I wish to Thank my Family with a Deep Spirit of Cherishing and Gratitude for

helping me to put the FDR Vol. 3 together into this final form.

Candle (who warms and lights all our

hearts) for typing with lightning speed
fingers, Tyler (TNT... the Dyn-0-mite
Kid) for the initial collections of pics and
content with layout. To Daniel (an Art,
Music, Boarding-4 Wheeling Genius) for
the brilliant Creative artsy/creation of
M.A.P. as well as the
audio/musical/video laydown for Don’s
Daily Dose “Sound-Health” Thoughts
for Food, Food for Thoughts that supports the FDR message. Candle and her beautiful children Jet & Lilly

(To be released to the Public in May 2010. Check it out at www.dontolman.com as well as my other sites).

Amber (You are the Golden Goddess of the Age in which we Live) you my dear wife are beyond words... you
created the FDR 1, then FDR 2 and now took the Bull by the Horns and brought what the rest of us had put
together and re-created it as you lifted it ten stories higher than what it could have ever been. Hugs and
Kisses to you for all you do. Again, I simply do not have the Words. Thank you from the Heart of my Bottom.
Oops... Bottom of my Heart. Like you always say “Humor is the Best Medicine.”

Seven beautiful friends of mine that all live in Australia made this FDR Vol. 3 possible by investing Love
and Money into the Project. To all of you, I will forever be Grateful. I believe we will Bless the Lives of over
1 Million people in the next 12 months with this Simple Wisdom of Health Teaching Piece.

T hank you T he
Sterling Tolman
T hank you Tolman
T hank you Family
I wo ul d a l so l ik e to t han k
Ja re d , D J & She rr y ; f or al l
of the i r sup p or t a nd l ove ...
an d m ost o f a ll f or be i ng
m y b e au ti fu l c hi ld r en .
I w il l i nc lu de p i ctu re s of
the m in th e ne xt p r i nti n g .
-Don Tolman
Donzi, Amber, Don, Tyler, Taz, Daniel, Thor & Jezalia Tolman
 ˜Natures Farmacy˜
Plants Speak Sign Language
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the
human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of
the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the
research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like
a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart
and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums
and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the
neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three 3 dozen
neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney

function and yes, they look exactly like the human
kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These
foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these
foods are 23% sodium. If you dont have enough sodium in your diet, the
body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish
the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and
cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Todays research shows that
when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth
weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine
9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000
photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods modern
science has only studied and named about 141 of them.

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs in-
crease the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male
sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the
glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like

the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts
and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the bodys cells. Todays research shows

onions help clear waste materials from all
of the body cells. They even produce tears
which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.
A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dan-
gerous free radicals from the body.
 ~Farmacist Desk Reference~
Volume #3
by Don Tolman

“LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE,

LET MEDICINE BE THY FOOD.”
-Hippocrates -376 B.C.

“WE’VE SEEN THE FUTURE OF CANCER RESEARCH,

AND THE FUTURE IS FOOD.”
-Dr. Mitchell Gaynor
A friend and Director N.Y. Strang Cancer Prevention Center 11-30-98

“If anything is sacred,

the human body is sacred.”
-Walt Whitman

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 ~HEALTHY SELF~
Brain Respiritory Heart Endocrine

Nervous Integumentary Circulatory Reproductive

Digestive Lymphatic Muscular

Excretory Immune Skeletal

Health Is Cellness Wellness

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 ~The Human Body~
• The human body can perform amazing acts of strength and grace. A highly trained
athlete can push the body to the limit of its powers.

• A baby has close to 800 bones that fuse together over time. The skele-
tal system includes more than 200 bones and makes up about 18% of
the bodies weight by age 22.

• It provides the body with the sturdy frame work. Bone is strong, yet
light and flexible.

• The muscular system consists of nearly 700 muscles and makes up

about 40% of the bodies weight. Muscles can contract, or shorten. By
contracting, the muscles enable the body to move.

• The human eye, like many parts of the body, rapidly adjust to changes
in a darkened room. The pupil of the eye opens wide, so it lets in more
light. If the lights are turned up, the pupil automatically shrinks within seconds.

• The heart is a powerful pump. It beats about one hundred thousand times each day,
as it sends blood throughout the body.

• The brain is one of the body’s most complicated parts. The outer surface of the brain
is made up of around 20 billion cells. It’s interesting, there appears to be as many stars
in our galaxy as there are neurons in our brain. It’s almost as if we are a microcosm of the macrocosm.

• A microscopic view of the skin shows bacteria as tiny green balls. Countless bacteria live on the skin... bil-
lions, and billions, and trillions.

• These bacteria are harmless and are meant to be there, unless they enter the body through a break in the skin
which can lead to an infection and inflammation.

• People sometimes call the human body a machine, the most wonderful one ever built. Of course, the human
body is not a machine, but it can be compared to one in many ways. Like a machine, the body
is made up of many parts. Each part of the body, like each part of a machine, does special jobs.
But all the parts work together to make the body, or machine, run smoothly. Also, like a ma-
chine, the body needs energy to work. In such a machine as an automobile, the energy comes
from gasoline, for instance. In the body, the energy comes from air, water, sunshine, whole
plant foods, movement, pleasure, and even passion.

• Although the human body can be compared to a machine, it is far more amazing than any ma-
chine ever built. It can do things that no machine can do. For example, the body can grow. The
body starts out as one cell. That one cell, over a seven day period, divides into two. Seven days
later, it's four. Then, in periods of seven, it keeps doubling. From 4 to 8, from 16 to 32, from 64
to 128, etc. On the 40th doubling, or 40 weeks, which some refer to as nine months, there are
close to 10 thousand trillion cells that make up the body. In time, this tiny cell, the very first
cell, has developed into a body consisting of trillions of cells.

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• The human body can also replace certain worn-out parts. Each day, several billion cells in the body die and are
replaced by cellular division. Thus, the body is always rebuilding itself.

• Every 35 to 45 days for instance, the human body replaces the outermost layer of the skin.

~Anatomy~
Anatomy is the study of the biological structure of living things. The term comes from the Greek words mean-
ing to cut up, because knowledge of anatomy was first obtained through dissection. The bodies of human beings
and animals are so complex that observers divided anatomy into many branches. Gross anatomy is the study of
structure which can be seen with the unaided eye. Microscopic anatomy, or histology, is the study of tissues
under a microscope. Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different animals. Embryology is the study
of the development of plants and animals in their earliest stages.

Human anatomy includes the study of the structure of the skeleton, muscles, nerves, and the various organs of
the human body. A knowledge of the structure of the body is essential for an understanding of its function,
which is called physiology.

In ancient times, people believed that the dead body was a sacred thing, and cutting it up ranked as a serious
crime, and an offense to the entire cosmos. After 400 B.C. the Greeks allowed occasional dissections. The
physician Galen, in the A.D. 100s described many anatomical structures. But he based his work mainly on dis-
sections of animals, and treatment of injured gladiators. After 1300 A.D., dissection and anatomy became a rec-
ognized part of body learning, in Western Europe. In 1543, Andreas Vesalius published his classic work on
anatomy, which was based on human dissections. Since then, progress has been made possible, such as discov-
eries of William Harvey’s on blood circulation.

~Physiology~
Physiology is the study of how living things function. People who study physiology are often times called Phys-
iologists. Their studies range from the most basic unit of organisms, the cell, to complex organs, and organ sys-
tems, such as the brain and digestive system. People who study how different organs or parts of an organism
work together to achieve a particular function, again, are called physiologists. In people for example, the diges-
tion of food involves the action of hormones and other chemicals produced by the stomach, liver, and pancreas.
Muscle contraction occurs through the action of chemical messengers produced by nerves that supply the mus-
cle.

By learning how the body functions normally. We are better able to understand what happens when organs func-
tion abnormally. For example, the thyroid gland uses iodine, to make what today is called thyroxine, which is a
hormone, or protein, that affects the entire body. If iodine is too low in the diet, the thyroid glands expands
forming a large mass called a goiter. This condition can be corrected by including iodine in the diet. The highest
naturally occurring incidence of iodine is in all types of mushrooms. The next is natural sea salt. Studies of the
circulatory and nervous systems have helped people understand symptoms of what is named heart disease,
stroke, and even high blood pressure.

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 Anatomy = Structure
Physiology = Function
Anatomy is Latin and means, “to cut up”.
Through dissection ‘physical composition’ of ‘structural forms’ could be observed in order to hopefully gain
better understanding of body ‘Parts’.

Physiology is Latin and means the study of “Nature’s Functions”.

Literally the study of how ‘parts’ or structures of anatomy perform or function.

Notes Notes

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 ~Brain/Nervous System~

Cerebrum

Cerebellum

Brain Stem

Brachial Plexus Spinal Cord

Musculocutanious
Nerve Intercostal Nerves
Radial Nerve

Subcostal Nerve

Lumbar Plexus
Median Nerve
Iliohypogastric Nerve
Sacral Plexus
Genitofemoral Nerve

Obturator Nerve Femoral Nerve

Ulna Nerve Pudental Nerve

Sciatic Nerve

Common Peroneal Nerve Muscular Branches

of the Femoral Nerve

Saphenous Nerve

Tibial Nerve

Deep Peroneal Nerve

Superficial Peroneal Nerve

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~Brain/Nervous System Foods~

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~Brain/Nervous System Foods~
Almonds
Latin name is Amygdala a part of the Brain
Almonds increase blood supply to the Brain. Their nutrients target the emotions and other functions of the
Brain. Almonds are an ancient food that have been written about in historical texts, including the Bible. Al-
monds were thought to have originated in regions in western Asia and North Africa. The Romans referred to
almonds as the “Greek nut” in reference to the civilization suggested to have first cultivated them.

Almonds are now grown in many of the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea including Spain, Italy,
Portugal and Morocco, as well as in California. The cultivation of almonds in California, the only state that
produces them, has an interesting history. Almond trees were originally brought to California centuries ago
when missions were created by the Spanish, but cultivation of the trees was abandoned when the missions
were closed. Almond trees found their way back to California in the 19th century via the eastern United
States. In 1840, almond trees were brought over from Europe and were first planted in New England. Be-
cause the climate on the Eastern seaboard did not support their cultivation, the trees were brought to Califor-
nia where they thrived and continue to do so.

Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION...
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it’s easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Protectors/Inhibitors aren’t the only reason to include apples in a heart-supportive diet, however. You’ll get
about 4 grams of dietary fiber in a medium-sized, 5-ounce apple. Included in this total amount is both insolu-
ble fiber (cellulose) and soluble fiber (pectin). Pectins clear heavy toxic metals out of the Brain. THERE IS
NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO WRITE EVERYTHING THAT APPLES DO FOR YOUR MIND BODY AND
EMOTIONS.

Blueberries
A Better Brain with Blueberries
Today as throughout time animals and humans have Vaccinated (vaccinium is Latin for Berry; Vaccine,Vacci-
nate,Vaccination all come of Berries) themselves eating berries. They work perfectly and have no damaging
nor toxic “side” effects like most medical vaccines do.

In human studies, researchers have found that blueberries help protect the brain from oxidative stress and re-
duce’s the effects of age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Researchers found that
diets rich in blueberries significantly improved both the learning capacity and motor skills of the aging, mak-
ing them mentally equivalent to much younger people.

Blueberries also act as an unusual type of pro-biotic by blocking attachment of bacteria that cause urinary
tract infections. They contain chemicals that curb diarrhea and also have viral activity and are high in natural
aspirin.

As I’ve mentioned before every plant food helps the entire body and all 10,000 trillion cells that the body is
composed of. By the activity of the blueberry to clear the urinary tract, the bowels and improving heart and
lung function the Brain recieves the greatest benefit. For this cause did ancient wisdom declare the brain as
it’s Signature target.
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~Brain/Nervous System Foods~
Broccoli
Brains and Full Body Support
Broccoli is a member of the cabbage family, and is closely related to cauliflower. Its cultivation originated in
Italy. Broccolo, its Italian name, means “cabbage sprout”. Because of its different components, broccoli pro-
vides a range of tastes and textures, from soft and flowery (the floret) to fibrous and crunchy (the stem and
stalk). Do not let the smell of the sulfur compounds that are released while cooking keep you away from this
highly nutritious vegetable. Like other cruciferous vegetables, broccoli contains the phytonutrients sul-
foraphane and the indoles, which have significant re-missive cancer effects. Research on indole-3-carbinol
shows this compound helps deactivate a potent estrogen metabolite (4-hydroxyestrone) that promotes tumor
growth, especially in estrogen-sensitive breast cells, while at the same time increasing the level of 2-hydrox-
yestrone, a form of estrogen that can be cancer-protective. Indole-3-carbinol has been shown to suppress not
only breast tumor cell growth, but also cancer cell metastasis (the movement of cancerous cells to other parts
of the body). Scientists have found that sulforaphane boosts the body’s detoxification enzymes, potentially by
altering gene expression, thus helping to clear potentially carcinogenic substances more quickly.

When researchers at Johns Hopkins studied the effect of sulphoraphane on tumor formation in lab animals,
those animals given sulforaphane had fewer tumors, and the tumors they did develop grew more slowly and
weighed less, meaning they were smaller. Broccoli is in the same neighborhood as apples in targeting first the
brain and then the whole body.

Brussels Sprouts
Brain/Breast/Full Body: Cancer Protection from Special Sulfur-Containing Phyto (plant) Nutrients
It’s no surprise that Brussel sprouts look like perfect miniature versions of cabbage since they are closely re-
lated, both belong to the Brassica family of vegetables.

Plant phytonutrients found in Brussels sprouts enhance the activity of the body’s natural defense systems to
protect against disease, including cancer. Scientists have found that sulforaphane, one of the powerful glu-
cosinolate phytonutrients found in Brussel sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables, boosts the body’s detoxi-
fication enzymes, potentially by altering gene expression, thus helping to clear potentially carcinogenic
substances more quickly.

Cabbage
Helps your Brain get a Head by making it a Clean Machine!
Sturdy, abundant and inexpensive, cabbage is a longstanding dietary staple throughout the world and is so
widely cultivated and stores so well that it is available throughout the year. However, it is at its best during
the late fall and winter months when it is in season.

Cabbage is round in shape with layers of superimposed leaves with the inner leaves often lighter in color than
the outer leaves because they are hidden from the sunlight. They belong to the Cruciferae family of vegeta-
bles along with kale, broccoli, collards and Brussels sprouts.

For about 20 years, we've known that many phytonutrients work as protectors/inhibitors to disarm free radi-
cals before they can damage DNA, cell membranes and fat-containing molecules such as bad cholesterol.
Now, new research is revealing that phytonutrients in crucifers, such as cabbage, work at a much deeper level.
These compounds actually signal our genes to increase production of enzymes involved in detoxification, the
cleansing process through which our bodies eliminate harmful compounds. Recent studies show that those
eating the most cruciferous vegetables have a much lower risk of brain, prostate, colorectal and lung cancer.

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~Brain/Nervous System Foods~
Cantaloupe
Brains and Eye/Vision Food
The cantaloupe derives its name from the ltalian papal village of Cantalup, where it was first cultivated
around 1700 A.D. It belongs to the same family as the cucumber, squash, pumpkin and gourd; and like many
of its relatives, grows on the ground on a trailing vine. Cantaloupe are also referred to as a netted melon be-
cause it has a ribless rind with a distinctive netted skin. Inside of the melon there is a hollow cavity that con-
tains seeds encased in a web of netting. Cantaloupe is also known as rockmelon in several parts of the world.
It is round or oval in shape and usually has a ribless rind. Many of the cantaloupes available today are hybrids
of muskmelons and true cantaloupes and have qualities that reflect both.

Cantaloupe is also a very good source of high levels of Vitamin A, C, potassium, and a good source of vita-
min B6, dietary fiber, folate and niacin (vitamin B3). The combination of all these B complex vitamins along
with the fiber found in cantaloupe make it an exceptionally good fruit for supporting brain and body energy
production through good carbohydrate metabolism and blood sugar stability. These B complex vitamins are
required in our cells for processing carbohydrates (including sugars), and cantaloupe’s fiber helps ensure can-
taloupe’s sugars are delivered into the bloodstream gradually, keeping blood sugar on an even keel.

Cauliflower
Brain Power
The cauliflower lacks the green chlorophyll found in other members of the cruciferous family of vegetables
like broccoli, cabbage and kale, because the leaves of the plant shield the florets from the sun as they grow. It
has a compact head (called a “curd”), usually about six inches in diameter that is composed of undeveloped
flower buds. The flowers are attached to a central stalk; this looks like the brain and spinal cord. This wonder-
ful food does all the stuff cabbage and broccoli do but focuses its powers on the ‘white matter’ of the brain
and spine by ‘cleansing them’ of toxins and waste materials. Then the brain can clear cancers and problems
throughout the body, especially the prostate.

Ginger
Not only cleans the brain mass but does other things as well...
The flesh of the ginger rhizome can be yellow, white or red in color, depending upon the variety. It is covered
with a brownish skin that may either be thick or thin, depending upon whether the plant was harvested when
it was mature or young. The ginger rhizome has a firm, yet striated texture and a taste that is aromatic, pun-
gent and hot. Native to southeastern Asia, a region whose cuisines still feature this wonderfully spicy herb,
ginger has been renowned for millennia in many areas throughout the world. Ginger is mentioned in ancient
Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern writings, and has long been prized for its aromatic, culinary and medici-
nal properties. After the ancient Romans imported ginger from China almost two thousand years ago, its pop-
ularity in Europe remained centered in the Mediterranean region until the Middle Ages when its use spread
throughout other countries. Although it was a very expensive spice, owing to the fact that it had to be im-
ported from Asia, it was still in great demand. In an attempt to make it more available, Spanish explorers in-
troduced ginger to the West Indies, Mexico and South America, and in the 16th century, these areas began
exporting the precious herb back to Europe.

Historically, ginger has a long tradition of being very effective in alleviating symptoms of gastrointestinal dis-
tress. In herbal medicine, ginger is regarded as an excellent carminative (a substance which promotes the
elimination of intestinal gas) and intestinal spasmolytic (a substance which relaxes and soothes the intestinal
tract). Modern research has revealed that ginger possesses numerous therapeutic properties including Protec-
tor/inhibitor effects, an ability to inhibit the formation of inflammatory compounds, and direct inflammatory
healing effects. Safe and Effective Relief of Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy: Ginger calms the vom-
iting action has been shown to be very useful in reducing the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, even the
most severe form, hyperemesis gravidum, a condition (people are told) that usually requires hospitalization.
In a double-blind trial, ginger root brought about a significant reduction in both the severity of nausea and
number of bouts of vomiting in 19 of 27 women in early pregnancy (less than 20 weeks). Unlike antivomiting
drugs, which can cause severe birth defects, ginger is extremely safe, and only a small amount is required to
be eaten. A review of six double-blind, randomized controlled trials with a total of 675 participants, published
in the April 2005 issue of the journal, Obstetrics and Gynecology,has confirmed that ginger is effective in re-
lieving the severity of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. The review also confirmed the absence of any
side effects or adverse effects on pregnancy outcomes.

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~Brain/Nervous System Foods~
Lettuce
Be Intelligent Without Nervousness nor Anxieties
Lettuce is synonymous with salads as they are predominantly made from crispy green lettuce leaves. Most va-
rieties of lettuce exude small amounts of a white, milky liquid when their leaves are broken. This “milk”
gives lettuce its slightly bitter flavor and its scientific name, Lactuca sativa derived from the Latin word for
milk. Native to the eastern Mediterranean region and western Asia, lettuce has a long and distinguished his-
tory. With depictions appearing in ancient Egyptian tombs, the cultivation of lettuce is thought to date back to
at least 4500 BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans held lettuce in high regard both as a food and for its thera-
peutic medicinal properties. Lettuce is an excellent source of vitamin A, folate, vitamin C, manganese and
chromium. In addition, romaine lettuce is a very good source of dietary fiber, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and the
minerals potassium, molybdenum, iron, and phosphorus and about 9,000 other phytolitic nutrients. Lettuce
targets the Brain by clearing blood plaque and increasing blood flow to the Brain. LETTUCE KEEPS THE
HEART YOUNG AND THE BRAIN FUN!!!

Pine Nuts
A single serving of the lowly pine nut can provide you with up to fourteen grams of protein per serving, de-
pending upon the species. Pine nuts are anywhere from ten to thirty-four percent protein. They’re also an ex-
cellent source of fiber as well as vitamins E, K, and niacin. In terms of minerals, they’re an excellent source
of magnesium and potassium which is important for maintaining a healthy heart and blood pressure. They
curb your appetite. It may surprise you to learn that pine nuts can be a potent appetite suppressor. Why?
They’re a good source of a polyunsaturated fat known as pinolenic acid. When you eat a handful of pine nuts,
the pinolenic acid stimulates the secretion of a hormone produced by the intestines known as CCK. CCK
sends the signal to your brain that you’re full which turns off your appetite. It also helps to slow down the
rate at which your stomach empties so you feel full and satisfied longer. Who would have dreamed these tiny
seeds from the pinecone could zap your appetite?

Walnuts
Food for Better Thought
Walnuts have often been thought of as a “brain food”, not only because of the wrinkled brain-like appearance
of their shells and two hemispheres, but because of their high concentration of what today is called omega-3
fats. Your brain is more than 60% structural fat. For your brain cells to function properly, this structural fat
needs to be primarily the omega-3 fats found in walnuts, all nuts and seeds. This is because the membranes of
all our cells, including our brain cells or neurons, are primarily composed of fats. Cell membranes are the
gatekeepers of the cell. Anything that wants to get into or out of a cell must pass through the cell's outer mem-
brane. And omega-3 fats, which are especially fluid and flexible, make this process a whole lot easier, thus
maximizing the cell's ability to usher in nutrients while eliminating wastes; definitely a good idea, especially
when the cell in question is in your brain. Walnuts have many potential health benefits ranging from cardio-
vascular protection, to the promotion of better cognitive function, to inflammatory removal benefits helpful in
asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis. In addition, wal-
nuts contain a protector/inhibitor compound called ellagic acid that supports the immune system and appears
to have several cancer re-missive properties as well.
Watermelon
Has the same water content as the Brain and delivers Brain Chemistry
Watermelon targets the brain functions and just like peanuts; has arginine, which prevents erectile dysfunc-
tion, lowers blood pressure, and improves insulin sensitivity, its ONE more reason to enjoy watermelon be-
fore summer ends. This sweet, crunchy, cooling fruit is exceptionally high in citrulline, an amino acid our
bodies use to make another amino acid, arginine, which is used in the urea cycle to remove ammonia from the
body, and by the cells lining our blood vessels to make nitric oxide. Nitric oxide not only relaxes blood ves-
sels, lowering high blood pressure, it is the compound whose production is enhanced by Viagra (concentrated
from peanuts) to prevent erectile dysfunction. Arginine has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity in obese
type 2 diabetic patients with insulin resistance. In volunteers drinking three 8-ounce glasses of watermelon
juice each day for three weeks, blood levels of arginine (synthesized from citrulline provided by the water-
melon) were 11% higher than in controls. Volunteers who drank six daily 8-ounce glasses of watermelon juice
for 3 weeks had arginine levels 18% higher than controls. Nutrition. 2007 Mar;23(3):261-6. If you have ever
tasted a watermelon, it is probably no surprise to you why this juicy, refreshing fruit has this name. Water-
melon has an extremely high water content, approximately 92% (the same as the BRAIN), giving its flesh a
crumbly and subtly crunchy texture and making it a favorite thirst-quenching fruit.

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The nervous system regulates and coordinates the activities of all the other systems of the body. It enables the
body to adjust to changes that occur within itself and in its surroundings. The nervous system is made up of
countless nerve cells, or neurons. The neurons form a communications network that extends to every part of the
body. The nervous system has three main divisions. They are the central nervous system, peripheral, which in-
cludes the eyes, ears, nose and other sense organs, and the autonomic nervous system. The central nervous sys-
tem consists of the brain and spinal cord. It functions as the control center of the nervous system.

The central nervous system receives information from the senses. It analyzes this information and decides how
the body should respond. It then sends instructions that trigger the required actions. The central nervous system
makes some simple decisions within the spinal cord, such as directing the hand to pull away from something
that is hot. These simple decisions are called spinal reflexes. Most decisions, however, involve the brain. The
brain is an enormously complicated collection of hundreds of billions of neurons. These neurons are linked to-
gether in precise patterns that enable the brain to think and to remember. Much brain activity occurs at the con-
scious level. We are aware of decisions made at this level and can voluntarily control them. Other activity
occurs at the subconscious level. This activity regulates the smooth muscles and is beyond voluntary control.
Studies are being done based upon the information of ancient records called the “supraconscious level” of brain
activity and experience.

The peripheral nervous system is made up of nerves that connect the central nervous system with every part of
the body. These nerves include both sensory neurons, which carry information to the central nervous system,
and motor neurons, which relay instructions from the central nervous system. Sensory neurons run between the
sense organs and the central nervous system. The sense organs have special cells called “receptors”. Receptors
translate information about the internal or external environment into nerve impulses. These impulses are electri-
cal signals that nerves can carry. The body has many kinds of sense receptors. Vision receptors in the eyes
change electrical light waves into electric nerve impulses. Hearing receptors in the ears convert sound waves
into electrical nerve impulses. Smell receptors in the nose, and taste receptors on the tongue, convert chemical
information into electrical nerve impulses. Receptors in the skin respond to heat, cold, pressure, touch, and pain.
Receptors deep within the body provide information on the chemical and physical conditions, even the electrical
sources, of the inner body tissues.

Electrical nerve impulses from the sense receptors travel along sensory neurons to the central nervous system.
The central nervous system analyzes the information and decides what actions, if any, are necessary. If a re-
sponse is needed, the central nervous system sends out electrical instructions. The motor neurons of the periph-
eral nervous system carry the instructions from the central nervous system to the appropriate tissues and cells.

The autonomic nervous system is a special part of the peripheral nervous system. It carries messages from the
subconscious level of the brain to the internal organs. The autonomic nervous system regulates the automatic
functions of the body, such as the beating of the heart and the movement of food through the digestive system.

Overview of Nervous System

The nervous system is a complex, sophisticated system that regulates and coordinates body activities.
It is made up of two major divisions:

Central Nervous System - Consisting of the Brain and Spinal Cord

Peripheral Nervous System - Consisting of all other Neural Elements

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In addition to the brain and spinal cord, principal organs of the nervous system are:

• Eyes
• Ears
• Nose
• Taste
• Touch

What are some disorders of the nervous system?

The nervous system is vulnerable to various disorders. It can be damaged by: injuries and a pathetic diet that
can lead to: infections, degeneration, structural defects and tumors.

Disorders of the nervous system may involve:

• Vascular Disorders - such as stroke, transient ischemic attack

(TIA), subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage and
hematoma, and extradural hemorrhage.

• Infections - such as meningitis, encephalitis, polio, and epidural

abscess.

• Structural Disorders - such as brain or spinal cord injury, Bell’s

palsy, cervical spondylosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain or spinal
cord tumors, peripheral neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

• Functional Disorders - such as headache, epilepsy, dizziness, and neuralgia.

• Degeneration - such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Hunting-
ton’s chorea and Alzheimer’s disease.

~Eyes~
A New Vision Of Sight Comes To Light, But First...
A Deepening Of Insight Of The Anatomical Site...

Although small in size the eye is an extremely complex organ and captures light and transforms it into impulses
that the brain can interpret as images. Discover the different muscles, parts and conditions of the eye.

Light is what drives life. It’s hard to imagine our world and life without it. The sensing of light by living things
is almost universal. Find out all about the amazing inner workings of the human eye. In order for the eye to
function properly, specific autonomic functions must maintain adjustment of
four types of smooth muscle: (1) smooth muscle of the iris, which controls the
amount of light that passes through the pupil to the retina, (2) ciliary muscle
on the inner aspect of the eye, which controls the ability to focus on nearby
objects, (3) smooth muscle of arteries providing oxygen to the eye, and (4)
smooth muscle of veins that drain blood from the eye and affect intraocular
pressure. In addition, the cornea must be kept moist by secretion from the
lacrimal gland.

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 Vision In Humans

The human eye functions somewhat like a camera; that is, it receives and focuses
light upon a photosensitive receiver, the retina. The light rays are bent and brought to
focus as they pass through the cornea and the lens. The shape of the lens can be
changed by the action of the ciliary muscles so that clear images of objects at differ-
ent distances and of moving objects are formed on the retina. This ability to focus ob-
jects at varying distances is known as accommodation.

The Role of the Retina

The retin - the embryonic outgrowth of the brain - is a very complex tissue. Its most
important elements are its many light-sensitive nerve cells, the rods and cones. The
cones secrete the pigment iodopsin and are most effective in bright light; they alone
provide color vision. The rods, which secrete a substance called visual purple, or rhodopsin, provide vision in
dim light or semidarkness; since rods do not provide color vision, objects in such light appear in shades of gray.

Light rays brought to focus on the rods and cones produce a chemical reaction in those cells, in which the two
pigments are broken down to form a protein and a vitamin A compound. This chemical process stimulates an
electrical impulse that is sent to the brain. The structural change of pigment is normally balanced by the forma-
tion of new pigment through the recombination of the protein and vitamin A compound; thus vision is uninter-
rupted.

The division of function between rods and cones is a result of the different sensitivity of their pigments to light.
The iodopsin of cone cells is less sensitive than rhodopsin, and therefore is not activated by weak light, while in
bright light the highly sensitive rhodopsin of rod cells breaks down so rapidly that it soon becomes inactive.
There is a depression near the center of the retina called the fovea that contains only cone cells. It provides the
keenest possible vision when an object is viewed directly in bright light. In dim light objects must be viewed
somewhat to one side so the light rays fall on the area of the retina that contains rod cells.

The Role of the Optic Nerve and Brain

The nerve impulses from the rods and cones are transmitted by nerve fibers across the retina to an area where
the fibers converge and form the optic nerve. The area where the optic nerve passes through the retina is devoid
of rods and cones and is known as the blind spot. The optic nerve from the left eye and that from the right eye
meet at a point called the optic chiasma. There each nerve separates into two branches. The inner branch from
each eye crosses over and joins the outer branch from the other eye. Two optic tracts exit thereby from the chi-
asma, transferring the impulses from the left side of each eye to the left visual center in the cerebral cortex and
the impulses from the right half of each eye to the right cerebral cortex. The brain then fuses the two separate
images to form a single image. The image formed on the retina is an inverted one, because the light rays enter-
ing the eye are refracted and cross each other. However, the mental image as interpreted by the brain is right
side up. How the brain corrects the inverted image to produce normal vision is unknown, but the ability is
thought to be acquired early in life, with the aid of the other senses.

Color and Stereoscopic Vision

Color vision is based on the ability to discriminate between the various wavelengths that constitute the spec-
trum. The Young-Helmholtz theory, developed in 1802 by Thomas Young and H. L. F. Helmholtz, is based on
the assumption that there are three fundamental color sensations - red, green, and blue - and that there are three
different groups of cones in the retina, each group particularly sensitive to one of these three colors. Light from
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a red object, for example, stimulates the cones that are more sensitive to red than the other cones. Other colors
(besides red, green, and blue) are seen when the cone cells are stimulated in different combinations. Only in re-
cent years has conclusive evidence shown that the Young-Helmholtz theory is, indeed, accurate. The sensation
of white is produced by the combination of the three primary colors, and black results from the absence of stim-
ulation.

Humans normally have binocular vision, i.e., separate images of the visual field are formed by each eye; the two
images fuse to form a single impression. Because each eye forms its own image from a slightly different angle,
a stereoscopic effect is obtained, and depth, distance, and solidity of an object are appreciated. Stereoscopic
color vision is found primarily among the higher primates, and it developed fairly late on the evolutionary scale.

Defects of Vision

Defects of vision include astigmatism , color blindness , farsightedness , and nearsightedness . The absence of
rods causes a condition known as night blindness; an absence of cones constitutes legal blindness.

Disorders of form and function that affect the eye. Disorders of form affect the way the eye looks or feels; disor-
ders of function affect vision. Normal vision requires proper performance from the entire visual system, from
the precorneal tear film to the occipital cortex.

The eyelids contain many glands that are susceptible to acute or chronic infection. Acute infection produces a
hordeolum, or sty, which is a localized nodule up to several millimeters in diameter swelling may develop rap-
idly. Chronic infection results in a granulomatous nodule, or chalazion.

Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, regardless of cause, which may include viral, bacterial, or
chlamydial infection; mechanical or chemical trauma; allergy; and so on. The symptoms of conjunctivitis de-
pend on the cause and generally include conjunctival redness (hyperemia), swelling (chemosis), mild to moder-
ate discomfort, and tearing. If the conjunctiva is the only structure involved, vision is usually affected minimally
or not at all. Infectious conjunctivitis is often termed pink eye because of the bright red appearance of the con-
junctiva. Bacterial infections are usually responsible for pink eye in children. Infectious conjunctivitis in adults
is commonly caused by viral agents. Chlamydial infections are responsible for inclusion conjunctivitis and oph-
thalmia neonatorum in the United States and trachoma in many arid regions of the third
world. The initial infection involves the conjunctiva, but ultimately trachoma results in
blindness due to a scarred, vascularized, opaque cornea.

If the cornea and conjunctiva are both involved, the condition is referred to as kerato-
conjunctivitis. Adenovirus infection causes keratoconjunctivitis. If lubrication by the
lacrimal glands or accessory lacrimal glands is interrupted by infection, trauma, or au-
toimmune disease, one of the dry-eye syndromes may ensue. The symptoms in-
clude a mild foreign-body sensation, light sensitivity (photophobia), and gritty
feeling in the eyes that progresses throughout the day. Paradoxically, in-
creased tearing (epiphora) can be a symptom of dry eyes.

Glaucoma is a serious eye disorder with many subclassifications.

It is characterized by intraocular pressure sufficiently high to cause
characteristic damage to the optic nerve.

The leading cause of blindness in the world is cataract, an opacity within the crystalline lens. The cause of glau-
coma and cataracts is blocked drainage channels from the lens and back of the eye which is usually caused by
pharmaceutical eye drops for redness or contact lens wearers... Carrots Work!
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Degeneration of the retina produces a painless distortion or loss of vision. The function may be disrupted in
many ways. The retina itself may be affected by infectious processes. Cytomegalovirus retinitis, for instance, is
a frequent cause of visual loss in individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Primary reti-
nal degeneration may occur in many forms. Retinitis pigmentosa tends to manifest itself early in life and pro-
gresses from peripheral to central visual loss; prognosis depends in part on the hereditary pattern of the disease.
Involutional macular degeneration is fairly common in the elderly. It affects the central vision first and rarely
spreads to the peripheral vision. Between these two extremes is a very large number of progressive retinal dys-
trophies and degenerations, involving central or peripheral vision or both. Although the ultimate visual loss is
variable, it is often severe.

Retinal detachment occurs when the sensory layers of the retina are separated from their supporting founda-
tions. It is classified as rhegmatogenous (caused by a retinal hole) or nonrhegmatogenous. Rhegmatogenous
retinal detachment occurs spontaneously or following trauma. Nonrhegmatogenous retinal detachment occurs as
a final stage of such pathologic conditions as retinopathy of prematurity or diabetic retinopathy. The symptoms
of retinal detachment are a painless and sudden segmental or total visual loss in one eye. Treatment is aimed at
reestablishing the connection between the sensory-neural retina and its supporting structures. Diabetic retinopa-
thy is typically caused by using insulin it’s a common cause of severe retinal disease.

~Ears~
EARly, EARn, EARth, hEARt: hEAR

Your ears are extraordinary organs. They pick up all the sounds around you and then translate this information
into a form your brain can understand. One of the most remarkable things about this process is that it is com-
pletely mechanical. Your sense of smell, taste and vision all involve chemical reactions, but your hearing system
is based solely on physical movement.

Let’s look at the mechanical systems that make hearing possible. We’ll trace the path of a sound, from its origi-
nal source all the way to your brain, to see how all the parts of the ear work together. When you understand
everything they do, it’s clear that your ears are one of the most incredible parts of your body!

To understand how your ears hear sound, you first need to understand
just what sound is.

An object produces sound when it vibrates in matter. This could be a

solid, such as earth; a liquid, such as water; or a gas, such as air. Most
of the time, we hear sounds traveling through the air in our atmos-
phere.

When something vibrates in the atmosphere, it moves the air particles

around it. Those air particles in turn move the air particles around
them, carrying the pulse of the vibration through the air.

To see how this works, let’s look at a simple vibrating object: a bell.
When you hit a bell, the metal vibrates - flexes in and out. When it
flexes out on one side, it pushes on the surrounding air particles on that
side. These air particles then collide with the particles in front of them,
which collide with the particles in front of them, and so on. This is
called compression. When the bell flexes away, it pulls in on the sur-
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rounding air particles. This creates a drop in pressure, which pulls in more surrounding air particles, creating an-
other drop in pressure, which pulls in particles even farther out. This pressure decrease is called rarefaction.

In this way, a vibrating object sends a wave of pressure fluctuation through the atmosphere. We hear different
sounds from different vibrating objects because of variations in the sound wave frequency. A higher wave fre-
quency simply means that the air pressure fluctuation switches back and forth more quickly. We hear this as a
higher pitch. When there are fewer fluctuations in a period of time, the pitch is lower. The level of air pressure
in each fluctuation, the wave’s amplitude, determines how loud the sound is.

Catching Sound Waves

To hear sound, your ear has to do three basic things:

• Direct the sound waves into the hearing part of the ear.
• Sense the fluctuations in air pressure.
• Translate these fluctuations into an electrical signal that your brain can understand.

The pinna, the outer part of the ear, serves to “catch” the sound waves. Your outer ear is pointed forward and it
has a number of curves. This structure helps you determine the direction of a sound. If a sound is coming from
behind you or above you, it will bounce off the pinna in a different way than if it is coming from in front of you
or below you. This sound reflection alters the pattern of the sound wave. Your brain recognizes distinctive pat-
terns and determines whether the sound is in front of you, behind you, above you or below you. Your brain de-
termines the horizontal position of a sound by comparing the information coming from your two ears. If the
sound is to your left, it will arrive at your left ear a little bit sooner than it arrives at your right ear. It will also be
a little bit louder in your left ear than your right ear. Since the pinnae face forward, you can hear sounds in front
of you better than you can hear sounds behind you. Many mammals, such as dogs, have large, movable pinnae
that let them focus on sounds from a particular direction. Human pinnae are not so adept at focusing on sound.
They lay fairly flat against the head and don’t have the necessary muscles for significant movement. But you
can easily supplement your natural pinnae by cupping your hands behind your ears. By doing this, you create a
larger surface area that can capture sound waves better. In the next section, we'll see what happens as a sound
wave travels down the ear canal and interacts with the eardrum.

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 The Eardrum

Once the sound waves travel into the ear canal, they vibrate the tympanic membrane, commonly called the
eardrum. The eardrum is a thin, cone-shaped piece of skin, about 10 millimeters (0.4 inches) wide. It is posi-
tioned between the ear canal and the middle ear. The middle ear is connected to the throat via thee eustachian
tube. Since air from the atmosphere flows in from your outer ear as well as your mouth, the air pressure on both
sides of the eardrum remains equal. This pressure balance lets your eardrum move freely back and forth.

The eardrum is rigid, and very sensitive. Even the slightest air-
pressure fluctuations will move it back and forth. It is at-
tached to the tensor tympani muscle, which constantly pulls
it inward. This keeps the entire membrane taut so it will vi-
brate no matter which part of it is hit by a sound wave. This
tiny flap of skin acts just like the diaphragm in a microphone.
The compressions and rarefactions of sound waves push the
drum back and forth. Higher-pitch sound waves move the
drum more rapidly, and louder sound moves the drum a
greater distance.

The eardrum can also serve to protect the inner ear from pro-
longed exposure to loud, low-pitch noises. When the brain receives
a signal that indicates this sort of noise, a reflex occurs at the eardrum. The tensor tympani muscle
and the stapedius muscle suddenly contract. This pulls the eardrum and the connected bones in two different di-
rections, so the drum becomes more rigid. When this happens, the ear does not pick up as much noise at the low
end of the audible spectrum, so the loud noise is dampened.

In addition to protecting the ear, this reflex helps you concentrate your hearing. It masks loud, low-pitch back-
ground noise so you can focus on higher-pitch sounds. Among other things, this helps you carry on a conversa-
tion when you’re in a very noisy environment, like a rock concert. The reflex also kicks in whenever you start
talking - otherwise, the sound of your own voice would drown out a lot of the other sounds around you.

The eardrum is the entire sensory element in your ear. The rest of the ear serves only to pass along the informa-
tion gathered at the eardrum.

Amplifying Sound

We saw in the last section that the compressions and rarefactions in sound waves move your eardrum back and
forth. For the most part, these changes in air pressure are extremely small. They don’t apply much force on the
eardrum, but the eardrum is so sensitive that this minimal
force moves it a good distance.

The cochlea in the inner ear conducts sound through a

fluid, instead of through air. This fluid has a much higher
inertia than air - that is, it is harder to move (think of push-
ing air versus pushing water). The small force felt at the
eardrum is not strong enough to move this fluid. Before the
sound passes on to the inner ear, the total pressure (force
per unit of area) must be amplified.

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This is the job of the ossicles, a group of tiny bones in the middle ear. The ossicles are actually the smallest
bones in your body. They include:

• The Malleus, commonly called the Hammer

• The Incus, commonly called the Anvil
• The Stapes, commonly called the Stirrup

Hair Cells

In the last section, we saw that higher pitches vibrate the basilar membrane most intensely near the oval win-
dow, and lower pitches vibrate the basilar membrane most intensely at a point farther down the cochlea. But
how does the brain know where these vibrations occur?

This is the organ of corti’s job. The organ of corti is a structure containing thousands of tiny hair cells. It lies on
the surface of the basilar membrane and extends across the length of the cochlea.

Until a wave reaches the fibers with a resonant frequency, it doesn’t move the basilar membrane a whole lot.
But when the wave finally does reach the resonant point, the membrane suddenly releases a burst of energy in
that area. This energy is strong enough to move the organ of corti hair cells at that point.

When these hair cells are moved, they send an electrical impulse through the cochlear nerve. The cochlear nerve
sends these impulses on to the cerebral cortex, where the brain interprets them. The brain determines the pitch
of the sound based on the position of the cells sending electrical impulses. Louder sounds release more energy
at the resonant point along the membrane and so move a greater number of hair cells in that area. The brain
knows a sound is louder because more hair cells are activated in an area.

The cochlea only sends raw data - complex patterns of electrical impulses. The brain is like a central computer,
taking this input and making some sense of it all. This is an extraordinarily complex operation, and scientists are
still a long way from understanding it.

In fact, hearing in general is still very mysterious to us. The basic concepts at work in human and animal ears
are fairly simple, but the specific structures are extremely complex. Scientists are making rapid advancements,
however, and they discover new hearing elements every year. It’s astonishing how much is involved in the hear-
ing process, and it's even more amazing that all these processes take place in such a small area of the body.
Hearing disorders range from a temporary, partial loss of hearing to the permanent loss of hearing known as
deafness.

Hearing Disorders

• Presbycusis (or sensorineural hearing loss) is the loss of hearing that occurs with age. The condition results
from the long-term assault on the ear structures, particularly on the inner ear, from a lifetime of noise, ear infec-
tions, or growths on bones of the outer or middle ear. The inner ear is where the vibrational sound waves are
converted to electrical signals, courtesy of thousands of tiny hairs that are in a fluid-enclosed space called the
cochlea. The hairs are connected to nerve cells, which send the electrical signals to the brain. Treatment for
presbycusis can be as simple as keeping the ear canals free from sound-muffling wax buildup (ear candles &
3% hydrogen peroxide).

• Most age-related hearing loss is due to damage to the cochlea. The tiny hairs can bend or even break, and the
attached nerve cells can degenerate. The resulting less-efficient transmission of the electrical signal, particularly
of higher-pitched tones, causes hearing loss.
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• In conductive hearing loss, sound is not transmitted efficiently through the outer and middle ears. These re-
gions house the eardrum, ear canal, and the trio of tiny bones (ossicles) in the middle ear that transmits sound
energy to the inner ear. The hearing loss can be due to malformation of structures like the canal or the ossicles,
dense buildup of ear wax, or fluid in the ear due to colds, allergies, or infections like otitis media. Symptoms in-
clude a decreased ability to detect fainter sounds and a general lowering of the sound level that can be detected.

• Otitis media is an inflammation in the middle ear that is usually accompanied by fluid buildup. The condition
may be transient in some children, but persistent in others to the point of requiring surgical correction. In devel-
oped countries, otitis media is second to the common cold as the most common health problem in preschool-
aged children. Hearing loss occurs because of the fluid accumulation and the resulting suppression of sound
waves moving to the inner ear.

• Central auditory processing disorders result in hearing loss when the areas of the brain involved in hearing are
damaged. Sources of damage include disease, injury, and tumor growth. Consistent with the variety of causes,
the symptoms of the disorders include the inability to hear certain sounds, inability to tell one sound from an-
other, and the inability to recognize a pattern such as speech in sounds.

• Congenital hearing loss is present from birth and is caused by a genetic defect or disturbance during fetal de-
velopment. Genetic factors cause more than half of all such disorders. Depending on the nature of the genetic
defect, the occurrence of the hearing loss may be common or rare. For example, if both parents have a geneti-
cally determined hearing deficiency, the chance of passing the trait to their children is high. In other cases, peo-
ple who have normal hearing carry a second, defective copy of a crucial gene. The chance of passing on the
hearing loss is 25%.

Hearing loss at birth can also be caused by pre-birth infections such as measles, cytomegalovirus, or herpes sim-
plex virus.

Otosclerosis

• The abnormal growth of the bone of the middle ear prevents the ossicles, particularly the last of the trio of
bones (the stapes), from properly transmitting sound waves to the inner ear in otosclerosis. The cause(s) of oto-
sclerosis are not clear, although observations that the disorder spans family generations make a genetic source
likely.

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• The diminished hearing that occurs is not sudden. Rather, the change is gradual and is usually recognized
when the person becomes aware that she or he can no longer hear a low-pitched sound such as a whisper.

