CLEANSING IS HEALING

Cleansing is nature’s way of curing disease, restoring health and prolonging life. As you know from our pets, animals of every species instinctively refuse to eat when they are sick, and the same rules apply to animals in the wilderness. Long ago, humans also shared this natural revival instinct, and even today, primitive tribes in remote regions of Africa, Asia and the Amazon still have special "cleanse houses" located on the outskirts of their villages, where the unhealthy rest quietly and comfortably, with limited food, water and colon cleansing for as long as it takes to recover their health.

We are rediscovering the profound healing powers of cleansing, and practitioners of alternative medicine are now applying it with success for conditions which all other treatments fail. Moreover, recent scientific research backed by extensive clinical studies has established conclusive proof that periodic cleansing and calorie restriction are the one and only proven way to significantly extend lifespan. In Dr Roy Walford's experiments on various species he has found evidence, presented in Beyond the 120 Year Diet, which clearly demonstrates that calorie restriction and cleansing prolongs the lifespan of all species tested by a factor of 50-80%! In human terms, that would mean a lifespan of 120-150 years as demonstrated by many Indian and Chinese sages.

Abstaining from food permits the body's innate detoxification mechanisms to function at full capacity and allows immune responses to operate in high gear. When cleansing all of the energy and enzyme power that the body must normally use to digest and process food is diverted instead to "digest disease", while the digestive system produces no new wastes in the body. Cleansing also triggers the production of human growth hormone in the pituitary gland and releases it into the bloodstream, where it circulates throughout the body to repair damaged tissues, regenerate vital functions and rejuvenate the whole system. Normally, the production of the growth hormone diminishes rapidly after humans reach adulthood, and the ever dwindling supply of this powerful regenerative hormone is one of the primary causes of ageing and the onset of chronic degenerative conditions. By stimulating secretion of human growth hormone, cleansing not only helps cure disease and repair the body, it also slows down the ageing process, restores flagging vitality and prolongs life.

For thousands of years Hindu yogis, Buddhist monks and Taoist hermits have been cleansing to enhance their vitality and extend their lifespan. A few years ago in India, an elderly meditation master set a world record by cleansing non-stop for 200 days, during which time he took nothing whatsoever but plain water. Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers whose thoughts laid the foundations of Western civilization cleansed regularly to improve their physical health and sharpen their mental powers. Pythagoras required all of his senior students to cleanse for 40 days as a means of purifying their bodies and minds prior to receiving his highest teachings. Practitioners of traditional medicine in ancient China also understood the direct link between human disease and toxic filth that accumulates in the bowels as a result of unnatural eating habits.

The Sung Dynasty physician Chang Tsung-cheng observed, "If the stomach and bowels are blocked, then blood and energy stagnate." Centuries ago the famous Chinese doctor, Chai Yu-hua, wrote "Purging the bowels eliminates the source of poison, thereby permitting blood and energy to regenerate naturally. By cleaning the bowels we repair the body."

The Bible mentions cleansing 74 times, and Jesus himself cleansed frequently, sometimes for as long as 40 days. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed, a most remarkable document written in Aramaic and dating from the 3rd century AD came to light. Translated into English in 1937 by Edmond Szekely under the title The Essene Gospel of Peace, this ancient text recounts in detail some of the most important healing work performed by Jesus among the people of Palestine, and much of it sounds very similar to what Dr Bernard Jensen writes about cleansing and colonic irrigation in his book Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management.

"Think not that it is sufficient that the angel of water embrace you outwards only. I tell you truly, the uncleanness within is greater by much than the uncleanness without...Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground...and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through all your bowels...Then let the water run out from your body that it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things...And you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the abominations and uncleannesses which defiled the temple of your body...Renew your baptizing with water every day of your fast, till the day when you see that the water which flows out of you is as pure as the river's foam."

This method of cleansing and healing the body by means of colonic irrigation using a trailing gourd and warm river water was commonly practiced among the ancient Essenes, among whom Jesus may have lived and studied during his formative years, and it constitutes one of his most beneficial teachings for the welfare of humanity. The sages of the ancient world were well aware of the inseparable link between the state of the body and the state of the mind, for they knew that toxic blood and tissues form a breeding ground not only for disease and degradation of the human spirit. They knew the law that modern physicians and philosophers alike have forgotten: that whatever pollutes the body also pollutes the mind. That's why so many sacred scriptures of the ancient world prescribe fasting and detox as the first preliminary steps on the path of spiritual self-cultivation.

