Mike Werner hasn't eaten since 2001! Book:Life From Light

[krsna]

 

<!-- end headline or Pic Headline -->By NICK FRANCIS

June 27, 2007

 

AFTER a brisk three-mile run every morning Michael Werner sits down to breakfast with his wife Angelica.

 

But besides downing a coffee, he doesn’t eat a thing — in fact, he hasn’t eaten ANY food for SIX YEARS.

 

The 58-year-old doctor of chemistry had always been fascinated with the idea that people can function without food. Then one day in 2001 he decided it was time to put it to the test — and had his last mouthful.

He says: “One evening a friend of my wife’s came round. She claimed she had not eaten for years, then explained how.

“It was enough to persuade me to try for myself.” Michael says he followed a programme which allowed his body to get used to living purely on liquids. And he says he may get nourishment from light and the atmosphere.

Explaining the start of the process he said:

“It takes three weeks. The first week you have to be vicious and not put anything in your body — no food, no water. It sounds hard but to get to this point you also need the right frame of mind.

“This isn’t about dieting, but respecting your body. You won’t feel the burning hunger if your mental attitude is right.

“On the eighth day you can take on some fruit juice. This is to cleanse the body with the antioxidants. You need to flush your system with something.

“However, at this point the juice is very watered down.

“In the third week you can move on to stronger, more concentrated juices. In the last seven days your body stabilises and gets used to its new regime.

 

“The crucial factor in this 21-day process is self-belief. If you believe you can do this then you won’t give in to hunger.”

 

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Michael Werner's daily diet

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Breakfast: Coffee with milk

10am: Espresso

Lunch: Fruit juice or water followed by a coffee

Afternoon: Another espresso

Dinner: Juice or water, occasional glass of wine if socialising with friends

 

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Six-footer Michael, who used to weigh 15st before he began his experiment, has since settled down at around 12st 7lb.

He is keen to distinguish his regime from the scourge of anorexia, saying: “I don’t eat at all, in the same way as these girls who are killing themselves don’t.

“But I do this out of a love for my body, not because I hate it. This means my mental attitude is totally different and the process works differently on my body.”

Yet how can Michael lead a healthy life when models such as 21-year-old Ana Carolina Reston die from starving themselves? The Brazilian died last year of kidney failure after living on a diet of just tomatoes and apples.

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Michael says: “There are many questions which can’t be answered yet. But I do know that much of my energy comes from light and the atmosphere. I am absorbing energy from light, a little like plants do, and this is enough to function fully. It is a form of light nutrition.

“I believe in it and I want it, so it works. For that reason I would not recommend this to others. You have to have the correct frame of mind for it to work.”

 

Other scientists may be sceptical but Michael, from Brunswick in northern Germany, says: “I have taken part in two ten-day studies where everything was monitored — my blood pressure, urine, heart rate.

“It serves as proof that I am doing what I say I am, but we still can’t quite pinpoint HOW exactly.”

Those who know Michael have got used to his unusual lifestyle. He says: “I still sit down for meals with my wife and friends or when my grown-up children visit.

“It looks strange that I am at the table with nothing in front of me and it took everyone a while to get used to it. But they now know not to make food for me.”

Michael Werner’s book, Life From Light, is available now for £12.99 from Clairview Publishers.

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WARNING: Michael Warner is a scientist under constant medical supervision. Do not try this at home.

[Guest guest]

my food

 

breakfast - coffee (3 cups) and a maple bar

mid morning - coffee

lunch - ginger people ginger beer

afternoon - water mixed with lemons

dinner - berries in the summer, nothing in winter

bedtime - mikes hard lime, 12 oz.

 

Once a week, I eat a bowl of brown rice. Now and then I have a peanut butter sandwitch on northridge wheat berry bread. The alcohol consumption is medicinal, and never taken for self intoxication. When my arthritis flairs up, I take medical ganja. The coffee is a vice, but gets the inner parts of the engine running.

[Guruvani]

Well, the guy is having milk with his coffee and an espresso and fruit juice two or three times a day.

 

I hardly call that living on light.

 

Coffee has always left me wishing I never drank a cup after the caffeine wears off and you are left worse off that if you never had any caffeine.

 

I do some serious herbals for my breakfast drink.

My morning liquid is caffeine free tea:

 

Eleuthero, Peppermint, Cinnamon, Ginger, Chamomile, Lemon Grass, Licorice, Catnip, Tilia Flower and some natural flavors with a bag of Sarsaparilla mixed in.

