The real cure for atrial fibrillation lies in removing causes, not suppressing symptoms.

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.

The science of Natural Hygiene teaches us that atrial fibrillation (AFib) is not a mysterious heart disease but a sign of systemic enervation and toxemia – the body’s way of signaling that its vital energy has been drained and its inner balance disturbed.

The Nerve Control of the Heart

The heart is not an independent machine that “malfunctions.” It is governed entirely by the nervous system, which acts as the electrical conductor for the body’s orchestra of cells. Every heartbeat is triggered by nerve impulses arising from the sinoatrial (SA) node – a small cluster of specialized nerve fibers often called the body’s natural pacemaker. These impulses are not mechanical sparks; they are expressions of nerve energy, the vital electrical current that powers all physiological function.

Dr. Herbert Shelton explained:

“The body is primarily an organism that works on the amount of electricity it generates and which it has in its reserves. If this supply is depleted or otherwise insufficient to cope with the needs of the body, then body functions become impaired.”
(Life Science Course, Lesson 2 – The Nature and Purpose of Disease)

When this nerve energy is diminished – through fatigue, emotional strain, stimulants, overwork, or toxic food – the fine coordination between the heart’s nerves and muscles becomes erratic. The atria may quiver rather than contract rhythmically, producing what medicine labels fibrillation.

This irregularity does not arise from a “faulty heart” but from a temporarily disordered control system, much like flickering lights when electrical current fluctuates. Restoring the source of current – not replacing the wiring – is the real remedy.

Toxemia and Enervation: The True Roots

Natural Hygiene teaches us that disease begins with enervation, the loss of vital nerve energy. When energy output exceeds recovery, the body can no longer perform all of its eliminative and restorative duties. Waste products accumulate in the blood and tissues, leading to toxemia – the internal pollution that underlies all disease.

Shelton described it this way:

“When toxic substances from whatever source saturate the blood and tissues… then the conditions of toxemia and toxicosis exist.”

AFib is one of the many ways the body expresses this systemic exhaustion. The heart, being highly sensitive to electrical and chemical balance, reveals enervation before other organs show distress.

Why AFib Appears Alongside Heart Failure, Stroke, or Dementia

Wikipedia and conventional medicine note that atrial fibrillation “is associated with increased risk of heart failure, dementia, and stroke.”   But from the Natural Hygiene viewpoint, these are not caused by AFib – they are parallel effects of the same underlying systemic degeneration.

The fibrillation does not cause the failure – it warns us of the growing concern. The same toxemic state that irritates and weakens the nerves controlling the heart also irritates and hardens the arteries, congests the brain, and depletes oxygen delivery. AFib is therefore a symptom of declining vitality, not the agent of destruction.

To use Dr. Hereward Carrington’s words:

“So-called disease is… merely a curative effort on the part of Nature; it is the process of cure itself – manifested in a set of symptoms.”

When the heart begins to flutter, Nature is calling attention to the overload – asking us to stop the practices that waste nerve energy and poison the bloodstream. The condition is not a punishment, but a warning.

A Precursor, Not a Peril

Atrial fibrillation is like the body’s early alarm system. It appears when the organism is still vital enough to protest.  If the warning is ignored – if stimulants, drugs, worry, and dietary abuses continue – the body will progress to deeper stages of disease: degeneration of heart tissue, circulatory obstruction, and failure of brain and kidney function.

But if the causes are removed – through rest, fasting, and a return to the natural conditions of life – the body restores order. As vitality increases, nerve energy returns, toxic matter is expelled, and the rhythmic harmony of the heart re-establishes itself.

As Shelton taught:

“To ‘cure’ disease, remove the causes of disease. It is the worst kind of folly to attempt to cure disease by ignoring its causes and employing modalities which are in themselves causes of disease.”

Why AFib Can Appear During Fasting

It often surprises people when AFib – or other irregular heart sensations – arises during a fast, precisely when they are “doing everything right.” Yet this, too, is an expression of the same natural laws.

During fasting, the body finally has the rest and freedom from interference it needs to begin deep cleansing. Stored wastes and irritants are drawn out of the tissues and re-enter the bloodstream for elimination. This temporarily increases the toxicity of the circulating fluids, changing the electrical balance and exciting the nerves.

As the body mobilizes these poisons, the heart – being both a pump and an electrical organ – responds to every fluctuation in blood chemistry and nerve tone. A brief period of fluttering, pounding, or irregular rhythm may occur as the organism readjusts to the shifting internal environment.

Shelton observed that during healing crises,

“The body withdraws energy from normal body activities and redirects them to the healing crisis.”

This means less nerve current is available for regular rhythmic control, while more is directed toward elimination. Once the cleansing phase passes, the rhythm returns to normal – stronger and steadier than before.

Far from being dangerous, this is evidence that the body is working with renewed vigor to restore purity and balance. The appropriate response is not fear or medication, but continued rest, trust, and observation. The heart’s irregularity will quiet as the blood becomes cleaner and vitality increases.

True Recovery

The Natural Hygiene path to restoring heart health is the same universal law that restores all health:

• Rest – both mental and physical – to rebuild nerve energy.
  
• Pure air, water, and sunlight to oxygenate and vitalize.
  
• A diet of fresh fruits and tender greens, the true food of our species.
  
• Fasting when appetite is lost, to allow the body to cleanse.
  
• Freedom from stimulants and sedatives, which rob the nerves of their reserves.
  

The heart’s flutter, far from being an enemy, is the body’s plea: “Slow down, lighten the load, let me cleanse and restore.”

When we heed that call, the heart does not fail – it heals.

Learn how to heal today, start by returning to the natural human diet

Continue Learning

If this article helped you understand the heart’s healing process, you may also enjoy exploring these related topics:

• Learn more about the purpose of disease, how disease is created, why it is created, and how we can reverse it by returning to feeding our body in alignment with our physiology  –  read The Nature and Purpose of Disease Series.
  
• Learn more about returning to a state of health by returning to the foods our body is naturally designed for  –  read What Is the Natural Human Diet?
  
• Discover the foundational principle that powers every cell and organ  –  What Is Nerve Energy?
  
• Understand the process your body uses to cleanse and rebuild  –  What Is Detox Really? It’s Probably Not What You Think!
  
