They had not known Marie was a lesbian, 
much less that their daughter was flirting with (from their view) obvious q uackery. Their daughter needed immediate saving and 
her parents and brother (the one who had abused her) flew to Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of viol ent 
rage. They threatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to h ave their daughter civilly committed as unable to take 
care of herself. They thought everything Marie had done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jai l. Of 
course, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place ; she had wanted to avoid this kind of a scene. Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of her immediate family. They put her in a hospital,  
where Marie had a radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that  they had done everything that should have been 
done, the self -righteous parents went back home. Marie never recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospital 
surrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever -so-sympathetic turns  maintaining an emotional round -the-clock vigil. Marie's death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I did not yet understand the total effect of la ck of 
ethics and irresponsibility on illness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have sought treatment three 
years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded this question and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with  my 
knee on her chest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody and was never fully honest in any of her 
relationships, including with me. I think she only came to Great Oaks at her lover's insistence and to the day she died was t rying to 
pretend that nothing was wrong. All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene 
gave her that, which is probably why she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it. The name for this game is "secondary gain." A lot of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire; 
they get love, attention, revenge, sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick people receive to o 
much secondary gain they never get well. One of  the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever -enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is depressing and makes a person want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really want them to get bet ter. My life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealing with a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my famil y life 
suffers; my personal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this. And then some of these people go and wast e all 
my help to accomplish some discreditable secret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others. Constant Complaints  
    Alice was a middle -aged woman who couldn't understand why she had always felt tired, even when she was young . Her life had 
been this way ever since she could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Job -like. She did everything the 
proper way. Doing things correctly was important to her, and fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the ri ght causes, 
did good works, was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at the healthfood store –and made sure it was organically 
grown. But in spite of Alice's righteous living, her existence was a treadmill of constant, minor complaints. She was constantly 
exhausted, so much so she had difficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatigue syndrome (whatev er 
that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts like these, and had many acute illnesses like cold s that hung on 
interminably and would not go away. She had a constant post -nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life, her body was a millstone around 
her neck. I've had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they complain of headaches; sometimes cons tant yeast or bladder 
infections. Whatever the complaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves as someone who is seriously  
ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almost never feel good. Medical doctors rarely find anything  wrong with them, 
though they will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection, or an antihistamine for sinus sym ptoms. Getting a new prescription drug makes the complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is low ered again and the very 
same complaint returns. These people frequently depend on over the counter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedi es 
and antidepressants. If instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fi x and afterwards are amazed 
that it was all that simple and that so much of their life has been less than it could have been. Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and al so 
took synthetic thyroid hormone –the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive thyroid, which was partly 
correct –but the thyroid medication didn't give her much more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand st yle 
for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought. I put Alice through my usual two hour first -time-visit thorough analysis. For two weeks before coming to see me she had saved 
tiny samples of everything she ate, wrapped them in plast ic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer. Along with these 
food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought a big box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices, 
prescription medications, over the counter drugs, oils, g rains, breads, crackers and small samples of her usual fresh vegetables and 
fruits. Even her water. Her entire kitchen! By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions. I  also 
tested the integrity of her organs and glands and  in the process, got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints. Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest 
the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetar ian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairy products and had especially 
been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it was necessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many he alth 
food store shoppers these days mistakenly beli eve that, because they are vegetarian and do not eat meat, they especially need to 
boost their protein intake with dairy and soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy and 
unfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to d igest than cooked meats. Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts an d 
citrus. Most people don't think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sp routs. The doctor was right about 
one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had not noticed that her heart was weak. Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest do ctor 
will usually tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two aspirin, accept the fact that y our 
body is not perfect and don't worry about it. A hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any p ossible 
reason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or as long as the insurance company will pay. They 
rarely find anything "wrong" and the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn't discover something "serious" to treat be cause 
their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than the complaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people 
whose lives were virtually ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain. Biokinesiology is actually a far more s ensitive system of analysis than lab tests. It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so 
total organ failure can be prevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed by a medical doctor. Fi rst I 
put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week on fresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy 
vegetables juice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After six weeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a 
life extension megavitamin formu la, discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had already been taking) 
and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakened endocrine system, her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She 
also began taking pancreatic enzy mes when she ate vegetable protein. She was put on a maintenance diet that eliminated foods she 
was allergic to; the diet primarily consisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and raw vegetables, and raw fruits. On her mainte nance 
diet Alice had a profound res urgence of energy and rediscovered a sense of well -being she had not known for decades. She began 
to feel like she had when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone. She was able to stop taking synthetic thyroid 
hormones and instead, supported her  endocrine system with protomorphogens. A Rampaging Infection  
    At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came into a moderate inheritance and went "native" in the Fiji Island s in 
the South Pacific. He spent about four months hanging out w ith the locals. Life there was so much fun that John completely forgot 
that his body was actually rather delicate, that many of his organs were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly  simon -
pure life. But the jovial, accepting, devil -may-care Fijians enjoyed a constant party, even more so because John's money allowed the 
Fijians to manifest powerful, tropical, home -grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance, beer and rum and worse, 
the Fijians (and John) constantly used a ve ry toxic though only mildly -euphoric narcotic called kava, something Europeans usually 
have no genetic resistance to. The Fijians (and John) also ate a lot of freshly -caught fish fried in grease, well -salted, and huge, 
