Nature's Design - Thoughts on Cleanses

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Following is from a private email I wrote earlier, thought others might find

this of interest.

Shared with permission.

Elchanan

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Patricia T. Adamkowski <603-237-5444> [patriciat1111]

Monday, August 07, 2006 7:48 AM

'Elchanan'

RE: [Rawschool] 14 year old daughter and sluggish weight loss was: (

Unkown)

 

 

 

Hi Elchanan,

 

Hmmm, very interesting and contrary to what I have been reading else where.

 

So much to learn and misinformation.

 

So would you say that people CAN be moved to greater levels of health using this

particular

fasting method (in comparison to say eating what one might in general put in

their body -

speaking from a more SAD or run-of-mill vegetarian diet.

 

I did NOT know that about maple syrup. SO even the best maple syrup is really

pretty much

refined?

 

Honey, then is not in the same category? But I've read that honey causes a more

exaggerated

blood sugar response from the body than does maple syrup - is that accurate?

I guess it's a mute point from a raw dieter's stand point. But in my body honey

feels too

stimulating. Is it in suggested then either for use?

 

the raw diet itself though is one ongoing perpetual cleanse. Yes.? and hence

not need to do

the kind of cleansing that cooked bodies are guided to do.

 

Thanks Elchanan for sharing.

Patricia

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Hi Patricia, and good morning! My Teacher (capital " T " intentional), Ray Kent,

loves to say that

" all majority opinions are wrong. " LOL, but also pretty close to the truth.

Before FDR became

President, the US army's officer training manuals contained a page comparing a

democracy to a

republic.

 

Democracy: mob rule

Republic: orderly government designed to preserve individual liberty

 

Roosevelt had all copies of these manuals destroyed, and we've been hearing all

about

" democracy " ever since. But every democracy in recorded history larger than a

tiny group, and

even most of those, has failed terribly. Why? Most people don't take time to

understand things,

they are not mindful, their sense of curiosity is buried under a mountain of

fear, most of it

contrived by their leaders, family, social norms, etc.

 

Our species, its predecessors, and close relatives (anthropoid primates) have

been on Earth for

millions of years, and until very recent time, they all got along just fine

without eating maple

syrup and cayenne pepper to " cleanse " themselves. They didn't have toilet paper,

soap,

cosmetics, deodorants, toothpaste, or any of the other products with which we

are culturally

familiar. Yet somehow, these apparent deficiencies have not led to the demise of

our species.

 

Now, on the other hand, look around, particularly at the young. Their bodies are

deformed, they

look more like Neanderthals than Homo Sapiens. And they think more along those

lines, as well --

can't make change, can't count. Autism, Down's, all sorts of other " diseases "

exploding all

around. We really are witnessing the devolution of our own species, or at least

many of its

members. Even orthodontia is an entire industry arising from the way we eat: the

jaw structure

has shrunk over several generations, so that the mouth can no longer contain all

the teeth our

species is designed to carry.

 

EVERY organism is designed to monitor, cleanse, repair, restore, replenish, and

reproduce

itself. These are biological imperatives without which no species can long

endure. In Nature,

many animals fast. They sit by a puddle or some other water source, rest, drink

until they are

restored. Then they get up and eat. It is true that certain animals seek out

certain plants --

specific plants that work for their species alone -- to maintain some of their

homeostatic

balance. But they do so not from any awareness of " cleansing " or " curing "

anything; rather, they

simply eat that to which they are presently attracted and which appears in their

natural

habitat.

 

This is Nature's way, we do not require all these concoctions of the conscious

mind.

 

Regarding maple syrup, consider the consistency of what flows from the bottle.

Now consider the

consistency of sap, moving freely within a tree. Is there even the slightest

possibility the

tree could use a fluid resembling the consistency of syrup? Of course not, nor

can we. Almost

all life on Earth is water-based; syrup is the result of removing almost all the

water from the

sap. This conflicts with Nature's design, as does all dehydrating of foods.

 

Honey is different in certain respects. Whereas maple syrup originates inside

trees, honey is

basically bee poop, in a manner of speaking. It is naturally thick, for storage

purposes, and it

is very high in sugar. Honey also contains a few other " minor " components, to

which we don't

react all that well. You write (below), " But in my body honey feels too

stimulating. " Trust that

feeling, that experience.

 

We are indeed designed to consume large quantities of simple sugars, but only

where the sugar is

in solution in water AND in the presence of soluble (digestible) fiber. In other

words, in whole

plant foods, primarily fruits and greens.

 

Finally, I wish to speak of " cleansing " from an entirely different perspective.

When we ingest

cleanse material, and our intent is to force the body to release " toxins " , we

are, I believe,

acting with force upon, indeed against, our selves (two words intentional). We

take some harsh

material ... psyllium husk, cayenne, whatever, mask that material in sugar or

something else to

fool our system into allowing it to pass through the mouth, then wait for it " to

work " .

 

But the cleanse material is inanimate, it has no awareness, no capacity to

initiate any

activity. In contrast, the body is animate, alive, with a vast array of

responsive capacities.

It is the body acting upon the cleanse material, not the other way around, that

creates the

perception that cleansing occurs. And, as I have written to you before,

cleansing does indeed

occur -- the body places very high priority upon elimination of the cleanse

material itself. And

since the body must first wrap that material in mucus and take other steps to

protect the

delicate lining of the digestive tract from damage and to inhibit absorption of

the substance

from the digestive tract into the system, what comes out looks like the body is

cleaning house.

We must only keep in mind what is actually being cleaned.

 

Yet another perspective ... Nature's design incorporates the most advanced

recycling

" technologies " on Earth. In fact, ALL of our human-designed " recycling "

technologies are

completely dependent upon Nature to finish the job (and in most cases even to

start the job).

 

In a human context, consider fasting on water alone. How does the body not only

survive, but

repair and even restore itself when we supply zero external nutrients? The body

recaptures and

recycles all the materials it requires from the very stuff being cleansed. For

example, tumors,

polyps, and cysts are all storage facilities constructed to contain toxic

material the body

cannot presently eliminate, and to do so as safely as possible. These structures

are all made of

EXACTLY the same biological material as are " normal " tissues. So when we eat RF,

and at an

accelerated pace when we fast, the body eliminates the trash and recaptures and

recycles the

usable components.

 

In contrast, when we apply force to the body (as in a " cleanse " ), to whatever

extent the cleanse

does succeed in motivating the body to remove foreign matter in addition to the

cleanse material

itself, there is an almost complete loss of the material eliminated; recapture

and recycling are

virtually impossible, as these require a slower, gentler biological process.

 

So from several perspectives, forced cleansing is disharmonious with Nature's

design, that is,

with OUR design.

 

Hope this helps!

Elchanan