The research, appearing in the journal Neurology, reports that 12 percent of all stroke victims identified over a four-year period in Ontario suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA)—or mild stroke. A TIA is identified as lasting less than 24 hours and resolving itself.

Those with the warning stroke were typically older than those without warning strokes. They were also more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems. Researchers say it’s possible their blood vessels were "preconditioned to the lack of blood flow, which protected them from the full result of the larger stroke."

Sufferers who did not have a TIA were more likely to have a more serious stroke than those who did have one.

Researchers say all strokes should be treated at an emergency room immediately.

Symptoms of a stroke include trouble walking or speaking, paralysis or numbness on one side of the body, vision problems and headache.

According to WebMD, controlling high blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly and managing stress are all things that can be done to reduce the risk of stroke.

According to Reuters, researchers at the University of Helsinki assessed the coffee drinking habits, as well as other social, demographic and health data of a large population of twins who were 50-years-old on average. The majority of subjects—75 percent of men and 83 percent of women—reported drinking more than three cups of coffee a day.

Participants were screened on a yearly basis starting at age 74 to measure cognitive function and dementia.

They found no association between coffee consumption and declining cognition or dementia scores in either men or women. They did find, however, that aging was linked to declines in thinking ability.

In addition, the study, appearing in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that coffee consumption wasn’t protective in preserving brain function in middle-age.

Heart disease, diabetes and depression are associated with lower cognitive function, according to the report.

Nutritional supplements that can boost brain function and memory include B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene, as well as omega-3 fatty acids and gingko biloba.

Yet, from early on, most of us are taught “to manage” or “to mask the symptoms of” and then later “to live with” our poor health conditions. This is perverse and goes against our homeostatic (self-balancing) nature. What’s more, despite lackluster results, too many people keep following the practices of a healthcare system that simply has not delivered on its promises.

Are we doing this because we don’t realize it’s not working?

What if I told you there was in place at this very moment a healthcare model to lose weight, be emotionally strong and illness free? Would you be interested in it? One would think so. But if I then explained that this same model allows 16.2 million adults to suffer from chronic asthma; that 16 percent of the followers have high cholesterol; that 25.1 million live with heart disease and 32 percent suffer hypertension; that one in every six followers of this program develop arthritis; and that a whopping 67 percent of the entire population on this program are clinically obese… would you still be interested?

I would think the fast answer is, “No.” Yet even with freedom of choice and an information superhighway available at our fingertips 24/7, we are still participating in this failed model of wellness called Western allopathic medicine. Are we insane?

Not sure that your ill health is not only not getting better with mainstream medicine but is actually getting worse? Then consider the sickening statistics.

Way back in 1996 only 77 million Americans were suffering in chronic pain. Today, that number is more than 150 million. That’s a 100 percent increase in a symptom in just over a dozen years of medical progress. Now that’s what I call Super Sizing!

Here are some of the current medical statistics from the United States, a nation that spends more resources per capita on healthcare than any other in the world.

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death among Americans, killing nearly 27 percent of the population.
• Twenty-three and a half million Americans over age 20 develop Type 2 Diabetes.
• More than 26 million Americans between the ages of 20 and 64 experience frequent back pain.
• More than 25 million Americans suffer from migraine headaches. And nine out of 10 Americans have other kinds of headaches each year.
• Thirty-three percent of adult Americans lose more than 20 hours of sleep each month due to pain.
• Each day 10 percent of adult Americans suffer from acid reflux.
• Financially, pain accounts for 25 percent of all sick days taken by full-time workers, costing the economy $50 billion in lost work days and $3 billion in lost wages.

Each and every one of the above-mentioned “conditions” is rampant among adults, despite medical “progress.” Why? Because the medical system responsible for that progress is based on a flawed model of health.

Simply put, mainstream medicine fails to eradicate people’s everyday pains, illnesses and diseases. It fails because it is passive and reactionary and thus is unable to prevent you from experiencing chronic health conditions like heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, stress, anxiety, depression, headache, back pain, tendonitis, colitis, metabolic syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, Raynaud’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease and hundreds of others.

