John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would
not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previouscourses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions thatfirst brought John to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because heknew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors wouldhave 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 begangobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put hugepoultices on his sores made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a weekor 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 oldones kept getting bigger and deeper. The largest original ones were about threeinches in diameter, smelled horribly and had almost eaten the flesh down to thebone. His pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn’tirritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my house was remotebecause John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. John was never delirious,but he was always original. He did not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief andhowled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs. After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores. There were forty three. Seven or eight of them were enormous, two or threeinches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear wereshallow, small and stayed small. After that point no more new ones showed upand the body began to make visible headway against the infection. Very slowlyand then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from theedges. John’s fever began to drop. And he had less pain. I should mention thatJohn brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism into ourhouse to which we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I wereattacked where the skin had been broken. However, unlike John, in our cases,our healthy bodies immediately walled-off the organism and the small, reddenedpustules, though painful, did not grow and within a week, had been conquered byour 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 person. We needed a break. John atthis point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had previously water
fasted for 30 days 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 amovie. 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 fast. He knew how to do this andfortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it more orless correctly, only eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables. But by thetime we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. The pain was rapidlygetting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new onesappeared. Dr. Isabelle again took away his food and gave him another verbalspanking a little more severe than the one he’d had a few weeks earlier and puthim 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 formingmeat looked a healthy pink instead of purple-black. But John had been veryslender to start with and by now he was getting near the end of his food reserves.He probably couldn’t have fasted on water for more than one more week withoutstarvation beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under closesupervision. I gave him dilute juice only, introduced other sustenance verycautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would notpermit 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 easilykilled him. Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the common childhood
illnesses, people frequently died of infections as virulent as the one that attackedJohn. They usually died because they “ate to keep up their strength.” Most ofthese deaths were unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor nursing care. Forexample, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to consist of spoon-fed milk—sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the assistance
of massive doses of vitamin C, if people would but fast away infections they could
cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the side effects ofantibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Dr. John Tilden, a hygienist who practiced in the ‘20s, before the era of
antibiotics, routinely fasted patients with infectious illnesses. Supporting the sickbody 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 hecould not cure was diphtheria involving the throat. (Tilden, Impaired Health,  V ol. II). Recently, medical gerontologists have discovered another reason that fasting
heals infections. One body function that deteriorates during the aging process isthe production of growth hormone so the effects of growth hormone have beenstudied. This hormone also stimulates the body to heal wounds and burns, repairbroken bones, generally replace any tissues that have been destroyed and, growthhormone stimulates the immune response. Growth hormone also maintains muscletone 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 slowingaging in general. Unfortunately, growth hormone cannot at this time beinexpensively synthesized and is still far too costly to be used therapeuticallyexcept to prevent dwarfism. However, any technique that encourages a body toproduce 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 andornithine and certain vitamins such as C and B
6. But having the precursors present
is not enough. Growth hormone is only manufactured under certain, specificcircumstances: for about one hour immediately after going to sleep and then only if
the blood supply is rich with argenine and ornithine but contains few other amino
