a problem, long-term.
rules of the (Short-term it is fine, e.g. excellent for health
socalled LAWS recovery.)
OF LIFE we Too much fruit is a problem.
can achieve Too little animal foods is a
lasting health problem, long-term.
& optimal All-raw is fine, an optimal diet
energy. choice. (There are a few exceptions.)

Our goal is to
WHY DID THEY THINK THE DIET
teach, discuss
WAS HEALTH-PROMOTING?
& improve the
Over time, several branches of NH has developed. All
best healing
recommending raw foods.
methods
But - two of these branches fell in the trap of long-term 100%
available. If
they are
low-cost or
free, so much
better.
all-plant diets.
We teach that One of those branches equates the ideal diet with veganism (ANHS/NHA - started in the
drugs are 1930's), another branch says that fruitarianism is the ideal (HLI - influenced by TC Fry & A.
Ehret).
unnecessary
The remaining 2 branches (e.g. INHS) always recommended some
and will
animal foods (as vegetarianism or omnivorism), since the 1950's.
usually delay
So, only part of Natural Hygiene is responsible for the current
healing and situation.
cause new Because of the many books, websites and videos produced over
diseases. time in these branches of NH, recommending 100% all-plant diets
and telling people to avoid animal foods completely - and with the
We present message spreading - we have this unfortunate situation today:
excellent Many people do uncritically believe in the vegan/fruitarian
no-drugs message, practice it, and then get surprised and may panic when
methods for something goes wrong.
health Many hygienists have known about this ERROR IN (2 branches of)
recovery, HYGIENE since the 1950's, perhaps from getting in health trouble
tested and themselves - but the error is still alive & well.
perfected by (Why? Does veganism have a religious quality to it?)

doctors for That's why we in INHS are warning once again, with the below
email example.
over 175
years.
Also, read more about THE CASE AGAINST VEGANISM on INHS
website.
We want to
promote WHEN/IF IN TROUBLE - WHAT SHOULD WE DO NEXT?
health 1. The first question raised here is: why can it be so dangerous?
independence How come serious mineral deficiencies AS WELL AS serious toxic
and critical mineral excesses resulted? Why serious yeast problems? Why so
thinking. many problems? We made a short interview with Dr. Bass, who is
the Natural Hygiene doctor who has been most active, for
This decades, warning about known consequences of "strict &
webpage is long-term" veganism and fruitarianism. (Short-term is fine.)
part of our
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magazine, got in serious trouble from long-term fruitarianism/veganism,
produced by recover?
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b. Must the recovery go over cooked foods and
INHS has free supplements?
membership, c. Or is this better: another raw diet, an better, more
chat group and adequate raw diet?
articles. Dr. Bass answers these questions in the audio.

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trouble? (On all-raw diets or not.) What should they not do?
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OUR JOURNEY TO RAW AND BACK


from INHS email list member
5/31/2008 9:28 AM (YahooGroups/inhs)

EMAIL:
I haven't visited this forum in eons, and I just checked in briefly to
see what's going on currently in the raw world. I'm happy to see
some discussion on the safety of the raw diet.

I thought I'd share my experiences to add an additional perspective.

I was a raw foodist for several years. I first learned about raw foods
while on a 2 week semi-fast (the Master Cleanse) and jumped right
into a 100% raw diet (very gourmet in the early months and moved
to a 80-10-10 raw vegan diet following Doug Graham's approach.
I felt awesome for 6 months, then ate an average cooked meal. I
then experienced major food addictions for the first time in my life.

The next 2 years I was about 80% raw, but it was a constant
struggle. In this time, my children's diets changed radically to a
mostly raw fruitarian diet. They were both under 7 at the time.

But things got progressively worse for all of us. The children kept
getting anemic in spite of all my best raw efforts.

Then they started to exhibit symptoms of ADHD, Aspergers, and


Tourettes (all in the autism-spectrum) along with various other
physical, mental & emotional difficulties. I too have felt myself
going downhill with many symptoms similar to the children --
problems with memory, focus, eyesight, fatigue, heat &
hydration regulation, anger control, mental fog, overwhelm
etc. It's been scary -- feels like I'm losing myself.

DEFICIENCIES
We've seen doctors (naturally-oriented doctors who I trust) and
have had quite a few blood and hair tests. Very enlightning. A "Hair
Elements" test can be ordered from Doctor's Data without a doctor's
involvement through Direct Laboratory Services for around $100
(or less if my memory serves me). With this, I discovered that we
are all quite deficient in the following trace minerals: calcium,
magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, iodine, lithium,
cobalt, and germanium. My doctor has also determined through
other tests and assessments that we are low in the B vitamins,
vitamin D (mine is "off-the-chart" low), and essential fatty
acids. While calcium & protein is low, this is likely a result of the
other deficiencies.

I now realize, that for us, fruit, (previously 80% of our diet) has
created a HUGE yeast problem which we are struggling to get
under control. We went on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD),
used with great effect to control and even reverse autism-spectrum
disorders. It was not easy to do, as it meant removing everything
that could feed the yeast in digestively impaired people.

This of course meant eliminating all sugars and starch/grains


(weren't eating anyway), but also removing all fruits and raw
veggies in the early stages. It meant getting nutrients from chicken
broth and cooked veggies the first few days and adding new cooked
foods one at a time to see if that particular food was tolerable.
Though it meant swallowing my pride and admitting that the raw
life may not be the "be-all-end-all", this diet was the beginning of
our recovery. We still don't eat sugars or grains/legumes and we've
now worked up to being able to digest most cooked and raw fruits &
veggies (raw being harder for us to digest). And we now eat eggs,
butter and meat. In fact, I love it. I honor it and the animal that has
produced it or given its life. I feel nourished by it. But we are not
yet well and are still struggling to get our digestive system back on
track.

We are lactose/casein intolerant and can only eat very limited


amounts of dairy (we make 24 hour cultured yogurt from raw
organic milk to rebuild our intestinal flora). Our symptoms are
worse when we eat more than a bit of fruit or any of the fruits or
veggies which have even a moderate amount of phenols (which we
don't digest well). We can only manage to digest limited amounts of
sulphur foods (such as onions which give much needed flavor to a
bland diet).