And this model will always fall short because it uses “disease” as its basis of finding health. That is, you see your primary care physician when you are ill, the doctor diagnosis your illness, labels the disease, then prescribes a protocol for treating that disease. Your personal health issues are “managed” by prescription medication, various therapy and surgery. Such a model can never hope to cure your daily non-terminal health problems, yet these are the important issues you face and that steadily undermine your quality of life.

So, who am I and why should you believe in what I say?

I am Dr. Mark Wiley and I know how you feel. I suffered from severe chronic headaches and musculoskeletal pain my entire life. Like you, as I went from doctor to doctor, desperately hoping for relief, no one could help me. Every day was a soul-destroying battle with neck and shoulder pain, mid-back pain, hip pain and head pain. Pain, pain, pain.

Unlike some chronic pain sufferers, I was fortunate enough to have support. My parents are both healthcare professionals. Unfortunately, even with their love, direction and referral to experts in various specialty fields, the suffering was constant, unbearable and unrelenting. I was forever putting myself in front of medical doctors, osteopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors, physical therapists, psychologists, allergists, body workers, hypnotists and dieticians. No treatment or surgery had lasting results.

I became proactive in college. In addition to studying medical anthropology, I was in close contact with dozens of mind/body health practitioners around the country. I became a research assistant at Harvard Medical School, looking into how to combine various mind/body methods for pain relief and even using martial art drills as vehicles to create altered states of consciousness. Yet despite all this, the net results were underwhelming. I was finally forced to face the fact that conventional Western medicine and many of the so-called “complementary medicines” were unable to heal me. So I became the Marco Polo of pain.

I began traveling, tracking down rumors of cures for pain and suffering to be found in far away places with strange-sounding names. Reiki and qigong in Japan, tui na in Taiwan, acupuncture and traditional herbs in Singapore, faith healing and bone-setting in the Philippines, spiritualists and medicine men in Malaysia. Been there, done that, designed the tee shirt. Yes, as with Western doctoring there was some short-term relief, but the pain always returned. Always. Then one day, I had had enough and decided to make a final desperate change in my life’s direction.

What did I do?

I became a doctor of Oriental and alternative medicine to cure myself. And over the past 10 years of treating patients and lecturing worldwide, I have developed a proactive self-directed, self-cure model of optimal health and pain-free living. And I will share it with you here every Tuesday.

I know the information will change your life, as it did mine. And please, if you have a specific health concern you would like me to address, let me know and I will do so as soon as possible. Until next week…

Yours in self-directed wellness,

Dr. Mark Wiley

Do you have a suggestion for someone suffering from bladder infections?

A: Most bladder infections can be eliminated in 24 hours by drinking D-Mannose—one teaspoon full (5 grams) every three to four hours. Buy the powder form at a health food store. (From Nutrition and Healing, October 2007.)

Best Wishes,
Bob

There are ways to increase testosterone as we get older. Testosterone decreases with age. This causes an avalanche of other problems.

Testosterone is truly the elixir of youth. With the exception of health enthusiasts, few people are even aware of the great importance of testosterone in total health, and this certainly includes most doctors.

Of course, the trouble is that the line between the natural hormone and the synthetic, or steroids which are illegal, is blurred. This may be done on purpose to keep natural hormones out of the mental awareness of the people.

The pharmaceutical companies consider hormones to be their domain—and this includes testosterone. But they deal in synthetics or steroids which they extract and sell as prescription drugs. This blurring and confusing of steroids with natural hormone has worked with the people and most doctors.

Pharmaceuticals are masters of deceit. They create confusion that they channel in their favor. Yes, it is psychological propaganda and confusion.

Anything that we lose as we age needs to be replaced if possible. I can think of nothing more important than testosterone. When natural testosterone is not replaced with age, men’s testosterone gets so low that their bodies can’t make much estrogen at all. In both sexes the body makes estrogen by converting testosterone to estrogen.

I have written about acquiring testosterone 5 percent cream from a compounding pharmacy. This is what I use. But there are other non-prescription precursors that produce natural testosterone.