 

 

With this tea I take some herbal supplement in tablet form that have:

 

KOREAN RED PANAX GINSENG ROOT;YERBA MATE EXTRACT;SIBERIAN GINSENG ROOT;CHINESE RED PANAX ROOT GINSENG ROOT;BRAZILIAN GINSEG ROOT;WILD INDIAN GINSENG ROOT;GINKGO BILOBA LEAF;FOTI ROOT;GOLDENSEAL ROOT;GOTU KOLA LEAF;GREEN TEA;ECHINACHEA WHOLE PLANT

 

Then I take a good multi-vitamin with some fruit juice.

[suchandra]

 

Well, the guy is having milk with his coffee and an espresso and fruit juice two or three times a day.

 

I hardly call that living on light.

 

Coffee has always left me wishing I never drank a cup after the caffeine wears off and you are left worse off that if you never had any caffeine.

 

I do some serious herbals for my breakfast drink.

My morning liquid is caffeine free tea:

 

Eleuthero, Peppermint, Cinnamon, Ginger, Chamomile, Lemon Grass, Licorice, Catnip, Tilia Flower and some natural flavors with a bag of Sarsaparilla mixed in.

 

 

With this tea I take some herbal supplement in tablet form that have:

 

KOREAN RED PANAX GINSENG ROOT;YERBA MATE EXTRACT;SIBERIAN GINSENG ROOT;CHINESE RED PANAX ROOT GINSENG ROOT;BRAZILIAN GINSEG ROOT;WILD INDIAN GINSENG ROOT;GINKGO BILOBA LEAF;FOTI ROOT;GOLDENSEAL ROOT;GOTU KOLA LEAF;GREEN TEA;ECHINACHEA WHOLE PLANT

 

Then I take a good multi-vitamin with some fruit juice.

Looks like even in Southern India things degenerate quickly (read below), some of my godbrothers claim that our bodies are made like that, that above 50 you need some medicine for the circular flow and because Ayurvedic medicines are not available in kali-yuga they take coffee instead. But surely coffee is an intoxicant, although Vaishnava priests in Tirupati dont consider like that.

 

Interview, BHAKTI VIKASA SWAMI - MR. R. RANGANATHAN

[...]MR. R. RANGANATHAN: Water was served before anything else. Then a little fruit and sugar and a few drops of milk would be placed on plates of freshly cut banana leaves—not the plastic and china rubbish they use today. Next came the vegetable preparations, usually one solid and one liquid, and cucumber mixed with curd. After that they served rice, the main item, a big pile on each plate, and they would pour a good amount of ghee on it. At this point we would all say various prayers and sprinkle water around our plates from our hands, drink a little water from the palms of our hands. Then sambar would be served and we would begin to honor prasadam.

Everything they served was purely Vaishnava style food. People had not even heard about onion and garlic. No one in the whole agraharam knew even the smell of onion.

BHAKTI VIKASA SWAMI: What about coffee and tea?

MR. R. RANGANATHAN: No one had ever heard of it. We had milk. We didn’t want or need anything else. Plenty of milk was always there in the house. We never knew of shortages. Sometimes they also prepared milk with a mixture of a few powdered cereals, known as ‘dhanyam kanji’. Coffee only started penetrating around 35 years ago, when I was 13. I had not even tasted coffee until I was 17.

BHAKTI VIKASA SWAMI: But now coffee is everywhere in South India. Pretty much everyone takes it, including Sri Vaishnava priests.

MR. R. RANGANATHAN: Yes.

BHAKTI VIKASA SWAMI: Were there certain vegetables that people didn’t use?

MR. R. RANGANATHAN: They would not cook English vegetables like tomatoes, cauliflower, or potatoes.

BHAKTI VIKASA SWAMI: Only the traditional vegetables.

MR. R. RANGANATHAN: They were very particular about it. But so much variety was possible with the traditional vegetables alone. From just one vegetable, they could make three preparations, having three different tastes. They would make one thick curry, one a little liquid and another thin, like a soup.

Also, they would use only vegetables that were picked the same day. Every household had a garden, from which vegetables were plucked early in the morning and then cooked and offered. Even today, in Srirangam , the vegetables sold in the markets are freshly picked the same morning.[...]

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[Guest guest]

is he eating biscuits with these coffees and expressos???

 

does he never even eat ice cream?

