Healing with Nature

When someone brags that they can drink more alcohol than someone else, do they really have something to brag about? I hear people say that they can drink more than somebody else quite often. They seem to be bragging that this is something to be proud of. They seem to think like they have acheived something ‘good’.

What really have they ‘acheived’? What is alcohol anyway? The usual alcohol that is in most of the common beverages is also known as ethyl alcohol or ethanol.

When the blood alcohol level reaches 0.4% it is usually fatal. Ethanol is an extremely dangerous poison. When consumed in lower amounts it will cause many health problems. Ethanol breaks down into acetaldehyde after it is ingested which is more toxic than ethanol itself. It can cause liver cirrhosis, cancer and other health problems.

A healthy person who has never tasted alcohol before will have severe reactions to the ingestion of alcohol. They will find the taste revolting and after swallowing their body will react to the poison by causing nausea, headaches, trembling, vomiting, and possibly other severe reactions.

After someone forces their body to accept alcohol over a long period of time the body will no longer react to the poison with the same intensity. This change in reaction is called tolerance. The body accomodates the poison by accepting it without creating the obvious symptoms. Internally the same destruction is occuring as was on the first time the person consumed alcohol but the body just tolerates it by not causing the same reactions.

An analogy of this is someone who has no nerves or nerve damage in their hand. If they put their hand on a hot stove they can leave it there for a while and not even know that something is wrong. A normal person who puts her hand on a hot stove will immediately get a signal from her nerves that there is damage occuring to their hand and will in turn remove the hand from the hot stove. The person with the nerve damage’s body tolerates the damage but their hand still will get burned.

Would the former person with the nerve damage be considered healthier than the later one? Is it something to be proud of when your body tolerates damage? Why would someone want to turn off the warning mechanisms that we have that are there to prevent us from damaging ourselves?

The same is true for all of the toxic and tissue damaging foods and beverages that people consume every day. People eat many foods that are so toxic to their body that many of their internal organs are covered in hardened tissues that can no longer assimilate nutrients. A short list of these kinds of foods are vinegar, salt, spices, garlic, onions, all bitter tasting foods, and of course alcohol.

There is nothing to be proud of when your body tolerates poisons and toxins. It is never healthy to no longer have the appropriate responses to these damaging substances. The only way to maintain health is to remove these from your diet and allow your body to guage what foods and environmental toxins are harmful. This way you will avoid them when you come across them and maintain your health integrity.

I decided to post something that is close to my heart but a little off of the main topic of natural hygiene. It is related to natural hygiene however since the results of this behavior will inevitably produce a terrible environment in which we all live and therefore create negative effects to our health.

Forget weapons of mass destruction, foods of mass destruction are much more dangerous to us and the future of human’s existence on this planet. I am quite certain that all the weapons of mass destruction that have been used since the beginning of time do not add up to the damage that has been done to the people and the earth by foods of mass destruction.

You might be asking what am I talking about by now? The actual farming methods, types of foods as well as the secondary effects that are caused by these choices are extremely devastating to both humans and to every other living creature on the planet. For example most of the land used in the USA is for the production of corn. Nearly all of this corn is not meant for human consumption (it is not even fit for human consumption). About 75% of the corn grown in the USA is used to feed animals in feedlots.

The corn is usually a GMO (genetically modified organism) plant which is sold by Monsanto Corporation so that they can have a complete monopoly on the food of the world. These corn seeds are genetically modified to produce the highest possible yield per acre. Besides that they are only able to produce one crop and their seeds are infertile so that the farmer must return to Monsanto the next year to buy more seed.

These corn seeds are also resistent to certain very dangerous pesticides and herbicides that very conveniently are also only sold by Monsanto. These pesticides and herbicides kill everything that is alive except for the corn.

Since the corn was genetically modified to be a high yielding plant there was no modification to make it nutricious. In fact there is almost no nutrition in the corn whatsoever. It is basically a plant that produces pure starch and little else. The land that it is grown on becomes so void of any minerals or vitamins due to the spraying of the herbicides and pesticides that nothing can possibly grow on the land except this very poor quality corn.

The main recipient of the corn are the cows that are raised on factory farms. These cows are born and live their entire life in a space so compressed that they can not even turn around. There are cows on either side of them who are also next to 2 other cows. Cows native food is grasses but it costs too much to have these cows graze on grasses so they are fed this low quality corn. Due to the acid forming nature of starches these cows get very sick and are near death even before they are ready for slaughter.