The sex hormones come from cholesterol and the pharmaceuticals are trying to stamp out cholesterol under the pretext of heart health.

It is commerce and actually the lowering of cholesterol is extremely negative for heart health. And the doctors won’t come off of this anti-cholesterol phobia.

The first cause of skyrocketing cholesterol is insulin imbalance. Testosterone and the other sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone, are produced from cholesterol as are the sex hormone precursors DHEA and androstenedione.

As we age we seem to get insulin resistant, causing us to be overweight and leading to diminished testosterone and DHEA levels.

Pharmaceuticals don’t say much about insulin because any honest insulin studies lead to the subject of the high U.S. consumption of fructose corn syrup and the health hazard it is causing, resulting in a pandemic of diabetes.

Sugar causes high insulin levels and medical problems. Low insulin correlates with higher DHEA levels and higher testosterone levels and normal cholesterol levels.

Well, we started with the direct relationship of the brain and sex life or sexual potency. I, like most people, think of testosterone as it relates to enhanced sex life, or diminished sex life if testosterone is low.

But Dr. Jonathan Wright, in his October 2008 newsletter Nutrition and Healing (www.wrightnewsletter.com), states that testosterone levels are directly related to cognitive function. He writes “The sex part is important, no doubt, but who cares about sex if you can’t remember who you’re with or what you’re doing with her?”

Dr. Wright writes that natural “testosterone replacement for men is extremely important for significantly reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline.”

Also, “higher serum (natural bio-identical) estrogen levels in women in their 60s are directly correlated with lower incidence of Alzheimer’s in those same women decades
later.

“Testosterone for men and estrogen (that’s real, bio-identical estrogen—not horse estrogen as used in conventional medicine) for women is very protective for the entire cardiovascular system, including the blood supply to the brain.”

Seniors, we all need to be aware of declining levels of nutrients and hormones with aging. We need iodine, DHEA, coenzyme Q10, glutathione, etc. Above all, let’s try not to become insulin resistant.

Watch all sugars or sweeteners, especially high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It is more dangerous to the people than a standing army.

What diet do you recommend to prevent Alzheimer’s disease?

I recommend a diet that consists of fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts; with at least 50 percent of them in their raw form. I also recommend seafood that is high in omega-3 fats. For more information see some of our other articles on Alzheimer’s such as:

Alzheimers Disease—The Curse of Modern Medicine

Diet May Prevent Alzheimers Disease Study Finds

Supplements May Help Protect Against Alzheimers

Research Seeks to Boost Value of Alzheimer Fighting Polyphenols

What Would We Be Without Memory

Best Wishes,
Bob

In general, Alzheimer’s is beta-amyloid accumulations in the brain tissue. Amyloid is a microscopic protein fragment of a larger protein called amyloid precursor, or protein normally found throughout the body. In Alzheimer’s disease, this protein is processed improperly, creating a substance called beta-amyloid, which is toxic to brain cells. In a healthy brain, no problem—but in Alzheimer’s disease these beta-amyloid protein fragments accumulate to form insoluble plaques.

The mechanical breakdown of cognitive function is caused by malfunction of acetylcholine, the brain’s messenger molecule.

Acetylcholine is simply a brain neurotransmitter that is responsible for numerous functions including cognition and memory. An imbalance in acetylcholine affects negatively the nerve impulse that is transmitted between nerve cells.

Trouble is, the medical people don’t have a clue as far as therapy.

We place our confidence in natural nutrition that feeds and keeps the blood thin as we age, supplements such as ginkgo biloba, garlic, niacin, EDTA and nattokinase. An extra word about ginkgo biloba; this well-known and widely used herb is not only an excellent blood thinner, it is an anti-inflammatory because of its excellent circulation capacity. These are age-old blood thinners and nutrients. They are known quantities—just like the Biblical teaching that life is in the blood. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood…the life of all flesh is in the blood." Lev. 17 11:14. Life does not begin until blood becomes present in the embryo.

A product called phosphatidylserine (PS for short) can help reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s, as reported by James F. Balch, M.D., in his newsletter, Prescription for Healthy Living.

