The West Nile Virus. Is there a hotter health-related topic in the news these days? Like anthrax two years ago, it has captured the attention of the entire nation. Everyone is talking about it and many people seem to be in a state of panic over it. But should we be?
West Nile was first discovered in the U.S. in New York in 1999 and has been spreading across the nation since then. It was discovered in Uganda in 1937. In severe cases it may produce encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
What to do about it:
1) Eat lots and lots of fresh, raw garlic and take plenty of Echinacea. There is no overdose on these herbs so don’t worry about taking a lot. This is good to prevent it if you’ve been exposed and to kill the infection if you have it.
2) Remember that all disease causing organisms are scavengers and they will not eat healthy tissue, just toxic filth and waste products, so keep up on your cleansing. This is the most important step by far.
Complete detailed step-by-step instructions for cleaning out all the parasites, parasite eggs, disease germs, old fecal matter, the gum you swallowed when you were five, and everything else that is stuck in your colon and poisoning you right now are in my book “The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program.” This wonderfully useful book also reveals how to clean stones, fat, cholesterol, and toxic buildup out of your liver and get your kidneys working like they did when you were 16!
3) Since it is spread by mosquitoes, garlic, citronella, rosemary, and other strong smelling herbs make terrific insect repellents. Don’t use DEET. It’s toxic. It’s even been outlawed in certain areas of South America for dissolving their tree-canopy-sidewalks!
Mosquitoes usually don’t bite vegetarians! I know it sounds like science fiction to some folks (mainly those who are horrified at the thought of giving up meat), but it works for me and almost all the other veges I’ve talked to. Some say that I took about a year to take effect and others say that they had to go completely vegan (no animal products at all). Mosquitoes seem to love the smell of meat (perhaps the uric acid?) At any rate, I used to get bitten hundreds of times each year, even with insect repellent, and now I haven’t had a single mosquito bite in years!
4) Don’t forget that the media tend to blow everything out of proportion and it will do you far more harm to panic and stay inside all the time than to get out with the mosquitoes. According to the most recent statistics I could find, only 146 people have died of West Nile virus in the last 4 years — and every one that I have read about specifically was elderly and in extremely poor health already — making it one of the least threatening things about summer. It certainly is not the “serious public health threat” that it’s been made out to be. In fact, more people die each year from chicken pox or insect stings than from West Nile, and I don’t hear the press harping about them.
Now, I’m not saying we shouldn’t be careful, but if you keep your body cleansed and healthy and your immune system strong (regardless of your age), then you won’t need to worry. Remember, mosquitoes don’t cause disease, years of unhealthy living cause disease – and mosquito bourn infections are just like any other infection, taking advantage of diseased tissues and toxins to feed on. You determine what happens to your health, not some random bug bite! So be clean (inside as well as out), be healthy, don’t listen to the news, and have lots of safe fun outside this year!
These recommendations also apply to all the other hot-topic infections we’ve been hearing about like anthrax and SARS (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
– Chris Lewis, MH
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As of the writing of this article (May 2006), America is experiencing a huge shortage of influenza (flu) vaccine and millions who want the shot aren’t able to get one – whatever will we do!?
There are three points that I feel are important to make here:
1: There are many alternatives to the flu shot available worldwide, many of which are more effective than the vaccine, and practically all of which are much safer than the vaccine. See my post on Colds / Flu. Yes, they are addressed exactly the same way.
2: Flu shots (and other vaccinations) cause many harmful (and sometimes lethal) side-effects including:
Did you know that the flu shot can actually give you the flu!? Yes, it’s true, and for many people (myself and most of my family included) the only thing they have to do to stop getting the flu every year is to stop getting the flu shot! Individuals can experience very different effects here, and where the flu shot might seem to prevent the flu in some people, it will make others sick with remarkable consistency.
The medical industry (the same one that makes a killing from selling you the vaccine) says that this is impossible, that the virus in the vaccine is “killed” and it can’t possibly do anything inside your body. First of all, they don’t know that because they don’t do a very good job of testing vaccines for purity so they would most likely miss any contaminant that got into it; second, the vaccine doesn’t have to contain live viruses to make you sick, it just has to contain toxic chemicals that weaken your immune system and lower your resistance so that you catch the first thing you’re exposed to – and they DO contain large amounts of such chemicals. Third, most of the symptoms you feel with a flu or any infection are not the result of the virus acting on your body; they are your immune system’s attempt to destroy the invader, and your immune system responds to viruses whether they are dead or alive.
There is also the possibility of allergic reactions (sometimes fatal) that can happen at any time, even if you’ve had the shot in previous years without a problem. So why would you ever want subject yourself to this?!
3: Even if you get a flu shot, they are notoriously ineffective at preventing the flu! The manufacturers’ explanation is that there are many different strains of the flu virus and since the vaccine can only cover a few of them at most, there are still hundreds of strains floating around out there that you can catch, even if the vaccine succeeds in making you immune to those few strains (which is not as likely as one would hope).
In light of this information, maybe a shortage of vaccine is actually a good thing! I never get flu shots for any reason (even when there are plenty) and neither does my family, and our health has improved dramatically because of it. Why don’t you try this experiment: Don’t get any shots of any kind (for flu or anything else) this year or next and watch your health improve. If it doesn’t work the way I say it will you can always go back to getting the shots the year after that, but believe me, you won’t want to!
Your children don’t have to get shots either. Many people think that schools require it, but there is a simple form you can get from the school (they are legally required to give it to you if you ask) that will exempt your children from all vaccination requirements and let them attend school normally. It is especially important for children to avoid shots as they are much more vulnerable than adults to their side-effects; many thousands of children have died from vaccine reactions, even after getting other vaccines without ill effect. Your health and your children’s health are simply too precious to risk on such a ridiculous and unjustifiable practice!
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During the course of my investigation into the effects that microwave ovens have on health, I have come across some interesting information.
Microwaves have not been adequately studied for safety. They were developed by a researcher who was investigating technologies for communications and weapons for the military. The fact that they were able to cook food was discovered purely by accident, and they were immediately marketed to the American public, without adequate study into what their long-term health effects might be.
One study revealed that a group of people being fed microwaved food, when compared to a control group being fed identical foods cooked in a conventional oven, had more difficult bowel movements, which were compared to the consistency of plastic.
I have personally observed that people’s mental clarity and ability to focus and remember information improves drastically once they stop using a microwave and switch to a conventional or toaster oven. The difference is especially pronounced in the elderly.
Whether a microwave leaks radiation or not (if it is an old one it is likely to be leaking), it will always adversely affect the structure of any food placed inside it. It destroys nutrients and antioxidants and mutates the structure of proteins and fats, causing carcinogenic (cancer forming) chemicals to form. This destruction is much greater than in foods cooked in a conventional oven or toaster oven.
Also noted is decreased bio-availability of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics factors in all food tested.
When volunteers are subjected to Applied Kinesiology (AK) muscle testing, the tests consistently reveal that food cooked in a microwave oven becomes incompatible with and harmful to the human body, while food cooked in a conventional oven tests normal.
Water crystallization research shows that water heated in a microwave oven forms abnormally shaped microscopic crystals when frozen.
Microwave radiation is known to mutate the genetic structure of anything cooked in it, passing on mutated proteins to anyone who ingests it.
