Lauren Farris, Author at The Raw Key

The Ideal Eating Window

Why do we eat between 12 pm and 6 or 8 pm?

Disclaimer: This article is provided for educational purposes only and reflects a Natural Hygiene (Terrain Model) perspective on health and nutrition. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any condition, and does not constitute veterinary or medical advice. The views expressed are independent of the conventional medical or veterinary industry, and all decisions regarding animal care or personal health care are the responsibility of the owner/individual.

We are told by a chronically sick society that we need a balanced breakfast early in the morning.

From the mainstream article “What Does a Healthy Breakfast Look Like?”

“We asked Charlotte Furman, a registered dietitian and Technology and Wellness Manager in the Department of Food and Nutrition at UW Medical Center, to help us understand what a healthy breakfast should look like. Furman loves breakfast—it’s her favorite meal of the day. The goal is not to feel like you are depriving yourself of anything, but instead rewarding yourself—with new patterns, new flavors, and hopefully renewed energy and improved mood and health.”

Firman is already not starting with a good understanding of eating to live, her focus is on “rewarding yourself” through the poisoning of your body. 😒

The article goes on to tell us to stuff ourselves early in the morning by combining every type of food into a single meal that will take hours to digest and will create both ammonia and alcohol in our system as the proteins and carbohydrates both fail to digest quickly and efficiently:

“What foods make a nutritious breakfast?

For the most nutritious breakfast, try to choose whole, unprocessed foods from each of the five food groups: fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy. Try to include proteins from foods like yogurts (look for varieties with less sugar added), eggs, nuts and seeds or legumes. Also try to include complex carbohydrates such as whole fruits and vegetables, and whole grains (i.e. oatmeal) that provide fiber and will help you feel full longer.”

They then go on to provide us with a list of examples of a “healthy breakfast”:

“Oatmeal with fruit and flax or chia seeds

Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana

Whole wheat toast with pesto, avocado and egg

Whole wheat crepes with yogurt and fruit”

Yikes 😳

Things have changed a little from the recommendation of “Eggs, whole grain toast, orange juice, milk, and cereal that I grew up with, but I cannot say they have improved at all.

Aside from the food combining disasters, this dietitian, and nearly all others, recommends an early meal well before noon. So what’s wrong with that? What are they ignoring about our physiology when they recommend breaking the fast early in the morning?

Digestive Phases

Our body has three natural stages that the digestive process goes through. These are digestion, assimilation, and elimination.

The digestive processes run from approximately noon until around 8 PM.

Assimilation processes run from about 8 PM until 4 AM.

The elimination process is run from 4 AM until 12 noon.

When we force our body to digest at 8 AM or 9 AM when the body is still in the elimination phase our digestion will be sluggish and our elimination will be impaired.

This has a double negative effect on the body. First, sluggish digestion does not efficiently digest food thereby creating more waste and more fermentation in the system. The second is the early shift away from elimination means the body is eliminating less.

When you combine these two factors the result is far more waste being trapped in the system, leading to disease conditions.

One way we can witness this for ourselves is in the gas and bloating that often results after an early morning fruit meal. The cleaner your system becomes, the more you will become aware of this.

When we eat only during the digestion window we find that our mind is clearer and we have more energy early in the day to get through our tasks. We have less energy drain and we also allow the repairs to the digestive system to be made, so we have less of the pains of false hunger and are less likely to overeat later in the day.

Another way we can see this process in action is all of the people who are awoken at or around 4 am, often with a nightmare, anxiety, or some other form of distress. As the body shifts into elimination, the harmful substances irritate the nerves of the digestive tract and the body’s response is to reflect that discomfort.

Clinical Studies

Recently studies on the gut microbiome have confirmed these natural rhythms of the body:

“Many microbes in the digestive tract do not maintain a constant level of their relative abundance but show daily oscillations under normal conditions. Recent evidence indicates that chronic jetlag, constant darkness, or deletion of the circadian core gene can alter the composition of gut microbiota and dampen the daily oscillation of gut microbes.”
“External light-dark cycle shapes gut microbiota through intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells” Chi-Chan Lee et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35476894/

“Researchers noted that the basic rhythmicity of the gut microbiota is described by an increase of Firmicutes during feeding periods followed by its decrease over time during the day. Although some gut bacteria such as Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia are more present during fasting periods, bacteria that feed on fiber grow at night as food residues reach the colon. Polyphenol and some prebiotic fibers such as GOS (galactooligosaccharides), found in plant sources and breast milk, respectively, are able to consolidate the circadian rhythm by increasing gut microbiota diversity.”

“Gut microbiota rhythmicity is expressed through the secretion of molecules at specific times of the day. At night, genes related to energy metabolism, DNA repair and cell growth are enacted, while during the day, bacteria produce molecules that consolidate their own colonization of the gut.”
“The Gut Microbiota Clock: the close connection between gut microbiota, dietary patterns, and the circadian rhythm” https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/the-gut-microbiota-clock-the-close-connection-between-gut-microbiota-dietary-patterns-and-the-circadian-rhythm/

“Indeed, over the past 3 years, evidence has emerged revealing compositional oscillation of the fecal microbiota during the 24-h light-dark cycle – the gut microbiome exhibits compositional and functional structures at different times of day (Thaiss et al., 2014; Zarrinpar et al., 2014; Liang et al., 2015).

Thaiss et al. (2014) reported the time-of-day–dependent composition of the murine fecal microbiota (Thaiss et al., 2014) (Figure 2a). More than 15% of detected OTUs (Operational Taxonomical Units) undergo daily oscillation in their relative abundance, including Lactobacillus reuteri, Dehalobacterium spp., and other species belonging to Clostridiales, Lactobacillales, and Bacteroidales. Additional support was added later by another 2 groups: Zarrinpar et al. (2014) reported that 17% of OTUs are cyclical (Zarrinpar et al., 2014), and we reported oscillation of the relative abundance of genera belonging to Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria (Liang et al., 2015). In addition to the fluctuation in relative taxonomic abundance, the total biomass of the gut bacterial community in mice is higher during the dark phase when the animals are active(Liang et al.,2015). The discovery of microbial oscillation in the gut was detectable despite the dramatic variability of microbiota composition from different cages and animal facilities (Deloris Alexander et al., 2006; Rausch et al., 2016).”
“Timing the Microbes: The Circadian Rhythm of the Gut Microbiome” Xue Liang* and Garret A. FitzGerald† https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0748730417729066

Why do people feel compelled to eat early in the morning?