We do better if we take digestive enzymes before each meal to help


to digest the carbohydrates in fruits/veggies, proteins/fats in all
foods, and the phenols. My children can't get to sleep at night
(laying awake 3-5 hours) unless they take Melatonin (which a
normal healthy body produces naturally). We have to take tons of
supplements just to manage our symptoms (something I'd
previously preached against). But, we are seeing improvements.

The most recent discovery was my low vitamin D. At my doctor's


insistence, I took 12 tablets of 50,000IU prescription VitD over the
course of 12 days. By the end of day 10, a window opened and my
mental fog lifted for the first time in years. I felt capable again--
starting knocking off tasks. Then a few days after I finished it, the
fog descended. I'm waiting to be retested to see if I can PLEASE
take some more (someone who'd sworn off "drugs" for life).

WHAT HAPPENED?
So, what's happened? I'm not blaming all this entirely on our raw
diet and I don't want to discount the glowing testimonials of other
healthy raw foodists. I'm still attached to raw food living as an ideal.
Just one I'm necessarily not living right now, and one I probably
won't return to anytime soon.

I'm going to the trouble to write this because there are


others like us out there who desperately need someone to
figure this out--because I feel like my life is at risk right now.

I've managed to put our decline on hold, but it's a temporary fix
supported artificially by getting our nutrients from a bottle and from
eating a very controlled, contrived diet to avoid anything that
causes trouble. We need to get our digestive system working again,
and we need other "raw experts" to let go of their pride and
consider that maybe for SOME people, a raw diet (or an incorrect
raw diet) makes them sick.

THEORIES
Now, for my theories. Along with our mineral deficiencies, our hair
tests gave an indication of our toxicities-- a moderate level of
aluminum & arsenic. Not really beyond the range of the toxicities
many people carry, but our total toxicity/deficiency profile indicates
there MAY be some mercury toxicity as well (but there is no
accurate test of this). Mercury is known for interfering with mineral
transport. So, in other words, though we may technically have been
getting enough nutrients, mercury can prevent its uptake. It can
also make it very difficult to maintain a proper balance of intestinal
flora so yeast can get out of control. Yeast overgrowth contributes
to malabsorption and susceptibility to viruses and parasites. Yeast
can apparently mutate to feed off of fruits.

Aha, so maybe it was just the mercury! However, why did things
get SO MUCH WORSE after our raw diet? There were no new
amalgams or immunizations. In fact, my children had never had
amalgams and mine were removed many years previously. We'd
never had any real digestion problems and we were basically active
and healthy.

I'm my search for answers to Autism-Spectrum disorders, I came


across the writings of Andrew Cutler, who wrote, "Amalgam Illness:
Diagnosis & Treatment" and "Hair Test Interpretation: Finding
Hidden Toxicities". It's a very complicated topic, but as I read about
the symptoms associated with various toxicities and deficiencies I
saw how many of them fit the pattern of other vegans and raw
foodists I knew who were having trouble.

Turns out it is VERY difficult to remove mercury through natural


means and Dr. Cutler feels strongly that many people do greater
damage by partly detoxing and stirring up mercury that was
previously tucked away in a relatively safe place, bringing it back
into circulation. But because it can't effectively exit the body, it
ends up crossing the blood-brain barrier and is responsible for far
worse symptoms. He (and others) has strong evidence that it is this
type of toxic picture that is the underlying cause for Autism-
Spectrum disorders.

So, I have 2 main theories. One is that our raw diet partly detoxed
us and redistributed pre-existing mercury which led to our digestive
decline. We are looking into this and once we bring our yeast under
control, we will consider chelation.

But we are clearly a unique case for our doctors. We are not
responding to the supplements and dietary improvements as well as
most people who following this approach. Our digestive system just
doesn't seem ready to respond.

This leads me to my second theory. That our raw diet, through a


lack of adequate essential fatty acids from animal products (and
yes, we did eat lots of coconuts), vitamins, and minerals created
deficiencies so low that our body's natural ability to synthesis
nutrients, maintain proper blood chemistry and detox through the
normal route have become severely impaired. It's a bit of a chicken
and egg issue. These factors clearly are related, but it's still unclear
as to what the most causative factors are.

As a mother with a challenging situation and very little computer


time, I likely will not respond to questions or dialog. I present this
"case study" only to help facilitate healthy dialog on diet as it
relates to health for ALL people. And as far as the advice I've heard
that we should have water fasted our toxins out, very few mothers
would do this to their children (and some would be arrested for
trying).

Anonymous

Note: INHS has been warning about fruitarianism/veganism from


our start.
Please speak out!
We encourage everybody who has gotten into trouble from
fruitarianism and veganism to speak out! You can email us at
contact09@naturalhygienesociety.org
More statistics would be valuable - what percentage get in trouble,
in what time-frame, with what strictness (%vegan, % fruit, % raw,
etc.)? Plus, the more who tell their got-in-trouble-story, the faster
we can stop others from getting in trouble. Also - we encourage
every vegan and fruitarian to be as strict as possible -- follow the
directions (in whatever vegan/fruitarian book you use) exactly
---because the stricter you are, the sooner you will see the
problems.
Those who are strict will discover deficiencies and toxicities
quicker. One example is the Westbrook family, who were religiously
strict vegans, and started breaking down in less than 6 years. Read
about it here: CRASHING ON THE HALLELUJAH DIET

Why are there such differences in breakdown time?


Those who are vegans but cheat (=eat a little animal foods on
occasion) can go on for years or decades.
Those who have large reserves when they start (e.g. are young
healthy men), & do heavy exercise (which burns away fruit sugars)
- they will make it for a longer time.
Children are always being damaged much sooner than adults.

