Raw & Untreated Foods for Life!

According to…Aajonus Vonderplanitz in We Want to Live: The Primal Diet, “Although there have been thousands of testimonials for the healthy benefits of raw dairy and there has not been one case of disease or illness as a result of certified raw dairy in California, California health officials still try regularly to outlaw raw dairy and deprive the people” (128). The government requested the raw dairy enterprises “to put a warning label on their products” (128). Warning labels can startle people, turning them away from purchasing products (128). Vonderplanitz, a nutritionist who has a lot of experience with early poor health and the effects of foods and treatments on his health writes, “Health conscious people who are fully aware of the benefits of raw dairy in California have had to fight hard and long over the years to maintain their right of choice. ‘Health’ officials allow people the choice of cigarettes and alcohol which have been proved harmful, why not allow us the healthful choice of fresh raw dairy?” (128) The push for warning labels is a little suspect, because the government continues to allow harmful items to be sold, so why the push to stop raw unpasteurized products? Could it be because raw fats actually help the body to heal itself and Big Pharma couldn’t benefit if the public seeks healthful products? Vonderplanitz feels that our we would be drawn to nourishing, non-toxic foods except that our sense of taste has been altered by the effect of cooked fats on our system and the unavailability of whole foods (171).

One way our tastes for foods have been altered is through constantly ingesting foods that have been altered from their original flavor. Raw butter and drug-free, hormone-free, free-roaming, organic chickens are just two examples. If you grew up on pasteurized butter and try raw butter, you may think them two completely different products. It’s hard to believe that the butter your great-great grandmother churned is so different from what you place on your table today. The taste of a chicken raised by that same great-great grandmother might have also had a different taste from the chicken you have been purchasing cheaply in that supermarket for years. How did we ever get off track with our food?

Firstly, raw products have been slandered by the media and people believe what they are told to believe, especially if everyone else seems to believe it. Secondly, given the difficulty involved with finding raw products and the expense, many consumers reach for cheap animal products, which often contain hormones and drugs, as well as, heated, treated, unnatural products. The media and doctors robotically slander raw foods and promote cooked foods as well, adding to a person’s fear to stay within the norm and to do what everyone else considers the right thing to do.

Looking around you at the people you know who visit an allopathic doctor on a regular basis, would you say they are healthy, confident, outgoing people? Vonderplanitz would call that luck, for he likens a visit to an allopathic doctor like playing the state lottery. He writes, “A handful of people will benefit and millions lose. Regardless, the medical business gets rich. That’s just the way it is. Our society makes too many choices based on economics” (79). Doctors constantly lead their patients away from raw foods ─ like unpasteurized milk and butter ─ and toward the so-called quick cures (drugs) they wish to dispense. “It will give you a yeast infection, but at least you won’t have the staph infection,” a doctor once said to me, handing me an antibiotic prescription. If I had filled that prescription instead of taking care of the staph infection in other ways, then I, just like other patients, would have shown up with new ailments and the doctor would’ve been able to get rich dispensing even more drugs.

Evaluating drugs, one can plainly see that raw foods don’t need the bad rap ─ drugs do. Vonderplanitz points out how drugs are tested on individual cells free of a body; therefore, tests are inefficient because cells behave differently within a body (129). Scientists are making their claims when their tests are completely unrelated to a thinking, breathing, human subject! Cells are not machines, even though science treats them as if they are machines that “repeat exactly the same movements and functions” (129). Side effects with raw food, unlike commercially sold drugs, are very rare (129).

Raw foods do not alter your DNA (unless GMO’s are involved.) Yet, as Vonderplanitz says, “Every drug alters the genetic structure or weakens the DNA and RNA of some young cells” (336). Vonderplanitz could make a list of drugs and what they do in the body. He goes onto assert, “Chemicals, like the compounds in aspirin, turn some cells into cement. It is sometimes impossible to dissolve those cells to removable substances” (241). Vonderplanitz says that penicillin stores in joints, “especially of hands and feet” (156). He feels that itchy, peeling skin from a fungus is actually the body ridding itself of molds caused by antibiotics or another medication used in the past (156). On top of all of that, doctors are administering drugs and other harmful treatments without disclosing the full effects that the treatments can do to the body. Vonderplanitz recalls when he was young and facing health problems “the doctors didn’t tell me that the therapies would kill much more of me than would any cancer” (24). Chemicals from drugs are not the only security Big Pharma has that you will be in poor health. The chemicals in your food that have been approved by the FDA and the fact that cooking food is promoted are also financial security for them.