Water heated to the boiling point in a microwave in certain types of containers has produced an explosive reaction when removed from the microwave, causing several instances of severe second and third degree burns. The reason for this has to do with the surface tension of the water, variances in the shape of the container, and is not a problem for water heated on a stove top or by any other method.
According to new research published in the November issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, microwaving broccoli destroys 97% of the cancer fighting antioxidants normally present in that vegetable, a much greater loss than with any other cooking method. The smallest nutrient loss came from light steaming. The highest levels of nutrients are present in fresh raw produce.
In 1991 an Oklahoma hospital was sued for using a microwave to warm blood before giving it to a patient in a transfusion. Norma Levitt, a hip surgery patient died of the toxic effects produced in the blood by the microwave. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in a microwave.
Using a plastic container to warm foods in a microwave is known to cause increased leaching of chemicals called pthalates from the plastic into the food. These chemicals are known to be toxic, and harmful to the human body.
From exploding bottles to destruction of nutrients and protective properties in milk, many are the reasons that the University of Minnesota warned parents in 1989 not to warm their babies bottles in a microwave.
Dr. Lita Lee of Hawaii reported in the December 9, 1989 Lancet:
“Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into their synthetic cis-isomers. Synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active.
Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It’s bad enough that many babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby formula) made even more toxic via microwaving.”
In Comparative Study of Food Prepared Conventionally and in the Microwave Oven, published by Raum & Zelt in 1992, at 3(2): 43, it states:
Artificially produced microwaves, including those in ovens, are produced from alternating current and force a billion or more polarity reversals per second in every food molecule they hit.
Production of unnatural molecules is inevitable. Naturally occurring amino acids have been observed to undergo isomeric changes (changes in shape morphing) as well as transformation into toxic forms, under the impact of microwaves produced in ovens.
One short-term study found significant and disturbing changes in the blood of individuals consuming microwaved milk and vegetables. Eight volunteers ate various combinations of the same foods cooked different ways.
All foods that were processed through the microwave ovens caused changes in the blood of the volunteers. Hemoglobin levels decreased and over all white cell levels and cholesterol levels increased. Lymphocytes decreased.
Luminescent (light-emitting) bacteria were employed to detect energetic changes in the blood. Significant increases were found in the luminescence of these bacteria when exposed to blood serum obtained after the consumption of microwaved food.”
An article also appeared in the 19th issue of the Journal Franz Weber which stated that the consumption of food cooked in microwave ovens had cancerous effects on the blood.
Russian research has revealed that exposure to microwave radiation causes: headache, dizziness, eye pain, sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety, stomach pain, nervous tension, inability to concentrate, hair loss, plus an increased incidence of appendicitis, cataracts, reproductive problems, and cancer. The chronic symptoms are eventually succeeded by crisis of adrenal exhaustion and ischemic heart disease [the blockage of coronary arteries and heart attacks].”
According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, here are the top…
Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven
From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:
1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term – permanent – brain damage by “shorting out” electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].
2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.
3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.
5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.
6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.
7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.
8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.
10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.
Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet?
After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement. It works well for most and is nearly as quick.
The use of artificial microwave transmissions for subliminal psychological control, a.k.a. “brainwashing”, has also been proven. We’re attempting to obtain copies of the 1970′s Russian research documents and results written by Drs. Luria and Perov specifying their clinical experiments in this area.
Portions of this article come from an article written by Dr. Joseph Mercola whose copyright statement appears below and are used with permission. The entirety of his article can be found at: http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm
Is Modern Medicine Going Out of Business? by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT
Hospitals and clinics closing… Doctors cutting back on high risk cases… Doctors going out of business… Small towns left without a single physician due to 9/11 policy complications… such was the news from all over the US as of May 2006! This news makes many people feel uneasy. The prospect of not being able to see their doctor is frightening, but should it be?
And what about the recent passing of President Obama’s health care package that threatens senior’s access to “health care” and mandates a lot of practices that most of us object to? Should we really be turning to the federal government for health care reform?
Do we really need medical “care” for everything in life? Let’s look at the facts, shall we…
*Approximately 2.4 million operations performed each year are unnecessary and cost about 12,000 lives.
*In six New York Hospitals, 43% of performed hysterectomies reviewed were found to be unjustified.
*Historically, when doctors have gone on strike, the mortality rate for that hospital has dropped!
*Home births have been found to be far safer than hospital births with a lower mortality rate for both mother and child, less occurrence of infections and other complications, faster labor, much lower c-section rates, less occurrence of fetal trauma, etc.
*Many people lose every penny they have and more in the futile attempt to pay off medical bills after their insurance company drops them. Many of them even lose their homes! Did you know that Modern Medicine is the leading cause of bankruptcy for American families?
*A recent survey by the World Health Organization shows that, while the United States spends more per capita than any other nation on “health care,” it ranks as number 37 for quality and effectiveness. Even Singapore, Omen, and Andorra are healthier than the US!
*Since President Kennedy declared war on cancer, promising to see it eliminated within the decade, the cancer rate has gone from one in every five people to one in every two, that’s half of the entire population getting cancer some time in their lives. The cancer death rate has also markedly increased.
*I recently saw a front page headline declaring that the breast cancer rate has dropped for the first time in recorded history! What do we have to thank for this miraculous decrease. Fund-raising efforts? More medical research? New chemotherapy drugs? Nope! The experts quoted in the article said the drop is due to the fact that “more women are refusing hormone replacement therapy for menopause symptoms.”
*Only 5% of the budget for the National Cancer Institute is spent on prevention. Guess where the rest of it goes!
*Vaccines cause about 12,000 reports of adverse reactions and hundreds of deaths yearly, most of them children; and most of these vaccines have yet to be proven to prevent any disease at all! Among adverse reactions are: genetic mutations, cancer, AIDS, Developmental disabilities, immune system disorders, hepatitis, post-vaccinal encephalitis, autism, ADD/ADHD, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome also called “crib death”), infection by the very disease they were intended to prevent, increased susceptibility to drug abuse and violent crime later in life (perhaps because of the damage they do to the nervous system?)…
*According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) prescription drugs kill about 144,000 Americans every year and injure millions more.
*20-30% of Americans receive contra-indicated treatments (those that are known to be harmful or fatal in their particular condition).
*7,000 die each year from medication errors (read: “oops!”) in hospitals.
*80,000 die each year from nosocomial infections (infections caught while in the hospital).
*Medical mistakes in general (“oops!”) kill about 98,000 people a year (in America). That’s more than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS!!
*Dr. Barbara Starfield, in the July 26, 2000 issue of JAMA, states, “An estimate of adverse effects in outpatient care and including adverse effects other than death concluded that between 4 and 18 percent of consecutive patients experience adverse effects in outpatient settings, resulting in 116 million extra physician visits, 77 million extra prescriptions, 17 million emergency department visits, 8 million hospitalizations, 3 million long term admissions, 199,000 additional deaths, and $77 billion in extra costs.”
*Total deaths from modern medicine in general are estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,000,000+ annually (just in the USA), putting “modern medicine” above heart disease as the number one leading cause of death in the United States!
*Modern Medicine kills more Americans every year than did the American Revolution, The American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, The Vietnam War, and Desert Storm combined! According to some estimates, it has killed more people in the past 20 years than all wars throughout all recorded history combined! Maybe we should spend a bit less energy fighting “war” and a bit more fighting modern medicine!
