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From the book Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach and Dr. Ma Lan
Copyright Wellness Publications
Note :: These suggestions are in addition to consuming adequate amounts of the other 90 essential nutrients daily. |
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In this book, Dr. Wallach will show you that you have the genetic potential to live well beyond the age of 100. You will also gain a clear understanding of the importance of the 90 essential nutrients and 60 essential minerals and how they effect your body and health.
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DIETING (weight loss) is a common practice in the western world because "thin is in." There are some basic habits that will help the weight loss effort and help keep the weight off:
- First, avoid caffeine as it causes a drop in blood sugar 30-90 minutes after consumption and thus creates "hunger pangs," cravings, the "munchies," and binge eating behavior.
- Drink eight to 10 glasses of water each day. As many trips to the icebox are caused by thirst rather than hunger, and a restricted diet does not decrease your need for water. Restricted diets do reduce your water intake from food as much as 40 percent, though.
- Diagnose any health problems you may have such as addictive food allergies (pulse test), hypoglycemia (six-hour GTT), pica and cribbing (mineral deficiencies), or hypothyroidism (basal body temperature) that might contribute to a weight problem.
- Don't skip meals. Eat a breakfast like a queen (or king), lunch like a princess (or prince), and dinner like a pauper. Stay on a meal schedule. If you are going out to eat, don't skip a meal but rather have one of those high fiber/low cal drinks or food bars for lunch to assure a limited calorie intake, then enjoy your dinner date!! Remember, in the long run it's the basic habits that will help you lose weight and keep it off. Don't forget the 90 essential nutrients. Supplementing with minerals eliminates cravings (pica and cribbing behavior).
- Dr. Wallach's "Salad Fork Trick" is useful for people who eat only salads but still gain weight." DO NOT PUT SALAD DRESSING ONTO YOUR SALAD. Put the salad dressing in a small dish or shot glass. Dip your salad fork vertically (no scooping) into the salad dressing. This technique will reduce your calories from salad dressing from 1,000 calories per salad to 50 calories per salad, yet give you the salad dressing taste.
- Exercise, if done in moderation and on a schedule, will help you lose weight and not make you overly hungry for a snack. Eat a piece of fruit or have some nuts after exercise. Don't wait three hours until your next meal to eat or drink. The plant derived colloidal minerals are excellent after-event refreshers.
- Before meal fibers (i.e., carrots) taken with eight ounces of water 30 minutes before meals will help curb appetite.
- Don't forget the base line supplements. Remember restricted diets restrict nutrients and result in pica and cribbing. Plant derived colloidal minerals are fantastic here!
- Essential fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil at 5 gm t.i.d. will help regulate and normalize fat metabolism.
- Thyroid (US Armour) will help if your basal body temperature is low (below 97.6 F). Too much thyroid will cause increase in basal pulse rate and make you speedy and unable to sleep. Start out with 1/2 grain per day and cut back or add to as needed.
- Use a good weight loss support product that contains pyruvate (fuel for the Krebs Cycle, the body's most basic metabolic process), chromium picolinate (allows carbohydrate and fats to be burned), and chitosan (a saturated fat binder) before each meal.
- DO NOT EAT AFTER 7 P.M. Frequently, more than half of your daily calorie intake will occur after 7 P.M. Drink water if you get hungry.
- If you do all of the above, you will be slim, slim, slim!
DIURETIC: use broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare), horse tail, coffee, tea, unsweetened cranberry juice.
DIURETIC & LAXATIVE: use asparagus (Asparagus officinalis), cascara sagrada, and dandelion root.
DIURETIC & CATHARTIC: use broom (Cystisus scoparius).
DIVERTICULITIS is an inflammation of the small pea sized sacs in the outerwall of the colon. This inflammation is the result of a low fiber diet over a long period of time which allows tiny concretions to build up to a size that does not allow them to exit into the colon. These concretions irritate the colon wall to the point of causing painful spasm. Prevention includes high fiber diet (i.e., oat bran, 4-6 cups of vegetables per day, etc.) Certain foods, including corn, peanuts, and raw carrots can result in severe spasms. Rarely is blood detected in the stool with uncomplicated diverticulitis. Diverticulitis is easily diagnosed with a lower GI series.