brain -numbing bowls of greasy starche s, foods that they call i'coi, or "real food" as opposed to things like fruit and vegetables that 
aren't real food because they don't knock you to the floor for hours trying to digest them in a somnambulant doze. John miraculously kept up with this par ty for a few months and then, while scuba diving, got some small coral scratches on his 
leg. These got infected. The infections got worse. Soon he had several huge, suppurating, ulcerous sores on his legs and wors e, the 
infections became systemic and began  spreading rapidly. He was running a fever and was in considerable pain. So John booked an 
emergency ticket home and fled to find Doctor Isabelle. When I met his plane he was rolled out in a wheelchair, unable to wal k 
because of pain and swelling in his le gs. John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died 
without them because previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life -threatening conditions that first bro ught John 
to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because he knew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medic al 
doctors would have done exactly as they pleased. I gave John a colonic, a gentle, mental spanking, and put him to  bed without any supper. He started water fasting and did 
colonics every day. He began gobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put huge poultices on his so res 
made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a week or so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready). John's sores were 
amazing. Every day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body. The old ones kept getting bigger and deeper. T he 
largest original ones were about three inches in diameter, smelled horrib ly and had almost eaten the flesh down to the bone. His 
pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn't irritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my  house 
was remote because John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. J ohn was never delirious, but he was always original. He did 
not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief and howled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs. After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores. There were forty thre e. Seven or eight of them 
were enormous, two or three inches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear were shallow, small and s tayed 
small. After that point no more new ones showed up and the body began to make visible headway again st the infection. Very 
slowly and then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from the edges. John's fever began to drop. And h e 
had less pain. I should mention that John brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism  into our house to 
which we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I were attacked where the skin had been broken. However, unlike 
John, in our cases, our healthy bodies immediately walled -off the organism and the small, reddened pustules, though  painful, did 
not grow and within a week, had been conquered by our immune systems. And after that we had an immunity. After about three weeks of his fasting we were thoroughly tired of hearing John's cathartic howls, tired of nursing a sick pe rson. We needed a break. John at this point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had previously water fasted for 30 day s 
and knew the drill very well. So we stocked up the vitamin C bottle by his bed and went to town for the weekend to stay in a motel 
and see a movie. As they say in the Canadian backwoods, we were bushed. John had promised to be good. But as soon as we left he decided that since he felt so very much better, he could break his fa st. He knew how to do this and fortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it more or less correctly, only 
eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables. But by the time we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. T he 
pain was rapidly getting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new ones appeared. Dr. Isabelle again took 
away his food and gave him another verbal spanking a little more severe than the one he'd had a few weeks earlier and put him  to 
bed again without his supper. After two more  weeks on water, John had gained a great deal on the sores. They were filling in and weren't oozing pus, looked 
clean and the new forming meat looked a healthy pink instead of purple -black. But John had been very slender to start with and by 
now he was get ting near the end of his food reserves. He probably couldn't have fasted on water for more than one more week 
without starvation beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under close supervision. I gave him dilute juice only, 
introduced othe r sustenance very cautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would not permit the 
organism to gain. This time it didn't. John's own immune system, beefed up by fasting, had conquered a virulent organism that  
could have easily killed  him. Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the common childhood illnesses, people frequently died of infections a s 
virulent as the one that attacked John. They usually died because they "ate to keep up their strength." Most of these deaths were 
unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor nursing care. For example, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to con sist 
of spoon -fed milk –sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the assistance of massive doses of vitami n C, if 
people would but fast away infections they could cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the side e ffects 
of antibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic -resistant strains of bacteria. Dr. John Tilden, a hygienist who pr acticed in the '20s, before the era of antibiotics, routinely fasted patients with infectious 
illnesses. Supporting the sick body with wise nursing, he routinely healed scarlet fever, whopping cough, typhoid, typhus, 
pneumonia, peritonitis, Rocky Mountain fever, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cholera, and rheumatic fever. The one common 
infection he could not cure was diphtheria involving the throat. (Tilden, Impaired Health, Vol. II). Recently, medical gerontologists have discovered another reason that fasting heals infections. One body function that 
deteriorates during the aging process is the production of growth hormone so the effects of growth hormone have been studied. This hormone also stimulates the body to heal wounds and burns, repair broke n bones, generally replace any tissues that have been 
destroyed and, growth hormone stimulates the immune response. Growth hormone also maintains muscle tone and its presence 
generally slows the aging process. Growth hormone might make a wonderful life -extension supplement; on it a middle -aged person might readily maintain the 
muscle tone of youth while slowing aging in general. Unfortunately, growth hormone cannot at this time be inexpensively 
synthesized and is still far too costly to be used therapeu tically except to prevent dwarfism. However, any technique that 
encourages a body to produce more of this hormone would be of great interest to life extensionists. The body only produces growth hormone at certain times and only when certain nutrients are present in the blood. Gerontologists call these nutrients "precursors." The precursors are two essential amino acids, argenine and ornithine and ce rtain 
vitamins such as C and B 6. But having the precursors present is not enough. Growth hormone is only  manufactured under certain, 
specific circumstances: for about one hour immediately after going to sleep and then only if the blood supply is rich with ar genine 
and ornithine but contains few other amino acids; it is also manufactured during heavy aerobic exercise that goes on for more than 
thirty minutes; and growth hormone is produced at an accelerated rate when fasting. (Pearson and Shaw, 1983). I did not know this 
when I was fasting John, but now, I would give argenine and ornithine to someone with a se rious infection as well as massive 
quantities of vitamin C.  
 
Chronic Back Pain  
    Barry was a carpenter who couldn't afford to lose work because he was unable to bend or twist or lift. He frequently had bout s 
of severe back pain that made working almost i mpossible. Upon analysis by biokinesiology I found that he had a major problem 
with large intestine weakness and secondarily, adrenal weakness. Constipation frequently causes back pain. The muscles of the back have nerve pathway connections to the larg e intestines; 
weakness in the intestine causes weakness of the back and makes it prone to injury. But the problem is the intestine, not the  back. And the only way to make the back stay better is to heal the intestine. Many athletes have very similar proble ms. For example, 
they get knee injuries and think there is something wrong with their knee. Or they get shoulder injuries and think their shou lder is 
weak. These people are only half right. Yes, their knee or their shoulder is weak. But it could become str ong and almost 
uninjurable if the underlying cause of the weakness is corrected. The knee for example, has nerve pathway connections to the adrenal glands and kidneys. The shoulder has similar connections 
to the thyroid. The foot is weakened by the bla dder. The treatment should first be on the weakened gland or organ and secondarily, 
on the damaged muscle tissue. I have solved numerous sports -related knee problems with protomorphogens for the adrenals and 
elimination of food allergies that make the adre nals work overtime. I have fixed bad shoulders by rebuilding the thyroid. In Barry's case, it was the intestine. I asked him about his bowel function and he said that he was never constipated, had "a  daily 
bowel movement without a lot of straining." Bu t having given some 6,000 colonics, I knew better. There should have been no 