• Learn why healing symptoms often arise during fasting and why fasting is not a “magic cure” but a natural rest phase  –  Fasting Is Not a Magic Cure
  
• Explore the deeper science of how disease develops on a cellular level  –  Disease 101: How We Create Disease (and How We Reverse It)
  

Have more questions? Want to get answers about your specific health issues or concerns? I offer consultations  –  learn more about them here: Consultations

Ready to make changes but not sure where to start? Need guidance or accountability? Join our 30-Day Natural Human Diet Support and Education Group  –  new groups start on the 1st of every month.

Eat fruit and be well, my friends.

Why This Popular “Health Tonic” Is Actually Damaging the Body

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.

What Vinegar Really Is

Vinegar is the waste product of bacterial decomposition. When sugars in fruits or grains are left to rot, bacteria and yeasts convert them first into alcohol and then into acetic acid—the sharp, burning compound that gives vinegar its sour bite.
In plain terms, vinegar is the acid residue of a food that has been partially decomposed. It is not a living food; it is a decayed one. Its acids are the same type the body works hard to expel during detoxification.

A Product of Rotting, Not of Life

As Life Science Lesson 37 explains, fermented and putrefied foods are “very carefully spoiled.” They are foods overrun by microorganisms whose waste products—alcohol, ammonia, lactic acid, and acetic acid—remain in the jar and later in the bloodstream of those who consume them.
Acetic acid irritates every membrane it touches. It disrupts digestion, interferes with the stomach’s natural alkalinity, and kills red blood cells. Foods soaked in vinegar—pickles, relishes, dressings—often pass through the body unchanged because digestive juices cannot penetrate them.

Vinegar: A Drug Masquerading as a Food

Natural Hygienists classify vinegar as a condiment, not a food. Condiments are excitants—chemicals that sting the senses, whip the nerves, and create the false feeling of “energy.”
As T. C. Fry wrote in Condiments Are Drugs,

“There is one quality about all condiments that make them unfit for the human diet: they are all pathogenic. As excitants or stimulants they are inherently poisonous.”

This brief stimulation is the same deceptive “lift” a person feels from coffee or alcohol. The body responds to irritation by rushing nerve energy to the site, accelerating pulse and secretions to defend itself. We mistake this emergency reaction for invigoration.

How the Vinegar Fad Took Hold

The modern craze of drinking apple cider vinegar began as a quick-fix promise: Lose weight, balance pH, cure digestion, fight germs! It appealed to a generation already addicted to stimulation and numb to natural taste.
A healthy body requires no acid drink to “aid digestion.” Digestion is a controlled, intelligent process directed by the body itself. Vinegar merely irritates the stomach lining, forcing the body to expel protective mucus and divert energy away from healing and assimilation.

The supposed “cleansing” that people report after vinegar tonics is nothing more than the body’s emergency effort to eject an irritant. In Hygienic terms, this is a minor eliminative crisis—not health improvement, but defense.

Why It Feels Like It “Works”

When the body is exhausted, stimulants seem to supply energy. They do not; they spend it. The brief rush after taking vinegar is a drain on the vital current—nerve energy that should be conserved for true healing.
Over time, repeated stimulation leads to enervation, the first stage of disease described in Lesson 2: The Nature and Purpose of Disease. Enervation reduces digestive power, slows elimination, and causes the very symptoms vinegar drinkers hope to fix: fatigue, indigestion, and acidity.

The Hygienic Alternative

Health never comes from poisons, stimulants, or decayed foods. It comes from supplying the causes of health: pure air, rest, sunlight, emotional calm, and foods in their natural, unfermented state—fresh fruits, tender greens, nuts, and seeds.
When we stop assaulting the body with artificial excitants, vitality rebuilds, digestion normalizes, and the taste for harsh condiments fades away.

In Summary

Apple cider vinegar is not a healing elixir but a corrosive stimulant born of rot. It irritates rather than nourishes, provokes rather than purifies. True healing never comes from exciting the body but from allowing it to rest and restore its intelligently-designed balance.

Learn more about the purpose of disease, how disease is created, why it is created and how we can reverse disease by returning to feeding our body in alignment with our physiology, Read The Nature and Purpose of Disease Series

Learn more about returning to a state of health by returning to the foods our body is naturally designed for, read What is the Natural Human Diet?

Have more questions? Want to get answers about your specific health issues or concerns? I offer consultations, learn more about them 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 Natural Human Diet Support and Education Group? New Groups start on the 1st of every month! https://www.therawkey.com/the-natural-diet-support-group/

Eat fruit and be well my friends.

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.

The medical industry and the mainstream media have lately created a fasting fad filled with misinformation about fasting.   The most dangerous aspect of this is pushing people who are eating improperly into fasting.   Many following Keto, Carnivore or other highly dangerous and unsuitable diets, are further damaging their body by attempting to fast.  Putting the body into a back and forth yo-yo of relief and damage, relief and damage. 

Fasting is not a quick fix. Fasting is not your magic potion.

Fasting longer than a few days should not be undertaken until a person is eating their natural diet for at least 6 months to 1 year. 

Entering a fast from a cooked diet should only occur if the body itself is forcing the fast by making you nauseated, or creating vomiting or diarrhea.   

Hydration during and prior to a fast is very important.

We must drink at least 1 gallon of water every single day of the fast.  If you have not worked up to drinking this much, and your body is chronically dehydrated from eating cooked foods, you are concentrating the acidic waste more, and causing more damage to the body, more quickly, rather than helping the body.

Our bowels must be clear when entering the fast

Having bowels that are clogged with meat, dairy, grains, and other inappropriate materials means all of that material will sit in the digestive tract, putrefying or fermenting while you are fasting, causing your body to be poisoned with ammonia and alcohol and other byproducts of putrefaction.  

A high fiber diet should be consumed for at least a few weeks prior to starting a fast, to allow the removal of putrefactive and fermenting matter.

Fasting can NEVER substitute for a proper diet. 

Fasting should not be used as a trade-off for eating improperly.  We cannot fast our way out of our mistakes and then go right back to making the same mistakes again.  We cannot use fasting to make up for an indulgence in junk foods.  We have to get out of this quick-fix mindset if we want to maintain our health.

Fasting removes mucoid plaque

Starting in our toddler days, as our parents force-feed animal products and cooked foods into our digestive tract, our first response is colic – to cry in pain.  This is, of course, normalized by the medical industry, so we are socially conditioned to either just let the baby cry or, worse, to stuff more and more food in each time they cry.   Babies do not cry because they are hungry; they cry because they are in pain.  