*Every hospital is run, not by doctors, but by business administrators (just like every other business) who probably know even less about health than their secretaries! In other words, decisions about your medical “care” are far more likely to reflect the financial needs of the hospital than your needs as an individual, and even if your doctor is the nicest, most honest, caring, sincere individual in the world, there is very little he can do if his opinion differs from that of the administrator, who has no medical background whatsoever.
*The most accurate medical laboratories in the nation are only 80% accurate. That means that of every 100 diagnoses they make, 20 of them are wrong! And most labs aren’t that accurate. They range from 50-70% accurate. And some are even less accurate than that, at an astonishing 30%, in other words, you world have more accurate test results by flipping a coin. And most doctors rely on these tests almost exclusively in making their diagnoses. They tend to trust the lab tests even more than their own eyes! This leads to many false negatives and false positives.
*Doctors are NEVER taught anything about ANY form of alternative therapy in medical school! So asking your doctor about taking an herbal product or changing your diet, or doing anything natural at all is just like asking your plumber to elaborate on the finer points of general relativity or quantum mechanics, there’s a small chance he may have studied it on his own time because of personal interest, but he has received absolutely NO formal training in it whatsoever. So please don’t do something as foolish and silly as asking your doctor about a natural therapy! Instead see an herbalist, midwife, chiropractor, naturopath, massage therapist or someone else who actually knows something about natural healing.
*Medicine NEVER addresses the root cause of illness, striving instead to merely control symptoms, and in the process, allowing the cause of the disease to continue progressing and getting worse until it manifests as a much more serious condition.
*And most importantly of all, mankind got along just fine without “Modern Medicine” for thousands of years, so why do we now need to ask their permission for everything from diets and exercise programs (which they know almost nothing about, by the way – why do you think people have heart attacks while their doctor is giving them a “stress test” to see if they’re fit enough to exercise!?), to traveling, riding amusement park rides, having children, and even getting married?!
It sounds to me like we have a chronic excess of medical “care,” not a shortage of it. And in light of all these facts, doesn’t it seem pretty silly to be so dependent on our doctors. Now, I’m not saying that they don’t have their place, they certainly do, in emergency trauma where immediate intervention is needed to save a life. That is where they shine. But they have forgotten their proper place in healing. Proverbs 27:8 says, “As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.” Medicine is like a fire which, if kept under control, can provide life-saving warmth in emergencies, but if it gets out of control, it kills, destroys, and causes immeasurable suffering.
Doctors are trained to deal with emergencies, but not to recognize people who aren’t having emergencies. So when you go to a doctor, they will see you as an emergency whether you are one or not! This leads to a lot of unnecessary testing, treatment, side-effects, and death.
Why put ourselves through this needless torture, especially when there are safer, more effective, less painful, faster, and less expensive (or even free) alternatives available to us in the form of natural healing methods? Here’s a challenge for all my readers… Find out about natural healing so you can take care of yourself and your family and your friends, and not have to be dependent on doctors, because they won’t always be there when you need them, and besides, you can do a much better job of caring for yourself than they can. It’s simple, it’s easy, it’s far less painful, it’s very inexpensive, the results are better, and the harmful side-effects non-existent (that is, if you take a moment to find out about what you’re doing before you do it). Many millions of Americans have made the decision to start catching up with the rest of the world by discovering natural ways of healing, and you can join them! So, start uncovering these secrets, either from me or from another herbalist or natural practitioner or teacher, so you can care for yourself the way God intended. Start anywhere you want, but start. You’ll never get anywhere until you decide to make the journey. If you’re wondering where the best place is to start, my recommendation would be RIGHT HERE.
Modern Medicine is a system whose days are numbered, because it doesn’t fulfill people’s real needs, and more and more people are realizing that and turning to the system created by God specifically to meet those needs naturally. I think that this decrease in medical availability is a wonderful blessing and answer to prayer. We have become far too dependent on doctors for virtually everything in life and it’s time for that to change. Instead of fighting for better coverage or more drugs, let’s fight for educating people to take care of themselves without poisonous drugs and dangerous surgeries. It doesn’t take years or even months in school to discover how to get well, all it takes is a willingness to take your health into your own hands and a few afternoons (at most) of hearing from a person who knows about how to give the body what it needs to heal itself. I am only one of many who are working to reveal the secrets of natural healing. You can enrich your life via my educational products and services or if you prefer to have an instructor in your area, click here and ask the School of Natural Healing to refer you to a local herbalist. The best place to start is by claiming your copy of The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program right now. This program is the foundation of the most effective (and safest) healing procedures on the planet.
So, in answer to the title question, I think medicine will continue to be with us for some time, but I look forward to the day (and I hope everyone else does too) when doctors of all kinds will be unnecessary because people will be using simple, safe, natural methods to take care of themselves and will no longer need the services of a doctor. It is my goal to help this day come as quickly as possible and I hope you will join me by discovering all you can about taking care of yourself on your own, and by passing this knowledge on to all the other people in your life. This wonderful day can come for you right now! You don’t have to wait. Together, we can help our families, friends, and neighbors, not by trying to get more medicine in our lives, but by helping each other to become independent from it!
– Chris Lewis, MH
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Thin Corpses: The Effects of High Protein/Low Carb Diets
by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT
In The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis, one of the characters says to his comrades, in warning, “If I suddenly [fall over dead]… after drinking this, you’ll know not to accept anything these people offer.” (edit mine) But what if that actually happened and one of his friends immediately drank from the same cup that killed him? You’d probably say this person was either insane or suicidal. But this same thing is happening all over the United States right now. People are embracing a fad diet that has killed many many people, including (probably) its own author. And this isn’t the only diet of this type. There are many other diets on the market now teaching similar ideas. These low carbohydrate/high protein diets encourage their followers to eat large amounts of meat, dairy products, and artificial sweeteners and little or no grains, fruits, and starchy vegetables in order to lose weight. And they do work for many people. The problem is, that even though you may lose weight on these diets, they can also kill you! So called “high protein” diets are really nothing more than a new spin on the high cholesterol/saturated fat/mucus forming and low nutrition diets that have been the leading cause of death in America (except for the medical industry itself) for many decades now! It has been known for some time that high protein diets are a leading cause of osteoporosis, kidney stones, heart disease and heart failure, gout (a type of arthritis), low energy, halitosis (bad breath), diabetes, chronic constipation, breast and colon cancers, and many other of our most common ills. They stop up your digestive system, fill your body with uric acid, line your arteries with plaque, fill your liver, prostate, gall bladder, and other important organs with thick toxic sludge, leech calcium out of your bones, and leave you severely dehydrated (this is one of the ways they help you loose weight, but it’s weight in water, not fat).
These diets can also make your body panic (because it’s not getting the carbs it needs), so that every gram of carbohydrates your body sees, it then stores because it thinks you’re in some kind of famine and have a severe shortage of the right foods. In other words, high protein diets completely mess up your metabolism so that when you go off of the diet (which you will have to eventually, if you want to live) you gain the extra weight right back! So you got thin, but it didn’t last, and you’ve taken a couple decades (or more) off of your life by damaging your heart, liver, and other vital organs… doesn’t sound worth it, does it?