straining; Barry was trying very hard to be regular –he should not have had to effort. Fortunately, it struck him as true that he 
needed to detoxify and I managed to convince him t o water fast. He probably figured, why not since he couldn't work anyway. Barry was a tall, skinny man to start with and you would think he hardly carried any fat at all, but he fasted on water for 3 0 days, 
receiving a colonic every day, while I did bodywo rk on his damaged back. He sure was constipated and couldn't deny the evidence 
that floated by through the sight tube of the colonic machine. By the end of the fast his colon was fairly repaired and free of old 
fecal material. And Barry had become a tall, gaunt -looking guy who had lost about 20 pounds you wouldn't think he had to spare. After a few weeks of careful weaning back on to food, Barry felt pretty good, terrific even. He had no back pain and found ou t 
for the first time what not being constipa ted meant. It no longer took "not very much effort" to move his bowels; they moved 
themselves. That was ten years ago. A few months ago, Barry looked me up, just to say thanks and to let me know that he had n ot 
had any more back problems and had generally felt good because he had more or less stayed on the improved diet I had instructed 
him about during his fast. Painful Menstruation  
    Elsie was twenty. She came to see me because I had helped Elsie's mother overcome breast cancer many years earlier. Elsi e 
began to have very painful periods with profuse bleeding and abdominal pain. Her nutrition had been generally good because he r 
mother couldn't survive on the average American diet and had long ago converted her family to vegetarianism. And like her 
mothe r, Elsie had been taking vitamins for many years. A medical doctor diagnosed Elsie as having endometriosis, meaning, the lining of her uterus had migrated to the fallopian tub es, 
where it continued to bleed regularly into the abdominal cavity, followi ng the same hormonal cycle as the endometritial tissue that 
lines the uterus. The doctor offered to try hormonal manipulation and if this proved unsuccessful, offered a hysterectomy. Th at 
would certainly eliminate the symptoms! But Elsie did not wish t o eliminate her ability to have children and preferred not to risk throwing her hormones off balance. So 
she came to me. My analysis showed that she had weak ovaries and weak uterus. These were secondary to a toxic colon, toxic 
because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas that reduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined 
Organic, vegetarian legume -rich diet into toxemia. Checking her foods for allergies I discovered the normal pattern: Elsie was 
intolerant to dairy, wheat, eggs , corn, soy and concentrated sugars. Being no stranger to fasting (her mother had fasted at length ten years previously) Elsie undertook a 30 day cleanse on veget able 
juice with daily enemas, taking vitamins in powdered form. After the fast I put her o n protomorphogens for her reproductive 
organs and pancreas. The gall bladder had healed by itself during fasting –gall bladders usually heal easily. Her maintenance diet 
included using pancreatic enzyme supplements when eating vegetable proteins and Elsie e liminated most fats so her gall bladder 
would not be stressed. The fasting also overcame her allergic reactions to corn and wheat but she was still unable to handle soy 
products, eggs or dairy. After six months Elsie no longer needed protomorphogens, had n o abdominal pain and her periods were 
normal. You may well be wondering how or why detoxification of the bowels allowed the body to repair the uterus. The large intestine 
is a sort of nest that cradles the reproductive organs, including the ovaries, u terus, and in the case of the male, the prostate gland. A 
toxic colon is like having one rotten apple in a basket, it contaminates the whole batch. Many problems in the abdominal area  are 
caused by a toxic colon, including chronic back pain, ovarian cysts,  infertility, birth abnormalities, bladder infections and bladder 
cancer, painful menstruation, fibroids and other benign growths as well as malignant ones, and prostatitis or prostate cancer . Detoxing the body and cleaning out the colon should be a part o f the healing of all of these conditions. Irritable Bowels  
    Some peoples' lives don't run smoothly. Jeanne's certainly didn't. She was abandoned to raise three little kids on welfare. H er 
college diploma turned out to be useless. Jeanne used to help m e at Great Oaks in exchange for treatment. During those early years 
she had done a 30 day juice fast with colonics. Twenty years later at age 60, having survived three children's growing up, su rviving 
the profound, enduring loss of one who died as an adult , after starting up and running a small business that for many years barely 
paid its way, and experiencing an uninsured fire that took her house, she began to develop abdominal pains the doctors named 
"irritable bowel syndrome" or "colitis." The MD offered  antibiotics and antispasmodics but Jeanne had no insurance, the remedies 
were unaffordable. She also retained considerable affinity for natural medicine. Prior to these symptoms her diet had been vegetarian, and had included large quantities of raw fr uits and vegetables and whole 
grains. But the bran in bread was irritating to her bowels, she could no longer digest raw vegetables or most raw fruit. Jeanne's vital force was low; her healing took time. She started on a long fast supported by powdered  vitamins, vegetable broth 
and herb teas, but after three weeks was too weak to do her own enemas at home and could not shop for vegetables to cook into  
broth. So she had to add one small serving of cooked vegetable per day, usually broccoli or steamed kal e. This lasted for one more 
week but Jeanne, having no financial reserves, had to return to work, and needed to regain energy quickly. Though not totally  
healed, she progressed to a maintenance diet of cooked grains and vegetables and food supplements, ver y much like a Macrobiotic 
diet. She felt better for awhile but wore down again after another stressful year. Her abdominal pains gradually returned though this time she noticed they were closely associated with her stresses. About one  
year after ending  her first fast, as soon as she could arrange to take time off, she began another. This time to avoid extreme 
weakness, she took vegetable broth from the outset, as well as small amounts of carrot juice and one small serving of cooked 
vegetable a day for t hree weeks. Again, this rest allowed the digestive tract to heal and the pain went away. She returned to her 
Macrobiotic diet with selected raw foods that she could now handle without irritating her bowel. She was now healthier then she had been in man y years. With improved energy and a more positive attitude, Jeanne returned to 
University at age 65 and obtained a teaching certificate. Now she is making good money, doing work she enjoys for the first t ime 
in 35 years. I hope she has a long and happy lif e. She is entitled to one! A Collection of Gallbladders  
    Gallbladder cases are rather ho -hum to me; they are quick to respond to hygienic treatment and easy to resolve. I've fixed lots of 
them. But an inflamed gallbladder is in no way ho -hum to the per son afflicted with it. I've been frequently told that there are no 
worse pains a body can create than an inflamed gallbladder or the sensations accompanying the passing of a gall stone. I hear  from 
kidney patients that passing a kidney stone is worse but I 've never had a patient who experienced both kinds of stones to give me 
an honest comparative evaluation. The only thing dangerous about simple gallbladder problems is ignoring them (between the bouts of severe pain they can cause)  
because then the inflamed gallbladder can involve the liver. I already told the story of how my own mother lost half her live r this 
way. The condition is usually caused by a combination of hereditary tendency, general toxemia, and/or a high -fat diet, especially one 
high in animal fats. The liver makes bile that is stored in the gallbladder, to be released on demand into the small intestine to digest 
fat. A toxic, overloaded liver makes irritating sediment -containing bile that inflames the gallbladder and forms stones. A high -fat 
diet forces the liver to make even more of this irritant. A toxic, overloaded, inflamed, bloc ked gallbladder is capable of causing an enormous array of symptoms that can seem to have 
no connection at all to their cause. In part these same symptoms are caused by a toxic, constipated colon that, in part, got that way 
because of poor fat digestion ov er a long time. These symptoms include: severe back pain; headache; bloating; burping; nausea; 
insomnia; intestinal gas; generalized aches and pains. Medical doctors used to remove a troublesome gallbladder without hesitation; it was an organ they cons idered to be highly 
dispensable. Without one, the bile duct takes over as a bladder but its capacity is much smaller so the person's ability to d igest fats 
has been permanently crippled, leading to increased toxemia and earlier aging if fats are not elimin ated from the diet. These days 
the medicos have a new, less invasive procedure to eliminate stones; they are vibrated and broken -up by ultrasonics without major 
surgery. Inflamed gallbladders are usually removed because gallbladder inflammations resist tre atment by antibiotics. There are several very effective natural gallbladder remedies. The best is a three week fast, taking the juice of one or two lemons 
every day, along with colonics. The lemon juice tends to clear the bile duct. The fast allows the  gallbladder to heal from 
inflammation. In cases that aren't too severe I have had very good results simply eliminating fats from the diet and using a food 
supplement derived from beet tops called AF Betafood. However, in all these cases, once the gallblad der is no longer "acting up," 