As we continue throughout life to put irritating materials in the digestive tract, our body has no choice but to put layers upon layers of mucus into the digestive tract, resulting in a buildup of these mucus plaque that both protect the delicate tissues of the digestive tract and also impair nutrient absorption.   

Once we fast, the body sheds these mucus plaques that have been built up over decades.   Each fast we do, more and more is shed, and our digestive tract begins to heal.

However, they were put in place to protect the digestive tract from the poisons in cooked foods and animal foods in the first place.   If we go back to the cooked foods after the fast, we are doing injury to the digestive tract all over again.  But this time, the injury is not a slow building over decades, but a more rapid injury because we are eating far greater quantities then we did as an infant.     If we injure the tissues right after they have been freshly exposed this can lead to the body creating scar tissue instead.

 

Fasts are a tool that goes along with a proper diet

Fasting is a tool we can use in partnership with eating properly, however, fasts longer than a few days should not be done if the person is not returning to their natural foods.  And fasting should never be thought of as a quick fix, magic cure, or replacement for eating properly.  

Fasting requires rest

The whole purpose of the fast is to give full physiological rest.   If you are taking a break from eating, you should also be taking a break from working, exercise, and other responsibilities.  You should spend the majority of the fast in a state of rest, either in bed or in a comfortable spot where you can read, listen to calming music, or have a quiet, relaxed conversation.

Fasting will create symptoms

Fasting, whether we are starting with symptoms already, or we are symptom free but just want to give our body more opportunity to clean and heal, will always create some symptoms.  The most common symptoms that arise when fasting are fatigue, weakness, “cold” and “flu” detox symptoms, nausea, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, heart palpitations, changes in blood pressure, fever, and shortness of breath.   These are just some of the possible symptoms that can arise, not a full accounting.    Symptoms are the body curing itself, cleaning itself, so all cleaning and expulsion symptoms are possible to arise during a fast, since the fast itself is giving the body the energy it needs to clean. 

Maintaining proper hydration during a fast helps to minimize the severity of symptoms

Hydration is so important.  When we get dehydrated, the acids concentrate, damaging our organs and tissues.  So maintaining the body in a proper state of hydration every day of the fast is essential.   This is why dry fasting causes kidney damage, kidney failure and premature death.   Hydration is essential to minimizing the damage as the old waste is pushed out of the system.   Water dilutes the acids, dilutes the poisons.    Aim for a minimum of 1 gallon, but do not be surprised if you need to drink up to 2 gallons a day, as thirst demands.   Rarely will the body even demand a bit more, up to 2.5 gallons or 3 gallons, but it is possible to overdrink on water, so do not maintain over 2 gallons when fasting for more than a day or two.  And only drink that much if your body is demanding that water through thirst.   1.5 gallons to 2 gallons is where most people will have the most comfortable fasting experience. 

Fasting is a wonderful tool that we have that allows us to heal our bodies, but unfortunately, there are many people out there following dangerous fasting practices.   Before starting a fast, always educate and empower yourself.  

Learn more about returning to a state of health by returning to the foods our body is naturally designed for, read What is the Natural Human Diet?

Have more questions? Want to get answers about your specific health issues or concerns? I offer consultations, learn more about them 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 Natural Human Diet Support and Education Group? New Groups start on the 1st of every month! https://www.therawkey.com/the-natural-diet-support-group/

Eat fruit and be well my friends.

Protein Confusion: How Misleading Science Damaged Human Health

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.

The great protein myth has destroyed the lives and health of many people. Overconsumption of protein is possibly the single greatest cause of disease in humans; still to this day, disease industry experts push sick, overweight, and tired humans to consume more and more of what is creating their sickness.

The Dangers of Excess Protein

Proteins break down into acids in the body. Acids burn and damage cells. Any excess protein leads to inflammation, edema, and eventually to tumors and organ failure. Nearly every disease label of the medical industry can find its roots in the overconsumption of protein foods.

The sad truth is the human body cannot even utilize complete proteins. There’s no such thing as a protein deficiency. The body uses amino acids, which are the constituents of protein, to build its own proteins. Your human proteins are not cow proteins, chicken proteins, or fish proteins; they are unique to the needs of your body structure.

How the Body Really Uses Protein

Animal tissues add an additional disease-causing acid burden to the body because the unusable complete proteins must be broken down into amino acids, causing more work to be done by the stomach and digestive tract. The more the cells work, the more acidic cellular waste they create as part of their normal functions. In addition, many of the amino acids found in animal proteins will be damaged or destroyed in the cooking process, so the body must work even harder to expel the excess waste, adding even more burden to the body. All of this burden and all the excess acidic cellular waste and excess acidic protein waste are what lead to symptoms of disease.

How Much Protein Do Humans Really Need?

Lessons from Breast Milk

How much protein do we actually need? And how did we get so far off the mark as to create epidemics of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, strokes, and rampant mental illness, depression, and anxiety?

Humans have the greatest need for amino acids in the time from birth to 18 months when rapid growth requires human protein to be created out of amino acids. Human breast milk contains only 1.1 grams of protein in 100 grams of milk. It contains 3 times that in sugar, (3.5 grams of carbohydrates). The growing infant, which doubles its weight in 180 days, requires only roughly 1-2% protein.

Once fully grown, we recycle up to two-thirds of our protein wastes to meet our needs. The fully grown adult requires far less than the infant, and yet within mainstream circles it’s standard practice to recommend a high-protein diet.

We have confused marketing with science to our great detriment and we still to this day continue the trend. We confuse medicine with science and then mindlessly parrot “trust the science” without even a basic understanding of what true science is.

“In the early 50s nature failed the test of American medicine. It was found that breast milk contains 60% less protein than the infant needs. A “formula” was created with 2 1/2 to 3 times the protein plus added salt. Today we know that it wasn’t nature but science that flunked: The devastating consequences soon appeared: kidney damage, hyperacidity with osteoporosis, dangerously high phenylalanine and tyrosine content in the blood, poor protein metabolism and increased acceleration with consequent stressful disparity of physical and mental growth. An attempt has been made to transfer advertising concepts of growth and weight gain rates to actual human beings—and it fell through. There was a harmful habituation to the wear and tear of a high-protein diet. The frugal use of protein was not learned. From birth on, the child was being burdened with both “stress conditioning factors” (Selye), high protein and salt. Important developmental phases were shortened by accelerated growth and this, according to Portmann, works against the development of the “supertype” (Wellek), that human type which is most needed in our time who is not just able to analyze but also grasp the whole of a phenomenon in its form and essence.”

