1 2 Reach for the Sky And Flourish Welcome to your New Life 3 CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR LIFE IS ABOUT TO CHANGE HEAL YOURSELF ! by Markus Rothkranz This information is a collection of studies, observations, research and practical advice written for the purposes of helping people help themselves become disease-free. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: Please note the material in this book has not been approved by the food and drug administration. They are an account of personal experiences and a lifetime of study. This information and the opinions contained therein are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Statements are opinion and constitutable as facts or medical evaluations. This material is for information purposes only and not intended as medical advice. Since there is always some risk involved with publishing alternative works, the author, publisher and distributors are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of any suggestions or procedures described hereafter. 1 © 2009 Markus Rothkranz Rothkranz Publishing www.HealYourself101.com 2 CONTENTS INTRO: The Healing Starts Now People Everywhere are Healing My Transformation What About Genetics? Bacteria, Viruses and Cancer Are Not The “Bad Guys”  Here We Go What About Protein and Meat? Healthy Non-Meat Sources of Protein Cleansing – The Most Important Secret of All Why Are (Most) Raw Foodists So Skinny? (and Have Gas) How Bad Can it Be ? Milk, Cheese and Dairy Soy is Bad, Healthy "Milk" Alternatives Bread and Anything Made with Flour Sugar 7 7 14 17 20 24 26 29 33 33 35 35 38 40 41 43 47 48 50 51 59 60 77 79 82 83 86 89 THE TRANSITION What About Dehydrated Food? How and Why to Eat 2 Things You'll Need – Juicer and Blender Aren't Raw Foods Expensive? THE SHOPPING LIST Off We Go to the Grocery Store – Foods and Supplements WATER Dehydrator ENEMA- The Miracle Cleaner How To Do An Enema – This Could Save a Life What is a Colonic? FASTING- The Universal Healer 3 PARASITES – Everyone Has Them Signs You Have Parasites Some Types of Parasites and What They Do Help!!! How Do You Get Rid of Them? Serious Parasite Killing Herbs Other Things You Can Do Bleeding Gums THE PLAN Juice Drinks Blended Drinks Raw Food Transitional Food – Switching to Raw Sample Daily Meals 96 98 99 102 107 111 112 113 115 119 123 124 129 RECIPES (with pictures)_____________________________132 Raw Chocolate Treats 137 Recipes From Raw Matt 140 Signs of Detox and Level of Health 142 Mistakes Many Raw Foodists Make 145 Bad Things To Avoid 146 148 149 152 156 158 160 161 165 BODYWORK EXERCISE- Move Your Body or Die STRETCHING & Yoga Exercises – Pictures and Diagrams EMOTION Mind and Soul STRESS: The Biggest Killer of All THE POWER OF TOUCH MAKE LOVE for Health 4 ALONE TIME and Place ENERGY WORK Scream and Shake SLEEP 166 167 168 169 173 176 178 180 181 184 190 190 SPIRITUALITY, Faith and Prayer SUNLIGHT- Solar Energy for The Body Summary If It Isn't Working The Biggest Healer of All Final Word Where to Get Stuff Non Toxic Dentistry Healing Centers 5 We were not born to die. We were born to live BECOMING YOUNGER, SEXIER AND DISEASE FREE LIVING WAY PAST 100 THE HEALING STARTS NOW What you will read in this book you will know is the truth. PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE HEALING If you have a serious disease or just want to lose weight or get younger again, there is nothing on the planet that will get you there faster than what I am about to say in this book. It is simple. It costs very little, and you'll start seeing effects right away. The less you cheat, the more dramatic the effects will be. My father had aggressive prostate cancer, his PSA was off the charts. He lived a life of meat, potatoes, bread and alcohol. We said to him: "are you willing to make a radical life change?" He said “yes” and within one month his cancer was completely GONE. I've seen this lifestyle help people look 20 years younger. I know because I am one of them. 6 I have friends that got rid of things like polio and brain cancer. I've seen 400 lb diabetics get off insulin within DAYS. I’ve seen people lose 200 pounds (yes TWO HUNDRED POUNDS!!!) Google Philip McCluskey or Angela Stokes. I've seen what most would call miracles happen so regularly, I know without a doubt this works. It is simply going back to living the way nature designed us to live. That's all. How do I know for sure what I'm saying is true? Because I've tried it on myself. I've interviewed people who healed themselves of lifethreatening diseases. You should see some of the before-after pictures ! I don't care what any book or doctor says. I want to see and experience the results myself. Results speak for themselves. Don't believe me. You need to try it yourself and watch what happens :-) “We are judged on the quality of our results, not on the quality of our excuses.” Steve Fargan Truth always wins in the end. Let's not suffer or lose any more lives to realize this. You will have to change some things in your life. You can't get better by continuing to do the things that made you sick. Do what I say, don't cheat, and I guarantee you will feel a difference. You will know that magic is really possible. This is a life change and that scares some people. There is absolutely nothing to fear. Your life will NOT be more boring. You will feel a thousand times better. It definitely works but it requires will and staying power. Cooked and processed foods are addictive. Fear of change is the biggest factor. As with any addiction, people start jonesing for sugar, bread, cereal, pizza and cheese shortly after starting this 7 cleanse and give up. The ones who hold tight then start to detox, and this process scares half of those people away because their bodies are bringing all kinds of crap to the surface that's been stored in their cells for years/decades. So now we are down to one quarter of the people that started. Their diseases go away. They feel great - SO great, they start to feel invincible and want to celebrate, so they go back to their old ways... they get sick, then go back to raw food again, feel better, celebrate by eating pizza, get sick, go back to healthy... and slowly over the years they start eating less bad and more good. This is a normal back and forth process where people try to see what they can get away with. Go ahead. It's a learning process. ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.’ Albert Einstein This lifestyle definitely works... my allergies went away, my eyesight got better and I don't get sick anymore. It healed my dad's cancer. My business manager lost 40 lbs in the first 8 weeks. Start with the basics and work your way from there. The main thing to start with is an awareness of what's right and wrong and then pay close attention to your body and how it reacts to what you do. As you read this book, you will know it is the truth because it will resonate with you as something you always knew deep inside, but kept hidden in the corners. This truth has been nagging you quietly over the years and you knew one day you’d have to listen. That time is now. There is nothing to be afraid of. You will NOT lose comfort or lifestyle - as a matter of fact you will become an amazingly alive person who wishes they did this years or decades ago. 8 The sooner you start, the sooner you will be celebrating life like never before. What you will see in the mirror will be sexy and you’ll forget what it was like to ever be sick. THE TRUTH The truth will set you free. It is insanely ridiculous that I have to write a book about this. This is like having to remind people that breathing is healthy. What I am about to tell you is the most basic common sense that's been around since the beginning of time, and it boggles the mind how millions of people - especially in the modernized world, have forgotten this common sense to the point it seems foreign to them and something to fear and avoid. What's even sillier, is this is nothing new. It's been like this for centuries. Sages heal people by reminding them of basic timeless natural laws. This isn't a profound magical secret, although to most caught up in the material rat race it seems that way. It's amazing that the little critters living just outside your house know more about health and longevity than you do, and they barely have a brain. Natural intuition is more powerful than all the rocket science in the world. As a species, we are the unhealthiest life form on the planet. We have been here the shortest amount of time and done the most damage. Actually we are the ONLY species causing damage. We are stressed-out materialistic comfort-driven beings totally out of touch with nature, and as a result hundreds of millions of people are rapidly aging, falling apart and dying long before their time. Almost everyone in the modern world has some kind of physical problem now. Many have silly diseases for no other reason than they are either too lazy or they just don't know any better. The motto is "I can do what I want, and if something happens, a doctor can fix it". Right? Wrong. Doctor's don't fix. They hide symptoms. They drug you up so you don't feel anything. They cut out infected body parts and give you poisons to try 9 and kill things. If you break a bone or cut off a finger they put the bones and finger back in place and hope your body will heal it. Doctors don't heal you - your BODY does the healing. Ask a doctor what caused a disease and they probably won't have a clue. If you had a disease, wouldn’t you want to know what caused it, so you could stop doing it and make sure it didn’t happen again? The irony of the whole thing is we are "too busy" being in a hurry to be healthy or happy. We are so worried and concerned about racing the clock to get things done, that we are actually cutting our lives in half. We're trying to be efficient and save time, but in reality we are doing the opposite. If someone told you that you would live twice as long, wouldn't you start to take things a little easier? Wouldn't you take a little time to become healthier? Well that's exactly the case. The body you have been given is designed to live to at least 125. The Bible and many other religions even say that. Bulgarians live to be between 105 -125. A man in India just died who was 146. I met Bernando LaPallo who is 109 and outlived his son by 30 years... and he’s still going strong! So my first message to you is: there is no need to hurry through your day. You have a long life ahead of you. People: you live longer by slowing down! The longest living animals are turtles and elephants. STOP. Walk outside right now and look and take a deep breath. Feel the wind on your face. Look at the sky and listen to the birds. Now take your lover’s hand and look in their eyes... REALLY look in their eyes. What do you see? It's real simple. We are designed to function a certain way, and if we don't live that way, then trouble eventually arises. Everybody always says "what difference is one little soft drink or pizza or pasta going to make"? Firstly, it does not all come out of you the next day. Every molecule you put into your body is going to have an effect. Your body makes millions of new cells every minute and they use what's available at the time. That "one little" piece of candy or comfort food becomes part of you. Those cells won’t be able to properly absorb nutrients and expel waste like they are supposed to. Then the next day you'll have 10 something else that's not totally raw and natural, again you say "this one little thing isn't going to make a difference in the long run". Again, 50 million more cells are made from inferior building materials, while others might even be harmed by the acidic nature of the snack. Most will be covered in mucus so they can’t breathe... slowly suffocating. And on and on. You might not feel anything at first (just like termites that are secretly eating away your house), but pretty soon, these toxic little drops fill the bucket (your body) and you have a disaster. "Nature is not negotiable, it's essential." Dr. Ruza Bogdanovich We are speeding down the highway of life. If we turn the steering wheel even one tiny half of a degree off center, we might stay on the road for a while, but eventually the car will run off the road and reality will hit us hard and fast. That is what our little "cheating" does. Don't think it's not leaving a mark. Look at how something that somebody told us many years ago can still stay with us in the back of our mind and still charge us emotionally today, even if that person is long gone. No difference. It's all energy. The energy effect of that donut or pizza or beer we had twenty years ago still reverberates in our cells. Everything leaves its mark. We can clean ourselves out mentally, physically and emotionally, but we will never again be the innocent, pure wide-eyed child we once were, who saw everything with fresh wonder and innocence. Sure we can learn to appreciate, but we will always be imbued with the underpinnings of life experience. The same goes for our body. We can clean it, heal it and make it healthy again, but it will have the energy scars of the past. That's why it's so important to do the right thing starting RIGHT NOW! “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain 11 So enough of the doom and gloom. Yes, millions of people in the modern world are dying when not even halfway through their life. Almost all people in the modern world have some kind of health problem. Almost all of it can be avoided, reversed and healed. There are no guarantees, but if you are still alive, you have a serious fighting chance. I see what people call “miracles” every day. The only person who can heal you is YOU. The only way of doing it is following, honoring and obeying the natural laws of nature. If you honor mother nature, she will return the blessing and give you life - because that's what you were designed for. This works. The only people who don't have some kind of results are those who are cheating or not following directions. It’s human nature to see how much we can get away with. We all do it. Just be aware: you can’t hide anything from nature or yourself. Nature is non-judgmental. It doesn't care if you are rich or poor, young or old. If you follow natural law, you will be imbued with life. But those of you who cheat, be forewarned: for every action there is an opposite reaction. It is universal law. You can't cheat or beat nature. It always wins. You cannot eat spaghetti, pizza, candy, drink alcohol and soft drinks, inhale cigarette smoke and expect to not pay for it. That's like those people who think they can cheat death by jumping off a crashing airplane at the last second just before it hits. No my friends, there are certain rules you must follow if you want to play this game right. Sure you can live it up and spend the last half of your life riddled with disease and discomfort, while the healthy people dance and play and laugh. Is that what you want? I am not going to kid you, because this is serious. Life or death. The choice is yours. I want you to live. I want you to never get sick ever again. I want what you see in the mirror to get younger every day. I want you to know what it's like to be in a body that's so clean, you can feel things you never knew were possible. I want you to know what it's like to be orgasmic with every breath, every thought, every sound, smell and sight. You will never look at life the same way again. Imagine never 12 feeling pain again. Imagine feeling naturally high and in tune with everyone everywhere. Imagine needing only a few hours of sleep and jumping out of bed at the first rays of the new day with the energy of a rocket. Imagine being filled with appreciation and love so vast you can feel the whole universe breathing and moving with you. Every step you take is like on coiled springs. Your heart is fully free and your body feels like that of a six-year-old. Your intuition is razor sharp and instantaneous because your brain is a supercomputer and your soul is channeling the voice of God. This can be you. I wasn't always like this. My transformation was actually pretty recent. MY TRANSFORMATION I almost died half a dozen times in my life because of stupid things I did... most of them lifestyle choices. I never drank alcohol, smoked, did recreational drugs or anything like that. I followed all the rules like a good citizen. But my life still came very close to ending numerous times. Why? Not because I played with guns or jumped out of airplanes. No, I had heart disease, liver disease, lung disease, I was hemorrhaging and had a list of medical problems longer than this book... all because I ate what I wanted: the modern American diet. For the first thirty years, I ate candy, hamburgers, florescent sodas, macaroni and cheese, pop tarts, toast, spaghetti, TV dinners, pastries, canned food, cheese, bread, milk, sugar, sugar, sugar and more sugar. I had cysts before I was even out of my teens. I couldn't drive more than a few minutes without stopping, opening the car door and coughing up a gob of mucus so I could breathe. People didn't call me Markus, they called me Mucus. Like most people, the sad part is I really didn't know exactly what to do about it. It took me twenty years of experimenting, self discovery 13 and research to figure it out. I tried every health fad there was. I became vegetarian, but still got sick. I tried every supplement on the market but still got sick. I became vegan. Still got sick. I tried it all. It wasn't until I finally had nothing left but the very basic fundamentals of life: air, water, sunshine, exercise, fruits, vegetables, love and the courage to listen to the quiet voice of truth (God), that it finally all made sense and a whole new world was opened to me. It was like a door got opened, bright sunshine filled my face, angels sang and I stepped across the threshold from a world of dark illusion into a glorious new consciousness. Words can't describe the feeling of that moment. It all made sense. And how elegantly simple it all was! It was SO SIMPLE, a child could understand it. Any animal, plant or living being could understand it. It had nothing to do with knowledge or brains. It had to do with awareness of right and wrong. Of only doing things that honor and appreciate life. I honor life. It blesses me in return with more life. By doing a few little sacrifices of not giving in to temptation (like comfort foods), we are rewarded with eternal health. Not only do our bodies become free of worldly burdens, but our souls - our very essence - are allowed to shine and express themselves and sing and dance with all the universe. We radiate a loving energy that blesses everything it touches. We become a beacon of light that heals others. We become givers of life instead of takers. And as a reward, we are given the ability to finally truly appreciate the mate we are with. To feel their skin in such a way you never knew possible. To have the gentle sound of their breath send waves of indescribable bliss through your being so strongly that every hair on your body stands on end. Imagine living life that way. You can. 14 And it starts right now. All it takes is a commitment from you that you will do whatever it takes. No turning back. For some it won't be easy because of addictions. This is like joining the police academy. There is a war going on and it takes total dedication and honor to stay true and win. The good news is: those who join DO WIN!!! Even those who join during the last days of their lives are glad they did, because they know it is the right thing to do. They go out with a free heart and a pain-free loving smile on their face. I want to see a world where no one dies in a sterile hospital room any more. When we go out, it will be under a beautiful blue sky having an orgasm. People it's time to live ! It’s never too late to be what you might have been. 15 WHAT ABOUT GENETICS? It’s Never Too Late to Make it Right This one really gets me going. Firstly, you are NOT a helpless victim when it comes to genetics. Most conditions - even genetically-based are not as much genetic as inherited lifestyle and diet habits, because the body is adaptive. Even if you actually inherited defective genes, guess what, DNA can be altered! Nobel prizes have been awarded over these amazing discoveries. DNA proteins have been observed to adapt in as little as a few minutes sometimes to a new environment. Read the book "The Genie in Your Genes". Your genes and DNA can actually be radically altered by your thoughts and emotions, for better or worse. Poor diets and toxic environment make the cells deficient and toxic when they are formed, and become worse with each formation, leading to illness. Don't blame genetics. Since DNA adapts, blame environmental chemicals, prescription drugs, our poor lifestyles and unnatural diet choices. Genetic predisposition is not a pre-doomed fate. Genes do affect our cells, but not nearly as much as people would like you to believe. Genes do not have the final say. You do. All you need to do for health is give your cells what they need and protect them from what they don't need. If all of your cells are healthy, you cannot be sick. Our bodies produce more than 10 million new cells every second, as we constantly rebuild our tissues. Old cells are constantly being replaced with new ones. If new cells are not built with proper raw materials, they will be unhealthy and weak. CHOICES make you, not inherited genetics Genetic damage can be repaired. Even when people say “nothing can be done about it”. Amazing new discoveries are scientifically proving that almost anything is possible. 16 The proper emotional mindset is the foundation. Eliminating deficiency and toxic stuff, then allows the body to self-repair, and what many consider nothing short of “miracles” start to happen. Your moment to moment choices determine whether your cells become healthy or get sick. Don't Blame your Parents. Although we inherit genes from our parents, how we maintain and care for our genes determines everything. Maybe you inherited a junker, but you can strip it down and rebuild it. Avoid: radiation from X-rays, cell phones environmental chemicals food preservatives prescription drugs, anti-depressants, steroids, etc grilled, char-broiled, heated, cooked, fried or boiled foods stress sugar processed food It's not the cards we are dealt, but how we play the game. If you are born sick, make yourself healthy. Rebuild yourself into something new. The choice is YOURS. And your body will adapt. Stop blaming your illnesses on aging or faulty genes, rather than on its true cause. Maybe you are genetically predisposed to getting a certain condition, but proper lifestyle and nutrition will help determine if that condition will ever happen at all. Let's compare you with a delicate wine glass. Your "genetic" disposition is that if you fall, you break, just like all the other wine glasses that fell. And over many years of use, your odds will increase of breaking. But what if you took really good care and treated yourself 17 like a rare museum piece? You could go for CENTURIES without ever breaking. The choice is yours. Heredity is secondary to environment and you control your environment. “People often give up on their genetic predispositions, relieving themselves - at least in their own minds - of responsibility for their actions. They say “There is nothing I can do, weight problems run in my family” (as they gulp down a burger, fries and large shake.) It’s bizarre that physicians put so much stock in the genetic origins of disease yet also inflict massive amounts of genetic damage with pharmaceutical chemicals and X-rays.” Dr. Ruza Bogdanovich Watch what you say and how you feel. Words have unbelievable power. Most people say things in a way that increases stress and turns the body's PH from alkaline to acidic. Words are powerful, they totally change the way we think and feel and research has conclusively shown that they actually change our DNA! Read the book “The Genie in Your Genes”. If you are not well and keep doing what you have done in the past, you will continue to get worse. Forget the genetic thing. Take responsibility for your actions and health right now ! “They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, Rather than truth as the authority.” - G. Massey, Egyptologist 18 BACTERIA, VIRUSES AND CANCER ARE NOT THE BAD GUYS We all have cancer cells, salmonella, E-coli, candida, aids and parasites in our body. Every one of us. It is part of life. They are sitting there dormant, waiting to do their job. The first thing we need to realize is these AREN'T the bad guys. They are the sanitation workers of life. Their job is to eat up unhealthy weak and dying stuff. It is their job to return us to the Earth so we can be recycled. Only the sick and dying are recycled. If our bodies are healthy and clean, there is nothing to recycle so they don't do anything. But if we eat sugary, pasty starchy dead food that makes our body acidic and consume meat which our body isn't designed to fully digest so it starts to rot and putrefy inside us, then our body becomes toxic and weak inside. These weak cells and parts of our body then become targets for the appropriate sanitation workers to come to action and eat those weak parts of us. It's our job then to keep all parts of our body clean and healthy. The first signs of this pattern on a small scale is itching; yeast infections, foot fungus, etc. The next sign is smelly gas and poop - that means something is rotting inside you. (That's right - clean people on a 100% raw food diet do not have body excretions that smell.) Think about it; what do you think that smell is? Something is DYING inside you! And dead stuff usually has bacteria, maggots, parasites, mold and fungus to help break it down, right? It's no different inside the human body. Like internal rust on a car, the rust will eventually spread to the main frame and body. Stop it while you can! Nature by its infinite wonderful design is set up in such a way that only the strong and fit survive. If the sick and weak kept reproducing, a species would eventually die off. Therefore it's mandatory that only the strong survive and nature's insurance for that is that each of us has a built-in self-destruct mechanism if we don't take care of ourselves. 19 Don't blame the cancer cells; they aren't the bad guys, they are only doing their job. Proof of this is the fact that cancer is not random or contagious. It only picks those who have some weakness in their body/ mind/spirit. Be careful with not just what you eat, but also what you say (negative affirmations) and how you think (depression, anger, anxiety, sadness, resentment, fear, jealousy, hatred etc.) Your negativity can literally eat you up! Start looking at the bright side of things - your survival literally depends on it! Stop feeling sorry for yourself - that's negativity and by doing so you are killing yourself. Don't be a martyr. People only want happiness in their lives, not sob stories, so don't solicit pity from others, you're only pulling them down... and for what? So they can be miserable like you? Why don't you heal yourself and become a shining example to them of how amazing you really can be... trust me - I've been there - you'll get a lot more attention becoming an inspirational example for them to look up to. They need inspiration. They might not show it, but they need you to prove to them what's possible. They'll ask you how you did it and then you'll really be a hero. And you'll have a long healthy happy sexy vibrant life to boot. I did the “feel sorry for myself” route. Nobody cared. Nobody paid attention. It made me slip deeper into depression. People started avoiding me and it made me sicker. I almost slipped away into nothingness and few would have noticed. Is that what you want? NO!!! There are too many things on this planet to enjoy. Too much beauty to soak in. Too many opportunities for love and sex and touching God. And you want to know the irony of how you get out of the slump? Get this... here it is, the big secret... (drum roll)... Get rid of the rotting crap in your life: clean out your body, your mind your soul... and you start soaking in the beauty. Love everything in sight. Make love like there is no tomorrow. See God in everything everywhere. The secret is to stop dwelling on the negative bad stuff in your life (self pity) and just plain forget about it and GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE!!! Smell the roses!!!! Tell everyone you love them. Listen to beautiful music. Inspire yourself. Do whatever it takes to feel PEACE in your life. Leave that stressful job and relationship. Make peace with yourself and everyone and everything. Only put things in 20 your body, mind and spirit that are made by God - food that grows in nature, thoughts that make you feel good, and love. That's it. Keep it simple. Simplify your life to these basics and learn to breathe again! Life does not have to be complicated. Is your glass half full or half empty? It's the same glass - but be careful which perspective you choose, because one answer will enliven you and the other will kill you. Same glass. The only difference is your choice of view. Your choice. Your choice. You are not a victim. The choice is yours. You have everything you need. The choice is yours. Start right now, this second!!! *** OK, to sum up the last chapter: you don't cure illness and disease by simply killing bacteria. You stop feeding them (sugar, bread, meat, cheese, milk etc)... you starve them and usher them out the back door. If you eat what you are supposed to eat, these guests will pack up and leave. If you have an unwanted house guest, you don’t kill them, you help them pack and show them the door. This does not mean you will have a life of boring bland food. Quite the contrary. But we'll get into that later. 21 My point is: health comes from getting rid of bad stuff, not simply adding some miracle stuff to your regimen. That usually never works. You need to stop doing what's bad for you and clean out the mess inside first. Then you only put good, highly nutritious raw living enzyme-rich natural foods back in, along with lots of oxygen, sunlight and clean alkaline water... and then you swish it all around with exercise and positive loving thoughts and energy. Nobel prize winner Alexis Carrel was able to keep tissue cells alive indefinitely by supplying nutrients and more importantly washing away cellular excretions. Lab rats lived twice as long when their food was cut in half. It’s not how much we eat. It’s what we eat and more importantly CLEARING THE WASTE OUT that can really bring us vibrant results. The more cleaning out we do, the longer we live. 22 HERE WE GO WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM ANIMALS OK. I'm just going to get right to it. Ready ? I'll give away the secret in this very first sentence: Don't cook your food. This one statement can totally change your life. Man is the only creature on the planet that cooks his food and the only creature that gets cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, leukemia, bla bla bla. The only animals that get those diseases are ones fed by man or eat garbage left over by man. When you heat food above 115 degrees F, it kills the enzymes and enzymes are what makes every bodily function work. Enzymes are necessary for life. Notice how tired you feel after eating cooked food. (Raw foodists don't have that.) When someone eats cooked food, their white blood cell count goes up because cooking alters the chemical structure of the food and the body doesn't recognize it, so it sends in the immune defenses to fight it. That's right: our body is fighting the very 23 food we are eating! That's why we get so tired... plus the fact that digesting food takes a LOT of energy (almost 2/3 of our energy goes to digesting food). The longest living people on the planet don't eat very much. The body doesn't really need a lot of food. Most people who have disease eat way too much and they eat dead lifeless garbage. We have strayed so far from nature it's sad. People who stop eating processed cooked food notice their diseases start going away. They lose weight and find energy they never had before. Hmmm. Look at animals in the wild. You CAN'T TELL HOW OLD THEY ARE. Once they reach full size, they look the same pretty much until they die. Ever wonder why? Because they follow natural laws of living, eating and being. They eat things the way they are found in nature. They don't process food, grind it into flour and bake it. They don't saute it in pans with oil, or boil noodles or make crackers out of it. They also don't suppress emotions. If they feel something, they do something about it. They don’t whine about their problems to other animals and bore them with self-pity. They also don't drink alcohol or soft drinks... they don't smoke or sit around all day on a computer or watching TV. They don't party all night and drink beer and eat chips. What they DO is wander a lot, explore the world, get fresh air, sunlight, eat naturally, find a mate and make love whenever they feel like it. They rest when they're tired and get up with the sun. They play whenever possible. DOES RAW FOOD INCLUDE RAW MEAT ? It would if you were a carnivore like dogs, cats, tigers and lions. But we are not designed that way. Carnivores have stomach acid ten times stronger than ours. That's why you see them swallowing whole animals without chewing very much - fur, feathers, bone - everything... GULP, down it goes. The stomach acid is so strong it can dissolve a whole 24 animal. Humans can't do that. A carnivore's digestive tract is very short, so the digesting contents can get out of the body as fast as possible before it becomes toxic. Humans have a very loooong digestive tract, where rotting flesh just putrefies, ferments and causes disease. Yes we are ABLE to eat meat and survive, but it is only a survival thing in case we need it. It is not optimal for real health. Many animals only eat other animals when they have to... when there is nothing else. A brown bear is almost completely vegetarian. They eat mainly berries and leaves. By the way, one square inch of raw meat (like sushi) usually contains over 10,000 parasite eggs and larvae just waiting to hatch inside you. Animals in the wild are protected from parasites by that super-strong stomach acid. Domestic animals are not so lucky because we feed them canned food, kibble and processed crap so their stomach acid is weaker and that's why they end up getting worms and parasites just like we do. Diets high in animal foods turn kidneys to stone because the body needs lots of calcium to process the high levels of animal protein (plant protein doesn't do this). This robs calcium from our bones and causes kidney stones. Our kidneys can’t handle that much calcium. Vegetarians don’t have that problem. Let this one fact inspire you more than anything: vegetarians (both human and animal) live longer than meat eaters. WHAT ABOUT PROTEIN ? This has to be the most asked question of all. It's another great example of how brainwashed we all are. Protein is made from amino acids and almost EVERYTHING in nature has amino acids. The largest animals on the planet don't eat meat. Where do they get all that muscle from? What do elephants, rhinoceroses, buffalo, cows and horses eat? Mainly grass, leaves and fruit. Gorillas are five times 25 stronger than humans. They have fangs... but what do they eat? Leaves and fruit. They are vegetarians. If there was no protein in grass and leaves, horses would not exist. Pound for pound, molecule for molecule, there is more nutrition, more protein, more healing power and life force in plants, leaves, fruits, vegetables and seeds than anything else. The secret trick is to break apart the tough cellulose to release all that goodness, and THAT'S the difference between a cow and humans, and that's where most people screw up. Cooking doesn't do it. Chewing it a few times and swallowing it doesn't do it. More on that in a minute. But what about meat as a source of protein? Is it healthy? The longest living animals on the planet are non-meat eaters. The bodies of meat eaters are very acidic, which corrodes the body (that's why meat eating animals don't live as long). People don't get cancer from plant protein. Meat vs. Plant protein: *THE CHINA STUDY* “The China Study” is the largest, most comprehensive study ever done on this subject... Cornell and Oxford University researched the effects of ingesting meat versus plant food on 650,000 people in Indonesia in 26 provinces over the course of 22 years. One group of people was fed meat while the other group was fed only plant foods. The group that was fed meat and 26 animal protein developed cancer while the group that was fed raw plant foods stayed healthy. Then the foods were switched on them and the people who had cancer were fed raw plant foods and they got healthy again! The healthy group that was fed meat got cancer! This was replicated 50 times over the course of 22 years!!! See: www.TheChinaStudy.com. It's important to know that the body makes protein from AMINO ACIDS. It cannot take animal protein and simply plug it into our cells; our body has to break down meat into a liquid state (that's a LOT of work!), and then break it way down to basic amino acid molecules... then reassemble them into HUMAN form protein bonds that only a human body can use. This takes a lot of energy and time and is an inefficient way of getting protein. Add to that the fact that animal products (including dairy) make our bodies acidic and also are filled with hormones, antibiotics, steroids and raised on cheap, unhealthy animal feed. Even if the animal was raised organic, it's natural hormones are not meant for human use. A cow has hormones that make it grow fast to weigh thousands of pounds. If we eat this cow, it makes things in US grow fast, like cancer. Animal products are a foreign protein and foreign proteins are the base for most disease in the human body. Add to that the alien fast-growing hormones and you have a recipe for disaster. Consumption of strange indigestible proteins and runaway sugars may be among the causes of most disease. Organic vegetable protein does not have uric acid to clog your arteries like meat does. The kidneys of the meat eater must work three times harder than the kidneys of the vegetarian. 