Today, the mutual dependence of physical and spiritual health has been largely forgotten, and few people see the causal connection between the massive pollution of the planet and the degradation of the human body, and the rampant crime, chronic violence and spiritual malaise that marks human life in contemporary times. According to the psycho-physiological prescription of the ancient sages who gave birth to Western civilization, cleaning up the planet and detoxifying the human body are the best medicine of all both for restoring peace on earth and reviving the health and spiritual integrity of humanity. It is only now, however, that scientific evidence validating the truth of this ancient teaching is beginning to emerge. In 1972, for example, the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry reported results of a clinical study in which cleansing and tissue detox were successfully used, without recourse to any drugs whatsoever, to cure over 7,000 patients suffering from a variety of serious mental disorders that neither psychiatry nor drug therapy had helped in any way. It is still practiced in Russia.

Even a cursory glance at the current state of human affairs throughout the world today reveals two indisputable facts: one is that people everywhere and in all walks of life are getting sicker and more toxic than ever before in human history; the other is that human behavior is growing more cruel and barbaric, day by day.

Cleansing and sometimes fasting is the fastest and most effective way to deal with this sort of blood and tissue toxicity and to rid the body of the toxic residues and putrefactive wastes in the colon that continuously poison the bloodstream, clog the cells and sap vitality. Until these toxins are eliminated, there's simply no way the body can repair and re-balance itself.

The choice is yours: either you flush those poisons out of your system, or else you live with the consequences of retaining them for the rest of your life. As noted in the book The Tao of Health, Sex & Longevit by Daniel Reed::

"Unless you live an ascetic life far from civilization and avoid all dietary folly, your blood and other tissues are bound to accumulate toxins and gradually lose their functional vitality. If you don't cleanse yourself of these toxins on a regular basis, toxemia gets worse and worse, until the body cannot stand it any longer and either purges itself spontaneously in the form of diarrhea, acne, pimples, boils, "liver spots", foul perspiration, body odor, bad breath and so forth, or else it simply gives up the battle and succumbs to cancer, tuberculosis and other fatal conditions."

Used by permission of a Fountain of Health Client in hope to educate others of the importance of cleansing. Thank you John

BENEFITS OF RAW MILK
Written by John
Today, milk made indigestible by the universal practice of pasteurization, which destroys its natural enzymes and alters its delicate proteins. Raw milk contains the active enzymes lactase and lipase, which permit raw milk to digest itself. Pasteurized milk, which is devitalized of lactase and other active enzymes, simply cannot be properly digested by adult stomachs, and even infants have trouble with it (no wonder when I left the dairy farm at 7 years old I couldn't’t stand the milk delivered by the milkman), as evidenced by colic, rashes, respiratory aliments, gas and other common aliments of bottle-fed babies. The lack of enzymes and alteration of vital proteins also renders the calcium and other mineral elements in milk largely inassimilable.

During the 1930s, Dr Francis M. Pottenger, Jr. conducted a 10-year study on the relative effects of pasteurized and raw milk diets on 900 cats. One group received nothing but raw whole milk, while the other was fed nothing but pasteurized whole milk from the same source. The raw milk group thrived, remaining healthy, active and alert throughout their lives, but the group fed on pasteurized milk soon became listless, confused and highly vulnerable to a host of chronic degenerative ailments normally associated with humans, including heart disease, kidney failure, thyroid dysfunction, respiratory ailments, loss of teeth, brittle bones, liver inflammation, etc.

But what caught Dr Pottenger’s attention most was what happened to the second and third generations. The first offspring of the pasteurized milk group were all born with poor teeth and small, weak bones – a clear-cut sign of calcium deficiency, which indicated lack of calcium absorption from pasteurized milk. The offspring of the raw milk group remained as healthy as their parents. Many of the kittens in the third generation of the pasteurized group were stillborn, while those that survived were all sterile and unable to reproduce. The experiment had to end there because there was no fourth generation of cats fed on pasteurized milk, although the raw milk group continued to breed and thrive indefinitely. If that is insufficient proof of ill effects of pasteurized milk, take note of the fact that even newborn calves taken from their own mother cows and fed on pasteurized milk usually die within six months, a fact which the commercial dairy industry is reluctant to admit.