Carbohydrates are your body’s main energy source; they are the easiest of the three energy sources (protein, fats, and carbohydrates) for your body to use, and you cannot live without sufficient carbohydrates. That said, the problem is not with the carbs themselves, but rather with refined, processed, dead, nutritionless carbs from sources like white (or brown) refined sugar, white flour (in many breads, pastas, etc.), highly cooked/fried potatoes without the skin (most of the nutrition in potatoes is in the skin), etc. These “empty” carbs provide only large amounts of calories with little to no nutrition and cause many health problems, including obesity, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes. It is a good idea for everyone to avoid carbs from these sources, whether or not you are trying to lose weight.
So if these are the bad carbs, what are the good carbs? What is actually GOOD for health and losing weight? In short, whole live unrefined foods. All raw fruits and vegetables, whole low-heated or sprouted grains, seeds, nuts, legumes and nutritional herbs. Yes these all contain carbs and yes, they all contain calories, but these calories come packed with so much nutrition, that you won’t find yourself craving more and more calories in order to fill the nutritional void, as happens when you consume empty calories. Your body is also far better able to utilize the carbs from these foods, and they don’t cause the sudden elevations in blood sugar levels that refined carbs do. So instead of destroying your body on one of those “high-protein” diets, why not just use the common sense that every one of us has, eat real foods, and avoid fake and processed “foods,” and you’ll be much healthier, happier, and yes, thinner, without the terrible side-effects of these dangerous fad diets.
Did you know that the average person in America is carrying around between 15 and 20 pounds of old, dried, encrusted fecal material in their colon right now?! And did you know that, however much YOU happen to be carrying (maybe less, maybe more), you can lose that weight in just a few minutes by sitting on the toilet after taking a good bowel cleansing formula the night before?
Complete detailed step-by-step instructions for cleaning out all the parasites, parasite eggs, disease germs, old fecal matter, the gum you swallowed when you were five, and everything else that is stuck in your colon and poisoning you right now are in my book “The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program.” This wonderfully useful book also reveals how to clean stones, fat, cholesterol, and toxic buildup out of your liver and get your kidneys working like they did when you were 16!
– Chris Lewis, MH
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by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT — www.ChrisLewisMH.com — 1-866-928-cure (2873) — chris@chrislewismh.com
Today’s class is based on the book Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease by Dr. Dean Ornish. Dr. Ornish’s study was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Ornish proved that with only lifestyle changes, it was possible to reverse advanced coronary blockages and heart disease, affecting a complete cure of the leading cause of death in America — for all those who are willing to do a little homework. I have added to Dr. Ornish’s program with information on cleansing and various herbal and nutritional supplements, which I believe will greatly speed up the results that you get from following this program.
Diet — The diet that Dean Ornish found successful in his study was basically a vegan diet, meaning absolutely no animal products, except that Dr. Ornish allowed his study participants to have one spoonful of cream per day. This was the only cholesterol, they were allowed. It is also important to avoid all sources of refined sugar as this tricks the liver into producing more cholesterol than you need. The only dietary sources of cholesterol, other than sugar, come from animals, so sticking to a plant-based diet will help to remove both the serum cholesterol, and the plaque that has built up on the arteries.
Exercise — This can be any kind of exercise. Start with what you are accustomed to and work up gradually in intensity and frequency. It doesn’t have to be anything intense at first. If all you can do now is walk between the living room and the kitchen, then by all means do so, several times a day. Then do an additional time every day until you feel up to walking around the block. And then around two blocks, three blocks, four blocks, etc. until you’re walking several miles a day. If you are confined to a wheelchair or even a bed, you can always move your arms and legs around until you get tired. If you are paralyzed from the neck down, do neck exercises — stretch and roll your neck around until you get tired, then rest. Everyone can do some form of body movement, every day. Don’t use anything as an excuse, as long as you are able to move at all. If you have arthritis and it is painful for you to move, move anyway — numerous medical studies show that the more you move, the less it hurts, and the less you move, the more it hurts. Regular exercise has been proven to slow down the progression of arthritis. So don’t let pain or stiffness be an excuse to not move. Of course, if you feel an abnormal pain that is not due to arthritis, it may be your body telling you that you’re causing damage, so stop and try a different exercise or consult someone trained in exercise, like a massage therapist, personal trainer, exercise physiologist, etc. (not a medical doctor, as they are not trained in this area). I once saw a man with no legs who had earned a black belt in karate. There are no excuses. If you find high-intensity exercises to be too much for you, then start with something easy like yoga, tai chi, or qi gong. The public library has all sorts of tapes and DVDs for beginners to these techniques as well as some seated aerobics routines for people who can’t stand up. Of course, if you are already a marathon runner, then by all means run more marathons. If you are already a bodybuilder, keep on building. If you’ve already got three black belts, go for a fourth. Start where you’re at and work up gradually from there. I have seen people drop their cholesterol levels anywhere from 30 to 60 points in a couple of weeks simply by exercising several times a week for half an hour.
Relaxation Therapy/Emotional Healing – When Dr. Ornish was doing his study with heart patients, he noticed that a few patients didn’t get the results that the others were getting — their heart disease wasn’t being reversed like the others. He knew that they must be ignoring some part of the program. He initially thought that they weren’t adhering to the diet, but when he checked, they were following it faithfully. Then he thought it must be the exercise portion of the program that they were skipping, so he checked, but they were all exercising faithfully as recommended. He was rather surprised to find that the part of the program they were skipping was the relaxation portion. They weren’t taking time each day to de-stress. This is an absolutely vital part of the heart-disease-reversing program. By relaxation, of course, I do not mean sitting in front of the television or reading a book, although there is certainly a time and place for those things. The relaxation needed for this program is a deep relaxation that you get from deep breathing, meditation, progressive relaxation exercises, lying on a tropical beach, or sitting in your favorite garden. It is important that you allow your entire body to relax, every muscle, every organ, every thought. It helps to be lying down or reclining in a comfortable position while doing these. Do these relaxation exercises for at least 20 to 30 minutes every day.
It also helps to do a little soul-searching — forgive yourself and learn to forgive others. The emotion of fear can contribute to heart disease and even cause heart attacks, so it is important to eliminate fear from your life. You may not be able to eliminate the fearful thing, but you can change how you respond to it. I suggest first realizing that whatever it is, even if the worst-case scenario happens, it probably isn’t all that bad; and even if it is, the fear you feel towards it is only poisoning you. Facing situations, things, and people with a sense of courage not only helps your reputation, it can also save your life. Also, the emotional freedom technique (“E.F.T.”) is useful for overcoming fears. Try an Internet search to learn more about it or contact me.
I also highly recommend what I call “trashing therapy.” This is where you go through your house, and any other property you may own, and throw out, sell, bury, blow up, give away, or otherwise get rid of any object that has a negative emotional association for you, that reminds you of a bad memory or a traumatic time, or that in any way makes you feel less than terrific when you look at it or think. Sometimes there’s a strong emotional attachment to these items and overcoming that attachment by getting rid of the item produces a powerful emotional healing that allows you to move forward in your life and has actually cured chronic illnesses in as little as a few hours (in cases where negative emotions were the primary cause of the illness to begin with).