27 HEALTHY NON-MEAT SOURCES OF PROTEIN: First, do NOT take Whey or Soy !!! Both are bad for you. Whey is dairy. Soy is a toxic estrogenic. Secondly, stop worrying about protein. It's a waste of energy. Where do horses, apes, elephants, buffalo and so on get their protein and muscles from? Grass and Greens. There is some serious power in that green stuff. Since we are lazy and don't CHEW our food like a horse or cow does, the best way for humans to get the most out of greens is to throw the stuff in a blender. BZZZT: instantly digested and all the cellulose broken apart for us. (Vitamix or Blendtec is the best blender). The wild chimpanzee diet is probably the closest thing to what we should be eating, and Victoria Boutenko wrote a book about it, "Green for Life". Basically, chimps eat mainly half fruit and half green stuff. They eat a few seeds, avoid nuts and only eat roots when there is nothing else to eat (for us that would be carrots, beets, turnips, etc). SO, bottom line, you can get your protein from a blended drink of strawberries and kale, or banana and romaine lettuce, or mango and spinach and so on. (See blender ideas later in book). That said, here is a list of stuff that's really high in protein... CHLORELLA 62% amino acid content. This algae is considered one of the most complete foods on the planet: you can live off this stuff indefinitely. It has ALL the amino acids (a complete protein), more than any whole food on Earth, plus all kinds of minerals, enzymes, chlorophyll and pretty much everything else... Beta carotene (Vit A), C, E, K, B complex B1, B2, B6, B12, niacin, pantothenic acid, RNA, DNA, folic acid, biotin, choline, and inositol. Phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, germanium, sulfur, iron, calcium, manganese, copper, zinc, iodine, cobalt, and trace elements. It replicates so fast, it quadruples 28 every twenty-four hours. (Amazing genetics). It also quadruples our friendly flora (probiotics), making it one of the most potent 'growth factors' available. (Listen up bodybuilders). It boosts the immune system immensely (helps children grow and stay healthy), helps digestion, alkalizes, heals intestinal lining, helps remove chemicals, toxins and heavy metals from the body. It enhances health and muscle growth, increases the concentration of hemoglobin in red blood cells(for iron and oxygen), helps reduce cholesterol, and helps the liver to detox. Best taken on an empty stomach at least 20 minutes before other food. NUTRITIONAL YEAST (not the same as Candida Albicans yeast) has all the essential amino acids, and nucleic acid, vital for proper cell development. A great source of B Vitamins, high in minerals, protein, helps the liver breaks down fats (good for acne and skin problems). A good source of glutathione which boosts immune response and cleansing. Its chromium triggers insulin action (good for diabetes). Neutralizes bowel irritation, soothes inflammation and restores normal bowel movements. Great immune enhancing properties. Good for energy. Put a couple tablespoons in water or smoothie or on salad every day. SEA VEGETABLES (at least 50% protein), can compete head-tohead with animal proteins and are much more assimilable. Sea greens have more minerals than anything else on the planet. They are also the best source of iodine, needed for a healthy thyroid. Examples: KELP, Kombu, Arame, Wakame, Nori, Dulse. Put in smoothies, soups, salads or make entire meals out of them. Eat every day. BEE POLLEN (probably the best of all high protein foods) TOCOTRIENOLS (rice bran solubles) if you're going to do protein powder, this is a good one. This is also the very best source of serious Vitamin E. Take this instead of Whey or Soy. 29 QUINOA gluten-free Incan supergrain with complete protein from amino acids and complex carbohydrates. Soak and eat. Do not cook. ACAI BERRY has almost an identical protein and amino acid profile as that of an egg. DURIANS smell really bad but are worth it. They are a great source of protein; a favorite food of orangutans, elephants, tigers etc. They also have high levels of tryptophan (good for depression, insomnia) and raises brain serotonin levels (makes you feel good). You can get them in Asian markets. The frozen kind are not as smelly. Leave them in sink overnight to thaw. HEMP SEEDS (30 grams of protein per tablespoon) a very popular source of protein in the health world. Hemp seeds contain all nine essential amino acids and also contain Omega-3 and Omega-6 and are heavily mineralized. MESQUITE MEAL used as a staple food for centuries by desert dwellers. High protein, with good quantities of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron and zinc, lots of amino acid lysine with a sweet rich molasses-like flavor and a hint of caramel. Blends well into smoothies, especially those made with raw cacao and maca. EGGS (for those of you who want eggs) raw eggs contain strong enzyme inhibitors in the yolk membrane, which require extra enzymes from the pancreas to digest. These enzyme inhibitors are destroyed by cooking. But eggs are acidic. One way around this is to poke a tiny hole in the yoke and suck out the contents into your mouth, leaving the yolk sac behind (and the egg white). Egg white or yolk? Many of the new health leaders claim the yolk is the part to eat, not the white. This is an ageless back and forth controversy. 30 Nettles Propolis (bee product) Seeds (soaked) NUTS Olives Green vegetables like spinach, watercress, arugula, kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts, collard greens and parsley Grasses like wheatgrass, alfalfa, barley Blue-green algae Spirulina Maca Pumpkin seeds Almonds Brazil nuts (contain selenium) Sprouted grains Sprouted wild rice Sprouts of all types With all seeds, nuts and grains, soak them before eating to dissolve away the enzyme inhibitor coating (making them easier to digest). Overnight is best. Soak at least a few hours. Seeds are better than nuts. FASTING ACTUALLY HELPS: studies performed at Cornell University show that when a person fasts for 24 hours the body doesn't lose any protein, only fat. Bodybuilders who fast one day a week actually gain more muscle mass faster because the body is cleaner and more efficient. Let's get started. Firstly: you don't get healthy by simply adding something to your diet it's what you take away that makes the big difference. If you have a rusted out car, no amount of super fuel is going to make it run much better, unless you clean the rust away first. The cleaner the parts are, the better it will run. The same goes for your body. It's time for some serious spring cleaning. 31 CLEANSING THE MOST IMPORTANT SECRET OF ALL Nutrition is important, but it's the cleansing that makes the difference - Paul Nison When we rebuild an old junk car or house, we have to strip it down to its bare skeleton and scrape away every bit of rust and termites. Health does not start by popping some pills or health food. No. We have to strip our bodies down and clean out all the garbage and plaque from our cells that have been accumulating since we were born. Believe it or not, people are still carrying with them the residues of bad food and thoughts from childhood. Yes, our cells regenerate and replace, but the message is passed down through cell generations. Cells have memory. Even people on a healthy raw living food diet need to cleanse, or else even they will end up with a health challenge of some kind. Why cleansing is so important, even for healthy raw foodists, is because the body needs to get rid of millions of dead cells every day, not just food. Dead cells are toxic and need to be removed quickly. About 100 pounds of dead cells are sent to our bowels every year. Without proper cleansing, fiber and colon cleansing, we accumulate more waste than our bodies can handle. WHY ARE (MOST) RAW FOODISTS SO SKINNY ? (AND HAVE GAS) It's an easy trap to fall into. Firstly, people think simply eating raw food will make them healthy. Eating all the raw food in the world will not do much good unless you clean out first... and continue doing so regularly. Not doing regular colonics or enemas is the biggest mistake raw foodists make. Raw foodists need to cleanse just as much as everyone else. Why? Because when you clean house, you have 32 massive amounts of garbage and unused stuff getting dumped out... so much it overfills your existing garbage cans. You need extra help to get rid of that garbage... if you don't, this stuff will clog up your house and make it even uglier than before. In other words, a raw food diet makes your body detox. It pulls years and decades of toxic garbage from your cells and fills up all your "garbage cans"; your lymph system is overburdened, your liver and kidneys fill up suddenly with waste and your elimination system is overwhelmed from this mass exodus. If you don't send in more help to carry this stuff away, it will reabsorb into your bloodstream and make you more sick and toxic. Secondly, raw foodist or not, most people's stomach acid is way too weak. The cellulose in raw vegetables is very tough to digest - it requires a pH of 1-2, which no one has. Cellulose requires the enzyme cellulase to digest and that’s one of the few enzymes that our pancreas DOESN’T create, it needs to come from outside sources. All raw fruits and vegetables contain cellulase, but many people switching to raw food don’t actually eat a lot of living raw food, believe it or not (especially leafy greens), they eat raw chocolate, raw cheesecake made from cashews, raw coconut smoothies, lots of dehydrated crackers, cookies, cakes and desserts... so lots of SUGAR (which weakens stomach acid and promotes parasites... and no cellulase enzyme... so when they DO eat greens... the food doesn't get properly digested and ends up fermenting and rotting, creating GAS. That's why people who eat salads get gas a lot. This undigested food also won't assimilate into the body, so they end up starving nutritionally and become skinny. This nutritional deficiency makes hair turn grey, robs energy and ages people. That's why there are grey haired, skinny wrinkly people who are shriveling up and think they are "healthy". The answer is to raise the pH of the stomach and simply blend more of the food you eat. Raw foodists who blend green smoothies every day start getting normal weight back, lose wrinkles and even sometimes their grey hair goes dark again. More on that later. Cleansing must be a regular thing, because even once we are clean (or think we are), we are constantly breathing in toxic air (100% of women 33 tested had jet fuel in their breast milk), drinking water from toxic plastic water bottles (chlorine in drinking water scars our arteries and the plastic is a cancer causing estrogenic), eating food with whoknows-what in it, touching doorknobs and shaking hands with parasites on them, and also absorbing negative thoughts and energy from others. Even raw foodists "cheat" with food regularly. A little tiny thing here and there while traveling, a meal out with family or friends there. It all adds up. Cleansing must be regular. You can always tell who isn't doing enough cleansing when some raw foodists get sick or die like “normal” people... while others live way past 100. HOW BAD CAN IT BE ? OK. Let's start with common everyday foods we are addicted to and why they are destroying you. MILK, CHEESE and DAIRY (including cheese, yogurt, ice cream, sour cream, white salad dressings etc) Countries consuming the most milk products also have the highest rates of degenerating bone disease (like osteoporosis), heart disease, breast cancer, allergies, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. The United States consumes more dairy than the rest of the world put together and yet has the highest levels of osteoporosis and weak bones in the world. Milk does NOT put calcium in our bones, it does the opposite: it PULLS calcium from our bones, making them weak, soft and brittle. Why? Because dairy products are acidic to our body, which forces our body to protect itself by pulling alkaline minerals from wherever it can get them, namely our bones, to neutralize the acids. This ironically leads to calcium deficiency. Cows’ milk is not the same as human milk. The calcium in cows’ milk or cheese is not the same as calcium from organic plant sources like leafy greens (that's where cows get their calcium!) 34 Milk and cheese are the leading causes of arthritis, constipation, allergies, asthma, colic, sinus issues, heart disease, ovarian problems, anemia, insulin-dependent diabetes, cataracts, obesity, congestion, lung problems and even cancer. These dairy products have been directly linked to heart attacks and strokes. When people are autopsied, they cut open the heart and all this white thick goo pours out... guess what it is? Calcium plaque! That's like trying to use cement instead of oil in your car's engine. Dairy creates mucus which clogs up our intestines, lungs and reproductive systems, overloading them with slimy mucus that smothers our cells so they can't breathe. When white spots start appearing on different parts of the body, it means fat and mucus has spread throughout the respiratory and reproductive systems. Hormonal imbalances often result, including thyroid, pancreatic and gonad dysfunctions. This condition results in cysts and tumors, eventually leading to cancer, especially breast, colon and reproductive areas. All animal products lead to fat and cholesterol deposits in the arteries and heart, lining them with a white thick pasty “cement” made of inorganic calcium. Nothing clogs up your intestines faster than cheese and dairy. They are glue. Cows’ milk contains higher levels of saturated fat than human milk, meaning cholesterol buildup and blood circulation problems in babies and adults. Too much bad unusable calcium is actually the real cause of osteoporosis. Milk and cheese consumption is one reason more women are dying today of heart problems and cancer than ever before. People have all kinds of inorganic calcium clogging up their bodies and hardly any good absorbable calcium. If you think cheese isn't an addictive substance, try to separate a woman from cheese. 35 Pasteurizing milk (boiling at high temperature) kills the enzymes, so the milk cannot be properly digested. The pancreas can't replace these missing enzymes, so here comes diabetes. Homogenizing milk makes fat particles so tiny that they go through the intestinal mucus, directly into the bloodstream where they become an alien substance (like hydrogenated oils or margarine) that the body doesn't know what to do with, so they accumulate in the arteries, joints, heart and other organs. Pasteurized milk is dead food. Calves (baby cows) fed pasteurized milk normally die after eight weeks! Even if you could drink cows’ milk raw, you wouldn't want to. Most cows are sick and diseased. They are milked by a machine causing blood and pus to be in the milk. When a human drinks cows’ milk, only half of the protein is used, the rest becomes foreign protein in the body... and foreign proteins are the number one cause of all disease in humans. This puts a serious strain on the kidneys. The kidneys of a meat eater or someone who drinks milk or eats cheese have to work three times harder than the kidneys of a vegetarian. They ultimately turn to stone. Cows’ products are very hard on a baby, because the kidneys aren't even fully formed yet. A twelve-year Harvard study of 72,000 people showed that those who drank the most milk (three or more glasses a day) had more bone fractures than those who drank very little. Where do cows and horses, goats and elephants get calcium? From grass. Greens have more nutrition than almost anything on the planet. The best way to make greens digestible for humans is to put them in a blender with some fruit. That makes all the nutrients instantly absorbable. Another important factor is MAGNESIUM. Calcium cannot be absorbed or utilized by the body without magnesium, and almost 36 everyone today is dangerously low in magnesium. As a matter of fact, people are SO low in magnesium, that the first thing paramedics do when someone has a heart attack, is inject magnesium. SO, take 1 teaspoon of magnesium three times a day. I personally take a product called Natural Calm, which is Magnesium Citrate, a white powder, I just put it in some water. SOY IS BAD What do you give a baby instead of cows’ milk? No, not soy. It is bad for you. Soy contains compounds that block the absorption of nutrients and essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. Soy disables enzymes your body needs. It directly blocks thyroid function and protein absorption. It causes abdominal stress and pancreatic problems including cancer. It contains phytoestrogens that mess with your hormones. It contains hemagglutinin, a substance that is responsible for causing red blood cells to clump together and form clots. Soy baby formulas are inadequate and potentially dangerous. They do not contain the vital nutrients and EFAs of mother’s milk. Many people and babies are allergic to soy and don’t even know it. It can stunt neural development. The only soy products that are OK to take are the fermented ones: miso, tempeh, tamari and nama shoyu. KEFIR There might be one exception to the issues with animal milk, and that is kefir, which is produced when probiotics are added to goat or cow milk, which digest the milk and lactose sugars, leaving a biologically active substance that is considered very healthy and healing by many people. You can make your own by adding kefir “grains” to either milk or fruit juice. There are two kinds of kefir: milk kefir and water kefir. One needs milk and the other can live off fruit juice, coconut water or just plain sugar water. After a few days, the sugar is digested and only kefir remains. This is really good for the digestive system. I personally don’t use the milk kind, but I want people to have an option. Be aware that ALL humans are lactose intolerant, just to different levels. 37 HEALTHY MILK ALTERNATIVES The best milks are: almond milk, coconut milk, green drinks, sesame milk (very easy to make). Three Easy “Milks” in Under 1 Minute Sesame Seed Milk (in blender) 1 cup soaked sesame seeds 2 cups water 2 pitted dates Sesame seeds are VERY high in natural absorbable calcium, and also have lots of B vitamins and iron. Coconut Milk (in blender) - coconut milk (the liquid from young thai coconuts) - some kind of dark leafy greens (kale, spinach etc) This is very very very healthy. *Note: do NOT use coconut water from cans. They are processed. Crack open your own. Almond Butter Milk (in blender) 2 tablespoons of raw almond butter 2 cups water a tiny pinch of sea salt and a dab of raw honey 38 BREAD AND ANYTHING MADE WITH FLOUR (Pasta, cereal, cookies, crackers, pizza, bagels, pastries, cakes, pies, muffins, pancakes, etc.) These foods are one of the major causes of illness in today's society. BREAD is acid- and mucus-forming in the body. It's addictive and aging. Don't touch it. The gluten in wheat is one of the major causes of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, where ulcers eat holes in the intestines and you start bleeding when going to the bathroom. Facts about bread: 1. It's baked (heated), meaning all the life has been killed. It has almost no nutritional value. 2. It contains gluten, a very sticky substance that gums up your insides like paste. It contains an indigestible protein called gliadin, which is very tiny, so it gets easily absorbed into the bloodstream. Since the body doesn't know what this is, it causes all kind of problems with the immune system. It makes you tired and ultimately sick. It sticks to your teeth, causing tooth decay. Cooked grains like wheat and corn (especially when combined with dairy products) may be causing over 100,000 early deaths per month in the USA alone. Bread and all flour products demineralize the bones, weakening them. Mucus clogs your sinuses, lungs, liver, gallbladder, intestines and reproductive organs. There is no bread in nature. Not even flour. If you're going to eat grains, soak them overnight in water to sprout them before making something raw with them; better still, DON'T TOUCH GRAINS!!! They give us humans nothing but trouble. They have almost no taste, and are very dense and hard to digest (that's why you feel heavy and get tired after eating them). If you want to finally be rid of mucus, allergies, asthma, immune problems etc, stay away from wheat, bread 39 and anything made with flour. Do you actually think you're going to build healthy cells from bread and pasta? A university test was done where rats were fed nothing but “human food”... bread, sugar, eggs, milk, beef, potatoes, oranges, apples, bananas and coffee. The rats got diseases and didn't last long. If it can't keep rats alive... maybe you should think about this. RICE? White rice: no. Pure starch and sugar. Feeds hypoglycemia. Brown rice: a tad better, but it's eaten cooked or steamed, so it's dead (starch/sugar again). Wild Rice: soak it overnight, then eat it raw. There are a variety of recipes out there. GRAINS Stay away from most grains as much as you can. They lead to trouble. SUGAR Sugar is basically nothing but a concentrated, crystallized pure acid. It’s one of the most addictive and destructive foods on the planet. The only difference between cocaine and sugar is the time each takes to kill you. Next to cigarettes, sugar is the fastest thing to age you. Sugar demineralizes your body, pulls calcium from your bones, causing osteoporosis, damages your immune system, leads to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, throws off your hormones, fries your pancreas and clogs your arteries because unused glucose becomes saturated fat and cholesterol, which is stored in your arteries, leading to high blood pressure and clots. Sugar turns into fat in our bodies. Even worse, sugar is rocket fuel for disease, viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungus, mold, yeast and anything that grows... including cancer cells. Here's the scariest part: it causes your skin to wrinkle ! *GASP* Forget 40 cancer - egad - wrinkles are really scary!!!!! (I knew that would get your attention). Sugar causes inflammation in every cell in the body. Got freckles or brown spots on your skin? That means sugar is damaging your respiratory and reproductive organs. If you eat anything sweet (including honey, agave, sweet fruits etc), it's advisable to add cinnamon, which lessens the impact of sugar on the body by smoothing out blood glucose (sugar) levels. OK, I covered the main basic addictive bad stuff that hurts people. Many people find it's not too hard to become vegetarian, but it's real tough trying to lose the refined carbs. I know what a battle it is to try to not eat bread, cheese and sugar... but trust me, it's worth it. 41 THE TRANSITION YOU SET YOUR OWN SPEED Don't go into this reluctantly. That makes your stomach sour and defeats your willpower to succeed. You need to go into this WANTING to do this. If you only knew how amazing you will feel, you would jump in eagerly with both feet running. Be excited. have sunlight in your heart. Throw out all the darkness, doom and gloom in your life. You are creating a new you. You will shine. Imagine never being sick again. All you have to do is claim it. Something inside you needs to say "the future starts right now!". We're waiting for you at the other end my friend, and there is a party going on here. Come on over and celebrate! Go at your own pace. Some people make the switch and go 100% overnight. Some people have a hard time saying goodbye to bread, cheese, milk and meat, so they move to almond milk and veggie-burgers. They might feel a sense of accomplishment but not be completely healthy... but if that's what it takes to move in the right direction at a speed they are comfortable with... at least they are moving. 42 Some people go 100% and freak out a week later. They run back to their comfort foods, get sick again, then make another lunge at health and raw living. They go two steps forward, one step back. But at least they too, are moving. Some people go all the way but stay in the comfort zone (this is most "raw" foodists). They go for all the sweet stuff. They practically live completely on raw chocolate, raw "cheesecake", raw cereal, raw ice cream, raw crackers, raw desserts, raw fruit smoothies, raw nut mixes... do you see what's happening here? They might have an occasional token salad or green juice... but they are basically still sugar/ carbaholics. Sure, all that stuff wasn't heated. Yes, the enzymes are still intact. Yes, it's made with all natural raw ingredients. But they are not live foods anymore. Once something is liquified in a blender or food processor, all the cells are broken open and the life force is released. Within about 20 minutes, it's not vital anymore. It's just a sweet-tasting pile of minerals. Remember almost half of the diet should be fresh greens and most raw foodists eat nowhere near that. When tested, it was found that most of these people had almost no stomach acid at all! They wonder why they are so skinny and have so much gas! BUT I must say this. Most of those people don't get sick anymore. They are light years ahead of the rest of the country. And if they are open and enlightened to doing what's right, they will naturally gravitate to the next step. 43 The ultimate goal is to eat minimal amounts of food. The longest living people don't waste their time eating or preparing food. They are busy LIVING. They are enjoying the world, each other and nature. They feel the wind and sun. And they eat very simply. Half fruit. Half greens. And a tiny bit of miscellaneous fun stuff... a raw egg now and then or a small fish or some nuts or roots, maybe even some raw milk from a goat. Most of all, they are care-free. They don't think too much about when their next meal is or where they are going to get it. Even if it's the next day or several days away, they don't care, because they know a human being can go months on nothing but water or juice. The healthier and cleaner we are, the more nutrition we can utilize from a single piece of fruit. It's like going 200 miles on a single gallon of gas. The first step is knowing what NOT to do. Avoid: meat, cheese, milk, cream, ice cream, sodas and anything carbonated, bread and anything made with flour - cereal, pasta, crackers, cake, pies, cookies, bagels, pitas, wraps, muffins - popcorn, energy bars, rice, ALL COOKED FOOD - including steamed, sauteed, fried, boiled, baked - all commercial candy and chocolate, coffee, chips, and all processed food. Stop smoking. Stop drinking alcohol. Stop drinking coffee. Can you do this? Do you want to live? Do you want to be sexy and young again? The choice is yours. 44 Once you are past the threshold, it's clear sailing. I know. Right now your mind is scared. Your addicted body is scared. Trust me. You will never want to go back. This is like going from the dark ages to the supersonic age, where people fly through the air. Come on. I'll give you something new to be addicted to... namely unlimited health and happiness. No more disease. No more being tired and depressed. Love and sex like you've never experienced before. Enlightenment beyond your wildest dreams. There are some transitional foods you can eat to help you cross over. Just be aware, soy cheese is not much better; it's just as dead and worthless as dairy cheese. Soy cheese does not grow in nature. It gums up our insides. Soy milk is to be avoided, since soy is toxic and prevents protein and nutrients from being absorbed in our body. Use almond or sesame milk and cheese, which, by the way, you can easily make yourself. These are much better and fresher than anything that's been sitting on a store shelf and was made five months ago. The minute you grind or blend something, you are breaking it apart and killing it. Not much different than heating. So it's best that you make as much of your food for yourself as possible. It's not that hard, it's a lot cheaper and you will feel much better, plus have a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. You know what's amazing? The moment I started making my own healthy food, unhealthy friends that came over would always make their way into the kitchen and say "can I try that?". It was then that I realized how even what seemed like the last people on earth to want to change actually deep down inside were hoping to find something better and healthier in life. They were all amazed how GOOD everything tasted. My raw chocolate was always an instant hit. Wow, chocolate that's good for you and helps you lose weight? No heating or baking? 45 Simply grind, mix with coconut oil and put in the freezer? It's really that easy? YES! By the time I showed them how to make raw chocolate ice cream in 90 seconds with nothing but frozen bananas, cacao powder and a bit of vanilla, they were always hooked. Within a month, most of them were doing colonics or enemas and calling me how much more energy they had. WHAT ABOUT DEHYDRATED FOOD? A lot of raw foodists get caught up eating lots of dehydrated food because it has those familiar hard and crunchy textures, or at least it’s doughy... like bread. Dehydrated items should be considered transitional foods and not something to eat a lot of later on. Dehydrators are machines that warm food no higher than 115 degrees, so the enzymes don't get killed. This could be compared to seeds and fruit falling to the ground in nature and the sun baking them until all the moisture is gone (dried fruit). Dehydrated foods taste good, but have no moisture. Many raw foodists make raw "bread" with dehydrators, or raw food energy bars, or raw burgers or cookies or macaroons etc. I ate a lot of these kinds of foods at first because they were very addictive. Dehydrated foods are very dense though and suck moisture from your body. They require considerable energy to digest and can really weaken your stomach acid. This drying-out can age your skin and organs. It's always best to eat wet, moist fresh fruit and vegetables straight from the Earth, because we are wet, moist beings. 46 HOW AND WHY TO EAT The next time you eat something, pay attention to how you eat, especially how you chew. I'll bet you chew only a bit until the texture of the food is lost and then you swallow... looking forward to that new virgin mouthful of new fresh crunchy texture... you like the feeling of it on your tongue, the way the hard goo feels crunching between your tongue and teeth... and when that fresh new sensation is gone, you swallow looking forward to the next fresh bite... right? Now pay attention to what you're swallowing. How big are the pieces? How digested are they really? Has anyone told you that your food needs to be fully liquified into a paste before swallowing? What makes you think your stomach is going to dissolve those un-chewed chunks? Where did you learn or assume that? Do you have any idea what you are asking of your stomach and digestive system? Are you starting to get an idea as to why you might be so tired after eating? Or why you aren't getting a lot of energy out of your food? Food is supposed to be fuel. Most people eat for the wrong reasons nowadays (in this country). They eat for stimulation. They want to feel that salty or sugary taste on their tongue, and that crunchy texture... or that hot spicy stuff mixed with sugar and they love the feel of the deep-fried crust with the gooey inside. They don't care what nutrition it has, as long as it keeps them alive for another five hours. Am I right? It's all about temporary stimulation. Something in the back of their mind knows it's not really that healthy, but hey, what is one more plate of fried potatoes going to do? Surely this one meal isn't going to make any difference... Unfortunately, it does. Every molecule you take in is either going to move you towards health or disease. There is no neutrality. Every bite in the wrong direction takes you that much further from health, and feeds disease... which you might not know is even happening until it's too late. Don't wait for that to happen. Start on the right path right now. It's not as bad and boring as you think. That's a misconception. 