He writes that, "As long as you have plenty of PS in your bloodstream, your body automatically builds thousands of vibrant, healthy new brain cells at any age. In fact, PS is already reversing Alzheimer’s symptoms—not just in a few individual cases, but in scores of scientific studies by major institutions involving tens-of-thousands of patients."

PS can be ordered from a company that sells nutritional supplements, such as Health Resources^™ (www.healthresources.net).

Dr. Johanna Budwig—the late German pharmacologist, chemist and physicist—discovered that the blood of a seriously ill cancer patient is deficient in certain substances and nutrients. It is lack of these nutrients that allows cancer cells to grow wild and out of control. The magic formula given in her classic book, Fats and Oils, is linseed (flax) oil mixed in a base of low-fat cottage cheese (sulphur-based proteins).

Since the brain is high fat we need balanced fat as in Dr. Budwig’s balanced fat of flax oil and low-fat cottage cheese.

Disturbance in fat metabolism (good fats) is the basis of all disease. This directly applies to heart disease and its attendant symptom of shortness of breath, according to Dr. Budwig. It is a documented fact that many people (especially heart patients) suffer from an oxygen shortage simply because they are deficient in oxygen-active lipids. Remember also that as outlined previously here, here, and here, a body slightly alkalized has much stronger oxygen carrying potential.

Bio-oxidation (oxygen sufficiency) of the cell is seriously inhibited in a malignant tumor. As bio-oxidation decreases, fermentation metabolism of the cancerous cell increases. Dr. Budwig wrote that virgin linseed oil (flax—cold-processed, unrefined, and additive-free) actually stimulates the bio-oxidation of cells and tissues and normalizes the important oxygenation processes throughout the organism. This would include the brain.

So we need the essential proteins (essential fatty acids) and the essential amino acids (proteins) which are present in low-fat cottage cheese.

Why the combination of both essential fatty acids and essential amino acids? The answer is that lipids (good fats) are only water-soluble and free-flowing when bound to protein, thus forming an electric counter pole to their protein carriers. This vitally important type of fat contains accumulated energy in its electron clouds.

The balancing of essential fats and proteins is essential to brain health as well as the entire body. For more information, read Dr. Budwig’s classic Fats and Oils.

This procedure is the killing of all male testosterone production relying on the foolish notion that testosterone promotes or causes prostate cancer.

Now, as you would expect, the word is coming out that this procedure causes heart attacks.

Anybody who knows anything about male testosterone would be adamantly opposed to androgen blockade.

Even in Germany they are using androgen blockade on male prostate patients.

I went to Germany a few years ago for a radio wave procedure for benign prostate hypotrophy (BPH) and I almost forfeited my trip because the "alternative" Germans were insisting on androgen blockade. It seemed they thought that if one had BPH, there was prostate cancer.

I did, at the 11th hour, get them to call off androgen blockade before I left the United States for Germany. By the way, their radio wave procedure was very successful, giving me relief to this day. You can contact them at: Phone 011-49-8061-435, via the internet at www.cancure.org/klinik_st_george.htm or by email at info@klinik-st-georg.de. They are part of The Cancer Cure Foundation. A U.S. number for The Cancer Cure Foundation is 800-282-2873. They can be accessed via the internet at www.cancure.org or by email at ccf@cancure.org.

In the U.S., prostate cancer means that a male is limited to three options. They are, of course, surgery, radioactive implants or androgen blockade along with anti-hormone (testosterone removal) or doing nothing. Unless a prostate cancer is fast growing, you will probably die of old age, not cancer.

Proton Beam Therapy is now being used with the technology to focus and pinpoint the beam to deliver maximum radiation. "Orthodox" procedures here listed are, for the most part, far worse than the prostate cancer. There is potentially a long list of debilitating side effects as thousands of men have found.

You can almost count on impotence, incontinence and death, in many cases.

Like every other health problem, prostate cancer originates because of a deficit of omega-3 fatty acids. I am convinced that every male should, at an early age, start on omega-3 fatty acids for prostate health and cancer prevention. Omega-3 fatty acids are necessary for healthy cell membranes and to transport calcium (lactate) into white blood cells, where it is used to support cell motility and phagocytosis.