“Bacterial food-poisoning that causes disease is caused by cooked or processed food,” says Vonderplanitz on food contamination (229). He adds, “The belief that raw food causes bacterial food-poisoning is nonscientific myth and hysteria. All epidemic food-poisoning that has occurred was caused by bacteria feeding on cooked food. The bacteria feeding on cooked and/or chemically treated food develops disease and mutants. The mutant/diseased bacteria excrete volatile toxins that cause poisoning that result in vomit and/or diarrhea and intestinal damage, including decay” (229-230). The bacteria that feeds on prepared, non-organic foods “are likely to turn pathogenic. E. coli feeds rapidly on frozen meat but is not dangerous if eaten raw” (230). Vonderplanitz feels that if someone vomits after consuming raw meat it is most likely because the body experienced a quick release of toxins from organs like the liver or pancreas, so the body needed to evacuate the toxins as quickly as possible since they’re harmful when not held by the body (230). He writes, “Fresh raw meat promotes cellular reproduction, good health and vitality” (96). Raw meats may be too much of a stretch for some. Raw fats are available in less drastic forms, such as avocados and raw coconut milk, but they may not be as powerful in promoting cellular regeneration as raw meat. Remember, Vonderplanitz asserts that disease can come from exposing meat to temperatures that will cook it, releasing “the toxins from the fat” to then be stored in the body (145).

On the toxic quality of the average animal raised to be food, Vonderplanitz says, “Most toxins store in glands, some organs and bone marrow because of the concentration of fats in glands, bone marrow, and some organs” (144). It’s best not to ingest meat from these parts of the animal “unless they are from organically grown animals raised without injections and without deworming medication. Fresh muscle meat ─ steaks and ground ─ are okay, even if you buy them at regular markets, as long as they don’t add coloring and you don’t cook them” (144-5).

Some vegetarians may be shocked to hear that healthy, organic choices may turn harmful by the cooking process. Vonderplanitz says, for example, that cooked potato skins should not be consumed, because of the “toxic resins and concentrated residue” that can be created (184). He advises avoiding cooked greens and eating raw greens “to help eliminate stored resins and residues caused by eating cooked greens” (314). Sinus issues may, in fact, stem from your body not being able to handle eating cooked red-colored fruits or vegetables and/or eating yellow cooked foods, with the mucous being employed in an attempt to detoxify the body (308). Stopping the ingestion of such cooked foods may halt the build-up of “cooked resins and residues, reducing damage from detoxifying through the nasal passages” (308). Naturally, Vonderplanitz recommends ingesting “raw red and raw yellow fruits and vegetables, including juices” for nasal relief (308). A plethora of enzymes, vitamins and minerals are within raw, uncooked foods, offering “optimal digestion and functioning, and replaces expended nutrients, promoting excellent health” (170).

Vonderplanitz writes, “My research and experience has brought me to view cancer as a condition where the body no longer eliminates dead cells, for various reasons. So the malfunctioning body develops tumors, or catacombs, so to speak, and contains the dead cells within them” (148). It can just so happen that a person can stop “mutating normal cells into cancer cells during and after radiation or chemotherapy” (148). Vonderpalnitz sees cancer as a form of raw fat deficiency (148). Cholesterol that the body can utilize to grab toxins to escort them out of the body is lacking (148).