This habit of early eating is more likely a result of the “hunger” pains caused by the ingestion of harmful substances. True hunger is never evidenced by pain. Pain is part of the healing process. However, if we are stuffing our bodies with harmful substances and mis-combing foods creating fermentation and putrefaction inside our digestive tract there will be a need each morning to make repairs, which triggers pain in the stomach. Feeding temporarily stops those repairs and stops the pain, reinforcing the false idea of hunger.

When we return to the natural diet of raw fruits, tender leafy greens, raw nuts, seeds, and tender vegetables we remove the substances from our diet that are injuring our tissues, and as the body heals we see these hunger pains disappear. Instead, we are free to choose to eat only when the body requires fuel and we become free of the cravings which enslave us and keep us trapped in unhealthy cycles of eating.

Have more questions? Want to get answers about your specific health issues or concerns? We offer consultations here: https://www.therawkey.com/consultations/

Ready to make changes but not sure how to begin? Need some motivation or accountability? Why not join our 30-Day Terrain Model Diet Support and Education Group: New Groups start on the 1st of every month! https://www.therawkey.com/terrain-diet-challenge/

Eat fruit and be well my friends. 🙂

January 26, 2023March 19, 2026

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Koch’s Postulates Explained

The Following is an excerpt from Life Science Course LESSON 66 – Contagion, Epidemics

8. KOCH’S POSTULATES

The German scientist, Robert Koch, maintained that for a specific bacteria to be the cause of a disease:

It must be found in every case of that disease.
It must not be found when the disease is not present.
It must be capable of living outside the tissues.
It must then be capable of reintroduction into the organism and producing that disease.

As has been repeatedly demonstrated, specific bacteria do not fulfill these prerequisites.

Robert Koch (1843-1910) was a bacteriologist, physiologist, and one of Pasteur’s contemporaries. The specific requirements of “Koch’s Postulates” follow:

A culture of the bacteria must be taken from a diseased animal.
It must then be grown in pure culture in a laboratory.
After this, the culture has to be injected into a susceptible animal.
It must cause the same disease, and culture must be taken from this animal.

This is a modification of the germ theory, requiring a condition of susceptibility to establish a causal relationship between specific germs and specific diseases.

Scientists know that specific bacteria are not found in every case of a specific disease. The eminent Canadian physician, Sir William Osier (1849-1919) found that the diphtheria bacillus is absent in 28 to 40% of cases of diphtheria. Green’s Medical Diagnosis says that tubercle bacilli may be present early, more often late, or in rare instances be absent throughout the disease condition. Koch’s first postulate, “the specific bacteria must be found in every case of that disease” is not fulfilled in tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fever, pneumonia, or any other disease. Specific bacteria are not found in every case of a specific disease.

Nor is the second postulate fulfilled, because it is a medically-known fact that bacteria are found in the bodies of humans and animals which exhibit no symptoms of any disease. Specific bacteria are repeatedly found when the specific disease is absent.

Further, bacteria are not capable of living outside the tissues; therefore, the third postulate is not fulfilled. Neither Pasteur nor any of his successors have ever induced a complaint by the inoculation of airborne bacteria, but only by injections from bodily sources. The reason is obvious: germs are dependent on human or animal organisms for their survival.

Quoting from “The Germ Theory Reexamined” by Bob Zuraw and Bob Lewanski (Vegetarian World, Volume 3, Number 11, September-November 1977): “Koch’s Fourth Postulate: Introducing germ cultures in a healthy body or organism does not produce signs and symptoms of the disease.The Bio-Chemical Society of Toronto conducted a number of very interesting experiments in which pure cultures of typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and meningitis germs were consumed by the millions in food and drink by a group of volunteers. The results: no ill effects whatsoever.”

But when the condition of susceptibility is introduced, this changes the whole concept. Thus we are back to the same point we have been emphasizing: the condition of the host is of primary importance in the production of disease.

January 24, 2023March 19, 2026

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Gorge Feeding vs. Daily meals

WHY DO WE CHOOSE DAILY MEALS RATHER THAN GORGE AND FAST AS WOLVES AND COYOTES EAT IN THE WILD?

In nature, dogs follow a gorge and fast model of feeding. In our homes we tend to do the opposite, offering smaller meals daily. In this article, we will explore what gorge and fast feeding are, why most people feed the daily model, which option is better for your dog now and in the future, and what are the potential trade-offs of daily meals versus the gorge and fast model.

While you may be tempted to go straight to the more natural model, this issue is multifaceted, with various contributing factors that can affect this choice. It is best to make this choice deliberately armed with some knowledge to make an educated decision.

A wolf in the wild does not have access to a grocery store and refrigerator. They must work hard to earn their food. They may go days or weeks without making a successful prey kill. Once they do, they want to eat that kill as quickly as possible to avoid loss from other scavengers. They will gorge themselves on the meat when they have it available, sometimes eating as much as 25% of their body weight or more.

Having never eaten unnatural foods, coyotes, wild dogs and wolves have their senses intact and unimpeded, so they are able to feel when they are full and stop eating. Dogs that are fed kibble and commercial food however often have their senses damaged by the chemicals and toxins present in all commercial and cooked foods. This can lead to some of our dogs gorging too much and then vomiting the food back up. This issue will heal over time but can be an issue for some dogs when they are still healing which would make the gorge model less ideal for these dogs.

Here are some common reasons why we might choose daily feeding over a gorge and fast:

Hunger Sensors – As mentioned above, a dog that has been kibble-fed may have had its natural stop-feeding senses dulled or damaged. I see this very often in our senior rescues who have been on kibble for a long time and in the younger ones who are really overweight. In most dogs, this will heal over time. But in these dogs they will gorge themselves to the point where they throw up because they simply don’t have that “Stop, I’m full” sense working properly. So we have to take that into consideration and in those dogs prone to overeating it would be best to stick with smaller daily meals.
Breeding Issues – Dogs are wolves that have been selectively bred for various traits, many of which are not beneficial to their overall health. Unfortunately, this means we have to concern ourselves with bloat in some of these breeds. The risk for bloat increases if they have been fed kibble for part of their lives or if their mothers were kibble fed. This can lead to structural weaknesses making it possible for bloat to occur. If your dog is a breed with a high bloat risk, then sticking with small meals daily is the better option. Also, proper food combinations and avoiding all non-ideal foods are essential for bloat-risk dogs.
Feast and Famine – Dogs retain their natural instinct to gorge on high-calorie density proteins when they are available because in nature they did not know when their next meal would be available. If I gave 6-pound Ziggy a whole cornish hen every day, he would eat it every day. He wouldn’t stop eating them when he started to get fat because his instinct says, “Eat all the prey when it’s available because it’s hard work to catch prey, and we don’t know when we will catch another.” Prey is fast and smart. A wolf might catch one in 10 or one in 20 attempts. A grocery store-fed dog lies on the couch all day and then has his prey delivered on a silver platter. Obesity and disease are the end result. Since prey is always available in our fridge with no work put in, it becomes our human responsibility to adequately exercise our companions before feeding and to put in an adequate number of fasting days between meals to mimic the natural feast and famine cycle of nature. Gorge feeding is only a healthy option when the accompanying fasting time is observed as well.
Emotional Feeding – While feeding the gorge and fast style may be the most natural option for our companions, as humans, we tend to introduce complications because we misfeed ourselves and have emotional attachments to eating. We tend to project these emotions we feel onto our pets which leads us to create feeding habits that are in alignment with our emotions rather than our companion’s physiological needs. If you ever feed to reward your dog or feel bad if they skip a meal then gorge feeding is likely not a good option for you right now.
Overfeeding – Humans naturally want to overfeed. We overfeed ourselves. We mistake the body’s healing pains for hunger pains, we think we need or benefit from eating multiple meals a day plus snacks, etc. Naturally, we will be inclined to overfeed our pets as well. If we want to take on the more natural model we as humans need to connect with our true nature and release a lot of the social programming that makes us overfeed. If you haven’t worked through this yet on your own, gorge feeding may be difficult for you to manage.
Fasting – Many humans are fasting averse. This becomes an issue because the gorge model requires anywhere from 3-7 days or more of fasting between meals and it requires us to learn the true signs of hunger and be in touch with what our pets require. If you are nervous about fasting then the gorge model is not for you right now. You can always revisit this in the future.
Working for food – Wild dogs, coyotes, and wolves will forage on fruits between prey meals. They will sift through the fallen fruits to find the best fruits. They are not eating out of a bowl hand delivered so they are not eating as quickly. They are allowing the body time to adjust to the fullness of the stomach. Most of us don’t have a yard full of fruit trees for the dogs to forage in. So we are hand delivering a pile of fruit, often cut up into tiny pieces, which requires no work to find, pick, forage, or to even break apart to chew. This can affect our companion’s ability to self-regulate on fruit and on meat meals. This is another factor that needs to be taken into account if gorge feeding.
Clean up – Gorge feeding often means there will be an unfinished carcass to deal with. In nature, our dogs and cats would bury their leftovers and dig them up later. That is nature’s refrigeration method. However, the nature of feeding in our homes means having to figure out another solution. This might also entail having to get the leftovers away from your dog if they are guarding them or not able to dig to hide them.
Play and activity level – In nature, after a large meal dogs, wolves and coyotes will sleep the day away and often the following day as well. They won’t be up and playing and active until the digestion completes. For some this is a benefit, if you go to work all day and they are at home with a full belly sleeping the day away then everyone is happy. But if you are used to your dog being up and running around and playing all day then gorge feeding will change this which is something worth considering. Fruit days and fasting days will be high-energy days, and meat days will be low-energy days.

If we want to consider the gorge and fast feeding method we need to take all of the above into account. We must also be mindful of whether or not this feeding protocol might be right for a dog breed that has issues with bloat. It is the most natural method but we and our dogs do not live in nature so adjustments must be made to account for our unnatural living conditions and habits.

If you read all of this and feel like both you and your dog or cat are ready for a more natural feeding model then give gorge feeding a try. Simply offer a large prey, perhaps a whole cornish hen for smaller dogs, a whole or half a chicken for larger dogs, and let them eat until full. Then incorporate 1-2 days of fasting and then offer fruits to free feed upon between prey meals. Dogs can eat up to 20-25% of their body weight, so offering prey that is roughly that weight will allow your dog to eat until they are full.

January 10, 2023March 19, 2026

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Evidence that Canids eat Fruit in the wild

One of the biggest mistakes made in feeding dogs is the idea that dogs are exclusively meat eaters and do not require fruits in their diet. This mistake of overfeeding proteins to our companions has led to epidemics of chronic disease. Yet the most popular raw feeding models, PMR and BARF miss the mark on this essential part of the natural diet for dogs. Even when presented in raw feeding groups to substitute fruit meals for some of the meat meals to lessen the burden on the body, it is nearly always rejected. Luckily we have tons of evidence from nature to guide us to the natural eating habits of canids and we see their love of fruits is clearly evidenced. Below is a collection of various studies and amateur and professional wildlife videos showing clear evidence that our dogs are meant to eat fruit and thrive. Adding to this evidence I have personally seen all of my rescues with chronic and terminal disease conditions heal rapidly once put on a fruit-heavy raw natural diet. If you want to learn more about the natural dog and cat diets get our free feeding guide here: https://www.therawkey.com/the-animals-key/

The Voyaguer Wolf Project has been studying the diet of wolves and has found many examples of the wolves feeding heavily on fruits!

Read the full study “Berry Important? Wolf Provisions Pups with Berries in Northern Minnesota – https://www.therawkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Berry-consumption-of-Wolves-Voyaguer-Wolf-Project.pdf

Studies of the natural diet of coyotes show a heavy reliance on plant foods even in areas of low productivity.

Videos of Wolves, Coyotes and Dogs enjoying fruits

Voyageurs Wolf Project Wolves eating blueberries

Coyote climbs a tree to eat apples

Coyote eating apples from a pile on the ground

Coyotes eating bananas

Coyote eating apples that have fallen from a tree

Coyote enjoying apples in a yard

Cooper the Coyote eating apples

Wolf mom and pup eating blueberries

Captive wolves enjoying a pumpkin

Wolf enjoying a watermelon

Coyote Eating Bananas

Coyote eating plums

Coyote eating apples from a yard.

Wolves eating berries

Wolf eating watermelon

Wolf eating a pineapple

Dogs living on a fruitarian orchard enjoying their fill of fresh fruits

Coyote eating bananas left in the woods. – Banana footage starts around 2:30

Coyote eating cauliflower left in the woods.

Coyotes eating Persimmons

Coyote eating wild persimmons

Note from the video: This is a short time lapse video I shot of at least two coyotes eating persimmons (sharon fruit) from our garden. Pretty amazing for a carnivore. They are also fond of our avocados. They are feeding from about 11pm to 7am the next morning so they obviously like them! At one stage one climbs up into the tree.