Essential fatty acids are very, very important for the proper functioning of the immune system. There are many combinations of omega-3 fatty acids that include EPA, DHA and omega-3 fatty acids. Cod liver oil is a basic supply of these nutrients.

Incidentally, cervical cancer, or the prevention of cervical cancer, requires the same omega-3 fatty acids plus calcium lactate plus vitamin C complex (Cataplex C).

An excellent prostate formula for cancer prevention: Di-indole methane (DIM) splits off estrogen into weaker forms stopping the growth of cancer cells.

I also take a fantastic supplement for the prostate as well as Cataplex F.

What about testosterone, that elixir of life that most all of "orthodox conventional" medicine wants to kill?

You know, this murder of testosterone reminds me of the Civil War when doctors would bleed wounded soldiers. They would set up shock and the poor soldier would of course promptly die. If there is anything worse than witchcraft, it would have to be "modern medicine."

Men, and ladies, too (ladies use 1/10th as much), you should protect your testosterone in youth as much as you can, even as I do, supplementing with natural testosterone from your compounding pharmacy. Get the topical cream. Doctors invariably confuse natural testosterone with synthetic testosterone drugs (anabolic steroids) often used by athletes. They just can’t get over it.

Why, my friends, does God load young men with testosterone?

I quote from the book, Maximize Your Vitality and Potency by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., page 119:

 "Testosterone is a primary factor in the health of the heart and blood vessels.

“Since testosterone levels decline with age, restoring testosterone (and DHEA) to youthful levels can yield significant health benefits, including protection against the various manifestations of atherosclerotic disease.

“Applying the natural testosterone hormone does many things for the vascular system.

• It reduces the tendency of blood to clot. (Sludging and clotting increases with age.)
• It reduces cholesterol and triglycerides.
• It reduces blood glucose levels.
• It decreases visceral fat mass."

I can’t recommend Dr. Jonathan Wright’s book enough. All should read it—it takes off the blinders of conventional medicine. This book can be bought from www.Amazon.com or 1-800-851-7100.

There are many that fall into this category. Let’s take one big one! It’s processed milk. "Got milk?"

The processed milk that is forced upon the public is a dead, lifeless liquid that simulates whole raw milk only in its white color and similar taste. Pure water would be far healthier.

Government inspectors confirm that processed heated milk is dead and lifeless and okay for sale to the public by their alkaline-phosphatase enzyme test. This enzyme must be dead or the milk cannot be sold.

Without the live alkaline-phosphatase enzyme, processed milk is worthless for bone health. Bone will not renew without this enzyme. Also there is the appearance of bone pain in the lower limbs.

So we have widespread osteoporosis because we drink dead milk which is not fit for human consumption.

It gets worse! Our blood calcium only—with the live enzyme—is what stands between us and pathogenic disease. This is called ionized calcium and it is a preventive for Epstein Barr, back pain, fever in children and adults, canker sores and fever blisters, seizures and more. Even though most emergency patients who enter the hospital have high fever, doctors never check for low ionized or difusable calcium. A sick body indicated by high fever needs ionized calcium in the blood. It is not available in processed cooked milk.

Diarrhea is the leading cause of death in the world. Processed milk does not inhibit salmonella and e-coli infection as would raw whole milk with the live enzyme and calcium lactate. The single greatest predictor of survival of lethal infection is ionized or difusable calcium which is not available in processed milk.

The medical publication, The Lancet, states that resistance to tuberculosis increased in children fed raw milk instead of pasteurized or processed sweet milk.

In processed milk, vitamins, hormones and enzymes that control mineral assimilation, body development and general resistance to disease are not available. Processed milk promoted by the government diminishes the potency of the growth-promoting factors that determine the skeletal development of children.

Today’s overgrown youth get massive doses of synthetic hormones from hamburgers from beef cattle fed synthetic growth hormones.

Children fed on processed milk should have unprocessed orange juice and raw potato water added to keep down susceptibility to infection.

