The Health Hunter Articles

WATER FASTING

Water fasting is a well debated topic. It is something that should be approached with extreme caution, especially if you are going to try it for an extended period of time.

In the world of diets there is a schizophrenic element to all of the advice. The conflicting dietary recommendations are enough to drive you crazy. I became disillusion after trying many of the various diets, in a quest for better health.

Being adventurous, I embarked on many very questionable lifestyle diets. The first one was a fruitarian diet, starting with the water fast at a well known retreat. This was a 30 day only water diet, followed with a fruitarian diet.

RETREAT

The retreat I chose was in the Florida Keys. Everyone at the retreat was supposedly fruitarians. That was until they got an overwhelming urge for some chips or protein. There was no medical supervision. Weakness was your constant companion, though you were told you should be able to paddle a boat, walk a few miles, and jump on a trampoline. Sleep eluted you because you were running on empty.

OWNER

The best part is how they diagnose your health condition. The owner was a chiropractic doctor, and not in a position to know by looking at you the extent of your issues, it is a hit or miss game. Since my diagnosis was a congested liver, it covered everything.  He was in no position to diagnose any underlying problem.

His liability should have been the issue and because the stay is voluntary this doesn’t come up.  Suffice it to say reserves have to be good to fast for an extended period of time.

When you are done fasting and that is at the discretion of the director of the facility, you start a fruitarian diet. Getting your strength back on a fruitarian diet is the next issue you will face. The other is you lost minerals on the fast. Now add a high sugar fruit diet and watch your smile go as you become a periodontal candidate. This is one way to become disillusioned with extreme dietary intervention. There are people that claim great successes with both water fasting, and a fruitarian lifestyle. They are the individuals who have strong constitutions, and some of them say one thing and practice another.

TRUTH

The chiropractor that conducted the fast shows off his feats of strength. He shows the signs of aging from a receding hairline to wrinkling.

I have seen people on the hunter gather diet look better and perform well on feats of strength. Yet, everyone is impressed with the promised of pristine health. The truth shows, and turning a blind eye to what you may or may not want to see, does not make a diet good. 

Most people do not hear from  individuals that these approaches have failed to deliver the expected results. The hype from the gurus and followers is where you find the information on these diets. There is always another side to any program, but finding examples of these mishaps are not always easy to locate.

I think both points of views should be represented. There is always a danger to not understanding that everything has its drawbacks. The fruitarian diet by itself does not present the panacea for every ailment known to mankind. These diets happen because of allopathic medicines insistence that nutrition has little to do with health. In an attempt to improve how we feel we turn to alternative programs to compensate for this failing. By focusing of a single minded approach we are also embarking on a path that recommends a seriously flawed view

Homogenization causes artery damage has been known for quite awhile. This is from the journal Atherosclerosis (1989; 77:251-6).

“Homogenized Cow’s milk transforms healthy butter fat into microscopic spheres of fat containing xanthine oxidase (XO) which is one of the most powerful digestive enzymes there is. The spheres are small enough to pass intact right through the stomach and intestines walls without first being digested. Thus this extremely powerful protein “knife” XO floats throughout the body in the blood and lymph systems. When the XO breaks free from its fat envelope, it attacks the inner wall of whatever vessel it is in. This creates a wound. The wound triggers the arrival of “patching plaster” to seal off the wound. The “patching plaster” is cholesterol. Hardening of the arteries, heart disease, chest pain, heart attack is the results.” (As reported by Paul Pitchford, Healing With Whole Foods, p19)

The reason given for homogenization is to make the big fat droplets smaller for easier digestion. The reason not stated is the fat floats to top and does not look as pleasing to the eye. By homogenizing and releasing xanthine oxidase, it does make digestion simple, but by damaging the fat soluble vitamins it makes them harder to digest and absorb.

One reason milk is homogenized is for a longer shelf life. To homogenize milk it has to be put through a mechanical process. It is passed through pipes and fine filers at high pressure and a speed of 600 feet per second. The fat portion of the milk is broken up into very small globules. As a fine mist they become suspended in the liquid and do not rise to the top.