acids; it is also manufactured during heavy aerobic exercise that goes on for morethan thirty minutes; and growth hormone is produced at an accelerated rate whenfasting. (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 serious infectionas 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 bouts of severe back pain thatmade working almost impossible. Upon analysis by biokinesiology I found that hehad a major problem with large intestine weakness and secondarily, adrenalweakness. Constipation frequently causes back pain. The muscles of the back have nerve
pathway connections to the large intestines; weakness in the intestine causesweakness of the back and makes it prone to injury. But the problem is theintestine, not the back. And the only way to make the back stay better is to healthe intestine. Many athletes have very similar problems. For example, they getknee injuries and think there is something wrong with their knee. Or they getshoulder injuries and think their shoulder is weak. These people are only half right.Yes, their knee or their shoulder is weak. But it could become strong and almostuninjurable 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 isweakened by the bladder. The treatment should first be on the weakened gland ororgan and secondarily, on the damaged muscle tissue. I have solved numeroussports-related knee problems with protomorphogens for the adrenals andelimination of food allergies that make the adrenals work overtime. I have fixedbad 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 lotof straining.” But having given some 6,000 colonics, I knew better. There shouldhave been no straining; Barry was trying very hard to be regular—he should nothave had to effort. Fortunately, it struck him as true that he needed to detoxifyand I managed to convince him to water fast. He probably figured, why not sincehe couldn’t work anyway. Barry was a tall, skinny man to start with and youwould think he hardly carried any fat at all, but he fasted on water for 30 days,receiving a colonic every day, while I did bodywork on his damaged back. Hesure was constipated and couldn’t deny the evidence that floated by through thesight tube of the colonic machine. By the end of the fast his colon was fairlyrepaired 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 out for the first time what not beingconstipated 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, Barrylooked me up, just to say thanks and to let me know that he had not had anymore back problems and had generally felt good because he had more or lessstayed 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. Elsie began to have very painfulperiods with profuse bleeding and abdominal pain. Her nutrition had beengenerally good because her mother couldn’t survive on the average American dietand had long ago converted her family to vegetarianism. And like her mother,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 tubes, where it continued to bleedregularly into the abdominal cavity, following the same hormonal cycle as theendometritial tissue that lines the uterus. The doctor offered to try hormonalmanipulation and if this proved unsuccessful, offered a hysterectomy. That wouldcertainly eliminate the symptoms! But Elsie did not wish to eliminate her ability to have children and preferred not
to risk throwing her hormones off balance. So she came to me. My analysisshowed that she had weak ovaries and weak uterus. These were secondary to atoxic colon, toxic because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas thatreduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined Organic,vegetarian legume-rich diet into toxemia. Checking her foods for allergies Idiscovered 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 vegetable juice with dailyenemas, taking vitamins in powdered form. After the fast I put her onprotomorphogens for her reproductive organs and pancreas. The gall bladder hadhealed by itself during fasting—gall bladders usually heal easily. Her maintenancediet included using pancreatic enzyme supplements when eating vegetable proteinsand Elsie eliminated most fats so her gall bladder would not be stressed. Thefasting also overcame her allergic reactions to corn and wheat but she was stillunable to handle soy products, eggs or dairy. After six months Elsie no longerneeded protomorphogens, had no 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 thereproductive organs, including the ovaries, uterus, and in the case of the male, theprostate gland. A toxic colon is like having one rotten apple in a basket, itcontaminates 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 orprostate cancer. Detoxing the body and cleaning out the colon should be a part ofthe 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. Her college diploma turned out tobe useless. Jeanne used to help me at Great Oaks in exchange for treatment.During those early years she had done a 30 day juice fast with colonics. Twentyyears later at age 60, having survived three children’s growing up, surviving theprofound, enduring loss of one who died as an adult, after starting up and runninga small business that for many years barely paid its way, and experiencing anuninsured fire that took her house, she began to develop abdominal pains thedoctors named “irritable bowel syndrome” or “colitis.” The MD offeredantibiotics and antispasmodics but Jeanne had no insurance, the remedies wereunaffordable. She also retained considerable affinity for natural medicine. Prior to these symptoms her diet had been vegetarian, and had included large