I also highly recommend journaling therapy. This is not the “Dear diary” that most people think of when they hear the word “journal.” this is a feelings journal, where you daydream on paper and explore every thought and feeling you have about everything in your life, one at a time. This process creates great emotional cleansings, helps you figure things out in your life, and gives you a profound sense of relief once you have written out every aspect of your feelings about a situation. The technique is simple — on the paper = off your mind. Anything that’s on your mind that you don’t want there, you can get rid of by exploring every aspect of the thought on paper. Just keep writing about that topic until you feel like there’s nothing more that can possibly be written about it, focusing on your perception and thoughts about it rather than on simply chronicling events. You will eventually reach a point where you feel a lightness and relief as though a burden has been lifted from you. When you feel this, you can stop writing, take a deep breath and enjoy the feeling of renewal. After this, if you feel you need to, you can repeat the process with another thought, or you can just put your journal away and come back to it another day. Use your journal to explore every example of fear and anger in your life. Let it out on paper, just as you would if you were talking to someone. Get it out of your system and feel the improvement in your heart. A good book on this topic, if you’d like to explore further, is Write It down, Make It Happen, available from your public library.
Herbal Super Foods – In order to heal, your body needs the proper nourishment. Expecting your body to heal without providing you the necessary raw materials is like expecting builders to build your house without allowing them any wood, bricks, mortar, drywall, nails or anything else they need. Vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, etc. are the bricks and mortar from which your body builds new tissues, hormones, blood, immune cells and everything else it needs to function. Without sufficient nutrients, the healing process is short-circuited. This is why many injuries and illnesses remain a long time, when they should have healed quickly. The re-building project has halted because the builders don’t have the materials with which to build. Both The Herb Shop and American Botanical Pharmacy have excellent super food products that you can order through the mail. You can also check your local health food store for products that contain alfalfa, spirulina, chlorella, barley grass, wheatgrass, and other pure super food products that don’t contain any fillers, preservatives, additives, artificial flavorings or colorings or any other non-food ingredients. Organic is always best. I also suggest some whole food nutritional supplements like nutritional yeast, black strap molasses (unsulfured), flax seed oil, wheat germ oil, and extra-virgin olive oil.
Cleansing — You know the importance of nutrients now, but did you know that most people have a buildup of fecal matter in their intestines, as hard and as thick as a PVC pipe that prevents nutrients from being absorbed through the intestines? This is why many people crave, much more food than they need — their body is not absorbing nutrients from the food they do eat, so it keeps telling them they’re hungry, because it desperately needs those nutrients. As a consequence, the person continues to eat until they gain a tremendous amount of weight, and still doesn’t have the nutrients they need. This build up can be removed through doing a bowel cleanse. For complete detailed instructions on how to do this and several other cleanses, go to my web site at www.ChrisLewisMH.com and click on the link that says “books.” You will then be taken to a page where you can order a book called The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program. This will be a tremendous help to you in your healing journey, as the body simply cannot heal, if it cannot get the nutrients it needs.
Distilled Water –Inorganic calcium can build up on the insides of your artery walls causing a sort of shellac effect. This combines with the plaque from cholesterol, and causes hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Switching to distilled water as your regular drinking water will go a long way toward removing these calcium deposits in your arteries, thus helping to remove the plaque and allowing your blood vessels to become more flexible and allowing blood to reach their tissues so they are better nourished and stronger.
Apple Cider Vinegar – Apple cider vinegar asked in a way very similar to distilled water for removing plaque from arteries, except that it works faster and has the additional benefit of helping to lower cholesterol and regulate blood pressure. Taking a few spoonfuls everyday can also help you lose weight, which helps take the burden off of your heart. I recommend taking a tablespoonful of apple cider vinegar in a glass of distilled water everyday. You can increase this to several times a day. When you use the vinegar with the distilled water, you get double the benefit. These two things will also help increase your flexibility, get rid of bone spurs, kidney stones, osteo-arthritis, cataracts and other complaints.
Cayenne Pepper – Cayenne Pepper is the greatest circulatory herb known to mankind. Not only will it help to reduce heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol levels, strengthened the heart muscle, improve circulation to the entire body, increase the elasticity of blood vessels, it can also be used in first aid to stop bleeding instantly by applying it externally to a wound or taking a large dose internally for internal bleeding. It can also be used to help revive a person who’s having a heart attack or stroke by giving a large dose of it internally. A large dose means 12 to 15 dropperfuls of a strong tincture or a heaping tablespoon of the powder stirred in a glass of warm water. A great way to take Cayenne everyday is to get the hottest organic salsa you can tolerate and have some at every meal. Taking Cayenne regularly will also help you lose weight as it boosts your metabolism by up to 25%.
Fresh Raw Garlic – Garlic is an absolute antidote to circulatory problems. It thins the blood safely without over over-thinning it. It reduces total cholesterol levels, while raising the HDL (good) cholesterol. Garlic also dissolves the plaque that sticks to your arteries impairing your circulation, and so could greatly speed up the healing effect of the Ornish program. With garlic, it is vitally important that you use it fresh and raw. Cooked garlic, garlic pills, the odorized garlic, and aged garlic are minimally effective as they have had most of the active ingredients destroyed. The best way to do this is to simply cut up raw garlic on your food after the food is cooked and right before you eat it. Or, even better, put the garlic on top of a raw salad.
Hawthorne Berries – Extensive studies have been performed on Hawthorne berries affects on the part by scientists all over the world, and they have found that Hawthorne berries and Hawthorn Berry extracts surround heart cells with the protective substance that enables them to withstand more stress and survive with less oxygen than they ordinarily would be able to. People on the Hawthorne berries can have a heart attack and have absolutely no heart cell damage afterward, which is very unusual. Hawthorne berries strengthen the heart and regulate the heart beat.
An Important Note about Cholesterol Tests – After reading this paragraph, you will know more about cholesterol than your doctor does. It used to be thought that heart disease risk could be determined simply by looking at a person’s total cholesterol levels. Then it was discovered that there were two kinds of cholesterol — good and bad. The HDL (high-density lipoproteins) are beneficial, while the LDL (low-density lipoproteins) are harmful. HDL helps to remove the LDL from the body. So the higher your HDL levels are in the lower your LDL levels are the better off you are. Then another discovery was made the discovery that total cholesterol levels do not necessarily predict heart disease risk. Scientists discovered that people with low cholesterol levels sometimes have heart attacks and people with very high cholesterol levels sometimes never have any sign of heart trouble. The reason for this anomaly, is that blood tests for cholesterol levels only test the amount of cholesterol that is dissolved in a liquid form in your blood (called “serum cholesterol levels”). They don’t look at how much cholesterol has solidified in the form of plaque on your artery walls. This plaque is the real threat to your heart health. While high serum levels of cholesterol can make your heart work harder because it is pumping thicker blood, and therefore place greater stress on your heart, it is the plaque buildup in your arteries that can actually kill you quickly. When you start a program like the Ornish program. I highly recommend that you not, repeat NOT go to the doctor for a cholesterol test. The reason for this is because this program removes the plaque from your arteries, and when the plaque melts off of your arteries, where do you think is — in your blood of course. So even though your arteries are opening a top, and your circulation is improving, and your heart disease beginning to reverse itself, your doctor will see the your serum cholesterol levels are rising and will recommend that you discontinue the program, because he doesn’t understand that the rise in blood cholesterol is because the plaque is coming off of your arteries. The cholesterol is actually going not coming. And when you start to clean out your arteries your serum cholesterol level will go very high as all that cholesterol is being eliminated from your body. After it has been eliminated, of course, your cholesterol level will go down quickly until it reaches the normal level of between 90 and 130 (some people may vary slightly from these numbers, but everyone should be in this neighborhood). After you have completed the program, and your heart artery blockage is gone, then it will be safe to have a cholesterol test (even though you won’t need one).