47 We are only supposed to eat to give ourselves fuel, so that we can carry out our dreams. Any food consumption beyond what we actually need is not just gluttony, it is bad for us, no matter how healthy the food is. Why? Because if our body doesn't need it, it goes to waste and starts to rot. It doesn't all simply poop out the next day. A lot of it waits around and clogs up our liver, blood, brain and organs. It weights us down and makes us tired and lethargic. We think slower, move slower and feel slightly guilty, a negative emotion that attracts more negative energy into our lives. The less we carry around, the lighter we are, the lighter we feel, the less we attract heavy stuff into our lives. Want to be carefree? Eat light! Travel light. The first thing we have to learn is that we don't need a lot of food to live healthily. Very very little. CHEW YOUR FOOD!!!!!!!!! Secondly, we need to relearn how to use our mouths. Until now, eating has just been about tasting the sugar, salt and food texture, but we didn't care much about actual digestion and health, so we half chewed our food and swallowed. Everything we put in our mouth needs to be chewed until it is a creamy liquid, no chunks. Our stomach doesn't have any teeth and those chunks will go through you half-digested and cause all kinds of problems. By simply chewing your food until it is liquid goo, you will increase how much benefit you get out of your food by as much as five times! This alone will increase your energy, keep you from being so tired after eating, keep you from getting gas, or getting sick, and even help you gain muscle more if you're working out or trying to gain weight. 48 THINGS YOU'LL NEED If you don't already have these, get them. You will need them. A VEGETABLE JUICER like the L’Equip (about $100). This extracts all the pulp and gives you only pure vegetable juice. This is what you use during juice fasting and serious healing/cleansing. Do not juice fruit, only vegetables. After this, you move on to blending where nothing is extracted, but everything is liquified. For this you need... A HEAVY DUTY BLENDER like the Vitamix (pictured)- a blender so powerful it can liquify almost anything (about $350). This is the most used and valuable piece of equipment I have. It is so versatile it’s amazing. I make everything from smoothies to pates to raw ice cream with it. It cleans easy and will liquify any fruit and vegetable in seconds, making nutrients easy to assimilate in the body and saving digestive energy so that energy can be put towards healing instead. If you only get ONE device- this is the one!!! 49 Do I need a Vitamix? Is a normal blender OK ? A Vitamix does what a normal blender can't: it liquifies everything 100%. If you put fruit and vegetables in a normal blender, you'll have lots of small chunks and bits of fiber in there, which will probably end up being undigested food particles in your body, fermenting and causing problems. Even if you are able to digest it all, it's extra work and strain on your body. Nothing compares to a Vitamix. I use it to pulverize branches and sticks to make herbal powders (after the vitamix breaks the herb branches down, I then use a coffee grinder and a sieve to make a really fine powder) If you're absolutely broke and have no choice, then a normal blender is better than nothing. Don't let that be an excuse for not being healthy. A general rule is- use the vegetable juicer when you are sick or doing a cleanse, and the vitamix pretty much all the time for the rest of your life. Once you have a juicer and a blender, you are set. You might as well disconnect the power to your oven and stove. Some people use their oven to store pots and pans, and their stove as an area for sprouting. I keep one hot plate available to make tea. AREN'T RAW FOODS EXPENSIVE ? I hear things like this all the time: "I want to be healthy, but can't afford it", "organic food costs too much", bla bla bla. Yes, the first time people buy things at a Whole Foods Market, they get sticker shock. If that's the only place you buy food, yes it will cost more than normal grocery stores. Thinking you can't eat raw just because you have no money is a joke. 50 Check out what 36 dollars and 22 cents bought at the local Asian market... ( ! ) There was a period where I didn't make any money at all for almost two years, and I was still eating raw. There are no excuses. 51 What's the most important thing in your life? I would like to think the answer is BEING ALIVE and HEALTHY. The medical industry is a TRILLION dollar industry. Over one million people died last year in hospitals. Do you know what a kidney dialysis machine costs? More than your mortgage. How much do you spend every year on medication, doctor visits, dentists, chiropractors, over the counter crap like pain killers, steroids, cortisone, cough medicine, sleeping pills, stimulants, stress pills, skin creams, hemorrhoid creams, wrinkle creams, lotions, vitamin pills, Viagra, hormone pills, decongestants, stuff for itching, stuff for sore aching joints, impotence, incontinence, things to help you remember, keep you awake... and how about all that crap you buy for the gym like whey and soy protein powder, energy boosters, "get-big-quick" muscle crap, or magic weight-loss products? Seriously. How much do you spend? Look at that list again. Even if you are a vegetarian and think you are healthy... I know you still have health issues and spend money of trying to heal. How much do you spend on soy cheese, soy milk, soy burgers, soy wieners (soy is a toxic protein/hormone disruptor), cereals, breads, pasta, cookies, crackers and other dead crap? Vegetarians are some of the unhealthiest people, who think they are “better” than others. What if you didn't need ANY of that stuff listed above? What if you never need a decongestant, pain killer, cough medicine or doctor visit ever again? What if your diseases went away and you never got sick again? What if you never got tired again and you had more energy and the hormones of a teenager, so much so that you were horny all the time? What would that be worth to you? Now can you honestly tell me that organic fruits and vegetables are too expensive? Many of you have medical insurance. How much do you pay per year for that? Folks, I have a message for you... 52 THIS IS YOUR MEDICAL INSURANCE!!! OK, I know some of you are really hard up financially and really can't afford it. This does NOT mean you can't be healthy. The healthiest, longest living people in the world live in “third world” countries like Pakistan, Bulgaria and places in South America... and they barely eat anything. They don't have cars, television, air conditioning, computers, internet, and they live in huts. If they can do it, so can you. I don't want to hear any excuses. Right outside your window is stuff growing that is one hundred times more nutritious than anything you can find in a grocery store. They are more powerful than even organic food. They are starting to be sold in high-end health food stores. They are used to cure illness, disease and cancer. They are some of the most powerful liver cleansers known. They have lots of protein, antioxidants and powerful healing compounds. And they are FREE. They are weeds: Dandelion, Milk Thistle, Malva, Plantain, Chickweed, and hundreds more. Every area in the world, no matter where you live, has weeds that can help you. For example, grass. Go to any gym or health bar and they sell wheatgrass juice for two dollars an ounce, whereas you could just go outside, grab a handful of grass and simply put it in your blender with some water. How much did that cost? As long as you didn't spray poisons on your yard, you have a treasure trove of healthy stuff growing wild and free around you. It is God's gift to the world. They sell dandelion greens at the local health food grocery store for four dollars a pound! I know the thought of eating “weeds” might seem strange, yet it shouldn't, because only modern society has labeled them that. That's someone's twisted, prejudiced opinion, no different than judging someone by the color of their skin or income level. Purslane, for example is considered a weed in America, but in the rest of the world, it’s a vegetable. It’s really good for you, it grows like crazy and it’s FREE. Dandelion flowers have more lecithin than anything else on earth, even soy. You can live off nothing but dandelions if you wanted. 53 Wild plants and herbs have over one hundred times the nutritional power of anything raised by man. Vegetables grown on a farm are raised in soil that's been used so much, year after year, probably for generations, that there is very little mineral content left. Also, these plants get watered every day and they know they will get watered every day, so their root system is very shallow and weak, maybe a few feet at best. Wild plants on the other hand might not get rain or water for months, sometimes even longer, so they grow very deep roots. Some weeds grow roots as deep as 100 feet or more! And that is through soil that's never been over-used. They go through layers and layers of mineral-rich earth and become super-rich with all the goodness available to them. Wild plants are survivors. They have a fighting spirit. They are not pampered, soft, wimpy and anemic like that grocery store fluff. There is so much wonderful nutritious food growing out there for free, all you have to do is go out there and grab it. Right across the street from me is a bunch of palm trees. The guy who owns the property just has them there for decoration. In the fall there are massive amounts of berries hanging from them that taste so sweet you would swear they were dipped in honey. They are Saw Palmetto berries. That's right, they enhance hormone production in men and are the world's best substance for prostate health. These berries are the number one ingredient in all medications and formulas sold at health food stores for prostate enlargement/cancer. Bodybuilders use Saw Palmetto to help boost their size production. Middle-aged men use it to boost their sex. And it's growing for free right outside my door. My friend Matt and I fill bags and bags with it. There are so many houses in this neighborhood with fruit trees laden with fruit that nobody ever uses. The branches are so heavy with fruit, they touch the ground. All that beautiful fruit just going to waste! All over town, lemons, oranges, avocados, dates, persimmons, apples, grapefruit, ginkgo, olives, grapes, pears, peaches, currants, berries, nuts... a total feast. All you have to do is go ask permission to take 54 some. And even if you paid them, it would be much less than any grocery store would charge. My house has decorative rosemary plants growing all over the place. Rosemary is one of nature's finest antioxidants, specific for memory, brain function, stress, nerves and tension. Rosemary is rich in highly absorbable calcium and is used to fight breast cancer. I grab a handful every time I go from by backyard studio to the house. My front yard has numerous decorative sage bushes. Sage helps digest greasy fats, increases estrogen to treat menopausal sweats, keeps the stomach, intestines, kidneys, liver, spleen, and sexual organs healthy, encourages hair growth, increases circulation and relieves headaches, breaks fevers, and helps reduce respiratory congestion and cold symptoms. Simply chewing on sage cleans teeth and strengthens gum tissue. Those dandelions are God’s gift to us. They are a worldwide super food and natural medicine. A great source of the antioxidant Vitamins A and E, which prevent free radical damage... B complex, C, D, calcium, iron, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, sodium, saponins, and phytoestrogens. It’s used as a cancer treatment, a liver stimulant and tonic, to alkalinize the blood, to increase digestive acid levels, to lower cholesterol, as a diuretic, to cleanse the blood, as a lymphatic tonic, to improve circulation, as a mild laxative, and as a pain reliever. Dandelions help the entire digestive system. Dandelion roots are rich in minerals and 55 trace minerals for bone, cartilage, tendon and ligament formation. Dandelions are blood cleansers, and remove acids from the blood. They are all the rage in health food stores now. Go outside and pick and grow your own! Every part of the dandelion plant is useful and edible; the roots, leaves, stem and flower (just not the fluffy part, that’s for making wishes). I planted some Aloe Vera in my yard a few years ago and put a watering self-timer on it. It's grown into a huge patch and every morning I go out and cut off an aloe arm to put in my blender. ALOE VERA Aloe is one of the most amazing miracle food plants on the planet. It's so fantastic, it's like aliens put it here. It lasts forever and stores for months. Cut it and it heals itself! It's a smart plant; it can tell the difference between normal cells (which it stimulates), and bad stuff like viruses, cancer, leukemia or HIV, which it stops from spreading. It's used in AIDS treatment. It's antiviral, antibacterial, good for treating candida, parasites, fatigue syndromes, fibromyalgia, allergies, arthritis, and skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. Aloe eliminates toxic wastes, has EFAs and is a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps the stomach and assists in cleaning the colon. Aloe helps every part of the body cleanse itself. It alkalizes, especially in the digestive system, which helps over-acid conditions like indigestion, acid reflux, IBS, colitis, Crohn's disease and ulcers (reduces ulcers by 80%!). Aloe reduces cholesterol and triglycerides, helps metabolize fat and is great for... oh where do I start... adult diabetes, angina, blood sugar, cholesterol, acne, AIDS, allergies, anemia, arteries, arthritis, athletes foot, bad breath, baldness, bladder infections, bronchitis, bruises, burns, bursitis, cancer, candida, cataracts, cold sores, colic, colitis, constipation, cuts, cystitis... Aloe has all kinds of natural steroids, antibiotics, amino acids, minerals, enzymes and stuff we haven't even discovered yet. Put it on your skin and it soaks right through into your body and blood stream, going right to work. Speaking of SKIN, aloe is a miracle skin 56 treatment; it's rich in organic silica and helps make strong cell and artery walls, mucous membranes, and the connective tissues of bones and cartilage, while healing skin cancers, hemorrhoids and varicose veins. It stimulates lymph movement and even has aspirin-like salicylic acid. GRASS Sure, go ahead, make fun of it. Snicker. Sweat uncomfortably at the thought. But green grasses are the only plants on Earth that can give sole nutritional support to an animal throughout life. They help with high blood pressure, diabetes, gastritis, ulcers, liver disease, asthma, eczema, hemorrhoids, skin infections, anemia, constipation, body odor, bleeding gums, burns, even cancer. A good source of Vit K for blood clotting. Good for bone strength and varicose veins. It's what horses eat to become thoroughbreds. It's what elephants eat to become the biggest land animals on the planet. All we have to do to break open the tough cellulose structure to get to its benefits is juice or blend it. (Grass requires a special wheatgrass juicer, but they're not expensive, especially the hand-crank version is only about $100). Personally, I just throw a handful of grass in the blender so that I get the fiber, which is full of phytonutrients. Plus in blended form it doesn't have any taste, unlike the highly concentrated juice which might be too strong for some. People, there are NO excuses. Nature is everywhere. It's all around us. And best of all, it’s all FREE!!!! I created an EPIC 5 DVD set on how to live on free neighborhood plants. It's so informative you’ll be racing to jot down all the information. This video might literally change your life. You will get a whole new appreciation for nature and see that there are no mistakes, no unwanted “useless” plants. Get these DVDs at FreeFoodandMedicine.com. 57 THE SHOPPING LIST OFF WE GO TO THE GROCERY STORE No, you can't stop and get some florescent cheese tots and beer on the way. Actually a Farmers’ Market is better, or even better than that, grow your own stuff. One of the biggest ruts people get into, even raw foodists, is that they eat the same foods over and over and over. Every time they go to the grocery store, they buy the same stuff. (Usually the stuff that tastes good to them). They get what they LIKE, not necessarily what they NEED. And guess what? They end up having deficiencies. Even if what they bought was super-nutritious, they would still develop deficiencies, because romaine lettuce has different nutrients in it than kale or collard greens or cabbage. They are made up of different things - that's what makes them different (duh!). So if you keep eating only kale and not chard or dandelion, you will end up lacking in what the chard or dandelion has that the kale doesn't... and over time that deficiency can lead to surprise illnesses. Most raw foodists hit a plateau after 5-6 years and wonder why their superpowers aren't getting any better. 58 My father is in the horse business. Some people have great luck raising horses while others wonder why their horses aren't doing so great. They run around in wide open pastures, eat lots of grass and yet the horses have all kinds of health problems. Why? Simple. The same as above. They have no variety. The soil under one farm is different to the soil from another. These animals are prisoners forced to eat only what is growing on that one single patch of land. The grass is only as good as what's in the soil below it. If that patch of land is lacking in selenium or cobalt or sulfur, deficiencies will arise. In the wild, animals never stay in one place. If those horses were free and wild and there were no fences, they would be two miles away the next day munching on weeds, wild apples and grass from a whole different area with different minerals. Wild animals eat hundreds and hundreds of different things all the time. They're always moving from one place to another, which is good for many reasons. They get variety of nutrients, and because they keep moving, they never stay long enough to destroy an area (are you listening humans??). The typical person only eats maybe 15 different things from the produce section, not 300 like they are supposed to. 59 So, the first thing you need to do is make your trip to the food depot an adventure. Be courageous and try something different every week. You NEED to rotate! It's mandatory for successful health. Plus, if you happen to be allergic to one thing (and not know it), you won't be eating it over and over. It's safer to rotate varieties for many reasons. LOVE YOUR ENEMY Start by getting the things you like. I would guess that would be the sweet fruits and bland leafy greens. But after a little bit, you must use the rest of the stuff on offer too, like the non-sweet fruits and bitter greens (such as kale, dandelion, arugula, watercress). Go at your own pace; just know that the more bitter something is, the better it is for you. But whatever you do, MAKE SURE YOU GET DARK LEAFY GREENS BITTER IS BETTER Bitter is what heals. Bitter stuff is what will save your life. The more bitter something is, the more it will enliven your liver, and your liver is where all the toxic stuff is backed up since the day your were conceived. Your liver is your filter. It's where all the bad food choices ended up, all the toxic chemicals, cigarettes, alcohol, preservatives, food additives, chlorine, flouride, heavy metals, plastic fumes, pesticides, weed killers, household cleansers, dry cleaning chemicals and fried food cholesterol ended up. Bitter plants do for a liver what a million dollar bill would do for you; they wake you up and inspire you to get to work and clean up your act. Yeah, they might not taste good, but remember it's the sugary good-tasting stuff that got you into trouble in the first place. Don't judge something by how good it tastes. Actually, usually the worse something tastes, the better it is for you. But don't worry, I am not enslaving you to a lifetime of gastric drudgery. There are ways of making even the most nasty healing herbs palatable. 60 AVOID SEEDLESS Seedless fruits and vegetables are all the rage now. Don't get them. They are hybrids. Man-made. Dangerously high in sugars, low in nutrients and messed-up genetically. Over half the produce we buy commercially nowadays is GMO (genetically modified) by a chemical company. Don't get me started on that, I don't want to scare you. All I'm going to say on that is that ultimately, my advice is to get a piece of land as far away as you can from "civilization" and grow your own food. Encourage your neighbors to grow different things to you, so that you guys can all share year round in each others’ goods. That's called a "co-op". While you're at it, harness the power of the wind, sun, rivers and streams to power your own property for free. There are cars being developed that run on water. You can power your telephone, computer, and everything else with solar power. Oops. I got off on a tangent. Ahem. Back to seedless. Yes. ONLY BUY FRUIT WITH SEEDS. The seeds contain everything necessary for life to reproduce that plant. All the powerful nutrients, almost all the good stuff, is in the seeds and rind, not the juicy sugary part that you like. When a horse eats a melon, it eats the whole thing. Yes, it's not fun for us to bite into the rind, so that's where the Vitamix comes in. If you blend the whole watermelon - rind, seeds, everything - it actually tastes quite good!!! You'll be surprised. But MAKE SURE IT'S ORGANIC. Do not consume the rind if it's not organic, it's been sprayed with poisons. The same with other fruits; don't buy seedless grapes, seedless raisins etc. Get lots of CELERY Celery is one of the most underrated and most beneficial vegetables of all. It's one of the best sources of potassium, sodium and sulfur, the three most needed minerals in the human body. Also Vitamins A, B, C. Natural diuretic, laxative and discourages water retention, greatly improving appearance. It is a great source of natural water for hydration. Instead of drinking water (especially after the gym), drink celery juice instead. Water retention is a sign of being dehydrated, 61 believe it or not. Make celery juice the base of every juice you make, every day. CUCUMBER One of the most healing fruits on Earth. Yes, it is a fruit. Really good for flushing kidneys, detoxifying the system, cleansing the bowels, digestive health, contains an enzyme that dissolves tapeworms, and has lots of calcium, magnesium, sulfur (beauty mineral) along with Vitamins E and C. Cucumber juice does wonders for complexion. Buy organic and eat the SKINS TOO, which are very high in silica, minerals and enzymes good for skin and hair. Get a bunch of LEMONS and LIMES These are very alkalizing (the acid becomes alkaline once inside the body). Lemons are very cleansing and rich in Vitamin C and potassium. They increase digestive juices, dissolve gallstones, cleanse and rebuild the liver and are great for fasting. PAPAYA Papaya is one of the richest sources of natural enzymes, which seriously helps your digestive system, especially if you have inflamed bowels. Papayas help alleviate gas and have an enzyme that helps break down protein. Rub papaya skins on your face - the enzymes help clean away dead skin cells for a glowing complexion. Papayas have anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties. They tighten skin and help fight arteriosclerosis, strokes and heart attacks, because they contain Carpain, an alkaloid that lowers fats and cholesterol. Papayas regenerate sick, hardened livers and help get rid of parasites (especially eating the pepper-like seeds). Eat papaya every day for a week or two and feel the difference! Papaya with lemon or lime squeezed over it makes a great breakfast. PARSLEY Great for the lungs. It's really high in high Vitamin C and iron, so juice, blend or eat parsley whenever possible. Chewing parsley is great for bad breath. Raw parsley helps oxygen metabolism, cleanses the 62 blood, dissolves sticky deposits in veins, maintains elasticity of blood vessels, helps move out moderately sized kidney stones and gallstones, stimulates the bowel, treats deafness and ear infections, helps sexual stuff, and stimulates the adrenals. Great for teeth, bones and helps remove heavy metals. PUMPKIN SEEDS High protein, zinc, magnesium, B Vitamins, tryptophan. Good for treating heart disease, prostate issues, male virility and helps remove intestinal worms (roundworms, pinworms). Especially good for tapeworms. Eat a handful of raw pumpkin seeds 2 x day on an empty stomach. Even more effective (and great tasting) when mixed with garlic. SEAWEED Sea greens are the most nutritionally dense plants on the planet. You should have seaweed in your meals 3 x day - this stuff is a miracle food; it binds with heavy metals (like mercury) and takes them out of your body, as well as radiation. Seaweed has ten times more iron than spinach and makes hair grow like crazy, even turning gray hair dark again (if the diet is healthy). I put seaweed in my Vitamix all the time now. When there is pineapple in there too, I get a great natural sugar/ salt combo taste. The main supplier of raw seaweed is Maine Coast Sea Vegetable Co. (www.SeaVeg.com). If the health store doesn't carry it, you can order online. A great source for naturally dried (not toasted or roasted) seaweeds is www.alcasoft.com/seaweed. I get a lot of my food simply shipped to me now. Seaweed is the best source of natural iodine for healthy thyroid function. Seaweeds contain almost every mineral known to man. They are a major source of amino acids (protein). Sea greens are powerful healers. They have strong antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, antifungal and anti-cancer properties. Sea greens are almost the only non-animal source of Vit B12. In many cases, seaweeds are more potent than the drugs used to treat breast and prostate cancer. They help heal scars and are loaded with more calcium than milk. They help get hormones and sex drive going and clear plaque out of arteries. They lower cholesterol, fight candida 63 (yeast), cellulite, chlamydia, herpes, HIV, vaginal infections, menopause, make skin look younger and hair grow. They are rich in fiber, and packed with Vitamins, especially K, A, D, B, E, C and a broad range of carotenes. Sea vegetables should definitely be consumed every day. There is no family of foods more protective against radiation and environmental pollutants than sea vegetables. CHIA SEEDS Chia seeds are one of the best sources of essential fatty acids, with 2/ 3rds being Omega-3s (the kind we lack and need the most; these are the fats that protect against inflammation and heart disease). Chia seeds are also an excellent source of fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and protein. They are very hydrating. One part chia seeds mixed with nine parts water lasts two weeks in the fridge. Chia seeds are a better source of omega-3 fatty acids than flaxseeds, and the fiber is not abrasive like flax. The Aztecs used chia to relieve joint pain and skin conditions. A superior source of fiber, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, niacin and zinc. Chia are tiny seeds like poppy and can be eaten as is, or put in water (they turn soft on their own after a bit) or you can mix them in a blender with water or a smoothie. Chia gels into a pudding, jello consistency. It kind of tastes like a mild, instant oatmeal. A great cleanser. Great way to start and end your day, with lots of fiber and nutrition. It cleans your heart, colon and arteries while curbing your carb cravings. KEEP NUTS TO A MINIMUM Don't buy flavored nuts or roasted or blanched nuts. Look for "RAW". Don't eat too many nuts, they are hard on our bodies to digest. Almond is the best choice, because they are the only non-acidic nut. Seeds are better. Raw pumpkin, sesame, flax and chia seeds are great choices. All nuts and seeds (except chia and flax) need to be soaked in water for at least a few hours (preferably overnight) before using, to dissolve away the enzyme inhibitor coating which makes them difficult to digest. 64 In the beginning it's OK to buy almond milk, almond flour etc, but down the road it's best to make your own, that way the food is much fresher and four times more nutritious. It only takes a minute to make anyway. Cheaper too. In the beginning you will want to make lots of sweet and salty stuff. But over time, the healthier you get, the less you will desire that, and the better you will be. For salt, the best stuff is Celtic Sea Salt. It is sea water that's been dried in the sun and then the salt is harvested by hand. It's full of sea minerals. I personally like the kind with the big chunky crystals. SALT and Condiments Your body needs sodium, but standard table salt (pure NaCL) isn't good for you. The body needs a balanced intake of minerals. During your transition, use Celtic Sea Salt, which is harvested from the sea and has all kinds of minerals your body needs, balanced in the way they’re found in nature. After a while on a raw food diet, you will get all the sodium you need from what you eat, without having to add any salt. Too much sodium of any kind can lead to stomach cancer, hypertension etc, so just get your sodium from celery, seaweeds and so on. As for condiments, beware. The secret of most condiments is the addictive combination of sugar and vinegar. You'll find this combo in almost all sauces that you are addicted to; ketchup, mustard, relish, mayo, teriyaki, etc etc. The sugar/vinegar combo is instant fuel for YEAST. Are you tired a lot? Think you have candida? Yes, breads are a yeast staple but the sugar/vinegar combo is also gasoline for the yeast fire. Do you know how they grow virus cultures in a lab? In sugar water! Nothing grows a virus or bacteria faster than sugar. White distilled vinegar not only makes your body highly acidic but also kills red blood cells. To spice up your food, use real foods/spices such as raw peppers, onion, fresh garlic, whatever floats your boat. 65 Olive Oil The best olive oil to get is STONE CRUSHED. Even though most say "cold pressed", they are in fact pressed by a giant hydraulic mechanical press at tremendous pressure that raises the oil heat to over 160 degrees, thus ruining many of its healing properties. Look for "stone crushed" on the bottle. It's more expensive, but worth it, otherwise why bother. You can get it at health food stores or order it from the internet. Look for brands such as Bariani. And WOW the taste! I eat it like soup. For sweeteners, you can use raw pure unheated, unfiltered honey, which is full of enzymes, protein, minerals, micronutrients. Personally, I just use cut up dates. They are a great addiction to salads etc. Two new revolutionary sweeteners that do NOT raise the glycemic index (good for diabetics), and don't put your pancreas into shock like other sugars, are STEVIA and the all new LO-HAN; both are natural leaves that are nature’s answer to Sweet-n-Low. They are amazingly sweet. And they are actually good for you. Maple Syrup - a little is OK. Yes, it's heated, but at least it's not processed beyond that. Don’t take it if you have parasites. Agave Syrup is a sweetener made from a desert plant, and was all the rage with raw foodists when it came out, but then controversy arose as to how it was actually processed, so until that gets worked out, I suggest we sit back and wait. If you have a life-threatening disease, you must stay away from sugar and salt of any kind. This includes agave nectar, maple syrup, honey, yacon syrup, Celtic Sea Salt, etc. We all crave flavor to our food, but we need to abstain from this for the time being while we heal, because anything you crave is also craved by parasites, cancer, viruses, bacteria, yeast, mold, fungus and anything else that grows. Eating these items gives these unwelcome visitors more energy to spread. 