Other Genetically Based Hearing Losses

• Usher syndrome affects both the ears and eyes. The defective genes that are at the heart of the malady are
passed from parents to children. Depending on the nature of the syndrome, children can be born with moderate
to severe hearing loss, or can be totally deaf. Others begin life essentially normal, with hearing loss progres-
sively worsening to deafness by the teenage years.

• Waardenburg syndrome affects both the ears

and the color of the skin, eyes, or hair. Eyes
can be different colors and hair can have a
patch of white or become prematurely gray.
Hearing can range from normal to severely im-
paired. At least four genes can produce the
syndrome when they undergo mutation.

• Ménière’s disease is a change in the volume

of the inner ear that produces swelling, pres-
sure, pain, intermittent hearing loss, dizziness,
and tinnitus. Swelling may be so pronounced
that membranes like the eardrum can rupture.
As well, some people report that their voice
sounds louder than normal. The disease may
be caused by a viral or bacterial infection.

• Tinnitus is a ringing noise or other sound that occurs in the absence of an external source of sound. For some,
tinnitus is an infrequent occurrence. Others are very inconvenienced by near-constant tinnitus. The noises expe-
rienced in tinnitus range in description and include electronic noise, hissing steam, chirping crickets, bells,
breaking glass, buzzing, and even the noise of a chainsaw. The noises can be constant or may rise and fall in
volume with head motion or with the planting of feet during running.

Tinnitus has various known triggers. Foods such as red wine (with additives and preservatives), fake synthetic
cheese, and synthetic commercial chocolate have been implicated. Over-the-counter drugs such as ibuprofen
and extra-strength aspirin, and prescribed drugs, including oral contraceptives and aminoglycoside antibiotics,
can cause tinnitus. Drug-related tinnitus disappears when the drug is stopped. The growth of certain tumors
caused by medical residues can cause tinnitus.

The aging of the inner ear is also a factor in tinnitus. As nerve cells deteriorate and the many hairs in the cochlea
that transmit sound waves to the nerves become damaged and broken with time, the signaling of sound impulses
to the brain becomes faulty. Nerves may fire when there has been no stimulus. The brain interprets the signal as
actual noise.

This rapid decrease or complete loss of hearing can occur within minutes or over the course of several days. The
hearing loss typically affects one ear and often resolves with time. Causes are unclear and may involve an infec-
tion, head injury, reaction to a drug, problems with circulation, and other disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

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 ~Nose~
The sense that perceives odor by means of the nose and olfactory nerve.

Olfaction is one of the two chemical senses: smell and taste . Both arise
from interaction between chemical and receptor cells. In olfaction, the
chemical is volatile, or airborne. Breathed in through the nostrils or
taken in via the throat by chewing and swallowing, it passes through ei-
ther the nose or an opening in the palate at the back of the mouth, and
moves toward receptor cells located in the lining of the nasal passage.
As the chemical moves past the receptor cells, part of it is ab-
sorbed into the uppermost surface of the nasal passages called
the olfactory epithelium, located at the top of the nasal cavity.
There, two one-inch-square patches of tissue covered with
mucus dissolve the chemical, stimulating the receptors, which lie under the mucus. The chemical molecules
bind to the receptors, triggering impulses that travel to the brain . There are thousands of different receptors in
the cells of the nasal cavity that can detect as many as 10,000 different odors. Each receptor contains hair-like
structures, or cilia, which are probably the initial point of contact with olfactory stimuli. Research suggests that
the sensitivity of the olfactory system is related to the number of both receptors and cilia. For example, a dog
has 20 times as many receptor cells as a human and over 10 times as many cilia per receptor.

The cribriform plate forms the roof of the nasal cavity. The olfactory nerve passes through openings in this bone
and ends in the olfactory bulb, a neural structure at the base of the brain. From there, olfactory signals are dif-
fused throughout the brain to areas including the amygdala, hippocampus, pyriform cortex (located at the base
of the temporal lobe), and the hypothalamus. Olfaction is the only sense that does not involve the thalamus. Ol-
faction messages are especially intensive in the amygdala, a part of the brain responsible for emotions, which
may help the unusual power of certain smells to trigger emotions and recollections based on memories from the
past. Further, a person's reaction to smell is mediated by context.

For example, the same smell present in body odor is responsible for the flavor of cheese. In the first case, the
smell is perceived as negative, in the second, it is positive. In humans, olfaction intensifies the taste of food,
warns of potentially dangerous food, as well as other dangers (such as fire), and triggers associations involving
memory and emotion . Olfaction is an especially important sense in many animals. A predator may use it to de-
tect prey, while prey may use it to avoid predators. It also has a role in the mating process through chemicals
called pheromones, which can cause ovulation in females or signal a male that a female is in a sexually recep-
tive state. Although the existence of human pheromones has not been verified, olfaction still plays a role in
human sexual attraction, as well as in parenting. Mothers can usually identify their newborn infants by smell,
and breast-feeding babies can distinguish between the smell of their mothers and that of other breast-feeding
women. Researchers have also found that children are able to recognize their siblings by smell and parents can
use smell to distinguish among their own children.

However, as people age the sense of smell diminishes, especially for men. By age 80, many men have almost no
ability to detect odors. The intensity of a particular odor is strongly affected by adaptation . Odors may become
undetectable after only a brief period of exposure. The sense of smell also plays an important role in the dis-
crimination of flavors, a fact demonstrated by the reduced sense of taste in people with colds. The enjoyment of
food actually comes more from odors detected by the olfactory system than from the functioning of the taste
system. The olfactory and gustatory (taste) pathways are known to converge in parts of the brain, although it is
not known exactly how the two systems work together. While an aversion to certain flavors (such as bitter fla-
vors) is innate, associations with odors are learned.

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Dysosmia
Infected nasal sinuses and damage to the olfactory bulbs can cause dysosmia, the distorted sense of smell. Head
trauma can cause this disorder. Poor oral hygiene can lead to dysosmia. In these cases, a person may also find
that disagreeable odors are accompanied by the sensing of unpleasant tastes. In addition, brain-stem disease can
cause smelling disorders. An epileptic seizure (a lack of blood calcium) can include olfactory hallucinations.

Mental conditions such as depression and schizophrenia may be accompanied by dysosmia. In addition, when
people who are person severely dependent on alcohol quit drinking, they may experience dysosmia.

Anosmia
Most people with anosmia can distinguish salty, sweet, bitter, and sour tastes since the tongue senses these
tastes. However, people with anosmia cannot sense other tastes. Since taste is largely based on the olfactory
sense, people complain of losing the sense of taste (ageusia).

Anosmia is the most common type of smelling disorder. Loss of the olfactory sense is generally caused by nasal
congestion or obstruction. Temporary partial anosmia often occurs when a person has a cold, the flu, or some
types of rhinitis, especially hay fever (allergic rhinitis). During these conditions, nasal mucus membranes be-
come inflamed.

Other causes for Anosmia are:

• Nasal polyps and other disorders that prevent air from getting to the area in the nose where the smell receptors
are found. Hay fever or an allergy medication may cause one or more polyps to show up.

• Viral upper respiratory infection

• Atrophic rhinitis. This condition causes mucus membrane to waste away. The person may experience some
level of permanent anosmia. One symptom of this condition is that a person expels a foul-smelling discharge.

• Hypertrophic rhinitis. Mucous membrane thickens, covering the olfactory nerve endings.

• Cigarettes. Smoking aggravates the nose’s membrane and intensifies nasal polyp symptoms.

• A crooked nose or a deviated septum occur when the olfactory bulbs, tracts, or central connections are de-
stroyed. This can occur in situations such as head trauma, infections or nasal or sinus surgery.

• Head injury. If both olfactory nerves are torn during a head injury, permanent anosmia results.

• Medications such as antihistamines and decongestants, especially prolonged use of decongestants.

Drugs like amphetamines, estrogen, naphazoline, phenothiazines, and resperine.

• The aging process may cause the sense to lessen. In most cases, there is no other obvious cause for the disor-
der.

• Idiopathic loss, which means there is no diagnosable cause for the condition.

Other causes can be from; a tumor behind the nose or in the membranes surrounding the brain, lead poisoning,
exposure to insecticides or other chemicals, radiation therapy and nervous disorders.

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 ~Taste~
TONGUE WORKS

Despite the myth, the tongue is not really the strongest muscle in the body. But it is a fully functioning muscle
that is vital to human growth as well as human enjoyment. Although small, the tongue is responsible for many
different bodily functions. The tongue provides a path for food to travel through the digestive system, it has
taste buds so that we can enjoy the flavor of that food, and the tongue is largely responsible for speech, among
other things. But how does the tongue work?

The tongue is different from other organs, such as the heart, or

the muscles involved in the rest of the digestive process in that a
person may control their tongue. They can choose to move it,
wiggle it and of course, stick it out! It is this kind of mobility
that allows for speech. The entire tongue has muscles weaving
through it that hold it down to surrounding bones, which opens
up the floor cavity of the mouth. This entire amazing skeletal
muscle is covered in a mucous membrane that protects it from
bacteria and other organisms that could damage it. The tongue is
considered an accessory digestive organ. It works with the
cheeks to keep food between the two sets of teeth so that it may
be properly chewed. Along with this it’s also a peripheral sense
organ. This not only allows for you to experience taste but also
allows for the tongue to experience pain, heat, and pressure.

Fat is combined with the skeletal muscle of the tongue and it is

this that allows for the tongue to bend and twist into many dif-
ferent shapes and allows it to move in just about any direction.
The muscle of the tongue is comprised of two different identical halves that are divided by a median septum.
Both of these halves are made up of two different types of muscles: extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. The extrin-
sic muscles come from different parts of the body and attach to the tongue. The names of these muscles all end
in “glossus”, which means “tongue”. The genioglossus muscle is responsible for the tongue’s downward move-
ment and also allows it to be directed out of the mouth. The palatoglossus muscle lets the back of the tongue to
lift up and the hyoglossus muscle lowers the sides of the tongue.

It is these extrinsic muscles that keep the tongue firmly in place, despite how flexible it is. These muscles are
also connected to the jawbone and the hyoid bone. The hyoid bone is shaped like a “U” and is suspended with
support of ligaments and muscles. This makes it the only bone in the human body that does not come into con-
tact with any other bone.

The intrinsic muscles can be found inside the tongue. It is these muscles that permit the tongue to move out and
in, expand and contract, and change its shape and size. The intrinsic muscles are called the longitudinalis supe-
rior, longitudinalis inferior, transverses linguae, and verticalis linguae. These muscles are especially important
in the process of swallowing food and for speech. The mucous membrane that covers the entire tongue has two
layers and keeps microorganisms and bacteria from entering the muscle of the tongue, as well as other areas of
the human body. This membrane also has an epithelial layer that provides the mouth and tongue with moisture,
as well softens and moistens food.

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shaped the food to make it easier to swallow. Although this plays a big part of the tongue’s main functions, it’s
more commonly known for allowing us to taste the food we eat. Did you know the small bumps on our tongue
are actually not taste buds? They are actually papillae, which provide the friction needed for our mouth to break
down food. Although the papillae sometimes have taste buds inside them, the buds are actually in between the
small folds separating the papillae. Although taste buds are actually microscopic, they are amazing structures.

Each taste bud is comprised of basal cells and supporting cells that work to keep approximately fifty gustatory
receptor cells working. These receptors react to the different food that we eat. When food or substance comes
into contact with these cells, the receptors work with neurons to send an electrical impulse to the brain. The
brain then translates this electrical signal as a sensation of taste. The primary tastes are: sweet, salty, bitter, sour,
savory, and some studies are now showing that fat may in fact be a sixth taste. The gustatory receptors each
have a hair that extends from the top center of the cell. This hair is what the receptor will use to intermingle
with food and saliva in order to be stimulated. The saliva is a combination of digestive enzymes that work to
break down the food so that it may be digested. There are three major glands in the mouth that secrete saliva:
the parotid gland, the submandibular glands, and the sublingual glands.

It is the same articulation of the tongue that moves and shapes food that is also largely responsible for speech.
The tongue is so important to the art of speaking in fact that it has become another word for “language”. When
people refer to having a “mother tongue” or a “silver tongue”, they are referring to the fact that without a
tongue, speech would be impossible. Phoneticians, people who study speech, recognize certain areas of speech
by the way the tongue is formed in the mouth when pronouncing them. For instant, the hard vowels, such as a
hard “a” heard in words such as acorn, are known as high vowels due to the fact that the tongue is high against
the roof of the mouth when they are pronounced. The softer vowels such as the soft “a” heard in words such as
“father” are known as low vowels because the tongue is now in a much lower position.

Today phoneticians are changing to a system in which there are eight cardinal vowels. This allows them to study
vowels and sounds of any language. In this system, there are eight points of the mouth determined by where the
tongue is in relation to the front and back of the mouth. Each position is determined and studied by its approxi-
mation to the other seven positions.

Because the tongue is so largely responsible for proper speech, a defect in the tongue can obviously impair
speech quite significantly. Conditions such as ankyloglossia are sometimes quite common but can be fixed. This
condition involves excess mucous in the membrane that folds over the membrane that holds the tongue to the
mouth floor. This causes that membrane to be significantly shortened, making the tongue less mobile. The con-
dition is also known as being “tongue-tied”.

~Touch~

While your other four senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste) are
located in specific parts of the body, your sense of touch is found
all over. This is because your sense of touch originates in the bot-
tom layer of your skin called the dermis. The dermis is filled
with many tiny nerve endings which give you information about
the things with which your body comes in contact. They do this
by carrying the information to the spinal cord, which sends mes-
sages to the brain where the feeling is registered.

The nerve endings in your skin can tell you if something is hot or
cold. They can also feel if something is hurting you. Your body
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has about twenty different types of nerve endings that all send messages to your brain. However, the most com-
mon receptors are heat, cold, pain, and pressure or touch receptors. Pain receptors are probably the most impor-
tant for your safety because they can protect you by warning your brain that your body is hurt!

Some areas of the body are more sensitive than others because they have more nerve endings. Have you ever
bitten your tongue and wondered why it hurt so much? I put my tooth right through the edge of my tongue when
I was a child and it hurt and bled for a very long time. Ouch! Long story. It is because the sides of your tongue
have a lot of nerve endings that are very sensitive to pain. However, your tongue is not as good at sensing hot or
cold. That is why it is easy to burn your mouth when you eat something really hot. Your fingertips are also very
sensitive. For example, people who are blind use their fingertips to read Braille by feeling the patterns of raised
dots on their paper.

Cells that form the skin “feel”. The cell produces the electrical energy it takes to send the message from the cell
to a neuron (nerve) which sends the message to your vertebral neurone that goes up to your brain. Depending on
the kind of sensation you had, the brain will treat the information differently, and send back a reaction through a
different neurone that goes down to the right vertebral and then another neurone sends the information back to
the specific cells.

If your cells felt a “dangerous” situation, the vertebral neuron can react by itself. A burning sensation for exam-
ple will be sent to the vertebral and right back to the burning spot. If you burn a finger, you will move your arm
before your brain even gets the information. By the way, neurons are a different kind of cell, but still cells.
Epidermis:
Your skin contains more than 4 million sensory Stratum Corneum
receptors (mechanoreceptors) that are especially Hair Stratum Lucidum
Stratum Granulosum
concentrated in the fingers, tongue, and lips.
Stratum Lucidum
These nerve endings are sensitive to touch, Hair Shaft Stratum Basale

pressure, temperature (thermoreceptors), and

pain (pain receptors). They gather sensory infor- Arrector Pili
mation and relay it through specific nerve bun-
dles back to the central nervous system for Sebaceous Gland
processing and possible reaction. For instance, Dermis

when you accidentally touch something hot,

Sweat Duct
sensory responses in your fingertips travel
quickly back to the brain, which immediately
coordinates the protective response that makes Sweat Gland
you withdraw your hand in a hurry! Subcutaneous
Fatty Tissue

Capillary
The human skin is the body’s largest organ. The
skin of an average adult weighs 8-10 pounds Hair Follicle

and averages an area of about 22 square feet. Artery

Hair Bulb
Vein

About 30-40 million skin cells (some studies

say 30-40 thousand... it’s a guess) divide every
minute, letting the old cell die and slough off into the air or water, that’s 2 billion an hour or approximately 48
to 50 billion a day. The skin which weighs 8-10 pounds in the average adult is replaced and made new every
Lunar Moonth (28-35 days depending if you scrub/brush your skin). That’s 1.5 trillion cells every month. That’s
about 120 pounds of skin, loss/replacement, every year.

Most of the cells in your epidermis (95%) work to make new skin cells. And what about the other 5%? They
make a substance called melanin (mel-uh-nun).
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Melanin gives skin its color. The darker your skin is, the more melanin you have. When you go out into the sun,
these cells make extra melanin to protect you from getting burned by the sun’s ultraviolet, or UV, rays. And in
this thousands of nutrient photons are produced one that has been named is Vitamin D, critical for healthy
bones. Others create the neuro-chemistry of emotional molecules of happiness and joy. Sunlight on the skin pro-
tects you from bi-polar (depression) disorders. That’s why your skin gets tan if you spend a lot of time in the
sun. But even though melanin is mighty, it can’t shield you all by itself. You’ll want to wear protective clothing,
such as a hat, to prevent painful sunburns. Protecting your skin by eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables
avoids skin disorders. Some studies show that the leading cause of skin cancers is sunscreen/blocks.

And now for the made up 17th Century Latin that good little chant memorizing medical students learn for
exams... touch is actually a grab bag of various somatic senses, including the sensations of temperature, pres-
sure, and pain, kinesthetic senses which give us a conception of our body in space (proprioception), and visceral
senses such as stomach aches or nausea.

Touch information is processed in the postcentral gyrus, corresponding roughly to the top middle area of the
brain. The postcentral gyrus, or parts of it, are often referred to as the primary somatosensory cortex. This area
gets more direct sensory input information than any other in the brain.

Touch is one of the most primitive and universal of sensory apparatuses in the Kingdom of life, alongside that
of smelling. Almost all animals use touch to navigate complex environments, appraise their immediate sur-
roundings, and detect the presence of food.

In humans, much of the somatosensory cortex is devoted to processing touch signals from the hands and face -
about 90%. Our touch senses in these “sensory hot spots” is correspondingly sensitive and high-resolution. A
palm can detect the presence of a weight only weighing a fraction of a gram. Glabrous, that is, hairless skin,
contains the finest receptors. Called mechanoreceptors, these translate physical force into nerve impulses. The
main four mechanoreceptors in hairless skin areas are Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner’s corpuscles, Merkel’s
discs, and Ruffini corpuscles.

Different mechanoreceptors are specialized to detect different touch sensations, and can be found at a variety of
different depths in the skin. Some mechanoreceptors, such as the Pacinian corpuscle, which detects deep pres-
sure touch and high frequency vibrations, are as large as 1 mm. Meissner’s corpuscles, responsible for light
touch, are about 20 times smaller, and located much closer to the surface of the skin.

Free nerve endings, the most common type of skin receptor, are cell-sized, and do most of the work of the so-
matosensory system. The method of using a free nerve ending for touch reception is very old and appears to
have been with us from the beginning of human and animal experience.

The body has a number of receptors that monitor outside and inside conditions. One of those receptors is a pres-
sure receptor, sensitive to touch. They are not distributed uniformly on your skin. They are most dense on your
fingers and lips, least dense on your back. In addition, since there are more receptors than skin nerves that go to
the brain, a number of these touch receptors feed into a single sensory nerve. The area that the sensory nerve
gets its input from is called a receptive field. Thus pressure from a pencil point on the skin will cause the same
sensation within a single receptive field.

If you want to see how this works, get a person, apply a pencil point on their skin (let’s say on one finger) while
they are not looking, and then ask them to point out the spot you placed the pencil. Do that for a spot above
their elbow as well. You will see quite an error in trying to locate the elbow spot, but some accuracy with the
finger placement.

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~Ancient Epi-Cures from Don Tolman~
The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season).
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive.

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Aluminum Detox
2 cups Grapes
1 Apple (cut and cored)
1 cup Strawberries

These malic acid rich fruits bind

aluminum, which is implicated in
memory loss and dementia. Juice these
fruits in your juicing machine in the
amounts listed above, or blend them in
a blender, In a blender, add about 1/4 cup
of water or enough to achieve your
preferred thick shake consistency.

Brain/Nervous
Epi-Cure

OBE Don’s
1QD2
1/2 cup Blueberries
1/4 cup Raspberries
1/4 cup Blackberries
1/2 cup Strawberries
1 (plus) Soy Milk

Make this drink whenever fresh

berries are in season. Just add soy
milk and blend until smooth. If you can−
not find all the berries, you can make
this recipe with only
blueberries and strawberries.

Brain/Nervous
Epi-Cure

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~Respiratory/Integumentary System~

Lymph Node Trachea

Bronchi
Right Lung:
Left Lung:
Upper Lobe
Upper Lobe
Middle Lobe
Lower Lobe
Lower Lobe

Diaphragm

Artery
Vein
Bronchiole
Alveoli

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Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it’s easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Artichoke
Artichoke is the flower bud of a large, thistle like plant, it has only a few edible portions - the heart and the
tender, fleshy portion at the base of the tough outer leaves. The choke (heart) of small artichokes is eaten
whole because there are no hairs to remove as in the case of the larger varieties. There are artichokes and
Jerusalem artichokes; which are a different plant and not an artichoke at all nor from Jerusalem. Jerusalem ar-
tichokes are acutally a tuber. True artichokes or the Cynar scolymus, member of the thistle family (globe arti-
choke, etc.). Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke) is a member of the sunflower family and is not a true
artichoke at all - it is the tuber that is eaten. The choke (heart) of small artichokes or the Spanish or Italian va-
rieties, can be eaten whole.

Since ancient times, the artichoke has been used for lungs, liver and gallbladder conditions, ‘cleaning’ the
lungs, blood, as well as the bladder. The Egyptians highly prized it as a health and diet food and Plinius de-
scribed it as the ‘food for the rich’ because of the health problems contributed to a ‘rich’ life style; excessive
in animal foods, fats and other things that led to illnesses, such as lung congestion, cirrhosis, gout and a gen-
eral run down condition. Today we know that the artichoke is very high in fiber, potassium, calcium, iron,
phosphorus and other trace elements important for a balanced system. It is known to positively help poor lung
and liver function (thus helping to lower the blood cholesterol), arteriosclerosis, gout, supports the treatment
of hepatitis and improves the gall secretions. It can slightly lower the blood sugar, improve the appetite and
digestion, is diuretic and may help some migraine conditions (most especially those caused by toxins in the
blood). As it helps the body rid itself of excess water and moves toxins it also has the added side effect of an
improved skin luminosity.
Broccoli:
Brains and Full Body Support
Broccoli is a member of the cabbage family, and is closely related to cauliflower. Its cultivation originated in
Italy. Broccolo, its Italian name, means “cabbage sprout”. Because of its different components, broccoli pro-
vides a range of tastes and textures, from soft and flowery (the floret) to fibrous and crunchy (the stem and
stalk). Do not let the smell of the sulfur compounds that are released while cooking keep you away from this
highly nutritious vegetable. Like other cruciferous vegetables, broccoli contains the phytonutrients sul-
foraphane and the indoles, which have significant re-missive cancer effects. Research on indole-3-carbinol
shows this compound helps deactivate a potent estrogen metabolite (4-hydroxyestrone) that promotes tumor
growth, especially in estrogen-sensitive breast cells, while at the same time increasing the level of 2-hydrox-
yestrone, a form of estrogen that can be cancer-protective. Indole-3-carbinol has been shown to suppress not
only breast tumor cell growth, but also cancer cell metastasis (the movement of cancerous cells to other parts
of the body). Scientists have found that sulforaphane boosts the body’s detoxification enzymes, potentially by
altering gene expression, thus helping to clear potentially carcinogenic substances more quickly.

When researchers at Johns Hopkins studied the effect of sulphoraphane on tumor formation in lab animals,
those animals given sulforaphane had fewer tumors, and the tumors they did develop grew more slowly and
weighed less, meaning they were smaller. Broccoli is in the same neighborhood as apples in targeting first the
brain and then the whole body.

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Caraway Seeds
Caraway Seeds first target the lungs and also assist in bronchitis, colds, cough, fever, liver, gallbladder prob-
lems, sore throat, gingivitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

While native to Europe, Asia and regions of Africa, Caraway, is cultivated in many parts of the world. The
fruit and seed of the caraway plant are used to prepare medicinal remedies. The primary active constituent in
caraway is volatile oil (4-6 on average), which itself is made up of carvone and limonene. The fruit of the car-
away plant contains fixed oil along with carbohydrate and protein. Caraway is a carminative. Carminatives
are herbs that help to ameliorate gastrointestinal pain, and associated gas pain. The volatile oil of caraway is
also a useful remedy for bowel spasms.

Honey (Raw)
An Awesome PROTECTOR/INHIBITOR (Anti-Bacterial, Anti-Viral, Anti-Fungal) Substance
Is the Cough from an Upper Respiratory Infection Keeping Your Child Awake? Try a Dose of Honey. Honey
targets the lungs first then assists the rest of the body. Honey prevents cancers and shrinks tumors.In the time
of the ancient Olympics, athletes were reported to eat special foods, such as honey and dried figs, to enhance
their sports performance. Recently, however, one group of researchers has investigated the use of honey as an
ergogenic aid in athletes. The study involved a group of 39 weight-trained athletes, both male and female.
Subjects underwent an intensive weight-lifting workout and then immediately consumed a protein supple-
ment blended with either sugar, maltodextrin or honey as the carbohydrate source. The honey group main-
tained optimal blood sugar levels throughout the two hours following the workout. In addition, muscle
recuperation and glycogen restoration (carbohydrates stored in muscle) was favorable in those individuals
consuming the honey-protein combination.

Honey has been used since ancient times both as a food and as a medicine. Apiculture, the practice of bee-
keeping to produce honey, dates back to at least 700 BC. For many centuries, honey was regarded as sacred
due to its wonderfully sweet properties as well as its rarity. It was used mainly in religious ceremonies to pay
tribute to the gods, as well as to embalm the deceased. Honey was also used for a variety of medicinal and
cosmetic purposes. For a long time in history, its use in cooking was reserved only for the wealthy since it
was so expensive that only they could afford it.

The prestige of honey continued for millennia until one fateful event in culinary and world history - the “dis-
covery” of toxic refined sugar made from sugar cane or sugar beets., Once these became more widely avail-
able, they were in great demand since they provided a relatively inexpensive form of sweetening. With their
growing popularity, honey became displaced by sugar for culinary use. Since then, although honey is still
used for sweetening, much of its use has become focused on its medicinal properties and its use in confec-
tionary.

The wound healing properties of honey may, however, be its most promising medicinal quality. Honey has
been used topically as an antiseptic therapeutic agent(healing balm) for the treatment of ulcers, burns and
wounds for centuries. One study in India compared the wound healing effects of honey to a conventional
treatment (silver sulfadiazene) in 104 first-degree burn patients. After one week of treatment, 91 percent of
honey treated burns were infection free compared with only 7 percent receiving the conventional treatment.
Finally, a greater percentage of patients' burns were healed more readily in the honey treated group. Another
study examined the wound healing benefits of honey applied topically to patients following Caesarean section
and hysterectomy. Compared to the group receiving the standard solution of iodine and alcohol, the honey
treated group was infection free in fewer days, healed more cleanly and had a reduced hospital stay. And in
patients with type 2 diabetes, natural honey caused a significantly lower rise in blood sugar than either dex-
trose or sucrose (refined sugars). So, enjoy a little honey in your morning coffee, lunchtime yogurt or after-
noon cup of green tea. Looks like a daily spoonful of honey may help your 'belief-need' for medicine go
away.

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Onions
The word onion comes from the Latin word unio for “single”, or “one”, because the onion plant produces a
single bulb, unlike its cousin, the garlic, that produces many small bulbs. The name also describes the union
(also from unio) of the many separate, concentrically arranged layers of the onion. Ancients believed these
circles were tied directly to and represented all thirteen orbits of the planets in our solar system.

Several re-missive inflammatory agents in onions render them helpful in reducing the severity of symptoms
associated with inflammatory conditions such as the pain and swelling of osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis, the
allergic inflammatory response of asthma, and the respiratory congestion associated with the common cold.
Both onions and garlic contain compounds that inhibit lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase (the enzymes that
generate inflammatory prostaglandins and thromboxanes), thus markedly reducing inflammation. Onions' in-
flammatory effects are due not only to their vitamin C and quercitin, but to other active components called
isothiocyanates. These compounds work synergistically to spell relief from inflammation. In addition,
quercitin and other flavonoids found in onions work with vitamin C to help remove harmful bacteria, making
onions an especially good addition to soups and stews during cold and flu season.

Peppermint
Peppermint has greenish-purple lance-shaped leaves while the rounder leaves of spearmint are more of a
grayish green color. The taste of both peppermint and spearmint bear a flavor that can be described as a cross
between pepper and chlorophyll, with peppermint being a bit stronger and spearmint being a little more cool
and subtle. Mint is identified through smell and the perfectly square stems.

Breathe Easier with Peppermint Peppermint contains the substance rosmarinic acid, which has several actions
that are beneficial in asthma. In addition to its antioxidant abilities to neutralize free radicals, rosmarinic acid-
has been shown to block the production of pro-inflammatory chemicals, such as leukotrienes. It also encour-
ages cells to make substances called prostacyclins that keep the airways open for easy breathing. Extracts of
peppermint have also been shown to help relieve the nasal symptoms of allergic rhinitis (colds related to al-
lergy).

Potatoes
The potato belongs to the Solanaceae or nightshade family whose other members include tomatoes, eggplants,
peppers, and tomatillos. They are the swollen portion of the underground stem which is called a tuber and is
designed to provide food for the green leafy portion of the plant. If allowed to flower and fruit, the potato
plant will bear an inedible fruit resembling a tomato. Potatoes reputation as a high-carb, white starch has re-
moved them from the meals of many a weight-conscious eater, but this stereotype is due for a significant
overhaul.

A new analytical method developed by Agricultural Research Service plant geneticist Roy Navarre has identi-
fied 60 different kinds of phytochemicals and vitamins in the skins and flesh of 100 wild and commercially
grown potatoes. Analysis of Red and Norkotah potatoes revealed that these spuds phenolic content rivals that
of broccoli, spinach and Brussels sprouts, and includes flavonoids with protective activity against cardiovas-
cular disease, but especially respiratory problems and certain cancers. Navarre’s team also identified potatoes
with high levels of vitamin C, folic acid, quercetin and kukoamines. These last compounds, which have blood
pressure lowering potential, have only been found in one other plant, Lycium chinense (a.k.a., wolfberry/gogi
berry). Potatoes phytochemical profiles show it’s time to shed their starch-only image; spuds-baked, steamed,
healthy sautéed or fix in other ways deserve a place in your healthy way of eating. Note: the starch in potatoes
acts as little sponges that absorb toxins and wastes in the body for removal.

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~Respiratory/Integumentary System Foods~
Radishes
Radishes assist in respiratory disorders, bronchitis and asthma. Radish is an decongestive, i.e. it relieves con-
gestion of respiratory system including nose, throat, wind-pipe and lungs, due to cold, infection, allergies and
other causes. It is a good disinfectant and also rich in vitamins, which protect respiratory system from infec-
tions. Apart from targeting the lungs other benefits are: radish is a good appetizer, mouth and breathe fresh-
ener, laxative, regulates metabolism, improves blood circulation, is a good treatment for headache, acidity,
constipation, nausea, obesity, sore throat, whooping cough, gastric problems, gallbladder stones, dyspepsia
etc.

Rosemary
Looking like a small sprig from an evergreen tree the wonderful smell and assertively pine-like fragrance and
pungent flavor of rosemary goes a long way to flavor dishes or to drink as a tea. Rosemary grows on a small
evergreen shrub belonging to the Labiatae family that is related to mint. Its leaves look like flat pine-tree nee-
dles, deep green in color on top while silver-white on their underside. Its memorable flavor and unique health
benefits makes it an indispensable herb for every kitchen. Part of rosemary’s popularity came from the wide-
spread belief that rosemary stimulated and strengthened the memory, a quality for which it is still traditionally
used. In ancient Greece, students would place rosemary sprigs in their hair when studying for exams, and
mourners would also throw the fragrant herb into the grave of the deceased as a symbol of remembrance. In
olde England, rosemary’s ability to fortify the memory transformed it into a symbol of fidelity, and it played
an important role in the costumes, decorations and gifts used at weddings.

Rosemary oil was first extracted in the 14th century, after which it was used to make Queen of Hungary
water, a very popular cosmetic used at that time. In the 16th and 17th centuries, rosemary became popular as
a digestive aid in apothecaries. Recently, as modern research focuses on the beneficial active components in
rosemary, our appreciation for this herb's therapeutic as well as culinary value has been renewed. The won-
derful smell of rosemary is often associated with good food and great times. But it could just as easily be as-
sociated with good health. Rosemary contains substances that are useful for stimulating the immune system,
increasing circulation, and improving digestion. Rosemary also contains re-missive inflammatory compounds
that may make it useful for reducing the severity of asthma attacks. In addition, rosemary has been shown to
increase the blood flow to the head and brain, improving concentration. So, the next time you enhance the fla-
vor of some special dish with rosemary, congratulate yourself for a wise as well as delicious choice. the num-
ber one target is the Lungs, then the Brain.

Turmeric
Has a peppery, warm and bitter flavor and a mild fragrance slightly reminiscent of orange and ginger, and
while it is best known as one of the ingredients used to make curry, it also gives ballpark mustard its bright
yellow color.

Turmeric comes from the root of the Curcuma longa plant and has a tough brown skin and a deep orange
flesh. Turmeric has long been used as a powerful inflammatory re-missive in both the Chinese and Indian sys-
tems of medicine. Turmeric was traditionally called Indian saffron because of its deep yellow-orange color
and has been used throughout history as a condiment, healing remedy and textile dye. Help for Cystic Fibro-
sis Sufferers: Curcumin, the major constituent of turmeric that gives the spice its yellow color, can correct the
most common expression of the genetic defect that is responsible for cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis, a fatal
disease that attacks the lungs with a thick mucus, causing life-threatening infections, afflicts about 30,000
American children and young adults, who rarely survive beyond 30 years of age. The mucus also damages the
pancreas, thus interfering with the body-ability to digest and absorb nutrients. Tumeric can be a wonderful
non-toxic solution.

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 ~RESPIRATORY/Integumentary SYSTEM~
This may appear repetitive, but keep going...
The respiratory system consists of the breathing organs. These organs include the nose, trachea (or windpipe),
larynx (voice box), the pharynx (the cavity behind the nose and mouth), and a pair of lungs. The respiratory sys-
tem has two main jobs. It provides the body with oxygen and rids the body of carbon dioxide. The cells of the
body need oxygen to break down and release energy in food. During this process, carbon dioxide forms as a
waste product.

Breathing involves the acts of inhaling and exhaling. Inhaling occurs as the chest cavity expands. As the chest
expands, so do the lungs. Air from the atmosphere rushes in and fills the enlarged lungs. Exhaling occurs as the
chest cavity shrinks, which pushes air out of the lungs. Inhaling and exhaling result chiefly from contractions of
the diaphragm, a large muscle which forms the floor of the chest cavity. As the diaphragm contracts, the cavity
expands, as it relaxes, the cavity shrinks.

The muscles that move the ribs also play a part in the breathing process. When we inhale, air enters the body
through the nose. Air may also enter through the mouth. The air flows from the nostrils to the nasal passages.
The nasal passages are lined with tiny hair-like structures called cilia in a sticky substance called mucus. The
cilia and the mucus filters dirt and dust from the air we breath. In addition, cold air is warmed and moistened as
it moves through the nasal passages. From the nose and the mouth, the air passes through the pharynx and the
larynx. The air then enter the trachea.

The trachea carries the air towards the lungs. Before

reaching the lungs, the trachea splits into two tubes
called the primary bronchi. Each tube enters one
lung. Within the lungs, the primary bronchi divide in
to smaller and smaller tubes, finally branching into
extremely tiny tubes called bronchioles. The bronchi-
oles end in hundreds and millions of thin-walled
tubes, or structures called “alveoli” or air sacks. The
alveoli give the lungs tremendous surface area. If the
sacks were flattened out, the lungs would cover 600
to 1,000 square feet, that’s 56 to 93 square meters.

The exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen occurs

in the alveoli. Each alveolus is surrounded by a net-
work of small blood tubings, or vessels. Like the
alveoli, these vessels have extremely thin walls.
Blood that enters the vessels has a high level of car-
bon dioxide which it picks up from the body’s tis-
sues. The carbon dioxide leaves the blood and moves
through walls of the blood vessels and alveoli and
into the lungs. Oxygen from the air inside the lungs
then passes through the walls of the alveoli and blood
vessels and into the blood. The oxygen-rich blood
leaves the lungs and travels to the heart which pumps
it to cells throughout the body. The carbon dioxide is
expelled through the lungs when we exhale. Inspira-
tion, respiration, exhalation.

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The lungs, airways, diaphragm, windpipe, throat, mouth, and nasal passages are all part of the respiratory sys-
tem. Respiration is the process of breathing in and out through this system. Smoking and air pollution are two
common causes of respiratory problems.

Oxygen is taken into the body through the airways, absorbed into the lungs, then transported through the body
in the blood. The lungs also give out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Humans and land animals with backbones have similar respiratory systems. This system includes passages that
connect the nose and mouth to the lungs.

You probably don’t think very much about your respiratory system, but it is essential for life. Every once in a
while a cough, sneeze, or hiccup will remind you about this body system. A cough is the way your system clears
the airway. A sneeze is caused by an irritation in the upper airway. A hiccup is a spasm of the diagram.

There are many diseases that can harm and even destroy the respiratory system. Asthma is an increasingly com-
mon disease that causes coughing and makes it hard to breathe. Lung cancer is a major cause of death particu-
larly among smokers. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria that can destroy the lungs. TB is very
contagious and affects cats and other animals in addition to humans. Most people experience minor respiratory
problems in the form of a sore throat, cough, or bronchitis from an illness.

People in certain jobs are more likely to have respiratory problems. For example, airline pilots and flight atten-
dants often have respiratory problems. Black lung has historically been a problem of coal miners.

In physiology, respiration is defined as the transport of oxygen from the outside air to the cells within tissues,
and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction. This is in contrast to the biochemical definition of
respiration, which refers to cellular respiration: the metabolic process by which an organism obtains energy by
reacting oxygen with glucose to give water, carbon dioxide and ATP (energy). Although physiologic respiration
is necessary to sustain cellular respiration and thus life in animals, the processes are distinct: cellular respiration
takes place in individual cells of the animal, while physiologic respiration concerns the bulk flow and transport
of metabolites between the organism and the external environment.

In unicellular organisms, simple diffusion is sufficient for gas exchange: every cell is constantly bathed in the
external environment, with only a short distance for gases to flow across. In contrast, complex multicellular ani-
mals such as humans have a much greater distance between the environment and their innermost cells, thus, a
respiratory system is needed for effective gas exchange. The respiratory system works in concert with a circula-
tory system to carry gases to and from the tissues.

In air-breathing vertebrates such as humans, respiration of oxygen includes four stages:

1. Ventilation, moving of the ambient air into and out of the alveoli of the lungs.

2. Pulmonary gas exchange, exchange of gases between the alveoli and the pulmonary capillaries.

3. Gas transport, movement of gases within the pulmonary capillaries through the circulation to the peripheral
capillaries in the organs, and then a movement of gases back to the lungs along the same circulatory route.

4. Peripheral gas exchange, exchange of gases between the tissue capillaries and the tissues or organs, impacting
the cells composing these and mitochondria within the cells.

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* Note that ventilation and gas transport require energy to power a mechanical pump (the heart) and the muscles
of respiration, mainly the diaphragm. In heavy breathing, energy is also required to power additional respiratory
muscles such as the intercostal muscles. The energy requirement for ventilation and gas transport is in contrast
to the passive diffusion taking place in the gas exchange steps.

Respiratory behavior is correlated to the cardiovascular behavior to control the gaseous exchange between cells
and blood. Both behaviors are intensified by exercise of the body. However, respiratory is highly voluntary
compared to cardiovascular activity which is totally involuntary. Respiratory physiology is the branch of human
physiology concerned with respiration.

Ventilation

Ventilation of the lungs is carried out by the muscles of respiration.

Ventilation occurs under the control of the autonomic nervous system from parts of the brain stem, the medulla
oblongata and the pons. This area of the brain forms the respiration regulatory center, a series of interconnected
brain cells within the lower and middle brain stem which coordinate respiratory movements. The sections are
the pneumotaxic center, the apneustic center, and the dorsal and ventral respiratory groups. This section is espe-
cially sensitive during infancy, and the neurons can be destroyed if the infant is dropped and/or shaken violently.
The result can be death due to “shaken baby syndrome”.

Inhalation

Inhalation is initiated by the diaphragm and supported by the external intercostal muscles. Normal resting respi-
rations are 10 to 18 breaths per minute, with a time period of 2 seconds. During vigorous inhalation (at rates ex-
ceeding 35 breaths per minute), or in approaching respiratory failure, accessory muscles of respiration are
recruited for support. These consist of sternocleidomastoid, platysma, and the scalene muscles of the neck.

Under normal conditions, the diaphragm is the primary driver of inhalation. When the diaphragm contracts, the
rib cage expands and the contents of the abdomen are moved downward. This results in a larger thoracic volume
and negative (suction) pressure (with respect to atmospheric pressure) inside the thorax. As the pressure in the
chest falls, air moves into the conducting zone. Here, the air is filtered, warmed, and humidified as it flows to
the lungs.

During forced inhalation, as when taking a deep breath, the external intercostal muscles and accessory muscles
aid in further expanding the thoracic cavity.

Exhalation

Exhalation is generally a passive process;

however, active or forced exhalation is
achieved by the abdominal and the internal in-
tercostal muscles. During this process air is
forced or exhaled out. The lungs have a natural
elasticity: as they recoil from the stretch of in-
halation, air flows back out until the pressures
in the chest and the atmosphere reach equilib-
rium.

During forced exhalation, as when blowing out

a candle, expiratory muscles including the ab-
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dominal muscles and internal intercostal muscles, generate abdominal and thoracic pressure, which forces air
out of the lungs.

Gas Exchange

The major function of the respiratory system is gas exchange

between the external environment and an organism's circula-
tory system. In humans and mammals, this exchange facili-
tates oxygenation of the blood with a concomitant removal of
carbon dioxide and other gaseous metabolic wastes from the
circulation. As gas exchange occurs, the acid-base balance of
the body is maintained as part of homeostasis. If proper ven-
tilation is not maintained, two opposing conditions could
occur: respiratory acidosis, a life threatening condition, and
respiratory alkalosis.

Upon inhalation, gas exchange occurs at the alveoli, the tiny

sacs which are the basic functional component of the lungs.
The alveolar walls are extremely thin (approx. 0.2 microme-
ters). These walls are composed of a single layer of epithelial
cells (type I and type II epithelial cells) in close proximity to
the pulmonary capillaries which are composed of a single
layer of endothelial cells. The close proximity of these two
cell types allows permeability to gases and, hence, gas ex-
change. This whole mechanism of gas exchange is carried by
the simple phenomenon of pressure difference. When the at-
mospheric pressure is low outside the air from lungs flow
out. When the air pressure is low inside, then the vice versa.

~Non-Respiratory Functions~

Vocalization

The movement of gas through the larynx, pharynx and mouth allows humans to speak, or phonate. Vocalization,
or singing, in birds occurs via the syrinx, an organ located at the base of the trachea. The vibration of air flow-
ing across the larynx (vocal chords), in humans, and the syrinx, in birds, results in sound. Because of this, gas
movement is extremely vital for communication purposes.

Temperature Control

Panting in dogs and some other animals provides a means of controlling body temperature. This physiological
response is used as a cooling mechanism.

Coughing and Sneezing

Irritation of nerves within the nasal passages or airways, can induce coughing and sneezing. These responses
cause air to be expelled forcefully from the trachea or nose, respectively. In this manner, irritants caught in the
mucus which lines the respiratory tract are expelled or moved to the mouth where they can be swallowed.

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 Development of The Human Lung

The respiratory system lies dormant in the human fetus during pregnancy. At birth, the respiratory system be-
comes fully functional upon exposure to air, although some lung development and growth continues throughout
childhood. Pre-term birth can lead to infants with under-developed lungs. These lungs show incomplete devel-
opment of the alveolar type II cells, cells that produce surfactant. The lungs of pre-term infants may not func-
tion well because the lack of surfactant leads to increased surface tension within the alveoli. Thus, many alveoli
collapse such that no gas exchange can occur within some or most regions of an infant’s lungs, a condition
termed respiratory distress syndrome.

Disorders of the respiratory system can be classified into four general areas:

1. Obstructive conditions (e.g., emphysema, bronchitis, asthma attacks)

2. Restrictive conditions (e.g., fibrosis, sarcoidosis, alveolar damage, pleural effusion)

3. Vascular diseases (e.g., pulmonary edema, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension)

4. Infectious, environmental and other “diseases” (e.g., pneumonia, tuberculosis, asbestosis, particulate pollu-
tants): Coughing is of major importance, as it is the body’s main method to remove dust, mucus, saliva, and
other debris from the lungs. Inability to cough can lead to infection. Deep breathing exercises may help keep
finer structures of the lungs clear from particulate matter, etc.

The respiratory tract is constantly exposed to microbes due to the extensive surface area, which is why the res-
piratory system includes many mechanisms to defend itself and prevent pathogens from entering the body.

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 ~The Skin~

The skin is the largest organ of the body. The skin, including hair, nails, and sweat glands is
sometimes called the integumentary system. If the skin of a 150 pound, or 68 kilogram
person, were spread out flat, it would cover approximately 20 square feet or 1.9 square me-
ters.

Skin has two layers, the epidermis and the dermis. Subcutaneous tissues provide
protection for the skin. The epidermis forms the outermost layer of the skin. It
serves as a barrier to the outside world and the inner tissues of the body. The outer
portion of the epidermis consists of tough, dead cells that prevent bacteria, chemi-
cals, and other harmful substances from entering the body. The skin also prevents
the loss of water from the inner tissues, and even protects from overexposure to
the sun.