The Lancet states that in children, the teeth are less likely to decay on a diet of raw milk than with processed milk. Processed milk destroys vitamin A, vitamin B complex and vitamin C.

In a study conducted by Dr. Francis Pottinger on cats:

Group I: Cats fed raw milk.
Results: Move about well in pen. Good, clear coat, good agility, sexual interest with other cats, sheen to coat, reproduce healthy offspring.

Group II: Cats fed processed milk like we get today.
Results: Developed arthritis, very lethargic, impaired coordination, dental deterioration, bones were paper thin and soft, very small structures, developed allergies, exhaustion, failure in development and by the third generation could not reproduce.

This is a picture of one of many adulterated foods that by law we are forced to consume.

References:
Lectures by Dr. Royal Lee
Lecture by Mark Anderson, 2005
Cat experiments by Dr. Frances Pottinger
Quotations from The Lancet.

I’ve stated that vitamin D3 is essential to absorb calcium from the stomach into the blood; otherwise calcium passes through the body via the intestines. The 1 percent blood calcium is all that stands between the body and pathogenic disease. Acid waste accumulates in the body tissue, and death is the progressive saturation of acid waste in the tissue and the cells.

Even though we may have adequate blood calcium, our tissue calcium can still be low and in deficit. Fatty acid or vitamin F is required to move blood calcium into the tissue cells.

When tissue cell calcium is low, the void is filled with acid. Viruses, fungus and bacteria can only survive in an acid environment. Acid buildup in the tissue is toxic waste that creates more toxic waste. It compounds toxic waste. This is exactly what is happening to millions of Americans, but it is a slow process and does not appear as arthritis for many years.

Vaginal infections including Herpes Simplex II, as well as kidney and urinary tract infections thrive in a body saturated and debilitated with acidity. Candida Albicans is also the result of too much acid in the cell fluids. It has been proven many times that as acidity is reversed to alkalinity, candida goes away.

The presence of blood and tissue calcium balance means an absence of acidity and disease. Sickness and disease love acid. Acidity is fertilizer to cell mutation and malignancy.

Body acidity interferes with normal cell death or apoptosis. This is the basis of normal cells mutating into malignancy. Therefore, health requires that our critical one percent reserves in the blood and tissue calcium remain in balance.

At all times the healthy body requires an excess of alkaline reserves to support the body skeleton, and equally to keep the critical 1 percent alkaline balance in the blood and the cell tissue. This is the absolute best guarantee against disease. Our glands and organs function properly in exact proportion to the balance of alkaline and acid balance.

The heart, for example, is one of the most alkaline-dependent organs in the body. Correct heartbeat is altered by acid wastes. These acid wastes rob the blood of proper oxygenation and degeneration of the heart follows.

Heart patients certainly need to know that alkalinity means more oxygen. Heart pain or angina is a major symptom of oxygen starvation. Take a few alkaline drops in each glass of water you drink.

The whole body needs to be slightly alkaline. We all know that our bony frame needs calcium. But our focus here is on the little one percent critically needed as ionizable calcium in the blood and the tissue.

It is the blood calcium (alkalinity) that is responsible for the alternate contraction and relaxation of the heart muscle.

Ionized (diffusable) calcium stops the growth of bacteria. Remember that ionized calcium in the blood and the cell tissue cannot exist without vitamin D3 (cholocalciferal).

Acidity causes fatigue, shortness of breath, prevents apoptosis or normal cell death, causing malignancy and ultimately death.

Foods and drink that prevent acidosis and are alkaline forming:

1) Drink six to eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. Be sure to add one-fourth teaspoon sea salt in every other glass (not if you are salt sensitive or have very high blood pressure.) Also be sure to alkalize your water or drink with six to eight alkaline drops in each glass. You can get the drops from a company that sells nutritional supplements.

2) Most vegetables and most fruits (citrus) are alkaline-forming foods.

3) Deep breathing helps get rid of extra acid.

4) Alkaline forming minerals are sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.