Coyote eating persimmons

Photos of Wolves, Coyotes and Dogs Enjoying Fruits

I hope you have found this collection insightful. Please check back regularly as we are constantly expanding this page with new videos, studies and photos! If you have any photos, videos or other insights you would like to share, send me an email I would love to add them to our page for the benefit of all!

January 4, 2023March 19, 2026

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Why the 5G narrative is fear-mongering and in opposition to the terrain model

In the months following the announcement of COVID we have been overrun with questions and fears about 5G causing CV so I would like to explain why the terrain model shows that 5G is not the cause of disease conditions and is not the cause of the current CV symptoms that it is being blamed for.

Please note, I am not saying that radiation does not have any effect on the body, but will explain the impact and the factors which affect the level of burden below. Nor am I saying we should dismiss the societal impacts of technology growth and the ever-increasing loss of privacy and personal security that we face with each new technological revolution, but this post is just addressing the health impacts.

In order to understand why this new technology is not the cause of symptoms we first need to understand what disease is and why the symptoms of disease are created by the body. Lessons 2 & 66 of the life science course (https://www.facebook.com/groups/germtheory.vs.terraintheory/permalink/3326522010758117 ) provides us with a detailed explanation as follows:

“Disease, as a word, means very simply not at ease—a person is uncomfortable or suffering difficulties in maintaining energies for the functions he wishes to discharge and in keeping operative those faculties he wishes to exercise.”

“In physiological terminology, disease means deviation from normal. That means that the body has deviated from regular functions. In a state of disease, the body has rechanneled or redirected its energies so that it has less than usual energy for functions normally engaged in.”

“There are two distinct types of disease. The first type of disease serves a purpose and the second type serves none.”

“The first type is constructive disease, often called acute disease. The second type of disease is degenerative. This results from organic impairment in which organs, tissues, bones, or other faculties have undergone destruction, distortion, or irreversible impairment.”

The Cause, Nature, And Purpose Of Disease

“Disease is a process of physiological and biochemical changes within the body, producing certain signs and symptoms which we label as specific diseases.

The actual process of disease (the fever, the inflammation, etc.) is the action initiated by the body to purge itself of toxic accumulations.”

Disease Is Body Action And Is Self-Limiting:

“When the toxic level rises above a toleration point, the body takes remedial steps, defensive, and reparative action. Disease is body action, and is limited to the time and effort necessary to rid the organism of injurious substances. Every cell in the body acts in unison with all the other cells for the preservation of the organism. When the work is done and order is restored, the disease symptoms dwindle and disappear, and the organism—although debilitated from the effort made necessary by its toxic condition—regains its powers.”

Disease is a progressive toxic condition of the body built over time by a number of causes, predominantly diet. The symptoms which we call disease are in most cases body initiated purging effects. When they are not expulsion symptoms, they are chronic disease caused by damage to the organs or body systems.

Disease conditions build slowly and progressively. Much like a hoarder filling a house with junk, one or two items coming in every single day starts out as relatively harmless clutter but if you repeat that over months and years eventually, you cannot live in the house.

The symptoms, which are labeled as diseases, are part of the healing process. They are not disease per se, but a collection of symptoms which we have assigned the label of disease. The symptoms are how the body is cleaning and repairing itself; in other words, how the body is getting well again.

So when we look at the symptoms for CV or any cold or flu we are not seeing someone getting sick, we are seeing a body cleaning itself and ultimately making efforts to get well.

If the symptoms themselves are not disease, but are the most common symptoms of healing caused by many other factors, then the 5G cannot be causing disease. At best you could try to make a case for 5G “triggering detox” but then you run into the problem of all of the people who don’t get symptoms around 5G because they haven’t brought their body to its tolerance level to trigger an expulsion event and you would be ignoring the absence of radiation burns.

Radiation

So now let’s look at radiation, what it is and what it can and cannot cause.

radiation

rā″dē-ā′shən

noun

The act or process of radiating.

Emission or propagation of energy in the form of waves or particles.

Energy radiated or transmitted in the form of waves or particles.

Source: https://emfacademy.com/difference-ionizing-non-ionizing-radiation/

There are two different types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing. According to radiation theory: “Ionizing radiation has enough energy to free electrons from the atoms or molecules they are attached to, and therefore ionizing them. Non-ionizing radiation lacks the energy to break these same molecular bonds and cannot free electrons from atoms or molecules.”

The sun provides us with non-ionizing radiation. Radio waves, TV signals, light bulbs, cell phones, are also non-ionizing radiation.

Examples of ionizing radiation are X-rays and Gamma Rays. X-rays we know can cause burns if we are exposed for too long, but even those are relatively safe when used for short duration like getting an X-ray of a broken bone. Gamma Rays are used in chemotherapy.

5G stands for 5th Generation (of cellular technology) and it is not actually a frequency but a band or range of frequencies.

Here are some 5G frequency ranges (called multi-layer spectrum):

* C-band: 2–6 GHz for coverage and capacity.

* Super Data Layer: Over 6 GHz (e.g., 24–29 GHz and 37–43 GHz) for high bandwidth areas.

* Coverage Area: Below 2 GHz (like 700 MHz) for indoor and broader coverage areas.

Both “C Band” and “Coverage area” are in the same frequency ranges as the 2.4 GHz cordless phones we have been using for decades. The super data layer is over 6 GHz but still lower frequency than a light bulb.

Frequency refers to the number of waves over a given length. Wide waves (lower frequency) travel well through buildings and human bodies but lose speed and hold less data.

More frequent narrow waves travel faster and can hold more data, but their distance is limited. This is why the 5G technology uses a range of frequencies depending on the needs of the application. But all of the frequencies still fall in the non-ionizing range well below the frequencies of light bulbs.

Frequency describes how often a wave makes a complete cycle in a given period of time. The greater the frequency of a wave, the shorter the distance, or wavelength, between each wave cycle. The amplitude of a wave describes its strength. For example, a bright light has a higher amplitude than a dim one.

So let’s look at the effects of radiation in your daily life. Non-ionizing radiation is PROXIMITY and DURATION dependent. Looking at lightbulbs, lightbulbs fall in the 1 petahertz frequency range (1,000,000,000,000,000 hertz). Every lightbulb in your house is giving off non-ionizing radiation, the same type of radiation as 5th Generation cell technology, but at a much higher frequency. If you put your hand directly on a lit light bulb and leave it there eventually the light bulb will burn your skin. Radiation creates heat, which if you are at a close enough range (proximity) for a long enough time (duration) then you may damage a small number of cells in the local area resulting in a burn. However, if instead of holding your hand directly on the bulb you just hold your hand an inch above the bulb (proximity) your hand will only be warmed. Proximity and duration determine whether any damage will be done to your cells.