Most humans who eat meat would not want to eat the meat of a very sick animal. This is exactly what they are doing when they buy meat from fast food restaurants or from the grocery store.

Another problem with the meat industry is the runoff which contains many bacteria and dangerous chemicals which is dumped directly into the waterways. Some of this runoff ends up contaminating other crops such as tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, and many other foods. There have been many outbreaks of infections over the last couple of years due to these uncontrolled runoffs. Outbreaks from bacteria on tomatoes, spinach and chilli peppers are three that I remember just happened recently.

Many people are concerned with global warming but the main culprit for most of the greenhouse gases is the raising of animals for food. Cows and most other animals produce tons and tons of methane gases due to their digestive system and the poor quality food that they are being forced to eat. Ammonia gas is also produced in massive amounts from the defacation of farm animals. 

Obviously the water where the runoff is dumped to is polluted as well as most of the other rivers, streams and lakes that the runoff is carried to by these waterways.

Another great crime that human’s are doing to the planet is growing grains. As was already mentioned above, most of the USA’s midwest is covered in corn farms that do not even feed humans but animals. The rest of the poor quality corn is used to make high fructose corn syrup or regular corn syrup to make all of the wonderful packaged and processed foods that most everybody eats daily. The majority of these sweeteners are used in sodas or soft drinks. Still more is used in danishes, cakes, doughnuts, bread, cereal, artificial flavorings, and even hot dogs and other smoked or processed meats.

Besides corn, all of the other grains including wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice and so on are planted on soil that could be used to plant large fruit orchards. Acre for acre fruit feeds more people than grains. Fruit trees also do not remove nutrients from the soil as grains do. After about 5 or 6 years of planting a farm with grains the land is infertile and needs to be given minerals and nutrients to even be able to grow any kind of grain again.

Once the grains have been harvested the plants are destroyed but fruit trees will continue to produce fruit year after year. Animals such as birds and others can use trees to build their nests but they can not use grain plants. Fruit does not require heat to make it palatable for humans to eat. In fact ripe raw fruit is one of the only natural foods that humans would even recognize as food had we maintained our natural diet.

All grains need to be further processed in order to be consumed. Most often they are cooked. Cooking requires fire or other forms of energy. These forms of energy consume oxygen and all produce greenhouse gases. Besides the cooking most people will add flavors or condiments to grains because most do not have a pleasant taste to the palate. I don’t know if anyone has ever tried to eat plain oatmeal but without sugar, spices, or fruit it tastes very bland. Rice also has little flavor without condiments.

These grains are not only contributing to the loss of natural plant cover for the planet because massive amounts of rainforest and other forests are destroyed daily to make room for a field of grains but they are also contributing to the poor physical health of humans since they cause many problems. See the post on grains and bread (The French Don’t Call it Pain for Nothing) for more information on this.

The only foods that actually work symbiotically with the world’s natural setting are the ones that our biological and physiological makeup were designed for. These are fruits, leafy greens and shoots. When we eat these in their raw, ripe, fresh and organic (natural) state we get a double bonus. We maintain our precious health and virility as well our home, the planet earth stays healthy and able to sustain itself for now and future generations. Let’s wake the world up and be an example of doing the right thing!

Due diligence is a business term that means to perform a complete and thorough investigation before committing to a deal or a transaction. Any successful business person will always do their due diligence before going into any relationship or accepting any proposal.

If this is true why do so many people do nothing when they are told something about health and then believe it to be the sacred truth. Nutrition and health are two of the most important subjects when it comes to information, they can make the difference between life and death in many cases.

Unfortunately these two subjects are the source of more misinformation than most any other topic known. A simple stroll through any bookstore or health food store will prove this. There are thousands upon thousands of books and magazines that have ’scientific’ information on health and nutrition.

The problem is that nearly every single book or article has another book or article that claims that the exact opposite is the actual truth. For example there are the low carbohydrate diet books that show without a doubt that we humans must eat a low carbohydrate diet.  Then there are the books that align with people like Dr. McDougall that say we must eat a lot of carbohydrates to stay healthy.

It is a very confusing and dangerous situation out there if you really want to get to the real scientific facts about human health. Most people give up shortly after they start off due to this confusion. Some will simply follow the diet or health plan that is in fashion for that month or that week. Once there is a new fasionable diet plan they will switch to the new one.