When milk is not homogenized, the fat and the xanthine oxidase (XO), which is a naturally occurring substance in the milk, are digested in the stomach and small intestine.  They are naturally converted into smaller molecules, which get used by the body or are excreted. Xanthine oxidase is an enzyme found in the liver. If any foreign XO enters the bloodstream it attacks specific targets within the arteries. Lesions in the artery walls are a result from this attack. Scar tissue and calcified plaques are a result of the healing phase. Atherosclerosis develops, and arteries lose their elasticity as this process continues.

The damage caused by this process takes a long time to show up. All milk in the dairy section is homogenized. Products that have homogenized milk as the base would be cheese, butter, yogurt, buttermilk, and ice cream. Cholesterol is not the problem; processed food is.

Cholesterol is a problem when it gets caught on the artery wall, and this only happens when there is something to get caught on. On a biochemical level processing food signals a self-destructive mechanism in the body. Tampering with Mother Nature is not a good ideal.

Heart disease has skyrocketed in the last fifty years, yet cholesterol was in foods for a long period before this dramatic rise. The cholesterol is not the problem, it is when it tries to fix the damaged arteries, and eventually causes the obstruction called blocked arteries. Homogenization causes artery damage that we blame on cholesterol.

The American public is going to be full of aluminum, after having rounds of vaccines. The pharmaceutical companies producing all the vaccines are just full of it, when they proclaim it is safe to take. On July 13^th of this year, the world organization (WHO) should stand for (Who the bleep are theses people) presented the global media with their recommendations.

1. All countries are being called upon to forcibly immunize health care workers as a tier-one strategy to guard the infrastructure should a pandemic materialize.

 2. Since current production is insufficient, they are recommending a laddered approach to “immunization” starting with pregnant women, children of 6 months old with one of a few specific medical conditions, healthy young adults 15 – 49 years of age, then healthy children, then healthy adults 50 – 64 years of age and finally the elderly.

 3. Because some of the pandemic vaccines have been created with new technologies which have not yet been properly studied for their safety in certain population groups, the WHO is strongly urging post-marketing surveillance.

Here is the list that any caring pharmaceutical company or physician should send out.

   A.     Read The Ingredient list

   B.     Research The Ingredient List 

   C.    Buyer Beware

Post-marketing surveillance will not help anyone who took the shot. That is for future participants. The swine flu shot is an experiment, like most vaccines are. Besides the high amount of Thimerosal (mercury), there now is aluminum to contend with. Aluminum toxicity is well known by the FDA. There are no studies on the effects of aluminum in vaccines. The FDA requires vaccine solutions be no more than 25 mcg of aluminum. Vaccines given to infants are often 10 times higher. You are talking per vaccine, with multiple vaccines the amount of aluminum will be out of a safe range, if there is such a thing.

American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement in 1996 that said aluminum is a danger to human neurology and the threshold is lower then is currently used. Aluminum has been implicated in Alzheimer’s; the jury is not out on this one. The real studies show a connection, thought different avenues of how this toxic metal can affect cognitive function.

A small amount in human blood causes it to coagulate. This is known to slow the flow of blood in smaller vessels. Now the brain will receive less oxygen to keep the cells alive and functioning. The toxins from metals remain for years in our body. In some studies on neurons in a culture it was found that aluminum at levels found in vaccines increased the toxicity of thimerosal.

Macrophagic myofascitis (MMF) is an emerging condition, characterized by muscle lesions brought about by long-term persistence of aluminum hydroxide with macrophages at the site of previous vaccines. Microphages are white blood cells that act as a defense mechanism. There purpose is to ingest foreign materials such as pathogens. The complaints of (MMF) are chronic fatigue, and cognitive problems. It can occur months to years after the vaccination. The theory is that it is a chronic immune response to the aluminum in the vaccine.

Alzheimer like dementia is a global problem. The Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry published three articles tying aluminum hydroxide to chronic cognitive dysfunction. Post-marketing surveillance doesn’t cut it. Vaccines are full of aluminum, along with other toxic ingredients. All the post-marketing surveillance will not be on guard for the expanding risks of immunizations. Many of the problems will not show up for years. The vaccine aluminum connection is very troubling. We have to pay attention to the vaccine aluminum connection especially with the call to vaccinate pregnant women and infants first.