When we fed infants on a high protein formula the devastating results were obvious, yet 70+ years later we are still stuffing ourselves and our children with protein, destroying their bodies and our own and fueling epidemics of preventable and reversible dietary diseases.

The True Cost of Protein Overload

Uric Acid, Gout, Kidney Stones, Inflammation, Pain, and Accelerated Aging

“It is a matter of experience,” wrote A. Fleisch, president of the Swiss Wartime Nutritional Commission, in his book Nutritional Problems in Times of Shortage (Basel, 1947) “that increased protein consumption also lowers the number of calories taken in.” The stimulating qualities of protein—especially meat protein— lead to over-estimation and over-consumption, which are not justified by nutritional physiology because they lead to “luxuriant combustion”—an inefficient “burning off” of excess. There must be another, especially stimulating, irritative effect of eating meat above and beyond the irritative effects of excess protein (specific-dynamic effect) and the extractive and general products of roasting. This irritative effect, which has since been isolated, is caused by uric acid, a very strong irritant on the sympathetic nerves. And so in meat we have a strongly hypermetabolizing three- to four-fold irritative effect.”

Proteins increase uric acid in the body leading to gout and kidney stones. Additionally, fat blocks the body’s ability to expel uric acid, and many high-protein foods are also high-fat foods. So when we consume the double hamburger with cheese, the cheese pizza, the macaroni, and cheese, or any other SAD diet staple, we double down on the acids. We first burden the body with acids then we make it even harder for the body to expel those acids.

History of protein misinformation

“In the late nineteenth century. Baron von Liebig was the first person to separate foods into proteins (nitrogenous substances) and carbohydrates/fats (non-nitrogenous substances). Since the muscles are composed chiefly of protein. Liebig concluded (incorrectly) that proteins supply muscular energy and the amount of protein consumed must be related to bodily activity. In fact, it is actually the non-nitrogenous foods that supply the best fuel for muscular activity.

Liebig’s Mistaken Assumptions

Liebig was one of the first scientists to make a recommendation for protein intake. He determined the body’s protein requirements by measuring the actual amounts of protein consumed by a group of men engaged in physical activity who ate a heavy diet. He reasoned that by measuring the protein intake of men who ate more than average and worked harder than usual, he could arrive at a safe recommended allowance of protein for all people. This is truly a bizarre method for establishing a standard and is somewhat akin to clocking race car drivers in order to establish a safe speed for school zones.

Based on this experiment Liebig determined that about 120 grams of protein daily would satisfy the needs of a moderately active adult. To obtain 120 grams of protein, a person would need to consume about 17 eggs or a pound and a half of meat or twenty ounces of almonds per day.

Dogs vs. Humans: Why Early Experiments Misled Science

Following Liebig, Voit in 1881 performed a series of experiments on dogs and likewise determined that we should consume between 100 and 125 grams of protein a day. Doubtless, dogs can safely consume 125 grams of protein per day. The protein requirement for a growing puppy is five times as great as that for a growing baby. Voit, it should be noted, did not adjust his results to account for the differences between humans and dogs despite the major differences between our species.

From the very beginning, we can see that protein requirements were artificially determined and excessively high. As early as 1887, experiments in Germany showed that 40 grams of protein was a sufficient daily amount. This comes to about one-third of the previous recommendations. However these old standards of Liebig and Voit were already firmly fixed in the minds of the medical establishment, and the belief persisted that a high-protein diet was conducive to health. So why lower the recommendations?

How Recommendations Stayed Too High

After many more experiments proved that a daily protein intake of 30 to 40 grams was entirely sufficient, the establishment finally revised its recommendations down to 60 or 70 grams. Although only one-half of the early estimates, this figure is still over 50% too high, even by conservative nutritional standards. Today, with the support of the meat, dairy and egg industries, the protein allowances still remain around 70 grams per day. It should also be noted that a typical American meat-eater consumes about 93 grams of protein daily—more than anyone else in the world on the average.”

The Path Back to Health

Give your body a break. Step away from the protein and watch your health return, your weight stabilize, edema and gout disappear, pain and inflammation cease, headaches and migraines disappear and your body will start to look and feel years or even decades younger. Return to the natural human diet and thrive, lose weight effortlessly and maintain your natural lean healthy radiant body with ease.

Learn more about our natural foods in What is the Natural Human Diet?

Learn more about the purpose of disease, how disease is created, why it is created and how we can reverse disease by returning to feeding our body in alignment with our physiology, Read The Nature and Purpose of Disease Series

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Have more questions? Want to get answers about your specific health issues or concerns? I offer consultations, learn more about them 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 Natural Human Diet Support and Education Group? New Groups start on the 1st of every month! https://www.therawkey.com/the-natural-diet-support-group/

Eat fruit and be well my friends.

Healing Strabimus or Lazy eye by returning to the natural human diet. A reader Q&A.

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.

Question:

Can we heal strabismus (crossed eyes) or lazy eye on the natural hygiene lifestyle or natural human diet?

Answer:

Yes, this is a nerve and muscle disorder, both of which are healable. Nerves malfunction when the body is under a heavy acid load and muscles become weak due to the body needing to pull the alkaline minerals from the muscles to neutralize the acids.

When we return to our natural diet and eat abundantly of salad greens in particular, the body is able to replenish those alkaline minerals, resulting in increased strength to the muscle tissues. In addition, the body becomes rehydrated, which corrects deformities of the eye and also leads to weakening of muscle tissues and connective tissues.

Some eye exercises would be beneficial to go along with the correction of diet to help rebuild eye strength. If the person is using eyeglasses, they should work to minimize the time each day they are using their glasses until they are no longer needed. Glasses make the eyes weaker over time.

I would recommend they practice the Bates Method of eye exercises. You can find a copy of the book at the bottom of this article – https://www.therawkey.com/repairing-our-vision/

Learn more about The Natural Human Diet – Like all other species, humans have a specific set of foods which are appropriate to our physiology and when we consume only these foods, our body maintains a state of pristine health. The further we stray from our natural foods, the more disease we create in our body. To heal, we must return fully to our natural foods, all other foods injure and impair the body, leading to disease.

Other articles that you may find helpful:

One Disease – Two Types of Symptoms – The medical industry labels thousands of diseases, but did you know these are all just collections of symptoms, and that there truly is only one disease – cellular malfunction. When we correct our understanding of what disease is, then we can correct the conditions that lead to disease occurring in the first place!