The dermis is the lower layer of the skin. The dermis helps keep the temperature
of the body in its normal range. The body produces tremendous amounts of heat
as it uses food. Some of this heat escapes from the body through the blood vessels
in the dermis. When the body needs to retain heat, these blood vessels narrow, and so
limit heat loss. When the body needs to give off heat, the blood vessels in the dermis
expand, and so increase heat loss. The sweat glands, which come from the epidermis,
also help control body temperatures. These glands produce sweat, which is released
from the pores of the skin’s surface. As the sweat evaporates from the surface, it cools
the body. The dermis also serves as an important sense organ. Nerve endings within the
dermis respond to cold, heat, pain, pressure, and touch.

Subcutaneous tissues lay directly beneath the skin, and they provide extra fuel for the
body. The fuel is stored in fat cells. The subcutaneous tissues also help retain body heat,
and cushion the inner tissues against blows to the body.

EPIDERMIS

This is the top layer of skin made up of epithelial cells. It does not contain blood vessels. Its main job is protec-
tion, absorption of nutrients, and homeostasis. In structure, it consists of a keratinized stratified squamous ep-
ithelium comprising four types of cells: keratinocytes, melanocytes, Merkel cells, and Langerhans’ cells. The
major cell of the epidermis is the keratinocyte, which produces keratin. Keratin is a fibrous protein that aids in
protection. Millions of dead keratinocytes rub off every day. The majority of the skin on the body is keratinized.
When cells are keratinized it means that it is waterproof. The only skin on the body that is non-keratinized is the
lining of skin on the inside of the mouth. Non-keratinized cells allow water to “sit” atop the structure.

The epidermis contains different types of cells; the most common are: squamous cells, which are flat, scaly cells
on the surface of the skin, basal cells, which are round cells, and melanocytes, which give the skin its color. The
epidermis also contains Langerhan’s cells, which are formed in the bone marrow and then migrate to the epider-
mis. They work in conjunction with other cells to fight foreign bodies as part of the body’s immune defense sys-
tem. Granstein cells play a similar role. Melanocytes create melanin, the substance that gives skin its color.
These cells are found deep in the epidermis layer. Accumulations of melanin are packaged in melanosomes
(membrane-bound granules). These granules form a pigment shield against UV radiation for the keratinocyte
nuclei.

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The epidermis itself is made up of four to five layers. From the lower to upper epidermis, the layers are named:
stratum basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum lucidum (the extra layer that occurs in places
such as palms and soles of the feet), and the stratum corneum.

• The stratum basale is the only layer capable of cell division, pushing up cells to replenish the outer layer in a
process called terminal differentiation.

• The stratum corneum is the most superficial layer and is made up of dead cells, proteins, and glycolipids.

• The protein keratin stiffens epidermal tissue to form fingernails. Nails grow from thin area called the nail ma-
trix; growth of nails is 1 mm per week on average.

• The lunula is the crescent-shape area at the base of the nail, this is a lighter color as it mixes with the matrix
cells.

Dermis

The dermis is the middle layer of skin, composed of loose collective tissues such as collagen with elastin
arranged in a diffusely bundled and woven pattern. These layers serve to give elasticity to the integument, al-
lowing stretching and conferring flexibility, while also resisting distortions, wrinkling and sagging. The dermal
layer provides a site for the endings of blood vessels
and nerves. Many chromatophores are also stored in Young Skin Elderly Skin
this layer, as are the bases of integumental structures

Epidermal
such as hair, feathers, and glands.

Atrophy
Epidermis

Hypodermis

Atrophy
Dermal
Although technically not part of the integumentary
Dermis

system, the hypodermis is the layer of tissue directly

Hypodermis
underneath the dermis. It is mainly composed of
connective and adipose tissue or fatty tissue. Its
Hypodermis

physiological functions include insulation, the stor-

Smoothing of
age of energy, and aiding in the anchoring of the Epidermal/Dermal
Junction
skin. It also cushions the underlying body for extra Reduced Disorganization
Vasular and Loss of
protection against trauma. Organized
Collagen Fibers
Vasular
Tissue Tissue Collagen Fibers

Functions

The integumentary system has multiple roles in homeostasis. All body systems work in an interconnected man-
ner to maintain the internal conditions essential to the function of the body. The skin has an important job of
protecting the body and acts as the body’s first line of defense against infection, temperature change, and other
challenges to homeostasis.

Diseases and Injuries

Possible diseases and injuries to the human integumentary system include:

• Rash • Blister • Athlete’s foot • Infection
• Sunburn • Skin cancer • Albinism • Acne
• Herpes • Cold Sores

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~Notes~

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~Ancient Epi-Cures from Don Tolman~
The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season)
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive

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~Ancient Epi-Cures from Don Tolman~

Breathe Baby Breathe

5 oz Celery Juice
2 oz Kale Juice
2 oz Parsley Juice
1 clove Garlic Juice
1 oz Lemon Juice
1/3 Onion Juice

This all−green chlorophyll cocktail will

have a powerful quieting effect on your
respiratory system. Make sure you sit
down and sip it slowly.

Respiratory/
Integumentary
Epi-Cure

1 Potato, 2 Potato,
3 Potato, 4...
2 med. Red Potatoes (Juiced or Sliced)
2 tsp Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp Sea Salt

Drinking 2 oz of the red potato juice 2

times a day is a great lung cocktail. You
can also just eat sliced raw red potato
with sea salt and lemon juice; still a
wonderful lung cocktail.

Respiratory/
Integumentary
Epi-Cure

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 ~Heart/Circulatory System~

Jugular Veins Carotid Artery

Subclavian Artery
Subclavian Vein
Pulminarty Artery
Superior & Inferior
Vena Cava Aorta

Brachial Artery
Pulmonary Artery

Cephalic Vein
Renal Artery
Balsilic Vein

Renal Vein Radial Artery

Iliac Vein Iliac Artery

Ulnar Artery

Femoral Vein

Femoral Artery

Great & Small

Saphenous Veins

Tibial Veins Tibial Arteries

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~Heart/Circulatory System Foods~

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~Heart/Circulatory System Foods~
Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it's easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Bell Peppers (Capsicum)

Sweet peppers are plump, bell/heart shaped vegetables featuring either three or four lobes. They usually range
in size from 2 to 5 inches in diameter, and 2 to 6 inches in length. Inside the thick flesh is an inner cavity with
edible nutritional seeds and an edible white spongy core. Bell peppers are not ‘hot’. They contain a recessive
gene that eliminates capsaicin, the compound responsible for the 'hotness' found in other peppers. Want to
color your life healthy? Brightly colored bell peppers, whether green, red, orange or yellow, are rich sources
of some of the best nutrients available. To start, peppers are excellent sources of vitamin C and vitamin A
(through its concentration of carotenoids such as beta-carotene), two very powerful antioxidants. These pro-
tectors work together to effectively neutralize free radicals, which can travel through the body causing huge
amounts of damage to cells. Free radicals are major players in the build up of cholesterol in the arteries that
leads to atherosclerosis and heart disease, the nerve and blood vessel damage seen in diabetes, the cloudy
lenses of cataracts, the joint pain and damage seen in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, and the wheezing
and airway tightening of asthma. By providing these two potent free radical neutralizers, bell peppers help
prevent or reduce some of the symptoms of these conditions by shutting down the source of the problem.

For atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease, peppers also contain vitamin B6 and folic acid. These two B vi-
tamins are very important for reducing high levels of homocysteine, a substance produced during the methy-
lation cycle (an essential biochemical process in virtually every cell in the body). High homocysteine levels
have been shown to cause damage to blood vessels and are associated with a greatly increased risk of heart at-
tack and stroke. In addition to providing the vitamins that convert homocysteine into other beneficial mole-
cules, bell peppers also provide fiber that can help lower high cholesterol levels, another risk factor for heart
attack and stroke.

Beet (Beetroot)
Remember all those legendary Russian centenarians? Beets, frequently consumed either, raw, pickled or in
borscht, the traditional Russian soup, has been shown to be one reason behind their long and healthy lives.
These colorful root vegetables contain powerful nutrient compounds that help protect the heart from most if
not all diseases, birth defects and certain cancers, especially colon cancer.

Beets are particularly rich in the B vitamin folate, which is essential for normal tissue growth and protection
against birth defects. Eating folate-rich foods is especially important during pregnancy since without adequate
folate, the infant’s spinal column does not develop properly, a condition called neural tube defect. If you start
to see red when you increase your consumption of beets, don’t be alarmed. You’re just experiencing beeturia,
or a red or pink color to your urine or stool. No need to panic; the condition is harmless.

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Cherries
Cherries are a healers dream come true. they are a treatment for diabetes because they can lower blood sugar
levels. They help prevent colon cancer, significantly reduce pain due to muscle damage, provide relief from
the pain of gout and arthritis and lower LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, a contributing factor in
heart disease and strokes. They strengthen the nerves and muscles of the Heart directly and naturally thin
clogged blood.

Grapefruit
Grape fruits high nutrient content is associated with a reduced risk of death from all causes including heart
disease, stroke and cancers. Phytonutrients in grapefruit called limonoids inhibit tumor formation by promot-
ing the formation of glutathione-S-transferase, a detoxifying enzyme. This enzyme sparks a reaction in the
liver that helps to make toxic compounds more water soluble for excretion from the body. Pulp of citrus fruits
like grapefruit contain glucarates, compounds that help prevent breast cancer and to shrink existing tumors.
All this and more because of the nutrients that target the heart and circulatory system. Grapefruit contains
pectin, a form of soluble fiber that has been shown in studies to slow down the progression of atherosclerosis
(clogged arteries)and to even clear them avoiding surgeries. Both blonde and red grapefruit can reduce blood
levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, and red grapefruit lowers triglycerides as well, shows a study published in
the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Grapes
Grapes hang together in the shape of the heart, each grape looks like a blood cell. Over 100 research studies
on grapes (or products made from them, like red wine) have shown many of their health benefits to come
from a category of phytonutrients called polyphenols. Three types of polyphenols seem most important with
respect to grapes and their health benefits are flavonoids, phenolic acids and resveratrol. Interestingly, all
three types of polyphenols appear to be most concentrated in the skins, stems and seeds of grapes rather than
their juicy middle sections.

Flavonoids are phytonutrients that give the vibrant purple color to grapes, grape juice and red wine; the
stronger the color, the higher the concentration of flavonoids. These flavonoid compounds include quercitin,
as well as a second flavonoid-type compound (falling into the chemical category of stilbenes) called resvera-
trol. Both compounds decrease the risk of heart disease by reducing platelet clumping and harmful blood
clots, and protecting LDL cholesterol from the free radical damage that initiates LDL’s artery-damaging ac-
tions.

Grapes and products made from grapes, such as wine and grape juice, may protect the French from their high-
fat diets. Diets high in saturated fats like pig lard, and lifestyle habits like smoking are risk factors for heart
disease. Yet, French people with these habits have a lower risk of heart attack than Americans do. One clue
that may help explain this “French paradox” is their frequent consumption of grapes and red wine.

Kale
Cardiovascular Benefits Consumption of cruciferous vegetables, such as kale, is known to reduce the risk of a
number of cancers, especially lung, colon, breast, ovarian and bladder cancer. Now, research reveals that cru-
cifers provide significant cardiovascular benefits as well, just like ancient healers taught. Researchers from
the University of Hawaii have shown that, at the tiny concentration of just 100 micromoles per liter, a phy-
tonutrient found in cruciferous vegetables, indole-3-carbinol, lowers liver cells secretion of the cholesterol
transporter, apolipoproteinB-100 by 56%! Apolipoprotein B-100 (apoB) is the main carrier of LDL choles-
terol to tissues, and high levels have been linked to plaque formation in the blood vessels. When kale was
eaten not only was apoB-100 secretion cut by more than half, but significant decreases also occurred in the
synthesis of lipids (fats), including triglycerides and cholesterol esters.

A member of the Brassica family, kale is a great food if you’re looking to protect your health and enjoy a deli-
cious food at the same time. It’s the organosulfur compounds in this food that have been main subject of phy-
tonutrient research, and these include the glucosinolates and the methyl cysteine sulfoxides. Although there
are over 100 different glucosinolates in plants, only 10-15 are present in kale and other Brassicas. Yet these
10-15 glucosinolates appear able to lessen the occurrence of a wide variety of cancers, including breast and
ovarian cancers by increasing blood flow and nutrients to the anatomical sites.

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Mango
Originally from India, mangos have been around for over 4,000 years. According to legend, Buddha found
peace in his HEART in a mango grove. In modern day India, mangoes are considered a symbol of life. As the
Mango is in the shape of the Heart. Mangoes are one of the best sources of betacarotene, quercetin and astra-
galin. These are powerful protectors that neutralise free radicals. Free radicals can damage cells and lead to
heart disease, cancer, premature aging and degenerative diseases. One small mango provides a quarter of your
vitamin C, vitamin A, good amounts of vitamin E and fiber. They also contain vitamin K, phosphorus and
magnesium. Mangoes are particularly rich in potassium, which can help reduce the risk of high blood pres-
sure. They are a great heart and circulatory food.

Strawberries
While there are more than 600 varieties of strawberries that differ in flavor, size and texture, one can usually
identify a strawberry by its red flesh that has yellow seeds piercing its surface, and the small, regal, green
leafy cap and stem that adorn its crown. In addition to strawberries that are cultivated, there are also varieties
that grow wild. These are much smaller in size, but feature a more intense flavor. Strawberries provide protec-
tion from rheumatoid arthritis and protection from macular degeneration. The ellagitannin content of straw-
berries has actually been associated with decreased rates of cancer death. In one study, strawberries topped a
list of eight foods most linked to lower rates of cancer deaths among a group of over 1,000 elderly people.
Those eating the most strawberries were three times less likely to develop cancer compared to those eating
few or no strawberries.

Strawberries, like other berries, are famous in the phytonutrient world as a rich surce of phenols. In the
strawberry, these phenols are led by the anthocyanins (especially anthocyanin 2) and by the ellagitannins. The
anthocyanins in strawberry not only provide its flush red color, they also serve as potent inhibitors that have
repeatedly been shown to help protect cell structures in the body and to prevent oxygen damage in all of the
body’s organ systems. Strawberries unique phenol content makes them a heart-protective fruit (number one) a
re-missive cancer fruit, and an inflammatory removal fruit, all rolled into one. The inflammatory reduction
properties of strawberry include the ability of phenols in this fruit to lessen activity of the enzyme cyclo-oxy-
genase, or COX. Non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen block pain by blocking this
enzyme, whose overactivity has been shown to contribute to unwanted inflammation, such as that which is in-
volved in rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, and cancer. BUT...unlike these drugs that are
COX-inhibitors, strawberries do not cause intestinal bleeding, nor other toxic “side-effects”.

Tomatoes
They look like the heart and have 4 chambers and are red just like the heart
Recent research clearly shows that tomatoes protective effects against prostate cancer and cardiovascular dis-
ease are due not simply to their lycopene (which is latin for RED food) content, but result from the synergy of
lycopene with other phytonutrients naturally present in whole tomatoes. Tomato juice can reduce the tendency
toward blood clotting, suggests Australian research published in the Journal of the American Medical Associ-
ation.

Diets Rich in Tomato Products Significantly Improve Cholesterol Profiles A high dietary intake of tomato
products significantly reduced total and LDL cholesterol levels, while also increasing LDL’s resistance to oxi-
dation (damage by free radicals) in a study involving 21 healthy subjects published in the British Journal of
Nutrition. More good news for those at risk of atherosclerosis, or just trying to avoid it, is that tomatoes are a
very good source ofpotassium and a good source of niacin, vitamin B6, and folate. Niacin has been used for
years as a safe way to lower high cholesterol levels. Diets rich in potassium have been shown to lower high
blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease. Vitamin B6 and folate are both needed by the body to
convert a potentially dangerous chemical called homocysteine into other, benign molecules. High levels of
homocysteine, which can directly damage blood vessel walls, are associated with an increased risk of heart at-
tack and stroke. All of these nutrients work together to make tomatoes a truly heart-healthy food.

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Watercress
Very small, white flowers with four-petalled corollas resembling a Greek cross, which is a characteristic of
plants in the Brassicaceae family (syn. Cruciferae family, the name coming from Latin meaning to bear a
cross, because of the cross-like resemblance of the flower). Not only do the ‘cross-like’ flowers remind us of
the family that it belongs to; but also thoughout history this family was recognised for its ability ‘to serve
man’ with valuable health and healing properties. Since early times, the herb has had many uses. Pliny, who
lived from 23-79AD listed over 40 medicinal uses for watercress, and included the belief that the smell of wa-
tercress would drive away snakes (parasites) and neutralize scorpion venom! A Persian tradition was to feed it
to their children to increase strength and stature because of it’s effects on the heart and blood. African tribes
believed watercress could cause temporary sterility, but note, they also regarded it as an aphrodisiac!

Watercress was renown in herbal history as a spring-cleaning herb for purifying the blood strengthening the
heart and toning the whole system. Early Romans revered the health benefits of watercress, while the Greeks
believed it was valuable brain food and strengthened the nervous system. Persian King Xerxes fed watercress
to his soldiers, to keep up strength and stamina. Healing uses have included: coughs, head colds, bronchial
ailments, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema, stress, pain, arthritis, stiff back and joints, diabetes, anemia, con-
stipation, cataracts, failing eye sight, night blindness, leukemia, cancer, hemorrhaging, heart conditions,
eczema, scabies, body deodorizer, edema, bleeding gums, weight loss, indigestion, alcoholism, intestinal par-
asites, circulation, sluggish menstruation, lack of energy, kidney and gall stones, as a brain and nerve
strengthener; ailments of the spleen, thyroid, and liver; to normalize cholesterol and blood pressure; for im-
proved memory, for mental function decline and to retard ageing; for failing or scant milk supply of nursing
mothers; to regulate flow of bile, health of glands and the functions of body metabolism. It is one of the best
sources of the element iodine, other than seaweed, such as kelp. Iodine is important to the function of the thy-
roid gland. The leaves used as a poultice are applied for relief from enlarged prostate gland.

Spinach
For atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease, few foods compare to spinach in their number of helpful nutri-
ents. Spinach is an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A, the latter notably through its concentration of
beta-carotene. These two nutrients are important protector/inhibitors that work to reduce the amounts of free
radicals in the body; vitamin C works as a water-soluble protector and beta-carotene as a fat-soluble one. This
water-and-fat-soluble protective team helps to prevent cholesterol from becoming oxidized. Oxidized choles-
terol is able to stick to and build up in blood vessel walls, where it can cause blocked arteries, heart attack or
stroke. Getting plenty of vitamin C and beta-carotene can help prevent these complications. Spinach is also an
excellent source of folate. Folate is needed by the body to help convert a potentially dangerous chemical
called homocysteine that can lead to heart attack or stroke if levels get too high, into other benign molecules.
In addition, spinach is an excellent source of magnesium, a mineral that can help to lower high blood pressure
and protect you from heart disease as well.

A study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry has revealed that spinach Rubisco con-
tains four peptides (protein components) that inhibit angiotensin I-converting enzyme-the same enzyme
blocked by ACE inhibitor drugs, which are used to lower blood pressure but are terribly toxic. When given to
people who are hypertensive, spinach produced a blood pressure lowering effect within two to four hours.
Spinach helps protect the brain from oxidative stress and reduce the effects of age-related declines in brain
function. Researchers found spinach-rich diets significantly improve both learning capacity and motor skills.
Lutein, a carotenoid protective against eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and cataract, is
found in green vegetables, especially spinach.

Spinach is an excellent source of iron, a mineral that it particularly important for menstruating women, who
are more at risk for iron deficiency. Boosting iron stores with spinach is a good idea, especially because, in
comparison to dead animal carcasses such as red meat, a well-known source of iron, spinach provides iron for
a lot less calories and is totally fat-free, and has no cadaverine fluidiums designed to rot the dead body. Iron is
an integral component of hemoglobin, which transports oxygen from the lungs to all body cells, and is also
part of key enzyme systems for energy production and metabolism. And, if you’re pregnant or lactating, your
needs for iron increase. Growing children and adolescents also have increased needs for iron. So while
spinach probably won't make you super strong the minute you eat it, as it did for Popeye, it will promote your
health and vitality in many other ways. It seems like Popeye was a pretty Fart Smeller after all (oops smart
feller).

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 ~Circulatory SYSTEM~
The circulatory system moves blood throughout
the body. Blood transports food and oxygen to the
cells, and carries away carbon dioxide and other
waste materials. The cells cannot live without a
continuous supply of fresh, oxygenated blood.
The circulatory system also carries disease pre-
venting substances called “antibodies”. In addi-
tion, it transports chemical messengers called
“hormones”. Hormones are discussed in this sec-
tion under the endocrine system, and the myth of
proteins.

The circulatory system consists chiefly of the

heart, blood vessels, and blood. The heart is a
hollow muscle that pumps through the circulatory
system by contracting and relaxing rhythmically.
The heart actually consists of two pumps that lay
side by side. The left side of the heart makes up the stronger pump. It receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs
and sends it to cells throughout the body. The blood, which picks up carbon dioxide and other wastes from the
cells, returns to the right side of the heart. This weaker pump moves the blood to the lungs, and then back to the
left side of the heart. In the lungs, the carbon dioxide is moved from the blood and oxygen is added.

The blood vessels form a branching network of about 60,000 miles, or 100,000 kilometers. They can be divided
into three types. Arteries, which carry blood from the heart, and veins, which carry blood to the heart, and lastly,
capillaries, which connect the arteries and the veins. Blood leaves the left side of the heart through the aorta.
This vessel is the largest artery in the body. Several major arteries branch off of the aorta. These arteries, in turn,
divide into smaller and smaller vessels. Finally, the smallest arteries empty into the tiny capillaries. Through the
thin walls of the capillaries, food and oxygen in the blood are exchanged for carbon dioxide and other wastes
from the individual cells.

From the capillaries, the blood enters small veins which turn into larger and larger veins. Finally, it enters the
right side of the heart through the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, which are the body’s two largest
veins. The right side of the heart then pumps the blood through the pulmonary arteries to the capillaries sur-
rounding air sacks in the lungs. The oxygen-rich blood returns from the lungs to the left side of the heart
through four pulmonary veins. The left side of the heart then pumps the blood through the aorta, and the blood's
journey begins again.

The blood consists of a liquid and three kinds of cells called “formed elements”. The liquid, which makes up 50
to 60 percent of the total volume of blood is known as plasma. It carries many important substances. The di-
gested food that enters the blood from the intestines and liver dissolves in the plasma, much as sugar dissolves
in water. The plasma transports the dissolved food throughout the body. Many of the waste that the blood picks
up from the body tissues are carried in the plasma. These wastes include urea and much of the carbon dioxide.
The formed elements in blood consist of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Red blood cells carry
oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. They also carry some of the carbon dioxide from the tissues. White
blood cells help protect the body from disease. These cells will not allow harmful bacteria, viruses, poisons, and
other harmful substances to hurt the cells that are necessary to life.

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Platelets are disc-like structures that help prevent bleeding from damaged blood vessels. Together, with various
proteins, in the plasma, platelets seal broken vessels by forming a clot.

With each heartbeat, blood is sent throughout our bodies, carrying oxygen and nutrients to all of our cells. Each
day, 2,000 gallons of blood travel many times through about 60,000 miles of blood vessels that branch and
cross, linking the cells of our organs and body parts, (when all the tiniest of capillaries are taken into accountant
there are approximately 243,000 miles of circulatory tubing).

From the hard-working heart to our thickest arteries to capillaries so thin that they can only be seen through a
microscope, the heart and circulatory system (also called the cardiovascular system) are our body’s lifeline, de-
livering blood to the body’s tissues.

The circulatory system is composed of the heart and blood vessels, including arteries, veins, and capillaries. Our
bodies actually have two circulatory systems: The pulmonary circulation is a short loop from the heart to the
lung sand back again, and the systemic circulation (the system we usually think of as our circulatory system)
sends blood from the heart to all the other parts of our
bodies and back again.

The heart is the key organ in the circulatory sys-

tem. As a hollow, muscular pump, its main func-
tion is to propel blood throughout the body. It
usually beats from 60 to 100 times per
minute, but can go much faster when neces-
sary. It beats about 100,000 times a day, more
than 30 million times per year, and about 2.5
billion times in a 70-year lifetime.

The heart gets messages from the body that tell it

when to pump more or less blood depending on an
individual's needs. When we're sleeping, it pumps
just enough to provide for the lower amounts of oxygen
needed by our bodies at rest. When we're exercising or fright-
ened, the heart pumps faster to increase the delivery of oxygen.

The heart has four chambers that are enclosed by thick, muscular walls. It lies between the lungs and just to the
left of the middle of the chest cavity. The bottom part of the heart is divided into two chambers called the right
and left ventricles, which pump blood out of the heart. A wall called the interventricular septum divides the ven-
tricles.

The upper part of the heart is made up of the other two chambers of the heart, the right and left atria. The right
and left atria receive the blood entering the heart. A wall called the interatrial septum divides the right and left
atria, which are separated from the ventricles by the atrioventricular valves. The tricuspid valve separates the
right atrium from the right ventricle, and the mitral valve separates the left atrium and the left ventricle.

Systemic Circulation

In the systemic circulation, which serves the body except for the lungs, oxygenated blood from the lungs returns
to the heart from two pairs of pulmonary veins, a pair from each lung. It enters the left atrium, which contracts
when filled, sending blood into the left ventricle (a large percentage of blood also enters the ventricle passively,
without atrial contraction). The bicuspid, or mitral, valve controls blood flow into the ventricle. Contraction of
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the powerful ventricle forces the blood under great pressure into the aortic arch and on into the aorta. The coro-
nary arteries stem from the aortic root and nourish the heart muscle itself. Three major arteries originate from
the aortic arch, supplying blood to the head, neck, and arms. The other major arteries originating from the aorta
are the renal arteries, which supply the kidneys; the celiac axis and superior and inferior mesenteric arteries,
which supply the intestines, spleen, and liver; and the iliac arteries, which branch out to the lower trunk and be-
come the femoral and popliteal arteries of the thighs and legs, respectively. The arterial walls are partially com-
posed of fibromuscular tissue, which help to regulate blood pressure and flow. In addition, a system of shunts
allows blood to bypass the capillary beds and helps to regulate body temperature.

At the far end of the network, the capillaries converge to form venules, which in turn form veins. The inferior
vena cava returns blood to the heart from the legs and trunk; it is supplied by the iliac veins from the legs, the
hepatic veins from the liver, and the renal veins from the kidneys. The subclavian veins, draining the arms, and
the jugular veins, draining the head and neck, join to form the superior vena cava. The two vena cavae, together
with the coronary veins, return blood low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide to the right atrium of the heart.

Pulmonary Circulation

The pulmonary circulation carries the blood to and from the lungs. In the heart, the blood flows from the right
atrium into the right ventricle; the tricuspid valve prevents backflow from ventricles to atria. The right ventricle
contracts to force blood into the lungs through the pulmonary arteries. In the lungs oxygen is picked up and car-
bon dioxide eliminated, and the oxygenated blood returns to the heart via the pulmonary veins, thus completing
the circuit. In pulmonary circulation, the arteries carry oxygen-poor blood, and the veins bear oxygen-rich
blood.

The Body’s Filtering System

The organs most intimately related to the substances car-

ried by the blood are the kidneys, which filter out nitroge-
nous wastes (toxic unusable proteins) and regulate
concentration of salts; the spleen, which removes worn red
blood cells, or lymphocytes; and the liver, which con-
tributes clotting factors to the blood, helps to control blood
sugar levels, also removes old red blood cells and, receiv-
ing all the veins from the intestines and stomach, detoxifies
the blood before it returns to the vena cava (see urinary
system). Disorders of the circulatory system generally re-
sult in diminished flow of blood and diminished oxygen
exchange to the tissues. Blood supply is also impeded
(plaque) in such conditions as arteriosclerosis and high
blood pressure; low blood pressure resulting from injury
(shock) is manifested by inadequate blood flow. Acute im-
pairment of blood flow to the heart muscle itself with re-
sulting damage to the heart, known as a heart attack or
myocardial infarction, or to the brain (stroke) are most
dangerous. Structural defects of the heart affecting blood
distribution may be congenital or caused by many diseases,
e.g., rheumatic fever, coronary artery disease.

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 Electrical

Arrhythmias that originate in the heart’s upper chambers: The Atria

Atrial Fibrillation (AF or A Fib)
More than 2 million people in the United States have atrial fibrillation, making it a very common heart rhythm
disorder. In A Fib, the heartbeat is irregular and rapid, sometimes beating as often as 300 times a minute, about
four times faster than normal. Although it isn’t life threatening, A Fib can lead to other rhythm problems,
chronic fatigue and congestive heart failure. Chances of having a stroke are five times higher for those with A
Fib; and not enough salt in the diet is a major cause.

Atrial Flutter (AFL)

Atrial flutter is similar to A Fib because it too is characterized by a rapid heartbeat. Instead of many disorgan-
ized signals, however, AFL is caused by a single electrical wave that circulates very rapidly in the atrium, about
300 times a minute, leading to a very fast, steady heartbeat.

Sick Sinus Syndrome (SSS)

SSS is not a specific disease, but a group of signs or symptoms that indicate the heart’s natural electrical pace-
maker, the sinoatrial node, is not functioning properly. In SSS, the heart rate can switch back and forth between
a slow rate (bradycardia) and a fast rate (tachycardia).

Electrical: Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) are caused by problems with the electrical system that regu-
lates the steady, rhythmic beat of the heart. The heartbeat may be too slow or too fast; it may remain steady or
become chaotic. Some arrhythmias are dangerous and cause sudden cardiac death, while others may be bother-
some but are not life threatening. Time to clean house; grapefruit is number one!

Circulatory: High blood pressure and coronary artery disease are the main culprits in blood vessel disorders.
The results, such as stroke or heart attack, can be devastating.

Structural: Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy) and congenital abnormalities are two problems that can
damage the heart muscle or valves. Eat your heart foods!

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 Sinus Tachycardia

A harmless rhythm, sinus tachycardia is a normal increase in heart rate that happens with fever, excitement and
exercise. It does not require treatment except in rare cases when an underlying problem, such as anemia or hy-
perthyroidism, should be treated, but only with diet changes.

Arrhythmias that originate in the heart’s lower chambers: The Ventricles

Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
Characterized by a very fast heart rate, VT usually is seen in the setting of other serious heart disease. Occasion-
ally, it occurs in people with normal hearts. Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) Sudden cardiac death, caused by ven-
tricular fibrillation, poses the greatest threat and accounts for half of all cardiac deaths. In VF, the heartbeat is
rapid and chaotic, which causes the lower heart chambers, or ventricles, to go into a spasm. Sometimes, how-
ever, a heart attack can lead to VF. VF is abrupt and happens without any warning and it halts all heart function-
ing. The lack of oxygen throughout the body, and especially to the brain, is deadly. Also known as cardiac
arrest, sudden cardiac death is due to an electrical circuitry problem. It is not the same as a heart attack, or my-
ocardial infarction, which is a circulatory problem caused by clogged blood vessels that cut off the supply of
blood to the heart.

Although CPR can provide some benefit, the only truly effective VF treatment is defibrillation, which relies on
paddles or electrodes to “shock” the heart back to normal rhythm. Typically these people eat lots of meat, which
is a major cause for this.
Other

Premature Contractions
Extra, early or “skipped” beats are the most frequent cause of irregular heart rhythms. These can start in the
upper or lower chambers of the heart

Long QT Syndrome (LQTS)

Long QT Syndrome is a disorder of the electrical system. It can be inherited, acquired after taking certain med-
ications, or caused by a combination of heredity and medications. People with LQTS are susceptible to ventric-
ular fibrillation.

Heart Block
When electrical impulses generated in the upper chambers of the heart are not properly transmitted to the lower
chambers, heart block happens. The heart then beats too slowly, reducing the oxygen that gets to the body and
brain.

Syncope (Fainting)
Fainting, or feeling as if one might faint, can be caused by serious heart rhythm. Sometimes the cause is not
heart related, for instance when low blood sugar is to blame, but still can be dangerous. No matter what the
cause, fainting can be dangerous simply because of the potential for injuries from falling.

~Circulatory~

Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)

When arteries are clogged to the point of decreasing or stopping the flow of blood to the heart muscle, a lack of
oxygen damages or kills heart muscle causing a heart attack. Recognizing symptoms and eating whole foods
that target the heart can eliminate, prevent or limit the amount of heart muscle damage.

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Stroke
Although not true “heart” disorders, strokes are a related condition. While some strokes occur when a blood
vessel bursts, most strokes happen for the same reasons as a heart attack, clogged or blocked vessels. All strokes
pose serious health threats.

Structural

Heart Failure
When the heart muscle is too weak to effectively pump blood through the body, heart failure, or cardiomyopa-
thy, sets in. Early diagnosis and treatment can stop or slow progression of heart failure.

Heart Valve Problems

Heart valve problems can be inherited or can develop and can wreak havoc on the heart’s ability to push blood
from chamber to chamber.

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~Ancient Epi-Cures from Don Tolman~
The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season)
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive

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Body Glow
1 tsp Watercress Juice
1 tsp Carrot Juice
1 tsp Spinach Juice
2 tsp Wheat Germ Oil
1 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
8 oz Tomato Juice

Drink this heart healthy, nutrient rich

drink in the morning and dance to the
beat the rest of the day!

Heart/
Circulatory
Epi-Cure

Cocktail Ala Cardio

2 oz Wheatgrass juice
3 oz Celery Juice
2 oz Kale Juice
2 oz Spinach Juice
1 oz Lemon Juice
1 Tbsp Tamari
Pinch Cayenne Pepper

Drink on an empty stomach and sip

slowly. Tamari is a type of soy sauce.
This drink will still be powerful even
if you do not have all the ingredients.

Heart/
Circulatory
Epi-Cure

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Glands/Organs Chakra Functions Gems/Minerals

Pineal Gland Violet Vitalizes the upper Amethyst, Alexandrite,

Cerebral Cortex Crown Brain (Cerebrum) Diamond Sugilite,
Cenral Nervous System Awareness Purple Flourite, Quartz
Right Eye Cooperativeness Crystal and Selenite

Pituitary Gland Indigo Vitalizes the lower Lapis Luzli, Azurite,

(Pineal Gland) Higher Communication Brain (Cerebellum), Sodalite, Quartz Crystal,
Left Eye Imagination Central Nervous Sapphire and Indicolite
Nose Intuition System and Vision Tourmaline
Ears

Thyroid Sky Blue Speech, Sound, Turquoise, Chyrsocolla,

Parathyroid Health Vibration and Celestite, Blue Topaz,
Hypothalamus Communication Communication Sodalite, Lapis Lasuli,
Throat Aquamarine, Azurite and
Mouth Kyanite

Heart Green Anchors the Life-Force Emerald, Green & Pink

Tymus Gland Self Control from the Higher Self Tourmaline, Malachite,
Circulatory System Love (Intuition, Imagination Green Jade, Green
Arms Relationship and Records), Energizes Aventurine, Chrysoprase,
Hands the Physical Body and Kunzite, Rose Quartz
Lungs Blood Circulation and Ruby

Pancreas Yellow Vitalizes the Citrine, Gold Topaz,

Adrenals Intentionalit Sympathetic Nervous Amber, Tier Eye, Gold
Stomach Power System, Digestive Calcite and Gold
Liver Will processes, Metabolism
Gallbladder and Emotions
Nervous System
Muscles

Ovaries Orange Procreation, Assimilation Carnelian, Coral, Gold

Testicles Sexuality of Food, Physical Force, Calcite, Amber, Citrine,
Prostate Emotions Vitality and Sexuality Gold Topaz and Peach
Genitals Curiosity Aventurine
Spleen
Womb
Bladder

Adrenals Red Gives Vitality to the Ruby, Garnet, Bloodstone,

Kidneys Confidence Physical Body, Life- Red Jasper, Black
Spinal Column Grounding Force, Survival, Self- Tourmaline, Obsidian
Colon Survival Preservation and and Smoky Quartz
Legs Instincts
*Note: Opals contain all
Bones
the colors and respresent
60 all the Body Systems.
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Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it's easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Avocado
The Avocado is colloquially known as the Alligator Pear, reflecting its shape and the leather-like appearance
of its skin. Avocado is derived from the Aztec word “ahuacatl”. Avocados are the fruit from the Persea Ameri-
cana, a tall evergreen tree that can grow up to 65 feet in height. There are dozens of varieties of avocadoes,
which fall into three main categories-Mexican, Guatemalean, and West Indian-which differ in their size, ap-
pearance, quality and susceptibility to cold. The most popular type of avocado in the United States is the Hass
variety, which has rugged, pebbly brown-black skin. Another common type of avocado is the Fuerte, which is
larger than the Hass and has smooth, dark green skin and a more defined pear shape. Avocados vary in weight
from 8 ounces to 3 pounds depending upon the variety. The edible portion of the avocado is its yellow-green
flesh, which has a luscious, buttery consistency and a subtle nutty flavor. Not only are avocados a rich source
of monounsaturated fatty acids including oleic acid, which has recently been shown to offer significant pro-
tection against breast, uterine, and cervical cancers, but it is also a very concentrated dietary source of the
carotenoid lutein; it also contains measurable amounts of related carotenoids (zeaxanthin, alpha-carotene and
beta-carotene) plus significant quantities of tocopherols (vitamin E) which target the entire endocrine repro-
ductive system. The monounsaturated fats protect the nerves and enhance feminine hormonal balance. There
is not enough room here to list all of the wonders of this precious fruit.

Bananas
Gotta ‘Hand’ it to Ya Mate; Cheers
Wonderfully sweet with firm and creamy flesh, bananas come prepackaged in their own yellow jackets and
are available for harvest throughout the year. The banana plant grows 10 to 26 feet and belongs to the same
family as the lily and the orchid. The cluster of fruits contain anywhere from 50 to 150 bananas with individ-
ual fruits grouped in bunches, known as “hands”, containing 10 to 25 bananas. Bananas increase blood flow
(that in men improves erectile function) and because bananas clear the way for healthier bones in the process
of targeting the male penis an erection was called a ‘boner’. Creamy, rich, and sweet, bananas are a favorite
food for everyone from infants to elders. Sports enthusiasts appreciate the potassium-power delivered by this
high energy fruit.

Bananas are one of our best sources of potassium, an essential mineral for maintaining normal blood pressure
and heart function. Since the average banana contains a whopping 467 mg of potassium. A banana a day
helps prevent high blood pressure and protects you from atherosclerosis. The effectiveness of potassium-rich
foods such as bananas in lowering blood pressure has been demonstrated by a number of studies. In all of this
the Endocrine system is stimulated and improved in it’s functional performance. A study published in the
Archives of Internal Medicine also confirms that eating high fiber foods, such as bananas, helps prevent heart
disease. In addition to these cardiovascular benefits, the potassium found in bananas also help to promote
bone health. Potassium may counteract the increased urinary calcium loss caused by the high-chemical
sodium (not real salt) diets typical of most Americans in their desire for fake foods and drinks, thus helping to
prevent bones from thinning out at a fast rate.

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Eggplant
Long prized for its deeply purple, glossy beauty as well as its unique taste and texture, they belong to the
nightshade family of vegetables, which also includes tomatoes, sweet peppers and potatoes. They grow in a
manner much like tomatoes, hanging from the vines of a plant that grows several feet in height. While the dif-
ferent varieties do range slightly in taste and texture, one can generally describe the eggplant as having a
pleasantly bitter taste and spongy texture. In addition to featuring a host of vitamins and minerals, eggplant
also contains hundreds if not thousands of very important phytonutrients, many which have protector/in-
hibitor activity. Phytonutrients contained in eggplant include phenolic compounds, such caffeic and chloro-
genic acid, and flavonoids, such as nasunin which act as Brain and endocrine Food: Research on eggplant has
focused on an anthocyanin phytonutrient found in eggplant skin called nasunin. Nasunin is a potent protector
and free radical scavenger that has been shown to protect cell membranes from damage. In studies, nasunin
has been found to protect the lipids (fats) in brain cell membranes. Cell membranes are almost entirely com-
posed of lipids and are responsible for protecting the cell from free radicals, letting nutrients in and wastes
out, and receiving instructions from messenger molecules that tell the cell which activities it should perform.

Figs
Balls, Balls and Eye Balls...a Leafy Testament
Figs grow on the Ficus tree (Ficus carica), which is a member of the Mulberry family. They are unique in that
they have an opening, called the “ostiole” or “EYE”, which is not connected to the tree, but which helps the
fruit's development by increasing its communication with the environment. Figs range dramatically in color
and subtly in texture depending upon the variety. The majority of figs are dried, either by exposure to sunlight
or through an artificial process (avoid these), creating a sweet and nutritious dried fruit that can be enjoyed
throughout the year.

In ancient times the Fig Leaf represented fertility. The Figs look like male testicles and when they grow they
hang in two's and are full of seeds. Eye Balls and Male ‘balls’ are nutritionally supported by the Fig. You
probably do not think about the leaves of the fig tree as one of fig’s edible parts. But in some cultures, fig
leaves are a common part of the menu, and for good reason. The leaves of the fig have repeatedly been shown
to have diabetic healing properties and can actually reduce the amount of insulin needed by persons with dia-
betes who are told they require insulin injections. In one study, a liquid extract made from fig leaves was sim-
ply added to the breakfast of insulin-dependent diabetic subjects in order to produce this insulin-lowering
effect to the point of getting off of insulin which is toxic which can and does lead to neuropathy, blindness
and other disease conditions. Figs have been shown to increase motility of male sperm and the volume of the
sperm. The word testament means ‘testicle’ a symbol of trust and honor. When oaths were made in the ancient
world ones testicles where cupped in the hands of the one receiving the others word of honor. If you broke
your ‘word’ your ‘Figs’ or testicles were cut off. It would take real Balls to make that kind of commitment.

Kiwi
The kiwi fruit is a small fruit approximately 3 inches long and weighing about four ounces. Its green flesh is
almost creamy in consistency with an invigorating taste reminiscent of strawberries, melons and bananas, yet
with its own unique sweet flavor. The kiwifruit is a fruit with a very interesting history and whose recent rise
in popularity reflects a combination of an appreciation for its taste, nutritional value, unique appearance and,
surprisingly, its changing name. Native to China, kiwifruits were originally known as Yang (sun, light, mascu-
line energy-signature of the testicles) Tao (means the Way or Tolman Academy Online-just kidding). They
were brought to New Zealand from China by missionaries in the early 20th century with the first commercial
plantings occurring several decades later. In 1960, they were renamed Chinese Gooseberries. In 1961, Chi-
nese Gooseberries made their first appearance at a restaurant in the United States and were subsequently “dis-
covered’ by an American produce distributor who felt that the U.S. market would be very receptive to this
uniquely exotic fruit. She initiated the import of these fruits into the United States in 1962, but to meet what
was felt to be burgeoning demand, changed its name from Chinese Gooseberry to kiwifruit, in honor of the
native bird of New Zealand, the kiwi, whose brown fuzzy coat resembled the skin of this unique fruit. Cur-
rently, Italy, New Zealand, Chile, France, Japan and the United States are among the leading commercial pro-
ducers of kiwifruit. This amazing fruits primarily targets the endocrine system, then the eyes, and all other
systems from there.

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Mushrooms
In the Geometric Signature pattern of the Thyroid, they have the highest concentration of iodine. The edible
mushrooms are used as food but also in pharmacology. The content of nutrients found in mushrooms is re-
markable: 30-40 percent of their dry weight are protein (meat is 15-25 percent). Mushrooms also contain
about all the minerals necessary for human body, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, D. Therefore, mushrooms have
as main features the organic and brain stimulation, refills the body with mineralis. Mushroom consumption is
indicated in cases of anemia, physical and intellectual fatigue, demineralization, in cases of no meet diets.
Mushrooms are use raw in salads, cooked in soups and other popular dishes. The most popular edible mush-
rooms is the white mushroom.

Nectarines
When it comes to summer fruits, the big three rule; plums, peaches and the distant cousin of the latter, nec-
tarines. Nectarines should be sweeter than peaches and this only makes sense considering that nectarines de-
rive their name from the Greek god Nekter. Ambrosia was the food of the Gods remember, but did you know
that necter was the drink of the gods? A nectarine is often thought of as being a peach without the beard and
it's most useful aspect is that it contains nutrients that act as protector/inhibitors but also the food targets the
endocrine function throughout the brain and body.

Olives
“All Live” Signature of the Female Ovary
Olives, one of the oldest foods known, are thought to have originated in Crete between five and seven thou-
sand years ago. Their use quickly spread throughout Egypt, Greece, Palestine and Asia Minor. Olives are
mentioned in the Bible, depicted in ancient Egyptian art, and played an important role in Greek mythology.
Since ancient times, the olive tree has provided food, fuel, timber and medicine for many civilizations. It has
also been regarded as a symbol of life, peace and wisdom. Olive oil has been consumed since 3000 BC.
Olives cannot be eaten right off of the tree; they require special processing to reduce their intrinsic bitterness.
These processing methods vary with the olive variety, region where they are cultivated and the desired taste,
texture and color. Some olives are picked green and unripe, while others are allowed to fully ripen on the tree
to a purple/black color. Yet, not all of the black olives available begin with a black color. Some processing
methods expose unripe greens olives to the air, and the subsequent oxidation turns them a dark color. In addi-
tion to the original color of the olive, the color is affected by fermentation and/or curing in oil, water, brine or
salt. Deep black olives typically get their color from soaking in burned wood ash lye and thoroughly washed.
No color dyes are used. The fats and nutrients target the endocrine system first.

PLANTAINS
Not Plantations! They are wild harvested... don’t be a slave to illness eat Plantains
Plantains, also known as “potatoes of the air” or “cooking bananas”, are extremely popular in Latin American
countries as well as parts of Africa, Asia, and India. They are close relatives of bananas, but are longer, have
thicker skins, and are typically eaten cooked instead of raw. The skin of plantains ranges in color from green
and yellow to brownish black, while their flesh varies from cream to salmon-colored. While green, the plan-
tain is considered a starch; later, when it is ripe and brownish black, it is considered a fruit. South American
Indians boiled the plantain peels and drank this liquid as a remedy for colds. They totally support the en-
docrine system by targeting the systems that support endocrine function. Plantains have all the qualities of the
banana plus in it's starch state when cooked it acts like little sponges to absorb and clear toxic wastes from the
endocrine system as it assists the lymphatic stream.