"I'm going to the trouble to write this because


there are others like us out there who desperately
need someone to figure this out--because I feel
like my life is at risk right now. "

Read more about THE CASE AGAINST VEGANISM


Also compare:

THE VEGAN HEALTH PROBLEM SURVEY


CONCLUSION:

the Westbrooks developed a survey to identifiy the


most common problems Hallelujah followers
developed on the recommended vegan diet.
54 different health problems were identified
at first, the failing health of those on the diet typically
collided with a strong belief in the theory.
the vegan Hallelujah diet is now judged adequate for 3
months use only

Quote: "But, as our own health problems became


overwhelming, we began to sit up and take notice.
Being a scientist at heart (an electrical engineer for 30+
years), I wanted to get a handle on the scope of the
problem. So, we created a survey.
So far, we have identified the most common fifty-four health
problems people have developed on the Genesis 1:29 Diet,
and have incorporated these symptoms into the survey."
Greg Westbrook

THE MOST COMMON PROBLEMS ON THE VEGAN DIET:

Symptom with Hair loss 44 (%) Cravings for meat 29


Reported Percentage Joint pain 44 (%)
Slumping posture 44 Look older than
Scattered or foggy Negative thinking 44 should 27
thinking 67 (%) Mood swings 40 White spots on skin (or
Cravings for cheese, Grouchy 40 loss of skin color) 25
other dairy and/or Depression 40 Leg or foot cramps 25
nuts 62 Dry, burning eyes 38 Skinny neck, arms, or
Don't feel like Inability to legs 24
exercising or working concentrate 38 Heartbeat irregularities
60 Trouble coping with 24
Lack of stamina, certain food Blood pressure too high
endurance and combinations 38 or too low 24
strength 60 Lack of motivation Whites of the eyes
Plagued with food for daily tasks 36 becoming yellow or
cravings 60 Eating less, but no bloodshot 18
Eating lots of fruit or weight loss (common Excessive dental
breads 60 in women) 36 cavities 18
Dry skin 58 Snacking on nuts Low thyroid 15
Loss of muscles and constantly 35 Bleeding gums 15
muscle tone 56 Headaches, Too skinny, can't put on
Difficulty staying neckaches and/or weight (common in
warm 55 shoulder pain 33 men) 13
Adding supplements Salt cravings (sign of Panic attacks,
to your diet 55 adrenal fatigue) 33 paranoia 11
Memory loss 55 Unable to digest food Tooth loss 11
Constantly snacking, quickly 33 Retarded growth (too
never satisfied 51 Run down, small for their age) 2
Low tolerance to chronically tired 31 Retarded mental
stress 51
Ridged fingernails
and/or thin
fingernails 49 development 2
Losing look and glow Diminished sex drive Neck muscles atrophied
of health: pale skin, 29 to the point that they
dull hair and eyes 45 were only pencil thin:
Food drags you down
rather than picks you
up 45

Read more about the (Hallelujah Genesis) Diet Survey by Greg Westbrook

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And think about it, if the drug consumers and drug buyers would disappear,
wouldn't that mean the end of the drug trade, with all its connected criminality?

You were in your 30's when you learned about


Karezza?

Dr. Cursio whom I learned it from, had learnt about it from


the old masters. I went to one of his meetings with clients
and that's how I met him. I was on my way to become a
celibate yogi for spiritual reasons, but had recently heard Dr. Jackson
that Karezza would also enable my spiritual goals. I asked
Dr. Cursio about Karezza and wanted to get his opinion. He invited me to come
to his Health Castle, his health retreat in upstate New York, so we could talk
for hours without interruption. This was the trigger that brought me into
Karezza, and into Natural Hygiene too.

Natural Hygiene & Karezza is more or less the same thing when it comes
to energy?

The highest aspect of Natural Hygiene is energy conservation, leading to


ecstatic living. The highest aspect of Karezza is energy conservation, leading to
ecstatic sex. The energy conservation is why the old hygienic masters
recommended Karezza.
Success is measured in terms of energy. The one who has the most energy
will be the most successful. Energy is the key to success, in everything, even in
meditation
That is why Energy-Karezza is the ultimate of ordinary Karezza. And Karezza is
the ultimate of ordinary sex. Energy is everything. Energy is mind, ego, sex.
In nutrition and sex there is the same idea: energy is energy, and you can
either enlarge it, or you can decrease it by dividing it. You don't want to divide
energy, by doing two things at once.
The Energy-Karezza book is a treatise of energy, high psychology and sex. It
is a treatise of many subjects. Most psychologists don't know these things. Do
they know of the relationship of energy to thought, to the mind, to Karezza,
etc.?
The mind is not isolated. The mind is energetically related to diet, sex,
everything. The average person just needs to learn one thing, not to waste his
energy. Once he learns that, then he can become a master of himself.

If a man and a woman are on the verge of divorce, would you


recommend Karezza?

If a couple starts Karezza, then their whole relationship will


change. I have seen this happen over and over.
E.g. a Hasidic man, a patient of mine, told me: "I have a
woman I love, I want to marry her, but she doesn't want to
marry me, in fact she doesn't treat me well, at all." He was
a premature ejaculator. I offered to teach him Karezza,
which would solve his problem. He said, "teach me, teach Dr. Cursio
me", sounding desperate. I said, "I will give you one hour, if
you put down a hundred dollars. You will learn what to do, and if you have any
questions, you can call me."
He rushed a wallet out of his pocket, and picked out the money so fast, it was
like I was asking for a one-dollar-bill. I then described Karezza, how he should
act, what to do before sex, etc. After about 10 days he calls me, and he is
happy, laughing and giggling. I asked, what's happening? He said, I practised
Karezza, and I don't have premature ejaculations anymore. She fell in love with
me, and she proposed to me.
Another recent case was exactly like that. This man loved a woman, and she
told him she was going to leave him. His whole world was crashing. He was
also a premature ejaculator. I told him about Karezza, energy and diet, and the
same thing happened, the woman fell in love with him. These men became
good friends of mine. They loved me, and respected me, because I changed
their life. They would have sent me a lot of patients, if they could have done so
without being embarrassed by disclosing their private life.
When men get together, they talk about sex, they all start bragging to each
other, about what wonderful women they have, and what great sex they have.
None of them will confess that they have premature ejaculation, or that the sex
is bad, because a man equates himself with the sex. If he is a great lover, his
ego is high. If he is a poor lover, he feels insecure. And then he doesn't like
himself, he hates himself, because he feels nobody loves him, and that his
woman is disappointed in him.