the person must stay on a low fat diet. Any fats they do eat must be vegetable and in small quantities. By healing their gallbladders and cleansing their colons, several of my clients have resolved severe, debilitating bac k pain, pain 
so severe that the suffers were becoming bedridden. Medical doctors don't associate gallbladder disease with back pain. The Frightening Heart  
    Heart disease is one of the major causes of death among North Americans. It evokes images of res uscitation, of desperate races 
against time, trying to restart an arrested heart before the brain dies. It makes people think of horribly expensive surgery,  last wills 
and testaments, terrible, paralyzing pain. Heart disease is a great profit center for th e medical profession. Most heart problems are very easy to fix by holistic approaches, even many hereditary weaknesses and malfunctions can be 
healed, if the work is done before too much organic damage occurs. But it rarely is easy to get the people to  take the necessary 
medicine; everything in their lives must change –and fast. First of all, people with heart problems must rapidly reach and maintain normal weight. This can be done by fasting or by 
dietary change, usually by eliminating all fats, sug ars and refined starches. Alcohol and tobacco must instantly and forever become 
only past memories. It is almost as essential to eliminate flesh protein foods and dairy. Should that prove entirely too pain ful, fish 
in small quantities and only one or two t imes a week is tolerable. For starters, a long fast, especially one involving lots of bed rest, is ideal. This gives the heart a chance to heal while t he body 
weight is adjusted. A period of intense rest even without water fasting will accomplish almo st as much. Even someone with the 
potential for heart disease who has not yet had a heart attack would be well -served to spend a month in bed, losing weight on juice, 
or sitting in a rocker on the porch eating only raw foods. After the weight is down to no rmal or close to normal and the heart tests 
stronger, an exercise program should be started. Exercise has to become a religion. A daily aerobic program must be started on a carefully managed gradient, using the pulse r ate 
as an regulator, at first rais ing their maximum heart rate to a point just below 150 percent of its resting pulse and keeping it there 
for thirty minutes. One can walk, jog, ride a bicycle or use an exercise machine. Actually, everyone should do this, even tho se with 
no heart problems. My husband, who hates the boredom of exercise, enjoys a ski machine in front of the TV while the stock 
market program is on. He finds the TV interesting enough that he pays no attention to his workout. Daily aerobic exercise wil l 
strengthen the heart, gra dually slowing the heart's resting pulse rate, indicating that the heart has become much stronger, pumping 
more blood with each pulse. As the resting pulse drops the exercising heartbeat can be increased to double the resting rate. Highly aggressive, competitive, stress -oriented people have to give up being adrenaline junkies and learn to relax and assume a 
laid-back approach to living. Or die soon. An adrenaline junkie is someone that enjoys the feeling they get when operating under 
stress. Stress and  the adrenaline it releases produce a kind of a drug -high. Many stressaholics cannot give up their adrenaline 
addiction while maintaining their previous employment and life -style, even though their life is at stake. In this sense they are like 
alcoholics, who should not take employment tending bar. To survive for long these people may have to retire or change 
professions. Stockbrokers may have to become Organic farmers; journalists may have to operate a news stand or bookstore, or 
work part -time covering th e society page and dog shows. Women frequently turn their family life into a stress -filled drama too. With heart problems a life extension megavitamin program is essential, even for twenty somethings if they have heart disease. The sixty milligrams of Co-Enzyme Q -10 I recommend for the average middle aged person will not be enough for heart cases; 
they should take at least 120 milligrams daily and consider up to 250 mg. This much Q -10 greatly boosts the energy output of the 
heart on a cellular level. Vi tamin E should also be increased, to between 600 and 2,000 iu daily. I also rebuild diseased hearts with 
protomorphogens; usually they must stay on protomorphogens for the rest of their lives. Niacin taken several times a day in d oses, 
sufficient to dilate  the capillaries and cause a skin flush (50 to 200 milligrams), increases the blood flow to nourish the heart. The 
amino acid L. Carnitine is also useful by increasing the energy output of the heart much like Co -Enzyme Q -10. When I put people on this p rogram, the supplements and other measures gradually take effect, and over months the patient 
begins to feel enormously better. Inevitably they come to dislike the side -effects of the various medications their medical doctor 
has put them on and they begin to wean themselves off of heart -stimulating poisons like digitalis. Another benefit of my program 
is that inevitably, blood pressure also drops to a normal range so if they have been on blood pressure medication they quit t hat too. Their diuretics also bec ome unnecessary. The money they save more than pays for their supplements and the sense of well -being 
they feel is beyond value. Other Kinds Of Cancer  
    There seem to be many other kinds of cancer, at least if you believe the medical doctors. They divid e up cancers and their 
treatments by their location in the body and by the type of cancer cells present. I do not see it that way. To me, a cancer i s a cancer 
is a cancer, and there is only one kind: it is an immune system collapse, consequence of the dead ly triangle of weak spleen, thymus 
and liver, plus a toxic large intestine and weak pancreas. That organ profile is found in skin cancer, prostate cancer, leuke mia, 
brain cancer, cancer of what have you. How fast or how slowly the cells multiply or spread,  where they are located, what the 
cancer cells look like in a microscope, these are irrelevant factors compared to the body's ability to conquer the disease. O r die 
from it. If the body's immune system can stop the growth of the cancers and begin to tu rn them back before the cancer cells impinge 
catastrophically on some vital function, the person can usually survive. Even if the body cannot completely eliminate all the  cancer 
cells, but regains enough immune function to keep the existing cancers in perm anent check, a person can survive many years with 
an existing, stable cancer without undue pain or discomfort. Still having a non -growing tumor after a long fast indicates that a 
person is a lot better than they were before fasting. I believe that vir tually everyone has cancer cells in their body, just like viruses and bacteria. But most people do not develop 
cancer as a disease because their immune function is strong so these misbehaving cells are destroyed as fast as they appear. Mutated, freely -multiplying cells are caused by peroxidized fats, by free radicals in the body, by radiation (there has always been 
background radiation on Earth), by chance mutation. There are naturally occurring highly carcinogenic substances in ordinary 
foods that are unav oidable. In fact some of these naturally occurring substances are far more dangerous than the toxic residues of 
pesticides in our foods. The body is supposed to deal with all these things; they are all called insults. It is rarely the in sult, but the 
failure of the body to eliminate cancerous cells promptly that causes the disease called cancer. So the treatment I recommend for 
cancer in general is the same as the one described for breast cancer cases. Restore the immune function. However, as much as I lack respect for conventional medical cancer therapies, I do think surgery can have a useful place in 
cancer treatment along with hygienic methods. Some people just cannot confront the lump(s). Or they are so terrified of havin g a 
cancer in their body that  their emotions suppresses their own immune function. Even though surgery prompts a cancer to spread 
more rapidly, without their lumps some cancer patients feel more positive. If surgery is done in conjunction with rebuilding the 
immune system, the body wi ll prevent new cancers from forming. Removal of a large mass of cancer cells can also lighten the immune system's task. Not having to kill off and reabsorb all th ose 
cells one -by-one from a huge cancer mass, the body can better conquer smaller groups of cancer cells. And the die -off of large 
cancers produces a lot of toxins, burdening the organs of elimination. This is an argument for the potential benefit of a 
lumpectomy. However, I do not support mastectomies, or the type of surgery that cause massiv e damage to the body in a foolish 
attempt to remove every last cancer cell, as though the cells themselves were the disease. Sometimes cancer tumors are well -encapsulated, walled off and can be easily removed without prompting metastasis. This type 
of tumor may not be completely reabsorbed by the body in any case; though the immune system may have killed it, an empty shell 
remains, like a peanut shell. Sometimes the judgment calls about surgery can get dicey. When surgery involves removing an org an. I oppose the loss of useful body parts. I have also known and helped people who believed they couldn't recover without radiation and chemotherapy. What people 
believe is, is. The emotions generated when a personal reality is suppressed, ignored or invali dated will overwhelm an immune 
system. I always tell those people who sincerely believe in it to go ahead with standard medical treatment (while I'm private ly 
praying the doctors won't cause too much damage). However, when I am supporting a body with suppl ements and dietary reform, 
have put that body on a raw -food cleansing diet or even a raw food diet with nuts and grains that hardly detoxifies, and then the 