An Important Note about Heart Drugs – The human body can develop a dependence on prescription drugs, particularly those given to people with heart disease, like those that lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, thin the blood, etc. please listen carefully, because this is extremely important — if you are on any of these drugs do not, I repeat DO NOT stop taking them cold turkey. Sudden and complete withdrawal from these drugs can be fatal. It is important to wean off of these drugs slowly and gradually over a period of about three to four months. This gives your body a chance to adjust to not having the drugs in your system. This is especially important with drugs that lower blood pressure. A good idea would be to start the above program immediately and begin shaving a little bit off of each pill before you take it each week you can shave off a little more and a little more from each pill. After several weeks, you should be shaving off a quarter of each pill. After a couple months you should be taking half pills. After three to four months, you should be taking only a tiny bit of each pill. After this, you can stop taking them completely. Many people prefer to have a doctor’s help in weaning off of these drugs, which is fine. Your medical doctor may or may not be sympathetic to your desires to get off of these drugs and use a more natural approach. If he is, great! He can help you wean off of the drugs. If not, I suggest that you grab a phone book and look under “naturopathic doctors” or ask your local health food store for a referral to a local naturopathic doctor. These doctors have a much more natural leaning in their approach and have had training in some natural therapies. They will be more likely to want to help you wean off of the drugs.
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Whole Food Nutritional Supplements
by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT
Many nutritional supplements on the market are made from substances that are better foods for plants than for humans. Dead minerals (dirt) are often included in nutritional supplements, but, although they can be absorbed into the bloodstream, they cannot be assimilated or used by your cells. Humans can only assimilate and use live organic whole foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, and herbs, and to a lesser degree meat, dairy, and other animal products (these are second hand nutrition and poorly suited to your body, although it can get some use out of them).
This is one reason many people think that natural healing does not work, they think of nutrition as a shelf full of pills and powders that people spend thousands of dollars on and still don’t get well. We were simply never meant to eat dirt, or oyster shells, or chalk, or synthetic vitamins produced from petroleum by-products, or activated sewage sludge (synthetic vitamin B12). Our bodies can’t recognize non-food items and wouldn’t be able to assimilate and use them if they could recognize them… not to mention all the harmful side-effects that come with the use of synthetic products. Animals are the same way, by the way, their bodies use plants for food and the plants use dirt, rocks, and other dead things for food.
The Bible says in Psalm 104:14, “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth.” In other words, plants take up these dead things from the soil, and incorporate them into their cells, thus making them alive and assimilable for animals and humans. When we try to skip this step, we only make trouble for ourselves.
It is indeed rare to find a product that is marketed as a nutritional supplement that contains nothing but whole, raw, live food and no synthetics. But here’s one company that does just that. I was introduced to it recently and wanted to share it with all my readers. It’s called Brain Garden. They sell a number of delicious raw whole food products that not only taste wonderful (yes, I’ve tried them), they are better for your health than the most expensive, high-tech, purified, standardized, isolated, synthetic supplements on the market. Why? Because they’re made from the most sophisticated nutrient source in the entire universe — plants! Food plants contain all the nutrients we could ever need (if we eat a good variety of them) in the perfect forms, designed specially for our bodies by our all-wise Creator who knew exactly how to construct our perfect fuel source.
The only problem I have with them is that their products aren’t certified organic, but if you’re like most people and just looking for an easy and convenient way to transition away from the standard American diet (SAD) to a healthier way of eating, they could be an excellent option for your next step. So if anyone from Brain Garden reads this, please start making a line of certified organic products. Let’s not stop here, let’s keep on moving in the right direction. Other than that, Kudos on the good work.
Brain Garden also sells a line of pure essential oils and synthetic-free cosmetic products. Their web site is HERE. Check them out, it’s a delicious and convenient way to get your fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
Here’s an update about this company that I recently received from one of their representatives:
Our main product is now Frequensea and it is awesome. It is ionic sea
minerals with Marine Phytoplankton added to it.
It has been turning peoples health around for the past year and a half by
nourishing our bodies at the cellular level. We also believe, like you,
that our bodies are designed to heal if we are feeding it the right stuff.
Please let me know what you think after you watch the video. Tom Harper,
the man who started eating the phytoplankton directly out of the tanks at
the sea farm had 9 months to live with a rare form of lung cancer. The
phytoplankton nourished his cells over a six month period and the rest is
history. You will see his testimony on the video.
Bird Flu (also applies to Swine Flu, SARS, Anthrax, West Nile, etc.)
by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT
America has found a new favorite infectious disease to worry about. You’ve probably heard a lot about the dreaded “bird flu” pandemic that many experts are predicting. It seems to be a big concern for a lot of people these days, so I thought I would pen a few strategies that you can use right now to help insure that this latest epidemic won’t turn into tragedy for you or your family or friends. Please note that all of the following things work both for preventing and treating the flu. They can also be used to prevent and cure regular run-of-the-mill influenza and the common cold.
1.Doing The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program.You can’t stay healthy with a dirty body. You cleanse the outside of your body every day, just remember that your insides need washing even more than your “outsides.” Disease germs don’t feed on you. They are scavengers that consume wastes, dead and diseased tissues, toxins, and excess mucus in your body; so clean those things out and refuse to be a germ buffet. Remember, germs are just like teenagers – if there’s no food around, they leave!
Complete detailed step-by-step instructions for cleaning out all the parasites, parasite eggs, disease germs, old fecal matter, the gum you swallowed when you were five, and everything else that is stuck in your colon and poisoning you right now are in my book “The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program.” This wonderfully useful book also reveals how to clean stones, fat, cholesterol, and toxic buildup out of your liver and get your kidneys working like they did when you were 16!
2.Avoiding things that damage your immune system, like: refined sugar and anything containing refined sugar in any amount; anything containing any synthetic / artificial ingredients – you have to get picky here, you wouldn’t put the wrong kind of gas in your car’s tank, so don’t put the wrong kind of merchandise into your body. As a colleague of mine says, “If it’s not food, don’t eat it.”
This includes ALL synthetic chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs, they are not capable of healing you, but they are capable of causing severe damage to the liver, kidneys, brain, immune system and other vital body parts. So why expose yourself to such deadly toxins? Why not see a holistic practitioner about correcting the root cause of any illnesses and weaning off of those hard drugs?
FYI: If you want to check up on the toxic side-effects of the drugs you’re taking, go to your local library and find a copy of the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR). This is the book that your doctor looks at whenever you ask him about side effects.
Why not take this opportunity to eliminate toxic household chemicals as well. You can use vinegar in the laundry instead of detergent, hydrogen peroxide instead of bleach (which is a potent carcinogen); a mixture of equal parts water and vinegar instead of window cleaners containing ammonia (which is very toxic to the lungs); use a mixture of equal parts vinegar and olive oil as wood polish; get your personal toiletries from a health-food store, and anything that is designed to kill anything (e.g., bug spray, rat poison, garden pesticides/insecticides/herbicides – weed killers, etc. take immediately to a toxic waste disposal site – look in your local phone book under government for locations) and don’t look back!