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Passion Fruit
Add a Little Passion to your Life; Without it Life is Nothing
Passion fruit is a small egg-shaped tropical fruit, which is also known by the name of Purple Granadillas. Pas-
sion fruit contains multiple seeds and has wrinkled purple brown rind on maturing. The seeds and the pulp in-
side, both are edible, making it easier to consume the fruit. Moreover, the pulp of the fruit has a distinct
aroma and has a slightly sweet taste. In tropical countries, passion fruit is primarily used for juicing. The fruit
is about 1 - 3 inches wide, with a smooth and waxy coating outside. Apart from its pleasant taste and appear-
ance, the fruit is known amongst true Healers for its various health benefits. This fruit was a gift of Hypnos
the God of sleep. Passion Fruit is possesses somniferous properties, which when taken before going to bed,
help the person to relax and have a restful sleep, and to arise in the morning filled with gratitude and a Pas-
sion for Life. Passion Fruit targets the endocrine functional system.

Peanuts
Peanuts Pack Power and Penile Punch!
Contrary to what their name implies, peanuts are not true nuts but a member of a family of legumes related to
peas, lentils, chickpeas and other beans. Peanuts start growing as a ground flower that due to its heavy weight
bends towards the ground and eventually burrows underground where the peanut actually matures. The
veined brown shell or pod of the peanut contains two or three peanut kernels. Each oval-shaped kernel or seed
is comprised of two off-white lobes that are covered by a brownish-red skin. Peanuts originated in South
America where they have existed for thousands of years. They played an important role in the diet of the
Aztecs and other Native Indians in South America and Mexico. The Spanish and Portuguese explorers who
found peanuts growing in the New World brought them on their voyages to Africa. They flourished in many
African countries and were incorporated into local traditional food cultures. Since they were revered as a sa-
cred food, they were placed aboard African boats traveling to North America during the beginning of the
slave trade, which is how they were first introduced into this region.

In the 19th century, peanuts experienced a great gain in popularity in the U.S. thanks to the efforts of two spe-
cific people. The first was George Washington Carver, who not only suggested that farmers plant peanuts to
replace their cotton fields that were destroyed by the boll weevil following the Civil War, but also invented
more than 300 uses for this legume. At the end of the 19th century, a physician practicing in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, created a ground up paste made from peanuts and prescribed this nutritious high protein, low carbohy-
drate food to his patients. While he may not have actually “invented” peanut butter since peanut paste had
probably used by many cultures for centuries, his new discovery quickly caught on and became, and still re-
mains, a very popular food. Because peanuts contain L-arginine and other masculine enhancement nutritional
qualities they were banned by the Church of England for centuries. Then the Pharmaceutical industry discov-
ered their power and artificially synthesized the components into Viagra. Peanuts have no harmful side ef-
fects, which... makes them awesome.

Pears
Pears are members of the rose family and related to the apple and the quince. Pears generally have a large
round bottom that tapers towards the top. Depending upon the variety, their paper-thin skins can either be yel-
low, green, brown, red or a combination of two or more of these colors. Like apples, pears have a core that
features several seeds. Pears are like a pair of two fruits in one. The avocado and the apple. Like these to
other foods pears are a feminine energy food and targets the endocrine system as it enhances all other sys-
tems.

Pomegranates
Have you eaten a pomegranate? The fruit features in Greek mythology in the story of Persephone, daughter of
the harvest goddess Demeter. Hades, the lord of the underworld, kidnapped the beautiful maiden. Because she
ate a few pomegranate seeds before being rescued, she had to spend several months every year in the under-
world with him. According to the myth, that's when the earth was forced to endure winter, a time of rest from
her labors. The seeds represent the eggs of the female. The pomegranate targets the endocrine system with a
feminine energy that studies show prevent breast cancers, ovarian and uterine problems especially. They also
support health of the blood in this process.

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 ~Endocrine SYSTEM~
The endocrine system consists of glands that regulate various body functions. The system plays a major role in
regulating growth, the reproductive process, and the way the body uses food. It also helps to repair the body,
deal with stress, and even emergencies. The endocrine glands control body functions by producing hormones.
These molecules are released into the blood which carries them throughout the body. Hormones act as chemical
messengers. After a hormone reaches the organs or tissues it affects, it triggers certain actions. Many hormones
have widespread effects. For example, the hormone insulin causes cells throughout the body to take in and use
sugar from the bloodstream. The chief endocrine glands include the adrenal glands, the pituitary gland, the
parathyroid glands, and the thyroid gland. Other endocrine glands include the ovary, testis, thymus, and pineal
gland. The brain, kidneys, stomach, and pancreas also have endocrine tissues and produce hormones.

The pituitary gland, which lays near the base of the brain, is often called the “master gland”. It releases a num-
ber of hormones, which in turn, regulate other endocrine glands. However, the pituitary itself is controlled by
hormones produced by the hypothalamus, a part of the brain. The hypothalamus links the nervous and endocrine
control systems. The body also has glands that do not produce hormones. These exocrine glands make sub-
stances that perform specific jobs in the area where they are released. Major exocrine products include the di-
gestive juices, mucus, sweat, and even tears.

Simply put, endocrinology is the study of endocrine glands. Endocrine glands are a group of glands in the body
which secrete hormones. The purpose of the secreted hormones is to evoke a specific response in other cells of
the body which are located far away. As shown in the picture, the hormones are secreted into the blood stream,
giving them access to all other cells of the body.

Examples of Endocrine Glands and Their Hormones:

• Thyroid Gland: Located in the front of the neck. Secretes thyroid hormone.
Purpose: Regulate the body’s overall metabolism.

• Parathyroid Glands: There are 4 parathyroid glands located behind the thyroid. Secretes parathyroid hor-
mone.
Purpose: Absolute control over calcium levels throughout the body.

• Adrenal Glands: There are 2 adrenal glands located on the top of each kidney. Inner part secretes adrenaline,
outer part secretes aldosterone and cortisol.
Purpose: Maintain salt levels in the blood, maintain blood pressure, help control kidney function, control over-
all fluid concentrations in the body.

• Neuroendocrine Glands: of the Pancreas. Located deep in the abdomen behind the stomach, the pancreas is
primarily a digestive organ. It also contains extremely important endocrine cells which secrete: insulin,
glucagon, somatostatin, and others.
Purpose: Control blood glucose (blood sugar) and overall glucose metabolism (important in diabetes), help
control other endocrine cells of the digestive tract.

• Pituitary Gland: The pituitary is located at the base of the brain. Secretes thyroid stimulating hormone
(TSH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), adrenocotropic hormone (ACTH), and others.
Purpose: Control the activity of many other endocrine glands (thyroid, ovaries, adrenal, etc.).

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 Endocrine System Diseases

The endocrine system is composed of a network of organs and glands responsible for producing, storing, and se-
creting hormones that help to maintain and control vital functions such as growth, reproduction, and energy lev-
els. There are several endocrine system diseases that result from disruptions in this complex system:

Diabetes
One of the more prevalent endocrine system diseases, diabetes is a condition in which the pancreas does not
produce enough of the hormone insulin or the body does not effectively use the insulin it does produce. Because
insulin is instrumental in helping the body convert sugars and starches into necessary energy, there can be seri-
ous consequences if diabetes is left undiagnosed and/or untreated through a change of diet and exercise.

Growth Disorders
Given that the endocrine system regulates growth processes, endocrine system diseases often result in growth
disorders. If the body produces too much growth hormone (GH), gigantism or acromegaly (gigantism in adults)
can occur; too little growth hormone results a condition called growth hormone deficiency, or GHD, which can
cause children to grow more slowly than normal.

Osteoporosis
Which occurs in both women and men (although
the former are four times more likely to develop the
disease), is a condition in which bones become
fragile and more likely to break. This can be the re-
sult of many factors including a decrease in the hor-
mone estrogen occurring during menopause in
women, or a decrease in testosterone occurring in
men as they age. The number one cause is a lack of
real (good) Salt in the diet. Because osteoporosis
often has no obvious symptoms, it is often left undi-
agnosed until the person affected suffers a broken
or fractured bone during a minor fall.

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Also referred to as PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the more common endocrine system diseases,
affecting between 7% to 10% of women aged 15 to 45. PCOS is a condition associated with symptoms of infre-
quent or irregular menstruation, male hormone excess symptoms like hirsutism (increased and unwanted hair
growth) and acne and difficulty to conceive. People with PCOS can also have multiple egg-containing cysts on
the ovaries. They are at higher risk to be treated for metabolic complications like diabetes and hypertension.

Thyroid Disorders
Thyroid hormones, hormones produced by the thyroid gland, influence nearly all of the body’s symptoms. Thy-
roid problems include hyperthyroidism (too much thyroid hormone), hypothyroidism (too little thyroid hor-
mone), thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, and more. Mushrooms have the highest naturally occurring iodine.

Cushing’s Syndrome
Cushing’s syndrome, less common than the endocrine system diseases discussed above, occurs as the result of
too much cortisol in the blood for an extended period of time. Cortisol is a hormone that, in normal amounts,
helps the body perform a number of important functions including converting fat into energy, maintaining im-
mune system function, and responding to stress.

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The two types of Cushing’s syndrome, exogenous (from an outside source) and endogenous (from a source
within the body), share a common list of symptoms but different causes. Exogenous Cushing’s syndrome occurs
in patients taking cortisol-like medications, and is temporary, ceasing when the person stops the drug. The en-
dogenous form of this endocrine system disease is far rarer, and results from a tumor or tumors either on the ad-
renal glands or the pituitary gland; time to do house cleaning.

Addison’s Disease
Addison’s Disease, also among the rare endocrine system diseases, occurs in fewer than 150 people in a million.
Also referred to as primary adrenal insufficiency, Addison’s disease occurs when the adrenal glands, which are
located at the top of each kidney, produce an insufficient amount of steroid hormones despite the presence of an
adequate amount of ACTH, the hormone that triggers the adrenal glands to release steroids.

The steroid hormones produced by the adrenal glands, and deficient during Addison’s disease, hold many im-
portant functions including the regulation of blood sugar levels, helping the body’s infection and stress, and
maintaining normal sexual drive.

There are more than 6,000 rare, or “orphan”, diseases (wer are told) that affect about 25 million Americans. (A
rare or “orphan” disease is one that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States.) If a doctor tells you
have a rare disease and wants to treat you for it. Don’t! Instead get a 3rd and 4th opinion or simply embrace the
7 principles of health.

~Reproductive System~

The organs of the reproductive system enable men and women to have children.
Human beings reproduce sexually. Sexual reproduction involves a union of sex
cells. A new human being begins to develop after a sex cell produced by the fa-
ther, unites with the sex cell produced by the mother. The father’s sex cells are
called sperm and the mother’s are called eggs. The union of a sperm and an egg
results in fertilization. The fertilized egg has all the information necessary for the
development of a new human being.

The male reproductive system includes two testicles which hang between the legs
in a pouch called the scrotum. The testicles are glands that produce sperm. The
sperm travel through the tubes to the penis, an organ in front of the scrotum.
Sperm leave a man's body through the penis.

Most of the female reproductive system lays within the woman's body. Deep
within the body are two glands called ovaries, each of which contains thousands
of eggs. Only about 400 eggs will mature during a woman's child bearing years.
About once a month, one of the ovaries releases an egg. The egg travels down a
narrow duct called the Fallopian tube. The female body has two Fallopian tubes,
one leading from each ovary. The Fallopian tubes open into the top of the uterus, a
hollow muscular organ. The other end of the uterus leads to a canal called the
vagina. The vagina extends to the outside of the body opening between the legs.

During sexual intercourse, sperm from the penis enters the vagina. Each sperm
has a tiny tail and can swim. The sperm swim from the vagina to the uterus and
into the Fallopian tubes. If an egg is present in one of the tubes a sperm may fer-
tilize it. The fertilized egg continues its journey to the uterus where it becomes at-
tached to the wall of the organ. This cell divides over and over forming the
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developing baby. Soon, a complex organ called the placenta forms. The placenta enables the developing baby to
obtain food and oxygen through the mother's bloodstream.

After about nine months, or forty weeks, the baby is ready to be born. Powerful contractions of the uterus push
the baby out of the mother's vagina, which widens to allow the baby to pass through.

REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (taking it further)...

This is an organ system by which humans reproduce. In females, the ovaries sit near the openings of the fallop-
ian tubes, which carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. The cervix extends from the lower end of the uterus
into the vagina, whose opening, as well as that of the urethra (see urinary system), is covered by four folds of
skin (the labia); the clitoris, a small erectile organ, is located where the labia join in front. The activity of the
ovaries and uterus goes through a monthly cycle of changes called menstruation, throughout the reproductive
years except during pregnancy and nursing. In males, the testes lie in a sac of skin (the scrotum). A long duct
(the vas deferens) leads from each testis and carries sperm to the ejaculatory ducts in the prostate gland; these
join the urethra, which continues through the penis. In the urethra, sperm mixes with secretions from the semi-
nal vesicles, prostate gland, and Cowper gland to form semen. In early embryos, the reproductive systems are
undetermined. By birth the organs appropriate to each sex have typically developed but are not functioning.
They continue to grow, and at puberty their activity increases and maturation occurs, enabling sexual reproduc-
tion.

The structures concerned with the production of sex cells (gametes) and perpetuation of the species. The repro-
ductive function constitutes the only vertebrate physiological function that necessitates the existence of two
morphologically different kinds of individuals in each animal species, the males and the females (sexual dimor-
phism). The purpose of the reproductive function is fertilization, that is, the fusion of a male and a female sex
cell produced by two distinct individuals.

Anatomy
Egg cells, or ova, and sperm cells, or spermatozoa, are formed in the primary reproductive organs, which are
collectively known as gonads. Those of the male are called testes; those of the female are ovaries. The gonads
are paired structures, although in some forms what appears to be an unpaired gonad is the result either of fusion
of paired structures or of unilateral degeneration.

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The reproductive elements formed in the gonads must be transported to the outside of the body. In most verte-
brates, ducts are utilized for this purpose. These ducts, together with the structures that serve to bring the ga-
metes of both sexes together, are known as accessory sex organs. The structures used to transport the
reproductive cells in the male are known as deferent ducts and those of the female as oviducts. In a few forms
no ducts are present in either sex, and eggs and sperm escape from the body cavity through genital or abdominal
pores.

In all mammals, each differentiates into an anterior, nondistensible Fallopian tube and a posterior, expanded
uterus. In all mammals except monotremes the uterus leads to a terminal vagina which serves for the reception
of the penis of the male during copulation. The lower part, or neck, of the uterus is usually telescoped into the
vagina to a slight degree. This portion is referred to as the cervix.

Physiology
The physiological process by which a living being gives rise to another of its kind is considered one of the out-
standing characteristics of plants and animals. It is one of the two great drives of all animals; self-preservation
and racial perpetuation.

Estrous and Menstrual Cycles

The cyclic changes of reproductive activities in mammalian females are known as estrous or menstrual cycles.
Most mammalian females accept males only at estrus (heat). Estrus in mammals can occur several times in one
breeding season; the mare, ewe, and rat come to estrus every 21, 16, and 5 days respectively if breeding does
not take place. This condition is called poly estrus. The female ismonestrous; she has only one heat, or estrus, to
the breeding season and if not served then, she does not come into heat again for a prolonged interval, 4–6
months according to different breeds. In monestrous and seasonally polyestrous species the period of sexual
quiescence between seasons is called anestrous.

The reproductive cycle of the female in the primate and human is well marked by menstruation, the period of
vaginal blood flow. Menstruation does not correspond to estrus but occurs between the periods of ovulation at
the time the corpus luteum declines precipitously.

Mating
Mating, also called copulation or coitus, is the
synchronized bodily activity of the two sexes
which enables them to deposit their gametes in
close contact. It is essential for successful fer-
tilization because sperm and ovum have a very
limited life span.

The logistics of sperm transport to the site of

fertilization in the oviduct present many inter-
esting features in mammals, but it is important
to distinguish between passive transport of
sperm cells in the female genital tract, and
sperm migration, which clearly attributes sig-
nificance to the intrinsic motility of the cell.
Viable spermatozoa are actively motile, and although myometrial contractions play a major role in sperm trans-
port through the uterus, progressive motility does contribute to migration into and within the oviducts. Even
though a specific attractant substance for spermatozoa has not yet been demonstrated to be released from mam-
malian eggs or their investments, some form of chemotaxis may contribute to the final phase of sperm transport
and orientation toward the egg surface.
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Although in most mammalian species the oocyte is shed from the Graafian follicle in a condition suitable for
fertilization, ejaculated spermatozoa must undergo some form of physiological change in the female reproduc-
tive tract before they can penetrate the egg membranes. The interval required for this change varies according to
species, and the process is referred to as capacitation. The precise changes that constitute capacitation remain
unknown, although there is strong evidence that they are - at least in part - membrane-associated phenomena,
particularly in the region of the sperm head, that permit release of the lytic acrosomal enzymes with which the
spermatozoon gains access to the vitelline surface of the egg.

Fertilization takes place in the oviducts of mammals and the fertilized eggs or embryos do not descend to the
uterus for some 3 to 4 days in most species. During this interval, the embryo undergoes a series of mitotic divi-
sions until it comprises a sphere of 8 or 16 cells and is termed a morula. Formation of a blastocyst occurs when
the cells of the morula rearrange themselves around a central, fluid-filled cavity, the blastocoele. As the blacto-
cyst develops within the uterine environment, it sheds its protective coat and undergoes further differentiation
before developing an intimate association with the endometrium, which represents the commencement of im-
plantation or nidation.

Association of the embryo with the uterine epithelium, either by superficial attachment or specific embedding in
or beneath the endometrium, leads in due course to the formation of a placenta and complete dependence of the
differentiating embryo upon metabolic support from the mother. Implantation and placentation exhibit a variety
of forms, but in all instances the hormonal status of the mother is of great importance in determining whether or
not implantation can proceed.

Endocrine Function
The endocrine glands secrete certain substances (hormones) which are necessary for
growth, metabolism, reproduction, response to stress, and various other physiological
processes. The endocrine glands most concerned with the process of reproduction are the
pituitary and the gonads.

The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland secretes two neuro-humoral agents, vasopressin
and oxytocin. These are involved in reproduction only indirectly, through their effect on uterine contractility in
labor and on the release of milk from the mammary gland when a suckling stimulus is applied. The anterior lobe
secretes a variety of trophic hormones, including two gonadotrophic hormones, the follicle-stimulating hormone
(FSH) and the luteinizing or interstitial-cell stimulating hormone (LH or ICSH). These hormones act directly on
both ovaries and testes.

The gonadal (steroidal) hormones control the secretion of gonadotrophins by acting on

the hypothalamus. It has been suggested that steroids act by means of a “negative feed-
back”; that is, high levels of circulating gonadal hormones stop further release of go-
nadotropins. However, although this is true for experiments involving pharmacological
doses of such hormones, it may not be the case with endogenous physiological levels. It is
certainly true that less steroid is required to inhibit pituitary function in the female than in
the male. Under certain circumstances small doses of gonadal hormones can stimulate release of gonadotropic
hormones from the pituitary. Estrogen can simulate the release of LH; hence the occurrence of ovulation in rats,
rabbits, sheep, and women. Progesterone can also facilitate ovulation in persistently es-
trous rats, in chickens, and in estrous sheep and monkeys.

The formation of gametes (spermatogenesis and oogenesis) is controlled by anterior pitu-

itary hormones. The differentiation of male and female reproductive tracts is influenced,
and mating behavior and estrous cycles are controlled, by male or female hormones. The
occurrence of the breeding season is mainly dependent upon the activity of the anterior
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 lobe of the pituitary, which is influenced through the nervous system by external fac-
tors, such as light and temperature. The transportation of ova from the ovary to the
Fallopian tube and their subsequent transportation, development, and implantation in
the uterus are controlled by a balanced ratio between estrogen and progesterone. Fur-
thermore, it is known that estrogens, androgens, and progesterone can all have the ef-
fect of inhibiting the production or the secretion, or both, of gonadotrophic hormones,
permitting the cyclic changes of reproductive activity among different animals.

Mammary glands are essential for the nursing of young. Their growth, differentiation, and secretion of milk,
and in fact the whole process of lactation, are controlled by pituitary hormones as well as by estrogen and prog-
esterone. Other glands and physiological activities also influence lactation, although this is largely via the
trophic support of other pituitary hormones.

In the Human Female

In the human female reproductive system, ova are produced in the ovaries, two small organs set in the pelvic
cavity below and to either side of the navel. The ovaries also secrete, in cyclic fashion, the hormones estrogen
and progesterone (see menstruation). After an ovum matures, it passes into the uterine tube, or fallopian tube. If
sperm are present as a result of sexual intercourse or artificial insemination, fertilization occurs within the tube.
The ovum, either fertilized or unfertilized, then passes down the fallopian tube, aided by cilia in the tube, and
into the womb, or uterus, a pear-shaped organ specialized for development of a fertilized egg.

An inner uterine layer of tissue, the endometrium, undergoes cyclic changes as a result of the changing levels of
the hormones secreted by the ovaries. The endometrium is thickest during the part of the menstrual cycle in
which a fertilized ovum would be expected to enter the uterus and is thinnest just after menstruation. If no fertil-
ized egg is present toward the end of the cycle, the thickened endometrium degenerates and sloughs off and
menstruation occurs; if a fertilized egg is present it becomes embedded in the endometrium about a week after
fertilization. The developing embryo produces trophoblastic cells
and these, along with cells from the endometrium, form the pla-
centa, the organ in which gas, food, and waste exchange between
mother and embryo takes place. The embryo also forms the amni-
otic sac within which it develops.

The lower end of the uterus is called the cervix. The vagina, a pas-
sage connecting the uterus with the external genitals, receives the
penis and the sperm ejaculated from it during sexual intercourse.
It also serves as an exit passageway for menstrual blood and for
the baby during birth. The external genitals, or vulva, include the
clitoris, erectile tissue that responds to sexual stimulation, and the
labia, which are composed of elongated folds of skin. After birth
the infant is fed with milk from the breasts, or mammary glands,
which are also sometimes considered part of the reproductive sys-
tem.

In the Human Male

In the male reproductive system sperm are produced in the semi-

niferous tubules of the testes, two organs contained in the scro-
tum, an external sac in the groin. The testes also produce the male
hormone testosterone and a portion of the seminal fluid, the liquid
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in which sperm are carried. The external location of the scrotum ensures the relatively low temperature that is
necessary for the normal development of sperm. After formation, the sperm pass from the testes into the tubular
epididymis, and from there into another passage, the vas deferens. The seminal vesicle, which produces nutrient
seminal fluid, and the prostate gland, which produces alkaline prostatic fluid, are both connected to the ejacula-
tory duct leading into the urethra.

The first stage of the male sexual act, erection, results from nerve impulses from the autonomic nervous system
that dilate the arteries of the penis, thus allowing arterial blood to flow into erectile tissues of the organ. During
intercourse, contractions in the ducts of the testes, epididymis, and ductus deferens cause expulsion of sperm
into the urethra and their mixture with the seminal and prostatic fluids. These substances, together with mucus
secreted by accessory glands known as Cowper's glands, form the semen, which is discharged from the penile
urethra during ejaculation.

~Notes~

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The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season)
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive

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Brain Scream
2 or 3 Bananas
1 or 2 Kiwis
1 or 3 Peaches
1 cup Soy or Raw Milk
1 Tbsp Honey

Place the fruit into a blender, add the

milk and honey. Blend until creamy or
if you like the fruit in chuncks, don’t
blend as long. You can also add ice cubes
to make this shake really scream!

Endocrine/
Reproductive
Epi-Cure

Sweet Stability
1−2 cups Pure Water
1 small Apple
1 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
2 Tbsp Oats
2 Tbsp Wheat Germ
2 Tbsp Sunflower Seeds
1/2 cup Orange Juice

First, blend the small apple (or half of

a big one) in the water. Then add the
remaining ingredients one or two at a
time. Sweeten with honey if desired.

Endocrine/
Reproductive
Epi-Cure

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Mouth/Salivary Glands

Esophagus

Liver

Stomach

Gallbladder

Pancreas

Transverse Colon

Descending Colon

Small Intestine

Ascending Colon

Sigmoid Colon

Appendix

Rectum

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Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it’s easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Beer
The Drink of Happiness, Friendship and the Power of Digestive Health
Fermented foods and drinks are quite literally alive with flavor and nutrition. Their flavors tend to be strong
and pronounced. Think of stinky aged cheeses, tangy sauerkraut, rich earthy miso, smooth sublime wines,
awesome organic Beers. Humans have always appreciated the distinctive flavors resulting from the transfor-
mative power of microscopic bacteria and fungi. One major benefit of fermentation is that it preserves food.
Fermentation organisms produce alcohol, lactic acid, and acetic acid, all “bio-preservatives” that retain nutri-
ents and prevent spoilage. Eating and drinking fermented foods live is an incredibly healthy practice, directly
supplying your digestive tract with living cultures essential to breaking down food and assimilating nutrients.
Not all fermented foods are still alive when you eat them. Certain foods, by their nature, cannot contain live
cultures. Breads that are cooked for instance, must be baked, thereby killing the organisms present in them.
However, many fermented foods can be consumed live, especially those involving Lactobacilli, and alive is
the most nutritious way to eat or to drink them. Fermentation makes food more nutritious. Fermentation also
removes toxins from foods. Fermentation also creates new nutrients. As they go through their life cycles, mi-
crobial cultures create B vitamins, including folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, and biotin. “The Bottom
line is Bottoms up, Cheers Mate, here’s to High Health.”

Black Pepper
Shake, Sprinkle & Grind your way to Digestive Power and Function
A pinch of black pepper is added to almost every type of recipe imaginable. Once used as currency and pre-
sented to the gods as a sacred offering, it is fortunate that this most popular of spices is available throughout
the year. Black pepper comes from the pepper plant, a smooth woody vine that can grow up to 33 feet in hot
and humid tropical climates. They begin to bear small white clustered flowers after 3 to 4 years and develop
into berries known as peppercorns. Ground peppercorns produce the spice we call pepper.

Black pepper (Piper nigrum) stimulates the taste buds in such a way that an alert is sent to to the stomach to
increase hydrochloric acid secretion, thereby improving digestion. Hydrochloric acid is necessary for the di-
gestion of proteins and other food components in the stomach. When the body’s production of hydrochloric
acid is insufficient, food may sit in the stomach for an extended period of time, leading to heartburn or indi-
gestion, or it may pass into the intestines, where it can be used as a food source for unfriendly gut bacteria,
whose activities produce gas, irritation, and/or diarrhea or constipation. Black pepper has long been recog-
nized as a carminitive, (a substance that helps prevent the formation of intestinal gas), a property likely due to
its beneficial effect of stimulating hydrochloric acid production. In addition, black pepper hasdiaphoretic
(promotes sweating), and diuretic (promotes urination) properties. Black pepper has demonstrated impressive
antioxidant and antibacterial effects; yet another way in which this wonderful seasoning promotes the health
of the digestive tract. And not only does black pepper help you derive the most benefit from your food, the
outer layer of the peppercorn stimulates the breakdown of fat cells, keeping you slim while giving you energy
to burn.
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Cucumbers
Digestive support, cleanse, and... yer ‘Cool as a cucumber’!
Cucumbers are scientifically known as Cucumis sativus and belong to the same family as watermelon, zuc-
chini, pumpkin, and other types of squash. Varieties of cucumber are grown either to be eaten fresh or to be
pickled. Those that are to be eaten fresh are commonly called slicing cucumbers. Cucumbers such as gherkins
that are specially cultivated to make pickles are oftentimes much smaller than slicing cucumbers. The silica in
cucumber is an essential component of healthy connective tissue, which includes muscles, tendons, ligaments,
cartilage, and bone. Cucumber juice is often recommended as a source of silica to improve the complexion
and health of the skin, plus cucumber’s high water content makes it naturally hydrating - a must for glowing
skin. Cucumbers are also used topically for various types of skin problems, including swelling under the eyes
and sunburn. Two compounds in cucumbers, ascorbic acid and caffeic acid, prevent water retention, which
may explain why cucumbers applied topically are often helpful for swollen eyes, burns and dermatitis. Trying
to get adequate dietary fiber on a daily basis is a challenge for many Americans. Adding a crunchy cool cu-
cumber to your salads is an especially good way to increase your fiber intake because cucumber comes natu-
rally prepackaged with the extra fluid you need when consuming more fiber. Plus, you get the added bonus of
vitamin C, silica, potassium and magnesium.

Flaxseeds
Create health and a fruitful trip to the toilet.
The warm, earthy and subtly nutty flavor of flaxseeds combined with an abundance of omega-3 fatty acids
makes them an increasingly popular addition to the diets of many a health conscious eater. Whole and ground
flaxseeds, as well as flaxseed oil, are available throughout the year. Flaxseeds are slightly larger than sesame
seeds and have a hard shell that is smooth and shiny. Their color ranges from deep amber to reddish brown
depending upon whether the flax is of the golden or brown variety. While whole flaxseeds feature a soft
crunch, the nutrients in soaked or ground seeds are more easily absorbed.

What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to the scientific name of flaxseeds, the name says it all. Flaxseeds are
known as Linum usitatissimum with meaning “most useful”. That would definitely describe the versatility
and nutritional value of this tiny little seed. Flaxseeds have a long and extensive history. Originating in
Mesopotamia, the flax plant has been known since the Stone Ages. One of the first records of the culinary use
of flaxseeds is from times of ancient Greece. In both that civilization and in ancient Rome, the health benefits
of flaxseeds were widely praised. After the fall of Rome, the cultivation and popularity of flaxseeds declined.
Ironically, it was Charlemagne, the emperor who would be famous for shaping European history, who also
helped to shape the history of flaxseeds, restoring them to their noble position in the food culture of Europe.
Charlemagne was impressed with how useful flax was in terms of its culinary, medicinal, and fiber usefulness
(flaxseed fibers can be woven into linen) that he passed laws requiring not only its cultivation but its con-
sumption as well. After Charlemange, flaxseeds became widely appreciated throughout Europe. It was not
until the early colonists arrived in North America that flax was first planted in the United States. In the 17th
century, flax was first introduced and planted in Canada, the country that is currently the major producer of
this extremely beneficial seed. They cleanse, clear, and heal the digestive organs and system.

Green Beans
Yo Ho Ho Green Giant
Green beans are picked while still immature and the inner bean is just beginning to form. They are one of
only a few varieties of beans that are eaten fresh. Although green beans vary in size they average about four
inches in length. They are usually deep emerald green in color and come to a slight point at either end. They
contain tiny seeds within their thin pods. Green beans are loaded with enough nutrients to not only power up
the Jolly Green Giant, but to put a big smile on his/her face. Green beans are an excellent source of vitamin C,
vitamin K and manganese. Plus green beans are very good source of vitamin A (notably through their concen-
tration of carotenoids including beta-carotene), dietary fiber, potassium, folate, and iron. And, green beans are
a good source of magnesium, thiamin, riboflavin, copper, calcium, phosphorus, protein, omega-3 fatty acids
and niacin. Green beans also help prevent colon cancer. The vitamin C and beta-carotene in green beans help
to protect the colon cells from the damaging effects of free radicals. Green beans' folate helps to prevent DNA
damage and mutations in colon cells, even when they are exposed to cancer-causing chemicals. Studies show
that people who eat foods high in vitamin C, beta-carotene, and/or folate are at a much lower risk of getting
colon cancer than those who don’t. Green beans fiber can help prevent colon cancer as well, as it has the abil-
ity to bind to cancer-causing toxins, removing them from the body before they can harm colon cells.

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Lentils
Lentils are legumes along with other types of beans. They grow in pods that contain either one or two lentil
seeds that are round, oval or heart-shaped disks and are oftentimes smaller than the tip of a pencil eraser.
They may be sold whole or split into halves with the brown and green varieties being the best at retaining
their shape after cooking. Lentils, a small but nutritionally mighty member of the legume family, are a very
good source of cholesterol-lowering fiber. Not only do lentils help lower cholesterol, they are of special bene-
fit in managing blood-sugar disorders since their high fiber content prevents blood sugar levels from rising
rapidly after a meal. But this is far from all lentils have to offer. Lentils also provide good to excellent
amounts of six important minerals, two B-vitamins, and protein-all with virtually no fat. Check a chart of the
fiber content in foods; you’ll see legumes leading the pack. Lentils, like other beans, are rich in dietary fiber,
both the soluble and insoluble type. Soluble fiber forms a gel-like substance in the digestive tract that snares
bile (which contains cholesterol) and ferries it out of the body. Research studies have shown that insoluble
fiber not only helps to increase stool bulk and prevent constipation, but also helps prevent digestive disorders
like irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.

Okra
The world's most beautiful women, Cleopatra of Egypt and Yang Guifei of China loved to eat okra according
to the history record. When we visited the world’s most productive land of okra in a rural area in Kami, Kochi
Prefecture, Japan, the young and old all look very healthy. When we asked their secret in having good health
in that area, they graciously answer “okra”. Okra has a long history, with its beginnings in Egypt where it is
cultivated before the time of Cleopatra. The okra plant spread to many parts of the world during the Atlantic
slave trade. During World War II, the shortage of coffee beans made them use okra seeds as a substitute for
coffee. This incident made the word “okra fever”. Since then, okra’s popularity never disappeared from local
markets to convenience stores throughout the world and throughout the year.

The superior fiber found in okra helps to stabilize the blood sugar by curbing the rate at which sugar is ab-
sorbed from the intestinal tract. Okra’s mucilage binds cholesterol and bile acid carrying toxins dumped into
it by the filtering liver. Okra helps lubricate the large intestines due to its bulk laxative qualities. The okra
fiber absorbs water and ensures bulk in stools. This helps prevent and improve constipation. Okra’s mucilage
soothes, and okra facilitates elimination more comfortably by its slippery characteristic. Okra binds excess
cholesterol and toxins (in bile acids). These, if not evacuated, will cause numerous health problems. Okra also
assures easy passage out of waste from the body. Okra is completely non-toxic, non-habit forming, has no ad-
verse side effects, is full of nutrients, and is economically within reach of most individuals unlike over-the-
counter toxic drugs. Okra fiber is excellent for feeding the good bacteria (probiotics). This contributes to the
health of the intestinal tract.

Plums
Plums belong to the Prunus genus of plants and are relatives of the peach, nectarine and almond. They are all
considered “drupes”, fruits that have a hard stone pit surrounding their seeds. When plums are dried, they are
known as prunes. With the large number of plums available, it is not surprising that the various types have
different heritages and places of origin. The European plum is thought to have been discovered around two
thousand years ago, originating in the area near the Caspian Sea. Even in ancient Roman times, there were al-
ready over 300 varieties of European plums. European plums made their way across the Atlantic Ocean with
the pilgrims, who introduced them into the United States in the 17th century. Plums/prunes are an all body
healthy fruit but it targets it’s main forces upon the health of the digestive system.

Psyllium
Psyllium, also referred to as ispaghula, is derived from the husks of the seeds of Plantago ovata. Psyllium
contains a high level of soluble dietary fiber, and is the chief ingredient in many commonly used bulk laxa-
tives. The following list of problems have been cleared by healers using it for centuries; abscesses, anti-para-
sitic, atherosclerosis, bleeding hemorrhoids, boils, bronchitis, Crohn’s disease, colon cancer prevention,
cystitis, demulcent, diverticular disease, duodenal ulcer, dysentery, excessive menstrual bleeding, fecal (stool)
incontinence, gallstones, hearing damage, high blood pressure, incontinence, leishmaniasis, obesity, poison
ivy rash, primary biliary cirrhosis, psoriasis, radiation-induced colitis/diarrhea, sclerosing cholangitis, stom-
ach ulcer, urethritis, wound healing (used on the skin). Constipation, diarrhea, fat excretion in stool, inflam-
matory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome are the most easily soothed and removed with this
wonder seed.
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Quinoa
Most commonly considered a grain, quinoa is actually a relative of leafy green vegetables like spinach and
Swiss chard. A recently rediscovered ancient “grain” native to South America, quinoa was once called “the
gold of the Incas”, who recognized its value in increasing the stamina of their warriors. Not only is quinoa
high in protein, but the protein it supplies is complete protein, meaning that it includes all nine essential
amino acids. Not only is quinoa’s amino acid profile well balanced, making it a good choice for people con-
cerned about adequate protein intake, but quinoa is especially well-endowed with the amino acid lysine,
which is essential for tissue growth and repair. In addition to protein, quinoa features a host of other health-
building nutrients. Because quinoa is a very good source of manganese as well as a good source of magne-
sium, iron, copper and phosphorus, this “grain” may be especially valuable for persons with migraine
headaches, diabetes and atherosclerosis.ecause of the not only the high nutrient content it delivers awesome
fibers for cleansing and clearing the digestive system.

Sweet Potatoes
Digestive health and promotes pancreatic function, sweet huh?
The sweet potato has yellow or orange flesh, and its thin skin may either be white, yellow, orange, red or pur-
ple. Sometimes this root vegetable will be shaped like a potato, being short and blocky with rounded ends,
while other times it will be longer with tapered ends. There is often much confusion between sweet potatoes
and yams; the moist-fleshed, orange-colored root vegetable that is often called a "yam” is actually a sweet po-
tato. Sweet potatoes are native to Central America and are one of the oldest vegetables known to man. They
have been consumed since prehistoric times as evidenced by sweet potato relics dating back 10,000 years that
have been discovered in Peruvian caves. Christopher Columbus brought sweet potatoes to Europe after his
first voyage to the New World in 1492. By the 16th century, they were brought to the Philippines by Spanish
explorers and to Africa, India, Indonesia and southern Asia by the Portuguese. Around this same time, sweet
potatoes began to be cultivated in the southern United States, where they still remain a staple food in the tra-
ditional cuisine. Sweet potato contain unique root storage proteins that have been observed to have significant
antioxidant capacities. In one study, these proteins had about one-third the antioxidant activity of glutathione-
one of the body’s most impressive internally produced protector/inhibitor. Count on these root proteins to
help explain sweet potatoes' healing properties especially of the Pancreatic function.

Sauerkraut
2 pooped to pop? A brilliant cabbage ferment for total digestive health!
Sauerkraut is made by a process of pickling called lacto-fermentation that is analogous to how traditional (not
heat-treated) pickled cucumbers and kimchi are made. Fully-cured sauerkraut keeps for several months in an
airtight container stored at or below 15°C (59°F), neither refrigeration nor pasteurization is required.

Eating sauerkraut is a great way to protect the balance of bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract. Boost the im-
mune system by increasing antibodies, clear infectious disease and help inhibit pathogenic organisms includ-
ing E.coli, salmonella and unhealthy overgrowth of candida (yeast) and clears free radicals which are cancer
precursors and transforms hard-to-digest lactose from milk to the more easily digested lactic acid. Raw fer-
mented foods are beneficial to the digestive system by increasing the healthy flora in the intestinal tract or
creating the type of environment for them to flourish. Sauerkraut and its juice are traditional folk remedies for
constipation. The benefits of sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice have been recognized for generations. In some
families of southern Germany, the children are fed raw sauerkraut twice weekly to support their intestines.

Captain James Cook always took a store of sauerkraut on his sea voyages, since experience had taught him
that it was an effective preventative of scurvy. German sailors continued this practice even after the British
Royal Navy had switched to limes, earning the British sailor the nickname “Limey” while his German coun-
terpart became known as a “Kraut”.

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The digestive system breaks down food into simple substances that the cells can use. It then absorbs these sub-
stances into the blood and eliminates any leftover waste material. The main part of the digestive system is a
long tube called the alimentary canal. This tube consists of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and
large intestine. Other parts of the digestive system include the gallbladder, liver, pancreas, salivary glands, and
teeth.

Digestion begins in the mouth where the teeth tear and grind
food into small pieces. Small pieces of food are more easily
broken down during the digestive process than large ones.
Therefore, thorough chewing is important. As food is chewed,
three pairs of large salivary glands pour saliva into the mouth.
Saliva moistens the food making is easier to swallow. Saliva
also contains the first of the system’s several digestive en-
zymes. The digestive enzymes break food down into smaller
molecules the body can use. The word salvation, which means
to save or preserve, comes from the word “saliva”.

After the food is swallowed it enter the esophagus. The

esophagus is a long muscular tube that leads to the stomach.
Contractions of smooth muscles lead the food down the esophagus and into the stomach. The stomach is the
widest part of the alimentary canal. It serves as a sort of holding-tank in which food remains for several hours.
During this time, the stomach produces a type of acid and an enzyme that further break down much of the food.
Muscle contractions mix the partly digested food into a mass called “chyme”. All digestion is literally fermenta-
tion.

The word Metabolism comes of Bolis Meaning ‘Lump’. The lump comes from the teeth chewing food. Chyme
(means small lump) passes through the stomach into the small intestine at a steady rate. Various digestive en-
zymes complete the breakdown of the food within the first section of the small intestine. The small intestine
produces some of these enzymes, and the rest are made by the pancreas. The pancreatic enzymes empty into the
small intestine through a duct or a tube. Bile, a liquid made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, also enters
the small intestine through the same duct. Bile does not contain digestive enzymes, but it aids digestion by
breaking up large molecules of fatty acids. By the time the food leaves the first section of the small intestine it’s
now called Chyle (milk/juice), it has been mainly digested.

Small cells line the walls of the remainder of the small intestine. These cells absorb useful substances from the
digested food. The absorbed substances enter the blood and the lymph. Some of the substances are carried di-
rectly to cells throughout the body, and the rest are transported to the liver. The liver stores some of the sub-
stances, releasing them as the body requires. For instance, the liver can store a three to five year supply of what
we know as vitamin D. The liver chemically alters the other substances, changing them into forms needed by
the body.

The substances not absorbed by the small intestine pass to the large intestines. These substances consist of
water, chemicals, vitamins, and waste material. The large intestine absorbs most of the water and chemicals in-
cluding sodium, chloride, and some vitamins which then enter the bloodstream. The waste moves toward the
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 Digestion

A magnified cross-section of the small intestine would show the tiny finger-like structures that line the organ.
These structures called villi increase the surface area of the small intestine. They enable the organ to absorb
large amounts of useful substances from digested food.

What is digestion?
Food and drink must be changed into smaller molecules of nutrients to be absorbed into the blood and carried to
cells throughout the body. Digestion is the process by which food and drink are broken down into smaller parts
so that the body can use them to build and nourish cells, and to provide energy. How does the digestive process
work?

Digestion involves:
The mixing of food, the movement of food through the digestive tract
A chemical breakdown of large molecules of food into smaller molecules
Digestion begins in the mouth, where food and drink is taken in, and is completed in the small intestine.

What is included in the digestive system?

The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract and other organs that aid in digestion.
The digestive tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus, con-
sisting of the following:
• Mouth
• Esophagus
• Stomach
• Small intestine
• Large intestine
• Rectum
• Anus

Organs that help with digestion, but are not part of

the digestive tract, include the following:
• Tongue
• Glands in the mouth that make saliva
• Pancreas
• Liver
• Gallbladder
Parts of other organ systems, like nerves and blood, also
play a major role in the digestive process.

How does food move through the digestive system?

In a wave-like movement called peristalsis, muscles pro-
pel food and liquid along the digestive tract. In general, there are seven steps in the process of moving food and
liquid through the digestive system:

1. The first major muscle movement is swallowing food or liquid. The start of swallowing is voluntary, but once
it begins, the process becomes involuntary and continues under the control of the nerves.

2. The esophagus, which connects the throat above with the stomach below, is the first organ into which the
swallowed food goes.

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3. Where the esophagus and stomach join, there is a ringlike valve that closes the passage between the two or-
gans. When food nears the closed ring, the surrounding muscles relax and allow the food to pass into the stom-
ach, and then it closes again.

The food then enters the stomach, which completes three mechanical tasks: stores, mixes, and empties.

4. The stomach stores the swallowed food and liquid, which requires the muscle of the upper part of the stom-
ach to relax and accept large volumes of swallowed material.

5. The lower part of the stomach mixes up the food, liquid, and digestive juices produced by the stomach by
muscle action.

6. The stomach empties the contents into the small intestine.

The food is digested in the small intestine and dissolved by the juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and
the contents of the intestine are mixed and pushed forward to allow further digestion.

7. The digested nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls. The waste products, including undigested
parts of the food, known as fiber, and older cells that have been shed from the mucosa, move into the colon.
Waste products usually remain in the colon until the feces are expelled by a bowel movement.

DIGESTIVE

Most people are not aware that the stomach as well as the small and large intestines have what is
called smooth muscles, the movement of liquids and foods through the body operates on electric
signals called “Peristaltic Action”. The digestive system is able to contract and expand by using
the electrical system of the fluids moving through it.

Plant whole foods contain nutritional components and fibers as well as fluids that are all ELEC-
TRICAL and are in patters of frequency the intestines operate at full force with. In modern soci-
ety it is estimated that for 80% - 90% of people have diets that are approximately 90%
electrically dead to the frequencies of the digestive system. For this reason, 90% of all human dis-
ease originates in the digestive tract - fermented foods and drinks have the most easily usable and
identifiable electric force.

Every culture, tribe and community of people through out all time of the human experience have
used fermented foods and drinks to maintain long life and a state of being disease free. Naturally
fermented beers and wines (without todays synthetic chemicals and artificial ingredients that
some have) are some of the best things we can have in our diets to maintain the electric force
called LIFE.

Nutrition comes of the Latin NUX meaning ‘the process of Light’ all light is photo electric. Fer-
mentation enhances the photons of electric force that all ten quadrillion (10,000 trillion) cells
function upon. In short... DRINK UP Organic...(BEER, THAT IS or wine)!!!! Stay away from
soda pop and energy drinks.

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 Excretion in Humans

URINARY SYSTEM

The urinary system removes various wastes from the blood and flushes them from the body. The chief organs of
this system are the two kidneys. Each kidney has about a million microscopic filtering units known as
“nephrons”. As blood passes through a nephron, a complicated network of capillaries and tubes filters out water
and other wastes called filtrate. Water and substances important to the body are removed, and other substances
are excreted to produce a yellowish fluid called urine. Two tubes called ureters transport urine from the kidneys
to the urinary bladder, a hallow storage organ. Urine is eventually squeezed out of the bladder by muscular con-
tractions. It then leaves the body through a tube known as the ‘urethra”.