Vonderplanitz recommends raw eggs with unheated honey and raw, unsalted butter “with either an orange or a banana” for colds, flu and allergies for detoxification (155-6). He goes on to explain, “It cleanses and binds with the toxins that cause symptoms” (156). Vonderplanitz says, “I have found that all sickness is rooted in malnutrition, pollution and the accumulation of toxins. This includes allergy-related conditions and genetic disease” (171). Toxins can accumulate and cause you to have memory loss (288). Organic raw raspberries with coconut cream, raw unsalted butter, raw cream and unheated honey can help to remove aluminum, a key factor for maintaining health, from the body (288). He adds, “If we don’t take responsibility and care for our individual health, how can we have more than limited abilities, limited happiness and limited control over our lives” (170)?

For more information please read We Want to Live: the Primal Diet by Aajonus Vonderplanitz.

Sage Advice for a Stress-free Life

“I do not worry about what will happen, only what needs to be done.”

- character Luscious Hart in The Village

According to…Carnelian Sage in her little book The Greatest Manifestation Principle in the World, if a person’s behavior epitomizes a stressful, angry reaction to all life has to offer, it doesn’t matter how many times he or she affirms a new, ideal situation or visualizes the physical item longed for. Affirming a change in personality, for instance, while roaring at the world will not help manifest the desire because as Sage says, “Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates a vortex of interconnected, dynamic energy fields of life that leave a permanent record for all time” (41-2). Life is responding to that “permanent record,” not to the new desire for which a person is affirming. You are also responding to that “permanent record,” so perhaps the answer to less stress can begin with some emotional and mental housecleaning.

The best tool in your anti-stress arsenal is love, but what exactly is love? Sage says, “Love is a state of being not a state of feeling. It goes well beyond the realm of the emotions. It’s an attitude of benevolence and kindness towards all creation, including one’s self, at all times and under all circumstances” (67). Sage further describes love by saying, “Any endeavor that employs the magnetism of love MUST necessarily manifest because love’s frequency is a vibrational match to that of God, who is the architect of all creation” (67). Detach yourself from a state of wanting (56).

Not only are our limiting thoughts working within us, but even the so-called positive thoughts may be tainted by a needy, lower vibration. Sage explains, “You see, positive thoughts and feelings are not all created equal. Just thinking of something pleasurable or delightful creates vibrations of a lower frequency than love because those thoughts and feelings are self-oriented (receiving) whereas love is outwardly-oriented (giving)” (86). Sage speaks of an energy field “that surrounds and permeates all things, embodying all existence, both seen and unseen” (4). No matter how you name this source, it is this energy field to which Sage refers when she writes, “It is when you transcend your ego, let go of your desires, and stay in harmony with this field, that your desires can and MUST necessarily manifest into existence” (6). After all, “Positive thoughts and feelings mean very little unless you can make it a habit to focus on them frequently throughout the day” (46). Perhaps there is too much emphasis on positive and negative, but basically, if you are walking around saying, “I won’t yell at my kid,” or “I’ll try not to argue with my spouse,” clearly an approach in harmony with Love would be more effective. It is less stressful if, when facing your stressor, you can take responsibility for what you are bringing to the situation.

Stress won’t be able to accompany an event if the event isn’t negatively judged because you will remain connected to the energy field (119). To illustrate, if you are meeting with someone in whose presence you always feel powerless and bullied, standing in the vibration of the all-encompassing Love and know ahead of time what you will and will not allow can reduce stress. Sage advises, “Instead of preoccupying yourself with the event, person or situation that your ego has perceived as being the cause of your negative emotional state, separate yourself from your ego and realize that you are the spectator of the thinking” (128). Listen with Love, knowing that it’s safe to say no if you’re uncertain about your present course of action. Acknowledge yourself for making the right decisions and examine emotions that may surface. Noticing if you’re judging your actions rather than discerning that you have a right to say no, for example, may help you stand up for yourself without guilt. After all, as Sage states, “The source of the disappointment stems from the way you see things and label things. With constant surrender, however, virtually all things that you regard as undesirable ─ including illness, lack, hostility, heartbreak and other challenging issues vanish ─ and your life becomes transformed” (119).