The Nature and Purpose of Disease – Learn why we get disease conditions and how to reverse them. Disease serves a purpose; when we understand what that purpose is, we can correct the conditions that lead to disease and return our body to a state of health.

How Belief In The Immune Narrative Has Led To Epidemics Of Chronic Disease And Cancer.

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.

In the modern world of medicine, the concept of the immune system has taken a central role in how we view illness and disease. We are told it’s a powerful internal army designed to protect us from outside invaders: bacteria, viruses, fungi. We are taught to fear germs, to fight symptoms, and to see the body as constantly under attack. But what if this premise is completely wrong? What if the very idea of the immune system is built on a false understanding of the body’s biology? 

From a Natural Hygiene perspective, the truth is far simpler and far more empowering.  We do not have an immune system in the way it is described by medicine. Instead, we have a circulatory system and a lymphatic system – both of which perform clearly observable, purposeful, and intelligent functions. We cannot dissect the immune system because all parts of the immune system are already parts of these existing body systems. The immune system was created by taking parts of these other systems and cobbling them together to form a new system, which exists only to explain why we’re not always suffering at the hands of these omnipresent tiny hostile microbial invasions.  In this article, I will explain why there is no need to believe in a mystical army fighting malevolent microbes and why the entire theory of immunity is a myth built on the flawed assumptions of the germ theory of disease.

The Myth of the Immune System

The medical establishment claims that our body defends itself from invading pathogens by generating antibodies and deploying white blood cells to attack foreign organisms. This war metaphor permeates everything from advertisements for cold medications to public health campaigns. But this theory rests on three unsupported premises:

1. That bacteria and viruses cause disease.
   
2. That the body needs to destroy these invaders to remain healthy.
   
3. That we can train the body with vaccines to recognize and eliminate these threats.
   

None of these assumptions holds up under closer scrutiny.

First, bacteria and viruses do not cause disease – they appear during disease. There may be a correlation, but there is no causation.  Bacteria are present in and on our bodies at all times. They are essential to digestion and elimination, and are utilized in body cleaning processes. They exist on our skin, in our throat and nose at all times, and are essential to cell creation, in that they are directly responsible for the breakdown of nutrients, which allows them to enter the bloodstream and feed the cells. When disease occurs, it is because the body is overwhelmed by toxemia – an accumulation of waste products and toxins from poor diet, lifestyle, and environment. The body intelligently redirects its energy to eliminate this waste through symptoms we call “disease”. In other words, the symptoms themselves are the body’s created cure for the persistent disease conditions we are creating with our lifestyle and dietary failures.

What the Body Actually Has: Circulation and Cleansing

Instead of an immune system, the body has:

• The Circulatory System: This system delivers nutrients, oxygen, and hormones throughout the body and removes cellular waste.
  
• The Lymphatic System: Often misunderstood, this system is essential for drainage. It collects waste, including proteins and cellular debris, and moves it toward the elimination channels – primarily the lymph nodes, colon, kidneys, skin, and lungs.
  

These systems are not soldiers at war – they are custodians. They work tirelessly to maintain homeostasis and eliminate toxicity. The so-called immune response is nothing more than the body redirecting its energy to clean up its internal terrain.

The cells the medical world calls immune cells – lymphocytes, neutrophils, macrophages – are simply scavengers and repairmen. They clean up dead tissue, neutralize irritants, and assist in regeneration. They don’t attack invading invisible entities; rather, they respond to damage that has already occurred, usually from internal toxicity or exposure to poisons.

Viruses: The Most Misunderstood Waste Products

Modern medicine presents viruses as cunning assassins. Yet, viruses have never been observed alive, nor have they ever met the criteria of living organisms. What we call a virus is simply decomposed genetic material – bits of RNA or DNA wrapped in protein from dead or dying cells. They cannot move, metabolize, reproduce, or perform any living function. They are cellular garbage – the debris left behind after toxicity injures or destroys cells.

The body does not defend against viruses. It eliminates them. These so-called viral particles appear after cellular breakdown – not before. They are evidence of internal toxicity, not external invasion. To fear viruses is to fear your own cellular debris. 

Symptoms Are Not Signs of War – They Are Signs of Cleaning

When the body is overwhelmed by toxicity, it initiates constructive elimination symptoms – fever, coughing, sneezing, rashes, diarrhea, and mucus production. These are not illnesses. They are cleansing processes. A cold is the body clearing the airways. A fever is the body increasing its metabolic rate to burn off excess waste. Rashes are the skin pushing out internal toxins. These are not signs of attack; they are signs of intelligent housekeeping.

When we suppress symptoms with drugs, we shut down the body’s healing processes. We force it to stop cleaning. And what happens to a home that never gets cleaned? It decays. This is how acute diseases become chronic and eventually degenerative.

The True Cause of Disease

According to Natural Hygiene, the science of health, there is only one disease, called toxemia, and many varied symptoms that express that state of disease. Disease conditions are progressive; the dirtier our inner terrain becomes, the more symptoms the body exhibits in its attempts to rid itself of the growing disease conditions.   This means a body overwhelmed with waste and unable to eliminate it efficiently due to poor lifestyle habits such as:

• Consuming unnatural, cooked, or animal-based foods
  
• Lack of fresh air and sunshine
  
• Lack of adequate sleep
  
• Lack of appropriate exercise
  
• Lack of adequate hydration
  
• Overwork, stress, and emotional imbalance
  
• Use of medications, stimulants, or suppressive therapies
  

These factors deplete nerve energy, the electrical vitality the body uses to perform its cleansing functions. When enervation sets in, the elimination of waste slows, toxicity builds, and the body reaches a point where it must intervene through a healing crisis.

Why the Immune Theory Fails

If germs and viruses truly caused disease, then once they invaded, the body would not recover without destroying them. Yet people recover without drugs. They recover through rest, fasting, and proper care – because the body heals itself.

White blood cells, instead of being warriors, are janitors. Antibodies, instead of being magic bullets, are just proteins – their so-called “immune function” has never been conclusively proven, only theorized. And vaccinations, which aim to trigger these proteins, fail to address the real cause of disease: an unhealthy lifestyle.

So, What Do We Have Instead?

We have:

• A self-healing, self-cleaning body.
  
• A lymphatic and circulatory system, not an immune system.
  