Could this be a healthy way of life? Certainly not. We have only one life and playing with it by following a poor diet can only lead to serious problems. It sure makes the book authors rich but not a lot more is accomplished by this.

How does one find the truth in diet, nutrition and lifestyle? What should a layman do to find the truth from all of the tabloid diets and fashionable suggestions? First of all, if you really are interested in your health then you need to at least understand basics. What do I mean by basics? At least understand the difference between protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.

I will not define these here as that is out of the scope of this posting but these terms are defined in most any school biology textbook. Go to your local library and read at least 2 or 3 books that describe these.

Once you have mastered these basics then learn something about how the body uses food and nutrition (nutrition also comes from air, sunshine, emotions and other sources besides food). Read about the way the blood carries nutrients to the many cells of the body. Try to understand how this can be done in an efficient or inefficient way.

Once you have these basics understood then go out and read some of the health, diet and nutrition books. This time read them with a skeptical eye. Ask yourself if the author is just making the information up in his mind to sell more books or if he or she is really intelligent and knows about biology and metabolism.

After reading one book then go out and read another one that is in contrast to the first one and ask yourself the same questions while you read it. See which story seems to be more realistic with respect to the scientific knowledge that you have acquired.

They can not both be correct in all respects, you need to decide for yourself which one makes sense and which one is an attempt to convince the ignorant to buy products, supplements, foods, books, etc.

Do some further research in libraries, in bookstores, online. Read several pages of information and always be skeptical of everything especially if it is not consistent with the biological way that a human body functions.

Try to see if there are any inconsistencies in the information. One example that I recently saw was a book by a very popular raw food leader that had said that some of the references on the book might not have credits due to the chaos research magic that created the book. I would have some extreme doubts about a book that starts out with something like that.

Again, there are many deceiving and confusing stories about diet, health and nutrition out in the world. Do your due diligence to get the most realistic information that makes biological and logical sense. Get all sides of the story and make sure it fits in with the scientific and biological facts. If the information is not jiving then throw the book away and find a new one.

Surprise! Most people find it unbelievable that what they do to themselves during their life will result in their good or bad health. It’s a shocking concept to actually think that living healthfully can prevent negative consequences later on in life. They also do not believe that living a poor lifestyle will result in poor health.

I wonder why this idea is so pervasive? If you spend all of your money you earn and then you need to make the mortgage payment you won’t be able to pay it. That seems to make sense to most people but if you tell these same people if they save their health then they will have good health they won’t believe that for a second.

Why is health such a mystery to most of the world? Is it because the media, medical establishment and most of the rest of the world intentionally try to confuse us? If they are trying to confuse us they sure are doing a good job since most people are very confused.

I do believe that most people prefer to do the right thing for themselves to maintain health but are so confused by the misinformation. We are bombarded with so much misinformation daily that it’s a wonder that anyone knows the truth about health.

I hear very often of food that is labeled as healthy but plainly is not even compatible with a human body. Just walk into any popular grocery store and there are posters of most any product and the word healthy is often used to describe it. With so many healthy foods to buy it’s a wonder there are even any unhealthy people around.

If you look for the real ways to become healthy and live a healthy lifestyle while ignoring all of the misinformation you will be working towards health. It’s really simple. Health accumulates with consistent healthy practices thus avoiding unhealthy practices.

I kind of see it like this, if someone continuously drops a heavy weight on their foot every day, the foot that receives the heavy weight will get swollen, bruised, bloody and throb. If it is stopped these symptoms will eventually go away and the foot will recover. With time the symptoms that were produced due to the heavy weight will become less and less since the body will defend itself from this damage by creating possibly a thicker skin over the area that takes the weight.

Maybe even the person doing this will stop feeling pain completely and will continue to drop the weight on their foot because they feel there is no more damage being done to the foot. The damage continues of course but the symptoms of it are less. This is a basic survival mechanism, the pharmaceutical companies understand this reaction very well and create medicine that mimics the same toxins that people use to make the body stop producing symptoms.

The user of these medicines is sure the illness is gone because they don’t feel the pain any longer. They immediately recognize the medicine as the solution to their self-inflicted problem. Now they are hooked on medication and the pharmaceutical company executives smile all the way to the bank.