5) Potatoes are alkaline forming with the skin on. Add pears, cucumber, watermelon, eggplant, coffee (yes, coffee), onions, tea, pickles, string beans, human milk, raw cow’s milk, asparagus is par excellent, shiitake mushroom, spinach, bananas, chestnuts, carrots, strawberries, radish, cabbage, squash, sweet potatoes, turnips and turnip greens, apples, egg white, cayenne pepper and garlic.

A word about asparagus:  Even canned, it drops only to a 6.0 pH. It is a very powerful acid reducer and known therapy for cancer. Its high ammonia content literally plummets one into alkalinity in a very short period of time. In the past, asparagus has been considered acid forming because it so quickly detoxifies the person, leaving acid residues in urine specimens immediately after ingestion. But this residue becomes an alkaline ash exactly as does grapefruit.

Food enzymes so vital to digestion and assimilation are found only in fresh and raw foods.

All chlorophyll products build the blood and powerfully alkalize the body system. The only difference between chlorophyll and human blood is that the center of the chlorophyll molecule is magnesium and human blood is iron. Different types of chlorophyll available are fresh water algae, seaweed, spirulina, wheat grass, barley grass and alfalfa.

Chlorophyll is the essence of the life-supporting nutritional pattern of our planet. Of course cooking green foods destroys most of the chlorophyll content. Almost all (99.9 percent) of the chlorophyll supplements sold are water soluble, and thus void of any nutrition. Fat-soluble chlorophyll contains vitamins A, E, F and K and purifies the blood.

Now to vital information relating to pH or acid/alkaline balance. This information can easily be the difference between life and longevity with quality and/or drug dependent acid saturation and early death with cancer.

The essence of this subject is hydrochloric acid (HCl), or stomach acid. This is the only acid the body makes. All other acids in the body are toxic acids of fermentation caused from acidity.

HCl is absolutely essential for life. Without it the body cannot make the proper chemical conversions to alkalinity.

The life-giving and life-sustaining function of HCL is to break down food as it arrives in the stomach. If hydrochloric acid is insufficient, food becomes a mass of poorly digested acid waste residues called organic acids of fermentation.

As most of you readers know, the pharmaceutical answer to this is antacids which compound the problem making low and insufficient stomach acid even lower. Temporary relief hides this fraudulent commerce. All the antacids do is to temporarily quiet the waste acids of fermentation caused by low stomach acid in the first place. The only therapy for low stomach acid or HCL is more hydrochloric acid, not less.

Over time, educed HCL foretells and guarantees illness—and finally death—with stomach cancer.

Hydrochloric acid begins a disturbing decline around age 40, though today it shows up at all ages because of our refined carbohydrate diets.

The modern American diet of refined foods is highly acidic. This creates a volume of waste acids which is symptomatic of acid indigestion or "heartburn." This is discomfort from fermenting waste acids, not from too much good HCL stomach acid. Instead, it is a symptom of not enough hydrochloric stomach acid. Adequate HCL would prevent organic acids (waste acids) in the first place, and negative symptoms would never appear.

Therefore, the true therapy for so-called "heartburn and acid indigestion" is more hydrochloric acid. Everyone should take it before every meal for many health reasons.

Adequate HCL is our first line of defense against the various destructive microbes that enter the body by way of food. HCL actually kills and digests pathogens. It also cleans up detrimental waste acid byproducts. Therefore, it is critical that all readers understand that adequate HCL levels greatly reduce tissue acid waste buildup.

HCL keeps us alive by maintaining proper alkaline/acid balance and then becomes alkaline after its vital job in the digestive process is done. Eight essential amino acids, two vitamins and 15 minerals are dependent on proper HCL for absorption. Vitamin B12 and folic acid simply will not be absorbed from food sources without adequate HCL in the stomach.

Therefore HCL is our first line of defense because its end result is that it becomes alkaline after doing all of its stomach functions as an acid.

What we have here is a solution to fundamental health that is simple, yet empowers the individual to protect their basic health in spite of the trillion-dollar profiteers who perpetuate their empires on false symptomatic relief.

This writing is based on the books Acid and Alkaline by Herman Aihara, Alkalize or Die by Dr. Theodore A. Baroody and Three Years of HCL Therapy.