If people could stop and ask themselves, “How can I bring love to this interaction?” manifesting desires would be successful, though perhaps not with the outcome at first expected (68, 71). With Love, Sage says, “You’re simply envisioning something that’s already real in the energy field” (56) Sage’s definition of love “is a way for you to be ─ as opposed to merely a way for you to act, look or behave” (80). Sage reminds us, “You can find beauty and love in yourself by moving yourself into the field of awareness that you are love” (116). A bonus is that peace accompanies love (116). Remember, “Love is not just something you do. It’s what you are” (93).

Surrender is allowing a moment to flow without trying to manipulate it, to please others, or to force something to happen. Surrender can help you have a stress-free life. If what you want in life is more time to read and broaden your horizons, then writing down a description of where you want that reading to take place may help to organize your thoughts on creating the possibility. For example, I wrote down what I wanted my future job to look like and one stipulation was that I would have opportunities to read. I ended up becoming a sign language interpreter who reads whenever my clients are busy working. I was doubly blessed because I was either doing what I loved to do, interpreting, or doing what I loved to do, reading. My point is that I was clear about my goal and had no doubt that it would manifest, but I maintained detachment about the particulars of when or how it would be realized. As Sage writes, “In order to get what you want in life you have to let go of wanting it in the first place” (52). It requires surrendering “your desire to the divine” and “what you get is infinitely better than what you desired in the first place” (53). Concerning my initial goal to acquire a job that allowed ample opportunity to read, as an interpreter I am able to use the built in down time to conduct research for a book I am writing.

How does the business of manifesting work? Sage says, “The manifestation of desires is directly in proportion to your connection with the energy field” (54). The energy field thus will mirror back to you the connection you have with it. Sage writes, “The circumstances in your life are the energy field’s response to your communication.” The first step may be to observe occurrences in your life. Do you always seem to have the same kind of boy/girlfriend, boss, job, teacher, or car problems? Awareness is always a nice part of diagnosing stress levels. Next, if you want some firsthand tangible proof of life manifesting your desires, do an experiment. Visualize something in great detail. Perhaps draw it or write a description. Focus on seeing it come into your life like feel that something in your hand, or picture yourself stroking it, and then let the whole matter go.

I once did this with a clown. First, I imagined the most perfect clown and visualized every about it. Second, I envisioned it facing me, waving. Lastly, I let the whole thing go. Soon afterward, I heard an analogy about clowns on the radio, and someone else mentioned having a huge foot and having their shoe looking like a clown’s shoe. It was at this point that I mentally acknowledged that my clown had started to manifest in my life. I visualized the clown again, and let it go again.

Shortly thereafter, I started seeing a flurry of clowns. Millions of small clown figures were in a store window I happened to peak into, students made mistakes by accidentally signing in American Sign Language, “clown,” “circus,” and someone commented about their home being a circus.

I knew I was getting closer on the day a woman entered a room wearing a purple shirt with a clown on it, the clown being dressed in red polka dots. It was a very close approximation to the clown I had envisioned and after acknowledging that, I let it go again. Amazingly, later on that day while entering the freeway entrance, a car illegally passed me on my right and got in front of me. In its back window, I saw my clown in the form of a small figurine, right hand up, waving at me.

If we are this powerful, then surely we can find a way to surrender in life enough not to effect our blood pressure and bodily functions with too much stress and anxiety. Sage says, “You can take anything you desire from formless to concrete expression simply by reconnecting with this [source energy] field” (5). When a person realigns him or herself with this field, she writes, “All things are possible” (6).

Sage feels that a desire’s opposite will also be established just by having the desire, which she calls “the positionality of duality” (53). In its simplest form, Sage describes this possitionality of duality by saying, “You cannot perceive wealth except against the background of poverty (or absence of wealth), nor can you perceive happiness except against the background of unhappiness” (53). To be clear about the magnification of feelings, Sage writes, “‘Wanting’ things reinforces a state of lack and keeps you in a state of wanting. Focusing on this brings you more lack.” (54). For instance, to illustrate, in visualizing the clown, there was no desire. I simply expected to see it; therefore, I didn’t create “the positionality of duality” and experienced no interference with the manifestation. Sage writes, “The effortless way to achieve your heart’s desire is to let go of your attachment to results, and focus on love instead” since “Love is a catalyst by which all good things happen (68). Sometimes what you envisioned will be surpassed by the something “infinitely better than that which you desired” in the first place (68).