There are no mysteries to health. If you obey the laws of nature you get rewarded, if you do not then you’re playing Russian roulette with only 1 chamber empty. 

One of the biggest barriers to switching to a whole food and raw diet which is the original diet of humans is the psychological effects of addictions. The standard western diet that the vast majority of people choose to consume is full of addictive substances. These foods are not only addictive by their smells and tastes but they also contain chemicals known as opioids which are highly addictive.

What are opioids? They are as the name suggests similar to opium, one of the most addictive drugs known. Opioids are defined as anything that is non opium derived but causes similar effects on the brain as morphine (which is opium derived). Opioids are known to create positive feelings, reduce pain, cause sedation, and just generally produce a feeling of pleasure.

When something you eat contains these opioid substances they will be very difficult to discontinue consuming. People will get cravings and urges to keep on using these foods since they give a false sense of well being that lasts just long enough to get the next hit (or meal).

Which foods have these addictive substances? The most common are the grains such as wheat and all products made from wheat, dairy products that were derived from milk, and meats which can be from most any animal or even from fish.

Grains

The grains that contain the most opioids are the ones that contain gluten. This topic was covered in another blog entry called The French Don’t Call it Pain for Nothing. Gluten is found in wheat, rye, oats and barley. The other grains also have addictive substances but are not as dangerous as the ones that contain gluten. Gluten is known to create many health problems besides addictions, one of which is celiac disease. An example of an opioid found in many grains is gliadinomorphine which as the name suggests is similar to morphine to our brain and nervous system.

Dairy

Milk and all of the products that are made from milk including cream, ice cream, cheese, and many other products that contain covert dairy products such as many breads, cereals, meats, and many processed foods contain opioids. Cow’s milk contains casein which after digestion breaks down to casomorphine. Two other opioids found in dairy are beta-casomorphine-7 and alpha-casein. Antibodies of these opioids have been found in the brain stems of humans which indicates that they can cross the blood-brain barrier.

Besides the opioid problems with dairy there are many other serious problems with dairy as a large percentage of the population is lactose intolerant. They do not have the ability to digest the milk sugar known as lactose. Many people also are allergic to the milk proteins.

Meat

Hemoglobin is a protein found in blood. Every kind of meat contains blood since meat is the flesh of animals. Hemoglobin is known to be an opioid. Most every animal raised for food has been fed a high grain diet. Resdiue of the grain diet will be in the flesh of every animal and therefore these meats will also contain the opioids from grains.

Due to the standard procedures of modern factory farming most animals are given anti-biotics and hormones. Both of these additives can cause cravings and opioid type of reactions in the consumer of the meat.

What do opioids do? Opioids will bind to opioid receptors in the brain, central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. Once they attach to these receptors, their chemicals are released and they will cause pain to stop and feelings of euphoria. Some of these cause sedation and feelings of relaxation.

One of the reasons why people feel tired or sleepy after a big meal is due to these opioids. These foods are causing a numbing of the real world and makes us feel happy and reduces pain. These are the same reactions to all of the usual addictive drugs such as morphine, heroin and cocaine.

People consuming the foods mentioned in this post or derivatives of them are experiencing the addictive properties of these foods. Often I hear people tell me that they would rather die than change their diets to exclude meat, dairy or grains. This is the addiction speaking and not the person. These foods can be more addictive than illegal drugs as society shuns illegal drugs but nobody ever shuns food, even the most dangerous ones mentioned here.

If you are addicted to any of these unhealthy and dangerous foods, I hope that this post will help you understand why. Maybe with this knowledge you can plan a withdrawal strategy from these foods. It can never be easy to stop consuming an addictive substance so keep that in mind if you decide to discontinue eating them. Often professional help is needed to stop using an addictive substance.

One of the most controversial and misunderstood areas of diet is vitamin B12. I will try to clarify this here in simple language. Vitamin B12 which is also known as cobalamin, is a coenzyme which plays a part in red blood cell formation and growth.

As with vitamin C it can not be synthesized by the body and therefore must come from other sources. The only creature on earth that can produce vitamin B12 is the lowly bacteria. No animal or plant can produce this essential vitamin.

When we ingest vitamin B12 there must be sufficient intrinsic factor secreted from our parietal cells of our stomach in order to utilize and absorb the B12. The parietal cells of the stomach are the same cells that secrete hydrochloric acid that aids in the digestion of food.