Stress can be the biggest immune-destroyer of all, so diffuse stress by taking a day off every week to do absolutely nothing, and taking at least an hour out of each day to relax, meditate, pray, etc. (FYI: newspapers, magazines, computers, television, and telephones do not count as relaxing).
3.Not eating things that feed the germs. In addition to the things mentioned in #2 above, dairy products (i.e., milk and anything made from or containing milk) are the most mucus-forming substances on this planet. Eating any of these things is a loud, glaring, sparkling neon invitation for colds and flu’s of all types to enter your body and make themselves at home. Vegetable products like soy, almond, or rice milks, cheeses, etc. generally are not mucus-forming and make excellent alternatives to eating glue (dairy).
Also, eggs, and all meats and animal flesh are very mucus forming, though usually not as bad as the dairy products. Also, anything made from white flour is very mucus forming. All of these things can fill your digestive system, lungs, sinuses, and other body parts with thick sticky mucus and turn you into a smorgasbord for every disease germ within a hundred miles!
If you don’t think you can eliminate these “foods” entirely, keep this in mind: eliminating 25% of these things from your diet can give you 25% protection from infections, eliminating 50% of them can provide 50% protection, and eliminating 100% of them usually provides at lease 98 – 99% protection.
4. Fresh, raw, organic garlic cloves are the best combination of safety and effectiveness for both preventing and curing infections. One of the best ways I know of to take garlic is in a garlic soup.
Garlic Soup Recipe
One quart of vegetable broth or one quart of water with 4 cubes of vegetable bouillon
Ten or more cloves of fresh raw organic garlic (grated or pressed)
Cayenne Pepper to taste
Combine all ingredients and warm in a pan on the stove top (never use a microwave!) and enjoy. Try adding a little more garlic each time you make this soup. And take into account that an extra large clove is worth 2. It won’t hurt you to get too much, but it may seem a bit intense if you overdo it the first time.
5. Citricidal grapefruit seed extract can be found at most health food stores. 2-5 drops in a glass of water 2-3 times a day will knock out most infections in a few days or less. For prevention, I would take 3 drops in a glass of water once a day, every day. This comes very concentrated so it should ALWAYS be diluted before using.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has tested Citricidal and found that it safely and effectively destroys the bird flu virus.
6. Sambucol Elderberry extract inactivates viruses by surrounding them with the equivalent of foam rubber, preventing them from doing any damage while your immune system comes along to destroy them.
7. Sauerkraut ABC news recently reported on a Japanese researcher who is using this condiment to cure chickens who have the avian flu; so why not add some of this food to your diet, it’s good for you anyway as it supports the digestive and immune systems and helps replenish your “friendly flora,” the beneficial bacteria in your gut that you can’t live without.
8. Herbal Cold Tea I love to use a tea (herbal infusion) of equal parts oregano, basil, thyme, peppermint, and ginger, and if you want an extra kick, just add a shake or two of cayenne pepper. I’ve seen this cure colds in under 3 hours when they’re caught early. See the free ebook that you get when you sign up for my free email course for instructions on how to make infusions and many other herbal preparations.
9. Anti-plague tonics There are two that I recommend. The first one, called “Anti-Plague Syrup,” you can get from the herb shop. The other, called “Super Tonic,” you can make at home (you can make the Anti-Plague syrup too, but it’s very time consuming).
Here’s the recipe for the Super-Tonic:
One handful each of Fresh Raw Organic Garlic cloves (peeled), hot white onions, ginger root (rhizome), horseradish root, and hot peppers (the hotter the better). Put these all into your blender and add enough raw, organic apple cider vinegar to come about half way up the blender, blend and if necessary add more vinegar to thin it out a bit. You can eat this like apple sauce, mix some into your morning smoothie, use it as salad dressing, or however you prefer, take a little every day for prevention, or half a cup a day (or more) for a cure.
I’ve also seen a product for sale in some health food stores called “Cyclone Cider” that is very similar to the Super-Tonic.
10. Things that strengthen your immune system:
Echinacea, astragalus, calendula, all superfoods (concentrated herbal foods).
Vigorous exercise, deep breathing, deep relaxation.
Looking into the mirror and saying “I love you!” 50 times, 3 times a day, Get rid of everything in your house and anywhere on your property that falls under the heading of “useless junk” or “bad memories” no matter what it is – these two steps alone are probably the most powerful of all the suggestions on this list!
11. It should go without saying that you should definitely be practicing basic principles of sanitation: Washing hands 6 or more times a day (especially after using the bathroom) then rum a few drops of olive oil into them to keep them from drying out and cracking, bathing or showering daily, keeping finger and toe nails short – or at least very clean, keeping a reasonably clean living environment, etc. But don’t use toxic things like chlorine bleach, other cleaning chemicals and most antibacterial soaps as they will do your immune system more harm than good and may actually increase the probability of an infection. There are plenty of safe natural disinfectants like Citricidal grapefruit seed extract, and many different essential oils that can be used instead (inquire at your local health food store).
You can make an excellent, non-toxic hand sanitizer (especially handy where water is in scarce supply) by combining one part of the above mentioned Citricidal grapefruit seed extract with ten parts of vegetable glycerin, mix well, and put it into a little one ounce or half-ounce glass dropper bottle that you can get at most health food stores. This is a great convenient way to sterilize your hands by simply rubbing a few drops into them just like you would a moisturizing lotion. You can also use this to sterilize any surface that you need to sterilize like eating utensils, first-aid supplies, etc. For surfaces, the Citricidal can be mixed 10-20 drops in a quart of water and sprayed with a regular spray bottle (be sure that the bottle hasn’t housed any toxic chemicals before).
12.Disinfect the air in your home and your place of business. There are several great ways to do this without poisoning yourself with toxic chemicals. My favorite methods are spraying essential oils in the air and burning incense.
Essential oils:
Combine lemon, lime, orange, and grapefruit essential oils in an essential oil sprayer bottle and spray around the entire house aiming high into the air and away from objects as much as possible or work space or put the oils into an essential oil diffuser (available at health food stores or online). You can also experiment with your favorite oils. Eucalyptus and peppermint are particularly good if you’ve already caught something, especially if there’s a lot of congestion or nasal/sinus problems.
Use only pure natural essential oils, absolutely no synthetics. Synthetic scent oils are potentially toxic and have no medicinal benefits whatsoever. They may smell like real essential oils, but they are a completely different substance!
Incense:
There are many good incenses for disinfecting the air. My favorite is sage brush, also called wild sage or desert sage. I suggest opening a window or getting some other form of ventilation when you do this. Also, just to be on the safe side, if you’re pregnant or have weak lungs and have not done this before, now is probably not the best time to start, but you can still use the essential oil sprays and diffusers.
To burn: Select a small container that you don’t mind getting a little dirty like a sea shell or small bowl, crumble some dried sage brush into it (you can also use culinary sage or garden sage if you can’t get any sage brush), arrange it into a pile and light it like a candle, let it burn for a few seconds and blow out the flame, letting it smolder. Wave the smoke all around the room. do this for every room in your house, especially the bathrooms, kitchen, and wherever people gather. It is a wonderful air disinfectant and has been used for centuries to keep infections from spreading.