I also remember a priest who had a problem with his sweetheart. He was
having sexual problems, related to premature ejaculation, or sex that was too
short. After learning Karezza he became a skilled lover, and his woman stayed
with him.

Another interesting case was a rabbi, who had been fasting 40 days under my
supervision. He had a girlfriend he loved, but she was Christian. He would
never have married anybody but a Jewish girl. Rabbis live in religion, they think
of God all day long. Since marriage was not possible, she told him she was
going to find somebody else. He asked me, his doctor: "what do you think?"
I said, well, when it comes to marriage, she could convert to Judaism, that is
one possibility. But another way is, that if he had really great sex with her, she
wouldn't leave him, even if he didn't marry her; at least until she got somebody
else with the same skills. That would mean she would be with him for a long
time. He started practicing Karezza, and as I predicted she soon fell in love
with him, and decided to stay with him, even without marriage.

Percentage-wise, in your experience, how many


marital problems are connected to "too short sex"?

I would say all. I am quite certain that all marital problems


are due to "too short sex". The average man, how long is
his sex? If he can last 20 minutes he is doing fine. He Dr. Walter
wants sex, because he's got the drive, and he thinks having
an orgasm is the way to end it. He doesn't know that there is another kind of
sex. So consequently he doesn't try to control himself. Then if he is excited, he
is going to move according to the excitement. And the faster he moves, the
quicker he will come, and the woman ends up unhappy and frustrated.
Because she needs much longer time for satisfaction, and by the time she is
beginning to warm up, he is finished.

I am a doctor, and when a woman is consulting me, she may tell me that she is
not happy with her husband. I ask her why, and we talk. Finally I find out that
she doesn't know what is wrong. But if you probe enough, you always find that
the sex is lousy, but she doesn't know that anything is wrong. Why? Because
everybody has the same problem. I would say a majority of women, if you ask
if they are happy in sex, they think they are. Even if the sex is bad, they think
they are happy. It is weird. The sex is the problem, but nobody knows it is the
problem. Since everybody has the same experience, quick sex, they think this
is normal. Instead they intellectualize what the cause of the problem is, blaming
the money, nagging, sarcasm, his/her ego, etc.

In an unhappy marriage when the wife looks at her husband, she looks at him
critically, analyzing him negatively. She will be judging him all the time, because
she is not happy, she is frustrated. And he will criticize her if he is unhappy. Of
course, he will be tolerantly happy if he has sex every 2 weeks, but he is not
going to be wildly happy.
I have known a lot of men who had bad relationships with women. If I tell them
about Karezza, and they are interested enough to try it, the whole relationship
changes. Now it is like she is meeting him for the first time. It is like they are
going out on a first date.
Let's say they have known each other for a year, and the sex is just blaah.
When he starts with Karezza and starts controlling himself, then she starts
enjoying the sex more. All of a sudden she sees him in a different light. All the
earlier memories and experiences she had with him begin to disappear,
because the new experience is different.
Visualize a miserable relationship, that has been miserable for 10, 20 years.
Then they start Karezza. All of a sudden it becomes like she picked up a new
guy.

Most men and women have a semi-secure but boring


relationship. Couples may not know they are unhappy. If
you have not experienced Karezza, how can you factor that
into the equation? You just factor in the average life, which
is incomplete. Karezza takes all the boredom out of sex.
When they start Karezza everything changes. Now she Dr. Bass
loves him and can't do enough for him, and he is very happy
with her, always buying her presents. He is talking nice to her, being very
polite, because he is so happy.
He feels very good, he has energy, sex is always available and he never gets
tired of sex, and the woman becomes an integral part of his life. He depends
on her, because he needs her.
There is no depletion, so he can have sex as often as he wants. And the
woman always feels complete: oh my man, he loves me, he never leaves me
alone, he is always touching me and kissing me, caressing me. And their egos
zoom, they love themselves, they respect themselves. If a man loves a woman,
she feels complete. She feels secure. But if a man doesn't love a woman or is
arguing with her, then she feels insecure. So with Karezza, the whole
psychology changes completely. The psychology gets unbelievable, it gets so
great that if you talk about it, people don't believe it. They think you are
exaggerating.
Why do people overeat? Because they are bored. If people have good sex
with Karezza, they won't overeat so much. They will spend more time with sex,
more time exercising, and less time eating. Karezza is excellent exercise,
better than jogging. This will prolong their life. They will look better, become
slim and trim, have more energy and become healthier.

If Karezza is so exceptional, why isn't it common already now?

Well, you have to know about it. We are not at the highest point of civilization,
so people don't know about it. When we reach the highest point, everybody will
be doing Karezza.
Also, people may only know what they read in the newspapers, or hear about.
Existing books about Karezza are few and far between. Older Karezza books
are very enthusiastic, but more descriptive than instructive. They may be
flowery, bubbling over with happiness. The authors talk about how wonderful
they feel.
J. William Lloyd, in "The Karezza Method" from 1931, uses a lot of fancy
words and talks about it in a lofty way. He is not very instructive, trying to
become ecstatic in the description. He is trying to mentally give you some kind
of sensation about it. At the time people were puritanical, and his style of
writing may have been exciting for them.
Then there is Alice Stockham's "Karezza: Ethics of Marriage" (1901) (read it
here), John Noyes "Male Continence" (1872) (included in Energy-Karezza's appendix 1),
and George Noyes Miller's "The Strike of A Sex" (1891), which don't go into
much practical detail either. If you wanted to learn Karezza from these books,
then you had to do what I did, test it out on your own.
And if you don't know enough about the topic, you may not always succeed.
Prolonged sex requires knowledge. The average man would probably take a
woman out, have a big meal at a restaurant, which then interferes with
Karezza. And then he will say: it is phony, it doesn't work. Because he doesn't
know about the connection between nutrition and sex. That is why energy-
understanding is so valuable.