person has had chemotherapy and radiation, the medical doctors in attendance are inevitably amazed that the side effects are much 
milder than anticipated, or non -existent. And fewer courses of chemotherapy are needed than the doctors expected. For example, I worked with a little boy with leukemia. His mother brought him to me while trying to resolv e a conflict with her 
ex-husband about the boy's treatment. The father demanded the standard medical route; the mother was for natural therapy. Eventually the father won in court, but I had the boy on my program for three months before the doctors got thei r hands on him. Even during chemotherapy and radiation the mother kept the boy on my program. Throughout the doctors' treatment he had so few  
bad side effects that he was able to continue in school and play with the other children; he did not lose his hair  (which would have 
made him feel like a freak). He recovered. I don't mind that the medical doctors took credit, but to my thinking, he recovere d 
despite their therapy. Onion Cases  
    All too many of my cases are what I privately refer to as onion cases. By this I mean the opposite of a simple case. There are 
multiple complaints. I call them onion cases because these people get better in layers, like pealing an onion. As each skin c omes 
off, the next becomes visible. Sometimes when the patient overcomes a n existing complaint, another appears that was not there in 
the beginning, probably this new one is a complaint that they had at an earlier point in their life, one that had gone away. Onion 
cases take a long time to completely heal, sometimes years. There  frequently are psychological aspects to the case that surface with 
different physical problems. If I were not an effective psychologist I could not succeed with most of them. The average medic al 
doctor probably considers onion cases to be hypochondriacs, but they usually are not. Almost always the first symptoms that demand attention are the most life -threatening, like immune system failures, liver 
failures, pancreatic failures, nervous system failures and heart failures. With these eliminated, new complaints appear. Ofte n thes e 
are endocrine system imbalances or weak endocrine glands, anemias, mild heart conditions. Then it gets down to eye or ear 
infections, muscular or skeletal weaknesses, mild skin problems, sinusitis, teeth problems; things that aren't serious but th at do 
degrade the quality of life. Each one of these layers also carries with it a psychological component; each of these layers can  take 
three to six months to resolve. I had a pretty good idea from the first visit that Daniel, not yet 30, was going to take some time to get well. He already had a 
degenerative condition not usually seen until middle age –crippling gout and arthritis. He had badly distorted joints, walked with 
considerable pain, lacked a full range of movement, had enormous fatigue and consequen tly, a well -justified depression. Daniel 
was about to give up working as no longer possible, but he liked his job. And he certainly needed it. Daniel's analysis showed massive allergies to foods, a systemic yeast and multiple virus infections and multi ple organ 
weaknesses: a life -threateningly weak immune system, weak pancreas, weak adrenals, weak large intestine. Because he could 
hardly accept anything he wasn't allergic to and because he could not afford to quit working even for a few weeks (though he  was 
about to be forced into complete disability) I put him on a Bieler fast. This is a monodiet of fairly substantial quantities of either 
well-cooked green beans or well -cooked zucchini, the choice between these two foods depending on the acid -base balan ce of the 
blood. (Henry Bieler, 1965) In Daniel's case my choice was zucchini, one pint of plain zucchini puree with a little kelp and garlic 
added (no salt, no butter, no nothing else) every few hours. I also put him on heavy vitamin support and protomorp hogens for his 
desperate immune system. While on the Bieler fast he did daily enemas at home. Had colonics been available to him, Daniel 
couldn't have afforded them. Within three weeks he was far more comfortable, had less pain, more energy even though  he was still eating nothing but 
zucchini, had less swelling in his joints. During the first month he lost about ten pounds and had been skinny to start with. I then 
added other cooked nonstarchy vegetables to his diet and we continued the same protomorpho gen and supplement program for 
another month. Once each month Daniel came to see me. Each time he had slightly improved organ strength and was able to tolerate a few more 
foods. By the third month he stopped losing weight because we added small quanti ties of cooked rice and millet to his diet. However, to continue his detox, I had him water fast one day a week, staying in bed and resting all day. At the start and end  of the 
fasting day he also took an enema. He continued a weekly one -day fast for many months. By the fourth month, his immune system 
testing stronger, a new problem appeared. Daniel had intestinal parasites. So I also put him on a six month program to elimin ate 
those. Daniel required monthly dietary adjustments because he quickly became  allergic if he ate very much of anything very often –
broccoli or rice for example. During this time he became aware of many negative emotions associated with childhood, of young 
adult frustrations and disappointments. He was really very angry about many th ings in his life, even though he had for many years 
maintained an invariably pleasant social veneer. But now he began expressing some of these feelings to me and to his associat es. Daniel had an abusive girlfriend, but as he improved this relationship became insufferable. So he broke off with this woman and 
found a new relationship that was much more positive, one based on mutual respect and admiration. There are frequently strong  
connections between repressed anger and depository diseases like arthriti s and gout. Daniel could not permit himself to constantly 
be made angry and still get well. His next layer of symptoms did not appear until nearly eighteen months after he had first come to see me. By this time he had  
good energy, had returned to hikin g and skiing, camping and canoeing. He had worked as a printer but was now bootstrapping his 
own print shop on a shoestring, and became entirely self -employed. He had a good romantic relationship. The parasites were gone; 
his gout and arthritis was virtual ly gone; many of his food allergies were gone. Now his body was demanding that its acid/base 
balance be adjusted and he began to pay attention to the minor back problems he had all along. Daniel had also developed a ne w 
problem –inflammation of the eye. It was so severe that he went to an opthamologist seeking immediate relief because he could 
hardly see. I put him on massive doses of vitamin C and protomorphogens for the eye and we attacked the other problems. Now I still see Daniel every three months f or minor dietary and supplement adjustments. His emotional space is very positive. His business is doing well. His love life is doing well. He has developed no new problems and all the old ones are under cont rol. His organ systems, though better, will neve r tolerate many insults, physical or mental, but if he lives within his limits, he has every 
chance of a long and happy life. Daniel has become a friend of mine by now and I like to see him but I expect I won't see Daniel very much at all any more. He  
has learned what he needs to know to take care of himself. This is a typical onion case that resolved successfully. However t his 
case might not have worked out so well had Daniel not possessed a high degree of personal integrity and bravery, had he not f aced 
and resolved his emotional conflicts. Fortunately, Daniel had always conducted an ethical life, without dishonesty or a secre t 
collection of disreputable acts. Bodies are easy to fix; they are carbon oxygen engines that work on chemistry and respond 
unfailingly to physical measures. But the entity that runs the body is not so simple. The thoughts and emotions of the spirit 
impinge on a body as powerfully or more powerfully than all the vitamins, dietary reform or protomorphogens I can provide. Th e 
mind,  and the spirit behind that mind, can make a body sick or can prevent it from getting well or staying well despite everything I 
do. Unethical Illness  
    I see a lot of spiritually -induced physical illness in my practice. Maybe more than my share. Maybe i ts karmic; it tends to find 
me because I understand it. And it comes up my driveway because people who have it often become doctor shoppers, and seek out  
a naturopath as a last resort after exhausting everything that modern medical science has to offer. I have had large numbers of 
undiagnosable people that suffer greatly but who medical doctors can find nothing wrong with and label psychosomatic. I have 
also repaired people given specific medical diagnoses that standard physical remedies cannot make better. In most of these cases, the physical illness is secondary to, is an overlay of a more fundamental spiritual cause. On this ty pe of 
case there are inevitably severe problems connected with close friends, relatives and business associates. The sick pers on 
inevitably blames the friends, relatives and business associates and takes no responsibility. The problems seem unresolvable. When I probe deeply enough into these problems, I begin to discover the real infection below. The sick person, so fond of 
compl aining about all the terrible things done to them by the people they have or have had problems with, or sometimes, so proud 
of not complaining about all the terrible things done to them. Actually, almost inevitably this person has committed a huge m ass of 
secret crimes, viciousness and betrayals, rarely indictable felonious acts, but crimes none the less, disreputable deeds that  must be 
