Detoxification and Regeneration Through Diet

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Detoxification and Regeneration Through Diet

By Ede Koenig, PH. D, N' M.D. (F.A.C.N.)

(Reprinted from Health Freedom News, March 1987)

The greatest misunderstanding and confusion in the field of nutrition is

the failure to properly understand and interpret the symptoms and the

changes, which follow the implementation of a natural diet.

The highest qualities of food are the natural, raw foods. All the enzymes

are found intact. The amino acids are in their finest form. The minerals,

vitamins, carbohydrates, trace elements and " life force " are present. The

" life force " , in turn, is capable of reproducing healthy tissue. When the

quality of food coming into the body is of higher quality than the tissues

which the body is made of , the body begins to discard the lower grade

materials and tissues to make room for the superior materials which it uses to

make new and healthier tissues.

This is the plan of Nature. The body is very selective and always will be

unless our interference is too great. Only then do we fail to recover and

degenerate further into disease. The self-curing nature of many conditions

such as cold, fevers, cuts, swellings, injuries, pain, etc., furnishes

endless examples of how the body tends toward health 7 always unless we do

something to stop the process.

What are the symptoms or signs, which become evident when we first begin

to omit the lower grade foods and instead introduce superior foods - those

which are more alive, more natural than we are accustomed to? When the use

of the toxic stimulation such as coffee, tea, chocolate, or cocoa is

suddenly stopped, headaches are common and letdown occurs.

This is due to the discard by the body of the toxins called caffeine and

the obromide which are removed from the tissues and transported through the

bloodstream during its many bodily rounds.

Before the noxious agents reach their final destination for elimination,

these irritants register in our consciousness as pain - in other words,

headaches. The letdown is due to the slower action of the heart - the resting

phase that follows the stimulation of more rapid heart action forced upon

the body by certain poisons called stimulants (that can be in the form of

drug medications). The more rapid heartbeat (or pulse) produces a feeling of

exhilaration, and the slower action produces a depressed state of mind.

Usually within three days the symptoms vanish and we feel stronger due to the

recuperation which follows.

To a lesser extent, the same process occurs when we abandon lower quality

foods and replace them with better foods. Lower quality foods have

undergone more preparation; spices, salt and other ingredients have been added,

which then tend to be more stimulating than less prepared and more natural

foods. Animal foods and products, such as meal fowl, fish, cheese, milk, eggs,

etc. are more stimulating than seeds, nuts, grains and vegetable proteins.

Consequently, the withdrawal of stimulation which follows the abandonment

of animal foods produces a slower heart action (a resting phase) which

registers in the mind as relaxation or a decrease in energy. This initial

letdown lasts about ten days or slightly longer and is followed by an increase

of strength, a feeling of diminishing stress, and greater wellbeing.

Now, let us return to the symptoms, which occur in the process of

" regeneration " . The person who starts a better diet, stays on it for three days

to

a week and then quits, will say, " Oh, I felt better on the old diet, the

new one made me feel weak. " They failed because they didn't give their body a

chance to adjust and complete its first phase of action - recuperation. If

they had waited awhile longer, they would have begun to feel better than

before they started.

During this initial phase (lasting about ten days on the average to

several weeks in others), the vital energies which are usually in the periphery

or external part of the body, such as the muscles and skin, begin to move to

the vital internal organs and start reconstruction.

This shunting of much of the power to the internal organs produces a

feeling of less energy in the muscles, which the mind interprets as some

weakness. Actually, the power is increased, but most of it is being used for

rebuilding the more important organs and less of it is available for muscular

work.

Any weakness, which is felt here, is not true weakness, but merely a

redeploying of forces to the more important internal parts. Here it is

important for the person to stop wasting energy, and rest and sleep more. This

is

a crucial phase, and if the person resorts to stimulants of any kind, he

will abort and defeat the regenerative intent of the body.

It is important that they have the patience and faith and just wait it

out, and after awhile they will get increasing strength which will exceed by

far what they felt before they began the new program.