• An inner terrain, which is either clean and vibrant or dirty and sluggish.
  
• Detoxification, not infection.
  
• Symptoms of healing, not symptoms of war.
  

As Dr. Shelton said, “Disease is a process of purification and repair. It is a remedial action. It is a power struggle to overcome obstruction and to keep the channels of circulation free.”

Conclusion: Clean the Terrain, Don’t Fight the Phantom

There is nothing to be immune to. There is no war. No battle. No evil invader. The idea of the immune system is a distraction from the truth: health is a result of clean living, the appropriate diet, and proper rest, not vaccinations, drugs, or antibiotics.

If you want true immunity, forget the immune system. Focus instead on creating a terrain that does not require cleaning. Eat fruit. Rest well. Move your body. Breathe fresh air. And trust in the body’s perfect, intelligent design.

Because the only thing that can restore health… is the body itself. 

Learn more about the Virus deception, read on:

The Viral Theory of Disease Causation

How to Nourish Your Brain: Top Foods, Sleep Tips, and Healthy Habits

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.

The human brain is a marvel of creation. It is so complex that even today there is much we do not understand about the brain and how it functions.

“The brain, though the creature of its cellular constituents, is nevertheless supreme in the organism of which it is a part. The cells have created it as president to preside over and direct their affairs. As the supreme faculty of the body, the brain is protected and served by its cell constituency preferentially. The brain thus is treated royally. It receives the best of everything; it is served and kept operational, even if this means the sacrifice of millions upon millions of cells. Thus, we can say the brain is the kingpin behind the human show.”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“If you knew what was involved in turning over during the night during sleep, you’d be astonished. An area of the body involving countless billions of cells becomes cramped or distressed in some way. An urgent request goes to the brain—rather, the brain has been monitoring the situation all along. But movement is not initiated as long as matters remain within certain parameters. When the situation threatens the integrity of certain areas, the brain, entirely beneath the level of wakefulness, will mobilize trillions of cells that comprise hundreds of muscle systems and effect a shift of body weight to a more comfortable position.” -T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“The brain is absolute master of all the cells within its domain. Yet it is totally subservient to its cells and is very responsive to their needs. But the organic order of the body system is such that the brain is at the very apex in importance. While the brain was the last development of the human organism, it is the first in importance. Every cell, tissue and organ system other than the heart are slowly sacrificed, in critical periods such as starvation, that the brain might survive. When the brain can no longer survive, death occurs”. – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

THE BUILDING OF BRAIN TISSUES:

Building the brain starts in the uterus and continues on into our 20’s, however, 90% of brain growth is completed by age 5 and the brain reaches 80% of adult size by age three. Therefore, the earliest years of nutrition have the biggest impact on the brain.

“While the human infant is normally of very slow growth, the human brain is larger at birth than that of any other animal and its rate of growth is greater. In mother’s milk nature has provided for the greater demands made by the rapid growth and important size of the human brain in infancy and she has not made these provisions in the milk of any other animal. In other words, mother’s milk is peculiarly fitted to nourish the brain of the infant, while that of the cow and goat are not. Not merely is human milk more digestible, but it is more complex than the substitutes. In it are found lecithin bodies in peculiar properties, which serve for the construction of the large human brain.” – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

“Lecithin, a widely distributed fat is very important in human nutrition, being an essential ingredient of the brain and nerves… Lecithin contains, besides the fatty acids, phosphorus. Insufficient fat tends to lessen nervous efficiency….Fats, like sugars, are best taken as nature prepares them; that is in the foods in which they exist. Most nuts are rich in oil and form the best sources of fat for human consumption.” – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

NUTRIENTS THAT PLAY A HEAVY ROLE IN BRAIN HEALTH:

The building of nerve tissue and brain cells requires phosphorus, manganese, iron, and zinc and the brain utilizes around 20% of the body’s blood sugar.

“Nerves and brain are rich in phosphorus.” – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

Phosphorus: Phosphorus, chiefly in the form of lecithin, appears to be an essential of oxidation and to take part in many of the body’s chemical processes. The brain and nervous system contain considerable lecithin. There is much phosphorus in the bones and teeth. There are about 1.5 lbs. in a 150 lb. body. The chief sources of supply are, in the order named, Vegetables: kale, large radish, pumpkins, watercress, sorrel, dill, brussel sprouts, cucumbers, swiss chard, romaine lettuce, savoy cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, rutabagas, spinach, leek bulbs, lettuce, asparagus; Fruits: currants, huckleberries, peaches, gooseberries, limes, cherries, watermelons, lemons, breadfruit, mirabellas, oranges, apples, red raspberries, plums, grapes; Nuts: brazil nuts, pinions, beechnuts, peanuts (a legume), almonds, English walnuts, filberts, pecans, chestnuts, (dried), water chestnuts, cocoanut.

Potassium: Phosphate of potassium is the mineral basis of all muscular tissue. Potassium is a predominant element in the red-blood cells and brain and is essential to the formation of glycogen from sugar, of proteins from peptones and proteoses, and of fats from glycogen. The spleen and liver are both abundantly supplied with potassium. There are about 8.4 oz. in a 150 lb. body. The chief sources of supply are, in the order named; Vegetables: tomatoes, kale, lettuce, turnips, sorrel, celery, rutabagas, cabbage, romaine lettuce, swiss chard, cauliflower, cucumbers, eggplant, beets, parsnips, brussel sprouts, savoy cabbage, small radish; Fruits: currants (dried), limes, olives (dried), huckleberries, lemons, cherimoyas, prunes (fresh), peaches, apricots, mangos, oranges, grapes, watermelons, cherries, blackberries, breadfruit, figs (dried Smyrna), white currants, bananas, plums, avocados; Nuts: acorns (dried), water chestnuts, beechnuts (dried), cocoanut, filberts, brazil nuts, pecans, pinions.

Zinc: Zinc is found in connection with phosphorus in the brain. It exists in very minute quantities. It is thought to be connected with the action of the “vitamins,” which it seems to be able to replace to some extent, at least, in the animal organism. It seems to be essential to the nutrition and growth of certain plants and has been found in milk. These mineral elements are divided into base-forming (acid-binding) or alkaline elements, and acid forming elements. The bases are potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, copper, lithium, zinc and nickel and the acid-formers are phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, chlorine, fluorine, iodine, arsenic and bromine. – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

We have been gifted this miraculous organ to direct both our conscious thoughts and subconscious requirements. Sadly, in our modern state of degeneration, we take for granted the gift of our brain and put it into a state of distress right from the very first days of life.