66 RAW CHOCOLATE Chocolate comes from a coffee-like bean called "cacao", which is the same as “cocoa”. Why they renamed it into that stupid new lettering is beyond me. Anyway, you can buy the beans in their raw state, or as nibs, which is the bean without its bitter, paper-like shell, broken into bits, or as powder. In its natural state, cacao is bitter, pure 100% dark chocolate. Some die-hards eat it straight. Most take the nibs, grind them into powder at home in a coffee grinder, mix this with coconut oil, some kind of sweetener and a few other ingredients and make their own chocolate. They simply mix the ingredients by hand, put the pot in the freezer to make it hard, and an hour later break off pieces and eat it. I have an awesome recipe on my website and in this book. Raw chocolate is a good transition food because it has GOOD oils and fats. Commercial chocolate has bad oils and fats (hydrogenated), so that it can stay hard at room temperature and have a long shelf life. The oils in raw chocolate melt at room temp (they are liquid in your body and don't clog your arteries) and therefore need to be in the freezer to be hard until you eat it. You can also take raw chocolate powder and put it into smoothies and other dishes to make raw chocolate ice cream, dessert pies and so on. See? Raw food doesn't have to be boring. Some of this stuff is downright addictive (don’t go crazy with the chocolate!). THE SUPPLEMENT SECTION If this was the 1800s, then maybe we wouldn't have to stop by the supplement section. But all the produce we buy in grocery stores nowadays (even organic) is grown in soil that is very depleted of valuable nutrients. To get the same amount of iron as a bowl of spinach from 1950, you would have to eat FIFTY bowls of spinach nowadays. Magnesium, without which our bodies cannot absorb calcium, is so low in today's soil that it's almost not even there. Without magnesium our 67 hearts stop working. Without magnesium, our nervous systems become frazzled, stressed-out toast. There is no more iodine in the soil. Without it, our thyroids stop working. In nature, we would eat a plant with soil organisms on it, that's where we get B12. But store produce is washed clean of all that. So, off to the supplement section we go. Three quarters of the products in the supplement section are useless. It's the same useless dead chemical isolates repackaged under different company labels, but most of it comes from the same places. I looked into it when Matt and I were formulating our own herbal ideas and wanted to sell them. We found that the bottling companies source their ingredients from giant warehouses, where ingredients are stored for years and years. They are dirt cheap and useless. Almost all the pill bottles you see on the shelves cost no more than two dollars each to make - that includes the bottle, the capsules and the ingredients. On the other hand, I wanted organic wildcrafted herbs in my formulas, and that raised the cost by as much as TEN times. That should tell you how cheap all that other stuff is. Don't be fooled by fancy labels or company names that make you think they are all-natural and healthy. Most Vitamins are made from inorganic sources like ground-up stone. Herbs are usually the cheapest available, sprayed with toxins and shipped in from some foreign country where health laws don't apply. This irritated me even more into making my own products. That's how my BODY FORCE line of healing products came about. Anyway, back to the supplement section at the store... Firstly, forget about Multi-Vitamin pills. They are useless and overburden your liver and kidneys. The first thing you need is MAGNESIUM. Almost everyone is dangerously low in magnesium nowadays, so low in fact that it can lead to heart attacks. I personally use a product called NATURAL CALM (magnesium citrate). I take one teaspoon, 2 or 3 times a day with water. The reason it's called “Calm” is because magnesium makes you feel calm. It's great for soothing stress and nerves. It's great for heart, kidneys and restful sleep. It calms hyperactive children, helps diabetes, 68 blood pressure, arthritis, migraines, asthma, hormones, hair loss and greying, depression, joint problems, pain, leg cramps, muscle spasms, increases sexual energy and is a major preventer of strokes. Next to oxygen, magnesium is the most important substance in the body. We need lots of it. Without magnesium, calcium cannot be absorbed into the body. If other healing methods aren't working that should be working, it means you are low in magnesium. ENZYMES, ENZYMES, ENZYMES Enzymes are needed for every bodily function. They are the spark of life. The less you have, the shorter your life. Your body cannot use Vitamins without minerals, and cannot use minerals without protein (amino acids), and cannot use protein without enzymes. No matter how much raw food you eat, unfortunately, you probably still lack enzymes, because every bodily function requires them and our bodies are so terribly depleted in enzymes, there just aren’t enough to go around. Take as many as you want every day. Doesn’t matter when. See source list at end of book for best sources. There should be a refrigerated section of supplements - go there first and get the following: BEE POLLEN Bee pollen is nature's most complete superfood with all 22 amino acids, full of enzymes, coenzymes, B12, B Vitamins, fats, minerals, Vitamins, etc. What is it? It's collected by bees from flowers, mixed with bee spit, then formed into granules. Great for energy and healing. Bee foods have been praised in almost every religion throughout history. It's in the Bible. Bee Pollen helps rejuvenate the body and lengthen life. Bee keepers in Russia regularly live past 100. Bee Pollen increases energy. World class athletes use it. If you're allergic to pollen or spores, try local Bee Pollen. It can relieve respiratory problems like bronchitis, sinusitis and colds. It helps balance the hormones, which helps with menstrual issues and is very effective for prostate problems and reducing BPH inflammation and improving urine flow. Bee pollen is rich in enzymes, helps constipation/diarrhea problems, helps fight 69 aging, increases brain power and physical strength. Put a couple of teaspoons on your salad or in smoothies, or just mix in water. BEE PROPOLIS: AMAZING STUFF ! (Not mandatory but good to get if you can afford it.) Propolis is what bees coat their beehives with to protect the hive from harmful bacteria. It's collected from the sticky resin under tree bark. It is a very powerful anti-viral, anti-biotic, anti-bacterial. It's actually better than many antibiotics at fighting bacteria and viruses like E-Coli and salmonella! It's very effective against pneumonia, ulcers, speeds healing of broken bones and helps grow new cells. Heck, it even fights cavities, gum disease, high blood pressure, artery plaque, skin cancer, warts, herpes and pretty much anything else. Bees are angels. Everything they do and make is magical. Sometimes in bee pollen. HEMP OIL - much better for you than olive oil and a great source of Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acid (EFA). Has a great taste for salads. Helps mellow out the sharp, bitter taste of sulfur-heavy greens like arugula and so on. And no, hemp oil will not make you high. If you can’t find hemp oil, get UDO'S 3-6-9 oil as a great source of Omega fatty acids. If you’re not into oils, just consume lots of Chia Seeds for your Omega-3 EFAs instead. Chia tastes kinda like instant jello oatmeal when mixed in a blender with water. Yes, it's true we need MultiVitamins to make up for what we are lacking, but don't go for the pill form. Look for CHLORELLA or BLUE GREEN ALGAE as your Multivitamin. Algaes are considered some of the most complete foods on the planet - you can live off the stuff indefinitely. It has ALL the amino acids (complete protein), more than any other whole food on Earth (62% protein), plus all kinds of minerals, enzymes, chlorophyll and pretty much everything else... Beta carotene (Vit A), C, E, K, B 70 complex B1, B2, B6, B12, niacin, pantothenic acid, RNA, DNA, folic acid, biotin, choline, and inositol. Phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, germanium, sulfur, iron, calcium, manganese, copper, zinc, iodine, cobalt, and trace elements. It replicates so fast that it quadruples every twenty-four hours (amazing genetics). It also quadruples our friendly flora (probiotics), making it one of the most potent 'growth factors' available (listen up bodybuilders). It boosts the immune system immensely (helps children grow and stay healthy), helps digestion, alkalizes, heals intestinal lining, helps remove chemicals, toxins and heavy metals from the body. It enhances health and muscle growth, increases the concentration of hemoglobin in red blood cells (for iron and oxygen), helps reduce cholesterol, and helps the liver detox. Best taken on an empty stomach at least twenty minutes before other food. Also while you're in the cold section of the supplement area, be sure to grab a jar of PROBIOTICS (acidophilus etc). These are living bacteria that live in your intestines and do everything from helping break down food to fighting bacteria and disease, while keeping the place clean. These are super important for health. When our bodies become acidic from eating bad food or even just being stressed, the beneficial bacteria (called "flora") get killed and we lose our barrier of protection down there. You will need probiotics also when you do colonics or enemas, to replenish the ones you wash out. Take between meals. The best kind of probiotics are the live cultures kept alive in things like coconut milk and fruit juice. Get the liquid kind of probiotics, not the capsules. They are useless. Order some KEFIR GRAINS online and grow your own cultures. You’ll never run out! Probiotics eat PREBIOTICS, and the best source of those is fiber. Get a bottle of raw, unfiltered APPLE CIDER VINEGAR. This is good for cleaning your body from the inside, alkalizing it and also building stomach acid. Even though it's a vinegar, this type is alkalizing because of its high ash content. Take two tablespoons every morning in water. Add to salads as dressing with some oil. 71 Get some GREEN TEA or WHITE TEA. White tea is like green tea, but more powerful. This will be your new coffee. It dilates your blood vessels, makes you feel really good and helps fight disease, even cancer. TOCOTRIENOLS (rice bran solubles)*** (GET THIS !!!!) You will feel the difference... This is a light, fluffy, great-tasting powder that you mix with water. It’s the best source of complete B Vitamins, and (non toxic) Vitamin E, all necessary amino acids (full protein), minerals, essential fatty acids (Omega-3, 6, 9) and over 70 antioxidant compounds. It's hypoallergenic, easy on the digestive system and adds significant fiber to the diet. It reduces cholesterol, regulates diabetic blood glucose, suppresses cancer tumor cells, enhances immune system responsiveness, is great for youthful skin, reduces renal calcium excretion related to kidney stones and increases bile acid binding in the gallbladder. This is a great “protein powder” that you can take as a whole meal replacement if you are crunched for time or while traveling; great have to while on the road. Again, this is the BEST source of B Vitamins and Vitamin E, both of which we NEED badly for all health conditions, including brain, heart, colon, energy, liver, skin etc etc. You’ll get the best deals online. Sources are at the end of this book. FULVIC ACID (Probably best to order this online also.) AMAZING STUFF! Fulvic Acids and Shilajit (Note: Shilajit has Fulvic Acid in it. Shilajit is obtained from an organic prehistoric goo oozing from Himalayan rocks.) As the most powerful, natural electrolyte known, fulvic acid restores electrical balance to damaged cells, neutralizes toxins and can eliminate food poisoning within minutes. When it encounters free radicals with unpaired positive or negative electrons, it supplies an equal and opposite charge to neutralize the free radicals. Fulvic Acid makes minerals bioactive, bioavailable, and organic. So, for example, it helps the body absorb calcium better which means accelerated bone growth 72 and new tissue regeneration for people with osteo- problems. Mineral deficiency subjects us to more diseases, aging, sickness and destruction of our physical well-being than any other factor in personal health. Minerals in their natural "rock" state are useless to us, but once a plant absorbs, chelates and transforms them, our body can utilize the now "organic” minerals. Organic Fulvic Acids are created by microorganisms in the soil, for the purpose of transporting minerals and nutrients from the soil into the plant. Fulvic Acid chelates and prepares the minerals to be accepted and used by our cells. At the same time, it also seems to dissolve away years of calcified accumulations in our bodies, joints, arteries and muscles, making us more flexible, limber and youthful again. Fulvic Acid is a powerful antioxidant that can safely neutralize a free radical without becoming a free radical itself, AND has the added benefit of being able to cross the blood-brain barrier! Fulvic Acid/Shilajit increases the core energy responsible for sexual and spiritual power, the same force that is withered by stress and anxiety. The use of Shilajit is for renewing vitality. Its Sanskrit meaning is 'conqueror of mountains and destroyer of weakness.' People who have taken Silajit claim it does wonders for more energy, relieving digestive problems, increasing sex drive, reducing urinary problems, diabetes, acting as an anti-oxidant/anti-inflammatory, healing edema, anemia, arthritis, joint problems, lowering cholesterol, improving memory and cognition, improving diabetes, reducing allergies, handling stress better, improving the quality and quantity of life and in general it seems to dissolve away diseases. While at the health food store, get some all-natural cleaning stuff, such as dishwashing liquid and veggie-wash spray made with citrus. Also, get the most natural laundry detergent you can find. Bleach can be replaced with safer sodium percarbonate or hydrogen peroxide. As for hair products, make sure they have no Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or anything like that. For teeth and gums, I sell a tooth powder that disinfects and stimulates. You can make your own if you want, all it 73 includes is baking soda, sea salt and cayenne. No more bleeding gums! (That bacteria in your mouth that cause bleeding, by the way, are a leading cause of heart disease and dramatically shortening people's lives.) Make sure you get your teeth cleaned regularly-without flouride. Not everything you get at a health food store is organic. Sometimes we have no choice but to buy non-organic, in which case, go get these items somewhere else cheaper. One great place to get stuff really inexpensively is Asian markets. Almost every town has one. That's where I get my white YOUNG THAI COCONUTS. They are almost three dollars each at the health food store, but at the Asian market right around the corner, I can buy a box of NINE for FIVE dollars!!! And guess what? They are the very same. There is no such thing as organic or non-organic Thai coconuts, they are all imported from the same place. Asian markets are also the best place to buy GINGER, because they have so much of it available. I fill a whole bag with it. Asian markets are also where to buy DURIAN, a weird “alien” fruit the size of a turkey with sharp spiky thorns all over it. It smells really funky but the taste is amazing. Inside, it has a custard-like filling that tastes just like custard pudding and when mixed in a blender with some coconut juice and meat, wow: instant dessert heaven. But the cool thing about raw food is that the dessert can be your main course! Durians are very high in protein (good for muscle building) and VERY GOOD FOR YOU. They are high in tryptophan (good for depression, insomnia). They are very, very addictive. I get the frozen kind because they don't smell as strongly as the unfrozen ones. I let the durian thaw overnight and prepare it in the morning. Asian markets are a great place to find exotic, interesting fruit and vegetables not found anywhere else. Try it all! Life is an adventure, not a chore. Tip: don't get the starchy roots. Try to keep most of your diet to what grows ABOVE THE GROUND. Starchy roots are hard to digest and 74 full of concentrated sugars. You want the green stuff that grows on top, not the starchy stuff underneath. OK, let's take our groceries home and I'll show you what to do with them. (No, we aren't going to stop by Starbucks to get a cappuccino and muffin on the way)... but we ARE going to stop by the corner drug store and buy an ENEMA bag. Not those little stupid disposable plastic things. You want the one that's a rubber bag that holds half a gallon of water with a tube running out of it. At the end of the tube are tips that you can switch out. This is a multi-purpose item used for douching, enemas or simply as a hot water bottle. While you're here, get several gallons of DISTILLED WATER. BOWLS and POTS: USE ONLY GLASSWARE (like Pyrex). Definitely don't use any non-stick anything. It's deadly toxic. If you had a bird nearby while heating a non-stick pan, the fumes would kill the bird. Definitely don't use aluminum, it's one of the main causes of Alzheimer’s. Try not to use metal items. Stainless steel contains nickel, a poisonous metal. We have enough heavy metals in our system as it is. DISINFECTANTS (for washing fruit, veggies, hands, mouth, gums etc): Hydrogen Peroxide. Or add a few drops of Thyme Oil to water. Just don’t get it in your eyes - that stuff is powerful! Thyme is used in developing countries to disinfect questionable drinking water. KNIVES AND FORKS Obviously plastic isn't good. Metal is not good here either. It reacts negatively with our body, both electrically and chemically. Many people get heavy metal poisoning from their knives and forks while they try to eat healthily and detox. Every time they slide that spoon or 75 fork in and out of their mouth, they are absorbing all kinds of metals such as nickel which is used in stainless steel and is very toxic. There are some new types of utensils coming out, from bamboo to disposable, Earth-friendly potato-cornstarch based items. And lastly, WATER You are three-quarters water. Well, actually you are mainly just energy and air, but we’ll discuss that later. For now, I'm talking in old-school thinking that people can understand. Water. Water. Water. You are a gooey blob of stuff and without water you would be a small dry pile of minerals on the ground. Water is more than just H2o (hydrogen and oxygen). Firstly, the body is a big alkaline battery filled with around 18 gallons of salt water solution that gives us life. Water conducts electricity. Water is a universal supercomputer. What science is finding out about water is enough to make our mouths drop and to rip wide open everything we understand about God and the Universe. Water has memory. Water communicates. Water has energy. It is literally a universal liquid supercomputer. Many scientific studies have been done all over the world on water, such as these I am about to tell you about... If you have two glasses of water, and you send loving thoughts into one and hateful angry thoughts into the other... and then you give that second glass to someone to drink, they would probably become ill, whereas the first glass would make them feel good without them knowing why. Water carries emotions, thoughts, energy and data across time and space. You and I are water. Water connects all things on this planet. Your breath has water vapor that I inhale. The air we breathe has water in it. The water we drink came from someone else's body at some time... actually from billions of people, with all their thoughts, emotions and energies. There is so much significance to us being well and harmonious, because we are all literally one. Science is proving this. Read the book "The Genie in Your Genes", by Dawson 76 Church, Ph.D. This is radical stuff. We are on the very edge of a new way of living and being. Epigenetics is now proving that our DNA is actually changed by our thoughts. We literally create ourselves and our future. Anyway, back to water (there is so much to talk about, it's hard to control myself sometimes). Ahem. Water. Bottom line: we need to make the sure water we drink is clean and not messed up energetically or else we become messed up. There are so many things that mess up water. Not just bacteria and parasites, or poisons and heavy metals and plastics... but also pH. If the water is acidic it literally corrodes our bodies like acid (and most water is acidic!). Then there's the ionic charge. Like everything else, water is made of atoms and molecules that have an electrical charge. If there aren't enough electrons, water sucks them from us. Water also needs a proper molecular structure. In the glorious days of past when nature was clean, the water that came out of springs was virgin perfect healing water. Nowadays, we drink out of plastic bottles and from rusty old pipes filled with slime, mold, bacteria, poisons and rusty metal. Even if we filter it, it is dead, unstructured acidic water, lacking proper electron charge. Water in plastic bottles is a big huge no-no. Plastic is an estrogenic that leads to breast cancer and all kinds of problems. It also makes the water taste bad. Try to fill up your water from a good source in reusable glass bottles. If you are on a low budget, there are water machines outside most grocery stores where you can fill up your own bottles for 25 cents per gallon (REAL CHEAP). They use a five-stage filtration system including ultraviolet, carbon and Reverse Osmosis. Take gallon sized glass bottles (not plastic) if you can. The best way to get gallon sized glass bottles is re-using big gallon-sized apple juice bottles. Throw out the dead pasteurized apple juice and now you have an awesome reusable glass water jug! The best water is spring water. Go find a spring if you can. 77 DEHYDRATOR Model shown: Excalibur This is the first thing many people get when they go raw because it helps them make firm or dry crunchy foods like cookies, raw "breads", coconut macaroons, kale chips, raw burgers and all kinds of other textureappeasing goodies. Dehydrators heat food, but not over 115 degrees, so the enzymes don't get killed. Dehydration takes all the moisture out of the food, making patties that can be taken on the road, to work, or munched on while around the house or watching TV. But, because they are dehydrated, these items try to re-hydrate inside your body, meaning they suck moisture out of your body, thus dehydrating you if you don't drink enough water. Catch 22 situation here though, because if you drink too much water, you dilute your stomach acid and there we are again, back to half-digested food. Dehydrated food in my opinion should be a backup to be used occasionally when needed or desired, but not on a regular basis. Stick to the fresh, water-rich foods in their natural state as much as possible. Remember, we are wet moist gooey beings, so eat food that’s wet moist and gooey. OK, that should about cover the basics. Your kitchen should be stocked now and ready for action. But before you start putting all that good stuff in your body, you need to make room for it, or else it won't do you much good. You need to clean out your body first. Grab that distilled water and it's off to the bathroom we go... 78 PAPAYAS are very rich in enzymes making them great for digestion and glowing skin.The enzymes immediately set to work tightening our skins collagen tissue. Papaya has anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties- it’s enzymes eat cancer proteins. Papayas also reduce the risk of arteriosclerosis, strokes, and heart attacks because it contains Carpain, an alkaloid which lowers the concentration of fats and cholesterol in the blood stream. It also helps regenerate a hardened, dysfunctional liver. Papaya seeds can get rid of parasites- eat one tablespoon of seeds each day for a week (chew well) , then wait a week, then eat again for another week. Papaya combines well with avocado. Papaya seeds can be added to salad dressing for spice. This amazing fruit is used to improve digestion, alleviate gas, prevent and heal ulcers, treat cancer and reduce inflammation. 79 CLEANING OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP OF ALL Without this, all the great healthy nutrition in the world does you no good. It’s like putting great gasoline in a rusted out, gunked-up car. You NEED to clean out your pipes! No excuses, no delay. This is your FIRST STEP and you CAN’T bypass it if you want serious results. The cheap cop-out way is to simply take a couple tablespoons Epsom Salts with warm water to get things moving, or take a colon cleansing formula. They work OK, but not anywhere near as well as some good ol’ serious colon/bowel irrigation with lots of water. Water is the universal cleanser and you need to wash yourself clean INSIDE as well as outside. 80 ENEMA THE MIRACLE CLEANER If there was just one thing out of all of this that I would say was the most important over anything else, I would say it is this: an enema bag. It's also the cheapest healing device anywhere. For under ten dollars, you can save your life. If you have food poisoning, a splitting sinus headache, constipation, diarrhea, feel tired and sluggish, feel depressed and run down, feel a cold coming on, or have ANYTHING wrong with you, this will amaze you. Sure, it makes you squeam uncomfortably at the thought of putting water up your butt, but hey, IT'S ONLY WATER! You wash your car, you wash your laundry, you roto-rootered your house, you cleaned out the fuel injectors and fuel lines in your car... isn't it about time you washed YOU??? When was the last time you washed out your plumbing? Never? And you wonder why you are so sluggish and run down? By the way, the type of enema I am referring to is like the one in this picture, not the small disposable kind that has toxic chemicals in it. This is where your healing starts. Right here in your bathroom. Here's what you need... -rubber enema bag -hose with plastic enema tip -at least a half gallon of body temperature warm distilled water -bit of coconut or olive oil to lubricate tip -a toilet -thirty minutes 81 *note: if you have money, you might want to do a series of COLONICS, which means you go to a professional place to have colon cleansing done for you. It's more comfortable, but costs probably 60 dollars or so per visit. At least an enema you can do in the privacy of your own bathroom, for mere pennies. The colonic keeps pushing water in and out of you for an entire hour, so in theory, a colonic is more thorough than an enema, but if you do it the way I advise, you can get pretty darn good results on your own at home, especially if you keep doing it regularly. How To Do an Enema This could save a life. All you need is an enema bag (see image above), at least half a gallon of distilled or filtered luke-warm water and some kind of lubricant (preferably natural, like coconut oil or olive oil). If the bag is brand new, wash it out a few times to get rid of the plastic fumes. Warm the water to body temperature, fill the rubber enema bag and attach the hose. Let a bit of water run out to get rid of air bubbles. Pinch the hose and lubricate the tip. Hang the bag upside down (they come with a hook), on something that will be higher than you. A good suggestion is to hang it on a towel rack near the toilet, kneel down on the floor, insert the tip in your butt, and then put your face on the ground with your butt in the air- to work properly, your rear end needs to be HIGHER THAN YOUR STOMACH, and the water bottle needs to be higher than your butt (see diagram). 82 You might have to wiggle around to get things started. Have your hand on the hose so that you can pinch it to stop the water flow if needed. If this is your first time ever, you'll probably have some freaky, paranoid "oh my God" moments, like the first time you had sex... you'll probably think "is it supposed to feel like this?", "am I going to burst?", etc... don't worry, it's only water and you will not burst. Look at all the grossly overweight people out there; if their guts can get to be four feet across then surely you can handle a little water. When the water starts going in you will first feel an overwhelming urge to go to the bathroom; resist this urge as much as you can. Pinch the hose and relax for a moment. Breathe. But if you absolutely have to let it out, then pinch the hose, pull out the tip and hop on the toilet to let it out. Then continue. Each time, you should get a little more water in. Keep going. Refill the bag again. Keep doing this until you can get in a WHOLE BAG (half a gallon of water), all at once. The cleaner you are, the easier this gets. It will get to the point where the water runs in fast and you don’t even feel it. If you feel the urge to go to the bathroom immediately after starting this, with only a tiny bit of water in you, that means you are not clean and healthy. You are either clogged up with a blockage of crap-ola, or you have IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). Whatever the reason or cause, get as much water in there as you can, then let it out into the toilet, then put MORE water in... etc, etc. Each time you should get more water in, meaning you are getting in deeper and cleaning things up. You have a lot of crap to dissolve. Keep going, refilling the bag until you can get a whole bag in at once. Each time it should get easier and easier. That’s a sign things are better and your body is cleaner. Maybe nothing is happening and no water is flowing; wiggle your body and the hose and the tip to help the water find its way through your plumbing and keep going until the bag is empty. Again, don't let the urge to go to the bathroom stop you, keep going if you can. After a few times you will get used to it and master it. Some people distract themselves by singing or yelling stupid jokes or simply making loud baby sounds, whatever works. Empty that bottle! 83 Another good way to help things along is to blow all the air out of your lungs, as if you were blowing up a balloon. This raises your diaphragm and causes a vacuum inside your intestines, helping suck the water in. Take another breath and blow out again with a big long HOOOOOOOMPH, and help suck the water in. Or you can just sing. Personally I like to do Richard Nixon impersonations. Hey, with the side of your head pressed against the bathroom floor with your butt high in the air, you end up saying some silly things :-). Once the water starts going - it shouldn't take more than a minute or two - look at the bag to see if it's fully deflated and flat. When you are done, pull out the tip and let the water soak in as long as you can. Lie down on your side and roll around. Rub your belly. Jump up and down. The idea is to swish the water around to loosen years of hardened crap, just like a pot in your kitchen sink that has black burnt food stuck to it - you need to soak it in water to loosen it. I hang on an inversion table upside down so that the water runs all the way up through all the plumbing. This is what "high colonic" means. I swing up and down, back and forth so it sloshes all through me and loosens crap. Then I jump up and down and rub my abs. When you absolutely can't hold it any more, go to the toilet and let it all out. Stay there because you should have about five more waves in the next fifteen minutes, each time being a major bowel movement. That's right, five big dumps in half an hour, WOW you will be amazed! I never get results like that with even a pro colon hydrotherapist. This is where the magic happens. As the old garbage comes out below, many people instantly feel their heads clear up (headaches, sinus congestion etc), and fresh air fills the inside of their head. Sometimes it takes several sessions to get to that, but just like that crusty pot in your kitchen sink, the longer you soak and the more times you do it, the more old crap you get rid of. Remember, you're not going to get rid of 40 years of crust in one day, but water is the universal solvent. It is the easiest, cheapest and by far the safest way to CLEAN OUT!!! By the way, if you can’t hold it for longer than five seconds at the beginning, 84 that’s OK. Just let it out (in the toilet preferably). The next time around, you will probably be able to hold it a little longer and let the water go deeper. Yes, you can do this half a dozen times in a row if you want. All you’re doing is washing yourself with water. When you are done, take some probiotics to replenish the good bacteria in your colon. Not the dry powder kind, liquid live cultures (Kefir, Acidophilus etc). WHAT IS A COLONIC ? A colonic is where you pay someone to do colon hydrotherapy for you (although some of the newer places have colonic systems where you can do the treatment yourself). It's like a luxury treatment enema. You lay on a table with a gown, a hose is discretely inserted and a technician has a machine that regulates the flow of water (which is at body temperature, so you barely feel anything). The water goes in and then you simply let go... it goes out through an exit hose and new water is let in and so on. This in-out cycle goes for about an hour. It's more thorough than an enema and more relaxing. The lights are usually dimmed and they play soft music like being at a spa getting a massage. These people are professionals and see rear-ends all day long - most of them probably uglier than yours, so don't worry. They chose that job and be thankful they did because these people have truly chosen to help others - these people are, in my opinion, unselfish healers who do ten times more good than money-hungry doctors who dispense pills to hide symptoms. Washing yourself out with water doesn't just hide symptoms, it helps get RID of your old illness-causing stuff. No matter what you have that's bad in you - poisons, bad food, bacteria, viruses, gallstones, cholesterol, alien implants - it all gets sent to your internal garbage can and if the colon is not clean, then this crap gets stuck in the crevices and stays there for years, making you sick, sluggish and not able to function properly. 85 Optional Extras One of the best things you can do is put some fresh wheatgrass juice in with your enema water. It helps to seriously detox and will help heal anything from colon problems to alkalizing and oxygenating your system, to fighting pathogens and giving your body much needed minerals. Some people like to supplement their colonics or enemas with herbs and so on to help things along. For example, the day before a cleanse, some people take charcoal or bentonite (a type of clay) orally, both of which are powerful for absorbing toxins. As a matter of fact, hospitals use charcoal to soak up drug overdoses in a body. The trouble is though, these substances are SO absorbent, they clump up like cement in your body, so you need to drink lots of water and some people even take laxative herbs to help them through the system. The colonic/enemas then help wash the waste out. Do NOT take commercial laxatives - those are bad for you. If you want to help things pass through, use something like my FREE-COLON formula. It contains herbs that basically make your intestinal muscles twitch as they pass through, which is in effect the same peristaltic action that lets food pass through your system. After a good cleansing, take probiotics - these are friendly organisms naturally found in your intestines that help break down food. If you get lots of cleansing sessions, these probiotics help replace the good stuff that gets washed out. Don't worry too much about being "depleted" of good stuff if you are consuming fresh RAW fruits, vegetables and juices like you are supposed to, because these foods already contain all the good stuff. Some people like to chase a water enema with a coffee enema. You may have heard of this and it's pretty amazing. If you put a couple cups of body temperature coffee up your butt, it causes your liver and gallbladder to uncontrollably dump their gallstones - it's like a kid dropping their bag of marbles - you might find yourself shooting thousands of little pellets within seconds (don't worry, it's painless). Those pellets represent years of cholesterol and toxins that formed into 86 little balls in your liver and then moved into your gallbladder too, to clog it up. I don't drink coffee, but doing a coffee enema isn't the same as drinking coffee. Another way of getting rid of gallstones is doing a cleanse where you drink nothing but water with Epsom Salts for a day. That stuff is so nasty-tasting it makes your body spit out gallstones out of sheer shock and disgust. Hey, whatever it takes! Also take Chanca Piedra, a South American herb whose name literally translates to “Stone Breaker”, which dissolves gall and kidney stones! It’s in my liver formula. Now all you have to do is help wash them out... with... you guessed it- enemas or colonics. QUICK FIXES I always take an enema bag with me when I travel on any trip over three days long, because I know IT WORKS. But if you are squeamish and don’t like the thought of enemas, in a pinch you can always take with you some of my Colon Formula (available at MarkusProducts.com). Or simply go to any grocery or drug store and get some Epsom Salts and put a couple tablespoons in a glass of warm water and you will be high-tailing it to the toilet in no time. Epsom Salts is nothing more than a form of magnesium and your body welcomes magnesium. The next step depends on how sick you are. If you have no apparent health issues and just want to get sexier, then just do a bunch of enemas while starting your raw food regimen. But for the REST of you, my suggestion is that no matter who you are and how healthy you think you are, ALL OF YOU should do what is discussed in the following section, because if you want a serious life change, this is how you do it. Even if you are healthy, this will take you to new heights of amazing health, sexual vitality and spiritual awareness that you never knew possible. Whatever level of health you are at, the following will take you higher. MUCH higher! 