quantities of raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains. But the bran in breadwas irritating to her bowels, she could no longer digest raw vegetables or mostraw 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 threeweeks was too weak to do her own enemas at home and could not shop forvegetables to cook into broth. So she had to add one small serving of cookedvegetable per day, usually broccoli or steamed kale. This lasted for one moreweek but Jeanne, having no financial reserves, had to return to work, and neededto regain energy quickly. Though not totally healed, she progressed to a
maintenance diet of cooked grains and vegetables and food supplements, very
much like a Macrobiotic diet. She felt better for awhile but wore down again afteranother 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, assoon as she could arrange to take time off, she began another. This time to avoidextreme weakness, she took vegetable broth from the outset, as well as smallamounts of carrot juice and one small serving of cooked vegetable a day for threeweeks. 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 nowhandle without irritating her bowel. She was now healthier then she had been in many years. With improved
energy and a more positive attitude, Jeanne returned to University at age 65 andobtained a teaching certificate. Now she is making good money, doing work sheenjoys for the first time in 35 years. I hope she has a long and happy life. She isentitled 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 inflamedgallbladder is in no way ho-hum to the person afflicted with it. I’ve beenfrequently told that there are no worse pains a body can create than an inflamedgallbladder or the sensations accompanying the passing of a gall stone. I hearfrom kidney patients that passing a kidney stone is worse but I’ve never had apatient who experienced both kinds of stones to give me an honest comparativeevaluation. The only thing dangerous about simple gallbladder problems is ignoring them
(between the bouts of severe pain they can cause) because then the inflamedgallbladder can involve the liver. I already told the story of how my own motherlost half her liver 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 livermakes bile that is stored in the gallbladder, to be released on demand into thesmall intestine to digest fat. A toxic, overloaded liver makes irritating sediment-containing bile that inflames the gallbladder and forms stones. A high-fat dietforces the liver to make even more of this irritant. A toxic, overloaded, inflamed, blocked gallbladder is capable of causing an
enormous array of symptoms that can seem to have no connection at all to theircause. In part these same symptoms are caused by a toxic, constipated colonthat, in part, got that way because of poor fat digestion over a long time. Thesesymptoms 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 considered to be highly dispensable. Without one, the bileduct takes over as a bladder but its capacity is much smaller so the person’sability to digest fats has been permanently crippled, leading to increased toxemiaand earlier aging if fats are not eliminated from the diet. These days the medicoshave a new, less invasive procedure to eliminate stones; they are vibrated andbroken-up by ultrasonics without major surgery. Inflamed gallbladders are usuallyremoved because gallbladder inflammations resist treatment 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 withcolonics. The lemon juice tends to clear the bile duct. The fast allows thegallbladder to heal from inflammation. In cases that aren’t too severe I have hadvery good results simply eliminating fats from the diet and using a food supplementderived from beet tops called AF Betafood. However, in all these cases, once thegallbladder is no longer “acting up,” the person must stay on a low fat diet. Anyfats 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 back pain, pain so severe that the suffers werebecoming bedridden. Medical doctors don’t associate gallbladder disease withback pain. The Frightening Heart
Heart disease is one of the major causes of death among North Americans. It
evokes images of resuscitation, of desperate races against time, trying to restartan arrested heart before the brain dies. It makes people think of horriblyexpensive surgery, last wills and testaments, terrible, paralyzing pain. Heartdisease is a great profit center for the 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 beforetoo much organic damage occurs. But it rarely is easy to get the people to takethe necessary medicine; everything in their lives must change—and quickly. 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 allfats, sugars and refined starches. Alcohol and tobacco must instantly and foreverbecome only past memories. It is almost as essential to eliminate flesh proteinfoods and dairy. Should that prove entirely too painful, fish in small quantities andonly one or two times 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 the body weight is adjusted. A period ofintense rest even without water fasting will accomplish almost as much. Evensomeone with the potential for heart disease who has not yet had a heart attackwould be well-served to spend a month in bed, losing weight on juice, or sitting ina rocker on the porch eating only raw foods. After the weight is down to normalor close to normal and the heart tests stronger, an exercise program should bestarted. Exercise has to become a religion. A daily aerobic program must be started on