The main excretory system in humans is the urinary system. The skin also acts as an organ of excretion by re-
moving water and small amounts of urea and salts (as sweat). The urinary system includes a pair of bean-shaped
kidneys located in the back of the abdominal cavity. Each day, the kidneys filter about 162 qt (180 L) of blood,
enough to fill a bathtub. They remove urea, toxins, medications, and excess ions and form urine. The kidneys
also balance water and salts as well as acids and bases. At the same time, they return needed substances to the
blood. Of the total liquid processed, about 1.3 qt (1.5 L) leaves the body as urine.

The size of an adult kidney is approximately 4 in (10 cm) long and 2 in (5 cm) wide. Urine leaves the kidneys in
tubes at the hilus, a notch that occurs at the center of the concave edge. Blood vessels, lymph vessels, and
nerves enter and leave the kidneys at the hilus. If we cut into a kidney, we
see that the hilus leads into a space known as the renal sinus. We also
observe two distinct kidney layers. There is the renal cortex, an outer
reddish layer, and the renal medulla, a reddish brown layer. Within the
kidneys, nephrons clear the blood of wastes, create urine, and deliver
urine to a tube called a ureter, which carries the urine to the bladder.
The urinary bladder is a hollow muscular structure that is collapsed
when empty and pear-shaped and distended when full. The urinary
bladder then empties urine into the urethra, a duct leading to outside
the body. A sphincter muscle controls the flow of urine between the
urinary bladder and the urethra.

Each kidney contains over one million nephrons, each of which con-
sists of a tuft of capillaries surrounded by a capsule on top of a curv-
ing tube. The tuft of capillaries is called a glomerulus. Its capsule is
cup-shaped and is known as Bowman's capsule. The glomerulus
and Bowman's capsule form the top of a tube, the renal tubule.
Blood vessels surround the renal tubule, and urine forms in it. The
renal tubules of many nephrons join in collecting tubules, which in turn merge into larger tubes and empty their
urine into the ureters in the renal sinus. The ureters exit the kidney at the hilus.

The first stage in clearing the blood is filtration, the passage of a liquid through a filter to remove impurities.
Filtration occurs in the glomeruli. Blood pressure forces plasma, the liquid portion of the blood, through the
capillary walls in the glomerulus. The plasma contains water, glucose, amino acids, and urea. Blood cells and
proteins are too large to pass through the wall, so they stay in the blood. The fluid, now called filtrate, collects
in the capsule and enters the renal tubule.

During reabsorption, needed substances in the filtrate travel back into the bloodstream. Reabsorption occurs in
the renal tubules. There, glucose and other nutrients, water, and essential ions materials pass out of the renal
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tubules and enter the surrounding capillaries. Normally 100% of glucose is reabsorbed. (Glucose detected in the
urine is a sign of diabetes mellitus, which is characterized by too much sugar in the blood due to a lack of in-
sulin.) Reabsorption involves both diffusion and active transport, which uses energy in the form of ATP. The
waste-containing fluid that remains after reabsorption is urine.

Tubular secretion is the passage of certain substances out of the capillaries directly into the renal tubules. Tubu-
lar secretion is another way of getting waste materials into the urine. For example, drugs such as penicillin and
phenobarbital are secreted into the renal tubules from the capillaries. Urea and uric acid that may have been re-
absorbed are secreted. Excess potassium ions are also secreted into the urine. Tubular secretions also maintain
the pH of the blood.

The volume of the urine varies according to need. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH), released by the posterior pitu-
itary gland, controls the volume of urine. The amount of ADH in the bloodstream varies inversely with the vol-
ume of urine produced. If we perspire a lot or fail to drink enough water, special nerve cells in the
hypothalamus, called osmoreceptors, detect the low water concentration in the blood. They then signal neurose-
cretory cells in the hypothalamus to produce ADH, which is transmitted to the posterior pituitary gland and re-
leased into the blood, where it travels to the renal tubules. With ADH present, the kidney tubules reabsorb more
water from the urine and return it to the blood, and the volume of urine is reduced. If we take in too much water,
on the other hand, the osmoreceptors detect the overhydration and inhibit the production of ADH. Reabsorption
of water is reduced, and the volume of urine is increased. Alcohol inhibits ADH production and therefore in-
creases the output of urine.

The liver also plays an important role in excretion. This organ removes the ammo-
nia and converts it into the less toxic urea. The liver also chemically changes and
filters out certain drugs such as penicillin and erythromycin. These substances
are then picked up by the blood and transported to the kidneys, where they are
put into the excretory system.

The urinary system must function properly to ensure good health. When
Urography, (taking x rays of the urinary system), is used to diagnose urinary
problems the procedure includes an opaque dye that is introduced into the
urinary structures so that they 'show up' in the x rays. These dyes are often
times dangerous and can even be fatal in some. Ultrasound scanning is an-
other diagnostic tool. It uses high frequency sound waves to produce an image
of the kidneys. Biopsies, samples of kidney tissue obtained in a hollow needle,
are also used in diagnosing kidney disease. Many medical tests are now found to
do much harm.

Disorders of the urinary tract include urinary tract infections (UTI). An example is cystitis, a disease in which
bacteria infect the urinary bladder, causing inflammation. Most UTIs are treated with (potentially harmful) an-
tibiotics. Sometimes kidney stones, solid crystals, form in the urinary tract. Kidney stones can obstruct the uri-
nary passages and cause severe pain, and bleeding. If they do not pass out of the body naturally (learn how
under foods to heal), the physician may use shock wave treatment. In this treatment, a shock wave focused on
the stone from outside the body disintegrates it. Physicians also use surgery to remove kidney stones. Renal fail-
ure is a condition in which the kidneys lose the ability to function. Nitrogenous wastes build up in the blood, the
pH drops, and urine production slows down. If left unchecked, this condition can result in death. In chronic
renal failure, the urinary system declines, causing permanent loss of kidney function.

Hemodialysis and kidney transplant are two methods used in chronic renal failure. In hemodialysis, an artificial
kidney device cleans the blood of wastes and adjusts the composition of ions. During the procedure, blood is
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taken out of the radial artery in the persons arm. It then passes through dialysis tubing, which is selectively per-
meable. The tubing is immersed in a solution. As the blood passes through the tubing, wastes pass out of the
tubing and into the surrounding solution. The cleansed blood returns to the body. Kidney transplants from ca-
davers are also used. In this procedure, a surgeon replaces a diseased kidney with a closely matched donor kid-
ney. Although about 23,000 people in the United States wait for donor kidneys each year, fewer than 8,000
receive kidney transplants.

What if... 95% of all this is unnecessary?

What if... The knowledge of self-care is truly the global answer to the multi-trillion Dollar Financial
Monster so sweetly named, “Health-Care”?
What if... There is no difference between Global Pharmaceutical Medical Industries, Governments, or
Agri-Business and Food Manufacturering?
What if... They are all owned and controlled by the same group?

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The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season)
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive

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Rooster Booster
7 Carrots
1 Apple
2 Celery Stalks
1 Parsley (handful)
2 Garlic Cloves
1/3 Beet with the Greens

Juice the garlic first; next juice the

celery and parsley together. To juice the
parsley, tuck the stems into the groove
of the celery sticks. Finish juicing with
the carrots and apple.

Eliminatory/
Digestive
Epi-Cure

Kidney Stone Purge

1 quart Tomato Juice
1 quart Sauerkraut
12 drops Peppermint Oil

Drink one in the morning and one in

the night till the kidney stones have
passed.

As you do this you may feel nauseous,

dizzy, experience diarrea and a slight
increase in pain. All of these symptoms
is how the body heals itself.

Eliminatory/
Digestive
Epi-Cure

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Tonsils
Thymus Artery
Right Lymphatic Vein
Duct
Lymph Node
Lymph Vessel
Thoracic Duct

Spleen
Cisterna Chyli

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Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it’s easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Berries
Berries make you Merry... for they are Nature’s Vaccines
Vaccinium is Latin for Berry. From this came the words Vaccine, Vaccinate and Vaccination. The Lymph
Streams perfect Foods.

One Berry said to the other Berry, “If you weren’t so SWEET, WE WOULDN’T BE IN THIS JAM!!!” To
some Cultures in the Ancient World Berries were the Gift of the Goddess of the Garden, She was the Protec-
tor of the people. Eating the Berries led to greater Beauty and Health by protecting those who ate them. To
‘Bear or Protect’ led to the word ‘berry/bearer’ hence, ‘vaccinium’ or vaccine a protector of health. Better vi-
sion, clearer thinking, neuro-immune strengthening, and more, all from enjoying a ‘berry delicious day’.

Blackberry, Black Currant, Dewberry, Boysenberry, Olallieberry, Goji Berry, Cloudberry, Cranberry, June
Berry, Juniper Berry, Loganberry, Raspberry, Salmonberry, Thimbleberry, Wineberry, Bearberry, Bilberry or
Whortle Berry, Blueberry, Crowberry, Cranberry, Falberry, Huckleberry, Lingonberry, Strawberry Tree (not to
be confused with the) Strawberry, Açaí, Barberry, Currant (red, black, and white types) Elderberry, Goose-
berry, Hackberry, Honeysuckle: (called honeyberries) Mulberry, Red Mulberry, White Mulberry, Marion
berry, Mayapple, Nannyberry or Sheepberry, Oregon grape, Sea-buckthorn, Sea Grape, Service Berry, Tay-
berries, Ugniberry, Wolfberry and hundreds more world wide.
Garlic
Garlic, with it’s Mate Onions, Is the Lymphatic streams Dream come True
Although garlic may not always bring good luck, protect against evil or ward off vampires, it is guaranteed to
transform any meal into a bold, aromatic and healthy eating experience. Garlic is arranged in a head, called
the “bulb”, averaging about 2 inches in height and diameter consisting of numerous small separate cloves.
Both the cloves and the entire bulb are encased in paper-like sheathes that can be white, off-white or pinkish.
The taste of garlic is like no other-it hits the palate with a hot pungency that is shadowed by a very subtle
background sweetness. While elephant garlic has larger cloves, it is more closely related to the leek. Ancient
Egyptians seem to have been the first to cultivate this plant that played an important role in their culture. Gar-
lic was not only bestowed with sacred qualities and placed in the tomb of Pharaohs, but it was given to the
slaves that built the Pyramids to enhance their endurance and strength. This strength-enhancing quality was
also honored by the ancient Greeks and Romans, civilizations whose athletes ate garlic before sporting events
and whose soldiers consumed it before going off to war.

Asbestos, a well-known carcinogen, is thought to cause cell mutations by generating reactive oxygen species
(free radicals) and depleting one of the body’s most important internally produced protectors, glutathione.
Garlic contains numerous sulfur compounds and glutathione precursors that also act as inhibitors and also
demonstrate carcinogenic protective properties. In a laboratory study published in Toxicology Letters, garlic
extract, when administered along with asbestos, so significantly reduced DNA mutations in human blood
lymphocytes (a type of immune cell), that the researchers concluded: “garlic extract as well as eating the
tuber may be an efficient, physiologically tolerable quencher of asbestos-induced genotoxcity.”

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Green Onion or Scallion
Scallion, commonly known as green onion, spring onion, or salad onion, is a small onion with long leaves
that are considered a necessity in Chinese recipes, as well as in teas, wine, vinegar, honeys, garlic, and ginger.
The green onion's medicinal part is its stem. It works as well as a cure for pyretic, expectorant, bacterial, and
fungal remover. It is effective assisting colds, headaches, chills to the stomach, indigestion, and also for in-
somnia. The white stem contains a lot of glucose and allyl sulfides. Use it is a raw condiment to many foods
by finely chopping the fresh white stem.

It is mainly used as a traditional medicine for common cold. It stimulates the respiratory tract and helps in ex-
pelling sputum (phlegm). It contains essential oils that stimulates the sweat glands and promote sweating. It
normalizes blood pressure. It increases appetite. It helps prevent diarrhea. It is rich in sulfur, an essential ele-
ment that inhibits fungus infections. It inhibits cancer cell growth especially colon cancer. Green onion's can-
cer properties are well known among traditional healers around the world. It contains vitamin A and C. The
white part of it has calcium, too. It is a good appetizer. It helps speed up blood circulation and absorbs vita-
min B1. This helps reduce stress and tiredness. For a sore throat; cut the green onion’s white part into pieces,
put it in a cloth bag and steam it for a hot compress. You can also mix the green onion with grated ginger and
some salt. Wrap the hot bag in a towel or gauze and place it over the throat, chest, soles, palms, back, and
armpits. It promotes perspiration and lowers the heat and pain. This method is known since the ancient times,
and it is as good as commercially sold plasters. For swollen feet; boil the whole green onion for a few min-
utes, grind it and mix with a little water just enough to make a paste, and then place it to the swollen part of
your feet. This simple method is used since hundreds of years ago by our ancestors.

Honeydew Melons
Your ‘Sweet’ Key To Health Through Lymphatic Cleansing and Nutrition
Of all the melon varieties, honeydew melons have the most mouth-watering taste. Belonging to the cultivar’s
group of muskmelons, honeydew melons occur in numerous varieties like the Crenshaw, Casaba (from
Kasaba, a town in Turkey), Persian, and Winter. Honeydew melons provide one of the best options for a quick
bite, especially for those who believe in leading a healthy lifestyle. It was Marco Polo who first discovered
the Persians drying honeydew melons to enhance their aroma and flavor. Cut honeydew melons with seeds
make an excellent snack. Not just that, honeydew melons can be dried and kept like raisins and its seeds can
be roasted. Honeydew melons can also be made into lip-smacking kebabs! Honeydew melons provide a num-
ber of alternatives for your healthy diet. They are rich in Vitamin C, potassium, pantothenic acid, and Vitamin
B6 that help to overcome high blood pressure, skin disorders and other related problems of the circulatory
system. These melons are at their nutritive best when ripe. But there is one risk associated with ripe honey-
dew melons - they are highly perishable.

Horseradish
For Lymph and Healing this Radish doesn’t HORSE Around
As a whole food medicine horseradish root has many curative properties: strong antibiotic, expectorant, bron-
chodilatator, removes bacterial, coronary vasodilatator, it increases the blood pressure, it heats up the body,
stimulates the body's immune system, soothes inflammation, parasitic remover, anemic, antiscorbutic, di-
uretic. It can stimulate the appetite. It has a cardiotonic effect and is recommended to the people that suffer
from high blood pressure. Also it is known that horseradish has aphrodisiacal properties. Bronchitis, sinusitis,
paradontosis, rheumatism, anemia, flu, stomatitis, and even facial paralysis (bells palsy) can be treated by
using horseradish. As for sinusitis and rhinitis it is enough for a cataplasm to be placed on the forehead along
with two spoons of ground horseradish so that the nose gets immediately decongested. This treatment is re-
peated 4 to 5 days in a row and it gets interrupted only once burns occur.

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Leeks
Leeks, like garlic and onions, belong to a vegetable family called the Allium vegetables. Since leeks are re-
lated to garlic and onions, they contain many of the same beneficial compounds found in these well-re-
searched, health-promoting vegetables. Leeks enjoy a long and rich history, one that can trace its heritage
back through antiquity. Thought to be native to Central Asia, they have been cultivated in this region and in
Europe for thousands of years. Leeks were prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans and were especially
revered for their beneficial effect upon the throat. The Greek philosopher Aristotle credited the clear voice of
the partridge to a diet of leeks, while the Roman emperor Nero supposedly ate leeks everyday to make his
voice stronger. The Romans are thought to have introduced leeks to the United Kingdom, where they were
able to flourish because they could withstand cold weather. Leeks have attained an esteemed status in Wales,
where they serve as this country's national emblem. The Welsh regard for leeks can be traced back to a battle
that they successfully won against that Saxons in 1620, during which the Welsh soldiers placed leeks in their
caps to differentiate themselves from their opponents. Today, leeks are an important vegetable in many north-
ern European cuisines and are grown in many European countries.

Lemons
Lemons were originally developed as a cross between the lime and the citron and are thought to have origi-
nated in China or India, having been cultivated in these regions for about 2,500 years. Their first introduction
to Europe was by Arabs who brought them to Spain in the 11th century around the same time that they were
introduced into Northern Africa. The Crusaders, who found the fruit growing in Palestine, are credited with
bringing the lemon to other countries across Europe. Like many other fruits and vegetables, lemons were
brought to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in his second voyage to the New World in 1493, and have
been grown in Florida since the 16th century.

Limes
Limes are grown on trees that flourish in tropical and subtropical climates. They were thought to originate in
Southeast Asia. Arab traders brought lime trees back from their journey to Asia and introduced them into
Egypt and Northern Africa around the 10th century. The Arabian Moors brought them to Spain in the 13th
century and then, like many fruits, they were spread throughout southern Europe during the Crusades. These
two fruits are two of the most powerful healing and cleansing foods known for the Lymphatic stream. For ex-
ample, because of this you can have a brand new liver with full function within 90 days if you drink 1 cup of
fresh squeezed lemon juice every day backed by a raw food diet and no toxic drugs for that period. The list of
healing potential is too long for this review here.

Orange
Orange You glad? You ought to be!
Oranges are round citrus fruits with finely-textured skins that are, of course, orange in color just like their
pulpy flesh; the skin can vary in thickness from very thin to very thick. Oranges usually range from approxi-
mately two to three inches in diameter. Want to reduce your risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones? Drink or-
ange juice. A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that when women drank ½ to 1 liter of
orange, grapefruit or apple juice daily, their urinary pH value and citric acid excretion increased, significantly
dropping their risk of forming calcium oxalate stones. Not only do oranges do this but they also have been
associated with a wide variety of phytonutrient compounds. These phytonutrients include citrus flavanones
(types of flavonoids that include the molecules hesperetin andnaringenin), anthocyanins, hydroxycinnamic
acids, and a variety of polyphenols. When these phytonutrients are studied in combination with oranges vita-
min C, the significant protective and healing properties of this fruit are understandable. But it is yet another
flavanone in oranges, the herperidinmolecule, which has been singled out in phytonutrient research on or-
anges. Arguably, the most important flavanone in oranges, herperidin has been shown to lower high blood
pressure as well as cholesterol in animal studies, and to have strong anti-inflammatory properties. Impor-
tantly, most of this phytonutrient is found in the peel and inner white pulp of the orange, rather than in its liq-
uid orange center, so this beneficial compound is too often removed by the processing of oranges into juice.

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Peach
The Peach is a fruit native to china, but cultivated in almost all the countries with a cool climate. They have
an outer skin that is reddish-yellow in color, while the flesh is either white or yellow. Peaches that have a
white flesh are usually very sweet and have very little acidity. However, the yellow-fleshed ones typically
have an acidic tang, coupled with sweetness. A peach is extremely rich in vitamin A and potassium, apart
from abounding in a number of other nutrients, making them rank very high in nutritional value and good for
the health of an individual. Peaches help make the skin healthy and also add color to the complexion. It has
been seen that consumption of peaches helps in the removal of worms from the intestinal tract. Being rich in
Vitamin A, peaches might help prevent cancer in organs and glands with epithelial tissue. Peaches comprise
of more than 80 percent water and are a good source of dietary fiber, making them good for those trying to
lose weight. Consumption of peaches, on a regular basis, can keep your bowel movements regular and even
prevent straining. Researches have suggested that peaches have good to excellent antioxidant activity, some
antimicrobial activity and good to excellent tumor growth inhibition activity. Peaches have a small laxative
effect and a powerful diuretic effect and thus, are recommended to peoplesuffering from rheumatism and
gout. Peach flowers have sedative proprieties and are good for children who are restless, especially when
boiled in water with sugar and honey.

Prickly Pear Cactus

The fruit of prickly pears, commonly called cactus figs, Indian fig or tuna, is edible, although it has to be
peeled carefully to remove the small spines on the outer skin before consumption. If the outer layer is not
properly removed, glochids can be ingested causing discomfort of the throat, lips, and tongue as the small
spines are easily lodged in the skin. Native Americans like the Tequesta would roll the fruit around in suitable
medium (e.g.grit) to “sand” off the glochids. Alternatively, rotating the fruit in the flame of a campfire or
torch has been used to remove the glochids. Today, parthenocarpic (seedless) cultivars are also available. Cac-
tus figs are often used to make candies and jelly and a drink.

Radishes
Pure Lymphatic Support know to Heal over 25 Differnt Illnesses!
The radish is actually the root of a plant related to mustard (the name radish comes from the Latin radix,
meaning root). Its flavor varies from mild to peppery and pungent, depending on the variety. Radishes come
in a number of varieties, ranging in color from red to purple to white, and in shape from small and round to
long and oval. The most common radish is the oval, red-skinned variety, about the size of a cherry tomato.
Daikon, a long, white, cylindrical variety that may weigh a pound (450g) or more, is used primarily in Indian
and Japanese cooking.

Tangerines
Brighten the darkest, coldest days of winter with a sweet, juicy tangerine! Tangerines are at their best in the
winter months, and these little citrus fruits pack a wallop of nutrition, including protector/inhibitors and Vita-
min C - which help boost your immunity for the season’s cold and flu house (body) cleaning. Plus, they are
sweet, complex, and delicious, with subtle flavor variations ranging from nectar-sweet to tangy and vivacious.
Tangerines are high in Vitamin C, which helps prevent cancer and boosts the immune system. They also con-
tain folate, beta-carotene, and Vitamins B1, 2, and 3. Tangerines are high in fiber, but easier to digest than or-
anges for many people. Citrus fruits are an excellent protective food choice in winter, when risk of infection
is high.

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The lymphatic system consists of a network of tubes that carries a clear, watery fluid called “lymph”. Lymph
comes from the blood and eventually returns to it. Water, proteins, and dissolved food leave the blood through
the capillary walls. This fluid, which is known as interstitial fluid, bathes and nourishes the cells of the body's
tissues. The fluid then drains into tiny closed-ended tubes called lymphatic capillaries. At this point the fluid is
known as lymph. The lymph flows through the small tubes into larger and larger lymphatic vessels. Lymph
nodes occur at various points along the lymphatic vessels. These bead-like structures produce many white blood
cells, and filter harmful substances out of the lymph. Eventually, all the lymph flows into either the thoracic
duct or the right lymphatic duct. The lymph drains from these ducts into the veins near the neck, and so rejoins
the blood.
Valve Afferent Lymphatic
Vessels The lymphatic system consists of organs, ducts, and nodes.
It transports a watery clear fluid called lymph. This fluid
distributes immune cells and other factors throughout the
body. It also interacts with the blood circulatory system to
drain fluid from cells and tissues. The lymphatic system
contains immune cells called lymphocytes, (which protect
the body from parasites, viruses, bacteria, etc.) that get into
the body.

Main Functions

To collect and return interstitial fluid, including plasma

protein to the blood and thus help maintain fluid balance,
to protect the body from symptoms of disease by produc-
Lymphoid ing lymphocytes, to absorb lipids from the intestine and
Follicle
(Lymphocytes)
Valve transport them to the blood. Lymph organs include the
Efferent bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and thymus. Precursor
Lymphatic cells in the bone marrow produce lymphocytes. B-lympho-
Vessel cytes (B-cells) mature in the bone marrow. T-lymphocytes
To Vein
From Artery (T-cells) mature in the thymus gland.

Besides providing a home for lymphocytes (B-cells and T-cells), the ducts of the lymphatic system provide
transportation for proteins, fats, and other substances in a medium called lymph.

Lymph Nodes

Human lymph nodes are bean-shaped and range in size from a few millimeters to about 1-2 cm in their normal
state. They may become enlarged due to a tumor or infection. White blood cells are located within honeycomb
structures(pineapple patterns) of the lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are enlarged when the body is infected due to
enhanced production of some cells and division of activated T and B cells. In some cases they may feel enlarged
due to past infections; although one may be healthy, one may still feel them residually enlarged.

Lymph means clear water and it is basically the fluid and protein that has been squeezed out of the blood (i.e.
blood plasma). The lymph is drained from the tissue in microscopic blind-ended vessels called lymph capillar-
ies.

These lymph capillaries are very permeable, and because they are not pressurized the lymph fluid can drain eas-

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ily from the tissue into the lymph capillaries. As with the blood network the lymph vessels form a network
throughout the body, unlike the blood the lymph system is a one-way street draining lymph from the tissue and
returning it to the blood.

Secondary lymphatic tissues control the quality of immune responses. Differences among the various lymphatic
tissues significantly affect the form of immunity and relate to how antigens (bacteria, virus, fungus, etc.) are ac-
quired by these organs.
• Lymph nodes are filters of lymph
• The spleen is a filter of blood
• Mucosal associated lymphatic tissues acquire antigens by transcytosis to lymphoid tissue from the “ex-
ternal” environment across specialized follicle-associated epithelial cells.

Lymphatics are found in every part of the body except the central nervous system. The major parts of the system
are the bone marrow, spleen, thymus gland, lymph nodes, and the tonsils. Other organs, including the heart,
lungs, intestines, liver, and skin also contain lymphatic tissue.

Lymphoma is a disease in which malignant lymphocytes grow

too fast or live too long. These cells may then accumulate in the
lymph nodes or other areas of the lymphatic system to form tu-
mors. When these cells accumulate in lymph nodes it’s often
called adenopathy - the enlargement of the lymph nodes; but
adenopathy can have other causes.

Blood supplies nutrients and important metabolites to the tis-

sues, and collects back the waste products that they produce,
which requires exchange of respective constituents between the
blood and tissues. This exchange is not direct, however, and is
effected through an intermediary called interstitial fluid or tis-
sue fluid that the blood forms. Interstitial fluid (ISF) is the fluid
that occupies the spaces between the cells and acts as their im-
mediate environment. As the blood and the surrounding cells
continually add and remove substances from the ISF, its com-
position is constantly changing. Water and solutes can freely
pass (diffuse) between the ISF and blood, and thus both are in
dynamic equilibrium with each other; exchange between the
two fluids occurs across the walls of small blood vessels called
capillaries.

ISF forms at the arterial (coming from the heart) end of the capillaries because of higher pressure of blood, and
most of it returns to its venous ends and venules; the rest (10-20%) enters the lymph capillaries as lymph. Thus,
lymph, when formed, is a watery clear liquid with the same composition as the ISF. As it flows through the
lymph nodes, however, it comes in contact with blood and tends to accumulate more cells (particularly lympho-
cytes) and proteins.

The two primary lymph systems are the thymus gland and the bone marrow, where the immune cells form or
mature. The secondary lymph system is made up of encapsulated and unencapsulated diffuse lymphoid tissue.
The encapsulated tissue includes the spleen and the lymph nodes. The unencapsulated tissue includes the gut-as-
sociated lymphoid tissues and the tonsils.

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 Lymphoid Tissue

Lymphoid tissue associated with the lymphatic system is concerned with immune functions in defending the
body against the infections and spread of tumors. It consists of connective tissue with various types of white
blood cells enmeshed in it, most numerous being the lymphocytes.

The lymphoid tissue may be primary, secondary, or tertiary depending upon the stage of lymphocyte develop-
ment and maturation it is involved in. Primary (central) lymphoid tissues serve to generate mature virgin lym-
phocytes from immature progenitor cells. Secondary (peripheral) lymphoid tissues provide a place where
lymphocytes can talk to each other; an environment for antigen focusing, where lymphocytes can ‘study’ an
antigen and sharpen up the immune response by clonal expansion and affinity maturation; and provide a home
for lymphocytes, where they can be available when they are needed.

The thymus and the bone marrow constitute the primary lymphoid tissues involved in the production and early
selection of lymphocytes. Secondary lymphoid tissue provides the environment for the foreign or altered native
molecules (antigens) to interact with the lymphocytes. It is exemplified by the lymph nodes, and the lymphoid
follicles in tonsils, Peyer’s patches, spleen, adenoids, skin, etc. that are associated with the mucosa-associated
lymphoid tissue (MALT). The tertiary lymphoid tissue typically contains far fewer lymphocytes, and assumes
an immune role only when challenged with antigens that result in inflammation. It achieves this by importing
the lymphocytes from blood and lymph.

The substance of a lymph node consists of lymphoid follicles in the outer portion called the “cortex”, which
contains the lymphoid follicles, and an inner portion called “medulla”, which is surrounded by the cortex on all
sides except for a portion known as the “hilum”. The hilum presents as a depression on the surface of the lymph
node, which makes the otherwise spherical or ovoid lymph node
bean-shaped. The efferent lymph vessel directly emerges from
the lymph node here. The arteries and veins supplying the
lymph node with blood enter and exit through the hilum.

Lymph follicles are a dense collection of lymphocytes, the num-

ber, size and configuration of which change in accordance with
the functional state of the lymph node. For example, the folli-
cles expand significantly upon encountering a foreign antigen.
The selection of B cells occurs in the germinal center of the
lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are particularly numerous in the
mediastinum in the chest, neck, pelvis, axilla (armpit), inguinal
(groin) region, and in association with the blood vessels of the
intestines.

Lymphatics

General structure of Lymphatics/Tubular vessels transport back

lymph to the blood ultimately replacing the volume lost from
the blood during the formation of the interstitial fluid. These
channels are the lymphatic channels or simply called lymphat-
ics.

The general structure of lymphatics is based on that of blood

vessels. There is an inner lining of single flattened cells com-
posed of a type of epithelium that is called endothelium, and the
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cells are called endothelial cells. This layer functions to mechanically transport fluid and since the basement
membrane on which it rests is discontinuous; it leaks easily. The next layer is that of smooth muscles that are
arranged in a circular fashion around the endothelium, which by shortening (contracting) or relaxing alter the
diameter (caliber) of the lumen. The outermost layer is the adventitia that consists of fibrous tissue. The general
structure described here is seen only in larger lymphatics; smaller lymphatics have fewer layers. The smallest
vessels (lymphatic or lymph capillaries) lack both the muscular layer and the outer adventitia. As they proceed
forward and in their course are joined by other capillaries, they grow larger and first take on an adventitia, and
then smooth muscles.

The whole lymphatic conducting system broadly consists of two types of channels - the initial lymphatics, the
pre lymphatics or lymph capillaries that specialize in collection of the lymph from the ISF, and the larger lymph
vessels that propel the lymph forward.

Unlike the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system is not closed and has no central pump. Lymph move-
ment occurs despite low pressure due to peristalsis (propulsion of the lymph due to alternate contraction and re-
laxation of smooth muscle), valves, and compression during contraction of adjacent skeletal muscle and arterial
pulsation.

Lymph Capillaries

The lymphatic circulation begins with blind ending (closed at one end) highly permeable superficial lymph cap-
illaries, formed by endothelial cells with button-like junctions between them that allow fluid to pass through
them when the interstitial pressure is sufficiently high. These button-like junctions consist of protein filaments
like platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 or (PECAM-1). A valve system in place here prevents the ab-
sorbed lymph from leaking back into the ISF. There is another system of semilunar (semi = half; lunar = related
to the Moon) valves that prevents back-flow of lymph along the lumen of the vessel. Lymph capillaries have
many interconnections (anastomoses) between them and form a very fine network.

Rhythmic contraction of the vessel walls through movements may also help draw fluid into the smallest lym-
phatic vessels, capillaries. If tissue fluid builds up the tissue will swell; this is called edema. As the circular path
through the body’s system continues, the fluid is then transported to progressively larger lymphatic vessels cul-
minating in the right lymphatic duct (for lymph from the right upper body) and the thoracic duct (for the rest of
the body); both ducts drain into the circulatory system at the right and left subclavian veins. The system collabo-
rates with white blood cells in lymph nodes to protect the body from being infected by cancer cells, fungi,
viruses or bacteria. This is known as a secondary circulatory system.

Lymph Vessels

The lymph capillaries drain the lymph to larger contractile lymphatics, which have valves as well as smooth
muscle walls. These are called the collecting lymphatics. As the collecting lymph vessel accumulates lymph
from more and more lymph capillaries in its course, it becomes larger and is called the efferent lymph vessel as
it enters a lymph node. Here the lymph percolates through the lymph node tissue and is removed by the efferent
lymph vessel. An efferent lymph vessel may directly drain into one of the (right or thoracic) lymph ducts, or
may empty into another lymph node as its afferent lymph vessel. Both the lymph ducts return the lymph to the
blood stream by emptying into the subclavian veins.

The functional unit of a lymph vessel is known as a lymphangion, which is the segment between two valves.
Since it is contractile, depending upon the ratio of its length to its radius, it can act either like a contractile
chamber propelling the fluid ahead, or as a resistance vessel tending to stop the lymph in its place.

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 Function of the Fatty Acid Transport System

Lymph vessels called lacteals (milk suckers) are present in the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, predominantly
in the small intestine. While most other nutrients absorbed by the small intestine are passed on to the portal ve-
nous system to drain via the portal vein into the liver for processing, fats (lipids) are passed on to the lymphatic
system to be transported to the blood circulation via the thoracic duct (there are exceptions, for example
Medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) are fatty acid esters of glycerol that passively diffuse from the GI tract to
the portal system). The enriched lymph originating in the lymphatics of the small intestine is called chyle. As
the blood circulates, fluid leaks out into the body tissues. This fluid is important because it carries food to the
cells and waste back to the bloodstream. The nutrients that are released to the circulatory system are processed
by the liver, having passed through the systemic circulation. The lymph system is a one-way system, transport-
ing interstitial fluid back to blood.

Diseases of the Lymphatic System

Lymphedema is the swelling caused by the accumulation of

lymph fluid, which may occur if the lymphatic system is dam-
aged or has malformations. It usually affects the limbs, though
face, neck and abdomen may also be affected. An estimated 170
million people develop lymphedema, which progresses in three
stages:

Stage 1: Pressing the swollen limb leaves a pit that takes a while
to fill back in. Because there is little fibrosis (hardening) it is
often reversible. Elevation reduces swelling.

Stage 2: Pressure does not leave a pit. Elevation does not help. If
left untreated, the limb becomes fibrotic.

Stage 3: This stage of lymphedema is often called elephantiasis.

It is generally only in the legs after lymphedema that has gone
long untreated.

Some common causes of swollen lymph nodes include infec-

tions, infectious mononucleosis, and cancer, e.g. Hodgkin’s and
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and metastasis of cancerous cells via
the lymphatic system, as well as bra straps, medicinal residues,
supplements and too much meat. In elephantiasis, infection of
the lymphatic vessels cause a thickening of the skin and enlargement of underlying tissues, especially in the legs
and genitals. It is most commonly caused by a parasitic disease known as lymphatic filariasis (often from eating
pigs). Lymphangiosarcoma is a malignant soft tissue tumor (soft tissue sarcoma), whereas lymphangioma is a
benign tumor occurring frequently in association with Turner syndrome. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis is a be-
nign tumor of the smooth muscles of the lymphatics that occurs in the lungs.

Development of Lymphatic Tissue

Lymphatic tissues begin to develop by the end of the fifth week of embryonic development. Lymphatic vessels
develop from lymph sacs that arise from developing veins, which are derived from mesoderm.

The first lymph sacs to appear are the paired jugular lymph sacs at the junction of the internal jugular and sub-
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clavian veins. From the jugular lymph sacs, lymphatic capillary plexuses spread to the thorax, upper limbs, neck
and head. Some of the plexuses enlarge and form lymphatic vessels in their respective regions. Each jugular
lymph sac retains at least one connection with its jugular vein, the left one developing into the superior portion
of the thoracic duct.

The next lymph sac to appear is the unpaired retroperitoneal lymph sac at the root of the mesentery of the intes-
tine. It develops from the primitive vena cava and mesonephric veins. Capillary plexuses and lymphatic vessels
spread form the retroperitoneal lymph sac to the abdominal viscera and diaphragm. The sac establishes connec-
tions with the cisterna chyli but loses its connections with neighboring veins.

The last of the lymph sacs, the paired posterior lymph sacs, develop from the iliac veins. The posterior lymph
sacs produce capillary plexuses and lymphatic vessels of the abdominal wall, pelvic region, and lower limbs.
The posterior lymph sacs join the cisterna chyli and lose their connections with adjacent veins.

With the exception of the anterior part of the sac from which the cisterna chyli develops, all lymph sacs become
invaded by mesenchymal cells and are converted into groups of lymph nodes. The spleen develops from mes-
enchymal cells between layers of the dorsal mesentery of the stomach. The thymus arises as an outgrowth of the
third pharyngeal pouch.

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The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season)
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive

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Arise
1/2 cup Orange Juice
1/2 cup Grapefuit Juice
1/2 cup Tangerine Juice
1/4 cup Cherry Juice
2 Artichokes
4 Asparagus

Process the leaves and the pulp of the

artichoke along with the raw asparagus.
Blend the fruit juices with the artichoke
and the asparagus in the blender.
Served chilled.

Immune/Lymphatic
Epi-Cure

The Hulk
2 cups Orange Juice
1/2 cup Pecans
2 Tbsp Wheat Grass Juice
2 Tbsp Sesame Seeds
1 tsp Flaxseed Oil
1 cup Berries

Make this drink and suck it down

whenever you feel weak, fatigued or
overwhelmed. Thor, the God of Thunder
and Lightning, will deliver healing and
strength. You’ll roar like The Hulk!

Immune/Lymphatic
Epi-Cure

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Orbicularis Oculi

Masseter

Orbicularis Oris

Sternomastoid

Deltoid

Pectoralis Major

Biceps Latissimus Dorsi

Sterratus Anterior

Rectus Abdominis

Brachioradialis

Flexor Carpi Radialis

Tensor Fasciae Latae

Pectineus

Adductor Longus

Gracilis Rectus Femoris

Sartorius Vastus Lateralis

Vastus Medialis

Peroneus Longus

Tibialis Anterior

Extensor Digitorum Longus

Soleus

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~Muscular System~

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~Muscular System Foods~
Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it’s easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Asparagus
Dieting bodybuilders seem to eat a lot of low-calorie vegetables, but asparagus rarely makes it onto their
plate. For some reason, asparagus is just not a common vegetable for many muscleheads. It should be espe-
cially for dieting bodybuilders. First, it is a proven diuretic, allowing the body to lose subcutaneous water.
Second, it is rich in a unique antioxidant called glutathione. Glutathione helps produce hormonelike messen-
gers called prostaglandins, which, in turn, influence growth. Glutathione is also a major player in protecting
the liver from damage when you eat several servings of asparagus every week.

Asparagus is a perennial, an almost leafless member of the lily family. The spears we buy in the store are ac-
tually the shoots from an underground crown. It takes up to 3 years for crowns to develop enough to begin
producing shoots, but once they do, they can produce for up to 20 years.

Folate is essential for a healthy cardiovascular system. Folate is involved in the methylation cycle, a biochem-
ical event in which a methyl group - one atom of carbon and three atoms of hydrogen - is transferred from
one molecule to another. Methylation reactions are the body's biochemical “spark plugs” in a wide variety of
very important reactions. For example, methylation is crucial for the proper transcription of DNA, and trans-
forms norepinephrine into adrenaline, and serotonin into melatonin. When the methylation cycle flows
smoothly, the amino acid methionine is transformed into homocysteine, which is quickly converted into cys-
teine, and then back into methionine. Folate (along with vitamins B6 and B12) is necessary for the conversion
of homocysteine into cysteine. When folate levels are low, blood levels of homocysteine rise, a situation that
significantly increases the risk for heart disease. Homocysteine promotes atherosclerosis by reducing the in-
tegrity of blood vessel walls and by interfering with the formation of collagen (the main protein in connective
tissue). Elevations in homocysteine are found in approximately 20-40% of people with actual heart
disease(not just diagnosed), and it is estimated that consumption of folate daily would reduce the number of
heart attacks suffered by Americans each year by at least 10%. Just one serving of asparagus supplies it all.

Asparagus is a very good source of potassium. Its mineral profile, combined with an active amino acid in as-
paragus, asparagine, gives asparagus a diuretic effect. Historically, asparagus has been used to treat problems
involving swelling, such as arthritis and rheumatism, and PMS-related water retention, studies also show that
Asparagus can shrink and heal aggressive tumors even in children. Asparagus contains a special kind of car-
bohydrate called inulin that we don’t digest, but the health-promoting friendly bacteria in our large intestine,
such as Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli, do. When our diet contains good amounts of inulin, the growth and
activity of these friendly bacteria increase. And when populations of health-promoting bacteria are large, it is
much more difficult for unfriendly bacteria to gain a foothold in our intestinal tract. Asparagus is also a birth
defect protector, so if you’re thinking about becoming pregnant or are in the early stages of pregnancy, make
asparagus a frequent addition to your meals.

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~Muscular System Foods~
Beans, Lentils & Legumes
Oh, no...Oh, YES!!! DON'T BE A BONE HEAD... BUILD STRONG MUSCLES & BONES INSTEAD
Packed with Protein, Calcium, Vitamins, Minerals and nutrition that protects and inhibits cells from disease
and overwhelm, as they target the strength and health of the bones. Legumes, beans and lentils are packed
with nutrition, including protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals, and are very cheap. When sprouted or
cooked right, they are so delicious that even the most hardened carnivores are amazed at the taste and how
they begin to feel. The Power of Proteins main target is first the Musculo-skeletal system It’s easy to under-
stand the excitement in todays marketing of protein. Protein is an important component of every cell in the
body. Hair and nails are mostly made of protein. Your body uses protein to build and repair tissues. You also
use protein to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. Protein is an important building block of
bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood. Along with fat and carbohydrates, protein is a “macronutrient”,
meaning that the body needs relatively large amounts of it. Vitamins and minerals, which are needed in only
small quantities, are called “micronutrients”. But unlike fat and carbohydrates, the body does not store pro-
tein, and therefore has no reservoir to draw on when it needs a new supply. So you may assume the solution is
to eat protein all day long. Not so fast, say true healers and even most of the academically indoctrinated
(trained) nutritionists. The truth is, we need less total protein that you might think. But we could all benefit
from getting more protein from better food sources. The highest and most useable protein comes from
‘Grass’!!! Yup, look at Horses, Cows, Moose, Elk, Water Buffalo, Buffalo, the strongest animal known to
man is the Gorilla... all it eats is fruit and has even been observed eating grasses. Beans, lentils and legumes
grow from specialized grasses.

Bean Sprouts
Eat Well. Live Well. Be Well. Sprout your Muscular System
Studies have shown that in comparison to dried seeds, sprouted foods contain an amazing increase in nutri-
ents. During the sprouting process; the vitamins, minerals and protein increase substantially and the calories
and carbohydrate contents decrease. These comparisons are based on the equivalent water content contained
in the foods that were measured. As expected, analysis showed that dried seeds, grains, and legumes have a
very low water content. Sprouts are a great, inexpensive way of obtaining a concentration of vitamins, miner-
als and enzymes. They contain all of the nutrients found in the various fruits and vegetables. Eating sprouts is
a safe way of getting the nutritional advantage of both fruits and vegetables without contamination and harm-
ful insecticides. However, it’s very important that seeds and dried beans are purchased from a store where
they are fresh, unsprayed and packaged as food. Seeds that are sold for planting may contain mercury com-
pounds or other toxic chemicals.

Cashews
Looks like a developing human fetus or a kidney (individual perspectives)
Cashew nuts are actually the seeds that adhere to the bottom of the cashew apple, the fruit of the cashew tree,
which is native to the coastal areas of northeastern Brazil. While cashew apples are not appreciated in the
United States, they are regarded as delicacies in Brazil and the Caribbean. Cashews are always sold shelled
because the interior of the shells contains a caustic resin, known as cashew balm, which must be carefully re-
moved before the nuts are fit for consumption. This caustic resin is actually used in industry to make var-
nishes and insecticides. Cashews target the Muscles through enhancing circulatory function and delivering
high levels of good fats and proteins to the Muscles.

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~Muscular System Foods~
Eggs
Want to build muscle? Learn to be a smart Egg.
Composed of a yellow yolk and translucent white surrounded by a protective shell, the incredible nature of
the egg is partially found in their unique food chemistry. Eggs are a good source of low-cost high-quality pro-
tein. The structure of plants,humans and animals is built on protein. We rely on protein for our supply of
amino acids, and then our bodies rearrange the nitrogen to create the pattern of amino acids we require. Eat-
ing eggs helps lower risk of a heart attack or stroke by helping to prevent blood clots. A study published in
Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin demonstrated that proteins in egg yolk are not only potent inhibitors
of human platelet aggregation, but also prolong the time it takes for fibrinogen, a protein present in blood, to
be converted into fibrin. Fibrin serves as the scaffolding upon which clumps of platelets along with red and
white blood cells are deposited to form a blood clot. These egg yolk proteins inhibit clot formation in a dose-
dependent manner-the more egg yolks eaten, the more clot preventing action. In fact for centuries egg yolk
mixed with fresh grape juice was a perfect mix that worked like a blood transfusion for injured people who
had lost a lot of blood.

Garbanzo Beans (chickpeas)

A very versatile legume, they are a noted ingredient in many Middle Eastern and Indian dishes such as hum-
mus, falafels and curries. While many people think of garbanzos as being beige in color, there are varieties
that feature black, green, red and brown beans. They provide a good source of protein that can be enjoyed
year-round and are available either dried or canned. If you’re wondering how to replace your emotional and
indoctrinated propaganda needs for red meat in your menus, become a fan of garbanzo beans. These nutty fla-
vored beans are a great source of protein, and when combined with a whole grain such as whole wheat pasta
or brown rice, provide proteins that are beyond that of meat or processed and chemical added toxins in indus-
trial dairy foods and without the high calories or saturated fat found in these foods. When you get your pro-
tein from garbanzos, you also get the blood sugar stabilizing and heart health benefits of the soluble fiber
provided by these versatile legumes. Garbanzo Beans are also a great muscle food.

Oats
Oats are known scientifically as Avena sativa, are a hardy cereal grain able to withstand poor soil conditions
in which other crops are unable to thrive. Oats gain part of their distinctive flavor from the roasting process
that they undergo after being harvested and cleaned. Although oats are then hulled, this process does not strip
away their bran and germ allowing them to retain a concentrated source of their fiber and nutrients. The mod-
ern oat draws its ancestry from the wild red oat, a plant originating in Asia. Oats have been cultivated for two
thousand years in various regions throughout the world. Before being consumed as a food, oats were used for
medicinal purposes, a use for which they are still honored. Oats appear to target every system of the human
body allowing for it’s main target the Muscles to gain the strength and power they desire to fulfill their pur-
pose/function, which is movement.