Waiting for a desire to manifest is revealing a lack of trust. Sage says, “Questioning the status of the manifestation of your desires, you actually slow down the process of their fulfillment because you’ve allowed your ego to dictate a time frame” (47). The concern is that it sets up “resistance, instead of just allowing the universe (energy field) to bring your desires at the appropriate time” (47). A person’s ego is most likely not aware of the appropriate time for the manifestation to take place. Also, it’s not advisable to allow the ego to decide on how your desires should be manifested either (47). People may miss opportunities with their limited thinking (48).

Part of the problem with how we react to stress comes from our upbringing. Sage writes, “From the time we’re old enough to talk, our parents, society, and the world in general, train us to be results-oriented” (68). Success is evaluated by the results of our efforts (68). This not only can cause stress, it causes people to fall into the pit of being results-minded, failing to “activate the one thing ─ love ─ that gives wings to our desires” (69). We have learned that “actions cause results,” instead of learning surrendering in the “love” state causes results (69). Sage suggests, “The best thing to do is to let go of all experiences that you perceive to be undesirable or unfortunate, and trust instead in the higher providential (karma) order of things” (51-52). Keep yourself safe, change what is in your power to change, and inhabit the Love vibration.

Stress comes from wishing and hoping and forcing reality to be different than it is. If your to-do list is unrealistically long for the available time you have allowed, calmly tend to it by being in the moment with each task until you are either finished or out of time. Getting your adrenalin pumping and becoming angry won’t help the list to be finished any quicker. If you’re experiencing stress, then you’re not experiencing kindness to yourself, so following Sage’s train of thought, stress isn’t loving yourself…or her definition of love. “Love is the attitude of benevolence, reverence and kindness for all creation, including one’s self, at all times and under all circumstances” (93). Our bodies know when it’s time to stop working and to either move onto another task or to sleep, for instance. It’s stressful when there’s still so much homework to do, but no time left. Sometimes you just need to be in surrender over the outcome of grades on a report card, lack of job promotions, and/or rising costs. Know that they do not define you, and choose health. Sage reminds us, “When you consider that superior athletes are able to break through barriers of human possibility when motivated by love, so can you break through to the unimaginable, indescribable world where effortless creation is a way of life” (68).

In order to enjoy stress-free moments, all we need is to stand in the vibration of love.

To learn more about manifesting your desires, please read, The Greatest Manifestation Principle in the World: The Missing Secret Behind the Law of Attraction That Will Enable You to Finally Manifest Your Desires by Carnelian Sage.

Oriental Medicine: the Basics

I just asked an allopathic physician what Western Medicine does for sore throats, coughs, and nasal discharge caused by a virus. “Nothing,” was her reply. Well, I want everyone out there to know that TCM, which means Traditional Chinese Medicine and is also known as Eastern Medicine and Oriental Medicine, can do something about these conditions. Throw in essential oils and TCM has a recipe for complete health.

 

Acupuncture, herbs, diet, and essential oils can release the exterior of a person’s body, throwing the pathogen ─ whether viral or bacterial ─ out, while simultaneously establishing an internal environment where germs cannot thrive. Acupuncture may sound scary to you, and the thought of drinking root juice may not appeal to you, but at least you will not be ingesting harmful chemicals and you will be regaining your health.

The California State Oriental Medical Association (CSOMA), according to their website, is “a professional organization of licensed acupuncturists and supporters of Oriental medicine dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the art, science, and practice of Oriental medicine.” Oriental medicine encompasses the techniques being used in China, Korea, Tibet, Japan, Viet Nam, Thailand, and even India for over 2,500 years.

According to A User’s Guide to Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine published by CSOMA, Oriental medicine has “gained worldwide acceptance and recognition as effective medical treatment.” Substantial research proves that Oriental Medicine is a valid and valuable alternative when considering a treatment protocol. Acupuncture, acupressure, Chinese herbal medicine, and Tai Chi are a few of the better known modalities; however, Oriental Medicine is comprised of so much more.