Most of the symptoms of insufficient vitamin B12 people show are usually not caused by the lack of B12 but a lack of intrinsic factor secretions by the stomach. Symptoms of B12 deficiency are primarily anaemia, which is insufficient number of red blood cells. This can manifest itself as fatigue or weakness. It can also cause weight loss, constipation, flatulence or loss of appetite.

More serious symptoms can be numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, insomnia, loss of memory, dizziness, loss of balance, tinitus (ringing in ears), depression, headaches or hallucinations. These symptoms can be many other things so don’t run out and buy B12 supplements just yet.

The average meat eater needs between 1 to 3 micrograms of B12 a day while the average vegetarian only requires as little as 0.3 to 0.5 micrograms per day. The meat eater’s stomach is much less efficient at producing intrinsic factor and their body needs to work much harder to get any nutrient from the food they eat.

The liver can store up to 1000 micrograms of vitamin B12. If your liver is storing this amount then you can stay free of any B12 deficiencies for as long as 2000 days which is  nearly 6 years without receiving any B12 from any sources whatsoever.

There are several ways to get this important vitamin into our body. One of the most obvious is through diet. When we consume healthy plant based food that was grown in soil containing the bacteria that produce B12 the plant will contain sufficient amounts of B12. Due to the conventional modern farming methods that use chemicals in the soil which kills the bacteria most conventional food from plants has little to no B12.

If however you consume some organic food that was grown in soil containing composted material without the toxic chemicals there will be B12 in the food.

The absorbing colon which is the first half of the colon can absorb B12 from bacterial secretions. The colon is full of bacteria and if you maintain a healthy lifestyle these bacteria will flourish and help with B12 absorption. The amount of B12 from this source can be between 1 to 10 micrograms daily provided your colon can absorb the vitamin.

Finally another source of vitamin B12 is from the bacteria in the mucus membranes of our body. The nasal passages, gums, tongue, tonsils and teeth can have bacterial B12 produced and absorbed directly into the bloodstream. This amount of B12 can be up to 0.5 micrograms a day. This alone is enough to prevent a deficiency of B12 in a healthy raw vegan and there is no need to even produce intrinsic factor as the B12 is directly absorbed into the blood.

If you chose to use drugs, coffee, alcohol, live a stressful life, or consume other toxins  the bacteria will be less likely to survive and your B12 levels might be low. Living a healthy non toxic lifestyle will allow these bacteria to help with B12 production.

Using the popular B12 ’supplements’ like spirulina, chlorella, blue green algae and many other B12 supplements can actually cause a B12 deficiency because they contain a fake inactive B12 which will compete with true B12 for receptors and not allow real B12 to be absorbed.

If you are concerned about vitamin B12 levels in your body there are testing methods to verify that your B12 levels are ok. The most accurate method as of the writing of this is known as the UMMA test (urinary methylmalonic acid test). More information on it can be found here.

The actual facts on B12 deficiencies are that many more meat and dairy eaters are B12 deficient than vegans and vegetarians mostly because they have problems secreting intrinsic factor and do not absorb B12 well.

It is really quite rare for a healthy raw vegan to have B12 deficiencies. In transition to a healthy raw vegan diet you might want to look into certain bacterial produced B12 containing foods. These are most raw and organic foods that were grown in soil that uses compost and contains cobalt. If in doubt then grow these on your own. Lettuces grow well even in an apartment.

Just remember that the usual cause in not insufficient B12 but not enough intrinsic factor secretions produced by your stomach cells. This can be reversed with a healthy lifestyle. If you are still really worried about B12 then get yourself tested and put your mind at ease.

Now I must be asking for lawsuits. At least the topic is not lawyers!

If you are a regular reader of this blog on natural hygiene, you would already know my personal and the general NH opinion on medical doctors. Medical doctors today are given a lot of respect and are seen as some of the most knowledgeable professionals in society. Many people think they perform magic and can cure most anything.

For example when my coworker was diagnosed with cancer last year he knew that I was living an alternative lifestyle but still when we discussed his options once he said that he had no other choice but to do what the doctors prescribed for him. May he rest in peace but I think they steered him wrong and he shouldn’t have been put through all those operations and chemicals. I honestly believe that he would have lived a lot longer if he refused to do what they prescribed.