You can also use something called a smudge stick (check at your local health food store or any place that sells Native American products). Light the fat end, blow it out and let it smolder and smoke as with the method above. Hold it over a bowl or something similar to prevent the burning embers from falling on your carpet. When you’re ready to put the stick out, do it cigarette-style, by pushing the burning end into a bowl of fine sand about an inch thick. And do remember that any incense involves a little bit of fire, so exercise caution like you would for a candle or anything else.
13. Read the following articles for additional information:
There seems to be a sort of anti-sweat hysteria in this country. People are looking for the strongest possible antiperspirant to clog their pores and keep them from sweating. This is even more frightening because some parents are having their children use the same stuff, starting very early on.
First, let me explain about sweat. Sweat is one of your body’s ways of ridding itself of toxins and waste products like urea, lactic acid, excess salt, even the poisonous chemicals in tobacco if the person uses it in any form. The skin is called a “third kidney” because it can eliminate as much as two pounds of dissolved waste per day in the form of sweat. If the kidneys are not working well, the skin can be used as a temporary backup. Urine is about 94% water and 6% waste material; sweat is only a little less concentrated at 96% water and 4% waste.
There are two points to be made here. One, that it is extremely important to drink enough clean (preferably steam distilled) water every day (one ounce of water per pound of body weight, spread throughout the day, is ideal); and two, that it is just as important to keep the skin clean, open, and free of anything that would hinder this process.
When you put on an antiperspirant, it prevents your body from eliminating a lot of toxic wastes, especially during intense exercise or stressful situations, when it needs that elimination the most. To use antiperspirant is to force your body to hold onto poisonous substances that can hurt you, even cause a variety of chronic diseases if retained long enough. Does this sound like something you really want to do? Of course not! And regular deodorants aren’t that great either; many of them contain aluminum, which is very toxic. The above facts are also good reasons not to use a lot of commercial creams, moisturizers, makeup, etc. as they also clog the pores and prevent elimination. Extra Virgin Olive Oil makes an excellent replacement for these products. There are also a few natural ones on the market worth looking into.
But, if we don’t use antiperspirants, what can be done about that offensive BO? Well, body odor actually comes from the toxins that your skin is eliminating. Waste products simply don’t smell good. So to get at the cause of the odor, first, stop putting smelly toxins into your body. Things like drugs (all kinds), tobacco, processed junk foods, cleaning chemicals, many cosmetics, etc. all contribute, but the smelliest by far are meat (all kinds), eggs, and dairy products. Any vegetarian will tell you that heavy meat eaters have the worst BO. It is easier to smell something if you aren’t constantly exposed to it. I myself have gone from having very strong BO (even though I showered every day and used deodorant) to having almost none at all, just by eliminating animal foods and cleaning out my body. Now, you don’t necessarily have to give them up completely like I did if all you want to do is smell better, but dramatically reducing your intake of these foods (which aren’t that good for you anyway) should go a long way toward reducing the odor problem.
Thoroughly cleansing the body, especially the bowel, can go a long way toward eliminating odor as well.
Complete detailed step-by-step instructions for cleaning out all the parasites, parasite eggs, disease germs, old fecal matter, the gum you swallowed when you were five, and everything else that is stuck in your colon and poisoning you right now are in my book “The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program.” This wonderfully useful book also reveals how to clean stones, fat, cholesterol, and toxic buildup out of your liver and get your kidneys working like they did when you were 16!
Some additional measures you can take are to get a deodorant stone (available at health food stores). Just wet the stone and rub it where you want it (e.g., feet, underarms, etc.). Drinking plantain leaf tea (infusion) is a wonderful internal cleanser and deodorizer. Essential oils (available at health food stores) are very good at covering up odor, which is all most regular deodorants do, you may want to dilute them in a little olive oil first. Just pick your favorite scent(s), dilute in a little vegetable oil and have fun. Another thing I have found is that if I rub a good amount of castor oil on my feet, underarms, etc. daily, it tends to draw out toxins and prevent odor from appearing at all. All these options are completely safe and non-toxic, the only one you can’t consume is the deodorant stone. NOTE: Most essential oils can be taken internally in amounts of 10 drops or less, but they are very strong and concentrated, so a degree of caution and common sense is warranted here.
– Chris Lewis, MH
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A. Vitiligo (a.k.a., leukoderma), is a skin condition causing chalky-white patches of skin surrounded by a dark border. It occurs because the melanocytes that normally produce skin pigment are missing in certain portions of the skin. Hair growing from affected skin will probably be white as well.
If I had this condition, here are a few things that I would do:
1. PABA and Magnesium have been used successfully to clear up this condition so I would be sure to get plenty of these from food and maybe even make a poultice of these foods to apply to the affected areas. I would also be sure to get plenty of essential fatty acids, silica, folate, and vitamins E, C, B, and A which are very important for healthy skin. Here are some significant sources of these nutrients:
Magnesium – purslain (yes, the common garden weed), kidney beans, poppy seeds, oats, spinach, licorice root, lettuce leaf, kelp, stinging nettle, flax seed, asparagus, cucumber, lima beans.
Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) – purslain, flax seeds and flax seed oil, wheat germ and oil, evening primrose seed and oil.
Silica – Brown rice, field horsetail herb, oat straw, kudzu shoots (a common weed in the South), black pepper, flax seeds, tea leaves (green), bananas.
I would also use a whole food herbal nutrition supplement like Dr. Schulze’s “Superfood.” “Green Magma” is also a good one (available in many health food stores), or any product with organic powdered wheat grass, barley grass, spirulina, chlorella, or other whole herbal foods and nothing else (no chemicals of any kind).
2. Any disease condition of the skin usually indicates a toxic bloodstream, so thorough cleansing is absolutely essential!
Complete detailed step-by-step instructions for cleaning out all the parasites, parasite eggs, disease germs, old fecal matter, the gum you swallowed when you were five, and everything else that is stuck in your colon and poisoning you right now are in my book “The Foundational Cleansing and Nourishing Program.” This wonderfully useful book also reveals how to clean stones, fat, cholesterol, and toxic buildup out of your liver and get your kidneys working like they did when you were 16!
3. Dr. Christopher’s B,F,&C formula (also called “Complete Tissue Formula”) can be applied several times a day to the affected areas as an ointment or a fomentation. You can get this formula from the herb shop and discover how to make fomentations in my free E-book.
4. Skin brushing detoxifies, stimulates, and heals the skin. Just get a skin/body brush from your local health food store and use it to brush your entire body once or twice a day every day. Try to brush in a general direction toward your heart as this helps with lymph flow.
5. Sweat baths act similarly to skin brushing but are stronger. You basically just take a very hot bath, as hot as you can stand it, and drink at least a quart of hot diaphoretic tea (e.g., yarrow, ginger, cayenne, peppermint, black pepper, etc.) while you’re in the bath, to encourage sweating. This causes you to sweat out large amounts of toxins that have been hanging around inside your body. I do recommend though, that the basic cleansing procedures (mentioned above in point #2) be done before you try this technique. This will help avoid any unnecessary unpleasantness. Always get your elimination organs in tip-top shape before doing any other cleansing work! Once toxic accumulations start breaking loose they will need a way to leave your body, and the only way they can leave is through your elimination organs (bowel, liver, kidneys, skin, and lungs).
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