Success in recovery or improvement of health hinges upon the correct

understanding of this point realizing that the body is using its main energies

in more important internal work and not wasting it in external work

involving muscle movements.

Be wise, take it easy here and relax. Just coast in your work and social

obligations until you're out of the woods.

As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food

quality, interesting symptoms begin to occur. The body begins a process called

" retracing " . The cellular intelligence reasons something like this: " Oh, look

at all this fine material coming in. How wonderful, not we have a chance

to get rid of this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let's get

started immediately, " Let's get this excess bile out of the liver and

gallbladder and send it to the intestine for elimination. Let's get this sludge

moving out of the arteries, veins and capillaries. These smelly, gassy,

brain-stupefying masses have been here too long, out with them! These

arthritic deposits in the joints need cleaning up. Let's get these irritating

food

preservatives, sleeping pills, aspirins, and drugs out of the way, along

with these other masses of fat which have made life so burdensome for us for

so long. " Let's get going and keep going until the job is done, until we

have a beautiful house, and from then on we'll keep it a beautiful, ideal

model house. "

During the first phase (called catabolism), the accent is on elimination

or breaking down, of tissue. The body begins to clean house, in short, to

remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues everywhere.

During this period, the body " removes the ashes from the furnace

preparatory to getting a better fire. " Here, the accentuation is on the

removal of

the gross and immediate body obstructions. Wastes are discarded more

rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This becomes evident as

weight loss. This persists for awhile and is then followed by the second piece

(called stabilization).

Here the weight remains more or less stable. During this phase the amount

of waste material being discarded daily is equal to the amount of tissue

which is being formed and replaced by the newer, more vital food. This occurs

after the excess of obstructing material in the tissues has been removed.

This stage persists for awhile and is then followed by a third phase, a

build-up period (called anabolism), wherein weight starts to go up, even

though the diet is lower in calorie than it was before. At this point, much or

more of the interfering wastes have already been discarded, the tissues

which have formed since the diet was raised in quality are more durable and do

not break down easily. Also new tissues are now being formed faster.

This is due to the improved assimilation made possible by the ceasing of

wrong food combining. The bodies need for the usual amounts of food

decreases, and we are able to maintain our weight and increased enemies with

less

food. Many are able to function very efficiently on two meals a day and

eventually even on one meal a day.

As the body progressively increases in efficiency and decreases in tissue

breakdown under exercise, so do we gradually need less and less food to

maintain life. The higher the percentage of raw foods one lives on, the

slower the rate of tissue deterioration, which one evolves into. A sick body

requires a gradual, carefully worked out entry into this stage, where one is

able to live on a 100% unfired raw diet.

Returning to the symptoms, which occur, on a superior nutritional program,

people who have had tendencies in the past to recurring skin rashes or

eruptions will frequently tend to eliminate poisons and harmful drugs through

the skin with new rashes or eruptions. If they go to a doctor now, who is

unfamiliar with this aspect of nutrition, he will diagnose it as an allergy.

They ask, " How come? I'm eating better now than I ever did before, and

instead I'm getting worse. " They don't understand that the body is

" retracing. " The skin is getting more alive and active. It's throwing out more

poisons

more rapidly now that the body is building more power, which is saved from

those hard-to-digest meals that have been discontinued. These toxins being

discarded are saving you from more serious disease, which will result if

you keep them in your body too much longer, possibly hepatitis, kidney

disorders, blood disease, heart disease, arthritis, nerve degeneration or even

cancer, depending on your heredity or structural weaknesses. Be happy you're

paying bills now in an easy-payment plan.

With some, colds, which haven't appeared for a long time, may occur, or

even fevers. This is nature's way of house cleaning.

Understand that these actions are constructive, even though unpleasant at

the moment. Don't try to stop these symptoms by the use of certain drugs,

or even massive doses of vitamins, which will act as drugs in huge

concentrations. These symptoms are part of a curing process, and don't try to

cure a

cure.

These are not deficiency conditions or allergic manifestations, not if

you're eating properly in quality, quantity, combination and sequence. Here is

where experienced advice is of great value.