kept secret. These deeds are always completely justified; the sick person always claims to have been right for having  done them and it is 
next to impossible for me as a therapist to get them to take responsibility for their sins. But at the deep, center of almost  all people 
is an honest, decent soul that knows what it has really done and feels guilty and judges itself. T hat is why it says in the Bible, 
'judge not, lest you be judged'. It is not the judgment of the Deity we have so much to fear; we are own worst judge, jury, a nd 
executioner, and eventually extract from ourselves full payment with compound interest for all harmful acts. People frequently punish themselves with severe, incapacitating illness or even death. A spiritual illness will not respond v ery 
well to physical treatment until the spiritual malaise's is resolved. This case has to find enough courage t o become honest with 
themselves, to admit their deeds in all their disgusting detail and then to make amends, or if amends are not possible, to at  least 
cease and desist. They have to take personal responsibly for what they really are being and what they h ave really done and most 
importantly, accept that they are responsible for creating their own illness. It is not a virus, a cancer cell or something t hat just fell 
out of the universe and struck them, innocent victims that they are. They have made their il lness and only they can uncreate it. Unfortunately, few people who have spent a lifetime indulging themselves in this degree of irresponsibility have the integrit y to 
change. This is a tough case. Especially so because they think they are physically il l, they did not come to me to be defined as a 
"mental" case and tend to reject such approaches. • 
 
    There is no shortage of additional degenerative conditions that I could describe. There are eating disorders, shingles, skin 
problems, kidney disease, A lzheimer's, senility, mental illness, addictions, chronic fatigue syndrome, aids. There's macular 
degeneration, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic ear infections (especially in children), tonsillitis, bronchitis, pancreatitis,  cystitis, 
urethritis, prostatiti s, colitis, sinusitis, osteomyelitis and a dozen other itises, including appendicitis. There's algias (itises of the 
nerves): neuralgia, fibromyalgia. There's ism's (really itises of the muscles). There are 'onias like pneumonia; omas like ca rcinoma, 
melan oma and lymphoma. I could (but won't) write a page or two on every one of these conditions and turn this book into an encyclopedia. After twent y 
five years of practice, there is little I have not seen. Or helped a body repair. Generally, everyone of th ose following pages I'm not 
going to bother to write would repeat the same message. That the medical profession has little understanding of the real caus es or 
cures of disease; that the world is full of unnecessary suffering; that there are simple, painles s, effective, harmless approaches to 
eliminating most of the ailments of mankind except the ultimate ailment, old age, the thing that takes us all eventually; tha t 
essentially all the diseases resolve from the same approach. But I have already explaine d the theoretical basis of natural hygiene, the key role of toxemia, enervation, constipation, the 
essentials of good diet, fasting and colon cleansing, the importance of regular exercise, and the rational for vitamin 
supplementation. I have revealed a lot  of the secrets in my bag of tricks, like my favorite herbs, poultices and wheat grass. What concerns me most about medicine today is that there seems to be ever fewer hygienists practicing. The young holistic 
practitioner is overwhelmed with confusing  data and approaches and is increasingly less able to discern what is really important 
and what is distraction, and is increasingly intimidated by the AMA, made fearful of accepting people with serious conditions . Too 
many young practitioners become ideolo gues, clinging to the rightness of a single rigid discipline, missing the truths that exist in 
other approaches and worse, missing the limitations that exist in their own personal healing methods. The current concern about the cost of medical care and resorting to government -run insurance programs and regulations will do 
little or nothing to reverse the trend to more and more sickness that costs more and more to treat. The root causes of our cu rrent 
crisis are two fold. One, our food, just as it comes o ff the farm, is getting ever worse. This is not even recognized as a problem. After we process it for an industrial food distribution system, much nutrition is lost too. This is barely recognized as a pr oblem. Until we are better nourished, we will be ever  sicker and each generation will become a degeneration. Secondly, our society is 
suffering from all the evils of monopoly medicine. This is barely recognized. The AMA has a stranglehold on the sick. There i s no 
effective competition for its methods. Altern atives are suppressed. In my version of a better world, if anyone that wanted to could 
hang out a shingle and offer to diagnose, treat and cure disease, a few quacks would really hurt a few people. But many genui ne 
therapies would appear and the public wou ld be exposed to workable alternatives. If anyone that wanted to market it could put a 
label on a bottle of pills, power or tincture that said its contents would heal or cure disease, yes, a few people would be p oisoned. And a few would die needlessly by f ailing to get the right treatment. But on the positive side, all this liberty would result in 
countless new therapies being rediscovered and many new uses for existing substances would appear. Fundamentally, this is the issue of liberty. I believe it i s better to allow choice and options, to permit the dangers that go with 
liberty to exist. And to allow unfortunate outcomes to occur without intervention into individual lack of intelligence and 
irresponsibilities. The opposite is our current path –an atte mpt to regulate and control away all dangers. But this overcontrol results 
in institutionalized violence and cruelty, inefficiency that is not checked or exposed by the bright light of a better way. A s 
Churchill said, 'democracy is the worst form of govern ment there is –except for all the others.' What he meant is that we must 
accept that this is an imperfect world. The best this planet can be is when it is at its freest, when restrictions are minimi zed and 
when people are allowed to make their own choices, be responsible for their own outcomes and experience the consequences of 
their own stupidities. Appendix  
 
 
Pulse Testing For Allergies  
    Coca's Pulse Tests are extraordinarily useful and simple tools for at -home allergy detection. My clients have succeeded at using 
this approach without supervision. Coca's test works on this simple principle: pulse elevations are caused by any allergic reaction. If you know what your normal range of pulse rates are, you can isolate an offending food or substance and eliminate it. Succe ss 
with Coca's Pulse Test requires only motivation and a little perseverance, because in order to test for food allergies , the diet must 
be restricted for a few days and your pulse must be accurately taken at specific intervals during the testing period. The test is based on measurement of the resting pulse rate, something most people have no difficulty learning how to d o. The 
resting rate is how fast the heart beats after a person has been sitting still, comfortably relaxing for three to five minute s. When a 
person is active the heart beats faster than the resting rate. One measure of aerobic fitness is how quickly the h eart is able to return 
to its resting rate. Well -trained athletes' hearts can adjust from working very hard to a resting rate in only a minute or so; those who 
are deconditioned can take three to five minutes for their heart to slow from even mild exertion  to its stable, resting pace. Those 
who cannot readily find their own pulse on their wrist or throat can inexpensively purchase a digital watch that gives a puls e 
reading; this kind of watch is used by athletes to make sure their training pulse is in an ac ceptable range. Preparatory to doing Coca's Pulse Test it is necessary to as much as possible eliminate allergic food reactions. This require s the 
application of discipline for a few days before testing begins. Allergic reactions can go on for several  days after a food has been 
eaten and if you are having a reaction to something eaten many hours or several days previously, it may obscure a reaction to  a 
food just eaten. 1. Stop smoking entirely for at least five days before you do a cigarette test;  allergies to cigarettes can take five days to clear. Besides, you shouldn't smoke, anyway! 2. For the first three days, count your resting pulse immediately after awakening in the morning (for one entire minute), and  
record the reading. 3. During the first three days, take your resting pulse half an hour and again one hour after each meal. It if has elevated more 
than 12 beats above the resting rate you found upon arising that morning, you may assume that some food at the meal you just ate 
was an a llergen. Temporarily, eliminate from your diet all the foods eaten at the previous meal until you can check them one -by-
one a few days later. At the end of these first three days you may not have many foods left that you can eat. That is okay an d to be 
expected; it is time to begin adding foods back to the diet. 4. Most people who are allergic to foods are allergic to one or more of the following: corn, wheat, milk and cheese, yogurt, 
meat, alcohol, tobacco. It would be very wise to eliminate these food s too for the first three days, until they are tested. After three days on this regimen, you can assume that many of your usual allergic food reactions have ceased or at least 
diminished significantly and that you probably can get reasonably accurate t esting results on individual foods. A good indicator of 
