Nutrition

There is a strong connection between good nutrition and effectiveness of our products. I believe our devices and procedures do not heal by themselves. They seem to work by setting “switches” in the body that stimulate an internal healing process. Only tiny levels of energy are required. If the body is not in good enough energy balance no healing effort has a chance of working, and sub-optimal nutrition has a lot to do with this.

My interest in nutrition began in 1975. For one year (1965 to 1966) I worked as an obstetrician in an Indian hospital at 9,000 feet altitude in the Andes of Ecuador. The Indians had a disease pattern very different from that seen in the modern world, one we were not taught in medical school. Indians were dirt-poor and lived outside of the monetary economy. They grew all their own food, made wool clothing from their sheep and went barefoot. They lived in little mud huts with thatch roofs with no running water or electricity. Chickens were free to fly up and walk around on food preparation surfaces leaving their droppings. Indians went to the bathroom directly on the ground. Travel books described the area as “17th Century Spain under glass.”

Many young children died of infectious diseases usually from diarrhea and dehydration (40% dead by age two). The cause was poor hygiene and a total lack of sanitation. However, these people did not experience diseases of physical degeneration such as heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, and a long list of other diseases that kill modern people. Out of an Indian population of 320,000 there were only about 40 in the hospital at one time (mostly accidents, burns, and obstetrical complications). The high death rate in children dragged down overall life expectancy-at-birth to 39 years, but most Indians lived to ripe old ages in good health. In 1990 I had the opportunity to observe the same pattern in Hainan Province, China.

Modern medicine readily admits that when primitive life-style-people met the modern world their health fell apart but no explanation is offered. With the passage of time truly primitive people have disappeared so none remain to observe and study. There is a viable explanation for these observations but modern medicine can’t accept it because of a false belief that all is well with nutrition in our country. So---what is going on?

Ten years after my experiences in Ecuador I discovered the work of Weston A. Price DDS (Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation on the web at www.ppnf.org) and British epidemiologist T.L. Cleave MD (author of the book the Saccharine Disease). The relationship Price and Cleave discovered was that our modern diseases of physical degeneration did not begin to be seen until stores opened selling processed and refined foods (candy, soda pop, white flour cookies, jam, etc.). Oral problems appeared abruptly (high tooth decay rates and crooked teeth caused by abnormal development of the jaw) while the first heart attacks and cases of diabetes (etc.) showed up after a lag of 20 to 30 years obscuring the connection. To my knowledge no exceptions to this pattern exist, perhaps the only observation in medicine with no known exceptions.

These observations can’t be explained on the basis of a small reduction in intake of some vitamins and minerals. Because of low pay scales most natives around the world continued to gather or produce 85 to 90% of their food and only 10-15% of their food came from the store. It’s as if modern refined and processed foods bring with them some factors that disrupt the normal energy balance in our bodies and this leads to illnesses. Therefore it is best to avoid them totally.

So—what to do? I believe we would all be healthier if we ate a wide variety of fresh foods. We would all be better off if refined and processed foods disappeared from our stores. Actually the French have just taken the first step of removing “junk foods” from their schools. It is also wise to take a broad coverage vitamin/mineral product. If these steps are taken the innovative devices described in this web site will have a greater chance of working.