"I wanted to write about Karezza already


25 years ago, but felt that in those days
people were a little too puritanical."

Energy-Karezza is a practical book?

Absolutely, practical for every man on earth without


exception. I have been teaching Karezza for over 50
years, and have seen every student succeed, most of
them within a few weeks. I wanted to write about
Karezza already 25 years ago, but felt that in those
days people were a little too puritanical. I knew it
would make a great book, but I kept thinking: people Alice Stockham, MD

are not ready for all the details. But as the years went by, I noticed they were
writing about sex everywhere. Sex was in fashion. So I finally decided to write
about my experience. It is a fascinating subject.
(Read the first 10 pages of Energy-Karezza here.)

What have you added, compared to older books?

As I mentioned, earlier books were more puritanical. My book is instructive, as


well as descriptive. Plus from my experience as a hygienic doctor, I added
energy-enhancement. Without energy-understanding it is not easy to overcome
the obstacles to prolongation for hours. Since my goal was spirituality, I tried to
avoid all orgasms for 50 years, while prolonging sex for hours, several times a
week. I wonder if earlier authors got as much experience as I did, or knew
about yoga, energy and psychology in connection with sex? People are limited
by their education. If a man has no education, and writes a book on Karezza,
he can only talk about his feelings. He cannot talk about psychology, because
he doesn't know how the mind works. He may not know anything about
nutrition, energy and spirituality, so he will never realize there is a connection.
Does any other book cover all the things that are in Energy-Karezza?
In this book I have been looking at sex from all angles, mental, emotional,
spiritual, psychological. The average man doesn't analyze his mind during sex.
He is just having a ball, and doesn't analyze it. But since I knew why, I checked
everything, and tried to perfect it.
How would you compare Karezza to standard sex?

What is standard sex? It is short sex. It lasts 15 minutes perhaps. It is even


shorter than the ecstasy of a meal. And since the average woman needs more
time just to get warmed up, standard sex is seldom satisfying for women.
And it is also a kind of punishment for a man, because when a man has an
orgasm, he loses his sexual drive and physical power, and has to wait for
weeks to recuperate.
Karezza is completely different. First of all it is deeply satisfying for women,
allowing multiple female orgasms, and increased excitement for men.
Comparing Karezza to standard sex is like comparing the finest food in the
world to garbage. Peak orgasm is the highest bliss you reach during standard
sex. But it lasts just a few seconds and is finished. Karezza allows both hours
of prolonged valley orgasms and occasional standard peak orgasms.

So with Karezza you can have sex for longer than 15 minutes?

Yes, you can go for 15 hours. I wrote a story in the book about that in Energy-
Karezza, how one person I know went for 12 hours, in order to test the
concept. I used to average 4 hours per session, three times a week. But for
others, one hour may be enough. A typical comment when people hear this is:
isn't it very sore to have sex for hours? The answer is no, there is no soreness
during Karezza sex, because of the natural lubrication. If a healthy woman is
dry during standard sex, it is because she doesn't find it very exciting. But
Karezza is very good sex for women, so their secretions automatically
increase. Not only that, but when a woman feels loved and is happier all the
time, her body works better and is healthier, which also increases secretions.
And since the sex goes on for such a long time, there is a lot of caressing and
kissing during the slower cycles, something women also benefit from. In my
experience, women love Karezza, and cannot get enough. There are no frigid
women, in my mind. The main problem so-called frigid women have is that their
men do not last long enough.

"Who would want drugs, if they do


Karezza? They wouldn't need drugs. That's
the lowest form of getting a high."

What is the difference between Karezza & Tantra?

Karezza is an introduction. It is like baby-Tantra. Sex is the highest you can go


on the physical plane. When you are doing Karezza, it leads you right into the
highest above the physical plane, which is the spiritual. Karezza is the
prolongation of sex, with or without (peak) orgasms. Tantra is the prolongation
of sex, without any (peak) orgasms at all, for hours.
Tantra starts as Karezza. When you prolong Karezza, while also minimizing the
energy-loss, it becomes Tantra. The energy-level and the meditation of Tantra
awakens the psychic centers of the body, and raises the energy to the chakras
and to the brain. And that's where the meditation transforms into spiritual
experience.
With Karezza you will get into physical emotional ecstasy, with Tantra you get
into spiritual ecstasy, awakening the spiritualized aspect of the person. See
how sex leads to the highest? But note, for most people it is necessary to first
reach the physical bliss of Karezza, before being able to reach the spiritual
ecstasy of Tantra. People start by looking for the highest physical pleasures,
and they wind up being a spiritual being, on a spiritual path, and experience
self-realization, naturally. It is like a mysterious practice almost, it leads to the
highest.

You say that Karezza is a solution for the overpopulation problem?

Absolutely. It may be the only way to master it, because of the higher ecstasy
with Karezza, compared to standard sex. The average man, using ordinary
sex, may wind up with a lot of children. Very poor people often have more
children than they want, have large families, and cannot afford them. But they
can't help themselves, because sex may be their only real pleasure.
If these people learn Karezza, with postponed (or no) ejaculations, then they
can get even higher pleasure. Increased pleasure without the severe penalty of
large families, which they can't afford, and which lead eventually to
overpopulation and the destruction of the world.

Karezza could have an impact on prostitution and sex-slavery?

Prostitutes make a lot of money from people who are frustrated in sex. If a
husband doesn't satisfy a wife, she may always be "too tired" when he wants
sex. So he doesn't get much sex, and is always frustrated. His wife doesn't
want sex, because she doesn't get any pleasure with it. Their sex-life is boring,
and nobody gets anything out of it. Their marriage becomes like a
knocked-down and dragged-out affair, because they don't know anything
better.
Prostitution is the lowest way to experience sex. Historically prostitution was
flourishing, because men were frustrated in sex. But with Karezza this changes.
Karezza removes marital frustration. Because Karezza is more exciting than
eating, more exciting than power, more exciting than making money.
Hundredfold more exciting than standard sex. Once a man knows Karezza, he
doesn't want a prostitute, he wants a real woman.
I think if Karezza became standard practice, it would mean the end of
prostitution, sex trade and sex slavery.