[Guest guest]

This is absolute bollocks. The man is either lieing to himself or simply lieing to the public in order to make money. Many people who have tried this have either ended up dead or bee found cheating. Something as ridiculous as this should not be allowed to be published.

[krsna]

 

This is absolute bollocks. The man is either lieing to himself or simply lieing to the public in order to make money. Many people who have tried this have either ended up dead or bee found cheating. Something as ridiculous as this should not be allowed to be published.

 

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A MAN HAS claimed he hasn't eaten any food since New Year's Eve 2001.

Michael Werner, a 58-year-old doctor of chemistry from Northern Germany, claims he gets all the nutrition he needs from the sun and the air. He says his last meal was a bowl of potato salad and a slice of cake six years ago, and he now bolsters his diet only with the occasional cup of coffee, fruit juice or glass of wine.

'I call it light nutrition,' he explains. 'But one can also talk of ethereal, Prana, Chi or cosmic energy ... it's all the same thing.' He appears to be a follower of Breatharianism, the belief that the elements contained in air - nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen and hydrogen - provide all the sustenance needed to keep you alive.

Werner who weighs more than 12 stone and is six feet tall, is quick to correct those that dismiss him as crazy and is so convinced of the approach he has written a book about the diet, called Life From Light. 'I'm actually a really normal person,' he insists. 'Not a freak, or someone with some amazing phenomenon - just a Joe Normal.'

 

He decided to adopt the diet when a friend practicing the regime visited him and his wife in 2000. Intrigued and overweight, Werner spent the rest of the year researching the theory and decided to take it on board as his New Year's resolution. He began by 'acclimatising' his body over three weeks in preparation for the drastic lifestyle change.

 

'I feel healthier and more vital than ever,' he claims. 'Psychologically, I feel stable and mentally enriched, have much better concentration and memory than I used to and now only need five or six hours' sleep,' he adds.

 

There are an estimated 5,000 Breatharianists or light nutritionists worldwide. In 1983 Wiley Brooks, the founder of the Breatharian Institute of America, who claimed not to have eaten for 19 years, was busted ordering a chicken pie. (29 June 2007)

[Guest guest]

 

 

this guy has 4 creases on his belly and claims to live on light... what a load of manure! LOL!

[Guest guest]

 

this guy has 4 creases on his belly and claims to live on light... what a load of manure! LOL!

 

 

Perhaps, but I think that the assertion that a person can live on light alone, and the assertion that he has renounced all desire for food are two completely different things.

 

Even if a person might be able to live on light alone, that doesn't mean he doesn't have cravings for delicious food, because he hasn't renounced the DESIRE for satisfying his senses, nor is that his actual goal.

 

Just because a person might succumb to his cravings every now and then doesn't make him a fraud, it just makes him human.

[krsna]

"life from light" Book Synopsis

 

'My concern is not to persuade people that they should stop eating. My hope is that they will begin to change their way of thinking, including the way they think about eating and drinking' - Michael Werner.

 

In 1923, Therese Neumann, a nun in Southern Germany, stopped eating and drinking. Apart from the wafer given at Mass, she did not eat again, despite living for a further 35 years. Other similar cases have been reported over the years - often holy men from the East - and have taken on something of a mythical status. However, they remain obscure enough to be brushed aside by modern scientists.

 

Michael Werner presents a new type of challenge to sceptics. A fit family man in his 50s, he has a doctorate in Chemistry and is the managing director of a research institute in Switzerland. In this remarkable account he describes how he stopped eating in 2001 and has survived perfectly well without food ever since. In fact, he claims never to have felt better!

 

Unlike the people who have achieved this feat in the past, he is an ordinary man who lives a full and active life. Michael Werner has an open challenge to all scientists: 'Test me using all the scientific monitoring and data you wish!' In fact, he describes one such test here in which he was kept without food in a strictly monitored environment for ten days.

 

Werner also describes in detail how and why he came to give up food, and what his life is like without it. This book features other reports from those who have attempted to follow this way of life, as well as supplementary material on possible scientific explanations of how one could 'live on light'.

[komickaze]

I definitely believe this is true. Ever since I had radiation on my pineal gland, I haven't had much hunger. They say that many breatharians have an enlarged pineal gland, so this could be a side effect for me. I do drink liquids, like herbal tea, green tea, water, and occasionally coffee and I eat less than 1000 calories a day and am never ever truly hungry. This whole inedia/breatharian lifestyle truly appeals to me in so many ways. I feel so much better when I don't eat breakfast, just drink coffee or tea. Anything is possible if you truly believe in it.