Despite such scientific evidence in favour of raw milk and against pasteurized milk, and despite the fact that until the early twentieth century the human species thrived on raw milk, it is actually illegal to sell raw milk to consumers in all but a few states in America today. It is far more profitable to the dairy industry to pasteurize milk to extend its shelf-life, though such denatured milk does nothing whatsoever to extend human life. Furthermore, pasteurization renders milk from sick cows in unsanitary dairies relatively ‘harmless’ by killing some, but not all, dangerous germs, and this too cuts cost for the dairy industry.

It required only three generations for Dr Pottenger’s pasteurized milk fed cats to become sterile and enfeebled. That is about how many generations of Americans and Europeans have fed on pasteurized milk. Today, infertility has become a major problem for young American couples, while calcium deficiency has become so rampant that over 90 per cent of all American children suffer chronic tooth decay. To make things worse, milk is now routinely ‘homogenized’ to prevent cream from separating from the milk. This involves the fragmentation and pulverization of fat molecules to the point that they will not separate from the rest of the milk. But it also permits these tiny fragments of milk fat to easily pass through villa of the small intestine, greatly increasing the amount of denatured fat and cholesterol absorbed by the body. In fact, you absorb more milk-fat from homogenized milk than you do from pure cream!

Women worried about osteoporosis should take note of these facts about pasteurized milk products. That such denatured milk does not deliver sufficient calcium to prevent this condition is abundantly evident from the fact that American women, who consume great quantities of various pasteurized milk products, suffer the world’s highest incidence of osteoporosis. Raw milk supplies far more assimilable calcium than any quantity of pasteurized milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, or any other denatured dairy product.

Recent studies at the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota indicate that the element boron is an essential factor in absorbing calcium from food and utilizing it to build bones. Even more noteworthy, the level of estrogen in the blood of women given sufficient quantities of boron more than doubled, eliminating the need for estrogen replacement therapy, which is a common stopgap measure against osteoporosis in the West. And where do we find boron? In fresh raw milk, fruits and vegetables, especially apples, pears, grapes, nuts, cabbage, and other leafy vegetables, where we also find calcium. Nature has already provided abundant sources of all the vital nutrients we need in synergistic form, but man insists on cooking and processing them to death, and then wonders why his diet doesn’t ‘work.’

Adults should seriously reconsider milk as a constituent of their daily diet, unless they are able to obtain raw certified milk, which is an excellent food. To stuff children with pasteurized milk in order to make them grow ‘strong and healthy’ is sheer folly, because they simply cannot assimilate the nutrients. Indeed men, women, and children alike should eliminate all pasteurized dairy products from their diets, for these denatured dairy products only gum up the intestines with layer upon layer of slimy sludge that interferes with the absorption of organic nutrients.

Rule: Eliminate pasteurized and homogenized milk entirely from your diet. If raw certified milk is available, consume it as a whole food in itself, not in combination with other foods.

For more information about Francis Pottenger and his cat experiment see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pottenger, for what the critics say see http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-1h.shtml, and for current health statistic on reproduction see http://www.prb.org/template.cfm?template=InterestDisplay.cfm&InterestCategoryID=207

BATTLE THE BULGE! HIRE MORE ELVES!
by Melissa Echman
Nutrition & Weight Loss Expert

Everyone has heard of Santa’s Elves, those tiny little helpers who make the holidays run smoothly for the big guy in the red suit. Some of us have even wished for a few of our own helper elves amid the chaotic shopping, party going and gift giving insanity of the season. Our bodies wish for the same assistance from these little elves, but the body wants help in the form of the microbes or good bacteria that assist in the break down and digestion of food.

Microbes are indeed your little elves of digestion and they are unique to you and your digestive tract. In a recent Newsweek article entitled “Bug in Your Gut” we learn more about how these friendly bacteria help in our overall health and how they relate to weight loss.

Each person is born with a unique set of microbes to assist in digestion and assimilation of food. Bacteria are necessary for digestion because they break down food into molecules small enough to be used as energy. As we digest, these tiny bacterial elves are hard at work, sifting through the food we ate, finding the nutrients we need and breaking them down into small, beautifully wrapped packages that can be delivered into the body (by a team of flying blood stream reindeer!) Essentially, Christmas Eve is occurring every time we eat and these elves are working overtime to make sure everything is packaged nicely and ready to go.