Rye
Rye has in its composition water, proteins, lipids, carbohidrates, mineral substances (sodium, potassium, mag-
nesium, calcium, manganese, iron, cobalt, copper, zinc, chrome, phosphorus, iodine, boron), vitamins (B1,
B2, B3, B5, B6, B8, B9) and aminoacids

Sprouts
Sprouts contain a myriad of valuable nutrients such as calcium, folic acid, magnesium, manganese, molybde-
num, phosphorus, potassium, silicon, sodium, zinc. This is the only plant that supplies the full range of vita-
mins, from vitamin A, B complex (even B12), C, E to K. Alfalfa sprouts placed in indirect sun for a couple of
days before harvesting, even produce nutritious blood-healing chlorophyll.

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~Muscular System Foods~
Spelt
Spelt is an ancient grain that traces its heritage back long before many wheat hybrids. Many of its benefits
come from the fact that it offers a broader spectrum of nutrients compared to many of its more inbred cousins
in the wheat family. It can be used in many of the same ways as wheat including bread and pasta making.
Spelt does not seem to cause sensitivities in many people who are intolerant of wheat.

Spinach
Be a ‘PopEye’ & kick any Brute’s Butt!
Calorie for calorie, leafy green vegetables like spinach with its delicate texture and jade green color provide a
greater variety of nutrients than any other foods.We all know that Popeye made himself super strong by eating
spinach, but you may be surprised to learn that besides feeding his muscles he was also protecting himself
against osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer, arthritis, and other diseases at the same time. Spinach is
thought to have originated in ancient Persia (Iran). Spinach made its way to China in the 7th century when the
king of Nepal sent it as a gift to this country. Spinach has a much more recent history in Europe than many
other vegetables. It was only brought to that continent in the 11th century, when the Moors introduced it into
Spain. In fact, for a while, spinach was known as “the Spanish vegetable” in England. Spinach was the fa-
vorite vegetable of Catherine de Medici, a historical figure in the 16th century. When she left her home of
Florence, Italy, to marry the king of France, she brought along her own cooks, who could prepare spinach the
ways that she especially liked. Since this time, dishes prepared on a bed of spinach are referred to as “a la
Florentine”.

Soybeans (edamame)
The soybean is the most widely grown and utilized legume in the world and one of the most well researched,
health-promoting foods available today. Soybeans grow in pods, featuring edible seeds. While we most often
think of them as being green, the seeds can also be yellow, brown or black. Like whole grains, soybeans are a
good source of phytoestrogens, plant compounds that may affect blood cholesterol levels, blood vessel elas-
ticity, bone metabolism, and many other cellular metabolic processes. Whole grains are rich sources of lig-
nans that are converted by the human gut to enterolactone and enterodiole. In studies of Finnish men, blood
levels of enterolactone have been found to have an inverse relation not just to cardiovascular-related death,
but to all causes of death, which suggests that the plant lignans in whole grains play an important role in their
protective effects. The muscles love the whole grains, and beans because of the electric force they deliver to
muscle cells.

Tomatoes
They look like the heart and have 4 chambers and are red just like the heart
Recent research clearly shows that tomatoes protective effects against prostate cancer and cardiovascular dis-
ease are due not simply to their lycopene (which is latin for RED food) content, but result from the synergy of
lycopene with other phytonutrients naturally present in whole tomatoes. Tomato juice can reduce the tendency
toward blood clotting, suggests Australian research published in the Journal of the American Medical Associ-
ation.

A high dietary intake of tomato products significantly reduced total and LDL cholesterol levels, while also in-
creasing LDL’s resistance to oxidation (damage by free radicals) in a study involving 21 healthy subjects pub-
lished in the British Journal of Nutrition. More good news for those at risk of atherosclerosis, or just trying to
avoid it, is that tomatoes are a very good source of potassium and a good source of niacin, vitamin B6, and
folate. Niacin has been used for years as a safe way to lower high cholesterol levels. Diets rich in potassium
have been shown to lower high blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease. Vitamin B6 and folate are
both needed by the body to convert a potentially dangerous chemical called homocysteine into other, benign
molecules. High levels of homocysteine, which can directly damage blood vessel walls, are associated with
an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. All of these nutrients work together to make tomatoes a truly
heart-healthy food.

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 ~Muscular SYSTEM~
The muscular system moves the body. The body has almost 700 muscles, each of which consists of special
fibers that can contract. When a muscle contracts, it pulls the tissue to which it is attached, and this pulling re-
sults in movement.

The muscles of the human body can be divided into two main
types. The first type is skeletal muscles and the second is smooth
muscles. A third kind of muscle, cardiac muscle, is found only in
the heart. It has features of both skeletal muscle and smooth mus-
cle. Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones. They move the
bones of the arms, legs, fingers, toes, and other parts of the skele-
ton.

We can consciously control the skeletal muscles, so they are

known as voluntary muscles. The fibers that make up a skeletal
muscle have alternate light and dark cross bands called striations.
One end of each skeletal muscle is attached to a bone that does not
move when the muscle contracts. In most cases, the other end of
the muscle is attached to another bone, either directly or by means
of cord-like bundles of connective tissue called tendons. The sec-
ond bone moves when the muscle contracts.

Muscles move the body only by pulling. They cannot push the tis-
sues to which they are attached. Two sets of muscles, therefore,
control most skeletal movements such as the raising and the lower-
ing of the forearm. One set pulls the bones in one direction, and
the other set pulls the bones in the opposite direction. For exam-
ple, one set of muscles pulls the forearm up, but it cannot push the
forearm down. To lower the forearm, a second set of muscles must
contract and pull it down.

Smooth muscles are found in most of the body’s internal organs.

Unlike skeletal muscles, smooth muscles do not have striations.
Smooth muscles in the walls of the stomach and intestines move
food through the digestive system. Smooth muscles also control
the diameter of the blood vessels and the size of the breathing pas-
sages.

In all of these cases, the smooth muscles contract and relax auto-
matically. That is, we do not consciously control them. For this
reason, they are often called involuntary muscles. Smooth muscles cannot contract as rapidly as skeletal mus-
cles. But smooth muscles can contract more completely than skeletal muscles and do not tire as quickly. Smooth
muscles can thus produce powerful, rhythmic contractions over long periods.

Cardiac muscle has striations like skeletal muscle, but like smooth muscle it contracts automatically and rhyth-
mically without tiring. Cardiac muscle enables the heart to beat an average of seventy times a minute without
rest through a person's lifetime.

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 Ligaments & Tendons

Ligaments and Tendons consist of tough, elastic connective tissue. Ligaments connect one bone to another.
They hold the bones in place, but still allow some movement. Tendons connect a muscle to a bone. When the
muscle contracts, the strong cable-like tendon pulls the bone to which it is attached. The large Achilles tendon
links the calf muscle to the heel.

The muscular system is the body’s network of tissues for both

conscious and unconscious movement. Movement is generated
through the contraction and relaxation of specific muscles.
Some muscles, like those in the arms and legs, are involved in
voluntary movements such as raising a hand or flexing the foot.
Other muscles are involuntary and function without conscious
effort. Voluntary muscles include skeletal muscles and total
about 650 in the whole human body. Skeletal muscles are con-
trolled by the somatic nervous system; whereas the autonomic
nervous system controls involuntary muscles. Involuntary mus-
cles include muscles that line internal organs. These smooth
muscles are called visceral muscles, and they perform tasks not
generally associated with voluntary activity throughout the
body even when it is asleep. Smooth muscles control several
automatic physiological responses such as pupil constriction when iris muscles contract in bright light and
blood vessel dilation when smooth muscles around them relax, or lengthen. In addition to skeletal and smooth
muscle, which are considered voluntary and involuntary, respectively, there is cardiac muscle, which is consid-
ered neither. Cardiac muscle is not under conscious control, and it can also function without external nervous
system regulation.

Smooth muscles derive their name from their appearance when viewed in polarized light microscopy; in con-
trast to cardiac and skeletal muscles, which have striations (appearance of parallel bands or lines), smooth mus-
cle is unstriated. Striations result from the pattern of the myofilaments, actin and myosin, which line the
myofibrils within each muscle cell. When many myofilaments align along the length of a muscle cell, light and
dark regions create the striated appearance. This microscopic view of muscle reveals some hint of how muscles
alter their shape to induce movement. Because muscle cells tend to be elongated, they are often called muscle
fibers. Muscle cells are distinct from other cells in the body in shape, protein composition, and in the fact that
they are multi-nucleated (have more than one nucleus per cell).

Skeletal Muscles

Skeletal muscles are probably the most familiar type of muscle to people. Skeletal muscles are the ones that
ache when someone goes for that first outdoor run in the spring after not running much during the winter. And
skeletal muscles are heavily used when someone carries in the grocery bags. Exercise may increase muscle fiber
size, but muscle fiber number generally remains constant.

Cardiac Muscles

Cardiac muscles, as is evident from their name, make up the muscular portion of the heart. While almost all car-
diac muscle is confined to the heart, some of these cells extend for a short distance into cardiac vessels before
tapering off completely. The heart muscle is also called the myocardium. The heart muscle is responsible for
more than two billion beats in a lifetime.

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 Muscular System - Smooth Muscles

Smooth muscle falls into two general categories, visceral smooth muscle and multi-unit smooth muscle. Vis-
ceral smooth muscle fibers line internal organs such as the intestines, stomach, and uterus. They also facilitate
the movement of substances through tubular areas such as blood vessels and the small intestines. Multi-unit
smooth muscles function in a highly localized way.

Disorders Of The Muscular System

Disorders of the muscular system can be due to genetic, hormonal, infectious, autoimmune, poisonous, or can-
cerous causes. But the most common problem associated with this system is injury from misuse. Skeletal mus-
cle sprains and tears cause excess blood to seep into the tissue in order to heal it. The remaining scar tissue leads
to a slightly shorter muscle

Disorders Affecting Skeletal (voluntary) Muscle

The normal functioning of the skeletal muscle is dependent not only on the integrity of the muscle fibers them-
selves, but also on that of the motor cortex, the pyramidal tract, and the extrapyramidal system (including the
cerebellum). It also depends on innervation by the motor neurons of the brainstem and the spinal cord. In addi-
tion, the proper functioning of the other organ systems, such as the endocrine system, and variations in the con-
centration of various electrolytes may also affect muscle function.

Damage to the motor cortex or the pyramidal tract produces the type of weakness seen in humans after a stroke
or spinal cord injury. Although the paralyzed limb may initially be flaccid (hypotonic), spasticity (hypertonia)
eventually develops. Despite the weakness, muscle atrophy is usually not striking. When the extrapyramidal
system or the cerebellum is the site of damage, instead of weakness there are uncontrolled movements, diffi-
culty with coordination, or both. In either of these situations there is no characteristic change in the muscle, ei-
ther grossly or microscopically. At most, atrophy of type 2 fibers is seen.

Motoneuron Damage

With damage to the spinal motoneuron or its axon, there is flaccid weakness of the muscle with proportionate
wasting. Direct involvement of the spinal motoneuron was typically seen in poliomyelitis, but is now seen more
commonly in the progressive spinomuscular atrophies of infancy and childhood, and in amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) in adults. Spontaneous twitching of groups of muscle fibers (fasciculation) innervated by the
same motoneuron (motor unit) is frequently seen in these disorders.

Progressive diseases of unknown cause may occur in infancy Werdnig-Hoffmann disease) or later in childhood
(Kugelberg-Wielander disease). Both diseases result from degeneration of the motoneurons and appear to be in-
herited in an autosomal recessive pattern. In the infantile form, the baby is often floppy from birth with general-
ized weakness, a poor cry, and difficulty in sucking and breathing, caused by chemical medicines that
pre-pollute the baby in the womb. Many children succumb in early childhood. In the later childhood forms, the
rate of progression is slower and the outlook better. In these children weakness is more marked in the proximal
muscles of the limbs.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive disease of unknown cause, in which both the brainstem and spinal
motoneurons, as well as the corticospinal tracts, undergo degeneration. This is a relatively rapid progressive dis-
ease, with death usually occurring within 3 years of diagnosis (if medical treatments are give) due to swallow-
ing difficulty and respiratory failure. Although some cases of ALS appear to be inherited, most cases occur
sporadically.
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 Neuromuscular Junction

The most common example of disease at the neuromuscular junction is myasthenia gravis. Other, less common
diseases are the myasthenic Eaton-Lambert syndrome and botulism.

Myopathy

Abnormalities of the muscle itself (myopathy) obviously result in muscle weakness, and muscle diseases fall
into two large groups; those with a genetic basis and those which are nongenetic.

Congenital myopathies and the muscular dystrophies constitute the genetic muscle diseases. Congenital my-
opathies are characterized by a generalized weakness which is present at birth. The weakness is usually not pro-
gressive and often improves with time. Muscle fiber necrosis, a characteristic of the muscular dystrophies, is not
seen in the congenital myopathies.

Nongenetic or acquired diseases are all characterized by rapidly progressive weakness of the proximal muscles
of the limbs, and so resemble the limb-girdle form of muscular dystrophy in the distribution of weakness. They
are often included as inflammatory myopathies. Individuals with these disorders have difficulty arising from a
recumbent or sitting position, in climbing stairs, and in lifting heavy objects onto a shelf. They also often have
tender and painful muscles, may be febrile, and may have other manifestations of a systemic illness.

Metabolic Diseases

A number of metabolic diseases have been

associated with muscle symptoms. These in-
clude thyroid diseases and certain endocrine
diseases, particularly Cushing’s syndrome,
which are either spontaneous or secondary to
the apeutically administered adrenocorticos-
teroid hormones. No specific histologic
changes have been described in the muscle in
these disorders. Muscular symptoms are also
seen with some of the glycogen storage dis-
eases. Muscle weakness and paralysis may
also be associated with alterations in the level
of serum potassium.

Myotonia

A delayed relaxation of the muscle after

forceful contraction (myotonic) is another
symptom of muscle disease. This phenome-
non is a characteristic feature of myotonic
dystrophy and of congenital myotonia. My-
otonia is usually present from early life and is
often associated with muscle hypertrophy, but
muscle weakness is not a feature of this dis-
ease. The muscle shows no definite histologic
changes.

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~Muscular/Skeletal System~
Skull

Teeth

Clavical
Scapula

Sternum
Humerus

Rib

Trochlea
Vertebrae
Capitulum
Radius

Ulna Ilium

Sacrum Pubic Bone

Carpals
Ischium
Metacarpals

Phalanges
Femur

Patella

Tibia

Fibula

Calcaneus Cuboid
Talus
Navicular
Tarselmetatrsel
Joints Metatarsals

Cuneiforms Phalanges

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Apples
Adams (atoms) Apple keeps the Cut, Burn & Poison pushing Doctors Away!
APPLES PROTECT AND HEAL EVERY BODY SYSTEM, EVERY ORGAN AND FUNCTION:
IN OTHER WORDS ALL 10,000 TRILLION CELLS LOVE APPLES...Apples are crisp, white-fleshed fruits
with red, yellow or green skin. They range in taste from moderately sweet and refreshing to pleasantly tart de-
pending on the variety. The apple is a member of the rose family, with a compartmentalized core that classi-
fies it as a pome fruit. Apples are such commonly-consumed fruits that it’s easy to overlook their amazing and
unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other foods
even other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving all health goals. When it comes to heart
health, all of us need to keep blood circulating around through our bodies (1,776 gallons get pumped by our
hearts every day!). Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as Protector/Inhibitors
(antioxidants) and support our heart health in this way. Included in this list are quercetin, catechin, phloridzin
and chlorogenic acid. To take full advantage of the nutrients in apples, it’s important to include the skins.
Since the skins are also most exposed to the outside world, we always recommend the purchase of organi-
cally-grown apples to minimize the apple skin’s exposure to unwanted pesticide sprays and other potential
contaminants.

Beans, Lentils & Legumes

Oh, no...Oh, YES!!!
Packed with Protein, Calcium, Vitamins, Minerals and nutrition that protects and inhibits cells from disease
and overwhelm, as they target the strength and health of the bones. Legumes, beans and lentils are packed
with nutrition, including protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals, and are very cheap. When sprouted or
cooked right, they are so delicious that even the most hardened carnivores are amazed at the taste and how
they begin to feel.

Bok Choy
Bok Choy is an excellent vegetable for weight management because it is rich in fiber. It has more calcium and
beta-carotene than its other cabbage relatives and is also high in potassium, folate and Vitamins A, C and K.
Bok choy is an excellent source of phytonutrients which, along with the powerful protector/inhibitor combi-
nation of Vitamins A and C, help keep your body cancer free. Potassium is important for healthy muscle and
nerve function. In addition, the high levels of Vitamin K and calcium promote strong, healthy bones it's main
target in the body.

Celery
This food helps you to bone up for a strong frame, ‘on the run’!
Celery looks like a bone, snaps like a bone, is firm yet flexible like a bone... hmm... gee, now they found out
it's bone food. Having a strong frame is essential to your overall health and it doesn’t matter what your age is.
It's never too early, or too late, to take care of and protect your bones. Celery grows to a height of 12 to 16
inches and is composed of leaf-topped stalks arranged in a conical shape that are joined at a common base. It
is a biennial vegetable plant that belongs to the Umbelliferae family whose other members include carrots,
fennel, parsley and dill. While most people associate celery with its prized stalks, the leaves, roots and seeds
can also be used as a food and seasoning as well as a natural medicinal remedy. Celery has a long and presti-
gious history of use, first as a medicine and then later as a food. The initial mention of the medicinal proper-
ties of celery leaves dates back to the 9th century B.C., when celery made an appearance in the Odyssey, the
famous epic by the Greek poet, Homer. The Ancient Greeks used the leaves as laurels to decorate their
renowned athletes, while the ancient Romans used it as a seasoning, a tradition that has carried through the
centuries.

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Corn
Ear, early, earn, year, yearn, earth, hearth, heart (no accident) and there’s more!
Corn provides bones, brains, and beauty. Corn grows in “ears”, each of which is covered in rows of kernels
that are then protected by the silk-like threads called “corn silk” and encased in a husk. Corn is known ‘botan-
ically’ as Zea mays (pathetic). This ‘scientific moniker’ reflects its traditional name, maize, by which it was
known to the Native Americans (who first created it) as well as many other cultures throughout the world who
loved it and embraced it as a medicinal food. Hot, fresh corn-on-the-cob, or just eaten raw, is an almost essen-
tial part of any summertime party. Fortunately, it is also worthy part of any healthful menu. Corn is a good
source ofthousands of named and unnamed nutrients including thiamin (vitamin B1), pantothenic acid (vita-
min B5), folate, dietary fiber, vitamin C, phosphorus and manganese. The number one target is bones, even
your teeth which comes in rows just like corn does. Then it targets the brain and beauty of the skin. so, Get
Corny!!

Jicama
Jicama is an easily overlooked vegetable that you can find in the produce section of most supermarkets. It
closely resembles the look of the potato, tastes similar to an apple and has a texture like a radish. It may also
be called a yam been root or Mexican potato, but it is technically classified as a legume. Jicama health bene-
fits are numerous because it is an excellent source of fiber, potassium, iron, calcium, and vitamins C and E. In
fact, 1 cup of jicama contains nearly 6 grams of fiber. Jicama helps keep your cholesterol levels under control
and protects against heart disease. Eating jicama also helps boost your immune system, but it’s main target is
that it promotes healthy bones, as it speeds up the healing and cleansing actions of colds and flu.

Kohlrabi
Don’t be put off by the kohlrabi’s octopus like appearance. A key staple in eastern Europe until it was de-
posed by the potato, this delicious bulbous vegetable has a radish like bite, a crisp turnipy texture, and a sweet
cucumber taste. Either pale green or bold purple, kohlrabi grow as a bulbous swelling (or corm) on the plant’s
stem-one kohlrabi per stem. Kohl, which is German for cabbage, aptly indicates which family this vegetable
belongs to. Kohlrabi improves energy circulation; it is effective for edema, candida, and viral conditions. It
helps stabilize blood sugar imbalances and is used for hypoglycemia and diabetes. Kohlrabi reduces swelling
of the scrotum, is an excellent source of vitamin C and potassium. Kohlrabi is also high in fiber. All of this
with it’s main nutritional concentration leads to strong bones.

Pistachios
According to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, pistachios contain considerable amounts of vitamins
and minerals; hence, pistachios make a perfect snack food. Pistachios are a good source of copper, phospho-
rus, potassium, magnesium, and B6. They mainly target the bones. The nuts deliver over 30 vitamins, miner-
als, and phytonutrients, so they pack a considerable wallop from a nutritional standpoint. Pistachios contain
fiber. Lots of it! Pistachios, in fact, contain higher amounts of fiber than many high-fiber foods. If you are try-
ing to boost your intake, pistachios are an excellent source of dietary fiber. If you are ‘waking up’ and finally
looking to replace dead animal body protein with vegetable/plant protein, pistachios eaten in conjuction with
other protein-rich grains, vegetables, and fruits, can help you to add protein to your diet. Pistachio nuts are an
excellent source of protein. Oxidative stress can cause damage to the human body, resulting in diseases such
as cancer and heart disease. Pistachios contain phenolic compounds, which are believed to account for the
protective capability of certain foods. The pistachio nut is placed in the highest group for protector/inhibitors.

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Pumpkin Seeds
The forgotten connection between halloween skeletons and pumkin
Pumpkin seeds, also known as pepitas, are flat, dark green seeds. Some are encased in a yellow-white husk,
although some varieties of pumpkins produce seeds without shells. Like cantaloupe, cucumber, and squash,
pumpkins and pumpkin seeds belong to the gourd or Cucurbitaceae family. Pumpkins, and their seeds, were a
celebrated food of the Native American Indians who treasured them both for their dietary and medicinal prop-
erties. The cultivation of pumpkins spread throughout the world when the European explorers, returning from
their journeys, brought back many of the agricultural treasures of the New World.

While pumpkin seeds are featured in the recipes of many cultures, they are a special hallmark of traditional
Mexican cuisine. Pumpkin seeds have recently become more popular as research suggests that they have
unique nutritional and health benefits. Another reason for older men to make magnesium and zinc-rich foods,
such as pumpkin seeds, a regular part of their healthy way of eating is bone mineral density. Although osteo-
porosis is often thought to be a disease for which postmenopausal women are at highest risk, it is also a po-
tential problem for older men. Almost 30% of hip fractures occur in men, and 1 in 8 men over age 50 will
have an osteoporotic fracture. A study of almost 400 men ranging in age from 45-92 that was published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found a clear correlation between low dietary intake of magnesium
and zinc, low blood levels of the trace mineral, and osteoporosis at the hip and spine.

Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a relative of buckwheat and has an earthy, sour flavor. Rhubarb thrives in cold climates and origi-
nated in Western China, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia and neighboring areas. The traditional role was medicinal-
the dried root was a popular remedy for a wide range of illnesses. Its primary function was to induce
vomiting, although rhubarb is also a mild astringent. This medicinal role caused the price of the dried root to
rise. In 1542, rhubarb sold for ten times the price of cinnamon in France and in 1657 rhubarb sold for over
twice the price of opium in England. Beginning in the eighteenth century, rhubarb began to be consumed in
foods, primarily drinks and soups. Botanically speaking, rhubarb is considered a vegetable, but it’s most often
treated as a fruit though it’s rarely eaten raw. Just like fresh cranberries, rhubarb is almost unbearably tart on
its own and needs the sweetness of sugar, honey or fruit juice added to it to balance out the acidity. Rhubarb’s
nickname is the “pie plant” because that is the primary use for this vegetable.

Sesame Seeds
Open your mind for strong bones, ‘Sesame’
Sesame seeds may be the oldest condiment known to man dating back to as early as 1600 BC. They are
highly valued for their oil which is exceptionally resistant to rancidity. “Open sesame”, the famous phrase
from the Arabian Nights, reflects the distinguishing feature of the sesame seed pod, which bursts open when it
reaches maturity. The scientific name for sesame seeds is Sesamun indicum. While sesame seeds have been
grown in tropical regions throughout the world since prehistoric times, traditional myths hold that their ori-
gins go back even further. According to Assyrian legend, when the gods met to create the world, they drank
wine and beer made from sesame seeds.

These seeds were thought to have first originated in India and were mentioned in early Hindu legends. In
these legends, tales are told in which sesame seeds represent a symbol of immortality. From India, sesame
seeds were introduced throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Sesame seeds were one of the first crops
processed for oil as well as one of the earliest condiments. The addition of sesame seeds to baked goods can
be traced back to ancient Egyptian times from an ancient tomb painting that depicts a baker adding the seeds
to bread dough. Not only are sesame seeds a very good source of manganese and copper, but they are also a
good source of calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B1, zinc and dietary fiber. In addition to these
important nutrients, sesame seeds contain two unique substances: sesamin and sesamolin. Both of these sub-
stances belong to a group of special beneficial fibers called lignans, and have been shown to have a choles-
terol-lowering effect in humans, and to prevent high blood pressure and increase vitamin E supplies to the
body. Sesamin has also been found to protect the liver from oxidative damage. In all of this the primary target
is the bones.

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Sunflower Seeds
Sunshine, lolli-seeds and rainbows...
Sunflower seeds are the gift of the beautiful sunflower that has rays of petals emanating from its bright yel-
low, seed-studded center. The flower produces grayish-green or black seeds encased in tear-dropped shaped
gray or black shells that oftentimes feature black and white stripes. Since these seeds have a very high oil
content, they are one of the main sources of polyunsaturated oil. Looking for a health-promoting snack? A
handful of sunflower seeds will take care of your hunger, while also enhancing your health by supplying sig-
nificant amounts of vitamin E, magnesium and selenium for health and strong bones. While sunflowers are
thought to have originated in Mexico and Peru, they are one of the first plants to ever be cultivated in the
United States. They have been used for more than 5,000 years by the Native Americans, who not only used
the seeds as a food and an oil source, but also used the flowers, roots and stems for varied purposes including
as a dye pigment. The Spanish explorers brought sunflowers back to Europe, and after being first grown in
Spain, they were subsequently introduced to other neighboring countries. Currently, sunflower oil is one of
the most popular oils in the world.

Swiss Chard
Similar to spinach and beets with a flavor that is bitter, pungent and slightly salty, Swiss chard is truly one of
the vegetable valedictorians with its exceptionally impressive list of health promoting nutrients. Swiss chard,
along with kale, mustard greens and collard greens, is one of several leafy green vegetables often referred to
as “greens”. It is a tall leafy green vegetable with a thick, crunchy stalk that comes in white, red or yellow
with wide fan-like green leaves. Chard belongs to the same family as beets and spinach and shares a similar
taste profile: it has the bitterness of beet greens and the slightly salty flavor of spinach leaves. Both the leaves
and stalk of chard are edible, although the stems vary in texture with the white ones being the most tender.

The vitamin K provided by Swiss chard-306.3% of the daily value in one cup of cooked Swiss chard-is im-
portant for maintaining bone health. Vitamin K1 helps prevent excessive activation of osteoclasts, the cells
that break down bone. Addiitonally, friendly bacteria in our intestines convert K1 into K2, the form of vitamin
K that activates osteocalcin, the major non-collagen protein in bone. Osteocalcin anchors calcium molecules
inside of the bone. Magnesium, yet another nutrient on Swiss chard's “Excellent Source” list, helps regulate
nerve and muscle tone by balancing the action of calcium. In many nerve cells, magnesium serves as Nature’s
own calcium channel blocker, preventing calcium from rushing into the nerve cell and activating the nerve.
By blocking calcium’s entry, magnesium keeps our nerves (and the blood vessels and muscles they enervate)
relaxed. If our diet provides us with too little magnesium, however, calcium can gain free entry, and the nerve
cell can become overactivated, sending too many messages and causing excessive contraction. Insufficient
magnesium can thus contribute to high blood pressure, muscle spasms (including spasms of the heart muscle
or the spasms of the airways symptomatic of asthma), and migraine headaches, as well as muscle cramps, ten-
sion, soreness and fatigue. Magnesium, as well as calcium, is necessary for healthy bones. About two-thirds
of the magnesium in the human body is found in our bones. Some helps give bones their physical structure,
while the rest is found on the surface of the bone where it is stored for the body to draw upon as needed.

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 ~Skeletal SYSTEM~
The skeleton of an adult consists of more than 200 bones. The
skeleton forms a strong framework that supports the body. It
also helps to protect the internal organs. For example, the brain
is shielded by the skull, the spinal cord by the spinal column,
and the heart and lungs by the ribs. The skeleton works to-
gether with the muscles, enabling the body to move. The bones
of the shoulders and arms, for instance, serve as levers against
which the muscles that move the arm can pull.

The place where bones meet is called a joint. There are two
basic kinds of joints. Moveable joints such as the elbow, knee,
and shoulder joints permit varying degrees of motion. The
bones of a moveable joint are held together by bundles of
tough, flexible, connective tissue called ligaments. Immovable
joints do not permit any movement of the bones. The bones of
the skull, except for the jaw bones, meet in immovable joints.

The skeleton serves as more than a framework for the body

and a system of levers to help move the body. Bone tissue con-
tains various kinds of cells that play a major role in keeping
the blood healthy. The cells of red bone marrow, the soft, fatty
core of many bones, produce new blood cells and release them
into the blood stream. Yellow bone marrow, the most common
type of bone marrow in the adult skeleton, stores fat. Yellow
bone marrow does not normally produce blood cells.

Two kinds of bone cells regulate the mineral content of the blood. One kind removes calcium, phosphorus, and
other minerals from the blood and deposits them in the bone. The other kind of bone cell dissolves old mineral
deposits, and releases the minerals back into the bloodstream as needed.

Knowledge of the structure and function of bones, and aspects of the skeletal system are essential parts of train-
ing in human biology, medicine, and associated health sciences.

Types of Fractures

A fracture is breakage of a bone; this breakage might be complete or incomplete.

The list summarizes six types of fractures:
1. Simple: A clean break in the bone with little, or no break in the overlaying skin.
2. Green stick: An incomplete break of the bone in which part of the outer shell (cortex) remains intact. This
occurs particularly in children who have more flexible bones than adults.
3. Compound (also known as “open”): a broken bone that pierces the overlaying skin.
4. Communitive: A fracture in which the bone is broken into more than two pieces. A crushing force is usually
responsible and there is extensive injury to surrounding soft tissues.
5. Impacted: A fracture in which the bones involved are driven into each other.
6. Complicated: A broken bone that also involves damage to other organs in addition to the bone, and possibly
also broken skin. An example is a broken rib that punctures a lung.

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 Postural Deformities

Kyphosis: Excessive outward curvature of the spine causing hunching of the back.
Lordosis: Inward curvature of the spine. Some lordosis in the lumbar and cervical regions of the spine is
normal. Exaggerated lordosis may occur in adolescents possibly as a result of faulty posture or due to symptoms
of disease affecting the vertebrae and spinal muscles.
Scoliosis: Lateral “sideways” deviation of the spine. Scoliosis may be caused by congenital or acquired
abnormalities of the vertebrae, muscles, and/or nerves. Treatment may involve the use of external spinal braces
along with specific dietary regiments and fasting.

Other Skeletal Conditions

Arthritis
Arthritis, an inflammation of one or more joints. Over 200
diseases may cause arthritis, including osteoarthritis,
rheumatoid arthritis, gout, tuberculosis, and other infec-
tions. With arthritis there is usually swelling, warmth, red-
ness of the overlaying skin, pain, restriction of motion.

Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease. Osteoarthritis
is due to wear of the articulatory cartilage, and may lead
to secondary changes in the underlying bone. It may be pri-
mary, or it may occur secondarily to abnormal load to the
joint or damage to the cartilage from inflammation or
trauma. The joints are painful and stiff with restricted
movement. Osteoarthritis is recognized on X-rays by nar-
rowing of the joint space due to loss of cartilage and the
presence of osteophytes, osteosclerosis, and cysts in
the bone.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis, is the second most common
form of arthritis, after osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid
arthritis is a disease of the synovial lining of
joints; the joints are initially swollen and stiff, and
are usually affected symmetrically. The onset can
be at any age, and there is considerable risk of
severity. Women are at risk. Rheumatoid arthritis
is an autoimmune disease symptom, and most
people show presence of rheumatoid factor in their
serum. As the disease progresses, the ligaments support-
ing the joints are damaged, and there is erosion of the
bone, leading to deformity of the joints. Tendon sheaths can
be effected, leading to tendon rupture.

Bone Cancer
Bone cancer may occur as a secondary cancer from, for example, prostate cancer. The effect is damage to stem
cells, the cause is known as leukemia.

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Gout
Gout is caused by a defect in uric acid balance in the metabolism of the body, resulting in an excess of the acid
and its urates, which then accumulate in the bloodstream and joints, respectively. The number one cause, medic-
inal residues and eating animals. Gout can result in attacks of acute gouty arthritis, chronic destruction of the
joints, and deposits of urates (tophi) in the skin and cartilage, especially of the ears. The excess urates (uratic
acid from the animals eaten), also damage the kidneys, in which stones may form.

Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis, is the loss of bone tissue. Infection, injury, and synovitis can cause localized osteoporosis of adja-
cent bone. Generalized osteoporosis is common in the elderly and in women, often following menopause. It is
also a feature of Cushings disease and prolongs steroid therapy. Most medicines and a lack of salt causes this
condition. With osteoporosis bones become brittle and are liable to fracture.

Rickets
Rickets is a childhood condition caused by insufficient vitamin D and calcium; not enough salt, not enough sun-
shine. One of the more common signs of children with rickets will be a bowing of the legs.

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Notes

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~Ancient Epi-Cures from Don Tolman~
The Brain is tied to the Nervous System, which is tied directly to the Respiratory System... which links to the
Integumentary System (skin), that’s why the Skin breathes and you have feeling (nerves) all over your body, all
of this links to the Heart and Circulatory System that links to the Endocrine Reproductive System, that is di-
rectly linked to the Digestive & Excretory System that is directly tied to the Lymphatic Immune System, that is
all held together and strengthened by the Muscular/Skeletal System. From Top to Bottom, from Outer to Inner
from Front to Back your body functions as:

“ONE SYMBIOTIC UNIT IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER, NOTHING SEPARATE FROM ANOTHER.
IT’S A MEDICAL/PHARMACEUTICAL LIE TO TEACH OTHERWISE.”

Nowhere is the efficacy of fasting and whole foods more evident than in problems related to the brain & nerv-
ous system. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness. With the high
level of stress now being experienced in our society, consumers are realizing that “adaptogenic” whole foods
and medicinal plants, assist in the prevention of many of the stress related ailments that are engulfing our people
who live in “developed countries”. We are told that Poor mood, depression, and low energy have become epi-
demic in America. There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children that suffer from
some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there
are multiple studies in the medical literature indicating that whole food nutrition is critical to maintaining emo-
tional health. Stress, anxiety, tension and depression are intimately connected with most illness.

The Whole food Farmacist finds success accelerated by teaching whole food treatments, as nature’s medicine to
free the body from the vicious cycle of interference from worry and nervousness that so often takes its toll on
otherwise healthy systems. The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory that pro-
vides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families and caregivers of patients about the need to
closely monitor both adults and children with depression. The drugs under review include bupropion, citalo-
pram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, escitalopram and venlafaxine. It
should be noted that the only drug that has received approval for use in children with major depressive disorder
is marketed under dozens of names it’s called most commonly fluoxetine (Prozac). And by their own admission
is a leading cause of suicide and other toxic “side effects”.

Whether you call the nutritional components of the Brain/Nervous System foods: Botanical Nervines, Ortho-
Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sounding “Scientific”, it’s still as
simple as eating common whole foods that support your bodies Autogenic Self Healing System. At the end of
the day most, if not all psychiatric disorders, are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present
in whole foods. Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way. Embracing the 7 Principles of Health
allows Healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity,
Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events

1. Breathing Fresh Circulating Air

2. Fresh Clean Water
3. Sunshine
4. Walking/Movement (Life is Movement)
5. Whole Foods (especially local, fresh, in season)
6. Loving Touching (non-toxic) Relationships
7. Passion, Pleasure in all you do... Creating a Sense of Gratitude for Being Alive

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~Ancient Epi-Cures from Don Tolman~

Tubular Rinse
1−2 cups Pure Water
1/2 cup Pineapple Juice
2 Celery Stalks
1 Apple
2 Tbsp Oats
1 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
1/2 tsp Flaxseed

Your bones are hollow tubes whose

structure is made up of hundreds of
thousands of tubes. This drink will
clear the way for a strong foundation
of your Living Temple.

Muscular/Skeletal
Epi-Cure

Knumb Me
10 Garlic Cloves (crushed)
3 Hot Peppers (crushed)
1 tsp Clove Oil
2 cups Olive Oil

Mix the crushed garlic and crushed

hot peppers with the clove oil. Let this
mixture soak in the olive oil for a cou−
ple hours before you use it. Then mas−
sage into the muscles, this can alleviate
pain as well as help to break apart and
remove arthritic plaque.

Muscular/Skeletal
Epi-Cure

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 ~“But do you have any scientific proof?”~

“Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past.”
-from George Orwell ‘1984’

Facts, fiction and fad propaganda sold through mass marketing all make for
awesome academic sophistry that media loves to glom onto. This is the stuff
that formally “over-educated,” self proclaimed scholars or those that don’t re-
ally like to think and the result is the same for each, love as well. Why? Well,
because the thinking has been done for them; the results are in and they be-
lieve what the “experts” have to say. They take it at face value, the data they
assume is above reproach, plus, another safety net for them is that, “it was in
the news.” If you approach these kind of folks with any words or ideas that in
anyway, shape or form that could possibly threaten their unthinking comfort of
belief in the “bought-off scientific proof studies” or the “advertising-paid for-
press editorial” that is always so well presented, you leave them but one re-
course and that is to avoid the pain of thinking for themselves. This could lead
to the pain of change, so they say what others of their kind have been taught to
say:

“But Do You Have Any Scientific Proof?”

This statement lends an air of, “I’m a real thinker,” “I am very well read” and “I can only be bothered by good
information” and of course all “good” information is “scientifically verified information.”

Well? Do ya? Do I what?

“But Do You Have Any Scientific Proof?”

By the way, no real thinking person would ever ask this, unless they are of course, in sales and marketing of the
product that they need “proof” for, in order for “really smart” customers, to feel comfortable with their pur-
chase.

“But Do You Have Any Scientific Proof?”

What this really means is, “Please shut-up, I’m in no mood to change.”

Oh by the way, “If you or a friend has a product for people to swallow and you need scientific proof: Just
come up with the money, you’ll get your proof.”

“But Do You Have Any Scientific Proof?”

Millions of dollars were spent gaining the necessary “scientific proof” that the following drugs were safe for
human use. I have included just a sampling of over 250,000 drugs now being driven into mass consumer aware-
ness as your next needed “miracle in a bottle or potion.”

“Pro-Tobacco companies have over 500,000 pages of scientific proof” covering over 600 double-blind studies
that unequivocally “prove” they are not only, “safe” to smoke, but can actually “lead to greater health, as well
as enhanced lung capacity.” Anti-tobacco studies show the exact “reverse,” scientific proof.
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Vitamin C pill and capsule peddlers have hundreds of studies with “scientific proof” that it can cure hundreds
of diseases and avoid others.

Unbiased investigation shows scientific proof that vitamin C from any source other than whole foods can cause
kidney damage and cause harmful toxic side effects.

Eraldin – (heart disease) created corneal damage, glaucoma and blindness.

Orabilex – caused multiple deaths through extreme kidney damage.

Thalidomide – (tranquilizer) created over 10,000 hideously malformed children.

Isoproterenol – (asthma) killed 3,500 men, women and children in the 1960’s.

Phenformin – killed over 1,000 people annually until withdrawn.

Atromids – (cholesterol) caused untold numbers of deaths from cancer, liver, gallbladder and intestinal fail-
ure.

Pronap and Plaxin – (tranquilizer) killed many babies.

Urethane – (leukemia) actually caused the disease to worsen as well as cancer to the liver, lungs and bone
marrow.

Debendox – (nausea) created birth defects.

Accutane – (acne) created hundreds of deafness and kidney failure cases.

-Quoted from – ‘Science or Sham’ by Dr. Roy Kupsinel

What Constitutes Scientific Proof?

An editor of a scientific journal wrote a letter to several leading scientists asking for their participation in a
study to determine, “what constitutes scientific proof?” The first reply came back from a man who sent a very
short note. “The question” he wrote “is much to difficult for me.” He went on to say that he “doubted seri-
ously,” that he could make a “significant contribution to so complex an issue.” This answer was more than the
humility of a great man. It was more than a reflection of scientific honesty. It was the root of a great man’s
whole philosophy of being. It was signed:

-Albert Einstein
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One of the more striking examples of the lunacy, to which a modern academic mentality can lead sometimes, is
the occasional episode during which a university instructor informs his class that science has been unable to
show that life is possible. Lately, since the wider post World War II popularization of the Boltzmann dogma, as
information theory, the professor might concede that, although the existence of life is contrary to the second law
of thermo dynamics, it is a “remote chance,” or a “statistical possibility.” In this way, I want to forewarn the
readers or hearers of this information against such a “misinterpretation” and attack, of some of the FDR’s
observations on the subject of whole foods in the twenty-first century actually having nutritional benefits.
These attacks on whole foods are coming from supplement and pharmaceutical companies because their
“scientific proofs” are showing whole foods no longer have anything to offer. They have to do this other-
wise there is absolutely no justification for their existence. Whenever a whole food is attacked, follow the
money. Who’s paying for the advertising?

Are you aware that academic can mean “having no practical purpose or use,” “scholarly to the point of being
unaware of the outside world?” Formal education can lead some folks to ostentatiously exhibit in a very nar-
row, often time tiresome display of their academic trivia which is intended to, “impress,” empty statements in
the form of questions as in: Do you have any scientific proof?

Isn’t a professor standing in front of a classroom full of student’s evidence enough that life exists?

Could the observable fact that human’s have thrived on whole foods for the entire history of their existence be
evidence enough that our nutritional needs can be met by eating whole foods in the twenty-first century? What
if, in fact, the only nutrition the body truly recognizes and can use in a non-toxic useful way is in the form
of whole foods?

Then what? What if the personal experience of millions of people worldwide with whole foods verifies the
compendium of wisdom collected over thousands of years of human enterprise and its connection with whole
food nutrition: then what? Could you lay down the “weapons of war” in the battle against disease and walk
away from the fight, and then simply embrace the “plowshares of peace-the principles of health?”

Is this idea not academic enough for your formally educated brain? Is health too simple? Is fear of disease more
compelling? Is disease, as some unfathomable mystery so overwhelming you can’t even begin to consider self-
care for the house in which you live? Must you cling to your “trust in the arm of flesh” to your dying breath?
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Can you be brave enough to try fresh air, sunshine, clean spring water, walking, whole foods, non-toxic rela-
tionships and passion for a day? Maybe two? For a week? A month? Longer? It’s been said, “Doing the same
things over and over and expecting a different result is insane.” I know of people who have taken supple-
ments and drugs for years and slowly declined and died. I know of no one that embraced the principles of health
full on and did not see steady improvement and eventual full return to robust vitality. I know, I know, you’re
probably thinking: “But, do you have any scientific proof?”

Imagination is the Mother of all

Knowledge & Wisdom
Among the essentials needed to turn mere survival into the
art of living, perhaps none are more important than wisdom
and knowledge. In a certain sense, these two human aptitudes
are almost indistinguishable from each other; in another sense
they are polar opposites. Knowledge analyzes and differenti−
ates. Wisdom sees only with the eyes of the mind; it envisions
relationship, wholeness, and unity. Knowledge accepts only that
which can be verified by the senses; it grasps only the specific
and the diverse.

The origins of these words hint at their opposition. Wisdom

comes from the Indo−European root verb weid, “to see,” the
same root from which words like “vision” and “Veda” come; the
latter being the name of the ancient, sacred teachings of India,
meaning literally “I have seen”. Knowledge, on the other hand,
originates from the root gno, “to know,” which gave birth also
to the words “can” and “cunning”.

Both wisdom and knowledge are based on experience, but wis−

dom more so that knowledge, which frequently retains experi−
ence only through the filter of conceptual thought, at times
discarding the seeds of life. In contrast, wisdom often stam−
mers, or speaks in images, symbols, paradoxes, or even riddles.
Imagination gives birth to both. Without Imagination there is
no new knowledge no meaning to wisdom. The less we know,
the more we think we know. New discovery does not decrease
the unknowns−it increases them! Behind every door there are
others to open; doors we didn’t even know were there. Modesty
and humility it appears, comes of knowing how much you don’t
know.

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 ~W hol e F o ods a r e t he Hea lt hi e s t ~
“There is always a best way of doing everything.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among the thousands of different whole foods our world provides, the majority of them contain most of the nu-
trients our bodies need.

1. Whole foods are the most nutrient dense.

Nutrient density is a measure of the amount of nutrients a food contains in

comparison to the number of calories. A food is more nutrient dense when
the level of nutrients is high in relationship to the number of calories the
food contains. By eating whole foods, you’ll get all the essential nutrients
that you need for excellent health, including vitamins, minerals, phytonu-
trients, essential fatty acids, fiber and more for the least number of
calories. Foodless foods and lifeless drinks eventually lead to dis-
ease.

2. The healthiest foods are whole foods.

The healthiest foods are whole foods complete with all their
rich natural endowment of nutrients. They have not been
highly processed nor do they contain synthetic, artificial
or irradiated ingredients. Whenever possible, the health-
ier way of eating means purchasing “Earth friendly
Grown” foods, since they not only promote your health,
but also the health of our planet from which the whole
foods come.

3. Surprisingly, most of the healthiest foods

are familiar foods.

The healthiest foods are common “everyday” foods. These include the fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, nuts and seeds, as well as; grain oils, herbs and spices that are familiar to most people.

4. The healthiest foods are readily available.

Although there are many foods that are exceptionally nutritious, many of them are not readily available in dif-
ferent areas of the country. The healthiest foods are foods that the majority people can easily find at their local
market.

5. The healthiest foods are affordable.

Whole foods that are not only familiar and available, but also affordable, especially if you purchase them locally
and in season are the best. This is also the time when they are the freshest and of the best quality.

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6. The healthiest foods taste good.

The healthiest foods are also some of the world’s best tasting foods. Find and create recipes using the healthiest
whole foods that do not overpower, but enhance, the unique flavor of each food. Each recipe should provide a
flavor adventure so you can discover new ways to experience and enjoy the great natural tastes of whole foods.
We are by design; it appears, meant to experience pleasure in all we do. Whole food delights and pleasures us. I
have yet to see anyone swallow pills and capsules and shout, “oh nummy that tastes and smells so good!” Yet
pleasure is a huge part of nutrition. Pleasure triggers the brain chemistry that prepares and triggers the entire
metabolic nutritional process for acceptance by the cells. The cells wait for delivery in great anticipation. You
can feel their excitement from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. Just observe babies or children
who are hungry and see the food coming.