a carefully managed gradient, using the pulse rate as an regulator, at first raisingtheir maximum heart rate to a point just below 150 percent of its resting pulse andkeeping it there for thirty minutes. One can walk, jog, ride a bicycle or use anexercise machine. Actually, everyone should do this, even those with no heartproblems. My husband, who hates the boredom of exercise, enjoys a ski machinein front of the TV while the stock market program is on. He finds the TVinteresting enough that he pays no attention to his workout. Daily aerobic exercisewill strengthen the heart, gradually slowing the heart’s resting pulse rate, indicatingthat 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 theresting 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 getwhen operating under stress. Stress and the adrenaline it releases produce a kindof a drug-high. Many stressaholics cannot give up their adrenaline addiction whilemaintaining their previous employment and life-style, even though their life is atstake. In this sense they are like alcoholics, who should not take employmenttending bar. To survive for long these people may have to retire or changeprofessions. Stockbrokers may have to become Organic farmers; journalists mayhave to operate a news stand or bookstore, or work part-time covering thesociety 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-EnzymeQ-
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 250mg. This much Q-
10 greatly boosts the energy output of the heart on a cellular
level. Vitamin E should also be increased, to between 600 and 2,000 iu daily. I
also rebuild diseased hearts with protomorphogens; usually they must stay onprotomorphogens for the rest of their lives. Niacin taken several times a day indoses, sufficient to dilate the capillaries and cause a skin flush (50 to 200milligrams), 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 program, the supplements and other measures
gradually take effect, and over months the patient begins to feel enormouslybetter. Inevitably they come to dislike the side-effects of the various medicationstheir medical doctor has put them on and they begin to wean themselves off ofheart-stimulating poisons like digitalis. Another benefit of my program is thatinevitably, blood pressure also drops to a normal range so if they have been onblood pressure medication they quit that too. Their diuretics also becomeunnecessary. The money they save more than pays for their supplements and thesense 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 divide up cancers and their treatments by their location inthe body and by the type of cancer cells present. I do not see it that way. To me,a cancer is a cancer is a cancer, and there is only one kind: it is an immune systemcollapse, consequence of the deadly triangle of weak spleen, thymus and liver,plus a toxic large intestine and weak pancreas. That organ profile is found in skincancer, prostate cancer, leukemia, brain cancer, cancer of what have you. Howfast or how slowly the cells multiply or spread, where they are located, what thecancer cells look like in a microscope, these are irrelevant factors compared tothe body’s ability to conquer the disease. Or die from it. If the body’s immune system can stop the growth of the cancers and begin to
turn them back before the cancer cells impinge catastrophically on some vitalfunction, the person can usually survive. Even if the body cannot completelyeliminate all the cancer cells, but regains enough immune function to keep theexisting cancers in permanent check, a person can survive many years with anexisting, 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 theywere before fasting. I believe that virtually everyone has cancer cells in their body, just like viruses
and bacteria. But most people do not develop cancer as a disease because theirimmune function is strong so these misbehaving cells are destroyed as fast as theyappear. Mutated, freely-multiplying cells are caused by peroxidized fats, by freeradicals in the body, by radiation (there has always been background radiation onEarth), by chance mutation. There are naturally occurring highly carcinogenicsubstances in ordinary foods that are unavoidable. In fact some of these naturallyoccurring substances are far more dangerous than the toxic residues of pesticidesin our foods. The body is supposed to deal with all these things; they are all calledinsults. It is rarely the insult that causes the disease called cancer; it is the failure ofthe body to eliminate cancerous cells promptly. So the treatment I recommend forcancer 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 hygienicmethods. Some people just cannot confront the lump(s). Or they are so terrifiedof having a cancer in their body that their emotions suppresses their own immunefunction. Even though surgery prompts a cancer to spread more rapidly, withouttheir lumps some cancer patients feel more positive. If surgery is done inconjunction with rebuilding the immune system, the body will prevent new cancersfrom 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 those cells one-by-one from a hugecancer mass, the body can better conquer smaller groups of cancer cells. And thedie-off of large cancers produces a lot of toxins, burdening the organs ofelimination. This is an argument for the potential benefit of a lumpectomy.However, I do not support mastectomies, or the type of surgery that causemassive 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 completelyreabsorbed by the body in any case because although the immune system mayhave killed it, an empty shell remains, like a peanut shell. Sometimes the judgmentcalls about surgery can get dicey. When surgery involves removing an organ. Ioppose 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 emotionsgenerated when a personal reality is suppressed, ignored or invalidated willoverwhelm an immune system. I always tell those people who sincerely believe init to go ahead with standard medical treatment (while I’m privately praying thedoctors won’t cause too much damage). However, when I am supporting a bodywith supplements and dietary reform, have put that body on a raw-food cleansingdiet or even a raw food diet with nuts and grains that hardly detoxifies, and thenthe person has had chemotherapy and radiation, the medical doctors inattendance are inevitably amazed that the side effects are much milder thananticipated, or non-existent. And fewer courses of chemotherapy are needed thanthe doctors expected. For example, I worked with a little boy with leukemia. His mother brought him