87 FASTING THE UNIVERSAL HEALER “IF FASTING CAN’T HEAL IT, IT PROBABLY CAN’T BE HEALED.” Somebody Famous Every major healer and religion throughout history says to do this. So obviously there is something to it. And trust me... there is! Most people have no idea how important this is and that fasting is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It has been said that fasting alone can heal almost anything. What is fasting? It means to not eat or drink anything except water or vegetable juice. What does it do? It gives your digestive system a chance to rest and since most of your body's energy goes into digesting food, this gives your body a chance to take all that energy and put it towards housecleaning instead. When we don't eat, our body starts putting attention on cleaning out the poisons and waste stored in our tissues and cells. During a fast, disease, tumors, lumps and even parasites starve and die because they have no more food source. We personally have nothing to worry about because our cells contain enough nutrition to last a long time, especially if we 88 keep taking in water or fresh vegetable juice. Angela Stokes is famous for her 92 day juice “feast”, healing people with nothing but vegetable juice. But we don't need to be that radical. Depending on how sick you are, I am suggesting one week to a month on juice before moving on to blended drinks. As a general rule, never eat anything anyway if you are not hungry or if you are sick or in pain. Just drink water and fresh vegetable juices. It is the best and most natural way to get and stay healthy. To someone on the outside who's never done this, the first thoughts are "oh my god, I'll get skinny and can't eat my favorite foods, I'll waste away, I'll have no energy, I won't be able to work, I'll get weak and possibly sick, bla bla bla". Right? That's your sick paranoid mind. It's scared and trying to give you a million reasons not to do this. First of all, none of that is true. Secondly, the reason your chattery mind is saying all that is because it will cease to exist on the cleanse. While fasting, one becomes amazingly peaceful and all worries go away. Our minds stop chattering. We become at peace with ourselves, as a beautiful serene sense of being bathes our soul like morning sunlight warms darkness. Yes, you will lose weight, but what you lose is nothing healthy, only fat, toxic crap and anything your body doesn't need or want. If you've been living off pizza, coffee, pasta, meat, potatoes, bread, cheese, fast food and carbonated soda, then yes, you will lose a lot of weight and size, because most of you is GARBAGE - that’s what your cells are made of. All of that will be stripped away first before rebuilding. It's just like how a car or house is rebuilt: strip it down to the frame and then rebuild properly. That's what fasting is all about. You strip down to the frame, before rebuilding. Men are afraid they will lose their precious manly muscles. Yet that one step back will help you leap two steps forward: you will be amazed how fast you get your size back, and this time it will be REAL muscle, not fluffy water muscle like before. You won't get sore after workouts and your strength will double. Getting thin is a little sacrifice to make for a month or two considering that you have a lifetime of great looks and super health ahead of you. 89 If you don’t lose weight while fasting or going raw... ...that means your body is toxic. When people go raw, the body dumps all kinds of toxins that have been accumulating in the cells over your lifetime. This is a major housecleaning, and sometimes the body has more toxins and acids than it can flush out naturally, so new fat cells are created as a protective storage mechanism to store the toxins. Fat is a defensive measure. If you are eating all raw foods and still having trouble losing weight, then you are toxic and not removing the toxins, meaning you are not doing your bowel cleansing enough (enemas, colonics etc), and probably not exercising enough either. Eat only alkalizing foods, juice lots of greens, reduce stress, drink lots of healthy water and take Fulvic Acid. As for energy, during a fast, you actually HAVE TONS MORE ENERGY! You will be amazed. Most people are astounded how after six hours sleep they can't stay in bed anymore. They are up at the first rays of light, bouncing off the walls with energy they never felt since they were kids... and they think "how is this possible? I'm not eating. Where is all this energy coming from???" And thus begins the new awakening. A new understanding starts to dawn upon the newly initiated that massive energy and health has nothing to do with how much food you stuff into your face. Actually, it's quite the opposite. How much food do you think a hummingbird eats? As a matter of fact, do you think they even eat at all? Their mouth is a tiny thin needle, used to suck liquid from plants. What are you doing during a juice fast? Sucking in liquid from plants! Fasting is the best medicine of all. Try it for at least three days, shoot for a week. Many serious people live off nothing but vegetable and green juices for months and months and heal almost anything you can think of. Fasting is the best way to get toxins, poisons and waste out of your body and it gives the body a chance to heal internal wounds. Without a fast, the body never has a chance to do deep cleansing. During a fast, 90 disease, parasites, tumors, lumps, and bad stuff has to compete for nutrients with our organs, and our body makes sure that our organs win. Studies show that no protein is lost during a 24 hour fast, only fat and bad stuff. Fasting helps get rid of weak old stuff and boosts the production of new cells. For serious anti-aging and health results do a 24 hour fast one day a week every week, for the rest of your life. One recommendation is to start fasting after lunch and go until lunch the next day. For people who are overweight or want to heal a health condition or simply become reborn, I seriously suggest a fast. All you are consuming the entire time of the fast is juice, water, tea and some herbs. That's it. The juice will have all the minerals, Vitamins and enzymes you need. My personal recommendation is to do a two-day water fast and then do a juice fast for a week to a month, depending on what you are trying to heal, then switch to another few weeks of nothing but BLENDED drinks (which includes the fiber), then slowly reintroduce solid raw fruits and vegetables while continuing the blended drinks. Stop consuming any juice at least two or three hours before bed. Only water. Make sure you get lots of sleep while fasting - be in bed by 10 pm for best effectiveness. Healing hormones are released between 10 pm and 2 am and you need to be asleep for this to work. During the entire time of the fast, do bowel cleansing, because the entire time of the fast your body is dumping all the toxins you have been accumulating during your lifetime into your bloodstream, lymph system and elimination organs and you need to help the body get rid of that heavy load, otherwise you are re-poisoning yourself. At first during a fast, you may experience detox symptoms like headaches, lightheadedness, weakness, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, body odor, bad breath, back and kidney pain. The more you've 91 abused your body over the years, the more detox symptoms you will have. Remember this is garbage coming out of you and making you feel funky, not a side effect of fasting. Celebrate that the bad stuff is coming out, never to weight you down again. Even bad thoughts, fears, insecurities and repressed resentment and anger leave you. You end up SO MUCH LIGHTER, you will be amazed how light a human being can feel. You'll feel like part of the air. All you'll hear is the song of the universe playing in your heart. Fasting does not just clean out your cells. It cleans out the ENERGY in your cells, meaning any negative energy... yes that's right, I'm talking about emotions. Fasting gives the cells, the nervous system, the brain... everything, a physiological rest. Dr. Yuri Nikolayev has been treating people with neuropsychiatric disorders in Moscow for half a century with fasting and a healthy diet. So if you are ever depressed, sick, sluggish, confused, emotionally messed up, overwhelmed, nauseous... FAST!!!! Let the body concentrate on cleaning house. Your brain will clear up, you will think clearer and be more calm and focused. This is a beautiful personal awakening. Many people are kind of stunned and speechless at this new feeling because they are not familiar with it. That's why during a fast, it's best to withdraw into your own quiet personal world... don't plan on going out and partying or hanging out with noisy active people and please don't watch any TV. This is a time of deep reflection, awakening and renewal. If people don't understand what you are doing or can't honor or respect your space, avoid them during this time. This is a deeply sacred time. Honor it. You are a new child being born. Fasting not only gives your body a rest and cleaning, it also gives your brain and nervous system a rest and cleaning. Many physiological problems have been cleared up by simply fasting. Schizophrenia for example is caused by a biochemical imbalance and that can be corrected by fasting - the body (and brain) does serious house-cleaning and puts everything back into place like it's supposed to be. Fasting has 92 an amazing success rate at eliminating anxiety, neuroses and depression when nothing else helped. Mental clarity becomes crystal clear. A beautiful sense of peace washes over our being. We become centered again. If you are on medication and doctor-prescribed drugs, you should consult with your doctor first. I have to say this for legal reasons but also because I hope your doctor has at least a tiny bit of empathy for you and understands your desire to get healthy. The catch is that most doctors don't want their patients to take matters into their own hands, because what if something goes wrong and they sue the doctor? Or even worse, what if the person gets well and the doctor loses a patient? There goes his vacation to Mexico. The only one who should be monitoring how you feel and deciding your life's actions is YOU. I am merely telling you what has helped millions of people throughout history. Your doctor is giving you drugs that have only been around for twenty years and have terrible side effects. Drugs don't cure anything. They only cause more problems. Get off the drugs now. Another reason for supervision is if you are on prescription medication, unfortunately, some of them require food in your stomach. You can’t really heal completely if you are on medication or drugs, so your first priority is to get off them. You might experience withdrawal pains, but know that once you clean out your body, your health conditions will improve. You have to give it a chance! FASTING AND GETTING OFF DRUGS AND MEDICATION If you are on recreational drugs or prescription medicine, then try to stop as fast as you safely can, but if you are on seriously heavy medications that require gradual tapering down to get off them, its best not to fast during this period because the detox would be too strong, so eat food while you gradually reduce the drugs and medications - the food helps slow down the detox effects. Then when you are off the drugs/meds, you can do a serious fast/cleanse to get the toxins out of your cells, and there will be a lot because your cells and tissues are like little sponges soaked in all that stuff. 93 MAINTENANCE FASTING For serious anti-aging and health results, do a 24 hour fast one day a week for the rest of your life. One recommendation is to start after lunch and go until lunch the next day. During a 24 hour fast, you lose mainly only fat and bad stuff. Energy, mental clarity and mood are dramatically improved the next day. Twice a year you should do a week-long fast during season changes (spring and fall), for the same reasons you do spring cleaning in your house. While fasting, it’s good to clean out the parasites while you’re at it. They are a hidden cause of half the health problems people have. 94 PARASITES EVERYBODY HAS THEM Yes, you have parasites. It's practically impossible to not come in contact with them. Even healthy raw foodists have them. As a matter of fact, you couldn’t live without billions of organisms inside you. The tricky part is making sure that the good outnumber the bad and the bad ones don’t multiply. Everyone needs to do a parasite cleanse once or twice a year. Parasites are everywhere: doorknobs, keyboards, restrooms, shopping carts, shaking people's hands, fingernails, water, air, food, pets, walking barefoot, etc. Once they are in you, they multiply like crazy. Roundworms can lay 300,000 eggs in one day! Tapeworms can grow to be 30 feet long. Single-celled amoebas can start digesting your brain. No one is totally immune, not even the healthiest people alive. Everyone should do a parasite cleanse at least once a year. Parasites sometimes eat more of your food than you! Then they poop it into your bloodstream, lungs, organs, making you sick. Parasites can be the actual cause of most mysterious illnesses. Tired a lot? Not feeling quite right? Craving foods you KNOW are bad for you? Irritable? Cramps? Bloating? Gas? Hungry all the time? Sore, stiff joints? Breathing problems? Itching? Memory cloudy? Guess who's causing it! Parasites can be the culprit behind almost every medical condition known. Our bodies are veritable 95 breeding grounds for bacteria, yeast, mold, fungus, viruses and parasites. You may think you're clean on the outside. But wait till you see what's inside you! See some really nasty pictures at http:// www.NastyParasites.com. Yes, cooking and boiling food kills parasites. The irony is cooked food doesn't contain parasites but it FEEDS them. What you consume has a lot to do with keeping parasites alive. They want to live. The gross images you see on NastyParasites.com, where they are pulling spaghetti-like worms out of people's stomachs, are all taken in a Chinese hospital where people eat cooked vegetables and rice. Parasites slowly eat away at your organs and poop toxic waste into your system! Everybody has them. They are on doorknobs, shopping carts, public places, PETS... even shaking someone's hand can transfer half a million organisms (they breed under the fingernails). Most medical problems are parasite-related. Worms can release up to A MILLION eggs per day depending on their type! They eat your food and they eat YOU. Do not be in denial of this before it's too late. Roundworms alone for example can lay 300,000 eggs in ONE DAY! Do you eat sushi? One square inch of raw meat such as sushi can contain up to 10,000 parasite eggs and larvae! Not all parasites are big worms, many are so tiny that you can't see them. These things are EVERYWHERE inside us: in our blood, just under our skin, in our organs, and totally clogging our digestive system, making it difficult for food and fecal matter to pass through. Oh the fun gets better. Did you know that one third of your poop is not your own? That's right - it's poop from the worms! These things eat like crazy, so therefore they poop inside you and this nasty stuff gets in your blood, your lymph, everywhere, even your brain. Now you know why you feel so sluggish and tired all the time. These toxins have an adverse effect on your central nervous system. Get cranky and irritable a lot? Ever wonder why? 96 Yes, the worms are disgusting, but the parasites you should be really worried about are the single-celled amoebas that get into your brain and organs. Did you know that liver flukes can even lead to cancer? You usually don't even know you have them, until of course you have so many, it's hard to avoid the symptoms. Do you kiss or sleep with pets? Does your butt itch? Do you love carbs? Do you eat sushi, or have you in the past ? You got ‘em! Many times there are no symptoms at all. They can be in you for years until one day... SIGNS YOU HAVE PARASITES: - lethargy, feeling tired all the time (chronic fatigue) - depression, forgetfulness, lack of focus, foggy thinking - strong cravings for greasy foods and sugary foods, lots of carbs and bread, fruit, fruit juices, or alcohol - eating more than normal but still feeling hungry - digestive problems such as gas, bloating, constipation, or diarrhea that come and go but never really clear up - irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) - burning sensation in the stomach - anemia or iron deficiency - worms can create enough blood loss to cause anemia or iron deficiency - difficulty in losing or gaining weight, no matter how you try - joint pain, muscle pain, and arthritis-like symptoms - pain in the back, shoulders, and thighs - skin ailments such as hives, rashes, weeping eczema, itchy dermatitis, acne, ulcers, sores, lesions, inflammation or swelling - allergic-like reactions with no apparent cause 97 - itchiness in ears, nose, and anus - excessive number of bacterial or viral infections - candida yeast infection keeps coming back - bleeding gums - headaches - restlessness or anxiety, nervousness; waste products from parasites irritate the nervous system, resulting in anxiety and restlessness - fast heartbeat, heart pain - insomnia, multiple awakenings during the night (particularly between 2 and 3am) - teeth grinding and drooling during sleep, restlessness, dark circles under the eyes - transmandibular jaw syndrome (TMJ) - low immune system - parasites depress the immune system - constant coughs and colds - food allergies, food sensitivities, environmental intolerance or oversensitivity (to smoke, chemicals, perfumes, etc.) - loss of appetite - sexual dysfunction in men - menstrual cycle problems in women SOME TYPES OF PARASITES AND WHAT THEY DO: Roundworms can lay 300,000 eggs a day! Over a million people are infected. Symptoms are upper abdominal discomfort, asthma, insomnia, appendicitis, peritonitis, and rashes due to the secretions or waste products from the worms. Large numbers can cause blockages in the intestinal tract, hemorrhaging (bleeding) when penetrating the intestinal wall, abscesses in the liver, hemorrhagic pancreatitis, loss of appetite, and insufficient absorption of digested foods. Adult worms grow to 15 inches long. Hookworm larvae penetrate the skin. When hookworms reach adulthood, they can sap their host's strength, vitality and overall wellbeing. Young worms use their teeth to burrow through the intestinal wall and feed on your blood. Symptoms from hookworm are iron deficiency, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, protein deficiency, dry skin 98 and hair, skin irritations, edema, distended abdomen, mental dullness, and eventually cardiac failure (yes you can die from this!). Pinworms infect one in five children. Symptoms are itching and irritation of the anus or vagina, digestive disorders, insomnia, irritability or nervousness. Female worms crawl out of the anus and lay about 15,000 eggs per day. Once airborne, the eggs can survive about two days anywhere in your living environment. Worldwide, about 500 million people are infected with pinworms. The worm is white and can grow to about half an inch in length. Whipworm infections are estimated at several hundred million worldwide. Symptoms of whipworms are bloody stools, pain in the lower abdomen, weight loss, rectal prolapse, nausea and anemia. Hemorrhage can occur when worms penetrate the intestinal wall and bacterial infections usually follow. 1 to 2 inches length. Amoebae are microorganisms that infect the end of the smaller intestine and colon. They release an enzyme that causes ulcers or abscesses where they can enter the bloodstream. They can eventually reach other organs like the brain or liver. Trichomonas vaginalis are pathogens that resides in the vagina in females and the urethra, epididymis, and swelling in the prostate gland in males. In women there is some yellowish discharge accompanied by itching and burning. Tapeworms may grow to 35 feet long and live ten years inside a person’s intestines. Some tapeworms can lay as many as one million eggs per day. Their bodies are in separate segments with hooks and suction cups on their skull. Flukes; Flatworms are found in bladder, blood, liver, lung, kidney and intestines. Human infections of flukes are in excess of 250 million worldwide. They can cause severe disease of the gastrointestinal tract, 99 bladder, liver and destroy blood cells. Size varies from 1 to 2.5 centimeters in length (1/2 to 3 inches long). Spirochetes are very tiny organisms that are spiral-shaped, and multiply in the blood and lymphatic system. Spirochetes (largest), Saprospira, Cristispira, Treponema (smallest), and many more. The host or carrier is usually lice, ticks, fleas, mites, and flying insects, which then transmit the organisms to humans. Spirochetes are responsible for relapsing fever, infectious jaundice, Lyme disease, sores, ulcers, Vincent angina and Wyles disease. THESE ARE JUST A FEW! THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF TYPES OF PARASITES. YOU HAVE AT LEAST SOME OF THEM, GUARANTEED ! Some parasite worms have the ability to fool bodies into thinking they are a normal part of the tissue or organ and the immune system will not fight off the intruders. When these alien invaders are established in our bodies, they do several things: they can make Swiss cheese out of your organs. Worm infections can cause physical trauma by perforating (burrowing) the intestines, the circulatory system, the lungs, the liver or the whole body. They rob us of our vital Vitamin and mineral nutrients, and amino acids needed for digestion. People become anemic and are drowsy after meals. Parasites poop toxic wastes that poison our bodies. They depress the immune system, which leads to further degeneration, fatigue and illness. They can destroy cells faster than cells can be regenerated. Some conditions that promote parasitic infections are excess mucus, an imbalance in the intestinal flora, chronic constipation, and toxic internal environment. 100 Humans with worm infections may feel bloated, tired or hungry, allergies, asthma, gas, digestive disorders, unclear thinking or toxicity. Some people may not have any symptoms from infection. By the way, parasites love chocolate, agave nectar, fruit, carbs and other sweets as much as you do :-) Whatever you like, they do too. Whatever you don't, they don't. This is what makes things tricky and this is how they survive. Also get rid of stress in your life, work on relationships etc. Acidic body from stress feeds parasites. HELP!!! HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THEM? SIMPLY TRYING TO KILL THEM RIGHT AWAY WON'T DO ANY GOOD, for two reasons. Firstly, they are in multiple stages - you might kill the adults, but not the half million eggs deposited throughout your body. These things are designed to survive. Secondly, think of parasites as your garbage men. Their job is to eat up your garbage. If you kill them, the garbage in your body will just keep accumulating until you die of over-toxification. The first thing you do is CLEAN UP YOUR BODY, which takes away their food supply. Stop eating all that modern processed food. As a matter of fact, it's best to stop eating at all and do nothing but a month long juice fast, along with LOTS of colonics to help clean out all that gunk from your bowels. As you do so, the parasites will start freaking out and making you CRAVE that bad food. But DON'T give it to them! Starve those buggers!!!! It's either you or them. Then when you are clean and they are weak, THAT'S when you hit them with everything you've got - the strong herbs that knock them out and make them leave your body. You need to make your body SO clean and spotless that they have NOTHING to eat and then flooding your body with parasite-ridding herbs will flush them out of you like crazy. You might be pooping what looks like spaghetti. Then you also have to hit the larvae and eggs in phase two. 101 This is not a simple one week thing - this takes months and months - so you need to make this a LIFESTYLE. There isn't one thing that will kill all parasites. The best thing is to go on a fast and starve them of their food supply, then hit them with a combination of plant-based, all natural parasite-killing herbs. Matt and I developed a formula that has the top herbs. You can get it at ParasiteFree.net. If you can't do a fast, then at least take the herbs and stop eating stuff that the parasites like. Do enemas or colonics to flush them out. Also do lots of juices - cucumber juice is really good worms HATE that stuff because it contains the enzyme erepsin, which digests the proteins that eat away at tapeworms... and remember too to drink lots of water and do plenty of colonics to flush them out. Parasites are everywhere. You cannot avoid contact. They are on all surfaces and even in the air. The only defense is having a highly alkaline body that is well oxygenated with a strong immune system and a CLEAN digestive tract. If your blood is acidic, you are breeding parasites. MUCUS is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria and parasites. What causes mucus? An acidic body. What causes an acidic body? Processed cooked modern foods, breads, cheese, alcohol, milk, dairy, stress, and anything not naturally found in nature. Mucus is the body's way of protecting your delicate tissues from being burned by acid and your modern lifestyle makes your body pretty acidic. That warm gooey mucus is a perfect breeding ground for parasites. So keep clean! AVOID ALL MEATS, DAIRY, SWEETS, JUNK FOODS It's time you became aware what was going on inside you. “Out of sight - out of mind” is no good. What you don't know will catch up to you. Educate yourself on true health. Drugs are NOT the answer because they kill both good and bad bacteria inside you, and there is no single drug that kills all kinds of bacteria. Drugs are toxic poisons... you need a safe natural formula with MANY kinds of herbs that kill different parasites. The ONLY answer is to make yourself CLEAN 102 right now and start respecting your body and never again feeding the aliens with junk and processed food... because if you don't, they will outnumber you and win. It's YOU or THEM. Starve them out, then kill them with PARASITE-FREE when they are weak. The older the worms, the longer it takes to kill them. Just like people; the older they get, the stronger their system becomes and can deal with a lot more harsh contact. Persistence is the key and eventually nothing can withstand the onslaught of powerful herbs or medicine, over and over. You can help get rid of parasites with simple household stuff. The best program is to do a Liquid FAST*** (lots of vegetable juices like carrot, celery, cucumber, ginger, garlic). Or if you are up to it, do an eight day fast like the Master Cleanse (not necessary, but REALLY helps you clean out and detox). You will never get rid of all parasites. Many of them are necessarythey are little “garbage men” cleaning up our junk inside. The trouble begins when we eat too much garbage and they multiply like crazy. If there is nothing for them to eat, they either go to sleep or leave your body. They don’t like clean healthy bodies. They love mucus and junk food. If you don’t respect your body, the parasites wake up and start “recycling” your body, so only healthy people can continue the human species. This is nature’s grand design. Eat right, stay clean and live long. It’s real simple. Those who stray from nature’s design pay the price. Don't consume anything that feeds parasites - make them weak - starve them out and they'll leave on their own. Do not eat anything sweet, no breads, dairy, meat, rice, pasta, cereal or anything made from wheat or flour. Only raw stuff. 103 Second, do colonics or Enemas... you need to wash them out as they weaken. My friend’s wife did nothing but a juice fast and passed all kinds of worms and even nests! Eat lots of fresh Garlic. Garlic is able to slow and kill over sixty types of fungus and twenty types of bacteria, as well as some of the most potent viruses. Garlic has a history of killing parasites and controlling secondary fungal infections, detoxifying while gently stimulating elimination, and has antioxidant properties to protect against oxidation caused by parasite toxins. The active components in garlic that kill parasites are allicin and ajoene. These compounds can kill amoebas, including one-cell varieties, as well as pinworms and hookworms. Allicin is not present in garlic in its natural state. When garlic is chopped or otherwise damaged, the enzyme alliinase acts on the chemical alliin, converting it into allicin, the active component contributing for its success at killing parasites. Use crushed or juiced garlic for serious power. Lots of cucumbers - they contain enzymes that kill tapeworms. Papaya - full of protein-dissolving enzymes (parasites are protein) and especially eat the peppercorn-like papaya SEEDS - they are powerful. Watermelon (with seeds) - the seeds contain powerful stuff. Clove - cloves contain the most powerful germicidal agent in the herbal kingdom, known as eugenol. They also contain caryophyllene, which is a powerful antimicrobial agent. These components travel through the bloodstream, killing microscopic parasites and parasitic larvae and eggs. Cloves are tremendously effective in killing malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, scabies and other parasites, viruses, bacteria and fungi, including candida. Cloves also destroy all species of shigella, staphylococcus, and streptococcus. 104 Raw Pumpkin Seeds – able to kill eggs, contain a natural fat that is toxic to parasite eggs. Curcurbitin in pumpkin seeds has shown antiparasitic activity, since it has the ability to paralyze worms, leaving them to drop off the intestinal walls. Chinese scientists used pumpkin seeds to treat acute schistosomiasis and tapeworm infestations. Many parasite formulas contain pumpkin seeds, but they don’t do much in just a few capsules. You need half a cup at a time to really work. Grind in a coffee grinder and add to salads, smoothies, soups and so on. Nutmeg* – also contains eugenol, a powerful killer of parasite larvae and eggs. Turmeric - powerful cancer-fighting, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, worm-expelling body purifier. Cayenne – destroys fungus, mold & parasites on contact. Increases circulation and health. Increases effectiveness of other herbs. Ginger - increases circulation and helps all digestive issues, also good for relieving gas and nausea associated with parasite die-off. More things that help get rid of parasites: - Hot peppers - Onion - Lots of green tart apples (not store-bought apple juice - that's sugar. It's the pectin-fiber of the apples that does the work.) - Wild spicy greens, like mustard greens - Fennel seed - Oregano oil - Olive leaf extract - Grapefruit seed extract - Aloe Vera - Colloidal silver - Thyme - Una De Gato (Cat’s Claw) - Myrrh - Bitter melon is effective against pinworms. 105 Fasting on nothing but raw pineapples for a week helps with tapeworms. Take probiotics at the end of each day, because parasite-killing herbs knock out everything, including good bacteria. Take some sort of fiber during your cleanse, also colon cleansing is recommended to flush out the dead parasites. Use my COLON-FREE formula. Scrub your hands, keep fingernails clean, wash all produce, pet owners wear slippers, practice impeccable hygiene. Take LOTS of ENZYMES containing large amounts of protease (which digests protein and parasites; bacteria and viruses are protein). Do not take if you have a bleeding digestive system or ulcers. SERIOUS PARASITE-KILLING HERBS: (These are the herbs in my PARASITE-FREE formula, which can be ordered at www.ParasiteFree.net. Do not take if pregnant or nursing.) Note: Couples should both do a parasite cleanse at the same time, otherwise they just re-infect each other. Green Hulls of Black Walnut: shown to have powerful effects on killing many varieties of parasites. The dried and ground green hulls of the Black Walnut contain tannin, which is organic iodine, as well as juglandin. Black Walnut has been used for centuries to expel various types of worms, including parasites that cause skin irritations such as ringworm. It oxygenates the blood, which also helps kill parasites. Black Walnut is very effective against tapeworms, pinworms, Candida albicans (yeast infections) and malaria. It is also effective in reducing blood sugar levels, and helping the body rid itself of toxins. 106 Graviola Bark: is a major component used in our formula because of the amazing results for purging parasites. Graviola has a great record of killing intestinal parasites, calming nerves, reducing blood pressure and helping arthritis, heart and liver: see www.graviolaleaves.com. Some people saw parasites in their toilets after just one day of using this stuff! Graviola has been researched in laboratory tests since the 1970s, where it's been shown to: effectively target and kill malignant cells in twelve different types of cancer, including colon, breast, prostrate, lung and pancreatic cancer... 10,000 times stronger in killing colon cancer cells than Adriamycin (a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug). Graviola selectively hunts down and kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells, unlike chemotherapy. REFERENCE: http://www.greenwoodhealth.net/np/graviola.htm. Graviola contains the chemical annonaceous acetogenins, this is the active compound that is harmful to parasites. Quassia: a tree native to Jamaica and its neighboring islands, has traditionally been used as a remedy for roundworms and as an insecticide. It has also been used as a bitter digestive aid and a remedy for digestive disorders, parasites, and head lice. See http:// www.naturalstandard.com. Butternut Bark: used specifically for parasite cleansing. Butternut is a native of the midwestern and northeastern United States and has been used since the 1800s as a laxative and in the elimination of parasites. Butternut is also used to support healthy liver function. Butternut, also called White Walnut, is used to expel, rather than kill, worms (vermifuge). Wormwood: named for its ability to expel parasites, this bitter herb is known worldwide for its strong killing ability. This is one of the MOST POWERFUL tools in the parasite-killing herb kingdom. It is most effective against roundworms, hookworms, whipworms and pinworms. Wormwood contains the potent chemicals thujone and isothujone, which are the primary components that kill parasites. Wormwood also contains santonin, an effective remedy for parasitic 107 diseases. Wormwood is the second most bitter herb known to man and has been proven as a POWERFUL remedy for malaria. Wormwood also contains sesquiterpene lactones, which work similarly to peroxide, by weakening the parasites’ membranes, therefore killing them. Wormwood also helps produce bile, which in turn helps the liver and gallbladder. Oregon Grape Root: contains berberine, a substance known to kill most forms of bacteria, viruses, fungus & parasites. Diatomaceous Earth: food grade version is used as a parasite “shredder”. Diatoms act like glass passing over skin, cutting the fragile flesh of all living adult parasites on contact (without harming humans). It is also a dessicant, meaning it dries out anything fluid, so it goes inside the parasites’ shells and dries up their insides. Can be used on humans and pets. If you dust it on the floor, it keeps ants and bugs away. Olive Leaf: mentioned in the Bible, along with the olive fruit; "the olive fruit shall be as meat, and the leaf as medicine.” Current research shows the leaf is anti-bacterial, fungal, viral, microbial & parasitical. Rhubarb: used to help expel the die-off of parasites, eggs and larvae. We chose rhubarb as it is not addictive like other colon movement stimulants, and is very powerful, even in a low dosage. Cloves: contain the most powerful germicidal agent in the herbal kingdom, known as eugenol. They also contain caryophyllene, which is a powerful antimicrobial agent. These components travel through the bloodstream, killing microscopic parasites and parasitic larvae and eggs. Cloves are tremendously effective in killing malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, scabies and other parasites, viruses, bacteria and fungi, including candida. Cloves also destroy all species of shigella, staphylococcus, and streptococcus. 