Cupping is a suction device used on the back of the client to stimulate blood and qi (energy) circulation, and to disperse certain pathogenic factors. Truly, each acupuncturist has a plethora of techniques ready to offer clients individualized treatments.

For more information about CSOMA, please visit their website at www.csomaonline.org, and visit Debbie Allsup’s profile by clicking on “Find a Practitioner," and you can find her at her AuthenticSelf Acupuncture & Beyond Facebook page.

Immunization Notification

This is a notification demanding that parents of students attending a LAUSD middle school vaccinate their children against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis by the fall. If no proof is on file at that school, the principal and nurse say they will not allow that child to attend that school.

If you are a parent who received one of these notifications AND you refuse to vaccinate your child/children AND you live in CA, you need to know about the code. Section 120365 of the Health and Safety Code exempts your child/children from vaccines. Be certain to follow proper protocol as I did and the waiver should, according to the law, be accepted in place of a vaccine record card.

Please don't allow a letter like this to bully you into doing something against your good sense.

If you need help getting informed about your rights related to vaccinations for any state in the United States, please visit www.NVIC.org.

Wellness Maintenance Code

Two days ago, I went to a western medical doctor simply because I thought it time for a complete blood count, a blood chemistry test, and a lipid profile. Since I’m not even certain I’ve ever had these tests, why not go? I have insurance, after all.

I answered a thousand questions on the forms and then waited. I got to see my weight, which was an eye-opener, and to know my blood pressure, which was as expected. Then I was taken to an examination room where I waited for at least forty-five minutes. I wondered if I would have been antsy and uncomfortable if I’d been ill instead of healthy. After all, I was energetic so could text my daughter and read and check out the propaganda on the walls, but what if I’d felt depleted, longing for my own bed?

The lady doctor came in and after introductions she asked, “So, do you like your job?” To which I responded, “I love my job.” She took a moment to scan my paperwork leaving me to wonder if her clientele didn’t like their jobs, and then she asked, “So what can I do for you today?” I explained my plan ─ that I was there for the signed paperwork to take to a lab so as I could have blood taken and tested. She was very concerned about my resistance to invasive medical procedures, vaccinations, antibiotics, and the like ─ information she’d gleaned from the forms. I felt that anyone as advanced in age as I am with my present number of “no” answers all over her forms, should be proof enough as to why I don’t need all of those procedures just to ensure health that I already knew I had. She explained that it wasn’t that she had a problem with my stance against standard procedures but that the insurance company would have a problem with it. They would be on her case to be on mine to submit to these procedures in order to ensure health. We decided that a call to my insurance company will surely release her from responsibility and settle that issue. I personally feel a corporation has no right butting into my health routine, especially when it’s working. I pay into the insurance. They pay out, which by the way, has been extremely minimal these past twelve years. In fact, I would be willing to compare what I have cost them against all their members to date. I bet I’m at the top of costing the least expense to them. I pay them. They work for me. Well, in theory, they should be there for me.

After all that was settled and I actually found, to my surprise, that I liked this woman, we came to the problem of settling on a diagnosis code for my visit for billing purposes. I was tickled, for I have this problem in my own practice. For acupuncture insurance, I have yet to find a “Wellness Maintenance Code.” She regarded me. “Anxiety?” she asked because I had told her how hard I was finding the expectations of the sixth-grade magnet teachers and their workload for my daughter. “Nah. You don’t look anxious,” she decided. Back to the drawing board. I offered, “You could give me a cold if you want,” because that seemed harmless enough. “No. What we need is “Well-Woman.” I said, “No, because you probably have to do a pap [smear] for that.” She tried it anyway on her computer. Nope, it wouldn’t accept it. “We need a “Wellness Maintenance Code,” she said searching and searching her list, leaving me feeling sad for the public who obviously don’t go to the doctor’s for “Wellness Maintenance” without submitting themselves to all the set exams and procedures. “Ah ha! Here’s ‘Wellness Worried.’” “I’ll take it,” I offered. “You don’t look worried. What you are is responsible for your health,” she pointed out. I thought, Yea, “Wellness Responsible” that should be a code.