to me while trying to resolve a conflict with her ex-husband about the boy’streatment. 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 their hands on him. Even duringchemotherapy and radiation the mother kept the boy on my program. Throughoutthe doctors’ treatment he had so few bad side effects that he was able to continuein school and play with the other children; he did not lose his hair (which wouldhave made him feel like a freak). He recovered. I don’t mind that the medicaldoctors took credit, but to my thinking, he recovered 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 themonion cases because these people get better in layers, like peeling an onion. Aseach skin comes off, the next becomes visible. Sometimes when the patientovercomes an existing complaint, another appears that was not there in thebeginning, probably this new one is a complaint that they had at an earlier point intheir life, one that had gone away. Onion cases take a long time to completelyheal, sometimes years. There frequently are psychological aspects to the case thatsurface with different physical problems. If I were not an effective psychologist Icould not succeed with most of them. The average medical doctor probablyconsiders 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, nervoussystem failures and heart failures. With these eliminated, new complaints appear.Often these are endocrine system imbalances or weak endocrine glands, anemias,mild heart conditions. Then it gets down to eye or ear infections, muscular orskeletal weaknesses, mild skin problems, sinusitis, teeth problems; things thataren’t serious but that do degrade the quality of life. Each one of these layers alsocarries with it a psychological component; each of these layers can take three tosix 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 usuallyseen until middle age—crippling gout and arthritis. He had badly distorted joints,walked with considerable pain, lacked a full range of movement, had enormousfatigue and consequently, a well-justified depression. Daniel was about to give upworking 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 multiple organ weaknesses: a life-threateningly weakimmune system, weak pancreas, weak adrenals, weak large intestine. Because hecould hardly accept anything he wasn’t allergic to and because he could not affordto quit working even for a few weeks (though he was about to be forced intocomplete disability) I put him on a Bieler fast. This is a monodiet of fairlysubstantial quantities of either well-cooked green beans or well-cooked zucchini,the choice between these two foods depending on the acid-base balance of theblood. (Henry Bieler, 1965) In Daniel’s case my choice was zucchini, one pint ofplain zucchini puree with a little kelp and garlic added (no salt, no butter, nonothing else) every few hours. I also put him on heavy vitamin support andprotomorphogens for his desperate immune system. While on the Bieler fast hedid daily enemas at home. Had colonics been available to him, Daniel couldn’thave 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 thesame protomorphogen 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 hestopped losing weight because we added small quantities of cooked rice andmillet 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. Bythe 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 toeliminate 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 withchildhood, of young adult frustrations and disappointments. He was really veryangry about many things in his life, even though he had for many years maintainedan invariably pleasant social veneer. But now he began expressing some of thesefeelings to me and to his associates. 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 thatwas much more positive, one based on mutual respect and admiration. There arefrequently strong connections between repressed anger and depository diseaseslike arthritis and gout. Daniel could not permit himself to constantly be made angryand 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 hikingand skiing, camping and canoeing. He had worked as a printer but was nowbootstrapping his own print shop on a shoestring, and became entirely self-employed. He had a good romantic relationship. The parasites were gone; hisgout and arthritis was virtually gone; many of his food allergies were gone. Nowhis body was demanding that its acid/base balance be adjusted and he began topay attention to the minor back problems he had all along. Daniel had alsodeveloped a new problem—inflammation of the eye. It was so severe that hewent to an opthamologist seeking immediate relief because he could hardly see. Iput him on massive doses of vitamin C and protomorphogens for the eye and weattacked the other problems. Now I still see Daniel every three months for minor dietary and supplement