So it’s not that radiation has no effect, it’s that radiation damage is DURATION and PROXIMITY dependent and results in clearly visible burns.

So let’s compare 5g to lightbulbs. 5g is 2-6 GHz in most applications and 24 – 43 GHz in high bandwidth areas, that is 2,000,000,000 hertz to 24,000,000,000 hertz

Lightbulbs are in the 1 PHz range, that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000 hertz.

If a lightbulb in closer proximity (inside your house) and for longer duration (on for many hours every single day) is 1,000,000,000,000,000 hertz and 5g is 2,000,000,000 hertz then the effects of the lightbulbs in your house will be much more prevalent than 5g on towers miles from your home. This is proximity dependent.

So then, most people ask, why do we see clinical studies showing 5G causing “disease”? The answer is proximity and duration. When they run these studies they run them ex-vivo, on cells in petri dishes, and then use extended duration and close proximity to expose the cells. This is not a valid way to determine the cause of disease. This does not mean that the technology causes disease or detox symptoms, this simply shows that at close proximity and extended duration some cellular damage can occur.

Our bodies are designed to heal from injuries. If we cut our skin the body sets to work repairing the injury. If we are burned touching a hot lightbulb our bodies expel the damaged cells and create new ones to replace them. If we come in contact with a low frequency, non-ionizing radiation and are at close enough proximity for a long enough duration to burn a few cells, the body will repair and replace those cells. But just like a cut or broken bone takes longer to heal in a person with poor overall health (more acid wastes backed up in their bodies) and takes less time if a person is in good health conditions and even less time if the person fasts immediately following the injury, it is the level of waste backed up in the body that determines how quickly the body rebounds from the injury.

When they first introduced electric lightbulbs people feared lightbulbs. When cordless phones came out people were afraid of them. When cell phones came out people were afraid of them. When TV and radio came out people were afraid of them. But in all those instances it was only the food people put in their mouths 3 meals a day that caused their disease conditions.

Anyone can put out fear-mongering propaganda and disinformation, but the laws of nature are immutable. We know how the body works. We know how technology works. All we need to do is use our abilities of observation and discernment to determine if the suggested cause and effect match the known variables.

Even with the higher ionizing technology, the dangers are over-exaggerated like nuclear technology. For more information on that, I highly recommend this talk from nuclear physicist Galen Winsor https://youtu.be/AMJO6dVTdP0

Ben Williams Presents Galen Winsor – 1986

You choose your health and your disease

Health and disease are both completely within our control. It is what we ingest that creates our states of disease by overworking our cells. Overworked cells create excess waste, waste is acidic which damages the cells when the body is not able to expel this excess waste fast enough.

If someone is telling you that health is outside of your control and you have something to fear they are lying to you and most likely seeking to make a profit off you or keep you in a state of fear so you are easier to control. Health is 100% in your control, you make a decision to be in a state of health or a state of dis-ease 3 meals a day.

When we return to the natural human diet all symptoms reverse course, even those blamed on EMFs and other environmental factors because ultimately it is what your body has to work at every day that creates either health or disease, its not the one-off exposure to a chemical or EMF or other pollutants.

To learn more about how disease is created and reversed read more here: Disease 101

August 22, 2022March 19, 2026

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Disease 101 – How we create disease on a cellular level (and how we reverse it):

Our cells are designed to function in specific chemistry which has been created intelligently based on our natural diet which is a function of our anatomy and physiology.

When we stray from the natural human diet of fruits and tender greens we begin to change the internal chemistry of the body.

When we consume foods that are not well suited to our anatomy and physiology we are overworking the cellular metabolism.

As the cells work they produce waste. Everything in nature eats and poops and so do our cells.

So in a normal, healthy body, the cells are working at normal efficiency in normal chemistry. The cellular waste is sent into the intracellular fluids, which are then transported through the lymphatic system (the body’s sewer system) out of the body and expelled via the primary or secondary elimination channels.

When the body is in a state of health, this cellular waste is quickly cleared away from the cells and sent out of the body. If we encounter stress or emotional trauma, these acids are quickly eliminated by the body. If we run from a lion and build up lactic acid, these acids are quickly eliminated as a normal part of the body’s functioning.

BUT…

When we put in inappropriate foods we do two things that cause our health to suffer. The first is consuming cooked or dry foods which do not have adequate water content for our physiology. When we consume these water-deficient foods we dehydrate the body and the body must pull from its own cells to help move the drier foods through our digestive system.

We require roughly 80% water content simply for food to make it through the digestive tract without pulling water out of our cells.

Consuming any non-ideal foods including processed foods, cooked foods, or dried foods dehydrates the body. This leads to a dehydrated lymphatic system. The lymphatic system, again, being the sewer system, needs to flow freely if we are to avoid disease. If the lymphatic fluid becomes dehydrated it becomes sticky and slow-moving.

The natural state of the lymph in a healthy body could be seen as flowing like maple syrup. Thick but free-flowing. But when we consume cooked foods, the lymph will dry out. Moving into a peanut butter consistency, the lymph barely slides along, getting stuck in various parts of the body. The more dehydrated the body becomes the more slow-moving the lymph. Eventually, you end up with lymph that resembles the dry crusty peanut butter stuck to the bottom of the jar that has been in the back of the pantry for five years.

With our unnatural cooked-food diets, we are dehydrating the sewer and that means that the waste is getting backed up around the cells. The waste is predominately acidic, and acids burn and damage the cells which makes it harder for the cells to function normally. Instead of normal cells, functioning in normal chemistry, we now have damaged cells, functioning in abnormal chemistry. This is what creates the problems we call symptoms of disease. The cells are in a state of dis-ease, or lack of ease, and so is the body as a whole.

The second thing that causes our health to suffer is overworking our cells by providing raw materials which are difficult to digest and assimilate. Our natural foods are very low in protein and very low in fat. Protein and fat are more difficult for human anatomy to digest, requiring our stomachs to produce harsher stomach acid as well as leaving more residue and waste. Fruits and leafy greens contain the same nutritional components in a form that is much easier for us to digest and assimilate. They are already in the ideal form the body needs to create its own proteins and fats so excess energy is not wasted in digestion and excess waste products are not produced. They are not in a complete protein or complete fat form which requires breakdown before assimilation and a lot of excess waste as a result. Instead, they are in the exact form needed for immediate use.