Unfortunately, there are few Books present today, which give good guidance

to the average reader. Try to find guidance through a doctor or teacher

who has the requisite experience in this most confusing of all subjects,

nutrition in relation to health and disease.

You may be eating perfectly in regard to quantity, quality, and observing

all the correct rules, and still symptoms will occur.

Those who have lived better lives in the past, who have eaten better foods

and who have abused their bodies less with overeating, will have reactions

ranging from almost none at all or very mild to symptoms which may be

uncomfortable or acute.

Those who have lived worse lives and poisoned themselves more will

experience more severe symptoms in their liver, kidneys or other important

eliminating organs that have been damaged. When they have been renovated to the

point of fair working order, they will no longer produce symptoms.

Headaches may occur at the beginning; fever and /or colds also my appear;

the skin may break out; there may be a short interval of bowel

sluggishness, occasional diarrhea, feelings of tiredness and weakness,

disinclination

to exercise, nervousness, irritability, negativity or mental depression,

frequent urination, etc. However, the great majority of people find their

reactions tolerable and are encouraged to bear with them because of the many

improvements which already occurred and are becoming more evident with each

day. This acts, as an inspirational forces to them.

The symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded, the

condition of the organs involved in the elimination, and the amount of energy

you have available. The more you rest and sleep when the symptoms are

present, the milder they are and the more quickly they are terminated.

Be happy you are having symptoms. Realize deeply that your body is

becoming younger and healthier every day because you are throwing off more and

more wastes, which would eventually have brought pain, disease, and much

suffering. Those who have the worst symptom-reactions and follow through to

their successful termination are thus avoiding some to the worst diseases which

would eventually have developed had they continued their careless eating

habits.

Don't expect to go on an ascending scale of quality, that improving your

diet will make you feel better and better each day until you reach

perfection. The body is cyclical in nature (on a circadian rhythm), and

health

returns in a series of gradually diminishing cycles. For example, you start a

better diet and for a while you feel much better. After some time, a

symptom occurs, you may feel nauseous for a day and have diarrhea with a

foul-smelling stool. After a day, you feel even better and all goes find for

awhile. Then you suddenly develop a cold, feel chills, and lose your appetite.

After about two or three days (assuming you don't take drugs or do anything

else about it), you suddenly recover and feel better than you did for

years.

Let us say this well being continues for two months, when you suddenly

develop an itch or rash. You still don't take anything for it. This rash

flares up, get worse and continues for ten day, and suddenly subsides.

Immediately after this you find that your hepatitis is gone and your energy has

increased more than ever before.

The rash became an outlet for the poisons in the liver, which produced the

hepatitis. This is how recovery occurs, like the cycles in the Dow-

Average at the beginning of a bull market. You feel better, a reaction

occurs and you don't feel as well for a short time. You recover and go higher

for awhile. Then another reaction occurs, milder than the last. You recover

and go even higher. And so it goes.

Each reaction milder than the first as the body becomes purer, each

becoming, shorter in duration better than ever before, until you and being

followed by a longer and longer period of reach a level plateau of radiant

health.

The first laws me must learn to obey are the laws of Nature. We must learn

to eat simple, pure and natural foods, properly prepared and combined, and

our bodies in return will cast off all the evil he has taken in during our

lives. Nowhere is the principle of forgiveness of sins more manifest than

here, in our own bodies, when we forsake our evil and destructive ways of

eating (the defiling of the temple of the soul).

God (or Nature, if you please) gave us a whole new chance for a new

glorious life. All repentance must begin here in the body, through the purer

diet

and natural foods. Then, just have faith, sit back, and watch what

happens.

Before your own eyes, you will daily see signs that will cause you to

wonder at this vast intelligence in operation that staggers the comprehension,

the mysteries of the body, the operations of Nature, are far beyond what

our minds are prepared to understand at present.

Good luck in your journey to a healthy and fit body.

Remember, it's a journey that lasts a lifetime and the rewards are great!

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