adjustments. His emotional space is very positive. His business is doing well. Hislove life is doing well. He has developed no new problems and all the old onesare under control. His organ systems, though better, will never tolerate manyinsults, physical or mental, but if he lives within his limits, he has every chance of along 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 toknow to take care of himself. This is a typical onion case that resolvedsuccessfully. However this case might not have worked out so well had Daniel notpossessed a high degree of personal integrity and bravery, had he not faced andresolved his emotional conflicts. Fortunately, Daniel had always conducted anethical life, without dishonesty or a secret collection of disreputable acts. Bodiesare easy to fix; they are carbon oxygen engines that work on chemistry andrespond unfailingly to physical measures. But the entity that runs the body is notso simple. The thoughts and emotions of the spirit impinge on a body aspowerfully or more powerfully than all the vitamins, dietary reform orprotomorphogens I can provide. The mind, and the spirit behind that mind, canmake a body sick or can prevent it from getting well or staying well despiteeverything I do. Unethical Illness
I see a lot of spiritually-induced physical illness in my practice. Maybe more
than my share. Maybe its karmic; it tends to find me because I understand it. Andit comes up my driveway because people who have it often become doctorshoppers, and seek out a naturopath as a last resort after exhausting everythingthat modern medical science has to offer. I have had large numbers ofundiagnosable people that suffer greatly but who medical doctors can find nothingwrong with and label psychosomatic. I have also repaired people given specificmedical 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 type of case there are inevitably severeproblems connected with close friends, relatives and business associates. The sickperson inevitably blames the friends, relatives and business associates and takesno responsibility. The problems seem unresolvable. When I probe deeply enoughinto these problems, I begin to discover the real infection below. The sick person,so fond of complaining about all the terrible things done to them by the peoplethey have or have had problems with, or sometimes, so proud of not complainingabout all the terrible things done to them. Actually, almost inevitably this personhas committed a huge mass of secret crimes, viciousness and betrayals, rarelyindictable felonious acts, but crimes none the less, disreputable deeds that must bekept 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 atherapist to get them to take responsibility for their sins. But at the deep, center ofalmost all people is an honest, decent soul that knows what it has really done andfeels guilty and judges itself. That is why it says in the Bible, “judge not, lest yoube judged.” It is not the judgment of the Deity we have so much to fear; we areown worst judge, jury, and executioner, and eventually extract from ourselves fullpayment with compound interest for all harmful acts. People frequently punish themselves with severe, incapacitating illness or even
death. A spiritual illness will not respond very well to physical treatment until thespiritual malaise’s is resolved. This case has to find enough courage to becomehonest with themselves, to admit their deeds in all their disgusting detail and thento make amends, or if amends are not possible, to at least cease and desist. Theyhave to take personal responsibly for what they really are being and what theyhave really done and most importantly, accept that they are responsible forcreating their own illness. It is not a virus, a cancer cell or something that just fellout of the universe and struck them, innocent victims that they are. They havemade their illness and only they can uncreate it. Unfortunately, few people who have spent a lifetime indulging themselves in
this degree of irresponsibility have the integrity to change. This is a tough case.Especially so because they think they are physically ill, they did not come to me tobe 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,Alzheimer’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,prostatitis, colitis, sinusitis, osteomyelitis and a dozen other ‘itises, includingappendicitis. There’s ‘algias (itises of the nerves): neuralgia, fibromyalgia. There’s‘ism’s (really itises of the muscles). There are ‘onias like pneumonia; ‘omas likecarcinoma, melanoma 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 twenty five years of practice, there islittle I have not seen. Or helped a body repair. Generally, everyone of thosefollowing pages I’m not going to bother to write would repeat the same message.That the medical profession has little understanding of the real causes or cures ofdisease; that the world is full of unnecessary suffering; that there are simple,painless, effective, harmless approaches to eliminating most of the ailments ofmankind except the ultimate ailment, old age, the thing that takes us all eventually;that essentially all the diseases resolve from the same approach. But I have already explained the theoretical basis of natural hygiene, the key