Our natural foods are also very high in carbohydrates, predominantly fructose, which is ideal for our physiology. Carbohydrates are the energy for every cell in the body. They are required in abundance to keep all the cells running properly. When we starve our body of carbohydrates by eating high-fat and high-protein diets we create fatigue as the body is unable to have enough fuel to run each cell efficiently.

Most of the inappropriate foods consumed today tend to be much higher in protein and fat. However, we cannot use protein directly; it must be broken down into its constituent amino acids. Consuming these foods forces the body to do extra work to break down these proteins into amino acids. This is why we often get tired right after we eat a meal of inappropriate foods.

This excess work of the cellular metabolism also leads to excess waste. Remember, everything eats and poops.

Therefore, when consuming inappropriate foods, we are creating more cellular waste while drying out the sewer system that is designed to flush the waste out of our bodies. We have both more waste being created than we are physiologically designed for AND we have less waste being eliminated because the elimination channels are slowed and in some cases so dry and backed up that they are completely blocked.

There is more waste and less flow, so cells are sitting in waste. We start to see the beginning stages of dis-ease, or lack of ease, with symptoms like irritability, irritation, itching, and many other mild to moderately uncomfortable symptoms. The cells are uncomfortable sitting in their own waste.

In addition to these two issues, we are also creating inefficiency in cell processes. If you try to walk knee-deep in mud you are going to be working much harder than if you were strolling down a sidewalk. Cells sitting in their own waste are operating knee-deep in mud. They are using far more energy and creating far more waste because they are working in such inefficient and dirty terrain.

We have a slower-moving sewer, fewer functional cells, and more waste being created. This disruption of the sewer system creates more dysfunctional cells, which in turn create more waste and a dirtier sewer system. So round and round we go, building layer by layer of dirty terrain, eventually encouraging the cells to change their structure from a healthy normal cell to a bacteria, yeast, fungus, or eventually into a cancer cell.

But don’t despair, the body has ways of remediating all of this waste. One of the most common of which is the cold or flu symptoms which we are taught to fear and think of as its own distinct type of disease. Colds and flus are expulsive cleaning events. In times of trouble the body creates these expulsion events wherein the body expels the waste via secondary channels, encased in mucus. This is why we end up with a runny nose or mucus in the throat and lungs.

Another common symptom of the body eliminating waste is skin rashes like chicken pox, measles, scarlet fever, foot in mouth, impetigo, etc. The body is pushing acids out through the skin and the skin becomes irritated by the acids, creating redness and inflammation. These events can also create tiny ulcers, such as chicken pox. The ulcer is a drain point for the acid wastes to exit.

Natural hygiene organizes all types of disease into a single paradigm that encompasses seven stages. When the body first becomes bogged down in waste we say it is in a state of enervation. To be enervated is to be drained or lacking in vigor. We might feel a little run down, weak, or tired. If we fast and rest at this first sign the body quickly catches up on its waste backlog and can return to normal function.

However, most people ignore this first sign of disease and simply reach for something to suppress the symptoms. The symptom in this case is the lack of energy or tiredness and we tend to suppress this symptom with stimulants. Coffee, tea, caffeine pills, energy drinks. Even salt and animal products can act as stimulants. This means most people are maintaining their bodies in a constant state of low-level disease. Of these seven stages of disease, many of us tend to remain in stages two to four. These are called toxicosis, irritation, and inflammation.

Level three, irritation, is where we see the cold and flu symptoms, allergies, or body odor. The body is working to eliminate the backlog by creating expulsion symptoms. The body still has the energy to clean but the waste load is high enough to impede normal operations.

Level four, inflammation, is where we see inflammatory conditions and pain. Levels four and five are where we begin to see destructive symptoms. This is where the wastes are causing enough damage to the cells that this leads to significantly impaired function.

Level five, ulceration, is a worsening of the inflammation to a point where instead of just cells being irritated or destroyed, now larger tissues are being broken apart in an effort to clean; Ulcers being the eponymous example.

Level six is called induration. Induration means hardening. This stage is where the body is creating scar tissues to attempt to create a boundary between the waste and other healthy cells. This is a self-protective measure that allows the other cells in the body to continue normal operation. This stage is where many people can get a cancer diagnosis although this is not true cancer.

The final stage, level seven is cancer. At this point the cells are so saturated in waste that they are no longer able to communicate with the surrounding cells. The cells are operating solely for their own survival and have recruited other types of cells that can survive in the high acid environment. Though they may be able to survive and help process the dangerous wastes in order to clean up the area they cannot perform normal functions.

We can begin to reverse the course at any time by doing our best to remove the cause of the pollution and by supporting our bodies with water, rest, and foods they were designed to metabolize. By supplying a natural diet we are able to return to normal chemistry. Utilizing fasting and rest also helps to allow the body time to clean and repair. Fresh, ripe, juicy fruits are easy to digest and allow the body to direct its vital energy to heal itself. Additionally, fruit provides hydration to flush out old acidic wastes. Filling up on mineral-rich tender greens allows the body to neutralize the acids with alkaline minerals and sweep out the bowels to clear elimination channels.

Levels six and seven of disease (induration and cancer) may not fully heal in all cases, however, the body always seeks to return itself to normal operating parameters. If the scar tissue has gotten too thick, the body may not be able to remove all of it. One example is seen in the remodeling of the bones in arthritis, where the body is not able to correct these issues. Otherwise, the body will replace and repair all cells if we give the body the appropriate diet, plenty of rest, adequate digestive rest, and enough time.

As always the best time to get yourself back to a state of wellness is now. Before you begin the slide into a deeper state of disease which may have serious consequences. Start today by incorporating more fruits and more salads and transition gradually back to your natural foods.

Eat fruit and be well my friends!

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August 18, 2022March 19, 2026

Lauren Farris2 Comments

Why do we get sick?

Everything You Know About Sickness Is Backwards and Hurting You – Here’s the Truth.

What Creates Disease Conditions?

What is the internal process that creates the state we call “disease,” and how does it progress?

Everything in nature eats and poops – including our cells. When we work our cells in ways that are normal and natural, the waste they create is easily managed by the body. The area around the cells stays clean and free-flowing.