“The brain consists of fifty billion cells that are the most highly developed of any known. They have the potential to live for hundreds of years. They do not reproduce as do other body cells—they do not reproduce at all. But even the healthiest of us lose perhaps a hundred thousand of our brain cells daily. At this rate, it would take 150 years to lose 10% of our brain capacity. But humans often squander this precious heritage and become senile in their sixties, seventies and eighties, still in the relative youth of life’s potential, with loss of perhaps more than 50% of their cerebral matter.” ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

LUCKILY FOR US, THE BODY PROTECTS THE BRAIN:

“Even though affected by physical degeneracy, the brain is always the least affected of organs in famine, disease, starvation, and physical debilitation.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

Because of the great importance of our brain the body focuses significant energy into the protection of the brain. Even when we fail to supply the body with its needs the body will sacrifice other organs and tissues to keep the brain supplied with all of its needs.

What then can we do to slow the degeneration and stop the abuse of our brains? Should we try to feed our brain by eating certain foods?

THE BODY MUST BE TREATED AS A WHOLE:

“As every organ of the body is essential to wholeness and integrity of structure and vigor of function, no organ can be spared. Not merely must the nutritive and drainage systems be perfectly adapted to the requirements of the brain and body, but the smallest and apparently least important parts of the body must be harmoniously and fully developed. As Dr. Nichols so well expressed it: “The smallest instrument out of tune brings discord into the harmony of life.” ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“No confidence can be placed in the claims for therapeutic virtues in special foods. The theories and claims of those who maintain foods have certain specific effects upon certain organs and tissues of the body have been thoroughly studied and tested by the author and by others. Time and time again we have prescribed these foods and watched for their alleged effects. These effects have not shown up. Similar to the effort to feed special foods in “specific diseases” is the effort to feed special organs of the body. We are told that there are certain foods to feed the eyes, certain foods to feed the nerves, certain foods to feed the hair, certain foods to feed the nails, certain foods to feed the brain, certain foods to make one magnetic, certain foods to make one sleep, certain foods to fill one with energy, etc. No such foods exist. The ensemble of diet must meet the ensemble of the nutritive needs of the body before any organ can be adequately nourished. Nothing that is good for the muscles is bad for the nerves, or any vital organ. What is good for the teeth is good for every organ of the body. Foods that promote and preserve beauty of the skin are also best for the brain. Foods that build strong, efficient stomachs are precisely those foods that build vigorous hearts, efficient livers, good kidneys, etc. The good of one is the good of all. That which perfects one organ perfects all the organs. The body is a unit and goes forward or backward as a unit–it must be nourished as a whole, not by piece-meal.” – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

NERVE ENERGY AND THE BRAIN:

“We need sleep to regenerate nerve energy for the brain and nervous system.” ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

Nerve energy is a form of electricity measurable in millivolts. Sleep laboratories have successfully substituted electricity in place of the body’s own. When this is accomplished it is called electrosleep. It takes only two hours out of twenty-four to fully restore nerve energy in this manner. Demonstrating that nerve energy is electrical is easy. If you mashed your finger, a message would immediately go to the brain and back would come a command to remove the finger from that which applied the pressure. Moreover, the brain would command the entire balance of the body to cooperate in the extraction of the finger from the offending pressure. Only electricity is capable of such speedy transmission. No chemical process or circulatory process is capable of this dispatch. It occurs only through a network of nerves with conductive abilities, and electricity is the only form of energy it can conduct. If you take a weak voltage and hook up to it while holding someone else’s hand, the other person gets a shock immediately when you touch the live electrical source. I don’t think anyone can doubt that we do generate electricity, and that is the form of energy we use to conduct our physical and mental activities. Sensations are transformed into electrical stimuli and forwarded to the brain. The brain interprets these and sends out commands based upon the interpretation. Thus, if you put your finger to a hot object, the finger is commanded in a flash to withdraw from it. The foregoing is to demonstrate that the body is primarily an organism that works on the amount of electricity it generates and which it has in its reserves. If this supply is depleted or otherwise insufficient to cope with the needs of the body, then body functions become impaired, including the processes of elimination of both endogenous metabolic wastes and exogenous poisons introduced into the body. This impairment begets further impairment including diminishing the body’s ability to restore depleted nerve energy. The body starts going downhill. The next stage of this decline is called toxemia. ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP:

“Your intelligence quotient depends upon how efficiently and intensely the brain operates. It is well-known that caffeine will temporarily intensify and excite thinking until the letdown comes. Many stimulants will intensify mental activities. Good health will naturally intensify and enhance mental activities without providing a “letdown.” Nothing in the world will sharpen mental acuity as will a few days to a few weeks of fasting. Mental acuity arises from two primary conditions:

1. The less toxins in the blood that flows through the brain, the better the brain is able to

function.

2. The more nerve energy there is available, the more of it there is available to the brain for

thought processes.

Hence, the more adequate our sleep, the more nerve energy we’ll have for the brain and for more intense thought processes. When “you’re sharper than a tack” your body is purer and your nerve energy greater than at other, mentally duller times.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“The cells of the body require rest but not necessarily sleep, but the brain and nervous system sleep. Cells require periodic rest so that they may cope with their eliminative and restorative functions.”

However, if a person eats before sleeping, his/her body will direct much of its energies towards the digestion of the food. Since the brain is involved in digestion, less sound sleep will result.” T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“A nap of from a few minutes to an hour not only rests the body, but it also permits the brain to substantially renew its fund of nerve energy.” T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“Recent research has shown that merely closing the eyes rests the brain and mind in a peculiar way. An electric rhythm starts as soon as the eyes are closed, and ceases immediately when they are opened. What the exact purpose and nature of this rhythm are, still remains to a great extent a mystery, but one might well imagine that they serve to clear “negative charges” from the brain. At all events they denote recuperation. The activity of the senses, and particularly the eyes, prevents this from occurring.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

EXERCISE

“Exercise is much more than simply developing strong muscles. It is body building in the complete sense of the term. Every cell and fiber is involved. The heart, kidneys, liver, skin, hair, eyes, etc., including the brain and nervous system, are stimulated and strengthened in these various functions. The tone and quality of the entire system is improved. The skeletal system, for example, depends upon exercise in order to maintain its size, strength, and physiological functions.” ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

THINGS THAT INJURE AND IMPAIR THE BRAIN:

Eating is an unavoidable essential of life. It is also one of the worst ways that we burden and damage our bodies and by extension our brains as well. By choosing foods that are unsuitable we impair the brain with every bite. The brain requires blood flow to work at its optimum efficiency. This means the more energy we expend on materials that are difficult to digest, the less blood flow is going to the brain.