108 Pumpkin Seeds: able to kill eggs, contain a natural fat that is toxic to parasite eggs. Curcurbitin in pumpkin seeds has shown anti-parasitic activity, since it has the ability to paralyze worms, leaving them to drop off the intestinal walls. Chinese scientists used pumpkin seeds to treat acute schistosomiasis and tapeworm infestations. Red Raspberry Seed (Ellagitannin): raspberry seeds usually pass through our bodies, but when ground up, they contain one of the most powerful antioxidants known: Ellagitannin (Ellagic Acid). Aside from being used very successfully in cancer treatment, Ellagitannin has also been found to be a powerful destroyer of parasites. It's a very strong anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral that lowers cholesterol and protects our DNA. This stuff is very expensive and hard to get, but worth every molecule. Aloe Vera: this plant, called “herb of immortality” by the Egyptians, contains a soothing gel that helps peristalsis. Aloe Vera has antibacterial and anti-fungal activities. Also, aloe destroys bacteria more powerfully than any other hypoallergenic plant known. Papain: papain is a protein digestive enzyme that really works synergistically with herbs to further break down material. This digestive enzyme will help restore your intestinal tract to its normal state, which makes it inhospitable to parasites. Papain taken thirty minutes before or after meals helps kill worms. Cat’s Claw: this herb is often used for treating stomach ulcers, gastritis, eczema, "break-bone fever," and liver diseases. Since the 1980s, Cat's Claw has most commonly been used in modern herbal medicine as an immune stimulant. The oxindole alkaloids in Cat’s Claw strengthen the immune system and also improve circulation, by lowering blood pressure. The master rain forest herbalist Leslie Taylor has used Cat's Claw tinctures and teas to treat cancer and HIV with remarkable success. 109 Goats Rue: is a wild legume used during the Middle Ages to treat the plague. It was also used to induce sweating to break fevers and to treat infections from parasitic worms and snakebites. This herb can help balance blood sugar levels, help women balance hormones and the plant has no odor, unless a stem or leaf is bruised, causing the release of a stench, hence the name “Goat’s Rue.” Effective in both humans and animals alike. Garlic: is able to slow and kill over sixty types of fungus and twenty types of bacteria, as well as some of the most potent viruses. Garlic has a history of killing parasites and controlling secondary fungal infections, detoxifying while gently stimulating elimination, and has antioxidant properties to protect against oxidation caused by parasite toxins. The active components in garlic that kill parasites are allicin and ajoene. These compounds can kill amoebas, including one-cell varieties, as well as pinworms and hookworms. Allicin is not present in garlic in its natural state. When garlic is chopped or otherwise damaged, the enzyme alliinase acts on the chemical alliin, converting it into allicin, the active component contributing for its success at killing parasites. African Cayenne: 120k HU is the most powerful variety of cayenne pepper, able to destroy fungus, mold & parasites on contact. Other things you can do: You can also make your own Caster Oil capsules, by pouring the oil into molds, capsules or even into a straw, freezing it and then breaking into capsules. Take 3-6 of these with water, depending on body weight. The freezing helps the capsules pass the high stomach acid and release in the colon instead (the breeding ground). Try adding HIGH doses of GSE (Grapefruit Seed Extract), because there is no toxicity level with this supplement. All parasites are bothered by different things, so it helps to take a large variety of things. This is why our product contains so many different types of herbs, because its just too hard to really kill 110 all different types of parasites with simply a few different herbs. I would also try making your own extract (glycerin) of Cloves, or simply grinding Cloves in a coffee grinder to add to teas, salads or smoothies. BLEEDING GUMS: a serious warning sign Gum disease is connected with heart attacks. People with periodontal disease are three times more likely to have a heart attack than people with healthy gums. Toxic bacteria enter the bloodstream, reach the heart and scar the arteries. Toxins and inflammation created by periodontal bacteria get into the blood stream and trigger the liver to release a substance called C-Reactive Protein (CRP), the levels of which, believe it or not, are a much more accurate way of predicting heart attacks than cholesterol levels! This CRP also leads to blocked arteries, blood clots, high blood pressure, sudden heart attacks, doubled levels of colon cancer, Alzheimer’s, and all kinds of chronic serious immune problems. Have your CRP levels checked! If you have sensitive or bleeding gums, go to the dentist and have them cleaned NOW. Then STOP eating processed cooked sugary starchy carbs and animal products. Wash your mouth out with hydrogen peroxide and use something like my tooth powder (baking soda, cayenne, sea salt). Floss, or even better, use a WATER PIC. Clean your blood and liver with a serious fast, herbs and colon cleansing. This is serious. Do not take bleeding gums lightly. Also, open a probiotic capsule onto your tongue and spread the powder over your teeth and gums. They help fight bacteria. 111 The Life-Changing Health Plan WATCH THE MIRACLES HAPPEN 1. Do an enema or colonic every other day for at least a month. If you're really sick, do a number of enemas every day. Add wheatgrass juice to the enema water if you can. Take probiotics at the beginning and end of each day, to replenish intestinal flora (the good bacteria). 2. Stop eating solid food. No, you won't waste away. This step is important. (Note: if you are on prescription medication, consult your doctor first. Chances are though that they won't want you to stop eating solids, because many drugs require food in your stomach and also doctors are not familiar with this centuries-old method of natural healing.) 3. Nothing but water for AT LEAST two days. As much water as you want. At least a gallon a day. This is called FASTING and it's mentioned in every religion and historical healing text around the world. Go as long as you can on nothing but water. Do a week or two if you can (make sure you are off medication by this point, otherwise jump to juice fasting). So the sequence is water, then vegetable juice, then blended drinks and finally raw food. 112 Every single day of the fast, do these things (including allwater days, juice days and blender days): - Mornings upon rising, squeeze lemon juice (and lime if you want) into a glass of waterand and again late afternoon. - 20 minutes later, two tablespoons of raw apple cider vinegar in a glass of water. - enema or colonic at least every other day (time of day doesn't matter). - walk outside in fresh air and sunlight for thirty minutes if possible. - green or white tea, mornings and night (no juices after dark - just water and tea). - fresh vegetable juices during the day between 12 and 6 - as much as you want. (not on water-only days) - in the afternoon, do another water with apple cider vinegar. - add magnesium, MSM and a drop or two of detoxified iodine to your water throughout the day. - stretch or do yoga stretching (see end of book for diagrams). - if you have a mini trampoline (rebounder), use it 15 minutes a day. If you don't have one, jump up and down anyway. Also play inspirational music and dance every day when no one is around. It's time to open your soul and body. - breathe really long and deep, filling your lungs all day with air as much as you can. - remain in a relaxed state of being. Nothing bothers you any more. - tell people you love them. 113 - stay close to home. You are in reclusive introversion mode. The caterpillar must seal itself into a cocoon in order to come out as a butterfly. - no television, no news. The world will do fine without you during this time. Insulate yourself from anything potentially depressing... news, people, etc. Only listen to soft, inspirational healing music. If you don't have any, buy some relaxation CDs. - take long hot baths with Epsom Salts in the bath water (available at any drugstore, even grocery stores). Turn the lights low. Light some candles, play soft music. Drift away. Sweating is good. Fall asleep if you want. You are a baby in the womb again. - asleep by 9 or 10 pm. No exceptions. Healing hormones are released between 10pm and 2am and you must be asleep to receive their benefits. Every hour of sleep before midnight adds to your health, while every hour of sleep lost after midnight takes away from your health. EXAMPLES OF JUICE DRINKS (It’s a good idea to have celery in everything - it’s one of the most healing foods, very high in electrolytes. Ginger is a miracle food also especially for digestion and circulation. Add garlic to everything if you have illness.) celery, cucumber, apple, parsley celery, cucumber, carrot, spinach, ginger celery, cucumber, ginger, apple celery, cucumber, beet, spinach, ginger, garlic 114 celery, watercress, carrot, ginger celery, beet greens, carrot greens, ginger celery, parsley, dandelion, carrot, ginger celery, cucumber, kale, apple, garlic celery, cucumber, garlic, lemon cucumber, beet greens, blueberries, lemon celery, cucumber, grapes, lemon celery, watercress, lemon celery, kale, apple, ginger, garlic, lemon Also do 2-5 ounces of wheatgrass juice every day. It will help to speed the recovery and healing. Don’t juice sweet fruits; the sugar will be too concentrated and feed candida, viruses, bacteria, yeast, mold and parasites. Tart green apples are OK. WHEATGRASS TO THE RESCUE One of the most effective things you can do is saturating yourself with as much wheatgrass juice as possible - drinking it and putting it in enemas or colonics. If you want to save time and money, buy a wheatgrass juicer (you can buy a hand-crank version for under a hundred bucks) and a bunch of wheatgrass flats at your local health food store. Then all you do is run the grass through the juicer (grass 115 won’t work in normal juicers, it needs a special wheatgrass juicer). My suggestion is make at least half a cup of juice. Drink 2 oz, and put the rest in your enema bag. While you’re at it, throw a whole bunch of garlic in the juicer too - it’s a powerful healer. You won’t smell of garlic, because it’s going into your colon, not your mouth. Do wheatgrass enemas several times a day, every day if you really want to see results. This is one of the fastest ways to heal! It has healed cancer over and over again. If you have cleaned all of the toxic crud out of your body and your cells, your intestines and colon are clean, and the only thing you are putting in your body is water, fresh vegetable juices (especially greens with lots of chlorophyll), wheatgrass juice and some herbs, then you are forcing foreign viruses, bacteria, cancer etc to be in an environment in which they cannot exist. Wheatgrass is high in oxygen, minerals and enzymes, which is to pathogenic organisms what trying to swim in acid would be to us. HOW LONG TO STAY ON A JUICE FAST Stay on the juice fast as long as you possibly can. Every day you go longer, the deeper the healing will be. Some people feel so great after a month that they go for a second and third month. You might not see or feel what’s going on, but trust me - there is a LOT going on inside you, on a deep cellular level. You can’t clear out thirty or forty years of bad living in just a matter of days, or even weeks. The more time you give it, the more fine-tuning your body can do. Read the chapter below called “Signs of Detox and Level of Health” for more information. Do NOT let peer pressure stop you short. Remember, you will be detoxing and just like a house during spring cleaning, you might look like a mess, and if people see you they will probably say you need to stop this “unhealthy” thing you are doing and that you are “wasting away”. You are only wasting away the years of bad living. Like an exorcism, you might look like crap during this time. Do NOT let 116 people scare you into stopping. Stay strong and listen to the inner you! Shoot for a month, especially if you have a serious condition. If not, go for at least a week or two. The food cravings will end after about day two or three and you will hit a beautiful smoothness, like when airplanes hit 30,000 feet and there is no more turbulence - just beautiful open sky. At this point is becomes a spiritual experience. You will feel so wonderfully high and calm. Give your body all the time it needs to clear away a lifetime of bad habits. Your liver is bigger than your head and it is filled with decades of toxic goo - it will take time to clear it all out. But the payoff is a new, longer, healthier life, like you never experienced before. 117 STEP 2: BLENDED DRINKS Then, move on to blended drinks. NO SOLID FOOD YET!!!!! But this is a step in that direction. In this phase, you are moving from juicer to blender, and consuming the whole fruits and vegetables - pulp, fiber and everything... just in a liquified state, so it’s already “digested” for you, saving your body lots of energy. In terms of using the “whole” food, a watermelon with seeds and rind is OK, but obviously do not put a whole peach in the blender with the pit. The basic rule is to use at least half leafy greens and half (or less) fruit in each blended drink. Do NOT do just fruit - that’s too much sugar. The secret healing stuff is the leafy greens. Yeah I know, that’s not the part you like, but that’s what works the miracles. Hey, at least you are introducing some fruit in there. Be thankful. Blended drinks are a complete food. They contain everything you need for life and you can live on them indefinitely. You are consuming the whole fruits and vegetables, just like you would find them in nature... you are just liquifying them first before swallowing, which saves your body a lot of work in terms of digestion. This also solves the assimilation problem that most salad-eaters have. We need to consume two good-sized bunches of dark leafy greens a day. This doesn't sound very appetizing I know - so that's why we have the Vitamix blender! The magic trick is to simply add a piece of fruit with the greens; liquify it all so we don't have to chew it all, and then just drink it down. Voila. Health :-) You might find, like others have, that after consuming green smoothies every day, your moles, warts and skin blemishes simply fall off one day. People have even mentioned cancer scabs peeling off in the shower, leaving healthy new skin underneath. Green leafy vegetables have almost all the amino acids, minerals, enzymes and phytonutrients we need... the trouble is they’re locked into 118 cells made out of cellulose, which is one of the toughest, most hard to digest substances on Earth. In order to get to the nutrients, the cellulose needs to be broken open and that requires a LOT of serious chewing and that’s why cows and horses chew all day long. That’s also one of the reasons they get so big. We hardly chew our food and our stomach acid is normally nowhere near strong enough to digest the cellulose, therefore the nutritional value of the green plant foods we eat is hardly ever utilized and that’s why so many vegetarian/vegan/raw foodists are so skinny - they aren’t assimilating their nutrients. This is also why they get grey hair and wrinkles - they are malnourished even though they are eating the right food. The secrets are: 1 - they need stronger stomach acid and 2 - they need to break their food apart more, either by chewing until their food is creamy liquid goo, or BLENDING their salads! And guess what, when you consume a lot of green smoothies, your stomach acid gets stronger again, like it’s supposed to be! You can test to see if your stomach acid is strong enough by drinking some beet juice and if your pee or poop turns color, then your stomach acid is too weak. That’s why you have gas and health issues. Also, since stomach acid is supposed to to kill parasites in our food, most people have parasite infestations because of the weak acid. As a matter of fact, many parasites breed in our stomachs and intestines like crazy because that’s where all the food is. Weak stomach acid and parasites can lead to almost any health condition you can think of. In the meantime, to jump start the stomach acid, take HCL pills and put apple cider vinegar in water two times a day. Also take lots of ENZYMES - especially with Protease (for protein) and Cellulase (for cellulose), which the body can’t produce on its own. If you are worried about food combining between leafy greens and fruit, don’t worry - leafy greens are NOT vegetables and can be mixed with anything (and they should be). Do NOT mix carrots, beets and other roots with fruit. Those are starches. BUT carrot and beet greens (tops) are OK! As a matter of fact, we have it all backwards - we should consume the green tops and 119 not touch the starchy roots. The greens have hundreds of times more nutrition that the bottom part. If you want serious Vitamin A, blend the carrot tops, not the root part. EXAMPLES OF GREEN SMOOTHIES (liquid salads): Note*: each smoothie must include half green leafy material like kale, romaine, parsley, celery, spinach, dandelion etc. The chorophyll (what makes it green) is needed for the magic to work. 1 bunch of spinach or kale 2 cups of papaya 2 cups water _________________ 1 bunch spinach or kale 2 peaches or nectarines without seeds 2 cups water _______________ 1 cucumber 3 pieces celery 1 bunch spinach 2 tomatoes lemon juice _______________ 6 leaves kale 1 banana mango piece of Aloe Vera 2 cups water _______________ head of romaine/kale strawberries banana 2 cups water 120 _________________ romaine celery cucumber blueberries piece of Aloe Vera coconut water _________________ You get the idea: half green leafy stuff half fruit and some liquid. Avoid carrot, beet, parsley root (green tops are OK), during serious cleansing. 2-5 ounces of wheatgrass juice every day will help speed the recovery and healing. Remember: keep doing those enemas or colonics and end the day with lots of probiotics (liquid form). While you are cleansing, make sure to get enough rest and sleep, otherwise you will be defeating the purpose. After a week or two, or however long you can last... or once you know for sure that you are healed, you can reintroduce solid food. Make sure it is RAW, uncooked food... the more moist the better - use high watercontent items like juicy fruits and vegetables. Minimize nuts, seeds and dehydrated stuff. Always have at least one or two green smoothies every day, preferably for the rest of your life :-) 121 RAW FOOD ! Finally here we are. Solid food. Ahhh. Finally. OK. Don’t go nuts. Take it easy. Start with soft stuff. Always try to stay with juicy, wet foods as much as possible - like fruits and other things that are the way you would find them if picking them off a tree or bush in nature. In other words, apples and watercress are more natural than dehydrated crackers or raw cheesecake made out of cashews and agave nectar. Those don’t grow on trees in nature. Minimize sweet and salty as much as possible. Raw honey is more natural than agave nectar. Sea vegetables and celery are a better source of salt and minerals than straight sea salt. Grinding your own flax seeds into powder in a coffee grinder is much better than buying flax meal or flax crackers, because once you grind something, the life-force of the food is lost within thirty minutes by oxidation and it becomes tasteless and dead. The same goes for anything ground up or juiced or blended. Make your food yourself as much as possible. Do NOT juice fruits and then drink the fruit juice straight without watering it down 50% first - the sugar concentration is too strong for our bodies, which causes too much of a glycemic spike in the blood. It also feeds pathogens (viruses, bacteria, mold, yeast, fungus and ulcers). It’s always best to combine fruit with some kind of green leafies. In the wild, animals eat just as much leaves as fruit in combination. FOOD COMBINING IS IMPORTANT, especially for people with irritable bowel or gas problems. If you combine foods that take very different amounts of time to digest (for example, nuts and fruit), you will get gas and the food will rot inside you. 122 Eat fruit by itself, or with green leafies is OK, but nothing else. No soy milk, no granola, no yogurt. As a matter of fact, stay away from yogurt and soy altogether. Don’t mix fruits and vegetables (leafy greens don’t count as vegetables). Lemon, lime and tart apples are OK. Wait a few hours after a meal before eating any fruit. Fruit digests very fast and if other food is still in your stomach, the fruit will ferment it, causing the whole mess to go bad and rot. Not a pretty picture. If you possibly can, get fruit right off the tree or bush, when it is fully ripe. Most fruit in a grocery store is picked un-ripe, and they can never ripen like they are supposed to because there are no more nutrients coming through the branch from the mother plant. Unripe fruits are acidic and this is not good for us. TRANSITIONAL FOOD: SWITCHING TO RAW What most people consider “raw” food isn’t really raw living food. The healthiest food is food that still has life in it - meaning if you planted it in the ground, it would grow (and I don’t mean mold). For example, plant a tomato or apple and you get a tomato or apple plant growing out of the ground. Plant a pumpkin seed and pumpkin grows. Most people miss the addictive, traditional sweet carb foods they grew up on, so they want to eat food that tastes like hamburgers, bread, cheesecake, crackers, coffee, chocolate, cookies, pies... and they spend a lot of effort mimicking those tastes and textures with raw food. And that’s OK. Whatever it takes to go in the direction of health. And there are some VERY tasty cheesecakes that taste exactly like or even better than real cheesecake. Instead of using dairy products, they are made with things like cashew nuts, coconut oil and so on. The crust is made with ground up nuts mixed with dates for example. But once 123 something is ground up into a paste or powder, it is NO LONGER ALIVE. It will still have its vitality for maybe an hour or so, but then oxidation sets in and it becomes bland dead food. It’s still better though than eating that store-bought commercial crap full of chemicals, preservatives, bad trans-fats and poisons. So if you need to, then eat the transitional foods - like dehydrated crackers, burgers, cookies and so on. But just know that it’s not as health-promoting as fresh fruits and vegetables plucked right off a tree, bush or vine and eaten whole or blended. You might not be able to pick your own food in this modern world, but at least buy what you can at the local farmers’ market or grocery store, and then just eat it with minimal preparation. For example, you can simply slice up some strawberries and bananas in a bowl, sprinkle some cinnamon on top and voila: breakfast. For lunch, throw some celery, mango and kale in a blender with some water and voila: lunch! Have a salad in the middle of the day with some apple cider vinegar and hemp oil. For dinner, have a bowl of papaya with lemon juice. Eat the seeds too. See where I’m going with this? This is almost as simple as an animal in the wild eats, except with a bit of human touch. It’s also very simple, easy to do and doesn’t take a lot of time. And that’s very important in this day and age. Food should not take up a lot of our day. It should give us energy, NOT make us feel tired afterwards, NOT lead to health problems, not give us gas, and not weight us down or slow us down in any way. It should make us feel great, keep us going all day long with no highs or lows, go through us in a matter of hours and come out with no problem or smell. Raw chocolate and raw cheesecake are what I consider occasional feelgood snacks, but are not part of my everyday diet. When people come over, it’s a nice way to celebrate, make friends and pull people over to healthy living by showing them how good stuff can taste. I have included some recipes later in this book. But when I am alone, I really don’t put a lot of energy or thought into food. Preparing food seems like such an inconvenience to me; I want to create art, play, make love 124 and travel the world. There is too much to do in this world to be slowed down by worrying all the time about breakfast, lunch and dinner. STAY CLOSE TO NATURE IN THE FOOD YOU EAT While you are on a healing diet cleanse, I seriously suggest you stay away from dehydrated raw foods and all of those desserts, cakes, pies, burgers, chocolates and so on, until you are well. Stick to things the way they are found in nature... LOTS OF LEAFY GREENS and juicy fruits and vegetables and maybe occasionally a few soaked seeds (seeds are better than nuts). Do not mix seeds with fruit unless they are part of the fruit. Green leafy matter is where the magic healing power is. Blending is the best way to consume this green magic. DRIED/ DEHYDRATED FOOD Food loses vitality and life after it is dried. Even raw foodists get into the trap of eating dehydrated food because it's hard and crunchy, or very dense to appease the carb cravings. Dehydrated food sucks a lot of moisture from the body, which dehydrates the body. It also puts a strain on the digestive system, because remember, everything in your body has to be turned into liquid (blood). Most people don't chew their food well enough into a creamy consistency before swallowing, so a lot of that dry food has sharp pointy edges that scratch your insides as they go through your body, which can cause inflammation or bleeding. Eating food with high moisture content is much better for you, like juicy fruits, celery, or basically any raw fruit or vegetable. Blended foods are best. FIBER Fiber helps slow down the sugar release into the blood and helps clean out our bodies, acting like a sponge soaking up toxic crap inside us. Fiber is absolutely necessary for health, especially those with sugar issues. Fiber is so important to our well-being and health. It is the reason why blended drinks are better than juiced (although juices are good for stage one of healing anything, when the body can't handle fiber). 125 Flax crackers are common fare among raw foodists, but to me they taste like dried cardboard and they feel hard on my body. Remember, everything has to be turned into liquid inside us and we also don’t chew our food like we are supposed to (it’s supposed to be a creamy liquid goo with no chunks when we swallow it). Flax is good for you but the seeds need to to be ground in a coffee grinder first, then put in water or smoothies. Great source of EFA Omega oils and of course, fiber. Chia seeds are even better than flax and not as hard on the body. They are a great source of fiber and EFAs (essential fatty acids) - you know the Omega oils. AND fiber AND B Vitamins. Simply put a couple spoonfuls of chia in water and drink... or you can blend it in a blender first. Chia seeds are one of the best sources of EFAs and they are easily digestible. SEEDS and NUTS are designed by plants to be eaten by animals, carried somewhere else and then pooped out, so that they can grow into new plants. They are small so that they can be swallowed whole and they are coated with enzyme inhibitors so that they won't be digested by stomach acid. This coating is acid-proof but is dissolved away by water. This is so that the seed or nut can survive the trip through an animal’s digestive system, and then when the seed or nut is laying on the ground again in a pile of poop (aka fertilizer), it sits there patiently waiting until it rains. Presto! The protective coating is dissolved and the seed or nut instantly starts to sprout. Yes, this is fascinating trivia, but what does that have to do with you? Well I'm trying to explain why you can't just pop seeds and nuts in your mouth and expect to get a lot of nutritional value from them. They will probably just irritate your stomach and intestines.... UNLESS you soak them in water overnight... ah... then the magic elixirs of life are made available to us. By the way, seeds are better for us than nuts. In the wild, chimpanzees don’t touch nuts but they occasionally eat seeds. Chimps also don’t eat roots (carrots, beets, etc) but they eat the greens on top of these roots. Take a hint. 126 VARIETY*** ROTATE WHAT YOU EAT We need to rotate what we eat and eat as great a variety as possible. Each plant has certain nutrients that are different from other plants. If we keep eating only the same fifteen things, we will develop deficiencies and have health issues. The more types of foods you eat, the more chance you will be getting what you need, nutritionally. This is another mistake that many raw foodists make: they keep buying the same fruits and vegetables that they like and after a while they develop a deficiency and wonder why. Rotate. Variety! As a general rule: JUICER - use vegetables and non-sweet fruit. BLENDER - use any combination of fruits and greens. Basically, only put fruit in a blender, not a juicer. You need the fiber to buffer the high sugar content of the fruit. Most fruit is so soft and juicy - just EAT the dang thing! You can also put a handful of grass in the blender with your smoothies. Nothing wrong with that. You get ALL the fiber, phytonutrients, minerals, Vitamins and co-factors. Just make sure you drink this concoction within ten minutes or else it starts oxidizing, loses its value and it also begins to taste funky. Apple Cider Vinegar or HCL pills to jump start your stomach acid (do the beet juice test to check your HCL level). At night, take Probiotics before bed (like acidophilus). MINERALS Minerals are necessary for 95% of your life-sustaining functions. Unfortunately, today’s soils are so depleted of most of the stuff we need that the plants grown in them are deficient also, therefore we need minerals from somewhere else. The best source is SEA VEGETABLES. Consume about 2-3 spoonfuls of sea vegetables each day. Take scissors and snip them into your salads and soups or just throw some in your blended smoothies. 127 SAMPLE DAILY MEALS I really don’t have “meals”. I don’t have a schedule. I eat when I’m hungry and I don’t when I’m not. If I don’t eat for half a day I don’t care, because I know that’s healthy - it’s called fasting. Just make sure that you drink enough water or juice and you’ll be healthy, happy and full of energy. But for those of you who think analytically and are ruled by a clock, here is a rough idea of a typical day for me... Upon waking: glass of water with fresh lemon juice or two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. BREAKFAST - always keep it light; you are “breaking the fast” you just had all night. Here are some Examples: -papaya with lemon juice and garlic (also eat as many of the papaya seeds as you can) or -strawberries and banana slices with cinnamon on top or -smoothie (in blender) – strawberries with leafy greens and lemon juice, two cups water 128 Sample breakfast drink 1: 2 Aloe Vera leaves fresh from garden 2 oranges 1 grapefruit 1 lime 1/3 cabbage 1 cup fresh pineapple 1/2 cup tocotrienols 1 cup water 3 tablespoons any kind green superfood Sample breakfast drink 2: 2 Aloe Vera leaves coconut water and meat 1 cup cranberries 1 bok choy 2 tablespoons herbs 2 stalks celery 16 oz water Mid Morning - 2 ounces wheatgrass juice with: white or green tea, or glass of water with 4 tablespoons tocotrienols (rice bran solubles) or chia seeds, or bowl of durian blended with coconut water and meat with strawberries on top. I go to the gym late morning so that I can have lunch right afterwards (biggest meal). LUNCH - (biggest meal of day) - see my recipe section below or any meal from any raw food book. Some ideas are: -one of the meal recipes pictured on the following pages. -raw soup (in blender) - carrot juice, avocado, ginger, garlic, celery, cayenne, with: 129 -Spicy Thai noodles with “peanut” sauce or -simple salad like arugula, hemp oil, lemon, nutritional yeast, touch of sea salt. Mid Afternoon Green smoothie (half fruit, half leafy greens) - see GREEN SMOOTHIE recipe ideas. Example: -celery, pineapple, mango, kale, kelp Late Afternoon Raw food snack, like dehydrated dandelion bread topped with apple sauce (simply blend 2 apples, 2 pears, tiny bit of water). or Enjoy two bananas. or Cut three tomatoes in half and top with sliced onion, a touch of cayenne and sea salt. DINNER - 2 ounces wheatgrass juice with: One of the meal recipes pictured below. If you absolutely need to have a cooked meal, then have one for dinner to celebrate your good behavior throughout the day. Be sure to take LOTS of enzymes and some HCL pills before-hand. Personally, I have something light for dinner, like a green smoothie. Early Evening White or green tea, or glass of water with 4 tablespoons tocotrienols (rice bran solubles) and chia seeds. Evening - Water 130 RECIPES It's pretty simple. Buy everything that looks good in the grocery produce section (not just sweet fruits!) and just throw stuff together when you're hungry. Everyone's taste is different. Listen to your body - it will tell you what it needs. Just remember to have lots of dark leafy greens every day... and believe it or not they go with everything. I put kale and grass in my morning fruit smoothie and it tastes great. Don't overdo the sweet stuff, even natural sugar - everything in balance. Anyway, here are some samples of what I eat with actual pictures and ingredient lists. I don't have a lot of time, so these are all recipes that I can throw together quickly. I just use anything I have laying around. Coconut water is the sweet liquid base for my smoothie concoctions. Since there's no cooking, I just put everything right into a bowl and eat! Forget calling it "main course" or "dessert" - with raw food, everything can be your main course - even fruit. Use this as a starting point to whatever works for you. Use a heavy duty blender like a VITAMIX - it liquifies everything in seconds. Have fun! 131 MANGO BLUEBERRY MINT mango blueberries fresh mint leaves chopped jalapeno pepper fresh chopped ginger juice of 1 lime sea salt This mixture tastes amazing even without blueberries. DURIAN CUSTARD PUDDING In blender: durian & coconut water / meat (mainly all durian) top with fruit - MMMMmm !!!! Most of my meals are just stuff lying around thrown in my Vitamix Blender. QUICK VITAMIX MEAL 1 possible combination: coconut (water and meat) red leaf lettuce or kale pineapple asparagus parsley fresh sprouts celery little nama shoyu 132 KALE SALAD 2-3 bunches kale chopped onion cucumber lots of black pepper dash of sea salt 1/3 cup olive oil 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar 1/3 cup fresh orange juice 2 tablespoons nama shoyu (raw unpasteurized soy sauce) AVOCADO with TROPICAL SALSA avocado papaya mango red onion olive oil apple cider vinegar cilantro sea salt black pepper SPICY THAI CABBAGE red cabbage raw cashews scallions cilantro raisins, sea salt raw nut butter apple cider vinegar hot chili oil sesame oil 133 SILICON SALAD (Silica is good for skin, bones, joints, hair, teeth, lungs etc) red leaf lettuce, cucumber, okra nopales (cactus), onion Dressing: orange juice, nama shoyu, olive oil. Spiced Nuts - shake nuts in bag with Raw Honey, Sea Salt, Cayenne. Note: put the okra and cactus in just before you eat. Their high silica content makes them slimy after an hour - that's natural and OK. RAW FRUIT PIE Raw fruit pies are now available at most health food stores. This one is from "Go Raw" here in Las Vegas. (I added more fruit). These are NOT cooked/baked, all ingredients are raw and just mixed together. blueberries, coconut oil, cashews agave nectar, lemon juice,vanilla sea salt The crust is ground nuts & dates. SUPER FAST GREEN BLENDER MEAL coconut water avocado red leaf lettuce parsley sea salt (cashews on top) 134 FAVA BEANS Fava beans are great for growth hormones and male prostate support. fresh raw fava beans olive oil minced garlic minced hot pepper touch of apple cider vinegar sea salt KALE FUN SALAD Again, mix whatever you want with kale.This one has: tomatoes, sprouts, cucumber, red leaf lettuce, mustard greens onions, cilantro, garlic, radishes sea salt, sauerkraut Dressing: equal parts of fresh orange juice, nama shoyu, olive oil. DECO CABBAGE SALAD red decorative curly cabbage red or orange bell peppers cucumber basil oregano or cilantro or parsley chopped garlic Dressing: olive oil, apple cider vinegar, nama shoyu. 