Treatment of diverticulitis includes colonics two to three times per week, high fiber diet, eight glasses of water per day, and regular exercise. Avoid fried foods, margarine, and caffeine. Don't forget the 90 essential nutrients.
DOUCHE: This is a useful feminine hygiene practice, especially if one has a history of discharges or infection. Retention douches are particularly effective. This is accomplished best in a bathtub with the feet up on the sides to aid in retaining the fluid for 10-15 minutes. Use 4-8 oz. of diluted vinegar (4 oz/pint of warm distilled water, 1-1/2 percent hydrogen peroxide (4-8 oz.), bayberry myrtle (Myrica cerifera - one oz. powdered bark to one pint water -- warm to body temperature), Lactobacillus acidophilus capsules emptied into warm water (10-20 per 4 oz.) may be used to replant L. acidophilus to normalize vaginal flora after vaginitis and/or antibiotic therapy.
DROPSY (water belly, abdominal edema) is a common occurrence in chronic kidney, liver, or heart disease and cancer. Low protein diets will also result in "dropsy." "Dropsy" is fluid accumulating in the belly cavity because the protein content of the blood is so low that fluid can't be held in the blood vessels (an osmotic gradient); poor circulation because of liver or heart disease is also a common cause.
Treatment of dropsy should include an improvement of the protein level of the blood, IV amino acids and the basic health of the liver, kidneys and heart and diuresis. Herbs are particularly useful and may include foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) -- BE CAREFUL HERE, THIS PLANT IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS -- lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria magalis), English hawthorne (Crataegus oxycanthus), Canadian fleabane (Erigron canadense), kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), Scotch broom (Cystisus scoparius), parsley (Petroselinum crispum), prickly restharrow (Ononis Spinosa), and nettle (Urtica urens).
DRY SKIN (cracked cuticles, hang nails, cracked index finger and thumb) is a common malady in the western world. In itself, it is a cosmetic problem. It is a signal of a potentially more serious problem -- essential fatty acid deficiency that can result in cardiovascular disease (i.e., thrombosis, stroke, heart attack, etc.). Superficial creams will temporarily deal with the superficial problem, but the more ominous results of the body's deficiency of essential fatty acids can be sudden and deadly!!! DSM/EFA or "dry skin" means essential fatty acids"!!! If you are supplementing with more than 50,000-100,000 units of vitamin A over a long period of time, dry skin may signal the early stages of vitamin A overdose.
Treatment of dry skin includes flaxseed oil orally at 5 gm t.i.d., B6 at 50 mg t.i.d., zinc at 50 mg t.i.d., vitamin E at 800-1,200 IU/day. If you are not already supplementing vitamin A in excess, use vitamin A at 300,000 units/day as beta-carotene for 30 days then reduce to 20,000 units per day.
DUMPING SYNDROME is the sudden dumping of stomach contents into the small intestine all at once, thus overloading the natural intestinal buffer system. The resulting acid condition in the intestine prevents proper functioning of pancreatic enzymes, which require an alkaline environment. Dumping syndrome is a common side effect of stomach surgery. Anemia and osteoporosis are common secondary diseases of the dumping syndrome.
Treatment of the dumping syndrome should include any of the classic "bitters" (i.e., gentian Gentiana lutea), folic acid at 3-5 mg/day, pectin at 1/2 oz in water before meals, and high animal protein diets. Eat six to eight small meals per day and you should lie down for a half-hour after meals. Don't forget the base line supplements here!
DYSENTERY (diarrhea) is characterized by a watery projectile diarrhea that creates cramping, urgency, and exhaustion from loss of electrolytes. Causes of dysentery range widely from too rich a diet (usually too much party food -- such as wine, lobster, creamy desserts, etc.), improperly stored food that results in bacterial overgrowth, food poisoning (i.e., E. coli, Staphylococcus, Salmonella, food allergies, celiac disease), etc. Prevention of dysentery requires attention to details of food storage, hygiene, self-discipline, and preparation.