When we eat outside of our physiology – consuming high-protein, high-fat, or denatured foods – we overwork the cells. Our digestive system must work longer and harder, using energy that should be available for cellular cleaning and repair. (See also: What is the Natural Human Diet?, Nutrient Density vs. Assimilation.)

How the Lymphatic System Becomes Backed Up

Our cells sit in intercellular fluid, which drains into the lymphatic system. In normal functioning, this fluid is well-hydrated and free-flowing. When we eat cooked foods, animal proteins, and other inappropriate substances, we dehydrate the body and therefore the lymph.

A dehydrated lymph system cannot efficiently remove waste from around the cells. As flow slows, wastes become more concentrated, causing further backups.

When cells sit in their own waste, they work less efficiently – and inefficient cells create more waste. It’s like walking on a sidewalk versus slogging through deep mud: the same activity becomes far more exhausting.

To maintain health, the cells must be free from accumulated waste. This requires two things:

Enough energy available for cleaning.
Cells creating normal (not excessive) levels of waste.

When either condition is not met, waste accumulates, and symptoms of disease follow.

Two Types of Symptoms

All symptoms that medicine labels as “disease” fall into two categories:

1. Cleaning Symptoms

These are the body’s expulsion processes:

Coughing
Sneezing
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Fever
Fatigue (a shift of energy inward for healing)

For a deeper breakdown of why these happen, read: The Medical Label of Infection

2. Cellular Malfunction Symptoms

These arise when cells are so backed up with waste that they can no longer function normally:

Altered heartbeat
Altered blood pressure
The pancreas no longer produces insulin

These symptoms reflect abnormal cellular conditions, not different “diseases.”

The Meaning of Disease

The word disease comes from:

“dis-” meaning “lack of” or “away from”
“ease” meaning “physical comfort or peace”

Disease simply means the body is not at ease.

Health is the state of the body functioning in comfort and ease.

Disease is a progression – beginning with the first mild eliminative events of childhood – and building over years of misfeeding and overworking the cells. Medical labels (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.) are just names given to clusters of symptoms. The underlying process is one: the body no longer functioning in normal, efficient parameters.

Cleansing Events: Colds, Flus, and Rashes

Our detoxification systems run constantly to keep the cells clean. When we eat according to our design and get rest, relaxation, sunshine, and movement, the body operates efficiently.

When waste reaches the body’s current tolerance level, it initiates a high-intensity cleaning event – what we call:

colds
flus
rashes

These are not diseases. They are the body remedying disease conditions.

If we allow a cold or flu to complete without interference, the body becomes cleaner and functions more optimally afterward.

What Happens When We Interfere?

When we try to stop cold or flu symptoms with drugs or natural remedies – garlic, ginger, honey, echinacea, elderberry syrup, etc. – we interrupt the cleaning process.

These substances are still poisons. When introduced, the body must divert energy away from cleansing to deal with the incoming poison instead.

This is why people believe remedies “stop” colds: the body stops cleansing because it must address the new toxin.
But the waste remains.

If we eat during a cold or flu, especially heavy meals, we slow the cleaning process further:

Digestion steals energy needed for healing
Heavy foods add more waste to the burden

A simple cold fed with chicken soup can progress into flu or pneumonia simply because digestion was forced when the body was trying to heal.

Why Fasting Works

Fasting at the first sign of a cold allows the body to:

Redirect all energy toward cleaning
Expel waste rapidly
Complete the process in hours to a few days

This is why every species naturally stops eating when ill.

Learn more about Fasting by reading Dr Shelton’s book, The Hygenic System Vol 3 – Fasting and Sunbathing

Foods That Burden vs. Foods That Support

Heavy, Disease-Creating Foods

Animal products, wheat, beans, cooked foods, dairy, eggs, and other unnatural substances:

Require long, energy-intensive digestion
Add large amounts of cellular waste
Dehydrate the system
Slow the lymph
Overwork cells and drain energy

This combination – more waste + less energy for cleaning – is what produces disease conditions and initiates cleaning events.

Foods Aligned With Our Physiology

Whole raw fruits, tender vegetables, leafy greens, and small amounts of nuts and seeds:

Do not overwork the cells
Provide nutrients in usable, assimilable form
Require minimal digestion
Do not create excess metabolic waste
Keep the lymph clean and flowing

With the natural human diet, all systems function efficiently, generating minimal waste and requiring minimal cleaning.

(Learn more about why the natural human diet works so well: The Great Protein Myth.)

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July 14, 2022March 19, 2026

Lauren Farris2 Comments

OUR NATURAL FOODS DO NOT CREATE DISCOMFORT OR DISTURBANCE TO THE BODY.

The Avoidance of Irritants, Stimulants, and Depressants is key to optimal Health.

One of the primary differences between the natural human diet/natural hygiene and many of the promoted raw food and whole food plant-based diets is in the avoidance of irritants on a natural diet.

There are many plant-based substances that humans have incorporated into their diets over many generations, which have a drugging effect on the body, either stimulating or depressing. The fact that these substances trigger the body to create these drugged effects when consumed tells us of the harm they are causing the body.

When ideal health is the goal, we are seeking to cause no irritation to our cells or our organism as a whole. Disease is dis = lack, ease = comfort, so disease is any state of discomfort or any lack of ease in the operation of our cells. Disease is progressive, starting out with the minor irritations of everyday mistakes in eating and building layer upon layer as we continue to injure our cells, “death by a thousand paper cuts”.

A few examples of these types of substances include irritants like spicy peppers, which lead to a runny nose and watery eyes as the body tries to rapidly protect the sensitive tissues of the mouth and digestive tract with mucus.

Animal secretions, like cow’s milk, trigger thick mucus to protect the digestive tract.

Honey, which stops cold and flu cleaning symptoms in their tracks, thereby trapping waste inside the body.

Garlic, which burns the tongue and causes indigestion if eaten raw.

Onions are so irritating that we cry before we even eat them.

Cacao/Cocao, which stimulates the body, leading to heart palpitations and anxiety.

Salt burns the tongue and raises blood pressure.

These non-foods can also be some of the most difficult to give up because we have become accustomed to the “high” of our bodies in distress. We often seek out these foods when we are feeling dissatisfied or bored, stressed or emotional, because we are trained since birth to associate these painful feelings of bodily discomfort with celebration.

As a society, we start feeding cake to babies as young as their first birthday, training them in the addictions we ourselves suffer from before they can even put words to the discomfort. By the time they are old enough to speak, they are already addicted to these drugs and accustomed to the discomfort. This is a lifelong battle that needs to be treated as the drug addiction that it is in order to be overcome.