“If digestion is to proceed normally almost the entire attention of the system must be given to the work. Blood is rushed to the digestive organs in large quantities. There is a dilatation of the blood vessels in the organs to accommodate the extra supply of blood. There must be a consequent constriction of the blood vessels in other parts of the body in order to force the blood into the digestive organs and to compensate for their own loss of blood. But if the brain and muscles are to work they, too, require an increased blood supply. In order to supply them there is a dilatation of the blood vessels in the brain or muscles and a contraction of the blood vessels in the viscera. Every part of the body cannot be supplied with extra blood at the same time. If one part gets an extra supply some other part must get less.” – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

CHRONIC DEHYDRATION IMPAIRS BRAIN FUNCTION

“Deprive man of water and he is soon reduced to a few pounds of dust. His body is about 70% water, his blood 90%. Water forms the greater part of his brain and nerves.”

“The body has some 50 billion brain cells. It has billions of nerve cells involved in message transmission. Messages travel within and around the body with the speed of electricity—nerve transmissions are almost all electrical. There are chemical communications within the body as well.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

A well-hydrated body is able to conduct electricity with much greater efficiency than a dehydrated body. Dehydration also impairs the chemical reactions.

“Carbohydrate fermentation gives rise to carbon dioxide, alcohol, acetic acid and water and results in chronic auto-intoxication, which resembles, in every way, the symptoms of chronic alcoholism. The alcohol produces chronic irritation in the system and results in the formation of scar tissue. Previous to the formation of the scar tissue there are the usual disturbances caused by irritation. It also causes capillary congestion which result, in turn, in atrophy of brain and muscles. The irritation of the mucous surfaces results in the overproduction of mucous giving rise to catarrh. – Herbert Shelton, The Hygienic System, Vol. II Orthotrophy

Anything which creates alcohol in our system, including poor food combining leading to bloating and fermentation of fruits will impair brain function.

“Nicotine, as obtained from smoking tobacco, adds to metabolic dysfunctioning. It impairs the absorption of vitamin C and interferes with the blood circulation. By constricting the blood vessels, nicotine robs the brain of its essential nutrients, particularly blood glucose, its major fuel. In fact, not only does nicotine inhibit vitamin C absorption, but it actually destroys some or all of the vitamin C already in the blood. One of the mental effects of vitamin C depletion is increased irritability. Smokers tend to be quick to irritate and often exhibit emotional outbursts. ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

Bad nutrition; lack of exercise; polluted air; lack of sunshine; insufficient rest and sleep; enervation; and mental and emotional habits; and the taking of drugs, medicines and social poisons like tea, coffee, chocolate, cocoa and alcohol, all lead to toxemic tissues, resulting in breakdown of brain cells and nervous tissues. ”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

INORGANIC MINERALS

“Those who drink mineral-containing water are often found to have heavy plaque in their systems. The rejected minerals which the body cannot use often combine with cholesterol and other fatty substances to form plaque. These block the arteries. The rejected minerals are also likely to be put aside in the body in spaces that exist. Notably is this so in the cranial cavity where the spaces of lost brain cells are filled in by minerals, thus leading to ossification of the brain. This is a cause of senility.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“These inorganic mineral deposits lead to kidney and gallstone formation, hardening of the arteries, arthritis, heart trouble, ossification of the brain and other serious diseases.”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“The inorganic minerals found in mineral water are deposited by the body in tissue structures and bones. Mineral deposits can lead to kidney stone and gallstone formation, hardening of the arteries, ossification of the brain, arthritis and heart disease. Inorganic minerals excreted through the skin can cause tissue degeneration.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

“Our bodies cannot use inorganic minerals. The body treats inorganic minerals as poisons and utilizes its energies in trying to expel them. Whether the raw minerals come from hard water, from fresh leaves, stems and stalks or from the by-products of cooking decomposition, the body cannot use them. Instead, they create an eliminative problem. If uneliminated these minerals are likely to combine with fatty substances and harden, thus ossifying the brain and clogging arteries and veins. It is said that herbivores are short-lived because of the abundance of inorganic minerals in their food.”- T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

EXCESS FATS

“Dr. R.A. Swank from the University of Oregon has published a number of studies showing the effects of fat in causing the red blood cells to stick together. After feeding some hamsters a meal of cream, he noticed that the little red blood cells started sticking together. They would not pass through the capillaries, but would block them off. Since the red blood cells carry oxygen to the tissues, he also found there to be a great decrease in oxygen in the tissues. Following a high-fat meal, the oxygen content of the tissues of the brain was measured and found to be markedly decreased.” – T.C.Fry, The Life Science Course

KEY TAKEAWAYS

We cannot fix the brain without fixing everything else in the body, and conversely, we cannot fix the body without fixing the brain. As with any other health complaint, the body must be treated as a whole of interconnected, and interdependent organisms. Where there is distress in one area there is distress in all areas.

While our brain cells do not regenerate, our body provides significant protection to our brain. We begin life with an abundance of brain cells. If injured our brain has the ability to rewire itself to take over for damaged areas.

Maintaining optimal brain health, and avoiding brain fog will predominantly come down to keeping the body properly hydrated and supplied with the best nutrition possible. Avoiding inorganic minerals and excess fats, especially cooked and refined fats is essential. We should not be eliminating all fats though. Incorporating small amounts of nuts and seeds in their raw state a few times per week provides the body with important nutrients to keep things running at their optimum.

Nerve energy is a big factor in our brain’s performance daily. The more nerve energy we use up on digestion the less is available for our brains. The better our sleep the more nerve energy we can produce. Emotions, discord in relationships and work stress can all run down our nerve energy leading to brain fog.

Focus on getting a good night’s sleep, a nap in the afternoon and closing your eyes a few times per day to regenerate nerve energy and keep your mind sharp. Delay your meals and eat lightly to conserve nerve energy if you are feeling run down.

Do you want to learn more about how our self-healing and self-cleaning body remedies disease conditions and returns to a state of health when the conditions of health are supplied? Start by reading “Why do we get sick?“

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