7. Plant whole foods are always under attack.

Keep in mind E. coli, salmonella and other potentially deadly critters only come from animals with intestines.
The media attacks green onions eaten at “O’ Charlie’s” restaurant for an E. coli death or a “food poisoning out-
break” over salmonella. Remember this: green onions don’t have intestines!! Nor do grapes, apples or
peanuts!

Also, if you have a nasty allergic reaction to plant whole foods there is nothing wrong with the food, there is
something wrong with you! It’s so cool because you can fix you! This is what you will learn in the FDR.

Notes

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 ~what’s wrong?~
Health Care is nothing more than the promotion and perpetuation of Disease.
Medical and pharmaceutical science has absolutely, 100 percent, failed in the curing and prevention of illness,
sickness and disease. In fact they have multiplied it hundreds of times over!! Think about this:

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get cancer than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get heart disease than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get diabetes than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get multiple sclerosis, lupus, muscular dystrophy,
asthma, migraine headaches, joint, neck and back pain than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get acid reflux, ulcers, and stomach problems than
ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get chronic fatigue than ever before.

• Every year more and more men and women cause themselves to suffer from sexual dysfunctions and infertil-
ity than ever before.

• Every year more and more men cause themselves to get prostate problems than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to suffer from allergies, arthritis, constipation, fi-
bromyalgia, cold sores, and herpetic breakouts than ever before.

• Every year more and more women cause themselves to have more frequent PMS and more severe PMS than
ever before.

• Every year more and more women cause them-

selves to have menopause problems than ever be-
fore.

• Every year more and more people cause them-

selves to have insomnia than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause them-

selves to have bad skin, acne and dandruff than
ever before.

• Every year more and more kids are told they

have attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity
than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause them-

selves to suffer from yeast infection than ever be-
fore.

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 • Every year more and more people cause themselves to suffer
from depression, stress and anxiety than ever before.

• Every year more and more people cause themselves to get the flu
than ever before.

But, hold the phone!

• Every year there are exceedingly greater amounts of people
going to visit doctors than ever before.

• Every year there are more and more people getting diagnostic
testing, such as blood test, blood sugar tests and x-rays, than ever
before.

• All over the world especially in the U.S. more and more are tak-
ing non-prescription and prescription drugs than ever before.

• Not only are there exceedingly greater amounts of people taking

drugs, but each person is taking more drugs than ever before. The
national average is 35 prescription drugs per household!

• Surgeries are through the roof. More unnecessary surgeries are

performed now than ever before. For example, of the four hundred seventy-three thousand open-heart surgeries
performed in 2005 it is estimated that ten percent may have been necessary.

Notes

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 ~ de a r m r . tol m a n ~

July 14, 2001

Dear Mr. Tolman,

“I was told today by my Doctor to go home and get

my affairs in order, that after three years of fighting
prostate cancer it had won and there was no more
he could do to help me.

I am writing you with tears that are making it hard to see. I love
my wife and children and I am not ready to leave them.

I heard you on a radio interview and wrote down your contact in-
formation. I don’t mean to bother you. I can imagine you are very
busy. If you have any ideas and the time, could you be so kind as to
respond in a way that is convenient to you?”

Sincerely,
Jim

Dear Jim,

“There is so much I would love to share with you about the complexity of the chemical make-up in the matrix of
whole foods and the synergism of one whole food to the next. Maybe some time in the future. Spinach, for in-
stance, has upon analysis been found to contain over 12,000 phytolitic chemical constituents of which only 104
have been named and recorded with some understanding. What I’m suggesting is that you try nature’s
chemotherapy, which is a treatment of whole foods. The following 28 day dietary program will feed the brain,
the blood and the endocrine system the highest synergized nutritional chemistry known to medical science as
applied specifically to the latest oncological studies applied to colon, prostate and breast cancers. Dr. Mitchell
Gaynor, director of New York’s Strang Cancer Prevention Center and Chief Chair at New York City Hospital is
also a professor of hematology and molecular biology at Cornell Medical School is a friend. In Newsweek Mag-
azine November 30th 1998, Dr. Gaynor was highlighted on the cover and with a ten-page section presenting the
new science of whole foods and its relationship to cancer. You can find it on the web at www.newsweek.com. It’s
as if today’s science is now confirming an ageless wisdom of the past. Dr. Gaynor declares, ‘We have seen the
future of cancer research and the future is whole foods.’

I am not a medical doctor, but I work with patients of medical doctors all over the United States, Australia, New
Zealand and Japan. With this in mind I give you the following diet that has helped hundreds with prostate can-
cer to help their doctors help them. An interesting observation of classical period physicians of ancient Rome
was that the earth grows foods under the ground, on the ground and above the ground in trees. They noticed the
human body has three levels also consisting of: a basement, from the navel down; a main floor, from the navel
up to the throat; and upper rooms, from the throat to the top of the head. An intuitive gnosis lead them to under-

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 stand that meals could be prepared that the bodies cellular intelligence
would recognize and bring into play the various systems in the needed lev-
els of the body in generating healing and harmony from a state of chaos.
They noticed a sliced carrot looks like the patterns of the eye, that a walnut
has the pattern of the brain, that a cluster of grapes is in the shape of the
heart and that each individual grape looks like a blood cell. Today’s med-
ical research into whole foods shows the profound accuracy of natures
mimicry applied to these patterns. This was called the doctrine of signa-
tures in past ages. I have made an in depth study of signatures and its ap-
plication to today’s nutritional science.

It is with 40 years of observation and application to human lives I share the

28-day life giving foundational dietary experience with you. Godspeed to
your recovery, Jim. If you have any questions or need assistance in any
way, emotionally or otherwise please call, write, or e-mail me. Thanx for
your interest.”

Don Tolman

28-Day Health Recovery

Each day for the first seven days, you eat no less than eight ounces of Brazil nuts, one large head of broccoli
(raw), one large head of broccoli (steamed), lemon juice, salt and cayenne pepper can be the only condiments
mixed in olive oil (extra virgin). Eat at least 1/2 cup of this oil mix each day. One ounce of whole or fresh
ground flax seed mixed into one large bowl of oatmeal eaten without milk but sweetened to taste with maple
syrup (100 percent real maple syrup, no additives). With this, snack on a variety of red, green and purple grapes
throughout the day (two or more pounds). Your only beverage is pure spring water.

On the morning of the eighth day all food
and water is stopped. In its place you drink
a minimum of two quarts of fresh made Ca-
bala juice and as much as you desire. No
water! No food! Just drink Cabala juice for
14 days. The juice has to be made fresh
daily! Carrots, three apples a whole lemon
and 1/3 of a beet.
On the morning of the 21st day you indulge
the same menu of the first seven days, to the
end of day 28. From this point, it would be
a healthy lifestyle to maintain a diet of 80
percent raw whole foods from the Physi-
cians Committee for Responsible Medi-
cine’s new Four Food Groups Chart that
include fruits, vegetables, nuts-seeds-grains
and legume’s. The other 20 percent of the
healthy diet would include cooked whole
foods especially heavy multi-grain bread,
real whole butter and tubers like yams, po-
tatoes and onions.
July 14, 2005
Dear Mr. Tolman,
“As you already know from my previous letters and
emails, it has been four years since you sent your letter
to me. I’m in the best health of my life. I can honestly
say I have never felt better, even as a young man. My
prostate has renewed itself, and my doctor lets me talk
to some of his other patients in order to share your
whole food walking, water, clean air and sunshine
method of self-care. It makes so much sense to be per-
sonally responsible for your health. Disease, thanks to
you, no longer scares me. I wish with all my heart the
whole world could at least hear your message, from
your own mouth, you are a master of simplicity and
voice. May the heavens bless you in all you do.”
A friend, and now a Farmacist,
Jim

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 ~ T h e Wa r on Di se ase ~
If your looking for a fight...
the FDR is not for you

The human body is an infinitely complex marvel of fine

design, superbly adapted to its functions. A host of spe-
cialized organs, bones, muscles, nerve fibers, blood
vessels and other anatomical features work together in
harmony to maintain the network of interrelated body
systems necessary to maintain life.

In fact, the human body is so complex that even today

not all of its functions are fully understood. Certain
cells are directed by genes to divide into organs with
specialized functions. The senses of sight, hearing,
taste, touch, smell, intuition and imagination connect us
to the outside world. The body is capable of detecting
minute changes in the environment. It can adapt to dif-
ferent conditions and extremes of heat and cold.
Quickly, it can prepare for flight or fight to protect it-
self from danger. However, when the problem is within, as tiny as a bacterium or virus, the human body has its
own protective mechanism in the form of white blood cells and immune cells that neutralize the invader. Many
ingested poisons are made harmless in the liver; waste products are efficiently excreted by the kidneys, alimen-
tary canal, skin, bladder, lungs and skin.

The brain can appreciate beauty, devise and design art forms, compose music and create pictures, solve puzzles,
design clothes, invent rockets to probe space and program computers. With specialized appendages (the hands)
the body can make models and sculptures, communicate by writing and drive cars and planes with incredible
accuracy. The legs provide a means of locomotion. The ability to walk upright allows the arms freedom for
work, games, hugs and so much more. We have come from an age of iron and bronze into an age of tools to an
age of knowledge and philosophy, to an Age of Information that led to an Age of Creative Technology and now
we have entered an Age of Imagination.

Hopefully the Age of Imagination can help us learn how to better apply the technological wizardry of the last 50
years, as it was applied to our own health because it seems apparent they are working against us. We marvel at
computer X-Rays, (CAT scans, MRI’s and PET) as they provide more information than we used to get from au-
topsies. We have over 250,000 patented drugs, (all toxic) laser surgery with robotic ANRM’s and software pro-
grams linked to microscopic (camera) glasses the surgeons wear, bring an accuracy even to the most gifted
surgeon. All of this when applied to crises and trauma especially of setting bones and sewing flesh is awesome,
we’ve come along way. Some how, though, in all of this, we have veered away from watching and observing
people who need help. We use minimal intervention toward watching and observing computer monitors and em-
ploying substantial invasive medical intervention not on a person but on a “patient.” For example, of the over
400,000 open-heart surgeries performed last year, investigative medical publications have found that maybe 12
percent were actually justifiable. The others could have been avoided with dietary consultation. The real sad
part is, for a large percentage that the surgeon induced disability and stroke. Caesarean deliveries have jumped
from 4 percent to 45 percent in many hospitals from the 1970’s to today. Iatrogenisis (doctor induced death) as
of 2005 is now the number one killer in the fight against disease ahead of heart disease and cancers.

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It has been observed by many even in the healthcare industry that we could lay down 99 percent of our
“weapons of war” in the “fight against disease” and as a nation be much better off for it. I for one know in my
heart of hearts, that this is true. We must begin a vigorous campaign to educate ourselves and others in, “self
care” and incorporate the natural medicine that allowed us to survive this long, namely folk medicine. For most
of recorded history the only medicine available was folk medicine. Remedies will only be passed on for multi-
ple generations and for millenniums if they work. Time and distance created the collective body of wisdom we
call folk medicine. Folk medicine then has truly passed the test of time and passed the scrutiny of experience
and result.

Folk medicine is the compendium of wisdom that reflects not just the science of health but also the art and the
method of these principles. For instance, the nature around us in the area of living chemistry presents an array
of non-toxic healing substances that are the Materia Medica of nature’s apothecary. Whole foods provide a safe,
living, energetic, “chemotherapy” if you will. Whole foods are the anatomica metabolic nutricon that consti-
tutes folk medicine. Today, pharmaceutical science is jeal-
ous, envious and even hateful of plants and their attendant
whole foods. Whole foods and plants work. They not only
work, they do their work, their magic and wonders, without
doing harm. There is not one vaccine or drug that can do
that. In my mind, I can see a time coming early on in the
“Age of Imagination” we are now in, when every man,
woman and child embraces “Self Care,” by walking every-
day, eating just whole foods and developing and maintaining
a positive (inner sunshine) attitude. These things go along
way to not only prevent disease but to remit existing condi-
tions. I believe that within this next decade the best of, mod-
ern medicine. Symptomatic response mechanism in the form
of “first aid” will be joined with ancient natural principles of “folk medicinal cures” to form a hybrid, “in
home (effective and cost effective) clinics of Self Care.” Whole food and fasting, working with nature’s air and
water, sunshine and walking, pleasure of family and relationships and passion in creative pursuits, these are the
bed rock of vitality into longevity; these are the seven Principles of Health. As our modern societies very fabric
seems to be fraying at the edges, it is obvious that the valuable heritage of natural healing preserved by “back-
ward” (truly genius) people and their enviable lifestyle of simplicity through time, need to be not only ap-
plauded and honored, but fully embraced into the daily performances of our own individual existence. Self care.
There truly is no greater power than an idea whose time has come.

Love, work, knowledge and wisdom, life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, are the wellsprings of our existence. They should also oc-
cupy, regulate and lead our lives. As these provide feelings of value,
joy and pleasure and a sense of purpose for our having been here.

“What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason,

how infinite in faculty. In form and moving…
how express and admirable. In action how like an angel,
in apprehension…how like a God.”
-Shakespeare

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 ~Helpful Hints for Reading the FDR~
The “7” principles of health are the “science of life.” The science
of life is more powerful than all of the weapons of war, more
powerful than the tyranny in all of its forms of life-negation. For
this cause, the FDR never talks of fighting disease, nor raging war
on bacteria, the FDR is not anti and has no mention of antioxi-
dants, antibiotics (against life) no anti-acids, no antivirals, an-
tibacterials, antiseptics, antifungal, antispasmotics,
antihistamines, antigens, antidiuretics, anticoagulants, anticonvul-
sants, antibodies, (ad nauseum). The FDR’s call is to bring an end
to the terrorism of war, all wars, especially on disease. Isn’t it
abundantly clear to any truly thinking individual we have miser-
ably lost that war? That we only made the so-called enemy
stronger? Let’s drop the weapons of war and the marketing “mys-
tery” of the war. Instead of calling the powerful nutrient activity
of whole food pigments-antioxidants, why can’t we simply say:

(1) “Red food for the Latin lycopene?”

(2) “Orange food instead of carotene?”

(3) “Yellow foods instead of xanthocyanine?”

(4) “Green foods instead of lutein?”

(5) “Blue indigo and violet foods instead of anthocyanins?”

After all, we speak English, not Old Latin.

The FDR is meant to simplify; for this cause, we use com-

mon words when applicable. We have used medical Latin
to reference disease symptoms, just because most people
would look for instance at aneurysm because of their
doctor instead of, “ballooned tube.” Although ballooned
tube is what aneurysm means.

Man is helpless when he lacks knowledge; helplessness

due to ignorance is the fertilizer of cartels, of dictator-
ship of turning ones body over to the, “Experts.”

Self-care is not easy for some. It’s easier to sell ones inde-
pendence for security, than it is to lead a responsible inde-
pendent existence and to be master of oneself. To learn, to
intuit, to trust in the cosmic nature of intelligence that re-
sides in all 76 trillion cells of ones body. It is tough in the
face of multimillion dollar ad campaigns, as well as bought and paid for curriculums of formal education. The
slanted, directed, edited and paid for mass media editorials of T.V., newspapers and magazines.

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 ~A P ubl ic S tat em en t ~
By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD;
Deborah Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD...
and of coarse Don Tolman, N.A. DR (Not A Doctor)

Something is wrong when regulatory agencies ignore published statistics

showing that government-sanctioned medicine is a real hazard. No one
had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing
with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That
has now changed.

A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence

and their findings are absolutely shocking. These researchers have au-
thored a paper titled “Death by Medicine” that presents compelling evi-
dence that today’s system frequently causes more harm than good.

This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hos-
pital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year.
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed
annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to un-
necessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year. The most stun-
ning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by
conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evi-
dent that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and
injury in the United States (by contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697,
while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5).

We have published this statement to memorialize the failure of the American Medical system. By exposing
these gruesome statistics in painstaking detail, we provide a basis for competent and compassionate medical
professionals to recognize the inadequacies of today’s system and at least attempt to institute meaningful re-
forms.

Notes
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 ~Licensed Witch Doctors ~
Ninety-eight percent of modern medicine is simply the embrace of
voodoo, superstition and ignorance that over time has been elevated to
the stature of, “God’s Revealed Treatments” by the masses. Pharma-
ceutical drug lords with academic sophistry and the use of dead Latin
blended perfectly with overwhelming “fear” tactics have cemented
the entire dark and vile medical “health-care” industry into the
minds, hearts and body fluids of hundreds of millions of unquestion-
ing innocent people. They murder hundreds of thousands of these
“patients” every year. Iatrogenocide is their own word for doctor in-
duced mass slaughter. They make over two trillion dollars annually
for killing people and perpetuating disease.

Some primitive peoples, as we know, believe that any disease repre-

sents the entry into the person’s body of some evil spirit or entity,
which was caused to enter it by some malignant voodoo man or
witch-doctor. The unfortunate victim remains so afflicted until he
rights a wrong, appeased the witch-doctor, or secures the services of
another, whose “magic” is more powerful than that of the original
spell-caster. When once this “evil spirit” has been removed, he is well
and strong again; if he fails in this, he dies!

Strange as it may seem, a modified form of this same belief underlies public thinking, and constitutes a basic
belief of many doctors. True, we no longer believe that an “evil spirit” has entered into the body of a sick per-
son, but this belief survives in the form of thinking that disease is an “entity” of some sort. This entity will
strike, attack or is some how “caught” by the individual and can only be expelled or driven-out by suitable
medicine, which is something in a bottle, injections, a knife or radiation. When this “entity” has been expelled,
the patient is “cured.” Such is the popular conception of today. This is the scientific pharmaceutical sophistry I
was speaking of that drips with malicious money-grubbing intent.

As opposed to this, the whole food Farmacist believes that so called “diseases” represent merely bodily states
or conditions, nearly always self-induced, not “caught” or “attacked.” These are manifested in a series of
symptoms, which are themselves the very processes of cure.

The body makes curative actions to counteract disease and manifestation to restore the conditions of health. The
whole food Farmacist teaches that disease is a healing effort, a struggle of the vital powers to clean the system
and recover the normal state. This effort should be aided, directed and regulated, if need be, but never sup-
pressed. What is this mysterious thing, disease? It is simply an effort to remove obstructing (postulant toxic
plaque) material from the inner domain, in order to repair damages. Disease is a process of house cleaning. It is
a healing effect. It is a vital struggle to overcome obstructions and to keep the channels of circulation free.
Tubes are meant to flow freely. You, physically, are nothing but tubes.

All disease, at some period or other of its course, is a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied by suffer-
ing; disease, is an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or decay, which has taken place in weeks,
months, sometimes years beforehand and with no health promoting assistance from the individual. It goes on
unnoticed, and after a chronic condition is developed, acute symptoms appear and are diagnosed by doctors as
“disease.”

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So-called disease is, therefore, in the vast majority of
cases (95 percent), merely a curative effort on the part of
nature; it is the process of cure itself manifested in a set
of symptoms. They are attempting to “cure” a disease, in
the ordinary sense of the word that leads us to a ridicu-
lous paradox; namely, an attempt to cure a curing
process! The disease IS the cure. The outward manifes-
tations, the symptoms we notice, represent merely the
outward and visible signs of this curative process in ac-
tion. Any attempt to deal with or smother these symp-
toms merely retards the process of cure to that extent.
Instead of treating symptoms, we should aim at the
“causes,” of the so-called disease, which are really the
dangerous behavioral lifestyle factors involved, and those that have brought about the abnormal conditions
noted. Once we have removed these causes (start walking eating whole foods, drinking water, getting into sun-
shine, etc.), the disease (so-called) disappears, and the symptoms (or processes of repair) vanish. The person is
then restored to health. It is that simple. It is simply truest truth.

Medical Drug marketing is gonna shift…

(It’s happening now)

From the cancer spit test using salivary analysis (that’s wrong nine out of ten times), to the radio isotope at-
tached to the PIB that lights up under a PET scan detecting Alzheimer’s plague, to handheld scanners used in
the field by EMI’s to detect bacterial diseases, to spherical nanobot submarines that dive into your bloodstream
and do war with cancer cells, none comes even close to the coming announcement written up and packaged for
sell to the public by the pharmaceutical drug lords to be distributed to their puppets in the “Mass Media.” This
is after, of course, it is given blessing from the worldwide broadcast on the White House lawn by the President
of the United States. History does and will repeat itself. The “All out War” on disease came from the President,
as did the official Declaration of War on cancer and other “diseases” that, “attack” innocent people. But this
war is different. The one that’s coming is going to be a “war on average.” A lot of people have real mathemati-
cal difficulties with, “averages.” Being well is now more than ever before taking a step down to the “deep-
seated fear and angst” of being… “average.” Millions are thrilled by being sick, or, “going to the doctor.”
What a thrill for thousands who secretly, (some openly) pray for a stay in the hospital. They make sure “every-
one” knows about it. They would rather be sick or even hospitalized than to just be, well… average.

The, “white coat lab boys,” the, “bio-elves” of Big Santa’s pharmaceutical laboratories have the, “magic spell
pots” brewing right now… day and night… due to leaps in our “supposed” understanding of the deep (as of
yet) unfathomable mystery of brain function. This unproven approach of “breakthrough” brain chemistry will
usher in a new age of, “biologically enhanced humans,” at least that’s going to be the sales pitch. Can drugs in
reality make you smarter and happier? Can they do it with no downside, no destructive neurological side affects
like artificial wombs in the living room for growing your baby and lungs grown in a saline tank and built to
order? Neuro science is the “science” to keep your eye on. The next drug war will “honor” these folks. Tons of
cash will be made. There will be a pill to help you win “Texas Hold ‘em,” a pill for concentration, data process-
ing, memory, addiction busters, vision speed induction for sports; like baseball (you’ll see a 102 mph curve ball
in slow mo’), Viagra for the brain, a “positive” attitude! This will be the, “ERA of Neural Cosmetic Surgery in a
pill.” No need to feel average, ever again!

Microchip brain implants will do away with remote controls, light switches and car keys. The motor cortex
nerve signals will be rerouted to a chip that will send them to a computer that in turn will operate your stereo,
DVD, wheel chair, hover carts, jazzy’s, rascal’s, lights and cars, etc.
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Hydraulic arms, legs, hands, and feet stem-cell sperm babies, dialysis machines with living kidneys in them
doing the filtering work, gas permeable micro fiber artificial lung implants, under the skin battery shocks will
keep the tummy feeling full for weight loss, band aids made out of human cells for speed healing, four dimen-
sional viewing with injected fourth color cone cells that gives our genes an ability to see waves of light we can’t
even imagine right now, implanted cameras and recorders will allow the blind to see and the deaf to hear, laser
scanable eye contacts for readouts on systems, blood pressure, blood sugar, etc. Microchip cell phones with
wireless micro-vibrations will be implanted into a tooth, and using bone conduction you’ll hear and talk for
hours at will (never lose your cell phone again)! Leg implanted vials with microchips will read body systems
and deliver on “demand,” or “need,” over 500 drugs from Prosac to Viagra, Lipitor, Celebrex etc.

The big multi trillion dollar “don’t be average” campaign, though, will revolve around the brain. Illegal recre-
ational drugs will simply be renamed (as they always have been) and the, “cosmetic brain” era will be off to the
races. The question is will any of this be good for us? And will any of this be good for our, unborn future gener-
ations? The point of medicine used to be to make sick people well; we lost sight of that a hundred years ago.
Nature in the end always wins. Embrace nature. Be a whole foods Farmacist. Embrace the knowledge of self-
care. Let the wizards of the synthetic artificial lifestyle follow each other as lemmings over the cliff as they
drown together in the ocean of sophisticated academic ignorance. Keep it simple sweetheart.

*Pharmaceutical drug lords and their legally licensed drug dispensing puppet doctors call anyone whose not
part of their team, “Quacks.” The unthinking masses in turn, and in unison, turn their noses up and give a glare
of disdain to these “poor, ignorant, simple minded people,” who carry more truth in their little finger than the
five-hundred thousand drugs and millions of unnecessary surgeries so sophisticatedly delivered up for big
bucks. Think Again.

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 ~Church of Transplantology~
Wanna Donate an Organ...
Better Think About it.
A segment of the medical industry is waiting for you to have a
serious accident. They’re waiting for you to do something stu-
pid. In fact, they’re counting on it. They make their money on
the bodies of the freshly dead. If you’re between the ages of 18
to 35, you’re a prize candidate for organ donation, because
those ages have over twice the deaths due to accidents. Pub-
lished studies show that the number one, “leading cause” of
death amongst organ donors is the organ donation procedure it-
self. In other words, most are still alive when the organs are
procured. With all of the hype from “paid for” celebrity endorsement, and media, “paid for” editorial stories of
“Timmy’s Story” or “Little Maggie’s story” of being “alive,” due to an organ donor – (all financed by OPO’s
organ procurement organizations) it seems cold blooded and cruel to question the process of organ donation.
Who doesn’t want to see a child live, by giving up organs you no longer need? Too bad it’s not as simple as that.
Legally dead used to mean no pulse for ten to 15 minutes (depending on the state) with no measurable brain ac-
tivity and brain death is a medical fiction to create control and legal protection. Now the brain can be very much
alive with activity just as long as there has been no pulse for two minutes (livers and hearts are no longer use-
able after 2 minutes and they are the most in demand, behind kidneys). Sadly, investigative research shows
many accident victims could have recovered if they hadn’t been, “harvested.” Wanna donate? Better give some
deep thought and research, first.

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 ~ P re s cr i p t ion Drugs ~
Some of the women who work as Federal
Budget Analysts in Washington, DC did a
search of offshore chemical synthesizers
that supply the active ingredients found in
drugs approved by the FDA. As they had
revealed in past issues of “Life Exten-
sion,” a significant percentage of drugs
sold in the United States contain active in-
gredients made in other countries.

In their independent investigation of how

much profit drug companies really make,
they obtained the actual price of active in-
gredients used in some of the most popular
drugs sold in America. Since a lot of drugs
can sell for anywhere from $2.00 per tablet to $90.00 per tablet, they were surprised at the findings. Natural
supplement companies run at, or less than, drug company costs, and supplement companies don’t have to pay
for research as well. The plastic bottles with labels almost always cost more than the “miracle” pills and cap-
sules inside.

This drug list speaks for itself.

Celebrex 100 mg. Paxil 20 mg.

• Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
• Cost of general active ingredients: $ 0.60 • Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
• Percent markup: 21,712% • Percent markup: 2,898%

Claritin 10 mg. Prevacid 30 mg.

• Consumer price (100 tablets): $215.17 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
• Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71 • Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01
• Percent markup: 30,306 • Percent markup: 34,136%

Keflex 250 mg. Prilosec 20 mg.

• Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
• Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88 • Cost of general active ingredients: $0.52
• Percent markup: 8,372% • Percent markup: 69,417%

Lipitor 20 mg. Prozac 20 mg.

• Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $247.47
• Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80 • Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
• Percent markup: 4,696% • Percent markup: 224,973%

Norvasec 10 mg. Tenormin 50 mg.

• Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
• Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14 • Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
• Percent markup: 134,493% • Percent markup: 80,362%

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Vasotec 10 mg. Zithromax 600 mg.
• Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19
• Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20 • Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
• Percent markup: 5,185% • Percent markup: 7,892%

Xanax 1 mg. Zocor 40 mg.

• Consumer price (100 tablets): $136.79 • Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
• Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024 • Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
• Percent markup: 569,958% • Percent markup: 4,059%

Zestril 20 mg. Zoloft 50 mg.

• Consumer price (100 tablets): $89.89 • Consumer price: $206.87
• Cost of general active ingredients: $3.20 • Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75
• Percent markup: 2,809% • Percent markup: 11,821%

On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit, did a story on generic
drug price gouging by pharmacies. He found in his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked
up as much as 500,000 percent or more. Yes, that’s not a typo...500 thousand percent! He goes on:
“So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this
case, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies themselves. For example, if you had to buy a prescription
drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills. The pharmacist might tell you that if
you get the generic equivalent, they would only cost $80, making you think you are ‘saving’ $20. What the
pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have only cost him $10!”

At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not there were any pharmacies that did
not adhere to this practice, and he said, “Costco, Sam’s Club and other discount volume stores consistently
charged little over their cost for the generic drugs. I went to the discount store’s web site, where you can look
up any drug, and get its on-line price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the on-line prices. I
was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience, I had to use the drug, Comparing,
which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients. I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at
CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I
paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at another discount store for $28.08. I would like to mention, that although
these are a ‘membership’
type store, you do NOT have
to be a member to buy pre-
scriptions there, as it is a fed-
erally regulated substance.
You just tell them at the door
that you wish to use the phar-
macy, and they will let you
in.”

Why not just stop the drug use

and abuse and discover the
principles of being healthy
and embrace them? Spend
your money on real medicine
like water, apples and
peaches!

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 ~ W o rt h Y o ur S a l t ? ~
The Dirt on Salt (and water)
Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures, particularly humans. Water and salt regulate the
water content of the body. Water itself regulates the water content of the interior of the cell by working its way
into all of the cells it reaches. It has to get there to cleanse and extract the toxic wastes of cell metabolism.

Salt forces some water to stay outside the cells. It balances the amount of water that stays outside the cells.
There are two oceans of water in the body; one ocean is held inside the cells of the body, and the other ocean is
held outside the cells. Good health depends on a most delicate balance between the volume of these oceans, and
this balance is achieved by salt… unrefined salt.

When water is available to get inside the cells freely, it is filtered from the outside salty ocean and injected into
the cells that are being overworked despite their water shortage. This is the reason why in severe dehydration
we develop an edema and retain water.

The design of our bodies is such that the extent of the ocean of water outside the cells is expanded to have the
extra water available for filtration and emergency injection into vital cells. The brain commands an increase in
salt and water retention by the kidneys.

The reason that we get an edema is when we don’t drink enough water. Initially, the process of water filtration
and its delivery into the cells is more efficient at night when the body is horizontal. The collected water, which
mostly pools in the legs, does not have to fight the force of gravity to get onto the blood circulation.

If reliance of this process of emergency hydration of some cells continues for long, the lungs begin to get water-
logged at night and breathing becomes difficult. The person needs more pillows to sit upright to sleep. This con-
dition is the consequence of dehydration. However, you might overload the system by drinking too much water
at the beginning. Increases in water intake must be slow and spread out until urine production begins to increase
at the same rate that you drink water.

When we drink enough water to pass clear urine, we also pass out a lot of the salt that was held back. This is
how we can get rid of edema fluid in the body; by drinking more water. Not diuretics, but more water!!

In people who have an extensive edema and show signs of their heart beginning to have irregular or very rapid
beats with least effort, the increase in water intake should be gradual and spaced out, but not withheld from the
body. Naturally, salt intake should be limited for two or three days because the body is still in an overdrive
mode to retain it. Once the edema has cleared up, salt should not be withheld from the body.

Salt has many other functions than just regulating the water content of the body.

Here are some of the more vital functions of salt in the body:
1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, contrary to the misconception that it causes high
blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure in conjunction with water. Naturally
the proportions are critical.

2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.

3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics.

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4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the body. It is used for local power genera-
tion at the sites of energy need by the cells.

5. Salt is vital to the nerve cells’ communication and information processing all the time that the brain cells
work, from the moment of conception to death.

6. Salt is vital for absorption of food particles through the intestinal tract.

7. Salt is vital for the clearance of the lungs of mucus plugs and sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma and cystic
fibrosis.

8. Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and congestion of the sinuses.

9. Salt is a strong natural histamine neutralizer.

10. Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle

cramps.

11. Salt is vital to prevent excess saliva production

to the point that it flows out of the mouth during
sleep. Needing to constantly mop up excess saliva
indicates salt shortage.

12. Salt is absolutely vital to making the structure

of bones firm. Osteoporosis, in a major way, is a re-
sult of salt and water shortage in the body.

13. Salt is vital for sleep regulation. It is a natural hypnotic.

14. Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of diabetics.

15. Salt on the tongue will stop persistent dry coughs.

16. Salt is vital for the prevention of gout and gouty arthritis.

17. Salt is vital for maintaining sexuality and libido.

18. Salt is vital for preventing varicose veins and spider veins on the legs and thighs.

19. Salt is vital to the communication and information processing nerve cells the entire time that the brain cells
work from the moment of conception to death.

20. Salt is vital for reducing a double chin. When the body is short of salt, it means the body really is short of
water. The salivary glands sense the salt shortage and are obliged to produce more saliva to lubricate the act of
chewing and swallowing and also to supply the stomach with water that it needs for breaking down foods. Cir-
culation to the salivary glands increases and the blood vessels become “leaky” in order to supply the glands
with water to manufacture saliva. The “leakiness” spills beyond the area of the glands themselves, causing in-
creased bulk under the skin of the chin, the cheeks and into the neck.

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21. Sea salt contains about 80 mineral elements that the body needs. Some of these elements are needed in trace
amounts. Unrefined sea salt is a better choice of salt than other types of salt on the market. Ordinary table salt
that is bought in the super markets has been stripped of its companion elements and contains additive elements
such as aluminum silicate to keep it powdery and porous. Aluminum is a very toxic element in our nervous sys-
tem. It is implicated as one of the primary causes of Alzheimer’s disease.

22. Twenty-seven percent of the body’s salt is in the bones. Osteoporosis results when the body needs more salt
and takes it from the body. Bones are 22 percent water. Is it not obvious what happens to the bones when we’re
deficient in salt or water or both? But time tells all.

TOP ESSENTIALS of LIFE

1. Oxygen
2. Water
3. Salt
4. Potassium
5. Exercise

FACT – No one can live without these. Mainstream medicine

too often ignores two and three in favor of selling drugs and
procedures to treat the symptoms of dehydration.

FACT – Nothing kills life quicker than a lack of water.

FACT – The people with the worst health drink the least water
and use the most deadly diuretic drought causing drugs is
processed caffeine and/or hard alcohol.

FACT – The salinity of the water outside the cells in our bod-
ies is the same as the ocean.

FACT – In the Middle Ages, people were put to a horrible

death by salt deprivation.

FACT – Health-care makes big bucks by selling a quart of water with salt in it (Saline 4) for up to $350.00 in-
stalled (I.V. bags) but won’t tell the patients they do indeed need more water and salt in their diets.

FACT – How can you expect drug companies to do research on the importance of water in our daily lives when
they can’t make money on it? Who does research to put themselves out of business?

FACT – No two substances in the Bible are mentioned more than water and salt.

FACT – The environment of an unborn baby is water and salt.

HISTORY
Heru Pirene, the Belgian historian, observed that during the high Middle Ages, the entire coast of the Atlantic
was deserted and the entire continent was thrown into a Dark Age of human under-development. Historians tell
us that it was caused to great extent by the lack of salt in the human diet, the flooding of all salt flats having dis-
abled every salt farm along the coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. All of Europe suf-
fered from a salt famine that was to last almost 500 years. The daily average ration fell to less than two grams
per person and caused many to die from dehydration and madness. The extent of the salt famine reported by
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Henry Pirene caused human flesh to be sold on the open-air markets and created a epidemic of crazed people
who, to replenish their salt, drank blood from the neck artery of the person they had just slain. Quick to exploit
the desperate situation for their own gain, the rulers of Europe grabbed the remnants of the salt stock and ex-
acted exorbitant salt taxes. Heavily burdened by tariffs and gables, common salt became a luxury but also
caused mass population shifts and exodus, lured invaders and caused wars. Mined salt from the depths of the
earth was substituted, but the lack of live and balanced trace elements in rock salt lowered the mental equilib-
rium and intellect level almost as much as sheer absence of salt.

The late French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel kept a chicken heart alive for over 27 years by having the pulsating
heart in a solution of sea salt, i.e. isotonic seawater. Dr. Carrel (actually an assistant forgot to refresh the water)
voluntarily ended the experiment after a third of a century, having proven that living cells can have physical im-
mortality.

In the theory of acid and alkaline balance, chronic disease such as cancer is caused by the acidification of the
blood, lymph and all cellular tissues. Real sea salt is one of the basic elements necessary to correct this problem.

Natural sea salt (reconstituted seawater) allows liquids to freely cross body membranes, the kidney’s glomeruli
and blood vessels walls. Whenever the sodium chloride concentration rises in the blood, the water in the neigh-
boring tissues is attracted to that salt-rich blood, and the cells then re-absorb the enriched intra-cellular fluid. If
they are functioning properly, the kidneys remove the saline fluids easily. Refined salt does not allow this free
crossing of liquids and minerals and causes accumulated fluids to stagnate in joint, producing edema and
chronic kidney problems.

Salt is the single element required for the proper breakdown of plant carbohydrates into usable and assailable
human food. ONLY WHEN SALT IS added to fruits and vegetables can saliva and gastric secretions readily
break down the fibrous store of carbohydrates, etc. Once salt is dissolved and ionized, the salt possesses a defi-
nite reactivity, has full electromagnetic capabilities, and passes more easily into the large colon where it will
have a sanitizing effect.

People who eat refined salt develop a craving for salt, because the salt that they eat is not satisfying their needs.
They then use more and more salt, in the desperate effort to get what they need; taking big amounts of refined
salt (chemical) burdens the kidneys and adrenal glands that are very important for calcium utilization. Modern
physiology has demonstrated that an excess of refined salt interferes with the absorption of nutrients and de-
pletes calcium. Sea salt enhances calcium absorption and nutrient utilization in general.

A small amount of salt can be added to a glass of water to dissolve and to activate its powers. By adding salt to
your drinking water adds alkaline properties and mineral content. The minerals it contains are too valuable to
ignore.

Salt, water and sunshine mixed is the very basis of all life and even health of a given life. The earth is 70%
water, so is our bodies. 90% of the Earths water is salt water. 90% of our bodies water is salt water. When sun-
light shines on salt water it ionizes into calcium. That’s why the ocean is filled with calcium, as it settles onto
the floor of the ocean, it covers it with thick in layers of calcium. Coral calcium exists because of this. All sea
shells and crustaceans shells (lobsters, oysters, mussels, crabs, etc.) are all made of calcium. Then the overload
of calcium ionizes into magnesium, then iron, then all of the known minerals. The ocean is full of all known nu-
tritional and non-nutritional minerals. Your body does the same thing when you eat salt and drink water and get
into sunlight. Most people are mal-illuminated. They fear the sun and salt because of Pharma/medical propa-
ganda that uses that fear to sell products created by your lack of sunlight, water, and salt. Good Salt, Sea Rock
etc. not commercial Pharma salt with aluminum and other chemical additives, water and sunshine are the keys
to health, especially heart health.
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 ~T el e o lo g i c a l N ut r i t i o n a l Ta r ge t i n g ~
D oc t ri n e o f Si g na t u r e s : T . N . T .

Nature’s Medi-Signs
Have you ever noticed that a walnut looks like the brain? That a sliced carrot looks like the pupil
and iris of the eye? That a cluster of grapes has the shape of the heart
and each grape looks like a blood cells? That a tomato is red
and has four chambers just like the
heart? That an avocado looks like
a womb and cervix with a
swollen seed and that it takes
exactly nine months to grow
from blossom to ripened fruit?
Have you ever wondered why we
call certain legumes kidney beans?

Would it surprise you that today’s medical research into human nutrition has confirmed the efficacy of observa-
tional patterns of food to human health in organs and systems of the body? This observation of similarities an-
ciently was called the Doctrine of Signatures. Today’s investigative nutritional science is proving that folk
wisdom is tomorrow’s new whole food nutritional medicine. From folk medicine to modern cure’s whole foods
offer the solution.

Notes

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 ~ H a rv a r d R ep r i n t ~
With permission of the Author

A reprint from Harvard Medical International Publishing Editorial Volume III.

The Signatures of the Walnut and the Tomato

Richard K Ottley
Director Cytochemistry Department

Biology 400, Section 19

T.A. Diter Waite

11-13-99

As we analyze the history of ancient men, we find that they understood many of the benefits of certain foods to
congruent parts of the body. Don Tolman, a researcher of ancient civilization psychology and also an expert
in body nutrition, discovered that many of the ancients determined the value of various fruits, vegeta-
bles, nuts and grains by simply reading its “signature.” Tolman explained that the word “signa-
ture” when broken up into its root words means, “sign of nature” (Tolman,
speech). The traditions were passed from chief to chief and from high
priest to high priest. It was their way of determining nutritional value.
The strong conviction in a supreme being, one who blessed the earth
with food, encouraged their belief. “They ate walnuts because it looked
like the brain. They also ate tomatoes because they believed it looked
like the heart,” Tolman said. Tolman later explained that, “Signatures is
an ancient folk wisdom that was had by nearly every culture at one time.”
Today, many studies have been performed to confirm the same nutritional
value as believed so long ago. These studies give more credibility to the ancient belief of the signature foods –
specifically that the walnut is brain food and that the tomato is food for the heart.

By simple observation, the walnut is one of the easiest signature foods to recognize, it looks just like
the brain. When ripe and plucked off the tree, it has a hard shell much like the human skull. Once
cracked open, it appears as if you were personally performing live surgery on
a small brain. The cutting lines appear as distinct as the cerebellar cor-
texes covering the brain’s surface. It even has a median vermnis, the
crevice that holds the two hemispheres together. With a little imagina-
tion one can easily see the little brain within every nut.

If the theory of signature foods is correct, then one would say that if it
looks like a brain, it must help the brain. In modern times, it has been
found that the walnut offers a significant nutritional value. Walnuts are high
in unsaturated fats. Of the total polyunsaturated fat (70 percent), 58 percent is linoleic acid and 12 percent is
linolenic acid. Both fatty acids are essential for good health. A scientific study performed by John T. Bernert Jr.
PhD and Waren S. Browner, MD, took 96 men with incident stroke and 96 men as a control group, both with the
same age. The phospholipid fatty acid levels were measured as the percentage of total fatty acids to weigh their
association with incident stroke. The results suggested that higher serum levels of the essential fatty acid

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linolenic solely scientifically reduced the risk of stroke in middle-aged men who were
originally at high-risk for cardiovascular disease.

In addition, the vitamins found in walnuts help the brain fulfill its function. The brain’s
primary role is in sustaining and controlling the body. Richard Restak, M.D., stated:
“The human brain can store more information than all the libraries in the world. It
is also responsible for our most primitive urges, our loftiest ideals, the way we
think… The workings of an organ capable of creating Hamlet, the Bill of Rights
and Hiroshima remain deeply mysterious” (NSN Jan. 1998).

Natural vitamins such as, Thiamine, Vitamin B6 and Folacin are found in the wal-
nut, all of which ultimately help the function of the brain. Thiamine helps convert
glucose to energy. It helps in the memory and recognition process by mimicking
the acetylcholine which is a neurotransmitter involved in memory. Recent studies
have shown that three to eight grams of thiamine consumption per day may actu-
ally reduce the damaging effects of senility. Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is also im-
portant in helping the learning process and stabilizing visual distractions. It is
needed in the production of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepineph-
rine, and dopamine all derived from amino acids. Anciently, with little to no
understanding of the vitamin content of walnuts, the ancient Greeks wrote in
a 2,800-year-old scroll that the walnut was brain food because it resembled
the brain (Tolman, article). Both hypotheses seem congruent.

In addition to important vitamins, the brain must rely on important mineral supple-
ments both for itself and throughout the body. The walnut also consists of iron, zinc,
copper, and magnesium, which all help keep the body functioning properly. Just the
slightest imbalance of these minerals may create psychological disturbances. Iron is
critical to motor and mental development especially during infancy. “An iron defi-
ciency can adversely affect the ability to learn and understand new information and
may result in poor concentration and attention span,” says Michelle Badash (Badash,
Jan. 1998). Zinc deficiency may contribute to permanent illnesses such as Alzheimer’s
disease. Magnesium also plays an import role by regulating nerve impulses and aids in
the formation of neurotransmitters.

More currently, many studies have focused more on the acid that walnuts produce in
finding cures for life threatening diseases. Ellagic acid is a phenolic (C6H5OH) compound that
can be found in fruits including strawberries and walnuts. Cancer prevention research was preformed at the
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, revealing the knowledge that ellagic acid inhibits cancer
growth. Ellagic acid “is known to inhibit certain carcinogen-induced cancers and may have other chemo-pre-
ventive properties,” stated the researchers in their report to cancer letters (Narayanan, Geoffroy, Willingham,
and Nixon, 1999, pp. 215). The acid was demonstrated in animals to inhibit tumor growth. Studies continue in
the quest to cure the world from cancer. The benefits of ellagic acid gratifies the minds of today and helps us
understand why long ago it was said that in the “golden age” men lived upon acorns, the gods lived upon wal-
nuts (Grieve).

According to Don Tolman and ancient legend, there are hundreds of “signature foods.” One signature in partic-
ular carries as significant importance as does the brain in modern science and experiment. That vital organ is the
heart. The heart’s signature food is the tomato. The tomato from outside resembles the heart in color and its
juice is red like the blood of the heart. “The ancient Indians of the American Continent,” says Tolman,
“looked at the tomato and noticed many similar characteristics. The stem that connected to the vine resem-
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 bled the pulmonary artery of the heart giving it life and support.
When cut open they notice the four chambers of the tomato, two
higher and two lower exactly like the heart. The Indian medicine
men when handling the tomatoes, which are naturally soft, noticed
that they felt much like holding a heart in their hand” (Tolman,
speech). It was even said that tomatoes were called “love apples,”
because of a superstition that eating a tomato would make one fall in
love.

Legend is not the sole reason to believe that tomatoes are good for
the heart. The study of the tomato has resulted in many findings,
even cancer relief. Coronary heart disease is one of the leading
causes of death in North America. Oxidative stress has been named one of the major contributors of increased
cancer risk (Agarwal and Rao, Nutritional Cancer 1998, p. 199). Oxidative stress is caused by an increase in
low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation. When this happens the results have been hypothesized with increasing
risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Tomatoes, in their whole form and in other forms, such as
tomato paste, sauce and juice, have been experimented on by live subjects to find out if they really benefit the
human heart.