Bio-Oxidative Therapies

According to…Madison Cavanaugh in her book The One-Minute Cure, “Ozone (O3) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) are the simplest substances available for effectively oxygenating the body [therapeutically]” (47). These treatments are called bio-oxidative therapies, and they work by stimulating “the movement of oxygen atoms from the bloodstream to the cells to a greater degree than is usually reached by other means” (41, 44). Cavanaugh goes onto say, “Most people undergo gradual oxygen starvation without even knowing it” (64). Perhaps symptoms such as depression, impaired judgment, alcoholism, sinusitis, acne, colitis, hepatitis, warts, and/or cancer are communicating to you that you have an oxygen deficiency. Although some people might be unconcerned about how oxygen deficiency affects their body and seek relief from physical and emotional issues with prescription ointments and pills, drugs distributed legally by white-coated drug dealers has not lowered the percentage of diseases suffered by people. In fact, Cavanaugh reports, “There are more sick people in the U.S., for instance, than at any other time in history – not just in actual numbers but as a percentage of the population” (6). The increase in the number of sick people is a concern, especially because greater numbers of people seem to be reaching for readily available pills and other medicines for ailments, large and small, yet are not becoming healthier. In fact, drug use has actually removed people from being involved participants in their health and well-being.

How does oxygen deficiency relate to poor health? Because the body is made up largely of water, and water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, insufficient intake can have a negative effect on health. Cavanaugh writes, “Only 15% of the oxygen you inhale is absorbed into the bloodstream” (44). Basically, if you are experiencing a host of ailments, or even just one ─ low energy ─ it’s possible that your system isn’t receiving enough oxygen. There are two fundamental culprits behind the human system not receiving oxygen that are worth checking into before going for a blood panel at your doctor’s office: stress and lack of oxygen being brought into the body in the first place.

Perhaps it will shock you to hear that experiencing constant stress can actually suffocate your body (110). Cavanaugh writes, “It goes without saying that being in a tranquil or joyful state of mind – free of stress, worry, doubt, fear, anger, resentment, guilt, and anxiety – is the ideal state to be in throughout the day” (111). The subject of stress is for another article, but what it does inside your body, preventing your system from accepting oxygen, needs to be discussed here and now. Basically, when your autonomic nervous system is functioning normally, your cells are open and receptive to any oxygen within the environment, and open cells are “impervious to disease” (110). When you’re experiencing relentless stress, the parasympathetic nervous system switches to the sympathetic nervous system and the cells are held closed, preventing admittance of precious substances like oxygen, even if you’re presently doing oxygen therapy (108). Explaining the mechanism of what occurs, commonly known as “fight or flight,” Cavanaugh writes, “Your blood flow moves away from your gastro-intestinal tract and skin; your pupils dilate; your heart rate increases; blood gets diverted to the muscles and your whole body goes into high alert” (109). Emergencies are supposed to end, allowing the human body to recover and switch back to the parasympathetic nervous system, and the cells to open and function again normally. Our stress doesn’t seem to end. Compounding the problem, closed cells become sick cells (110). Many common behaviors tax our systems, such as long lists of things to do, issues with coworkers, and our food and beverage choices. Legal drugs like coffee, alcohol, and prescription and over-the-counter medications all affect cell function. It’s time to take responsibility for our health and stop these constant attacks on ourselves from within and from outside us.

So who’s stopping you? You have the choice to ignore the drug ads, recognizing that Big Pharma has the money to inundate you with their wares at every corner and move on to learning about your choices from other avenues that focus on wellness (like oxygen), not illness. It will require effort. Education on alternative choices is not found as easily as turning on the television or visiting your doctor and being handed a pamphlet on the latest wonder drug. Drugs can be patented and money can be made for more than one interest. Oxygen can’t be patented, so it’s a nuisance to businesses that want to patent anything and everything (47). Research the drugs while you’re at it, too. While drugs may offer some relief from ailments, they do not promote living in wellness (6). Those drugs that appear to be helping you are, as Cavanaugh writes, “harming the body to some extent” and those businesses are “enjoying average profit margins of $30,000% to $50,000% on pharmaceutical drugs over the cost of raw materials” (7, 16). Consumers would do well to consider the motives of pharmaceutical companies and the vast amounts of money made from high-cost medicines. Because medicines often have adverse side effects that cause more suffering, a concern is that your continued suffering benefits pharmaceutical companies (16). Your suffering is working for them.