"If you are living a life of bliss, through


Karezza and Tantra, you love everybody -
there is no competition - and
you are eliminating the psychological
principles of war."

You think our world would change?

If all the big oil men


were having good
Karezza, they would MAD magazine:
"In order to sell
not be indifferent to products these
the public, and push days - Madison
oil just to make Avenue, Hollywood,
television, other
money. They would publishers ..
... everybody
exploits SEX
- but we'd never
become morally transformed in the process. Didn't they say in the sixties,
make love, not war? They said it unconsciously, but actually it was true.
When people are full of love, they want to help others, they want to share
beautiful things, they don't want to damage other people, they don't want to
destroy nature in a greedy way.
Why are people greedy? Because they are not fulfilled. Right? What causes
greed? Lack of fulfillment. If they are fulfilled completely there is no greed.
There is a sharing automatically. That's the "kingdom of heaven".

So Karezza promotes love, not war?

If you are living a life of bliss, through Karezza and Tantra, you love everybody.
There is no competition if you love everybody. If you love somebody you don't
want to compete with them. You enjoy them.
And if you eliminate competition, you are eliminating the psychological
principles of war. You see, competition means war. You grab this way, that
way, at somebody else's expense, because things are limited. Money is
limited.
But there is no limitation in Karezza. You can get all you want. Nobody can
take away your bliss. Can I steal you bliss?
That could be the end of all wars. Why would people want to fight with each
other, because we know from experience that people who learn Karezza are
very loving. All the time. They love everybody. And when you are loving, you
are not going to get into wars. Even competition becomes kind of a downer.
Why do we have wars? We have insecurity, lack of love, competition; it is like
a psychological war in the field of business and social life. If you eliminate
competition in society, aren't you eliminating wars? War is like trying to steal
somebody else's things, it is competition for land etc. So if you eliminate that -
won't the whole world change?

How would you want to summarize your life with Karezza?

In my life I first practised standard sex for 20 years, and after that, Karezza
and energy-enhanced Karezza and Tantra, for 50 years.
To me, a life with Karezza and Tantra, it is like living a God-like, beautiful,
ecstatic, blissful existence, beyond imagination. And practicing ordinary sex is
like living in a sewer, in comparison.
In the future I think Karezza will become very common, probably a lifelong
practice for most.

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Read the first 10 pages of Energy-Karezza here.

Dr. S.Bass websites:


www.energykarezza.com
www.drbass.com

"A life with Karezza and Tantra, it is like living a


God-like, beautiful, ecstatic, blissful existence,
beyond imagination"

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different abilities to detoxify toxic materials, etc.

Consider your circumstances. Has your doctor simply named your symptoms
and given you treatments or has he/she uncovered the foundational reasons
for your illness? Is your doctor addressing the causes of your problems so
your health might be restored or are you simply in a lockdown situation where
new drugs and treatments are applied for each new symptom as it arises? Can
your doctor tell you what makes you different from other cases with similar
symptoms?

Even among twins, triplets, and quadruplets at birth, vast biological differences
are noted. The adrenaline content of the adrenal glands varied within one set of
quadruplet mammals by thirty-two fold. The repercussions of these many
differences between patients in practice are enormous yet these differences
are rarely considered let alone addressed.

For a physician to determine your care based on a “diagnosis” and not


thoroughly investigate you as an individual puts the chances of recovering your
health at great peril.

True for the Goose Not


always True for the Gander

Many patients come to our clinic


because of someone they knew with
the same medical diagnosis who
recovered their health under our care
and they want us to do the same for
them. They are often surprised after
our investigation that the program laid
out for them is very different than that given to the person they knew with the
same diagnosis. Each of us has unique needs and the program must meet
those needs, not those of someone else, simply because they received the
same superficial diagnosis.

Genetics Does Not Doom Us

Our genetics sets the stage for our health potential but does not doom us to
illness. Genes involved in chronic diseases generally have to be triggered.
Likewise there are steps that can be taken to positively alter a patient's
genetic expression so as to return that person to health. This is a challenge
we meet head on in daily practice.

Diet is one factor in the expression of our genetics. What we eat in a single
meal has minimal impact but long-term dietary choices and the efficiency of our
digestive capacity significantly impacts genetic expression. Nutrition does not
alter genes but can alter the way genes are expressed.

What is My Preferred Approach?


I am commonly asked by patients or students; “Dr. Goldberg, what would you
do for a patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis or Multiple Sclerosis or Crohn's
disease or chronic fatigue or diabetes” or (you name the disease).
My response is simple:

I would perform:

1. A comprehensive case history


2. A thorough physical examination
7. Appropriate laboratory studies based on the case history and physical
examination.
8. Each done with the purpose of uncovering underlying causes.

What if it was heart disease, they ask. Again I respond,

1. A comprehensive case history


2. A thorough physical examination
3. Appropriate laboratory studies based on the case history and physical
examination.
4. Each done with the purpose of uncovering underlying causes

But Dr. Goldberg they ask a bit frustrated, what if it was cancer? Again I
reply:

1. A comprehensive case history


2. A thorough physical examination
3. Appropriate laboratory based on the case history and physical
examination.
4. Each done with the purpose of uncovering underlying causes

We simply cannot ascertain what to do for the patient by the name of their
symptoms alone! How foolish to write books claiming that one has the
ultimate answer for any one specific medical diagnostic category when
each of us is so different from the next!

The medical diagnostic model has limited utility. When we read about a medical
disease and what its outcome is, we are informed what the natural history of
the syndrome is under medical care, with the average patient. This is based
on the observations of patients who have presented over the years with similar
signs and symptoms and received similar treatments and reflects how patients
with these signs and symptoms generally respond to medical care.