Studies have found that tomatoes are a major source of the carotenoid antioxidant lycopene in the human diet
(Agarwal and Rao, Lipids, 1998, pp 981-981). A randomized crossover study design was preformed on 19
healthy subjects to measure the levels of serum lycopene. Sanjiv Agarwal and A. Venketeshwer Rao were the
conductors of the tomato experiment. After just one week of adding tomato supplements to the subject’s diets
their measurements found the subjects serum lycopene
levels doubled. The serum lycopene peroxidation and
LDL oxidation levels were significantly decreased.
Simply stated, that which increased the risk of heart dis-
ease was discharged, thus decreasing the risk for coro-
nary heart disease. Agarwal and Rao’s report stated that
a daily serving consumption of tomato products prove
at least 40 mg of lycopene, enough to alter LDL oxida-
tion and lower the risk of heart cancer. Their report
gives reason to believe that the ancients understood as
we now understand that tomatoes are for the heart.

Signature foods are a prominent science hidden

throughout modern culture today as it was anciently.
Other signature food examples include: the carrot bene-
fiting the eye, string beans for the intestines, celery for
the spine, the avocado that benefits the womb of an ex-
pecting mother, and kidney beans for, what else, the
kidneys. Nature has blessed the earth with so many
wonderful products and foods, including the many clues
to their benefits and purposes. We have modern science
to thank for the experimental proof of these early be-
liefs. Research, experiments, and studies continue for-
ward in the search of an understanding of our world. All
is done, like the legends of old to modern science, with
one final hope: the hope that everything has its purpose
and every purpose has its thing.
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 ~ Am e r i c a : O ur Di r t S uc k s ! ~
-or so pill pushers preach

“We Have Scientific Proof!”

In the not so distant past, senate document 138 (wow…
even the name sounds unquestionable!), recorded and
published scientific studies proving that the rains
came and washed all the minerals in the dirt
to the ditches into the creeks that flowed
to the rivers that emptied into the sea and
now the only good dirt is on the bottom
of the ocean floor. Our dirt in America is void
of what plants really need. Our dirt is empty. However, until the late 1930’s, over 90 percent of United States
citizens raised the food they ate, and sickness was rare.

That was step one needed to convince the 1950’s America that food was no longer good ‘cause our dirt’s no
good. We took it hook line and sinker. There are millions of “Disease Fighting, pill swallowing” suckers born
every minute it seems.

This led the way to introduce something that had, “never been,” in the history of the world… pills and capsules
for nutrition… and now there are tens of thousands to choose from. Each of them are unique, each more potent,
each easier to assimilate, each with greater care and quality, each approved of by a medical doctor, each with
scientific proof of potency and efficacies and testimonials galore… AD nauseum. Endopediologists, the new
Agronomists (soil scientists) of the twenty-first century now know better. For instance, they now know our dirt
in America is just fine, always was, probably always will be, (barring a large meteor hitting us). You see we
now know what primitive societies always knew, there’s more than one kind of dirt. In fact in the United States
alone there’s over 20,000 species of dirt. Some species are cold, some hot, some clay, some not, some loam,
some sand, some wet, some dry, some heavy, some light, some high, some low, some bare, some covered with
plants and on and on and on.

Try this...
If your side yard won’t grow tomatoes, don’t get in a fight with your dirt. Plant something else there and try
tomatoes on another side of the house. My wife and kids planted tomatoes in a garden we prepared… the,
“mayders” didn’t do well. Then, some tomatoes came up wild, on their own along the side of the house so they
watered, staked, and tended them instead, and the, “mayders” were awesome. They come up every year now on
their own! Their happy; we’re happier.

“But Don, Don, scientific studies of food today shows food doesn’t have the same chemical nutrient density it
did 50 years ago! That’s why we need once a day multiple vitamins and minerals and all the rest.”

You could quote your studies, I could quote my studies and there is no end. There’s too much money being
made by science doing studies to ever end. So let’s cut to it like this, please don’t let it go right past you because
of its logic, reason and simplicity. Ready?

If you plant a carrot seed, or an apple seed, or a tomato seed and it grows up and becomes a carrot, an apple
tree; producing apples, or a tomato… the evidence is clear… it got from the dirt what it needed!!

A tomato on the east side of the house won’t show the same color taste or analysis as one that grows on the
north side of a house; it’s the same with which side of the tree you pick a peach from. Whether an orange comes

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from Florida, California or China, they’ll all be different
even from which end or side of the tree and/or the grove it
grew on.

Nature is complex so that we don’t have to be. You can be as

dumb as a sack of hammers and if you’re smart enough to eat
the apple (at least for nutritional purposes), you, “got ‘er
done!” You don’t even have to know you’re eating pectin’s,
folic acid, folate, vitamin C, or magnesium for the food to do
you good! Hard to believe in today’s chemical nutrient spew-
ing pedantic society in which we find ourselves… but it’s
true.

Remember this:
If you bought some cherries, and they weren’t made in a test
tube in a laboratory somewhere by some experts, it was the
sun and earth that did that and you can bank on it to do its
magic inside your body. Pills and capsules on the other
hand…?!?!?! Buyer beware!!

Plants synthesize from water and air the nutrition they need.
They don’t even eat dirt, that’s the big “supplement lie.” For
instance; if trees ate dirt, the forest would fall in the hole!
Plants use rocks and dirt to hold themselves up and to resist
wind. Organism’s in the dirt assist hydration of the plant.
Micro-organisms in the soil create an environment that al-
lows the plant to work its highest magic using light and water… period.

*Foot Note:
Did you know that organ pipe cacti seeds have been found on every continent of the world? Did you know
organ pipe cacti only grow in one place in the world? It will only grow in the dirt south of Tucson, Arizona.
That’s the dirt it loves to grow in.

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 ~What Does “ N at ural” or e ven “Organic” Me a n ? ~
Admit it. If, right now, you could bite down on a
crispy, crunchy potato chip that was “natural”
and therefore good for you, you’d do it, right?

Thought so. Makers of potato chips-and corn

chips, pancake mixes frozen waffles, frosted
breakfast cereals, ice cream and other taste
tempters-think so too. That’s why the word “nat-
ural” appears so frequently on food packages
these days. Marketing experts know that, for
many consumers, natural equals healthful, and
that sells.

In fact, the word “natural” on a food package

means next to nothing because “natural” has no
meaning in law or regulation. For these reasons,
the use of “natural” on food products all too
often distracts attention from more important
considerations.

“Natural” and even “organic” may even be

misleading if it implies that a product is free of chemical additives (often not the case) or that competitors’ prod-
ucts are “unnatural” and therefore bad for you.

Almost all foods today are processed in some way, and unless you are able to buy exclusively from a farmers’
market or grow you own fruits and vegetables, much of what you eat have seen the inside of a lab, factory or
high-tech warehouse. Food science has become so sophisticated that it can be difficult to know where natural
and organic ends and unnatural and organic begins.

There are breakfast cereals made from organically grown wheat with raisins made from organically grown
grapes. However, the cereal itself can have lots of preservatives. It may contain lots of added aluminized salt
and processed sugar, which are “natural,” but in the quantities that you find in breakfast cereals, they’re not
healthful and can be very harmful. Even natural and organic foods require some degree of processing. “Is it or-
ganic? Yes. Is it natural? Well, no.” Not if natural in this case means the way nature made it.

Finally, there are indisputably nature foods. Most of the items in the fresh fruit and vegetable aisles aren’t al-
ways the most nutritious choice. A good question to ask is: how long ago were they picked? You never know for
sure how long fruits and vegetables have been on the shelf or even on the truck or in a warehouse. Fruits and
vegetables lose nutritional value over time. If they are fresh when you bring them home, be sure to eat them
within three or four days of purchase or they will have lost so much of their nutritional value you’d be better off
buying frozen.

The most useful question may be not whether a food is natural (however that’s defined) or even organic, but
whether it contains the nutrients you seek, or whether it doesn’t contain the additives you want to avoid.

Shopping intelligently also means developing a healthy skepticism about your own capacity for self-deception.
Fresh, local grown seems to be the best choice.

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 ~ A t t e n t i o n Fa r m a c i s t s ~
Lewis H. Lapham is, “dead on the mark” and brilliant. Please read this from beginning to end. Then wait 72
hours and read it again. Being an enlightened Farmacist has potential rippling effects that are globally stagger-
ing. It all starts with having enough knowledge and experience with the seven principles of health to be confi-
dent enough to never use another drug, or to never ever undergo an unnecessary surgery, to throw away an not
buy. Again, any “preventive” testing device, (they are not prevention) they are there as pre-market devices sim-
ply to suck you in using the “fear factor.” At any given time during the day every human being will be tested
proof positive of a “sugar” problem, too high or too low. Externally introduced insulin into the body leads to
blindness and amputation.

Bad Medicine
By Lewis H. Lapham
Reprinted by permission
Harper’s Magazine February 2004

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find

a trout in the milk.”
-Henry David Thoreau

Forty years ago I was not yet thirty, and my father still held to the hope that I would come to my senses, aban-
don the practice of journalism, and follow a career in one of the Wall Street money trades. As a young man dur-
ing the Great Depression he had labored briefly as a
city-room reporter for William Randolph Hearst’s San
Francisco examiner, and he knew that the game was
poorly paid and usually rigged, more often than to a
matter of converting specious rumor into dubious fact.
Having escaped the sorrows of Grub street and gone
east to become an eminently respectable New York
banker, also the director of Fortune 500 companies and
a member of long-established clubs, he understood the
principle on which the society arranges its socioeco-
nomic seating plan, and for his son he wished a place on
the dais, preferably with a view of both the mountains
and the sea.

The lesson was not one that my father knew how to teach in words of his choosing, possibly because he be-
lieved, and couldn’t avoid saying, that even the most successful journalists sit well below the salt, and so he
made a point of introducing me to various captains of industry and finance in whose lives and works I might
discover the happy result of a properly schooled ambition. Over a period of three or four years in the middle
1960’s I found myself in gold foursomes with oil-company presidents, at lunch or dinner with the senior partner
of an investment bank, present in a box at Yankee stadium with the managing director of a trust, a real estate
and a pension fund. None of the instruction led to the desired consequence, but among all the fond reflections
on fortunes won or lost, I remember best the cautionary tale told by Theodore Weicker while walking on a
beach at East Hampton.

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A man then in his late sixties, as rich and well-groomed as he was wise in the ways of the world, Weicker had
inherited, together with his brother, the controlling interest in the Squibb pharmaceutical company, and shortly
after the Second World War, divining the possibilities implicit in what subsequently has come to be known as
“globalization,” he traveled to the poorer countries of the earth to set up factories producing drugs for the local
pharmacies and hospitals. He learned early in the proceedings that it was better to deal wit dictators than with
democracies. Doing business in a democracy necessitates the ribbing of too many people, most of them more
than once. “Nobody stays bought,” he said. “When anything goes wrong, somebody to whom you just paid
$10,000 stands up, in whatever they call a congress, in those places and makes a speech about American ex-
ploitation.”

The Shah of Iran appreciated the difficulties, and by

way of illustration, Weicker told the story of the
Iranian health minister who objected, “on humani-
tarian grounds, no less,” to a widening of the profit
margin on the manufacture of aspirin. For some
years Squibb and the Iranian government each had
been content with markups of ten percent over cost,
but then it occurred to the government to rub Al-
addin’s lamp for another 100 percent. The health
minister refused to approve the request, and for a
period of several months nothing could be done.
The chances for negotiation improved when the
health minister checked into a hospital for a routine
appendectomy. As soon as he had been settled on the operating table, the nurses informed him that the hospital
had exhausted its supplies of anesthetic. The surgeon apologized for the inconvenience while holding a scalpel
to the minister’s shaved and trembling belly, explaining further that the pain of incision would be so great as to
deliver the minister into a state of shock, which, although momentarily unpleasant, would serve as a kind of
anesthetic. The minister consented to the rise in price.

Weicker delighted in the elegant simplicity of the transaction. No lawyers, no environmental impact statement,
no waiting around for a report from the ethics committee. The true nature of the free market revealed with a
clarity and precision seldom attained by the professors of economics at Harvard or Yale. “There you have it,” he
said. “What business is all about. Building a better world.”

The cautionary and uplifting tale came to mind in early December last year when President Bush signed the
amendment to the Medicare legislation that delivers 40 million elderly and disabled American citizens into the
custody of the good-hands people operating the nation’s insurance and pharmaceutical factories. The new au-
thorization purports to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for every needful American, and the White House
staff dressed up the photo op in Washington’s Constitution Hall to look like a scene of joyful thanksgiving – a
vast throng of well-wishers, military band music, a bright blue banner emblazoned with the physician’s com-
forting “Rx,” grateful invalids and smiling congresswomen, President Bush in the part of a merry Santa Claus
bestowing upon the multitude the gifts of Christmas yet-to-come. Hats off gentlemen, send for the champagne.
Great, good news; bread upon the waters; pennies raining from heaven and stars falling on Alabama.

Looked at a little more closely, the scene acquired a somewhat different character and tone. Still celebratory and
festive, of course, but the rejoicing of bandits and thieves as opposed to the thankfulness of survivors rescued
from a shipwreck. It was hard not to think of Eskimos contemplating the bonanza of a beached whale, the faces
in the crowd those of K Street lobbyists eager to congratulate the politicians (chief among them J. Dennis
Hastert, speaker of the House of Representatives, and Dr. Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader) who had
worked so long and hard to unblock the river of government money now free to water the plains of avarice. It
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was the genius of Hastert that had formulated the legislation in 681 pages of stupefying prose (and strong-
armed the rules of parliamentary procedure in the House of secure the winning vote at 6:00 A.M. on November
22), and it was the calm and morally anesthetized composure of Frist that in the Senate on November 25 had
placed the scalpel of extortion against the shaved and naked flesh of the American body politic.

Few or none of the politicians who voted either for or against the bill took the trouble to read it; like them, I rely
for my understanding of it on what I’ve seen in the newspapers and what I’ve been told by informed medical
practitioners, but I think it safe to assume that the particulars speak to Weicker’s idea of free-market perfection.
The principal author of the legislation, Thomas A. Scully, set about the task of writing it in June of last year,
while he was employed as the federal administrator of Medicare. At the same time he expressed the wish to
enter the private sector, putting his services up for auction to five high-priced Washington influence brokers rep-
resenting the insurance companies, the drug manufacturers, and the health-maintenance organizations. Eight
days after the happiness in Constitution Hall, Scully resigned his government post to await bids for his tour
guide’s knowledge of the small print that allots as little money as possible to individual citizens and as much
money as possible to the vested commercial interests.

Although the government must provide drugs to 40 million people, it may not negotiate a bulk discount; it must
pay whatever price the manufacturer sets or asks, in other words prices that in the recent past have been rising at
a rate of 12 percent a year. The legislation forbids the importing of less expensive drugs from Canada, prohibits
beneficiaries from buying supplemental insurance for drugs unacknowledged by Medicare, reduces or elimi-
nates payments to as many as six million people for whom Medicaid now defrays at least some of their pre-
scription costs, declares a suspension of payment at precisely the point when mot people might need the most
help. An annual premium of $420 covers 75 percent of drug expenditures up to $2,250; from that point upward
the beneficiary must pay, with his or her own money, 100 percent of the next $3,600 in costs; once the expendi-
tures reach a total of $5,850, the government pays 95 percent of the subsequent bill. The actuarial tables assume
that relatively few people can afford, or will live long enough, to pay the roll on the bridge across the river of
public money flowing out of Washington into the privately owned catch basins of the medical-industrial com-
plex. As a further means of implementing the shift of the nation’s healthcare burden from the public to the pri-
vate sector, the legislation offers various inducements to the life-enhancing profit motive.

A. A $12 billion slush fund from which, over the next ten
years, the secretary of health and human services may pay
out bribes to HMOs otherwise reluctant to accept patients
whose illnesses cannot be prepped for a quick and certain
gain.

B. A windfall of $70 billion, also to be provided over the

next ten years, to those corporations willing to continue pre-
scriptions willing to continue prescription-drug coverage for
their retired employees, the money to be paid in the form of
both tax deductions and tax-free subsidies.

C. The guarantee of “maximum flexibility” to the private en-

tities seeking to recruit customers from the general popula-
tion now served by Medicare. The private entity may
exercise the right to “cherry pick” – i.e., to offer its services
only to those individuals not likely to require expensive
treatment. The government must provide for everybody else,
for the hopelessly enfeebled and the terminally indigent.

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D. The legislation’s reliance on the drug companies and the private insurers to curtail spending and control
costs. The provision serves a dual purpose. It assures the eventual destruction of the entire Medicare apparatus,
and it relieves the government of any responsibility for what will be reported as an act of God. Even the
dimmest of Republican congressmen knows that the government doesn’t have the $400 billion that the drug-
prescription benefit presumably will cost over the next ten years – doesn’t have the cash on hand or anywhere in
anybody’s budget projection. The money must be borrowed, at rates of interest yet to be determined. In the
meantime, while waiting upon possibly unhappy financial events (wars, revenue shortfalls, stock-market down-
turns, sustained recession, etc.) the government retains no control of the fees charged by the health plans or the
prices that the pharmaceutical companies demand for drugs. Let Mother Nature take her course, and the expen-
diture estimated at $400 billion easily could become an invoice presented for $1 trillion.

Among all the cheats and false suppositions written into the legislation, the assumption that private entities
somehow might be induced to restrain spending should have been the easiest one to ferret out, if by nobody else
than by Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader. The good doctor knows, probably better than any of his colleagues
in the Senate and certainly as well as Ted Weicker’s exemplary surgeon in the long-ago Teheran, how to inflate
a drug cost, supply an unnecessary medical procedure, pad a hospital bill. In 1968, Frist’s father and elder
brother established the Hospital Corporation of American (HCA), which has since become the nation’s largest
consortium of for-profit hospitals and medical center – 252 of them in twenty-three states. For several decades
the company required each of its hospitals to return a profit of 20 percent a year and to “upcode” their patients
by exaggerating the degree and severity of their illnesses in order to receive, from Medicare, more generous re-
imbursements for the delivery of imaginary goods and services. So skilled did the hospitals become in the arts
of medical chicane that in December 2000, HCA admitted to a defrauding of the federal government so massive
that it required the payment of fines in the amount of $840 million. Two years later, confronted with a supple-
mentary set of similar charges, the company negotiated a settlement for an additional $631 million. The agree-
ment was reached on December 18, 2002, two days before Frist was elected Senate majority leader.

This is another cautionary tale, but not one supportive of the hope
that the cost of the prescription drug benefit will be contained by
the people dispensing it. The corporate health-care systems that
currently hold captive 160 million Americans (in return for an an-
nual ransom of $952 billion) can’t afford the luxury of a con-
science or a heart. They’re set up to make money, not to care for
sick people, and even if the managers sometimes might wish it
otherwise, how then would they pay themselves life-enhancing
salaries, and what might happen to their faith in the free market?
Before investing in private health-care organizations, the Wall
Street financial analysts like to see a low “medical-loss ratio”
(i.e., that percentage of the yearly revenues actually allotted to pa-
tient care) sufficient to offset the administrative costs (9.5 percent
in the private sector as opposed to 1.4 percent in the public sector)
as well as fund the annual compensations awarded to the chief ex-
ecutives – an average of $15.1 million in 2002 at the country’s
eleven leading health-care companies. Even in the best of circumstances the miracle of the free market is never
easy to maintain, but over the last few years healthy numbers have become more difficult to find, and if not to
their friends in the Congress and the White House to whom else does a good American turn for a little help with
the building of a better world?

Two days after the House of Representatives passed the legislation by a vote of 220 to 215, speaker Hastert’s
spokesman named the reward expected in return for so handsome an act of friendship. “This is the thing,” he
said, “[Hastert] thinks will keep us in the majority for a while.” Not forever, not after the legislation takes effect
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in 2006, but at least until next November’s elections, for as long as the specious promise can be promoted as an
authentic fact and before too many people open their Christmas presents to find nothing in the box except a card
wishing them a happy New Year and hoping that they get well soon.

Proud of its plundering of the American commonwealth on behalf of its corporate sponsors and political accom-
plices, the Bush Administration follows a practice well established by both its near and distant predecessors.
The raids on the federal treasury encouraged by the Reagan Administration took place under the cover of a
darkness represented as ideological enlightenment. Deregulation was the watchword for the transfer of wealth
from the public to the private sector, the $500 billion savings-and-loan swindle an exemplary proof of what
could be done with the theory that big government (by definition wasteful and incompetent) deserved to be sold
for scrap to the entrepreneurs in our midst (by definition innovative and efficient) who know how to privatize
the profits while socializing the risk and the cost. Wonderful news, said the Wall Street Journal, pennies falling
from heaven and stars on Alabama, more swill for the pigs. Diligently applied by a succession of industrious
thieves over the last twenty-five years, the theory has resulted in the wreckage of the deregulated airlines, the
degradation of the environment, the monopolies strangling the wit and sense out of the news media, the Enron
debacle, most recently the Halliburton company’s theft of $61 million (configured as a 100 percent markup on
the price of gasoline) from the American army in Iraq.

The looting is traditional, the rule of capture as firmly rooted in the country’s history as the belief in angels. Em-
blazoned with the mottos “Boom and Bust,” “Settle and Sell,” “Get In, Get Rich, Get Out,” the winner of the
nineteenth-century American West was a public-works project paid for with federal subsidy. By 1850, every-
body traveling west of the Mississippi understood that the country was ripe with four primary resources – land,
minerals, timber and the government contract – and that of these, by far the richest was the government con-
tract. The trick was to know the right people in Washington, at the state capitol, and at the country courthouse.
When the two sections of the transcontinental railroad were joined with a golden spike in May of 1869 at
Promontory Point, Utah, the patriotic ceremony in the desert (band music, red, white, and blue bunting, hats in
the air) glossed over the swindling mechanics of the proto-typical government cost overrun. The work was so
shabby that much of it had to be replaced within a year, the railroad setting up dummy corporations that rigged
the prices of reconstruction, and the bipartisan majority in Congress content to sell its ethical interest for a per-
centage of the gross.

The Medicare drug benefit fits the job description under-

stood not only by the treasury officials in the grant Adminis-
tration but also by the ambulance drivers who picked up
Andy Warhol on the summer day in 1968 when he was shot
twice in the stomach by a deranged movie actress. The driv-
ers found Warhol on a dingy street in SoHo, and on the way
to the hospital, not recognizing him as a celebrity and think-
ing him a worthless as everything else in a neighborhood
not yet trendy, they didn’t feel compelled to hurry. Warhol
noticed that the ambulance was stopping for red lights and
mumbled something about the urgency of his wound. The
drivers looked at him as carefully as an HMO accountant
looks at the pre-authorization request for a mammogram or
a crutch. “For fifteen bucks,” one of them said, “we’ll turn
on the siren.”

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 ~S acr e d M e a s u r e s : Th e M e a l o f H er c ul e s ~
The Meal of Hercules
2600 years ago, in order to attend the Pythagorean Academy one
had to fast on air, water and sunshine for 40 days and nights.
Once accomplished, upon entrance to the academy, an initiate
was given fresh raw foods to eat and a shoulder strap pouch filled
with a fresh “millstone crushed hand assembled Golden Meas-
ured Meal” that Pythagoras himself referred to as the “Meal of
Hercules,” in honor of the most brilliantly inspired men and
women of Egypt, Canaan, Phoenicia, Syria, Greece, Etruscans,
Romans and others that snacked and called the transcendentally
measured golden meal “Phi Pi.” Pythagoras and his students (in
secret and with great reverence) “passed mouth to ear” the name
Phei Pei, (Ancient Greek spelling) and its signatures of sacred
geometric ratios one to another in hopes of preserving the knowl-
edge of this precious gift to mankind down through time.

The Inca, Mayan, Tarahumari (swift footed ones), Kiowa,

Shoshoni, Arapaho, Iroquois, Piute (seed gatherers) with other North and South American peoples had various
names close to one another in linguistic connection for what others called “Phi Pi.”

Tletlket Kihunia Quetzalcoatl is believed to be “the Great Name for ceremonial food given by the Immortal
One.” Kicking Bird, a Kiowa chief, who was noted in various frontier newspapers for his “distinguished mental
gifts,” accredited his cognitive skills to the daily eating of the “Sacred Ceremonial Meal,” whose name he
could not speak to the “ears” of military officers that questioned him. Kicking Bear, a Sioux medicine man,
known for his valor and desire for peace, spoke of the same, “Ceremonial Whole Food Offering,” whose recipe
was secret and given to, “one only,” in the Council at a time, for safe keeping.

In Babylon, Daniel and his friends requested a diet of Pulse (phi pi) the ‘Meal of Hercules’ and water rather than
the king’s meat. After ten days the king found them to be stronger and brighter. After three years he found them
to be ten times better in wisdom than the most learned men of his Kingdom.

Ancient Semitic speaking tribes such as

the Essene Hebrews and various
Canaanite groups viewed the body as a
“Sacred Living Temple.” The most sa-
cred food they believed that could be
offered into the temple as a single meal
“tithe or mincha” was translated from
ancient Hebrew scrolls into English, as
“Pulse.” Eating pulse or more accu-
rately “Meal of Hercules” (based upon
measures of 1:1.6 X 3.14; phi pi) and
water for ten days straight appears to
have been a very common initiation or
introduction to this (profound and by
all appearances doxological) feast.

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I’ve often been asked why I fast and what it means to me. To
me, fasting deals with the doorway to discovery of cosmic
design, ones purpose, yes destiny… fasting creates the en-
trance into the complexities, wonders, and secrets of human
existence. It reveals the collective repository of human enter-
prise held in the life scripts of the living library, the “Hall of
Records,” the “Akashic tome,” the “Book of Lives,” the
“Book of Remembrance,” the “Book of Knowledge” of these
things if you will (today called 15 million miles of DNA). It
is looking with clarity of purpose instead of trying to see thru
a glass darkly (dimly). Fasting tests the fabric of ones charac-
ter. It is the climbing of Mount Olympus in order to obtain
the “Laurel wreath” of the Gods and Goddesses before you,
waiting with open arms at the summit for your achievement.
The ‘Meal of Hercules’ was made to help one achieve the
summit of enlightenment, life, liberty and happiness.

Extended fasting takes a willingness to go right out to the

breaking point. To get to the edge without letting catastrophe
take over. You push the envelope, and put your life, as you
know it on the line to do it. You don’t buckle under the pres-
sure of fear, hunger, mocking fingers and voices of ignorant
people, especially those trained in modern medicine, healing
crises, nor boredom. Fasting renews, regenerates, informs,
strengthens, heals and rests you as it delivers vitality, a clean
house, brain development and knowledge. Extended fasting marks you with a mysterious kind of an appeal,
what anciently was called ones Noumenon, which is a beauty the mind perceives, but that, the five senses can-
not. Noumenon affects even the most homemade looking amongst us. Please get and read my booklet: “Gaea a
Mother’s Call.”

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Life is connected to time thru the nature of how matter encloses space, enclosed space projects meaning into the
mind of the observer, as the material container that encloses the space is viewed, and then perceived, by the
senses of the observer.

Something makes nothing everything. Spokes meet in the hub where the wheel isn’t, is where it’s useful.

Hollowed out clay makes a pot.

Where the pot is not, is where it’s useful. Walls, doors and windows are spaces to make a room. Where the room
isn’t, there’s room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use, of what isn’t. Space is everywhere, yet,
nowhere. Space is so big it fills the cosmos. Space is so small it dwells in your heart. Space is the unmanifest,
manifest. Space is no respecter of persons. Space fits every definition of god or gods.

Space is more sacred, more profound, more critical to nature’s creation and existence than most would dare
begin to even imagine. All of matter wants to enclose space. Space enclosed by matter wants to be set free.
Space eventually wins.

The human form is the only design that has the potential capacity to enclose space, it appears, for an infinite pe-
riod of time in space. This condition creates an en-
during status of matter. Homo sapien in a moment
of spontaneous equilibrium – (what I call pleas-
ure), leaps to Homo Deus. Creating a door, a pas-
sage in the space-time continuum, wherein
individuals step out of time. They become time
travelers. An oblique look at the meaning of time
postulates: If what should be a ten minute task on
the keyboard usually takes at least one hour, then
“keyboard time” has a “real time” equivalent
ratio of 1:6, in effect, an expansion of time. Con-
versely then, we may compress a seven-hour
transatlantic flight into a little more than one hour,
provided, of course, we spend that flight interact-
ing with a laptop. Although we may chuckle at
time reconstruction, we also encounter an obvious
truth; time is personal, calculated according to our
productivity and happiness, rather than the decay
of an atomic isotope.

I am absolutely convinced that pleasure sits out-

side of time and its ravages. Whole foods that de-
liver exquisite pleasure to the mind and emotions
negate the aging process. As does any other activ-
ity that absorbs the brain into a state of pleasure.

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 ~ W hol e Fo od s & S ta r d us t ~
“The Ancients knew something we seem to have forgotten.”
-Einstein

The Mystical, The Magical & The Practical - As One

I am honored to be able to share the history, mystery and wealth of the rediscovery of ancient Sacred Meals and
drink offerings, through the FDR.

It has been written, “Let there be light and the light was good.”

At the core of all ancient cultures was an antiq-

uitous fundamental insight into “the one great
law,” “The law of light.” This law condensed
into multitudinous levels of energetic resonant
principles that allow for expression of all mate-
rial forms, these principles were collectively
called, “the laws of creation.”

From the construction of their kiva’s, temples or

pyramids to the shapes and colors of their pot-
tery, fabrics, art, tools and more was motivated
by a central, “metaphysical vision” an “intuitive
gnosis” a collective, “heart felt intelligence” of
the community, and about the nature of cosmic
harmony as it applied to these laws of creation, and an awareness of humanity’s place in the “forward propul-
sion,” the “eternal progression” of “intelligence” if you will, which some today call consciousness.

These cultures all believed that knowledge was the right only of those willing to make the effort to achieve it.
The “humble elite” amongst them would endure suffering, slings and arrows, loneliness and pain, if need be, in
their pursuit of greater light, knowledge and wisdom; these, they honored.

“Imagination is More Important than Knowledge.”

-Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
-Einstein

The ancient world view of ones existence, in the cosmos, was of being a living part of a great chain of being.
From the tiniest particle, to the greatest deity, all partook of certain characteristics and were chain linked to-
gether in the, “Great Work,” a great “scheme of existence.” They taught their children to “see” the cosmos and
the earth upon which we live as “the harmonic order of living kingdoms,” “entities of intelligence,” and the
“cosmic machine of life” with the sole purpose for “making gods.” Mortals to Immortals. Ignorance and dark-
ness to enlightened, inspirited bodies of flesh filled with bright shining intelligence, children of light, able to use
their transformed bodies as temple vehicles to travel through space and time at will.

Sounds Pretty Heady and Fanciful Doesn’t it?

Here we are now in the twenty-first century. Science and theosophy seem to be traveling on parallel paths.
They haven’t kissed yet but they may very soon. It seems that the new physics of Albert Einstein and Max
Planck introducing the strange world view of relativity and quantum physics has opened a window, nay a door
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to a cosmos more in line with the magic world view and cosmologies of the ancients. Maybe what goes around
comes around after all. Was Elijah lifted into the heavens? Did Enoch and his city of 20 million depart from the
earth without tasting of death? Did Atlantis really exist?

Hang in there; this is actually about health and whole food meals! What if, in the twenty-first century, we have
much yet to learn and even more to remember? What if, nothing in life is as important as your view of life?
What if, we could renounce war, slaughter and murder against any living thing (especially other people)? What
if, the only evil that truly exists, is violence against innocence?

The sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”
-Arthur Rimbaud 1881

Let’s Look at it Another Way

Every human is made of sunlight. Sunshine radiates, it’s filled with electric
power, heat, visible and invisible rays, health and life protecting ultra violet light
and is the source of all life on earth and all the things the earth herself is. Every
living thing you can see is here because a plant was able to capture sunlight and
store it. The mammals, reptiles, amphibian, insects, birds, all living things owe
their existence to plants.

Most people mistakenly believe that plants eat dirt; that the tree in their front yard
is made up of the soil in their yard. In truth, plants are solidified air and sunlight.
Water is made of air, air is made of sunlight, and plants solidify air, water and
light according to the nature of intelligence they carry within themselves into
what we call elements of nutrition.

A 2,000 pound ox eats grass and drinks water. Where did its bones and muscles come from? What if we don’t
have to murder animals and eat their dead carcasses after all, in order to get what we need to live? What if we
can go to the plants (primary nutrition) directly and be as healthy, vital and strong as an ox?

“The Intelligence of Plants”

Plants use carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen and sunlight to make simple sugars and other more complex car-
bohydrates and then add more sunlight to make cellulose in order to grow roots, leaves, the trunk, flowers, seeds
and fruits all in order to capture still more sunlight. Condensed sunlight fuses together to form particles of iron,
carbon, gold, boron, oxygen, neon, argon, nitrogen (proteins), calcium, potassium and the dozens of other ele-
ments. All of this comes from plants capturing sunlight and working the magic of life. We can see all of this by
simply burning wood, it releases the captured sunlight and once again we see the radiance and feel the heat.

Here’s a secret the ancients knew that is now mostly known only to physicists and astronomers; astrophysicists.

Secret Revealed
All matter on this earth, everything; you, even this page you are reading
from, came from the remnants of a star/sun a trillion million miles from
here and billions of years ago. That star exploded into what is called a
super nova and spewed everything it had become out into millions of
miles of space shattering planets, moons and other kingdoms in its wake.
Its matter traveled upon solar winds for immeasurable distances then
slowed down and cooled and gathered around a newer still living sun and
in this way formed new planets, moons, comets and meteorites. Gravity
formed a pool of energy by condensing from light, hydrogen, helium, car-
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bon dioxide and other gases pulling them together, creating a new home for floating space spores and seeds
of every kind that had been spewed into space eons ago, seeds of life from other worlds throughout the
galaxy that were blown to dust, and now floating upon solar winds looking to form new heavens, new worlds.
The new sun, our sun, gave warmth that lead to the germination of these plants and introduced them into new
worlds, our world; photo synthesis which over time and distance led to all that is now; what we see, all around
us. All matter is stardust, star stuff. We are as strangers and foreigners here, from a previous home in a galaxy
far, far away. What that star once was, we now are; what we now are, the next world will become, only pro-
gressed; worlds without end. Are you aware that space dust, spores and seeds, tons of it, falls to the earth still,
everyday all year?

Do you think for one minute you consciously understand what a peach is? Why, because you can see it and call
it by (a collectively agreed upon) name? What if a peach is a living, breathing alien being, brought by inten-
tion, with purpose and design to this world, to be accepted as a gift, as an offering, to you, your body, your
heart, your mind, in a spirit of intelligence, in order to deliver cosmically encoded words – (what science today
is trying to decipher as the DNA code and find its meanings). What if a peach in a body truly prepared for it
could download into the brain secrets of its experiences through eternity, and what if the mind could then hear
and see things that haven’t yet entered into human imagination? What if plants once were, and are now and al-
ways will be the key to human consciousness, language and speech, increased awareness and intelligence? What
if we, on this earth at this time are entering a new age, an Age of Imagination, a time when an individual
through an application of principles of self-care could lay down all, “weapons of war” in the, “battle cry of
fighting disease,” and simply, “embrace” a re-discovery of the “plowshares of peaceful health” through the
cosmic gifts of life we call air, water, sunlight, movement, passion, loving, kind relationships. Then the words
of life, the messengers of health that we all look at as they present themselves upon natures table for us in what
we call whole foods, could the war on disease end? Could this lead to an end of all wars and fighting? Could
this be what Einstein was referring to when he said, “The Ancients knew something we have forgotten?” They
knew full well, better than we do today, times and seasons and the foods that grew therein. The FDR is meant to
assist your imagination in your experience of health and increased awareness through whole foods. Imagine
being, and staying healthy through self-care. It can be done. I have children who have never had a shot or been
to a doctor in their entire lifetime, not even at their birth. They are healthy, happy and brilliant.

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 ~ W h at Yo u A r e M a de Of ~
Whatcha Got Punk? Bring it!
Farmacy of a 160-pound person

Element Weight
Oxygen 90 pounds
Carbon 36 pounds
Hydrogen 14 pounds
Calcium 3 pounds
Nitrogen 3 pounds-12 oz.
Phosphorus 3 pounds-8 oz.
Chlorine 1 pound-4 oz.
Sulphur 4 oz.
Potassium 3-1/2 oz.
Sodium 3 oz.
Fluorine 2-1/2 oz.
Magnesium 2 oz.
Silicon 1-1/2 oz.
Iron 1-1/4 oz.
Iodine 1/6 oz.
Manganese Trace

Some people have a predominance of one element in their structure over others. There is what is called the
heavy calcium, bony type. There is the light-bone silicon type, and there is the heavy, muscular, potassium type.

In the past, as well as today, no long living culture has ever taken prescription or over-the-counter drugs. None
of them have ever taken a single pill, capsule powder or potion from the nutritional supplement industry. After
50 years of pharmaceuticals and 35 years of encapsulated herbs, powdered rocks and miracle supplements, we
are sicklier now as a nation than we ever have been before in our history.

Go out on limb, don’t leave it to

others; know your roots.

It is from whatever you eat and

drink that you are laying the
groundwork for the living soils, the
soils from which the seed of the yet
unborn will sprout and grow, that’s
why they call it a family tree.

Diet and bodywork is work for the

“yet unborn.” They will be born
into better bodies, minds and emo-
tions, thanks to you caring for your-
self.

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 ~SIGNATURES AND SCHOLARS~
There is a huge gap between scholars and academics. Ever since the ancient past, true scholars were thinkers,
imaginists, creationists, artists, and musicians. They were architectural designers and inventors. The scholastic
method was destroyed by a very militant religious group at one point in history. With the burning of Alexandria
and the murder of the scholars, academics was introduced. “Scholar” means “to observe, study and create from
what you have observed”. The word “academics” means “trivia”, or what is now referred to as “factory school-
ing”, where young people go and sit in neat little rows and chant memorized, preselected answers, or enter into
blanks on exams in order to get a grade and move ahead into a higher classroom. This is now believed to be an
education. The truth is, it is not. The word “education” means a deepening of insight. The word “science” means
“knowledge”.

So much knowledge of today that is considered to be phar-

maceutical and medical science is not knowledge at all. It
is guess work. It’s like the word “diagnosis”, “gnosis”
meaning “knowledge”. “Dia” means “split” or “divided”.
In other words, they are unsure and don’t know. Legally,
because of laws that have been passed, doctors can diag-
nose and treat by cutting, burning, and poisoning. Over
two million people die and are killed by the health care in-
dustry's licensed, academically chant-memorized, trained,
and legal drug lords that are today called doctors.

Every time I have ever talked about whole foods in a lecture, there are usually academics in the audience who
think they know it all, because they attended a bought-and-paid-for curriculum class where they chanted learned
answers that they were told to be factual. And blindly, as good little “sheeple”, they believed it. So they think
they know what they’re talking about. I'm not saying that there aren’t academics and government-licensed “pro-
fessionals” who aren’t sincere. I think some of them are sincere, but probably only some.

I often talk about a walnut looking like the brain, or a tomato having chambers like the heart, and it’s red like
the heart, and that kidney beans resemble the kidneys, that a sliced carrot looks like a pupil with an iris and radi-
ating lines. When I mention that all of these foods target those anatomical sights, and even the physiologies that
support them, the academics laugh, or get angry, because they think they know more than the presentation of
ancient scholars who observed nature. These ancients tested their observations on humans, and got results con-
sistently over time and distance within the human experience. To academics, it means nothing because it hasn’t
been proven in clinical studies and published through peer-reviewed articles. It bears mentioning that clinical
studies are often funded, of course, by the pharmaceutical industry who has a drug or procedure to bring to mar-
ket.

When I say that a tomato target the heart, that is true, but a tomato has all of the constituents of nutrition that
support all the systems and physiologies of the body because the body is a unit. It’s a whole and complete or-
ganization of a community of over ten thousand trillion people or entities that we call cells, living in symbiosis,
one with another. You can’t eat any nutritional plant or whole food that doesn’t support all ten thousand trillion
cells. When I say that a food targets a particular organ or part of the anatomy, it calls into play all of the body’s
systems to make sure that the job is done, and done properly.

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 ~Fasting - Words from Gaea~
Written on the 5th of January 2010 by Don Tolman

Fasting has existed since the beginning of life of earth. An ill or injured animal’s first instinct is to abstain from
solid food until it is again healthy. They instinctively know that the healing process will be much faster and
more effective when it abstains from solid food that will burden its digestive tract. This instinct has always ex-
isted within the animal Kingdom.

The human body also has this same instinct, for it is common for most people to stop eating when illness
strikes. There is a widespread practice of fasting in many religious cultures, both ancient and modern, around
the world.

Fasting has been both as a religious ritual and for preventing and curing diseases. Fasting purifies the body of
earth’s wide variety of pollutants, thereby improving bodily health and function. Many health advocates today
fast several times a year. Fasting improves the body’s capacity and ability to better utilize the food eaten.

When the body gets no rest from processing food day after day, the digestive and cleansing systems are often
subject to an uninterrupted workload. Environmental pollutants also contribute to this workload. Also, excess
protein tends to acidify the body in an unhealthy way.

The body is often unable to rid itself of all these stored toxins, waste products, body acids, excess proteins and
fat deposits. If this condition continues long enough, it can lead to cancer and other innumerable diseases. Fast-
ing is necessary to give the digestive system a rest, and more importantly to cleanse the body.

During a fast, many biochemical processes will take place

in the body, resulting in many reactions outside the body as
well. The body’s metabolism is a complicated procedure
involving digestion, nutrient transport through the blood,
any lymphatics for energy and tissue building, and the
transport of waste products and toxins to the body’s excre-
tory organs. The excretory organs include the large intes-
tine, the kidneys, the bladder, the lungs and sweat glands.

These metabolic processes will take place whether you

supply the body with food or not. The body will start re-
leasing low-grade energy stored as fat, which will rapidly
decrease body fat levels. Since the blood always tries to
keep its level of protein constant, it will keep these levels
up by also breaking down inferior tissues of diseases, dam-
aged, aged or dead cells, abnormal growth tissues, tumors,
and other undesirable tissues.

For more on the ancient and brilliant wisdom of fasting and

it’s health and healing qualities, please refer to my Farma-
cist Desk Reference. It’s the world’s first two volume, En-
cyclopaedia of Wholefood Medicine.

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 ~www.tolmanacademy.com~
Welcome to Tolman Academy Online
Institute of Whole Food Medicine and Natural Sciences

An Advanced Certification Diploma of Whole Food Medicine Far-

macist Practitioner, Advisor and Home Health Inspector can be
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TAO offer’s teaching in the Art, Science, and Methods of Whole

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TAO courses are designed to develop within each Graduate high lev-
els of psychological clarity, emotional stability, mental focus, purity
of heart, the ability to sense and restore harmony, a willingness to be
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This course will give a strong base in the Body Sciences including Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology (pathobiol-
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The Foundations of Health and Healing taught at TAO include the

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Docere (Doctor as teacher)

Vis Medicatrix Naturae (the healing power of the body, nature’s ability to heal itself)

Prim-um Non Nocere (first do no harm).

These principles are incorporated throughout the course structure.

As students come to an understanding of these principles within themselves they are then able to integrate this
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Healing Process built into Human Experience through Cosmic Design it is necessary for the Whole Food Practi-
tioner to go through their own journey of self discovery, to “Know Thy Self” in order to clearly and effectively
assist in the facilitation of the Healing Process within another.

Students will undergo specific processes of Self-Education and Self Inquiry which leads to greater levels of
Awareness, Personal Transformation and the understanding of that which Constitutes Truest Health and Healing
and to integrate this into their life. In other words to “Walk their Talk”.

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Subjects offered within the course will include Herbs, Flowers and Essential Oils as
Medicine, Whole Food Nutrition with Anatomical SigNatures, Biochemistry, Iridology,
Homoeopathy, Clinical Practice, Counselling and other electives, giving students an ex-
cellent Grounding in a range of non-toxic, non-invasive, non-damaging Authentic Heal-
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Students will learn the skills necessary to operate and manage a Whole Food Medicine
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Empowering Process of Self Discovery, Self-Education and Self-Care with the Loving
Assistance of you as Advisor, Practitioner and In-Home Health Inspector.

It is a time for innovation, creativity, community and social entrepreneurship. If not NOW, when? If not US,
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 TIME FRAME
This program can be completed within 12 – 24 months. The time frame in which each unit is completed will
vary from person to person and industry to industry; as it is dependent upon the existing skills, knowledge and
desire priorities of each participant or participating organization.

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Participants can choose to fast track the program by choosing to attend additional blocks of two (2) day inten-
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SUN, MOON & STARS: TELESTIAL, TERRESTRIAL & CELESTIAL

The World’s healthiest foods that bring us the nutrition that our cells, organs, and entire body needs always
comes in tripartites, or parts of three. Look at your finger, three parts. Look at your arm, hand, forearm, upper
arm, three parts. Look at your feet, calf, thigh, three
parts. The vegetables have roots, stalks, and leaves.
Fruits come from plants that have roots, vines, or
trunks, and the fruit that we gather. Nuts and seeds are
the same way, along with grains, spices and herbs,
beans and legumes, even natural sweeteners like sugar
cane, honey (royal jelly & propolis) or even maple
syrup, even what we call the blackstrap molasses.
Even eggs come in three parts, with the shell, the egg
whites, and the yolk. For example, as far as whole
grains are concerned, the key to their powerful nutri-
tional components for prevention and healing, their
potential is precisely in their wholeness. A grain of
whole wheat consist of three parts, its endosperm, or
what we refer to as starch (little food particles that act
like sponges and clear metabolic waste and toxic
residues from the body - just like potatoes), its bran,
and it's germ. When wheat or any whole grain is re-
fined, it's bran and germ are removed, although these
two parts make up only 15 to17 percent of the grains
weight, they contain 83 percent of its nutritional com-
ponents, such as the phenolics. It’s the inhibitor pro-
tecting components of this food that is the content of the whole grains that reinforce the message that a variety
of whole foods should be eaten for overall good health because all of them come to us in three parts, or tripar-
tites. Different plants foods have different concentrations or amounts, or measures of the phytochemicals or the
nutritional components themselves. These substances, coming in three parts, go to different organs, different tis-
sues, and different cells where each of them cause the cells to perform different functions. So what your body
needs to ward off disease, and to even prevent it is this synergistic effect, this team work of the three parts that
is produced by eating the plant foods, including the whole grains.
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