Medical doctors are all educated by the same extremely wealthy and large pharmaceutical companies who donate billions and billions of dollars to ‘medical education’. These companies subsidize the universities with money, faculties, facilities, gifts, equipment, text books, cadavers (which they conveniently caused the deaths of), and even professors. How can any medical doctor even think for him / herself when they live in the medical education environment for their entire training period?

They are basically at the mercy of the pharmaceutical industry. Even their license to practice which is granted by the state and federal governments is nearly 100% influenced by the large pharmaceutical industry. There is a lot of lobbying going on by the pharmaceutical industry and they donate billions of dollars to the political parties.

An example of this is the ‘practicing medicine without a license’ law that most every alternative medical provider has butt up against. The law states that anyone who ‘practices medicine’ must be licensed by the state that they practice in. The terms ‘practicing medicine’ are given a very vague definition which makes nearly everyone who even suggests any form of treatment for anything relating to health to be practicing medicine.

When your mom told you to take an aspirin for your headache when you were a teenager, she was practicing medicine. If you had a casual conversation with an aquaintance and they recommended some kind of treatment for some medical problem you have, they are practicing medicine.

The law is intended to make sure that the only treatments that any person can ever seek out are drugs, surgery or other invasive treatments that are performed by a licensed medical doctor. This seems so convenient for the large pharmaceutical industry as well as the medical instument industry. Afterall they are the ones who supported the law and hired the highly paid lobbyists to write the law in the first place.

Basically any treatment that doesn’t involve these huge industries and adds to their profits is illegal. If you change your diet to heal a problem that was originally caused by your old diet, you are practicing medicine without a license.

There used to be a fasting retreat in the state of Maryland where a faster passed away due to problems related to their diabetes symptoms. This person was not co-operating with the requests of the fasting supervisors and would have had problems with any kind of treatment. The state board of physicians of Maryland brought the owner of the fasting retreat to trial for practicing medicine without a license. He was forced to flee from the US and open another fasting retreat in another country.

Having had a ‘chronic’ and ‘incurable’ illness for nearly 20 years before I finally discovered natural hygiene, I have met a lot of medical doctors. I have to say that none have impressed me in the least except for one who lives a natural hygiene lifestyle. She discovered NH and incorporated it into her treatments for her patients.

Unfortunately the state board of physicians’ opinions of her treatments were not all that favorable. She felt pressured to act according to the desires of the pharmaceutical industry and therefore took a sabatical from her practice. Her ethics and beliefs do not correspond with those of the pharmaceutical industry, which forced her to quit practicing medicine.

An acquaintance of mine had twins 7 years ago in a hospital. They were breached and the doctors decided that she must have a caesarian section. The surgery was performed and she had healthy twins. She became pregnant again a couple of years ago. This time she decided that she wanted to have the baby at home. She was a little apprehensive at first because she was used to the medical establishment’s propaganda that anything to do with health needs to involve them.

One of her friends happened to be a medical doctor and he heard about her wishes. He immediately telephoned her to tell her that she was making a big mistake. She was in a great risk of dying because of her previous experience. Her uterus was at risk of rupturing which would have caused her immediate death.

It took her a month to settle down and return to her senses and finally have the birth at home. At the time of the birth her husband called the local hospital to make sure they were able to support her in case of emergency. The hospital staff said that they were expecting them and were confident that she would soon be on her way there.

The birth happened without any events and she now has 3 healthy and happy children.

Another friend of mine’s mother was in the hospital for a ‘routine’ removal of polyps. They were not cancerous and simply were being removed prophylactically. The operation was a success but post operation she developped sepsis and due to the neglect of the hospital staff she passed away. My friend has won an out of court settlement against the doctor and the hospital. In fact the doctor is up for having his license revoked by the very same state board of physicians.

The health industry has such low self-esteem in the US that they must write laws that exclude any other competing treatments. They know perfectly well that they are causing most of the health problems in the country. They also are very afraid of natural hygiene because they know that their drugs, surgeries and treatments can not hold a candle to the power of the inner workings of our own bodies to heal us.

My suggestion to those who still consider seeing a medical doctor for any of their health issues is to think twice about that thought. Do not waste your time, money, and especially health by seeing a medical doctor. Just follow natural hygeiene and your body will keep you in the best health possible.

What is leukocytosis? The first part of the word, leuko means white, the second part of the word, cytosis means a condition where there are more than the usual number of cells.