135 RAW CHOCOLATE TREATS RAW CHOCOLATE "MILK" In Vitamix blender: 12 cacao beans meat and juice of 1 coconut 7 raw cashews 1 big tablespoon coconut oil 3 teaspoons agave nectar cinnamon pinch sea salt RAW CHOCOLATE cacao beans raw carob powder raw nut butter raw honey coconut oil peppermint oil vanilla Simply grind beans into powder, mix with the other ingredients and leave it to chill. THE EXACT, STEP-BY-STEP RECIPE IS ON THE NEXT PAGE... 136 Yes this stuff isn’t cheap, but it makes a lot. This should be enough for a month if you consider it a treat and not your main course. You can get all of this shipped to you from online sources, but this is becoming so popular, many health food stores are starting to carry this stuff too. Look closely though, the bigger chain stores like Whole Foods have ROASTED carob powder (not raw) and most nut butters and honey are not raw, so read the labels. I use peppermint and vanilla oils that don't have alcohol as a base. Coconut oil comes in different grades - make sure you get the raw extra virgin untreated, unheated kind. It's usually a tiny bit more expensive. Coconut oil is clear like water at room temperature, but when it's colder, it gets white and hard like wax. Do not be afraid of the oil or FAT issue - this is the GOOD oil that your body needs and these GOOD oils help get rid of the BAD oils and fats. Natives of Polynesia whose diet consisted of mainly coconuts never got heart disease and they didn't get fat (until white man came along and introduced them to pigs and white flour). This recipe calls for agave nectar, but I have since personally switched that for raw honey, after finding out raw honey is better for you. The steps are pretty basic. The main thing is to grind the cacao nibs (chocolate beans) into a fine powder. I use a standard little coffee grinder. The raw chocolate is so rich with natural oils that it will stick a bit to the grinder, so you'll have to use your fingers to scoop it out. The rest is basically mixing it all together until it's smooth. That's it. There is NO cooking, baking or heating. You can mix it together and eat it right then and there while it's like chocolate soup, but I like it hardened, so I put it in the freezer and break pieces off when I want some. 137 HERE ARE THE CHOCOLATE-MAKING STEPS... 1. Pour coconut oil into a bowl. If the oil is hard, warm it in the sun or in hot water first until it's clear liquid. A little heat won't hurt it. MAKE SURE IT'S CLEAR LIKE WATER. 2. Grind the cacao nibs into a fine powder (in a coffee grinder). 3. Add the cacao powder to the oil, along with all the other ingredients. 4. Stir/blend until all the lumps are gone. You can do this by hand or a food processor or a powerful blender like a Vitamix, but by hand is all you really need. 5. Pour the mixture into shallow pans. I like to keep it at around half an inch thickness. Put the chocolate pan(s) in the freezer and in about an hour the chocolate is hard and ready. Break into pieces and ENJOY! Cacao is pure dark chocolate. It's where chocolate comes from. If you are European and love dark chocolate, you can eat the beans right out of the bag if you want, but for most people it's a little too strong and bitter, so that's why the carob is mixed in - to mellow out the bitterness. Everything here can be altered to taste. It's really hard to make bad chocolate. The cool thing about raw chocolate is that if you screw up, you can always fix it. For example, when I think it's too sweet, I simply set it on the counter at room temperature - it becomes liquid again in about thirty minutes and I just mix in more cacao and carob, or maybe some more nut butter - you get the idea. You can just keep changing it! Raw is so cool because there is no “point of no return”, unlike when you're cooking.! 138 TIP: the type of nut butter you use makes a difference. Make sure it's RAW and organic. The best kind is by ARTISANA and my favorite is RAW CASHEW butter, not just because of the flavor but because it's CREAMY like butter and makes the chocolate really silky smooth. Almond butter is supposed to be the healthiest but it's grittier and may cause your chocolate to be a bit rougher in texture. Artisana nut butters are available in health food stores or can be ordered via internet. TIP 2: make sure the carob powder is RAW, not roasted. It usually has clumps in it, so be sure to break those apart with your fingers before mixing everything else in. You need to keep the chocolate in the freezer and if you take any pieces out, you need to eat them right away, because the oils start to melt at room temperature. This is the difference between good oils and bad oils (good chocolate and bad chocolate). If it's made to keep for a long time at room temperature, it has saturated fat/hydrogenated oils, which are very bad for you. I like to put macadamia nuts in the mixture, so that I have crunchy bits to bite into. Enjoy ! Here are some awesome recipes from my friend Matt... -Spicy Thai noodles with “Peanut” Sauce (recipe by Raw Matt) - 2 packs raw (cold) kelp noodles - 1/2 cup raw nut butter or tahini (ground sesame seeds is what I use) - 4 tablespoons curry powder - 2 tablespoons raw honey - 2 tablespoons chili powder -1 bunch cilantro -1 lemon, juiced - touch of sea salt - 1/2 cup waterMix equal parts water and tahini/nut butter. Add curry, chili powder, honey, sea salt, lemon juice. Mix until creamy. Add noodles and chopped cilantro. 139 Arugula “Chunky Cheese” Salad (recipe by Raw Matt) - 1 bowl arugula, - 1/4 cup hemp or olive oil, - 1 whole lemon or 2 limes, juiced - 1/2 teaspoon sea salt - 1/2 cup nutritional yeast - 1 handful fresh sprouts Wet the arugula and sprouts with the oil, lemon/lime juice and salt (or tamari), until wet. Add nutritional yeast and mix. Nacho Cheese (recipe by Raw Matt) Chips: Soak 1 cup of chia seeds for 10-15 minutes in two cups water. Add pinch of Celtic sea salt, let sit. Take tablespoon and plop half dollar size gobs of the mixture onto dehydrator teflex sheets, flatten the gobs out. Dehydrate at 115F for twelve hours, flip the chips, then dehydrate for another 6-8 hours. Cheese: (make this cheese the next day when the chips are ready) - 16 oz pine nuts - 16 oz water (less for a thicker cheese) - 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar - pinch Celtic sea salt - 1 tablespoon turmeric for the yellow color Blend all ingredients together in a blender until they form a cheesy goo. Enjoy this “cheese” with the chips. Add jalapenos when eating. 140 SIGNS OF DETOX AND LEVEL OF HEALTH How can you tell if you are better, or still getting rid of bad stuff? Energy level and mood are both great places to start. If you are popping out of bed at the first rays of sunlight, 6am, going going going all day long with no drop in energy, and you don’t need a lot of sleep and you mood is up all the time with no depression, then you are on the road to health. If your energy isn’t what it used to be when you were a kid, you aren’t healthy yet. No matter how old you are. There are 70 and 80 year olds with energy levels that would do circles around most. Most people don’t know that mood and emotion are also big signs of health. Even if you have money and relationship problems, it won’t bother you as much because mood is a chemical thing and if the chemicals in your body are right, you can handle almost anything. Sure, something might knock you down for a minute or a few hours, but you bounce right back with overwhelming optimism and a sense of universal peace. People will wonder how you can remain so calm while the rest of the world could be falling apart around you. Another sign to gauge your recovery is how slimy your mouth and tongue is in the morning when you wake up. If your throat and tongue are coated with mucus or have a white filmy coating on it, you are still detoxing. You still have things in you that are making your body acidic. The body creates mucus when there are acid-forming things in the body. These things could be foods, chemicals or even just stress. How you smell: when you have become totally clean, you will have no more bad breath or body odor and your pee and poop won’t smell anymore. If they do, something is still rotting inside you. Another sign of health is that you need less and less food to do the same amount of work. This means that your body is becoming more efficient and assimilating nutrients. People who are hungry all the time and need to keep eating are that way because they aren’t getting proper nutrition absorbed into their system from their food. It doesn’t 141 necessarily mean that they are eating the wrong food, it just means their bodies can’t draw the nutrients from that food - either because they aren’t digesting the food properly (low stomach acid, not chewing enough, lacking enzymes), or their intestines are lined with mucus and plaque which won’t allow nutrients through. Most people have both problems. The only way to start absorbing nutrients is to get rid of the intestinal plaque first. This means a month’s worth of serious colon cleansing with enemas, colonics and herbs. That’s why I created my FREECOLON and CHARCONITE products... to help clean things out. Charconite is charcoal and bentonite - the two most powerful absorbers of bad stuff - mixed with herbs to help move it through. Free-Colon is a great source of natural, non-irritating fiber and bioflavonoids, which not only help the digestive tract but also help clean the cardiovascular system. If you have a headache or pain anywhere in the body, you have a blockage. Something is blocking something. Do enemas/colonics, stretching exercises, drink lots and do emotional cleansing. Remember: YOU WILL GET WORSE BEFORE YOU GET BETTER. Your body will strip down to bare bones and start over. You WILL lose weight. Most of it is water (held in your body by all that salt) and fat (which is where the toxins are stored). You will most likely smell bad, break out with zits, get weak, tired, look anemic, get headaches, get congested, your lungs will fill with mucus, your nose will run like Niagara Falls, your kidneys will hurt and you will probably get cold and flu-like symptoms. You will want to curl up in bed and just sleep. People will mock you and tell you to end this silly stupid health kick thing. They will say "See? You look terrible. It doesn't work, come on, eat some real food" and other stupid demoralizing comments like that. Just know that this is detoxing. Forty years of soft drinks, cheese and pizza do not get flushed out of your cells in a week. This takes time. You will even have old problems flushed to the surface afflictions you had years ago, like childhood allergies, rashes etc. Your 142 body is doing SERIOUS spring cleaning. Old thoughts and emotions might even surface. Again, don't freak out - just know what's happening. Look at the hell that cocaine addicts go through. Or cigarette smokers. You always thought you were better than them, didn't you? Ha! We're all in this together. Nobody is immune to being human. Our issues are just different, that's all. This really makes you appreciate what the other people have to go through. If you don't think you're an addict, JUST WAIT until the first time you try to not eat cheese or bread or anything with sugar for the first time (haha - evil laugh). As they say, you have to crawl through hell to make it to heaven. Put it this way: If you eat right, you won’t need a doctor. If you eat wrong, there’s nothing they can do. Don’t ignore your body’s signals and warnings. Don’t hide them with medication. If you have pain or discomfort, your body is trying to tell you something. If you simply keep doing what you’ve always been doing, you’re just going to get worse. Remember to do a liver cleanse and enemas/colonics during this phase, or your liver will clog up from all that sudden waste being dumped. To keep yourself going, just know that others have made it through and like grubs that became butterflies, they became new people. Don't just take my word for it - read as many books and internet articles as you can about other people who did this and how their problems went away. Nothing is free, everything has a price, and this one definitely is worth it. Like Tonya Zavasta says, don't do it for your health, do it for your vanity. Do it so that you can be amazingly sexy and attractive. 143 MISTAKES MANY RAW FOODISTS MAKE: - too many SWEET dessert foods - like chocolate, “raw” cheesecake, cookies, cakes, parfaits. - too much fruit - too many dehydrated foods - crackers, cereal, breads, kale chips, candied nuts. - not enough cleaning out** (enemas/colonics) to help detox regularly (one of the biggest). - not enough leafy greens (should be half of diet - second biggest reason for issues is not enough greens). - roots are main “vegetable” source - roots have too much sugar and starch, cut down! - don’t chew food enough (undigested cellulose, causing gas, malnutrition). - not enough stomach acid (from too much sweet stuff, not enough bitter), hence the gas. - don’t exercise enough ** - cardio and weight bearing exercises are necessities. - bad food combining (nuts with fruit, etc). - too many ingredients in recipes - need to keep things simple. - don’t soak nuts and seeds - eat too many nuts (seeds are much better). - eat before bed (should stop eating after dark). - agave nectar (latest findings say it isn’t good for you). - eat the same foods over and over - not enough variety (leads to deficiencies). - stress (too worried about things) or in denial (head in the clouds, not grounded). - they cheat more than you think. It’s OK until cheating becomes a secret addiction. - not enough vital minerals (seaweed, magnesium, MSM etc). - not enough supplemental enzymes - don’t go to sleep early enough (around 10pm at the latest). - didn’t get mercury fillings removed - major toxic dump into body from raw detoxing. 144 BAD THINGS TO AVOID Toothpaste, hair products, detergents with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. This chemical can cause skin irritation, permanent eye damage (especially in children), skin rashes, hair loss, flaking skin and mouth ulcers. Easily penetrates skin and can lodge itself in the heart, lungs, liver and brain. FLOURIDE is one of the most toxic chemicals in the world. It’s more toxic than lead and only slightly less toxic than arsenic. It causes all kinds of diseases like thyroid, bone and brain cancer and leads to obesity and depression. CARPETS are a major source of synthetic fumes and major collectors of allergens and parasites. Bleach - replace with sodium percarbonate or hydrogen peroxide. Air DRY CLEANED clothing outside for a day. CHLORINE in drinking water causes scarring of the arteries and leads to artherosclerosis. Use filtered water. Use a filter on your shower and in your kitchen. Remember that if you heat a nonstick pan, and a bird is a few feet away, it will die from the toxic fumes. MOBILE PHONES DAMAGE DNA, damaging even the next generation of cells. At least use speaker phone mode or earphone cord. MICROWAVE OVENS – eating microwaved food causes lymphatic and thyroid disorders, cancer, leukemia etc. It poisons baby food and even just microwave-heated water. Even just standing near a microwave when it’s off doses you with radiation. If you use microwaved water to water a seed, it won’t grow. 145 Keep your distance from electric stuff as much as possible. Don’t use electric blankets. If you live near high power lines, move, unless you want brain cancer. Minimize the low hum of air conditioners, computers, washing machines, dishwashers, car engines, etc - these frequencies affect every cell in the body and can throw them way off balance. AVOID PLASTIC BOTTLES if you can - they contain estrogenic chemicals. Use glass - refill and reuse glass bottles. THE NEWS. It panders negativity and numbs your brain. You have better things to do with your life NEGATIVE PEOPLE. Get rid of them. They’re bringing you down and suck your energy. MIDNIGHT MUNCHIES. Go to bed hungry. Your body needs a rest. INDOOR LIGHTING. You need sunlight. It is pure life energy. YOUR JOB. No excuses. This is only a test. Trust me. SYNTHETIC CLOTHING Go with cotton. It breathes. FLORESCENT LIGHTING emits powerful damaging EMF ... did I say lose the negative people? *** 146 BODYWORK MOVE IT OR LOSE IT ! “Anyone who lives a sedentary life and does not exercise, even if he eats good foods and takes care of himself according to proper medical principles--all his days will be painful ones and his strength shall wane.” (Maimonides, treatise of Hygiene 1199 A.D.) 147 EXERCISE MOVE YOUR BODY OR DIE You can eat all the right food and still be unhealthy. Your body needs to move, there is no way around this. Just one day without exercise and you body parts start to atrophy and slowly die. Studies show a sedentary lifestyle has the same effect on heart disease risk as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day! We need some form of exercise every day. Exercise can turn back the clock 15-20 years! It's the best mood elevator of all. It reduces anxiety, relieves depression, and extends your life. Exercise is a must. Oxygen is more important than food. Moving you body is the ONLY thing that moves the lymph through your body and you have four times more lymph than blood. When you sit around all day, your trillions of cells are creating trillions of little cell poops and if you’re not moving that stuff out, you become toxic and sluggish. Even if you are healthy and eat totally raw food, your cells are still pooping waste out every second and you need to keep that stuff moving out through your lymph, and exercise is the only way to do that. At least stand up every half hour and do jumping jacks or push-ups or something. You've got one body. Use it or lose it. Eyesight problems? Same thing. Eyes are muscles. You're probably not getting enough oxygen to your eyes (lack of exercise), and you probably spend most of your day in artificial light staring at a computer screen, paperwork, books and then go home and watch TV. Your eyes are made to look at things at a distance, and since you are not using those muscles you are losing your eyesight. Wearing glasses makes it worse. Do eye exercises and get your eyesight back! Here’s an exercise for those of you who feel you don't have much time for exercise - this just takes one minute - lie down on floor, stand up, lie down, stand up... as fast and as many as you can for one minute. Try it. You’ll see what I mean! Do this every day. 148 WALK as much as you can! Park your car as far from the entrance as possible. Take the stairs, not the escalator, and use every second step when you do. Get a minitrampoline (REBOUNDER) and use it at least fifteen minutes a day. It really gets lymph moving to eliminate toxins by stretching and squishing every cell in your body. Viruses and cancer cannot exist in an oxygen rich environment (exercise!). Every cell in the body produces toxic waste. Every cell in the body needs stimulation in order for toxic waste to be eliminated (exercise!). Exercise is a must. Oxygen is more important than food. Try and walk/run/jog outside in the fresh air and sunlight, not on a treadmill in a stuffy gym filled with recycled air from sweaty toxic people. People who live over 100 walk many miles a day every day. Climb stairs wherever you can. Don’t take the elevator. Walk. Run. Jump. Skip. Swim. Roll around. Chase each other. Be fools. Swing from trees... I don’t care: MOVE!!!!! And while you are at it remember to BREATHE DEEPLY! HOT AND COLD This is so simple and yet so powerful. Basically you get your body real hot, then real cold, then real hot, then real cold, and so on. What this does is make the blood rush to your skin and extremities to cool off when you are hot (skin turns red), and then when you are cold, the blood rushes to protect your inner organs (skin turns pale). What you are doing is causing a “pumping” action that forces your blood to hustle through your whole body, washing your cells as it goes. This is particularly good for anyone sedentary and people who can’t move a lot - but it’s powerful healing for ANYONE. The best way to do this is in the shower. Get as hot as you can for thirty seconds, then as cold as you can for thirty seconds, then hot again - do this half a dozen times. Scream if you have to. You will feel like a new, reborn person! People have done this to specific body parts and watched cysts and even cancer scabs fall off after repeated hot/cold therapies. Do it. No excuses!!!! 149 STRETCH This is SO important. Your muscles need to stretch; just like wringing out a wet towel, stretching your muscles squeezes your body’s cells and forces the waste out, and then sucks nutrients and oxygen in. That’s why we feel so enlivened and so much better after a good stretching set. And I don’t mean just sitting in a chair, putting your arms behind your head and yawning. No, I mean getting up and touching your feet and stuff like that. I have included photographs and diagrams here to show you easy stretching exercises you NEED TO DO every day! If you are getting sore and stiff, this is why. When you sit motionless for hours on end every day, you are slowly dying. YOGA No, this isn’t some new age religious cult thing where you meditate and go OOOHM. It’s basically a nice combination of stretching, exercise, breathing and de-stressing which helps loosen and strengthen your body, mind and soul. I used to think I didn’t need this because I already went to the gym. Hah. A lot of those yoga exercises are TOUGH! They seem easy but wait till you try them. You’ll be shaking within the first three minutes. They really open up your body in so many ways that are highly beneficial, yet most people aren’t aware of this. Yoga helps energy flow through your body more. It helps release blockages and strengthens you... not just physically but mentally and spiritually too. If you are old and stiff, don’t worry - this doesn’t force you to do harmful or painful things. Do whatever you can and you will come out of it better than when you went in. These are just body movements - that’s it - it’s not an eastern religion class, don’t worry. You don’t need to do yoga in a class. You can easily do it at home. Better still, go outside and do yoga in nature. Come on folks - it’s just a bunch of stretches and calming exercises. If you have a lot of stress in your life, this helps. Many of the following stretches (pictures) are considered as yoga postures. 150 Daily Stretching 1 151 Daily Stretching 2 152 Daily Stretching 3 153 154 EMOTION, MIND & SOUL The most important feeling in the world is being at peace with yourself. Your body is just a reflection of how you feel inside. Feelings always affect your body and your body always affects your feelings. They are one. When we hide feelings our body suffers from ulcers, headaches, cancers, tumors and so on. Simply eating raw food isn’t going to make you disease-proof. It sets the stage, but the actors you put on the stage determine the show. And those actors are your feelings. New scientific tests are now showing beyond a shadow of a doubt that our feelings are more powerful than anything we have imagined. They can literally create our reality. It’s called the field of Epigenetic Medicine, and a great book on the subject is “The Genie in Your Genes” by Dawson Church, Ph.D. I could write a book on this subject alone, but I’ll try to sum it all up as briefly as I can. Your cells are little soldiers waiting for instructions, and they are willing to go to war and die for you. Every single one of them. Just say the word. And that is where you need to be careful. Because your cells don’t understand sarcasm... they take everything that you say literally. For example, if you keep saying “I feel like shit and wish I could die”, guess what, you start having bowel problems, turning into shit, and your body cells start to age and die. If you are heart broken, your heart starts to weaken. Many people have literally died from a broken heart. If you feel undesirable, your body actually starts making you undesirable. If you feel great and happy about your life, your body starts to miraculously heal, many times defying logical explanation. This process is instantaneous. Scientists have seen DNA change before 155 their eyes within seconds of people’s thoughts changing. In one test, a person's blood tested free of diabetes, then within minutes, when his personality changed, the blood was taken again and the person was found to have diabetes. Thoughts are the most powerful healers or killers in our lives. Every thought, every moment, every action, has a powerful impact on the cells of your body. Positive, high vibration thoughts can rid your body of disease. Negative, stressful, low vibration thoughts can give you disease. Be careful what you say and hear. Words have power. Most people talk in a way that increases body stress and turns the body's pH from alkaline to acidic. Words can change the way we think and feel. Research has found that speaking and thinking correct thoughts actually changes a person’s DNA! Shut off the TV and NEWS!!! That’s a serious form of toxicity that enters through our eyes and brain. Exposure to negative, ugly, disturbing images, sounds, and ideas causes the body to become acidic. Get rid of ANYTHING in your life that's toxic - this includes negative people, thoughts, lifestyle things, images, past issues, conscience issues - do some serious soul spring cleaning! Distance yourself from anything that brings you down or doesn't support your well-being. 156 A German doctor, Dr. Coldwell, has cured more people of cancer than any person in German history (over 35,000 mostly terminal cancer patients), without drugs or surgery. You know how? Stress reduction techniques and correcting people’s thoughts. STRESS THE BIGGEST KILLER OF ALL Stress is behind almost every illness known. It literally eats you up. Just ask yourself: what is eating you up? What feelings are you hiding or holding back that are so acidic to your being that they are literally eating holes in you? You can't hold this in or it will kill you. Deal with it or simply walk away and let it go. You need to free yourself of this corrosive issue or relationship. If you hold your feelings in, not letting them out, they fester and that energy has to go somewhere, so it manifests in your body somewhere, eating it up. YOU MUST REDUCE STRESS - it affects every cell in the body. The mind can turn the body's pH from acidic to alkaline in a matter of seconds. Whatever we think about, we attract. Stop dwelling on the bad stuff and the “what ifs and the unknowns... and focus on what you DO KNOW. Stop attracting the bad stuff with your worrying about it. LAUGH for no reason - go a little loony - it sends happy vibes to your cells and starts a healing process. SMILE - something magical happens when you smile at people. You can feel the energy change instantly. It’s so overwhelming, many break into tears because of the release. 157 Don’t let the bad stuff get to you. It’s part of life. The Universe cannot exist without balance. For every day there is night. But then there will be day again. Be patient and enjoy the ride. The past is history and what you fear might happen in the future MIGHT NOT! So stop wasting energy and deal with and appreciate what is right in front of you this moment, right now! Start by making others happy. Go out of your way and your healing will start. Always be honest with yourself and others. Don’t play mind games. To be happy, we have to accept what is, and simply deal with it in a calm way, knowing we are free inside. Look at the people who never get sick. They are always optimistic, easy going, don’t let thing get to them, don’t worry about much, and see the good in things. “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Marcus Aurelius 158 THE POWER OF TOUCH Everything in the Universe is energy. We are electrical beings. Our bodies - nerves, brain, thoughts, heart and so on - run on electricity. When a human being touches the skin of another human being, there is a transfer of energy on many levels. Usually the effect is a good one and we can feel ourselves being charged like a battery, just from that short touch. Soft caressing is super powerful. It can make our whole body quiver with electrical waves. Touch is so vital, so very important. Animals in tests that had no physical contact with others became ill and died much sooner than those who had physical contact. Want some serious healing energy? Hold someone’s hands and look into each others eyes for five or ten minutes. I’ll bet it will be so powerfully overwhelming you won’t be able to go the whole time - for many it’s just too much energy to handle. Try it and hold on as long as you can. When we lovingly touch anything in life - another person, an animal, plant or even an object - we can feel a healing taking place. No words are needed, yet there is definitely a communication happening... a giving and receiving of love. It changes the very DNA of our cells, and can turn around the very direction of our lives. HUG PEOPLE! 159 The Power that Moves the World: MAKE LOVE for Health This is one of the most powerful healing forces given to every living thing on the planet. It is a true gift from God. It’s pure magic. It’s not something to be rushed or taken for granted. Those who worry a lot and have problems being in the moment are sorely missing the tremendous healing benefits this astronomical energy force can bestow. This is validated by numerous studies showing that those who make love all the time live considerably longer than those who don’t. Four times a week strengthens our immune system 35% and can cut heart attack, stroke and prostate cancer risk IN HALF! It releases hormones that actually make us younger. The endorphins help us sleep better, and the oxytocin alleviates pain (arthritis, menstrual etc). Menstrual cycles become more regular. It improves flexibility, firms your butt and abs, and it’s the magic glue that bonds couples closer energetically and keeps the relationship strong. Of course this is if both people are genuinely into it, and into each other, and in love. It shouldn’t be selfish, rushed or done out of obligation. There is NO EXCUSE for not making time to make love. Be as spontaneous as you can; if you feel it, show it. It doesn’t have to be hot and heavy with orgasms all the time - just a playful and loving show of deep appreciation and affection for the other person. It’s not about “getting off”, unless both people want that. It’s a beautiful energy exchange where both people spontaneously agree without a word spoken to forget the world for a moment and totally let go to the thrill of love and passion. There is nothing like being wanted. To have someone want us so bad, they can’t think of anything but becoming one 160 with us - to offer their body completely to us, naked with nothing to hide. The act of submission is deeply touching. They are giving us their only real worldly possession. What an honor that is! When two people bond on such a level, they create more love each time. That’s why it’s called “Making Love”. “Love is the river of life in the world.” Henry Ward Beecher This is such an important subject, I plan on writing an entire book on it. An astounding number of people have no idea what magnificence is within their grasp. Many go through their entire life never knowing what is possible, and they die sad, lonely and unfulfilled. What a tremendous waste it is to be given a human body and never fully realize its full potential. I would like to try and clear some things up. Sex is not dirty. Sensuality is one of the most divine beautiful energies possible on planet Earth. It is so valued, wars have been fought over it and entire civilizations have risen and crumbled from not appreciating or properly understanding it. When you become enlightened, you realize that there is sensuality in everything. It’s a form of true appreciation in seeing God’s hand in everything, everywhere. It’s about being so full of life, you are turned on with every thought, every action in every moment. The very sound of someone’s voice becomes healing, and a touch becomes an orgasm. We have this incredibly powerful force inside us for a reason. There are those who think it’s misguided energy and needs to be transmuted into something else whenever we feel it. No! Men who don’t ejaculate regularly have double the risk of prostate cancer. Women, breast cancer. Some people think they will become depleted if they do it too much. Only if you do it for the wrong reasons, because that’s disrespecting your life-force. But doing it for the RIGHT reasons 161 empowers us to greater heights of being. This is the embodiment of God’s celebration of life and love, and those who hold it back become stifled in life, health, finances and happiness. Energy is meant to flow. The more we give, the more we get. USE IT OR LOSE IT. It’s a muscle that needs to be worked out. Men who don’t ejaculate regularly lose their prostates to cancer. Women’s reproductive organs wither and rot if not used. Hormones are what keep us young, healthy, happy and our skin youthful. Sexual energy is not a mistake and it doesn’t need to be “channeled” somewhere else and transmuted. We don’t take one of God’s greatest gifts and try to trade it in for something else. What an insult. God doesn’t make mistakes. Sexual energy is a gift from God. It’s used to celebrate life. It’s not just for creating babies, it’s pure Life Force - the power to create anything. It has tremendous power to heal because it creates life. Used correctly, it inspires us to new heights to create amazing things never before dreamt of. It shatters our inner blockages and lets God’s energy flow through us like a huge waterfall. Used incorrectly, it makes our lives empty and meaningless. Nothing makes God more sad than to see his greatest gift be so disrespected by those who don’t fully grasp that what they’ve been given is in reality a hotline to God himself. When two people love each other so much that they surrender themselves completely and exclusively to each other, and melt their souls and bodies into one, they actually cease to exist as individuals with egos for a short time... and during this glorious moment of letting go (“orgasm” means “little death”), they literally “make love” - all it takes is a flash, a glorious lightning bolt of pure love, and in that miraculous moment we get a pure taste of God - blinding white light surging through our bodies, HEALING EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES: total, pure divine healing energy. And since both bodies are joined, they are melted together 162 energetically, even after they separate. The more “in the moment” the two people are, the more healing the effect is, and the longer it lasts. If you want true healing power, let yourself fall madly in love and celebrate every moment with that person to its absolute fullest. Lose your mind. Excuse my French, but fuck the rest of the world. All that matters is what you have in your arms right here, right now. Do not be a slave to a clock or money or routine. This world and all its responsibilities are temporary. The love you share is forever. God is watching. Celebrate each other completely and fully. Start healing now!!! “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” Henry Ward Beecher 163 ALONE TIME AND PLACE It's important to have a loving supportive partner, but it's also equally important to have a bit of "alone" time every day at some point, where we are totally alone. Nobody can hear us or see us. A place where we can hear our own thoughts and take stock of our lives. Somewhere quiet where we can be undisturbed and meditate about life. It's a time and place to ground out. It could be when everyone leaves the house. It could be when we are in the car alone. It could be sitting in the park watching people... or if we're lucky, a beach somewhere. Sometimes all we have is being in the bathroom alone. Or while we are in the shower. This is medicine for the soul. It calms our stressed-out inner voice by letting it finally be the only one to speak. Many times stress comes from not being able to hear or speak our inner voice and feelings. Sometimes life is so crazy and distracting with so many people that we have no idea how we personally feel about something, and our inner voice starts to get frustrated. It wants to be heard and paid attention to. We can't force others to do that, but at least we can give it our own personal attention. A quiet place. Just you and your inner voice. Like that faithful loving pet that's waited all day for you to give it some attention. Our inner being needs to be acknowledged, stroked and comforted. It is part of being whole and being healed. Do not neglect that part of you. 164 ENERGY WORK FINDING THE PROPER FREQUENCIES Everything is just energy. Energy in harmony promotes life, and energy out of sync can be destructive. Listening to soft classical music can soothe and heal, while listening to disturbing sounds can make us ill - like negative news. You know that high pitched squeal truck brakes make? Imagine listening to that sound continuously for a whole hour or two - you know you would not be well at the end of it. The same with nagging partners, friends and family members who complain all the time. You can just feel your energy being sucked. And then there are those beautiful inspirational songs you hear that just pick you up and make you feel invincible. It’s all energy. Energy is everything. It heals and destroys. Your job is to align yourself with healing energies. Frequencies that make you feel good. People emit frequencies. Without saying a word, some make you feel good while others drain your energy. Objects, places, sounds, lights and smells can do the same thing. Play music that inspires you and boosts you up. You can tell if it’s your frequency or not by how you feel - if it GIVES you energy, that’s your vibration... if you feel more tired, drained or irritated by it, it’s not you. IMPORTANT: some people have the right frequencies for us but might just be in a bad place right now - don’t write them off. The way you can tell is you feel good being with them on an energetic level, despite the negative things that they say. This is a chance for both of you to heal together. LOVE! The biggest controllers of your energy vibration are your mind and your heart - use them wisely. What you think and feel sends vibrations to your cells, which heals or destroys. 