role of toxemia, enervation, constipation, the essentials of good diet, fasting andcolon cleansing, the importance of regular exercise, and the rational for vitaminsupplementation. I have revealed a lot of the secrets in my bag of tricks, like myfavorite 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 theAMA, made fearful of accepting people with serious conditions. Too many youngpractitioners become ideologues, clinging to the rightness of a single rigiddiscipline, missing the truths that exist in other approaches and worse, missing thelimitations 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 toreverse the trend to more and more sickness that costs more and more to treat.The root causes of our current crisis are two fold. One, our food, just as it comesoff the farm, is getting ever worse. This is not even recognized as a problem. Afterwe process it for an industrial food distribution system, much nutrition is lost too.This is barely recognized as a problem. Until we are better nourished, we will beever sicker and each generation will become a degeneration. Secondly, oursociety is suffering from all the evils of monopoly medicine. This is barelyrecognized. The AMA has a stranglehold on the sick. There is no effectivecompetition for its methods. Alternatives are suppressed. In my version of abetter world, if anyone that wanted to could hang out a shingle and offer todiagnose, treat and cure disease, a few quacks would really hurt a few people.But many genuine therapies would appear and the public would be exposed toworkable alternatives. If anyone that wanted to market it could put a label on abottle of pills, power or tincture that said its contents would heal or cure disease,yes, a few people would be poisoned. And a few would die needlessly by failingto get the right treatment. But on the positive side, all this liberty would result incountless new therapies being rediscovered and many new uses for existingsubstances would appear. Fundamentally, this is the issue of liberty. I believe it is better to allow choice
and options, to permit the dangers that go with liberty to exist. And to allowunfortunate outcomes to occur without intervention into individual lack of
intelligence and irresponsibilities. The opposite is our current path–an attempt to
regulate and control away all dangers. But this overcontrol results ininstitutionalized violence and cruelty, inefficiency that is not checked or exposedby the bright light of a better way. As Churchill said, “democracy is the worstform of government there is—except for all the others.” What he meant is that wemust accept that this is an imperfect world. The best this planet can be is when itis at its freest, when restrictions are minimized and when people are allowed tomake their own choices, be responsible for their own outcomes and experiencethe 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 withoutsupervision. Coca’s test works on this simple principle: pulse elevations arecaused by any allergic reaction. If you know what your normal range of pulserates are, you can isolate an offending food or substance and eliminate it. Successwith Coca’s Pulse Test requires only motivation and a little perseverance, becausein order to test for food allergies, the diet must be restricted for a few days andyour 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 do. The resting rate is how fast the heartbeats after a person has been sitting still, comfortably relaxing for three to fiveminutes. When a person is active the heart beats faster than the resting rate. Onemeasure of aerobic fitness is how quickly the heart is able to return to its restingrate. Well-trained athletes’ hearts can adjust from working very hard to a restingrate in only a minute or so; those who are deconditioned can take three to fiveminutes 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 caninexpensively purchase a digital watch that gives a pulse reading; this kind ofwatch is used by athletes to make sure their training pulse is in an acceptablerange. Preparatory to doing Coca’s Pulse Test it is necessary to as much as possible
eliminate allergic food reactions. This requires the application of discipline for afew 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 restingrate you found upon arising that morning, you may assume that some food at themeal you just ate was an allergen. Temporarily, eliminate from your diet all thefoods eaten at the previous meal until you can check them one-by-one a few dayslater. At the end of these first three days you may not have many foods left thatyou can eat. That is okay and to be expected; it is time to begin adding foodsback 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 wouldbe very wise to eliminate these foods too for the first three days, until they aretested. 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 youprobably can get reasonably accurate testing results on individual foods. A goodindicator of having problems with food allergies in general can also show upduring these initial days. If you have eliminated a large number of foods and yourresting pulse upon awakening has slowed down by several beats, you can assumeyou 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 had eliminated everything else. A moreeffective variant of the 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 indissolved 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 ofmeat, or a stick of celery, or half a cup of raw cabbage, or an onion, or a date, ora few hazelnuts, etc. Count the pulse one half hour later and again one hour aftereating 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 toit or can’t digest that much of it. If your pulse has not returned to its morningresting rate one hour later, you are still having an allergic reaction to the food youate previously and cannot get a decent result on another food until either yourpulse slows again or until the next morning. You may, however, continue to eatother foods that you know do not provoke allergic reactions. Because reactionsto a food may not clear for many hours, it is wise to eat only small quantities ofindividual foods if you wish to test many of them in a single day. If a food causesno acceleration of pulse (at least 6 beats 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 testmore than one or two foods a day from the very first day because allergicreactions do not clear quickly enough. No problem, the testing period can go onat a lower level of intensity for many weeks, trying one new food each morningupon arising. As you eliminate allergens from your diet one by one, your restingpulse 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, breaking your fast with one different test