having problems with food allergies in general can also show up during these initial days. If you have eliminated a large num ber of 
foods and your resting pulse upon awakening has slowed down by sever al beats, you can assume you are allergic to foods you 
were eating. I would not be at all surprised that by the end of the third day you were only eating a very few fruits and vegetables and ha d 
eliminated everything else. A more effective variant of t he testing procedure calls for a three or four day water fast to clear all 
allergies with absolute certainty, and then to introduce foods one at a time as described below. On the fourth and subsequent few days, take your resting pulse upon arising and then eat a modest quantity of a single food: for 
example, eat a slice of bread, or a medium sized glass of milk, or an orange, or two tablespoons sugar in dissolved in water,  or a 
few dried prunes, or a peach, or an egg, or a medium -sized potato, or a cup of black coffee without sweetener, or a few ounces of 
meat, or a stick of celery, or half a cup of raw cabbage, or an onion, or a date, or a few hazelnuts, etc. Count the pulse on e half 
hour later and again one hour after eating the test item. If any food raises the resting pulse over 12 beats per minute above your morning resting pulse, that food should be eliminated; 
you are certainly allergic to it or can't digest that much of it. If your pulse has not returned to its morning resting rate one hour 
later, you are still having an allergic reaction to the food you ate previously and cannot get a decent result on another food  until 
either your pulse slows again or until the next morning. You may, however, continue to eat other foods that you know do not 
provoke allergic reactions. Because reactions to a food may not clear for many hours, it is wise to eat only small quantities  of 
individual foods if you wish to test many of them in a single day. If a food causes no acceleration of pulse (at least 6 beat s above 
your estimated normal maximal) that food can be tentatively labeled non -allergenic. After a few days of testing one food an hour, you will become weary of the routine and wish to eat more normally. It may also  
occur that you cannot test more than  one or two foods a day from the very first day because allergic reactions do not clear quickly 
enough. No problem, the testing period can go on at a lower level of intensity for many weeks, trying one new food each morni ng 
upon arising. As you eliminate a llergens from your diet one by one, your resting pulse should drop somewhat and it should be 
easier to discern allergic reactions. After you have worked through all the items in your normal dietary, it would be wise to  retest 
the foods a second time, break ing your fast with one different test item each morning. This second testing round may reveal a few 
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        They had not known Marie was a lesbian, 
much less that their daughter was flirting with (from their view) obvious q uackery. Their daughter needed immediate saving and 
her parents and brother (the one who had abused her) flew to Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of viol ent 
rage. They threatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to h ave their daughter civilly committed as unable to take 
care of herself. They thought everything Marie had done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jai l. Of 
course, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place ; she had wanted to avoid this kind of a scene. Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of her immediate family. They put her in a hospital,  
where Marie had a radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that  they had done everything that should have been 
done, the self -righteous parents went back home. Marie never recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospital 
surrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever -so-sympathetic turns  maintaining an emotional round -the-clock vigil. Marie's death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I did not yet understand the total effect of la ck of 
ethics and irresponsibility on illness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have sought treatment three 
years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded this question and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with  my 
knee on her chest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody and was never fully honest in any of her 
relationships, including with me. I think she only came to Great Oaks at her lover's insistence and to the day she died was t rying to 
pretend that nothing was wrong. All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene 
gave her that, which is probably why she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it. The name for this game is "secondary gain. " A lot of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire; 
they get love, attention, revenge, sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick people receive to o 
much secondary gain they never get well. One of  the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever -enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is depressing and makes a person want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really want them to get bet ter. My life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealing with a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my famil y life 
suffers; my personal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this. And then some of these people go and wast e all 
my help to accomplish some discreditable secret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others. Constant Complaints  
    Alice was a middle -aged woman who couldn't understand why she had always felt tired, even when she was young. Her life had 
been this way ever since she could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Job -like. She did everything the 
proper way. Doing things correctly was important to her, and fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the ri ght causes, 
did good works, was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at the healthfood store –and made sure it was organically 
grown. But in spite of Alice's righteous living, her existence was a treadmill of constant, minor complaints. She was constantly 
exhausted, so much so she had difficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatigue syndrome (whatev er 
that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts like these, and had many acute illnesses like cold s that hung on 
interminably and would not go away. She had a constant post -nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life, her body was a millstone around 
her neck. I've had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they complain of headaches; sometimes cons tant yeast or bladder 
infections. Whatever the complaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves as someone who is seriously  
ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almost never feel good. Medical doctors rarely find anything  wrong with them, 
though they will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection, or an antihistamine for sinus sym ptoms. Getting a new prescription drug makes the complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is low ered again and the very 
same complaint returns. These people frequently depend on over the counter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedi es 
and antidepressants. If instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fi x and afterwards are amazed 
that it was all that simple and that so much of their life has been less than it could have been. Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and al so 
took synthetic thyroid hormone –the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive thyroid, which was partly 
correct –but the thyroid medication didn't give her much more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand st yle 
for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought. I put Alice through my usual two hour first -time-visit thorough analysis. For two weeks before coming to see me she had saved 
tiny samples of everything she ate, wrapped them in plast ic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer. Along with these 
food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought a big box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices, 
prescription medications, over the counter drugs, oils, g rains, breads, crackers and small samples of her usual fresh vegetables and 
fruits. Even her water. Her entire kitchen. By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions. I  also 
tested the integrity of her organs and glands and  in the process, got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints. Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest 
the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetar ian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairy products and had especially 
been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it was necessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many he alth 
food store shoppers these days mistakenly beli eve that, because they are vegetarian and do not eat meat, they especially need to 
boost their protein intake with dairy and soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy and 
unfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to d igest than cooked meats. Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts an d 
citrus. Most people don't think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sp routs. The doctor was right about 
one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had not noticed that her heart was weak. Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest do ctor 
will usually tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two aspirin, accept the fact that y our 