What if we don’t have enough bacterial elves working under our employ? What if the demands of our digestion aren’t being met because our bacterial elves are taking a vacation in Hawaii? Without any bacterial elves to help us digest, we end up looking more and more like the big guy in the red suit. Our tummy begins shaking like a bowl full of jelly whether we’re laughing or not. WE NEED MORE ELVES!

A study performed by a University of Washington team showed that the level of microbes we have in our bodies directly relates to our ability to use the food we ingest as energy. They found that people with more microbes (more helper elves) in their digestive tracts gained more energy from their food and were naturally slimmer than those who lack in microbe numbers. These thinner subjects get 10% of their daily calories from substances produced by their gut bugs. This means a person eating a diet of 2000 calories a day will gain 200 calories of energy from their helper-elf-gut-bug-bacteria!

SO WHAT?!
200 calories really isn’t that big a deal at first sight, but for those whose elf bacteria are on vacation or not working hard enough, it is huge! The body will store as fat any food that has not been broken down enough or wrapped prettily enough to be sent out to Santa’s sleigh. If we are lacking in bacterial elves or microbes, our food isn’t being digested and wrapped up with shiny paper and pretty bows and is being over looked at time of delivery. This unused energy is set aside in the unwanted gifts pile that strongly resembles a spare tire around the waist or those ever-popular love handles that nobody actually loves. If this lack of digestion is happening daily, then that 200 calories a day leads to 1400 calories a week -- close to 25 pounds a year of weight gain that could have been avoided!

So there you have it: without the help of our friendly bacterial elf friends, we could easily gain 25 pounds a year! But what does that mean for weight loss? If it’s that easy to gain 25 pounds, why is it so hard to lose 25 pounds? Because we don’t have enough help from our bacterial friends!

BATTLE THE BULGE! HIRE MORE ELVES!
To get maximum energy from the food you eat, you need as many elf microbes as you can get to help digestion. How do you do that? You could begin by putting up want ads for hard working full-time bacterial elves and begin hiring all that apply. But first you must fire all the old lazy elves that are making you fat! You can do this by getting a series of colonics! The filtered water that cleans your colon during a colonic helps remove bad lazy bacteria which makes room for new, healthy energy-producing-bacteria to grow. Fiber from fruits, vegetables and grains and from products like Super Seed and other whole food fiber supplements sold at the Fountain of Health helps the body create good bacteria (like hiring a team of hard working elves!) By having regular colonics and including these power foods in your diet, you are employing endless supplies of brightly dressed bacterial elves that will help you digest most beautifully and battle the holiday bulge during this most wonderful time of the year!

If you have questions on this article, or to learn more about digestion and weight loss, contact me at the Fountain of Health. I’ll look forward to hearing from you! 456-4600

http://www.newsweek.com/id/73357

CELLULITE SOLUTION
by Diane Casas

Even with the strictest diet and the most advanced techniques, it is difficult to erase all signs of cellulite. Here are some good options and advice that may help.

Achieve a normal body mass index (BMI), preferably below 25. Calculate your BMI at http://www.healthatoz.com/.
Work out on a regular basis. The fat layers and fat cell compounds are reduced because you need more energy to supply your growing muscle cells. Less weight in these fat cell compounds mean less pulling on connective tissue, which equals less cellulite.
Use a firming body cream. Reduction creams contain ingredients to improve the overall look of the skin and help to reduce swelling and inflammation. Certain peptides strengthen collagen synthesis, which leads to an increased support of fat cell compounds; tannic acid reduces water retention; and fibronectin helps increase elasticity in the skin. Firming products will not completely erase all signs of cellulite, but in conjunction with other measurements, they can increase your success.
Kniepp Therapy. In the shower, turn on the cold water for 10 minutes, then warm 10 minutes, then cold again 10 minutes. This method was developed over 100 years ago and has been proven to improve cellulite by circulating changes in the tissue, lymphatic system, and blood vessels.
Get a deep tissue or Thai yoga massage. These treatments increase collagen production within the skin, which can help reduce the appearance of cellulite.

If after trying the above treatments you’re still not seeing the results you want, you may consider:

Mesotherapy- non surgical cosmetic treatment, which requires injection into the subcutaneous layer of the skin to break down fat. The injections are purported to target adipose fat cells by inducing rupture.
Liposuction- in cases of localized areas of cellulite, liposuction might be a good option to improve the silhouette of specific parts of the body.