“Nutrition is an autonomic function, that is, it takes place below the conscious level. Just as digestion, absorption, circulation, glandular secretion and other autonomic functions take place without conscious perception or awareness, so also do the processes of nutrition (at a cellular level) occur without our direction or participation. Everyone will admit that stomach function will only produce symptoms when it is impaired. No one will deny that under ideal conditions we are totally unaware of the functions of our livers, intestines, etc. These are autonomic functions and they do not produce symptoms.

Nutrition is the same way. It is an autonomic function. Just as the digestion of food does not produce symptoms, the appropriation of nutrients, internally, should not produce symptoms. However, when digestion is disrupted symptoms arise and, likewise, when nutrition is disrupted symptoms arise. Russell Thacher Trall stated in 1871 that “Pure and perfect nutrition implies the assimilation of nutriment material to the structure of the body, without the least excitement, disturbance or impression of any kind that can be properly called stimulating.” Here is a profound statement to come from a man who lived over 100 years ago, before the explosion of knowledge about nutrition and biochemistry began at the turn of the century. Yet he realized then what few people realize today, that any specific effects that occur from the ingestion of foods or nutrients are the results of stress and irritation and are not the result of an enhancement of nutrition. If a person is manifesting the symptoms of a cold, and taking vitamin C aborts those symptoms, this effect can no more be regarded as nutritional than can the effects of taking aspirin. The vitamin C is having a pharmacological effect (that is, a drug effect), not a nutritional effect. If a woman has severe menstrual cramps and taking dolomite relieves her symptoms, it is foolish to think that a need for calcium has been satisfied. The calcium is exerting a pharmacological effect. Crude calcium was one of the first drugs used as an anesthetic in surgery because it impairs the conduction of nervous impulses and thereby reduces sensibility. To call this nutrition is a shame, a travesty, an outright lie. Any food or nutrient that “suddenly gives you pep,” “makes you feel warm all over,” “cures your headache,” “helps you sleep” or has any other specific effect should be avoided like the plague. It is obviously irritating, disrupting and enervating.”

The Life Science Course, Lesson 5, Article #3, pgs129-130

As we return our bodies to the natural human diet it is natural to desire to keep some of our previous habits of enervation and stimulation. As the body becomes cleaner and more vital however these stimulating and enervating habits will become more and more uncomfortable and you will naturally find that you gravitate away from these substances.

When choosing your next meal, ask yourself what effect is this meal having on my body? Our natural foods do not create discomfort or disturbance to the body.

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April 28, 2022March 19, 2026

Lauren Farris5 Comments

THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF NATURAL HYGIENE

The practical application of Natural Hygiene consists of many practices that, collectively, comprise biologically correct living. Specifically:

FOOD

Eat predominantly of fresh raw fruits, [tender] vegetables, nuts and seeds;
Eat predominantly of raw, live food;
Learn and apply the rules of food combing to insure efficient and easy digestion;
Eat foods at room temperature;
Chew thoroughly to maximize surface area of the food for complete digestion;
Eat when relaxed; and
Eat only when hungry.

DON’T

Cook or overcook food – past 120 degrees, nutrients are destroyed;
Overeat;
Eat when emotionally unsettled, when tired, when in pain, or immediately after hard physical work;
Salt or overly season foods; or
Eat many strong-tasting foods including hot peppers, garlic, onions mustard, etc.

WATER

Drink only distilled (soft) water;
Drink only when thirsty; and
Drink only enough to quench thirst.

DON’T

Drink with your meals.

AIR

Get as much fresh air as possible;
Allow for maximum ventilation when indoors;
Walk on streets that have less vehicular traffic and exhaust; and
Make sure indoor air is free of sprays, circulating dust, etc.

DON’T

Breath through your mouth;
Inhale tobacco [or any other] smoke;
Permit smoking in your home or office; or
Breathe excessively cold air (if possible).

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Exercise vigorously;
Involve all parts of the body, preferably exercising the muscles against resistance; and
Exercise in fresh air (or if indoors, with windows open).

DON’T

Exercise to the point of exhaustion;
Exercise immediately following a meal;
Prolong muscular contractions beyond a few seconds; and
Breathe deeply without simultaneously remaining active.

REST

Cease activity sometime during the day by napping or resting;
Close your eyes; and
Rest when tired.

DON’T

Read or watch television while resting.

SLEEP

Go to bed early;
Select a dark, quiet, well ventilated room; and
Maintain a comfortable body temperature.

DON’T

Eat before retiring.

LIGHT AND SUNSHINE

Expose as much of your skin to sunlight as possible, up to an hour maximum daily;
Use natural, not artificial light (rays penetrate only white or light colored porous clothing); and
In cold climates, while indoors, get sunlight through open windows with heater turned on to avoid undue chilling.

DON’T

Remain in sunlight for long periods; or
Expose yourself to the midday sun;

EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING

Find something about which to be happy everyday;
Feed your emotions daily with inspirational thoughts, pleasant sights and sounds, kind words and the like;
Keep negative emotions to a minimum; and
Couple negative emotions (fear, grief, anger, depression, etc.) with physical activity.

DON’T

Dwell on the negative.

TEMPERATURE

Maintain a comfortable temperature at all times; and

DON’T

Take excessively hot or cold baths.

CLOTHING

Wear clothes of porous material (cotton); and
Wear light colored clothing.
Dress for comfort, not merely for fashion.

DON’T

Wear synthetic clothing; or
Wear constricting clothing (girdles, tight belts, etc.)

POSTURE

Sit erect at all times; and
Keep your head straight-up while walking, standing or sitting.

ZEST FOR LIVING

Pursue some constructive objective; and
Engage in some activity which gives you fulfillment.

Natural Hygiene does not substitute foods, fasting, sunbathing, etc., for drugs, but it uses these influences because they are essentials of health. Hygienic Self-Health Care peddles no cures and recognizes none. Instead, only nature, meaning those normal influences and processes of life, restore health.

Hygienic Self-Health Care cannot be reduced to a series of rules and regulations that involve absolute terms like “always” or “never.” Each day, however, all of us have to make decisions about how we will live in such a a way that we remain comfortable and relaxed with our lifestyle – and not uptight or fanatical.…

“Power comes by discipline to our natural mandate, and lack of it dissipates strength and life itself.”

Source: “Awakening our Self Healing Body: A Solution to the Health Care Crisis.” Arthur M. Baker

April 28, 2022March 19, 2026

Lauren Farris4 Comments