165 Like I said earlier, healing is not as much about what you take IN, but what you LET GO of and get rid of. The same goes for energy. Just like bad food that becomes part of our cells and stays stuck in our colon for decades, we accumulate all kinds of old stale crappy energy over the years that we carry with us and we need to get rid of this stuff... like insults that people gave us twenty years ago that still stick with us today: it’s eating you up. Get rid of all that stuff! SCREAM AND SHAKE THERAPY When you are in that ALONE PLACE that I mentioned earlier, when no one is around... THROW A FIT, scream your freaking head off, jump around, bang the walls, shake like you are being electrocuted, scream as loud as you possibly can. LET IT OUT! You need to clear that bad energy out of your system. Babies and kids intuitively do this and minutes later they are fine. We need to learn from them. Let all that bad energy out. Then when in the shower, start singing. This happens intuitively for a reason. We are trying to find our “frequency”. Many cultures purposely do chanting. Sing and hold a note, then another, go up and down the scales until you find the note that feels right. Hold it and belt it out loud. Feel it vibrate through your whole body. AAAAAAAH. OOOOOOM. This vibrates all the cells in your body with the healing frequency you need. It’s helped me when nothing else did. It was my last resort and it worked! If you feel unreleased frustration or pain in your soul, use chanting and screaming. It heals. 166 SLEEP This is the real healing time... and amazingly, you don’t have to do anything. Just lay down and close your eyes. This is where the secret magic happens. This is when the night workers put on their hats and fix you... physically, mentally and spiritually. All you have to do is set up the right conditions. Sleep is utterly mandatory for true health, longevity, happiness, and well-being. Next to food, this is one of the most abused and taken-for-granted necessities. If your battery doesn't recharge properly you will wear down, get sick and age. You cannot simply just sleep in late to make up for it. It doesn't work that way. Your body has natural rhythms that are in tune with the Earth, sunlight and so on. If you don't play along, you will not be on the Earth that long. We're supposed to have about eight hours sleep per night. Our body releases healing hormones between 10 pm and 2 am, and we have to be asleep for them to work. Healthy people on average sleep from 10 pm to 6 am. 167 SPIRITUALITY, FAITH AND PRAYER No matter who you are, what race, religion or culture you are from, (even if you are not religious), you know deep inside that you are part of a universal truth that binds and connects everything everywhere. Things may seem random, but you know there are higher levels of consciousness than us. Many times it seems like animals and plants have their acts together better than us humans. We know love is better than hate. We know that courage is better than fear. We cry when someone or an animal makes an unselfish act of love or sacrifice. It gives us hope that there is a level of being better than what we are used to. Countless people have died only to be revived and tell the same amazing stories of what they saw beyond this realm. Every day we experience what can only be described as miracles. Yet every day we are also faced with challenges and tests that question our very faith. If we knew for sure God existed, we wouldn’t be challenged to grow, would we? We’d be spoiled children who take everything for granted. We wouldn’t learn and grow because we wouldn’t have to. By being tested, we learn about ourselves. The more tests we “pass”, the more confidence we gain, and the more we begin to see the infinite intelligence behind this amazing game we are in. This is the school of life and our graduation is eternity. The more we experience and learn, the more peace we feel because we know these are only tests. It’s our choice whether or not to pay attention in school and appreciate the teachers, or whether to goof off or be in denial (not pay attention) and have to painfully take the classes over and over again. Have you ever 168 noticed how in school the smart kids were also the most calm, while the party animals seemed to be having all the fun, but if you think about it, deep down inside, they were also the most nervous angst-ridden and needed constant stimulation to keep themselves going and “feeling good”. Look how they ended up years later. It’s important to have fun, but it should be through genuine appreciation, not artificial stimulation. When we don’t fear reality, we can truly appreciate every little thing in our lives - the sound of a voice, the sparkle in someone’s eyes, the soft caress of the wind and the touch of someone’s hand. It is when we totally let our guard down and humbly gaze at the world in awe that we start to see the grand design in everything, and how it all is the same... it all speaks the same language. We realize there is a deep current of love connecting everything. We know just like there are unseen radio and satellite waves running through the air, that there are higher frequencies of consciousness and mature understanding out there. Call it whatever you want - God is a good name. THE QUIET VOICE INSIDE Close your eyes. Relax. Forget all your worries for a moment. Let go of your thoughts, your fears, your hopes, your incessant mind chatter. Shhh. Listen. There is and has always been a peaceful, quiet voice talking to you. Many times you didn’t want to listen because it was telling you to do things that you didn’t want to do. It told you to do things that were new, scary or uncomfortable. It asked you to push your comfort level or possibly risk everything you owned. It tested your faith. Many times you knew it was the right thing to do but you still didn’t do it. You asked all your friends and family what to do, but didn’t trust that voice. Sometimes it was the very last thing you listened to. But no matter what you did, it never abandoned you. Despite what the voice said, you did what you wanted. You just wanted to feel good. The years went by and you got sick, hurt, knocked down, and confused. Yet the voice quietly whispered more suggestions. 169 Why are you fighting the voice? What are you afraid of? Possibly that if you do what it says, life might not be fun anymore? That you may lose everything? What if you did lose everything... and then shortly thereafter got NEW things that were much better than anything you ever had before? The only way to find out is to try. This is called FAITH. You should try it sometime. Do everything that feels right, and nothing that feels wrong, no matter how strong the temptation or fear. This is what every religion in the world is simply saying. Don’t act from your mind. Act from your HEART. Listen to that quiet voice coming from your heart. Your mind is only a bunch of chatter and crap that people have told you. It will screw you up royally. Your heart on the other hand listens to something much more universal. Animals can’t understand words... they never went to school and yet they get along a lot better than we do. My suggestion is to take a few moments in the day to simply stop... close your eyes and listen. If you are confused, sad, lost or stressed out, then ask for help. Be genuine. Let your guard down. Let the tears come up and out. Cry for help. Let it out. Let it all out. Be quiet. Listen. Know you are heard. There are forces at work far beyond anything you can comprehend. Always come from a place of genuineness and love... and because what you put out always comes back, you will get genuineness and love in return. It is the law of the Universe. It might not be in the form you expect, but have patience. You will see and understand why soon enough. When you send a prayer, always give thanks in advance for what you are about to receive. A genuine “thank you” is usually all the payment required. Be thankful for everything. Even if you don’t understand it yet, be thankful. It is a gift in disguise. Wait and see. 170 There are only two things: Love and Fear. Love is the only thing that lasts. Remember this: Live Fearlessly in Love and watch your entire life change before your eyes! Start right now. “ Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. That is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”   ~ Swami Vivekananda ~ 171 SUNLIGHT SOLAR ENERGY FOR THE BODY Let there be light. Sunlight is another heavenly healing gift that has been misunderstood by modern society. No, it DOESN’T cause cancer. People who get skin cancer are unhealthy. It’s that simple. People in Africa don't get skin cancer, but it has nothing to do with skin color. Dark-skinned people in the United States have the highest rates of skin cancer - what's the difference? Diet and lifestyle! Don't believe anyone who tells you sunshine causes Melanoma. What a crock. Just the opposite. In studies all over the world, as sun exposure increases, 172 malignant skin cancer risk goes down. In the sunniest parts of Australia, lifeguards have lower skin cancer rates than office workers. That’s right: more sun, less cancer. Then how come a number of people get Melanoma who go in the sun? Because they are TOXIC. They eat wrong, smoke, drink, and fill their bodies with all kinds of processed chemical crap. Their livers are clogged and not working right anymore and their kidneys are so toxic that the blood has to push the toxins out through the skin, where it gets baked by the sun into the skin cells, causing Melanoma. There are many third world cultures who live all day in the sun and they don’t use sun lotion. Again, no, it has nothing to do with skin color because the highest rate of skin cancer in the modern world is found among dark-skinned people. It’s the MODERN diet and lifestyle that’s killing them. SUNSCREEN is one of the most toxic things you can put on your skin! It causes more skin cancer than anything. Look at the label. You are literally basting and baking those chemicals into your skin cells! Want cancer? Slather that crap on. God doesn’t make mistakes. We are designed to be in the sun. People who don’t get enough sunlight start having all kinds of physical, mental and emotional problems. Bones go soft (a condition called rickets), depression sets in (the highest suicide rates are in places with the least sunlight), hormone levels and immunity plummets and people become sick. On the other hand, people who DO get Sun: -have more energy, feel better, happier -have stronger immune systems, get sick less -have denser, stronger bones -have stronger muscles -have richer blood -have healthier nerves -find that sunlight increases the amount of iron in their blood (gives tanned look) 173 Consider these facts: -USA cancer rates are highest in the states with least sunshine -sunshine may reduce breast cancer by up to 40% and ovarian cancer by 80% -direct sun exposure kills most forms of mold, fungus and yeast -sun exposure normalizes hormone levels, raises sex drive and fertility -Vitamin D, which assists the mineralizing of bones, is formed when skin is exposed to sunlight To keep your skin from drying out, use coconut oil or MSM cream or even olive oil. Don't put anything on your skin that you wouldn't eat. It soaks right through. Trans-dermal (through the skin) is the fastest way to get a substance into your bloodstream, like the nicotine patch. So, stay away from poisonous sunscreen! You NEED sunlight to be healthy, but you need to be healthy to get a lot of sun. My suggestion is to put some jojoba oil on your skin and get 20 minutes of sun exposure a day (while you start eating right and detoxing). NATURE’S SUNSCREEN The grand design of nature is amazing. Again, primitive people and animals don’t use sunscreen and don’t get skin cancer. What’s the secret? They get their “sunscreen” from what they EAT. And what might that be you may ask? Drum roll please... GREEN leafy foods. These contain chorophyll. Why do you think plants, with their delicate leaves, don’t fry and wither in the sun? Chlorophyll. That green magic property that protects plants is the same stuff that protects us, once we consume it. Aloe Vera is edible sunscreen that protects you from the inside when you eat it. It grows in the desert for a reason! Without sunlight, the bones cannot become calcified. Sunlight builds the immune system and increases oxygenation of the skin. It lowers blood sugar. Sunlight brings more blood to the skin surface, which helps heal cuts, bruises and rashes. Open wounds and broken bones heal faster in sunlight. Sunlight improves eyesight and hormones. Get at least thirty minutes of sunlight each day. There is no mistake in nature. We need sunlight. Plants do it. Animals do it. You do it! 174 SUMMARY Cooking is a big waste of time. Fast one day a week. Rest one day a week - no work. Do not eat after dark - stop eating at least two hours before bed. If you have a disease, you are unclean inside. Cleanse as much as possible, especially the INSIDE of your body and mind. No bread, cereal, coffee, smoke, alcohol, meat, dairy, sugar, salt, or cooked food. Have metal tooth fillings removed. Less sweet fruits and more greens. Also juice more celery. Try to stay away from things that grow under the ground: carrots, beets, potatoes, BUT eat the green leaves on top (especially carrot and beet greens). The only thing shown to conclusively lengthen lives is NOT eating very much. The people who eat the least live the longest. Make your own food as much as possible - even raw food places try to save money. They give you one scoop of something where you would use five at home. Reduce STRESS - it’s involved in almost all illness. 175 Laugh, smile, hug, love, dance, sing. Be good to others. Be honest. Be more thankful. Good thoughts = health, bad thoughts = disease. Write down your goals so that they become more real and focused. Sunbathe naked every day for twenty minutes. Walk barefoot on natural ground (grass, stone, sand, earth). Get massages. Give stuff away: lighten your load. Eat to Live instead of Living to Eat. What you DON’T do is just as important as what you DO. If you are depressed or confused, CLEANSE: do an enema or fast. Bed: 10pm - 6am. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.” Richard Bach 176 IF IT ISN’T WORKING: 1 – You aren’t doing enough and your doses are too low -more enemas/colonics **** -more green juices -more exercise -more sleep -more happiness 2 – You are still doing something that’s bad for you -stress: the number one source - check relationships, job, money, bills, responsibilities. -do you still have metal tooth fillings? -are you taking ANY kind of medication? -check if anything you’re using has wheat, sugar, milk, cheese, preservatives. -alcohol -inhaling cigarette smoke (one night of second hand smoke in a club is equivalent to 2 packs!) -are you taking mainstream supplements (you won’t believe what some of these are made from)? - carbonated drinks (even water)? Carbonation shuts down calcium absorption for twelve hours. -the flour in those “healthy wraps” has wheat, gluten and trans-fats. Same goes for tortillas, tacos, burritos etc. -no rice! -no cereal -stop the dehydrated food - no cookies, crackers, granola, dried fruit etc. -are you sneaking a chocolate cookie when no one’s looking? No baked goods or sugar. -are you sitting all day, not enough exercise? 177 -check your dressings for dairy & bad oils like canola, safflower, soy, peanut, vegetable. -no soy! That means no soy milk, soy cheese, meat substitutes etc. -too much fruit? -too many nuts? Are they soaked first? -check your stomach acid level (does beet juice stain your poop or pee)? -check your water. Is it acidic? (Probably). Flouride? Chlorine? -chemical fumes from computers, cars, workplace. -what are you using for laundry detergent, shampoo, conditioner, soap? -gas furnace, stove. -carpeting; new carpeting is toxic (synthetic fumes), and old carpeting is full of mold, fungus, mites, parasites, and more disgusting things than you can imagine. -no TV or news. -do you really want to get better? I’m not kidding. Some people love the attention and pity. They want to be martyrs (”I would die for you”). Usually people who feel they aren’t getting enough attention in a relationship do this. It’s their way of trying to get more love. Is this you? Many people aren’t even aware they are doing this. They actually WANT to be sick, because they want to be loved more and nursed by their spouse or family. The motive isn’t a bad one and the wrong thing is to be angry at people like this. They need love and understanding. Just know that wanting to be ill for attention actually drives people away. It backfires. Nobody wants to be around negative, pitiful people. The mind is very powerful and can sabotage anything. Ask yourself seriously: “How am I benefiting from not being healthy?”. Think about this for a moment. What are you getting out of it? Empathy from friends? More attention from your loved ones? (Poor them)... or... do you want to even be alive anymore? Have you lost your will? Have you done what you came here to do and your work is done? Moving on is not necessarily a bad thing. Just know that you don’t have to do it in a painful, dramatic way that could possibly hurt others. Be loving in everything you do. 178 Life does not have to be painful near the end. Pure raw foodists are healthy and full of life until the very end. When their time has come, they become incredibly peaceful, as their body fades away within a matter of days. As this happens, their essence distances itself from the body (an out of body experience), so that no pain is felt. It is actually a beautiful transcending experience for those in the right space, without fear and filled with nothing but love. THE BIGGEST HEALER OF ALL: Love “Love is the beauty of the soul.” St. Augustine 179 FINAL WORD Take a good look at yourself. If your body is sick, it means your mind or spirit is sick. Your spirit is what keeps your body alive. Do whatever it takes to nourish your spirit and soul. Don’t wait for others to do it for you. You are in charge of your life, no one else. This is not just a matter of taking herbs or drugs to hide symptoms – the issues that cause this sickness must be addressed. Eating sugar for example does not just give us pimples, it throws our whole body off balance, which throws off our way of thinking and the energy we convey to others. The energy we create attracts or pushes away success, prosperity, health, relationships, longevity, etc. Energy affects everything. That's why we are attracted to healthy, successful people and avoid unhealthy, unsuccessful people. Sadness can literally make us ill and cause disease. Health is what we put into our bodies, mind and spirits. It is the result of what we eat, drink, watch, read, say, think and do. Our parents gave us a vehicle in which to live. What we do with it is our choice. 180 This will be your great test. This is your gauntlet. Make it through the cleansing and every other problem in your life that you will ever face will be easy after that. This doesn't just cleanse your body, but your mind and soul too, because it is a test of character and it builds strength. You will be rewarded in more ways than you can imagine, because your mind, body and soul will clear up so much that you will be able to take on the world. You will be rewarded with a new body. You will look in the mirror and go “WOW - WHO IS THAT?” You will get a hormone rush just looking at yourself. Other people will too, when they look at you. Like a cadet at the military academy, you will have earned your stripes. Not everybody has the strength to do this. They want to go back to their comfort foods, and age and get sick and die young. Don't let that be you. A few donuts aren't worth dying for. Many of you will say: "yeah, but those few donuts aren't going to kill me. Or that one pizza. Or that one soft drink." True. But the odds are that you'll have another one a few days later. Or a week later. Then another. That's like putting a bit of sand or water in your car's gas tank every day, or week. Pretty soon you have a clogged up, rusted out car that one day just won't work any more. Don't let that be you! Be alive. Be sexy. Never get sick again. Be the envy of your friends. Show them this works and maybe they'll do it too. This is how the world will change. It starts here and now with you. The cure for everything is: Truth - Nature - God. When you are one with nature, she is one with you. Love and Light, 181 REFERENCE If you read my main book, “Heal Yourself 101”, you should have the info you need to dramatically change your life. But I know that to many of you, this is new territory and might seems a bit scary and strange, especially after a lifetime of misinformation and bad habits passed on to you from parents, friends and society. It’s really pretty simple, but our minds are afraid of new things and unfamiliar territory. They try to protect us from what they don’t know. The irony is, this has been HURTING us, because our minds have been told all kinds of garbage, and that’s why people are so sick, tired, run down, depressed, unhappy, unsuccessful, irritated and confused. I get lots of emails every day from all over the world (about 300), and I just don’t have time to answer them all... especially when they start asking health questions. I can’t “fix” you with one quick email. There is no “magic pill”. I need to know lots of things about you in order to be able to get an idea of why you are the way you are. The absolute best way for me to be able to figure out what you need is for me to personally come to your house and go through your refrigerator and cabinets... but most of you probably can’t afford that. So the next best thing is learning to do it yourself. That’s what I’m about- giving you the inspiration and strength to not need anything or anyone outside of yourself anymore. This is true self-empowerment. The answers are usually simpler than you think. We were born with everything we need. Nature is perfect. All you need to do is understand it a bit better. And when you do, you will be in love with life and amazed at how awesome and miraculous it is. There is pure genius in the grand design of life and how it all connects. If bugs can understand it, so can you. Your overly paranoid, analytical, fearful mind just got in the way. Let me help clear it out and get you on the path of true life again. Get younger. Never get sick again! Email my office if you need anything: atomiccity@earthlink.net 182 WHERE TO GET STUFF You can mix your own items or buy my ready-to-go formulas... http://www.MarkusProducts.com - keep checking for new stuff. I aim to put out only the very best, most affordable and useful healing products possible. FREE FOOD AND MEDICINE 5 DVD Set Documentary A fascinating, highly informative journey showing how those wild plants growing outside your door have been used for thousands of years as FREE FOOD and MEDICINE. All plants have a purpose. People all over the world are rediscovering these magical gifts of nature. Set includes a free wild foods recipe booklet. See the video trailer and buy the set at www.FreeFoodandMedicine.com. HEAL YOUR FACE by Healing your Body - Book Unhappy with your face? Your body is trying to tell you something. Every line, wrinkle, spot, mole and crease means something. They did NOT just randomly show up on your face. Every part of your face is connected to an organ or body part. If that body part is not functioning properly, this will show up on your face. No amount of cream will change that. If you want to improve your face, you must improve your health. And lucky for you, your face tells you exactly what's wrong with you. Forget plastic surgery - you can do it yourself. After reading this book, you will never look at people the same way again. You will instantly be able to tell what issues they (or you) have. And they will wonder why you now look twenty years younger! www.HealFace.com RAW VEGAN MUSCLE 3 Disc Set - how to get muscles without eating meat or dairy. Featuring raw vegan professional bodybuilders, and even a Las Vegas cab driver who eats for only six dollars a day and yet has huge muscles. These people eat half what they used to, only work out two or three times a week and yet look like supermen. Be inspired and learn their secrets. See the video trailer at: www.HealthyMuscleDVD.com. 183 Solar Power 4 Me - fun informative DVD on how easy it is to make your home super energy efficient while getting a lot of your power from the sun. Talks about how to lower energy costs with super insulation, increasing the thermal mass of a home, tankless water heaters, 12 VDC powered items etc. See the video trailer and purchase at www.SolarPower4Me.com. PARASITE-FREE - one of the most powerful and effective parasite formulas on the market - 100% natural herbal formula. Everyone has parasites. They are the silent cause of many illnesses. Watch the scary video at www.ParasiteFree.net. AGE-FREE - powerful antioxidant protection product against AGING and free radical damage. Contains many of the most potent adaptogens that benefit ageless skin, heart, circulation, arteries, keep hair from graying, provide better vision, blood pressure, lower cholesterol, fight infection, promote liver cell regeneration and even rebuild dendrite growth in the brain! FREE-LIVER - your liver is your body’s filter. It’s your most important organ. All illness starts with a clogged liver. If you are tired a lot, you need to clean out your liver! Contains Chanca Piedra - an herb that helps dissolve kidney and gall stones. A favorite formula. CHARCONITE - a super powerful combination of activated charcoal and bentonite to absorb ANYTHING toxic inside you, plus some herbs to help push it through your digestive system. Perfect for managing gas, food poisoning, toxic environmental poisons, bad food and even toxins created by illnesses and parasites. It goes through your system absorbing anything bad. FREE-COLON - cleaning out the colon is the FIRST thing you should do before anything else. This formula helps get things moving without giving you the runs. It works awesomely ! 184 For my latest news, updates and videos, go to http://www.MarkusNews.com - simply enter your email address. If you need specific information or want to know more on your condition, I have over 70 downloadable eBooks on everything from Alzheimers to Zits. These PDFs explain what the symptoms are, what causes them and what to do about it. If you followed everything in this book, chances are you will not have these problems anymore, but the supplemental ebooks also mention specific herbs and remedies that can help different conditions. They will also help you understand why you have a condition, which is probably even more important. There are over 3000 pages of information - a lifetime of research! They are available at: http://www.HealYourself101.com. My supplemental PDF booklets mention specific herbs to take for conditions. Be responsible when taking herbs. HERB AND PLANT SAFETY Get to know which plants are which. Plants and herbs are powerful, just like medicine. Start with the ones you know and avoid the ones you don't. Study and learn about the rest before taking them. Some plants are poisonous - for example, oleander - any part of this plant can kill almost instantly. Hemlock is poison. Then there are plants that can do miraculous things, but are harmful if not used correctly - these include poke, belladonna, lobelia, foxglove and jimson weed. Herbs can interact with prescription medicine. They can also interact with other herbs, making them stronger or weaker or prolonging the effect. Pregnant women should be careful. Some herbs are uterine stimulants and could cause abortion... BUT other herbs can counteract that... so know your herbs and consult with a specialist first. One person I highly recommend is James Sloane - his website is www.mountainmistbotanicals.com. 185 Fruit Trees and plants shipped to you- www.ediblelandscaping.com Below are places to get herbs and other healing things... ONLINE HERB SOURCES will ship you the herbs so that you can mix your own concoctions: Herbalcom.com (888) 649-3931 (billed as AmeriHerb, Inc.) 515-232-8614 Mountain Rose Herbs http://mountainroseherbs.com 800-879-3337 Wilderness Family Naturals - wildernessfamilynaturals.com 7:30AM - 6:00PM, M-F Central Standard Time Toll Free: 800-945-3801 LuckyVitamin - www.luckyvitamin.com 888-635-0474 http://www.bazaarofindia.com (800)261-7662 (Within the U.S.) (510)373-7902 (For international customers) info @ bazaarofindia.com http://www.greatspice.com http://Starwest-Botanicals.com http://Frontiercoop.com http://www.livingearthherbs.com http://www.glenbrookfarm.com/herbs http://www.greenherbcafe.com 186 http://www.naturesflavors.com/default.php?cPath=167 http://www.discountnaturalherbs.com http://www.floridaherbhouse.com/ http://www.osagegardens.com/ TOCOTRIENOLS (Rice Bran Solubles)- http://www.riceplex.com Red raspberry seed powder (Ellagitannin, Ellagic acid) available at: Scientific Medical Devices, Inc.*** www.smdi.org 770-889-6240 shopnatural.com or diamondorganics.com Meyer lemons can be grown indoors- http:// www.fourwindsgrowers.com for baby meyer lemon trees. VitaminWarehouse.com 1-800-859-8482 Diatomaceous Earth - Dirtworks.net and EarthworksHealth.com SUPERFOODS AT UP TO 75% OFF All kinds of foods and devices to help your transition to health www.EarthShiftProducts.com to get discount, you must use code E006 HEALTHY PET FOOD: amorepetfoods.com - best for individual packages auntjeni.com grandadspetfoods.com Wildside Salmon Freeze-dried cat treats - catconnection.com 187 Great prices on bulk powders: http://www.organicbynatureinc.com/pricesheets/ OBN_011008_Algae_Others_Pricesheet.pdf http://www.herbs.org - herb research and facts. Remember the Asian markets! Dehydrator, juicers - healthnutalternatives.com 800-728-1238 TheRawFoodWorld.com (Matt Monarch's company - raw foods, appliances, books etc) Maine Coast Seaweed Co (sun/wind dried) 207-546-2875 alcasoft.com/ seaweed Goldminenaturalfood.com 800-475-3663 (seaweed, macrobiotic and Nama Shoyu) Country Life Natural Foods - 800-456-7694 clnf.org Living Tree Community - organic grown foods and UNpressed olive oil livingtreecommunity.com 800-260-5534 NON TOXIC COSMETICS: REAL PURITY - realpurity.com 800-253-1694 eccobella.com 877-696-2220 ext 19 www.homeopathysolutions.com 188 NON-TOXIC DENTISTRY Holistic non toxic dentistry: Scientific Health 800-331-2303 Referrals for Huggins dentists. International Academy of Oral and Toxology 863-420-6373 Metalfree dentists. Foundation for toxic-free dentistry - send self-addressed, stamped envelope to Box 608010, Orlando, Fl 32860 Environmental Dental Association 800-388-8124 American Academy of Biological Dentistry 831-659-5385 831-659-2417 Ashwood Holistic Dentistry, Ventura California 805-654-0880 AshwoodHolisticDentistry.com RAW FOOD HEALING CENTERS AND RETREATS Ann Wigmore Institute Box 429 Rincon, Puerto Rico 00677 USA 787-868-6307 fax 787-868-2430 Ann Wigmore Foundation P.O. Box 399 San Fidel, NM 87049 info@wigmore.org Phone 505/5552-0595 Fax 505/552-0595 Living food education and rejuvenation center. 189 Hippocrates Health Institute & Spa 1443 Palmdale Court West Palm Beach, FL 33411 561-471-8876, 800-842-2125 fax: 561-471-9464 Email: hippocrates@worldnet.att.net Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center PO Box 1080, Patagonia, AZ 85624 520-394-2520 fax: 520-394-2099 Email: tlrc@dakotacom.net Optimum Health Institute http://www.optimumhealth.org/ optimumhealth/ OHI San Diego 6970 Central Avenue, Lemon Grove, CA 91945 (800) 993-4325 or (619) 464-3346 E-mail: optimum@optimumhealth.org OHI Austin 265 Cedar Lane, Cedar Creek, TX 78612 (800) 993-4325 or (512) 303-4817 E-mail: reservations.austin@optimumhealth.org Annapurna Retreat & Spa 538 Adams St. Port Townsend, WA, 98368 annapurna@olympus.net Phone 1-800-868-2662 Fax 1-360-379-0711 Healing Waters Health Center 1016 N. Davis Drive Arlington, Texas 76012 cldarton@aol.com Phone (817)275-4771 190 Shinui Living Foods Retreat & Learning Center 1085 Lake Charles Dr. Roswell, GA 30075 gideongraff@mindspring.com Phone 770 992-9218 Creative Health Institute 112 West Union City Road Union City, Michigan 49094 517-278-6260 fax: 517-278-5837 creativehealth@hotmail.com FINLAND The Institute of Living Food on Åland Ltd. 22930 Fiskö Åland, Finland phone & fax: +358-28-56 285 ENGLAND Elaine Bruce - Living Foods Centre Holmleigh, Gravel Hill Ludlow, SY8 1QS, UK Phone 00944 (0)1584 875308 Fax 00944 (0)1584 875778 The best healing center is inside you right now, in your own home. Stop depending on things and people outside of yourself. You were born with everything you need. 191