Together this means that there are an unusually abnormal amount of white cells, or more precisely an unusually high number of white blood cells. What does this have to do with natural hygiene? I will explain that in this post.

White blood cells exist for primarily one main purpose in the body. They are known to be a part of the immune system. Their purpose is to find invaders to the body (unfriendly ones) and destroy the invader. There are many sensors built into our body which are always on full alert. When these sensors are triggered by an invasion they will send out messages to other cells of the body.

The other cells of the body will mount an attack on the invaders. They start producing new leukocytes (white blood cells) of various types to wage war against the enemy invader.

This all might sound too belligerent for a body function, but in effect this is what goes on when something like a splinter enters our finger or we are exposed to a large amount of some foreign bacteria possibly in a food or in the air.

Now what does this have to do with natural hygiene? There is a condition called digestive leukocytosis which was discovered by a Swiss scientist named Dr. Paul Kouchakoff. He did a study in the 1930’s by testing people’s blood after they ate certain foods.

What did the results of his study reveal?

To summarize, his findings showed that when someone eats a food that was heated above the food’s critical temperature (each food seemed to have a different critical temperature) the person consuming the food showed leukocytosis. This implied that as far as the body was concerned the food was an invader and not something that is normally expected to enter the body.

Kouchakoff also had these people consume fresh raw foods and did the same test to look for leukocytosis. He found that with raw unheated and unprocessed food there was no sign of leukocytosis.

When he tried highly processed foods such as white flour, white rice and other processed foods, there were actually 2 reactions, one was the usual leukocytosis but also he found that the ratios of white blood cells were not as they usually are. There are many kinds of white blood cells such as T-cells, B-cells, etc. each has a particular purpose in fighting invaders. Processed food actually caused the most disruption to the body, more than even the heated food.

Kouchakoff also found that when some of the raw food was eaten with the same food cooked that the effect of leukocytosis was much less. This seemed to trick the body into thinking that all of the food was raw and natural and not dangerous to the body.

Even if a food that causes leukocytosis was eaten cooked but cooked at temperature lower than it’s critical temperature there was no sign of leukocytosis.

The best thing to do to avoid having your body produce white blood cells and start an attack on your food is to eat fresh raw, whole and ripe foods from the plant world. If you are not quite ready for the raw diet then eating some raw food with the same food cooked will avoid most of the leukocytosis issues.

For example if you adore cooked spinach, you might want to throw some uncooked spinach together with the cooked to trick your body into thinking you are eating a raw food.

Also you can cook your foods very lightly so that they do not surpass the critical temperature for the food. In most cases the critical temperature is below 190 degrees fahrenheit. Remember that this temperature is below the boiling point of water, so boiling or steaming food would cause leukocytosis.

Your eventual goal should be a 100% raw food diet. That will guarantee that your immune system will not try to destroy your food and cause your body unnecessary harm.

For a translation into English of Dr. Kouchakoff’s paper see this link: Kouchakoff’s paper
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This world is full of people who are in denial of their extremely poor lifestyle habits. Most people live their daily life without even thinking about the consequences of their poor lifestyle decisions.

Most people know of someone who is seriously ill or has died at a relatively young age. These unfortunate people were living the usual western lifestyle. Some were participating in poor health habits like smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, or even the consumption of drugs for recreational purposes, but most were not doing anything blatantly bad except for their generally poor lifestyle.

Even driving around the city I see so many people with a memorial on their truck or car describing the birth and death of a loved one. Whenever I notice one of these I always look at it to see how long the person lived. Nearly all of them passed away before they reached the age of 50 years.

The cause of death is never written on the memorial but assuming they died from one of the two most common causes of death is probably a reasonable assumption at least in most cases.

The two most common causes of death for most western societies are cardiovascular disease and cancer. Of course many of these people might have died in automobile accidents or other traumas but probably many died from the most common causes of death.

I assume that these people were living the typical western lifestyle since nearly all people in western countries choose to live the same standard lifestyle. Both of these causes of death are completely preventable by living within the laws of nature.

The odd thing is that these people who obviously were grieved by the passing of their loved ones still live the exact same lifestyle as their deceased relatives or friends. I don’t understand what they are thinking when they expect different results by doing the exact same thing.

It is said that the definition of insanity is the repetition of the exact same behavior but expecting a different result. I am not sure if these people are suicidal or if they are insane.