item each morning. This second testing round may reveal a few more allergicreactions that were obscured by other allergic reactions the first time through. Vitamin and SupplementSuppliers
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        John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would
not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previouscourses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions thatfirst brought John to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because heknew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors wouldhave 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 begangobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put hugepoultices on his sores made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a weekor 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 oldones kept getting bigger and deeper. The largest original ones were about threeinches in diameter, smelled horribly and had almost eaten the flesh down to thebone. His pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn’tirritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my house was remotebecause John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. John was never delirious,but he was always original. He did not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief andhowled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs. After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores. There were forty three. Seven or eight of them were enormous, two or threeinches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear wereshallow, small and stayed small. After that point no more new ones showed upand the body began to make visible headway against the infection. Very slowlyand then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from theedges. John’s fever began to drop. And he had less pain. I should mention thatJohn brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism into ourhouse to which we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I wereattacked where the skin had been broken. However, unlike John, in our cases,our healthy bodies immediately walled-off the organism and the small, reddenedpustules, though painful, did not grow and within a week, had been conquered byour 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 person. We needed a break. John atthis point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had previously water
fasted for 30 days 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 amovie. 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 fast. He knew how to do this andfortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it more orless correctly, only eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables. But by thetime we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. The pain was rapidlygetting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new onesappeared. Dr. Isabelle again took away his food and gave him another verbalspanking a little more severe than the one he’d had a few weeks earlier and puthim 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 formingmeat looked a healthy pink instead of purple-black. But John had been veryslender to start with and by now he was getting near the end of his food reserves. He probably couldn’t have fasted on water for more than one more week withoutstarvation beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under closesupervision. I gave him dilute juice only, introduced other sustenance verycautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would notpermit 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 easilykilled him. Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the common childhood
illnesses, people frequently died of infections as virulent as the one that attackedJohn. They usually died because they “ate to keep up their strength. ” Most ofthese deaths were unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor nursing care. Forexample, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to consist of spoon-fed milk—sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the assistance
of massive doses of vitamin C, if people would but fast away infections they could
cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the side effects ofantibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
Because previous antibiotics had caused life-threatening conditions in the past, and he preferred to focus on a natural approach to healing.
Why did John refuse antibiotics even if it meant risking his life?
Not mentioned in the passage.
What was the treatment plan for Jeanne's heart condition?
120-250 milligrams per day.
What is the recommended dosage of Co-Enzyme Q-10 for people with heart problems?
The author does not specify a single cause, but suggests that it is a result of a complex interplay of factors, including the environment, food, and personal choices.
What is the primary cause of cancer, according to the author?
Not mentioned in the passage.
What is the recommended treatment for a patient with a severe case of constipation?