body is not perfect and don't worry about it. A hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any p ossible 
reason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or as long as the insurance company will pay. They 
rarely find anything "wrong" and the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn't discover something "serious" to treat be cause 
their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than the complaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people 
whose lives were virtually ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain. Biokinesiology is actually a far more s ensitive system of analysis than lab tests. It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so 
total organ failure can be prevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed by a medical doctor. Fi rst I 
put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week on fresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy 
vegetables juice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After six weeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a 
life extension megavitamin formu la, discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had already been taking) 
and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakened endocrine system, her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She 
also began taking pancreatic enzy mes when she ate vegetable protein. She was put on a maintenance diet that eliminated foods she 
was allergic to; the diet primarily consisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and raw vegetables, and raw fruits. On her mainte nance 
diet Alice had a profound res urgence of energy and rediscovered a sense of well -being she had not known for decades. She began 
to feel like she had when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone. She was able to stop taking synthetic thyroid 
hormones and instead, supported her  endocrine system with protomorphogens. A Rampaging Infection  
    At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came into a moderate inheritance and went "native" in the Fiji Island s in 
the South Pacific. He spent about four months hanging out w ith the locals. Life there was so much fun that John completely forgot 
that his body was actually rather delicate, that many of his organs were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly  simon -
pure life. But the jovial, accepting, devil -may-care Fijians enjoyed a constant party, even more so because John's money allowed the 
Fijians to manifest powerful, tropical, home -grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance, beer and rum and worse, 
the Fijians (and John) constantly used a ve ry toxic though only mildly -euphoric narcotic called kava, something Europeans usually 
have no genetic resistance to. The Fijians (and John) also ate a lot of freshly -caught fish fried in grease, well -salted, and huge, 
brain -numbing bowls of greasy starche s, foods that they call i'coi, or "real food" as opposed to things like fruit and vegetables that 
aren't real food because they don't knock you to the floor for hours trying to digest them in a somnambulant doze. John miraculously kept up with this par ty for a few months and then, while scuba diving, got some small coral scratches on his 
leg. These got infected. The infections got worse. Soon he had several huge, suppurating, ulcerous sores on his legs and wors e, the 
infections became systemic and began  spreading rapidly. He was running a fever and was in considerable pain. So John booked an 
emergency ticket home and fled to find Doctor Isabelle. When I met his plane he was rolled out in a wheelchair, unable to wal k 
because of pain and swelling in his le gs. John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died 
without them because previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life -threatening conditions that first bro ught John 
to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because he knew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medic al 
doctors would have done exactly as they pleased. I gave John a colonic, a gentle, mental spanking, and put him to  bed without any supper. He started water fasting and did 
colonics every day. He began gobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put huge poultices on his so res 
made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a week or so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready). John's sores were 
amazing. Every day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body. The old ones kept getting bigger and deeper. T he 
largest original ones were about three inches in diameter, smelled horrib ly and had almost eaten the flesh down to the bone. His 
pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn't irritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my  house 
was remote because John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. J ohn was never delirious, but he was always original. He did 
not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief and howled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs. After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores. There were forty thre e. Seven or eight of them 
were enormous, two or three inches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear were shallow, small and s tayed 
small. After that point no more new ones showed up and the body began to make visible headway again st the infection. Very 
slowly and then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from the edges. John's fever began to drop. And h e 
had less pain. I should mention that John brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism  into our house to 
which we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I were attacked where the skin had been broken. However, unlike 
John, in our cases, our healthy bodies immediately walled -off the organism and the small, reddened pustules, though  painful, did 
not grow and within a week, had been conquered by our immune systems. And after that we had an immunity. After about three weeks of his fasting we were thoroughly tired of hearing John's cathartic howls, tired of nursing a sick pe rson. We needed a break. John at this point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had previously water fasted for 30 day s 
and knew the drill very well. So we stocked up the vitamin C bottle by his bed and went to town for the weekend to stay in a motel 
and see a movie. As they say in the Canadian backwoods, we were bushed. John had promised to be good. But as soon as we left he decided that since he felt so very much better, he could break his fa st. He knew how to do this and fortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it more or less correctly, only 
eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables. But by the time we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. T he 
pain was rapidly getting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new ones appeared. Dr. Isabelle again took 
away his food and gave him another verbal spanking a little more severe than the one he'd had a few weeks earlier and put him  to 
bed again without his supper. After two more  weeks on water, John had gained a great deal on the sores. They were filling in and weren't oozing pus, looked 
clean and the new forming meat looked a healthy pink instead of purple -black. But John had been very slender to start with and by 
now he was get ting near the end of his food reserves. He probably couldn't have fasted on water for more than one more week 
without starvation beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under close supervision. I gave him dilute juice only, 
introduced othe r sustenance very cautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would not permit the 
organism to gain. This time it didn't. John's own immune system, beefed up by fasting, had conquered a virulent organism that  
could have easily killed  him. Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the common childhood illnesses, people frequently died of infections a s 
virulent as the one that attacked John. They usually died because they "ate to keep up their strength. " Most of these deaths were 
unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor nursing care. For example, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to con sist 
of spoon -fed milk –sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the assistance of massive doses of vitami n C, if 
people would but fast away infections they could cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the side e ffects 
of antibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic -resistant strains of bacteria.
They were upset because they discovered that their daughter was a lesbian and was in a relationship with another woman, and they wanted to stop it.
Why did Marie's parents come to the doctor's office in a state of violent rage?
Alice was allergic to dairy, wheat, soy, and other foods, which was causing her digestive issues and overall health problems.
What was wrong with Alice's digestive system, according to the doctor?
Dr. Isabelle put John on a water fast, and then gradually introduced him to a diet that eliminated the foods he was allergic to, and provided supplements to support his immune system.
What did Dr. Isabelle recommend to John, who had a severe infection and was in pain?
The key to resolving Jeanne's case was not just the physical treatment, but also her emotional and psychological growth, as she had to confront her past traumas and take responsibility for her actions.
What is the key to resolving Jeanne's case, according to the doctor?
The doctor believes that most diseases, including cancer, are caused by the body's inability to eliminate toxins and react to certain foods, and that the key to healing is to identify and eliminate these allergens and toxins, rather than just treating the symptoms.
What is the main issue with Dr. Isabelle's approach to cancer treatment?