Reason warrants that we not accept these often-dismal natural histories as


being the only possible outcome, but rather the outcomes under medical care
and conventional living habits. The many medical disease diagnoses with
dismal prognoses are evidence of modern medicine's failures. This need not be
the case when the causes of ill health are identified and addressed.

Drawbacks of Diagnostic Categorizations


Revealed Through
Case Studies
The following case studies using patients diagnosed with rheumatoid diseases,
exemplify the limitations of medical diagnosis.

Two Cases of Psoriatic Arthritis: Pat and Dianne

Pat
Pat, a twenty five year old male with psoriatic arthritis was referred to our
office. Pat had undergone extensive medical drug therapy without
improvement. A thorough case history was taken, a physical examination
performed and functional laboratory tests ordered. He was covered with
psoriatic scales over 75% of his body including the scalp, face, arms, legs, and
trunk. Radiographs of his neck showed significant degenerative changes. Most
distressing to Pat were his severe arthritic pains. The history and interview
revealed that Pat used alcohol to excess, kept late hours, and had a diet that
included many foods lab testing would reveal he was sensitive to. There was
no family history of autoimmune disease.

After reviewing the results with Pat, it was determined he should undergo a
supervised fast which lasted seven days. The patient rested, slept long hours,
and took sunbaths. Initially the skin lesions increased but by the sixth day had
begun to fade. At the end of seven days the fast was broken. The psoriatic
lesions were more than 70% gone. This was followed by an appropriate diet
plan along with extensive guidance regarding hygienic aspects of living specific
for his circumstances.

The joint pains subsided over the next several weeks and the patient returned
home largely cleared of psoriatic lesions and with vastly improved joint comfort.
He was given a program based on his individual traits to allow him to continue
to progress without ongoing reliance on physicians. Causes identified, causes
addressed, health restored.

Dianne

Two months after seeing Pat we received a call from Dianne, a lady who had
also been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. She knew Pat through an arthritis
support group they both attended. Dianne related that she was impressed with
Pat's vast improvements with a condition deemed “incurable” from which she
had suffered with herself for many years.

She had questioned Pat as to what he did under my care. What foods he was
told to eat, which to avoid, what supplements had been given, how long he
fasted, etc. Dianne then followed the same plan with disappointing results.
The unsupervised fast she took was disastrous leaving her weak and
debilitated. The foods she ate gave her indigestion, and she found her joint
pains, skin and general health worse off than before she had started.

I explained to Dianne that she was a different person and what had worked for
Pat was based on his makeup, his history, his biochemistry, not hers. She
emphatically replied that her case was the same since they both had been
diagnosed with “psoriatic arthritis.”

Many doctors and patients believe if two people have the same medical
diagnosis that they have the same problem and therefore what will benefit one
will benefit another. This is a perilous error. I explained to Dianne that a
program of care for her would need to be based on her specific traits, not on a
medical title she had been tagged with.

Soon after Dianne traveled to our clinic for care. I found her debilitated by her
attempts at fasting, which were inappropriate in her case. She suffered from
exhaustion, very weak digestion and low body temperature. She had followed
a raw food diet along with drinkingfruit juices because she had read in a book
on psoriasis that raw foods were “good for psoriasis” and that juices would
“cleanse” the tissues. Dianne erroneously based her care on the name of her
disease rather than understanding her own constitution.
We helped Dianne recover by developing a program based on her biochemical
individuality, which turned out to be very different than Pat's. The roots of her
problems leading to her psoriatic arthritis symptoms revolved around poor fat
digestion which had been the case with her Mother, low thyroid and adrenal
function, a troubled marriage, and a protozoa infestation that she had likely
picked up traveling in Central America. Despite the same medical diagnosis the
roots of her health problems were different from Pat's.

Patients with the same medical diagnosis have different reasons why they
become ill. I am not indifferent to serious diagnoses e.g. lupus, psoriatic
arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, etc., but since such titles
represent only superficial information they do not cause me to panic either.

Three Cases of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Each of the following cases of medically diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis


received similar medical treatments based upon the diagnosis and each was
continuing to worsen when we first saw them. The causal factors behind their
conditions differed and therefore the protocols we employed in helping each
recover had distinct differences as well.

Mary

Mary, a 55-year-old female had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis three
years previously after a stressful period in her life when she had lived mostly
on pasta, pizza, bread and potatoes. Her hands were painful and she had poor
grip strength. Multiple joints were inflamed and her sedimentation rate was
over 100 (normal = 0 to 20). She was dismayed by the failure of the drugs
prescribed to her (steroids followed by Embrel and later Remicaide) and
equally discouraged by the failures of the many bottles of “natural remedies”
she had tried that were supposedly “good for arthritis”. The drugs initially
suppressed some of her symptoms but later she developed a serious lung
infection due to the suppression of her immunity. Mary was also taking an
assortment of herbs, homeopathic agents and “Flower Remedies” given to her
by a Naturopath.

Mary's rheumatoid disease emanated from her gastrointestinal tract as


revealed by the history, exam and functional laboratory testing. I required her
to eliminate starches as (in her case) they were promoting specific bacterial
growth contributing to her inflammation. The cause was straightforward.

Mary was cooperative. In four months improvements in both her blood


chemistries and a reduction in the patient's pain and swelling were obvious.
Today she is fully mobile, off all medications and enjoys good health. The
causes were identified and addressed and led to a restoration of health.

Joan

Joan, a 42-year-old female from the mid-west arrived at our clinic with
medically diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. She could walk only slowly with
considerable pain. The hands, knees, wrists, hands, and feet were markedly
inflamed. She was receiving methotrexate and humera, all immune suppressant
drugs. Her Aunt and a first cousin also had autoimmune disorders.

Joan had taken good general care of herself. She had, however, recently
undergone an unexpected divorce from her husband of over twenty years
whom she had put through school working long hours to do so. Putting salt on
the wound the divorce was followed within three weeks by her husband
marrying his young secretary.