If you have a busy schedule that can't be altered, you will have to resort to commercial products such as Pepto Bismol or Kaopectate. Fortunately, they have tablets that you can quietly carry with you on your errands. Weak black tea, rice water, lime (calcium carbonate) water, chicken broth, or bouillon to replace electrolytes are indicated. Another good source for fluids and electrolytes are the athletic thirst quenchers. Herbs such as Irish moss (Chondrus crispus) and common ivy (Hedera helix) are of great benefit in quieting the runaway colon.
DYSLEXIA (learning disorder, hyperactivity) is a complex syndrome rather than a specific disease. To be sure, there are some dyslexic children who have true organic or biochemical brain injury (i.e., fetal alcohol syndrome) who will require intense special education and training programs. It is a sad testimony to American orthodox medicine that as many as 80 percent of these dyslexic kids are really suffering from food allergies and/or sugar sensitivity. For them sugar acts as a drug and produces a pharmacological effect just like speed. These food sensitivities create learning disabilities that mimic organic and chemical disease and too many salvageable kids are put on drugs (i.e., Ritalin), shunted off into special education programs or worse yet, given up on as lost by frightened, frustrated families. Food allergies and sensitivities should be seriously investigated and dealt with (i.e., pulse test, elimination diets, and diet diaries) if these children are to have a fair shot at a normal life.
I speak with a great deal of experience with this problem as my youngest son was deemed to be a learning disabled child. Zero brain waves would be a better description; at age six he couldn't print his first name or count to ten. To make a long story short, he was cured in two weeks by eliminating sugar, milk, wheat, and corn from his diet. His teachers were convinced that I had exchanged him with his normal twin. They couldn't believe such a turn around with just a dietary program! To condemn a dyslexic child without investigating food allergies and sensitivities is equal to finding an innocent man guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison -- what a waste and what a tragedy.
Treatment and prevention are closely intertwined. Digestive enzymes and betaine HCl are essential to prevent progression of the problem as well as id in onset of symptoms. The Feingold Diet is a good place to start, however, it, in itself, is not a shield to be totally relied upon. There are many foods and food additives not excluded by the Feingold program that will set off some kids like skyrockets. We had one dyslexic child patient that did everything the Feingold Diet required except eliminate honey. We found him on top of a 40-foot dome! Rotation diets, allergy elimination diets, and autoimmune urine therapy should be aggressively pursued. The rewards are beyond your wildest expectations. The entire family needs to eat the same way as the dyslexic child if you want this to work. You can't be guzzling Pepsi and expect them to drink distilled water.
DYSMENORRHEA (menstrual pain) is a common event in western women, so common that it is frequently considered part of PMS. Sometimes the discomfort of dysmenorrhea is intense enough to be debilitating. There are a number of excellent commercial products that will dampen the pain but not deal with the basic problem -- an abnormal prostaglandin metabolism.
Treatment includes B3 and B6 and 50-100 mg t.i.d., calcium and magnesium at 2,000 and 1,000 mg/day, vitamin E at 800-1,200 IU/day, and essential fatty acids at 5 gm t.i.d. Don't forget the base line nutritional supplements and avoid caffeine. Herbs such as blue cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) are the ideal natural approach to pain of dysmenorrhea.
DYSPEPSIA (poor digestion, indigestion) is characterized by belching, burping, and bloating and acid stomach. The reason for burp, belch, and bloat is that your stomach's acid is not acid enough and is burped up with bacterially generated gas. Dyspepsia is probably the most common disease in the western world and is certainly the most costly from the amount of money spent on relief. Even more costly are the secondary results of chronic dyspepsia: food allergies, osteoporosis, anemia, debilitated immune system, and degenerative disease. Prevention includes reduced stress levels, exercise, healthful diet habits, and reasonable food volumes. An unforgiving event as we age is a decrease in stomach acid production, the main cause of dyspepsia in seniors. Prevention in this case includes the regular use of digestive aids.
Treatment of dyspepsia includes supplementation of 75 - 200 mg betaine HCl and pancreatic enzymes t.i.d. 15-30 minutes before each meal. Antacids are a good temporary fix in an emergency, but regular use will eventually damage you by reducing the nutrients you absorb. Herbal preventions and remedies include papaya (Carica papaya), common barberry (Berberis vulgaris), and bitters such as gentian (Gentiana lutea). In some cases, a glass of wine or several ounces of vinegar before meals will be helpful.
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