If they are not suicidal and they do want to live a long healthy life then they must be insane. They are repeating the exact same behavior of their dear deceased loved ones and expect a different result. I can not see any other way to explain it.

Possibly they are just not educated in the laws of nature or have no idea that lifestyle and disease or death are related. Maybe these people are fooled or tricked somehow into thinking that what happened to their loved ones was some sort of random evil spell that just happens out of nowhere.

Certainly this evil spell having struck their loved one can never strike them as that is not allowed according to probabilities. It’s nearly impossible for lightning to strike twice, isn’t it?

Fortunately for the readers of this blog, things are much clearer for you. You understand the laws of nature and therefore you know that there is no evil spirit going around causing disease and death. You know that sickness and death is due to ignorance and apathy and not at all random or evil.

People who live according to the laws of nature will avoid most of these avoidable illnesses and death. They do not expect a different result by repeating the same behavior that their unfortunate dead loved one was doing before they became ill. These people are repeating the causes of health and wellness and expecting the same results as the rest of the natural hygiene community who are thriving and prospering all across the world.

For most of the world their health is low on their list of priorities. Nearly everyone on this planet takes their level of health for granted. Of course there are people who read the latest survey or the latest study and take whatever recommendations are given in the study.

Some will start a vitamin regime, some will take minerals, some will even modify their diet to include more or less of the food or substance that is under study. Some will even start an exercise or fitness regime. The majority of people however are too busy with the rest of their life or just are not interested in health because they either were never sick or they just don’t care.

No matter which category of the above you fit in, it is highly likely that you are not doing the right things to maintain health. Eating one food because it was shown in a study to improve something is not at all a way to improve health. Health is much more complex than something that can be modified by eating more or less of one food or even starting an exercise regime.

Most of us who were born on this planet are quite lucky. Many children do not survive childbirth and therefore they can not be reading this. Those of us who have made it through that critical time were blessed with an entire body that is self maintaining. The human body is capable of keeping itself in the best possible health.

After that point in time, the majority of people started to do self-destructive behaviors. Most were not even started on their own accord but by their guardian. Parents and guardians generally do not know the first thing about health and immediately start poisoning their recently born child.

They are often a first time parent and they will read books written by authors who know nothing about health but who do know how to market a book. Other sources of information come from the very good medical establishment whose interest doesn’t lie in the health of the people but in the pocketbooks of the people.

Still other sources of information comes from word of mouth. Obviously if your next door neighbor raised some ‘healthy’ children they must know what is the right thing to do. With the number of obese and overweight children approaching 40% in the US, most likely these children are not very healthy at all.

There is a problem with information and apathy in the world when it comes to health. It seems that most do not even care to know about health until it is too late and often times beyond that point or if they do care they do not know how to tell which information is accurate and which is not.

There is a lot of confusing and conflicting information available and the medical establishment thrives on this as they know that confused people are very easy to persuade. They are gullible.

The scientifically proven to be dangerous and even deadly Atkins diet was one of the most popular diets of all time. Many people still follow this diet. I hear people who shun carbohydrates as if they are the plague. There are many other similar diets and even more misinformation out in the world than can be listed here.

Everyone has a grandmother who made a remedy for most anything. Many people have heard so much of this misinformation and lies for so long they do more than believe it but trust it as somthing that is more true than their own name.

People seem to accept ideas that conform to their deepest beliefs and reject anything that does not. Most people do not have much of a biological or physiological education or even a mind to understand logic and science. They just take whatever they see or hear and throw it against their inner beliefs and if it sticks it becomes a new belief.

Unfortunately health doesn’t take care of itself if you do not follow the laws of nature. Yes we all do have a body that is designed to maintain itself as long as the user does the right things that allow it to do it’s work.

If you have a pet dog and you never gave it any attention, if you would just let him go out on his own without supervision and did not take care of him, eventually he will disappear. Possibly he will run away or get killed or become severly injured.

Health is not something that can be taken for granted. Even with our self-maintaining bodies we all need to do the right things to allow them to do their work. If you keep health low on the priority list then do not expect it to last for very long. Your body will give back exactly what it can given the inputs you have given it. If those inputs include the standard western diet, little or no exercise, negative thoughts and relationships, tobacco, alcohol and other toxins then you must expect the inevitable - loss of health.