When you experience a complaint with your health, usually the drug you reach for only treats, or aims to treat, a specific part of your body or psyche. With 35% food-grade hydrogen peroxide diluted to safe doses, the whole body is affected, not just the problem being pin-pointed and calling for the therapy in the first place (33). And here’s something in contrast with a lot of drug therapies “that tend to shut down the body’s immune system at a time when the body needs it most,” hydrogen peroxide “takes into consideration the human body’s chemical constituents and their interaction with each other within the biochemical parameters of the body” (35-6). Hydrogen peroxide also doesn’t harm the body’s beneficial bacteria (84). Oxygen therapy with ozone or hydrogen peroxide is not exactly “curing” your disease, but, as Cavanaugh writes, “creates an environment in your body that is uninhabitable by disease microorganisms, viruses, harmful bacteria and pathogens” (15). Your body, by not being under attack, may right itself! Surely it’s time for a therapy that works with you, not against you.

Cavanaugh writes, “Ninety percent of our biological energy comes from oxygen” (9). Are you abnormally tired, that is, if you can recall what normally tired is? Perhaps you’re oxygen deficient. Do you drink alcohol? Cavanaugh states, “Alcohol creates a state of oxygen deficiency in the bodily tissues because it is a toxic agent that impairs cellular respiration” (63). Refusing to ingest alcohol helps your oxygen levels to some extent, and, as Cavanaugh reports, hydrogen peroxide has stopped the desire for alcohol consumption in some alcoholics (64).

Oxygen therapy is neither a strange nor new concept to medical settings. Oxygen is the treatment of choice for pneumonia and emphysema as well as for, as Cavanaugh states, “Carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene and decompression sickness,” to name a few (9). Even some treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation and Interferon drugs for multiple sclerosis, “take advantage of oxygen’s effect on diseased cells” and “owe their efficacy to the fact that they raise the body’s oxygen levels” (10). Cavanaugh points out that the oxygen therapy she’s offering “does not come with any of the adverse effects typically associated with toxic drugs and other radical medical therapies” (11). If there are “toxic effects” like nausea, dead cells are most likely being expelled from your body (76). This misery is what is referred to as the healing crisis, “the body’s reaction to the removal of disease-causing or toxic conditions” (76). Discomfort indicates “the therapy is working” (77).

Be aware that 35% food-grade hydrogen peroxide is reactive and toxic as is upon delivery (65). Cavanaugh writes, “It will burn your skin if you spill any, and it is flammable” (73). It must be taken on an empty stomach and diluted in chlorine-free (distilled) water, because high levels of chlorine removes oxygen from the water (76, 90). Also know that taking the drops on the schedule recommended in Cavanaugh’s book can be uncomfortable, especially if you’ve never done any cleansing. Unlike a newborn who gets hydrogen peroxide in its mother’s milk, you are most likely toxic (87). Cavanaugh does, however, recommend “if you become nauseated at a certain dosage level, keep taking that dose for a few days until you feel comfortable” (76).

To learn more, please read The One Minute Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases by Madison Cavanaugh and O2xygen Therapies: A New Way of Approaching Disease by Ed McCabe, and visit your local health food stores to compare prices and quality for 35% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide against Internet sales.

Dr. Allsup strongly recommends that you research the subject thoroughly before taking hydrogen peroxide internally. In addition, only begin taking hydrogen peroxide internally when you are feeling healthy and strong due to the “healing crisis” that may ensue. For illnesses and diseases, Allsup recommends you look into receiving ozone administered by a trained practitoner. Please contact John Butler at (315) 498-9560 with questions about ozone.