Her blood work showed her to be anemic, have low serum protein levels and
an elevated sedimentation rate and high C-reactive protein level. She had been
a hard worker and had significantly shorted herself on sleep over the years.
She had elevated levels of mercury in her tissues due to dental amalgams, an
elevated indican level (a toxin resulting from bacterial breakdown of protein) in
her gut, yeast overgrowth and imbalances in her trace mineral levels. An
individual program of care was developed based on these factors.

Initially she made rapid progress. The sedimentation rate dropped rapidly
within a few weeks and the patient felt much improved. She was required to
obtain long hours of sleep, stay on a liquid diet for intervals ranging from three
days to a week, take oral chelating agents and specific trace elements,
undergo trigger point therapy in our office and take steps to address both the
overgrowth of yeast and the high level of indican in her intestines. She returned
home for several weeks to take care of business matters prior to returning to
our office for further care. When she returned I found she had lost ground on
the progress we had made and the inflammatory markers had risen again.

A lengthy discussion with Joan revealed that while home she had seen her
former husband and his new wife in a convertible purchased shortly before the
divorce. She experienced a surge of anger that was continuing to rage. I
recommended counseling which she obtained, to address this issue. Within the
next several months with counseling and continued attention to the areas
previously mentioned, the patient improved again as her emotions settled. Her
inflammatory index dropped and she returned home without carrying the
emotional burden and with her biochemical issues addressed.

Mark

Mark, a twenty seven year old male, presented at our clinic with medically
diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. He had been seeing a rheumatologist for six
months and was continuing to worsen. There was no significant family history.
He had formerly been active with weight lifting, running, and motorcycling but
now was stiff and weak with swollen joints. His rheumatologist told him that
“rheumatoid arthritis” was “incurable” and that he would have to adapt to the
reality that he would become crippled with time. Drugs including methotrexate
and steroids had left him weak and nauseated. Switching to Enbrel had brought
only partial relief of symptoms and left him frightened regarding the serious
side effects he knew could occur including lymphoma and tuberculosis. An
“alternative” medical physician had placed Mark on a number of glandular
substances and advised him to take colonics, which he had reluctantly done.

Following a lengthy interview, lifestyle analysis and functional laboratory testing


Mark was given a report of findings. A significant finding was his impaired
glucose tolerance, which we traced to his heavy use of soft drinks. This had
weakened his glucose regulating ability contributing to a pro-inflammatory
state, further compounded by a significant imbalance in his fatty acids.

After restoring his glucose balance through dietary and improving his fatty acid
profile both primarily through dietary intervention the patient recovered from his
“rheumatoid arthritis” discomforts in less than eight weeks. Years later the
patient continues to be well and engages in heavy physical activities without
difficulty. All signs of the “rheumatoid arthritis” disappeared when specific
factors addressing his biochemical traits were addressed.

All three of these patients, Mary, Joan and Mark, presented with an identical
medical diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Their symptoms were similar yet the
causal factors behind their illnesses were vastly different. Different
biochemical factors and emotional backgrounds were at play. The times
required for recovery and the strategies used in effecting a reversal of their
condition also differed. The reasons behind their illness had been ignored by
the Medical Rheumatologists each of whom simply applied toxic, symptom
suppressive drugs and by “alternative practitioners” who had applied safer, yet
ineffective measures that likewise ignored causal factors.

A Look At Mans Best Friend

A convincing way to appreciate our individuality


is to consider different breeds of dogs, from
the Chihuahua to the Great Dane.

All domestic dogs belong to a single species,


Canis familiaris. The many breeds are
descended from a small subspecies of wolf,
Canis lupus pallipes.1 Selective breeding has
produced a wide variation of different canine
appearances, strengths, weaknesses and
personalities. It is difficult to imagine, when
one looks at different breeds that all share a
common ancestry. All the breeds are dogs yet their health problems differ
widely based on unique traits related to their breed and as an individual within
that breed.

The dachshund is subject to inter-vertebral disc disease and diabetes, the


Rhodesian Ridgeback to dermoid sinuses (cysts), the Scottish Deerhound to
gastric torsion, the Chihuahua to incomplete closure of its skull, the Toy Poodle
to early tooth loss, the Bulldog to heat stroke, the German Shepherd to hip
dysplasia, etc. Life spans differ also. The Schipperke from Belgium commonly
lives to 20 years of age, while the Irish Wolfhound averages only about five to
six years. As with humans, environmental factors e.g. diet, exercise, etc.,
greatly affect the propensity of each breed to develop the genetic weaknesses
it is subject to as well as determining how long the lifespan will be, within the
boundaries of its genetic heritage.

Working With The Hand of Cards We Were Dealt

To understand each patient's uniqueness is to be able to maximize their health


potential to a degree many thought not possible. Our patients have recovered
from numerous so called “incurable” chronic conditions by understanding their
makeup, the reasons they became ill and addressing the causal factors in each
case while simultaneously creating the conditions for health to flourish. Part of
the challenge is to help patients understand they need not accept the dismal
outlook painted for them by so many doctors nor accept symptomatic
treatments whether from standard or “alternative” doctors as their only
solution.

I was born somewhat a runt and I had to learn to live within certain runt
limitations. Yet as I round the corner on sixty I look back with satisfaction at
what I have been able to achieve, at being able to reverse a chronic disease
condition and enjoy my life as an adult. A Chihuahua cannot become a Great
Dane…but the Chihuahua that I was born as, with right knowledge and effort
overcame chronic disease and become like a Jack Russell Terrier. I am
enormously thankful for having learned from doctors who were pioneers in
Natural Hygiene, Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Epidemiology as well as from my
own trials and errors how to understand my unique attributes and achieve my
potential as one of six billion unique individuals on planet earth.

I have read the hand of cards nature dealt me and learned how to play them in
a productive manner. I have also been blessed in having the opportunity to
assist many patients who were once chronically ill do the same.

Paul A. Goldberg, MPH,DC,DACBN

Also read: Common Errors in Natural Hygiene

Website: www.goldbergclinic.com

"One major area of variance between


individuals is seen in our nutrient requirements
and our ability to excrete waste products i.e.
our detoxification potential."

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